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Both O’Mahoney and Borah
Deny Witch Hunt Is Aim
of Inquiry.
background—
Business monopolies have been
among principal targets of New
Dealers, who contend concentration
of means of production and distri
bution in hands of a few persons
has contributed materially to slump
in business conditions. Department
of Justice already has instituted
proceedings against Aluminum Co.
of America and automobile finance
concerns.
By the Associated Press.
Senators O'Mahoney, Democrat, t>f
Wyoming, and Borah. Republican, of
Idaho, declared today that business
has nothing to fear from the Federal
investigation of monopolistic practices.
They took issue with a statement of
Representative Snell, Republican, of
New York, that he was concerned lest
the inquiry be “made an instrument
for further unjustified attacks on
legitimate business.”
“My belief is,” said Senator O'Ma
honey, “that this can be a co-opera
tive, objective study of inestimable
value to business. I have seen noth
ing to indicate any intent except to
find a solution of a difficult ecenomic
problem.
"This is a task for men of intelli
gence, tolerance and good will in busi
ness and government.”
“Witch Hunt” Feared.
Senator O’Mahoney will be chair- |
man of the 12-man committee, and
Senator Borah is one'of the members.
Mr. Snell had said that If the in
vestigation were turned into “another
witch hunt against business" It would
be a “further deterrent to business
confidence and recovery.”
Senator Borah declared, on the
other hand:
“I venture the belief that the com
mittee Is not proposing any witch
hunting program. We have a great
problem and It is our business to dot
what we can to advance a wise and
just solution for It.
“I do not believe that legitimate
business will have the slightest reason
to be disturbed."
Offers of Co-operation.
Senator'Borah said he already was
receiving offers of co-operation from
business men. some of them represent
ing large Interests.
He said he would suggest to the
committee, which will meet later this
week, that it spend most of the sum
mer In studying the problem raised
by the President’s recommendation
for strengthening the anti-trust laws.
Hearings could oe held this fall, he
said, and a report prepared for the
opening of Congress in January.
Senator O’Mahoney said this pro
cedure might be followed, but added
the decision would be left to the com
mittee. composed of three Senators,
three House members and one repre
sentative each from the Departments
of Justice, Commerce, Labor, Treasury,
the Federal Trade Commission and the
Securities Commission.
Largest or Funds.
The monopoly inquiry, for which
$500,000 was appropriated, will be the
largest of several authorized at the
1938 session of CongTess. Together
they will cost more than $850,000.
The congreslsonal investigation of
the Tennessee Valley Authority, a
backfire from an internecine struggle
among the power “yardstick's” three
directors, already has begun. Congress
provided $50,000 for it, but the com
mittee’s request for tripling the amount
was lost In the adjournment rush. On
July 11 the inquiry will move down
into the Tennessee Valley, where the
Government has Invested millions of
dollars.
A Senate committee, armed with
$80,000, will police all senatorial
election campaigns. It was ordered
to watch especially for any evidence
of the use of Federal or State funds
to aid candidates.
Survey of Phosphates.
A congressional inquiry asked by
President Roosevelt—a survey of
phosphate resources—got off to a
quick start Saturday by taking tes
timony from Secretary Wallace and
Government experts. The group has
$10,000 to spend and will shift hear
ings to Idaho in mid-July.
As in other years, the Senate has 1
more separate investigations under
way than has the House.
An inquiry into profit-sharing sys
tem* asked by Senator Vandenberg,
Republican of Michigan, and led by
Senator Herring, Democrat of Iowa,
received *30,000. Informed persons
said hearings probably would be held
In Chicago.
The Senate Civil Liberties Commit
tee, which has spent *90,000 in two
year* of Investigations, expects to
resume public hearings early next
month with *60,000 additional funds.
Chairman La Follette, Progressive
of Wisoonsin, said the committee
would inquire into employers’ asso
ciations.
Inquiry on Taxes.
A Senate Inquiry into Federal
civil service is being led by Senator
El lender. Democrat, of Louisiana, with
ttie comparatively modest sum of
(3.600.
An inquiry which might pay big
dividends is a study of possible tax
ation of Government salaries and se
curities by 8enator Brown, Democrat,
cf Michigan. It was given $5,000.
A separate House inquiry into "un
American” activities with a $25,000
fund will require hearings in cities
throughout the Nation.
The House Campaign Expenditures
Committee was given *20,000, but
Representative Lewis, Democrat, of
Colorado said it "was not looking for
trouble.”
"We will be the policeman on the
corner,” Mr. Lewis added. "I hope to
return a large share of the *20,000
unspent.”
L C. C. Inspectors
Open Investigation
Of Train Disaster
By the Associated Press.
The Interstate Commerce Com
missiion said today two inspec
tors were investigating the wreck
of a Milwaukee railroad train
near Miles City, Mont.
The Inspectors, F. P. Engles
and A. C. Murphy, were in Mon
tana and were ordered to the
scene of the wreck a few hours
after It occurred.
W. J. Patterson, director of the
Bureau of Safety of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, said
•it would be some day* before
their report would he received.
Printers’ Ink for Victory
Elmer D. Manning (left) and Claude M. Baker celebrated
their election to International Typographical Union offices by
getting printers ink on their fingers in a newspaper plant at
Indianapolis. Manning was named f. T. U. delegate to the
A. F. of l. and Baker was elected new I. T. U. president over
C. I. O. Secretary Charles P. Howard.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Olympian .Casualty List
Rail Officials and Doctors Name Victims of Rail
Wreck After Cloudburst Floods Creek
in Montana.
Bj the Associated Press.
MILES CITY, Mont., June 20.—
The list of casualties in the train
wreck near Miles City, Mont... as
issued today by Milwaukee Railroad
officials and doctors at Holy Rosary
Hospital, Miles City:
Identified dead:
Mrs. Leroy Bailey and daughters,
Juanita, 6: Joyce, 3, Billings. Mont.
Prank Merrifleld, engineer, Miles
City, Mont.
Charles Janies, baggageman, Miles
City.
Mrs. Milton Leer, 26, Billings. Mont.
Milton C. Norborg. mail clerk, Aber
deen, S. Dak.
H. M. McCoy, fireman, Miles City.
Mrs, A. F Freliek, Lemmon. S. Dak.
Mrs- E. H. Johnson. Miles City.
Missing:
Mrs. Thomas Ladas, Bellingham,
Wash.
(Railroad officials said the following
held space in the tourist sleeper that,
could not be raised from the creek
bed last night and in which some
bodies could be seen. However, pos
sibly some of those listed either
escaped from the car or were not on it
when it sank in the stream !
Dorothy Debeer, Sioux City, Iowa,
Neil Clancy, Seattle.
Kate Clancy, Seattle.
Miss - Conway, Seattle.
Henry Schultze, Seattle.
Mrs. L. Erickson. Seattle.
Unidentified boy believed to be from
Avery, Idaho.
Two from Seattle who were uniden
tified.
P. P. Shultz, Seattle.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Range, Seattle.
Sarah Olson, 64, Seattle.
Margaret Olson, 62, Seattle.
Don Hanscom, Seattle.
Thomas Lallas, Bellingham. Wash.
The baby of Mrs. Roda E. Leer.
Omaha.
Lavonne Lou Leer, 15 months old.
Billings, Mont.
The seriously injured:
Mrs. R. C. Daniels, 50, 911 Missouri
avenue, Deer Lodge. Mont.
Mrs. M. J. Wearin, 60, Waltervllle,
Oreg.
Lucile Stumley, 24, Keldron. S. Dak.
Albert Dobbins, 42, 3642 State street,
Chicago.
Dean Hanscom, 604 Fifth avenue,
New York City.
Others in the hospital:
Joseph Martin, 35, porter, 350 East
56th street, Chicago.
Mrs. D L. Herrold, 28. and son
Jimmy. 17 months, Plankington,
S. Dak.
M. J. Wearin. 66. Walterville, Oreg.
Mrs. Ralph Olson, 24, and daugh
ter Lorraine, 15. Bowman, N. Dak.
Axel Olson, 57, 3112 Lawrence, Ta
coma, Wash.
John Lallas, 10, 1515 Hombold,
Bellingham, Wash.
Chris C. McGee, 59, conductor,
Miles City.
Mrs. Rhoda E. Leer, 52, 4764 North
Twenty-fourth street, Omaha.
Marion Wheeler, 43, 5515 Fifth
street, Seattle.
Mrs. Gus L. Tressman, 49, and
son John, 15, St. Paul, Minn.
Edward F. Richards, 45, ehef, 4416
Beacon, Chicago.
Louis Williams, 25. porter, 521 East
Forty-fourth, Chicago.
R. F. Kaskie, 44; Mrs. Kaskie. 40.
and son Miles, 10, Mitchell, S. Dak.
Frank Moran, 42, cook, 1408 North
Bell avenue, Chicago.
Ralph Yontz, 5. Harrisburg, Pa.
Leola Mohr, 12, Garden City, S.
Dak.
Mrs. Fred Mohr, 39, Garden City.
Ria Dora Ellis, 19, 806 Eighth ave
nue south. Great Falls,'Mont.
Kermit Joloster, 33, Aberdeen, 8.
Dak.
Harry Buckley, 38, waiter, 3353
Prairie avenue, Chicago.
Helen Gehrig, 30, Minneapolis.
Janies P. Reece, 50, bralceman,
Miles City.
Mike Smykowski, 45, 3041 North
Central Park, Chicago.
Mrs. Guy Hefdamsn, 31, White
Lake, S. Dak.
Evelyn Janssen. 17, Freeport, 111.
H. E. Bemadick, 50, steward, 1105
Forty-seventh .street, Milwaukee.
Edgar Peoples, 43, waiter. 4910 For*
restvllle* Chicago.
Arthur M. Jackson, 43, waiter, 5361
Federal street, Chicago.
Francis Barry, 7, 300 Joseph street,
Mobile, Ala.
Mrs. Paul Gehrig, 39, and children,
John, 14; Morrine. 7, and Barbara,
17. 4401 Park avenue, Minneapolis.
Thomas Townsend, 31, 835 Mont
gomery avenue. Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Elensle Woodson, 4616 Vincennes,
Chicago.
Paul Gehrig. 4401 Park avenue,
Minneapolis.
Leo and Barbara Gehrig, 3633 Oak
land avenue, Minneapolis.
A Mr. and Mrs. Brown and daugh
ter Shirley, 1613 Fifth street, Perry,
Iowa.
Grace Hatch. McLaughlin, Iowa.
Henry Shipley, Milas City.
Dr. T. N. Leonard, Spokane.
Mrs. Harry Hook, Valley Ford. Wash.
Harry Buckley, SM3 Prairie avenue,
Eleanors Hook. Valley Ford. Wash..
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hahn and daugh
ter Catherine, Bath, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Blackman, Hins
dale. 111.
John Fuller. Mobridge, S. Dak.
Mrs. A. O. Fuller, Mobridge. S. Dak.
Mrs. P. C. Williamson and ' sou
Walter. Wells, Minn.
George Lallas; Bellingham. Wash.
William A. Moore. Haddonfleld, N. J
Robert C. Chew, Haddonfleld, N. J.
Warren Jones, Milwaukee.
John Baxter, Washington, D. C.
R. O. Thorsdale, address unde
termined.
D. N. Kelly, Minneapolis.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Rosengren, Chi
cago. *
Edith Nelson, Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Bruisdo, address un
determined.
Elda Bolina. Chicago.
Raymond Noftsker. Baker. Mont.
Fred Mohr. Garden City, S. Dak.
Not injured:
J. A. Wright, Washington, D. C., to
Butte, Mont.
Mrs. J. R. Hilger, Wabasha to
Seattle.
Mrs. W. L. Feddem, Wabasha to
Seattle.
Mrs. Edward Grey, Chicago to
Spokane.
Michael Gwinn, Chicago to Gallatin,
Mont.
Mrs. B. Dobson, Chicago to Seattle.
Nancy Walker, Milwaukee to Spo
kane.
G. Lorraber, Chicago to Seattle,
Mrs. Iver Severson, Montevideo,
Minn., to Seattle. I
Nell Cregg, St, Paul to Butte.
J. Beraned, Lacross to Seattle. *
Jack Armpetaso, Briston to Seattle.
Helen Severson, Montevideo, Minn.,
to Seattle.
Isadore Arnstein, Chicago to Seattle.
C. S. Frank, 4950 Harriet. Minne
apolis to Seattle.
Evelyn Bartud, Minneapolis to Ta
coma.
Jack R Peters, Briston to Seattle.
John Sfahlberg, Chicago to Mis
soula, Mont.
Byron Crane. Chicago to Miasoula.
Clarence Prank, Minneapolis to
Seattle.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Glenny, Chicago
to Seattle.
Mabel Parks, Chicago to Seattle.
Mrs. Amanda H. Growgran, Chi
cago to Mayer Palls, Wash.
Warren Peabody, Ekalaka, Mont., \
to Missoula.
Carl Bonefield, Baker, Mont., to
Arlington, Wash.
L. H. Moyer, Aberdeen, S. Dak.,
to Miles City.
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Bailey, address
not given.
Jean Iorrabee. Chicago to South
Bellingham, Wash.
A Mrs. McCalliard and daughter,
Chicago to Seattle.
Estelle Drew. Detroit to Seattle.
J. R. Knight, Chicago to Seattle.
A. E. Lawler, his mother and two
daughters. Chicago to Spokane.
Mrs. Ira Severson, Montevideo,
Minn., to Seattle.
P. Woltz, Chicago.
Mrs. Mabel Boone, Tacoma, Wash.
Contract Bridge Classes.
The Community Center Department
will offer classes in contract bridge
every Tuesday during the summer, be
ginning tomorrow. They will be held
in Central High School at 8 p.m., under
the direction of Maxwell L. Johnston.
BAILEY MAY GET
COPELAND POST
North Carolinian Appears
in Line to Head Senate
Commerce Group.
By J. A. O’LEARY.
Senator Bailey, Democrat, of North
Carolina appeared today to be in line
as probable successor to Senator
Copeland, Democrat, of New York
as chairman of the Commerce Com
mittee, which handles flood control,
maritime and other important legis
lation.
Senator Sheppard of Texas has
been ranking Democratic member of
Commerce for 10 years and under
the rule of seniority he has first
choice at the vacant chairmanship.
The Texan, however, already is chair
man of the equally important Military
Affairs Committee and said today
he would prefer to remain in that
post.
He pointed out that he made the
same decision several years ago when
Senator Fletcher of Florida died and
Dr. Copeland became presiding officer
of the commerce group.
If Senator Bailey, who is next in
line, becomes chairman of commerce,
it would leave another vacancy on
the Claims Committee, over which he
now presides. On that committee, the
next two Democratic members are
Senators Logan of Kentucky, who al
ready has chairmanship of mines and
mining, and Burke of Nebraska, who
has no chairmanship.
senator Bailey, like the late Senator
Copeland, has been a frequent critic
of New Deal policies.
The death of Senator Copeland also
leaves vacant the chairmanship of
the Appropriations Subcommittee in
charge of War Department money
bills. The other Democrats on that
subcommittee are Senators Hayden of
Arizona, Thomas of Oklahoma, Over
ton of Louisiana, Russell of Georgia,
McAdoo of California. Truman of
Missouri and Dully of Wisconsin.
Senator Hayden now handles tne In
terior Department's supply bills. Sen
ator Thomas is in charge of District
appropriations and Senator Russell is
chairman of the Agricultural Appro
priations Subcommittee. If these Sen
ators keep their present subcommit
tees, Senator Overton would be next
in line for the War Department Sub
committee.
None of these committee changes,
however, will be settled until near the
time for Congress to reconvene.
Bailey Hite Reprisal*.
Ft the Associated Press.
WATERVILLE, Me., June 20.—Sen
ator Josiah W. Bailey, North Carolina
Democrat, today declared the policies
of the present Democratic administra
tion savor more of national socialism
under a sole leader than of a demo
cratic republic.”
In a commencement address at
Colby College, Senator Bailey reviewed
what he described as “the evidence of
the undermining of our republic by
attack upon the democratic process
by which it lives,” and called on the
graduates to embrace “the opportunity
of an epoch in history."
Senator Bailey opened his critical
barrage with a denunciation of the
court, reorganization proposal, which
he described a* a blow “against that
process of democracy most essential to
its existence—the constitutional check
on executive and legislative power.”
“I am appalled,” he added, “when I
consider what labor add struggle was
required to repel an attack that in any
other period would have at once dis
graced those who made it.”
• Nevertheless, we are frankly made
aware not only that members of the
Congress who resisted executive at
tack upon the independence of the
judiciary will be the victims of active
administrative opposition,” he went
on. “but also that efforts are being
made to prevent the return to Con
gress of sitting members who have
voted against one or more executive
bills.
“The whole influence of administra
tion—with patronage, favor and im
mense lump-sum appropriations, with
all the prestige of great offices, will
be employed against them, and to
elect successors who will yield to a
President's undisclosed demands.
“The consequence here is to merge
the legislative power with the execu
tive, to give the latter the lawmaking,
the taxing and the spending power—
in a word to extinguiah the Congress,
substitute mass democracy with one
man as leader and spokesman, for our
process of local and direct representa
tion by districts and States in law
making, taxing and spending. * * •
“A subservient Congress means a
dependent court, and the two together
mean government by presidential de
cree and without restraint.”
Amendment Plan Revival.
P» thi Aaaoclited Prill.
Senator Norris, Independent, Ne
braska, undaunted by failure at this
session, will bring back to Congress
next year a proposal to streamline the
method of amending the Constitution.
He would let the people vote directly
on amendments, as an alternative to
present ratification by Legislatures or
conventions.
Georgians Combine Study
and Sight-Seeing on
' 5,000-Mile Trip.
A summer session on wheels brought
54 Georgia school teachers to Wash
ington over the week end on one of the
early laps of a 5,000-mile Jaunt through
the east.
Making themselves at home im
mediately at the Washington Tourist
Camp, the kitchen brigade went to
work preparing dinner, and the teach
ers took time out to launder a few
clothes before embarking on a brief
but Intensive sightseeing tour of the
city.
Tile tour is sponsored by Piedmont
College, Demarest, Ga., which gives
the travelers college credits for the
exoedition.
The teachers prepare their own
meals (under the direction of a
dietician), wash their own clothes—in
fact, do everything possible to stay
within their budget of <1.60 a day.
Will Visit Baltimore.
The first of two buses was scheduled
to leave at noon today after the teach
ers had eaten a hearty breakfast (net
cost 9 cents) and had visited the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Taking notes on economic, social and
political conditions as they go along,
the teachers will next visit Baltimore,
Annapolis and New York, stopping in
the last named city for three days to
attend the National Education Asso
ciation Conference. Then they will go
on to Boston. Quebec, Montreal. De
troit and back through the Middle
West to Georgia.
Total cost of the five-week trip will
be <80 per person, <20 of which will go
to Piedmont College for tuition.
William Jennings Andrews of Toc
coa, Ga., is director of the first of five
buses touring various parts of the
country. His group of 27 is followed
by another busfull of teachers under
the guidance of T. F. Watson. The
other buses, each containing 27, are
going West.
“The superintendents of schools in
Georgia and the president of the col
lege decided the summer students could
learn more from a tour than from
textbooks.’’ Mr. Andrews, who is super
intendent of schools in Stephens
County and president of the Georgia
Education Association, explained.
Live on Little.
In addition to what they take In
about industrial centers, the life of
sharecroppers and the agricultural
conditions of the country, tho teachers
are learning how to live well on very
little a day.
The secretary of one busload exhib
ited her carefully annotated budget of
a day's expenses. They included tele
phone. 5 cents: matches, 5 eents;
groceries, *5.82 (several days’ supply):
can opener, 10 cents; ice. 5 cents; ice
pick. 5 cents; dish towels, 20 cents:
gasoline and oil, (6.34; lodging. (16.50,
and sales tax, 1 cent. Of course, that
was early in the tour and some of
those expenses won't be repeated.
Their dinner last night cost *2 97
for 54 people. And here's what they
ate: Potatoes snd peas, roast beef,
stewed tomatoes, coleslaw', bread,
sliced pineapples and peaches and iced
tea.
Their vehicle is the regulation school
bus equipped with radio and kitchen
kit. Laundry is frequently strung
along the top and lends a homey
touch. Two of the seven men teachers
in the crowd sleep on cots set up in
the bus.
Proposed on Spot.
The teachers, most of whom are
not much older than college students,
nearly lost one of their number some
where in North Carolina. The owmer
of a tourist camp took a fancy to her
and proposed on tne spot. He ex
plained he had been married twice,
but thought she was the girl he had
always, been looking for.
"We didn’t have room for another
person, and we didn’t want to leave
any one behind,’’ one of the girls
laughed, "so we had to break up the
romance.’’
Before they get home, the school
teachers will have full notebooks and
a raft of experiences—some of which
they will pass on to the school chil
dren of Georgia.
Airplane Lands
On Water, Using
Fabric Floats
B> the Associated Press.
BABYLON. N. Y.. June 20—An
airplane made 20 landings at the sea
plane base here yesterday supported
on the water only by floats made from
balloon fabric, In what Oept. Ashley
C. McKinley said was the first suc
cessful substitution of pneumatic
seaplane floats for those made of
metal.
Capt. McKinley, Byrd Polar flyer
who invented the new floats, said
they were entirely satisfactory in
teats by Pilot Mike Thome.' He
said they would be returned to the
Goodyear factory, in which they were
built, for changes before being sub
mitted to the Federal Bureau of Air
Commerce foe approval.
New ‘Mental Jurists’ Take Office
Seven of the nine members of the new Commission on Mental Health are shown today after
being sworn in by District Court Clerk Charles E. Stewart. Two of the members were out of
town and, will be sworn later.
Left to right: Drs. B. S. French, A. E. Marland and H. D. Shapiro; T• Gillespie Walsh, chair
man, the only attorney on the commission, and Drs. Andrew B. Evans, Loren Jdhnson and Roger
S. Cohen. a
The commission was established by Tonaress to replace the old laiOnan jury system for
judging insanity. The group will have its offices in the old Police Court^uilding and probably
Teachers Launder as They Go
A rainy Monday didn’t stop these two sisters, the Misses
Gladys ana Catherine Stewart of White Plains, Ga„ from doing
their laundry at Washington Tourist Camp today. They are
members of the expedition of Georgia school teachers which
stopped here over the week end during a 5,000-mile tour of the
country.
Held in Death
FRED L. BROWN.
Cambridge <Md.) farmer, who.
according to the State's at
torney, has confessed the
strangle slaying of his ibife.
—Associated Press Photo.
I
Williams-Silverman Case Is
Put Off by Illness of Star
U. S. Witness.
Illness of the Government’s star
witness today forced an Indefinite
postponement of the long-deferred
trial of former Brig. Gen. Alexander
E. Williams, Joseph Silverman, jr.,
I and his brother. Nathan, on a charge
of conspiring to defraud the United
States.
The witness. Prank E. Speicher,
was reported lM in Chicago with heart
disease.
The indictment against the three
defendants is based on the alle
gation that they concealed Speicher
when be was being sought by the
House Military Affairs Committee
several years ago in its investiga
tion of alleged lobbying activities in
the War Department.
Advised He Can Stand Trip.
Special Assistant Attorney General
Irvin Goldstein told the court he
had been advised by the Public Health
Service of Chicago that Speicher was
in sufficiently good health to attend
the trial, but that the latter’s private
physician had advised him by tele
gram last week that he would not
permit Speicher to come to Wash
ington because of his health.
In that situation the prosecutor
suggested the court might issue an
attachment for the witness or have
him examined by a doctor acting
for the court. Trial Justice Joseph
W. Cox refused to take either step,
however, after defense attorneys had
told him the trial would last from
10 days to 2 weeks.
"The end of this term of court
is close at hand," Justice Cox said,
"and even if your witness were here
I would hesitate to start the trial.
These men are on bond and I pre
sume there are other persons in jail
who should be tried before adjourn
ment if possible.”
July Trial Sought.
Goldstein said he would try to have
the case set for trial In July, when
the summer branch of the Criminal
Court will be sitting, but it was not
believed the ease would be reached
until after the new term of court
starts in October.
Gen. Williams, former assistant
quartermaster general of the Army,
was charged with accepting a S3,BOO
loan from Speicher. eourt-martlaled
and dismissed from the service.
Speicher, who was interested in sell
ing automobile tire tubes to the War
Department, was the principal wit
ness against him.
Department of Justice agents found
Speicher after a Nation-wide search.
The Silverman brothers at one time
were <V%lers in Army surplus goods,
but ha4e beat barred from doing bust
n
Cambridge Man, 48, Admits
Strangling Wife, 17, Says
State’s Attorney.
By the Associated Preat.
CAMBRIDGE. Md, June 70 —
Fred L. Brown, 48-year-old fanner
and World War veteran. wa» held j
today In the strangle slaying of his I
17- year-old wife Elisabeth, who eloped
with him two yeara ago, bora him
one child and waa expecting another, j
Bute's Attorney J. Gorman Hill!
announced yesterday that Brown had
signed a confession that “I choked
her to death with tny two hands"
Tuesday night and dumped her body
into Nanticoke River, bound with wire
and weighted down with plow points.
Mr. Hill Hid Brown admitted he
killed his young wife after she swore
out warrants charging him with dis
orderly conduct and cruelty to ani
mals and “because she was going to
run away and take the kid"—their
18- month-old son James.
An inquest was set for 11 am.
here tomorrow and Mr. Hill asked
Circuit Judge T. Sangston Insley to
impanel a grand Jury at once.
Brown was arrested yesterday at
hi* Reids Orove farm after Deputy
Sheriff James Thomas identified the
girl from the flower-printed dress that
covered her body when it was found
Friday by Hunter Solloway and Don
ald Gebo, young fishermen.
Deputy Thomas Hid-the dress was
the same one the girl wore when she
applied for warranu against her hus
band.
Mrs. Brown's body was taken to an i
undertaking establishment at Sails-j
i bury. Her child was placed in care |
j at Mrs. Thomas Lynch Coll, wife of ■
| the Dorchester County health officer.
LIGHT VOTE SEEN \
Barrows, Fernald Making
Hard Fight in G. 0. P.
Governor Race.
By the Associated hm.
PORTLAND. Me., June 20 —Maine s
electorate choae in a biennial primary
•lection today party designate.' forJ|
major and leaser offices at atake in
the September 12 general election.
Leaders of both major parties agreed
voting probably would be lighter than
the 1936 primary total of 120,000.
deeplte a wordy and often bitter cam
paign between Gov. lewis O. Barrows
and State Senator Roy L. Fernald of
Winterport for the Republican guber
natorial nomination.
Former Gov. Louis J. Brann, seek
ing a third term, was unopposed for*
the Democratic gubernatorial nomi
nation. Three Republican United
States Representatives sought re
nomination, one unopposed, and in one
of the three districts there was *
contest for Democratic House nomi
nation.
In the third district Representative
Ralph O. Brewster had no opposition.
His Democratic opponent in the Sep
tember election will be Melvin P.
Roberta, Port Fairfield, also unopposed.^
First district representative. Rep-™
resentative James C. Oliver .Repub
lican, was oppoeed by William A. Hol
land, Portland, defeated as an inde
pendent In 1936.
First District representative. James
C. Oliver, Republican, was opposed
by William A. Holland. Portland, de
feated as an independent in 1936. Two
Democrats seek that party's nomina
tion.
Representative Clyde H. Smith, Re
publican, was opposed by Arthur B„
Lancaster, a lumber dealer, for tha
second district Republican nomina
tion. On the Democratic side, F.
Harold IRibord, national committee
man, defeated in past elections for
United States Senator and Governor,
had opposition from State Senator
Laurence J. Walsh, Lewiston, and
Mrs. Elisabeth Soucy. Lewiston.
Polls opened at 6 a.m. and were to
close at 7 p.m.. except in towns of *00
or fewer people, where they mighty
close two hours earlier.
Mr. Fernald. in a radio address
i last night, said the issue between
i himself and Gov. Barrows "narrow*
down to economy, efficiency and tax
ation.”
MINNESOTA VOTING.
Parmer-Labor Leadership Ii at Stake
in Primaries.
MINNEAPOLIS. June SO —
Leadership of Minnesota's dominant
political party—Farmer-Labor—was
stake”n today's State primary election^
Oov. Elmer A. Benson sought re
■ nomination for his second term on
the Farmer-Labor ticket against his
most outspoken critic, Hjalmar Peter- N
sen, former Governor.
Mr. Benson has the indorsement of
the State Farmer-Labor convention
and has been a supporter of President
Roosevelt's New Deal program.
Gov. Benson recently obtained presi
dential support for ouster of Victor
Christgau as Minnesota W. P. A. adaBfc
minist.ratior.
Four candidates sought the Repub-^B
lican nomination for Governor. They B
sre Martin A. Nelson. Austin; Harold ^
E. Stasaen of South St. Paul. Dakota
| County attorney: Mayor George E.
Leach, Minneapolis, and Dr. H. A.
Northrop, Owatonna.
On the Democratic ballot there were
six candidates for Governor: Victor
Anderson of Wheaton, United States
district attorney; Charles A. Lethert.jA
St. Paul; Fred Schllplln, St. Cloud^Q
publisher; Michael F. Murray. St.
Cloud: Thomas Gallagher, Minneapo
lis, and Joel Anderenn, Minneapolis.
Correction.
In an article in The Star yeetordsv i
concerning th* recommendation of
Paul E. Lesh for appointment to the
newly-created judgeship on the United
States Court of Appeals' for the Dis
trict it was stated erroneously that h^
began the practice of law here in 1928.
Mr. Lesh actually began th# practice
of law here In 1908 after graduating I
from Cornell and Georgetown Unlver- 1
sity Law School and studying under
the late Nathaniel Wilson, father «f
Clarence R. Wilson. He is a native ef
th# District.
WEATHER REPORT
District of Columbia—Mostly cloudy; probably fair tomorrowi not much
change in temperature; gentle winds, mostly northeast. »
Maryland—Mostly cloudy; probably showers in south portion tenlghm
tomorrow generally fair; not. much change in temperature.
Virginia—Cloudy and showers in southeast portion tonight; tomorrow
partly cloudy and slightly warmer in the interior.
West Virginia—Partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow generally flair aad slight -
Ip warmer In solith portion.
A aiaturoance oi sugm, intensity nss<
developed near latitude 61 decrees north,
and longitude 53 decrees west, with low
sat pressure about 38.80 Inches, appar
ently moving eastward. Another alight
disturbance Te central over Southern Vir
ginia, Norfolk. 30.13 Inches, moving east
ward. Pressure is low from Labrador.
38.40 inches, and Copper Mine, district
of llaekensle. 28.00 Inches. Pressure ie
relatively low over the fer Southwest. Las
Vegas, Nev.. 28.04 Inches. Pressure is
high from Piorida eastward between Ber
muda and the Lesser Antilles. S. 8. Sen
Jacinto. 30.34 inches, while a high-pres
sure area remains stationary over the
lake region. Green Bay. Wls.. ao 30 inches,
and pressure u rising along the north
Paclflc coast. Ketchikan, Alaska. 30.10
Inches. During the last 34 hours there
have been showers in the Southeast
ern States, the lower Mississippi Valley,
the southern portion of the Ohio Valley,
and the southern portion of the Middle
Atlantic States. Scattered showers oc
curred also in portions of the Plains
States and Northern New England. Tem
perature changes have been slight.
lewrl for Lost 48 floors.
Temperature. Barometer.
Saturday— Decrees. Inches.
tp.m. _ 83 2PPP
p.m. _ TP 30.00
Mldnlcht- 73 80.01
fc4a*m~_ 71 80.02
8 o.m... 72 30 05
Noon _ 80 30.04
2pm__ 82 30.01
4 p.m. .. 83 30.01
8 p.m. 70 30,01
12 Mldnlcht_ 07 30 04
Today—
4 a.m._ 00 80 03
8 a m. _ OP 80.08
Noon _ . 71 30.00
Kepert far Last 84 Naan.
(From noon yasterday to noon today.)
Rlchaat. 85, 3:45 p.m. yesterday. Tone
a*o. 82.
lowest. 66. 8 p.m. today. Tear MS. 87.
Insrl Temperatarss This Tear.
Richest. 05. on June 12.
lowest. 18. on January 28.
Bcmidlty far lost 84 Boors.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Richest. 07 per cent, at 1 a m. *oday.
lowest. 48 per cent, at 3 p.m. yesterday.
Blear Bepert.
Potomac and Shenandoah river* dear
at Harpers Ferry; Fotomse clear at Oreat
Fall* today.
Tide Table*.
OPurnishsd by United State* Coast
•ail G*od*tlo Surrey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
»±r-=Ha
Belt---12:68 p.m. 1:56 p.m.
Low _ 7:36 p.m. 8:38 p.m.
Tbo Son and Haaa.
Rises. Bets.
Sun. t.odf.y . 4:42 7:37 J
Hrn. tomorrow . . . 4:42 7:37 "
Mean, today ..... 11:68 p.m. 1161 a.m
rtsacuuusui
r-I
PreelaHtit—.
Monthly Breespttatlon n tn«h*i In the
Capital (currant month to Bata);
Month. 1938. Average. Record a
January_ 2.64 3.66 7.83 '37 f
February _ 2.37 3.27 6.84 84 .
March _—_ 1.78 3.76 8.84 ’91,1
April _ 1.67 3.27 9.13 ’xflh'
May _ 361 8.70 10.69 ’8)^
June _ 0.88 4.1.3 10.94 ’0(1
July ... — 4 71 10.68 ’88 v.
Auguat --4.01 14.41 ’QS RH
September _ _ 3.24 17.46 ’3+
October - _- 2.84 8.81 ’37 1
November_ _ 2.37 8.69 ’8P 1
December_ _ 8.39 7.66 ’01 j
Weather in VaHras Ctttea. j
Temp. Rain* j
Baro. High. Lew, tall. 1
Abilene . 30.00 98 7’
Albany . 30.10 r~
Atlanta. . 30.04
Atlantic C. 30.06
Baltimora 30.04
Blrm’ham 30. i
Bismarck. 29.1
Boston __ 30.
Charleston “
Chicago .
Cinc'natl.
Cleveland
Columbia .
Denver _
Detroit...
El Paso ...
Galveston.
Helena _
Huron
Indlan’olli
Jackville
Kansas C.
I*. Angelea
LoulavUla.
Miami
Mpls-Ht. P.
N. Orleana
New York
Okla. City
Omaha
Phlla’lnhla
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
P’tland, Me.
P’tland. Or. 30.04
Raleigh_80.02
St. Louis 80.14
8 Lake City 29.80
San Ant'lo 30.00
as» m
Seattle ..30.10
Spokane.. 30.10
Tampa 80 12
Washington .30.04
fmln Ititlni.
17 a m.. Greenwich Mme today > %
Station Temperature weather.
London. Ena land_ 55 rfoudr
Pula, nance_ | a Cloudr
jfeKffiS,-::::: g §§S I
K&£==1 B
iNoor, Greenwich time, today *
Horta tPayal). Azores 72 cloudy
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