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. - ercion, which may not in themselves A2 . STRIFE ERA SEEN IN WAGNER BILL Business Expects Trouble From Failure to Curb Employe Coercion. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. American business leaders are say- ing that if Senator Wagner had en- titled his labor disputes bill “an act to increase unemployment and pro- mote industrial warfare in the United States” he could hardly have chosen & more appropriate title. For the bill, which now has been reported by the Senate and House Committees on Labor, is a measure to prohibit “unfair labor practices” on the part of employers and delib- erately omits any prohibition of un- fair labor practices on the part of one group of employes who may threaten, intimidate or coerce another group. This omission is recognized and even defended in the Senate com- mittee’s report and the reasons given are that it is really unnecessary. An amazing circumstance, however, is that the Senate committee models its proposed statute on the terms of the railway mediation act of 1934 and yet significantly ignores the fact that this law governing railroad labor does specifically provide a safeguard against coercion by one employe as against another. Text Quoted. Here is the text of the all-important provision on collective bargaining in | the railway mediation act: | “Representatives, for the purposes of this act, shall be designated by ‘the respective parties without inter- ference, influence. or coercion by either party over the designation of representatives by the other, and neither party shall in any way inter- | fere with influence or coerce the other | in its choice of representatives.” This law was approved by Congress and signed by President Roosevelt in June, 1934. If Senator Wagner would | accept such a provision for insertion | in his bill. 80 per cent of the oppo- sition to it would disappear and 90 per cent of the violence that has| grown up in labor disputes would be eliminated But while the Senate Labor Com- mittee is apparently anxious to show what an excellent precedent the rail- way mediation act is for various other | provisions which have been copied word for word and put into the Wag- ner bill, the section on coercion is evi- dently not regarded as good law. For here is what the Senate committ.e savs “One suggestion in regard to this bill has been advanced so frequently that the committee deems it advisable | to set forth its reason for rejecting it. This proposal is that employes and | labor organizations, as well as em- ployes. should be prohibited from in- terfering with. restraining or coercin employes in their organization activi ties or their choice of representatives. “Not Germane.” “The argument most frequently | made for this proposal is the abstract one that it is necessary in order to provide fair and equal treatment of | the employers and the employes. The bill prohibits employers from | interfering with the rights of the employes to organize. The corre- | sponding right of employers is that | they should be free to organize with- f out interference on the part of em- | ployes; no showing has been made | that this right of employers to organ- ize needs Federal protection as against employes. “Regulation of the activities of em- ployes and labor organizations in re- | gard to the organization of employes is no more germane to the purposes | of this bill than would be the regula- | tion of activities of employers and em- | ployer associations in connection with | the organization of employers in trade | associations.” The foregoing is quoted verbatim because it was unquestionably written for the Senate committee by the | American Federation of Labor. It has | been said over and over again by the | union leaders and completely ignores | the fact that nobody ever heard of | any employes trying to interfere with associations of fellow employers and | that industrial disputes involve almost always some form of coercion or in- timidation or violence by non-union versus union men. Throughout the | history of America, the quarrel over the right to work and the protection afforded workers by law has been a | t;azm chapter of death and blood- shed. Coercion Continues. | | The idea of collective bargaining | has been that workmen could choose their own spokesmen and that, if necessary, the Government would see that a secret ballot election would be held. But the election at Toledo last week proved conclusively how inter- ference and coercion between fellow- workmen prevents a free choice uri decision by the laboring men who want to go back to work. If a labor group happens to lose | a collective bargaining election ther is nothing to prevent its “strong-arm” men or its boycotters or other auxil- iary forces from making threats that cause a minority to be turned into & majority through forced member- ships. Shops and plants free from industrial trouble for years have had violence because there is no protec- | tion to the man who really doesn’t want to affiliate with any outside la- bor union or who prefers the plant ‘union thet costs him less and ac- complishes just as much in most in- stances as outside unions claim. | The A. F. of L. strategy is to pre- ‘vent any organizers from being sub- Ject to Federal law. The contention is made that violence is punishable by local State laws, But the evils which the railway mediation act plainly rec- ognizes, such as intimidation and co- involve violence or be reachable by State laws, are specifically met in the railroad labor statute. Criticized by Moley. Will Congress write as fair a law for all labor as it has for railroad labor? This is the question brought to an issue by the omissions of the ‘Wagner bill, which, incidentally, has not yet been approved by President Roosevelt. In fact, Raymond Moley, spokesman for Mr. Roosevelt, has criticized these very weaknesses in the bill, pointing out that while it pur- to be & bill defining a number of “unfair labor practices,” they are in reality “unfair employer practices” | and, he says, “unfair employe or union practices are not defined” in the Wagner bill. If the Wagner proposal becomes law without any amendment to pre- vent employes from coercing each other, it will bring on an era of indus- trial strife unparalleled in American (Copyright 1935.) Hopeful in Scotland. ‘Business men of Scotland are more optimistic than they have been in years, L) | money unless their credit What’s What Behind News In Capital Mayors Camp Near White House for Share of Relief Fund. BY PAUL MALLON. RAFFIC is jamming up around | | President Roosevelt’s $4,000,- 000,000 pap barrel. The place has been overrun lately with Governors and mayors or their special representatives. The boys are crowding in from far and near, trying to arrange quietly for their swig of that four billion. All are promoting pet projects back home. The crowding has become so close that the mayors have actually estab- lished a Washington headquarters. The official Conference of Mayors is open- ing up offices in an old brownstone front edifice, half a block -from the ‘White House. Only one lobbying out- fit is nearer to the Executive Mansion, and that is the Women’s Peace Organi- zation. Of course, the mayors insist they are not lobbying. In a sense, that is true. There is no doubt that the re- | lief program requires States and cities | to have representatives on the job here | to look out for their interests. Their | relations with the Federal Govern- ment have become so extensive that Senators and Representatives can no longer handle the job effectively. An old ex-tariff lobbyist stood be- | fore the new mayors' lobby building | recently and pondered how times have | changed. In the old days, & lobbyist | was any hired man who wore a red necktie and diamond scarf pin while seeking to influence the processes of Government. This gentry has passed away. Groups Are Spreading. | In their places have grown up groups which seem to be endlessly | spreading. A few years ago, the fore- | most_groups with Washington lobby- | ing headquarters were those of the veterans, manufacturers, labor, etc. The New Deal has developed such new | high-powered publicity promoting out- | fits as the Commit’ee for the Nation, | led by Wall Street money agitators: | THE EVENING STAR, WASH CRASH AND DEATHS MAR WAR GAMES Two Destroyers Crippled by Collision and Plane Falls Into Sea. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, May 13.—The might- fest naval concentration in Pearl Harbor’s history—42 sleek warships— rode at anchor today ewaiting orders for a westward dash in secret ma- neuvers involving a supposed at- tacker of Hawaii. A grim reality was thrust into the maneuvers, meanwhile, in the acci- dental death of two men in the collision of two destroyers and the crash of a naval airplane. Richard Chadwick, gunner's mate, second class, of Blissfleld, Mich.,, was killed early yesterday when the de- stroyer Lea crashed into the stern of the Sicard while patrolling against theoretical submarines. Four men were slightly hurt. Flyer of San Diego Killed. Lieut. Mathias B. Wyatt, 26, San Diego, was killed when his plane crashed into the ocean after taking off from the aircraft carrier Saratoga. The two destroyers crashed in dark- ness off Pear] Harbor. Prompt action by the damage control officer was de- clared to have saved the Lea from sinking. The collision rendered the Sicard helpless, and it was taken in tow by & mine sweeper. The Lea and Sicard had preceded the fleet through the Kaiwi Channel and were weaving a patrol against the submarines when the sharp prow of the Lea cut over the fantal of the Sicard, cutting away most of the ward room quarters. Marines Prepare to Land. Comdr. G. A. Miller skippered the Lea, and Comdr. 1. G. Peyton the sicard. Admiral Joseph M. Reeves, commander in chief, disclosed a new development in the extensive war | games with announcement that e| marine expeditionary force had been brought from San Diego to an un- disclosed point not far from its goal. When these sea soldiers land, the Navy will have witnessed a big phue‘ in the annual training maneuvers and | the most extensive series of strategy tactics ever played by such a force. | Both the expeditionary force, com- | the Union for Social Justice, led by a Detroit priest; the American Liberty | League, and now the Conference of | Mayors. Just for the information of mayors, | they need not weep about the state- | ments being put out by the New | Dealers (Hopkins, et al.), implying | that cities are not going to get much | is good | and they can borrow it from the Gov- rnment. The situation on that is that Mr. Hopkins wisely wants to give away Just as little money as possible. He would rather lend it. However, the financial situation of most of the cities is mo secret. If their credit range should ever be made the strict test, they would never get any money. But Hopkins must give them the money because the relief problem is largely in thew hands. Also, many cities loom larger than States in the fiscal and public works fields. For instance, the 10 largest fiscal units of Government are: The Federal Government, five big cities and four States, ranking in that order. New York city spends more for its police than 35 States do for their entire government. i Hopkins merely wants to make the | cities borrow wherever possible before the free Federal money starts to flow. Inflationists Step In. The overlooked fact behind the existing bonus controversy is that it is | not primarily a bonus controversy. ‘What has happened is that the in- flationists in Congress stole the bonus issue to promote their money ideas. Representative Patman, author of the prevailing bill, has always been a bonusite, but primarily he is an in- flationist. He lives, breathes, walks | and talks the easy money issue. The | character of the men who put his bill | over in the Senate shows the distinc- tion even more clearly. Every sena- torial page boy knows that Senater Thomas never ceases to let his money ideas guide all his actions. And no one ever saw Huey Long fulminating about the soldiers before. It was perfect inflationist strategy. By swiping the bornus issue and making it their own they managed to develop their mazimum possible support in Congress for their real issue. Talk has developed in Congress lately about changing the powers of the Supreme Court. It is only talk. What started it, of course, was the 5-to-4 decision outlawing the railroad pension system. Representative Ram- say of West Virginia, who is a very good lawyer, has formally proposed a constitutional amendment in the House. It would prevent inferior courts from invalidating acts of Con- gress and permit the Supreme Court such power only by a two-thirds vote. Representative Lewis of Maryland has dug up an old unpassed Borah bill of 1923 which would require a vote of 7 to 2 for invalidation of congressional laws. The interesting part of Borah's old proposal is that it assumed Con- gress could change court procedure without a_constitutional amendment. The only thing the Constitution says on the subject is that the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdic- tion (article 3, section 2, paragraph 2) over acts of Congress. This talk always arises when the court invalidates a popular congres- sional act. Nothing will be done about it now. Court Decision Bars Way. Labor leaders are willing to confess, off the record, that they see no way to write a railroad pension act getting around the Supreme Court decision. Five functioning justices of the Su- preme Court are over 70, but other Federal employes are required to re- sign when they reach that age. Mrs. Roosevelt’s friend, Representa- tive Caroline O'Day. argued in & con- gressional hearing that men have de- stroyed women’s historic place in the home by inventing machines to do her housework, thus causing her to seek new friends outside. So they blame even women’s new freedom on men. manded by Brig. Gen. Charles H.| Lyman, and the mighty main battle | fleet that swept into Pearl Harbor yesterday from San Francisco, are in | battle trim, and ready for another | sea dash on a moment’s notice. Submarines Trail Fleet. | ‘The time for departure of Admiral Reeves' “White Fleet” was not dis- closed, but the crippled destroyers Lea and Sicard will be left behind. The world’s most powerful under- sea force, submarine division 12, which trailed the fleet across the Pacific, but could not deliver an “at. | Farmers Arriving to Sing Praises of New Deal {FARMERS ARRIVE FORA. A. A. “JUBILEE” MORE ARE EXPECTED ‘cmphancnlly the adjustment admin- | istration is in no way officially con- nected with the “march.” “This is a farmers’ movement all through. right from the grass said Lassen. South Dakota | the roots The delegation naval | pralsed the processing tax and the | production control plan in theory as well as action “When the business men are will- | ing to tear down tariff walls and sell in an open market, we won't ask for INGTON, D. C., (Continued From First Page.) | A delegation of S8outh Dakota farmers arriving at the Harrington Hotel to take part in the meeting tomorrow of 3,000 beneficiaries of farm aid under the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. MONDAY, MAY 13, 1935. —A. P. Photo. the processing tax,” said Frank Ro- | bertus of Charles Mix County. Delegates hurried to Capitol Hill as soon as they arrived to confer with | their Senators and Representatives. | Day said the movement bore out | | his belief 90 per cent of the farmers | want the A. A. A. continued. | Meanwhile, the House Committee | | on Agriculture prepared for a meet- | | ing today to revive weakened A. A. A. | amendments already reported to the | | House. | Day wants “to offset some of the | | noise” raised against the A. A. A. by | | cotton textile interests, who claim | | Japanese textile interests are noodmn‘ the American cotton market. | “We felt the administration needed | | some support up here,” he declared. | Trains moved from South, West and | Northwest today toward the Capital | bringing the thousands of men, many | | swung on their Pullmans, in which | handlers of less than 250 quarts of with their wives and older children, | by Representative August H. Andresen, in a pllgrimage of thanksgiving to | Farmer-Labor, Minnesota. the Government. | ., Andresen, in & minority report on Reports from North Carolina stated | the A. A. A. smendments, charged 1,500 cotton and tobacco farmers from | the idea originated with the Adjust- that State will join «he demonstra- | ment Administration’s County Pro- tion. Nearly 100 Wake County farm- | duction Committees. ers left in cars and busses yewerdnyi He asked that broadened A. A. A. and today. powers, designed to permit licensing At the same time nearly 500 farmers | of processors and providing an export boarded & train at Longview, Tex., for bounty, be limited to milk and cream, the 2,000-mile trip here. As the men | with milk products eliminated and they will live while here, they de- | milk per day exempt. nounced administration critics, pro- | while New England manufacturers claimed better times than ever before continued to rain their protests and devoured tamales. | against the processing tax, Day de- From Chicago 62 Nebraskans pushed i clared: on to Washington last night “to back | “This is the first time the farmers Henry Wallace and the A. A. A" have had such a common cause and Inspiration of the march was laid we want to offset some of this op- last night at the door of the A. A. A, | position noise that has been raised which vigorously denied the charge, | by a few of the disgruntled farmers.” Lost in Pacific NAVY PLANE CRASHES DUR- ING MANEUVERS. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. tack.” came in hours after the other | warships yesterday. | Another powerful unit of the 153 maneuvering war vessels is assembled | in the vicinity of the Aleutian Isiands, | northern extremity of a 5.000,000 | square mile area in which the war, game is being plottedd. | No casualties were reported from| this unit, although it was known to| have been buffeted by some of the| worst storms in the records of Pacific maneuvers. The main fighting elements of the fieet anchored shortly after dawn yes- terday in Pearl Harbor, one of the world's most strongly fortified naval| bases. Details of Flight Revealed. Admire Reeves, who also is chief | “umpire” of the maneuvers, had led | the battleships, cruisers and destroy- | ers on a nine-day fighting cruise over | a circuitous course from San Fran- | 0. Shortly after his arrival. Admiral Reeves revealed a few details in the mass fight of 43 naval seaplanes which took off from here last Thurs- day, supposedly for Midway Island. | 1,323 miles northwestward. | ‘While not revealing the whereabouts | or destination of the planes, the commander in chief said the flight| involved one landing en route. The | air armada was directed from the | heavy cruiser Chester at the western | terminus of the flight, it was reported | Admiral Reeves emphasized secrecy was vital in this great overwater mass flight because it was such an impor- tant phase of the maneuvers. y VICTIM ANNAPOLIS GRADUATE. Lieut. Wyatt, Killed on Maneuvers, Native of South Carolina. By the Assoctated Press. Navy records showed today Lieut. Mathia B. Wyatt, Navy aviator killed in an airplane crash as part of the fleet approached Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was born in Easley, S. C,, on October 30, 1907. He was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1929, afterwards serving on the battleships Idaho and California before being assigned to flying duty. By the Associated Press. TODAY. Senate. Debates T. V. A. amendments. Banking Committee hears Marriner 8. Eccles on omnibus banking bill. Finance Committee considers social security legislation. House. Takes up legislative appropriation bill. Interstate Commerce subcommit- tees work on holding company control bill. TOMORROW. House. Continues general debate on legisla- tive appropriatior. bill. Piscal Affairs Subcommittee of House District Committee resumes hearings on the Ellenbogen rent bill at 10 am. Senate. On the floor: Amendments to Ten- nessee Valley development law. Pinance Committee: Bxecutive on social security bill. District of Columbia Committee: Scheduled to meet at 3 o'clock, but may be a later most mileage is Representative Wall- gren of Everett, Wash. He lives far- thest away. The one who gets the least is Representative Smith of Alexan- dria, Va., who lives across the river from the Capital (Copyrishi. 1038 A LIEUT. MATHIAS §. WYATT, The 26-year-old flver of San Diego, Calif., who was lost during the fieet maneuvers in the Pacific last week. His plane. from the aircraft carrier Saratoga, dived into the ocean without leaving a trace. DECISION AGAINST SNYDERIS UPHELD Former U. S. Marshal Lia- ble for Damage Done by Rain to Furniture. ‘The District Court of Appeals today supported a Municipal Court decision holding Edgar C. Snyder, former United States marshal, liable for dam- age done by rain to furniture moved out of a residence by his deputies. “We think that a marshal execut- ing a writ of restitution should be llable for damage caused by rain or other natural causes, as well as by his own breakage, if it comes to the goods by reason of his negligent conduct, or | an undue exposure reasonably foresee- | able,” Justice William Hitz stated. | The Municipal Court suit was brought by Leo J. and Helen V. Hart for damage allegedly done their prop- erty when they were dispossessed Au- gust 10, 1933, from their home at*619 M street northeast. They obtained a | $250 judgment. The marshal sent a letter of noti- fication to the Harts that a writ of restitution had been issued and when his deputies arrived the next morn- ing to dispossess the Harts, they found the couple away from home and the notice unopened in the mail box. The court said the marshall had 10 days in which to execute the writ and should have given reasonable notice of his intentions. “The power of the marshall to cut off his liability for damage occurring after removal by giving reasonable notice of his intention to evict, or by making reasonable effort to give such notice, affords ample protection to him,” stated the court in laying down a rule for future conduct. L CLOSED BANKS HELD LIABLE FOR TAXES The District Court of Appeals held today insolvent banks still are liable for personal property taxes and such taxes may, if necessary, be pald out of assessments against stockholders. It authorized the District Supreme | Court to issue & writ of mandamus | against Cary A. Hardee, receiver for |the closed Federal-American Na- tional Bank & Trust Co. directing him to file & tax return. District had The Commissioners the lower court for the dismissed applied PUBLIC WL SEE DECATUR HOLSE |Beales Will Open Historic | Place for Benefit of Thrift Shop. Decatur House, where Stephen De- catur died of wounds received in & duel on the Bladensburg road, and where many famous men have resided, will be thrown open to the public for the first time May 22 and 23 for the benefit of the Thrift Shop of Wash- | ington and its five member organiza- | tions. The historic house, at the corner of ' Jackson place and H street, was built | by Commodore Decatur with prize money from the sale of captured ships in the War 1812 and was designed by Benjamin H. Latrobe, architect of the Capitol and of St. John's Church. | Mr. and Mrs. Truxtun Beale, pres- | ent owners of the house, are co-oper- ating with Mrs. John R. Williams, | chairman of the Thrift Shop. They | have agreed to show their home and | | its many treasures of historic interest | relating to its owners, both past and present. The house will be open from | 11:30 am. to. 6:30 p.m., on the two | days of the benefit. Visitors will be shown the garden adjoining the old slave quarters and the stable which housed the two famous black Arabian stallions presented to Gen. Grant by the Sultan of Turkey. Guides will show the visitors around and explain the interesting objects. ‘The two lower floors of the house are to be exhibited. Tea will be served | in the garden, with Mrs. Henry La- | trobe Roosevelt, whose husband, the | Assistant Secretary of the Navy, is & direct descendant of the architect, as hostess. A detachment of Marines will be stationed at the door of the house. After the house was vacated by De- catur’s widow it was occupied by & procession of famous men. First came the Russian Minister, Baron de Tuyl, and his wife; then came three Secre- tarles of State, Henry Clay, followed by his successor, Martin Van Buren. When the cabinet of Andrew Jackson was dissolved Edward Livingston was the third Secretary of State to live there. The next occupant was Sir Charles Vaughan, British Minister to the United States. Right after the Civil War Gen. Ed- ward Fitzgerald Beale bought the house. Both the old general and his son Truxtun, the present owner, have carefully preserved the traditions of the old house. Proceeds from the exhibition will go to the five member organizations of the Thrift Shop of Washington, the Children's Country Home, the Children’s Hospital, the Child Wel- fare, Columbia Hospital Prenatal Clinic and the Junior League for their care of sick children of the District. BRAKE INSPECTION | URGED BY NEILSON| Prettyman’s Aide Declares Court Docket Shows Need of More Stringent Rule. A steady increase in the number of bad-brake cases taken into Police Court resulted in a recommendation today to Corporation Counsel E. Bar- rett Prettyman by one of his Police spection of the safety devices of auto- mobiles be inaugurated here. The recomendation was made by Assistant Corporation Counsel George D. Neilson, who declared his experi- ences in Police Court have convinced him that the traffic regulations, espe- cially with respect to brakes, are in- adequate and should be changed or broadened. Attention of the corporation counsel was called to the laws of Virginia and Massachusetts which require semi- annual inspection of brakes, steering, lights, horns, windshield wipers and other safety devices. Anti-Vivisection Drive. BURGLAR SELZED N POLICE CHASE Fourteenth Street Capture Expected to Solve Nu- merous Rebberies. Captured Police today expected to solve| numerous recent burglaries through | the capture early yesterday of a man who dived through a screen and glass | window into a first-floor apartment | at 4024 Fourteenth street to escape | a rain of bullets from police. The fugitive, reported to have a police record, was captured by officers | in the apartment after the occupants, | Mr. and Mrs. James R. Morgan, 65 and 55 years old, respectively, had climbed through a window 6 feet above the ground to be out of line of fire. KELLY WESTON HOLMES. MAN AND WOMAN HELD ARMY PROBE FINDS L0BBY EVIDENGE Prominent Lawyer, Former Witness, Is Recalled in Committee Quiz. BY REX COLLIER. Reopening behind closed doors its investigation of Army business deal- ings, the House Military Affairs Com- mittee has uncovered important new evidence in connection with lobbying conditions which were the subject of a grand jury inquiry. Joseph Silverman, jr.. dealer in sur- plus Army supplies, whose activities at the War Department precipitated the grand jury investigation more than a year ago, has been questioned by the committee concerning & mass of documents received by investigators for the House group. A prominent lawyer-lobbyist who was & witness before the jury and before the committee some time ago will be recalled for interrogation as & result of the renewed inquiry. Evidence Brought Here. ‘The documentary evidence recently was brought from New York at the instance of W. Frank James, former Michigan Representative and now counsel for the committee. The pa- pers are said to belong to Silverman Silverman was barred from further negotiations with the War Depart- ment just prior to the launching of grand jury proceedings. His “asso- ciates” — undesignated — also were placed on the department’s blacklist at that time. The grand jury questioned ‘more than 40 witnesses, inciuding high War Department officers, but returned no | indictments. Instead, the jury made a special report to Secretary Dern condemning lobbying conditions at the department. ; Favoritism Charged. ‘The inquiries by the grand jury and the House committee revolved | around alleged favoritism in award- ing certain contracts sought by verman and by automobile firm rep- | resentatives. As an outgrowth of one phase of the inquiry the House committee made | vigorous representations to Secretary | Dern about alleged unethical prac- | tices participated in by several high | Army officers engaged in procurement work. The charges of the committee | were investigated by the inspector general’s office and prompted Secre- | tary Dern to issue a severe rebuke to | Col. Joseph I. McMullen, chief of the | patents section of the judge advocate | general's office. * Col. McMullen was accused of having private business re- lations with firms doing business with the Army. Activities of another high officer are known to be under inquiry at the Capitol and at the War Department BOATMAN DROWNS OFF HAINS POINT Police Seek Body of Aloysius White Who Fell Into River in Starting Launch. Aloysius Wh'ue, 42, a painter at | the Capitol, was drowned vesterday afternoon. when he slipped from his | launch just after hoisting anchor and | starting the engine about 300 yards off Hains Point. Police were dragging The man, later identified by finger- prints as Kelly Holmes, was booked | at No. 10 police station as Abe Stein, | 30. He ;i“hauc‘lm.l byMPr":ecmct De‘-l tective Richart . McCarty an - Poticamén 'J7 C) Danldhs ane 0 K|, DPCSENGACK, N J. May 13-4 Hamilton when they found him hid- | ™D and & woman were under arrest den in & closet in the Morgan apart- | today and three other persons were ment. The chase started about a block away when Policemen E. E. Hall and | 108 0f Eddie J. Martin, whose body H. B. Mammersla, who were look- | Was dumped out in Hohokus Priday. ing for a burglar, started to Guestion | William Prank Keefe, 35, and Mrs. the man on the street. | Loretta Martin, 28, described as the Two Homes Burglarized. | common law wife of the slain man, Two private residences had been Were held burglarized 8 short time before. In| Chief of County Detectives Henry one of the homes, located st 1308 B. Lockwood said Keefe and Martin Randolph street, Abraham M. Ehr- | escaped from the Atlanta Peniten- lich had grabbed a man in the dark | tary in 1933 and possibly both men nall, thinking it was his 16-year-old | had been involved in the spectacular son Raphael returning home. | $490,000 armored car hold-up In Mr. Ehrlich was trying to frighten | Brooklyn last Summer. his son, but soon discovered his mis- | Lockwood said Martin was an take. The burglar hit Mr. Ehrlich on | aviator, and he pointed out that an the wrist, releasing his griup, and, | airplane had figured prominently in throwing & flashlight beam in his | the Brooklyn armored car hold-up. face, he escaped by a back door. L= % 5 Drawers and pockets to clothing in | the downstairs rooms were found ran- | sacked, but nothing was discovered missing. The fuses to the lighting system previously had been pulled out by the intruder. | A burglar lkewise had awakened | occupants and taken a small amount | of change from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Max Brody, 1517 Upshur street. Shots Awaken Morgans. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan were awak- ened by shots fired outside by police- men who said Stein fired at them from the Morgan rear porch, after having tried unsuccessfully to enter the apart- ment through a side door. Stein then dived through the win- dow as police closed on him from sev- eral sides after he had run up a flight of steps leading to the porch. Mr. Morgan called to the officers that a man was in the apartment. ‘The police then advised him and Mrs. Morgan to leave while they sought to capture the intruder. Numerous other burglaries in the neighborhood had caused police offi- cials to place special details of plain clothesmen in the section. FRENCH CITY ELECTIONS SHOW DRIFT TO LEFT Communist Party Gains in Paris, but Moderate Majority Vir- IN RIDE SLAYING PROBE By the Associated Press. HIGH COST OF ACCIDENTS. If you want to get the low-down on the high cost of accidents just “ask | the man who's had one!” | Some 20 years ago an ambulance delivered an automobile accident vic- hunted by police in probing the slay- | tim to a certain hospital. At last | { the river today for the body, after | making unsuccessful efforts to find | it until last midnight. | _The two woman guests aboard. Mrs. J. L. Johnson and Mrs. Anna Gibson, 4100 Fourteenth street, were unable | to steer the boat or stop the engine, and the craft ran into the seawall at the point. There they called for | help. Later the women accompanied police to the spot where White was drowned, in an effort to aid in finding the body. White lived at 310 N street southwest. THREE HELD IN DEATH OF GEORGIA PLUMBER By the Associated Press. LA GRANGE, Ga., May 13.—E. O. Wright, middle-aged La Grange plumber, was found beaten to death | In his home here last aight and police | today had three colored men in jail | for investigation. Police Chief O. H. Horn said that no evidence had been found against any one of the three, but that they | had either worked for Wright or had been in the neighborhood | Horn said Wright lived alone in a small house and that his body was | found by Pat Mowry, a filling station operator. “Wright was lying on the bed, his shoes off and his head beaten in by a plece of iron pipe,” Chief Horn said. “The pockets of his trousers had been | turned inside out, but the slayer, or slayers, had missed $15 he had in his watch pocket. Apparently, he had been killed as he slept.” April Circu]ntion Daily...126,967 Sunday 132,382 Digtrict of Commbia. <. FLEw EWBOLD. Business Manage of THE EVENING AND SUNDAY STAR. does solemnly swear that the actual num- ber, of cobles of the pape: named sold and stributed during the mont A58 e e foltowsionin of Avril DAILY. Con! Dwaonmieny H | Court aides that a semi-annual in- | tually Unchanged. By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 13.—A slight drift to- ward the left was disclosed today by the returns from yesterday’s munici- reports he was still there, a helpless | i cripple with limbs paralyzed and i — of speech gone. He has never | Less adjustments. .. been identified. Day after day, Year | ., ne gaily circulation after year, he sits immovable in his | ... ce daily net paid circula o pal elections, in which the Commun- | wheel chair, a living, breathing work | DR erige” Tiuiibes ‘of copies 125870 ista profited at the expense of the | of mm;‘;uedl’h;m;smmt:;fi Joot| 107 derviee: 0. IS wuan The Paris Municipal Council will | their lives in suto accidents—the | Daily average net circulation.... ~ 126.967 have eight Communists instead of | highest motor vehicle death toll in SUNDAY one, but the moderate majority will | history. But such cases as the one Davs. 5o D Smies. be unchanged. Of the 855 | just referred to forcibly remind us |14 [ 1370191 fa 3 towns of more than 5,000 population, radical Soclalists won control of 221, Socialists or 168, left Republicans of 145, Republic Democrats of 99 and Communists of 90. Communists showed gains in 43 towns, while Socialists lost strength in seven. Complete calm was reported in most of France except in Laon and Seclin, A new anti-vivisection war has been started in Scotland. where Communists clashed with police and seversl were injured. L that accidents sometimes deal out a | fate worse than death. Less sdjustments. In addition to 35,500 deaths, more | ., than s million others were injured, including about 100,000 permanently disabled. The economic loss is esti- mated at $1,500,000,000, including Sunday net circulation.. . Average net paid Sunday eircula- tion . 2 sise . TED00 Average serv; tes ‘for e Sunday net circulation. I FLEMING NEWB! Business Manager and sworn :'n before me this May. AD. 1935. “¥ SLMER P. YOUNT Notary 1y e s (Beal) Isn't it a pretty high price to pay recklessness on the altar of ? Pikise. £ [} -