Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; little change in temperature; lowest to- night about 35 degrees; gentle, variable winds. Temperatures—Highest, 39, ut noon today; lowest, 30, at 3 a.m. today. Full report on page A- Closing New York Markets, Page 18 85th YEAR. No. 33,918. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, PATRONAGE BEING USED TO OBTAIN COURT PLAN SUPPORT, HOLT CLAIMS 3 Sees Pressure on ‘Boys’ to ‘Get Right. CHANGE URGED BY GUILD HEAD Devaney Supports Proposal of President. BACKGROUND— President Roosevelt's proposal for revamping the Supreme Court re- sulted in numerous breaks in Sen- ate Democratic majority. Cloak room gossip then developed to ef- fect that administration would need to exert personal influence with wavering members to insure against defeat of plan. Among few Democratic Senators who have been recalcitrant in past is West Virginia’s young Holt, who successfully killed administration=- supported Guffey coal bill last ses= sion by a closing-night filibuster. Following this, Holt fought his col- league, Neeley, bitterly in West Vir= ginia elections of last Fall. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. While Judge John P. Devaney of Minnesota was appearing in support of President Roosevelt's court bill bgtore the Senate Judiciary Committee today, Senator Holt of West Virginia, & Democrat, issued a statement charg- ing “patronage is now being used to drive the Supreme Court proposal through Congress.” “It is very interesting to note that patronage has been very slow in being doled out since the President’s judicial reorganization plan was submitted.” Holt said. “It is being held up until the boys ‘get right.” “For 14 months T was not consulted | about even a janitor in the Govern- ment service, but since the judicial reorganization proposal was submitted I have been approached by a high Government official for a recommen- dation for an important Federal posi- tion. Retains His “Opinion.” “They have their position; I have my opinion.” The West Virginia Senator, who long has been at odds with the administra- | tion, said he also had evidence that Federal officials in the field have ap- proached members of the Legislature | in behalf of a memorial for the Presi- dent’s plan. He charged that Post- master General Farley had indicated favors would be granted to those who went along with the President. “I think it will be worth while for | the people to watch the patronage distribution during this court fight.” Judge Devaney, former Chief Justice | | 5 ¥ SENATOR HOLT. JUDGE DEVANEY. —A. P. Photo. IS, WRITER TOLD 10 QU GERMANY | | Telegraph Agency Cited. | Dodd Files Protests. BACKGROUND— New York’s Mayor La Guardia on March 3 suggested to a group of Jewish women the New York World | Fair in 1939 should place a figure | of “that brown-shirted fanatic who L Correspondent for Jewish | Norris Urges Senate to Try All Remedies. HITS ATTITUDE OF TRIBUNAL| Trailing =] 9 Judiciary ‘Human Progress, Is His View. BY the Assoclated Press. Senator Norris, Independent, of Ne- | braska, urged Congress today to try both legislative remedies and consti- | tutional amendments to relieve what he called “the present intolerable sit- uation” in the courts. If those opposing limitations on the power of the courts persisted. he told the Senate. it would resuit “in the pendulum swinging farther to the other side than progressive, thinking | | men and women are advocating at this | time.” Without committing himself on | President Roosevelt’s court bill, Nor- | ris listed that and seven other legis- | lative methods for curbing the courts | without a constitutional change. He also listed a series of possible | | constitutional amendments, any one of | which he indicated he would support. | Has Not Kept Pace. | “Our judiciary has not kept pace | with human progress,” the veteran Nebraska liberal asserted. “Our judges too often have stood upon the highways of human progress |and held aloft ‘stop’ signs that have impeded civilization in its triumphant march. | | “Our forefathers were not laboring | under the impression that they were living in an age that had reached the end of human progress. | “And, with due respect to the ability, | the honesty and the wisdom of our judges, I believe it can truthfully be | said that many of them are living in | an age that is past, and are continuing to construe our fundamental law in | a light that has failed, rather than in | the sunlight of an electric age.” Much of the Senator's speech was devoted to a legal argument that Con- gress by law could require more than a mere majority decision of the court to invalidate legislation. 5-4 Decisions Hit. Asserting that any tribunal, whether judicial or legislative, is “composed of men with all the imperfections at- | tributable to humanity,” Norris said: “It would seem, therefore, not only T (Sce NORRIS, Page A-2.) ‘ONE PLAY’ O’BRIEN IS KILLED IN CRASH | imposed now so the matter can be de- | 1937—FIFTY-SIX PAGES. ¢ Foening Star TONNSEND GV MONTH N AL ANDFINE0F 1 “Thank You, Sir,” Is Re- sponse to Sentence for Walking Out on Hearing. “PYGMY-MINDED” MEN ASSAILED IN STATEMENT Counsel Says Pension Advocate | Wishes to Speed Appeal to Highest Court. With a matter-of-fact “thank you, sir,” Dr. Francis E. Townsend this morning received a sentence of a month in jail and a $100 fine from Justice Peyton Gordon of District Court as punishment for his defiance of the House last May 21, when he walked out of a committee hearing. The thanks evidently were offered to the jurist because he acceded to the request of Townsend's counsel for an immediate sentence, so that an appeal might be prosecuted as expeditiously | as possible. A prepared statement handed to re- | THIS PLAN OF MINE IS NO ATTACK ON THE COURT * * *”. porters before he went into the court | room bore ample testimony that the SIDE CHAT. elderly head of Old-Age Revolving Pehsions, Ltd., would defy the com- mittee again under the same circum- stances. “I was more than happy to take the consequences of my defiance of the | unconstitutional imposition and perse- cution of the pygmy-minded men who composed the majority of the Bell Committee,” the statement read in part. New Trial Motion Overruled. Dr. Townsend's alleged contempt oc- curred when he walked out of a hear- ing being held by the special commit- tee, headed by Representative Bell of Missouri, investigating old-age pension organizations. Before imposing sentence, Justice Gordon overruled a motion on behalf | of Townsend for a new trial. He said he would not disturb the verdict of the jury finding Dr. Town- | send guilty of “willful” contem; | “Let the defendant stand up. aid Justice Gordon. Then addressing Townsend, he inquired: “Is there any- | thing you want to say before sentence is imposed?” “I think, your honor, I can leave it to my attorney to make reply,” Town- | send responded. Arising, Elisha Hanson, Townsend’s | attorney, said: “Dr. Townsend intends | g0 o o fi;&?:g:’g 25;(:,];;}?}]?;&;95 : Leaders of two major groups affiliated will be for all concerned. He feels the | With the John L. Lewis Committee for sole issue is how long a citizen must | Industrial Organization mapped plans be abused by a congressional commit- | today for consolidating unionization tee before he can put an end to the STRIE DEADLOCH STIL CONTES Unions Battling to Retain Gains as U. A. W. A, Presses Demands, | BACKGROUND— The strike in General Motors Corp. plants led the way for pres- ent widespread labor troubles re- volving about automobile industry. G. M. is about to reach agreement with employes, although Chrysler, Hudson, Reo and other automobile concerns still are crippled by dis- agreements. The strikes have been intensified by the fight of John L. Lewis’ C. I. O. with the A. F. of L. for domination of labor, which bat- tle has been extended into the steel, textile and other flelds in organiza- tion attempts. | abuse. Therefore, we want sentence A S81DS- The Steel Workers' Organizing Com- cided as quickly as possible by the mittee gathered at Pittsburgh at the highest court in the land.” call of its director, Philip Murray. After pronouncing sentence, Justice The latter said the group will plan Gordon explained that the law re- future strategy as well as review recent quired both a jail term and a fine. The | developments, notab!y its recognition sentence was the minimum permitted by the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. by the statute. | Homer Martin, president “Hanson then requested that Town- United Automobile Workers of America, of the | of the Minnesota Supreme Court and now president of the new National | Lawyers' Guild, not only upheld the | President’s court bill, but criticized the | proposed constitutional amendment | offered by Senator O'Mahoney, Demo- crat, of Wyoming. This would limn.‘ the Supreme Court in declaring an act | of Congress or of a State Legislature | — unconstitutional, making a two-thirds | By tke Associated Press. vote necessary in the court for invali-| BERLIN, March 12—United States dation. | Ambassador William E. Dodd visited “That.” said Judge Devaney, “would | the German foreign office today to put completely within the control of | “call attention” to German press ai- a minority of three judges the power |tacks on United States citizens and to prevent the court from declaring an | conditions just as it became known | is menacing the peace of the world” in @ “hall of horrors.” He was speaking of Chancellor Adolf Hitler. The State Department expressed its regret that such a statement should have been made after a formal protest from the Third Reich. send be allowed to remain at liberty under the $1,000 bail he posted some 5 . time ago in California. Assistant Notre Dame Coach Dies | g as Car Hits Railway Viaduct Pillar. BS the Associated Press CHICAGO, March 12.—John J. “One Play” O'Brien, 31, assistant foot ball and track coach at Notre Dame Uni- versity, was killed early today when his automobile crashed into a railway via- duct pillar. O'Brien was en route to his South Bend, Ind, home after a speaking engagement at Harvard, Ill, when the " (See TOWNSEND, Page A-3) 4 KILLED IN PLANE Crew of German Mail Craft and Passenger Die. BERLIN, March 12 (#).—The crew of three of a German mail plane and an officer of the Lufthansa (German National Airways) Line riding as a passenger in a This was oposed by United States | act unconstitutional—that is the that Boris E. R. Smolar, correspondent | accident occurred. were killed today power of life and death over the civil and religious liberties we have so tra- ditionally prized. To place this power into the hands of a minority of the court cannot be fitted into any ra- tional system of judicial review.” Adjourns Until Monday. When the Senate committee com- pleted its questioning of Judge De- vaney, it adjourned until 10:30 a.m. Monday. At that time opponents of the President’s bill will have an op- portunity to be heard. Senator Wheel- er of Montana, liberal Democrat, will be the first to take the stand in op- position to the bill. Judge Devaney, who resigned two weeks ago from the State court, was originally appointed to the bench by the late Gov. Floyd B. Olson and (See JUDICIARY, Page Court Proposal To Be ‘Stopped, Says Copeland Senator Tells Boston Group Defeat of Bill Assured. BY the Associated Press. BOSTON, March 12.—An assertion that President Roosevelt’s plan for re- organizing the Supreme Court would be “stopped” was made today by Sen- ator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, an outspoken opponent of the proposal. This statement was made to a group of Boston business men in a private conference prior to a public address by the Senator on the mer- chant marine situation. To news- paper men present, Copeland said erough Senate votes could be mar- shalled to halt the Roosevelt move. “If it has to be defeated by a fili- buster, it will be,” he said. “I be- lieve, however, that we will have the necessary number of votes to defeat the bill in an out-and-out contest.” The New Yorker, who ‘believes that if a change is made it should be done by a constitutional amendment, as- serted also that he believed an amend- ment could be enacted during the present calendar year, if the President would place his weight behind it. » for the Jewish Telegraph Agency, had | been ordered by the police to leave the country. Smolar, however, said: “I do not be- | | lieve my expulsion has anything to |do with the La Guardia incident,” | subject of the Ambassador's repre- sentations. Ambassador Dodd was accompanied | to see Baron Konstantin von Neurath, {Lhe German foreign minister, by Frank | Lee, first secretary of the embassy. | They acted upon instructions from Washington to make verbal represen- tations concerning the German press comment which followed upon New | York Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia's | recent anti-Hitler speech. Smolar, a naturalized American, re- ceived a letter from the police presi- dent instructing him to leave Germany Wwithin three days because “your con- | tinued stay in Germany is inimical to ithe interests of the German state.” | Visits U. S. Consulate. | The letter was delivered by a Ges- tapo (secret police) official: In the absence of his wife, Smolar also had to sign a receipt for an expulsion order (See PROTEST, Page A-3.) He earned the sobriquet “one play” in 1928 against the Army by catching | a 40-yard touchdown pass on his first play of the game to upset the Cadets, 12to 7 The late Coach Knute Rockne | pulled him out immediately after the feat. | O'Brien was named end coach at his | | Alma Mater last year. He also han- dled the sprinters, hurdlers and high | jumpers on the track squad. Previ- ously he served as assistant foot ball coach at Annapolis for two years and was hear gridiron mentor at St. Ed- ward's College at Austin, Tex. He was graduated from Notre Dame in 1931 after competing in track and foot ball for three years. —_ FREIGHT CAR RAME CAFE PEABODY, Mass., March 12 (#).— Martin Ward was injured by a freight car in a cafe here today. Ward, a janitor in the establishment, suffered injuries about the arms when the freight car, after jumping the ras in the business district, crashed through a window and came to rest with ts front section at the restaurant bar. Miami Police O BY the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, March 12.—Police, armed with trespass warrants, broke a sit-down of some 50 Daily News printers early today, but the status of their strike against the afternoon newspaper remained in doubt after they left the building. The News arranged to publish its first edition today by engraving type- written copy. A spokesman for the men, all members of the Internatifnal Typo- graphical Union, said the strike was started at 6:30 last night because of the break-down of negotiations with the News for a contract to replace one that expired last September. Hal Leyshon, editor, and Ross Reeder, secretary-treasurer of the News, said, however, that the paper had a valid working agreement with the union and the strike was “illegal” under union rules. Reeder said he had communicated with Charles P. ) ust Printers - In Neivspaper “Sit” Strike Howard, I. T. U. president, at Indian- apolis. The strikers, Reeder said, refused late last night to come to the doors of the composing room to hear F. A.’ Sutton, local I. T. U. business agent, read a statement from Howard ask- ing them to leave the plant. It was a few hours after this that police entered the composing room with the warrants sworn out by Reeder and told the men those who left peaceably would not be arrested. News officials said they thought to- day’s editions—starting with the first at 11 a.m.—wouid be printed although probably in curtailed form. Strikers withheld their plans. Printers at the Morning Tribune started a sit-down strike at about the same time as the News crew yester- day, but called it off in less than an hour afier being granted a temporary wage increase of $3 weekly pending further negotiations. The Morning Herald was unaffected. X crash in West Africa. The plane, on a flight from Las Palmas, Canary Islands, to Bathurst, West Africa, fell into the Gambia River. The pilot was believed to have missed the customary landing place because of a dense fog. Half the mail was said to have been salvaged from the wrecked airplane. Summary of Page. _Page. Amusements _C-2| Radio B-16 Comics .- C-'l\ Short Story- B-8 Editorials - A-10 Society B-3 Pinancial --A-16 | Sports D-1-3 Lost & Found A-3| Woman's Pg. C-4 Obituary . A-12/ SUPREME COURT ISSUE. Holt declares administration is using “pressure.” Page A-1 Norris urges full trial for all court remedies. Page A-1 American Bar Association hits court plan, Page A-3 LABOR SITUATION. Strike deadlock comftinues with unions battling for leadership. Page A-1 Miami police oust striking newspaper printers. Page A-1 R. C. A to get new demand of labor. Page A-6 FOREIGN. Insurgents renew artillery attack on Madrid. Page A-7 NATIONAL. Rescuers reach ‘“cluster” of bodies in mine explosion. Page A-1 . S. agency to supply co-operatives data proposed. Page A-2 Roosevelt enthusiastic at start of brief vacation. Page A-3 Guffey-Vinson coal measure sent to Senate. Page A-7 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. ‘Townsend is given month in jail, fine of $100. Page A-1 Senate D. C. Committee to consider court bill Page B-1 Representative Shafer demands race bill reconsideration. Page B-1 Thaw trial goes to District jury U. called a meeting of the National Executive Board at Cleveland Monday and Tuesday. He claimed the union’s the end of the month. Fail to Reach Agreement. Meanwhile, the strike stalemate be- tween the U. A. W. A. and three Michi- gan automobile manufacturers per- sisted, keeping more than 70,000 workers idle. The union's demand for recognition as sole bargaining agency for all em- ployes was the cause of the disputes that kept 55,000 Chrysler Corp. em- ployes and 10,000 Hudson Motor Car Co. workers idle at Detroit and 2,200 Reo Motor Car Co. workers idle at | Lansing, Mich. Officials of the Los Angeles Chrysler plant announced it would be closed | indefinitely because of a shortage of materials, keeping 1,100 workers idle Negotiations were at a standstill in the Hudson dispute and little or no progress was being made t ward (See LABOR, Page A Today’s Star Allen and Capper advocate survey of subway feasibility. Page B-1 New principals announced in two ele- mentary schools. Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page This and That. Page Answers to Questions. Page ‘Washington Observations. Page David Lawrence. Page Paul Mallon. Page Dorothy Thampson. Page Constantine Brown. Page Lemuel Parton. Page MISCELLANY. Washington Wayside. City News in Brief, Traffic Convictions. Service Orders. Young Washington. Nature’s Children. Bedtime Story. Dorothy Dix. Crossword Puzzle. Letter-Out. Vital Statistics. ‘Winning Contract. SPORTS. ‘Travis is toiling hard to polish his play at shortstop. Page D-1 Phillies headed for cellar berth in National League. Page D-1 Mike Jacobs is sitting pretty in war of pugilistic barons. Page D-2 Western, “worn out,” loses in tour- ney St. John's is victor. Page D-3 Schoolboy golfers to make plans for season tonight. Page D-3 FINANCIAL. National Dairy profits up. Retail trade at new peaks. Bonds go down (table). A-10 A-10 A-10 A-10 A-11 A-11 A-11 A-11 A-11 Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page i ShRhRbbbhba apvaaaa Page A-16 Page A-16 Page A-17 : Page B-1 fails to reveal source of raid Page B-1 today. Inquiry ) Preight loadings rise. Stocks irregular (table). Curb list mixed (table). Page A-17 Page A-18 Page A-19 3z membership would reach 300,000 by | Mother Asks Borah To Get Son Place On Supreme Court By the Assoclated Press. One ambitious mother already is trying to get her son appointed to the Supreme Court under President Roosevelt's proposal for injecting ‘“new blood” into the judiciary. To help her, she chose Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, one of the leading opponents of the bill. The woman walked into Borah'’s office a day or two ago and stated frankly what she wanted. Miss Cora Rubin, the Senator's secretary, told her Senatoj Borah had no influence with the Demo- cratic administration in obtain- ing appointments. JURY TO RECENE | RHODES CASE SOON Vigorous Acquittal Plea Made in Trial of Fidelity Ex-President. BULLETL The forgery case against Fred B Rhodes, former head of the Fidelity Building & Loan Association, went to the jury at 2:45 p.m. today. 1 The forgery trial of Fred B. Rhodes, former president of the Fi- delity Building and Loan Association, neared the jury this afternoon as de- | fense counsel, attempting to absolve Rhodes of all wrongdoing, sounded a vigorous plea for acquittal, after the prosecution had characterized the transactions of the accused as ‘“rob- bing Peter to pay Paul.” ‘ A noon recess was taken just be- fore the Government closed in Crim- inal Division No. 1 of District Court. After this summation and the instruc- tions by Justice Peyton Gordon, pre- siding, the case goes to the 10 men A4 koK % | Fields, 30-year-old section boss, re- The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 143,395 (Some returns not vet received.) (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS GASLIGHT FUNDING PLAN CALLS FOR §13300000 DEAL Stock and Bond Proposal Includes Purchasing Two Suburban Systems. LOWER INTEREST RATE SOUGHT ON SECURITIES 1$10,000,000 Issue Would Replace $11,440,000 Now Outstanding on Washington Firm. BACKGROUND— Control of the Washington Gas Light Co. by interests foreign to Washington has been the subject of controversy and investigation for some years. Officials of the parent trust last Summer announced they planned to sell all their holdings. Immediately the Washington com- pany proposed to buy the Hyatts- ville and Alezandria companies, also controlled by the same trust The Washington company’s cap- ital structure has been overloaded with bonds. Last session Congress enacted a measure to permit the Washington company to issue addi- tional stock. —PRESIDENT'S FIRE- CLUSTER OF DEAD FOUND IN' MINE Explosion Victims May Total 18, With Three Bodies Taken Out Earlier. BULLETIN. LOGAN, W. Va. March 12 (#) —Weary rescuers who had brought five bodies to the surface from the explosion-shattered MacBeth mine sent word this afternoon they had located 11 others. BY DON S. WARREN. Reconstruction of th Light Co., involving a $13,500,000 bond and siock deal. was proposed today | by company officials in petitions filed | with the Public Utilities Commission. Attached to the financial program and made a part of it, was a proposal for the purchase by the Washington Co. of the Hyattsville and Alexandria | gas compa All three of the com- panies now are controlled by the Washington & Suburban Cos., a com- mon-law trust representing the Chase Bank and associated financial inter- The Washington Co. proposes to pay a lump sum for the two suburban con- cerns of $1250,000, or just $125,000 less than the price which the commis- slon rejected last October as being | too high. The purchase price for the suburban concerns would be paid either in pro- posed preferred stock which the Wash- ington Co. would issue, or in cash from the proceeds of the sale of such stock to the public. BY the Assoctated Press. LOGAN W. Va, March 12.—Rescue workers in the MacBeth mine flashed word to the mouth today they had reached “a cluster of bodies.” “Send in all the availabie stretchers and about 20 men, we can't bring them out,” Garland Skaggs, mine en- . | gineer, asid the rescuers saked, Brief Summary of Set-Up. Three bodies already had been found | Stated briefly, the financial reor- and 15 miners were missing in the Banization is proposed in this fashion: explosion-vrecked mine. 1. Long-term bond issues now out- At 11:30 am. Skaggs said one StAnd. to the amount of $11,440.000, unidentified body had been brought to ' Would be refinanced with a new issue the drift mouth to be hoisted to the Of $10,000,000 of refunding bonds, at surface. | 8 lower interest rate A squad of 17 relief workers entered | 2. There would be an issue of 415 the mine, carrying water needed to PeT cent preferred stock, to the extent settle dust, and stretchers. of about $1,500.000. on which there A grimy rescue worker who came to | Would be cumulative dividends at the the surface with the body of Floyd |Tate of $4.50 per year 3. There would be an additional ported to the crowd of anxious watch- | 5Sue of the proposed preferred stock, ers at the pit mouth: | amounting to $2,000.000, to be used to “If we do not run into any more Pay Off outstanding bank loans and to big falls, we may reach the place reinburse the company for its expendi- where the others are in about three | tures for construction and new prop- hours, erty extensions “The roof is falling badly, but the ! 4 The present outstanding common | going has been easier since early Stock (there now is no preferred stock) morning. We think we are about Would be split at the rate of three for 1,300 feet from the explosion area One, so that when this program was now after having traveled 1,000 feet.” | Consummated there would be 390,000 The blast in the mine operated by |shares in the Washington company, in- the Hutchinson Coal Co., 8 miles over | tead of the present 130,000 & rugged road east of Logan, occurred 5. Permission also is asked for the shortly after 8 o'clock last night. | issuance of additional common stock The bodies of Joe Fry, motorman, | Which would be offered as a substitute and Troy McCoy, his brakeman, were for the proposed preferred stock, which discovered before midnight. | would be issued at the outset of the Then began the task of cutting | financial reorganization. If this were through piled debris and dodging fall- done before the present common was ing roofs to the center of the ex- |split three to one, there would be 35.- plosion area. testimony since Monday. The charge is based on a $1,500 | withdrawal slip placed against the ac- |count of Desire Irr, Fidelity de- | positor, by Rhodes, in a series of | transactions the defense contends was necessary to keep the institution go- ing in the face of a fight by the Con- troller of the Currency. Used to Cover Overdraft. Rhodes had testified this slip was used in part to cover an overdraft. In opening for the Government, Assistant United States District At- torney John J. Wilson said that Rhodes had no authority in law for making the withdrawal slip, that he had no authority in fact for it by obtaining Irr's permission for the charge, and the prosecutor added that it showed “intent to defraud.” In an- swer to Rhodes’ testimony that he had the authority to use Irr’s account, the prosecutor said, “Every act of the de- fendant is inconsistent with the hon- est belief” that he had such authority. Wilson scoffed at the defense con- tention that it was only a “bookkeep- ing transaction” and characterized the (See RHODES, Page A-2) e COLD TO CONTINUE Cold weather will continue in the District for at least 2¢ hours, accord- ing to the forecast of the Weather Bureau today. From a low of 30 degrees at 3 a.m., the mercury moved slowly upward to 35 at 10 am. Tonight’s low tempera- ture, it was predicted, will be 34. Mine inspectors - said | | tion about a mile and a half from | the foot of the 640-foot slope which | | runs down from the mine mouth. | Both Fry and McCoy had been | | hurled a hundred feet from the motor | | on which they were riding. They had | been en route to the center of the mine with a string of empty cars. Fields’ body, found hundreds of feet farther in, was badly burned and ap- parently he was killed by the force of the explosion. ' What the crews, led by Inspectors J. would find on reaching the others they could not say, but they feared the actual explosion had killed them all. The list of missing follows: August Tusek, 40, coal loader, single; Jack Tusek, 39, coal loader, married, three children; Mike Gimo, 44, coal | loader, married; Leonard Forbes, 30, | loader, married, two children; Hubert | Fleming, 37, motorman, single; Fred | McCroskey, colored, coal loader, single; George McCormick, 27, brakeman, married, one child; Earl Gearhart, 28, machine man, married; James Wiley, 32, machine man, married, one child; R. B. Kimball, 34, trackman, married, six children, and brother-in-law of Tom Tiller, killed in the same mine T (See MINE, Page A-6.) Paperhangers Curbed. BERLIN, March 12 (#).—Col. Gen. Wilhelm Hermann Goering signed an order today forbidding paperhangers from making their traditional paste from flour of wheat, rye, maize or po- tatoes. ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12— John L. Lewis, beetle-browed and bel- ligerent, this week turned the tables, temporarily, on Mrs. Bernice Flemming Holland, petite, gracious and belliger- ent, in Alexandria’s now famous Battle of Tours. Charles Martel and the Saracens have little i common with the modern version of the seige, however. The up- to-date struggle is over who shall show his or her home, to whom, and when. [ Tour Battle Reopens as Lewis Takes Another Historic H ome By a Staft Correspondent v1 The Star. Several weeks ago Mrs. Holland | threw down the gage by declaring she would not $how her pretentious home unless the historic house occupied by | the organizer of the Committee for | Industrial Organization was taken off the list. Antique fanciers in a city of relics sacred to the memory of George Washington and the Lee family were thrown into a dither. After numerous conferences over tea cups, the showing B. Hansford and R. W. Waldron, | 000 shares of this issue, or if done and 2 women who have been hearing | the explosion was localized in a sec- | after the stock split there would be | 105.000. The plan is to give full | rights to the preferred issue. Commission Is Silent. Members of the commission had no statement on the proposals for the time being, wishing first to study the | details. It appears likely a public | hearing will be called at least on that | part of the program dealing with the | proposed purehase from the trust of | the two suburban concerns. It is said the law does not make a public hear- ing mandatory on the stock and bond issues, but one could be held if the commission deems it in public interest An answer to this question was de- ferred. The present plan- is related to, but would be precedent to, the proposal of the trust owning the Washington (See GAS LIGHT, Page A-3.) voting 'LOAN INSTALLMENT IS OVERSUBSCRIBED Bids Threefold Sufficient to Fund Current Offering—Lists Closed at Once. BY the Associated Press. PARIS, March 12—The office of Premier Leon Blum announced today the first installment of the defense loan —5,000,000,000 francs (about $225,000,000) — had been oversub- scribed. Subscription lists were immediately closed. There were reports the loan had been oversubscribed three times, but official figures were not immedi- ately available. Today's subscription represents ap- proximately half of the total loan of 10,500,000,000 francs ($479,850,000) approved by Parliament. Information available indicated there had been no subscription by American banks. It was understood that the long-term nature of the pro- posed loan did not attract them. Financial ources reported London banks were taking up half of the in- stallment and French banks were re- celving many orders in view of the high interest offered—4!% per cent. Officials hoped to issue the second (8ee TOUR, Page A-3) ' installment later in the year at terms more favorable to the government. ’