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G"STAR’;'WKSHINGTON ‘D.” C, MONDAY, JANUARY ¢4 1937. 4 A 4 & 2 Washington||(HEST PAYMENTS |ENGLAND SCORED HARRY M. KEYSER DIES IN HOSPITAL eceased Was Manager of } Claims Department of Transit Company. Harry Miles Keyser, 45, manager of the claims department of the Capital Transit Co., died Saturday night after & short illness in the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. Mr. Keyser, a native of Fairfax County, Va., was & veteran of many years’ service with the street railway system here. | He began as a stenographer with the old Washington Railway & Elec- i tric Co. in 1911. He became assistant secretary of the llhkl’ company in 1921 and secretary in 1922. While with the Washingtor] Railway & Elec- tric Co. he attended |Georgetown Uni- versity and was graduated in law there. Becomes nt Counsel. In 1928 he e assistant coun- sel of the W. R. & E. and assistant treasurer in 1930, also continuing as ‘assistant counsel. Two years later he was named secretary and counsel of the company, continuing until the merger in 1933 of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. with the Capi- tal Traction Co. to form the Capital Transit Co. He went with the newly formed company as manager of the claims department. Mr. Keyser's home was in Falls Church, Va. A thirty-second degree Mason, he was past master of Henry Lodge, No. 57, of Fairfax, Va.; mem- ber of the Kemper Lodge of Masons at Falls Church the Acca Temple of the Shrine at Richmond, Va., and the Alexandria Consistory of the Scottish Rite Masons. | List of Survivors. Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Hattle Tuckerman Keyser; a daugh- ter, Miss Dorothy ckerman Keyser, and son, William Keyser, all of Falls Church; a sister, Mrs. Carrie Clinedinst, New rket, Va., and brother, Robert Keyser, Luray, Va. Funeral services will be held at 2 pm. tomorrow in the Falls Church Baptist Church. Burial will be in Oak- wood Cemetery, Falls Church, with Masonic rites at the grave. Sexton (Continued From First Page.) “of Sexton’s and his former chief when the two were with the State motor ‘vehicle division as director and super- intendent of police, respectively, was badly shaken by the affair. He was called to the hospital im- mediately after police took Sexton there and remained at the bedside. Wife Coliapses. Meanwhile, Mrs. Sexton, the former Miss Nell Estes of Roanoke, Va., was reported in a state of collapse. Friends said Mrs. Sexton is suffering from a heart affliction and it was feared seri- ous cohsequences might result from the shock of her husband’s death. It was Mrs. Sexton who called Mr. and Mrs. Ed Parrish to her husband’s aid. She answered the telephone in their home shortly after 1:30 a.m. to .hear only moans she recognized as her husband’s. This factor led police to believe Sex- ton dialed his home telephone before the shot was fired. ‘The Parrishes came to Mrs. Sexton's home, and, after calling police, the three drove to the bank. Thought Friend Asleep. ‘When they arrived two patrolmen ‘were already at the building. Mrs. Bexton and Mrs. Parrish remained in the automobile and Parrish, C. W. Dodd, bank watchman, and the police ‘went to the office. Parrish, thinking his friend merely asleep, attempted to rouse him. Then he noticed the wound in his head and the revolver on the floor. Open on the desk was Sexton’s bankbook. Papers on which columns of numerals ‘were written indicated he had been figuring his personal accounts. Member of Prominept Family. Sexton was born in Bluefield, Va., the son of Mr. and Mrs, V. L. Sexton, members of a family minent in Southwest Virginia. | He attended public schools in Blue- fleld and the University of Virginia, from which he graduated in 1922. At the university he starred in ath- letics and was named |All-Southern center in basket ball. H2 also played on the Virginia base ball team. In 1930 he was named superintend- ent of the Virginia State Police Force by T. McCall Prazier, then director of the State Motor Vehicle Division un- der which the police operate. In 1934 he was appointed chief of the Enforcement and Inspection Divi- sion of the Virginia Alcohol Control Board. During the war Sexton served in France with the Marine Corps. When he was discharged he ranked as first sergeant. Members of his family include his father, a prominent Bluefield attor- ney; two brothers, V. L. Sexton, jr., Bluefield attorney, and William Sex- ton of New York; three sisters, Kath- erine Sexton of Blufield, Mamie Sex- ton of New York and Mrs., Hunter Bowman of Warrenton, Va. Barrymore (Continued From First Page.) ‘Yuma, Ariz, climaxed a stormy ro- mance which included a cross-coun- try chase by train and plane, with Barrymore outdistancing his New York protege. Their latest quarrel started while they were welcoming the New Year in jubilant fashion at & Mm.bh cafe, Miss Barrie said. As a finale to the scene at Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. SHIRLEY, HIRLEY GARRY, a little girl with & great big way with her, is turning one of her Christmas gifts into a veritable gold mine ~—at least a copper mine. Her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Mike , are concerned rather than elated about The gift happens to have been a purse, and it is Shirley’s wont to walk down the street with the purse serving the same general purpose as a blind man’s cup. That is to say, she holds it open in front of her and passersby, catching the idea, toss pennies into it. If they don’t catch the idea, Shirley has been known to emphasize it by extending the purse in their direc- tion. That nearly always works. Remonstrance on her parents’ part does little good. Thelir words are lost under the clink of pennies ringing loudly in sht:ley“a ‘nretty little ears. * REAL TEST. An operative’s wife “vas dare,” teaching school in a Virginia moun- tain town, when this happened: The daughter of a mountain family was so deficient in geog- raphy her teacher sent a mote to her mother. The mother wrote back the nezt day: “Dear Teacher: My ma didn't know ‘no geography, and she got her man. I didn’t know no geog- raphy, and I got my man. You know geography, but you ain’t got no man. I don’t care if Minnie ain’t learnt her geography.” * % % PROGRESS. TH! arrival of 1937 brought forth the customary collection of ab- surdities and horrible half-memories, but one celebrator who was still mak- ing (with difficulty) the rounds long after daylight on January 1, seems to have hit upon a fine scheme. for cutting down the overhead on drink- ing parties. Establishing himself in a Pennsyl- vania avenue cubby hole restaurant and bsrroom about 9:30 am., he called for several successive straight whiskies, and as each arrived he non- chalantly pulled a highball glass out of one coat pocket and a siphon bottle of seltzer water from another and mixed his own highball. Interviewed, he admitted that he had been unable to devise a vest pocket refrigerating apparatus to sup- ply ice cubes, but he was confident that by New Year's Eve of 1938 he would have that situation in hand. * % % = BOOK LOVER. ANY movement to add to the sum store of knowledge of mankind is worthy of some degree of support, we suppose, but one of our operatives is protesting against a consistent thirst for “medical” knowledge shown over a two-year period by the workmen of a moving company. Having his worldly possessions transferred from one apartment to another about & year ago, our man discovered the loss in transit of a book dealing with the subject of, shall one say, the stork. The assumption was that one of the more serious- minded movers had added it to his personal library. And the assumption seemed justified last week, when during another hegira conducted by the same moving men for the same agent there was recorded the loss of an even more ponderous | volume entitled “The Power to Love.” In each case nothing else disap- peared. * k% % CHALLENGER. P!RSONALLY. we always have felt pretty defenseless in the face of little charges added under heading of “insurance,” etc., to such services as laundry, storage, utilities and what not. It seemed, in fact, that the com- panies billing us had some inner knowledge of what should be done and without resorting to our inexperi- ence they were just proceeding in the regular order. All we ever did about it was to pay. But we received new courage a bit ago when a fellow scribe, who might be Joe Miller of the all-powerful A. P., led a one-man revolt against paying “moth insurance” for storage of his family silver. “Moths don’t like silver,” the A. P. man explained, and sure enough the storage company had no rebuttal. It was a fine victory and a saving of some 20 cents. *x %8 CREDIT. Dr. Robert E. Moran, Children’s Hospital plastic surgeon, has just about completed a series of re- markable operations in which he has virtually rebuilt the feet of a small colored girl whose pedal ez- tremities were all but frozen off last Winter. ‘and at the same time exhibit the ‘@ group of visiting surgeons. “Who made your new feet?” one Jor conversation. “Dr. Moran,” the girl replied. “Who made the world?” another surgeon asked. “Dr. Moran.” DICKINSON FUNERAL HADECONVENEN Several Banks and Stores Co-operate in Again Re- ceiving Instaliments. Several banks and department stores of the city have agreed again this year to accept installment payments for the Community Chest, it was an- nounced last night by Herbert L. Willett, jr., director of the Chest. Willett has addressed letters to all these banks and stores thanking them for their co-operation again this year. Paymerts may be made at the fol- lowing banks: ’ American Security & Trust Co., Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania ave- nue; Central branch, Seventh street and Massachusetts avenue; Northwest branch, 1140 Pifteenth street; North- east branch, Eighth and H streets northeast; Southwest branch, Seventh and E streets southwest; Anacostis Bank, Nichols avenue and U street southeast; Bank of Commerce & Sav- ings, Seventh and E streets; City Bank, main office, Ninth street and Mount Vernon place; Pennsylvania avenue office, Tenth street and Penn- sylvania avenue; Southeast office, Eighth and G streets southeast; Georgia avenue office, 3608 Georgia avenue; Connecticut avenue office, 3401 Connecticut avenue; East Capi- tol street office, East Capitol and Ninth street; Columbia National Bank, 911 F street; East Washington Savings Bank, 312 Pennsylvania avenue south- east; Hamilton National Bank, Four- teenth and G streets; Brookland branch, Twelfth and Newton streets northeast; Dupont branch, Dupont circle; Northeast branch, Eighth and H streets northeast; Pennsylvania ave- nue and Twentieth street branch, Twentieth street and Pennsylvania avenue; Potomac branch, Wisconsin avenue and M street; Seventh street branch, Seventh and N streets; Wood- ridge-Langdon branch, 2027 Rhode Island avenue northeast; Liberty Na- tional Bank, Fifteenth and I streets; Lincoln National Bank, Seventh and D streets; Seventeenth and H streets branch, 1701 H street. McLachlen Banking Corp. Tenth and G streets; Southwest branch, 310 Fourteenth street southwest; Morris Plan Bank, 1408 H street; Munsey Trust Co., Munsey Building; National Bank of Washington, Seventh and C streets; Water street branch, 1121 ‘Water street southwest; National Cap- ital Bank, 316 Pennsylvania avenue southeast; National Metropolitan Bank, 613 Fifteenth street; National Savings & Trust Co., Fifteenth street and New York avenue; Riggs National Bank, Fifteenth street and Pennsyl- vania avenue; Chevy Chase branch, 5524 Connecticut avenue; Farmers & | Mechanics’ branch, Wisconsin avenue | and M street; Friendship branch, Wis- | consin avenue and Warren street: Du- pont Circle branch, Dupont circle; Northwest branch, Eighteenth street and Columbia road; Park road branch, Fourteenth street and Park road; Sev- enth street branch, Seventh and I | streets; Second National Bank, 509 Seventh street; uptown office, 1333 G street; Security Savings & Commer- cial Bank, Ninth and G- streets; K street branch, 1518 K street; Union Trust Co., Fifteenth and H streets; Washington Loan & Trust Co., Ninth and F streets; West End office, Seven- teenth and G streets. ‘The following department stores also receive payments: Julius Garfinckel & Co., Fourteenth and F streets; Goldenberg Co., Seventh and K streets; S. Kann Sons Co,, Eighth street and Market square; Hecht Co., F street at Seventh street; Frank R. Jelleff, Inc., 1216 F street; | Lansburgh & Bros., 420 Seventh street, and Palais Royal, Eleventh and G | streets. - MW CORMACK GIVEN ARLINGTON BURIAL i Assistant Pays Tribute to Late Commissioner of Immi- gration. Col. Daniel W. MacCormack, com- missioner of immigration and naturali- zation, who died Thursday night in Garfield Hospital, was buried this afternoon.in Arlington National Cem- etery. ‘The post held at the time of his death was accepted in 1933 after a brilliant international record as sol- dier, diplomat and banker. In a tribute paid him today, in & letter to The Star, his assistant, Henry B. Hazard, wrote: “Col. MacCormack was broad in his sympathies, and numbered his friends among all nationalities, races and sects. He objected to being a willing party to unjust treatment of the alien, whether brought about by unyielding laws or intolerance. “Hardships imposed upon innocent children and wives, many of them citi- zens of this country, through the rigid- ity of the deportation laws that gave no discretion, were intolerable to his innate sense of justice, yet he was adamant in his insistence that the immigration laws be strengthened to the end that vicious alien criminals might be expelled from the country. “Impelled by a desire to raise the standards of citizenship, he formu- lated a widespread citizenship pro- gram which provides for co-operation between the immigration and naturali- zation services, the public schools and Federal and State naturalization courts throughout the United States.” The program, Hazard said, is wide- spread and enthusiastic support be given to education of the foreign-born. “OLD MASTER” FOUND Painting Discovered in Rome Be- lieved Work of Raphael. ROME, January 4 (#).—A seem- ingly priceless painting by Raphael has been discovered beneath a paint- ing of St. Catherine in the Borghese Gallery, authorities said today. ON DEBTOEFALL S. K. Ratcliffe-Tells Town Hall Negotiations Should Be Reopened. Reopening of negotiations for set- tlement of the British war debt to the United States was demanded by 8. K. Ratcliffe, British journalist, last night at the first 1937 meeting of Town Hall at the Shoreham Hotel. Flatly criticizing the British gov- ernment for permitting the matter to lapee after the moratorium had ended, he insisted that it is the responsibility of Great Britain to pay in the tra- ditional British manner. “Serious mistakes were made in concluding the Baldwin agreement in 1923,” he declared, in answer to a pointed question from Edward Keat- ing, editor of Labor, & member of the panel, about when England would undertake to settle her obligations. Mingled hisses and cheers from the audience greeted the query. “In the first place, the settlement should not have been on a level so much higher than that obtained by other debtors of the United States. Mistake of Chancellor, “In the later stage there was & greater mistake when the chancellor of the exchequer failed, after recovery had begun, to make provision for payment to the United States. That has made the problem much more acute than it need have been. The matter cannot be allowed to lapse and an attempt must be made to set- tle, for it is the responsibility of the British government.” Ratcliffie also expressed pessimism as to the ability of the United States to remain out of another war, if it be long, saying that neutrality might be possible in the event of & short con- flict, but that all important countries will be involved in a long conflict. The speaker dealt specifically and at some length with the recent British constitutional crisis and abdication of King Edward VIII in order to marry Mrs. Wallis Warfleld Simpson, ex- plaining that in the face of British in- stitutions it would not have been pos- sible for Edward to remain King with a wife who was not his queen. It was the statute of 1931, dis- solving all control by the British government over the dominions, which stood in the way of Edward’s marrying Mrs. Simpson while he re- mained King, he declared. The do- minions are bound solely by the per- son of the King, a link which they could not have accepted in the event of marriage of Edward under the circumstances, he added. “It would not have done to have Edward going around among the do- minions to be crowned while leaving in England a wife who was not his queen,” Ratcliffe said. Coronation Church Rite. “The coronation service is a rite of the Church of England, of which the King is the nominal head, and the heart of the coronation is the com- | munion, which could not have been administered to him under the cir- cumstances.” The speaker discussed rearmament, recovery, unemployment and hous- ing as factors in the British domestic | situation, following this with a re- sume of the international situation. | His topic was “Britain—the Next Five Years.” “The rearmament program of the Baldwin government was decided on within a few months of the change in Europe incident to the advent of Hitler in 1933,” he asserted. “It is meeting and will meet surprisingly little opposition. The handful of lib- erals in Parliament is not opposed to the program and the labor party favors rearmament becausc of the spread of Fascist doctrine and gov- ernment through Europe. The mili- tary establishment will not be changed but the naval and air forces will be made second to none.” Stoddard Also on Panel. Besides Keating, members of the panel were Lothrop Stoddard, lec- turer and writer on international prob- lems, and Ellery C. Stowell, head of the depertment of international af- fairs of American University. Court (Continued From First Page.) ticipation in a peaceable assembly and & lawful public discussion as the basis for a criminal charge.” The opinion on the act restricting interstate shipment of prison-made goods also was delivered by Chief Justice Hughes. It affirmed a lower court decision upholding the legisla- tion in its entirety. This new statute is more drastic than the Hawes-Cooper act, which was sustained by the Supreme Court at its last session. The present case involved important questions concerning the relation of the' Federal Government to the State. Attorneys for the Kentucky Whip & Collar Co., attacking the law, con- tended “no legislation of Congress is valid if it operates to bar a citizen from shipping harmless articles in in- terstate commerce.” Pointing out that the Kentucky corporation was endeavoring to ship prison-made goods into Illinois, con- trary to the laws of that State, coun- sel for the Gavernment contended the Federal legislation was a valid exer- cise of the commerce power under these circumstances. It was con- tended the use of the instrumentali- ties of interstate commerce for the purpose of violating the State laws is an evil which Congress can prohibit even though the objects of such com- merce are not “inherenily delete- rious.” In his opinion, Chief Justice Hughes sald: “The Congress in exercising the power confided to it by the Constitu- tion is as free as the States to recog- nize the fundamental interests of free labor.” It also was held Congress could require packages containing prison- made goods to be labeled as such while in interstate commerce, as well as to prohibit the interstate trans- portation. Fuel Supply Threatened. AKRON, Ohio, January 4 (#).—A strike of 75 gasoline truck drivers, Stay in Strikers Cheered by Families S s e g Little Helen Summers, at left, as she talked with her daddy, one of the stay-in strikers at Fisher No. 1 plant in Flint, Mich., through an open window. Helen also brought her dog along to give encouragement. At another window of the plant (at right) Eldon Coale is getting a big kiss from his 9-year-old daughter. Strike (Continued From Pirst Page.) ‘Workers, and also Glen W. McCabe of Columbus, Ohio, president of the Federation of Flat Glass Workers of . and the glass workers have a joint council to de- termine action relating to the auto- motive industry and both are affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization, for which they are suspension from the American Fed- eration of Labor. 5 A shortage of glass, caused by a strike in that industry, has been an- other factor in the closing of some automotive plants. Full Support Pledged. John A. Brophy, director of the C. I O, and several other of its leaders attended the union confer- ence in Flint. Brophy pledged the “full support” of the John L. Lewis- headed C. 1. O. in the auto workers' efforts to obtain a collective bargain- ing agreement with General Motors. “The Board of Strategy,” said Brophy, “shall determine the ques- tion of extending the strikes and de- claring a general strike against the General Motors Corp.” To this Martin added: “We will call all the strikes neces- sary to accomplish our purpose. We have enough members to close down General Motors if we want to. “The workers want the essence—not the shadow—of a collective bargaining agreement. If the heads of General Motors continue to refuse to co- qperate with us in a sincere attempt at collective bargaining, they alone have the responsibility.” General Motors executives in De- troit withheld comment after the Flint union meeting, but earlier Willlam S. Knudsen, executive vice president, had told newsmen: “By the end of the week approxi- mately 135,000 out of the total 275,000 General Motors employes operating in all countries will be out of work. The reason is the stoppage of production caused by the shortage of bodies. There is enough glass to last three weeks and enough other parts to last probably through January.” “That’s up to Mr. Martin,” Knudsen replied when asked if he thought it was likely that all General Motors plants would be closed. “It is not up to me.” The number of the corporation’s factories closea -v~s increased from 12 to 19 when it was aniounced at An- derson, Ind., that the seven plants there of the Delco-Remy division would not open today, throwing ap- proximately 9,000 employes out of work. Fred C. Kroeger, general man- ager, said the closing was caused by “lack of production nweds” attributed to the strikes in eight other General Motors plants. Shortages of materials supplied by these units — principal'y bodies— caused the closing of four others of the corporation’s factories. General Motors has plants in 35 cities in the United States. About 500 men remained in two Fisher body plants at Flint over the week end despite a court order to leave which General Motors obtained Saturday. Police and deputy sheriffs who visited the plants Saturday night departed without attempting to evict the “sit-down” strikers. Sheriff Thomas Wolcott went to the hall where yesterday’s meeting was held, but left without seizing any of the union leaders named in the injunc- tion. The strikes in the two Flint Fisher plants, called December 30, left 8,200 workers idle and subsequently caused the closing of some civisions of the Chevrolet and Buick plants there, causing 6,800 men to halt work. There are about 46,000 General Motors employes 1 its various branches at Flint. A fortnight ago the United Automobile Workers esti- mated that 8,500 of these belonged to the union. Since then, leaders sald, other workers have been “join- ing so fast we can't keep up the totals.” A similar answer was given when union leaders were asked about its membership throughout the entire automobile industry. Neither was any City’s Situation Critioal. The closed factories at Anderson been carrying food to the “sit-down” strikers in the Pisher plants. At Toledo, Ralph Lind, appointed by the Department of Labor to medi- ate the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. strike affecting 7,000 employes there, began his conferences today and kept in communication with other Federal conciliators working on glass strikes at Pittsburgh. The Walker-Michigan Co. auto ac- cessory plant at Jackson. Mich., was to resume full operations today, the management and the U. A. W. A. hav- ing settled a “sit-down” strike. The union said the agreement, reached Sat- urday night, provided for wage ad- justments and seniority rights. The management of the Cadillac and Fleetwood Body units of General Mo- tors at Detroit conferred with officials of the West Side U. A. W. A. Local today on the union’s demands for increased wages and changes in work- ing conditions, Demands to Be Presented. The eight demands the U. A. W. A. will present to General Motors are: 1. A “national conference” between company officials and international officers of the U. A. W. A. “to discuss and bargain collectively between Gen- eral Motors and its employes.” 2. Abolition of all “piece work sys- tems of pay and adoption of straight hourly rates.” 3. A 30-hour week, 6-hour work day and pay and a half for overtime. 4. Establishment of a “minimum rate of pay commensurate with an Ameri- can standard of living.” 5. Reinstatement of all employes who have been “unjustly discharged.” 6. Seniority rights based upon length of service, 7. Recognition of the U. A. W. A. as the “sole bargaining agency” between General Motors and its employes. 8. “Speed of production should be mutually agreed upon by the manage- ment and a union committee in all General Motors plants.” Ednaping (Continued From First Page.) rived and left for positions continually. Several were moved into Tacoma to fill gaps caused by sassignments to Olympia and Shelton. Gov. Clarence D. Martin assumed personal direction of the hunt which closed all roads around Shelton. A Coast Guard patrol boat, carry- ing State police, sped from Seattle to Olympia to aid in the hunt. Coupe Not Sighted Again. The coupe was not sighted agsin after the mill watchman reported it in Shelton last night. It might be abandoned and the men hiding in the ‘woods, Willson said. In Tacoma, 50 miles northeast of Shelton, Department of Justice agents quietly took official charge of the kidnap hunt which they unofficially have led almost from the time Charles was stolen from his home eight days 2go. A reliable souce disclosed they had sent a “kidnap ladder” to a bureau wood expert in Washington, D. C., for further study. Reports of contacts with the kid- naper and of doubling the demanded ransom to $56,000 could not be con- firmed. The original kidnap note stip- ulated the ransom would be doubled each week, if the Mattson family failed to contact the kidnaper. It Afirst called for $28,000. Department of Justice agents gave no indication of what importance they attached to the Shelton report, but they joined the manhunt with State police, sheriff’s officers and police from half & dozen cities. All Cars Stopped. Automobile loads of men with sawed- off shotguns, sub-machine guns and rifies stopped every machine on all roads leading to Shelton, a town in a heavily timbered area, within half an hour after G. R. Grubbe, the mil watchman, reported the two men gave him the strange command last night. He sald they drove onto & private in the man's report. “I was standing near the about 5:30 pm., office ~—Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. that, he backed into tne car and drove off. He had broad nostrils—I could see that much of his face be- tween the sweater and his eyes—but not any more. “I couldn't say anything about the other fellow because it was so dark. “Their automobile was a dark coupe * ¢ *. I couldn’t see the li- cense numbers. The tail light was off.” At Olympia, the State capital, on the highway between Tacoma and Shelton, Gov. Martin commanded the manhunt, one of the greatest Southwest Washington history. “We're out to get this car,” he said. “It’s all in accordance. with the de- sires of the Government men, but I have not persopally communicated with them.” On the other side of Tacoma a farmer reported seeing two men in an sutomobile with a boy. C. M. Beson, a farmer, said he was “posi- tive it was the kidnaped boy.” Officers Visit Boy’s Home. He saw them on the road between Seattle and Bothell, about 85 miles from Shelton. If it was the same machine, the normal route would have taken the car through Tacoma on its. way to Shelton. Chief William Cole of the State police and State Detective Joe Mc- Auley arrived at Olympia, held a hur- ried conference and rushed to Ta- coms to the home of Dr. Mattson. Both went into the house at once after telling news men they had “no comment.” They were there 10 min- utes. A reliable source said they went to talk with Dr. Mattson at his re- quest. ‘Two men still were held in jails today as possible kidnaping suspects. One man, arrested on the com- plaint of farmers that he was act- ing suspiciously and asking for food, was jailed at Olympia. His descrip- tion was somewhat similar to that of the kidnaper. State police said they would ask the three children, Charles Mattson’s brother, sister and a friend, to check his description. ‘The other man, a former convict, arrested in Tacoma while attempting to sell a woman's ring, was ques- tioned further today. Rumors of another arrest in Ta- coma were unverified. Ladder Is Examined. It was reliably learned a ladder which has figured in attempts to trace the kidnaper was forwarded to Wash- ington. Careful examination of the ladder here failed to yield any fingerprints, it was reported. The top rung was said by the informant to be of rough lumber, freshly put on, in contrast to the other wood. The ladder was said to be 15 f2et 8 inches high. It was not used in the Mattson kid- naping, but was believed to have been taken to Haddaway Hall in a plot to kidnap the 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Franklin, sr., who bought the residence recently. Observers pointed out a parallel with the Lindbergh kidnap ladder, which had one rung of lumber differ- ent from the rest. Testimony of a wood expert played an important part in the conviction and death sentence of Bruno Hauptmann. ‘The family stayed out of the pic- ture, both from its own desire and at the request of Federal investigators. “I don’t want anything to get out that would harm our chances of get- ting Charles back alive,” Dr. Mattson explained. “Publicity might make the kidnaper panicky so he would destroy Charlie and beat it. “There will be no Charlie back.” Mrs. Mattson wanted to send her remaining children, William, 16, and Muriel, 14, back to school, which re- opened after the Christmas holidays today. But at the request of Federal officers she kept them home. Agents said they did not want them ques- tioned or photographed. 2 STUDENTS MISSING, ELOPEMENT SUSPECTED news until we get Parents Ask Police to Search for Youthful Alexandria Couple. P35 8 Btaft Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., January 4.— Two Alexandria High School students, who are believed to have eloped, were in | HOLLAND PROTESTS “NSULT" T0 REICH Hits Delay in Passports for Bridesmaids for Prin- cess Juliana. By the Associated Press. ‘THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, Jan- uary 4—The Netherlands government protested formally to Berlin today against what it termed “an insult to the Queen,” because of the alleged holding up of passports for three of Crown -Princess Juliana’s bridemaids. The protest climaxed German-Neth- erlands friction preliminary to next ‘Thursday’s wedding of Juliana and Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Blesterfeld of Germany. The friction arose from Dutch action in ignoring Nazi national flags and anthems in the pre-marital activities. Bernhard, by requesting that only the Netherlands national anthem be played at the wedding, tried to quiet the controversy somewhat. ‘Three of his cousins, the Princesses Sieglinde and Elizabeth zu Lippe and Sophie zu Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, are among Juliana’s chosen bridesmaids. It was authoritatively reported the prince’s mother might not be able to attend the wedding because her recent poor health had been aggravated by worry over troubles with the German government. Queen Wilhelmina, Juliana's mother, was reported to have been “gravely disturbed” and Bernhard, it was said, appealed directly to Hitler to sanction his cousins’ passports. . Other quarters were mindful” that the prospective bridegroom once was a member of Reichfuehrer Adolf Hitler'’s uniformed followers and, with the head of the Nazi party in Holland, had paid Hitler an hour-long farewell before he left Berlin. They »ecalled, too, recent German annoyance because the bridegroom “permits” Dutch “insults” to the Third Reich by not protesting use of obsolete German flags instead of the Nazi swastika emblem. Another Juliana, who was born at the same hour of the same day 27 years ago as the Crown Princess, will be the only other girl to wed next Thursday in all Holland. An exception was made for her from an order pro- hibiting any other marriages on the royal wedding day because of the mutual birthday and correspondence between the Julianas. The other wedding will join Peasant Juliana van der Meer and plain Martinus van Stijn. Sunny .weather brought out crowds of visitors to the capital to admire street decorations everywhere sur- mounted with the initials “J. B.” Large crowds collected to gaze at fir trees hung with orange-tinted metal balls in honor of the Dutch royal family, the House of Orange, and at butcher shops displaying portraits of Juliana and Bernhard. 'HIGHER U. S. PAY URGED BY CAPPER Kansan Supports Move for In- creased Compensation in Lower Brackets. Senator Capper, Pepublican, of Kansas, added his voice today to the growing number of legislators supe porting higher compensation for Gove ernment employes in the lower salary schedules. Like Senator Vandenberg, Repube lican, of Michigin, the Kansan bee lieves the Government would be ine consistent in advocating a living wage for employes 1n private industry withe out giving consideration at the same time to its own Jower-paid workers. Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, ranking member on both 3 the Civil Service and Appropriatmnsg Committees, also made known that there are some lower-paid positions in the Federal service he would like to see raised. He said he plans to study the question in detail before deciding ex- actly which salary schedules should be revised. Senator Lewis, Democrat, of Illi- nois, likewise gave the movement his support last night. He pointed out that the Jovernment apparently is proud of the restoration of prices and that it would be proper to bring the income of its employes into lLine with living costs. Berry - (Continued From First Pag mobile field and are reporting regu- larly on strike developments. Lewis declined to comment on his meetings with the department officials. Placing himself on record in sup- port of the Lewis group, now under suspension from the A. F. of L., Berry said: “There are practicabilities involved in these mass-production enterprises which make vertical organization ap- pear to be the happy solution.” Vertical organization is the indus- trial type which the C. I. O. is apply- ing to steel, automobiles, rubber and other great industries. It was disre- gard of craft organization lines that bronght the C. I. O. into conflict with the main body of the A. F. of L. Citing the iron, steel, automobile, rubber and textile industries, Berry continued: “Certain it is that with the excep- tion of one (presumably textile) of the industries named, effort at organi- zation on craft line through the last half century has failed. The men in these industries * * ® are unore ganized. “If the United Mine Workers (Lewis’ own unicn) and their associ- ates are willing to help other char- tered international organizations, it would seem to me that a set of em- bossed resolutions should be presented to President Lewis and his associates rather than to condemn them * * ¢ .* An interesting circumstance in Berry’s action is the fact that he cast his vote with the A. F. of L. leader- ship in their Tampa convention in November when a resolution was passed upholding suspension of the C. L O. unions and authorizing the Executive Council of the federation to expel the insurgents later if they 80 decided. Although Berry was not in Wash- ington today, his office explained this seeming inconsistency by pointing out that he was voting as president of his union rather than an individual and