Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, not so cold, possibly light rain or snow tonight; tomorrow fair, colder in the afternoon; minimum temperature to- night about 33 degrees. Temperatures— Highest, 36, at 3:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest 21, at 5 a.m. today. Full report page B-13. Closing New York Markets, Page 16 85th YEAR. No. 33,882 Entered as second class matter 00, post office, Washington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, D. G. M. C. MOVES TO EJECT STRIKERS FROM PLANTS:; PEACE PARLEY RESUMED 2 | | Writ Prepared~ to End Siege | at Flint. 500 “RESERVES” AREMOBILIZED The United Automobile Workers of POli('e (:hi(‘f Denies America, locked in strike against - ] [AA LY General Motors Corp. today appealed | Union “Pact” Is | sor suffcient funds to finasve » strug. | Ended. gle “until the flag of surrender is hoist- J‘ed by General Motors.” | The appeal is addressed to all! officers and members of international BULLETIN. unions, central labor unions and State FLINT, Mich,, February 4 (P)— federations of labor, a call broad Roy E. Brownell. attorney for Gen- ' enough to take in virtually every eral Motors, said t fterncon union member in the country, re- that “I belicve the union will ask | gardless of occupation. Although no its men to the plants here peaceably i anounced that he would defer for a writ requiring t U.AW. Ask Cash To Finance ‘W ar’ On Motor Firm | | | | | Appeadl to All Labor Units to Join in Fightto Finish. BY JOHN C. HENRY. figure is given as an objective, the ' terms of the appeal and the " (Sce LABOR. Page A-4) = By the Assocta s FLINT, February 4.—Gen- Murphy Urges Temporary Truce. THIRD PARLEY IS CONVENED Secrecy Surrounds Session, But Peace Hopes Grow. BACKGROUND— United Auto Workers' eight-point strike goal included a national con=- jerence with G. M. C, on collective bargaining, a 40-hour week and an “American standard” minimum wage. General Motors said it would rec- ognize mo union as sole bargaining agency, it would continue the 40- hour week and would pay highest possible wages—but would not ne- LEVEE DEFENDERS |Quarter-Inch Recession Is | [WATCH ALONG DIKES WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION C.,, THURSDAY, OHIO RIVER DROP ENCOURAGES CAIRO First Since Water Reached | Flood Stage. WILL NOT BE RELAXED | | | Wide Spread of Water Will Re- main 12 or 13 Days, Army Engineer Predicts. B3 the Associated Press. CAIRO, Ill, February 4 —The Ohio | | River's menacing grasp on Cairo's staunch seg wall slipped today by a pitifully small margain—2-100 of a foot — but the meager recession strengthened the city’s claim of victory in its fight against inundation. | Blasting open of the Birds Point- New Madrid, Mo., floodway cut down | the Ohio's stage at one point during | its threatening rise, but today's fall was the first from natural causes since the river went over the flood level. drop of approximately one- quarter of an inch came in 1'. hours. The river then clung to a 59.60-foot ' HORATIUS AT THE BRIDGE! ¢ Foening Star FEBRUARY 4, 1937 —IFORTY-SIX PAGES.*%¥* The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 143,110 (Some rsturns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. () Means Associated Press. RACING MEASURE URGED BY HOUSE D. C. COMMITTEE Two Absentee Votes Put Over Favorable Report for Norton Bill. (HEATED CONTROVERSY PRECEDES BALLOTING Chairman Not to Call Up Proposal to Legalize Horse Meets Next D. C. Day, However. BY JAMES E. CHINN. With the aid of two absentee votes, the House District Committee today favorably reported the Norton bill to legalize horse racing in the District. The action was taken at a special meeting when sudden and unexpected | opposition developed and for a time threatened to kill the measure in com- | mittee. The bill, however, was approved by the narrow margin of 10 to 8, counte ing the absentee ballots of Repree sentatives Kennedy of Maryland and Cinderella Quits Nichols of Oklahoma, both Democrats. The absentee votes went unchallenged and the 10-to-8 ballot automatically became official. TINKHAM SEEKS eral Motors Corp. prepared today to stage, less than 6 inches from set machin of the law in motion to eject s om two plants they continued o o d ce of a while 2 Chief announced he was nent of several hun- rve police.” ‘nell, attorney for Gen- announced that a writ . requiring the ejection uld be filed between (Eastern standard of attachm of the strik 2 and 3 o'cl time) this afternoon. Enforceme: Id devolve upon MURDER BLANED ON “NIGHTHAWK" Suspect in Kidnap-Killing of gotiate at all while sit-downers held its plants. Michigan courts Tuesday granted an injunction ordering the strikers out of the plants, but the unionists refused to evacuate. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, February 4.—Gov. Frank Murphy today resumed his efforts to | find a basis for solution of the General Doctor Says He Only Wrote Note. | Motors strike as he called to the con- | ference table again representatives of | the motor firm and the United Auto- mobile Workers of America. Sheriff Thomas W. Wolcott, who had BY the Associated Press. refused to attempt forcible ejection KANSAS CITY, February 4—A of the men without such an order. saunt young Ozark farmhand charged Denics Truce Violated. with _first-degree murder in the kid- Police Chief Wills said his “enlist- nap-killing of Dr. J. C. B. Davis in- ment” of “reserve police” did not con- Sisted today the vear-old country stitute & violation of a non-violence ' Physician was abducted and slain by truce reached last midnight between |a mysterious hill country acquaintances city authorities and the United Auto- he dubbed “Nighthawk.” mobile Workers of America. The slim 20-year-old The chief said he was not mobiliz- | Robert Kenyon, who led officers to prisoner, The third meeting of the conferces summoned at “the wish of the Presi- dent of the United States,” assembled in the chambers of Recorder’s Judge George Murphy, a brother of the Gov- ernor, in the Municipal Courts Build- ing. It was in the same room that the Governor, William S. Knudsen, execu- tive vice president of General Motors; fre the top of the concrete sea wall. An emergency bulkhead of timbers and earth stood 3 feet higher. There was no relaxing in the vigi- lant watch of the city's flood fighters. Their guard against disaster along the levee may last 12 days or more. Veteran Government Forecaster W. E. Barron said the Ohio’s stage will remain high for an indefinite period Col. R. G. Powell, chief of the Army Engineers’ Ohio River division. ex- plained. “The river is spread out over so much territory that the present flood stage may be here for 12 to 13 days.” €old Weather Forecast. Meanwhile, the Weather Bureau ig ashington forecast colder tonight the flooded lower Ohio and Mississippi River Basins. Tempera- tures may drop to 10 or 12 degrees above zero. Another day of dredging brought five more levee workers’ bodies from W, | for ing his “reserves” but instructing the doctor's bullet-torn body in a ' John L. Lewis, head of the C. I O.; ‘the spillway downstream in Southeast- them to remain on call for duty ai thicket near Willow Springs, Mo., yes- any hour to “maintain law and order.” terday He said he expected to appoint 100 that “Nighthawk” forced him to write men by nightfall, but that they would and mail a ransom note. be instructed to remain in their homes Held in solitary confinement here until—and unless—needed. for safe keeping before his arraign- “If the situation gets out of hand.| ment, Kenyon said he never had seen I will have no hesitation in using | the doctor, Willow 3prings civic leader, | them,” he said. “Those who do not | whose kidnaper spurned family offers possess arms will be supplied with to pay a demanded $5.000 ransom. weapons. The men are beinz selected ' Garbed in oversized coveralls and carefully and all will be men who munching hungrily a meal of scram- have the lezitimate interests of the bled eggs and bacon, the youth city at heart.” (Sec “NIGHT HAWK,” Page A-2 He declared there was no connection between his enlistment of “reserves” and any attempt to evacuate the striker-held Fisher plants. That evacuation, he said, is “up to sheriff.” Sheriff Wolcott declined to discuss Homer Martin, U. A. W. A. president, Motors counsel conferred for more than eight hours in two sessions yes- terday. As yesterday, the chambers were closely guarded by city and State police. Joining the conference today were Lee Pressman, C. I. O. attorney, and Donaldson Brown, financial officer of General Motors. Before the third session of the joint conference began the union and cor- poration representatives engaged in separate discussions in the court room. It was learned authoritatively that Gov. Murphy was seeking to arrange a truce period during which final settlement negotiations might be car- ried on. These sources indicated that final solution of the strikes was not ern Missouri, raising to 20 the death v clung stubbornly to his alibi and John Thomas Smith of General o] of a Saturday night barge accident. The spillway was flooded on purpose, to make room for water the Ohio dumps into the Mississippi here, esti- mated by the engineers at 2,050,000 feet & second—more than 12 times the | normal flow over Niagara Falls. Where the river folk once clustered | on the levee to study the rise, they gathered and watched for the barge to come from the grappling scene. possibly with more bodies. Ten men | still were unaccounted for today. | Col. E. C. Kelton said the last five bodies recovered were those of A. R. Matthews, W. M. Tyler, Don Pruitt, | Harry Sanders and Frank Lambert. | ! Still missing were William Faulks, ! James Tyler, Eugene Tyler, Clary PeelingPotatoes; She Has $600,000 MATTSON SUSPECT | Man Held in Auburn‘ Wash“ } ary 4.—Overjoyed by the news she has 4 i inherited a $600,000 fortune, 18-year- Hangs Himself in |old Lillian Ellison, “Cinderella of DIRECTED VERDICT Counsel Charges Cannon The vote on the measure was pre- ceded by a heated discussion partici- pated in by Representatives Dirksen, Republican, of Illinois; Schulte, Democrat, Indiana: Hull, Progrese sive, of Wisconsin, and Bates, Re= publican, of Massachusetts. Bates declared after the result of the vote was announced, he would file a mi- nority report. Jail Cell. s the Associated Press. AUBURN, Wash, February 4.— | John F. Johnson, 40. held since Fri- day for investigation in connection with the Charles Mattson kidnap- slaying, was found strangled to death in his city jail cell today. Police Chief Ed Norris found the body lying on the cell floor, a belt attached to the cot and around the man’s neck. Other prisoners, in a ‘bullpen” nearby said they heard no struggling or outcries during the night. | Night Jailer Charles Ludwig said he talked to Johnson about 11 o'clock last night and the man appeared despondent. even after Ludwig said he might be released today. Johnson was arrested in the “hobo jungles” here Friday after some of the 100 other transients complained to police the man acted queerly and they thought he might know something about the Tacoma kidnaping. He de- nied all knowledge of the affair, but officers sent his fingerprints and handwriting samples to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Johnson had lived on the Tacoma tideflats since 1927. He had no known | the wash tubs,” dressed in her pret- tiest today and went to New York. | For part of the day. at le was relieved of the onerous peeling potatoes and onions and her other domestic chores in the home of Mrs. Herbert L. Wedye. w she was going to do in New York, whom she was going to see and other details of her trip she kept secre Nor would she say definitely whether she is quitting her job. The blond little immigrant girl in- herited the money from her father in Norway, whose home she left last | vear to seek her own fortune in the United States. In the same message that told of her father’s death came word that her stepmother had also died, reputed- lv heartbroken because no share had OEFENGY B IN CONFERENGE | Probe of Relief Asked in First Roll Call in Years. roll call vote on the bill—the one taken since the crime re- was before the committee seve Admitted Truth of Allegedly | Libelous Statement. | 4 Charging that Bishop James Can- | Port non, jr., has admitted the truth of an €ral allegedly libelous statement by Rep- resentative George H. Tinkham, Re- publican, of Massachusetts, and that the bishop “anyway is more interested in damages than his reputation,” counsel for Tinkham today asked Jus- tice Jennings Bailey in District Court for a directed verdict in favor of his client. The defense motion in Cannon's long-drawn-out $500,000 libel suit fol- lowed a brief appearance of Repre- sentative Tinkham as a “hostile” wit- ness for Bishop Cannon. The plain- tiff’s attorneys, in a sharp cross- examination, had made an unsuccess- ful attempt to obtain from Tinkham detailed information about an al- leged statement to the press in No- vember, 1930. Cannon’s attorneys concluded the presentation of their case this morn- ing after also questioning Tinkham’s secretary, Miss Grace C. Hamelin, about the alleged press statement. Like her employer, she said she had no recollection of it. Testimony by McNinch. Robert H. McNeill, attorney for Cannon, earlier had read to the jury testimony by Frank R. McNinch, years ago—was demanded by Hull. It follows: | For—Representatives, Schulte, Pale misano of Maryland, Wood of Mis= | souri, Arnold of Michigan, Allen of | Delaware, Norton of New Jersey, Nichols of Oklahoma and Kennedy of Maryland, all Democrats, and Short of Missouri and Dirksen, Republicans, Against: Representatives Jenckes of Indiana, Quinn of Pennsylvania and McGeehee of Mississippi, Democrats, and Cole of New York, Bates, Shafer of Michigan and Brewster of Maine, | Republicans, and Hull. As a result of the committee action, the bill will be rushed to the House | calendar, but Chairman Norton an- | nounced it would not be called up for | consideration Monday, the next Dis- | trict day in the House. | Just prior to the vote, Bates vigor- ously condemned legalized horse rac- ing, basing his opposition on experi- ences with race tracks in his native Massachusetts. “We have had some sad experiences in Massachusetts with the race track situation,” he declared. “Racing has turned into a racket. Free tickets have been sent out by the thousands to children to attend the races. We chairman of the Federal Power Com- Dave seen the defalcations of public mission, from the transcript of Bishop ©fficials. I am not going to encourage Cannon’s trial some years ago on acing with my vote.” | charges of conspiracy to violate the Minors Would Be Excluded. Senate—Appropriation of $50,000 Sought. May, Bob McFadden, James F. Ruffin, elatives. Crawford Shannon, Albert Neal, | Raney Smith and James Wilson. SHIPS SEIZURE SEEN IN CLAIMS DISPUTE his plans for rni{grlc[m;c zliz;lc:;m of = a subject under discussion. he situation over when Oerman Secret Police Still Hold Actual trend of the conversations was a closely guarded secret. Neither | it arises and then decide.” he said Capt. Phil Pack. National Guard press officer. said that if the writ of attachment should issue, and if the President of Red Star, Bern- stein Lines. B the Assoctated Press. | Gov. Murphy nor representatives of | the opposing sides would discuss the progress of the conferences. With the Mississippi holding a level about stationary, more than 3 feet be- low the top of the 51-foot levee at BY the Associated Press. WOMAN, 71, BEATEN a ; BY HOTEL INVADER rcincs ‘b o conterence: beaveen One official close to the conferees | New Madrid, Mo, that area’s batlle | sheriff should report that he was un- able to serve it. Judge Paul V. Gadola the Red Star and Bernstein Lines’ could call upon the National Guard ships abroad to satisfy American to enforce it. claims against the companies appeared He said he was informed the troops a possibility today unless the German would act if requested by Judge Ga- secret police release Arnold Bernstein, dola, who issued the injunction and the companies’ president, to operate from whom the writ of attachment the lines. will be sought. Bernstein and two associates were The 125th Regiment already is held by the Gestapo—secret police— patrolling the area surrounding Fisher ' at Hamburg, but friends were given plant No. 2 because of violence that hope they might be freed tonight. occurred Monday at the nearby Chev- | The three were kept in custody after | rolet Motor Co. plant. There are no|a conference Tuesday Wwith repre- troops in the vicinity of Fisher plant | sentatives of their American creditors, No. 1. | although Bernstein was allowed t6| Murphy's Attitude. communicate with friends. Gov. Frank Murphy, in conference | Representatives of the American in- with high officials of General Motors | terests said they had been told by and labor in Detroit, has not indi- | police who escorted Bernstein to the cated what his attitude would be | conference the men were free. How- | ment that “there shall be no talkin Observers expressed belief the aues- STUDENT, 19, TAKEN IN EXTORTION CASE Alabama Sophomore, Accused of Trying to Get $7,000 From Woman. E¥ the Associated Press. J. Edgar Hoover said today Federal agents had arrested Sidney L. Rey- nolds, 19-year-old Alabama University sophomore, on charges of attempting toward any request by the judge for use of the troops to evacuate the | plants. Roy Reuther, United Automobile Workers organizer, who was a party to the non-violence agreement reached last night, talked with Chief Wills | today about the enlistment of “re- serves” and said he was “satisfied” that the chief’s activity did not violate the agreement. Chief Wills said that “Flint wants no repetition of the Herrin (Ill.) mas- sacre,” and that “all we want is a force available capable of coping with any emergency.” Labor Victory InG.M.C.Strike Seenby Johnson BY the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn., February 4.— Geh. Hugh S. Johnson believes the General Motors sit-down strike “the biggest thing in its implications since the Civil War.” The former administrator of the N. R. A, addressing students and faculty members in the lounge of Saybrook College at Yale last night, expressed the opinion the strikers would win, Of John L, Lewis, Johnson said, “He's a swell guy, but when he's in a fight, he fights with everything he's got.” “If Lewis wins there won't be a atring of little strikes following, but it he doesn’t—oh baby.” ‘The speaker said labor problems are not confined to the United States alone, but exist everywhere. The general said he hoped there “was no danger to the Supreme Court, ‘cause you've got to have that control over Congress.” Asked about the power of the court in regulating wages, Johnson said the court would “assert its power in regu- lating wages within the States.” “Something's got to be done or else you're going to have a revolution, and I'm not being sentimental.” | & ever, it was learned today they still | were in custody. The threat by the American creditors to seize the ships was understood to | have been the reason the secret police | hurried Bernstein and his associates to the Hamburg conference. The American representatives said they had been unable to find any def- inite charges against the trio, but as- sumed the Gestapo were working on the theory of violations of Germany's stringent foreign exchange laws. Drowned Under Lake Ice. MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich., Feb- ruary 4 (A).—Lloyd St. Louis, 30-year- old Mackinac Island trucker, drowned yesterday while attempting to cross thin ice with a dog team to meet the mailboat Chief, which came out from St. Ignace. Coast Guardsmen searched for sev- eral hours last night before they found to extort $7,000 from Mrs, H. D. War- ner, wife of a Tuscaloosa, Ala., paper manufacturer. Hoover, director of the Federal Bu- reap of Investigation, said Reynolds was arrested by Justice Department agents and local police officers early today and that he had admitted writ- | ing three letters threatening harm to | Mrs. Warner. The first letter was mailed last Thursday at Tuscoloosa, Hoover said, and demanded $6,000. A second letter was mailed last Saturday demanding $7,000, the director said, and yesterday Mrs. Warner received a third letter specifying that the money was to be paid a messenger. At 8 p.m. last night Federal agents stopped a messenger who said he had been hired by an unknown white man to pick up a suit case and meet him at a church. The extortionist, how- ever, failed to keep the rendezvous. a hole in the ice a mile off shore from the island and recovered St. Louis’ body. There was no { ‘ace of the dogs or the sledload of mail St. Louls was | the letters to get money “to aid his | Roosevelt under contract to deliver. Hoover did not disclose what clues had led Federal agents to Reynolds, but said the youth admitted writing family.” Star Will Receive Funds for Red Cross Flood Relief The Evening Star will assist the American Red Cross in raising the immense fund necessary to care for the thousands of sick and homeless in the Ohio-Mississippi flood area. Although the District of Columbia has far exceeded its quota of $120,000 the National Headquarters has made this announce- ment: “Impossible now name final goal for funds; only limit Red Cross assistance must be maximum generosity American people; raise promptly largest possible amount.” The Star will receive and acknowledge in its columns con- tributions of Washingtonians. Make g¢hecks payable to District Chapter, American Red Cross, for “to the cashier, The Evening Star. Those who desire to submit American Red Cross may send or deliver cash flood relief. Bring or mail them their contributions directly to the or checks to the District Chapter, American Red Cross, 1730 E street. BERLIN, February 4.—Seizure of said there had been a definite agree- 28ainst inundation resolved into a lookout for leaks or breaks. A radio network was set up to speed warnings. In ever-cautlous Cairo some levee | | patrols were transferred to the Mis- sissippi side. “It is Cairo's back door,” " (See FLOOD, Page A-5) | | PLANT T0 BE SEIZED France Acts to Check Delays in Delivery of Planes. PARIS, February 4 (#).—The Mo- rane-Saulnier airplane factory outside Paris will be taken over by the gov- ernment, Air Minister Pierre Cot an- nounced today, because ¢f “inadmis- | sible delays in delivery of planes for the air force.” Summary of Page. | Amusements C-12 | Puzzles ... Comics ... C-7|Radio Editorial .. A-8 | Short Story- Financial .. A-15 | Society . Lost & Found A-3 | Sports ... C-1-3 Obituary .. A-10 | Woman'sPg. C-5 FOREIGN. Fascists launch land, sea, air attack on Malaga. Page A-1 Hot battle rages for possession of Malaga port. Page A-2 NATIONAL. Deficiency bill in conference; relief probe sought. Page A-1 Cairo levee defenders encouraged by drop in Ohio River. Page A-1 G. M. C. moves to eject strikers from plants. Page A-1 seeks long-range plan against drought. Page A-2 40,000 maritime strikers await sum- mons back to work. Page A-2 Navy bombers prepare for flight to France Field, Panama. Page A-2 First supply bill passed, House debates trade treaties. Page B-6 17,943,000 workers now under job insurance. Page A-16 Government may require new radio equipment for air lines. Page B-6 Baruch warns against embargo legis- lative provisions. Page B-6 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Tinkham attorneys ask directed ver- dict in Cannon suit. Page A-1 Two absentee votes utilized to report D. C. racing bill. Page A-1 Public school patriotism teaching outlined. Page A-4 ‘Woman’s blood-stained coat furnishes - Virginia officers mystery. Page A-4 ‘Witnesses say dredging is only course to stop Patuxent floods. Page A-5 Long-range plans for Washington area involve millions. Page A-71 Senate puts D. C. reorganization be- fore fiscal study. Page B-1 1 Page. | Brick Found Near Unconscious Body Discovered in Chair in Los Angeles. BY the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 4.— Beaten by a mysterious assailant in her hotel room Tuesday, Mrs. Elizabeth Ries, 71-year-old Ohio tourist, was near death today from a skull fracture. Employes found her seated uncon- scious in a chair. A blood-stained brick lay on the bed and marks on the window sill showed an entrance had been made from the fire escape. Mrs. Ries registered December 29. A paper in her luggage was addressed 559 Patterson avenue, Akron, Ohio. Today’s Star Collins pushes plan for new Jefferson High School. Page B-1 Mrs. Roosevelt praises advances at Girls’ Training School. Page B-1 Marriage clause hearings are to be started soon. Page B-1 House to consider auditorium bill late tomorrow. Page B-1 Marked gain shown in D. C. income tax area. Page B-1 FINANCIAL. Bond changes slight (table). Page A-15 Stocks dull after rise (table). Page A-16 Curb list narrow (table). Page A-17 Bank clearings climb. Page A-17 Republic Steel merger talked. Page A-17 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. ‘This and That. Page Answers to Questions. Page Political Mill. Page Stars, Men and Atoms. Page David Lawrence. Page Paul Mallon. Page Mark Sullivan. Page De Witt MacKenzie. Page Headline Folk. Page SPORTS. Luxuries' are softening ball players, old-timers opine. Page C-1 Hagen likes British plan of speedily shrinking golf fields. Page C-1 Milers to go after mark in Wanamaker event Saturday. Page C-2 Invitation affair to open Woodmont golf tourney campaign. Page C-3 MISCELLANY. ‘Washington Wayside. Vital Statistics. Traffic Convictions. Young Washington. City News in Brief. Nature’s Children. Bedtime Story. Betsy Caswell, Dorothy Dix. After Dark. Page Page A-2 B-9 Cc-8 C-4 C-4 C-6 C-6 Page B-9 | the Senate and the House, a move- | ment for investigation of unemploy- ment and relief today made headway in Congress. Senators Hatch, Democrat, of New | Mexico, and Murray, Democrat, of Montana, proposed a $50.000 appro- | | priation to finance studies by a special | commission on which to base a long- range attack on both problems. The Senate Education Committee | recommended a $10,000 appropria- | | tion for a Senate investigation along | the same lines requested by Hatch | previously. | The objective won support before | passage of the relief bill in the Senate yesterday from Senators Vandenberg, | Republican, of Michigan; Connally, | Democrat, of Texas; Schwellenbach, | | Democrat, of Washington, and others. | Commission Favored. Hatch believed the investigation could best be handled by a commis- sion of “well qualified and distin- guished citizens,” clothed with broad | powers to dig into almost every phase | of the national economy. | Their survey would cover the extent | and cause of unemployment, the rela- tive merits of work relief and direct relief, the division of the relief burden between public and charitable organi- zations, and between Federal and local governments, and “a general program looking to the liquidation of the entire relief problem.” Hatch advocated questioning of former N. R. A. officials, to discover “what effect N. R. A, really had on employment and how much idleness has increased since its invalidation.” The Senate today took the day off, after passage of the relief bill late yes- terday. ‘The measure, awaited to provide (See DEFICIENCY, Page A-6.) : Nice Ousts Garey Of Maryland State Police | By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, February 4.—Gov. Harry W. Nice today ousted Maj. Enoch Barton Garey as superintend- ent of State police on the ground that Garey is “temperamentally unfitted” for that position. The Governor announced he will name Lieut. Col. Elmer F. Munshower, 51-year-old World War veteran, Na- tional Guard officer, and former Mayor of Frederick, to succeed Maj. Garey, subject to the confirmation of the State Senate. State House sources said the Gov- ernor did not reach his decision to drop Garey until the last 48 hours. He had until tomorrow to determine his course, since, at that time, the law required him to send to the Senate a list of appointments made by him during the legislative recess. ‘cnnupt practices act. At this trial, which resulted in the bishop’s acquit- tal, McNinch testified that as chair- man of the anti-Smith Democrats in The Norton bill specifically exe cludes all persons under 21 from at- tending the races here. Dirksen explained that a so-called North Carolina in 1928 he received | “joker” in the bill, which several mem- from Bishop Cannon $5.000 from the | bers had questioned, was not a joker at anti-Smith campaign chest. all. The joker was believed to have Roger J. Whiteford, attorney for |'been a section which would exempt the ‘Tinkham, moved for a directed ver- | operator of g race track at Benning dict on two grounds, namely, that | from being affected by an act of Cone Cannon “invited and demanded” pub- | gress approved in May, 1908, provid lication by Tinkham of the statement | ing for widening of Benning road. he claims libeled him, and that he, Dirksen pointed out that a rider ate in his testimony by proxy during the | tached to that bill outlawed book- present trial, admitted Tinkham’s | Making in the District and that it charge in the statement that he | Would have ‘o be repealed in the racing (Bishop Cannon) had violated the | bill before horse racing could be legal- corrupt practices act in connection | i2ed again in the District. with the anti-Smith campaign con-| When the roll call on the initial tributions. | ballot was concluded the vote was & Whiteford cited numerous legal de- | 7-7 tie. Chairman Norton then cast cisions which, he contended, show a |# ballot in favor of the measure to person cannot collect damages for a | break the tie. She then announced libel which he invites. He pointed |that Kennedy and Nichols had re- out that after Representative Tink- ham had charged on the floor of (See CANNON, Page A-2.) $7,000 JEWELRY TAKEN Mrs. Ryerson, Wife of Retired Steel Magnate, Hold-up Victim. Joseph T. Ryerson, wife of the retired steel magnate, was robbed of jewelry valued at $7,000 last night by two gun= men who entered their automobile on the near North Side. The robbers forced their way into the Ryerson car when it stopped for a traffic signal. They ordered the chauf- feur to drive a few blocks, made Mrs. Ryerson hand over her jewelry and escaped. Mrs. Barrett Wendell, jr., who with her husband was returning from a Loop theater with the Ryersons, dropped valuable gems on the floor of the car. as Head Maj. Garey's appointment within this classification. The Governor’s announcement said: “After very serious consideration, I have definitely determined to send to the Senate the name of Lieut. Col. Elmer F. Munshower of Frederick as superintendent of the Maryland State police, and, in so doing, I am in no sense of the word casting any reflec- tions upon the integrity of Maj. Enoch B. Garey, a gentleman for whom I have the highest personal regard. “I am forced, however, to the con- clusion that, for that particular posi- tion, he is temperamentally unfitted.” An appointment to some other State department is in prospect for Maj. Garey, the Governor indicated, adding: “I am most anxious to retain his Bee og%:v,pm A2y was ’ CHICAGO, February 4 (#).—Mrs. | quested to be recorded as being in favor of the bill. That made the vote 10 to 7. A few seconds later, however, (See RACES, Page A-4.) 'FIGHT ON BUILDING ' REACHES ROOSEVELT Ickes Asks President Act to Bar Pan-American Union Construction. Carrying his fight against the Pan- { American Union to the White House, Secretary Ickes disclosed today he has | appealed to President Roosevelt to in- | tercede in his behalf to prevent the | union from erecting its annex on Con- | stitution avenue directly opposite the main entrance of the new Interior Department Building. Knowing Mr. Roosevelt’s personal interest in the matter, he appealed to the President yesterday, he said, from the decision of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission favor- ing the proposed location of the annex. “I never quote the President,” Ickes said, but reminded that last year Mr. Roosevelt had blocked the Pan-Amer- ican Union's attempt to build on this same site. Unless the President acts, there is nothing further Ickes can do beyond pressing legislation reimbursing the Pan-American Union $70,000 by lo- cating the annex on the union’s own ground. Court Clerk Acquitted. CHICAGO, February 4 (#).—Frank V. Zintak, former Superior Court clerk charged with embezzling $10,500 of public funds, won an acquittal last night in kis second trial. A Criminal Court jury reached a verdict after de- liberating six hours. Zintak was indicted on five embez- zlement charges after an audit of his accounts disclosed an alleged shortage of $26,500. His first trial ended in a jury deadlock last December 10, - g