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REPUBLIC FIGHTS
IN TWO COURTS TO
FREE PLANTS FROM
GRIP OF STRIKERS
Union Organizers Counter
With Avowal “Pickets Will
No Longer Permit Lines
to Be Broken.”
'•SINISTER AND BLOODY
THINGS ARE IN OFFING”
Mur ray. Leader of C. I. 0. Group,
Makes Declaration in Referring1
to Youngstown Situation—Chi
cago Mayor Orders Company
to Clear Factory Buildings.
BACKGROUND—
Armed with contracts for collec
tive bargaining from United States
fttecl Corp., Steel Workers Organiz
ing Committee, C. I. O affiliate,
launched, drive two weeks ago to
bring the three large independents
of the industry into line. Efforts
to organize Republic. Inland and
Youngstown have met with stifl
opposition and blood has been shed.
Most violent of outbreaks was last
Sunday at plants of Republic in
Chicago, when seven persons were
killed and scores injured.
ir the Associated Press.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 5 —
Republic Steel Corp. fought in two
rourts today to free its plants from
the grip of strikers and the Steel
Workers' Organizing Committee coun
jtered with an avowal "pickets will
Jno longer permit their lines to be
fbroken. cost what it may."
,. "Sinister and bloody things are in
;1he offing in Youngstown,” declared
{the S W. O. C.s chairman. Philip
^Murray, as Republic obtainAd a court
! order directing pickets to permit
pcress to its Warren and Niles plants
pnd to give up "clubs * * * and other
weapons."
In Chicago, scene of the strike
fighting fatal to seven men last Sun
day. Mayor Edward J. Kelly directed
Republic to remove by Monday night
the men encamped in its plant there.
He said building and health regula
tions were being violated.
Seven Seized for Quiz.
While police carried the order to
rompanv officials, State's attorney’s
officers seized five men for question
ing about last Sunday's rioting in
which seven from the strike Strong
Were shot to death and scores injured
rpar the mill.
One of them was Jaseph Wpber,
pn organizer for the Steel Workers’
Organizing Committee, who was the
last of three speakers at a mass
meeting preceding the march toward
the plant. The others were John
FtfTe. George A. Patterson. Mario
Fecocicz and Richard Lewis, all de
tained on open charges.
Mayor Kelly's order followed an
investigation which he said showed
the corporation was violating the city
building codes and health regulations
In housing employes without a permit.
Me said police would be instructed to
act if the violations continued.
Workers I/eavp.
James L. Hyland, district manager
for the company, said the company
had "no desire to violate any ordi
nances” and did not know which ones.
If any, were being violated but was
taking steps to find out. The matter
has been placed in ihe hands of com
ny's counsel at Cleveland, he said.
Observers counted more than 30
•carloads of workers driving out of
the plant tonight. Hyland said they
were leaving of their own volition
for the week end and that he ex
pected them to return to work Mon
day morning. The majority of the
1.400 men who have been in the
plant, he said, would sleep there over
the week end.
Hyland .said the semi-monthly pay
checks would be issued Monday morn
ing. Strikers will be paid at a tem
porary pay station to be set up just
outside the main gate of the South
Chicago plant, he said. The station
*111 be well inside the police lines
established 10 days ago.
These developments came a few
flours after police and sheriff's dep
uties. bearing rifles and tear gas. drove
peveral hundred pickets from a bridge
Bd joining a Youngstown Sheet &
Tttbp Co. plant here.
The pickets had gathered- when a
locomotive ran a box car of food
quickly into thp company's grounds.
The officers fired no shots.
Sheriff to. Frolect Lives.
“I shall use every effort available
to protect lives and property,” Sheriff
Ralph E. Elser declared evpn as a
(See STEEL. Page A-5.)
PRESIDENT BEGINS
WEEK END CRUISE
fames, Wife and Daughter, and
Harry L. Hopkins Among
Those in Party.
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt embarked at
the Navy Yard yesterday for a week
end cruise on the Potomac River.
He boarded the yacht Potomac after
a conference with House Democratic
leaders.
Accompanying the President on the
cruise were James Roosevelt, his wife
and their daughter Sara. Harry L.
Hopkins. Works Progress administra
tor, and Mrs. Hopkins; Robert H.
Jackson, Assistant Attorney General
and Mrs. Jackson and Miss Mar
quartite Lehand. a personal secre
tary. The President will return this
evening,
Radio Programs, Page F-3.
Complete Index, Page A-2.
A $
Post Office Defends Refusal
To Deliver Food Past Pickets
Donaldson Asserts De
partment Must ISot
“Settle” Disputes.
The Post Office Department last
night defended its position that its
facilities cannot be used to deliver
j food through picket lines to non
striking workers in the Republic Steel
1 Corp. plant at Niles, Ohio.
| Asserting that the department "has
no authority to settle strikes,” Jesse
; M. Donaldson. Deputy First Assistant
1 Postmaster General, said the mails
cannot be used to deliver food through
j picket lines in any strike area unless
a case should arise in which the mails
had been used regularly for such
deliveries.
Explaining his position, Donaldson,
who said he has been in the Postal
: Service for 30 years, declared:
"The Post Office Department will
! continue normal mail service. It antici
pates no trouble in doing this. But it
will not attempt functions that have
i See POST OFFICE’ Page A-4.) “
JESSE M. DONALDSON.
URGED FOR SPAIN
Both Rome and Berlin Ob
ject to Consultations
Before Reprisals.
BACKGROUND—
Italy and Germany Monday left
the Hands-Ofl-Spain" Committee
of Nations, the day German ships
shelled Almeria ajter Loyalist,
planes had bombed both German
and Italian vessels. Russia does
not leant neutrality group to make
concessions, and France, her ally,
is anxious Russia be kept in close
consultation.
B> the Associated Press.
IjONDON. June 5.—Further diplo
matic wooing of Germany and Italy
tonight was seen necessary beforP
the two nations may be won bark
into the international patrol around
Spain.
Both nations responded to the
British proposal outlining a basis for
their return to co-operation
It was reported unofficially both
Rome and Berlin balked at the Brit
ish suggestion the commanders of
the international patrol should con
I suit before anv reprisals be taken in
j event of a patrol vessel being at
tacked.
Shortly after Germany s note In
reply was delivered in London,
Joachim von Ribbentrop, German
Ambassador, flew to Berlin for dis
cussions over the week end with
Reichschancellor Adolf Hitler.
Italy's reply was delivered to Sir
Eric Drummond. British Ambassador
in Rome, but a copy was not received
immediately in London.
Both replies were believed to have
followed a similar pattern.
British Reserve Comment.
Brit ish officials reserved comment,
bin it was understood strong hopes
were held here Hitler and Premier
Mussolini would fall into line after
further negotiations.
These hopes were based on the fact,
as one put it. "They didn't say 'ves,’ ,
but they didn't say 'no.' "
France's reply also Is being studied.
Paris was understood to be concerned
over what some interpreted as an
effort to "freeze out” Soviet Russia
from the non-intervention diplomatic
and naval maneuvering.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
talked to Von Ribbentrop and Italy's
Ambassador, Count Dino Grandl, be
fore going home to study the situa
tion over the week end.
An official spokesman, commenting
on Germany's note, which was not
published, said: "There is no reason
to be disturbed about it.”
Eden did not talk with Russian
representatives on the Non-interven
tion Committee and some sources sug
gested he deliberately ignored them.
T*he Russian Embassy maintained si
lence, aw-aiting the presentation of
Eden's findings before the full Neu
trality Committee.
Russia Singled Out.
One factor which concerned the
U. S. S. R. was Italy's warning after
she quit the neutrality group, that her
ships would remain near Spain and
keep Russian vessels from taking help
to the Spanish government—by force
if necessary.
German war vessels also remained
j in Spanish waters and more were
' on the way.
I France clung to her stand, disclosed
j yesterday, that all the naval nations
j represented in the Non-Intervention
! Committee should join in the neutral
j patrol of Spain, which is designed to
| keep foreign arms and volunteers out
of the Iberian Peninsula by peace
| ful means. Only Germany, Italy,
I France and Britain have participated
in the patrol.
Eden’s suggestions included crea
tion of guaranteed safety zones for
neutral ships near Spain and discus
sions among Germany, France, Italy
and Britain if a vessel of any of them
was attacked.
VANDENBERG HITS
WAGE BILL HASTE
Committees. However, Con
tinue Effort to End Hear
ings June 14.
BACKGROUND—
Broad objective of administra
tion with regard to industry is
to eliminate sweatshop wages and
hours and child labor.
N. R A. effort was invalidated
by Supreme Court, but Black
Connery bill now before Congress
is latest attempt. Measure is point
ed at interstate commerce directly,
hut contains provision for similar
regulation of interstate commerce
when in competition with, that of
interstate character. •
RV JOHN C. HENRY".
Pressure to hasteu consideration of
the administration wage and hour
legislation precipitated a blast of con
demnation last night from Republican
leadership.
After the firing was over, however,
the Senate and House I^ibor Com
mittees. which have been sitting
jointly in consideration of the Black
Connery bill, still were on record in
support of the decision of their co
chairmen to conclude hearings June
I*, a weex irom Tomorrow.
Furthermore, unless exceptions are
voted during the coming week, ap
pearances will be limited strictly to
those who already have sought and
been granted permission to testify.
Individual appearances are to be kept
sufficiently brief to allow the com
mittee to hear as many as 12 wit
nesses in one day.
The Republican opposition last
night was voiced by Senator Vanden
berg of Michigan in « radio address
in which he charged administration
haste '-is a travesty upon prudenre "
' There is a strong ease to be made."
the Michigan Republican conceded,
"for minimum wage and maximum
hours laws in the States, ahd for the
theory of a basic Federal standard to
equalize competitive conditions. There
is an equally strong, case to be made
against a national straitjacket In these
matters, but a still stronger case
against the creation of a new Federal
bureaucracy, with large discretionary
and dictatorial powers—as seems in
evitable under the formula thus far
proposed. But I submit that there is
no case whatever to be made in favor
of rushing pell-mell Into all the im
plications of any such legislative
program * • *.”
Collective Bargaining Spirit
Capital, the Senator conceded fur
ther, should "accept the true spirit
of collective bargaining, free from all
coercion and fair labor practice as
written into law and morals," but
labor likewise should "use its new
found power with an eye to main
tenance of profitable industry lest its
reservoir of contemplated benefits
dries up.”
Warning that there should be a
stabilization of existing statutes bear
ing on the industrial picture before
new ones are thrust on labor and
capital, Vandenberg pleaded for a
realization of the economic problems
related to any attempt to establish
wages and hours by law.
Such related problems, he pointed
out, "include new dislocations in rela
tive agricultural parity. They in
clude the deadly menace of an ulti
mate consumer who will one day
himself strike against commodity
prices which are driven too swiftly
upward by artificial governmental
means. They include the probabil
ity that Federal wage fixing, once
initiated, may lead to Federal price
fixing * * *. They include the
probability that Federal wage fixing
and price fixing together will lead to
compulsory arbitration in labor re
lations, 'not voluntarily but by sheer
force of necessity * *
Asking that "legitimate business”
be given “a reasonable ‘breathing
i i See WAGE-HOUR, Page A~5~.)
Veteran9 Blind for a Year9
Regains Sight During Night
By the Associated Press.
LYNCHBURG. Va., June 5 —
Thanking God for what seemed to him
a miracle, Paulette Smith, a World
War veteran who went stone blind a
year ago, has regained his sight.
Just as one presses the button in
a dark room to flood it w'ith light, so
was the veteran's sight restored with
shocking suddenness.
It was on June 13 a year ago that
Smith's sight vanished completely.
Three days before he had a dentist
pull nine teeth in the hope of allevi
ating pain cause by arthritis. Shock
of losing his teeth kept him in bed for
three days.
On the morning of June 13, he felt
well enough to go downtown. As he
1
was walking down the steps he said, “a
black curtain fell over my eyes.”
Eye specialists were called and their
opinion was unanimous: His trouble
was diagnosed as a detached retina, an
incurable form of blindness, they said.
"They told me if I ever saw again
it would be through the help of a
higher power,” Smith excitedly told a
reporter this morning.
Then a few days ago, the "miracle”
occurred.
About 4 a.m. Smith awoke and
wanted some w*ater. He turned on a
light, a signal to others in the house
that he was awake and in need of
attention. And as he pulled the light
cord he found to his utter amazement
he could see everything in the room, as
clearly as h# could * year ago.
*
COURT BILL’S FOES
PREPARE TO CRUSH
ANY COMPROMISE
Several Ready to Filibuster
All Summer Against Ex
pansion Measure.
PRESIDENT’S CRITICISM
OF JUSTICES ASSAILED
Comment on Vacations Met by
Sharp Remarks Regarding
Roosevelt Fishing Trips.
BACKGROUND—
President Roosevelt last February
startled Congress and Nation by
proposing sweeping reforms of Fed
eral judiciary. Democratic party
split, on issue and liberal decisions
of Supreme Court since then have
strengthened cause of opponents of
reform proposal.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
With the “no compromise’' flag ap
parently hauled down at the White
House, a new check-up on possible
amendments to the President's court
reform bill was begun yesterday—and
on votes of Senators.
While the administration forces
were sounding out sentiment on pos
sible compromises, the opponents of
the President's plan to increase the
membership of the Supreme Court
continued steadfast in their assertions
that there would be no compromise,
and said they were prepared to fili
buster all Summer against it if nec
essary.
From sources close to the admin
istration came reports that the fight
might be made for an amendment
similar to that proposed by Senator
Hatch of New' Mexico, permitting the
appointment of one new justice of
the Supreme Court a year for each
justce on the bench over 70 years
of age who fails to retire, or for the
so-called Ixtgan substitute, similar to
I that of Senator Hatch, setting the
age of retirement at 75. and provid
ing that the increases shall only be
temporary and that the court mem
bership shall return to nine.
Busy With Adverse Report.
Meanwhile, the subcormmttee in
charge of drafting the adverse report
of the Senate Judiciary Committee
on the President’s court bill was at
work, putting the final touches on
the report which will place the bill
on the Senate calendar. Members of
the committee predicted that the re
port would be made within the next
few days. Senators McCarran of Ne
vada and O'Mahoney of Wyoming
met with Senator King of Utah,
chairman of the subcommittee, at
Senator King's home yesterday after
noon. King's illness has delayed sub
mission of the report.
Senator McCarran said emphatically
that the move now for a compromise
was merely a "face-saving" proposal.
He did not, he said, intend to com
promise with principle, and he added.
I will stand in the Senate until I
drop against any compromise " This
statement was made in response to a
question whether the opponents of the
bill would filibuster against a com
promise that appeared to have a ma
jority in favor of it.
Senator Burke of Nebraska, a leader
of the opposition to the court bill, pre
dicted a compromise would be de
feated in the Senate. He said that 40
Senators were ready to talk a com
promise to death, if necessary. He
added, however, that no filibuster
would be necessary for a compromise
could and would be defeated by a vote
in the Senate.
The opposing Senators insisted
sentiment against increasing the Su
preme Court, as proposed by the
President, had grown so strong
throughout the country there was no
(See COURT, Page A-4.)
Jumbled D.C. Tax Plan Faces
Indefinite Fate This Week
Hodgepodge of Revenue-Raising Proposals, Their
Yields Undetermined, Due for Action
in House Committee.
Into a tax “grab-bag” filled with a
hodge-podge of plans for raising ad
ditional revenue to keep Washing
ton's municipal government from go
ing into debt in the fast approaching
fiscal year, beginning July 1, the
House District Committee this week
will pull out some questionable prizes.
First, there is an income tax that
no one in particular seems to want,
except Representative Dirksen, Re
publican, of Illinois, who has suc
ceeded in making it the very heart of
the new tax-raising program. Even
the Commissioners, who must share
the stigma or the glory of develop
ing the new set-up with the Tax Sub
committee of the House District Com
mittee, fought a valiant fight against
the income tax and lost.
Second, there's a proposal to put
“teeth” into the law taxing intangible
personal property so it will extract
more money than ever before from
those who are supposed to pay the
tax. So closely coupled is the in
come tax with the intanible tax that
both of them will go along together,
hand-in-hand. One will be checked
against the other for revenue-produc
ing potentialities, and the District
will take the winner.
Weight Tax in Special Fund.
Third, there's the motor vehicle
weight tax, which originally started
out to aid the District in wiping out
an anticipated $6,000,000 budget
deficit and now finds itself consigned
to a special fund to be used exclu
sively for highway purposes to pay
for the manufacture of automobile
tags, and to keep traffic policemen on
the pay roll.
Then, there are several other prizes,
notably, a business privilege tax. which
will place a levy of three-fifth* of 1
per cent on the gross receipts of every
body in Washington who sells anything
for profit.
Altogether, there are six of these
! revenue-producing plans intended to
raise the necessary $6,000,000 but
which no one seems to know exactly
what the result may be.
Like the haphazard, hasty construc
tion of the tax program, so were the
| estimates of the amounts the tax pro
posals would produce. And as the com
i pleted program heads for the full
committee for final approval before
going to the House for action, the
amount of revenue it will raise is still
like the letter “X” in the algebra prob
lem. It is an unknown quantity.
Income Tax Yield Indefinite.
For instance, when Representative
. Collins, Democrat, of Mississippi,
chairman of the Appropriations Sub
committee. which daefted the.1938 Dis
trict supply bill, introduced his income
tax plan in the House, it was estimated
to yield about $5,000,000. But Collins’
bill called for outright repeal of the
existing tax on intangibles, which is
now producing, without the proposed
“teeth,” about $2,200,000 a year. It
also provided for exemptions which
are not included in the present plan.
Collins, incidentally, wanted to exempt
hiembers of Congress and Government
officials appointed for a definite term
of office.
But the bill which the Tax Subcom
mittee approved—which is not even a
good rewrite of the Collins bill—
exempts no one except the President
and members of the Federal Judiciary,
whom the Constitution has saved from
taxation on income. Yet, the Com
missioners estimate, the bill will pro
duce less than one-half of the amount.
, (See D. C. TAXES, Pafa A-S.)
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Equals American Record in
Romping to Victory in
Classic Belmont.
BV ALAN GOl'I.D,
Associated Press Sports Editor.
NEW YORK. June 5—War Ad
miral. the mighty little son of Man o'
War. flashed a record-smashing display
of speed today to rapture the classic
Belmont Stakes with ease and become
I the fourth 3-year-old in thoroughbred
I history to wear the prized ’ triple
1 crown."
Despite an injury to his right fore
quarter at the very start, where the
odds-on favorite in the seven-horse
field kicked himself and nearly wen:
down. War Admiral spurted quickly :
to the front, kept full command all
the way. and won off by himself like
a true son of the renowned super
j horse.
The sensational Samuel D. Riddle
coit galloped home four good lengths
in front of Maxwell Howard s Scene
t shifter, with the long-shot Vamoose '
in third place, 10 lengths farther ,
back, and the highly ra'ed Pompoon ,
a badly whipped sixth. Pompoon. 1
which had chased War Admiral home
In the Kentucky Derby and Preakne.ss I
i mis Spring, never was a contender. !
Ties American Record.
^LTHOUGH under no pressure at
any stage and not even touched
onre by Jockey Charley Kurtsinger's
whip. War Admiral equaled the
American record, clipped a large
; chunk off the Belmont Stakes mark.
: and. as a climax, knocked a fifth
second off his daddy's track record by
stepping the mile and a half in
2:28:t5.
War Admiral didn't touch the world
record of 2:23, credited to a British
horse at Newmarket in 1929, but the
colt apparently had enough in re
serve to have cracked the American
standard if he had been extended.
The Hlddle star carried 126 pounds,
| eight more than Man o' War did when
the superhorse set the track mark of
2:28‘.-, in 1920. The former record
I (Continued on Page B-6, Column 1.)
Romance Fades
As Army Uses
4Canned’ Calls
Control Tower Opera
tor Takes Over Ha
filers' Duties.
th*» Associa'^d Pre-*,
Some nf the romance of the Army
faded yesterday when the Air Corps
announced it is using mechanical
devices to play bugle calls without
buglers.
The Air Corps News said that a
control tower operator has taken
over the duties of buglers at Mitchel
Field, N. Y.
' By means of a phonograph with
a crystal pick-up, an amplifier and
two high-quality loud speakers.” it
explained, 'bugle calls having ex
ceptional clarity and perfection are
played.
"An added feature, march music. Is
played four times daily. 'The Star
Spangled Banner’ is played for re
treat. and when reviews are sched
uled troops march to the strains of
the best bands in the land.”
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Extension to Sewage Sys
tem Might be Necessary,
Dr. Parran Warns.
BACKGROUND—
Controversial storm last Fall
greeted proposal of meat packing
firm to erect slaughter house in
Benmng area. Rejecting applica
tion. Commissioners set rigid
standards for such industries here.
Under existing late, city heads
compelled to grant permit when
company revised plans to meet
standards. —
Meanwhile, King-Norton hill
banning nuisance industries sub
ject of controversy in Senate and
House District Committees, center
ing partly on effect of extra load
of slaughter house on city's sewage
disposal plant.
BY NFLSON M. SHEPARD.
District taxpayers were warned by
Surgeon General Thomas Parran of
the United States Public Health Serv
ice yesterday of the probability of
"immediate steps" being necessary to
construct a secondary treatment ex
tension of the city's new sewage dis
posal system, nearly doubling its
$4,125,000 cost, to handle the addi
tional load of waste from the Adolf
See“SLAUGHTER HOUSE. Page A^H^
SHIP '‘FIRE” ALL SMOKE
Chemical Bomb Blamed for Scare
Aboard U. S. Transport.
COLON, Panama, June 5 <fP).—The
United States Army transport Lud
ington rode safely at anchor in Li
mon Bay today with danger of fire
in a hold packed with 690 tons of
explosives removed.
Smoke, which started pouring from
a hatch when the ship was at sea
Thursday, was smothered shortly after
the Ludington reached port here.
After an investigation. Col. Sherburne
Whipple, assistant chief of staff, said
there was no fire and that the smoke
probably came from a chemical bomb.
I
Senate Group May Report
$46,500,000 Supply Bill
Tomorrow.
BACKGROUND—
Facing a considerable deficit in
District fiscal picture. House
slashed 19.1X appropriations below
budget estimates. Subcommittee
of House then turned to task of
devising new tar schedule to raise
needed margin of revenue.
Meanwhile. Senate Committee,
powerless to initiate tax legislation,
held hearings on fiscal needs of
District and decided to restore
some of House cuts
Over period of gears. Federal
contribution to support of Nation's
Capital has decreased steadily.
BY J. A. O’LEARY.
Ine 1938 District supply bill is ex
pected to be reported to the Senate
tomorrow, with indications that
changes will add a million dollars or
more to the House total of **5,228.000.
In a three-hour session yesterday
the District subcommittee completed
its revision of the measure, the net
result of which, it is believed, will place
the total somewhere between S*6,
000 000 and **6.500.000.
Details of the revision will not be
made known until after a meeting of
| the Appropriations Committee tomor
: row morning.
Since the House measure made it
necessary for the District to raise
about $S.000 000 in new taxes, the re
ported changes in expenditures may
raise the city's new revenue require
ment to about $7,000,000, or slightly
more.
Lump Sum Believed Ratified.
It is understood the Senate sub
committee ratified the action of the
House in retaining the Federal pay
ment at the $5,000,000 lump sum
figure.
The Senate subcommittee is believed
to have restored most, but not all, of
the cuts the House made in budget
estimates, but also made some re
ductions in other House items. Until
the bill is formally reported, there
fore. it is difficult to predict what the
exact net change in total will be.
The unemployment fund is under
stood to have been held substantially
to the House figure of $1,411,500. This
was one of the major questions dis
cussed during the nearly three weeks
of Senate hearings, some civic groups
— i See D. O. BILL, Page A-4.)
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TWINS BORN DIFFERENT
IN DATES AND COUNTIES
Alabama Records Show Boy 7
Hours Older Than Girl
of Farm Family.
Bs the Associated Press.
MONTGOMERY, Ala.. June 5 —Mr
and Mrs. John Jackson McCullough
are the parents of twins bom on dif
ferent dates in different counties.
Birth certificates received by the
State Health Department disclosed the
first of the twins, a boy, was born at
9:15 p.m.. April 15. at the McCullough
home on R. F. D. 2, Plantersville, Ala.
The second twin, a girl, was born
at 4:15 a m. the following day at a
Selma hospital.
The certificates were signed by Dr.
James Tankersley.
McCullough is a 30-year-old farmer
and the mother is 21. They have no
other children.
Parole Refused Tivo Convicted
With Sam Beard in Gambling
Flatly declaring it will not grant
freedom to professional gamblers who
have been convicted more than once,
the Parole Board yesterday refused to
reconsider the parole applications of
Sidney Kaplan and Lewis L. Levy.
Kaplan and Levy, who were con
victed with Sam Beard, Washington's
erstwhile gambling overlord, and 10
others of conspiracy to violate the
gambling law of the District pleaded
that the board discriminated against
them last month. At that time the
board granted parol* to the 10 men
caught in the drive against Beard
who did not have previous records.
k
“The public has no sympathy for
professional gamblers." said Wilbur
LaRoe, chairman of the board, “and
it may as well be understood that
men with past gambling records who
are again convicted wall receive no
leniency at the hands of the Parole
Board. '
“The Wilson murder and other se
rious felonies have resulted directly
from commercial gambling. Men who
make that sort of thing their pro
fession must, upon conviction, take
the consequences."
Levy and Kaplan inust serve ap
proximately another year and a half
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PROSECUTOR SIFTS
KEENE CASE CLUES
ASPOEICEOROPOUT
Son of Slain Real Estate
Man Joins Plea All Leads
Be Exhausted.
; OWNERSHIP OF TOOLS,
BRIEF CASE IN DOUBT
Report Being Drawn by State
Troopers to Be Non-Committal
as to Cause of Death.
BACKGROUND—
On the night of May 14. Charles
F. Keene, sr., elderly real estate
broker in Capital, left by boat for
Norfolk. a vacant, but blood
stained. cabin was opened the next
morning, but no other trace of
Keene existed.
After a perfunctory investigation,
the case simmered until last Mon
day, when Keene's weighted body
was found near Smiths Island, in
Chesapeake Bay An island jury
called, it murder, but police are ac
knowledging surrender without any
solution.
by JAMES J. CL'LLJVAVE.
The mystery death file of Charles
F. Keene, sr.. will not be consigned '
to the realm of unsolved mysteries
as long as any clues w hich might lead
to a murderer remain unexplored.
State's Attorney F. Kirke Maddrix
of Somerset County, Md., declared last
night.
Maddrix expressed surprise that
State police detectives were preparing
to wind up their investigation with a
non-committal report which they plan
to submit to him early this week.
“It seems rather early to wind up
the investigation," Maddrix said. “I
don’t see how the rase can be closed
until we find out who ownpd that
brief rase and the automobile tools
! that were in it. There are other
questions that remain to be answered,
too
Charles F. Keene, Jr. son of the
: 63-year-o!d real estate broker, whose
death was unhesitatingly listed as a
murder by a coroner's jury of Smith's
Island. Md . fishermen last Monday,
, joined Maddrix in expressing amaze
ment over the proposed closing of the
State police investigation
To Ask Case Be Pushed.
“There is no question but that my
father was murdered " Kepne sa.d.
“I will ask Mr. Maddrix to vigorously
oppose any move intended to end th«
investigation on the assumption that
dad s death was a suicide. I shall ask
him to take the case Defore the grand
jury for a thorough investigation of
all of its aspects if that move becomes
necessary."
In Baltimore Detectivp Sergt. Mar
I lin Brubaker revealed that a report
1 on the baffling mystery is being pre
pared for submission to Maddrix. Tha
report will not contain any conclu
sions as to whether the death of
Keene was suicide or murdpr, Bru
baker said, but will merely be a com
pilation of all the evidence he ha*
; gathered.
"We are drawing up the report be
cause at this time there is nothin?
further to be done." Sergf Brubaker
said. "If anything new comes up we
will run it out, of course, but at the
present time we have run out all pos
sible leads."
Washington detectives revealed that
Brubaker left with them the auto
mobile jack, tire iron and hammer
which were wrapped in a ragged
piece of old canvas and stuffed in
the leather brief rase which was tied
around Keene's neck with a rope.
The rope was tied with an intricate
knot known to seamen.
Seek Missing Car.
The detectives are searching for
Keene s missing automobile to dis
cover whether a jack is in it They
have been told that the jack was is
sued as standard equipment in all
1935 St.udebakers Keene s automo
bile was a 1928 Nash.
Police are faced with two conflict
ing stories about Keene's car. His
family insists that Keene left the
machine in a Southern Maryland
garage after it was struck by a C. C.
C. truck several months ago. Police
have checked every garage in five
Southern Maryland counties without
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President Drops
Nobel Prize Bid
In Hulls Favor
By the Associated Press.
HAVANA, June 5—State Depart
ment. officials tonight, said President
Franklin D Roosevelt had declined
Cuba's nomination for the 1937 Nobel
Peace Prize and asked that the name
of Secretary of State Cordell Huh
be substituted.
Subsecretary Miguel Angel rie la
Campa asserted the Cuban government
would follow “President Roosevelt's
generous suggestion, supporting the
candidacy of Secretary Hull and post
poning its previous nomination until
1938.”
Cuban officials said President Roose
velt thanked the Cuban government
for its nomination but asked the
honor for Secretary Hull whose merits
he urged as an “unceasing worker for
harmony and understanding between
the nations.”
The Cuban cabinet January 27 unan
imously approved President Roosevelt
as Cuba's candidate for the 1937 Nobel
award because of his work for peace
in the Inter-American Conference at
Buenos Aires last year. Ecuador
seconded the nomination in February
and by early April six other Latin
Amerlcan countries had registered
their support.
Secretary Hull said recently Hi
"eliminated” himself as candidate for
the Nobel peace prize and seconded
1 the nomination of President Roosevelt.
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