Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1935, Page 5

SHEARER DISRUPT MONTION HEARNG Navy Advocate Moves on Members at Charge of Cowardly. (Continued Prom First Page) interests of his own country,” he was made to “walk the plank” by the ship- yards The latter wese induced to dismiss him, he said, under threat that a suit for $15,000,000 against Charles M. Schwab in connection with wartime steel contracts, would be pressed. “I hate to say it, because it is a boob word,” he declared. “But they not only saw that I didn't get work after that, but they persecuted me.” “Who persecuted you?” Clark asked. “I wouldn’t say the shipbuilders were helping me.” . He then declared the persecution had been extended to his daughter, a writer. whose stories, which he told the committee were once popular in many magazines, were suddenly no longer purchased. Her market was stopped, he said, when he filed a suit against the “big three” shipbuilding companies in 1929 for $250,000 for his services as a naval propagandist. Daughter Now Dead. “The minute that suit was filed,” he added, “she did not sell another item. They hit me the only way they eould—through my child.” He said his | daughter had died five months ago. | NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Cuban Leader Flees Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Fleeing in ezile, Carlos Hevia, 33, former President of Cuba, arrived in Miami, Fla., last night by airplane from Havana, where, he said, his life had been threatened. Hevia, an An- napolis graduate, is shown as he talked with United States officials upon his arrival. customs SENATE MAY SNAG PINK SLIP REPEAL Move to Kill Tax Publicity Faces Delay After Pass- ing House, 302-98. By the Associated Press. ‘The pink slip repeal drive advanced into somewhat more difficult terrain today after sweeping through a jubilant House by a vote of 302 to 98 yesterday. The Senate—where this law to kill | income tax publicity has now arrived —is the chamber which initiated the publicity move last year. Although an unofficial poll has indicated suffi- clent Senate strength to follow the House’s repudiation of the idea of making certain income tax figures public records, repealists concede they now are facing opposition. There was no defnite word as to when the test will come, “I want to expedite it,” said Chair- man Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, discussing the re- peal bill, “but I don’t want to inter- fere with the relief bill now pending in the Senate.” Harrison said he had been advised | by Secretary Morgenthau there could | be no publicity of March 15 tax re- | turns before October 1 and therefore there was no great hurry | During the House debate, which | ended in roaring opposition to the | ‘slip,” Representative Blanton, Demo- | crat, of Texas led the charge against | repeal, telling his Democratic friends | it was not an administration measure | and predicting: | He used the term “anti-American” | mgainst Bernard Baruch, friend of | Presidents: the Carnegie Peace Foun- | could be used as a club over the Navy | Committee, was a one-time foreign| it as dead as Hector and leave you | “You're going to see the Senate kill REICH AIR FORCE BARED TO WORLD; TREATY VIOLATED (Continued From First Page.) with German rearmament was adopt- ed by the French cabinet today while Socialists launched a campaign to de- feat it. Premier Pierre-Etienne Flandin ap- peared in the Chamber of Deputies Friday to explain the necessity for the bill which will hold this April's con- scripts in service 18 months and will initiate a two-year service in October —as compared .with the present con- script term of one year. SEEN OPEN VIOLATION. LONDON, March 12 (#).— The British government today -carefully considered an official report by the| German air ministry to the British aviation attache in Berlin on the for- mation of an official German air force. It was learned officially that this in- formation was given not only to Great Britain but to other powers and con- stitutes the first sign, according to British officials, that Germany has actually reported a breach of the armaments sections of the Versailles treaty. TEACHER'’S rim-:s TODAY Funeral services for Miss Jessie Blair Edmondson, mathematics teacher at Western High School since 1922, who died Saturday at Garfield Hospital, were to be held this afternoon at the Church of the Covenant. Burial will be in Oshawa, Ontario. Miss Edmondson, member of the Board of Admissions, was a native of Almonte, Ontario, and a graduate of Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa. She is survived by her mother and a TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1935. RITES FOR J. B. GREEN | PLANNED TOMORROW; Attorney and Handwriting Ex- pert Will Be Buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Funeral services for James Bryan Green, 65, Washington attorney and handwriting expert for the Govern- ment and private agencies, will be held at 9:15 am. tomorrow at the home of his sister, Mrs. James W. Cummings, 209 East Thornapple street, Chevy Chase, where he died of a heart attack Sunday. Requiem mess wili be offered 2t St. Pa Church, Fifteenth and V streets, a 10 am,, followed by burial in Mount | Olivet Cemetery. | Mr. Green, widely known because of his services in the Wan case here, ad practiced law in Washington ince his graduation from Manhattan niversity 43 years ago. His home was at 1324 L street. Besides Mrs. Cummings, Mr. Green leaves two other sisters, Mrs. W. M. McGregor, 1350 Spring road, and Mrs. Clarence Geoghegan of Panama, and a brother, Thomas Green of Texas. — Utah Has “Bread War.” SALT LAKE CITY, March 12 (P).— A “bread war” raged here today with three 12-ounce loaves retailing for a dime. The price previously was 6 | cents each. George R. Russell, ex- ecutive chairman of the Utah Baking Bureau, said wholesalers cut prices to meet competition from chain organ- izations. Before Selling Investigate the Prices We Pay Old Gold secret agent and agent provacateur | suspended in midair.” sister, Miss Beth Edmondson, both of for his government; that the com- | Washington. | mittee suppressed the evidence on | % @ this maz which had been presented | & o ior Sgont ron o L o : in their nands by Representative Mc- |~ “As to my being dismissed by the torney - for Matsui” in “trying to | ing Co. and Mr. Hoover's political | Fadden of Pennsyhiania. | shipbuilders, the facts of the case are break down the Japanese exclusion |adviser: that Mr. Andrew Mellon, then | «1 fyrther charge that an American | these: That the shipbuilders in- law.” Secretary of the Treasury, was & bond- | testified before the Sho:tridge com- |formed me that the then Secretary Before hearing Shearer, Senator |holder of the New York Shipbuilding ' mittee and committed perjury against | of State Kellogg protested my employ- Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan | Co. and a stockholder in the Bethle- |5 high ranking American admiral in | ment, presumably because I exposed | V dation; Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, ! Department to intimidate them fur- president of Columbia University, and | ther. I charge that the shipbullding others, including George W. Wicker- | policy at that time, 1929, was domi- sham, former Attorney General. nated by Mr. Henry M. Robinson, | The latter he described as the “at- | head of the Newport News Shipbuild- | Jewelry of every description, bridgework, silver. No matter how old or dilapidated any of foregoing articles might be you will be greatly surprised at the cash prices paid by us. (Licensed by U. S. Govt.) SHAH & SHAH brought out that the Navy Department handled its own cases for damages arising under contracts, such as for non-performance, although all other departments turned over such cases to Controller General McCarl. “No damages ever were collected, at Jeast from the Big Three yards. Isn't that true?” asked Vandenberg, direct- ing his question at Stephen Raushen- bush, committee counsel. “None that we can find,” Rausen- bush replied. “Is it a fact that the Big Three re- quested the Navy Department not to | subject itself to McCarl, but to keep its damage cases in its own hands?” Vandenberg proceeded. Confirmed by Letters. “We have letters showing Raushenbush replied. “From my long experience with naval officers, T am sorry to say much | in the past has been done to hurt| the morale of the United States Navy | by political pressure.” Shearer said. “I am sorry to say that the rea- son we have not a modern, fire- proof, up-to-date merchant marine is also political pressure; that a foreign | government has dominated our ma- rine policies, including marine wsur- ance and sometimes I question whcther | these fire traps such as the Morro | Castle, 3agovia and the sinkable tubs | like the Mohawk are not all a part | of the game to discourage the duild- ing of modern fire-proof American | ships.” 'We now come to the present situa- | tion that has been under discussion | before vour committee in reference to | shipbuilders and myself,” the witness continued. “During the investiga- | tion of the three major ship vards | & memorandum signed by C. L. Bardo | from the Shortridge hearings was 1ead before this committee.” | It was in the Bardo statement he | was alleged to have threatened to kill ‘Wakeman. “It was further brought out before | your committee that an attorney by | the name of Mr. Beer was employed | to gather information on me. That | attorney was paid $3,500 by Mr. Fer- | guson, according to Mr. Beer’'s let- ter, to end the Shearer investigation | to their liking. “What you failed to bring out was | that Mr. Beer actually did, therefore I charge that Mr: Beer attempted to have me framed and that the Depart- ment of Jusice was responsible for the Bardo memorandum being read before the Shortridge hearings. * * * “I charge that that committee was partial to the shipbuilders and at-\ tempted to destroy my suit against them; that the Big Three shipbuilders demanded a bill of particulars from me that would divulge every contact and conversation that I had with any naval officer at any time. “This bill of particulars would or | SMALL (PAYMENT i INSTALLS that,” | [ the sensational new i 'QUIET MAY %“Bu‘rncr Beautiful” {IMMEDIATELY * The new unit in the QUIET MAY Oil Heating System for medium and small homes at new re- duced price. Up to 24 months to pay the balance. 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