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8 S^r«?ror.cMt > The only evening paper \ Pair and cooler tonight; tomorrow, fair in Washington with the and continued cool; moderate northwest AsjtmpiatnH Prnaa Moure winds. Temperatures - Highest, 88, at ^ j tIv. rFeSS INeWS noon yesterday; lowest, 64, at 5 am. and WirephotO Services, today. Pull report on page A-7. Closing New York Markets, Page 18 (Some returns not yet received.) “Tf qq fiOl Entered as second class matter WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1936 “FORTY-SIX PAGES. ¥¥* mo Mean. Associated Pr,„. TWO CENTS. O. post office, Washington, D. C. . - ' 1 ' ' ' ICE REGULATION RUMORED BASIS ' OF NEW COAL BILL Marketing Provisions Seen Included in Measure to Supplant Guffey’s. WHITE HOUSE SILENT ON COURT DECISION Price War Is Seen—Lewis Hits “Fattening Capital, Starv ing Labor.” Abstract of Supreme Court De cision on the Guffey Act Ap pears on Pages A-14-15. » BACKGROUND— For 50 years the bituminous coal miners have been in the throes of labor troubles, especially the miners in the Pennsylvania and West Vir ginia area, the locale of operation of the infamous Molly Maguires. To end the trouble, Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania wrote legislation calling for Federal control of the bituminous industry through a penalty tax. This was passed last Summer after President Roosevelt suggested immediate enactment and let the problem of constitutionality be settled later. It was settled yes terday. New legislation was being drafted ' today to replace the Guffey coal act, thrown into the discard by the Su - preme Court yesterday with A. A. A. end N. B. A. Highly authoritative sources re vealed that representatives of the National Bituminous Coal Commis sion, the Justice Department, opera tors who favored the Guffey act and miners started last night on the task of shaping new legislation for im * mediate introduction in Congress. It was not known whether White ' House approval would be given their efforts. Although the exact scope of the new measure has not been determined. It was understood price regulation and marketing provisions would be its basis. This approach was taken because the court’s opinion did not pass on constitutionality of the price-fixing provisions of the old act. • C. E. Smith, a member of the Coal Commission, said last night he be lived the Government might have to refund money collected under the ex cise tax provision of the Guffey act. At the same time, word came from another informed quarter that New Deal attorneys had reached an opinion that the Coal Commission could con tinue in existence, despite the court’s decision. The Treasury has collected about 1700,000 under the Guffey act. Yesterday’s vital decision, which af fects some 500,000 soft coal miners, revived talk of a constitutional amend ment to enlarge the powers of the Federal Government, and drew from Charles P. O’Neill, Central Pennsyl vania operator, the prediction that an intensified coal price war would resun. Lewis Strikes Back. While President Roosevelt, who had Urged Congress to pass the act, regard less of doubts as to its constitutional ity, remained silent, John L. Lewis, * president of the United Mine Workers, hit back at the court. In a sharply worded statement, he said: “It is a sad commentary upon our form of government when every de cision of the Supreme Court seems designed to fatten capital and starve and destroy labor.” With reference to the decision, At torney General Cummings said: “A careful study of the majority opinion and of the other two opinions will have to be made before it can be ascertained what course may still be open to the Government in dealing with the problems of the bituminous coal-mining industry. > “It should not be overlooked that the opinion of the three dissenting justices, and the separate opinion of the Chief Justice, constitute the first clear expression by members of the Supreme Court upholding the con stitutionality of price-fixing for com modities moving in interstate com merce. Important, also, is the state ment in the opinion of Mr. Justice Cardozo, ‘that the prevailing opinion (See GUFFEY, Page A^L) FAIR AND COOLER DUE AS CLOUDS DISAPPEAR Clouds, which threatened rain this morning, were scheduled to disappear before nightfall, as the forecaster pre dicted fair weather with low tempera tures. Moderate northwest winds will keep the skies clear and the mercury low through tomorrow, the Weather Bu reau said. Prom a high of 88 degrees at noon yesterday, the temperature dropped to 63 at 4 pm., during the thunder showers. The mercury is expected to hover around 65 and 70 degrees through the night. SMUGGLING RAMPANT Chinese Sources Say Japanese Goods Sold Duty Tree. TIENTSIN, China, May 19 UP).— Chinese sources said today Japanese contraband goods continued to flood North China in ever-increasing volume despite Chinese anti-smuggling meas ures. The Nanking Nationalist govern ment, these sources said, had lost dur ing the last nine months nearly (15,000,000 through smuggling of sugar, rayon, gasoline, kerosene, rub ber tires and cosmetics. United States diplomats watched the situation closely, keeping the Washington .State .Department .in formed. > Pole That Killed Girl Also Broke Up Radio Team Valley Residents Not to Hear “Betty and Nancy” Again. t . . '_...JMHB betty lee roudabush. A 42-foot tent pole broke up one of radio’s youngest teams yesterday. The childish trebles of “Betty and Nancy” will no longer be heard by the audiences of Station WSVA, Har risonburg, Va. The senior member of the ream, Betty Lee Roudabush, 13, of Shen andoah. Va., was fatally injured by a falling pole at yesterday's after noon performance of the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus here. Betty and her sister Nancy, 10, used i to sing once a week to advertise their father’s Shenandoah Milling Co. It was their first big circus yester : day. They had begged for weeks to go. Finally their mother consented, and with her, their grandfather, Gil bert J. Strickler, former president of (See GIRL, Page A-12.) m ns ASSURED BY R. A. — Jobs to Continue Despite Court Ruling, Officials Declare. Twenty thousand workers were as sured by Resettlement Administration officials today that their jobs will con tinue indefinitely, despite the Court of Appeals decision. The outlook was different, however, for 150 employes of the National Bi tuminous Coal Commission, whicli ad ministers the Guffey act. Ninety per cent of these are ‘'carry-overs” from the N. R. A. Whereas they escaped the first court blow at their jobs, their status was said officially to be now in doubt. While officials indicated R. A. ac tivities would proceed as usual, no work will be done on the Bound Brook, N. J„ low-rental housing project, which the court specifically declared unauthorized. The group of R. A. employes to be continued include 4,900 at “Tugwell town.” the housing project at Berwyn Heights. The others—more than 15,000—are administrative employes in Washing ton and the field. In addition to its low-cost housing projects. Resettlement has under its jurisdiction 33 subsistence homestead projects taken over from the Interior (See RESETTLEMENT, Page A-5.) BRITISH CITE GAINS IN SMALLER NAVIES Lesser Powers Have Added Sub marines Since 1930, London Says in Invoking Escape Clause. By the- Associated Press. LONDON. May 19.—The lesser naval powers, according to the British gov ernment. have started construction on more than 200 submarines since 1930. This statement, it was disclosed to day, was made in a note addressed by Great Britain to Washington and Tokio May 6. In the note the British invoked the escape clause—permitting naval increases under certain condi tions—of the 1930 London naval treaty. The lesser naval powers represent navy-owning nations exclusive of Great Britain, the United States and Japan. Submarine building, coupled with the failure of the 1936 Naval Confer ence to agree upon quantitative limita tions, were reasons advanced by Great Britain in asking the right to retain destroyers which otherwise would be scrapped before the end of the year. But Most Observers Feel Denial of Candidacy Fails to Clarify Race. ROLE IN CONVENTION MAY BE STRENGTHENED Greater Prominence Believed Likely at Session, for Former President. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Politically minded Washington was puzzling its head today over the eSect former President Herbert Hoover's announcement he is not a candidate will have on the race for the Repub lican presidential nomination. Despite the fact that Mr. Hoover will have warm personal friends among the delegates attending the 1 Republican National Convention— ! friends who stand ready to vote for 1 his nomination—the opinion has been | strong that he would not be the nom 1 lure. i The question asked today, however, ' is whether Mr. Hoover had strength ened his position by his announce ment; whether he would have a greater influence in the choice of the | presidential candidate and in the drafting of the platform. It was urged ! in some quarters that by removing himself as a possible contender from j the presidential race he had made it easier for himself to take a prominent part in the councils of the convention. Chicago Statement. In his Chicago statement to the press, Mr. Hoover laid stress on the fact that a great majority of the delegates to the national convention will be '‘uninstructed” for any of the candidates. For months it has been the contention of the former Presi dent that the Republicans should pick the finest type of delegates to the convention and then let these dele gates reach a decision as to the candi dates for President and Vice Presi i dent. It has. in a measure, been his j fight. And this fight he has won. I The demand for uninstructed dele gations fitted in with the plans ol some of the old guard Republican leaders also The Hoover statement denied the former President was opposing any of the candidates. Recently reports have been published that Hoover would join a coalition in the convention to prevent the nomination of Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas. His present state | ment is understood to have been an 1 answer to these reports. This is not the first time that Mr. Hoover has I felt it incumbent upon him to deny a statement that he was either for j or against one of the presidential "possibilities.” He denied some weeks ago, for example, that his candidate was Senator Vandenberg of Michigan. uwi 10 Lanaon. There are reasons to believe, how ever, that Mr. Hoover has not been Impressed with the Landon candidacy; that he has not considered Gov. Lan don has had a sufficiently wide experi ence to grapple with the problems, both national and international, which confront the country. The Landon people, however, are in clined to derive some satisfaction from the Hoover statement he is opposing none of the candidates. They believe ' it may end the publication of reports that Mr. Hoover is ready to join a “Stop Landon" movement. They in sist that if the convention is left to itself, and no effort is made by a small group of leaders to form an anti-Lan don alliance, it will undoubtedly nom inate the Kansas Governor for Presi dent. Although Mr. Hoover has made no effort to have delegates elected favor able to himself, a number of the dele * (See HOOVER, Page A-3.) MEXICO TO CONSTRUCT SCHOOLS ALONG BORDER By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, May 19.—Mexico intends to build enough schools along the border, the education department announced today, so that Mexican children need not go to the United States to study. On orders from President Lazaro Cardenas, engineers and architects have left the capital for Laredo and Matamoros to start the building pro gram. The department said lack of facil ities at some border points made it necessary for parents to send their children to American schools, and the government's view was that the youth of the land should pursue studies at home. Local Philanthropies Left Thousands by Miss Julia Strong The Washington Home for Incur ables and other local philanthropic and religious organizations will re ceive more than half of the $345,000 estate of Miss Julia D. Strong, daugh ter of the late Associate Justice Wil liam Strong of the United States Supreme Court, according to her will, which was filed for probate in Dis trict Supreme Court today. Socially prominent here for many years, Miss Strong, who lived at 3 Dupont circle, died April 12 in Charleston, S. C„ where she was making a brief visit. She was vice president of the Home for incurables, which was bequeathed the largest share of the estate. After making specific bequests totaling $166, 000, Miss Strong directed that the remainder of her estate be divided into thirds, two parts to go to the Home for Incurables as a permanent endow ment and one to the Church of ^ie Covenant in memory of her father and mother. Mrs. Caroline McCormick Slade ol New York, a friend, and the Ameri can Security 6c Trust Co. were named in the will as executors. They wert represented before the court by At torney Stanley T. Holland. The will was drawn November 14, 1935. By far the greatest part of Miss Strong's property consisted of stocks and bonds. Other interests Included her home, assessed at $35,081, which she ordered sold, and $30,000 to which she was entitled from a trust fund created by her father. A portrait of Justice Strong bj Hinckley, the Jurist’s death mask and his commission -as a member of the Supreme Court bench were bequeathed to that tribunal. None of the specific bequests ex ceeded $10,000. They included $5,00t to the Church of the Covenant, $10.00C to the Society of the Church of the (See STRONOb Page A^S.) 1 /W isnY tmat A TOUGH, BILL? \ PEDESTRIAN REGULATION JUSTAS WEGETRtADY I \To Do Some WALKING!/ — ! Busses Here to Stay Despite Complaints, Reports Indicate Utilities Commission Cites Reduction in Trackage—Truth of State ment Demonstrated. This is the third of a series of articles on the transportation prob lem in Washington. BY JOHN H. CLINE. Bus transportation, however un satisfactory it may be in spots, has come to Washington to stay. The truth of this statement is amply demonstrated by the experience of the Capital Transit Co. on Connecti cut avenue, where bus service re placed the street cars last September. Mass transportation became a live ' issue in Chevy Chase while the Con- j necticut avenue street car line was nearing the end of its unhappy ca | reer. j Membership in the Chevy Chase ! Citizens’ Association, which was cam paigning for better transportation service, began to grow by leaps and bounds. Meetings of the association were packed to the doors by irate citizens, who condemned the manage ment of the Capital Transit Co. in no uncertain terms. Even when the proposal to substi tute busses for the street cars was announced, the association, the larg est in the city, received it with open skepticism. Officials of the company, they said, previously had expressed the belief bus service would not be satisfactory, and they were afraid something was being "put over" on them. As late as last December, when the service was some three months old. i See TRANSPORTATION. Page A-4.) SPURNED MURDER PLOT. CARLIN SAYS I State Informer Testifies He Refused to Enter Lyd dane “Plot.” BY W. H. SHIPPEN, JR. Staff Correspondent of The Star. HAGERSTOWN. Md.. May 19—A State witness against Mrs. Anne M. ' | Lyddane in her trial here on charges \ I of plotting the murder of her hus band. told a jury today how he turned down an offer to commit a murder for a “rich Rockville woman who had keys to a bank.” The second informer against the pretty blond Rockville matron was William Carlin, alias Willie Brown, ex-convict, ccnvicted of hijacking and using a smoke screen during the pro hibition era. He served time at Lorton Reformatory and a Federal prison in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Lyddane Is charged with-plot ting against the life of her husband, Francis (Slom) Lyddane, with John H. (Googy) Camell and John Martin Boland. Carlin told the jury Boland met him in a Pennsylvania avenut lunch room and said, “I got a Job to make $1,000.” The witness explained Boland said: “All you gotta do is clip a man at Rockville If you do that, then there’s a woman to clip for another $1,000.” The witness apparently was refer ring to Mrs. Josephine Beall, wife of Arthur Beall, Damestown garage man. The defense has admitted Mrs. (See LYDDANE, Page A-2.) PICKTHALL DEAD . Successful Novelist for 30 Years Succumbs in Cornwall. ST. IVES. Cornwall, England, May 19 (IP).—Marmaduke William Pick thall, 61, a successful novelist for more than 30 years, died today. Among Pickthall’s better known novels are "Pot-Au-Feu.” “With the Turk in War Time,” "The House of War,” "As Others See Us” and “The Meaning of the Glorious Koran.” Readers’ Guide Page. Amusements. C-10 Answers to Questions-A-10 Comics__I-C-5 Cross-word Puzzle_C-5 Death Notices-A-12 Editorial .A-10 Finance .A-17-18-19 Lost and Found ..A-3 News Comment Features A-11 Radio . C-6 Serial: "Woman in Love”_.B-9 Serial: "Rainbow Over Broadway” _B-14 Society_B-3-4 Sports....C-l-2-3 Washington Wayside-A-2 Women's Features ..._C-4 * APPROVAL GIVEN RED RIDER REPEAL Education Body to Confer With King Before Making Formal Report. BY J. A. O’LEARY. Repeal of the “red rider.’* forbid ding the teaching or advocating of Communism in local public schools, was approved today by the Senate Ed ucation and Labor Committee, but the formal report to the Senate will be held up pending a conference with Chairman King of the Senate District Committee. Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Massa chusetts, head of the education and labor group, will confer with King later today. Since Senator King is known to be a supporter of the ban, it appeared that the chances for Senate action on the repeal bill this near the end of the session will depend on whether the District Committee chair man vigorously opposes it. A similar bill to remove the contro versial provision from the statute book has been reported favorably by the House Committee and is due to come on the floor in the House at an early date. When he introduced the repeal bill in the Senate several weeks ago. Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon tana, took the view that the red rider was unnecessary and also declared that if it is to remain it should be clarified to define what is meant by the term "Communism.’’ The Walsh committee voted favor able reports on the following other measures: The House bill to allow blind persons to operate vending stands in public buildings and to lend other Federal assistance to enable blind per sons to find employment in industry; the Wheeler bill to require contractors on Government buildings to provide workmen’s compensation insurance for their employes; the La Follette reso lution for an investigation of charges of Interference with the right of labor organizations, and the Murray resolu tion to Investigate silicosis in the metal mining industries. The Wagner housing bill, calling for loans and grants to States and cities for slum-clearance and low-cost hous ing projects was not taken up today, because several amendments are being drafted. The bill relating to the blind was amended to meet the Budget Bureau’s objections to requiring the Govern ment to pay for installing the vending stands. JEW IS SHOT TO DEATH AS DISORDER CONTINUES By tbe Associated Press. JERUSALEM, May 19.—A Jew was found shot to death today In the old city of Jerusalem—the fifth person to die since the renewal last Saturday of Arab sinti-Jewish disorders. The government tightened its re strictions in an effort to put an end to the Holy City violence, ordering the curfew to start at 7 pm.. Instead of 8 p.m., clearing the streets each night. Troops and police patrolled the road from Jerusalem to the port of Haifa, permitting traffic over that route only if accompanied by troops both at tbe Edward Gordon Critically Hurt in Five-Floor Plunge. f Pens Own Epitaph. Penning his own epitaph after clas sifying himself as a “failure in life," Edward A. Gordon, 17, of Brookline, Mass., today leaped from a fifth-floor window of the Houston Hotel and was critically injured. The youth was rushed to Emergency Hospital in a taxicab after he landed on the sidewalk on his head and shoul der. His skull is believed to have been fractured. In a note addressed to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob B. Gordon of .Brookline, the youth explained he was despondent over failure to find a job. Requesting that his funeral be small, but that all of his friends be allowed to come, he said he would li'te this simple inscription on his tombstone: "Edward A. Gordon. "February 5. 1919-May 1*. 1936 "He faced death with "A smile knowing that "God was waiting for him "With outstretched arms.” Hoped for Quick Death. The youth said ne nopea aeam would be ‘short and painless” and that should he succeed only in crip pling himself, he did not wish any of his family to visit him during his recuperation, explaining “it would be too hard for all of us.” The Gordon boy also left two other notes, one headed "Life and Happi ness" and the other "Wanderings of One's Mind.” James Fyfe, 411’4 G street, who was selling newspapers on the corner of Ninth and E streets, said he saw the youth lift the screen and climb out the window. Plunges Head First. Balancing himself on his knees fac ing the street, Fyfe said Gordon hes itated a moment and then plunged head first to the sidewalk. The youth made no effort to break his fall, but kept his arms at his side, Fyfe said. The youth did not wear shoes or coat when he leaped. A magazine lay on a mussed bed in his room, indicat ing the youth had lain reading before he decided to end his life. Employment Blank in Room. With the note was a filled-out blank from an employment agency, evidence that the youth had been seeking a Joo here. It was stated on the employment form that Gordon s father is a Jeweler It was not known how long the youth had been in Washington. He registered at the hotel yesterday, however. Dan Carroll. 23, 4224 Sixteenth street, was walking along E street near the hotel when Gordon plunged to the .sidewalk. Carroll, employed in the Advertising Department of The Star, said he was about 30 feet away when Gordon struck the pavement in front of him. Carroll had been walking with his head bowed to shelter his face from the rain and did not see the youth’s plunge. Badoglio Honors U. S. Writer. ADDIS ABABA, May 19 (/P).—Vice roy Pietro Badoglio today decorated Herbert L. Matthews, correspondent of the New York Times, with the war cross for military merit. SABOTAGE IN PM IS HINTED BY ICKES AT COURT BEARING Secretary Sees Probable Reason for Delay in Power Project Allotments. DIVISION TO EXPEDITE LOANS IS ORGANIZED Testifies in Defense of Constitu tionality of Program Chal lenged by Utilities. By tbe Associated Press. Secretary Ickes hinted in District Supreme Court today that "clever sabotage” in the Public Works Ad ministration may have been respon sible for delaying power project allot ments. As a result of this delay, Ickes told the court, he set up a power division to expedite consideration of loans and grants for municipal electric plants. He testified in defense of the con stitutionality of the *200.000.000 P. W. A. power program, which has been challenged by four utility firms. Does Not See Even Break. “Whether or not there had been some clever sabotaging in my own organization,” Ickes said. "I felt that the power applications had not beer, getting an even break. They had j been retarded in one way or an- ' I other.” on July 1, 1935. to handle all appli cations for municipal electric proj ects. It replaced the Electric Power Board of Review, Ickes said, which he had abolished because he believed it was assuming unjustified powers. He denied the contention of four utility companies that P. W. A. was seeking to seize illegal control of in trastate power production. Injunction Sought. The private power companies are asking an injunction to block P. W. A. allotments for 10 municipal power I projects, scattered through Alabama. Texas, Oklahoma and Iowa. They contend that P. W. A. is unconstitu tional, and that it has no authority to finance local electrical plants. Plaintiffs are the Alabama Power Co , the Texas Utilities Co., the Okla- i homa Utilities Co., and the Iowa Light | & Power Co. Ickes told the court he exercised i the sole power in regard to P. W. A. J | policies. He defined the purpose of P. W. A. • as follows: “Fundamentally to put as many j men to work as possible: secondarily, to stimulate the demand for goods of all sorts, and to aid in the eco- j nomic recovery of the Nation.” Ickes denied contentions of the power company that he had dele gated his authority to subordinates, and had used P. W. A. funds to J dominate local power rates. HERRIOT SEES DEBT AID IN TRADE PACT ! _ j Settlement Might Get U. S. to Line Up Against Reich, He Says. By tht Associated Press. PARIS, May 19.—Former Premier Eduoard Herriot declared today that "the way is open” to the settlement of the war debt "misunderstanding” between the United States and France through the new trade treaty. Writ ing in Information, he applauded the recent speech of Premier-Designate Leon Blum before the America rf Club. Blum stil is endeavoring to gee Herriot into his cabinet as foreign minister, although Herriot’s journal, l’Ere Nouvelle, said he was not lik'.ly to accept. Herriot indicated in his article that the settlement of the war debt con troversy was desired to gain the aid of the United States in the troubled situation with Germany. “Will Leon Blum make the misun derstanding disappear?” asked Herriot. "To succeed, he ‘counts on an eco nomic transformation, the lowering of customs barriers and the recovery of trade. He will find the work pre pared and the way opened by the commercial accord.” Declaring President Roosevelt had shown himself "so conciliatory" on the debt question in 1932, Herriot said France’s failure to listen to Mr. Roose velt’s “fraternal appeal" was “a ter rible failure for the peace of the world.” “How thoughtless we have been in this affair?” he asked. TOWNSEND TO GET ‘NEEDED MILLIONS’ HE TELLS PROBERS “We Still Have Country by Tail With Downhill Pull ” He Says. LETTERS FROM DOCTOR TO PROMOTER READ Collection of “Hatsful of Money From Old Fossils" Fre quent Subject. BACKGROUND— The beneficent plan of Dr. Fran cis E. Townsend to pay to every man and woman over 65 a monthly pension of $200 has for two years been a hair-shirt to members of Congress, who have been uncertain which way to jump on the problem. Turning the tables, Representative Bell of Missouri last Winter gained House of Representatives sanction for an investigation of the Town send organization. At once the out fit underwent a reorganization. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Defying the Roosevelt administra tion, both major political parties and his questioners on the Bell committee, Dr. Francis E. Townsend this fhoming informed the House probers that “we need millions in this movement and we propose to get them.” As for the job of getting the funds, he added, "I still think we have the country by the tail with a downhill pull.” The doctor's defiance was mixed with savage relentlessness on the part of committee members as they pulled apart evidence introduced by Commit tee Counsel James R. Sullivan, most of it in the form of letters from the doc tor to R. E. Clements, co-promoter, and in testimony before a subcommit tee by one Pierre Tomlinson, lifelong acquaintance of the doctor and for merly associated with the movement in a promotional capacity. “Hats Full of Money.” Throughout the evidence it wai made apparent that the collection ol "hats full of money” from the old age pension scheme with “old fossils' doing most of the contributing, wai a frequent subject of written or spo ken conversation by the doctor. As the morning session closed, how ever. he claimed that he had only about $300 left from $16,557 received in salary and expenses from the O. A R. P. since January 1, 1934. plus soma $32,500 in dividends received from th» Townsend Weekly. The hearing drew the largest crowd thus far with the big caucus room be ing nearly filled. Before the actual questioning be gan, it was announced that Dr. Clinton Wunder, member of the Board oi Directors of O. A. R. P., has beec subpoenaed. He is requested to ap pear next Tuesday. Establishing Dr. Townsend's one time residence in South Dakota. Sulli van asked if he knew one Pierre Tomlinson. "Since he was a baby in arms," the doctor answered. "It has been charged by Tomlinson, in sworn testimony before a subcom mittee, that you started this movement for cold cash. Is that true?" “It is absolutely false,” Townsend answered. Sullivan next quoted Tomlinson as saying that Townsend had referred to followers as “old fossils” and to a sub scriber as “an old sister who has done her part.” Objects to Questioning. Representative Tolan, Democrat, of California objected to the questioning on the grounds he had not seen the subcommittee testimony. Chairman Bell ruled it could be accepted and a roll call was taken at Tolan's request. The chair was sustained on a count of 4 to 2. Tolan and Hoffman of Michigan voted against the chair, with Lucas of Illinois, Gavagan of New York and Collins of California sus taining. Sullivan then read a transcript of Tomlinson's testimony on the coast. Included in it was a reported discus sion of building a national magazine as large as the Saturday Evening Post. There would be a “hatful of money" in this, Tomlinson said Townsend told him. Tomlinson joined the Towsend organization in a promotional capacity. One of the objectives was to set Dr, Townsend “up on a pedestal.” Tom (See TOWNSEND, Page A-2) Boy Accused of Stabbing Girl In Theater Blames Film Scene Excitement induced by a moving picture scene of men fighting alliga tors prompted John T. Trassare, 17 year-old messenger, to plunge a knife into the neck of Ann Blunt, 16, as she sat in front of him in the balcony of a downtown theater yesterday, accord ing to a statement he made to the police today. The slash narrowly missed the girl's Jugular vein, opening a wound that re quired hospital treatment and con fined her to her home at 1520 First street southwest today. The youth was taken into custody last night when Fifth Precinct Police men H. W. Whitlow and W. T. Hayden found him sitting on a bench on Pennsylvania avenue southeast. They learned of the subbing from Trassare himself after they recognised him from a lookout of a missing boy. A pocket knife with a bloody blade and a kitchen knife were Uken from | him, the police jjjparted, after he told them he had stabbed a girl he said he had never seen before. The officers ar rested the boy after checking his story. Questioned by Lieut. Benjamin Keuhling at police headquarters, Trazzare, a red-headed youth, was quoted as saying, "Something came over me that caused me to want to stab the girl." He could give no other reason except to point out that the picture showed men flghing alligators on their way across a river. Detective Sergt. Henry W. Jett said the youth told him he had sat clutching the opened pocket knife as he watched the show. The Trazzare boy left his home at 320 Fifth street southeast Sunday after an argument with his father, police said he told them. He said he had been sleeping in Meridian Hill Park. A charge of assault with a danger ous weapon was placed against him (Bee STAGING. Page A-4) BLUM’S PAPER HITS ACTION OF VATICAN Charges “Interference” in Finan cial Scandal—Sees Danger of Split. By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 19.—Le Populaire, Leftist organ of Leon Blum, who will be France's next premier, today de nounced "Vatican Interference in French affairs” in the Rouen Diocese financial scandal. It asked: “Will the Vatican’s intru sion lead to a rupture of diplomatic relations?” The case. Involving charges of finan. cial irregularities against Msgr. Bertln, coadjutor and vicar general of the diocese, led to an order for the dis missal of Archbishop Andre Duboia de la Villerabel because he carried th« charges into a French, not a canonical, court. Archbishop de la Villerabel defied the Vatican order and appealed per sonally to Pope Pius. Georgia Cleric Found Slain. BRUNSWICK, Ga., May 15 C4>) — Rev. Thomas W. Simpson, 49, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church ol Brunswick, was found shot to deatb in the attic of his home here yester day, a shotgun and a knife at hlf side. It looks ilke suicide,” said Police Chief X. Register.