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Evening star., 1937-04-06
MAKES OWN LETHAL GAS
TO KILL WIFE AND SELF
Mailman Turns Apartment Into
Death Chamber-Note Blames
Worry Over Debts.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 6.-With
a homemade lethal gas chamber Leroy
Irish, 40-year mailman, ended his
worries over debts at the cost OF his
own life and that of his invalid wife,
police said today.
Police Inspector George Engler said
Irish dropped enough poison gas pei
lets into vase of acid to kill every
one in the apartment house where ne
lived and died. Only the PERFECTION
with which he sealed the apartment
with tape saved other occupants.
The bodies were discovered yester-
day and with them, Engler said, a
note blaming worries over debts.
Evening star., 1937-04-06
ROOSEVELT URGES.
WAGE LAW DELAY
|. IN D. c. FOR STUDY
Suggests Amendment to
Minimum Pay Act Also
Might Include Men.
COURSE QUESTIONED
BY HAZEN AND SEAL
Commissioners Are Ready to Name
New Board-Cummings' 0pin.
ion Is Submitted.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
In 1918 Congress enacted a min
inum Udge laU for Uomen en-
ployed in the District OF Columbia.
The statute prevailed for more
than four years, When it Dds chal-
lenged by Children's Hospital and
hotel employe, and ,Das Subse-
quently held unconstitutional by
the Supreme Court.
That decision since had stood as
guidepost in similar legislation.
HoWeuer, a Ueek ago, in historic
reversal, the court ruling on an dp-
peal on minimum Dage laU in
Washington State, decided, Sd,
that the District ldU 1Uds Ddlid.
President Roosevelt has requested
the District Commissioners to delay
appointment of Minimum Wage
Board to administer the resurrectec
law governing the salaries Of Womer
and minors, he revealed today ir
messages to Vice President Garner
and Speaker Bankhead
The President said he made the
request to allow Congress an oppor-
tunity to determine whether the min
imum wage act for women which has
been imperative for the past IA years
should be amended.
Accompanying the Presidents mes.
sage was an opinion from Attorney
General Cummings clearly contend.
ing that the once outlaWed minimum
now effective.
The Commissioners at their boarc
meeting agreed to withhold action or
the minimum wage law, in accordance
with Mr. Roosevelt's request Com.
missioner Allen said he was glad the
President had asked for the delay
pointing out that it will give the city
heads ample opportunity to investi.
gate the qualifications of the mer
whom they will appoint to the mini
mum wage board.
Presidents Message.
The Presidents message follows:
Fourteen years have elapsed since
the Supreme Court, by its decision II
the case of Adkins VS.. Children's Hos
pital, 261 U. S. 525, rendered thu
District of Columbia minimum wagt
law imperative. l submit herewith
the opinion of the Attorney General
which makes clear that the recen
decision of the Supreme Court, in th'
case of West Coast Hotel Co. vs.
Parrish, overruling the previous de-
cision, has rendered the statute onc'
more effective.
In view of the long interval durint
which it was impossible to administer
(See D. c. WAGE, Page A-12)
Evening star., 1937-04-06
S O S CALL SENT OUT
BY CHINESE STEAMER

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 6-Globe
Wireless reported early today the
steamer Pei An had sent out an
urgent call for assistance after run
ming aground at Whampoa on the
Chinese coast
Evening star., 1937-04-06
JULIANA RETURNS

Princess and Husband End Trip
to Paris.
PARIS, April LP-Princess Juli-
ana, heiress to the throne Of the
Netherlands, and her husband, Prince
Bernhard, started back to The Hague
by automobile today after ending
their honeymoon trip with a whirl at
Paris night life.
The royal couple carried with them
a number of gifts for the court, in
cluding a box of exploding cigars
which the prince bought at joke
shop. u
Evening star., 1937-04-06
POLICE PRESS SEARCH
FOR BRICKBAT SLAYER
Records of Ex-Convicts Checked
After Suspect Is
Described.

- the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, April 6.-Parole
records of colored ex-convicts were
checked by police today in the search
for the brickbat slayer who killed Mrs.
Edna A. Worden and her daughter
Marguerite. II, in their apartment
Sunday during robbery.
Several housewives, beaten with a
brick by a colored man in recent
weeks, have described him to police.
Capt. Burt Wallis said the suspect was
IS, weighed ITS pounds and was 6
feet tall.
Fingerprints found in the Worden
apartment were checked against those
Of known criminals. Police also had
two clay models of size II footprints.
County Autopsy Surgeon A. F. Wag-
ner reported no evidence Of criminal
assault.
Evening star., 1937-04-06
Summary of Today's Star

Lost g. Found AS Woman's Pg. BIZ
Obituary A-12
SUPREME COUR1 ISSUE.
Witness urges amendment instead Of
court enlargement. Page Az
STRIKE SITUATION.
Three new resolutions condemning
sit-doWns offered. Page Al
Labor troubles keep 125, 900 idle in mo-
7. tor and coal industries. Page Al
FOREIGN.
15OO men, women and children starve
under rebel rule. Page Al
NATIONAL.
Republicans and Democrats neck and
neck in Michigan. Page Al
Interest boost is feared on new U. S.
borrowings. Page Al
U. S. court upholds "windfall' taxes in
North Carolina case. Page Ar
Sculptor, accused of triple Staying,
hunted in Manhattan. Page Al
Twelve killed by rain and wind storms
in South. Page Az
Japanese urges elimination Of tariff
barriers. Page Az
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Delay in d. c. wage law enforcement
urged by Roosevelt. Page Al
New bill authorizes State-county taxes
in Greenbelt. Page Al
Commissioners find $4,000 for relief
of employables. Page Al
Virginia loath to try dentist on first
degree count. Page Az
Several Alexandria homes to be opened
first time for tour. Page AS
Raids and Maryland legalization men
ace D. c. bookies. Page B-1
Maryland Assembly passes relief bill
legalizing bookmaking. Page b-l
Paul CARRIER, antique dealer, kills sell
because Of i'll health. Page B-l
Evening star., 1937-04-06
TAXES EAT UP ESTATE
Inheritance Levies Amount to
Half of Mccormick Estate.

Half of Mccormick Estate.
CHICAGO, April R.-Illinois and
Federal inheritance taxes will amount
to more than half of the $4,000, 900
estate of Cyrus Hall Mccormick, an
inventory on file today in County
Court disclosed.
The chairman Of, the board of the
International Harvester Co. died June
2, 1886, leaving an estate valued for
tax purposes at $22, 1855, ,806.
Trustees attorneys said the Federal
Government would receive $10,397, ,942
in inheritance tax, the State $780,
298, the total amounting to 52.27 per
cent of the estate.
Evening star., 1937-04-06

By the Associated Press.
Labor troubles in automotive plants
of the North and coal mines of the
South kept more than 1885, 900 wage
earners idle today.
Between the geographical extremes
in the Nation were scores of minor
industrial disturbances.
Prospects for quick settlement OF
the Chrysler Motor Corp. strike in
volving 10000 workers we're bright as
negotiations were resumed at Lansing,
Mich. today, but 10000 Alabama
miners and 1000 around Knoxville,
Tenn. faced the possibility of long
lay-off pending approval of a new
contract.
All mines of the Pittsburgh Coal Co.
and Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp.
remained idle, too, pending negotia-
tions on agreementns covering working
conditions The Alabama and Ten
neSsee miners, a union spokesman
said, would demand time and half
for overtime and wage increase.
Murphy Refuses Prediction.
Gov. Frank Murphy OF Michigan,
occupying the role of peacemaker in
the Chrysler dispute, declined to pre-
dict when an agreement would be
reached, but there were reports pact
would be signed in time to permit re-
sumption of operations next week.
Observers felt settlement of strikes
involving 10000 Hudson Motor Car Co.
employees and 1900 REQ Motor Car Co.
workers hinged on the outcome Of the
Chrysler parley. 1t affected $4,000
Chrysler workers and 10000 employees
of automotive firms selling to Chrys-
ler.
Alfred P. Sloan, jr.. president OF
General Motors Corp, condemned Sit
down strikes in a statement issued at
Phoenix, AriZ. Their seriousness, he
said lay not in themselves but "in
what they will lead to-
The Committee tor Industrial Or
zanization started unionization
drive in the oil industry with assur-
ance from a union leader that sit
down strikes we're not on the program.
Disputes over wages and hours for
clerks closed the fourteenth retail store
in Akron and suburban Barberton,
Ohio, yesterday. Akron auto mechan-
(See LABOR. PAGE A-4.)
Evening star., 1937-04-06

Senate Majority Leader Robinson
said today he had agreed with other
administration chiefs on "declara-
tion Of policy on sit-down strikes. 1t
will be brought before the Senate for
speedy action tomorrow, he said.
Robinson said group of Democratic
Senators had decided at a prolonged
conference this morning on a modified
version of a resolution offered yester-
(See SIT-DOWN, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1937-04-06
SENATORS REPORT
|. S|T-DOWN ACCORD
Agreement on "DeCIaration
of Policy" Announced
by Robinson.
BACKGROUND

The sit-doun strike, senatorial
DOGGY man for the past several
1Deeks, jumped the traces Thursday
When Senator Byrnes, Democrat,
OF South Carolina offered an
mendment to the pending Gu1ey
coal bill, declaring these strikes IL
legal and contrary to public policy.
While Administration leaders
fought to StaUe of pote, ByrneS
stood his ground, yielding only to
the ertent OF Offering substitute
amendment extending the scope Of
the original to all sit-douns instead
OF only those in the coal-minino
industry.
BrynesF amendment Wds submit
ted after persistent demands that
the Federal Government take
firm stand against this nep LABOR
uedpon.
Evening star., 1937-04-06
125,0()D MEN IDLE
IN TWO INDUSTRIES
ChrysIer Settlement Near,
but Coal Miners Face
Long Lay-oft.
BACKGROUND

BACK hGROUND-
Eighth day OF negotiations for
settlement OF Chrysler Motor Co.
labor trouble finds conferees near
agreement, but disputes OF soft coal
miners in Alabama and Tennessee
appear headed for long draun out
negotiations. Recognition OF United
Automobile Workers of America as
bargaining unit is chief point at
issue in pdrley at Lansing, Mich,
lDhiIe Southern coal miners de-
mdnd Dage scale Dhich applies in
Appalachian region.
Evening star., 1937-04-06

(U. S. Weather Bureau ForecastJ
Generally fair and colder; lowest tenn
perature about a degrees tonight; tomor-
row, fair; moderate winds, mostly west
erly. observation-disclosures, 68, at noon
today; lowest, SO, at 7:30 pm. yesterday.
Full report on page A-l2.
Evening star., 1937-04-06

(See D. c. WAGE, Page A-12)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-25
We're Interested

There seems to be a friendly attitude in the Legislature this session toward the proposal to link Waterbury and Bridge port by through or trunk line route. The present road between the two cities, at least the shelton Bridgeport end of it, is far from satisfactory. Probably more truck traffic passed over the Naugatuck Valley and the Shelton-B Bridgeport road than any other state highway in Connec- ticut. For long time the need of mak- ing this route avoid some of the several towns along it has been felt
 In Hartford this week legislators showed disposition to favor bill call- ing for better road from Shelton down to Bridgeport and a bypass around the town of Nichols. The Shelton Bridge port route is to be put in the trunk line system. After this is done it is expected that the continuation of the route up the Naugatuck Valley will likewise be put in the trunk line category of roads. And perhaps few more by-passes can be in- veigled from the State Highway De- partment.
 While Bridgeport and Waterbury arc just about thirty miles apart now, actual driving time between the two communi- ties is spread out due to the condition of the highway below Shelton and the fact that there are so many towns to be passed through in the Naugatuck Valley. While changes are suggested to better truck traffic between the two manufac- turing towns, they will tlso benefit all motor travel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-25
A Thought for Today
Goods, Not Figures

After spending six years in frantic effort to attain recovery this nation now seems to be worrying for fear that it may be recovering too fast. Chairman Eccles of the Federal Reserve warns that we shall have trouble if prices and wages go on increasing too fast and too far. Secre- tary Wallace follows suit with similar warning, and is followed by Secretary Roper.
 Secretary Wallace summarizes the danger very neatly: "There is danger from business men, in search of profits cutting down production to point that is bad for the general welfare. There is danger that labor, in search of higher wages and shorter hours, will restrict production to point that is bad for the general welfare. There is danger of agri- culture, in search of higher prices, cut ting production to point that is bad for the general welfare. There is danger of agriculture, in search of higher prices, cutting production to point that is bad for the general welfare. If all three. worked together, they would get more and more money for less and less goods"
 It would be perilously easy for the na- ton to step off into this spiral-if, indeed, it has not already done so And perhaps as good way as any to fortify ourselves against it would be to remember just what it is that constitutes wealth, from the national standpoint. The nation can be just as poor in an era of high prices and high wages as in an era of low ones. For it is not the figures on the ledgers that make national prosperity; it is the bulk of the countrys production of goods.
 It was recognition of this little fact, probably, that explains the early oppo- sition to the MIRA and AAA programs. Everybody realizes that the farmer had to get higher prices. Everybody realized that the business man had to- sell his goods at profit. Everybody realized that if the working man didn't get decent wages, he could not buy the things busi- ness man and farmer were producing.
 Yet balanced against those facts was the unacceptable fact that the nations, wealth consists of the things it produces, and that the way to increase its wealth is it. Offhand, one would certainly say that to increase it's production, not to decrease a nation which turns out necessities and luxuries enough to supply l0O,O0O,O0O people is considerably Wealthier than one which produces enough for only half that number-regardless of price tags.
 Just how to regulate those price tags SO that the individual producer can pros per and the country as a whole can in- crease it's wealth is a nan-sized problem. We have been pecking away at it since 1880, or thereabout, and haven't solved it yet. But solve 1t we must, before long, if we are to avoid disaster.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-25
It's Sherwood Island Again

We don't know why it has to be Fair field County that is the center of all the arguments that have been engaging this state of recent years, but somehow or other they just can't miss out on any, thing down there. The Sherwood Island controversy is up again. We did think that the Merritt Parkway had success fully put this dispute into the back ground, but not after the legislative hearing this week. It's either put up or shut up so far as Sherwood Island is now concerned.
 The state park, now existing at the Westport site, will be closed after May ], unless sufficient funds are provided with which the land necessary to make avail able the shore frontage required for an adequate park can be procured. Tuesday it was stated, whether officially or not we don't know that $500 900 of $2,000,- 900 being sought by the State Park and Forest Commission, would be devoted to Sherwood Island. When the actual hearing was held exactly half of the re- quested two millions was mentioned for the shore park development.
 We merely mention this to show that they don't do things by thirds or quarters down in Fairfield County. They do them by halves. But all joking aside, we do think there Is some need of developing Sherwood Island and making it available for the public. Tn the first place 1t is our oldest state park and from a stand point of age has had little use. This wasn't always th1 states fault. But it was the states f. ut that sufficient funds were rot provided from year to year. That should be remedicd now. The en- Gre state should benefit from an in- crease in the State Park and Forest Com ~sissi0n budget.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-25
Make Them Americans

Congress has a number of profoundly important measures to handle this spring. But it is to be hoped that the pressure of this business does not cause Congress to ignore the Tydings-G Gibson bill, which would make American citizens out of the 21,000 inhabitants of the island of Guam.
 This island has been under the Ameri- can flag ever since the war with Spain, but its people are neither flesh, fish, nor fowl They are not aliens, and yet they are not Americans. They aspire to be American citizens, and have sent dele gation to ask Congress to give them that status; and at time when Americas other islands are asking everything from economic rehabilitation to complete in- dependence, this looks like singularly mild request
 The people of Guam feel like Americans and act like Americans. It is to be hoped that Congress will find time to pass the bill that will make them in fact Americans
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-25
Frpe PMbliCity No Economy Seen in Eliminating State Publicity Commission as It Has Not Cost
 Connecticut Anything to Date.
Connecticut Anything to D
HARTFORD TIMES

of economy in such a step, for the publicity commission and its ac. tivities in the past cost the state nothing. Tie last assembly ap. proved the idea of state publicity, but overlooked the provision of funds to promote 1t. The commission tried to get along without money, to make its publicity activities pay their own way; 1t did very well at 1t, but the task was too much.
 There is, however, one form of state pnublicity which can be pro- noted without benefit of any ad- ditions to the budget or to taxpay- CTS bills. That is state govern. ment conduct which will get to the ears and eyes of many of those desired to be reached, without ambitious advertising campaigns.
 At the present time, private liv- ing and commercial enterprise of all sorts in New York state, for ex- ample. are becoming acquainted with with 8 proposed new state fis- cal program involving a raised gasoline tax, the continuation of some emergency taxes and another big bond issue which eventually would make itself known at the table of every family and in the ex- pense accounts of every enterprise. If Connecticut state planning will so be directed as to make the best pos- sible use of revenues now enjoyed and to avoid to the utmost possible degree the incurring of indebtedness and the imposition of new taxes of any form, the state will be assured the respectful attention of those per- sons looking for Q better place to live and those enterprises looking for 8 better place to operate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-25
Poll F0e

Poll Foe
 Representative Walter M. Pierce is a militant foe of straw ballots. Last year he introduced Q bill outlawing them, but 1t got noe where. Undaunted, the Oregon Democrat has resumed his crusade this session.
 Pierce's pet hate dates back to the 1924 presidential cam palgn, when an organization conducting . national poll sent . bundle of ballots to the post master of . small Oregon conn munity with . note asking him to distribute them. The post master was at home iIl, 50 isis clerk, A devoted socialist, decided he would put in . good lick for "the cause".
 He marked all the ballots for the socialist candidate, olgning the names of lutnberjacks he knew.
 Somehow or the other the mat ter leaked out. One day g stern visaged postal inspector arrived to make an Investigation. After a sharp questioning the clerk broke down and confessed. The inspector was outraged.
 That's a fine thing to do," he stormed. Don't you know that instructions were sent out to turn over all those ballots to the re- publican state committee"
 Merry Go Round
 Henry Norweb. of the cleve- land Plain Dealer family, hes lost out in his ambition to be- come ambassador to Chile. +, will be minister to the Domin'- can Republic instead :. Uncle Dan Roper has been doing a little quiet lobbying against the con- firmation of Tom Woodward aSs a member of the new Maritime Commission. Woodward, cne of the best of the newly appoiat- ed commissioners, was a little too fearless for Roper while . menl- Der of the old Shipping Board, and Roper asked for his recigna-9 tion. Naturally he didn't li.so Woodward's reappointmcnt to a better job 7. Contrary to a mistaken impression in somo quarters, members of congre-5 have to pay income taxes. Jl fact, they have to be a li.tl3' more careful to remember the.r income than most people. Sloppy memory might not help their chances of reelection ,
 Copyright. 1887, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-25

Governor Wilbur L. Cross charged the people of this state recently with being apathetic towards the proposed reorgan- ization of the state government. The whole trouble lies in the extent and size of the plan. Most people can't grasp it without wading through some 600 pages of recommendations And 1t isn't speed fly apparent to the average man what benefits will accrue to him from reorgan- ization. Boil it down to dollars and cents and watch his reaction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-25

Now that the C.. R. & L. Company has strengthened out one tangle with regard to the establishment of new bus lines, it runs up against fresh snag. Residents of Waterville who live on certain streets that the bus will pass over are up in arms and prepared to petition the Public Utilities Commission not to grant the route that covers several streets in the vicinity of Homer and Cooke streets. The obvious solution is for the company to send it's busses merely up to Waterville by the several proposed routes and allow the people who live on the side streets to make their way down to the line. We'd run bus up Thomaston avenue, up the old Waterville Road, and up North Main street with no deviations over side streets In time residents of those sections which haven't got service and which want 1t will get together and petition for it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-25

It is to be hoped that the local police will strictly enforce the state law with regard to the sale of liquor tomorrow. Good Friday, Christmas, and election days are taboo so far as liquor empori- unns are concerned. It isn't too much to ask the trade to close down on them, for there are enough days left during the year to make up for these holidays. And when we mean close down, we mean just that. Tn the past there has been little or no regard for the closing days. Now is the time for the general public to show some consideration for our laws by not aiding liquor dealers to break them.