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o~ D:“:’C. Grand Jury Charges Attempted Extortion, = Other Returns. . “ “Charged with threatening the life Mrs. Nellie J. Hanford and her son 8- J. Hanford. unless he was paid §4000, Earle Willlam Gott was in; dicted by the District grand jury today ofi @ tharge of attempted extortion. »Gott is said to have admitted writ- 1&g to Mrs. Hanford, widow of Henry Hgnford, Evening Star executive, threatening to kill her and her son! utileds paid. -Mrs. Hanford and her other son, Weeley G. Hanford. turned the letter ofer to the Federal Burcau of Investi- gation, and Gott was trapped when hé called at a local hotel and accepted A ‘timmy” package supposedly eon- ng the money ly thereafter in Franklin Park able 10 post $10,000 bond, he was ted to jai “The grand jurors reported 48 otl Justice Oscar R. Luh- red charges in cted, with the charges ), were E. Logan upport; James ] fatthew John Hopl R. Alexar drew J. Bell, Robert White, George ‘W. Miller, John Leapley and Phillip Spinéll: 2. Lewis Davis and Owen ugh, joy-riding and grand larcen; es E. Duvall and Louis F. Lombardl, housebreaking and larcenv; John R. Ball, Armstead Owens, Ora Jenkins. Ester Jasper, John L. Gilliam and Robert Johnson larceny: Jeff ! Bailey, assault 0 commit robbery; John & i J. Sloane and to commit robbe robbery. assa mit robbery a gerous weapon; James J. Tyler, with intent to com- d assault with a dan- Charles A. Dean, Leonard E Irving, Mozella Farrell, Helen Ford, Lewis Mason, Wilber H. Grimmett, Willilam 8m Wilbur A Lewis and Albert M robbery; Thomas Thom aking Isiah B. Gord . Robert Taylor, rpenter, Fra Dix sen, Pitt Hockad: and larceny: George T, housebreaking and assault a dangerous weapon; Benjamin Drew, assa with a dangerous Wesley Young, Marshall Singleton, Burton Jones and Dennis It with a dangerous Fulton, rape, Fred dward Robinson, gaming regulations, ra taking money Ell were cleared of the : Wallace H. Sham- veapon; Yarborough, and Johm T. O robber; grand larceny, TREASURY AGENTS WILL GO TO SCHOOL Special Training Will Be Given Enforcement Group During Next Few Months. seeking to make its faw-enforcement activities more ef- fective, said vesterday it would give &pecial tra to enforcement agents few months wo-week training pe- Secret Service, customs al- The Treas cedure for searches and seizures, investigation and the com. pilation of evidence will be empha- sized “Attention will be given to the work of microscopists, ballistics ex- handwriting experts, physicists, nemists, uitra-violet ray technicians, photographers and technicians of the Treasury Department laboratories,” the announcement said The training assemblies will open July 26 in Boston, Detroit and San Francisco, with other cities scheduled as follows: 1 9. New York, Chicago and August 23, Atlanta, New Or- leans and Denver; September 7, Bal- timore, Louisville and Kansas City: September 20, Philadelphia, Atlanta end Chicazo; October 4, New York, New Orleans and St. Paul, ‘SCOTTSBORO CASF’ AGAIN GIVEN JURY For First Time in Ten Trials State Fails to Ask Death Penalty. By the Assoclated Brecs, DECATUR. Ala, July 21—The “Scottsboro case” was delivered today to a jury for the tenth time in six years. but there was no demand for the death penalty, as made by the State in &ll the previous trials Judge W. W. Callahan completed his charge at 10:35 a.m., and the Jury retired immediately to weigh the evi- dence in the case of Andy Wright, negro. Samuel 8. Leibowitz, chief of de- fense counsel, filed an exception to the entire charge of the jurist on the ground he “accented unduly” the State’s evidence and did not summar- 1ze evidence presented by the defense. | Wright and eight other colored men are accused of attacking two white | women aboard a freight train n 1931, OMAHA STILL STUCK; OTHER SHIPS STAND BY Construction Bureau Man Flies to Scene to Help Puzzle Out Navy's Latest Problem. By the Associatea Press. The Navy still was trying today to float the light cruiser Omaha, which grounded off Castle Island Light, Crooked Island, in the Bahamas, on July 19. Comdr. Melville W. Powers, naval constructor from the Bureay of Con- struction and Repair, went to the scene by plane to assist the command- ing officer, Capt. Howard M. Mecleary, in floating the 7,050-ton warship, the Navy Department disclosed. The tug Patriot and the ofl tanker Sslinas, with a lighter, are standing by the Omaha to remove ammunition _pad other material to lighten ship, He was arrested | three | and Joseph M | James Wilson, attempt | N ‘ embassy Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events ! and Things. | REACTION. ROM one of the daily short stories printed in this estima- | ble publication last week: | “A mutual friend introduced | | them. Simon fell madly in love. He ! pressed his suit frantically. * % % % FIESTA. 7 The Department of Strange Be- haviour has gleaned another item this week, from a letter written dy | a friend who is working in South | America. Brazil, shall we say. | He writes that during flasta week in the small village where he lives, the people garb themselves in Mardi | Gras costumes and go dancing around town, as is for some reason the customary practice in hot | climates. | | Diference vetween a New Orleans | Mardi Gras and this Brazilian | flesta, however, is that no one | drinks much from the fowing bowl during the latter. Instead people go about armed with little flit guns which are filled with ether. When a gay stranger or friend passes by he receives a gentle squirt of anesthetic, ! At first this makes everybody | verv gay, then very sleepy. Taward | morning they begin to fall asleep | wherever they may be, clutching their flit guns tenderly in their arms, * % % x | By the Associated Press. COLLECTORS. D[D you know (we didn't until our | espionage system re- | ported in at dusk yesterday) that| | small boy stamp collectors make a| | practice of calling at the foreign lega- | | tions every Saturday morning to beg | | for odd philatelic items? 8o general! | is the practice, in fact, that some of | | the embassies have boxes in the hall | where the stamps, franks, etc.. are | placed so the lads can help them- | | selves, Of course, the moppets must be ad- { mitted first by a flunkey. who usually tries to prevent any of the lads from doubling up on him twice in a morn- | ing. Inside dope on this situaton is | that it's not 50 hard to fool the butlers {at the Japanese, Russian or German Embassies, but beware the Rumanian | major domo. who never forgets a face. Thats what the lads say, anyhow We can't quite decide whether these calls are going to train the youth of Washington for diplomacy, business | careers of butling. x x x % GIFTS. l\/IR-S TOM OWEN of Georgetown is by way of becoming the busiest turtle trainer in town, barring not even the Zoo, merely because she remarked to a friend a few weeks ago that she was contemplating the pur- {chase of a pet turtle to go in her garden. All she had done was think about the turtle situation when one day | | came a rap at her door, and there stood a neighbor. | “Your turtle got away it back,” said he, handing a tortoise | | to Mrs. Owen and retreating hastily. | | Mrs. Owen took this beast in and fed | | it & few days, when, lo, the small boys | of the neighborhood heard about the | local turtle owner and began bringing fm all the turtles they could find. | Thought her original “pet” should have company, they said. To date Mrs. Owen has seven turtles, all doing well, thank you, while she |is only slightly harassed by that snapped-at feeling. * x % x MO’ PO. Story about Ni Creek and Po Creek, Virginia, promptly inspired our creek erpert to c lavish er- planation of the long and short. name stuation in the Old Do- minion. There is a curious system of Virginia riverlets of which the Po is a part. Four branches even- tually make up the main stream. They are the Ma, the Ta, the Po and the Ny, or Ni. The Ma and the Ta flow together to form the Mata. (That one was easy, even for us.) The Po and Ny join to become the Poni. Then the Mata and the Poni meet, and you have the Mataponi, a full-fledged river. Ta-ta, now. * k% % PICK-UP. THOUGHT we'd heard of every modern method of picking up a | ®al until a certain Washington lass | returned this week from a plane trip | to the South. She went on a slesper | plane, leaving here in the afternoon. | About nightfall a handsome fellow | from the Argentine began to stalk up and down the aisle, looking in- | tently at each passenger, and ob- | viously doing a bit of inward mutter- 7, and I brought | i Finally he stopped in front of this {lass, bowed and said fiercely, “But | how does one brush one's teeth?” She thought he ought to know that | at his age, but he explained that there | was something very wrong with the water jugs. No water came out. To- gether they investigated. She found the jugs had cellophane caps on them. She broke through one cap. Senor said, “Ah, wonderful, these Ameri- cans,” and brushed his teeth. Later they became good friends. Nice trick, if you can turn it, senor pal. POREEEL. I Big Man Makes Claim. That he is the heaviest man in Burma is the claim of Teddy Gregory of Kado, who weighs 385 pounds. His {LUMBER DEALERS SNUB measurements are: Wrist, 103 inches; waist, 63; chest, 58; neck, thigh, 41; calves, 22. He is § feet O inches in height. i THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, DE VALERA CHOSEN PRESIDENT AGAIN Re-elected for Third Term by Dail, 82 to 52, Despite Cosgrave Attack. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, July %1.—Eamon de Va- lera was re-elected President of the Irish Free State today by the new Dail, parliament, by a vote of 82 to 52. It will be his third term. William T. Cosgrave, opposition leader, vigorously opposed the election, contending that the majority of votes cast in the recent general election were against De Valera's policies. Cosgrave also condemned the new constitution which severs the last link between the Free State and Great Britain and changes the country's name to Eire (pronounced “Airy"). The country approved the constitu- tion in election early this month. De Valera's party won 69 places in the Dail Eireann, lower house, the same number taken by all the other parties together, ELECTRIC COMPANY ACCUSEDBYN.L.R.B. Complaint Charges Coercion of Employes Into Affiliated A F. L. Union. PITTSBURGH, July 21.—The Na- tional Labor Relations Board issued a complaint today against the National Electric Products Co. of Ambridge, Pa., charging the company coerced and intimiated employes into joining a union affillated with the American Federation of Labor. Regional Labor Board Director Charles T. Douds set August 2 for a hearing on the complaint. The complaint grew out of charges by the United Electrical and Radio Workers of America, affiliated witn the Committee for Industrial Or- | ganization The United Union called a strike several weeks ago, after the company signed a closed shop contrac: with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, an A. F. of L. union. The Labor Board charged the com- pany hired men in an attempt to break the strike, gave financial sup- port to a labor organization, dis- charged employes for union activities and refused to bargain with the United Union, which asserted its member- ship included a majority of the workers, | | MILL WORKERS’ UNION Construction Virtually at Stand- still in Springfield in Labor Dispute. Br the Associatea Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill, July 21.—Re- fusal of lumber men and dealers in building materials to recognize a new! organized Millworkers’ Union brought construction to a virtual standstill here today. | A thousand or more carpenters, | | 1 | bricklayers, laborers and other work-|immoral purposes Caroline St. John, | men were idle as dealers closed their | one of the key witnesses doors and refused to sell materials. | On many unfinished buildings, largely dwellings, construction stopped United States District Attorney How- ard Doyle. now in Washington, prom- ised millworkers' leaders he would dis- | cuss the situation with the Attorn General's office. Before he left Doyle said there was a possibility the action | of the dealers might be a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, PLANE CRA'SH KILLS 3 Pilot and Two Motor Cyclists Die in Northwestern Germany. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 21 () —A Danish man and wife riding & motor cycle were killed today when & German military airplane crashed into & group of German soldiers maneuvering near Flensburg in Northwest Germany. The pilot was killed and 19 sol- diers were injured. Flaming gaso- line drenched the Danish motor cy- clists, who died of burns. Innocent Serve Terms \1 A Mrs. Fred Dorsett signs a statement at Indianapolis, admit- ting bad check charges for w served 13 months in prison. v g Anthony Labrizetta, left, a Cleveland jail yesterday when dent Roosevelt had pardoned th hich Mrs. Louise Botts (right) S X nd George Sargent, shown in a they received word that Presi- em after the Justice Department reported they had served 26 months for a $125,000 mail robbery which they did not commit. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. 0., WOMEN HELD INVIGE CLEAN-LP Two Will Be Given Hearings in Baitimore on Mann Act Charges. Continuing conditions in their clean-up of vice Baltimore and vicinity, special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investizgation today added Washington women to the list of 26 persons taken in 10 raids since May 15. The two, Helen Burness and Billie | Edwards. were to be given hearings before United States Commissioner James K. Cullen in Baltimore on Mann act charges. Miss Burness will appear today. Miss Burness was arrested here yes- terday at an undisclosed address. In a secret indictment returned July 6 | by the Pederal grand jury in Balti- inore she was charged with transport- ing from Washington to Baltimore for for the Gov- ernment in the round She was arraigned yesterday before Cullen and released on $1.500 bond for a hearing today, Named in the same indictment with Miss Burness were Edward L. Bring- ley of this city and Mary Liebman and Lillian Post Baltimore, all of Wwhom were arrested several weeks ago | by Federal agents and who are await- ing trial Miss Edwa was arrested in Portsmouth, N. H., vesterday. She is being removed to Baltimore for ar- ralgnment. Her Washington address was not given. Bernard J. Blynn, United attorney at Baltimore, said he will seek early trial dates for the two girls, for the trio named with Miss Burness in the indictment and for five other defendants, Helen and Charles Cipris, Sally Kluke, Betty Byrd and Mary Tedesco. L s Film fans of Argentina are be- coming enthusiastic over American pictures. U.S. Flyer, Captured by Rebels, Disconsolate in Spanish Jail Champaign, 1ll., Man Fears He Is Man Without a Coun ; Firing By the Associated Press. SALAMANCA, Spain, July 21.— Self-cast a5 & “man without a coun- try,” Harold Dahl, 28, of Champaign, 11, and Madrid, Spain, sat in a white-washed insurgent jail today, running nervous fingers through his thinning blond hair and pondering the fortunes of aerial warfare that landed him there, Specifically he was concerned by these problems of the future: Would he ever see his wife again? He was married only six months ago. Would he ever see Champaign again? He was convinced that under the United States neutrality law he had lost his citizenship. Would he be taken before an in- surgent firing squad some sunny morning annd be shot as a mercenary enemy of the Spanish insurgents? There is a faint chance he will be. Or, would he be traded with the Spanish Government forces for an insurgent prisoner? He said he was sure he would be shot if he goes back to Madrid. Wife Living in France. Mrs. Dahl, meanwhile, is living at Cannes, Prance, where she is supposed to be getting the $1,500 weekly salary which Dahl said the Spanish govern- ment promised for his services in its air force. This writer visited the disconsolate Dahl in his cell—the first American he had talked with in some time. He | conversed freely on his service with the Madrid forces—a brief record, ab- ruptly terminated in & gust of ma- chine-gunfire that ripped the fabric off the wings of the pursuit ship he was flying over the Madrid front. But he told the story like this: “It was s very silly move to come here for anything like this, I realize ¢ try—May Face Squad. now—particularly when the only inter- est was money. “I am not a Communist and never was, but I had no job and I heard I could get plenty of money for flying in Spain. I thought I was coming here as instructor.” Dahl came to Spain with two other Americans also hired on a month-to- | month basis and arrived at Madrid June 24, Mexico. Learned in U. S. Army. ‘The aviator explained he had learned flying in the United States Army at a Texas field about 1931 and became a reserve pilot. He added he was a graduate of Columbia University. He flew only twice for the Madrid forces—July 10 and 12. “I took off about 5:30 in the after- noon (of July 12) with a flight of about 45 pursuit planes protecting about 25 bombers. We were over Boadilla (ap- parently Boadilla del Monte, a few miles west of Madrid) when the air above was suddenly full of Nationalist (insurgent) fighters. “Two planes near me came down in flames and another fluttered down and spun out of control. Before I knew what hit me a plane above had riddled my ship so completely that the fabric flew off the wings. “I was flying alone in a biplane of Russian make similar to,the American Curtiss C-12. I was up about 5,000 feet. I bailed out with my parachute and landed in an orchard on the front. I did not know where I was. I just sat and waited and a squad of soldiers came and got me. “They took me to Navalcarnero, then here.” Dahl called the aerial warfare “the bitterest fighting imaginable,” and said the government’s air force was almost entirely made up of Russian airmen. ¢ two | States | He said he had signed up in | b STRIKE RIOTERS FACE PROSECUTION {Chicago Police Cleared by Jury’s Justifiable Homi- cide Verdict. By the Associated Press | CHICAGO, July 21.—A verdict of | Justifiable homicide returned by a cor- oner's jury at an inquest into the death of 10 men slain in the Memorial day steel strike riot speeded prosecution today of 64 participants in the labor clash. Six unemployed American legion members who comprised the jury, ab- solved the police of responsibility for the slayings after hearing testimony | for a week and deliberating it for 50 minutes yesterday Mal Coghlan, assistant State's at- torney, said he would push proceedings | against the 64 strikers and sympathiz- ers on the basis of evidence developed at the inquest. | with conspiracy to riot, an offense which carries a penalty of one to five years in prison upon conviction. Slain by “Unknown Officer.” | Each of the riot victims, the jury de- | cided, was slain “by a bullet fired from a gun held in the hand of an unknown police officer.” The jury’s report said the riot started “when a large body of strikers and strike sympathizers numbering ap- | proximately 1500 to 2.000 persons, many of whom were armed with clubs | and missiles, attempted to force their way through a police line, apparently intending to enter the plant of the Re- public Steel Corp.” in South Chicago From the testimony presented, we the jury justifiable homicide.” Steel Influence Charged. The verdict drew fire from union leaders and attorneys. Thorlow Lewis, counsel for the Illinois district of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica and a C. I. O. representative at the inquest sald: “Apparently the Republic Steel than the La Follette senatorial com- the rest of the world.” The La Follette committee, which investigated the riot, has not yet re- ported its findings to the Senate. Nicholas Fontecchio, rector for the Steel Workers' Or- ganizing Committee, said “We didn't expect any more from that outfit. They kill our people and it's their own convicy themselves.” Claims Arming by C. I. O. Coghlan, who represented the State, called the verdict a just one {and said the testimony “showed to 13 moral certainty that C. I. O. lead- ers supervised the arming of the mob |and planned and incited a violent | attack upon the police.” He said the | strikers “were misled by insane lead- | ership.” | Witnesses at the inquest gave con- flicting testimony. Some asserted the strikers precipitated the riot by hurl- ing missiles and firing a shot. Others t3tifled the demonstrators only sought to establish a peaceful picket line and that police fired without provocation. |FRATERNITY EXEMPTION IN SECURITY ACT ASKED Unanimous support of a bill now pending in Congress to exempt col- lege fraternities and sororities from the provisions of the social security act was wted yesterday by the newly organized Interfraternity Club at a luncheon in Schneider's Restaurant. The measure indorsed was intro- duced by Representative Buck of California and has been referred to the Ways and Means Committee, of which he is a member. The group, composed of members of 12 national social college fraterni- ties, voted to hold its luncheons on the third Tuesday of each month at Schneider’s, the next being August 17. Possible dinner meetings also were discussed. Drive on Your Side. The road hog wants only half the street, but it is usually the other fel- lowe's haif that he wants. Don't be & road hog. Drive on vour half of the road. If you are moving slower than the general run of traffic, keep to the right se far as possible, ' D. C, WEDNESDAY They were charged | lieve this occurrence to be | Corp. has a lot of influence—more | mittee. Apparently Chicago looks at| the massacer with different eyes than | district di- | court, s0 you couldn't expect them to | JULY 21 MKELWAY NAMED 10 SUCGEED KUHN Appointment of New Manag- ing Editor of The Star Is Announced. Benjamin M. McKelway, assistant managing editor of The Star, today was appolnted managing editor, to succeed Oliver Owen Kuhn, who died last Sunday. The appointment was announced by Newbold Noyes, associate editor, on behalf of Theodore W. Noyes, edi- tor of The Star, who is out of the city. McKelway, who is 41 and a native of North Carolina, has been with The Star since March, 1920, serving suc- cessively as copy editor, reporter, assistant city editor, city editor, news manager and recently as assistant managing editor. A resident of the District of Co- lumbia since 1908, he was educated at Western High School, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and George Washington University. Formerly he was a reporter on the Washington Times and Washington Herald and managing editor of the New Britain, Conn., Herald. During the World War he was aide de camp to Brig. Gen. Lloyd M. Brett, commanding the 160th Infantry Bri- gade, and served in the battles of St. Mihiel and the Argonne. He is married, has three sons and resides at 2071 Park road. OKLAHOMAN HEADS FIRST VOTERS’ BODY Chosen by Executive Committee to Succeed Brooklyn, N. Y., Youth. By the Associated Press Herbert Palmer of Oklahoma City was selected yesterday to head the First Voters' League of America, a youth organization formed during last year'’s political campaigns, when it worked for President Roosevelt and other Democratic candidates Palmer was chosen by the organiza- tion’s Executive Committee to ceed Leon L. Sclawy of Brooklyn N. Y, as president. Sclawy became chairman of the board of directors Senator Lee, Democrat, of Okla- homa became chairman of the league’s advisory board, composed of Congressmen Other officers named: Wilson Brown, Oklahoma City, director of public relations; Flovd E. Harper, Tipton, Ind.. first vice president; Eve- Iyn E. Geoffrey, Washington, secre- tary: Charles K. Milroy, Washington, treasurer, and Nathan R. Sobel, Al- bany, N. Y., general counsel Additional vice presidents: Oscar | E. Boline, Wichita. Kans., second vice president; Winfield Scott Chadwick, Neburn, N. C, third vice president; Clifford E. Mann, Winter Haven, Fla., fourth vice president: Anne Shapiro, Philadelphia. fifth vice president, and | Walter Brambell, Kansas City, Mo, sixth vice president. 193 {HULL GIVES DUNN NEW STATE POST Named Adviser on Political Re- lations—01d Job Goes to Moffat. | _Appointment of James Clement | Dunn, head of the division of Euro- pean affairs of the State Department, to the newly created post of adviser on political relations has been announced by Secretary of State Hull. At the same time the secretary an- Inounced the appointment of Jay Pierrepont Moffat, a foreign service i‘nmcrr and until recently American | Consul General at Sydney, Australia, as successor to Dunn. In his new post Dunn will have charge of supervising “such divisions having general charge of relations with foreign states as may be assigned to him and with giving advice on'spe- cial questions and performing other | duties of a supervisory or advisory nature,” the State Department an- | nounced. | It has not been decided which divi- sions will be assigned to the new office. Dunn is & native of Newark, N. J., and entered the Foreign Service School in 1919. He has been on duty in the State Department here since 1927, following duty at various foreign posts. He became chief of the division of international conferences and proto- col in 1928 and was made head of the European division two years ago. MofTat, a native of Rye, N. Y., also entered the Foreign Service School in 1919, and after foreign service came to Washington in 1931 to take the post of chief of the Western European division. When this was merged with the European division under Dunn in 1935, Moffat was sent to Sydney, | THEATER EMPLOYES’ UNION 1S STARTED A. F. L. Begins Drive Here to Organize Workers—80 Per Cent Reported Signed. A campaign to organize ushers, cashiers, doormen and other ‘“front” employes of District theaters in an American Federation of Labor union was under way today. These employes have applied for & charter as a branch of the Inter- national Alliance of Theairical Stage Employes, under which stage hands, motion picture operators and mu- sicians are organized. Leaders of the new organization said they had signed up approxi- mately 90 per cent of the front em= ployes of the large chain treaters, in- cluding the Capitol, Columbia, Earle, Keith's, Metropolitan and Palace. The drive is being extended to the Rialto, independent theater, and to the small- er theaters. ‘The organization drive is being con- ducted by a committee from the stage hands and motion picture operators’ unions. AIR PROGRAM ON ‘The Bureau of Air Commerce an- aounced yesterday a $5,000,000 program of airways construction. The bureau said its program is de- signed primarily to improve the exist- ing system of air navigation aids by modernizing present aids and provid- ing new facilities to fill in gaps in the Present system, sue- | Hornsby Fired As Manager of St. Louis Browns ROGERS HORNSBY. By the Associated Press. 8T. LOUIS, July 21 —Donald L Barnes, president of the St. Louis Browns, today announced that Man- ager Rogers Hornsby had been re- | lteved of his duties, effective today. | Barnes said the action was “taken | for the good of the Browns.” The president of the American League base ball club went on to say that | Hornsby's contract, which ran through | the 1938 season, was 8o written it could be broken at the discretion of the club. Jim Bottomley first baseman, manager. PARDD IALED “BANDIS” Cummings Issues Releases for Two, Is Convinced Crime Was Karpis'. Attorney General Homer Cummings today issued the necessary papers for | the release from prison of Anthony | “Tony" Labrizetta, 34. and George | Sargent, 39, serving 25-year terms for A mail robbery it is claimed they did not commit, President Roosevelt, acting on Cum- i mings' recommendation, vesterday | zranted unconditional pardons to the | two men, who are residents of Akron, | Ohio. While Cummings' report to the President was not made public, it was | learned at the Department of Justice that officials are convinced the crime | for which Labrizetta and Sargent were | imprisoned was committed by Alvin Karpis, notorious kidnaper, and his gang of bandits. Labrizetta and Sargent were among several suspects questioned by postal inspectors immediately after the §1 000 machine-gun robbery of a mail truck at Warren, Ohio, on April 24, 1935, The pair was partially “identi- fled” by winesses, and convicted after | two trials by jury. Thraughout | reserve | acting coach and was named NS GRANTED their period of arrest and prosecution the men insisted they | were innocent and were the victims of a “frame-up” The evidence against them aamittedly was mostly circum- stantial Less than seven months after the ‘Warren robbery a similar hold occurred at Garrettsville, Ohio, under circumstances that pointed to the same gang in each case. The second Tobbery was found to be the work of Alvin Karpis, Harry Campbell and others of their crowd, and this pair confessed the Garrettsville hold-up after their capture by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. Although Karpis was noncommit- tal regarding the Warren robbery, subsequent investigation strength- | ened the belief that the Karpis gang, | and not Labrizetta and Sargent, was | responsible Cummings acted on the advice of Pardon Attorney Daniel Lyons, who made a thorough study of the case. | SENATE VETO ACTION IS DUE TOMORROW Borah Reports Agreement Reach- ed With Barkley on Farm Loan Interest Bill. By the Associated Press. Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho | said yesterday he was cleared for Sen- ate action tomorrow on President Roosevelt’s veto of lower farm loan interest rates. He said he reached an agreement with Senator Barkley, Democrat, of Kentucky, acting majority leader, to act on the President’s veto message then, “before we take up the court bill again,” The House overrode the veto, 260 to 98 The interest rate measure would continue for another year the 3'; per cent ‘“emergency” rate on approxi- mately $2,000,000,000 of Federal Land Bank loans and then calls for a 4 per cent rate for another year. It would also cut from 5 to 4 per cent the interest on more than $800.- 000,000 of land bank commissioner loans. Mexico Rules Tourists. ‘The government of Mexico is in- augrating an extensive system for regulating tourist travel. The coun- try will be divided into 15 tourist zones, and all foreign agencies con- ducting tours to the country must maintain a representative in Mexico City to care for necessary legal for- malities for visitors. Only native Mexicans may act as guides. Fees to be charged will be set by the govern- ment, which also will regulate all hotel rates, tariffs and other charges, b | to Washington LAST TRIBUTE PAID OLIVER OWEN KURN “Conquered Life in Terms of Work,” Declares Rev. R. H. Miller. Sorrowing relatives, friznds and ase sociates of Oliver Owen Kuhn, manag- ing editor of The &tar, paid final tribute to him yesterday afternoon at funeral services in the National City Christian Church, Thomas circle Rev. Raphael H. Miller, the pastor, eulogized Mr. Kuhn as journalist and citizen in simple but impressive rites in the flower-banked church. Secrea tary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, long-time friend of Mr. Kuhn. was among the host of mourners, represent- ing all walks of life “He went as he would have wanted to go," the minister said. “Hg feil full-armored, front-faced, on the bat= tlefield where no foe had ever mads him afraid.” Pointing out that Mr. Kuhn life to the full” Mr. Miller “conquered life in terms of work" an he “counted life not by reward but opportunities it afforded.” He asserted Mr. Kuhn was a mine “lived said he d | ister's son who carried on his father's good works through the medium of Journalism “He believed an interpreter of news WAS just as important as a maker of news,” the clergyman said. “He believed that a reporter was an am- bassador of good news.’ There were brief rites at Rock Creek Cemetery, where the body was placed in a vault The henorary pallbearers were Theoe dore W. Noyes, Frank B. Noves, Flem- ing Newbold, Newbold Noves, Vietor Kauffmann, Samuel H Kauffmann, R. M. Kauffmann, George Adams Howard and Crosby N. Boyd Active pallbearers were G Benjamin M. McKelway, Herbert F, Corn, G. Gould Lincoln, Le Rov W. Herron, William Galt Burns, J. Russsl} Young and William Drew Mr. Kuhn, who died Emergency Hospital from uremis poisoning and complications, is aure vived by his mother, Mre. Emma Col- lins Kuhn of Indianapolis, Ind; his widow, Mrs. Lenora M. R. Kuhn daughters. Lois Mary, Eleanor Margares and Frances: and two sisters, M William T. Rose of Indianapolis, a Mrs. Ravmond T. Harrison of Detroit, Mich. The mother and sisters came shortly before M, A Lyon, Sunday at e Kuhn's death. S R.F. C. STATE LEVY FOUGHT BY JONES Possible Curtailment Local Activities if Sub- jected to Tax. By the Associatad Press Jesse H. Jones. chairman of Reconstruction Finance Corp, said in a letter made pu today the R. F. C. might seek to curtail local services if it were made subject to State taxation. ‘The letter to Senator Hayden, Demo= crat, of Arizona was published along with communications from heads of other lending agencies and forwarded to Senate members Hayden had se ernment corporat Charles Woolf of Phoenix, Ari Feceral agen performing prietary, or “non-governmental tions »uld pay State taxes. Jones, replying, said the R. F. C. is not ope: for profit and does not compete with private capitai in g activities t of State taxation be found a toc X ice by discont field offices and cen ing adr tion in Washington.” Heads of several other joined in opposing the idea. Gov. W. 1. Myers of the Farm Creait Admi ration said various corpora- tions functioning within the R. F. C. are “incorporated arms of the Gove ernment itseif and all of them are performing governmental functions.” R. M. Elliott, acting controller gen< eral, said that some reciprocal ta arrangement might be effective be- tween State and Federal agencies. But, he added, his office i= not prepared to suggest the course of action, STEEL PAI $166,862 LAST YEAR Irvin Received $130,310, Accord- ing to S. E. C. Report—$105,399 for Standard 0il Head. By the Associated Press, The United States Steel Corp. re- ported to the Securities Commission yesterday it paid Myron C. Taylor, chairman of its board, $166.862 last vear. W. A Irvin, president of “big steel,” received $130,310 Standard Oil Co. of Indiana re- ported $105,399 for its president, E. G. Seubert, and Air Reduction Co. $120,- 763 for its president, C. E. Adams. Other salaries shown in annual corporation reports included Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., P. W, Litchfield, president, $82.000 Sharon Steel Corp. Sharon., Pa., Henry A. Roemer, president, $78.641. Collins & Aikman Corp, New York, Willis G, McCullough, president, $75,220. Sees of the agencies Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: In recess; Democrats choose new leader. House: ‘Takes up minor legislation. Banking and Currency Committee resumes hearing on Goldsborough re- tail price discounts bill Labor Committee studies wage-and- hour bill. Rivers and Harbors Committee cone tinues hearing on regional planning bill. TOMORROW, Senate: May take up veto of farm loan ine terest rate bill and other miscel laneous business for two hours befors consideration of the Supreme Court bill is resumed. House: Resumes consideration of confere ence report on Interior Department appropriation bill Subcommittee of Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee begins hearings on research bills, 10 a.m,