Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, followed by rain; not temperature; lowest temperature tonight about 36 degrees. Temperatures—High- est, 43, at 10:30 a.m. today; lowest, 37, at Full report, page A-11. 11 p.m. yesterday. Closing New York Markets, Page 16 33,859. 85th YEAR. No. much change in Entered as second class matier post office, Washington, D. C. ah ¢ Toeni ‘WITH SUNDAY MORN ING EDITION o Star WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1937—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. The only Yesterday’s in Washington wit| Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. evening paper the Circulation, 143,931 (Some returns not yet received.) *ekekk (®) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. ROOSEVELT ASKS VAST REORGANIZATION TWO NEW DEPARTMENTS, BROADER CIVIL SERVICE, CONTROLLER CURB, ATMS MEW SIRKE ROTS Six Executive Assistants Arefmfi Sought to Aid President Co-ordinate Work. ALL “INDEPENDENT” UNITS TO GO UNDER CABINET OFFICERS, ISPLAN Whole Administrative Service to Be Placed on “Career Basis,” Congress Is Told—Savings of 30 Million Seen. Synopsis of report on Administrative Management on Pages A-8 and A-9. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. President Roosevelt today submitted to Congress a sweeping “five-point program” to modernize and make more efficient the executive branch of the | Government. It calls for the establishment of two new departments, one a Department of Social Welfare, the other a Department of Public Works. Into the two new departments and the ten that already exist the Presl-} dent would place all the executive agencies of the Federal Government, includ- ing all the so-called “independent” commissions, bureaus and administrations. | This means an executive branch consisting of 12 regular departments | 4nstead of 10 and approximately 95 other agencies. The name of the Interior Department would be changed to Department of Conservation. Mr. Roosevelt plans to improve the White House business and manage- | ment organization by giving the President six high-grade executive assistants. | These would not be “assistant Presidents.” They would have no authority to give an order. They would have no authority to determine a policy. They would be merely “leg men” for the President. aiding him to co-ordinate the work of the executive departments, These assistants would be like the private assistants of the president or general manager of a great privale business. The President today, it is main- tained, has less assistance of this kind than many Governors of States, city managers and mayors, although he is the manager of the biggest business in the world. Operation of Plan. Under the plan the whole governmenta: administrative service is to be placed on a “career basis.” Every job, outside of the policy determining posi- tions, is to come under the civil service, with the merit system in full operation. ‘This means that few offices, outside of the department heads, members of | the cabinet and their assistants, will be outside the general civil service. The Civil Service Commission is tos be abolished and a Civil Service Ad- ministrator is to be appointed in its place, directly under the President. An advisory board of seven members,’ to serve without salaries, is to be appointed to check up on the eivil service, meeting probably four times & year. What probably will be considered more revolutionary than any other part of the President’s plan for re- organization is the proposal to take such “independent” agencies of the Government as the Interstate Com- merce Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Power Commission and place them under department heads. It is explained, however, that this is to be done merely for better man- agement. better “housekeeping.” These agencies will retain and con- tinue to exercise their quasi-judicial | functions. When it comes to seeking appropriations and additional em- | ployes, those are matters that will be dealt with through the department heads, who will also have charge of | the purely administrative features of | these agencies. | Appropriation Estimates. In support of this plan to have the eppropriations for these agencies with judicial functions estimated for | by department heads, it is pointed out that all the estimates of appro- | priation for the judicial branch of | the Government, including the Su-| preme Court, are now submitted to the Bureau of the Budget through the | Attorney General. The Bureau of the Budget is to be ! strengthened and a planning board, | which will deal principally with public works, is to be set up. These will also both come directly under the | President. i The General Accounting Office, with a controller general at its head, is to be abolished. In its stead is to ‘be appointed an auditor general. This auditor general is to be a creation of Congress and directly responsible to the Congress. He will make a “true post-audit, of financial transactions and report to Congress. He is to report especially on illegal and wasteful ex- penditures, if he finds them. He is not, however, to become involved in (See REORGANIZATION, Page A-2.) ORDER OF LABOR BOARD HELD INVALID BY COURT U. §. Circuit Bench Refuses to| Enforce Reinstatement of Discharged Employes. By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, January 12— Court decisions on the national labor relations act today included refusal of the United States Ninth Circuit Court to enforce reinstatement of five discharged Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. employes. ‘The court’s three-to-two decision held the National Labor Board’s re- instatement order violated the Mackay company’s rights of contract under the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution. Presiding Justice Curtis D. Wilbur’s majority opinion stated, however, he was “not prepared to say that there * 4s no portion of the act which is con- stitutional.” The dissenting opinion of Justice Francis Garrecht held the act comes under the “general welfare” power of the Government “in the modern field of industrial employment.” Reinstatement of the men was ordered by the Labor Board on its finding they were discharged for union activities, [ b Text of Message President Calls for U. S. to Overhaul Its Management. ‘The text of the President’s message to Congress. transmitting the report on administrative management, fol- lows: To the Congress of the United States: I address this message to the Con- gress as one who has had experience as a legislator, as a subordinate in an executive department, as the chief executive of a State and as one on whom, as President. the constitytional responsibility for the whole of the executive branch of the Government has lain for four years. Now that we are out of the trough of the depression, the time has come to set our house in order. ministrative management of the Gov- ernment needs overhauling. We are confronted not alone by new activi- ties, some of them temporary in character, but also by the growth of . the work of the Government match- ing the growth of the Nation over more than a generation. Except for the enactment of the | budget and accounting act of 1921, no extensive change in management has occurred since 1913, when the De- partment of Labor was established. The executive structure of the Gov- ernment is sadly out of date. I am not the first President to report to the Congress that antiquated ma- chinery stands in the way of effective | administration and of adequate con- trol by * the Congress. Theodor> Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover made re- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Tattoos Number on Arm. MEMPHIS, Tenn., January 12 (®). —Leon Roofener, 45-year:old build- ing engineer for a Memphis theater, is almost certain he won't lose his social security act number. He has it tattooed on his left arm. The ad- | < AS BERLINPARIS - PAGTIS REPORTED cord, Is Rumor—Nazi Men- ace in Morocco Denied. | BACKGROUND— | Main factor in European rcla- tions for many years has been con- Rict between Germany and France. After Franco-Prussian War, feeling smouldered over Alsace-Lorraine and other issues until new war was | inevitable. It came in 1914. Al- | though World War has been over 20 years, repercussions are still felt. Germany felt crushed by the Ver- sailles treaty and in recent years has begun ignoring it, causing new French complications. Outbreak of Spanish war, in which French and | German sympathies were, as usual, on opposite sides, increased an- tagonism between powers and led to French demand for showdown on alleged Nazi interference in Spanish Morocco. By the Associatea Press. PARIS, January 12.—A military in- | spection of Spanish Morocco set at rest French fears of German troop concentrations today amid indications of coming negotiations for a “full and lasting settlement” of Pranco-German problems. Resident Gen. August Nogues of |Powers Negotiating Full Ac-| 1000 GUARDSMEN HOBLIZED T0 BAR AT FLNT PLANTS More Than Score Injured in Street Battles Between General Motors Strikers and City Policemen. GOV. MURPHY PROMISES MAINTENANCE OF ORDER | Wounded in Disorders Are Held Under Police Guard—Martin Charges Outbreak Provoked De-| liberately for Purpose of Dis- possessing Workers. By the Assoclated Press. | DETROIT, January 12.—More than | a thousand National Guardsmen in nine Michigan cities mobilized today | for possible action in strike-torn Flint, | where more than a score lay injured after street fights between striking | General Motors Corp. employes and | | city policemen. ’ | Gov. PFrank Murphy ordered the mobilization, asserting the State will | act “for the maintenance of public | order.” | Strikers wounded in the rioting out- | | side the Fisher body plant No. 2 at | Flint were held under police guard. | Homer Martin, president of the | United Automobile Workers of Amer- | | ica, directing widespread strikes at General Motors plants, charged the Flint disorder “‘was deliberately pro- voked for the purpose of dispossessing the sit-gown strikers (who have held | the plant since December 30) by vio- lent means.” “ | Charges Thugs Being Used. In a statement telephoned from SORRY To SEE You GO, ALF. You BROUGHT ME LOTS OF FAME RELIEF HEARINGS OPEN TOMORRON Deficiency Appropriation Re- | quest Will Be Discussed Behind Closed Doors. By the Assoctated Press. Chairman Buchanan of tie House Appropriations Committee said today secret hearings would begin tomorrow on the President’s $790,000.000 de- French Morocco informed the foreign | Washington to union headquarters ficiency relief appropriation request. office that Gen. G. H. Berenger, onc |ish zone and reported he could find no evidence of large numbers of Ger- man troops. Insurgent authorities in Spanish Morocco, Gen. Nogues said, supplied | British and French army officers at here, Martin said he informed Gov. | “from a reliable source that profes- sional thugs were being shipped from | Decatur, 11l to arrive in Flint Mon- | day morning.” No statement came from General | | Motors, which previously had infor- Harry L. Hopkins, Works Progress of his aides, had inspected the Span- | Murpny Sunday of reports to him administrator, probably will be among the first witnesses, Buchanan said. The chairman indicated House action on the measure could be com- pleted in plenty of time to permit the Senate to take final action on the measure before February 1, when Tangier with permanent passes so | M&lly expressed regret at the disorders. | existing - relief funds ,are expected they might penetrate the zone at any | time for investigations. There was a sudden breaking of the | Of office” in attempting to dispossess| yio¢ gppropriation has been made | | acute tension which has bound Eu- | | rope since before the Christmas holi- | days. Ambassadors of both France and Germany turned to their capitals bearing dispatches which, diplomatic circles said, signaled overtures for a broad economic and political agree- ment. It was a sudden and welcome lifting of the war clouds that had become in- | creasingly darker since France and Britain stiffened their demapds on Germany against volunteer aid to in- | surgents in the Spanish civil war and | reported Nazi infiltration in Spanish | Morocco. The first break of the day came in Berlin, where Reichschancellor Adolf | Hitler and French Ambassador Andre Francois-Poncet exchanged mutual assurances of territorial integrity for (See EUROPE, Page A-3.) { TEMPERATURE HERE DUE TO BE UNCHANGED | Are Predicted for the District. Overcast skies and little change in temperature is predicted for the Dis- trict tonight and tomorrow. Occa- sional rains are expected late tomor- row afternoon or night. The mercury had climbed to 42 de- grees at 10 a.m. today and observers at the Weather Bureau said it prob- ably would rise a few degrees higher today before dropping to around 36 tonight. The temperature kept at an even keel most of yesterday, the highest mark, 38, being reached at 4 p.m. and the “low” of 37 at 11:30 p.m. With ‘Passion By the Assoctated Press. President Roosevelt wants two spe- cial men “of high competence, great physical vigor and a passion for anonymity” at his beck and call the next four years. His Government Reorganization Committee recommended today that six assistants of such caliber be granted him by Congress, but the President gravely disclosed he had only two choices in mind so far. Shush, it's a secret, he said—they are the well known John Doe and Richard Roe. So confidential would be their duties that persons asking how they liked the weather would get a stony stare in reply. . The President was explaining at & press ‘conference yesterday the reor- ganization report before transmitting it to the Capitol. Members of the cab- inet flanked his littered- desk. Sons James and Franklin, jr., sat nearby. Row on row of note-taking newspaper men faced the official assemblage, Starting off, Teacher Roosevelt in- quired how many had done their home- work. The problem was one of com- mon sense management, he said, as the laughter subsided, and told the \President Seeks Two Aides for Anonymity’ story of the farmer at his wits’ end because he was doing so much and getting so little done. The farmer had 10 outbuildings, several chicken coops, .tool sheds and what not. On expert advice he built an addition to his barn. But, said the President, he had room for all the poultry, equipment, etc., in the barn, so that he had less walking to do, more time to work and the sun shone again. Establishing two new departments and consolidating all administrative agencies under the departments will mean efficiency in the Government as it did on that farm, in the President’s view. Illustrating why he wants an execu- tive check on the administrative ex- penditures of now-independent agen- cies, like the Federal Trade Gommis- sion or the Interstate Commerce Com- unnamed agency which had asked him about getting $300,000 more than he He suggested a reduction, he said, only to have the agency in question ask Congress directly for $500,000 more than the figure he had proposed. \ Occasional Rains Late Tomorrow | mission, the President spoke of one considered necessary for a certain job.- | Martin’s statement contended Flint | | police “violated the law and their oath | the strikers and claimed General Mo- | | tors representatives “had given posi-| | tive verbal assurances that violent at- tempts at ejection of the sit-down | strikers not be attempted.” | Martin conferred at Washington with John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion, with which the U. A. W. A. is affiliated; John Brophy, a C. I. O. di- rector, and Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Lawrence S. Davidow, attorney for | the union, left for Flint soon after | noon to “take legal steps,” presumably in connection with the police guard over injured strikers. | Heat Turned Off. The union men, still holding their | positions in the No. 2 plant, reported the central heating plant had turned off the steam in the factory at noon today. Similar action was taken yes- terday before the violence broke out. | Heavy sight-seeing traffic streamed | past the plant. The strikers removed | a barricade of automobiles they had set up in the street, and a “clean- up” squad was at work clearing it of debris. . Several hundred striking automobile | (See STRIKE, Page A-3.) {MRS. COOLIDGE GETS SUM | |House Sends Pension Bill to Roosevelt. ‘The House adopted and sent to the White House today a resolution to pay & $5,000 yearly pension to Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, widow of the late President. Summary of Page. | Amusements B-16 | Puzzles Comics Editorial Financial ...A-15| Society . Lost & Found A-3 | Sports ___A-18-19 Obituary -..A-12 | Woman's Pg. B-10 NATIONAL. Roosevelt proposes sweeping reorgan- ization of Government. Page A-1 President orders intensive hunt for Mattson killer. Page A-1 Secret hearings on relief to begin to- morrow. Page A-1 Militia mobilized after strike riots hurt more than score. A-1 Hair is lone clue in bathtub murder. Page A-1 Vandenberg urges State responsibility for relief. Page ‘A-1 Two feared dead in missing plane in Illinois. Page A-3 1,000 striking seamen expected here next week. ! Page A-5 Labor leaders hit General Motors; peace Pl’DlpCCfi! dim. Page A-1 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Marriage of two middies during Yule 1 holidays reported. Page A-1 Autopsy Awaited After Virginia Wom- an’s Body Is Exhumed. Page A-5 Directors elected at annual bank meet- ings today. Page A-5 Commissioners decline to make police brutality probe. Page B-1 Plans for new downtown postal station announced, Page B-1 to be exhausted. Although no breakdown of the re- public, President Roosevelt said he would request $650,000,000 for “re- months. Buchanan recently “guessed” about $100,000,000 of the appropriation would go to settlement Administration and about $20,000,000 to the Treasury Depart- ment. Commenting on President Roose- velt's recommendation, Senator Van- denberg, Republican, of (See RELIEF, Page A-2.) SHORTAGE OF WORKERS IN FUEL IRON MILLS Lack of Skilled Employes Handi- caps Operations in Pueblo Plant. By the Assoctated Press. DENVER, January 12. — Arthur Roeder, president of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., said yesterday there deficiency the . is an insufficient supply of trained | workers to meet the demand in the | company’s mills at Pueblo. The rail mills were reopened a week ago. “Lack of skilled labor is handicap- ping our operations,” Roeder said. “In some of our plants in which one or two shifts are working we would like to put on'three shifts but haven't the trained manpower.” Officials said “it would be difficult” to estimate how many additional em- | ployes have been given work since the mills were reopened, but added there are 7,000 on the pay roll. Today’s Star . | Dr. and Mrs. Mann leave on Sumatran expedition today. Page B-1 EDITORIAL ANB COMMENT. This and That. Page A-10, Answers to Questions. Page A-10 Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-10 David Lawrence. Page A-11 Paul Mallon. Page A-11 Mark Sullivan. Page A-11 Jay Pranklin. Page A-11 Dorothy Thompson. Page A-11 SPORTS. Catcher trouble besets eight teams be- sides Nationals. Page A-18 Straiges impresses as boxer in out- pointing Taylor. Page A-18 Clarke has jitters watching Tronsky menace $500 pin prize. Page A-18 Duquesne quint routs Catholic U.; G. W. swamps Elon. Page A-19 FINANCIAL. Corporate bonds mixed (table). Page A-15 Daily oil output lags. Page.A-15 Stock losses reduced (table). Page A-16 Curb list uneven (table). Page A-17 Aldrich urges boom-control. Page A-17 Copper slumps at London. Page A-18 MISCELLANY. City News in Brief. ‘Young Washington. Vital Statistics. Nature’s Children. Traffic.Convictions. Page A-5 Page A_-1 Michigan | Presi(ient, Shocked, Pledges Relentless Hunt for Kidnaper Mattson Boy Shocked by'the murder of Charles { Mattson. President Roosevelt today pleged “‘every means at our command” in the hunt for the killer, as Attorney General Cummings announced a re- ward of $10,000 for information lead- ing to the capture of the slayer. | “Murder of the little Mattson boy ! has shocked the Nation,” the Presi- dent said in an unusual statement.| “Every means at our command must | be enlisted to capture and punish the | perpetrator of this ghastly crime. | “Attorney General Cummings in- | forms me that he has offered a re- | ward for information leading to the Search to Continue Until Slayer of Is Caught, He Promises. arrest of the criminal, and that the special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice are engaged in a search which will be pursued relentlessly and will not be terminated until the murderer is caught. “I bespeak for the agents of the Department of Justice the continued and wholehearted co-operation of the local police and all other law en- forcement agencies in this necessary work. “A crime of this kind is renewed evidence of the need of sustained ef- (See SEARCH, Page A-4.) Bludgeoned Woman, Im- Lewis Aides Plan to See U.S.T mersed in Water, Clutched | Hair of Murderer. | By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, January 12—Blood- | soaked strand of hair, torn from the | scalp of her slayer, was the lone clue | today in the brutal “bathtub murder” of Mrs. Mary Robinson Case, 25-year- old model and bride of a year, whose bludgeoned body was found in a tub overflowing with water late yesterday. The young housewife, a former jun- ior Leaguer of Lancaster, Pa., appar- }ently had put up a violent struggle | [ with her attacker before succumbing to the crushing blow of a machinist’s hammer. Police sent the wisp of hair, which | was found clutched in the pretty bru- | nette victim's hand, to a Brooklyn | | laboratory for examination. Wedding Ring Stolen. | At the same time, Deputy Chief In- spector John J. Ryan broadcast a de- scription of a platinum wedding ring, engraved “F. W. C. to M. H. R.,” which had been wrenched from Mrs. Case’s finger by the murderer. ‘Theft of the ring and $15 from Mrs. Case’s handbag, satisfled police that robbery was the ostensible motive for the crime. Water dripping from the tub gave the first intimation of the crime to tenants below and the apartment house manager arrived on the scene simultaneously with the victim’s hus- band, Frank Case, 30, employe of & hotel supply company. Case told the police he had dashed (Seé SLAYING, Page A-3) . Ex-Convict Is Shot. LEAKSVILLE, N. C, January 12 (®)—Paralyzed by a bullet in his spine, Tom Chainey, youthful ex-con- vict, lay near death in a hospital to- day. [ By the Assoctated Press. ANNAPOLIS, January 12—The cases of two midshipmen who married while on Christmas leave, in defiance of Naval Academy regulations, are now before the Secretary of the Navy, it was learned here today. A third midshipman, married early last month, has been dismissed from the naval service. The Academy reg- ulations provide that a midshipman who marries during his course shall be dismissed. All three midshipmen involved are or were members of the first or senior class, Midshipman George Hails Foster, Montgomery, Ala., was married to Miss Mary Helen Scott, Bessemer, Ala., on A BATHTUB SLAYING (AUTO LABOR HEADS HOLD PARLEY HERE Labor Board Members. Hit G. M. Policies. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Prospects for peace in the strike- torn automobile industry darkened today as Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers, and John Brophy, fleld general of the Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion, vigorously denounced the labor relation policies of General Motors Corp. and the outbreaks of violence during the last 24 hours. Going into closed session with John L. Lewis, C. L O. chairman, and Sid- ney Hillman, another C. I. O. leader, Martin and Brophy disclosed also that they planned to confer later with members of the National Labor Rela- tions Board. Violation of key sections of the Wagner labor relations act will be charged against General Motors, Martin said. Shortly after union leaders went into session Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady arrived to participate. He declined any general comment on the strike situation before entering the conference. Hits Strikebreakers. Declaring that the U. A. W. has evi- dence that strikebreakers, recruited by Pearl Bergoff, New York strike- breaking king, in Decatur, Ill, had been brought into Detroit and Flint yesterday, Martin said: “The blood spilling in Flint by the hired Hessians of General Motors is a demonstration of what Mr. Sloan means by collective bargaining.” “Such action,” Brophy interceded, “is in keeping with General Motors’ | interpretation of the rights of workers to bargain. It is not an unusual in- terpretation for Tory industrialists.” Questioned about the determination of members of two craft departments of the American Federation of Labor (See LABOR, Page A-2.) Marriage of Two Middies During Yuletime Reported December 29. Midshipman Ambrose G. Witters, Milady, Ind., was married to Miss Edythe Marie Bigham, Bates- ville, Ind., at Indianapolis, Ind.,, on December 31. Both midshipmen reported their marriages when they returned to the academy after the holidays. intendent of the academy, forwarded their cases to Washington for action of the Secretary of the Navy. Midshipman William Baird Har- muth, Glendale, Calif., was dismissed from the academy on December 31. He was married to Miss Katherine Eleanor Towne, Glendale, Calif., here, on December 12, ) Rear | Admiral David Foote Sellers, super- LAW FORCES JOIN IN GRIN HUNT FOR KIDNAPER-SLAYER OF MATTSON BoY Relentless Search Ordered by President After Body of Child Is Found in Snow- Covered Thicket. EVIDENCE AT AUTOPSY IS STUDIED FOR CLUES Police Broadcast Pick-up Orders for Suspects as G-Men Mass Under Hoover's Assistant—Cor- oner's Report Indicates Maniac May Have Committed Crime. BULLETIN, SEATTLE, January 12 (®.— The Seattle Times today quoted an unidentified authority as stat- ing clothing of Charles Mattson, kidnap-murder victim, had been found in an automobile aban- doned at an Everett service sta- tion. By the Assoctatea Press. TAKOMA, Wash, January 12.— Under direct orders from President Roosevelt to continue until their quarry is found, Federal Bureau of In- vestigation agents pushed their hunt today for Charles Mattson's kidnap- slayer. The United States Department of | Justice offered a reward of $10,000 for arrest of the depraved killer and two Washington State authorities stepped aside to allow the agents free rein. Grim G-Men echoed the President's ‘instructlom to enlist “every means at our command” to capture and punish the perpetrator of this ghastly crime,” with the war-cry: “Get the kidnaper at all costs.” From a secret autopsy over the | broken, frozen little body found im | snow-covered woods yesterday, Justice Department men and physicians sought evidence to place a noose about the neck of the savage slayer who spurned Dr. W. W. Mattson’s efforts to deliver the demanded $28,000 ran= som. Officers had before them a mental picture of the kidnaper, given them by three playmstes who saw the boy | taken from his home the night of December 27. Fugitive Is Described. The children described the fugitive as about 45 years old, five feet 7 or 8 inches tall, weighing 145 pounds, swarthy complexioned and possibly left handed. At the time of the kid- naping he wore trousers, a blue slide= fastener jacket and a light tan check- ered cap, and had several days' growth of beard. He carried a blue sfeel | pistol. | With the undisclosed results of the | autopsy known only to them, the corps | of Federal agents here meanwhile | moved silently against the Nation's public enemy number one. Harold Nathan, assistant chief of the bureau, did not divulge whether the autopsy | had disclosed the exact cause or time | of death. | Although no statement was forth- coming, it was known the agents relied | chiefly on bits of evidence—the ransom | note left behind by the man who ab- | ducted Charles from the home of Dr. W. W. Mattson here December 27, impressions of footprints and tire tracks in the snow where a young | hunter fourd the body, a few finger- prints and the description given by the three children as chief means of track- | ing down the killer. One official, but unquotable source, | asserted none of the Federal agents, State police and local officers had a single new clue of importance to fol- low today. County Coroners Inactive. | _ Meanwhile, Coroner T. H. Long of | Pierce County (Tacoma) and Stowell | Challacombe of Snohomish County | (Everett) announced they planned no inquest in the boy’s death. Their action indicated the kidnaper, if cap- | tured, will be tried under either the | state or Federal kidnaping statutes rather than on a murder charge. Either abduction law would allow prosecutors to seek a death penalty. Although the Federal agents were in charge of the case, State and local officers continued their independent searches. Near Everett, Wash., State patrol- men said they were investigating two mysterious automobiles seen in the area Sunday night, when the boy’s body was believed to have been dumped on its last hiding place. Coroner’s reports indicated Charles (See KIDNAPING, Page A-4.) 40 THROWN INTO RIVER WHEN WALK COLLAPSES | Bection of Promenade Des Anglais at Nice, France, Is Under- mined. By the Associated Press. NICE, France, January 12.—Forty persons, including a number of wom- en, were thrown into the Paillon River when a section of the Promenade des Anglais, concrete walk along the Mediterranean, collapsed today. The collapse was caused by shifting of the river bottom, which undermined the 's supports,