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KEYSTONE STATE COAL STRIKE ENDS Between 1,500 and 2,000 Men Return to Work After | 4 Months of Violence. By the Ascociated Press. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., June 7. four-month siege of mine strike vio- lence ended today in the Luzerne- Lackawanna anthracite fields with registration of the Glen Alden Coal ! Co.'s striking employes for work. Between 1500 and 2.000 men go back to their jobs in the next few days under a newly ratified agree- ment Thousands more—idle since Feb- ruary 2 in the United Anthracite Min- ers of Pennsylvania’s fight for recog- | nition—are to return as fast as the company can place them The youthful union’s triumph in its tussele with the older United Mine Workers of America came yesterday after months of violence and court battles and hundreds of dynamitings. Where injunctions and jail terms failed conciliatory efforts of Nanti- coke business and professional men succeeded in ending the walkout Fight of 13 Anthracite Workers Union locals agreed vesterday t peace pact, which District Presid Thomas Maloney said carried these main_ points 1. No discrimination thracite Union members 2. Recognition of the new union 3. Continiied mediation on the part | of the Nanticoke merchants between the company and the miners. “Y" HERE T0 REVIEW 83 YEARS’ ACTIVITY| b the ent against An- Annnal Reunion and Dinner Will | Be Held by Old Timers' Club Today. The Young Men's Christian Associ- ation will review its 83 years of ac- fivity in Washington at the annual reunion and dinner of the Y. M. C. A, Old Timers' Club today at 545 p.m. in the Central Y. M. C. A, Eighteenth and G streets William E. Sweet, former Governor of Colorado and now with N. R. A headquarters here, will speak. He was president of the Denver, Colo Y. M. C. A for a quarter of & century, and has been active in national and international affairs of the Y. M. C. A Veteran members of the association will swap reminiscences of association history. The local Y. M. C. A. was one of the first organized in the United States. having been founded on June 9. 1852, at & meeting of a &mall group of young men in a build- ing which stood at the corner of Tenth and E streets. All members of the “Y" who have been on the rolls for 10 years or more have been invited to the reunion Justin - Lawrie, choir director at Foundry M. E. Church, will sing “old timers' " songs. C. W. Pimper, chairman of the reunion committee, will preside, Bonus (Continued Prom First Page.) | be a system of taxes on the receipt of inheritances and gifts.” A few days ago Thomas announced the bonus would be “‘taken to the peo- ple” and brought up at the next ses- sion of Congress because supporters had determined they could not mus- ter sufficient Senate voles now W override a presidential veto. He said today, however, confident a bonus “rider” hooked on the tax bill Patman said any further bonus move at thig session would be up to its Senate supporters. since the ques- tion is no longer “germane” in the House. Representative Vinson, Democrat, of Kentucky, who sponsored the American Legion bonus bill. rejected for the Patman measure, has insisted right along that the issue was not dead. and has said he was “waiting for a break.” Veterans Remain Hopeful. Many observers believed the tax bill, if it should materialize, might be the “break.” Legislative representa- tives of both the Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars also have not aban- doned hope of further action this Summer. Congressional leaders said privately the President has been considering the tax bill for two purposes—to pro- vide $300.000.000 to $600,000.000 in new revenue in 1936 and to replace the N. R. A. as a means of spreading wealth. In the face of considerable specu- Jation that the taxes might be re- quested in a special message to Con- gress, the White House was silent. FALL KILLS PAINTER Efforts were being made today to Iocate relatives of Lee Hayes, 40, & painter, who was killed yesterday when & scaffold on which he was working at 65 M street broke, throwing him to the ground about 25 feet. below. Police learned the man was a former resident of Louisville. he was could be Welcomes Mme. Copyright, A. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, T. Lebrun P. Wirephoto. The wife of President Lebrun of France, left, is shown visiting with Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of thi yesterday. TREASURE VESSEL REPORTED FOUND Wreck of Gold-Laden Ship, Lost in 1721, Believed Located Off Finland. | By the Associated Press HELSINGFORS, Finland, June 7— A fabulous Russian treasure ship, which ancient lore says sank in 1721 with “14 large oa.rels of gold” in its hold, was reporied yesterday to have been located by deep-sea divers Excitement ran high at the report although there remained no Acfinite assurance the wrock discoverca near here was that loug sought The ill-faled Russian tax-coliecling ship, luden witn booty estima‘ed to value at least $10.000.000. was on its way home after 4 plundering expedi- tion slong the Swedish east coast, as the story has come down through the centuries, when 1t went down in a violent storm. Five attempts have been made to salvage the ship. on the initiative of the Swedish and Russian gZovern- ments, and as .ar back as 1735 a successful recoverv is said to have been made of some of the treazure. Sli per-Lobby _(Continued Prom First Page.) 4,000 stores of which the stores here are units. With seven investigators at work here and in Cincinnati, Patman de- clared today that his “investigation has only begun.” In seizing the files, Sergeant at Arms Kenneth Romney made the first test case under the recent MacCracken decision. No opposition was put up by Mr. Logan., managing director of the office, although he asked for per- mission to telephone all the 160 clients involved—so that he might get their permission (v turn over heir flex. As this procedure would be tov “long-drawn out” Palman decided after dickering with Logau, v have the subpoens issued. ‘The ceremony was simpler. The chauman of the commitiee merely said, “A represenia- uve of the Sergeant sl Arms is here and you will please go with him, Mr Logan.” Roosevelt Friend Linked. A suggestion by one director of the American Retail Federation. Inc., to another that Bob Marx of Cincinnati be hired as iis counsel because of hi¢ “personal access to the President” was read into vesterdav's Record, accord- ing to the Associated Press It developed. however, that Marx who traveled for a while with Mr Roosevell in the 1930 and 1932 cam- paigns, was not employed by the newly-formed federation. Patman sprung the surprise letter It was written by Morrill to Fred Lazarus, jr., of Columbus, Ohio, and dated April 17 he federation will need a counsel,” Morrill's letter said, “and while I can't very well suggest it myself generally, I can suggest it to you that there is 1o better man fitted 1o properly advise and get results than Bob Marx. Manaoer Called “Unfortunate.” “I say this with full knowledge of his manner, which is at times un- fortunate, but also with a full knowi- edge of his persistence and his ability. I know of no one to whom I would rather trust & question of broad policy legislative or otherwise, or the trial of & law suit “Marx has a wide experience, par- ticularly in the Middle West. with legislative matters and laws affecting retailing, and he has also what 1s quite important to us, personal access to the President. “While I have never employed him Sanitary White and Light Displayed at the right and left are various varieties of “right” Summer shoes. . THE YOUNG —there are ALL to choose $6 50 The YOUNG MEN’S SHOP 1319-:21 F St. NW. from. .at MEN’S SHOP AND UP e President, ul her Hyde Park home | | to present snything to the President he has on several occusions presented somie of our problems and never tound the slightest dificulty In gaining im- mediate acce: “Marx traveled with the President i 1920, when Roosevell Was ruuning Vice President has kept up 8 close personal contact with him and has been a guest al his house on the Hudson several times, | “In 1932 the President invited Marx |to make the entire campsign Uip with him and mauy of the speeches which the President made were pari- 1v. at leust, written by Marx.” for Since then he | {Fiancee and Parents Ac-| MOUNTAINEER TRIO AWAIT JURY VOIE cused of Plotting Death by Murderer. By the Associated Press. MIDDLEBURG, Pa, June 7.—A slender, dark-haired mountain girl of |16 and her parents may know before nightfall the answer of a jury of 11 men and 1 woman to the State's de- mand for their lives for a murder a condemned man accused them of plot- ting. Only arguments of attornevs and the charge of Judge Curtis C. Lesher | remain in the trial of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Gill and their daughter Zella. Sherman L. Strawser, the State's star witness, vesterday said Zella, his one-time fiancee, and her parents goaded him until he lay in wait for his employer, Charles Gable, early last February 12 and killed him in a rob- bery that netted $80. Strawser is un- der sentence to die in the electric chair | July 8. Pleading guilty several months ago, he shouldered ull the blame for the slaying and said he did it to get money for Zella's wedding dress. WOMAN FOUND DYING | Mrs. Trene Brent Hagan, 38, widow and mother of four children, died yes- terduy st her home, No. 43 U street C., FRIDAY, JUNE 7. 1935. T thorized to establish a comprehensive | COMMITTEE 0.K.’S BILL [, 5or” ding ana “incexing pubi- | FOR PUBLICATION INDEX | Souciiimenis i a il reporica ravors |ably by the Senate Education and Labor Committee yesterday becomes | a law. The indexing service would be | for the use of educational institutions, Bureau of Education of Interior| Department Would Conduct lmmnea and the general public. Special Service. | Chairman Walsh also reported The Bureau of Education of the |favorably from the same committee | Interior Department would be au-|® bill already passed by the House | Does it pay to light your oven 1 caM northeust, & short time after she was found unconscious by snother occu- pant of the house. Mrs. Hugun for the pust few days hud been under the care of & physi- clan, after w criminal operation per- formed herself, according to police She called & physiclan when her con- dition became serious. 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