Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair, colder tonight; minimum tem- perature about 18 degrees; tomorrow fair, not quite so cold; moderate northwest and west winds. Temperatures—Highest, 35, at 4:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 29, at 5:15 a.m. today. Full report Page A-19. Late New York Markets, Page 18 85th YEAR. No. 33,883. Entered as second cl: matter post office, Washing! D. C. ah ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Star WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1937—FORTY-FIGHT PAGES. %% The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 143,412 (8ome returns not yet received.) (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. PRESIDENT ASKS UP TO 15 IN HIGH -COURT COMPLETE OVERHAULING OF JUDICIARY PROPOSED IN NOTE TO CONGRESS No Words Are Minced on Justices. DRAFT OF BILL SENT CAPITOL Two Alternatives) Held of Dubious Wisdom. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. In his most sensational mes-i sage to Congress, President Roosevelt today proposed enact- | ment of a law which would per- | mit an increase up to 15 members in the size of the Supreme Court of the United States. | The President’s appeal to Con- | gress was for a complete reor- ganization of the judiciary—as he has recently proposed a re- organization of the executive | branch of the Government. Primarily, the President based his plea on the need of better | and more speedy justice. Un-| derlying and entirely apparent was the President’s determina- tion to obtain what he asked for in his annual message to Con- gress—more liberal interpreta- tion of the Constitution by the judiciary. The President did not mince words in speaking of superannuated judges. Sees Two Alternatives. The alternatives, he indicated, if the law he asked were not enacted, were either amendments to the Constitu- tion or measures curtailing the power | of the courts, “‘changes which involve consequences so far-reaching as to cause uncertainty as to the wisdom of such course.” Mr. Roosevelt sent to Congress the draft of a bill embodying his ideas of judiciary reorganization, and aiso 8 letter from Attorney General Cum- mings, setting forth the great need | for additional Federal judges. The bill, the President said at his press conference today, was intended only as a suggestion to the legislators, who would have to put it into final shape. | Before sending his message to Con- | gress, the President went over it with the chairmen of the Senate and House | Judiciary Committees and other leaders. Not since the President’s well re- membered press conference after the invalidation by the Supreme Court of the national recovery act, when he likened the court's interpretation of the Constitution to “horse and | buggy days,” has he hit out so dras- tically at the judiciary. Included in the President’s recom- mendations also was more speedy reference of cases involving the con- &titutionality of laws to the Supreme Court. The first paragraph of the draft &ent to Congress provides that when | any judge of a court of the United | States has attained the ‘age of 70 years and has held a commission as | Judge for at least 10 years, and with- | in six months thereafter, has not re- | signed or retired, the President shall | appoint an additional judge to that court. | The second paragraph limits the | number of such additional appoint- ments, so the Supreme Court would not exceed 15 members. | The total number of Federal judges | s0 appointed is limited to 50. Not | more than two additional judges may | be so appointed to a Circuit Court of Appeals, the Court of Claims, the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, or the Customs Court and not more than twice the number “(Continued on Page 4, Column 7.) IS RULED LAWFUL No Regulation to Prevent Speech by Telephone to New York, Is Finding. BY the Associated Press. The State Department disclosed to- day it had made inquiries concerning Leon Trotzky's proposed telephone address to New York next Tuesday and found that this Government had no law to prevent it. The department acted after receipt ©of news that arrangements had been made for the exiled Bolshevik leader to address an anti-Stalinist meeting in New York for one hour over the telephone from Mexico City. In what was described as & routine step, officials asked legal experts of the Communications Commission if ‘Trotzky’s speech would violate any ex- isting law. They were told by com- mission representatives that it would not. It was stated officially that this Government considers the matter a strictly domestic affair of the Mexi- can government so far as Trouzky’s actual speech was concerned and rhat the State Department contemplates no communication to Mexico City o] 4the subject. g * Message on Judiciary Speedier Justice Objective in Suggestion of President for Larger Personnel in Federal The text of President Roosevelt's message to Congress on judiciary re- forms follows: To the Congress of the United States: I have recently called the atten- tion of the Congress to the clear need for a comprehensive program to reorganize the administrative machinery of the executive branch of our Government. I now make a similar recommendation to the Congress in regard to the judicial branch of the Government, in order that it also may function in accord with modern necessities. The Constitution provides that the President “shall from time to time give the Congress information of the state of the Union and rec- ommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge neces- sary and expedient.” No one else is given a similar mandate. It is therefore the duty of the President to advise the Congress in regard to the judiciary whenever he deems such information or recommenda- tion necessary. I address you for the further rea- son that the Constitution vests in the Congress direct responsibility in the creation of courts and judicial offices and in the formulation of rules of practice and procedure. It is, therefore, one of the definite Courts. duties of the Congress constantly to maintain the effective function- ing of the Federal judiciary. The judiclary has often found itself handicapped by insufficient personnel with which to meet a growing and more complex busi- ness. It is true that the physical facilities of conducting the business of the courts have been greatly improved in recent years through the erection of suitable quarters, the provision of adequate libraries and the addition of subordinate court officers. But in many ways these are merely the trappings of judicial office. They play a minor part in the processes of justice. Since the earliest days of the Re- public the problem of the personnel of the courts has needed the atten- tion of the Congress. For example, from the beginning, over repeated protests to President Washington, the justices of the Supreme Court were required to “ride circuit” and, as circuit justices, to hold trials throughout the length and breadth of the land—a practice which en- dured over a century. In almost every decade since 1789 changes have been made by the Congress whereby the numbers of judges and the duties of judges in (Continued on Page 4, Column 2. REPORT ANALYZES ISCALRELATION Fine Arts Body Advises U. S. | Supply Needed Funds Each Year. The Fine Arts Commission, in its twelfth report made public today, indicated the true solution of the fiscal relations problem here is for | Congress to appropriate annually the | necessary sum ‘“to provide for thor- oughly adequate support and develop- | ment of our National Capital, leaving to be raised by taxation such amounts | as in fairness the property owners within the District should pay.” Pointing out that Washington as | the Capital City, “belongs to the peo- ple of the United States,” the report said: “It seems necessary to lay stress on this question of constitutional ju-| | risdiction because of antagonisms which in recent years have repeated- ly flared up vigorously between Con- gress and that nebulous entity, the District of Columbia. It is often as- sumed that the Government is a sort | of tenant-at-will in the present ‘7 | miles square’ and has the right to | command improvements for its com- fort, convenience and enjoyment at the expense of the District. Is not the statement true that Congress, acting for the people of the United States, is the sole responsible ruler of the seat of goverinment and is accountable to the people for the administration of its affairs, and also for its development as the seat of government of a great and powerful Nation? “For administrative purposes, Con- gress has created a municipal govern- ment, as it has created a Department of State or the Treasury. Congress holds the purse strings and specifies the powers to be exercised by the local administrative officers. Also Congress provides for raising the revenues for its support. In the case of private property, should not revenues be based on the protection given and privi- leges accorded to those who elect to live within the jurisdiction exercised | by Congress? “No other theory is consistent with the continued development of Wash- ington along the lines predestined from the beginning. Those lines were | marked out by Washington and Jef- ferson, who provided for the Federal City a plan so comprehensive and 8o (See FISCAL, Page A-5.) 25 NEW BUSGES - TOCOMBAT GASES {Greater Acceleration Also Hoped For—Number of Vehicles to Be Cut. Combination gasoline-electric motor | busses will be placed in the service of | the Capital Transit Co., under permis- sion granted today by the Public Util- ities Commission. in the hope they may reduce obnoxious gases and pro- vide greater acceleration. The four new type busses will be included among 25 due to be delivered here by May 15, all of which are to be used as replacements for existing old rolling stock. The total cost was placed at $284,900. ‘The gasoline-electric busses, which will be an innovation in Washington transportation service, consist of a gasoline motor which generates elec- tric power used in bus operation. The company advised the commis- sion such types of busses have been used in Baltimore and Brooklyn and said its investigation showed their operation to be satisfactory. Describing the type to the commis- sion, Fred A. Sager, commission chief engineer, said: “While the bus costs $1,600 more than the straight gas bus and weighs 1,900 pounds more, I recommend ap- proval of this purchase. “The use of the gas-electric bus (See BUSSES, Page A-2) CASH FORTUNE FOUND IN HOVEL OVER $50,000 Last $5,000 Discovered by Detec- tive—Self-Starved Widow in Hospital. By the Associated Press. SPOKANE, Wash., February 5.—The fortune in currency found in hidden cans and shoe boxes in the hovel of Mrs. Anna Miller mounted above $50,- 000 today while the self-starved widow was cared for in a hospital psycho- pathic ward. The last $5,000 was found by a de- tective, who peered through cobwebs into the back corner of a cupboard in the three-room home the aged widow shared with chickens and cats. Offi- cers said hidden recesses of the dirty cottage propably contain more hoard- ed money. Il and Homesick for Italy, Mother Dies; Note Is Found Disillusionment and finally death were what Mrs. Bernardino Trucci found when she left her native Italy to begin & new life in the “land of opportunity” across the sea. For seven years Mrs. Trucei waited in Mola, Italy, while her husband worked and saved in America to get passage money for herself and their son. It was a long wait. She was 50 years old and her son Frank, jr., was 17 when the long-anticipated day ar- rived. The husband met them in New York and brought them to their new home in Washington. That was two months ago. Mrs. Trucci found she missed the home- land. Neither she nor her son could speak much English. Recently Mrs. Trucci complained of headaches and of homesickness for Italy. Her husband, however, had be- come an American citizen in 1929, and his work lay here. This morning Trucei was in_a downstairs apartment at his home/§i8 I street, when he heard a shot up- stairs. He ran up and found the door to his wife’s room locked. Trucci and his son burst in the door with their combined weight. They found Mrs, Trucci lying dead on the floor beside a .38-caliber revolver that Truccl had brought from Italy years ago. Mrs. Trucei had written a note in Italian which said, “Do not lock any- body up for this. I cannot stand this illness any longer. My brain is about to go out. I want to die.” ‘When the police arrived, Truccl was sitting on the floor with the body of his wife clasped in his arms. Father and son «sobbed forth the story in Italian and broken English with the aid of Italian friends who acted as interpreters. v Mrs. Trucei’s body was removed to the morgue. ‘The death was investigated by po- lice of the first precinct and Head- quarters Detectives Henry Jett and Mike Dowd. at Enzesfeld or in Vienna. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, February 5.—The Duke of Windsor plans to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson on April 27, at either the Enzesfeld Castle of Baron FEugene Rothschild or in Vienna, a usually | reliable source disclosed today. This is the exact date on which Mrs. Simpson’s divorce decree from Ernest Aldrich Simpson supposedly | will become final. The former British monarch wants his fiancee to arrive | in Vienna April 24. The informant added the wedding probably will be held at Enzesfeld be- cause the expenses there would be less | the duke must watch his pennies.” Windsor May Wed April 27; Pension Fight On than in the Austrian capital, “and | ury. NOW WASNT | THE SMART GUY T0 JUMP INTO in London Ceremony to Be Held Members of Parliament | Try to Prevent Rite by Funds Halt. EY ke Assoclated Pres:. LONDON, February 5.—Informed sources said today individual mem- bers of Parliament are attempting to prevent the marriage of the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Simpson by marshaling opposition to a proposed $125,000 annual allowance to former King Edward. One observer descrived the mem- | bers’ attitude this way: “If the duke holds to his decision to wed the American woman, for love of whom he renounced the throne, he must support her from his own funds without help from the British treas- 'l;he opposition has grown to the (See WEDDING, Page A-5.) (See PENSION, Page A-5.) BOND IS REFUSED TRADER'S WIDOW Samuel Leibowitz Enters Case, Offering to Defend Stockton Woman. By the Assoclated Press. SNOW HILL, Md, February 5— Judge James M. Crockett refused Mrs. Jeannette Trader freedom under bond today and remanded her to the Worcester County jail to await trial on a charge of murdering her husband, Clarence J. Trader, wealthy Stockton utilities operator. Pale and haggard, the 37-year-old widow came into court to enter a plea of not guilty at her arraignment. Sheriff Ernest West brought her into the court room from the jail and she took her seat between her at- torneys, John L. Sanford, jr., of Ber- lin, and Godfrey Child of Pocomoke City. She wore a brown coat and black hat and appeared worn and tired. Samuel Liebowitz, noted New York attorney, today e.atered the case. Mrs. Trader accepted Liebowitz’s offer of BATTERED LEVEES HOLD MISSISSIPP Watch Maintained as Ohio Valley Pushes Plans for Rehabilitation. B) the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., February 5.—A battered but unyielding levee line re- pulsed the Mississippi's greatest crests today while rehabilitation, control and relief problems engaged the fllod- scourged Ohio Valley and the Na- tion’s Congress. Army Engineers maintained a force of 120,000 river fighters along the defenses to keep the country’s worst flood from multiplying its cruel toll of 392 dead, nearly 1,000,000 home- less and $550,000,000 in property loss. ‘The Mississippi was receding slowly in the Cairo, Ill, sector today and, barring storms to send the muddy water smashing against improvised dikes, Engineers considered the battle won. However, they promised a ceaseless watch for days or perhaps weeks to come. President Roosevelt’s $5,011,000,000 public works program to curb raiding rivers lay before a Congress recep- (See TRADER, Page A-6.) Summary of Page. Amusements. C-4 Comics Lost & Found A-3 Obituary .. A-12 FOREIGN. Madrid militia withstands two Fascist assaults. Page A-6 NATIONAL. General Motors gets writ to evict “sit- down” strikers. Page A-1 Mississipp in check as rehabilitation plans are studied. Page A-1 House continues debate on trade agreement measure. Page A-3 Job rush is begun as maritime strike ends. Page A-8 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Tinkham wins directed verdict in Cannon suit. A-1 ‘House group to wind up D. C. inspec- tion tour tomorrow. Page A-2 Bill to extend east front of Capitol be- fore Senate group today. Page A-2 Capper backs move for new jail here after inspection. Page A-2 PFine Arts group urges new Avenue buildings. Page A-3 Another arrest forecast i{n Trader slaying inquiry. Page A-6 King to offer resolution today for D. C. Committee study. Page A-7 Zoning Commission to decide next week Page A-8 on 45 proposed changes. Treasury Register Durbin dies in Kenton, Ohio. Page A-14 Air safety conference decide on radio system, Page A-15 (See FLOOD, Page A-3.) Today’s Star Capttol front extension urged and op- posed at hearing. Page B-1 Maryland youth killed, Virginian hurt in elevator mishaps. Page B-1 Bugher butler named in two grand larceny indictments. Page B-1 House approves national auditorium study. Page B-1 SPORTS. Griffs quoted at 40-1 in flag race by batting commissioner. Page C-1 Big pin show tomorrow night will aid victims of flood. C-1 Rare for long shot to triumph in pro golf competition. C-2 Scholastic quints to stage first night twin bill in history. Page C-3 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 This and That. Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Page A-10 Washington Observations. Page A-10 David Lawrence. Page A-11 Paul Mallon. Page A-11 Dorothy Thompson. Page A-11 Constantine Brown. Page A-11 Headline Folk. Page A-11 MISCELLANY. ‘Washington Wayside. Vital Statistics. ‘Traffic Convictions. Young Washington. City News in Brief. Nature’s Children. Bedtime Story. Betsy Caswell. Dorothy Dix. Page A-2 Page B-11 Page B-13 Page B-11 Page B-13 C-6 C-6 Cc-s C-5 C-1 C-8 c-8 SENATE APPROVES RED RIDER REPEAL Wheeler Measure Passes Without Debate—House Action Awaited. Without a word of debate the Sen- Wheeler bill to repeal the red rider, which prohibits the teaching or ad- vocating of Communism in District public schools. from the Housc District Committee and is likely to come up in the House | on the next District day, probably Monday. The bill was reached on the call of the unanimous consent calendar in the Senate and in the absence of any objection from the floor the presiding officer declared the measure passed. Last year the bill was reported favor- | ably, but died on the Senate calendar. It was approved again by the Edu- | cation and Labor Committee Wednes- | day. Senmator Lee, Democrat, of Oklahoma, was designated to report the measure. Tacked on the District appropria- tion act while the measure was in conference in 1935, the red rider has been the subject of a constant con- troversy since that time. The rider was in the form of a limitation on the expenditure of funds providing that no money should be paid to any one who taught or advocated com- munism in the schools, and shortly after it was enacted the controller general's office ruled that all teachers and other school employes would have to state they have not taught or advocated communism before they can receive their pay checks. E— TIRE PLANT PEACE SEEN Progress Reported in Strike Negotiations at Akron. AKRON, Ohio, February 5 (#).— Progress was reported today in nego- tiations seeking to bring reopening of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.’s plant No. 2, which was closed Tues- day night, throwing 5,000 workers into idleness. Company officials and representa- tives of the United Rubber Workers’ Union local arranged to resume ne- gotiations today to end a dispute which the company says started when workers ejected Clifton C. Slusser, plant vice president, from the tire building department. FLYER STAYS IN ROME Lindberghs, Guarded by Police, Go Sightseeing. ROME, February 5 (#).—Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh devoted another day today to sightseeing in the Eternal City, after postponing their take-off for Tripoli on a flight presumably to Cairo, Egypt. The American flier's orange and black touring monoplane waited while he and Mrs. Lindbergh visited the Vatican museum and the Sistine cthpel in privacy guarded by Italian police. ment: “’Impossible now name final 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 checks payable to District Chapter, American Red Cross, for to the cashier, The Evening Star. Those who desire to submit their contributions directly to the American Red Cross may send or deliver cash or ate today unanimously passed the | A similar bill has been reported | WRIT GIVEN 6. M. C. 10 EVICT STRIKERS; GUARDS' AID ASKED Sheriff Wants Troops to Help Make Arrests, Firm Announces. ‘ZERO HOUR’ UNCERTAIN | AFTER ORDER IS SIGNED Soldiers’ Press Aide Says There | Will Be No “Physical Attempt” at Enforcement at Present. By the Assoctated Press. FLINT, Mich., February 5.—Gen- eral Motors attorneys obtained a court writ today ordering the arrest of strikers occupying two Fisher body plants here and announced that Sheriffl Thomas W. Wolcott had re- quested the aid of the National | Guard in enforcing the order. | That announcement came from | Ralph Gault of counsel for General | Motors here. He said the request was | made by telephone to Gov. Frank Murphy in Detroit. Col. Joseph H. Lewis, National | Guard commander in the Flint area, | said he had received no instructions | from the Governor to order the troops | into action. Goes to Read Writ at Plant. Capt. Phil Pack, press representative | of the National Guard, who partici- pated in a conference at which the writs of dttachment were issued, said | the sheriff had gone to Fisher plant No. 2 to read the order to approxi- mately 200 “stay-in” strikers. Capt. Pack said 'there would be no physical attempt to enforce the writ “for the present.” The No. 2 Fisher plant is within a military zone established around the Chevrolet Motor Co. plant, where violence occurred last Monday. There are no troops in the vicinity of Fisher plant No. 1, occupied by ap- proximately 1,400 strikers. Yesterday it was indicated the com- pany would not take definite steps for forcible ejection of the strikers | pending the outcome of peace con- ferences in progress in Detroit. Roy E. Brownell of local counsel for General Motors, said then he believed | the union would ask its men to leave peaceably. | Writs Given at 11 AM. Gault, law partner of Brownell, left | the court of Judge Paul V. Gadola | with the writs shortly after 11 am. today. The writs, addressed to the sheriff, say: “You are commanded to attach the bodies of all the occupants of | Fisher Body Plants No. 1 and 2. | Armed as if for war, but hoping no | need for action would arise, Flint| awaited the next move. | The city, worn by tension, nearly a | fourth of its population idle, with more than 3,000 National Guards- (See FLINT, Page A-5.) PONTIFF REPORTED NOTABLY IMPROVED Vatican Paper ssues Report on | Eve of Anniversary of Election. VATICAN CITY, February 5 (#).— A “notable” improvement in the con- dition of Pope Pius XI was announced today in an official bulletin in the Vatican Newspaper Osservatore Ro- mano, commemorating the coming fifteenth anniversary of the Pope's election. The bulletin said: “On the eve of the fortunate anni- versary of the elevation of his holiness to the pontifical throne we are glad to announce that the conditions of his holiness’ health are notably improved.” Conditions traceable to the Pope’s heart, the bulletin added, “have pro- ceeded gradually toward normal, both with regard to the disturbance of the rhythm and in that which regards myocardiac (relating to the muscular wall of the heart) efficiency. “Even trophic disturbances in in- ferior members have improved and continue appreciably to improve with almost total cicatrization of ulcera- tions which have been the cause of so much suffering.” (This medical terminology meant the 79-year-old holy father's heart action had improved. Lagging circu- lation had resulted in partial inability to use his legs during his two months’ illness. The reference to “cicatriza- tion of ulcerations” meant that open sores on his left leg had nearly Star Will Receive Funds for Red Cross Flood Reliet 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- healed.) goal for funds; only limit Red flood relief. Bring or mail them checks to the District Chapter, American Red Cross, 1730 E street. DIRECTED VERDIGT GIVEN TINKHAM IN CANNON LIBEL SuIT Truth of Charges Admitted in Bishop’s Testimony, Judge Bailey Rules. CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT VIOLATED, COURT HOLDS Trial Ended Abruptly by Order to Jury—Plaintiff's Attor- ney Plans Appeal. BY REX COI"IER. Holding that Representative George Holden Tinkham, Republican, of Massachusetts stated the truth when he charged Bishop James Cannon, jr., with violating the corrupt practices act in 1928, Justice Jennings Bailey today directed a jury in District Court to return a verdict 1 favor of Tink- ham in Cannon’s $500,000 libel suit against the Congressman. Justice Bailey ended the trial abruptly at the midway point when he announced that the Southern Methodist churchman, by his own testimony, had admitted violation of the act. Since Tinkham's charges—the basis of the suit—were “substantially true,” Justice Bailey said, the motion for & | directed verdict, made ye:terday by Roger J. Whiteford, Tinkh.m's at- torney, was granted. The court had deliberated overnight on the motion. As the jury was settling in the jury box with the cpening of court this morning, Justice Bailey said: “In this case, the defendant has pleaded the truth of the charges made in the publication and I find from the testimony of the plaintiff and his own | witnesses that he was guilty of violat= ing the corrupt practices act, and that the charges made againit him are substantially true. “I, therefore, direct you to return | & verdict for the defendant.” | Jury Instructed to Stand. The clerk of the court immediately | instructed the jury to stand and to | give the verdict directed by the court. This formality over, Robert H. Mce | Neill, Cannon’s attorney, noted an exe ception and said he would take the case to the Court of Appeals Cannon was acquitted several years ago of conspiring with his secretary, Miss Ada Burroughs, to violate the corrupt practices act in connection with collection and disbursement of funds during the 1928 anti-Smith campaign. The churchman sued Tinkham after the latter had issued a signed statee ment in November, 1930, repeating some of the charges he had made pre= viously on the floor of the House in connection with Cannon’s anti-Smith campaigning. In this statement Tinkham said the Southern Methodist churchman was “a shameless violator of the corrupt practices act” in that he concealed a $65,300 anti=Smith contribution re- ceived from E. C. Jameson, wealthy New Yorker, and that he (Cannon) had refused to testify regarding the transaction before the Senate Lobby Committee. Neither Representative Tinkhgm nor Bishop Cannon was in court when the judge announced the directed vere dict. Tinkham arrived, however, a few moments later and jubilantly re- marked to his attorney, “Pretty good, isn't it?” Bishop Cannon did not appear at any time during the trial. The court was informed he was ill in Duke Uni« versity Hospital, Durham, N. C. ‘Whiteford, talking with Tinkham and reporters in the corridor, declared the verdict substantiates Tinkham's charges, repeated many times, that Bishop Cannon was a “shameless vio= lator” of the corrupt practices act. Justice Bailey took the directed vere dict motion under advisement followe in spirited arguments by opposing counsel yesterday afternoon, out of hearing of the jury. Whiteford Makes Motion. Whiteford made the motion after conclusion of the plaintiff’s case. The lawyer asked his move on two conten= tions: 1. That Bishop Cannon has no rightful claim to damages because he “invited” and “demanded” the legedly libelous statement by Repree sentative Tinkham. 2. That Tink- (See CANNON, Page A-5.) MERCURY EXPECTED | TO REACH 18 HERE Colder Forecast Tonight—Heav- jest Snow of Year Causes No Damage. Colder weather was in prospect to- day, following the heaviest snowfall of the Winter. This afternoon and evening will be fair, the forecaster said, with the mercury expected to drop to about 18 degrees during the night. Tomorrow also is due to be clear and “not quite 80 cold.” Although last night's snow meas ured only 1.7 inches, it was the first real snow here this year. A fall of half an inch was recorded December 19 and there were other flurries. Except for some overcrowding at missions, as transients sought relief from the cold, the snow was of little consequence. The temperature dropped to 29 at 5:15 a.m. today and was still holding that level four hours later. Yesver-. day’s “high” was 35. The snow was general in this area, being xmw‘ as far south as Rich-~ mond,