Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1937, Page 1

* THOUSANDS CROWD WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight; lowest temperature about 46 degrees; tomorrow, partly cloudy, cool- Temperatures—Highest, 93, er at night. at 4:30 p.m. yesterday 6:30 a.m. today. Full report on page A-12. Closing New York Markets, Page 18 85th YEAR. No. 33,956. ; lowest, 56, at Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. O. GRIFFITH STADIUM FOR OPENING GAME President Roosevelt Is Ready to Raise Curtain on 1937 Season. INJURED CECIL TRAVIS WILL BE IN LINE-UP Colorful Ceremonies Precede the Contest—Cascarella Will Op- pose Smith of Athletics. ‘Starting line-ups for today's opener: Washington. Chapman, ef. Lewis, 3b. Kuhel, 1b. Philadelphia. Finney, cf. ‘Werber, 3b, Moses, rf. Johnson, 1f. Dean, 1b. Hayes, c. Newsome, ss. Parker, 2b. Smith, p. Simmons, M, Stone, rf. Myer, 2b. Travis, ss. Hogan, c. Cascarella, p. Headed by President Roosevelt, Cap- {tal fandom this afternoon stormed the gates of Griffith Stadium to watch the Nationals and Athletics open the 1937 flag chase in the American League. The President, Vice President Garner and an array of other notables were not due on the scene until just before game time at 3 o'clock, but long before that hour the rank and file of diamond enthusiasts had started trickling into the stands, early arrivals bringing lunches and magazines to make their | stay as pleasant as possible until action | started on the field. A warm sun made even light top- coats unbearable. Changes in Line-ups. Two last-minute changes were made | in the line-ups of each of the con- tending clubs. Pulling a typical pitch- | Ing switch, Connie Mack withdrew the | name of Harry Kelley, his veteran | right-hander, and announced that | Southpaw Edgar Smith, a rookie, will | face the Nationals. | Smith is unknown in the American | League, but attaches of the A’s main- tain that Washington is destined for & surprise. A blazing fast ball is his forte. Manager Bucky Harris countered with & switch in which the injured Cecil Travis was to replace Ossie | Bluege at shortstop. Travis, who was spiked last Saturday in an exhibition game, reported at the club house to- day and declared he was able to play. Harris, anxious to have the left-hand- ed hitter, Travis, bat against Kelley, promptly erased the name of Bluege and inserted that of Travis. This was done before Smith was nominated to pitch for the A’s, and there were | those who believed that Bucky might yet string along with Bluege, a right- handed hitter, and give Travis time o rest his spiked left knee. Members of Presidential Party. With the President in his box at the ball park will be his three secretaries, James Roosevelt, Stephen Early and Marvin H. McIntyre; Mrs. Early, Miss Marguerite LeHand, the President’s private secretary, and Col. Edwin Wat- son, military aide, and Capt. Paul Bastido, naval aide. Mrs. Rooleveltl was prevented from being one of the President's party because of another engagement. Once the Government departments | were freed at noon, the scattered | ranks of bleacherites, pavilionites and | standing-roomers who comprise the | early-birds were joined by a mad influx of those who had done their ticket shopping early and officials were predicting a record crowd of around 31,000. Clark Griffith, top man of the Na- tionals, and Ed Eynon, his aide, spent a busy morning superintending last- minute details. Cushioned seats and backs were in- stalled in the chairs in the presiden- tial box from which President Roose- velt tosses out the traditional “first ball” and the ground crew mani- cured the diamond until only spots in the outfleld showed traces of the Fall's foot ball schedule. The vanguard of the game-bound throng was in evidence long before the ticket windows opened for last- minute sales at 9 o'clock, about 300 (See BASE BALL, Page A-2) MINERS BACK A.F. L., RETURN TO JOBS Workers in Tri-State Fields Shout Denunciation of Lewis’ C. 1. 0. By the Assooiatec. Press. MIAMI, Okla.,, April 19.—Members of the Tri-State Metal, Mine and 8melter Workers returned to work today after shouting their indorse- ment of affiliation with the American Federation of Labor and approval of plans shutting out the Committee of Industrial Organizatidn in this area. Joe Nolan, Tri-State local presi- dent at Pieher, Okla., estimated 6,000 miners heard F. W. (Mike) Evans, union president, tell them “Our af- filiation with the federation was a very auspicious move.” Later Evans declared, “We're pre- pared fo put the C, I O. out of this ‘The mass meeting followed by one week the wounding of nine persons when the Tri-State miners paraded in Galena, Kans. “The Supreme Court decision last Monday outlawing company unions made it necessary to do something quickly to have representation in ‘Washington,” Evans said, explaining the affiliation. Reid Robinson, president of the In- ternational Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, now affiliated with the C. I. O, had announced after returning to Picher yesterday he was coming here. He was not seen at the R ch JOE CASCARELLA, Selected to pitch the opening game of the season for the Nationals. WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1937—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. %% Takes Mound for Nats SA —Star Staff Photo. DREWRY ATTACK ONCOURT PLANHIT House Members Resent Im- pression Views Came From Committee. BACKGROUND— Heading his list of “must” legis- lation, Prgsident Roosevelt sent Supreme Court reorganization bill to Congress February S, seeking authority to name siz new justices to high tribunal unless those over 70 retire. Strength of opposition, largely Democrats, indicated battle over measure might tie up congressional activities throughout most of Summer. Beginning hearings on bill seven weeks ago, Senate Judi- ciary Committee has agreed to con- clude them within 10 days, arousing hopes of disposing of this {ssue next month. BY GOULD LINCOLN. Resentment of Democratic mem- bers of the House now supporting President Roosevelt's plan to increase the number of Supreme Court justices has been smoldering for some days as a result of the attack made on the bill recently by Representative Patrick Henry Drewry, of Virginia, chair- man of the Democratic Congressional Committee. This resentment is based principally on the fact that the press copies of the speech earried the nota- tion that Drewry is chairman of the Congressional Committee. Indiana, first vice chairman of the committee. said today that Dtewry had no right to speak for the com- mittee; that the committee had no meeting before he made his address attacking the court plan, and that Drewry should have made his ad- dress, not as committee chairman, but merely as an individual member of the House. Drewry was out of the city today, and his office was unable to say whether the speech had been put out as coming from the chairman of the committee. Talk of Ousting. Crowe said he had heard criticism of the Virginia member on the ground that his address had been put out as coming from the congressional com- mittee chairman. There had been no discussion, Crowe said, so far as he knew, of ousting Drewry as chairman or reprimanding him. He regarded the matter as “too trivial to invite action.” However, if the committee should hold & .meeting to consider the matter, Crowe said he would welcome it. Majority Leader Rayburn discount- ed completely any idea that action would be taken against Drewry by the committee. “If the matter were brought up in (See JUDICIARY, Page A-2.) Representative Eugene B. Crowe of | DEATH DEMANDED INGMANSLAYING Murder Charge Awaits Two Gunmen Who Fatally Shot Baker in Kansas. BACKGROUND— W. W. Baker, one of four Fed- eral agents who trapped Alfred Power and Robert Suhay, fugitive New York bank.bandits, when they called for mail Friday at the To- peka post office, was shot four times as the bandits fled. The men were captured within a jew hours at Platsmouth, Nebr., by the local sheriff and his deputy, a brother, when they became lost from the main highway. Baker died yesterday in a Topeka hos- pital. The bandits had robbed a bank at Katonah, N. Y., of $8,000. Part of the loot was recovered. B3 the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kans, April 19.—The Government made ready today to charge two New York gunmen with murder—and demand the death pen- alty—while the father of a young Fed- eral agent who was cut down by bullets ’m the Post Office here Friday pre- pared to return his son's body to their Arizona home. United States District Attorney 8. S. Alexander planned to issue warrants charging Alfred Power and Robert Suhay, accused of an $18,000 Katonah, N. Y., bank robbery, with the murder of Wimberly W. Baker, 27, Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, shot in the back as he participated in an at- tempt by G-men to arrest the two men when they called for mail at the post office. Alexander said he would ask the death penalty for the accused men. They are held for safe keeping in the strongly fortified Jackson County Jail in Kansas City, Mo. Their arraign- ment, the district attorney indicated, would be held before a United States commissioner either in Kansas City, Kans,, or in Leavenworth, Kans,, loca- tion of a Federal penitentiary. H. H. Baker, Yuma, an Arizona State Senator and father of the slain agent, said he will take his son’s body home for funeral services and burial. Baker died in a hospital here near midnight Saturday after an emer- gency operation and at least two blood transfusions were futile. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said in Washington that Power and Suhay (See G-MAN, Page A-2) New Ocean Mail Service. TOKIO, April 19 (®.—A 10-day trans-Pacific airmail service from Tokio to San Francisco by way of Hongkong and Manila was inaug- urated today through arrangements between the communications ministry and Pan-American Airways. The United States Court of Appeals held today that a man and a woman arrested June 27 last when they were distributing Communist ecirculars op- posite the ball park were not accorded & fair trial in Police Court by Judge Robert E. Mattingly, who had up- braided both the defendants and their counsel because of the political color of their literature. John Thomas and Margaret Adams were arrested while they were hand- ing out circulars issued by the Com- munist party of Washington and con- demning Republicans and Democrats alike. In Police Court two days later they were charged with distributing hand- bills in a place where they were likely to be caught up by the wind and scat- tered, in violation of a specific police meeting. regulation. ,. - Communist Circular Trial Unfair, Appeals Court Rules There was no evidence during the brief and stormy hearing that the handbills were scattered on the street or were placed where they were likely to be taken up by the wind. Both the man and the woman were found guilty by Judge Mattingly and ordered to pay s fine of $25 each or serve 30 days In jail During the course of the hearing Judge Mattingly asked Margaret Adams, “You are a Communist, aren’t you?” When coun- sel for the defendants objected to the question, stating that political be- liefs were not at issue, Judge Mat- tingly replied, pointing to one of the leaflets which had been distributed: “That is the charge. It says right here ‘Vote Communist.’” Turning to the defendants, the judge then asaid, “If you don't like our system of gov- (Bes OIROULARS, Page A-5) 14 ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION PRESIDENT CALLS PARLEY ONBUDGET THIS AFTERNOON Summons Leaders to Go Over Revised Estimates for Next Year. EXPECTED TO STRESS HOLDING DOWN RELIEF Morgenthau Says Weekly $50,- 000,000 Borrowing Plan Will Continue Indefinitely. BACKGROUND— Disappointing tar returns and unforeseen congressional appro- priations have upset President Roosevelt's prediction for budget balancing within another vear. Important element in increased Federal expenditures has been in- crease of semi-permanent bureaus. As step toward consolidating and economizing along these lines, Senate named suvey committee - under Byrd; later, President called for joint committee to serve same function. By the Assoclatea Press. President Roosevelt arranged a con- ference late today with 10 congres- sional leaders and department aides to go over revised budget estimates for the next fiscal year. Faced with the possibility of a large deficit, he was expected to emphasize holding down relief and other costs, in View of the material drop in revenues below last January's estimates. The revised budget figures were e pected to be reviewed in a message the President will send to Congress about Wednesday, giving the next fis- cal year's relief estimates. Bids Opened by Treasury. The conference was called on the | same day the Treasury began a new | borrowing operation, opening bids on $50,000,000 of discount bills issued in | anticipation of third-quarter income | tax receipts in mid-September. Secretary Morgenthau said the weekly $50,000,000 borrowing would continue indefinitely. The plan aroused speculation by Federal financial au- | thorities as to whether further bond | issues would be necessary in June | when $300,000,000 of discount bills | come due, coincident with June 15 | tax receipts. This speculation may be set at rest | by the figures in the President’s mes- sage to Congress on revised budget estimates for the 1937 and 1938 fiscal years. Invited to the White House confer- ence were Vice-President Garner, | Speaker Bankhead, Secretary Morgen- | thau, Daniel W. Bell, acting budget | director; Senators Robinson of Arkan- | sas, Harrison of Mississippi, and | Byrnes of South Carolina; and Repre- sentatives Rayburn of Texas. Taylor | of Colorado, and Doughton of North | Carolina. Works on Relief Message. The President continued to work on his relief message during the day. In his January budget message he said the budget for the next fiscal year would be practically balanced if relief costs were held to $1,537,000,000. Congressional leaders have predicted the President would suggest an appro- priation somewhere between $1,125,- 000,000 and $1,500,000,000. Last week the Chief Executive called attention to the falling off in antici- pated tax receipts and asked all de- partments to economize in spending during the remainder of this fiscal year to prevent a large deficit. Fiscal experts said the major fac- tors of uncertainty were the savings to result from the President's order for sharp economy by all departments for the remainder of the year and the figure to be fixed as necessary for relief. Many officials saw little hope the Coulee Dam Saves Years. GRAND COULEE DAM, Wash, April 19 (#).—Millians of gallons of water piped through the 1,800,000 yards of concrete in Grand Coulee Dam's west end base already have completed the necessary cooling that would have required many years by o Star K%k The only Associated SATURDAY'S Cireulation, in Washington wit 136,546 evening paper the Press News and Wirephoto Services. SUNDAY'S Circulation, 150,125 (Bome returns not yet received.) UP) Means Associated Pruss. TWO CENTS. SIT DOWN. THIS IS WHERE N\ IM FORIT AT THE BASE BALL PARK! Tourist Marks Fall as 200,000 Visit Capital to See Blossoms Mercury Climbs 45 Degrees in 101 Hours, Matching Highest for April 18 in D. C. History. Tourist, transportation and housing | records fell and a heat record of 41 vears was equaled yesterday as the | weather and the Japanese cherry | blossoms combined to bring to Wash- | ington approximately 200,000 visitors. Climbing 45 degrees in 10'; hours, the mercury reached 93 degrees at 4:20 p.m, matching the highest mark for April 18 in Washington history, set in 1896. Coats, vests and hats came off as the day progressed, and one heat | prostration was reported. The ther- | mometer leaped 9 degrees in 1 hour, from 172 to 81, between 11 am and noon. The hottest April day on record was April 7, 1929. the Weather Bu- reau said, but the mercury then | mounted only 1 degree above yester- day's high mark. Visitors who remained in the city today were relieved by cool breezes following in the wake of early morn- ing showers. Today also brought relief to the police force, weary from directing traffic, and to tired Congressmen, who have been escorting sightseers from back home around the Capital. “Now that the base ball season is here,” said a Representative from a | Western State, “there is some place to take the folks where you can just | sit. I've gone up the Washington Monument so much in the last three | weeks that I feel like a steeplejack.” Here are the highlights of yester- | day’s invasion of Washington: | Police counted approximately 29,000 | automobiles from more than 30 States | circling the biossom display in the Tidal Basin and estimated 50,000 pe- destrians visited the scene. The num- (See BLOSSOMS, Page A-4.) natural process. THEATRICAL AGENT HELD IN MURDER Woman Violinist Bludgeoned to Death in New York Hall, By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, April 19.—A theat- rical booking agent was taken into custody today for questioning as police tried to solve another of New York's apectacular homicides, a hammer murder in a rehearsal hall within earshot of the incandescents of the bright light district. The victim, who used the name of Tania Lee Lova, was of the theater, and it was in theater atmosphere that she was found fatally bludgeoned yes- terday. Upstate, Micha Ross, 30, was found at the home of his father-in-law, a former police chief. Apprehended at Mountain Dale by a State trooper, Ross was brought to New York for questioning by Inspector Michael F. McDermott. A concert violinist, Miss Lova, legally Julia Nussenbaum, 25, of Bridgeport, Conn., was found uncon- sclous in a West Forty-third street rehearsal room, her head bloody from hammer blows. Near her was the instrument by which she died. Drippings of blood led across the room. The unconscious artist was | almost concealed by a curtain. A (See MURDER, Page A-5.) Summary of Today’s Star Page Page Amusements_B-16 | Radio -.....A-16 Comics __...B-12 | Soclety _..._._B-3 Editorials A-10 | Short Story..B-7 Financial .._A-17 | Sports _____A-13 Lost & Found A-3 Obituary -..A-12 STRIKE SITUATION. Automobile workers to file charges ‘Woman's Pg. B-10 against Ford. Page A-1 FOREIGN. Maneuvers rouse war scares in Scan- dinavia. Page A-5 NATIONAL. ¢ Treasury begins new borrowing; Byrd issues warning. Page A-1 Roosevelt summons leaders to budget conference today. Page A-1 Theatrical booking agent arrested in hammer murder. Page A-1 G-man slayers to face murder charge in Kansas. Page A-1 Farm tenancy given preference over resettlement projects. Page A-4 Vandenberg says jobless overestimat- ed by 5,000,000. Page A-4 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY, Bridegroom charged with stealing $8.30 by mother. Page A-1 Appeal court holds Communist eircu- lar trial unfair. Page A-1 Delegates await formal opening of D. A. R, Congress. Page A-1 Hottest April 18 since '96 brings rec- ord tourist influx. Page A-1 Mrs. Harriman nominated as Min- ister to Norway. Page A-2 Daingerfield lawyers seek access to safe deposit box. Page A-6 McNary reiterates opposition to Jef- ferson Memorial site. Page B-1 New parking ticket system goes into effect today. Page B-1 Storm spanking trial continued until Thursday. Page B-1 Maritime Board selects new counsel and assistants. Page B-1 Trucking group blocks establishment of “metropolitan sone.” Page B-1 Prosecution rests in second Rhodes D. A. R. CONGRESS 10 OPEN TONIGHT 46th Annual Session to Start at 8:30— Defense Meeting Today. Women from all corners of the United States who trace their an- cestry back to the men who fought for the freedom of the 13 colonies waited expectantly today for the glamorous moment tonight which will signal the opening of the forty-sixth annual Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion. When Grace Adams East sounds her trumpet at 8:30 p.m. the audi- ence in Constitution Hall will come to silence for the entrance march of President General Mrs. William A. | Becker and the national officers of the society, who will walk onto the stage to the music of the United States Marine Band and under escort of the D. A. R. pages, each page holding aloft the flag of the State she represents. Mrs. Becker will call the congress to order, Right Rev. James E. Free- man, bishop of Washington, will pro- nounce the invocation, and five days of pageantry, all dedicated to patriot- ism and a better America will be under way. The congress, promised by Pres- ident General Becker to be the most colorful and interesting in the long history of congresses, has attracted 5,000 delegates. Well before then, however, the con- gress will have discussed the serious business of what the Daughters of (8ee D. A. R, Page A-4) MISSING D. C. MAN FOUND IN RIVER U. S. Clerk Who Disappeared Two Weeks Ago Held Suicide. The body of Forrest R. McClintic, 37-year-old Veterans’ Administration clerk and stepfather of three chil- dren, who disappeared from his home two weeks ago | after Mbemptingi to tak: his own | life, was found in the Anacostia River today. The body ap- parently had been | in the water a| week or more. It | was discovered | about 50 yards above the Ana- costia Bridge by Charles Dennis, colored, 320 Sec- ond atreet south- west, a P. W. A, worker. He notified harbor police, who recovered the body. Mrs. Lilly B. McMillan, 906 Vir- ginia avenue southwest, mother of McClintic, with a sister of the dead | man, identified the body at the morgue. Tentative identification had been established by a court sum- mons found in his pocket and by his clothing, a description of which had been furnished police by his wife, | Mrs. Mary Louise McClintic, at the time of his disappearance. Suicide Certificate Issued. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald issued a certificate of suicide. Me- Clintic lived at 1533 Pennsylvania ave- nue southeast. Il for three years and apparently worried over several debts, McClintic left his home April 5 after attempting to commit suicide, the wife reported to police at that time. She said he was under treatment for diabetes for | three weeks at Gallinger Hoepital last | October. | | After her husband disappeared, Mrs. McClintic found a note in which, she said, he described in a vague way sev- eral debts he was unable to pay. He often had mentioned suicide, the wife told police, and asked in the note that ! he be buried in Arlington National Cemetery and that his funeral services be held in the Fort Myer (Va.) chapel. The note also named the funeral estab- lishment he wished to arrange for his last rites. Municipal Court records show that a summons was served on McClintic in December, 1936, for failure to pay s debt. Subsequently a judgment was issued against him and his salary was attached, beginning March 29, under & court order. McClintic had been married about five years. His wife has three children by & former marriage. They are Vir- ginia, 15, Thomas, 16, and Roy Selby, 17. According to the Veterans’ Adminis- tration, he enlisted in the Army in October, 1918, and was discharged in F. R. McClintic. TEACHERS SIT-DOWN 20 in Tokio 8chool Demand Better Work Conditions. TOKIO, April 19 (#)—Twenty To- kio teachers in a large commercial school staged Japan's second sit-down strike today to the astonishment and delight of 850 pupils. The striking padagogues, refusing to go on with classes, demanded better ‘working con- ditions and reinstatement of eight dis- December of the same year. — OHIOAN KILLED IN RAID DAYTON, Ohio, April 19 (#.—A burst of machine gun fire from a deputy sheriff’s weapon killed Clifford Sweet, 33, in a liquor raid. Deputy Sheriff C. L, Weidel, who fired the shots, said he found a 100- gallon still and 1,000 gallons of mash in quarters occupied by Sweet in the home of Mrs. F. H. Bolinger, near charged colleagues. News of Englewood, 10 miles northwest of here. D. A. R. Full reports of the D. A. R. Convention, April 18 to 25, inclusive— Mail—Postage Prepaid U. S., Mexico ehd Canada ___ . Foreign ____________ _____ cenoos I SL Leave orders with Star representative at Constitu- tion Hall or The Evening Star office, 11th St. and Pa. Ave. N.W. trial. Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 ‘This and That. Page A-10 Washington Obeervations. Page A-10 David Lawrence. Page A-11 Paul Mallon. Page A-11 Dorothy Thompson. Page A-11 Constantine Brown, Page A-11 Lemuel F. Parton. Page A-11 MISCELLANY. ‘Washington Wayside. Page A-2 Nature’s Children. Page B-6 Bedtime Story. Page B-8 City News in Brief, Page B-9 Shipping News, Page R-9 Dorothy Dix. Page B-10 Betsy Caswell. Page B-10 ‘Winning Contract. Page B-11 Young Washington. Page B-11 Crossword Pustle. Page B-12 Letter Out. Page B-13 UNIONWILL PUSH FORD COMPLAINT INGITATIONTOLS, U. A. W. Decides Definitely to File Charges With Labor Board, ACTION MAY BE TAKEN IN DETROIT TODAY Martin Arrives Here to Discuss C. I. 0. Campaign in Auto Plants With Lewis. BACKGROUND— Supreme Court’s decision uphold- ing national labor relations act in- tensified United Automobile Work- ers' drive to unionize employes of Ford Motor Co. biggest hold-out employer. The U. A. W. is an apil- iate of the Committee for Indus- trial Organization, headed by John L. Lewis. Meanwhile, a show-down ap- peared mear in labor split which has existed—in fact, if not in theory—since last Summer, when A. F. of L. Council moved suspen- ston of 10 afiliates which had joined in forming C. I. O. Both Jactions hope to capitalize on vali- dation of labor act by intensive or- ganizing, and Secretary Perkins hopes to facilitate amicable rela- tions between industry and labor by joint conference. BULLETIN, Sidney Hillman, chairman of the C. I O. Textile Organizing Com- mittee, conferred today with J. Warren Madden, chairman of the NatPnal Labor Relations Board, for the purpose of enlisting action by the board in widespread viola- tions by the textile industry of the labor relations law. It was dis- closed also that United Automobile Workers have lodged a complaint of violations by the Ford Motor Co. with the board's office in Detroit, Charges of blanket violation of the national labor relations act definitely will be filed against the Ford Motor Co. by the United Automobile ‘Workers, it was learned here today. The charges will be filed with the Detroit Regional Board, perhaps later | today. Meanwhile, Homer Martin, president |of the United Automobile ‘Workers, {arrived in Washington shortly before noon to meet with the executive board of his union and John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Ine dustrial Organization. Principal sub Ject of discussion was to be the organ= lzing drive of the U. A. W. in the Ford plants and the status of the union agreement with General Motors Corp. From other U. A. W. officials here, it was learned that considerable feel- ing exists that General Motors has violated its union contract through its conduct in negotiations in the Canadian strike. The possibility of a new walkout in General Motors plants in the United States thus arises, While the C. I. O. leaders were in conference, the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor was (See LABOR, Page A-2) Bride Released In Theft Case Sobs in Court Husband Is Ordered Held on Charge by Mother. An attractive young bride, accused with her husband of breaking into his mother’s house on their honeymoon and taking $8.30, broke into tears and sobbed heartbrokenly in Police Court today when Judge John P. McMahon ordered her freed At the same time, Judge McMahon ordered the husband, Michael Mounts, 22, of the 3500 block of Warder street, held in $1,000 bond for action of the grand jury. As Judge McMahon made his ruling, the bride, Isabelle Mounts, 22, threw her arms arqund her husband when a bailiff seized his arm to lead him to a cell because he could not furnish bond. She kissed him and broke into tears as they were parted. The couple were married January 19, Mrs. George W. Ridgeway, mother of Mounts, testified. She said her son moved away from her home the day before he was married. On March 21, Mrs. Ridgeway testi- fled, her home was broken into and $8.30 stolen from her pocketbook. Buspecting her son, she said, she notie fled police and the couple were rested Saturday by Detective Sergt., Dan D. Hughes. “I didn't mean to have him sent to jall,” Mrs. Ridgeway said after she left Police Court. ‘¢ merely wanted to frighten him so he would stay away from my house. I don't want to prosecute him; after all, he is my only child.” Mrs. Ridgeway said she forbade her house to her son after he eloped to Rockville, Hughes said he learned Mounts had visited his mother’s home on the evening of the robbery accompanied by his bride. Under cross-examins- tion by Judge McMahon, Hughes said there was no evidence indicating that Mrs. Mounts had forced her way in- to the Ridgeway home or had taken any money. “There is no evidence against the young woman at all” Judge Moce Mahon said. “I can't understand why she was arrested and held in jail, The case against her is dismissed, But I'll have to hold the young man for the grand jury.” Both Mounts and his wife pleaded, not guilty to the charge of house« breaking. They were represented by Attorney Denny Hughes. -