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(U 8. Weather Burea slightly warmer tomorrow peratures today—Highes! a.m.; lowest, 68, at 5:30 a. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 18 WEATHER. Fair tonight and probably tomorrow; winds becoming south tomorrow. at 1 pm, 79. Full report on page A-19. u Forecast.) ; gentle, variable Tem- t, 81, at 11:30 m. Temperature @ — 85th YEAR. No. 34,014. Entered as second class matter post ofice, Washington, D. C. HOUSE D. C. GROUP SURRENDERS, CUTS OUT INCOME: TAX, HIKES REALTY LEVY Rules Committee Stands By to Guarantee Considera- tion of Troublesome Meas- ure on Floor Tomorrow. $8,000 EXEMPTION PLAN FOR PROPERTY BEATEN Dirksen Regrets Income Charge Defeat—Dies Attacks “High Apartment Rents” Here, Say- ing U. S. Employes Already Are Paying Tax in That Form. | Washington's extraordi- narily high real property assessment standard — ap- proximating 100 per cent— and the resultant high tax rate are discussed in a spe- cial article today on page A-8. BY JAMES E. CHINN. | the | what to do, all of which has caused FurnaceGadget Results in Suit To Get Divorce Husband’s Inventive Ability a Thorn in Wife’s Side. Asserting her husband's inventive ability, displayed in their home in the form of a furnace attachment, caused her discomfort and much worry, Mrs. Sybil L. Danielson, 3912 Fulton street, asked District Court today to grant her a limited divorce from Lieut. Col. | ‘Wilmot A. Danielson, U. S. A. Through Attorney Jean M. Board- man, Mrs. Danielson told the court of other instances of alleged cruelty. “As the defendant has some ability | as an inventor,” Mrs. Danielson stated | in her suit, “and he has practiced this | ability during the past several years, chiefly by devising and installing on | our furnace certain mechanisms the operation of which_he has refused to explain to me, although I urgently re- quested him to do so, and he has gone | away from home, leaving me to operate | furnace without knowledge of | me much worry and mental distress. “On one occasion, in the early part of 1936, one of the defendant’s in- | ventions failed to work during his absence, and for a period of approxi- mately 10 days, during which time a | furnace man and an engineer were | unable to solve the defendant's inven- | tions, our house was either unheated | or extremely overheated.” Mrs. Danielson said she was 61 and | |MEMBERS OF CABINET ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star The only and Wire Yesterday’s ( in Washington wit evening paper the Associated Press News photo Services. Circulation, 137,919 Some Treturns not vet received.) WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16. y 1937—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. #** () Means Associate d Press. T'WWO CENTS. NOSEVELT 1060 | T0 PARTY PARLE ON SLAND I BAY To Hold Three-Day Series of Conferences With Over 400 Congressmen. ALSO TO BE PRESENT Better Understanding Between ! White House and Capitol Hill to Be Sought. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt is going to se- cluded Jefferson Island in Chesapeake | Bay on June 24 to hold a three-day | series of conferences with more than 400 Democratic Congressmen. During his stay on the island as guest of the Democratic Fish and Gun Club, the President will talk separately and in groups with every Democratic member of the House and the Senate, taking the opportunity to discuss the administration program and to at- tempt to bring about a better under- described herself as “a woman of cul- | ture, refinement and high educational attainments.” She said she was an assistant professor in the Iowa State The House District Committee paved the way for House consideration of the troublesome Kennedy omnibus tax bill by eliminating this afternoon the con- | troversial income tax plan and sub- stituting a 20-cent veal estate tax levy. Action was taken at a hurriedly- called special meeting—the second in two days—as the Rules Committee stood by to grant a special rule that will guarantee the increase in the | considerafion of tneasure in the House tomorrow. Scrapping of the income tax plan was done in obedience to House lead- ers who refused to let the Kennedy | bill come’ up in the House under a | &pecial rule unless it was done. The Rules Committee shortl S expected to issue the rule under which the bill will be considered. $8,000 Limit Beaten. | The income tax plan was eliminated and the real estate tax increase sub- £tituted on motion of Representative Nichols, Democrat, of Oklahoma, a member of the special subcommittee of the District Committee that drafted | the bill. The committee, however, first de- feated, by a record vote of 8 to 1, a | motion of Representative Sacks, Dem- | ocrat, of Pennsylvania, to substitute for the income tax a $1.70 levy on real estate having an assessed value under $8,000. Under his plan, prop- erty under $8,000 would continue to pay the present $1.50 levy As soon as the com sction, Nichols and Representative Kennedy, Democrat, of Maryland, chairman of the Special Tax Subcom- mittee, rushed from the House Office Building to the Capitol inform Chairman O’Connor of the Rules Committee of the result. ttee took its Dirksen Plans Amendment. Representative Dirksen, Republican, of Illinois, who championed the in- come tax plan, was the only one to express regret that the committee #liminated it from the bill simply to get the measure up in the House for ronsideration. He served notice, how- ver, he would attempt to have it re- tored by amendment on the floor. Earlier in the day the Rules Com- | fmittee had declared action on the Mistrict group’s plea for a rule. Chairman O'Connor asked the Di trict Committee that before con- frideration of the request is resumed, it had better hold another special meeting and eliminate the contro- versial income tax “That's impossible,” chorused Rep- recentatives Kennedy and Nichols. They Call Committee, However. However, they lost no time in ar- ranging for another special meeting, starting at 1 o'clock, to consider the proposal. Immediately after the Rules Com- mittee adjourned without passing on the request for a rule, O'Connor re- ported to Speaker Bankhead the Dis- trict Comimttee had failed to carry out the program for altering the bill under which the leaders agreed to permit its ronsideration in the House. Wants Some Bill Passed. Bankhead appeared to be disap- pointed. “I am very anxious for the District bill to be brought up tomorrow,” he #aid “I feel the House should pass some sort of bill to alleviate the Dis- trict’s financial situation.” Bankhead announced if the rule is mot granted the House would take up Mts previously scheduled program to- morrow—consideration of the judi- ciary good behavior bill. ‘The appeal of Kennedy and Nichols for a rule precipitated a prolonged dis- oussion among members of the Rules Committee, and one, Representative Cox, Democrat, of Georgia served hotice he would not vote for it. Cox was vehement in his denuncia- tion of the attempt of the District to get a rule for consideration of the bill. Another Defeat Promised. Turning to Kennedy, he said: “The action of the House the other day in refusing to consider the bill evidently did not impress you, even though the vote was as large as it was. If you come before the House with that bill you're going to take a | licking like you did the other day.” Cox also declared there is “bitter District which “is fully justified.” “That feeling,” he added, “can't be changed overnight.” “Understanding” Cited. O'Connor opened the discussion by pointing out that House leaders had set aside tomorrow to consider the tax bill, in view of the “alleged seri- ous financial crisis facing the District government in the coming fiscal year, (See TAXES, Page A-7.) College before she married Col. Daniel- | son almost 26 years ago. She said her husband left her last | | June 14 shortly after their daughter's | standing between the White House and | Capitol Hill. | The conferences were made possible by the Democratic Senators who are officers of the Jefferson Island Club, of which Senator Robinson of Arkansas, majority leader of the Sen- | ate, is president. Robinson, with Sen- | marriage. ators Pittman of Nevada, Tydings of She asked the court to award her Maryland, Duffy of Wisconsin and | BILBAO BEING DESERTED BY TERRIFIED POPULACE! | alimony and to restrain Col. Daniel- son from seeking a divorce in another Jjurisdiction. EMERGENCY GONE, BYRNES ASSERTS 5 Appeals to Senate for Pas- | sage of 40 Per Cent Relief Bill. L3 the Associated Press. Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina appealed to the Senate today to require local communities to pro- ide 40 per cent of relief project costs. “The emergency that caused us to | give a lump sum for relief without re- striction on how it was to be spent has passed,” he said. Byrnes sought adoption of & com- mittee amendment to the $1.500,000,- | 000 relief appropriation bill which would require a 40 per cent contribu- tion by sponsors of relief projects ex- cept when they demonstrated inability to pay that amount Before beginning debate on the pro- posal, the Senate approved two minor changes in the amendment One would permit local sponsors to pro- vide materials and services as part of their coatribution. “We may as well be fran] told the Senate. place,” | He contended a restriction by Con- gress on the manner of spending the | relief funds did not suggest “distrust” | of the President | It was the duty of Congress, he said, | to specify how funds were to be spent, | and only in time of emergency was it | necessary for Congress to leave all iscretion to the Executive. Before the Senate convened, ad- | ministration leaders forecast a com- promise on the Byrnes proposal. They expected a smaller percentage than 40 to be approved. Action on the Byrnes amendment was postponed yesterday after the Senate rejected another recommenda- tion of its Appropriations Committee that some $200.000,000 in oblifated balances from 1933-7 relief appropria- tions revert to the Treasury. Economy Group Defeated. The 53-t0-25 rejection vote was a defeat for an economy group led by (See RELIEF, Page A-5.) Byrnes “Recovery has taken Sentenced to Death. BRZESC, Poland, June 16 ().—An 18-year-old Jew, Weizel Scczerbowski, was sentenced to death today for the murder of a policeman May 13, an act which led to violent anti-Semitic rioting and started a wave of anti- Jewish outbursts throughout Poland. Speaker Bankhead of Alabama, called | | at the White House today to invite the President to visit the island. The White House announced immediately afterward that Mr. Roosevelt had a cepted “with pleasure.” Cabinet Members to Attend. | BACKGROUND— Residents Reported in Near Panic.| Basques Held Struggling to Prevent Firing of City. All members of the cabinet except | Secretary of Labor Perkins also have | been invited to the parley. Miss | Perkins was barred because the party | will be strictly “stag.” Guests like- | | wise, will include members of the | | President’s secretariat and heads of | several of the major independent agencies The President will leave Washington | Thursday afternoon, June 24, for An- napolis. There he will board the presidential yacht Potomac to make the 13-mile journey down the bay to | the island, which is situated about a mile from the Eastern Shore. The water immediately around the island is not deep enough to permit the ! Potomac to come immediately up to the club house dock, which will neces- | sitate the yacht anchoring about 2 miles off the shore of the island. The | President will proceed to the island in a small launch. | The facilities of the club house are | not sufficient to care for all those in- vited to take part in the conferences | Therefore, it has been arranged to | | divide the Democratic congressional | group, which numbers 407 Senators ! and Representatives, into three parts and have each unit visit the island for a day. The conferences will start | Friday morning, June 25. | Individual Conferences Arranged. The President’s schedule will be so |arranged as to afford an opportunity | to reach each person in the first group (to have an individual conference with ihlm. Buffet luncheon will be served | and there will be fishing, boating, skeet shooting, horseshoe pitching and other forms of outdoor sports. The second group will be taken to | the island the following day and the remaining group on Sunday, the last | day of the conference. The President | plans to leave late Sunday afternoon, i arriving back at the White House | some time after dark. The President was a guest of the| club two Summers ago, when he spent. a week end on the island. On that oc- casien the trip was to afford the Presi- | dent a rest and recreation.in the com- pany of a large group of party asso- | ciates. . The coming conference series was | engineered by Robinson and Pittman, | the latter chairman of the Board of | Governors of the club. For some time there have been complaints on the part of Democratic members of the Senate and House that they have been unable to confer with the President on matters of persdnal interest, and this, along with the realization on the part of congressional leaders that there is some belligerency on the part of Democratic Senators and Repre- sentatives, particularly the former, is supposed to have prompted the par- leys. Browned and footsore, but happy, Raphael Angel Petit and Juan Car- mona, South American rover Scouts, arrived here early this afternoon after an adventurous two-year, 10,000-mile hike from their homes in Caracas, Venezuela, to the National Boy Scout Jamboree on the Potomac. Met on the Lee highway, in West Cherrydale, by Venezuelan diplomats, local Boy Scout officials and an Arling- ton County motor cycle police escort, the smiling Scouts politely but em- phatically declined offers of a ride to the Capitol, where Dr. Diogenes Esca- lante, Venezuelan Minister, and Dr. L. 8. Rowe, director of the Pan-Ameri- | can Union, waited to greet them. “No, thank you,” Carmona said, | through a legation interpreter. “We've | walked every step of the way to this on handmade rafts. We want to walk all the way to the Capitol.” And onward they continued through Cherrydale and Lyon Village to Ros- slyn, pulling a rickety cart burdened with raincoats, blankets and other paraphernalia. That cart upset plans of the diplo- mats and Scout officials to receive them formally at the south end of the Key Bridge this morning at 10 o'clock. A whee] came off the well-worn axle Venezuelan Scouts Reach City After 10,000-Mi. Jamboree Hike resentment” in the House against the | Point, except when we crossed rivers | of the weather-beaten wagon as the | pilgrims arrived in Falls Church, Va., last night. They encountered much difficulty in having it repaired this | morning, with the result that their | start was delayed for about two hours. After more than an hour of waiting at Key Bridge the welcoming party motored out the Lee highway and found the youths stepping along briskly between Cherrydale and Lee Heights. In the reception group were Dr. Jacinto Fombona-Pachano, counselor of the Venezuelan Legation; Arturo Lares, secretary of the legation; Juan Lecuna, attache; Luis Coll-Pardo, tourist commissioner of Venezuela; Lester G. Wilson, member of the Executive Board of District of Cd- lumbia Boy Scouts, and a dozen local Boy Scouts and Sea Scouts. | Petit and Carmona spent last night at a tourist house in Falls Church, paying the usual rate. They had a few dollars in their pockets as they ended their long journey. They ex- plained they started out with $30, but that their families replenished their funds along he way. They also received many free meals and lodgings and some money from Scouts and their families, they said. A detailed story of their adventures, lace in near panic, with the center While continting to batter at |O0f the provincial capital now an| gates of Madrid with heavy guns, y target of insurgent batter- ies ranged to the north and south, | President Jose Antonio Aguirre, | they said, remained in the city vowing | to die on the spot rather than sur- | | render. Gen. Franco has concentrated ef- Jorts in recent weeks on capture of | Basque city of Bilbao ‘ Despite stubborn defense it ap- pears doudtful that Loyalists will be able to prevent insurgent leader from gaining this important objec- amen were reported to 0 the insurgents, accus- 3ol | yue government of de- | e | ceiv with false reports of | By the Associatea Press | the invincibility of the “iron ring” HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish fron- | defenses that the insurgent offensive | tier, June 16—Terror-stricken women has smashed and children fled Bilbao in droves Artillery in Cit today along the few avenues of es-! Loyal Basque cape left by the insurgent legions tillery in the heart of the city to closing in on the city's outskirts. bombard their advancing foe. In-| French refugees reaching border ' surgents, answering the defense fire points nea: nere reported the popu- " (See SPAIN, Page A-4) PALMISAND SEEN C-MEN ARE ASKED 's Center. troops installed ar- ASD.C..BODY HEAD Willing to Take Chairman- ship if Mrs. Norton Goes to Labor Post. Representative Palmisano, Demo- rat, of Maryland will become chair- man of the House District Commit- tee should Representative Norton re- | sign to assume leadership of the House | Labor Committe, it was learned to- | day. | The Labor Committee chairman- | ship has been left vacant by the | death of Representative Connery of Massachusetts | By virtue of seniority, Mrs. Norton | is eligible to succeed Connery, and | Palmisano has announced that he is | prepared to resign as chairman of the House Education Committee to take over the District Committee post | should Mrs. Norton move up. | Palmisano’s announcement killed reports that Representative Kennedy, | Democrat, of Maryland, second ran ing member of the District Committee, might become its chairman. Under | House rules, Palmisano is entitled | to the post if he wants it. Born in Italy, Palmisano came to (See D. C. COMMITTEE, Page A-5) | Summary of Page. | Amusements B-10 | Radio Comics C-10-11 | Short Story . B-2| Editorials .__A--0 | Society . . B-3 Financial -__A-11 | Sports c-1-3| Lost & Found C-5 | Woman's Pg. C-4 Obituary -A-12 | FOREIGN. Terrified populace fieeing Bilbao before | insurgent advance. Page A-1| Mutinous Spaniards level guns on French sloop of war. Page A-4 | NATIONAL. Byrnes urges Senate to pass 40 per cent relief bill. Page A-1 Roosevelt to attend Jefferson Island parley. Page A-1 Labor board to rule on signed con- tract necessity. Page A-1 Bethlehem steel plant at Johnstown is bombed. Page A-1 Early break seen in Parsons kidnap case. Page A-1 Connery's body to be entrained for Massachusetts home. Page A-2 Farm bill not to be acted on at this session. Page A-2 President seeks means df aiding low- income groups. Page A-2 G. M. strikes end; 25,000 to return to work. Page A-3 Legislation to block tax evasion prom- ised for this session. Page A-5 WASHINGTON AND NEARBY. Palmisano willing to become chairman of District Committee. Page A-1 Rules Committee delays action on plea for tax bill rule. Page A-1 Spotted fever claims third life in D. C. area. Page A-5 Filipino students to meet here June 25-27. Page A-1 | on a piece of rough tablet paper, was Editorials. Page A-10 | This and That. 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 SPORTS. Cellar yawning for Nationals as slump continues. Page C-1 written by the Scouts themselves, is printed on page A-2. Four-H Club members gathering for encampment here, Page B-1 INHARLAN INQUIRY Senate Committee Told by Two Witnesses Their Lives Are Periled. By the Assoctated Press The Senate Civil Liberites Commit- tee asked the Justice Department's “G- men” today to protect two of its wit- nesses who said they were in danger of being killed by gunmen in the pay | of Harlan County, Ky., coal operators. R. C. Tackett, elderly mountaineer who testified against the coal operators during a committee inquiry two months ago, complained that he had been | “kidnaped” from his Norton, Va., home | by two former Harlan County deputy sheriffs and taken to the Harlan Jail | “to be killed.” His penciled note, crudely scrawled | referred promptly to the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation. Another witness, Lawrence Howard, a Harlan grocery clerk, wrote the com- | mittee that an employe of the Harlan County Coal Operators’ Assogiation had hired a gunman “to kill me,” and that he was being continually followed by former Harlan deputies. Today’s Star Five-cent fare issue sidetracked at valuation hearing. Page B-1 Contractor arrested on 7-year-old charge. Page B-1 Three indicted on gambling law viola- tion charges. Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. F. D. R. “signed” to open all-star con- test here. Page C-1 Rival league conceded pitching edge in “dream game.” Page C-1 Giants buy Berger after losing lead in race. Page C-1 Boys, juniors’ entries in Star net play set mark. Page C-2 Braddock to be at peak for Louis, says manager. Page C-2 Hicks, Didrikson choices in Western open golf. Page C-3 MISCELLANY. Young Washington. Page A-12 Vital Statistics. Page A-12 Traffic Convictions. Page B-8 Service Orders. Page B-8 Winning Contract. Page B-9 Dorothy Dix. Page C-4 Betsy Caswell. Page C-4 Men’s Fashions. Page C-5 Cross-Word Puzzle. Page C-10 Nature’s Children. Page C-10 Bedtime Story. Page C-11 Letter-Out. Page C-11 City News in Brief. —— Page C-12 OFFICIAL CLAIMS HEIRESS IS SAFE Police Head Says “Ama- teurs” Hold Mrs. Parsons. Early Break Seen. BACKGROUND— A week ago today, Mrs. Alice Mc- | Donell Parsons lejt her New York chicken and squab farm with a man and a woman in an automo- | bile, intending to return in a short | time. When Mr. Parsons returned home from New York City that evening Mrs. Parsons had not re- | turned. A few hours later a note demanding $25,000 ransom 1was Jound. Br the Assoclated Press. ‘ STONY BROOK. N. Y., June 16.— | The possibility of an early break in the ‘ Alice McDonell Parsons disappearance | , Was indicated today in a sudden in- crease of tempo in the activities of Federal, State and local investigators. Mrs. Parsons Believed Safe. ’ A high police official here who has | MAYOR PLEADS FOR ROOSEVELT HELP IN STRIKE Johnstown Offlual Cafls onU.S. to “Remove Murderous Mob” After Blast and Kidnaping,. YOUNGSTOWN IDLE BECOMING “IMPATIENT,” COMPANY W ARNED Sheet and Tube Firm Vetoes “Back-to- Work” Plea of No Orders Data BACKGROUND— n-Strikers—Court on Republic. Steel strike was called last May 25, as John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization pushed its were three independent companies Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Inland. company was added, Bethlehem out. Eight men have been killed in r By the Associated Press Mayor Danie! J. Shields campaign for organization. Targets who had refused to sign contracts Last week fourth More than 70,000 workers have been ioting and many injured. of Johnstown, Pa., appealed to President Roosevelt today to intervene in the Johnstown steel strike to “remove the murderous element that now infests the city.” The Mayor said kidnaping had beer. added to a dynamite bombing in the disorders during the 6-day-old strike at the Cambria work of Bethlehem Steel. “The situation has grown so bad,” Mayor Shields wired the President, “that the strikers have resorted to the most |dastardly crime in our Nation today—that of kidnaping.” Shields wired the President after a man giving the name of James M. Hess, identified by police as a worker in the mills, re- ported he was seized by six men, stripped of his clothing and thrown out of their automobile. $5,000 Reward Posted for Arrest of Men. A $5,000 reward for arrest and conviction of the men will be offered. Shields added. He said he wired the President: “I earnestly appeal to John L. Lewis through you as our Presi- dent to withdraw the murderous element that now infests my city. “The situation has grown so bad that the strikers have resorted to the most dastardly crime in our Nation today—that of kid- naping. “Will you not please save our homes by discouraging Mr. John L. Lewis against such un-Americanisms?” Shields also wired George H. Earle: “Are our citizens to be the victims of political connivance on part of John L. Lewis and other hidden interests?” The plea came after a dynamite bomb explosion heightened the tension in the big steel strike area and as warning came from Youngstown, Ohio, that some 10.000 strike-idle steel workers in the Mahoning Valley are “becoming impatient” and that there would be ‘“serious trouble soon” if they are held back from their the been following the case closely mean- | jobs. The warning was placed before Frank Purnell, president of while indicated he has reasons to be- | lieve Mrs. Parsons may be a prisoner in Manhattan, probably in one of the | foreign quarters. He said he believes the kidnapers are amateurs, that Mrs. Parsons is in good health and will be returned to her home alive. Her captors, he said, | are probably not the ruthless type of criminal, and would be only too willing to complete negotiations and be rid of their prisoner. Until early this morning the entire lower floor of the Parsons home, Long | Meadows Farm, was alight, and there | appeared to be much activity within. Except for the first two nights after Mrs. Parsons disappeared a week ago, the house had been darkened early in the evening. ! Earl Connelley, inspector of the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation who as- | sumed formal charge of the case today, was absent from his headquarters on | & mysterious mission from late yester- | day afternoon until after midnight. He returned more than two hours | after the time he had set for a press conference. | G-Men Take Charge. Connelley parried questions much | of the time, but asked whether he was | “ready to withdraw from the case on | & theory a kidnaping was not com- mitted,” the inspector replied: “‘Absolutely not.” Today, so far as is known, nothin more definite had been uncovered to | indicate what may have happened to the society matron, who soon was to inherit a small fortune. And today, under the so-called Lindbergh kidnap law, the Federal Government took charge of the case on the presumption Mrs. Parsons had been taken across' a State line, thus making the abduc- tion a Federal offense. The law prescribes a seven-day interval after the disappearance before the inter- state phase is presumed. Driver Certain It Was She. To a long list of stories of persons believed to have seen Mrs. Parsons | since her disappearance, there was added today the account of a New| York taxicab driver, Nat Lewis, who | told New York City police he had taken a woman, believed to be Mrs. Parsons, to the Pennsylvania Station | last night. The driver said he picked up the woman, accompanied by another woman and & man, about 6 p.m. at Fifty-fourth street and Third Ave- nue in New York. He said at one point he was certain his passenger was the missing woman because he “knew” her sister-in-law, but he did not explain a delay of several hours in notifying police. the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. S.W.0.C.Head Asks | Intervention of U. S. | In Steel Strikes By the Associated Press Phillip Murray, chairman of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee said today he would ask Secretary Perkins for Federal the steel strike intervention in Murray came here from Pittsburgh | to testify at the Senate Post Office Committee's investigation of the steel strike. The appeal would be made to ihe Secretary as soon as he could obtain an appointment with her, he said. Murray announced earlier in Pitts- burgh that he had proposed to the Bethlehem Steel Co. that it agree to a National Labor Relations Board election on employe representatign. | He said here he also had made in- [lormal suggestions for such elections o Republic Steel and to Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. P. O. Bill Loses in Committee. Meanwhile, the House Post Office Committee reported adversely a resolu- tion 1o require the Postmaster General to give Congress all information on charges the postal service had refused to deliver mail to Ohio steel plants where workers are on strike Committee Chairman Mead made public a letter from Acting Postmaster | General Howes denying the depart- ment had refused to make delivery of | mail which conformed to “established conditions.” Howes added, however, postal of- ficials at Youngstown, Niles and War=- ren, Ohio, “declined to accept parcels of a character not hitherto mailed to the addressee industrial plants.” Howes said the parcels. containing food and clothing, were refused on the ground that postal authorities would be “in no better position to effect de- livery within the plants involved than the private carriers previously per- forming this service, without endan- gering the person of the postal em- " (See CONTRACTS, Page A-3.) ——— Z Midget Plane Kills Japanese. TOKIO, June 16 (#)—Tatsujiro Yoshino, a member of the Japanese Aeronautic Research Institute, was killed today when the new midget air- plane called Louse of the Sky fell to pieces in midair over Tokio during a test flight. Lost and Found and Special Notices Advertisements under the above classifica- tions, heretofore on page 3, will be found on page C-5, preceding other classified ads. All such advertisements sh as possible ond cannot be accepted after Saturday closing for The ould be sent in promptly 11 p.m. Sundaoy Star 5:30 p.m. feclined any specific answer t he would act “as rapidly mstances permit” to re- Jorkers Organizing Com- proposed to the Bethlehem 1 Corp. that an election be held at ke-bound Cambria Works in to determine whether John represent the es in collective bargaining. burgh heaaquartemss of the union inced a telegram had been sent to Eugene Grace, president of Bethle- | hem, making the proposal The union stipulated that if the union wins the election the company should agree to a written labor con- | tract—the prime point at which inde=- pendent steel companies have balked. Purnell, Youngstown Sheet & Tube head, vetoed—for the moment, at least —the back-to-work plan submitted by Ray L. Thomas, who said he was a spokesman for 10,000 non-striking steel workers. At Warren, Ohio, another tense point in the Mahoning steel area, Judge Lynn B. Griffith ordered the Re- public Steel Co. to bring into court any records showing how much has been for spent machine guns, tear gas bombs, labor “spies’ and company unions. The judge made his ruling at the start of the third day's hearing on Re- public’s petition for an injunction to curtail picketing At Ambridge, Pa. a spokesman for an American Federation of Labor Union asserted in a protest to Presi- dent Roosevelt and Attorney General | (See STEEL, Page A-3.) CHAVEZ, “MUCH BETTER,” | MAY WORK TOMORROW Later Examination Shows First Diagnosis of Food Poisoning ‘Was Incorrect. B the Assoclated Press. Dennis Chavez, jr, son and secre- tary of Senator Chavez, Democrat, of New Mexico, said today the Senator, who became ill yesterday, probably would return to his office tomorrow. He described the Senator as “much better today.” Chavez had suffered from chills and from a fever, which has subsided. His physician ordered him to a hos- pital for an examination and later sent him to his residence to rest. “The doc- | tor said Senator Chavez was suffering | from a stomach condition which has cleared up,” the son said. His illness first had been diagnosed as food poisoning similar to that which caused the death of Representative | Connery yesterday. A later examina- | tion showed no evidence of food poison- ing. L BARRIE UNCHANGED | Creato: of Peter Pan Spends Rest- | less Night. | LONDON, June 16 ®).—Sir James M. Barrie, 77-year-old creator of | Peter Pan, “spent a somewhat rest- less night, but otherwise his condie | tion remains unchanged,” his physie | cians reported today. Sir James is ill | of bronchial pneumonia. )