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CHANDLER BLAMED
BYU. MJOFFIHAL
Kentucky Governor Denied
Miners Protection, La Fol
lette Group Told.
BACKGROUND—
Attention of Senate Civil Lib
erties Committee has been centered
on Harlan County (Ky.) coal field,
home of some of world’s richest soft
coal beds, where miners were re
ported living under “reign of op
pression" directed by mine oper
ators.
Hearings on Harlan activities
were begun after committee sent in
vestigators into territory several
weeks ago. Following reports of
threats committee assured wit
nesses protection.
BY JOHN C. HENRY.
Although indorsed by the United
Mine Workers in his campaign for
election in 1935, Gov. A. B. (Happy)
Chandler has failed to give miners
of “bloody Harlan" County, Ky., any
protection of their civil liberties, J. J.
Timko. a U. M. W. official, charged
before the La Follette Committee to
day.
As the witness made the charge, the
committee placed in its records a pic
ture from the Louisville Courier
Journal of December 15, 1935, showing
Harlan's sheriff, Theodore Middle
ton, serving as personal escort to
Chandler and his family on the day
of the Governor's inauguration.
Throughout the hearings, the an
tagonism of Middleton and his depu
ties toward U. M. W. members and
organizers has been the subject of
frequent testimony.
“Shoot to Kill" Orders.
Timko said that on one occasion
of his summons before the Harlan
eourt of Judge Walter Gilbert, he was
furnished a National Guard escort
with orders to “shoot to kill." The
Guardsmen transported him to and
from Bell County to the court with an
Army truck, he said, and declined to
let him linger close to a corridor full
of armed deputies.
unarges oi practicing tne kick
back racket’’ were leveled at Theodore
ft. Middleton, high sheriff of "Bloody
Harlan" bv a former deputy appearing
before the committee today.
The charges were made by Henry
M. Lewis, now assistant jailer in
Harlan Town, who said that for more
than two years as a deputy under Mid
dleton he had received a monthly
check for $200 and had been forced
to pay back $75 in cash to Middleton.
Records showed three other deputies
toed at $200 a month, but Lewis
said he did not know whether they
•'kicked back" part of their salaries.
Earlier Lewis verified testimony of
R. C. Tackett and United States
Deputy Marshal Robert Bonham re
garding a threat made against Tackett
last Friday by Ted Creech, mine su
perintendent. A perjury charge against
Creech was presented to the grand
jury yesterday.
Agree on Incident.
Lewis agreed with Tackett and
Bonham that the former had made no
remark to Creech before the latter
approached him in the corridor of
the Senate Office Building last Friday
and threatened to see that Tackett
would serve a sentence for testifying
against the operators.
Qreech testified that Tackett opened
the conversation, and it was on this
claim that the perjury charge was
based.
"Tackett was talking to me,” Lewis
testified, "when Creech broke in to
make his threat.”
Following testimony by Timko con
cerning violent resistance to union
organizers, Senator La Follette intro
duced an extract from an order send
ing militiamen to Harlan in July, 1935,
the order stating that "many deputies
• • • have been guilty of lawless
acts, intimidating, threatening, abus
ing and beating many peaceful citi
zens.”
After an injunction against use of
the National Guard was dissolved,
Gov. Ruby Laffoon in September, 1935,
ordered all or as much of the Guard
aa necessary into Harlan to alleviate
the “reign of terror" existing there.
Grocer First Witness.
John Surgener, Harlan grocer, who
said his son married the daughter
of Ben Unthank, missing deputy
sheriff, was the first witness.
Surgener .said he knew Unthank
well, but hadn't seen him in two or
three months. Surgener professed to
know nothing of Unthank’s work ex
cept that he was a deputy employed
by the Harlan County Coal Operators'
Association. Neither his son nor
daughter-in-law has mentioned the
deputy’s whereabouts in several
months, Surgener insisted.
Committee agents, armed with a
subpoena, have been seeking Unthank
for nearly two months.
After substantiating the version of
Tackett and Bonham about Creech's
threat on Friday, Lewis told the com
mittee his salary as deputy never ex
ceeded $125 a month.
At this point, La Follette intro
duced the salary records submitted
to Harlan Fiscal Court by Sheriff Mid
dleton, showing payment of $200 a
month to Lewis in 1935.
“Did you get $200 a month in 1935?”
La Follette asked.
“I received a check for $200 each
month and turned back $75 to the
sheriff,” Lewis replied.
“Do you know of any others kick
ing back to the sheriff?”
“I can’t say about the others.”
Lewis then testified that several
of those listed on Middleton’s ac
count to the court were employes of
the coal operators rather than the
sheriff's office. The salaries listed
ranged from $100 to $200 a month.
Lewis said the kickback started in
1935. Prior to that date he was get
ting $110 a month, but beginning in
1935 his check was for $200. At first
he was forced to kick back $90, but
the sheriff later gave him a "raise” of
$15 by requiring only a $75 kickback.
Lewis was discharged in February,
1937, as a deputy sheriff, he said,
with no reason being given. The dis
charge took place on February 20,
he said, when Middleton gave him
$125.
“I guess the sheriff took the kick
back out himself,” Lewis said.
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MEMORIAL PLAN HIT
Potomac Grange. No. 1, meeting at
All Souls’ Church, went on record Iasi
night as vigorously opposed to removal
of Japanese cherry trees from the
Tidal Basin to make way for the pro
posed Thomas Jefferson Memorial.
The grange suggested in another
resolution that the Federal Govern
ment acquire Jefferson’s home at Mon
ticello as the Nation’s memorial to the
third President and improve the high
way between Washington and Montl
cello.
I I
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
HOLD IT.
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY, new chair
man of the Maritime Commis
sion, was holding his first press
conference. As he talked with
the encircling reporters, a photog
rapher hovered around, sighting
through his camera for lengthy pe
riods and then backing off with a
baffled expression.
After this had been going on for
some time, while Mr. Kennedy turned
this way and that, apparently trying
to strike a pose that would suit the
cameraman, he suddenly stopped talk
ing.
“If you will just tell me what you
want me to do,” he suggested to the
man behind the lens, “maybe we will
be able to get somewhere."
And then, while the reporters broke
into a loud laugh, in which Kennedy
joined, the flash went off, much to
every one’s surprise, and the photog
rapher began laughing too. He had,
it seems, been waiting for the famous
Kennedy smile.
MYSTERY.
Men or Cats—Residents of the
400 block of Kennedy street would
like to know which are disturbing
them at nights by prowling over
the rooftops.
Sixth precinct policemen have
been stationed thereabouts on spe
cial duty several times. They were
there again last night and still
want to know—men or cats?
* * * *
ELECTIONEERING.
PROMINENT Arlington County
citizen's face still turns pinkish
when he hears about his faux pas
at a recent meeting of the County
Board.
The P. A. C. was applauding the
speech being made by a woman tax
payer against a zoning proposition.
The P. A. C. also opposed it. He
applauded loudly and sought to enlist
others to aid him to show the board
members public sentiment. He nudged
the man next to him and nodded
for him to applaud.
His suggestion was met by a scowl.
The man happened to be the appli
cant for the rezoning in question.
* * * *
SCOTTY.
^^ANCY WATSON'S 5-year-old son
Scotty is going to go places in
this world. Already he has learned
that there are ways and means of
getting around almost any of the pro
scribed rules. Scotty’s always been
warned by his parents never to speak
to strangers. He’s always tried hard
to heed the parental injunction.
The other day he was downtown,
though, and almost forgot. Scotty
saw a man standing at the curb eat
ing peanuts, immediately was over
come with a terrific appetite for pea
nuts. He remembered orders, how
ever. Just nudged the chap, held out
his cupped hands before him.
P. S.—The peanut-eater shared.
* * * *
FESTIVAL’S END.
^ STATE DEPARTMENT official
and a Wayside operative who
answered the call of Spring a night
or so ago by spending a folksy eve
ning riding merry-go-rounds an 1
drinking strawberry pop at a roadside
carnival wound up at the Alexandria
Police Department under arrest and
will more than likely never again seek
amusement far from the safe and
saneness of local cocktail bars.
Riding along Mount Vernon High
way they were attracted by ferris
wheels, carnival music and a mile or
so of neatly parked cars. They de
cided to frolic with the masses a bit
and emerged very pleased with them
selves an hour later, only to be haled
by a park police officer, who pointed
out that it is against the law to park
on the public space.
The S. D. O. explained that the
hundreds of cars already parked there
had encouraged him to do the same,
and implied that the officer might
have done his duty toward Federal
grass more efficiently if he had ar
rived on the scene earlier in the
evening. Ten dollars collateral was
posted at the jail.
* * * *
UNWILTED.
Some of the town's laundries
ought to be blushing—buf right
out loud. There’s a young new
comer out at the Peruvian Lega
tion who has become so discouraged
with the manner the local suds boys
handled his weskits and things he
has given up completely, now sends
his linen clear to England for wash
ing. He keeps a close tab on boats
Schedules, figures everything down
to a fine point where he gets the
clothes back fresh and clean in
three weeks.
* * * *
STAR. >
COME budding and blase Hollywood
U star mulled a great opportunity
last Winter to come to Washington
and appear at the President’s ball be
cause she acted bored when she was
asked if she'd like to appear here.
W. S. (Woody) Van Dyke, one of
Hollywood's ace directors, tells the
yam. "I asked this young woman,”
he says, “if she would like to appear
in Washington at the President’s ball.”
“Oh, will I have to sing?” she re
plied with a bored air.
“No, you won’t have to sing,” said
"Van,” “because you aren’t going.”
The young star remains anonymous,
but Van Dyke says she was one of
the more prominent cinema lumi
naries.
Pay Raise, Not in Cash.
Unable to pay more wages, an iron
company at Yawata, Japan, has met
the demand of its workers for in
creased Income to meet rising living
costs by promising some supplemen
tary non-cash Income, the nature of
which is to be determined.
t
Justice O’Donoghue Refuses
to Restrain P. W. A. Aid
to Bayonne, N. J.
Asserting that purely discretionary
actions by Federal officials are not sub
ject to judicial review, Justice Daniel
W. O’Donoghue of District Court to
day refused a preliminary injunction
to restrain a P. W. A. loan and grant
to the city of Bayonne, N. J., for a
$4,000,000 off-shore ship-to-rail proj
ect in New' York Bay.
At the same time, he sustained the
constitutionality of the Federal emer
gency appropriation act of 1935 and
held that the allocation of funds to
Bayonne was within the scope of the
law.
Cannot Judge Actions.
Referring to P. W. A. officials who
approved the application of the city for
the loan and grant, Justice O’Don
oghue declared:
"It is not for the court to say wheth
er their actions are wise or unwise;
whether this is a good investment or a
bad investment. • * * Actions of
this sort by officials of the United
States are not subject to judicial ap
proval or disapproval.”
This view of the case was adopted
after a lengthy argument by three
youthful Government counsels, Ralph
Boyd, Carl F. Farbach and K. G.
Aulsbrook. The ruling today concern
ed issuance only of a preliminary in
junction. A trial will be held later on
an application for a permanent in
junction, counsel stated.
•200,000 Loss Foreseen.
The Government attorneys told the
court issuance of & permanent in
junction would cause a loss of more
than $200,000, because certain ad
vantageous contracts must be executed
by May 1 or lost. It was for this rea
son that they refused yesterday to pro
ceed with trial of the case on its merits
a course Justice O'Donoghue had
suggested. Their refusal elicited a re
buke from the jurist.
The case Involved a suit by several
Bayonne property owners to enjoin
the P. W. A. loan and grant. The
plaintiffs contended private business
enterprises would reap the principal
benefit from the project, which, they
said, was in no sense a public work.
They also argued that a substantial
tax increase on Bayonne residents
would result.
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starve Bilbao into submission to the
slowly encircling land forces of In
surgent Gen. Mola. Basque quarters
said, however, the five lane batteries
had forced them to keep 10 miles on
shore.
Insurgents said they had intercepted
a radio message from the Basque au
thorities of Bilbao to the Spanish
government at Bilbao which said the
city was waiting "with anxiety border
ing on despair" for the arrival of food
ships.
At the same time the Basques said
their land forces had pushed the in
surgents back on the Eibar and Elor
ric sectors of the siege of Bilbao,
with 600 insurgent dead.
10 Ships in Rebel Fleet.
The insurgent fleet, under the lead
of the battleship Espana and includ
ing the powerful fast cruisers Canarias
and Almirante Cervera, was estimated
to number 10 warships.
Just outside St. Jean de Luz, ready
to escort the fleet of little food ships
to the 3-mile limit, the worlds
mightiest warship, the battle cruiser
Hood, rode at anchor.
Under the command of the flag of
ficer aboard the Hood was a squadron
of ”B" class destroyers, Including the
Blanche and the eBagle and the Fbr
ester, which had just returned from
Bermeo—a scant few land miles west
of Bilbao—with 200 refugees.
Mixed Cargoes of Food.
The three freighters bound for
Bilbao were the MacGregor, the
Hamsterley and the Stambrook, each
2,000 tons, flying the British flag and
carrying mixed cargoes of food.
Best known of the veteran skippers
was Capt. Owen Jones, called "Corn
cob” to distinguish him from "Potato
Jones" of the Welsh steamer Marie
Llewellyn. Capt. "Corncob” Jones
commands the MacGregor.
The port captain here sftid the
other two freighters planed to go to
Bayonne.
Despite the preparations aboard the
blockade runners and the general
surge of excitement through the har
bor, secrecy shrouded the activities
of the departing ships.
"I don’t know when they are go
ing,” the port captain said, “but
they say they are ready to up anchor
for Bilbao.”
The conviction was growing here
that the three intrepid skippers of the
food fleet would succeed In running
the blockade.
Shipping circles were becoming
more and more sure that the British
government had been’ misled as to
the extent to which the waters of the
Basque coast had been mined, leading
them to refuse to convoy merchant
men within the 3-mile limit.
MADRID UNDER NEW ATTACK.
MADRID, April 22 UP).—Gen. Fran
cisco Franco’s versatile gun crews, who
have adapted anti-aircraft weapons
to a bombardment unmatched in the
experience of any other capital in
twentieth century warfare, stabbed at
the heart of Madrid today—the
eleventh consecutive day of artillery
attack.
At least 25 shells in the early morn
ing onslaught blasted in quick, deaf
ening succession into the populous
districts along the Oran Via, Madrid’s
‘‘Broadway," and connecting streets.
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Maryland Governor Asserts
“Majority” of G. 0. P. Back
Receipts Tax.
By u Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 22.—Gov.
Harry W. Nice announced this after
noon a "majority” of the Republican
members of the State Assembly have
approved the tax program he prepared
to offer the special session called to
enact suitable and adequate relief
legislation.
The announcement was made by
the executive following a conference
with G. O. P. legislators and State
leaders in his office and came as he
prepared to go before the Assembly
and deliver his program in person.
”1 was authorized by a majority of
the conferees," he said, "to say that
the Republican members of the Gen
eral Assembly generally approve the
proposed relief bill to be submitted
by the Governor until a better bill is
proposed.
Non-Partisan Viewpoint.
"It was the unanimous sentiment of
those present that this problem should
not be approached from the standpoint
of politics, and that the question of
relief should be considered from a
non-partisan standpoint and as a
State-wide obligation.
"It was also agreed that no steps
should be taken by those present
toward delaying or preventing the
prompt enactment of a State-wide
measure which will adequately pro
vide for the care of those in want.”
The belief that a gross-receipts tax,
a sales tax or a property tax stand
“very little chance of passage” was ex
pressed by Speaker Emanuel Gorflne
as the session opened this afternoon.
Additional Race Bet Taxes.
He offered legislators a program of
his own designed to raise $5,000,000
by re-enactment of the unobjectionable
items in the relief measure adopted at
the recent general session and adding
the following:
An additional 2 per cent tax on race
bets, estimated to raise $800,000.
A 1 per cent tax on cigarettes, to
raise $1,000,000.
A 10 per cent tax on tobacco pro
ducts to raise $400,000.
Gorflne, who offered the program
in a speech following his re-election
as speaker, said the three taxes—plus
all the taxes of the old bill except
the bookmaking levy—would raise
$5,500,000
Sasscer Defends Old BUI.
Senate President Lansdale G. Sasscer
of Prince Georges County came out
in defense of the relief tax program
adopted at the recent general session
as the special session of the State As
sembly called to enact a substitute re
lief program convened this afternoon.
Senator Sasscer declared the prob
lem confronting the Legislature
should be approached ‘'dispassionate
ly" and "not so rapidly as to prevent
any group upon whom any proposed
tax might be placed from having a
full hearing."
Statement was made upon his re
election as presiding officer in the up
per branch of the State's lawmaking
body.
"When we adjourned a few days
ago at the regular session I thought
my services as president of the Sen
ate had ended because at that time
there was no apparent protest voiced
against any of the features of the
relief program,” Sasscer asserted.
"However, since adjournment some
opposition has developed which has
caused the Governor to recall the As
sembly primarUy because of the in
clusion In the relief program of two
of the items suggested by him in his
message to the General Assembly.
"Now that we have been recalled, let
Us approach the problem dispassion
ately and with a full conception of our
obligation to the State as a whole,
both as to the amount of taxes to be
raised and the effect of its collection
as well as its expenditure upon all
sections. What may be not burden
some to one section of the State might
be disastrous to another.
“The program adopted worked no
hardship upon any particular group
and was accepted as a means of avoid
ing the gross receipts tax. which in
reality is nothing more than a special
income tax on one group of society,
the sales tax, real estate tax and
cigarette tax and other items that
were discussed and found impracticable
at the last session.
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Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
Routine business.
Judiciary Committee continues
hearings on Roosevelt court bill.
La Follette Committee continues in
vestigation of labor conditions in Har
lan County, Ky., coal fields.
House:
Considers Agriculture Department
appropriation bill.
Ways and Means Committee con
tinues hearings on new railroad re
tirement pension program.
Agriculture Committee continues
secret study of sugar quota legislation.
Labor Committee begins considera
tion of apprentice labor bill.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Not expected 6) meet.
Civil Service Committee meets in
executive session at 10:30 a.m. on
miscellaneous business.
Judiciary Committee continues hear
ings on President's court bill.
House:
Continues debate on agriculture ap
propriation bill.
Library Committee meets, 10 am.
Agriculture Committee meets, 10:30
am.
Subcommittee on Judiciary Com
mittee meets, 10:30 am.
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Fugitive Convicts Put in Dresses
Warden Fred Hunt (inset) of the Granite, Okla., Reformatory believes ridicule is the best
punishment, so he put two recaptured convicts in pink bloomers and two others in Mother Hub
bards and bonnets Then he had them sit in the prison rotunda for 22 hours a day so the other
inmates coulu. laugh at them. The men shown are Walter Collins, Fred Kappell, George Lane
and Louis Campbell. _-Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
SUTTON RETURNED
TO PHILADELPHIA
Robbery Suspect Attempts to Es
cape When Taken Be
fore Court.
Raymond S. Sutton. 34. who made
an unsuccessful attempt to break out
of the cell block at Police Court yes
terday, has been turned over to Phila
delphia detectives, who returned him
to Pennsylvania to face charges of
robbery and violation of parole.
Sutton was brought into Police Court
this morning, handcuffed to Deputy
Marshal Harry Wells. The prisoner
pleaded with Judge John P. McMahon
not to send him back to Philadelphia,
but to turn him over to authorities at j
Chester, Pa.
Sutton, police say. has confessed to •
robberies and housebreaking at Chester
as well as at Philadelphia and Wil
mington. Del.
“I’d rather go bark to Chester your
honor,” Sutton told Judge McMahon.
“I 'want to clear up some things for
the people there.”
He implied he had committed crimes
for which others were suspected, but
Judge McMahon told him he would
have to take up the matter with Phila
delphia authorities.
Sutton was arrested about 10 days
ago by members of the automobile
squad, who reported he drew a gun
on them and was riding in a stol“n
car. In a lengthy statement he signed
here, police said Sutton detailed a
series of robberies, burglaries and auto
mobile thefts in Wilmington and other
cities.
One of the Philadelphia detectives
said Sutton escaped from a patrol
wagon one night in Philadelphia and
"pulled” two hold-ups a few hours
later.
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Spanking
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McMahon said he was compelled to
recognize the fact that Mrs. Hoffman
was biased against the defendant.
Fred, who has been staying with his
mother since his father spanked him,
left Police Court with her today.
Storm said he probably would at
tempt to have the boy returned to him.
“I want to put the boy in St. Al
ban's School, where he will be away
from his mother and away from me,”
Storm said.
Mrs. Hoffman said she believed un
ruly children should be disciplined
and admitted she had spanked her
son on numerous occasions. Several
weeks before his father whipped him
she sent Fred away from her home
because he was unmanageable, Mrs.
Hoffman testified.
Policewoman Veronica Devlin tes
tified Mrs. Hoffman brought her son
to the Woman’s Bureau the day after
his father spanked him. She said she
saw bruises on the boy’s arm and
back. Under questioning by Board
man the policewoman said she was
unmarried and did not know much
about disciplining children.
Fred's school report card was in
troduced in evidence by Boardman
to bring out that his teachers had
complained to the boy’s father about
his conduct in school.
Boardman quoted lengthy legal
precedents which he said clearly es
tablished that "it is not only the
right but the duty of a parent to
chastise an unruly child.” He con
cluded his argument with the Biblical
quotation: “He that spareth the rod
hateth his son.”
Boardman denounced the arrest of
Storm and said:
it is a iar greater evil to drag a
parent Into court, thereby making
other parents feel unsafe in maintain
ing family discipline, than it was for
this naughty little boy to be spanked."
Judge McMahon developed that the
boy required no medical attention as a
result of the spanking and that he
attended school the following day.
Storm is an engineer for the Dis
trict government. He was bom in
this country, but was taken to Ger
many as a child and speaks with a
slight accent. He said he believed his
former wife thought he had been born
in Germany and was not an American
citizen when she threatened to in
stitute deportation proceedings against
him.
DOUBLE BLOOMS HERE
Main Show in East Potomac Park,
However, Due Next Week.
A few blooms on the double-blos
somed Japanese cherry trees in East
Potomac Park were in evidence to
day, but C. Marshall Finnan, superin
tendent of the National Capital Parks,
said the main show will not be out
until next week. He explained that
there are a number of varieties here.
Ths single-blossom dlsplsy around
the Tidal Basin Is now over and only
a stray blossom hers and there 1s seen.
Needs Help
RUTH B SHIPLEY.
Passport Division Chief.
Passport
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about passports in March and that it
is thought the April figure will reach
37,000. The two agencies there, with
12 permanent employes, need 25 extra
ones at once, Mrs. Shipley says.
Six foreign service officers nowr are
temporarily detailed to the passport
division, clerks experienced in the
technical details of passport issuance
being scarce, and inexperienced ones
requiring supervision. More than 100
permanent and temporary employes
have overflowed from the 21 offices of
the division into the end of the first
floor hall in the State, War and Navy
Building. Even with the augmented
staff, overtime work is the rule around
the passport division.
"And, at that, we are better off than
agencies,” Mrs. Shipley said. "For the
most part we handle applications by
mail, whereas they deal with waiting
people. Of course, more Washington
residents are applying here than usual.
Every Englishman in the District
apparently is bound for home within
the next few weeks, if he has not left
already."
A combination of coronation and
prosperity will bring the passport fig
ures to around 170.000 for 1937, Mrs.
Shipley estimates, an increase of 30.000
over last year. The biggest foreign
travel year for Americans was 1930,
when 203.174 passports were issued.
The peak period for passport appli
cations ordinarily is reached between
June 1 and 15. and extra help for this
time is usually anticipated in the
budget.
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Woman Dies of Burns.
Burns suffered in a fire in the base
ment of her home March 29 proved
fatal late yesterday to Julia Hall. 45,
colored, 1321 Riggs street. She died in
Emergency Hospital.
Tailors
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week, and a 40 to 44 hour work week.
He said this will mean an Increase of
from 10 to 50 per cent in wages in
the speciality stores.
The agreement also specified the
stores would recognize the union, he
said. The union had demanded a
minimum wage of $36 for tailors and
pressers and $22 for their helpers.
The tailors and their helpers walked
out of 42 clothing stores here yester
day.
McGrady Offered Aid.
Assistant Secretary of Labor Ed
ward McGrady offered to help arbi
trate the strike, but Edward D. Shaw,
secretary of the Merchants and Manu
facturers' Association, said it was not
necessary to call upon him.
The strike, which drew 247 workers
from their job6, is the first staged in
Washington under sponsorship of the
Committee for Industrial Organiza
tion. The Amalgamated is an affiliate
of the C. I. O.
Jordon
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11:25 this p.m. she was held up at
the point of a pistol and robbed of $90
by two young white men, who fired
one shot at her when they demanded
the money. No. 1 is 23 to 25 years
old. 6 feet tall, wearing a mask, blue
suit. No. 2 about 6 feet tall, gray eyes,
fair hair, no weight given, who held
the gun. Mrs. Jaynes was not in
jured. * • *
"Later it was found Mrs. Jaynes
was shot in the side and taken to
Garfield Hospital."
Addition to ‘‘Incidental.”
In pencil, below the incidental, was
this statement, signed by Detective
M. J. Mahoney:
"Interviewed complainant. Look
out sent out. Elizabeth S. Jaynes
died at Garfield Hospital 6:15 April
5, 1931. Coroner notified * •
"During Jordon's trial in District
Court.’’ Holzworth pointed out, "the
two bandits who participated in the
robbery were referred to as ’the tall
man’ and ‘the short man’—the as
sumption being, of course, that the
defendant, who is 5 feet 6 >4 inches
tall, was ‘the short man’ • *
Goodacre, for whom Jordon worked
as a busboy at the time of the shoot
ing. described the condemned man
as “a good boy."
"If he had anything to do with the
Jaynes case." Goodacre said, "it must
have been because he fell into bad
company. I had the highest regard
for him, and so did my sister—in fact,
she used to have him do some work
for her now and then at her home.
He was at work, as usual, the day after
the hold-up and continued at work
until he obtained a better job several
weeks later."
Railway to Be Extended.
The Peiping-Suiyuan Railway will
be extended from Paotowchen to
Ninghsia, China, a distance of 300
miles.
Town Officers Sworn In
Members of the Citizens’ Committee of Chevy Chase View,
Md., governing body of the town, were sworn in last night at a
meeting at the Log Cabin, on Kensington. Playground. Front row,
right to left: Dr. George W. Ashworth, Chairman Harry Martin,
John W. Self. Top row, Right to left: A. R. Miller, Secretary \
LeRoy Rogers, S. W. Shepard. The officers loere elected for one
year terms at a Citizens’ meeting April 13.
FARM BILLS Ml
BY ECONOMY PLEA
Wallace, House Leaders
Fear for 3 Major Measures
to Aid Agriculture.
BACKGROUND—
Predictions that budget would be
balanced for 193S fiscal year have
been badly thrown out of line by
developments of recent weeks.
Most important was presidential
determination that tl,500,000,000
would be necessary to carry public
relief for the coming year. Danger
exists that even that figure will be
increased by persistent pressure of
organized groups of Mayors and
Governors.
Farm tenant legislation teas
given impetus by survey made re
cently at request of President and
showing deplorable conditions of
tenant farmers.
B> the Associttea Press.
Congressional leaders agreed today
with Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
In predicting that President Roose
velt's economy plea may force post
ponement of major farm legislation.
Chairman Jones of the House Agri
culture Committee said the whole pro
gram was “up in the air” as a result
of the President's request.
Farm measures which may be de
layed or modified, Wallace said at
a press conference, are tenancy aids,
crop insurance and the "ever-normal
granary.” He described these projects
as part of a long-time program whose
absence may not be noticeable this
year.
1 A House subcommittee delayed con
sideration of the $100,000,000 crop in
surance bill passed by the Senate.
Jones said It was not known yet
whether Government finances would
permit this legislation.
The Texan indicated the $135,000,000
farm tenancy appropriation for 1938
recently approved by his committee
would be pared considerably.
Granary Plan Menaced.
Some persons suggested that the
fund for loans to farm purchasers
in 1938 be cut from $50,000,000 to
$10,000,000, but Jones said, "I think
$50,000,000 is small enough for such
a problem.”
Jones said other phases of the ten
ancy measure—rehabilitation loans
and retirement of submarginal land—•
might be financed from the $1,500.
000,000 relief appropriation recom
mended by the President.
Members of the Agriculture Com
mittee said the demand for economy
might prevent consideration of Wal
lace’s "ever-normal granary" and
commodity loan proposals this session.
Jones said his committee probably
would agree to a slight increase of the
interest rate on Federal Land Bank
farm loans. Gov. W. I. Myers of the
Farm Credit Administration last week
said continuing the present rate
would cost the Treasury $37,000,000
in 1938.
The House late yesterday approved,
187 to 121, a bill to combat stream
pollution at a cost of $1,000,000 a year,
despite a declaration by the Budget
Bureau that it did not fit into the
President’s economy appeal.
Federal grants or leans to install
pollution prevention devices would be
authorized for States, localities and
corporations which use navigable
streams for sewage disposal. The Sen
ate has yet to act.
The regular Agriculture appropria
; tion bill was before the House today.
1 Democratic leaders said they would
combat every attempt to boost the
$927,000,000 total. Representative
I Taber, Republican, of New York, sen
ior minority member of the Appro
I priations Committee, said the figure
ought to be cut $250,000,000.
Indication of the force of a cam
paign in Congress to cut the relief
appropriation under President Roose
; velt’s $1,500,000,000 figure came in the
! disclosure by a high administration
leader that the President turned down
an almost unanimous plea of his con
gressional chieftains that the fund be
cut to an even billion.
Balanced Budget Forecast.
The official, who would not be
quoted by name, was one of those
who conferred with Mr. Roosevelt the
night before he submitted his relief
estimate to Congress.
The President was said, however, to
have been convinced the need was
too great to be handled with the
smaller sum. He insisted the estimate
be large enough to last throughout the
coming year.
Senator Byrnes. Democrat, of South
Carolina, one of the conferees, has
forecast that Congress will cut appro
priations sufficiently to balance the
1938 budget.
Bigger Fund Is Sought.
A group of House members, claim
ing the support of 50 to 100 Demo
cratic colleagues, agreed tentatively
yesterday to seek a relief appropria
tion $1,000,000,000 larger than that
recommended by the President.
Representative Maverick. Democrat,
of Texas, said the group probably
would support a bill by Representative
Voorhis, Democrat, of California.
That measure would provide $2,520,
000.000 for work relief and an un
employment survey in the fiscal year
beginning July 1.
It would fix standards for work
projects, declaring that soil conserva
tion, flood control, drought preven
tion, water conservation, prevention
of stream pollution and slum clear
ance are suitable undertakings.
Another drive to exceed the $1,500.
000.000 appropriation proposed by the
President was begun by a House “lib
eral bloc.” Representative Boileau,
Progressive, of Wisconsin, said the
bloc would try to obtain $3,000,000,000.
Democratic leaders, however, were
confident they could beat both these
moves.
The Works Progress Administration
reported today it had 2,114.790 work
ers on its rolls March 27.
Officials said the rolls will have to
be cut eventually if President Roose
velt’s $1,500,000,000 relief appropria
tion recommendation goes through.
Havre de Grace Workouts
WEDNESDAY APRIL IL
(Track Sloppy.)
44 Mile.
Wise Sister . :40 Mv Blonde ._ :37'4
Capt. Hill . :4844 Durwrack . _ :37*s
Lltht Chatter. :38 Weston . _ :3P
Llnlace :3044 Ocean Roll :37
Oold Clip :3R*k Green Melon. :37
Happy Vote., :384s
44 Mile.
Miss Oak_:48H Catomar_:53
Deflate _:63
S Mile.
Church Call .1:04 Top High_1:08
Rudenla 1:04 Hot Cake_1:09
44 Mile.
Pair Billy. .1:20 Loncful _1:1714
Belshaxsar _ 1:20 Emvee _1:20
Abbots Last..1:2144 Maddest_1:80
Zandra_1:23
1 Mile.
Mystic Flyer.1:6044 Sleepy Roy ..1:4844
Mandas Baby. 1:48 Scudder _1:49
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