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TWO CENTS.
FOR OPENING GAME
President Roosevelt Is
Ready to Raise Curtain
on 1937 Season.
INJURED CECIL TRAVIS
WILL BE IN LINE-UP
Colorful Ceremonies Precede the
Contest—Cascarella Will Op
pose Smith of Athletics.
j 'Starting line-ups for today’s
opener:
Washington.
Chapman, ef.
Lewis, 3b.
Kuhel, lb.
Simmons, If.
Stone, rf.
Myer, 3b.
Travis, ss.
Hogan, c.
Cascarella, p.
Philadelphia.
Finney, cf.
Werber, 3b.
Moses, rf.
Johnson, If.
Dean, lb.
Hayes, c.
Newsome, ss.
Parker, 2b.
Smith, p.
Headed by President Roosevelt, Cap
ital fandom this afternoon stormed the
pates of Griffith Stadium to watch the
Nationals and Athletics open the 1937
flag chase in the American league.
The President, Vice President Garner
and an array of other notables were
not due on the scene until just before
game time at 3 o’clock, but long before
that hour the rank and file of diamond
enthusiasts had started trickling into
the stands, early arrivals bringing
lunches and magazines to make their
»tay as pleasant as possible until action
started on the field.
A warm sun made even light top
coats unbearable.
Change* in Line-up*.
Two last-minute changes were made
in the line-ups of each of the con
tending clubs. Pulling a typical pitch
ing switch, Connie Mack withdrew the
name of Harry Kelley, his veteran
right-hander, and announced that
Southpaw Edgar Smith, a rookie, will
face the Nationals.
Smith is unknown in the American
League, but attaches of the A’s main
tain that Washington is destined for
a surprise. A blazing fast ball is his
forte.
Manager Bucky Harris countered
with a switch in which the injured
Cecil Travis was to replace Ossie
Bluege at shortstop. Travis, who was
afftked last Saturday in an exhibition
game, reported at the club house to
day and declared he was able to play.
Harris, anxious to have the left-hand
ed hitter. Travis, bat against Kelley,
promptly erased the name of Bluege
and inserted that of Travis. This was
done before Smith was nominated to
pitch for the A's, and there were
those who believed that Bucky might
yet string along with Bluege, a right
handed hitter, and give Travis time
to rest his spiked left knee.
Members of Presidential Party.
With the President in his box at the
ball park will be his three secretaries,
James Roosevelt, Stephen Early and
Marvin H. McIntyre; Mrs. Early, Miss
Marguerite LeHand, the President’s
private secretary, and Col. Edwin Wat
son, military aide, and Capt. Paul
Bastido, naval aide. Mrs. Roosevelt
was prevented from being one of the
President’s party because of another
engagement.
Once the Government departments
were freed at noon, the scattered
ranks of bleacherites, pavilionites and
standing-roomers who comprise the
early-birds were joined by a mad
influx of those who had done their
ticket shopping early and officials
were predicting a record crowd of
around 31,000.
Clark Griffith, top man of the Na
tionals, and Ed Eynon, his aide, spent
a busy morning superintending last
minute details.
Cushioned seats and backs were in
stalled in the chairs in the presiden
tial box from which President Roose
velt tosses out the traditional “first
ball,’* and the ground crew mani
cured the diamond until only spots in
the outfield showed traces of the
Pali’s foot ball schedule.
The vanguard of the game-bound
throng was in evidence long before
the ticket windows opened for last
minute sales at 9 o'clock, about 300
(SeeBASE^BALLTPageX-^X)
MINERS BACK A. F. L„
RETURN TO JOBS
Worker* in Tri-State Fields
Shont Denunciation of
Lewi*’ C. I. 0.
tft* Anoclatec Press.
MIAMI. Okla., April lB.—Members
«f the Tri-State Metal, Mine and
Smelter Workers returned to work
today after shouting their indorse
ment of affiliation with the American
Federation of Labor and approval of
plans shutting out the Committee of
Industrial Organization in this area.
Joe Nolan, Tri-State local presi
dent at Pieher, Okla., estimated 6,000
miners heard F. W- (Mike) Evans,
union president, tell them "Our af
filiation with the federation was a
very auspicious move.”
Later Evans declared, “We’re pre
pared to put the C. L O. out of this
area.”
The mass meeting followed by one
week the wounding of nine persons
when the Tri-State miners paraded
In Galena, Kans.
"The Supreme Court decision last
Monday outlawing company unions
made it necessary to do something
quickly to have representation in
Washington,” Evans said, explaining
the affiliation.
Reid Robinson, president of the In
ternational Union of Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers, now affiliated with
the C. I. O., had announced after
returning to Pieher yesterday he was
coming here. He was not seen at the
meeting.
S
Takes Mound for Nats
JOE CASCARELLA.
Selected to pitch the opening game of the season for the Nationals.
__ —Star Staff Photo.
ON com mi
House Members Resent Im
pression Views Came
From Committee.
BACKGROUND—
Heading his list of "must" legis
lation, President Roosevelt sent
Supreme Court reorganization bill
to Congress February S, seeking
authority to name six new justices
to high tribunal unless those over
70 retire.
Strength of opposition, largely
Democrats, indicated battle over
measure might tie up congressional
activities throughout most of
Summer. Beginning hearings on
bill seven weeks ago. Senate Judi
ciary Committee has agreed to con
clude them mthin 10 days, arousing
hopes of disposing of this issue
next month.
BY GOULD LINCOLN.
Resentment of Democratic mem
bers of the House now supporting
President Roosevelt's plan to increase
the number of Supreme Court justices
has been smoldering for some days as
a result of the attack made on the bill
recently by Representative Patrick
Henry Drewry, of Virginia, chair
man of the Democratic Congressional
Committee. This resentment is based
principally on the fact that the press
copies of the speech carried the nota
tion that Drewry is chairman of the
Congressional Committee.
Representative Eugene B. Crowe of
Indiana, first vice chairman of the
committee, said today that Drewry
had no right to speak for the com
mittee; that the committee had no
meeting before he made his address
attacking the court plan, and that
Drewry should have made his ad
dress, not as committee chairman, but
merely as an individual member of
the House.
Drewry was out of the city today,
and his office was unable to say
whether the speech had been put out
as coming from the chairman of the
committee.
Talk of Ousting.
Crowe said he had heard criticism of
the Virginia member on the ground
that his address had been put out as
coming from the congressional com
mittee chairman. There had been no
discussion. Crowe said, so far as he
knew, of ousting Drewry as chairman
or reprimanding him. He regarded the
matter as “too trivial to invite action."
However, if the committee should hold
a meeting to consider the matter,
Crowe said he would Welcome it.
Majority Leader Rayburn discount
ed completely any idea that action
would be taken against Drewry by the
committee.
“If the matter were brought up in
(See JUDICIARY, Page A727)
DEAIH DEMANDED
Murder Charge Awaits Two
Gunmen Who Fatally Shot
Baker in Kansas.
BACKGROUND—
W. W. Baker, one of four Fed
eral agents who trapped Alfred
Power and Robert Suhay, fugitive
New York bank, bandits, when they
called for mail Friday at the To
peka post office, was shot four
times as the bandits fled. The
men were captured within a few
hours at Platsmouth, Nebr., by the
local sheriff and his deputy, a
brother, when they became lost
from the main highway. Baker
died yesterday in a Topeka hos
pital. The bandits had robbed a
bank at Katonah, N. Y., of t&,000.
Part of the loot was recovered.
Ej the Associated Press.
TOPEKA, Kans., April 19—The
Government made ready today to
charge two New York gunmen with
murder—and demand the death pen
alty—while the father of a young Fed
eral agent who was cut down by bullets
in the Post Office here Friday pre
pared to return his son's body to their
Arizona home.
United States District Attorney S. S.
Alexander planned to issue warrants
charging Alfred Power and Robert
Suhay, accused of an $18,000 Katonah,
N. Y., bank robbery, with the murder
of Wimberly W. Baker, 27, Federal
Bureau of Investigation agent, shot in
the back as he participated in an at
tempt by G-men to arrest the two men
when they called for mail at the poet
office.
Alexander said he would ask the
death penalty for the accused men.
They are held for safe keeping in the
strongly fortified Jackson County Jail
in Kansas City, Mo. Their arraign
ment, the district attorney Indicated,
would be held before a United States
commissioner either in Kansas City,
Kans., or in Leavenworth, Kans., loca
tion of a Federal penitentiary.
H. H. Baker, Yuma, an Arizona
State Senator and father of the slain
agent, said he will take his son’s body
home for funeral services and burial.
Baker died in a hospital here near
midnight Saturday after an emer
gency operation and at least two
blood transfusions were futile.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, said
in Washington that Power and Suhay
(See G-MAN, Page A-2.)
New Ocean Mail Service.
TOKIO, April 18 VP).—A 10-day
trans-Paclflc airmail service from
Toklo to San Francisco by way of
Hongkong and Manila was Inaug
urated today through arrangements
between the communications ministry
and Pan-American Airways.
Communist Circular Trial
Unfair, Appeals Court Rules
The United States Court of Appeals
held today that a man and a woman
arrested June 27 last when they were
distributing Communist circulars op
posite the ball park were not accorded
a felr trial in Police Court by Judge
Robert E. Mattingly, who had up
braided both the defendants and their
counsel because of the political color
of their literature.
John Thomas and Margaret Adams
were arrested while they were hand
ing out circulars issued by the Com
munist party of Washington and con
demning Republicans and Democrats
alike.
In Police Court two days later they
were charged with distributing hand
bills in a place where they were likely
to be caught up by the wind and scat
tered, in violation of a specific police
regulation.
*
There wm no evidence during the
brief and stormy hearing that the
handbills were scattered on the street
or were placed where they were likely
to be taken up by the wind.
Both the man and the woman were
found guilty by Judge Mattingly and
ordered to pay a fine .of $25 each or
serve 30 days in Jail. During the
course of the hearing Judge Mattingly
asked Margaret Adams, “You are a
Communist, aren’t you?” When coun
sel for the defendants objected to the
question, stating that political be
liefs were not at issue, Judge Mat
tingly replied, pointing to one of the
leaflets which had been distributed:
"That is the charge. It says right
here 'Vote Communist.”’ Turning to
the defendants, the judge then said,
"If you don't like our system of gov
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PARLEYDNBUDGET
Summons Leaders to Go
Over Revised Estimates
for Next Year.
EXPECTED TO STRESS
HOLDING DOWN RELIEF
Morgenthau Say* Weekly $50,
000,000 Borrowing Plan Will
Continue Indefinitely.
BACKGROUND—
Disappointing tax returns and
unforeseen congressional appro
priations have upset President
Roosevelt's prediction for budget
balancing within another year.
Important element in increased
Federal expenditures has been in
crease of semi-permanent bureaus.
As step toward consolidating and
economizing along these lines,
Senate named suvey committee ■
under Byrd; later. President called
for joint committee to serve same
function.
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt arranged a con
ference late today with 10 congres
sional leaders and department aides
to go over revised budget estimates
for the next fiscal year.
Faced with the possibility of a large
deficit, he was expected to emphasize
holding down relief and other costs, in
view of the material drop in revenues
below last January's estimates.
The revised budget figures were ex
pected to be reviewed in a message
the President will send to Congress
about Wednesday, giving the next fis
cal year’s relief estimates.
Bid* Opened by Treasury.
The conference was called on the
same day the Treasury began a new
borrowing operation, opening bids on
*50,000,000 of discount bills issued in
anticipation of third-quarter income
tax receipts in mid-September.
Secretary Morgenthau said the
weekly *50.000.000 borrowing would
continue indefinitely. The plan aroused
speculation by Federal financial au
thorities as to whether further bond
issues would be necessary in June
when *300,000,000 of discount bills
come due, coincident with June 15
tax receipt*.
Thi* speculation may be set at rest
by the figures in the President's mes
sage to Congress on revised budget
estimate* for the 1937 and 1938 fiscal
year*.
Invited to the White House confer
ence were Vice-President Garner,
Speaker Bankhead. Secretary Morgen
thau, Daniel W, Bell, acting budget
director; Senators Robinson of Arkan
sas, Harrison of Mississippi, and
Byrnes of South Carolina; and Repre
sentatives Ravbum of Texas. Taylor ]
of Colorado, and Doughton of North '
Carolina.
Work* on Relief Message.
The President continued to work on
hi* relief message during the day. In
his January budget message he said
the budget for the next fiscal year
would be practically balanced if relief
costs were held to *1.537.000,000.
Congressional leaders have predicted
the President would suggest an appro
priation somewhere between *1,125,
000,000 and *1,500,000,000.
Last week the Chief Executive called
attention to the falling off in antici
pated tax receipts and asked all de
partments to economize in spending
during the remainder of this fiscal
year to prevent a large deficit.
Fiscal experts said the major fac
tors of uncertainty were the savings
to result from the President's order
for sharp economy by all departments
for the remainder of the year and the
figure to be fixed as necessary for
relief.
Many officials saw little hope the
(See BUDGET, Page A-7.)
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Coulee Dam Saves Years.
GRAND COULEE DAM, Wash.,
April 19 (/4s).—Millians of gallons of
water piped through the 1,800,000
yards of concrete in Grand Coulee
Dam's west end base already have
completed the necessary cooling that
would have required many years by
natural process.
sit dowtO
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__ AT THE BASE BALL PARK!
Tourist Marks Fall as 200,000
Visit Capital to See Blossoms
Mercury Climbs 45 Degrees in 10l/2
Hours, Matching Highest for
April 18 in D, C. History,
Tourist, transportation and housing
records fell and a heat record of 41
years was equaled yesterday as the
weather and the Japanese cherry
blossoms combined to bring to Wash
ington approximately 200,000 visitors.
Climbing 45 degrees in 10'v hours,
the mercury reached 93 degrees at
4:20 p.m., matching the highest mark
for April 18 in Washington history,
set in 1896.
Coats, vests and hats came off as
the day progressed, and one heat
prostration was reported. The ther
mometer leaped 9 degrees in 1 hour,
from 72 to 81, between 11 a.m.
and noon.
The hottest April day on record
was April 7, 1929. the Weather Bu
reau said, but the mercury then
mounted only 1 degree above yester
day's high mark.
Visitors who remained in the city
today were relieved by cool breezes
following in the wake of early morn
ing showers.
Today also brought relief to the
police force, weary from directing
traffic, and to tired Congressmen,
who have been escorting sightseers
from beck home around the Capital.
“Now that the base ball season is
here." said a Representative from a
Western State, “there is some place
to take the folks where you can just
sit. I've gone up the Washington
Monument so much in the last three
weeks that I feel like a steeplejack.”
Here are the highlights of yester
day's invasion of Washington:
Police counted approximately 29,000
automobiles from more than 30 States
circling the blossom display In the
Tidal Basin and estimated 50,000 pe
destrians visited the scene. The num
(See BLOSSOMSTPage A-4.) ’
THEATRICAL AGENT
NEED IN MURDER
Woman Violinist Bludgeoned
to Death in New York
Hall.
By the Aesocleted Press.
NEW YORK. April 19—A theat
rical booking agent was taken into
custody today for questioning as police
tried to solve another of New York's
spectacular homicides, a hammer
murder in a rehearsal hall within
earshot of the incandescents of the
bright light district.
The victim, who used the name of
Tania Lee Lova, was of the theater,
and it was in theater atmosphere that
she was found fatally bludgeoned yes
terday.
Upstate, Micha Ross, 30, was found
at the home of his father-in-law, a
former police chief. Apprehended at
Mountain Dale by a State trooper,
Ross was brought to New York for
questioning by Inspector Michael F.
McDermott.
A concert violinist, Miss Lova,
legally Julia Nussenbaum, 25, of
Bridgeport, Conn., was found uncon
scious in a West Forty-third street
rehearsal room, her head bloody from
hammer blows. Near her was the
instrument by which she died.
Drippings of blood led across the
room. The unconscious artist was
almost concealed by a curtain. A
(See MURDER, Page A-5.)
Summary of Today’s Star
Page
Amusement* _B-lfi
Comics_B-12
Editorials ..A-10
Financial_A-17
Lost & Found A-J
Obituary_A-12
Page
Radio_A-18
Society_B-S
Short Story..B-7
Sports _A-13
Woman’s Pg. B-10
STRIKE SITUATION.
Automobile worker* to file charges
against Ford. Page A-l
FOREIGN.
Maneuver* rouse war scares in Scan
dinavia. Page A-S
NATIONAL.
Treasury begins new borrowing; Byrd
issues warning. Page A-l
Roosevelt summons leaden to budget
conference today. Page A-l
Theatrical booking agent arrested in
hammer murder. Page A-l
G-man slayen to face murder charge
in Kansas. Page A-l
Farm tenancy given preference over
resettlement projects. Page A-4
Vandenberg says Jobless overestimat
ed by 5,000,000. Page A-4
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Bridegroom charged with stealing
$8.30 by mother. Page A-l
Appeal court holds Communist circu
lar trial unfair. Page A-l
Delegates await formal opening of D.
A. R. Congress. Page A-l
Hottest April 18 since ’M brings rec
ord tourist Influx Page A-l
Mrs. Harriman nominated as Min
ister to Norway. Page A-S
Daingerfleld lawyers seek access to
safe deposit box. Page A-8
McNary reiterates opposition to Jef
ferson Memorial site. Page B-l
New parking ticket system goes into
effect today. Page B-l
Storm spanking trial continued until
Thursday. Page B-l
Maritime Board selects new counsel
and assistants. Page B-l
Trucking group blocks establishment of
“metropolitan aone.” Page B-l
Prosecution rests in second Rhodes
trial. Page B-l
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorial*.
This and That.
Washington Observations.
David Lawrence.
Paul Mallon.
Dorothy Thompson.
Constantine Brown.
Lemuel P. Parton.
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside.
Nature's Children.
Bedtime Story.
City News in Brief.
Shipping News.
Dorothy Dix.
Betsy Caswell.
Winning Contract.
Young Washington.
Crossword Puxzle.
Letter Out
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D. A. R. CONGRESS
TO OPENTONIGHT
46th Annual Session to Start
at 8:30—Defense
Meeting Today.
Women from all corners of the
United States who trace their an
cestry back to the men who fought
for the freedom of the 13 colonies
waited expectantly today for the
glamorous moment tonight which will
signal the opening of the forty-sixth
annual Continental Congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion.
When Grace Adams East sounds
her trumpet at 8:30 p.m. the audi
ence in Constitution Hall will come
to silence for the entrance march of
President General Mrs. William A.
Becker and the national officers of the
society, who will walk onto the stage
to the music of the United States
Marine Band and under escort of the
D. A. R. pages, each page holding aloft
the flag of the State she represents.
Mrs. Becker will call the congress
to order. Right Rev. James E. Free
man, bishop of Washington, will pro
nounce the invocation, and five days
of pageantry, all dedicated to patriot
ism and a better America will be under
way. The congress, promised by Pres
ident General Becker to be the most
colorful and interesting in the long
history of congresses, has attracted
5,000 delegates.
Well before then, however, the con
gress will have discussed the serious
business of what the Daughters of
(See D. A. R„ Page A-4.)
TEACHERS SIT-DOWN
80 in Tokio School Demand Batter
Work Conditions.
TOKIO, April 19 (fP).—Twenty To
kio teachers in a large commercial
school staged Japan's second sit-down
strike today to the astonishment and
delight of 850 pupils. The striking
padagogues, refusing to go on with
classes, demanded better working con
ditions and reinstatement of eight dis
charged colleagues.
U. S. Clerk Who Disappeared
Two Weeks Ago Held
Suicide.
The body of Forrest R. McClintic,
37-year-old Veterans’ Administration
cleric and stepfather of three chil
dren, who disappeared from his home
F. R. MeClintic.
two weeks ago
after attempting
to take his own
life, was found
in the Anacostia
River today.
The body ap
parently had been
in the water a
week or more. It
was discovered
about SO yards
above the Ana
costia Bridge by
Charles Dennis,
colored, 320 Sec
ond street south
west, a P. W. A.
worker. He notified harbor police,
who recovered the body.
Mrs. Lilly B McMillan. 906 Vir
ginia avenue southwest, mother of
McClintic, with a sister of the dead
man, identified the body at the
morgue. Tentative identification had
been established by a court sum
mons found in his pocket and by
his clothing, a description of which
had been furnished police by his wife,
Mrs. Mary Louise McClintic, at the
time of his disappearance.
Suicide Certificate lamed.
Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald
issued a certificate of suicide. Mc
Clintic lived at 1533 Pennsylvania ave
nue southeast.
Ill for three years and apparently
worried over several debts. McClintic
left his home April 5 after attempting
to commit suicide, the wife reported
to police at that time. She said he
was under treatment for diabetes for
three weeks at Gallinger Hospital last
October.
After her husband disappeared, Mrs.
McClintic found a note in which, she
said, he described in a vague way sev
eral debts he was unable to pay. He
often had mentioned suicide, the wife
told police, and asked in the note that
he be buried in Arlington National
Cemetery and that his funeral services
be held in the Port Myer (Va.) chapel.
The note also named the funeral estab
lishment he wished to arrange for his
last rites.
Municipal Court records show that a
summons was served on McClintic in
December, 1936, for failure to pay a
debt. Subsequently a judgment was
issued against him and his salary was
attached, beginning March 29, under
a court order.
McClintic had been married about
five years. His wife has three children
by a former marriage. They are Vir
ginia, 15, Thomas, 16. and Roy Selby,
17.
According to the Veterans- Adminis
tration, he enlisted in the Army in
October, 1918, and was discharged in
December of the same year.
OHIOAN KILLED IN RAID
DAYTON, Ohio, April 19 UP).—A
burst of machine gun fire from a
deputy sheriff's weapon killed Clifford
Sweet, 33, in a liquor raid.
Deputy Sheriff C. L. Weidel, who
fired the shots, said he found a 100
gallon still and 1,000 gallons of mash
in quarters occupied by Sweet in the
home of Mrs. F. H. Bolinger, near
Englewood, 10 miles northwest of here.
News of D. A. R.
Full reports of the D. A. R. Convention, April 18
to 25, inclusive—
Mail—Pottage Prepaid U. S., Mexico atid
Canada_ 35e
Foreign--$1.00
Leave orders with Star representative at Constitu
tion Hall or The Evening Star office,
11 th St. and Pa. Ave. N.W.
UNION WILLPUSH
FORD COMPLAINT
IN CITATION TO U.S.
U. A. W. Decides Definitely
to File Charges With
Labor Board.
ACTION MAY BETAKEN
IN DETROIT TODAY
Martin Arrives Here to Discuss
C. I. 0. Campaigm in Auto
Plants With Lewis.
BACKGROUND—
Supreme Court’s decision uphold
ing national labor relations act in
tensified United Automobile Work
ers' drive to unionize employes of
Ford Motor Co, biggest hold-out
employer. The U. A. W. is an affil
iate of the Committee for Indus
trial Organization, headed by John
L. Lewis.
Meanwhile, a show-down ap
peared near in labor split which
has existed~in fact, if not in
theory—since last Summer, when
A. F. of L. Council moved suspen
sion of 10 affiliates which had
joined in forming C. /. O. Both
factions hope to capitalize on vali
dation of labor act by intensive or
ganizing, and Secretary Perkins
hopes to facilitate amicable rela
tions between industry and labor by
joint conference.
BULLETIN.
Sidney Hillman, chairman of the
C I. O. Textile Organizing Com
mittee, conferred today with J.
Warren Madden, chairman of the
Natftmal Labor Relation* Board,
for the purpose of enlisting action
by the board in widespread viola
tions by the textile industry of the
labor relations law. it was dis
closed also that United Automobile
Workers have lodged a complaint
of violations by the Ford Motor Co.
with the board's office in Detroit.
Charges of blanket violation of the
national labor relations act definitely
will be filed against the Ford Motor
Oo. by the United Automobile Worker*,
it was learned here today.
The charges will be filed with the
Detroit Regional Board, perhaps later
today.
Meanwhile, Homer Martin, president
' of the United Automobile Workers,
j arrived in Washington shortly before
noon to meet with the executive board
of his union and John L. Lewis,
chairman of the Committee for In
dustrial Organization. Principal sub
ject of discussion was to be the organ
izing drive of the U. A. W. in the
Ford plants and the status of the
union agreement with General Motors
Corp.
From other U. A. W. officials here,
it was learned that considerable feel
ing exists that General Motors has
violated its union contract through
its conduct in negotiations in the
Canadian strike. The possibility of
a new walkout in General Motors
plants in the United States thus arises.
While the C. I. O. leaders were in
conference, the Executive Council of
the American Federation of Labor was
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Bride Released
In Theft Case
Sobs in Court
Husband Is Ordered
Held on Charge
by Mother.
An attractive young bnde. accused
with her husband of breaking into his
mother's house on their honeymoon
and taking $8.30, broke into tears and
sobbed heartbrokenly in Police Court
today when Judge John P. McMahon
ordered her freed.
At the same time. Judge McMahon
ordered the husband. Michael Mounts,
22, of the 3500 block of Warder street,
held in $1,000 bond for action of the
grand jury.
As Judge McMahon made his ruling,
the bride, Isabelle Mounts, 22, threw
her arms anjjind her husband when a
bailiff seized his arm to lead him to a
cell because he could not furnish bond.
She kissed him and broke into tears
as they were parted.
The couple were married January 19,
Mrs. George W. Ridgeway, mother of
Mounts, testified. She said her son
moved away from her home the day
before he was married.
On March 21, Mrs. Ridgeway testi
fied. her home was broken into and
$8.30 stolen from her pocketbook.
Suspecting her son. she said, she noti
fied police and the couple were ar
rested Saturday by Detective Sergt.
Dan D. Hughes.
"I didn't mean to have him sent to
jail,” Mrs. Ridgeway said after she
left Police Court. '1 merely wanted
to frighten him so he would stay
away from my house. I don't want to
prosecute him; after all, he is my
only child.”
Mrs. Ridgeway aaid she forbade her
house to her son after he eloped to
Rockville.
Hughes said he learned Mount*
had visited his mother's home on the
evening of the robbery accompanied
by his bride. Under cross-examina
tion by Judge McMahon, Hughes said
there was no evidence indicating that
Mrs. Mounts had forced her way in
to the Ridgeway home or had taken
any money.
"There is no evidence against the
young woman at all,” Judge Mc
Mahon said. “I can’t understand
why she was arrested and held in Jail,
The case against her is dismissed,
But I’ll have to hold the young man
for the grand Jury."
Both Mounts and his wife pleaded,
not guilty to the charge of house
breaking. They were represented by
Attorney Denny Hughes.