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Evening star., 1937-02-21
Senate Leaders
Predict Start
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PARLEYS HELD
IN WHITE HOUSE
Nye, Frazier Still
Hostile to Move
After Conference.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

In a White House conference with
senatorial leaders, during which, the
legislators said, there was no talk of
compromise, President Roosevelt last
night gave the signal to go ahead with
the judiciary reorganization legisla-
ton which he proposed more than two
weeks ago.
AS result, Senators emerging from
the second of two meetings forecast
that the Senate Judiciary Committee
would begin work tomorrow on the
Presidents proposal to increase the
membership of the Supreme Court. 1t
was indicated hearings will be held.
While another Democrat, Senator
Copeland of New York, was issuing
a statement condemning the plan, the
President first called in Vice Presi-
dent Garner, Majority Leader Rob-
inson, Chairman Ashurst of the Sem
ate Judiciary Committee and Sena-
tors Harrison of Mississippi, Barkley
of Kentucky, Byrnes of South Caro-
lima and Guffey of Pennsylvania. All
are strong supporters of the admin
istration and the Supreme Court plan.
An hour and half later the Presi-
dent talked with five members of the
so-called Progressive bloc, Senators
Frazier and Nye of North Dakota, La
Toilette of Wisconsin and Bone and
Schwellerbach of Washington. This
group is divided. with La Toilette and
Schwellenbach the only supporters of
the Presidents plan.
Attitudes unchanged"
Nye and Frazier are hostile to the
proposal, while Bone has proposed a
constitutional amendment as pos
sible substitute. After the conference
the two North Dakota Senators said
they had not changed their attitude.
AS the progressive group left the
White House, Thomas Corcoran,
youthful presidential adviser, who is
widely credited with having helped to
draft the court program, went into
dine with Mr.. Roosevelt.
Some of the Senators said they had
u SC11CA al Va GlIC SOu4 c1Iud.
ton and Of the various amendments
which have been proposed as alterna-
tives. One said he got the impression
the President would not be opposed to
a constitutional amendment being
sought along with his program. But
there was no indication that the
Chief Executive would give up his
plan in favor of a constitutional
amendment.
Robinson is Spokesman.
After the first meeting with the
Democratic leaders, Senator Robinson
acted as spokesman when the group
was questioned by rep ,rters. He made
the following brief statement:
I'VE discussed the judiciary reor-
ganization bill in all its phases. 1t
Is believed that the measure is prog
(See JUDIICIARY PAGE A-40
Evening star., 1937-02-21
BUILDER DETAINED
IN LABOR Staying
Subway Contractor Sought
by New Jersey as Ma
teriaI Witness.
Ey the Associated Press.


HACKENSACK, N. j., February
20.-A wealthy New York subway
builder was served in New York late
today with a warrant requiring him
as a material witness in the Staying
of a "Sandhogs" union leader-a
killing which Bergen County authori-
ties attributed to labor troubles in
volving the men who dig under the
towers of Manhattan.
The warrant for the arrest of
Samuel Rosoff, the contractor, was
issued after he had refused to come
here voluntarily for questioning in
connection with the fatal shooting
in Teanack last night of R. Norman
Redwood, business agent of a New
York subway workers union. To the
request he come here, Rosoff countered
with an offer to submit to question:
ing in his New York apartment and
announced he would pay $4,000 re-
ward for the apprehension and con-
viction of those who "did the job. u
In New York Rosoff was released
without bail after being served
with the warrant.
Witness Complaint Ordered.
Bergen Prosecutor John ]. Breslin,
jr., directed that a material witness
complaint be made against Rosoff
after an unidentified witness had de-
clared in an affidavit, Breslin said,
that he heard the builder threaten
Redwood at a meeting in his apart
ment February S.
Breslin said the witness declared
in the affidavit that Rosoff told
the labor leader he would kill you
stone dead" If Redwood ever pulled
a strike on a job of his.
Rosof told reporters in New York
that he knew of the alleged affidavit
and remarked, 1T won't hold water. "
He described in detail, too, his move
ments yesterday afternoon, his trip
ISoo or A VINO poUa AoI
Evening star., 1937-02-21
IS Senators to Get 81 900 A piece
For Indorsing "a Light Smoke

| To indorse or not to indorse, that was
the question. The Senator didn't
mind the testimonial. But he was
Weighing it carefully.
"I was afraid my political opponents
might try to make something out of
it." he said. But then thought, well,
what the dickens-here's a chance to
turn a good sum over to a charity
that needs it,
What is more, Senator Nye said
about IA of his colleagues have done
the same thing. Senator Reynolds
of North Carolina was the first.
Thirteen others are to follow. Some
of them will make their indorse-
ments over the radio, Senator Nye
said. It is all for sweet charity.
That, at least, is the Senators story
and the Senators will stick to it.
Washington is wondering now how
much a Representatives. Endorsement
will be worth if Senator can de-
mand $1,000. There is quite range
of prices for Endorsements. The late
Will Rogers received $35,000 for say
ing something nice about brand
Of chewing gum. But some ball
players could only get $50 for doing
the same thing.
Nobody has ribbed him about the
Endorsement, Senator Nye said, al
though he does not expect to escape
some wtsecracAs.
Evening star., 1937-02-21
PRESIDENT GIVES SIGNAL
TO RUSH HIS COURT PLAN
WITH NO COMPROMISE
Hands Off Court, Hooper Warns,
Hitting Plan to 'tSubject" Bench
Real Issue Is Whether President or PeO.
pie Shall ReUise Constitution, He
Says IL, Union League Talk.

cd" by which social changes can be
accomplished, the speaker asked:
What is all the hurry in this? The
Nation is recovering from the depres-
sion. There is no emergency. Surely
year or two is no waste in the life
of great nation when its liberties
are the stake of haste.
IF historic liberalism cannot be
maintained under the present pro-
visions of the Constitution. shall be
the first to support the President in
amendment of it,
Mr.. Hoover declared "it is a mag
niflcent thing for the Nation that the
debate upon it (the Supreme Court
propoSaD has risen far above parti-
sanship. The proposal is too grave to
be dealt with on such terms. It Is
an inspiring thing that in this ques-
ton the leadership to maintain the
integrity of the American form of gov
ernment has been begun by eminent
Senator's belonging to the Presidents
own party.
This leadership, which We all gladly
follow, places this issue on the highest
plane of citizenship without regard to
(See HOOVER, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1937-02-21
FARMER ACCUSED
IN WELL Staying
Murder Charged After Nude
Body Is Recovered-PoIice
Guard Suspect in Cell.

E! the Associated Press.
COATESVILLE, Pa, February 90
County Detective Francis Grubb filed
murder charge tonight against
Alexander Meyer, 20-year-old farmer,
for the death of 16-year-old Helen
Meyer, whose nude, battered body
was recovered from a well on an
abandoned farm.
Meyer, earlier in the day, led po-
lice to the farm where he said he
concealed the girls body after ac-
cidentally killing her with his truck
on February II.
Grubb obtained the warrant from
Justice of the Peace r. Jones Patrick
in West Chester and took Meyer to
the Chester detectives Office in West
Chester for further questioning.
Deputy Coroner Harry E. Williams
jr., said there was every indication
that Helen Meyer had been ravished"
before her body was concealed in the
well, in report on the findings of
DR.. Michael Margolis, coroner's ply
sician.
Cause of Death.
Williams said the girl died from
internal injuries which could have
been caused by an auto or by q
struggle"
"The girl was unconscious for four
or five hours before her DEATH" he
said. There was water in her lungs,
indicating she was tossed into the
well while still living. There was
mark around her neck which could
have been caused by cord"
The girls nude body was found be-
meath 18 inches of water, rock and dirt
blown down by two sticks OF dynamite
which Meyer said he exploded to con-
ceal it better Detectives said they did
Evening star., 1937-02-21
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, February 81 (sunday).-
A new phase Of the Spanish civil war
opened today as an international ban
on the flow Of foreign volunteers auto
matically went into effect on the
stroke of midnight.
1t was the beginning Of a phase
which observers said they hoped
marked not only the end of European
fears the war might sweep beyond
Spain, but would hasten the end of
the bloody conflict itself.
As the stroke of IL ended Saturday,
sympathizers with the Spanish gov
ernment or the insurgents who are
outside Of Spain faced the tightest
blockade that can be devised to keep
them from slipping into the zones of
combat.
Unsettled was the exact method of
making sure that the nations in
dividual volunteer-control measures
are not violated and that war ma
terisls do not go into Spain.
Portugal, sympathetic with the
Spanish insurgents, first blocked
agreement on a geseral scheme, refus-
ing to have foreign observers stationed
on her borders.
With the main outlines of a plan
of land and sea control already fixed
by the other powers, however, Great
Britain arranged a compromise to win
Portugal's participation, involving the
use Of British officers to check up on
Portuguese compliance.
Informed persons believed the de-
tails Of this British checkup, as we'll
as the disposition of six-power naval
patrol Of Spain's borders, would be
ironed out in plenty of time to install
actual physical control Of men and
arms by the scheduled date, March 6.
Stringent Portuguese Ban.
The fact that Portugal applied a
stringent ban on volunteers was in
terpreted as a favorable sign she
would come along with the other
powers. The number of Portuguese
fighting in Spain. however, has not
been great.
An indication of the general hope
in European official circles that the
seven-month-old civil war would be
confined to the Iberian Peninsula as a
result of the long-delayed neutrality
agreement was seen in a statement
by Lord Plymouth, chairman of the
(See WAR, Page A-8)
Evening star., 1937-02-21
Men Died Joking
In Ship Blast,
chaplain Says
BY the Associated Press.


SAN PEDRO, Calf, February 20.
Men died with a joke on their
lips. and others, though fearfully
manned, concerned themselves with
their shipmates. Navy Chaplain H. P.
Trump said today of the explosion
aboard the U. S. S. Wyoming Thurs
day.
Seven sailors and Marines were
killed and 13 injured when a five-
inch shell exploded during exercises.
William K. Weber never said a
word while he was waiting to be
taken to the operating room," the
chaplain said. He just lay there.
asked him what made him SO
strong, and he grinned and said, Tt
must be the beans they feed u.s.
Capt. Edward Trumble (of Alex
andria, Va.) was barely conscious,
but when he opened his eyes he said.
Get doctor for the men. I'm afraid
they're hurt He died a moment
later.
clyde Byrd (of East Falls Church
Va, private, asked me for a
cigaret. Then he noticed two other
Marines, terribly wounded, alongside.
I'll skip the smoke he said, those
fellows may not like it in their lungs.
I can wait
Another private, David Williams,
had only one request. Please send
word back home to the folks. They'll
be worrying
Three bodies started home today.
That of Private Albert Enos will be-
taken to Cambridge, Mass. On the
same train were the bodies of Joseph
w. Bozynski, Pittsburgh, Pa, and
Richard Frye, Johnstown, Pa.
Evening star., 1937-02-21
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, February 20.-Herbert
Hoover tonight called for hands of
the Supreme Court"
Addressing the Union League Club
the former President said President
Roosevelt's court proposal has Gre
ated the greatest constitutional ques-
ton in the last 10 years." and has
placed the Nation "face to face with
the proposition that the Supreme
Court shall be made subjective to the
Executive"
Stripped to its bare bones" Mr..
Hoover continued, that is the heart
of this proposal. And that reaches to
the very center of human liberty. The
ultimate safeguard of liberty is the
independence of the judiciary"
The real issue" in the Supreme
Court question, Mr.. Hoover said, lis
whether the President by appointment
of additional judges shall revise the
Constitution-or whether change in
the Constitution shall be submitted to
the people as the Constitution itself
provides"
Declaring that the Constitution pro-
vides IAN open and above board meth
Evening star., 1937-02-21

titles" She explained that it had been
her custom for years to buy ice cream
weekly for the people at the insti-
tuition.
Stanton c. Peelle and William E.
Schooley, Washington attorneys, and
the American Security & Trust Co.
were named executors and trustees.
They were charged with the duty of
distributing the residue of the estate,
after payment Of specific bequests to
13 eleemosynary institutions.
These residuary legatees are Emer-
gency Hospital, the Presbyterian Home
for the Aged, the Instructive Visiting
Nurse Society, the Young Women's
Christian Home, Children's Hospital,
Garfield Memorial Hospital, the Flor
ence Crittenton Home, the American
Foundation for the Blind, the Colum-
bia Polytechnic Institute for the
Blind, the First Church of Christ
Scientist, the Masonic and Eastern
Star Home and the. Baptist Home, all
of Washington, and the Pennsylvania
(SAe Will, Pa0e K-I09
Evening star., 1937-02-21
limitation Stunt
Nearly Fatal to
g.. W. Student.

Preparations for a fraternity ini.
tiation nearly cost the life of George
Washington University student last
night when he repeatedly "garbled his
instructions" and came in contact with
a l3,00c-volt power line while run
ming an errand"
The youth-Vernon Rasmussen, Is
OF East Salt Lake, Utah-is in George
town Hospital with second-degree
burns on arms and leg. Physicians sale
they expected him to recover.
More than two hours after he left
Sigma Chi Fraternity House, 1912 \
street, where he lived and where h
was to be initiated last night, Ras.
mussen was found in a dazed condi.
tion on the grounds of the Dalecarlia
distributing reservoir at Conduit anc
Reservoir roads.
He was discovered by Herschel A
Sheets of Capitol Heighs, Md, ar
employe of the Potomac Electric Power
Co., who notified police.
Seventh Precinct Policemen j. A
Wheeler and G. w. Baxter. who in.
vestigated, said Rasmussen had t(
climb 10-foot fence to get into the
reservoir grounds. According to theil
report. the student apparently fel
onto the high-tension wire, which is
strung below the level of the fence
A student who answered the tele.
phone at the fraternity house sale
Rasmussen was one of eight pledges
who were to be initiated.
In order to get him away from the
house while the initiation was beins
fixed, the unidentified student saic
Rasmussen was sent out with writer
instructions to '1ook for an object
The nature Of the "object" was moi
revealed.
Rasmussen, it was said, was giver
directions that would have taken him
"two miles out on Conduit road but
would have enabled him to get back
before dark"
IF he had followed directions, .
the student at the fraternity house
said, "it wouldn't have happened"
Police also were unable to learr
what the youth was looking for wher
he entered the reservoir grounds.
Evening star., 1937-02-21
RED RIDER FIGHT
ST|RSFEDERAT|ON
Majority Votes to Discharge
Special Committee, But
Ruling VetoeS Action.
(See EARHART, Page A-1SD

BY a clear majority the Federation
of Citizens Associations last night
voted to disband its special Committee
on Elimination of Subversive, Anti
Patriotic and Communistic Propa-
ganda from the Public Schools, but
the action was nullified by ruling
that a two-thirds vote was necessary.
The vote was 80 to %.
The ruling, by President Thomas E.
Lodge, was challenged in extended
debate, but still stood when adjourn
ment finally was reached at 1885
am. today.
The special committee is the one
headed by George E. Sullivan, the
activities of which in investigating
communism in the schools have fig
ured in the red rider controversy.
After two hours of tempestucus ar
gument, during which cries of ''fili-
buster" were raised, the body voted
80 to % for discharge of the special
committee, but an immediate challenge
(See RED RIDER, Page AID
Evening star., 1937-02-21
COMMITTEE O.K'S
NEUTRALITY BILL
Senator Johnson Votes
Against Pittman Man.
datory Proposal.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Legislative drtUe for neU neutral
ity ldUs inspired last December
t1hen jersey City and San Francisco
firms were granted State Depart
rrent licenses to ship 100000
north OF secondhand planes, en-
gines, rifles and machine guns to
wdr-torn Spain. Old neutrality
legislation, declaring embargo on
"implenents of tDdr" during Italian
Ethiopian conflict, expired last
February.
BY the Associated Press.
The Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee voted almost unanimously yes
terday for a permanent, mandatory
neutrality law designed to keep Ameri-
cans and American goods out Of
trouble in case of another foreign war.
With only Senator johnson, Repub-
lican, of California dissenting. the
committee agreed to report to the
Senate the Pittman bill which would
place American trade with future
belligerents on a virtual "cash and
carry" basis.
Chairman Pittman, author of the
bill, said he would call it up in the
Senate this week, if possible. He fore
cast quick approval.
Pittman said the bill had admins
tration support. He added, however,
that the State Department had advised
giving the Chief Executive greater dis
cretion.
One Provision Discretionary.
Only one of the major provisions Of
the legislation would be discretionary.
On the whole, it came from committee
so rigidly mandatory that even the
old Munitions Committee bloc was
satisfied.
Contending the bill would remove
some of the chief causes of American
participation in foreign wars, Pittman
said:
I'VE are now cutting that cable by
which We were dragged into the last
war in so far as we can accomplish it
by our individual laws and reasonable
restraints upon our own nationals"
But to Senator Johnson, the bill
was merely "a shotgun measure to
keep us out of war and it doesn't do
anything of the sort"
He added that the bill would "take
us into war rather than keep us out"
and would "be a source of infinite
trouble" Senator Borah, Republican,
of Idaho, who was not present at yes
terday's meeting, held similar views.
Despite the State Departments de-
sire for more discretionary legislation,
the committee overwhelmingly defeat
ed a substitute offered by Senator
Thomas, Democrat, of Utah, which
Pittman said would give the Presi-
dent absolute discretion"
Major Provisions of Bill.
Major provisions of the Pittman bill
are:
Permanent extension of the present
(See NEUTRALITY, Page A-14)
Evening star., 1937-02-21

On one score, of course, there can be no argu-
ment-Miss Earhart is the first woman to under
take such an adventure and she will be the first
pilot of either to fly multi-motored plane Of
a type regularly employed on air lines here and
abroad without any one to relieve her at the
controls on the major portion Of a 'round-the-
world flight. In fact, her program contemplates
that the entire trip will be solo so far ham
ding the 200-mile hour Wasp-motored Lock-
heed Electra is concerned, although Capt. Harry
Manning Of the United States Lines is TO accom-
pany her as navigator on the 7000-mile crossing
of the Pacific. This is the one phase of her
27.000-mile aerial odyssey which she feels she
cannot accomplish alone.
Flight at Earth's Waistline
In reluctantly announcing her plans little
more than a week ago because she had been
smoked out" by newspapers, Miss Earhart made
it clear that she could not possibly hope to match
the 7-day, 1s-hour, 4s1a-minute globe-circling
record of the late Wiley Post, if for no other
smile route flown by him was little more than
of her P,,tp fight tOl1chad oTlv the
Evening star., 1937-02-21
AWAITING ESCORT,
GIRL, 20, SHOT DEAD
Cincinnati Police Report Confes-
sion by Tilted" Suitor Caught
in Church.
the Associated press

BY the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, February 2O.-Bea-
trice A. Roth, 20, attractive daughter
OF former real estate operator, was
shot and killed tonight as she sat in
an automobile awaiting her escort, and
Lieut. George Schattle of the police
homicide squad announced shortly aft
erward that a suspect had confessed.
Schattle said the suspect was Joseph
Caproni, 20, grandson of the late
Enrico Caproni, widely known restau-
rant proprietor, and that he had been
apprehended in a church In which he
had sought refuge
Schattle said formal charge of
murder would be filed against the
youth, who, he said, admitted he con-
cealed himself in the car of Maurer
Heitz, 10, Miss Roth's escort, and
killed the girl because he was mad
at her.
Miss Roth had "jilted" him last
week, detectives said.
Heitz said he and the girl had lust
left her home. He placed her in the
front seat of his car, parked nearby,
and had Just opened the left-hand
door when, he told police, "a man
who had been lying on the rear seat
rose up and said Well, buddy, I
GOT
IT couldn't hear any more because
the man started shooting"
Parents of the girl were Frustrated
and were under a physicians care.
Heitz, student at the University
of Cincinnati, said he had known
Miss Roth ''for some time" but to-
nights was to have been only his
second "date."
Miss Roth, who is survived by her
parents and brother, Robert, 23, had
been employed for the past three
months In the circulation department
Of the Cincinnati Post.