Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy tonight not much change in temperature; gentle variable winds. Temperatures—Highest, 94, at 3:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 75, at 6 am. today. Full report on page A-2. Closing New York Markets, Page 16 No. 33,715. post office, Wi Entered as second class ‘ashingto! and tomorrow; matter n, D. C. @h WASHINGTON, D. C, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION BRITISH SHIPS TO TAKE||ANDON AGGEPTS ‘STERN MEASURES’ TO END | ROOSEVELT'S BID INTERFERENCE BY SPAIN] [0PARLEY SEPT.1 Warning Given Madrid Not to Halt Vessels. DENY PORTUGAL REVOLT REPORT| Zaragoza Rebels Believed Making " GasBombs. . BACKGROUND— On July 18, 20,000 foreign- Le- gionnaires revolted in Spanish Mo- rocco and the insurrection spread quickly to the Canary Islands and the mainland. Civil war between Socialist-Communists and Fascists- Royalists at once drew the eyes of all European statesmen. Neutrality became a paramount issue, with France leading the movement for strict non-intervention. Spanish rebels now dominate the western half of Spain from the Straits of Gibraltar virtually to the French border. The govern- ment holds @ wedge-shaped terri- tory roughly from Catalonia south= west to Madrid and thence south east to the Mediterranean coast. BULLETIN. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 21.— Reichs- fuehrer Adolf Hitler today sum- ‘moned Admiral Erich Raeder, Ger- man chief of the admiralty, to a conference in the Bavarian Alps on the tense Spanish situation. The admiral and the chancellor met early this morning, it was re- ported tonight, while seven Ger- man warships neared Spanish waters to reinforce seven already there, 8y the Assoclated Press. Geeat Britain, adopting & policy similar to that of Germany, today announced “stern measures” would be taken against any interference with her shipping in Spanish waters. Authoritative quarters said in the event a British ship was fired upon it would return three warning shots ehead of the offending craft and then “we shall aim.” The Spanish government, patently anxious to avoid international com- plications, refused comment today on Berlin and London warnings that rights of foreign ships must be re- spected. “We have nothing whatever to say,” & high official of the state department asserted at Madrid. A Germany, following the reported search of the German steamer Kame- run by a Spanish Loyalist warship, let it be known yesterday her own navy will answer “force with force.” Today's warning that British ships would reply in kind to shelling ap- plied also to planes of both the Loyal- ists and the rebels which have been maneuvering over Gibraltar. Portuguese Revolt Reported. ‘The French Minister to Lisbon to- day protested to the Portuguese gov- ernment the arrest of a Paris news- paper correspondent as unconfirmed reports were circulated that a revolu- tion had broken out against President Oscar Carmona. It was impossible to get through to Lisbon by telephone from Paris, but this might well be due to disruption of the service in Spain. (A Lisbon dispatch to London said the country was quiet and reports that President Oscar Carmona had been killed were unfounded.) The correspondent, Jacques Berthet of the Paris Le Temps, was charged with sending a tendentious telegram Wwhich the newspaper said it had not received. Result of the protest to gain Berthet's release was not learned. The British admiralty said it had not yet received any reports from Lisbon and that, while no warships ‘were present in Portuguese waters, there were several destroyers on the northern coast of Spain. (It was believed in some circles that Britain might feel justified in entering Portugal to protect invest- ments there in the event of wide- spread revolution.) REBELS MAKE GAS BOMBS. Refugees Say Several Factories Are Turning Out Weapons. ACopyright. 1936, by the Assoctated Press.) MADRID, August 21.—Manufacture of gas bombs by Spanish rebels at S e e et “ (See SPAIN, Page A-3.) CHEVY CHASE BABY FOUND DEAD IN CRIB Albert N. Denham, 10 Months 0ld, Caught Neck in Screen Inclosure, Parents Say. Br & Staff Correspondent ot The Star. CHEVY CHASE, Md,, August 21.— Albert N. Denham, 10-month-old son of Robert N. Denham, Washington sttorney, died of strangulation in his erib early today. Mr. and Mrs. Denham, who live at 207 West Bradley lane, declared the baby strangled when he caught his neck in the top of a screen-inclosed crib shortly after 8 o'clock this morn- ing. ‘The baby’s death was discovered when Mrs. Denham entered the bed room to remove & milk bottle which she had given the baby a short time before. The Bethesda Fire Rescue Squad and Dr. E. A. A. Dunn endeavored to revive the child by the use of an inhalater and adrenalin. The phy- sician issued a certificate of death ‘!mm suffocation, ) Propaganda of Fascists Has Taken Edge Off High Cost of Living in Italy Government Exaggerated Effect of Sanctions—W arns People League and Britain Wanted to Starve Them. I BY CONSTANTINE BROWN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROME.—Italy has not escaped the scourge of increased cost of living. Everything has gone up, but it ic less noticeable than in France or in Central Furope. Here, again, the Fascist government has handled the situation tact- fully, with an eye to the psychological effect on the population. First of all it exaggerated, within the country, the effects of sanctions. The ministry of propaganda let loose all its heavy artillery about the “stringent economy” the population must exercise in order to meet the dangers of an economic block- ade. It warned the people that everything will henceforth be more expensive because Great Britain and its League of Nations satelites want to starve the Italian people into submission. It played on the patriotic chords of an excitable nstion. And it worked. The prices, as far as food and the bare necessities of life are con- cerned, did not increase more than 10 to 15 per cent. An important increase, had the popula- tion not been fanaticized by the jingoist propa- ganda. But it had no serious effect on the masses, which considered their patriotic duty to pay more and consume less for the sake of a “Greater Italy.” Restaurants Cut Portions. The second trick used by the government 1o connivance with the merchants was to substan- Constantine B tially decrease the helpings in restaurants, cafes and other public places where the towns people are the chief consumers. The patriotic tune might not have worked so successfully in towns as it worked in the country, but everything consumable in public places was cut in less than half. If you order a cup of coffee in a restaurant, the famous Italian “ex- presso,” they give you half a wine glass of coffee, and charge for that between (See ITALY, Page A-2) MINE: RESCUERS MOVELAST DEBRIS Break Through Into Tunnel Where Four Men Are Entombed. By th Assoclated Press. MOBERLY, Mo., August 21.—A res- cue crew “broke through” the few re- maining feet of debris which holds four entombed miners near here at noon today. Whether they had reached the imprisoned men or whether the latter were alive was not immediately learned. Arnold Griffith, State mine inspec- tor, said it would be necessary to force fresh air into the channel before allowing the rescue crews to enter it. He estimated this would require an- other hour. Griffith designated six men to make the trip into the tunnel. Battling intense heat and the dan- ger of new cave-ins, the weary rescue crews had hacked cautiously at the debris which has imprisoned the men in the depths of the Sexton coal mine for 64 hours. Frank Bunch, deputy State mine inspector and relatives still main- tained a glimmering hope the four men, entombed Tuesday afternoon, would be found alive. ‘Workers this morning redoubled ef- forts to make an opening into the two drifts leading off from the 110-foot main shaft. Their last obstacles were the mine lift, which plunged to the bottom when the tipple was destroyed by fire, and heavy charred timbers which were wedged tightly about it. Outbreak of Gas Feared. The rescue crews of four men in a shift expected at almost any instant to be met by a flow of aspyhxiating gases. Their sole avenue of escape would be to tumble into the bucket and give the signal to be hoisted. From a three-quarter level Griffith directed the rescue attempt. With the crew at the bottom was Vic Crigler giving the signals to Charles Hartig at the surface. .“If they had good air T believe they still can be found alive,” Bunch said. “It is possible for men to live 24 to 36 hours after becoming uncon- scious. I believe they will be found near the main shaft. Their natural reaction would be to go in the direc- tion of the sound being made by res- cue crews.” The mine inspector reported it was (See MINE, Page A-4.) GRANDSON INJURED, WOMAN FALLS DEAD Mrs. Blanche Hurley Suffers Heart Attack When Told of Accident. Shocked when she learned of an automobile accident in which her grandson was critically injured, Mrs. Blanche Hurley, 57, dropped dead this afternoon at her home, 1813 M street northeast. Mrs. Hurley was said to have been in the front room over! the street when Edward R. Hurley, 5, her Edward was rushed to Casualty Hos- pital, where it was said his skull was fractured. The boy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Hurley. t ‘Witnesses said the accident occurred in front of 1815 M street northeast and that the boy was running the street to visit his aunt.» CRASH KILLS HEAD OF PLANE CONCERN Charles W. Hall, Pehnsyl- vania, Meets Death on Way Here. Br the Associated Press. HOPEWELL, N. J, August 21— Charles Ward Hall, 59, of Morrisviile, Pa., owner of the All-Aluminum Air- craft, Inc., of Bristol, Pa, was killed today when his plane crashed in a dense fog in & Mount Rose woodland, 5 miles from here. Flying a metal monoplane of his own design, which officials of the Trenton- Princeton Airport saild was built in 1927 for an airplane safety competi- tion, Hall apparently lost his way on a flight from the airport to Washing- ton, D. C. ‘The body was identified by Jack ‘Thropp, managet of the Princeton Air- port, who talked to Hall when he left the airport about a half hour before the crash. Farmers in the vicinity said they heard an airplane circling low in the vicinity several minutes before the crash. Hall had been flying since 1909. ON WAY TO WASHINGTON. e —— Charles W. Hall, president of the Hall-Aluminum Aircraft Corp., of Bristol, Pa., took off from Bristol at 7:30 o'clock this morning to confer here with Coast Guard aviation head- quarters on plans for construction of new Coast Guard flying boats, accord- ing to a report received here. Shortly after 9 o'clock, the time of Hall’s appointment, Coast Guard of- ficials received a report from Hall's son, at Bristol, saying that reports had been received there that the elder Hall had crashed and asking that the Coast Guard assist in locating the plane. Coast Guard aviators at Cape May, N. J, were asked to make a search between Bristol and Washing- ton. Hall's company built the big Navy XP-2H1 patrol flying boat which early in 1935 made a non-stop flight from Norfolk, Va., to Coco Solo, Canal Zone. This boat, started five years ago, was remodeled & number of times and was not finally delivered as completed un- til about 18 months ago. This is be- lieved to have been the last Govern- ment contract on which Hall's com- pany worked. It was as a result of this job that Hall was invited to dis- cuss with Coast Guard officials the plans for proposed new aircraft for the coastal patrol work of the Coast Guard. Hall, according to Bureau of Air Commerce mecords, started flying in 1912 as a student of Ruth Law and took flying boat instruction in 1914 from David McCullough. For some reason he apparently did not con- tinue flying and had no pilot's license prior to August, 1930, when he quali- 084 for a Department of Commerce private license. At the time of the last renewal of this license, this year, he reported a total of 675 hours of flying time, His Kansan Quickly Agrees to Attend Drought Conference in Des.Moines. PRESIDENT’S ITINERARY FOR TOUR ANNOUNCED Trip to West Coast Later and Six Major Addresses for Cam- paign Planned. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYDE PARK, N. Y, August 21.— President Roosevelt today sent tele- grams to Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas, his political opponent, and the Gov- ernors of other drought States, in- viting them to confer with him on his visit to the Western “Dust Bowl,” and at the same time made public his complete itinerary for this trip. At Omaha, Nebr., Gov. Landon an- nounced he will accept the invitation. The conference with Gov. Landon will be attended by Govs. Herring of Jowa, Cochran of Nebraska, Park of Missouri and Marland of Okla- homa. It will be held at Des Moines, Iowa, September 1. The other conferences with drought State Governors will be at Bismarck, N. Dak., August 27, with Acting Gov. Welford of that State, Acting Gov. Holt of Montana and his State offi- cials; a* Plerre, 8. Dak., August 28, with Gov. Berry of South Dakota and Gov. Miller of Wyoming; Lacrosse, Wis., August 31, with Gov. La Follette of* that State; Springfield, Ill., Sep- tember 3, with Gov. Horner of that State; Indianapolis, September 4, with Govs. McNutt of Indiana, Chandler of Kentucky, Davey of Ohio and Fitz- gerald of Michigan. Senators Also Invited. At each of the Governors' confer- ences the President has invited the Senators and heads of interested Fed- eral agencies in the States to attend. According to the itinerary made public, the President will leave here Sunday night for Washington. He will leave Washington Tuesday about midnight, going directly to Bismarck, Dak. N. £ Arriving at Bismarck about noon Thursday, August 27, the President will moter in the vicinity before call- ing his conferences with North Dakota and Montana officials. The next day he will proceed by train and motor, touring several drought-stricken sections of the Da- kotas before arriving at Pierre, early on the morning of August 29. Late that day the President and his party will leave for Rapid City, S. Dak., to spend Sunday at Mount Rushmore. After the Des Moines conference tentative plans call for a motor trip September 2 in the Western part of Towa before boarding the special train late in the day for Hannibal, Mo. He will go to the Springfield conference from Hannibal by motor. Plans Trip to Carolina. The President will conclude his drought inspection tour at Indian- apolis. He will not come directly to Washington from there, but instead, will go to his home here at Hyde Park, where he will remain until the time for him to start on his journey to Charlotte, N. C., where he will make a political speech on September 10. He will return to Washington the following day, when he is scheduled to address the National Power Con- gress that afternoon. The President’s telegram to the various Governors inviting them to confer with him were identical as to the wording, except for the place of meeting and time. In the telegram he said: “As you probably know, I am com- ing West next week to get at first- hand of all the information I can with respect to the situation in the drought area.” The President then mentioned the time and the place for the meeting. “And I would appreciate much if you could find it convenient to meet us there for a general discussion of the situation.” In conclusion he named the other Governors being invited to the con- ference. The President later turned from drought relief and other pressing prob- lems to give his full attention to & more personal problem—his campaign for re-election. To See Farley Today. During the day the President will g0 over the tentative campaign plans with James A. Farley, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and a group of other party leaders. ‘These early campaign plans are be- ing closely guarded, but there are in- dications that the President’s Western swing will be late in September or early in October, and that he will include all the States slong the Pa- cific Coast. It has been learned also (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-4) OLSON IS WEAKER AFTER G0OOD NIGHT Hospital Bulletin Says Minnesota Governor’s Temperature Has Risen. ¢ Foening Star FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1936—THIRTY PAGES.*%*** TYPICAL PRAIRIE STATE OR P’IOT, | KNow WE 'LL LIKE GRAND JURY HOLDS 22 IN TERRORISM Vergil Effinger, Called Black Legion’s Leader, Among Number Indicted. Ey tre Associated Press. DETROIT, August 21.—Virgil F. Effinger of Lima, Ohio, described by Prosecuting Attorney Duncan C. Mc- Crea as the national head of the Black Legion, was indicted with 21 others today on charges of criminal syndicalism in connection with ac- tivities of the hooded order. ‘The indictments were returned by Circuit Judge James E. Chenot, con~ ducting a State grand jury investiga- tion. The indictment, containing two charges, accused Effinger and the others with advocating or teaching “crime, sabotage, violence or other forms of terrorism as a means of ac- complishing industrial or political re- form.” Maximum penalty is 10 years’ im- prisonment and $5,000 fine under the statute proper. An conspiracy charge included in the indictment carries a prison sentence of five years. Harvey Davis Indicted. Among those named with Effinger in the indictment were: Harvey Davis, Black Legion “colo- nel,” charged with murder and kid- naping in the “execution” May 12 of Charles A. Poole, young W. P. A. worker; William Guthrie, Black Legion printer, held on a charge of inciting to riot; Clarence C. Frye, former head of the organization's intelligence squad, held on charges of conspiracy to kill Arthur L. Kingsley, Highland Park publisher, and Roy Hepner, Black Legion “colonel,” also held in the Kingsley conspiracy case. Names of others were withheld until they could be rounded up. As Judge Chenot handed down his findings, Frederick A. Gulley and Thomas A. Cox, convicted August 7 of “false imprisonment” of Robert Penland, were sentenced in another court to five years' imprisonment. ‘They originally had been charged with abducting and flogging Penland, but the charge was reduced by order of the court. Sentence Is Deferred. Convicted with them was Earl Ang- stadt, but his sentence was deferred because of a supplemental information charging that he had been convicted of automobile theft in Warren, Ohio, in 1923. He stood mute and his ar- raignment was continued to August 26. ‘While the court proceedings were in progress, Prosecutor Duncan C. Mc- Crea disclosed statements which he said indicated that Efinger had boast- ed that “pressure would be brought to bear” on Michigan Attorney Gen- eral David H. Crowley to release the Black Legionnaires accused of the Poole killing. McCrea obtained & warrant last week charging that Effinger had six hand grenades in his possession during a meeting of the Black Legion here a year ago, and is seeking to extradite Effinger on that charge. The prosecutor said Russell Trilek, described as a Black Legion captain; Joseph K. Allen, an “adjutant,” and Andrew J. Ray, a “colonel,” all of De- troit, told him they visited Effinger in Lima last month. Trilek’s statement said Effinger told them the Black Legion, “through in- fluence in the Democratic party down South and through Crowley” wuold Poole murder, is & State's witness in several Black Legion cases. i gy Eg WELCOME WAITING. Petition of Chicago For Eastern Time Is Denied by 1.C. C. Michigan Granted Right to Move Clocks Hour Ahead. Py the Asscclated Press. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion today denied a petition of the city of Chicago to be included in the Eastern time zone, but granted in part, a similar petition by the State of Michigan. The city of Chicago had asked to be shifted from the Central to the Eastern zone several months ago, and a similar application was filed later by the State of Michigan. Under the standard time act of 1918, the I. C. C. has authority to des- ignate the boundaries of various time zones. Cites and States may fix local standards of time, but this generally is not observed by railroads. In its report the commission said that the “enormous population of Chicago” and the importance of its commerce have extended the effect of its local time ordinances into nearby communities. The I. C. C. decision would not bring the entire State of Michigan into the Eastern time zone, but would place the lower peninsula in that category. A time change for this sec- tion of the State, the commission said, would serve the ‘“‘convenience of com- merce.” Michigan originally requested East- ern standard time in 1932, but the petition was denied. NO RELIEF IN SIGHT; % DUE FOR TODAY Humidity Excessive, but Cloudy Skies May Bring Showers Tonight. No relief from the latest heat wave is in sight, the Weather Bureau said today in predicting a possible high temperature of 95 this afternoon. ‘There is some chance of a shower during the afternoon, the forecaster said, but even if it is forthcoming the rain is oot expected to bring much in the way of respite. Tonight, according to the forecast, will be mostly cloudy, and tomorrow also will be overcast, with little change in temperature. Winds will be gentle and variable. ‘The humidity continued excessive today, although at 8 a.m. it was some- what below the percentage of 92 for the same hour yesterday. At noon the mercury had climbed to 90. The “low” this morning was 75 at 6 o'clock. Two persons were prostrated yester- day as the temperature reached & peak of 94 at 3:15. Mildred Lilchner, 26, of 1654 Eight- eenth street was treated at Casualty Hospital after she collapsed while walking. William James, 24, colored, was overcome while working in the kitchen of a lunch room in the 3100 block of K street. He was treated at Georgetown Hospital. Union Official Dies. KANSAS CITY, Kans., August 21 (#).—Charles F. Scott, 57, secretary- treasurer of the International Brother- hood of Boilermakers, Shipbuilders, Welders and Helpers of America, died yesterday following a heart attack. (P) Means Associated Press. N @) MOORE CHARGES LIFE THREATENED Beaten Into Confessing Co-ed Murder, He Telis Asheville Jury. By the Atsociated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C, August 21.— Martin Moore admitted on the witness stand today that he signed a confes- sion to the slaying of Helen Clevenger in her hotel room, but said he did so after “a fat man from New York” threatened “to beat me to death if I didn't.” ‘The prisoner was the first witness called by the defense as it sought to save him from the gas chamber on murder and first-degree burglary charges. The State offered only two witnesses this morning before resting. George Garrison, county fingerprint expert, testified he found bloody smudges on & lamp shade in the girl's hotel room where she was killed about 1 am. July 16. Her father, J. F. Clevenger of Great Kills, Staten Island, N. Y., also was on the stand briefly. He said his daughter was traveling in this section with her uncle, Prof. W. L. Cleverger of North Carolina State Col- lege at Raleigh, for two purposes— “educational and recreational.” Says Gun Was Hidden. Defense Attorney Sanford Brown asked the lank, apathetic Moore, who sat humped in the witness chair, if he had the gun he identified as his own when Miss Clevenger was slain. A. I did not, almost shouted the witness. Q. Who had it? A. L. D. Roddy (a hotel bellhop, de- tained as a material witness). Q. When did you get it back? A. Thursday night at 7 o'clock (the day after the slaying). Q. What condition was it in? A. Well, I noticed there was some stains on it. He said he hid the gun “because he was scared.” ‘Then followed a detailed account of his arrest three weeks after the slay- ing. He testified officers had no war- rant when they entered his home. He said he led Deputy Sheriff Tom Brown to the gun hidden beneath a beam. He said he was arrested shortly after midnight and taken directly to the court house, where questioning began immediately. Q. What did they do? A. They whipped me a while with a Rhose. Q. Who did? A. That New York man, a fat man. (Detectives Martin and Quinn of New York were called in the investigation). “Threatened With Death.” “The fat man come fn and said they had my fingerprints off a lamp shade. He said if I didn’t own up to it he'd whip me to death. I was scared, 50 I told them I would own up to it.” He admitted telling a story of the slaying to Dr. Mark Griffin. It was substantially the same as told yesterday by Dr. Griffin and A. Z. Bridgewater, radio operator, for the prosecution. A packed court crowd sat eagerly listening as Moore told of a mental examination he said Dr. Griffin gave him, including questions of arithme- tic, geography and other school sub- jects. The three Clevenger brothers, W. L, C. B. and J. F, sat in adjoin- chairs. Moore said he went to sleep on a at the house where a dance was d waked at “five minutes to ” the morning of July 16. He said then went to his home, set his for 4 am., arose at that time 4 nd went to work at the hotel. Sea and “Unromantic” Consuls Fail to Halt By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, August 21.—Well sir, related Capt. Theodor Koch of the 1t warped into g % § ¥ March to Altar Koch in the wisdom of his years, or just infatuated? In love, really, she replied. So Capt. Koch radioed Cobh, first port, come , said the il ik if ¥ A ! The only evening in Washington wit! Associated and Wirephoto Services. aper the Press News Yesterday’s Circulation, 129,550 (8ome returns not et received.) TWO CENTS. AUDIT FIRM HEADS IGNORE SUBPOENAS 10 SENATE PROBE La Follette Warns Officials Absent Selves From Labor Hearing “at Own Peril.” BUT COUNSEL FOR SIX ° CITES COURT ORDER Enjoins Detective Company's Chiefs From Testifying Now, He Asserts. BULLETIN, ‘The committee recessed early this afternoon after Chairman La Follette had announced that the subpoenas would remain effective. He ordered the witnesses to appear at 10 am. on August 27. He de- nounced the attitude of the ab- sentees and promised that “every legal remedy which can be taken to punish this flaunting of the United States Senate will be prose= cuted with the greatest possible vigor.” BY JOHN C. HENRY. 3 Promise of a showdown fight be- tween a special Senate committee and a private detective agency developed today as six officials of the Raflway Audit & Inspection Co. failed to ane swer subpoenas to appear before the La Follette committee investigating civil liberty violations in labor relas tions. Senator La Follette, Progressive, of ‘Wisconsin, chairman of the commit= tee, then warned counsel for the ab- sent officials that they were acting “at their own peril.” However, Leonard Weinberg, attor- ney for the audit company, pointed out that a restraining order had been obtained from Justice James M. Proctor in District Court enjoining the six officials of the company from appearing as witnesses. The injunction, Weinberg informed the committee, was granted here this morning and would prevent the offi- cials from testifying for a pericd of at least five days. Order of Court. Records at District Court, however, showed no restraining order had been issued. The defendants merely were ordered to show cause Tuesday why a restraining order or temporary injunce tion should not be issued at that time. Counsel, however, expressed the belief that the committee, having received notice that the suit had been filed, would not press their demands for the books and records as a mark of respect to the court. Subpoenas Issued. From committee representatives it was learned that about 50 subpoenas have been issued as the committee pressed its inquiry into industrial ac- tivities of the audit company and the Burns and Pinkerton detective agen- cles, It was said that the latter two con- cerns have made most of their records available to committee agents, but that the audit company has refused all such information. Following failure of the subponaed individuals to appear, the commitiee placed on the stand Virgil C. Finch, who has been conducting the inquiry in Atlanta, Ga. Finch on Stand. Finch described refusal of Atlanta officials of the audit company to make available its records. Committee agents then watched waste paper dis- posal to pick up iuformation of the company'’s activities. Among the letters pieced together was one from W. W. Groves, president of the company, to its Atlanta repre- sentative suggesting solicitation of new “undercover” industrial business. Other mutilated and reconstructed letters contained a suggestion for getting “out of the way” a certain labor agitator and suggested recruit- ing new “hook men.” Hook men, it was explained by Finch, are employes signed up as undercover agents for employers. Some of the letters were signed and addressed to numbered rather than named individuals. Gates Takes Stand. Robert M. Gates, another commit- tee agent, followed Finch on the stand to describe how similar exam- ination of waste paper had been prac- ticed in the Pittsburgh building where the audit company was quartered. Daniel F. Margolies was the third committee agent to testify. Margolies had sought the company records in (See LABOR, Page A-4) D. C. WOMAN KILLED Mrs. Elizabeth Richards Dies, Two Hurt in Maine Crash. SACO, Me., August 21 (#).—An au- tomobile and a truck collided near here today, killing Mrs. Elizabeth Richards of Washington and injuring Mrs. Mary L. Leith and Miss Catherine Richards, also of Washington, who were taken to a Biddeford hospital. Readers’ Guide Sports __ Washington Wayside...._A-2 ‘Women's .‘etturu._..-..A-u