Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1935, Page 4

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Once again the Supreme Court in- tervened yesterday to save two Ne- groes sentenced to death in the fa- mous Scottsboro, Ala., cases, but it upheld the refusal of the Democratic party in Texas to permit Negroes to vote in its primaries. In effect, the highest tribunal or- dered new trials for both Clarence Norris and Haywood Patterson, two of the seven who probably would have been executed in 1932 had it not been for the court. New trials were ordered in the first instance after the court concluded that the men were denied representation by adequate counsel. Rights Held Violated. Chief Justice Hughes, in his opin- jon, said the constitutional rights of Norris and Patterson were violated because Negroes were excluded from jury service at their trials. “We think the evidence that no Negro has been called for jury serv- ice in Jackson County (where the trials were held) for a generation es- tablishes there had been discrimina- tion,” the Chief Justice said. Intense feeling has been aroused by the Scottsboro cases, which followed alleged assaults upon two white women by & group of colored men near the lit- tle Alabama town in 1831. “I am thrilled beyond words,” said Samuel S. Leibowitz, New York at- torney, who argued the case before the Supreme Court, when informed of the verdict. Lieut. Gov. Thomas E. Knight, jr., who, as Alabama attorney general, prosecuted Norris and Patterson, said that cases would be carried “to their conclusion.” Found Guilty by 90 Jurors. “Approximately 90 jurors have found the defendants guilty of the offense with which they are charged, and which is punishable by death,” he said. The Texas Negro voting controversy has been before the court at intervals since 1924. The decision yesterday was the fourth ruling by the court on an appeal by a colored Texan, assert- ing the right to vote in Democratic primaries. | Texas statutes which prevented Ne- groes from voting and which author- ized the State Democratic Executive | Committee to prevent Negroes from voting in primaries were declared un- constitutional by the court. But R. R. Grovey of Harris County | lost his appeal from the decision by the Texas Democratic Convention that | only white persons might vote in party | primaries. ! " “We hold the party was a volun- tary association and was competent to decide its membership,” said Justice | Roberts, who delivered the opinion. Busy Opinion Day. Returning after a two-week recess, | the court held one of the busiest opin- jon days of the session, although it failed to act on a pending New Deal | case, the constitutionality of the rail- | road pension act. Among the decisions were: | A ruling that an Oregon law regu- lating advertising by dentists is valid. 1 An opinion that Federal courts | handling the reorganization of bank- | rupt railroads have the right to pre- | vent, temporarily, the R. F. C. and | other holders of railway notes from | selling collateral. A decision that an Arkansas law extending the time in which owners | could redeem property sold for failure to meet assessments on improvement | district bonds is unconstitutional. ; The declaration that the 1932 Mis- sissippi law for reopening insolvent State banks s constitutional. The upholding, in effect, of a lower | court decision which dismissed a suit | brought by Pacific Air Transport of | Oakland, Calif,, in an effort to force Postmaster General Farley to reinstate its canceled airmail contract. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Cloudy to- night; tomorrow fair, not much change in temperature; lowest tem- perature tonight about 40 degrees; general northwest winds. Maryland—Cloudy, colder in ex- treme west portion tonight; tomorrow fair, colder in west portion. Virginia—Cloudy, colder in south- | west portion tonight; tomorrow fair, | colder in west portion. West Virginia—Cloudy, | colder tonight; | colder. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature. Barometer. Degrees. Inches. . 44 29.94 29.96 29.94 somewhat tomorrow fair and Yesterday— 4 pm. 8 pm. Midnight 29.92 29.92 29.93 Record for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 61, at noon today. Year ago, 84. Lowest, 42, at 4 am. today. ago, 52. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 80, on March 21. Lowest, —2, on January 28. Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 91 per cent, at 5§ a.m. today. Lowest, 63 per cent, at noon today. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) ‘Today. ‘Tomorrow. 6:50 a.m. 7:40 a.m. 1:10am. ~ 2:00am. 7:23 p.m. 8:14 p.m. . 1:44pm. 2:35p.m. The Sun and Moon. Year 3 Sets. Sun, today.... 5:53 6:31 Sun, tomorrow 5:52 6:32 Moon, today.. 5:01am. 5:54 p.m. Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month... 1935. Average. Record. January ... 527 355 7.00 '82 237 337 684 '84 375 884 '91 51 9.13 . 10.69 10.94 10.63 14.41 1745 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1935. Dog’s Howls Bare Murder Covnuright. A. P. Wirephotos. The dismal howls of Brownie, shown above with an officer, yes- terday led to the discovery of the bodies of Mrs. Nora Kelly, 60, and Florence McVey (inset), Mrs. Kelly's 18-year-old granddaughter. Both had been slain in their Brooklyn, N. Y., home. Below: Thomas McFarland, Mrs. Keily's son-in-law, who, according to po- lice, confessed the double murder last night after a long grilling. WIDOWER ADMITS DOUBLE SLAYING Argument Over Custody of Children Ends in Death of Woman and Girl. S | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, April 2.—Thomas | McFarland, 39, confessed last night to the slaying of his monther-in-law, | Mrs. Nora Kelly, 60, and her grand- | daughter in a humble Brooklyn home, | District Attorney William F. X.{ Geoghan of Brooklyn anounced. | McFarland broke under the strain | of questioning by police when he | heard his three daughters calling to | him from an outer room. “I'll tell you the truth and get it off | my mind,” McFarland muttered. Mrs. Kelly and her 18-year-old granddaughter, Florence McVey, were | found dead in the Kelley home yester- | day. Mrs. Kelly hung from a beam | in the casement of her home, Miss | McVey lay dead on the floor. McFarland, Geoghan quoted, went | to the home Sunday night. He had | been drinking and an argument was | started over the custody of his chil- dren, Marion, 14, and Anna and Edith, | 11-year-old twins. | The elderly woman picked up & chair, McFarland said. f Then “I saw black. I don’t know | what happened. I must have done it.” Mrs. Kelly until last June had cared for the three children, orphaned at the birth of the twins. But last June, McFarland said, he got a job and took | the children to his own apartment. The eldest kept their apartment in order. Despite differences with Mrs. Kelly, he continued, he occasionally dropped in to talk with her. SON RESIDES HERE. John Joseph Kelly Saw Mother Last | In 1931, John Joseph Kelly, son of Mrs. Nora Kelly, one of the slain women, resides at 411 Emerson street, this city. He learned of the slaying early this morn- ing and arranged to go to New York today. ] Kelly said he last saw his mother in | 1931 when he paid her a visit at her home in Brooklyn. His sister, the de- c wife of McFarland, he stated, | marfied McFarland after she had met him at Fort Hamilton, N. Y., where he was serving in the Army. 214 RETAIL LIQUOR VIOLATIONS FOUND Treasury Check of 1422 D. C. Stores Brings In Money Rapidly. . A check on retail liquor establish- ments here by Treasury revenue police last week disclosed 214 law violations out of 1,422 places visited and already has netted’ the Government $3,248.59 in taxes and penalties, it was an- nounced today by Arthur J. Mellott, deputy commissioner of internal rev- enue. The Government also has been offered $2,080 to compromise other cases while collections pending total $435.97, it was added. The check-up here was similar to those conducted in other large cities by revenue agents in a determined drive by the Treasury to break up vio- lations of the internal revenue laws. The drive was staged here between March 25 and 29, a large corps of agents being impressed for the work. The classification of the violations detected was as follows: Failure to pay special tax, 145; failure to post special tax stamp, 30; unstamped bottles, 5; unf beer stamps, 9; unattached strip stamps, 13; beer containers with no beer stamps at- tached, 2; refilled bottles, 1, and mis- cellaneous, which were referred to the enforcement squad, 10. The Treasury has collected thou- sands of dollars which otherwise would have been lost to the Gov- ernment as the result of these city- wide check-ups. Luggage—Repairing of All Leather Goods G.W.King, Jr,§11 11thSt.N.W. INVESTORS' FEARS ON BLL CALMED Pettengill Denies Holding Company Proposal to Auction Off Rights. By the Associated Press. Representative Pettengill, Demo- crat, of Indiana, yesterday inserted in the Congressional Record an asser- tion that utility investors “are not go- ing to be put on the auction block™ by congressional consideration of hold- ing company legislation. The statement of the high-ranking | member of the Interstate Commerce Committee went into the Congressional Record without a dissenting voice. At the same time, a utilities execu- tive, Wendell L. Willkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern, sent to the House committee a draft of sug- | gestions for regulation of holding companies. The draft was in exten- sion of oral testimony given by him recently. Restricts Abolition. Pettengill is author of a plan, lim- iting the abolition feature of the semi- administration utilities control bill be- fore that committee to intermediate holding companies instead of all the topside units. The committee, resuming sessions today, will complete the taking of op- position testimony this week and start | drafting the final measure, probably next week. Facts Sought. “I would like for the country to know,” Pettengill said, “that & group of fair-minded men is trying to ascer- tain the facts. They are proceeding with patience and without passion. They are hearing every side of the question. * * * “Despite excited statements that the bill as first drafted would be ‘rail- roaded’ through with only 12 hours for the utilties industry to present its case, the committee already has given the industry 48 hours and still more will be given. The defense has already exhausted more time than the pro- ponents, . “This brief recital ought to assure anxious investors that the case will be heard before it is judged and that judgement will be the result of reason —not emotion.” 5 i Sreeting Cards A large selection for every occasion Make someope happier by sending a greeting card ‘BrReweD Engravers and Printers 11 Twelfth Street, N. W. For the perfect JORY MARTINI DRY VERMOUTH Imported by W.A.TAYLOR & CO,,N. Y. BEITZELL & CO, P Ppistridatory EQUALITY FORU. 3. G0ODS DEMANDED Roosevelt Warns Countries Djscriminating in Note to Morgenthau. By the Associated Press. ‘To its policy of attempting to revive foreign trade by a series of give-and- take treaties with other countries the United States had added today an open warning that it will hit back at nations which discriminate against American goods. President Roosevelt made known that the Government is studying the question of ending existing trade pacts with Germany, Italy, Denmark and Portugal. As he proclaimed a new reciprocal treaty between Belgium and the United States the President out- lined the foreign trade policy in & let- ter to Secretary Morgenthau. Many Devices Utilized. ‘The President’s letter did not go into the details of the “discrimina- tion.” Economists long have been noting, however, & multiplioity of de- vices to channel trade in the modern world, including tariffs, exchange con- trols, quota systems and sanitary re- strictions. Germany, trying to increase German exports, trade balancing—a system whereby goods and services exchanged between two countries would balance. The State Department, in a statement yes- terday, rejected this idea. It held that allotment of foreign exchange, instead of being used to work toward such bi- lateral balancing, “should be adjusted to the natural flow of trade.” Italy controls imports by a highly centralized system. Some officials hold that the limitations discriminate against American foreign trade. The President’s letter warned that | unless nations grant ‘“equality of treatment” to the United States they will be denied benefits of reciprocal | trade pacts now being negotiated with | more than a dozen countries. Basis for Concessions Given. Dividing the world’s trading nations, big and little, into three categories, the President directed the Treasury De- vartment to extend all tariff reduc- tions and other concessions granted in the Belgian-American pact—which becomes effective May 1—on this | basis: 1. Canada, the Netherlands and its colonies, Spain, and Switzerland and Leichtenstein, which are now nego- | tiating trade pacts with the United States, are to be given advantage of the reduced rates for six months, de- spite the fact that they now are granting less favorable treatment to American trade than to other coun- tries. If the present negotiations are Dot completed within that time or if any of them fail to discontinue dis- criminations, the minimum rates ac- corded them will be automatically withdrawn 2. Germany, Italy, Denmark and Portugal and its colonies—which are considered as unjustly discriminating against American goods—are granted the reduced duties and concessions pending a decjsion as to whether trade pacts now in force should be terminated. Must End Discrimination. 3. Other countries will receive all benefits arising from the pact with- out time limit, but with a warning that some must be removed. The State Department’s statement | said: “Equality of treatment is the key- note of the foreign commercial pol- icy of the United States. The United States neither seeks nor accords preferential, discriminatory treatment advocates forced bilateral | “slight discriminations” | —it asks only that a foreign country treat American commerce no worse than it treats the commerce of any third country, and, in turn, accords equality of treatment to the commerce of foreign countries.” Government monopolies should, the statement declared, accord American procucers “a fair and equitable share of the market as nearly as can be de- termined by price, quality, etc., similar to a private commercial transaction.” NEGOTIATIONS UNAFFECTED, ROME, April 2 (#).—An announce- ment of President Roosevelt that he 1s considering denouncing the Italo- American trade treaty will not change the status of Italo-American trade negotiations scheduled to be started at Washington in May, authoritative quarters said here today. It was sald, however, that Italy probably will not send e special dele- gation to Washington next month as had been intended, but will rely upon the commercial attache and his assistants at Washington to conduct the negotiations. It was pointed out the United States was the only Nation which did not protest Italy’s recent drastic import regulations, which cut down imports to a maximum of 35 per cent of those of last year. Despite this lack of protest, how- ever, Italy already has been forced to increase her quotas of raw mate- rials she buys from the United States and probably will have to increase them again. m— RADIO GROUP TO MEET Informal Dinner to Precede En- gineers’ Gathering Monday. The Washington section of the In- stitute of Radio Engineers will hold its April meeting next Monday in the Potomac Electric Power Co. audi- | torium after an informal dinner at 16:30 pm. at Sholl's Cafe, 1219 G | street. 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