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Increasing cloudiness tonight, followed
by showers tomorrow: not much change
In temperature; gentle, variable winds.
Temperature today—Highest, 74, at 3
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LT. COL raCH
Army Engineer Appointed
by President Will Assume
Duties September 9.
BRIG. GEN. COX CHOSEN
NATIONAL GUARD HEAD
D. C. Attorney to Fill Vacancy
Left by Stephan's Death—New
City Head Now in New York.
Lt. Col. David McCoach, jr„ of the
Army Corps of Engineers, was appoint
ed by President Roosevelt today as
Engineer Commissioner for the Dis
trict of Columbia. He succeeds Col.
Daniel I. Sultan, who in September
takes over a new assignment with the
2d Engineers at Fort Logan, Colo.
At the same time the President,
appointed Brig. Gen. Albert Lyman
Cox, U. S. A., Reserve Corps, a Wash
ington attorney, as commanding gen
eral of the District National Guard.
The assignment fills a vacancy that
has existed since the death of Maj.
Gen. Anton Stephan on April 10, 1934.
Since that time. Col. John W. Oeh
mann, commanding officer of the 121st
Engineers, has handled the additional
duties of head of the District Guard.
Lt. Col. McCoach, who is 51, will
take over his new duties on September
9, the White House announcement
said. A native of Philadelphia, Army
records give his present home as De
troit.
Engineer for New York.
It was said at the White House that
Col. McCoach was chosen for this
assignment because of his superior rec
ord and the fact he is the senior
engineer available for the assignment.
Since 1936 he has been district en
gineer for the Army in New York and
has been in charge of rivers and
harbors work.
r-reviousiy ne was assistant to the
Division Engineer of the Army on
the Lower Mississippi River and as
sistant to the president of the Lower
Mississippi Commisson, with head
quarters at Vicksburg, Miss.
Col. McCoach graduated from West
Point Military Academy in 1910. hav
ing been a plebe when Col. Sultan
was a member of the.first class. He
has had various assignments in engi
neer work, Including two assignments
here, one of which was In 1918-19
when he engaged in student work at
Washington Barracks.
On two different occasions he has
been detailed to engineer work at the
Panama Canal and from 1928 to 1932
he served as District engineer for the
Army at Detroit.
Col. Sultan today described his suc
cessor as an excellent engineer and a
very fitting appointment.
Was on General Staff.
Col. McCoach is a graduate of the
Army Engineering School, the School :
of the Line, the General Staff School1
and the Army War College. He is
on the General Staff Corps eligible
list and was a member of the Gen
eral Staff from August, 1917, to Au
gust, 1921.
Gen. Cox, who is 54, has made na
tional defense a lifelong avocation.
One of the oldest brigadiers in point of
service In the Army Officers’ Reserve
Corps, he received his first commission
for this rank in 1932.
A lawyer, with offices in the Shore- i
ham Building, Gen. Cox said today1
the new post will have no effect on his |
law practice or other interests here.
As commander of the District j
branch of the Military Order of the
World War. he joined President Roose-;
velt and other military and civil au- i
thorities in renewing the recent Army
Day parade, sponsored by the order.
Was Football Star.
Gen. Cox, one-time all-Southern
end on the University of North Caro
lina' football team, came to Washing
ton five years ago from Raleigh, N. C.,
where he was born and had practiced
law for many years. He has held the
commission as brigadier general, as
signed to command of the 155th Field
Artillery Brigade of the 80th Division.
Gen. Cox was born December 1,
1883, the son of William Ruffin Cox.
He was graduated from the State
University with an M.A. degree in
1904. The late Dan McGugin, famous
Vanderbilt University football coach
some years ago, picked Gen. Cox as an
all-time all-Southern end.
In 1907 the general was graduated
from Harvard Law School and was ad
mitted to the North Carolina bar.
He became a judge on the State Su
perior Court bench and also served
in the North Carolina General As
sembly.
serve® overseas.
His military career began with the
. North Carolina National Guard. Dur
ing the Mexican border trouble of 1916
he commanded a company of infantry
stationed at El Paso, Tex. When the
United States declared war on Ger
many, Gen. Cox resigned his Judgeship
and accepted command of a regiment
of field artillery which he trained and
commanded overseas.
Advancing rapidly, be became col
onel In command of the 113th Reg
iment in the 55th Field Artillery Bri
gade and on several occasions was in
command of the brigade on the bat
tlefields of France. He was awarded
the Distinguished Service Medal for
World War service.
To his new command he brings a
wide experience in National Guard
and Reserve Officer affairs, as well as
attendance at the Army War College
and the Army Industrial College.
His inital objective will be a new
armory to replace the present anti
quated structure at Sixth street and
Pennsylvania avenue N.W.
Gen. Cox and his wife, the former
Miss Arabel Parker Nash of Tarboro,
N. C., have five children. They are
U. (J. G.) William R. Cox, U. S. N.;
Albert L. Cox, Jr., of Washington,
now with Congressional Intelligence;
Mrs. Murray Borden, wife of the
cashier of the Post; Miss Annie
Cheshire Cox, who lives with her
parents, and ; third daughter. Mbs
Frances Augusta Cox, student at St.
Margaret’s School, Tappahannocx, va.
i
Appointed
BRIG. GEN. ALBERT L. COX.
Communique Says Chinese
Fleeing Rail Center in
Wild Disorder.
BACKGROUND—
Attempts to sever the Lunghai
Railway, "China’s lifeline’’ east and
west, brought the Japanese arms
their first crushing setback several
months ago. The Japanese imme
diately concentrated heavy forces
in the area and renewed their drive
to dominate the railway line with
savage intensity.
By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, May 17.—Japanese ar
tillery has begun bombardment of
Suchow, the Central China Railway
junction that has been the objective
of five months of bloody fighting, a
Japanese communique said tonight.
Big Japanese guns, brought up by
a column approaching from the south
west, began pounding Suchow's de
fenses from the Fengchwang Moun
tains, a few miles away.
Two other Japanese columns were
reported within firing distance of
Suchow, nerve center of China’s des
perate defense of the Lunghai Railway
corridor running east-west through
Central China.
The Japanese said Chinese, soldiers
as well as civilians, were in wild re
treat to the southeast, the only avenue
remaining for escape from the nearly
encircled city.
■ Japanese declared that throughout
the Suchow area their airplanes, tanks
and guns were battering the Chinese
into “a state of pitiful confusion.”
Chinese Deny Reports.
Chinese reports, however, firmly de
nied Japanese accounts of victory.
Foreign military experts expressed be
lief that the thinness of the encircling
Japanese lines west and southwest of
Suchow gave most of the Chinese
forces a chance to escape.
The Japanese also reported 60,000
Chinese were in full retreat from
Suhsien, which had been the main
resistance center on the Tientsin
Pukow Railway south of Suchow. A
force of 10,000 Chinese was reported
“crushed” by low raiding Japanese
warplanes while fleeing eastward from
Suhsien.
The Japanese communique said ar
tillery began bombarding Suchow's
west wall in midaftemoon and that
by nightfall terrific damage already
was apparent. Casualties among
heavy troop concentrations inside the
city are believed heavy.
Japanese infantry was said to be
moving up steadily, prepared to at
tack as soon as the guns made a
breach in the walls.
Japanese reported that four of the
Chinese Central Army’s best divisions
retreated westward from the Suchow
area before the Lunghai Railway was
cut, thus escaping the rapidly con
tracting Japanese net.
70 Warships Off Coast.
Chinese military messages. from
Hankow said 70 Japanese warships
were concentrated off Fukien and
Kwangtung Provinces, indicating fur
ther attacks on the South China coast
were planned similar to recent attacks
at Amoy and Foochow. Twenty Jap
anese ships were reported off Canton.
A Japanese spokesman said the 240,
000 Chinese seeking to stave off the
fall of their Central China military
base must now "surrender or perish.’’
Meanwhile, 200 Japanese warplanes
rained bombs on Chinese positions
throughout the battle area.
Two squadrons dropped more than
400 bombs on villages east of Suchow,
while others bombed the Lunghai rail
way zone in relays and strafed Chinese
troops wherever they were sighted.
Outside the inner circle of steel,
other Japanese columns closed in on
the Lunghai from its eastern terminus
all the way to Kwelteh, 90 miles west
of Suchow.
Cavalry Is Advancing.
At the eastern end of the front, a
cavalry detachment was advancing
northward up the Yen River toward
Haichow. At the western end, another
column was within striking* distance
of Chengwu, threatening Kweiteh, 37
miles to the south.
Dispatches from Tsingtao said 5,000
fresh Japanese troops had arrived
there within the past two weeks to
reinforce the 200,000 Japanese already
fighting on the Lunghai front.
One military train a day was run
ning from Tsingtao to Tsinan, Shan
tung Province capital, while fleets of
trucks were distributing the fresh
troops elsewhere.
Some of the wounded Japanese being
returned to Tsingtao reported cas
ualties in the front lines were ex
tremely heavy, running as high as
50 per cent in some instances.
Widely separated Japanese attacks
outside the Lunghai front:
Japanese warships shelled Chinese
positions at Kiuhslen, 30 miles up the
Yangtze River from Wuhu.
Under cover of an artillery and
aerial bombardment, a Japanese de
tachment unsuccessfully attempted to
cross the Chientang River near Hang
chow, Chekiang Province capital.
Japanese marines attempted a land
ing at Chungshan, the birthplace of
the late President Sun Yet-Sen, In the
Canton sector, but were driven off.
1 3k
AUTO FINANCING
INQUIRY BY JURY
PLANNEB BY U. S.
Justice Department to Ask
New Probe in ‘Very
Near Future.’
FAILURE TO REVISE
PRACTICES CHARGED
Firms Involved Are Ford, General
Motors and Chrysler and
Their Affiliates.
B» the Associated Press.
The Justice Department, a spokes
man said today, will propose “in the
very near future” a second grand jury
investigation of the Nation's three
largest automobile manufacturers and
their associated finance companies.
The department spokesman said the
manufacturers and associated firms
had failed to revise certain trade
practices to the satisfaction of Attor
ney General Cummings. The matter
is to be presented to a Federal grand
jury at South Bend, Ind., he said.
Three Firms Involved.
The companies involved are the Ford
Motor Co., Commercial Investment
Trust and its subsidiary, Universal
Credit Co., both affiliated with the
Ford company; General Motors Corp.
and its subsidiary, General Motors Ac
ceptance Co., and the Chrysler Corp.
and the Commercial Credit Co.
A previous Justice Department at
tempt to obtain indictments at Mil
waukee was stalemated last December
, 17 when Federal Judge F. A. Geiger
dismissed the grand jury on grounds
that the department had shown “im
propriety” in discussing a consent de
cree with the auto companies’ counsel
while the grand jury still was in
session.
lonsem uevree rroiiosais.
The department official said repre
sentatives of the automobile com
panies and their affiliates had made
numerous consent decree proposals
since the Milwaukee incident, but that
none had proved acceptable to the
Government.
At the first grand jury hearing Rus
sell Hardy, a special assistant to Mr.
Cummings, charged that the automo
bile firms and their respective asso
ciated finance companies had violated
the anti-trust laws by "coercing” auto
mobile dealers into requiring that cus
tomers’ purchases be financed through
the manufacturer-controlled finance
firms.
YOUTHFULSUSPECTS
STOPPED BY BULLET
Three Boys, Surprised at Back
of Store, Surrender to
Pursuing Officer.
Three housebreaking suspects sur
rendered with alacrity last night when
a policeman’s .bullet nicked the heel
of one of their number.
Four second precinct officers re
sponded to a call that some one was
trying to break into a Sanitary Grocery
at 1018 North Capitol street.
They found three colored youths,
they said, prying the bars of a rear
window and called to them to stand.
When the youths ran instead the offi
cers reported Policeman F. M. White
fired one shot.
It clipped the heel of Ernest Barnes,
14, of 1412 Tenth street N.W., causing
him to pull up short. His companions,
George Plunkett, 17, of 1228 Fifth
street N.W. and Harrison Butler, 16,
of 1132 Sixth street N.W., sat down
and waited for the officers to catch
up with them.
Police said they found a baseball
bat, a pick handle, a file and a pair
of tinner’s snippers by the store. The
wounded youth was treated at Gal
linger Hospital.
BRITISH PROTEST
Mistreatment of Naturalist by
Japanese Brings Strong Note.
SHANGHAI, May 17 UP).—British
authorities today delivered a "strong
written protest” to Japanese officials
against alleged mistreatment of E. S.
Wilkinson, British naturalist, who was
arrested last Friday while on a "bird
chase” through Japanese-occupied
Hongkew.
The British charged Wilkinson was
struck, kicked in the shins and stabbed. >
They delivered an oral protest to the
Japanese Saturday. _
I WONDER IF \
HE WAS TRYING
To SELL ME DOWN
the River.? 7
7---- 7s;
OPEN TOMORROW
Backers of D. C. Suffrage
Will Go Before House
Judiciary Group.
Plans were being completed today
for the opening tomorrow morning of
hearings by the House Judiciary Com
mittee on the two pending joint
resolutions to grant suffrage to the
District of Columbia by constitutional
amendment.
Arrangements for the schedule of
appearances were worked out late
yesterday at a meeting of the Execu
tive Committee of the Citizens’ Joint
Committee on National Representa
tion in the offices of the Board of
Trade.
The opening statement will be made
when the hearings begin at 10 a m.
tomorrow by Theodore W. Noyes, edi
tor of The Star and chairman of the
Citizens' Joint Committee, or by Dis
trict Commissioner George E. Allen,
chairman of the Subcommittee on
Congressional Hearings, or both.
Principal arguments for the joint
comrplttee will be presented by Paul
E. Lesh and Jesse C. Suter, vice chair
men of the joint committee. Women's
organizations will take a prominent
part in the hearings, and many civic
bodies will send representatives to the
session.
Supporting Both Resolutions.
The Citizens' Joint Committee Is
supporting both the Capper-Norton
and the Lewis-Randolph joint resolu
tions to provide suffrage to the District
by constitutional amendment.
The cause of local suffrage will be
presented at the hearings by the Citi
zens’ Conference on Suffrage for the
District of Columbia. Wilbur S.
Pinch, chairman of the conference,
who participated in the meeting as a
member of the Executive Committee
yesterday afternoon, will open the
argument for local suffrage Thursday
morning. He will support the Joint
committee's plea for national repre
sentation, but will concentrate his
argument principally on local suffrage
as provided in Section 1 of the Lewis
Randolph resolution.
Results of the recent referendum in
which Washington voted overwhelm
ingly for both national and local suf
frage will be laid before the Judiciary
Committee by William H. Mondell,
chairman of the Elections Committee.
Meanwhile, Mr. Noyes carried the
issue of voteless Washingtonians direct
to the American people last night. In
an address over the National Radio
Forum he appealed to his hearers to
communicate with their Senators and
Representatives to support political
equity for the District of Columbia.
He was heard here over Station WMAL
and throughout the country over a
Nation-wide network of the National
Broadcasting Co.
The full text of Mr. Noyes’ address
appears in The Star today on page A-6.
The voteless plight of the National
Capital community was outlined by
Mr. Noyes as he appealed for fair play
for the un-Americanized Americans of
the District of Columbia. He charged
(See SUFFRAGE, Page A-3.)
Summary of Today's Star
Page. Page.
Amusements C-10 Radio .-B-13
Comics _C-S-9 Short Story..B-2
Editorials ...A-10 Society -B-3
Finance _A-15 Sports-C-l-4
Lost & Found C-S Woman’s
Obituary ....A-12 Page -B-12
NATIONAL.
Roosevelt asks $73,886,899 additional
appropriations. Pa?e A-2
Mooney witness’ testimony impugned
before House group. Page A-3
Supreme Court ruling diverts Wagner
Act changes. Page A-7
FOREIGN.
Three Japanese columns tighten grip
on Suchow. Page A-l
Brazilian newspaper links revolt to
German Nazis. Page A-4
WASHINGTON AND VICINITT.
Sam Beard cites wire-tapping decision
in seeking release. Page A-l
Taylor brought back to Harlan for
trial. Page A-3
Suspect in D. C. hold-up is arrested in
West Virginia. Page A-5
Contract awarded for new houses in
Blands Court. Page B-l
First hearing on beauty shop mini
mum wages held. Page B-l
SPORTS.
Chase’s failure on slab, Bonura’s at
bat, blow to Nats. Page C-l
•m
American League's Eastern clubs seek
pennant in West. Page C-l
Critic rates War Admiral cinch to beat
Seabiscuit. Page C-2
Kerr sees Dartmouth, Cornell as
East’s gridiron leaders. Page C-2
Harmon, headed for stardom, booms
Michigan grid stock. Page C-3
FINANCIAL.
Corporate bonds‘ease (table).
Page A-15
Reich plans steel expansion. Page A-15
Stocks irregular (table). PageA-16
Curb shares narrow (table). Page A-17
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-10
This and That. PageA-16
Stars, Men and Atoms. PageA-16
Political Mill. PageA-16
Answers to Questions. PageA-16
The Capital Parade. PageA-11
David Lawrence. PageA-11
Mark Sullivan. PageA-11
Jay Franklin. Page A-ll
Delia Pynchon. Page A-ll
MISCEUiANY.
Nature’s Children. Page B-7
City News in Brief. Page B-8
Vital Statistics. Page B-16
Shipping News. PageB-13
Cross-word Puzzle. Page C-8
Bedtime Story. ' Page C-8
Letter-Out. Page C-8
Contract Bridge. Page C-9
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FATHER OF 2 MISSING;
COAT FOUND ON BRIDGE
Note Stating He ‘Couldn't Make
Go of It’ Discovered After
Thomas C. Hill, 29, Vanishes.
Belief that Thomas C. Hill, 29, of
1201 Sixth street N.E., might have
ended his life was expressed by police
follow'ing the discovery of the man’s
coat this morning on Highway Bridge.
A note in the pocket, police said,
stated he "couldn’t make a go of it.”
Mr. Hill is the father of two young
boys and is employed at the Union
Market. His wife, Mrs. Ruth Hill,
said he did not come home last night,
but that he had disappeared in a
similar manner once before.
redfern’sIrave
REPORTED FOUND
Waldeck Expedition Guide Sayi
Indian Swears He Saw Plane
Crash and Burn.
I>r the Associated Press.
GEORGETOWN, British Guiana,
May 17.—A guide told today of seeing
wreckage of Paul Redfem’s plane, with
the lost aviator’s grave beside it, “six
days’ travel” beyond the British
Guiana border, near where the Cuyuni
River flows into Venezuela.
Alexander Gilbert, who guided the
recent expedition of Theodore J. Wal
deck, New York explorer, into the
Guiana wilds, said the expedition
learned of Mr. Redfern’s death from
an Indian.
The Indian, according to Mr. Gil
bert, swore he and other natives in a
Savannah village saw the Redfern
plane crash and burn, killing the
American flyer.
(Mr. Redfern disappeared in August,
1927, in an attempt to fly non-stop
from Brunswick. Ga.. to Brazil.)
Mr. Gilbert described the Waldeck
expedition's trip up the Cuyuni as "one
of the worst in my experience."
Upon his return to Georgetown re
cently after a four-month search for
Information about Mr. Redfern, Mr.
Waldeck reported finding the place
where the plane crashed and “definite
proof that the gallant airman is dead.”
LONDON SUBWAY CRASH
KILLS 7, HURTS SCORE
Several Buried in Wreckage,
Sparks Cause Fire—Fear
Panic and More Injury.
Bt the Associated Press.
LONDON. May 17.—At least seven
persons were killed and scores were
injured today in a rear-end crash be
tween two crowded subway trains and
a wild panic in the underground tun
nel under Victoria Embankment.
The wreck was the worst in the
history of London's subway, the "un
derground.”
Some of the victims were trapped
for hours in the wreckage after an
eastbound train smashed into the rear
of another between the busy Temple
and Charing Cross Stations.
FORMER ACTOR DEAD
HOLLYWOOD, May 17 (£■).—Virgil
Jack Dougherty, 43, former film actor,
was found dead of carbon monoxide
fumes in a parked automobile in the
nearby Hollywood hills last night.
Mr. Dougherty was the husband of
the late Barbara La Marr, star of the
silent screen.
Samuel L. Stewart, who found the
body, told officers the engine was run
ning and a piece of garden hose led
from the exhaust pipe into the car.
S. E. C. HEAD RENAMED
George C. Mathews Nominated
for Another Term.
George C. Mathews of Wisconsin
was nominated by President Roosevelt
today for another term as a member
of the Securities and Exchange Com
mission.
•
Officer's Slayers Escape.
COLUMBIA, S. C., May 17.—Police
Sergt. D. O. Spires announced early
today that three of the convicted slay
ers of Capt. Olin Saunders of the State
Penitentiary guard had escaped from
the Richland County Jail during the
night
The trio were convicted, along with
three others being held at the peniten
tiary here, of the murder of Capt
Saunders in a sensational escape at
tempt at the State prison last Decem
ber 10.
Transport With Nine Aboard
Believed to Have Crashed
in Mint Canyon.
(Picture on Page A-2.)
By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, May 17 —Mercy
planes mobilized in a giant aerial
search today for a new $80,000 Lock
heed transport, feared crashed with
nine persons on a fog-shrouded peak
of the Sierra Madre Range near Los
Angeles.
The transport, flying to St. Paid for
delivery to Northwest Airlines, took off
from Union Air Terminal at 1:40 p.m.
(4:40 p.m., E. S. T.) yesterday and
was last heard from a few minutes
later above nigged Mint Canyon.
Aboard were:
Sidney Willey, Lockheed test pilot
in charge of the flight.
Fred Whittemore, St. Paul, North
west Airlines vice president and co
pilot.
Herny Salisbury, St. Paul, Northwest
Airlines official, his wife and two
children.
Mrs. Carl B. Squier, 34, wife of Lock
heed's sales manager.
Llola Totty, 24, Glendale, Calif.,
Lockheed stenographer.
Evelyn Dingle, Northwest Airlines
employe.
Ground Party Sets Out.
A ground party of C. C. C. enrollees
and forest rangers set out at dawn
and two National Guard planes sought
to penetrate the mist that blanketed
the rugged range over which the plane
was last reported.
The rest of a squadron of searching
planes massed at the Union Air Ter
minal waited for the fog to lift.
"We are standing by. Just waiting
for a break in the weather,” said Capt.
Claude Morgan of the Los Angeles
County sheriff’s aero squadron. "We
are convinced the plane is down within
a radius of 5Q miles from Burbank.”
Jess Sevier, a ranger located 6 miles
southwest of Mount Gleason, said his
station, at an altitude of 4,650 feet,
was blanketed in fog so dense he could
see no more than a few yards.
Over Mint Canyon the clouds
dropped down to 2,000 feet.
Nearly two dozen planes were mob
ilized by the sheriff’s aero squadron
and commercial airlines promised ad
ditional aid for an intensive hunt.
Weather reports of ceilings as low as
2,000 feet in the mountain area min
imized hopes for early discovery of the
missing ship.
Capt. Morgan, President Robert E.
Gross of Lockheed and Joseph Mar
riott, Bureau of Air Commerce In
spector, organized the search.
No Hint of Disaster.
No word came from the transport’s
two-way radio system after the take
off yesterday. Pilot Willey had com
pared schedules with Pilot L. D. Carl
son of Western Air Express, who left
a few moments later on a regular
flight, but Pilot Carlton said he had
no radio contact with the other craft
after they were in the air.
Forest rangers atop Mount Gleason
heard the strong drone of a plane’s
motors passing above the clouds at
an estimated altitude of 9,000 feet.
That was practically pn the plane’s
projected course. Pilot Willey was
understood to have planned to keep
visual contact with the earth until
he reached Daggett in the Mojave
Desert, then fly on the controlled radio
beam to Las Vegas, Nev., his first stop.
With 500 gallons of fuel, the twin
engined transport could have kept
aloft for about 7 >4 hours at a cruis
ing speed of 230 miles an hour.
A Lockheed "14,” it was a sister
ship to that in which five Polish air
men are engaged in a leisurely 16,500
mile flight to Warsaw.
Last January 10 a Northwest Air
lines Lockheed crashed in the Bridger
Mountains in Montana, killing 10 per
sons.
Pilot Willey’s route over the Sierra
Madre Range was a "short cut,” com
mercial lines skirt the edge of the
range, flying northwest to Saugus,
then turning East up Mint Canyon.
They use the radio beam the entire
distance.
Quickly changing weather condi
tions—broken cloud banks which
Joined into a solid blanket—were be
lieved to,have trapped the high-speed
transport'. The flight was not a sched
uled commercial trip.
Lockheed officials said the plane
would not have proceeded beyond Las
Vegas, where It was to be delivered to
the air line.
HEAVY VOTING
CAPS KEYSTONE
PRIMARY FIGHT
Philadelphia Chairman Asserts
Farley’s Harmony Proposal
Is Without Effect.
‘DOUBLE CROSSING’ IS CHARGED
IN MOVE BY DEMOCRATIC CHIEF
Indorsement of C. I. O.-Backed Kennedy
Is Termed ‘Brazen Perversion’
by Chairman Hamilton.
S» the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May 17.—Heavy balloting developed today as
Pennsylvanians voted in a primary that capped bitter battles for
party control and marked a major political test of power for John L.
Lewis and his C. I. O.
In Philadelphia, where nearly 900,000 of the more than 4,000,000
Pennsylvanians eligible to vote reside, some charges of fraud were
heard. Elsewhere verbal squabbles were reported in scattered pre
cincts. Balmy weather throughout the State speeded voting.
Polls were opened from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., Eastern standard time.
Philadelphia election officers in some precincts temporarily
refused the right to vote to scores who had recently moved, because
registry transfer cards had not been received.
Rpublican leaders attributed their heavy party voting to the
fight between Judge Arthur H. James and former Gov. Gifford
Pinchot for the gubernatorial nomination.
Farley Plea Held Ineffective.
John B. Kelly, Philadelphia Democratic chairman, said Na
tional Chairman James A. Farley’s indorsement of two candidates
“isn’t having any effect in Philadelphia.”
Mr. Farley indorsed C. I. O.-backed Thomas Kennedy for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomination and Gov. George H. Earle,
the State Committee candidate, for the United States Senate.
The fusion plan would mean the*
sacrifice of one major <$ndidate by
each of the opposing factions. These
candidates are Philadelphia's Mayor S.
Davis Wilson, running against Gov.
Earle for the Senate nomination, and
Charles Alvin Jones, opposing Mr.
Kennedy for the gubernatorial nomi
nation.
Mr. Wilson, on one side, cried
"double-cross.'’ Gov. Earle, on the
other, coupled his rejection of the plea
with the assertion: "I am certain—
Mr. Farley to the contrary—that the
Democrats of Pennsylvania will not
turn their party over to John L. Lewis
in the form of Thomas Kennedy.”
Philip Murray, C. I. O. lieutenant,
told a mass meeting that President
Roosevelt ‘‘announced his indorsement
of Thomas Kennedy for Governor
through our national chairman. Jim
Farley. I have known for four weeks
that President Roosevelt was for Tom
Kennedy.”
Senator Joseph Guffey, supporting
the Kennedy-Wilson slate, was silent.
An official Kennedy campaign spokes
man remarked, "plenty of reaction,
but no comment.”
Hamilton Brands Move Perversion.
John M. Hamilton, chairman of the
Republican National Committee, de
scribed the Farley move as "a brazen
perversion of Democratic processes.
... So anxious is the New Deal to
dominate everything that it cannot
even keep its hands off primary con
tests.”
Charles J. Margiottl, running inde
pendently for the Democratic nomina
tion for Governor, concluded a spec
tacular chargemaking campaign with
a plea to "repudiate all bosses.” Mr.
Margiotti was Gov. Earle’s attorney
general until he charged that two of
his cabinet fellows "sold" legislation
to brewing interests.
More than 2,000,000 were eligible
to vote in the Democrataic primary
and as many more were qualified to
vote for Republicans.
In addition to the United States
Senate and gubernatorial posts, nomi
nations were at stake in both parties
for Lieutenant Governor, secretary of
internal affairs, 34 Congress vacan
cies, 25 State Senators and the full
membership of the State House of
Representatives.
Factionalism put Republican ranks
Sam Beard Seeks
Release on Basis
Of Court Ruling
Contending he was convicted of
violating the gambling laws on wire
tapping evidence subsequently de
clared illegal by the Supreme Court,
Sam R. Beard, former czar of Wash
ington’s gambling fraternity, today
sought his release from Atlanta
Penitentiary.
Beard, according to the Associated
Press, filed a itftition for a writ of
habeas corpus in the Federal Court at
Atlanta, and Judge E. Marvin Under
wood ordered a hearing June 3.
Beard and 12 associates were con;
victed in May, 1935. He was sentenced
to serve from two to six years in
prison, and entered the penitentiary
in April, 1936.
The arrest of Beard and his asso
ciates followed a raid on an elaborate
gambling establishment on the fifth
floor of the Mather Building. Warrants
for the raid were based, in part, on
information investigators obtained by
tapping telephone wires leading into
the establishment.
After they had been convicted, the
Supreme Court, in another case, de
cided the Federal Communications Act
forbade the tapping of interstate tele
phone wires and ruled that evidence
so obtained could not be used in court.
This ruling was interpreted by Jus
tice Joseph W. Cox of District Court
to apply to telephone lines in the Dis
trict of Columbia, and the Govern
ment consequently dropped wire
tapping gambling cases against several
men, Including Abe Plisco, alias "Jew
boy” Dietz, who allegedly took over
some of the business that had been
conducted by Beard.
Cl
Gov. Earle casts his ballot
at Haverford.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
! asunder, too, but campaigns wera
somewhat less spectacular.
Even the Republicans injected Mr.
Lewis into the campaign. Mr. James,
backed by old-line organization lead
ers, contended Mr. Lewis had his feet
in two camps, Mr. Pinehot’s and Mr.
Kennedy’s.
Senator James J. Davis, seeking
renomination, was opposed by O.
Mason Owlett, Republican national
committeeman.
WAGE CUTS PERIL
LOANS TO CARRIERS
Wagner Says Banking Committee
Will Consider Question Before
Votes on B. F. C. Bill.
By the Associated Press.
Chairman Wagner, Democrat, of
New York, said today the Senate
Banking Committee undoubtedly would
consider the railroads’ demands for
pay cuts for their employes before it
votes on a bill to extend R. P. C.
equipment loans to the roads.
Senator Wagner called a meeting
of the committee for tomorrow to
study the contention of some rail ex
ecutives that the bill would give the
Government unfair advantage over
other oreditors in bankruptcy pro
ceedings.
Senator La Follette, Progressive, of
Wisconsin, told the Senate yesterday
he would oppose the R. F. C. legisla
tion if the roads did not recant in
their efforts to force 15 per cent pay
cuts.
How Will
Pennsylvania
Vote?
Tune in on Station WMAL, The
Star's station, this evening at
8:30 o’clock for returns on Penn*
sylvania's hcjt primary fight.
G. Gould Lincoln, The Star’s
political editor and commentator,
will interpret returns from The
Star Office as they are received
by the Associated Press.
Tone in art 8:30 on WMAL
and got tha ratnrna throughout
tha avaning.
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