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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12
WEATHER HALTS WILKINS
Plane Headed for Arctic Rescue
Awaits Improvement.

REGINA, Nov. IL canadian
Press).-Sir Hubert wilkins Arctic
bound plane landed here yesterday
because of heavy weather.
1t was bound from Winnipeg for
Edmonton, en- route TO the Arctic to
search for the six Russian transpolar
flyers who have been missing since
August ID.
Sir Hubert. who was accompanied
by Pilot Herbert Hollick- Kenyon of
Toronto and Air Engineer Al Dyne of
Winnipeg, said he would await better
flying conditions before resuming the
flight.
Evening star., 1937-07-08
U. S. Income Increases.

The national income produced in
the last year was estimated at 63.8
billion dollars, an increase Of nearly
nine billion dollars over the 1885
income.
Evening star., 1937-07-08
HIT Mrntnrtant.

LOTION. DR.. ISAIAH Fl. A tribute to the
BE- our RySesnS MO 'nd
years ago today July &. 1881.
Till memory fades and life departs
''' Will 1--WE forever T THE eur rAMfEY. nsff!S.
NICHOLSON, CAROLINE In sad but low
moher s e MI dea! ye .6d :b
day. July 3. 1894
You brought us loads Of sunshine.
You cheered us along life's way:
You MADE this earth seem like Heaven
BY your many loving ways.
We miss you now. our hearts are sore,
AS tlme goes on we miss you more;
Your loving smile. your gentle face.
LOVING HUSBAND AND CHILDREN. =
POWERS. NATALIE. A tribute of devotion
NATAL1E PoWERs Who T pas.ed psnsqinsnisf intp her
ssiy ssnyfsy e. 1ess nGme eleven years AZ today
SMITH, KATIE B. In memory of our dear
mother. KATIE p. SMITH: who left us
two years ago today. July 8. 1885.
The voice is mute and still at heart
That loved us well and true:
HER DEVOTED o SG s1oU q CHILDREN AND
GRANDCHILDREN.
STUART. SIMON P. A tribute of love and
,uesotioH u tne hemOIy OF QUIZ Gear
husband and father, SIMON P. STUART,
who departed this life four years ago to-
day. July 6. 1893.
In Heaven no sickness sorrow or pain:
you left US to board . heavenly train.
we miss you night and every day.
We will never forget how you stole away.
DEVOTED WIFE AND DAUGHTERS.
VIRGINIA STUART. MAGGIE STUART
AND GERTRUDE DUNLOP.
VANDERSLlCE, MARGARET, In memory
OF mother. MARGARET VANDERSLICE
who died July &, 1905, DAUGHTER. :
Evening star., 1937-07-08
REPORTER TELLS
Oxford BEAT|NGS
Labor Board Probers Told
rs Cars of "HoodIums"
Beat Union Leaders.
Ey the Associated Press.

Es the Associated Press.
DETROIT, July "a newspaper re-
porter who witnessed the beating OF
United Automobile Workers members
at the Ford Motor Co.'S plant May rs
testified today that every place you
looked you saw somebody being kicked
around by four or five people"
The reporter, Victor Beresford Of the
Detroit News, was the first newspaper
representative to testify at the National
Labor Relations Board hearing on It's
charges Of unfair labor pra&ices
against the Ford Co.
He said Victor Reuther and Richard
T. Frankensteen, U. A. w. A. leaders,
were beaten and chased away when
they went to the River Rouge plant in
suburban Dearborn to distribute union
literature.
Beresford, who was with Herbert
Bauer, photographer, said that Ford
service men at the gate" told them be-
fore the fighting that they could not
take pictures unless they obtained per-
mission from Harry Bennett, Ford
personnel director.
Photographer Beaten.
Beresford testified that when the
fighting started he went over to q
highway overpass leading into the
plant.
Ten or twelve photographers were
being chased down by q couple of
men, Beresford said.
Il went around to the north side
OF the bride. Reuther was being thrown
down the stairs. He was badly beaten
up, but got away and ran"
Several hours before the fighting
Beresford said he went to the plant to
look over the scene and saw several
cars containing about IS men parked
under the overpass.'
What sort Of men would you say
they were?' asked Laurence A. Knapp,
Labor Board attorney.
"1'd say they were dago hoodlums, !"
Beresford replied.
Louis J. Colombo, ST., Ford attorney,
Evening star., 1937-07-08

voiced Z loud objection to the descrip-
ton, which Beresford later said was 4
common police term" and was not
intended ~ reflection on Italians.
Colombo then moved to have Beres-
fords testimony stricken, but was
overruled by John T. Lindsay, N. L.
r. B. trial examiner.
Bauer described the men seen the
morning before the riot as typical
OF the sort Of hoodlums have known
in my years Of covering police stories"
and said none Of these men wore Ford
badges.
Thomas Mcintyre, another Detroit
news reporter, described the fighting
around the overpass and said he saw
"only one instance" of 4 u. A. w. A.
member fighting back.
Police Look Other Way.
Robert Lablonde. reporter for the
United Press, testified that he saw
the f1ghting and that Frankensteen
was beaten so severely that Il didn't
think he would ever get up again"
He said also that while Franken-
steen and Reuther were being beaten.
two mounted Dearborn policemen were
at the bottom OF the stairway leading
to the overpass and were "looking the
opposite way"
Telegram Warns Of Riot.
The Committee for Industrial Or
ganization said today it would con.
tinue to distribute literature to Ford
employees in Detroit instead Of outside
the plant in Dearborn.
This announcement was made by
Homer Martin, international presi-
dent Of the c. l. o. U. A. w. of A.,
which Cancelled plans yesterday for a
demonstration at the gates OF the big
factory.
Martin said he received an anony-
NOUS telegram saying Ford service
men intended to precipitate a riot
and lay the blame on the union. Rich
ard T. Frankensteen, U. A. w. A. or
ganizational director, in calling of
the distribution said he had re-
ceived similar telegram.
The union carried its campaign
to enroll the plants $4,000 employees
to its gates on May 26, and more than
a dozen union members were injured
in a fight which ensued.
Martin said the U. A. w. A. would
adhere to the plan it adopted after
the May riot OF passing out its lit
erature as the workers enter Detroit
from Dearborn in automobiles and
on street cars. He added that the
Ford organization drive will con-
tinue
Beaten Up. Says Frankensten.
Frankensten testified yesterday aft
ernoon concerning the May 26 fight,
Evening star., 1937-07-08
H. n. bRAWNER, JR.,
DIES SUDDENLY
President of Dairy Firm, III
Several Weeks, Has
Heart Attack.

Henry N. Brawner, jr., 81, presi-
dent Of the Chestnut Farms Chevy
Chase Dairy, died suddenly yester-
day at his Summer home at Cape
Neddick, Me-, after a heart attack.
He had been in Ill health for several
weeks.
His son, Edgar N. Brawner, vice
president OF the dairy, and his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Sarah B. Pardoe, both left
Washington and joined their mother,
Mrs. lola Brawner. at the Maine
home yesterday. They will return
here this evening to prepare for
the funeral Saturday. Details of
arrangements were to be announced
later.
A native of Alexandria. Va, Mr..
Brawner, when scarcely out Of his
teens, opened small milk concern
at 11l4 Connecticut avenue in part
nership with George M. Oyster, jr.,
which. under their guidance and direc-
ton, soon became a fourishing busi-
ness
When Mr.. Oyster died, in 1921,
Mr.. BraWner continued in business
as the sole owner. In 1925 he built
the large dairy now standing at
Twenty-sixth street and Pennsylva-
MIA avenue and incorporated it, at
which time he became president Of
the corporation. Several years later
he sold his dairy to the National
Dairy Products Corp, of which he
is a director, and in 1881 merged
his interest with the Chevy Chase
Dairy.
Mr.. Brawner belonged to the
Rotary Club Of Washington, OF which
he was a past president. He was also
director of the National Bank of
Washington. of the Terminal Re-
frigerator and Warehouse Corp. and
Of the Norfolk & Washington Steam
boat Corp.
He was member OF the Cathedral
Lodge of Masons and St. Albans
Church and belonged to Congressional
and Columbia Country Clubs.
Evening star., 1937-07-08
CONFEREES AGREE
ON TENANCY BILL
House Clings to Provisions of
Immediate 0wnership-Presi-
dent May Veto.

By the Associa ted Press.
Senate and House conferees tenta-
lively agreed yesterday on a compro-
mise farm tenancy bill. despite pre-
dictions Of some Senators that the
President might veto the measure.
After four hours of argument, House
spokesmen clung firmly to a provision
OF their bill which would give imme-
diate ownership to tenants purchas-
ing farms with Government aid.
They agreed, however, to write in
a stipulation that the land should
not be sold or mortgaged for at least
five years.
The Senate bill would have forbid
den lease, sale or mortgage of the
property until it was paid for in full,
over a period ranging up to so years.
Some Senators said privately they
believed President Roosevelt would
veto any legislation which does not
provide for Federal supervision Of the
land for more than five years.
Conferees said they probably would
lay the compromise before the Senate
and House next week, If it is approved
by the Agriculture Department and
leaders OF both chambers.
Evening star., 1937-07-08
OUTLET IS LOCATED
FOR TOMATO CROP
Cooperative Again Offers Aid to
Farmers Hit by Cannery
Strike,
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Nd, July s.-An
alternate market for Dorchester
County tomatoes, which may be barred
from their usual outlet by the Phillips
Co. strike, appeared today while efforts
to settle the strike continued.
The Hillsboro-Queen Anne Co.
operative Corp. said that if farmers
with total Of 200 acres Of tomatoes
would agree, the Cooperative would
open its packing house at Vienna, Md.
The Cooperative sold the bean CROP
for the farmers at a price above the
packing company's price.
Meanwhile, Harry T. Phoebus, State
commissioner of labor, said that a
Evening star., 1937-07-08
FUNERAL RITES HELD
FOR MRS. ROBERTSON
Funeral Services for MONTGOMERY
County Resident Conducted
CcOm Home hv Pasfnr

SONASy AsCSAucuI SOuQuCLeO
From Home by Pastor.
Special Dispatch to The Star
ROCKVILLE. Nd, July 8.-Mrs.
Mary R. Robertson, 81, wife of Nelson
H. Robertson, died Tuesday afternoon
at her home near Rockville. She is
survived by her husband and the fol-
lowing children: Clifford H. Robertson,
well known member of the Rockville
bar, and William v. Robertson Of
Rockville; Miss Mary E. Robertson
and Norman B. Robertson, both of
Washington; Mrs Middleton Beaman
OF Chevy Chase. Md; Mrs. Paul M.
Lehman of Woodside, Md; Mrs. G. C.
Collision of Long Beach, Calf, and
Harry M. Robertson Of Cleveland.
Ohio. She also leaves a brother and
three sisters and a large number of
grandchildren.
The funeral took place early this
afternoon from the home, Rev.
Frank A. Tyler, pastor of Grace Meth
odist Church, Gaithersburg, conduct
ing the services. Burial was in Rock
vile Union Cemetery.
Mrs. Robertson was a lifelong resi-
dent Of this vicinity. Her husband Is
SO years old.
Evening star., 1937-07-08

In which he ana Walter Reuther.
president Of the West Side local, were
the most seriously injured. Reuther
preceded him on the stand, and their
testimony was similar.
The husky Frankensten, = former
foot ball player, said he was kicked
and beaten repeatedly and bounced"
down the stairway Of . bridge across 4
highway.
Il was kicked on the head" he re-
lated. until the back Of It yas "A
raw AZ beefsteak."
Evening star., 1937-07-08
conference between strikers and man.
agement might be held today

conference between strikers and man.
asement might be held today.
-Four strikers were arrested hst
night on warrants charging them With
participation In the stoning Of . truck
recently. -,
Ine o1er BY the cooperative was
made In an advertisement In 4 news
paper here. The cooperative said
that II sufficient farmers vshed r.
would aid them in marketing 10th
green wrapped tomatoes and r,pe
tomatoes. 1t estimated that 400
acres Of Dorchester land are planted
to tomatoes.
Phoebus said that II the tomatoe.
are sold through the cooperative Il
would take the CPhillips) pay roll
out OF the county, except for what
the farmers spend"
Evening star., 1937-07-08
Man Found Murdered,

BUFFALO,. N. Y, July 8 R.-Ray-
mond Parsons, ~, . rooming house
proprietor, was found dead today, VIC
tim OF what = medical examiner
called . very brutal murder" His
head had been beaten in. Assistant
Chief of Detectives William J. Madi-
gan said hammer was found on the
pillow of 4 bed,
Evening star., 1937-07-08
MRS. PATRICK A. TOBIN
SUCCUMBS HERE AT 76
Washington Native to Be Given
Funeral TomorroW-Buria
in Mount Olivet,

Mrs. Margaret L. Tobin. rs, native
OF Washington, died Tuesday night at
her home. 43 @ street northeast. She
is survived by her husband, Patrick A.
Tobin, and six children, namely: Will
liam j. Tobin, Mrs. Mary Ackerman,
Frank Tobin, Miss Anne c. Tobin,
Mrs. Kathleen OLeary and Mrs. Helen
Grogan, all of this city. Mrs. Tobin
was a daughter Of the late Stephen
and Mary Tally.
Funeral services will be held at the
residence at $50 am. tomorrow, fol-
lowed by requiem mass at st. Aloysius
Church at o'clock. Burial will be in
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star., 1937-07-08
HENRY penn RITES
Victim OF Drowning Buried at
Accokeek.

ACCOkEEK. Nd. July 8 (SpeciaD.
Funeral services were held here on
Monday for Henry (Buck) Penn, who
was drowned while swimming In the
Piscataway Creek Sunday. The serv-
ices were conducted by Rev. Curtis
Draper, rector of Port Tobacco
parish. La Plata, Nd, in Christ P. E.
Church. Burial was in the church
cemetery.
Mr.. Penn is survived by his mother,
Mrs. Blanch Penn, and five sisters
and two brothers.
Evening star., 1937-07-08
DEATH HELD SUICIDE
Certificate Issued for g. p. o.
Worker.

A certificate of suicide has been
issued by the coroners Office in the
death Of Logan Crawford, -, Gov
ernment Printing Once employe, who
died yesterday in the gas-fllled bath
room of a rooming house In the 100
block CT Twelfth street.
Police said q rubber hose reaching
from an open gas Jet was clenched in
Crawford's mouth. Several letters
were found addressed to his wife, Mrs
Fannie Crawford, 1851 Irving street
Evening star., 1937-07-08
CEMETERY LOTS,
Like Owning Your Home

Like Owning Your Home
fore actual need is wise protection
against an inevitable necessity FOR last
ing peace of mind choose now-unhur-
riedly. while financially best able LarKe
or small family plots to suit individual
needs. Prices from 500 to $3.50 for plot
OF 4. including perpetual care. Non sec
tartan. Is minutes from center Of city.
INQUIRE -.
WASHINGTON NATIONAL CEMETBRY
su.t. 700. 1887 f2sfss Es &. NV. n lool.
Evening star., 1937-05-27
WAGE, HOUR BILL
MAY Be T|CHTENED
Plan to Include Employers
of Eight or Even Fewer
Workers.
(Further details on ,cdoe-hour leois.
ldti0n on PAGE A-6.J

Probability that the administration
wage and hour bill will be made more
sweeping than originally intended by
making it applicable to employers of
eight or even fewer persons developed
today as Representative Connery OF
Massachusetts,, chairman Of the House
Labor Committee and co-sponsor of
the legislation, disclosed receipt of
numerous complaints about sweatshop
conditions in small industrial estab-
lishments.
AS originally prepared for introduce
ton, the Black -Connery bill specified
that concerns employing less than IS
persons would be exempt Although
a last-minute change resulted In the
IS figure being eliminated and none
substituted, early reports Of such a
line of demarkation resulted in the
protests acknowledged today by Con-
merry.
The probability of making the
proposed act more inclusive in ap-
plication was discussed this morning
at a quietly arranged conference be-
tween Black, Connery and Ben Co.
hen, administration brain-truster.
who Is credited with having prepared
the draft of the measure as finally
introduced.
With joint hearings scheduled to
start next Tuesday with the appear
ance Of Robert Jackson Of the Jus
tice Department and DR.. Claudius
Murchison, head Of the Cotton Tex
tile Institute, it was arranged to hear
Secretary Of Labor Perkins on the
following Friday morning.
Evening star., 1937-05-27
picture on Page AZ

The woodcraft which Policeman r.
J. Poquette learned as a boy in the
Wisconsin north woods was the factor
that brought to an end at 6 a. m. today
an all-night search by nearly 800 per-
sons for q pretty 3year-old deaf mute
girl who had strayed from her home
and become lost in a large wood tract
in Southeast Washington.
Climaxing a search which began at
7 o'clock last night when little Alice
Kocher wandered from her home at
2507 Thirty-second street southeast,
Poquette found the child, deep in the
woods = mile from her home, lying
asleep on . bed Of leaves.
"she looked startled and afraid
when first awakened her." Poquette
said, then she began to smile She
smiled all with her eyes, and I've
never seen such smile in my life"
Poquette wrapped the child in his
coat and ran nearly three-quarters OF
. mile through the woods to . road.
where he got q ride in q car and took
the child to her home. Aside from
numerous mosquito bites and the
usual effects Of exposure, little Alice
appeared to have suffered no i'll ef-
fects, her mother said.
The woods where the child was found
had been combed al night by . small
army Of c. G. G. boys, policemen, MEM
bers Of the flre rescue squad and per-
sons living in the neighborhood.
Prom the experience I've had with
persons getting lost In the woods near
my Wisconsin hsme," Poqustae said,
Evening star., 1937-05-27
LITTLE JACK HORNER!
Youth, l9, admits
Firearnl Thefts
Ouer Four Years

Charles S. Taylor, 10, son of bank
teller. today was charged with house
breaking, grand larceny and petty
larceny after detectives said he con-
fessed series of robberies extending
over a four-year period.
Thirsting for scientific knowledge
OF firearms and armaments, the youth
Is said to have admitted robbing the
home Of Col. Calvin Goddard. ma
tionally known ballistics expert, a,
1888 Quebec street; the Bureau OF
Standards, the Naval Air Station and
Boiling Field, police said.
Included in the loot found in the
youths home at 1908 Veazey street
police said, was an unloaded expert.
mental bomb, taken from the Bureau
OF Standards, and an empty oxygen
tank. Other articles recovered from
pawn shops and secondhand stores
include several valuable cameras
binoculars, rifles, revolvers, ammuni.
tion and other articles.
Taylor was arrested Tuesday by De.
tective Sergt. Eugene Lambert anc
Eighth Precinct Policeman A. G
keene. The policemen said the youth
has been cooperating with them ir
the recovery of stolen articles.
Col Goddard told police young Tay.
lor visited his home TO view his col.
lection Of firearms. When Taylor left
Col. Goddard reported, he discovered
valuable revolver was missing. The
gun later was recovered in Baltimore
Young Taylor also is accused Of
roboing the home OF DR.. Francis N
Strawbridge. 1929 Reno road, and Wal.
ter Kroening, Ais Wisconsin avenue
Evening star., 1937-05-27
Lost Girl, 3, Unable to Cry,
Only Smiles When Rescued

Il knew everyone. when they're lost
wanders in circles to the left. There
was long draw going through the
woods with very steep bank on the
left side 1t seemed logical the child
would 60 down this draw from where
she entered the woods, and, being
unable to swing up the bank to the
left, would wander down the draw
until the land became Nat on the left
I found her in exactly such place"
Far into the night, giant search
lights of the fire rescue squad had
stabbed through the woods guiding
searchers who had been warned by
the child's mother that her little girl
could understand no word spoken to
her and could make no sound except
a weak little cry"
The hunt was abandoned by some
about midnight, but others continued.
Her father, Frederick Kocher, said
Alice strayed from a group Of children
playing in the back yard and couldn't
have been gone more than five
minutes before her disappearance was
noticed. She was clad only in a
little white organdie dress and white
socks and shoes.
Poquette, who said his paternal
great-great-grandfather was one Of
the first French woodsmen to come
down into Wisconsin from Canada,
spent the first 16 years Of his life in the
forests Of his home State. From 1921
to 1923, he was night guide for the
United States Army forces, quelling
tho forays of bandits In the hill
country Of Cuba. Poquette Is attached
to the eleventh precinct.
Evening star., 1937-05-27
BRADY HUNT TURNS
TO INDIANAPOLIS
Federal Men Join Search for Trio
Suspected in Hold-up
and Shootings.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS. May 27-Search
for the Brady gangsters turned to In
dianapolis today following a report to
police that two men believed to be
members of the mob had made an
audacious attempt to obtain an ap-
pointment with an Indianapolis at
torney who handles criminal cases.
Lemuel Trotter, night Watchman at
the Indiana State Fair Grounds, in
formed police two men resembling Al
Brady and James Dalhover formed
him to admit them to an exposition
building, where they made telephone
call to the attorney. The lawyer de-
MED knowing the identity of the
caller and said he refused to make an
appointment.
Brady and Dalhover, with Clarence
Lee Shafer, jr., form the nucleus of
the Brady gang, object of an intense
hunt by Federal, State and local off,
GERS following the hold-up Tuesday Of
the Goodland Ind. State Bank and
the wounding Of two officers who were
pursuing the bandits.
A special squad Of Federal oper.
atives, working under orders from
Washington. joined the manhunt
State Police Captain Matt Leach
said he was convinced the men were
in a hideout and would remain there
until the excitement of the chase hac
subsidized.
Evening star., 1937-05-27
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.


Mystery clouds the future of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's court bill-at least
on Capitol Hill.
Chairman Ashurst Of the Senate
Judiciary Committee is asked: will
you or any other proponent of the bill,
move to have the Senate take it up
for consideration, after it has been
reported?"
mo comment. no comment at ALL
is the reply of the chairman, who in
troduced the bill and who had charge
Of the measure in committee, until q
majority Of his colleagues took 1t
away from him, voting to report 1t
adversely.
The committee majority. opposed tc
the Presidents plan for the Supreme
Court. hopes to make its report to the
Senate some time next week It has
been delayed by the illness of Senator
King Of Utah. chairman of a subcom.
mittee which will draft the report
King was back at the Capitol today
for the first time in a week Senator
McCarran of Nevada and Senator
OMahoney Of Wyoming have beer
working on the report. however.
Report to Be Ready Soon.
King said that he fully expected tc
have the court bill report ready within
few days. AS soon as it is presented
1t goes to the Senate calendar. After
that, any Senator can move to take II
up. McCarran says that no opponent
will make such a motion.
If any of the administration leaders
in the Senate intend to make a motion
to call up the court bill, it has yet to be
disclosed. The President, at the
Evening star., 1937-05-27
BAKER UNDER KNIFE
IN SEA OPERATION
Banker Peritonitis Victim-Con.
dition "Good," Companion
Reports.
b the Associated Press.

es the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 27.-George F.
Baker, chairman of the First National
Bank, underwent q midocean opera
ton today for peritonitis.
The operation was performed in mid
Pacific aboard Bakers steam yacht
the Viking, apparently by . physician
hailed from . passing liner.
Jackson Reynolds, former president
Of the First National Bank, announced: !:
Mr.. George F. Baker, cruising In
the South Pacific, has undergone an
operation aboard his yacht, the Viking.
for peritonitis.
He came through the operation
In good condition and is expected in
Honolulu on Saturday"