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SENATORS I ATE
TRADEPACT BILL
i Proposed Amendments De
4 lay Vote on Extension
of Act.
By tbt Associated Press.
Proposed amendments to restrict the
President’s power slowed up Senate
debate today over extension of the
reciprocal trade agreements act.
Administration leaders predicted all
the suggested changes, put forward
with bi-partisan support, would be re
jected. Similar attempts to alter the
measure were defeated by the House.
Senators Vandenberg, Republican, of
Michigan, and Capper, Republican, of
Kansas, led the opposition with de
mands that Congress exercise more
direct control over the making of fur
ther trade agreements.
Vandenberg asked that any agree
ment limiting the power of Congress
to fix internal taxes be prohibited, and
that the State Department give notice
beforehand of all commodities it
planned to cover in an agreement.
Urges Senate Ratification.
Capper urged Senate ratification of
•11 trade pacts and proposed dropping
the “most-favored nation" policy.
On the Democratic side, Senators
Pepper and Andrews of Florida, and
Senators Ellender and Overton of
Louisiana, asked that the cost of
production of American agricultural
commodities be guaranteed.
Senator O’Mahoney, Democrat, of
WyonUM, urged that all trade agree
ments Wsubmitted to Congress 30 days
before taking effect.
The Senate’s first debate on major
legislation brought frequent clashes
between Vandenberg or Capper and
Senator Harrison, Democrat, of
Mississippi, leader of administration
forces.
One was over Brazil’s babassu nuts,
Which Alf M. Landon, 1936 Republican
presidential candidate, had mentioned
in a campaign speech assailing the
pacts.
“Who would have supposed until the
Autumn of last year,” smiled Harrison,
•'that the fate of the national elec
tion—no of the Nation itself—would
hinge upon this>poor little unassuming
But?”
Vandenberg replied: “I know as ijt
tle about Babassu nut oil as the Sen
ator from Mississippi does, which is a
state of complete ignorance. But the
State Department has made it im
possible to tax this oil from Brazil,
which represents a new competitive
danger to our home markets."
Bank
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of about $150,000 from the Inter
national Association of Machinists.
The new corporation will borrow
Dot to exceed $350,000 from the Re
construction Finance Corp. With this
t cash the new corporation will pay in
full the approximately 23.000 de
positors and do certain other things.
It will use some of this money for
“the discharge or acquisition of cer
tain prior rights and liens against
the assets to be transferred to the new
corporation to effect the conservation
. of this plan.”
40% Paid Already.
> All depositors of the old Mount
‘ Vernon Savings Bank have been paid
a dividend of 40 per cent of their de
posits and received for the remaining
60 per cent participating certificates.
The 40 per cent paid in 1934 amounted
to about $800,000.
All depositors who have participat
ing certificates of less than $60 would
be paid in full when the plan is con
summated. Depositors who have cer
tificates amounting to more than $60
would receive preferred stock dollar
for dollar in the new Mount Vernon
Mortgage Corp. This preferred stock
Is cumulative as to dividends after
December 31, 1939, and is callable at
any time at par and accumulated
dividends.
Common stock in the new mortgage
corporation is to be issued to the In
ternational Association of Machinists,
which has turned over the $150,000
worth of assets.
Proposal Explained in Detail.
The payment In full to about 23,000
depositors is expected to amount to
<150.000. The trustees who mailed
out the proposal today to all depositors
holding certificates of more than <60
are E. C. Davison, who is chairman
of the board of the Mount Vernon
liquidating trust and also general sec
retary-treasurer of the International
Association of Machinists; Thomas E.
Burke and E. F. Koss.
While all depositors holding a cer
tificate worth more than $60 are re
ceiving the requests for approval, no
communications are being mailed to
the depositors holding certificates of
less than <60, which are to be paid
in full. Stockholders of the Mount
Vernon Savings Bank are being cir
cularized by the International Asso
ciation of Machinists, to surrender
their old stock.
Speaking for the trustees, Davison
explained that the common stock held
by the international Association of
Machinists will not pay a cent of divi
dends until the depositors holding
preferred stock in the new mortgage
corporation are paid in full.
Davison feels this new plan will
pay off In full every depositor of the
Mount Vernon Savings Bank.
The reason for establishment of the
new mortgage corporation, he ex
plained, is that it will enable the man
agement to realize greater returns on
the assets and thus make possible the
payment to depositors. Restrictions
on such a trust as the Mount Vernon
Liquidating Trust would prohibit, he
said, such operations as are possible
under the new mortgage corporation.
Such operations include the improve
ment of property, renewal commission
on loans, insurance commissions and
property management fees.
Would Set Up Going Concern.
In other words, he went on, the
change from the trust to the new cor
poration would be one from a liqui
dating concern to a going concern au
thorized to earn money.
The Mount Vernon liquidating
Trust now has net assets of approx
imately $1,200,000, estimated sound
value, according to the trustees.
The Mount Vernon Liquidating
Trust has been administered by the
three trustees, with Robert T. High
Held executive secretary and L. Harold
Sothoron general counsel.
How soon the plan can be put into
effect and the first payments made
was problematical today, but Secretary
Hlghfield, Chairman Davison of the
Mount Vernon Liquidating Trust and
Prank W. Lee, former president of
the Mount Vernon Savings Bank, who
now is a vice president of the City
Bank of Washington, estimated that it
Buy be about 90 days.
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
PARTING.
INAUGURATION day. It now is
revealed, brought the end to
business relations of long stand
ing between a Senator and a taxi
cab driver.
The sameness of the story is un
usual. Every day the same cab driver
drove to the same hotel and picked
up the same Senator and drove him to
the Capitol, and every day the Sena
tor jingled two dimes in his pocket
and at the end of the ride handed
them to the driver.
There was a great traffic Jam inau
guration day. The cabbie picked up
the Senator. It took them an hour
to get to the Capitol. At the end of
the ride the Senator handed two
dimes—not the same two dimes, of
course, to the cabbie.
All these months with no tips was
not so bad, but an hour’s trip for a
20-cent fare overwhelmed the cabbie,
who asked the Senator:
“Are you sure you can spare that?"
The Senator became angry and
threatened to report the driver.
“Go ahead,” retaliated the cabbie,
"and maybe I will get fired and
find another job and get to making a
living again.”
This was as much as our man could
find out. We understand, though, the
cabbie is still cab-bing.
* * * *
MR. O’CONNOR.
Controller of the Currency J. F.
T. O’Connor, addressing a very
large gathering of Washington
bankers, said he hated to impose a
lot of figures on thgts. but would
confine himself only to billions and
pass over the millions.
Said he was reminded of the
superintendent of a lumber com
pany who sent very long daily
reports to the company. The presi
dent became exhausted reading the
long reports and finally sent word
to him to put his reports in figures,
giving the number of persons em
ployed, number of logs on hand, etc.
Just 100 men were employed at
the camp and two woman cooks.
The superintendent’s next daily re
port said:
"One per cent of the men married
50 per cent of the cooks."
* * *
ORCHID.
gARLINE HECK, a graduate of the
Syracuse School of Journalism,
was in town over the week end.
ooccf
| “I’ve asked directions from police
officers in a great many cities, includ
ing New York, where they are proud
of their record of courtesy," she said.
“But Washington police officers are
the most courteous and helpful of
them all.”
We know she said that because a
policeman told us so.
* * * *
DEAL.
UOW can a fellow buy his own hat?
11 Easy, says a salesman at one
of Washington’s haberdasheries.
This store put on the usual late
Winter clearance sale. In came an
elderly man wearing an old-style
■ derby or bowler. He was looking for
I more of the same type. The sale
I price was 39 cents.
| “What kind of price will you make
me for three of ’em?” he asked the
I salesman. “Oh, I’ll sell you three
I for a dollar,” he replied, which is near
I a new low for derbies.
The customer tried on a lot of hats
and finally selected his trio. He had
put two aside and seemed in trouble
trying to find the third one. “I’ll take
this one,” he said. “It fits fine. Just
like an old hat.” The salesman
wrapped up the three derbies, when
the customer asked: “Say, what did
I do with my old hat?” They looked
around and couldn’t find it. He had
tried on the old hat and bought it
back again. Yep, he got a new one.
* * * *
EASY.
T'HE mustachioed, much be-uni
formed doorman of a certain
night club in town is a little miffed
that a fellow worker was mentioned
in this column recently.
He says, “It isn’t hard to find a
genuine Cossack. There are eleven
million of them.”
* * * *
SETTLED.
Last July we mentioned a feud
between a car owner and a finance
company. The company threatened
to snatch the car and the owner
tempted fate by never locking it,
so the way would be made easy,
remember?
It seems that it doesn’t pay to
tempt fate, nor credit companies.
The car, we hear, was snatched,
and the erstwhile motorist is a
pedestrian now.
P. B. K. AGAIN.
A MAN who lives far out on Wis
■ consin avenue lost his Phi Beta
Kappa key two months ago. He had
given up hope of ever finding it, al
though his name was engraved on
the back together with his university,
which happened to be Duke. News
paper advertisements had produced no
results. He was inclined to blame his
wife somewhat for the loss of this
legitimate piece of gold, as he had
told her she should put a new ribbon
on it and this she had neglected.
All very sad.
But last week, suddenly, there was
a ring at his doorbell which he an
swered to find a burly truck driver
thrusting out the Phi Beta Kappa key
and asking, “ ’S yours?”
Delightedly, the man admitted the
ownership.
"You know,” said the truck driver,
scratching his head, "I found it quite
a while back, but I couldn’t figure
out what it was. I’d sever seen any
lodge pin like that before, but I aorta
Weed it and so I kept it. Then last
sight, when I was buying s pint of
NICE SHELVES 1C
IN NEWLACES
Election Supervisor in Mont
gomery to Be Lawrason
B. Riggs of Olney.
BY JACK ALLEN,
8tafl Correspondent of The 8tar.
ANNAPOLIS, February 24,—Six
teen officeholders In Montgomery and
Prince George's Counties—including
an election supervisor and 15 Justices
of the peace—were shelved by Gov.
Harry W. Nice In his biennial list of
appointments, now before the Senate
for confirmation.
The lone change of major impor
tance In either community was the
substitution of Lawrason B. Riggs of
Olney as the Democratic member of
the Board of Election Supervisors in
Montgomery for Hugh F. O’Donnell
of Silver Spring, whose dismissal is
traced directly to his activity in the
lut Democratic primary.
^Jov. Nice's list—familiarly known
as the "green beg"—as submitted to
the Senate yesterday afternoon, re
named all Jurists in the lower courts
of both counties, the permanent Reg
istration Board in Montgomery and
Prince Georges election supervisors
and liquor license commissioners.
It was learned today the Demo
cratic State Centra] Committee for
Montgomery recommended Riggs, a
former chairman of the county's Elec
tion Board, for O'Donnell's seat on
that body because of the latter’s sup
port of Clay Plummer of Gaithers
burg In the 1936 congressional pri
mary.
Indorsement of Lewis.
New justices in Montgomery include
Samuel Riggs of Brookmont and Ed
win D. Burdette of Hyattstown, and
those in Prince Georges are Ewell H.
Mohler, Landover; Percy Duvall, Up
per Marlboro; Angelo Marietta. Ben
lings; Harry C. Fuchs, District
Heights: Robert H. Palmer, Harmon O.
Acuff. Seat Pleasant; Paul R. Carter,
Takoma Park; J. S. Allen, John M.
Bowie. Clarence Foreacre, Mitchell
ville; Robert McCartee, Frank J. Rob
inson and Mrs. Ira K. Atherton, Hy
attsviiie.
Jurists renominated in Montgom
ery are Harold C. Smith of Rockville,
County Police Court; Thomas M. An
derson, Orphans' Court, and Herman
C. Heffner, Takoma Park Police Court,
while George B. Merrick of Upper
Marlboro was renamed fijr the Prince
Georges County Police Courfc
Carey Kingdon and Mrs. Clara A.
Holmes, both of Rockville, are retained
as the Republican members of Mont
gomery's Election Board, and John A.
England of Rockville. Republican, and
P. Byrne Austin of Takoma Park,
Democrat, are kept on the Permanent
Registration Board.
List in Prince Georges.
The Prince Georges election super
visors renominated are Albert O. Beall,
! Republican, and Samuel A. Wyville,
| Democrat, both of Upper Marlboro,
and Charles L. Seeley, Republican, of
Hyattsville. Liquor license commis
^oners for the county to be continued
are William H. Brooks of Marlboro,
and Joseph S. Haas of Mount Rainier,
Republicans, and Mrs. Mary W.
Browning, Democrat, of Riverdale.
Other justices of the peace nomi
nated for the two counties follow:
Montgomery—Charles W Stang Charlei
M. Webb. Rockville: D. Joseph Willard.
Poolesville: Evan A. Condon Bethesda;
Ambrose D. Jennings. Friendship Station.
Jesse D. Briggs. Gaithersburg. William P.
Wilson and Charles M. Woodson Silver
Spring: Charles H. Davidson. Kensington.
Prince Georges—George B Merrick.
Donald Swanson. Harry I. Anderson. Up
per Marlboro; Henry O'Neill Mortimer E.
Rian. William A Bobb Bladensburg James
W Latimer Silver Hill: Judson Rea Creecy.
Spaulding district: Henry B. Contee.
Aauasco: Griffith Oursler Surrattsvllle: A.
R. Weston Everard E. Hatch. G. Bowie Mc
Ceney. James S. Vawter. Laurel: F. H.
Billingsley Brandywine: Wesley Beall.
Ritchie: Gilbert Eugene Wilson. Piscat
away: John Fainter. Hyattsville: William
J. Conway Gilbert Hughes Hiram U
Wohlfarth Brentwood Oscar Poore. Robert
E Ennie. CaDitol Heights: John K Keane.
Fred C. Lutz William H Chase. Riverdale:
Louis Gundlinsly Louis Kutch. Lanham:
I George S. Phillips. Berw yn.
DEATH HELD SUICIDE
The death of Robert P. Puller, 26,
taxicab driver, 1418 Taylor street, was
pronounced a suicide yesterday In a
certificate issued by Coroner A. Ma
gruder MacDonald.
Puller died In Emergency Hospital
a short time after he had been
wounded In the head with a .32
callber revolver. He left a note to his
wife, telling her good-by.
Ambulance
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fire department, which dispatched
the machine, siren warning other cars
out of the way, to the scene of the
accident.
About three weeks ago Hanrahan de
cided the ambulance was making too
many “water hauls.” The voice over
the telephone, demanding immediate
service, might be sincere enough, but
when the ambulance arrived the
parties involved had either been taken
to the hospital in other cars, had
dusted themselves off and walked
away or shaken t’.e broken glass out
of their hair and sped to their desti
nation.
To promote efficiency, Hanrahan
issued an order directing all calls be
sent first to the sherif'a office, to per
mit an investigation. Chief Saunders
thought that was a 1 tie hard on the
injured persons, who might be in need
of immediate medical treatment.
Moreover, the ambulance was in
charge of the fire department, and why
should the file department take
orders from the sheriff’s department
anyhow? The ambulance has been a
rare sight on the county highways this
month.
Chief Saunders yesterday requested
Hanrahan to have the ambulance re
moved from the Are house by Sunday,
because it wasn’t doing any good where
it was.
Hanrahan didn’t wait for Sunday.
He ordered It removed to the county
garage today, leaving the situation
roughly this:
The fire department has an ambu
lance driver but no ambulance. The
sheriff has an ambulance but no
driver. Whosoever gets hurt gets to a
hospital as best he can.
Hanrahan said today he hoped to
have the machine back in service soon.
Meanwhile, have your accidents out
side Arlington County or bring an
ambulanoe with you.
liquor. I noticed that the clerk had
one of those funny little things hang
ing on his pocket. I asked him what
it was and told him I had one, too.
When I showed it to him he looked
at the name on the back. It said
’Duke University,’ you know, and I
never thought about the owner maybe
living here. But the clerk in the
liquor store looked your name up in
the phone book, and that'* how I
happened to mom out.’’
SUSPECT IS HELD
IN TORSOSLAYINGS
Mutilated Body of Woman
Believed Eighth Victim
of Ohio Maniac.
Bj the Assoclateo Press.
CLEVELAND. February 24.—Detec
tives on an intensive search for the
sex-crazed maniac blamed for eight
j Cleveland torso slayings since Septem
■ ber, 1934, questioned a man today
| concerning the disappearance of
twice-married Mrs. Anna Zibert.
After a search of missing persons
flies, police said she was one of two
women most closely resembling the
latest victim—whose nude torso, sev
ered with surgical skill, was found late
yesterday on the Lake Erie shoreline,
on Cleveland’s East Side.
No charges had been placed against
the suspect, who knew the woman
well, detectives said.
The disappearance of Mrs. Zibert,
missing since January 15, was re
ported five days later by her father,
Thomas Latkovich. Her physical de
scription and the fact that she was
listed as the mother of two children,
police said, closely fitted the descrip
tion given by Coroner Samuel R.
! Gerber.
Woman of 28 Also Sought.
Detectives also sought to learn
whether Miss Flavia Pillot, 28. who
came here from Canton, Ohio, last
Friday to stay with her brother John,
could be the eighth victim of the mad
slayer.
Miss Pillot vanished the next morn
ing, the brother told detectives, after
she was reprimanded for coming to
Cleveland unannounced.
Police Lieut. William Sargent said
the latest torso apparently had not
been in the water more than a day or
two before it was discovered only a
few miles from where Mrs. Zibert,
married a second time four months
ago, lived.
One previous victim was found at
almost the same spot. The mutilated
bodies of five others were left in the
desolate Kingsbury Run section, sev
eral miles away.
The maniac blamed for the eight
slayings can be charged only with
violation of a health ordinance, De
I tective Sergt. James Hogan declared.
Confession Seen Useless.
. “Even if the slayer confessed,”
Hogan asserted, "that wouldn't help
us any. Violation of a health ordi
| nance is the only charge we could
! place against him.
"That’s a fine of *50 and 30 days in
I the workhouse.”
Although several of the previous
victims were identified Hogan said,
no friends or relatives could be found
“who could swear from the witness
stand that ihe slain persons had once
been living, breathing human beings
in good health.”
For this reason, he said, no mur
der charges could now be filed, even
| if the surgically-skilled maniac were
captured.
"He gjvgr us one re»ilarly every
four monju,” commented Detective
Orley May, veteran of the police homl
\ clde squad.
Coroner Gerber said the latest wom
an victim was between 25 and 35
j years old, of fair complexion and
; slight build, w^ghing about 110
1 pounds, and had been a mother once—
| possibly twice.
In Desolate Section.
Kingsbury Run, where the mad
killer confined most of his earlier
activities, is a desolate section marked
by the slow crawl of the oil-filled
, waters of the little creek.
The stream was drained last Fall
when the seventh victim was discov
ered. but the waters failed to produce
the man's head and identification was
impossible. A hastly called confer
ence of psychiatrists, chemists, police
officials and crime experts, after
three hours of debate and conjecture,
brought this statement from Hogan:
“We’re right where we were the day
the first body was found.”
Today, Hogan, chief of the police
homicide squad, asserted:
“We couldn’t charge the slayer with
murder. Pollution of a creek with a
human body is the only charge we
could bring. There isn't any corpus
delicti.
Had ‘no Legal Identity.'
“The body of the latest victim, like
the others, had no legal identity. We
can’t find any one who would swear
from the witness stand that the slain
persons had once been living.”
Asked if, under Ohio law, the slayer
could be indicted for the murder of a
“John Doe” because the bodies have
been found, Hogan said:
“No. You can’t charge a man with
killing John Doe because John Doe
doesn’t exist.”
There were no known witnesses to
the killings. Mo6t of the victims were
believed to be transients, and efforts
to locate relatives were futile.
Discovery of the latest body by a
fireman late yesterday brought to two
the woman victims. The first was
identified as Mrs. Florence Polilla, 41,
who once was arrested in a vice raid.
The others were men or youths.
Taxes
(Continued From First Page.)
"green sheets” in approximately 50,000
cases. The agents have gone through
the alphabet to date to the names be
ginning with the letter “M," so a very
large number of returns are yet to be
Inspected.
Prom the reports so far checked, ac
cording to a report today by Deputy
Tax Assessor Charles A. Russell,
about 2,600 persons properly subject to
taxation in the District failed to file
personal property tax returns.
It was found there were about 16,000
persons filing Federal income tax re
turns who did not have sufficient tan
gible or Intangible personal property
upon which to levy a District tax. It
was found that about 28,000 of the re
turns that have been checked were in
proper order.
Many Fail to Respond.
Of the total report* which have been
checked against the “green sheets” the
District has not completed action in
about 6,000 cases. Included in the 6,000
are the cases of 2,600 who tyve failed
to date to respond to letters from the
District assessor warning that per
sonal tax returns must be made.
Assessor Allen said personal tax re
turns would be required even if man
damus proceedings prove necessary
that these proceedings would be be
gun next week.
For failure to file a required return
there is a penalty of 20 per cent of the
amount of the ultimate assessment,
plus a penalty of 1 per cent per month
for delinquent payment of the tax.
In addition, persons who have to be
taken to court to force the filing of a
return have to pay court coats, which
amount to about «1U
Blizzard Engulfs Iowa Trains
Upper: Illinois Central train, bound from Omaha to Chicago, stalled in a huge snowdrift
near Ackley, Iowa. It remained in the snore for 18 hours and was 24 hours reaching Chicago.
Lower: Two locomotives pushing a snowplow, in an attempt to clear the Burlington tracks
at Van Wert, are shown after they left the tracks at a crossing and tore up 200 feet of track.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos.
Former Police Chief’s State
ments-Before Senate Called
“Utterly False.”
BT the Associated Press.
'ANNAPOLIS. February 24—Gov.
Harry W. Nice today described as ut
terly and absolutely false" a state
ment made by Maj. Enoch B. Garey
last night that the Governor had or
dered him to cross the ice to Tangier
Island the night that Sergt. Wilbert V.
Hunter died.
The Governor also revealed that he
consulted Brig. Gen. Amos W. W.
Woodcock, president of St. John's Col
lege, and friei.d of Maj. Garey. before
he appointed the commission to inves
tigate the Tangier Island expedition.
He said that G 1. Woodcock named
the personnel of the commission ex
oept in one case, Dr. Dwight Mohr.
The Governor also declared that the
charge he had played politics In the
State police department was “ridicu
lous."
Nice , Comment.
Maj. Garey made the charges last
night when he appeared before a
Senate committee appointed to inves
tigate the police department.
Commenting on the major's state
ment, the Governor today said:
“The statement by Maj. Garey that
11 ordered nim to cross the ice with
; Sergt. Hunter the night that Sergt.
Hunter died is utterly and absolutely
false.
"He sent me a radiogram which in
itself indicated he had sent it after
he had taken 100 men across the ice.
He called me up the next day and told
me some citizens were organizing a
voluntary movement to carry sup
plies • • •
"That he would that night, in the
face of the blinding storm, and against
the advice of watermen who knew
conditions, make that trip is some
thing of which I never dreamed. I did
not know the trip was being made • • *
Denies Playing Politics.
“That politics was played by me in
the police department is ridiculous.
"I maintained and so told him that
the chaotic condition and disorganiza
tion were the result of a belief that
certain men, with whom he had sur
rounded himself were the virtual com
manders of the department and that
impression had to be destroyed and
the influence of these men broken up.
Five Maryland State Senators will
meet again tomorrow night to hear fur
ther testimony in their probe of the
State Police Department—a probe
which already had dragged the names
of Gov. Harry W. Nice and other high
ranking Marylanders across a back
drop of petty politics and alleged
broken faith.
Last night Maj. Enoch B. Garey,
recently deposed State police super
intendent, broke a year-long silence
which he—trained “in the spartan
school of West Point"—had imposed
! on himself.
In low, measured tones, he told the
committee that "not temperament,
gentlemen, but honor” forced him
from the State police superintendency.
Garey did not raise his voice as he
charged, in the tomblike stillness of
the packed Senate chamber, that:
Petty politics, and his refusal to play
petty politics, had driven him from his
post as superintendent of State police.
That Gov. Nice had ordered “in
clear-cut manner” the ill-fated relief
expedition to Tangier Island which
cost the life of Sergt. Wilbert V. Hunter
on the Ice off Tangier Island.
That a trusted subordinate had taken
from his flies a confidential letter and
given it to State officials “out to get”
him. '
That politicians had attempted to
run the State Police Department.
That close advisors of Gov. Nice had
been ‘‘out to get” him ever since the
Tangier Island expedition inquiry.
That William P. Lawson. Repub
lican State chairman, was to recom
mend men who should be given Jobs
as State policemen.
Tested by Alienists.
That three nationally known alien
ists had examined him and gave a
report which countered a report of
"three National Guard officers” that
he was “temperamentally unfitted”
for tiie post of State police super
intendent. The "three National
Guard officers” were members of the
nnmmlMton investigating the Tangier
Island affair and recommended
Garey's dismissal..
That J. Purdon Wright, former
head of tl)e police department, and a
close advisor of the Governor, had
"forced" the Governor to name the
Tangier Island inquiry board.
That Wright, State Budget Director
William H. Blakeman and State Em
ployment Commissioner Harry C.
Jones had “meddled” with police de
partment affairs and that they had
worked "behind the scenes” during a
recent hearing before Jones for four
State policemen charged with having
conducted a “racket" on the Washing
ton Boulevard.
That Gov. Nice, a day or so before
he removed Garey early this month
in favor of Lieut. Col. Elmer Mun
shower, had demanded that Garey
"hurt good men” and promote "poor
men" or get cut of office.
Garey's charges were supported by
Mrs Marie Bauernschmidt, secretary
of the Public School Association of
Baltimore. A recent radio address by
Mrs. Bauernschmidt. in which she
charged unrest and political faction
alism in the State police department,
precipitated the current hearing.
GAREY EXAMINED
BY PSYCHIATRIST
Tests Showed Him Not "Pecu
liarly Unstable," Doctor
Reported.
By the Associated Press
BALTIMORE. February 24 —Dr.
Manfred S. Guttmacher, psychiatrist,
who examined Maj. Enoch B. Garey,
former head of the State police, said
today he had reported that Garey was
not “a peculiarly unstable individual.”
A board of inquiry which investi
gated Garey’s conduct of a relief ex
pedition acrosa the ice to Tangier
Island, Va., had reported that he
was "temperamentally and otherwise”
unsuited to the police job. The fact
that Garey had voluntarily undergone
an examination was revealed last
night at a Senate probe into State
police matters.
Dr. Guttmacher, psychiatrist for the
Baltimore City bench, said in a re
port to Gov. Nice:
“In my opinion, Maj. Garey is an
extraordinary person. I feel that he
is a man of great enthusiasms, great
courage and of unusual integrity. He
has, I believe, a flair for the dramatic
and he may at times be impulsive.
He has remarkable physical en
durance for a man who is past 50.
“I think that his rather unusual
temperamental make-up has lead peo
ple to misjudge him.”
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LINDBERGHS LAND
PLANE AT BOMBAY
Arrive in India City After Being
Unreported for 48-Hour
Period.
By the Associated Press.
BOMBAY. India. February '24.—
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
landed here at 1 p.m. (3 a.m. Eastern
standard time) today after being un
reported for 48 hours on an aerial
jaunt over India.
Little concern had been felt for the
flying colonel and his wife, whose In
sistence on absolute privacy has pre
viously caused them to be reported
lost, although a widespread unofficial
search failed to penetrate their mys
terious two-day disappearance.
They left Jodhpur at 1:50 p.m. (3:50
a.m. Eastern standard time) Monday
after a week end spent in sightseeing
in the Indian city. At the time of
their take-off they were unreported
en route to Delhi.
The Lindberghs arrived from Udai
pur, where they spent last night.
It was understood Col. Lindbergh
would fly Sir Francis Younghusband,
authority on India and the Near East,
to Calcutta, where he will attend
the Congress of Religions, opening
March 1.
Younghusband was expected to join
the Lindberghs today, arriving in
Bombay from Europe.
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Flight to Aid Defense.
Capt. P. G. Taylor, who is preparing
to fly over the Indian Ocean from
Australia to Africa, declares that in
pioneering this route he will be assist
ing the British Empire defense plans.
He points out that it could be used
as an emergency airway between
Great Britain and Australia in time
at trouble in the East.
STEEL GROUP NEXT
Senate Committee, After
Recess, to Look Into In
dustry’s Labor Policies.
BY JOHN C. HENRY.
In recess for a week, the Senate
committee investigating espionage
and coercion in labor relations today
turned to the task of preparing for
its initial venture into the subject
of labor policies of the steel industry.
In addition, several matters of “un
finished business” were due for con
sideration during the interim.
Scheduled to resume open hearings
next Wednesday, the ’ommittee plans
at that time to hear testimony and
review evidence bearing upon labor
relations policies of the American
Bridge Co. of Pittsburgh, a subsidiary
of the United States Steel Corp.
Prior to taking on this task, how
■ ever, the committee hopes to make
| its decision this week on what action
1 is to be taken in the refusal on two
occasions of Robert A. Pinkerton,
youthful head of the Pinkerton Na
tional Detective Agency, to surrender
requested information.
Spies Not Identified.
Pinkerton refused, upon advice of
his counsel, to disclose the identities
of agency spies who were in General
Motors plants in Flint, Mich., during
the sit-down strike, and likewise re
fused to turn over to the committee
about 50 original espionage reports
from the Detroit area.
Bearing upon the decision to be
made in the Pinkerton case is the
status of the committee's case against
the Railway Audit and Inspection Co.,
a strike-breaking and espionage con
cern that destroyed its records and
whose officials refused to heed com
mittee subpoenas for appearance.
After being indicted for contumacy,
five officials of the company filed de
murrers to the indictments and coun
sel for both sides have been awaiting
a response to these demurrers before
proceeding further.
Yesterday the committee heard
testimony by organizers of the United
Automobile Workers in the Flint area
that anti-union policies of General
Motors Corp. have become "more
vicious" since settlement of the recent
strike. Appearing in the morning
session, Joseph B. Ditzel and Robert
C. Travis told of terrorism and in
timidation In Flint and Saginaw dur
ing the strike period.
Along with Travis’ testimony he
submitted to the committee a mass
of affidavits and documentary evi
dence in substantiation of his charges
of increased union hostility by cor
poration officials. In this material
were quotations by two plant officials
in Flint that the company is building
up a new and more extensive private
police and espionage force.
Other information was to the effect
that a squad of 50 armed men are
guarding the Flint Chevrolet power
house, with live steam pipes fitted
into the defense set-up.
Ordered to Leave Jobs.
During the afternoon meeting three
union organizers'working in the Fish
er Body plant in Baltimore appeared
to tell the committee that they had
been ordered to leave their jobs yes-,
terday morning because some other
workmen objected to their presence.
They were promised pay for yester
day and were told to return this
morning, they testified.
Called to the stand, plant officials
claimed the anti-union group was in
the majority and would have forced
cessation of production if the union
trio had been allowed to stay. They
told the committee they hoped to ad
just the trouble by this morning.
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$10,000 VERDICT WON
IN SUIT FOR DAMAGES
A District Cour Jury today returned
a'$10,000 verdict i favor of Numeri
ano Del Rosario. 916 Eighth street
southeast, who claimed he was perma
nently disabled in a traffic accident
March 9, 1935, at New York and Fair
view avenues northeast. The verdict
was assessed against the Nevin Mid
land Lines, bus operators, and Leon
Alamo. Navy Yard worker, in whose
Rosario was riding.
BLANKONSLAYING
Defendant Tells Jury He Did
Not Know of Shooting
Wife.
Bi tela; Dispatch to The star
ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE,
Va.—John Francis Hunter, 40-year
old former R. F. & P. Railroad brake
man, took the witr ess stand in his own
defense in Circuit Court here today to
tell a jury he did not know what
happened on May 7, 1934, after his
wife, Anne Dalman Hunter, told him
she had been untrue to him.
Hunter is on trial, charged with first
degree murder of the mother of his
three children. He was also indicted
in the death of Henry E. Corcoran,
attorney in the Veteran’s Administra
tion, where Mrs. Hunter wa„ employed
as a secretary.
The defendant related how he re
turned from a picnic at Linden, Va.,
on the day preceding the double slay
ing and discovered his wife and Cor
coran in the Hunter home together.
He was accompanied on the outing, he
told the jury, by his children and by
his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry H. Hunter. It previously had
been agreed, he testified, that Mrs.
i Hunter would accompany them, but at
i the last moment she told her husband
she had invited her brother. Park
Dalman, to dinner and could not go.
When he found Corcoran at his
home, Hunter declared, the visitor is
quoted as saying: "I just dropped in
while looking for a house for my wife
and daughter, who are coming up from
New Orleans.”
Hunter said he went to the Veterans
Administration the following day at
his wife's request to report her sick.
While there, he said, Corcoran stopped
in the hall and, after talking with
him, Corcoran suggested that they go
to the Hunter home and talk things
over. En route to tht bus atation,
I Hunter said he bought a pint of whisky
| and that on arrival at the Hunter
j home, all three had a drink before
J lunch and one moio afterwards.
After telling the jury he had begged
Corcoran to leave Mrs. Hunter alone.
Hunter quoted Corcoran as refusing.
Under questioning by his attorney,
M. J. Fulton, Hunter said he did not
remember getting a shotgun and pis
tol or anything else. He recovered
consciousness in Emergency Hospital
In Washington.
"The first I knew I was hurt, even,”
Hunter declared, "was when I asked
a nurse what those straps were hang
ing over my face and she told me they
were to hold my chin in place.”
Sheriff Howard B. Fields of Arling
ton County was the first witness in
the second day of the Hunter trial. He
told of finding the Hunter home in a
bloody shambles.
Hunter was preceded on the stand
by his mother, who told of having met
the dead woman with Corcoran in
Washington some time before the
double killing. She ,;ept as she re
lated events to show that her son was
a devoted father and husband. She
said the couple had been sweetheart
; since childhood. Mrs. Hunter offered
i testimony to show that insanity run
in her family.
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ROOSEVELT ADDS
TO COPELAND RIFY
Says Court Foe’s Bill to Regulate
Food and Drugs Would
Weaken Law.
By the Associated Press.
A new difference of opiiron today
had developed between President
Roosevelt and Senator Copeland.
Democrat, of New York, who recently
came out against the President’s court
legislation.
Mr. Roosevelt was asked at a press
conference yesterday what he thought
of Copeland's pending bill to regulate
the food and drug business.
The President said his first impres
sion was that the Copeland measure
would weaken rather than strengthen
the existing 30-year-old food and drug
law.
Copeland, who is chairman of the
Senate Commerce Committee, told re
porters afterward his measure was In
finitely stronger than the present law,
except in one respect.
1 He said his committee, before send
ing the bill to the Senate floor, had
adopted a compromise provision re
garding the seizure of misbranded
foods and drugs in bulk.
DENTISTS NAME GROUP
The District Dental Society, meet
! ing in Public Health Auditorium last
i night, elected Dr. A. D. Weakley
I chairman of its delegation to the
! national convention of dentists to be
held at Atlantic City next July.
Other members of the delegation
are Dr. Charles Cole and Dr. James
Brown. Dr. Howard Colby. Dr. E. T.
Lane and Dr. Robert Eller were named
alternates. At the convention. Dr. C.
Willard Camalier of the District so
ciety will be installed as president of
the national organization.
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Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
i Votes on three-year extension of
reciprocal trade program.
May take up bill to retire Supreme
Court justices at 70.
Joint Committee studies reorgani
zation of Government.
House and Senate conferees meet
on independent office appropriations.
House:
Considers minor bills.
Foreign Affairs Committee resumes
hearings on neutrality legislation.
Immigration Committee reopens
hearings on prpoeed restriction of alien
actors.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
I May start debate on neutrality bill
if resolution extending reciprocal trade
agreement passes today.
Interstate Commerce Subcommittee,
executive meeting. 10:30 a.m., on
Guffey coal bill.
Agriculture Subcommittee meets at
10 a.m. on crop-insurance legislation.
House:
Speeches by various members on
miscellaneous subjects.
Opium Sales Limited.
Opium is now sold by the govern
ment in China, but only to licensed
smokers, who mtist cure themselves
before 1940, when all trade in opium
ia scheduled to be suppressed.