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FARMER TO VISIT
SCENE OF SLAVING
Will Be Asked to Re-enact
Well Murder of Girl—Con
fession Reported.
Bj the Associated Press.
COATESVILLE, Pa., February 22.—
At an abandoned farm where a rock
lined well served as a sepulcher for
16-year-old Helen Moyer, police will
ask Alexander Meyer, 20. today to
re-enact a story of the slaying and
secret burial of the high school girl.
Philip J. Reilly, assistant district
attorney, announced he had a signed
statement in which Meyer admitted
he struck the girl with his milk
truck February 11, attacked her near
Downingtown and dynamited an old
well to hide evidence of the crime.
Saturday, following directions given
by Meyer, State police recovered her
body, buried under blasted rock, in
muddy water at the bottom of the
well. One leg had been torn away.
The body was bruised and torn.
Ends State-Wide Search.
The discovery ended a search State
and local police and volunteers had
conducted since Helen's hat, shoes
and books were found beside the
Coatesville-Modena road, along which
she walked home from school.
Although Reilly said Meyer's state
ment related that he killed the
girl with his truck and stripped her
clothes from her and attacked her
after she was dead, an autopsy in
dicated she might have been living
when she was dropped Into the
jwell.
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Judiciary
(Continued From First Page.)
President’s proposals into two parts,
one providing for a speed-up of lower
Federal courts and the other author
izing up to six more Supreme Court
Justices if members over 70 do not
retire.
Senators who have not yet com
mitted themselves still held the bal
ance of power. Senator Nye, Re
publican, of North Dakota, came out
last night against the program, bring
ing the number of announced oppo
nents to 32. At the same time. Senator
Green, Democrat, of Rhode Island
expressed support, bringing to 31 those
*ho have publicly favored it.
Four Major Objections.
Nye said he had four major ob
jections to Mr. Roosevelt’s Supreme
Court proposal:
'First, because the plan does not
*nd cannot touch the judicial power
which is standing in the way of
progress;
"Second, because It misleads the
people and thus is doing great harm
to real progress;
"Third, because it involves a direct
challenge to the people who alone
have the power to change the funda
mental law,
“And finally, because we have not
resorted to the orderly process of cor
recting the faults before falling back
upon short-cuts which can only tend
to weaken and shake the foundations
of governments upon which American
hopes are built.”
Favor* Amendment to Override.
Nye said he favored the constitu
tional amendment proposed by Sena
tors Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana
end Bone, Democrat, of Washington
to empower Congress by a two-thirds'
vote to reverse a Supreme Court de
cision Invalidating a law. A con
gressional election would have to in
tervene.
“No greater commendation could be
made concerning the amendment thus
proposed.” he added, "than to say it
Is to be submitted to the people.”
Nye declared he did not view the
Supreme Court as sacred, but added:
"We should jealously guard against
letting an immediate irritation hast
ily drive us to impair essentia of the
constitutional structure.”
Green opposed a constitutional
amendment on the ground it would
take too long and might give the Fed
eral Government too much power.
"This is not just a question," he
said, “of patient waitinc fc" a desir
able reform to be brought about in
the indefinite future. It is a question
of 10,000,000 of the destitute and
scores of millions of the very poor
demanding a decent living now.
“The President and those agreeing
with him are to my mind the true
conservatives today. They seek to
maintain our existing institutions,
whereas those opposing him are un
ci nsciously forcing the abandonment
of these institutions by tilling the
ground for any demagogue to sow his
seed."
Declaring the Constitutio1 now gives
r!1 necessary power, “if it is liberally
construed in the light of present con
ditions,” Green said:
"This does not mean packing the
court with men committed to any spe
cific measures. * • * It means se
curing justices with minds open to
new ideas and familiar with the prob
lems of current life.”
Assertions that the President wishes
to become a dictator, he said, are
absurd.
“The plan,” he asserted, “does not
Impair in the slightest the independ
ence of the judges now on the bench
or judges to be appointed in the fu
ture. It does not make any change
in the American doctrine of judicial
review.”
Nye’s Stand in Full.
In approving the Wheeler-Bone
constitutional amendment proposal,
Nye said:
"I am completely out of sympathy
with those processes by which
the Supreme Court majorities have
thwarted the will of the people when
they have sought to build for better
opportunity for themselves and to win
a larger share of reward for their
labor.
“Emergencies arise, as they have,
when the process of amending the
Constitution is too slow and ineffec
tive to permit Congress to do its full
duty to the country. As a layman, I
fear the law’s delay in hours of great
national crisis. I am strongly in
clined to the view that a method
should be devised whereby, duly safe
guarded, the Congress may revalidate
an enactment which the court has
found invalid. I am sure this can
be done.
"Senators Wheeler and Bone, both
nationally known progressives, both
opposed to the President’s plan, yet
mindful of the need for amplification
of congressional powers, have prepared
an amendment to the Constitution
which would permit Congress to re
pass and thereby validate an enact
ment.
"In the proposed amendment, this
power has been surrounded by ample
i
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
AT LAST.
ALL through life we have been
hearing the story of humans
who, needing money, gambled
and lost. That is why It
seems ‘•so good to tell you about
Martha Kestelber and Blanche Gott.
They wanted to go South for a few
days, an urge so irresistible that they
went, despite enough money even to
buy Pullman berths.
Living In comparative poverty in
Miami, they decided to risk all at
Hialeah race track in an effort to get
enough monfey to reach Havana, if
only for a day.
They bet the aggregate on the daily
double and hit, to win $160. Before
the day ended they ran this total up
to considerably more than $200. That
evening, having bought plane tickets
to Cuba, they saw one of the slot
machines, which are more numerous
than oranges in Florida. They played
it and hit the jackpot.
Now that destiny has been kind
to Miss Kestelber and Miss Gott, it
probably will go back to its old, in
fallible system of letting no one win
who needs the money.
* * * *
CAUGHT.
Reinette Lovewell, magazine
writer, in town to do some research
work, went to a librarian with Re
publican tendencies and asked:
"Have you got anything on
Roosevelt
‘ We didn’t have much on him,”
the librarian said, "until this Su
preme Court issue came up,
but-”
Miss Lovewell explained that all
she wanted was background from
the President’s family history.
* * * *
UNBOWED.
AIRLINES flying out of Washing
ton would be a lot happier if
they had more passengers like one who
called up Saturday. He had a res
ervation to the Far South and was
cheeking the weather.
“Sorry," said the information man,
“but everything for the South is
grounded. Bad weather.”
“That’s all right,” the patron re
plied, “book me on the first plane
that will get me close to the Berk
shires.”
He was booked and he went, with
a minimum loss of time.
* * * *
CALLY HARRIS ventured in where
^ the Supreme Court has yet to
tread the other day when she declared
the social security act null and void.
Sally is an employe of a picture
corporation whose houses seemingly
take up most of the real estate on F
street. As such, she has long been
accustomed to having deductions
made from her pay envelope for in
surance, group hospitalization and
other employe benefit items. She has
never protested about any of them
until she noticed the social security
deduction the other day.
Approaching Gene Ford, house
manager, she unburdened herself:
‘‘That insurance, Mr. Ford, that’s
all right, so's that hospitalization and
some of those other things. But you
got to stop that social security. I
ain't gonna stand for that.”
* * * *
BUZZIN’.
A number of unappointed Fed
eral judgeships and other vacancies
in the Department of Justice have
given Attorney General Cummings
little peace these last few weeks.
Asked at a press conference if
there was “anything new" on the
matter of appointments, Cummings
grinned and said:
“No, not yet, but there’s been an
awful lot of buzzin’ around.”
* Or * *
SCOOP.
“UOT off the press’’ was not fast
1 enough for a group of specta
tors at an inquest at the Morgue yes
terday. who were unable to find seats
in the packed coroner’s court and had
to remain in ah ante-room.
Apparently acquainted with princi
pals in the case, they were somewhat
upset because they were unable to
hear the testimony.
The only telephone booth available
to newspaper men also is located in
the ante-room.
As reporters came out to phone in
their stories, six females crowded
around the booth.
After considerable dickering they
allowed the reporters to telephone, but
one of their number insisted on in
serting her foot in the door—to keep
it irom being closed and to make it
possible for her and her companions
to "scoop” the rest of the public.
What a life!
safeguards, protecting both the rights
of the people and sharply marking the
limitations of the powers of Con
gress. * • *
"In essential contrast to the Presi
dent’s plan, the amendment proposed
by the above Senators requires ap
proval by the people of the Nation,
in a constitutional way, both in the
passage of the amendment and in
connection with the later exercise
of power by the Congress.
“As I see it, no greater commenda
tion could be made concerning the
amendment thus proposed than to
say it is to be submitted to the people,
and no greater condemnation can be
directed toward the President’s plan
than to understand that it is not in
tended that it shall be submitted to
the people.' * • *
“However foreign to the President
the thought of dictatorship may be,
in connection with his present re
quest it is a god warning to look out—
not for him necessarily, but for those
who would in other days have op
portunity to use the power which he
would have us now extend.”
NEUTRALITY GIVEN
SWAY OVER TRADE
Agreements With Other Na
tions Not to Conflict
With U. S. Law.
By the Associated Press.
A member of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee said yesterday the
State Department had informed him
future trade agreements with foreign
nations would specify that they must
not conflict with American neutrality
law.
Representative Tinkham, Republic*
an. of Massachusetts, said the de
partment advised him that hereafter
each pact would Contain a section
asserting neutrality law would apply
regardless of other terms for stimu
lating commerce between the United
States and another nation.
The State Department has been
discussing a trade pact with Great
Britain. Walter Runciman, president
of the British Board of Trade, held
informal talks last month with both
President Roosevelt and Secretary of
State Hull.
Neutrality and Trade.
Assistant Secretary of State Sayre
subsequently said the question of
American neutrality policy was
wrapped up with the British trade !
agreement conversations.
Some members of the Foreign Af
fairs Committee have contended a
stringent neutrality law would be a
complicating factor in negotiating a
trade pact with Great Britain, say
ing such a law might shut off ship
ments of goods In the event of war
at a time when they were most
needed.
They have advanced this as or.e
argument for giving the President
discretionary, rather than mandatory,
power to embargo exports to belliger
ent nations of materials that might be
used for war purposes.
The present temporary neutrality
law does not cover war materials,
but provides for mandatory embar
goes on shipments of arms and mu
nitions to fighting countries and for
bans on loans and credits.
The Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee Saturday approved a perma
nent, mandatory neutrality law, de
signed to place American trade with
future belligerents on a virtual “cash
and carry" basis.
Nye and Pope Opposed.
In a radio discussion last night
Senator Nye, Republican, of North.
Dakota, upheld the principle of man
datory neutrality, and Senator Pope,;
Democrat, of Idaho, opposed It.
Nye contended a discretionary pol- j
icy was "little better than no policy
at all.” Where discretion is left with j
the President, he said, "there is at !
once an invitation to selfish inter
ests to bring pressure to bear upon
the President and to strive to force
such an exercise of the permitted
discretion as will avoid Injury to the
selfish."
Neutrality legislation. Pope assert
ed, should look toward stopping or
preventing other wars, as well as
keeping the United States out of war.
He held that a too-stringent manda
tory policy has no regard for helping
to stop or prevent wars, and it "fails
to give the President any power to
accomplish that object."
_
FOWLER SUPPORTS
F. B. I. GUN EXPERT
D. C. Detective Reaches Same Con
clusion After Tests in
Ruling Case.
By the Associated Press.
ROCKY MOUNT, Va„ February 22.
—Lieut. John H. Fowler, in charge of
the Bureau of Identification, Wash
ington Metropolitan Police Depart
ment, testified today at the trial of
Paul and Hubbard Duling that shells
picked up at the scene of the murder
of Deputy Sheriff T. J. f Jeff) Richards
were fired from the shotgun with
which the Commonwealth claims the
slaying was committed on October
12, 1934.
Lieut. Fowler’s conclusions were the
same as those of D. J. Parons, fire
arms identification expert of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation, Depart
ment of Justice, who testified last
Wednesday.
"I am of the opinion beyond any
reasonable doubt that these shells
were fired from this gun," he declared.
Won in Raffle.
The gun, a 12-gauge pump action
Winchester, was taken from Alex Ford
of Drennen, W. Va., on January 18,
after a report on shells fired from It
December 3, 1936, by Col. Thomas
Bailey and C. S. Roth, Federal Treas
ury investigators.
Ford testified last week that he won
the gun in a raffle from Paul Duling
in November, 1935. His testimony was
corroborated by a justice of the peace
and a deputy sheriff, who said that
they assisted in conducting the raffle.
COLONIAL FETE TONIGHT
A Colonial program will be given
at 9 o’clock tonight by the League of
American Pen Women at the Grafton
Hotel, following a business meeting.
I It was announced in The Star of yes
terday the program would be given
Tuesday.
A sextet from the Lovette Choral
Club will present, in costume, a pro
gram of old-time music and panto
mime, interpreting "A Mount Vernon
Phantasy,” by Bess Heath Olmstead.
Members are requested to attend with
guests and if convenient to wear Colo
nial costume.
W. C. MYERS DIES
Assistant Principal at Mc
Kinley High Had Been III
More Than Year.
W. C. Myers, 63, assistant principal
of McKinley High School, died early
today at Garfield Hospital.
Mr. Myers, who had been in poor
health for more than a year, under
went an operation four weeks ago for
an abdominal ailment. A second op
eration was performed Thursday
morning.
Residing at 801 West Madison ave
nue, Rlverdale, Md., Mr. Myers began
his educational work when he became
mathematics instructor at Central
High School In 1905. He was trans
ferred to McKinley in 1911 and ap
pointed assistant principal in 1930.
In commenting on his educational
service, Frank C. Daniel, principal at
McKinley, said today Mr. Myers was
"a most conscientious and efficient
teacher. He was regarded very highly
by students ^and faculty members
alike.’’
Born In Parkyville, Pa., Mr. Myers
received his bachelors degree from
Grove City (Pa.) College and his
masters degree from American Uni
versity. He was at one time pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church in
Rlverdale.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Mayme Pritts Myers; two daughters,
Mrs. Marlon Evelyn Varrel of River
dale, and Billie Constance, and three
sons, Mile Elias, Alfred Tennyson and
George Henry.
Private funeral services will be held
Wednesday at the Gasch funeral
parlor in Hyattsville.
Lawyers
(Continued From First Page.)
that I have checked the record. The
American Bar Association has con
sistently voted against the child labor
amendment. It has even campaigned
against it. And tell me where your
organization stands on minimum wage
legislation, social security acts and
all of the now pending social legisla
tion. If you answer on these subjects,
which I very much doubt. I’ll be glad
to further define what I meant by
human rights by asking some more
questions.”
President Stinchfleld cited the
Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution as representative of hu
, man rights for which lawyers had
| fought. He also cited free legal aid
j fostered by the association, its efforts
! to raise the Ideals of the legal pro
fession and the work of an associa
| tion committee in resisting encroach
! ment on personal rights by bureau- i
| cratic agencies. !
Preamble Read by Preasman.
The preamble of the proposed '
lawyers’ guild constitution, as read by
Pressman, follows:
“Recent and developing social and
economic changes are profoundly dis
turbing our Nation and make new
legal attitudes imperative. The legal
profession must necessarily play an
important role in shaping our chang
ing legal structure. Having in mind
these conditions and responsibilities,
the National Lawyers’ Guild aims to
unite the lawyers of America in a
professional organization which shall
function as an effective social force j
in the service of the people to the .
end that human rights shall- be re- j
garded as more sacred than property j
rights. This organization aims to. |
bring together all lawyers who regard
adjustments to new conditions as
more important than the veneration
of precedent, who recognize the im
portance of safeguarding and extend
ing the rights of workers and farmers
upon which the welfare of the entire
Nation depends, of maintaining civil
rights and liberties and our Demo
cratic institutions, and who look upon
the law- as a living and flexible in
strument which must be adapted to
the needs of the people.”
The stated objects of the organiza
tion follow:
A. ”To aid in making the United
States and the State constitutions
the law, and the administrative and
judicial agencies of Government re
sponsive to the will of the American
people.”
B. “To protect and foster our
democratic institutions and the civil
rights and liberties of all the people."
C. "To promote justice in the ad
ministration of the law.”
Would Aid Ail in Need.
D. “To aid in the establishment of
governmental and professional agencies
to supply adequate legal service to all
who are in need or cannot obtain it.”
E. “To aid in the adoption of laws
for the economic and social welfare
of the people.
F. “To keep the people informed on
legal matters affecting the public in
terest. ' '
G. “To advance the economic well
being of the members of the legal pro
fession, and to improve the relations
between the legal profession and the
community at large.
H. “To encourage in the study of
the law a consideration of the social
and economic aspects of the law.
I. “To improve the ethical stand
ards which must guide the lawyer in
the performance of his professional
and social duties.
The Guild went on record last night
as supporting President Roosevelt’s
court reorganization proposal and also
as suggesting adoption of a constitu
tional amendment to deprive the Su
preme Court of power to declare acts
of Congress or of the State Legisla
ture unconstitutional.
The vote to stand behind the Presi
dent in his effort to enlarge the Su
preme Court or limit the age of its
members, was almost unanimous.
Grief Over Loss of Only Child
Blamed in Acid Death of Man
Grief over the loss of their only
child was blamed today by Mrs. Rose
Mae Hutchison, 1628 Thirty-third
street for the death of her husband,
Charles E. Hutchison, 31, a commer
cial photographer, who died last night
shortly after being found unconscious
outside a restaurant at 1264 Wiscon
sin avenue.
Mrs. Hutchison said her husband
had been despondent since their 3
year-old son, Charles, jr., died of spinal
meningitis last August 31. Recently,
she told a reporter, he had “oecome
bitter toward even his closest friends.''
The wife herself has been ill, and
left her sick bed last night to identify
her husband’s body at the morgue.
She has been suffering from an at
tack of Influent.
ft
Hutchison’s body was discovered on
the steps outside the restaurant by
William Martin, owner of the estab
lishment, and George Williams, cook.
His face had been burned with acid,
police said, and he was dead when an
Emergency Hospital ambulance phy
sician arrived.
Two notes and a picture of himself
were found in Hutchison's pockets.
The contents of the notes, addressed
to his wife and mother, were not
disclosed, but Coroner A. Magruder
MacDonald said he understood they
indicated Hutchison had been in a
despondent condition over the loss of
his son.
An autopsy was to be performed
at the morgue today to determine the
Muse of death. Dr. ManDonaM said.
A
Illinois Flood Wrecks Train
Wrecked, Milwaukee train in which nine persons were injured when three coaches left the rails.
The wreck, 12 miles north of Rockford, 111., was caused by heavy rains washing out a culvert
trestle. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Spain
(Continued Prom First Page.)
the Toledo Alcazar, were isolated
from the friendly armies which have
tried for weeks to rescue them.
Capital of the Asturian mine lands
and important in an industrial way
before the revolution, Oviedo lies on a
plain between the Rivers Nalon and
Nora, 14 miles inland from the spark
ling Bay of Biscay. Its majestic
buildings, one of them a great Gothic
cathedral, are pocked by shells. There
lie the tombs of the ancient Asturian
sovereigns, and there medieval bishops
and priests once took refuge to escape
the Moorish hordes.
Beginning with a powerful can
nonading, Basque (government) mi
litiamen began the general offensive
against Oviedo and nearby Grado lafe
Sunday afternoon. Within a short
time they had consolidated positions
dominating Oviedo.
A second Basque brigade cut the
road between Oviedo and Grado, seiz
ing the village of Pando.
Important points within Oviedo it
self were captured. They included
tlte Fresno Asylum, the bull ring and
the old reservoir.
Fighting also was reported from
the Ubida aector. where the Basques
said 1,600 hand grenades and 100,000 j
rifle cartridges had been taken from I
the insurgents. j
REBELS CLAIM GAINS.
Seize 4>£ Miles of Madrid-Valencia
Road, They Claim.
B) the Associated Press
BEHIND THE INSURGENT FRONT
LINES AT MADRID. February 22 —
Insurgents rammed fiercely up the
Jarama River Valley today in the
heaviest fighting of recent months
in Spain and were reported to have
seized about 4'2 miles of Madrid’s
vital Valencia highway.
Insurgent officers declared Gen.
Francisco Franco's men rapidly were
closing the door between Madrid and
the remainder of government-held
Spain.
From emplacements in the Vacia
madrid sector, just west of the Va
lencia road, insurgent field pieces
shelled the Guadalajara road running
east out of the capital, the only trunk
highway still open.
A government force estimated by |
the insurgent command at 35,000 men
massed ahead of the attackers in a
dogged attempt to restrain the push
up the Jarama.
The river, running from the north,
bisects both the Guadalajara and
Valencia roads.
Trying to draw insurgent attackers
to the western edge of the city—away
from the Jarama sector and the Guad
alajara road — government troops
charged into heavily fortified West
Park, but were met by fierce machine
gun and anti-tank fire. They fell
back, leaving a large number of dead
on the field, said a report to the Tala
vera de la Reina insurgent headquar
ters.
On the Asturian front, far to the
northwest, two government attacks
were reported to have collapsed. An
assault on the insurgent-held Oviedo
sector was met by counter-attack. An
entire battalion of government troops
was reported surrounded and annihi
lated. The other attack was aimed at
La Robla in the northern part of Leon
Province.
The insurgent push up the Jarama
River Valley brought into action strong
reinforcements fresh from victories in
Southwestern Spain.
Insurgent officers asserted that
counter-thrusts by Madrid’s defenders
had been repeatedly repulsed. The
defenders, they said, were finding it
difficult even to retain positions
against localized attacks.
MADRID CLAIMS VICTORIES.
Loyalist Successes on These Fronts
Are Reported.
MADRID. February 22 (A1).—The
Spanish government smashed at her
insurgent foes and claimed victories
today on thrfp fronts—in Aragon to
the northeastfat Oviedo in the north
west and in the Jarama River sector
at Madrid’s very door.
The widely scattered actiohs as out
lined in reports to Madrid:
Aragon—A desperate attempt by
thousands of Gen. Francisco Franco's
men to crack government lines and
reach the Mediterranean from their
strongholds In this old-time mon
archial province was battered down
with a loss of more than 1,000 Insur
gent dead.
(Insurgent success in this attempt
would mean splitting of Valencia,
temporary seat of the Spanish gov
ernment, and Barcelona, capital of
the allied Catalonian government.
Both are on the eastern seacoast.)
Oviedo.—Only a fierce counter-at
tack by insurgent captors of this city,
14 miles inland from the Bay of
Biscay, prevented government forces
from fortifying heights dominating
the city; beleaguered insurgents’ com
munications were cut off; govern
ment militiamen penetrated into some
of the city's streets.
Jarama River.—Gen. Jose Mlaja,
chief of the Madrid defense forces,
declared his men had advanced de
spite insurgent reinforcements and
still were holding the vital Valencia
road.
Mobilisation Ordered.
As though girding itself for a su
preme offensive, the government de
creed mobilization of all army re
servists of 1932 to 1938 inclusive, be
tween the ages of 23 and 27, affecting
an estimated 150,000 men in *ov
i
k.
BEATRICE ROTH.
The 20-year-old Cincinnati
girl was shot to death as she
sat in an auto Police Lieut.
George Schattle quoted Jo
seph Caproni, 20, as saying he
shot the girl because he was
‘‘mad at her."
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
emment territory. Many of these,
however, already were in the trenches.
After a series of rapid moves on
the bloody checkerboard southeast o*
the city along the Jarama River and
the Valencia road, Gen. Miaja smil
ingly said: “I am satisfied. Not
much ground is being gained du:
it is a good sign. The best way to
defend Madrid is to attack. We ad
vanced despite reinforcements by the
enemy in this sector."
Heartening also to Madrid’s de
fenders was news from Gijon, 11 miles
from Oviedo, of a Sunday dawn at
tack by northwestern forces and cap
ture of a field separating the pro
vincial capital's arms and gas fac
tories.
Hand-to-hand fighting raged on
the Teruel front in Aragon, which
consists of the provinces of Teruel,
Zaragoza and Huesca.
Moorish Cavalry “Wiped Out." |
The Barcelona government com- |
mand reported a whole squadron of
Moorish cavalry had been wiped out
In the Portal Rubio aector, where It
said 10,000 insurgents had attacked.
Government planes and artillery
blasted at insurgent concentrations
and communications lines southeast
of Madrid, where opposing armies j
have been locked for two weeks in
up-and-down battle.
Gen. Miaja’s men crossed the
Jarama River northwest of San Mar
: tin de la Vega in an attempt to en- j
; circle a segment of the siege lines
but were forced to return because they ,
did not have enough time to fortify
the newly gained ground.
The Valencia mobilization decree |
would affect about 45,000 men in
Madrid, another 45,000 in Barcelona
and 22,500 in Valencia. Reservists
already engaged in vital services such
as transport and communications,
and in war industries would be ex- I
cepted.
La Follette
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was another demand by Wismer for
| greater production.
After a second protest, Wismer de
moted him, Gallo added.
Plant Officials Questioned.
Seeking to determine the true
source of the “loyal General Motors’
employes” movement in the Baltimore
plant during the recent strike, the
committee closely questioned Wismer,
plant manager at the time; Walter J.
Canavan, personnel manager, and Ed
gar C. Malpas, a plant superintendent.
After considerable questioning, it
was brought out that the “Loyal Com
mittee” gained access to a complete
address f.le of all employes “in viola
tion” of orders.
James T. Johnson and Arthur
Young, jr.. leaders in the “loyalist”
movement, denied knowing where em
ploye addresses were obtained or where
mail notices were prepared.
"Did you know that facilities of
the company were being used in
getting out these notices?” La Follet'e
asked.
“I heard somebody say something
about it later,” Johnson replied.
Young told of making use of per
sonnel records in compiling an em
ploye list, explaining that he worked
in the personnel office occasionally
and had access to such records.
Senator La Follette asked Wismer
if he was familiar with the July 26,
1934, statement of policy by Alfred P.
Sloan, jr„ which specifically pro
hibited discharge of employes for
Joining or assisting in organization of
a labor union.
Familiar With Statement.
Wismer said he is familiar with the
Sloan statement and that it is the
basis of labor relations policies. Cana*
van and Malpas concurred. All three
men, however, denied any discharges I
for labor organization activities.
On completion of hearings on the
General Motors inquiry, the commit
tee plans to recess to allow gathering
of evidence in other lines of Investiga
tion and the making of plans for
further activities under the new
$40,000 appropriation.
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Washington
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gram of the revolutionary societies
with a musical selection under the
direction of Capt. Taylor Branson, its
leader. Maj. Edward F. Riggs super
vised the massing of the colors, and
just before 11 a m. Assistant Secre
tary Moore was escorted into the hall
by an official party.
Rev. G. Freeland Peter of Washing
ton Cathedral pronounced the invo
cation, and Caroline Embry of the
Capt. Joseph Emery Society, C. A. R.,
and James Madison Cutt, 4th, of the
Col. James Madison Cutts Society, led
the audience in the pledge of alle
giance to the flag. William Tyler
Page read his "The American's Creed"
Just before Moore spoke.
Had Washington not lived, sug
gested Moore, there would be no in
dependent nation where the United
States now lies, there would be no
democratic society here, and we would
lack the “fair prospect” of prosperity
and happiness which the Assistant
Secretary felt is ours.
Virginia Service Recalled.
Moore, president of the Virginia
State Society of the Diatrict, empha
sized the relationship of Washington,
the squire of Mount Vernon, to the
Old Dominion, where the general was
born and died and where for nine
years he sat in the House of Burgesses
and supported with ballots the verbal
blasts of Patrick Henry against the
taxes and tyranny of England.
“Det me say to those who are un
willing to forget the past," Moore
said, “that there is no town in this
country to which attach so many in
timate memories of the founder of
the Republic as his home town of
Alexandria—memories that ‘no tide
will ever wash away.’ He was devoted
to Its people and they constantly
manifested their affection for him
and their pride in his character and
career.
"Month by month they saw him
serving there as a judge of the court
of -the county. One need only read
his diaries and the local chronicles to
know how many of them were his
close friends, at whose houses he
visited, and of the public places where
he was acclaimed when he went away
from and returned to the town.
“It was from Alexandria that he set
forth on the Braddock expedition, and J
to Alexandria that he came back bear
ing the laurels that he had won in
saving the British Army from com
plete destruction, and largely because
his neighbors, the Fairfax Rifles were
fighting with him. It was from Alex
andria that he w’ent away to take
command of the American Army, and
there, after he had won the war of the
Revolution, he was welcomed by the
people who knew him best.
Fruits of Revolution Saved.
“In my judgment, it is incontestable
that, save for the prestige and influ
ence of Washington and his unwearied
support of the efforts to preserve the
fruits of the Revolution by establish
ing a new Federal system, the attempt
might have failed altogether, and in
any event the Constitution, as we have
it today, would not have come into
operation.”
When Moore finished his speech
four persons stepped forth to present
the wreath which was to ba laid at
the Washington Monument in behalf
of the four patriotic societies—Maj.
Riggs of the Sons of the Revolution,
Mrs. Stanley Hall Beasley. Daughters
of the American Revolution: Maj.
Charles C. Griggs, Sons of the Ameri
can Revolution, and Miss Annie Clark
Hassel. Children of the American
Revolution.
The four Alden Singers, directed
by Jewell Downs, rendered two vocal ■
selections, and then national officers
of the four societies offered the greet
ings of their organizations—Dr.
Thomas- E. Green, S. R. chaplain
general; Mrs. Lue Reynolds Spencer,
registrar general, D. A. R.: Dr. Louis
Charles Smith, S. A. R. librarian gen- j
eral, and Mrs. C. A. Swann Sinclair,
national president. C. A. R.
The Alden Singers gave “The
Americans Come” and “Winter Song."
the Marine Band played “The Star
Spangled Banner,” Rev. William L.
Darby, secretary of the Washington
Federation of Churches, gave the
benediction, the colors were retired to
the sounds of the “March of Liberty”
and the observance was at an end.
D. A. R. Broadcast at 6 P.M.
The D A. R. was to be honored
later in the day by a Nation-wide
radio broadcast from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
of a concert by the Army Band. The
program of classic, popular and mili
tary music, dedicated to the society,
will mark the end of its celebration
of National Defense week.
Mrs. Harry K. Daugherty, national
chairman of the D. A. R. Radio Com
mittee, will speak briefly in intro
ducing the broadcast, expressing in
behalf of Mrs. William A. Becker,
president general, the appreciation
of the society of the tribute paid it.
The organization of Disabled Amer
ican Veterans in the District made a
pilgrimage to Mount Vernon shortly
before noon to lay a wreath at the
tomb of the first President. The men
were headed by Department Comdr.
John T. Chedester and his staff, C.
Hamilton Anderson, Mary Anne Ken
nedy and Burr Lenhart.
Another caravan to Mount Vernon
was formed by the cars of members
of George Washington Po6t No. 1, the
pioneer American Legion post, which
assembled at 10 a m. at the corner of
Seventeentnh and H streets to drive
to the famous estate, where they paid
honor at the tomb. Rev. Howard E.
Snyder, post chaplain, conducted brief
exercises, and Harry Coope, post com
mander, placed a wreath.
Veterans of the 1st Division. Ameri
can Expeditionary Font, will oels
A *
TRAIN DERAILED '
IN FLOOD, 9 HURT
Leaves Rails Crossing
Water-Damaged Culvert
in Illinois.
By the Associated Press.
ROCKFORD, 111., February 22 —At
least nine persons were injured, one
of them critically, when the .Mil
waukee Railroad's Southwestern'lim
ited passenger train was derailed in
crossing a water-damaged culvert
yesterday near Rockton, 111., 12 miles
north of here.
The three rear coaches of the Eve
car train left the tracks, but none
upset. Engineer Harry Woodward,
Milwaukee, said the culvet was
partially washed away by back waters
of the Coon Creek, a tributary of the
Rock River.
The injured were taken to Beloit,
Wis., on a railroad relief train. Auto
mobile ambulances were unable to
reach the scene because of flood
waters. A Beloit hospital listed the
injured, including 5 trainmen and
4 of the 40 passengers aboard, as fol
lows:
Mrs. T S. Blakesley, 52. of Kansas
City, Mo., condition critical; George
Schaefer, 49, of Freeport, 111 , minor
injuries; his wife. 41, back injuries;
Rev. W. A. Stewart, Moline, 111.,
bruises and wrenched back.
injured jrainmrn.
The trainmen injured, all of of Mil
waukee, included the following:
Homer Arthp, 45, brakeman, shoulder
fracture and back injury, Herbert L.
Stiles, 73, conductor, arm and hand
injured; Harry Gaylord, 45, flagman,
severe head lacerations; Ray Mark,
baggage man. rib fractures, and Ed
win Harris, 51, colored chef, severe
burns from hot water.
Engineer Woodward said he was
traveling only 20 miles an hour under
"slow orders" because of high water
throughout Northern Illinois. The
Rock River and its tributaries have
overflowed their banks.
Minor washouts in the region ham
pered operations of other railroads.
Train officials said the Rock Island
Railroad trains were being rerouted
into Chicago over the Milwaukee j
tracks. '
Three Drowned.
Three persons were drowned and
scores of others were marooned after
three rivers of Northern Illinois and
Southern Wisconsin swelled out' of
their banks yesterday.
William Sanderson, 50, and James
Bardel, 23, slipped into the flood waters
and drowned at Galena, 111., after
clinging to a fence overnight. Res
cuers were unable to reach them.
They were marooned when a boat
capsized after they left an elevator
on the Galena river bank. Five oc
cupants of the boat were rescued, but
were suffering from exposure.
Mrs. Theodore Schulte, 70, was
drowned near her farm home north
of Galena. The body was recovered.
CARPENTER FOUND '
DEAD IN GAS ROOM
Employe of Gas Light Company
Is Discovered in “Purifying’*
Chamber of Plant.
Joseph T. Burch, 50,. a carpenter
employed by the Washington Gas
Light Co., was found dead early today
in a gas-purifying room at the com
pany's plant at Twenty-sixth and O
streets.
He had been dead several hours
when his body was discovered by
Foreman lee Raum, according to
Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald. An
autopsy was to be performed on tha
body today.
Burch, who lived at 717 Eighth
street southeast, was ofT duty yes
terday, police were told. Dr. Mac
Donald said he left a note saying he
had been robbed and telling where his
body could be found.
Burch had been employed by the
gas firm for a number of years. Dr.
MacDonald said he was informed.
He is survived by his widow. Mrs.
Madeleine Burch, and two daughters.
Bertha Cecelia, 18, and Catherine
Evangeline. 11.
brate the holiday with a ball at the
Broadmoor Hotel, 3601 Connecticut
avenue, and dance to music furnished
by Gwen Miller's Orchestra. Maj,
Gen. Hanson Ely, in charge of Ameri
can troops at the World War battle of
Cantigny, is to be the honored guest.
Rainbow Division veterans from the
District, Maryland and Virginia sched
uled their fifth annual “get together”
at the Harrington Hotel at 7 p.m,
with a program to be broadcast na
tionally. There will be a dinner,
speeches and entertainment. As
sistant Secretary of Commerce John
son will be the chief talker.
Gen. Frank T. Hines, administrator
of the Veterans’ Administration, the
chief speaker on the program of the
Jewish War Veterans, paid tribute to
day to the participation of Jews in
the Revolutionary War.
’ “Tlte ideals and principles on be
half of which Washington led the
American colonies through the strug
gles and perils of the Revolutionary
War held a poignant appeal for the
Jewish people, an appeal whitfh was
answered in money and men by the
Jewish colonists,” he said in a radio
talk.
“In that pitiful, struggling band of
patriots who suffered with Washing
ton through the crucial Winter at Val
ley Forge, many were of that race.
In that conflict, as in those that fol
lowed, we find many among those in
military command, whose names are
engraved in marble, and still more
indelibly in the hearts of their coun
trymen.”
The Goodwill Industries, Inc.,
planned a three-hour reception, begin
ning at 3 p.m., at its new headquarters,
1214 New Hampshire avenue.
The Association of Oldest Inhabi
tants of the District of Columbia will
meet this evening at Union Engine
House, Nineteenth and H streets. Allan
Davis, former principal of Roosevelt
High School, will read Washington’s
farewell address, and Needham C.
Turnage. United States commissioner,
will speak.
Under joint auspices of the National
Convention Committee and Depart
ment of the Potomac of the Army
and Navy Union, there will be a birth
day fete at the Willard Hotel^ with
diplomats and members of Congress
in attendance.
At Eastern High School. Maj.
Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of
police, will be honored at 8 p.m. for
his part in founding the Metropolitan
Police Boys’ Club. The club was
organized three years ago at the fifth
precinct. The ceremonies will be
sponsored by officials of the club and
members of the Southeast Citizens’
Association.
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