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GUN PLAY FEARED
AF CHURCH POLL
Woman’s Testimony Fea
tures Kansas City Elec
tion Fraud Trial.
BACKGROUND—
Federal mivstigation of election
fraud charges resulted in the in
dictment of scores of prominent of
ficials and others in Kansas City.
Mo. Six workers on trial are part
of the grand fury list of 75.
By the Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, March 11.—Visits
lo a church polling precinct by a
dark-complexioned man, identified by
a witness as “from T. J.'s," and ex
pressed fears of gun play and of “the
North End." studded testimony rec
ords today of the Federal vote fraud
conspiracy trial here.
Mrs Ruth Hogendorn. Republican
clerk, said "a man from T. J.’s” called
frequently, to tell workers not to get
nervous, at the precinct where the
Government charges voters were de
frauded at the last November elec
tion.
Assumption Stricken Out.
Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves or
dered stricken out the witness’ as
sumption that "T. J.” meant Thomas
J Pendergast, whose powerful Demo
cratic organization is particularly
strong in the North Side river wards,
where many foreign elements live.
Six workers are on trial, a part of
75 indicted by a grand jury. Mrs.
Hogendorn is one of two others who
pleaded no defense.
Mrs. Hogendorn said she signed, the
•lection books through fear, explain
ing .
"In the city election two years be
fore, two of our precinct captains
were run home at the point of a
gun." It was in that election that
three men were shot and killed.
Thomas H. Cummins, Republican
precinct captain and former Marine,
testified of feared gun play and of
"this North End.”
Complaint Confidential.
Mrs. Helen Hayworth, who explained
she was electioneering for a teachers’
retirement fund, said she saw ballots
taken from the box. but made her
complaint “confidential” because:
"I wanted it to be quiet until I
could be sure my family and myself
Were safe.”
Rev. Fred Bruflett, pastor of the
First Church of God. which was used
•s the voting place, said last night:
"Unless there is ample assurance
that the next election will be con
ducted along much different lines than
the last, my church will not be used
• gain as a voting place.”
THE WEATHER
District of Columbia—Mostly cloudy
tonight and tomorrow, lowest tempera
ture tonight about 25 degrees, slowly
rising temperature tomorrow; gentle
northeast winds, becoming variable.
Maryland—Mostly cloudy tonight
and tomorrow; slowly rising tempera
ture tomorrow.
Virginia—Mostly cloudy tonight and
tomorrow; colder in south portion to
night. slowly rising temperature to
morrow in north portion.
West Virginia—Mostly cloudy to
night and tomorrow; slightly colder in
extreme east, and not quite so cold
In northwest portion tonight.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
rlear today.
Report for Last 24 Hours.
Temperature. Barometer.
Yesterday— Degrees. Inches.
1 Dm. _ 39 ,30.oh
8 pm. _ 34 ,30.11
Midnight _ ,32 ,30.12
Today—
4 am. . _ _ .30.11
8 unt _ 28 .30.17
Noon __ _ .31 30.19
Record for Last 24 Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today )
Highest. 40. at 5 p.m. yesterday. Year
ICO. 00.
Lowest. 27. at 0 am. today. Year
• go. 52.
Reeord Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 76. on January 9.
Lowest. 29. on February 28.
Humidity for Last 24 Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest 85 per cent, at 9.50 p.m. yes
terday.
Lowest. 23 per cent, at 5:45 p.m. yester
day.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by the United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High . - 8:47 a m. 7:31 a m.
- 1:17 a.m. 2:01a.m.
High _ __ _ 7:11 p.m. 7:57p.m.
- . 1:42 p.m. 2:28 p.m.
The Sun and Moon.
, , Rises. Sets.
Fun, today 8.27 8:11
Bun tomorrow _ 8:20 6'12
Moon, today 5:23 a.m. 5:14 p.m.
Automobile lights must be turned on one
half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches In the
Capital (current month to date):
Month. 19.37. Average. Record.
January 7.83 3.55 7.83 '37
February- 3.33 3.27 8.84 ‘84
Mftrch - - 0.25 3.75 8.84 ’91
April- 3.27 9.13 '89
May -- 3.70 10.89 ’89
June -- 4.1.3 10.94 ’00
July - - 4.71 10.63 ’86
August - - 4.01 14.41 ’28
September - ___ 3.24 17.45 ’34
October-- 2.84 8.57 ’85
November - - 2.37 8.69 ’89
December - — _ 3.32 7.56 ’01
Weather in Various Cities.
_ Temp. Rain
Stations Baro. H'h.Low.fall. Weath'r
Abilene. Tex 29.88 70 54 Clear
Albany. N Y .'10.22 20 JO . Clear
Atlanta. Ga . 30.oh 04 42 _ Clear
Atlantic City,. 30.13 30 28 Snow
Baltimore. Md 30.10 .38 20 0.34 Cloudy
Birmingham 30.08 04 40 _ Clear
Bismarck. N D 30.20 24 14 I” Clear
Boston. Mass 30.20 20 20 Clear
Buftaio N. Y 30.18 22 14 Cloudy
Charleston SC. 30 14 50 48 Clear
Chicago 111 30.10 24 20 0.04 Cloudy
Cincinnati _ .00.24 20 10 0.18 Foggy
Cleveland ., 30.18 22 18 0.02 Snow
Columbia. S. C 30.12 02 44 Clear
Denver. Colo 30.00 02 34 Clear
Detroit. Mich 30,18 24 10 _Clear
El Paso. Tex , 20.88 72 47 _ Clear
Galveston. Tex .30.02 04 00 - Cloudy
Helena. Mont 30.04 54 30 _ Clear
Huron S. D 30.22 40 18 __ Clear
Indianapolis 311.20 20 10 0.10 Clear
Jacksonville .70.14 08 48 __ Clear
Kans. City. Mo .70.08 47 30 Clear
Los Angeles 2!t.84 7 4 58 Cloudy
Louisville. Ky 30.24 30 22 Cloudy
Miami Fla __ 30.02 70 04 0.34 Rain
Minneapolis ,30.10 20 12 _Snow
New Orleans _ .70.08 70 52 , Clear
New York. N Y 30.30 32 20 _Snow
Oklahoma City 20.02 70 40 Clear
Omaha Nebr , 30.14 47 20 Cloudy
Philadelphia .70.18 32 24 0.38 Snow
Phoenix. Adz _ 211.8(1 84 54 Clear
Pittsburgh 30.14 24 10 0.01 Cloudy
Portland, Me .70.20 24 10 Clear
Portland. Oreg 29.80 02 50 Cloudy
Raleigh. N. C .70.00 54 42 _ Clear
Salt Lake City 29.93 58 34 Clear
WASH., P. c. 30.10 40 27 0.19 Cloudy
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Oregon Sports Queen Arrives
Accompanied by her “Royal Court,” Miss Rose Winkler, queen of the Oregon Winter Sports
Association, arrived at Union Station yesterday for a round of festivities. Left to right: Marge Stepp,
crown princess; Miss Winkler, Helen Jones, Officer C. L. Smith, June Wyrick, Dorothy Greenwood
and Helen Fisher.
After bevig received by the Com77iissioners and Board of Trade representatives, the group teas
entertained at lu7icheo7i by the Rotary Club. The girls were received at the White House
and later appeared in a broadcast over Station WJSV with Senators McNary and Sterner
and Representative Honeyman, all of Oregon. They are makvig a national tour in comiection
7vith the annual Oregon Winter sports carnival at Mount Hood. —Star Staff Photo.
EDWIN B. CHILD, 68,
ARM. IS DEAD
Prominent Landscape and
Portrait Painter Succumbs
at Vermont Home.
Edwin Burrage Child, 68, prominent
portrait and landscape painter, died
yesterday at his home, Two Barns,
Dorset, Vt., according to word re
ceived here. He was the father of
Sargent B, Child of this city.
In 1930, 36 portraits done by Mr.
Child were on exhibit in the Na
tional Gallery of Art here. The col
lection included portraits of a num
ber of college professors.
For many years Mr. Child was an
illustrator of articles appearing in
many well-known magazines and peri
odicals. Since 1908 he had been en
gaged chiefly in portrait and land
scape painting. His work has been
exhibited at the Society of American
Artists, the National Academy of De
sign and at various annual exhibi
tions in many Eastern cities.
In 1924-25 Mr. Child was lecturer
on art at Amherst College, from which
he was graduated in 1890. The col
lege conferred on him an honorary de
gree of master of arts.
Besides his son here, he is sur
vived by his widow, Mrs. Anna Sykes
Child; a daughter, Miss Katherine E.
Child of Dorset, and another son,
Bradford Child, New York.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 p.m. tomorrow in Dorset.
MICHAEL R. BURROWS
BURIED AT ARLINGTON
Assistant Registrar of Navy Bu
reau of Navigation Given
Naval Honors.
Funeral services were held this
| morning at Arlington National Cem
j etery for Michael R. Burrows, assistant
I registrar of the Navy Bureau of Navi
j gation.
Ueut. Comdr. Joseph H. Brooks,
| Navy Chaplain Corps, conducted fu
j neral services at the Fort Myer. Va.,
chapel at 11 o'clock. Officiating at
1 the grave was Capt. Edward A. DufT.
chief of naval chaplains. Burrows,
who was a chief yeoman in the Navy
and took the annual training cruises,
was buried with naval honors.
The assistant registrar died suddenly
of a heait attack at his home, 916
Twenty-third street, on Tuesday.
-•
Nearly twice as many holiday
makers visited Britain in 1936 as In
1930.
La Follette
(Continued Prom First Page )
C A., it was revealed before the com
mittee earlier in the day.
Hoffman's part in the transaction
was a personal letter which he wrote ]
on State of New Jersey stationery to |
E. T. Cunningham, president of the
R. C A concern, as follows:
"Dear Mr Cunningham:
"This letter will be presented by
Mr Max Sherwood, chief of Sher
W'oods Detective Bureau, 1457 Broad
way. New York City.
"I have been acquainted with Mr.
Sherwood for some time, and have
been mast favorably impressed by
his work. He feels that there may
be some opportunity for service to
your company, and I would more than
appreciate it if you can grant him
a short interview, or refer him to the
proper official of your company.
"With kindest regards, I am—
Sincerely,
(signed i HAROLD G. HOFFMAN.
Governor."
200 Guards Engaged.
On the strength of this letter and
subsequent calls by Sherwood and a
salesman. Cunningham and Vice Pres
ident Robert Shannon testified they
engaged 200 Sherwood guards and an
additional number of "missionary
workers' for strikebreaking duty dur
ing a strike of last Summer.
Subsequently, however, when depu
tizing of the guards was refused be
cause of reputation of the Sherwood
employes, the company ordered the
agreement discontinued. As the easiest
way out, Shannon said, R. C. A. paid
Sherwood $2,300 for the guards and
an additional amount for the mission
ary workers although no service was
rendered.
Shannon said he believed the Sher
wood contact wi Gov. Hollman
■would enable the agency to have its
guards deputized in New jrsey even
though they were imported from New
York.
"Somebody, either you or the Gov
ernor, was badly sold out,” Senator
Thomas observed.
Payment t« Agency.
With the strike guard work then
turned over exclusively to the Man
ning Industrial Service of Newark,
Shannon said R. C. A. paid the agency
about $150,000.
An Itemized statement showed this
sum to be $156,193. Shannon ad
mitted making no check as to accuracy
of the itemization as supplied by
Manning.
Senator La Follette at this point
introduced a letter from the Manning
Agency to R. C. A., furnished by the
latter, in which the agency refused
names and addresses of guards fur
nished R. C. A., such information
being requested by the committee.
‘Let the record show,” La Follette
said, ‘‘that the committee has been
unable to serve a subpoena on T. M.
Manning.”
Cunningham on Stand.
Cunningham, called to the stand
first, said he is largely responsible for
labor policy of the R. C. A. plant at
EDUCATIONAL,
NATIONAL
UNIVERSITY
SCHOOLS OF LAW AND
OF ECONOMICS AND
GOVERNMENT
Sprint Term Betins March JS. 1B37.
hummer Term Begins June 10. 1937.
Regiitrar’s Office
818 13th St. N.W.
v Phone Nat. 6B17.
Open for registration B a.m. to 7 i.a
Camden, answering directly to Presi
dent Sarnoff. During the strike of
last Summer, Cunningham continued,
it was his Job to keep the plant operat
ing, although Sarnoff and Gen. John
son participated in negotiations to
settle the strike.
‘ Did you have any undercover men
in your plant prior to the strike?"
Chairman La Follette asked.
"We had one,” Cunningham re
plied, “an employe of the Manning
Industrial Service.”
Senator La Follette then submitted
for the record letters of solicitation
from 17 detective and strike-breaking
agencies. Among them was one from
the agency of Pearl Bergoff, "king of
strike-breakers.” of New York
After the strike began, on June 24,
Cunningham recounted, he engaged
guards from the Manning Agency and
“missionary workers” from the Sher
wood Detective Bureau. The latter
service was sold to him. he said, by
the argument that the “modern" way
| to break strikes was to “organize com
[ munlty sentiment."
La Follette then introduced the let
ter of recommendation from Gov.
Hoffman.
Cunningham said he had only "gen
eral assurances" as to the reputation
of Sherwood agents. The committee
then called Shannon, who finally en
gaged 200 Sherwood men.
Shannon said he had insisted upon
the Sherwood employes being depu
tized, and when such deputation was
refused because of reputation of some
of the men, he had ordered discon
tinuance of the service. He author
ized payment of *2,300 for one day’s
service of the Sherwood squad, talcing
this action, he .testified, on advice of
counsel.
ORGANIZERS TO MEET
Murray Calls Session of Lewis
Steel Group Tomorrow.
Philip Murray, director of John L.
Lewis' steel organization campaign,
called his Steel Workers' Organizing
Committee to meet tomorrow in Pitts
burgh.
Murray said the committee's prog
ress in the last few months and plans
for the future would be discussed.
EDUCATIONAL.
EMPLOYMENT
and promotion <srt the rcward$ For
thoroush preparation.
SECRETARIAL
training qualifies graduates for
positions in private business and
in Government departments. A
superior Employment Service assists
graduates in obtaining positions.
Over 1500 employment calls were
received last year.,
SPRING TERM
Classes Form March 15
College grade Secretarial courses
are planned for high school grad
uates and college students. Review,
Dictation and Reporting cla»es are
formed for those who have pre
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Due to the unique character of this course, applicants may
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Classes Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 7:15 to 8:45.
Opening lecture this evening, Room 920, P. E. P. Co. Bldg.,
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SHIP ON FIRE
SEATTLE, March 11 C4>).—Coast
Guard division headquarters intercept
ed a message at 12:30 am. <P. S. T.)
today from the freighter Silverlarch,
saying a fire had broken out, but was
not serious. The ship was 2.000 miles
west of Los Angeles bound for the
Philippines.
"On fire but not serious. Getting
under control." the message said.
The Silverlarch is owned by the Sil
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tons. It was built in 1924 and is 400
feet long.
The Silverlarch. which operates be
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“Roosevelt for King” Movement
Sweeping Colleges of TSation
SENATE ASKED TO CANAL
Pepper Invites All to Ceremoniea
at Fort Myers, Fla.
Senator Pepper, Democrat, of Florida,
has invited all members of the
Senate to attend opening ceremonies
of the Caloosahatchee-Okeechobee Ca
nal at Fort Myers, Fla., March 22.
Pepper, slated to speak a the cere
monies, asked them to join a lar;.p
Washington delegation planning to
make the Florida trip.
Representative Peterson of Florida
said a number of House members al
ready had accepted his invitation.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 11.—
The “Roosevelt for king”
movement is sweeping colleges
of the country with an en
thusiasm unparalleled even by the vet
erans of future wars movement, it was
claimed today as national headquarters
recorded messages from all parts of
the country hailing "Franklin I, king
designate.”
“In earnest conclave, the National
Privy Council decided to make the
movement as exclusive as the Liberty
League by requiring all members to
pay an initiation fee of a dime to wit
ness the coronation," it was announced.
Co-eds throughout the country are
being invited to join “ladies’ in waiting
charters” now being organized. The
Privy Council at Princeton, elected
yesterday, includes retiring foot ball
captain Montgomery and the newly
elected Capt. Toll.
The national Roosevelt for King
Club, it was announced, Is malting
plans for a great demonstration to
morrow night in the Yale Political
Union. The ceremonies will include
“dedication of the ax of the royal
executioner, to be r graved with the
royal shield of 15 roses, 6 rampant, 9
plowed under, on a field of Eleanor
blue.”
The ax is to be sent to “Bonnie
Prince Farley. Royal Executioner and
Keeper of His Majesty's Rubber
Stamps," it was announced. The
meeting will close with “coronation
practice."
"Constitutional royalists of Yale.
Harvard and Penn listened delightedly
to the fireside chat of Majesty-Desig
nate Franklin I last night, confirming
the contention no amendment was
needed to achieve monarchy,” national
headquarters announced.
When asked, "How about an amend
ment?" members are commanded to
reply, “On pain of being exiled to
Maine"; “This is a crisis. Democracy
is tedious.”
To safeguard against a “sit-down
strike” by the Supreme Court, it was
announced, the club is contemplating
institution of injunction proceedings.
An appropriation is being considered
to purchase a bauble cap and bells for
“Cactus Jack, the Court Jester.”
“Rumors persist we have scooped the
Democratic National Committee by two
weeks in inaugurating the Roosevelt
for King idea,” national headquarters
chortled. "Prince Elliott is to be draft
ed to cover the British coronation to
forestall any attempts to outdo what
is to be the biggest and best corona
tion yet. Billy Rose is to be hired as
technical adviser. Expressing 'the
mandate of the people,’ we say, 'The
King's the thing.' ”
NITROGLYCERIN BLASTS
60 Quarts Demolish Truck and
Kill Driver.
PLEASANTVILLE, Pa., March 11
14P).—Sixty quarts of nitroglycerin ex
ploded on the outskirts of this town
today, demolished the truck which was
carrying It and killed the driver.
Residents who had seen the truck
pass through Pleasantville a few
minutes before the explosion said the
driver was August Bond, 52, an oil
well “shooter" employed by the A.
Cupler & Co. of Titusville.
The blast hurled parts of the truck
400 yards and tore a hole 4 feet
wide and 2 Vi feet deep in the asphalt
pavement.
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