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FATHER TO FELL
OF SON’S MURDER
Harlan Miner to Describe
i
How Boy Was Killed by
Vigilantes,
BACKGROUND—
Given impetus by disclosures
made before National Labor Re
lations Board, the Senate last
Spring voted $15,000 for probe
of alleged violations of civil
liberties; admneed additional $i0,
000 this Winter.
Concerning themseh'es first with
espionage in labor relations, com
mittee is now turning its fire on
conditions in Harlan County. Ky„
home of some of world's richest
soft coal mines. For years condi
tions there had been admittedly
bad and Kentucky State Commis
sion in 1935 reported them "un
believable."
Marshall A. Musick, Kentucky
mountaineer miner, will take the
stand before the Senate Civil Liber
ties Committee this W'eek to tell how
hi* son died under a hail of vigilante
bullets on the night of February 10,
1937.
Also on the stand will be Theodore (
R. Middleton, high sheriff of "Bloody
Harlan" County, Ky„ in whose hands
is vested the responsibility of pre
serving law and order.
Away from home on the fatal night,
Musick. an organizer for the United
Mine Workers, returned to find that
a band of gunmen had riddled his
home with high-powered bullets, j
bringing death to his 19-year-olA son,
Bennett Musick, and seriously wound
ing his wife.
-For nearly two weeks the commit
tee has heard numerous witnesses tes
tify to the strong-arm methods em
ployed by the scores of deputies of
Harlan, all of whom are either con
nected with the office of Sheriff Mid
dlpton or are on the pay roll of the
coal companies or their Employers'
Association.
With the Musick killing and events
directly subsequent, the committee
will have brought the Harlan probe
down to dete, the expectation being
that the present set of hearings will :
end by Wednesday. A recess until 1
the middle of May is then planned.
ARMY BILL IS SPLIT
TO ANSWER CRITICS
Appropriation Measure Divided
Into “Military’’ and “Non
Military’’ Sections.
The traditional "War Department
appropriation bill,” one of the regular
supply measures passed by Congress
each year, is a thing of the past.
Henceforth It will be split into two
■measures, to be known as the "military
establishment appropriation bill” and
.the “non-military establishment ap
propriation bill,” respectively — a
Jf-eakdown designed to emphasize the
^difference between cost of the Army
on the one hand and the cost of the
rivers and harbors and flood control
work of the Corps of Army Engineers
on the other.
, Thus, the procedure, disclosed by
■the House Appropriations Committee
yesterday in advance of reporting the
“military establishment appropriation
bill” next week, can be used to refute
the "miilion-dollar national defense
eudget” argument of the pacifists, ar
rived at by lumping the grand totals
of the War and Navy Departments’
appropriation bills.
Representative J. Buell Snyder,
'Democrat, of Pennsylvania, new chair
man of the Appropriations Subcom
mittee in charge of the War Depart
ment bill, is credited with the idea of
splitting the measure, not so much, he
Indicated, ‘‘to hint” economies by re
porting two bills, each with a smaller
total, but to give the true picture of
the department's activities.
--•--—
AKRON EDITOR FINED
IN JURY REVELATIONS
Early Decision by Court of Ap
peals Is Promised in
Test Case.
Br the Associated Press.
AKRON, Ohio, April 24.—An early
decision by the Court of Appeals was
promised tonight in the case of Wal
ter Morrow, editor of the Times Press,
fined $50 today by Judge Walter B.
Wanamaker for publishing names of
witnesses and cases under considera
tion by the county grand jury.
Judge Arthur W. Doyle of the
appellate court, said early considera
tion would be given the case.
Morrow was cited .after the court
had admonished newspaper editors
not to make public any of the proceed
ings of the jury. Morrow said the
case was to test the length which
courts could go in banning news
reports.
The court assessed Morrow a fine of
$10 for publishing the names of the
grand jurors; $15 for revealing the
flames of witnesses and $25 for making
known the titles of the grand jury
oases.
Rider
(Continued From First Page.)
school hours and which are not inci
dental to class-room teaching assign
ments? If the rider goes through and
this work is done at all, it must be
through clerks. And Congress has not
appropriated for clerks.
Directed against about 58 teachers in
special assignments, the clause will
affect all of approximately 3,000 teach
ers in the school system in all kinds
of ways if broadly interpreted.
“It will cause endless confusion,”
lamented Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle,
president of the Board of Education.
“It is just another evidence of the
difficulties caused by legislative riders.1’
Many teachers who were sympa
thetic toward the original intent be
hind the rider, feeling that no par
ticular use Is made of the results of
the researcn tests that take some time
and trouble, are distressed at the im
plications of the present wording.
Although many have felt that inclusion
of the special teachers doing the cleri
cal work as ‘teachers” gives a false
picture of the pupil-teacher ratio in
the schools since they are listed as
teachers, but do not actually have
classes of children, they are not, nev
ertheless in favor of the present rider
With all Its possible ramifications. At
any rate, the whole school system will
anxiously await the fate of the rider
when it comes before the Senate Ap
propriations Subcommittee.
Readers' Guide
and
News Summary
The Sunday SUr, April 25, 1937.
PART ONE.
Main News Section.
FOREIGN.
Madrid civil rule free* Miaja to pur
sue rebels. Page A-l
Belgium becomes listening post for
Britain. Page A-l
French capital and labor line up for
showdown. Page A-2
NATIONAL.
Near-deadlock seen on permanent
neutrality bill. Page A-l
Jobless count with early decennial
census proposed. Page A-l
Committee disapproval of court plan
seen possibility. Page A-l
100 Invited to cocktail party find hos
tess a suicide. Page A-l
Gotham rail strike bar sought in
week end talk. Page A-l
Harlan father to tell of shooting of
son. Page A-2
President to delay drive for reorgani
zation plan. Page A-4
Liberal-Conservative test seen in U. S.
Chamber meeting. Page A-7
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Commissioners to propose sales tax on
tobacco. Page A-l
School system buzzing with alarm over
new rider. Page A-l
Percentage reduction in appropria
tion bills opposed. Page A-l
Two bills on calendar for "District
day” tomorrow. Page B-l
Sit-down group at relief office leaves
satisfied. Page B-l
Leading scientists to meet here this
week. Page B-l
Delay of memorial urged by Borah
and Treadway. Page B-l
Silver star home in Barnaby Woods
opens tomorrow. Page B-3
Quezon engages F. C. Howe as farm
adviser. Page B-4
SPORTS.
Newsom is victim as Mackmen defeat
Nationals, 6 to 4 Page B-6
Hoosiers set 4-mile relay record in
Penn Carnival. Page B-6
Welbourne Jake annexes Maryland Cup
in hot finish. Page B-7
San Romani misses mark in scoring
in Drake relay meet. Page B-8
Annual series of Spring races begun by
sailboat devotees. Page B-9
Women’s District bowling champion
ships get record entry. Page B-19
Chicolorado takes Stuyvessant as aces
fail at Jamaica. PageB-ll
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
Lost and found. PageA-3
Shipping news. Page A-6
Vital statistics. Page A-9
Traffic convictions. Page A-9
City news in brief. Page A-9
Service orders. PageA-10
Obituary. Page A-12
Educational. Page B-5
PART TWO.
Editorial Section.
Editorial articles. Pages D-l-3
Editorials and comment. Page D-2
Civic news. PageD-4
Women's club*. Page D-5
Parent-teacher activities. Page D-5
Military and veterans' >
news. Pages D-6-7
Crc«s-word puzzle. Page D-6
Resorts. Page D-8
Stamps. Page D-8
Public Library. Page D-10
PART THREE.
Society Section.
Society news. Pages E-l-10
Well-known folk. Page E-4
Barbara Bell pattern. Page E-8
PART FOUR.
Feature Section.
News features. Pages F-l-4
John Clagett Proctor. Page F-2
Dick Mansfield. Page F-2
Radio programs. PageF-3
Amusements. Page F-5
Automobiles. Page F-6
Aviation. Page F-6
Children's page. Page F-7
PART FIVE.
Financial, Classified.
Steel industry ahead. Page G-l
Stocks go down. Page G-l
D. C. trade gains. Page G-l
Stock table. PageG-(8
Bond table. Page G-3
Curb table. Page G-4
Winning contract. Page G-5
Classified advertising. Pages G-5-16
CHILD MARRIAGE LEADS
TO PERJURY CHARGES
Husband and Mother Accused of
Misrepresenting Age to
Blind Justice.
Er the Associated Press,
PERRY, Okla., April 24 —A 12-year
old girl's marriage before a blind Jus
tice brought perjury charges today
against her 38-year-old husband and
her mother.
John Lawrence Bums, oil field
worker, and Mrs. Mary West were
charged with falsely placing Opal
West's age at 15, the legal marriage
limit.
County Attorney Judson Peirce, who
filed the charges, said the mother told
him she was “perfectly willing for
Opal to be married.” He said school
records showed the girl was bom Sep
tember 23, 1924.
C. L. Walker, blind peace justice,
said he married the couple Wednesday.
Revenue
(Continued From First Page.)
tax subcommittee. He has promised
to give it serious consideration.
At the very outset of the subcom
mittee’s study of taxation, Commis
sioner Hazen indicated he was not in
sympathy with all the Collins tax
bills. He declared the Commissioners
realized that $8,000,000 would have to
be raised to meet the prospective
shortage in the 1938 fiscal year, but
they did not believe the tax program
should be designed to raise more than
that amount.
Chairman Collins of the House Sub
committee on District Appropriations,
who sponsored the nine tax bills, once
estimated they would yield a total of
more than *12,000,000 in additional
revenue. He since has shaved down
the estimate to about *7,000.000.
Aside from the Commissioners,
members of the Public Utilities Com
mission are scheduled to appear be
fore Kennedy’s subcommittee when it
resumes hearings Tuesday at 10 a.m.
Members of the Utilities Commission
are to be questioned about present
taxes on utility corporations and the
effect on these companies of the Col
lins bill which proposes to tax them on
real and personal property rather than
on earnings.
Testimony That Spots Were
Caused by Blood Heard
at Murder Trial.
BACKGROUND—
When Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor,
comely widow and fiancee of Brig.
Gen. Henry H. Denhardt, was found
shot to death in a ditch along a
lonely road in Kentucky last No
vember 6. the general was charged
with murder. His service revolver
was found near the body. He
claimed she committed suicide
after walking away from the car
when the auto stalled.
Ey the Associated Press.
NEW CASTLE, Ky., April 24 —
Testimony that there were no powder
marks on Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor’s
Clothing and that there were spots,
alleged to be blood, on Brig. Gen.
Henry H. Denhardt's heavy overcoat,
was placed before the jury trying Den
hardt for murder here today.
The Commonwealth also brought
out testimony that the 61-year-old war
veteran and former Lieutenant Gov
ernor did not go near the body of his
fiancee the night of November 6 when
it was found in a roadside ditch, a
bullet wound through the body.
Shortly after 4 o’clock a downpour
battered so hard on the tin roof of the
court house that the witnesses could
not be heard and court was adjourned
until 9 a m. Monday.
Trial lo nasi Another Week.
The Commonwealth Indicated it
would require two or three days more
to finish its testimony and defense
counsel estimated two or three days
for testimony. Arguments were ex
pected to require at least one day, so
that the Jury composed of nine farm
ers and a filling station attendant was
not expected to get the case until a
week from today.
Evidence regarding a small pistol,
resembling a fountain pen, which the
Commonwealth wanted to prove Den
hardt owned, was ruled out as the wit
ness who described it, Charles Powell,
a truckman, could only say Denhardt
had told him of the weapon.
George Baker, a farmer, had testi
fied he heard a loud shot such as
might have come from Denhardt's
heavy Army pistol, which was identi
fied as the death weapon, and a few
minutes later a "pop shot," The
Commonwealth was overruled today in
trying to expunge Baker's statement
that "Denhardt could not have killed
her because I was with him when the
second shot was fired.” Another wit
ness today, Preston Carpenter, declared
he heard only one shot.
Found No Powder Burns.
W. Smith Keightley, an undertaker,
identified the clothing Mrs. Taylor
wore when found slam and declared
there were no powder burns or scorches
on the articles.
D. L. Ricketts, coroner, identified
Denhardt's heavy pistol as having
. been found four or five feet from the
| woman's body. The coroner's re
peated references to spots on Den
hardt’s coat as blood spots drew a
ruling that he was not competent to
say what caused the spots.
During the identification of the
clothing Coroner Ricketts testified
Denhardt had told him “Don’t let
anybody put any blood on this coat.”
The coroner added that examination
at that time showed spots on it.
Ricketts and Keightley also testified
that Denhardt had expressed belief
his fiancee committed suicide.
NOTED EDUCATOR DIES
Rev. W. J. Engelen Co-Founder
of Catholic University in Tokio.
ST. LOUIS, April 24 (JP).—Rev. Wil
liam J. Engelin, S. J., co-founder of
the Catholic University of Tokio, Ja
pan, died of paralysis at a hospital
here yesterday. He was 64 years old.
At the request of the head of the
Jesuit Order, Father Engelen and an
other priest, Rev. Joseph Hoffman,
organized the university in 1909.
Father Engelen served as chancellor
until 1915, when poor health forced
him to return to the United States.
He joined the faculty of St. John’s
University in Toledo, Ohio, as dean
of the Colleges of Arts and Laws and
later organized its School of Educa
tion.
Suicide
(Continued From First Page.)_
"
—a Broadway play of about six years
ago—and "The Gilded Princess." She
was widely known, also, as a radio
entertainer, having had parts in vari
ous chain productions.
The party guests, scores more than
! could have been accommodated in the
Monts’ three-room apartment, jammed
the apartment house lobby until door
men notified late comers the party
“has been called off."
Many who received the strange let
ters of invitation left without learning
that their intended hostess was dead.
The tall, chestnut-haired actress,
popular among patrons of the theater
guild, was married previously to Ran
dolph Joseph Thomson, an English
playwright. A few minutes after an
nulment of the first marriage, on
March 28 of this year, she married
Mont, Turkish-born designer of furni
ture.
She and the wealthy 33-year-old
creator of many popular fashions in
home furnishings had planned a June
honeymoon in Paris.
The Dally News said Mrs. Mont was
a graduate of the University of South
ern California. While a student there,
the News said, she was the lone wit
ness to the suicide of Robert Pew, 35
year-old writer and poet. Lifting a
glass of poison, said the News, Pew
drank a toast of death to her, dying at
her feet.
A few months later, it reported. In
the Fall of 1930, she came to New
York, and appeared on Broadway in
tha Guild production, “Roar China.”
The unique party Invitations were
unsigned, although several guests said
their letters were initialed and that
they recognized the initials as those of
friends. Most of the Invitations were
received Friday.
Mrs. Gray Lohman of New York
said she had received a “chain” invi
tation, and took along as her guest
Mrs. W. H. Wisner of Chicago. Asked
about their hostess, both said they did
not know Mrs. Mont.
Mrs. Mont's body was taken from the
apartment to Flower Hospital, where a
death certificate was prepared.
Her husband, shocked, secluded him
self in the apartment, from which
servants hurriedly removed the glitter
ing glassware and bright silver which
had been laid out In preparation for
New York's "most amusing and un
usual eoektall party.”
Why Have a King1
. Monarchy, Now Symbolic, Rooted in
Magical Powers of Distant Past.
(This is the first of a series of
articles on symbolism and side
lights of the coronation ceremony.)
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
HY all the fuss about A
British coronation?
The American public
schools—at least in the
New England of my own pre-war
boyhood—thoroughly impressed thcjr
pupils with the idea that kings
ranged from unmitigated evils to
ridiculous nuisance. The Stars and
Stripes Forever.
True, there were men and women
of eminence in the world who seemed
to place some stock in the institu
tion qf kingship and never to ques
tion that certain Individuals were
entitled to sacerdotal reverence be
cause they were the sons of their
fathers. World masters of letters,
science, statecraft and arms actually
willing to admit their inferiority to
a man who never had made a rhyme,
looked through a telescope, framed a
treaty or led a company! Michael
Faraday, a ‘'subject" of Queen Vic
toria! George Meredith willing to
bow and scrape before Edward the
Seventh! It was utterly illogical in
this logical world. Take, for exam
ple, our old friend George the Third—
a crazy man, who sometimes had to
be shut in a padded cell. And yet
Dr. Johnson and Charles Wesley kow
towed to him and seemed to think
nothing of it. It was beyond our
comprehension and beyond the com
prehension of the miiitantly Ameri
can young women who taught our
district schools. It Is yet, to judge
from the comments of 90 per cent
of our acquaintances, incomprehensi
ble to them.
An Answetr to the Riddle.
We turn to Sir James Frazier, dean
of British anthropologists, for an
answer to the riddle. It may be
plain as dirt to one born and reared
in a king-headed society, however ob
tuse to ourselves. The solution of a
puzzle often is found in extreme
cases, and Frazier found it among
the black tribes of Africa, where the
institution of kingship used to flourish
in its most exaggerated form.
There the monarch wast supreme.
He had the power of life and death
over his subjects. They were as the
dirt under his feet. He confiscated
their worldly goods and their wives at
his will, itebellion was unheard of.
But few men led more miserable
lives than these black monarchs with
their thousands of wives and count
less slaves. The sharp eyes of every
wife, every slave, every subject were
constantly on such a king. Deteriora
tion beginning in middle age was his
death warrant. A bald spot appeared
on his head. Some slave was bound
to notice it and call it to his mas
ter's attention. The king had a de
cayed tooth. It was detected by one
of his wives.
And when any of these things hap
pened there was only one thing for
the monarch to do—kill himself. Un
| til recent years, under the influence
of Christian and Moslem mission
aries. no king ever questioned the
obligation or tried to escape from the
automatic death sentence. If he
hesitated, of course he would be
murdered. He seldom hesitated, even
when the custom of the land decreed
that he be walled into a cave and
perish by starvation.
Magicians Were First.
In the beginning, as human so
ciety emerged from its primitive an
archy which some anthropologists
still refer to as the golden age, there
were magicians—clever but often
self-deceived charlatans who knew
how to make rain fall during a
drought or to rescue the sun from
the beast who was devouring it at
l the time of a total eclipse by cabalistic
j rigamarole. In them, they persuaded
others, was vested the control of
nature. It is obvious that the wel
j fare of the whole tribe would be
bound up in such a man. He must
be kept intact at any cost. Nobody
could afford to cross him.
Naturally when he began to lose
his hair or his teeth it was evident
he was losing his divine power and
the hordes dependent upon him were
facing evil days. There was always
some young and virile rival magician
around. The life of the tribe de
manded that the old man be put out
of the way and the young fellow in
stalled. It was as plain as the nose
on your face. At first the magician,
who may have been slightly aware of
his own charlatanism, probably re
sisted. But as generations went by
he himself became part of the system.
He took himself seriously.
From the magician sprang two
branches—the priest and the king.
The first sprouted off at right angles
with an entirely new formula for
controlling nature — appeal to the
supernatural instead of command.
By and large he probably was more
successful. The direct offshoot of the
magician was the king. As society
became politically organized he—in
whom the welfare of the state sup
jaosedly was vested because of his
power to control nature—gathered up
this new political power. In some
instances, in due course of time, the
cart led the horse. The functions of
the magiciain were discarded alto
gether. Kingship might be the re
ward of military prowess. And in
one way or another it became
hereditary.
It is worthy of note, however, that
The seal of the British Empire.
vestiges of the magician clung to the
monarchs of England until relatively
recent times. Early in the eighteenth
century Queen Anne "touched” for
the Icing’s evil, scrofula. It was her
duty, a service she could not refuse
to the poorest and most repulsive of
her subjects.
The African system, Frazier points
out, was only a survival of what
once had existed all over the earth,
except in America. In Europe and
Asia it had undergone far-reaching
modiflcatioas, but with traces of the
old system surviving as symbols. It
is extremely doubtful if the kingship
system—the development of the magi
cian into the monarch—ever touched
the New World. The American
aboriginals had no kings or any other
political rulers whatsoever. Their
system was utterly incomprehensible
to the English, French, Spanish and,
for that matter, to the United States.
It led to some mix-ups which the
Department of Justice is still trying
to unravel. There were, however,
priests who appear to have had pow
ers almost indistinguishable from
those of Old-World Icings, so far as
implied powers of life and death over
the people went. But these were not
political powers.
In the course of political evolution
the European king more and more
divested himself of the duties of
"making magic” and concentrated
more and more political power. But
the basic concept remained of the
welfare of the state being bound up
in one man.
King a Symbol Now.
But does the subject of the British !
Empire with a modicum of plain j
common sense still regard the mon
arch as in some mystical way epito- i
mizing the welfare of the state? Of
course not—no more than the Ameri
can. The nation has not hesitated
to chop off the king's head upon
occasion when he seemed to be tak
ing himself too seriously. But there
is a concept in the mind of the
Englishman which is a trifle vague—
perhaps unduly so—in the mind of
the average American. He Is an in
dividual. As such he leads his own i
life and does his own work in the
world But he is also a unit in an
organic whole—the British race,
which has just as real an existence 1
as the existence of himself as Bill
Smith or John Jones
Now. a race is a hard thing to
visualize. In order to retain its
reality it has to be focused upon
something actual—something that
can be seen, shaken hands with,
spoken to. Through the ages, start
ing with the magician, the king has
been so intimately identified with the
functions of race and state that he
has become just this—a tangible !
manifestation of a reality which is
felt vividly but is itself intangible.
If Great Britain did not have a
king it would be necessary to set up
some other symbol. Symbols cannot
be made to order.
Every subject is a dual personality.
He is. first of all, himself. As such he
goes about his own business and ren
ders no homage to anybody whatso
ever. There is an old Spanish adage:
i "Under my cloak I stab the King."
That Is. if the monarch intrudes upon
the individual it’s too bad.
But besides being himself the sub
ject is a member of a larger whole—
the empire—which may be looked
upon as an organism in itself and
not Just a conglomeration of indi
vidual organisms. It is as a member
of this larger organism that he ren
ders homage to the King. He is its
tangible manifestation.
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ARMY PILOT IS KILLED
IN FALL FROM PLANE
F' the Associated Press.
PILOT POINT, Tex., April 24 —
Lieut. Robert Fisher, 26, of Randolph
Field, San Antonio, Tex., plunged 4,000
feet to death from an airplane he was
piloting near here today.
Maj. B. S. Thompson, commandant
at Hensley Field, Dallas, said Fisher
apparently leaned too far from his
cockpit and fell out. He was struck
by the tall assembly. His parachute
opened and slowed his fall.
Fisher’s companion, Lieut. D. R.
Ellis, put the rear set of controls into
use and, although the rudder controls
were jammed, piloted the ship back
to Hensley Field, using only the ailer
ons, small movable sections in the
wings.
Maj. Thompson said it was a re
markable demonstration of skillful
flying.
Cummings, Forum Speaker
Attorney general homer
CUMMINGS will address the
American people in support of
the President’s Supreme Court
reorganization plan at 9:30 p.m. to
morrow in the National Radio Porum.
The forum, arranged by The Star,
will be broadcast over a Nation-wide
network of the National Broadcasting
Co. The address will be heard locally
over station WRC.
This will be the first radio address
on the court plan by a cabinet officer
since the close of the hearings before
the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Cummings is one of the President’s big
guns in the battle to enlarge the high
tribunal.
The Attorney General has chosen
for his topic: ’’Progress of the Presi
dent’s Plan for Judicial Reform.”
As the chief law officer of the ad
ministration, Cummings has been the
President’s close adviser on the court
plan since its inception and has di
rected personally much of the Presi
dent's campaign for adoption of the
proposed reforms.
He Is expected to reveal the reaction
of proponents of the plan to opposition
testimony before the Senate commit
ATTORNEY GENERAL
CUMMINGS.
tee, the title of hi* apeech Indicating
he feela the plan haa gained ground
alnee opening of the debate.
SHOWDOWN FACED
ON FINCH STRIKE
Workers Say Demands Must
Be Met, as Employers
Threaten Lockout*
Bs the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 24 —Capital and la
bor lined up tonight for a showdown
over the social efforts of Premier
Leon Blum's people's front govern
ment.
Labor threatened a general strike
If its full demands were not met.
Some employers held out the possi
bility of lockouts if the government
acceded further to labor’s requests.
Building trades workers defied Pre
mier Blum at a Vincennes mass meet
ing. They were prepared, they said,
to use the “full power we possess’’ to
force the government to spend 10,
000,000,000 francs ($44,400,000) on a
public works program to relieve un
employment.
Two Days a Week Demanded.
Dock workers demanded that
wharves remain idle two days each
week. Unionized newspaper printing
employes were seeking to halt pub
lication of newspapers two days
weekly.
The disputes cast their shadows over
Paris’ International Exposition, sched
uled to open May 1. but which prob
ably will not open until May 17.
Construction at the exposition site
still was lagging. In some quarters
this work was regarded as labor's club
over the government, which does not
want its exposition spoiled by a
strike.
But M. Blum has told the labor
federation the treasury could not
stand additional public works expendi
tures. Some financial experts, assert
ing half of the 8,000.000.000-franc
March defense loan has been spent,
also believed the nation might face an
empty treasury by June.
Threat to Close.
On the employer side, despite expec
tations of big exposition business, hotel
keepers and cafe associations served I
notice they would close if the govern
ment applied the 40-hour week to
them. They declared they would not :
be able to compete with other countries j
for tourist business.
Representatives of big industry were
touring the country to pledge employ
ers to a “stop labor" movement.
Industry and conservatives in gen
eral cried out that the country was
"in the throes of revolution.”
Some informed Frenchmen predicted
the bitterest struggle between capital
and labor since the late Aristide
Briand broke up 1910 railway and
postal strikes which tied up the coun
try.
The government was not believed
likely to fall in Parliament, which re
convenes Tuesday, but Blum was being
heavily fired upon from within his
own ranks. The premier has let work
ers know that continued sniping might
force the Peoples Front government to
resign.
BUS STRIKELOOMS
FOR CORONATION
Foes of New Tax Also Threaten
Parliament ‘‘Sit-in'’ Dur
ing Rites.
Br the Associates Press.
LONDON. April 24.—A threatened
strike by London busmen, together
with a reported plan by tax-angered
parliamentarians to stage a “sit-in”
strike, gave the Coronation Committee
cause for worry tonight.
The busmen warned they would quit
work May 1 in demand or a 7! a-hour
day. joining several thousand trans
portation employes in 10 nearby coun
ties who have struck for pay increases
and shorter hours.
Unless they can be mollified before
May 12, hundreds of thousands living
in London's suburbs probably will have
to take long walks to see the corona
tion procession.
Disgruntled members of Parliament,
the newspaper Sunday Referee said,
plan to “stay in” at the Parliament
buildings right through the coronation
unless Neville Chamberlain, chancellor
of the exchequer, modifies his proposal
for a national defense tax which will
take a heavy bite out of the profits of
big business.
(In his budget message Tuesday,
Chamberlain proposed a tax running
up to one-third of the increase in a
business man's profits this year if they
are more than $10,000 greater than last
year )
The newspaper said there were
enough M. P s in the anti-tax move
ment to keep the House of Commons
in session throughout the coronation
festivities.
Arthur
_(Continued From First Page.)
Arthur was not alive, but dead, and
furthermore, that he was English.
This, Dr. Nitze, was precisely what
“some clever person” did in the year
1189, by "first burying and then dis
covering the remains of Arthur and
his queen, Guineviere,” in the grave
yard of Glastonbury Abbey.
In other words, two bodies of un
known persons were dug up and “iden
tified” as those of the King and Queen.
Glastonbury was chosen for the “dis
covery,” Dr. Nitze declared, because it
was Henry's favorite church and he
wanted to develop it as the most im
portant church in England. By having
Arthur's body there, the place could
be a shrine which would command
greater devotion.
The burial of the bodies in tombs
within the Abbey was publicized, the
literary detective said, in a series of
manuscripts entitled “The High His
tory of the Grail,” and the incident
gave the church a position of priority
that influenced its rank even after the
Reformation.
Henry claimed Arthur as an ances
tor, and Dr. Nitze said English rulers
down to Queen Elizabeth kept up the
claim.
ROSSI CLAIMS RECORD
ISTRES, France, April 24 (/4s).—
Maurice Rossi, famous French flyer,
celebrated his 36th birthday anni
versary today by making a remarkable
5,000-kilometer (3,105 miles) flight
which, he said, set a new speed
record for that distance.
Rossi completed his flight over a
closed circuit in 16 hours 4 minutes 30
seconds, an average of 311.184 kilo
meters (192J miles) an hour. The
previous record, held by the Ameri
cans. D. W. Tomlinson and J. S.
Bartlea, was >73.08 kilometers an hour.
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Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
SQUELCH.
IT MAY be a classic, for all we
know, having slipped several times
on our 15 minutes a day with the
classics, but there is a tale going
the rounds about a woman and a
sandwich.
The woman was the fussy type. She
wanted the bacon just so well done,
the toast a particular shade of brown
(tawny, maybe) and the lettuce of a
specified degree of crispness. The
counterman looked licked before he
started, but he finally did start.
When the sandwich arrived (just as
you and the cleric knew it would be),
the bacon was too crisp, the toast too
brown and the lettuce seven shades
off specifications. The counterman
let the customer finish her tirade,
then he reached for the sandwich.
“Listen, lady,” he remarked, calmly
enough, “how would you like to drop
in Wednesday for a fitting?”
* * * *
PROPER NAME.
One of the most appropriate
monikers in the Army, says we, is
that of Capt. Lawrence E. Heyduck,
S3d Field Artillery, although it may
lead some day to one of those
"wolf-wolf” complications should
we become involved in another war.
To state it more plainly, the first
thing an Artilleryman yells when
enemy guns begin to get the range
of his battery is "Hey, DUCK!"
* * * *
RIPOSTE
TN RESPONSE to that touching tale
about the little boy, “Daddy and
Paddy” (if you haven't read it, who
are we to go around telling the same I
stories over and over again?—and no
wisecracks), we have at hand a letter
from Mr. Fred Evans, who says:
“I do hate to disillusion you or to
cast any aspersions on any city editor,
but I first heard that tale from the
late Robert T. Small, and The Evening
Star knows how long he has been
missing from its columns. He tied it
to John Skelton Williams. Bob prob
ably told it around the editorial rooms
and this is its ghost."
Of course, we promptly sent this
comment, wdth our compliments, over
to the city editor, who told us the
yarn, adding that we still liked the
story.
Says he, replying in the quaint col
loquial jargon of the city room,
“ 'Taint so—both of them died in
the horse and buggy days.”
Both of whom. Mr. City Editor? No '
mmes. no addresses, no places? Who. !
what, when, where, why, how? Huh?
* * * *
BEST SELLER.
J-JAVING been convinced these many
1 years that the Bible holds all I
records as the world's best-selling 1
book, and that the Tarzan books were
second, and “Gone With the Wind”
third by a nose, we now wonder how
long the old order may expect to
last against some competition re
cently disclosed by the Biological Sur
vey of the Department of Agriculture.
For example, the department back
in May, 1897, received a manuscript
from a chap who had collected facts
: on "Some Common Birds and Their
Relation to Agriculture.” It was put
out as Farmers’ Bullter No. 54.
i Since then there have been 1,
828.500 copies distributed free (a few
more than that, probably, while we
, were writing this) and the Govem
| ment Printing Office records show the
thing has averaged about 1,000 sales
a week for 40 years!!
Runner-up is a book on rats. It
has been revised and reprinted four
times since the first edition in 1909.
To date, about 2,000,000 copies in
circulation.
* * * *
BARD, REVISED
A scholarly operative of ours,
who yearns for new languages, new
ideas, a new posey, feels that she
has been robbed of the discovery of
the century merely because she had
to leave a Calvert street tram too
soon the other night.
! She had been listening avidly to
a conversation between two colored
men, one of whom evidently had
become a Shakespeare enthusiast.
He was trying to explain to his
friend the beauties, the charms of
the Bard of Avon.
"Take 'Venus and Adonis,’ for
instance,” he said, his eyes glowing
as he half-chanted the words.
"That is a wow. It’s like this:
Adonis, he was a good-looking guy,
and Venus, she was a Queen-"
At that point the tram rattled
over a crossing—the rest of the
sentence was lost. Next minute our
informant saw her street and had
to get off, leaving behind her a
man who had created a line at
least as good as the opening
phrases of “Hiawatha" — either
original or Milt Gross version.
* * * *
SIT-DOWN.
/~\UT on the corner ol Dorset ave
nue an-' Warwick place in Som
erset, Md., a grackle has won the
first sit-do—n strike in birdom.
For weeks out there the mornings
have been made hideous by the rat
a-tat-tat of a woodpecker (sure, red
headed) pecking out a home In a
soft maple tree. The job was fin
ished the other day and the wood
pecker went away to fetch his bride.
It was during his absence that the
grackle came along, spied the freshly
carved cave of the winds, and de
cided to take over. Naturally (we
remember from our nature studies)
there was hell to pay when the wood
pecker came back. He and the
grackel fought it out for an hour,
with the sit-downer conserving his
strength as much as possible. When
he figured that the frenzied home
maker had nothing left, he came out
of the nest and put on one of the best
stretch finishes that woodpecker ever
saw.
The latter hasn’t been back since.
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Co-Discoverer of Insulin
Finds Heparin May Balk
Blood Clots.
BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE,
Associated Press Rclence Editor.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 24._Dr.
C. H. Best, co-discoverer of insulin'
today announced a powerful new
preparation that gives promise of
being a preventive of thrombosis, the
formation of blood clots, which is
one of the highly fatal and com
pletely unconquered diseases.
One hundred human beings already
have been treated. But this num
ber is considered too small to ad
vance the discovery out of the "ex
perimental medicine” stage. Dr. Best
told the Federation of American So
cieties for Experimental Biology.
The new remedy is a purified form
of heparin, a substance manufactured
by the liver in men and animals.
It tends to prevent clotting of blood.
Dr. Best has purified the ordinary
form, with the result its potency is
increased 600 to 700 times
Thrombosis Affects All Ages.
Thrombosis takes many forms and
strikes down persons of all ages. In
one form, coronary thrombosis, it
takes lives of many men of the execu
tive type while they are apparently
still in their prime
In the brain the clots result in
what is popularly called a '■stroke,”
with usually fatal results. In limbs
they may not be fatal, but result in
weeks of illness and often in amputa
tion.
Heparin does not dissolve clots after
they have formed. But It is an ef
fective preventive. This gives it im
mediate possibilities, because a num
ber of forms of thrombosis can be
predicted by physicians.
Dr. Best described today for the
first time the result of five years of
experiments by himself and co-work
ers of the University of Toronto School
of Hygiene. Arthur Charles and Camp
bell Cowan. They first tried the ordi
nary, crude form of heparin on dogs
and other laboratory animals. It was
injected subcutaneously. There was
little effect.
Purified Heparin Worked.
Next the powerful new purified
heparin was produced. It was ad
ministered in the same way. A single
injection served to prevent the for
mation of slots In a dogs blood for
40 hours.
Next animals were given thrombosis,
experimentally. When heparin was
injected it prevented this type of
thrombosis. Combining the heparin
with bendixine made the remedy more
effective.
The new heparin has no bad ef
fects on human beings, but the con
ditions under which it can be used
safely must still be worked out.
Other Reports Made.
A pneumonia treatment that cut
the death rate three-quarters, an ex
tract of white blood cells from dogs
that saved otherwise fatal cases of
peritonitis, and finding the nerves that
control the making of bUe also wer*
reported yesterday.
The pneumonia treatment covered
1,500 cases of all types at all ages at
the Louisiana State University Med
ical Center. New Orleans. It was
reported to the Federation of Ameri
can Societies for Experimental Biol
ogy by Clyde Brooks. M. D.
One-half of the patients, he said,
received the standard pneumonia
treatments, the other half by injec
tion of a protein substance which.
Dr. Brooks said, his medical friend*
think ought not to work.
But, he said, the death rate of those
treated with the protein was 10 per
cent in lobar pneumonia against 39
per cent for patients receiving all the
usual pneumonia remedies. The death
rate was 9 per cent in broncho
pneumonia against 32 per cent. The
cases covered five years.
The medical name of the protein
is deutero proteose or secondary pro
teose. It is made from fibrin, the sub
stance which causes blood to clot.
White Blood Cells Extracted.
Bernhard Steinberg, M. D., of the
Toledo Hospital Toledo. Ohio, report
ed a method, the first of its kind, of
putting the white blood cells of one
animal to work in curing disease of
not only another animal but of a dif
ferent species, including a human
being.
The white blood cells, leukocytes, are
the scavengers in both men and ani
mals, their job being to destroy infec
tions of all kinds.
Laboratory scientists have known for
some time that it is possible to extract
these living disease fighters from the
body, but Dr. Steinberg discovered a
method of speeding up the extraction
by sixfold. This gives him a large
number of leukocytes which can be
transferred to the body of another ani
mal or to a human being while they
are still very much alive and active.
He used the leukocytes obtained
from one dog to cure peritonitis in
another dog.
Vitamin B Work Described.
Vitamin B. the most complex mem
ber of the diet family, was held re
sponsible for some forms of heart
disease in a report which closed a
three-day discussion of the wide
spread lack of this vitamin in Ameri
can diet.
The story of 30 men scarcely able to .
walk on account of heart trouble who
were able to go back to work aftar
several months of a diet rich in vita
min B was described by Dr. Barnett
Sure and Dr. W. A. Jones of the Uni
versity of Arkansas and the United
States Veterans' Hospital. Fayette
ville.
These men, said Dr. Sure, were
given diets of cereals containing wheat
embryo, yeast, and numerous fresh
vegetables all containing vitamin B,
and in addition a concentrate of this
vitamin.
After an average stay of 114 days
each one of these men hiked 4 miles
from the veterans' hospital to town
without serious heart difficulties. They
all returned to work. Dr. Sure said
that he does not believe lack of vita
min B Is a direct cause of heart trouble,
but, he said, American diet is inade
quate in this vitamin.
CHURCHMEN* SENTENCED
Nazi Campaign Against Alleged
Immorality Benewed.
COLOGNE, Germany. April 24 (A>).
—A stern Nazi campaign against al
leged immorality in church circles was
renewed today when sentences of
from 10 months to three years in
prison were imposed on five lay broth
ers at Bonn and one Catholic vicar
at Essen.
All were convicted on charges ol
immoral relations with children in
trusted to their care.
Two lay brothers tried on dmllar
chargee were acquitted.