Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1937, Page 4

DAYLIGHT SAVING PROTESTS MOUNT Committe Is Flooded by Pe- titions as Time for Hear- ing Nears. An avalanche of protests against the Sacks bill to put Washington on & daylight-saving schedule poured into the House District Committee yesterday, just 48 hours in advance of the initial public hearing on the meeasure. The hearing will be held in the eaucus room of the old House Office Building tomorrow at 10 a.m. before & special subcommittee of the Dis- trict Committee, headed by the bill's sponsor,” Representative Sacks, Demo- crat, of Pennsylvania. The sudden opposition to the bill eame as a surprise to Sacks, whose check-up several days ago, on his own mail and the letters received by the committee, showed a ratio of nearly 8 t 1 in favor of daylight saving. Sacks, however, said testimony at the Rearing probably would reflect a more accurate picture of public sentiment. Protest From Veterans’ Groups. ©Of the latest protests, the principal one came from the Veterans’ Admin- istration in. the form of two petitions #igned by the employes. One petition contained 126 names and the other 38. A notation on the former said many more names could be added i1 time permitted. Representative Randolph, Demo- erat, of West Virginia, a member of the District Committee, plans to lead the congressional opposition to the bill at the hearing. He said he would go before the subcommittee with at least a dozen reasons why daylight saving should not be adopted in the District. + When Sacks introduced the bill last ronth he had no intention of having | it made effective this year, but he has learned since, he said, there is | & “pronounced demand” for the ex- | tra hour of daylight this Summer, and | for that reason he proposes to seek | House action at the first opportunity. = Milkman Wants It. *A modified cross-section of men | and women would be particularly ef- fected by the time-saving proposal | strengthens the affirmative argu- ents. = A milkman had this to say: “The | only sun I see is the misty, gray kind in the early morning. I sleep all day | and wake up when it's dark. An| extra hour in the afternoon would | be swell” -From a woman who sympathized with those who must tend the needs | of infants came this comment: “Babies start crving an hour before | sun-up. So, since their parents have | to wake up then anyway, they might as well be on daylight saving time.” “I like tennis and golf and swim- ming,” says a young W. P. A. woman employe, “and, well—more sun time, more sports time.” A ‘chronic early riser who takes music lessons in New York on week ends, this proponent of the measure believes daylight saving would also simplify train schedules. Sp;ain (Continued From First Page.) it to me and I, in turn, to the Presi- dent.” The Communist party issued & manifesto setting forth its conditions for participation in the new govern- ment. The party demanded that the war ministry ‘be separated from the premiership, and urged reorganization of the genera] staff with the naming | | today reported advances along a 14- of chiefs of staff “responsible to the war ministry and the war council, but | Wwith full authority to plan and direct | all operations.” The Communists also addressed a demand to President Manuel Azana for a cabinet which would initiate “a consistent war policy’ with the reorganization of all fronts, the methodical formation of reserve forces, the purging of disloyal elements, the rapid transformation of civil indus- | tries into war industries and the creation of new industries. They asked a vigorous economic | policy to increase and co-ordinate | production, the creation of farmers' | co-operatives and the nationalization of basic industries, especially those | owned by Fascists. | The party declared against the confiscation of private property ex- cept when made “directly by me‘ government against the enemies of the people.” | For more than eight months the 65-year-old, gray-haired Largo Cabal- | lero has led the government in its | fight to crush Gen. Francisco Franco and his men The governmental crisis, informed persons said, was an outgrowth of the anarchist revolt in Catalonia, which broke out last week and is still not entirely suppressed. For- eign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo, returning from Paris May 8, ex- pressed concern lest the Catalan up- rising—a civil war within a ecivil ‘war—cause anti-government feeling abroad and demanded firm action to prevent a recurrence. All Elements Remain. Socialists, Communists, Left Re- publicans and Anarcho-Syndicalists were included in Largo Caballero’s old ministry. The same parties will participate in the new regime, but portfolios will be distributed differ- ently, the premier said. (Spanish government diplomats in Paris asserted Largo Caballero, expecting & “long war” against the insurgents, hoped to'free himself from great dependence on Anarch- ists, although they may still have government representation. (He wants his administration to be in full agreement on suppression of the Catalan Anarchist rebel- lion.) He may reduce the number of min- istries—now 14—in order to speed up action and may ask that control of all the war forces be placed under one man. DAMAGED SHIP TOWED IN. GIBRALTAR, Msy 15 (#).—The British destroyer Hunter, her prow stove in by an explosion Thursday off the southeastern coast of Spain, was towed stern-first into Gibraltar har- bor today with five dead men aboard. Flags were lowered to half-mast in the harbor when the British hospital ship Maine arrived earlier in the day with the Hunter's 14 injured seamen. REVOLT WITHIN REVOLT. MADRID, May 15 (#).—Amused government soldiers held their fire today and tried to figure out just what all the shooting was about in Univer- sity City, insurgent outpost -dangling at the end of an almost-severed line driven into Madrid many weeks ago. “k we had begun firing,” a govern- N | for lack of evidence. Then, of course, This earliest of risers, J. A. Sey- mour, milkman, would like daylight saving because it would give “at least one hour of real sunshine.” THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY 16, 1937—PART ONE. Daylight—to Save or Not to Save—Congress Will Decide Hambly, will continue to him at the “crack of dawn” Murray. Thirteen-months-old Barbara Mur- ray, in the arms of Mrs. J. St. Clair get her bottle “Babs” is the daughter of Rev. Phillip regardless. farmers. ment officer said, “they probably would { have forgotten their own quarrel to | return our bombardment. So we just left them to fight.” Reports of revolt within the be- sieged garrison ran the length of gov- ernment trenches. But the exchange of fire between insurgent groups in Santa Cristina and clinic hospitals was not resumed. It was believed the Santa Cristina unit wanted to surrender, but government troops could only guess at what was going on. REBELS REPORT ADVANCE. VITORIA, Spain, May 15 (®).— Swarming over and around forbidding heights that barred their path, the insurgent armies converging on Bilbao mile front. Dispatches to insurgent headquar- ters here said the northern wing had moved beyond Mounts Sollube and Jata and reached the outskirts of Munguia, 7 miles northeast of the Basque capital. The southern wing was reported to | have encircled Amorebieta, although a | Basque garrison clung tenaciously to that town, strategically situated in a valley 10 miles southeast of Bilbao. Jordon (Continued From First Page.) (The “third-degree stuff” referred to my work in the police brutality investigation during the Fall of 1931. My part of the job consisted of ob- taining statements from prisoners | who claimed to have been beaten by policemen. Jordon, then held with | Edith Dodsworth, a waitress, on a| charge of conspiracy to rob the T| Shoppe, was one of the prisoners I| interviewed. He denied having been abused by officers, however.) | I told Jordon that I didn’t see how i anybody familiar with the case could | believe anything but that he was: guilty. “After all.” I said, “you confessed, didn't you?” Explains Confession. “Yes, but—well, I did that on ac-| count of my sweetheart—the girl I planned to marry—to keep her !rom! being dragged into the case. When I| was arretsed in Mount Vernon, N. Y., in May, 1931, my first thought was to | get the cops away from there—away from the girl. I figured that if I con- | fessed I'd be brought back to Wash- | ington, leaving the girl safe in Mount | Vernon. Once back here, I thougnt, I could retract the confession and the police would have to let me go— T could go back to my restaurant job in Mount Vernon and get married.” “All right, let's assume for the moment that you are innocent—that your explanation for the confession is true. What do you think I can do | about it?” | Jordon extracted a cigarette from | his shirt pocket, rolled it thoughtfully between his fingers. Suggests Getting Copy of Record. “Well, T thought you might get a copy of the recordi—Whelan will give you one—and look it over. You'll see I made several confessions—all more or less different. 5 “Shucks, I'd made a oonfeasion when they had me the first time, in 1931, and they called me a liar. I figured they’d do the same thing this time—that they’d find my statements didn’t match the known facts in the case and wind up by letting me go. just as they did the first time. “Anyway, if you'll read the record, you'll find some stuff about the jury. Read it—read everything in the rec- ord, and see if you don’t agree with me that there are a number of things that ought to be looked into.” I said I would study a transcript of the court record of the case. A lay- man, I was left with considerable doubt as to whether the first-degree murder verdict was justified, in view of all the circumstances. Aside from the confession—which Jordon repudiated during the trial— there seemed to me to be little, if any, tangible evidence against the ar- cused man, and what little there was tended to show that the slaying was accidental. Statement of Juror. I was particularly impressed by a statement by Israel F. Goode, one of the jurors, that he had consented to the first-degree decision only to break & 24-hour deadlock. He made the statement during a hearing in Trial Justice F. Dickinson Letts’ chambers three days after the trial, at the same time expressing the opinion that sev- eral other members of the jury prob- ably would not have voted for frst- degree had they understood the (vurt's outline of the District law. As I had written The Star’s first account of the shooting I was familiar with part of the story. The shooting occurred on the night of April 3, 1931. Mrs. Jaynes, 57-year-old cashier of the Garden T Shoppe, 1835 Oolum- bia road, was shot by one of two ban- dits who held up the establishment and robbed it of $90. She did not realize she had been wounded, how- ever, until about two hours later, when one of her legs suddenly became numb as she was telling her husband, W. B. Jaynes, of the robbery. Exam- ination by a physician in the neigh- borhood revealed she had been ‘shot A | ter informing him of the incidental. | brown eyes. in the abdomen, and she was taken to Garfield Hospital, where she died on April 5. Looking up my old story of the shooting, I was surprised to note that I had quoted witnesses as describing both bandits as being “about 6 feet tall.” Jordon, I knew, was only about 5 feet 6 or 7. Checks Incidental on File. ‘To make sure I had not made a mis- take, I checked the incidental or file at police headquarters and found that the man who did the shooting had been described as having “gray eyes” | and “falr hair.” About this time, John M. Holzworth, former assistant district attorney for Westchester County, N. Y., entered the oase. He was sent to see me by Whelan, who had accepted his offer to act as | associate counsel. Holzworth said he had begun a can- vass of the jurors, and several of them had given him statements to the effect that they felt Jordon's sentence should | be commuted to one of life imprison- ment. He asked if I could suggest | anything further that he might do, and | I told him of the incidental. | “The incidental at police headquar- | ters,” I said, “Is merely a digest of a | longer one on file in the precinct in | which the murder occurred. The orig- | inal, written in ink by the officer who | responded to the shooting call, carries ‘ the names and addresses of all the | witnesses. I suggest that you look them | up and find out who gave the police the descriptions used in the inci- dental.” Meanwhile, the President had re- | fused a plea for executive clemency from Whelan, and I had started a let- Before I had completed it, however, Holzworth was back with a verbatim copy of the original incidental, which | he had found in the second precinct. | He also had a copy of Jordon’s official | record card, on file at the jail, showing | that the condemned man was 5 feet 61 inches tall and had black hair and Holsworth Writes Letter. On the basis of this matter, to- gether with the jurors’ statements, Holsworth decided that he would write to Mr. Roosevelt. The first draft of his letter contained charges against | the police and the United States at- torney's office—the same charges, in- cidentally, which Holzworth made last ‘Wednesday before the House District Committee. I advised against includ- ing such matter in a letter to the | President and it was removed. Holzworth's letter was delivered to the White House in person, and mine arrived by mail s day later. Both | were forwarded to the Justice De- partment, with instructions that the case be thoroughly investigated. And this investigation resulted on May 7 in the stay of execution from the President, who took time off from his | tarpon fishing in the Gulf of Mexico | to sign an order postponing Jordon’s | electrocution from May 14 (last Fri- day) to June 14. The purpose of the stay of execu- ‘> tion, it was understood, was to permit the Department of Justice to complete | its inquiry. Holzworth was discharged by Jordon | last Monday, with the explanation that the lawyer's charges against the police and the district attorney’s of- fice did not meet with the condemned man’s approval. Forcibly ejected from District Court when he at- tempted to protest against his dis- missal, Holsworth went to a session of the House committee, where he repeated his accusations. A subcommittee headed by Repre- sentative Palmisano, Democrat, of Maryland was appointed to hear Holz- ‘worth—and possibly other witnesses— ‘Tuesday, with instructions to report to the full committee the next day. It the subcommittee decides Holz- worth’s charges warrant investiga- tion, & public hearing will be held. Hope of Escaping Chair. Meanwhile, it appears that Jor- don’s only hope of escaping the death penalty lies with the President, the {that the one who did the shooting United States Court of Appe~ls hav- ing refused last Wednesday to grant him a new trial. Is Jordon guilty? I don't know. At first, even after the interview described earlier in this article, I was inclined to believe that he was. Then, after studying the record of his trial, I decided that I owed it to myself and my newspaper —if not to Jordon—to dig into the case as thoroughly as possible. The discovery of the incidental, however, convinced me that the ques- tion of Jordon’s guilt or innocence was far from settled—that there were many phases of the case that called for careful investigation by some such agency as the Department of Justice. It was for this reason that I joined PONTIAC Sixes & Eichts IMMEDIATE DELJVERY WE NEED USED CARS Flood Motor Co. Birest Fastory Dealer 4221 Connecticut Ave. Clev. 8400 Holzworth in reporting the finding of | the incidental to the White House. Points Against Jordon. Against Jordon are these points: 1. In 1931, several months after the killing, he and the Dodsworth woman admitted having talked of holding up the T Shoppe. 2. After the conspiracy to rob charges against Jordon and the waitress had been dropped, he went to Mount Vernon. Four years later —on May 5, 1935—Jordon addressed the following letter to United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett from the New York town: “Dear sir: About the fifteenth day | of August, 1931, I was arrested as, a suspect in the Garden T-Shoppe murder case. The grand jury did| not indict me, and I was free. “Since that time, I have tried to| stay out of trouble and have suc- ceeded. Now to the point of this: I am thinking of getting married and of course I have told the girl| the truth. The only cloud on my name is my past connection with that case. I would like to know if| there is any possibility of my going | through another investigation? I am | confident that it would not hurt| me, but i fairness to the girl, I| would like to know definitely whether or not T am through completely with that case. “Trusting that you will give me this information as soon as con- venient, I remain, THOMAS JORDON.” Garnett turned the letter over to | Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, who sent Detective Sergt. Robert J. Barrett to Mount Vernon. Assistant United States Attorney | Roger Robb—who subsequently prose- cuted the case—accompanied him. Jordon not only confessed, but waived | extradition. | 3. Jean Bierholm, the girl whom Jordon described as his sweetheart, testified that he told her he was in the T Shoppe, that “there was some trouble and some one shot.” 4. Other witnesses told the jury that two men participated in the robbery, was a “short man"” 5. When Jordon first appealed for | executive clemency, he did not deny he was involved in the hold-up, merely asserting that the evidence could not support a first-degree conviction, 6. While the original police inci- | dental obviously did not -correctly describe Jordon, a police incidental is | often obtained from highly excited | witnesses and in itself is not consid- ered of great importance, Points .in Jordon's Favor. In Jordon’s favor are these facts: 1. Jordon claims the conversation with the Dodsworth woman regarding the possibility of holding up the T Shoppe was not serious—not so far | as he was concerned, at any rate. | “I simply remarked that I was tired | of being broke, that I guessed I'd go out and stick up a bank,” He told me. “She said she knew something better ' A beautifully doéiqned instrument | filed by Holzworth recently in the | gorillas in captivity, had 15 grape- Judging from the smile of Miss Jeanette Bittner, a stenog- rapher in “real life” but a milkmaid for the cameraman, getting up early is no problem. The cow, like all cows, is understood to be solidly against earlier rising, probably out of sympathy for than that—the T Shoppe, where she had formerly worked. I'll bet a lot of people have made cracks like thas about robbing a bank.” 2. Jordon says he wrote to Garnett because he felt that it would be un- fair to marry the Bierholm girl with- out first making certain that their home would not be broken up at some later date by another arrest. 3. The Bierholm girl testified she had asked Jordon not to involve her in the case, and he had promised not to do so. 4. Three policemen—T. F. Heide, F. J. Haack and M. J. Mahaney, the latter a detective sergeant—told the Department of Justice during the cur- rent inquiry, according to papers United States Court of Appeals, that Mrs. Jaynes and other witnesses gave the descriptions of the bandits carried in the incidental. In addition, Mrs. Frank Bell, a friend of the slain woman, declared Mrs. Jaynes told her immediately after the shooting that the gunman was | about 6 feet tall and had gray eyes and light hair. Mrs. Jaynes backed the description, Mrs. Bell said, by explaining that the man who did the shooting had lunched in the T Shoppe on the afternoon of the hold-up. | 5. George L. Goodacre, Jordon's em- ployer at the time of the robbery, told me: “Tommy couldn't possibly have vis- ited the T Shoppe on the afternoon of the hold-up, He was on duty then—working from 7 am. to 7 p.m. He was always a good boy, anyway, and I can't believe he could have been | mixed up in anything like that.” 6. One other juror besides Goode— | a man who requested that his name be withheld from publication—told me that he would not have voted | for a first-degree verdict had he | understood Justice Letts’ charge to the jury. With Goode, he urged that the sentence be commuted. Jordan has sworn—to me, to Whelan and to others—that he is| innocent, but—well, I'm neither a judge nor a jury, and it is not for me to decide. Gorillas Heavy Eaters. SAN DIEGO (#).—Mbongo and Ingagi, the only pair of mountain fruit each for breakfast today, and then sat back to await their mid- morning meal at the zoo. Ingag: weighs 398 pounds and Mbongo a mere 345. 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Miss Evans was educated at New York University, where she studied art and educational psychology. She was engaged in the interior decorating business and lectured on art and architecture in St. Louis before as- suming her present post. She has traveled throughout the country in | the interests of the federation. MINE OF GERMAN MAKE REPORTED OFF ALMERIA By the Associated Press. VALENCIA, Spain, May 15—The | ministry of marine tonight announced the discovery of a mine “of German | manufacture” off the Port of Almeria Ben Denis, Georgetown University medical student, couldn’t stop yawning long enough to tell what he thinks about it. It appears, how- ever, that he would choose capital punishment. —Star Staff Photos. Letter Can Find Longitude and Latitude Address) Boston Postmaster Needs Geodetic Survey However. B the Assoctated Press. 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