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No. 17,875
Roosevelt Asks Railroads to Drop Wage Fight
MON TALE
TOLD ON RADIO
ORINGS PROBE
Terror, Protests
Follow Broadcast
The Federal Communications
Commission today called on the
Columbia Broadcasting System
to submit a complete transcript
of its startlingly realistic broad
cast last night, “War of the
Worlds,” for investigation by
the commission.
Official investigation was
launched today into last night’s
“Invasion from Mars” broadcast.
Which threw thousands of persons
in all parts of the nation into
a panic, sent many persons to
hospitals as they fainted and suf
fered heart attacks by the realis
tic tales of bombing and gas at
tacks, and disrupted the comruni
cation system of the country for
hours.
Chairman Frank McNinch, of
the Federal Communications Com
mission, declared that he would
order an immediate probe of the
broadcast, pointing out that while
Silicide Balked
The broadcast of the fan
tastical invasion from M&n
but iiiyiit cAOidd <
suicide of a Pittsburgh wom
an, it was revealed today.
A man reported that he re
turned home to find his wife
hysterically clutching a bottle
of poison and sobbing that I
she would rather end her life
than be killed by the gas and '
bombs of the invaders.
Her husband managed to
get the poison away from her.
Investigations are usually started
only on formal complaints, it is
in the power of the commission to '
Institute proceedings. 1
Herring “Appalled 1
Senator Clyde Herring (D.) of '
lowa, declared he was “appalled” 1
by the broadcast, and that as soon !
as Congress reconvenes, he will
introduce legislation calling for 1
more stringent Federal regulation 1
of broadcasting.
Branding the broadcast as a <
(Continued on Page 6, Col. 5) J
LaGuardia Calls I
Labor Split Menace'
DETROIT, Oct. 31 (1.N.5.) .—The j
split between the AFL and CIO is
threatening the entire progressive ■
movement in America, Mayor La- 1
Guardia said. 1
“Let’s start right now healing ]
the breach in the ranks of Labor ,
so we can all start co-operating
With the head of Government.”
Treasury Condition
CI.N.S.) Treasury balance, Oc
tober 28, $2,579,187,032.32; inter
nal revenue, $5,245,768.81; customs j
receipts, $28,449,284.33; receipts, >
$1,807,198,560; expenditures, $2,-
934,137.876. (
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Public
NOTICE
• Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Let It
be proclaimed throughout the
City! Herald-Times Want Ads
make quick sales at very lit
tle cost. All citizens with used
cars, furniture, rugs or mer
chandise to sell can dispose of
them without delay. Just call
Republic 1234 NOW and ask
for an ad-taker I
Entered an Second Clam Matter
at Poet Ottloe at Waabington. D. C.
Harris Signs for 1939
As Manager of Griffs
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; WELL, FANS, THAT CONTRACT BUSINESS IS NOW SETTLED
Clark Griffith (hfs the ana on the left, of course), and Bucky Harria wear grins as
Bucky signs his contract to manage the Washington baseball team again
next year.-—I.N.P.
2 BAILED BANKS
TO GET MILLION
The Court of Appeals today up
held an opinion of United States
District Court that will return
approximately $1,000,000 to the
closed Commercial National and
District National Banks, to be
shared by depositors.
The opinion marked the end of
a long battle that started when
the banks failed to reopen after
1933 "holiday.” When certain
governmental agencies which had
accounts in the banks were paid
in full, suit was brought, resulting
in a decision that the agencies
should be regarded as general
creditors.
Now that the appelate court has
upheld thk’ decision, the District
National Bank receiver will be re
paid about $200,000 and the Com
mercial National about SBOO,OOO
by the governmental agencies. The
latter will then receive their share
along with other depositors.
F. D. Off Wednesday
To Hyde Park Home
(1.N.5.) President Roosevelt will
leave Washington Wednesday for
his Hyde Park home.
He will remain there until after
election day, November 8. Another
10-day stay in Washington is then
scheduled followed by a two-weeks’
Thanksgiving sojourn at Warm
Springs, Ga.
{‘Murder on Alcatraz 9
Has Gripping Sequel
"Murder on Alcatraz,” sensational, inside story of ’
intrigue on America’s “Devil’s Island,” ended with
the story only half told. It instantly brought a de
mand from readers for more light on the strange
mentalities that make up the most dangerous penal
: colony in America.
“Murder on Alcatraz” told you how Guard Cline
was murdered. Today in San Francisco, two convicts
accused of that murder went on trial for their lives.
The Times is being represented in the courtroom by a
reporter who knows “The Rock” best—P. F. Reed,
author of “Murder on Alcatraz.”
Reed, released from Alcatraz just three weeks ago,
will go behind the testimony, carrying on his story
from where it ended in the exciting series that was
concluded in Saturday’s Times. Don’t miss his articles.
&&TIMES
With New Contract for Year, Bucky
Voices Optimism for Coming Season
By FRANK “BUCK” O’NEILL
President Clark C. Griffith announced today that Stanley
Raymond Harris will manage the Washington Nationals next
year. The terms of the contract were not disclosed, following
the established policy of the club.'
Harris returned here following
the sale of Joe Cronin to the Bos
ton Red Sox in the autumn of
1935, guiding the Nationals in
1936 and ’37. Finishing fifth last
season, Harris performed an out
standing job in view of the ma
terial with which he had to work.
Negotiations between Harris
(Continued on Page 25, Col. 5)
Mattson Kidnaping
Suspect Released
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 31
(1.N.5.). —Francis Curivian, 38,
held since October 18 in connec
tion with the 1936 kidnaping and
murder of Charles Mattson, 10,
in Tacoma, Wash., has been re
leased, FBI Agent F. J. Smith
said today. Smith said a photo
and fingerprints sent to Tacoma
were not identified as those of
the kidnaper. i
Flood Reparation
(IJJB.) The Public Works Ad
ministration today allocated $49,-
500 to the Bureau of Lighthouses
to repair damage caused in Mas
sachusetts during the recent hur
ricane and floods.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1938
\ SEC Plans
New Curbs
In a far-reaching move to <
raise standards of financial
practices on the nation's se
curities exchanges, the Securi
ties and Exchange Commis
sion and the New York Stock
Exchange today formulated a
broad program for regulation ;
and supervision of the activi- ;
ties of brokers.
The program is an out- >
growth of the Government’s :
investigation of Ri c hard :
Whitney, former New York
stock exchange president who
is now serving a prison sent
ence for theft of securities.
The purpose of the new ■
plan is to prevent in the fu- <
ture such operations as were <
engaged in by Whitney.
UNO FRANCO
TROOPS KILLED
LONDON. Oct. 31 (1.N.5.).
Colonel Ortega, commanding
Spanish government forces in the
Jarama sector near Madrid, an
nounced today that nationalists
lost 3,000 dead and wounded in
a fierce engagement on a two
mile front, according to a Ma
drid dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph Company. Ortega
claimed that a nationalist force
of 10,000 was repulsed.
HEND A Y E, French - Spanish
Frontier, Oct. 31 (1.N.5.). —Na-
tionalist Generalissimo Franco,
mourning the death of his brother,
today personally directed the
opening of a large-scale offensive
on the Ebro River front of Cata
lonia.
Seven hundred Spanish govern
ment soldiers were taken prison
ers, acording to nationalist ad
vices, when Franco’s forces drove
the government army out of the
Caballos Mountains. Fourteen
government planes were reported
shot down. |
SCIENCE FILMS
KILLER’S HEART
AT EXECUTION
Exact Data Taken
As Slayer Dies
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct.
31 (I.N.S.).—John W. Deering, 40-
year-old confessed slayer, was
executed today by a firing squad
in the Utah State prison here
while an electro-cardiograph scien
tific camera took motion pictures
of his heart action.
Deering went to his death at
6:45 a. m. after consenting to
having his heart photographed as
he died.
5 Guns; 4 Bullets
Five men with rifles performed
the execution. Four of the guns
were loaded. All four bullets
penetrated his heart.
The experimental phase of the
execution was inspired by a desire
to determine how long a man lives
after a bullet pierces his heart.
Deering faced death apparently
without fear. As he walked down
“the last mile” between the death
cell and the oak ehair to which
Slayer Dies,
Praper;mt Itofc,
ROCKVIEW PE NITE N- '
TIARY, BELLEFONTE, Pa,
Oct. 31 (I.N.S.).—A prayer
for his two tiny children on
his lips, Antonio Peronace,
36, Kulpmont, Pa., coal miner,
died early today in Pennsyl
vania’s electric chair.
The little miner, who shot
and killed his wife, Mary, and
his father-in-law, Vito Mariello,
in a street after a family
quarrel, uttered his last words
as he sat in the death chair. i
They were: 1
“I bless my son seven years ,
old and my daughter. Thanks
to God for my daughter."
he was strapped to face his execu- 1
tioners, he said to his escort:
“Let me walk faster; I want
to get this over with.”
His steps never wavered.
Drinkt Cognac
Just before reading of the death
warrant which preceded the “aim,
ready, fire” order, the condemned
man drank a small quantity of
cognac.
As the firing squad let go, Deer
ing stiffened and then slumped.
He jvas dead when the first person
reached his side.
Findings of an electrocardio
graph placed over Deering’s heart
and attached to a recording device
were then studied by physicians
to determine for the first time the
action of a human heart when
pierced by bullets.
The device was expected to show
the condemned man’s heart beat
before, during and after the order
to the executioners to fire.
20 Catholics Shot ;
At Mexican Church ■
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 31 (1.N.5.).
Twenty Catholics were wounded ’
today at Ocotlan, in the state of
Jalisco, when attacked by a band
of socialistic agrarians, accord- (
ing to reports received here.
The attackers lay in wait out
side a parish church and opened
fire on the worshippers as they j
emerged from the building. Troops
put down the disorders.
Times Index
Classified Ads 29, 30, 31 5
Comics 26, 27 i
Cross Word Puzzle 22 ]
Drama 14 f
Editorials 12 ,
Evie Robert 13
Inquiring Photographer .... 12
Government Workers 22 1
Music 20 i
Neighborhood Movies 22
Radio 22
I Society 18
i Sports 23, 24, 25, 29
I Woman’s Page 16
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Shot Down by a Firing Squad, the Killer's Last Heart
beats Were Recorded by Science With an Electrical
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BIES EXCUSES ‘
MARTIN AGAIN
(LN.S.) Homer Martin, presi
dent of the United Automobile
Workers, today—for the fourth
time in 10 days—was excused from
responding to subpoena to testify
before the Dies committee inves
tigating un-Ameri<An activities.
Representative Martin Dies said
that the labor leader had tele
phoned him from Detriot asking
I another postponement. Dies said:
“I have every reason to believe
that Mr. Martin is being pre
vented from appearing before
Rep. Dies On WOL
At 11:15 P. M.
Chairman Martin Dies of
the House committee in- \
vestigating un-American ac- /
tivities, will be heard tonight ;
at 11:15 o'clock over Station
WOL.
Paul Y. Anderson. St.
Louis newspaper man, will be /
heard at 11:30, in a 15- \
minute rebuttal to charges \
Mr. Dies will make that the ;
Roosevelt administration has
; “hindered and impeded" the
committee’s investigation.
the committee and that the
facts as to this, no doubt, will
be brought out later.”
The committee last week asked
Martin to attest to the accuracy ;
of transcripts of speeches in which i
Martin charged that John L.
Lewis, CIO chieftain, has been
"surrounded” by communists.
Dies said that Martin over the
phone had not only declared his
willingness to stand behind what ;
he had previously said in speeches, ;
but added, according to Dies, that ;
“I’ll have more than that.” i
Annabella to Divorce
Mate; Blames Films
PARIS, Oct. 31 (I.N.S.)—Holly
wood will be named as “co
respondent” in the divorce of the
lovely Annabella and her French
film star husband, Jean Murat, It
was revealed today.
The petite, blond, brown-eyed 1
French actress, emphatically de
nied that another love interest is
responsible for her domestic split.
“I marry Tyrone Power? But
that is silly," she said. ‘He is
a nice boy, but that is all.
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IN WASHINGTON, D.C. UAllf*
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LOVESICK, SHE
DIES AS TORCH
DOWAGIAC, Mich., Oct. 31.
(1.N.5.), — Attractive, 34-year-old
Mildred Shank, Mishhawaka, Ind.,
was dead today after she satu
rated her clothing with kerosene
and burned herself to death be
cause she believed her love for
her employer unrequited.
She was found, a human torch,
in the farm yard of Harry Meade,
34, near Decatur, Mich., where
she has worked for a week. She
died shortly after reaching a hos
pital.
A note told of her love for
Meade, who had hired her through
an advertisement in a South
Bend (Ind.) newspaper last Tues
day, saying:
“Dear Harry: How could you
treat me like this? You prom
ised we could be married today.
I loved you enough to think
you really loved me. Good-by.
Mildred.”
Meade, taken into custody in
Paw Paw, was released when au
thorities ruled Miss Shank's death
a suicide.
Wife Sees Father
Slay Her Husband
DETROIT, Oct. 31 (1.N.5.).
A three-year domestic fight that
started with the marriage of An
drew Rosales and Eleanore Tolf
son ended today the wife’s
father shot and killed Rosales as
he sat in a parked car with his
wife and infant son. Police said
the father, Charles Tolfson, 43-
year-old factory worker, shot Ro
sales, 23, because he persisted in
seeing his wife despite a separa
tion.
Hollywood is the reason for
our divorce. Our work sepa
rates us for so long that it is
impossible for us to Remain '
married.” f '
Her eyes flashed as
bitterly: If/'*' *
“It is not always 'y.be |
a film star in Americ- . .Alike
being a goldfish uK|iii>wl.
They must know wl’Ullat,
what I think, all . jdo. i
They even want to kiaMwoom j
I love—and that I tell no one.” i
THREE CENTS
CARRIERS HINT
ACCEPTANCE OF
DOARD’S TERMS
Relief to Be Sought
From Congress
(1.N.5.) Full White House pres
sure was brought today on the
nation's railroads in a Presidential
request for the carriers to accept
recommendations of the emer
gency fact-finding board against
a proposed 15 per cent wage cut.
J. J. Pelley, president of the As
sociation of American Railroads,
was called into a conference this
morning with President Roosevelt.
Before he entered the Executive
Offices, Pelley said he anticipated
that the railroads would be urged
to comply with the President’s
emergency board findings and to
withhold any wage cuts.
There were strong indications
that the railway industry will ac
cept the recommendations and
thus avert a strike of 900,000
wrokers.
TO KEEP IN STEP
In view of the board’s recom
. mendation, railroad executives ap
peared to believe that the wisest
policy for them was to keep step
with the President’s determination
to maintain wages at the highest
I possible level.
Today, the roads were already
turning their studies toward a
legislative program through which
j they can seek help for their
present distressed condition from
’ Congress.
J The President was to confer
. with George M. Harrison, chair
r man of the Railroad Labor Execu
tives’ Association, later today.
BACK TO THE ROADS
• The carriers’ joint conference
5 committee, headed by H. A.
5 Enochs, has decided to refer the
■ wage-cut question back to the in
dividual roads.
This action will drop on the
1 shoulders of each individual road
1 the burden of compliance or re
jection of the emergency board’s
recommendation against the pay
cut. In the face of Administration
recommendations against it, and
the certainy of a strike, no road
would risk a wage-cut on its own,
the rail chiefs pointed out.
The railway presidents them
selves will meet a little later in the
t week, to take formal action on the
emergency board report.
MAY URGE MEETING
It is likely that the President
will urge Pelley and Harrison to
I get together the special six-man
operators-labor committee which
. he named about a month ago to
■ work out a legislative program for
. the roads.
This committee, consisting of
s three representatives of labor and
j three of railway executives, held
j one meeting in the White House,
I and adjoumd upon the assertion
-of the labor members that they
- could not give attention to legis
i lative problems until the wage con
• troversy was settled.
9 Nazi Troopers Die
As Train Hits Truck
BERLIN, Oct. 31 (1.N.5.).
Nine storm troopers were dead
, today, victims of a collision bo
’ tween their truck and a train near
Magdeburg.
LOST
BOSTON BULL, female: brown A whites
onnie ”: reward. DU. 7023,
ENGLISH SETTERS (2) : not trained for
j huntin?; female. “Beauty,” white with
I black spots. Md. tag- 6031: male, “Duke,
white, tu ked with black, brown on fac<
Md. tag 6030: reward. WI. &077.
sPITZ. white. female: Silver Spring!
’ Mitzie”; family pet: rew. SH. 4179.
(Other Lost and Found Ada on
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