Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain this afternoon and probably early tonight, followed by generally fair tomor- row; much colder, lowest tonight about 38 degrees. Temperatures—Highest, 64, at 2 pm. yesterday; lowest, 54, at 5:30 am. today. Full report on page A-6. Closing New York Markets, Page 16 84th YEAR. No. AMERICAN SYSTEM AT STAKE, LANDON SAYS IN MARYLAND “Foreign Pattern” of New Deal Is Issue, Crowd in Baltimore Told. WILL BE A NEIGHBOR IN JANUARY, HE SAYS G. 0. P. Candidate Leaves for Philadelphia to Make Major Address Tonight. (Text of Landon Speech on B-7.) By the Assoclated Press. ABOARD LANDON SPECIAL EN ROUTE TO PHILADELPHIA, Octo- ber 26.—Gov. Alf M. Landon told the Wation's voters today the presidential ¢lection “American system under the Amer- Ican Constitution” and the New Deal’s “foreign pattern.” Opening a new Atlantic Seaboard drive in Baltimore, the Republican nominee pictured “the fundamental New Deal policy” as leading toward “the misery, the poverty, the hope- fessness out of which dictatorships arise.” The crowd, estimated at “8,000 to 10,000” by Police Capt. Frank Gatch, yoared “no”’ as Landon demanded “Shall we give four years more to the men who are working on this foreign pattern? what they will construe as a mandate to finish the job?” “Or shall we vote to return to the American system under the American Constitution?” “Yes,” shouted his hearers, stand- ing in a ring around a temporary speaker’s stand before the station. Confident of Answer. “I know what your answer will be op the 3d of November,” Landon | concluded, his face grave. The Republican nominee prefaced his address with the statement, “I am only sorry I am not reaching Baltimore at meal time. the best place in America to eat. “But there is this consolation. After | January 1, I'm going to be your neigh- bor. You can expect me OVer now and then.” Wearing an overcoat and a red scarf about his throat, Landon spoke with a trace of the hoarseness that has been affecting him. His physi- cian, Dr. L. B. Spoke, reported im- provement, however. His train de- parted from Baltimore at 11:15 a.m. for Wilmington, Del, and Phila- delphia. Landon based his bid for Maryland’s support upon conferences with party leaders aboard his Sunflower Special, and the address at Baltimore in which he asserted: “It is the essence of the New Deal that the Constitution n:ust go in order to give men in Washington the power to make America over; to destroy the American way of life and estab- lish a foreign way of life in its place.” After the stop at Baltimore, Lan- don planned a rear platform appear- ance at Wilmington before reaching | Philadelphia for a major radio ad- | dress to be delivered at 9:30 o'clock (Eastern standard time) tonight. Quotes “High Official.” Landon quoted a “high official” of the New Deal as saying that “planning will necessarily become a function of the Federal Government. Either that or the planning agency will supersede the Government * * *.” “Do you want the kind of dictator- ship this New Deal leader advocates?” Landon demanded. (An aide said he quoted Rexford Guy Tugwell, Under- secretary of Agriculture.) Taking up New Deal measures one by one, Landon said “they hope the country will forget.” “They tell us a balanced budget is on the way,” he said. “They hope the country will forget that six times in the past four years the President has promised to balance the budget, and only last week he promised the seventh time. “They give lip service to the Amer- Ican form of government. They hope the country will forget that nine out of the eleven major statutes enacted by their administration have been held unconstitutional by the Supreme Landon enumerated as “New Deal policies every one of which would be a major issue in an ordinary cam- paign: “Waste and extravagance in Gov- ernment. “The debauching of civil service. *“The alliance with corrupt city ma- chines. “The extending of Farleyized meth- —_— (See LANDON, Page A-5.) SUSPECT ARRESTED IN EXTORTION PLOT G-Men Push Investigation After Demands Are Sent Barbara Hutton’s Aunt. Melvin Strickland, 27-year-old At- Jantic City mechanic, was held in Mercer County Jail in default of $10,000 bail to await action of the October 14, the F. B. I agents said, after fingerprints on a letter threat- . Middleton were matched 33,781. is a choice between the | Shall we give them | I hear it's | Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he #h WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1936—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. ##%% Crowd of 500 W ashingtonians Five hundred Washingtonians crowded the cinder platform of the ancient, red wooden Langdon Station this morning to greet the nine-car Sunflower Special carrying Gov. Alf M. Landon in from the West and on to Baltimore. They hoped the Republican presi- dential candidate would speak. There was no promise that he would do so, however, and his District admirers left the Baltimore & Ohio station at Twenty-fourth and Douglas streets northeast without having seen him. Gov. Harry Nice of Maryland stepped out on the rear platform to wave to the throng. as did former Gov. Henry J. Allen of Kansas, a close Landon political adviser, who explained to the impatient, shouting assemblage: “I want to apologize for the Gov- ernor. He can’t come out. There are |a good many reasons why a man can't come out at this time of day, and I'll let you select your own rea- sons.” Later it was said that Landon’s sore throat made it inadvisable for him to appear. DELAWARE SPLIT MAY AIDNEW DEAL iRepublican Factional Row May Cheat Landon of 3 Electoral Votes. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Staff Correspondent ot The Star. WILMINGTON, Del., October 26.— Paradoxically, Delaware will cast more votes for Republican presidential elec- tors than for the Democratic electors, but the State is likely to give its three electoral votes to Roosevelt. | The difficulty arises over a split in the Republican ranks, two sets of Republican presidential electors have been plaeed on the ballot. One set is the regular Republican ticket. The other has been put forward by the I Dolphus Short faction of the Repub- lican party. Both sets of the Re- publican presidential electors are pledged to Gov. Landon. Under the Constitution, however, the voters do not ballot directly for President. They cast, their vote for presidential electors. The set of electors receiving the high- est vote will be declared elected. With the Republican vote divided between the regular Republicans and the in- dependents, the advantage may well be with the Democrats. The split in the G. O. P. arose when the regular Republican organization denied Short the Republican nomina- tion for Governor at the State con- vention. There is an old tradition in Delaware that the three counties in the State, New Castle, Kent and Sus- sex shall rotate in having the Repub- lican candidate for Governor. Sussex’ turn came four years ago. Because Gov. Clayton Douglass Buck, a Re- publican and a du Pont son-in-law, had been an exceptionally suceesslul‘ Governor, Sussex waived its turn, withs the understanding that in 1936 | the nomination for Governor should | go to that county. “Off Horse” in Party. 1. Dolphus Short, a successful banker of Milford, in Sussex County, believed that he should have the Re- publican nomination. In fact, he claims that he was promised the nomi- nation by no less a person than Gov. Buck, when he agreed to stand aside so that Buck might be nominated in 1932. Short, however, has been an “off horse” in the Republican party. (See LINCOLN, Page A-3.) e FIVE NORFOLK JAIL PRISONERS ESCAPE Keys Are Seized From Elderly Keeper, Imprisoned in Sup- ply Closet. By the Assoclated Press, NORFOLK, Va., October 26.—Nor- folk police fanned out through the city’s streets in speeding squad cars early today in pursuit of five prisoners who seized keys from their elderly keeper and escaped from the city jail shortly after midnight. Headed by Paul Linwood (Snake Eyes) Edwards, given 10 years for robbery, the prisoners sawed through a bar in a door and overpowered Samuel N. Charlon, night jailer, who had been lured into the cell block. Imprisoning him in a supply closet, they unlocked the main exit door, es- caped, and locked the door behind them, leaving the keys in the lock. After a check-up officers said the following, besides Edwards, had escaped: Archie Clyde Childress, 24, Jack- sonville, Fla,; Arnold Scott, 30; Cecil Earl Smith, 24, of Norfolk County, and Clifton Hollowell, 24, of South Norfolk. President Roosevelt last month of- fered the late Senator Couzens of Michigan the chairmanship of the Maritime Commission, it was dis- closed at the White House today. A letter was made public in which the President, on last September 17, made the offer to the Senator. Senator Couzens told the President, Fuils to Get Glimpse of Landon D. C. Republican Leaders Board “Sun- flower Special” at Brief Stop in Capital. Nice and 75 other Maryland Re- publicans, who had just arrived from Baltimore on a westbound train, boarded the Landon special with Ed- ward F. Colladay and Mrs. Virginia White Speel, members of the Re- publican National Committee for the District; James C. Wilkes, chairman of the State Republican Committee for the District, and Clyde D. Garrett, secretary to the committee. A black-and-yellow banner of the “Landon-Le Gore” Club waved in the breeze by the track when the big green engine “President Hayes” pulled the train into Langdon at 9:50 a.m. At once there was a shout of “Lan- don! Landon! Landon! Yeah, Lan- | don!” and the more energetic of the crowd climbed telephone poles and scrambled atop freight cars to see their hero. State Senator Harry Le Gore, who is Republican congressional candidate from the sixth Maryland district, Montgomery County, had boarded the train at Cumberland, Md., last night with his manager, Earl W. Shinn, (See D. C. STOP, Page A-5.) SIMPSON DIVORGE DECREE DUE TODAY Hearing Follows 2 Criminal and 2 Civil Cases in Ips- wich Court. BY the Assocated Press. IPSWICH, England, October 26.— Marital freedom—presumably a fore- gone conclusion—Ilay just ahead for Mrs. Ernest (“Wallie”) Simpson to- day. The svelte, dark-eyed friend of iKng Edward waited anxiously for Justice Sir John Anthony Hawke to pass judgment on two criminal and two civil cases listed on the assizes docket before her case could be heard. Crowds stood expectantly around the grim, tower-flanked entrance of the old Ipswich court house, eager for a glimpse of the sleek-haired American woman whose name has been linked with that of Great Britain's 42-year- old bachelor monarch in a thousand fantastic rumors, reports and frag- ments of “inside information.” Marriage Question to Town. ‘The townsfolk—finally aware their little Old World town has been chosen as the scene of possibly momentous romantic cross-roads—posed the ques- tion whose answer probably nobody on earth knows except King Edward and Mrs. Simpson. “Will she marry him? Or won't she?” In any event, the first step in Mrs. Simpson's attempt to cast off the shackles of her second matrimonial venture was expected to be reached late this afternoon—as soon as the stern-visaged Mr. Justice Hawke could dispose of the four cases docketed ahead of the half-dozen divorce actions on the calendar. The “affaire Simpson” came first on the list, with the pretty and “age- less” Mrs. Simpson—as her friends have described her, recalling her debut to Baltimore society some 20-odd years ago—expected to tell her story of al- leged misconduct on the part of her husband to a sharply-restricted court room audience. 10-Minute Procedure Expected. No jury, it was reliably said, would examine the merits of “Wallie's” sertions of infidelity by her formeg guardsman husband. In fact, the whole case, which has attracted news- paper men from continental Europe by the dozen, as well American re- porters, was expected to be over within 10 minutes. Then, if the decree nisi were granted, Mrs. Simpson would enter a six-month “probation” period under the technical scrutiny of a King's proctor before the divorce would be made absolute—leaving her fre€ to answer the question which, in the last few weeks, has threatened to top the centuries-old riddle of the Sphinx in world-wide curiosity. DROP TO 38 PREDICTED IN CAPITAL TONIGHT Rain to Be Followed by Much Colder Weather Here, Bureau Says. Rain and “much colder” weather was predicted today, with a probability that the mercury will drop many points under the previous low this Fall. The forecast said, “Rain this after- noon and early tonight, followed by generally fair weather tomorrow; much colder, with a iow tonight of 38 de- grees.” The minimum temperature this morning was 43, the lowest since last Spring. Roosevelt Offered Couzens Post As Head of Maritime Board was defeated in the recent Republican primary for . “This office,” the White House statement said, “is in receipt of nu- merous inquires from the press con- reports IMADRID ISOLATED, TOFALL IN TODAYS, REBELS ANNOUNCE Two Important Rail Ter- minals Are Encircled by Insurgents. AZANA IS AWAITING SOVIET AID, IS REPORT Loyalists Speed New Militia to Tighten Lines After Latest Gains by Foe. BY the Associated Press. LISBON, Portugal, October 26.— The Fascist Spanish government at Burgos announced today Madrid had been completely isolated from the rest of Spain and predicted it would fall to the insurgent armies “within 3 to 10 days.” A communique, issued at Burgos, said El Escorial, northwest of Madrid, and Aranjuez, to the southeast, both important railway terminals, had been encircled, cutting them off from Madrid. From Madrid, the railway through Aranjuez leads to vital southeastern seaports such as Valencia. Earlier, refugees from the Spanish | war had declared authorities of auton- | omous Catalonia, where President Manuel Azana of Spain has estab- lished offices, were awaiting the ar- rival of 20,000 Russian volunteers, Soviet Aid Held Ready. Portuguese citizens, arriving here from Barcelona, Spain, said the Soviet | brigades were ready to embark from Black Sea ports and were expected shortly to join the Catalonian forces against the Spanish Fascists. (Unconfirmed reports in Paris said Russia had requsted use of French ports should Moscow decide to inter- vene actively in the Spanish civil war. ‘The newspaper Echo de Paris said the Soviet was believed to want “free disposal to Prench ports for their war fleet and merchant fleet.” (Yvon Delbos, French foreign min- ister, the reports said, telephoned the | British foreign office in London and opposed the rumored request. No Requests Says Turkey. (Turkish authorities at Istanbul said | they had received no Russian re- quests for authorization to send the Soviet fleet into the Mediterranean through the Dardanelles.) Other Portuguese returning from Spain said two Russian freighters un- loaded tanks, aircraft and other mu- nitions at Alicante several days ago. QGen. Gonzalo Queipo de Lilano, Spanish insurgent commander, broad- (8ee SPAIN, Page A-4) MOTHER OF ZIONCHECK WILL REST BESIDE SON Burial Scheduled Tomorror for ‘Woman, 57—Never Told of Legislator’s Suicide. BY the Associated Press. SEATTLE, October 26.—Mrs. Frances Zioncheck, 57, will be buried today beside her Congressman-son, Wwhose suicidal leap, ending a spectacula® career, she never knew occurred. Even back in the months when the escapades of Representative Marion A. Zioncheck in Washington, D. C., drew national attention, his mother was {ll. She was too ill to be told that on August 7 he had jumped to his death out of a down- town building. To the last she was assured he was “out of town for a while and was all right.” She died Saturday. Summary of Page Amusements.B-16 Comics ......B-12 Editorial --A-8 Finance A-15to 17 Lost & Found A-3 Obituary ..-A-10 POLITICAL. Roosevelt to speak this afternoon at Howard University. Page A-1 Delaware G. O. P. split may give State to Roosevelt. Page A-1 Holt-Neely feud in West Virginia mys- tifles voters. Page A-7 Party workers say Landon may take North Carolina. Page A-11 Notices against security program in pay envelopesdenounced. Page A-2 FOREIGN. U. 8. ship calls for aid in high seas off Ireland. Page A-1 Spanish rebels take vital rail line near Madrid. Page A-1 Japs expected to join Duce and Hitler against communism. Page A-2 Santiago Iglesias, Puerto Rican com- missioner, wounded. Page A-1 Simpson divorce case due to be heard today. Page A-1 ‘Rome communique says Italy and Ger- many will collaborate. Page A-1 NATIONAL. Supreme Court agrees to pass on two challengesof Wagner act. Page A-1 Prober leaves to study labor charges at Weirton, W. Va. Page A-2 A. C. Needles, president N. & W. Rail- road, dies. Page A-18 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Couzens offered maritime chairman- ship, White House says. Page A-1 Death of former secretary to Senator Byrd investigated. Page A-2 ‘Hitch-hiking campaigner for Roosevelt visits White House. Page A-2 5 killed 1n plane crash near Marion, Va. Page A-3 Prince Georges bond racket probe to be recessed today. Page A-1 Three killed, eight injured in week end Short Story..B-8 ‘Woman’s Pg. B-10 traffic accidents. Page A-3 Pacific Coast water front tie-up threat- NDAY MORNING EDITION PRESIDENT READY FOR FINAL DRIVE Starts Northward Tomorrow After Speech at Howard University Toda_y. By the Associated Press. Aside from a speech to Negro stu- dents and educators, President Roose- velt devoted most of today to prepar- ing for his final campaign swing into some of the East's most populous dis- tricts. ‘The only public appearance on the day’s program was a talk at the dedi- cation of a chemistry building at Howard University, Negro institution of higher education. Funds of P. W. A. financed the structure. This talk was scheduled for 4:30 p.m. ‘The White House declared that to- day's address was non-political in character. Will Leave Tomorrow. Fortified for his final push by s restful week end at the White House, broken only by a Sunday morning trip to church, the President will move North by special train tomorrow night for a speaking tour in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Dela- ware. Together, these States repre- sent 102 electoral votes. Another address described as non- political, to be given at the Statue of Liberty’s fiftieth birthday celebration on Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbor, will open the tour Wednes- day night. _With agriculture as his topic, he (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-2) $6,000,000 P. W. A. GRANT AND $839,000 LOAN MADE New Allotments Bring Total Since July 28 to $98,000,000 in Grants, $9,000,000 in Loans. By the Associated Press. Secretary Ickes today announced public works grant of $6,261,198 and loans of $839,000 for 112 projects esti- mated to cost $15,922,269. The new allotments brought the total since July 28, to $98,249,500 in grants and $9,847,000 in loans. Today’s Star ze Fiscal relations investigators to return here November 7. Page B-1 Fear of more than one-cent increase in milk price expressed. Page B-1 Closing of section of Lincoln road n.e. requested again. Page B-1 Navy day celebration tomorrow expect- ed to draw 200,000. Page B-1 Man frustrates hold-up, then dies of heart attack, Page B-9 SPORTS Minnesota-Northwestern, ~ Fordham- Pitt duels loom. Page A-12 Unbeaten, untied grid list cut to 34 teams. Page A-12 Nee and Hardy Hoya heroes of tie with N. Y. U. Page A-12 Tech’s puzzling eleven makes title bow tomorrow. Page A-12 Scott and Rivers promise hit ring scrap tonight. Page A-13 U. S. Army jumpers win in inter-Amer- ican horse show. Page A-13 Miller Stevinson hailed as golf marvel of Capital. Page A-14 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. ‘This and That Page A-8 Answers to Questions. Page A-8 Washington Observations, Page A-8 ‘The Political Mill, Page A-8 David Lawrence. Page A-9 Page A-9 Page A-9 Constantine Brown FINANCIAL. Corporate bonds ease (table). Consolidated Edison votes extra. Stocks go down quietly (table.) - Curb list lower. (table.) Skelly Oil net soars Pennsy earnings rise MISCELLANY, Auto Puzzle In the Hunt Country ning Star The only Associated REPUBLICANS ARE SAYING Cl N&: E‘ Tél.lNGS ), %Y ly f Iglesias Shot W hile Speaking In Puerto Rico Resident Commission- er in Hospital and Assailant Held. SANTIAGO IGLESIAS. BY the Assoctated rress. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, October 26 —Santiago Iglesias, Puerto Rican resident commissioner to Washing- ton, was shot and wounded slightly last night while speaking to a crowd in the plaza at Mayaguez. Police arrested Domingo Santaliz Crespo, 25, who, the municipal judge said, admitted the shooting and said he had gone to the meeting with the idea of killing Iglesias, who is a can- didate to succeed himself as resident commissioner. Crespo declared he was a national- ist and a sergeant in the “cadets of the republic,” nationalist organiza- tion. A temporary charge of carrying & weapon was lodged against him. Iglesias was taken to a hospital, where physicians said his condition was not serious. Since his Washington denuncia- tion of the killing of Col. E. Francis Riggs, insular police chief, by na- tionalists last February, Iglesias has been reported on a list of officials against whom nationalist extremists supposedly had designs. Others on the list, authorities con- tend, are Gov. Blanton Winship and United States District Judge Robert Cooper. Since the commissioner’s return from - Washington, police have con- (See IGLESIAS, Page A-2) JUDGMENT CONFESSION FILED IN OIL TAX CASE Payment of Refund Authorized by Commissioners, but Court Move Required by Law. A confession of judgment was filed in District Court today on behalf of the District Government in the suit against it by the American Oil Co. to recover $95,748.91 erroneously paid by the company in taxes on gasoline. ‘The suit was filed several months ago after District accountants found the amount had been improperly collected. The District Commissioners approved payment of the refund, but, under existing law, it is necessary to reduce such claims to judgment before Dis- trict funds can be appropriated to pay them. The formal admission that the refund was due was filed by Assistant Corporation Counsel Chester H. Gray. -~ ~ g b~ x \ \ \"‘\ Y 3 \\\‘\ \ " \‘\ RN ATTEMPT T0°BUY JWITNESSES TOLD Effort at Bribery Charged in| Prince Georges Police- Bonding Probe. The Prince Georges County grand jury has announced its in- tention of making a thorough in- vestigation of charges being pre- sented to it by the Keystone Automobile Club involving the wholesale arrest of Washington motorists, victims of an alleged bonding-fining racket. Washington motorists, victims of the alleged racket, are request- ed to communicate with the club’s attorney, Harvey L. Cobb, 1125 Nationul Press Building, National 8608 or National 8816. Attempts to “buy off” three wit- nesses in the investigation of a police- bonding racket in Prince Georges County, Md., have been made since the inquiry opened in Upper Marlboro, last week, it was charged today. Faliling to identify persons they said approached them, the witnesses told Keystone Automobile Club attorneys selecting evidence for presentation to the grand jury of the attempted bribery. Only one of the witnesses, Raymond R. Iannucci of 308 Sixth street, has testified before the jury. Iannucci told Attorney Harvey Cobb that a man came to his home last night and of- fered payment of $140 if the com- plainant would drop a suit filed last Saturday. One of the other witnesses revealed that a stranger offered him $500 mr‘. return of “certain receipts.” The third witness said that a man offered to “make it worth his while” if he would refuse to testify in the investigation. Attorney Louis Lebowitz, one of three lawyers who have collected evi- dence, was approached several weeks ago by “a prominent county citizen,” the attorney said today. The attempt to “buy off” Lebowitz was made shortly after he began a study of police records. Told in Cobb’s Office. Tannucci’s story of the attempted bribe was made in Cobb's National Press Building office in the presence of a Star reporter early this afternoon. The witness declared he had “no in- tention” of dropping his suit and hc reiterated that he would go before the grand jury again if requested. Meanwhile the grand jury, after a week’s investigation of charges that Washington motorists had been vic- timized through police-bonding col- lusions, prepared to submit its re- port in Upper Marlboro this after- noon. Although the group may not recess until tomorrow, it is expected —— e (See “RACKET,” Page A-2.) STOCK EXCHANGE TRIO CALL ON PRESIDENT Pierce, Simmons and Wellington Insist Visit Was Social and Fishing Was a Topic. Three prominent members of the New York Stock Exchange held a lengthy conference at the White House today with President Roose- velt, but insisted afterward that it was only a “social call.” They were: E. A. Pierce, E. H. Simmons and Duke Wellington. Asked if they had taken up any matters of business, they said they had merely paid the President a so- cial call, and that, among other things, they discussed “fishing.” Crippled U. S. Ship Asks Help, With Rudder Lost in High Seas BY the Associated Press. DUBLIN, October 26.—Crippled and buffeted by heavy weather in the Irish Sea, the American merchant liner American Shipper today appealed for more help after two tugs failed to take the disabled ship in tow. (The office of Lloyds, Ltd, in Liver- pool, relayed a message from the distressed vessel saying, “Two Dublin tugs made fast at 6 a.m., but have not power to handle the vessel. We need large tugs with hawsers. Barom- The tugs Alexandris and Brockle- hurst were to start from the Mursey River at 1 p.m. (8 a.m., Eastern stand- ard time) to tow the ship to Liver- pool. The American Shipper, 7,430-ton vessel, carried 22 passengers and a cargo which included 5,000 cases of in Washington wit! CANIEREY® 131,764 (Some returns not yet received.) UP) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. evening paper the Press News and Wirephoto Services. SUNDAY'S Circulation, ecel! 145,539 SUPRENE COURT T0 RULE ON TWO LABORATCASE Associated Press and W., V. & M. Coach Co. Challenges to Be Heard. Tribunal Adjourns Until Nov. 9 and Will Spend Interim Writ- ing Decisions. By the Associated Press, Two cases involving constitutional- ity of the Wagner labor relations act were added today by the Supreme Court to the list of New Deal litiga- tion awaiting a final decision. In a brief announcement, the tribunal agreed to pass on challenges of the legislation filed by the Asso- clated Press and by the Washington, Virginia and Maryland Coach Co. The act was sustained by lower courts in both controversies. The statute guarantees collective bargaining to labor and sets up a na- tional labor relations board to settie industrial disputes. Communist Plea Not Speeded. In acting on approximately 30 ap- peals, the court also refused to speed up a final ruling on a petition by Illinois Communists to compel State officials to place the names of the Communist candidates for President and Vice President on the ballot for the November 3 election. That action made it impossible for the court to act on the petition until after the election. It adjourned today until November 9 and will spend the intervening time writing opinions on cases argued during the last two weeks. Seven cases involving New Deal legislation already were under review by the court. No decision on any of these disputes is likely before Decem= ber or January. Arguments on validity of the Wag- ner act will be heard in a few weeks, | followed by & final decision. Justice Stone, who has been confined to his bed for several days with an intestinal ailment, was absent from the brief session. His aides said he expected to be present at the Novem= ber 9 session. Five Cases Appealed by Board. In addition to the two cases in- volving the labor legislation on which the court agreed today to rule, five other cases involving the act have been appealed to the high court by the Labor Relations Board, which lost in lower courts. The litigation was against three companies, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh, Fruehauf Trailer Co. of Canton, Ohio, and Friedman- Harry Marks Clothing Co., Inc, of New York. There were two cases against each of the two latter cone cerns. ‘Whether this litigation will be re- viewed probably will be announced ca November 9. The Associated Press appealed from a ruling by the Circuit Court of Ap- peals at New York upholding an order of the National Labor Relations Board directing it to reinstate Morris Wat- son, a discharged employe of its New York office. Watson contended he was dismissed because of activities in connection with the American Newspaper Guild. The press association said his dise charge was for cause. In its petition, the Associated Press said the freedom of the press was “se« riously jeopardized” by the act. This was denied by Solicitor General Stan= ley Reed in urging & Supreme Court review of the controversy on behalf of the Government. The coach company appealed from a ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the law and di- recting it to reinstate 18 employes with back pay. It contended this was the first case to reach the Supreme Court in which a company admitted it'was engaged in interstate commerce. Charges Raised by 18 Employes. A National Labor Relations Board hearing in this case grew out of charges by the 18 employes that they were dismissed by Leon Arnold, com= pany president, because of their affilie ation with the Amalgamated Associ= ation of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes of America. The Arnold Line contended the men were discharged because of inefficiency. It was brought out the dismissals be« gan a few days after a charter of the Amalgamated Association was granted Local 1079, which the coach company employes had joined. The discharged group included drivers and repairmen, In joining the request for a Su= preme Court ruling on the two dis- putes, the solicitor general said the question of the constitutionality of the act was “an important question of Federal law which has not been but should be settled by this court.” — STEPFATHER’S SLAYING IS CONFESSED BY BOY, 15 Youth Surrenders to Police, Say- ing He Killed Man Because | He Abused Mother. BY the Assoclated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., October 26—A 15-year-old boy surrendered to police today and was quoted by Capt. Frank Glisson of the Homicide Bureau as saying he shot and killed his step~ father, R. A. Barker, 27, because the latter “abused” his mother. Glisson said the boy, Grady O'Dell Bowden, shot Barker 11 times with & rifle. “I shot him when his back was turned,” Glisson quoted the boy as saying, “because he abused my mother. Grady 1 & seventh-grade student s§ school. His stepfather