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Evening star., 1937-04-25
Rider
Continued From First Page.)

1chool hours and which are not Incl
dental to classroom teaching assign
ments? If the rider goes through and
this work is done at all, it must be
through clerks. And Congress has not
appropriated for clerks.
Directed against about So teachers in
special assignments, the clause will
affect all of approximately 5000 teach
ers In the school system in all kinds
Of ways II broadly interpreted.
1T will cause endless confusion"
lamented Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle,
president of the Board Of Education.
'Tt is just another evidence OF the
difficulties caused by legislative riders" +"
Many teachers who were sympa-
thetic toward the original intent be-
hind the rider, feeling that no par
ticular use is made of the results Of
the research tests that take some time
and trouble, are distressed at the i'm
pltcations of the present wording
Although many have felt that inclusion
OF the special teachers doing the cleri-
cal work as teachers" gives a false
picture Of the pupi-teacher ratio In
the schools since they are listed rs
teachers, but do not actually have
classes Of children, they are not, nev-
ertheless in favor of the present rider
with all its possible ramif1cations. At
any rate, the whole school system will
anxiously await the fate OF the rider
when it comes before the spnate An.
propriAtions Subcommittee,
Evening star., 1937-04-25
Suicide
Continued From First Page.)

"A Broadway play of about six years
aRo-and The Gilded Princess She
was widely known, also, as a radio
entertainer, having had parts in vari-
Gus chain productions.
The party guests, scores more than
could have been accommodated in the
Monts' three-room apartment, jammed
the apartment house lobby until door
men notified late corners the party
has been called off"
Many who received the strange let
ters Of invitation left without learning
that their intended hostess was dead.
The tall, chestnut-haired actress,
popular among patrons of the theater
guild. was married previously to Ran
dolph Joseph Thomson, an English
playwright. A few minutes after an
nulment of the first marriage, on
March 20 Of this year. she married
Mont, Turkish-bo designer of furni-
ture.
She and the wealthy 33-year-old
creator of many popular fashions in
home furnishings had planned June
honeymoon in Paris,
The Daily News said Mrs. Mont was
graduate of the University of South
ern California. While student there,
the News said, she was the lone wit
ness to the suicide of Robert Pew, 35-
year-old writer and poet. Lifting a
glass of poison, said the News, Pew
drank toast Of death to her, dying at
her feet.
A few months later, it reported, in
the Fall of 1890, she came to New
York, and appeared on Broadway in
thA Guild production, Roar China"
The unique party invitations were
unsigned, although several guests said
their letters were initiated and that
they recognized the initials as those of
friends. Most of the invitations were
received Friday.
Mrs. Gray Lohman of New York
said she had received Chain" invi-
tation, and took along as ner guest
Mrs. w. H. Wisner of Chicago. Asked
about their hostess, both said they did
not know Mrs. Mont.
Mrs. Mont's body was taken from the
apartment to Flower Hospital, where a
death certificate was prepared.
Her husband, shocked, secluded him.
self In the apartment, from which
servants hurriedly removed the glitter
ing glassware and bright silver which
had been laid out In preparation for
New York's most amusing and un-
usual cocktail party"
Evening star., 1937-04-25
Arthur
Continued From First Page.)

Arthur was not alive, but dead, and
Furthermore, that he was English.
This. Dr. Mite, was precisely what
some clever person" did in the year
1889, by first burying and then dis
covering the remains of Arthur and
his queen, Guineviere," in the grave
yard of Glastonbury Abbey.
In other words. two bodies of un-
known persons were dug up and 'iden-
tif1ed' as those of the King and Queen.
Glastonbury was chosen for the dis
covery," DR.. Mite declared. because it
was Henry's favorite church and he
wanted to develop it as the most i'm
portant church in England. BY having
Arthur's body there, the place could
be shrine which would command
greater devotion
The burial of the bodies in tombs
within the Abbey was publicized, the
literary detective said, in q series of
manuscripts entitled THE High His
tory of the Grail" and the incident
gave the church q position Of priority
that Influenced its rank even after the
Reformation.
Henry claimed Arthur as an ances-
tor. and DR.. Mite said English rulers
down to Queen Elizabeth kept up the
claim.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
SHOWDOWN faced
0NFRENCH STRIKE
Workers Say Demands Must
Be Met, as Employers
Threaten Lockout.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 24.-Capital and la
Dor lined up tonight for 4 showdown
over the social efforts OF Premier
Leon Blum's peoples front govern
ment.
Labor threatened general strike
If its full demands were not met.
Some employers held out the posi-
bility Of lockouts il the government
acceded further to labor's requests.
Building trades workers defled Pre-
mier Blum at Vincennes mass meet
ing. They were prepared, they said,
to use the full power We possess" to
force the government to spend TO-
600, 100000 francs ($44, 400 ,000) on 4
public works program to relieve un-
employment.
Two Days = Week Dema nded.
Dock workers demanded that
wharves remain idle two days each
week. Unionized newspaper printing
employees were seeking to halt pub
lication Of newspapers two days
weekly.
The disputes cast their shadows over
Paris International Exposition, sched-
| uled to open May /, but which prob
ably will not open until May IT,.
Construction at the exposition site
still was tagging. In some quarters
this work was regarded as labor's club
over the government, which does not
want its exposition spoiled by a
strike.
But M. Blum has told the labor
federation the treasury could not
stand additional public works expendi-
lures. Some financial experts, assert
ing half Of the 5000 900 900 franc
March defense loan has been spent,
also believed the nation might face an
empty treasury by June.
Threat to Close.
On the employer side, despite expec-
tationS Of big exposition business, hotel
keepers and cafe associations served
notice they would close if the govern
ment applied the 40-hour week to
them They declared they would not
be able to compete with other countries
for tourist business.
Representatives OF big industry were
touring the country to pledge employ
ers to stop labor" movement
Industry and conservatives in gen.
eral cried out that the country was
in the throes Of revolution"
Some informed Frenchmen predicted
the bitterest struggle between capital
and labor since the late Aristide
BRAND broke up 1910 railway and
postal strikes which tied up the coun-
try.
The government was not believed
likely to fall in Parliament, which re.
convenes Tuesday. but Blum was being
heavily fired upon from within hi.
own ranks. The premier has let work.
ers know that continued sniping nigh,
force the Peoples Front government te
resign.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
Revenue
Continued From First PaRe.)

tax subcommittee. He has promised
to give 1t serious consideration.
At the very outset of the subcom-
mittee's study Of taxation, Commits
sioner Hazen indicated he was not in
sympathy with all the Collins tax
bills. He declared the Commissioners
realized that $e,ooo,o0o would have to
be raised to meet the prospective
shortage in the 1898 fiscal year. but
they did not believe the tax program
should be designed to raise more than
that amount.
Chairman Collins of the House Sub
committee on District Appropriations,
who sponsored the nine tax bills, once
estimated they would yield a total of
more than $12,000,000 in additional
revenue. He since has shaved down
the estimate to about 100000.
Aside from the Commissioners.
members of the Public Utilities Com
mission are scheduled to appear be-
fore Kennedy's subcommittee when It
resumes hearings Tuesday at 10 am.
Members of the Utilities Commission
are to be questioned about present
taxes on utility corporations and the
effect on these companies Of the COL
lins bill which proposes to tax them on
real and personal property rather than
On earnings.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
ARMY PILOT is KILLED
IN FALL FROM PLANE
eN the Associated Press.

2, the Associated Press.
PILOT POINT, Tex, April a.
Lieut.. Robert Fisher, 26, of Randolph
Field, San Antonio, Tex, plunged 1000
feet to death from an airplane he was
plotting near here today.
Maj. B. S. Thompson, commandant
at Hensley Field, Dallas, said Fisher
apparently leaned too far from his
cockpit and fell out He was struck
by the tail assembly. His parachute
opened and slowed his fall.
Fishers companion, Lieut.. D. r.
Ellis. put the rear set Of controls into
use and, although the rudder controls
were jammed, piloted the ship back
to Hensley Field, using only the ailer-
ons, small movable sections in the
wings.
Maj. Thompson said it was a re-
markable demonstration of skillful
flying.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
BARD, REVISED.

A scholarly operative OF ours,
uho yearns for neU languages, neD
ideas, a ne,o posey, feels that she
has been robbed OF the discovery Of
the century merely because she had
to leaUe Cdluert street tram too
soon the other night.
She had been listening auidly to
a conversation between tuo colored
men, one of whom evidently had
become a Shakespeare enthusiast.
He was trying to explain to his
friend the beauties, the charms of
the Bard of Auon.
TAKE Venus and Adonis,' for
instance" he said, his eyes qlouinq
as he haJ-chdnted the words.
THAT IS ,DoU. It's like this:
Adonis, he Das a good looking guy,
and Venus, she Das Queen"
At that point the tram ratified
oUer a crossinp-thc rest OF the
sentence 1Uds lost. Merit minute our
informant saw her street and had
to get of, Leaving behind her
man uho had created line at
least as good as the opening
phrases Of "Hia,Udthd" - either
original or Milt Gross persion.
y
SIT-DOWN
Out on the corner OF Dorset ave.
nue. an Warwick place in Som
erset, Md, grackle has won The
first sit-do-n strike in birdom.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
FATHER TO TELL
OF SONS murder
Harlan Miner to Describe
How Boy Was Killed by
Vigi|antes.
p1TYCPOTINn

BACKGROUND
Gipen impetus BY disclosures
made before National Labor Re-
ldtions Board, the Senate last
Spring uoted $4,000 for probe
OF alleged uiolations OF ciril
liberties; advanced additional $40
900 this Winter.
Concerning themselves first ,rith
espionage in labor relations, COM
rittee is no,p turning its fire on
conditions in Harlan County, KY,
home of some OF 1Gorld'S richest
soft coal mines. For years condi-
ttons there had been admittedly
bad and Kentucky State Commits
sion in 1885 reported them "un-
belieUdble."
Marshall A. Musick, Kentucky
mountaineer miner, will take the
stand before the Senate Civil Liber-
ties Committee this week to tell how
his son died under a hail Of vigilante
bullets on the night of February 10,
1897.
Also on the stand will be Theodore
R. Middleton. high sheriff Of Bloody
Harlan" County, KY, in whose hands
is vested the responsibility Of pre-
serving law and order.
Away from home on the fatal night,
Musick. an organizer for the United
Mine Workers. returned to find that
band Of gunner had riddled his
home with high-powered bullets,
bringing death to his 19-year-old son,
Bennett Musck, and seriously wound
ing his wife.
For nearly two weeks the commit
tee has heard numerous witnesses tes-
thy to the strong-arm methods en-
ployed by the scores Of deputies OF
Harlan, all of whom are either con-
nected with the Office of Sheriff Mid
dleton or are on the pay roll Of the
coal companies or their Employers
Association.
With the Musick killing and events
directly subsequent, the committee
will have brought the Harlan probe
down to date, the expectation being
that the present set Of hearings will
end by Wednesday. A recess until
the middle Of May is then planned.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
Cummings, Forum Speaker
TTORNEY GENERAL HOMER
I CUMMINGS will address the
\ American people in support Of

CHe FTeSlQeQJ s supreme court
reorganization plan at $50 pm. to-
morrow in the National Radio Forum,
The forum, arranged by The Star,
will be broadcast over a Nation wide
network of the National Broadcasting
Co. The address will be heard locally
over station WRC.
This will be the first radio address
on the court plan by q cabinet officer
since the close of the hearings before
the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Cummings is one of the Presidents big
guns in the battle to enlarge the high
tribunal.
The Attorney General has chosen
for his topic: Progress Of the Presi-
dents Plan for Judicial Reform"
As the chief law officer Of the ad-
ministration, Cummings has been the
Presidents close adviser on the court
plan since its inception and has d.
rected personally much OF the Presi-
dents campaign for adoption Of the
proposed reforms.
He is expected to reveal the reaction
Of proponents Of the plan to opposition
testimony before the Senate commit
Evening star., 1937-04-25
AKRON EDITOR FINED
IN JURY REVELATIONS
Early Decision by Court of Ap-
peals Is Promised in
Test Case.
p the Associated Press.

eT the Associated Press.
AKRON, Ohio. April 24.-An early
decision by the Court OF Appeals was
promised tonight in the case of Wal
ter Morrow, editor Of the Times Press,
fined $50 today by Judge Walter B.
Wanamaker for publishing names Of
witnesses and cases under considera-
ton by the county grand jury.
Judge Arthur w. Doyle of the
appellate court, said early considera-
ton would be given the case.
Morrow was cited after the court
had admonished newspaper editors
not to make public any of the proceed
ings of the jury. Morrow said the
case was to test the length which
courts could 90 in banning news
reports.
The court assessed Morrow a fine of
$40 for publishing the names of the
grand jurors; SIS for revealing the
names of witnesses and $25 for making
known the titles of the grand jury
cases.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
.DENHARDT'S COAT
DECLARED STAINED
Testimony That Spots Were
Caused by Blood Heard
at Murder Trial.
RACKGRONNn-

BACKGROUND
When Mrs. Vernd Carr Tdulor,
comelv ,oido1o and fancee OF Brig.
Gen. Henry H. Denhardt, ,Das found
shot to death in ditch along
lonely road in Kentucky last No
pember s, the general ,Das charged
iDith murder. His seruice repoluer
Was found near the body. He
claimed she committed suicide
after Dalkin0 d,Day from the car
When the auto stalled.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW CASTLE, KY, April "a
Testimony that there were no powder
marks on Mrs. Verna Carr Taylor's
clothing and that there were spots,
alleged to be blood, on Brig. Gen.
Henry H. Denhardt's heavy overcoat,
was placed before the jury trying Dem
hardt for murder here today.
The Commonwealth also brought
out testimony that the 6l-year- -old war
veteran and former Lieutenant Gov
ernor did not 60 near the body of his
fiancee the night of November when
1t was found in roadside ditch, a
bullet wound through the body.
Shortly after o'clock downpour
battered so hard on the tin roof of the
court house that the witnesses could
not be heard and court was adjourned
until 9 am. Monday.
Trial to Last Another Week.
The Commonwealth indicated it
would require two or three days more
to finish its testimony and defense
counsel estimated two or three days
for testimony. Arguments were ex-
pected to require at least one day, 80
that the jury composed Of nine farm
ers and filling station attendant was
not expected to get the case until a
week from today.
Evidence regarding a small pistol,
resembling fountain pen, which the
Commonwealth wanted to prove Den
hardt owned, was ruled out as the wit
ness who described it, Charles Powell.
a truckman, could only say Denhardt
had told him of the weapon.
George Baker, farmer, had testi-
ned he heard loud shot such as
might have come from Denhardt's S
heavy Army pistol, which was identi-
ned as the death weapon. ana a few
minutes later a pop shot" The
Commonwealth was overruled today in
trying to expunge Bakers statement
that "Denhardt could not have killed
her because l was with him when the
second shot was fired" Another wit
ness today, Preston Carpenter, declared
he heard only one shot.
Found No Powder Burns.
w. Smith Keightley, an undertaken,
identified the clothing Mrs. Taylor
wore when found slain and declared
there were no powder burns or scorches
on the articles.
D. L. Ricketts,. coroner, identified
Denhardt's heavy pistol as having
been found four or five feet from the
woman's body. The coroner's re-
peated references to spots on Den
hardt's coat as blood spots drew a
ruling that he was not competent to
say what caused the spots.
During the identification Of the
clothing Coroner Ricketts, testified
Denhardt had told him Don't let
anybody put any blood on this coat"
The coroner added that examination
at that time showed spots on it.
Ricketts, and Keightley also testified
that Denhardt had expressed belief
his nancee committed suicide.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
NOTED EDUCATOR DIES
Rev. W. J. Engelen Co-Founder
of Catholic University in Toxic.
BY the Associated Press.

ST. LOUIS, April "a (P)-Rev. Will
liam j. EngeIn, S. j., co-founder OF
the Catholic University Of Toxic, ia
pan, died of paralysis at hospital
here yesterday. He was 64 years old.
At the request of the head Of the
Jesuit Order, Father Engelen and an
other priest, Rev. Joseph Hoffman.
organized the university in 1909.
Father Engelen served as chancellor
until 1915, when poor health forced
him to return to the United States.
He Joined the faculty of st. Johns
University in Toledo, Ohio, as dean
of the Colleges of Arts and Laws and
later organized its School of Educa-
ton
Evening star., 1937-04-25
PART FIVE.
Financial, Classified.
CHILD MARRIAGE LEADS
TO PERJURY CHARGES

Husband and Mother Accused of
Misrepresenting Age to
Blind Justice.
Ry the Associated Press.
PERRY, Okla, April 24-A 12-year-
old girls marriage before a blind JUS
tice brought perjury charges today
against her 38-year-old husband and
her mother.
John Lawrence Burns, oil field
worker, and Mrs. Mary West were
charged with falsely placing Opal
Vests age at IS, the legal marriage
limit.
County Attorney Judson Peirce, who
filed the charges, said the mother told
him she was perfectly willing for
Opal to be married" He said school
records showed the girl was born Sep.
tember %, 1924.
c. L. Walker, blind peace justice,
said he married the couple Wednesday.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
R0SSI CLAIMS RECORD

ISTRES. France, April "a R.-
Maurice Rossi, famous French flyer,
celebrated his 36th birthday ami
versary today by making a remarkable
5,000-kilometer (3,105 miles flight
which, he said. set = new speed
record for that distance.
Rossi completed his flight over =
closed circuit in l6 hours 4 minutes 30
seconds, an average OF 3l1.ls4 kilo-
meters Q92o niles) an hour. The
previous record, held by the Ameri.
cans, D. W. Tomlinson and J. B.
Bartles, was ga. % kilometers IA hour.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
SOUEICH.

SQUELCH.
TT MAY be classic, for all We
know, having slipped several times
on our Is minutes a day with the
= classics, but there is 4 tale going
the rounds about a woman and a
sandwich.
The woman was the fussy type. She
wanted the bacon just so well done,
the toast 4 particular shade OF brown
(tawny, maybe and the lettuce Of a
specified degree Of crispness. The
counterman looked licked before he
started, but he finally did start.
Evening star., 1937-04-25
Readers Guide
and
News Summary
The Sunday Star, April IS, 1887.
PART ONE.
Main NelCs Section.

Nam Ne1CS section.
FOREIGN.
Madrid civil rule frees Miaja to pur-
sue rebels. Page Al
Belgium becomes listening post for
Britain. Page Al
French capital and labor line up for
showdown. Page Al
NATIONAL.
Near-deadlock seen on permanent
neutrality bill. Page Al
Jobless count with early decennlal
census proposed. Page Al
Committee disapproval Of court plan
seen possibility. Page Al
100 invited to cocktail party find hos
tess suicide. Page Al
Gotham rail strike bar sought IN
week end talk. Page Al
Harlan father to tell Of shooting Of
son. Page Az
President to delay drive for reorgani-
zation plan Page Al
Lberal-Conservative test seen In U. S.
Chamber meeting. Page Al
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Commissioners to propose sales tax on
tobacco Page Al
School system buzzing with alarm over
new rider. Page Al
Percentage reduction In appropria-
ton bills opposed. Page Al
Two bills on calendar for District
day" tomorrow Page B-1
Shutdown group at relief ONCE leaves
satisfied. Page B-1
Leading scientists to meet here this
week. Page B-1
Delay Of memorial urged by Borah
and Treadway. Page B-l
Silver star home in Barnaby Woods
opens tomorrow. Page B-3
Quezon engages F. C. Howe as farm
adviser. Page B-4
SPORTS.
Newsom is victim as Mackmen defeat
Nationals, 6 to 4 Page B-6
Hoosiers set 4-mile relay record in
Penn Carnival. Page B-6
Melbourne Jake annexes Maryland Cup
in hot finish. Page B-7
San Romani misses mark in scoring
in Drake relay meet. Page BIS
Annual series Of Spring races begun by
sailboat devotees. Page B-s
Women's District bowling champion
ships get record entry. Page Bio
Chicolorado takes Stuyvessant as aces
fail at Jamaica. Page Bill
Evening star., 1937-04-25
CHURCHMEN SENTENCED
Nazi Campaign Against Alleged
immortality Renewed.

COLOGNE, Germany, April "a CP).
"A stern Nazi campaign against all
legged immortality in church circles was
renewed today when sentences OF
from 10 months to three years in
prison were imposed on five lay BROTH
ers at Bonn and one Catholic vicar
at Essen.
All were convicted on charges OF
immoral relations with children in.
trusted TO their care.
Two lay brothers tried on similar
charges were acquitted.