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TWO NEW DEPARTMENTS,
BROADER CIVIL SERVICE,
CONTROLLER CURB, AIMS
Six Executive Assistants Are
Sought to Aid President
Co-ordinate Work.
ALL “INDEPENDENT” UNITS TO GO
UNDER CABINET OFFICERS, IS PLAN
Whole Administrative Service to Be
Placed on “Career Basis,” Congress Is
Told—Savings of 30 Million Seen.
Synopsis of report on Administrative Management on Pages AS and A-9.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
President Roosevelt today submitted to Congress a sweeping "five-point
program” to modernize and make more efficient the executive branch of the
Government.
• It calls for the establishment of two new departments, one a Department
Of Social Welfare, the other a Department of Public Works.
Into the two new departments and the ten that already exist the Presi
dent would place all the executive agencies of the Federal Government, includ
ing all the so-called "independent" commissions, bureaus and administrations.
This means an executive branch consisting of 12 regular departments
Instead of 10 and approximately 95 other agencies. The name of the Interior
Department would be changed to Department of Conservation.
Mr. Roosevelt plans to improve the White House business and manage
ment organization by giving the President six high-grade executive assistants.
These would not be “assistant Presidents." They would have no authority to
give an order. They would have no authority to determine a policy. They
would be merely "leg men” for the President, aiding him to co-ordinate the
work of the executive departments.
These assistants would be like the private assistants of the president or
general manager of a great private business. The President today, it is main
tained, has less assistance of this kind than many Governors of States, city
managers and mayors, although he is the manager of the biggest business in
the world.
Operation of Plan.
Under the plan the whole governments; administrative service is to be
placed on a "career basis.” Every Job. outside of the policy determining posi
tions, is to come under the civil service, with the merit system in full operation.
This means that few offices, outside of the department heads, members of
the cabinet and their assistants, will be outside the general civil service.
ine i/ivu oervice commission is to
be abolished and a Civil Service Ad
ministrator is to be appointed in its
place, directly under the President.
An advisory board of seven members,
to serve without salaries, is to be
appointed to check up on the civil
sendee, meeting probably four times
a year.
What probably will be considered
more revolutionary than any other
part of the President’s plan for re
organization is the proposal to take
such "independent” agencies of the
Government as the Interstate Com
merce Commission, the Federal Trade
Commission and the Federal Power
Commission and place them under
department heads.
It is explained, however, that this
Is to be done merely for better man
agement. better "housekeeping.”
These agencies will retain and con
tinue to exercise their quasi-judicial
functions. When it comes to seeking
appropriations and additional em
ployes, those are matters that will be
dealt wdth through the department
heads, who will also have charge of
the purely administrative features of
these agencies.
Appropriation Estimates.
In support of this plan to have the
appropriations for these agencies
with judicial functions estimated for
by department heads, it is pointed
out that all the estimates of appro
priation for the judicial branch of
the Government, including the Su
preme Court, are now submitted to
the Bureau of the Budget through the
Attorney General.
The Bureau of the Budget Is to be
Strengthened and a planning board,
which will deal principally with public
works, is to be set up. These will
also both come directly under the
President.
The General Accounting Office,
with a controller general at Its head.
Is to be abolished. In its stead is to
be appointed an auditor general. This
auditor general is to be a creation
of Congress and directly responsible
to the Congress. He will make a “true
post-audit, of financial transactions
and report to Congress. He is to report
especially on illegal and wasteful ex
penditures, if he finds them. He Is
not, however, to become involved in
(See REORGANIZATION, Page A-2.)
ORDER OF LABOR BOARD
HELD INVALID BY COURT
TT. S. Circuit Bench Refuses to
Enforce Reinstatement of
Discharged Employes.
Sr the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. January 12.—
Court decisions on the national labor
relations act today included refusal
of the United States Ninth Circuit
Court to enforce reinstatement of five
discharged Mackay Radio St Telegraph
Co. employes.
The court's three-to-two decision
held the National Labor Board’s re
instatement order violated the Mackay
company’s rights of contract under
the fifth amendment to the United
States Constitution.
Presiding Justice Curtis D. Wilbur’s
majority opinion stated, however, he
was "not prepared to say that there
’ is no portion of the act which is con
stitutional.”
The dissenting opinion of Justice
Francis Garrecht held the act comes
under the "general welfare” power of
the Government “In the modern field
of industrial employment.”
Reinstatement of the men was
ordered by the Labor Board on its
finding they were discharged for union
activities,
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Text of Message
President Calls for U. S.
to Overhaul Its
Management.
The text of the President’s message
to Congress, transmitting the report
on administrative management, fol
lows:
To the Congress of the United
States:
I address this message to the Con
gress as one who has had experience
as a legislator, as a subordinate in an
executive department, as the chief
executive of a State and as one on
whom, as President, the constitutional
responsibility for the whole of the
executive branch of the Government
has lain for four years.
Now that we are out of the trough
of the depression, the time has come
to set our house in order. The ad
ministrative management of the Gov
ernment needs overhauling. We are
confronted not alone by new activi
ties, some of them temporary In
character, but also by the growth of
the work of the Government match
ing the growth of the Nation over
more than a generation.
Except for the enactment of the
budget and accounting act of 1921, no
extensive change in management has
occurred since 1913, when the De
partment of Labor was established.
The executive structure of the Gov
ernment is sadly out of date. I am
not the first President to report to
the Congress that antiquated ma
chinery stands in the way of effective
administration and of adequate con
trol by the Congress. Theodor-;
Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow
Wilson and Herbert Hoover made re
(Continued on Page 2, Column 4J~
Tattoos Number on Arm.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., January 12 (IP).
—Leon Roofener, 45-year-old build
ing engineer for a Memphis theater,
is almost certain he won’t lose his
social security act number. He has
it tattooed on his left arm.
WAR CLOUDS LIFT
AS BERLIN-PARIS
PACT IS REPORTED
Powers Negotiating Full Ac
cord, Is Rumor—Nazi Men
ace in Morocco Denied.
| BACKGROUND—
Main factor in European rela
tions for many years has been con- ,
flict between Germany and France.
After Franco-Prussian War, feeling
smouldered over Alsace-Lorraine
and other issues until new war was
inevitable. It came in 1914. Al
though World War has been over
20 years, repercussions are still felt.
Germany felt crushed by the Ver
sailles treaty and in recent years
has begun ignoring it, causing new
French complications. Outbreak of
Spanish war, in which French and
German sympathies were, as usual,
on opposite sides, increased an
tagonism between powers and led
to French demand for showdown
on alleged Nazi interference in
Spanish Morocco.
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By the Associated Press.
PARIS, January 12.—A military in
! spection of Spanish Morocco set at
rest French fears of German troop
concentrations today amid indications
of coming negotiations for a “full and
lasting settlement” of Franco-German
problems.
Resident Gen. August Nogues of j
French Morocco informed the foreign
office that Gen. G. H. Berenger, one
of his aides, had inspected the Span- '
ish zone and reported he could find
no evidence of large numbers of Ger
man troops.
Insurgent authorities in Spanish
Morocco, Gen. Nogues said, supplied
British and French army officers at
Tangier with permanent passes so
they might penetrate the zone at any ;
time for investigations.
There was a sudden breaking of the
acute tension which has bound Eu- I
rope since before the Christmas holi- j
days.
Ambassadors of both France and
Germany turned to their capitals
bearing dispatches which, diplomatic
circles said, signaled overtures for a
broad economic and political agree
ment.
It was a sudden and welcome lifting ,
of the war clouds that had become in- j
creasingly darker since France and
Britain stiffened their demapds on
Germany against volunteer aid to in
surgents in the Spanish civil war and
reported Nazi infiltration in Spanish
Morocco.
The first break of the day came in
Berlin, where Reichschancellor Adolf
Hitler and French Ambassador Andre
Francois-Poncet exchanged mutual
assurances of territorial integrity for
(See EUROPE, Page A-3.)
TEMPERATURE HERE
DUE TO BE UNCHANGED
Occasional Bains Late Tomorrow
Are Predicted for the
District.
Overcast skies and little change in
temperature is predicted for the Dis
trict tonight and tomorrow. Occa
sional rains are expected late tomor
row afternoon or night.
The mercury had climbed to 42 de
grees at 10 a.m. today and observers
at the Weather Bureau said it prob
ably would rise a few degrees higher
today before dropping to around 36
tonight.
The temperature kept at an even
keel most of yesterday, the highest
mark, 38, being reached at 4 p.m.
and the “low” of 37 at 11:30 p.m.
President Seeks Two Aides
With ‘Passion for Anonymity’
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt wants two spe
cial men "of high competence, great
physical vigor and a passion for
anonymity” at his beck and call the
next four years.
His Government Reorganization
Committee recommended today that
six assistants of such caliber be
granted him by Congress, but the
President gravely disclosed he had
only two choices in mind so far.
Shush, it’s a secret, he said—they
are the well known John Doe and
Richard Roe. So confidential would
be their duties tha£ persons asking how
they liked the weather would get a
stony stare in reply.
The President was explaining at a
press conference yesterday the reor
ganization report before transmitting
it to the Capitol. Members of the cab
inet flanked his littered desk. Sons
James and Franklin, jr„ sat nearby.
Row on row of note-taking newspaper
men faced the official assemblage.
Starting off. Teacher Roosevelt in
quired how many had done their home
work. The problem was one of com
mon sense management, he said, as
the laughter subsided, and told thej
story of the fanner at his wits’ end
because he was doing so much and
getting so little done.
The farmer had 10 outbuildings,
several chicken coops, tool sheds and
what not. On expert advice he built
an addition to his bam.
But, said the President, he had room
for all the poultry, equipment, etc., in
the bam, so that he had less walking
to do, more time to work and the sun
shone again.
Establishing two new departments
and consolidating all administrative
agencies under the departments will
mean efficiency In the Government as
it did on that farm, in the President’s
view.
Illustrating why he wants an execu
tive check on the administrative ex
penditures of now-independent agen
cies, like the Federal Trade Commis
sion or the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, the President spoke of one
unnamed agency which had asked him
about getting $300,000 more than he
considered necessary for a certain Job.
He suggested a reduction, he said,
only to have the agency in question
ask Congress directly for $500,000
more than the figure be had proposed.
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1ID GUARDSMEN
MOBILIZED 10 BAR
NEW S IKE RIOTS
AT FLINT PLANTS;
Mpre Than Score Injured in
Street Battles Between
General Motors Strikers
and City Policemen.
GOV. MURPHY PROMISES
MAINTENANCE OF ORDER
Wounded in Disorders Are Held
Under Police Guard—Martin
Charges Outbreak Provoked De-1
liberately for Purpose of Dis
possessing Workers.
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, January 12.—More than |
a thousand National Guardsmen in j
nine Michigan cities mobilized today j
for possible action in strike-torn Flint,
where more than a score lay injured
alter street fights between striking
General Motors Corp. employes and
city policemen.
Gov. Frank Murphy ordered the
mobilization, asserting the State will
act “'for the maintenance of public
order.”
Strikers wounded in the rioting out
side the Fisher body plant No. 2 at
Flint were held under police guard.
Homer Martin, president of the
United Automobile Workers of Amer- .
ica, directing widespread strikes at
General Motors plants, charged the
Flint disorder ''was deliberately pro
voked for the purpose of dispossessing
the sit-down strikers (who have held
the plant since December 30) by vio
lent means."
Charges Thugs Being Used.
In a statement telephoned from
Washington to union headquarters
here, Martin said he informed Gov.
Murpny Sunday of reports to him
“from a reliable source that profes
sional thugs were being shipped from
Decatur, 111., to arrive in Flint Mon
day morning.”
No statement came from General
Motors, which previously had infor
mally expressed regret at the disorders.
Martin's statement contended Flint
police "violated the law and their oath
of office” in attempting to dispossess
the strikers and claimed General Mo
tors representatives "had given posi
tive verbal assurances that violent at
tempts at ejection of the sit-down
strikers not be attempted.”
Martin conferred at Washington:
with John L. Lewis, chairman of the
Committee for Industrial Organiza
tion, with which the U. A. W. A. is
affiliated; John Brophy, a C. I. O. di
rector, and Sidney Hillman, president
of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers.
LawTence S. Davidow, attorney for
the union, left for Flint soon after j
noon to “take legal steps," presumably
In connection with the police guard j
over injured strikers.
Heat Turned Off.
The union men, still holding their
positions In the No. 2 plant, reported
the central heating plant had turned
off the steam in the factory at noon
today. Similar action was taken yes
terday before the violence broke out.
Heavy sight-seeing traffic streamed
past the plant. The strikers removed
a barricade of automobiles they had
set up in the street, and a “clean
up" squad was at work clearing it
of debris.
Several hundred striking automobile
(See STRIKE,~Page~<U3 j
MRS. COOLIDGE GETS SUM
House Sends Pension Bill to
Roosevelt.
The House adopted and sent to the
White House today a resolution to pay
a $5,000 yearly pension to Mrs. Calvin
Coolidge, widow of the late President.
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\LOTS OF FAME« 1
STATE, i
House|
Deficiency Appropriation Re
quest Will Be Discussed
Behind Closed Doors.
By the Associated Press.
Chairman Buchanan of the House
Appropriations Committee said today
secret hearings would begin tomorrow
on the President's $790,000,000 de
ficiency relief appropriation request.
Harry L. Hopkins, Works Progress
administrator, probably will be among
the first witnesses, Buchanan said.
The chairman indicated House
action on the measure could be com
pleted in plenty of time to permit
the Senate to take final action on the
measure before February 1, when
existing relief funds . are expected
to be exhausted.
Although no breakdown of the re
lief appropriation has been made
public, President Roosevelt said he
would request $650,000,000 for “re
covery and relief for the next five
months. Buchanan recently "guessed"
about $100,000,000 of the deficiency
appropriation would go to the Re
settlement Administration and about
$20,000,000 to the Treasury Depart
ment.
Commenting on President Roose
velt’s recommendation, Senator Van
denberg. Republican, of Michigan
(See RELIEF, Page A-2J
bnUrf i A lit Ur WUKNtKb
IN FUEL IRON MILLS
Lack of Skilled Employes Handi
caps Operations in Pueblo
Plant. <
By the Associated Press.
DENVER. January 12. — Arthur
Roeder, president of the Colorado
Fuel & Iron Co., said yesterday there
is an insufficient supply of trained
workers to meet the demand in the
company's mills at Pueblo.
The rail mills were reopened a
week ago.
"Lack of skilled labor is handicap
ping our operations,” Roeder said.
“In some of our plants in which one
or two shifts are working we would
like to put on three shifts but haven’t
the trained manpower.”
Officials said “it would be difficult”
to estimate how many additional em
ployes have been given work since
the mills were reopened, but added
there are 7,000 on the pay roll.
Summary of Today’s Star
Page.
Amusements B-16
Comics _B-ll
Editorial_A-10
Financial ...A-15
Lost & Found A-3
Obituary ...A-12
Page.
Puzzles _B-ll
Radio _B-12
Short Story.A-13
Society .B-3
Sports_A-18-19
Woman’s Pg. B-10
NATIONAL.
Roosevelt proposes sweeping reorgan
ization of Government. Page A-l
President orders intensive hunt for
Mattson killer. Page A-l
Secret hearings on relief to begin to
morrow. Page A-l
Militia mobilized after strike riots hurt
more than score. Page A-l
Hair is lone clue in bathtub
murder. Page A-l
Vandenberg urges State responsibility
for relief. Page A-l
Two feared dead in missing plane in
Illinois. Page A-3
1,000 striking seamen expected here
next week. Page A-5
Labor leaders hit General Motors;
peace prospects dim. Page A-l
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Marriage of two middies during Yule
holidays reported. Page A-l
Autopsy Awaited After Virginia Wom
an's Body Is Exhumed. Page A-5
Directors elected at annual bank meet
ings today. Page A-5
Commissioners decline to make police
brutality probe. Page B-l
Plans for new downtown postal station
announced. Page B-l
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Dr. and Mrs. Mann leave on Sumatran
expedition today. Page B-l
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
This and That. Page A-10
Answers to Questions. Page A-10
Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-10
David Lawrence. Page A-ll
Paul Mallon. Page A-ll
Mark Sullivan. Page A-ll
Jay Franklin. Page A-ll
Dorothy Thompson. Page A-ll
SPORTS.
Catcher trouble besets eight teams be
sides Nationals. PageA-18
Straiges impresses as boxer in out
pointing Taylor. PageA-18
Clarke has Jitters watching Tronsky
menace $500 pin prize. Page A-18
Duquesne quint routs Catholic U.: G.
W. swamps Eon. Page A-19
FINANCIAL.
Corporate bonds mixed
(table). Page A-15
Daily oil output lags. Page A-15
Stock losses reduced (table). PageA-18
Curb list uneven (table). PageA-17
Aldrich urges boom control. PageA-17
Copper slumps at London. Page A-18
MISCELLANY.
City News in Brief. Page A-5
Young Washington. Page A-7
Vital Statistics. Page A-7
Nature's Children. Page A-13
Traffic .Convictions. Page A-13
Betsy Caswell. Page B-10
Dorothy Dix. Page B-10
Bedtime Story. Page B-12
President, Shocked, Pledges
Relentless Hunt for Kidnaper
Search to Continue Until Slayer of
Mattson Boy Is Caught,
He Promises.
Shocked by the murder of Charles
Mattson. President Roosevelt today
pleged "every means at our command"
in the hunt for the killer, as Attorney
General Cummings announced a re
ward of $10,000 for Information lead
ing to the capture of the slayer,
i "Murder of the little Mattson boy
has shocked the Nation,” the Presi
dent said in an unusual statement.
"Every means at our command must
be enlisted to capture and punish the
perpetrator of this ghastly crime.
“Attorney General Cummings in
forms me that he has oflered a re
ward for information leading to the
arrest of the criminal, and that the
special agents of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation of the Department of
Justice are engaged in a search which
will be pursued relentlessly and will
not be terminated until the murderer
is caught.
“I bespeak for the agents of the
Department of Justice the continued
and wholehearted co-operation of the
local police and all other law en
forcement agencies in this necessary
work.
"A crime of this kind is renewed
evidenoe of the need of sustained ef
(See SEARCH. Page A-4.)
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Bludgeoned Woman, Im
mersed in Water, Clutched
Hair of Murderer.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. January 12 —Blood
soaked strand of hair, torn from the
scalp of her slayer, was the lone clue
today in the brutal “bathtub murder”
of Mrs. Mary Robinson Case, 25-year
old model and bride of a year, whose
bludgeoned body was found in a tub
overflowing with water late yesterday.
The young housewife, a former jun
ior Leaguer of Lancaster, Pa., appar
ently had put up a violent struggle
with her attacker before succumbing
to the crushing blow of a machinist's
hammer.
Police sent the wisp of hair, which
, was found clutched in the pretty bru
' nette victim's hand, to a Brooklyn
laboratory for examination.
Wedding Ring Stolen.
At the same time, Deputy Chief In
spector John J. Ryan broadcast a de
scription of a platinum wedding ring,
engraved “F. W. C. to M. H. R.,” which
had been wrenched from Mrs. Case’s
finger by the murderer.
Theft of the ring and $15 from Mrs.
Case’s handbag, satisfied police that
robbery was the ostensible motive for
the crime.
Water dripping from the tub gave
the first intimation of the crime to
tenants below and the apartment
house manager arrived on the scene
simultaneously with the victim's hus
band, Frank Case, 30, employe of a
hotel supply company.
Case told the police he had dashed
(See SLAYING. Page A-3.)
Ex-Convict Is Shot.
LEAKSVILLE, N. C., January 12
</P).—Paralyzed by a bullet in his
spine, Tom Chainey, youthful ex-con
vict, lay near death in a hospital to
day.
HOLD PARLEY HERE
Lewis Aides Plan to See U.S.
Labor Board Members.
Hit G. M. Policies.
BY JOHN C. HENRY.
Prospects for peace in the strike
torn automobile industry darkened
today as Homer Martin, president of
the United Automobile Workers, and
John Brophy, field general of the
Committee for Industrial Organiza
tion. vigorously denounced the labor
relation policies of General Motors
Corp. and the outbreaks of violence
during the last 24 hours.
Going into closed session with John
L. Lewis. C. I. O. chairman, and Sid
ney Hillman, another C. I. O. leader,
Martin and Brophy disclosed also that
they planned to confer later with
members of the National Labor Rela
tions Board. Violation of key sections
of the Wagner labor relations act will
be charged against General Motors,
Martin said.
Shortly after union leaders went
into session Assistant Secretary of
Labor Edward F. McGrady arrived to
participate. He declined any general
comment on the strike situation before
entering the conference.
Hits Strikebreakers.
Declaring that the U. A. W. has evi
dence that strikebreakers, recruited
by Pearl Bergoff, New York strike
breaking king, in Decatur, 111., had
been brought into Detroit and Flint
yesterday, Martin said:
"The blood spilling in Flint by the
hired Hessians of General Motors is a
demonstration of what Mr. Sloan
means by collective bargaining.”
"Such action," Brophy interceded,
“is in keeping with General Motors’
interpretation of the rights of workers
to bargain. It is not an unusual in
terpretation for Tory industrialists.”
Questioned about the determination
of members of two craft departments
of the American Federation of Labor
(See LABOR, Page A-2.)
Marriage of Two Middies
During Yuletime Reported
By tne Associated press.
ANNAPOLIS, January 12.—The
cases of two midshipmen who married
while on Christmas leave, in defiance
of Naval Academy regulations, are
now before the Secretary of the Navy,
it was learned here today.
A third midshipman, married early
last month, has been dismissed from
the naval service. The Academy reg
ulations provide that a midshipman
who marries during his course shall
be dismissed.
All three midshipmen involved are
or were members of the first or senior
class.
Midshipman George Hails Poster,
Montgomery, Ala., was married to Miss
Mary Helen Scott, Bessemer, Ala., on
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UecemDer Miasnipman nmoroK
G. Witters, Milady, Ind., was married
to Miss Edythe Marie Bigham, Bates
ville, Ind., at Indianapolis, Ind., on
December 31.
Both midshipmen reported their
marriages when they returned to the
academy after the holidays. Rear
Admiral David Foote Sellers, super
intendent of the academy, forwarded
their cases to Washington for action
of the Secretary of the Navy.
Midshipman William Baird Har
muth, Glendale, Calif., was dismissed
from the academy on December 31.
He was married to Miss Katherine
Eleanor Towne, Glendale, Calif., here,
on December 12.
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LAW FORCES JOIN
IN GRIM NONE FOR
KIDNAPER-SLAYER
OF MATTSON BOY
Relentless Search Ordered
by President After Body
of Child Is Found in Snow
Covered Thicket.
EVIDENCE AT AUTOPSY
IS STUDIED FOR CLUES
Police Broadcast Pick-up Orders
for Suspects as G-Men Mass
Under Hoover's Assistant—Cor
oner’s Report Indicates Maniac
May Have Committed Crime.
BULLETIN.
SEATTLE, January 12 {JPi.—
The Seattle Times today quoted
an unidentified authority as stat
ing clothing of Charles Mattson,
kidnap-murder victim, had been
found in an automobile aban
doned at an Everett service sta
tion.
By the Associated Press.
TAKOMA, Wash., January 12.—
Under direct orders from President
Roosevelt to continue until their
quarry is found. Federal Bureau of In
vestigation agents pushed their hunt
today for Charles Mattson's kidnap
slayer.
The United States Department of
Justice offered a reward of $10,000
for arrest of the depraved killer and
two Washington State authorities
stepped aside to allow the agents free
rein.
Grim G-Men echoed the President's
instructions to enlist "every means at
our command" to capture and punish
the perpetrator of this ghastly crime,"
i with the war-cry:
“Get the kidnaper at all costs.”
From a secret autopsy over the
I broken, frozen little body found in
snow-covered woods yesterday, Justice
Department men and physicians
sought evidence to place a noose about
the neck of the savage slayer who
spurned Dr. W. W. Mattson’s effort*
to deliver the demanded $28,000 ran
som.
Officers had before them a mental
picture of the kidnaper, given them
by three playmates who saw the boy
j taken from his home the night of
! December 27.
Fugitive Is Described.
The children described the fugitive
as about 45 years old. five feet 7 or
8 inches tall, weighing 145 pounds,
swarthy complexioned and possibly
left handed. At the time of the kid
naping he wore trousers, a blue slide
fastener jacket and a light tan check
ered cap, and had several days' growth
of beard. He carried a blue sfeel
pistol.
With the undisclosed results of the
autopsy known only to them, the corps
of Federal agents here meanwhile
moved silently against the Nation’s
public enemy number one. Harold
Nathan, assistant chief of the bureau,
did not divulge whether the autopsy
had disclosed the exact cause or time
of death.
Although no statement was forth
coming, it was known the agents relied
chiefly on bits of evidence—the ransom
note left behind by the man w’ho ab
ducted Charles from the home of Dr.
W. W. Mattson here December 27,
impressions of footprints and tire
tracks in the snow where a young
hunter found the body, a few’ finger
prints and the description given by the
three children as chief means of track
ing down the killer.
One official, but unquotable source,
asserted none of the Federal agents.
State police and local officers had a
single new clue of importance to fol
low today.
county coroners inactive.
Meanwhile, Coroner T. H. Long of
Pierce County (Tacoma) and Stowell
Challacombe of Snohomish County
(Everett) announced they planned no
inquest in the boy's death. Their
action indicated the kidnaper, if cap
tured, will be tried under either the
State or Federal kidnaping statutes
rather than on a murder charge.
Esther abduction law would allow
prosecutors to seek a death penalty.
Although the Federal agents were
In charge of the case. State and local
officers continued their independent
searches.
Near Everett, Wash., State patrol
men said they were investigating two
mysterious automobiles seen in the
area Sunday night, when the boy’s
body was believed to have been
dumped on its last hiding place.
Coroner's reports Indicated Charles
(See KIDNAPING, Page A-4.)
40 THROWN INTO RIVER
WHEN WALK COLLAPSES
Section of Promenade Des Anglais
at Nice, France, Is Under
mined.
By the Associated Press.
NICE. France, January 12.—Forty
persons, including a number of wom
en, were thrown into the Paillon River
when a section of the Promenade des
Anglais, concrete walk along the
Mediterranean, collapsed today.
The collapse was caused by shifting
of the river bottom, which undermined
the promenade's supports.
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