Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1937, Page 1

WE ght might w " Rurea Occ mostly cloudy much change in t night about 40 degrees Highest, 49, at 430 p 33, at 1 am. today THE n. yesterday R Forecast ) afternoon, row fair, not low Temper lowest, age A-23 Closing New York Mai rkets, Page 22 ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star The only in Washir and Wire Associated Press evening paper ngton with the News photo Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 143,281 Some returns not vet recetved 85th YEAR. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH o= > 18, 19 FIFTY-TWO PAGES. * %k k% (#) Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. MELIA EARHART EACHES HAWAIL, ~ SETTINGNEW NARK N WESTWARD HOP Lands “Flying Lahoratory” | Plays Understudy to Cupid, Miss Earhart Hops Off Learns as She on World Flight Paul Mantz Confesses His Fiancee, “Terry” Miner, Is Already at Sea on Liner Bound for Hawaii. BY AMELIA EARHART. OAKIL discovery that I'm unwittingly playing first stage of the projected round-the-world flight ND. Calif.. March 18.—Leaving for Honolulu, T made the amusing the role of understudy to Cupid on the Paul Mantz confessed that h i a big reason for wanting to go along as one of my two aerial hitch-hikers at W Ee’er Fle[d ] 5 HOUFS is that his fiancee, “Terry” Miner, is already at sea on the Matson Line steamer 51 12 Minutes After Leav- |Malolo, Hawaii bound. It seems the quickest way ing Oakland, Calif. 150 MILES PER HOUR Flight Was Made Through Cloudy Skies and Showers Without Mishap—Two Giant Clippers Passed and Left Far Behind. Putnam Ends Vigil. BACKGROUND— After moy a delay of thr vorable u her Earhart h noon in K projected world flight. Pu test human endurance effect of fatigue on long flights. Flight will folloy nearly as possible be over uncharted air routes ing from Oak , Calif., Mi hart will cross Equator four times, and flight will take her over Ha- waii, Howland Island Philippines, India, Afri America and Me caiting fa- Am terday ajter- {aboratory” on und-the- flight is to and learn an body J05¢ 0f Equa Much of trip wil | By the Associated Press HONOLULU Earhart land her “flying laboratory” at Wheeler Field at 8:29 am., Pacific standard time today (11:29 am. Eastern standard time), completing her 2.400-mile over- water hop from Oakland, Calif, in less than 16 hours. “The flight was the made in the westerly record made by the last December was minutes The aviatrix and her crew of three thus averaged better than 150 miles an hour on the night flight. which began at Oa d at 4:37!., Pacific standard time, yesterday Her time of 15 hot 51'. minute: was made through clc skies and occasional showers without misha Miss Earhart’s $80,000 craft ar over the city at an altitude of 1 feet at 8'17T am. (P. 8. T). Broadcasts “All's Well.” Earhart plane lef the departure American cli slower and “All's we out the had sed both Pacific Oceans There was a sligh falling and dark el Schofi fast direction Hawaili 16 t ever The Clipper hours 58 . the woma and zle of rain clouds airport at as the plane come Put- ended t off Palmer s Earhart g and smill “Guess I'll go to bed,” he remarked “Terribly Tired.” She Says. most admitted over to Paul t be- officer Miss E: e home L3t to t f Lieut SOCIETY ARBITER OF CAPITAL DEAD Charles Lee Ceremonial Officer of State Department, at 72 Cooke, Succumbs greeter b drafted to meatir Ar depar He officiated at t Conference in 1 aide to the spe to the coror iopia in 1 His birthplace was Frederick, Md services to be at 2 pm the funeral home, 1008 H street Baltimore are held Spear Burial 1 be ir Passenger Plane Safe XICO CITY, M 18 miss e x persons aboard, was today after being forced e border of Yucatan and ] ME passe day wi ported down near Quintana Roc ’ g proctor, 1 because the routine method dling undefended cases, such Oakland of the nouncement month be with me as far as Honolulu, As technical adviser. Paul helped me prepare both for this Pacific flight and my previous % one. He will be ® a great help as et RS relief pilot on the ¢ g e 4. flight, so that T 3 can have my energy for the re- mainder of the Pacific ¢ r o ssing. If he wants to use me at the same time as a stepping stone to romance, I can't object. By the end of this first long hop any incipient me- anical troubles with the plane equipment should show up. It will be fine to have him on hand Amelia Earhart, {for a final check-up before I shove off westward. I can leave to him SIMPSON DIVORCE MOVE 1 PUT King’s Proctor Asks for In- structions—Details Not Disclosed. BY the Associated Press LONDON, March 18.—The King's in what was interpreted by egal authorities as a step to remove the last legal barrier to Mrs. Wallis Simpson’s final divorce decree, applied today for instructions on procedure to he president of the Divorce Court, Sir Boyd Merriman No details were disclosed omorrow’s official court cause list ained the following entry: Jndefended divorce case— “Simpson, W. vs. Simpson, E. A. (application by the King's proctor for Cor directions). “The hearing is fixed for 10:30 am.” (5:30 am. Eastern standard time). Step Considered Unusual. step was considered unusual, of han- that Simpsons, is automatic an- of a final decree six after the intermediary decree is handed down. The In Mrs. Simpson’s case this would ' killing five Leftists in a bloody filree!; brought Paris to a standstill today. | April 27. She received her decree nisi from Ernest Aldrich Simpson at Ipswich on Octover 27, 1936. There was some speculation that a overhung | reported objection to the divorce might | streets, but no serious have caused the proctor’s move. The fact that the proctor himself— Thomas Barnes—applied for in- lons was taken to mean that Mrs, Simpson nor her former Erncst Aldrich Simpson, was nd the action. Personal Appeal Possible. Had el incipal to the divorce desired to accelerate the final decree he or she would have appealed person- ally to the president of the Divorce In December, one newspaper report- ed an appearance had been entered in t vorce registry at Somerset House in connection with the Simpson case. It was stated the signer was a man ved as & printer on a newspaper rs attached no significance ort at the time, since no sup- a wer 1in the w's hearing chambers it was learned, d only the par- n-—in other words r—will be per- an indication ) sensational depart- » regular legal routine of case rts from Austria have in- rme: King Edward iced his throne simpson. plans to marry her late recent report said he her soon at Monts, a discussion of 50 he made no Pr for t home. 1 divorce cases the King's » made today's application, ged with supervising the con- parties to the action during im between the probationary final decrees, in order to ferret t any evidence of collusion or mis- A day with on Page A-9 the Duke of Windsor Volcano Erupts. EBASHI. Japan, March 18 () — Asama, Japan's largest and active volcano, erupted today, ring the countryside with lava cinders and forcing the panic- ken populace to flee their homes. ¢ of rejoining her is to fly all preparations for my Honolulu take- off, getting a good rest there secure in | the knowledge that he will have every- thing in readiness when the time comes to leave for Howland Island Also, we are taking along a relief navigator, Fred Noonan, veteran of 18 Pacific air crossings. at Howland, as Mantz will in Hono- lulu and Manning at Darwin. once, if all goes well. it will be the males, in a manner of speaking, who | do the walking home. If the flight is completed its over- all distance will total about 27,000 miles. five of the six continents—Europe alone is not included Many months have been devoted to preparation. For such a flight my ship and its equipment are probably as competent as can be obtained un- less a special craft were designed. All | (See EARHART, Page A-2) PARIS PARALYZED Strike as Result of Five Slayings. BACKGROUND— Strikes and political unheavals have beset Premier Blum of France since he took office last June. Tues- day night’s rioting was third fatal clash between supporters of Popular Front—which carried Blum into power—and members of former Croiz de Feu in recent wecks. This Fascist group, headed by Col. Fran= cois de la Rocque, was ordered dis- banded by government within few days of Blum’s inauguration. It was reorganized as political party, but | its spirit was unchanged. Recently Social party has been suspected as a reconstruction of Croiz de Feu. Communists have bitterly fought Col. La Rocque as leader of militant Rightists. | B) the Assoclated Press. PARIS, March 18.—A general strike of 2,000,000 workers in protest against “Fascist assassins” they accused of riot For half the day, marked by nu- merous small clashes in the city's disorders, the workers demonstrated their power to enforce demands for destruction of “Fascism” in France. All factories and most shops, restau- rants and offices were closed until noon by the general strike, called by the General Confederation of Workers in protest over the “massacre of Clichy” Tuesday night and early yes- terday, when armed police charged Communist street barricades in the workers' suburb, mass meeting In the capital itself, about 1,000,000 workers joined the strike, which, un- til the deadline at 11 am. stopped traffic Suburban Workers Idle. Another million walked out in out- lying municipalities where many #m- portant factories are situated and where most of the local administra- tions are strongly Communist. So complete was the paralysis that | He will drop off | For | Its route as planned touches | ~ BY MASS PROTEST ‘Two Million Hold Half-Day outside a Rightest | SIGNS OF EVICTION BY FORCE TIGHTEN AUTO STRIKE LINES Chrysler Spokesman Says Attorneys Are “Going Ahead” in Crisis. | APPEAL TO MURPHY’S NEW BOARD UNLIKELY Won't Withdraw Men Until Bar- gaining Recognition Is Given, Union Leaders Reaffirm. BACKGROUND— Labor movement by John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization began in earnest last December 30, when strike was called in General Motors plants in Detroit and elsewhere. After sir weeks truce was negotiated to satisfaction of union, and its workers turned toward other industries. Big steel made peace with a union for the | first time. Then came a Chrysler crisis. The C. I. O.’s United Automobile Workers of America demanded rec- | ognition as sole collective bargain= ing agency for Chrysler employes; the management refused; sit-douwn strike was called March 8. Com- pany went to court, obtained order for evacuation of plants by 9 a.m vesterday. The strikers continued to hold plants despite deadline. BY the Associated Pross | DETROIT, March 18 —Indications that the Chrysler Corp. was prepared to ask forcible eviction of 6,000 sit- down strikers from its eight automo- bile plants here caused vigilant union | pickets to tighten their lines today. The corporation’s next step is a re- | quest for Circuit Court writs against the injunction-defying strikers. A company spokesman said “our attor- neys are going ahead as fast as they | can.” The deadlock on the union's de- mand for exclusive bargaining rights held through a morning of negotia- tions. Chrysler executives asked union leaders, “When are you going to take the men out of the plants?” | “As soon as we get recognition as | | sole bargaining agency.” was the re- | |ply. This the corporation has re- fused to grant A Chrysler spokesman said the pos- sibility of appealing to the Civic Con- | ciliation Board set up by Gov. Prank | Murphy's conference yesterday to aid | in settling strikes had not been dis- | cussed Since 9 a.m. vesterday, the strikers and high officials of the United Auto- mooile Workers of America and the Committee for Industrial Organization have been in violation of an injunction signed by Circuit Judge Allan Camp- bels. Chrysler Going Ahead. B. E. Hutchinson, Chrysler Finance | Committee chairman, said only that | “our attorneys are going ahead as fast as they can in an orderly manner to establish our legal position.” He said the conferees' negotiation with wnion representatives here have | full power to effect a settlement of the dispute. The reply of Homer Martin, presi- dent of the U. A. W. A, to a statement by Gov. Murphy that the State might use force to evict the strikers, was a suggestion that “force be used on the employers to make them obey the law.” “Injunctions ought to work both ways, if the courts are free and fair,” Martin said. The U. A. W. A. has contended the Chrysler Corp. is violating the Wagner |labor act by refusing to grant the | union exclusive bargaining rights. The union claims a great majority of Chrysler production workers are U. A. W. A. members Union and corporation conferees re- sumed this morning their negotiations (See STRIKES, Page A-3) the morning session of the Chamber | of Deputies, where a bitter attack was expected on the government over the Clichy riots, was postponed fabor headquarters declared strike was complete, tying up the metal, building chemicals and tex- tile trades, large stores, and all pub- lic transport including the subway which reopened at noon Only man the rman workers on the Ger- pavilion stayed on the job at (See WORKERS, Page A-4.) WARM RAIN 'FORECAST HERE THIS AFTERNOON Moderate Temperatures for Dis- trict Due to Continue Through Tomorrow. Warm rains and moderate tempera- tures are the District's weather out- | 100k | is due this afternoon. Tonight, the forecaster says, will be mostly cloudy with a minimum of about 40 degrees. | | Tomorrow is scheduled to be fair with | not much change in temperature. Yes- terday’s maximum was 49 and this morning’s low was 33 First Security Pluu Applicant Is Refused 17¢ Retirement Pay By the Associated Press CLEVELAN Ackerman D, March United States social security act, will | the 17 cents he claimed was not get due I Ackerman ‘rom P. D. ¢ received a letter Fahnestock. resentative of re -year-old street car mo- torman who was believed the first per- | son to apply for a pension under the | today informational the Social #aying his claim to a | | 17-cent pension check was disallowed 18 —Ernest | by the board’s Claims Division. The motorman, who promised to | spend the pension on a treat for his cronies, contended he became 65 on | January 2, 1937, and had paid a tax of 5 cents for January 1, the only day he was affected by the act This, he said, entitled him to 3!, per cent of his $4.96 earnings that day—or 17 cents Ackerman declined to discuss the decision or say on what grounds it was based. - | Obituary | ‘The rain—occasional light showers— Summary of Page. | Amusements_B 12 | Radio Comics C-7 | Short Editorials ._A-10 Society B-3 Financial ___A-21 Sports ...._C-1-4 Lost & Found Woman's Pg. C-5 Page. C-12 Story..C-8 A-14 | SUPREME COURT ISSUE. Law school dean defends court plan | at hearing Page A-1 Readers’ letters express views on co issue Page B-10 LABOR SITUATION. Willard Hotel agrees to abide by em- | ployes' election Page A-1 | Strikers holding plants as Murphy | forms peace group Page A-1 | Goodyear employes trained with rifles gas, committee hears. Page A-2 Secretary Perkins meets Rand on labor problems. Page A-3 NATIONAL. Man kills three in family self. Government to boom Soundness of new disputed. President urges Patrick's talk and then Page A-1 as check Page A-7 rail pension plan Page A-15 unselfishness in St Page A-8 controls seen FOREIGN. Pope hits communism, cites inalien- able rights of workers. Page A-1 Million Paris workers hold half-day strike. Page A-1 Spanisn loyalist aviators claim victory in battles. Page A-3 | Hull calls for end of anti-Hitler con- | troversy. Page A-5 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Continental debt to Commercial set at | $885,786 by court Page A-1 Jacobs admits exceeding delegated | fiscal authority Page A-1 {1 killed, 7 injured in D. C. and near- by traffic accidents. Page A-6 Symphony sustaining fund near half- | way mark Page A-6 | whose WHATLL WE DO. MR PRESIDENT? THEY'VE TALK, AND MAY BEGIN FIRESIDING ANY MOMENT! BEGUNTO o/ After Shooting de Chambrun {Rome Embassy Attaches Describe Assailant as “Unbalanced.” By the Assoclateq Press PARIS, March 18 —Her dark eyes flashing, beaut La Fer- riere declared shot and wounded Count Charles de CF brun, former Ambassad cruse he “betrayved my love” for a man “too famous to let me speak his name.” The striking brunette invoked the unwritten code of diplomatic honor as her defense, claiming the French envoy had betrayed her confidence The wounding of the French envoy vesterday as he boarded the Brussels express caused a major sensation in society and diplomatic circles, with speculation rife as to the identity of the ‘great Italian man of state,” love Mme. Le Ferriere ac- cused Chambrun of causing her to lose. French friends of the 30-year-old woman said she told them she had won the affections of the “great Italian man of state” after recent interviews. On her many trips between Paris and Rome, where she was received in diplomatic society, she was known (See CHAMBRUN, Page A-: - COMMUNISH IS HT IN POPE'S ADDRESS Employers Urged to Recog- nize “Inalienable Rights” of Workers, BY the Associated Press VATICAN CITY, March 18 —Pope Pius XI condemned communism as ul Made today she | “the ruin of family and society” in a lengthy encyclical issued today The Pontiff, in a vigorous attack on Lhe forces he has fought even through- out his recent serious illness, declared only the Catholic Church could ef- fectively oppose what he termed the ‘ravages of the anti-God campaign " (See POPE, Page A-8.) Today’s Star School Board defers action on voca- tional rehabilitation Page A-18 Unidentified woman found asphyxiated in apartment Page B-1 nt Vernon reorgan- Page B-1 M 1zed Bank being President signs uniform sales law for District of Columbia. Page B-1 Commissioners expected to reject ban on half-pint liquor sales. Page B-1 | Fire destroys woman'’s sewing room at | Occuquan workhouse Page B-13 EDITORIALS AND COMMENT. Editorials Page A-10 This and That Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Page A-10 Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-11 | David Lawrence Page A-11 Paul Mallon Page A-11 Jay Franklin Page A-11 Mark Sullivan Page A-11 Delia Pynchon Page A-11 SPORTS. Cohen's pitching is Nats' defeat by Giants Page C-1 Puerto Rico offers fine pattern for U. S. fight promoters Page C-2 Western and St. John's reach final in Star’s basket tourney Page C-3 Golden Miller rules favorite for Grand National Page C-4 FINANCIAL. U. S. bonds improve (table) Acceptance rates boosted Clearings up sharply Montgomery Ward net rises Stocks go down (table), Curb list lower (table). MISCELLANY. Washington Wayside. Service Orders. Dorothy Dix Traffic Convictions. Bedtime Story Vital Statistics Crossword Puzzle City News in Brief. Young Washington, Nature's Children Letter-Out bright spot in slight Page A-21 Page A Page A-22 Page A-23 Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page “Betrayed Love,” Woman Cries | served as D. C. FISCAL PLAN HEARNGISHALTED May Be Resumed by New Group—Jacobs Admits Lack of Authority. BY JAMES E. CHINN. Investigation of the proposed three- point fiscal relations formula by two special subcommittees of the House District Committee came to an abrupt hait this afternoon upon completion of the examination of J. L. Jacobs, Chicago efficiency engineer, who di- rected the study on which the plan was based, and George McAneny, who chairman of his Advisory Committee. The inquiry may be resumed next | week, but by a new subcommittee After hearing Jacobs and McAneny |explajn the complicated plan, Repre- sentatives Kennedy of Maryland and Nichols of Oklahoma, both Demo- crats, the chairmen of the two sub- committees, came to the conclusion that the subjects their respective | groups were assigned to study are so MADELINE LA FERRIERE, Photographed in Paris last night after she had been de- tained on @ charge of shooting Count Charles de Chambrun. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. CONTNENTAL DEB ISFXEDAT 5 7% ‘Payment to Commercial De- | cided by Court—Both In- stitutions to Appeal. A decree entered today in the Dis- trict Court suit to determine the | amount owed to the Commercial Na- | | tional Bank by the Continental Trust Co., which were merged in 1930, to- day fixed the sum at $885,786.40. For several vears the tangled affairs of the two closed institutions have been before the court. The decision today, made by Justice Daniel W. O'Doncghue, will be taken to the Court of Appeals by both parties, each ob- jecting’ to particular items in the decree On January 18, 1930, a contract was executed between the two institutions by which the Commercial assumed the Continental's $2.800.000 depositor liabilities and took over assets. Both institutions closed during the bank collapse and now are in the hands of receivers 0'Donoghue Lists Sums. Justice O'Donoghte held that $367,- 036,40 of the $2.800,000 still remains to be paid out of the Continental as- sets. He listed this sum as a debt due the Commercial and autiorized the Commercial's receiver to liquidate the (See BANK, Page A-2) ISLE TO BE GARDEN 420-Acre Tract to Be Turned Into Exhibit. . PETERSBURG, Fla., March 18 () —Weedons Island, a 420-acre tract bordered by Tampa Bay, has been purchased by J. O. Paine of Newark, N.J Paine said the island will be turned into a huge botanical garden, with docks on the water front and a series of canals., The property is within the northern limits of St. Petersburg Botanical closely allied the job should be as- signed to one special subcommittee. Kennedy's subcommittee was 1in- structed to study the revenue features in the Jacobs report and the one headed by Nichols, the proposed 19 statutory changes Hopes for Better Job. As Jacobs and McAneny completed their testimony, Nichols made the fol- lowing statement to newspaper men “I am convinced the questions of tax- ation and legislative revisions in- volved in the Jacobs report are so closely allied that the two subcommit- tees working separately might do so at cross purposes. I believe one sub- committee should be appointed to handle both questions and a better job will be done I shall propose that Mr. Kennedy be made chairman of the new subcommittee " It 1s understood the proposal was | first discussed with Chairman Norton { of the District Committee and agreed to approve it. The new sub- committee is expected to be named within a few days with instructions to resume the investigation next week Representatives of various civic and business organizations interested in solution of the fiscal relations problem wili be invited to testify. The study of the Jacobs report by the two special subcommittees was short lived and failed to produce any special interest among the 10 mem- bers. There were five appointed to each subcommittee. Jacobs Admits Authority Lack. At the initial hearing yesterday afternoon only three members attend- ed—Chairman Kennedy and Nichols and Representative Sacks, Democrat. of Pennsylvania. Nichols conducted the examination of Jacobs and Mec- Aneny alone today because none of the other members appeared. Ken- nedy was delayed in Baltimore and arrived late for the hearing. In his final appearance Jacobs admitted he went beyond the scope of his au- thority in recommending reorganiza- tion of the District government Reorganization was proposed, Jacobs she | testified, because during the investiga- tion of fiscal relationship his attention was called to overlapping of services in the municipal government as well as conditions “which do not make for economy in administration.” Jacobs pointed out that in recom- (See FISCAL, Page A-4) Lindberghs Leave Lucknow. LUCKNOW. India, March 18 ().— Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, on an ex- tended air tour of India with Mrs. Lindbergh, took off today for an un- announced destination after an un- expected flight last night from Nagpur. Em ployéé ;)f i%llard Hotel i To Vote on Bargaining Agenc y The management of the Willard Hotel today agreed to allow the Na- | tional Labor Relations Board to con- | duct an election among its uniformed service employes and waitresses in its | coffee shop to determine their agency | for collective bargaining purposes. | In addition, the management agreed | | that if a majority of those voting in either or both of the two units at| issue show a preference for Local 781 of the Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ Alliance, that union will be recognized as the exclusive bargaining agent for employes of the respective units. At the same time it was announced that | the local will abandon its claim for exclusive rights if it does not poll a majority This concession by the hotel man- agement came as a surprise move as Board Member Edwin S. Smith pre- pared to hear testimony on the con- tention of Local 781 that employes of the two units desired the union to represent them. The necessity of the hearing was eliminated One issue for board determination remains before the election order may be given, the point of difference aris- ing out of conflicting claims as to the (See. WILLARD, Page A-3.) n LAW SCHOOL DEAN DENIES MEASURE ENDANGERS COURT Green Says Roosevelt Plan Would Not Affect Its Independence. TERMS CONTROVERSY ‘POLITICAL QUESTION’ Foes of Program Invite Justices Offer Views Before Senate Body. to BACKGROUND v woh wethods, arei plish ment accom- nd- holding hearing even div compromise amendmen Roosevelt is i bill as BY G Decla Supreme by Leor I University Li supported bef Committee the membership of t GOULD LINCOLN, “The basic ques Green interpreta t continue to be interpreted by the cour 50 as to block or impair the corrective leg enacted by Con- and the several States? 1 the severely atio ad provisions of the ition be subjected to re-exam- and, if thought warranted, preted in the light of new legis- nd the end it is designed 10 Con: inatiol reinte lation serve Calls Tt Political Question. The witness told the committee “this is a political question, not a question of law.” He said it had been coming to the fore for many years because “the court has been dominated by a group of judges who in later years have rather consistently adhered to a policy of striking down both national and State legislation, which was en=- acted for the purpose of meeting vari= ous soclal. economic and goveren= mental problems Writings Recalled. nesses, Dean Green ible with some of his when me of the e began cross-exa g him had finished his prepared L other encountered earlit comm after he statement Senator Burke. Democrat, of Ne braska, one of the leaders of the group opposing the bill, asked G if he had ever written a book on Con- stitution w witness dis- Co eme continued, “I point of view tributed to you ue of the 1 Judicature his state: in the Octob Journa Society t said at time that is safe ve inter- m pop= but their -and t they e courts ark of this ent View Correct. acknowls him cor- Green temporaneous See JUDICIARY, Page BLOW BY OFFICER FATAL TO SUSPECT Colored Man Accused of Stealing Gasoline Is Killed by Nightstick. Resistin e trying to automobile | port, Preston fatally inju he was caught 1e from a parked to a police re- colored, was v when struck 1 precinct, nn tampering with tank of the machine, 1100 block of Fifth shortly after 2 am, officer said, he | saw Swann had a bucket and a length | of hose. He placed the man under arrest and started to take him to a nearby patrol box, Howlin re= ported After they had walked a Howlin said, Swann tur at him with his fist over his eve. Howlin h the head once with he said. Swann was treated at Casualty Hos- pital for concussion and afterward transferred to Gallinger Hospital, where died about hours later. Howlin, who is lington, Va, wi quest into the case rc said he noticed £ the gasoline parked in t street northe: Approaching, t few yards, Swann on nightstick, he 28 a ppear at nrobably 0! Police have 1 but he is believed Maryland » addre to be from