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A2 = L. SEES STRKE OVER AUTO PARLEY _ Renews Request for Own Conference With Motor Firms. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, March 9—The Ameri- can Federation of Labor renewed to- day its request for a conference with motor car manufacturers independ- .ently of the Roosevelt-created Na- ' tional Automobile Labor Beard and coupled with it a threat”to call out A. F. of L. members in the industry ~ unless such a meeting is arranged. The federation also proposed that its right to speak for workers in the in- . dustry be determined by & Govern- ment-supervised poll, conducted by . the National Labor Relations Board. These latest developments in the verbal controversy between the fed- eration and the manufacturers were contained in a statement by Francis J. Dillon, federation organizer. The statement was in response to a letter " by Alfred G. Reeves, vice president of the Automobile Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation to William Green, president of the A. F. of L. rejecting the lat- ter's proposal for an independent conference and denying Green's right to speak for the majority of automo- Jbile plant workers. Request Is “Modest.” . “Mr. Green's request,” said Dillon, “js a modest one. It is constructive and the automobile workers will stand back of him and unless this modest . request for a conference is conceded and recognized by the management we propose to use our economic power | and withdraw the services of our peo- ple from this mdusr.ry’nnd fight if necessary to secure and’ preserve this Copyright, A. right.” Dillon renewed Federation charges that workers have been discharged for | joining what he termed “free unions.” | Referring further to a strike vote ordered by the National Council of United Automobile Workers' Federal Labor Unions, A. F. of L. affiliates, Dillon said “The strike vote now being taken represents the only avenue left by which these workers may adjust or correct their grievances.” Seen Test of Strength. When the call for the strike vote was issued a week ago it was regarded by some persons here as probabl)" more of a test of Federation strength than the preliminary to a walkout. ‘The Automobile Labor Board. whick. | the Federation has charged with | functioning more in the interest of | the employer than the worker has credited the Federation with only a small percentage of the workers in | the industry. It gave out figures| today showing that of 121,722 workers | participating in collective bargaining elections, only 7.458 listed themselves | State police were reported tonight to | as A. P. of L. members while 88,028 | recorded themselves as without or- ganization affiliation. ! . . SWITZERLAND PLEDGED i TO STAY ON GOLD Bank Stock Holders Told Arti-| ficial Efforts Cannot Bring About Recovery. By the Assoctated Press. BERNE, Switzerland, March 9.— I Switzerland’s firm determination to 1, stay on the gold standard was pledged ++ by directors of the National Bank of Switzerland at the annual stockhold- | ers’ meeting today. ! Asserting recovery cannot be achieved through “artificial means” | . such as currency depreciation, Alfred | Sarasin, chairman of the bank's board, declared “it is impossible for Switzerland to follow & monetary policy different from that which the By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 9.—John Testo, described as a business agent for a union, was seized by police today at the request of Michigan authorities investigating the slaying yesterday of 7-year-old Richard Streicher, jr., at Ypsilanti, Mich. The Detective Bureau said Sergt McMahon of the Michigan State po- lice described Testo as a distant rel- ative of the Streicher family. Chief of Detectives John L. Sulli- van said Testo declared he has no relatives in Michigan. Testo, business agent for the Mar- ble. Mosaic and Terrazzo Setters and THE SUNDAY Tells of Finding Body P. Wirephotos. Helpers and Floor Rubbers Union. | Local 504, has living quarters at the union office. His estranged wife lives in Elkhart, Ind. Testo, smiling, submitted to the for- malities of the Bureau of Identifica- tion without comment and was ques- tioned more than an hour. Michigan be on their way here. YPSILANTI, Mich., March 9 () — Authorities investigating the murder | of Richard Streicher, 7, revealed to- | night a playmate had seen him walk |away from the neighborhood of = his +home last Thursday with a tall man | Gerald Young, 13. told officers he | thought he would be able to recognize the man if he saw him again. Larger photo shows Buck Holt, 13, telling of the finding of the body of Richard Streicher, 7. the victim of a fiendish attack at Ypsi- lanti, Mich. The boy is talking to | Police Sergt. Ernest Klavitter. The Steicher child is shown in inset. Below: John Testo, busi- ness agent for a Chicago union, be- ing questioned last night in the | Iilinois tity in connection with the | crime. [{Long’s $7 Loans To L.S.U. Students Being Liquidated 60 to 70 Per Cent Pay Back Expense Money to Grid Contest. bank has followed in complete legality.” | He deprecated “repeated attacks * on the Swiss franc,” saying “lasting . recovery must result from world - economy and all its parts.” i George Bachmann, president of the | * bank, stressed the necessity of the closest economic, as well as monetary collaboration by Switzerland with | other gold bloc countries. . APPEALS COURT SCORES JURY FOR CONVICTION Doubts Man Could Have Become | Intoxicated on One and One-Half Bottles of Beer. | | By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, March 9.—A jury which sent a man to prison for life on & drunk driving charge when evidence showed he had consumed 1!5 bottles of beer was denounced to- @ay by the Oklahoma Criminal Court of Appeals. A new trial was ordered for Louis Dalt, Choctaw County. Daft was convicted of murder *while under the influence of liquor” in an automobile accident in which E. M. Johnson, another motorist, was killed. “I don't know much about liquor, but it doesn't seem reasonable that a | man could be intoxicated, .drinking | 1'2 bottles of 3.2 beer between 5:30 | and 9 p.m. while making a 70-mile automobile trip,” said James S. Dav- enport, presiding judge. The State's own witness said the beer was all Daft had touched. SCOUTS GATHER POISON SCATTERED FOR PETS 75 Pieces of Meat Taken From Streets in Wichita After Much Damage. By the Associated Press. WICHITA, Kans., March 9.—Scour- ing the city’s exclusive College Hill residential district, 150 Boy Scouts to- day gathered up more than 75 pieces of poisoned meat. Several valuable pedigreed dogs and cats have been poisoned. Rewards to- taling nearly $200 have been posted by residents of the district for the apprehension of the offender. The Boy Scouts made the hunt at the call of police and humane officers. Famous Chief Dies. GRENFELL, Saskatchewan, March 9 (#).—Chief Samuel Acoose, who once, i 1s told. chased an elk 70 miles on ~foot until the elk tired and Chief CAdoose made the kill, died today. “The chief, head of the Sakimay Re- Zserve Indians, was belicved to be ~nenrly 100 years old. . . et Plot Discovered. ZPARIS, March 9 (#)—Press dis- “patches from Tallinn, Estonfa, said to- By the Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La, March 9.— | ‘When Senator Huey P. Long last October was shelling out cash on the Louisiana State University campus for students’ expenses to the Vanderbilt foot ball game at Nashville he said he would get most of it back and now the money is rolling in at $7 a head. The Senator was nearly mobbed as he passed out sheafs of crisp bills with only the borrower's name on the back of a laundry slip as security. Asked then whether he was giving away the money or whether he ex- pected to be repaid in loans, Long said he was “lending the money” and added “we never lose much.” Now, nearly five months later, E. N. Jackson, business manager of the col- lege, reports that the Senator was “mostly right” and that the majority of the students have repaid their loans. Jackson said that $3,500 was dis- tributed by Long to about 500 stu- dents, and that 60 to 75 per cent have refunded the loans and that many of the balance had made personal ar- rangements with Long to pay him with wages from jobs next Summer. As the I. O. U's were being made out Long said he never knew there were 5o many “John Smiths” in Baton Rouge. Soon after the distribution univer- sity officials said any students who had signed fake names would be per- mitted to make restitution, and if they did so no action would be taken against them. RELEASED.FROM JAIL Mother Who Refused to Send Son to School Freed. LOS ANGELES, March 9 (#) —Mrs. Edith Gassoway was released from jail today after serving five days of & 30-day sentence for refusal to send her son Robert, 13, to school. She announced the boy had been sent out of the State since the contro- versy startea over his education. Defending her violation of the com- pulsory school attendance law, Mrs. Gassoway said she sought to tutor her son at home because of his frail con- dition. GOTHAM VICE WAR DEATHLIST GROWS “Ride” Victim’s Body Found. Police Head’s Daughters | Under Guard. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, March 9.—Another “ride” victim was left sprawled at the end of the line in Queens and the police commissioner’s two daughters were under constant guard today as authorities aimed another blow against the underworld. Shot twice through the head, the body of Joseph Teischbein, 26, was |found slumped in an automobile parked between Long Island City and Astoria, a section much favored by gangsters gs a “bumping off” place. | Threat Is Admitted. As detectives set out to determine what connection, if any, the latest of | half a dozen recent killings had with | the current campaign against vice, | Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valen- | tine confirmed for the first time that his daughters had been threatened. A warning that the two girls, 16 and 18 years old. would be “snatched” was relayed over the telephone through one of his Brooklyn neighbors, the commissioner said, about the time the anti-racketeering drive began. Arthur “Dutch Schultz” Flegen- heimer, at the top of New York's public enemy list, was ordered out of the capital district when he appeared voluntarily at the Troy prosecutor's office today to discuss the slaying there last week of one of his reputed aides, Schultz is awaiting trial in Albany on income tax charges. “Black Book” Is Found. Assistant District Attorney Maurice G. Wahl in New York declared he would move next Tuesday for the trial of the widely publicized Polly Adler and the three girls arrested with her in a lavishly furnished apartment, A mysterious “black book” found in the apartment, reputed to contain the names of 200 patrons of the place, engrossed authorities. Wahl threat- ened to name all those listed in the book, if necessary, to support his charges against the Adler woman, District Attorney William C. Dodge previously had indicated the myste- rious 200 had nothing to worry about, for the time being, at least. By the Associated Press. BROOKLYN, N. Y., March 9.—An automobile crashed through & guard rail on the upper roadway of Man- hattan Bridge late today, skimmed over the heads of several pedestrians on a promenade immediately below and plunged 70 feet to Prospect street. Its two occupants were critically in- jured. 4 ) Harry Gross suffered’ internal in- juries when he was thrown dhrough the top of the car and landed in the street, 15 feet away. His colored chauf- Jifght 20 persons had been arresjed “there in a plot to overthrow the government, feur was pinned beneath the heel and uaTumw.m‘ W and wi 4 Car Falls 70 Feet From Bridge, Breaking Bumper of AutoBelow emergency squad. His skull was frac- tured. In its descent the car hit a trolley power line, breaking it from its sup- ports for 150 feet. This caused a short circuit that showered the roadway with sparks and molten metal. There were few pedestrians on Pros- pect street and none was . James Petrie was driving under the bridge, however, and stopped hurried- 1y when he heard the crash above him. | razor. ‘The rear of the Gross car ripped off 2:3 llmnt bumper of Petrie's auto- lle. . Gross’ auto landed on its wheels and | was virtually STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 10 RUHLAND ORDERS |ANTI-RED LAWS 1935—PART ONE. Citizens Would Serve as Judges FEDERATION BACKS lottery and bail bond racketeering, | MILK INSPECTION Seeks to Curb Scarlet Fever in Northwest Section and in Maryland. A thorough check of the District’s milk supply, particularly in nearby Maryland northwest of the city, was ordered yesterday by Dr. George H. Ruhland, health officer, in an effort to halt the spread of starlet fever. Dr. Ruhland called in all his field inspectors yesterday for a conference on the disease which has become fairly widespread in Northwest Wash- ington, especially in Chevy Chase, D. C, and Chevy Chase, Md. The ‘nspection will not affect the city's whole milk supply, but will be applied to sources not now regularly inspected by the Health Department. A number of families, it was asserted, near the District line, get their milk from private sources in Maryland in- stead of through the regularly estab- lished dairies that are inspected. Possibility of Carriers. It is Dr. Ruhland’s idea that there may be some scarlet fever carriers employed on the small farms supply- ing milk to a few families. Since the first of last week there has been little change in the number of cases in the District and the Health Department continues to be- lieve there is little cause for alarm in the situation, although the number of | current cases is the largest within recent years. At the same time, the Medical So- ciety of the District of Columbia is- sued a statement saying the disease has reached a mild epidemic stage in \ the District and warning parents to observe their children closely for any | symptoms of the disease before they are sent off to school. Scarlet fever is spread by direct contact and it is during the first | week that the child is most apt to pass the malady on to another. “It cannot be urged too strongly, Jjust at this time, that the child with an extremely mild complaint be kept at home,” the Medical Society said. Symptoms and Rules. i For the benefit of parents the so- | ciety issued the following instructions: “Scarlet fever usually begins sud- denly with high fever, vomiting, sore throat and headache. But there may | be very mild symptoms which fre- | quently escape notice, or may be pur- ;posely overlooked, until too late to | prevent passing the disease along to another. “When a child has a sore throat | or any other such symptoms, it is es- sential that he be kept home from | school and a physician be consulted | promptly in order to advise proper | isolation precautions and proper pre- cautions against such severe later complications as kidney disease, ab- scessed ears, etc. “The scarlet fever rash, which is frequently very insignificant, may | escape notice so that it is not uncom- mon to find children ‘peeling’ in whom scarlet fever never has been suspected. These are the cases which are responsible, in most instances, the spread of the disease.” MISSISSIPPI WATER | Hattiesburg and Jackson Inun-!with resolutions against alleged re- dated as Rains Put Many Streams Out of Banks. By the Assoclated Press, HATTIESBURG. Miss, March 9 — Fed into the overflow stage by rains of the last few days. South Mississippi streams today sent flood waves down their basins, inundating bottom lands and flat stretches, washing out high- | | | | | | , for | ¢ ROUTS 200 FAMII.IES‘ | ways and invading the cities of Hat- tiesburg and Jackson. In Hattiesburg 25 to 30 residen- tial blocks, occupied mostly by col- | ored people and located on the out- skirts of the city. were in the water which coursed through from the junction of Leaf River and Bowie Creek. northwest of the city. | A similar number of low blocks in East and South Jackson were under water from the flood of Pearl River on the east side and Town Creek which runs through South Jackson. Red Cross officials at Hattiesburg estimated that there were between 200 and 250 families driven from their homes in Hattiesburg and the sur- rounding flood section, while scores Jackson. | Officials expressed no fear that there | were forced to flee the inundation in | By the Associated Press. TOPIC IN STATES Tennessee Among Several in Which Restrictions Have Been Adopted. By the Associated Press. Anti-red and anti- communism legislation has become a most pupu- lar topic at the State capitals, but talk has simmered down into statutes in only two or three instances. ‘Tennessee has enacted a law refus- ing a place on the ballot of any or- zanization advocating overthrow of the Government by force. Arizona and New Jersey require their school teachers to take oath of their allegiance to the Constitution— and New Jersey's Assembly took a crack at Nazi-ism by adopting a measure to prevent dissemination of propaganda against any race, color or creed. Typical of the wave of anti-radical- ism are bills before a score of State Legislatures to require annual oaths of allegiance—some including the State constitution—of students as well as teachers; to padlock and forfeit buildings where seditious meetings are held; to prohibit seditious utterances in speech or press. Some Indifferent States. Some States, however, failed to take the alleged menace of communism seriously. In Ohio, a bill before the Legislature would repeal the old war- time criminal syndicalism law aimed at speakers violently critical of the Gov- ernment. The law curbed soap-box oratory, but no one seemed to recall any convictions. ‘The Vermont Legislature killed a bill that would have denied the ballot to any party whose activities tended to- ward un-Americanism by spreading propaganda. A similar measure was approved by the Washington House. but lies dormant in a Senate com- mittee whose chairman said he had received “plenty” of requests to let it die there. California set a pace too fast for the rest of the States: Conservatives shoveled into the Assembly 19 bills to fortify already existing anti-red laws, | and the liberals accepted the chal lenge and tossed in 12 measures pro. posing to increase personal liberty and prevent discrimination against any 4 one for political or economic views. | California Propesals. The California conservatives would bar Communists from the ballot, make it a felony to advocate forcible over- throw of the Government or to refuse to bear arms for Nation or State in time of rebellion or invasion, and would brand a felony the display of the red flag or any anarchistic symbol. The llberals, who include a num- ber of Upton Sinclair supporters at the last election. would abolish the present criminal syndicalism law, under which 15 alleged Communists are being tried at Sacramento, and would repeal the vagrancy act. In Illinois, bills still fighting for attention would withhold appropria- tion from any school or educational | institution permitting the teaching of | doctrines “advocating the overthrow of representative government ¢ * * by force, violence or other unlawful| means,” and would deny tax exemp- | tion to private schools offending in| the same way. Among other meas- | ures is one which would declare a! nuisance, padlock for a year and then ell in the State's behalf any building | in which “overthrow” is advocated. Montana Plan Defeated. Attempts to repeal the wartime anti-sedition act and the red flag ban in Montana were defeated. Fear of a spread of communism from Mexico was debated on the floor of the Arizona Senate in connection ligious persecution. The New Mexico Senate killed a criminal syndicalism bill passed by the House. Last year New York enacted a law requiring teachers to swear allegiance, but an attempt to apply the rule to students in State institutions was de- feated in committee recently. A street sedition bill fobridding ut- terance or printing of anything ad- | vocating overthrow of the Govern- ! ment has passed the Alabama Senate and awails House action. The bills to bar Communists from the ballot have progressed to the point of final legislative vote in Missouri and Indian: VIRGINIAN KILLS WIFE! AND SELF AT HOME Relatives Say Harrisonburg Man | Was Crazed by Drink—Baby Narrowly Escapes. HARRISONBURG, Va., March 9.— would be any loss of life. Red Cross | R o thoh A KIlIGH il chapters mobilized their forces n | wife at thelr home this morning and | rescue and relief work and brought cnSuned! el Ko Lelos marooned persons to safety. In Plan Proposed by Prettyman Corporation Counsel Suggests English System of Magistrates to Relieve Police Court of Congestion. Establishment of a system of mag- istrates’ courts to handle petty crim- inal cases, such as charges of drunk- enness, disorderly conduct ard minor traffic offenses, was projected last rett Prettyman as a step toward re- lieving the serious congestion in Po- lice Court. Prettyman’s idea is based upon the English system of justices of the peace, under which public-spirited citizens serve without pay as presid- ing officers of the minor courts, sim- ply for the honor of performing worthwhile public service. ‘The suggestion indirectly is an out- growth of the recent hue and cry that brought about the investigation of the courts and police by a special House Crime Investigating Committee, headed by Representative Randolph, Democrat, of West Virginia. Pretty- man has not yet been summoned by the committee, nor does he know whether he will be called. If sum- moned, he said last night, he may lay the plan before the committee. Won't Push Proposal. “I may outline my ideas on the subject for the committee,” he said, “and let them determine what it is worth.” Prettyman made it clear that he has not planned to present the pro- posal to Congress, and ask for legis- lation to carry it out. If it meets with approval, however, he may make the legislative proposal later. The corporation counsel pointed out that during the last fiscal year 54,800 cases were sent to Police Court from his office and approximately 8,600 more were presented by the dis- trict attorney’s office. With such & heavy docket the Police Court was | constantly crowded. | | Of these cases, he pointed out, al- | most three-fourths of them were for | minor offenses, such as could be han- dled by the proposed magistrates’ courts. These would be established, he said, in the policg precincts, prob- ably two in each precinct, and two sessions would be held daily, for ex- ample, two hours each morning and two hours each afternoon. Minor Traffic Charges. ‘They would be given jurisdiction over ordinary cases of drunkenness. disorderly conduct, violations of po- lice regulations, driving without a permit and minor traffic charges, such as parking overtime or in restricted | zones. The magistrates also would dispose of speeding cases if no accidents were | involved, and if the case simply meant | that the driver had exceeded the limit | and had done nothing more serious. | The same rule would hold true in cases | of driving past street cars or having faulty brakes. | In cases involving a multiplicity of | charges, the magistrates would be em- | powered to commit the accused per- son to Police Court for trial. The most serious charge made against the | defendant would determine whether | he would tfy the case himself or send | it on to Police Court for disposition. | “A number of recent publications,” | Prettyman said. “have called atten-| tion to the justice of the peace sys- tem in vogue in England, especially in Birmingham, a city of a million population, and have made the very interesting suggestion that the same system might be tried out in this | country. Civic Interest Regquisite. | “Those justices serve without com- | pensation, the sole attraction being ! the opportunity for public service and | the exercise of real civic power. The persons appointed are selected because | of their established position in the community, their civic interest, and | their ability to devote the necessary time to the work. Here in the Dis- trict we have an overburdened Police | Court, an overburdened staff of prosecutors, and the mass of work is amazingly increasing. “That court handles well over 1,000 cases a week. We have a real need that this court should devote its time and attention to the more important of its cases, especially in view of such measures as those already proposed, giving that court jurisdiction over negligent homicide and increasing the limit of petit larceny from $35 to $75. “At the same time, we have among | us hundreds of available people, such | for example, as retired Army. Navy and Marine officers, retired Govern- ment officials, retired or independent business men, public-spirited women versed in organization, etc., many of | whom have had long experience in/ dealing with people, are of unimpeach- | able character, and have some train- ing in Government service. “They have a livelihood, but noth- ing with which to occupy their time or thought. We are wasting that| vast superb reservoir of knowledge, experience and real capacity and am- bition for public benefit and service. Sees Interesting Question. “In the light of these recent refer- night by Corporation Counsel E. Bar- | to know whether anything along these lines might be helpful to us in our problem.” Prettyman recently made a study of court systems, paying a visit to| Baltimore to observe the Traffic and | Police Courts there. In Baltimore, | uthe two courts are separated and he | | was impressed by the speed with which traffic cases were handled. Sees Respect Promoted. An advantage he observed in having courts established in the 12 precincts is that the magistrates “would take | the law into the neighborhood” and | impress its enforcement upon resi- dents of all sections of the city. Stressing the congestion in Police | Court, he pointed out that of minor | cases tried last year there were 19,000 cases of drunkenness, 5000 of dis- | orderly conduct, 2,600 violations of | police regulations, 1,700 cases of driv- ing without permits, 7,000 cases of speeding, 104 of passing a street car, 293 improper brakes and 15,000 mis- cellaneous traffic charges, most of | them parking offenses. Most of these | he said, could be handled by the pro- | posed magistrates. UMY MEASIR Bill Would Set Up Three- Man Board to Aid Su- preme Court. After two and a half hours of heate ed debate, the Federation of Citizens' Associations last night voted to ap- prove the bill pending in Congress to set up a three-man commission on mental health as an adjunct to the District Supreme Court in handling | lunacy cases. The meeting, held in the board room of the District Building, was called especially to dispose of the lunacy bill after it developed last Sat- urday night that the members could not_agree. Three other matters, however, were acted upon after the lunacy commis= sion vote was taken. The federation called upon the Public Utilities Com- mission to compel the Capital Transit Co. to supply an “adequate number of street cars of reasonable comfort and modern type” to replace the antiquat- ed equipment now in use. The reso- lution asserted the average age of the cars now in use is 22 years and that some of them are 36 years old, Boundary Group Opposed. Congress was called upon not to re- new the life of the District-Virginia Boundary Commission. A resolution is pending in Congress to extend tne life of the commission, but the fed- Forum Speaker SENATOR DAVID I. WALSH. SHP AID FORUM TOPIC OF WALSH Senator to Discuss Presi- dent’s Plan on Radio Tomorrow Night. Senator David 1. Walsh of Massa- chusetts, long & friend of the Amer- fcan merchant marine, will discuss | President Roosevelt’s plan for direct Government aid to American shipping in the National Radio Forum tomor- row at 10:30 p.m. The National Radio Forum is ar- | ranged by The Washington Star and | broadcast over the network of the National Broadcasting Co. President Roosevelt has strongly | urged the need of an adequate mer- chant marine to carry American com- | merce in time of peace and war, and to act as a naval auxiliary in time | of war. He proposes that the Gov- | ernment do directly what it has been | doing by indirection, grant frankly a subsidy to shipping, which Congress has attempted to disguise in the form of coniracts for carrying the mails at_excessive rates. Senator Walsh is in sympathy with the plan presented by the President, which soon is to be written into legis- lative form and laid before the House PARAGUAY FAILING IN ATTACK ON BAS 8,000 Killed in Fighting, Says Report by Bolivia—River Fighting Heavy. | By the Associated Press. eration pointed out that the District has nothing to gain and much to lose if the present boundary is changed George E. Sullivan pointed out that the United States Supreme Court has set the boundary as the high-water mark on the Virginia shore, and that the commission’s findings may take part of the present territory and re- turn it to Virginia. The Police and Fire Committee was authorized to appear before the Senate Subcommittee on Appropria- tions and ask for the restoration to the D. C. budget of all jtems for the fire department eliminated by the House. Provision will be made for the purchase of additional hose. a smoke ejector and other equipment if the Senate acts favorably. Discussion of the lunacy bill was opened by a statement from Dr. H K. Shapiro, chairman of the Mental Health Committee of the Medical So- cietv of the District of Columbia. who explained its provisions, and pointed out that a number of States have already adopted a similar method of h: ling lunacy cases The com- mission, composed of two physicians, specialists in nervous and mental disorders. and one lawyer. he ex- plained. would act as an impartial Board of Examiners. Their findings would be presented to the court, and in case there was a disagreement among them. a jury trial would be- come mandatory. Option Up te Patient. The patient. however, would in all cases have the option to ask a trial, either by jury or by the court, and this demand could be made also by his family. friends or counsel Charles L. Norris, acting for Thomas E. Lodge, chairman of the Law and Legislation Committee. presented a majority report, urging approval of the bill. Mr. Sullivan presented a minority report in which he asserted the meas- ure was carelessly drawn, failed to protect the insane person against unfair incarceration. made the phy- sicians committing officers instead of witnesses and failed to guarantee trial by jury. He was supported by William J. Neale, who stressed the alleged threat to the jury system. Nearly 20 delegates participated in the debate that followed, which boiled itself down to the question of the competence of a jury to decide cases of mental disorder as against the capability of a doctor-lawyer board Patients Neot on Trial Harry N. Stull insisted the question of a jury trial was wholly beside the point; that insane persons are handled by the courts because they are ill and not because they are criminals. “Suppose I called in a specialist,” he said. “and he consulted with an- other physician and together they de- cided I was suffering from a cancer. Would there be any necessity what- ever for calling in a jury of 12 men to decide whether or not I should be put in a hospital for treatment?” | The same situation. he said, applied | in the handling of lunacy cases. i Sullivan’s minority report was re- | Jected by a vote of 33 to 11. Nraie | then attempted to table the majority | report but lost. The majority repo favoring the measure, then was ap- proved 34 to 11. CHILD LABOR BAR FAILS Nebraska Ratify Amendment. LINCOLN, Nebr., March 9 (#).—By a 68-t0-27 vote the Nebraska House Senate Declines to | LA PAZ, March 9.—Paraguay’s ef- | 0f Representatives today defeated all | fort to capture Villa Montes. Bolivian | chance for ratification of the Federal | army base, has virtually failed after | child labor amendment by the State | her armies suffered casualties esti- Legislature at the current session. | tives said Eye was crazed from drink- This afternoon Leaf River was re- ! ing moonshine whisky. ported stationary at Hattiesburg, with a slight additional rise expected. 'WEATHER MAY DELAY Possible Stratosphere Hop Today May Be Delayed—New Pro- peller Installed. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, March 9.—Installa- tion of a controllable pitch propeller today and a final test flight will com- plete preparations for Wiley Post's sub-stratosphere non-stop flight to New York. There was a possibility the globe girdler might take off tomorrow, but storm areas reported developing along the route probably will necessitate a delay. Post’s first attempt ended in the Mojave Desert, where he was forced down. Post said a foreign substance was found in the engine. His asso- ciates said it was analyzed as steel filings and emery dust. Post declared a sabotage attempt had been made on the plane, but declared he did not know who was guilty. —_— WRISTS CUT ON BUS Hlln‘ Traveler Treated at Wyo- ming Hospital. ; ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo, March 9 and hurried to a hospital. Apparently he hed slashed his Burke was remeined at Santa Rosa. The at- 1ng Wp" Iagyy todaye WILEY POST’S FLIGHT| wrists with a|gium, A 6-months-old daughter being nursed by Mrs. Eye narrowly escaped being struck by the first charge from the shotgun. Mrs. Eye fell on the baby and only the quick action of relatives saved the child from being smothered. Kinsmen said Eye had been drink- ing heavily the past week and paced the floor all last night. He previously had been treated at a State hospital for alcoholism. Relatives said they knew no reason for his act except drinking. ‘The couple is survived by four chil- dren, the eldest of whom is 9. BRAZIL COFFEE TRADE WARNED OF DARK DAYS Souza Costa Financial Mission Leaves Europe, Agreeing Marts Are in Danger. By the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, March 9.—Au- thoritative voices were warning Brazil of somber days closing in upon coffee as the Souza Costa financial mission left Europe for home today. Finance Minister Arthur de Souza Costa has completed a tour of Wash- ington, New York and London, seeking support for Brazil's Weakening foreign exchange just wher opposition and government leaders competition now threatens to d Braszilian cof- fee from world markets. Coffee represents \78 per cent of total annual exports of $200,000,000. e opposition suggests that Brazil is supplanted in its best mar- kets, the United States, Holland, Bel- Germany and Prance, because of taxes and surchirges imposed by from Oall- | Brazil on every sack fornia after & visit with his wife, who,| of the burning of more than 2,000,000 tons as a tending physician sald he was “pick- | prices under | ences to the British system and the mated at 8,000, the Bolivian war min- facts concerning the situation in the | District, a most interesting question arises as to whether it would be prac- | tical and desirable to elevate the status | of our Police Court to a criminal court | of general jurisdiction inferior only to the Supreme Court of the District d. e, to indictable offenses) and create in the various sections of the city magistrates’ courts to handle all the multiplicity of minor cases, these magistrates to be appointed by the President, but to serve without com- pensation or for $1 a year. “It would be extremely interesting U. S. Provides Armed Escort For Ducks on Northern Flight By the Associated Press. Driving against spoilers who are thinning the ranks of American wild- fowl, the Biological Survey declared yesterday that more than 500 game law violators had been arrested in a Nation-wide drive. A force of 58 agents of t.her l.’l“ur:?:“ working with Department o ce uentt.ll‘,‘ have followed the flights of wild ducks and geese southward, ar- resting violators ranging from those who merely had a few birds over bag limits to the “market gunners” who kill wholesale. Punishments ranging up to $500 fines and 60-day jail sentences have in Federal courts, in | Southern States and preparing to pro- game J. N. Darling, chief of the buresu, the work “decidedly effective.” up with the bureau’s work in istry announced today. The enemy's soldiers are beginning to refuse to fight in the face of the, stout Bolivian resistance, it said, each[ day bringing its quota of Paraguayan | soldiers who enter the Bolivian lines to give themselves up. A mass attack in the contral sec- | tor between Boyuide and the Parapiti | River, undertaken after 15 days of | preparation, was repulsed, the min- istry said, with more than 570 Para- guayan dead. b Heavy fighting continues through that sector. and nesting areas, it is a long step toward preventing the decimation of many species of ducks and geese, Dar- ling declared. Young and Callaghan exhibited a collection of “blunderbusses”—10-foot homemade guns of 1'2-inch caliber, which are crammed to the muzzle with powder and shot and fired into a raft of ducks or geese, killing hundreds with one charge. These and “battery guns,” which have a number of gun barrels mounted together and fired at once, are used by the market hunters who sell birds to hotels, restaurants and night clubs. They also showed a collection of rifies and shotguns seized from vio- lators and impounded pending sen- tence of the men concerned. The bureau’s agents are now work- ing on out-of-season shooting ceed northward again along the wild- fowl “flyways” to prevent ducks and geese from the necessity of running & thousand-mile gantlet of outlaw hunt- s’ guns, It was the first time since the issue was submitted to the State in 1925 that a direct vote was taken. February Circulation Daily.. 127,674 Sunday 32,058 District of Columbia. ss: S. H_KAUFFMANN._ Ascistant Business Manager of THE EVENING AND SUNDAY STAR. does solemnly swear that the ac- tual number of copies of the paper named $old and distributed during the month of February, AD. 1935. was as follows: H . PRS- wann Less adjustments .. Total net daily circulation .. Average daily net paid circula e R e R 126, Daily average number of coples for service. etc 1 Daily average met circulation SUNDAY, Conies. 187 Less adjustments . cii e TR Total Sunday net circulation. ... 528.232 —_— Average net paid Sunday circula- tlon ..... .. . 131,300 Average 'n service L 749 Average Sunday net circulation. .. 132,058 8. H. KAUFFMANN. Asst. Business Manager. and sworn to before me this arch A.D. 1935 ELMER F. YOUNT, Notary Publie. Subseribed P acreatiad) tseal)