Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. B. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and colder today; tomorrow, fair; moderate to fresh northwest winds, di- minishing by tonight. Temperatures— Highest, 64, at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and 43, at 4 am. yesterday. Full report on page A-16 (#) Means Associated Press. he Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, No. 1,670—No. 33,927. 3 D. O, SUNDAY MOR TR WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION NG, MARCH 21, 1937—128 PAGES. Star * Every Afternoon. FIVE CENTS TEN CENTS AN _WASHINGTON AND_SUBURBS ELSEWHERF GENERAL STRIKE THREAT MADE 10 CURB POLICE RAIDS ON SIT-DOWNERS Detroit Auto Labor Tie-Up Monday Martin’s Reply to “Brutal Eviction and Club- bing of Workers.” 175,000 TO ASSEMBLE TUESDAY AS PROTEST Shutdown Would Not Include General Motors—6,000 in Eight Chrysler Plants Tell Gov. Mur- phy Forcible Ouster Will Mean Bloodshed. BACKGROUND— Gov. Murphy again is the rock against which conflicting tides in battle of ‘“rights"—"human” and “property”—have been after successful negotiations in U. A. W. A. and Genéral deadlock Big Steel's capitulation to labor's demands was a great spur to John L. Lewis' drive for ganization, which includes fight of U. A. W, A. jor bargdining power. Chrysler strike hinges on carrying out of court order to authorities to evict sit-downers, BS tre Assoctated Press. ‘ DETROIT, March 20.—The United | Automobile Workers of America threatened toni to call a general strike in Detroit automotive plants | unless “the brutal eviction of sit~ | down strikers and the ruthless club- bing of workers by Detroit police is stopped immediately.” The threat was contained in a state- ment issued by Homer Martin, pre dent of thd U. A. W. A, after had ejected strikers from the Packing Co. plant and the Bernard S Co. factory. Six per- g which women Subseque v, Wyndham Mortimer, first vice president of the U. A. W. A., said the strike threat did not apply to plants of General Motors Corp., | with which the union signed an agree- ment last Sunday. Martin declared that “every organ- ized automobile plant in the city will be closed down Monday” unless the | Taids cease, and that “the 175,000 | organized automobile workers of De- | troit will mass Tuesday night in Ca illac Square to protest these actions. Martin said that the U. A. W. A.! was “determined that strikers in these smaller plants shall not be the victims of police brutality.” No Reference to 6,000 Sit-downers. | The statement ence to the ei which 6,000 nce of a co iday, Sheriff T contained no refer it Chrysler plants, holding in njunction. Since omas C. Wilcox has for tlo arrest of the )1d Gov. Frank Murphy etter today that forcible moves to arrest them would lead to | “bloodshed and violence,” and appeaied | to the Governor to ‘“see that our | grievances are adjusted.” { Martin's threat of a general auto- tive strike in Detroit said ‘The United Automobile Workers of | America are prepared to call a general | strike in the automobile industry in the city of Detroii Monday unless the | brutal eviction of sit-down strikers | and the ruthless clubbing of workers | by Detroit police is stopped immedi- ately. Every organized automobile plant in the city will be closed down Monday unless Police Commissioner Heinrica Pickert is ordered to call off his un- | lawful raids on defenseless strikers. | “The 175,000 organized automobile workers of Detroit will mass Tuesday night in Cadillac Square to protest | these actions. “Commissioner Pickert is going to | have to learn that the legitimate labor | movement in this city is a force whose | right he cannot violate. | “He is going to have to learn that | his men are not going to attack de- fenseless women sitting peaceably on their own front porches. This was done Saturday evening during the | attack on the Bernard Schwartz cigar factory “Automobile workers are determined that strikers in these smaller plants shall not be the victims of police brutality. Automobile workers are not going to be blackjacked and slugged | out of their civil rights. Our recent great victories have resulted in the wiping out of conditions close to peonage in the shops and factories of Detroit. These workers don't intend to lose those gains. | “We are going to show Mr. Pickert | and his superiors that the automobile workers of this city are prepared to act if he and his department carry their violence further.” Neither Frank Couzens nor Gov. Murphy could not be found for a statement on the general automotive strike threat. He and Police Commissioner Pickert ‘were present when 75 women were pro- pelled, screaming and kicking, from the Schwarfz cigar factory. The | Mayor’s only comment then was that | he was there to “see how things were | going.” .‘ Rode Across Lawn. The noncombatant casualty referred to in Martin’s statement was Mrs. Anna Rziemickowski, whose home is across a street from the Schwartz | factory. Witnesses said a mounte policeman who rade across her lawn struck her with his night stick. Her | injury did not require hospital treat- | ment, Gov. Murphy, reached tonight, with- held comment on the general auto- motive strike threat. Neither would Commissioner Pick- (See STRIKES, Page A-5.) { m { | 3 breaking 1 Motors | industrial or- % | | “One of. Those Little Incidents,’ Crash That Halted World F light Right Shock Absorber May Have Been Primary Cause Instead of Blow- out—Hopes to Resume Trip. BY AMELIA EARHART. By Radio to The Star and New York Herald Tribune RETURNING FROM LUKE FIELD VIA AUTOMOBILE TO HONO- | LULU at 7:30 AM., March 20.—It is amazing how much can happen in one dawn. Instead of being 150 miles en route to Howland Island by airplane, the crew of our Lockheed Electra in four hours will be taking a steamer back to | the mainland | The airplane which brought us here so gallantly is being dismantled by efficient Army mechanics for shipment to the Lockheed factory at Burbank, | precious engines are not nurt, nor the body itself As for the crew, only our spirits were bruised when a | brought about the crash. By good for-«— tune, Harry Manning, Fred Noonan and I emerged from those strenuous | few seconds without a scratch. But 'not so the plane. My pet, as indi- cated, is considerably banged up. But at that, not so seriously as we had at first feared. The comparatively slight damage is a fine testimonial to the sturdiness of Lockheed con- struction, Many more who read this are drivers of cars than pilots of airplanes. So please imagine what happens—what can happen—to & heavy automobile n exploding tire tire blows out. can happen. And plenty happened to my plane roaring down the smooth concrete runway at Luke Field when suddenly the left tire gave way. Almost instantly the wheel collapsed. We slithered along for perhaps 1,000 feet. That was a rather sickening slide. It was one of those little incidents in aviation, which, small in themselve: " (See EARHART, Page A-13.) Plenty, as you kno SCHOOL WARNED, PLOT AGAINST LIFE PROBERS ARE TOLD OF KING REPORTED |Contractor Says Plans Were Unnamed Man Questioned Says Miss Earhart, Describing Calif. Her landing gear is wiped off and one wing damaged. Fortunately, the | going 70 miles an hour if a front Changed to Gas to Cut Cost. BY the Assoctated Press. NEW LONDON, Tex., March 20.—) Two witnesses told a military court | today they had warned of explosion hazards in the heating system of the London Consolidated School, where 455 students and teachers died Thurs- day in a demolishing blast. Scores of funeral corteges wound through the pine-studded hills, bear- ing victims to burial grounds as the court of inquiry sought to track down the origin of the explosion A. J. Belew, a heating equipment salesman, testified he had warned school officials it was “dangerous” not to install a new gas regulator for the | main building of the imposing school | group. George H. Greenway, Dallas heating | engineer and an unsuccessful bidder | for the school heating contract, testi- fled “It's a crime to put gas steam radiators in public buildings. When you put in 72 such radiators, you have | 72 chances for individual explosions. Jesse P. Vaughan, an oil field | worker, told the court he and a com- | panion who previously had expressed | an opinion the explosion was caused by nitroglycerin had changed their minds. From Contrhctor Ross Maddox, who | had a part in building the school, the | court heard original plans for heating the oil-wealthy school from a steam boiler were changed to provide indi- vidual gas steam radiators “on ac- count of cost, I presume.” Dr. E. P. Schoch, explosions expert fro.. the University of Texas, ques- tioned Belew, representing James B. Clow & Sons Co. Dr. Schoch, who earlier expressed a theory that an accumulation of gas | caused the blast, asked Belew if he had told officials of the regulator fault. | The salesman replied: “I told Mr. Shaw (W. C. Shaw, school superintendent) that it was dangerous. I told him he would have to reduce the pressure.” | Belew testified a new gas regulator | was installed in the main building | some time after January 1 and a| change from dry gas ‘ et gas was (See EXPLOSION, Page A-3.) MAN PUFFS CIGARETTES WHILE PINNED BY CAR BY the Assoclated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 20.— James J. Martin of Bartlett puffed feverishly at cigarettes to keep his | mind off his suffering today as he‘ sat pinned in the wreckage of his | automobile while two men cut him | loose with hacksaws. | Freed after an hour’s time, he fell unconscious. He was taken to a hos- pital. Both of his legs were broken. He also suffered a broken right wrist, internal injuries and possibly broken ribs. Martin, an automobile company | employe, apparently fell asleep at the | wheel of his car. It swerved into a concrete bridge railing. |to check up on the man's move- | | career. by Scotland Yard, News- paper Says. BY the Assoctated Press. LONDON, March 21 (Sunday).— The Sunday Referee reported today a suspected plot against the life of King George VI was being investi- gated by Scotland Yard following a raid on the room of an unnamed man where detectives found a throw- ing knife wrapped up with a map of the coronation route. The newspaper asserted high offi- cials of Scotland Yard were ques- tioning the unnamed man after the PLANE CRACKED UP BUT MISS EARHART WILLTRY IT AGAIN' Quick Thinking of Aviatrix Credited With Saving Crew in Smash-up. CAUSE OF ACCIDENT NOT FULLY DETERMINED Blow-out, Sloshing of Gasoline or Wet Spot in Runway Variously Blamed. BACKGROUND— Siz times Amelia Earhart, first woman to fly the Atlantic, has cheated death in crack-ups. Her first was August 31, 1928, at Pitts- burgh. She was injured only once, at Norfolk, Va., in September, 1930, when her plane upset. Her project- ed 27,000-mile ’'round-the-world flight in “$80,000 fiying laboratory” started auspiciously ~ Thursday, when she set a record of 15 hours 5112 minutes on the California- Hawaii leg, beating the best Clipper | time by 1 hour 61, minutes. Pure | pose of ner trip was to test the human equation in long flights. BY the Associated Press. HONOLULU, March 20.—Amelia Earhart cracked her “laboratory | | plane” and her world flight hopes to- day in a split-second brush with | death. Her quick thinking saved the | lives of herself and two male com- panions. | Rolling down the Wheeler Field run- | way at 50 miles an hour, bound for | | tiny Howland Island, the $80,000 plane began swaying crazily as nearly three AN Jiie M RN « 1\ \"“\( '\\ {08 () I A4l / d( Sy AR\ e ) e SR~ a4 = Z, WHEN WILL HE WAKE UP? 'NATION'S LEADERS CALLED COWARDLY ON*SIT™ STRIKES Silence of Roosevelt and Congress Hit by Senator at Court Hearing. |RESPONSIBILITY LAID TO JUSTICES’ RULINGS | Pecora Also Charges Example Was Set for Workers by High Finance. BY JOHN H. CLINE. resident Roosevelt and Congress have been “cowardly” in failing to de- nounce sit-down strikes, Senator Van Nuys, Democrat, of Indiana charged yesterday at the conclusion of a tense hearing by the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee on the bill to enlarge the Su- preme Court, “I think we have been cowardly— both Congress and the President—in La Guardia Anti-Nazi Speeches May Result in Luther’s Recall o | Ambassador of Germany | not strongly denouncing these strikes,” I believe could have been stopped | Van SEENPOSSIBILITY in 48 hou Nuys® came just after Justice Ferdinand Pecora of the New York Supreme Court had placed ility for the site upreme Court decie statement Embarrassed by Dip- lomatic Incidents. BY the Assoclated Press. Diplomats heard yesterday that Dr. | tons of gasoline sloshed about in the | Hans Luther soon will be replaced as | partly-filled fuel tanks, | Under the strain the right tire burst and the plane jumped out of control. “A tire blew out ... No one was hurt ... Only our spirits are bruised | « .. I cut the switches.” That was it in Miss Earhart's own words. | Plane Badly Damaged. The left undercarriage buckled and Germany’'s Ambassador to the United States | One possible reason advanced in these quarters was that Luther's offi- cial position in Washington had been | made difficult by the recent series of diplomatic incidents that followed « Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia's anti- Nazi speeches in New York Twice within the last three weeks the envoy was called on by his Gov- search of a house in a London suburb the left wing slashed into the ground. €rhment to protest to the State De- yielded the knife and a number of | documents. It reported that detectives who raided the man's room also found more than 100 newspaper clippings giving details of the coronation pro- cession May 12. Details covered by the clippings, it said, including the position to be occupied by the King's carriage in the procession, the times when the | certain points and the exact route ' of the cockpit and shouted to the procession was scheduled to be followed. Inquiries at the special branch of Scotland Yard—the department to pass | which protects royalty and deals with out and surveyed the broken ship. political matters — brought neither | confirmation nor denial of the Sun- day Referee's report. “We are not in a position to give any information,” the duty officer there said. “We have no statement whatever to make.” The newspaper reported that the greatest secrecy was being main- tained over the identity of the man being questioned. It added it was likely no statement would be issued | until Scotland Yard completes its in- quiries. It said many persons were being questioned and inquiries were being | made all over London in an effort | ments. FARMER, 70, IS BLAMED | FOR SLAYING OF WIFE | | Man in Critical Condition in Hos- pital After Reported Sui- cide Attempt. BY the Associated Press. CHESTER, §. C., March 20 —Sheriff William H. Peden reported that Wil- liam Ainsley Darby, sr., 70-year-oid farmer, shot and killed his wife at their home near here tonight and then shot himself in a suicide attempt. Darby, a bullet in his temple, was said to be in a critical condition at a Chester hospital. The slain woman, | who was 50 years old, was Darby's second wife. His first wife died about six years ago. The sheriff quoted a neighbor as saying that after two shots were heard in the Darby farm home, the elderly farmer cried from the door, Go get the law.” Ford Denies He Will Shut Down‘ It Strikes Spread to His Plants BY the Associated Press. WAYS, Ga., March 20.—Henry Ford said today reports he has heard that he planned to shut down his plants in the event of a strike were “abso- lutely untrue.” “I have heard reports that I said we would shut down for three years, if necessary, in the event of a strike,” Ford said in an authorized interview at his Winter home here. He did not mention the sources of the reports. “Well, that's not true. We are not going to shut down. We intend to keep operating to the last man.” Ford said there had been no labor trouble in his widely scattered plants, but he had experienced some difficulty with his sources of supplies. “The only object of a strike in any | of our plants would be an effort to make us shut down. We don't intend to do that,” he said. “The international financiers, who are really back of these strikes, have plenty to do besides trying to control industry. Let them create a proper distribution system that will be based upon what each country produces. That would keep them engaged. ‘ “The whole object of the strikes is to kill competition, and we are about the only competition that financiers have at this time. “They’ll not get anywhere while TI'm alive in their efforts to make us shut down.” Ford's statement was the first he has made this year about his prob- able policy should a strike occur in the Ford Motor Co. “About three years ago,” Ford re- lated, “we had a little strike on our assembly line in our Chester, Pa., plant. The men just walked out. Edsel, my son, and I were talking about it at the table. I said, as long as they have walked out, just let them stay out. We stopped operating the assembly line for a time, but the other activties in the plant continued. “The strike leaders then formed a cavalcade and started toward our New York plant in an effort to start a strike there. Their idea then, as it is now, was to get us to shut down, but we didn’t shut down.” . Ford reiterated his advice to work- | ers to “stay out of labor unions.” “Those who join,” Ford charged, “will be like the turkey—they’ll get it in the neck nntunuy."P The ship then spun to the right, crashed down on its right wing, and the right motor snapped off the right wheel. A single spurt of flame came from | the twisted derelict—but only one— | for audacious Amelia had snapped off | | the vital ignition switches. White-faced but calm in her sixth narrow escape in her spectacular avia- tion career, she popped her head out st1ll paralyzed onlookers: “Something must have gone wrong!” Her navigators, Capt. Harry Man- ning and Fred J. Noonan, crawled Her Voice Trembles, There was a tremor in her voice, but she showed no outward effects of the ordeal save her paleness and the loss of a paper lei which hung about her neck as she started down the runway. A few hours later Miss Earhart, Manning, Noonan and Mantz sanled‘ for Los Angeles on the steamer Malolo, determined to have their plane re- pairea al its Southern California factory preparatory to resuming the projected 27,000-mile world flight. Although Miss Earhart gave no out- ward sign of agitation as she emerged from the sixth escape of her aviation she seemed bedraggled and tired as she hurried up the gang- plank to sail. She wore several | the worse for rain, and still was at- tired in the brown slacks and leather Jjacket she wore when she started her world flight from Oakland last Wed- nesday. | Her always touseled hair seemed more awry than usual Accom- panied by Mantz, she rushed up the gangplank without speaking to in- terviewers. leis, somewhat “I'll Be Back.” Miss Earhart's chin went up, how- ever, as the liner moved out to the strains of the inevitable “Aloha Oe.” I"ll be back,” she said. i “I hope this is only a postpone- | ment. I talked with Mr. Putnam (George Palmer Putnam, her hus- | band, in Oakland) and he was happy | to hear our voices. He said as long |as we were safe, nothing else | mattered.” Before sailing Miss Earhart con- ferred with postal officials regarding several thousand special stamp cachets she was to have carried around the world. They were held for further instructions. The Coast Guard and the Navy re- called three ships which had been standing by along the route to How- land Island. An examination of the plane’s tracks showed it had passed over a small patch of grass which did not protrude above the concrete runway, but which was wet. For 150 yards the tracks showed how the plane swerved to the left until Miss Earhart “gunned” the left motor. One of the first Army officers to reach the scene said Amelia remarked disconsolately: “It's a total wreck. spot.” I hit a wet Says Blowout Caused Crash. Brig. Gen. Barton K. Yount of the Army Air Force asserted, however, the field, with concrete runways, was in good condition. He said the blowout | was the cause of the crash. Other aviation experts expressed the | belief the heavy load of gasoline washing in the tanks set the plane to swaying. The tanks have a capacity of 1,151 gallons, but contained only between 800 and 900. “When the plane started swinging,” Miss Earhart told Gen. Yount, “I couldn’t get it out (of the swing).” “I never saw any one with cooler nerve,” said Gen. Yount. The general added that Miss Ear- hart's tires had been ‘“carefully | BACKGROUND— partment against addresses in which La Guardia denounced Chancellor Hitler of Germany. | The controversy was attended by an outbreak of bitter feeling. Attacks | were made in the German press (See LUTHER, Page A-14.) HANS HEINRICH DIECKHOFF JOHNSON ACCUSES AIR UNIT PROBERS Commerce Official Charges Effort to Lay Crash to Innocent Man. The crash of a Transcontinental & Western Air transport plane carrying Senator Cutting of New Mezico and five other persons to their death near Kirksville, Mo., early in the morning of May 6, 1935, precipitated a special Senate investigation which has continued for nearly two years The Senate Committee, headed by Senator Copeland of New York, submitted two reports, the first de- manding a shake-up of the Bureau of Air Commerce, which it blamed Jor responsibility of the crash. The second report, made public last week, called on Congress to appro- priate $14,500,000 for improvement of Federal aid to air navigation and for aeronautical research work. BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON. Charges that investigators for the Senate committee which for more than a year has been probing the Bureau of Air Commerce, sought to pin the blame for the airplane crash in which Senator Cutting of New fexic. was killed on an innocent man, because that “seemed an easy solution,” were made by Assistant Secretary of Com- merce J. Monroe Johnson in a letter to Chairman Copeland of the com- mittee, it was reveailed .last night. Col. Johnson also charged that the investigation was conducted by “preju- dicéd” employes of the committee. His letter was included in a puklished transcript of secret hearings and evidence submitted to the committee. “I firmly believe,” Johnson said, “that no fair-minded person could review evidence in the department’s hands and question for a single moment the soundness of the charge of prejudice we have made.” Discussing the investigation of the Cutting accident, near Kirksville, Mo., in May, 1935, Col. Johnson said: “Initially, the committee’s chief in- vestigator inaugurated his work by pursuing the original suggestion of the operators of the plane, Transcon- tinental & Western Air, Inc. (a sug- gestion later abandoned in behalf of another explanation), that the acci- dent was due to erroneous weather reporting by the department’s air- ways keeper on duty at Kirksville, “When the investigator was queried informally by a bureau official about the information he had obtained about the performance of the keeper, he replied that to place the blame on the keeper ‘seemed an easy solu- tion. I thought it would be much easier than going into all the de- tails’ This remark was made over a telephone by the investigator and (See CRASH, Page A-16.) Leaps to Death From Plane. BURBANK, Calif., March 20 (#).— United Air Lines officials announced tonight Anatol Maren, 30, of San Francisco, had broken open an emer- gency exit window and leaped to death from one of their planes which left 13.) (8ee FLIGHT, Plll thmlt'lo’ahcktom‘t. 45 LOVALSTSREPORT INSURGENTS LT Socialists Take Additional Towns in Battles on Gau- dalajara Front. BACKGROUND— Spanish civil war going into ninth month with insurgent Fas- cists holding greater part of Span- ish territory and Socialist loyalists retaining control of Madrid, Barce- lona, Valencia and most of eastern seaboard. Madrid, besieged since last Fall, continues to hold out against re- peated onslaughts of rebel forces, augmented by Italian and German volunteers and war material. Agreement in force among neutral nations to prevent shipment of men or material to either faction in Spain. Italians charged with vio- lating pact with arrival of new military units: BY the Assoclated Press. MADRID, March 20.—More towns fell today before the advance of jubi- lant government soldiers, who sent insurgents fleeing in a ‘“demoralized mass’ on the Guadalajara front, the Madrid defense command declared tonight. “It is useless for the enemy to try to disguise its defeat,” said a com- munique. “There are abundant proofs of the glorious triumph of our arms.” (Dispatches from Insurgent headquarters made no mention of the fighting on the Guadalajara k (Landis Predicts They May | Be Accepted as Was Claim of Strike Right. 1 A suggestion might ultimat legal, just as s become legalized, was made last night by James M. Landis, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Con Talking at t Inive; the Eastern Law S Landis. dean-d Law School, said: “The claim today that men can occupy premises to keep their claim to strike intact is similar to the claim of the employer to close his premises against his empl The question is whether property in such a dispute is going to be recognized as inviolable. Possible Outcome. “The eventual outcome of such a claim will depend, in part, perhaps, on the capacity of our law to devise new concepts and mechanisms to meet the that sit-down strikes needs out of which this type of eco- | nomic pressure has been born.” Landis led up to the sit-down by tracing the slowness of the law to Trecognize the claim of workers to com- pensation, to strike, to induce fellow employes not to work during a strike |and to the claim of the right bargain collectively Landis held the sit-down is a cou: itmpan of the lockout, but added “thi: | new claim of workers to prevent al | production finds itself with doubtful | legal justification™ because the lockout | involves no question of property la living wage, that merchandi must make truthful statements of t character of their products, that cor- | porate structures must be simplified, | that in agriculture and mining other | people shall not be allowed to waste | natural resources—all these are claims clamoring for recognition,” Landis said. Better Legal Machinery Held Need. There is a clamor, too, the speaker | added. for better legal machinery. | This clamor, he said, arises from “the | delay and cost in court procedure and | the lack of experts among men who adjudicate claims. “The law itself just won't stand frustration of that kind,” Landis re- marked of the delay and cost and lack of experts, and then urged that inde- pendent administrative commissions, | composed supposedly of experts, be | made immune from many of the chal- 1lt‘nges to which they now are subject | from the courts. rs courts were developed long ago to offset the antiquated interpretation of the common law, the administra- tive commission should be put in the same relation to modern courts as the equity courts were to common law courts to “expand and revitalize” the law. “Play out on the frontier of social (See SPAIN, Page A-14.) (See LANDIS, Page A-5.) Last Family Is Forcibly Ejected From Shenandoah Park Home 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. LURAY, Va, March 20.—Walker Jenkins and his wife and 3-year-old son—the baby suffering from colic and his parents only recently recov- ered from influenza—were routed from their beds by Page County officers in a drizzling rain tonight and forced to vacate their home in Shenandoah National Park. The eviction, made by Sheriff J. ‘William Ruffner and Deputies Rumsey Sedgwick and W. E. Hill after Dr. H. Goodwin had declared the family in condition to be moved, was the final step in the authorities’ long-drawn-out efforts to clear the park of permanent inhabitants. Other residents of the section had acquiesced to the plans, but officers had failed several times in the last few years in their efforts to enforce an eviction writ served on Jenkins. As Hill was carrying out the baby, | who was bundled in an overcoat, Jen- kins’ 17-year-old daughter Rilla is said to have struck at him. Ruffner pushed the girl aside, it is said, and she threatened him with a knife. Mrs. Jenkins also had to be carried from the house, located in a meadow about 2 miles from Skyline Drive. Wrapped in a blanket, she was placed in Ruffner’s a Tnbile as other off- | cers escorted her husband from the | dwelling. to the county poor house, Will Bailey, 71, who was born on the property, appeared with the announcement: “I ain’t going to let them take my things. They belong to me. And I'm not going to the poor house. I'll find some place to stay tonight.” He packed his belongings into a large sack, threw it across his shoulder and, with a pair of saddle-bags over the other shoulder, two hats in one hand and an ax in the other, trudged away. Rilla and her brother Nathan, 14, also said they did not know where they would spend the night. The boy, however, volunteered to look after the family’s 17 hogs, 4 cows, 80 chickens and 1 horse—if they could be rounded up. eral barrels of flour and large quanti- ties of sugar, canned fruit and other provisions. The deputies hauled the supplies to St. Luke’s Mission. Jim Gray, an elderly man, who as- sisted the officers, said after the fam- ily and their belongings had been taken away: : “If T had it to do over again, wouldn’t come.’} 1 to | “The claims that industry must pay | He suggested that just as equity | After the Jenkinses had been taken | In the house tne officers found sev- | nd merely copied by worke and women.” concluded a week esses called in support of the Presidents’ plan to ap= point six new es to the high court unless those justices now over 70 resign. The opponents of the begin presentation of with the liberal rat, of Mone first witness. It is exe 11 be followed by Ray- forme ef “brain truster” of the New D ving Brant, and emocrat, of Texas, flagging interest in the Alice Longworth, widow of the former Speaker of the House and daught of President Theodore Roosev again occupied a chair be= hind the committee table Peering at Pecora through a tortoise shell lorgnette, she laughed at his verpal | tilts with committee members, jotted down an occasional note and puffed on cigarettes, despite a B\ vely No Smok= These have been consist= ently disregarded throughout the hearings. Pecora Draws Visitors, Pecora’s number of S bers of Ashurst pate not esence also attracted a tors who are not meme commit refused to let ) the bly became so interested in the ngs that they evaded the rule s and passing mittee members to propo At the outset of his statement, | Pecora, who attained national recog= ni while conducting the Senaie stock market investigation during ths | early days of the New Deal, criticized |two Supreme Court justices—one by |name and the other by implication. | After declaring “‘the myth that the | courts can do no wrong is absurdly false and dangerous to the integrity of the judicial system,” he added “The idea that it is contrary t sort of eleventh commandment criticize the courts has tended | make the judges less sensitive merited as well as unmerited criti- ;cnm It has accentuated a feeling jon the part of some judges that all | criticism directed toward them is in |bad taste and evidences a want of sportsmanship.” Seen Aimed at McReynolds. This, apparently, was aimed | Supreme Court Justice McReynol who told the Phi Delta Theta frater- | nity Tuesday night that “the evi- dence of good sportsmanship is that a | man who has had a chance to prese:t | a fair case to a fair tribunal must ke a good sport and accept the outcome.” Later, he quoted the following from 'WINDSOR TO DEPART ON EASTER HOLIDAY Will Travel Southward From En- zesfeld Soon, Police Offi- cial Reveals. BY th~ *-sociated Press. VIENNA, March 20.—The Duke of | Windsor is making preparations ta | travel southward from Enzesfeld | Castle in the next few days, Assistant | Director of Police Ludwig Weiser dis= | closed tonight. | He said the police were working | on arrangements for an extended | absence by the former king, who left his throne last year for the love of Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson It was stated the police understood the duke’s plans to marry Mrs. Simp= son when she becomes free were un- settled, but that there was an in- creased possibility the ceremony would take place in France. No final decision has been reached, however, it was emphasized. The plans of the duke for absent= ing himself temporarily from Enzese feld Castle were confirmed by one of ‘hls Parisian friends who said he had | indicated he would take an “Easter | holiday” away from the Rothschild | estate. l Rad at io Programs, Page F-3. Complete Index, Page A-2.