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• * WEATHER. "" ' Pair and not so warm tonight; tomor- f \g ■ * A “G Only evening paper row, fair; gAitie west winds. Tempera- g B^my% in Washington with the tures today—Highest, 8S, at 2 p.m.; fl I • ► ■ B I A0[,A/.!n)«J8 tj xt lowest, 73, at 5 30 a m A fl fl B B^ Associated Press News Fun report on page A-7. j ■ fl W , and Wirephoto Services. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 18 V-✓ * S*TS5R£'8 133,568 148,352 ■ ■■■■-■■ ■■ ■ ■■■ ■■■■ -- ■ ■ ■ ■■■ ■ ■ 11 — ---■■■ ■ .i ■ . — .— ■ - (Some returns not yet received.* 85th YEAR. No. 34,003. gra.7 affiSS.TS_WASHINGTON, D. C„ MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1937-THIBTY-SIX PAGES. *** -*> .. Tw0 CEXXS. VAST LABOR CROWD CONTROLS LANSING IN UNION ‘HOLIDAY’ Auto Plants Shut as Throng Protests Arrest of Pickets. AUDIENCES HARANGUED FROM CAPITOL STEPS Striking Employes Direct Traffic. Liquor Taverns Closed, Banks Refuse to Cash Checks. Br ihe Associated Press. LANSING. Mich., June 7.—A crowd of several thousand persons took con trol of downtown Lansing today upon t.he calling of a "general labor holi day” protesting the artest of eight pickets of the United Automobile Workers of America. Lester Washburn, president of the U. A. W. A. local here, announced a few hours before the demonstration started that an agreement had been reached for release of the pickets, Jailed following labor trouble at the Capitol City Wrecking Co. Washburn, talking through a loud speaker system set up in front of the State capitol building, told the crowd that negotiations toward ..nal settle ment of the wrecking company strike would be undertaken at once. Await Eights' Release. The workers remained in the busi ness district and on the capitol lawn to await the actual release of the prisoners, held in the basement of the City-County Building. Union men directed traffic on main street intersections as the mill ing crowd demonstrated in the shadow of the capitol and paraded through the City-County Building. All automotive plants in the city were closed as workers left their jobs to join the sympathy strike. Washburn called the strike and told the crowd to "hold your lines.” "We can stay here a month if necessary,” Washburn shouted. Washburn previously had indicated that the demonstration would last only one day. Murphy on Way. The widespread walkout occurred as Gov. Frank Murphy, mediator of several prolonged automobile strikes in Michigan, was en route to the city from Detroit. The pickets—six men and two wv>men—were arrested in surprise raids early in the morning on war rants charging them with molesting and disturbing laborers wrho wanted to enter the wrecking company, where a strike has been in progress several Weeks. Washburn, whose wife was among ♦ hose arrested, charged that they were not on the picket lines when the war rants were served, but were "dragged from their beds in the middle of the night." He addressed the crowd after Mayor Max Templeton urged him to make aure there would be no violence. CHILD LABOR PLAW CHANGE APPROVED Vandenberg's Amendment Is Sanc tioned by Senate Sub committee. By the Associated Press. A Senate Judiciary Subcommittee approved today the proposed Vanden berg constitutional amendment to pro hibit child labor. The amendment, offered by Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan to meet major objections raised against the child labor amendment now be fore the States, would permit Congress to limit, or prohibit, employment of persons under 16. The pending amend ment. would cover children up to 18. Vandenberg also eliminated from the wording of his proposal the word "reg ulate,” which critics of the pending amendment contended would permit the Federal Government to regiment all children under 18. During the day the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee approved the Wheeler-Johnson ‘composite” child labor bill. The measures would pro hibit movement of child labor goods in Interstate commerce and also would prohibit shipment of child labor goods Into a State in violation of its laws. Child labor under the Wheeler Johnson proposal would be defined as work of children under 16 and in »ome occupations 18 years. A third major change in the Van denberg amendment, designed to eliminate fears that Congress would be able to regulate labor by members of farm families, would restrict the Jurisdiction of the amendment to persons employed “for hire.” Vandenberg, in offering his amend ment, said it would remove the major objections raised against the pending amendment and forecast that with these changes the amendment would be speedily ratified. Instead of requiring ratification by fitat* Legislatures, which, so far, have failed to approve the pending amend ment In sufficient number to make it operative, Vandenberg’s amendment would be submitted to constitutional conventions In the various States. DIES IN BUS CRASH Truck I>river Thrown Into Burn ing Wreckage. ORION, Ala., June 7 </F).—One man burned to death and at least eight persons were hurt, some seriously, in the collision of a passenger bus and a truck on the crest of a hill near here today. The bus plowed into a roadside ditch and burst Into flames, its gasoline tank broken open by the impact. The truck was demolished. Maurice O. Parks, Greenville, Miss, driver of the truck, was thrown into «e flaming wreckage and burned fa ny. Jean Harlow Dies Suddenly After a Relapse, Despite Frantic Efforts to Save Her JEAN HARLOW. —A. P. Photo. BULLETIN. LOS ANGELES. June 7 (/P). — Jean Harlow, the platinum blond film star | actress, died at 11:37 a.m. P. S. T. today at the Good Samaritan Hospital. I B> the Assorts led Press. LOS ANGELES. June 7.—Dr. E. C. Fishbaugh, attending screen actress Jean Harlow, said today her condition i* critical and that she is not expected to live. Miss Harlow was stricken last week with influenza and a gall bladder in fection. Two days ago her condition was reported to have improved greatly and she was expected to report back to I her studio for work in about a week. Today Dr. Fishbaugh ordered her taken to Good Samaritan Hospital. CHICAGO EVICTION - Republic Due to Seek Court Aid to Protect Anti Strikers. BACKGROUND— Committer for Industrial Organi zation's steel campaign began this Spring after sensational gains in automobile industry. United States Steel made bargaining agreement uith union and other firms follow ed suit. Smaller independents re fused to bargain and union began calling strikes. One strike was against Republic of Chicago. Re public housed its workers in the plants to continue operation. This was called against a city ordinance by Mayor Kelly of Chicago Satur day and the firm was ordered to evict the anti-strikers. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 7.—Striking steel workers massed today for a brief dem onstration at two Indiana Harbor, Ind., plants while court fiction to fore stall Mayor Edward J. Kelly's order to evacuate 1,400 workers from Republic Steel Corp.’s South Chicago mill ap peared imminent. The steel workers collected near plants of the Inland Steel and Youngs town Sheet <k Tube Cos. at Indiana Harbor, but dispersed peacefully after parading before police guarding mill gates. Jack Rusak. Indiana Harbor C. I. O. organiser, who said 5,000 men parti cipated in the demonstration, asked for the concentration of strikers at a meeting yesterday where he repeated a charge that both Youngstown and Inland were “fostering a company union and recruiting men to return to work." Prank A. Lauerman, spokesman for Republic, told reporters James L. Hy land, eompay district manager, was in conference with an unnamed group to consider Mayor Kelly's order. Under the Mayor's order, citing a (See CHICAGO]-Page A^3J Times Union Suspends. NEW YORK, June 7 (-4*). — The management, of the Brooklyn Times Union today announced suspension of publication of the 90-year-old news paper. Rebel Flyers’ Attack Marks Resumption of Basque Front Battles. BACKGROUND— In a campaign rivaled only by attacks bn Madrid for ferocity, in surgents have attempted for sev eral weeks to capture strategic Basque city of Bilbao. Estimated 30,000 defenders have declared they will hold out to the death against attackers. B? tbe Associated Press. HENDAYE, Pranco-Spanish fron tier, June 7 —A massed fleet of 63 insurgent war planes was reported to day to have bombed the suburb of Lezama, only 3 miles from beleaguered Bilbao. The attack was the northern de velopment of a general resumption of activity on the Basque front which was watched by Archduke Otto of Hapsburg, claimant of the non-ex istent Austrian throne. The 34-year-old Otto stood on a (See SPAiSrPage A-3.) --•-. CHICAGO AREA RAKED BY 40-MILE GALE Br th* Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 7.—A 40-mile-an hour gale that overturned small boats on Lake Michigan and inland lakes, ripped up trees and damaged homes left two persons dead today and many Injured. Matthew Jacek, 20. and Henry Ged rimas, 21, both of Chicago, were drowned in Long Lake near the village of Fox Lake yesterday when the wind upset their rowboat. A third youth, : Walter Sarna, 23. was rescued, j Coast Guards reported at least sev en other rescues when light crafts | overturned. August Stems, 45, suffered a frac tured skull and his son Peter, 4, was bruised when a tree limb, torn loose by the wind, struck them as they were seated on a picnic bench. Two automobiles were crushed by falling trees. The fire department received more than 40 calls to remove wreckage from streets. Movie “Annie Oakleys” Figure In Traffic Ticket-Fixing Case ine gnost of Annie Oakley stalked the boards at the fourth precinct to day as the Police Trial Board re sumed hearing of charges of ‘’ticket fixing” against Policeman Welford Winfield, formerly attached to the Traffic Bureau. Harry E. Lohmeyer, District man ager for Warner Bros.’ theaters and formerly manager of the Earle The ater, said he had turned over traffic violation tickets to Winfield along with theater passes, but he empha sized that it was not a quid pro quo transaction. Lohmeyer explained that about 200 passes were distributed weekly to po lice officers as a matter of courtesy and that this practice antedated connection with the Earle. He also said under questioning Charles E. Ford, counsel for the ac cused policemen, that season passes are sent to MaJ. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, and other high-ranking officials. Assistant Corporation Counsel E. M. Welliver, the prosecutor, blocked a question by Ford designed to show whether Commissioner Melvin C. Hasen, who is in charge of the Police Department, received like courtesy. Inspector Edward J. Kelly, presiding at the board, upheld Welliver’s con tention that this was not pertinent. Incidentally, Kelly interrupted the questioning of the witness to say that he also has received a season pass from Warner Bros, this year. “I want to make a stater)^nt for (fee Tionmb Pa* A*J.) Labor Leader Advocates 40 Cents an Hour, 35 Hour Week. GOVERNMENT FIXING OF FIGURES HELD PERIL Bill Called Only One Item in Much Larger Program De veloping in U. S. BACKGROUND— New Deal administration sought to eliminate sweatshop wages and hours from industry by N. R. A. regulation, but was checked by Supreme Court. As latter indicated new liberalism in more recent decisions, second effort to improve standards of in dustry was submitted i« form of Black-Connery bill. Included is prohibition against child labor; an objective also being sought through constitutional amendment. BY JOHN C. HENRY. John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organiza tion, today indorsed the minimum wage and maximum hour provisions of the Black-Connery bill as a modest beginning of genuine planning towards a better economic order.” Appearing before a Joint session of the Senate and House Labor Commit tees, he opposed, however, what he called "wage fixing” contrary to American precedents and practices.” Specifically, the leader of American labor's moat militant faction, recom mended the setting of a 40 cents-per hour wage and a five-day, 35-hour week. Discretion should be vested, he said, to vary the work week from 30 j to 40 hours. | In general, Lewis declared, such legislation would increase mass pur chasing power and bring re-employ . ment. Oppoaes Section 5. Fighting shy of the danger of Gov ernment wage-fixing and of conflict with the labor relations act, Lewis emphatically recommended elimina tion of Section 5 of the act, which he said might eventually open the way to “a Federal judge ordering men to remain at work" under a wage that had been found to be a "fair minimum.” The section under dispute would empower the Labor Standards Board to establish a "minimum fair wage” up to $1,200 per year, where collec tive bargaining was found to be in adequate and ineffective. "Frankly, I would not want this bill to empower a board to investigate the contracts entered into by the United Mine Workers. I see confu sion there and a drift toward fixa tion of wages by a Government board,” Lewis said. Such a procedure, he pointed out, tends to establish a double wage stand ard. the first being the "minimum wage” of 40 cents per hour, which would amount to $800 yearly on a 40 hour-week basis, and the second be ing the "minimum fair wage” ap proaching $1,200 per year. By section 5, the latter figure would be determined through investi gation of cost of living, value of (See WAGES, Page A-5.) ----•-— Ship Fire Toll Grow$. MANILA, June 7 UP).—The death toll of a fire aboard the German freighter Oliva increased to two when Hans Risslander, member of the crew, died today. He was one of six men burned and gassed. The fire started in the hold when the ship was 120 miles southwest of I Manila Thursday. I Summary of Today’s Star Page Amusements B-l* Comics ..B-14-15 Editorials — A-I* Financial __ A-17 Lost A Found A-I Obituary ...A-12 Page Radio _B-ll Short Story ..B-7 Society __B-S Sports_A-13 Woman's Pg. B-l* FOREIGN. Bilbao suburb reported bombed by in surgent planes. Page A-l Nazi religious war grows as riots flare in Munich. Page A-2 NATIONAL. Crowd of union members takes con trol of Lansing. Page A-l Lewis indorses wage-holir bill, but hits “wage fixing." Page A-l Roosevelt refers steel union peace plea to aides. Page A-3 Adverse report on court bill virtually completed. Page A-3 Guards encircle wreckage of plane in Utah's hills. Page A-4 House considers proposal to extend . P. W. A two years. Page A-5 WASHINGTON AND NEARBY. I Ghost of Annie Oakely bobs up before Police Trial Board. Page A-l Appeals Court terms cab situation “growing menace.” Page A-l Keene mystery complicated by auto angle. Page A-l Matron leaps to death from steamer in Potomac. Page A-l Star fund for K street pool reaches $122. Page A-2 Animals tamed by “psychic sur gery." Page A-2 Confederate groups hold memorial services. Page A-2 417 receive degrees at l$8th George town commencement. Page A-8 Independence urged for U. S. regula . tory agencies. Page B-l R. C. Gszley to head new air com merce division. Page B-l Seven suspended A. P. G. K. lodges de mand open hearing. Page B-l Mrs. Boole heads W. C. tAj for third time. ‘•S Pi* *-l Jordon’s fate to be decided this week. Page B-l Beach-bound excursionists marooned on steamer Potomac. Page B-l Dunbarton College graduation exer cises held. Page B-4 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-l# This and That. Page A-l# Washington Observations. Page A-l# Answers to Questions. Page A-l# David Lawrence. Page A-ll H. R. Baukhage. Page A-ll Dorothy Thompson. Page A-ll Constantine Brown. Page A-ll Headline Polk. Page A-ll SPORTS. Simmons proving prize slugger of Na tionals. PageA-13 Running world focuses on Star mara thon Saturday. PageA-13 Giants gain league lead at expense of Pirates. PageA-13 Long lay-off is due for injured War Admiral. PageA-13 District team winner of North-South skeet title. PageA-13 Mitchell. Howard upset Latona, Welsh in net play. Page A-15 Washington-Lee High School climbs in sports world. , Page A-15 Louis' light regard for Braddock may prove costly. Page A-l# FINANCIAL. Bonds narrow (table). Page A-17 Oil production held excessive. Page A-17 Stocks hesitant (table). Page A-l! London gold peg fixed. Page A-l# Chain store sales rise. Page A-l# Curb list eases (table). Page A-19 MISCELLANY. Shipping News. Page A-> City News In Brief. Page A-S Dorothy Dix. Page B-l# Betsy Caswell. Page B-l# Young Washington. Page B-l 1 Cross-word Pusele. Pag# B-14 Nature's Children. . Page B-14 Bedtime Story. * Page B-l 5 Letter-Out. ’ Page B-ll * _SQUASH CENTER COMMENTS ON COURT PACKING. TAXES NOT MORAL Levies Are Purely . Legal Question, Returning Finan cier Asserts. B> tlie Associated Press. NEW YORK. June 7 —J. P Morgan, recovered from an illness that kept 1 him from the coronation of King George VI, returned from England today with the comment that ''tax ing is a legal question, pure and slm i pie, and not a moral one.” The financier referred to President Roosevelt's drive against what the Chief Executive called tax evaders | who, among other things. incorifOrated j their yachts as one method of escap i ing taxes. I "I have never incorporated my yacht because I did not think it worth whil{,” Morgan said. “If the Gov ernment objects to tax evasion it should change the laws. You only do what you are compelled to do by law, I for it is never any pleasure for any one to pay taxes. “Congress should know how to levy taxes and if stupid mistakes are made it is up to Congress to rectify them and not for us taxpayers to do so. “You do what you are compelled to do by law. It is no pleasure to pay taxes. You don’t do any more than you have to. It's just as bad to pay too much as too little.” Told that President Roosevelt said that there was a shortage of $400,000. 000 in income tax revenues, Morgan said: “If so, that’s the fault of Congress, j It is up to Congress to make the laws and if there are loopholes in them it is not the taxpayer's fault.” Morgan said he had recovered suf ficiently to "walk down the gang plank." but added his physicians had 1 forbidden him to walk up or down stairs. He was carried aboard the Queen Mary at Southampton. Morgan said he listened to the coro- ■ nation by radio. The financier said he would not go to business for the re mainder of the Summer and would re turn to Scotland in July for his annual vacation theie. Woman Leaps Off Steamer To Death as Friends Watch Northland Searches Potomac Near Smith Point, but Fails to Recover Body, Crying ‘'Here's where I stage an act.” Mrs. Harriet Iarkin Scott, at tractive 26-year-o)d Portsmouth, Va„ I matron, leaped from the steamer Northland shortly before midnight last 1 night as her mother and a party of friends watched. Although the steamer put about al most immediately and delayed for an hour while searchlights played on the water, the body was not recovered. The woman leaped overboard as the j boat passed Smith Point, near the spot where the body of Charles F. Keene. Washington real estate man. was found last week. Witnesses said Mrs. Scott had been sitting back in a deck chair with friends just before she got up and walked to the guard rail. Without warning, she clitfibed the rail, threw her purse into the air and shouted: ‘Here’s where I stage an act.” Although there were a number of men on the deck. Mrs. Scott acted so quickly none could stop her. Nor- I folk & Washington Steamboat Co. ! officials were Informed she had given no indication of her intention prior to the act. Her mother. Mrs J. W Larkin, and sister, L. A. Broughton. Were almost prostrated and had to be given med ical attention. Mrs. Scott's 8-year-old son, Allen, also was in the party, but he is not believed to have witnessed the plunge. It was said at Portsmouth, where Mrs. Scott was well known socially, that she had appeared in good health and spirit* before she left there yes terday afternoon. Accompanied by her mother, sister and son, she went to Norfolk with si* other members of a Portsmouth sew ing club to catch the Northland. The party was coming to Washington on a sightseeing trip. It was to have returned next Saturday. Because of the tragedy, the other members of the party left for home by bus soon after the boat docked here this morning. Smith Point is about 80 miles out of Norfolk, not far from the mouth of the Potomac. D. C. BILL ACTION EXPECTED TODAY Senate Appropriations Unit Meets—Measure’s Total May Top $46,000,000. BY J. A. O'LEARY. The Senate Appropriations Commit tee convened this afternoon to act on the 1938 District supply bill, which Is believed to call for more than *46, 000,000, as revised by the District Subcommittee Saturday. As passed by the House two months ago, the bill carried a figure of (45,200,000. In recommending about (1,000.000 more, the Senate Subcommittee, head ed by Chairman Thomas of Oklahoma, is understood to have restored many, but not all, of the reductions the House made in budget estimates. It is likely the Senate bill also will contain reductions in some House Items and possibly a few new items not consid ered in the House. If the full committee, which is to meet at 2:30 p.m., reports the ^ill this afternoon, Senator Thomas prob ably will call it up on the floor of the Senate tomorrow or Wednesday. Amount tor nener. Unless there should be a last minute change in the full committee, indications are the unemployment re lief fund will not go above the budget figure of $1,464,000, which would mean rejection of requests made during the hearings by some civic and welfare organizations for another million. This increase was opposed, however, by the Board of Trade and spokesmen for the Federation of Citizens’ Asso ciations and Washington Taxpayers' Association. Although the Senate Subcommittee is reported to have retained the lump sum Federal payment at the House figure of $5,000,000—the same as for the current year—it is believed to have recommended to the full committee a more equitable basis for meeting the operating costs of the higher courts of the District in view of the large amount of purely national litigation they handle. Expenses ef Court. The subcommittee is proposing that the expenses of these courts be ap portioned between the Federal and District governments, in accordance with the percentage ratio of Federal and local litigation handled in the course of a year. The action of the Senate group on the various legislative riders and pro visos in the House bill is being awaited with Interest by local civic groups. These provisions seek to transfer func tions from one department to another. One limits assignment of school teach ers to clerical work and another would deprive per dien#}mployes of annual leave. C* TAXI PERIL HELD GROWINGBY COURT Maze of Companies Balks Recovery by Victim, Jus tice Asserts. BACKGROUND— Proposal for compulsory liability insurance for Washington taxicabs has been urged by Public Utilities Commission and other district agencies. Legislation making taxi drivers responsible for injuries to passengers was introduced in House by Representative Nichols, but btll has not yet been taken up by District Committee. Failure of Congress to pass legis lation requiring financial responsibilitj of taxicab companies has resulted ir “a growing public menace," the Unitec States Court of Appeals declared to day in an opinion by Associate Justic* D. Lawrence Groner. The court's dicta were delivered ir a case involving two suits by Rosa L Page, who was struck at Hillyer place and Twentieth street in May, 1933, bj a Blue Light cab. She subsequently obtained judge ment against the Blue Light Cat Corp., which, the court said, “is noth ing and has nothing." She failed ir an effort to show a substantial identitj of Blue Light with the D. M. D. Tax Corp. and the Washington Cab Sales Corp., w'hich she attempted to shoa avoided liability through the screer of Blue Light. Some Evidence, but No Proof. *'The facts proved may, and we are disposed to think do, tend to show some general identity of Interest, and there are not lacking some indications of a purpose on the part of the other defendants to use the name Blue Light as a trade name or to use Blue (Bee TAXIOABST Page A-3.) c. i. oTplansdrive IN CIVIL SERVICE Announcement to Be Hade as Soon as “Policy” Is Determined, Officials Say. B? the Assoc Is ted Press. John L. Lewis’ Committee for In dustrial Organization disclosed tod as an intention to organize Government civil service employes. Officials declined to say when 01 where the campaign would start. Thej explained it has been under consider, ation for some time, and that an an nouncement would be made as soor as the C. I. O. "policy” was determined Lewis declined to comment. One plan considered would oper membership in the C. I. O. to all Government workers except those ii military and a^zU-milttary establish ments. KEENE ROPE FOUND AT CRISFIELD STIRS MARYLAND POEICE Strand of Marlin Is Recov ered by Fishermen on Smith Island. “SENSATIONAL CLUE” IN DISTRICT FAILS Suicide Theories Shaken by Dis covery Weights on Body Were Not From Victim's Car. BACKGROUND— Charles F. Keene, sr., capital real estate man, disappeared from Washington-Norfolk boat on night, of May 13. Last Monday, weighted body of Keen was found near Smith Island, and hastily rum mo ted coroners fury declared he was murder victim. Reoponed investigation, how ever, has resulted in no substan tial progress in solving mystery. BV JAMES J. CULLINANE. Discovery of the missing strand of marlin rope which had been tied around the waist of Charles F Keene, sr.. sent Maryland State investigators hurrying back to Crisfield, Md„ this afternoon. Capt. William McK. Johnson and Detective Serge Marlin Brubaker left State police headquarters with all the | evidence in the case and a report which they hoped would wind up their investigation after they presented it to State s Attorney F. Kirke Maddrix of Somerset County. The long strand of marlin, which is believed to have snapped under the strain of holding a heavy weight to Keene's body, was recovered by fisher men on Smith Island, w'ho threw' it away on the beach last week. The type of knot tied in the marlin, which is obtainable only at a ship | chandler's, will be Important in de termining whether Keene was mur dered or killed himself in a cunningly j planned suicide. It has been con tended that, the knot in the cotton rope which held a weighted brief case around Keene's neck could have been tied only by a seaman or an expert rigger. New Clue Fails. A “sensational" new clue in the ; fantastic case collapsed todav after i Homicide Detectives Jeremiah Flaher ty and William OBrver interviewed a woman who said she heard a woman J screaming aboard the District of Co ' lumbia on the night Keene vanished from his cabin The detectives dis j covered that the woman boarded the . steamer on the trip which left Wash ington May 15. Keene vanished on ! the trip which left. May 13. The woman had told a friend of tha police force of hearing the screams, but said she had kept quiet because she did not want to become involved in the case. Realizing the importance of the clue, the policeman immediately oommunicated with Inspector B. W. Thompson. Other “Clue" Telephoned. Another woman who telephoned police that she had information which may be of value in the case will be interviewed by the detectives this aft ernoon, potice said. Theories of suicide in the baffling mystery were dealt a hard blow to day when it was revealed that Keene's automobile which he sold last Feb ruary to Edward R. Sweet, real estate broker with offices in the Bond Bu reau, has its tools intact. Sweet said he knows that the jack and other tools were in the car when he bought it. They were under the front seat when he checked up on them yesterday, Sweet said. Broker Sold Car. After selling his car to sweet. Keene j told his family it had been wrecked and abandoned in a garage in South ern Maryland. Sweet said that at the time he purchased the car—a 1932 Nash—for $100 and assumed unpaid ! notes totaling $92, it was in perfect 1 running condition and obviously had never been in a wreck. As late as last Saturday, Charles T. \ Keene, jr., said he was positive hi* : father had never sold his machine and i that it w'ould be found in a Prince ! Georges County garage. Part of 1935 Car Tool Kit. j The jack, police have established, j was issued as part of the standard tool kit of all 1935 Studebakers. Keene i had never owned such a car. The strange story fabricated by Keene after he sold his automobile j prompted investigators to delve more : deeply into the life of the real estate broker, who dealt in works of art and precious gems as well as real estate. Is it possible that Keene,, unknown to his family, came into contact with persons who killed him through fear he might reveal their secrets? investi gators are asking. Keene told his family and friends he was going to Norfolk to sell water front property between Virginia Beach and Ocean View for a client. He said he had an appointment with a prospective purchaser in Norfolk and \hat prospects of closing the deal were bright. Thus far, detectives say. they have been unable to find any one in Nor folk with whom Keene had business dealings, although they have made diligent search in real estate circles • See KEENE, Page AyC) ” | -. EXPLOSION HURTS TWO IN U. S. OFFICIAL’S CAR BJ the Associated Press. PLENTYWOOD. Mont.. June 7 — Samuel Sprague. Sheridan County resettlement administrator, escaped an apparent attempt upon his life when he lent his car to Robert Lorenz, a friend, authorities said today. Sheriff’s officers said Lorenz suf fered a broken leg and numerous cut* last night when a bomb exploded a* Lorenz started the automobile. A companion, Miss Fern Jensen, It, ; was injured slightly. 8prague WiJ^pfflcer* he had recently l received threatening letter*.