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Evening star., 1937-04-17
Anot1'er Huge Crowd Expected
In DC Tomorrow for Blooms

All roads will lead to the Japanese
cherry trees again tomorrow, and il
the sun shines, which is somewhat
doubtful, the fragile blossoms will
play host to even larger throngs than
last week end.
Recovering rapidly after dropping
below the 40-degree mark overnight,
the mercury headed upward today and
probably will be at comfortable levels
tomorrow.
This was the only optimistic note
in the forecast, however, the Weather
Bureau stating the skies will be over
cast and showers are possible.
This afternoon, the forecasser say
Evening star., 1937-04-17
HE|RESS ESCAPES
COURTS GUARDS
Helen DaingerfieId, Defend.
ant in Sanity Hearing,
FIees Estate.
By Staff Correspondent of The Star

By Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, April 1.-THE
legal battle over the sanity Of Miss
Mary Helen Daingerheld appeared
stalemated today following the S.
year-old heiress' escape from court
guards last night.
Reports placed Miss Daingerfield in
Union Station at Washington one
hour following her flight and police
said she would not be extradited if
she had sought refuge in the District
or in another State
Miss Daingerfield, member of one
of Alexandrias oldest families, out
Witted special officer who has been
posted at Malvern, a beautiful old
estate where she lived alone on the
outskirts of the city, and fed in a
waiting automobile.
The getaway apparently had been
we'll planned. Ralph Nails, the guard,
told officers the woman retired to a
wash room on the first floor of her
home about 1890 pm and was gone
for some time before his suspicious
were aroused.
He entered the room and discovered
his charge had escaped through a
door leading onto a lawn outside
the residence. A few moments later,
according to police, Nails saw Miss
Daingerfield running across a field
some 300 yards away.
The woman entered a yellow auto
mobile waiting on King Street road
and sped away, police reported.
Washington relatives of the woman
are reported to have learned she was
seen at Union Station in the National
Capital.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
Gotham Fetes
I35 of House
And Families
Lunch With Mayor
on Sightseeing
Tour.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 17.-Members Of
Congress by the score were in town
today to find out for themselves
whether all they've heard about New
York is true
II they confused the bills that go
into hoppers on Capitol Hill with those
things that walters lay beside ones
plate, face down to defer the shock,
1t did not matter The Representa-
tives-l35 new members of Congress
and their families-were the city's
guests and it was on the house.
When the visitors awoke to New
York's elegant assortment Of sights
and sounds, the like of which never
disturbed the pastoral stillnes (or so
they said of Pennsylvania avenue,
they faced this schedule of sight
seeing:
Visits to the Stock Exchange, the
Federal Reserve Bank and other places
in the country's chief money mart
luncheon with Mayor Fiorello La
Guardia, ride around the harbor, a
trip to the top of the worlds tallest
building and dinner broiled in eye and
ear entertainment
Evening star., 1937-04-17
JAILED u. S. CITIZENS
IN FRANCE RELEASED
l3 Americans and 5 Canadians,
Seeking to Join Spanish Army,
Ordered to Leave.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PERPIGNAN, France, April IL
Thirteen Americans and five Can
adams. sentenced to 20 days in jail
for attempting to join the Spanish
government forces, were released to-
day
They were ordered to leave France
within eight days
Their actual sentences were reduced
to five days. They had spent IS days
in Jail while an examining magistrate
at Ceret, 25 miles away, investigated
their cases.
The Americans gave their names
and addresses: Joe Ballet and Vachel
Blair, Cleveland Gene Kosesak, Lor-
aine, and Harold Blakesley, Toledo,
Ohio; Joseph Fleischinger. William
Borer and Louis Gneppe, Philadel-
phia; Lawrence Frigman and Sey-
mour Herman, New York City; Bella
WINNER Of WEIGH, Gaylord Cornell Of
New Brighton and Rudolph Loeb Of
Bartlesville Estates not given); and
Joe Farkasovski Morved, no address.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
Summary of Today's Star

STRIKE SITUATION.
Union threatens to cite Ford to Labor
Board. Page Al
10 industrial and labor leaders accept
bid to conference. Page Al
SPECIAL ARTICLES.
The kidnapping Of Gen. Chang Kai-
shek. Pare Al
NATIONAL.
Senate Judiciary hearings to close by
April %. Page Al
Wounded Oman given blood trans
fusions. Page Al
Senate committee to protest Harlan
County witnesses. Page Al
U. S. halts Russian plan to buy battle
ship materials here. Page Az
Maryland authorities say man confesses
staying mother Of nine. Page A-3
U. s. officials seek early showdown on
social security act. Page AS
Wheeler film censorship touches Off
tight. Page AS
FOREIGN.
Spanish loyalists advance in Teruel
drive. Page Az
Rumania fears NaI coup in stir over
Nicholas banishment. Page Az
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Another flood of cherry blossom vis-
itors expected. Page Al
New checks to prevent auto ticket
fixing. Page Al
Gen. J. J. Morrow, former D. G. Com
missioner, dies. Page A-3
Gross receipts tax Is backbone Of Gov.
Nice's relief bill. 6age Ala
Evening star., 1937-04-17
BY JOHN c. HENRY.

Witnesses who have testified before
the Senate Civil Liberties Committee
against the strong-arm rulers of
bloody Harlan" County (Ky) will be
kept under subpoena indefinitely, 1t
was learned today, as means of
affording them protection against
vengeful violence.
BY this device, the witnesses will
retain their status of Federal agents"
with any attempted redress against
them becoming a Federal offense
Without such protection, the pic
ture painted of the workings Of Har-
lan's Law makes 1t seem possible
the witnesses would be risking their
lives TO return to the dark CONT
nent' Of civil liberties in America.
In a day filed with increasingly
sensational testimony, the committee
heard its most dramatic evidence late
Yesterday afternoon as overall-clad
R. c. Tackett, mountaineer miner who
Is here in custody of United States
deputy marshal and who already had
testified on several occasions, asked
permission to return to the stand
Granted the privilege, Tackett then
disclosed that Ted Creech, burly mine
superintendent and operators son.
had threatened outside the hearing
room early in the afternoon to have
Tackett sent up" for a long tern,
for his previous testimony against the
operators
Accusation Confirmd.
Immediately, Robert L. Bonham, the
marshal who had Tackett in CUSTODY
took the stand to confirm the accu-
satlon, saying that he had overheard
Creech's threatening conversation.
Called before the committee, Creech
was brought sharply to order after he
turned his back on the committee to
avoid photographers and then denied
Tacketts testimony only to the extent
OF saying that Tackett had started the
conversation by saying he had been
drunk when he first testified
Recalled, Bonham refuted this and
declared that Creech's threat was the
first remark between the two men.
The committee today was consider
ing possible charges against Creech
for tampering with a witness.
In an earlier appearance, Creech
told the committee that William
Clontz, a U. M W. officer, had lied
In an effort to get publicity when he
testified that Creech threatened him
with AS caiber revolver.
In addition to this incident. Clontz
testified that vigilantes had fired 10
high-powered rife bullets into his
home one night when he was away,
narrowly missing his son, his wife and
his aged mother. Appealing to Sher-
iff Theodore Middleton for protection,
ClontZ was refused any help and was
advised to leave the county" he
said.
Dog Dragged Out Dynamite.
On an earlier occasion, he said, his
dog dragged fuse from under their
house and three sticks of dynamite
were found attached to it.
Lawrence Howard, young miner
(See LA TOILETTE, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1937-04-17

will bring increasing cloudiness and
rising temperatures, with the over
night "low" expected to be about 4s.
Any fear Of high winds shearing OF
the blossoms was dbpelled when the
weather man predicted the winds
would be moderate and mostly south
erly.
District and Maryland authorities,
harassed last Sunday by an unending
stream OF automobiles into the Cap
ital, are prepared for another crush
The railroads reported very brisk"
business today, with most Of the travel
incoming, and tomorrow's excursions
Evening star., 1937-04-17
TWO STUDENTS KILLED
IN CAROLINA CAR CRASH
Third Davidson College Youth
Seriously Hurt as Auto Leaves
Road on Curve.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE, N c., April "
Hoxie M. Thompson, jr., of Houston,
Tex. and Archie Campbell Cline, IT,,
OF Concord, N. c., Davidson College
students. were killed in an automobile
crash near here early today.
David Mcmillan of Norfolk. Va,
another student, was seriously injured,
but hospital attaches said there was
hope for his recovery.
Mcmillan is a son of DR.. Jason H.
Mcmillan, pastor of the First Presby-
terian Church of Norfolk. He said
Cline was driving the machine, which
went out of control on a curve and
struck tree.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
GIRL IN BUS ACCIDENT
FOUND DEAD MILE OFF
Body of Georgia Passenger, Miss.
ing Since Tuesday, Identified
by Father.
Ey the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BRUNSWICK, Ga, April 17.-Miss
Emma Mae Hough, 18, missing pas
senger Of American bus wrecked
in White Oak Creek early Tuesday,
was found dead in the stream today
. mile from the scene of the accident.
r. M. Hough Of Lakeland. Fla, her
father, identified the body. It WAS
recovered by Coast Guardsmen.
Twenty-Five persons were injured
when the bus left the highway on a
Ill during heavy fog, plunged into
the creek and turned upon its side
White Oak boatmen rescued them
There were reports the girl had been
seen at tourist camp after the acci-
dent.
Hough said his daughter was un-
married, but sometimes used the name
OF Mrs. Emily Stewart in travelling.
She boarded the bus at Jacksonville,
a., and was going to Charlotte, n. G.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
Ey the Associated Press.

Rv the Associated Press.
DETROIT, April l7-Ed Hall. vice
president of the United Automobile
Workers of America, was quoted today
as saying charges might be filed with
the National Labor Relations Board
against the Ford Motor Co., but a
Ford official said he believed Hall
had changed his mind"
Hall had said the contemplated
charges would be based upon the beat
ing of two Kansas City union men,
bers, employees of the Ford plant there
That was a fight among their own
gang" the Ford official said, and Hall
knows it now"
Hall was reported to be in James
vile, Wis, today.
Ford on Run, Martin Says.
In Oshawa, Ontario Homer Martin
president of the U. A. w. A, declared
that I'VE will have Henry Ford def
nitely on the run by Monday" He
also mentioned charges to be filed
with the Labor Board, but declined to
discuss their nature. Martin was in
Oshawa in connection with a strike of
General Motors of Canada employees.
The Ford official said Martin had
no basis for his assertion.
The q. A. w. A. intensified its cam
paign to enroll Ford workers follow
Ing the Supreme Courts upholding Of
the Wagner nationaI labor relations
act, which provides that a labor or
ganization having majority of the
workers shall be the collective bar
gaining agency.
I'VE have organized several thou
sand Ford workers already" declared
Walter Reuther, president Of the local
union, whose area includes the main
Ford plant in suburban Dearborn The
West Side local already has sufficient
base in the Ford plant to insure a
permanent and lasting organization !"
In an interview following the court
decision Ford said his employees were
free to join anything" but repeated
his statement that it was foolish" to
Join a union and that it would deprive
them of their liberty" Ford said 'in-
ternational flnanciers' were promoting
unions to stifle industrial competition
Martin, whose U. A. w. A. is one
of the largest unions in John L. Lewis
Committee for Industrial Organization
also said the La Toilette Civil Liberties
Committee would be asked to investi-
gate Fords relations with his en-
ployes
AS part of its program to organize
See FORD. Page AID
Evening star., 1937-04-17
DU POINT AND RASKOB
CALLED TO TESTIFY
Board Of Tax Appeals Issues Sub
poenas for Hearing on
Income Levies.
By the Associate ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Board of Tax Appeals has
asked Pierre S. du Pont and John j.
Raskob to testify in New York, May 3,
regarding the Treasurys suit for re-
covery of alleged deficiencies in their
income taxes.
Suopoenas were issued yesterday for
their appearance on that date, when
their appeals from tax assessments
will be heard.
Treasury officials have contended
Raskob and du Pont entered into a
transaction eight years ago to create
fictitious stock sales to establish
losses which would permit reductions
In income tax returns. The Govern
ment contends Raskob owes 81, OPS, $40
IN taxes and du Pont $617,316.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
GEISHA GIRLS, INC, HAS
STOCKHOLD OLDERS Meeting
All Positions Held by Members
Who Exclude Public Sub
acriptions.

~ the Associated Press.
OSAKA, Japan, April l7.-Osaka
Geisha Girls, Inc, including many Of
the entertainers who recently staged
= Buddhist Temple sit-down strike,
held its nrst stockholders meeting
In solemn parliamentary manner.
All official positions Of the newly
formed 120,0O0-yen ($34,30O joint
stock company were filled by geishas,
who had 20 much confidence in their
enterprss they excluded public sub
ScriptionS.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
Office Seeks Man.

EDWARDSvILLE, ILL.,, April II (F).
There were I'll applicants for the
position Of superintendent of schools
here but the board Of education unani-
mously chose E. L. Alexander, who
had not formally applied.
Evening star., 1937-04-17

TOXIC, April II (P).-More than
100 persons today were reported
drowned in floods on the japanese
Russian island of Sakhalin Whole
villages were submerged by overflow
ing rivers.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
.PROBERS PROTECT
HARLAN WITNESSES
FEARING REPR|SAL
Status of Government
Agents Provided by In
definite Subpoenas.
KENTUCKY MINER
CHARGES THREAT
Senate Committee Told of Mine
Superintendent's Words Out
side Hearing Room.
BACKGROUND


Senate CiUil Liberties Committee
turned its attention to Harlan
County (Ky.J coal field after Ken
tucky State commission reported in
1885 that miners in that region,
home OF some OF the tDorld's richest
soft coal beds. 1Dere living under
"monster-like reign Of oppression"
directed By mine operators.
Despite this Indictment, Utolence
and bloodshed continued in the dis
tr1ct, and the committee sent its
Investigators into bloody Harlan"
about sir Ueeks ago.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
UNION THREATENS
TO CITE FORD TO
U.S.LABOR BOARD
Claims Would Be Based on
Alleged Beating of Two
Workers.
FIRM OFFICIAL DOUBTS
CHARGES WILL BE FILED
"Will Have Ford on Run by Mon
day" Martin, U. A. w. A.
President, Declares.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
United Automobile Workers OF
America, a C. /. o. affiliate, 1OdS
giuen its first boost last January
Dhen it Won at least partial pic
tory in strike against General Mo-
tors. Chrysler strike tollolDed and
settlement according recognition to
union members also UdS effected.
Other auto manufacturers tollo,Ued
suit. Then last 1peek's Supreme
Court decision holding Wagner
labor relations act constitutional
intensified unions driue against
biggest hold out employer, Henry
Ford.
Evening star., 1937-04-17
GRADUATE SUES SCHOOL
Demands Return of Money Be

cause He Is Failure.
BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, April 17.-A graduate wrots
to the president Of the Imperial Uni
versity today demanding return Of
$4,000 yen {$5,l46), his seven-year
tuition fees, because he had been
unsuccessful in life.
The president replied that was not
the university's fault.
Evening star., 1937-04-17

70, WHHthef Bufeau FOreCastJ
Increasing cloudiness and warmer, low
est temperature about 48 degrees tonight:
tomorrow cloudy and warmer, followed by
showers. Temperatures-High rs, at
pm. yesterday; lowest, 80, at am.
today Full report on page A-l0.
Evening star., 1937-04-17

lsee BLOSSOM. Page ~
Evening star., 1937-04-17

(See FORD, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-04-17

(See GANGSTERS, Page A-10)
Evening star., 1937-04-17
100 Islanders Drown in Floods

(See TRAFFIC, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-12-17
Miss Elinor Gudeer.
Heads Committee.

Miss Elinor Gudger will be the
chairman of the Navy Girls Commit
tee of the tenth annual midshipman
and cadet ball to be held at the
Mayflower Christmas night. Her vice
chairmen will be Miss Ann Buchanan
and Miss Brendan Hatch. The COM
mittee consists of Miss Hope Blandy,
Miss Florence Cauthen, Miss Betty
Chandler, Miss Carolyn Chantry, Miss
Achsah Dorsey, Miss Jane Ducey, Miss
Louisa Horton, Miss Jacquelin Jones,
Miss Mary Jane Kelly, Miss Ruth Kelly,
Miss Carol Lathrop, Miss Margaret
Lavender. Miss Mary Norris. Miss
Betty Read, Miss Charlotte Riddick,
Miss Alex Rowan, Miss Ruth Rud-
dock, Miss Suzanne Slinglun, Miss
Margaret Taffinder, Miss Agnes Taw-
resey, Miss Hope Toulon and Miss
Anne Turner.
Rehearsal will be held Friday after
noon, December "a, in the main ball
room of the Mayf1ower
A number of members of the dip
lomatic corps, official and residential
circles in Washington have bought
tickets for this well-known ball
Tickets will be on sale in the lobby
of the Mayflower from Thursday,
December %, to the night Of the
dance.
Evening star., 1937-12-17
Mrs. Gregor to Speak.

Mrs. Herbert Gregor, who Is well
known in Washington because of her
many classes in flower arrangement,
will speak at the meeting of the
Federated Garden Clubs of New York
State on January 10 at 1920 am.
at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New
York City. Her subject will be Jap
anese Arrangements, the Old and New
Schools" She will also give an an
alysis of arrangements. The lee
ture will, as usual, be accompanied
by series of demonstrations. Mrs.
Gregor has studied under the old and
Evening star., 1937-12-17

modern masters in Japan and was
graduated with masters degree and
is eligible to teach flower arrange
ment in Japan. She was given the
name "Ikko," with means first red
flower" and which she uses as her
professional name.
Evening star., 1937-12-17

Israel Synagogue at Fourteenth and
Euclid streets tomorrow. Mr.. and
Mrs. Jacobs will be at home Sunday
evening at o'clock at 5113 Illinois
avenue NV. No cards have been
issued. The party was inadvertently
announced as taking place last Sun
day
Evening star., 1937-12-17
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacobs
At Home Sunday.

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Jacobs an
nounce the Bar Mitzvah of their
twin sons, Harvey Allan Jacobs and
Robert Francis Jacobs, at the Tifereth
Evening star., 1937-12-17
Mr.. and Mrs. Essex
Hosts at PARTY.

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H. Essex en-
tertained ut = cocktail party Sunday
afternoon in their residence, at 1928
Church street, in celebration of the
birthday anniversaries of Mrs. Nor
Evening star., 1937-12-17

Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Buchanan of
Warrenton. Va, are in Washington
for stay of 10 days or two weeks
and are at the Mayfiower.
Evening star., 1937-12-17

Mrs. Samuel Conner spent the
autumn and early winter at the May
flower and has returned to her home
in Bardstown, KY, for the holidays.
Upon her return to the city, Mrs.
Conner will take up residence at 140o
Thirty-fourth street.
Evening star., 1937-12-17
Residential
Society in
The News
Mr., Mrs. Sweeney
And Son Due
Here Today.

Il KR. AND MRS. JOHN F.
M SWEENEY with their young
son will arrive in Washing
4 4 ton today and will stop at Mr..
The daily independent., 1937-07-09
Lanhan Will
Be Speaker
On 28th
Will Succeed Lester
Hill As Aviation Day
Speaker

Manteo, July 8.-CongreSsman
Fritz G. Lanham. of Texas, chair
man of the Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds, will be
the speaker at Fort Raleigh on
July %. which has been set aside
as Aviation Day by the Roanoke
Colony Celebration committee, it
was announced today.
News that Congressman Lam
ham had consented to be the
speaker on that day came from
Congressman Lindsay c. Warren
to Alpheus w. Drinkwater. pre-
sident of the Kill Devil Hill Mem
Orial Association.
Congressman Lester Hill chair
man of the House Committee on
Military Affairs, had previously
consented to be the speaker on
Aviation Day, but he wired Mr..
DrinkWater a few days ago stat
ing that it would be impossible
for him to be here on the 28th as
the Speaker has appointed him a
member of the Congression COM
mittee to attend the dedication OF
the American battle monuments
in France beginning August l
and he would have to sail prior
to the 28th.
Mr.. Drinkwater said he fells
certain Congressman Lanham will
fill the bill quite capably.
The daily independent., 1937-07-09
By
Boy Scout
Meeting
Eagle Scout Edward
Bell Visited Janboree
In Washington

1T was the greatdt sight l
have ever seen in all my life. en-
Unused Eagle Scout Edward Bell
of this city yesterday as he talk
ed about his visit to the National
Boy Scout Jamboree in Washing
ton. D. c.
Scout Bell. who is i filing clerk
at the First & Citizens National
Bank and John Griffin, a clerk
at the Mcpherson Auto Supply
Co.. had their hearts set on at
tending the Jamboree two years
ago. when it was called OFF be-
cause of the threatening epidemic
of poliomyelitis. This year, be-
cause of their jobs. it was not
convenient for them to attend the
.Jamboree as representatives OF
their troop and spend the full III
DAYS. But they found that could
get off long enough to spend a
few days in washington during
the Jamboree. which they did.
They left here Saturday and
arrived in Washington Sunday
morning. They left Washington
on wednesday night, after look
ing over the Jamboree for three
(rontin-1ed on Page Dhree)
The daily independent., 1937-07-09
faH From Bicycle
HWtS Wanchese
Paper Boy

&aa,eo July 8.-James Lee
G'>@.- ..- of Mr.. and Mrs.
.'1-s2 G~s.u of Wanchese suf-
.s"' 2a.o.r. injuries in a fall
'''a his 1."Ec.e while delivering
'ope." II #aachese yesterday.
'''1- GaeEill was riding on
~" L~0t.ng road distribut-
~ - Ills ..Dera when his bicycle
.',''a HI fell his arm catching
.."1-a ..o spOkes of one of the
- - ara his head and shoul-
r., .''.---- .le highway. Sigsbee
49,. ,,,... Il ..Dnt Of whose home the
:. e.'1a. cured. and Ernest
,..' .o-r ~ame along in time to
Co.,. .a@s AIM ,ut not until they had
-, ',Io '..aral of the spokes of
10. ""ee, IN which his arm was
es OK. Vas not seriously injur-
-. however he suffered a pain
sr,..> @@.. skinned arm and
-s.. .'1.. aad a bad blow on the
The daily independent., 1937-07-09
Seuenth District e.. G.. Did A
Fine Work Last Year
Many Types of Assist
ance Rendered; Lives
Saved; 923 Reports

A total of 923 assistance rend-
cred reports, covering such var
led services as pulling stranded
automobiles out of the sand, TAX
ing sick persons to the hospital,
removing a fish hook from a dogs
tongue and pulling stranded YES
sells off sand bars, were turned in
during the 1867 year of opera
tions by U. S. Coast Guardsmen
of the Seventh District.
Least important but most fire.
quent subject of these assistance
reports were hapless motorists
stuck or stalled in the deep and
treacherous sand on the beach.
A few over 500 automobiles and
trucks were pulled or pushed out
of deep sand or quick sand and
towed to firrer ground. Many of
these were the cars of travelling
statesmen. Some were commercial
trucks. Some were school buses.
Some were vacationists. Some
were government trucks and cars.
Dam Neck Mills Station, an in
active station located six miles
below Virginia Beach, turned in
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