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THE EV. A—2 ¥ NING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1936. BILL IS DEFEATED ON CIVIL SERVICE Effort to Remove Postmas- ters From Patronage List Loses in Senate. President Roosevelt and others who would place all first, second and third- class postmasters under civil service resigned themselves today to the fact that such a plan can not become law at least until another Congress meets. Administration-supported legisla- tion to remove all postmasters from | patronage rolls was defeated in the | House yesterday by a narrow vote in | which party lines were split. | Brought up after the Republican | convention at Cleveland last week | adopted a merit system plank, the bill | by Chairman Ramspeck of the Civil | Service Committee would have | Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. BATH. HIS is a story without point. But, it may prove something or anothet. It's about a great big police- | man with a great big heart and a small 8-year-old boy who was very, very warm. The other afternoon when the ther- mometer was climbing skyward, when | the crowds of people going in and out | of the Union Station were wilting, our hero, the youngster, eyed the cooling, cooling waters of the great fountain in | Union Station Plaza with longing. Glancing one direction and then the e W i [ E'. ¥ | other he sidled slowly toward the cold, chosen by civil service examination. clear, gushing waters. He scanned the Taken up under suspension of the |gntire plaza and deemed the situation rules requiring a two-thirds vote for | «well in hand.” Off came his overalls passage, the Civil Service bill re- ‘ and into the fountain bowl he plunged, ceived 204 votes to 112 against it.|gans clothes of any character. Thus, while a majority—including 46 Auto horns tooted, street cars came Republicans and 152 Democrats— | ¢5 q stop, adults halted their steps and voted for the measure, the 54 Repub- | 1ooking toward the fountain, chuckled. licans and 58 Democrats voting in op- | A few taxi drivers let out whoops of | position were enough to block pas- admmmnn. Diving, plunging, splash- gage to the Senate. ing, the youngster was having a swell The House action came while the | time. brought first. second and third-class postmasters under civil service. U.S. POLO TEAM WINS CUP AGAIN British Challengers Are De- feated in Slow-Moving Match. By the Associnted Press. HURLINGHAM CLUEB, LONDON, June 20.—America retained the Inter- national Polo Cup against England’s challenge today, winning the second and deciding match, 8 to 6. The cup- defenders won the first match, 10 to 9, played 10 days ago. Today’s victory was America’s tenth straight match triumph and fourth consecutive successful defense of the cup since 1921, when Louis Stoddard, Tommy Hitchcock, jr.; Watson Webb and Devereux Millburn lifted it from England on this same Hurlingham turf. A crowd of approximately 12,000 gave the four white-shirted Amer- jcans—Eric Pedley, Michael Phipps, Stewart Iglehart and Winston Guest— | a big hand as they marched up to the | royal box to receive the cup pre- sented by the Dutchess of Gloucester. The cup was accepted by Guest, cap- tain of the team. Spectators Disappointed. The Americans' clinching triumph was a disappointment to the specta- tors, but they took it good naturedy. | The British were slightly favored to win this match and send the issue to a third game. DAKOTA FARMERS SEEK U. 5. FUNDS Gov. Welford to Fly to Capi- tal With Ideas on Drought Relief. By tre Assoclated Press. BISMARCK, N. Dak, June 20— Drought-harassed farmers assembled in county mass meetings throughout North Dakota today to discuss means of relieving their plight. Gov. Walter Welford shaped a re- guest for advice on how to surmount the problem of withered crops for a radio broadcast to the gathering from Fargo. He planned to compile their sug- gestions, fly to a Washington confer- ence with President Roosevelt and seek Federal funds for sustenance for the farmer and feed for their live stock. The National Capital was already apprised of the seriousness of the situation. The Federal Crop Report- iny Board termed conditions “criti- especially in the western stretches of North and South Da- kota and Eastern Montana. The board found the Spring wheat crop on June 1 was only 66.9 per cent of normal. The parched prairies, it added, “must have rain.” But meteorologists forecast only contined fair weather, although they predicted relief from the intense heat that has seared Western plains. Tem- Mystery Shrouds Triple Slaying w Benate was listening to Senator Met- | calf, Republican of Rhode Island, de- | slare Postmaster General Farley should | be held responsible for letters recently | kid took one sauint, out of the fountain | afternoon sun, and handicapped the sent out, bearing a rubber stamp fac- But all delights must end. The blue-clad form of the big police- | man appeared over the horizon. The | he leaped, and, naked as the day he peratures rose to 108 yesterday at Kansas City and Concordia, Kans.; 107 at Shenandoah, Iowa, and 104 at Bartlesville, Okla. Seasonal highs were recorded at many other points. The field was slow and soupy from a heavy overnight rain despite a warm swift, sharp-wheeling American ponies. simile of his signature and urging | | was born, his little body wet and spark- postmasters to aid in raising funds | ling, ne grabbed his overalls and flew for the Democratic presidential cam- paign This precipitated a reply by Sen- | ator Robinson, Democratic leader, that Farley had explained he had not signed the letters. Robinson placed Farley’s statement in the Congres- sional Record. DEATH OF LABORER PROBED BY POLICE | | Joseph Port, Found Lying in Street by Work Car, Dies in Hospital. A police investigation was under way today to determine the cause | of the death of Joseph A. Port, 58, who died in Walter Reed Hospital last night, shortly - | after he was found in the 7100 block of Georgia avenue. beside a Capital Transit Co. work car, on which he had been working Port, who lived at 645 K street northwest, was taken to the hos- pital by a soldier after he was ; found uncon- . gcious by a pass- erby. He had a gash in his head. Revived at the hospital, Port in- gisted he was.all right and said he wanted to go home. He died, however, while preparations were being made to take him home. An autopsy will be performed to fix the cause of death. Police believe Port was injured when he fell from the car, but they are investigating the possibility that he may have been struck by an auto- mobile as he alighted from the car, Joseph A. Port. PR D. C. SUNDAY SCHOOL GROUPS IN SESSION Two Units Meeting at Westmin- ster in Co-operation With Y ML A Bv the Assoclated Press | WESTMINSTER, Md., June 20.— ‘Two Sunday school association groups from Washington moved today to business sessions of their week end conference here. The Administrative Officers and | Teachers’ Conference and the Young | People’s Conference of the District of Columbia Sunday School Associa- | tion met in co-operation with the | Y. M. C. A. religious work department. | About 175 delegates were present when the conference got under way | last night. The principal speaker of | the evening was the Rev. Dr. Thomas | G. Speers, pastor of Brown Memorial | Presbyterian Church, Baltimore. | WoeE ncompasses Colored Sections At Louis Defeat Minor Disturbances Here Linked to Victory of Schmeling. Washington's colored neighborhoods today were like so many Mudvilles after the “mighty Casey had struck out.” | The mighty Joe Louis was knocked | out and there was no joy on U street and no bands played. Further-| more, numerous colored men and ‘women faced the prospects of work- ing, in effect, for nothing for some days to come, having bet anticipated wages on the loser. The gloom that prevailed in centers of colored population was as sincere as the joy of less than a year ago when Louis walloped Max Baer and gave promise to his race of becoming heavyweight champion, Several minor disturbances immedl- ately following the Louis-Schmeling fight were believed to have some con- nection with the outcome. Walter Logue, 446 Thied street, a news vender, told police he had been attacked by a gang of about 15 col- ored boys and robbed of $1.50 in change and 50 extra papers carrying the fight result. About the same time, William Rus- sell, 14, of 1609 E street southeast, _became involved in a squabble with several colored boys. He was hit on the head end required treatment for cuts at Gallinger Hospital. Edward Councel, 18, of 1102 L street southeast, was treated at Providence Hospital after being pummeled in the face by two colored men. n ‘A | me in there,” for the inner recesses of the station. The crowd roared its delight. The | policeman, a kindly smile on his face, followed the boy but very. very slowly. One suspected he knew about hot days and little boys and didn't have much “truck” with the idea that law should | interfere with the happy, care-free | hurrying their shots, missed plenty of nonchalance of youth. But on he| went, still very slowly. A huge pmar came to the rescue of the kid. He found | | & bare second and in that time the No. 2, and Capt. H. P. Guinness, the overalls were back on his spare little body. As his feet beat a merry tattoo |on hot pavements in his attempt to | get away from there, the crowd sent up a cheer. The policeman smiled broadly. O CREDIT. Secretary Ickes’ press confer- ence was the sceme of a discus- sion of all the tearing up of La- fayette Park, the place where grass seed is planted ome day and sod laid on top of it the next. “Mr. Secretary,” said one of the reporters, “the sign at Lafayette Park now says W. P. A. project. Didn’t your P. W. A. do the same work last year?” Mr. Secretary wasn't sure. He guessed that maybe the W. P. A. was just doing the “demolition” part of the jod. * ¥ * % QUESTION. LITTLE episode enacted at the corner of Military road and Forty- | first street illustrates the vicissitudes | of a taxi driver’s life. The principal actor was an elderly woman with an umbrella and a shop- ping bag impatiently awaiting a bus. She waved her umbrella at several passing motorists, but not aware she wanted to inquire about the bus in- stead of a ride, they kept right on their way. She had better results with a taxi driver who responded to her waving umbrella by jamming on the brakes, backing up half a block and gallantly swinging open the cab door. When she ignored the invitation to enter the cab and asked him if he had seen the bus down the street, he was so pro- | voked that the lady’s feelings were spared when his reply was drowned in the shifting of gears and the roar of the engine as the taxi started away | even more abruptly than it had stopped. CHARGE. The woman in charge of the cash register at the Grace Church dinner in Silver Spring fought a losing fight with the problem of change the other night. Starting the evening with two five (5) dollar bills, she recognized the immediate necessity for getting some ones. She combed the crowd for change and finally managed to Aind @ man who gave her five ones for one of the fives. Things looked a bit happier, then, but only for a minute. As fate would have it, the first person served and the first to pay was the man who had changed the first bill. He got his ones back and she got her five and the lady's problem was set to be solved all over again. .. FAMILY CAR. "THE Sixth Precinct policeman was somewhat surprised when a car, driven by a determined-looking woman, pulled up at a stop sign and disclosed a man hanging on the rear bumper. “Sorry, you can't ride there. What's the matter with the inside?” the offi- cer said, waving to the seats where the woman was the sole occupant. “That's my wife, and she won't let was the unexpected re- ply. “She treats me awtul—" “Well, she’ll either have to let you in or you must get off,” the policeman interrupted. Apparently, the “law” awed the lady, for the gentleman made the grade—temporarily, at least. B ‘WITNESS. IP‘ YOU ever have wondered just what shade is that “horse of an- other color” you've heard about all your life, it's red. Our Police Court operative says seo, and he ought to know because he was there when Paul McGee, bailiff, took the stand as a character witness. Mc- Gee has pointed out the chair to a lot of other witnesses in his time, but he never has occupied it. There was a wicked gleam in the eyes of his fellow court attaches as McGee took his seat. It grew in wick- edness as McGee sat there for fully 15 minutes, reddening, squirming and perspiring under a barrage of ques- tions which covered more ground than probably any other character witness has been asked since the Inquisition. ‘They finally let him up, however, . Experts figured it would throw off and | perhaps retard the characteristic \mer(‘urial pace of the Americans. Wich Pedley, the big Californian, setting the scoring pace with three goals, just as he did in the opening | match, June 10, when he equaled his | cup record of nine goals, the Ameri- cans, due to over-anxiousness and | chances to win by a lop-sided margin, However, the sterling defensive ex- | hibitions by Gerald Balding, English loser's back, had something to do with the size of the American’s winning margin. Time and again they either rode off rivals on goalward drives or out-galloped them to prevent scores. All in Scoring. All the Americans participated in the scoring. Guest, who showed a splendid recovery of form after his somewhat disappointing showing in | the first match, and Iglehart scored two each, and Phipps coce. H. Hesketh Hughes, England’s No. 1, tallied three times, Balding twice and Guinness once. After the players retired to the dressing room the big silver cup was filled with champagne by the jubilant | Bobby Strawbridge, jr., chairman of the United States Polo Association, aad passed around to the players of both teams. | TRAWLER CAPTURED AFTER FIGHT AT SEA| Vessel Taken by British Craft | Believed Manned by Run- away Crew. €% the Associated Press. GEORGETOWN, British Guiana, | June 20—The government S. S.| Pomeron yesterday forcibly captured a |* vessel believed to be the runaway British trawler Girl Pat. The vessel taken had been hover- ing outside the 3-mile limit for sev- eral days. Excitement ran high on shore, for | officials said the mysterious boat’s | crew had threatened to fire on a po- lice boat off the Demerara River mouth. Police officials reported the craft answered the description of the Girl Pat, whose crew ran away with her | from Grimsby, England, early in | April, presumably on a search for | pirate treasure. The captured craft was without | fuel, but the crew fought off the gov- | | ernment ship's efforts to capture her (for two and one-half hours, ma- | neuvering by sail. { | | | ! (CONVICTS TO FACE TRIAL FOR MURDER By the Associatea Press. RICHMOND, Va., June 20.—Judge Julien Gunn of the Richmond Circuit | Court yesterday ordered g special grand jury to consider charges of murder against eight convicts whose attempt to break from the Virginia prison { Tuesday resulted in the death of a | guard. | Distribution of 2,000 Bibles Will | be guest speaker at 3 p.m. Sunday of | Hotel of Gideons from the District | | Maryland, Concurrently, wheat prices lifted to seasonal peaks as traders termed drought news sensational. Quotations at Kansas City and Minneapolis advanced the full 5-cent limit. They moved up 43 cents at Chicago as traders saw the possibility of a subnormal wheat harvest for the fifth consecutive season. Meanwhile, rains measuring 1 to 4 inches ended a 70-day drought in the Southeast. But it was too late to save millions of dollars in shriveled crops. —_— ROPER GUEST SPEAKER AT GIDEONS’ MEETING Be a Feature of Two-Day Ses- sion Here Next Week. Secretary of Commerce Roper will next week at a meeting at the Willard and five States, who will convene for & two-day session for the purpose of | distributing 2,000 Bibles. The dis- tribution will place one in every Wash- ington hotel room, it was said. Samuel A. Fulton, national chaplain | of the organization, will be honor gu&t at 6:30 p.m. next Saturday, at & banquet in the Washington Hotel Dr. Robert Howard, president of the | | Gideons, is expected to attend the sessions, which will bring more !hln 50 organization members here from | Virginia, West Vlrginia\ Pennsylvania and Delaware. W. B. Cummings of Abbington, Pa., is in| charge of meeting arrangements. FRANCE SHUNS OLYMPICS PARIS, June 20 (#).—French ath- letes will participate in the Olympic games in Berlin in August, officials said yesterday, but the government will abstain from “official participation.” Lack of official character of the Tri- color's participation apparently means the government will not be repre- | sented in the ceremonies at Berlin. A bill for an appropriation to finance the team will be introduced | | soon in Parliament. “Nominator” (Continued From First Page.) unnamed employes of the G. P. O., | who called on him to seek congres- sional protection against the sale of the tickets. “One statement, pnsemzd in the presence of witnesses,” said Halleck, “sets forth that every salaried em- ploye of the Government Printing Office is being solicited this week for such campaign contributions. In his solicitation, the foreman acknowledges | frankly that the contrbution is I:el'flg1 sought for the Democratic national campaign fund. Often, an implied threat against the worker’s job is offered in the solicitation.” Halleck pointed out that in all regular authorized solicitations here- tofore in the printing office, the collections have been handled by division time clerks, but in this case the foremen are making the solicita- tion. HULL SEEN GUIDE FOR TRADE PLANK | Planners Reported Insistent on “Non-Partisan Recip- rocal Program.” By the Assoctated Press. Democratic platform planners were | recorded today as insistent that the party pledge itself to a “non-partisan reciprocal trade program” to make the United States a “moral force among the nations of the world.” After viewing the Republican plat- form calling for repeal of the recipro- I THE WEATHER cal trade treaties, Senator Pope, Dem- ocrat, of Idaho, a champion of the| District of Columbia—Cloudy to- | Attorneys Fail to Appear, So Life farm interests in reciprocal trade pacts, | night, showers and cooler tomorrow; said Secretary Hull's views were ex- | pected to be a controlling factor in shaping the tariff plank. “It is well known that the Secre- | tary wants to keep the reciprocal trade | program non-partisan,” he said, “and | if the Resolutions Committee follows his counsel, it will emphasize that the present pacts have been of tremendous benefit. “Committeemen with whom I have talked want to keep the tariff out of | politics. It is unthinkable, they say, that we ever should return to the log- | ! rolling tactics of the Smoot- Hawley | | tariff act. They feel that the whole country is too vitally affected by tariff | policies to abandon economic questions to polltical machinations.” i Senator Lewis of Illinois, Democratic | whip, said he understood no mention | by name would be made of a minimum | wage law for women and children, but that the platform likely would favor| a “proper balancing of wages and hours | of labor.” Senator McAdoo of California, war- | time Secretary of the Treasury, he did not expect any fight over the money issue, believing the convention | would declare for a managed currency | as conducted by the present adminis- tration A currency plank, Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Okla- homa, who unsuccessfully has advo- | cated issuance of $3,000,000,000 of new currency, was interpreted by him as opening the way for future legis- | lation by the “new money” bloc in Congress. Thomas, a member of the Resolu- tions Committee, said he did not be- lieve the platform would menuon‘ gold or silver, or use the word “stab- | ilization.” Pope said he believed it planned to | | use the term “stable currency in the sense of its commodity purchlsmgi | power and debt paying value.” said | 4 | Hish submitted by = moderate southwest, shifting to fresh northerly winds tomorrow. Maryland and Virginia—Cloudy to- night; tomorrow showers and cooler. West Virginia—Mosuy cloudy to- night and tomorrow, probably showers in east portion; cooler tomorrow. River Report. Potomac River muddy and Shenan- doah clear today. Report for Last 21 Hours. { = | Record for Last 2 (Prom noon yesterday t Highest. N6, a Lowest, 66, at Record Temperatures This Year. Highest. 96. on June west, 0, on January Humidity for Las Hours. (Prom noon yesterdav to noon today.) Highest, 86 per cent. at 2:15 a.m. Lowest, terday. tam 52 per cent, at 2:10 pm. yes- Tide Tables, (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Tomorrom 3 §~ am 1004 pm 129 pm | done it? I've known her 12 APARTMENT RUINS YIELD FOUR DEAD Seven Other Bodies Sought in Debris of Collapsed Bronx Building. By the Assoctatec Press. NEW YORK, June 20.—Four bodies were recovered today from the wrecke age of a collapsed Bronx apartment house, bringing to five the known dead, as police and fire rescue squads, with picks and shovels, searched for seven others believed buried in the debris. ‘The bodies of three workmen were uncovered as another portion of the second floor collapsed this morning More than a score of workmen were working in the unfnished seven-story structure when the center wing fell in yesterday afternoon. piling wreck- age from the basement to the third | floor. Twelve men were injured as the in- terior of the building collapsed Searchers Delayed. No. 1: Mrs. Eleanor Feely, 30, wife of Martin Feely, Uni- versity of Pittsburgh in- structor, found mysteriously slain in her Pittsburgh home No. 2: Bobby, 5. and Jenice, 3, found slain beside their mother. No. 3: Martin Feely, hu band and father of the vic- tims of the triple slaying, shown as he returned to Pittsburgh to aid in the probe of their deaths. Feely said his wife had wired him in a New Jersey camp that they were eager to join him and that he believed they had been mur- dered. —A P. Photos. 4 HISBAND BLANES FIEND N TRAGEDY Mother and Two Murdered, Is Theory, Strengthened by Probe. A tedt Press PITTSBURGH, June 20.—The the- ory of a triple murder gained sup- port today in the mysterious garroting of the wife and two small children of Martin J. Feely, University of Pitts- burgh instructor. Both the husband and Mrs. Feely’s brother. Robert W. Buckley, of New York. insisted she did 11 her children and herself, as most of the Bv the Assoc ! police officers have decided Feely was near collapse and unable to view the bodies after rushing home T a Summer camp in New Jersey vhich he was directing. He kept re- “Who could have broken in and vears and she wasn't the kind to do a thing like that.” Buckley pointed out that his sister, a graduate of Smithfield College, in Massachusetts, was right-handed and that there was a deep stab wound in her l»ft temple appare by an ice pick found at her side. He said: right-handed and could not have stab- | bed herself that way. Then the knots Sun. today n. tomorrow_. Moon, “Today. Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset Precipitation. onthly precipitation in inches in the \Clmul (current month to Month. January February March | Aorii May . June July August el Av Hfiéle Recum “We are not concerned at present,” Rov { he said, “with a gold dollar or a sil- ver dollar, but with a stable dollar, which will have the same purchasing power from year to year." SUTTON’S APPEAL LOST BY DEFAULT Sentence Must Start. By a Staff Correspondent 0. The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., June 20.—Albert S. Sutton, one time lieutenant of | | | | | Congress | (Continued From hrst Page.) won final House approval, 221 to 98. | of the bill designed to raise $800 000,000 through major changes corporation taxes and other levies. | Spurred by leaders’ anxiety to wind up the session before the Democratic | convention in Philadelphia next week, the House stayed in session until late | last night, while the Senate debilzd\ and wrangled on into the early hours. | A furious verbal conflict preceded | | Artz | “The court scheduled the inquiry for | Halleck said he planned to call “y o | the vote by which the House finally ‘Eddie” Killeen, slain overlord of,.ppmfl! the compromise tax bill, | in the ropes about the children’s necks were square like a sailor ties—not like a worpan would. “And the rope about her own neck had been twisted around three times with a claw-hammer in such a manner | that she could not have done it.” An autopsy disclosed the 27-year- old mother and her children, Robert 5. and Janice 3, died of strangulation between 4 and 12 hours before the bodies were found in the nugsery room of their apartment late Thurs- day night Special Coroner’s Investigator John stuck to his theory of triple mur- der. The morgue report read “mur- dered” as the cause of death of the children. It was blank in the similar space in Mrs. Feely's case Artz said he believes some | slipped into the apartment and killed | fll] three, sometime between the time | Mrs. Feeley took in the milk about § |a. m., and midnight. Mayor Thinks It Murder. Mayor William N. McNair, who made a personal investigation with detectives, was said by friends to be inclined to support the murder theory. But Morgue Superintendent John Black said : “From my years of experience I am inflicted | “She was very definitely ' one | June 29 after Commonwealth’s Attor- ney T. Gray Haddon had requested it. The prosecutor said his plea for in- dictment of the convicts on murder charges was based on his belief that those who seized Powhatan Bass, the guard who was slain by a fellow guard’s bullets in the abortive break, were as guilty of murder as if they ::d fired the machine gun which killed im. “The theory is that if & man puts another man’s life in jeopardy he is Jjust as guilty of murder, and if found guilty the State provides only one penalty—death in the electric chair.” The is up, and that The United Senate power There is no Alice Longwerth. i League Court, in language which of explaining. National Scene BY ALICE LONGWORTH HERE has never been a more complete about-face than the decision of the British cabinet to scrap sanctions. It seems hardly creditable that it originates from Mr. Eden and Mr. Baldwin. Those two flaming advocates of puni- tive action against Italy at last admit that the jig able treaty obligations is about to be tossed into the waste-paper basket along with the other ravelings of European diplomacy. the Civil Service Commission’s at- tention to the two cases, declaring that so far it had failed to answer his lefter of June 17 re “Roosevelt Nominator” tickets offered for sale through Massachusetts post masters. Reports have been current that sale of these “Nominator” tickets and cam- paign publications has been in vogue over the Federal establishment, although Joseph E. Davies, local chairman of the celebration, has stated that aides have been warned against this because of the law viola- tion involved. gambling in the Nation's Capital, has abandoned his appeal from conviction in the murder of Allen B. Wilson, who died amid a hail of gang bullets more than a year ago. The gangster must now go to the State Penitentiary for life for the brutal killing of the Washington news- paper route agent, who was shot down by gunmen lying in ambush for Ed- ward “Mickey” McDonald outside the District gambler’s home in Takoma Park, Md. State’s Attorney James H. Pugh was informed late yesterday the appeal had been dropped automatically when Sutton’s attorneys failed to appear in the Allegany County Circut Court at Cumberland for indorsement of the bill setting forth exceptions taken to the ruling under which the gangster was convicted. that particular snarl of unenforce- Pugh said he would proceed imme- diately to have the Department of Justice turn the prisoner over to the State to serve out his life sentence. Sutton was imprisoned at Lorton Re- formatory on a Federal charge when he was ‘“borrowed” for trial in the Wilson case. Two others have been convicted in States is often criticized for the uncertainty of its foreign policy, especially for the provision in our Constitution that gives the to block a President who would drag us into the quarrels of other Nations. uncertainty, however, about where the Republican party stands on foreign en- The Cleveland platform declares against our joining the League of Nations or the needs no interpretation. This is another plank the New Dealers will have to match, or else do a lot (Oopyright. 1936.) the slaying, which occurred October 23, 1934. Albert McDermott, alias John “Slim” Dunn, and Ernest Myers also were sentenced to life and have which includes a graduated tax of |convinced this is a suicide and double from 8 to 15 per cent on net cor- porate income, plus a surtax irom 7 to 27 per cent on earnings which are not distributed to stockholders. Representative Treadway, Repub- lican, of Massachusetts shouted that Treasury experts wrote the report of a Senate-House Conference Commit- tee which drafted the compromise, and that the House committee mem- bers did not know what was in the report. He called the measure “the most indefensible thing ever to come before this Congress.” Opponents Assailed. Chairman Doughton of the Ways and Means Committee replied: “There are three classes of people opposing the bill. The first class are those who know nothing about it; the second those who speak for fortified privi- lege, and third those who play poli- tics with this sort of legislation and will not bear their just burden of the Government's expenses.” * The roll call showed 211 Democrats, 4 Republicans, 3 Farmer-Laborites and 3 Progressives favoring the bill. Op- posed were 76 Republicans and 22 Democrats. Quickly the bill went to the Senate. Earlier, Senator Vandenberg, Re- publican of Michigan, had denounced been sent to penitentiary at Balti- more. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Debates conference report on reve- nue bill, House: Meets at 10:30 a.m. on miscellane- ous legislation. Rules Committee meets on ship subsidy bill. = the bill from the floor on the ground “it is at war with the public welfare and will fall like a plague on many of its victims.” Senators Walsh, Democrat of Mas- sachusetts and George, Democrat of Georgia, members of the Senate- House Conference Committee, assailed the bill in a minority report, saying it would violate “every dictate of pru- dence.” The Chamber of Commerce of the United States chimed in with a formal statement saying the measure would “penalize prudent management” of corporations and “would retard and discourage re-employment,” L] murder. The autopsy shows the little boy receive the ice pick wounds after he was strangled because there was not hemorrhage. He had a slight fracture of the skull, but it did not cause death. “The ice pick wounds in the little girl's head also were made after strangulation. The wounds in the mother's head, however, were made before she was strangled. an ice pick wound in the chest, but it did not enter the heart. The wound | r in the left side of the head was three- quarters of an inch deep.” GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE CRITICIZES EDEN’S VIEW Official Journal Takes Exception to Demand for Clear Reply on Questionnaire. By the Assoctated Press BERLIN, June 20.—The Diplo- matische Korrespondenz mouinpicce | of the German foreign office, took Great Britain’s foreign secretary mj task last night The newspaper criticized Anthony Eden for what it said was his acuon in applying a different standard to Germany than that which he reserved for his own country. “It does not seem fair to demand of some one that he be perfectly clear about solutions demanded for the future if the other side intends to reserve freedom of judgment and action for itself.” the organ added. Eden, in his speech,. urged a “frank and reassuring response” to Britain’s Locarno questionnaire, which, in effect, asked Germany to signify if she recognized and intended | to respect the existing territorial and political status of Europe. v Search for victims was delayed by a slide of debris carly today, imperiling | firemen and policemen. The search | ers. however, escaped without injury, Walls of the new building were | pulled down to make it safer for the | searchers to hunt for bodies. | Different versions as to how the crash occurred came from the work- men. Several who had been collecting their pay on the roof at the time said | they believed the roof fell inward when lower floors collapsed, leaving the roof unsupported. Others thought | the roof fell and carried the lower | floors down with it | Assistant District Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy of the Bronx announced | that he had subpoenaed building plans { and insurance records of the 36 sul | contractors who were working on the center wing. < Many Are Interviewed. McCarthy interviewed Louis Steine | berg, described as the builder; his son, Max; 14 men who were at work on the building and eight of the injured workmen. He indicated an arrest would be [ made if his investigation disclosed any evidence of criminal negligence Other investgatons of the crash were started by the police, fire, labor and building departments. Dr. Joseph Bandes, 27, an interne, said the debris was so tangled that it was almost impossible to determine on what floors the bodies lay. | “I saw a man’s arm protruding from {one corner,” he said, after surveying |the wreckage. “There was a sheave | of wood sticking through the middle of his forearm. Crawling closer, I finally found his head. It was pushed backwards.” Dr. Bandes described going to an- other spot where he pronounced a second man dead Third Body Discovered. On a slightly higher level, which he said seemed to be the third floor, the young doctor found a third man whom he pronounced dead. A policeman and two firemen were |injured during the rescue work. Mayor Fiorelli H. La Guardia was in a group of 10,000 persons who watched the rescue work by firemen, ambulance surgeons and | L JIM BROWNING DIES Pulmonary Embolism Fatal to Former Wrestling Champ. ROCHESTER, Minn., June 20 (9).— Pulmonary embolism caused the death here late yesterday of Jim Browning, former heavyweight wrestling chame pion. Browning had been in a Mayo Clinic hospital for about 10 days. He came here for examination and submitted to an exploratory operation in cone nection with an abdominal ailment. His condition was favorable until early Wednesday, when complications set in, TWO KILLED IN SPAIN Political Clashes Mark Clearing Up of Labor Strife. MADRID, June 20 «).—Spain’s la- bor situation gradually neared normal | today while political clashes claimed | two lives. A Rightist farmer at Valladolid was killed, two women were wounded by stray bullets in a short gun battle on the streets and a Fascist killed a Com- , munist and wounded a Socialist in | Albacete. 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