Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1935, Page 2

FALD vl A AL A HUNTS CASH T0 PAY BENERTS Resort to Work - Relief Money on Sales Tax Drive Is Considered. Resort to use of work-relief funds or an effort to put through a Federal retail sales tax is under consideration by A A. A officials as a source of money to continue crop-control ben- efit payments if the Supreme Court outlaws processing taxes in the Fall It is conceded the sales tax move would face perhaps insurmountable opposition in Congress. At the same. time the chiefs of the Agricultural Adjustment Administra- tion are confident the highest tri- bunal will uphold the constitution- ality of the processing taxes if pend- ing amendments to the ‘basic act are adopted. The amendments direct, instead of | authorize, the Secretary of Agricul- ture to limit production in the light of demand. make benefit payments and establish the processing tax rate. One Contention Eliminated. Enactment of this provision would | center the court battle on the ques- | tion of the extent of the Federal| authority to control commerce and | eliminate the contention that the ad- | justment act constitutes an illezal | delegation of discretionary power by | Congress to a branch of the executive. But whether or not the Supl’PmPi Court upholds the levy, benefit pay- | ments to some 2,500,000 farmers all over the country must continue. | These farmers signed contracts to| curtail production in return for Gov- ernment payments; the curtailment has been effected already by leaving | failow acres that might have been | planted. and it is incumbent upon | the Government to fulfill its part of | the contract. Benefit payments to farmers from July 1. 1934, to June 1, 1935, amounted By the Associated Press. PHOENIX, Ariz., famous “Lubitsch touch,” a Hollywood by-wort suavity, was conspicuously here today when Ernst Lubitsch, direc July tor and film studio executive, married | Gaye had never been married Vivian Gaye, literary agent. | In fact, the “Lubitsch touch™ 27.—The | Judge J. C. Niles, who recently united | d denoting sophistication and | Miss Gaye's, and the producer, Sam | lacking | Katz, an associate of Lubitsch's. was so | Lubitsch gave his age as 43, his bride, Agent Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. They were married by Superior | the actress Sari Maritza, protege of | Lubitsch was divorced in 1930. Miss They flew here from Hollywood. CAMDEN STRIKE BREACH WIDENS Union and Ship Building Firm Issue Statements. “Lie” Charge Printed. By the Associated Press. CAMDEN, N, J, July 27—It was quiet at the front gate of the New York Shipbuilding Corp. strike today, but & battle of words was fought by management and union. “The yard was closed. Trudging pickets provided the only activity. 1 But in their headquarters the com- pany and union representatives is- sued statements that widened the breach made 11 weeks ago when 3,700 men left the shipyard. Commissioners Criticized. ‘The company fired the first verbal shots In a newspaper advertisement that accused City Commissioner George E. Brunner of telling a House labor subcommittee at Washington “an unmitigated lie,” and described his presence with Commissioner Mary Kobus at the strike scene as the “most sickening episode” of the dis- pute. The commissioners, the company said, “‘so forgot their oaths of office as to mix with the mob, joining to some extent in their antics.” Commissioners Brunner and Kobus and the union replied to the com- pany’s attack. Denies Violating Oath. Brunner, who denied he had vio- lated his oath of office, said he was willing to be a “target for abuse” if he can help in ending the dispute. He said what he told the House com- mittee “still goes.” He had accused the company of violating confidences and breaking its pledge not to employ strike-breakers. The commissioner declared he would continue to offer his services in be- half of a satisfactory settlement “ir- respective of any more false or libel- ous statements * * Picketing Wives at Meat Shops A THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. JULY 28, 1935—PART ONE. Lubitsch Weds Story SUAVITY CONSPICUOUS BY ABSENCE AS HE AND VIVIAN GAYE ARE MARRIED, Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Scene at Detroit yesterday as & group of housewives demonstrated in front of shops in suburban Ham- | R WOMEN ATTAGK MEAT PURCHASERS Fight Menin Protest Against High Prices in Mar- kets. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, July 27.—A housewives’ war for lower meat prices feft numer- ous men scratched and bruised in Hamtramck today, kept police scout cars dashing from one beleaguered butcher shop to another and sharply curtailed retall meat sales. Most of the casualties were hus- bands of women not connected with the women’s “Committee for Action Against the High Cost of Living,” the organization which arranged the dem- onstration and placed 500 militant pickets in the field. The men were seized as they came out of meat shops, their faces slapped, their hair pulled and their packages confiscated and hurled in the gutter. A few were knocked down and tram- pled. Several persons were arrested, but the majority were quickly released. Strike to Be Continued. The strike will be continued, de- clared Mrs. Mary Zuk, leader, until meat prices are reduced 20 per cent She predicted it would spread from Hamtramck, a Polish section, into all other parts of the metropolitan area. Hamtramck police corroborated Mrs Zuk’'s assertion that the strike was not communistic, as some of the mer- chants charged. “We aren't going to interfere with the women as long as they are reason- | ably peaceful,” Police Chief Joseph | Ruston! said. “However, I'd like to catch my wife out there Mayor Joseph A. Lewandowski of Hamtramck said he believed “some Communists appear to be partici- pating.” “The big majority are good. honest citizens with a legitimate complaint against exorbitant meat prices,” he uncertain Miss Gaye had to assist him | 27. Miss Gaye signed the certificate | * commissioner Kobus said she re-| tramck. demanding lower meat prices. The women seized packages from men buyers and scratched and | said. to $535.547.698, divided as follows: | Cotton, $102,503,017; wheat, $97,- 503,986; tobacco, $23.784,768; corn- hogs, $296.435,801; sugar, $15,320,123. | Treasury Aids Somewhat. | Some of this money has had to| come from the Treasury. The adjust- | ment program has not proved entirely | self-supporting from processing taxes. | But in order to establish a source | of supply of the greater part of thei funds, it seems likely part of the $4,- 800,000,000 of last May will be de- voted to adjustment benefit payments | if processing taxes are judged illegal. Use of this money was advocated early | this Spring. when New England Re- publicans in Congress and some South- ern Democrats from cotton-milling dis- tricts urged abolition of the taxes as too heavy a drain on industry Total tax collections from proces- sors from the original date of im-| posttion through May 31 of this year total $866,694,982.40. This sum was divided as follows between processors of these commodities: Wheat, $234,019,262.98; cotton, $236,624,912.90: paper ard jute, $12,.- 310.764.27; tobacco, $48.469,115.09; | field corn, $10,860,650.51: hogs, $254,- | 315586.89; sugar, $61,500,501.14; | peanuts, $3,367,490.21; rice. $17,719.80; cotton ginning tax, $947,212.15; to-| bacco producers’ sales tax, $3,229.-| 24325, and unclassified, $1,032,523.21. Industrial Changes May Come. Although it is pointed out that the rocessing tax is in effect a sales tax, it has not been wholly burne by the | consumer, and & retail sales tax such | as some A. A. A leaders are con- sidering to provide a money pool for | benefit payments would put the burden | wholly on the purchaser. | If the Supreme Court decides either | in the Hoosac case, invoiving a d cotton mill, cr the Larri Milling Co., a Missouri wheat proces- | =or. that the collection of processing taxes not for revenue but for repay- | ment to farmers in the form of re-| wards for limiting p:cduction is un- constitutional, it is expected an eco- nomic readjustment in industry will | follow at once. | The flour market will broaden little, | for it is stable despite price, but the§ cotton market is expected to widen greatly with cheapened price. Per- haps the invasion of Japanese bleached goods, which can now undersell the domestic product by as mueh as 4 cents a square yard, will be ended, according to textile experts. LIBEL SUIT SLICED Demurrers Sustained in Part in $12,000,006 Action. TOPEKA, Kans, July 27 (#).— District Judge George A. Kline today sustained demurrers to two of six counts in the $12,000,000 libel suit of Henry L. Doherty, utiiit'es magnate, against the Kansas City Star and Roy A. Roberts, managing editor. In sustaining the newspaper’s de- murrers, the court reduced the libel action to $8,000,000. Doherty had asked $2,000,000 on each of the counts. The libel action graw out of a cam- paign of the newspaper for reduced utility rates. Judge Kline held tnat an article and a cartoon on which two points were based were not libeious. On two other counts demurrers were overruled. Ohio Girl, Aged 10, Is “Human Slate,” Her Skin Sensitive New al Mother Writes Answerto Hard Problem on Child’s Body. By the Associated Press. MARION, Ohio, July 27.—Mathe- matical perfection came to Betty Jo Lister, 10, Marion’s “human slate,” because her mother used her sensitive skin to write the answers to difficult problems. Betty Jo, whose formal name is Tlizabeth Josephine Lister, is suffer- ing from dermatography, an unusual | skin condition that causes marks made by a fingernail or pointed instrument to remain visible for varying periods, depending on weather conditions. ‘Her physician, Dr. Carter L. Pitcher said today the girl’s skin probably will become normal as she grows older. Last Winter Betty Jo had trouble mastering the 9-times-6 combination in the multiplication table. Finally her mother wrote the problem and the answer on her arm and Betty Jo won her effort at mathematical per- Zection. Dr. Pitcher defines dematographism as “the reaction of a nervous system to outside mechanical stimulation.” &~ to get the ring on her finger. “I hope this turns out better than my pictures,” he said. { with her true name. Sanya Bezencenet Lubitsch said they planned to return immediately to Hollywood. Held in Slaying Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. EVELYN B. SMITH, WOMAN ARRESTED INSHHAN SLAYING Mrs. Evelyn Smith Denies Complicity When Found in New York. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, July 27.—Mrs. Evelyn B. Smith, 46, long sought in connec- | tion with the “swamp slaying” of Er- | vin Lang of Chicago, was located by detectives today in a West Thirty- fourth street rooming house. Mrs. Smith, who denied any knowl- edge of the killing, expressed surprise that the police had been looking for her. Taken to Brooklyn police head-| quarters for questioning the woman was quoted by detectives as acknowl- | edging that she knew Lang's mother- in-law, Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, who al- legedly has said she contracted to pay Mrs. Smith $500 to “get ‘rid of” her son-in-law, Lang's body, from which both legs had been amputated, was found in a swamp near Hammond, Ind., on July 10. The legs later were found in lr.-i 1 other place. | Mrs. Smith, who said she also was known as Pearl Johnson, declared it | had been a year since she last saw | Harry Jung, Chinese laundryman, who was named by Mrs. Dunkel as her | helper in the crime. Mrs. Dunkel was alleged to have said she hired Mrs, Smith to do away | with Lang because he had mistreated | her daughter, Mrs. Mallie Lang, who died last December 20. The Smith woman said she was born in Germany and had gone with | her father, a cabinetmaker, to China as a young girl. There her father hired Harry Jung to work for him and brought him to the United States. Mrs. Smith sald the last time she had seen Jung he was running a laundry in Chicago. She said she had been in New York since July 8. Boys Build Pipe Organ. Boys of a Wolverhampton, England, school have built a pipe organ, com- plete with electrical blowing apparatus. | stenographer said. {on a piece of paper. GIRL 21, IDENTIFIES SCHULTZS LEDGER :Famous Black Book Had 75 to 100 Names as Pay Roll, She Says. | By the Associated Press. MALONE, N. Y, July 27.—Dutch Schultz’s former stenographer, dark- | eyed Marguerite Scholl, defiantly took the witness stand today and identi- fied the famous “black ledger” as a book that was guarded in a secret drawer at her one-time employer's Bronx beer headquarters. She told the court she directed Fed- eral agents to the book's hiding place. This is the ledger in which the Gov- ernment contends Schultz kept track of the profits from his million-dollar- a-year beer business. It was the first time the ledger. which the defense has strenuously ought to keep out of evidence, has judge, would exalt human rights over | !0 Present Treasury regulations. ppeared in Schultz’s second trial. It was also the first appearance of Miss Scholl, who was the Government's | star witness at the Syracuse trial| that ended in disagreement last April. 75 to 100 Names on Pay Roll. Miss Scholl was asked to tell about the Schultz pay roll. “There were 75 to 100 names on it,” | she said. “Which person received the high- est salary?” asked Assistant District Attorney John H. Burke, jr. “Schultz,” the pretty 21-year-old | Her former employer sat at the defense table scribbling all the while | Although Miss | Scholl glanced at him frequently, he | did not look at her. She named George Yarlas, Dick fused “to get perturbed over the slan- | derous charges,” was proud of the part Brunner and she had played in seeking to end the strike fairly to both sides, and would continue her | efforts. 'STADIUM RIGHTS GIVEN COUGHLIN Radio Priest Wins Court Order Reversing Park Board at Chicago. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 27.—Attorney Sam- uel A. Ettelson announced today he | would ask court approval of August 21 as the date for a Soldier Pield | | mass meeting to be addressed by Rev. roughed up a few of them. WHSKY PRODUCER Be Cited for Contempt by Senate Group. By the Associated Press. A charge that National Distillers | Corp., a major American whisky pro- ducer, was “head of a bootleg ring” was flung before an incredulous Sen- Charles E. Coughlin, Detroit ‘“radio priest.” ) | bodied in an order being prepared for | Superior Judge James J. Kelly's sig- | nature, to carry out the ruling yes- | terday granting Pather Coughlin a writ of mandmus commanding the | | Chicago Park Board to grant him a | permit for the stadium’s use. | Despite his Superior Court victory, | Pather Coughlin today faced a pro- tracted fight. The proposed address, said the | property rights, but would not consti- tute the board claimed, “propa- ganda” on “controversial political or | economic subjects.” The priest originally hoped to hold his Chicago mass meeting on June 19 | for the benefit of a claimed following of 250,000 in the territory. | Park Board attorneys said today they would appeal, and lawyers said this would tie up Judge Kelly'’s man- damus decree until the appellate court rules, probably in the Fall. But Attorney Samuel B. Ettelson,| representing Father Coughlin, said he | would fight any more delay. | Park Board attorneys claimed the | board had full discretion over who | should use the big stadium, located | on Chicago's downtown lake front in | Grant Park, but the judge rebuked | He said the date would be em-| ate committee yesterday by Lester P.! | Barlow, lock design engineer. | | Immediately he called down on his | head a threat of citation for contempt | for refusing to answer questions of Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri, bearing on “proof” of his charges. Barlow was one of & dozen wit-! nesses who appeared before the | Finance Committee, some supporting | and some opposing a provision in the | Pederal liquor control bill passed by | the House, under which “bulk sales” | in kegs would be permitted, contrary | | Shows Bottle Lock Sample. Barlow brought samples of a bottle lock he said was being produced by his organization, Yale & Towne Co., of Stamford, Conn. “But the glass industry don't want it,” he stormed with a belligerency | amazing to the several Senators pres- ent. The reason the glass industry didn't want it, Barlow said. was that “the glass industry is in the hands of & bootleg ring.” Growing increasingly heated and waving his bottle samples about, he sald the “big liquor industry” is in| the bootleg business, and was allied | in it with the glass bottle makers. | Senator Clark immediately set after him with questions for proof of his charges. | George Jones, Porterdaie mill worker, Y Wolf, Henry Stevens and Charlie | Miller as men on the pay roll. Miller | was one of two Schultz henchmen called earlier today to testify against | their former employer. Both were unceremoniously clapped back into jail because of their failure to answer uestions. Miller professed to have poor memory, but Rocco Di Larmi, the other, resisted in a surly manner |all of Judge Frederick H. Bryant's | demands that he testify. | Can’t Remember Occupation. Di Larmi pleaded that he could not testify about the joint bank ac- | count he maintained with Schultz | because he would incriminate himself. | | “What was your occupation 9292" Burke asked. “I refuse to answer,” said the wit- ness. “1 direct you to answer,” said Judge Bryant. “I can't remember.” Judge Bryant ordered him sent hack to jail “until he purges himself ot contempt.” WIFE SLAYER GETS LIFE | Georgian Convicted in Poison Death Insurance Plot. COVINGTON, Ga. July 27 (#).— in was convicted of poisoning his wife and sentenced to life imprisonment here today. Mrs. Jones became violently ill June 16, was taken to an Atllanta hospital June 24 and died the following day. A physician testified that she died of poison. The prosecutor told the jury that “Jones poisoned his wife to col- Man Gets Page 1 Publicity—and Jail Term—by Kidnap Hoax By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, July 27.—Robert C. Byers, 42, of Columbus has 36 days in which to whet his appetite on work- house fare for a dinner, the stakes in a publicity wager he won through a guilty plea to a similar charge result- ing, from the same incident. “I bet Al Gorman of Jacksonville, Fla, at the Elks' convention in Columbus I could get front page newspaper publicity within 72 hours at & cost of less than $100,” & explained. “The loset was to buy the winner a dinner.” He said food, telephone tolls and gasoline cost him approximately $25 “If T pay my fne and costs here I'd be paying out $135 and so would lose the bet,” he said. Later he had a change of heart and telegraphed Columbus friends in an appeal for funds. He had received no response when the police patrol left city jail for | siderable shooting. the board for a “hostile attitude,” de- claring it had abused its powers. PALESTINE NABS REDS 10 Arrested in Round-Up After Shooting Melee in Jerusalem. JERUSALEM, July 27 (Palcor Agency).—A round-up of Commu- nists in Palestine was ordered today and 10 arrests were reported within a few hours. Authorities ordered the drive after a Communist demonstration held a: Post Office square Thursday resulted in the injury of a policeman and con- London Busmen Warned. LONDON, July 27 (#).—The London Passenger Transport Board, controll- ing the London area, tonight told 2,597 striking bus drivers and con- ductors in suburban London to get back to work by Monday or face dis- missal. Five hundred and sixty busses were halted. Social Security Forum Topic HE broad social security pro- gram, which is expected to become & law soon, will be ex- plained to a Nation-wide radio audience by Senator George, Demo- crat, of Georgia, speaking in the Na- tional Radio Forum at 10:30 o'clock Thursday night. The forum program is arranged by The Washington Star and_broadcast over & coast-to-coast network of the National Broad- casting Co. Senator George is & member of the Finance Committee, which held hear- ings on the measure, and also is one of the conferees selected by the Sen- In reply to one question, Barlow named the National Distillers, de- scribed in earlier testimony as the largest individual American producer. “Who told you?” Clark snapped. Tells of Hotel Warning. Barlow as hotly replied that he got his information at a meeting in a | Washington hotel, at which & repre- sentative of the glass bottle industry “told me to get out of the protection business and get out quick.” “Who told you?” Clark agein in- sisted. Barlow declined to tell until a “real Senate investigation” was ordered. “Mr. Chairman,” Clark said, turn- ing his chair to face Senator Harrison, Democrat, of Mississippi, chairmas, ask that this man be cited.” No citation for contempt was issued at the time, and committee sources indicated the matter would “blow over” without further action. Barlow was ready to go on with his testimony, but Clark shouted: “I object to this witness coming here to make stump speeches and re- fusing to answer questions.” Barlow picked up his bottles and SENATOR GEORGE. States in paying pensions to aged surance plan for the retirement in later years of those now at work. The question of whether to allow indus- tries to operate private retiremént 1 ALED SR | Bottle Lock Designer May| | LESTER P, BARLOW, —A. P. Photo. left the hearing, which shortly after- ward recessed until tomorrow. Edward P. Mulrooney, chairman of the New York State Liquor Authority, earlier had branded the bulk sales clause as a ‘“pernicious provision” making bootlegging easier. Says Bulk Hard te Trace. “No agency I know of,” the sandy- haired liquor law administrator said, “has adequate personnel to supervise and trace bulk liquor. I know of no way we can prevent dealers cutting it.” He took issue with claims of Senator Clark that it was “as easy to dogtor a bottle as a barre! Muirooney labeled as “absurd” the ! assertions of previous witnesses that | bulk sales would permit cheaper liquor | |and thus “cure bootlegging.” | “The bottle stores,” he said, “have placed the liquor business on a higher | plane than ever before in the history | of the United States.” | Representative Dirksen, Republican, of Illinois appealed for an amendment to the bill, rejected in the House, pro- ; hibiting the use of black-strap mo- | | lasses in the manufacture of alcohol. | It was a continuation of efforts of the | Midwest to shut out the competition of island molasses competing with corn. Lockwood Thompson of Cleveland. vice chairman of the National Con- ference of State Liquor Administra- tors, assailed the bulk sales provision, declaring it would “play directly into | the hands of the bootleggers.” He also | objected to including the alcohol ad- ministration in the Treasury Depart- ment. | e A. A. A. TAX UPHELD Memphis Judge Dismisses $6,863 Suit of Packer. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Federal Judge John D. Martin in an oral opinion handed down tonight up- held the constitutionality of the agri- cultural adjustment act in dismissing & suit to recover $6,863 paid by a Mem- phis packer in processing taxes. July 27 (P)—| CUBA MILITARISTS FIGHT SECRET FOE Mendieta’s Friend Is Jailed as Army Strikes at “Black Eagle.” HAVANA, July 27.—Army secret service men poked busily into ramifi- cations of Cuba’s newest secret society, “Black Eagle,” which charged. aimed at “suppressi n of the President Carlos Mendieta, however. was reported little pleased with the army’s action yesterday in invading the public works department and clap- ping his good friend, Undersecretary Francisco Diaz, along with 35 other public works employes, inte jail Sedition Is Charged. The soldiers, who joined forces with national and secret police to pounce upon the government department just ' about noon, charged Diaz and the | others with seditious activities in con- | nection with the “Black Eagle” and | misappropriation of nearly $1,000,000 | for political use. Mendieta was conferring tonight with several members of his cabinet, including Public Works Secretary Ruiz Williams, over the arrests. They were reported seeking Diaz' release. ‘The Diaz case admittedly widened the breech between Mendieta and Col Fulgencio Batista, army commander- in-chief. A showdown as to whether Mendieta would continue in the pres- idency was predicted in some quarters. Plot Believed Nipped. | Army secret service men, seemingly | convinced they had nipped an im- portant anti-government plot, charged the “Black Eagle” Society envisaged “an entirely new form of government.” The army charged many former army and navy officers were behind the “Black Eagle,” which it alleged was financed by “contributions” from public works empioyes. ROOSEVELT THREAT CHARGED TO MAN, 71 Tennessean Accused of Having Announced Plan to Shoot Up President’s Train. By the Associated Press. JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., July 27.— A gray-haired man listed as George A. Boston, 71, was held under $2,500 bond by United States Commissioner W. R. Repass here today on a charge of | threatening the life of President Roosevelt. Unable to make bond he was re- moved to the Greene County Jail at Greeneville, Tenn., to await a hearing next Wednesday. Commissioner Repass said the man ‘was charged with having uttered the threat that if the President’s train should ever pass through Johnson City he would “riddle all the coaches with bullets.” Boston, the commissioner denied making the statement. Repass explained that officers started searching him and found a .38 caliber | revolver in a shoulder strap. Repass said Boston had lived in said, “on Government relief.” He was ar- rested by a & United States marshal and & secret service agent. Soeeial Dispateh to The Star. BAR HARBOR, Me, July 27— Shattered in health as a result of his last expedition to the Antarctic and the persistent attentions that America lavishes upon its heroes, Admiral Rich- ard Evelyn Byrd is in seclusion at his Summer home here, where it was earth. Despite his iliness and despite ihe comparative isolation of his home on the shores of Latty Cove, the Nation's foremost explorer is still plagued by the efforts of photograph seekers. With & sort of ghoulish enterprise the collectors of signatures have redoubled efforts since learning Admiral is ill. One of them was fiank declaring he wished to obtain the planas, provided such plans are equal to or exceed the Federal system, is still in conference. . Illness May Force Admiral Byrd To Abandon Further Explering man to fly over both the North and South Poles, is only 47, it is probable that his career as an explorer is ended. It is certain that his condition makes it imperative that it be inter- rupted for an indefinite period. Despite the seriousness of his condi- tion, however, the admiral hopes to | be sufficiently recovered by - Mid- sutumn to embark on a lecture tour. His friends are opposed to the project, undergone at the Antarctic. Although his doctors thought he Johnson City for some time and was | Mrs. Zuk said the picketing was decided upon after the committee had | cailed unsuccessfully on several meat | packers and merchants to demand | price reductons, | Packer is Blamed. “One of the packers told us ‘why don’t you go see President Roosevelt®' He started this,” Mrs. Zuk said. “Maybe Roosevelt started it by kill- ing the little pigs and the cattle, We | dont know and we don't care. We aren't going to pay such high prices for meat and that's all there is to it.” Mrs. Zuk is the wife of an unem- | ployed factory worker and the mother of two children. | The committee’s headquarters is in the International Workers' Hall, whica Mrs. Zuk said was the only one the: could obtain. A pile of pamphlets entitled “Plan of Work” and outlining methods for organizing a buyers' strike appeared mysteriously in the headquarters. The committee members said they had not scen them before today and ordered them destroyed. Carry Placards. ‘The women, carrying placards and banners, picketed the stores through- out the day. Some of the placards | read: “'Strike against high meat prices Don't buy.” Another bore legends de- riding the “meat packer millionaires” and demanding lower meat prices for Negroes, “who pay extra high prices.” WIDOW AND 26 INJURED IN RIOT SUE KOHLER CO. $275,000 Damages Sought as Re- sult of Bloody Battle in Strike Last Year. By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE. July 27.—Twenty- seven suits to collect $275.000 in dam- ages as a result of the strike riot at the Kohler Co. plant at Kohler, Wis., last July have been started, A. G. Goldberg, associated counsel with At- torney Joseph A. Padway, announced today. The announcement came on the an- { niversary of the riot in which two men were fatally wounded and 26 injured. The plaintiffs are the 26 persons | who were wounded and Mrs. Emy En- gelmann, widow of one of the men killed. The defendants are the Koh- ‘ler Co., Walter J. Kohler, sr., presi- | dent: his brother and executive vice president, Herbert Kohler; Robert and Walter Kohler, jr., sons of the presi- | dent; Mrs. Robert Kohler, John Case | Kohler Marshal, Edward George Ernst R. Schuelke and Edward Biever, special deputy sheriffs. | WASHINGTONIAN KILLED, | BROTHER HURT, IN CRAS 1Acree Shreve, 33, Dies Instantly, ‘When Auto Leaves Road ab Ingram, Va. Acree Shreve, 33, of 1232 Twelftn | street, was instantly killed in an auto- mobile accident at Ingram, Va, last night, the Associated Press reported. Samuel Shreve, his brother, of the same address, was seriously inftired at the same time when the car in whith | they were riding skidded from the road and crashed broadside into a telegraph pole. The accident occurred 20 miles from Danville, the city to which the broth- | ers were ariving to visit their sister, a Mrs. Link. | Samuel Shreve is in a hospital at | Danville. | | Live on “Loneliest Island.” ‘That all residents of Tristan.da Cunha, the world’s loneliest island,” be transferred to South Africa and & | meteorological station be established on the island, has been officially rec- ommended. BAND CONCERT. Concert by the United States Navy Band in the , Arlington, Va., at 6:30 p.m., Lieut. Charles Ben- ter, leader; Alexander Morris, assistant leader. Program. E March, “Knights of the Holy Grail,” Wagner Largo, from “The New World Sym- phony” ... Dvordk Cornet solo (a) (b) “None But the Weary Heéart.” Oscar Short. “Andante Cantabile”___Tschaikowsky Sacred selection, “The Angelus,” Buys Reverie, “The Unknown Soldier.” ‘Woodin Hymn, “Holy God, We Praise Thy Anthem. Name.” The National 'S i o~