Evening Star Newspaper, June 14, 1936, Page 2

CONGRESS SEEKS END BY SATURDAY Adjournment Must Hurdle Tax and Deficiency- Relief Bills. A determined drive for adjourn- ment of Congress by Saturday is to be started tomorrow as the fag end of the session is resumed, with Re- publicans drifting in from Cleveland and with majority party members eye- | ing Philadelphia, where the Demo- cratic convention will meet. Agreement on the controverted » features of the tax and deficiency- relief bills are the chief hurdles, but & number of other matters loom for possible consideration. Leaders yesterday were organizing plans for adjournment not later than Saturday, but some doubt tinged their hopes, as indicated when House and Senate conferees on the tangled tax bill adjourned until tomorrow, four days of deliberations having proved unproductive. Meanwhile, Interior Department officials admitted that, due to the fallure of Congress to date to pass | the first deficiency bill, no way had | been found to meet the pay rolls to- morrow of 4,200 employes in the Na- tional Park Service. An additional 81 employes of the[ taxes and penalties unit of the Justice | Department also face a payless pay | day. Hardship for Employes. Because a great majority of the National Park Service employes af- | fected are in the low pay scale of the custodian service, Interior officials made no secret of the fact that the delay in passing the deficiency bill will work a hardship on them that many are unprepared to meet. Those whose pay will be delayed | include guards, mechanics, elec- tricians, engineers, charwomen, ele-| vator operators and other inside maintenance forces of the federally owned or operated buildings in the District of Columbia. National Park Service officials con- sulted unsuccessfully with the Bureau of the Budget and Controller Gen-| eral J. R. McCarl in an effort to ar- range transfer of money from other sources Profits Tax Big Issue. The main point of difference be- tween the Senate and House tax con- ferees centers around the question of | taxing undistributed corporate profits. | The House approved a graduated tax | ranging up to 421, per cent, whnle| the Senate voted for a flat 7 per cent | levy. | While the conferees were re- luctant to discuss the situation, they | did say definitely a report would not be ready when Congress meets to- morrow. | It was known that some leaders were disappointed over the lack of progress. When Congress recessed for the Republican convention it was the hope that the tax conferees as well as those on the deficiency relief bill and other measures would have agreements ready to report tomorrow. The $2,430,830,484 deficiency-relief | bill, which also is in conference, con- | tains several provisions on which House and Senate managers must agree before final action may be taken. Among these is the section in- serted by the Senate by which the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling: Authority would be authorized to use its unexpended balance from last year's $500,000 appropriation, plus any receipts prior to June 30, 1937, in carrying on its work during the coming fiscal year. The House failed | to make any funds available for the authority, but the Senate provision | is estimated to provide about $250,000. Included in this bill, also, are nu-| merous other District items involv- ing about $900,000, but except for one or two minor respects these are not in dispute. Relief Funds Included. This measure carries $1,425,000,000 for financing the relief program in the coming fiscal year. Several other pieces of legislation 8till are in conference, among them the deadlocked District appropriation bill, the measure calling for registra- tion of lobbyists and the amendment to title 2 of the national industrial recovery act dealing with housing ac- tivities of the Public.Works Adminis- tration. The Interior Department sup- ply, bill also is awaiting agreement on some troublesome amendments. While conferees thus hold the real key to adjournment, both the Housz and Senate are prepared to dispose | of conference reports already pending. | Among these slated for early dis-| cussion, probably tomorrow in the | Senate, is the report on the Robinson- Patman so-called chain store bill. Conference agreement on this much- disputed measure was reported last Monday. = In the background in both branches is the new Guffey act for regulation of the soft coal industry, already on the House calendar and in final stages of preparation in the Senate. Although this replacement for the invalidated earlier Guffey act has not been tagged “must” by administration leaders, strong pressure has been brought for its enactment, and last-minute efforts are sure to be made on its behalf. Facing the Senate also is the an- nounced determination of Senator ‘Wagner, New York Democrat, to force consideration, at least, for his bill creating a United States housing authority and setting forth a pro- gram of slum clearance and low-cost housing. Senator Copeland, New York Democrat, also hopes to bring up a merchant marine measure. In the House, a major issue, aside from legislation, is the behind-the- scene battle going on over the ma- Jority floor leadership, with several candidates furiously pulling strings to block the seemingly certain selection of Representative O’Connor of New York. One of the strong runners in this under-cover campaign is Repre- sentative Rayburn, Texas Democrat, and administration wheelhorse, on the utilities holding company bill. On both sides, of course, there are the usual possibilities of last-minute #narls, as tempers become short and pressure increases for certain legis- lation, but in spite of all these ob- stacles, adjournment this week is the best bet. SHAW QUITS SPEECHES NEWCASTLE, England, June 13 (#). —Bernard Shaw announcedl tonigh he would discontinue public speaking engagements because of his age. He will be 80 years old in July. “I am far too old,” he told an au- dience after an amateur performance “The time has come for me’ to Te- . Sire from the footlights.” W ashington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. REVENGE. NOTHER story of sectional prejudice, which ought to be welcome as an alternative to all the locust stories going the rounds, concerns a man driving around Washington in a car with a New York license. An unhappy ending to a love af- fair with a New York girl gave him a prejudice against the whole State. He is satisfying it now by driving with a conspicuous lack of skill. “Boy, am I making Washington motorists think New Yorkers are dumb?” he explains. * ¥ ¥ % Z0OO FAN. Almost any sunny Sunday morn- ing you can find Representative Maury Maverick of Tezas and his family (the missus, Maury, jr., and Terrellita) at the restaurant in the Zoo. The Tezas Representative is a Zoo fan and is bringing his young- sters up to appreciate elephants in their proper place, which Mr. Maverick, being a Democrat, thinks is in 200s and such like places. x A EE FIRE. T}{E landlady of a suburban room- ing house not so far north of here will find out why one of her roomers left so suddenly the other day as soon as she turns the mat- tress on his bed. The chap went to sleep the other night with a cigarette in his hand.| The heat of the burning mattress woke him wup shortly thereafter; woke him not in terror for his life, as one might think, but rather of what the landlady would say. He de- cided he could face the danger of fire more calmly than the burning fury of her tongue. So, there in the middle of the night, he pulled all the flaming stuffing out of the mattress, filled the gaping hole with newspapers, turned the burned side toward the springs, then sat down and waited for morn- ing and an opportunity to give up his room. He's hoping that it is one of those rooming houses where they don’t turn the mattresses very often. * * % HECKLERS. S IT possible that the younger generation takes its oratory with a grain of salt? At any rate, a group of collegians in a nearby Virginia theater got quite a kick out of kidding Gov. Alf Landon’s newsreel interview sev- eral days ago. When Landon in dramatic tones: “The time has come—!" The line was completed by an Alice in Wonderland fan, who shouted: “. .. The walrus said. * * *” Then, from down front, a chorus caught up the refrain: “. .. To speak of many things—ships and shoes and sealing wax and cab- bages and kings!” Undoubtedly, there were many Re- publicans who joined in the general laughter. announced Nk THROUGH. HERE'S drama in the prize ring other than that represented in the clatter of leather against human skulls. No one knows it better than Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen, who manages always to be quite a fight One of the dramatic bils whic] the memory of Mr. Hazen constantly fondles concerns a colored lad who had | taken quite a severe beating at one of the old Riding and Hunt Club scraps. Knocked down, but not out, the youth lay on the canvas until he caught the questioning eye of the referee. “Boss, ybu just as well start count- ing,” he said blandly, “cause I'm not getting up.” % % x % PRAYER. A guard at the White House is the source of this item. Every morning shortly after dawn, he re- lates, an elderly man appears in Lafayette Park, directly across the street from 1600 Pennsylvania ave- nue. e prays, invokes propitious spirits to guard and guide the President, devoutly crosses himself and disappears. = xf% x SIGHT-SEER. NE’W England’s Tourist Bureau, which devotes its time to describ- ing the beauties of the shore and mountain areas, is missing one thing up there which a Washington traveler thinks would lure a lot more visitors. The feature of features of a New England journey, he insists, is a couple of cocker spaniels he saw in Connecticut. Not just ordinary cock- ers, these, but & pair that finds life wildly exciting. As an expression of their enthusiasm for living, they are wont to tear out across the lawn of their home, stop suddenly, assume a sitting posture, hold it a few minutes, then dash ahead and repeat the per- formance. The memory of it seems to be the only idea in his head these days. —_— LAST PRISONERS HOME 651 Paraguayans Bring Total to 1,949 Repatria ASUNCION, Paraguay, June 13 (#). —The last contingent of Paraguayan prisoners of the Chaco war—651 men —arrived today from Bolivia aboard nounced the total number repatriated was 63 officers and 1,886 men. of held by Repatriations of prisoners both Paraguay and Bolivia has been under way for the last three months. political i THE SUNDAY SUIT SPURS PROBE OF POISON DEATHS Insurance Company Seeks to Prevent Beneficiaries From Collecting. By the Astocieted Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mass, June 13.— Suits filed by an insurance company in Superior Court today against the beneficiaries of a poison victim's in- surance policy lent fresh impetus to- night to the State’s investigation into a half-hundred deaths in nearby mill- town communities. Against Mrs. Teresa Dynak and Walter Wadas, residents of thickly- populated Ludlow, the Boston Mutual Life Insurance Co. moved today to prevent them from collecting on poli- cles assigned to them by Frank Krol of Ludlow. Krol tumbled down a flight of stairs to death at his boarding house—the home of Teresa Dynak and her hus- band—on May 25. His death, one of several under in- vestigation in Ludlow, was first set down as accidental, but a toxicologist’s examination of his organs, District Attorney Thomas F. Moriarty said, revealed enough poison to cause death. Was Known as “Tootsie.” Krol, a strapping 6-foot brass worker, was known to the residents of Ludliow. declared Wadas, as “Tootsle.” “Tootsie, my wife and I had a few drinks before going to bed the night he died,” Dynak said tonight. “I went to sleep,” he continued, i"but awoke suddenly with a big com- motion in the hall. I found Tootsie lying at the foot of the stairs, like this —." | Dynak curled up in a knot at the foot of the worn wooden stairs of the | two-floor home, “just like that,” he said. “Sure,” he asserted. ‘“Tootsie gave us his insurance policy. He told us he wanted to live with us always. He had trouble with his wife in the old country. He took us to a notary | public and put the policy in my wite’s name to make it legal.” “Yes,” added his wife in broken English, “and we paid his insurance policies always after that.” Says Money Owed to Him. | Prom the other defendant in the ‘ company’s suit, Wadas, former tailor, former grocer, now retired, came a stormy protest of the suit. “I'm going to collect that money,” he cried, tears streaming down his cheeks. “Krol owed me that money,” he said. “He owed me nearly $789 for gro- ceries,” he continued. “That's why I insisted he turn over his $1,000 in- surance policy to me about four years ago.” The insurance company contends | Krol had no insurance interests and | asserted that if Wadas and Mrs. | Dynak had been named in the origi- nal application, the insurance would have been denied. The company charged Krol, in applying for insur- ance, denied previous applications had been rejected and charged those de- nials were false. An inquest into Krol's death is still | pending. “Racket” Probe Begins. ‘That inquest comes under the jurls- diction of Trial Justice George B. Haas of Ludlow, whose inquest into | the death of Frank Halgas started an investigation of what he termed a “gigantic insurance racket.” Like Krol, authorities said Halgas, a resident of Ludlow, died of poison. A former newspaper man and trial justice at Ludlow for 15 years, Judge Haas declared “there have been nearly | a half-hundred ‘suspicious deaths’ in | this section during the past 15 years. | “By suspicious,” he said, “I mean | those who died were insured for | amounts far higher than they, them- selves, could carry.” LIBEL SUIT FILED DETROIT, June 13 (#)—Duncan C. McCrea, Wayne County prose- | cutor, filed a libel suit today against | the Detroit Times, a Hearst news- | paper, asking $250,000. The prosecutor alleged a series of defamatory acts, including accusa- | tions which he said he interpreted as | meaning that he was a member of the Black Legion. Mc Crea has been active in the in- vestigation of the night-riding band. China (Continued from First Page.) forces to block the Japanese ‘“in- vader.” 3. For requests to Chinese overseas, in America and elsewhere, to urge Nanking to fight Japan immediately. Parade in Heavy Rain. The Cantonese demonstrated in & heavy rain, men, women and children parading side by side with farmers, carrying sickles, hoes and rakes. All day long they marched through the city, while planes droned overhead. Armed soldiers marched along, too, to preserve order. Reports persisted that the southern troops, sent northward as an expedi- tionary “salvation” army to force re- sistance to the Japanese, were with- drawing to .their own provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangsi. Informed Cantonese thought the southern leaders now would rely on demonstrations, rather than armed threats, in an effort to parsuade Nan- king to act.against extended Japanese military control in the north. Hunan Pivotal Point. Fifteen thousand crack infantry- men, said Nanking cables, entrained toward the south as part of the Nan- king military counter move. New air force units also were sent to Changsa, in Hunan Province. Reports to the national capital from several points indicated Generalissimo Chiang and his aides were perfecting a battle setting in Southern Hunan, with an increasing concentration of national military and air forces pro- gressing there. ported bound for Kwangsi Province. Southern reports to Nanking slso stated more Kwangtung and Kwangsi soldiers had entered Hunan, despite indications their advance had been halted. ‘The military situation, as seen from Nanking, was that the southern and STAR, WASHINGTO DEBT DEFAULTED BY BLUM REGIME New French Note Similar to Previous—Total $250,- 227,866. By the Associated Press. ‘The Socialist government of Premier Blum of France followed its predeces- sors yesterday in defaulting on its semi- annual war debt payment of $75,787,~ 725 to the United States. Authoritative quarters, awaiting the new French government’s first official pronouncement of the debt question with more than ordinary interest be- cause of Blum'’s post-election hint that something definite soon might be done about it, were disappointed. Reiterating his government’s con- tinued inability to pay, a formal note to Secretary Hull from Jules Henry, the French charge d'affaires, differed only in slight changes of phraseology from previous communications, ‘The principal difference was the ad- dition of a single sentence asserting that the French government “has not overlooked the difficulties involved in the question of debts and hopes that they may be overcome.” As before, however, the note added that France still found itself unable at present to advance any proposals Iculated to bring about a settlement. By failing to meet its June 15 install- ment, France increased its total indebt- edness in arrears to $250,227,866. Marking the seventh nation thus far to default on its latest semi-annual payment, Esthonia also notified the State Department yesterday that it, too, was unable to pay $322,850 due from that country tomorrow. Its total due and unpaid was thus raised to $2,- 611,886. Great Britain, Italy, Lithuania, Yugoslavia and Rumania previously had given notice of their default. Out of 13 debtors, Finland is the only country which thus far has made its payments promptly. Traffic (Continued from Pirst Page.) southwest, and Beatrice Young, 33, 334 L street southwest, both colored, were seriously injured. The accident occurred shortly after T o'clock. Parker and his two com- panions were driving east on L street when their car was in collision with a dry cleaner’s delivery truck operated by Fred Lee Davis, 33, 910 G street northeast, who escaped injury. Davis' truck was going south on South Capitol street. Parker's auto- mobile was thrown into the curb on the southeast corner, breaking the cast iron sewer cover which extends back from the curb. The, driver presumably was thrown | from the front seat into the open | sewer. | might have staggered into the open- ing in a daze. The others were too | badly injured to explain what hap- | pened after the impact. Found at Bottom of Sewer. Police found the dying man lying in shallow water at bottom of the | sewer. He and the others injured were taken to Providence Hospital by passing motorists. Parker died of in- ternal - injuries, physicians reported. Slippery streets in the wake of yes- terday afternoon’s thunder storm were blamed for several accidents, includ- ing a fatal crash in nearby Maryland. Wheaton Man Killed. John W. Hogan, 19, of Wheaton, Md., was killed when a hit-and-run coupe occupied by two men and bearing Dis- trict of Columbia tags sideswiped his machine near the Jenkins television laboratory on the Seventh street pike, at Wheaton, and sent it careening into a nearby telephone pole. The car overturned and Hogan was pinned beneath it. A passing motorist, Lee S. Jones of 1701 Massachusetts avenue, brought him to the Washington Sanitarium and Hospital, at Takoma Park, Md,, where he was pronounced dead. Hogan was alone. Mrs. Edna Store, 34, of Broad Creek, Md., suffered a possible fracture of the left leg, cuts and bruises, when knocked down by an automobile in the 200 block of Michigan avenue southeast. She was admitted to Providence Hospital. The automobile was operated by Oscar F. Gordon, colored, 1345 V street. Woman Felled by Car. A hit-and-run driver bowled over and slightly injured Mary Carter, 50, of 2118 North Capitol street, at North Capitol and I streets yesterday after- noon. She received first aid for a bruised shoulder at Sibley Hospital and was sent home. Six-year-old Charles Rodgers, 304 E street, was treated at Sibley Hospital for bruises about the head after he was struck while crossing the street near his home by & truck operated by Rich- ard E. Stovall, 19, colored, 439 New Jersey avenue. Helen Baker, 25, of 419 Massachu- setts avenue, was slightly injured when hit by an automobile as she was cross- Ing Massachusetts avenue in the 300 block northeast. She was given first aid at Casualty Hospital. The driver of the car was William R. Swab, 6408 Georgia avenue. Hit-and-Run Victim Howard Raymond Baker of Berwyn, Md., was struck by a hit and run motorist while walking along the Berwyn road with his wife last night. A passing motorist, Carrie V. Smith of 725 Eleventh street northeast, took Baker to Casualty Hospital, where he was treated for shock and cuts about the face. Policeman Warren Peake of Prince Georges County started an immediate search for the car after a witness supplied officers with a description of the machine and three of its tag numbers. The car bore District tags. VIENNA STENCH BOMBS ARE BLAMED ON NAZIS Audiences Are Driven Out of Theaters and Opera House at Festival Peak. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, June 13.—Stench bombs, which authorities blamed on Nazs, to- night drove audiences from the state theaters, the opera house and the Burg Theater. Performances of Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde” and the Polish Count Zygmunt Kraskinski’s “Ungodly Com- edy” were halted abruptly while the Police said, however, Parker | , D. C. JUNE 14, 1936—PART ONE. Black Legion “Firebugs” Confess After an all-night grillin Communist leader. Rice. in Detroit, five men (shown above) the home of William Mollenhauser at Rose Center, Mich., in August, 1934, because he was a They also admitted the eristence of the Black Legion intelligence squad, whose duty it was to seek out Communist leaders and fire their homes Harry Colburn, chief investigator of the prosecutor of Wayne County; Elvis Clarke and Frank Standing are Clarence Frye, Albert Swanson and Roy Hepner. admitted that they set fire to Left to right, seated: —Wide World Photo. FIRMS DISMANTLE PLANTS N STRIKE 3 Remington Rand Units to Be Moved—Others Plan Changes. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 13.—Threats to | dismantle strike-beset plants in sev- eral sections of the country were or- dered carried out today by owners de- termined to end difficulties. The Remington Rand Co. announced it was moving machinery from three {of its factories—at Syracuse, N. Y.; ! Middletown, Conn. and some from Norwood, Ohio—even as picket lines | disappeared from its plants at Tona- wanda and North Tonawanda, N. Y., | where promises of similar action, un- |less workers returned today, were | made. The concern said “desirable ex- perienced employes” would be moved to other branches, and that the trans- fer from the three cities, expected to be completed in about three weeks, “puts a very definite end to the strike.” A walkout three weeks ago had spread to a numbr of th company’s plants. Union laders had demanded wage in- creases and other benefits. Shirt Firm Threatens Shift. An offer to take a “reasonable re- duction” followed reports that the Grenberg Shirt Co. planned to remove its activities from Morgantown, W. Va, to Georgia. In protest against a wage cut, 240 workers had been out a week. The Homer Furnace & Foundry | Corp. nailed the doors of its plants | at Coldwater, Mich., shut rather than meet union recognition demands by 200 employes. In other strike centers these devel- opments occurred: Santa Ana, Calif.—One hundred deputies guarded the Orange County citrus groves as Mexican pickers tight- ened their harvest time walkout. Es- timates of the strikers’ numbers ranged from 900 to 2,000. Milwaukee—Labor chieftains claim- ed 2,500 to 3,000 idle in stove works, docks, woodworking plants and a newspaper strike. Minneapolis—Some 600 mill workers continued their protracted strike at seven plants. Federal Study Sought. Akron, Ohio—The Goodyear In- Qustrial Assembly requested President Roosevelt to send a committee to study the labor situation at the Good- year Tire & Rubber plant. A minor “shutdown” strike at the plant in- volved only nine men. Birmingham, Ala.—Iron ore area strike entered negotiation stage; 2,500 workers seek revision of pay base, now on tonnage scale. Muskegon, Mich.—Walkout for union recognition at Brunswick-Balke- Collender factory entered fourth day. Big Springs, Nebr.—Sixty workers on highway project walked out, de- manding 40 cents an hour instead of 30 cents. Sandoval, TI.—A Federal Labor Re- lations Board agent completed inves- tigation of strike of P. W. A. work- ers, which has tied up a waterworks project for 10 days. — Eckener Hurt in Accident. PASING, Germany June 13 (P).— Dr. Hugo Eckener, veteran German Zeppelin comander, was injured slightly today when a tire on the auto- mobile he was driving blew out, throw- ing his car into a ditch in this Munich suburb. Three other passengers were shaken. 12Y5-Foot ‘T hrow’ Wins Spitting Honors at Fair Dark Horse Walks Off With Huge Brass Cuspidor. By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., June 13.-—Repre- sentative Leon Friedman, a dark- horse tobacco chewer from Natchi- toches, La., walked off with spitting honors at the Texas Centennial today, after a furious contest with the Texas champion, Capt. Leonard Pack, chief of centennial police. The winner was awarded a huge brass cuspidor. There were charges and counter charges of unfair competition, terminating in ing disqualified for using snuff in- stead of eat'n tobacco. | Representative Friedman, who agreed | to compete for Louisiana after Gov. Rochard W. Leche’s hand-picked can- | didate, Representative Leonard Spinks | of Hammond, failed to show up, was ing his best throw—1212 feet. This toss prompted some Texans to lift their eyebrows. | unofficial candidates for the honor of being Texas’ representative had bragged they could swamp a horned | toad at 15 feet. Capt. Pack’s high, arched effort of 13 feet, 2 inches. But careful exam- ination by the judges disclosed he was using a mixture of snuff. RULING OF COURT Constitutionality Questioned in Suit in Connection With “Dawes Loan.” By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, June 13.—United States District Judge Jame$ H. Wilkinson ‘was asked to rule directly on the con- stitufionality of the act creating the Reconstrucion Finance Corp. in & brief filed in his court today. The brief was part of the defense argument in the R. F. Cs suit to collect $10,000,000 from stockholders of the Oentral Republic Bank & Trust Co. in anticipation of a deficiency in repayment of the “Dawes loan” of $80,000,000. It was drawn by Attorney John E. Hughes, representing Ignaz Schwinn, & stockholder. “In the case at bar it is obvious that if Congress may create a corpora- tion to buy stock in banks or insur- ance companies * * * it may create & corporation to buy the entire busi- ness and industry of the country,” the brief said in part. “Such a thing was never contem- plated by the framers of the Consti- tution.” Appealing for & ruling on the con- stitutionality of the act, the brief continued: “When a citizen * * * raises the shield of the Constitution it becomes a5 much the duty of the district judge to give the matter thorough and mature consideration as it is the duty of the justices of the Supreme Court when the question reaches them. “Not often in the course of the ju- dicial life of a district judge does & question of the importance of this one come before him.” Social Securii:y Forum Topic “Progress in Social Security” will be discussed by Arthur J. Altmeyer, act- ing chairman of the Social Security Board, at 9:30 p.m. tomorrow in the National Radio Forum, by The Washington Star, and broadcast over WRC and a Nation-wide network of other National Broadcasting Co. stations. Mr. Altmeyer is widely known as an authority on social insurance and is expected to give a comprehensive and official analysis of the Government's new venture under the social security act. He has been intimately sssociated with the administration’s movement in this direction since the beginning. nomic Security, which drafted s far- reaching report to the President on ARTHUR J. ALTMEYER. Gov. James V. Allred’s candidate be- | awarded the title while smugly view- | A number of | Topping the Louisianan’s mark was | ONR.F.C.AGTDUE DEMOCRATS CHECK GONVENTIONPLANS |Senator Barkley Begin Writing Keynote for Next Week. 85 the Associated Press. { Democratic chieftains checked 4ings over yesterday and said they were just about ready for their party’s national convention at Philadelphia, which opens June 23 to renominate President Roosevelt. As they worked long into the after- | noon to mzke sure nothing was over- looked, Senator Barkley of Kentucky retired to his home to begin writing the keynote speech he will make as temporary chairman of the conven- tion. Surrounded by a corps of party workers and stenographers, Emil Hurja, assistant to Chairman James A. Farley of the National Committee, and Charles Michaelson, publicity di- | rector. sent out hundreds of letters and telegrams about seating arrange- ments and hotel accommodations. They dispatched hundreds of other letters that had to do with such things as Liberty Bell souvenirs, a memorial breakfast for William Jennings Bryan, a prize fight, a scrapple breakfast, an ice skating carnival, and the outdoor demonstration at Franklin Field, at | which President Roosevelt will make his acceptance speech June 27. Two Other Experiences. In writing his address, Barkley had two other experiences as keynoter on which to draw. He was the temporary | chairman in Chicago four years ago | when Mr. Roosevelt was first nomi- | nated for the presidency. Sixteen | years ago he served in the same ca- pacity at the San Francisco conven- tion, which chose Gov. Cox of Ohio as the party’s nominee. The permanent chairman of the Philadelphia convention will be Sena- tor Robinson of Arkansas, who also presided over the Chicago meeting in 1932. To date 1,032 of the 1,100 delegates have been chosen. The others will be picked Tuesday by Indiana, Virginia and Mississippi. All delegates thus far selected either have been in- structed or are on recerd as favoring Mr. Roosevelt's renomi¥ tion. There was some speculation in the | party's councils as to whether any real | fights would develop over the adop- |tion of a platform and over the pro- posal to abolish the two-thirds rule | for the naming of the nominee. Both Farley and President Roosevelt hav favored its abolition and adoption of the majority rule. Chairman Ashhurst of the Senate Judiciary Committee said he thought it possible that the convention would consider proposals to amend the Con- stitution so wages and working hours may be regulated. Regulation Proposal. He is author of such a proposal, su#- mitted to the Senate a week ago, to give Congress power to make laws to regulate agriculture, industry, labor and commerce. He insists, however, he acted independently and not for the administration or any one else. He has never attended a national con- vention and does not plan to go to Philadelphia. “It seems to me they have got to advocate an amendment such as mine or an amendment to give the States power to regulate working hours and ‘wages or else just write a few flowery words meaning nothing,” he said. Senator Connally, Democrat, of Texas said he was considering the ad- visability of urging a take-the-profits- out-of-war plank. Farley has promised the platform will be short. Planks are expected on money, labor, agriculture, banking, spending and a balanced budget, gov- ernmental reorganization, foreign trade, foreign policy, power and hous- ing. S CITY IN PREPARATION. Convention Week to Find Philadelphia in Gala Garb. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, June 13.—Phila- delphia is sprouting the gala garb of an “old home week” and a dozen entertainment units are in rehearsal for the second great political con- vention of 1936. Arrival of the Democratic high command is expected about midweek. Then will begin the final inventory of preparations for the convention proper. Advance agents of the party's national committee have been on the 42 FACE CHARGES INTERROR PLOTS 15 More Under $25,000 Bond in Michigan Black Legicn Probe. By the Associatea Press. DETROIT, June 13.~Fifteen men were ordered held today under bonds of $25,000 each on charges of plot- ting to kill two political enemies of the Black Legion, bringing to 42 the number charged with terroristic acts since the bullet-pierced body of Charles A. Poole was found in a road- side ditch a month ago today. In addition to the 42 held here and in Jackson, Mich., on charges of murder, conspiracy, kidnaping, assault or arson, at least 40 more are sought by authorities bent on reaching the shadowy high command of the black- cloaked night riders. A former mayor of a Detroit suburb and the State commander of the Black Legion were among the 15 who stood | mute at the arraignment today, but investigators here are convinced they | must go beyond the miscellaneous group of “captains,” “colonels” and “brigadier generals” in custody now to | solve the two central mysteries of the masked soclety—its size and its real objectives. Conspiracy to Murder. Three of the men in court today were charged with conspiracy to mur- | der William W. Voisine, mayor of | suburban Ecorse, and the other 12— | including Arthur F. Lupp, sr., ad- mitted State commander and chief | recruiting officer of the night riders: N. Ray Markland, former mayor of | Highland Park, and Leslie J. Black, president of the Wolverine Republicar: League—were charged with sending |out a bloodhound gang of gunmen to slay Arthur L. Kingsley, editor of & Highland Park newspaper which opposed Markland's campaign for re- election in 1934. Markland until re- cently was an investigator lor Prose- | cutor Duncan C. McCrea and Black | was a clerk in Common Pleas Court. One of the gunmen on the expedi- tions against both Voisine and Kings- ley was Dayton Dean, he told Mc- | Crea Priday. Dean also has confessed “executing” Poole in the brutal slay- ing which disclosed the existence of the terrorists and touched off & series | of fast-moving investigations. | The three charged with the con- | spiracy against Voisine, whose home | was bombed shortly before Dean said the gunmen were sent after him last Autumn, previously had been ar- raigned with 12 others on charges of | kidnaping and murdering Poole. They re “Col.” Harvey Davis, Ervin D. Lee d John Bannerman. | Torch Squad Members. | Some of the 12 accused of the plot against Kingsley previously had been } charged with arson as members of a Black Legion “torch squad,” which burned the home and barn of Wil- | liam Mollenhauer in Oakland County |two years ago. In addition to the 15 arraigned to- day, 15 are held for trial in Poole’s | slaying. Other charges include flog- ging, arson, intimidation and abduc- | tion. Four are also in jail at Jack- | son awaiting ‘rial for abduction and assault in a flogging case, and a fifth man there is charged with assault in an attempt to force a minister to take the bombastic oath of the secret society. Many of the men have confessed, declaring in almost every case they were forced to join the terrorists and were kept in the organization by threats of drastic reprisals if they | attempted to leave. | Vague stories of a plot to establish |a Fascist dictatorship with 6,000,000 armed men taking part in a coup, bf plans for political dominance through terrorism and of schemes to obtain preference for Black Legion members in industrial employment have come from some of the prisoners, but the stories remain unverified “The men are beginning to talk, however,” McCrea said today, “and we won't stop until we bring the whole business into the light of day.” W. C. FIELDS REPORTED AS SLIGHTLY IMPROVED Temperature Drops to 101—Actor Being Kept in Oxy- gen Tent. Py the Associated Press. RIVERSIDE, Calif, June 13.—W. . Fields, noted stage and screen come- dian, showed a turn for the better today. The actor, suffering from what his physician saild was the first stage | of pneumonia, entered the Community | Hospital last night. Fields' temperature dropped 3 de- grees to 101 during the day. The actor is being kept in an oxygen tent, with a physician and nurse constantly at his side. “While anything can happen,” said | Dr. Jesse Citron, “we are hoping for the best.” Fields has been in ill health in re- cent months CABINET TO RESIGN Socialist Ministers of Sweden Will Quit Monday. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 13 (#). —The Socialist cabinet of Premier Hansson will resign Monday, it was announced tonight, following rejec- tion by the Riksdag of a govermnment bill to increase old-age pensions where the cost of living has increased. The farmers and peoples parties were expected to form a new cabinet until the September elections. The Socialists have been in power since September of 1932. McNair (Continued from First Page.) Director Dunn to take a 15-day fur- lough, but Dunn refused. The mayor gave out instructions for more than any magistrate who failed to perform his duties. Judge Smith told the sheriff: “Upon your shoudlers rests the responsibility.