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Evening star., 1937-03-07
BOYS, SAYS CHUM
KILLED GIRL Of 4
Struck Child With Brick and
Rolled Body Into Stream,
Sheriff Is Told.
BY the Associated Press.


WINDSOR. VT. March Estates
Attorney Albion Parker tonight re-
ported a 5-year old boy had informed
him that another boy lust few years
older" hit tiny Beverly Ann Page with
"a piece of a brick, knock her out"
and rolled her into the shallow mill
stream where her body was found yes
terday.
Parker said the older boy denied the
other youngsters charges after being
questioned for an hour The sheriff
did not identify either of the boys, nor
would he divulge the exact age of the
older boy. Both boys. he reported. had
been allowed to go home after ques-
tioning.
The 5-eyar -old boy told his story,
Parker reported, while sitting on the
knee of Sheriff Ernest Schoenfeld in
the Office of Police Chief John Edmund.
Parker's announcement came few
hours after Schoenfeld left a confer
ence of investigators to declare:
We know those responsible and ex-
pect to have them in custody shortly"
Called Gang Of Hellions."
Earlier another official asserted "a
gang of young hellions" were being
questioned concerning 4-year-old Bev-
erly's death. After an autopsy today,
Schoenfeld said the little girls brutal
death was a case of murder by drown
ing"
Parker asserted tonight the 5-year-
old boy told him that while Beverly
(See Staying. Page A-4)
Evening star., 1937-03-07
BY the Associated Press.

6y IDt hSSOCldteQ FIeSS.
NEW YORK, March GA raiding
party of more than 80 Federal and
city officers seized 600 tins of opium.
Of q value estimated officially as high
as s5OO,OO0, aboard the British
freighter Taybank early today.
Eight men, including Oriental crew
members and supposed land contact
men, were taken into custody.
A ships officer, Roland r. c. Jones,
aided in examination of the prisoners,
and Gregory O'Keefe, assistant port
collector, emphasized no suspicion was
attached to the officer.
O'Keefe, saying the Treasury De-
partment placed a value of $25 an
ounce on pure opium. called it "the
most important seizure ever made in
an American port"
Hidden in After Hold.
The opium, contained in 900 brass
cans in six bags. four of them osten-
sibly for potatoes, one for rice and
another for sugar, was hidden in the
Taybanks after hold among the reg
ular supplies Of paint, sawdust and
rope.
Customs agents three months ago
were informed, they said, that big
supplies of opium were moving out of
China. Since then, every ship from
Oriental ports, including the Taybank,
has been under surveillance.
The inspectors closed In on the
Taybank - she prepared to take on
Evening star., 1937-03-07
ASKS
RED RIDER REPEAL
Citizens Vote 42.35 Against
Act and Spurn SUBJ
Stitute.

Outright repeal of the red rider"
was urged last night by the Federation
of Citizens Associations following a
debate Of two hours and one half. The
vote was AZ to 35.
Attached to the resolution, presented
by Harry S. Wender of the Southwest
Citizens Association, was the state
ment that The federation declares its
unalterable opposition to communism
and all other subversive doctrines"
The Wender motion was adopted as
a substitute to one by George E. Sulli-
van. chairman of the federation's spe-
cial committee on subversive teachings
who asked the federation to favor
adoption of the Mccormack action by
the House, which modifies the red
rider"
Immediately after the Wender mo-
tion carried. Sullivan arose to an
nounce he was resigning from ANY
and all offices and positions in the
federation" and would attend no more
Of its meetings.
There were several cries of Good"
from the delegates. but William NICK
Clayton of the Brightwood ASsocia-
ton pleaded with Sullivan to with
hold his decision until the next
meeting.
Sullivan replied: No, I'm abso-
I,,t tol, arl fhot for
own association as we'll" He is a
delegate from the Citizens Associa-
ton of Takoma.
Fight Made for Substitute.
The action came after determined
fight between opponents and pro-
ponents of the red rider and the
Mccormack substitute. which has
been termed the pink rider" 1t was
the second successive session of the
federation that has been devoted al
most exclusively to the controversy.
At the last meeting. a majority of
the federation voted to discharge the
Sullivan Committee on Subversive
Doctrines, but the vote was nullified
by ruling that tWo-thlrdS majority
was necessary to discharge commit
tee which had not submitted final
report.
The issue then was carried over to
last nights meeting and was brought
to the floor through report by Sui
livan on the work of his committee.
He moved that the federation indorse
the Mccormack amendment to the red
rider and declare its opposition to
enactment of the proposal of Represen-
tative Kennedy of Maryland for out
right repeal of the rider.
Sullivan's report declared repeal of
the red rider would be "heralded as
(See RED RIDER, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1937-03-07
Man Surrenders
TOShO,U Wife
His Innocence
Unable to COnrince
Her He Is Not a
BigdnliSt.
b. the Associated Press.

CINCINNATI. March 6-Thomas
Gilliland, 49, an engineer walked into
central police station today and asked
that he be held until he could prove
TO his wife Ethel that he had not
been married before.
My wife believes I'm a bigamist
and that I'm wanted for murder,
Gilliland told Lieut. George Peargy.
Il can't convince her I'm innocent
I told her would surrender to police
to prove I'm guiltless"
The difficulty started. Gilliland said,
when his wife saw his picture in a
detective magazine The story told o.
a murder mystery at Granite City.
Ill. in 1921, in which Gilliland was
charged with killing his wife.
Il was innocent. but couldn't get
any one to believe me-" he said. Il
wasn't even married"
The mix-up resulted, he said. from
the fact a girl with whom he had
kept company had gone to Cincinnati
to work about the time a woman s
body was found in a wheat field.
There. Gilliland said. Chief Roy Clark
of Granite City finally found her and
brought her back to prove my inno-
cence"
Later, he said, the body that had
been enormously identified as that
of his girl friend was identified ds
that of another woman. Her slayer
was captured and convicted, Gilliland
said
The magazine story told how the
mystery was solved Gilliland said,
but did not say Gilliland had never
been married.
Detective Chief Emmett D. Kirgan
wired police of Granite City and as
sured Gilliland he would be released
if his story checked out.
Evening star., 1937-03-07

that the New York National Guard
has. Certainly I can use it."
But q little later, she conflded, Il
hate guns"
Mrs. Roosevelt gave her lecture here
opening a tour Of six Southern and
Southwestern States Approximately
1000 persons. mostly women, heard
her speak in the municipal auditorium
where the late Senator Huey P. Long
often swayed political audiences.
In an oficial reception on the big
stage, the Presidents wife wore a
wine -colored gown with a flowered
hat and short veil.
She told of her daily life and that
of Mr. Roosevelt in the White House
She said she believed people were in
terested because the White House "be-
longs to the people"
She left the auditorium in company
with Gov Richard w. Leche for Baton
Rouge to make another talk tonight
Shortly after her arrival here today
she held Q press conference and then
talked with her son, Elliott Roosevelt
in Fort Worth, Tex, by telephone
She made arrangements to meet him
tomorrow at Huntsville, Tex.
Evening star., 1937-03-07
LINER WITH 1000
RAMS|NT0 TANKER
President Coolidge Rescues
SO and Turns Back to
Frisco Pier.
b. the Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, March 6.-One
of the fastest sea rescues in recent
maritime history took place today
when the big Dollar Liner President
Coolidge collided with the Tanker
Frank H Buck in fog g-choked Golden
Gate Channel.
Twenty minutes after the crash the
Coolidge reported the rescue of all
hands from the apparently sinking
tanker. which settled rapidly by the
head as the passenger ship turned
back toward her San Francisco pier.
Whether the Coolidge was seriously
damaged was not determined imme-
diately.
1,064 Lives Endangered
The shadow of disaster fitted
momentarily through the lives of more
than 1000 persons as the ships met.
Aboard the Coolidge were 678 pas
for Honolulu and the Orient. The in
bound tanker had crew of about &C.
North Shore San Franciscans heard
the crash but could not see it because
of the fog Fishermen to the wind
ward of the collision did not even
hear the sound.
The fog, she so thick you can cut
her with knife" yelled a fisherman
from a nearby trawler
Workmen on the Golden Gate
Bridge about a mile away could not
(See RESCUE, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-03-07
&7,5(Q,0OO BUDGET
ACREED0NFORD.C.
New Taxes Studied by Com.
mittee-GaS Levy In
crease Likely.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Irrespective of the outcome of the
Jacobs fiscal relations report. people
who live in the District are facing an
increase in taxes in the coming fiscal
year-additional taxes and substitute
taxes.
Members of the House Subcommit-
tee on Appropriations. who are franz
ing the 1888 District supply bill. made
that prediction last night as they
struggled with the problem of trying
to balance a $47.500,000 budget that
is expected to be in excess of SILL
100000 in arrears
Several plans are under serious
consideration for meeting the sll.-
900 900 deficit. All of them involve
tapping potential new sources of rev.
enue or increasing existing taxes and
fees-plans proposed about five years
ago by the special Mapes Committee
of the House, and more recently by
j. L. Jacobs. Chicago efficiency engi-
neer. who directed the latest study
Of fiscal relationship between the Fed
eral and District Governments.
The subcommittee has virtually de-
cided not to make any cuts in the
SAT 100000 total carried in the bud
get, although there are expected TO
be numerous reallocations in items
Because of this fact, it has been con-
fronted with the problem of finding
ways of making up the deficit. al
ready higher than originally antici-
pated because of increased costs of
construction for projects already
authorized.
Special Revenue Bills.
The appropriation bill itself. under
House rules, cannot contain legislation
to raise the additional revenue, and for
that reason the subcommittee is con-
sidering an unusual step. AS sub
committee it proposes to sponsor spe-
cial revenue bills. primarily for the
purpose Of giving its Endorsement and
cooperation to similar measures now
before the District Legislative Commit
tee of the House.
Indications are the subcommittee
in the revenue bills it plans 10 write,
will call for an increase in the gasoline
tax from 2 to 4 cents a gallon.
weight tax on motor vehicles, an in
tSee TAXES, Page A-9)
Evening star., 1937-03-07
10000 W.P.A. CUT.
APPEARS AvERTED
Governors of Six States
Confer With President
for 3lE2 Hours.
BY the Associated Press.

A l50,000-man slash this month in
Federal work-relief rolls appeared last
night to have been averted by a con-
ference between President Roosevelt
and six protesting Governors.
Gov. Elmer A. Benson of Minnesota
one of the six who talked for three
and a half hours with the President
yesterday afternoon. said the effect
of the discussions would be month 8
postponement of contemplated re-
ductions.
Whether the cut should be made in
April will be studied in the interim.
Prior to yesterdays conference,
Harry L. Hopkins. the works progress
administrator, had told a House Com
mittee that continued recovery and
q good agricultural year would permit
looping 10000 off w. P. A. rolls in
March.
He said at recent press conference,
however. that no arbitrary cuts would
be made.
The Governors-from New York
Massachusetts,, Rhode Island. Wiscon-
sin, Illinois and Minnesota-protested
against any curtailment, contending
the States, counties and cities already
(See GOVERNORS, Page A-l5J
Evening star., 1937-03-07
MAN OF $50 POUNDS
RESCUED FROM CAVE-IN
Buried to Neck 12 Hours While
Companions Work Digging
Him Out of Coal Hole.

BY the Associated Press.
SHAMOKIN, Pa. March 6.-Res-
cued from tons of earth and rock in
a mountain coal hole. 6-foot, 330-
pound Willie Politis rejoiced with his
buddies today because he twice escaped
death within few weeks.
For more than IL hours big Will
lie' was buried to his neck in the
improvised mine which he worked with
companions.
While his friends prayed for his
rescue, Willie directed a foreman and
10 miners from nearby colliery who
worked with all their might and all
sorts of equipment to free him.
In midmorning they brought Politis
out. He blinked, grinned and started
for town.
Three weeks ago big Willie" was
entombed for short time. Rescued,
he went right back to the job.
Yesterday, he was first to go into
the mine after a dynamite charge
blasted anthracite for the leaders
Loosened rock and dirt showered down
around him and held him fast.
Evening star., 1937-03-07
FEDERAL WORKER
INJURED BY THUGS
Miss Mary Lacey Slugged by Col
ored Man in Robbery
Attempt.

Miss Mary Lacey, %, clerk at the
Treasury Department, was severely
injured shortly after midnight last
night when struck on the head with
q blackjack by one of several celored
men who attempted to rob her and a
male companion as they sat in the
latter's automobile in front of Miss
Lacey's rooming house at 5379 Nevada
avenue.
The girl was treated at Emergency
Hospital after police aid was sum-
moned by e. j. Kleeman, "a, of 2008
Monroe street northeast, her COM
panion at the time of the attack. She
suffered painful scalp wounds as a
result Of having been struck several
times with the weapon, but her con-
dition was reported as not serious.
Kleeman. an employe of the Uni
versal Credit Co., told police the attack
came shortly after he and Miss Lacey
had driven up in front of her rooming
house. He said the three colored men
approached on the side of the auto
mobile in which the Treasury clerk
sat, opened the car door and sought
to grab her purse When Kleeman
reached over and attempted to shove
them away, one of the men swung
the blackjack about four times. most
of the blows landing on the girls
head.
The colored men then ran to a
waiting automobile and fled empty
handed when the girl screamed and
her escort shouted for aid.
Evening star., 1937-03-07
Jew Boy Dietz
and Cahiu
Seized.
Hl,JACKINC OF
NEWS CHARGED
Nine Others Held
in Office Build
ing Invasion.
BY WILLIAM S. TARVER.

A racing information service which
vent into some 100 Washington gam-
bling places and extended its leased
wire connections into Baltimore, New
York and Montreal was uncovered
last evening in a raid by Federal mtn
and local authorities on suite OF
rooms in the Albee Building which
had been under surveillance for more
than five months.
Taken in the raid. which was made
with unexpected suddenness about
$50 pm, were William (JeWboO
Dietz. "a. and his alleged partner.
William Cahill, 40, reported successors
to the gambling empire of Sam Beard.
Seven others were arrested. and one
of them later released. Two others.
who said they were employees of the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co
came to police headquarters to be
booked. All but the man released
we're charged with conspiring to vio-
late the gambling laws.
MANY volumes Of recorded con-
versations. written down by secret
agents from tapped telephone wires.
led officials to estimate that Dietz was
interested in a large proportion OF the
gambling establishments which took
his service.
Tax Violations Probed.
Present among the raiders were
agents of the Internal Revenue Bu-
reaus intelligence division, and guard
ed statements of Federal officials fore
cast intensive Investigations looking
toward a number Of prosecutions for
income tax violations.
Since October the intelligence dl-
vision. the alcohol tax unit OF the
Treasury Department. United States
Attorney Leslie c. Garnett and care
fully selected police officers have
worked quietly and effectively gather
ing evidence of what they say was a
huge gambling conspiracy.
The guiding spirit in the investiga-
tion, so far as its gambling aspects
are concerned, has been Garnett.
whose record for prosecution OF
gamblers has far surpassed any of
his predecessors.
Some months ago the management
of the Albee Building became suspi-
cious that the eighth-1oor rooms oc-
cupied by Dietz and his associates
were being illegally used and notified
the tenants that their lease would not
be renewed
From information disclosed by both
local and Federal investigators, the
ring "hijacked' its news from a
legitimate racing service. whose wires
1t tapped somewhere between here
and Baltimore.
Complained to Garnett.
The legitimate concern, Nation
Wide News, formerly the General
News Service, had complained to
Garnett that its news was being
pilfered
From the tap, the service flowed
into a broadcast station, from which
it was sent to the Washington head
quarters. Assistant United States At
torney Roger Robb stated.
The exact number of customers to
whom it was re-broadcast could not
be stated, but was estimated to be in
the neighborhood of 100.
From the headquarters, it went out
over direct leased wires from a central
switchboard to auxiliary switchboards
in other sections of the city. Inves-
tigators said they we're sure there were
at least five or six of these auxiliary
(See RAID, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1937-03-07
II Hate Guns" Mrs. Roosevelt
Says, but Carries One on Trips

By tie Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, March 6.-Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt said today she
hates guns, but carries one when she
motors alone.
Lecturing here on "A Day in the
White House." she was ushered about
New Orleans by an escort of two
armed city detectives. assigned by her
hosts-but not at her request.
She explained she never has guards
in New York or Washington. where
everybody knows me-"
Il go about just as anybody else" 4"
she said However. when I travel
there are usually special guards fur
nished me. But they are not detailed
at my request. I would much prefer
to go without them"
In reply to question. Mrs. Roose-
welt said bodily harm never enters
my mind"
Il do carry a pistol with me when
ride alone in my automobile" she
added, but only then"
Can you use it?" questioner asked.
We'll" she said with q smile, Il
had the same training with . pistol
Evening star., 1937-03-07
New Order of Carnegie. .IIIi.
noIs Gives Flat 10c Hourly
Increase to 10000 of Its
Skilled Workers.
GREEN FORCES PONDER
BOYCOTT AS REPRISAL
Firestone Closes Plants Until
Further Notice Sit
Down" Strikes in Auto Parts
Firms at Detroit Are Ended by
Agreements.


Last Ueek uds hailed bu labor
leaders IN the United States as one
OF the most important IN the his
tory OF untoni2ation. The LEADING
steel companies, threatened Nth a
strike, announced higher pdD.
shorter hours. union recognition
General Motors negotiations pro-
gressed;' ChrySler agreed to neoo-
tiate,: smaller industries, taking cue
from steel and motors, reached.
agreements NTH workers, ending
strikes.
Meanwhile, attention turned to
role OF John L. LeuiS, whose Com
mittee TOR Industrial Organization
has been Speartedd in neU fight for
labor, and his relations Nth the
American Federation OF Labor.
Leuis' unions pere suspended by
the A. F. Of L. last Fail and there
has been no sign OF peace as
c. I. o. has Suung into action in
recent ueeks Labor, despite gains,
is still split.
Evening star., 1937-03-07
KING RANCH RECEIVER
PLEA UNDER AMUSEMENT
4-Year-Old Suit for Accounting
on Nations Largest Cattle
Domain Near End.

Domain Near End.
BY the Associated Press
HOUSTON, Tex, March 6.-Federal
Judge T. M. Kemmerly took under ad-
visement today a plea by dissatisfied
heirs to place the vast King ranch
in the hands of court-appointed re-
ceiver.
The four-year-old suit over the Ma
tion's largest cattle domain was filed
by Edwin K. and Alice Atwood of
Chicago.
They asked an accounting" by
trustees for the 10 years after the
death in 1925 of Mrs Henrietta King,
widow of the Civil War blockade run
ner, Capt. Richard King, who founded
the vast ranch.
Thomas Fisher, their attorney con-
tended annuities in the form OF
monthly payments Of $3.50 to $500 due
the Atwoods had been cut of two
years ago. He said the properties are
worth s6,000,000.
Evening star., 1937-03-07
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS. March 6.-Rich-
ard Leo Hymes, 20. of Beardstown.
Ill, arrived in New Orleans today
asleep in one of several 800-pound
water pipes loaded on a railroad
freight car
In the yards he crawled out. stood
and yawned. There was a switching
jolt. The pipes shifted and pinned
him tight.
Trainmen heard his cries, but every
available man was unable TO bulge
Evening star., 1937-03-07
Locomotives Required to Free
Youth Pinned BY Water Pipes

the great pipes. Charity Hospital
physicians were summoned. They ad-
ministered hypodermics to relieve
Hymes' suffering.
Finally it was decided to couple a
locomotive on each end of the train
and jolt the cars. This worked on the
second attempt. The pipes shifted
Hymes was removed and taken to the
hospital.
Physicians said he suffered severe
internal injuries, but probably would
recover.
Evening star., 1937-03-07

By the Associated Press.
Big steel" announced a wage in
crease for thousands of its Skilled
and semi-skilled workmen yesterday
while labor disputes tied up pro-
duction in various other industries
in scattered districts.
Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp. the
biggest subsidiary of the United
States Steel Corp, disclosed the new
wage hike, a fiat 10 cents an hour, to
be effective March 16. 1t said it
would apply to the higher working
classes-hourly, tonnage and piece
work employes-and would benefit
about SO per cent of the company,s
10000 employees. This is about no.
900 workers.
Earlier in the week. the company
announced 10 cents an hour in
crease and a 40-hour week for COM
mon labor.
Meantime. competition for labor's
leadership became more acute as a
union in the aluminium industry
bolted the American Federation Of
Labor, led BY William Green. and
swung its allegiance to John Il. Lewis
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
tion.
1t was a new gain for Lewis, whose
position already had been strength
ened during the week By recognition
from ranking producers in the steel
and electrical industries.
A. F. L. Considers ReprisaI.
But Green's forces were not idle.
Craft union leaders opposed to Lewis
vertical organization program indi-
Gated they were considering several
methods of repriSal. One was boy
colt of capital goods produced by c. L.
o. members. Another was refusal to
recognize the Lewis label on consumer
goods. Also considered were proposals
for organizing rival unions.
The Firestone Tire e. Rubber Co.
at Akron, Ohio, closed its plants "un-
Workers voted not to work until the
company recognizes the union as the
sole collective bargaining agent for its
10 1000 production workers.
The rubber workers. affiliated with
the Committee for Industrial Organi-
zation, adopted their ultimatum in a
three point resolution that included
also abolition of the employees con-
ference plan, termed a company
union and a demand for agreement
by the company Ito incorporate a
settlement in a signed agreement
(See LABOR, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1937-03-07
Jail Visitors to Register.

TROY, N. Y, March 6 R.-Call-
ers at the Rensselaer, County Jail to-
day were requested to sign guest
book. 1T will permit the Depart
ment to keep a better check-up on
visitors" remarked Sheriff Alexan-
der c. Dewar, inaugurating the new
policy,
Evening star., 1937-03-07
400 GERMANS FREED
President of Czechoslovakia Lib
crates Political Offenders.

eIdCtS 1UIIIICdI VIIeuU6IS.
PRAHA. Czechoslovakia. March 6
R.-President Eduard Benes lib
Grated 400 Germans imprisoned for
political offenses today in an amnesty
decree commemorative the 87th birth
day of former President T. G. Ma
saryk.
However, it was announced at the
same time that eight youths, members
of the outlawed Nazi party. had been
sentenced to terms up to IS years for
military treason.
All eight are students from Ger
manic sections Of the republic who had
been studying in Praha.