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Evening star., 1937-01-17


TACOMA, Wash, January 16.-Dr
w. w. Mattson tonight charged the
kidnapping and brutal murder Of his
son Charles to bungling flend and
an accomplice who became fright
ened and destroyed the boy because
he knew too much"
While Federal and local officials
weeded out arrested suspects from
coast to coast, the physician ex-
pressed the conviction that the GRIM
inal would be brought to justice
and said he then would tell more
about the vicious crime.
Sacramento (Calif.) police today
released Arthur MadSen, 26, former
member of public works camp at
Tillamook, Oreg., after questioning
him in the case. Police Capt. Fritz
Kaminsky said a careful check oi
Madsen's recent movements convinced
him Madsen had no connection with
| the case.
Seattle officers said Fred Orrin
Haynes, former California convict
who surrendered yesterday after be-
ing sought three days, virtually was
eliminated as a suspect.
Thinks 2 Kidnapers Involved.
The physician significantly referred
In his statement to the kidnaper as
"this man and whoever his col.
league is" Once more this empha-
sized that more than one man was
being hunted for the crime.
He reiterated everything possible
was done to ransom the 10y and ex.
pressed belief the tragic end would
have been the same had the case
been handled differently.
"Is it possible" he asked, "thai
little Charles was sacrificed to fur.
ther stimulate previously enragec
public to the enactment of even more
drastic laws, both in the prevention
Of and the punishment Of this awfu
crime?
IF this Is true, we feel tha
Charles shall not have died in vain.
His remarks were made in a signet
(See KIDNAPPING. Page A-40
Evening star., 1937-01-17
.MATTSON Staying
BLAMED ON FEAR
Son "KneW Too Much" Says
Heart-Broken Father,
in Statement.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Chasing q rabbit, Gordon Nor
roU. 10, came upon the beaten,
frozen corpse OF Charles Mattson
in an isolated area near Euerett,
Wash. Find began widespread
hunt for kidnapers BY Federal
agents nasSed in Pacific North
uest. Ransom demand of $4,000
made in note dropped at Mattson
home neDer met, due to inability
OF family to make satisfactory ar
rangementS.
Identity OF kidnaperS belieued
still mystery NTH agents reuiewing
cases inpolUing degeneracy and
dementid.
Evening star., 1937-01-17

(See FLOODS, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-01-17

(See STRIKE, Page A-11.)
Evening star., 1937-01-17

(See KIDNAPPING, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1937-01-17

(See. MAPES, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-01-17

(See INAUGURAL, Page A-5J
Evening star., 1937-01-17

-. (see FEDERATION, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1937-01-17

(See SPAIN, Page A-12.)
Evening star., 1937-01-17

%. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Cloudy. followed by rain beginning late
this afternoon or tonight; warmer to-
night. tomorrow occasional rain and
warmer; gentle to moderate winds.
Full report on Page Ala.
Evening star., 1937-01-09
US. MAY TAKE Up
BILLION IN BONDS
Operation to End Period
of Demands on Money
Markets Seen.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
High administration fiscal officials
said today the Treasury may repur-
chase s1,000,0oo,O 900 of Government
obligations in the 1888 fiscal year If
the budget is balanced.
Even though no surplus were avail
able for debt retirement, they said,
this sum of Government bonds might
be acquired from private holders
through investments for social security
trust funds and by using receipts from
baby bond" sales.
Such an operation would end seven
years Of demands on the money mar
kets to finance Government deficits
and would tend to reduce the inn
portance of Federal financial opera
tions on money conditions.
The budget sets up $40. 100000 for
an old-age reserve account under the
social security act. Payments into an
unemployment reserve account total
ing about $3.50, 900. 900 also are antici-
pated in the next fiscal year from
States with approved unemployment
laws.
1t is not yet known what demands
will be made on these funds for dis
bursements under the security law,
but officials said a major portion of
both might be invested in Govern
ment securities.
These investments would be in
creased as the reserve funds grew in
future years. Informed administra-
ton sources have indicated, however,
the security act may be changed to
prevent the old-age reserve account
from growing to projected S47,000,-
10000 by 1880.
Sales Of United States Savings bonds
are expected to total between $400,-
10000 and $500, 100000 in the 1888
fiscal period. If the budget is bal
anced, this money will be available
for retiring other Government obliga-
tions.
None of the proposed transactions
(See BUDGET, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1937-01-09
Peiping Staying Of English Girl
Is Laid to Unkn0,un FOREIGNER

aminers, after an autopsy, announced
Miss Werner died of q fractured skull
resulting from a blow on the head.
She also had been assaulted, they
said.
British authorities conducted a pre-
hminary inquest to ascertain facts Of
the search for Miss Werner. A for
mai inquest was set for next week.
The girls widowed father was said
to have identified the remains merely
by murmuring, Eyes, that must have
been Pamela"
A strange accumulation of reported
facts clouded theory the girl was
the victim of robber. Her member
ship card In skating club was found,
blood stained. near the body. Expert
opinion suggested the blood was spet-
tered while the girl was alive.
The robbery theory was disputed,
however, by the reported discovery Of
q gold watch on the wrist Of the
mutilated corpse.
Evening star., 1937-01-09
FRANCE ORDERS 10000
ADDITIONAL TROOPS TO
BAR NAZIS IN MOROCCO
Inslrgent Bombs Kill -Four
In NIGHT Air Raid on Madrid
T,co British Subjects Injured as Diplo'
matte Headquarters of Three Nations
Are eStruck-U. S. Embassy Shaken.

government lines on the outskirts of
the capital.
The night raid damaged British and
German Embassies and the Finnish
Legation while almost every pane of
glass in the Dutch and Egyptian Le-
cations was shattered by the explo-
SionS.
Today's bombings were centered
about mile east Of the British En-
baSsy and followed four earlier at
tacks on fortified positions Of govern
ment militiamen.
Socialist defenders answered the
hail of steel with artillery fire and
government pilots blasted insurgent
positions near Casa de Campo Park
and Aravaca.
In desperate fighting, government
(See MADRID. Page A-3)
Evening star., 1937-01-09

Chairman Glass of the Senate APP
preparations Committee today de-
clared the Jacobs fiscal relations re-
port went beyond the functions in
tended by Congress when it authorized
the inquiry which resulted in the re-
port recommending the end of Fed.
eral lump-sum contribution to the
upkeep of the Capital City.
From what I have read of the re-
port" said Senator Glass, they seem
to have exceeded the proper functions
designed by the act Of Congress.
We simply asked for a report as to
what was, in their judgment, after
thorough investigation, fair proper.
ton Of the District expenses that
should be assumed by the Federal
Government.
we did not ask them to go into
the question of suffrage, either local
or general, or any kindred subject.
1t Is fair to assume that Congress
already knows as much. if not INF.
nitely more, than this commission
concerning matters Of that sort.
Il cannot speak for other members
of the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee, but for myself may say that
I shall want to analyze very carefully
the report of this commission before
advocating its approval by Congress"
Opposed Cut in Payment.
Senator Glass was one of the Sem
ate conferees who took firm stand
last year against the proposal then
made to cut the Federal payment
from $5,700,00 to $2,700,000. When
the Senate finally compromised on
$5 ,000,0 as the Federal lump sum
for this year, there was coupled with
it the provision authorizing the Presi.
dent to have the study made which
resulted in report sent to Congress
yesterday. In this report the lump
sum, as such, is Scrapped entirely
and formula laid down for measure
ing the value of services which either
the local or Federal government
renders to the other.
The effect of the formula for the
next fiscal year would be to eliminate
the Federal obligation entirely ana
merely have Federal agencies reim-
burse the District for any services it
renders. This Federal money coming
back to the District next year would
be even less than the S2,700,000 the
House proposed last year.
Figure May Be Revised.
Meanwhile it developed that the
$2,533,347 figure set up in the report as
the amount the District would be reim-
bursed by the Federal Government and
private citizens receiving special serv-
ices in the coming fiscal year probably
will be revised if Congress scraps the
present lump-sum payment and adopts
the proposed three-point formula.
j. L. Jacobs, Chicago efficiency en-
gineer and tax expert who directed
the fiscal relations study. admitted
that the $2,533,34 figure was arrived
(See FISCAL, Page Asp
Evening star., 1937-01-09
A. FL. UNITS Join
GENERAL MOTORS
TO FIGHT STRIKE
Two Departments of Union
Split With U. A. w. on
WaIk0ut.
GET PROMISE OF FIRM
ON EMPLOYE PACTS
Corporation Will Not Enter Into
Agreement Interfering With
Metal Trades Jurisdiction.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Late in December United Auto
mobile Workers OF America asked
conference Uith General Motors
Corp. to present grievances of en-
ployes and stipulated that corpora
ton should recognize U. A. M. A.
as sole collective bargaining agency
for tUorkerS. This General Motors
refused fatty to do. Union began
calling strikes in parts and as
Sembly plants OF corporation,
threatening general strike through
out firm. Strike has spread rapidly,
iUtth both sides deadlocked ouer
United Workers recognition and
Darying interpretations OF "collec-
the bargaining" The corporation
maintains it i0ill bargain in indt-
Uidunl plants and the union hold
ing it must bargain from head
quarters Uith q single labor
organization.
Evening star., 1937-01-09
Congress Merely Sought Re.
port on Fair Proportion
of Expenses.
ADVICE NOT WANTED
ON OTHER SUBJECTS
$2,533,347 Figure Probably Will
Be Revised if Formula
Is Adopted.
The Lump Sum
Not Reduced,
But Abolished

The fiscal relations formula
does not reduce the lump sum.
1t abolishes the lump sum.
The S2,533,347 estimated as
reimbursable to the District is
not a Federal payment. Part Of
it comes from increased assess
ments on local property owners.
Part of it comes from new fees
tuition and library, for non
residents using schools and
Libraries.
There is no more Federal pay
ment, as understood in the past.
All the cost of local maintenance
IS placed on local taxpayers
with incidental exceptions. The
accompanying story gives the
source Of some Of the items max
ing up the S2,533,347-mistakenl
regarded as a new and lower
lump sum.
Evening star., 1937-01-09
BY JOHN C. HENRY.

Two powerful departments of the
American Federation of Labor, those
of the metal and building trades, to-
day completed an alliance with Cen
eral Motors Corp. in opposition to
strike and organizing activities of the
United Automobile Workers, an affili-
ate of the Committee for Industrial
Organization.
This development was disclosed
formally this morning by John P.
Frey, president of the Metal Trades
department, with release of an ex-
change of kilograms between himself
and H. w. Anderson. labor relations
officer Of General Motors.
Taking the initiative, Frey. who
brought the insurrection charges
against c. I. o. unions which led to
their suspension last Summer, re-
quested the automobile corporation to
ENTER into no agreement which would
give to some other organization au-
thority to represent the skilled crafts
men in the metal working industries.
G. M. C. Not to Interfere"
In reply. he was assured today by
Anderson that General Motors has
no intention of entering into any
agreement with any other organization
interfering with legitimate Jurisdiction
OF international unions affiliated with
the metal trades department of
American Federation of Labor"
At the same time, Frey announced
that members of both departments,
forced out Of work by U. A. w. strike
activities in Fisher Body Co. plant
in Cleveland, Intend going to work"
The Fisher concern is part of the Gen.
eral Motors set-up.
The two departments, which, &C.
cording to Frey, are in complete accord
with the action disclosed today, num-
Der approximately $4,000 members in
various A. F. of L. unions, thus repre-
senting well over one-third of the A.
F. Of L. membership now in good
standing.
Lewis Foes Dominate.
With the metal unit headed by one
of the two bitterest enemies of John
L. Lewis, c. !. 0. chairman, the
building group is dominated by the
(See STRIKE, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-01-09
PRESIDENT AWAITS
C0URT'SATT|TUDE
Looks to High Tribunal and
Business for Aid to
Program.
z? the Associated Press.


President Roosevelt's strategy on
entering his second administration,
sources in touch with him understood
today, will be to give the Supreme
Court and business an opportunity
to follow the election returns" and
guide his course by the results.
Unless more liberal interpretations
of the Constitution are forthcoming
and business steps-up employment.
enlargement Of legislative powers may
be undertaken and budget balancing
will be deferred.
This was the consensus at the Cap
itol and among White House advisers,
on the basis Of the two blunt mes
sages Mr.. Roosevelt addressed to Con-
gress this week.
Democratic leaders expected him to
follow through in the inaugural ad.
dress January 20 as part of a program
to activate public opinion on the
wage and hour and unemployment
problems.
Breathless from The rush Of OPEN
ing developments, the Senate and
House welcomed recess today to
(See CONGRESS, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1937-01-09
SNOW AND COLD
CRIPPLE TRAFFIC.
Middle West and Rocky
Mountain Sections Hit.
Bus Unreported.
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, January 9-Virtually
all forms of transportation felt today
the pinch of adverse weather condi-
tions in most parts of the Nation.
Snow-clogged highways and bitter
cold brought motor traffic to stand
still in many Middle West and Rocky
Mountain sections.
Blizzards and fog disrupted air
weather slowed North Atlantic Coast
shipping. Train service was affected
in some Middle Western States.
A Los Angeles bound bus with IS
passengers was unreported in Utah's
snow.
Storms crippled power and COM
munications lines in Illinois. Wiscon-
sin and Missouri. Seventy-five per
cent Of Columbia, Mo-, homes were
dark last night. A hospital used emer-
gency lights for a major operation.
The Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
estimated its property damage in Mis-
souri, in excess of S1,000,000.
The deaths of at least II persons
were attributed to the weather. Four
were in Texas. one in Nebraska and
two each in Arizona, Utah and Okla
homa. Fear was felt for many ma
rooned by deep SHOWS.
Freezing temperatures blanketed the
West Coast and dipped into South
ern Texas. oregon reported minimum
temperatures of AZ below zero yes
terday.
Six-foot snow drifts proved i'm
movable barriers for some branch-line
trains in Northern Iowa. Buses oper-
ated without schedules and most rural
and some city-schools were closed.
Skiiers at California mountain re-
sorts welcomed 9-foot SHOWS.
Airports in New Jersey, Eastern
Pennsylvania and Ohio were closed
last night to regular traffic. Nearly 80
vessels waited for a lift in the fog to
permit traffic in the port of Philadel-
phia.
Evening star., 1937-01-09
HENRY c. HANF0RD
CLAIMED BY DEATH.
Assistant to Business Man.
ager of The Star Had Been
Sick Only 10 Days.

Henry Gardiner Hanford, assistant
to the business manager and assistant
auditor of The Star, died at his resi-
dence, 3706 Military road, last night
after a brief illness. Mr.. Hanford had
suffered an attack of the grip just be-
fore New Year; complications arose
and he failed to rally.
An employe of The Star since July,
1895, Mr.. Hanford had risen steadily
from the grade of assistant bookkeeper
and at the time of his death was an
executive of manifold duties. There
was scarcely an activity of the COM
pany or of its various beneficial funds
and plans in which he did not take q
responsible part. He enjoyed the
esteem and the trust of the officers and
stockholders to a remarkable extent.
His acquaintance with Washington
business and professional men was a
wide one and was both the cause and
the effect of his extraordinary
efficiency.
Born in Sterling, Va, June q,
1874, the son of Levi and Emma
Gardiner Hanford, Mr.. Hanford came
as youth to washington. where
he attended the old Washington
High School, now Central High.
Later he graduated from the Eaton,
Burnett and Durling Business Col
lege, at Twelfth and F streets,
and came to this newspaper when
just past his 21st birthday. AL
most Immediately he began to dis
play those qualities which led to
his advancement and to his ulti-
mate position with the company. He
had much to do with the problems
connected with the planning and
occupancy of the large annex. built
on Eleventh street in 1920, and re-
ceived special recognition therefor.
He was co-executor and co-trustee for
number of the owners of The Star,
now deceased. He was treasurer and
Evening star., 1937-01-09
FAR WEST COLD KILLS SIX.
Indian Baby and Youth Die-Utah's
Toll Is Two.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, January Six
deaths were blamed today on the Far
Vests severe cold wave as shivering
residents looked hopefully to a wealth.
er forecast for rising temperatures.
An Indian baby was frozen to death
near Keams Canyon in Arizona.
Discovery Of an Indian youths
frozen body As miles southeast of
Kingman, Ariz., was reported by an
Indian agency official Three others
were feared dead and 80 Indians were
marooned.
Utah's second victim of the cold
weather. Mrs. Mary Zagarich. 81, was
found frozen to death in a Salt Lake
cemetery.
Two Northern California deaths
previously were attributed to the ex-
treme cold.
Southern California orchardists
burned smudge pots to protect their
multimillion-dolla citrus crop from
low temperatures.
Ducks froze In ponds and had to be
chopped out.
Evening star., 1937-01-09
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TACOMA, Wash, January 9.-Dr
w. w. Mattson sought today to pre-
vent "hijacking" of the $4,000 ran
som demanded by the kidnaper of his
son Charles, 10, held for the thirteenth
day.
The physician disclosed fear he
might not actually be dealing with
his sons kidnaper by inserting an
advertisement in the Seattle Daily
Times yesterday imploring the ab-
ductor to give me information so
that I may guard against imposters
and hijackers"
The advertisement was addressed to
"Mable," as were four previous notes
which have appeared in the news
papers personal" column, and was
signed Ann"
1t said:
"Mable-we are still waiting. All
arrangements have been carried out
in accordance with instructions in
notes received. Be certain to give
me information so that I may guard
against imposters and hijackers, and
be more specific in your instructions
Ann"
Ransom Payment Doubted.
Reliable sources interpreted the ad-
vertisement to mean the ransom for
Charles release has not been paid,
though they speculated efforts to pay
1t may have been made.
One theory, supported by several
sources, was that Dr. Mattson made
an attempt to pay the ransom late
Thursday, but was unable to complete
the transaction.
The unconfirmed theory served as
one possible explanation for the sud-
den furry of activity by agents of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation here
yesterday.
The agents, who previously had
(See MATTSON Page A2N
Evening star., 1937-01-09
Trailer Camps
Are Prohibited
ByPaln, Beach
Ban in Society Mecca
Is Not General
in State.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, January o.
Although Palm Beach virtually had
barred its gates today against auto
mobile trailers, the tourist who drags
his home behind him found plenty of
welcome signs in other Florida cities.
Palm Beach. high society's Winter
mecca, enacted this week an ordinance
banning trailer camps as a public
nuisance.
The tourist who meets rebuff there,
however. may drive across Lake Worth
to West Palm Beach and find space
at two camps within the city limits.
Miami Beach forbids any one to live
in a trailer with law II years old.
Sarasota, Midwinter headquarters
for the Tin Can Tourists of the World,
has a municipal camp where more
than 500 trailers and house cars are
bivouacked.
Camps are barred in sections of
Miami and regulations govern those
in operation.
Evening star., 1937-01-09
BLACK LEGS AIM
TO SPUR SHIRKERS
Planned to Clean Up County in
Kentucky-1S of rs In
dicted Sought.
By the Associated Press.

.
PRESTONSBURG, KY, January 8.
A secret organization known in this
mountain region as the BLACK Legs" !"
of which 25 alleged members are under
indictment here for criminal syndi-
calism, had planned to clean up"
Magofin County and make men who
refused to work 60 to work." Common
wealth's Attorney Earl r. Cooper Of
Salyersville said today.
The indictments grew out of pur-
ported beating and robbery last April
Of a country storekeeper in Floyd
County, who, Commonwealth's At
torney o. c. Hall said, had criticized
activities Of the organization.
While authorities pressed search for
18 of the indicted men still at large,
action of the Floyd County grand
jury prompted mountainfolk, hereto
fore silent for fear of reprisals, to tell
officers of midnight fioggings of men
and women by a band of terroriStS
along the Magofin-Floyd County
border.
Cooper said the BLACK Legs" was an
offshoot of an unemployed mems
league organized in Magoffin County
about a year ago and functioned ap-
proximately ''two or three weeks"
Evening star., 1937-01-09
OFFICER KILLS MAN
IN 3O.MILE CHASE
Pursuit Over Two Counties Begins
With Attempt at Cross-Tie
Theft Arrest.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, January
"a 35-year-old man, identified by
his drivers permit as Leroy Stribling
of Midland, Va, was shot and in
stantly killed by Special Officer S.
Walker Burgess of Spotsylvania
County, late yesterday afternoon after
a 30-mile chase through two counties.
Pursuit began when Stribling wrested
free from the officer who had placed
him under arrest in the woods near
Four Mile Fork. Spotsylvania County,
where Stribling was loading allegedly
stolen railroad ties from cache to
his truck Stribling thwarted capture
on the spot. Burgess declared, by
climbing into the truck and locking
the doors.
Stribling started the engine and
sped away, with Burgess closely trail-
ing.
Running the truck up blind farm
lane on SINNERS neck, Caroline
County, about IL miles from here,
Stribling swung the big machine
around in an effort to retrace his
course to the Tidewater Trail. Bur-
CESS asserted Stribling made another
attempt to crash into his car in the
maneuver, forcing the officer to drive
into q wheat field.
Evening star., 1937-01-09
IS REPORTED
FURTHER IMPROVED
Infection Still Threatened-Right
Leg Is Growing More
Paralyzed.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, January 9.--Pope
Plus XI was reported today more
refreshed and free from pain than at
any other time since his illness began
because of his doctors concentration
on alleviating his local suffering.
Persons close to the rontiff, who
has been confined to his bed for
more than month, said, however, it
would now be almost impossible to
check his grave illness.
Open sores, 1t was said, caused by
the varicose veins in the holy fathers
partially paralyzed left leg, constantly
threatened serious infection.
His right leg was reported to be
growing more paralyzed daily and the
arterio sclerosis to be unimproved.
The localized treatment has brought
the Pope great relief, prelates said,
although the official report after DR..
Aminta Milani'S thorough examina-
tion this morning said there had been
no change in his general condition.
Despite some suffering from his
swollen legs, good nights sleep
again was reported for his holiness
last night.