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WEATHER. -—
(O 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Increasing cloudiness and warmer to- TVio
night, followed by showers beginning late A lie Olliy evening paper
tonight or tomorrow: gentle to moderate in Washington with the
southerly winds. Temperatures—Highest, n xt
72, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 46, at Associated PreSS NeWS
6 a m. today. Pull report on page B-2. and WirephotO Services.
Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 14_ Yesterday's Circulation, 142,699
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____ ♦♦♦ (#) Mean. Associated Press. TWO C£]S TS.
WINDSOR GREETED
AT CHATEAU CANDE
Wedding Tomorrow Is Ru
mored After Duke Arrives
in France.
ESTATE GUARD HEAVY;
VILLAGERS GATHER
Ex-King Reported in Favor of
Early Announcement of
Marriage Plans.
BACKGROUND—
First official indication that Wal
lis Warfield Simpson mould marry I
the then King Edward VIII came
last October 14. when she filed suit
for divorce from Ernest A. Simpson, i
London broker. A decree nisi was
granted October 27. Events moved
rapidly toward the abdication crisis. ,
Mrs. Simpson left for France De- i
cember 3; the King abdicated De- ;
cember 10 end went to Austria. \
Thus they waited for the decree
to be made final. This action was•
taken yesterday, and the way was
clear for them to be reunited.
BY JAMES B. OLDFIELD.
MONTS. France. May 4 </P).—Ed
ward, Duke of Windsor, was reunited
in the moss-covered Castle rie Cande
today with the woman for whom he
renounced an empire, Wallis Warfield
Simpson.
Five months and one day of enforced
loneliness for the former King Edward
VIII and "the woman I love" endbd
at 1:45 p.m. 17:4 5 am. Eastern
standard time) when the duke reached
the ancient chateau.
He came from St. Wolfgang. Austria,
by train and by motor. He had not
seen his bethrothed since the dark
night of December 3. when he fled to
France from the abdication crisis that
changed crowns for a quarter of the
world.
Meets Him on Doorstep.
Mrs. Simpson met him on the door
step of the rambling chateau.
Preceded by a motor cycle police
man, the limousine she had sent for
the duke roared through the gates A
truck, stacked with Edward's 17 suit
cases, panted along behind.
The duke leaped from the car. He
dashed to the threshold to meet his
fiancee.
Twenty mobile guards and two
squads of eight gendarmes each paced
the grounds impassively, all in their
best and brightest uniforms. The
Tours police chief and his aide
watched with a critical eye; bustled
officiously about the place.
At the entrance lodge, the old lady
of the gateway had put on a bonnet
of Touraine lace for the gala day.
For two hours she had been standing,
almost motionless, waiting to open
the' portals.
"This." said the old lady with a
ehrug, "is a thing I rarely do—put
on my bonnet. But—Voila—it is a
memorable day!”
Party Waits Luncheon.
Within the mossy chateau, its great
rooms gay with masses of lilacs, tu
lips and yellow acacia, a small house
party had waited luncheon for Ed
ward
But Mrs. Simpson had been unable
to stay inside. During the morning
she walked in the garden, alone.
The day started out gray and chilly,
but an hour before the duke arrived
the sun burst out to show the country
side in all its splendor.
A knot of villagers had gathered
tSee WINDSOR, Page~A-5)
ALLEGED DELAY
OF MAIL PROBED
Traction Car Attempting to Re
sume Service Halted by
Power Failure.
By the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 4.—A parade
of witnesses faced examination before
r representative of the National Labor ,
Relations Board as postal authorities ;
pressed an investigation of an alleged
delay of mail delivery today in new
phases of a strike which has kept
portions of the Indiana Railroad idle
eince March 19.
l. fa. ooriman, counsel lor the ;
Labor Board, said a hearing on charges :
of unfair labor practices filed against j
the traction system and its receiver,
Bowman Elder, would require “a week
to 10 days." The complaint was
brought against the company by the
Amalgamated Association of Street,
Electric Railway and Motor Bus Em
ployes of America.
Two postal inspectors were in Ander
son seeking evidence of collusion which
might have been responsible for the
power failure at the railroad’s plants
in Anderson which halted a traction
car carrying mail almost before it had
started on a trip to Anderson and
Muncie.
The scheduled run in an effort to
resume mail service was the first at
tempt to restore operation of the
Central Indiana lines since the strike
of powerhouse employes began.
SEVEN C. L 6. LEADERS
PUT ON TRIAL IN MAINE
All Cited on Charges of Contempt
of Court After Injunction,
Held Strike Illegal.
By the Associated Press.
LEWISTON, Me., May 4.—Seven
Committee for Industrial Organization
leaders in the Lewiston-Auburn shoe
strike went on trial today on charges
of contempt of court.
The defendants, including Powers
Hapgood, New England C. I. O. sec
retary. were citeu in connection with
alleged violation of Judge Harry
Manser'8 recent injunction declaring
the strike illegal
I 1
Where Duke Met Betrothed
The beautiful Chateau dc Cande at Monts, where the Duke
of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Simpson met today.
_ —Wide World Photo.
Approves Proposed Investi
gation Regarding Anti
Trust Laws.
F\ the Associated Press.
The House Judiciary Committee ap
proved today a proposed congres
sional investigation of the motion pic
ture industry to ascertain whether
major producers and exhibitors are
violating anti-trust laws.
The committee, which would be au
thorized to make the investigation
under terms of a resolution introduced
by Representative Hobbs, Democrat, of
Alabama, referred the propose' to the
Rules Committee, recommending con
sideration by the House.
The Hobbs resolution would direct
the investigators to look into activi
ties of the Motion Picture Producers
& Distributors of America, Inc.,
headed by Will H. Hays, former Post
master General.
Charges have been made by inde
pendent exhibitors. Hobbs said, that
the Hays organization has attempted
to monopolize the industry through
compulsory block booking, blind sell
ing. withholding of pictures from in
dependent theaters and allocation of
pictures to controlled theaters.
Hobbs also said charges had been
made that theater-owning producers
were acquiring independent theaters
with a view to gaining control of the
industry.
He said other “unfair” practices,
such as attempts to regulate admis
sion prices by withholding films for
"unreasonable” periods from low-ad
mission houses, had been attributed to
producers.
The committee also would be in
structed to ascertain whether manu
facturers of electrical equipment for
reproduction of sound, and the prin
cipal music publishing houses were
involved in the alleged unfair prac
tices.
-•
HARRY NEW “VERY SICK”
Harry S. New, Postmaster General
under the Harding and Coolidge ad
ministrations, still was in serious con
dition today in Johns Hopkins
Hospital. Attaches of the hospital
described him as "a very sick man.”
Dr. Dean Lewis, professor of surgery
at tlie Johns Hopkins University
Medical School and New's physician,
said his 79-year-old patient entered
the hospital for observation. The
nature of New's illness was not dis
closed.
COURT BILL SHIFT
ASKEDBYKANSAN
McGill Amendment Providing
Two Additional Justices
Studied.
BACKGROUND—
A variety of amendments and
compromises have been advanced in
the Senate since President Roose
velt on February 5 announced his
plan to increase the membership of
the Supreme Court by a maximum
of six unless present justices over
TO retire. Until yesterday, however,
leaders of both proponents and op
ponents had insisted they would
take no compromise whatsoever.
It is generally believed any of
several proposed amendments
ivould insure passage of the bill,
but Mr. Roosevelt, now fishing for
tarpon, has not indicated he would
accept anything less than his orig
inal bill.
by G. GOULD LINCOLN.
The Senate Judiciary Committee to
day had before it for discussion an
amendment to President Roosevelt's
court bill offered by Senator McGill of
Kansas, which would authorize the ap
pointment of two additional justices
of the Supreme Court during each
presidential term. These additional
justices could only be appointed if one
or two sitting members of the court
had reached the age of 75 and failed ;o
retire.
Senator McGill presented arguments
for his amendment. He is firmly con
vinced that President Roosevelt’s sug
gestion that new blood be added from
time to time to the Supreme Court and
the inferior courts is sound, Senator
McGill said. He pointed out that the
President himself in his message to
Congress laid great stress upon the de
sirability of obtaining new members of
the courts from time to time.
The McGill amendment limits the
size of the Supreme Court to 15 jus
tices as a maximum and to nine jus
tices as a minimum. Under present
conditions President Roosevelt would
be authorized immediately to appoint
two additional justices. This would
bring the court's size to 11. The
President could appoint no further
justices during his present term unless
one of the two additional justices
should die or retire, or unless other
justices should die or retire. In the
latter case he could make no addi
tional appointments unless the size
of the court fell below nine.
There was no action taken on the
McGill proposal, since under the
unanimous consent agreement no
(See*JUDICIARY? Page?A?5?
Pope Advises Hitler Church
Must Have Freedom in Reich
By the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY. May 4.—Pope Pius
XI told Adolf Hitler today that the
Catholic Church must be left free to
fulfill its mission in Nazi Germany.
The pontiff's reply to the recent
German church note, which itself was
a reply to the Pope's pre-Easter en
cyclical accusing the German govern
ment of violating the 1933 church
state concordat, was delivered by
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli to the Ger
man Ambassador to the Holy See, Diego
von Bergen.
Vatican sources said the note did
not mention Hitler’s May day speech,
when he warned against sermons or
‘’encyclicals” which "disturb” the
Third Reich. It took a more moderate
tone th m the encyclical, and left the
way open for further conversations
about the concordat, which set up
separate spheres of church and state
influence in the Reich.
A*ip note maintained, however, the
church’s insistence that economic
pressure must not be brought to bear
against Catholics in Germany; that
Catholic schools and the Catholic
press should not be hampered.
As the note was presented, German
Foreign Minister Konstantin von
Neurath, who is here visiting Premier
Mussolini, drove with German Am
bassador Ulrich von Hassell to Cas
tel Gandolfo,
He did not see the Holy Father.
however, and authoritative German
sources said there was no possibility
he would meet either Pope Pius or
Cardinal Pacelli.
Prelates said the Vatican note re
plied, point for point, to Der Fuehrer's
protest against the pre-Easter en
cyclical.
It demanded strict application of the
concordat, which was signed in 1933,
soon after Hitler came to power in
Germany.
Simultaneously, the Osservatore Ro
mano, official Vatican organ, reported
that Father Rupert A. Mayer, a World
War Jesuit chaplain, who once stopped
a mutiny in an imperial regiment, had
attacked German neopaganism and
the attitude of the Nazi government
toward the church in a sermon last
Sunday at Berchtesgaden, site of Hit
ler's country home.
Father Mayer, who lost a leg In
the war was quoted by the Osserva
tore as saying:
“Those who thought Christianity
would haul down its banner have
greatly erred.”
(Much of the church-state fight in
Germany is due to the preaching by
some Nazi zealots of neopaganism, the
idea of a mystical Nordic god for
Germans only, with Adolf Hitler as
a "son” of this god. This is based
on the Nazi concept of a “Weltan
schauung” or world outlook which is
founded on blood, race and soil.)
a
FLEEI OF VESSELS
SPEEDING 10 SAVE
__
Refuge From Siege or Rebel
Bombardment Vir
tually Assured.
3,000 ITALIAN TROOPS
KILLED, BASQUES SAY
Slain in Assault When Cut Off
From Base at Bermeo, Com
manders Report.
BACKGROUND—
With more than half of Vizcaya
Province occupied by the forces of
Gen. Mola, fall of the city of Bilbao
is believed near. The Basque city's
30.000 defenders are expected to be
pitted insurgent forces advancing
on three fronts.
With the Basque "sacred city" of
Guernica occupied by insurgents
fall of Bilbao, after a bitter struggle,
uas forecast.
By the Associated Press.
ST. JEAN DE LUZ, Prance. May 4.
—Refuge for about lo'ooo women and
children from siege or bombardment
in Bilbao was virtually assured today
as a fleet of passenger liners raced to
evacuate as many as possible before
insurgent guns close the port.
Bilbao't Basque defenders fought a
last-ditach fight, but insurgent dis
patches said Gen. Emilio Mola’s troops
were swarming into the mountainous
region north of Bilbao and that their
artillery already commanded the Ner
vion River, Bilbao's outlet to the Bay
of Biscay.
More than 4,000 refugees, many chil
dren among them, were ILsted to sail
tonight aboard the 10,000-ton Spanish
liner Habana. the first mass immigra
tion from the harassed city.
Arrangements were made to charter
another large ship to remove 4.000
more children to England. The ship's
identity was -kept a closely-guarded
secret lest it become a prey of in
surgent war vessels patrolling the Bay
of Biscay.
Advices from Bordeaux, Prance, said
several French steamers with a total
capacity of 2,000 refugee passengers
were being coaled and provisioned for
a dash to Bilbao.
Tire first to leave, the steamer Mar
gaux with room for 500. was expected
to clear Bordeaux Harbor by midnight
tonight. The Carimare and Chateau
Palmer, with space for 1.000 and 500
emigres, respectively, were scheduled
to leave for Bilbao within 24 hours
after the Marguax.
Basque commanders reported sol
diers were holding their ground west
of Bermeo, a fishing town only about 8
miles north of Bilbao.
The Basque government said 3,000
| Italian troops in the insurgent army
were killed in an assault when they
were cut off from their base at Bermeo.
An indication was seen of Basque
authorities' fears that their capital
could not hold out in the flight to
France of the wife and children of
the President of the Basque govern
ment, Juan Antonio Aguirre.
They reached Biarritz yesterday,
joining refugee families of other lead
ers of the semi-autonomous Basque
i See SPAIN, Page A-4.)
ENVOY SAILS FOR U. S.
Dr. C. T. Wang to Be New Chi
nese Ambassador Here.
SHANGHAI. May 4 (Tuesday) (&).—
Dr. C. T. Wang, new Chinese Am
bassador to Washington, sailed for the
United States today aboard the liner
President Hoover.
Dr. Wang, former foreign minister
of the Nanking (Central) government,
succeeds Alfred Sze.
Summary oi Today’s Star
Page ' Page
Amusements _C-8 Radio ..-B-8
Comics _B-I7 Society ._B-3
Editorials_A-8 Short Story._B-15
Financial_A-13 Sports _C-l-3
Lost & Found.A-3 j Woman's Pg. B-16
Obituary_A-10 |
FOREIGN.
Duke of Windsor greeted by Mrs.
Simpson at chateau. Page A-l
Fleet of liners race to save 10,000 in
Bilbao. Page A-l
Pope tells Hitler church mast be free
to fulfill mission. Page A-l
London fears complete tie-up of
traffic. Page A-5
British rulers rehearse parts in cor
onation. Page A-5
NATIONAL.
• House group approves probe of motion
picture industry. Page A-l
Judiciary Committee discusses McGill
court amendment. Page A-l
Coal manager called in La Follette
Harlan investigation. Page A-l
Violence flares among rival unionists
in Hollywood strike. Page A-2
Age benefit phase of social security
tax argued. Page A-7
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Cummings asks transportation licens
ing of firearms. Page A-l
Tax group hears dispute on fire in
surance rates. Page A-l
Willard waiter dismissal before Labor
Board May 10. Page A-l
Officials say abattoir would detract
from new road. Page A-3
High water routs sharecrqppers in
Missouri. Page A-3
National Congress of P.-T. A. urged
to fight marijuana. Page A-10
Twelve aides of Beard to get parole
hearings. Page B-l
Bill to halt Jefferson Memorial fa
vored. Page B-l
Taxation without representation in D.
C. hit by citizens. Page B-10
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-8
This and That. Page A-8
Political Mill. Page A-8
Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-8
Answers to Questions. Page A-8
David Lawrence. Page A-9
Paul Mallon. Page A-9
Mark Sullivan. Page A-9
Jay Franklin. Page A-9
Delia Pynchon. Page A-9
FINANCIAL.
Corporate bonds firm (table).
Page A-13
Daily oil output drops. Page A-13
Big Western wheat crop forecast.
Page A-13
Stock move up (table). Page A-14
Curb list improves (table). Page A-15
R. C. A. earnings climb. Page A-15
SPORTS.
Sande rates cast-offs as having Derby
chance. Page C-l
Simmons Nats’ best bet, though in a
slump. Page C-l
Midget Terranova proves joke in
Straiges’ win. Page C-l
Schmeling, here again, seeking “square
deal.” Page C-l
Suburbanites are setting pace in pin
tourney. Page C-2
Terp base bailers jolted as Hoyas
march on. Page C-2
Bidding on tor amateur goiters in
open competition. Page C-2
Marathoners make Ponce de Leon re
semble a piker. Page C-S
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
Service Orders. Page B-10
Shipping News. Page B-12
Young Washington. Page B-12
Vital Statistics. Page B-12
Nature's Children. Page B-15
Bedtime Story. Page B-15
Dorothy Dix. Page B-16
Betsy Caswell. Page B-16
Crossword Puzzle. Page B-17
City News In Brief. Page C-4
Letter Out. Page C-4
Traffic Convictions. Page C-4
*
/B'GOSH!
IT MIGHT
l BE WORSE.
_SPEAKING OF CORONATION COSTUMES !
Roosevelt Asks Action Be
Put Off Pending Com
pletion of Study.
BACKGROUND—
Alarmed by President's warning
that governmental expenses must
be cut in view of unexpectedly re
duced Treasury receipts, members
0/ House have advocated impound
ing of 15 per cent of all appropria
tions. the impounded funds to be
subject to release at discretion of
President. In Senate many want a
straight 10 per cent reduction.
Determined efforts also have been
made to eliminate or postpone all
expenditures not immediately nec
essary. One immediate result has
been disclosure that thousands of
Federal workers in temporary agen
cies are facing loss of their jobs.
By the Associated Press
Adminstration efforts to cut the
! cost of Government brought recom
| mendations today for postponement of
! additional flood control projects and
a S162.000.000 Army housing program.
Chairman Whittington of the House
Flood Control Committee said hearings
on emergency flood control measures
would be delayed indefinitely.
President Roosevelt, he explained,
had asked that action be put off until
completion of a study, of flood control
in relation to power development and
navigation aids.
The President sent the committee
an Army report on revised plans for
control work on the Ohio and Missis
sippi Rivers, where serious floods oc
(See ECONOMY, Page A-5.)
--•
G. TJ. Records Earthquake.
The Georgetown University seis
mograph recorded a moderately strong
earthquake today. Beginning at
i 12T7:47 am., Eastern standard time,
| the tremors reached a maximum at
j 12:32 am. and ended at 2 am. The
1 university estimated the shocks we»e
I 3.500 miles away in a northwesterly
j direction, probably in the southern
■ part of Alaska.
Right Answers
to Sit-Down Quiz
Win Citizenship
V eg at i vc Reply Brin gs
Six Persons Into
l. S. Fold.
B^ the Associated Press.
KANKAKEE. 111., May 4 —Six per
sons were United States citizens today
| because they gave what the court
j termed the “right answer” to Circuit i
i Judge W. R. Hunter’s question: "Do
I you approve of sit-down strikes?"
All the applicants replied in the
I negative at last night’s hearing. Judge
1 Hunter said their applications would
have been denied had they answered
otherwise.
“The sit-down strike is a form of
, anarchy and should be punished by
law." the judge told them. “The Gov
ernment in granting you citizenship
guarantees you the rights of property
and you should strive to uphold them ”
BY FIREARMS LAW
Cummings Seeks Bill to Bar
Transportation Unless
Registered.
BACKGROUND—
Gangsters' guns created public
indignation which led to passage of
national flremarms act in 1934, reg
ulating traffic in "Tommy" guns
and sawed-off weapons. At protest
of sportsmen, pistols and long-bar
reled guns were exempted.
Since then two special agents of
Federal Bureau of Investigation
have been killed by pnstols in hands
of criminals—most recent death
being that of Agent Wimberly W.
Baker in Topeka post office gun
battle last month.
BY REX COLLIER.
Attorney General Homer Cummings
today asked Congress to prohibit
transportation of all firearms—even
pistols—unless specially registered.
The far-reaching curb on guns of
all types is necessary. Cummings an
nounced, to meet a “pressing prob
lem" arising from “possession and
use of firearms by members of criminal
groups."
The Attorney General transmitted
to Speaker Garner a bill to extend
registration provisions of the national
firearms act of 1934 to rifles, shotguns,
revolvers and pistols.
The act now covers only machine
guns, sawed-off rifles and shotguns,
and silencers. Previous atempts to
include pistols and long-barreled rifles
and shotguns hafe been resisted vig
orously by some sportemen’s organi
zations.
Cites Need of Act.
Cummings pointed out that it is
“just as essential” to regulate traffic
in pistols, revolvers and long-barreled
guns as it is to regulate transporta
tion of sub-machine guns and other
types of guns not used by sportsmen.
“In some respects,” he stated, “small
weapons are even a greater menace
(See^FIREARMS” Page A-2.)
Butter and Apple Sauce Dispute
With Waiter Before Board
The tragedy of a missing pat of
butter and of apple sauce in a dish
with a gold band served among other
dishes without gold bands will en
gage the attention of the National
Labor Relations Board on May 10.
The missing butter and the mis
mated apple sauce dish, it is charged,
ruined the perfection of a breakfast
tray set before H. P. Somerville, gen
eral manager of the Willard Hotel, on
the morning of New Year day. As a
result, it is alleged, Garland P. Webb,
veteran waiter at the hotel, was dis
charged.
When the case came up for hear
ing January 25 before a trial examiner
of the Labor Board, Webb testified
that his discharge was really not due
to the missing butter and the faux
pas over the apple sauce, but was
due to the fact that for eight years
he had been shop steward for the
Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ Al
DISPUTE FLARES
Superintendent Cites Fig
ures in Support of Charge
Rates Are Too High.
BACKGROUND—
New taxes on automobiles and
gasoline are among items being
considered by special subcommittee
of House District Committee as part
of new tax program to offset pros
pective deficit o 1 86.000.000 in Dis
trict revenues for the fiscal year
1938.
A dispute over the reasonableness
of fire insurance rates in the District
marked the resumption of the tax
study today by a special subcommit
tee of the House District Committee.
J. Balch Moor, superintendent of
insurance, started the controversy by
reiterating his charge that fire in
surance policy holders had been over
charged $10,000,000 in a period of 12
years.
His statement was met with a vig
orous denial by Edward S. Brashears,
representing the National Board of
Fire Underwriters, who insisted that
fire insurance rates are “fair and
just” and that they are lower than
those that prevail throughout the
country on similar risks.
After the argument over fire in
surance rates, the Commissioners sub
mitted an agenda to their preliminary
tax-increase program providing for an
inheritance tax and a privilege tax
on gross receipts.
Commissioner Hazen told the sub
committee he believed the proposed
privilege tax on business would be
more equitable than an income tax.
Moreover, he said, the Commissioners
felt that certain business in Washing
ton is not bearing its share of the
tax burden.
Asked by Chairman Kennedy of the
subcommittee what the Commissioners
would do if their proposed program
of taxation failed to balance the budget
in the coming fiscal year, Hazen re
plied the only alternative would be an
increase in the present $1.50 levy on
real estate.
Excess Loading Claimed.
Moor first cited premium receipts
and losses of several fire insurance
companies in 1936 and then offered
as "proof" of his charge that policy
holders had paid $10,000,000 in excess
premiums in 12 years a statement
showing that in this period thp com
panies collected a total of $26,991,447
in net premiums and pay out $8.
837,783 or 30.96 per cent of the
total collections.
"I consider 50 per cent loading as
adequate, fair and reasonable,' Moor
declared. "Any substantial amount
above 50 per cent is excessive.”
Moor, however, explained he did not
believe there is anything 'abnor
mal” in connection with statistics
he made public last week showing
that in 1936 $25,000,000 was collected
in life insurance premiums in the
District and $9,000,000 paid out in
losses.
Brashears explained that in the 12
year period referred to by Moor there
(See TAXES, Page A-2.)
liance, Local 781. It was union ac
tivity and not apple sauce which led
to his downfall, he told the examiner.
The examiner, however, issued an
intermediate report in which he upheld
the management of the hotel, which
contended that the butter and apple
sauce episode was just a climax of a
series of infractions of hotel rules
committed by the waiter.
The union, on behalf of Webb, ap
pealed from the decision and requested
a rehearing at which new evidence
might be presented. This hearing will
take place before the full Labor Board
at its local office May 10.
The Willard Hotel management de
clined to comment on the case today,
referring questioners to legal counsel
for the management. It was explained
by counsel that Webb had fallen down
in matters of discipline and had been
w'amed several times prior to his dis
charge.
I
BROTHEI’SSIAYING
MED AT PROBE
BY HARLAN MINER
Killing by Company Guards
Occurred Ten Days Ago,
Jasper Clouse Says.
ORGANIZERS AMBUSHED,
BOY OF 12 TESTIFIES
Saw Five Bullets Fired Into Car
by Deputies, Youngster Tells
La Follette Group.
BACKGROUND—
After launching probe of viola
tions of civil liberties by disclosure
of espionage m industrial plants
and accumulation of private ar
senals, Senate subcommittee turned
its attention to conditions in Har
lan County, Ky., home of some of
world’s richest soft coal fields.
Charges of strong-arm rule through
collusion between coal operators
anw law enforcement agencies have
been numerous and refuted only in
small part.
By the Associated Press.
Jasper Clouse, taciturn, thin-lipped
Kentucky miner, testified before a
Senate committee today that he saw
his brother shot to death 10 days ago
by two mine guards for the Harlan
Waliins Coal Co.
He told the La Follette Civil Liber
ties Committee he himself was beaten
into unconsciousness and left lying in
the street of Verda. the company's
Harlan County mining camp, beside
the bullet-tom body of his brother,
Lloyd Clouse, a United Mine Workers'
organizer.
The shooting and attack occurred,
he said, on the afternoon of April 24.
The witness testified Bill Lewis and
Melvin Moore, deputy sheriffs hired
by the mining firm, had fired “10 or
12 shots” at Lloyd Clouse as the
brothers walked out of a saloon.
Half-Brother Testifies.
A few minutes before Clouse took
the stand, his 12-year-old half-broth
er. Markham Clouse, told investigators
he witnessed the ambushing of a
carload of union organizers by Lewis,
Mcore and Luke ana Lee Hubbard,
all company deputies.
Although he saw the officers pump
five bullets into the organizers' au
tomobile, seriously wounding one
man, the youngster said, he was not
permitted to report the incident to
the grand jury.
The manager of the Harlan-Wallins
firm. Pearl Bassham, had warned his
family not to let him testify before
the grand jury, the boy explained.
Describing the slaying of his
brother. Jasper Clouse said Deputies
Lewis, Moore. Logan Middleton and
Maynard Hobbs were in the back of
the room when the two miners entered
to buy liquor.
As the brothers turned to leave, he
continued, the deputies followed them
to the street.
"Bill Lewis hollered for us to stop,
that he had to search us." Clouse
testified, "and when we turned around
he and Moore started shooting.
"Got Hit Over Head."
"I got hit over the head after about
10 or 12 shots were fired. When I
came to, I was laying there in the
road beside my dead brother, and the
guards were gone.”
He insisted that neither Lloyd
Clouse nor he had been drinking, but
conceded that Lloyd carried a pistol,
becauses that was "customary" in
Harlan County. Lloyd Clouse had no
chance to draw the gun before he
was killed, the witness added.
Clouse said he moved his family to
Pineville. in a neighboring county, the
day after the shooting, because he
feared they might be killed. He said
he had been discharged by the com
pany the day after he joined the
United Mine Workers.
Markham Clouse shyly testified that
he was "hunting scrap iron" along the
wooded banks of a mountain stream
on February 8, when he saw the offi
cers start shooting from a nearby cliff.
Some of the five bullets fired splat
tered around his feet, the gum-chewing
youngster related.
Organizer Wounded.
Earlier witnesses had told the com
mittee Thomas Ferguson, union or
ganizer. was severely wounded in ths
shoulder by one of the rifle slugs.
John Clouse, 13-year-old son of
Lloyd, told much the same story as
did Markham.
“Daddy came down.” as the boys
were about to board a train to testify
before the grand jury. John said, “and
said not to go, it wouldn't do no good,
and Pearl Bassham said it might cause
trouble.”
The boys' story of Bassham's warn
(See LA FOLLETTE, Page A-2J
BLAIR HOME BOUGHT
BY MELLON TRUST
Old Residence, Built in Sixties,
to Be Headquarters During
Art Gallery Construction.
The old residence built by Mrs.
James Blair back in the '60s at 716
Jackson place, facing Lafayette Park,
has been purchased by the Andrew
W. Mellon Educational and Charita
ble Trust for headquarters during
construction of the Mellon Art Gal
lery, it was learned today.
Mrs. Blair was a cousin of the late
Senator Blair Lee. whose famous resi
dence still stands at 1653 Pennsyl
vania avenue, just around the corner
from the Jackson place home.
The Mellon Trust is in charge of
construction of the gallery, which will
be turned over to the Government
on completion, carrying out the plans
of the former Treasury Secretary to
give his great art collection to the
people.
The property was sold to the trust
by the North Washington Realty Co.,
It* owners. The purchase price was
not given. It will be exclusively foi
office purposes.
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