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1 A—2 %% SENATORS TRADE PACT BILL Proposed Amendments De- lay Vote on Extension of Act. BY the Associated Press. Proposed amendments to restrict the President’s power slowed up Senate debate today over extension of the reciprocal trade agreements act. Administration leaders predicted all the suggested changes, put forward with bi-partisan support, would be re- Jected. Similar attempts to alter the | measure were defeated by the House. Senators Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan, and Capper, Republican, of Kansas, led the opposition with de- mands that Congress exercise more direct centrol over the making of fur- ther tracle agreements. Vandenberg asked that any agree- ment limiting the power of Congress to fix internal taxes be prohibited, and that the State Department give notice beforehand of all commodities it Pplanned to cover in an agreement. Urges Senate Ratification. Capper urged Senate ratification of all trade pacts and proposed dropping the “most-favored nation” policy. On the Democratic side, Senators Pepper and Andrews of Florida, and Senators Ellender and Overton of Louisiana, asked that the cost of production of American agricultural commodities be guaranteed. Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of ‘Wyor , urged that all trade agree- ments D€ submitted to Congress 30 days before taking effect. The Senate's first debate on major legislation brought frequent clashes between Vandenberg or Capper and Senator Harrison, Democrat, of Mississippi, leader of administration Zforces. One was over Brazil's babassu nuts, which Alf M. Landon, 1936 Republican presidential candidate, had mentioned in a campaign speech assailing the pacts. “Who would have supposed until the Autumn of last year,” smiled Harrison, “that the fate of the national elec- tion—no of the Nation itself—would hingeé upon this\poor little unassuming nut?” Vandenberg replied: “I know as ljt- tle about Babassu nut oil as the Sen- ator from Mississippi does, which is a state of complete ignorance. But the State Department has made it im- possible to tax this oil from Brazil, which represents & new competitive danger to our home markets.” Ba;k (Continued From First Page.) of about $150,000 from the Inter- national Association of Machinists. The new corporation will borrow not to exceed $350,000 from the Re- | construction Finance Corp. With this {'cash the new corporation will pay in full the approximately 23,000 de- positors and do certain other things. It will use some of this money for “the discharge or acquisition of cer- tain prior rights and liens against the assets to be transferred to the new corporation to effect the conservation . of this plan” 40% Paid Already. : _All depositors of the old Mount ! Vernon Savings Bank have been paid a dividend of 40 per cent of their de- posits and received for the remaining 60 per cent participating certificates. | ‘The 40 per cent paid in 1934 amounted | to about $800,000. | All depositors who have participat- | ing certificates of less than $60 would | be paid in full when the plan is con- | summated. Depositors who have cer- tificates amounting to more than $60 would receive preferred stock dollar for dollar in the new Mount Vernon | Mortgage Corp. This preferred stock is cumulative as to dividends after | December 31, 1939, and is callable at any time at par and accumulated dividends. Common stock in the new mortgage corporation is to be issued to the In- ternational Association of Machinists, which has turned over the $150,000 worth of assets. Precposal Explained in Detail. ‘The payment in full to abous 23,000 depositors is expected to amount to $150,000. The trustees who mailed out the proposal today to all depositors holding certificates of more than $60 are E. C. Davison, who is chairman of the board of the Mount Vernon liquidating trust and also general sec- retary-treasurer of the International | Association of Machinists; Thomas E. Burke and E. F. Koss. ‘While all depositors holding a cer- tificate worth more than $60 are re- ceiving the requests for approval, no communications are being mailed to the depositors holding certificates of less than $60, which are to be paid in full. Stockholders of the Mount Vernon Savings Bank are being cir- cularized by the International Asso- ciation of Machinists, to surrender their old stock. Speaking for the trustees, Davison explained that the common stock held by the International Association of Machinists will not pay a cent of divi- dends until the depositors holding preferred stock in the new mortgage corporation are paid in full. Davison feels this new plan will pay off in full every depositor of the Mount Vernon Savings Bank. ‘The reason for establishment of the new mortgage corporation, he ex- plained, is that it will enable the man- sgement to realize greater returns on the assets and thus make possible the payment to depositors. Restrictions on such a trust as the Mount Vernon Liquidating Trust would prohibit, he said, such operations as are possible under the new mortgage corporation. Such operations include the improve- ‘ment of property, renewal commissiom on loans, insurance commissions and property management fees. Would Set Up Going Concern. In other words, he went on, the change from the trust to the new cor- poration would be one from a liqui- dating concern to a going concern au- thorized to earn money. The Mount Vernon ILiquidating Trust now has net assets of approx- imately $1,200,000, estimated sound value, according to the trustees. The Mount Vernon Liquidating Trust has been administered by the three trustees, with Robert T. High- fleld executive secretary and L. Harold Sothoron general counsel. How soon the plan can be put into effect and the first payments made was problematical today, but Secretary Highfield, Chairman Davison of the Mount Vernon Liquidating Trust and DEBATE | [ ashington | NICE SHELVES 16 Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. PARTING. . NAUGURATION day, it now is revealed, brought the end to business relations of long stand- ing between a Senator and & taxi- cab driver. The sameness of the story is un- usual. Every day the same cab driver drove to the same hotel and picked up the same Senator and drove him to the Capitol, and every day the Sena- tor jingled two dimes in his pocket and at the end of the ride handed them to the driver. There was a great traffic jam inau- guration day. The cabbie picked up the Senator. It took them an hour to get to the Capitol. At the end of the ride the Senator handed two dimes—not the same two dimes, of course, to the cabbie. All these months with no tips was not so bad, but an hour’s trip for a 20-cent fare overwhelmed the cabbie, who asked the Senator: “Are you sure you can spare that?" The Senator became angry and threatened to report the driver. “Go ahead,” retaliated the cabbie, “and maybe I will get fired and find another job and get to mgking a living again.” This was as much as our man could find out. We understand, though, the cabbie is still cab-bing. * x % % MR. O'CONNOR. Controller of the Currency J. F. T. O’Connor, addressing a very large gathering of Washington bankers, said he hated to impose a lot of figures on thes but would confine himself only to billions and pass over the millions. Said he was reminded of the superintendent of a lumber com- pany who sent very long daily reports to the company. The presi- dent became ezhausted reading the long reports and finally sent word to him to put his reports in figures, giving the number of persons em= ployed, number of logs on hand, etc. Just 100 men were employed at the camp and two woman cooks. The superintendent’s next daily re- port said: “‘One per cent of the men married 50 per cent of the cooks.” * Xx X X ORCHID. 'ARLINE HECK, a graduate of the Syracuse School of Journalism, was in town over the week end. “I've asked directions from police officers in a great many cities, includ- ing New York., where they are proud | of their record of courtesy,” she said. “But Washington police officers are the most courteous and helpful of them all.” We know she said that because a policeman told us so. ¥ x ¥ X DEAL. HOW can a fellow buy his own hat? Easy, says a salesman at one of Washington’s haberdasheries. This store put on the usual late Winter clearance sale. In came an elderly man wearing an old-style derby or bowler. He was looking for more of the same type. The sale price was 39 cents. “What kind of price will you make me for three of 'em?” he asked the salesman. “Oh, I'll sell you three for a dollar,” he replied, which is near a new low for derbies. The customer tried on a lot of hats and finally selected his trio. He had put two aside and seemed in trouble trying to find the third one. “I'll take this one,” he said. “It fits fine. Just like an old hat.” The salesman wrapped up the three derbies, when the customer asked: “Say, what did I do with my old hat?” They looked around and couldn’t find it. He had tried on the old hat and bought it back again. Yep, he got a new one. ® %k X % EASY. ‘HE mustachioed, much be-uni- formed doorman of a certain night club in town is a little miffed that a fellow worker was mentioned in this column recently. He says, “It isn't hard to find a gentine Cossack. There are eleven million of them.” * %k X SETTLED. Last July we mentioned a feud between a car owner and a finance company. The company threatened to snatch the car and the owner tempted fate by never locking it, 30 the way would be made easy, remember? It seems that it doesn’t pay to tempt fate, mor credit companies, The car, we hear, was snatched, and the erstwhile motorist is a pedestrian now. P. B. K. AGAIN. MAN who lives far out on Wis- consin avenue lost his Phi Beta Kappa key two months ago. He had given up hope of ever finding it, al- though his name was engraved on the back together with his university, which happened to be Duke. News- paper advertisements had produced no results. He was inclined to blame his wife somewhat for the loss of this legitimate piece of gold, as he had told her she should put a new ribbon on it and this she had neglected. All very sad. But last week, suddenly, there was a ring at his doorbell which he an- swered to find a burly truck driver thrusting out the Phi Beta Kappa key and asking, “’'S yours?” Delightedly, the man admitted the ownership. “You know,” said the truck driver, scratching his head, “I found it quite THE EVENING INNEARBY PLAGES Election Supervisor in Mont- gomery to Be Lawrason B. Riggs of Olney. BY JACK ALLEN, 8taff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Fcbruary 24.—Six- teen officeholders in Montgomery and Prince George's Counties—including an election supervisor and 15 justices of the peace—were shelved by Gov. Harry W. Nice in his biennial list of | appointments, now before the Senate for confirmation. The lone change of major impor- tance in either community was the substitution of Lawrason B. Riggs of Olney as the Democratic member of the Board of Election Supervisors in Montgomery for Hugh F. O'Donnell of Silver Spring, whose dismissal is traced directly to his activity in the Democratic primary. v. Nice'’s list—familiarly known as the “green bag”—as submitted to the Senate yesterday afternoon, re- named all jurists in the lower courts of both counties, the permanent Reg- istration Board in Montgomery and Prince Georges election supervisors and liquor license commissioners. It was learned today the Demo- cratic State Central Committes for | Montgomery recommended Riggs, a former chairman of the county’s Elec- tion Board, for O'Donnell's seat on ! that body because of the latter’s sup- port of Clay Plummer of Gaichers- burg in the 1936 congressional pri- mary. Indorsement of Lewis. New justices in Montgomery include Samuel Riggs of Brookmont and Ed- win D. Burdette of Hyattstown, and | those in Prince Georges are Ewell H. | Mohler, Landover: Percy Duvall, Up- | per Marlboro; Angelo Marletta, Ben- STAR, WASHINGTON INTORSO SLAYINGS Mutilated Body of Woman Believed Eighth Victim of Ohio Maniac. BY the Associateo Press. CLEVELAND, February 24—Detec- tives on an intensive search for the sex-crazed maniac blamed for eight Cleveland torso slayings since Septem- ber, 1934, questioned a man today concerning the disappearance of twice-married Mrs. Anna Zibert. After a search of missing persons files, police said she was one of two women most closely resembling the latest victim—whose nude torso, sev- ered with surgical skill, was found late yesterday on the Lake Erie shoreline, on Cleveland’s East Side. No charges had been placed against the suspect, who knew the woman well, detectives said. The disappearance of Mrs. Zibert, missing since January 15, was re- ported five days later by her father, ‘Thomas Latkovich. Her physical de- scription and the fact that she was listed as the mother of two children, police said, closely fitted the descrip- tion given by Coroner Samuel R. Gerber. Woman of 28 Also Sought. Detectives also sought to learn whether Miss Flavia Pillot, 28, who came here from Canton, Ohio, last Friday to stay with her brother John, could be the eighth victim of the mad slayer. Miss Pillot vanished the next morn- ing, the brother told detectives, after she was reprimanded for coming to Cleveland unannounced. Police Lieut. William Sargent said the latest torso apparently had not been in the water more than a day or two before it was discovered only a few miles from where Mrs. Zibert, married & second time four months aings; Harry C. Fuchs, District Heights; Robert H. Palmer, Harmon O. Acuff, Seat Pleasant; Paul R. Carter, Takoma Park; J. S. Allen, John M. Bowie, Clarence Foreacre, Mitchell- ville; Robert McCartee, Frank J. Rob- inson and Mrs. Ira K. Atherton, Hy- attsville. Jurists renominated in Montgom- ! ery are Harold C. Smith of Rockville, | County Police Court; Thomas M. An- | derson, Orphans’ Court, and Herman | C. Heffner, Takoma Park Police Court, while George B. Merrick of Upper | Marlboro was renamed fgr the Prince | Georges County Police Cours. | Carey Kingdon and Mrs. Clara A,l Holmes, both of Rockville, are retained as the Republican members of Mom-‘ gomery's Election Board, and John A. } England of Rockville, Republican, and | F. Byrne Austin of Takoma Park, Democrat, are kept on the Permanent Registration Board. List in Prince Georges. The Prince Georges election super- Vvisors renominated are Albert O. Beall, Republican, and Samuel A. Wyville, Democrat, both of Upper Marlboro, {and Charles L. Seeley, Republican. of | Hyattsville. Liquor license commis- soners for the county to be continued | and Joseph S. Haas of Mount Rainier, | Republicans, and Mrs. Mary W. Browning, Democrat, of Riverdale. Other justices of the peace nomi- nated for the two counties follow: Montgomery—Charles W. Stane. Charles M. Webb. kville: D, Joseph ' Willard. Poolesville: “Evan A. Condon. Bethesda; Ambrose D. Jennings, Friendship Station: esse D. Briggs. Gaithersburg: William P. Wilson and Charles M. Woodson._Silver Spring: Charles H. Davidson. Kensington. Prince Georges—George B. Merrick. Donald Swanson, Harry I. Anderson. Up- per Marlboro: Henry O'Nelll Mortimer E. Rian. Willlam A. Bobb. Bladensburg: James W Latimer Silver Hill: Judson Rea Creecy. Spaulding _ district: Henry B. Contee, Aquasco; Griffith Oursler Surraitsville: A. R. Weston. Everard E. Hatch, G. Bowie Mc- Ceney. James Vawter, l: P M Billingsley Brandywine; Beall, Ritchie: ilbert Eugene Piscat- |away: John Fainter. Hyattsville; William J. Conway._ Gilbert Hughes Hiram L. ‘Wohlfarth. Brentwood: Oscar Poore. Robert | E. Ennie. Cavitol Heights: John K_Keane. | d C. Lutz. William H Chase. Riverdale: | Louls Gundlingly Louis Kutch. Lanham: George S. Philiips. Berwyn. DEATH HELD SUICIDE The death of Robert F. Fuller, 26, taxicab driver, 1418 Taylor street, was pronounced a suicide yesterday in a certificate issued by Coroner A. Ma- gruder MacDonald. Fuller died in Emergency Hospital 8 short time after he had been wounded in the head with a .32- caliber revolver. He left a note to his ‘wife, telling her good-by. Am.bl;lance (Continued From First Page.) fire department, which dispatched the machine, siren warning other cars out of the way, to the scene of the accident. About three weeks ago Hanrahan de- cided the ambulance was making too meany “water hauls.” The voice over the telephone, demanding immediate service, might be sincere enough, but when the ambulance arrived the |are Willlam H. Brooks of Marlboro, | ago, lived. One previous victim was found at | almost the same spot. The mutilated bodies of five others were left in the | desolate Kingsbury Run section, sev- eral miles away. | ‘The maniac blamed for the eight slayings can be charged only with violation of a health ordinance, De- tective Sergt. James Hogan declared. Confession Seen Useless. - “Even if the slayer confessed,” Hogan asserted, “that wouldn't help us any. Violation of a health ordi- nance is the only charge we could place against him. “That’s a fine of $50 and 30 days in | e workhouse.” | Although several of the previous victims were identified Hogan said, no friends or relatives could be found | “who could swear from the witness stand that che slain persons had once been living, breathing human heings in good health.” For this reason, he said, no mur- | der charges could now be filed, even if the surgically-skilled maniac were captured. “He g us one regularly every four mo " commentgd Detective | Orley May, veteran of the police homi- cide squad. Coroner Gerber said the latest wom- an victim was between 25 and 35 years old, of fair compiexion and | slight build, weighing about 110 | pounds, and had been a mother once— | possibly twice. In Desglate Section. Kingsbury Run, where the mad killer confined most of his earlier | activities, is a desolate section marked by the slow crawl of the oil-filled | waters of the little creek. The stream was drained last Fall when the seventh victim was discov- ered, but the waters failed to produce | the man’s head and identification was impossible. A hastly called confer- ence of psychiatrists, chemists, police officials and crime experts, after three hours of debate and conjecture, brought this statement from Hogan: “We're right where we were the day the first body was found.” ‘Today, Hogan, chief of the police homicide squad, asserted: “We couldn't charge the slayer with murder. Pollution of a creek with a human body is the only charge we could bring. There isn't any corpus delicti. Had ‘no Legal Identity.’ “The body of the latest victim, like the others, had no legal identity. We can't find any one who would swear from the witness stand that the slain persons had once been living.” Asked if, under Ohio law, the slayer could be indicted for the murder of a “John Doe” because the bodies have been found, Hogan said: “No. You can’t charge a man with killing John Doe because John Doe doesn’t exist.” There were no known witnesses to the killings. Most of the victims were Lelieved to be transients, and efforts to locate relatives were futile. Discovery of the latest body by a fireman late yesterday brought to two the woman victims. ‘The first was the parties involved had either been taken to the hospital in other cars, had dusted themselves off and walked away or shaken t'.e broken glass out of their hair and sped to their desti- nation. To promote efficiency, Hanrahan issued an order directing all calls be sent first to the sherif s office, to per- mit an investigation. Chief Saunders thought that was a 1 tle hard on the injured persons, who might be in need of immediate medical treatment. Moreover, the amtulance was in charge of the fire department, and why should the fire department take orders from the sheriff’s department anyhow? The ambulance has been a rare sight on the county highways this month. Chief Saunders yesterday requested Hanrahan to have the ambulance re- moved from the fire house by Sunday, because it wasn't doing any good where it was. Hanrahan didn’t wait for Sunday. He ordered it removed to the county garage today, leaving the situation roughly this: The fire department has an ambu- lance driver but no ambulance. The sheriff has an ambulance but no driver. Whosoever gets hurt gets to & hospital as best he can. Hanrahan sald today he hoped to have the machine back in service soon. Meanwhile, have your accidents out- side Arlington County or bring an ambulance with you. ll liquor, I noticed that the clerk had one of those funny little things hang- ing on his pocket. I asked him what it was and told him I had one, too. When I showed it to him he looked | at the name on the back. It said “Duke University,’ you know, and I PFrank W. Lee, former president of |a while back, but I couldn't figure [ never thought about the owner maybe the Mount Vernon Savings Bank, who | out what it was. I'd never seen any | living here. now is a vice president of the City Bank of Washington, estimated that =may be about 90 days. pin like that before, but I sorta I kept it. Then last was buying & pint of But the clerk in the liquor store looked your name up in the phone book, and that's how I happened to come out.” identified as Mrs. Florence Polilla, 41, who once was arrested in a vice raid. The others were men or youths. Taxes (Continued From First Page.) “green sheets” in approximately 50,000 cases. The agents have gone through the alphabet to date to the names be- ginning with the letter “M.” 50 a very large number of returns are yet to be inspected. From the reports so far checked, ac- cording to a report today by Deputy Tax Assessor Charles A. Russell, about 2,600 persons properly subject to taxation in the District failed to file personal property tax returns. 1t was found there were about 16,000 persons filing Federal income tax re- turns who did not have sufficient tan- gible or intangible personal property upon which to levy a District tax. It was found that about 28,000 of the re- turns that have been checked were in proper order. Many Fail to Respond. Of the total reports which have been checked against the “green sheets” the District has not completed action in about 6,000 cases. Included in the 6,000 are the cases of 2,600 who have failed to date to respond to letters from the District assessor warning that per- sonal tax returns must be made. Assessor Allen said personal tax re- turns would be required even if man- damus proceedings prove necessary that these proceedings would be be- gun next week. For failure to file a required return there is a penalty of 20 per cent of the amount of the ultimate assessment, plus a penalty of 1 per cent per month for delinquent payment of the tax. D. C, Upper near Ackley, Iowa. Lower: | home, Hunter declared, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 19317. SUSPECT IS HELD | HUNTER SAYS MIND ~ Blizzard Engulfs Iowa Trains BLANK ON SLAYING Defendant Tells Jury He Did Not Know of Shooting Wife. 81 ¢cta Dispatch to The Star. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va.—John Francis Hunter, 40-year old former R. F. & P. Railroad brake- man, took the witress stand in his own defense in Circuit Court here today to tell a jury he did not know what happened on May 7, 1934, after his wife, Anne Dalman Hunter, told him she had been untrue o him Hunter is on trial, charged with first- degree murder of the mother of his three children. He was also indicted in the death of Henry E. Corcoran, attorney in the Veteran’s Administra- tion, where Mrs. Hunter wa: employed as a secretary. The defendant related how he re- turned from a picnic at Linden, Va., on the day preceding the double slay- ing and discovered his wife and Cor- coran In the Hunter home together. He was accompanied on the outing, he told the jury, by his children and by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Hunter. It previously had been agreed, he testified, that Mrs. | Hunter would accompany them, b the last moment she told her hu she had invited her brother, Dalman, to dinner and could not go. When he found Corcoran at his the visitor is quoted as saying: “I just dropped in while looking for a house for my wife and daughter, who are coming up from New Orleans.” Hunter said he went to the Veterans Administration the following day at his wife’s request to report her sick. While there, he said, Corcoran stopped [in the hall and, after talking with him, Corcoran suggesied that they go to the Hunter home and talk things Illinois Central train, bound from Omaha to Chicago, stalled in a huge snowdrift It remained in the snow for 18 hours and was 24 hours reaching Chicago. Two locomotives pushing a snowplow, in an attempt to clear the Burlington tracks at Van Wert, are shown after they left the tracks at a crossing and tore up 200 feet of track. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. ROV, NCE DENIES GAREY'S CHARGES | Former Police Chief’s State- y ments-Before Senate Called | “Utterly False.” BY the Associated Press. * ANNAPOLIS, February 24—Gov. Harry W. Nice today described as “ut terly and abeolutely ! ment made by Maj. Enoch B. Garey last night that the Governor Lad or- dered him to cross the ice to Tangier Island the night that Sergt. Wilbert V. Hunter died. | The Governor also revealed that he | consulted Brig. Gen. Amos W. W. | Woodcock, president of St. John's Col- | lege, and frier.d of Maj. Garey, before he appointed the commission to inves- tigate the Tangier Island expedition. He said that G . Woodcock named the personnel of the commission ex- cept in one case, Dr. Dwight Mohr. The Governor also declared that the | charge he had played politics in the State police department was “ridicu- | lous.” Nice . Comment. Maj. Garey made the charges last night when he appeared before a Senate committee appointed to inves- tigate the police department. Commenting on the major's state- | ment, the Governor today said: | “The stagement by Maj. Garey that | T ordered *him to cross the ice with | Sergt. Hunter the night that Sergt. Hunter died is utterly and absolutely | false. 4 “He sent me a radiogram which in | itself indicated he had sent it after he had taken 100 men across the ice. | | He called me up the next day and told | | me some citizens were organizing a | voluntary movement to carry sup- | plies * * ¢ “That he would that night, in the face of the blinding storm, and against | the advice of watermen who knew | conditions, make that trip is some- thing of which I never drean.ed. I did not know the trip was being made * * * Denies Playing Politics. “That politics was played by me in | the police department is ridiculous. “I maintained and so told him that the chaotic condition and disorganiza- | tion were the result of a belief that certain men, with whom he had sur- rounded himself were the virtual com- | manders of the department and that | impression had to be destroyed and | the influence of these men broken up. | Five Maryland State Senators will | meet again tomorrow night to hear fur- ther testimony in their probe of the State Police Department—a probe which already had dragged the names of Gov. Harry W. Nice and other high- ranking Marylanders across a back- drop of petty politics and alleged broken faith. Last night Maj. Enoch B. Garey, recently deposed State police super- intendent, broke a year-long silence which he—trained “in the spartan | school of West Point”"—had imposed on himself. In low, measured tones, he told the | committee that “not temperament, gentlemen, but honor” forced him from the State police superintendency. Garey did not raise his voice as he charged, in the tomblike stillness of the packed Senate chamber, that: Petty politics, and his refusa! to play. petty politics, had driven him from his post as superintendent of State police. That Gov. Nice had ordered “in clear-cut manner” the ill-fated relief expedition to Tangier Island which cost the life of Sergt. Wilbert V. Hunter on the ice off Tangier Island. ‘That a trusted subordinate had taken from his files a confidential letter and given it to State officials “out to ge” him. ° That politicians had attempted to run the State Police Department. That close advisors of Gov. Nice had been “out to get” him ever since the ‘Tangier Island expedition inquiry. That William P. Lawson, Repub- | lican State chairman, was to recom- | mend men who should be given jobs as State policemen. Tested by Alienists. ‘That three nationally known alien- ists had examined him and gave & report which countered a report of “three National Guard officers” that he was “temperamentally unfitted” for the post of State police super- intendent. - The “three National Guard officers” were members of the commlssion investigating the Tangler ’ | Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh | | Bombay from Europe. Island affair and recommended Garey's dismissal., That J. Purdon Wright, former head of the police department, and a close advisor of the Governor, had | “forced” the Governor to name the Tangier Island inquiry board. That Wright, State Budget Director William H. Blakeman and State Em- ployment Commissioner Harry C. Jones had “meddled” with police de- partment affairs and that they had worked “behind the scenes” during a | recent hearing before Jones for four | State policemen charged with having conducted a “racket” on the Washing- ton Boulevard | That Gov. Nice, a day or so before he removed Garey early this monti in favor of Lieut. Col. Elmer Mun- shower, had demanded that Garey “hurt good men” and promote ‘“‘poor men” or get cut of office. Garey's charges were supported by Mrs. Marie Bauernschmidt, secretary of the Public School Association of Baltimore. Senate Committee, STEEL GROUP NEXT TOFACE PROBERS After; Recess, to Look Into In- dustry’s Labor Policies. BY JOHN C. HENRY. In recess for a week, the Senate committee investigating espionage and coercion in labor relations today turned to the task of preparing for its initial venture into the subject of labor policies of the steel industry. In addition, several matters of “un- finished business” were due for con- A recent radio address by sideration during the interim. over. En route to the bus station, Hunter said he bought a pint of whisky and that on arrival at the Hunter home, all three had a drink before lunch and one mo:2 afterwands. After telling the jury he had begged Corcoran to leave Mrs. Hunter alone, Hunter quoted Corcoran as refusing. Under questioning by his attorney, M. J. Fulton, Hunter said he did not remember getting a shotgun and pis- tol or anything else. He recovered consciousness in Emergency Hospital in Washington. “The first I knew I was hurt, even,” Hunter declared, “was when I asked a nurse what those straps were hang- ing over my face and she told me they were to hold my chin in place.” Sheriff Howard B. Fields of Arling- ton County was the first witness in the second day of the Hunter trial. He told of finding the Hunter home in a bloody shambles. Hunter was preceded on the stand by his mother, who told of having me: the dead woman with Corcoran Washington somc time before the double killing. She .vept as she re- lated events to skow that her son was a devoted father and husband. She said the couple had been sweethear: since childhood. Mrs. Hunter offer tetimony to show that insanity rur Mrs. Bauernschmidt, in which she| Scheduled to resume open hearings [N her family. charged unrest and political faction- alism in the State police department, | precipitated the current hearing. GAREY EXAMINED BY PSYCHIATRIST liarly Unstable,” Doctor Reported. By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, February 24—Dr. Manfred S. Guttmacher, psychiatrist, who examined Maj. Enoch B. Garey, former head of the State police, said today he had reported that Garey was not “a peculiarly unstable individual.” | A board of inquiry which investi- gated Garey’s conduct of a relief ex- pedition across the ice to Tangler Island, Va., had reported that he was “temperamentally and otherwise” unsuited to the police job: The fact that Garey had voluntarily undergone an examination was revealed last | night at a Senate probe into State | Police matters. Dr. Guttmacher, psychiatrist for the | Baltimore City bench, said in a re- port to Gov. Nice: “In my opinion, Maj. Garey is an extraordinary person. I feel that he is a man of great enthusiasms, great courage and of unusual integrity. He | has, I believe, a flair for the dramatic | and he may at times be impulsive. | He has remarkable physical en- | durance for a man who is past 50. “I think that his rather unusual temperamental make-up has lead peo- ple to misjudge him.” LINDBERGHS LAND PLANE AT BOMBAY Arrive in India City After Being Unreported for 48-Hour Period. BY the Asscelatea Press. BOMBAY, India, February ‘24— landed here at 1 p.m. (3 a.m. Eastern standard time) today after being un- reported for 48 hours on an aerial Jjaunt over India. Little concern had been felt for the flying colonel and his wife, whose in- sistence on absolute privacy has pre- viously caused them to be reported lost, although a widespread unofficial search failed to penetrate their mys- terious two-day disappearance. ‘They left Jodhpur at 1:50 p.m. (3:50 a.m. Eastern standard time) Monday after a week end spent in sightseeing in the Indian city. At the time of their take-off they were unreported en route to Delhi. The Lindberghs arrived from Udai- pur, where they spent last night. It was understood Col. Lindbergh would fiy Sir Francis Younghusband, authority on India and the Near East, to Calcutta, where he will attend the Congress of Religions, opening March 1. ‘Younghusband was expected to join | the Lindberghs today, arriving in| Flight to Aid Defense. Capt. P. G. Taylor, who is preparing to fly over the Indian Ocean from Australia to Africa, declares that in ploneering this route he will be assist- ing the British Empire defense plans. He points out that it could be used 88 8n emergency airway between Great Brifatn and Australia in time of trouble in the Bast, next Wednesday, the ~ommittee plans at that time to hear testimony and review evidence bearing upon labor relations policies of the American Bridge Co. of Pittsburgh, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corp. Prior to taking on this task, how- ever, the committee hopes to make its decision this week on what action is to be taken in the refusal on two | Tests Showed Him Not “Pecu. oocasions of Robert A. Pinkerton, | youthful head of the Pinkerton Na- tional Detective Agency, to surrender requested information. Spies Not Identified. Pinkerton refused, upon advice of his counsel, to disclose the identities of agency spies who were in General Motors plants in Flint, Mich., during the sit-down strike, and likewise re- fused to turn over to the committee about 50 original espionage reports from the Detroit srea. Bearing upon the decision to be made in the Pinkerton case is the status of the committee's case against the Railway Audit and Inspection Co., a strike-breaking and espionage con- cern that destroyed its records and whose officials refused to heed com- mittee subpoenas for appearance. After being indicted for contumacy, five officials of the company filed de- murrers to the indictments and coun- sel for both sides have been awaiting a response to these demurrers before proceeding further. Yesterday the committee heard testimony by organizers of the United Automobile Workers in the Flint area that anti-union policies of General Motors Corp. have become “more vicious™ since settlement of the recent strike. Appearing in the morning session, Joseph B. Ditzel and Robert C. Travis told of terrorism and in- timidation in Flint and Saginaw dur- ing the strike period. Along with Travis' testimony he submitted to the committee a mass of affidavits and documentary evi- dence in substantiation of his charges of increased union hostility by cor- poration officials. In this material were quotations by two plant officials in Flint that the company is building up a new and more extensive private police and espionage force. Other information was to the effect that a squad of 50 armed men are guarding the Flint Chevrolet power house, with live steam pipes fitted into the defense set-up. Ordered to Leave Jobs. During the afternoon meeting three union organizers ‘working in the Fish- er Body plant in Baltimore appeared to tell the committee that they had been ordered to leave their jobs yes-. terday morning because some other workmen objected to their presence. ‘They were promised pay for yester- day and were told to return this morning, they testified. Called to the stand, plant officials claimed the anti-union group was in the majority and would have forced cessation of production if the union trio had been allowed to stay. They told the committee they hoped to ad- just the trouble by this morning. $10,000 VERDICT WON IN SUIT FOR DAMAGES A District Cour jury today returned 2°$10,000 verdict 1 favor of Numeri- ano Del Rosario, 916 Eighth street southeast, who claimed he was perma- nently disabled in a traffic accident March 9, 1935, at New York and Fair- view avenues northeast. The verdict was assessed against the Nevin Mid- land Lines, bus operators, and Leon Alamo, Navy Yard worker, in whose ear Rossrio was riding. ROOSEVELT ADDS TO COPELAND RIFY Says Court Foe’s Bill to Regulate Food and Drugs Would Weaken Law. BY the Associated Press. A new difference of opin‘on today had developed between President Roosevelt and Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, who recently came out against the President’s court legislation. Mr. Roosevelt was asked at a press conference yesterday what he thought of Copeland’s pending bill to regulate the food and drug business. | The President said his first impres- sion was that the Copeland measure would weaken rather than strengthen the existing 30-year-old food and drug = aw. | _Copeland, who is chairman of the | Senate Commerce Committee, told re- | porters afterward his measure was in- | finitely stronger than the present law, except in one respect. He said his committee, before send- ing the bill to the Senate floor, had adopted a compromise provision re- garding the seizure of misbranded foods and drugs in bulk. DENTISTS NAME GROUP The District Dental Society, meet- | ing in Public Health Auditorium last night, elected Dr. A. D. Weakley chairman of its delegation to the | national convention of dentists to be | held 'at Atlantic City next July. | Other members of the delegation | are Dr. Charles Cole and Dr. James Brown. Dr. Howard Colby, Dr. E. T. Lane and Dr. Robert Eller were named | alternates. At the convention, Dr. C. | Willard Camalier of the District so- | ciety will be installed as president of i the national organization. i |Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Votes on three-year extension of reciprocal trade program. May take up bill to retire Supreme Court justices at 70. Joint Committee studies reorgani- zation of Government. House and Senate conferees meet on independent office appropriations. House: Considers minor bills. Foreign Affairs Committee resumes hearings on neutrality legislation. Immigration Committee reopens hearings on prposed restriction of alien actors. i TOMORROW. | Senate: May start debate on neutrality bill if resolution extending reciprocal trade agreement passes today. Interstate Commerce Subcommittee, executive meeting, 10:30 am. on Guffey coal bill. Agriculture Subcommittee meets at 10 am. on crop-insurance legislation. House: | Speeches by various members on miscellaneous subjects. - Sl Opium Sales Limited. Opium is now sold by the govern- ment in China, but only to licensed smokers, who mdst cure themselves before 1940, when all trade in oplum 8 acheduled to be suppressed. i y