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PRESIDENT GIVES SIGNAL
TO RUSH HIS COURT PLAN
WITH NO COMPROMISE
- * -
Senate Leaders
Predict Start
of Hearings.
PARLEYS HELD
IN WHITE HOUSE
Nye, Frazier Still
Hostile to Move
After Conference.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
In a White House conference with
senatorial leaders, during which, the
legislators said, there was no talk of
compromise. President Roosevelt last
night gave the signal to go ahead with
the judiciary reorganization legisla
tion which he proposed more than two
weeks ago.
As a result. Senators emerging from
the second of two meetings forecast
that the Senate Judiciary Committee
would begin work tomorrow on the
President’s proposal to increase the
membership of the Supreme Court, It
was indicated hearings will be held.
While another Democrat, Senator
Copeland of New York, was issuing
a statement condemning the plan, the
President first called in Vice Presi
dent Garner, Majority Leader Rob
inson, Chairman Ashurst of the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee and Sena
tors Harrison of Mississippi, Barkley
of Kentucky, Byrnes of South Caro
lina and Guffey of Pennsylvania. All
are strong supporters of the admin
istration and the Supreme Court plan.
An hour and a half later the Presi
dent talked with five members of the
so-called Progressive bloc. Senators
Frazier and Nye of North Dakota, La
FOllette of Wisconsin and Bone and
Schwellenbach of Washington. This
group Is divided, with La Follette and
Schwellenbach the only supporters of
the President’s plan.
Aiuiuurs umnnugca.
Nye and Frazier are hostile to the
proposal, while Bone has proposed a
constitutional amendment as a pos
sible substitute. After the conference
the two North Dakota Senators said
they had not changed their attitude.
As the progressive group left the
White House. Thomas Corcoran,
youthful presidential adviser, who is
widely credited with having helped to
draft the court program, went into
dine with Mr. Roosevelt.
Some of the Senators said they had
a general discussion of the court situa
tion and of the various amendments
which have been proposed as alterna
tives. One said he got the impression
the President would not be opposed to
a constitutional amendment being
sought along wfith his program. But
there was no indication that the
Chief Executive would give up his
plan in favor of a constitutional
amendment.
Robinson is Spokesman.
After the first meeting with the
Democratic leaders, Senator Robinson
acted as spokesman when the group
was questioned by rep .rters. He made
the following brief statement:
“We discussed the judiciary reor
ganization bill in all its phases. It
is believed that the measure is prog
(See JTJDIICIARY, Page A-4.)
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Initiation Stunt
Nearly Fatal to
G. W. Student.
Preparations for a fraternity ini
tiation nearly cost the life of a George
Washington University student last
night when he reportedly "garbled his
instructions” and came in contact with
a 13,000-volt power line while "run
ning an errand.”
The youth—Vernon Rasmussen, 25,
of East Salt Lake, Utah—is in George
town Hospital with second-degree
burns on arms and leg. Physicians said
they expected him to recover.
More than two hours after he left
Bigma Chi Fraternity House, 1312 N
street, where he lived and where he
was to be initiated last night, Ras
mussen was found in a dazed condi
tion on the grounds of the Dalecarlia
distributing reservoir at Conduit and
Reservoir roads.
He was discovered by Herschel A.
Sheets of Capitol Heighs. Md., an
employe of the Potomac Electric Power
Co., who notified police.
Seventh Precinct Policemen J. A.
Wheeler and G. W. Baxter, who in
vestigated, said Rasmussen had to
climb a 10-foot fence to get into the
reservoir grounds. According to their
report, the student apparently fell
onto the high-tension wire, which is
strung below the level of the fence.
A student who answered the tele
phone at the fraternity house said
Rasmussen was one of eight "pledges”
who were to be initiated.
In order to get him away from the
house while the initiation was being
fixed, the unidentified student said
Rasmussen was sent out with written
instructions to "look for an object.”
The nature of the "object” was not
revealed.
Rasmussen, it^was said, was given
directions that would have taken him
‘‘two miles out on Conduit road but
would have enabled him to get back
before dark.”
“If he had foUowed directions,”
the student at the fraternity house
(aid, “it wouldn't have happened.”
Police also were unable to learn
what the youth was looking for when
he entered the reservoir grounds.
Gen. Sir Percy Cox Dies.
BEDFORD, England, February 20
UP).—Maj. Gen Sir Percy Cox, high
commissioner for Mesopotamia from
>1920 to 1923, died today. ^
Hands Off Court, Hoover Warns,
Hitting Plan to “Subject” Bench
Real Issue Is Whether President or Peo
pie Shall Revise Constitution, He
Says in Union League Talk.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 20.—Herbert
Hoover tonight called lor "hands oil
the Supreme Court.”
Addressing the Union League Club,
the former president said President
Roosevelt’s court proposal has cre
ated the "greatest constitutional ques
tion in the last 70 years,” and has
placed the Nation "face to face with
the proposition that the Supreme
Court shall be made subjective to the
Executive.”
"Stripped to its bare bones,” Mr.
Hoover continued, "that is the heart
of this proposal. And that reaches to
the very center of human liberty. The
ultimate safeguard of liberty is the
independence of the judiciary.”
The “real issue” in the Supreme
Court question, Mr. Hoover said, “is
whether the President by appointment
of additional judges shall revise the
Constitution—or whether change in
i the Constitution shall be submitted to
the people as the Constitution itself
| provides.”
j Declaring that the Constitution pro
| vides "an open and above board meth- I
od” by which social changes can be
accomplished, the speaker asked:
“What is all the hurry in this? The
Nation is recovering from the depres
sion. There is no emergency. Surely
a year or two is no waste in the life
of a great nation when its liberties
are the stake of haste.
“If historic liberalism cannot be
maintained under the present pro
visions of the Constitution. I shall be
the first to support the President in
amendment of it.”
Mr. Hoover declared “it is a mag
nificent thing for the Nation that the
debate upon it (the Supreme Court
proposal) has risen far above parti
sanship. The proposal is too grave to
be dealt with on such terms. It is
an inspiring thing that in this ques
tion the leadership to maintain the
integrity of the American form of gov
ernment has been begun by eminent
Senators belonging to the President’s
own party.
“This leadership, which we all gladly
follow, places this issue on the highest
plane of citizenship without regard to
(See HOOVER, Page A-4J
IN WELL SLAYING
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Murder Charged After Nude
Body Is Recovered—Police
Guard Suspect in Cell.
£J the Associated Press.
I COATESVILLE, Pa., February 20.—
County Detective Francis Grubb filed
a murder charge tonight against
Alexander Meyer, 20-year-old farmer,
for the death of 16-year-old Helen
Moyer, whose nude, battered body
was recovered from a well on an
abandoned farm.
Meyer, earlier in the day, led po
lice to the farm where he said he
concealed the girl’s body after ac
cidentally killing her with his truck
on February 11.
Grubb obtained the warrant from
Justice of the Peace R. Jones Patrick
in West Chester and took Meyer to
the Chester detective’s office in West
Chester for further questioning.
Deputy Coroner Harry E. Williams,
jr., said “there was every indication
that Helen Moyer had been ravished” >
before her body was conoealed in the
well, in a report on the findings of
Dr. Michael Margolis, coroner’s phy
sician.
Cause of Death.
Williams said the girl died from
internal injuries “which could have
been caused by an auto or by a
struggle.”
“The girl was unconscious for four
or five hours before her death,” he
said. “There was water in her lungs,
indicating she was tossed into the
well while still living. There was a
mark around her neck which could
have been caused by a cord.”
The girl’s nude body was found be
neath 18 inches of water, rock and dirt
blown down by two sticks of dynamite
which Meyer said he exploded to con
ceal it better. Detectives said they did
(See GIRL, Page A-3.)
AWAITING ESCORT,
GIRL, 20, SHOT DEAD
Cincinnati Police Report Confes
sion by “Jilted” Suitor Caught
in Church.
By the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, February 20.—Bea
trice A. Roth, 20, attractive daughter
of a former real estate operator, was
shot and killed tonight as she sat in
an automobile awaiting her escort, and
Lieut. George Schattle of the police
homicide squad announced shortly aft
erward that a suspect had confessed.
Schattle said the suspect was Joseph
Caproni. 20, grandson of the late
Enrico Caproni, widely known restau
rant proprietor, and that he had been
apprehended in a church In which he
had sought refuge.
Schattle said a formal charge of
murder would be filed against the
youth, who, he said, admitted he con
cealed himself In the car of Maurer
Heitz, 19, Miss Roth’s escort, and
killed the girl because he was “mad
at her.”
Miss Roth had "jUted” him last
week, detectives said.
Heitz said he and the girl had just
left her home. He placed her In the
front seat of his car, parked nearby,
and had just opened the left-hand
door when, he told police, “a man
who had been lying on the rear seat
rose up and said ‘Well, buddy, I
“I couldn’t hear any more because
the man started shooting.”
Parents of the girl were prostrated
and were under a physician’s care.
Heitz, a student at the University
of Cincinnati, said he had known
Miss Roth “for some time,” but to
night’s was to have been only his
second "date.”
Miss Roth, who is survived by her
parents and a brother, Robert, 23, had
been employed for the past three
months In the circulation department
of the Cincinnati Post. ^
W.P.A. Official
Charged With
Salary Fraud
C. B. Eliot Accused of
Forging Name on
Pay Roll.
CHARLES B. ELLIOT.
Charged with collecting two Federal
salaries, one under a false name,
Charles B. Eliot, administrative as
sistant in the Division of Social Re
search, Works Progress Administra
tion, was arrested yesterday by Secret
Service agents.
Arraigned before United States Com
missioner Needham C. Turnage, he
pleaded guilty, was ordered held for
the action of the gjand jury and, after
being remanded to jail, succeeded in
obtaining his release last night under
$3,000 bond.
According to the charges, Eliot was
receiving a salary of $4,800 a year in
his own name. In addition, it was
charged, he forged the name of "Alex
DuBois” to W. P. A. salary checks,
which he is alleged to have cashed
here and during travels on official
business to various parts of the
country.
“Alex DuBois” Not Known.
Investigation by the Secret Service
disclosed that no one at W. P. A. ever
had heard of "Alex DuBois.” When
the canceled checks turned up, it is
charged, they were all indorsed by
Charles B. Eliot.
Although the formal charge against
Eliot is based specifically on only one
“Du Bois” check for $150, it was said
(See ELIOT, Page A-5.)
New Phase Entered as Flow
of Recruits Halts at
Midnight.
FEARS OF SPREADING
GREATLY MINIMIZED
Tightest Possible Blockade Is
Formed to Keep Out Sympa
thizers of Either Side.
BACKGROUND—
Government lines stiffened 12
days ago, when insurgents began
intensive attack on the Valencia
road, halting the advance within
a few hundred yards of the im
portant coastal link. Since then,
however, the insurgents have waged
incessant attacks and mopping-up
operations in the Malaga and
Granada sectors.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, February 21 (Sunday).—
A new phase of the Spanish civil war
opened today as an International ban
on the flow of foreign volunteers auto
matically went Into effect on the
stroke of midnight.
It was the beginning of a phase
which observers said they hoped
marked not only the end of European
fears the war might sweep beyond
Spain, but would hasten, the end of
the bloody conflict itself.
As the stroke of 12 ended Saturday,
sympathizers with the Spanish gov
ernment or the insurgents who are
outside of Spain faced the tightest
blockade that can be devised to keep
them from slipping into the zones of
combat.
Unsettled was the exact method of
making sure that the nations' in- I
dividual volunteer-control measures
are not violated and that war ma
terials do not go into Spain.
Portugal, sympathetic with the
Spanish insurgents, first blocked
agreement on a geseral scheme, refus
ing to have foreign observers stationed
on her borders.
With the main outlines of a plan
of land and sea control already fixed
by th« other power*, however, Great
Britain arranged a compromise to win
Portugal's participation, involving the
use of British officers to check up on
Portuguese compliance
informed persons believed the de- I
tails of this British checkup, as well
as the disposition of a six-power naval
patrol of Spain's borders, would be
ironed out in plenty of time to install
actual physical control of men and
arms by the scheduled date, March 6.
Stringent Portuguese Bon.
The fact that Portugal applied a
stringent ban on volunteers was in
terpreted as a favorable sign she
would come along with the other
powers. The number of Portuguese
fighting in Spain, however, has not
been great.
An indication of the general hope
in European official circles that the
seven-month-old civil war would be
confined to the Iberian Peninsula as a
result of the long-delayed neutrality
agreement was seen in a statement
by Lord Plymouth, chairman of the
(See'WAR, Page A-8.)
7 HURT IN MARYLAND
AS BUS LEAVES ROAD
Vehicle En Route to Baltimore
Goes Into Ditch—None
Seriously Injured.
B1 the Associated Press.
HAVRE DE GRACE, Md.. February
21 (Sunday).—A Greyhound bus
bound from here to Baltimore ran
off the road and into a ditch early
today, injuring the driver, Hughes
Bennett, of Philadelphia, and seven
passengers.
None of those in the bus was in
jured seriously, it was said at Har
ford Memorial Hospital here. Hos
pital attaches said they had not yet
identified the passengers admitted for
treatment
The accident occured just this side
of Aberdeen. Bennett drew) to the side
of the road to avoid a car pulling out
from a roadside tavern. The heavy
bus struck a soft shoulder and ran
into the ditch.
Retiring Widow Leaves Million
To Charity, Kin and Friends
Will of Mrs. Clementine Farr Duff
Provides 73 Bequests, Including
Ice Cream Fund for Home.
More than a score of Washington
charitable and religious institutions re
ceived substantial gifts under the will
of Mrs. Clementine Parr Duff, wealthy
Washington philanthropist, who died
here February $, leaving specific be
quests totalling more than a million
dollars.
Piled late yesterday in District Court,
the will and six codicils were 62 pages
in length and provided for 73 gifts to
Institutions, organizations, relatives,
friends and servants. No indication
was given as Ur the extent of the es
tate, which attorneys handling her
affairs described only as "very large.”
Among the unusual provisions of the
will was one setting up a $20,000 trust
fund for purchase of lee cream for
patients and employes of the Wash
ington Home for Incurables, so long
as the home exists. Mrs. Duff spe
cified in positive language that the
money was not to be used for any
other purpose and that the ice cream
should be provided to “ftnqpus quan
titles.” She explained that it had been
her custom for years to buy ice cream
weekly for the people at the insti
tution.
Stanton C. Peelle and William E.
Schooley, Washington attorneys, and
the American Security & Trust Co.
were named executors and trustees.
They were charged with the duty of
distributing the residue of the estate,
after payment of specific bequests, to
13 eleemosynary institutions.
These residuary legatees are Emer
gency Hospital, the Presbyterian Home
for the Aged, the Instructive Visiting
Nurse Society, the Young Women's
Christian Home, Children's Hospital,
Garfield Memorial Hospital, the Flor
ence Crittenton Home, the American
Foundation for the Blind, the Colum
bia Polytechnic Institute for the
Blind, the First Church of Christ
Scientist, the Masonic and Eastern
8tar Home and the. Baptist Home, all
of Washington, and the Pennsylvania
( See WILL, Page fc-10.)
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THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S PROBLEM!
New Aviation 66Firsts” Are Goal
Of Amelia Earhart in Attempt
To Girdle Earth at Waistline
BY C. B. ALLEV.
AMELIA EARHART'S projected flight around the world, which is sched
uled to get under way next month from the Oakland. Calif.. Municipal
Airport, differs materially and in a variety of respects from all previous
attempts to girdle the globe by air. Indeed, if no major slip-up occurs
in her plans, this airwoman, who already holds many "firsts'’ in aviation,
will be able to say that she achieved the first complete and continuous world
flight by following a route approximating the equator, in contrast to the
shorter top-of-the-world circuits made by her predecessors.
Miss Earhart.
On one score, of course, there can be no argu
ment—Miss Earhart is the first woman to under
take such an adventure and she will be the first
pilot of either sex to fly a multi-motored plane, of
a type regularly employed on air lines here and
abroad, without any one to relieve her at the
controls on the major portion of a ’round-the
world flight. In fact, her program contemplates
that the entire trip will be "solo'’ so far as han
dling the 200-mile-an-hour Wasp-motored Lock
heed Electra is concerned, although Capt. Harry
Manning of the United States Lines is to accom
pany her as navigator on the 7.000-mile crossing
of the Pacific. This is the one phase of her
27.000-mile aerial odyssey which she feels she
cannot accomplish alone.
Flight at Earth's Waistline.
In reluctantly announcing her plans a little
more than a week ago because she had been
“smoked out" by newspapers, Miss Earhart made
it clear that she could not possibly hope to match
the 7-day, 18-hour, 49‘2-minute globe-circling
record of the late Wiley Post, if for no other
reason than that the 15,596-mtle route flown by him was little more than
half the course that lies ahead of her. But Post's flight touched only the
upper reaches of the Northern Hemisphere; Miss Earhart plans to gird the
earth at its waistline, crossing the equator four times and flying a total
distance some 2,000 miles greater than the circumference of the globe.
tSee EARHART, Page A-18.)
Subway Contractor Sought
by New Jersey as Ma
terial Witness.
tJ the Associated Press.
HACKENSACK. N. J„ February
20.—A wealthy New York subway
builder was served in New York late
today With a warrant requiring him
as a material witness in the slaying
of a “Sandhogs" union leader—a
killing which Bergen County authori
ties attributed to labor troubles in
volving the men who dig under the
towers of Manhattan.
The warrant for the arrest of
Samuel Rosoff. the contractor, was
issued after he had refused to come
here voluntarily for questioning in
connection with the fatal shooting
in Teanack last night of R. Norman
Redwood, business agent of a New
York subway workers’ union. To the
request he come here. Rosoff countered
with an offer to submit to question
ing in his New York apartment and
announced he would pay a $5,00(1 re
ward for the apprehension and con
viction of those who “did the job.”
In New York Rosoff was released
without bail after being served
with the warrant.
Witness Complaint Ordered.
Bergen Prosecutor John J. Breslin,
jr., directed that a material witness
complaint be made against Rosoff
after an unidentified witness had de
clared in an affidavit, Breslin said,
that he heard the builder threaten
Redwood at a meeting in his apart
ment February 5.
Breslin said the witness declared
in the affidavit that Rosoff told
the labor leader he would “kill you
stone dead” if Redwood ever "pulled
a strike" on a job of hie.
Rosoff told reporters in New York
that he knew of the alleged affidavit
and remarked, "it won’t hold water.”
He described in detail, too, his move
ments yesterday afternoon, his trip
(See SLAYING, Page A-2.)
THREE HURT IN CRASH
Connie Mack's Daughter Is Seri
ously Injured.
PHILADELPHIA, February 20 C4>>.—
Mrs. Francis X. Reilly, daughter of
Connie Mack, manager of the Ath
letics, was seriously injured in an
automobile accident tonight. Her
automobile skidded and crashed into
another automobile. She suffered a
fractured hip.
Miss Marie Dever and Miss Cath
erine Smith were also injured in the
crash.
I
RED RIDER FIGHT
STIRS FEDERATION
Majority Votes to Discharge
Special Committee, But
Ruling Vetoes Action.
By a clear majority the Federation
of Citizens’ Associations last night
voted to disband its special Committee
on Elimination of Subversive, Anti
Patriotic and Communistic Propa
ganda from the Public Schools, but
the action was nullified by a ruling
that a two-thirds vote was necessary.
The vote was 32 to 22.
The ruling, by President Thomas F.
Lodge, was challenged in extended
debate, but still stood when adjourn
ment finally was reached at 12:35
a.m. today.
The special committee is the one
headed by George E. Sullivan, the
activities of which in investigating
communism in the schools have fig
ured in the red rider controversy.
After two hours of tempestuous ar
gument, during which cries of “fili
buster" were raised, the body voted
32 to 22 for discharge of the special
committee, but an immediate challenge
(See’RED RIDER, Page A-7.)
COMMITTEE Ol’S
i
Senator Johnson Votes
Against Pittman Man
datory Proposal.
BACKGROUND—
Legislative drive for new neutral
ity laws inspired last December
when Jersey City and San Francisco
firms were granted State Depart
ment licenses to ship S7,000,000
worth of second-hand planes, en
gines, rifles and machine guns to
war-torn Spain. Old neutrality
legislation, declaring embargo on
'•implements of war” during Italian
Fthiopian conflict, expired last
February.
By the Associated Press.
The Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee voted almost unanimously yes
terday for a permanent, mandatory
neutrality law designed to keep Ameri
cans and American goods out of
trouble in case of another foreign war.
With only Senator Johnson, Repub
lican, of California dissenting, the
committee agreed to report to the
Senate the Pittman bill which would
place American trade with future
belligerents on a virtual “cash and
carry” basis.
cnairman Pittman, autnor oi tne
bill, said he would call it up in the
Senate this week, if possible. He fore
cast quick approval.
Pittman said the bill had 'adminis
tration support. He added, however,
that the State Department had advised
giving the Chief Executive greater dis
cretion.
One Provision Discretionary.
Only one of the major provisions of
the legislation would be discretionary.
On the whole, it came from committee
so rigidly mandatory that even the
old Munitions Committee bloc was
satisfied.
Contending the bill would remove
some of the chief causes of American
participation in foreign wars, Pittman
said:
“We are now cutting that cable by
which we were dragged into the last
war in so far as we can accomplish it
by our individual law’s and reasonable
restraints upon our own nationals.”
But to Senator Johnson, the bill
was merely “a shotgun measure to
; keep us out of war and it doesn't do
j anything of the sort.”
He added that the bill would “take
| us into war rather than keep us out”
! and would “be a source of infinite
j trouble." Senator Borah, Republican,
j of Idaho, who was not present at yes
terday's meeting, held similar views.
Despite the State Department’s de
sire for more discretionary legislation,
the committee overwhelmingly defeat
ed a substitute offered by Senator
Thomas, Democrat, of Utah, which
Pittman said would give the Presi
dent “absolute discretion.”
Major Provisions of Bill.
Major provisions of the Pittman bill
are:
Permanent extension of the present
” (See NEUTRALITY, Page A-14.)
15 Senators to Get $1,000 A piece
For Indorsing ia Light Smoke’
Is It beneath the dignity of a mem
ber of the greatest deliberative body in
the world to indorse a cigarette?
Not when a member of the greatest
deliberative body in the world gets
$1,000 in cold cash.
That, at least, is Senator Nye’s
philosophy. It is reported to have
convinced at least 14 other Senators.
For the last week the determined
physiognomy of North Dakota’s junior
Senator has been displayed in the
pages of 350 newspapers of the United
States, along with his unqualified
statement: “I enjoy the comfort a
light smoke gives my throat.”
And in a succinct statement that
indicates how heavily the burdens of
statesmanship weigh upon senatorial
tonsils, he proceeds in a highly digni
fied and becomingly restrained man
ner to address the cigarette manufac
turers upon the excellence of their
product. He wrote it all himself, the
Senator said. It took him about an
hour.
The Senator confessed to a Star
reporter, who found him easing his
throat with a cigarette yesterday while
writing a radio speech, that he had
some qualms about the indorsement
himself when the advertising man
approached him^vith the proposition.
To indorse or not to indorse, that was
the question. The Senator didn't
mind the testimonial. But he was
weighing it csfe-efully.
“I was afraid my political opponents
might try to make something out of
it.” he said. ‘‘But then I thought, well,
what the dickens—here’s a chance to
turn a good sum over to a charity
that needs it.”
What is more. Senator Nye said
about 14 of his colleagues have done
the same thing. Senator Reynolds
of North Carolina was the first.
Thirteen others are to follow. Some
of them will make their indorse
ments over the radio, Senator Nye
said. It is all for sweet charity.
That, at least, is the Senators’ story
and the Senators will stick to it.
Washington is wondering now how
much a Representative’s indorsement
will be worth if a Senator can de
mand $1,000. There is quite a range
of prices for indorsements. The late
Will Rogers received $35,000 for say
ing something nice about a brand
of chewing gum. But some ball
players could only get $50 for doing
the same thing.
Nobody has ribbed him about the
Indorsement, Senator Nye said, al
though he does not expect to escape
some wisecracks.
YOUTH DELEGATES
VISIT ROOSEVELT
AFTER “SIT DOWN”
Six of Group Promised Sym
pathy by Roosevelt—De
nied Support for Act.
TWO ARE ARRESTED
NEAR WHITE HOUSE
Freed on $25 Bond—Over Half of
4,500 "Pilgrims” Join in
Parade.
<Picture on Page B-l.)
Pour hours after 500 of their num
ber staged a short-lived ‘‘si^ down”
before the White House, six leaders
of the National Yvuth Congress yes
terday were promised the sympathy
but denied the support of President
Roosevelt in their aims.
The 4,500 young men and women
members of the congress came to
Washington in a "pilgrimage” to in
spire speedy passage of the $500,
000,000 National Youth bill to pro
vide jobe and schooling for unem
ployed persons between 16 and 25.
More than half the delegates par
ticipated in a parade up Pennsylvania
avenue, terminating at the White
House, where two of the men were
arrested when the 500 sat down In
the South Executive avenue thorough
fare, /inouncing determination to
stay until the President should agree
to see all the members.
Later. Mr. Roosevelt reportedly In
structed Aubrey Williams, chairman
of the National Youth Administra
tion, to see that the case was dis
missed.
Released on Bond.
William Hinckley, chairman of the
congress, and Abbott Simon, its legis
lative counsel, had been released in
*25 bond each for a Police Court ap
pearance Tuesday. They were charged
first with violating their parade per
mit. This later was changed to dis
orderly conduct.
The congress delegates were chided
for their sit down by three of the
four coauthors of the American
Youth act—Representatives Maverick
of Texas. Coffee of Washington and
Voorhis of California, all Democrats,
who said;
“We do not approve of such non
sense. We are for the youth bill, not
the children's bill."
The fourth coauthor is Senator
Lundeen, Farmer-Labor, of Minne
sota.
Simon protested that he and Hinck
ley sat down to await the arrival of
the end of the parade, although when
park police prevented the marchers*
entrance into the White House
grounds, there was heard a cry of:
“Let's stage a sit-down strike."
Bitter at Reception.
Bitter at the style of their reception
at the White House, the youths, hold
ing a mass meeting at 4 p.m. at the
Masonic Auditorium, Thirteenth and
H streets, loudly cheered a resolution
which read:
“We feel that the conduct of the
police during the entire situation is
a sad commentary on the state of civil
liberties in the Nation's Capital. The
American Youth Congress has come
to Washington to advance the passage
of the American youth bill and refuses
to be diverted from this purpose by
the disruptive actions of the Wash
ington police.”
Hinckley quoted a policeman as tell
ing him—while he was sitting down—
that “you wouldn't look so pretty if
we kicked your teeth out. would you?"
At the time this mass meeting
opened, the President received in the
oval room Hinckley. Miss Rose Terlin
of the Intercollegiate Christian Com
mittee. Edward Strong. National Negro
Congress; Edward Mitchell, Southern
Tenant Farmers’ Union; Angelo Hern
don. Workers’ Alliance, and Joseph
Lash. American Student Union. This
conference had been agreed upon two
days ago.
In the presence of Williams, Presi
dent Roosevelt, during a 20-minute
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Men Died Joking
In Ship Blast,
Chaplain Says
By the Associated Press.
SAN PEDRO. Calif., February 20.
—Men died with a joke on their
lips, and others, though fearfully
mained. concerned themselves with
their shipmates, Navy Chaplain H. P.
Trump said today of the explosion
aboard the U. S. S. Wyoming Thurs
day.
Seven sailors and Marines were
killed and 13 injured when a five
inch shell exploded during exercises.
“William K. Weber never said a
word while he was waiting to be
taken to the operating room," tha
chaplain said. “He just lay there.
I asked him what made him so
strong, and he grinned and said, ‘It
must be the beans they feed us,’
“Capt. Edward Trumble (of Alex
andria. Va.) was barely conscious,
but when he opened his eyes he said.
‘Get a doctor for the pien. I’m afraid
they're hurt,’ He died a moment
later.
“Clyde Byrd (of East Falls Church
Va.), a private, asked me for a
cigaret. Then he noticed two other
Marines, terribly wounded, alongside.
'I'll skip the smoke,’ he said, ‘those
fellows may not like It in their lungs.
I can wait.’
“Another private. David Williams,
had only one request. ’Please send
word back home to the folks. They'll
be worrying.' ”
Three bodies started home today.
That of Private Albert Enos will be
taken to Cambridge, Mass. On the
same train were the bodies of Joseph
W. Bozynski, Pittsburgh, Pa., and
Richard Frye, Johnstown, Pa.
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Complete Index, Page A-2.
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