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A—2 =xxx DEBTS T0YOUTH CITED BY COUNGIL Responsibility Held Above Mere Schooling in Time of Depression. Soclety's responsibility for, the edu- cation, welfare and development of youth does not end at the period of formal education, it was declared yes- terday at the meeting of the American Youth Commission of the American Council on Education. In special times, such as depres- slons, the public must provide more than education for young persons, the commission declared. Those who do not go into gainful occupations must be fitted into the social structure in other ways. The commission adopted the sug- gestion of its director, Dr. Homer P. Rainey, that the United States Em- ployment Service and the commission co-operate in developing experimenta- tion for the guidance and placement of youth. In addition to the resolution con- cerning society’s responsibility to all youth, the commission agreed that the schools must revise their curricula and organization systems to meet the changing conditions, and that appro- priate agencies must be created, or present agencies changed, so as to provide for youths whose needs are not now met by the educational sys- tem. The commission declared that be- cause nearly all youth will attend the schools of the future up to and in- cluding the junior college, it will be necessary to plan “an education for the common life,” with a “core of common materials for all.” This cur- riculum, however, must be adapted to the varying abilities and aptitudes of young people, it was emphasized. The minimum age for formal edu- cation should be 16 years, the com- mission contended. From the end of the formal education period to the age of 21 the responsibility for youth may be met by less formal and more flex- ible means. After 21 years the re- sponsibility of society may become a special part of its relation to adults generally. Members of the commission who at- tended the two-day session held at the United States Chamber of Com- merce were: Newton D. Baker, chair- man, former Secretary of War; Owen D. Young, vice chairman, New York; Dr. Miriam V. Waters, secretary, Framingham, Mass.; Will W. Alexan- der, Resettlement Administration; Ralph Budd, president Burlington Railroad, Chicago; Dorothy Canfield Fisher, authoress, Arlington, Vt.; Dr. Willard E. Givens, secretary National Education Association; Henry I. Har- riman, former president United States Chamber of Commerce, Boston; Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, president Uni- versity of Chicago; Rev. George John- son, secretary National Catholic Edu- cation Association; Chester H. Rowell, editor San Francisco Chronicle; Dr. William F. Russell, dean Teachers’ College, Columbia University; Dr. John W. Studebaker, United States commissioner of education; Mathew ‘Woll, vice president American Federa~ tion of Labor. Dr. George F. Zook, president, and Dr. C. S. Marsh, vice president, Ameri- can Council on Education, also at- tended the meetings. S 41 SUSPECTS TAKEN "IN STORE ROBBERIES Thirteen Held for Investigation Will Be Placed in Headquar- ters Line-up Tonight. Forty-one suspects were rounded up by police yesterday as they sought & bandit who has been preying on #mall stores in the Northwest section for several weeks. Thirteen of those taken into cus- fody were held for investigation. They will be placed in a line-up at police headquarters tonight. Meanwhile, another bandit, who fhay be the one sought, fired a shot at Theodore Roumel, 50, in an at- tempted hold-up at Roumel's con- fectionary store at 1331 Seventh street about midnight last night. Requesting a package of cigarettes, the bandit, a light-skinned colored man, drew a revolver and fired once at Roumel when the latter said he had no money. The bullet lodged in & wall near the storekeeper. The colored man then fled. ' Joseph W. Hill, 1730 Seaton street, reported to police that a safe deposit box, listed to him at the Industrial Savings Bank, Eleventh and U streets, was entered during the past several days and cash and jewelry, totaling epproximately $1,560, removed. e NEW TRIAL SOUGHT SEATTLE, May 12 (#).—Defense counsel announced & move for a new trial would be made today for Mrs. Anna Palmer, convicted of perjury in making an afidavit her 14-year-old daughter, Delta, was 18, so she could get a license to marry John Lee Meni- fleld, 38-year-old Negro, last February. Congress in Brief By the Assoctated Press. Benate: Debates $112,000,000 T. V. A. dam project. " Wheeler Committee continues inves- tigation of railroad financing. Interstate Commerce Committee be- gins hearings on child labor legislation. Judiciary Committee studies Roose- wvelt court bill. House: Oonsiders extension of C. C. C. for two years, Appropriations Subcommittee con- tinues hearings on non-military public works projects. Labor Subcommittee continues hear- ings on Ellenbogen textile bill, YESTERDAY. House balked at making C. C. C. per- manent agency. TOMORROW. Senate: Program uncertain. Judiciary subcommittee meets on O’'Mahoney licensing bill, 10:30 a.m. House: Begins debate on Interior Depart- ment appropriation bill. Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee considers railroad retire- ment, bill, 10 a.m. Special tax subcommittee of Dis- trict Committee resumes consideration of tax program, 10:30 a.m. Subcommittee of District Commit- tee begins hearings on proposals to Trevise liquor control act, 10:30 a.m. v Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. SALARY. F YOU were offered a job at a basic salary of $1,200 a year and the alternative of receiving a raise of $100 a year, or & $25 pay in- crease every six months, which ar- rangement would you accept? Hmmmm. We thought so. All right. Given the $25 twice a year, the scale in three years would be: First pay day, $600; second pay day, $625; third pay day, $650; fourth pay day, $675; fitth pay day, $700; sixth pay day, $725. Total, $3,975. Given the $100 per annum increase: First pay day, $600; second pay day, $600; third pay day, $650; fourth pay pey, $650; fifth pay day, $700; sixth pay day, $700. Total, $3,900. Therefore, $50 is greater than $100. Prof. Einstein . . . Yooo hooo!! * Xk X % WRONG AGAIN. Weary of problems dealing with time, infinity and cash money, one of our statisticians set out this week to figure where most of Wash- ington’s public kissing is done. In Rock Creek Park, you say? Hah. Ever stand down by the train gates at Union Station? * ok ok % CARD. T THE door of his home in Chev- erly, Md., the other evening, Mr. A. E. Montague encountered a young man carrying a tray of shoestrings, pencils, etc. Robust, bland in appear- ance, the chap stuck out a card read- ing, “I can neither speak nor hear, and am unable to work. Will you please buy some of my goods?” Mr. Montague regarded him care- fully for a moment, decided some- thing was not quite right. “Sorry,” he said, “I don't see any- thing I can use today.” “0. K.” said the young man, and walked slowly away. * % ok X SOUND EFFECTS. " LADY we know has one of those party line telephone hook-ups in her apartment, and quite unashamedly admits she sometimes whiles away the idle hours listening to the conver- sations of her neighbors, especially when she is waiting for the line to clear. One evening as she started to make 8 call she heard voices on the wire, those of a husband and wife engaged in lively debate. Always interested in knowing how other people manage these matters, she listened intently. The man was insisting he had about three more hours of work to do at his office. Why didn't his wife and her friend Lena go to the movies, meet him afterward? “On Saturday night?” said the wife. “Impossible.” (She didn't explain why.) Just at that moment some one approached the apartment of the listener-inner, and her dog whipped up an unholy din in barking. “What's all that racket?” the husband on the telephone. “Listen, you,” said his wife, coming more directly to the point. “Where did you say you were? Working, are you? Where, in a dog kennel? Lena, come here quick. Listen; isn't that a dog? I thought so ... why, you .. . Sorry. We don't know the rest. Our snooper had to hang up as an act of mercy to the husband before great peals of feminine laughter went ringing over the line straight to the ears of the little wife. * * X % HIGH FINANCE. WHEN he returned from a trip abroad several months ago a prominent ‘Washington banker brought with him numerous foreign coins as souvenirs. They were scat- tered about the library of his home for some time until his wife decided they were in the way. Said she was going to sell them. “Shouldn’t do that” said the banker half-heartedly, knowing he plead a lost cause. ‘“Very valuable stuff some day. Leave ’'em to our grandchildren. Be as valuable as old Roman coins few hundred years hence. Think of it.” “I have,” said his wife, beginning to stuff the pieces into her pocket- book. “If-they're worth so much I'll buy myself a new hat.” She went down to the bank, poured out her treasure before a teller. He examined the lot carefully, picked out two or three, paid her 37 cents for them, pronouncerd the rest worth- less. asked Incredulous, the lady proceeded to the shop of a dealer in old coins. He took a look, said despairingly, “Worthless, madam, worthless. I could not give you more than a quar- ter for the lot.” “Where's the quarter?” said the lady. She took it to pay for a taxi home, the 37 cents profit jingling in her purse all the way. * kX % COLLEGIATE. Somebody, maybe a Harvard man feeling his oats, has painted the railroad station at Hyattsville red. * k% X HELP. CIBSIE CARUSI, 2-year-old daugh- ter of Bugene Carusi, the assist- ant district attorney, likes bananas, has eaten lots of them, never peeled one. The other day she picked one off the table, looked at it somewhat pussled, then held it up to her mother. diaper off banana for Cissie.” 14 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY RED CROSS HEARS OF SAFETY NEEDS Leaders Outline Fight on Accidents—-Miss Board- man Honored. The American Red Cross today urged its members to battle relentlessly to insure accident elimination in the home, on the highway and in the water. “Let the day come soon when ‘You're crazy’ will be the answer to ‘That car of mine did 70 over the hill last night,’” Richard W. Thrush, as- sistant director of Red Cross first aid and life-saving service, today told the Red Cross annual convention. “Carelessness has become a fixed habit with the average adult,” Mrs. Clarence W. Messinger, chairman of accident prevention and highway first aid, Houghton County Chapter, Michi- gan, said to the delegates in Conti- nental Memorial Hall. Dr. Cassius H. Watson, president of the National Safety Council, asked for ever-improved first-aid service as a vital part of accident prevention, and Carroll Bryant, technical adviser of the life-saving service, recommended greater efforts to insure water safety, of which Thrush remarked: “Rather generally people no longer associate caution with cowardice when it applies to water sports.” They do link the two on the high- way, however, Thrush said. He added: “We are not far removed from our pioneer ancestors and maybe we have & twisted tradition akin to foolhardi- ness that has come down ot us through the years. “Perhaps that is part of the trouble. To be cautious may make us appear to be afraid, and that would be ter- rible.” Tells of First Aid Unit. Thrush told of the Mobile Emer- gency First Aid Unit developed by the Red Cross during the past year to bring medical and surgical help to the scene of traffic accidents in an effort to make more certain the survival of the vic- tims of the accidents. The chief problem in making swimming safe for America is to spread information about the danger or lack of it of places and to strive to make all ca- pable of caring for themselves in the water, Bryant said. He put swim- mers and would-be swimmers in three categories “Dunkers,” who wade in the water and bob up and down without getting their feet off the bottom. “Splashers” and ‘“drinkers,” who flail their way from 30 feet and drink | all the water which washes into their mouths. The swimmers, “a rather small class,” who can take care of them- selves. The splashers, Bryant said, are the problem swimmers, because they are always eager to attempt feats be- yond their ability. But, while the highway and water front are publicized accident scenes, America's homes are the scenes of thousands of mishaps of varying seri- ousness, Mrs. Messinger pointed out. The chief problem here, she said, is that most parents consider accidents in the home unavoidable. To overcome this point of view, Mrs. Messinger suggested, educate children to show their parents by example that | accidents in the home can be re- duced in number, if not eliminated. The convention delegates last night | heard a series of after-dinner speak- ers praise the work of Miss Mabel Thorpe Boardman, secretary of the American Red Cross, head of its Vol- unteer Service and a leading figure in the organization for 37 years. Recalls Miss Boardman's Career. In 1908, Colin Herrle, assistant dis- aster relief director and a Red Cross worker since 1905, reminded the diners at the Willard Hotel, Miss Boardman visualized a widespread chapter organization and a greater disaster service. “When the war started in Europe,” Herrle said to Miss Boardman, “you again were the leader and yours was the vision of a great Red Cross service during that period of our history. To you, and I might almost say to you alone, we are indebted for our na- tional headquarters buildings.” Others who lauded Miss Boardman were Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chair- man of the Red Cross; Mrs. August Belmont, Red Cross Central Commit- tee; Vicomte Bonabes de Rouge, sec- retary general of the League of Red Cross Societies; Assistant Secretary of State R. Walton Moore and Miss Betty Moore of the Junior Red Cross. On behalf of the members of the staff of the National Red Cross, Ad- miral Grayson presented Miss Board- man with a silver bowl. Junior Convention Dines. Three hundred delegates to the Junior Red Cross convention at the same time held their annual banquet and dance at the Mayflower, where Thomas Szumski, Bloomfleld (N. J.), schoolboy, suggested to his colleagues that the organization send American students to Central and South Ameri- can cities as Junior Red Cross am- bassadors of good will. Charles Miller of New Orleans is permanent chairman of the Junior Red Cross Convention, which holds its sessions in the auditorium of the new Interior Department Building. Bob ‘Ward, Omaha, is vice chairman, and Miss Betty Rogers, Chattanooga, Tenn., is secretary. MAHLON MARSH, 91, DIES; RETIRED FEDERAL CLERK Former Pension Office Employe Came to Capital 47 Years Ago to Enter U. 8. Service. Mahlon Marsh, 91, retired clerk of the Pension Office, died Monday night after a short illness at his home, 628 E street northeast. A native of Ohio, Mr. Marsh taught achool in that State before coming to Washington about 47 years ago to enter Government service. He retired about 14 years ago. He was & member of the Waugh M. E. Church and for many years was interested in the temperance movement. Surviving are two sons, Earl G. and Allen J. Marsh, both of this city, and two grandchildren. His wife was the late Mrs. Lida M. Marsh. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 pm. tomorrow in Hysong's funeral parlors, 1300 N street. Burial will be in Milford, Ohio, Friday. Car Wrecked by Stag. Motoring between Garve and Ulla- pool, England, s district nurse was at- tacked by a stag, which pushed her car over an embankment, the machine stopping sgainst & fence 20 yards away. various swimming | ! Honored by Red Cross Miss Mabel T. Boardman, secretary of the American Red Cross, in conversation with Rear man of the American Red Cross, honor last night. The dinner celebrated 37 years of service by Miss Boardman with the Red Cross. Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chair- at a dinner in Miss Boardman’s —A. P. Photo. RELIEF AGITATORS THREATEN RETURN 30 Ejected From Office of Allen as They Demand More Money. All was quiet on the “sit-down” front at Commissioner Allen's office | today, despite the threat of 30 ejected | members of the Workers’ Alliance that | they would be back. The alliance members were forced | to clear out of the Commissioner's office at the District Building late yes- terday after they staged a two-hour “sit-down” in support of their de- mands for increased relief disburse- ments. Freed Outside Building. More than a score of uniformed police, supported by half a dozen de- tectives, went into action after David Dixon, head of the delegation, refused to budge until their demands were granted. Amid the wails of three small chil- dren of delegation members and the shouts of adults, the group was taken | from the office in less than two minutes and escorted from the building. There it was freed. They went to the Public Assistance Station at 2529 Pennsylvania avenue, where .a sit- down demonstration has been in prog- ress for nearly a week. Police cuffed one demonstrator when he resisted the ouster movement, and Dixon, the first taken out, was hauled through the Commissioner's door by two officers. The police did not have to use their nightsticks. Allen was not at his office. He had spent the day at the Capitol, where District hearings were, in progress. Finding him absent, the delegation camped on the floor and Dixon an- nounced, “We will stay until he grants our petitions.” Previously they: had picketed the District Building, demanding large relief funds and the dismissal of Mrs. Florence Huff, supervisor of the Penn- sylvania avenue station, who was called “anti-labor.” Sandwiches Munched in Building. While District officials and police were organizing for the eviction after the District Building was closed for business, the delegation munched sandwiches brought in by Edward Ozmun, an official of the alliance. They also broke into songs, chant- ing: “We are tired of skimmed milk, we shall not be moved.” Inspector Edward J. Kelly led the corps of police into the office at 4:45 p.m. and asked Dixon if the delegation would leave peacefully. “We're not going,” answered Dixon. “Do you propose to let these people get hurt?” Kelly then asked. And when Dixon repeated: “We are not going,” Kelly ordered: “Put them out.” When the delegation was released outside the building, Dixon promised, “We will be back.” A small detail of officers remained at the District Building until about 8 p.m, but the “sit-downers” did not return, RECEPTION TO HONOR DR. A. H. REINHARDT President of Mills College for 20 Years to Be Guest of Honor Tomorrow. Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, presi- dent of Mills College for more than 20 years, will be guest of honor at & tea and reception at the Mayflower Hotel tomorrow afternoon in celebra- tion of the 85th anniversary of the founding of the college in California in 1852. The reception is the last in a series of similar events in more than 50 large cities of the country and is also a part of a campaign to raise an en- dowment fund of $1,000,000. Ten young society women from varjous States, in historic costumes representing the period of the found- ing of nine great American colleges for women—Mount Holyoke, 1837; Mills, 1852; Vassar, 1861; Smith, 1871; ‘Wellesley, 1875; Radcliffe, 1879; Bryn Mawr and Goucher, 1885, and Bar- nard, 1889—will participate. These girls will be Miss Elizabeth Sibley, Rochester, N. Y., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harper Sibley; Miss Judy Honeyman, Portland, Oreg., daughter of Representative Nan ‘Wood Honeyman; Mrs. Leonard Outh- waite, Denver, Colo., wife of the explorer and author; Mrs. Jerome Garland, Massachusetts; Mrs. Percy H. Russell, jr, District of Columbia; Miss Carol T. Miles, California; Mrs. Charles W. Tully, Phoenix, Ariz.; Miss Ellen Dryden, Maryland; Miss Marie Fox, Salt Lake City, and Miss Louise Mertz, Philadelphia. Among the sponsors will be Mrs. Roosevelt, Senator and Mrs. Borah, Secretary of Labor Perkins, Miss Ma- bel T. Boardman, Senator and Mrs. Bulkley, Senator and Mrs. Johnson, Senator and Mrs. McNary, Secretary and Mrs. Woodring, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse . Jones, Mrs. Nicholas Long- worth and Mr. and Mrs. Harper Stbiey. A 30,000 NEED HOMES INFLOOD AREAS Red Cross Official to Return Today to Complete Work in Kentucky. Richard F. Allen, manager of the Eastern Division of the Red Cross, plans to fly from here to Louisville tonight to resume supervising the rehabilitation of 30,000 families still homeless as a result of the floods of | last January. Allen arrived in Washington Mon- day for a short visit to the annual Red Cross Convention. He was eager to make the journey eastward, for he and 200 other Red Cross workers in the rehabilitation headquarters in Louis- ville spent Priday, Saturday and Sun- day nights in tents outside the Ken- tucky metropolis. Hotels ordered them out to make way for the Derby crowd. Already 56,000 of the 86,000 families driven to the hills when the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, Green and | Kentucky Rivers went on their ram- pages have been rehabilitated, Allen said—houses soundly patched or| rebuilt, new plaster, floors leveled, new furniture. The other 30,000 should have permanent roofs over their heads by Midsummer. Rehabilitation Cost Unknown. How much the rehabilitation is to cost, Allen is not prepared to say, but the largest item is furniture, for which | the Red Cross probably will put out | $2,000.000. The average allotment per | household is a little more than $100, although it scales from $10 to $270, | depending on the size of the family | and its needs. The money is spent in | retail stores on the spot, to aid local | merchants. Farmers, Allen said, are reluctant to | the money the Red Cross allots them. | They would rather have stock, a new cow, & mule, and let the chair, the bed and the dresser go. Tending the needs of these farmers are Red Cross workers recruited from all over the country, many of them from cities and wholly lacking in rural background. Most of these social workers adapt themselves quickly, however, to the country, Allen said. Paducah “in Fair Shape.” Paducah, which at first was thought | to hame been destroyed, is in fair shape, Allen reported, principally | because the water was moving slowly | when it inundated the city, most of the houses of which are one-story in | height. The rivers never moved so swiftly last January as they did a year ago in March, Allen said, and consequently few houses were wholly lost, although many buildings were torn from their foundations, For Allen, rehabilitating Kentucky is the biggest job he has ever known. Each week he must drive from Ash- land, at the West Virginia border, to Hickman, down by Tennessee, 640 miles away, along the Ohio River front to check on the progress of the work he is supervising. The only task that approaches put- ting the 86,000 Kentucky families back on their feet, Allen recalled, was his work in Poland caring for refugees after the World War. The Army was co-operating with the work by sending into Poland whatever supplies it could spare, and once Allen received a car- load of glass eyes. o CULLINAN LOVE SUIT NEAR JURY STAGE bind themselves to buy furniture with | MAY 12, 193 BLANKET SOLUTION| OF CRIMES BANNED “Willie Pye” Arrests, Where Conviction Is Lacking, to Be Stopped. ‘The “Willie Pye” arrest, potentially a source of grave abuses, seems des- tined to become as antiquated as the old-fashioned third degree as the re- sult of an agreement reached by Dis- trict officials in co-operation with the Washington Criminal Justice As- sociation. A “Willie Pye” arrest, as the term is cgmmonly understood, relates to the practice of treating as solved crimes charges against a prisoner when he has not actually been con- victed of them. Describing a hypothetical case, the association’s recent report set forth | the possibility of a man being ar-! rested in 10 cases of housebreaking but actually tried and convicted in one. If the remaining nine should be treated as “solved” on the police records by virtue of the conviction in the first, they would be known as “Willie Pye” arrests. In many cases there might be sub- stantial evidence to indicate the man was guilty of all 10 offenses, but unless he is indicted or convicted, officials pointed out, the additional charges might escape the notice of the judge trying him in the one case and could not be considered if he should make application for parole. Might Harm Innocent Man. If, as alleged, “Willie Pye” arrests should be made in cases where there is no evidence or very little flimsy evidence against the defendant, it might result in an innocent man being charged with the crimes, and the police record would be clear, al- though the real criminal had not been apprehended. As a first step representatives of the association held conferences with Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, and described the possible evils of the practice to him. Maj. Brown sald he had never heard of the term until it was called to his attention, but an investigation disclosed that for years it had been the practice of detectives to send only one or two cases to the grand jury where a man had been arrested on a series of charges. Should a conviction be ob- tained, the remaining charges were | treated as cleared if there was any | evidence to warrant such action. Maj. Brown agreed that the prac- | tice opened the door to serious abuses | and has instructed his subordinates that in the future they must send all cases to the grand jury. Should the | grand jury refuse to indict, the re- sponsible police official would then decide whether the evidence was suf- ficient to justify treating the case as | | solved. Maj. Brown agreed there | | might be cases of this nature, but | pointed out that the new practice would at least insure a check by the grand jury on the work of the indi- vidual detective. Garnett Hits Practice. Also condemning the “Willie Pye” | arrests, United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnet has agreed to present all cases based on substantial evidence to the grand jury, although he has some doubts as to how the policy will | { work out in practice. [ In the past it has been the policy of the United States attorney's office to indict only on the strongest two | or three of a series of similar charges. | One reason for this has been the practice of the judges not to impose additional penalties after two convic- tions for the same type of offense. Garnett said he decided to indict in all cases, hoping defendants would plead guilty to the balance after be- | | ing conmvicted in two or three. | If a defendant should refuse to | plead. Garnett said, he would be faced | with the alternative of trying him on | all the cases or nolle prossing the | charges remaining after a conviction. He said he was reluctant to nolle prosse any great number of cases be- cause it would reflect unfavorably on the record of his office. The objection to trying all the cases, he said, is that a defendant can be tried only once before the same jury panel. This would mean that if & man had been indicted in 30 cases, as has happened, it would take 30 months to try him, since new juries are selected only once a month. Garnett said he was opposed to the policy of seeking indictments with the expectation that they would be nolle prossed. He said such a procedure would be unjust to an in- nocent man, since a defendant can not present his side of a case to the grand jury. The new procedure, however, has not caused any difficulty so far, as defendants indicted in a series of cases have been willing to plead guilty after a conviction. La Roe Favors Ban. Wilbur La Roe, jr, head of the Parole Board, said he also is heartily in favor of doing away with “Willie Pye” arrests. The Parole Board, he continued, cannot give any consideration to a charge on a police record against an applicant for parole unless followed | Closing Plea of Defense Attorney Alone Remains Before 12 Take Case. Bs the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, May 12.—The $100,000 alienation of affections suit against Miss Laura Strittmatter, comely office worker whom Mrs. Hallie Cullinan of Washington charges with stealing her husband’s love, headed toward the jury’s hands today. Only the finishing arguments of David Polasky, defense attorney, whose closing plea was interrupted by court's adjournment yesterday, remained be- fore Recorder’s Judge John V. Bren- nan, would give the case to six mar- ried men and six married women Jurors. Birth records of Wayne County were introduced in evidence yester- day to show that Miss Strittmatter, who has pleaded that Charles H. Cul- linan “decieved” her into marrying him in 1935, is 44 years old—born July 22, 1892. In previous testimony her age was given as 36. In three and & half hours of argu- ment, Harry Lippman, counsel for Mrs. Cullinan, sought to prove that “this rose girl”—one of Cullinan’s courtship terms of endearment for Miss Strittmatter—“didn’t care what steps she took as long as she got Cullinan.” Loses Job, Sues Bank. Because he lost his job two days before his marriage, W. E. Notham has sued the Commercial Bank of Scotland, Lid, of Glasgow, Scotland, Where he had been employed as clerk. ') by a conviction. He also said he “hated” to see unproved charges on & man’s record because of the possi- bility of injustice to an innocent per- son. La Roe described the Criminal Justice Association report as “con- structive and stimulative to public thinking, but said he thought the conclusion that convictions are ob- tained in only 10 per cent of major crimes was “misleading unless studied carefully.” The report showed 6,818 felonies reported in 1936 and only 685 con- vicitons. Contending & conclusion that these figures show only 10 per cent of convictions might be errone- ous, La Roe said there may have been cases where one man committed several of the offenses, although actu- ally convicted on a smaller number. This, he said, would not mean that the criminal went unpunished. He also said offenses reported as felonies frequently are reduced to lesser offenses and tried in Police Court. La Roe cited the additional possibility, mentioned in the report, that many perpetrators of felonies in 1936 might be caught and punished in 1937, | surgent entrenchments. " Secretary WILL OCCUPY POST AT WHITE HOUSE. MISS KATHERINE GILLIGAN. : The efficiency of Miss Gilli- gan, 26, in doing her secre- tarial work for an insurance firm in Boston came to the no- tice of James Roosevelt, the President’s son, during last Fall's campaign. Now Miss Gilligan is bound for the White House, where she will be his secretary. He, in turn, is one of the secretaries to his father. —A. P. Phcto. SLAUGHTER GREAT INSPANISH BATTLE Wave After Wave of Gov- ernment Dead Pile Up on Toledo Fields. BACKGROUND— Bitter fighting in other theaters of Spanish war fail to detract from intense drama surrounding siege of Madrid admittedly the main od- jective of Gen, Franco’s insurrec- tion, despite removal of seat of government to Valencia. Success elsewhere would leave the rebels in commanding position, many ob- servers declare. By the Assoclated Press. TOLEDO, Spain, May 12.—Wave after wave of government infantry- men charged insurgent positions south of this ancient imperial city today in the face of what insurgents described as “unprecedented” slaugh- ter. The official insurgent comminique, describing the combat of the last four days as one of the greatest battles on the central Spanish front, quoted prisoners as saying 3,000 of their comrades had been killed and that the number of dead and wounded was incalculable. ‘When night fell, the report added, Gen. Francisco Franco's insurgents still held positions they captured four days ago on the Merida highway, west of Toledo. Today’s combat was south of the Tajo River, which skirts To- | ledo on the south. As the battle developed. insurgent commanders came to view the govern- ment attacks as a major offensive aimed at wresting Toledo from Franco. The insurgents seized the city last Oc- tober and delivered comrades from a week-long starvation siege in the historic Alcazar. Yesterday's struggle started before dawn with artillery pounding the in- In the early morning light, defending troops in one sector saw a squadron of 12 tanks rolling toward them, followed by a long line of infantrymen The battle raged all day. Five suc- cessive attacks by the government forces turned no-man’s land into a fleld full of wounded and dead. ploughed by artillery shells and hand grenades. Between the attack waves, Franco's gunners sent shells into the govern- ment's second and third line positions while trench mortars pumped missiles into the government’s machine-gun nests and dugouts. Among prisoners taken by the in- surgents were men wearing the in- signia of the “Dimitroff Brigade™ which apparently had been rushed as reinforcements to the army which had taken up positions outside Toledo after it tell to the insurgents last Fall Toledo is 40 miles south and slightly west of Madrid PUSH ON TOWARD BILBAO. Rebels Thunder Big Guns Basque Fortifications. VICTORIA, Spain, May 12 (®).—In- surgent Gen. Francisco Franco's forces battered their way closer to the gates of Bilbao today, turning their guns on the main line Basque fortifications at Larrabezua, five miles from the cap- ital city. Amorebieta, eight miles from Bilbao, was reported abandoned, gov- ernment militiamen falling back to make a last desperate stand just out- side Bilbao. Along HENDAYE, May 12 (#).—Spanish insurgents reported today 2,500 Basque defenders of Bilbao had been killed and wounded in a fruitless attempt to hold Bizcargi Hill, east of the Basque capital. MANY SLAIN IN MADRID. MADRID, May 12 (#)—Insurgent guns, renewing bombardment of Ma- drid, sent the capital's toll to 217 killed and 693 wounded since April 1, it was announced today by Gen. Jose Misja. Beventy-six of the dead and 240 of the wounded were women, Miaja said. A dozen heavy shells screamed into the heart of the city last night. BILBAO THREAT HELD TIMED. BILBAO, Spain, May 12 (#).—Gen. Emilio Mola's threat to destroy Bilbao unless the Basque capital capitulated today to the insurgent offensive was deliberately timed to coincide with ENVOY TO SPEAK George Bonnet, Ambessador from France and one of his country’s lead- ing authorities on international finance, will be principal speaker at a luncheon meeting of the National Press Club at 12:30 pm. tomorrow. M. Bonnet, former minister of finance, took leave of absence for six months from his seat in the Chamber of Deputiss to serve as Ambassador. [ the London coronation, Basque offi- cials said today. The authorities said they had re- ceived information that today was chosen for the expiration of the ulti- matum in an effort to avold a “wave of indignation” that would follow such an air attack. The eyes of the world ‘were away from Bilbao for the day, the Basques said. Defenders of the “Pittsburgh of Spain” defled the insurgent threat. » 6.0.P.LEADSDRIVE FOR STATE RELIEF Federal Grants System Up- held to Get Bigger Ratio of Cash to Needy. BACKGROUND— With dwindling revenues presag- ing a larger-than-anticipated defl- cit, President Roosevelt recently called on Congress and departments to pare all expenditures. Among un- expected results was strong move at Capitol to cut relief outlay from recommended $1,500,000,000 to $1,000,000,000. Two other congres- sional economy proposals are a flat 10 per cent cut in all appropria- tions, except for fized charges, and a discretionary 15 per cent reduc- tion, President to ezercise the dis- cretion. Ps the Associated Press. The Republican membership of the House proposed today that relief ad- ministration be returned to the States through 2 system of Federal monetary grants. “This plan will insure that a larger share of each relief dollar will go into actual relief purposes than is the case under the present system of extrava- gant political control,” said an an- nouncement from a caucus of minor- ity Representatives. The Republicans adopted a proposa: of Representative White, Republican, of Ohio, that Federal grants to States be made on a non-partisan basis, that administration be vested in State and local authorities, and that each State contribute at least 25 per cent of the cost of its relief. The conference did not estimate the cost of next year's relief, but Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan, and Representative Bacon, Republi« can, of New York, jointly recommend- ed an expenditure of $1,250.000,000 They, too, proposed “home rule” and “home responsibility.” $500,000,000 Reduction Reported. Informed Representatives, mean- while, said a House subcommittee had sliced $500,000,000 from the Presi- dent's $1,500,000,000 work-relief re- quest for the year beginning July Representative Boland of Penns; vania, the Democratic whip, predicte the House would restore the reduc- tion. Meanwhile, the House today firmly and finally rejected President Roose- velt's recommendation for a perma- nent Civilian Conservation Corps. it passed and sent to the Senate instead | & bill to extend the C. . C. for two years only. Administration leaders made no at- tempt to reverse the ballot by which an insurgent membership voted over- whelmingly yesterday to retain the agency on a temporary basis. The Senate, debating a proposal to build a new $112,000,000 dam in the Tennessee Valley, heard Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland de- clare yesterday that another depres- sion is coming and the Nation must prepare for it. { Citing “predictions” of Chairman Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board. former Vice President Dawes and ‘‘economists throughout the country.” Tydings said the next depression is an event “which we all know must ome at least in some degree | “With the depression back of us, | now is the time to avold unneces- sary expenditures until we can bring {our outgo and our income within line,” he said. Leaders predicted defeat of the |dam proposal today in what they called the first test of economy senti- ment in the Senate. The measure would appropriate only $2,000,000 of the total cost this year. | Senator Norris, independent. of Ne- | braska described the proposed struc- | ture at Gilbertsville. Ky., as an inte- gral part of the Tennessee Valley Au- | thority's program for flood contro! navigation aids and power develop- ! ment Members of the House Appropria- | tions Committee agreed today to postpone until after President Roose- | velt returns to the Capital a meeting | at which the subcommittee planned to report its approval of the $1,000- 000,000 work-relief appropriation. The meeting originally was scheduled for tomorrow. CRASHES KILLING 17 BLAMED ON PILOTS Commerce Bureau Lays Death ¢’ Martin Johnson to Flying Errors. Pilot errors were held responsib!: by the Commerce Department todayv for two air transport crashes near Newhall, Calif., last Winter, which resulted in the deaths of 17 persons including the noted explorer, Martin Johnson. The crash of a United Air Lines plane the night of December 27, re- sulting in the deaths of all 12 persons aboard, the department reported, was due to an error on the part of Pilot Edwin W. Blom in attempting to fy through the Newhall Pass at an al- titude lower than the surrounding mountains without first determining by radio the existing weather condi- tions. In the case of a Western Air Ex- press crash on January 12, resulting in five deaths, the department held that Pilot William W. Lewis was at fault in descending “to a dangerously low altitude without positive knowl- edge of his position.” DEMOCRATS FORM ‘BARGAINING UNION’ Fulfillment of Party Promises Is Chief Objective—Organized in Partial Secrecy. With fulfillment of “party prom- ises” as their chief objective, six “little fellows” of the Democratic political machine have organized amid partial secrecy the National Union for Col- lective Bargaining of Democratic Party Workers. Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Willlams, 910 Maryland avenue northeast, were the only two organizers who, at this time, would reveal their identity. She is a housewife and he is employed as & ‘“compensation representative” at the Naval Air Station, under the United States Engineer Office. War Department. “The workers who wear out their shoe leather in soliciting votes for the party are the most downtrodden hue mans of all,” spoke Williams yester- day. B v