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A—4 wxw PLANEHITS CAR, KILLS FAMILY OF 3 Army Flyers Are Injured. Expectant Mother, Hus- band and Child Die. By tke Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 21.-—Faltering in its take-off, an Avny airplane en- gaged in mimic warfare maneuvers over Southern California crashed into = parked automobile near here yester- day and killed a family of three. in- cluding an expactant mother. Three Army flyers were injured, one \seriously. At March Field, an Army board of inquiry went ahead with the investi- gation it began immediately after the crash, while in Los Angeles the cor- oner’s office prepared to hold an inquest. The plane dragged the automobile 15 feet and crashed into a bank at the Griffith Park National Guard Airport. ‘The dead: Deniel Miller Krauss. 24, of Glen- dale, carpenter, employed by the F. E. R. A.; his wife and their 1-year-old daughter. Lieut. George D. Campbell was in- Jured seriously, but only minor in- Juries were received by Flying Cadet T. R. Walsh, pilat of the plane. and Second Lieut. W. W. Pannis. The three are from Brecks Field San Antonio. About two feet from the ground and traveling some 65 miles an hou:, the plane swerved to the right and smashed througa the top of the Krauss’ touring car. Lieut. Pannis said he believed the accident was due to failure of the plane’s right motor, causing the other motor, throttling open, to yank the ship to one side. Mitchell (Continued Prom First Page.) amounting to $260 were paid to the | inspectors at San Juan.” Far less emphatic in his testimony | than during the first two days, Mitchell for the most part read from Tecords. Supporting his chaige of “dvy rot” In the Inspection Service, he asserted that fines against steamship cpera- tors were being waived by the Bureau of Navigation in nearly all cases He said Arthur J. Tyrer, assistant director of the bureau in charge of the Navigation Division for many | years, had told him that aplications | for relief from fines rumbered about | 10,000 a year. “It had been the habit for many years, so Mr. Tyrer told me, of re- mitting entirely a laige per cent of the cases coming before the assistant secretary,” Mitcheil asserted, Cites Specific Relief Requests, The witness said that at one time the Pacific Steamship Lines, Ltd., made 12 applications for relief from violations of harbor laws for which the law provided forfeiture of the en- tire ship. “I called Mr. Tyrer into my office and asked him why he proposed to Temit ilLe entire penalties,” Mitchell said, “and he stated that in his opinion the violations were technical in na- ture only.” The violations, Mitchell said, were made “deliberately” with a view to evading California State charges for . pilotage. Mitchell declared his attempt to im- Pose a fine of $1,000 for each of the 12 offenses resulted in the case being taken out of his hands. He told the committee he had “very positive indication of corrup- tion in New York,” where the bureau maintains a large inspection force. He said he told Weaver the system “needed a general shaking-up, all over the country,” and that Weaver turned the case over to the attorney general Zor investigation. Mitchell told the committee he had been unable to find the inspection re- port on the Morro Castle which he had volunteered to produce today. In his testimony yesterday, he had said | that improper inspection may have been responsible for the fire which | destroyed the steamer with a loss of 134 lives, “Conceding, without admitting, that there is graft and inefficiency in the inspection department,” said Chair- man Copeland, “I do not think any fair-minded man who goes into the facts as our special committee did can trace the disaster to the inspec- tion service.” Investigation Made. Defending his administration of the Commerce Department, Roper de- clared he had investigated all charges of “irregularities” in his department and taken action where justified. He said Mitchell had refused to act on business put before him to such an extent that he created a “fog jam” in the department. “I deeply regret,” the Secretary commented, “that he did not appre- ciate the objectives involved but was willing to wreck the public service through charges based chiefly on ru- mors and suspicions. The cabinet member, who took the stand immediately after Mitchell had concluded his testimony, read a pre- pared statement with great earnestness. Between phrases he would pause to glance up at the committee with lips compressed in obvious agitation. The committee members listened intently, their eyes centered on the ‘witness. Explains Leviathan Case. Answering Mitchell’s charges that he had wrongfully permitted the giant ship “Leviathan” to be laid up by the United States Lines Co., without in- flicting upon the company the $1,720,- 000 in penalties he should have ap- plied. under its mail subsidy contract, the Secretary said he had ordered the Leviathan restored to operation in 1934 as a test of its popularity as a pas- senger vessel. “The records of that year show,” he said, “that the I€viathan continued to sustain heavy losses. The total num- ber of first-class eastbound passengers for the entire Surame: season of 1934 ‘was 975, of which 285 had been trans- ferred by the compamy from other ships. “This is an average on each of the five eastbound voyages of about 140.” He then said he received informa- tion from Senator Copeland that the big ship was 0 old 1t might be con- sidered & “fire trep.” “Ii was reported to the depart- ment,” he said, “that fear existed in the minds of passengers on these trips as to the safety of the Leviathan” THE EVENING ST ‘Where Army Bomber Crash Killed Three Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Three persons were killed when the giant Army bomber, ruins of which are shown in the foreground, faltered in a take-off and crashed into a parked car at Glendale, Calif, killing the occupants, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Lieut. G. D. Campbell and Cadet Tracy, who were in the plane, were not seriously injured. Auto indicated by circle. Krauss and their year-old daughter. Copeland wrote, “because we don’t want say more Morro Castle or Mo- hawk disasters.” Roper then recalled that he entered an agreement with the International Mercantile Marine, owner of the United States Lines, to retire the ship from service with an agreement to pay to the Government $500,000 in penalties, and at the same time agree to put another new ship into the merchant marine “in line with the policy of building up this service.” Replying direetly to Mitchell's charges that the President had moti- vated the laying up of the Leviathan because of his friendship for officials | of the Uaited States Lines, including Kermit Roosevelt, Vincent Astor, and others, Roper declared “the President did not initiate my action in laying up the Leviathan.” Denies Outside Pressure, He denied as well that “outside in- fluences” had brought about his in- tention to remove the assistant. He sald he had agreed to hear Mitchell's charges in September, 1934, and expected him at that time to submit them in detail. “After months had passed without my getting the memoranda expected,” Roper said, “I urged that he submit his report—which he gave me in dribbles. “After expiration of six months, without concluding Lis ‘' memoranda, and in view of the numerous com- plaints to me of the suffering condi- tions of his executive work in connec- | tion with the department, I made furtber effort to conclude the matter.” On April 22, this year, he said, he turned Mitchell’s findings over to the Attorney General, at the same time arranging for Mitchell to confer with the Justice Department upon the charges. Moreover, he said, correspondence | with the President disclosed tha. the Attorney General asked him w sub- mit his data to the Department of Justice six weexs prior tc his :emoval from office. Repeated Complaints Cited. As to his administrative troubles with Mitchell, Roper declared his bu- reau heads repeatedly complained to him of inactivity of the assistant in passing on urgent matters. “I did not feel,” he said, “I could afford to wait longer, in the public interest to se- cure a mar qualified to properly su- pervise these units. “I found a willingness on the part of the various directors of the bureaus to co-operate with me in carrying for- ward the department’s broad develop- ment program, but due to their in- ability to get Mr. Mitchell to pass promptly on even routine matters a veritable log jam was being created in the bureaus under his jurisdiction.” He defended his appointment of South Trimble, jr., as solicitor of the department, denying Mitchell's charges that the attorney had been named at the suggestion of W. Gwynn Gardiner, |labeled by Mitchell as a “shipping lobbyist.” Gardiner Asks to Appear. At this point Chairman Copeland interrupted Roper’s discussion of the appointment to comment: “I just want to say that I have received a letter from W. Gwynn Gardiner asking to appear before the committee to contradict Mitchell's charges.” ‘The secretary departed from his prepared text to deny Mitchell’s im- plication that Admiral Hutch I. Cone was forced to resign from the Ship- ping Board. “Admiral Cone is a gentleman, a patriotic citizen,” the secretary said. “He was never asked to resign. He resigned of his own free will.” Roper flatly contradicted Mitchell’s assertion that lax inspection in the Bureau of Air Commerce “might” have been responsible for the crash of the airplane several weeks ago in which Senator Cutting; Republican, of New Mexico was killed. He described Eugene Vidal, head of the Bureau of Air Commesce, whose efficiency Mitchell had criticized, as & skilled pilot. Pendergast Is Mentioned. Mitchell’s final few minutes on the | stand were marked by a hot exchange with Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri, & committee member and long a bitter foe of the assistant, who also is from Missouri. J. Pendergast had to do with your removal?” Clark snapped, his face flushed. He referred to the recog- nized head of the Democratic political organzation in Missouri, to whose in- fluence Mitchell had attributed some of the responsibility for his removal. Mitchell said he had a good “hunch,” but that all the facts he knew were “what I read in the papers.” é“’d by Chairman Cope- land if Pendergast had requested Mitehell's dismissal, Secretary Roper replied: “No, sir. Neither Mr. Pendergast nor the Senator from Missouri.” ‘Throughout his appearance on the stand yesterday, Mitchell again was subjected to demands for “facts” and “evidence” from Republican and Demo- cratic members of the Senate Com- merce Committee. Downtown the Justice Department The Motris Plan ? 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NEW YORK June 21.—Lawrence Clemente, 23, a Bronx salesman, was arrested today in connection with the death of Harriet Hughes, former show- girl, found strangled in the basement of & Bronx garage March 23. Clemente and another man were indieted May 17 on a charge of first- degree murder. According to detectives, Clemente and a companion picked up the | Hughes girl and Ann Berry at Broad- way and Forty-ninth street the night of the murder. After visiting a cafe, | police said, the four took & taxi to | the gara; $300,000,000 Damage by Rats. Rats did $300,000,000 damage in England last year. S ON SCHOOL BOARD Maurer and Gaskins Are Appointed by Court to Fill Vacancies. Two new members and two reap- pointed members will join with the five holdover members of the Board of Education when it holds its first meeting of the new flscal year sched- uled for July 3. Robert A. Maurer, sr.,, professor of law at Georgetown University, and Benjamin L. Gaskins, colored attor- ney. were appointed yesterday by the Jjustices of the District Supreme Court to fill vacancies. At the same time Mrs, Mary A. McNeill, colored, and Henry Gilligan were reappointed for new terms. Maurer succeeds Dr. Hayden John- son, president of the board, who asked the justices not to reappoint him. Gaskins takes the place of Charles H. Houston, dean of the Law School at Howard University, who resigned with a year to serve. He plans to go to New York, where he will be a staff officer of the Association for the Advancement of the Colored Race. Maurer Widely Known. Maurer is widely known in Wash- ington because of his service as prin- cipal of Central High School and his subsequent position on the George- town faculty. A native of Sheboygan County, Wis., where he was born Octo- ber 12 1879, he graduated from the State university as a bachelor of arts in 1901. In 1906 he graduated in law at Georgetown and in 1910 became a master of laws from the same institu- tion. He has made his home in Washing- ton since 1904 and married a native Washingtonian, the former Miss Mary Roberts Howard. They have four sons and make their home at 2029 | Park Road. Prof, Maurer became principal of Central in 1918 and continued in the position until 1923, when he resigned o go to his present Georgetown post. Gaskins is a native of Fairfax | County., Va., being born in 1880, a son of Benjamin L. and Rosa Gaskins. He was educated in Washington, graduating from the old M Street High School, now Dunbar, in 1900, a classmate of A. K. Savoy, assistant superintendent in charge of colored elementary schools. Practices Law Here. In 1905 Gaskins graduated from the Law School of Howard University and | has since practiced law here, special- | izing in criminal cases. He has offices at 1915 Fourteenth street, where he is | associated with Willlam C. Houston. | Within the last year he married Sadie | Jackson, a native of Washington. Since 1930 he has served as a mem- ber of the faculty of the Terrell Law School. Plans have not yet been definitely | made for the reorganization of the board, although it is expected that a successor for President Johnson prob- Meanwhile, Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, vice president, will continue to act as presiding officer. Although no members of the board ‘would permit themselves to be quoted, it is expected that Mrs. Doyle will be | to save Mrs. former Montana | gallows, was announced today by her attorneys. attorneys, fession made by the woman who was convicted of slaying her husband, Eric D. Madison, and said they would | demand a new trial. WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY; JUNE 21, 1935. ROBERT A. MAURER, Sr. —HarTis & Ewing Photo, BENJAMIN L. GASKINS. —Scurlock Photo. COUNSEL SEEKS TO SAVE COWGIRL FROM GALLOWS Disclose Alleged Confession in Which Mrs. Madison Claims She Shot Husband in Self-Defense. | By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 21.—A move Nellie Madison, the cowgirl, from the Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd S. Nix, the disclosed an alleged con- “I killed him to save my own life,” Mrs. Madison was quoted as saying. ably will be elected at a July meeting. | “ was reaching for another one when I shot him. It was his life or mine.” He had thrown a knife at me and The purported confession of Mrs. Madison was in direct contradiction to testimony she gave at her trial. | chosen as head of the board. In case she is she will be the first woman ever to head the District of Columbia pub- lic school system. Bobby Jones Improving. 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