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GOV. NICE EXPECTS
f LAW CORRECTION
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j. Six-Month Auto Tax Ex
^ tension Given by Legis
ts lative Mistake.
£ By the Associated Press.
4 BALTIMORE. May 35 —Gov. Harry
W. Nice signed the legislative bill
- which, In effect, gives motorists a six
* month license tax extension, in the
* "hopes the defect would be corrected
7 by the Legislature."
' The Governor’s stand on the matter
7 was disclosed today by State Budget
£ Director W. H. Blakeman. Gov. Nice
» 1* on vacation.
The bill in question was passed by
N the 1936 Legislature and extends the
■' date for purchase of license tags from
« December 31 to March 31 of each
il year.
■j "There Is a defect in the measure,”
- Blakeman said, "which I pointed out
to the Governor. I discussed it with
“ him. but he was so impressed with the
•' excellence of the idea that he signed
£ the bill in hopes the defect would be
“ corrected by the 1937 Legislature.
C "The defect isn’t serious.”
Date of Issurance Changed.
i The bill in question, sponsored by
4 Senator Harry T. Phoebus. Republic
j an, of Somerset, who recently came
4 back into regular Republican ranks
after having spent months criticizing
j the Nice administration, amended the
r old law only by changing the date for
£ Issuance of the tags.
*1 The old law. however, provided that
tags purchased after March 31 could
U be gotten for three-fourths of the
7 original cost, since one qffuarter of
- the year already had passed. The
* Phoebus law did not change that pro
* Vision.
Purchase Time Extended.
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* Therefore, as the law now stands.
7- motorists need not purchase their 1937
f tags until April 1, 1937. When they
* purchase them then, they will have
4 to pay only three-fourths of the origi
£ nal co6t and the tags will be good
< until April 1, 1938. That amounts to
7- the motorists getting a full year's tag
> for only three-fourths of the intended
7- cost. •
4 The 1937 Legislature meets in Jan
j uary. however, and will have three
5 months in which to correct the defect
.. before the new law becomes effective.
v The defect was disclosed in a rul
lng by Attorney General Herbert R.
O’Conor.
\ However, O'Connor said parts of
- the original law still in force would
allow car owners to buy their 1937
7 licenses after April 1 for only three
- fourths of the yearly fee. By the
amended section, however, these 1937 ,
licenses would be used for a full
year, through the first three months
of 1938.
Legislature May Act.
:. H; pointed out that the Legislature
will meet before the 1937 licenses
- must be bought, however. This ;
means that the law may be changed ;
-» to remove the three-fourths-fee pro
I, vision.
The date on the opinion showed
that it was sent to Gov. Harry W.
Nice before be signed the bill chang
ing the date of expiration of tags.
The opinion came to light when a
group of them was sent to a printer
to be prepared for inclusion in the
* attorney general’s annual report.
* OPERA GUILD TO GIVE
MUSICALE TONIGHT
*
A Proceeds Will Be Used to Aid
<9
j, Tornado Victima in Southern
** States.
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A benefit musical* tor tornado vie
£ ttms In the Southern 8tates will be
» presented at 8:30 o'clock tonight at
£ the Willard Hotel by the Washington j
Opera Guild, under the direction of;
p Mme. Gurle Lulse Correa.
> The program will include piano |
,* classics by Joseph Levine. 35-year-old ;
e assistant to Josef Hofmann at the
£ Curtis Institute of Music in Phila
delphia. and costumed scenes from;
r. six operas.
Members of the Opera Guild who
will perform are Mary McLain, Patsy
Mathews, Florence Collins, Marguerite
j* Monsell, Thelma Hardy, Margaret
y Mickler. Margaret Slmrall, Mildred
£ Flksdal. Irene Grow, Evangeline Tully,
; Ruth Lo Bianco, Frances Horton,
1 Margaret Shaw, Agnes Simmons and
J, Verna Harper. Marion May Leonard
Is accompanist.
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5 STEEL OFFICIAL DIES
• Cecil Martin le Found With
Throat Slashed.
? CHICAGO, May 35 OF).—His throat
X slashed with a butcher knife, the body
of Cecil Martin, 55, treasurer of the
i Worden-Alien Co., steel manufac
* turers, was found today In the bath
room of his home in suburban River
l Forest.
. Sergt. James Donoghue, chief tn
, vestigator of the coroner’s office, said
» Martin apparently had committed
i suicide. Martin’s wife, Frances, said
1 her husband had been worried over
» financial matters.
Martin had three children, two sons
; and a daughter. He was in charge
of the Chicago branch of the steel
| company, whose main plant Is In
Milwaukee, Wls.
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Figure in Detroit’s Probe of Black Legion
No. 1—“It’s a wicked lie ,”
said Mrs. Rebecca Poole in
denying her husband abused
her. She is shown with her
15-day-old daughter, Nancy
Joan. Several members of
the Black Legion at Detroit
have confessed they killed
Poole, because he had beaten
his 21-year-old wife.
No. 2—Mrs. Maida Every,
right, widow of Paul E. Every,
State prison guard, who said
her husband ivas flogged when
he tried to withdraw from the
legion. Her son, Ralph, is
shown ivith her.
(Story on Page 1.) .
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No. 3—Every, whose death,
attributed to heart disease
and diabetes, is being investi
gated.
No. 4—Dite Hawley, under
subpoena to testify. Police
seized documents which, they
said, named Hawley as briga
dier general of the legion in
13 Michigan counties.
No. 5—Ray Ernest, prison
guard, named as district
leader.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos.
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FIORENZA AIDED
By PSYCHIATRIST
Tub Murder Defendant Held
Potentially Insane Long
Before Crime.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 25—A State
psychiatrist, called by the defense to
day at the trial of John Fiorenza. 24
year-old upholsterer's helper, for the
slaying of Mrs. Nancy Evan3 Titter
ton, swore Fiorenza was regarded as
potentially insane three years before
the fiction writer was attacked and
strangled.
Dr. James Lincoln McCartney, psy
chiatrist at Elmira Reformatory, in
1933. testified he examined Fiorenza
on April 10. 1933. a month after he
was committed for grand larceny, and
found him narcissistic, suffering
from an oedipus complex,. ^nd( defi
nitely schizoid. , ’
Fiorenza. Dr. McCartney concluded,
“might profit from psychotheraphy.
but if pushed too hard might become
psychotic and should be classed as
potentially psychotic."
Henry Klauber, counsel lor riorenza,
called the psychiatrist in his efforts
to prove to Judge Charles C. Nott, jr,
and a jury that the youth was Irre
sponsible and therefore should not be
sent to the electric chair.
“Fiorenza,” Dr. McCartney aaid.
“was of dull, normal intelligence, de
liberate in action, but readily influ
enced and prone to fall in the path
of least resistance.
“He was emotionally unstable, an
introvert, and is definitely retarded in
psvcho-sexual development. He has
a very Juvenile attitude toward adult
sex.”
Fiorenza listened calmly.
“As a child he was nervous and sub
ject to moody spells." Dr. McCartney
continued. “He suffered an overat
atchment to his mother (the oedipus
complex).
“He is schizoid (his personality
disintegrates under certain condi
tions), likes to be by himself and in
dulge In day-dreaming. He is nar
cissistic (a psychopathic form of
vanity) and likes to show off in a
childish way. Being a recidivist
(prone to relapses in crime) he will
continue to get into trouble on his
release.”
Fiorenza was not insane in 1933,
Dr. McCartney said, but added he
felt “his condition might become a
form of dementia praecox.”
Music Hath Charms.
Andrew Swam, an old tailor who
lied recently in Auckland, New Zea
land, spent two and one-half years of
his life with five other castaways and a
Addle on an uninhabited Island In the
Pacific, and enjoyed it so much that
he was not eager to be rescued.
Black Legion Claims Origin
In Early Colonial Days of V. S.
Boston Tea Party Was One of Early
Successes, Order Says—Officials
Probe Klan Link.
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DETROIT. May 25.—Whether the
Black Legion, fantastic organization
of armed and robed men which is re
puted to have antedated and inspired
the Ku Klux Klan, has any actual
connection with the klan is a question
which is puzzling Detroit and Michi
gan authorities.
The legion had never been heard of
until l<k of its members were arrested
here and held in the murder of
Charles A. Poole, a P. W. A. worker.
Literature which was seized showed
the legion to be anti-Catholic. anti
Jewish, anti-Negro and to be sworn to
defend the Constitution and oppose
communism.
Of the 16 arrested, the majority was
from the deep South, the hills of Ten
nessee and Mississippi. Almost to a
man they were married, believers in
the flag, the sanctity of the home, 100
per cent Americanism and a personal
devil. What they had done, they be
lieved. was not murder, not sin, but
was at the command of God.
There was. superficially at least, an
affinity with the purposes and credos
of the klan.
Ns Definite Klan link Shown.
The inquiries of the State, city and
county authorities, however, have not
! yrw Miuwu »uy urmiiir wxiu tue ,
! old Klan organization. One theory
advanced is that a few men tried to
■ revive the Klan in Michigan, and,
, failing in that, conceived the Black
i j Legion.
According to documents seized by
■ the State police, the leader of the
' legion north of the Mason-Dlxon
line is reported to live either In Ohio
■ | or Indiana. Whether he actually
t j exists, or Is only a name, was nc^
i' established.
: | 'The literature set forth that the
11 legion was organised during the early
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Loioniai nisiory oi America ana mat
Samuel Adams was one of the early
t members. One of the legion's early
successes was said to have been the
Boston tea party, and the Minute
Men of the Revolution were claimed
as early legion members.
After the Revolution, the Black
Legion remained alive, according to
the literature, and came into promi
nence during the struggle between
the slave and abolition forces for
Kansas John Brown was described
as a Black Legion leader.
I Naturally, there is nothing in recog
nized history to support any such as
sertions, and they were concocted, ap
; parently, to appeal to romantic
minded prospective members,
j ' 5* Reparted Marked te Die.
Capt. Ira H. Marmon of the State
police reported that 50 men had been
marked for death because they had
incurred the 111-wlU of the legion. So
far as he was able to determine, the
organisation was not active politically
to any extent, but was engaged prin
cipally in enforcing its own peculiar
codes of conduct.
One of the more startling allega
tions was made by Harry Colburn, an
investigator for the Wayne County
(Detroit) prosecutor. He declared he
had information indicating a Michigan
membership of 135,000.
“It is a national organization," he
asserted, "and its eventual aim is
overthrow of the United States Gov
ernment Itself. In Michigan there are
five brigades, each with a brigadier
general, and each brigade is divided
into 16 regiments, each headed by a
colonel.
“Further down the line were cap
tains, lieutenants, sergeants and cor
porals. In Michigan alone there is an
armed force comparable in size to the
United States Army."
Poole was murdered, according to the
confessions of some of those arrested,
because there had been a complaint he
had beaten his wife. His widow. Re
becca Poole, was in a hospital when
he was killed. Their second child had
just been born.
After the arrest of the killers, she
denied that her husband ever had
beaten her. The authorities were in
clined to believe the real motive for the
killing was that the Poole marriage
united a Protestant and a Catholic.
Aside from the Poole murder, the
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only offense with which the legion
has been linked definitely was a ter
roristic attempt against Albert Bates.
Ford Motor Co. transportation super
intendent. Last August he was warned
to attend a ‘‘picnic" at a local sub
urban park. When he appeared po
lice arrested two of the men who later
were re-arrested In the Poole case.
They had black robes and hoods and
revolvers were found in their automo
bile.
The two, Lowell Rushing and Harvey
Davis, were released on a technicality
shortly after the Bates Incident.
Numerous floggings have been at
tributed to the Legion, however, as well
as other acts of terrorism. But whether
it is an offshoot or successor to the
Klan. the authorities do not know. So
far. they have no evidence to establish
such a connection. They have only
the fact that, In seme of their aims and
methods, the two organizations are de
cidedly similar.
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Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Mine From River
Thought Relic of
1898 Hostilities
Virginian Says Reports
of Spanish Craft in Bay
Led to Sinking.
The rust-covered mine found float
ing In the Potomac 2 mile* below
Port Washington a few days ago "un
doubtedly” was qne that was sunk In
the channel near the fort after the
outbreak of the Spanish-American
War, when there were reports an
enemy craft had entered Chesapeake
Bay, according to Albert T. Sides, 63.
of Cherrydale, Va.
"As soon as I saw the picture of
the And, I was sure it was one of
quite a number that were sunk in the
channel in April or May of 1898,”
he told his son, Albert T. Sides, Jr.
"When there were reports that an
enemy craft was in the bay the mines
were placed as protection against a
possible invasion of the Potomac.
The mines were fastened to heavy
iron plates to anchor them down."
Sides was stationed at Port Wash
ington at the time, serving as a mas
| ter sergeant in the Coast Artillery,
and was detailed to duty in connec
1 tion with the mine-laying operation.
The mine was hauled from the Po
| tomac by Capt. Philip Barbour, mas
ter of the excursion steamer Potomac,
who, at the time, was piloting the
Captain Toby in salvage operations.
The object first was believed to be a
mooring buoy, but Capt. Barbour, a
veteran of 43 yea/s on the river, in
sisted it was a mine.
Week.
A Nation-wide campaign opens to
day to provide the lonely sailors. Coast
Guardsmen and lighthouse attendants
with books to while away their idle
hours and broaden the narrow world
of the ship* and islands which are
their homes.
From today through Saturday tljc
Public Library at Eighth and K streets
and its branches will receive donations
of volumes plainly marked "For Sea
men” and destined for the American
Merchant Marine Library Association, j
which conducts the book-collection
campaign.
Mrs. John R. Slidell is chairman
of the drive In the Capital. On her
committee are Miss Helen-E. Clifford.
Mrs. Gilbert H. Groavenor, Mrs. Ran
dall Hagner. Mrs. Alien Haden.' Miss
Florence Marlatt, Mrs. Nelson E.
Perin, Miss Eleanor C. Preston and
Mrs. James Spear Taylor.
Supported by Contributions.
The Library Association is supported
by contributions of money and books
from shipowners and operators, the
United States Shipping Board, marine
and labor organizations and by thou
sands of Individual men and women
throughout the country.
It aims this year to gather 250,000
books and magazines to fill the sea
going chests or libraries of *10 books
each which are put aboard the ves
sels plying between the ends of the
world. About 50 of the books In each
library are fiction, and atftmt 20 non
fiction and technical, including, when
ever the stock permits, books on navi
gation, engineering, seamanship and
radio.
Veteran Tens of Books* Value.
In illustration of the high value
; placed by sailors on books, a veteran
| of the bridge, Wilson Starbuck. a
descendant of a long line of Nan
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:ucket whalers, wrote for the Ameri
can Merchant Marine library Asso- *
elation “a story of the sendee from
:he standpoint of a seafaring reader."
"It U hard lor people ashore to
realize how much a good book means
to a man at aea," Starbuck wrote.
‘Only those who have been through
the mill know what it is to go below
after a long watch on deck and try
to amuse oneself. Books are the best
companions a man in such a pre
dicament can have." v
RANDOLPH TO SPEAK 1
Wert Virginian to Address Civi
tan Club Meeting.
Representative Randolph of West
Virginia will address the Washington
Civitan Club at its luncheon meeting
at 12:30 p m. tomorrow in the May
flower Hotel. His topic is “Some
American Institutions.” . *
The Civitans also will have before
them plans for participation in the
International Civitan convention to be
held in Hertford, Conn., from June
14 to 18. The local organization will
be represented at the sessions by A. L. 4
Leeth. president: 8. T. Cameron, past' J
president: Dr. M. L- Townsend, past ■
International president, and L. S. ■
Taylor. J
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HOWARD E. BLOOD
PLEASES A MOTHER TAKING THE
CHILDREN TO NEW YORK WITH HER
When she rides with us we do our best to make her
journey pleasant. To have the Porter offer a pillow—a
class of filtered water—or to bring milk for the children
from the Dining Car—these are little things, but we
consider them evidence of the B A 0 Will to Please.
In the Individual and Reclining Seat Coaches, the
seats are deep and soft—she and tne children can sit or
* nap in comfort. The Women’s Rooms are spacious and
clean, with free soap and individual towels. And every
car is Air-Conditioned. No drafts, no dirt, no stuffy air.
And on arrival, she has the convenience of B ft O
Motor Coach service, to take her, and her bags,
directly from the trainside to 14 places in New York
and Brooklyn, without extra charge. No long walks
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