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85th YEAR. No. 33,9o4. _WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1937—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. **** on M..n, A,..ci.t.d pr.... TWO CENTS.
TO CITE FORD TO
Claims Would Be Based on
Alleged Beating of Two
Workers.
FIRM OFFICIAL DOUBTS
CHARGES WILL BE FILED
“Will Have Ford on Run by Mon
day," Martin, U. A. W. A.
President, Declares.
BACKGROUND—
United Automobile Workers of
America, a C. /. O. affiliate, was
given its first boost last January
when it won at least partial vic
tory in strike against General Mo
tors. Chrysler strike followed and
settlement according recognition to
union members also was effected.
Other auto manufacturers followed
suit. Then last week's Supreme
Court decision holding Wagner
labor relations act constitutional
intensified union's drive against
biggest hold-out employer, Henry
Ford.
E? the Associated Press.
DETROIT. April 17.—Ed Hall, vice
president of the United Automobile
Workers of America, was quoted today
as saying charges might be filed with
the National Labor Relations Board
against the Ford Motor Co., but a
Ford official said he believed Hall
had "changed his mind."
' Hall had said the contemplated
charges would be based upon the beat
ing of two Kansas City union mem
bers, employes of the Ford plant there.
"That was a fight among their own
gang." the Ford official said, "and Hall
knows it now.”
Hall was reported to be in Janes
ville, Wis., today.
Ford on Run. Martin Says.
In Oshawa. Ontario, Homer Martin,
president of the U. A. \V. A., declared
that “we will have Henry Ford defi
nitely on the run by Monday." He
also mentioned charges to be filed
with the Labor Board, but declined to
discuss their nature. Martin was in
Oshawa in connection with a strike of
General Motors of Canada employes.
The Ford official said Martin had
no basis for his assertion.
The U. A. W. A. intensified its cam- j
paign to enroll Ford workers follow
ing the Supreme Court's upholding of I
the Wagner national labor relations
act, which provides that a labor or
ganization having a majority of the
workers shall be the collective bar- 1
gaining agency.
“We have organized several thou- !
sand Ford workers already." declared !
Walter Reuther, president of the local
union, whose area includes the main
Ford plant in suburban Dearborn. "The
West Side local already has a sufficient
base in the Ford plant to insure a ,
permanent and lasting organization." ;
In an interview following the court !
decision Ford said his employes were
"free to join anything,” but repeated
his statement that it was "foolish” to
join a union and that it would deprive !
them of their "liberty.” Ford said "in- ;
ternational financiers” were promoting
unions to stifle industrial competition.
Martin, whose U. A. W. A. is one ;
of the largest unions in John L. Lewis’ '
Committee for Industrial Organization,
also said the La Follette Civil Liberties
Committee would be asked to investi
gate Ford's relations with his em
ployes
As part of its program to organize ;
(See FORD7Page A-3.J
D.C. HELP IS ASKED
IN NAMING SUICIDE
Man Registered as Washingtonian
Shoots Self to Death in
Baltimore Hotel.
Washington and New York police
were asked by Baltimore authorities
today to aid in identification of a
man who shot himself to death in a
Baltimore hotel last night, shortly
after registering as "Georges Schluner
of Washington.”
Hotel attendants heard a shot :
shortly before midnight and found
Schluner sprawled across the bed in
his room with a revolver beside him.
He had been shot through the temple.
Police found a note asking them not
to try to Identify him and requested
• that $75 left in his wallet be used for
his funeral expenses.
The man was described as about 35
years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, and
weighing 160 pounds. He had dark
brown hair and was wearing a gray
suit and hat. The hat had a New
York label. The man’s belt buckle
was initialed with a "C.”
GIRL IN BUS ACCIDENT !
FOUND DEAD MILE OFF
Body of Georgia Passenger, Miss
ing Since Tuesday, Identified
by Father.
Bt the Associated Press.
BRUNSWICK, Ga., April 17.—Miss
Emma Mae Hough, 18, missing pas
senger of a Pan-American bus wrecked
in White Oak Creek early Tuesday,
was found dead in the stream today
• mile from the scene of the accident.
R. M. Hough of Lakeland, Fla., her
father, identified the body. It was
recovered by Coast Guardsmen.
Twenty-two persons were injured
when the bus left the highway on a
fill during a heavy fog, plunged into
the creek and turned upon its side.
White Oak boatmen rescued them.
There were reports the girl had been
seen at a tourist camp after the acci
. dent.
Hough said his daughter was un
married, but sometimes used the name
of Mrs. Emily Stewart in traveling.
She boarded the bus at Jacksonville,
£v, and was going to Charlotte, N. Cyg
Their “Hunch” Worked
Sheriff Homer Sylvester (left) of Cass County, Nebr., and
brother Cass, his deputy, who captured tico robbery suspects
after they shot their way out of G-Men’s trap in Topeka, Kans.
The sheriff’s won on the “hunch" that the gangsters would get
lost in Plattsmouth (population 3,793), where the arrests were
made. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Federal Agent Wayne W.
Baker, seriously wounded in
battle with the gangsters at
Topeka.—Buckingham Photo.
Helen Daingerfield, Defend*
ant in Sanity Hearing,
Flees Estate.
Br s Staff Correspondent oi The Star
ALEXANDRIA, Va„ April 17.—The
legal battle over the sanity of Miss
Mary Helen Daingerfield appeared
stalemated today following the 56
year-old heiress' escape from court
guards last night.
Reports placed Miss Daingerfield in
Union Station at Washington one
hour following her flight and police
said she would not be extradited if
she had sought refuge in the District
or in another State.
Miss Daingerfield. member of one
of Alexandria’s oldest families, out
witted a special officer who has been
posted at Malvern, a beautiful old
estate where she lived alone on the
outskirts of the city, and fled in a
waiting automobile.
The getaway apparently had been
well planned. Ralph Nalls, the guard,
told officers the woman retired to a
wash room on the first floor of her
home about 10:30 p.m. and was gone
for some time before his suspicions
were aroused.
He entered the room and discovered
his charge had escaped through a
door leading onto a lawn outside
the residence. A few moments later,
according to police, Nalls saw Miss
Daingerfield running across a field
some 300 yards away.
The woman entered a yellow auto
mobile waiting on King Street road
and sped away, police reported.
Washington relatives of the woman
are reported to have learned she was
seen at Union Station in the National
Capital.
TWO STUDENTS KILLED
IN CAROLINA CAR CRASH
Third Davidson College Youth
Seriously Hurt as Auto Leaves
Hoad on Curve.
By the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., April 17.—
Hoxle m. Thompson, jr„ of Houston,
Tex., and Archie Campbell Cline, Jr.,
of Concord, N. C., Davidson College
students, were killed in an automobile
crash near here early today.
David McMillan of Norfolk, Va.,
another student, was seriously injured,
but hospital attaches said there was
hope for his recovery.
McMillan is a son of Dr. Jason H.
McMillan, pastor of the First Presby
terian Church of Norfolk. He said
Cline was driving the machine, which
went out of control on a curve and
struck a tree.
A nother Huge Crowd Expected
In D. C. Tomorrow for Blooms
All roads will lead to the Japanese
cherry trees again tomorrow, and If
the sun shines, which is somewhat
doubtful, the fragile blossoms will
play host to even larger throngs than
last week end.
Recovering rapidly after dropping
below the 40-degree mark overnight,
the mercury headed upward today and
probably will be at comfortable levels
tomorrow.
This was the only optimistic note
in the forecast, however, the Weather
Bureau stating the skies will be over*
cast and showers are passible.
This afternoon, the forecaster sajit
will bring increasing cloudiness and
rising temperatures, with the over
night “low” expected to be about 48.
Any fear of high winds shearing off
the blossoms was dispelled when the
weather man predicted the winds
would be moderate and mostly south
erly.
District and Maryland authorities,
harassed last Sunday by an unending
stream of automobiles into the Cap
ital, are prepared for another crush.
The railroads reported “very brisk”
business today, with most of the travel
incoming, and tomorrow’s excursions
(See BLOSSOMS, Page iflft-)
WAGNER DECISIONS
ARE SUMMARIZED
U. S. Chamber Expresses
Its Interpretations as
Meeting Nears.
B? the Associated Press.
The United States Chamber of
Commerce said today the Supreme
Court did not hold in the Wagner
decisions that Congress could regulate
manufacturing operations "in regard
to hours of work, wages paid, or any
other such matter."
The chamber expressed this inter
pretation in its Washington Review.
"On the contrary,” it said regarding
wages and hours, "the court said
unanimously in the companion rail
road case decided on March 29 that
its decision of 25 years ago still stands,
to the effect that in entering into con
tracts of employment railroads act in
the same private capacity as any other
employer and Congress can not fix
the terms of contracts of employment
merely because the employer is en
gaged in interstate commerce."
Decisions to Be Discussed.
The chamber said the court's de
cisions upholding the national labor
relations act would be a subject for
discussion at its annual meeting here
April 26-29, and. meanwhile, it was
giving members a summary of the
decisions.
The summary added that some
rights of employers were "expressly
confirmed.” It gave as examples the
right to maintain an open shop and
the right to discharge an employe for
non-performance of his contract of
employment.
It said that all questions about
rights of employes that may be in
fringed (by the labor relations act)
"remain for future cases."
A number of industrial leaders will
meet with chieftains of organized labor
here Tuesday to discuss the problems
of collective bargaining.
19 Acceptances So Far.
fThe conference was called by Sec
retary Perkins, who Invited 33. She
said today she had received 19 accept
ances.
The latest to accept were Daniel
Willard, president of the Baltimore <k
Ohio; C. M. Chester, chairman of the
National Association of Manufacturers,
and John L. Lewis, head of the Com
mitte for Industrial Organization.
Still to be heard from is William
Green, president of the American Fed
eration of Labor. Office associates said
they did not know whether he expected
to attend.
Resentment Shown.
One official of the National Labor
Relations Board, which administers
the act, said the members “felt rather
keenly” the fact that Miss Perkins
had called such a conference without
consulting the board.
The board, he said, always was will- 1
ing to discuss with employers the
methods of compliance with the
Wagner act, and even had considered
arranging a conference to thresh out
collective bargaining problems.
Labor Department officials said the
conference was not called with any
thought of infringing on the field of
the Labor Board. They pointed out
that the department’s machinery for
conciliation was related closely to col
lective bargaining.
No definite agenda has been drafted.
The conferees are expected to develop
their own program as the session
progresses.
Office Seeks Man.
EDWARDSVILLE, 111., April 17 (/F).
—There were 171 applicants for the
position of superintendent of schools
here but the board of education unani
mously chose E. L. Alexander, who
had not formally applied.
WOUNDED G-MAN
BATHES FOR LIFE;
BANDJTSGRILLED
Two Transfusions Given to
Baker at Topeka, but
Condition Kept Secret.
GANGSTERS SEPARATED
LEAVING OMAHA CELLS
Federal Agents Hope to Get All
Possible Facts—Arrest Made
by Rural Officers.
B> the Associated Press
TOPEKA. Kans., April 17—Wayne
W. Baker, young G-man shot down on
first major assignment, underwent tw'o
blood transfusions as physicians sought
to save his life today while his fellow
agents hammered questions at two New
York gunmen.
The gunmen, apprehended by a
county Sheriff in Nebraska, were sepa
rated and hustled into two automo
biles at Omaha before dawn, ostensibly
to be brought here. There were indi
cations, however, that the pair, Robert
Suhay and Alfred Powers, alias Lewis,
had been secreted elsewhere by the
agents
The Federal strategy appeared to be,
as is usual in such cases, an effort to
get every detail possible from each of;
the gangsters, from-whom $11.000 of!
an asserted $18,000 New York bank j
loot was recovered.
The agents took unprecedented pre
cautions to keep secret Baker's exact
contrition. Even J Edgar Hoover, di
rector of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation, telephoned the hospital
here to enforce the elaborate instruc
tions. This was in line with a deter
mination to get the story of the two
gangsters before they were aware of
Baker's condition.
Pair to Be Indicted.
S. S Alexander, United States at
torney for Kansas, said the pair would
be indicted here for the shooting of
Agent Baker.
"If he recovers the charge will be
assault with a dangerous weapon, for
which there is a penalty of 10 years'
imprisonment.
"If he fails to recover the charge
will be murder, for which we w-ill ask
the death penalty.”
Alerander said, however, that if the
Federal agent, whose condition this
morning was said to be "very low,”
does recover and it develops a greater
penalty could be assessed for the rob
bery of the Katonah, N. Y„ bank,
they could be prosecuted there.
"But." he said, ”1 am inclined to be
lieve the case will be tried here.”
Last night the gangsters lost their
w-ay in the criss-cross streets of a
small Nebraska town and surrendered
without resistance. Ten hours after
(See GANGSTERS,- Page AMO.)
DU PONT AND RASKOB
CALLED TO TESTIFY
Board of Tax Appeals Issues Sub
poenas for Hearing on
Income Levies.
Bs the Associated Press.
The Board of Tax Appeals haa
asked Pierre S. du Pont and John J.
Raskob to testify in New York, May 3.
regarding the Treasury's suit for re
covery of alleged deficiencies in their
income taxes.
Subpoenas were issued yesterday for
their appearance on that date, when
their appeals from tax assessments
will be heard.
Treasury officials have contended
Raskob and du Pont entered into a
transaction eight years ago to create
fictitious stock sales to establish
losses which would permit reductions
in income tax returns. The Govern
ment contends Raskob owes *1,026,340
in taxes and du Pont *617,316.
Summary of Today’s Star
Page
Amusements. C-16
Art _B-3
Books _B-2
Church
News ..B-5-6-7
Comics_A-13
Editorials ... A-6
Financial_A-ll
Lost & Found A-3
Page
Music _B-4
Obituary _A-8
Radio _A-8
Real
Estate C-X to 8
Society .A-9
Short Story A-10
Sports_C-9-10
Woman’s Pg. B-8
STRIKE SITUATION.
Union threatens to cite Ford to Labor
Board. Page A-l
19 industrial and labor leaders accept
bid to conference. Page A-l
SPECIAL ARTICLES.
The kidnaping of Gen. Chiang Kai
shek. Page A-4
NATIONAL.
Senate Judiciary hearings to close by
April 28. Page A-l
Wounded G-man given blood trans
fusions. Page A-l
Senate committee to protest Harlan
County witnesses. Page A-l
U. S. halts Russian plan to buy battle
ship materials here. Page A-2
Maryland authorities say man confesses
slaying mother of nine, page A-3
U. S. officials seek early showdown on
social security act. Page A-3
Wheeler film censorship touches off
fight. Page A-8
FOREIGN.
Spanish loyalists advance in Teruel
drive. Page A-2
Rumania fears Nazi coup in stir over
Nicholas' banishment. Page A-2
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Another flood of cherry blossom vis
itors expected. Page A-l
New checks to prevent auto ticket
fixing. Page A-l
Gen. J. J. Morrow, former D. C. Com
missioner, 41m. Page A-l
Gross receipts tax is backbone of Gov.
Nice’s relief bill. j$age A-14
• AlL because"'
You're A DEMOCRAT!
V _
Triple Recording System in
Effect Monday, Says
Edwards.
A new triple check system of record
ing supposedly minor traffic law vio
lations will be instituted Monday in
an effort to prevent unjustified “ticket
fixing." Inspector L. I H Edwards
announced today
At the same time. Inspector Ed
wards confirmed reports that he is
investigating a complaint of undue
leniency shown in adjustment of a
number of tickets in the central traf
fic collateral and ticket adjustment
office.
The department's new trafflc^ticket
policy. Inspector Edwards satd, calls
for abolition of the central ticket ad
justment office, but he stoutly denied
that the complaint under investigation
played any part in formulating this
policy.
Police Supt Ernest W. Brown ordered
preparation of the order establishing
the new policy early in March, weeks
before the complaint against the cen
tral adjustment office was received.
Inspector Edwards said.
Warnings to Be Noted.
Under the new policy, even the
most trivial violation which esults
in a verbal warning from a police
man will be noted against a motorist's
record and recalled if that motorist ap
peals for leniency within the en
suing year.
Full responsibility for adjustment
of traffic tickets under the new policy
is shifted from the central adjust
ment office to precinct commanders.
Abolished is the present practice of
compelling motorists to deposit col
lateral for all traffic violations, ir
respective of what precinct they oc
cured in, at the Traffic Bureau. Be
ginning Monday motorists may de
posit collateral for traffic tickets at
any precinct.
But any plea for adjustment of a
ticket believed unjustified must be
{See TRAFFIC, Page A-3.)
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100 Islanders Drown in Floods.
TOKIO, April 17 (TP).—More than
100 persons today were reported
drowned in floods on the Japanese -
Russian island of Sakhalin. Whole
villages were submerged by overflow
ing rivers.
Three colored bandits fire on hacker
and liquor store clerk. Page A-14
Jones Point. Va„ suggested as Jeffer
son Memorial site. Page A-14
D. A. R. arranges program for good
citizenship pilgrims. Page A-14
D C. heads take relief pleas to Senate
group. Page A-14
Editors finishing session hear of war
news work. Page A-14
Motor cycle officer hurt chasing
speeders. Page A-14
EDITORIALS AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-6
This and That. Page A-6
Answers and Questions. Page A-6
Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-6
David Lawrence. Page A-7
Paul Mallon. Page A-7
Mark Sullivan. Page A-7
Jay Franklin. Page A-7
Delia Pynchon. Page A-7
SPORTS.
Faulty stance corrected, Chapman
sees fast start. Page C-9
Big league clubs tuned up for open
ings Monday. Page C-9
Kelley choice in Boston marathon
race Monday. Page C-9
Margie Smith aims at Mrs. Jarrett’s
swim title. Page C-9
Cunningham, San Romani highlight
Kansas relays. Page C-10
Sunday bowling here unlikely to prove
gold mine. Page C-10
Hot P. G. A. qualifying tests here are
forecast. Page C-10
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
City News in Brief. Page A-7
Letter-Out. Page A-7
Shipping News. Page A-8
Vital Statistics. Page A-8
Traffic Convictions. Page A-8
Crossword Puzzle. Page A-13
Young Washington. Page B-7
Betsy Caswell. Page B-S
Dorothy Dix. Page B-8
Bedtime Story. Page C-7
Nature’s Children. Page C-7
Service Orders. JpPage C-ll
Gotham Fetes
135 of House
And Families
Lunch With Mayor
on Sightseeing
Tour.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 17— Members of
Congress by the score were in town
today to find out for themselves
whether all they've heard about New
York is true
If they confused the bills that go
into hoppers on Capitol Hill with those
things that waiters lay beside one's
plate, face down to defer the shock,
it did not matter. The Representa
tives—135 new members of Congress
and their families—were the city's
guests and it was on the house.
When the visitors awoke to New
York's elegant assortment of sights
1 and sounds, the like of which never
disturbed the pastoral stillnes (or so
they said) of Pennsylvania avenue,
i they faced this schedule of stght
1 seeing:
Visits to the Stock Exchange, the
Federal Reserve Bank and other places
in the country's chief money mart;
luncheon with Mayor Fiorello La
Guardia, a ride around the harbor, a
trip to the top of the world's tallest
building and dinner broiled in eye and
ear entertainment.
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CURRAN SUIT ASKS
POST OFFICE JOB
Farley Faces Mandamus
Action in Massachusetts
Post Dispute.
The long-awaited mandamus suit to
compel Postmaster General Farley to
deliver to John F. Curran, prominent
Massachusetts Democrat, a commis
sion as postmaster of Milford. Mass.,
was filed in District Court today.
Curran had been expected to file
the suit more than a month ago. and
the political aspects of the dispute
have been discussed frequently in the
press.
Justice Joseph W. Cox ordered Far
ley to show cause by May 17 why the
mandamus writ should not be granted.
Claiming he was duly appointed
postmaster by the President and the
appointment confirmed by the Senate ;
last June 8. Curran charged that Far- ;
ley refused to deliver the commission
to him.
Higgiston Confirmed for Post.
Meanwhile, on February 5 the Presi
dent sent the name of John F. Hig
giston to the Senate and he was con
firmed for the post Curran claims.
A month later, Curran, hearing of
the Higgiston appointment, made for
mal demand on the acting postmaster
of Milford, Allan J. Cooke, to turn
over the books and accounts of his
office. Cooke refused, whereupon Cur
ran filed suit in Federal District Court
at Boston to enjoin Higgiston from
taking office. That suit is pending.
Curran’s attorney, H. D. Barbadoro,
said today his client expects to file
a suit in the Court of Claims next
1 week for $2,300, representing salary he
would have received had his com
mission been promptly delivered.
The court was told that Curran
took a civil service examination for
the job and, on May 10, 1934, was
informed by the Post Office Depart
ment he stood second on the list.
First Place Claimed Later.
As a result of a reiew examination
May 16, which was asked by the Post
master General, Curran jumped to
first place, the suit stated. It was
following his achievement of that
rating that he was appointed, it was
said.
The suit said that Curran was "re
liably Informed and believes that his
commission as postmaster of the town
of Milford was signed and issued by
the President of the United States to
the Postmaster General with instruc
tions to deliver the same to your
petitioner, * * * yet, in utter disre
gard of postal regulations, * • • the
respondent has failed to deliver the
same to your petitioner.”
Curran said he has lost and will lose
$13,000 if he does not get the com
mission. He never has been notified
of his removal, he stated, and his name
never has been withdrawn from the
Senate. m
JUDICIARY HEARING
TO END BY APRIL 28
Date Set by Unanimous
Vote of Senate Group.
Ashurst Says.
BACKGROUND—
President Roosevelt sought Con
gressional authority to name si
new justices to Supreme Cour:
unless incumbents over 70 retiree.
after tribunal had invalidated sev
eral New Deal laws. His supporter
demanded a more 'enlightened'
interpretation of the Constitution
Proposal encountered stiff resist
ance in Senate and throughout
country Various compromise pro
posals were advanced, but Presi
dent was reported holding fast to
determination that original bill be
enacted.
The Senate Judiciary' Committee de
cided at an executive meeting today to
close hearings on the Roosevelt court
bill by April 28
Attempts to close the hearings im
mediately failed. The 10-day exten
sion was voted to take care of those
already invited to testify.
All next week will be given over to
opponents of the bill.
Friends of the measure then will
be permitted to present closing evi
dence for the first three days of the
following week, if they choose. It is
possible, however, that the adminis
tration would rest its case and permit
the testimony to end next week.
Vote Unanimous.
Chairman Ashurst announced that
the vote to close the hearings by April
28 was unanimous. Senator Hughes.
Democrat, of Delaware, who made the
original motion to close immediately,
accepted an amendment by Senator
McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada, to
provide for 10 days more.
Hughes also accepted an amendment
by Senator Pittman. Democrat, of
Nevada, to permit each side to file
statements in addition to the evidence
presented orally.
Ashurst said the committee would
start almost immediately after the
close of hearings to consider the legis
lation in closed session. Asked how
long it would take the committee to
act, once it began secret deliberations,
the committee chairman replied "no
body knows.”
Meanwhile, a new compromise has
been advanced by Senator McGill,
Democrat of Kansas, who has been
defending the President's measure
during the committee hearings. McGill
suggested Mr. Roosevelt be allowed to
appoint two new Supreme Court Jus
tices if those over 75 do not retire.
Other Compromises.
Two non-committal committee mem
bers—Senators Hatch, Democrat, of
New Mexico and McCarran, have of
fered somewhat similar compromises
of the President's proposal to appoint
six new members to the court unless
justices over 70 withdraw.
Opposition Senators said submission
of these compromise proposals indi
cated the reluctance of these uncom
mitted legislators to accept the Roose
velt proposal and their desire to And
"a way out” which would be satisfac
tory to the administration.
Senator McGill said his proposed
amendment to the Roosevelt bill would
remove most of the objections which
have been raised.
His amendment would permit ap
pointment of additional members of
the court whenever it contained
justices more than 75 years old, pro
vided that no administration could
select more than two.
President Roos«yelt would be able
to appoint two justices immediately
but no more could be designated until
a new administration came into office
unless the size of the court dropped
below nine.
GEISHA GIRLS, INC., HAS
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
All Positions Held by Members
Who Exclude Public Sub
scriptions.
■r the Associated Press.
OSAKA, Japan, April 17.—Osaka
Gets ha Girls, Inc., including many of
the entertainers who recently staged
a Buddhist Temple sit-down strike,
held its first stockholders' meeting
in solemn parliamentary manner.
All official positions of the newly
formed 120,000-yen ($34,308) Joint
stock company were filled by geishas,
who had so much confidence in their
enterprise they excluded public sub
scriptions. t
PROBERS PROM
HARLAN WITNESSES
FEARING REPRISAL
Status of Government
Agents Provided by In
definite Subpoenas.
KENTUCKY MINER
CHARGES THREAT
Senate Committee Told of Mine
Superintendent's Words Out
side Hearing Room.
BACKGROUND—
Senate Civil Liberties Committer
turned its attention to Harlan
County (Ky.) coal field after a Ken
tucky State commission reported in
1935 that miners in that region
home of some of the world’s richest
soft coal beds, were living under a
“monster-like reign of oppression"
directed by mine operators.
Despite this indictment, violence
and bloodshed continued in the dis
trict, and the committee sent its
investigators into "bloody Harlan”
about six weeks ago.
BY JOHN C. HENRY.
Witnesses who have testified before
the Senate Civil Liberties Committee
against the strong-arm rulers of
"bloody Harlan" County (Ky.) will be
kept under subpoena indefinitely, it
was learned today, as a means of
affording them protection against
vengeful violence.
By this device, the witnesses will
retain their status of Federal “agents,”
I with any attempted redress against
them becoming a Federal offense.
Without such protection, the pic
ture painted of the workings of Har
lan's “law" makes it seem possible
the witnesses would be risking their
lives to return to the “dark conti
nent" of civil liberties in America.
In a day filled with increasingly
,-ensational testimony, the committee
heard its most dramatic evidence late
yesterday afternoon as overall-clad
R C. Tackett, mountaineer miner who
is here in custody of a United States
deputy marshal and who already had
testified on several occasions, askec
permission to return to the stand.
Granted the privilege, Tackett ther.
disclosed that Ted Creech, burly mine
superintendent and operator's son.
had threatened outside the hearing
room early in the afternoon to have
Tackett "sent up" for a long tern
for his previous testimony against the
operators.
Accusation Conflrmd.
Immediately, Robert L. Bonham, the
marshal who had Tackett in custody,
took the stand to confirm the accu
sation. saying that he had overhear:,
Creech's threatening conversation.
Called before the committee, Creech
was brought sharply to order after he
turned his back on the committee to
avoid photographers and then denied
Tackett's testimony only to the extent
; of saying that Tackett had started the
conversation by saying he had been
drunk when he first testified.
Recalled. Bonham refuted this and
declared that Creech’s threat was the
first remark between the two men.
The committee today was consider
; ing possible charges against Creech
| for tampering with a witness.
In an earlier appearance, Creech
I told the committee that William
| Clontz, a U. M. W. officer, had lied
in an effort to get publicity when he
| testified that Creech threatened him
■ with a .45 caliber revolver.
In addition to this incident. Clontz
testified that vigilantes had fired 10
high-powered rifle bullets into his
home one night when he was away,
narrowly missing his son, his wife and
his aged mother. Appealing to Sher
iff Theodore Middleton for protection,
Clontz was refused any help and was
advised to "leave the county,” he
said.
Dog Dragged Out Dynamite.
i On an earlier occasion, he said, his
dog dragged a fuse from under their
| house and three sticks of dynamite
| were found attached to it.
LawTence Howard, young miner
(See LA^FOLLETTE, Page A-37)
JAILED U. S. CITIZENS
IN FRANCE RELEASED
13 Americans and 5 Canadians,
Seeking to Join Spanish Army,
Ordered to Leave.
1 By the Associated Press.
PERPIGNAN, Prance, April 17.—
j Thirteen Americans and five Can
adians. sentenced to 20 days in Jail
j for attempting to join the Spanish
! government forces, were released to
day.
They were ordered to leave Prance
within eight days.
Their actual sentences were reduced
to five days. They had spent 15 day*
in jail while an examining magistrate
at Ceret, 25 miles away, investigated
their cases.
The Americans gave their names
and addresses: Joe Ballet and Vachel
Blair, Cleveland; Gene Kosesak, Lor
aine, and Harold Blakesley, Toledo,
Ohio; Joseph Fleischinger, William
Borer and Louis Gneppe, Philadel
phia; Lawrence Frigman and Sey
mour Herman, New York City; Bela
Wimmer of Welch, Gaylord Cornell of
New Brighton and Rudolph Loch of
Bartlesville (States not given); and
Joe Farkasovaki Morved, no address.
GRADUATE SUES SCHOOL
Demands Return of Honey Be
cause He Is Failure.
By the Associated Press.
TOKIO, April 17.—A graduate wrote
to the president of the Imperial Uni
versity today demanding return of
18,000 yen (85,146), his seven-year
tuition fees, because he had been
unsuccessful in life.
The president replied that was not
the university’s fault.