Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1937, Page 2

COUNTY IS URGED 10 PAY 175 BONDS Montgomery Government Cost Highest in State, Economist Says. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. KENSINGTON, Md., February 25.— Administration costs in Montgomery County are the highest in the State, amounting to about $1.98 per capita, William Paul Walker, economist of the University of Maryland. told the Kensington Chamber of Commerce last night. Analyzing the fiscal status of the eounty, Walker recommended: ‘That the county begin paying its bonds “right now.” That a reassessment of real and personal property be made at once and & system of continuous assessment be established. Two Taxing Areas. That all incorporated towns and special taxigg areas be consolidated | into one unit. That the county be divided into two taxing areas, with one rate for rural and another for the suburban section. Walker said the financial problems eonfronting Montgomery were “very | serious and might prove consequen- tial unless attacked correctly.” Under the continuing assessment proposal advanced by Walker the county would constantly have at its disposal the services of two or three assessors who would keep values “in line.” Declaring county bonds constitute a too-heavy drain on the treasury, Walker stated the county now pays about $180 for every $100 bond issued. | Oppose Tax Diversion. A resolution opposing diversion of motor vehicle revenues and any addi- tional special levies on motorists was adopted after Allen H. Constance, counselor of the American Automo- bile Club of Maryland, spoke on Gov. Nice's diversion proposals. Following his talk a motion picture ghowing highway problems was pre- sented. The chamber indorsed the applica- tion of the county C. of C. Health Committee for a free health survey by the American Public Health Associa- tion. The action was taken at the re- quest of Dr. V. L. Ellicott, county health officer. MWREYNOLDS BILL APPROVED BY GROUP " House Foreign Affairs Committee Votes for Neutrality Meas- ure, 15 to 3. By the Associated Press. The House Foreign Affairs Com- mittee gave formal approval today to the McReynolds permanent neutrality bill. The vote was 15 to 3. Designed to replace the temporary neutrality law expiring May 1, the measure would: Continue provisions for mandatory embargoes on exportation of arms, munitions and implements of war to belligerents and for bans on extending loans or credit to warring countries. Give the President broad discretion to restrict shipments to fighting na- tions of materials that could be con- verted to war uses. 3 Bring under the American neutral- : ity policy civil wars which threaten to embroil other nations. Chairman McReynolds, Democrat, ©f Tennessee said he hoped to bring the bill up for House debate next week. The McReynolds bill differs from | the Pittman measure approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chiefly in its more flexible treatment of the question of barring shipments of war materials. REPUBLICAN iNDd!?-SES . CIVIL SERVICE CHANGE Campbell, Former Commission Chairman, in Favor of One Administrative Head. That part of President Roosevelt’s reorganization plan which would place the civil service under one administra- tive head instead of three, is indorsed by Thomas E. Campbell, Republican, former Governor of Arizona and at one time chairman of the Civil Serv- ice Commission. Gov. Campbell expressed his ap- proval in a-telegram to Louis Brown- low, chairman of the President’s Com- mittee on Administrative Manage- ment, which made the study of the Federal executive set-up on which President Roosevelt based his recom- mendations to Congress. Brownlow brought Gov. Campbell’s communication to the White House today. —_— GALLERY BILL DELAYED The Senate probably will have an- | other opportunity within a few days to consider the bill for acceptance by the Government of Andrew W. Mellon’s valuable art collection and a $10,000.- 000 art gallery building in Washington. Action on the measure was postponed yesterday at the request of Senator La Follette, Progressive, of Wisconsin, who said later he wanted time to study the bill. It retains its place on the calen- dar and will come up again whenever the calendar is called under the unan- imous consent rule. Woman Expires After Driving Nail Into Head Attempt at Suicide Is Fatal After Operation. BY the Assoclatec Press. BERKELEY, Calif., February 25.— Miss Dema Dunlap, 22, who drove a 4-inch nail into her head in a suicide attempt, died today. Dr. Eric Kosterlitz, who removed the spike Tuesday, said the nail had been shoved through a hole in the skull left from a previous operation. Dr. Kosterlitz said that before losing €onsciousness Miss Dunlap related she had thrust the nail into her head Sun- day night, then gone to bed to await death. She awoke the next morning suffering from a severe headache and was taken to a hospital. Washington Wayside Tales Random Chbservations of Interesting Events and Things. REGULATIONS. ED tape not only characterises| bureaucracy, a hungry sleuth learned the other day. Recently he went into one of the larger cafeterias during a dull period to get a snack. The aroma and ap- | pearance being appealing. he asked one of several young ladies behind the steam counter for a fresh ham sandwich. please,” and turned for a quick con- ference with a colleague, apparently her immediate superior. The low- voiced parley over, she came back to say, “I'm very sorry, but we can't make you a sandwich.” As our commentator pushed his tray to the cashier'’s stand, the | subordinate female official came dash |ing up breathlessly. “The manager, | she exclaimed, “said we can give you an order of meat, two pieces of bread and some mayonnaise and lettuce. And you can make your own sand- | wich.” Our observer, however, was content with his clam chowder, radishes, milk, | | coconut cake and figs. * x % % MEAL. The counter girls in a downtown serve-yourself restaurant stopped work to watch a customer eat sev- eral days ago. He was a middle- aged man and consumed all this at the same time: Two orders of prunes. Two orders of wheat cakes. Two cups of coffee. Siz patties of butter. - x % x G-U-R-G-L-E. ‘THE man who turned this in said | it was an illustration of the | Freudian parental complex. But we offer it as a good animal story. | The two cats, coal-black mother cat and her 2-year-old gray offspring kitten, at 68 K street, belonging to Mrs. James F. Anderson, want their | water warm and insist it be straight from the kitchen faucet. When thirsty, the felines hop up into the sink and put their mouths beneath the hot-water spigot which usually is dripping. They never go to the cold tap. If the water is completely cut off, |wait for some one to come along. No one, Mrs. Anderson says, taught | her pets the delights of the faucet. |litters, each of five kittens, annually. | Eight years old, she has done her racial duty to the count of 70 yowlers. | Mrs. Anderson did not say whether the spigot habit, like the bottle one, is inherited. *x o ox DOCTOR. A PHYSICIAN was called to one 14 of the city's smaller hotels to see !a patient. He went up the elevator | without notifying the clerk. On his way out of the hotel a bell hop stopped him. “Say,” said the boy, “you've for- | gotten something.” | “What have I forgotten?” inquired the perplexed doctor. “You've forgotten to pey your bill.” The astonished physician suddeniy | remembered his bag, and he laughed | heartily, He explained, and the bell hop | muttered his apologies. ! *x x & STYLIST. H!NRY MORGENTHAU, Jr, who has done much to stabilise the currency, Dpossesses acutely stable sartorial taste, a Treasury operative reports. The journalist has been covering the Secretary’s bi-weekly press con- ferences for several months. The mat- |ter did not impress him so much after his first 12 gatherings, but by now he has become quite conscious |of the fact that Mr. Morgenthau al- ways wears exactly the same style shirts. They are of white oxford weave with button-down collars. BOY wMaT a* LAUNDRY BILL THAT GuY Muy'| MIRGWTY g S Perhaps the cabinet member is at- tempting to popularize these par-| ticular garments. Anyway, the news- | paper man is often tempted in the | barrage of questions to inject tremulous query as to the number of white, button-down-collar shirts Mr. Morgenthau owns. For he must have oodles. Both at the morning and {afterncon conferences the one he |wears is immaculate, brand-new in| looks, without a crease. | ® % ¥ ¥ CHALLENGE. Startled, she said, “Just a minute, | they meow until they get results or | Mother cat, incidentally, has two | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THU GIRL SOBS STORY (SPEED ON BUDGET OF BRUTAL FATHER Child, 13, on Stand, Defends Mother in Slaying of Parent. By the Associated Press. TOWSON, Md., February 25.—A tearful, 13- 1d country girl told a Jury today t her father beat and threatened her mother, Mrs. Mary Meryl Almony, accused of killing her husband last June. The girl, Nancy, cried as she told how her father attacked her mother two days before the fatal shooting of | Hollis Almony. The mother, a former | school teacher, admitted yesterday she | did the shooting. Throughout the | testimony the child called her father | ‘Hollis.” “Hollis started fighting with Mom |and was hitting her,” the little girl said. “He got mad and started throw- ing dishes around and broke up things | and ran Mom and us out of the house, and said he was going to shoot Mom. Spent Night in Hay. “We went out to the hay barracks, and Myron, he’s my oldest brother, and | I spent the rest of the night there. Mom went back in the house with Al- bert and Junior (other children) after my older sister, Marguerite, said that Hollis had quieted down. Before we left the house he said he was going io burn the house and all of us. “I went in the house the following morning at about 8 o'clock when I | woke up and Marguerite was just | cleaning up the broken things and | Hollis was asleep in a chair.” The weeping child said her father left the house that morning “after | fighting Mom and picking on her some more and arguing about money. “Marguerite and I were on the porch when Hollis came home late that night. Mom was upstairs putting Albert and Junior to bed. She came down when she heard Hollis cussing. He . | started fighting her. He knocked her down and then dragged her in the house by the hair. Then he hit her , many more times. I don’'t know how | | many. Then he stopped and turned | | on the radio loud and Marguerite and | | I went up to bed. Treated Mother “Awful.” “I had been asleep when Marguerite | | woke me up. She got up and I stayed | in bed and then mom came in the | room. Her face was bloody and was swelling and her dress was ripped. | I stayed in bed and mom and Mar- | guerite went down to the inn” (from | which they called police) Summing up her father's treatment, the child testified: “He treated her awful. He was| (always picking on her and hitting | with a knife and another time he! cut her with an ax.” The girl said she did not remember many of the words her father used | the night before the shooting, but that | she recalled hearing him say: | “I didn't get you last night, but | I'm going to get you tonight.” | Y. M. C. A. DEBATERS TO MEET ‘COLLEGES |G. W. U. and American U. Team | Dates Scheduled, Coach | Announces. ‘The first Y. M. C. A. debating team in the history of the local institution has scheduled three intercollegiate debates, Coach Arthur M. Isler an- nounced yesterday. George Washington University will be met March 5, New York University March 26 and American University on April 12. The debates are open to the public and will be held at the central Y. M. C. A. | The "Y" debaters will take the nega- | tive of propositions that Congress should be empowered to fix minimum | wages and maximum hours in industry (and that electric utilities should be owned and operated by the Govern- ment. Isler said his team will be chosen from among John Clerget, Milton | Edelson, Frank Finley, John Grosart, Lester Hurt, Jack Kelley and Robert | Thornton. |BAY PLANE C.RASH LAID | TO STRUCTURAL FAILURE | BY the Associated Press. J. Monroe Johnson said yesterday it appeared “unmistakable” that a struc- | | tural failure caused the crash of 2 big transport plane in San Francisco | Bay recently, killing 11 persons. | | told the commission the need of the | concern for new cars, | Johnson, Assistant Secretary of | Commerce, said investigations by Air Commerce Bureau inspectors had | shown a motor dropped from the plane some distance from the spot where the ship crashed. He said a fractured propeller might cause a motor to break loose, but that the propeller on the transport was not damaged. Air commerce engineers plan further examination of the motor. GIRL SCOUTS Diplomatic representatives of 33 countries and their families will be guests this afternoon at an interna- HOSTESSES 8| tional tea in the “Little House” of |of the National Girl Scouts at 1750 New York avenue. The guests will rep- resent countries in which the World Association of Girl Scouts and Girl | Guides is active. l | IS ASSEMBLY HOPE But All Indications Point to Usual Last-Minute Jam in Legislature. BY the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md.,, February 25.— Leaders of the Maryland Legislature let it be known today they wished the money-handling committees would speed up budget deliberations to bring that all-important measure onto the floor and avert a last-month legisla- tive jam. No leader would be quoted directly on his wishes in that respect. Hows= ever, the committees have had the budget since January 25 and leading members of the Finance Committee said they thought it should be report- ed to the floor “as soon as possible.” Just when it will reach the floor is not known. Senator J. Allan Coad, Democrat, of St. Marys, Finance chairman, and Delegate Kent R. Mul- likin, Democrat, of Prince Georges, Ways and Means chairman, declined to make any prophecies. Relief Chief Problem. Indications are the budget will not be reported from committee until the latter part of next week or the first part of the following week. If that is the case, the Legislature will not | be able to get around to the mass of | other important legislation until less than three weeks of the session re- mains. - Chief among those problems is that of relief. The Board of State Aid | | | and Charities has asked that the State provide $16,000,000 for the 30-month period beginning April 1. The Legis- lature took a whole month last March to decide what to do about relief for | 12 months only. At least one member of the Fi- nance Committee has broached— | behind closed doors—the suggestlon that the budget be held in committee | unul the relief program can be worked {out and both reported at the same time as one general State financial program. lowed, the budget will not reach the floor for days. Present Levies Expire in March. The relief program will, of neces- sity, include taxation to raise any amount to be granted for that pur- pose. Present relief taxes on beer, whisky, automobile titlings, cos- metics, amusements and increased | cornoration franchise levies expire Marcn 31 | So far 1n their month of delibera- tion, neither committee has taken | definite action on any one item or | point. At least the chairmen decline | to reveal any action officially, saying | that any action taken to date is, “purely tentative.” Authoritative sources report, how- | her with his fists and once he cut her | €ver, that the committee action could be described as the “cutting of all the gravy out of Harry Nice'’s bud- get.” Those same sources reported that much of the cuts came from elimination of allocations made for the “cushion fund” given the Board of Public Works by the 1935 Legis- lature, $230,000 Cut Reported. It was reported last night that the Senate Finance Committee had made cuts approximating $230,000 ynrly—‘ without consideration of any changes in salaries or without considering the University of Maryland and the State Roads Commission from a standpoint of cutting their appropriations. It is not known just when the committees plan to apply any ax—if at all—to those two departments. Reports last night were that the Finance Committee had cut $25,000 Where Actor Died in Mock Battle S RSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1937. layin toppled a 3 KANSAS ADOPTS CHILD LABOR BAN House Votes 64 to 52 for Amend- ment Now Approved by 28 States. BY the Associated Press. ment to the Federal Constitution to- day, bringing to 28 the number of | States to approve. The vote was 64 | to 52. | The resolution passed the Senate 1t that suggestion is fol- | t¥O Wee tie. Before the Legislature for the sixth | time, it was variously described as of | instrument by which Congress would | control the youth of the Nation and the avenue to a fuller, richer life for chil- dren. { SEVEN GIVEN TERMS | IN ELECTION FRAUDS Kansas City Sentences From Six Months to Three Years—Four Women Put on Probation. Bs the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, February 25— Sentences ranging from six-month | jail terms to three vears in prison | were passed today by Federal Judge | Merrill E. Otis on seven election workers convicted of vote fraud con- ! | | | spiracy in la® November's general Capital ! election Pour women defendants who pleaded no defense were each placed on one-year's probation. ‘Three-year sentences were given | | John A. Luteran, Democratic precinct | captain; Frank H. Adams, Republican | | judge, both from the seventeenth pre- | | cinct of the twelfth ward. { Edson M. Walker Democratic judge | in the thirteenth precinct of the same | ward, was given a two-year sentence. | | He will be sentenced Saturday on an | | attempted subordination of perjury | I TOPEKA. Kans,, February 25.—The | House adopted the child labor amend- ks ago by a 21-to-20 vote, with | | | ASSEMBLY PUSHES 2 SUBURBAN BILLS Opposition to Measures in Maryland Fail to Material- ize—One Change. BY JACK ALLEN, Staff Correspondent of The Star, ANNAPOLIS, February 25.—The bills to prolong the terms of the | Washington Suburban Sanitary and | Maryland National Capital Park and 1Planning Commission’s members, | thereby saving the jobs of some 350 | Democratic appointees, were winging their way through the State Assembly today with but one change. Favorable reports on both measurss were adopted in the House yesterday after opposition said to have been Ruins of a structure in which George Daley, a film extra, was fatally injured during the film- ing of a World War scene in Hollywood. Daley was the window at the right when an explosion of a bom the role of a machine gunner behind '‘prop” concrete wall on him. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Asks King George’s Night Robe, But Lord Wil BY the Associated Press. LONDON, February 25.—My Lord Anoaster wanted “his majesty’s night robe” as part of his reward for serv- ing the King at coronation, but he is willing to take the pyjamas. Because, his lawver admitted in \muing before the Court of Claims, | times do change and this is the | twentieth century. | Lord Ancaster, the joint hereditary ) lord great chamberlain of England, has the traditional privilege of ren- dering special service to a new sov- ! Lieut. Gov. W. M. Lindsay breaking & | ereign when he is crowned—and the | right of claiming something for a souvenir. He is one of the “great officers of | communistic origin and purpose, the State ranking ahead of Prime Min- ister Stanley Baldwin. Court Ponders. ‘The Court of Claims, which rules on all manner of quaint petitions for coronation services, gave his requests serious consideration. But the court couldn’t decide defi- nitely such an obtuse matter, so it turned it over to King George VI for his personal decision. Because of the changing times, Lord Lancaster didn't ask for his usual privilege “to serve the King with water on the day of the coronation and to have the basin and the towels l Take Pyjamas ! and the cup of assay for his fee." Otherwise, however, nothing was overlooked—not even the claim to the bed the King sleeps in the night before he is crowned. Other Requests. In the words of the petition, the Lord Great Chamberlin asked for the right: “To wear 40 yards of crimson velvet with his coronation robes. (“He can have it if he wants it,” the court clerk commented. “But you would wonder how a man can dress Himself in ali that velvet, eh “To have a livery anc . the King's court at all times “To have the hed whercin hi lay the night before the coronat gether with all the curt and all the cushions and c the chamber, together wit ture of the same and his night robe. and “To have a box erected for his use in Westminster Abbey." On the last claim the answer was “no.” Although the court based its decision on legal grounds, some suspected that if 8,000 persons were jammed into the abbey there wouldn't be much room for such a serious concession to medieval- ism, majesty’s LABOR INJUNCTIONS and Organized Labor Square Off Before Judi- ciary Committee. BY the Assoclated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, February 25.— Capital and organized labor squared off today in a fight before the House Judiciary Committee over a proposed of injunctions in labor disputes. Both sides were authorized to file yearly from the amount asked by the | cOnviction returned in a separate trial | priefs in support of their contentions | Conservation Commission for propa- | vesterday. gation of oysters. The commission asked $125,000 yearly, as compared with $100.000 allotted for the two previous years. One of the chief stumbling stones in the way of an early report by the committees is a definite policy on restoration of the 1935 salary reduc- tions. Some sources, said the com- mittees, were holding that policy mak- ing until the last possible minute when it would be possible to see exactly the total cut from the budget. When that total is before the com- mittee, it will be possible for those groups to know exactly how much, if any, revenue would be needed to grant full restorations. Full restorations would require approximately $475,000 yearly over the budget as submitted by the Governor. Transit (Continued From First Page.) busses and other capital improvements for this year “require more money than the company can supply from f{ts own sources.” H. added: “The cheapest anc most available | method of providing these necessary | funds is through loans from local | banks on mnotes secured by the 45 | street cars and 71 motor coaches | which have been ordered by the com- | pany, under authority of the Public Utilities Commission.” In approving the plan, the com- mission specified that all e:penses incurred by the company incident to the separation, execution and record- ing of the purchase money chattel trust agreement, the notes to be is- sued thereunder, and the exec.tion trust, shall be amortized through charges to income in such | manner that the ratio between the | amortization charges and the prin- | cipal of the notes outstanding will | be uniform for all fiscal periods. Harry Somerville, the hotel man, told the membership of the newly organized Hook, Line and Sinker Club that he would be glad to see that any fish members caught and desired to have prepared would be taken care of at mo cost to those presenting the fish for consumption at any gathering. Fred Orsinger of the Bureau of Fisheries was all set for that pro- posal. “Next time I come,” he said, “I'll catch a pair of guppies and bring them over. Let me see you pre- pare them for the table.” e T e s Fatal Blast Ordered Probed. STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, February 35 (P) —Coroner Ray F. Slee ordered to- day an investigation into a nearby coal strip mine blast in which three Ohio men were killed. Robert G. Wilson, 33, Annapolis blasting contractor Henry ‘Trushell, 28, of Smithfield. and Law- rence Johnson of Weems, laborers, were killed late yesterday when four blast- BY the Associated Press. ROCHESTER, N. Y., February 25.— The installment plan of serving jail sentences for misdemeanors—to be tried out in Rochester if Gov. Herbert Lehman approves—was hailed today as a “good thing” by prominent offi- cials. A bill which now awaits the Gov- ernor’s signature would permit “week end” serving of sentences up to 60 days. For each week end in jail the culprit would be credited with two days against the total sentence. The executive vetoed a similar measure last year because it was State-wide in effect. He said it should be tried first in Rochester. The new bill Rochester as the “proving ground.” City Court Judge Jacob Gitelman, foe of the drunken and reckless mo- torist, who sponsored similar legis- lation lest year, suid “This law would { Installment Plan Jail Terms Hailed by New Y ork Officials give us a way to'impose a punishment that is deserved and still net punish the innocent wife or children.” “While it is not universal in ap- plication, it is & start in a good direc- tion and I feel it will be effective in many cases,” City Court Judge Arthur L. Wilder commented. Commissioner of Public Safety Wal- ter P. Cox said he believed the jailing of an offender over the week end | would be more of a hardship and mote of a deterrent to the “minor criminal” than a straight penitehtiary term. 1 “To lose five week ends in jail seems more of a punishment than a straight 10-day term,” he explained. “I'm in favor of it.” George C. Donahue, secretary of the Rochester: Automobile Club, said “It Other sentences: | Lorne E. Wells, Democratic judge, two years \ John H. Drummond. Democratic | recinct captain, two years. Joe Wells, jr, Democratic clerk, a | | year and a day. | Leo B. Roach, police patrolman, six | months i jail. | Placed on probation for a year were | Mrs. Chioe Albright, Mrs. Tessie | | Mears, Mrs. Callie Clark and Miss | Pear] Sperry, all of whom pleaded no defense and testified for the Gov- ernment, CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS D. C. EFFICIENCY PROBE Preparations for an investigation of the efficiency and organization of the District government, to be made by s civic committee, will be discussed to- morrow at a conference called by | Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen. | The scope of the investigation is expected to be planned tentatively at the time, although appointment of the investigating body is not expected to be announced until after March 10 when Engineer Commissioner Dan I Sultan returns from a vacation. Among those invited to the con- ference tomorrow are Edgar Morris, president of the Board of Trads Robert V. Fleming, president of Rigi National Bank; Thomas E. Lodge, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations; E. Barrett Prettyman, former corporation counsel, and Lloyd B. Wilson, president of the Chesa. peake & Potomac Telephone Co. | P Banquet Speaker TO TELL OF EXPERIENCES IN SPAIN. JAMES R. KIRKLAND, Former assistani United States district attorney and professor at George Washing- ton University Schooal, is somet necessary to differentiate between the traffic offender and the hold-up man and this plan seems to be the way. Il'llmm" L] | will speak on I T periences ‘in S| at the Jather-son banque: at Cal- tomorrow map&t Cll«urd: / by Monday, with prospect of commit- tee action within a few days there- after. Thomas J. Donnelly, white-haired secretary of the Ohio Federation of Labor, told committee members last night that the bill would “merely bring the equity courts back to first Harry Smoyer, Cleveland attorney, speaking in behalf of employers there, said the measure would “reduce col- lective bargaining to a mere scrap of peper,” and added it “takes away the only remedy the emplover has when there is no strike at his establish- ment.” H. J. Crawford, representing the American Steel & Wire Co. of Cleve- land, termed the bill “vicious class leg- islation and unnecessary,” while Prof. R. E. Matthews of the Ohio State Uni- versity College of Law, urging its en- actment, said injunctions against la- bor unions were *“‘conducive of vi- olence.” (Continued From First Page.) always wanted to do, lynching will be In a joint statement they said the} rising tide of sentiment in favor of | such a bill is unmistakable. Although | efforts to pass an anti-lynching law have been unsuccessful for a number | believe the prospects are brighter than | in the past In further support of the bill, Wag- ner and Van Nuys stated: “With unremitting regularity, lynch- ings have decreased under every threat of Pederal legislation upon the subject, and increased whenever the hope of passing such legislation seemed dim. | This is proof positive that congres- sional action would be an effective | check upon a crime which, both in its immediate effects and its potential | evils, is one of the greatest threats | facing American life and institutions. Double Breakdown of Law. “Those who are put to death, and their families, are not the only vic- tims of lynching. In every case, there is a double breakdown of the law—first, in permitting the crime, and secondly in failing to punish the perpetrators. Such a suspension of law is & menace to the whole com- munity concerned, and the menace is even greater in those all-too-frequent instances where the community puts its stamp of passive approval upon the outrages within fts borders. “The tragic events in other lands today teach us that the intolerance manifested by lynching must be quenched before it grows into legalized brutality; that the defense of all that democratic institutions imply, if it is not to be too late, must begin as soon as the foundations of liberalism are attacked. “During the past 50 years, 5.000 men, women and children have died in orgies of torture surpassing the inquisition, only because local authori- ties have failed to prevent and failed to punish. That is why sincere op- ponents of lynching have long advo- cated the passage of a Federal anti- lynching law.” ¥ of years, the sponsors of the new bill | ON RAMSPECK BILL Hearings Closed on Civil Service Measure and Testimony Will Be Printed. Chairman Ramspeck of the House Civil Service Commitiee said today that he does not expect any action for at least another week on his bill | to extend the civil service to emer- gency agencies and large groups of | act to restrict courts in the issuance employes in various Government estab- lishments. The hearings which have been held on this measure the last i two weeks have been closed and the testimony is to be printed. The Ramspeck bill provides for this extension of the civil service by com- petitive examination. while the Presi- dent’s recommendation is for non- competitive examinations. At least 90 per cent of the witnesses spoke in favor of non-competitive examina- tions. arguing that the experience of those employes makes them more valuable than inexperienced employes who, fresh from school, might make a few points higher rating in com- | petitive examinations The expense of holding the com- petitive examinations was emphasized, | and it was argued that the work of the Government would suffer through disruption of the force and the delay incident to the training of new em- ployes unless the present force is re- tained through non-competitive ex- aminations. The witnesses included personnel officers of various units of the Government which would be af- fected by the bill and spokesmen for several organizations of employes. ’ Dau;ghter (Continued From First Page.) were still there when she returned at 3:30. Anne did not look at her father, who was sitting almost directly in front of her, but turned her head to- ward the jury box. Asked if her father appeared to be intoxicated when she returned from school at 3:30 o'clock, the girl emphatically replied { “Yes, sir” | Two psychiatrists—Dr. George A. Wright, superintendent of Southwest- ern State Hospital, at Marion, Va., and | Dr. A. D. Hutt 1, his assistant—uesti- ! fied they found no symptoms of in- ! sanity while Hunter was confined in the institution for 2 years and 10 months. Dr. Hutton told the jury he did not believe in temporary insanity. Both psychiatrists testified they did not believe Hunter was insane at the ! time of the killing or that he is in- | sane now. Preceding the testimony of Anne | Hunter, Victor Parke Daimas, a bro- | | ther of the slain woman, testified he | | was at the Hunter home until late | evening on the day previous to the | double slaying when Hunter claimed | | to have returned from a picnic and | | discovered his wife and Corcoran on | the back porch together. Hunter testified his wife told him her broth had not been there that day. Hunter, a 40-year-old former R. F. & P. Railroad brakeman, also has been indicted on a first-degree murder charge in the death of Corcoran, but is being tried only on the charge of killing his wife. RAID NETS 200. | DETROIT, February 25 (#).—Po-| lice arrested 200 persons yesterday in & series of raids on alleged hand- books and gambling places in the downtown district. The officers visited a dozen places and smeched gambling devices. Police Inspector Wendell Lochbiler said the proprietors would be charged with operating illegal establishments and the other: held as witnesses. er | 1 | | A | Montgomery aroused by Republican leaders failed |to materialize and the bills were |placed on the House third reading | calendar, one step short of the half- | way point in their legislative journey this morning | It was learned several G. O. P. chieftains from Prince Georges and | Montgomery counties visited the | Capitol within the past few days and :rrpulcdl\ stirred up resentment {in | some quarters of the House against enactment of the proposals, which would deprive Gov. Harry W. Nice anr his Republican colicagues of a ric patronage plum | Opposition Not Manifest. | Their efforts apparently were vain, however, for not one dissentir | vote was heard when bills wer reported by the delegations from Prince Georges and Montgomer counties, to whom they were refer after their introduction by thes» delegations last Thursday. The lone change in the measures a originally drawn would empower tl Governor to remove members from ti Park and Planning Commission, but would make such removal conditiona upon members conviction for mis- feasance or malfeasance in office. Under existing laws members serve at the Governor's pleasure and ma: be removed without cause or explana- tion any time during their four-year term. In its original form the biil proposed to take this authority from the Governor and vest it in the cir- cuit courts of Montgomery and Prince Georges by the stipulation that the courts could remove a member for misconduct in office, incompetency or willful neglect of duty While the effect of the amendment is virtually tantamount to the original purpose of the bill, members of the iwo delegations felt the bill, if enacted into law. might be deemed unconsti- tutional because ot its delegation of executive powers to the judiciary. The bills would prolong the terms of the members of both commissions for two years from May 1 next, or until after the State and county elections in 1938. The terms of all Democratic members. who now control both com- missions, are due to expire in May. Republican Appointments. New Republican appointments would bring the G. O. P. into power with the resultant dismissal of all or a majority of the 350 Democrats employed by those agencies which handle water, sewer. park and zoning problems in and Prince Georges. ‘The terms of Park and Planning Commission members also would be extended from four to six vears in the future under the measure dealing with that body. The terms of Suburban Sanitary Commission members would not change, however. Reports of the bills yesterday, six days after introduction, is in line with the delegation’s plan to enact the measures and rush them to the Gover- nor as quickly as possible to allow time for their passage over the gubernatorial veto he is certain to apply. LECTURE ON FLOWERS P. L. Ricker to Speak Tonight at Museum. An illustrated lecture on wild flow- ers will be given at the National Muse- um at 8 pm. today by P. L. Ricker under auspices of the Wild Fower Preservation Society Colored slides and motion pictures will be shown of scenes in the South- ern mountains, along with an ex- hibit of flowers preserved by a newly developed process. No admission will be charged, and the public has been invited. National Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: May vote on extension of reciprocal trade act Agriculture Subcommittee hearings on crop insurance bill Judiciary Subcommittee resumes hearings on O'Mahoney industrial licensing bill Interstate Commerce Subcommittee takes up Guffey coal bill. House: General debate Foreign Affairs Committee considers permanent neutrality legisiation. Agriculture Committee discusses general farm program. TOMORROW. begins Senate: | May start debate on bull for volun- | tary retirement of Supreme Court | justices, if the reciprocal trade resolu- tion passes today. Military Affairs Committee, regular weekly meeting, executive. Civil Service Committee, executive, at 11 am., to map procedure. on Mc- Carran Government pay bill. House: Will not be in session. Rivers and Harbors Committee meets at 10:30 a.m. Merchant Marine Committee meects at 10:30 a.m. Subcommittee on Appropriatjons in charge of District supply bill resumes hesrings at 10 am. ! Woman Driver Hits Own Guest Walking Home After Party By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, N. C, February 25 —Miss Ethel M. Haynes of Raleigh went to a dinner party last night at the home of Mrs. Bessie W. Bartholomew. Miss Haynes decided to walk home. Her hostess took another guest uptown by car. Fifteen minutes later Miss Haynes was hit by an automobile and seriously injured. Police said the driver of the car was Mrs. Bartholomew.