Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1937, Page 4

A—4 wax REVENGE FEARED BY HARLAN FOLK Several Seek New Homes After Testifying as Senate Probe Ends. By the Assoclated Press. A little band of Kentucky mountain folk looked for new homes and jobs today as “hideaways” from vengeance, which they said they feared because of their testimony about labor condi- tions in Harlan County. At the end of the Senate Civil Lib- erties Committee’s inquiry into “vio- lence and anti-union terrorism” in the Harlan coal fields, several of the wit- nesses told reporters they dared not return to their homes. “We would be killed for telling how the coal operators used their gunmen to break up the miners’ union,” sald one. Bullet-scarred Hugh Taylor, former deputy sheriff who testified he was left for dead after one attack, said he was going away—somewhere in Vir- ginia. “Those company deputies would get me sure, if I went back,” he added. Weekly Reports Asked. ‘The protection of the Federal Gov- ernment followed them out of the hearing room. Chairman La Follette continued all subpoenas and ordered every witness to report his whereabouts at least once a week. Committee attaches explained that any violence done a Senate witness would be a Federal offense. Burly miners, their wives and chil- dren appeared before the committee during three weeks of hearings to tell their stories of violence in Harlan County. Some said company-paid deputies and mine guards rarely were convicted by local courts, “no matter what they do.” La Follette ended the hearings yes- terday by reading from the war record ‘of Sheriff Theodore Middleton. He said official flles disclosed Middleton had been refused an officer's commis- sion because of “lack of veracity.” The sheriff's cousin, Merle Middle- ton, earlier had answered “I don't recall that just now” to La Follett's recital of a series of assaults on union members. Previous witnesses ascribed ihe at- tacks to Merle Middleton and others. Coal company officials have denied * knowledge of such crimes Testimony Denounced. In dismissing Merle Middleton from the witness stand, La Follette said: “For the benefit of future readers af the record, who cannot see your atti- | tude on the witness stand, I want to say that your memory has been so blank and your testimony so evasive that I believe it it not worth serious consideration.” During the Mine Workers announced a new cam- paign for members in Harlan County, and Gov. A. B. Chandler began efforts to revise the county's law enforcement system. Witnesses had declared the coal companies paid scores of armed deputy sheriffs to suppress organiza- tion of laborers. 2 Investigators indicated they might reopen hearings at any time “if there is a new outbreak of violence against union members.” ALIENATION SUIT DEFENDANT FAINTS Miss Laura Strittmatter Collapses. Trial Postponed After Love Letters Are Read. By the Associated Press DETROIT, Ma; Strittmatter, defendant in a $100,000 alienation of a ons suit. col- lapsed today in the Recorder’s Court building before the opening of today'’s session of the trial. which then was edjourned for the day. Dr. Edward J. Agni of Receiving Hospital, after examining the 36- year-old woman, said she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Recorder's Judge John V. Brennan did not tell the cause of the post- ponement in informing the jury, which i1s hearing the case brought by the wife of Charles H. Cullinan, former Junior auditor in the Home Owners' Loan Corp.'s Detroit office. Cullinan’s love letters calling Miss Strittmatter . “My sweet dream girl” ‘were read at the trial. “Soon you will be crushed with kisses. God knows I could not touch | another’s lips,” Cullinan wrote from | Washington in March, 1935. The letters were admitted in evi- dence by Judge Brennan over strong protest by attorneys for Mrs. Hallie Cullinan. The Washington woman charges that Miss Strittmatter, a clerk in the Home Owners’ Loan Corp.’s Detroit office, stole her husband's love while he was transferred here for a short time in 1935 as a junior auditor. “I have my doubts about your love,” one of the 11 letters written by Cul- linan said. “Since you called me a liar and a hypocrite on the phone, I have felt low.” In another letter, Cullinan said: “I am not married—I am just a victim of circumstances.” Miss Strittmatter. who married Cul- linan on June 1, 1935, but had the marriage annulled a year later, had testified earlier that Cullinan repre- sented himself as divorced. G. W. U. CO-ED HALL WILL BE DEDICATED Ceremonies to Be Held at 4:30 P.M. Tomorrow With Mrs. Strong at Unveiling. The Hattie M. Strong Residence Hall, George Washington Univer- sity’s first campus home for woman students, will be dedicated at cere- monies to- be held tomorrow at 4:30 6 —DMiss Laura p.m. at the hall, Twenty-first and G | streets. Mrs. Henry Alvah Strong, donor of the hall and a member of the university’s Board of Trustees, will unveil the tablet on the north wall of the building, and Mrs. Harper Sibley will deliver the dedicatory address. 4 Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin, president of the university, will make a short talk in appreciation of the gift, and Eliza- beth Mike, ¥epresenting the student body, will give an expression of thanks to Mrs, Strong. Dean Elmer Louis Keyser, university marshal, will pre- side at the eyercises, and Rev. Al- bert Joseph McCartney will officiate &5 chaphain. I hearings the United | THE- EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. C, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 19 Tufts College Students Riot . several bonfires. NEUTRALITY RULES ISSUED BY HULL Relief Funds Must Regis- ter With Government. By the Assoclated Press. Secretary Hull issued new neutrality regulations yesterday requiring persons and organizations desiring to svlicit funds for the relief of war sufferers in Spain to register with the State Department. The recently enacted neutrality law | stipulates that those identified with | either side in the Spanish civil strife cannot make such collections. | Applicants for registration will be | seek contributions, the purposes for | which they are intended and the |names and addreses of agencies to which they ultimately are to be sent. Statements Required. Registrants also will be required to submit monthly sworn statements of the amount of contributions received | and their disposition. The Secretary of State is empowered to revoke any registration for failure to comply with the law A few hours before the regulations were issued four members of Congress made public a letter they addressed to 8ecretary Hull calling upon him to invoke the neutrality act against Italy and Germany on the ground that they “are waging war against the legitimate and friendly Spanish government.” The signers were Representatives O'Connell, Democrat, of Montana; Coffee, Democrat, of Washington; Teigan, Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota, and Bernard, Farmer-Labor, of Min- nesota. “The evidence convicting the | Italian and German governments of unprecdented barbarism is overwhelm- ing,” they declared. “We call upon ! the Secretary of State to recognize | officially what is known to the world.” | Restrictions Declared Threatened. Asserting that “the so-called neu- | trality law threatens to place arbi- trary restrictions upon millions of | Americans who wish to continue send- ing sorely needed medical aid, food | and clothing to the hard-pressed people of Spain,” the Representa- tives expressed belief this government | should “heed the wishes of the great majority of our people, rather than be influenced by the bullies of Fascism.” Workers (« ponzxnued From First Page.) fied employes be blanketed into civil service by non-competitive examina- tions. The department representa- tives particularly assert that open com- petitive examinations might seriously handicap the Federal service for some time because it would be possible for inexperienced employes to replace those with experience. To prevent such a situation, the committee tentatively agreed to write into the bill a provision which would give unclassified employes a credit of 2 points for each year of service in the competitive examination. The maxi- mum would be 20 points. These credits would not be given, however, unless the employe made an average of 70, the passing mark, in the examination. Ramspeck explained that after the two-year limit in which unclassified employes would be given an opportu- nity to quality, the committee proposed to permit those who had not qualified to be blanketed into the civil service unless their positions were filled in the meantime by a civil service employe. The committee also proposed to stop the present practice of sending Fed- eral employes in the field -service to various sections of the country with a provision forbidding the appointment of a person who is not a legal or voting resident of the area of the office to which he would be appointed at the time of the appointment. Philadelphi Famous Hotel - BELLEVUE- STRATFORD MODERATELY PRICED CENTRALLY !I'UATIID In Philedeiphie” Scene at Medford, Mass., as Tufts College students this week. The students “kidnaped” three Somerville fir of hose, which they tied into square knots. & Fire Hose Draped (h‘er Trees {Persons Soliciting Spanish ! required to state how they propose to | As Students BY the Associated Press. MEDFORD, Mass., May 6.—Greater Boston's third collegiate riot in as many nights left Somerville firemen “burning up” today. Fire Lieut. Thomas Dempsey and | Hosemen Herbert Frizzell and Ralph | Du Bay reported that about 600 milling Tufts students “kidnaped” them, at- tempted unsuccessfully to lock Demp- sey in a dormitory, then carried the hosemen a quarter of a mile away to the college gymnasium before freeing them. While the three were gone, ether staged New England’s third college riot emen and climbed trees with 500 feet They are shown dragging a wagon into one of —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto, Riot in Boston students stripped 500 feet of hose from the fire truck, draped it over nearby trees and tied knots in it. Then they paraded in front of Jackson College dormitories while girl students leaned out windows and cheered Two blazing student bonfires, one on the Somerville side of the Somerville- Medford line, near the campus, had brought the firemen to the scene. Earlier in the week Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates rioted in Cambridge until police checked them with tear gas. Six were arrested. Spain (Continued From Pirst Page.) huge red crosses on her sides and flew the Red Cross flag. Meanwhile, insurgent air raids against the capital increased in num- | ber, if not in intensity. Four times before noon sirens wailed and sent the population scurrying to shelters, but the bombs dropped at the out- skirts of the city. The Almirante Cervera apparently tried to cross the Habana's bows and slow her down, but the Royal Oak's skipper, realizing what was up, put | his battleship between the insurgent cruiser and the liner. | Meanwhile, some of the children | had explored the lower regions of the | boat, singing and shouting and run- ning up and down the companionways. Exasperated nurses finally herded them all on deck, where many fell asleep. There was virtually no food aboard, for there was little that Bilbao could offer. Huge cans of milk, however, ‘were set on the decks and the nurses Iadled out eupfuls for the little boys and girls. Tonight the French liner Calamare is due from Bordeaux to take out an- other contingent. The woman refugees who left today carried meager houschold possessions aboard ship. Some toted bales of bed linen and pictures on their heads as they stag- gered up the gangplank. One old lady, weeping, carried a faded wedding dress under one arm. Steadfast under a hail of bombs and machine-gun fire, sturdy Basque “gudaris,”t or militia men, tightened their grip on the entrapped insur- gents, who, with their backs to the sea, faced slow starvation unless the slege within a siege was cracked. The beleaguered insurgents, re- ported to be Italian units of the broad offensive Gen. Emilio Mola has thrust | toward Bilbao, were isolated on the Bay of Biscay Coast, near Bermeo, | 16 miles northeast of Bilbao. Their ' | | | | | food supplies were dwindling swiftly. This defense success, together with a general halt in the insurgent drive along a semi-circular front east of the Basque capital, gave Bilbao a breathing spell in its efforts to re- duce a population swollen to about 350,000, approximately twice normal, by men, women and children who fled into the city ahead of the insurgents. Basque authorities declared an “Italian destroyer” had joined seven insurgent ships. The insurgent high command has refused approval of any evacuation on the ground it would strengthen the resistance to Mola's campaign. The insurgents near Bermeo were isolated from the main body of Nola’s troops Sunday after they had driven rapidly along the Biscay coast toward the Basque, capital. While Mola's airmen blasted at the Basques' encircling line of steel yes- terday two insurgent trawlers at- tempted to help the beleaguered force from the sea. The Basques turned ar- tillery on the boats and they scurried seaward while 6-inch shells geysered the water around them. (Between Bermo and Bilbao an in- surgent force was apparently nearly ready to strike at the Basque capital's fortifications, which insurgent scouts said consisted of four lines of trenches with many concrete machine guns nests and parapets.) Government reports said Basque and Asturian troops captured Anetxu Hill in Guipuzcoa Province, east of Bilbao, and launched a series of at- tacks on insurgent positions. To the west, near Santander, in- surgents in the Town of Bricia were reported in a precarious position after the government seized control of routes over which they received supplies. Chicagoan “Adopts” England. LONDON, May 6 (#).—Harry Gor- don Selfridge, who came from Chicago 30 years ago to found London’s first department store on American lines, applied today for British citisenship with the observation he felt “more at home here.” EISEMAN'’S 'SEVENTH & F ETASSTEIRIE@IN CLASSIES Are These New Pay $2 Monthly Pay Styles seen at twice this price. Frocks that meet your budget. Styles that look expensive. Vivid ‘prints, gorgeous pastels, sheers, crepes, dainty chiffons (such as the polka dot chiffon sketched from stock) and others—all dated Spring and Summer 1937. Newest colors— sizes for women and misses. Choose your new dress tomor- row at Eiseman’s, where you get style, quality, low price and convenient terms. Ope_h a Charge Account $2 Monthly, Starting in June We_ guarantee our prices to be no higher than any l?‘ic'ly cash store. If you can buy for less we request the return of your purchese. Compare eur merchandise and be convinced. BARCELONA RISING TAKES 40 LIVES 1,000 Wounded in Anarchist Revolt Since Tuesday, Radio Announces. By tne Assoctated Press. PERPIGNAN, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, May 6.—Four hundred persons have been killed and 1,000 wounded the Anarchist revolt at Barcelona, the Barcelona radio station announced to- day. Those were the casualties since Tuesday in ferocious fighting within the city, capital of autonomous Cata- lonia and now ordered under the mili- tary sway of the main Spanish gov- 2rnment at Valencia. Catalonia’s government has sup- ported Valencia and Madrid against the Fascist insurgents since last July's rebellion. Streets Become Quiet. At the hour of the broadcast the streets had become quiet, the an- nouncement stated. Earler reports told of the dispatch to Barcelona of two strong forces by the main government to quell con- tinuing disorders in the “war within & war.” Telephone and telegraph communi- cations with Barcelona still were cut, making it impossible to verify the reports directly. Official Valencia advices said Gen. Sebastian Pozas, government com< mander on the Guadalajara front, named as military commander in Catalonia, already had reached Barce- lona and was getting things “fully in Some Still Holding Out. The officials at the seat of main Spanish government admitted, how- ever, that certain groups still were holding out in some houses. They said these groups were “small” and that the city generally was quiet. Displaying scant sympathy for their rebellious colleagues, anarchists at Valencia denounced the Barcelona uprising and called for support of the government. They blamed “agi- tators.” (The Spanish embassy in Paris said a “fifth column” of insurgents, masquerading as syndicalists, caused the trouble, and that Monarchist banners appeared on some Barcelona balconies at the height of the revolt.) On the Catalan war front the Valencia air ministry announced, gov- ernment planes bombed insurgent po- sitions at Zaragoza and destroyed a bridge to cut insurgent communica- tions between Zaragoza and Zuera, A force of 1,000 men was said to have started from Valencia, tempor- ary seat of the Spanish government, to supress the anarchist uprising and guerrila warfare in Barcelona in which more than 100 persons were reported killed with casualties still mounting. Column Leaves Aragon Front. Another column, the reports said, was withdrawn from the Aragon front by Luis Companys, president of autonomous Catalonia, supporting Valencia's efforts to restore peace. Reports on the border said govern- ment forces held control of the central post office in Barcelona, but that the anarchists continued to occupy the railroad station. Only one train was allowed to leave the Catalan capital for France yes- terday, the second day of the uprising, and carried only three passengers. Gangs Roam Streets, Despite reports yesterday that & peaceful settlement of the anarchists’ protests against orders to surrender their arms and dismissals from gov- ernment posts, travelers reaching the border said revolutionist gangs in armored cars still roamed the streets. An appeal by Catalonia's new gov- erning colincil. organized yesterday with at least one anarchist member. asked “all to lay down their arms and forget everything before the grandeur of the goal to be obtained against fascism.” Travelers said Barcelona still was in a virtual state of civil warfare, rifle shots crackling occasionally al- though there were no further pitched battles. 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Jose Roldsn from com= mand of Catalonia’s army, which has been battling Gen. Francisco Franco's insurgents in Northeastern Spain. Although President Luis Companvs of Catalonia was reported to have recalled some troops from the war front to suppress the anarchist out- break, Valencia officials declared the government had not suffered. Valencia's intervention in Catalonia, the government said, was taken under the Catalan autonomy statute, which left only loose ties betwen the Barce- lona administration and the central government, then at Madrid. INSURGENTS CLAIM ADVANCE. Sierra Palomera Range Capture Re- ported by Rebels. WITH SPANISH INSURGENTS ON THE ARAGON FRONT, May 6 (). —Insurgent officers today credited & five-day offensive in Fast Central Spain with driving government troops out of positions north of Teruel that they took five months to gain. More than 1,000 government sol- diers were killed or wounded, the in- surgents said. They claimed government forces had been pushed out of the whole Sierra Palomera range, increasing the insurgent threat on Valencia, seat of the Republican government, which lies 72 miles southeest of Teruel. FRENCH DISPATCH DESTROYER. | Reported to Be Bound for Revolt- Stricken Barcelona. TOULON, France, May 6 (#).—The French destroyer Maille Breze sped from here today after an urgent re- call of her crew from shore leave. | Authorities refused to confirm re- | ports that she was bound for Barce- | lona, Spain, where an Anarchist revo- | lution has caused more than 100 | deaths and is believed still to be un- controlled. The destroyed Cassard hurriedly prepared to sail also, reputedly for the Catalan capital. Criminal Justice (Continued FProm First Page.) up the criminal courts were the two trials of Fred B. Rhodes on a forgery charge, both resulting in hung juries; the blackmail trial of Mrs. Mary Krieger and Samuel L. 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