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COURT PLAN FOES
NEED UNI 17TH
Senate Committee, Recess
ing to Monday, Plans
for Long Siege.
Members of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, which has recessed Its
hearings on President Roosevelt'*
court bill until Monday, were pre
pared for a long siege of testimony
today as opponents of the measure an
nounced they would not finish the
present stage of their case before
April 17.
"After that, the proponents will go
on." said Senator Burke. Democrat, of
Nebraska, a leader of the opposition,
‘ and when they are through we will
resume. I can't say how much time
we will need at that stage.”
Some of the administration Sena
tors, however, were becoming restive
after four weeks of testimony.
Senator McGill, Democrat, of Kan
sas. one of the members still uncom
mitted, said he believed the testimony
6hould be brought to a quick close.
Chairman Ashurst still was pursuing
his policy of "delay, hesitation and
postponement,” arguing that the
longer the hearings lasted the better
the bill's chances.
Any attempt to curtail the hear
ings will be resisted by some of the
leading opponents of the bill.
Dean Sommers to Testify.
Dean Frank H. Sommers of New
York University Law School will carry
on the opposition cause Monday, fol
lowed by Oswald Garrison Villard.
editor emeritus of the magazine Na
tion.
Shift of Senate interest to the de
bate over declaring against sit-down
strikes as a public policy accounted
for some of the suggestions for limit
ing the testimony.
When yesterday's committee session
closed only three of the 18 members
were present.
They heard John A. McSparran,
one-time Democratic candidate for
Governor of Pennsylvania, declare the
bill's purpose was 'the continuance of
the practice of paying out Government
checks so that the party in power may
continue to have the subsidized back
ing of the Nation.”
William B. MacDowell, Detroit at
torney, said the Roosevelt bill would
jeopardize the independence of the
courts. Walter F. Dodd, Chicago
lawyer, and Canon Anson Phelps
Stokes of the Washington Cathedral
had expressed & similar view earlier
In the day.
"Threat to Democracy.”
Canon Stokes characterized the
Roosevelt bill as "a serious threat to
democracy, both because of its po
litical disadvantages—to which too
little attention has been given—and of
Its political implications, which are
generally recognized as momentous."
Noting that the bill calls for the
possible appointment of six new
justices, he asserted:
“Nothing approaching such a large
Increase in membership has happened
since the foundation of the court, and
It seems highly inadvisable to pro
vide the possibility of having 40 per
cent of the members of such a body
added in a few months.
"The framers of the Constitution
bad this general principle of prevent
ing sudden waves of public opinion
carrying too much weight by the
provision that only one-third of the
Senate should be subject to election
every two years.”
He proposed, instead of the bill, a
constitutional amendment requiring
Federal judges to retire at 75. In
addition he was favorably disposed to
ward an amendment requiring that
two-thirds of the court concur, if an
act of Congress is to be invalidated.
He expressed the opinion that
“making an issue of a little-studied
plan ‘sprung’ by the administration
for meeting what it believes to be an
‘emergency’ has done more than any
recent decision of the Supreme Court
tio encourage a lack of confidence in
our courts in the public mind.”
POLICE GRADUATED
FROM F. B. I. COURSE
Representatives of 34 Agencies
End 12 Weeks of Study.
Alumni Total, 115.
'Representatives of 34 police agen
cies from scattered sections of the
country today graduated from the
National Police Academy, conducted
by the Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion as a co-operative move toward
better law enforcement.
Among police officers awarded di
plomas by J. Edgar Hoover, director
of the F. B. I., was Policeman James
S. McAuliffe of the Montgomery
County force. The students were
picked by their respective depart
ments to receive the 12 weeks of free
instruction in G-man methods of sup
pressing crime.
Today's graduating class brings to
115 the number of academy alumni,
most of whom have received promo
tions since obtaining their diplomas.
Many of the graduates have organ
ized training schools within their
own departments with the aid of the
F. B. I.
Graduates of the academy are lo
cated in 44 States and one Territory,
end their police departments have
jurisdiction in areas with a total of
more than 73,000.000 population.
This is the fourth class to graduate
iince establishment of the school in
1935. Classes are held in the mod
ern school rooms of the F. B. I. Train
ing School in the Department of
Justice Building.
HAWKS HERE OVERNIGHT
Speed Flyer Hops for New York
After Visiting Friends.
Frank M. Hawks, noted speed flyer,
left Washington today for New York
after an overnight visit with Navy
friends here. He is a lieutenant com
mander in the Naval Aviation Reserve.
Hawks made the trip in the high
apeed monoplane Time Flies, owned
by a Hartford. Conn., watch company.
He made the trip here yesterday after
noon in two hours and three minutes,
by way of Norfolk, Va. The plane, in
■which Hawks has made a number of
speed flights the last year, was in
spected by Navy officers with a view
to possible incorporation of some of its
features in military types.
I 1"
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
CLEAN-UP.
SPRING, returning after a short
and untimely trip out of town,
brings upon us again the im
pulse to indulge in a lethargic
crusade against something. We have
conveniently at hand memories of
some harsh words spoken in this col
umn recently anent the horrors of
orange peels in the streets and old
newspapers floating around the Lin
coln Memorial reflecting pool. There
fore, rather than crawl about the dewy
night searching for another Cause,
we turn back to harp on the old
subject.
Briefly, everything is still in fairly
filthy shape around town and we re
fuse to like it. Scattered signs im
ploring people to keep the parks clean
are so painted over that they seem
to say, "It was all a mistake. Excuse
it, please."
Wonder if some one cannot invent
a few local signs to appeal to civic
pride, as did a placard in a pleasant
park we saw in Spain once yeors ago,
before the shrubbery was full of bombs.
The sign said, "Visitors, respect this
park, for it is the love of the town.'*
And bravo for Mrs. Charles Edward
Russell, who is reported to have ob
served pointedly not long ago that
"Lafayette Park is now about as well
cared for as a cow pasture.”
* * * *
BRAND.
Inspecting one of the huge new
airships which are the pride of a
certain commercial line the other
day, a correspondent of ours re
fused to be impressed by the
majesty of the great silver bird,
walked around and around it until
he found a small placard bearing
the ivords “Notice of Liens This
property is covered by chattel
mortgage to the Reconstruction
Finance Corp”
Then he came back to tell us
about it, like a man who has seen
an eagle with a band upon its leg,
! denoting that it was once a cap
tive bird.
* * * *
GHOSTS.
JNSPIRED by the incident of the
man whose auto horn blasted all
through the Maryland night because
its wires became crossed with an elec
tric clock in the car, many people
have come to us with stories of eerie
sounds that have disturbed them.
Mr. George Johnson of Madison
street, for example, tells of a weird
| night spent in waiting for an errant
| ghost to start playing the piano in
j his house. Mr. Johnson, whose slum
bers had been less satisfactory than
; he liked for several weeks, changed
I to a new bed one night. In the late
: hours he heard a sound as of some
' one striking a key on the piano in the
basement recreation room. He lis
tened. The same key tinkled over
and over again. Mr. Johnson lay
there for hours, wondering when the
ghostly sonata would begin.
It never did. The next morning
he found that his daughter had placed
a goldfish bowl beside his bed. Every
time & goldfish hit against a shell,
the shell tinkled lightly against the
glass.
POLICY.
pOR week* reporters have been pes
tering Attorney General Homer
Cummings to make a statement on
the legal status of sit-down strikes.
No matter how often the query has
been parried, they have never ceased
to repeat it at the next press confer
ence.
Finally the other day Mr. Cum
mings leaned back in his chair,
touched his fingertips together
thoughtfully and said, “I expect to
make a statement on the sit-down
strike situation."
Every one leaned forward breath
lessly.
“But, he added, "it will depend upon
as, if and when.”
PROBLEM.
Noting our passion lor becoming
inextricably entangled in mathe
matical pussies, a local mathema
tician suggests a new scheme to us.
The idea is, you have a person
write down in a row the numerals
1-9, inclusive, except that the i is
not included. (Already it gets com
plicated.) Then select from the
row of figures the one that has been
worst written, as to penmanship.
Next, have the victim multiply all
the other digits, one by one, by
the number chosen. Wherever pos
sible, split up the order of the
process as much as it can be done,
jumping from 1 to 9 and then 7
to 4 to 3, etc.
When the table has been com
pleted, ask your friend if he thinks
the practice has helped his hand
writing, or numerology, should
we say.
Then run for the nearest exit.
* * * *
TITLE.
A REPORT from Chicago, bearing
^ definite import for all Wash
ington people with stomachs, an
nounces that the "Hors d’Oeuvres
Reform Committee” of the Mid West
Hotel Association has gone into a
decline trying to figure out Just fchat
an American considers "simple.”
Having offered a prise for some
one who would supply the best simple,
pronounceable substitute for the word
“hors d'oeuvres,” they have received
so far the following suggestions:
App-whett, amerlketts, alspeps,
an-che-ca, ancheeviars, B-4s, brel
ishers, bo-zests, cavanchochees,
cheerbits, clutterups (believed male
Inspired), delicianaires, dina zests
xediores, goosleums, hor-der-ettes,
kutiebits, lipsmackem, piccanchee
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ROBERT E SEELY,
EX-SAILOR, DIES
Was Said to Be Last Sur
vivor of Crew of U. S. S.
Constellation.
Robert E. Seely, 77, retired employe
of the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele
phone Co., and said to be the last
survivor of a naval crew which served
on tnc u. s. s
C o n a t e 1 latlon,
died Thursday of
a heart attack
while working in
his garden in Ta
koma Park, Md.
The Constella
tion, sister ship
of the old U. S. S.
Constitution, re
mained in com
mlssion as a
naval vessel until
1893.
Mr. Seely was
wonting in a m. E. s„,y.
strawberry patch
when he was stricken. He was found
by a passerby and taken to the Wash
ington Sanitarium, where he was pro
nounced dead. The garden is about
three-fourths of a mile from his home
at 125 Carroll avenue.
When the Constitution was in
Washington several years ago Mr.
Seely climbed in the rigging as he had
done on the Constellation when a boy.
Native of Canada.
Born in New Brunswick, Canada, at
Gray's Mill, on the St. Johns' River,
Mr. Seely left home at the age of 13
and went to sea as a cabin boy. Sub
sequently, he served two enlistments in
the Navy and ro>se to the grade of
petty officer.
Later, Mr. Seely was captain of sev
eral Great Lakes trading vessels. He
remained around the Great Lakes
until about 1895.
Soon after coming to Washington,
he worked for the Potomac Electric
Power Co. and then began 27 years of
service with the Chesapeake it Po
tomac Telephone Co. He was re
tired in 1930 while holding the position
of chief cable tester.
Survived by Widow.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Car
olyn Seely; three daughters. Miss
Grace E. Seely and Mrs. Maybelle
Garriss, both of Takoma Park, and
Mrs. Gladys Paulson, Reading, Pa.;
five grandchildren and a brother, J. B.
Seely, the latter of New Brunswick.
Funeral services will be held at 2
p.m. tomorrow in the Seventh-Day Ad
ventist Church, Takoma Park. Rev.
Charles S Longacre will officiate.
Burial will be at Addison Chapel, Md.
94 SENATORS AID
CANCER CAMPAIGN
Bill Introduced to Authorize An
nual Appropriation
of $1,000,000.
Hr the Associated Press.
Medical science received the assist
i ance of 94 United States Senators
! yesterday in its fight against cancer.
Led by Senator Bone of Washing
ton, they introduced a bill authoriz
ing an annual appropriation of SI .
000,000 for research on the disease It
was the first time within the memory
of congressional attaches that so many
Senators joined in introducing legis
lation.
Simultaneously Representative Mag
nuson of Washington submitted the
| same measure to the House.
The legislation authorizes grants to
I schools, hospitals and laboratories and
I scientific investigators, “whose work
has shown promise of making valuable
contributions to the cause, diagnosis,
control, treatment and prevention of
cancer.”
“Despite the rank of cancer as a
killer,” Bone said, "the amount spent
yearly for research by the United
States Public Health Service and by
private research institutions is less
than the cost of building a few big
i guns.”
FREIGHT RATE BOOST
PROPOSAL PROTESTED
Standard Oil of New Jeraey Voices
Opposition Before I. C. C.
Hearing.
■r the Associated Press.
The Standard Oil Co. of New Jer
sey protested to the Interstate Com
merce Comission yesterday a proposed
upward revision in general freight
rates by class No. 1 railroads.
Edward D. Scheffe, assistant man
ager of the company, told a commis
sion hearing on the carrier's petition
that he appeared also for the Stand
ard Oil Co. of Pennsylvania, the
Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana and
the Colonial Beacon Oil Co. He said
the companies opposed the petition for
two reasons.
“First,” he said, “there is no justi
fication at this time for an increase
in the maximum levels of petroleum
rates prescribed by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, and secondly,
any increase in such rates or in the
rates which are below the maximum
levels, and which have been voluntarily
published by the carriers to meet com
petition, would be detrimental to the
railroads’ best Interests.”
Traffic
(Continued From First PageJ_
ilon with a truck at Twelfth and H
streets. They were treated by a pri
vate physician.
Sandra Lynade, 26, of the Capitol
Park Hotel, was injured about the
ribs, and Ralph Sanford, 27, of the
Willard Hotel, was hurt about the
knees, when the taxicab in which they
were passengers was in collision with
another machine at New Jersey ave
nue and E streets. They were taken
to Emergency Hospital.
Patricia Hough, 16-year-old daugh
ter of Maj. Romeyn Hough, jr., U. S.
A., 42, of 3901 Connecticut avenue,
and Vance Goss, 59, of Arlington, Va.t
were cut and bruised in a mishap on
Arlington Memorial Bridge. They
were treated at Emergency. Machines
operated by Maj. Hough and Goss
were involved in the accident, police
said.
chas, pepper-uppers, primers, sideats,
teasers, whlppetits and aippybits.
Furthermore, says the report:
"The tabulators, not very sippy
when they reached zlppyblts, perked
up when some one said something
about calling the snacks "hors
d’oeuvres."
i*
FARM PURCHASE
POWERS FAVORED
Roosevelt Said to Be Eager
House Body Restore
Resale Clause.
B? the Associated Press. ,
An administration leader said today
President Roosevelt had expressed the
hope that the House Agriculture Com
mittee would restore a land-buying
proposal to farm tenancy legislation.
Tlie committee voted, 13 to 11,
Wednesday against authorizing the
Secretary of Agriculture to spend
$50,000,000 a year to buy farms for re
sale to tenants and sharecroppers on
easy credit terms.
It expects to decide Tuesday whether
to reconsider this vote.
The administration official, who
asked that his name not be used, said
the President believed Congress should
authorize an experimental program of
assisting tenants to acquire their own
farms. Mr. Roosevelt advised last
week, however, against too great an
expenditure.
Sponsors expressed confidence that
at least two members of the House
committee who opposed the proposal
would change their stand Tuesday.
One of tliose to whom they looked
was Representative Pierce. Democrat,
of Oregon, who said he had not
changed his mind so far.
The other was Representative Gil
christ, Republican, of Iowa, who was
absent when the vote was taken.
Opponents, on the other hand, con
tended the measure was dead. Repre
sentative Andresen, Republican, of
Minnesota deplored what he called
administration pressure on Democrats
who voted against it.
Opposition has been based chiefly
on the argument that the proposal
would put the Government into the
land-buying and farming business and
make it a landlord over the tenants
to whom it would sell farms.
The committee may decide Tuesday
whether it will approve two other
administration recommendations for
a $75,000,000 rehabilitation loan and
a $70,000,000 submarginal land retire
ment program.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS
INSTALLS ITS OFFICERS
New officers of the Euzelian Sunday
School Class were installed last night
in a special ceremony at the First
Baptist Church.
They Include Louise Sergent, presi
dent; Mildred Johnson, first vice presi
dent; Marie Maxwell, assistant first
vice president; Dorothy Johnson, sec
ond vice president; Emma Lou Atter
berry, third vice president; Effiie Beh
rens and Lucile Hayden, assistant third
vice presidents; Margaret Wilder,
fourth vice president; Marjorie Buell,
assistant fourth vice president; Vera
Seymour, recording secretary; Inez
Magee, assistant recording secretary;
Jessie Haseltine, corresponding secre
tary; Imojo Boulton, assistant corre
sponding secretary: Mary Carpenter,
treasurer; Marian Russell, devotional
leader, and Ellen Lee, flower and gift
chairman.
Jordan R. Bentley, Sunday school
superintendent, was toastmaster. The
invocation was by Rev. Edward
Hughes Pruden, church pastor. John
Ruthven is the class teacher.
D. C. Bill
(Continued From First Page!_
House places control of the permit
office under that department instead
of the Welfare Board. In addition,
the Health Department, he said, will
take from the Welfare Board control
over appropriations for so-called
"medical charities’’—Emergency, Cas
ualty and Children's Hospitals and
the Washington Home for Incurables.
Realty Tax Provision Ousted.
Other major legislative provisions
eliminated on points of order would
have:
Prevented the commissioners from
raising the tax on real estate in the
coming fiscal year.
Permitted District Auditor Daniel J.
Donovan to appoint additional clerks
in his office without regard to civil
service law.
Recommended *15,000 for a com
prehensive survey of the District gov
ernment to determine whether re
organization would result in increased
efficiency and economy.
Directed the Public Utilities Com
mission to make an investigation of
the "reasonableness’’ of telephone
rates.
Prohibited public school teachers
from doing clerical work.
Placed the new Police Court build
ing under control of the Commission
ers.
Diverted gasoline tax revenues to
support the trees and parking depart
ment and the department of vehicles
and traffic and pay for snow removal.
Collins Salvages Some.
Collins, however, salvaged some or
the legislative provisions by resub
mitting them as amendments, with
the phraseology, in a few cases,
changed.
One of the riders restored by
amendment would “authorize” rather
than direct the Utilities Commission
to Investigate telephone rates. An
other revived tht limitation on the
activitly of school teachers by stipu
lating that school appropriations
could not be used to pay the salaries
of those who “perform other than
classroom work.” The third allows
the gasoline tax to be used to finance
the trees and parkings department,
but eliminated the appropriation for
salaries and expenses of the depart
ment of vehicles and traffic, and to
pay the cost of curbs and gutters. A
fourth modified the rider depriving
per diem works of annual leave, sick
leave and holidays off with pay, the
change specifically forbidding the sav
ings affected thereby from being used
for any purpose.
Minor items eliminated on points
of order provided $20,000 for the pur
chase of automobile tags, restricted
publication to advertisements and the
delinquent tax list to newspapers in
the District and authorized the Com
missioners to purchase a municipal
asphalt plant, an item which has been
carried in appropriation bills for a
number of years.
So enthusiastic did the District Com
mittee members become after their
success in removing legislative pro
visions that at one stage Palmisano
endeavored to have an increased au
thorization for the Dennison School
eliminated. He withdrew the point of
order, at the insistence or other mem
bers of the committee, after Collins
explained that elimination of the item
would block construction of the school.
The District Legislative Committee,
however, failed to make Its contem
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Mrs. Brill Flees Annulment Papers
Roars Away to San Francisco After Stormy Session With
Husband and His Mother.
Left: Mrs. Nan Pierson Brooks Macy Brill, as she waited, some, word from her missmg
bridegroom of five days, William Hunsaker Brill, shown in inset. She hadn’t seen him since
Tuesday, after their elopement to Yuma. Ariz.
Right: The missing husband located by police, the bride is shown before the Brill home as
her mother-in-law closed the door on her. Later the bridegroom came out of hiding and all
entered the house, but soon the bride dashed out and drove away in the Brill car.
—Copyright, A P Wirephoto.
plated point of order against a pro
vision transferring 20 playgrounds
from the Municipal Playground De
partment to the Commun.ty Center
Department in the public schools.
Nichols did have eliminated on a point
of order a provision relating to the
Community Center Department which
was designed to change the distribu
tion of employment on playgrounds
now under its Jurisdiction.
The $111,000 cut from the bill in
cludes three items: An appropriation
of $76,000 for the Department of Ve
hicles and Traffic; $15,000 for the pro
posed survey of the municipal gov
ernment and $20,000 for the purchase
of motor vehicle tags.
Lump Sum Change Lost.
At the very outset of formal read
ing of the bill Ford made two fuule
moves to change the lump sum basis
of fiscal relations between the Federal
and District Governments. First ne
raised a point of order against a sec
tion which, if sustained, would have
restored the 60-40 ratio still in sub
stantive law. Under It the Federal
Government would pay about $18,000,
000 toward District expenses in the
coming fiscal year.
Ford's point of order was over
ruled and he retaliated with an
amendment to abolish all Federal
participation in District expenses.
This amendment was rejected after
Collins appealed to the House to
defeat it.
"It is a matter of simple justice,”
Collins declared, "that the Federal
Government should pay part of the
cost of running the District.”
The House also voted down an
amendment of Representative Ellen
bogen, Democrat, of Pennsylvania,
father of the District unemployment
compensation act, to have an item of
$175,000 restored in the bill for the
District's contribution to the unem
ployment compensation fund, and one
by Representaitve Amlie, Progressive,
of Wisconsin, to increase the ap
propriation for relief of the poor from
$13,000 to $2,000,000.
Jacobs Plan Attacked.
Debate on the bill was brought
to a close with attacks on the dis
carded Jacobs fiscal relations plan
by Collins and Representative Engel
of Michigan, the only Republican
member of the subcommittee which
framed the measure.
Collins said his subcommittee
scrapped the Jacobs plan chiefly be
cause it could result In the Federal
Government eventually paying $20,
000,000 to $25,000,000 a year toward
District expenses.
The Jacobs report, Collins told the
House, contained a three-point
formula for solving the fiscal relations
controversy but during hearings on
the supply bill a fourth point was
developed. He discussed each of these
points in detail, explaining the com
plexities involved in their applica
tion and pointed out the entire plan
would lead to innumerable con
troversies.
Engel ridiculed the District Legis
lative Committee for planning to
revive its study of the Jacobs plan.
"Everybody In the District of Colum
bia knows the Jacobs report is dead
except the members of the House
District Committee,” he said. Sug
gesting that the committee might ad
minister the final rites, Engel declared:
"But I don’t think any member,
with possibly one exception, knows
enough about the Jacobs report to
write an obituary on it.”
Nichols leaped to his feet and in
quired whether the remark was di
rected at him personally. Engel
explained Nichols was the exception
to which he referred.
Sit-Down
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public policy what is already the law
of the land,” Wieeler argued. "There
is no question tnat trespass is illegal,
and this amendment would neither
add nor take away from that tact.”
Norris Voices Objection.
Senator Norris, independent, of
Nebraska pleaded that "a slap at
sit-downs in other industries” should
not be written into the coal bill, be
cause miners, he said, have not
countenanced such tactics.
Byrnes replied he was unwilling to
submit his measure separately lest
it be buried in committee. Bailey
added tha^ some Senators would try
to write in “weasel words” if it were
thrown open to prolonged debate.
Administration leaders said pri
vately, however, that they hoped to
work out a compromise which would
sever the Byrnes amendment from the
Guffey bill and call for its considera
tion immediately after the coal
measure passed.
Wagner said m&nv coal operators
owned the towns in which their work
ers lived, and that the Byrnes amend
ment would cause hardship by oust
ing the miners completely from the
owners' property.
"Don't the coal operators frequently
own the local courts as well as the
company towns?" asked Senator Fra
iler, Democrat, of North Dakota.
''Theres' no doubt about it.” inter
jected Wheeler. "They control the
courts, which grant any injunction
they may want without even a hear
ing.”
He referred to an investigation
which he and Wagner had conduct'd
into the soft coal industry w’hich de
scribed working conditions as un
American and Inconceivable.
Wagner raised the question about
company-owned towns because the
Byrnes amendment would declare It
to be against public policy Tor miners
to stay on company property after re
ceiving written notice to leave.
Arainat Encumbrances.
Senator Neely, Democrat, of West
Virginia, who handled the coal meas
ure, urged that the bill be defeated In
its entirety rather than be "encum
bered" with “this obnoxious amend
ment.”
Senator Davis, Republican, of Penn
sylvania, asserted the only sit-down
ever held in the coal industry had
been declared illegal by the miners’
union.
The debate touched briefly on the
judiciary issue when Senator George,
Democrat, of Georgia, an opponent of
the President's plan to name six new
justices to the Supreme Court, said
statements had been made ‘‘in high
places" calculated to ''undermine the
confidence of the people."
“You can’t destroy the confidence
of the people in the top of their judi
cial system without weakening and
destroying their confidence in the
humblest's magistrate’s court in this
land.”
Sectional feeling flared at times.
Senator Neely contended the Byrnes
amendment was "out of place” and
asked why Southern Senators had not
asked for "a declaration of policy
against lynching."
After Senator Minton. Democrat, of
Indiana had contended the Federal
Government had no right to interfere
in State matters. Senator Bailey asked
if he would take the same stand on
anti-lynching legislation.
Bailey Blames Lewis.
Bailey blamed John L. Lewis for the
sit-down strike situation, .saying he
was the one who had involved the
President in it. He charged the labor
leader ‘‘stood on the housetops and
announced he had elected Mr. Roose
velt President of the United States,
he had contributed a half million dol
lars to the campaign fund, and he de
manded the President of the United
States come to his aid."
Bailey expressed regret the Presi
dent had not "rebuffed” Lewis and he
criticized Secretary of Labor Perkins
for asserting “the legality of the sit
down strike has not yet been deter
mined by the courts.”
“Trespaas is trespass, and it has
been unlawful for a thousand years—
but Madame Perkins didn’t know it.”
PHELPS WILL ADDRESS
TOWN HALL TOMORROW
Contemporary Books Topic of
Critic—Members of Panel
Are Selected.
William Lyon Phelps, well-known
literary critic, will speak on "Contem
porary Books and the Value of Good
Reading” before the Town Hall of
Washington tomorrow at S p.m. at
the Shoreham Hotel.
Members of the panel will be George
B. Woods, professor of English and
dean of the college at American Uni
versity; Dr. George P. Bowerman,
librarian of the free Public Library,
and George Winchester Stone, jr„ as
sociate professor of English at George
Washington University.
JB' the Associated Press.
AN FRANCISCO, April 3—A
beautiful runaway bride with
neither money nor luggage.
Mrs. Nan Pierson Brooks Macy
Brill, New York heiress, made a
wild. 400-mile flight from Hollywood
to San Francisco today.
She ran away from her husband
of five days, William H. Brill, jr.,
millionaire sportsman, who had been
hiding from her.
Yesterday there had been a stormy
scene with her husband and mother
in-law. She was informed of plans
for annulment of the marriage.
"They will have to catch me first,”
she said, explaining intention of
avoiding service of the papers.
Then the heiress jumped into the
biggest and fastest of his four cars |
and roared away.
Accompanied by Reporter.
An Associated Press reporter and
photographer were in the automobile
with her. They expected her to stop
at her hotel in Hollywood.
She stopped 100 miles later.
'We'll get gas here, and then go
or. tc San Francisco.” she gasped.
“You’ll have to come, too. I'm going
to have hysterics now.”
She said Brill’s mother had told
her that if she took the car, officers
would arrest her for having stolen it.
It was a wild day and a strange
: night.
Monday the Eastern social figure
eloped to Yuma. Ariz.. with Brill, her
second husband. After a one-day
honeymoon, they returned to Holly
wood. He left her, she said, to go to
his mother’s apartment house and get
his clothes, Tuesday.
Until yesterday, that was the last
time she saw him.
i "He didn’t give me any explanation.
He just left. So I reported him to the
police as missing. They found him. all
right.”
Found Husband At Home.
Yesterday, her patience ended, she
stormed the gates of the $60,000 pent
house where her young husband, she
said, had been hiding.
"He's my husband and I want him.
I've been awake three nights wanting
him, and now I'm going to find out
what everything's about."
Brill was in the big. yellow auto
mobile in the garage. She ran to him.
They fell into each other's arms and
there was a long embrace. He told
! her, she said, that he was on his way
to her.
| At that moment, Mrs. Mary Brill
appeared and cried:
"Nan, what is all this?"
A bitter, angry scene ensued. The
heiress accused the mother of keeping
Brill from her, and the mother replied
that Nan had engineered "all the pub
! licity on this.”
Brill, when his mother came in
view, darted up the back stairs to his
penthouse again. His pretty wife
called after him.
"You know I'm a wife in more than
name only. I don't want your car. I
i can buy a dozen like it. And I don’t
want your mother, either. I can buy
a dozen like her, too.
"What are you going to do if we
have twins?"
•Then she was informed by news
paper men that an attorney, Albert
Hidden, jr., had filed suit for an
nulment of the marriage on behalf of
young Brill.
"They'll have to catch me first to
serve the papers,” Nan said. "They
can t do this to me.”
The ride began.
Between them, the heiress, reporter
and cameraman were able to pool 80
cents in cash. A gasoline credit card
took care of the fuel.
"We can eat once, and that’s all,”
Nan said.
At one roadside sandwich stand she
tried to get some credit. She showed
three diamond rings to prove her
solvency.
"My credit is good at Tiffany's,”
she told George A. Swartz, the pro
prietor, “and you won’t even trust me
for a sandwich.”
"What’s Tiffany’s?” Swartz asked,
“and who runs the Joint?”
It grew cold as night fell. She was
wearing a light, tailored suit. She
found in the back a suit belonging to
her husband and slipped that on over
her own. Then she donned dark
glasses.
"Now, if they stop us, they won’t
know me anyway,” she said.
Fills Tank Heraelf.
Once, stopping for fuel, she saw a
motor cycle officer approaching.
Quickly, she grabbed a gasoline can
1
Authorities Say Craighead
Slew Wife and Son in
Jealous Rage.
By the Associated Press.
LYNCHBURG, Va , April 3.—Arthur
S. Williams, 47, wealthy Lynchburg
man, was at liberty under $2,500 bond
today ax a material witness in the case
of William E Craighead, who Com
monwealth's Attorney William T.
Spencer, jr. named as the slayer of his
wife and son.
Craighead. 42, remained in a hospital
with a throat wound self-inflicted,
Spencer said, with the same pocket
knife police believed he used to slash
his wife and child, Dan. 10, to death.
Spencer said Williams was implicated
by a ''suicide” note in which Craig
head wrote ' Sallie has been drunk for
a week. She is going to leave with
Arth William. I can t stand it."
Was "Friend of Family.”
The official said Williams, bonded to
appear in Corporation Oourt May 3,
admitted taking Mrs. Craighead out,
but said he was a "friend of the
family.”
Williams, arrested yesterday, wnll be
used as a witness if Craighead survives
and is brought to trial, said Spencer,
who attributed the double killing to
a fit of jealous rage.
The bodies and the gravely wounded
man were found Thursday night after
an operator heard his groans over a
telephone dangling from its stand, and
notified police.
He said the blood-smeared note,
scribbled on the back of Dan s civic
lesson paper, was discovered lying
under a pocketknife which the police
believed Craighead used.
Boy Slain First.
The attorney said Dan Craighead
was killed first, in a back bed room
of the apartment and then his mother
was slashed to death in her bed. situ
ated in a front bed room. Craighead
attempted afterward to find a pistol,
but failing to do so, cut his own throat,
Spencer declared.
Chief of Police Virgil B. Grow said
the pistol was found by the detectives
in the clothes closet. The cylinder
had been removed and hidden else
where in the apartment; the bullets
had been removed from the cylinder
also, the chief said.
An autopsy was performed on the
body of Mrs. Craighead yesterday by
Dr. J. Burton Nowlin, city coroner.
He said the contents of the stomach
indicated the presence of alcohol.
Craighead may survive for a trial.
Unless he develops pneumonia, he has
a good chance to get well, his physician
said, despite the fact he severed the
windpipe and esophagus.
-•-—
FRIES ELECTED HEAD
OF DE MOLAY ORDER
Chosen Grant Master at End of
Organization's 2-Day Annual
Session.
Maj. Gen. Amce A. Fries was elect
ed grand master of the Grand Coun
cil of the Order of De Molay at the
conclusion of the groups two-day
annual session yesterday at the May
flower Hotel. He was delegate to
the sessions from the District of
Columbia
Maj. Gen. M. W. Ireland, former
surgeon general of the Army, dele
gate at large, was elected deputy
grand master; Chandler C. Cohagen
of Billings, Mont., grand senior coun
cilor. and Allan M. Wilson of Man
chester. N. H.. junior grand councilor.
An attack on communism was made
by several members of the council,
led by Gen. Fries. No official action
was taken on the matter by the group.
Robert Taylor, the movie star; Don
Budge, the national tennis star, and
125 other memers of the Order of
De Molay were voted the Legion of
Honor award, highest of the organ
ization
The degree of chevalier for out
standing De Molay service was award
ed 1.700 members by the group.
ATLANTIC AIRLINE
BARS ARE REMOVED
Assistant Commerce Head Gives
O.K. to Use of New York
Along With Montreal.
The final diplomatic obstacle in
the path of trans-Atlantic air trans
portation probably will be removed
| within a week, after which trial
flights are expected to begin at once,
it was announced yesterday by Assist
ant Secretary of Commerce J. Mon
roe Johnson.
Johnson said he had sent a note
to Canadian authorities expressing
approval of this Government of plans
covering the use of trans-Atlantic
bases at New York and Montreal.
Under the agreemont British trans
Atlantic planes will be permitted to
land at either of the cities, while
air transport ships operating under
the United States flag will be re
quired to restrict their operation*
to the New York base or to alterna
tive bad weather bases farther south
on the Atlantic Coast.
Construction of terminal facilities
at Baltimore and Charleston, S. C.,
already is in progress to provide bad
weather terminals.
and funnel and began filling the tank
herself.
"If he's looking for an heiress, he
won’t expect to find one doing this,”
she whispered.
As the miles rolled by she went over
and over her plans.
“I'm going to fight that annulment.”
she said, “and then I’m going to sue
for alienation of affections. He’s my
husband and he’s going to stay that
way. But first I'm going to hide out
for a while so they can’t serve me.
That will give me time to complete
my plans."
Suddenly, she leaned her head back
and began to cry:
“And I thought I was going to set
tle down like other married people."
Brill is 25, Mrs. Brill, 24.
Scratches
Bowie—
First race—Sir Isaac.
Fourth race—Continuity.
Seventh race—Airway, Jimmy D*
Apathy, Boocop.
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