Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy with slowly rising temperature, probably occasional light rain tonight and tomorrow; lowest temperature _tonight about 42 degrees. Temperatures—Highest, 42, at noon today; lowest, 33, at 1 a.m. to- day. Full report on page Closing New York Markets, Page 18 85th YEAR. [TALIANS SUPPORT DISCOURAGING OF SPAIN VOLUNTEERS Agree “in Principle,” but Attack Reservations Aimed at France. CO-ORDINATION OF REPLY WITH REICH’S REPORTED No. Central Madrid Is Shelled Heavily as Insurgents Advance From New Sector. BACKGROUND— Civil war began in Spain last July with revolt of troops stationed in Morocco, and after spreading to Spain proper brought Fascist suc- cesses throughout Northern, South- ern and Western Spain, leaving Loyalists holding wedge-shaped territory in the east, with its aper at Madrid, in addition to the Basque provinces in the north. Siege of Madrid nearing end of third month with foreign powers taking growing part in conflict of Fascist insurgents against Social- istic government, in refuge at Va- lencia. By the Assoclated Press. ROME, January 7.—Italy, agreeing “in principle” that foreign volunteers | should be discouraged from enlisting | in Spain, answered Franco-British de- mands for non-intervention today with reservations pointed at the French. The Italian reply to the two-power plea tor a stoppage of the flow of Italian and German volunteers to the | Spanish civil war was handed by Count | Galeazzo Ciano, the Italian foreign | minister, to Sir Eric Drummond, the British Ambassador, and J. F. Blondel, the French charge d'affaires. 33,854. Informed sources said the three-| page note, closely typed, agreed as a matter of principle to dlscourngemem} of the volunteer enlistments, yet raised | a number of points and many reserva- : tions. 2 | These were in particular based upon | the question of the Franco-Spanish border, over which most of the interna- tional volunteers figating with Madrid have passed. 1 The note also contended Italy had brought up the volunteer question in August, but that France at that time did not see fit to accept her point of view. Informed circles said both Italy and Germany had co-ordinated their re- plies. The Italian text was to be pub- lished at midnight (6 p.m. Eastern standard time). MADRID HEAVILY SHELLED. | Insurgents Attack Capital From New | Sector. B> the Associatea Press. MADRID, January 7.—Insurgent ar- | tillery shelled the heart of Madrid | today while the roar of guns on the northwestern front indicated a flerce battle was raging in the University | City and western suburbs. Shells began exploding in the cen- ter of the city in repetition of yester- day's bombardment, after a night punctuated by the dull boom of ex- ploding hand bombs on the front. . Explosions of aerial bombs dropped on the front line trenches 4 miles away shook many houses in the down- town section. Militiamen were ordered to with- draw toward the capital from the po- sitions they had occupied south of El Plantio along the El Escorial high- ‘way. An official bulletin of the air and navy ministry said six Insurgent and two government planes were downed yesterday during an aerial battle above the trenches. Reports from other quarters indi- cated both sides had intensified their use of aviation. It was reported from Malaga, on the Southern Mediterranean Coast, a Fas- cist squadron had raided the city sev- (See SPAIN, Page A-2) FRANGE IS READY TO BLOCK TURKEY Reported Determined to Use Force, if Necessary, to Rule : Syrian Cities. By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 7.—France is ae- termined, officials said today, to block by force any Turkish attempt to take over the Syrian citles of Antioch and Alexandretta. ‘While insisting they did not expect President Kamal Ataturk of Turkey to adopt “methods of Hitler” in the dispute over the government of ‘he two mandated cities, officials made it plain they were ready to oppose strength with strength. It was pointed out France held a FURNACE EXPLODES Dynamite Cap Believed Cn\u'o of Shenandoah Court House Fire. Epecial Dispated to The Star, WOODSTOCK, Va., January 7.— . Shenandoah County’s oldest structure, A-19. Entered as second clase matter post ofice, Washington, D. O. First Old Age Pension Paid - Nets 12 Cents Beneficiary Asks So- cial Security Office for “Lump Sum.” By the Assoctated Fress. 4 CLEVELAND, January 7.—Ernest Ackerman, 65, for 33 years a motor~ man for the Cleveland Railway Co., stepped forward, today as the first man in Cleveland, and maybe the first in the country, to apply for his social security old-age pension. Ackerman will make a net profit of 12 cents. Ackerman asked the social security office for a lump-sum payment, and was told that he was entitled to slight- ly more than 17 cents, 5 cents of which was taken out of his pay Jan- uary 1. "Ackerman became 65 years old Jan- uary 2, and was ruled out of further participation in the company’s pen- sion plan. His wages for January 1, the only day on which he participated, amounted to $496. A 1 per cent tax on that amounted to a fraction less than § cents. Under the plan, the veteran motor- man is entitled to 3%, per cent of his total wages, which figures out to be a little more than 17 cents. Social se- curily officials said they believed Ack- erman’s application to be the first in the country. Asked what he would do with the money, Ackerman said he probably would “blow it in on his friends.” He added that he felt the social security act was a fine thing for young people. MATTSONS FEAR FORBOY'S SAFETY Still Fail to Contact Kid-| naper, With Cold Wave Sweeping Northwest. BACKGROUND— Unblemished record of mo kid- napings in United States during 1936 was marred on Sunday night, December 27, when a masked bearded man, brandishing blue pistol, leaped through the Fremch doors of living room at home of Dr, W. W. Mattson, wealthy Ta- coma, Wash., physician, terrified four children, snatched Charles, 10, dropped a note and disappeared. The note demanded $28,000 ran- som. Since then there has been Tu- mors of ransom negotiations, but Charles has not been returned. After seven days Federal authore ities claimed jurisdiction in search for kidnaper under “Lindbergh law.” By the Associated Press. TACOMA, Wash, January 7.— Coldest weather of the Winter today alarmed the parents of kidnaped Charles Mattson, who believed the 10-year-old boy might be suffering from exposure. The thermometer sank to 15 above zero during the night, as the ab- ductor ignored opportunities to return the victim or collect $28,000 ransom. Dr. W. W. Mattson, the boy's father and a prominent Tacoma physician and surgeon, was more apprehensive that Charles, recovering from a cold when seized December 27, might be seriously affected if he were being | kept in an outlying, poorly heated shack as some other kidnap victims | 88ain have been. Dr. Mattson has made careful prep- arations for the boy’s care when and if he is turned loose. If Charles were released at a pre- arranged place and found either by the family or Federal agents, there was reason to believe he would be placed in a hospital instead of being taken to the large, old English style Mattson home. Other Precautions Taken. He might be freed on a lonely country road—like George Weyer- haeuser was—and discovered by & resident who might take him directly to the house. Precautions were be- ing made to prevent the child being overly excited. “I've got to consider that boy first,” said the doctor. “I don't know what condition he will be in when he is found.” Charles, while not delicate, is slight and never has been robust. When he was stolen from the living room of his home he wore clothing suitable only indoors—blue knickers, a blue jacket and house slippers. The kidnaper was assured of safety by complete inactivity of all law en- forcement agencies. The Department of Justice, State patrolmen and city police all have acquiesced to the plea by Dr. W. W. Mattson that no action be taken which might endanger the life of his 10-year-old son, held cap- tive 11 days. Even the corps of newspaper men and photographers which has been Che . WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1937—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. #**% ANOTHER VESSEL MAY CLEAR U. 3. BEFORE EMBARGO $4,507,000 Munitions Cargo for Spain Rushed as Cuse Craft Sails. TECHNICALITY PREVENTS Department of Justice May Block Further Volunteers Under Penal Code. By the Associstea Press. A parliamentary knot which held up signature of the speedily enacted Spanish arms embargo gave rise to- day to the possibility of another race to ship war materials to the Loyalist army. House and Senate jammed through the embargo late yesterday with only one dissenting voice, but a technical- ity may keep President Roosevelt from signing it into law until tomorrow afternoon. Before that action could make the shipment illegal, Richard Dineley, San Francisco munitions dealer, hoped he might be able to get a $4,507,000 cargo of planes and arms en route to Spain. One shipment of planes, shipped by Robert Cuse of Jersey City, was car- ried from New York on a Spanish freighter yesterday while the em- bargo resolution was rushed through Congress at a pace reminiscent of the emergency banking bills four years ago. Weather Delays Officials. Dineley, ready to take advantage of the delay, said he could get his goods on the sea in 24 hours, but that he had to wait for Spanish officials fly- ing here from Mexico City. Bad weather delayed them. Meanwhile Federal authorities in New York said Justice Department agents were prepared to stop the ex- portation of men, arms and aircraft to Spain through New York, which has been the principal port of em- barkation for American recruits for the Spanish war and principal export center for American planes. John Dailey yesterday dug up & sec- tion of the criminal code providing a maximum penalty of three years' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine for any one enlisting or seeking enlist- ments in foreign wars. He referred the matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was believed the Federal men were prepared to step in and halt munitions and plane shipments as soon as the Spanish neutrality act becomes law. Administration leaders, deciding at the last minute to try to halt Cuse’s shipment, offered the embargo resolu- tion in both House and Senate after President Roosevelt finished his ad- dress in midafternoon. The measure, blocking export of the Spanish civil war, zipped through the Senate, 80 to 0. The House later approved it, 403 to 1, and both bodies adjourned until tomorrow. The Senate, however, had failed to authorize Vice President Garner to sign the resolution outside of a ses- sion. That keeps it from the White House until the Senate convenes a N One Vote Against Passage. House action was slowed down by an objection from Representative Bernard, Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota, a new member, who later cast the sole vote against the measure. An hour’s debate brought Republi- can cries of “gag,” and a non-partisan effort by one group to include all countries in the ban. The latter was ruled out of order, with Chairman McReynolds of the Foreign Affairs Committee pointing out a complete neutrality program would be considered in a few weeks. When the House roll call started at 5 pm., however, the freighter Mar Cantabrico already was outside terri- torial waters, with part of Cuse's $2,777,000 order of second-hand planes and engines. It was the licensing of that cargo last month by the State Department that precipitated the demand for the Spanish embargo. The neutrality law itself does not provide for banning shipments to participants in civil wars. The freighter, speeding down New York harbor, was halted once by the Coast Guard for service in an action by two American fiyers seeking pay for aiding the Loyalists. Mexico Attitude Is Issue. Customs officials decided, however, the papers couldn’t be served, and the ship continued on her way. Her manifest showed she was bound for Vera Cruz, Mexico, arousing specula- tion because of the Mexican govern- ment's recent assurance it would not (See KIDNAPING, Page A-3) (See NEUTRALITY, Page A-2.) Hold-Up Slaying ‘Trigger Man’ Breaks as ‘Last Mile’ Nears By the Associated Press. OSSINING, N. Y, January 7.— Cocky Joe Bolognia, 24, “trigger man” in the $230 hold-up murder of a Brooklyn subway collector, “broke” to- day in Sing Sing death house and whimpered for a chance to make & statement before he joins two con- federates in the march to the electric chair at 11 o'clock tonight. “It's important,” he whispered nerv- ously, begging for an interview with District Attorney William F. X. Geo- ghan of Brooklyn. “I gotta see him right away.” While Bolognia paced his cell, the exploded. | two men who must die with him, Salvatore Scata, 19, and Theodore di Didonne, 31, drowsed apathetically in first delirious joy brought on by the news of their escape from death. The trio—Dominick Zizzo, 27, Sam Kimmel, 22, and Eugene Bruno, 33— moped in the cells which the law says gwymu.ltmwrormrutolm ves. Bolognia's request for an interview with Geoghan met little sympathy from the Brooklyn district attorney, who had greeted the news of Gov. Lehman's clemency by declaring. o “T’d have let all six go to the chair.’ agreed, however, to send Fred- Assistant United States Attorney | arms .or munitions to either side in Foem ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ROOSEVELT SIGNATURE|. ! mill e N LANDON REQUESTS CHILD LABOR LAW From Work of Underpaid Children Sought. By the Associated Press. TOPEKA, January 7.—Gov. Alf M. Landon asked Congress today to enact a law “to protect adult labor from the underpaid labor of children.” In a letter to S€nator Henry F. Ash- urst, chairman of the Judiciary Com- mittee, the 1936 Republican presiden- | tial nominee suggested that the meas- ure require all child labor goods in interstate commerce to be so labeled; that 1t be made a Federal offense for one to ship goods made by child labor mto & State which prohibits their sale, and that the State be authorized to punish the sale of such goods. Kansas has & child labor law, en- acted in 1917, which prohibits the em- ployment of bays under 14 in mills and factories. Gov. Landon wrote that, even if the child labor amendment to the Federal Constitution should eventually be ratified, s serious problem will exist to devise legislation which will adequately meet conditions, as they vary in the different States. “Since the Supreme Court has held that the Federal Government may | lend its aid to the States in enforcing their laws against the sale of goods | made by convicts,” Gov. Landon’s let- ter said, “I can see no reason why the Federal Government may not like- wise lend its aid to those States which | may prohibit the sale of goods in the manufacture of which children | have labored.” He excepted boys working on farms. “A boy carrying water to the thresh- ers or riding the lead horse on a binder, in the open air, is quite a different thing from the same boy working in a factory. Every reasona- ble person would abolish sweat shops and factories manned by children. Nothing, however, is better for a boy :lnn some wholesome work on a arm.” GOLD SCALES STOLEN NAGOYA, Japan, January 7 (®).— Fifty-eight solid gold scales, valued at $840,000, were stolen today from one of the two massive gold dolphins atop the historic Cyclopean Castle. The gold in the dolphins—one male and the other female—according to tra- dition, was taken from feudel lords by Tokugawa Shogunate, who ruled Ja- pan 300 years ago. Summary of Page. Amusements A-14 | Puzsles Comics ..... C-4|Radio Editorial Financial ...A-17 | Society Lost & Found A-3 | Sports Obituary ....A-12 | Woman’s Pg. B-14 FOREIGN. Italian support discouragement of Spanish volunteers. Page A-1 Pope Plus reported improving pro- gressively. Page A-2 Princess Juliana becomes bride of Ger- Page A-8 Measure to Protect Adults| 665 Illegal Stills InKentucky Are Seized in Year More Than 1,000 Are Arrested in Raids by U. S. Agents. By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky, January 7.— “Moonshining,” which shares Ken- tucky’s traditions with its colonels, horse racing and “feudin’,” still thrives in the Bluegrass State, the Nation's leading liquor-producing common- wealth, if a report of the alcohol tax unit is any criterion. During 1936, the Federal bureau announced, it seized in Kentucky 665 illegal stills, an average of more than 55 a month; 11,491 gellons of non- tax paid liquor, 265,084 gallons of mash and 141 automobiles and trucks. More than 1,000 persons were ar- rested in raids. NAVY PURCHASES IGNORE LABOR LAW Signs Copper Contracts Ex- empt From Walsh-Healey Act Provisions. Balked in earlier efforts to secure an adequate suplpy of copper, the Navy today had acquired 400,000 pounds of the metal by signing con- tracts which were exempt from provi- sions of the Walsh-Healey act requir- ing Government contractors to abide by certain minimum wage and maxi- mum hour standards. It was believed this is the first pur- chase of any consequence in which the Government did not insist on adher- ence to the labor provisions of the act. The copper purchases were made under a section of the act which pro- vides that the law shall not apply to purchases of materials in the open market for immediate delivery. In such circumstances orders are placed without asking for bids. Twice Sought Bids. The Navy resorted to this proced- ure after twice advertising for bids for a half-year's copper supply of 2,600,- 000 pounds. On each occasion pro- ducers declined to submit bids be- cause, naval officials said, of objec- (See COPPER, Page A-2) . | Dirksen modifies bill for Sunday liquor sales here. Page B-1 Bill proposes giant Federal stadium for D. C. Page B-1 Senator Sasscer to retire from Mary- land Legislature. Page B-2 Civic group protests rumored plan to move “Jimmy’s.” Page B-2 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. This and That. Answers to Questions. Political Mill. Stars, Men and Atoms. ny Star CONGRESS PLANS 10 SPEED 3 BILLS Measures Extending R. F. C. and Treasury Powers to Be Pushed. By the Associated Press. Congressional and administration chieftains charted plans today to push three bills through Congress this month extending for two years and & half the monetary and stabilization powers of the Treasury and the life of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. The extensions will include also power to issue Federal Reserve notes against Government securities up to 100 per cent, and prolong some other yesterday, President Roosevelt asked that Con- gress act at once to extend these powers, many of which are the key- stone of the administration’s fiscal policies. Authority to change the gold value of the dollar and operate the $2,000,~ 000,000 stabilization fund expires January 30 and February 1. The power to issue notes backed by Gov- ernment obligations will not die until March 3. Leaders at Conference. Those who attended the conference at which plans were made to push the | bills through by the end of the month included Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader; speaker Bankhead, Secretary Morgenthau and Marriner 8. Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. They conferred as other members of Congress discussed the President’s outspokenness toward the courts and plans for wage and hour legislation, as disclosed in his address to Con- gress. Awaiting definite indication how far he would go, party ranks threatened to split into factions as the alterna- tives became plainer. Both houses were in recess, but that meant only the transfer of the arguments to pri- vate quarters. The legislators speculated whether Mr. Roosevelt had a specific course in mind to assure “a liberal interpreta- tion” of the Constitution by the Su- preme Court. They had noted—and many Demo- crats cheered—the cryptic way in which he told Congress yesterday “means must be found” to adapt the judicial viewpoint “to the actual pres- ent national needs.” The discussions were subordinated to neutrality for a brief time. Votes of 80 to 0 in the Senate and 403 to 1 temporarily, however, and attention (See CONGRESS, Page A-5.) Accused of leaving their 8-month- old son in a locked automobile while they went to a movie, Franklin Moore, 41, and his wife, Lucille, 36, were ordered held for the grand jury under The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. CHEVROLETPLANS TOCLOSEPLANTS: 19875 AFFECTED Operations to Be Suspended Friday Night at Several of Company Units. NEW DETROIT STRIKES ANNOUNCED BY UNION “Sit-Down” Actions' Ordered at Auto Body Firms—Parley Success Forecast. By the Associated Press. Gov. Murphy of Michigan and James F. Dewey, Federal labor conciliator, Teport “encouraging” to- ward negotiations to settle strikes in General Motors automotive plants. United Automobile Workers decline to evacuate “stay in” strikers from Plint, Mich, plants of Fisher Body Co., General Motors unit. ‘Two new “sit-down” strikes called at plants of Briggs Body and Murray Body companies in Detroit. Chevrolet to close Flint plant, iron foundry and small parts plants in Saginaw and Bay City, Mich., leav- ing 19.875 more General Motors workers idle. “The Flint Alliance” organizes at Flint to combat strike sentiment. Conciliators renew conferences with each group. Nineteen G. M. C. plants remain strike-bound and more than 50,000 employes idle. John D. Brophy, Committee for Indus- trial Organization. director, confers with Homer Martin, U. A. W. A. president, in Detroit. Martin asks Michigan Legislature to impeach Judge Edward D. Black, General Motors stockholder who issued injunction against union. By the Associated Press. FLINT, Mich, January 7.—The Chevrolet Motor Co. announced today that all of its operations here, and its iron foundry and small parts plants | in Saginaw and Bay City, Mich,, would be suspended by Friday night. The closings will throw 19,875 addi- tional General Motors employes out of work. The Chevrolet plant here normally employs 14,575. Of that number, 2,500 have been idle since the as- Today’s announcement said the ‘motor ent, which produces engines for all assembly plants, would continue to operate until 11 p.m. Fri- day, when the night shift ends, then would close, bringing about the sus- pension of all Chevrolet operations in Flint. That will increase to 27,075 the number of General Motors employes idle in Flint. Total General Motors employment here is 46,000. The Chevrolet iron foundry at Sag- inaw will close at 4 p.m. today. A total of 5,500 men are employed there. The small parts plant at Bay City, employing 2,300, will close tomorrow. At Detroit, a “sit-down” strike in two departments of a Briggs body plant, where 2,500 men are employed, and another in a department of a ‘The Briggs plant supplies bodies for the Lincoln division of the Ford Motor Co. HOPE OF ACCORD SEEN. Gov. Murphy Voices Optimism After Conference. DETROIT, January 7 (®.—Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan, after con- ferences with General Motors Corp. officials and representatives of striking employes, said today prospects for opening of direct negotiations between the two sides “looked good.” The Governor came to Detroit at the invitation of James F. Dewey, United States Department of Labor conciliator, seeking to avert the threat of a geenral strike in General Motors automotive divisions. After takking with corporation heads and with the “strategy board” of the (See STRIKE, Page A-2.) Pair Accused of Leaving Baby Locked in Car, Held for Jury lodge in the infant's throat. ring was pulled out by the officer. kicked off, leaving the child’s legs ex- posed. The baby was taken to the Re- (P) Means Associated Press. Yesterday’s Circulation, 140,686 (Bome returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. U. S. PAY BOOST SOUGHT FOR ALL PAID UNDER §3 600 McCarra}l Would Confine Legislation to Group in “Low” Brackets. EMPLOYE SPOKESMEN AND NEVADAN CONFER | Several Measures May Be Neces- sary to Accompilsh Aims, Senator Says. BY J. A. O'LEARY. Describing the present $1,400 aver- age income of Government employes as “too low,” Senator McCarran, Dem- ocrat, of Nevada, said today his pur- pose at this session would be to con- fine pay legislation to those receiving salaries of less than $3,600 a year. Following a conference this morn- ing with 20 or more spokesmen for organized groups of employes, the Ne- vada Senator announced no detailed plan has been worked out yet, and that several separate bills probably will be necessary to bring about equi- | table wage adjustments for various groups in the government service. It was agreed, therefore, to have each group separately to study the needs of the respective crafts, then have a general meeting for the pur- pose of suggesting the legislation to be introduced. “It may require several bills to ace complish the: result sought,” McCare ran explained, “and the result sought, s0 far as I am concerned, is to raise the wage of Federal employes, be- ginning at the bottom. Holds Wages Too Low. “My belief is that the lowest wage is too low and out of line with the American standard of living, and by raising the lowest, to gradually work up to the others, the object at this time being to affect the income of those receiving less than $3,600.” The Senator pointed out that the bill he introduced late yesterday for | longevity pay increases in the postal service would accomplish his object to a large extent, in so far as that branch of the service is concerned. “However,” he added, “that does not accomplish the result of raising the lowest salary, which mush be raised. It may be surprising to learn that the average income in the Gove ernment service is $1,400, which is not a living wage.” Senator McCarran said the prob- lem of working out the proposed legis- lation is somewhat complicated be- cause of civil service conditions and classification act requirements, and that time would be taken to prepare the proposed bills carefully. He said he did not believe one bill could be devised that would adjust the salary situation equitably for the entire Gove ernment service. Headed by Hussing. All of the employe representatives at today's conference were from ore ganizations affiliated with the Amerie can Federation of Labor. They were headed by William Hussing, chairman | of & joint legislative group of A. F. of L. affiliates. Others included John Fry of the metal trades group and Charles 1. Stengle, president of the American Federation of Government Employes. Among the hundreds of bills filed in the Senate late yesterday were the fole lowing other measures affecting Gove ernment employes: The Logan bill to extend the civil service law more gene erally through the Government serve ice; the O'Mahoney bill for extéhsion of the civil service to postmasters and to groups outside the law in permanent agencies, and the Vandenberg plan for placing the postal service on a career basis, by making postal employes eli= gible for promotion to postmasterships. The McCarran longevity plan for postal employes provides for a $100 increase after 10 years of service, and another $100 raise each fifth year thereafter until 30 years of service have been rendered. The measure would apply to supervisory employes, special clerks, clerks, laborers, watch- men and messengers in first and sec- and class offices; to the motor vehicle service; to letter carriers in the city and village delivery services; to the railway mail service, rural let- ter carriers and clerks at division headquarters of post office inspectors. TOWNSEND TRIAL IS SET FOR FEB. 8 Pension Plan Founder and Two Aides Face House Contempt Charges. Trial of Dr. Prancis E. Townsend, elderly head and founder of Old-Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd., and two of his former aides, on a charge of con= tempt of the House, was set today for February 8. United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett notified Dr. Townsend and his associates, Dr. Clinton Wunder of Gal- | New York and John B. Kiefer of Chi- cago to appear in District Court on that day. Townsend is represented by Attorney Joseph A. Cantrel. Wunder and Kiefer are former regional directors in the Townsend . | organization. They are charged with refusing to appear before the commit= tee investigating old-age pension or- ganizations. The charge against ‘Townsend accuses him both of re- fusing to testify and of walking out of the committee room without per= mission in the midst of a hearing. All three were indicted shortly after the presidential election by the District .grand jury. Legislative Session Ends. HARRISBURG, Pa., January 7 (®). —Pennsylvania’s lawmakers returned to their homes today after a two-day opening session that developed unem= ployment relief and the Democratic administration’s policy on public ytil= jties as major hnmwconflonfiu the