Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Partly cloudy, not quite so warm to- night; tomorrow, fair; gentle north winds, becoming variable. Temperatures today— Highest, 85, at 2 p.m.; lowest, 67, at midnight. Full report on page A-7. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 20 85th YEAR. No. Electric Firm Riot Ended by Police. OFFICERS QUIT IN GAS DISPUTE| Pickets Club Foes.| One Stabbed at Ambridge, Pa. BACKGROUND— United States strike wave began last Fall. Automobile strike was fol- lowed by rapid rise of John L. Lewis' dominant Committee for In- dustrial Organization. C. I. O. then announced drive on steel. En- couraged by signing of coitracts with United States Steel, union called strike May 25 against three independent producers, Republic, Youngstoun Sheet & Tube and In- land; last week extended it to Beth- lehem, second largest steel producer in United States. Also carried or- ganizing activitics into other in- dustries., BULLETIN. CLEVELAND, June 15 () — The Fisher Body plant of General Motors Corp. here, employing 6,- 500 men, posted a notice today announcing it would shut down tonight “until further notice.” Company officials said they were unable immediately to amplify the posted notice. Two strikes have been held at the plant this year. By the A ted Press. AMBRIDGE, Pa, June 15--Five hundred striking members of John L. Lewis’ electrical union beat back an attempt today of American Federa- tion of Labor Union men to enter | the picket-closed plant of the Na- tional Electric Products Co. One man was stabbed and approx- imately a score of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers members were clubbed 50 feet from the main gates of the plant. A hospital reported Joseph Qual- lick of Pittsburgh was brought in with a serious stab wound in the chest. None of the other injured re- quired hospital attention. More than 100 girls and women cheered on the battling strikers, mem- bers of the United Electrical and Radio Workers, a Committee for Industrial Organization affiliate. Police broke up the riot with tear gas “We're going to work,” chanted the 50 brotherhood workers as they marched two abreast toward the plant entrance. Each man carried a din- ner pail. Work Brigade Retreats. A mass of strikers blocked their way. Then clubs, fists and dinner pails beat | upon heads and the back-to-work‘ brigade broke in retreat. Police shot tear-gas shells into the demonstrators, men and women scat- tered. Sporadic skirmishes continued for a | few minutes, then Morris Mallinger, | C. 1. O. organizer, quickly reformed the | picket lines and order was restored. Burgess P. M. Paul hurried in a| truck to the scene of the riot and took | all tear-gas equipment from police. Chief of Police Richard O'Neil and three of the patrolmen promptly re- | signed. Mallinger told a mass meeting of | 3.000 persons who gathered in the wake of the battle that his union had been promised police protection and that borough officials had not kept their promise. He exonerated Burgess Paul of | blame for the tear-gas attack and said | he would ask Gov. George H. Earle to | send State police to the strike area. Claim Wagner Act Violated. The strike, affecting 1,900 workers, | was called more than 10 days ago by United Electrical and Radio Workers. In complaints to the National Labor | Relations Board the union charged | of | Electrical Workers and the company | the International Brotherhood had signed an agreement on wages and working conditions when the A. P. of L. affiliate did not have a majority of employes as members. This, it claimed, was a violation of the Wagner act. At a conference Saturday with the Labor Board the C. I. O. affiliate refused to call off the strike. Neil C. Lamont, plant manager, yesterday urged all employes to re- turn to work today. BARRYMORE’S EX-WIFE IS ORDERED TO COURT B the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 15.—Elaine Barrie Barrymore has been ordered to appear in Superior Court next Monday to show cause why she should not be enjoined from appearing in a movie “How to Undress in Front of Your Husband.” B. K. Nadel, who also named Duane Esper, film producer, in the petition filed yesterday, claimed Sherrill C. Cohen had copyrighted the title and had given him the exclusive right to its use in this country. Miss Barrie, divorced wife of John Barrymore, is using the name Elaine Barrymore in personal appearances at theaters. Glacier Park Roads Damaged. GLACIER PARK, Mont, June 15 (#)—E. T. Scoyen, superintendent of Glacler National Park, said today heavy rains in the last few days had done $30,000 damage to roads, trails and bridges. ( 34,013. | tween Bilbao defenders and advanc- Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 15 1937—FORTY- C. I. 0. STRIKERS BATTLE A. F. L. WORKERS TRYING TO OPEN CLOSED PLANT “Pennsy” Track Is Dynamited Three Lines Ordered by Court Not to Try Further Entries. By the Associated Press. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., June 15.—Strike violence—the violence of guns, bombs and skull-drumming riot sticks—burst afresh today on the steel strike front. At Warren, Ohio, steel moved from the Republic steel plant for the first time in three weeks. Under the guard of railroad police 35 carloads of raw materials were shunted into the mill | and 35 carloads of steel went out. No effort was made at the picketed | gates to restrain the train movements. i Later, however, the Pennsylvania Rail- | road said that an hour after the re-! moval of the cars, 80 feet of track on | the Ashtabula-Niles branch of the railroad was dynamited. | Subsequently, Judge Lynn B. Griffith in Common Pleas Court at Warren ordered the Baltimore & Ohio, Erie and Pennsylvania Railroads not to| move further cars in or out of Republic | steel plants at Warren or Niles. Judge Griffin said the order would | remain in effect until he concludes & | hearing on Republic’s petition for an | injunction to curtail picketing at the | two plants. | Meanwhile, here in historic Cone- - After Cars Move Republic Steel Republic Asks Court To Make P. O. Take Packages to Plants Republic Steel Corp. today sought an order from the District Court directing postal officials to accept parcel post packages con- signed to workers in its strike- besieged Warren and Niles, Ohio, steel mills. The court was asked to issue a writ of mandamus against Post- master General Farley. Refusals of postmasters to ac- cept packages thought to contain food for the workers inside the picket lines have precipitated bit- ter comment by steel officials and a Senate investigation. The suit asked that the Post Office Department withdraw statements said to have been made by Deputy First Assistant Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson last week to news- paper men that food consigned by parcel post to steel workers was considered “irregular mail.” maugh Valley—scene of the great flood of 1889—hate and fear boiled to the top as hard-fisted steel workers and strikers battled over the right to return to work. The strike center (See STEEL, Page A-5) BRITISH CONSUL SAVED UNDER FIRE Landing Party of Sailors | Braves Bilbao Shooting to Make Rescue. BACKGROUND— Intensive three-week siege of Bilbao finds insurgent forces of Gen. Francisco Franco knocking at the gates of Basque capital and key city to northern ports. “Iron ring” defense of Loyalists has been broken and Gen. Fidel Davilla, who took over command when Gen. Emilo Mola was killed in plane crash, is | mow forcing an iron belt around | the besieged city. | Bs the Associated Press. A SAINT - JEAN - DE - LUZ, France, | ! June 15.—A landing party of British sailors rescued the British Consul, R. | C. Stevenson, from Bilbao under a | hail of fire today. | The sailors, with bullets whistling all | about them, landed from a warship outside the besieged Basque capital, | escorted the Consul aboard and brought him to this French port. British officials made it plain they | did not consider the landing party was under direct attack, but, instead, was caught in the line of general fire be- ing insurgent armies. None was injured. Stevenson was reported to have been the last English- man in Bilbao. His staff and other British nationals were evacuated long ago. Streets Barricaded. HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Frontier, June 15 (#).—Grim Basque militiamen hurriedly threw up street barricades today for a last stand defense against insurgents fighting their way into | Bilbao. Insurgent rifle bullets fell in | the streets. Houses near the outskirts of the an- cient Basque capital were turned into machine gun and rifle nests. Expert snipers picked advantageous spots from which to harry the invaders. While the “last stand” preparations were being rushed, the rifle bullets | from the outskirts, pinging into the cobblestone streets, brought home to defenders how close modern fight has drawn to a city which has been in- vincible for centuries. Border advices said the defenders were facing the onslaught calmly, Refugees Are Evacuated. During the night, government artil- lery inside the city started a heavy bombardment of insurgent positions. | While the shelling was at its height lopg lines of automobiles sped out of Bilbao and along the Biscay coast carrying refugees toward Santander. Many women, old men and wounded fled from the city which they had re- fused to leave when insurgents first | started their drive against Basque allies of the Spanish Republic early in April. Thousands of children have been evacuated by sea. An insurgent communique, which estimated Basque casualties during the last four-days as about 6,000, said the attackers were descending to the capital along a line that streiched {from Galdacano to the sea on the west side of Bilbao. Advertisements under tions, heretofore on pa Saturday closing for The MYSTERY BUNDLE CLUE TO HEIRESS Garbage Collectors Tell of | Receiving Package From Parsons Housekeeper. BACKGROUND— Mrs. Alice Parsons vanished from her home last Wednesday. A ran- som note for $25,000 was left. G-men and other officers have run down every clue without finding slightest trace of the missing heiress. Of- JJAcials have respected wishes of the family to be permitted to contact the supposed abductors without avail in solving the case. Bs the Associated Press. STONY BROOK, N. Y., June 15.— Two garbage collectors told Federal agents today that last Wednesday, the day Mrs. Alice McDonell Parsons, so- ciety matron, vanished, they were not allowed to enter the Parsons Long Island home when they called. It | was the first time such a thing had happened in four years, they said. The collectors, Arthur Chadwick, 31, and his colored helper, George Win- field, told their story to Earl Connel- ley, inspector of the Federal Bureau | of Investigation, and Assistant District Attorney Lindsay Henry of Suffolk County. Given Package by Housekeeper. It was their custom to enter the house, they said, descend to the base- ment and collect the garbage, but that on Wednesday they were met by Mrs. Anna Kupryanova, Russian house- keeper and companion to Mrs. Parsons, who pointed to a large package tied with cord, and told them: “That's all.” They also told Connelley the Par- sons’ automobile, which Mrs. Kuprya- nova had said stood outside the house all day, was in the garage when they called. “This story may be extremely im- portant,” Assistant District Attorney Henry said. “A number of very sus- picious aspects of this case have de- veloped, but I cannot discuss them now.” Believed Break in Case. Connelley said the men's story was getting the “most careful consider- ation,” who asked that his name be withheld, said “this may prove to be the first break in this case.” Mrs. Parsons vanished shortly be- fore noon and a note, demanding $25,000, was found tucked in the front of the Parsons’ car hours later at the trim white farm house where Mrs. Parsons and her husband, Willlam (See HEIRESS, Page A-3.) SENATE FUND MAY MEET COST OF STEEL PROBE By the Associated Press. Senator Bridges, Republican, of New Hampshire, received assurances today that expenses of at least some of the witnesses in the steel strike investiga- tion would be paid from Senate funds. ‘The Post Office Committee will re- sume hearings Thursday on his reso- lution for an investigation of alleged interference with the mails in Ohio and Pennsylvania strike areas. Lost and Found and Special Notices the above classifica- ge 3, will be found on page C-5, preceding other classified ads. All such advertisements should be sent in promptly as possible and cannot be accepted after 11 p.m. Sunday Star 5:30 p.m. and another police official, |° Star IX PAGES. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. F¥Y Yesterday’s (Bonie retu; (P} Means Associate Circulation, 13¢,190 rns not yet receive.) d Press. TWO CENTS. SURE LOOKS AS THougH ALL SUBJECTS |NCLUléING THE NEW DEAL HAVE BEEN N Wy R RSN XHAUSTED ' /4 NS SEMTORSTO AL FORD 10 INQURY Will Ask Him to Explain Company Activity in Re- sisting Union, BACKGROUND— La Follette Civil Liberties Com- mittee went deeply into anti-labor practices of General Motors and Chrysler. Since then, Henry Ford has de- fled eflorts of automobile union to organize his workers and violence has droken out on several occasions. Ford service department Ras gen- erally been considered most com- plete policing and espionage or- ganization in industry. BY JOHN C. HENRY. the Senate Civil Liberties Committee to explain practices of the Ford Motor Co. in resisting organization efforts among its employes, it was learned today. Such appearances will be contin- gent, of course, upon the success of efforts of agents of the committee to serve & subpoena upon the industrial- 1st. By the terms of the resolution | establishing the Civil Liberties Com- | mittee, it is empowered to investigate | alleged instances of ‘“‘undue inter- ference with the right of labor to organize and bargain collectively.” | Circulating of “Fordisms.” Since circulation of through the plants of the motor com- pany and the beating of several organ- izers and officers of the United Auto- mobile Workers by service department workers of the company, complaint of (See INQUIRY, Page A-3) L CLOSED BANK PROFITS Money With Interest. OKLAHOMA CITY, June 15 (#).— Creditors and depositors will pocket a profit from having had their money tied up in the American Bank & Trust Co. of Ardmore, which closed in Jan- uary, 1935. Oklahoma Bank Commis- sioner said today he knew of no other | case in which a failed bank had been able to pay not only 100 cents on the dollar, but interest from the closing date as well. Summary of Page Amusements A-17 Comics ..C-10-11 Editorials .._A-10 Financial .__A-19 Lost & Found C-5 Obituary .. A-12 FOREIGN. British Consul removed by sailors under fire. Page A-1 Amelia Earhart lands at Karachi, India. Page B-5 Short Story .B-10 Society ....B-3 Sports -....C-1-3 Woman's Pg. C-4 NATIONAL. Garbage collectors reveal clue to miss- ing heiress. Page A-1 Union maps new demands for General Motors. Page A-1 Civil Liberties Committee to subpoena Henry Ford. Page A-1 C. I O. strikers attack and beat A. F. L. workers, Page A-1 Hope for return of missing heiress ‘wanes. Page A-1 Chamber representative opposes wage- hour bill. Page A2 Bloom calls Betsy Ross flag story a myth. Page A-2 Court bill consideration is left up to Robinson. Page A-3 Policy of disclosing tax-dodgers’ names agreed upon. Page A-6 Bigger, better merchant marine pre- dicted by Guffey. Page A-16 WASHINGTON AND NEARBY. Kennedy to ask special rule for D. C. tax bill consideration. Page A-1 Virginia Supreme Court grants Edith Maxwell writ of error. Page A-1 Fight seen on local share item in pending relief k§l. Page A-3 Storm damages power lines, trees, property. - Page B-1 D. C. government per capita cost de- creased $5 in 1936. Page B-1 Police Courts criticized and defended at X Page B-1 4 | refinery. Henry Ford will be brought before | “Fordisms” | Creditors and Stockholders Get | Mass Faintings InFrenchPlant Baffle Doctors o Traces of Gas or Poison—Occurs Thricein Week. Bv the Associated Press. LI France, June 15.—Seventy girl wolkers collapsed today in two eerie mass faintings at a little sugar Thirty fell to the floor, swooning, this morning, and 40 more fainted this afternoon. ‘The work of the plant was disrupted and experts worked throughout the day to determine the cause Most of the victims were younger workers, 17 years old or less, and some- what frail, None was in a serious | condition. But doctors were acutely puzzled. When some 400 employes collapsed (See FAINTINGS, Page A-5) EDITH MAXWELL 1S GRANTED WRIT Former School Teacher Given Right to Appeal Second Conviction. By the Assoclated Press. WYTHEVILLE, Va. June 15.—The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to- day granted a writ of error and super- sedeas to Edith Maxwell, twice con- victed for slaying her father, Trigg Maxwell, in a family quarrel July 21, 1935. The granting of the writ gave the former hill-country school teacher the right to argue before the Virginia ap- pellate court her appeal from her second conviction, carrying a prison sentence of 20 years, She was re-lodged in the jail at Wise the past week end after one of her four underwriters on her $15,000 bond had asked to be relieved of that responsibility. Her reincarceration in the jail where she spent many months while waiting trial on charges she killed her father, was expected to be brief. Her brother, Ear] Maxwell, acted swiftly to secure a substitute bondsman and Circuit Judge Ezra Carter was expected to come to Wise today to pass upon the new bond. Today’s Star Transit officials present new data in higher fare hearing. Page B-1 Clayton charges unfalrness in Capital Transit financing. Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials Page A-10 This and That Page A-10 Political Mill Page A-10 Stars, Men and Atoms Page A-10 Answers to Questions Page A-10 David Lawrence Page A-11 H. R, Baukhage Page A-11 Mark Sullivan Page A-11 Jay Franklin Page A-11 Delia Pynchon Page A-11 SPORTS. “Practical” all-star game plans dis- appoint fans. Page C-1 Three new Nats on view in current home stand. Page C-1 Age Braddock's chief liability in Louis bout. Page C-2 ‘Tilden finds trend toward open tennis in Europe. Page C-3 Rippy prefers publinks tourney to amateur title quest. Page C-3 FINANCIAL. Bonds decline (table). Stocks improve slightly (table). Curb list lower (table). Oil output down. Insurance sales rise. MISCELLANY, Shipping News. Dorothy Dix Betsy Caswell Young Washington Cross-Word Puzzle Nature's Children Bedtime Story Page A-19 Page A-20 Page A-21 Page A-21 Page A-21 Page A-5 Page C-4 Page C-4 Letter-Out Traffic Convictions City News in Brief Vital Statistics ‘NUISANCE TAXES EXTENSION VOTED Committee Told Entire Levy System Will Be Gone Over in November. BACKGROUND— The House already a two-year ertension of the ercise or ‘“nuisance” tares, estimated to vield $650,000,000 in revenue an- nually. has approved By the Assocfated Press. The Senate Finance Committee recommended today a one-year exten- | sion of a host of “nuisance taxes,” due to expire June 30, on a wide variety of articles, ranging from gasoline and electric power to shotgun shells and chewing gum. By a 7-to-7 tie vote, it rejected a proposal by Senator La Follette, Pro- gressive, of Wisconsin, to rewrite the whole bill to include a drastic broaden- ing of the income tax base, increasing levies on “middle bracket” incomes. The committee also swept aside an amendment by Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan, which would have subjected the entire Federal tax structure to an immediate investiga- tion. Prolonged Hearings Feared. Administration leaders said they felt it would be “most unwise" to hold prolonged hearings now, since the Government would face a heavy loss of revenue if the nuisance tax bill is not passed by June 30 The leaders said that Treasury and congressional experts already are en- gaged on a thorough study of the ‘whole tax system and would be ready to recommend a top-to-bottom revi- sion of the revenue set-up by next November. At that time, committee members said, the administration expects to “throw open the whole tax question,” including revision of income tax rates and the corporation undistributed sur- plus levy. The excise bill approved today would produce about $200,000,000 by a continuation of the 3 cent postage rate and an additional $450.000,000 by extending the impost on commod- ities. Gasoline Tax Biggest Producer. Most lucrative of the ‘“nuisance taxes” would be that on gasoline, which is bringing an estimated $195,- 000,000 into the Federal Treasury in the current fiscal year and is expected to produce $204,000,000 in 1937-8. Other levies are on telegraph and telephone service, cosmetics, mechan- ical refrigerators, matches, sporting goods, radio sets, furs, brewers’ wort and malt slrup and cameras and lenses. The bill also would extend for one year a small group of auto and mo- toring accessories taxes expiring July 31. They would produce an estimated $112,000,000 revenue. Administration chiefs said they ex- pected to call the “nuisance tax” bill to the Senate floor. late this week, as soon as the Senate finishes consid- eration of the $1,500,000,000 bill now before it. They predicted its speedy enactment. —_— 19 Killed in Hongkong Blast. HONKONG, June 15 (#).—Nineteen persons were killed today and scores were injured when a boiler exploded on a launch towing barges laden with pilgrims on the Si Kiang River. relief D.C.REALTY HIKE DEMANDED FOR TAX ON INCOMES House Leaders New Program Arra for Burden on Con Agree Upon 20 Cent Increase to Bring Omni- bus Bill Up Thursday. COMMITTEE WILL MEET TODAY TO MAKE NECESSARY CHANGES nged at Conference pecial Rule—Bankhead Hits gressmen Here. BACKGROUND— in conference. New tar proposals many times. House yesterday twice House leaders agreed today District Committee will elimin: measure and substitute a 20-cen Speaker Bankhead made the ference after a conclave with o Special Tax Subcommittee of the the tax program. Bankhead said the plan h missioners. revenue. | of members of Congress,” said xlncome taxes at home. After Bankhead's announcement, arrangements for a special meeting of to make the necessary changes in the laid down by House leaders. | Chairman Norton over the lon | City, N. J, BOAT GOES DOWN; FIVE OF TEN DEAD | Three Saved, Three Still Missing After Fishing Trip Off Delaware. | | Br the Assoctated Press. | BOWERS BEACH, Del., June 15— | The bodies of five men were recov- ered from Delaware Bay today, victims | of the sinking of the fishing boat Teal | 6 miles off shore late yesterday. Three men were. rescued and two or three ( others were still missing. The three survivors—F. C. McKee and C. W. Stoddard of State College, Pa., and James Stine of Altoona, Pa.— were taken to the hospital at Dover. They were reported not in serious condition. One of the five recovered bodies was identified as that of William Ebner of Altoona. The others also were be- lieved to have been from Western Pennsylvania. Capt. Floyd Davis of Bowers Beach was still missing. | Three bodies were identified as those lor Willlam C. Dublin and Howard !Buzzard of Altoona and C. W. Fish- | burn of State College. The fifth was | believed to be that of James Dublin | of Altoona | Stoddard told State Police J. W. | Conrad and Thomas H. Lamb of the sinking. “Three Let Go and Sank.” “About 5 o'clock, when we were just about ready to start back,” he said, “we ran into some drift wood near a shoal. “The boat started to sink very rap- idly. We all put on life preservers and jumped into the water and swam around together. “Then a terrible storm came up Waves threw us all around. .Six of us managed to stay together until shortly before daybreak. Then three let go and sank. One was Capt. Bavis. ““We three, who remained, still clung together, hoping against hope that some help would come. Finallz it did.” . The rescue was made by the fish- ing boat Freckles, which was cruis- ing around about 14 miles off shore and saw some one waving. Sales Letter on H opkins’ Book Ends Disposal of Other Copies All efforts to sell 54 remaining copies of Works Administrator Harry Hopkins’ latest book, “Spending to Save,” have been abandoned by local W. P. A. of- ficlals, it was disclosed today after a Aales letter sent out by Michael J. Co- han, assistant deputy works adminis- trator for the District, had been made public. Otto J. Cass, deputy works adminis- trator for the District, said that no effort, to force W. P. A. workers to buy Hopkins' Book had been made, and that remaining volumes probably would be shipped back to the pub- lisher. 4 Cohan’s letter, issued on May 21 and sent to all W. P. A. department heads, said: b “We have on hand a limited number of Mr. Hopkins' book ‘Spending to Save.’ These books are selling at & re- tail price of $1. ‘mmxwmmummm- | terest of every one working for W. P. A. to own a copy of this little book. “We can obtain no clearer picture of the aims, the policies and philosophy of our organization than that set forth by the Federal administrator, Just how clear is your conception of the organization for which you are working? Are you at all interested? You should be. “Please let, me know at once how many copies I will allot to'you and your department. Your prompt reply will be appreciated.” Cass said Cohan's letter was writ- ten after the publisher of Hopkins' book asked that unsold volumes be returned. The publisher sent 100 copies of the book on consignment to local P. W. A. headquarters, Cass said. Only 46 copies of the book were sold. Hopkins was not aware that any sales efforts were being made in W. (Bee uoixms, Page A-3) District of Columbia faces deficit for 1938 fscal year, beginning July 1, mrying from $6,000,000 in District of Columbia appropriation bill as it passed the House to $7,500,000 as it passed Senate. Measure nou to meet deficit have been changed refused to consider omnibus taz bill. BY JAMES E. CHIN to permit the Kennedy omnibus tax bill to be considered Thursday under a special rule if the ate the income plan from the t increase in the real estate levy disclosure at his daily press co: ther leaders and Representatives Kennedy of Maryland and Nichols of Oklahoma, members of the District Committee which framed Approved by Commissioners, ad been approved by the Com- A 20-cent rise in the real estate tax would jump the present levy from $1.50 to $1.70 and yield about $2,400,000 in additional “There is no justification in my opinion for taxing the income Bankhead. “They have to pay They are here only temporarily and are | not legal residents of the District.” Committee Meets Today. Kennedy and Nichols hurriedly mads the District Committee this afternoon tax bill to conform with the program Authority for the special session was granted by g distance telephone from her home in Jersey » Kennedy and Nichols also will seek | authority of the full committee at the | special meeting to appear before the Rules Committee tomorrow and ask for the rule. The contemplated rule | | | would limit debate, but would not pre- of the bill from offering amendments from the floor. Although the Rules Committee still | must act the rule, such action is re- | garded as a certainty in view of the | promise of House leaders to support the plan ngm members opposed to any featurs Kennedy and Nichols appeared Jjubilant over the Iatest turn in events, since another attempt to call the tax bill up in the House without a special rule could not be made until June 28, the last District day of the month. | Consideratien Blocked Twice. | Twice the House blocked considera~ ‘(mn of the bill yesterday. The first | time, on a roll call, a move to call up the measure was defeated, 227 to 73. | Later, a similar move met the same | fate by a vote of 114 to 35. Irrespective of what happens to his plans to have the bill considered under | @ special rule. Kennedy said he would | not return it to the District Commit- | tee for further consideration. | Since the principal objection to ths measure is the income tax plan, Kennedy pointed out the House has the privilege of eliminating it { “If the House doesn't like the in- come tax, or its provision that would tax members of Congress and non- | residents,” he said. “it can remove | these features. But I will not agree to take the bill back to the full com- mittee. I do believe the House owes ‘the District Committee the courtesy | of at least considering the bill.” | Kennedy was the only member of the subcommittee that prepared the tax program who voted against the income tax. He said he still did not believe it is necessary, since the Wash- ington Board of Trade had produced figures showing the proposed business | privilege tax would yield $6.000,000 (See TAXES, Page A-4.) CONNERY STRICKEN BY FOOD POISONING | Co-Sponsor of Wage-Hour Bill in Hospital—Not Gravely 1L Representative William P. Connery, Jjr., Democrat, of Massachusetts, chaire man of the House Labor Committee and co-sponsor of the Black-Connery wage and hour bill pending in Con- gress, was stricken with food poisoning today. His attending physician, Dr. Emmett H. Markwood, said that Connery was “definitely sick,” but not in grave con- dition. He expected the Repmesenta- tive to be confimed to the hospital for a week or two. Connery was taken to Homeopathic Hospital early today, a few hours after he returned last night from a visit to his home in Massachusetts. | Nazis Sentence Catholic Leader. DANZIG, June 15 (#).—Ernst Riedel, leader of the Catholic Windhorst League of Danzig, was convicted tpday of “insulting the "Nazi party and slandering the criminal police” of the Free City, He was sentenced to six menths ims- prisonment. The Windhorst League, youth ore ganization of the Catholic Centrist party, was suppressed in Germany in 1933, but continued in Danzig. e e F. D, Jr., on Buying Trip. PHILADELPHIA, June 15 (#).— Pranklin D. Roosevelt, jr., and his flancee, Ethel du Pont, made soms purchases yesterday in a local jewelry store. They said they “bought a few trinkets,” not a wedding ring.