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HOUSE D. C. GROUP
SURRENDERS. CUES
OUI INCOME TAX.
HIKES REALTY LEVY
Rules Committee Stands By
to Guarantee Considera
tion of Troublesome Meas
ure on Floor Tomorrow.
$8,000 EXEMPTION PLAN
FOR PROPERTY BEATEN
Dirksen Regrets Income Charge
Defeat—Dies Attacks ‘‘High
Apartment Rents" Here, Say
ing U. S. Employes Already Are
Paying Tax in That Form.
i__
Washington’s extraordi
narily high real property
assessment standard — ap
proximating 100 per cent—
and the resultant high tax
rate are discussed in a spe
cial article today on page
A-8.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.
The House District Committee paved
the way for House consideration of the
troublesome Kennedy omnibus tax bill
by eliminating this afternoon the con
troversial income tax plan and sub
stituting a 20-cent increase in the
real estate tax levy.
Action was taken at a hurriedly
called special meeting—the second in
two days—as the Rules Committee
stood by to grant a special rule that
Will guarantee consideration of the
measure in the House tomorrow.
Scrapping of the income tax plan
was done in obedience to House lead
ers who refused to let the Kennedy
bill come’ up in the House under a
special rule unless it was done.
The Rules Committee shortly was
expected to issue the rule under which
the bill will be considered.
$8,000 Limit Beaten.
The income tax plan was eliminated
end the real estate tax increase sub
stituted on motion of Representative
Nichols. Democrat, of Oklahoma, a
member of the special subcommittee
of the District Committee that drafted
the bill.
The committee, however, first de
feated. by a record vote of 8 to 1, a
motion of Representative Sacks, Dem
ocrat. of Pennsylvania, to substitute
for the income tax a $1.70 levy on
real estate having an assessed value
under $8,000. Under his plan, prop
erty under $8,000 would continue to
pay the present $1.50 levy.
As soon as the committee :took its
action. Nichols and Representative
Kennedy. Democrat, of Maryland,
chairman of the Special Tax Subcom
mittee, rushed from the House Office
Building to the Capitol to inform
Chairman O'Connor of the Rules
Committee of the result.
Dirksen Plans Amendment.
Representative Dirksen, Republican,
Of Illinois, who championed the in
come tax plan, was the only one to
express regret that the committee
eliminated it from the bill simply to
pet the measure up in the House for
consideration. He served notice, how
fever, he would attempt to have it re
stored by amendment on the floor.
Earlier in the day the Rules Com
mittee had declared action on the
.District group's plea for a rule.
Chairman O'Connor asked the Dis
trict Committee that before con
sideration of the request is resumed,
it had better hold another special
meeting and eliminate the contro
versial income tax.
"That's impossible." chorused Rep
Cerentatives Kennedy and Nichols.
They Call Committee, However.
However, they lost no time in ar
ranging for another special meeting,
starting at 1 o'clock, to consider the
proposal.
Immediately after the Rules Com
mittee adjourned without passing on
the request for a rule. O'Connor re
ported to Speaker Bankhead the Dis
trict Comimttee had failed to carry out
the program for altering the bill under
which the leaders agreed to permit its
consideration in the House.
Wants Some Bill Passed.
Bankhead appeared to be disap
pointed.
"I am very anxious for the District
bill to be brought up tomorrow,” he
Bald "I feel the House should pass
Borne sort of bill to alleviate the Dis
trict's financial situation.”
Bankhead announced if the rule is
not granted the House would take up
Bts previously scheduled program to
morrow—consideration of the judi
ciary good behavior bill.
The appeal of Kennedy and Nichols
for a rule precipitated a prolonged dis
cussion among members of the Rules
Committee, and one, Representative
Cox, Democrat, of Georgia served
notice he would not vote for it.
Cox was vehement in his denuncia
tion of the attempt of the District to
pet a rule for consideration of the bill.
Another Defeat Promised.
Turning to Kennedy, he said:
"The aotion of the House the other
day in refusing to consider the bill
evidently did not impress you, even
though the vote was as large as it
was. If you come before the House
with that bill you're going to take a
licking like you did the other day."
Cox also declared there is "bitter
resentment" in the House against the
District which “is fully justified.”
"That feeling.” he added, "can’t be
changed overnight."
“Understanding" Cited.
O'Connor opened the discussion by
pointing out that House leaders had
set aside tomorrow to consider the
tax bill, in view of the "alleged seri
ous financial crisis facing the District
government in the coming fiscal year,
tSee TAXBS, Page “.VT)
A A
F urnace Gadget
Results in Suit
To Get Divorce
Husband’s Inventive
Ability a Thorn in
W ife’s Side.
Asserting her husband's inventive
ability, displayed in their home in the
form of a furnace attachment, caused
her discomfort and much worry, Mrs.
Sybil L. Danielson, 3912 Pulton street,
asked District Court today to grant
her a limited divorce from Lieut. Col.
Wilmot A. Danielson, U. S. A.
Through Attorney Jean M. Board
man, Mrs. Danielson told the court
of other instances of alleged cruelty.
"As the defendant has some ability
as an inventor.” Mrs. Danielson stated
in her suit, "and he has practiced this
ability during the past several years,
chiefly by devising and installing on
our furnace certain mechanisms the
operation of which, he has refused to
explain to me, although I urgently re
quested him to do so, and he has gone
away from home, leaving me to operate
the furnace without knowledge of
what to do, all of which has caused
me much worry and mental distress.
"On one occasion, in the early part
of 1936, one of the defendant's in
ventions failed to work during his
absence, and for a period of approxi
mately 10 days, during which time a
furnace man and an engineer were
unable to solve the defendant's inven
tions, our house was either unheated
or extremely overheated."
Mrs. Danielson said she was 61 and
described herself rs "a woman of cul
ture. refinement and high educational
attainments.” She said she was an
assistant professor in the Iowa State
College before she married Col. Daniel
son almost 26 years ago.
She said her husband left her last !
June 14 shortly after their daughter's
marriage.
She asked the court to award her
alimony and to restrain Col. Daniel- j
son from seeking a divorce in another
jurisdiction.
EMERGENCY GONE,
BYRNES ASMS
—
Appeals to Senate for Pas
sage of 40 Per Cent
Relief Bill.
U.v the Associated Press.
Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South
Carolina appealed to the Senate today
to require local communities to pro
vide 40 per cent of relief project costs.
"The emergency that caused us to
give a lump sum for relief without re
striction on how it was to be spent has
passed." he said.
Byrnes sought adoption of a com
mittee amendment to the $1,500,000,
000 relief appropriation bill which
would require a 40 per cent contribu
tion bv sponsors of relief projects ex
cept when they demonstrated inability
to pay that amount.
Before beginning debate on the pro
posal. the Senate approved two minor
changes in the amendment. One
would permit lo'cal sponsors to pro
vide materials and services as part of
their contribution.
"We may as well be frank." Byrnes !
told the Senate. "Recovery has taken
place."
fie contended a restriction by Con
gress on the manner of spending the
relief funds did not suggest “distrust"
of the President.
It was the duty of Congress, he said,
to specify how funds were to be spent,
and only in time of emergency was it
necessary for Congress to leave all
discretion to the Executive.
Before the Senate convened, ad
ministration leaders forecast a com
promise on the Byrnes proposal. They
expected a smaller percentage than
<0 to be approved.
Action on the Byrnes amendment
was postponed yesterday after the
Senate rejected another recommenda
tion of its Appropriations Committee
that some $200,000,000 in oblifated
balances from 1933-7 relief appropria
tions revert to the Treasury.
Economy Group Defeated.
The 53-to-25 rejection vote was a
defeat for an economy group led by
(See RELIEF, Page A-5J
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Sentenced to Death.
BRZESC, Poland, June 16 (fP).—An
18-year-old Jew, Weizel Scczerbowski,
was sentenced to death today for the
murder of a policeman May 13, an
act which led to violent anti-Semitic
rioting and started a wave of anti
Jewish outbursts throughout Poland.
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ROOSEVELT TO CO
TO PARTY PARLEY
To Hold Three-Day Series of
Conferences With Over
400 Congressmen.
MEMBERS OF CABINET
ALSO TO BE PRESENT
Better Understanding Between
White House and Capitol
Hill to Be Sought.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.
President Roosevelt is going to se
cluded Jefferson Island in Chesapeake
Bay on June 24 to hold a three-day
series of conferences with more than
400 Democratic Congressmen.
During his stay on the island as
guest of the Democratic Pish and Gun
Club, the President will talk separately
and in groups with every Democratic
member of the House and the Senate,
taking the opportunity to discuss the
administration program and to at
tempt to bring about a better under
standing between the White House and
Capitol Hill.
The conferences were made possible
by the Democratic Senators who are
officers of the Jefferson Island Club,
of which Senator Robinson of
Arkansas, majority leader of the Sen
ate. is president. Robinson, with Sen
ators Pittman of Nevada, Tydings of
Maryland, Duffy of Wisconsin and
Speaker Bankhead of Alabama, called
at the White House today to invite the
President to visit the island. The
White House announced immediately
afterward that Mr. Roosevelt had ac
cepted "with pleasure.”
Cabinet Members to Attend.
All members of the cabinet except
Secretary of Labor Perkins also have
been invited to the parley. Miss
Perkins was barred because the party
will be strictly ‘'stag.'’ Guests like
wise, will include members of the
President's secretariat and heads of
several of the major independent
agencies.
The President will leave Washington
Thursday afternoon, June 24, for An
napolis. There he will board the
presidential yacht Potomac to make
the 13-mile journey down the bay to
the island, which is situated about a
mile from the Eastern Shore. The
water immediately around the island
is not deep enough to permit the
Potomac to come immediately up to
the club house dock, which will neces
sitate the yacht anchoring about 2
miles off the shore of the island. The
President will proceed to the island
in a small launch.
The facilities of the club house are
not sufficient to care for all those in
vited to take part in the conferences.
Therefore, it has been arranged to
divide the Democratic congressional
group, which numbers 407 Senators
and Representatives, into three parts
and have each unit visit the island
for a day. The conferences will start
Friday morning, June 25.
Individual Conferences Arranged.
The President's schedule will be so
arranged as to afford an opportunity
to reach each person in the first group
to have an individual conference with
him. Buffet luncheon will be served
and there will be fishing, boating,
skeet shooting, horseshoe pitching and
other forms of outdoor sports.
The second group will be taken to
the island the following day and the
remaining group on Sunday, the last
day of the conference. The President
plans to leave late Sunday afternoon,
arriving back at the White House
some time after dark.
The President was a guest of the
dub two Summers ago, when he spent
a week end on the island. On that oc
casion the trip was to afford the Presi
dent a rest and recreation in the com
pany of a large group of party asso
ciates.
The coming conference series was
engineered by Robinson and Pittman,
the latter chairman of the Board of
Governors of the club. For some time
there have been complaints on the
part of Democratic members of the
Senate and House that they have been
unable to confer with the President
on matters of personal interest, and
this, along with the realization on the
part of congressional leaders that
there is some belligerency on the part
of Democratic Senators and Repre
sentatives, particularly the former, is
supposed to have prompted the par
leys.
Venezuelan Scouts Reach City
After 10,000-Mi. Jamboree Hike
Browned and footsore, but happy, j
Raphael Angel Petit and Juan Car
mona, South American rover Scouts,
arrived here early this afternoon after ;
an adventurous two-year, 10.000-mile
hike from their homes in Caracas,
Venezuela, to the National Boy Scout
Jamboree on the Potomac.
Met on the Lee highway, in West
Cherrydale, by Venezuelan diplomats,
local Boy Scout officials and an Arling
ton County motor cycle police escort,
the smiling Scouts politely but em
phatically declined offers of a ride to
the Capitol, where Dr. Diogenes Esca
lante, Venezuelan Minister, and Dr.
L. S. Rowe, director of the Pan-Ameri
can Union, waited to greet them.
•No, thank you," Carmona said,
i through a legation interpreter. “We’ve
walked every step of the way to this
point, except when we crossed rivers
on handmade rafts. We want to walk
all the way to the Capitol."
And onward they continued through
Cherrydale and Lyon Village to Ros
slyn, pulling a rickety cart burdened
with raincoats, blankets and other
paraphernalia.
That cart upset plans of the diplo
mats and Scout officials to receive
them formally at the south end of the
Key Bridge this morning at 10 o'clock.
A wheel came off the well-worn axle
of the weather-beaten wagon as the
pilgrims arrived in Palls Church, Va„
last night. They encountered much
difficulty in having it repaired this
morning, with the result that their
start was delayed for about two hours.
After more than an hour of waiting
at Key Bridge the welcoming party
motored out the Lee highway and
found the youths stepping along briskly
between Cherrydale and Lee Heights.
In the reception group were Dr.
Jacinto Fombona-Pachano, counselor
of the Venezuelan Legation; Arturo
Lares, secretary of the legation; Juan
Lecuna, attache; Luis Coll-Pardo,
tourist commissioner of Venezuela;
Lester G. Wilson, member of the
Executive Board of District of Cd
lumbia Boy Scouts, and a dozen local
Boy Scouts and Sea Scouts.
Petit and Carmona spent last night
at a tourist house in Falls Church,
paying the usual rate. They had a
few dollars in their pockets as they
ended their long journey. They ex
plained they started out with $30,
but that their families replenished
their funds along he way. They also
received many free meals and lodgings
and some money from Scouts and
their families, they said.
A detailed story of their adventures,
written by the Scouts themselves, is
printed on page A-2.
i
__HOW IT LOOKS TO LITTLE BROTHER AND SISTER.
BILBAO BEING DESERTED
BY TERRIFIED POPULACE
Residents Reported in Near Panie.
Rascpies Held Struggling to Prevent
Firing of Citv.
BACKGROUND—
While continuing to batter at
gates of Madrid uith heavy guns,
Gen. Franco has concentrated ef
forts in recent weeks on capture of
Basque city of Bilbao.
Despite stubborn defense it ap
pears doubtful that Loyalists win be
able to prevent insurgent leader
from gaining this important objec
tive.
the Associated Press.
HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish fron
tier. June 16.—Terror-stricken women
and children fled Bilbao in droves
today along the few avenues of es
cape left by the insurgent legions
closing in on the city's outskirts.
French refugees reaching border
points near ncie reported the popu
i-—— -
lace in near panic, with the center
of the provincial capital now an
artillery target of insurgent batter- '
ies ranged to the north and south.
President Jose Antonio Aguirre. !
they said, remained in the city vowing j
to die on the spot rather than sur
render.
Many militiamen were reported to
have bolted to the insurgents, accus
ing the Basque government of de
ceiving them with false reports of
the invincibility of the “iron ring”
defenses that the insurgent offensive
has smashed.
Artillery in City’s Center.
Loyal Basque troops installed ar
tillery in the heart of the city to
bombard their advancing foe. In
surgents. answering the defense fire
'See SPAIN, Page A-4.)
PALMISANO SEEN
AS D. C. BODY HEAD
Willing to Take Chairman
ship if Mrs. Norton Goes
to Labor Post.
Representative Palmisano, Demo
crat, of Maryland will become chair
man of the House District Commit
tee should Representative Norton re
sign to assume leadership of the House
Labor Committe, it was learned to
day.
The Labor Committee chairman
ship has been left vacant by the
death of Representative Connery of
! Massachusetts.
By virtue of seniority, Mrs. Norton
is eligible to succeed Connery, and
Palmisano has announced that he is
prepared to resign as chairman of
the House Education Committee to
; take over the District Committee post
should Mrs. Norton move up.
Palmisano's announcement killed
reports that Representative Kennedy.
Democrat, of Maryland, second rank
ing member of the District Committee,
might become its chairman. Under
House rules. Palmisano is entitled
to the post if he wants it.
Born in Italy, Palmisano came to
i See D. ^COMMITTEE, Page A-5.)
G-MEN ARE ASKED
Senate Committee Told by
Two Witnesses Their
Lives Are Periled.
Ey the Associated Press.
The Senate Civil Liberites Commit
tee asked the Justice Department's "G
men" today to protect two of its wit
nesses who said they were in danger
of being killed by gunmen in the pay
of Harlan County, Ky., coal operators.
R. C. Tackett, elderly mountaineer
who testified against the coal operators
during a committee inquiry two months
ago, complained that he had been
"kidnaped" from his Norton. Va., home
by two former Harlan County deputy
sheriffs and taken to the Harlan Jail
"to be killed."
His penciled note, crudely scrawled
on a piece of rough tablet paper, was
referred promptly to the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation.
Another witness. LawTence Howard,
a Harlan grocery clerk, wrote the com
mittee that an employe of the Harlan
County Coal Operators’ Association
had hired a gunman "to kill me." and
that he was being continually followed
i by former Harlan deputies.
Summary of Today’s Star
Page.
Amusements B-10
Comics C-10-11
Editorials_A--0
Financial_A-17
Lost & Found C-5
Obituary .A-12
Page.
Radio _C-5
Short Story . B-2
Society _ B-3
Sports __ C-l-3
Woman's Pg. C-4
FOREIGN.
Terrified populace fleeing Bilbao before
insurgent advance. Page A-I
Mutinous Spaniards level guns on
French sloop of war. Page A-4
NATIONAL.
Byrnes urges Senate to pass 40 per
cent relief bill. Page A-l
Roosevelt to attend Jefferson Island
parley. Page A-l
Labor board to rule on signed con
tract necessity. Page A-l
Bethlehem steel plant at Johnstown is
bombed. Page A-l
Early break seen in Parsons kidnap
case. . Pag* A-l
Connery’s body to be entrained for
Massachusetts home. Page A-2
Farm bill not to be acted on at this
session. Page A-2
President seeks means t)f aiding low
income groups. Page A-2
G. M. strikes end; 25,000 to return to
work. Page A-3
Legislation to block tax evasion prom
ised for this session. Page A-5
WASHINGTON AND NEARBY.
Palmisano willing to become chairman
of District Committee. Page A-l
Rules Committee delays action on plea
for tax bill rule. Page A-l
Spotted fever claims third life in
D. C. area. Page A-5
Filipino student* to meet here June
25-27. Page A-7
Four-H Club members gathering for
encampment here. Page B-l
Five-cent fare issue sidetracked at
valuation hearing. Page B-l
Contractor arrested on 7-year-old
charge. Page B-l
Three indicted on gambling law viola
tion charges. Page B-l
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-10
This and That. Page A-10
Washington Observations. Page A-10
Answers to Questions. Page A-10
David Lawrence. Page A-ll
H. R. Baukhage. Page A-ll
Dorothy Thompson. Page A-ll
Constantine Brown. Page A-ll
Lemuel Parton. Page A-ll
SPORTS.
Cellar yawning for Nationals as slump
continues. Page C-l
F. D. R. ‘ signed’’ to open all-star con
test here. Page C-l
Rival league conceded pitching edge
in "dream game.” Page C-l
Giants buy Berger after losing lead in
race. Page C-l
Boys, juniors' entries in Star net play
set mark. Page C-2
Braddock to be at peak for Louis, says
manager. Page C-2
Hicks, Didrikson choices in Western
open golf. Page C-3
MISCELLANY.
Young Washington. Page A-12
Vital Statistics. Page A-12
Traffic Convictions. Page B-S
Service Orders. Page B-8
Winning Contract. Page B-9
Dorothy Dix. Page C-4
Betsy Caswell. Page C-4
Men’s Fashions. Page C-5
Cross-Word Puzzle. PageC-10
Nature's Children. Page C-l#
Bedtime Story. Page C-ll
Letter-Out. Page C-ll
City Newi la Brief. — Page C-12
1
BESS IS SAFE
Police Head Says "Ama
teurs” Hold Mrs. Parsons.
Early Break Seen.
BACKGROUND—
A week ago today. Mrs. Alice Mc
Donell Parsons left her New York
chicken and squab farm with a
man and a woman in an automo
bile. intending to return in a short
time. When Mr. Parsons returned
home from New York City that
ei'ening Mrs. Parsons had not re- I
turned A few hours later a note
demanding S25.000 ransom was
found.
Er the Associated Press
STONY BROOK. N. Y., June 16.—
The possibility of an early break in the
Alice McDonell Parsons disappearance
was indicated today in a sudden in
crease of tempo in the activities of
Federal, State and local investigators.
Mrs. Parsons Believed Safe.
A high police official here who has
been following the case closely mean
while indicated he has reasons to be
lieve Mrs. Parsons may be a prisoner
in Manhattan, probably in one of the
foreign quarters.
He said he believes the kidnapers
are amateurs, that Mrs. Parsons is
in good health and will be returned to
her home alive. Her captors, he said,
are probably not the ruthless type of
criminal, and would be only too willing
to complete negotiations and be rid
of their prisoner.
Until early this morning the entire
lower floor of the Parsons home. Long
Meadows Farm, was alight, and there
appeared to be much activity within.
Except for the first two nights after
Mrs. Parsons disappeared a week ago,
the house had been darkened early in
the evening.
Earl Connelley. inspector of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation who as
sumed formal charge of the case today,
was absent from his headquarters on
a mysterious mission from late yester
day afternoon until after midnight.
He returned more than two hours
after the time he had set for a press
conference.
G-Men Take Charge.
Connelley parried questions much !
of the time, but asked whether he was
"ready to withdraw from the case on
a theory a kidnaping was not com
mitted," the inspector replied:
"Absolutely not.”
Today, so far as is known, nothing
more definite had been uncovered to
indicate what may have happened to
the society matron, who soon was to
inherit a small fortune. And today,
under the so-called Lindbergh kidnap
law, the Federal Government took
charge of the case on the presumption
Mrs. Parsons had been taken across
a State line, thus making the abduc
tion a Federal offense. The law
prescribes a seven-day interval after
the disappearance before the inter
state phase is presumed.
Driver Certain It Was She.
To a long list of stories of persons
believed to have seen Mrs. Parsons
since her disappearance, there was
added today the account of a New!
York taxicab driver, Nat Lewis, who
told New York City police he had
taken a woman, believed to be Mrs.
Parsons, to the Pennsylvania Station
last night.
The driver said he picked up the
woman, accompanied by another
woman and a man, about 6 p.m. at
Fifty-fourth street and Third Ave
nue in New' York. He said at one
point he was certain his passenger was
the missing woman because he
“knew” her sister-in-law, but he did
not explain a delay of several hours in
notifying police.
Lost and Found
and Special Notices
Advertisements under the above classifica
tions, heretofore on page 3, will be found on
page C-5, preceding other classified ads.
All such advertisements should be sent in promptly
as possible and cannot be accepted after 1 1 p.m.
Saturday closing for The Sunday Star 5:30 p.m.
MAYOR PLEADS
FOR ROOSEVELT
HELP IN STRIKE
Johnstown Official Calls on U. S.
to “Remove Murderous Mob”
After Blast and Kidnaping.
YOUNGSTOWN IDLE BECOMING
“IMPATIENT,” COMPANY WARNED
Sheet and Tube Eirm Vetoes “Baek-to
Work” Plea of Non-Strikers—Court
Orders Data on Republic.
BACKGROUND—
Steel strike was called last May 25, as John L. Lewis’ Committee for
Industrial Organization pushed its campaign for organization. Targets
were three independent companies who h(td refused to sign contracts:
Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Inland. Last week fourth
company was added. Bethlehem. More than 70,000 workers have been
out. Eight men have been killed in rioting and many injured.
By the Associated Press.
Mayor Daniel J. Shields of Johnstown, Pa., appealed
to President Roosevelt today to intervene in the Johnstown
steel strike to “remove the murderous element that new
infests the city.”
The Mayor said kidnaping had been added to a
dynamite bombing in the disorders during the 6-day-old
strike at the Cambria work of Bethlehem Steel.
“The situation has grown so bad,” Mayor Shields wired
the President, “that the strikers have resorted to the most
dastardly crime in our Nation today—that of kidnaping.”
Shields wired the President after a man giving the name of
James M. Hess, identified by police as a worker in the mills, re
ported he was seized by six men, stripped of his clothing and
thrown out of their automobile.
$.>,000 Reward Posted for Arrest of Men.
A $5,000 reward for arrest and conviction of the men will be
offered. Shields added. He said he wired the President:
“I earnestly appeal to John L. Lewds through you as our Presi
dent to withdraw the murderous element that now’ infests my city.
“The situation has grown so bad that the strikers have resorted
to the most dastardly crime in our Nation today—that of kid
naping.
“Will you not please save our homes by discouraging Mr. John
L. Lewis against such un-Americanisms?”
Shields also wired George H. Earle:
“Are our citizens to be the victims of political connivance on
the part of John L. Lewis and other hidden interests?”
The plea came after a dynamite bomb explosion heightened
the tension in the big steel strike area and as warning came from
Youngstown, Ohio, that some 10.000 strike-idle steel workers in
the Mahoning Valley are “becoming impatient” and that there
would be “serious trouble soon” if they are held back from their
jobs. The warning was placed before Frank Purnell, president of
the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.
S.W.O.C.Head Asks
Intervention of U. S.
In Steel Strikes
By the Associated Press.
Phillip Murray, chairman of the
Steel Workers' Organizing Committee,
said today he would ask Secretary
Perkins for Federal intervention In
the steel strike.
Murray came here from Pittsburgh
to testify at the Senate Post Office
Committee's investigation of the steel
strike.
The appeal would be made to the
Secretary as soon as he could obtain
an appointment with her, he said,
Murray announced earlier in Pitts
burgh that he had proposed to the
Bethlehem Steel Co. that it agree to
a National Labor Relations Board
election on employe representatiqpr.
He said here he also had made in
formal suggestions for such elections
to Republic Steel and to Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Co.
P. O. Bill Loses in Committee.
Meanwhile, the House Post Office
Committee reported adversely a resolu
tion to require the Postmaster General
to give Congress all information on
charges the postal service had refused
to deliver mail to Ohio steel plants
where workers are on strike.
Committee Chairman Mead made
public a letter from Acting Postmaster
General Howes denying the depart
ment had refused to make delivery of
mail which conformed to ‘ established
conditions.”
Howes added, however, postal of
ficials at Youngstown. Niles and War
ren, Ohio, “declined to accept parcels
of a character not hitherto mailed to
the addressee industrial plants."
Howes said the parcels, containing
food and clothing, were refused on the
j ground that postal authorities would
| be “in no better position to effect de
livery within the plants involved than
the private carriers previously per
forming this service, without endan
gering the person of the postal em
(See^CONTRACTsTPage A-3.)
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Midget Plane Kills Japanese.
TOKIO, June 16 (£*!.—'Tatsujiro
Yoshino, a fnember of the Japanese
Aeronautic Research Institute, was
killed today when the new midget air
plane called Louse of the Sky fell to
pieces in midair over Tokio during a
test flight.
1 Purnell declined any specmc answer
except that he would act "as rapidly
as the circumstances permit’’ to re
open the mills.
The Steel Workers Organizing Com
mittee proposed to the Bethlehem
Steel Corp. that an election be held at
the strike-bound Cambria Works in
Johnstown, to determine whether John
L. Lewis' steel union will represent the
employes in collective bargaining.
Pittsburgh headquarters of the union
announced a telegram had been sent
to Eugene Grace, president of Bethle
hem, making the proposal.
The union stipulated that if the
union wins the election the company
should agree to a written labor con
tract—the prime point at which inde
pendent steel companies have balked.
Purnell, Youngstown Sheet <fc Tube
head, vetoed—for the moment, at least
—the back-to-work plan submitted by
Ray L. Thomas, who said he was a
spokesman for 10,000 non-striking
steel workers.
At Warren, Ohio, another tense
point in the Mahoning steel area.
Judge Lynn B, Griffith ordered the Re
public Steel Co. to bring into court any
records showing how much has been
spent for machine guns, tear gas
bombs, labor "spies’’ and company
unions.
The judge made his ruling at the
start of the third day’s hearing on Re
public's petition for an injunction to
curtail picketing.
At Ambridge. Pa., a spokesman for
an American Federation of Labor
Union asserted in a protest to Presi
dent Roosevelt and Attorney General
(See STEEL, Page A-3.)
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CHAVEZ, “MUCH BETTER,”
MAY WORK TOMORROW
Later Examination Shows First
Diagnosis of Food Poisoning
Was Incorrect.
B" the Associated Press.
Dennis Chavez, jr., son and secre
tary of Senator Chavez, Democrat, of
New Mexico, said today the Senator,
who became ill yesterday, probably
would return to his office tomorrow.
He described the Senator as “much
better today.” Chavez had suffered
from chills and from a fever, which
has subsided.
His physician ordered him to a hos
pital for an examination and later sent
him to his residence to rest. "The doc
tor said Senator Chavez was suffering
from a stomach condition which has
cleared up.” the son said.
His illness first had been diagnosed
as food poisoning similar to that which
caused the death of Representative
Connery yesterday. A later examina
tion showed no evidence of food poison
ing.
BARRIE UNCHANGED
Creator of Peter Pan Spends Rest
less Night.
LONDON, June 16 (A>).—Sir James
M. Barrie, 77-year-old creator of
Peter Pan, “spent a somewhat rest
less night, but otherwise his condi*
tion remains unchanged,’’ his physi*
cians reported today. Sir James is 111
of bronchial pneumonia.
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