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MISS EARHART’S VOICE
HEARD IN S 0 S SPURS
SEARCHERS FOR PLANE
t Amateurs Pick
Up Signals at
10 A.M.
SHIPS, FLYERS
RUSH TO SCENE
Aviatrix Is Down
100 Milos From
Howland.
BACKGROUND—
Amelia Earhart began present
attempt to circle globe at equator
because she longed for new worids
to conquer. No one had. traveled
around the earth's ‘‘waistline.” It
was not her first, record hop. She
was the first woman to fig solo
across the Atlantic and the first
person—man or woman—twice to
fly the ocean. Among her many
other first flights was her solo from
Honolulu to California in 1935.
i nr: Aoautinicu rress,
HONOLULU, July 3.—Reports that
the voice of tousle-haired Amelia
Earhart had been picked up, calling
*'S O S" from the mystery spot where
she is lost in mid-Pacific, buoyed
hopes for her ultimate rescue today
as the United States Navy ordered a
battleship into the search.
Two Los Angeles amateur radio
operators as late as 7 am. Pacific
time OO a.m E. S. T.) said they dis
tinctly heard her sound her call let
ters. KHAQQ. after thrice saying
• ’'S O S" some 20 minutes earlier.
At San Francisco, however, a Coast
Guard station reported at noon. East
ern standard time, it had received no
word whatever, although ladio recep
tion was unusually good.
Earlier the Los Angeles operators—
Walter McMenamy and Carl Pierson—
interpreted radio signals as placing
the plane adrift near the Equator be
tween Gilbert Islands and Howland
Island, the latter Miss Earhart's desti
nation when her fuel was exhausted
more than 20 hours before.
Battleship Ordered to Search.
At Washington the Navy Depart
ment ordered the battleship Colorado,
with three planes aboard, to begin a
search from Honolulu, where it arrived
yesterday.
"I recognized Miss Earhart's voice
from' conversations I have had with
her. although I never heard her on
the air before." said Pierson concern
ing his 7 a.m. reception.
"Walter recognized her because he
maintained wireless coni act with her
plane on her flight from Oakland to
Hawaii this Spring."
Their efforts were added to an in
creasing number of others, all be
r lieved coming from the missing plane
and prompting Coast Guardsmen to
express belief that Miss Earhart and
her navigator would be rescued.
"KHAQQ" is the call of Miss Ear
hart's plane, last heard from in the
air yesterday at 2:12 p.m.. Eastern
standard time, when she reported she
and her navigator, the veteran Fred
Noonan, could not sight land and were j
nearly out of gas.
Another message signed with the
plane's call letters and seeking radio
contact was picked up in the South
Sears earlier bv the New Zealand war
ship Achilles, the San Francisco Coast j
Guard reported.
The Achilles, many miles south and
east of Howland, messaged:
"Unknown station heard to make: j
‘Please give us a few flashes if you get i
us—7 signal on 3.105 kilocycles.’ This
station made KHAQQ twice and dis- :
appeared. Nothing more since then.” !
The Achilles' message said the radio i
was heard on 3,105 kilocycles.
In Shark-Infested Waters.
Miss Earhart was generally believed
to have come down in shark-infested
waters within a radius of 100 miles
uui uiwesi oi Howland island after ;
having overshot the tiny target on a
2.570-mile hop from Lae. New Guinea, i
Coast Guardsmen suggested the
flyers may have reached a mid-Pacific ;
coral reef or sandspit and set up their
emergency radio on land.
Weather conditions were reported
fairly favorable for safety of the pair,
whether they were on a remote atoll
or adrift.
A heavy smoke belched from the
funnels of the gleaming white, 250
foot cutter Itasca, visible for nine miles
from its Howland Island anchorage,
as it ploughed forward on a smooth
*ea in quest of the $80,000 Earhart
Plying Laboratory.
While the cutter hunted by sea, a
Navy flying boat sped over the 1.500
mile distance from Honolulu.
The Navy minesweeper Swan joined
the hunt from a position halfway be
. tween here and Howland, where it
had been stationed to give any pos
sible aid to Miss Earhart on the next
leg of her flight.
The flying boat itself undertook a
hazardous night flight to join the !
search. Carrying a crew of eight, it
took off from Pearl Harbor and headed
'See EARHART. Page_A-3.)
FOUND SHOT TO DEATH
Marine Band Musician Killed in
His Bed Room.
Karl Schaefer, 35. a member of the
Marine Band, was found dead this
afternoon in the bed room of his home
at 228 Twelfth street southeast with
a charge from a shotgun through his
heart. He apparently had died in
stantly.
The gun was beside Schaefer’s body
„ and members of his family said it
apparently had gone off while he was
cleaning It. His body was found by
his wife.
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AMELIA EARHART.
A.? she greeted Brazilians
after landing in Fortaleza.
This is one of the last photo
graphs of the ainatrix.
LIEUT. W. W. HARVEY.
Flyer who hopped off last
night from Honolulu to search
for the world flyers.
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Map of the Pacific region for hundreds of miles around the
lonely and tiny Howland Island where Miss Earhart intended
to stop on her projected route ldotted line) from Lae. New
Guinea, to Honolulu. The search tor Miss Earhart and Fred
Noonan and their plaiie presumably is centering in the open
water above and to the left of Howland, in approximately the
spot denoted by the cross. Some of these specks are scarcely
more than sand bars or coral reefs and most of them are unin
habited and off Pacific ship lanes.
Preparations for Howland Hop
Told in Miss Earhart’s Story
The following dispatch from Amelia Earhart. the last personal
story received from her before she was reported missing, was filed
before she departed from Lae and was received last night.
BY AMELIA EARHART.
By Wireless to The Slur.
LAE. New Guinea, July 1.— Denmark's r prison” and Lae. attractive and
unusual as it is. appears to two flyers just as confining as the Lockheed-Electra
is poised for our longest hop. the 2.556 miles 10 Howland Island. In mid-Paeiflc.
The monoplane is weighted with gasoline and oil to capacity. However, a
wind blowing the wrong way and threatening clouds conspired to keep her
on the ground today.
In addition, Capt. Fred Noonan, niv navigator, has been unahle bpransp
of radio difficulties, to set his chro
nometers. Any lack of knowledge o
their fastness and slowness would de^
feat the accuracy of celestial naviga^
tion. Howland is such a small spo
■ in the Pacific that every aid to locat
ing it must be available.
Fred Noonan and I have worked
! Tsee PREPARATIONf Page A-3T) j
ATLANTIC CLIPPER
ENDS GOI-MILE HOP
Lands at Shediac Bay. New
Brunswick, on First Leg
of Sea Flight.
B> ihe Associated Press.
PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y„ July
3.—Well on its way toward bridging
the broad North Atlantic by commer
cial airline, the Pan-American Clipper
III. 45.500-pound flying boat, coasted
to a landing on Shediac Bay, New
Brunswick, at 10:52 a m. (E. S. T.) to
day.
The Pan-American Airways base
here announced receipt of a radio
gram from Capt. Harold E. Gray, com
mander of the boat scheduled to wing
across the ocean to Poynes, Ireland, on
Monday, saying he had negotiated the
601 miles from Port Washington in
4 hours 23 minutes.
Botwood Next Slop.
Before him and his crew of six lay
471 miles to be flown—to Botwood,
Newfoundland—before nightfall.
Botwood is the take-off point for the
eastward survey flight of the American
boat. A British Imperial Airways boat
will soar off the water at the mouth
of the Shannon River. Poynes, at about
the same hour Monday, westbound.
The big ship rose smoothly from
the water after a short run, starting
the 3.500-mile trip exactly on
schedule.
The crew went aboard at 7 am.,
warmed the four engines, made a
preliminary taxi to the starting posi
tion and started away with no
ceremony.
The seven men aboard, delighted
to be off on the new transoceanic
venture, apparently were more in
terested in the fate of their mutual
friend, Capt. Fred J. Noonan, Amelia
Earhart's companion on her world
flight, than in their own hop.
They were Capt. Harold E. Gray
and his crew of six, making the
same type of experimental flight to
Europe that Capt. Noonan and other
(See CLIPPER, Page A-3.) ~
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DESERT TERRITORY
De Aguirre and Remnants of
Army Quit Last Stand,
Aides Report.
Bs the Associated Press.
BAYONNE. Prance. July 3.—
Basque government officials here an
nounced today that President Jose
Antonio de Aguirre and the remnants
| of his army had abandoned their last j
I stand in Basque territory of Northern J
Spain.
The President, fleeing with his
forces, made a protest to the world
against what he termed “plundering
of which we, the Basques, have been
made victims in the twentieth cen
tury.”
Aguirre's statement, given out by a
spokesman here, said "Our territory
has been conquered.” but that “the
Basque government, wherever it is.
remains the legitimate government of
the Basques, interpreting the feelings
j of a race which has not been con
i quered.”
Aguirre's statement said he had
reached the boundary of the Basque
provinces.
The President expressed ''indigna
tion” that he and his men were forced
to give up their fatherland, and said
that feeling was “still greater because,
in order to take the fatherland from
us, the Spanish Fascists were forced
to call in mercenary forces—Germans
and Italians.”
Assistance Sought.
LONDON, July 3 (&).—Britain.
Prance and Russia—virtually standing
(See EUROPE. Page A-3.)
Lindbergh in France.
DINAN, Brittany, Prance, July 3
(j'P).—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh land
ed here at 7 pm. last night after a
flight from England. He was met by
a private automobile and left for an
unspecified destination after placing
his ship in a hangar.
ft
N YORK RS
R
FOR i IP
Senator Refuses to Confirm
Report Tammany Might
Draft Him for Post.
LA GUARDIA IS ALSO
‘ STRONG ALLY OF LABOR
National Repercussions Certain to
Result if Party Succeeds in
Securing Candidacy.
K' the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 3.—Loral po
lineal lpaders were told today that
United States Senator Robert F Wag
ner has consented to be Democratic
candidate for mayor next Fall If
Tammany insists, running against
Fiorello H. La Guardia, Fusion In
cumbent.
No confirmation has come from
Senator Wagner, and within the past
week he has told influential friends
he would be reluctant to run.
However, the five Democratic lead
ers of New York City, meeting in
secret according to their time-honored
custom to pick a candidate for the
mayoralty, have passed the word along
through Tammany Hall and sundry
political purlieus that Senator Wagner
has reluctantly agreed to run if the
five leaders unanimously insist upon
drafting him.
Would Precipitate Rattle.
If Senator Wagner runs an extraor
dinary political situation will result.
There will be national repercussions
in both major political parties, and
the American Labor party, entering
its first major campaign, will be forced
to choose between two of labor's out
standing champions.
La Guardia has been a Roosevelt
suppoi ter. Roosevelt has been a foe
of Tammany. There has been much
discussion in local Democratic circles
as to how far the President would
go in supporting a Democratic oppo
nent of La Guardia. It is known
Wagner has been close to the Presi
dent.
Iji Guardia was plected to his present
term after he had received the Re
publican nomination. But some Re
publican leaders protest party barking
for a conspicuous figure who is openly
an independent liberal.
L...2_\f._
!■* Guardia was swept into office at
the head of a reform, fusion move
ment. backed by anri-Tammany Re
publicans. independent voters, labor
and liberal elements, financial interests
that wanted thriftier government. He
was elected just after the disclosures
of the Seabury investigation.
New York has had a reform, fusion
Mayor about once every 20 years, but
none has been re-elected.
The aid of the President was en
listed this week, according to a na
tionally known Democratic leader, to
the extent of asking Senator Wagner
if he would consent to run. Senator
Wagner is said to have replied to the
President that he did not wish to give
up his Washington career for the
hustle-bustle of a knock-down city
political fight.
it may be significant that accord
ing to local accounts of the conversa
tion. Senator Wagner is quoted merely
as saying that he did not wish to run.
not that he refused to run. The Pres
ident is said to have let the matter
drop there.
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MARKETS ARE CLOSED
FOR FOURTH HOLIDAY
Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 3—The New
York Stock Exchange and most of
the other important securities and
commodity markets in the United
States were closed today as part of
the Independence day holiday. Im
portant markets will be closed Mon
day. July 5.
The Chicago Board of Trade, New
York Spot Grain and mast of the live
stock markets were open today. The
Savannah and Jacksonville naval
stores markets also were open.
/TO/ this \
( IN yoUR BACKY'
PARPEN 50ME L
V time! A
IN STEEL “PURGE"
Gus Hall Is Among Dropped
Leaders—U. A. W. Move
to “Clean House.”
BACKGROUND—
Refusal of three large inde
pendent steel companies to sign
contracts uith Committee for In
dustrial Organization preceded call
ing of steel strike Map 26. The
companies were Inland. Republic.
I and Youngstown Sheet d- Tube.
! Bethlehem has been added. Fire
j weeks of strike have been marked
by violence in which 13 lives hare
! been lost and more than 200 per
sons injured. Federal mediation
efforts collapsed.
Bs ifci Associated Press.
YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio, July 3 —A
C. I O. "purge' began today, as the
unions ax fell on Gus Hall and
two other strike captains in the Ma
- honing Valley steel sector.
John Owens, general C. I. O strike
director in Ohio, announced without
comment the removal of Hall, now in
jail under charges of heading a ' dyna
mite ring " as strike captain in the
Warren area. A Joint leadership of
Harry Wines and John Crajcier re
placed him.
< Owens also stripped two of his
Youngstown strike lieutenants of their
authority, removing Bob Burke, chief
organizer at the Republic Steel plant,
and John Stevenson, organizer at the
main plant of the Youngstown Sheet
& Tube Co.
Communist participation in the
strike was claimed in circulars dis
tributed through the valley today. In
the circular Phil Bart. Mahoning Val
ley secretary of the Communist party,”
said:
! "Of course the Communist party
and its members in the steel mills par
ticipated in the drive to orgawze steel
and all other unorganized industries.
The Communist party joins with all
democratic forces in the struggle
against reactionaries, open shop vio
lence and Fascism.”
Murray Is Silent.
Philip Murray, chairman of S W.
O. C. the C. I. O. steel affiliate which
called the strike», said at Pittsburgh
| he "knew nothing about” the removal
j of the Ohio strike leaders.
I Owens' "house-cleaning” order was
: issued only a few hours after another
prominent chieftain of the C. I. O.
movement—Homer Martin, head of
the automobile workers—removed
three union organizers at Flint, Mich.,
and transferred a Detroit organizer
I from the post. The action, he ex
tSee C I. O., Page A-3.)
Summary of Today’s Star
Page. Page.
Amusements C-12 Obituary _A-8
Art _B-3 Radio .A-7
Books .B-2 Real Estate,
Church News, C-l to 4
B-4-5 Short Story. A-9
Comics _B-6-7 Society _A-9
Editorials_A-8 Sports _C-8-7
Lost, Pound. C-8 Woman’s Pg._ C-5
Music -B-8
FOREIGN.
Russian press discloses reopening of
church drive. Page A-l
Basques abandon last stand in own
territory. • Page A-l
NATIONAL.
Miss Earhart’s own story tells of flight
preparations. Page A-l
Clipper takes off on experimental trip
to Europe. Page A-l
Battle over new court bill opens in
Senate Tuesday. Page A-2
De Valera's party Increases lead In
Ireland election. Page A-2
Maverick and Cox battle in Hcuse
over C. I. O. Page A-2
Party girl's death blamed on Den
hardt in suit. Page A-4
Striker slayers may face prosecution;
probe adjourns. Page A-4
WASHINGTON AND NEARBY.
Fate of D. C. tax bill held uncertain
in Senate. Page A-l
Jamboree begins busy week end of re
ligious services. Page A-l
Cannery strikers feel pinch as money
for food runs low. Page A-2
More evidence of police-gamblers link
being prepared. Page A -18
Forbush sentenced to • to 30 years
for hold-ups. Page A-18
*
Thousands prepare for biggest Fourth
in Capital history. Page A-10
New grand jury to be sworn in next
week. Page A-10
Saw Garfield shot as 14-year-old news
paper boy. Page A-10
Co-ordination sought in probe of skele
ton mystery. Page A-10
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-6
This and That. Page A-6
Stars. Men and Atoms Page A-6
Answers to Questions. Page A-6
David Lawrence. Page A-7
H. R. Baukhage. Page A-7
Mark Sullivan. Page A-7
Jay Franklin. Page A-7
Lemuel F. Parton. Page A-7
SPORTS.
Almada gives Nats big edge in swap
with Bosox. Page C-6
July flag maxim threatened, says Con
nie Mack. Page C-6
Gehrig. Medwlck slipping as big league
swat leaders. Page C-6
Cubs. Giants staging hot race in Na
tional League. Page C-6
U. S. at peak of international compe
tition this month. Page C-7
Pete Bostwick tops in versatility as
horseman. Page C-7
MISCELLANY.
Traffic Convictions. Page A-4
Vital Statistics. Page A-4
Shipping News. Page A-4
Young Washington. Page A-9
Nature's Children. Page B-6
Cross-word Puzzle. Bage B-6
Bedtime Story. Page B-7
Letter-Out. Page B-7
Dorothy Dix. Page C-l
Betsy Caswell. Page C-$
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Allen Cites Story
Of Railroader in
Discussing D. C. Tax
Commissioner Allen today ex
i pressed himself on the Tvdings
price resale maintenance rider to
the District tax bill with a short
story about the reaction of a one
Ipgged watchman at a railroad
crossing who had witnessed a
train wreck in which several per
sons were killed
The Commissioner said he
asked the old watchman in court
what he thought when he saw
the two trains approaching each
other toward a head-on collision.
The reply was:
"When I looked up the track
' and saw old No. l cornin' hell-a
to-hoot. and then I looked up the
other wav and 1 saw old No. 3
cornin' in the opposite direction
hell-a-to-hoot. I says to myself,
says I, 'Thats a hell of a way
j to railroad.'”
SCOUTS TO ATTEND
CHURCH SERVICES
Also Prepare for Celebration
of Independence Day
on Monday.
(Page o) Boy Scout Jamboree
News. A-5.J
Its only business session completed.
; the Boy Scout Jamboree today
launched into a busy week end of
preparation for a series of religious
services tomorrow and of patriotic
exercises in celebration of Independ
ence day on Monday.
Most of the 375 members of the
National Council. Boy Scouts of
America, had left camp today, hav
ing concluded their annual election
: of officers and consideration of other
business at a meeting in the jamboree
auditorium tent vesterday.
Dan Beard, who was re-elected
national Scout commissioner, and
several other executives remained in
camp. "Uncle Dan" visited Naval
Hospital ttfe morning to cheer up
several Scouts laid up with appendi
citis and some minor ailments.
Jewish Boys at Rites.
Religious worship for Jewish boys
was held last night and again this
morning in the auditorium tent. Rabbi
Philip D. Bookstaber of Harrisburg.
Pa, preached the sermon. Rabbi
Jesse J. Pinkie has been appointed
chaplain of the Jewish groups in the
jamboree camp.
A reception and social hour for all
Jewish boys and their friends was to
be held later today under the direc
tion of Morris Stein, chairman of the
Jewish Reception Committee. Kosher
kitchen service also is provided.
A variety of other religious services
will be held tomorrow in various parts
of the jamboree grounds, to be
climaxed by a big convocation on the
Monument Grounds at 7 p.m., with
Secretary of Commerce Daniel C.
Roper as one of the principal speaker*.
D. C. TAX BILL FATE
IN SENATE VAGUE
Controversy Looms Over
Attempt to Write in
Price Measure.
BACKGROUND—
With the District facing a *7.
000.000 shortage in the new fiscal
year because of the continued re
duction in the Federal Govern
ment's share of local expenses,
numerous tax devices have been
proposed to raise the necessary
funds. The House bill provided
income, inheritance and chain
store levies and an increase in that
on real estate. The Senate has re
written this measure.
BY J. A. O'LEARY.
The revamped District tax bill awaits
an uncertain fate in the Senate next
week, because of conflicting views on
some of the revenue-raising changes
and the fact that it has a national
, price-fixing measure tied to it as a
1 rider.
After the District Committee had
I voted yesterday to substitute the 2
per cent, sales tax on luxuries for the
gross receipts business levy, and an
increase of *1 per *100 on the value
of land in place of the House increase
of 20 cents per *100 on property as a
whole. Chairman King announced an
other committee meeting will be nec
essary to act formally on the detailed
wording of the amendments.
The new tax of 1 per cent on the
value of land, sponsored by Senator
McCarran. Democrat, of Nevada, will
draw- a larger part of the revenue
needed to meet the deficit from prop
erty owners than would the House
bill.
May Hold Meeting Monday.
A reprint of the amended bill will
not be ready until Monday. The
committee probably will be called to
gether then to ratify it so that it
can be reported to the Senate.
With the Senate in adjournment
until Tuesday because of the Fourth
of July holiday, it may be late next
week before the bill can be taken
up for debate, and even then it may
have to compete with the Supreme
Court reorganization issue to gain
consideration.
In view of its emergency character
to meet an impending deficit in local
revenues, the tax bill probably will
be allowed to come up as soon as pos
sible, but at that point it will confront
controversy over the effort to write
into its Nation-wide legislation relat
ing to the maintenance of resale
prices on commodities.
Inclusion of the resale price mainte
nance amendment in the local meas
ure was deplored by Commissioner
Melvin C. Hazen.
"It has no place in the District of
Columbia tax bill." Hazen said. "The
amendment is controversial and will
delay the tax bill. We can't afford to
wait. We emphasized to the com
mittee that this is a very urgent matter
and our need for funds is critical."
Hazen said he was grateful to the
committee for restoring the provision.
(See TAXES. Page A-37)
•_
Pender gast and Nephew Footed
Bills in Election Fraud Cases
B> the Associated Press.
j KANSAS CITY, July 3 — A Federal
j Judge's question—who furnished th*
! surety for bonds and paid the trial ex
penses for the steadily growing list of
vote fraud defendants?—had an an
swer today:
T. J. iBossi Pendergast and his
political heir apparent.
The Federal grand jury, widening
its probe of last November's election
activities and their aftermath, sup
plied the answer
and Pendergast,
one of the most
powerful city or
ganization lead
ers confirmed it.
Before leaving
last night on a
long - planned
Colorado vaca
tion, Pendergast
said he and his
nephew, James
Pendergast, were
actuated by sym
pathy; that there
was nothing
wrong about such
“Bo**" Penderimt.
oanaoie action, ana tuat tncir cautiy
moves in nowise condoned any mis
i
doings of the 46 persons so far con
victed.
Pendergast emphasized there was
nothing secretive about the bonding,
then asked:
"If there is anything wrong about
it, why don’t they say so?”
In an open letter to Federal Judge
Merrill E. Otis, who said testimoney
prove the 46 aimed to "steal” the elec
tion for the Democrats, the grand jury
said James Pendergast put up $60,000
as surety and paid $9,000 in cash for
trial expenses, with his uncle, T. J., as
suring any other amounts needed. .
FRANCE TO TEST ROUTE
Meteorological Station to Prepare
for New York Airline.
PARIS. July 3 WP).—A floating
meteorological station will sail from
France shortly to prepare the way for
the proposed Paris-New York airline.
Officials of Air France Transatlanti
que said last night the ship would
study weather conditions on the
southern route via the Azores, which
has been selected for the flying boats.
I
RUSSIANS SEIZING
SIBERIAN PRIESTS
IN CHURCH DRIVE
] --
Press Reopens Attack.
Many Clerics Reported
Already Condemned.
RELIGIOUS ACCUSED
OF SPY ACTIVITIES
Secret Police Chief Recounts Ger
man Plot on Life of Comintern
Head in 1936.
Br rlie Associated Press.
MOSCOW. July 3.—Russia's official
press began today a new drive against
religion, disclosing the arrest of a
number of priests and ministers in
Siberia and charging that churches
are in league with fascism and cap
italism in preparing for imperialist
wars.
The Khabarovsk. Siberia, newspaper
Pacific Star, which recently disclosed
the execution of 131 alleged plotters,
said that arrested priests and min
isters at Vladivostok already had been
"condemned "
Among those arrested, the paper
said were a Luthpran minister named
Reichvald and two priests of St.
Tikhon's Church named OrlofT and
Cheronny.
The paper charged the clerics were
spies who "actively prepared plots
against Soviet officials and party rep
resentatives."
Other Arrests Reported.
A number of members of eonere.
gations also were reported under
arrest.
The newspaper Gudok rharged In
a Thursday Issue that “'the world
clergy is trying to stretch its paws
over the Soviet. * * • It is known
that there are institutions training
preachers to be sent to Russia. Of
course, under the guise of being
preachers, they arc spies and diver*
sionists also.’’
Pravda. Communist party organ,
criticized a party committee for not
suppressing a priest who preached
it was wrong to hate Germans and
Japanese who believed in God.
The paper said priests engaged in
anti-Soviet work in Kalinin Province
recently.
Russian Secret Police Chief Leonid
Zakovsky meanwhile recounted an
elaborate plan to kill Georgi DimitrofT.
secretary general of the Communist
International, alleging that the plan
was plotted in V936 at the orders of
: Gestapo—German secret police.
| DimitrofT was to have been killed in
! Leningrad, Zakovsky said in a further
elaboration of asserted spy activity ;n
[ the Soviet Union. Zakovsky yesterday
disc laser! that more than 120 accused
spies had been arrested and more than
70 "liquidated''—‘liquidation usually
meaning execution;.
Writing in the Communist youth
| newspaper. Komsomolska.va Pravda.
Zakovsky charged also that the Cath
olic clergy in White Russia 1 carried
out an important espionage role on
behalf of Poland." and said a restau
rateur recently had been executed after
he confessed plotting to poison air
force officers, allegedly at the instruc
tion of Polish intelligence agents.
Police Chief's Story.
Of the asserted Dimitroff assassina
tion plot, the secret police chief re
lated:
A Bulgarian named PavlofT was to
have killed the Comintern head at a
supper party to which Dimitroff would
bs summoned ostensibly to report on
the international situation.
PavlofT confessed along with two
other members of the band.
"PavlofT was g professional mur
derer for the Bulgarian political po
lice," Zakovsky said. After failure of
the Reichstag trial i Dimitroff was
cleared in the German fire episode of
1933) and Dimitroffs expulsion. Fas
cisti in humiliation appealed to this
Macedonian terrorist for help.
"He was contacted in Sofia and
sent to the Soviet republics with in
structions to kill Dimitroff He met
Dimitroff in Moscow, but conditions
were not favorable. Then he w'ent to
Lenigrad. where he laid the plot to
assassinate Dimitroff and others of
the party in his apartment, after
1 which he was to escape abroad
through a visa provided by one of th*
foreign consulates.”
Zakovsky in his reference to Cath
olic clergy alleged that some had used
confessionals in order to enlist
| counter-revolutionaries on behalf of
Poland.
All these priests were arrested. Za
kovsky wrote, and he mentioned
"liquidation" of one such group of
10. They had organized to disrupt
traffic on a key military railway in
the event of war he charged.
The restaurateur, the secret police
chief avowed, had learned many im
portant aviation secrets while fra
ternizing with officers he planned to
kill. They were patrons of his restau
rant.
ROOSEVELT AND BRIDE
HEAD FOR NEW ENGLAND
Leave in Car After Short Stop
in New York—Sail for
Europe Soon.
B> the Associated Press
NEW YORK. July 3 —With a secret
visit to New York in their honeymoon
record. Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr . and
his bride, the former Ethel du Pont,
were believed to be somewhere in New
England today.
They left for Boston yesterday aft
ernoon after a night and a day at th*
St. Regis Hotel, where employes wers
sworn to secrecy. The news of their
visit here, not disclosed until after
they had left, was the first clue to their
whereabouts since their wedding at
the Du Pont estate near Wilmington,
Del., Wednesday.
A crowd gathered to watch young
Roosevelt assist a porter in packing 12
heavy pieces of luggage into their small
car. The couple has booked passage
from Montreal July 10 for Europe.