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Montgomery Government
Cost Highest in State,
Economist Says.
Bpaclal Dispatch to The 6tar
KENSINGTON. Md.. February 25.—
Administration costs in Montgomery
County are the highest in the State,
amounting to about $1.98 per capita.
William Paul Walker, economist of
the University of Maryland, told the
Kensington Chamber of commerce
last night.
Analyzing the fiscal status of the
Bounty. Walker recommended:
That the county begin paying its
bonds "right now.”
That a reassessment of real and
personal property be made at once and
m system of continuous assessment be
established.
Two Taxing Areas.
That all incorporated towns and
apecial taxing areas be consolidated
Into one unit.
That the county be divided into
two taxing areas, with one rate for
rural and another for the suburban
section.
Walker said the financial problems
confronting Montgomery were "very
serious and might prove consequen
tial \inless attacked correctly.”
Under the continuing assessment
proposal advanced by Walker the
county would constantly have at its
disposal the services of two or three
assessors who would keep values "In
line.”
Declaring county bonds constitute a
too-heavy drain on the treasury,
Walker stated the county now pays
about $180 for every $100 bond issued.
Oppose Tax Diversion.
A resolution opposing diversion of
motor vehicle revenues and any addi
tional special levies on motorists was
adopted after Allen H. Constance,
counselor of the American Automo
bile Club of Maryland, spoke on Gov.
Nice's diversion proposals.
Following his talk a motion picture
showing highway problems was pre
sented.
The chamber indorsed the applica
tion of the county C. of C. Health
Committee for a free health survey by
the American Public Health Associa
tion. The action was taken at the re
quest of Dr. V. L. Ellicott, county
health officer.
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M’REYNOLDS BILL
APPROVED BY GROUP
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Votes for Neutrality Meas
ure. 15 to 3.
Bt the Associated Fress.
The House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee gave formal approval today to
the McReynolds permanent neutrality
• bill The vote was 15 to 3.
Designed to replace the temporary
heutrality law expiring May 1, the
measure would:
Continue provisions for mandatory
embargoes on exportation of arms,
munitions and implements of war to
belligerents and for bans on extending
loans or credit to warring countries.
Give the President broad discretion
, to restrict shipments to fighting na
; tions of materials that could be con
• verted to war uses.
.1 Bring under the American neutral
‘ ity policy civil wars which threaten
to embroil other nations.
Chairman McReynolds, Democrat,
of Tennessee said he hoped to bring
the bill up for House debate next
Week.
The McReynolds bill differs from
the Pittman measure approved by the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
chiefly in its more flexible treatment
of the question of barring shipments
of war materials.
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REPUBLICAN INDORSES
$ CIVIL SERVICE CHANGE
Campbell, Former Commission
Chairman, in Favor of One
Administrative Head.
That part of President Roosevelt’s
reorganization plan which would place
the civil service under one administra
tive head instead of three, is indorsed
by Thomas E. Campbell, Republican,
former Governor of Arizona and at
one time chairman of the Civil Serv
ice Commission.
Gov. Campbell expressed his ap
proval in a-telegram to Louis Brown
low. chairman of the President’s Com
mittee on Administrative Manage
ment, which made the study of the
Federal executive set-up on which
President Roosevelt based his recom
mendations to Congress.
Brownlow brought Gov. Campbell’s
communication to the White House
today.
GALLERY BILL DELAYED
The Senate probably will have an
other opportunity within a few days to
consider the bill for acceptance by the
Government of Andrew W. Mellon's
valuable art collection and a $10,000,
000 art gallery building in Washington.
Action on the measure was postponed
yesterday at the request of Senator La
Follette. Progressive, of Wisconsin, who
said later he wanted time to study the
bill. It retains its place on the calen
dar and will come up again whenever
the calendar is called under the unan
imous consent rule.
Woman Expires
After Driving
Nail Into Head
Attempt at Suicide
Is Fatal After
Operation.
the Associated Press.
BERKELEY, Calif., February 25.—
Miss Dema Dunlap. 22. who drove a
4-inch nail into her head in a suicide
attempt, died today.
Dr. Eric Kosterlitz. who removed
Che spike Tuesday, said the nail had
been shoved through a hole in the
■kull left from a previous operation.
Dr. Kosterlitz said that before losing
Consciousness Miss Dunlap related she
had thrust the nail into her head Sun
day night, then gone to bed to await
death. She awoke the next morning
suffering from a severe headache and
was taken to a hospital.
A
Washington
Wayside
. Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
REGULATIONS.
DED tape not only characterises 1
^ bureaucracy, a hungry sleuth
learned the other day.
Recently he went into one of the
larger cafeterias during a dull period
to get a snack. The aroma and ap
pearance being appealing, he asked
one of several young ladies behind
the steam counter for a fresh ham
sandwich.
Startled, she said, “Just a minute,
please,” and turned for a quick con-.
ference with a colleague, apparently
her immediate superior. The low
voiced parley over, she came back to
say, "I’m very sorry, but we can’t
make you a sandwich.”
As our commentator pushed his
tray to the cashier's stand, the
subordinate female official came dash
ing up breathlessly. "The manager,”
she exclaimed, "said we can give you
an order of meat, two pieces of bread
and some mayonnaise and lettuce.
And you can make your own sand
wich."
Our observer, however, was content
with his clam chowder, radishes, milk,
coconut cake and ftgs.
* * * *
MEAL.
The counter girls in a downtown
serve-pourself restaurant stopped
work to watch a customer eat sev
eral daps ago. He was a middle
aged man and consumed all this at
the same time:
Two orders of prunes.
Two orders of wheat cakes.
Two cups of coffee.
Six patties of butter.
G-U-R-G-L-E.
'T'HE man who turned this in said
it was an Illustration of the
Freudian parental complex. But we
offer it as a good animal story.
The two cats, coal-black mother
cat and her 2-year-old gray offspring
kitten, at 68 K street, belonging to
Mrs. James F. Anderson, want their
water warm and insist it be straight
from the kitchen faucet. When
thirsty, the felines hop up into the
[ sink and put their mouths beneath
[ the hot-water spigot which usually is
I dripping.
J They never go to the cold up.
IH the water is completely cut off.
| they meow until they get results or
! wait for some one to come along
No one, Mrs. Anderson says, taught
her pets the delights of the faucet.
Mother cat. incidentally, has two
j litters, each of five kittens, annually.
Eight years old, she has done her
racial duty to the count of 70 yowlers.
Mrs. Anderson did not say whether
the spigot habit, like the bottle one,
is inherited.
* * * *
DOCTOR
A PHYSICIAN was called to one
of the city's smaller hotels to see
a patient. He went up the elevator
! without notilying the clerk.
On his way out of the hotel a bell
! hop stopped him.
"Say," said the boy. "you've for
| gotten something."
"What have I forgotten?” inquired
the perplexed doctor.
“You've forgotten to ppy your bill."
The astonished physician suddenly
remembered his bag, and he laughed
heartily.
He explained, and tha bell hop
muttered his apologies.
* * * *
8TYLIST.
JJENRY MORGENTHAU. Jr., who
has done much to sUbiliae the
currency, possesses acutely sUble
sartorial taste, a Treasury operative
reports.
The journalist has been covering
the SecreUry’s bi-weekly press con
ferences for several months. The mat
ter did not impress him so much
after his first 12 gatherings, but by
now he has become quite conscious
of the fact that Mr. Morgenthau al
ways wears exactly the same style
shirts. They are of white oxford
weave with button-down collars.
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Perhaps the cabinet member is at
tempting to popularize these par- j
ticular garments. Anyway, the news
paper man is often tempted in the
barrage of questions to inject a
tremulous query as to the number of
white, button-down-collar shirts Mr.
Morgenthau owns. For he must have
oodles. Both at the morning and
afternoon conferences the one he
wears is immaculate, brand-new in
looks, without a crease.
* * * *
CHALLENGE.
Harry Somerville, the hotel man,
told the membership of the newly
organized Hook, Line and Sinker
Club that he would be glad to see
that any fish members caught and
desired to have prepared would be
taken care of at no cost to those
presenting the fish for consumption
at any gathering.
Fred Orsinger of the Bureau of
Fisheries was all set for that pro
posal.
"Next time I come,’’ he said, ",J’U
catch a pair of guppies and bring
them over. Let me see you pre
pare them for the table."
Fatal Blast Ordered Probed.
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio. February 35
C4>>.—Coroner Ray F. Slee ordered to
day an investigation into a nearby coal
strip mine blast in which three Ohio
men were killed. Robert G. Wilson, 33.
Annapolis Masting contractor Henry
TrushelL 38, of Smithfleld. and Law
rence Johnson of Weems, laborers, were
killed late yesterday when four blast
ing cartridges exploded prematurely.
GIRL SOBS STORY
Child, 13, on Stand, Defends
Mother in Slaying
of Parent.
By Uie Associated Press.
TOWSON. Md.. February 25.—A
tearful, 13-y|tt-old country girl told a
Jury today that her father beat and
threatened her mother, Mrs. Mary
Meryl Almony, accused of killing her
husband last June.
The girl, Nancy, cried as she told
how her father attacked her mother
two days before the fatal shooting of
HoUis Almony. The mother, a former
school teacher, admitted yesterday she
did the shooting. Throughout the
testimony the child called her father
'Hollis."
"Hollis started fighting with Mom
and was hitting her," the little girl
said. "He got mad and started throw
ing dishes around and broke up things
and ran Mom and us out of the house,
and said he was going to shoot Mom.
Spent Night in Hay.
"We went out to the hay barracks,
and Myron, he's my oldest brother, and
I spent the rest of the night there.
Mom went back in the house with Al
bert and Junior (other children) after
my older sister. Marguerite, said that
Hollis had quieted down. Before we
left the house he said he was going to
bum the house and all of us.
"I went in the house the following
morning at about 8 o'clock when I
woke up and Marguerite was just ,
cleaning up the broken things and j
Hollis was asleep in a chair."
The weeping child said her father
left the house that morning "after
fighting Mom and picking on her some (
more and arguing about money.
“Marguerite and I were on the porch ,
when Hollis came home late that night. I
Mom was upstairs putting Albert and
Junior to bed. She came down when
she heard Hollis cussing. He ... j
started fighting her. He knocked her ,
down and then dragged her in the
house by the hair. Then he hit her
many more times. I don't know how .
many. Then he stopped and turned !
on the radio loud and Marguerite and
I went up to bed.
Treated Mother "Awful.”
"I had been asleep when Marguerite 1
woke me up. She got up and I stayed j
in bed and then mom came in the !
room. Her face was bloody and was
swelling and her dress was ripped.
I stayed in bed and mom and Mar
guerite went down to the inn" (from
which they called police!.
Summing up her father s treatment,
the child testified:
"He treated her awful. He was
I always picking on her and hitting!
her with his fists and once he cut her !
with a knife and another time he *
cut her with an ax."
The girl said she did not remember
many of the words her father used
the night before the shooting, but that
she recalled hearing him say:
“I didn't get you last night, but
I'm going to get you tonight.”
Y. M. C. A. DEBATERS
TO MEET'COLLEGES
G. W TJ. and American U. Team
Cat«6 Scheduled, Coach
Announces.
The first Y. M. C. A debating team
in the history of the local institution
has scheduled three intercollegiate
debates. Coach Arthur M. Isler an
nounced yesterday.
George Washington University will
be met March 5. New York University
March 26 and American University
on April 12. The debates are open
to the public and will be held at the
central Y. M. C. A.
The "Y” debaters will take the nega
tive of propositions that Congress
should be empowered to fix minimum
wages and maximum hours in industry
and that electric utilities should be
owned and operated by the Govern
ment.
Isler said his team will be chosen
from among John Clerget, Milton |
Edelson. Frank Finley. John Grosart.
Lester Hurt, Jack Kelley and Robert |
Thornton.
BAY PLANE CRASH LAID
TO STRUCTURAL FAILURE
B? the Associated Press.
J. Monroe Johnson said yesterday It
appeared “unmistakable” that a struc
tural failure caused the crash of a
big transport plane in San Francisco
Bay recently, killing 11 persons.
Johnson, Assistant Secretary of
Commerce, said investigations by Air
Commerce Bureau inspectors had
shown a motor dropped from the
plane some distance from the spot
where the ship crashed.
He said a fractured propeller might
cause a motor to break loose, but that
the propeller on the transport was not
damaged.
Air commerce engineers plan further
examination of the motor.
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GIRL SCOUTS HOSTESSES
Diplomatic representatives of 33
countries and their families will be
guests this afternoon at an interna
tional tea in the “Little House" of
National Girl Scouts at 1750 New
York avenue. The guests will rep
resent countries in which the World
Association of Girl Scouts and Girl1
Guides is active.
IS ASSEMBLY HOPE
But All Indications Point to
Usual Last-Minute Jam
in Legislature.
By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., February 25 —
Leaders of the Maryland Legislature
Jet it be known today they wished the
money-handling committees would
speed up budget deliberations to bring
that all-important measure onto the
floor and avert a last-month legisla
tive jam.
No leader would be quoted directly
on his wishes in that respect. How
ever, the committees have had the
budget since January 25 and leading
members of the Finance Committee
said they thought it should be report
ed to the floor "as soon as possible."
Just when it will reach the floor is
not known. Senator J. Allan Coad,
Democrat, of St. Marys. Finance
chairman, and Delegate Kent R. Mul
likin. Democrat, of Prince Georges,
Ways and Means chairman, declined
to make any prophecies.
Relief Chief Problem.
Indications are the budget will not
be reported from committee until the
latter part of next week or the first
part of the following week. If that
is the case, the Legislature will not
be able to get around to the mass of
other important legislation until less
than three weeks of the session re
mains.
Chief among those problems is that
of relief. The Board of State Aid
and Charities has asked that the State
provide $16,000,000 for the 30-month
period beginning April 1. The Legis
lature took a whole month last March
to decide what to do about relief for
12 months only.
At least one member of the Fi
nance Committee has broached—
behind closed doors—the suggesMon
that I he budget be held in committee
until the relief program can be woiked
out and both reported at the same
time as one general State financial j
program. If that suggestion Is fol- j
lowed, the budget will not reach the
floor for days.
Present Levies Expire in March.
The relief program will, of neces- j
sity, include taxation to raise any |
; amount to be granted for that pur- j
! pose. Present relief taxes on beer,
whisky, automobile tithngs, cos
metics, amusements and increased
corporation franchise levies expire
March 31.
So far m their month of delibera
tion. neither committee has taken i
definite action on any one item or j
point. At least the chairmen decline [
to reveal any action officially, saying ]
that any action taken to date is,
"purely tentative.”
Authoritative sources report, how
ever, that the committee action could
be described as the "cutting of all
the gravy out of Harry Nice’s bud
get.” Those same sources reported
that much of the cuts came from
elimination of allocations made for
the "cushion fund" given the Board
of Public Works by the 1935 legis
lature.
$2j0,000 Cut Reported.
It was reported last night that the '
Senate Finance Committee had made
cuts approximating $230,000 yearly— i
without consideration of any changes '
in salaries or without considering the
University of Maryland and the State
Roads Commission from a standpoint i
of cutting their appropriations. It is ;
not known just when the committees ]
plan to apply any ax—if at all—to
those two departments.
Reports last night were that the
Finance Committee had cut $25,000
yearly from the amount asked by the
Conservation Commission for propa- ]
Ration of oysters. The commission J
asked $125,000 yearly, as compared
with $100,000 allotted for the two
previous years.
One of the chief stumbling stones in ,
the way ol an early report by the
committees Is a definite policy on
restoration of the 1935 Salary reduc
tions. Some sources, said the com
mittecs. were holding that policy mak
ing until the last possible minute when
it would be possible to see exactly the
total cut from the budget.
When that total is before the com
mittee, it will be possible for th06e
groups to know exactly how much. If
any, revenue would be needed to grant
full restorations. Full restorations
would require approximately $475,000
yearly over the budget as submitted
by the Governor.
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Transit
(Continued From First Page.)
I told the commission the need of the
concern for new cars, busses and
■ other capital improvements for this
| year “require more money than the
company can supply from its own
sources." Hl added:
"The cheapest anc' most available
: method of providing these necessary
i funds is through loans from local
j banks on notes secured by the 45
street cars and 71 motor ooaches
which have been ordered by the com
pany. under authority of the Public
Utilities Commission.”
In approving the plan, the com
mission specified that all expenses
incurred by the company incident to
the separation, execution and record
ing of the purchase money chattel
trust agreement, the notes to be is
sued thereunder, and the execution
of the trust, shall be amortized
through charges to income in such
manner that the ratio between the
amortization charges and the prin
cipal of the notes outstanding will
be uniform for all fiscal periods.
Installment Plan Jail Terms
Hailed by New York Officials
By the Associated Press.
ROCHESTER. N. Y.. February 25.—
The installment plan of serving jail
sentences for misdemeanors—to be
tried out in Rochester if Gov. Herbert
Lehman approves—was hailed today
as a "good thing” by prominent offi
cials.
A bill which now awaits the Gov
ernor’s signature would permit “week
end” serving of sentences up to 60
days. For each week end In jail the
culprit would be credited with two
days against the total sentence.
The executive vetoed a similar
measure last year because it was
State-wide in eflect. He said it
should be tried first in Rochester. The
new bill designates Rochester as the
"proving ground.”
City Court Judge Jacob Gitelman,
foe of the drunken and reckless mo
torist. who sponsored similar legis
lation last year, aald “This law would
J
give us a way to impose a punishment
that is deserved and still not punish
the innocent wife or children.”
"While it is not universal in ap
plication, it is a start in a good direc
tion and I feel it will be effective in
many cases," City Court Judge Arthur
L. Wilder commented.
Commissioner of Public Safety Wal
ter P. Cox said he believed the Jailing
of an offender over the week end
would be more of a hardship and
more of a deterrent to the "minor
criminal” than a straight penitentiary
term.
"To lose five week ends In jail seems
more of a punishment than a straight
10-day term.” he explained. “I’m in
favor of it.”
George C. Donahue, secretary of the
Rochester Automobile Club, said "It
is sometimes necessary to differentiate
between the traffic offender and the
hold-up man and this plan seems to
be the way. It's a good thing."
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Where Actor Died in Mock Battle
Ruins of a structure in which George Daley, a film extra, was fatally injured during the film
ing of a World War scene in Hollywood. Daley was playing the role of a machine gunner behind
the window at the right when an explosion of a bomb toppled a "prop” concrete wall on him
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
KANSAS ADOPTS
CHILD LABOR BAN
House Votes 64 to 52 for Amend
ment Now Approved by
28 States.
By the Associated Press.
TOPEKA. Kans . February 25 —The
House adopted the child labor amend
ment to the Federal Constitution to
day. bringing to 28 the number of
States to approve. The vote was 64
to 52.
The resolution passed the Senate
two weeks sro by a 21-to-20 vote, with
Lieut. Got. W. M. Lindsay breaking a
tie.
Before the Legislature for the sixth
time, it was variously described as of
communistic origin and purpose, the
instrument by which Congress would
control the youth of the Nation and the
avenue to a fuller, richer life for chil
dren.
SEVEN GIVEN TERMS
IN ELECTION FRAUDS
Kansas City Sentences From Six
Months to Three Years—Four
Women Put on Probation.
Bt the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, February 25 —
Sentences ranging from six-month
jail terms to three years In prison
were passed today by Federal Judge
Merrill E. Otis on seven election
workers convicted of vote fraud con
spiracy in lafc November's general
election. Four women defendants
who pleaded no defense were each
placed on one-year's probation.
Three-year sentences were given
John A. Luteran. Democratic precinct
captain; Frank H Adams. Republican
judge, both from the seventeenth pre
cinct of the twelfth ward.
Edson M. Walker Democratic judge
in the thirteenth precinct of the same
ward, was given a two-year sentence.
He will be sentenced Saturday on an
attempted subordination of perjury
conviction returned in a separate trial
yesterday.
Other sentences;
Lome E. Wells, Democratic judge,
two years.
John H Drummond. Democratic
precinct captain, two years
Joe Wells, jr.. Democratic clerk, a
year and a day.
Leo B. Roach, police patrolman, six
months in jail.
Placed on probation for a year were
Mrs. Chloe Albright, Mrs. Tessie
Mears. Mrs. Callle Clark and Miss
Pearl Sperry, all of whom pleaded
no defense and testified for the Gov
ernment.
CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS
D. C. EFFICIENCY PROBE
Preparations for an investigation of
the efficiency and organization of the
District government, to be made by a
civic committee, will be discussed to
morrow at a conference called by
Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen.
The scope of the investigation is
expected to be planned tentatively at
the time, although appointment of the
investigating body is not expected to
be announced until after March 10
when Engineer Commissioner Dan I.
Sultan returns from a vacation.
Among those invited to the con
ference tomorrow are Edgar Morris,
president of the Board of Trade:
Robert V. Fleming, president of Riggs
National Bank: Thomas E Lodge,
president of the Federation of Citizens'
Associations: E. Barrett Prettyman,
former corporation counsel, and Lloyd
B. Wilson, president of the Chesa
peake & Potomac Telephone Co.
IBanquet Speaker
TO TELL OF EXPERIENCES
IN SPAIN.
JAMES R. KIRKLAND,
Former assistant United
States district attorney and
professor at George Washing
ton University Law School,
will speak on "Personal Ex
periences in Spain" at the
father-son banquet at Cal
vary Baptist Church tomorrow
night.
Asks King George’s Night Robe,
But Lord Will Take Pyjamas
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. February 25 —My Lord
Anoaster wanted ‘ his majesty's night
robe” as part of his reward for serv
ing the King at coronation, but he
is willing to take the pyjamas.
Because, his lawyer admitted In
arguing before the Court of Claims,
times do change and this is the
twentieth century.
Lord Ancaster. the joint hereditary
lord great, chamberlain of England,
has the traditional privilege of ren
dering special service to a new sov
ereign when he is crowned—and the
right of claiming something for a
souvenir.
He is one of the ‘‘great officers of
state." ranking ahead of Prime Min
ister Stanley Baldwin.
Court Ponders.
The Court of Claims, which rules
on all manner of quaint petitions for
coronation services, gave his requests
serious consideration.
But the court couldn't decide defi
nitely such an obtuse matter, so it
turned it over to King George VI for
his personal decision.
Because of the changing times, Lord
Lancaster didn't ask for his usual
privilege *'to serve the King with
water on the day of the coronation
and to have the basin and the towels
and the cup of assay for his fee."
Otherwise, however, nothing was
overlooked—not even the claim to
the bed the King sleeps in the night
before he Is crowned.
Other Requests.
In the words of the petition, the
Lord Great Chamberlin asked for the
right:
"To wear 40 yards of crimson velvet
with his coronation robes.
(“He cagi have it if he wants it,”
the court clerk commented, "But you
would wonder how’ a man can dress
himself in all that velvet, eh?"j
"To have a livery and .odgings in
the King's court at all times.
"To have the bed wherein his majesty
lay the night before the coronation, to
gether with all the curtains thereof
and all the cushions and clothes within
the chamber, together with the furni
ture of the same and his majesty's
night robe, and
"To have a box erected for his use
in Westminster Abbey.'
On the last claim the answer was
"no.”
Although the court based its decision
on legal grounds, some suspected that
if 8,000 persons were jammed into the
abbey there wouldn't be much room for
such a serious concession to medieval
ism.
OHIO HOUSE WEIGHS
LABOR INJUNCTIONS
Capital and Organized labor
Square Off Before Judi
ciary Committee.
By the Assocliteh Press.
COLUMBUS. Ohio. February 25.—
Capital and organized labor squared
off today in a fight before the House
Judiciary Committee over a proposed
act to restrict courts in the issuance ;
of injunctions in labor disputes. [
Both sides were authorized to file
briefs in support of their contentions
by Monday, with prospect of commit- j
tee action within a few days there
after.
Thomas J. Donnelly, white-haired ,
secretary of the Ohio Federation of
Labor, told committee members last
night that the bill would “merely
bring the equity courts back to first
base."
Harry Smoyer, Cleveland attorney,
speaking in behalf of employers there,
said the measure would "reduce col-1
lective bargaining to a mere scrap of i
paper," and added It "takes away the i
only remedy the employer has when i
there la no strike at his establish- ;
ment.”
H. J. Crawford, representing the
American Steel & Wire Co. of Cleve
land. termed the bill "vicious class leg
islation and unnecessary." while Prof.
R. E. Matthews of the Ohio State Uni
versity College of Law, urging its en
actment, said injunctions against la
bor unions were "conducive of vi
olence.”
Anti-Lynching
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always wanted to do. lynching will be
stopped.”
In a joint statement they said the
rising tide of sentiment in favor of
such a bill is unmistakable. Although .
efforts to pass an anti-lynching law
have been unsuccessful for a number
of years, the sponsors of the new bill
believe the prospects are brighter than
in the past
In further support of the bill. Wag
ner and Van Nuvs stated:
“With unremitting regularity, lynch*
ings have decreased under every threat 1
of Federal legislation upon the subject. ;
and increased whenever the hope of ;
passing such legislation seemed dim.
This is proof positive that congres
sional action would be an effective
check upon a crime which, both in its
immediate effects and its potential,
evils, is one of the greatest threats .
facing American life and institutions.
Double Breakdown of Law.
“Those who are put to death, and
their families, are not the only vie- i
tims of lynching. In every case,
there is a double breakdown of the
law—first, in permitting the crime. 1
and secondly in failing to punish the
perpetrators. Such a suspension of j
law is a menace to the whole com
munity concerned, and the menace is
even greater in those all-too-frequent
instances where the community puts
its stamp of passive approval upon
the outrages within its borders.
"The tragic events in other lands
today teach us that the Intolerance
manifested by lynching must be
quenched before it grows into legalized
brutality: that the defense of all that
democratic institutions imply, if It is
not to be too late, must begin as soon
as the foundations of liberalism are
attacked.
“During the past 50 years, 5.000
men, women and children have died
in orgies of torture surpassing the
inquisition, only because local authori
ties have failed to prevent and failed
to punish. That is why sincere op
ponents of lynching have long advo
cated the passage of a Federal anti
lynching law.**
ACTION WEEK OFF
ON RAMSPECK BILL
H°arings Closed on Civil Service
Measure and Testimony Will
Be Printed.
Chairman Ramspeck of the House
Civil Service Committee said today
that he does not expect any action
for at least another week on his bill
to extend the civil service to emer
gency agencies and large groups of
employes in various Government estab
lishments. The hearings which have
been held on thus measure the last
two weeks have been closed and the
testimony is to be printed.
The Ramspeck bill provides for this
extension of the civil service by com
petitive examination, while the Presi
dent's recommendation is for non
competitive examinations. At least
90 per cent of the witnesses spoke in
favor of non-competitive examina
tions. arguing that the experience of
those employes makes them more
valuable than inexperienced employes
who, fresh from school, might make
a few points higher rating in com
petitive examinations.
The expense of holding the com
petitive examinations was emphasized,
and it was argued that the work of
the Government would suffer through
disruption of the force and the delay
incident to the training of new em
ployes unless the present force is re
tained through non-competitive ex
aminations. The witnesses included
personnel officers of various units of
the Government which would be af
fected by the bill and Spokesmen for
several organizations of employes.
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Daughter
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were still there when she returned at
3:30.
Anne did not look at her father,
who was sitting almost directly in
front of her, but turned her head to
ward the jury box. Asked if her father
appeared to be intoxicated when she
returned from school at 3:30 o'clock,
the girl emphatically replied
“Yes. sir.”
Two psychiatrists—Dr. George A.
Wright, superintendent of Southwest
ern State Hospital, at Marion, Va., and
Dr. A. D. HutU i, his assistant—testi
fied they found no symptoms of in
sanity while Hunter was confined in
the institution for 2 years and 10
months. Dr. Hutton told the jury he
did not believe in temporary insanity.
Both psychiatrists testified they did
not believe Hunter was insane at the
time of the killing or that he is in
sane now.
Preceding the testimony of Anne
Hunter, Victor Parke Daimas, a bro
ther of the slain woman, testified he
was at the Hunter home until late
evening on the day previous to the
double slaying when Hunter claimed
to have returned from a picnic and
discovered his wife and Corcoran on
the back porch together. Hunter
testified his wife told him her brother
had not been there that day.
Hunter, a 40-year-old former R. F.
Si p. Railroad biakeman. also has
been indicted on a first-degree murder
charge in the death of Corcoran, but
is being tried only on the charge of
killing his wife.
RAID NETS 200.
DETROIT, February 25 Of)—Po
lice arrested 200 persons yesterday in
a series of raids on alleged hand
books and gambling places in the
downtown district.
The officers visited a dozen places
and smr'hed gambling devices.
Police inspector Wendell Lochbiler
said the proprietors would be charged |
with operating illegal establishments
and the other: held as witnesses. 1
Opposition to Measures in
, Maryland Fail to Material
ize—One Change.
BY JACK ALLEN'.'
B'.aH Correspondent ot Tne 8t*r.
ANNAPOLIS. February 25—The
bills to prolong the terms of the
Washington Suburban Sanitary and
Maryland National Capital Park and
Planning Commission's members.
; thereby saving the jobs of some 350
I Democratic gppointees, were winging
their way through the State Assembly
today with but one change.
Favorable reports on both measurss
j were adopted in the House yesterday
, after opposition said to have been
I aroused by Republican leaders failed
, to materialize and the bills were
! placed on the House third reading
j calendar, one step short of the half
! way point in their legislative journey
this morning
It was learned several G. O P.
chieftains from Prince Georges and
! Montgomery counties visited the
| Capitol within the past few days and
! reputedly stirred up resentment In
! some quarters of the House against
J enactment of the propotals. which
' would deprive Gov. Harry W. Nice and
his Republican colleagues of a rich
patronage plum.
Opposition Not Manifest.
Their efforts apparently were i"
vain, however, for nol one dissentin'
; vote was heard when the bills wer
reported by the delegations from
Prince Georges and Montgomery
counties, to whom they were referre '
after their introduction by those
delegations last Thursday.
The lone change in the measures as
originally drawn would empower the
Governor to remove members from th"
Park and Planning Commission, but
would make such removal conditions
upon members conviction for mis
feasance or malfeasance In office.
Under existing laws members sene
at the Governor's pleasure and may
be removed without cause or explana
tion any time during their four-year
term. In its original form the biii
proposed to take this authority from
the Governor and vest it in the cir
cuit courts of Montgomery and Prince
Georges by the stipulation that the
courts could remove a member for
misconduct in office, incompetency or
willful neglect of duty.
While the effect of the amendment
is virtually tantamount to the original
purpose of the bill, members of the
two delegations felt the bill, if enacted
into law. might be deemed unconsti
tutional because of its delegation of
executive powers to the judiciary.
The bills would prolong the terms of
the members of both commissions for
two years from May 1 next, or until
after the State and county elections in
I 1938 The terms of all Democratic
members, who now control both com
missions, 8 re due to expire in May.
Republican Appointments.
New Republican appointments would
bnng the G O P into power with the
resultant dismissal of all or a majority
of the 350 Democrats employed by
those agencies which handle water,
sewer, park and zoning problems In
Montgomery and Prince George*.
The terms of Park and Planning
Commission members also would be
extended from four to six years In the
future under the measure dealing
with that body The terms of Suburban
Sanitary Commission members would
not change, however.
Reports of the bills yesterday, aix
days after introduction, is in line with
the delegation's plan to enact the
measures and rush them to the Gover
nor as quickly as possible to allow time
for their passage over the gubernatorial
veto he Is certain to apply.
LECTURE ON FLOWERS
P. L. Ricker to Speak Tonight at
National Museum.
An illustrated lecture on wild flow -
ers will be given at the National Muse
um at 8 p m. today by P L Ricker
under auspices of the Wild Fower
Preservation Society.
Colored slides and motion pictures
will be shown of scenes in the South
ern mountains, alone with an ex
hibit of flowers preserved by a newly
developed process. No admission will
be charged, and the public has been
invited.
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
May vote on extension of reciprocal
trade act.
Agriculture Subcommittee begins
hearings on crop insurance bill.
Judiciary Subcommittee resumes
hearings on O'Mahoney industrial
licensing bill.
Interstate Commerce Subcommittee
takes up Guffey coal bill.
House:
General debate.
Foreign Affairs Committee considers
permanent neutrality legislation.
Agriculture Committee discusses
general farm program.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
May start debate on bill for volun
! tary retirement of Supreme Court
justices, if the reciprocal trade resolu
tion passes today.
Military Affairs Committee, regular
weekly meeting, executive.
Civil Service Committee, executive,
at 11 a.m., to map procedure on Mc
Carran Government pay bill.
House:
Will not be in session.
Rivers and Harbors Committee
meets at 10:30 a.m.
Merchant Marine Committee meet*
at 10 30 a.m.
Subcommittee on Appropriations in
charge of District supply bill resumes
hearings at 10 a.m.
1
Woman Driver Hito
Own Guest Walking
Home After Party
By the Associated Press.
RALEIGH. N. C„ February 25
—Miss Ethel M. Haynes of
Raleigh went to a dinner party
last night at the home of Mrs.
Bessie W. Bartholomew.
Miss Haynes decided to walk
home. Her hostess took another
guest uptown by car
Fifteen minutes later Miss
Haynes was hit by an automobile
and seriously injured.
Police said the driver of th«
car was Mrs. Bartholomew.