Evening star. [volume], June 03, 1937, Page A-13, Image 13

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JOYCE CALLS RAILS
CORPORATIONTOYS
President of Great Western
Favors Constructive Acts
by Congress.
%y the Associated Pr«:ss.
President Patrick H. Joyce of the
Chicago, Great Western Railroad told
Senate investigators today the Na
tion's railways "are being used as
a foot ball by holding companies and
everybody else ”
He asserted that if Congress “is able
to stop it. it will accomplish a job
nobody else ever has."
He testified before the Senate Rail
road Finance Committee that he was
"not trying to stop" any construc
tive legislation which might result
from its inquiry, but would "be glad
to see it.”
"We should have 30 per cent more
people working for the railroads to
day," he declared.
“And why don't, we have them?
Because we are crucified for bad
management whenever we spend a
little money.”
He made his statement with con
siderable heat after Acting Chairman
Truman had remarked:
"X think that wholly owned subsid
iaries a.re just as bad for the rail
ways as holding companies are for
the carriers and the public utilities.”
Joyce, an outspoken, gruff-voiced
Irishman, agreed that in some cir
cumstances the subsidiaries were "bad
for the railroads." He pleaded for
Government co-operation in helping
the carriers solve their difficulties.
"We are going to help them by
taking them out of high finance.”
Truman replied.
Keene
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Keene's home at the Fairfax Hotel
for Identification.
Mrs. Keene said the woman's silver
mesh bag, marked with the initials
F. R. K. and a silver tea strainer,
which were found in the brief case,
had belonged to her husband's sister.
Miss Florence Robins Keene, former
music teacher at McKinley High
School, who died three years ago.
Convinced of Murder.
Convinced that her husband was
murdered. Mrs. Keene said she be
lieved the killer grabbed every metal
object he could find to stuff in the brief
case. She said she is sure her husband
had packed the mesh bag and tea
6trainer in his suit, case, which was
found emptied of its contents in his
cabin.
"Mr. Keene adored his sister and
could not bear to part with anything
she left him." Mrs. Keene said. "He
always carried the mesh bag in his
suit case on trips.
Officials of the Norfolk & Washing
ton Steamboat Co. said that all of the
regular crew which sailed the steamer
District of Columbia on the night of
May 13 when Keene disappeared are
still on duty. But colored deck hands
who are hired by the trip have left the
boat and cannot be found. This is not
unusual, it was explained, sine* the
extra deck hands usually leave the boat
at the conclusion of a voyage.
Sergt. Brubaker, who has not yet
decided whether Keene was murdered
or committed suicide, is contemplat
ing requestioning Mrs. R. F. Loper of
Norfolk, who occupied the cabin ad
joining that of the dead man. When
Mrs. Loper appeared before an in
vestigating board of the Bureau of
Navigation and Steamboat Inspection,
ehe testified that she is an unusually
light sleeper, but heard nothing un
usual in Keene's cabin.
Check Rope on Boat.
Stpamboat officials said they had
checked over all the rope usea on the
District of Columbia and are sure
that neither the piece of cotton rope
tied around Keene's neck or the
length of water-proofed marlin rope,
which was tied around his waist, came
from the boat.
There is no thin marlin rope used
on the District of Columbia, it was
said.
The marlin rope apparently had
been tied to a heavy weight, which
kept Keene's body below the surface.
One end of the rope was frayed, indi
cating it had broken under the strain
or had been cut by scraping on oyster
shells on the bottom of the bay.
Smiths Island fishermen who re
moved the marlin rope from the body
cast it on the beach and investigators
have been unable to Snd it. The rope
is obtainable only at a ship chandler's
or on a boat, and may be one of the
most valuable clues in the case, it was
pointed out.
Brubaker indicated that future de
velopments in the investigation will
hinge on results of the tests of the
bullet. If it is determined that the
bullet is the same make as those found
in Keene's pocket, the suicide theory
will be strengthened, Brubaker said.
Keene owned a .32-caliber pistol, but
it had not been seen for two years.
Blood on Bunk Puzzle.
Most puzzling of the many clues in
the case is the fact blood was found on
the bunk in Keene's room, on the wash
basin, on the handrail below his win
dow and on the aft deck guard rail
about 10 feet from the window. Doc
tors say the bullet killed him instantly.
The bullet was fired into the middle
of his throat and took an upward
course. He would have had to have
been lying on the bed on his back
for a killer to have gotten the gun into
position to fire the fatal shot, it was
pointed out. There were powder
marks around the wound. Dr. W. P.
Stout of Smiths Island says Keene
was struck a terrific blow over his left
eye about 45 minutes before he was
shot.
Irrespective of what decision the
State police reach, the rase will re
main on Maryland crime records as an
unsolved murder unless a grand jury
convenes and reverses the verdict of
a coroner’s jury, which met on Smiths
Island following recovery of the body
Monday.
Funeral services for Keene were held
here yesterday and he was buried be
side his sister at Lanham, Md.
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Japanese Launch Seized.
MANILA, P. I„ June 3 </P).—'The
Japanese launch Yagamo Maru and
her crew of seven were reported seized
today by the Philippine revenue cut
ter Arayat and accused of looting the
Philippine fishing boat Mestiso. The
crew was accused of operating in
Philippine waters without a permit.
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SIT-DOWNS CLOSE
GOODYEAR FACTORY
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5,000 Idle Due to Disputes
of Minor Nature in Four
Departments.
By the Associated Press.
AKRON, Ohio. June 3.—Five thou
sand employes of plant 1 of the Good
year Tire & Rubber Co. were idle to
day because of a stoppage of produc
tion resulting from sit-downs in four
separate departments.
Comparatively minor Issues caused
the disputes, company officials said.
A few workers were remaining in
'the departments to carry the sit-down
on from shift to shift.
Officers of the Goodyear local of
the United Rubber Workers of America
planned to confer with company ex
ecutives today.
Prior to the conference, John House,
union president, refused to make any
comment on the causes or possible
solutions of the controversies.
U. S'. WORKERS SELECT
MEETING DELEGATES
War Department Unit Names
Four to Attend Illinois
Convention.
Delegates and alternates tc the na
tional convention in Springfield, 111.,
in September, were named last night
by War Department Local No. 261,
National Federation of Federal Em
ployes.
The delegates are Miss G. E. Coyle,
William S. Kinney, B. R. Kleinwachter
and Charles Bonneville. The alter
nates are Walter E. Marlow, J. S. M.
Zimmerman, Miss Pearle Cooper and
W. E. Hoffheins.
The local agreed to support a reso
lution calling for transportation of
families and effects of War Depart
ment employes trcnsferred to foreign
service, and for payment of a differ
ential wage to offset increased living
1 costs at foreign posts.
LANDIS RENAMED
James M. Landis of Massachusetts
was renamed chairman of the Secur
ities and Exchange Commission by
President Roosevelt today,
Landis’ present term expires June 6.
He will serve until Fall, when he re
turns to Harvard as dean of the Law
School.
The President also sent to the Sen
ate the reappointment of T D Webb
| of Tennessee to be a member of the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board,
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