Evening Star Newspaper, August 12, 1937, Page 2

A—2 wxx» HOLD $400,000,00 Reserve Funds Locked Up in President’s Move for Economy. BACKGROUND— In an efort to approach a bal- anced budget. President Roosevelt some time ago called on all ezecu- tive agencies to eflect a saving of at least 10 per cent in the 1938 appro- priations. The President emphasized that it was to be made without wage cuts or dismissal of personnel. It was the second step of the sort taken in recent months, the Presi- dent in Apr® calling for savings wherever possible in the 1937 ap- Ppropriations. By the Assoclated Press. Government departments, respond- ing to Instructions from President Roosevelt, have locked up in reserve funds about $400,000,000 of their ap- propriations. Fiscal officials, disclosing this today, added that it may be necessary to re- lease part of this reserve for expendi- ture later in the year. These authorities expressed the opinion, however, that a substantial reduction can be made in the $418,- 000,000 deficit orginally estimated for this fiscal year, which ends next June 30. A new procedure has been worked out, they explained, so Bureau can maintain a tighter hold on the Federal purse strings. After a department has set aside 2 percentage of its appropriation in Breserve fund. they said, the money can be releasec for spending only on authorization by the bureau. It may held hearings to determine whether the expenditure is justified Mr. Roosevelt'’s instructions, con- tained in a recent letter to department heads, asked that reserves be set up in all appropriations susceptible to reduction. Officials said today the departments have set up reserves averaging about 10 per cent. the figure suggested by the President. <Both expenditures and the deficit since July 1 have been running sub- &tantially ahead of last yvear, but fiscal authorities predicted this trend would be reversed in the next few months. Through August 9 the gross deficit this year stood at $257,177,000, com- pared with $151.423.000 in the same period a vear ago. Gross expenditures totaled $873,605.000 and $603.405,000, respectively, and receipts, $621,428,000 and $451,981,000. FIRM LOSES PLEA T HALT SHIP QUIZ High Court Rules in Favor of Board Hearing Charges of Unfair Acts. By the Associated Iress. Justice Pierce Butler of the Su- preme Court today denied a request by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. for an injunction to restrain temporarilv the National Labor Relations Board from holding a hearing to determine whether the ship building company had engaged in un- fair labor practices. The Justice acted after hearing H H. Rumble of Norfolk, attorney for the company, assert that if the hear- ing is held “'C. 1. O. organizers will be- gin work and a horde of imported C. 1. O. picketers will surround the plant and obetruct the gates and declare a strike.” “Malcolm F. Holliday. representing @he National Labor Relations Board, replied the employes thus far had “followed the procedure set up in the national labor relations act and we assume they will follow it through.” The shipbuilding company sought | an injunction against the hearing set | far August 19 at Newport News, in ofder to postpone it until after next Oetober, when the court will pass on & | petition to review decisions against | the company by the Bastern Virginia | Federal District Court and the Fourth | Circuit Court of Appeals. SILK UNION BACKS ‘NO-STRIKE’ PLAN Proposed Agreement Would Set Up Arbiter to Rule on Rows. Pay to Be Raised. B5 the Associated Press. PATERSON, N. J, August 12— Strikes and lockouts would have no place in the silk industry under the contract proposed for settlement of the present strike by the C. I. O.'s textile division ‘The proposed agreement, approved without a dissenting vote at a mass meeting of union weavers today, stipu- lates that “In case of differences” there shall be “no suspension of work, no strikes, no lockouts and no sympathy strikes.” Instead, the differences would be taken to conference between the Grievance Committee of the union and the employer. If not smoothed oyt then, an impartial arbiter would be appointed and his findings would be “final and binding” on both sides. ~The contract gives the employer the right to hire workers in the open market, with preference given to mem- bers of the union when available. Once hired, the worker must join the union within two weeks. .The agreement provides s general 10 per cent increase in wages, exclu- €ive of plece work, and 10 to 20 per cqnt raises for weavers. | BUCK NOT ARRESTED ELGIN, T, August 12 (#.—On July 31 the Associated Press carried AR erroneous story saying Frank Buck, famous game hunter, had been ar- vested for speeding in Elgin, had pleaded guilty and had been fined /The Frank Buck who was arrested fiere was not the “bring ‘em back alive” hunter. The widely known Frank Buck has never been in Elgin and was driving through Nebraska at the time of the incident here. Isle Debates Divorces. Guernsey, Channel Islands, is de- bating a new marriage law. While the Budget | Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. CORRESPONDENT, OVING reporter for a certain paper around town (you guess what reporter and what paper) had his home office in a dither the other day when his copy failed to appear as scheduled. Stuff was being sent in by mail, and supposed to arrive the day before. Man handling — \ howmonr? e “Tevmhon [ view oAy whaT A 3 Tesy it in the office wired frantically, “Where the heck is the Wednesday story?” Reply came back, “If Wednesday's story hasn't arrived yet, use Thurs- day's.” Y Inside man had just stopped spin- ning from this haymaker when a mes- senger walked in the door. He had two airmail, special delivery letters in | his hand. One contained the Wednes- | day piece. The other housed the Thursday story. * ox % % BURNED UP. Kid who had put himself out to bake in the sun at a nearby beach and come in done to a turn, went visiting with his mother the other day. Host proudly took them out to see his vegetable garden, and the lad espied some tomatoes. “Oh, my, oh, my,” said he. “How?” said his mother, Indian fashion. “How it must have hurt those tomatoes to get sunburned that red.” (We do hear about the cutest children and write stories about the darndest things in weather like this.) * x ¥ x CHINESE. LABORATE funeral services for Charlie Moy, the amiable head | of On Leong Tong, made us wonder exactly how many Chinese are in Washington. Our old pal, A Reliable Source, says about 700. He also stated that a Ninth street theater holds a special box after 11 o'clock each Saturday night for Chinese only. You might get in if you wanted to, but it wouldn't cheer you up very much. The pictures are Chinese talking films, made in China. the members of the Hip Sing Tong would go to the show on the same night as the On Leong Tong. He said, “No." * ok ¥ x PERSECUTION. LOCAL Drive-the-Wayside-Editor- Nuts campaign is coming along beautifully these days, with contribu- tors sending in such items as the following, quoted verbatim for your | own enlightenment and cosfusion: “There are s0 many husbands and wives married to each other and liv- ing in Washington we thought it might be interesting to report some of the more printable remarks they make at home. For example, a friend wanted to know where a famous make | of canoe was manufactured, so he | could send for the catalogue. lazy to look himself, he handed a | national magazine to his wife, with | the request that she look for the ad- | vertisement. There was no ad. He | called up the Washington Canoe Club, | Of course they would know, and they | did. But before they could reply, the | littie woman (peopie use phrases like that writing to us. honestly) spoke up: “Maine,” she said. look through the magazine?” “Because you said you wanted to see the ad.” “In all the years we've been taking that magazine, did you ever see an advertisement for a canoe?” “Then why did you ask me to look through it?” said she. ® % % % SCARECROWS. FE’LLOW who went to see a nitery floor show featuring & boxing bear came back the next morning mum- bling: “Must be a very tough bear. Very tough.” “Why?” colleague asked him. “Scared my waiter 50 bad he went away for an hour, never did come back until I'd. left.” “‘Wrong, me boy, wrong,” quoth the other half of the conversation. “Wasn't the bear that scared him. Pact you're a newspaper guy. Maitre d'hotel out at that place lines up his waiters every day and shakes a news- paper reporter at 'em, like a bludgeon or a vision of the Black Death, Scares ‘em stiff. When they see a citizen smudged with the old printer's ink coming in the door they run away like mad. Go in hiding and stay there.” * k k% BUR-PRIZE. OUNG fellow at the circus the other night called a candy man and bought a box of sweets. Each package was supposed to contain a prize, and this lad ripped right into his, obviously anxious to find out what he'd won. Next minute he drew out a pair of lady's whatchamacallems, very pink, very frilly. cus life for you—grab grab), stuck the whoosits and fled. * % % % PLEA. Aside to this column’s stalwart aides (and also to ourselves): Has anybody caught the man who slipped up behind the lot of youse and smote you with a heat stroke? Us, too? Some life, please. Pas- the House of Lords was discussing the British measure in London, a special committee recommended that various grounds for divorce be enacted into 1aw. AS present there is no provision for divorce in Gyernsey, which makes its own laws, ) sionate tales about bird’s children falling into mud p: what happened to the nelghbor's cat, who struck John. Remember? Al the fine, gay things that made life a lark bejore the works bogged | Corp. granted it exclusive bargaining there | | the U. A, W. A. signed an agreement Asked one elderly Chinese fellow Xf! Too | “If you knew that, why did you | murilated their bodies THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1937. FEDERAL BUREAUS | (W atshingzon| |FORD ENPLOYES AGAIN' SOLICITED U. A. W. A. Circulates Peri- odical, but Remain on Public Ground. BACKGROUND— United Automobile Workers of America, a C. 1. O. affiliate, suc- cessful in drive of General Motors and other large plants, turned to organizing Henry Ford’s Rouge plant on May 26. Effort resulted in rioting in which union leaders were severely beaten and driven from area. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, August 12.—Members of the United Automobile Workers of America peacefully circulated their periodical, the United Automobile Workers, to workers outside the Ford Motor Co.s Rouge plant yesterday afternoon. The quiet of this second attempt was in contrast with the first, in which & dozen unionists were beaten May 26. Union leaders had issued instruc- tions to their cohorts to remain on public property and avoid all trouble; a Ford official said company police were ordered to molest no one on pub- lic ground. While a crowd of thousands looked on, many day shift workers leaving the factory accepted the literature, but fewer of those reporting for work took it. Some workers kept the papers, others tossed them aside. Meanwhile, Dearborn police investi- gated conflicting reports that two sticks of dynamite had been found in a tunnel carrying power cables and steam pipes at the Rouge plant James Denny, a Dearborn detective, sald the “dynamite” was packing grease. Henry B. Miller, another Dearborn detective, said it was dynamite Everett Moore, head of the Ford service department, said he had no report of the discovery. An explosion in the tunnel would cripple Ford operations by shutting off power to some departments. The tunnel is carefully guarded. Only maintenance men and service men are permitted to enter Rt. A few hours after the union took another step in its campaign to or- ganize Ford emploves a supplemental agreement in which General Motors for six months expired. The recognition was accorded Feb- ruary 11 when the corporation and ending a 43-day strike in General| Motors plants. Other terms of the settlement remain in effect, subject to | termination only upon 60 days' no- tice by either party. The midnight expiration of the ex- clusive bargaining clause left General Motors free to deal with other unions, but it gave no indication of its inten- tions. U. A. W. A. officials said they were “not worried.” The corporation and the union are negotiating on U. A. W. A. proposals to revise their agreement. STATE OPENS CASE IN TRIPLE SLAYING| Will Seek to Prove That Dyer Alone Choked Young Girls. Suspect Weeps. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 12.—Albert Dyer, 32, today heard the first of the | evidence by which the State expects | to send him to the gallows for the| sex murders of three Inglewood girls Outlining his case, Chief Deputy | District Attorney Eugene Williams | said he would show that Dyer alone lured Melba Everett, 9: her sister Medeline, 7. and Jeanette Stephens 8, to their deaths. He said the State | would prove Dyer choked the young | victims with clothesline rope and then Dyer wept yesterday as Williams began his recitation of the charges. ‘The jury of six men and six women listened attentively as Williams re- lated how Dyer had confessed, then repudiated his confession three times. After Williams finished, three Ingle- wood Boy Scouts testified to finding the bodies in the Baldwin Hills sector two days after the disappearance of the victims. Congress in Brief TODAY. Anti-lynching—Senate debates Wag- ner-Van Nuys bill. Housing—House Banking Commit- tee considers Senate-approved bill. Tax loopholes—House Ways and Means Committee resumes hearings. Farm stabilization—Secretary Wal- lace confers with Senate Committee; House Committee meets. Government reorganization—Special Senate Committee continues hearings. Miscellaneous—House debates minor irrigation bill; House Rules Committee considers demand to investigate sale of Democratic yearbooks. TOMORROW. Senate: Program uncertain as t .ween fur- ther debate on anti-lynching bill and sugar legislation. Organization meeting of special Judiciary Subcommittee to give. fur- | the nearby Salmon River had been al- ther consideration to court procedure. Executive session at 10:30 am. House: Considers Government reorganisa- tion bill, Rules Committee considers requests for special rules; 10 a.m. YOUTH BRAVING SHARKS IN RESCUE IS HONORED U. 8. Treasury Medal Presented to Boy Who Swam 8 Miles to Save Father. By the Associated Press. MANILA, P. I, August 12.—John Nobie’s 3-mile swim through stormy, shark-infested waters to save his father from drowning won hero recog- nition today when High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt presented the 16-year- old boy with the United States Treas- ury Life-saving Medal. Young Noble and his father, P. H. Noble, were boating in Manila Bay last January 30 when tReir sailboat capsised, ‘Young Noble last week was awarded the Boy Scout Life-saving Medal. Noble came here originally from Caroline County, Md. Mrs. Noble has relatives in WilfllT Del. (7 Valuable Farms Mysteriously . Geologists are m:/stifled by is a general view of the sunken valuable part. Jarm lands sinking in Southern Idaho’'s most productive agricultural section. The former ground level was even with cliff at extreme left. in foreground and cliff is part of 12 acres more that are expected to drop. * LAND CONTINUES T0 SINK IN IDAHO Course of Salmon River Is Changed by Boulders as Big as Houses. By the Associated Press. BUHL, Idaho, August 12.—Boulders— big as houses—tumbled today into a | canyon newly formed and still ex- | panding on a farm 8 miles northwest | of here. i Scores of sightseers thronged to the | remote ranch corner where nature is | in spectacular flux, despite an order | of Emil Bordwick; manager of Griffin | Ranches, closing the area to the public. | Huge new cracks opened from time to time, acres of grain-bearing earth settled visibly and with sound effects. New masses of rock and soil, 1Mi along the freshly carved canyon rim, thundered into the youthful basin. Fishermen complained the course of tered as much as 20 feet in places | where boulders had roled into the| channel. Fears Loss of Home. “At least 17 acres of my land are doomed.” mourned H. A. Robertson, lessee of the ranch in which most of the devastation has taken place. “I hate to lose my land, but I'd hate even worse to lose my home.” Robertsoft’s house, only one in the district, is nearly a mile from the cave-in. Geologists expressed belief it would not be disturbed. “It appears to me the region is above | a great cavern deep in the earth and | that alleviation of pressure is allow- | ing the surface to sink.” said Horton 8. Abell, Nampa, Idaho, geologist. Blames Underground River. Other authorities said, however they belived a subterranean river was un- dermining the region. Not far away is the Lost River, which disappears into porous soil Robertson said first indication o!} “terra unfirma” came three years ago | when a grain fleld dropped a few feet. Then recently a 5-acre area slipped 125 to 200 feet in 14 days. In the nearby Salmon River canyon great dust clouds sifted up from cracks that have been measured to a depth of 500 feet. “Twelve more acres, bit by bit, are joining 5 acres at the bottom of the sink,” said Robertson. At Salt Lake City Dr. Frederick J. Pack, University of Utah professor of geology, expressed belief the phe- nomenon was caused by breaking of & thin roof of 8 mammoth lava cavern. “Open in prehistoric times the top of the lava flow cooled, allowing molten lava beneath to continue its flow, creating huge caves,” he said. AUNT OF BARTHOLOMEW ASSERTS LAW VIOLATED Bays 8tudio Enginereed Boy's En- trance Into U. 8. on Visitor's Passport. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 12.—Fred- die Bartholomew, juvenile film star, was brought to the United States in violation of British child labor laws, his aunt and guardian, Miss MyNicent Bartholomew, asserted in an afdavit | on file today. Miss Bartholomew, who threatens to take Freddie back to England uniess Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer raises his $1,100 & week film salary to $3,000, sald a representative of the studio engineered his entrance into the United States on ‘a visitor's passport in 1934, The affidavit denied M.-G.-M. now has a valid contract for the 13-year- old star’s services. o Gang Steals Gold Teeth. Cairo, Egypt. is sleuthing a gang that has been stealing gold teeth from corpees in eemeunes.' Tomb Erected In 1777 Opened For 144th Time By the Associated Press. SUTTON, England, August 12. —A strange, annual rite of opening and inspecting & tomb erected in 1777 to see if the bodies were still there was car- ried out. today for the 144th time. Seven of the now extinct Gib- son family are buried in the Sutton parish churchyard tomb. Members of the family who died in the eighteenth century when fear of ghouls was intense left a trust- fund to finance the yearly inspection, Seven | coffins examined by church officials today were found to be in perfect preservation. « i | | Iraq’s Defense And Air Chiefs Reported Slain MAJ. GEN. BEKR SIDKI PASHA. By the Associaied Press. JERUSALEM, August 12.—Reports from Bagdad said today that Maj. Gen. Bekr 8idki Pasha, Iraq minister of defense, and Col. Mohamed Al Jawad, chief of Iraq's air force, had been assassinated. The reports said a soldier shot the two men at the Mosul Airport at sun- set yesterday. Mosul is 220 miles northwest of Bagdad. The kingdom of Iraq—Mesopotamia —formerly was s part of Turkey but now is an independent -astate. It borders Syria on the southeast, em- braces an area of 116,600 square miles. King Ghazi is its ruler, An official announcement, issued later at Bagdad, said the soldier fired many bullets into the minister and that Col. Jawad was killed when he tried to save his chieftain’s life. The assassin was seized, and the authorities were trying to find out | his motive. Gen. Sidki was on his way to Tur- key to see that country's war games. NEW SUGAR PLAN HIT BY PRESIDENT Compromise Is Unsatisfac- tory, He Writes—Commit- tee to Stand Pat. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt. in a letter to Senator Harrison, told the Senate Agriculture Committee today its pro- posed sugar legislation ‘‘compromise” Was unsatisfactory. In the face of the President’s objec- tions, the committee voted at a special session to stand pat on the measure. Harrison said “the sentiment was overwhelming to adhere to our posi- tion.” : g The President said the committee's proposal to “freeze” the refining quotas of mainland plants, Hawaii and Puerto ! strikers, all of whom were convicted Rico, “merely perpetuates” discrimina- tion against the island industry. Mr. Roosevelt objected to the sugar | bill as it passed the House last week because it would limit refined ship - ments from Hawali and Puerto Rico without limiting continental United States refinings. Subsequently & compromise was put forward, which sugar legislation advo- cates said might meet the President’s suggestions, which was to “freese” the refined sugar output of the continental and island producers at the present level. ‘The committee approved the bill in that form Tuesday. ‘The President in his letter said, *“I am delighted to note that the commit- tee recognizes that our territories and island possessions are integral parts of the United States and cannot be dis- criminated against.” He contended, however, that the committee amendment “‘not only does not eliminate the discrimination, but introduces a new and highly objection- able feature.” ROOT KEPT ON GROUND CUMBERLAND, Md., August 12.— The stewards ordered Buddy Root, leading winning rider at the meeting, not to accept any further engagements while they are investigating his ride yesterday astride Canteret, favorite, in the third race. Canteret was far back throughout the race in which he was heavily back- ed by the 8,000 fans in attendance, e Streamlined Buses Banned. After a 10-month trial London will not have streamlined buses, the tests being reported to show that the ve- hicles differ from others only in ap- pearance and without any special ad- vantage. = PICKET IDENTIFIED AS MOB MEMBER State Witness Says He Saw Benson Aid in Overturn- ing Automobile. By the Associated Press. OCOVINGTON, Va., August 13— State witnesses named R. E. Benson, €. 1. O. unjon picket captain, today as one of those participating in a strike disorder at the Industrial Rayon Corp. July 7 as the Commonwealth sought to prove the former spinning room worker guilty of mob assault and battery. Witnesses taking the stand for questioning by Commonweaith's At- torney Cecil Collins offered much the | same line of testimony given in the | trials of three previously arraigned and sentenced to prison terms rang- ing from two to four years. | A fifth member of the group of 16 | indicted as s result of the disorder, in which six men were slightly hurt, | has pleaded guilty and is awaiting | sentencing. In support of the State contentiom that strikers gathered at the piant with the avowed intention of prevent- ing workers returning to their jobs, L. G. Chandler, a receiving clerk, told the jury yesterday that Benson | 'Was among those overturning an auto- mobile carrying workers to the plant. | Chandler said he was a passenger in | the car | Benson had warned that company | cars and trucks might be overturned, | declared W. A. Bargeaunt, plant engi- neer. C. B. Nida, s mechanic, testified he was struck with a blackjack and a | stick as he sought to pass the picket line but he said he did not know whether Benson was among the at- tackers. Defense Attorney Hale Collins told the jury in his opening statement yes- terday that the disturbance was pre- cipitated by non-union men who rushed the picket line, striking one picket on the body with a wrench | and another on the head. Many in that crowd. the defense | attorney said, assembled merely to see “what was going on,” while others | intended to return to work if the| plant reopened. - CLOSE OF TRIAL NEARS IN O’CONNELL KIDNAPING Case Expected to Reach Jury To- day—Prosecution Demands Conviction for All By the Associated Press. BINGHAMTON, N. Y., August 13— The 11-week trial of eight men for the four-year-old kidnaping of John J. O’Connell, jr., approached its climax today with renewed demand by Prose- cutor A. E. Gold for “conviction for each and every one of them.” Halted by Pederal Judge Prederick H. Bryant yesterday after a 4-hour summation address because of the oppressive humidity of the crowded court room, Gold said he would “take about an hour and & half” today. The case is expected to reach the jury during the afternoon. Questioned DEATHS OF TWO PERSONS LEAD TO QUIZ. MRS. ANNA HAHN. The Cincinnati woman is shown as she denied to police any knowledge of the strange deaths of two persons. County Prosecutor Dudley Outcalt said he would investigate several deaths and illnesses of well-to-do Cincinnatians. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Sinking in Idaho | mascus appointed a WOMAN IS JAILED - IN4DEATH PROBE Attractive Blonde Denies Slayings as Poison Theory Is Explored. BY the Associaied Press. CINCINNATI, August 12.—Held on fugitive warrants charging murder and grand larceny, a comely 31-year= old blond was held today, as police, investigating the deaths of four elder- ly men, said she admitted benefiting from the estate of one and had sought to collect money from two of the others. Four mysterious illnesses—of two man and two women—also were un- This photo Five acres already down are —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. FRENCH AIRPLANES ATTACKING KURDS Troops Also Move Into North Syria to Quell Revolt of Wild Tribes. By the Associated Press BEIRUT, Syria, August 12.—Prench troops and airplanes moved into Northeastern Syria today to quell a| revolt of wild Kurdish tribes and to end the back-country warfare between Mohammedans and Christians. Motorized infantry, equipped with machine guns. swept into the village of Amouda and found 15 bodies under the ruins of looted and burned houses. In Jerusalem it was reported that French airplanes had wrecked Amouda with bombs, ahead of the infantry occupation Amouda is a village populated mainly by Christians. It was attacked August 10 by united forces of Kurds and Moslems from the interior, who pillaged 100 Christian-owned shops. “No Serious Resistance.” The French authorities reported the troops met “no serious resistance today,” adding that “the Kurd ele- ments and seditious Moslems” were quickly put down. The semi-official version of the fighting in Northeastern Syria was that violence began July 6. when 100 natives occupied the government palace in upper Jezireh and took con- trol of the towns of Hassetch and Kamechlie, demanding the reinstate- ment of local officials ousted by the government. A policeman was killed and many persons were injured in fighting July 7. Police reinforcements which left Aleppo were halted by an army of armed natives before they reached the scene and 50 of the policemen surrendered. They were later re- leased. Three more policemen were killed in sadditional disorders at Hassetch | and fighting broke out again July 9 between nationalist and autonomous Arabs. ‘The central government at Da- committee of investigation, but the unrest and vio- lence continued and 17 police posts were evacuated. The present rebellion flared with the attack on Amouda. Rioting in Antiech. ALEXANDRETTA, 8yria, August 12 (#)—One Arab was reported killed today and 30 wounded at Antioch in a renewed outbreak of rioting between Turks and Arabs over plans for con- ferring independence on the French- mandated area. S8everal were reported wounded in another clash at Sueidie. The markets of Antioch were closed and Turks and Arabs kept to their own quarters, LABOR BOARD TOLD OF THREAT OF JOBS Hearing Continued on Charges Republic Corp. Violated Wagner Act. By the Associated Press. CANTON, Ohio, August 12.—With testimony recorded that a Republic Bteel Corp. foreman said “You won't work here very long.” without signing & petition favoring the employe repre- sentation plan, the National Labor Relations Board continued a hearing today on charges that Republic vio- lated the Wagner act. Russell Eckroad, worker at the con- cern's Massillon plant and a C. I O. member, told of a petition circulated for signatures that the men “were satisfied with the representative plan and hours and wages in the mills.” He told the board late yesterday that “only two or three out of 60 or 65 signed up in my department.” Then David Lewis, a foreman, “came over and told us, ‘If you boys don't sign here, the result will be you won't work here very long,’” Eckroad testi- fied. He added that he with many others added his name after the fore- man’s alleged statement. DEAD FLYER FOUND Snow Yields Body of Co-Pilot of Lost Alfrliner. SALT LAKE CITY, August 12 (#).— The body of William Bogen, Glendale, Calif., co-pilot of a Western Air Ex- press liner that crashed on a North- ern Utah mountain peak last De- cember, was found buried in snow and ice late yesterday. Four passengers and the crew of three died in the crash, and Bogen's was the last Fody to be recovered. The plane wreckage was found June 6. Frank Eastman, Western Air fleld manager, said 14! hours wers re- quired to bear the body down the mountainside. der scrutiny as city, county and Fed- eral authorities delved into the his- tory of the woman, Mrs. Anna Pilser Hahn Colorado Springs, Colo., police have been investigating the death there August 1 of George Obendoerfer, 67, moderately wealthy Cincinnati eol bler, who police say was accompanied by the woman after she first had gone o the bank with him when he withe drew money for the trip Detective Walter Hart, who filed the murder and larceny warrants against Mrs. Hahn, said he was “‘not at liberty to divulge the basis for the action.” Police Inspector 1. B. ‘Bruce of Colo- rado Springs said that so far as he knew no murder charge had been filed there. Bruce said he issued a grand larceny warrant after the recovery in a Denver pawnshop of two diamond rings he said were pawned by Mrs. Hahn and which, he added, were stolen from a hotel where Mrs. Hahn had reg- istered with Obendoerfer, Poison Theory Pursued. 5 Coroner J. Thomas Coughlan sne nounced in Colorado Springs that although an autopsy had disclosed no traces of poison, “exhaustive” chem- ical tests of organs from Obendoer= fer's body were being made. Mrs. Hahn, widow of a Viennese physician, denied knowledge of the case and contended, Lieut. George W. B8chattle said, that she met Obendoerfer “by chance” en route west. The three other deaths under in- quiry were those of Jacob Wagner, 78; Albert Palmer, 72, and PErnst Kohler, an eiderly teamster who died several years ago Wagner's body was disinterred a week ago and por- tions of the viscera are being sub- Jected o tests for poison, Schattie | reported He said Mrs. Hahn cared for Kohler in his last illness and that she claimed Kohler bequeathed her the $12.000 home in which she has resided with | her telegrapher husband. i Tl Man Sues for Ring. | George Heis, 63, a coal merchant, who said he had been unable to walk since becoming ill from eating food offered by Mrs. Hahn, filed another larceny warrant eharging theft of & $75 diamond ring and $140. Mrs. Hahn denied Heis' charge, insisting he gave her the ring during their short ace quaintance. Prosecutor Dudley Miller Outcalt said police had learned that Oben- doerfer, Wagner, Heis. another man and two elderly sisters, Mrs. Ollie Koehler, 78. and Mrs. Mary Arnold. 95, had become ill suddenly shortly after | making the acquaintance of Mrs. | Hahn, | Schattle said Mrs. Hahn admitted | signing Wagner's name to a check for $1,000, which she presented the day of his death, June 3. The name was written in English, although Wag- ner could write only in German, Schat- tle said The officer also quoted her as ad- mitting asking a Cincinnati building and loan association to transfer $1.000 | of the cobbler'’s money to the Denver National Bank. | Physicians Puzzled. Dr. Willard K. Hills, who attended | the cobbler before he died. said Mrs. | Hahn brought Obendoerfer to the | hospital in a taxi, that he was in s stupor when he reached there and did not recover from it before his death two days later. Dr. Hills said he could not deter- mine any natural cause for death and therefore did not sign a death eer- tificate. The investigation into the demise was asked by the cobbler's daughter, Mrs. Louis Nau of Cincinnati, after her father's body had been buried at Colorado Springs without notification to his family. LEVEE WORK HERE TO BE RESUMED Additional $139,000 Allotted tg Permit Completion of Project. Work on the more than two miles of protective levees at Bolling Field and Anacostia Naval Air Station. stopped June 30 when a W. P. A. allotment was exhausted. will be resumed short- ly. it was learned today. The United States Engineer Office here was advised by Col. Earl I. Brown, district engineer in Richmond, that an additional $139,000 allotment is on its way to complete the project. The sum is part of the 1938 Army civil appropriation of $194,536.063. The project calls for 2 miles of earth leaves, in which will be in- | serted a 320-foot movable dam, flanked by 1,000 feet of concrete levee directly behind the airport hangars. Work began on the project Septem- ber 1. 1936, under an allotment of $162,000. With the new funds, total cost of the levees will be $301,000. The United States Engineer Office ex-~ pects to have the major part of the work completed by December 1. When work is resumed, 250 to 300 semi-skilled and unskilled W. P. A. la- borers will be employed. The completed levee will rise 17 feet above mean low water—about 3 feet higher than the crest of the 1936 flood, which rose 6 feet into the building at the air station and reached a depth of more than 10 feet on parts of the landing fleld. It will have a thickness of 30 feet at the top and 70 feet at the base. The movable dam will consist of mobile water-tight sec- tions which will be stored at each side of the gap in the dike, through which sea planes are moved from the hangar to the river. These may be put into position quickly in cese of emergency. Last of Air Crash Victims Found. SALT LAKE CITY, August 12 (#).— An eight-month search for the vice tims of the December 15 air tragedy was ended today and the body of Co- pilot William Bogen of Burbank, Calif., last of the seven 0 be found, trM the serival of setatives. -