Evening Star Newspaper, June 11, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (0 8. Weather Burea Fair and continued c morrow fair and slowly ture: gentle north winds. today—Highest, 69, at 2 at 5 am. Full report on page A-20. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 18 85th YEAR. No. 34,009. u Forecast.) 0ol tonight: to. rising tempera- ‘Temperatures p.m.; lowest, 58, Entered as tecond class matter post office, Washington. D. C. ah WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 11, BETHLEHEM STRIKE CALL ISSUED AS UNIONS STOP MASS MARCH ON MONROE Deputies Patrol Plant After Reopening. 20 ARE HURT | IN STEEL RIOT Meeting to Protest Pickets’ Routing Is Called. BACKGROUND— | Committee for Industrial Or- ganization began steel drive in \ May after successfully negotiating agreements with United States Steel units. Strikes were called against three independent hold- outs—Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Inland. More than 70,000 men were thrown out of | work.' Eight men were killed in riots. Republic's plant at Monroe, Mich., defied strikers, announced it would reopen. City mobilized spe- cial police to protect workers and union drew lines to resist. By the Assoctated Press. Republic Steel Corp. resumed opera- fions in its focal Monroe, Mich,, plant foday in the wake of a tear gas attack, t union officials spread their strike kall to & unit of Bethlehem Steel Corp., therto unaffected by the most ex- tensive steel strike in the Nation's Rustory. A projected mass movement on Monroe by C. I. O. workers was called off, but Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers of Amer- , announced & “gigantic mass will be held in Monroe Sun- fday atternoon to protest the forcible preaking of the union picket lines there. In Columbus, Ohio, union and ‘hnmpmy officials gathered for a joint onference called by Gov. Martin L avey in an effort to avert “prevent- f bloodshed”; new repercussions of the union's food . blocksde against Brike-besieged mills were heard. In Cleveland a Federal court took ‘lndfl advisement a petition by three Failroads which sought to enjoin the ‘steel workers' Organizing Committee @nd its pickets from interfering with Speration of trains into steel plants. {Onion pickets have sought to thwart fmovement of food into the plants $hrough stoppage of trains. Plane Reported Fired On. ‘The pilot of a plane bearing food 4o one of Republic Steel's piants re- ported he was fired upon by an as- sailant in a moving motor car. The steel workers’ Organizing Com- Mnittee called a strike for 11 pm. 4E.8.T.) in the huge Johnstown, Pa., | Cambria mill of Bethlehem Steel mi dolster a walkout on a Bethlehem subsidiary railroad. David Watkins, 8. W. O. C. sub- fregional director, estimated 12,000 of | the 15,000 employes in the mill would e affected by the strike order. Other plants of Bethlehem, which has re- Sused to sign a C. 1. O. contract and §s generally believed to be next on the Wohn L. Lewis union's list, were not pflected by the order. The strike call came even as the . W. O. C. was celebrating a decisive exclusive bargaining agency election ¥ote among nearly 6,000 workers of the Ppittsburgh Steel Corp. at two plants pear Pittsburgh. C. L. 0. Win in Voting. ‘The Lewis union received a 90 r cent margin of all votes cast— 278 yes and 645 no—the greatest ballot margin in its voung history. | A two-to-one majority among 27,000 | employes of Jones & Laughlin Corp. | nd a slightly greater margin among .500 employes of the Sharon Steel Corp. at Sharon, Pa.,, and Lowellville, | Ohio, had been recorded earlier. C. W. Ellicott, general manager of | thlehem's Cambria mill, who said | heard “indirectly” that & strike | ight be called tonight in the entire | lant, disputed union claims as to | Bflectiveness of the railroad strike. | He said the road, the Conemaugh | nd Black, “was carrying on the same | ms last night or any other night” and | fhat the majority of the men were at | their positions. C. W. Jones, vice | president of the Brotherhood of Rail- | road Trainmen, claimed on the other | hand that all but “one or two” locomo- | Lives had ceased operations after the company's refusal to sign a contract. | The other railroad union involved 35 the Brotherhood of Locomotive | firemen and Eng.nemen. | Organizer Arrested. Swift maneuvers came on other | Bronts as Robert Burke, youthful C. I. D. organizer who a year ago was ex- Yelled from Columbia University after rticipating in an anti-Fascist dem- nstration before the home of Colum- ia’s president, Dr. Nicholas Murray (See MONROE, Page A-4.) JAPAN'S ARMY ASKS OVER HALF BUDGET Hearly $500,000,000 Sought for Military Expenditures for Next Year. B the Associated Press. ‘TOKIO, June 11.—To offset mount- | fng armaments in the Soviet Union | and China, the Japanese Army intends to ask 900,000,000 yen ($258,430,500) and the Navy 800,000,000 yen ($229,- 716,000) under the 1938 budget, it was disclosed today. ‘These requests would represent more than half of the next budget, as com- pared to the Boviet's 20 per cent, Britain's 21 per cent, Italy’s 23 per cent and France's 30 per cent, HEIRESS' KIN ASK 0Probe of Mail Interference And Steel Companies Voted| First Assistant Postmaster General Howes shown testifying fi)‘da before the Senate Post O e liveries of food to strike-bound epartment’s action in refusing to handle “abnormal” de- fice Committee as he defended steel plants. —A. P. Photo. BACKGROUND— Attempting to break strike by keeping workers domiciled within plant, Republican Steel Co. sought to suppiy jood by special mail de- livery. Post Ofice Department last week ruled it would not extend “irregu- lar” service to the steel plant on grounds that such action would constitute taking sides in ghdis-~ trial dispute, By the Associated Press. The Senate Post Office Committee voted today a broad preliminary in- quiry of charges of interference with the mails in steel strikes and of the activities of the steel companies. Without acting formally either on | the Bridges resolution for an inquiry | into the mail situation or the Guffey | amendment to include activities of | the steel companies, the committee | voted to call witnesses on both points. The action was taken on a motion by Senator Holt, Democrat, of West | & @ Virginia, despite a protest by Senator Bridges, Republican, of New Hamp- shire, that he had presented a prima facle case of mail interference that warranted a formal investigation. Chairman McKellar insisted, how- ever, that before voting o nthe resolu- tion the committee should call prin- cipals mentioned in testimony toda: that post office officials in Niles, | Ohio, had an understanding with union representatives not to accept mail for the Republic Steel Corp. plant there. Witnesses to Be Called. It was agreed by the committee, before voting, that Senator Guffey, Democrat of Pennsylvania, would be permitted to offer witnesses in sup- port of his amendment for an investi- gation of the importation of gunmen a8 strike breakers by the steel com- panies and the storing of arms by the | companies. | Benator Bailey, Democrat of North | Carolina, asked that the Guffey amendmnet be broadened to include ion of labor con- | TOAID HER ALONE Conference in House and Dash Away in Taxi In- cate Contact. BACKGROUND— Mrs. Alice McDonell Parsons, 38, of well-to-do family and lsted in New York Social Register, dis- appeared Wednesday. She and hus- band operated squad farm, lived modestly. Kidnapers may have known Mrs. Parsons expected to in- herit about $104,000, had several relatives able to raise $25.,000 de- manded in ransom note. Late Col. T. S. Willlams, former president ©of Brooklyn Rapid Transit, was an uncle. By the Assoctated Press, STONY BROOK, N. Y., June 11.— In an atmosphere of increasing ten- sion, the husband and wealthy rela- tives of Mrs. Alice McDonell Parsons, socially prominent Long Island heir- ess, made a new plea today to be left alone in their efforts to contact supposed kidnapers of the 38-year- old matron. The request was voiced by Roy Mc- Donell, brother of the woman missing since Wednesday forenoon. “We would appreciate it if you would stay away entirely,” he told a Brookhaven township policeman who dropped in at the white Colonial home on Gould road at dawn. “After all, we are still hoping to make some contact.” A report this contact has been estab- lished gained ground later when s sedan, in rervice as a local taxicab, swung into the driveway of the Par- sons place, The driver conferred briefly with somebody inside the house. Then a man emerged from the house, jumped into a sedan and was driven away at high speed, the taxi- cab foliowing closely. Otherwise there were few signs of activity around the farm. Rain fell drearily, drenching the lawn and the dense woods of the rolling North Shore countryside. Two_miles away in Stony Brook Record Heat Hits Germany. BERLIN, June 11 (#).—All Germany sweltered today in the hottest weather in 80 years. The temperature in Berlin BILL WOULD BOOST ROOSEVELT POWER U. S. Reorganization Plan Gives Congress Only Veto Authority. BACKGROUND— President Roosevelt early this vear proposed ertensive reorgani- 2ation of Federal Government agencies. His recommendations dealt with reorganization, consoli- dation or elimination of certain ex- ist1:g agencies, extension of the civil service, an increased White House secretariat and other points. Since holding joint hearings, spe- cial House and Senate Reorganisa- tion Committees have been working separately on program during last several days. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. President Roosevelt'’s omnibus re- organization bill, submitted yesterday by Senate Leader Robinson to an ex- ecutive session of the Joint Committee | on Government Organization, contains | “unlimited authority” for the Presi- dent to regroup, consolidate, reorgan- | | ize, segregate and abolish Government | agencies, with Congress having only | veto power to disapprove such orders | within 60 days, Senate members of the committee pointed out today. Their | opinions were learned as the confiden- tial printing of the measure was | started. The bill constitutes the third draft| of the President's reorganization pro- gram to be submitted to Congress with the general purpose of reducing gov- ernmental expenditures as far as is consistent with efficient operation of the Government. While the bill, according to Sen- ator Robinson, is an effort to meet some of the objections raised against the two earlier bills during hearings of the joint committee, some Senators are said to feel it still contains sev- eral of the reorganization proposals which Congress seems determined to balk. The proposed abolition of the General Accounting Office and the Controller General's Office, at pres- ent agents of Congress, and their re- placement by an agency which would be headed by an auditor general, un- der control of the Executive, is said to be a case in point. The President’s bill specifically states that office would be an agency of Congress independent of the exec- utive branch, but the controller gen- eral would be appointed by the Pres- was 97 degrees, the hottest June day 10! 1857, ; ident and would have only post-audit (Bee 'TION, hi ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION TRADE GROSS TAX MAY BE $500000 BOARD ESTINATES Business Men Fear Levy Would Be Confiscatory to Certain Types. FLAT RATE ASSAILED AS UNFAIR IN EFFECT Data Gathered to Be Made Avail- able to Congress Groups Discussing Bill. BACKGROUND— Necessity for raising more than 46,000,000 in additiona! revenue appeared when House adopted 1938 District budget, limiting Federal payment to $5,000,000. Tommis- sioners submitted proposed levies to cover mneeds, but program was ordered revised as battled devel- Oped over sales tax measure. Cone fusion has been created by haste and lack of accurate data in past as to estimates of probable returns Irom gross receipts levy. BY DON S. WARREN. Injecting a new angle into the muddled District tax situation, the Washington Board of Trade today re- leased data indicating the proposed gross receipts tax would produce more than $6,000,000 in new revenues, dou- ble the amount previously estimated by congressional advisers, and that the tax would probably prove confis- catory to certain types of small busi- nesses. The effect would be to swell the stream of District revenues to a sum exceeding the 1938 budget needs by | several million dollars, if Congress adopted all the series of other new levies proposed to be imposed on the District taxpayer. The trade body went on to assert the gross receipts levy would prove un- workable, inequitable in effect and probably confiscatory, as now drawn, primarily due to the flat rate planned. The data, gathered by the Board of Trade in lengthy study, will be made available to congressional committees during consideration of the omnibus tax bill, now before the House. If the House District Committee finds it cannot call public hearings on the | bill, because of lack of time, the trade body 1s expected to submit the materi- al to members of the Senate, Base May Exceed Billion. In sharp contrast to previous es- timates made for the House District Subcommittee in charge of the omni- bus tax bill, the trade body estimates that the gross receipts upon which the levy would be applied would ex- ceed $1,000,000,000. Application of the proposed flat rate of three-fifths of 1 per cent to such a base would pro- duce $6,000,000. The trade body based its estimates on figures compiled by the United duce Census Bureau in connection with its census of business for the year 1935. It found that the total of certain specific classes of business, retail and wholesale, and manufacturing, mount- ed to $721,968,052. It emphasized that | even this huge figure did not include the receipts of quite a number of profit-making institutions not con- sidered in the census studies. The trade body estimate of the gross receipts was boosted above the billion- dollar figure due in large part to con- crete evidences that business in the | District today is much better than it Was in 1935. The trade body esti- mated the expansion of business to be as much as 15 per cent. Twice Previous Estimates. These figures of the base upon which the proposed privilege tax would be levied are more than twice the sum used by District officials when they were directed by the House District Subcommittee to make a (See TAXES, Page A-9.) Page | Amusements A-14 | Radio Editorials ._A-10 | Society Financial __A-17| Sports Lost & Found A-3 | Woman’s Pg..C- Obituary -__A-12 | FOREIGN. TFrance offers bid for new Locarno pact. Page A-2 | Carlo Roselli, Duce foe, found slain in France. Page A-4 NATIONAL. Victim is made one-sided by disease of brain. Page A-1 Howes defends Post Office Department against charges. Page A-1 ‘Wage-hour bill opposed by representa- tive of publishers. Page A-1 Heiress’ relatives again ask to be alone in kidnap dealings. Page A-1 President signs resolution for tax- evasion inquiry. Page A-1 Miami girl killed, mother dying as re- sult of highway crash. Page A-2 More industry spokesmen to be heard on wage-hour bill. Page A-2 Cooper has 34 on first nine in U. 8. open. Page A-2 $194,328,363 bill reported for War De- partment projects. Page A-3 Amelia Earhart resumes flight over African wastes. Page A-9 Roosevelt's merchant marine message praised by shipping men. Page B-20 | WASHINGTON AND NEARBY. Jordon's sentence commuted to life im- prisonment by President, Page A-1 President to spend week end fishing in Chesapeake. Page A-2 Showdown due today in Senate com- mittee on relief bill. Page A-4 Archbishop Curley announces priest assignment changes, Page A-2 Physician at Occoquan for 27 years dies at hospital, Page A-12 Hugh L. Kerwin, labor conciliator, dies suddenly. Page A-13 PFive-cent increase in taxicab fare to be proposed. Page A-20 ToGET q Star 1937—FIFTY- TWO PAGES. ##% E Bl EEZ- V:Vnc. THE CONSTITUTioN HIM NV FRANCE PROPOSES SPAIN MEDIATION Three-Point Program Offers Prospect of Reich, Italy Return to Patrol. | Br the Associated Press. | PARIS, June 11.—France officially | drafted a three-point program em- bracing proposed mediation of the Spanish war today, with prospects apparently bright for the return of Germany and Italy to European non- intervention activity. The program, which will be pro- posed when Germany and Italy again send their representatives back to the council tdble of the European Non- Intervention Committee in London: 1. Reinforcement of the control plan which has as its purpose the barring of foreign arms and men from Spain. 2. Withdrawal of all foreign volun- teers now in Spain. 3. Meditation between the Spanish government and the insurgents. Germany and Italy withdrew from active non-intervention work because one warship of each country, assigned to a neutrality patrol of Spain, was bombed by Spanish government planes. Germany’s warships shelled the Span- ish government port of Almeria in reprisal. Now, a French foreign office spokesman said, & new non-interven- | tion agreement to guarantee the safety | of patrol warships is virtually com- pleted, and Germany and Italy may return to the fold as early as to- morrow. Original plans for the retirement of foreign volunteers from Spain and (See LOCARN SALVATION ARMY LOSES JAPANESE OFFICERS | B the Associated Press. TOKIO, June 11 (#).—More than | one-fourth of the officers of the Sal- | vation Army in Japan withdrew from the organization today and formed a rival army with the avowed intention of purging ranks of British influence. The seceding officers—113 out of 400—issued a manifesto urging all | members of the army in Japan to join the new organization. They | charged the London headquarters of the army dominated the Japanese branch. Today’s Star Fight on economy by A. F. G. E. “rebel” lodges pressed. Page B-1 D. C. Wage Board to begin drafting regulations soon. Pagé B-1 Woman, 75, found hanged in Sixteenth street rooming house. Page B-1 Largest wheat crop in six years is predicted. Page B-5 SPORTS. Small field but plenty of class in | _Star’s marathon. Page C-1 | Braddock, fit, 15 coasting along for title | defense. Page C-1 | Snead, Hiness lead in open golf, but amateurs press. Page C-2 Mid-Atlantic tourney seen as main 1937 event here. Page C-2 Almada held to give Nats edge in big deal with Bosox. Page C-3 FINANCIAL. Bonds hesitant (table), ‘Weather helps trade. | D. C. store sales lag. Page A-18 Stocks go down (table). Page A-18 Curb specialties ease (table). Page A-19 Freight loadings slump. Page A-19 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 This and That. Page A-10 Political Mill. Page A-10 Washington Observations. Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Page A-10 David Lawrence. Page A-11 | H. R. Baukhage. Page A-11 Dorothy Thompson. Page A-11 Constantine Brown, Page A-11 Lemuel Parton. Page A-11 | MISCELLANY, Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Shipping News. Young Washington. City News in Brief. Winning Contract. Vital Statistics, Cross-word Puzzle. Nature's Children. Bedtime Story. Letter-Out. Page A-17 Page A-17 | | | | | Page C-4 Page C-4 Page C-5 Page C-5 Page C-5 Page C-5 Page C-5 Page C-10 Page C-10 Page C-11 K Dog Is “Suicide” Grieving Over Boy Killed by Auto By the Assoctated Press. PERRY, N. Y., June 11—Two weeks ago an automobile killed 10-year-old William Davis as he started, across a street here. William's dog, Jack, walking close behind the boy, escaped in- jury. Since his master's death, neighbors said, it had been al- most impossible to coax Jack away from the scene of the ac- cident. Today, Jack trotted listlessly out into the road. A car struck and killed him almost at the same spot where Willlam died. 6 RED GENERALS FACE FIRING SQUAD 'Soviet Claims All Plead Guilty to Plot With For- eign Power. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, June 11.—Eight once- trusted red army generals were called to secret trial today as acknowledged | traitors to Soviet Russia, conspirators | with an enemy power. They face swift execution without official communique said every one had pleaded guilty, A military tribunal heard them be- | hind locked doors at a secret meeting place, and the Russian press called Who schemed to wrest the soil from the peasants and the factories from the workers. The trial, the third great treason case in less than a year, differed from the others in that the generals were not accused of “Trotskyism.” The panel of defendants does not | include all commanders known to have and Kusmichefl, are known to have been imprisoned since August, 1936, and it is believed there may be others. Most conspicuous of those summoned to trial today was Marshal Michail Nikolaevitch Tukhachevsky, one of the | five marshals of the Red Army. He Was vice commissar of war until last May 11, and was banished from com- mand of the Volga Military Garrison only day before yesterday. Besides Marshal Tukhachevsky, the accused are: Gen. V., M. Primakoff of the Khar- koff Military Garrison. Gen. Kazimirovitch V. Punta, for- mer military attache in London. Gen. A. I. Kork, former comman- 'dant of the Frunze Military Academy, the Soviet “West Point.” Gen. I. E. Yakir, commander of the Leningrad District Garrison. Gen. I. P. Uborevitch, commander of the Red Army in White Russia. Gen. Robert P. Eideman, former head of the training division for army reservists and civilians in aviation and gas defense. Gen. B. M. Feldman, chief of the | personnel section of the general staff. Electrocuted for Assault. MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 11 (#). —Roosevelt Collins, diminutive colored man, was electrocuted in Kilby Prison early today for an assault upon a white rural housewife during racial disturbances near Anniston, in North Alabama. ‘| BACKGROUND— the right of appeal, under the law. An | them “black traitorious, Fascist sples,” | been arrested. Two generals, Schmidt’ The only Associated (Some return: 4 Means Associated ROOSEVELT SIGNS TAX INQUIRY BILL Authorizes Probe as Fish Suggests Scrutiny of Pres- ident’s Return. When tax returns of last March fell Dbelow estimates, President Roosevelt asked Government de- partments to curb erpenditures wherever possible. Later he placed blame for disap- pointing revenue returns upon wealthy tax dodgers, requested con- gressional inquiry and legislation to close loopholes. EY the Assoclated Press. President Roosevelt signed today s resolution authorizing a broad con- gressional inquiry into tax-dodging. The investigation will be conducted by a joint congressional committee of six Senators and six Representatives yet to be named. It will have au- thority, on majority vote, to make public many secrets of wealthy tax- payers who the administration charges are evading and avoiding payments. At about the same time the Presi- |.dent signed the resolution Represent- ative Pish, Republican, of New York, suggested on the House floor that the committee should look into the in- come tax return of President Roose- velt. Fish said he had been “informed on | reliable authority” that Mr. Roosevelt had deducted the losses on “his so- called farm at Hyde Park, in my dis- trict, which isn’t a farm, but a palatial | residence.” Fish sald if the committee was going to investigate any one, “I suggest it investigate him.” Spoke During Debate. Fish spoke during debate on a bill to extend “nuisance” taxes and the 3-cent postage rate. He did not amplify his remarks to any extent. The forthcoming inquiry was planned to disclose information about tax-dodging which could be used by Congress in plugging leaks in the pres- ent tax laws. | A closely guarded list of wealthy | persons charged with tax avoidances | will be submitted to the joint congres- sional committee next week by the | Treasury Department, it was learned today. Prepared by the department, the list is said to contain the names of persons prominent in the business and | | financial world, as well as holding | places in the social register. The investigating committee will de- cide whether to make public individual tax cases. When names are disclosed, the individuals are expected to be called for testimony. Joint Committee Probe. ‘The investigation—expected by con- gressional veterans to be one of the most sensational in years—will be the first within recent times conducted by | a joint committee. The Senate gave its approval to the resolution yesterday after a brief flurry of debate in which Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho ques- tioned the delegation of power to make income tax returns public. Approval was given, without even a record vote, when Borah finally said | he was satisfled with the explanation given by Chairman Harrison of the Senate PFinance Committee and Sen- ator Barkley, Democrat, of Kentucky. Harrison, asking acceptance of the House amendments, said he had no doubt “the full sunlight of publicity” would be thrown on those who have | used the methods cited by the Presi- dent. | Changedto Sm “Good-by, because I may not see you again,” Thomas Jordon told & Star reporter early this afternoon before he returned to his cell in District Jail's death row. Jordon was thinking of his sched- uled electrocution Monday for the slaying of Mrs. Lizzie S. Jaynes. A moment after leaving the con- demned man the reporter received telephone call. The death sentence had ben commuted. A guard was in- formed. Five minutes later Jordon ran from his cell to see the reporter again. The troubled look of uncertainty on Jor- don's face had given way to & broad but half serious smile. “I'm tickled to death,” he said, “and -11\3g giad the strain i over. Now I'm Jordon’s Farewell to Re porter iles, Life Spared looking with my tongue in my cheek for future developments. “This confirms the faith I have had all along that justice would be done. | I hope the way will be paved to give | me another day in court.” Jordon looked around a tiny inter- view room in the basement of the jail and then exclaimed: “Say, I can get up and down to the fourth floor now and get some exercise. 1 measured off my cell, and its 19 paces each way. That's all the emereies I have gotten since I've boen here.” Jordon also express#d his apprecia- tlon of the investigation that Daniel M. Lyons, Departmelit of Justice pa- | role officer, and other authorities had in Washington wit evening paper Eathe Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 137,908 s ‘.0t yet received.) P TWO CENTS. JORDON- ESCAPES DEATH; SENTENCE CUT TOLIFE TERM President Acts to Save Man Convicted of Mrs, Jaynes’ Death. REPORTER’S DISCOVERY CAUSED CASE REOPENING Discrepancy in Description as Given by Police Cited—Slated to Die Monday. President Roosevelt, on advice of At torney General Cummings, today coms= muted to life imprisonment the death sentence imposed on Thomas Jordon, 36-year-old busboy, for the hold-up slaying in 1931 of Mrs. Lizzie Jaynes, restaurant cashier. Jordon, due to die in the electric chair at the District jail next Monday morning, expressed his delight whea notified of the President’s action. Mr. Roosevel; agreed with his Attore ney General that new evidence, tende ing to throw doubt on Jordon's identie fication as the murdered, entitled the oft-reprieved prisoner to commutation, Reporter Found Discrepancy. A police incidental, discovered by Philip H. Love, a Star reporter, led to reopening of the case by the Justice Department. The incidental quoted Mrs. Jaynes as describing her two as- sailants as men 6 feet tall, whereas Jordon is 5 feet 6! inches in height. The original police report also said the man who fired the fatal shot had gray eyes and fair hair. Jordon's eyes and hair are black. Cummings’ report, consisting of 31 pages of typewritten copy, was com- pleted just before noon today and was rushed to the White House by special messenger. The report was laid im- mediately before the President, who read it without delay and approved it formally. The President issued no public statement beyond the bare announce~ ment of the commutation. He was thoroughly familiar with the backe ground of the case, having given it considerable study prior to & de- cision several weeks ago to dery clemency to Jordon. A few days later Love found the police incie dental that prompted reconsidera~ tion of the case. New Evidence Barred. Executive action was the only ave- nue of escape open to Jordon, as court laws precluded use of the new evidence as a basis for an appeal to the courts for a new trial. Under existing laws, new evidence must be produced within 60 days of passing of sentence. Harry T. Whelan, attorney for Jor- don. has asked Cummings to recome mend legislation to permit introduce tion of such evidence in capitsl cases At any time up to execution time. The Attorney General is giving serious consideration to this suggestion. John M. Holzworth, whom Jordon recently repudiated as associate ate torney, was waiting at the Justice Department for the expected an- nouncement. Despite Jordon’s renun- ciation, Holzworth has continued to interest himself In the case, charging local authorities with suppressing evi- dence. Replies to Husband. A few minutes before he received word of the commutation Jordon had completed a statement in reply to William B. Jaynes, 72, of 1318 New Hampshire avenue, husband. of the Garden T Shoppe cashier for.whose murder Jordon was convicted. “Jaynes is convinced ‘I am the man,” Jordon said. “There were about 200 men and boys picked up all over town in connection with this case. I was convicted on purely cir- cumstantial evidence theb. does not conform with facts since revealed in this case. “I want to be given another oppore tunity through legal channels to es= tablish my innocence and win my free= dom—an opportunity which the evis dence shows I am due—or else face death in the electric chair for a crime I did not commit. “Mr. Jaynes said he would ‘bust things wide open' if I were granted cleme'ncy. Why does he wait until this late date to say that? If he has ine formation in this case he should go with it to the Department of Justice instead of the Police Department, which now has no further authority, Discusses Description. “I am not afraid of anything come ing out that will hurt me as long as it is the truth. If Mr. Jaynes or any one else has any evidence it should be disclosed. “Mr. Jaynes is quoted as saying the ‘correct description’ of the man who shot his wife was received later' by police. Where is this ‘correct’ descrip- tion? There was no description at all until the original was discovered recently, and that proves my ine nocence.” Jordon denies he ever asked Jaynes to visit him at police headquarters. “That meeting between us was are ranged by Detective Sergt. Bob Bare rett at his own suggestion,” Jordon concluded. Before the commutatiop was an- nounced, Jaynes had expressed bitter- ness at the prospect of clemency for the condemned man. Jaynes voiced vigorous opposition to any move for commutation during a long talk yesterday with Capt. Ira A. Keck, assistant chief of detectives. Capt. Keck sald Jaynes is con- vinced ‘Jordon was the man whose shot killed his wife. “Why should Jordon get reprieves?* Jaynes was quoted as saying. “He didn’t show my wife any mercy.” Jordon had been reprieved six times. Capt. Keck said Jaynes told him he is against any “compromise” in Jore don's case, because .ae believes he s either guilty or not guilty. “Mr. Jaynes said he thinks Jordon should be either executed or freed en- ," Keck said. nes has been a frequent visitor to pdlice headquarters since the cone victiof Jordon. He has opposed made in the case. . N consistglly any leniency toward the A