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FORD STRIKE SETTLED
ON ASSURANCE TO U. A. W.
AGAINST DISCRIMINATION
Workers Re
turn to Jobs
on Monday.
RECOGNITION
NOT AN ISSUE
Wage Discussion
Referred to
Detroit.
BACKGROUND—
Henry Ford, last of the “big
three" of automobile manufacturers
to become embroiled with United
Automobile Workers, had his first
experience with the sit-down strike.
Friday, when between 600 and 1.000
employes seized Kansas City plant.
Repercussions from the wave of
sit-downs reached the Capital
Thursday, when Senator Byrnes,
Democrat, of South Carolina of
fered an amendment to the Guffey
coal bill declaring these strikes
contrary to public policy.
■r the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY. April 3 —Ed Hall,
tecond vice president of the United
Automobile Workers of America, an
nounced settlement tonight of the
strike which closed the Ford Motor
Co.'s assembly plant here yesterday.
Hall said the strikers will return
to work Monday “without any dis
crimination, whatsoever."
Following a conference with Ford
officials tonight. Hall said recognition
of the U. A. W. A. was not discussed
because “recognition was not an is
•ue "
i.ne striKors sat aown in me p'aui
yesterday in protest against lay-off
of about 300 men. some of whom
they said had worked for the com
pany as much as 24 years.
Hall said wages were discussed at
tonight's meeting and "the commit
tee was advised that it was necessary
to take up the discussion of wages
In Detroit, * * • that will be done.”
Discussing the “discrimination” pro
vision of the agreement. Hall said the
union would not object to seasonal
layoffs of employes as long as sen
iority rules were strictly observed.
This was somewhat in disagreement
With a statement he made earlier in
the negotiations in which he declared
Catly "no union men will be dismissed.”
Hall issued the following statement:
"Settlement has been reached in the
controversy, satisfactory to both par
ties, which will return the men to work
Monday morning without any dis
crimination whatsoever."
Wage discussions will begin in De
troit. Hall said, "on my return ”
Before returning to Detroit, how
ever, Hall said he would stop at Ander
son. Ind., to lead employe conferences
at the Delco-Remy plant.
Statement of Conference.
His statement of the conference
here concluded .
"We feel that the sit-down was
caused through a general misunder
atanding between employes and man
agement.
“The committee feels that there
Will be a much greater feeling of co
operation now than there has been
In the past.”
Hall said the United Automobile
Workers now have a total member
ship of 326.000 and predicted "we will
have the largest international in the
world" at the end of another 30 days.
The strike agreement climaxed
three hours of secret negotiations by
Hall, an 18-man committee from the
union here and unnamed representa
tives of the Ford Motor Co.
Hall refused to name the motor
company executives but at least two
company representatives were known
to have been present.
Men known to have flown here
from Ford headquarters for the strike
conference were called by telephone
in connection with the settlement but
the invariable response was:
"I have no statement to make.”
Later H. C. Doss, manager of the
>"ord plant here, issued a statement
which he said confirmed Hall's an
nouncement. Ln* the form of a notice
to employes, It said:
"For the information of all our
(See FORD, Page A-5.)
COUSIN IS INDICTED
IN MAXWELL CASE
Subornation of Perjury Charged
Against M. F. Dotson at
Wise, Va.
By the Associated Press.
WISE, Va., April 3.—Common
wealth’s Attorney Fred B. Greear said
today a Wise County grand jury had
Indicted M. F. Dotson, cousin of twice
eonvicted Edith MaxweU, on a charge
Of attempted subornation of perjury.
The prosecutor said the indictment
was based on a charge Dotson offered
a bribe to a witness at Miss Maxwell's
trial for the murder of her father,
Trigg Maxwell, if the witness would
testify he saw Maxwell take a drink
of liquor the night before he was
found dying in the kitchen door of
his Pound, Va., home.
Miss Maxwell, who was convicted
of second-degree murder at her sec
ond trial in December, 1936, testified
at her previous hearing in November,
1935, she struck her father with a
shoe when he tried to beat her while
drunk.
The girl's first conviction of first
degree murder and 25-year prison sen
tence was set aside by the Virginia
Supreme Court of Appeals and a new
trial ordered. The second jury rec
ommended a 20-year sentence, the
maximum under Virginia law for sec
ond-degree murder. An appeal is
pending.
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Congress Action on Sit-Down
! Is Predicted for This Week
Senate Expected to Pass Policy Dec
laration and House to Vote In
vestigation of Strikers.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Despite all efforts to choke off ac
tion in Congress on the sit-down strike
issue, it was predicted last night that
the Senate would adopt a declara
tion against the sit-down technique
and that the House would put through
the Dies resolution calling for a com
plete investigation of sit-down strikes.
Seizure of the Ford motor plant in
Kansas City by sit-down strikers
strengthened the demand of Senator
Byrnes of South Carolina. Sen .tor
Johnson of California, Senator Bailey
of North Carolina and others that
the Senate go on record in opposition
to the seizure of property by sit-down
strikers.
The House is expected to take up
the Dies resolution for an investiga
| tion of sit-down strikes on Thursday,
j The resolution was ordered favorably
reported by the House Rules Commit
tee Friday afternoon. With the action
of the Rules Committee, the resolu
tion now has a preferential status
in the House.
It is a sweeping resolution, call
ing for an inquiry into every phase
of the sit-down strike, dealing with
the employes and the employers, the
cause of such strikes and whi insti
gated them. The fact the Rules
Committee acted favorably on the
resolution in the face of opposition
by administration leaders and of labor
leaders is regarded as strongly sig
nificant. There is a very lively O'P- j
position to the sit-down strike among
members of the House. To shelve or
defeat the resolution of investigation
would be regarded by many as tanta
mount to condoning the sit-down
strike.
The determination of many mem
bers of both the Senate and House
to force a showdown on the sit-down
strike is indicative, it was said, of
the strong public sentiment which
(See SIT-DOWN,'Page A-4.i
TWO MEN KILLED
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Station Wagon Bearing D. C.
Tags Also Injures Two
Near Washington, Va.
1 Two colored men were killed in
stantly and two others were injured
early this morning when they were
run down on the Lee highway near
Washington, Va., by a hit-and-run
station wagon bearing District of
Columbia license tags.
After striking the men, the station
wagon swerved into a telephone pole.
Without pausing to determine the
fate of his victims, the driver aped
toward Washington.
Police authorities in the District
and in every county along the high
way to Washington were asked to be
on the lookout for the station w-agon.
Dead Men Cousins.
The dead men were cousins. Only
their last name, Fletcher, could be
learned immediately after the acci
dent. One was 19 years old and the
other 35. The injured men were taken
to the office of Dr. John D. Snead
at Sperryville, Va. Their condition
is undetermined.
In another Virginia accident yes- j
terday a Washingtonian was charged
with drunken driving following a
| head-on collision near Warrenton, in
w-hich seven residents of Luray were
. injured while en route here.
Automobile Mechanic.
State Policeman T. F. Stafford said
the Washington resident charged with
drunken driving was Richard B.
Simer. 31, an automobile mechanic, of
419 G street. Simer was lodged in
the Warrenton jail after treatment
for minor injuries.
The accident occurred about a mile
west of Warrenton. The head-on !
crash injured Mrs. Blanche Dovel, I
Denver Aleshire and five other Luray I
residents. None was seriously hurt
except Mrs. Dovel, who was admitted
to Warrenton Hospital for treatment
of head injuries.
The death yesterday of Mrs. Mary
M. Shloss, 58. of 1926 Calvert street,
who was fatally injured when struck
by a street car, brought to 38 the
number of traffic fatalities in the Dis
trict this year. Mrs. Shloss was pro- |
nounced dead on arrival at Emergency
Hospital, where she was taken from
the scene of the accident at Eighteenth
street and Columbia road.
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Storms Hit Oklahoma.
OKLAHOMA CITY, April 3
Electrical storms, light dusters and
showers hit Oklahoma today.
Dust blew in the Panhandle, where
an inch of snow fell five days ago.
At Guymon dust clouds cut visibility
to four blocks, and Beaver reported
light dust.
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100 Cubans to Quit Spain.
VALENCIA, Spain, April 3
The United States Embassy made
arrangements today to evacuate 100
Cubans from Spain next week. The
refugees, now in the Cuban Em
bassy at Madrid, will be taken to
Alicante by bus and board an Amer
ican ship there.
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Loyalists’ Attacks Seek to
Stop Rebels’ March
to Capital.
BACKGROUND—
In the last few weeks of Spanish
civil war Loyalists have made sur
prising gains. Insurgents made
Quick headway after war started
last July over Leftist policies, but
Winter slowed fighting. Several
weeks ago Gen. Franco's rebels be
gan new attacks on Madrid and
its defenders rallied. They resisted
the attacks and, inspired, began
drive of their own in major prov
inces near capital. Fighting has
been renewed on big scale, with
Loyalists claiming many victories.
BO the Associated Press.
WITH MILITARY OBSERVERS j
ON THE BILBAO FRONT, Northern
Spain, April 3.—By the sea and in j
the tall mountains of the Basque lands,
a Basque government army struggled
tonight to hold Gen. Francisco Fran
co's insurgent armies from their au
tonomous republican capital, Bilbao.
It was a surprise attack and a
double one which they fought to sup
press with every ounce of available
manpower. In their narrow strip along
the Bay of Biscay, with insurgent
country on the east and west and to
the south, the Basques knew the fall
of their northern stronghold would be
a telling blow to the cause they sup
port—the Madrid-Valencia govern
ment of Spain.
This region is rich in natural re
sources. and besides, it has an access
to the sea and the help the sea can
bring.
The fighting was hot both on the
seacoast, some 21 miles east of Bilbao,
and in the Cantabrian Mountains
which rim the Basque capital on the
south and east.
Both Sides Make Progress.
Both sides made halting progress at
separate points, but there seemed to
night to have been no important gain
of ground for either.
On the sea, government defenders
withstood a withering assault on the
town of Lequeitio, 21 miles east and
slightly north of Bilbao.
On the south, in the mist-shrouded
mountains, a daring band of govern
ment Basques scaled a 4.600-foot
mountain peak. La Cruz, one of the
natural barriers that lei between the
insurgents and Durango, from which
place they might sweep downhill some
16 miles into Bilbao.
Some insurgent war materials on
the mountain peak fell into govern
ment hands, and the stiff battle there
left insurgent dead strewn in the
lofty crevices.
On other salients in the moun
tains, however, the insurgents edged
(See SPAIN, Page A-6.)
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Student Rioters Banned.
WARSAW, Poland, April 3 OP).—
Determined to halt anti-Semitic riots,
the minister of education today or
dered expulsion of one student and
banned 178 from Warsaw University
for one year on account of participa
tion In repeated clashes.
Heiress Bride May Ask Ex-Mate
To Help Fisht Brill Annulment
bj the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 3.—Mrs.
Nan Pierson Brooks Macy Brill, beau
tiful New York heiress, collapsed in
a San Francisco hotel today, and re
viving, vowed she would “bring my
ex-husband and half of New York
society” to fight an annulment suit
brought by her second husband, Wil
liam Brill, jr., to Los Angeles.
She eloped March 29 to Yuma with
Brill who is also wealthy and so
cially prominent.* •
Their honeymoon lasted two days,
then he disappeared, and she was in
formed Friday he had filed suit for
annulment, charging they we in
toxicated when the ceremony was
performed, and that she had mis
represented her previous marital
status.
Hysterical, aha wheeled one of his
ft
large roadsters out of the four-car
garage back of his home and sped
400 miles to San Francisco. She had
no money or luggage.
Today, shortly after she arose, Mrs.
Brill had another attack of hysteria.
She burst into tears when she at
tempted to give a newspaper inter
view.
"Just—can’t—do it,” she sobbed,
rushing back to her room. "I want
to tell them all about it. I've got
nothing to hide. But I can’t.”
Later in the day, she saw reporters
for a few moments.
"You know as much about it as
I do,” she said, “I don’t know why
Bill disappeared after we came back
from Arizona.
"When I saw him in the garage
yesterday, he took me in his arms
(Sea BRIUa Pag* A-B.i
MARKHAM URGES
MORE EXPENSIVE
CANAL IN FLORIDA
Chief of Army Engineers, in
Opposition to Board, Asks
$197,921,000 to Finish.
SCOUTS IDEA WATERS
WILL DAMAGE TREES
Recommendations to Congress and
Attached Findings of Board May
Be Made Public Tomorrow.
BACKGROUND—
The Florida ship canal project
supposedly originated at the White
House, and, with the Passama
quoddy tidal basin power project
in Maine, was understood to stand
high on President Roosevelt’s list
of work relief programs.
The canal plan met bitter oppo
sition in some sections of Florida,
where citrus fruit growers feared
it might imperil their fresh-water
supply. This and Republican oppo
sition on the ground that it was
economically unjustified resulted
in defeat for the proposal in the
Seventy-fourth Congress.
Construction of a larger and more
costly ship canal across Florida than
was originally planned, was recom- (
mended to Congress yesterday in a
report by Maj. Gen. Edward M. Mark- ,
ham. chief of Army Engineers, in I
which he disagreed on major points
with findings of the Board of Army
Engineers for Rivers and Harbors.
Gen. Markham placed the cost of
completing the project at $197,921,000,
exclusive of interest charges. He re
jected the board's fears that construc
tion of the proposed sea-level canal
would spoil the underground fresh
water supply and make the Federal
Government at least morally liable
for numerous claims for property
damage.
Instead, he took the position that
the flow of salt water in the canal
would cause no appreciable amount
of damage to the valuable fruit and
agricultural lands of the region.
Urges Wider, Deeper Channel.
While the board was understood to
have described the project as eco
nomically unjustified. Gen. Markham
recommended that it be completed,
and that it be enlarged to provide a
channel having a minimum bottom j
width of 400 instead of 240 feet and
a minimum depth of 33 instead of 30
feet, flared and deepened at the Gulf
entrance. His recommendation teas
sent to Speaker Bankhead yesterday
by Secretary of War Woodring and
probably will be made public tomor
row, together with the attached find
ings of the board and the division and
district Army Engineers.
Reopening the controversy which
arose when President Roosevelt al
lotted $5 000,000 of Public Works Ad
ministration funds to start the proj
ect and which led to the halting of
work last year when Congress refused
to authorize its continuance, the con
flicting reports are expected to fur- 1
nish heavy ammunition for both sides j
in a new political fight over the canal. I
Those favoring its completion al- !
ready are beginning to build their ease
for an appropriation on Gen. Mark
ham's recommendations, while those
who oppose it because of its pros
pective large cost and fear of the ef
fect of the salt water on the water
supply in the porous underground
limestone are preparing to stress the
board's findings.
Would Wipe Out Defeat.
It is regarded as certain that ad
ministration leaders will seize on Gen. |
Markham's recommendation in a drive
to wipe out the major defeat ad
ministered to President Roosevelt last
year when Congress refused to author
ize continuance of either the Florida
ship canal or the $40,000,000 Passama
quoddy Tidal Basin power project in
Maine, on which about $7,000,000 of
P. W. A. funds were spent, They
(See"CANAL, Page A^l67)
FRANCE SEEN WON
TO ARMS PARLEY
Bonnet Hints Support for Move
Reported Considered by
Roosevelt.
by the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 3.—French sup
port for the world disarmament con
ference proposal which President
Roosevelt has been represented as con
sidering was hinted at today by
George Bonnet, the new French Am
bassador to the United States.
The envoy introduced into a lunch
eon address before the federation of
De L’Alliance Francais a quotation
from Leon Blum, head of the French
government. The quotation was:
"The general and controlled reduc
tions of armaments remain the hope
and even the necessity of tomorrow.”
The words were significantly linked
by Bonnet with a reference to France’s
advocacy of "organization of a collec
tive security in order to prevent any
war,” in 1924 and again in 1933.
Until the nations did reach some
sort of agreement on curbing arma
ments, Bonnet said his country feels
justified in increasing her arms.
Boats on the Potomac
Along the water front the boating enthusiasts
are painting, caulking, building new docks. In a few
days thousands of Washingtonians will be afloat on
the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay every week end.
Each Sunday during the boating season The
Star will print a page of the latest boating news.
Turn to Pages B-10 and 11 of today’s Sunday
Star.
REVIVAL IN THE SENATE OF AN OLD PLAY!
Rescue Ship Battered by Sea
In Search for Disabled Vessel
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Two Other Steamers Push Into Heavy
Seas in Mid-Atlantic Answering
Repeated Appeals for Help.
K? the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 3 —Severely
battered by a rmd-At!antie gale, the
British steamer Zealandic wirelessed
tonight that heavy seas prevented it
from proceeding further in answer to
repeated distress calls of the stricken
German freighter Borkum.
The Borkum was reported crippled
and leaking about a thousand miles
east of New York.
‘Our steering house damaged by
heavy seas. Cannot do anything for
S 6. Borkum until weather moderates."
the Zealandic wirelessed at 8 18 p m.
(Eastern standard time}.
Nosing its way through high waves
and a thick mist the Zealandic radioed
an hour earlier to the Radiomarine
Corp.
“Still searching for the S. S.
Borkum, which is still sending dis- 1
tress calls periodically. Zealand!? at
position given, but unable to find the .
Borkum."
Two Other Vessels Approach.
Two other steamships drove through
the storm to aid the British boat in j
its search. The Borkum. its radio re- •
ceivrr inoperative, reported its steering '
gear disabled and that it was taking
water through its storm-wrenched
plates.
Hidden by blinding squalls that cut
visibility to a bare half mile, the help
(See-SHiPS, Page A-6l
CUMMINGS FIGHT
ON NEARING SEEN
Wheeler Charges Effort
Made to End Testimony on
Judiciary Bill.
BACKGROUND—
President Roosevelt's plan to add
six new justices to the Supreme
Court unless incumbents over 70
retire was announced without
warning February 5. Encounter
ing a storm of protest, the reasons
for the proposal have undergone
successive transformations, until
now the proponents frankly state
their purpose is to alter the “state
of mind" of the justices.
Senate Judiciary Committee be
gan hearings on the bill four weeks
ago, receiving volumes of testimony
and a minimum of new ideas. The
essence of opposition testimony is
that plan tvould undermine the
American form of government.
Attorney General Cummings was
charged last night with trying to shut
off further hearings on President
Roosevelt's court bill. The charge
was made by Senator Wheeler. Demo
crat of Montana, a leader in the fight
against the measure.
Chairman Ashurst of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, which has been
holding the hearings for four weeks,
denied he would try to terminate or
exert any pressure on committee mem
bers to that end.
Wheeler contended the Attorney
General wanted to end the hearings
because the administration had no
witnesses to meet the array of testi
mony by "public-spirited citizens" in
opposition to the bill.
Success in Committee Predicted.
Although explaining it was a "mere
guess,” Ashurst forecast that 10 of j
the 18 committee members will sup- .
port the bill w'hen it reaches a vote
in committee.
Asserting prolongation of the hear
ings is "not only good strategy, but
is right,” Ashurst added: "I couldn’t
with any degree of equanimity meet
the charge that the hearings were
shut off. I want to be able to say
that no strong-arm methods were
used.”
At the same time, Ashurst said it
was beginning to look as if the hear
ings will end "some time during the
latter part of April. Senator Burke,
Democrat of Nebraska, opposition
leader on the committee, agreed on
(See JUDICIARY, Page A-4.)
Retorts Sharply to Accusa
tion He Is Building Mili
taristic Regime.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 3—Common
wealth President Manuel Quezon
struck back today at critics who con
tend he is building a military dictator
ship in the Philippine Islands.
Quezon retorted sharply to Oswald
Garrison Villard, associate editor of
The Nation, at a luncheon discussion
of the Philippines’ future before the
Foreign Policy Association.
Villard expressed fear of a military
dictatorship and "great anxiety for the
future of the Philippines." He as
serted President Quezon's military
training program sounded "suspiciously
like Rome. Berlin and Moscow." and j
suggested the neutralization of the
Philippines as the answer to her
problems.
President Quezon answered that he i
was not opposed to the neutralization
of the Philippines, but pointed out that
the neutralization of Switzerland had 1
been .effective because every man in
the country is trained to bear arms.
U. S. Strength in Islands.
He said the present military strength
of the United States Army in the
Philippines consists of 10,251 enlisted
men and 529 officers, including Fili
pinos in the service of the United
States.
Villard, on the other hand, con
tended that under the military train
ing program, the Philippines would
have an army of 1,250.000 by 1946, of
men who had had military training.
The commonwealth President re
plied the program was carefully con
sidered after the Filipinos had seen |
what happened to "Belgium, Abyssinia '
and Manchuria," and characterized as
"absurd" the assertion "I'm trying to
build up an army to perpetuate me in
office.”
“I believe the Philippines can be
conquered by a first-class power,” he
(See QUEZON, Page A-2.)
Hoeppel Wins Parole, but Plea
Of Son for Freedom Is Denied
The District Parole Board last night
granted a parole to former Repre
sentative John H. Hoeppel of Califor
nia, serving a term at Occoquan for
conspiring to sell a West Point ap
pointment, but rejected the applica
tion for clemency for his son, Charles
J. Hoeppel. Their plea was heard
Friday.
The erstwhile House member, ac
cused with his son of soliciting $1,000
from James W. Ives, Johns Hopkins
athlete, for the Military Academy
berth, will be released in the next few
days when the Parole Board has a
chance to check on his parole plan,
Wilbur La Roe, jr„ the chairman, said.
His son, who was just 21 when they
were tried and convicted here in De
cember, 1935, will—with good be
havior—be freed on September 25.
Their sentence waa lour month! to
I
a year, but they did not enter Occo
quan until last November, after un
successfully prosecuting an appeal and
then seeking freedom through a writ j
of habeas corpus. They became eligible
for parole on completion of the mini
mum sentence March 24.
Board Divided on Plea.
The Parole Board divided. 2 to 1,
on the application of the former Repre
sentative, but was unanimous against
liberating the son. Chairman La Roe
and Frank R. JellefT voted for the
elder Hoeppel’s parole, while Dr. Em
mett J. Scott opposed it.
"The crime of which applicants
were convicted was most serious,” the j
board said in its majority report on
the case. "Conspiracy by a member of
Congress to accept a bribe strikes at
the very foundations of Government. ]
(See HOEP^EL, Page A*90 i
MARYLAND SENATE
O.K.S BOOKMAKING
Prince Georges Included in
Plan to Raise State
Relief Funds.
Fy ! Staff Correspondent of rhe Star.
ANNAPOLIS, April 4 (Sunday).—
By a vote of 17 to 12 the States
$5,360,000 annual relief program,
which legalizes bookmakmg in Prince
Georges and five other counties, passed
the Senate at 1:20 am. today.
The measure now goes to the House,
which late last night recessed until
10 o'clock Monday morning.
On Monday—the final day of the
1937 session—the bill will be taken
up by the House for concurrence.
The legalization of bookmakmg in
Prince Georges, where National Capital
racing fans for years have patronized
“Jimmy's” place, is accomplished under
a clause in the measure which pro
vides a $5,000 State license fee an
nually for all bookmakers with a tax
of 1 per cent on all wagers and a
$25,000 county license fee.
Passage of the welfare measure
with bookmaking provision came after
members of the upper chamber com
pletely reversed themselves on the
subject of bookmaking and voted to
legalize it after voting it down earlier .
in the evening.
However, 17 counties, including
Montgomery, exempted themselves
from the provision legalizing book
making. By amendment to the bill
on second reading the counties in
which handbooks would be outlawed
are Montgomery, Calvert, Dorchester,
Allegany. Harford, Kent, Wicomico, 1
Frederick, Washington, Somerset,
Queen Annes. Talbot, Worcester. Anne
Arundel, Caroline, Garrett and
Charles.
Senate President Lansdale G.
Sasscer of Prince Georges offered an
amendment to include Prince Georges
in the counties that would permit
hand books, but imposed a $25,000
annual license fee in addition to the
State fee of $5,000 and the tax of 1
per cent on all bets.
The $25,000 fee would be in the
nature of a county tax. the proceeds
to go toward aid for the needy and
general county purposes.
It is also provided in the amend- \
ment that all applications for licenses
to operate bookmaking establishments
in Prince Georges would be subject
(See BOOKMAKING, Page A-16.)
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MARSHAL AND DEPUTY
IN DEADLY GUN BATTLE
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Texas Duel in Front of Cafe Fol
lows Blow, and County At
torney Is Witness.
By the Associated Press.
HEMPSTEAD, Tex., April 3—Two
veteran peace officers stood ' toe to
toe” today and “shot it out” in front
>f a downtown cafe.
City Marshal J. D. Shelbourne was
tilled and Chief Deputy Sheriff
Jlaude Hutchins was probably fa
tally wounded.
County Attorney William S. Jack
son, an eye-witness, said one of the
nen struck the other with his hand
ind a second later the pistols roared
n unison. Jackson said it was im
yossible to determine who shot first.
Friends said they knew no cause
'or the shooting.
WOO IN BONDS
| ORDERED FOR IS
IN GAMBLING RAIDS
Charges Filed After Quizzing
140 Arrested in Four
Round-ups.
DRIVES ON 9th STREET
MADE SIMULTANEOUSLY
Police Steadily Advance Amount
of Bond to $3,000 a Count.
Fees to Be Considerable.
Bonds totaling $69,000 were ordered
early today against 16 men booked on
gambling charges following four simul
taneous raids on Ninth street estab
lishments which netted 140 prisoners
yesterday afternoon.
The tedious process of interroga
tion continued far into the night at
headquarters as investigators sought
to separate suspected proprietors of
gambling places and assistants from
men and women patrons arrested on
the premises.
It was after midnight before the
final suspect was'booked. Meanwhile,
the wives, friends, relatives and
bondsmen of the prisoners thronged
headquarters ante rooms and lounged
in the corridors.
$3,000 Bonds Assessed.
Police boosted the bond ante to
$3,000 a charge. Four defendants
had two charges placed against them,
and one had four, for a total of
$12,000. At least half a dozen bonds
men were on hand to take care of
the rush.
Even if the cases against the s |s
pects are dismissed, the raiders last
night threw the alleged gamblers for
a considerable loss in bonding fees.
When the mass raids began on March
10, only $1,000 bond was asked for
each charge. The amount since ha*
been boosted by $500 increases.
Led by Lieut. O. J. Letterman and
United States Deputy M irshal Clay
ton Gasque. raiders converged on the
pool room of Lsaac Micbelson, 57. at
911 Ninth street, and tcok 57 mt-a
into custody.
More than 50 were arrested at the
Mount Vernon Pool Room. 937 Ninth
street, operated by Melvin O. Zirkie.
Lieut J. E Fondahl led the raid.
Phone Outfit Seized.
Sixteen prisoners, including three
women, were taken at the Orchard
Fountain Service, 903 Ninth street. A
telephone outfit, numbers slips and
racing charts were reported seized
by Lieut. W. J. Cunningham aivl
United States Deputy Marshal J. B
Upperman.
The fourth raid, on a pool room and
barber shop at 610 Ninth street, re
sulted in arrest of 14 men and two
women. Thirty pin-ball machines and
24 claw machines were confiscated.
Lieut. Thomas Mason directed this
raid.
The first to be booked was Zirkie,
who gave his age as 36 and residence
In the 1200 block of Thirteenth street.
Three others arrested with him also
were charged with setting up a gam
ing table. They were: Herman
Edwin Roach. 38. of the 900 block of
Eighth street: Thomas Wesley Bean,
49. of the 800 block of L street, and
James Walter Campo, 36, of the 900
block of H street.
The police war on gambling has
resulted in 43 raids.
Hundreds Struggle to Watch.
Hundreds of shoppers on Ninth
street struggled for places of vantage
to watch while the raiders herded
their prisoners into patrol wagons
yesterday altemoon.
Michaelson and his son. Howard,
of the 4800 block of Fourth street,
were held under $6,000 bonds each
on two charges of setting up a gaming
table and conspiracy to violate the
gambling laws. The bonds totaled
$12,000.
Others arrested on the same prem
ises were Vincent Marino. 900 block
of Fifth street, held under $12,000
bond on four charges: Arthur Edward
Williams, 800 block of Ninth street,
held under $6,000 bond on two charges
and George D. Craig, 600 block of
Morton place northeast, held under
$3,000 bond on one charge.
Police said they booked Marino
on the two additional charges be
cause they had missed him when
they raided another place in the 900
block of Ninth street on March 10.
Marino was charged twice with set
ting up a gaming table, and twics
with conspiracy to violate the gamb
ling laws.
t onspiracv is » nargea.
Craig was charged with setting up
a gaming table and Williams with
setting up a gaming table and con
spiracy.
At 903 Ninth street, George H.
Lilley of that address and Clark
Stockstill, 800 block of Seventh
street southwest, were arrested and
charged with setting up a gaming
table.
Similar charges were placed against
John Dunlea, 800 block of Sixth
street; Manny Kline, 900 block of
H street; Frank LaBarr, Poughkeep
sie, N. Y„ and Nick Koury, 900 block
of H street, all of whom were ar
rested at 610 Ninth street.
The raiders picked up Bernard
Newyhar, 1200 block of N street, on
old charges of setting up a gaming
table and conspiracy. 711
Police said Newyhar was out when
they raided a place in the 900 block
of Ninth street on March 10. plot ?£
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DUKE SCALES MOUNT
Windsor's 4,000-foot Climb Fol
lowed by Picnic.
SAINT WOLFGANG, Austria, April
3 The Duke of Windsor, wear
ing leather pants, spent five and one
half hours today climbing Schafberg
Mountain, to an altitude of 4,000 feet.
There the former British monarch
enjoyed a picnic with companions.
Snow prevented their reaching the
peak, 5,850 feet above sea level.
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