Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1937, Page 1

=Lt e L WEATHER (U. 8, Weather Bureau Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness and warmer to- night, followed by showers beginning late tonight or tomorrow; gentle to moderate southerly winds. Temperatures—Highest, 72, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 46, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page B-2. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 14 85th YEAR. No. WINDSOR GREETED BY MRS. SIMPSON AT CHATEAU GANDE Wedding Tomorrow Is Ru- mored After Duke Arrives in France. ESTATE GUARD HEAVY; VILLAGERS GATHER Ex-King Reported in Favor of Early Announcement of Marriage Plans. BACKGROUND— dication that Wal- v wouid marry the then King Edward VIII came last October 14. when she filed suit for divorce from Ernest A. Simpson, London broker. A decree nisi was aranted October 27. Events moved rapidly toward the abdication crisis. Mrs. Simpson lejt jor France De- cember 3; the King abdicated De- cember 10 and went to Austria. Thus they waited for the decree 10 be made final. This action was® taken yesterday, and the way was clear for them to be reunited BY JAMES B. OLDFIELD. MONTS, France, May 4 (P).— ward, Duke of Winds in the moss-covered Castl today with the woman for whom he renounced an empire, Wallis Warfield Simpson. Five months and one day of enforced loneliness for the former King Edward | VIII and “the woman I love" ended | at 1:45 pm. (7:45 am. Eastern| standard time) when the duke reached | the ancient chateau He came from St. Wolfgang, Austria, by train and by motor. He had not seen his bethrothed since the dark Prance from the abdigation crisis that | changed crowns for a quarter of the world. Meets Him on Doorstep. Mrs. Simpson met him on the door- £tep of the rambling chateau. Preceded by a motor cy police- man, the limousine she had sent for the duke roared through the gates A truck, s ked with Edward's 17 suit eases, 4 along behind leaped from the car. He dashed to the threshold to meet his fancee. Twenty mobile guards and two £quads of eight gendarmes each paced the grounds impassively, all in their | Alapama, referred the proposa’ to the | uniforms. The and his aide | bustled | best and brightest Tours police chief watched with a critical eye; officiously about the place. At the entrance lodge, the old lady of the gateway had put on a bonnet of Touraine lace for the gala day. For two hours she had been standing, almost motionless, waiting to open | the portals. “This,” said the old lady with a| shrug, “is a thing I rarely do—put on my bonnet. But—Voila—it is a memorable day!" Party Within the mossy chateau gay with masses of lila lips and yellow acacia, a party had waited luncheon for ward But Mrs. Simpson had been unable | to stay inside. During the morning | she walked in the garden, alone. The day started out gray and chilly, but an hour before the duke arrived the sun burst out to show the country- | side in all its splendor. A knot of villager: WINDSOR, Waits Luncheon. gathered | A-5) ALLEGED DELAY | OF MAIL PROBED Traction Car Attempting to Re- sume Service Halted by Power Failure. B the Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS, May 4.—A parade | of witnesses faced examination before & representative of the National Labor | Relations Board as postal authorities | pressed an investigation of an alleged | delay of mail delivery today in new phases of a strike which has kept portions of the Indiana Railroad idle | since March 19. | I 8. Dorfman, counsel for the | Labor Board, said a hearing on charges of unfair labor practices filed against | the traction system and its receiver, | Bowman Elder, would require “a week | to 10 days” The complaint was brought against the company by the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Bus Em- ployes of America. ‘Two postal inspectors were in Ander- son seeking evidence of collusion which might have been responsible for the power failure at the railroad’s plants in Anderson which halted a traction car carrying mail almost before it had started on & trip to Anderson and Muncie. The scheduled run in an effort to resume mail service was the first at- tempt to restore operation of the Central Indiana lines since the strike of powerhouge employes began. SEVEN C. I. 0. LEADERS PUT ON TRIAL IN MAINE All Cited on Charges of Contempt of Court After Injunction, Held Strike Illegal. By the Associated Press. LEWISTON, Me, May 4—Seven Committee for Industrial Organization Jeaders in the Lewiston-Auburn shoe strike went on trial today on charges of contempt of court. The defendants, including Powers Hapgood, New England C. I. O. sec- retary, were citec in connection with slleged violation of Judge Harry Manser's recent injunction declaring the strike illegal, 33,971 | pendent exhibitors | fulfill its mission in Nazi Germany. | Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ch WAS HINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, Where Duke Met Betrothed The beautiful Chatean de Cande at Monts, where the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Sim 1pson met today. HOUSE UNI VOTES PROBE OF MOVIES I night of December 3, when he fled to Approves Proposed Investi- gation Regarding Anti- Trust Laws. Ft the Associated Press. The House Judiciary Committee ap- posed congres- 1 investigation of the motion pic- ascertain whether and exhibitors are -trust laws proved today a tee. which would be au- to make the investigation ider terms of & resolution introduced by Representative Hobbs, Democrat, of Rules Committee, recommending con- sideration by the House. The Hobbs resolution would direct the investigators to look into activi- ties of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc., headed by Will H. Hays, former Post- master General Charges have been made by inde- Hobbs said, that the Hays organization has attempted to monopolize the industry through compulsory block booking, blind sell- of pictures from in- and allocation of i theaters Hobbs also said charges had been mg that theater-owning producers weére acquiring independent theaters with a view to gaining control of the industry. He satd other “unfair” such as attempts to regulate admis- sion prices by withholding films for ent theate: s 1o con | “unreasonable” periods from low-ad- | mission houses, had been attributed to producers. The committee also would be in- structed to ascertain whether manu- facturers of electrical equipment for reproduction of sound, and the prin- cipal music publishing houses were involved in the alleged unfair prac- | tices. HARRY NEW “VERY SICK” Harry S. New, Postmaster General under the Harding and Coolidge ad- ministrations, still was in serious con- dition today in Johns Hopkins Hospital Attaches of the hospital described him as “a very sick man.” Dr. Dean Lewis, professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School and New's physician, said his 79-year-old patient entered the hospital for observation. ’rhe| nature of New's illness was not dis- closed. | practices, —Wide World Photo. COURT BILL SHFT ASKED BY KANSAN Two Additional Justices Studied. | BACKGROUND— A variety of amendments and compromises have been advanced in | the Senate since President Roose- velt on February 5 announced his plan to increase the membership of the Supreme Court by a mazimum of six unless present justices over 70 retire. Until yesterday, however, leaders of both proponents and op- ponents had insisted they would | take no compromise whatsoever. It is generally believed any of several proposed amendments would insure passage of the bill, but Mr. Roosevelt, now Ashing for tarpon, has not indicated he would | accept anything less than his orig- | inal bill. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Senate Judiciary Committee to- day had before it for discussion an | amendment to President Roosevelt’s | court bill offered by Senator McGill of Kansas, which would authorize the ap- pointment of two additional justices of the Supreme Court during each presidential term. These additional justices could only be appointed if one or two sitting members of the court had reached the age of 75 and failed o retire. Senator McGill presented arguments for his amendment. He is firmly con- vinced that President Roosevelt's sug- gestion that new blood be added from time to time to the Supreme Court and the inferior courts is sound, Senator | McGill said. He pointed out that the President himself in his message to Congress laid great stress upon the de- sirability of obtaining new members of | the courts from time to time. The McGill amendment limits the | tices as a maximum and to nine jus- tices as a minimum. Under present conditions President Roosevelt would be authorized immediately to appoint two additional justices. This would bring the court’s size to 11. The President could appoint no further Justices during his present term unless | Justices | should die or retire, or unless other | one of the two additional Justices should die or retire. In the | latter case he could make no addi- | tional appointments unless the size of the court fell below nine. There was no action taken on the McGill proposal, since under the unanimous consent agreement no (See JUDICIARY, Page A-5.) Pope Advises Hitler Church Must Have Freedom in Reich By the Associated Press. VATICAN CITY, May 4.—Pope Pius XI told Adolf Hitler today that the Catholic Church must be left free to The pontiff’s reply to the recent | German church note, which itself was | a reply to the Pope's pre-Easter en- | cyclical accusing the German govern- ment of violating the 1933 church- state concordat, was delivered by Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli to the Ger- man Ambassador to the Holy See, Diego von Bergen. Vatican sources said the note did not mention Hitler's May day speech, when he warned against sermons or “encyclicals” which “disturb” the Third Reich. It took a more moderate tone thin the encyclical, and left the way oper. for further conversations about the concordat, which set up separate spheres of church and state influence in the Reich. The note maintained, however, the church’s insistence that economic pressure must not be brought to bear against Catholics in Germany; that Catholic schools and the Catholic press should not be hampered. As the note was presented, German Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath, who is here visiting Premier Mussolini, drove with German Am- bassador Ulrich' von Hassell to Cas- however, and authoritative German sources said there was no possibility he would meet either Pope Pius or Cardinal Pacelli. Prelates said the Vatican note re- plied, point for point, to Der Fuehrer's protest against the pre-Easter en- cyclical. ‘ 1t demanded strict application of the concordat, which was signed in 1933, soon after Hitler came to power in Germany. Simultaneously, the Osservatore Ro- mano, official Vatican organ, reported that Father Rupert A. Mayer, a World War Jesuit chaplain, who once stopped a mutiny in an imperial regiment, had attacked German neopaganism and the attitude of the Nazi government toward the church in a sermon last Sunday at Berchtesgaden, site of Hit- ler’s country home. ' Father Mayer, who lost a leg in the war was quoted by the Osserva- tore as saying: “Those who thought Christianity would haul down its banner have greatly erred.” (Much of the church-state fight in Germany is due to the preaching by some Nazi zealots of neopaganism, the idea of a mystical Nordic god for Germans only, with Adolf Hitler as a “son” of this god. This is based on the Nazi concept of a “weltan- tel Gandolfo, He did not see the Holy Father, ‘ schauung” or world outlook which is founded on blood, race and soil.) [ " 13,000 ITALIAN TROOPS McGill Amendment Providing | size of the Supreme Court to 15 jus- | FLEET OF VESSELS SPEEDING TO SAVE 10000 IN BILBAD | Refuge From Siege or Rebel Bombardment Vir- tually Assured. KILLED, BASQUES SAY | Slain in Assault When Cut Off | From Base at Bermeo, Com- manders Report. BACKGROUND— With more than half of Vizcaya Province occupied by the forces of Gen. Mola, fall of the city of Bilbao 13 believed near. The Basque city's 30,000 defenders are expected to be pitted insurgent forces advancing on three fronts. With the Basque “sacred city” of Guernica occupied by insurgents Jall of Bilbao, after a bitter struggle, was forecast. By the Associated Pres: ST. JEAN DE LUZ, France, May 4 —Refuge for about 10000 women and | children from siege or bombardment | in Bilbao was virtually assured today as a fleet of passenger liners raced to | evacuate as many as possible before | TUESDAY, MAY BE B) IT MIGHT ¢ Foening Star 4, 1937T—FORTY-TWO PAGES. GOSH! WORSE. FUNDS FOR FLODD insurgent guns close the port Bilbao's Basque defenders fought a | last-ditach fight, but insurgent dis- | pa ches said Gen. Emilio Mola’s troops | were swarming into the mountainous region north of Bilbao and that their artillery already commanded the Ner- vion River, Bilbao's outlet to the Bay | of Biscay. More than 4,000 refugees, many chil- | dren among them, were listed to sail tonight aboard the 10,000-ton Spanish liner Habana, the first mass immigra- l tion from the harassed city. Arrangements were made to charter | another large ship to remove 4,000 | more children to England. The ship’s identity was -kept a closely-guarded | secret lest it become a prey of in- | surgent war vessels patrolling the Bay | | of Biscay. | | Advices from Bordeaux, France, said | several French steamers with a total | capacity of 2,000 refugee passengers were being coaled and provisioned for a dash to Bilbao The first to leave, the steamer Mar- gaux with room for 500. was expected to clear Bordeaux Harbor by midnight tonight. The Carimare and Chateau Palmer, with space for 1,000 and 500 emigres, respectively, were scheduled to leave for Bilbao within 24 hours | after the Marguax. ‘ Basque commanders reported sol- | diers were holding their ground west | of Bermeo, a fishing town only about 8 | miles north of Bilbao. | The Basque government said 3.000’ Italian troops in the insurgent army were killed in an assault when they | were cut off from their base at Bermeo. An indication was seen of Basque authorities’ fears that their capital could not hold out in the flight to France of the wife and children of the President of the Basque govern- ment, Juan Antonio Aguirre They reached Biarritz yesterday joining refugee families of other lead- |ers of the semi-autonomous Basque (See SPAIN, Page A-4.) —— e ENVOY SAILS FOR U. S. |Dr. C. T. Wang to Be New Chi- nese Ambassador Here. SHANGHAT, May 4 (Tuesday) (#).— Dr. C. T. Wang, new Chinese Am- bassador to Washington, sailed for the United States today aboard the liner President Hoover. Dr. Wang, former foreign minister of the Nanking (Central) government, | | CONTROLBLOCKED Roosevelt Asks Action Be| Put Off Pending Com- pletion of Study. BACKGROUND— Alarmed by President’s warning that governmental erpenses must be cut in view of unerpectedly re- duced Treasury receipts, members of House have advocated impound- ing of 15 per cent of all appropria- tions, the impounded funds to be subject to release at discretion of President. In Senate many want a straight 10 per cent reduction Determined efforts also have been made to eliminate or postpone all expenditures not immediately nec- essary. One immediate result has been disclosure that thousands of Federal workers in temporary agen- cies are facing loss of their jobs. By the Assoclated Press. Adminstration efforts to cut the cost of Government brought recom- | mendations today for postponement of additional flood control projects and a $162,000,000 Army housing program. Chairman Whittington of the House | Flood Control Committee said hearings on emergency flood control measures would be delayed indefinitely. President Roosevelt, he explained hagd asked that action be put off until completion of a study. of flood control | in relation to power development and navigation aids, The President sent the committee an Army report on revised plans for control work on the Ohio and Missis- | sippi Rivers, where serious floods oc- (See ECONOMY, Page A-5.) G. U. Records Earthquake. The Georgetown University seis- mograph recorded a moderately strong earthquake today. Beginning at { 12°17:47 am,, Eastern standard time, | the tremors reached a maximum at | 12:32 am. and ended at 2 am. The university estimated the shocks wee | 3,500 miles away in a northwesterly | | direction, probably in the southern succeeds Alfred Sze. Summary of Page | _C-8 B-17 Page Amusements --B-8 Comics B-3 Editorials --__A-8 Financial ___A-13 Lost & Found.A-3 | Obituary ____A-10 | FOREIGN. Duke of Windsor greeted by Mrs. Simpson at chateau. Page A-1 Fleet of liners race to save 10,000 in Bilbao. Page A-1 Pope tells Hitler church must be free to fulfill mission. Page A-1 London fears complete tie-up of traffic. Page A-5 British rulers rehearse parts in cor- onation. Page A-5 Radio Society . Short Story._B-15 Sports __ -1-3 Woman's Pg. B-16 NATIONAL. + House group approves probe of motion picture industry. Page A-1 Judiciary Committee discusses McGill court amendment. Page A-1 Coal manager called in La Follette Harlan investigation. Page A-1 Violence flares among rival unionists in Hollywood strike. Page A-2 Age benefit phase of social security tax argued. Page A-7 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Cummings asks transportation licens- ing of firearms. Page A-1 ‘Tax group hears dispute on fire in- surance rates. Page A-1 Willard waiter dismissal before Labor Board May 10. Page A-1 Officials say abattoir would detract from new road. Page A-3 High water routs sharecrqppers in Missouri. Page A-3 National Congress of P.-T. A. urged to fight marijuana. Page A-10 Twelve aides of Beard to get parole hearings. Page B-1 Bill to halt Jefferson Memorial fa- vored. Page B-1 part of Alaska. Today’s Star | EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. | Editorials. Page | This and That, Page Political Mill. Page Stars, Men and Atoms. Page Answers to Questions. Page David Lawrence. Page Paul Mallon. Page Mark Sullivan, Page Jay PFranklin. Page Delia Pynchon. Page EE g EEEE R EE X XY FINANCIAL. Corporate bonds firm (table). Page A-13 Daily oil output drops. Page A-13 Big Western wheat crop forecast. Page A-13 Page A-14 Page A-15 Page A-15 Stock move up (table). Curb list improves (table). R. C. A. earnings climb. SPORTS. Sande rates cast-offs as having Derby | chance, Page C-1 Simmons Nats’ best bet, though in a slump. Page C-1 Midget Terranova proves joke in Straiges’ win. Page C-1 Schmeling, here again, seeking “square deal.” Page C-1 Suburbanites are setting pace in pin tourney. Page C-2 ‘Terp base ballers jolted as Hoyas march on. Page C-2 Bidding on for amateur golfers in open competition. Page C-2 Marathoners make Ponce de Leon re- semble a piker. Page C-3 MISCELLANY. ‘Washington Wayside. Service Orders, Shipping News. Young Washington. Vital Statistics. Nature's Children. Bedtime Story. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Crossword Puzzle. City News in Brief, Page A-2 Page B-10 Page B-12 Page B-12 Page B-12 Page B-15 Page B-15 Page B-16 Page B-16 Page B-17 Page C-4 Taxation without representation in D. C. hit by citizens. Page B-. Letter Out. Traffic Convictions. Page C-4 Page C-4 : Yesterday’s Circulation, 142,699 Some returns not yet recetved.) ¥ % (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. Right Answers)| to Sit-Down Quiz Win Citizenship Negative Reply Brings : Six Persons Into | U. S. Fold. Bs the Assoctated Press l KANKAKEE. 1l May 4—Six per- sons were United States citizens today because they gave what the court | termed the “right answer” to Circuit | Judge W. R. Hunt 's question: Yyou approve of sit-down strikes?” All the applicants replied in the negative at last night's hearing. Judge Do | Hunter said their applications would have been denied had they answered otherwise. “The sit-down strike is a form of anarchy and should be punished by law,” the judge told them. “The Gov- ernment in granting you citizenship guarantees you the rights of property and you should strive to uphold them.” CRIME CUR URGED BY FIREARNS LAW Cummings Seeks Bill to Bar | Transportation Unless Registered. BACKGROUND— Gangsters' guns created public indignation which led to passage of national firemarms act in 1934, reg- ulating trafic in “Tommy” guns and sawed-off weapons. At protest of sportsmen, pistols and long-bar- reled guns were exempted. Since then two special agents of Federal Bureau of Investigation have been killed by pistols in hands of criminals—most recent death being that of Agent Wimberly W. Baker in Topeka post office gun battle last month. BY REX COLLIER. Attorney General Homer Cummings | today asked Congress to prohibit transportation of all firearms—even pistols—unless specially registered. The far-reaching curb on guns of | all types is necessary, Cummings nn-} notinced, to meet a “pressing prob- lem” arising from “possession and groups.” The Attorney General transmitted to Speaker Garner a bill to extend registration provisions of the national firearms act of 1934 to rifles, shotguns, revolvers and pistols. The act now covers only machine guns, sawed-off rifles and shotguns, and silencers. Previous atempts to include pistols and long-barreled rifles and shotguns hate been resisted vig- orously by some sportemen’s organi- zations. Cites Need of Act. Cummings pointed out that it is “just as essential” to regulate traffic in pistols. revolvers and long-barreled guns as it is to regulate transporta- tion of sub-machine guns and other types of guns not used by sportsmen. “In some respects,” he stated, “small weapons are even a greater menace (See FIREARMS, Page A-2) DISPUTE FLARES ONHIREINSURANCE Superintendent Cites Fig- ures in Support of Charge | Rates Are Too High. BACKGROUND— New tazes on automobiles and gasoline are among items being considered by special subcommittee of House District Committee as part of new taz program to offset pros- pective deficit of $6,000.000 in Dis- trict revenues for the fiscal year 1938 A dispute over of fire insurance r: marked the resumption of the tax study today by a special subcommit- tee of the House District Committee. J. Balch Moor, superintendent of insurance, started the controversy by | reiterating his charge that fire in-| surance policy holders had been over- | charged $10,000,000 in a period of 12 years. His statement was met with a vig- orous denial by Edward §. Brashears, | representing the National Board of | Fire Underwriters, who insisted that fire insurance rates are “fair and | just” and that they are lower than those that prevail throughout country on similar risks After the argument over fire in- surance rates, the Commissioners sub- mitted an agenda to their preliminary tax-increase program providing for an inheritance tax and a privilege tax | the | on gross receipts. Commissioner Hazen told the sub- | committee he believed the proposed privilege tax on business would be more equitable than an income tax. | Moreover, he said, the Commissioners | felt that certain business in Washing- ton is not bearing its share of lhe‘ tax burden. | Asked by Chairman Kennedy of the | subcommittee what the Commissioners | would do if their proposed program | of taxation failed to balance the budget | in the coming fiscal year, Hazen re- plied the only alternative would be an increase in the present $1.50 levy on real estate. | Excess Loading Claimed. | Moor first cited premium receipts and losses of several fire insurance | companies in 1936. and then offered | use of firearms by members of criminal | as “proof” of his charge that policy- | holders had paid $10.000.000 1n excess premiums in 12 years a statement | showing that in this period the com- | panies collected a total of $26,991.447 in net premiums and paid out $8.- 837,783 or 3096 per cent of the total collections. | “I consider 50 per cent loading as | adequate, fair and reasonable,” Moor | declared. “Any substantial amount | above 50 per cent is excessive.” 1 Moor, however, explained he did not | believe there is anything “abnor- mal” in connection with statistics | he made public last week showing | that in 1936 $25,000,000 was collected | in life insurance premiums in the | District and $9,000,000 paid out in losses. | Brashears explained that in the 12- | year period referred to by Moor there (See TAXES, Page A-2.) Butter and Apple Sauce.Dis pute With Waiter The tragedy of & missing pat of butter and of apple sauce in a dish with a gold band served among other dishes without gold bands will en- gage the attention of the National Labor Relations Board on May 10. The missing butter and the mis- mated apple sauce dish, it is charged, ruined the perfection of a breakfast tray set before H. P. Somerville, gen- eral manager of the Willard Hotel, on the morning of New Year day. As a result, it is alleged, Garland P. Webb, veteran waiter at the hotel, was dis- charged. When the case came up for hear- ing January 25 before a trial exum‘mer: of the Labor Board, Webb testifled | that his discharge was really not due to the missing butter and the faux pas over the apple sauce, but was due to the fact that for eight years he had been shop steward for the Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ Al- Before Board | liance, Local 781. It was union ac-| tivity and not apple sauce which led | to his downfall, he told the examiner. The examiner, however, issued an intermediate report in which he uphelid the management of the hotel, which contended that the butter and apple sauce episode was just a climax of a | series of infractions of hotel rules committed by the waiter. The union, on behalf of Webb, ap- pealed from the decision and requested a rehearing at which new evidence might be presented. This hearing will take place before the full Labor Board at its local office May 10. The Willard Hotel management de- clined to comment on the case today, referring questioners to legal counsel for the management. It was explained by counsel that Webb had fallen down in matters of discipline and had been warned several times prior to his dis- charge. . [ Melvin Moore, dept BROTHERSSLAYING RELATED AT PROBE BY HARLAN MINER ‘Kining by Company Guards Occurred Ten Days Ago, Jasper Clouse Says. ORGANIZERS AMBUSHED, BOY OF 12 TESTIFIES Saw Five Bullets Fired Into Car by Deputies, Youngster Tells La Follette Group. BACKGROUND— After launching probe of viola- tions of civil liberties by disclosure of espionage in industrial plants and accumulation of private ar- senals, Senate subcommittee turned its attention to conditions in Hare lan County, Ky., home of some of world’s richest sojt coal fields Charges of strong-arm rule through collusion between coal operators anw law enforcement agencies have been numerous and refuted only in small part. Kentucky miner, t Senate commitiee toda his broth hot to d by two mine gu Wal Co. He told the La Fol ties Committes into unconsc the street o Harlan County the bullet Lloyd Clouse. organizer. The shooting and attack occurre: he said, on the af 1 of Ap) . The witness testified Bill Lewis and v sheriffs hired by the mining fi had fired “10 or 12 shots” at LI Clouse as the brothers walked out of a saloon. Half-Brother Testifies. minutes bef C fon A U five bulle! ) the officers pump ts into the organizers' au- one was not incident to the grand jury. The manager of the Harlan-Wallins firm, Pearl Bassham, had warned his family not to let him testify before the grand jury, the boy explained Describing the slaying of his brother, Jasper Clouse said Deputies Lewis, Moore, Logan Middleton and | Maynard Hobbs were in the back of the room when the two miners entered to buy liquor. to the street “Bill Lewis hollered “Got Hit Over Head. “I got hit over the head afte 10 or 12 shots were fir W came to, I was laying there in the road beside my dead brother, and the guards were gone.” He insisted that neither Lloyd Clouse nor he had been drinking, but conceded that Lloyd carried a becauses that was “customary” in Harlan Coynty. Lloyd Clouse had no chance to draw the gun before he was killed, the witness added. Clouse said he moved his family to Pineville, in a neighboring county. the day after the shooting, because he feared they might be killed. He said he had been discharged by the com- pany the day after he joined the United Mine Workers Markham Clouse shyly testified that he was “hunting sctap iron” along the wooded banks of a mountain stream on February 8, when he saw the offi- cers start shooting from a nearby cliff, Some of the five bullets fired splat- tered around his feet, the gum-chewing youngster related. Organizer Wounded. Earlier witnesses had told the com- mittee Thomas Ferguson, union or= ganizer, was severely wounded in the shoulder by one of the rifle slugs. John Clouse, 13-year-old son of Lloyd. told much the same story as did Markham “Daddy came cown,” as the bovs were about to board a train to testify before the grand jury, John said, “and said not to go, it wouldn't do no good, and Pearl Bassham said it might cause trouble.” The boys' story of Bassham’s warn- T (See LA FOLLETTE, Page A-2) BLAIR HOME BOUGHT BY MELLON TRUST 0ld Residence, Built in Sixties, to Be Headquarters During Art Gallery Construction. The old residence built by Mrs. James Blair back in the '60s at 716 Jackson place, facing Lafayette Park, has been purchased by the Andrew W. Mellon Educational and Charita- ble Trust for headquarters during construction of the Mellon Art Gal- lery, it was learned today. Mrs. Blair was a cousin of the late Senator Blair Lee, whose famous resi« dence still stands at 1653 Pennsyl- vania avenue, just around the corner from the Jackson place home. The Mellon Trust is in charge of construction of the gallery, which will be turned over to the Government on completion, carrying out the plans of the former Treasury Secretary to give his great art collection to the people. The property was sold to the trust by the North Washington Realty Co., its owners. The purchase price waj not given. It will be exclusively foz office purposes.