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TAX BILL “RAILROADED,”
REPUBLICANS CHARGE, AS
HEARINGS IN HOUSE END
_- A._._
Doughton and
Jenkins in
Battle.
WHITE HOUSE
DURESS SEEN
Sentiment Growing
Sullen in Both
Chambers.
BY THEODORE C. WALLEN.
With President Roosevelt sailing
down Chesapeake Bay for a week end
good-will outing with divergent Dem
ocratic elements, the House Ways and
Means Committee brought to an end
yesterday its public hearings on his
tax - the - rich program. Democratic
leaders of the committee indicated the
President would be urged to accept a
substitute—such as a drastic excess
profits tax—for his proposed stiffly
graduated corporation tax and that.
In any event, the committee's tax bill
would not be ready for reporting be
fore August 1.
Over Republican protests against
“railroading" vital legislation, the
Democratic leadership had shown its
determination to end the tax hearings
on the House side yesterday, even if it
took until midnight to do it. This
W'as allowing a week for public hear
ings. The last witness in the room
had been heard and Democratic and
Republican members were engaged in
a verbal tiff over the haste when Rep
resentative John W. McCormack, Dem
ocrat. of Massachusetts forced a show
down on immediate adjournment.
This was in the early afternoon.
Challenged by Jenkins.
Chairman Doughton insisted that
•11 persons that had been asked to
appear had been heard. His defense
of the brief hearings brought a sharp
challenge from Representative Thomas
A. Jenkins. Republican, of Ohio, a
member of the committee, who charac
terized the statement of the chair- ,
man as "an apology." Mr. Jenkins,
sharply criticized the plan of holdingj
hearings before any bill was drafted, I
but Mr. Doughton, along with Repre- 1
sentative Samuel B. Hill. Democrat, of I
Washington, insisted this was the !
Usual procedure.
Chairman Doughton announced
that the committee would meet in
executive session to shape the bill!
probably Monday, July 22. Meantime, !
experts will work on it and try to
formulate it. Mr. Doughton explained
that the committee would have other i
pressing matters before it all next I
week.
The situation indicated that it
would be early in August before the
House passed its tax bill and late in
August before the Senate and House I
concurred, despite the President's de- 1
sire to clean up the “must” legisla
tion and adjourn Congress by mid
August.
New Agreement Operating.
The new working arrangement de
veloped by the President and Demo
cratic leaders in their “political self
preservation" conference at the White
House last Tuesday, was operating on
both ends of Pennsylvania avenue,
however. The President and the
congressional chieftains, after seeing
the House Democratic majority split
wide open on the public utilities hold
ing company bill, saw that politically
they would "hang separately" if they
did not hang together.
In line with the common disposi
tion to resist implications of executive
•'dictatorship,” the President, yester
day, and Chairman Doughton, today,
objected to the journalistic use of the
term "must” legislation. Chairman
Doughton explained that the term
■'must” was used by those who would j
create the impression that the Presi- j
dent was a dictator.
Representative Jenkins persisted,
nevertheless, in the open committee i
hearing today that the evidence of
“duress” from the White House was
unmistakable, and later saw further
support for that theory in the word
that the Democratic side of the com
mittee would consult the President on
the general outlines of their tax bill
before trying to reduce it to writing.
Doubts on Graduatrd Tax.
A Democratic leader of the commit
tee confided later that, while the other
phases of the President's tax program
to redistribute wealth were apparently
satisfactory to a majority of the com
mittee, there were distinct doubts
about the graduated corporation tax.
These are the doubts that are to be
carried to the President.
The administration graduated cor
poration tax plan would replace the
flat present 133., per cent tax on net
corporate incomes by a graduated tax
' (See TAXESTPage 4.)
INJUNCTION QUASHED,
OBVIATING DOCK STRIKE
Longshoremen and Steamer Com
panies Must Handle Union
Hauled Freight.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 13.—Strike clouds
which had hovered menacingly over
the entire New York waterfront since
January were dissipated today, fol
lowing a ruling by the appellate divi
sion of the Supreme Court.
The court quashed an injunction
restraining union longshoremen and
steamship companies from refusing to
handle freight hauled to the piers by
non-union truckmen.
In a 25-page opinion, the court up
held the contention of Montana’s
Senator, Burton K. Wheeler, special
counsel for the union locals, that the
dispute Involved matters of Interstate
■commerce that could be adjudicated
ranly by a Federal agency. ^
“Must” Bills Mire Congress;
All-Summer Session Looms
Glum Leaders See No Chance of Hold
ing Tax Program Over Till Fall.
Other Measures Wait.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Mid-July finds Congress still tied
fast to the task of putting through
President Roosevelt’s ’’must” New
Deal legislation—and little relief in
sight
Congressional leaders, who a week
ago had hoped that the President
would acquiesce finally in sidetracking
until next Pall the “share-the-wealth”
tax program which he has recom
mended, last night admitted that the
prospects were not bright.
"It looks now,” said Senator McNary
of Oregon, Republican leader of the
Senate, ’as though the administra
tion and its leaders are intent upon
going through with the tax bill. I do
not see how we will get through be
fore September."
Democrats on Capitol Hill also were
taking the position that there seemed
no way out, although they admitted
j that the great majority of the mem
; bers would like to put the tax meas
ure ofT for consideration and action
until next November or December.
Some of the members of Congress
last night were hopefully awaiting re
ports from the outing which the
President and a number of the Demo
cratic congreasional leaders, cabinet
officers and New Dealers are having
over the week end at Jefferson Island.
The tax bill is not all cf the
troubles of the weary members of
the House and Senate. They have
the President's demand for passage
of the Guffey coal bill, e\en though
Congress may have reasonable doubts
as to its constitutionality. There is
coming alcng. too. the bill which
would make it impossible to sue the
Government in the Court of Claims
on the basis of the Government's re
tSee CONGRESS, Page 4.)
LOBBY CASH DATA
Committee Wants to Know
if Consumers Must Pay
for Fight.
By the Associated Press.
An effort to determine whether
consumers must pay for the power
industry’s fight against abolition of
its holding companies was begun last
night by the Senate Lobby Commit
tee.
Elaborate questionnaires went for
ward to all companies known to have
participated. They asked the source
of funds supplied for the battle as
well as information on how, when and
where and by whom It was spent.
Already the committee was in one
public controversy over material
taken by its investigators. Philip H.
Gadsden, chairman of the Committee
of Public Utility Executives, termed
the seizure of his committee's records
a "raid and an outrage.”
Black Is Astonished.
But Chairman Black. Democrat, of
Alabama, expressed astonishment at
Gadsden’s statement, issued after his
return to Philadelphia. He noted
Gadsden made no complaint when
appearing before the committee, but
told it he would be glad to make all
his records available.
In its new questionnaire Black said
the committee wanted to know
whether the expenditures went onto
the books of the companies and, if so.
w'hether they were entered in a way
which might cause increased rates.
Meanwhile the committee tempo
rarily abandoned its hearings. They
already had revealed an expenditure
of $300,000 by Gadsden’s committee,
which did not include sums used by
individual power company officials
who came to Washington.
For a few» days the committee will
be busy examining returns from its
questionnaires and the controverted
records it seized, to the indignation
of Gadsden, at the Mayflower Hotel
here.
Question Asked.
Black said the questionnaires asked
the power companies "who spent the
money, what they did with it, where
they spent it, how they spent it and
where the money came from.’ It
went, he added, to a large number
of holding companies, their associates
and subsidiaries.
By this method the committee
hopes also to establish how much the
companies spent in their own terri
tories, in advertising and in circular
izing stockholders and consumers with
requests to write or wire their Repre
sentatives in Congress.
Reply Made to Record Taking.
Gadsden Friday gave the Lobby
Committee the $300,000 figure of his
organization's expenditures. To nis
denunciation of the taking of his
records. H. A. Blomquist. slim com
mittee investigator, replied it was im
possible to distinguish between per
sonal and official files, that employes
of the Utility Committee were pres
ent when he and other investigators
visited their headquarters, and that
Gadsden came in before they were
finished and expressed no indigna
tion.
Black added that Gadsden’s state
ment was "probably an afterthought
suggested by his $130,000 lawyers.’’
I
—-- ■ —
Von Starhemberg May Get
Power as Crash Kills
Chancellor’s Wife.
By ttie Associated Press.
VIENNA, July 13.—Wreckage of th>>
motor car that almost cost the life of
Austria's chancellor, killed Ills wife
! and thrust new power into the r.ands
j of militant Prince Ernst von S arhem
berg tonight yielded evidence of a
defective steering gear.
Experts who conducted an exami
nation of the death machine said they
were convinced of the defects, but
were unable to determine what nad
caused them.
Acting swiftly upon reports of the
| injury to Chancellor Kurt Schusch
nigg, the cabinet tentatively decided
1 to place Von Starhemberg, chief of
the Heimwehr, Austria's Fascist
I “private army", in the post of chan
1 cellor.
In the tragic accident, near Linz
Frau Schuschnigg. 34. was killed and
iheir son. Kurt, jr.. 9 seriously hurt.
Their car hit a tree.
Chancellor Prays at Birr.
Suffering severe nervous shock and
a shoulder injury, the grief-striken
| chancellor left his hospital bed at
; Lins to pray briefly at the Carmelite
Church, where Frau Schuschnigg's
| body lies.
Then he returned to the brothers
of Charity Hospital, where he confer
red tonight with Dr. Wilhelm Miklas,
President of Austria, who alone has
the power to appoint a successor if he
is convinced that Schuschnigg must
permanently relinquish his leader
ship.
In the country-wide radio broadcast
tonight, the Austrian public was told
by Propaganda Chief Walter Adam
that the chancellor escaped death
literally by inches.
Schuschnigg, he said, was hurled
from the car, and struck head first
on soft earth a few inches from a
jagged stone at the side of the high
way. His shoulder was injured
slightly. On the other hand, Adam
said, Frau Schuschnigg was tnrown
from the machine so violently that
her neck was broken and .lhe died
almost immediately.
Crash Held Accidental.
Earlier, authorities reported the
crash purely accidental and ,n all
probability due to the chauffeur's be
ing affected by the heat. The car
was traveling 50 miles an nour.
The chancellor was so shaken and
his nervous shock so severe that phy
sicians who worked on him in the
(See" SCHUSCHNIGG," Page 3.)
■ -•
Mrs. MacDonnell Wins Suit.
RENO, Nev., July 13 <.$>).—Mrs,
Marguerite G. MacDonnell of La Jolla,
Calif., today was awarded $10,000
punitive and $30,000 actual damages
in her $75,000 alienation of affections
suit against Mrs. Bessie R. Arnott of
Reno and Los Angeles.
Mrs. MacDonnell had charged Mrs.
Arnott with alienating the affections
of her late husband, Maj. John Grant
MacDonnell, retired Army officer and
former assistant director of the Vet
erans’ Bureau in Washington, D. C.,
who died here May 25.
Air-Conditioning All Capitol
Studied by Senate Committee
Provision of air conditioning for
the remainder of the Capitol Build
ing and the House and Senate Office
Buildings is being given favorable
consideration by the Senate Appro
priations Committee, it was reported
yesterday following a meeting of the
body.
At present only the House and
Senate chambers and a few of the
committee rooms are air conditioned.
The change is contemplated in an
amendment to the deficiency bill, now
in the hands of the committee.
The committee is believed to be
seriously considering a change in the
bill to provide for a new building for
the general accounting office Instead
of enlarging the Pension Building, In
Judiciary Square, now occupied by
the accounting agency. The House
bill contained $2,000,000 toward an
ultimate authorization of $4,TOO,000
to add two wings to the Pension
Office structure and to remodel the
exterior.
There is reported to be strong sen
timent in the Senate Committee for
a new building at some other loca
tion, which would leave Judiciary
Square available for a new District
Supreme Court Building at some fu
ture time. The final decision of the
committee will not be announced,
however, until tomorrow.
It is expected the Senate will ap- j
prove the supplemental estimate of i
$150,000 for the District Water De- j
partment, since it comes from water !
revenues, to replace pumpa at the
McMillan Park filtration plajt ‘
era or pact
DENIED BY ROME.
ANSWERING HULL
Anglo-U. S. United Front in
Crisis Held Possible
in London.
ITALIAN PREPARATION
CONTINUING UNABATED
Vessels Crowding Harbor of Mas
saus as Men Labor in Heat
to Land War Supplies.
Italian authorities in Rome yesterday
received Secretary ol State Hull's
statement of support for the Kellogg -
Briand peace pact with the asser
tion that they had "in no way”
violated the agreement to outlaw
war as an Instrument of national
policy.
In London Hull's statement evoked
the comment that an Anglo
American "united front'* against
war in Africa is possible if the
United States will join Great
Britain in such a move.
In Africa military precautions on the
part of Italy moved forward with
unabated intensity. Massaua, the!
chief seaport in the Italian colony
of Eritrea, was described as a city ;
of soldiers and stevedores, laboring
strenuously to move men and sup
plies into the zone where hosliUties
are expected in September.
Rome Blames Ethiopia.
ROME. July 13 IIP).—Authoritative
sources emphasized tonight that Italo
Ethiopian bolder incidents were not
of Italy's choosing, claiming that
Ethiopia wa.; responsible for a series i
of unfriendly actions.
This attitude was expressed as
these authorities, commenting on Sec
retary of State Hull's declaration in
support of the Kellogg-Briand pact, j
asserted hat Italy in "no way" has
violated that treaty outlawing war.
Would Attend Council Session.
The suggestion was made that Italy
would at'end a meeting of the League
of Nations Council if that body
should be convened to deal with the
Italo-Ethiopian conflict, although it
was stated that Italy would oppose
“taking orders" from the Council.
Meanwhile. Italy is watching closely j
the political aspects of construction
of the enormous dam at Lake Tsana,
Ethiopia, sut veyed by an American |
company, the J. O. White Engineer-;
ing Corp.
Lake Tsana is the source of the
Blue Nile and subsequently the Nile, I
irrigating and fertilising sections of
Egypt. The dam Is to guarantee a
constant reserve for the Nile.
Negotiations to a Head.
Negotiations which have been going
on for years among the British. Egyp- j
tian, Sudanes: and Ethiopian govern
ments, have been brought to a sud-1
den head, it Is believed here, by the j
Italian military preparations in East
Africa.
In effect, Italy does not favor the
plan. It gives money to Ethiopia,
with whom si p will undoubtedly be
at war this Autumn. It gives Egypt,
and therefore. England, vested rights
in Ethiopia, which will be embarras
sing later on
United Front Is Hinted.
LONDON, July 13 (/P).—Great Brit
ain, anxiously watching the develop
ment of the crisis between Italy and
Ethiopia, received today with intense
interest Secretary of State Hull's
declaration in support of the Kellogg
Briand pact.
The American statesman's attitude
was interpreted in some Influential
circles as Indicating the United States
saw eye-to-eye with Great Britain
(See ROME, Page 3j
Readers’ Guide
PART OI\E.
Main News Section.
General News—Pages A-l to B-5.
Changing World—A-3.
Washington Wayside—B-5.
Lost and Found—A-11.
Death Notices—A-11.
Vital Statistics—A-9.
Service Orders—A-17.
Civic News and Comment—B-6.
Sports Section—Pages B-7-11.
Boating and Fishing News—B-ll.
PART TWO.
Editorial Section.
Editorial Articles—Pages D-l-3.
Editorials and Editorial Fea
tures—D-2.
Organization Activities and Fra
ternal News—Pages D-4-5.
Resorts and Travel—D-6-7.
Serial Story—D-8.
Who Are You?—D-9.
PART THREE.
Society Section.
Society News and Comment—
Pages E-l-13.
Well-Known Folk—E-4.
Barbara Bell Pattern—E-12.
PART FOVR.
Feature Section.
News Features—Pages F-l-4.
John Clagett Proctor’s Article on
Old Washington—F-2.
“Those Were the Happy Days,”
by Dick Mansfield—F-3.
Books—F-4.
Stage and Screen—F-5.
Music—F-6.
Radio News and Programs—F-7.
Automobiles—F-8.
Aviation—F-8.
Children’s Page—F-9.
High Lights of History—F-9.
PART FIVE.
Financial, Classified.
Financial News and Comment,
Stock, Bond and Curb Sum
maries—Pages G-l-4.
Classified Advertising — Pages
G-5-12.
Stamps—G-5. *
Short Story—G-5. *
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JUST A QUESTION
f OF WHAT BAIT J
A CHANCE FOR ARTFUL ANGLING!
Four-Fifths of Wilson Class
Fail in Teacher Examination
Tests for Kindergarten-Primary Grad
uates Are Revealed Uncoordinated
With College Curriculum.
An apparent lack of co-ordination between the Wilson Teachers' Col
lege curriculum and requirements set-up by the Board of Examiners of the
District school system has been brought to light with the discovery that four
fifths of this year's kindergarten-primary graduates failed to qualify for the
Jobs for which they spent four years of specialized study.
Of 14 Wilson graduates who took*>~
the examination for positions as kin- nine qualifled for jote in the Wash.
dergaiten or piimary teachers this jngton schools in the June examina
year only three passed. These three ticn o{ that yfar A second examlna.
did not receive the highest grades at tj0n jn tj,e f0iiovkjng November placed
Wilson. One of five applicants from six addiUonal names on the eligible
out of the city was successful. list. Twenty kindergarten-primary
In 1934 the Wilson College graduated jobs were filled that year and there
11 kindergarten-primary students and (See TEACHER8 page 7l
I
Second Deficiency Bill May
Add $61,240 Vital to
District Program.
BY J. A. O'LEARY.
Prospects appeared In is,lit last night
for inclusion in the -eccnd deficiency
appropriation bill of additional funds
for the District Health Department,
deemed essential by lo<al authorities
to carry on an adequate public health
program during the coming year.
The Appropriations Committee,
which met for more ihan two hours
yesterday on the deficiency measure,
is believed to be ready to recommend
the local health item, amounting to
$61,240, favorably. The committee,
however, did not finish consideration
of other phases of the bill, and will
not announce its action on any amend
ments until the bill is completed.
The committee expects to report the
bill at another meeting tomorrow aft
ernoon.
King leads in Program.
Senator King, Democrat, of Utah,
chairman of the District Legislative
Committee, has taken the lead in
bringing to the attention of the ap
propriations group .he need for the
additional funds for tne locai Health
Department. In order to better safe
guard the health of the community.
Health Officer Ruhland and the Com
missioners are anxious to extend pub
lic health nursing work and medical
inspection in the schools.
If, as appeared likely yesterday, the
committee places the amendments in
the bill, it is expected the Senate will
approve it. The final sitp then would
be to have it considered by the Home
and Senate conferees.
Dr. Herbert P. Ramsey, chairman
of the Committee on Public Informa
tion of the Medical Society of the
District, yesterday addressed the fol
lowing letter to The Star concerning
the difficulties encountered in the
efforts to get the additional funds:
"Two factors of importance with
reference to the obstacles in the way
tSee HEALTH, Page 2.)
foreclosurTfaced
BY MRS. BOETTIGER
Suit Is Filed Against Estate of
President's Daughter and
Foimer Husband.
Br the Associated Press.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y„ July 13 —
A foreclosure suit against Mrs. Anna
Roosevelt Boettiger, President Roose
velt’s daughter, was filed in Supreme
Court today.
The foreclosure notice wras filed
against the estate occupied by Mrs.
Boettiger and Curtis B. Dali, her first
husband. The property is in Ossining,
Mount Pleasant and Briarcliff Manor.
The suit w-as brought by Louis H.
Pink, State superintendent of insur
ance, as liquidator of the Westchester
Title & Trust Co. Dali and two ciher
persons were named co-defendants.
Pink charged that Mrs. Boettiger
and Dali borrowed $65,000, giving as
security a mortgage on the property,
and that they have been in default
on interest since June 1, 1934. The
suit stated also that the principal
still due totals $58,000 and that mere
$1-6 unpaid taxes. {
COST OF RELIEF
DECLINES IN JUNE
249,897 Fewer Persons on
Rolls—Private Jobs
Show Increase.
By the Associated Press.
A more than seasonal decline in
the June relief population of 140 of
the larger cities yesterday cheered the
men in charge of President Roose
velt's long-delayed $4,000,000,000
work program.
Instead of 2.070,640 families and
single persons—the number supported
wholly or in part by the Federal
Government during May—there were
2.003.073 in June. This was a decline
of 3.3 per cent, which relief officials
said meant a drop of 249.897 individ
uals. The cost of relief dropped
$4,450,459.
Harry L. Hopkins, who hopes soon
to liquidate his relief administration
and limit Federal activities to works
progress, attributed the declines to
pick-ups in private business, although
warmer weather also helped cut
expenses.
As "noteworthy” instances of in
creased employment, he cited the
automobile industry at Flint. Mich.,
and the reopening of a large textile
mill at Winston-Salem, N. C.
Peak Reached in December.
The peak relief load was attained
in December Instead of in March, as
in the previous Winter. The rolls
have declined every month this year.
At the close of the second week of
the month, which the President an
nounced would start the work relief
progrem. officials said only a few
hundred had jobs.
Rivers and harbors projects, which
already have provided most of the
employment, are expected to get more
steam behind them in August and
ultimately provide 50.000 jobs. High
way and grade crossing regulations,
approved by the President yesterday,
will permit a beginning on the $400.
000.000 allotment soon, although all
projects must be approved indi
vidually.
The May-June report showed that
relief rolls declined most In three
Georgia cities—Atlanta, 16 per cent;
Augusta. 22 per cent; Savannah, 5
per cent—where Hopkins’ dispute
with Gov. Talmadge culminated in
the order that all unemployables be
taken off relief during June.
11 AREAS CREATED
$91,000,000 Is Distributed
Between Regions in Rural
Rehabilitation.
B? the Associated Press.
Establishment of 11 regions for
rural rehabilitation and the distribu- .
tion of $91,000,000 between the areas,
were announced yesterday by Rex
ford G. Tugwell, resettlement ad- I
ministrator.
The $91,000,000 was allocated re- ■
cently to the Administration by the j
President from the $4,000,000,000 ]
works appropriation, and is for the
six-month period, July 1 to Decern- I
ber 31. 1935.
Officials explained that no break
down of the fund bv States will be 1
made. Under plans now being drafted,
specific projects wall be planned
where the Administration determines
a need. Then individual allotments
will be made within the regions for
specific projects.
Expenditures Undecided.
It has not been determined, officials
said, what portions of the regional
allotments will be used for the vari
ous purposes permitted under the re
i settlement program. Thus in one
region, a larger amount might be used
for loans and grants to families than
in another. In a second region,
greater expenditures might be made
j to purchase land for relocation of
families.
The *91.000.000 fund, officials said,
may be used for the following pur
poses:
, To make loans or grants, or both, i
i to individual families for livestock,
farm supplies, farm equipment, re
pairs and taxes for farms, and for
subsistence, food and clothing to
facilitate the rehabilitation of these
groups on a self-sustaining basis.
To purchase or lease land for the
relocation of families living on sub
standard land in stricken areas.
To establish, maintain and operate
agricultural-industrial communities.
300.000 Families in Procram.
The program, officials said, calls for
! the rehabilitation of 300.000 farm fam- i
ilies. In addition, efforts will be made
to resettle 50.000 families on better
land.
It was reported President Roosevelt j
may send to the Senate for confirma
tion within the next week or 10 days i
the names of the directors of the 11
regions.
Funds allocated to the regions, offi- j
cials said, will be used to maintain
projects already launched by other
agencies absorbed by the Resettlement
tSee RESETTLEMENT, Page 5.)
BRAZILIAN KILLED
Borrowed U. S. Embassy Car
Strikes Lawyer in Rio.
RIO JANEIRO. July 13 (A3).—A bor
rowed automobile bearing the dip
lomatic license plate of the United
States Embassy killed a prominent
Brazilian lawyer yesterday. The oc
cupant, said to be a Brazilian, fled
the scene of the accident and his
w'hereabouts remain unknown.
Police said the car had been loaned
to George A. Gordon, an embassy at- j
tache who expects to sail Monday to a
new' post with the Minister of Haiti
The victim was Jose Dacruz
Cordeiro, 64.
Care Assured Hero’s Family
By Generosity of Citizens
The widow and four small children
of Sterling Calhoun, jobless colored
laborer who became a public hero
when he sacrificed his life for two
drowning children, are assured shelter,
food and clothing through the gener
osity of sympathetic citizens.
Calhoun will be given a proper
funeral today with funds provided by
men, women and children of both
races, who made spontaneous contri
butions when they learned that his
body was destined tor potter’s field
and that his family was in dire need.
More than (600 had been collected
from sundry sources last night as sym
pathizers continued to send donations
to The Star, the Daily News and
other receiving centers.
With a total of 4385.71 in The Star
fund, The 8tar Qtt night arranged
with the Salvation Army to administer
the money to the family. Maj. James
Asher, head of the Salvation Army,
agreed to disburse the money to the
best advantage of the family and to
make a formal accounting later for
publication in The Star. A list of ad
ditional contributions is printed in an
other column.
The Salvation Army was asked to
undertake the mission of mercy be
cause of its long experience in family
relief work, coupled with the esteem
in which it is held by members of both
races. The army has a colored branch
and colored staff workers who are
thoroughly familiar with case work
among members of their race.
Calhoun had lost a "work-relief” Job
(See CAl^DUN, Page 5.)
KIDNAPER’S WIFE,
CONVICTED, SAYS
SHE IS SATISFIED
Margaret Waley Found
Guilty on Two Counts in
Weyerhaeuser Case.
LIFE IMPRISONMENT
POSSIBLE ON EACH COUNT
Feared Acquittal After Told She
Faced State Trial and Death
Penalty.
By th« Associated Press.
TACOMA. Wash., July 13— Nine
teen-year-old Margaret Waley was
convicted swiftly of both "Lindbergh
law" and conspiracy charges by a
Federal jury here today for her al
legedly unwilling participation In the
S200.000 kidnaping of curly-haired
Gecrge Weyerhaeuser.
In 4 hours and 45 minutes a jury
of 10 men and 2 women waded
through legal technicalities to reach
the decision:
1. The 9-year-old timber fortune
heir had been taken across the Wash
j ington-Idaho line by his kidnapers,
| thus warranting application of the
| "Lindbergh law."
2. She assisted actively in trans
i porting the bey across the State line.
3. She actively conspired, despite
her protestation? to the contrary, with
I her husband. Harmon M. Waley, and
the fugitive William Dainard. alias
Mahan, to snatch the boy and collect
$200,000 ransom
Shows No Emotion.
The plump young woman, described
by her attorneys as a child of ab m
j poverty, took' the verdict without a
flicker of emotion.
: Federal Jucge E E. Cushman sc
I next Wednesday morning for pro
nouncement of sentence. The juris',
who sentenced Waley to 45 years ir.
! prison on a plea of guilty to similar
j charges, gave no inkling of what his
| judgment would be.
Life sentences are passible on both
j charges. On the other hand, the lav.
j sets no minimum.
Mrs. Waley said in a statement:
"I am satisfied with thj verdict a
I told the truth and tried to plead
j guilty. I did not know I was in a
! criminal conspiracy until my husband
was involved in it. after which I went
through with it rather than betray the
man I love.”
Feared Acquittal.
Earlier, sitting in the court room
watting for the judge to enter, she had
bitten her lips nervously as she talked
with United States Marshal A J.
Chitty and kneaded a green-edged
handkerchief in her fingers.
Chitty quoted her as saying:
“My goodness. I hope that jury
doesn't acquit me."
Her attitude in this respect had
been described by her attorney, John
F. Dote. the result of warnings by
Federal agents that she would be tried
under a State law providing the death
penalty unless she subjected herself
to Federal jurisdiction.
Thrice she had attempted to plead
guilty, but Judge Cushman rejected
that and ordered the trial which ended
so swiftly today.
Judge Cushman was called upon
I twice by the jury for additional in
! structlons to lead them through the
legal conceptions of conspiracy and
i the transportation of the youth in
interstate commerce.
Prosecutor Gives Warning.
Coincidental with the verdict.
United States Attorney J. Charles
Dennis issued a statement saying:
“On behalf of the Department of
| Justice. I hereby serve notice upon
j each and every member of the under
world that any assistance, aid. or en
couragement given to the fugitive Wil
| liam Dainard otherwise known as Bill
| Mahan, will be followed by indictment
| and prosecution to the full extent of
the law.”
(The Tacoma Daily Ledger said to
night it was informed "on good au
thority" that Dainard would be cap
tured or killed by Federal Bureau of
Investigation agents within two days.
The Ledger said that word that the re
lentless army of G-men are closing in
on Dainard followed Dennis’ ulti
matum to underworld characters aid
ing the fugitive.)
The contention of Mrs. Waley that
| she was under the domination of her
| husband had brought a denouncement
from Government attorneys, who said
; she thus had been trying to hide be
j hind the Mormon religion to escape
I punishment.
I Judge Cushman instructed the jury
that a person's religious creed could
not be recognized as a defense.
Waley recently pleaded guilty to
similar charges and was sentenced to
I 45 years in prison.
Pictured as Gangster “Moll.
Assistant United States Attorney
Owen P. Hughes, in his summation,
pictured the blond Mrs. Waley as a
cold-blooded gangster "moll."
John P. Dore, former mayor of
Seattle and chief defense attorney, de
fended the young wife's religion claim
and her witness stand statement that
she feared to interfere with the kid
naping because of threats by Manan.
The defense attorney brought Mrs.
Waley's family and economic back
ground into his argument when he
declared she was the child of a father
“who has no occupation other than
filling up the house with children he
can’t support.”
He said he did not consider the
$200,000 ransom important—"from
some one who can afford it”—and de
clared that to convict the young
woman would be a worse crime than
theft of the money.
"People who judge a girl like this
with an empty stomach.” Dore as
serted. “ought to have empty stomachs
themselves.”
Testimony in the trial, which
started Tuesday, ended yesterday
w'hen the Government concluded a
brief cross-examination of Mrs. Waley.