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McCARL BLASTS
NEW DEAL UNITS
AS TERM ENDS
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“Tax - Consuming”
Agencies End
Demanded
POLITICAL ACTIVITY
PLANS ANNOUNCED
Services Offered to Byrd
Committee—Will Studv
m
Europe’s Finances.
BY J. A. FOX.
Calling for abolition of many, if not
All, of the "emergency agencies,”
which he described as “tax-consum
ing in the extreme,” Controller Gen
eral John A. McCarl, who is stepping
out of office tomorrow night, said in a
formal statement today that he may
“take some part in politics.”
McCarl, who has been controller
general for 15 years, plans in the fu
ture to resume the practice of law.
but he has not definitely shaped his
program. He was admitted this morn
ing to the bar of the United States
Court of Appeals.
With McCarl's tenure practically
expired, attention was centered today
on the question of a successor, but i
President Roosevelt left for Hyde I
Park Saturday night without giving
any indications of his intentions in
this respect.
Several names have been suggested,
but so far as it is known the Presi
dent is not even near a decision.
Richard N. Elliott, assistant con
troller general, will assume the duties
pending appointment of a new head
of the General Accounting Office.
Favors American System.
In his statement, which he ampli
fied at the first and only press con
ference he has ever held during his
term. McCarl emphasized that he
firmly believes that the American sys
tem of Government must be pre
served.
“No one could serve 15 years as
controller general of the United States
without the aid of a firm belief in
both the wisdom and the practicabil
ity of our system,” he said. “With ,
me, it is not just a belief. It is some- '
thing more akin to a religion.”
McCarl did not indicate what his j
“political activity” would consist of, ,
but explained that his services will be
available to the Byrd Committee set j
up to study Government reorganiza- (
tion, and added significantly: (
"A systematic and sensible reorgan- ,
Ization of the regular governmental ,
agencies and activities would result not
, only in a vast monetary saving, but |
would eliminate duplicate and conflict
ing operations, bring together related
functions, simplify procedure and in i
j every respect make for better admin- '
istrauon.
! “This is a legislative problem and I
* am in hopes that the next Congress
; may be so c<jnstituted that there may
; be assured not only a systematic and
thorough reorganization of the regular
agencies, with proper consolidations
and eliminations, but that the many,
It not all, existing special or ‘emerg
ency’ agencies which, due to their
nature, were loosely and extrava
gantly set up and are tax-consuming
an the extreme, may be promptly elim
inated, with such of their functions as
may be proper for temporarily carry
ing on, assigned to the more economi
cally organized regular establish
ments.”
Plans Trip to Europe.
McCarl said also he planned event
ually to make a trip to Europe “to ob
serve at first hand the operations and
effectiveness of at least two or three
other systems there in vogue for legis
lative control over public moneys, but
the days just ahead promise so much
that should be of such serious judg
ment and concern to all of us that
there will be no trip to Europe.”
He said also that he has been asked
tp write of his experiences and obser
vations in his long term of office and
that he may do this eventually. With
the exception of a trip home to Ne
braska, his headquarters will be in
Washington for some time, the con
troller general explained.
The Court of Appeals convened in
a special general term today to hear
United States Attorney Leslie C. Gar
■ nett move for McCarl’s admission. He
was sworn in by C. Newell Atkinson,
assistant clerk, and then thanked and
was congratulated by the three jus
tices present at the general term, D.
Lawrence Grcrner, Harold M. Stephens
and Chief Justice George E. Martin,
f Accompanied by Garnett.
He was accompanied to the court
house by Garnett and O. R. Mc
Guire, an attorney in the controller
general's office.
McCarl distributed copies of his
statement to newspaper men who
thronged his offices when it was an
nounced that he was to have a press
conference.
As each mao came, in, the con
troller general shook his hand and
then, standing beside his desk on
Which there was a huge floral piece,
(See McCARL, Page 3.)
LANDON TICKET TO GET
“FULL BORAH SUPPORT”
By the Associated Press.
i COEUR D’ALENE. Idaho, June 29.—
| Ezra R. Whltla. Idaho Republican
national committeeman and a mem
ber of the National Campaign Com
mittee, said he was “firmly convinced”
today Senator William E. Borah “will
wholeheartedly support Landon and
Knox.”
Whltla predicted also “the Prairie
States will decide the election” and
pointed to the Central States, “where
Landon Is at home,” and the West
as the November battleground. He
said all political factions concede the
East will go solidly Republican.
The Idaho committeeman expressed
his opinion that Borah will be re
. nominated for the Senate and defeat
Gov. c. Ben Ross by 50,000 votes up
the general election.
JOHN A. McCARL.
yanking Planes Are Said tc
Have Attacked Southern
Force.
BACKGROUND—
Southern Chinese leaders, aroused
by constant encroachments of the
Japanese, demanded joint action
between the northern and southern
forces. Following the demands with
action, troops of Kwangsi and
Kwangtung moved northward and
threw up a line of defense along
the Hunan border, behind which
they were ready to make a stand
against the Japanese.
In Northern China the drive was
considered more in the nature of a
revolt than a defense against Japan.
23 the Associated Press.
The military planes of Chiang Kai
Shek, dictator of China’s central gov
tmment, were reported today to have
-ained bombs on the Kwangsi-Kwang
,ung provincial armies of Southerr
Shina.
Circuitous advices reaching Hong
tong from Nanking indicated Gen
■ralissimo Chiang, threatened witt
:ivil war in the shape of an ostensible
inti-Japanese military movement, di
ected by leaders of the Cantor
southwest) government, struck boldl)
o gain the upper hand.
Six bombers, the reports said, blast
ed Kwangsi concentrations neai
Wingchow, then dropped projectile*
on Kwangtung army trenches ir
southern Kiangsi province.
But the southern militarists were
adamant.
Gen. Ll Chung-Jen, taking com
mand of the fourth army of the south
west's anti-Japanese ‘‘salvation expe
dition,” said his mission was two-fold:
To "resist Japanese aggression and
remove all obstacles in the way—in
cluding national traitors.”
Japanese authorities demanded
apologies and reparations from th«
Chinese officials of Fengtai for ar
alleged assault on a Japanese citizen
According to official Japanese
sources, the Japanese in question tried
to rent a house in Fengtai, but wa*
seized and beaten by Chinese soldier*
who dragged him to their barracks.
A Japanese gendarme reported he
tried to rescue his countryman, but
was denied admission to the barracks
On the sea, the southwestern foroes
sent gunboats foaming toward the
Island of Hainan to block a reported
Nanking attempt to occupy that
mountainous base.
Southern officials arrested 10 col
lege professors and accused them as
Central government "Fascists.”
Mutinies Reported.
Canton heard new reports of Cen
tral government troop mutinies, but
foreign observers accepted them with
reserve. They were flatly denied-at
Nanking, and officials laid them to
“Japanese propaganda."
Nanking government officials, like
wise, contradicted reports abroad that
Inner Mongola had deserted China
and Joined Japan. They said Mon
golia still was regarded as an indis
putable and integral part of the
Chinese Republic.
me gmvc smuggling controversy,
which reached a high point last week
with Chinese customs cruisers firing
on Japanese freighters, resulted in
new Japanese naval warnings. Chinese
were told they must cease such activi
ties, under pain of naval “action.”
Base Ball Head's Father Killed.
CHICAGO, June 39 OP).—Samuel
Grabiner, 84, father of Harry Grab
iner, vice president and secretary ol
the Chicago American League base
ball team, was killed today when he
was struck by an Illinois Central train
on the far South Side.
NEGUS TO APPEAL
FOR MICE FROM
LEAGIINPERSON
Selassie Works on Draft of
Plea to Be Given To
morrow.
TERRITORY ACQUISITION
RECOGNITION QUESTION
Speedy “Funeral’’ Service* Are
Planned for Sanction* Against
Italy.
BACKGROUND—
The League of Nations, attempt
ing to stop Italian aggression in
Ethiopia, barred financial and to a
large extent trade relations with
Italy, seeking to bring Italian
withdrawal through economic pres
sure.
The sanctions failed of their pur
pose and now the League is pre
pared to consider lifting the sanc
tions. The United States has already
pointed the way by ending the
arms embargo.
By the Associated Press.
GENEVA. June 29.—Emperor Haile
Selassie's spokesmen announced today
the conquered Negus would personally
address the League of Nations Assem
bly in an eleventh-hour appeal for
"justice.”
The Assembly will meet at 5 pm. (11
am. Eastern standard time) tomorrow
in Geneva’s municipal auditorium.
Selassie, now known by his Italian
conquerors as "Signor Tafari.” worked
on the text of his appeal in the seclu
sion of his hotel suite today. It will
be delivered in French.
The Argentine delegation, which
took the initiative in calling tomor
row’s Assembly session to deal with the
sanctions question, intended to visit
him late today.
Recognition Question Arises.
Speedy funeral services, with a min
imum of oratory, were planned for the
anti-Italian sanctions. But the ques
tion which agitated statesmen was
whether the Assembly would indorse
the doctrine of non-recognition of
territory acquired by force.
Such action, which would at least
imply disapproval of Italy’s annexation
of Ethiopia, was believed to have been
the subject of conversations today be
tween the Argentinian Manuel E. Mal
bran, Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos of
France and Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden of Great Britain.
Earlier, British and French diplo
mats, leading the “death to sanctions”
campaign, conferred on the general
situation and reached conclusions de
scribed as "extremely satisfactory.”
Proposals to debate the Locarno
question, thrust into the tangled Eu
ropean problem when gooae-stepping
German troops marched into the
Rhineland last March, were definitely
shelved for the present.
Hitler Reply Awaited.
Although the Nazi denunciation of
the mutual security pact was listed
on the League’s agenda, diplomats
agreed debate was Impossible until
Chancellor Hitler of Germany replies
to the British questionnaire asking
details of his suggestions for a new
peace framework.
Premier Leon Blum of Prance, ac
companied by Delbos, entered the
League arena for the first time since
the People's Front government came
into office at Paris.
Blum and Delbos discussed the gen
eral situation over the dinner table
last night with Eden and lingered in
debate until nearly midnight. League
circles looked for close co-operation
between representatives of the two
nations when the Assembly. convenes
tomorrow.
That body—officially convoked to
decide its opinion on the Italo-Ethi
opian War—already possessed another
task handed to it by the League Coun
cil, the problem of initiating possible
revision of the covenant.
One conclusion appeared certain:
Cancellation of the economic and
financial penalties voted eight months
ago against Italy for aggression in
Ethiopia.
“Save the League” Guiding Theme.
Another conclusion gained new ad
herents: Refusal to recognize Italian
annexation of Emperor Haile Selassie’s
kingdom.
Delegates heard the slogan “Save
the League” as the guiding theme for
the assembly's deliberations.
An official memorandum arrived
from Rome, declared to describe the
present situation in Ethiopia “for the
guidance of the League Assembly.”
(Fascist officials and newspapers
predicted a general attitude against
sanctions, listing more than a dozen
nations against the penalties and only
one—the Union of South Africa—in
favor of continuing the "punitive”
measures.
(In addition to various Latin-Ameri
can countries, the nations termed in
favor of suspension of sanctions were:
Great Britain, France, Switzerland,
Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Rumania,
Greece, Turkey, Spain, Russia, Norway,
Sweden, Austria and Hungary.)
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Scattered Rains Fail to Halt
Spreading Heat Wave.
Crops Shrivel.
By the Associated Press.
The Government's Special Drought
Committee of six was called to meet
this afternoon by Jesse W. Tapp,
chairman, as scattered rains failed to
check an Intense heat wave spread
ing from Alabama and Tennessee
northwestward into the Dakotas.
Tapp said the committee would
discuss immediate efforts to assist
families in the North Central drought
States and study reports on the con
ditions and needs of live stock.
19t-Degree Heat Recorded.
J. B. Kincer, crop expert of the
Weather Bureau, said the heat wave
now in progress across the plains av
eraged from 100 to 106 degrees and
was drying up light rains as rapidly
as they fell.
Show ers over the week end in South
Dakota and the Great Lakes region
brought no relief, whatever. Kincer
said, since the heaviest precipitation
was only about one-half inch. Tem
peratures in the drought section, he
said, were averaging 9 to 10 degrees
above normal. i
The Weather Bureau said local
thunder showers this afternoon and
tonight were possible in the Central
and Northern parts of Illinois and In
diana, Lower Michigan, Wisconsin, and
Missouri, Iowa, and Eastern Minne
sota. Hie weather in North Dakota
and South Dakota was generally fair
and a moderation in temperature
throughout the area was expected to
morrow.
SHOWERS PREDICTED.
But Only '‘Drenching Downpour” Will
Aid Crops.
CHICAGO, June 27 (^.—Midwest
ern farmers scanned the skies today
for signs of crop-saving rain.
Meteorologists predicted showers and
cooler weather for many parts of the
arid midcontinent. But their forecast
raised no false hopes. Experts con
tended a "drenching downpour” was
needed to stem the protracted drought
that has shriveled vegetation, dried
streams and spread wide destruction
through fields of small grains.
Long-awaited precipitation was re
ported yesterday in scattered sections
of the Dakotas, Minnesota and Mon
tana, but in most cases it was too light
to be of more than temporary benefit.
110 in Missouri Town.
Extreme heat and hot winds beset
the Prairie States from Montana to
Indiana. The mercury reached 110 at
Brookfield, Mo. All-time record highs
for the date were reported at Kansas
City, Mo., and Topeka, Kans., with
readings of 107 and 106, respectively.
Glendive, Mont., recorded 107; Grand
Island, Nebr., and Sioux „City, Iowa,
104; Evansville, Ind., and Dodge City,
Iowa, 102; Springfield, HI., and 8t.
Louis, 100.
Drought-belt farmers whose pro
duce had been destroyed turned to
a St. Paul, Minn., meeting to see what
the Government would do in the
emergency. Administrator Harry Hop
kins called W. P. A officials of the
affected States to a conference there
tomorrow to draft plans for relief of
distressed farm families—estimated by
one Resettlement Administration offi
cial to number 75,000. A program of
water conservation against future
droughts was also shaped for discus
sion. A meeting of Governors of five
sun-seared States, originally set for
today at Bismarck, N. Dak., was post
poned pending developments at St.
Paul.
Many farmers in the Ozarks re
sorted to hauling water. Deteriora
tion resulted in rising prices for
produce. Evansville, Ind., producers
(See DROUGHT, Page A-7.)
MRS. BRYANT MUST DIE
London Court Dismisses Appeal In
Husband Poisoning.
LONDON, June 29 MP).—An appeal
by Mrs. Charlotte Bryant, sentenced
to be hanged for poisoning her hus
band, was dismissed by the Criminal
Court today.
Mrs. Bryant, mother of five children,
was convicted of killing her farmer
husband May 30. The prosecution
charged the slaying resulMd from her
infatuation with an itfiersnt mer
chant. __
Midshipman’s Fall
From Hammock on
Wyoming Is Fatal
Naval Academy Student
Dies in Hospital at
Portsmouth, England.
By the Associated Press.
PORTSMOUTH, England. June 29 —
Preston Smith, a United States mid
shipman, died in the Royal Naval
Hospital today of injuries received in
a fall from a ship’s hammock aboard
the U. S. S. Wyoming.
The coroner ordered a post-mortem
examination, which will be conducted
tomorrow.
Smith was treated in the Wyoming's
sick bay until the warship left for
Gothenburg, Sweden.
Smith was born in Birmingham,
Ala., in 1916. and was appointed to
the Naval Academy from the Naval
Reserve. His father, Sidney Preston
Smith of Birmingham, has requested
the body be sent to Alabama.
The Wyoming, with the Arkansas
and the Oklahoma, arrived at Ports
mouth on June 19 and sailed on
Saturday for Gothenburg, Sweden.
BHTO SEEK
TREATY REVISION
Plans to Invoke Escalator
Clause of Naval Pact for
Destroyers.
By tee Associated Press.
LONDON. June 29 —Great Britain
began preparations today to formally
notify Washington and Tokio she
wants to invpke the escalator clause
of the 1930 naval treaty for destroyers.
The action was determined upon
because of what officials believe to be
the menace of submarines.
Diplomatic quarters understood the
notifications would be forwarded
within a few days.
Great Britain recently sought the
consent of United States and Japan
for the waiver of destroyer limitations
of the treaty which would have per
mitted her to retain 40,000 tons of
overbuilt ships.
The United States, however, ob
pected, informing the British that to
use the escalator clause would be the
proper way to escape the treaty pro
visions.
Japan's reply indicated the esca
lator clause on submarines might be
invoked by that nation.
Today Japan formally notified Great
Britain she would not adhere to the
1936 international naval treaty.
The move was authoritatively char
acterized as a serious blow to British
hopes of working out a universal naval
treaty.
It was stated that it might jeopar
dise some provisions of the new treaty
signed by the United States, Great
Britain and Prance, since certain pro
visions become operative only if Japan
joins.
The foreign office announced: "The
counselor of the Japanese Embassy
called at the foreign office and left a
memorandum in which it was stated
the Japanese government did not, in
the present circumstances, intend to
accede to the London naval agreement
Of 1936.”
Four Picketerg Held.
CAMDEN, N. J„ June 29 (4s).—Police
took four men from picketing crowds
outside the R. C. A. plant today and
charged them with inciting to riot.
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Child, 7, Tells How He
Talked With Slayer in
Chicago Hotel.
Pt the associated Press.
CHICAGO. June 29—Before the
terrified eyes of her 7-year-old son,
who lay In bed beside her. Mrs. Flor
ence Thompson Castle, 24. a comely
divorcee and entertainer, was choked
and beaten to death today by a huge
colored man who invaded her small
room in a near North Side hotel.
On the mirror of a dresser the killer
had scrawled with his victim’s lip
stick:
"Black Legion. Game."
Beneath the writing was a crudely
drawn skull and cross bones.
After twice questioning the son, the
police said they believed the slayer
either attacked or attempted to at
tack his victim after slugging her.
Before leaving, the intruder looted
Mrs. Castle’s purse and scattered its
contents on a fire escape.
The slaying occurred on the fifth
floor of the Devenshire Hotel, a 13
story building at 19 East Ohio street,
near Michigan avenue, just a few
blocks north of the Loop.
James Castle, the son. who disclosed
the slaying to the clerk in the near
North Side Hotel, said the Invader
conversed with him while he was
beating the mother to death.
After the killer had fled down a
Are escape, the bojfr said he went back
to sleep, not realizing his mother had
been killed. But when he awoke later
and was unable to arouse her, he ran
in terror to the hotel lobby.
The police found Mrs. Castle’s body,
clad in a nightgown, across the bed.
Two halves of a brick used by the
killer were lying beside the bed, cov
ered with blood. A window to a Are
escape was open. Mrs. Castle’s purse
lay empty on the Are escape.
The boy told the police his father
was James Thompson of Boston. He
said he did not know the address.
His mother, he said, had been di
vorced and later married a man he
knew only as “Bud” Castle, who now
lives in Los Angeles.
The police said they were unable to
determine whether the victim had
been criminally attacked. They said
(See SLAYING, Page A^3J
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RECORD IS BROKEN
Californians Attain Height of
5,760 Feet During Elmira
Soaring Meet.
By the Associated Press.
ELMIRA, N. Y„ June 29 -^Soaring
to a height of 5,760 feet, Albert Blat
ter of Los Angeles, and John D. Bat
terson of Pasadena, Calif., set what is
believed to be a new world record for
two-place gliders at the seventh an
nual soaring meet here.
The flight, made yesterday, es
tablished a new national altitude rec
ord for two-place gliders.
Batterson and Blatter were in the
air 2 hours and 21 minutes, landing
at Tioga Point, Pa., 25 miles from
here.
Chester J. Decker of Glen Rock,
N. J., 1935 junior champion, made the
first "point and return’’ flight of the
meet, soaring to Corning Beacon and
back, a distance of 6.4 miles.
LEADERS PREPARE
TO OPEN CAMPAIGN
ON MANYFRONTS
President, at Hyde Park, to
See Gov. Horner and
Frank Murphy.
LANDON CONTINUES
WORK ON ACCEPTANCE
Lemke to Set Up Machinery for
“Clean" Campaign—Thomas
to Open Series.
Ej the Assocltted Press.
With the shouting and the tumult
of the national conventions a matter
of political history, party leaders pre
pared today to open their 1936 vote
drive on widely scattered fronts.
Democrats, Republicans, Union
partyists and others laid plans to
capture the favor of the voters who
will determine the course of national
affairs during the next four years.
President Roosevelt rested at his
Hyde Park. N. Y., home after formally
accepting the Democratic presidential
nomination at a monster rally Sat
urday night in Franklin Field, Phila
delphia.
The President planned meetings
today with Gov. Horner'of Illinois
and with Frank Murphy, former De
troit mayor and now high commis
sioner of the Philippines.
Series of Parleys.
Some of Mr. Roosevelt's intimates
saw in these conferences the beginning
of a series of parleys from mapping
campaign strategy. A meeting with
National Chairman James A. Farley
in Washington late this week was re
garded as a possibility.
Other Democratic leaders scattered
to their homes from Philadelphia
ready to battle the “economic tyranny”
assailed by Mr. Roosevelt in his ac
ceptance speech.
Out at Estes Park In the Colorado
Rockies the Republican presidential
candidate, Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kan
sas, continued preparation of his ac
ceptance speech, which will be deliv
ered at Topeka July 23, formally open
ing his campaign.
Gov. Landon had before him the
Democratic platform and President
Roosevelt’s acceptance speech as he
worked over his own address to rally
the Republican party to his standard.
The Republican chairman. John
Hamilton, mapped out a busy program
of organization meetings and con
ferences.
Representative Lemke of North Da
kota, presidential aspirant of the new
Union party, announced at Burling
ton, Iowa, he would set up party ma
chinery this week for a "clean” cam
paign, in which the "money issue”
would be paramount.
Lemke said Union party headquar
ters would be opened in Chicago
within the week.
Lehman Question Unsettled.
The question of whether Gov. Leh
man of New York would stand for re
election was still unsettled today after
his breakfast meeting yesterday with
Mr. Roosevelt. There were indications
his answer might be withheld until
late Summer—perhaps just before the
State convention.
In New Hampshire, a veteran Re
publican campaigner returned to the
political wars when former Senator
Moses announced his candidacy for
the Senate. In the party primary in
September he will oppose Senator
Keyes, who rfeeks re-election, and Gov.
H. Styles Bridges.
The Communist party, under lead
ership of Earl W. Browder, its candi
date for the presidency, started its
campaign “to reach 10,000,000 voters”
and “flood the country from one end
to the other with red literature.”
Norman Thomas, candidate of the
Socialist party for the presidency, al
ready has started a series of speeches
which will take him into every State
before November rolls around.
In addition to the presidential can
11 dates, members of Congress who have
deserted their Capitol Hill offices al
most to a man, were ready to meet
their constituents back home and ask
to be returned to Washington in Jan
uary.
Stranded Ship Aided.
SHANGHAI, June 29 (JP).—'The
American tanker Finnanger reached
the grounded oil ship Magnolia and
took off its cargo, It was reported
here today.
Salvage tugs were believed to have
arrived to aid the stricken tanker,
a 9,600-ton vessel, which stranded
Saturday on rocks west of Moppo,
Korea.
Duchess in Nursing Home.
LONDON, June 29 (JP).—The Duchess
of Kent was in a London nursing
home today for a minor dental opera
tion.
She motored to London yesterday
from her country home in Bucking
hamshire. The wife of the youngest
brother of King Edward is expected
to leave the nursing home after a
few days.
10 HOSPITAL HERE
D. C. Authorities Order Him
Arrested and Placed
Under Observation.
LEGISLATOR BELIEVED
LOCKED IN HIS OFFICE
Reporters Are Evicted at House
Building, Then Permitted
to Return.
(Pictures on Page B-l.)
BULLETIN.
Kenneth Romney, House serg
eant-at-arms, confirmed the fact
this afternoon that Representative
Zioncheck was Inside his office on
Capitol Hill. A physician from the
Towson, Md., hospital which Zion
check fled yesterday was closeted
with the Representative ahortly
after 2 p.m.
District authorities today planned
the immediate arrest and commitment
to an Institution of Representative
Marion A. Zioncheck, who was be
lieved to have returned to Washington
and locked himself in his suite in the
House Office Building after his escape
yesterday from a hospital for nervous
cases at Towson, Md.
Headquarters detectives were ex
pected to arrest Zioncheck at his
office.
Meanwhile, Capitol police ordered
30 photographers and reporters from
the building, on orders by Kenneth
Romney, House sergeant at arms.
Romney said later he did not mean
to bar the reporters from watching
Zioncheck's door, and gave orders
that they be allowed to return.
“I want to do whatever I can to
protect this man,” Romney said. “All
I want is to see he gets a fair deal."
Disclaims Official Information.
Romney said he had no official in
formation that Zioncheck was in his
office, but had heard many unofficial
reports to that effect.
Zioncheck’s presence could not be
confirmed immediately by reporters,
either. A man believed to be the Rep
resentative was glimpsed through win
dows from across a court and muffled
footsteps were heard behind the locked
doors.
No one would answer the telephone
or knocks at the door, and employes
of Zioncheck's office could not be
reached.
Decision for immediate arrest and
commitment of Zioncheck was made
at noon after a conference between
Commissioner George E. Allen, Police
Chief Ernest W Brown, Acting Cor
poration Counsel Vernon West and
Assistant Corporation Counsel T.
Gillespie Walsh.
Lunacy Hearing Indicated.
Zioncheck, it was said, could be
held for observation at St. Elizabeth's
or Gallinger Hospital pending a lu
nacy hearing before a Jury.
The warrant charging Zioncheck
with assault was sworn out by Mrs.
Benjamin Scott Young, who rented
her Harvard Hall apartment to Zion
check. Mrs. Young charges that Mr.
and Mrs. Zioncheck assaulted her by
forcibly evicting her from their apart
Truant
It was indicated that District offi
cials would renew the lunacy proceed
ings against Zioneheck that were
dropped when Mrs. Zioneheck obtained
permission to have her husband trans
ferred from Gallinger to the Towson
hospital last Tuesday.
At Zioncheck's office, no one an
swered the office telephones, and there
was no response to knocks on the door.
Reporters from across the court saw
a man resting at a desk. Zioncheck’s
secretary could not be located.
A warrant for assault also is out
against Zioncheck’s bride of two
months, but police have been unable
to locate her. It has been turned over
to officers at No. 10 precinct for
service.
Zioncheck’s presence in his office on
Capitol Hill was suspected when re
porters heard muffled footsteps within.
One amateur sleuth saw a “man in
shirtsleeves and suspenders” lounging
at a desk. If it was Zioneheck, how
ever, he made no move to Identify
himself.
Scaled Wire Fence.
Maryland police have uncovered no
trace of the fugitive, who scaled a
7‘^-foot wire fence and disappeared
with a burst of speed into the sur
rounding woods.
The Representative is immune from
arrest in the District under the rule to
show cause why he should not be de
clared insane. The order waa dis
missed when Zioneheck was trans
ferred Tuesday to the Maryland in
stitution.
The lunacy order was dismissed after
Mrs. Zioneheck and her attorney, Max
Ammerman, obtained permission to
have him transferred from Gallinger
Hospital to the Maryland institution.
While Maryland police have author
ity to arrest Zioneheck, they could not
have him extradited from the District
to be returned to Towson.
Ammerman Skid he is convinced the
assault warrants will not stand up in
court.
Thought Problem Solved.
Local authorities thought they had
solved the Zioneheck problem when
they surrendered jurisdiction of the
Representative to Maryland. After
three weeks under mental observa
tion at Gallinger, Zioneheck was
taken in a straitjacket to Towson.
Zioncheck's escape yesterday was
(See ZIONCHECK, Page A-3.)
RAND PLANT REOPENS
MIDDLETOWN, Conn., June 20 Oft.
—Charles A. Anderson, chief of po
lice, said 21 persons returned to
work today at the Remlpgton-Rand,
Inc., Middletown plant, where a
“sympathy strike” has been In force
for more than a month.
The factory reopened today on or
ders Issued sky James H. Rand, Jr,
president, aaS offered employment to
•11 workers.
Civil War Veteran, 99, Jilted
By Fiancee on Wedding Eve
By the Associated Press.
OLD FORGE, N. Y., June 29.—
Jilted by his fiancee on the eve of
their wedding, Charles Jeannette, 99
year-old Civil War veteran, gased
philosophically today at the ring he
purchased for the ceremony and re
marked:
“I’ll make use of that in the fu
ture.”
Meanwhile, Mrs. Ella B. Manning,
55-year-old Albany widow who was to
have become the old soldier's bride,
was secluded at the home of a daugh
ter at Saranac Lake. She refused to
discuss her sudden departure from
Old Forge Saturday night, less than
24 hours befor time set for her
wedding.
Without a , Jeannette went
through most of the wadding program
he had arranged for yesterday. He ate
his “wedding supper” with Margaret
and Marian Ray, S-year-old twins, as
his guests. They were to have been
flower girls. An empty chair which
was to have been occupied by his
bride, was beside him.
Previously he took a boat ride on
one of the Fulton Chain Lakes here.
That also was to have been part of
the wedding program.
Jeannette said Mrs. Manning left
Saturday night after she went few a
ride with her two daughters, Mrs.
Augusta Basal nger of Syracuse and
Mrs. William Kerr of Saranac Lake.
“Perhaps we weren’t suited for one
another,” he said.
"It may all feve been for the best."
"I guesss maybe she thinks Pm too
eld for her,” M added.
Business Looks Ahead
Rising security markets, quickened trade and ex
panding production have made a good record in the last
half year but unemployment remains and the contro
versy over Government financing grows.
Business finds new problems in Federal regulation
and taxes. What effect will the election have? What
will the future bring?
These vital questions and many others will be ex
amined by nationally known commentators of the As
sociated Press and North American Newspaper Alliance
in The Star’s Mid-Year Business and Financial Review
appearing tomorrow. % *