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A—2 xxx FORGES AT MADRID IN ARTILLERY DUEL Opposing Armies, Exhaust: ed by Recent Struggle, Dig In for New Thrusts. BACKGROUND— Successful insurgent drive in Northern Spain has been followed dy furious Loyalists offensive against Jorces of Gen. Franco about Madrid. In campaign of last week gov- ernment forces have managed to regain some of positions taken earlier by insurgents, By the Associated Press. MADRID, July 28.—Pagged by seven days of furious struggle over who is to have Madrid in Spain's civil war, insurgent and government armies to- day held their combat to artillery duels. Activity in the Brunete and Villa- nueva de la Canada sectors of the western front was confined to shell- ing of each side’s positions while each army dug itself in farther for a de- termination of “the battle for Madrid.” In the respite from the hand-to- hand struggle precipitated by Gen. Jose Miaja's bold offensive into insur- gent rear guard positions about 15 miles west of the capital, insurgents and government troops alike buried their dead | The bodies were gathered up with ammunition and arms which had been | left in trenches and open flelds when | tides of infantrymen ebbed and flowed over the hills and plains to the west. Reports Salient Intact, Aside from & rectification of the tip of the 19-day-old drive by Miaja, government commanders on the cen- tral front, cansed by the insurgent recapture of Brunete last Saturday, the government asserted its salient ‘was still intact and heavily reinforced. | Both sides were believed organizing | for another test of strength west of | Madrid. The government asserted it had twice the reserve strength of the in- surgents and expressed the opinion it could defeat Generalissimo Fran- cisco Franco should he attempt a major push against the Madrid de- fenses that have resisted his siege &ince last November 6. Government Drive Planned. (The government is planning simul- taneous drives on insurgents on the Madrid, Santander and Aragon fronts, it wes disclosed in Paris by Jose Antonio de Aguirre, president of the fallen Basque republic. He said the former seat of his government, Bil- bao, might not have fallen if the present Madrid offensive had been | started earlier.) While government machine gunners held insurgents to their own trenches yesterday around Villaneuva de la Canada, communications center of the Miaja offensive, seven government bombing planes made a double attack on the insurgenty airdrome at Sala- manca, Franco's general headquarters. This and another attack on a Franco eirbase at Avila brought destruction of several insurgent planes in their hangers, it was said. The defense Ministry announced that one of the insurgents’. tri-motored bombers was shot down in flames last night near Madrid. Aviators “Ball Out.™ ‘The ministry said five German avia- tors escaped from the burning ship in parachutes. Three were captured, another killed and the fate of the fifth unreported. Twenty miles south of the Brunete sector, Franco's troops executed a sur- prise attack on government positions near Cuesta de la Reina, but the ROV- ernment said the insurgents were re- pulsed. (A Salamanca radio broadcaster, re- Yiewing the western front fighting, said, “We have occupied all positions con- structed by the enemy. We can say the red attack against our lines ended with the government's complete de- feat.” (An insurgent communique declared large stores of war materials—includ- ing rifles, machine guns and ammuni- tion—were gathered in the Brunete sector after the retreat of Miaja's forces. Tell of Loyalist Retreat. (The insurgents reported they had pushed Miaja's troops about 4's miles north of Brunete, to the outskirts of Villanueva de la Canada.) The government reported its troops, on the southern Spanish front, had forced evacuation of Villafranca de Cordoba, 15 miles northeast of Cor- doba, killing or wounding 100 of Franco's men and capturing 28. (The insurgent high command said & junction of insurgent advance guards had been completed on the Cordoba front, but gave no further details.) —_— ONLY 2 PERSONS HURT IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS Orniy two persons were injured in traM: accidents here yesterday, ac- cording to police, Raymond Mitchell, 39, of 330 Mad- fson street, suffered two broken ribs Wwhen his car left the road at Alabama avenue and Suitland road southeast, striking a tree. Angelo Palma, 57, of 607 Eighth street northeast, was cut and bruised when hit by an automobile Wwhile crossing at Tenth and F streets, Stephen Jackson, 23, of 1337 Penn- sylvania avenue, driver of the car Which hit Jackson, was charged at the first precinct with having defective brakes. Congress in Brief TODAY, Benate: Debates wage-hour bill. House: Considers minor legislation. Naval Committee continues study o©f airship construction. Senate-House Tax Committes hears Assistant Attorney General Jackson discuss tax evasion. Labor Committee continues study of wage-hour bill. Banking Committee resumes con- sideration of Goldsborough retail price discount bill. Rivers and Harbors Committee con- gx;]uu hearing on regional planning A‘gflcu}tun Committee studies sugar legislation. THE EVENING STAR, WASHIN Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. CAT WALK. HE man who told this yarn said it had created in him a “state of polite uncertainty and doubt.” What it creates in us has no such effete name, but we will not withold what may be art, or some- thing. A lady out in Bethesda is telling & story about her pet chickens and cats, which live together in harmony of ray serene. Did, that is, until matters were complicated by the arrival of a platoon of Kkittens. One of these youngsters started right off by taking more inferest in the chickens than in its own family. Would scramble around among the hens all day long, and at | last, when it was big enough to climb, began trying to go to roost with them at night. Kitten would climb up on the roost- ing pole and try to balance on four feet. This failing, it would then at- tempt to hang on by digging in with the foreclaws. That was also no sale, 50 finally the puss joined the rest of the family, sleeping in an abandoned bushel basket. It's dejected as heck, however, and probably will have a nervous breakdown if it hasn't learned to cackle by the end of the week. * ok ox % CAT WALK-ON. Theatrical note: With the true instincts of a critic, the cat named Harry MacArthur out at Roadside Theater walked on the stage the opening night of “In Mizzoura” and nigh onto wrecked a beautiful scene. Just sat there in the mid- dle of the stage and glared at the audience, What was that what's in a name, peare? crack about Mr. Shakes- * K ¥ X CATERWAUL. BL‘SINESS of having a cat named after you is no light and airy matter, incidentally, as our Mr. Mac Arthur is beginning to discover. La.: Sunday there was a rotogravure pic. ture in the paper of the feline H MacArthur. Next night the one and only original H. MacArthur strolled into a restaurant for dinner. When he opened the menu, pasted inside was his namesake's picture, clipped from the paper. In a few minutes somebody waltzed up and put a saucer of milk on the table. Mr. MacA. has been around to us wailing about this persecution. All we have to say is, milk is good for you. * ox ox X MORNING-GLORY. SINCE we are turning this into a pet column for the day, we might mention a Mr. X who lives down in Maryland. Mr. X's family were Eng- lish. So is he. He and his father had ideas about breeding horses, rac- ing horses. They tried it and they never made any money. When Mr. X came tg America he said “Phooey” (English spelling) to horses. He decided to back something that was a sure thing. Somehow he found out about a place where a man raised racing turtles. Mr. X went down to the turtle farm and picked out a turtle that was fast like a rabbit. This turtle beat all the others every day in the time trials. Then the whole lot went off to the races. Mr. X hed his good thing all marked. He bet on it. The first day the turtle lost. The second day the turtle lost. They tried it out in the time trials. It still was best. The third day it ran in a race and lost. Mr. X quit the turtle game and took up raising dogs. * ook X COLLOQUIALISM. Incidentally, a Washington scribe, his wife and young daughter went down to visit the X family's ken- nels last week end. They had a fine time, except the daughter seemed to be slightly depressed or shocked or something at times. Seems she went for a tour of the kennels with one of the offspring of Mr. and Mrs. X. Accustomed to speaking about dogs as dog breeders do, the young guide repeatedly referred to all the lady dogs as you know whats. Word that begins with the second letter of the alphabet. (Ain’t we coy?) On the way home the daughter was discussing the day. “Have a good time? Enjoy the children?” said her father. “Fine,” said she. “I liked them a lot. But don’t they speak an awful language?” * ¥ ¥ x STRAYED. OUR tale about the vagrant propensities of wire-haired ter- riers has already gained much credence from John Edwards, who has his offices in the Southern Building. Mr. Edwards was crossing a downtown park last week when a wire-hair came charging over to him, apparent- ly seeking protection. She had no tags on, and no owner was in evidence, 80 Mr. Edwards took her in tow. Having about a dozen dogs him- self, he didn't add this one to the kennel, but turned it over to his colored houseman, who bestowed the TOMORROW. Senate: Probably will continue discussion of Wwage and hour bill. House: Considers flood control bill. Naval Affairs Committee considers bill to promote efficlency in the Navy. 10:30 am. ) name “Fuzzy All right. All right. We know. This isn't the lost and found column. (Although we suspected something last week). Note to Fuzzy's owner: You're supposed to pay for ads like this. P. 8.—You're also supposed to buy District of Oolumbia dog tags for g 4 TON UMMINGS LIKES PRESIDENT PUSHES REED FOR JUSTICE PARALYSIS BATLE Attorney General Holds Him |Acts to Expand National Qualified for “Any” Post. Evades Indorsement. Availability of Solicitor General Stanley Reed for the Supreme Court post vacated by Justice Willls Van Devanter was stressed today in a cryptic statement by Attorney Gen- eral Cummings at his press conference. During a discussion of the Supreme Court situation, Cummings was asked if he still held to a previous opinion that Reed is “qualified to hold any position” the Nation might offer. “I certainly do,” Cummings said emphatically. “More than ever—and you can quote me on that.” Asked if this could be taken as an indorsement of Reed for appointment to the Supreme Court, the Attorney General quickly pointed out that he could not be put in the position of indorsing anybody. Cummings’ original expression re- garding Reed's qualifications was made at the time the Government lawyer was under consideration for appointment as Solicitor General Reed has carried most of the burden of the Government's battles before the Supreme Court in behalf of New Deal policies. At the same time, it was learned that Cummings will reply before the end of the week to President Roose- velt's request for an opinion on the validity of a recess appointment to the Supreme Court. Cummings, it was disclosed, has gone far back into legal records to study precedents in connection with recess appointments to the bench. It 15 understood he has found numerous instances in which lower Jjudges have been given recess appointments, with the provision that no salary be paid them until confirmation of the nom- ination by the Senate. In cases where confirmation was re- fused, the records show, Congress usually passed a special act to reim- burse the judge for his services under the recess appointment. FREE MEDICAL AID URGED IN SENATE Lewis Asks Socialization of Pro- fession and Bills Payable by U.S. B the Associated Press Senator Lewis, Democrat, of Illinois asked Congress today to nationalize the medical profession. He introduced a resolution to make | all physicians and surgeons civil of- ficers of the United States. They would be required to give medical aid to any needy impoverished person and the Social Security Board would pay the bill. Lewis advanced the proposal at the recent annual convention of the Amer- fecan Medical Association. Some con- troversy followed over whether he spoke with White House authority. Lewis’ resolution would direct phy- | sicians or surgeons to treat on request any impoverished person in need of zation 1if considered necessary. —e | 'ALLEN AND PEARSON ' SUE FOR $200,000 Radio Commentator and Broad- casting Company Accused by Two Columnists. Claiming their professional reputa- tions had been injured by a recent radio broadcast by Arthur Reilly, ra- dio commentator, Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, authors of a newspa- per column, yesterday filed suit in District Court for $200.000 damages from Reilly and the National Broad- casting Co. According to the suit, Pearson and ing in their column: “Anning S. Prall, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, probably will not be able to return .o his work due to a severe illness which has resulted in partial paralysis.” Broadcasting over Station WRC that night, Reilly, according to the suit, read a statement from Prall's son Mortimer denying the accuracy of the article. ‘The suit. filed through Attorney William E. Leahy, asks $100,000 com- pensatory and $100,000 punitive dam- ages. CRUISER AT RED PORT Augusta Arrives at Vladivostok on Courtesy Visit. The Navy announced today the cruiser Augusta, flagship of the Asiatic Fleet, arrived at Viadivostok today for a courtesy visit to Soviet Russia's Far Eastern port. The cruiser is the first American naval ship to call at a Soviet port since the Bolshevik revolution. By the Associated Press. WOODS HOLE, Mass, July 27.— The ketch Atlantis, floating labora- tory of the world-famous Ocean- ographic Institution, turned yesterday toward one of its strangest quests—a search for fragments of the deep Atlantic’s floor. Only recently returned from a hunt for samples of the ocean's population to see what “apartments” the crea- tures occupy, the next assignment for the Atlantis was & short voyage for preliminary tests in the use of explo- sives in deep water. The scientists in this center of marine study are seeking to perfect a technique whereby the methods of seismic geology can be used in the ocean basins to determine the thick- ness of mud on the ocean floor. After a short preliminary trip, the Atlantis will head next month for a deep sector of the ocean. The unusual voyages of the Atlantis have included a trip during the Sum- mer of 1935 on which the thickness of the sediment over the continental shelf off the Eastern coast was suc- cessfully measured. Columbus Iselin, acting director of the institution, described the aims of v Allen on July 20 published the follow- | | | aid. and provides for their hospitali- | Ocean Floor Samples Sought By Means of Depth Explosions Program of Prevention and Immunization, By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt has taken steps to expand the Nation-wide program of infantile paralysis prevention and immunization. The President’s Birthday Ball Com- mission for Infantile Paralysis Re- search said today trustees of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation already are working, at his request, on the enlargement program. Mr. Roosevelt, a sufferer from in- fantile paralysis for more than 15 years, praised the agency's work and said the prevention battle must go for- ward on all fronts. He made the comment on the com- mission’s final report of the 1935 ball, which showed $241,000 had been granted for paralysis research to 15 colleges, universities and other or- ganizations. This represented 30 per cent of the total funds raised. The remaining 70 per cent is turned over to local com- munities to assist paralysis victims. New York University received the largest grant, $64,000. Others were Stanford University, $30,000; Univer- sity of Southern California, $25,000; Long Island College of Medicine, $20,- 000; Harvard University, $17.800; Johns Hopkins Universi $15.000; University of Pennsylvania, $12,500; University of Chicago, $11,000; Health Research, Inc.. University of Califor- hia, and Yale University, $10,000 each: University of Wisconsin, $6,600; Co- lumbia University, '$5.000; Western Reserve University, 00, and Uni- versity of Michigan, $2,000. Henry L. Doherty, chairman of the commission, said it does not attempt to appraise the practical values of the research. “These,” he said, “are matters with which the medical profession must deal. Those in whose hands the money was placed are men of the highest scientific attainment, all with & keen determination to find in the end the solution of this problem which has so long challenged medical sci- ence. “That men like these still keep on in this spirit gives us our hope that in- fantile paralysis, like other diseases, may in the end be conquered.” EX-D. C. RESIDENT IS KILLED IN CRASH Thomas Jamieson, 26, Loses His Life in Accident in Buffalo. Thomas L. Jamieson, 26, a photo- engraver, who lived here until he moved to Buffalo, N. Y., about two months ago, was killed instantly in Buffalo early yesterday when his auto- crashed into & parked car as he was returning from an engravers' outing. Mrs. Annie J. Degges, his mother, an employe of the Treasury Depart- ment, was in- formed of the ac- cident last night. Besides his| mother, Jamieson leaves three| brothers, Paul E., Washington at- torney; Jesse M., | former head of| the District Fire- | fighters’ Associa- | tion, and David F. | Jamieson, drafts- man for the American Auto- mobile Associa- tion, with whom he lived. at 1621 Newton street north- east, prior to leaving for Buffalo. Two sisters, Mrs. George Darling and Mrs. Richard Stevenson, also survive. His father was the late John Y. Jamieson. Funeral services will be held at| the Newton street address at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, under tentative plans, to be followed by rites at the National Met- ropolitan M. E. Church. Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery. RIVERS AND HARBORS MAINTENANCE APPROVED Becretary Woodring Indorses $25,951,230 for Several Hundred Projects. By the Associated Press. The War Department announced today that Secretary Woodring had approved $25951,320 in annual main- tenance allotments for several hun- dred rivers and harbors projects throughout the country. The funds were provided in the annual War Department non-mili- tary supply bill The allotments involve no new projects. They are upkeep of those already in operation. The largest single allotment was $2,218,470 for lock and dam con- struction on the Ohio River. A sep- arate allotment of $1,009,530 was made for “open-channel work on the same stream.” T. L. Jamieson. the coming cruise after explaining the trip from which the Atlantis had just returned was chiefly biological in character. B Iselin declared the object of the last trip was to sample “the population of the ocean from the surface to the bottom and at the same time study the water for its dissolved chemicals with the purpose of seeing if we can correlate the distribution of fish and the chemicals at various levels. “We want to determine whether the living processes of the animals affect the water or whether the water af- fects the animals. You know, there is very little oxygen at a depth of about 900 meters.” Iselin, tall and broadshouldered, is overseeing the institution during the absence in Europe of its director, Dr, Henry B. Bigelow. He talked en- thusiastically about his work and that of his associates, and their discoveries about the ocean’s floor' and creatures which inhabit the sea. The Atlantis has made 67 cruises since the institution was established in 1930 and has averaged about 20,000 miles annually. She is 142 feet long and carries & regular crew of 17, with quarters for six scientists. ol D. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1937 Romance Leads to Strangling MRS. EVELYN MARTIN. - JACKSON DEFENDS TAX CASE ADVICE Declares He Followed Prece- dent in Replying to Mrs. Roosevelt’s Query. BACKGROUND— At request of President and Treasury Department, —Congress held open hearings few weeks ago on devices used for avoidance of indwidual income taxes. At that time, Representative Fish of New York accused Roosevelt family of using same devices, al- though making no claim of illegal- ity. Robert Jackson, now in Justica but formerly in Treasury Depart- ment, publicly disclosed that he had advised Mrs. Roosevelt on her tax liability, By the Associated Press. Robert H. Jackson, Assistant Attor- ney General, said today the Treasury merely had followed precedents in ruling that a radio contract did not | result' in taxable income to Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt Mrs. Roosevelt, Jackson told a joint Congressional Tax Committee, “re- ceived no income for herself and was | no richer directly or indirectly for her labors.” Because the contract provided that & Philadelphia charity should receive $3.000 after each broadcast, Repre- | sentative Fish, Republican, of New | York had accused the President's wife | of using a tax loophole. Jackson was | called at the insistence of Republican | Committee members to explain the ruling. Denies Discrimination. He contended there was no discrim- ination in favor of Mrs. Roosevelt “Never, under any administration,” he said, “has the Bureau of Internal | Revenue considered as income the | value or proceeds of services donated | in good faith to charity | The Justice Department official was | chief of the Internal Revenue legal unit when the ruling in Mrs. Roose- velt's case was made in 1934 Without formal rulings, Jackson as- serted, the Internal Revenue commis- sioner for years has permitted pro- ceeds of charity concerts, prize fights, | base ball games and similar entertain- | ments to be treated on the same basis as Mrs. Roosevelt's lectures and not | be taxed except in so far as the per- | formers personally benefited from | them, Aside from $1 to make the contract binding, Jackson said. the | President’s wife received no benefit | measurable in terms of money from her broadcasts. Cites Bureau's Attitude. He added that the Internal Revenue Bureau has been diligent to se that its position on charitable performances “was not abused as a cover for an | assignment of income, or an order to pay income to third persons, which | was in substance an avoidance of | taxes.” Roswell Magill, Treasury under- secretary, wrote Fish yesterday that taxpayers frequently request and re- ceive the opinion of the Internal Reve- nue Bureau as to how a particular transaction should be handled in tax returns. Says Few Published. Few are published as rulings, he said, and the decision in Mrs. Rooose- velt's case was not one of those. “I am further advised,” he said, “that no reason has been presented which leads the bureau to feel that the position then taken (in 1934) should be disturbed.” Denies Avoidance “Scheme.” During his testimony the Assistant Attorney General denied vigorously that Mrs. Roosevelt had employed “a clever little scheme” to avoid tax pay- ments. “Doesn’t the case of Mrs. Roosevelt come in the category of ‘a clever little scheme,’ to use the President’s own words?” asked Representative Tread- way, Republican, of Massachusetts. “There, you are questioning her mo- tive,” Jackson replied. “I think it does not come in such a category. If Mrs. Roosevelt had wanted to avoid her taxes, she would not have come near the bureau.” In executive session after Jackson had left, the committee considered boosting the tax on income derived from American sources by non-resi- dent aliens. The present levy, withheld at the source, is 10 per cent. The Treasury was understood to be desirous of lift- ing the rate to upwards of 25 per cent. Chairman Doughton said the com- mittee hoped to receive the last of the Treasury's suggestions for closing tax loopholes tomorrow. More drastic treatment of personal holding companies received the tenta- tive approval yesterday of the Tax Investigating Committee. The Treas- ury contends use of these “incorpor- ated pocketbooks” by taxpayers has cost the Government huge sums in revenue. Decision on Holding Companies. Chairman Doughton said the com- mittee had decided on increasing personal holding company taxes and “considering restricting” deductions the present law allows them. He declined to disclose the pro- » | cials of the board—Frank K. Bane. | inated by | persons from drawing any pay on the | | to do the same for the 11 Saturday. MRS. FLORENCE JACKSON. When New York police told Mrs. Martin that her husband had admitted strangling Mrs. Jackson, she said she knew of her husband’s affair and had feared “something dreadful” would happen. Mrs. Martin left her husband, Stanley A., jr., because of his friendship with Mrs. Jackson Mrs. Jackson, mother of two chil- dren, is shown holding one of them. Police quoted Martin as saying she had asked to be killed because of their aflair. < —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. STANLEY A. MARTIN, JR. CTION EXPECTED ON NOMINATIONS Senate Is Scheduled to Con- sider Social Security Posts. The Senate was scheduled to act | today on the nominations of 41 ex- perts and attorneys of the Social Se- curity Board, approved yesterday by the Appropriations Committee, thus paving the way for them to draw pay held up since July 1. Approval of the nominations was anticipated. but the fate of 11 other | board employes whose names still are before the committee Was uncertain Included in these are three key offi- executive director; John J. Corson. his assistant, and Le Roy Hodges. direc- | tor of the Bureau of Old-Age Benefits. This trio was appointed from Vir- ginia | The 52 fell afoul of an amendment ' to the 1932 independent offices ap- propriation providing that no salary payments should be made to experts ! and attorneys drawing $£5,000 or more | annually until they had been nom- | the President and con- firmed by the Senate. Jammed through by the Appropriations Com- mittee, headed by Senator Gl Democrat, of Virginia, this amen=- ment forced all incumbents to go through this routine before they were eligible to retain the positions which in many cases they had held for months, | Senate displeasure with pmplo,\'menfl policies at the board, where experts | and attorneys are exempt from civil | service, are reportedly responsible for | the amendment, which kept the 52 regular pay day July 15 and threatens Just how many of the group will fail eventually of the approval, or just how they will get paid for the time they have put in since July 1, also are ques- tions to be decided. Meanwhile the imminent expira- tion of the term of Vincent Miles, a member of the board, is stirring specu- lation whether President Roosevelt will make one or two appointments to the agency, which has been on a two-man basis since the first of the year, when John G. Winant resigned. Miles' time will be up August 17. There was a feeling in some quarters that President Roosevelt had delayed filling the Winant vacancy pending a disposition of the governmental re- organization bill under which social security would be abolished as an inde-~ pendent agency and put under the pro- posed new welfare department. In view of the fact that the organization is dead for the time being, however, it was thought that a third board mem- ber might be named. Restraint Pays. NEW YORK, July 28 (#)—Salva- tore Vento, 12, son of a fish peddler, won the good sportsmanship medal given annually at a recreation play- ground here. His base ball teammates voted the award to gentlemanly Salva- tore “because he never socks the um- pire on the jaw.” posed new rates or the specific na- ture of deduction changes, declaring they still are subject to adjustment before recommendations are submit- ted to Congress. Perscnal holding corporations now are taxed like other corporations but pay in addition surtaxes of 8 to 48 per cent. The Treasury has argued that wealthy individuals, by splitting income among several personal hold- ing firms, could save considerable money. The income of the corpo- rations in some cases would be taxed at lower rates than if it were in- cluded in the individuals’ personal returns. Ingenious use of deductions, the Treasury says, has made possible fur- ther avoidance of taxes. Present holding companies now may deduct 20 per cent of adjusted net income, minus dividends received from other personal holding companies, “reason- able” amounts applied to retirement of debts incurred before January 1, 1934, and (in reaching adjusted net income) losses from sales or exchange of capital assets. LOVER STRANGLES WIFE OF ANOTHER Jealousy Motive to Bring| Death Penalty Demand for Stanley Martin. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. July 28—A jealousy motive supplied by an estranged wife led District Attorney Charles Sullivan to demand the death penalty today for tanley A. Martin, jr. 29-year-old | confessed slayer of a Wall Street | broker’s wife. Sullivan said the new motive, volun- teered by Mrs. Evelyn Mart; pretiy Southern-born wife of the philander- ing killer, was evidence that Martin strangled his vietim by design and | not—as he insists—"because she asked me to." The m, Mrs. Florence Jackson, 39, mother of two small children, was found dead, with her arms clutched | around Martin's shoulders, as he drove her around the streets of Flushing, Long Island, at dawn yesterday. She had been garroted with the red leather | belt of her dress. Mrs. Martin told the district attor- ney that some weeks ago her husband, commenting on his illicit love affair | with Mrs. Jackson, declared: “I'm Going to Kill Her.” “I'm going to kill her because she s making me jealous.” She said her husband also remarked that once before he had tried to “'choke | that woman.” He discussed his clandestine rela- tions with the older woman in fre- quent conversations with her, Mrs. Martin said, adding that he was al- most garrulous in disclosing details of their gay drinking parties and amor- ous dalliance. Brought face to face with his wife, Martin sullenly denied he had ever tried to choke Mrs. Jackson before the night of the murder. He said, how- ever, he engaged in & violent argu- ment- with the woman because she gave her telephone number and ad- dress to another man in a beer tavern, While furnishing authorities with a key motive which D; ct Attorney Sullivan said would break down Mar- tin’s “murder by request” defense, Mrs. Martin paradoxically came to the defense of her husband, declarinj “Couldn't See Her.” “I'm going to stand by him because he is the father of our child—even if I don't love him any more. I haven't really Joved him since he allowed that woman to break up our home. “I knew he was running around with her. Even her husband knew it. I couldn't see her attraction. Perhaps it was her age and her superior way of living. She had two cars and servants and plenty of money. Any- how, she caught his fancy.” Sullivan, indicating he would press a first-degree murder charge against Martin, today received seven love let- ters allegedly written by Mrs. Jackson to Martin, turned over to him by Mrs. Martin. One of the letters, addressed to Mar- tin as “My Dearest Husband,” read in part: “Oh, my darling, how I have missed you! It has been three days now and I haven't heard from you. I feel I am going mad. * * * Why don't you get in touch with me? You are so cruel to me. * * * When you know how much I love you. Call me soon, my sweet.” She Footed Bills. Assistant District Attorney Irwin Shapiro said that Martin, who faces 8 hearing Thursday on a homicide charge, told him that Mrs. Jackson footed the bills “for all our good times and drinks.” Jackson, a commission broker, told detectives he had known of his wife's affair, but had considered Martin “too insignificant to worry much about.” Later, he said, he found Martin in his home so many times he finally ordered him “to get out and stay out.” Martin strangled Mrs. Jackson as they sat parked in her car on a lonely road. He intended killing himself by driving the car off a bridge, he told police, but changed his mind when he sobered and instead drove to a hos- pital, in the hope of reviving his com- panion. The Martins were married in 1925 in Baltimore, where her home was, when Martin was studying at Johns Hopkins Medical School. They separated three months ago. She sald her husband had been “nervous and irresponsible” ever since he was struck by a hit-and-run driver two and a half years ago and re- ceived a double skull fracture. S Bunches of bananas were blown from trees and damaged during recent storms in Panama. 14 | amend the bi ROOSEVELTVOTED. * 6 ADES BY HOUSE First of Four Reorganization Measures is Passed, 260 to 68. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. One part of the reorganization pro. gram submitted to Congress last Jane uary by President Roosevelt today had completed passage through the House, the bill to give the President six ad- ministrative assistants “with a pa. for anonymity” being approved late yesterday by a roll call vote, 260 to 88 The debate preceding the vote was marked by a bitter attack on the me: ure. Representative Fish, Republican, of New York described it as “another step to concentrate power and set up a Fascist or Communist regime” and other Republicans accorded it equally harsh treatment. Democrats, defending the bill, said the President, who now has three sec- retaries, needs more helpers because he is overworked. Four Bills in Program. In the House the President's reor- ganization program is divided into four measures, which administration pok men told their colleagues yesterday will be taken up in order. Second will come the bill to abolish the office of cone troller general and substitute an au- ditor general; third, reor ization of the civil service, substituting a sing administrator for the present com sion, and, fourth, delegating author to the President to regroup, cons date, abolish and coordinate admi. trative agencies In the Senate the entire program is included in one omnibus bill. In spite of administration exprese sions of confidence that the major portion, at least, of the President’s pro= gram will be promptly enacted intn law, there is a quite general conviction among those in closest touch with the legislative program and its po: that the measure approved yesterda: will be the only reorganization biil passed at this session, and doubt has been expressed in some quarters that it will get by the Senate. Describes Type He Wants.- In a message to Congress the Presi- dent described the type cf assistan he desires to fill these positions: “They should remain in the back- ground, issue no orders, make no de- cisions. emit no public statements. They should be in whom the President has personal confidence and whose character and attitude is such that they would not attempt to exer- cise power on their own account, They should be possessed of high eom- petence, great physical vigor and a passion for anonymity. They should be installed in the White House its directly accessible to the President Passage of s bill was urged by four Democratic members of the Re- organization Committee: Chairman Cochran, who also heads the Expendi- tures Committee; Representative Ware ren of North Carolina, who heads ths Accounts Committee; Representative Vinson of Kentucky, on the Ways and Means Committee, and Representative Robinson of Utah. chairman of the subcommitee that sponsored the mease ure. { Marshalled in opposition were these Republicans: Minority Leader. Bnell, Representatives Taber of New York| and Gifford of Massachusetts, who are members of the Reorganization Committee, and Representatives Fish, | Knutson of M | Short of Missourt and Tinkham of Massachusetts. Repeated attempts were made to several of them facee ous. Represetnative Short proposed to |name the six new secretaries for the . | Presiden the names of | members of the Roosevelt family. Rep= resentative Knutson proposed that | retaries su | Senate. Represen: | crat, of Mississi | ment which woul allowance of member clerk hire from $5,0( g the empic clerk, but this was ruléd and. on an appeal from th of the chair, the vote was 168 to 58 against the amendment Amendment Offered. Representative McLean, Republican, of New Jersey offered as an amend- ment a proposed amendment to the Constitution providing for a six-year term for the President and Vice Presi- dent, with re-election banned. He argued that this would relieve the strain on the President and take the presidential office out of politics. Representative Short called the pro- posed new administrative assistants various names: “Sycophants,” “snoop- ers” “undercover men." ‘“nincome poops,” “errand boys” and “interlop- ers.” He declared the President ecould get more dependable information about legislation from Vice President Garner, Speaker Bankhead and experts in all branches of Government Thomas G. Corcoran and Benjamin V. Cohen, legislative advisers to the President, were repeatedly mentioned during debate as reputed prospective appointees. Representatives Tinkham, like Fish, warned against concentration of power in the Executive. He accompanied his protest with a resolution for an in- vestigation to determine the desira- bility of a plural executive to prevent a dictatorship. ve increased the of Congress for {GOTT PLEADS GUILTY IN EXTORTION CASE Man Who Admitted Sending Notes to Hanfords to Be Sentenced Soon. Earle William Gott, accused ot threatening to kill Mrs. Henry G. Han- ford and her son, S. J. Hanford, un- less they paid him $1,000 in “un- marked bills,” pleaded guilty when ar- raigned before Justice Oscar R. Luh- ring in District Court yesterday. ‘The case was referred to the proba- tion officer for investigation before sentence is imposed. He probably will be sentenced next Friday. According to Assistant United States Attorney Samuel F. Beach, who was in charge of the prosecution, Gott was arrested by agents of the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation when he called for a dummy package supposedly con- taining the money at a downtown ho- tel several weeks ago. Mrs. Hanford is the widow of Henry ©. Hanford, former executive of The Star. 4