Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S Weather Bureau Forecast.) Occasional rain, slightly warmer today; tomorrow, cloudy, preceded by rain; cold- er togorrow afternoon or night; moderate south winds. Temperatures—Highest, 44, at 7 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 30, at 5 a.m. & Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. yesterday, Full report on Page B-2. (#) Means Associated Press. No. 1,666—No. 33,899. Senate Leaders Predict Start of Hearings. PARLEYS HELD IN WHITE HOUSE | Nye, Frazier Still| Hostile to Move After Conference. | BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. In a White House conference with | senatorial leaders, during which, the legislators said, there was no talk of compromise, President Roosevelt last night gave the signal to go ahead with the judiciary reorganization legisla- tion which he proposed more than two weeks ago. As a result, Senators emerging from the second of two meetings forecast that the Senate Judiciary Committee would begin work tomorrow on the President’s proposal to increase the | membership of the Supreme Court. It was indicated hearings will be held. While another Democrat, Senator Copeland of New York, was 1ssuing1 a statement condemning the plan, the President first called in Vice Presi- dent Garner, Majority Leader Rob- inson, Chairman Ashurst of the Sen- ate Judiciary Committee and Sena- tors Harrison of Mississippi, Barkley of Kentucky, Byrnes of South Caro- lina and Guffey of Pennsylvania. All are strong supporters of the admin- istration and the Supreme Court plan. An hour and a half later the Presi- dent talked with five members of the so-called Progressive bloc, Senators Frazier and Nye of North Dakota, La Follette of Wisconsin and Bone and | Schwellenbach of Washington. This group is divided, with La Follette and | Schwellenbach the only supporters of | the President’s plan. Attitudes “Unchanged.” Nye and Frazier are hostile to the proposal, while Bone has proposed a constitutional amendment as a pos- sible substitute. After the conference the two North Dakota Senators said they had not changed their attitude. As the progressive group left the ‘White House, Thomas Corcoran, youthful presidential adviser, who is ‘widely credited with having helped to draft the’court program, went into dine with Mr. Roosevelt. Some of the Senators said they had & general discussion of the court sftua- tion and of the various amendments which have been proposed as alterna- tives. One said he got the impression the President would not be opposed to a constitutional amendment being sought along with his program. But there was no indication that the Chief Executive would give up his plan in favor of a constitutional | amendment. Robinson is Spokesman. After the first meeting with the Democratic leaders, Senator Robinson | acted as spokesman when the group was questioned by rep.rters. He made the following brief statement: “We discussed the judiciary reor- ganization bill in all its phases. It is believed that the measure is prog- (See JUDIICIARY, Page A-4.) Initiation Stunt Nearly Fatal to G.W. Student. Preparations for a fraternity ini- tiation nearly cost the life of a George Washington University student last night when he reportedly “garbled his instructions” and came in contact with a 13,000-volt power line while “run- ning an errand.” The youth—Vernon Rasmussen, 25, of East Salt Lake, Utah—is in George- town Hospital with second-degree burns on arms and leg. Physicians said they expected him to recover. More than two hours after he left Sigma Chi Fraternity House, 1312 N street, where he lived and where he was to be initiated last night, Ras- mussen was found in a dazed condi- tion on the grounds of the Dalecarlia distributing reservoir at Conduit and Reservoir roads. He was discovered by Herschel A. Bheets of Capitol Heighs, Md. an employe of the Potomac Electric Power Co., who notified police. Seventh Precinct Policemen J. A. Wheeler and G. W. Baxter, who in- vestigated, said Rasmussen had to climb a 10-foot fence to get into the reservoir grounds. According to their report, the student apparently fell onto the high-tension wire, which is | strung below the level of the fence. A student who answered the tele- phone at the fraternity house said Reasmussen was one of eight “pledges” who were to be initiated. In order to get him away from the house while the initiation was being fixed, the unidentified student said Rasmussen was sent out with written instructions to “look for an object.” The nature of the “object” was not Trevealed. Rasmussen, it was said, was given directions that would have taken him “two miles out on Conduit ‘road but would have enabled him to get back before dark.” “If he had followed directions,” the student at the fraternity house said, “it wouldn't have happened.” Police also were unable to learn ‘what the youth was looking for when he entered the reservoir grounds. Gen. Sir Percy Cox Dies. {Murder Charged After Nude | well, in a report on the findings of Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. PRESIDENT GIVES SIGNAL VOLUNTEERSBAN TO RUSH HIS COURT PLAN NAY HASTEN END WITH NO COMPROMISE he Hands Off Court, Hoover Warns, ‘Subject” Bench Hitting Plan to ¢ Real Issue Is W hether President or Peo- ple Shall Revise Says in Union | By the Assoctated Press. CHICAGO, February 20.—Herbert Hoover tonight called for “hands off | the Supreme Court.” Addressing the Union League Club, the former President said President Roosevelt’s court proposal has cre- ated the “greatest constitutional ques- tion in the last 70 years,” and has placed the Nation “face to face with the proposition that the Supreme Court shall be made subjective to the Executive.” “Stripped to its bare bones” Mr. Hoover continued, “that is the heart of this proposal. And that reaches to the very center of human liberty. The ultimate safeguard of liberty is the independence of the judiciary.” The “real issue” in the Supreme Court question, Mr. Hoover said, “is ‘whether the President by appointment of additional judges shall revise the Constitution—or whether change in the Constitution shall be submitted to the people as the Constitution itself provides.” Declaring that the Constitution pro- vides “an open and above board meth- Constitution, He League Talk. od” by which social changes can be accomplished, the speaker asked: “What is all the hurry in this? The Nation is recovering from the depres- sion. There is no emergency. Surely a year or two is no waste in the life of a great nation when its liberties are the stake of haste. “If historic liberalism cannot be maintained under the present pro- visions of the Constitution, I shall be the first to support the President in amendment of it.” Mr. Hoover declared “it is a mag- nificent thing for the Nation that the debate upon it (the Supreme Court proposal) has risen far above parti- sanship. The proposal is too grave to be dealt with on such terms. It is an inspiring thing that in this ques- tion the leadership to maintain the | integrity of the American form of gov- | ernment has been begun by eminent | Senators belonging to the President’s own party. “This leadership, which we all gladly follow, places this issue on the highest plane of citizenship without regard to " (See HOOVER, Page A-4.) FARMER AGCUSED INWELL SLAYING Body Is Recovered—Police Guard Suspect in Cell. E3 the Associated Press. COATESVILLE, Pa., February 20.— County Detective Francis Grubb filed | a murder charge tonight against Alexander Meyer, 20-year-old farmer, for the death of 16-year-old Helen Moyer, whose nude, battered body was recovered from a well on an abandoned farm. Meyer, earlier in the day, led po- lice to the farm where he said he concealed the girl’s body after ac- cidentally killing her with his truck on February 11. Grubb obtained the warrant from Justice of the Peace R. Jones Patrick in West Chester and took Meyer to the Chester detective’s office in West | Chester for further questioning. Deputy Coroner Harry E. Williams, jr., said “there was every indication that Helen Moyer had been ravished” before her body was concealed in the Dr. Michae]l Margolis, coroner’s phy- sician. Cause of Death. Williams said the girl died from internal injuries “which could have been caused by an auto or by a struggle.” “The girl was unconscious for four or five hours before her death,” he sald. “There was water in her lungs, indicating she was tossed into the well while still living. There was a mark around her neck which could have been caused by a cord.” ‘The girl's nude body was found be- neath 18 inches of water, rock and dirt blown down by two sticks of dynamite which Meyer said he exploded to con- ceal it better. Detectives said they did (See GIRL, Page A-3.) AWAITING ESCORT, GIRL, 20, SHOT DEAD Cincinnati Police Report Confes- sion by “Jilted” Suitor Caught in Church. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, February 20.—Bea- trice A. Roth, 20, attractive daughter of a former real estate operator, was shot and killed tonight as she sat in an automobile awaiting her escort, and Lieut. George Schattle of the police homicide squad announced shortly aft- erward that a suspect had confessed. Schattle said the suspect was Joseph Caproni, 20, grandson of the late Enrico Caproni, widely known restau- rant proprietor, and that he had been apprehended in a church in which he had sought refuge. Schattle said a formal charge of murder would be filed against the youth, who, he said, admitted he con- cealed himself in the car of Maurer Heitz, 19, Miss Roth’s escort, and killed the girl because he was “mad “jiltea” at her.” Miss Roth had him last week, detectives said. Heitz said he and the girl had just left her home. He placed her in the front seat of his car, parked nearby, and had just opened the left-hand door when, he told police, “a man who had been lying on the rear seat rose up and said ‘Well, buddy, I “I couldn’t hear any more because the man started shooting.” Parents of the girl were prostrated and were under a physician’s care. Heitz, a student at the University of Cincinnati, said he had known Miss Roth “for some time,” but to- night's was to have been only his second “date.” Miss Roth, who is survived by her BEDFORD, England, February 20 (P)—Maj. CGen Sir Percy Cox, high commissioner for Mesopotamia from 'lm to 1923, died today. ’ parents and a brother, Robert, 23, had been employed for the past three months in the circulation department of the Cincinnati Post. ‘ i W.P.A. Official Charged With Salary Fraud C. B. Eliot Accused of Forging Name on Sunda WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION OF SPANISH WAR New Phase Entered as Flow of Recruits Halts at Midnight. FEARS OF SPREADING GREATLY MINIMIZED Tightest Possible Blockade Is Formed to Keep Out Sympa- thizers of Either Side. BACKGROUND— Government lines stiffened 12 days ago, when insurgents began intensive attack on the Valencia road, halting the advance within a few hundred yards of the im= portant coastal link. Since then, P_mwever, the insurgents have waged incessant attacks and mopping-up operations in the Malaga and Granada sectors. BY the Associated Press. LONDON, February 21 (Sunday).— A new phase of the Spanish civil war opened today as an international ban on the flow of foreign volunteers auto- matically went into effect on the stroke of midnight. It was the beginning of a phase which observers said they hoped marked not only the end of European fears the war might sweep beyond Spain, but would hasten, the end of the bloody conflict itself. As the stroke of 12 ended Saturday, sympathizers with the Spanish gov- ernment or the insurgents who are blockade that can be devised to keep them from slipping into the zones of combat. Unsettled was the exact method of making sure that the nations’ in- dividual velunteer-control measures Portugal, sympathetic Pay Roll. | CHARLES B. ELLIOT. Charged with collecting two Federal salaries, one under a false name, Charles B. Eliot, administrative as- sistant in the Division of Social Re- search, Works Progress Administra- tion, was arrested yesterday by Secret Service agents. Arraigned before United States Com- missioner Needham C. Turnage, he pleaded guilty, was ordered held for the action of the gyand jury and, after being remanded to jail, succeeded in obtaining his release last night under $3,000 bond. According to the charges, Eliot was receiving a salary of $4,800 a year in his own name. In addition, it was charged, he forged the name of “Alex DuBois” to W. P. A. salary checks, which he is alleged to have cashed here and during travels on official business to various parts eof the country. “Alex DuBois” Not Known. Investigation by the Secret Service disclosed that no one at W. P. A. ever had heard of “Alex DuBois.” When the canceled checks turned up, it is charged, they were all indorsed by Charles B. Eliot. Although the formal charge against Eliot s based specifically on only one Spanish insurgents, first blocked agreement on a geseral scheme, refus- | ing to have foreign observers stationed on her borders. With the main dutlines of a plan |of land and sea control already fixed by the other powers, however, Great Britain arranged a compromise to win Portugal’s participation, involving the Portuguese compliance.. Informed persons believed the de- | tails of this British checkup, as well as the disposition of a six-power naval patrol of Spain's borders, would be ironed out in plenty of time to install actual physical control of men and arms by the scheduled date, March 6. Stringent Portuguese Ban. The fact that Portugal applied a stringent ban on volunteers was in- terpreted as a favorable sign she would come along with the other powers. The number of Portuguese fighting in Spain, however, has not been great. An indication of the general hope in European official circles that the seven-month-old civil war would be confined to the Iberian Peninsula as a result of the long-delayed neutrality agreement was seen in a statement by Lord Plymouth, chairman of the (See WAR, Page A-8.) 7 HURT IN MARYLAND AS BUS LEAVES ROAD Vehicle En Route to Baltimore Goes Into Ditch—None Seriously Injured. BY the Associated Press. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., February 21 (Sunday).—A Greyhound bus bound from here to Baltimore ran off the road and into a ditch early today, injuring the driver, Hughes Bennett, of Philadelphia, and seven passengers. None of those in the bus was in- jured seriously, it was said at Har- ford Memorial Hospital here. Hos- pital attaches said they had not yet identified the passengers admitted for treatment. The accident occured just this side of Aberdeen. Benmett drew to the side of the road to avoid a car pulling out from a roadside tavern. The heavy “Du Bois” check for $150, it was said (See ELIOT, Page A-5.) bus struck a soft shoulder and ran into the ditch. Retiring Widow Leaves Million To Charity, Kin and Friends Will of Mrs. Clementine Farr Duff Provides 73 Be quests, Including Ice Cream Fund for Home. More than a score of Washington charitable and religious institutions re- ceived substantial gifts under the will of Mrs. Clementine Farr Duff, wealthy Washington philanthropist, who died here Pebruary 6, leaving specific be- quests totalling more than a million dollars. Filed late yesterday in District Court, the will and six codicils were 62 pages in length and provided for 73 gifts to institutions, organizations, relatives, friends and servants. No indication was given as (o' the extent of the es- tate, which attorneys handling her affairs described only as “very large.” Among the unusual provisions of the will was one setting up a $20,000 trust fund for purchase of iee cream for patients and employes of the Wash- tities.” She explained that it had been her custom for years to buy ice cream weekly for the people at the insti- tution. Stanton C. Peelle and William E. Schooley, Washington attorneys, and the American Security & Trust Co. were named executors and trustees. ‘They were charged with the duty of dfht:rflmm' fltle ;uldue of the estate, af payment of specific bequ to 13 eleemosynary institutions. o These residuary legatees are Emer- gency Hospital, the Presbyterian Home for the Aged, the Instructive Visiting Nurse Soclety, the Young Women's Christian Home, Children’s Hospital, Garfield Memorial Hospital, the Flor- ence Crittenton Home, the American Foundation for the Blind, the Colum- bis Polytechnic Institute for the Blind, the PFirst Church of Christ Scientist, the Masonic and Eastern Star Home and the Baptist Home, all of Washington, and the Pennsylvanis T (See 10 outside of Spain faced the tightest | |are not violated and that war ma- ! terigls do not go into Spain. with the | use of British officers to check up on | CHIEF, R 1 DONT mfi@hfif To PUT HIM! HE DOESN'T BELONG IN ANY OF THEM! Y St WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1937-116 PAGES. = FIVE CENTS WASHINGTON AN |TEN CENTS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S PROBLEM! A attempts to girdle the globe by air. Indeed, if no major slip-up occurs in her plans, this airwoman, who already holds many “firsts” in aviation, will be able to say that she achieved the first complete and continuous world flight by following a route approximating the equator, in contrast to the shorter top-of-the-world circuits made by her predecessors. On one score, of course, there can be no argu- ment—Miss Earhart is the first woman to under- take such an adventure and she will be the first pilot of either sex to fly a multi-motored plane, of a type regularly employed on air lines here and abroad, without any one to relieve her at the controls on the major portion of a ’round-the- world flight. dling the 200-mile-an-hour Wasp-motored Lock- heed Electra is concerned, although Capt. Harry Manning of the United States Lines is to accom- pany her of the Pacific. as navigator on the 7.000-mile crossing 27.000-mile aerial odyssey which she feels she cannot accomplish alone. Flight at Earth’s Waistline. In reluctantly announcing her plans a litile more than a week ago because she had been “smoked out” by newspapers, Miss Earhart made it clear that she could not possibly hope to match the 7-day, 18-hour, 49)2-minute globe-circling Miss Earhart, record of the late Wiley Post, if for no other reason than that the 15596-mile route flown by him was little more than half the course that lies ahead of her. But Post's flight touched only the upper reaches of the Northern Hemisphere; Miss Earhart plans to gird the | earth at its waistline, crossing the equator four times and flying a total | distance some 2,000 miles greater than the circumference of the globe. (See EARHART, Page A-18) BUILDER DETAINED IN'LABOR SLAYING Subway Contractor Sought by New Jersey as Ma- terial Witness. E3 the Associated Press. HACKENSACK, N. J, February 20—A wealthy New York subway builder was served in New York late today with a warrant requiring him as a material witness in the slaying of a “Sandhogs” union leader—a killing which Bergen County authori- ties attributed to labor troubles in- volving the men who dig under the towers of Manhattan. The warrant for the arrest of Samuel Rosoff, the contractor, was issued after he had refused to come here voluntarily for questioning in connection with the fatal shooting in Teanack last night of R. Norman Redwood, business agent of a New York subway workers’ union. To the request he come here, Rosoff countered with an offer to submit to question- ing in his New York apartment and announced he would pay a $5,000 re- ward for the apprehension and con- viction of those who “did the job.” In New York Rosoff was released without bail after being served with the warrant. Witness Complaint Ordered. Bergen Prosecutor John J. Breslin, jr., directed that a material witness complaint be made against Rosoff after an unidentified witness had de- clared in an affidavit, Breslin said, that he heard the builder threaten Redwood at a meeting in his apart- ment February 5. Breslin said the witness declared in the affidavit that Rosoff told the labor leader he would “kill you stone dead” if Redwood ever “pulled a strike” on a job of his. Rosoff told reporters in New York that he knew of the alleged affidavit and remarked, “it won't hold water.” He described in detail, too, his move- ments yesterday afternoon, his trip (See SLAYING, Page A-2.) THREE HURT IN CRASH Connie Mack’s Daughter Is Seri- ously Injured. PHILADELPHIA, February 20 (#).— Mrs, Francis X. Reilly, daughter of Connie Mack, manager of the Ath- letics, was seriously injured in an automobile accident tonight. Her automobile skidded and crashed into another automobile. She suffered a fractured hip. Miss Marie Dever and Miss Cath- erine Smith were also injured in the RED RIDER FIGHT ] STIR { Majority Votes to Discharge Special Committee, But Ruling Vetoes Action. By a clear majority the Federation of Citizens’ Associations last night voted to disband its special Committee on Elimination of Subversive, Anti- Patriotic and Communistic Propa- ganda from the Public Schools, but the action was nullified by a ruling that a two-thirds vote was necessary. The vote was 82 to 22. The ruling, by President Thomas F. Lodge, was challenged in extended | debate, but still stood when adjourn- ment finally was reached at 12:35 a.m. today. The special committee is the one headed by George E. Sullivan, the activities of which in investigating communism in the schools have fig- ured in the red rider controversy. After two hours of tempestucus ar- gument, during which cries of “fili- buster” were raised, the body voted 32 to 22 for discharge of the special committee, but an immediate challenge In fact, her program contemplates | that the entire trip will be “‘solo” so far as han- | This is the one phase of her ! SFEDERATION i New /iviation “Firsts” Are Goal ’ Of Amelia Earhart in Attempt COMMITTEE 0.K.§ To Girdle Earth at Waistline BY C. B. ALLEN. MELIA EARHART'S projected flight around the world, which is sched- | uled to get under way next month from the Oakland, Calif.. Municipal Airport, differs materially and in a variety of respects from all previous NEUTRALITY Bl Senator Johnson Votes Against Pittman Man- datory Proposal. BACKGROUND— Legislative drive for new neutral- ity laws inspired last December when Jersey City and San Francisco firms were granted State Depart- ment licenses to ship $7,000,000 worth of second-hand planes, en- gines, rifles and machine guns to war-torn Spain. Old neutrality legislation, declaring embargo on “implements of war” during Italian- Ethiopian conflict, ezpired last February. BY the Associated Press. The Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee voted almost unanimously yes- terday for a permanent, mandatory neutrality law designed to keep Ameri- cans and American goods out of trouble in case of another foreign war. With only Senator Johnson, Repub- lican, of California dissenting, the committee agreed to report to the Senate the Pittman bill which would place American trade with future belligerents on a virtual “cash and Chairman Pittman, author of the bill, said he would call it up in the Senate this week, if possible. He fore- cast quick approval. Pittman said the bill had ‘adminis- tration support. He added, however, that the State Department had advised giving the Chief Executive greater dis- cretion. One Provision Discretionary. Only one of the major provisions of the legislation would be discretionary. On the whole, it came from committee so rigidly mandatory that even the old Munitions Committee bloc was satisfled. Contending the bill would remove some of the chief causes of American participation in foreign wars, Pittman said: “We are now cutting that cable by which we were dragged into the last war in so far as we can accomplish it by our individual laws and reasonable restraints upon our own nationals.” But to Senator Johnson, the bill was merely “a shotgun measure to keep us out of war and it doesn’t do anything of the sort.” He added that the bill would “take us into war rather than keep us out” and would “be a source of infinite trouble.” Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, who was not present at yes- terday's meeting, held similar views. Despite the State Department’s de- sire for more discretionary legislation, the committee overwhelmingly defeat- ed a substitute offered by Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Utah, which Pittman said would give the Presi- dent “absolute discretion.” Major Provisions of Bill. Major provisions of the Pittman bill are: Permanent extension of the present (See RED RIDER, Page A-7) Is it beneath the dignity of a mem- ber of the greatest deliberative body in the world to indorse a cigarette? Not when a member of the greatest deliberative body in the world gets $1,000 in cold cash. That, at least, is Senator Nye's philosophy. It is reported to have convinced at least 14 other Senators. For the last week the determined physiognomy of North Dakota’s junior Senator has been displayed in the pages of 350 newspapers of the United States, along with his unqualified statement: “I enjoy the comfort a light smoke gives my throat.” And in a succinct statement that indicates how heavily the burdens of statesmanship weigh upon senatoridl tonsils, he proceeds in a highly digni- fled and becomingly restrained man- ner to address the cigarette manufac- turers upon the excellence of their product. He wrote it all himself, the Senator said. It took him about an ‘hour, The Senator confessed to a Star reporter, who found him easing his throat with a cigarette yesterday while writing a radio speech, that he had some qualms about the indorsement himself when the advertising man approached hlm‘lt.h the proPosition. (See NEUTRALITY, Page A-14.) 15 Senators to Get $1,000 A piece For Indorsing ‘a Light Smoke’ To indorse or not to indorse, that was the question. The Senator didn’t mind the testimonial. But he was weighing it cdvefully. “I was afraid my political opponents might try to make something out of it,” he said. “But then I thought, well, what the dickens—here’s a chance to turn a good sum over to a charity that needs it.” What is more, Senator Nye said about 14 of his colleagues have done the same thing. Senator Reynolds of North Carolina was the first. Thirteen others are to follow. Some of them will make their indorse- ments over the radio, Senator Nye said. It is all for sweet charity. That, at least, is the Senators’ story and the Senators will stick to it. ‘Washington is wondering now how much a Representative’s indorsement will be worth if a Senator can de- mand $1,000. There is quite a range of prices for indorsements. The late ‘Will Rogers received $35,000 for say- ing something nice about a brand of chewing gum. But some ball players could only get $50 for doing the same thing. Nobody has ribbed him about the indorsement, Senator Nye said, al- though he does not expect to escape some 5 | YOUTH DELEGATES VISIT ROOSEVELT AFTER “SIT DOWN' Six of Group Promised Sym- pathy by Roosevelt—De- nied Support for Act. TWO ARE ARRESTED NEAR WHITE HOUSE Freed on $25 Bond—Over Half of 4,500 “Pilgrims” Join in Parade. (Picture on Page B-1.) Four hours after 500 of their num- ber staged a short-lived “sif down” before the White House, six leaders of the National Youth Congress yes- terday were promised the sympathy but denied the support of President Roosevelt in their aims. The 4,500 young men and women members of the congress came to Washington in a “pilgrimage” to ine spire speedy passage of the $500,« 000,000 National Youth bill to proe vide jobs and schooling for uneme ployed persons between 16 and 25. More than half the delegates par- ticipated in a parade up Pennsylvanis avenue, terminating at the White House, where two of the men were arrested when the 500 sat down in ithe South Executive avenue thorough j fare, I.ncuncmg determination tq stay until the President should agree to see all the members. Later, Mr. Roosevelt reportedly in- | structed Aubrey Williams, chairman {of the National Youth Administra= tion, to see that the case was dise missed. Released on Bond. William Hinckley, chairman of the congress, and Abbott Simon, its legis- |lative counsel, had been released in | $25 bond each for a Police Court ap= | pearance Tuesday. They were charged | first with violating their parade per- {mit. This later was changed to dis- | orderly conduct. ‘The congress delegates were chided for their sit down by three of the |four coauthors of the American Youth aft—Representatives Maverick of Texas, Coffee of Washington and Voorhis of California, all Democrats, who said: “We do not approve of such none sense. We are for the youth bill, not the children’s bill.” The fourth coauthor is Senator Lundeen, Farmer-Labor, of Mmnee sota. Simon protested that he and Hinck~ ley sat down to await the arrival of the end of the parade, although whea park police prevented the marchers’ entrance into the White House grounds, there was heard a cry of: “Let’s stage a sit-down strike.” Bitter at Reception. Bitter at the style of their reception at the White House, the youths, hold- ing a mass meeting at 4 p.m. at the Masonic Auditorium, Thirteenth and H streets, loudly cheered a resolution which read: “We feel that the conduct of the police during the entire situation is a sad commentary on the state of civil | liberties in the Nation's Capital. The | American Youth Congress has come | to Washington to advance the passage | of the American youth bill and refuses | to be diverted from this purpose by the disruptive actions of the Wash- ington police.” Hinckley quoted a policeman as tell- ing him—while he was sitting down— that “you wouldn't look so pretty if we kicked your teeth out, would you?” At the time this mass meeting opened, the President received in the | oval room Hinckley, Miss Rose Terlin of the Intercollegiate Christian Com- mittee, Edward Strong, National Negro Congress; Edward Mitchell, Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union; Angelo Hern- don, Workers' Alliance. and Joseph Lash, American Student Union. This | conference had been agreed upon two days ago. In the presence of Williams, Presie dent Roosevelt, during a 20-minute (See YOUTH, Page A-14.) Men Died Joking In Ship Blast, Chaplain Says By the Assoclated Press. SAN PEDRO, Calif, February 20. —Men died with a joke on their lips. and others, though fearfully mained, concerned themselves with their shipmates, Navy Chaplain H. P. Trump said today of the explosion aboard the U. S. S. Wyoming Thurs- day. Seven sailors and Marines were killed and 13 injured when a five= inch shell exploded during exercises. “William K. Weber never said a word while he was waiting to be taken to the operating room,” the chaplain said. “He just lay there. I asked him .what made him so strong, and he grinned and said, ‘It must be the beans they feed us,’ “Capt. Edward Trumble (of Alex- andria, Va.) was barely conscious, but when he opened his eyes he said, ‘Get a doctor for the men. I'm afraid they're hurt’ He died a moment later. “Clyde Byrd (of East Falls Church Va.), & private, asked me for a cigaret. Then he noticed two other Marines, terribly wounded, alongside. ‘I'll skip the smoke,’ he said, ‘those fellows may not like it in their lungs. I can wait. “Another private, David Williams, had only one request. ‘Please send word back home to the folks. They'll be worrying.’” Three bodies started home today. That of Private Albert Enos will be taken to Cambridge, Mass. On the same train were the bodies of Joseph W. Bozynski, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Richard Frye, Johnstown, Pa. Radio i’rograms, Page F-3. Complete Index, Page A-2.