Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1937, Page 2

LOGAL SUFFRAGE PLAN CONSIDERED “Bérroughs Proposal” Of- | fered as Basis for District Discussion, An organization meeting of a citi- gens' committee on local suffrage for the District was held last night by representatives of various civic groups follgwing a short business scssion of the Burroughs Citizens’ Association. The group used as & basis for discus- slop, the so-called “Burroughs plan” for local suffrage, which was drawn up by Wilbur S. Finch of the Burroughs association about fo years ago. Finch explained ttat the plan was not ta be the program of the new organi- gation, but was merely a foundation on which to build ideas and bring forth discussion of the suffrage prom- lem, and that it probably would have to_be altered to mee: widespread ap- proval. David Babp, chairman of the Suf- frage Committee of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. was elected chairman of the organization meeting and Finch was ehiirman. Plan Explained. Copies of the Burroughs proposal were distributed to the citizens last night and in their order. the plan briefly provides for the following: -National representation. Passage of the Senate joint resolution (of the | Seventy-third Congress) and since re- introduced by Senator Capper Kansas and Representative Norton of New Jerse) Local suffrage. The establishment of @ legislative council, the members of which are elected by District voters. THis council’s duties would be to enact local es and such general legislation as designated by the Con- gress in the enabling act, this legisla- 'tion to be subject to veto by Congress .within 60 davs. Tu exercise exclusive jurisdiction in purely local financial and tax matters. To "Xercise concur- rent jurisdiction with concurrent re- sponsibility as determined by Congress. noy exclusively of local cour members would be ‘elected as follows: The city divided into precincts by population. Each pre- cinct shall have two members on the counctl, one from the precinct and one elected from the city at large. Nomi- nations of candidates would be by pe- tition without political designation and 1o limit placed on number of candi- dates. A p mine the election named permanent | of | Wayside NOT DUKE. | worn for a while and finally returned The key belongs to Paul Royster ! tradition between the two schools will ETIQUETTE. It would be nicer, though, if news- on a letter addressed to Blank “I wouldn't know.” said our man. car motormen are the protago- i vlvania avenue, during the homeward the head) bounded. The cautious Washington Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. | HERE was just one thing wrong with that siorv we had the other day about the Phi Beta Kappa key that was found, to its owner by the driver of a beer truck. It was only wrong enough to amuse, not wrong enough to hurt any one. and Mr. Royster is a graduate of | North Carolina, not Duke University, | as the Wayside item said. | Any one who knows the feudin’ | appreciate the necessity for bestowing | credit where credit is due. Mr. Roy- ster is a Chapel Hill Kappa. * ok ox & It is not up to this department, with all its sins and shortcomings, to reprove manufacturers for the problems of etiquette they create. papers were not called upon to an- swer such questions as the fol- lowing: “What should be the salutation Soap, Cincinnati, Ohio?” “Not Blank Soap Co., just Blank Soap?” our man countered. “Yes,” said the caller. “But you might try ‘Dear Suds.’” x x x % KNIGHTHOOD. A LADY'S hat and four gallant street in this breezy rn As the lady was crossing the corner | where the trolleys turn up Seventeenth street, as well as continue down Penn- ! rush hour on a recent windy day, a gust of wind neatly lifted the small | black hat from the golden-haired head. Into the traffic snarl it (the hat, not | lady proceeded across the street, care- | fully deposited her briefcase against | the iron fence surrounding the Court | of Claims, and looked back. v vote would detor-" In qualifying the voters, exclusion | is made of those voters who maintain | . voting privilezes in other jurisdictions. | The exe power would be vested In a city manager who would be appointed by the President with the “advice and consent” of the Senate. He would replace the present Commissioners. Judicial power: The Court of Appeals and the District Court would remain unchanged. Membership in _the lower courts, however, would be sappointed by the city manager with +the advice and consent of the council ' Would Eleet Education Board. The Board of Education would have control of the public schools and members elected in accordance with the Gasque bill, introduced in the House in March, 1933. Heated debate arose on some points and when a resolution was placed #before the body stating generally that e favor local suffrage.” the group | *adopted the measure with but one dis- senting vote—that of A. D. Calvert of the Lincoln Park Citizens' Association. The committee will appear before the Senate Subcommittee on Reor- ‘ganization of the District Government and suggest that five Senators, five “Representatives and five District citi- ‘zens form a commitiee to study the sproblem and make recommendations “to Congress. * Representatives at the meeting included the following from the indi- cated citizens' associations: Columbia ‘Heights, Col. Luther R. Maddox, Mrs. :Marie F. Maddox, Mrs. Margaret H. “Worrel, president; Logan-Thomas Cir- | «cle, Horace M. Fulton; Petworth, Earl | ‘W. Cooper, president, and Horace | J. Phelps: Conduit Road, G. P. Oak- | ley; North Capitol, Mrs. Ada Mills Payne; Burroughs, Robert M. Furniss, | L. M. Eidness, K. P. Armstrong, Mrs. Eleanor St. Omar Roy, W. H. Wil- | liams, L. F. Kreech. - ST. MARYS PACKERS URGE OYSTER PLANTING | Project Involving Bay and River | | Being Considered by Con- servation Commission. Bs the Assoctated Press. i BALTIMORE., February 27.—The Btate Conservation Commission heard Thursday the request of a delegation ©of oyster packe: from Si. Marys | County for the planting oi seed oysters | and shell in the waters of the Chesa- Peake Bay and Potomac River ad- foining their cour The commission took the request under consideration. It will not de- | eide on the distribution of sesd oysters ! nd shells until the middle of March. |sat up begging. He hopped up on a | Members of the countv delegation ; sofa beside her, tilted his face up,‘ opened wide his eyes and waited ex- | were J. C. Lore. Herman Woodfield | &nd Warren Denton. BINGHAM SAYS FLOOD CONFIRMS ROOSEVELT | Bs the Associated Press ! NEW YORK, PFebruary 27.—Robert | Worth Bingham, Ambassador to Great Britain, sailed on the liner Europa ! early today to resume his duties in Iondon, and expressed opinion that the Ohio River Valley flood “has con- vinced the whole country of the wis- | dom of the projects for which Presi- Roosevelt has been working for | | «ift is very interesting,” he said, | t the only river in the region | h did not do any damage was the hessee, where the T. V. A. is in ght that the formation of an Ohio 'y Authority, resembling the Ten- e Valley Authority, was a dis- possibility. : In recess. + Agriculture Subcommittee continues hearing on crop insurance bill. . House: Motorists swerved their autos to avoid hitting the headgear. A street car turning into Seventeenth street was stopped to keep from running over it. as seconds later so was another. The provocative chapeau, apparently to make sure it attracted attention, wandered onto both tracks on the Avenue, bringing to a screeching halt two more trolleys. As the lights changed a newsboy | retrieved the hat, still untouched by wheels, and returned it to.its owner, who rolled it up and put it in the briefcase. ok ok ARSENAL. ICKIE BAILEY is ready for any criminality that may linger in the wake of the current crime clean-up when he grows up a decade hence. | Approaching his father the other | night. he snapped out one of those | toy G-men guns with a celerity that would have done credit to Buffalo Bill at the same age, 10. “And do you know whai I'd do if you took that one away from me?” Dickie wanted to know. “What?" asked the father. “This,” said Dickie, reaching into another pocket for another gun. He went straight through five guns that wav, pulling the last one out of hlS“ To Boost [] S o bedroom slipper. That, you've got to admit, is thinking several jumps ahead of the criminal mind. * ok ox ok SMART. We've heard of ailing dogs going voluntarily to the doctor’s, but you'd also like to learn of Tommy, ink- black cocker spaniel owned by Ernest ‘ L. May, manager of the Bancroft Hotel, which daily asks a lady to fix up his eyes. A boric acid solution was prescribed by a veterinarian sbout a year and a half ago for Tommy's weak eyes. A Mrs. Hughes, widow of a naval officer and guest at the family-type hostel, assumed the laudable task of looking after her good friend, Tommy. While naturally at first he did not | relish the cold drops on his pupils, he quickly realized they made him feel in top shape. One morning, on hearing Mrs. Hughes' familiar steps, Tommy pectantly. The treatment over, so Mrs. Hughes | declares, Tommy put his nozzle against her cheek, gave her a little kiss (not a sloppy one) of thanks, and leaped down to frolic. Ever since then the diurnal rite has repeated, except for short absences of Mrs. Hughes, as Tommy prefers that her sympathetic hand squeeze the syringe. * ok ox ok ALL’S WELL. The piece about the clerk inad- vertently selling a man his own derby when tre latter bought four Jor 81 during the rummage day sales, brings into print the phil- osophical question cf whether an- other bargain hunter was strictly honest. The second chap made the round of the leading haberdasheries on Washington's birthday to add to his wardrobe. Bucking against the human tide in an F street shop, lie came across a tie priced at 79 cents which he liked. Pulling it jrom the rack, he went over to the counter to pay the harassed at- tendant, who charged him only 49 cents for the cravat. The customer said nothing. Arriving at another showcase, he saw a $1.29 shirt which caught his fancy. He took it to & differ- ent clerk, who said, “$1.59, please.” Our problem paid what was re- quested—and said nothing. At the correct prices, the total bill would have been $2.08. And, adding up the mistakes, that is what was paid. NG_STAR, WASHINGTON NEW YORK 10 GET VANDENBUSH TRIAL Federal and Jersey Prose- cutors Defer to Rival’s “Clean Case.” the Associated Press. 27.—An incipient squabble among two | States and the Federal Government | over the right to 'y Merle Vanden- bush, kidnaping and bank robbing | suspect, apparently was averted today I;'v New York's “clean case” against | him. Nailed Thursday by a trio of what | he called “country cops” shortly after | he and two confederates held up and | robbed the Northern Westchester Bank | {of Katonah, the Green Bay, Wis., |gunman will be tried in New York State on an indictment charging first- degree robbery. i Both Federal and State prosecutors in New Jei.ey, holding kidnaping | warrants against Vandenbush in the | abduction of State Troozer William A Turnbull, deferred to what District Attorney Walter A. Ferris of West. chester County called a “clean case. To guard against his possible re- lease, however, they filed detainers for Vandenbush. | _ Ferris said he believed he could re- | sist easily a move announced in Mil- | waukee by E. J. Koelzer, assistant United States attorney, to return Van- denbush to Wisconsin for trial on a | series of bank robbery charges. | Vandenbush face. a prison term of 30 to 60 years in the event of con- | viction on the New York indictment. ‘Facmg prosecution with him under identical indictments are George and | Anthony Rera, cousins. Poli : said Anthony Rera was on parole from Sing Sing Prison, where he was sent for robbery. G-MEN LOSE e INTEREST | AFTER QUIZZING SAILOR Former Sailor Picked Up as Pos- sible Mattson Suspect Is in Gallinger. Officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation today lost interest in Roy Davis, 35-year-old former satlor from Birmingham, Ala., after he had been questioned as a possible suspect in the Mattson kidnaping. Davjs was arrested by metropolitan police for investigation yesterday after | they said his description fitted that contained in a look-out for the kid- naper. He was questioned after he revealed he had been on the West Coast “some time ago,” although he explained he had been there in 1932 and left after “a year or two.” The G-men have checked on scores of men picked up by police in various parts of the country, but every sus- pected person so far has proved his innocence of the Tacoma crime. As a matter of routine, the F. B. I. has investigated thoroughly all such re- ports. Davis is in Gallinger Hospital, a| parently suffering from a “run-dowi condition. | 'MEETING DATE CHANGED Burroughs Citizens’ | Bessions on Fourth Friday. The Burroughs Citizens' Association meeting last night at the John Bur- | roughs School voted to amend its con- stitution to hold all future meetings on the fourth Friday of each month The meeting was adjourned after a half-hour business session so that time could be devoted to & mass meet- ing on local suffrage. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. February | Association | COUNTY ABOLISHES FOUR OLD OFFICES Arlington- Thefi Establishes New Divisions Under Hanrahan’s Control. Bv a Staft Correspondent ot The Star. ARLINGTON, Va., February 27.— | In a drastic reorganization of several | departments of the county govern- | ment, the County Board today ordered four agencies abolished. It then established three divisions to replace them, to be operated directly under the supervision of County Manager Frank'C. Hanrahan . Inaresolution, unanimously adopted, | the tenure of office of C. L. Kinnier, county engineer; Elmer F. Newell, head of the auditing department, and Mrs. Mae Jacobs, chiefl of the wel- | fare department, were ordered termi- | nated. | The office of county health officer | also was abolished. Three divisions, a division of public service, a division of finance and accounting, and & ivision of public health and service vere created, the head of each to be | appointed by the county manager. | It was pointed out by the board | that the changes will take politics out | of the appointments and bring about a | better public service with one re- | sponsible head. Immediately after the board meeting Hanrahan went into conference with the three officials, but it was not known if they were to be reappointed. DR. GEORGE W. POPE RETIRES TOMORROW of Animal Industry Served 42 Years. Dr. George W. Pope, a leading | veterinarian of the Bureau of Animal (Lending Veterinarian in Bureau Industry of the Agriculture Depart- ment for 42 years, will retire tomor- row as chief of the field inspection D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1937 London Prepares for Air | attack the city from the air. PEARSON'S DEATH division of the bureau to devote his | time to reading the world’s best liter- ature. Before he opens a book, however, he plans to hurry southward with Mr Pope for a second honeymoon at Mo- bile, Ala. In the early 1890's they were married in Chicago and made a wedding trip to Mobile, where for a while Dr. Pope practiced veterinary medicine. Dr. Pope's work in the department has been devoted almost exclusively | to the quarantine service. inspecting immigrating livestock and keeping from the United States animals suf- fering from scabies, anthrax, dourine, glanders and other communicable diseases. When he entered the service in 1895, he was assigned to livestock in- spection at Boston. Four vears later, he took charge of the animal quaran- tine station for the port of New York, and in 1908 he was given headquarters at San Diego, Calif, to fight the tick along the Mexican border. In 1910 he came to Washingion as assistant chief of the quarantine di- vision. He became acting chief in 1922, and in 1928 was made head of | the field inspection division, which absorbed the gquarantine division in & reorganization procedure. Ruth V. Pope, dean of Hood College, ! Frederick, Md., is Dr. Pope’s daughter. Two 80,000 Hours in Air. Eight of the senior captains of the British Imperial Airway some of them in the service 20 years, have spent between them 80.000 hours in | the air, covering more than 8,000,000 | miles. ‘Philippine President, | Here on Two-Month Visit, Tells of Gold. BY BLAIR BOLLES. Optimistic Manuel Luis Quezon, first President of the Philippines, was here today with the news that he approves of labor camps and that there is gold in the hills in his common- wealth of 7,091 islands. Quezon came for a two-month visit, ! not to talk about gold ore, however, | but to persuade the White House that the islands should be accorded trade ! concessions which will supply them with the more useful wealth of for- eign exchange. “I think a reciprocal trade agree- ment between this country and the Philippines would be advisable,” the | dapper politician from the Far East yesterday told the press in his Shore- ham Hotel suite in an explanatory prologue for his trip. | powers of the Philippine Supreme | Court, a seven-judge tribunal. “According to our constitution, the Supreme Court cannot declare a law | unconstitutional except by two-thirds vote. We do not feel that the vote of | should have the power to overthrow a law which the Legislature and the President in all honesty considered within the constitution, which they have sworn to support.” $21,000,000 in Gold Last Year. He declined to offer his opinion on President Roosevelt's judiciary reor- ganization plan. He returned, instead, with enthusiasm to the Philippine | gold output, which amounted last year to $21,000.000. “I think the very islands of the Philippines are made of gold,” he said. From gold he turned to national defense and announced his belief in the virtue of concentration camps. “That's fine,” he said. “Put a multimillionaire’s son to work with a poor man’s son and -2ep him at it for a while. It's the best school of democracy.” - ‘The Philippines constituiion, he ex- plained, permits the government to require compulsory service, military or othervise, of any of i citizens in peace or in war. He said he approved heartily of the plan of Gen. Douglas ITac- Arthur, United States military ad- viser to the islands, for the com- pulsory military training of all yout. :. “It's the Swiss system,” said Quezon, “and Switzerland is the oldest and most thorough democracy in the world. We keep a standing army of only 10,000, but in 10 years one man on our Supreme Court | Quezon for Reciprocal Treaty Islands Trade He commented on the status and | MANUEL QUEZON. —Harris-Ewing Photo. “A navy? Well, you either have a first-class navy or you just build a lot of ships for somebody else to use. I'm not planning on a navy. I never feared the Japanese intended to oc- cupy the Philippines.” President Quezon, 58, began his stay by lunching yesterday at the White House with President Roose- velt. In the last 30 years he has made frequent trips to Wachington, all in the interest of the inde- pendence now promised for 1946, but this is his first appearance in the role of Chief Executive of the Philip- pines, a post to which he was elected in September, 1935. Tonight the man who fought beside Aguinaldo against the American Army in 1899 and 1900 will dine at the annual “wallow” of the Military Order of the Carabao, the first Fili- pino ever invited. The organization w~as founded in Manila in 1900 by United States Army officers to perpetuate the mem- ories and associations of their service in the Philippines during the «early days of American occupation. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, United States military adviser to the Philippines, will be on hand, also. Quezon may go to England for the coronation of King George VI when he leaves here April 29. Hir daugh- ters, Maria Aurors, 17, and Maria we will have available 400,000 men to fighk Zeneido, 16, who are here with him, definitely will proceed to London. » - HELD ACCIDENTAL Coroner’s Inquest Is Called Despite Findings by Ban- ning, Calif., Sheriff. By the Associated Press. BANNING, Calif, February 27— The pistoled death of screen writer Humphrey Pearson after a gay round of night clubs was termed “accidentaj” by one officer today as the coroner called an inquest here. Sheriff Carl Rayburn said he was convinced that Pearson, “gun conscious whenever he had too much” liquor grabbed a pistol at his home in Pafm Springs Wednesday night and it was discharged when his wife tried to take it away from him Since Mrs. Pearson was fournd sit- ting beside the body of the scenarist she has been confined to a Riverside | hospital. No investigators have been able to obtain a coherent account from her. Statements of the Pearson’s colored butler and two companions on a round of night clubs were the basis of Sheriff Rayburn’'s opinion. “Pearson had been drinking that night and he was ‘gun-conscious’ whenever he had too much,” the sheriff said. “Friends said his wife on several previous occasions took away weapons from him because she feared he might kill himself. and, as usual, she struggled to get it away. They scuffied. Two bullets were discharged. One hit the ceiling, the other wounded Pearson in the chest.” 'UNFETTERED COURT URGED BY RANSOM Former Head of American Bar Calls for “Impartial and Com- petent” Judiciary. | BY the Associated Press. | CAMBRIDGE, Mass,, February 27.— | William L. Ransom of New York, for- views, but for competency and im- partiality.” ness, industry and finance. The American system, he asserted. | has been developed on the basis of laws passed by the people and reviewed by the courts. “If this is to be overthrown, let it at least be accomplished openly,” he declared. Dr. Isador Lubin of the United | States Department of Labor told the { meeting he doubted if America had resources at present to survive an- other crash like that of 1929. He said Government must redis- tribute income through taxation and special services, that business must accept minimum rules “for playing the game” and must greatly develop eol- lective bargaining. POSEY REPORTS B0OOST IN TOBACCO DEMAND By the Associated Press. LEONARDTOWN, Md, February 27—W. B. Posey, Federal tobacco expert, told & group of farmers here that the foreign demand for Mary- land tobacco had increased by almost 90 per cent in the past year. Posey, speaking before a meeting of 300 St. Marys County tobacco plant- ers, also said that the Maryland leaf was being used as a substitute for ‘Turkish tobacco in many cigarette blends. William Smith of Frederick, presi- dent of the State Farm Bureau, told the farmers that the Farm Bureaus had written President Roosevelt's farm program, and that they also wrote the soil conservation plan which succeeded the outlawed A. A. A. Other speakers at the meeting were Dr. Morley A. Jull, poultry expert of the University of Maryland; Miss Margaret McPheeters and Miss Jessie T. Hinton, also of the university; Dr. J. J. Jones, university veterinarian, and E. I Oswald, eounty farm agent. \ “Wednesday he apparently got a gun ' He addressed & meeting of 150 Har- | vard, Yale and Princeton students and | erred in denying his motion for a | chairman of the T. V. A, of wanting faculty members and leaders in busi- | directed verdict and in refusing to| “to compromise with the power trust” tness DEAD WRITER'S SECRETARY | TO BE CALLED. | | | CATHERINE HENDERSON, Who acted as secretary to Humphrey Pearson, 43, Holly- wood scenarist, found shot to death in his home at Palm Springs, Calif., will be called as a witness at the inquest to- day. She was with Pearson and his wife shortly before the fatal shooting. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. NEW TRIAL ASKED BY DR, TOWNSEND ‘ | Arguments on Motion to Be Heard Probably Next Friday. ‘ A motion for & new trial was filed | in District Court today on behalf of | | Dr. Francis E. Townsend, elderly head of Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd., ! who was convicted Wednesday of con- tempt of the House. Arguments probably will be heard next Friday on the motion, which must be disposed of before the pension chief | may be sentenced. ‘ A jury found Dr. Townsend guilty | ganizations. | | In asking a new trial, the physician | aileged that Justice Peyton Gordon | permit him to present to the jury evi- dence in justification of his dq;nr-} ture from the hearing room. | He also objected to the court’s in- struction to the jury that he was , guilty if he was summoned, ap- | | peared and willfully left the presence |of the committee without its ac-| | quiescence. | | His contention was that the court | should have accepted his prayer for Instructions to the ‘ury that to find | him guilty they would have to be- | Jieve that he did not appear before | the committee at all. | | _ The motion was filed by Attorneys | Joseph A. Cantrel and Elisha Hanson, who represented Dr. Townsend during his trial. The maximum penalty for the offense involved is one year imprison- ment and $1,000 fine. | COAST GUARD AIDS HUNT FOR MISSING SCHOONER 28 Men Aboard Fishing Ship Are Unreported Since Thursday. Owner Confident She Is Safe. BY the Associated Press. BOSTON, FPebruary 27.— Three | Coast Guard vessels widened a search | today for the 110-foot Boston fishing | schooner Gossoon, missing, with 28 | men aboard, since she reported loss of her propeller 140 miles east of Boston early Thursday. Patrick J. O'Hara, treasurer of O'Hara Bros'’ Co., Inc., her owners, said they had “absolutely no fears for the ship's safety.” O'Hara expressed the opinion the Gossoon was ‘“probably under sail trying to make Lunenburg or some other Nova Scotian port.” ‘The patrol boat Thetis and the cut- ters Chelan and Algonquin searched & wide ares for the missing vessel, which lscked wireless. i London'’s crack rescue crew of picked men in action as they would appear should an enemy Wearing gas-proof clothing and the latest in protective masks, the men are demonstrating how their portable hoisting apparatus can be brought into action to lift heavy objects, such as cornices of buildings, to rescue trapped victims. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. US-STATEPOWER SUPPORT S LRGE Laidler Holds Government Development Program Is Best. United in their criticism of the policies and practices of the “private power monopoly,” conference delegates of the League for Indusirial Democracy in session at the Washington Hotel today were urged by Dr. Harry W. Laidler, executive director. to give their undivided support to a program of Federal and State development of hydro-electric power. Such a program. Dr. Laidler said “provides the best opporty thu far offered the public to combat the private power monopoly.” Supporting his ciaims of monopoly, the speaker declared that as recently as 1935 three great power groups controlied more than one-half of the electrical energy produced in this country. The three named were United Corp.. North Amer- ican and Electric Bond & Share. Five Join in Denunciation. Throughout the aaaresses of last evening's dinner meeting at the Na- tional Press speakers. led by Norman Thomas, head of the Socialit party and executive director of the league, joined in de- nunciation of the industry's policies, particularly in their intrusion into politics. Describing the commission form of regulation as ineffective in itself and “hamstrung” by decisions of the Su- preme Court, Thomas continued “There is no way to keep private power ownership and exploitation in our economic life and yet keep it out of politics. And because it is in business for a profit its role in poli- tics will be, as history proves, to pro- tect profits no matter at what cost to true democracy.” Representative W. D. McFarlane, Democrat, of Texas assailed the power interests in like vein, making most pointed criticism of conjunctive lobby- ing with railroads, oil companies and other “big business” interests and in their influence upon the press through large advertising appropriations and the threat of curtailment of this revenue for publications. Pooling Proposals Opposed. McFarlane bitterly opposed the power pooling proposals of private | mer president of the American Bar of contempt in walking out of a hear- indusiry as bein y A | A t 3 g designed to destroy ‘Assocm'.mrt, last night called for a|ing being held by the Bell Committee “any chance to show adequately how | judiciary “selected not for political| on the subject of old-age pension or- | cheaply power is being produced and distributed under Government yard- stick plants.” The Texan accused Dr. Morgan. in favoring the power pooling plan. Other speakers of last night's meet- ing were Representative Thomas R. Amlie, Progressive, of Wisconsin, Mc- Alister Coleman and Paul Ward. Representative Rankin of Missis- sippi and Pierce of Oregon, both Democrats, and Rural Electrification Administrator John Carmody are among the speakers scheduled tonight. PNEUMONIA FATAL TO SPORTS EDITOR Bernard William St. Denis Thom- son Held Post on New York Times Since 1915. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 27.—Col. Bernard William St. Denis Thomson, sports editor of the New York Times, died last night in St. Luke’s Hospital of pneumonia he contracted Wednes- day. Except for the two World War years he served as a colonel, the 63- year-old executive had heid his posi- tion continuously since 1915. The son of a newspaper man, was born in Port Fortune, Quebec, and was graduated from Harvard Law School in 1895. He went West and sought fortune as both a rancher and gold prospector. His first newspaper job was on the Chicago Pecord- er- ald's staff. Before moving to the Times’ Sunday department in 1.13, he had been Sunday editor of the New York Sun. Thomson's favorite sports were horse racing and rowing, the latter having been an interest at Harvard. Although he preferred the anonymity of his desk to by-line writing, his as- sociates knew his love of sport as a robu:t one. Once, he broke the bank at Monte Carlo on two successive nights before himself going broke. KATZ T0 TESTIFY IN'POLICE PROBE Maryland Legislative Scene Will Be Dominated by Probe Next Week. BY the Assoclated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md, February 27.— Actual, behind-the-scenes work on Maryland’s most important legislative problem—the $70,000.000 biennial bud- get—will reach a climax next week, a climax that will be overshadowed by sensational hearings before the Ben- ate committee probing political inter- ference in the State police department. ‘The two public hearings held by the Investigating Committee this weex seriously hampered consideration of the budget. Practically all members of the two fiscal committees elected to attend the hearings rather than meetings of their own committees. “Big Three” to Testify. Hearings in the State police probe will hold the center of legislative in- terest until they are completed. The: have not gone far enough as vet alow a guess as to when they will end. The reputed “big three” of Marviand Republicanism — J. Purdon Wright, former police head and now general counsel to the Public Service Com- mission; State Employment Commis- sioner Harry C. Jones and State Budget Director William H. Blakeman Club auditorium five | —are to appear at Monday night's | hearing. Jones was a member of a com- | mission which investigated the Tangier Island relief expedition, led by Garey, on which a State trooper died. That commission recommended Garey's di-- missal, charging that he was “te peramentally unfit” to be police sup intendent. | Garey submitted to the Senate Com- mittee a report of three alienists which countered the Tangier commissioner's finding as to his temperament Sergt. Katz Is Summoned. ‘Tuesday’s hearing is to bring Sergt Menash Katz. State police aid to tie | Governor. and Lieut. Andrew Conner of the State police before the ¢ mittee Katz's name has figured in the testi- mony of virtually every witness. The committee has heard charges that Gov. Nice promised to make Kaiz a lieutenan: 1if increased; that Katz interfered w operation of the force; that Katz carried mis- | leading reports to the Governor; that | Katz lobbied against Senate confirma- tion of Maj. Garey . Lieut. Conner was given that rank while Maj. Wright was superintendent of the department. Prior to that time he had acted as police chauffeur for Maj. Wright Johnson Is Restored. Conner was brought into head- quarters under the Wr.ght regime and made second in command. replacing Capt. Edward McK. Johnson. Capt. Johnson never lost his rank, however, and now is second in command again. Other developments in the police situation today were Decision of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees to strike allowances designed to add 50 men to the police force from the 1938-9 State budget. Introduction of a bill by Speaker Emanuel Gorfine, Democrat, fourth Baltimore. and 42 Delegates to em- | power the superintendent of police to install a teletype system connecting the headquarters and all substations. Denial by Gov. Nice that he had ever been “furious” with Maj. Enoch B. Garey, deposed police superine tendent, for having “two Catholics investigating a Mason.” ELEVEN ARE ARRESTED IN GAMING HOUSE RAID Investigating a “tip.” third precinct police vesterday raided a reputed gambling house in the 900 block of Seventeenth street, a d eight men and three women. and confiscated & quantity of alleged gambling equip- ment Although one of the men claimed to be the operator of the establishment, police said the name he gave did not correspond to the one in which the house was rented. They added they believed the real manager escaped via a third-story window and a fire escape. Those arrested were charged with disorderly conduct and released under $10 bond. They identified themselves as Demetreous E. Liakopulus, 1100 block of Seventeenth street: Jerry Kroutil, 200 block of Channii. street northeast: George Scabo, New York City: Archie Sisler. 2500 block of Thirteenth street: Christopher Burb- zer, 2300 block of Nineteenth street; rving Siegel. 1300 biock of Mas- sachusetts avenue; Charles Hammond, 3400 Dblock of Twenty-ninth street; Peter Becegn. 1200 block of L street: Amanda West, Arlington, Va.. Rose Cravens, Clarendon, Va.. and Lulu Mea | Cheatum, colored, 300 block of New | York avenue. | The raid was led by Capt. Arthu" E. | Miller, third precinct commandel, aided by Detectives Roy E. Blick and Elmer L. Dalstrom. | ‘Bride and Groom | Wait at Chapel For Clergyman m- the force Wrong Address Delays Ceremony Almost an Hour. ‘The familiar story of the bride left | waiting at the altar was given a new | —and doubly embarrassing twist yes- | terday when both the bride and bride- groom worried in Walter Reed Hos- | pital Chapel nearly an hour, while the | clergyman, scheduled to perform the | wedding ceremony was looking for | them in a chapel several miles away. Kenneth Gapen, Miss Marie Inge- britsen and 25 guests wondered why Rev. Horace E. Cromer was taking so long to come from his home at 1338 Somerset place. They learned | the reason when the clergyman arrived—nearly an hour after the appointed hour. | Rev. Cromer, who is pastor of | Emory Methodist Church, had been misinformed of the place of the cere- | mony. He drove to the chapel at | Fort Myer, Va. Failing to find the | couple there, he returned, ascertained | the correct address and finally married the pair. Gapen, a Government employe, and | his bride, formerly a nurse at Walter Reed, left for New Mexico, where the husband will take a position with the Soll Conservation Commission.