Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow, except probably local thundershowers iate to- morrow afternoon: not much change in temperature; gentle winds. Temperatures today—Highest, 82, at 1 p.m.; lowest, 65, at. 4:30 am. Full repoirt on page A-8. New York Stock Market Closed Today Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. 85th YEAR. No. 34,031, ch WASHINGTON, D. MISS EARHART’S S O S HEARD 1 VOICE SEARCHERS FOR PLANE Amateurs Pick Up Signals at 10 A.M. SHIPS, FLYER! RUSH TO SCENE Aviatrix Is A Down 100 Miles From Howland. BACKGROUND— Amelia Earhart began present attempt to circle globe at equator because she longed for new worids to conquer. No one had traveled around the earth’s “waistime.” 1t was not her first record hop. She was the first woman to fiy solo across the Atlantic and the first person—man or woman—twice to Ay the ocean. Among her many other first fights was her solo from Honolulu to California in 1935, 5 — AMELIA EARHART, As she qreeted Brazilians after landing in Fortaleza. This is one of the last photo- graphs of the aviatrix. MARSHALL ISLANDS tMaloetap 4+Ailinglapatap ‘&Arne 2 oMl B the Associated Pre HONOLULU, July 3.—Reporls that the voice tousle-haired Amelia Farhart had been picked up, calling “S O S” from the mystery spot where the lost in mid-Pacific, buoved hopes for her ultimate rescue today as the United States Navy ordered a battleship into the search. Two Los Angeles radio operators as late as 7 am. Pacific time (10 am. E S. T.) said they dis- tinctly heard her sound her call let- ters, KHAQQ. after thrice saying “S O S" some 20 minutes earlier. At San Francisco, however, a Coast Guard station reported at noon. East- ern standard time. it had received no word whatever. although radio recep- tion was unusually good Earlier the Los Angeles operators— Walter McMenamy and Carl Pierson— interpreted radio signals as placing the plane adrift near the Equator be- tween Gilbert Islands and Howland Island. the latter Miss Earhart's desti- nation when her fuel was exhausted more than 20 hours before. | of is GILBERT - ".Ahrm.ml —ISLANDS —= amateur ol "KINGSMILL ®Arorae Ly Guinea, to Honoluli. Battleship Ordered to Search. | At Washington the Navy Depart- ment ordered the battleship Colorado. with three planes aboard. to begin a search from Honolulu, where it arrived yesterday. “I recognized Miss Earhart’s voice fromconversations 1 have had with her. although I never heard her on the air before.” said Pierson concern- ing his 7 a.m. reception “Walter recognized her because he | maintained wireless contact with her | plane on her flight from Oakland to Hawali this Spring.” | Their efforts were added to an in- creasing number of others, all be- lieved coming from the missing plane | and prompting Coast Guardsmen to | express belief that Miss Earhart and her navigator would be rescued. “KHAQQ" is the call of Miss Ear- | hart's plane, last heard from in the | air yesterday at 2:12 p.m. Eastern standard time, when she reported she and her navigator, the veteran Fred Noonan, could not sight land and were nearly out of gas. Another message signed with the plane’s call letters and seeking radio contact was picked up in the South | spot denoted by the cross The following dispatch story received from on the ground today. of radio difficulties, nometers. feat the accuracy of celestial naviga- tion. Howland is such a small spot| ~ (See PREPARATION, Page A-3.) LIEUT. W. W. HARVEY, Flyer who hopped off last night from Honolulu to search jor the world fiyers. EQUATOR PHOENIX |suf~ns Canton & gngerbur, MKean y Birnie s © g, o0 v Qaraner o HUll 4 ¢Sydnev Map of the Pacific region for hundreds of miles around the lonely and tiny Howland Island where Miss Earhart intended to stop on her projected route (dotted line) from Lae. New The search Noonan and their plane presumably is centering in the open | water above and to the left of Howland, in approzimately the Some of these specks are scarcely more than sand bars or coral reefs and most of them are unin- habited and off Pacific ship lanes. or Miss Earhart and Fred from Amelia Earhart, the last personal ner bejore she was reported before she departed from Lae and was received last night. missing, was filed ss to The Star. | | LAE. New Guinea, July 1.—"Denmark’s a prison” and Lae, attractive and NUstle-bustle of a knock-down city unusual as it is, appears to two fivers just as confining as the Lockheed-Electra is poised for our longest hop. the 2,556 miles to Howland Island, in mid-Pacific. | The monoplane is weighted with gasoline and oil to capacity. wind blowing the wrong way and threatening clouds conspired to keep her | However, & In addition, Capt. Fred Noonan, my navigator, has been unable, because to set his chro-* Any lack of knowledge of in the Pacific that every aid to locat- | their fastness and slowness would de- | INg it must be available Fred Noonan and I have worked Guard reported. The Achilles, many miles south and east of Howland, messaged: “Unknown station heard to make: ‘Please give us a few flashes if you get | us—7 signal on 3.105 kilocycles.” This station made KHAQQ twice and dis- appeared. Nothing more since then.” | The Achilles’ message said the radio | was heard on 3,105 kilocycles. §Lands at Shediac Bay, New Sears earlier by the New Zealand war- ship Achilles, the San Francisco Coast | | | | In Shark-Infested Waters. Miss Earhart was generally believed ! to have come down in shark-infested waters within a radius of 100 miles | northwest of Howland Island after having overshot the tiny target on a | 2,570-mile hop from Lae, New Guinea. | Coast Guardsmen suggested the fiyers may have reached a mid-Pacific | coral reef or sandspit and set up their emergency radio on land. | Weather conditions were reported fairly favorable for safety of the pair, whether they were on a remote atoll or adrift. A heavy smoke belched from the | funnels of the gleaming white, 250- | foot cutter Ttasca, visible for nine miles | from its Howland Island anchorage, | 8s it ploughed forward on a smooth | sea in quest of the $80.000 Earhart Flying Laboratory. While the cutter hunted by sea, a Navy flying boat sped over the 1,500- mile distance from Honolulu. The Navy minesweeper Swan joined | the hunt from a position halfway be- | tween here and Howland, where it | had been stationed to give any pos- | &ible aid to Miss Earhart on the next | leg of her flight. The flying boat itself undertook a hazardous night flight to join the | search. Carrying a crew of eight, it | took off from Pear] Harbor and headed (See EARHART, Page A-3.) ASEE FOUND SHOT TO DEATH | Marine Band Musician Killed in His Bed Room. Karl Schaefer, 35, a member of the Marine Band, was found dead this| afternoon in the bed room of his home At 228 Twelfth street southeast with | & charge from a shotgun through his heart. He apparently had died in- stantly. The gun was beside Schaefer’s body | | Monday 601 miles from Port Washington in | Brunswick, on First Leg of Sea Flight. By the Associated Press. PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y., July 3.—Well on its way toward bridging the broad North Atlantic by commer- cial airline, the Pan-American Clipper III, 45.500-pound flying boat, coasted to a landing on Shediac Bay, New Brunswick, at 10:52 am. (E. S. T.) to- day. The Pan-American Airways base here announced receipt of a radio- gram from Capt. Harold E. Gray, com- | mander of the boat scheduled to wing across the ocean to Foynes, Ireland, on saying he had negotiated the 4 hours 23 minutes. Botwood Next Stop. Before him and his crew of six lay 471 miles to be flown—to Botwood, Newfoundland—before nightfall. Botwood is the take-off point for the boat. A British Imperial Airways boat will soar off the water at the mouth of the Shannon River, Foynes, at about the same hour Monday, westbound. The big ship rose smoothly from the water after a short run, starting the 3.500-mile trip exactly on schedule. The crew went aboard at 7 am., warmed the four engines, made a preliminary taxi to the starting posi- tion and started away with no ceremony. The seven men aboard, delighted to be off on the new transoceanic venture, apparently were more in- terested in the fate of their mutual friend, Capt. Fred J. Noonan, Amelia Earhart's companion on her world flight, than in their own hop. They were Capt. Harold E. Gray and members of his family said n;and his crew of six, making the apparently had gone off while he was |same type of experimental flight to cleaning it. His body was found by Europe that Capt. Noonan and other his wife. rd (3 | IPPER BASQUES' LEADERS ENDS G01-MILE HOP DESERT TERRITORY. De Aguirre and Remnants of Army Quit Last Stand, Aides Report. By the Associated Press. BAYONNE., France. July 3.— Basque government officials here an- nounced Antonio de Aguirre and the remnants of his army had abandoned their last stand in Basque territory of Northern Spain. The President, against what he termed ‘“plundering of which we, the Basques, have been ! made victims in the twentieth cen- | tury.” Aguirre’s statement, given out by a spokesman here, said “Our territory has been conquered,” but that “the Basque government, wherever it is, remains the legitimate government of | the Basques, interpreting the feelings | of a race which has not been con- | | Quered.” eastward survey flight of the American | Aguirre’s statement said he had reached the boundary of the Basque provinces. ‘The President expressed ‘“indigna- tion” that he and his men were forced to give up their fatherland, and said that feeling was “still greater because, | in order to take the fatherland from Us, the Spanish Fascists were forced to call in mercenary forces—Germans and Italians.” Assistance Sought. LONDON, July 3 (#).—Britain, | France a ssia—virtually standing (See EUROPE, Page A-3) R R e Lindbergh in France. DINAN, Brittany, France, July 3 (#).—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh land- ed here at 7 p.m. last night after a flight from England. He was met by | a private automobile and left for an unspecified destination after placing (See CLIPPER, Page A-3.) his ship in s hangar. SPURS ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION C. ) NEW YORK HEARS WAGNER MAY RUN FOR MAYORSHIP Senator Refuses to Confirm Report Tammany Might Draft Him for Post. | | | |LA GUARDIA IS ALSO STRONG ALLY OF LABOR National Repercussions Certain to Result if Party Succeeds in Securing Candidacy. B\ the Associated Press NEW YORK. July 3.—Local po- litical leaders were told today that United States Senator Robert F. Wag- ner has consenfed to be Democratic candidate for mayor next Fall if Tammany insists, running against Fiorello H. La Guardia, Fusion in- cumbent. No confirmation has come from Senator Wagner, and within the past week he has told influential he would be reluctant to run. However, the five Democratic lead- ers of New York City, meeting in secret according to their time-honored custom to pick a candidate for the mayoralty, have passed the word along through Tammany Hall and sundry political purlieus that Senator Wagner has reluctantly agreed to run if the five leaders unanimously insist upon drafting him. Would Precipitate Battle. If Senator Wagner runs an extraor- dinary political situation will result There will be national repercussions in both major political parties, and the American Labor party, entering its first major campaign, will be forced to choose between two of labor's out- standing champions. La Guardia has been a Roosevelt supporter. Roosevelt has been a foe of Tammany. There has been much discussion in local Democratic circles as to how far the President would g0 in supporting a Democratic oppo- nent of La Guardia It is known Wagner has been close to the Presi- | dent. | La Guardia was elected to his present | term after he had received the Re- | publican nomination. But some Re- | publican leaders protest party backing | for a conspicuous figure who is openly | an independent liberal. | Reform-Fusion Mayor. | La Guardia was swept into office at | the head of a reform, fusion move- ment. backed by anfi-Tammany Re- | publicans, independent voters, that wanted thriftier government. He was elected just after the disclosures of the Seabury investigation. New York has had a reform. fusion Mayor about once every 20 years, but none has been re-elected. The aid of the President was en- listed this week. according to a na- | tionally known Democratic leader, to | the extent of asking Senator Wagner | if he would consent to run. Senator Wagner is said to have replied to the President that he did not wish to give |up his Washington career for the political fight. 1t may be significant that accord- | ing to local accounts of the conversa- | as saying that he did not wish to run, not that he refused to run. The Pres- ident is said to have let the matter drop there. MARKETS ARE CLOSED FOR FOURTH HOLIDAY E¥ the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 3.—The New York Stock Exchange and most of | the other important securities and | commodity markets in the United States were closed today as part of the Independence day holiday. Im- portant markets will be closed Mon- | day. July 5. The Chicago Board of Trade, New SATURDAY, friends | labor | | and liberal elements, financial interests | Preparations for Howland H op Told in Miss Earhart’s Story tion, Senator Wagner is quoted merely | o o, JULY 1937—THIRTY ¢ Foening Star PAGES. #» The only in Washington wit Associated Press and Wirephoto Services. evening paper the News Yesterday’s Circulation, 137,059 (Some returns not vet received.) (®) Means Associated Pre: TWO CENTS. TRY -THIS IN YOUR BACK GARDEN SOME RUSSIANS SEIZNG SBERIAN- PRIESTS IN'CHURCH DRIVE o YN @i, 173 i 1.0 0USTS THD I STEEL “PURGE 'Gus Hall Is Among Drbpped‘ Leaders—U. A. W. Move E to “Clean House.” i BACKGROUND— | Refusal of three large inde- pendent steel companies to sign contracls with Committee for In- | dustrial Organization preceded call- ing of steel strike May 26. The companies were Inland, Republic and Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Bethlehem has been added. Five | weeks of strike have been marked ' By stolence tn whiich 15 tives Have | been lost and more than 200 per- sons injured Federal eflorts collapsed. | mediation | By ikc Associated Press. | YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, July 3.—A C. 1. O. “purge” began today. as the union's ax fell on Gus Hall and two other strike captains in the Ma- honing Valiey steel sector. John Owens. general C. I. O. strike director in Ohio, announced without | comment the removal of Hall, now in jail under charges of heading a “dvna- mite ring.” as strike captain in the Warren area. A joint leadership of | Harry Wines and John Crajcier Te- placed him Owens also stripped two of his Youngstown strike lieutenants of their authority, removing Bob Burke. chief organizer at the Republic Steel plant, and John Stevenson, organizer at the | main plant of the Youngstown Sheet | & Tube Co. Communist participation in strike was claimed in circulars dis- tributed through the valley today. In the circular Phil Bart, “Mahoning Val- | ley secretary of the Communist party,” said: “Of course the Communisi party and its members in the steel mills par- ticipated in the drive to orgaisize steel and all other unorganized industries. The Communist party joins with all democratic forces in the struggle | against reactionaries, open shop vio- lence and Fascism.” the | Murray Is Silent. Philip Murray, chairman of S. W. 0. C. the C. I O. steel affiliate which called the strike), said at Pittsburgh | | he “knew nothing about” the removal | ‘ of the Ohio strike leaders, | Owens’ “house-cleaning” order was issued only a few hours after another | prominent chieftain of the C. I O. | movement—Homer Martin, head of | the automobile workers—removed | | Philip D. Bookstaber of Harrisburg. | | Pa., Allen Cites Story Of Railroader in Discussing D. C. Tax Commissioner Allen today ex- pressed himself on the Tydings price resale maintenance rider to | | the District tax bill with a short | | story about the reaction of a one- legged watchman at a railroad crossing who had witnessed a train wreck in which several per- sons were killed The Commissioner said he asked the old watchman in court what he thought when he saw the two trains approaching each other toward & head-on collision. The reply was “When I looked up the track and saw old No. 1 comin’ hell-a- to-hoot. and then I looked up the other way and 1 saw old No. 3 comin’ in the opposite direction heli-a-to-hoot. I says to myself, says I ‘Thats a hell of a way to railroad.”” SCOUTS TOATTERD CHURCH SERVICES Also Prepare for Celebration of Independence Day | on Monday. | (Page of Boy Scout Jamboree | News, A-5.) i the Boy Scout Jamboree today launched into a busy week end of preparation for a series of religious | services tomorrow and of patriotic exercises in celebration of Independ- ence day on Monday. Most of the 375 members of the ' National Council, Boy Scouts of America, had left camp today. hav- ing concluded their annual election of officers and consideration of other business at a meeting in the jamboree | auditorium tent vesterday. Dan Beard, who was re-elected national Scout commissioner, and several other executives remained in camp. “Uncle Dan” visited Naval Its only business session completed. | Hospital ti# morning to cheer up several Scouts laid up with appendi- citis and some minor ailments. Jewish Boys at Rites. Religious worship for Jewish boys | was held last night and again this | morning in the auditorium tent. Rabb! preached the sermon. Rabbi | Jesse J. Finkle has been appointed | | BACKGROUND— .. TAXBILLATE IN SENATE VAGUE | Controversy Looms Over Attempt to Write in _ Price Measure. ! With the District facing a $7.- 000,000 shortage in the mew fiscal vear because of the continued re- duction in the Federal Govern- ment's share of local expenses, numerous tar devices have been proposed to raise the necessary junds. The House bill provided income, inheritance and chain- store levies and an increase in that on real estate. The Senate has re- written this measure. —— - | BY J. A. O'LEARY. | The revamped District tax bill awaits an uncertain fate in the Senate next week, because of conflicting views on some of the revenue-raising changes and the fact that it has a national price-fixing measure tied 0 it as a rider. After the District Committee had yoted yesterday to substitute the 2 per cent sales tax on luxuries for the gross receipts business levy, and an increase of $1 pe: $100 on the value of land in place of the House increase of 20 cents per $100 on property as a whole, Chairman King announced an- other committee meeting will be ne: essary to act formaliy on the detailed wording of the amendments. The pew tax of 1 per cent on the value of land, sponsored by Senator McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada, will draw a larger part of the revenue needed to meet the deficit from prop- erty owners than would the House bill. May Hold Meeting Monday. A reprint of the amended bill will not be ready until Monday. ‘The committee probably will be called to- | gether then to ratify it so that it can be reported to the Senate. With the Senate in adjournment until Tuesday because of the Fourth | of July holiday, it may be late next week before the bill can be taken up for debate, and even then it may have to compete with the Supreme Court reorganization issue to gain consideration. | In view of its emergency character | to meet an impending deficit in local | revenues, the tax bill probably will | be allowed to come up as soon as pos- | ible, but at that point it will confront ' controversy over the effort to write into its Nation-wide legislation relat- ing to the maintenance of resale | clergy | anti-Soviet work in Ka | newspaper, |olic clergy in White Russia | the Reichstag York Spot Grain and most of the live | three union organizers at Flint, Mich., | prices on commodities. today that President Jose | fleeing with his | forces, made a protest to the world | stock markets were open today. Savannah and Jacksonville stores markets also were open. naval Summary of Page. Amusements C-12 | Obituary Art B-3 | Radio Books B-2 | Real Estate, Church News, C-1tod | B-4-5| Short Story. A-9 | Comics __._B-6-7 | Society _ A9 | Editorials ___ A-6 | Sports _C-6- Lost, Found. C-8 | Woman's Pg._ C- | Music Page. A-8 A-7 FOREIGN. Russian press discloses reopening of church drive. Page A-1 Basques abandon last stand in own territory. Page A-1 NATIONAL. Miss Earhart's own story tells of flight preparations. Page A-1 Clipper takes off on experimental trip to Europe. Page A-1 Battle over new court bill opens in Senate Tuesday. Page A-2 De Valera's party Increases lead in Ireland election. Page A-2 Maverick and Cox battle in Hcuse over C. 1. O. Page A-2 Party. girl's death blamed on Den- hardt in suit. Page A-4 Striker slayers may face prosecution; probe adjourns. Page A-4 WASHINGTON AND NEARBY. Fate of D. C. tax bill held uncertain in Senate. Page A-1 Jamboree begins busy week end of re- ligious services. Page A-1 Cannery strikers feel pinch as money for food runs low. Page A-2 More evidence of police-gamblers link being prepared. Page A-16 Forbush sentenced to 9 to 30 years for hold-ups, Page A-10 \ The | and transferred a Detroit organizer | | from the post. The action, he ex- ! (See C_ L O, Page A-3,) Today’s Star Thousands prepare for biggest Fourth in Capital history. Page A-10 New grand jury to be sworn in next week. Page A-10 Saw Garfield shot as 14-year-old news- paper boy. Page A-10 Co-ordination sought in probe of skele- ton mystery. Page A-10 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page This and That. Page Stars, Men and Atoms Page Answers to Questions. Page David Lawrence. Page H. R. Baukhage. Page Mark Sullivan. Page Jay PFranklin Page Lemuel F. Parton. Page FE R LLWLLLhaass SPORTS. Almada gives Nats big edge in swap with Bosox. Page C-6 July flag maxim threatened, says Con- nie Mack. Page C-6 Gehrig, Medwick slipping as big league swat leaders. Page C-6 Cubs, Giants staging hot race in Na- tional League. Page C-6 U. S. at peak of international compe- tition this month. Page C-7 Pete Bostwick tops in versatility as horseman. Page C-7 MISCELLANY. Traffic Convictions. Vital Statistics. Shipping News. Young Washington. Nature's Children. Cross-word Puzzle. Bedtime Story. Letter-Out. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Page Page Page Page Page Bage Page Page Page Page QAFATIT> > > > YT Y YSS chaplain of the Jewish groups in the Jjamboree camp A reception and social hour for all Jewish boys and their friends was Lo be held later today under the direc- tion of Morris Stein, chairman of the | Jewish Reception Committee. Kosher kitchen service also is provided. A variety of other religious services | will be held tomorrow in various paris of the jamboree grounds, to be elimaxed by a big convocation on the Monument Grounds at 7 p.m. with | Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. | Roper as one of the principal speakers. Inclusion of the resale price mainte- | nance amendment in the local meas- |ure was deplored by Commissioner { Melvin C. Hazen. “It has no place in the District of | Columbia tax bill.” Hazen said. “The amendment is controversial and will delay the tax bill. We can't afford to wait. We emphasized to the com- mittee that this is a very urgent matter and our need for funds is critical.” | Hazen said he was grateful to the | committee for restoring the provisio "(See TAXES, Page A-3) ‘ EPPndergast and Nephew F ooted; Bills in Election Fraud Cases By the Associated Press. | doings of the 46 persons so far con- KANSAS CITY, July 3.—A Federal | victed. | | Judge’s question—who furnished th'.' Pendergast emphasized there was surety for bonds and paid the trial ex- | nothing secretive about the bonding, | penses for the steadily growing list of then asked: | vote fraud defendants>—had an an-| “If there is anything wrong about | swer today: | it, why don't they say so?” T. J. (Boss) Pendergast and his; In an open letter to Federal Judge | . | Merrill E. Otis, who said testimoney mggfialr&e:nla l:::; : jury, widening | prove the 46 aimed to “steal” the elec- its probe of last November's election | tion for the Democrats, the grand jury | activities and their aftermath, sup- l said James Pendergast put up $60,000 | plied the answer as surety and paid $9,000 in cash for | and Pendergast, trial expenses. with his uncle, T. J, as- | one of the most suring any other amounts needed. . powerful city or- ganization lead- ers confirmed it. Before leaving last night on a long - planned Colorado vaca- tion, Pendergast said he and his nephew, James Pendergast, were actuated by sym- pathy; that there FRANéE TO TEST ROUTE Meteorological Station to Prepare | for New York Airline. | PARIS, July 3 (P.—A floating meteorological station will sail from France shortly to prepare the way for the proposed Paris-New York airline. Officials of Air France Transatlanti- was nothing wrong about such “Boss" Pendersast. ballable action; and that their costly moves in nowise condoned any mis- 4 by que said last night the ship would study weather conditions on the southern route via the Azores, which has been selected for the flying boats. Press Reopens Attack. Many Clerics Reported Already Condemned. RELIGIOUS ACCUSED OF SPY ACTIVITIES Secret Police Chief Recounts Ger- man Plot on Life of Comintern Head in 1936, Br the Associated Press. MOSCOW. July 3—Russia's official press began today a new drive against religion, disclosing the arrest of a number of priests and ministers in Siberia and charging that churches are in league with fascism and cap=- italism in preparing for imperialist wars The Khabarovsk, Siberia. newspaper Pacific Star, which recently disclosed the execution of 131 alleged plotters, said tha! arrested priests and min- isters at Vladivostok already had becn “condemned.” Among those arrested. the paper sald. were a Lutheran minister named Reichvald and two priests of &t. Tikhon's Church named Orloff and Cheronny. The paper charged the clerics were spies who “actively prepared plots against Soviet officials and party repe resentatives.” Other Arrests Reported. A number of members of congree gations also were reported under arrest The newspaper Gudok charged in a8 Thursday issue that “the world is trying to stretch its paws over the Soviet. * * It is known that there are institutions training preachers to be sent to Russia. Of course, under the guise of being preachers, they are spies and divere sionists also.” Pravda, Communist party organ, criticized a party committee for not suppressing a priest who preached It was wrong to hate Germans and Japanese who believed in God The paper said priests engaged in linin Province recently Russian Secret-Police Chief Leonid Zakovsky meanwhile recounted an elaborate plan to kill Georgi Dimitroff, secretary general of the Communist International. alleging that the plan was piotted in 1936 the orders of Gestapo—German secret police. Dimitroff was to have been killed in Leningrad, Zakovsky said in a further eiaboration of asserted spy activity the Soviet Union. Zakovsky vesterday disclosed that more than 120 accused spies had been arrested and more than 70 “liquidated”—liquidation usually meaning execution). Writing in the Communist youth Komsomolskaya Pravda, Zakovsky charged also that the Cath- carried out an important espionage rols en behalf of Poland.” and said a restau- rateur recently had been executed after he confessed plotting to poison air force officers, allegedly at the instruc- tion of Polish intelligence agents. Police Chief’s Story. Of the asserted Dimitroff assassinae tion plot, the secret police chief ree lated A Bulgarian named Pavloff was to have killed the Comintern head at a supper party to which Dimitroff would bs summoned ostensibly to report on the international situation Pavloff confessed along with other members of the band “Paviof was a professional mure derer for the Bulgarian political poe lice,” Zakovsky said. After failure of trial (Dimitroff was cleared in the German fire episode of 1933) and Dimitroff's expulsion, Fase cisti in humiliation appealed to this Macedonian terrorist for help “He was contacted in Sofia and sent to the Soviet republics with ine structions to kill Dimitroff He met Dimitroff in Moscow. but conditions were not favorable. Then he went to Lenigrad. where he laid the plot to assassinate Dimitroff and others of the party in his apartment, after which he was to escape abroad through a visa provided by one of the foreign consulates.” Zakovsky in his reference to Cath= olic clergy alleged that some had used confessionals in order to enlist counter-revolutionaries on behalf of Poland. All these priests were arrested, Za« kovsky wrote, and he mentioned “liquidation” of one such group of 10. They had organized to disrupt traffic on a key military railway in the event of war he charged The restaurateur, the secret police chief avowed, had learned many im- portant aviation secrets while fra= ternizing with officers he planned to kill. They were patrons of his restaus rant. ROOSEVELT AND BRIDE HEAD FOR NEW ENGLAND Leave in Car After Short Stop New York—Sail for Europe Soon. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, July 3—With a secret visit to New York in their honeymoon record, Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., and his bride, the former Ethel du Pont, were believed to be somewhere in New England today. They left for Boston yesterday afte ernoon after a night and a day at the St. Regis Hotel, where employes wers twa in | sworn to secrecy. The news of their visit here, not disclosed until after they had left, was the first clue to their whereabouts since their wedding at the Du Pont estate near Wilmington, Del., Wednesday. A crowd gathered to watch younz Roosevelt assist a porter in packing 12 heavy pieces of Juggage into their small car. The couple has booked passage from Montreal July 10 for Europe. q