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Evening star., 1937-03-02
Jury IS RECALLED
|NMATTHEWS QUIZ
Special Session Thursday
Will Be Asked to Indict
Staying Suspects.
By statt Correspondent of The Star.

bS Sthu correspondent VI hC otdE
ROCKVILLE, Md, March 2-In-
dictments for the murder of Elwood
Matthews. 67-year-old Four Corners
farmer, will be sought from a special
session of the Montgomery County
grand jury called for Thursday morn
ing in Circuit Court here.
William B. Read of Four Corners,
Lawrence Gingell of Kensington and
War Joseph Kirby of Scranton, Pa,
suspected of the murder, now are be-
ing held in Charles Town, w. Va,
charged with highway robbery. and
in connection with the Staying last
Thanksgiving day of Earle Dollman.
Charles Town, w. Va, salesman.
They have been wanted for ques-
tioning by Montgomery County police
since the bullet-riddled body of Mat
thews was found in the Northwest
Branch last December.
States Attorney James H. Pugh in
asking Judge Charles w. Woodward
to call the special session said that
about a dozen other cases would be
presented, including robbery charges
against Reads younger brother. Mil
burn CPee Wee) Read, and Charles
Stockton, held in connection with the
hold-up of a colored taxi driver last
December.
Pugh said that Read, Gingell and
Kirby would be tried first in Charles
Town, but that presentation Of the
cases to the grand jury would clear
the record here and enable him to
return them for trial should they es-
cape punishment there.
Evening star., 1937-03-02
COURT JOINS FIGHT
ON SOCIAL DISEASES
Woman Convicted on Soliciting
Charge Remanded to Hospital
for Examination.

The Nationwide drive for exter-
mination of social diseases was car
ried for the first time to Police Court
today when a woman convicted ON
a charge of soliciting was remanded
to Gallinger Hospital for physical
examination, despite the fact she
was able to pay the $50 fine assessed
by Judge Edward NJ Curran.
The examination was ordered on
recommendation Of Assistant District
Attorney Eugene Carusi, who called
to the judges attention a section in
an act Of Congress passed last August
for heavier sentences in prostitution
cases.
The law provides in cases of con-
viction the courts may, in their dis
cretion, remand persons to hospitals
for examination and treatment If
this be necessary.
Carusi expressed the opinion the
section should have been put into
effect before this time and expressed
the hope that all persons convicted
Of like offenses be examined before
they are returned to society.
Evening star., 1937-03-02
FUNERAL RITES TODAY
FOR JOHN F. DORSEY
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PRINCE FREDERICK, Md, March
John F. Dorsey, 73, q well known
citizen Of Calvert County, and sue
cessful farmer. died Sunday at his
home near Parran following a stroke
Of paralysis.
Mr.. Dorsey was a son of the late
Clement Y. Dorsey of Calvert, and was
twice married. His first wife was the
late Mrs. Nettie Bowen Dorsey of
this county; his second, who survives
him, is Mrs. Katherine Ward Dorsey,
formerly of Baltimore. He also leaves
a son, Frank Dorsey of Calvert and q
brother. Charles Dorsey of Parran.
Funeral services will be held today
at 2:30 pm. at Emmanuel Methodist
Episcopal Church South. Rev. c. E.
Kirby will conduct the service, and
burial will be In ths church cemetery.
Evening star., 1937-03-02

crat, Of Virginia, called the Presi-
dents program constitutional The
only way to bring about social and
economic progress, he asserted, is to
recognize that the Constitution "is
not a dry, dead parchment. but a
living instrument"
Representative Celler, Democrat, of
New York. ranking Democrat On the
House Judiciary Committee, urged de-
lay in the hope one or more justices
might retire under the Summers law.
1T is now the duty of some of the
virile and younger judges" he said,
within the next six months or year,
to persuade their older and less vigor-
GUS brethren to retire"
Kansas Evangelist Replies.
Senator Robinson's presentation to
the Senate yesterday of letter inclos-
ing slips worded Hands Of the Su-
preme Court" brought a reply from
the author. Gerald B. Winrod, in
Brownsville, Tex
Winrod, Kansas evangelist, said
the letter was mailed only to a select
group of friends. Such communica-
tions.: he declared, were Spontaneous
expression from patriotic lovers Of
democratic government"
Mr.. Roosevelt. working on his speech
for Thursdays Democratic victory din
ner, was represented by friends as not
considering any compromise proposals
at this time.
They agreed. however. that the
court battle probably would last for
months and that in the end there
might be concessions from both sides
Evening star., 1937-03-02

lIol 1dSC.t
larly-elected Congress to correct ills"
If Mr.. Roosevelt wanted to become
dictator, he argued. he would try to
curb Congress
Instead" Hopkins said. "he seeks to
strengthen democracy by restoring to
Congress the powers of which it has
Deen increasingly deprived these last
few years by majority of the Su-
preme Court.
He is striving in that way to keep
the court from thwarting the desires
of the great majority of the people.
Those who oppose this plan are not
afraid for democracy. They are afraid
of democracy"
Denies Mandate Given.
Senator Clark one of the opposition
leaders, denied that the November
to recommend court changes.
mo such mandate was received
from the people," he said, "for the
all-suficient reason that no such issue
was submitted to the people"
The age of present Supreme Court
justices, the Missourian asserted, is
merely the basis for a temporary ex-
pedient for packing the court for
definite purpose. Mere age is not a
test either of efficiency or liberalism.
My objection is not SO much to
the increase in the size of the Supreme
Court, although I deem so large an
increase inadvisable. 1t is because it
amounts essentially to abolishing the
court as it has existed since the
foundation of the republic ="
Lemke Opposes Plan.
Representative Lemke, Republican,
of North Dakota, Union party candi-
date for President last year, also op-
posed the court reorganization, de-
claring that in the last so years "our
judges of the Supreme Court have
been more liberal and progressive and
at least as wise, if not wiser, than
our Presidents
Representative Flanagan, Demo-
Evening star., 1937-03-02

in Girl Scout costume, the other very
like Mrs. Alfred NJ Landon, adorned
profusely with sunflowers.
Upon such scene the curtain was
drawn, the mistress Of ceremonies an
nounced that the great sit-down strike
was broken, and that Mrs. Roosevelt's
first return to normalcy would be q
speech to the Women's National Press
Club. Miss Mary Hornaday. president
of the club, introduced her and her
strictly "off ff-the-record" speech closed
the program.
Honor guests representing the three
branches of the Federal Government
were the executive, in addition to Mrs.
Roosevelt; Mrs Cordell Hull, Mrs.
Henry Morgenthau, jr.: Mrs. Harry
H. Woodring, Mrs. James A. Farley,
Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, Mrs. Henry
A. Wallace. Mrs Daniel c. Roper and
the Secretary of Labor. Miss Frances
Perkins; the judiciary, by Mrs. Charles
Evans Hughes, and the legislative, by
Mrs. William B. Bankhead, Senator
Hattie w. Caraway, Representative
Edith Nourse Rogers, Representative
Mary T. Norton, Representative Vir-
ginia Jenckes, Representative Caroline
ODay and Representative Nan w.
Honeyman.
Foreign countries were represented
among the honor guests by Sonora
de Espil, Nine. Troyanovsky. Nine.
Saito, Nine. SEE. Sonora de los Rios,
Nine. Bonnet. wife of the new French
Ambassador, and Nine. Jarnefelt, wife
of the Finnish Minister, who is her
self a former newspaper woman.
Others from less official circles were
Mrs. August Belmont as Eleanor Rob-
son, a famous actress; Cornelio Otis
Skinner, daughter of famous actor
and with unique place Of her own
on the stage; Antonio Brico, director
of the Woman's Symphony Orchestra
of New York; Leslie Ford of Annapo-
lis, Md, mystery story writer; Mar
garet Burke-White, photographer;
Dorothy Thompson, columnist; Ruth
Nichols, aviator; Dorothy Kilgallen.
flying reporter; Marcia Davenport.
novelist and commentator for the
Metropolitan Opera Co. broadcasts.
who is daughter of Efrem Zimbalist.
violinist, and Alma Gluck, famous So
praho; Evalyn Walsh Mclean, author;
Mrs. McCook Knox, chairman Of the
Portrait Committee for the United
States Constitution Sesquicentennial
Commission, and Mrs. Alvin T. Hert,
in whose house members of the Wom-
ems National Press Club staged their
first stunt party, an entirely i'm
promptu program, following a supper
party which Mrs. Hert gave for the
club about IS years ago.
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hospital; DR.. Thomas Parran. surgeon
general of the Public Health Service:
Mrs. Fred Coombs Reynolds. presi-
dent of the hospital board of direc-
tors: DR.. William Mercer Sprig, presi-
dent of the District of Columbia Med
ical Society, and Mrs. Robert Stewart
of the local bureau of the Womans
Home Missionary Society.
Evening star., 1937-03-02

W.T. AhAt4 NdI4h44C ~ q
He went into the truck manufac-
turing business on leaving the Brad
street firm and continued until re-
tiring in 1882. because of falling
health. He had come to this city
about 33 years ago
Formerly he was a member OF the
Automotive Trade Association, the
Civitan Club and the Beaver Dam
Country Club. He also was charter
member Of the old City Club.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Elsie
Snow Dugan; three daughters, Mrs.
George r. Grady, Stamford, Conn;
Mrs. Charles E. Murray and Mrs.
Katherine Flaherty, both of this city;
a sister, Mrs. Helen D. Helmet, Mer-
ced. Calf, and seven grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 9
am. Thursday in the Shrine of the
Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial
will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Britain is recruiting doctors to teach
Evening star., 1937-03-02
ROOSEVELT SIGNS
TRADE PACT BILL
Beginning of New Reciprocal
Commerce Campaign Is Sig
nailed by Action.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt signaled the be-
ginning of new reciprocal trade cam
paign late yesterday by signing trade
pact legislation recently passed by
Congress.
The legislation renews for three
years his power to make commercial
agreements with foreign countries
without the consent of the Senate.
The United States now has such
agreements with 16 nations Negotia-
tions are in prospect with some Latin
Great Britain and Italy.
Evening star., 1937-03-02

in c a t h e d r a !
Mansions. He had
been in failing
health for several
years.
A native of
Parkersburg, w.
Va. Mr.. Dugan.
until 1916, was
superintendent of
the Washington
Office of Brad
street Co, which
several years ago
merged with the
r. D. Dun firm
under the name
of Dun & Brad
Evening star., 1937-03-02
E. w. BOKMAN RITES
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star
SILVER SPRING, Md, March a.
Funeral services for Elmer w. Box
man. IS, an employe of the Veterans
Administration for almost 20 years,
were held in his home, 700 Bonifant
street, yesterday afternoon. Bokman,
who died Friday after a months ILL
ness, is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Emma May Bokman, four sisters and
q brother. He was a native Of Balti-
more Interment was in Rock Greek
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1937-03-02
J. NJ. DUGAN DIES :.
OF HEART ATTACK
Former President of Truck
Company Will Be Buried
Thursday.

John Monohan Dugan, 68. retired
president of the Witt-Will Co., Inc,
motor truck manufacturers, died yes
terday of heart attack at his home
Evening star., 1937-03-02

Britain is recruiting doctors to teach
poison gas precautions.
Evening star., 1937-03-02
Judiciary

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Franco, MussOlini
Exchange Wires

SALAMANCA, Spain. Oct. 4
G.N.SO.-Premier MuSsolini of
Italy and GeneralisSimo Francisco
Franco today exchanged congratu-
lations to supreme command of
the insurgent armies. II Duce's
telegram expressed his wishes for
the triumph Of the nationalist
Spanish cause" while Frances re-
ply congratulated Mussolini on
the immense triumph" of his
visit to Berlin.
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Black Challenged
AS He Takes Seat
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ministration of justice in the SUI
preme Court"
After Levitt's motion was re-
ceived by the court, Kelly was given
permission to file written motion
attacking Justice Blacks right to
his seat.
The Levitt petition, submitted
with the motion, set out the con-
stitutional provisions and laws
upon which he relies.
The petition said:
THAT the retirement Of Asso-
ciate Justice Willis Van Devanter
did not annul or vacate his COM
mission as an associate justice of
the Supreme Court of the United
States"
Kelly first sought to challenge
Black after Hughes announced the
ALBANIAN was taking his seat
on the court. Then Hughes ruled
Kelly out of order.
KELLY PERSISTS
The Boston lawyer persisted,
though, rising again when the
Chief Justice called for motions. )"
"IS your motion in writing?"
sternly demanded Chief Justice
Hughes.
mo have written to each one
Of your justices individually"
replied Kelly.
You have already appeared"
said the Chief Justice, you must
have motion in writing"
SUBMITS MOTION
Kelly withdrew.
But after Levitt had appeared
Kelly again marched to the bar.
II have a motion in writing"
he said.
"You may file it," said the
Chief Justice.
Kelly then gave his motion
hastily written in the court room
to the clerk.
Kelly said that it read:
Il request a hearing on the
title of Mr.. Justice Black to a
seat on this Court"
Kelly taking a different legal
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Rev. Anderson Hits
Black Khan Policy

Stating former Senator Hugo L..
Blacks appointment to the Su-
PRIME Court Bench is IAN abSo-
lutte disgrace to the court. an en-
barrassment to the President, and
a reflection on the whole judicial
system" the Rev. H. S. Anderson,
pastor of the Congregational
Church, lambasted the new JUS
tice last night at the regular
church services.
Black, he said, had joined the
Ku Klux Khan as a political move
and at the height Of its most
bigoted and vicious phase" He
also criticized the former Senator
for his trick resignation" after
joining the Khan, for purely politi-
cal reasons.
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PRESIDENT HINTS
SPECIAL SESSION
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make a contract with a farmer
by which acreage is fixed either
upward or downward. I have
never subscribed to the consti-
tutional theory that agriculture
is a pursely local matter and
that it has, therefore, no ma:
tional scope.
Perhaps it will be held con-
stitutional for the Government
to say to a farmer, IF you do
thus and so. the Government
will do thus and So AS a mat
ter of common sense cannot
see very much practical differ
ence between the two methods.
In the one case the farmer vol
UNFAIRLY enters into a contract;
in the other case he voluntarily
does something with the knowl-
edge that the Government on
its part will do something. One
is a contract; the other is a
promise. The result is the same.
II feel certain that a majority
in both Houses of Congress will
heed the wish of most of the
farmers Of the nation in enact
ing crop surplus control legis-
lation. And it is my thought, leg
islation toward that end ought
to be passed at the earliest pos
Sible moment.
The President also was SEIZED
uled to stop today at Fargo, N. D.
Breckenridge, Mimi, and Willmar
MINI. Tonight at $50 C. C. 7
he will speak at st. Paul.
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Miss Carr Starts
Hull House Duties

CHICAGO, Oct. 4.-Miss Char
lotte Carr, newly appointed head
resident of Hull House, who started
her career as an $18-a-week matron
in an orphan asylum and who rose
to become head of New York'S
home relief administration, which
dispensed an average of nine mil
lion dollars a month, has taken
over her duties as the successor Of
the late Jare Adams.
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The lanky Montanan, at the
moment in California using his
legal talents to obtain the re-
instatement of a disbarred race
horse owner at the Santa Anita
track, was given the same "po-
litical chill" treatment from F.
D. R. that was handed out q
week ago, in Wyoming, to Wheel
er's anticodrt plan colleague,
Senator Joseph E. O'Mahoney.
MURRAY PRAISED
All the way across this State
and finally at the big assembly
at Fort Peck dam which F. D.
R. inspected in the afternoon
there was no mention of
Wheeler's name. There was,
however. Roosevelt praise and
affectionate tribute for loyal
New Deal Senator James E.
Murray. The States two con-
gresSmen, dapper young Jerry
O'Connell and the white-maned
Jimmie O'Connor, each eager
for the chance to win Wheeler'S
Senate seat with loyalty to the
President as their battle cry,
posed day-long before the Mon
tana voters in the politically.
nourishing sunshine of the
Roosevelt smile.
DOUBTERS ASSAILED
These three were praised by
name as the President, at Fort
Peck dam, assailed the doubt
ing Thomases" who are afraid
of the future of the New Deal.
The doubling Thomas
phrase was tossed out by the
President with the same orator
ical dash with which he hurled
economic royalistS" in his cam
paign year.
To Montana's cheering
audiences, the President ham,
mered away at his opponents in
a fighting spirit. He twice
assured his audiences that the
national budget would be bal
anced. Vigorously, he declared:
I'VE know where we are going
and we intend to go there"
The court issue was not once
mentioned directly by the Presi-
dent. But for his general New
Deal program there was a
promise anew to fight on for the
original goals.
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LANDON
CONFER At HOME
OF GOV. LOWDEN
Political Gossip Rife
After Their Farley

OREGON, ILL.,, Oct. 4 U.N.S0.
Political observers today were
specializing over the meeting OF
former President Hoover and Al
fred M. Landon, titular head of the
Republican party, yesterday at
the home of Frank o. Lowden, ex-
Governor of Illinois and powerful
G. o. P. chieftain.
LOWDEN STATEMENT
Lowden after his guests had de-
parted, issued a statement that:
1--WE canvassed the national
crisis at great length"
While Lowden would not
amplify on that remark other
than I'VE find ourselves in agree
ment on every problem, both of
the country and the party" it
was believed that one Of the
principal topics of conversation
was the G. o. P. strategy for the
Presidential race of 1910.
WILL MEET AGAIN
Lowden said he probably would
hold another conference with
Hoover and Landon at a date to
be selected later, indicating the
trio intends to be active in coming
political struggles.
The Lowden home is on 4,5O0'
acre estate, and is one of the show
places of this community. During
his campaign for the Presidency
last year, Landon spent a day
here as Lowden's guest.
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Roosevelt Absent.
Justices Delay Call

Q.N.SD. President Roosevelt's
absence from the city on his west
ern tour today caused postpone
ment of the annual call of the
justices of the Supreme Court at
the White House. By custom, the
court calls upon the President as
a matter of courtesy at p. m.
on the opening day of a term. The
call probably will be arranged
soon after the President returns.
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ground from Levitt, asserts that
the retirement act which made
possible Justice Blacks appoint
ment is unconstitutional.
The court was called to order
on the stroke of noon by Ennals
Waggaman, court crier. Then the
Justices filed in, led by Chief JUS
tice Hughes.
BLACK GRIM-FACED
Black was the last Justice to
enter. He came through the red
plush curtains, which form the
background of the bench, walking
grim-faced and quietly to his seat
at the extreme left end of the
bench.
He stared out over the crowd
as Hughes announced he had filed
his commission and taken the
oath.
He sat just as quietly, as Kelly
made his vain effort to challenge
his right to a seat on the Court.
The Court then resumed the
tedious business of hearing lawyers
move admissions to the bar.
Justice Black occasionally
glanced at his white-haired wife
on the first row of the benches
reserved for relatives and friends
of Justices.
Justice Blacks failure to take
the judicial oath was unexpected.
When he took his oath on
August 10 he took a combination
constitutional and judicial oath.
The late Chief Justice William
Howard Taft also did this but he
retook the judicial oath in open
court.
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Handbills Score
Blacks Induction

CHICAGO, Oct. 4 Q.N.S0.
Circulation of 100000 handbills,
proclaiming October 4 as BLACK
Day." and urging that the Undue
ton of Supreme Court Justice
Hugo L. Black be mourned each
year "as the blackest day in the
history of American justice" was
announced today in a proclama-
ton issued here on the letterhead
of 1.-THE Independent Young Amer
leans"
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Black Wage Bill
ASSailed in South

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oct. 4.-Ef-
fects of uniform wage and hour
legislation on Southern industry
of all kinds were held danger
Gus" in an analysis of the Black
wage-hour bill by the Research
Department of the Southern
States Industrial Council.
The chief danger, the depart
ment declared, is not in the pur-
poses of uniform laws, but in their
administration.
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HAGEMANS REWED

CHICAGO, Oct. 4 GN.SO.
Carl and Doris Hageman were
honeymooning today for t h e
fourth time. They have been
marrying and divorcing each other
since 1880
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Is Ignored
In Roosevelt alkS
BY JOHN o'DoNNELL

ABOARD THE PRESIDENTS SPECIAL, Oct. (CT.PS).
So far President Roosevelt and wildly enthusiastic Montana
concerned there such yesterday
senior Burton Wheeler leader of Senate
that wrecked the Presidents court reform bill.
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The Secret Of How to Improve Your
Brain Power by Exercising the Seven
Factors of Thinking explained by Prof.
Laird, eminent psychologist, in The
American Weekly with Sundays Wash
ingtOn Herald. Times.
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BOOSTS BUDGETS
MEET REFUSAL

In the beginning of negotiations,
railway heads fatty refused to
consider granting any increase, de-
claring that q 20 per cent wage
boost would increase the annual
payroll by an estimated $116,000,-
O0O-which would be "ruinous" to
the roads.
It was the termination of nego-
tiations, and the strike-vote that
led the Federal Government to
take an upper-hand, and to appoint
DR.. William M. Leiserson. member
of the United States Mediation
Board, to attempt to patch up the
differences that threatened to
paralyze the nations transporta-
ton structure.