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he n Sftar - WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1936—FORTY PAGES. WEATHER. (U, 8. Weather Burean Forecast.) Cloudy, probably occasional light rain tonight and tomorrow; lowest tempera- ture tonight about 48 degrees; slightly colder tomorrow. Temperatures—High- est, 54 at noon today; lowest, 48, at 5 am. today. Full report on page A-11. Closing New York Markets, Page 12 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. O. GOVERNMENT ABANDONS|NATIONS SHIPPING MADRID BUT WORKERSI|AGES PARALYSIS IN STRIKE SPREAD The only evening paper in Washington the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. henit WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Yesterday’s Circulation, 142,031 (Some returns not yet received.) 84th YEAR. No. 33,793. XY P Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. BALLOU, DONQVAN DEFEND EXPENSES AT FISCAL HEARING FIGHT REBELS FIERCELY Steady Bombardment Shakes Suburbs, Is Answered by Heavy Artillery. BATTLE FOR POSSESSION OF CITY NEARS CLIMAX IN OUTSKIRTS < Insurgents Claim Forces Have Entered Capital—Officials Go to Valencia, Followed by Ambassadors. BY the Associated Press. MADRID, November 7.—Gen. command of Madrid’s affairs today in the absence of the govern- ment and, with a desperate workers’ army, clung grimly to the besieged city. Pozas, generalissimo of the government forces in the Madrid area, became head of a new safety council in command of the city after government ministers had left before dawn by motor car for Valencia. The ministers will continue to advise Gen. Pozas, but it was learned from reliable sources that he has been granted full powers to take any step he deems immediately necessary in the interests | of the capital. It was not known whether the gov- ernment would establish its headquas ters at Valencia, Barcelona or Alicante. | President Manuel Azana has been in | Barcelona for several weeks. (An insurgent radio broadcast from Jaca, not confirmed from Madrid, said 1 insurgent troops had advanced into | Madrid proper. A report from Lisbon | #aid the Fascists had taken the Toledo | Bridge within Madrid at dawn. The | Madrid advices, heavily censored and delayed several hours, indicated only that the insurgents were in the city's outskirts.) | Marcel Rosenberg, the Russian Am- | bassador, closed his embassy and left | ‘with his staff for Valencia. It was be- | lieved he planned to establish a pro- visional embassy there, at Alicante or in Barcelona. Attack Besiegers Heavily. ‘The tattered proletariat ranks, at the gates of Madrid, sought frantically to smash through the cordon of be- | siegers advancing from outlying sec- tions of the city. A terrific insurgent bombardment from Madrid’s suburbs was answered by the crashing shells of the govern- ment’s heavy artillery. Buildings in the center of Madrid quivered from the shock of the bombardment, The battle for possession of the Bpanish capital was near a climax. Party leaders exhorted the defending militia to “fight without quarter, with- out truce.” War ministry officials said the next 72 hours would tell the story. The quaking populace that re- mained after the government decided to abandon the capital heard the ever- nearing din of battle as fierce Moorish hordes of the Fascist attackers in- vaded the outskirts of the city. Fear-stricken women and children, even men, voiced the dread question paramount in every mind of those Tremaining in the seemingly doomed’ capital: “What will the Moors do? Will they kill us all?” As mounting panic swept the city, deeply shaken by the news Premier Francisco Largo Caballero and his cabinet aides had decided to aban- don the capital, long lines of refugees streamed out of the east gates of the city—bound for Valencia or in- termediate havens away from the crescendo of war. Simultaneously, bloody - bandaged soldiers, workman fighters and girl Volunteers, many of them in agonies of flesh-torn pain, staggered in from the other side of the city—from the firing lines where Socialist defenders &till fought an apparently lost cause. Cold fear mounted as the roar of shot and shell neared the Puerta del Bol—the “Times Square” of Madrid. Fascist sympathizers, in belligerent mood, began grouping, and it was feared street fighting would break out within the capital itself even before the arrival of the dreaded Moors. Terrific concussions shook the city s the retreating government militia, fighting their long-heralded “last- ditch” stand in the southern' suburbs, Zell back across the ifanzanares River =—on the south rim of Madrid proper— and dynamited the Toledo and Segovia Bridges. In the drizzling rain of the gray morning, long lines of Red Cross am- bulances moved incessantly from the first-aid dressing stations near the battle front to hospitals in the city dtself, then back agalu. Hundreds of wounded—militiamen, overall - uniformed worker - fighters, even girls who had joined in the active combat—streamed back from She firing lines. ‘Their faces, gaunt with pain, told only too plainly that the end was near. ‘They shook their heads, too exhausted for speech. “The Moors!” They whispered, stark eyes wavering. Wave after wave, the swarthy fez- topped invaders smashed through the (See SPAIN, Page A-3) & | the United States Bureau of Labor Sebastian Pozas seized complete LEWIS DECLARES RAISE T00 LOW 10% Increase for Steel Workers Convincing of Power, He Says. BS the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, November 7.—John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, called the 10 per cent steel wage increase today *“welcome” but “inadequate.” Leader of the drive to bring all the steel workers into one big union, | Lewis predicted that the raise “will | do more to make the workers of the country conscious of their power than | anything that’s happened for a long while.” Lewis described the negotiations be- tween steel management and the em- ploye-representatives that preceded announcement of the increase, as “shadow boxing * * * to mislead the steel workers and the public to be- lieve they (management) are bar- | gaining collectively with their em- ployes.” He made these statements at a press conference before a meeting of the Committee for Industrial Organ- ization and its Steel Workers' Organi- zation Committee. Meantime reports that additional employe-representatives had to the raise were made public by the steel companies, while union sources said that some had rejected it. Effective November 16. Philip Murray, vice president of the miners and director of the organiza- tion drive, said that the increase would go into effect throughout the industry November 16 whether or not the em- ploye-representatives agreed. Lewis said that the main trouble with the increase was that it would “freeze” the steel workers’ standard of living at its July 15, 1935, level. “If the rent goes up,” he said, “the steel worker may hope to get addi- tional pay to make up the difference —but he can’t rent a better home.” The agreement with the employe representatives provided that the new scale would be adjusted upward or downward automatically, within speci- fled limits, with changes in the cost of living from July 15, as reported by Statistics. Organized labor as & whole, Lewis said, for many years had fought simi- lar proposals. He declined to state what he thought would have been a “fair” raise, saying that should be left to “bona-fide negotiations.” “The steel barons are engaging in some amusing antics,” he said. “They are shadow boxing with their self- created company unions in an attempt to mislead the steel workers and the public to believe they are bargaining collectively with their employes. “They are fooling nobody by their mental gymnastics, but instead are making fools of themselves.” Two Raises in 1933, The coal industry, he said, had given two raises in the Summer of 1933 “in the hope of blocking organization,” but had been forced to give a third when union contracts were signed that Fall. Among the companies to post no- tices of the increase —_— KILLED BY BANDIT: Covington, Tenn., Night Club Op- erator Found Slain. COVINGTON, Tenn., November 7 /7). —Bandits killed Charlie Cianciols, 35, operator of the Golden Slipper Night Club, 15 miles south of here, early today. Officers found Cianciola dead in a A helper at the club, William Jen- nings, told Sheriff Vaughan he and Cianciola were held up by two white men and a Negro. The intruders ob- tained $60, three slot machines, s ‘wrist watch and s pistol, he said. 1 beaten record to protect, encountered West Virginia at Morgantown. Maryland was at Richmond $o meet f 5 Fall of Madrid NotEndof War Declares Envoy Ambassador Says Government Will Continue Fight. AMBASSADOR DE LOS RIOS. The war in Spain will continue to be fought with enthusiasm by the popular front government, despite its evacuation of Madrid, Dr. de los Rios, the Spanish Ambassador here, said this morning on receipt of a cable from Valencia, the provisional capital. “The war will continue exactly as today,” he declared during a few mo- | ments taken from a day crowded with | appointments and interviews. “Dur- ing the World War, France moved its capital to Bordeaux, and many other countries have found themselves in similar circumstances during their in- ternal struggles. “What has happened in Spain now is an incident in the war which af- 6,000 San Francisco Ship- yard Workers Join Walk- out of Maritime Group. DEPARTURE OF PEACE GROUP MAY BE DELAYED Secretary Perkins Says President Will Not Intervene as She Studies Situation. BACKGROUND— Pacific Coast maritime unions engaged in a bitter 83-day strike in 193¢ in which 83 men were killed. Finally peace was won and the unions were given right to control hiring of labor. This agree- ment with employers expired on September 30. Since then there has been fruitless megotiations for renewal of contracts. Arbitration efforts have been led by Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. Mc- Grady, who was an important figure in the peace agreement in 1934, BY the Assoctated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, November 7.— | The Pacific Coast’s shipping industry, paralyzed by a strike of 37,000 union workers, faced new difficulties today from a walkout voted by 6,000 ship- | yard workers Rere. Efforts to settle the maritime strike, well into its second week, appeared at a stalemate, although Assistant Labor Secretary Edward F. McGrady re- mained here to do what he could. Various official and non-official bodies watched for developments in Washington, where Secretary of Labor Perkins said the Chief Executive had no present intention of stepping into | the strike picture. Meanwhile, developments in New | York threaten to delay sailing of the United States delegates to the Peace Conference in Buenos Aires. The West Coast walkout, called when unions and employers failed to reach terms on new working agree- merce. Gov. Joseph B. Poindexter of Hawaii fects neither the legal position of Spain’s only lawful government nor | the future of the war.” | Even with the government gone, | Gen. Franco, leader of the insurgents, will have a difficult time in breaking through the defenses of Madrid in the opinion of Enrique Carlos de la Casa, minister plenipotentiary and counselor of the embassy. “This development means little,” De la Casa said. “The government is| strong and will fight on.” De ia Casa came to Washington in August to act as Charge d'Affaires after the resignation of Ambassador Luis Calderon, who said he was un- able to continue after the election of | the Leftist Caballero government. De los Rios, a professor at the University of Madrid, has been here only four weeks. At the same time he arrived came Senor La Higuira, first secretary, and Senor Mianna, second secretary. The staff is com- pleted by Acting Commercial Attache Del Castillo, Agricultural Attache Ichachagarai and Chancellor Mateos. The prospect of having their source of money cut off does not worry these men. According to La Casa, the coined wealth of Spain is in France and Washington banks are still honor- ing foreign exchange drafts presented |up by the maritime strike have been 600 travelers marooned in Honolulu by the strike. Poindexter said the position of some was “serious” because of dwindling finances. 6,000 Workers Affected. The shipyard strike was announced last night by A. T. Wynn, secretary of the Bay District Metal Trades Council. He estimated 6,000 workers in the bay area plants of the Beth- lehem Shipbuilding Corp. would be af- fected. Wynn said the walkout was voted “‘owing to continued and flagrant vio- lations of agreements with various unions.” Some of the more than 150 ships tied put into drydock for overhaul, where they may be caught by the walkout of shipyard workers. About a dozen other vessels are strike-bound in Gulf ports. Threat to Refineries. In Port Neches, Tex. the district council of oil field, gas well and re- finery workers, representing about 50,« 000 men, telegraphed President Roose= velt advising him the strike will “withe in 10 or 15 days close down oil re- fineries in the Gulf Coast area eme ploying between 40,000 and 50,000 per- by the embassy. Leading Baritone Stricken, Soprano Closes U. S. Opera Refund of 1,800 Tickets Offered in Pasadena, Cdlif., Project. BY the Associated Press. PASADENA, Caljf, November 7.— Refusal of the principal soprano to take part after the leading baritone developed bronchitis was blamed for the calling off of a Federal music project opera and today a refund of 1,800 tickets was offered. Robert M. McCurdy, Civil Audi- torium manager, said he would sched- ule no more Federal music project productions. The opera, “La Tra- viata,” failed to open last night. sons.’ At Houston strikers said they had expected a vote in New York for a general walkout of the I S. U. rank (8ee MARITIME, Page A-2) Roosevelt Trip Heralded. BUENOS AIRES, November 7 (#). —United States Ambassador Alexander W. Weddell called today upon Acting Forelgn Minister Ramon Castillo, and observers understood he had informed ments, reacted in Eastern and Gulf | ports, where sympathetic union action | tied up ships and hampered com- ! asked aid from McGrady on behalf of | PEACE DELEGATION NAY BF DELAYED New York Seamen’s Strike May Prevent Sailing This Afternoon. BULLETIN. NEW YORK, November 7 (#).— A picket line of striking union sea- men was drawn up across the Mun- son Line dock today as Secretary of State Hull and other United States diplomats prepared to em- bark on the 8. §. American Legion for the Inter-American Peace Con- ference at Buenos Aires. Capt. Phillip C. Mahady said he intended to sail despite the opposi- tion of the strikers to the departure of the American vessels from New York Harbor. BY the Associated Press. ‘The calling of a genemal strike of | seamen in New York threatened today to delay the departure of Secretary of State Hull and other delegates to the Inter-American Peace Confer- ence at Buenos Aires. ‘The delegation planned to go to New York today and sail at 2 p.m. on the Munson Liner American , but overnight the Seamen’'s Defense Committee there proclaimed the strike. There was no immediate word from officials here as to how the strike call might affect their plans. President Roosevelt, who is con- sidering attending the opening ses- sion, December 1, will not be delayed | by any strike, for he would travel on the cruiser Indianapolis. Mr. Roosevelt initiated the conference, which has been called to consider means of perfecting peaec machinery in the Western Hemisphere. If he goes to the Argentine capital he is expected to deliver an im- portant address. He expects to decide definitely between that trip and a leisurely fishing cruise in the Carib- bean by next week. Would Require Record Run. The Indianapolis would have to make a record run over the approxi- mately 14,000-mile round trip to ful- fill the Chief Executive’s tentative sched:le, calling for departure from Charleston, 8. C., on November 14 or 15 and returning there on De- cember 12 or 13. It he carries out his provisional plans, (See PEACE CONFERENCE, A-3.) Bandits Get $20,101. TAMPA, Fla, November 7 (#)— ‘Three bandits, one impersonating a , stole the $20,101 pay roll Castillo that President Roosevelt would come to Buenos Aires for the Decem- ber peace conference unless pressure of Government business interferes. Summary of Page. Amusements_C-16 Art Page. =11 - A-9 C-1t0 10 8hort Story. C-7 Soclety ......A-10 Sports ___A-14-15 Woman's Pg. B-3 D | Over half State Legislatures now shown Hoyas Playing at Morgantown, C.U.and G.W.Facing Foes Here A-2 as Democratic. Page Gov. Brann deoides not to contest re- election of White. Page A-3 NATIONAL. Shipping faces new crisis as ship yard workers strike. Page A-1 President to devote full time to pre- paring budget. Page A-1 John L. Lewis declares 10% wage in- crease inadequate. Page A-1 Altmeyer urges econtinued support of private pensions plans. Page A-3 FOREIGN. of the Perfecto Garcia & Bros. cigar factory today. The bandits broke a glass door and held up three office workers. Today’s Star EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. A8 A8 A-8 A9 A9 A-9 A-9 A-9 Answers to Questions. Stars, Men and Atoms. David Lawrence. Paul Mallon. Mark Sullivan. Walker S. Buel. Headline Folk. SPORTS Catholic U. facing test in West Virginia Wesleyan. A-14 Colonials _expected to experiment against Davis-Elkins. Page A-14 West Virginia U. threatens Hoyas’ un- beaten record. Page A-14 Maryland invades Richmond U. as a firm favorite. Page A-14 400,000 likely to see Navy eleven play this season. Page A-14 Bannockburn revives D, C. open golf play Priday. A-15 Record of grid’s unbeaten teams in jeopardy today. Page A-15 REAL ESTATE. New 8lver Star Home. Page ‘Washington building report. Page Building C-1 C-1 C-1 C-1 C-2 C-3 C-8 A-2 i i34 44 4 1 3 San Tinkham Wins By Big Majority Without Talking Boston Republican Is Victor—V ote Tops Roosevelt’s. BY the Associated Press. BOSTON, November T7.—Boston’s bewhiskered Republican Representa- tive, George Holden Tinkham—the man who never campaigns—won re- election in the Democratic tenth dis- trict with 13409 votes more than | President Roosevelt received. | Tinkham, Harvard educated lawyer | and big game hunter, who has repre- | sented his Boston district in the Na- | tional House of Representatives since 1915, never once took the stump dur- ing the heated campaign. He re- mained quietly at home. The final tabulation today showed he defeated his Democratic opponent, State Senator Willlam P. Madden, 74,269 to 39,112, and in doing so captured Madden's own ward—the tenth—a feat no Republican has ac- complished in & half century. Gov. James M. Curley, Democratic candidate for United States Senator, ‘who was defeated by Republican Henry Cabot Lodge, jr, carried Tinkham's district. Tinkham, 66, October 29, entered Ppolities in 1897 as a member of the Boston Commom Council, later served on the Board of Aldermen, and in 1910 ‘was elected to the State Senate. He has served in the National House continuously since 1915. In other years Tinkham has gone | as far afield as Siberia and Africa | during election campaigns. DAWES BANKLOAN LIABILITY IS FIXED Stockholders Must Repay Part of $90,000,000 Owed to R. F. C. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 7.—Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson ruled today that Illinois stockholders of the de- funct Central Republic Bank & Trust Co. are liable for a share of the $90,- 000,000 “Dawes loan” which may total $12,500,000. Judge Wilkerson also held the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to be a constitutional agency. The judge's decision was in favor of the Reconstruction Pinance Corp, which loaned the money to the “Dawes Bank” in 1932, and against more than 3,000 Illinois citizens who held bank stock. They owned about $12,500,000 worth of the shares, and today’s ruling called upon them to pay dollar for dollar, under a section of the Illinois con- stitution putting a special liability on holders of bank stock. Special de- fenses have been asserted by some of the stockholders and if successful ‘would cut down the total payment. Dawes Has Paid Up. ~ Gen. Chatles G. Dawes, chairman of the bank when the loan was nego- tiated, was a stockholder and a nom- inal defendant in the case, but is not affected on his personal holdings. He held 52 shares and voluntarily paid up before trial. The sum was $5,200. The financial house of the Dawes family, Dawes Bros., Inc, was heav- ily interested in today's decision, however. Shown on the court records as the biggest single holder of the bank’s stock, its liability under the PRESIDENT SPEEDS BUDGET DECISIONS Will Fix New Figures by Nov. 17—Wants to Reduce Costs. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Devoting his full attention to gov- | ernmental business, President Roose- | velt planned today to have the budget estimates for the next fiscal year fairly complete before he leaves on his con- | templated sea journey to Buenos Aires on November 17. In making this known, the President | has plainly indicated he is anxious to | reduce the cost of running the Gov-.‘ ernment. It 1s understood he has impressed this on department heads. | For the next week or 10 days, Mr. | Roosevelt will hold daily conferences | of the budget, to work on the budget | which are not considered actually | necessary. | Besides conferring with Bell today, | the President also received Harry L.| Hopkins, works administra- tor, and Secretary of Agriculture Wal- lace. In a statement issued at the White House, it was revealed that the Presi- dent intends to make as few engage- | ments as possible prior to his con- templated South American cruise, to give all the time he can to the budget work and the disposition of accumu- lated routine business. Appointments Restricted. This statement follows: “In order to enable the President to give all of his attention to pressing | Governmental business prior to hx:i departure on November 17 for his | southern cruise, appointments with the President will be restricted to those dealing solely with Executive affairs of the Government. “The President regrets the neces- sity of this curtailment.” This course on the part of Mr. Roosevelt is easily understood. He has been flooded with requests from political leaders, congressional chief- tains and others in all parts of the | country that they be allowed to visit him personally to congratulate him on his great victory last Tuesday. One of the President’s associates ex- plained that if Mr. Roosevelt con- sented to receive even a small number of those clamoring for appointments, he wouldn’t have an opportunity to give a moment to the Nation's business the next month or so. Another matter the President will devote attention to before leaving deals with inauguration plans. Mr. Roosevelt has been reminded that, inasmuch as the inaugural date has been moved from March 4 to January 20, it will be necessary to start on plans without delay. To Select Inaugural Chairman. In this connection, it will be neces- sary for the President, first of all, to select the chairman of his inaugu- ral committee. When this was dis- cussed at the White House today, it could not be said definitely whether Admiral Cary T. Grayson, U. S. N., retired, chairman of the American Red Cross, would again serve in this capacity. It is understood that Ad- miral Grayson, who was chairman in 1933, indicated that because of his many other duties, he would prefer to see some one else take over that ip. Also, Mr. Roosevelt must soon de- cide on the scope of the inaugural celebration he would prefer. There is every reason to feel certain, how- ever, that these details will be worked (See BANK, Page A-2) Clothespins Seal Pupils’ Lips; Parents Protest, But ‘Forget It’ BY the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, November 7.—A (8ee BUDGET, Page A-2) talking while doing work at their seats, and the clothespin idea devel- oped as a sort of game. E. V. Gilchrist complained a left on the lips of her daughter about an hour and that she cried. “Margie said put her head down Superintendent of Schools Says D. C. Is Getting High Type of Education. BUDGET OFFICER TELLS CITY’S FINANCIAL PLIGHT Presents Graphic Picture Result- ing From Steady Reduction in Federal Participation. BY JAMES E. CHINN, Washington expects and gets a su- perior type of education in its public schools, Supt. of Schools Frank W. Ballou told the President’s Special Fiscal Relations Investigating Com- mittee today, in its inquiry into the costs of operating the District gov- ernment. Dr. Ballou, one of 10 District of- ficials called before the committee at its second public hearing, vigorously defended educational costs in Wash- ington—costs which he admitted are higher “in some respects” than cor- responding expenses in other cities. “The high type of educational serv- ice which is expected in Washington and which the Board of Education and the school officals undertake to provide for the residents of the Nation's Cap- ital,” declared Dr. Ballou, “must neces- sarily cost more than a program of instruction which would be lower in quality. “The school authorities admit that the cost of education in the public schools of Washington is compara- tively higher in some respects than the corresponding costs in other cities, but the school authorities maintain that we are serving the wishes of the parents of children in the public schools and are providing a quality of instruction which justifies the cost of that instruction, and in keeping with the dignity of the Capital of the Nation.” Donovan Offers Graphic Picture, Dr. Ballou followed Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and budget officer. Maj. Donovan had presented a graphic picture of Washington's financial plight resulting from steadily de- creasing Federal participation in the city's expenses coupled with the ever- | with Daniel W. Bell, acting director | increasing demands made on the municipal government by the United | estimates and to eliminate expenses | States. Donovan's testimony was devoted chiefly to justification of the operat- ing and maintenance expenses of the District government as a whole. Dr. Ballou, however, confined his state- ments strictly to the public educa- tion system. One of the high lights of Donovan's testimony was a statistical report showing 4,974 pupils in the District schools came from every State in the United States, all of the United States territories and possessions and 20 for- eign countries, including the Belgian Congo. “That looks like the roster of Har- vard University,” remarked Clarance A. Dykstra, city manager of Cincine nati, one of the committee members. Dykstra also pointed out that some of the pupils came from Maine and Vermont. Maj. Donovan facetiously replied that they enrolled in the schools before the presidential elec- tion. Complimented on Testimony. Impressed by Dr. Ballou's statement of school needs, Dykstra interrupted the school superintendent to compli- ment him on his testimony. “You're making out a good case, Dr. Ballou,” the committee member said. “You should make out this case before the District Commissioners.” “I do make this case out every year before the Commissioners and they are always more liberal than the Budget Bureau,” Dr. Ballou replied. “I make the case out before the Budget Bureau and they cut the fig- ures down and then I make the case again before committees of Congress and they reduce them still more. I always feel humiliated when I haven't succeeded in making a better case.” Dykstra told Ballou he wished there were some way he could help him, and Ballou, thanking him, said he hoped Dykstra would. Donovan broke in: “You could help a lot by giving us a larger Federal appropriation so that we would have more money available for schools.” Committee and spectators joined in the general laughter. First, Dr. Ballou had cited various factors which contribute to the in- creased cost of education in Washing- ton and then defined and analyzed the (See FISCAL, Page A-3.) JUDGE DISQUALIFIED IN MAXWELL CASE Jurist Who First Tried Girl in Patricide Discovers Distant Relationship. BY the Associated Press. WISE, Va., November 7.—Judge H. A. W. Skeen of Wise County disquali- fied himself today from further par- ticipation in the case of Edith Max- well, charged with killing her father, because of a newly disclosed and very distant relationship between himself and the defendant. His order, asking that Gov. Peery appoint another judge to preside at the second trial of the school teacher, abruptly halted a change of venue hearing at which Miss Maxwell’s at- torneys charged that a fair trial for her was now impossible in Wise County. Judge Skeen said that the disquali~ fication order also should be ap- plicable to the hearing for a change .| of venue and stopped it at once. In their petition for a trial else- where, Defense Attorneys M. J, Ful- ton of Richmond and Charles Smith of Alexandria sald the 85-year-old Judge Skeen was distantly related to the mother of Trigg Maxwell, who was killed at his Pound, Va, home in 1935. 2