Evening Star Newspaper, June 24, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Wenther Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; slowly rising temperature; gentle variable winds, becoming moderate south. Temperatures today—Highest, 82, at 2 p.m.; lowest, 60, at 5 am. Full report on page A-18. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. ¢ Foenit WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ch WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, JUNE 24 ].‘)2‘»7—T<‘Ii<"J'Y-1"OUR PAGES. %% GOV. EARLE ENDS MARTIAL LAW; C. 1. O. BRANDED IRRESPONSIBLE AND COMMUNISTIC BY GIRDLER : 'Republic Head Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 20 Yesterday's Circulation, 139,038 (Some returns not yet received ) Entered as second class matter 99 post. office, Washington, D. C. 85th YEAR. No. 34,0 D. « (®) Means Associated Pres: . *| NEARLY SEVENTEEN . M1 LUON TWO CENTS MELLON, LAMONT, RASKOS, DU PONT, SLOAN ARE NAED INTAX LST OF 4 — YEAH, THEY SAY WE'RE DEAD, JONN, BUT WE'LL KEEP THAT CARD INDEY WTACT * JUST THE SAME! . Emergency in Johnstown Is Held Past. STATE FORCES GO TOMORROW 200 Pennsylvania Police Stay, However. the Assoctated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa. George H. Earle today martial law would be lifted in Johns- town at 7 a.m. tomorrow and that the strike-bound plants of Bethlehem Steel Co., which he had closed, might reopen at the same hour. “Apparently the emergency in Johnstown has passed,” the Governor said. I therefore decree an end of martial law at 7 am. Friday morn- ng.” Earle placed the strike district un- der martial law last Saturday and ordered closing of the Bethlehem Steel mill where a strike had been declared by the Committee dustrial Organization. The Governor said that Col. A. S. Janeway, his personal representative, and Maj. Lynn G. Adams, superin- tendent of the State police, and all forces of the State police and highway patrol will be ordered out of Cambria County, except 200 State police un- der command of Capt. William Clark. “This detachment will remain in Johnstown for the time being to pre- serve peace and order if this action is necessary,” Earle said. “In this crisis the choice to be made was lives or dollars. I chose lives and acted accordingly. After four days of enforced peace to think it over, I hope the forces of labor and capital in Johnstown will make the same decision.” Earle said the mills may reopen at %7 am. and conditions generally will ., June 24.—Gov. revert back to the status which pre- | vailed before martial law was de- clared. VOTE ON PLANT REOPENING. Steel Workers' Ballot Held by Citizens’ Group. By the Assoctated Press. JOHNSTOWN, Pa, June Btrike-idle steel workers cast votes today for or against reopenirtg of the | Cambria works of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. Lawrence W. Campbell, director of | the chamber of commerce, said 4,300 | of the 15,000 men normally employed. | had already signed a “back-to-work” | petition before “voting” booths were | in seven schools and a fire engine house. Men walked orderly into the build- ings to express their opinion in an in- dependent election conducted by & Citizens-Workers' Committee. They signed “yes” or “no” on petitions calling for the end of the strike. Protest With Advertisements. The Citizens-Workers’ Committee protested with full-page newspaper advertisements the closing of the mills by Gov. Earle’s martial law de- cree. | Campbell said most of the $60,000 | raised by the committee to pay for | the advertising was contributed by out-of-town business men. | Francis C. Martin headed the citi- | rens' group which was reorganized | today to include workers in the Cam- bria mills. The advertisements stated: “We pro- | test. We are not arguing for or against | unions or steel companies, but in de- fénse of two fundamental liberties— right of local self-governmen! and | right of every worker to pursue occu- pation peaceably and within the law.” 15,000 Thrown Out. Closing of the vast Cambria works | Bunday morning made idle the non- | strikers in a normal force of 15,000 and stopped a normal weekly pay roll of $500,000. A maintenance force of 800 men remained inside the mills, Two Johnstown newspapers, the Democrat and the Tribune, wired the Governor yesterday urging him to co- operate in holding referendums among ¢ announced that | for In- | 24— | | | he is talking abou | “Mr. Murray is a liar and Senator 'Gufley doesn’t know what | —Tom Girdler testifying before Senate i —A. P. Photos. | Post Office Committee. RODSEVELT ASKED 10 OPEN PLANTS Youngstown Mayor Sends Appeal—General Strike in Warren Canceled. BACKGROUND— Steel strike aflecting 100,000 workers in seven States was called *May 25. Chief storm centers in Mahoning Valley of Ohio and Johnstown, Pa., where National Guardsmen and special police are | on duty to keep order. Strike has been marked by frequent violence, with 12 dead and hundreds injured. John L. Lewis' C. I. O. called men out when four large independents refused to sign bargaining agree- ments. These companies are Re- public, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Inland and Bethlehem. Bs the Associated Press. WARREN, Ohio, June 24—A C. I. O.-fostered general sympathy strike collapsed today, while at Youngstown, further along the Ohio steel valley strike front. a new back-to-work movement gained impetus with a tele- graphic appeal to President Roosevelt asking aid to reopen strike-bound mills Mayor Lionel Evans of Youngs- town wired President Roosevelt to steel plants might resume operations under the protection of National Guard troops. “that there will reached between the steel companies TONFEREES NEAR .G BILL ACCORD Differences on Supply Measure Expected to Be Adjusted Soon. BY J. A. O'LEARY. After making rapid progress at their | first meeting this morning. House and Senate conferees on the 1938 District appropriation bill went back into ses- sion at 1 o'clock. with a prospect of adjusting all differences later today | or tomorrow. l The conference involved Senate | amendments which added $1,500.000 to the House total of $45.116,584 While the conferees will not disclose | decisions on specific items until a complete agreement is reached, it is believed a considerable number of the increases will be reduced, and some others eliminated. The action of the conferees will de- termine how much new revenue the District must raise through the tax bill, to be taken up in the Senate Dis- end “unlawful conditions” so that the | The Youngstown Mayor also tele- | strong indications it would levy con- graphed Gov. Martin L. Davey o(!tidernbly more than is needed if all Ohio saying it was now apparent proposed new taxes are left un- be no agreement | changed. trict Committee Monday. As the sup- ply bill passed the House the local deficit would have been $6,000,000 With all Senate amendments counted, the new ‘revenue requirement became $7.500,000. The conferees agreement is pected to cut down the estimated | deficit to a point below $7,000,000. | Estimates vary widely as to what | the seven-point tax bill as passed by | the House would raise, but there are A final agreement by tomorrow on " (See STRIKE, Page A-4) Page. Amusements. C-2 Comics C-6-7 Editorials .._A-12 Financial ___A-19 Lost & Found D-4 | Short Story..D-4 Society B-3 Sports - D-1-3 Woman's Pg. .C-5 &teel workers and the citizens to de- | Obituary ___A-14| termine the public's wishes in the strike situation. The newspapers recommended vot- Ing by all citizens on whether they Indorsed the strike, another referen- dum by Cambria employes on the same question and a third balloting by the workers on whether they favored the steel workers to “record their pref- erence as to union affiliation.” The committee’s advertisements (See EARLE, Page A-4.) ITALY TO SCRAP CITY IRON FENCES Government Asks Mayors for Estimates in Desperate Search for Metal. By the Associated Press. ROME, June 24.—Mayors of every Italian city received a government circular today asking for estimates on the amount of iron that could be real- ized by scrapping all municipal iron fences and gates. Rome, itself, recently set an example by removing four miles of iron railings from magnificent Borghese Park. The questionnaire was another in- dication of Italy’s desperate need for iron and of the difficulty of obtaining supplies abroad since Great Britain embarked on her vast rearmament ‘program. FOREIGN. Reich ship maneuver reports scouted by Eden. Page A-1 French finance dictatorship demands abandoned. Page A-1 NATIONAL. Gov. Earle ends Johnstown martial law. Page A-1 Girdler terms C. I. O. “dangerous threat” to democracy. A-1 C. I. O. abandons general strike at Warren, Ohio. Page A-1 Helvering to reveal holding company tax evaders. Page A-1 | Wholesale turnover in Harlan's force | of deputy sheriffs. Page A-2 Amelia Farhart reaches Sourabaya, Java. Page A-2 | W. P. A. begins job of curtailing rolls by 314,759 persons. Page A-2 Roosevelt to leave late today for Jef- ferson Island. Page A-3 WASHINGTON AND NEARBY. Senate votes nuisance tax and 3-cent postage extension. Page A-1 Conferees making progress on 1938 D. C. supply bill. Page A-1 Constitutionality of bill providing one- man car ban questioned. Page A-1 Drowning man talks half hour with witness. Page ' A-1 Millard describes fire aboard schooner Cachalot in bay. Page A-2 Hicks, Loring case investigator, ar- rested in New York. Page A-1 3,000 Boy Scouts to occupy Jamboree area Saturday. Page 1 (See D. C. BILL, Page A-15) Palmisano to Testore D, C. standing subcommittees. Page B-1 Shafer aims bill to bolster District of Columbia liquor law. Page B-1 EDITORIALS AND COMMENT. Editorials. s Page A-12 This and That. Page A-12 Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-12 Answers to Questions. Page A-12 David Lawrence. Page A-13 H. R. Baukhage. Page A-13 Mark Sullivan, Page A-13 Jay Franklin, Page A-13 Delia Pynchon. Page A-13 FINANCIAL. Junior rail bonds up (table). Auto output near goal. Construction soars. Stocks move up (table). Curb list mixed (table). Clearings rise above 1936. SPORTS. Reserves finally are coming to aid of Nationals. Page C-1 Schmeling would spurn Braddock go, Dempsey believes. Page C-1 Washington Golf and C. C. about fully recovered from fife. Page C-2 Giants regain poise as Hubbell ends his losing streak. Page C-3 Heffner carries off two titles in D. C. Junior tennis. Page C-3 MISCELLANY. Shipping News. Traffic Convictions. Vital Statistics. City News in Brief. After Dark. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Nature's Children. Cross-word Puzzle. Bedtime Stories. Letter-Out. Page A-19 Page A-19 Page A-19 Page A-20 Page A-21 Page A-21 Page B-10 Page B-1 Page B-10 Page B-10 Page B-13 Page Page Page Page Page | cess of the committee Young Washington. Page Calls Murray “a Liar.” “TERRORISM” CHARGE HIT FlourishesPictures of Weapons Taken From Strikers. BACKGROUND— Denouncing alleged interjerence with the mails by C. I. O. strikers in Warren and Niles, Ohio, Republican Senator Bridges of New Hampshire called for investigation of charges postal officials had permitted union pickets to censor mails. Taking over this investigation, Senate Post Of= fice Committee went on into gen- eral probe of strike conditions. BY JOHN H. CLINE. Bitterly denouncing the C. I. O. as| an “irresponsible, racketeering, Com- munist organization,” Tom Girdler, ! head of the Republic Steel Corp. told | the Senate Post Office Committee in a | turbulent session today that he would not sign & contract with the labor or- ganization until he is required to o 50 by law. Senate Votes to On Personal Income Levy Raise Surtax La Follette Proposa Reserv Poll in Cheered frequently by spectators who jammed the big hearing room, Girdler repeatedly called Philip Murray, ch man of the Steel Workers' Organizin Committee, a “liar” Earlier in t hearing Murray had termed Girdler an “outlaw.” As Girdler began the first public | defense of the policies of the four | independent steel companies now locked in a bitter, bloody str the C. I O, he numbered among his listeners Jesse Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and Mrs. Alice Longworth, daughter | of former President Theodore Roose- | velt. Bailey and Howes Clash. Chairman McKellar ordered & re- until 2 pm todav after Senator Bailey, Democrat, of North Caroiina and W. W. Howes, First Assistant Postmaster General had clashed heatedly over “delaved prosecution of strikers who interfered with mail deliveries to Republic plants in several Ohio cities “I personally resent the statement that the department has been dilatory | in bringing these prosecutions,” Howes | shouted after Bailey had made that charge. Although Howes was not on the wit- ness stand, he made a vigorous defense of the department's activities. “I want to state most emphatically,” | he said, glaring at Bailey. “that the " (See STRIKE-MAILS, Page A-15.) 4 v the Associated Press The Sen: 1 e voted today for a pro- posal by Senator la Follette, Pro- gressive, of Wisconsin to bolster Fed- eral reserves by raising surtaxes on perscnal incomes In one of the most of the t rode its lead, Follette 5 to 31 He offered surprising votes sess hip and amendment proved the by a vote of the proposal as an amendment to the administration’s “nuisance tax” extension bill. which would continue a host of miscellaneous excise levies for two years. The Senate quickly went on to con- sider another La Follette amendment to cut personal income tax exemptions | from $2.500 to $2.000 for married per- | sons and from $1.000 to $800 for persons. ingle Would Raise $238.000,000. ! The increase in surtaxes, which would not affect married persons with incomes under $64000, would raise an estimated $278,000.000 additional rev- enue annually. The Wisconsin Senat gued that an immediate broadening of the tax base was necessary, because “I don‘t believe the bu can ever be bal- | anced by reduction of expenditures He termed his income increase plan | “a long step toward balancing the bud- get” Dby “taxing those who are able to pay.” and pleaded for support from “every Senator who says he favors u Man, in River Drowning Self, Debates Suicide for Half Hour With Stranger as Life Ebbs BY JAMES J. CULLINANE. N THE moonlit solitude at Hains Point early today a man who was about to die and an elderly cvelist seeking relief from in- somnia engaged in an eerie discussion of life’s responsibilities, the futility of suicide and the capabilities of Heavy- weight Fighters Joe Louis and Jim Braddock. Death closed the conversation after half an hour and left the cyclist leaning on the sea wall railing, gazing | horrified at the body of the other man half floating on the shallow water of the Potomac River only a few yards | offshore. The meeting of the two men, both veteran Government employes yet strangers to each other, was as strange as their conversation. Hears Voice From River. Slowly propelling his bicycle and believing himself miles away from | any other human, Ernest C. Marlette, 1736 Eighteenth street, was rounding the Point in his search for sleep when he was startled to hear a voice ex-| claiming: “I have been fooled! water was deep here.” The moonlight revealed a man standing shoulder-deep in the river, Off the tip of the point. Marlette walked to the edge of the seawall, and the man who was about to die intro- duced himself as Samuel P. Herold, 42, of 918 Seventh street northeast. “I asked him what he was doing out in the water,” Marlette explained, “and he said he was going to die. “Just then I saw an automobile ap- proaching and I told the man to wait a minute. I rushed over to the road and told the motorist to speed for the police, and I went back to the sea- wall.” Herold remained standing in the same spot, and Marlette renewed their conversation. Refuses to Listen to Pleas. “He told me,” Marlette said, “that he had four children, and I told him how sad’ they would be if he killed himself. I told him to come back to shore and return to his wife and fam- ily because they needed him, but he said he was determined to die. “I argued that killing himself would not solve his problems, but he refused to be swayed. I began talking about the Louis-Braddock prize fight in an effort to arouse his interest and draw him closer to shore. “Finally he seemed to lose interest in me altogether and he began duck- ing his head under the water and holding it there. Each time, he would raise up strangling and coughing, but when he got his breath he would say, I thought the ‘One more : | again.” Meanwhile, the motorist whom Mar lette had stopped hurried to Four teenth and Water streets southwest and telephorfed park police head- | quarters. A police cruiser sped toward the point Unable to Attempt Rescue. “I kept talking and looking for the police to come,” Marlette said. “It seemed so long. The water wasn't deep, but I can't swim, and because of my age I knew I could not do any- time,’ and duck under| | thing if I went in the water. “Finally the man ducked his head under for the last time. He did not raise it again. but I could see his | body just under the surface only a few yards from shore.” Joseph Harris of the Portner Apart- ments, the motorist who had gone for ERNEST C. MARLETTE. —Star Staff Photo. police, stripped off his clothes when he returned to the scene and brought Herold’s body to shore. Efforts to revive him proved futile. Leaves Two Notes. In Herold’s automobile were found two notes. One of the notes, ad- dressed, police said, to his wife, said he had been unhappy for the past five days. The other, addressed to park police, said: “I work in the Finance Department of the War Department. They have been so good to me I want to thank them for their kindness and I hope they will forgive me. I love every one of them.” 5 Mrs. Herold said her husband had | (Se¢ SUICIDE, Page A-3.) 4 Is Bae urpri 1 to Bolster Federal ked by 35-10-31 Move. e of Federal revenue and speedy bal expenditur The La Follette amendment the surtax on $6,000 incomes of married w dependents from $116 to $1 on $10.000 incomes from $415 to $540 n $100,000 incomes $32469 to $37.534, and on $1,000.- 000 ine from $679.044 to $684 124 La Follette noted that the tax on $6.000 incomes in Great Brit nearly 10 times as large as the sum he proposed Nuisance would from Tax Extended. | Before acting on the La Follette | amendment, the Senate voted to ex- | tend th called nuisance taxes and | the 3-cent postage rate for two years instead of one. | The House had voted a two-year ex- | tension, but the Senate Finance Com- mittee recommended an extension of only one year for the postal and tax rates estimated to yield $630.000,000 annually. ! Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan opposed the longer extension asserting the Finance Committee had voted unanimously for onlv one year because it did not have time to hold hearings. | Chairman Harrison said hear: had been held on all the taxes in p vious years. He personally favored a two-year extension, but said he was embarrassed by committee vote. | The Senate vote was 50 to 26. i | Taxes involved include those on® electric energy, lubricating | raph and telephone communi- | cations, toilet preparations and many other selected items. Also included in the extension were import taxes on petroleum, coal, cop- per, lumber and gasoline. | CABINET GIVES (P DENANDS OF BLUM y = < | to restrict one-man car operations on a Chautemps’ Regime Decides | - | are to Sidetrack Financial Dictatorship. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, June 24—Camille Chau- temps’ new cabinet decided at its first | meeting today, an authoritative source said, to refrain from asking the full financial powers which Parliament re- fused to give the previous ministry of Leon Blum. Chautemps intends to ask for au- thority to reduce governmental ex- penditures and impose new taxes by decree without waiting for parlia- mentary approval, this informant said, but he does not plan to demand finances which Blum requested. He will not ask for decree power | to supervise banking and foreiga ex- change operations. The new premier emphasized, hov- | ever, that France's financial prob- lems—which caused the fall of the | Leon Blum cabinet—must await the arrival Monday of Georges Bonnret, Ambassador to Washington, who is the new finance minister. Rene Brunet, undersecretary of state for finance, took over the office on instructions from Bonnet and set to work clearing the desks for his new chief's return. His first task was to notify department heads of their selection by Bonnet, who cabled the choices before he sailed yester- the virtual dictatorship over Freach | ONE-MAN CAR BAN LEGALITY ARGUED Constitutionality of Dirksen ! Bill Is Questioned by Prettyman. BACKGROUND— Aroused by rail and bus service in District Representative Dirksen, Repub- lican, of Illinois mtroduced bills to ban one-man car operations and fix maximum fares at 7 cents Bills resulted in District Committee ordering thoro Capital Transi _transportation 1,1933 complaints against t Co. since m jacilities December BY JAMES E. CHINN, Constitutionality of a bill designed to abolish one-man car operations in Washington was questioned todav by E. Barrett Prettyman, former Dis- trict corporation counsel, as a sy cial subcommittee of the House Dis- trict Committee began a long pro- posed investigation of the Capital Transit Co. The one-man car bill and another which would fix maximum bus and car fares by congressional ma ay cents. form the nucleus inqui Both were introduced by Representative Dirksen, Republican of Iilinois, a member of the investigating ubcommittee. Dirksen, however. served notice he proposed to inquire into the entire fiscal set-up of the Capital Tran: Co., together with its relationship to the North American Co. of New R. P. Scripps, Roy Howard, Paul Block, Newspaper Publishers, Are Included Among Magnates Named. REVENUE LOSS TO U. S. IS SET AT $9,237,000 Jacob Ruppert, Base Ball Mag. nate, Held One Who Used Holding Firm Device to Reduce Payments in Helvering State- ment to Committee. BACKGROUND- When tax returns of last March fell considerably b estimates, Treasury Department made quick survey in eflort to determine rea- son. Finding greatest compa shortage in centers of wealth vestigators uncovered several avoid- ance devices in general use President on asked for congres rith legisia- tion to there onal Two score names of persons high in business an listed by Tre; today in inquiry into tax Insiead, he said th tage of tax ded sonal holdir law which are dividual tax npanies u: not permitted on in- rns, Melion Has Two. bed as having two His name was hearing early in to- identified Isabel Irene Sloan, Charles Hayden (deceased), Jeremiah Milbank, | Roy W. Howard and wife, W. S. Paley, York, which controls the transit con- | cern. Losing Businesses Hit. At the very outset of the inquir Dirksen told transit company offici that any concern or business which loses money or fails to pay a return on capital investment is “a menace to in- dustrial enterprise.” The trans pany has paid only $1 on each of iis 240,000 shares of common stock since the transportation merger December 1, 1933. Appearing as counsel for the transi company, Prettyman pointed out that District courts had held the Public Utilities Commission has the authority “showing qf fact” that such operations nsafe, inadequate and uneco- nomical.” The courts. however, he said, had definitely denied the commission power to issue a blanket prohibition against cne-man cars. “A bill which would deny in blanket fashion the one-man car operation, regardless of the facts as to its ade- quacy,” he declared. “would be open to constitutional question.” Dirksen Differs, Dirksen refused to agree. “I don't betieve Congress must consider the effect of legislation it enacts,” he said. “The Public Utilities Commission is its creature. Any authority delegated to it by Congress, Congress can take away. Prettyman, Congress cannot cars out of existence without (See TRANSIT, Page A-3) however, argued that legislate one-man first FINISHES COURSE Gets Science Certificate at Harvard. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 24 (#)— A certificate signifying completion of his naval science course at Harvard University was presented today by Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., son of the President, by Rear Admiral Walter R. Gherardi, U. S. N, commandant of the 1st Naval District. Roosevelt was graduated at today’s Young Roosevelt Naval day from New York. MATEUR photographers, here is your opportunity to make your hobby pay real dividends and win you national recog- A nition. You have a chance to win weekly prizes in The Evening Star's Amateur Snapshot Contest this Summer and compete for a share of $10,000 grand national awards. For a single snapshot you may win as much as $30 in The Star's local contest, and $1,500 in the national competition. ‘The Star will give a $5 first prize [} commencement. Amateur Camera Men Given Chance of Prizes and Fame for the best snapshot every week; a $2 prize for every picture published each week, and $25 each for the final winners in four classes at the end of the contest in September. The four final winners will be en- tered in the third annual Newspaper National Snapshot Awards competi- tion at a national salon in Explorers’ Hall of the National Geographic So- ciety here in November. They will be judged with pictures entered by other participating newspapers from coast to coast. The $10,000 national (8ee PHOTOGRAPHERS, Page A-9.) — | ps. E. W. Scripps, n, Herbert T. Hannan, F. villiam Dewart and wife, Alisie Mellon Bruce, | W. R. Coe, T. L. Sidlo, Charles E. Mer- rill. Edmund C. Lynch, Paulina du Pont, Mrs. W. du Pont Ross, H. F. du Pont. R. C. du Pont. Valentine E Y. J E. H WwWo Virginia Camp- . John W. Greve and Duncan Phil- h the various Du named [ 1ist were memb in t | former & the Tre: 8 were given ason Tobacco | Corp. of New York City and the Penn Tobacco Corp. of Greenwic Besides W. Mellon, He!l serted, other persons having an inter- est in both companies were C. Louis . described as a manu- facturer C. D. Marshall of Pittsb manufacturer and bridge builder R. B. Mellon, deceased, of Pitt. burgh, a brother of Andrew. As Mellon’s name was brought n | Senator Harrison, Democrat, of Mis- sissippi asked that he be identified Newspaper Owners Named. “Is he the former Secretary of the easury?” the Senator queried. ‘Where does he live?” Answering for Helvering, Abe Fortas, a special agent, identified Mellon as the Pittsburgh financier and former Government official. The exhibit listed first the names of Robert P. Scripps and E. W. Scripps as principal owners of personal hold- ing companies. Harrison asked whether the two | were “engaged in the newspaper busi- ness, and how many papers do they have?" “They have papers in a large num- ber of cities,” Helvering replied. Harrison then asked whether profits from the papers were transferred to the holding companies, making profi (See EVASION, Page A-14) ANDREW MELLON ILL FROM BRONCHITIS Former Secretary of Treasury, However, Declared Recovering From Attack. By the Associated Press. Sources close to Andrew Mellon saic today the 82-year-old former Secretary of the Treasury is recovering from ar attack of bronchitis. They said he is confined to his apart. ment here, but is “up and about most of the day” and receiving friends. He has suffered from a recurring bronchial ailment for the last twt years, they said, and was taken U about two weeks ago. )