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FIDELITY'S FATE
BEING CONSI I
Experts of Controller’s Of
fice and F. H. A. Study
Voluminous Report.
Conferences got under way today
between experts of the office of the
controller of the currency and the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board on
proposed reorganization of the Fidelity
Building & Loan Association.
The conferees had before them a
voluminou —port, with recommen
dations, &ui...wtted yesterday by the
Home Loan Board. Details were not
disclosed, but it was understood the
proposal was for reopening the insti
tution under reorganization as a new
Federal savings and loan association.
Length of Time Uncertain.
There was no indication as to how
long it would take the conferences to
work out a solution to the problem.
In an official statement late yester
day the controller’s office said con
ferences between experts would get
under way ‘‘for the purpose of work
ing out the many details incident to
the development of the suggestions
contained in the report of the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board.
“As soon as a decision is reached
as to whether or not a reorganization
of the Fidelity Building & Loan Asso
ciation is feasible," the statement con
tinued, "further announcement will
be made by the office of the controller
of the currency.”
Dual Jurisdiction.
While the problem is in the hands
of both agencies, it rests under a sort
of dual jurisdiction. So far, however,
authority over the institution is with
the controller of the currency, whose
receiver is in charge. The controller
still has the power of rejection of the
plan, under law, because he is charged
with examination and supervision of
banks and building and loan associa
tions in the District.
If it should be decided to reopen
the Fidelity, there would be a “write
down” with all members of the asso
ciation taking a proportionate loss.
They could then either get cash or
reinvest in the new institution. The
proportion of the estimated “write
down” or loss, has not been disclosed.
La Follette
(Continued From First Page.)
Laboratories. Inc., through R. A. &
I., to the police department of West
Point, Ga., it was developed through
committee evidence. Payment, how
ever, was made by the textile firm,
with its Railway Audit strike-break
ing guards having the use of them.
Tells of Soviet Trade.
John W. Young, president of Fed
eral Laboratories, told the committee
his concern sold gas and equipment
to Russia through Amtorg. the Soviet
trading organization in New York.
“You don’t turn down their good
hard dollars," Senator La Follette re
marked.
The chairman then introduced a
letter frpm J. M. Roush, Federal sales
man in California, to B. H. Barker,
vice president and sales manager, tell
ing of the “fun” he had firing gas
ahells into crowds of striking long
shoremen in San Francisco in July,
2934.
The following paragraph was con
tained in the letter:
“I plan next week to get pictures of
Ban Francisco riot squads and of the
riots themselves, which I shall for
ward to you. I might mention that
during one of the riots, I shot a long
range projectile into a group, a shell
hitting one man and causing a frac
ture of the skull, from which he has
since died. As he was a Communist,
I have had no feeling in the matter
and I am sorry that I did not get
more. The inclosed handbill shows a
picture of me after I had Just fired
the shot. I imagine that this is the
first time that one of your agents has
had his picture posted all over town
by Communists.”
Sales to San Francisco, Berkeley and
Oakland immediately improved, Roush
reported.
Denies Victim Was Red.
An affidavit from a witness of the
Shooting next was read, containing the
statement that James “Kentucky”
Engle, the victim, was not a Com
munist and that no riot was in prog
ress when the shooting occurred. The
affidavit charged that the shooting
seemed “staged” for the movie camera
men and as a means of demonstrating
"effectiveness” of the equipment.
Engle eventually recovered, al
though he was bedridden for a year
and Roush believed he had killed him.
As today's hearing opened, it was
disclosed through questioning of John
w. Young, president of Federal Lab
oratories, that his concern and Rail
way Audit & Inspection Co., strike
breaking organization now under
charge of contempt of the com
mittee, sell their services through the
same office in New Orleans and
formerly through joint offices In other
cities. In addition, Young said, W.
W. Groves, an officer of R. A. & I., is
a stockholder and former director in
Federal Laboratories. Central In
dustrial Service, a subsidiary of R. A.
* I., also has been a holder of Federal
Laboratories stock.
In the co-operative selling set-up
Invoices showed that $71,830 of Fed
eral Gas and Equipment was sold
through Railway Audic during the
three-year period ending January 1,
1936.
Subsequently, it was revealed, ink
•radicator was used to obliterate the
name of Railway Audit and a key
designation employed to indicate such
transactions.
"Why was that?” La Pollette asked.
“I presume it was to keep the in
formation from Investigators of the
committee,” Young answered.
"We’d have to be magicians to get
Information from these books,” La
Pollette remarked.
“It’s a fact, isn’t it, that through
your tie-up with Railway Audit all
the weapons and equipment of indus
trial warfare may be obtained through
one office?” La Pollette continued.
“In some localities,” Young admit
ted.
An Instance of this centralized sup
ply arrangement was illustrated In evi
dence showing the furnishing of guns
and guards to West Point, Ga., manu
facturing company during the textile
strike in 1934.
At this point, the committee called
Groover, who said he ran a cleaning
plant in Lannett. He told the com
mittee that during the strike there
was a petition circulated by the com
pany and signed by preachers, doctors,
teachers and others that they would
“shut down” if a strike was called.
Groover said the preachers and
doctors and teachers all worked for the
company.
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
STREET SCENE.
AT NOON time the other day a
young girl employed in the
Bureau of Mines skipped out
to do a bit of shopping. She
ran toward the intersection of Ninth
and O street, unaware that a girl
friend was pursuing her crying, “Janie!
Janie! Stop, Janie!”
A newsboy at the comer took up
the cry. "Wait here, lady. I’ll get
Janie for you,” he said, and dashed
into traffic. Jumping up and down and
swinging his newspapers over his
head.
“Janie. Janie, stop Janie, stop Janie,
Janie, stop Janie,” he chanted in
rhythmical bellows, like a newsie with
a hot extra under his arm.
Suddenly Janie heard. She stopped
dead in her tracks. Also in those of
& street car that was rounding the
corner at a good clip. The motor
man jammed on brakes. Janie fainted.
The newsboy stood surveying the won
ders he had wrought. A crowd gathered.
Janie's friend ran to the scene, panic
stricken.
Janie, unhurt, revived.
“Where were you going to lunch?”
said the pursuing friend.
"I wasn't. I was going shopping,”
said Janie.
“Oh," said the friend.
* * * *
WHIMSY.
Practically the only pixie spirit
we’ve heard about among the
town’s street car conductors is the
operator of a Potomac Park one
man job, who, when the mood is
upon him, jolts along gaily chant
ing, "Use both sides, please. Use
both sides, please. They’re going
the same way."
* * * *
ABRIDGED.
T ADY who is an aunt of a local
sports writer was playing bridge
the other night. Her partner bid, we
forget what. Auntie passed. The
partner got the contract nevertheless,
and Auntie laid down her hand, which
was simply crawling with face cards.
“Why didn’t you bid?” Auntie was
asked, in the words bridge players use
• to ask bitter questions of that sort.
“Huh,” said Auntie, contemptuously,
"bid on that hand? Look at it. Four
kings and none of them the same
suit!”
* * * *
$$LOVE$$.
CINCE nothing would be so dear to
^ our heart as a savings account,
if we had one, this little tale touched
us deeply because it involves romance
and three per cent all at the same
time.
About a year ago a Washington lass
became much enamoured of a swain
whose business is in another city. He
made semi-monthly trips to the Capi
tal, wrote numerous letters per week.
On each visit he presented her with
a sum of money to be deposited in a
savings account, intended to finance
them when they launched their matri
monial bark. The account was be
coming quite substantial, the letters
more frequent, when suddenly cor
respondence ceased.
Silence of about a week. Then the
young man wrote, explained he had
fallen in love with another girl. Would
Miss Washington please forward the
savings fund, as he probably was going
to need the money to marry the new
girl. And many thanks for managing
the account.
* * * *
AWAKENING.
VOD have previously been intro
1 duced to Pat McGroarty, the
Irish scribe, as the man who could
go hungry all day and then eat three
square meals at night. Now we bear
legends of Mr. McGroarty's difficul
ties with getting out of bed. After
years of wrestling with the problem,
persuading friends, Western Union,
switchboard operators and random
others to check up on him to find out
if he’d obeyed the alarm clock, the
newsman has at last perfected a sys
tem. He bought three alarms clocks.
The first one is set two hours ahead
of the time he must arise. The second
is set one hour ahead. The third
alarm brings out the McOroarty. Or
else his roommates come in and throw
cold water on him, which is necessary
only about twice a week.
* * * *
SUBMISSION.
After resisting all pressure for
weeks, we at last yield to the per
sistence of the correspondents who
have pointed out that the new
Simpson Building, at Connecticut
avenue and Calvert street, has as
one of its tenants the Palace Laun
dry, while a restaurant across the
street is named the Duke of Wind
sor. You can make of it what you
will. One informant, who obviously
never gets enough play out of
words, said it had him thin-king.
CLUES FOUND IN HOME
OF SLAYING SUSPECT
“Shield Against Black Magic”
Discovered by Officers Prob
ing “Hex” Murder.
BT the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, March 5.—Sheriff’s
deputies said yesterday they found
the talons of a chicken hawk, regarded
by some Mexicans and Indians as a
shield against black magic, in the
home of Salvatore Corona, 28, charged
with killing Mrs. Netalie Lopez, 38,
whose death officers believe was a
“hex” slaying.
The officers also found two pistol
cartridges, of the same caliber as the
bullets which killed Mrs. Lopez, In
Corona’s home, they said.
The deputies, Abe Mendoea and
John Morrell, said Corona, laborer,
had accused Mrs. Lopez of being a
Witch. Corona refused to testify at
an inquest.
C1ENS INDORSE
FAN BUDGET
Real Estate Reassessment
Also Advocated at Annual
Hearing.
Special Dispatch to Tha Star.
FAIRFAX, Va„ March 5 —Over
whelming indorsement of the proposed
Fairfax County school budget for the
1937-38 fiscal year, and a recommen
dation from several quarters of the
county for a re-assessment of real
estate, were voiced before the Board
of Supervisors Wednesday at the an
nual public budget hearing held in the
court house.
Local taxpayers laid a mandate be
fore the supervisors to provide during
the coming fiscal accounting period
the necessary school facilities as set up
in the tentative budget, even though a
substantial increase in the school tax
rate may be necessary to do so. •
Need for a reassessment of real
estate came as a side issue to the pub
lic hearing, since no provision was
made in the budget this year for a new
taxable valuation on realty. An effort
last year to include a 97,500 item for
a reassessment met with strong oppo
sition from nearly every quarter.
Holden S. Harrison yesterday de
clared at the meeting that the sound
est method of raising sufficient tax
revenues is through the Increased
values that would be revealed through
an equitable county-wide real estate
reassessment. He asserted a striking
Inequality exists between assessments
in the rural and urban sections of the
county, with the former, in most in
stances. carrying the highest tax val
uations in proportion.
Harrison’s remarks were concurred
in by Mrs. Florence Jodzies, secretary
of the Fairfax County Chamber of
Commerce, and others, all of whom
stressed the importance of an "equit
able" revaluation.
Labor
(Continued From First Page.)_
group came as an open declaration of
war on Lewis' union which the corpo
ration formally recognized Tuesday by
granting a signed contract to Philip
Murray, chairman of the Steel Work
ers’ Organizing Committee.
A resolution, adopted by all except
one of the 25 members of the 36-man
Pittsburgh District Employe Repre
sentatives Council, empowered a
Grievance Committee to act for them
in the new negotiations. The resolu
tion stated:
“We cannot permit the representa
tives of the small minority to dictate
the policy which shall govern our
constituents and possibly prove det
rimental to their welfare.”
A spokesman for the representatives
announced their decision following a
two-day meeting, in which Benjamin
F. Fairless, president of Carnegie
Illinois, participated yesterday.
Won Concessions.
The C. I. O. faction recently won
hour and wage concessions from Gen
eral Motors Corp. and many large steel
mills. Industrial leaders followed with
announcements that they would con
tinue to negotiate with other labor
groups and had not granted sole bar
gaining power to the C. L O.
Indicative of the A. P. of L.’s de
termination to halt the advance of
John L. Lewis’ followers was an order
to fight the C. I. O. shoe worker,’
organization campaign in New Eng
land.
Two A. F. of L. units responded to
President William Green's call to bat
tle. The Maryland State Federation
of Labor ordered city central bodies to
suspend Lewis locals. The Cleveland
central body suspended unions affiliat
ed with the C. I. O. Other federation
units were expected to take similar
action.
The C. I. O. drive in the shoe In
dustry sought organization of all
workers in one union. It was the
issue of organization by industry or
by craft that caused the split between
the Lewis and Green groups.
A. F. L. Organisers Chased.
Several A. F. of L. organizers who
solicited employes of the General
Motors’ Fisher body plant in Cleve
land were chased from plant entrances
by a group of 200 C. I. O. sympathizers.
At New York Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.,
president of General Motors, said the
corporation will regard the C. I. O.
union as bargaining agent only for its
members and would continue to deal
with other employe groups. Carnegie
Illinois Steel Corp. previously an
nounced a like policy.
At Washington Francis J. Gorman,
president of the United Textile Work
ers of America, was quoted as an
nouncing the impending unionization
of the industry’s 1,200,000 workers
under the C. L O. banner.
Telegram to breen.
The Carnegie - Illinois employe
group's telegram to Green, asking him
to come to Pittsburgh, read:
“In view of recent developments In
the field of labor relations, the com
mittee of the Carnegie-IUinois Steel
Corp. plan of employe representation
is taking steps to improve the system
under which the plan operates.
The committee proposes to make the
organization entirely self-supporting
and entirely independent of all out
side influences. This step is being
taken with the support and approval
of the majority of the employes of the
Carnegie-IUinois Steel Corp., which
the committee represents.
“Without obligating you or your or
ganization or the employes' repre
sentation plan which the committee
represents, In any way, the commit
tee’s members invite you to come to
Pittsburgh at your earliest conven
ience to offer suggestions concerning
the future course of the Carnegie
IUinois Steel Corp. plan of employe
representation.”
This invitation offered Green a new
opportunity to oppose Lewis’ indus
trial union campaign, which resulted
in the suspension of the Lewis ad
herents by the A. F. of L.
Call for Purge Issued.
Green isued a call this week to all
federation groups to purge themselves
of Lewis’ influence.
The resolution changing the future
course of the employe representation
plan follows:
"Whereas it is utterly Impossible
for the management of Camegle-HU
nois Steel Corp. to bargain collectively
with all employe representatives at the
same time, and
“Whereas the management has
agreed to meet with a committee of
the Amalgamated Association (of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers) not later than
March 10,1937, to discuss wages, hours,
etc., and
“Whereas we, the representatives at
the great majority of the employes, do
not Havs a committee vested with the
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Picture Story of ^Dr. Miller’s Confession
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' Photos reveal the drama enacted when Dr. Richard G. Miller of events. Lower left: His head drops into his arms. Lower right,
signed, a confession in the chloroform slaying of 18-year-old Cleo He sinks, exhausted, to his desk. Authorities, however, today said
Sprouse in Charlottesville, Va. Upper left: Dr. Miller confronted they were not satisfied with the confession and are continuing
by detectives. Upper right: Apparently stunned by the swift turn their investigation._—Copyright, A. P. wirephotos.
power to make agreements with man
agement, and
"Whereas we cannot permit the rep
resentatives of the small minority to
dictate the policy which shall govern
our constituents and possibly prove
detrimental to their welfare,
"Be it resolved. That for the time
being the Grievance Committee be
given full power to negotiate with
the management regarding hours,
wages and conditions of employment
with the gTeat majority of the em
ployes whom we represent.
"Be It further resolved. That the
Greivance Committee shall retain this
power until the employe representa
tives have had time to reorganise the
plan of employe representation and
elect an Executive Committee to bar
gain for us in these matters."
Owen Jones of Martins Ferry, Ohio,
headed the Grievance Committee,
which included Ralph H. Martin,
Homestead, Pa.: Joseph Budday. Du
quesne. Pa., and R. Elmer Glover of
Farrell, Pa. William R. Hill of Can
ton. Ohio, president of the Employe
Representatives' Council, served as an
ex-officio member.
Philip Murray. Lewis’ held marshal
in the union drive, Issued a denial of
the employe representatives’ claims.
He said:
“They don’t represent a majority
of the employes of Carnegie-Illinois.
"They don’t represent anybody. The
company union is as dead as the pro
verbial do-do bird. That's all I have
to say.”
Meanwhile, the ranks of Jobless
Increased as new strikes broke out.
Approximately 10,000 workers were
made idle by the closing of the Fire
stone Tire St Rubber Co. plants at
Akron, Ohio.
Disputes at three Detroit plants of
the Bohn Aluminum Co. and its sub
sidiary. Michigan Smelting St Refin
ing Co., kept 1,200 workers idle. An
agreement including provisions for a
40-hour week and wage adjustments
ended a strike at the Peninsular Metal
Products Corp., employing 1,050. The
strike at the Thompson Products Co.,
employing 800. also was settled. Both
Detroit companies make auto parts.
A sit-down strike for higher wages
and involving 750 workers halted
operations at the Ohio Match plant
at Wadsworth. Ohio.
More than 100 salesgirls demanding
more pay started the sixth day of
their sit-down strike at an P. W. Wool
worth Co. 5 and 10 cent store In
Detroit. Eleven women clerks occu
pied a second store.
Steel Plant Closes.
A disagreement over wage increases
caused the closing of Lebanon Valley
(Pennsylvania) plant of the Bethle
hem Steel Corp. C. I. O. spokesmen
said the 2,500 employes demanded the
same concessions gained by Camegie
Illinols Steel Corp. workers.
A sit-down closed the W. A. Anthony
mill employing 100 at Sinking Spring,
Pa., the seventeenth mill affected by
the dispute in the past three days.
Union officials said 5,500 hosiery work
ers were idle and that the Rosedale
plant employing 3,000 was next on
the list.
Only 500 of Seattle’s 1.500 lumber
and sawmill workers were on the job
after a walkout of unionists at six
major plants The strikers demanded
wage adjustments.
The Rhode Island truck drivers’
strike, which had paralyzed highway
shipping in the State, was settled to
day. Unions ratified an agreement
under which the 2,000 strikers will
receive a 10 per cent wage increase,
48-hour week and a closed shop.
More than 100 bus and coach oper
ators of the Flint (Mich.) Trolley
Coach, Inc., headed back to work after
86 days of idleness. They were granted
increased wages and arbitration privi
leges.
Fear of another maritime dispute at
San Francisco was allayed when the
sailors’ union announced it would
withdraw picket lines which kept some
longshoremen idle.
The United Automobile Workers,
Aircraft Division, negotiated at Los
Angeles for settlement of an 11-day
old strike after receiving a majority of
votes in an election to determine the
Northrop Aircraft Co. employes* bar
gaining agency.
The National Enameling Ac Stamp
ing Co. at Granite City, HI, announced
signing of an agreement recognising
a C. L O. union as sole bargaining
agency for Its 800 to 900 employes.
Political Experts Speculate
On Byrd as Governor Prospect
Point to University Pres
ident’s Winning Way
With Assembly. j
By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS. Md., March 5.—State
House political observers have just
about come to the conclusion that Dr.
H. C. ‘•Curley" Byrd, president of the
University of Maryland, already has a
fine background before which he could
pose 1942 gubernatorial aspirations.
There has been no doubt for years .
that Dr. Byrd—he became doctor in
recent months only and is a former
foot ball coach—was a power in legls- ;
lative circles. He never has been a
member of the General Assembly, but
was regarded during the adminlstra- j
tion of the late Gov. Albert C. Ritchie J
as one of the Ritchie lieutenants who
could bring recalcitrant legislators
back into line.
His power in legislative halls was
demonstrated easily and fully again
this week. The House Ways and
Means Committee—with only 17 mem
bers present—voted 9 to 8 to cut *74,
000 yearly from the university’s budget.
Dr. Byrd evidenced not a bit of
worry. The committee met again yes
terday. It restored the slashes. And,
sources close to the committee indi
cated the university would receive
$273,000 yearly which Gov. Harry W
Nice included In his budget which was
marked "contingent" upon the Legis
lature providing revenue for those
items. The budget alone, without the
contingent Item, gives the university
$149,000 more yearly than it now re
ceives.
Told of University’s Power.
Dr. Byrd himself told the Finance
Committee exactly what political
power there is behind the University
of Maryland. He did that while ex
plaining his budget.
He outlined the ramifications of the
university, which include work among
miners, oystermen. fishermen, farmers,
farm wives, poultry dealers, live stock
dealers and others through the various
farm agents, home demonstration
agents, poultry specialists, live stock
specialists, etc.
In effect, he told the committee
that:
The university itself is not asking
the Legislature for this appropriation.
The miners, oystermen. fishermen,
farmers, farm wives, poultry dealers,
live stock dealers and others are ask
ing the university for that money.
Could Prove Point.
He told the committee that, if nec
essary. he could bring large numbers
of those people to the State House
prove his point.
A good example of the manner In
which the University—and Dr. Byrd—
knows how to go about securing the
votes of legislators came during the
Byrd campaign for retsoration of the
Ways and Means Committee cut. Dr.
Byrd approached one member of the
committee who was not present at the
meeting when the cut was made.
That particular legislator deals in
horses. Dr. Byrd reminded him of the
fine work university live stock special
ists had done in curbing a horse dis
ease which was prevalent at one time
in recent years in that particular leg
islator's county.
Whether Dr. Byrd actually would
consider leaving the academic office
of president of a university—he be
came president during the past year—
for the more political atmosphere of
the Governor’s mansion is not publicly
known.
Named Acting President.
However, this story has been told in
the State house this week:
When the University of Maryland
Board of Regents decided to ask for
the resignation of Dr. Raymond A.
Pearson as president, it was generally
conceded that the then university
vice president would take over.
However, the board named Byrd as
DR. H. C. BYRD.
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acting president. For a few months
he was acting president, then was
formally named president.
Those few months, one Senator said,
passed as Byrd and his friends puz
zled over the question of whether a
university president could step out six
years later and become a Governor.
The question hinged, the Senator
said, as to whether "Byrd would "pigeon
hole’’ himself as gubernatorial caliber
if he took the presidency.
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PUBLIC MAY VISIT
BOTANIC GARDENS
Paget Will Be Host Sunday to
Show Tropical Flowers
Now in Bloom.
Wilmer J. Paget, assistant director
of the United States Botanic Gardens,
will be host to the public on Sunday
afternoon to show the tropical at
mosphere now existing there.
From 1:30 to 4 p.m., Paget and
William A. Frederick, assistant to the
architect of the Capitol, will person
ally conduct the visitors through the
gardens.
Income Tax
Widowers, Widows and
Divorcees Classified as
Single Persons.
IV.
Returns are required of every single
person who for the year 1936 had a
gross income of $5,000 or more or a
net income of $1,000 or more and of
every husband and wife living to
gether who for the year 1936 had an
aggregate gross income of $5,000 or
more or an aggregate net income of
$2,500 or more. Widowers, widows,
divorcees and married persons sep
arated by mutual consent are classed
as singles persons. The personal ex
emptions are $1,000 for single persons
and $2,500 for married persons living
together and for heads of families.
Husband and wife living together
may make separate returns of the in
come of each, or their Income may be
included in a single joint return. If
separate returns are filed, one may not
report income which belongs to the
other, but must report only the income
which actually belongs to him. If a
Joint return is filed, such return is
treated as a taxable unit, anu the in
come disclosed is subject to both the
normal tax and the surtax.
Husband and wife may elect each
year whether to file a Joint return
or separate returns. Where, however,
joint or separate returns have been
filed for a particular year neither hus
band nor wife may after the due date
of the return file an amended return
or returns on a different basis for that
year.
Chloroform
(Continued From First Page.)
versity of Virginia students Tuesday
in a wooded strip near the University
Cemetery.
In seeking a murder indictment
when the grand jury meets here this
month or next, Fife disclosed that the
case may have many unexpected rami
fications, and that persons not yet
brought into the case will be "key
witnesses.” He did not amplify this
statement.
However, the girl's widowed
mother, Mrs. Lulu Sprouse, who was
near collapse at her daughter's fu
neral yesterday, declared she would
ask police to question a colored woman,
who lives along the route Dr. Miller
said he drove Cleo when she died
Monday afternoon.
Fife already has expressed doubt on
some phases of Dr Miller's statement,
in which he is alleged to have con
fessed that Cleo died as he was pre
paring to perform an illegal operation
in a borrowed automobile.
Police continued their search for the
instrument Dr. Miller stated he took '
along to perform the operation, and
tossed away somewhere along the
wooded roadside where the tragedy oc
curred.
Mrs Sprouse has steadfastly re- 1
fused to believe her daughter was an
expectant mother, and has scouted Dr.
Miller’s statement that Cleo asked
him to perform the illegal operation. !
The funeral services were twice in- j
terrupted, once when Mrs. Sprouse
and her daughter, Mrs. Alice Poole,
became hysterical, and again when
spectators became enraged at a New
York newspaper photographer, who
exploded a flashlight bulb directly
over the head of the preacher con
ducting the service. Angry members
of the family chased him away.
Regaining her composure after her
near collapse, Mrs. Sprouse insisted on
kneeling and kissing the casket as it
was taken from the hearse. Burial
was not in the family plot, where her
father lies, but in the Riverview Cem
etery in the opposite end of the city
from the graveyard, where she was
found, a chloroform-soaked towel tied
over her month, Tuesday morning.
The autopsy report was not com
pleted today.
Usher
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day were Mooney, William Daniel
Whalen, 18, 1656-A Avon place; F. L.
Ankers, 20, 310 Cedar avenue, Takoma
Park, Md.; Jerold C. Adams, 17, 3743
Twelfth street northeast, and Curtis
Coons, 25, 1774 Troy street, Arling
ton, Va.
The five were to be questioned this
afternoon by Sheriff Howard B. Fields
of Arlington County, who assigned
Officers Harry L. Woodyard and Hugh
Jones to the investigation.
After the dispute the ushers put
Hllderbrand in one of the cars and
started for Emergency Hospital. The
Injured man died en route. The five
were arrested at the hospital and held
for Investigation.
Police booked no formal charges
against any of the five, however.
Harry Hull, night attendant at the
filling station, on United States High
way No. 1, near the Washington Air
port, said “five or six men” drove up
in two cars last night, and as he was
wiping one of the wlnshlelds heard one
of the men fall and saw the' others
bending over him. Hull said he heard
no sound of blows or harsh words.
Hilderbrand, father of two boys, one
2 years old and the other 6 months
old. left his wife, she said, after they
had attended a movie last night “to
go to a farewell party with some
friends” in honor of another usher at
the theater. Mrs. Hilderbrand said
she knew the men her husband was
joing with and they were “all friends.”
She said she did not know where the
party was to be, but thought it was
at the home of one of the ushers.
Attendants at the hospital said Hll
derbrand had a cut on the back of
bis head and abrasions on his left eye.
Besides his wife and children, he is
survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary
Hllderbrand. and four brothers and
three sisters. The family lives at
4628 Thirteenth street,
at
INSURGENTS LAY
HOT TO FRANCE
Morocco Disturbance Would
Be Pretext for Attack,
Say Protests.
Special Dispatch to The Star
SALAMANCA, Spain, March S.—
The Spanish insurgent regime today
accused France of fomenting disturb
ances in Spanish Morocco in order
to force a pretext for invading the
territory held by Generalissimo Fran
cisco Franco’s armies.
Declaring any attempt at aggres
sion against Spanish Morocco would
be met with “an adequate reply,” the
insurgent diplomatic cabinet lodged a
strong note of protest with all signa
tory powers to the Algeciras conven- •
tion.
Franco's diplomatic cabinet an
nounced the note "denounced maneu
vers in the frontier region of French
and Spanish Morocco which permit
the authorities of French Morocco, un
der pretext of re-establishing order
and avoiding the danger of exciting
the natives of the territory, to invade
our zone, violating in this manner all ,
international conventions and creat
ing a dangerous situation to the
peace of Europe.’’
•‘Secretly Concentrating."
The insurgent diplomatic staff
charged the French were secretly con
centrating arms on the border and
planned to introduce them into the
Spanish Riff.
The French arms concentrations, the
insurgents charged, were being made
at Ouezzan, Buzed and Gueznaya.
near Alhucemas in Spanish Morocco.
Heavy concentrations of French
troops along the frontier were re
ported by the insurgent diplomats as
constituting “an action of Inciting
the natives of the frontier zone.”
The note declared the French activi
ties constituted a "flagrant violation”
of the agreements of 1912 and asked
the signatory powers to the Algeciras
convention to send a committee to
Spanish Morocco to investigate the
charges.
The Insurgent command today
called to arms all men, aged 21 to 23,
formerly registered by the government,
but now in insurgent-held territory,
also all recruits declared capable of
auxiliary service and the first half of
the 1936 class.
The insurgent accusations against
Prance marked the second flareup of
Sanger that the Spanish civil war
might spread to the rest of Europe
through the Moroccan protectorate
held by both France and Spain. J
Shortly after the first of the year
France accused Germany of violating
the Moroccan agreements of 1912 by
attempting to set up a sphere of in
fluence in Spanish Morocco as a re
ward for volunteer aid furnished the
insurgents. ,
North African Protectorates.
The two North African protectorates
were assigned to France and Spain
under a treaty signed November 27.
1912. putting into effect a secret treaty
made in 1904.
Under the agreement, the northern
part territory of the Sultan of Moroc
co, amounting to some 18,300 square
miles, was placed under Spanish pro
tection, while the French took the
vastly greater southern portion.
The Sultan remained nominal ruler
of both divisions, with the two coun
tries conducting the administration in
his name.
Both the Algeciras convention and
the 1912 agreement recognised French
and Spanish interests as paramount
for the people of their respective
zones although assuring equality of
economic opportunity to all exoept
Germany, who agreed not to press
for special advantages.
FRENCH DISPUTE INSURGENTS.
PARIS, March 5 04>).—Informed
French sources said today any accusa
tion that France is attempting to atir
up trouble for the insurgents in Span
ish Morocco is "absurd.'’
They said it was likely Gen. Fran
cisco Franco, the insurgent dictator
designate, was trying to create trouble
for France with Germany and Italy.
ETHIOPIAN ENVOY
WITHDRAWN BYU.S.
Question of Italian Recognition
Not Involved. Says State
Department.
By the Associated Press.
The State Department decided today
to withdraw diplomatic representatives
from Ethiopia.
In so doing, the department said,
the question of recognizing the Af
rican nation as a part of the Italian
Empire was not affected.
Cornelius Van H. Engert. American
Minister resident and Consul General
at Addis Ababa during the Italian
conquest, is en route to the United
States "on leave of absence.” He will
not return to Ethiopia, officials said.
Morris Hughes, American Consul at
the Ethiopian capital, will take charge
of American interests temporarily, but
ha. been instructed to close the office
at the end of March.
In asserting the recognition Issue
was not involved the State Depart
ment said the consulate is being closed
“in accordance with Its usual practice
of terminating consular activities In
any district where American Interests
no longer require such services. ’
he consulate at Addis Ababa was the
scene of defensive fighting .several
times during the Italo-Ethioplan War.
ROME. March 5 (/P).—Fascist offi
cials said today the departure of Cor
nelius Van H. Engert. United States
Minister to Ethiopia, was regarded as
"virtual American recognition of the
Italian empire.” Authoritative news
papers declared Engert will not re
turn to Addis Ababa” and "American
Consul Morris Hughes will take charge
of the legation, which will shortly be
transformed into a consulate.”
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
In recess until Monday.
La Follette committee continues In
vestigation of gas and machine gun
sales.
Wheeler committee continues inquiry
into railroad financing.
House:
Merchant Marine Committee studies
repeal of seamen's discharge book law.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
District Subcommittee meets at 10
am. on Juvenile Oourt bill.
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