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TRIOPLEAD GULTY IN PARKER CASE Co- Defendants of Jersey Pair Change Pleas After Jury Is Selected. BACKGROUND— Paul H. Wendel, former Trenton, N. J., lawyer, was abducted Febru- ary 14, 1936, in New York by three men he later identified as Murray Bleefleld, Martin Schlossman and Harry Weiss. He was taken to a house in Brooklyn, held 10 days and tortured into falsely confessing he kidnaped the Lindbergh baby. From Brooklyn he was taken to Mount Holly, thence to the new Lisbon feeble-minded colony. A month later he was taken to Mer- cer County Jail, Trenton. News of his “confession” caused the Mercer County grand jury to ask that Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s exe- cution be delayed. The execution was carried out, however, when Wendel repudiated the confession. By the Associatea Press. NEWARK, N. J., May 3 —Three co- defendants of Ellis H. Parker and his son, Ellis, jr, changed their pleas to guilty in Federal Court today immedi- ately after a jury was sworn in to try the five on conspiracy charges grow- ing out of the Wendel sequel to the Lindbergh kidnaping. The three were Martin Schlossman, Harry Weiss and Murray Bleefeld, all of Brooklyn. Federal Judge William Clark ac- cepted the guilty pleas and counsel for the Brooklyn men withdrew from the trial. Schlossman and Weiss were convict- ed and Bleefeld pleaded guilty to & State kidnaping charge in Brooklyn in connection with the charge of Paul H. Wendel, former Trenton attorney, that he was abducted and forced to confess falsely to the Lindbergh kidnaping. Schlossman and Weiss were the first to announce through counsel they wished to plead guilty. The attorney for Bleefeld then obtained a short court recess, following which he an- nounced his client also had decided to change his plea to one of guilty. Counsel for the Parkers nad charged earlier in the trial that some of the Brooklyn defendants planned to turn Government witnesses. United States Attorney John J. Quinn denied today that he had any sdvance knowledge of the plans of the three to plead guilty. ROWLAND NAMED FOR ROTARY POST Educator Slated to Succeed Dr. Wilson as District Governor. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 3.—Albert Lindsay Rowland, president of the State Teachers' College at Shippens- burg, Pa., today was nominated for the governorship of the thirty-fourth district of Rotary International. Nomination is tantamount to elec- tion. The election will be held formal- ly at the international convention at Nice, France, next month. He suc- ceeds Dr. Ward O. Wilson of Clear- fleld, Pa. Lancaster, Pa., invited the rotarians to that city for the 1938 convention. Dates for the 1938 district meeting will be set at the Nice international convention. Registration today totaled 339, of whom 106 were ladies attending the convention. The convention opened formally to- day. Mayor Louis N. Phipps of An- napolis delivered the address of wel- come and Ignatius Bjorlee, Frederick, past district governor, responded. Other speakers during the morning session included Dr. Wilson, Glenn C. Mead, past president of Rotary Inter- national, and George Bahlke, Balti- more, and George Harris, Washington, past district governors, Ruling (Oontinued From Mirst Page) or indirectly challenging the wisdom or necessity of the congressional ac- tion, are all matters, as we repeatedly have pointed out, with which the courts have nothing to do. We find the legislation to be fgee from consti- tutional infirmity; and there both our power and responsibility end.” Attacked by U. S. Firms. The validity of the processing tax had been attacked on constitutional grounds by the Cincinnati Soap Co. and Haskins Bros. & Co., American #0ap manufacturers. The opinion in the Belmont case Aalso was unanimous, but Justices Stone, Brandeis and Cardozo followed a dif- ferent line of reasoning in arriving at the same conclusion. The Russian corporation, Petrograd Metal Works, deposited the money, the amount not being specified in the opinion, with Belmont's barrking house prior to 1918. Later the Soviet gov- ernment nationalized the corporation and appropriated all its assets. In 1933, the Soviet government assigned its claim to the money to this govern- ment, which brought suit to recover against Belmont's estate. In the lower courts, where the right to sue was denied, it was asserted a recovery would be contrary to the policy of New York State and that the action constituted an attempt to take property without just compensation. With the validity of the unemploy- ment insurance section of the social security act already under advisement in two Alabama cases, the justices to- morrow will begin hearing arguments in a Massachusetts case holding the old-age benefit section of the law void. Opinions are expected before the court adjourns late this month or early in June. A. & P. Conviction Upheld Before. Previous to today’s Supreme Court action, the Police Court conviction of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Inc, on a charge of short-weight sell- ing of meat was upheld by the United SBtates Court of Appeals. The court said intent to defraud is not & necessary element in the viola- tion of the District weight laws. The case involved the company’s store at 3000 Connecticut avenue. In reviewing the evidence, Justice Charles H. Robb found that & woman employe of the Bureau of Weights and Measures testified that she went to the store in July, 1935. She asked the price of frying chickens and was ad- vised they were 33 cents a pound, Jus- tice Robb said the evidence showed. She asked “How much are they?” and Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. PAID. STORY is going the rounds these days—may have been for years, for all we know— which indicates routine postal regulations are pretty occult things to some people. And that if the heroine of the story had things her way, Postmaster Vincent Burke WO) have thousands of dollars’ worth of well being coming to him. However, to get on with the story, & physician here employed a new sec- retary-bookkeeper. His bills were in none too good shape and he asked the girl to concentrate on them for & couple of months. She'd be glad to, she said. Some time later the physician asked her how things were coming along between himself and the customers. “Not so good,” said the girl. “Quite & bit of money has come in in the form of postal orders. It is all from & Vincent Burke, however, and we never even sent a bill to him.” The physician carefully explained that as postmaster Mr. Burke's name appeared on all such money orders. And he added that, by cracky, the girl9 better get hep to the idea pretty quickly. * % ox X NOCTURNE. Noel Coward maybe wouldn't care a rap about hearing it, but that song of his “You Were There,” was responsible for an odd sight on a local thoroughfare the other night. As a matter of fact, it was some time after 3 a.m. that one of our operatives (the night man) drove up behind a car from which is- sued the words of Coward’s melody. The dome light of the car was burning, the chap had the song apread out before him on the steering wheel and he was singing away with an abandon that would have been more appropriate out on the desert. Our man listened through a couple of choruses, then drove away humming softly, “I saw you and my heart stopped beating.” % ok x ‘WANTED—ROOM. DOROTHY HOWE, who used to make the Wayside column with practically boring regularity, came back to Washington Friday to do a bit of singing in a professional way. First friend she ran across listened with rapture while Miss Howe de- claimed of Washington's beauty. “There’s no place like it in the world,” she went on. ‘“What loveli- ness! What atmosphere! What spa- ciousness! What splendid people!” She paused then, a look of wistful- ness chasing enchantment from her deep brown eyes. “But where,” she suddenly asked, “do you find a room to live in for a week?” * ok x EARTH-BOUND. ONE of the girls we know (Wayside's circle of female acquaintance must seem almost limitlegs) recently obtained a job with an airline operat- ing out of Washington. Pleased with her work and her enthusiasm for the company, her em- ployers decided to treat her to an air trip to Chicago. She had never been up before, and we regret to re- port that her initiation was so rough she will think twice before flying again. Both westbound and eastbound the weather was 50 bad that our friend’s plane behaved like a fractious bronco, and her enthusiasm for, air travel has become principally a matter of ad- miration for the pilots who “tame” the big sky busses when they buck. ok ok x TALENT. Maybe you've heard this before. At any rate, the person who told it 2o us swears it’s true. It's about a member of a prominent Wash- ington family who happened to be the only member of that family without any particular talents or accomplishments. Unacquainted with this fact, a young lady who had just been introduced to the unfortunate fellow inquired of him as to the triumphs—social, athletic and otherwise—of other members of his family. “And what do you do?” she said at last. “Well,” replied our friend, “I freckle in the Summer.” * ok x % UNCEASING. ANO’I‘H!:R lad connected with this department finished reading the copy for yesterday's column with a sigh of relief that maybe the last item would stem the flow of calls about that Simpson Building-Duke of Wind- sor Inn thing. He started into the art department to have the column {llustrated, but was stopped by the phone. “Hello,” helloed a cheery, enthus- iastic voice. “I've got a really hot Wayside item. Up at the corner of Calvert street and Connecticut ave- nue—-" P. S.—Our operative is at Gallinger for observation, but he’s doing well and expects to be up and around by Coronation day. 20 SAVED FROM FIRE IN BOARDING HOUSE By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, May 3.—Lives of 20 occupants of a West Franklin street boaring house were endangered today when fire broke out in the basement, but firemen put the blaze under con- trol within a few minutes. Robert Norrow, asleep in the third floor of the building, was carried down a fireman’s ladder from his smoke- filled room after escape by an inner stairway was cut off. Other occupants, some in night garments, were able to make their own way from the structure. Battalion Fire Chief A. F. Taylor said the fire apparently started in the furnace room and would have been a “dangerous” one had it not been quickly discovered as the result of heavy smoke. —— the clerk replied “They come to $1.46,” the court said it found. Aosording to this price, the woman should have received 4 pounds and 626-32 ounces, but the chickens were found to weigh only 3 pounds and 4 ounces, Justice Robb said the evidence showed. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON LAFOLLETEBODY T0PROBE KLLING “Little Napoleon” Is Sched- uled to Appear Before Committee Today. The killing of Lloyd Clouse, Harlan County, Ky., miner who, according to the United Mine Workers, had been assisting in their organizing drive, was scheduled for examination by the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee to- day. . Summoned to testify was Pearl Bassham, “little Napoleon” of the anti-union coal operators. In addi- tion, Sheriff T. R. Middleton, George 8. Ward, secretary of the Coal Oper- ators’ Association; Bill (Thug) John- son and several who previously have Len on the stand were directed to be present for the sessions today and tomorrow. Two versions of Clouse's killing al- ready have been given. According to officials of the U. M. W., in a telegram submitted to the committee last week, Clouse was shot by four mine guards about 10 days 8go. At the same time, it was al- leged, Jasper Clouse, his brother, was beaten and fired by the Harlan- Wallins Coal Co., of which Bassham is manager. From Kentucky, however, the Asso- ciated Press reported that Bert How- ard, prosecuting attorney for Harlan County, after an investigation of the killing reported that it was a case of self-defense after Clouse had fired on & deputy named Bill Lewis. Charging that Clouse had been drinking, Howard reported that he threatened Lewis first and then fired at him. In the exchange of shots Clouse was killed. DEBUTANTE KILLED AS AUTO HITS POLE Miss Margaret Pierce Victim of Accident—Mother Was Mrs. Robert Herrick, Jr. By the Associated Press. SALEM, Mass., May 3.—Miss Mar- garet Pierce, 19, Boston debutante, was killed here early yesterday when the automobile in which she was riding struck a telephone pole. Roger F. Hooper, jr., of Boston, who police said was driver of the car, suf- fered severe cuts on the head and was confined in the Salem Hospital. Patrolman Joseph Marquis said Hooper, a Harvard sophomore, said he believed he fell asleep at the wheel. The couple was returning from a party in fashionable Magnolia. Miss Pierce, a graduate of { Beaver Country Day School, was the daughter of Mrs. Robert Herrick, jr., the former Mrs. Vinton Dahlgren Pierce of Wash- ington. She made her debut this Winter and appeared in many of the exclusive Vincent Club theatricals. Miss Pierce’s great-great-uncle, John Churchill, built Churchill Downs, fa- mous Kentucky race track. Hooper is the son of Roger F. Hooper, prominent yachtsman. Miss Pierce was the daughter of the late Vinton Ulric Dahlgren Pierce and granddaughter of the late Mrs. Joseph Pilerce of this city. As a child, she attended school here. She moved away from Washington about 10 years ago when her socially prominent mother married a second time. 'ARCTIC SCHOONER NAMED FOR GREELY Daughter of Explorer Christens Vessel Which Will Carry MacGregor Expedition. Memories of the ill-fated Greely expedition to the Arctic in 1882-3 were revived yesterday when A. W. Greely, Jr. a son of the late Maj. Gen. Adol- phus Washington Greely, and John Greely, 3d, a grandson, both of Wash- ington, attended christening of the three-masted schooner Gen. Greely, which is to carry the MacGregor Arctic Expedition northward in June. Held at Port Newark, N. J., the christening was done by Mrs. Ger- trude Greely Shedd of North Conway, N. H, a daughter of Gen. Greely. Her son, George Shedd, also attended. Brig. Gen. David L. Brainard, re- tired of Washington, sole survivor of the Greely Expedition, most members of which met starvation at Cape Sabine in 1884, also was present. He has been designated honorary chair- man of the MacGregor Expedition's Advisory Board. The present force of 16 men plans to spend 16 months in the Arctic, with headquarters at Fort Conger, on Ellesmere Island, 450 miles from the Pole, the site of one of Gen. Greely's camps. Those structures remaining from the former expedition will be used, it was learned today. The explorers, headed by Clifford J. MacGregor, meterologist at the Newport Airport Weather Bureau, and Lieut. Comdr. Isaac Schlossbach, sec- ond in command. They intend to make meterological and hydrographic observations. Congress in Brief ‘TODAY. Senate: Considers star route mail contract bill. Civil Liberties Committee resumes Harlan (Ky.) coal fleld inquiry. Judiciary ~Committee continues study of Roosevelt court bill. House: Considers minor legislation. Appropriations Committee hearings on relief-deficiency bill. Rules Committee considers perma- nent C. C. C. bill TOMORROW. starts Senate: May not meet, if bill relating to star route postal contracts passes today. Judiciary Committee, executive ses- sion, on court bill. District of Columbia Committee, hearing at 3 p.m. on miscellaneous bills. House: Considers private bills. Foreign Affairs Committee considers resolution authorizing Federal partici- pation in the seventh world poultry congress, at 10 a.m. Merchant Marine and FPisheries Committee begins hearings on bill re- lating to personal injury suits by seamen, 10 a.m. Subcommittee of District Committee resumes hearings on tax bill, 10:30 s.m. » CHANGEINC.C.C. SET-UP ORDERED District Supply Companies to Be Disbanded by June 1. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, May 3—Fourth Corps Area Headquarters of the Army an- nounced today the War Department had ordered that all C. C. C. district supply companies be disbanded by June 1. It also announced a reor- ganization in the administrative set- up of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 4th Corps Area. Concerning the supply companies, the headquarters announcement said: “Pursuant to those instructions, headquarters, 4th Corps Area, has directed that all of the C. C. C. district supply companies in the 4th Corps Area be disbanded by June 1. The duties previously performed by the supply companies will in future be performed exclusively by civillans. “Because of the excellent record maintained by the members of the various supply companies, Maj. Gen. George van Horn Moseley, the Corps Area commander, has directed that wherever qualified enrollees apply for employment they be discharged from their status as C. C. C. enrollees and be employed as civilians. A sufficient number of persons have been employed to fill all positions. “The supply companies were or- ganized in 1933, early in the life of the C. C. C., and have furnished the personnel for most of the administra- tive and supply functions at the various district headquarters. “It is expected that the transition from enrollee to civilian personnel will be completed by June 1.” ‘The other announcement said: “The reorganization in the administrative set-up of the C. C. C. in the 4th Corps Area, made necessary by a reduction in camps and anticipated further re- duction early in July, has resulted in the elimination of one district head- quarters and the equalization of work companies in each C. C. C. district.” Navigation __ (Continued From Pirst Page) bottom. With the old method it was possible to get a record only about every 40 feet when moving at less than half the speed. The result, Dr. Dorsey said, is an incredibly accurate picture of the con- tours of the ocean floor beneath the ship. The Coast and Geodetic Survey now has three ships mapping the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico in this way. Once standard maps are made they will be distributed to navi- gators. Would Be Accurate. It is almost infinitely impossible, Dr. Dorsey said, for any two localities on the sea floor to have exactly the same | pattern of hills and depressions. Con- sequently & ship on a starless night need only compare the pattern of the flash recordings it is getting in its in- strument room with the standard map to know exactly where it is within a very small radius. It may be quite as accurate as any readings that could be obtained from the stars. The first objective will be to map the coastal waters of the United States. Presumably the navigator will know about where he is and need only com- pare the map over a limited area. An enormous amount of work would be involved in getting such s minute pat- | tern for the entire sea bottom, but not | necessarily more than has been ex- | pended throughout the centuries in getting the exact position of the hea- venly bodies for the use of navigators. Especially when ships are close to shore a very little deviation in dis- tance may mean disaster. The in- strument is likely to mark the be- ginning of a new chapter in the ancient science of navigation The instrument, Dr. Dorsey said, has made possible the determination of an hitherto unproved physical pherrome- non—that a ship sirfks in the water in almost exact ratio to its speed. Other papers presented before the Acoustical Society this morning dealt with the improvement of sound and light signals from light houses. CAPITAL MAN DROWNED WHEN BOAT CAPSIZES While two of his companion’s chil- dren looked on, Raymond Leber, 35, of 724 Third street and a friend were drowned Saturday while fishing in the Susequehanna River near York, Pa., when their boat capsized, according to an Associated Press dispatch. Divers recovered Leber's body last night, but were still searching for that of his fishing companion, Albert Line- baugh, 38, the father of five children, who lived in the Pennsylvania city. Leber, whose parents live at York, had gone home with his wife for the week end. He will be buried there | tomorrow, it was said. He had no| behildren. Witnesses, the dispatch said, related that Linebaugh had swam almost to shore, then turned back to assist Leber and both went down. -1 D. C., MONDAY Mr. Hoover and Mr. Farley Meet MAY 3, 1837. Herbert Hoover and James A. Farley were brought together qt dinner in New York last night by a common interest, but when this picture was snapped they didn't appear very chummy. They sat with other distinguished guests at a testimonial dinner for Gene Buck of the theater. Between them is the Rev. Edward J. Donovan. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Tax (Continued From First Page.) deductible taxes. Among the stocks listed as included in these sales were those of General Motors—a corporation in which both are heavily interested—Anacon- da Copper, Warner Bros, National Cash Register, Checker Cab and Otis Elevator. In opening the Government's case, Chief Counsel Mason B. Leming of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, charged that Du Pont and Raskob entered into an agreement in Novem- ber, 1929, whereby they would sell these stocks to each other and buy them back at the same price later. Leming said the alleged losses en- tered by Du Pont and Raskob were not bona fide losses. Leming declared the evidence would show that on November 15, 1929, “there was deposited to the credit of Mr. Raskob a check signed by Mr. Du Pont in the sum of $4,606,000 and that simultaneously a check signed by Mr. Raskob in the amount of $4,582,- 750 was deposited to Mr. Du Pont's account. “The evidence will show that Mr. losses for their income Raskob at that time didn't have suffi- | cient funds on hand to cover the check. “But the checks met at the bank and the evidence will show that these coincidences or facts—that is, the checks meeting at the bank—occurred four or five times.” The Government counsel said the evidence would show that the shares of stock held by Du Pont and Raskob to each other were “ear-marked” for re-acquisition later. Leming dwelled upon the ‘“close business and confidential relationship that existed between Mr. Raskob and Mr. Du Pont.” The alleged “wash sales” came after the Wall Street panic of 1929. The crash in the market was brought into the hearing by James 8. Y. Ivins of Washington, chief counsel for Du Pont. “Bankers and wealthy investors,” | Ivins said, “were seeking to bolster the stock market and prevent the market from going lower.” Ivins said Du Pont was “trying to sustain the market and stop the panic’ and had authorized the Bank- ers’ Trust Co. in New York to buy stock for him to hold up their values. The . amount included in this au- thorization, Ivins said, was ‘“several millions.” Ivins said Raskob and Du Pont had “losing positions” in certain blocks of stock and sold them to each other to avoid “dumping” them on thc mar- ket. These sales established heavy losses which were deducted in the 1929 re- turns. The blocks were repurchased again in January, 1930. The market had gone up meanwhile and both Raskob and Du Pont realized & profit on the repurchase. Ivins said “this legitimate transaction.” Mr. Du Pont and Mr. Raskob made these sales to each other to keep from forcing the | market down further. It was not only | a legitimate transaction, but honor- | able. “At no time was there an agree- ment between the parties to repur- chase the blocks of stock.” “All of the sales,” Ivins said, “were made at the risk of the market and there was never any agreement.” After the hearing got under way Du Pont moved over to his attorneys’ table, leaving Raskob alone by a& win- dow in the corner. The first witness was Herbert Sims, | controller of the Bankers’ Trust Co., | who brought along a large suit case of records showing accounts main- tained by Raskob and du Pont. The Government attorneys brought to the hearing with them a large packing case filled with filing cabinet drawers. Jobless Woman When Unable to Miss Lillie Munford in Hospital, Suffering Chest Wound. Despondent over inability to pay her $4 room rent, due today, Miss | Lillie Lavinia Munford, 39, was found | shot in the chest as she lay in bed in her hall room at 925 Twelfth reet this morning. She told police and an Emergency Hospital physician that the wound was sel{-inflicted. After she had been taken to the hospital police found two $1 bills in a purse on her dresser. She has been unemployed for three months, and the $2 was her total wealth. The wound, inflicted with a .38- caliber revolver bullet, was described at the hospital as “fairly serious.” Ever since she lost her position selling perfume ‘n a depprtment store ‘Miss Munford had gone out every day at 9 am. in search of work. Usually, the maid at the lodging house found her room empty when she entered to elean it. This morning, however, Mias Mun- ford wes tn bed when the maeid en- P <« Shoots Herself Pay Room Rent Yy LILLIE MUNFORD. tered. She turned to the maid and said: “Please call a doctor right away. My bed is full of blood. I've been shot in the chest.” ‘The maid called Bmergency.” J was a perfectly | BERNARD DAY, Killed. i | | | \ | PAUL DAY, Saved. JOHN DAY, Witness. Day (Continued From First Page.) was there. Bernie didn’'t quite have time to get out of the way himself.” The three boys were returning from | the new house across the railroad | tracks at 1902 Vista place northeast, | into which the Day family planned to | move today. Bernard had been build- ing closet shelves for his mother. The heartbroken father of the lads, who had obtained leave for today to assist in the moving, spent the day arranging for the funeral of his oldest boy. From his old home the father looked across the tracks where the sun shone invitingly on the new house. “My Lord, I don’t know what we will do now,” said Day. “It would be terrible on the boys' mother to move there now.” House Faces Scene of Fatality. The front porch of the new house faces directly toward the spot where Bernard was killed. Mrs. Day was busy preparing for the move yesterday when Paul, white faced, ran into the house only a half block from the tracks shouting, “Mother, a train hit Bernie.” “He was lying beside the track when I got there,” sobbed Mrs. Day. “The train wasn't even in sight. They never blew their whistles when they came around the turn until after they killed Bernie, but now they've started blowing them. All night last night the whistles blew.” Day was returning home from the fourth precinct when his son was killed. “I saw the crowd in front of my house and couldn't imagine what had happened,” Day said. “I guess every scout car in the city had been looking for me while I was on my way home.” Paul said his older brother told him not to follow John but to wait until the freight car passed. ““We were counting the freight cars when Bernie grabbed me and pushed me down,” Paul said. Bernard, who recently graduated < | vote first on the bill Judiciary {Corfllued FIUH’I le Ps.gg ) diciary Committee today. plained in detail to the committee the operation of the proposed amendment. | He said later that he had had “a very gratifying response from the commit- tee,” although there had been no at- tempt to sound out the individual members during the meeting. Senator Burke of Nebraska, a leader program for maximum increase’of six members of the Supreme Court, com- menting on the Hatch amendment, said: f the proponents of the Presi- dent’s bill would agree to throw the bill, as it now stands, aside, I believe that the amendment suggested by Sen- for favorable consideration.” Logan Suggests Vote. A suggestion that the committee in its original form and then give consideration to the amendment was advanced by Senator Logan of Kentucky, who has been regarded as a supporter of the President’s program It was pointed out by several of the committee members, including Sen- ators Hatch and Burke, that the com- mittee is entirely ready to vote without further delay on the bill as it stands. The line-up at present seems to be clearly adverse to the President’s bill, and 8 for it. The plan would be, if the first vote is taken on the original bill, to hold vote on the various amendments sug- gested, including those offered by Kansas. There was also some discussion of taking a vote on the bill without wait- ing until May 18, the day fixed by a unanimous consent agreement for |voting on the bill and all amend- ments. It would take another unani- mous consent agreement, however, to take an earlier vote. No such vote is likely during the present week, for the committee plans to meet only tomo row and Wednesday and then go over until the following week. | Burke is leaving the city to go to Wis- consin the latter part of this week. Carries Out President's Idea. Senator Hatch said that his first amendment, providing for flexibility the President’s message to Congress asking for a general infusion of new blood into the Supreme Court.” His amendment, he said, would really provide for a permanent court of nine justices, although it author- izes the appointment of an additional Justice if one of the sitting members over 70 years of age failed to retire. If there were 6 such justices who failed to retire, the court would be increased to 15. bench, the place would not be filled and so the court might come back to nine, | the power of the President to one appointment a year of an additional Justice because of age. In other words, if the Hatch amendment were adopted, President Roosevelt would be able to the Supreme Court this year, instead of the six whom he would be author- ized to appoint under his bill. event of a death, such vacancy could be filled during the same year, Sen- ator Hatch said. Senator King of Utah, who is strongly opposed to the President's court program, said on leaving the committee meeting: “The plan to in- crease the court by six justices is as dead as.Hector, so far as the commit- tee is concerned.” The Utah Benator said that he would be glad to see the bill killed in the committee. There has been some discussion as to whether such a course might not be attempted. However, a number of the opponents of the bill believe that it should not be bottled up in committee, but should be brought to the floor of the Senate and there killed. Air Raid Alarm False. Moaning of an air raid alarm at 7:30 o'clock in the morning failed to get the response Paris fficials had hoped for such warnings. People in the Passy quarter of the city merely looked out their windows and dis- cussed the warning with neighbors, then decided that as they had not been notified previously they would not go to the air-raid shelters. The siren had been set into operation by a short circuit. —— from Taft' Junior High School, was an apprentice printer. “He was such a good boy,” his mother said. “He got so much out of life and was always willing to help somebody else.” Day said the Royal Blue stopped at Langdon Station after the accident and the train crew returned to the scene before continuing into Union Station. Funeral services for Bernard will be held Wednesday at 3 p.m. at the Yost place address. Burial will be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. possible compromise in the Senate Ju- | Senator Hatch of New Mexico ex- | of the opposition to the President’s | ator Hatch would have a real chance | with 10 Senators aligned against it | the measure in committee and then | Senators Hatch, McCarran of Nevada, | | Norris of Nebraska and McGill of The second amendment. would limit | appoint only one additional justice to | In the | HOUSIG HEASURE OPPOSTIN FLAYE Misrepresentation Charged by 20 Cities’ Officials, Urging Passage. Charging that passage of the Wag- ner-Steagall housing bill is being blocked by “‘widespread and gross mis= representation of its financial proe visions,” housing officials representing 20 of the largest cities in the United States today united in urging its im- mediate enactment. The appeal was made after meetings of the representatives here Friday and Saturday. They made their appeal for passage of the bill through the American Federation of Housing Au- thorities. The group, claiming to represent more than 20,000,000 urban dwellers, declared “the efforts to sabotage President Roosevelt's desire for a long= range housing program by linking it up disingenuously with the current economy drive represent not only an attempt to paralyze the great national cause of housing, but also a travesty upon every acknowledged dictate of public economy and business common sense.” “Bill” Will Sell Itself. “All we ask,” they said in a state- ment made public by the federation, “1s that the Wagner-Steagall housing bill be considered on the facts. When so considered, the blil will sell itself.” In denying that the bill is validly involved in the current economy drive, | the federation said “How many people realize that the complete abandonment of the Wagner- Steagall housing program would have practically no effect upon cutting down protective expenditures or balancing the budget? The total governmental appropriations and expenditures re- quired under this measure would be less than $1,000,000 during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938. They would | average less than $3,500,000 annually | over the next two years, and less than $12,500,000 annually over the next four years.” Housing Held Cheapest. It was pointed out that, compared with relief, housing is “cheaper for the Government, better for business, and infinitely more just to the under= privileged who, in one way or another, must be helped.” Loans for low-rent | housing would not cost the Federal Government or the taxpayer “a single penny,” it was stated by the group. Birthday Observed. SEATTLE, May 3 (#).—Mrs. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt observes the birthday anniversary today of her daughter, Mrs. John Boettiger. The First Lady, who arrived Friday for a week's visit with Mr. and Mrs. Boettiger, was honor guest at a tea | given yesterday by her daughter. e L Two Die on Block. BERLIN, May 3 (#.—The tradi- tionally top-hatted executioner today chopped off the heads of Antonie Meyer and Robert Marx, convicted of poisoning Frau Meyer's husband. Pimlico Workouts MONDAY. MAY 3. Three-eighths mile, t 0:3725 Mafuta --0:30’s True Tune 0323 Off and On One-hal 41 | Justa Fien Fancy Th f Mile. Yellow Uncle Lester Busse Trpet Singing Slave Grand Duke ze Beauty Tulip Black Widow Toney Boy Dafly < Mile. Five-eighth 1:0: ough Time Catomar Tack Senator | m Fl s W ! One | Triple Action 1:50 Mr. Canron in the size of the Supreme Court, | “carried out the thought contained in | By the Associated Press FIRST RACE—The Home Products purse. $1,000. claiming: 3-vear-olds and up, and mares foaled in Mary 6 _furlongs xBalcony (Mo | Cancel (0 Ma se (B xDressmaker Diplomacy Happy Hostes Fyan ( XT However, where there | M was a death or retirement from the | Also eligibie Wandrel (Wagner rry Owen Handi SECOND RACE—The i 1 4-year-olds | can; purse. SI1.000 and up; steeplechase; = | Greatorex (Eaby) | Little Marty (Brooks) Prattler (Wren) --- 150 | Woodwind " (Clemen | Selfish Gain (Walke: £ Snake Charmer (Haley) —The Delinauent: purse maiden -year-oldg and yards | Some Scout (Kurtsinger XRoyal Tuscan_(Shel Happy Hazel (De Ca Chiriqui (Wagner) Torquit (De Camillis) xBlack_Boo (McCombs) White Hot (O v) Abaddon (Kurtsinger) Bareback (Knapp) RACE—The Milford: purse. 2-year-old colts and geldings; 413 108 103 C 104 104 110 110 101 FOURTH | 81,000 | turlongs | Tapstick (Grigs) Two Aces (De Camillis) Spring Meadow (Lauch) | Smoke Sienal (Wagner) | Busse Trumpet (Kurtsinger) Credence (Merritt) | « FIFTH | £1.000 furlongs . xa Broadster (Shelhamer) XMiss Tiptoe (McDermott) Dilwin _(Root) XxWise Money (McCombs) Trostar (Haritos) xVeritas (Fowler) z Little Banner(_Haritos) a Baby Witt (Schmidl) Bromide (O'Malley) Canrock (no boy) xSmall Change (Morris) xPlaynot (Shelhamer) Also_eligible Henryman (Machado) xBill Bleiweiss (Grigg) Faleen (Fallon) Santan (Richards) Tzigane (Bejshak) Holland (no_boy) 8G. and H. J. RACE—The Holly Beach: purse claiming; 3-year-olds and up Mohr entry. SIXTH RACE _The John 8. Skinne purse, $1.000; fllies; 2-year-olds: 41z {ur lougs. Tedema (Merritt) Roval Rhapsody (De Camillis) Bunny Baby (Richards) Never Cease (Lauch) aPretty Pet (Morris) Singing ‘Slave (Kurtsinger) Briar Plume (Wagner) = aFancy That (Saunders). ____ a Bomar Stable entry SEVENTH RACE — The purse. $1.000; claiming up: 1% miles Flufly Lee (Rosenzarten) Black Mischief (Richards) Eudes (O'Malley) 2 xPrecious King (Johnson) XPretty Lass (McComb) xDeparted (Morris) xIrish Vote (Shelhamer) ___ Monroe (Fowler) Thatch (De Camillis) Infilee (Merritt) EIGHTH RACE--The Chesapeake: purse, $1.000; claiming: 3-year-olds and up: 1' miles xChurch_Call (Shelhamer) XToney Boy (McCombs) Duchess Reigh_(J. Renick) xSome Bull (Shelhamer) ___ Count Tetrarch_(Richards) Dutch_Uncle (Saunders) Star Trap (Haritos) 3 X—Apprentice allowance claimed. Clear and fast. Lymington; 3-year~olds and 1 | o 04 1 1 ) ! i 1 = < ]