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Evening star., 1937-03-31
ROBINSON ASSA|LS
COURT BILL CRITICS
Glass and McReynoIds Hit.
Roosevelt Asks Wage Law
Include Men, Children.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Robinson, the Democratic
leader, took the air last night in de-
fense of the Roosevelt court plan,
assailing Supreme Court Justice Nc
Reynolds and Senator Glass of Vir-
ginia for their recent attacks on the
proposal
The majority leaders speech was
broadcast shortly after President
Roosevelt had said minimum wage
legislation, in view Of the decision in
the Washington case, should cover
men as well as women and children
Should Attorney General Cummings
rule that the District minimum wage
statute, invalidated in the famous
Adkins case, is imperative, Congress
will be asked to enact another law ap-
plying to men as well as women, Mr.
Roosevelt added The Adkins case,
decided IA years ago, was overruled
by the Supreme Court Monday in its
Washington State decision.
Senator Robinson took issue with
Justice McReynolds on good sports
manship, contending the justice had
violated his own definition of that
term.
McReynolds, indirectly criticizing
(See JUDICIARY, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1937-03-31
Boston Coal Truck Driuers
Strike, Tying Up 40 Companies

Metropolitan Coal Co., said several OF
the larger companies, acting as a
group, had offered chauffeurs $35 and
helpers $31 a week, an increase of 81.
They also agreed to 4O-hour week
for five months and 48-hour week
for seven months.
He said the plants of the entire group
we're tied up, and other dealers ad-
mitted they were forced to suspend
operations.
approximately 100000 persons live
In Metropolitan Boston, the district In
which the strike was called. The
strike came with cool weather pre-
vailing, with temperatures dropping
below freezing point during the night
and early morning.
Normally at this time of year
householders begin restocking low sup
plies of fuel, while thousands OF
families using coke stock only small
supplies of that. In event the strike
extends several days, they might be
seriously affected
Evening star., 1937-03-31
WAGNER OUTLINES
'S|T-DOWN' VIEWS
Sees Them Result of En-
p|oyers' "VioIations' of
industrial Liberties.
BY JOHN c. HENRY.

Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New
York, co-author of the national labor
relations law, in his first formal COM
mitment on the sit-down strike, told
the Senate today ''the sit-doWn has
been used only in protest against re-
peated violations Of industrial lib
critics which Congress has recog-
nized."
This statement followed Wagner S
assertion that he advocated obedience
to law and court orders and decisions
by all people at all times
Leading up to his discussion OF the
sit-down strategy. Wagner charged
that the worker of today still secs
his fair share of the products of in
dustry denied him, as it has been in
the past, by the greed OF monopoly
capital. He finds his hours growing
longer while millions remain unefn-
ployed He visualizes the horrors
OF another depression brought on by
these distortions in our economy. He
observes his right to organize and
bargain collectively, his only saliva
ton in a modern economic world
trampled upon. Under these circum-
stances, strikes have occurred.
Sit-Down Technique.
In some OF these strikes the sit
down technique has evolved, as mass
picketing and other techniques evolved
in the past. Whether or not a par
ticular technique is wise or foolish as
matter of pure industrial policy is
not for me to say. What techniaues
will be approved by the law of the
future no man in the world can say
I believe that today every one should
obey the law Of today; and it is for
each jurisdiction to say what the
law is within its boundaries. ad-
vocate obedience to law and court
orders and decisions by all people,
everywhere, at all times.
But in the current situation these
all-important facts stand out above
all others: The sit-down has been
used only in protest against repeated
violations and industrial liberties
which Congress has recognized. The
sit-down, even in the few cases where
labor has used it effectively, has sue
(See PROBE page AL
Evening star., 1937-03-31
Missing Boy Scout Executive
Returns, Says He Vas Kidnapped

He said he walked about four hours
before reaching the gas company sta
tion
Sheriff Fox quoted Miller as saying
he believed the men had planned to
ask ransom from the Boy Scout Or
ganization, since they questioned him
about its finances and his standing
with the organization.
Several hundred searchers were
tramping the hills between Stafford
and Duncan, Ariz, determined but
losing hope in the week-long hunt,
when Miller appeared at Ell Paso.
It was the greatest manhunt In re-
cent Arizona history.
Among the searchers were Boy
Scouts congregated from over the
State to search for their lost leader, q
field executive recently assigned to the
Stafford area.
Also helping were National Guards
men, c. c. c. enrollees, Soil Conserva-
tion workers, peace officers and civil
lians. When the search was at its
height over the week end more than
1900 persons participated.
Last Wednesday morning Miller left
Stafford to meet his brother and superior
Scout executive, George Miller, in
Globe. IS miles west Of Stafford. He
was seen half hour later in Thatcher.
three miles east Of Stafford.
Then he disappeared. In less than
two hours his car was seen parked at
Duncan, ~ miles in the opposite d.
rection from his destination.
Evening star., 1937-03-31
BY the Associated Press.


Ell PASO, Tex, March 3l.-Robert
M. Miller. missing Stafford, Ariz., Boy
Scout executive walked into the Ell
Paso Natural Gas Co. control station
north of here early today.
He said he had been freed by kid
napers last night.
Fred Rosch, in charge Of the station
at Sunrise Acres, north of Ell Paso,
called the office Of Sheriff Chris Fox,
and deputies brought Miller to the
sheriffs on1ce.
Miller said that he was kidnapped
last Wednesday while on his way to
Globe, Ariz.. from Stafford.
Miller said he had been stopped by
q car which was across the road and
q man lay in front of the car as II
injured.
II stopped my car to give aid" he
said. THE man jumped up and hit
me. Two other men, hiding in the
car leaped out and knocked me out.
The next thing I knew I awoke in
their car"
Miller said that he had been kept in
custody Of the kidnapers until last
night when he was pushed out Of the
car on the desert.
Miller told the sheriff he was held
at an adobe house he believed was in
Ell Paso County, until last night. He
said the men then put him in an
auto, drove toward FL Paso and n
leased him.
Evening star., 1937-03-31
By the Associated Press.

BOSTON, March 31-A strike Of
1000 truck drivers and helpers today
tied up the operations of more than
40 Greater Boston fuel companies and
threatened to impair operation OF
private power plants generating elec-
tricity in some Of the city's large
buildings.
John F. Donovan, secretary Of the
Coaf and Fuel Chauheurs and Help
ers' Union, an afiliate of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, which called
the strike at midnight, said the union
would allow emergency deliveries to
hospitals and would be lenient where
the public safety or health" was in
volved.
Union employees, Donovan said, de-
manded a Is per cent wage increase.
II holidays q year, instead OF 7, with
pay, straight 40-hour week through
out the year in comparison with the
present 40 hours in Summer and 48
in Winter, and other concessions.
J. L. Johnson president Of the
Evening star., 1937-03-31
PLEA OF INNOCENT
MADE IN STABB|NG
Thomas Smith Denies Staying Of
Babcock Girl-Sanity Test
Is Considered.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
BUFFALO, N. Y, March 31.-Eight-
een-year- Thomas Smith pleaded
innocent today to a charge of murder
lng 18-year-old Mary Ellen Babcock,
and his attorneys saio they might ask
the court to appoint sanity commits
sion.
Smith appeared briefly in court
then was returned to jail to await q
hearing April IA.
His arraignment on a first-degree
murder charge took place "a hours
after announcement by Police Com
missioner James W. Higgins that
Smith had confessed the knife-slaying
OF Miss Babcock February s.
William ]. Flynn, one of Smiths
lawyers, said no request had been
made yet for = sanity examination,
but such . request was being con-
sidered.
I'VE have taken the position that
II he did the things 1t is claimed he
did, he Is suffering from some mental
trouble" Flynn said.
But We are not yet satisfied that
he did them"
Earlier today Smith was taken to
. hospital, where Frances Fitzgerald,
IA, lies with a wound in her back
Higgins said Smith had confessed
that he stabbed Frances with an Il
pick Sunday. =
Evening star., 1937-03-31

SUPREME COURT ISSUE.
Robinson defends court plan, assails
McReynolds and Glass. Page Al
Columnist sees dictator threat in court
packing Page Al
Henry ]. Allen and Senator Thomas
debate court issue. Page Al
STRIKE SITUATION.
Wagner sees sit-downs result of en-
ployers' violations" Page Al
Murphy forecasts long week end for
Lewis and Chrysler. Page Al
Rayon stay-in strike firm but friend
ly," says leader. Page Al
FOREIGN.
Forty Americans killed in Spanish
war. Page Al
Counter revolution in Morocco is
crushed, many executed. Page Al
Army forces dissolution of japanese
parliament. Page AS
NATIONAL.
Joseph Gedeon, father of artist model,
questioned in slayings. Page Al
Crowley urges that U. S. step out Of
lending business. Page Az
House committee rejects plan for loans
to farm tenants. Page AZ
Imitation greatest danger, Senator
Bailey asserts. Page Al
500, ,000, 900 crop insurance bill passed
by Senate Page Al
House member says U. s. judge got
$4,000 fee. Page As
Mine conference rushed Is old agree
ment nears end. Page AS
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Collins TO offer nine new D. c. tax bills
to raise $12,000, 900. Page Al
164, 900 benefit In District from social
security. Page Al
Three D. c. residents killed in traffic
accidents Page B-1
Girl, 10, held for shooting employer
in pay row. Page B-l
D. c. churches asked to ad drive for
"abls joblass." Page B-l
Evening star., 1937-03-31
Lincoln WidO1v
Expires at 90
At Home Here
Daughter-in-Law OF
EmancipatOr Vas
Married Here.

Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln, daugh-
ter law of a President, daughter of
a Senator and wife Of soldier and
statesman, died today at the age Of
80 in her Georgetown home, 30l4 N
street.
Born in Iowa City. Iowa. in Sep
tember, l846, the daughter of Senator
and Mrs James Harlan of Iowa, Mrs
Lincoln lived here for great many
years and was we'll known for her
philanthropies to various institutions.
Following the death of her husband
in 1926, she made it policy to turn
over to the Library Of Congress all
letters and papers of his father, Pres
ident Lincoln, in the interests Of
American history. During the last 10
(See LINCOLN, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1937-03-31
House Committee Aroused
Over Subgroup's "Usurpa.
ton" in Changes.
NEW LEvIES ON CARS,
INCOMES PROVIDED
Measures Would Yield Over IL
Million From Various Sources
to Meet Deficit.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Nine new tax revenue bills, eSti-
mated to yield more than $4,000, ,00C
from various sources in the District
will be introduced III the House today
by Chairman Collins of the Sub
committee on Appropriations which
drafted the 1898 District supply bill
One-half Of the $l2,0O0,0OO will be
needed to absorb an anticipated def
cit, since the appropriations carried
in the bill are s6,O0O,O00 in excess
Of the estimated revenue availability
in the coming fiscal year. The bal
ance, according to Collins, will be
set up as reserve, which may be
used to reduce the tax on real estate
in the 1899 fiscal year.
The tax bills will vitally affect
every wage Garner, automobile owner
and various types of business-utility
corporations. insurance companies,
theaters and other places of amuse-
ment and parking lot operators.
Revolt Seen on Reorganization.
Meanwhile, the House District Com
mittee, aroused over efforts of the
Appropriations Committee to usurp it's
authority in legislative matters by
arranging for drastic reorganization
OF certain municipal agencies and
services in the 1898 supply bill, ap-
peared on the verge of revolt.
Behind closed doors, the commit
tee informally discussed some Of the
legislative riders with which the sup
ply bill is loaded and finally decided
to hold special meeting at 1890
am tomorrow to determine a course
OF action.
Provisions in the supply bill for
transferring Gallinger Hospital and
the new tuberculosis Sanatorium at
Glenn Dale. Md, from supervision OF
the Board of Public Welfare to the
Health Department, and the proposed
shifting Of numerous Fairgrounds now
under control of the Playground De-
partment to the Community Center
Department of the public schools, were
understood to be the chief targets OF
attack. Miss Sibyl Baker, play.
grounds director, was closeted with
the committee during portion Of the
discussion
Determining Legislative Action.
IT the Appropriations Committee
can determine legislative action for
the District. it would appear that the
Legislative Committee is not neces-
sary," declared Chairman Norton.
the question we are concerned about
is whether our committee is to func-
tion in its own right, or to be sub
jected to the will of the Appropria-
tions Committee
Mrs. Norton pointed out she re-
Gently created a special subcommittee
to revive the study Of the Jacobs fiscal
relations plan, which the Appropria-
tions Committee discarded The new
subcommittee, however, has been in
structed to broaden the scope of the
study to include proposals for reor-
ganizing the District government in
the interest Of efficiency and economy.
Since the Appropriations Committee
has undertaken to make some of these
changes in the supply bill, Mrs Nor
ton said the special subcommittee may
as we'll be abolished.
Subject to Point of Order.
The legislative riders in the ap-
preparation bill-there are 81 alto
gether-are usually subject to point
(See COLLINS. Page A-6)
Evening star., 1937-03-31
MODELS FATHER
AGAIN QU|zzED IN
TRIPLE SLAY|NG
Joseph Gedeon and Three
Others in New Round
Up for Clues.
POINTS TO BE CLEARED
IN STORY OF PARENT
Fingerprints Found on Bedding
Tested by Experts-Former
Husband Is Witness.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
The bodies OF Veronica Gedeon,
artists model, 20, her mother, Mrs.
Mary Gedeon, 81, and Frank
BTnes, IS, roomer, ,Oere found
Easter afternoon in their New York
home, the two won,en stranoled
and the man hacked to death.
Suspects haze been questioned, but
none held, and police are depending
on fn0erprints to identify the
slayer.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 3l.-Joseph
Gedeon, scrawny father OF Veronica
"Ronnie" Gedeon and estranged hus-
band OF Mary Gedeon. both strangled
to death in the triple murders OF Beck
man Hill Easter Sunday, was brought
in for further questioning by police
today along with three other principal
characters in New York's strange mur-
der drama.
With District Attorney William c.
Dodge taking active charge Of ques-
tioning for the first time In a fresh
burst OF police activity, detectives
brought to the Fifty-first street sta
ion Robert Fowler, 25. who married
the gay art model when she was 16,
and Jean Carp, 20, a model and closest
friend of "Ronnie"
Also questioned again was Georges
(French) Gueret, former roomer In
the apartment where Ronnie and her
mother were strangled and another
roomer, Frank Byrnes, stabbed to
death some time early Sunday morn
ing. Gueret, released yesterday after
SO hours Of questioning as guest"
of the police, walked unescorted into
the station.
Points to Be Cleared.
Although denying that the case
had become "hot," Deputy Inspector
Francis j. Kear said there are Ger
tain points about Gedeon's story we
want him to clear up"
Crimson fingerprints with their
damning telltale record provided de-
tectives today with their first concrete
clue
When they match bloody smudges
on an apartment bed sheet with the
arches, loops and whorls on a mans
finger tips they hope to ascertain the
identity of the murderer.
In the flngerprint section at police
headquarters and in the bigger COL
lection of prints at the Department
of Justice in Washington, experts
classified and compared the stains
left on a sheet Of Miss Gedeons bed
with the digit records Of known GRIM
inals.
Habitue of Ball Rooms.
Shapely, good looking and described
by her own father as a trifer with
mems affections, she posed for artists
and photographers, illustrated with
her semi-nude figure blood and -tnun-
der detective stories and was habitue
of bars and ball rooms.
The f1ngerprints and other evidence
led detectives to conclude the killer
had taken his time in dispatching his
victims. He apparently spent several
hours in the Beekman Hill Apartment.
He carefully washed his hands, they
said, between the time he sank an in
(See FATHER, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1937-03-31
RACE BROADCAST
SERVICE REFUSED
Telephone Company Prom
ises Not to Aid TeIef|ash
Operators Again.

Dissemination Of race track informa-
ton to Washington gamblers will be
seriously impeded in the future by a
promise given today to United States
Attorney Leslie c. Garnett by the
Chesapeake 81 Potomac Telephone Co.
that it will not again provide service
for TelecaSt or Telef1ash broadcasterS
or other similar devices.
At the same time, it was learned
that the telephone company received
orders late yesterday from National
Telecast, Inc, to disconnnect all It's
sets, at one time estimated at about
$50 in number. The disconnections
started today.
The elaborate network of wires
covering the city by which race track
information was supplied to alleged
gambling establishments first was dis
closed by raid several weeks ago on
the National Telecast headquarters in
the Albee Building At that time,
William (Jewboy) Dietz and William
Cahil, said to be Dietz' partner in
operation of the information service.
WCiC AAS0OCO 01AO SAldl 6CO WAtAl SOAi
spiracy to violate the gambling laws.
80 Raids Followed.
Thirty-nine raids have followed,
with the arrest Of more than 100 per-
sons. 1t Is understood many will be
prosecuted as participants in the al
legged conspiracy said to involve Dietz
and Cahill.
Telecast served many legitimatp
gathering places, such as restaurants,
cocktail rooms and the like.
1t is the contention, however, OF po-
lice and Internal Revenue Bureau
agents, who listened over tapped wires
of the system for months, that Tele-
cast also provided the information
which enabled scores of gambling es-
Establishments to operate
Teleflash, which ceased operating
here several weeks ago, is said to be
subsidiary Of Nationwide News.
which handles racing news throughout
the country. Nationwide News, then
known as General News, moved out of
Washington in 1884, promising Gar
nett it would not again furnish track
information to gamblers in the Dis
trict.
Then TeleflaSh Comes In.
Within the past year, however,
Telefash set up operations in Wash
ington under the representation that
it would service only legitimate estab-
lishments. But recently the local
Teleflash manager, Leonard j. Ma
tusky, was arrested and charged with
conspiracy. At the same time Ma
tionwide News announced he had vio-
lated orders and was being discharged
Racing information dissemination
to gamblers reached the proportions
of an extensive and lucrative business
under Sam Beard, once king Of
Washington's gamblers Beard now
is serving prison term in the Federal
Penitentiary at Atlanta.
Police say Dietz set up his business
after Boards ring had been smashed
Evening star., 1937-03-31

strike remains unSettleG.
Chief cause of disagreement be-
tueen the motor nldonate and John
LeUis, labor leader, is reported to
be ouer recognition OF the United
Automobile Workers OF America as
sole bargaining agency for en-
ployes.
BY the Associated Press.
LANSING. Mich. March 3l.-Gov
Frank Murphy indicated today a long
week end may be in store for Walter
P. Chrysler, John L Lewis and other
negotiators who will resume efforts
Friday to settle the Chrysler automo-
bile strike.
Before leaving for Detroit, Murphy
announced he would return to the
State capital tomorrow and added:
I'VE probably will be here Friday
Saturday and Sunday"
When the conference trying to de-
termine the extent Of bargaining
recognition to be accorded the United
Automobile Workers in Chrysler
plants adjourned yesterday, the Gov
ernor said he would press day and
night. If necessary for speedy settle
ment when it resumed.
Delay in Farley Likely.
Although the next session is sched-
uled for Friday. Murphy said he ex-
pected it would be Saturday before
Chrysler, chairman of the board Of
the corporation, and Lewis head Of
the Committee for Industrial Organ
ization, get together again.
Donald E. Bates. president of the
REQ Motor Car Co. whose truck man
ufacturing plant here has been closed
since March 10 by sit-doWn strike,
expressed hope" today for an early
settlement of that dispute and pre-
dicted that automotive labor trouble
generally will result in lower margin
Of profit to manufacturers and a gen.
eral increase in costs Of all commod-
tiles
A sit-down strike halted operations
at the Bay City, Mich, plant of the
Plywood Corp. today. approximately
ITS workers awaited arrival of Kemp
Williams, c. l. o. organizer, to start
negotiations with the management on
wage demands.
Labor Bills Considered.
Meanwhile bills before the Michigan
Legislature moved into the spotlight
today. Only few doors from Gov,
Murphy's Office the Senate was ready
to vote on three measures intended to
curb sit-doWn strikes.
At the opposite end Of the capitol
another fight over a labor bill was
brewing in the House.
Two of the bills, introduced by
Senator William Palmer, Flint Demo-
crat, would make it felony to take
possession of industrial property OF
interfere with its use by the owners
and would make mandatory the nego-
tiation of disputes between employers
and employees before a strike or lock-
out
Evening star., 1937-03-31
u. S. BONDS RENEW
DOWNWARD DRIFT
Some Issues Off More Than Half
Point-Stock Market Is
Irregular.
BY the Associated Press


NEW YORK, March 31.-A decline
in United States Government bonds
in the New York Stock Exchange to-
day carried some issues lower in
moderate selling by as much as $6 or
more per 81 900 face value bond
Reports that the Treasury had re-
duced its available investment funds
in trust accounts to a small figure
and that main support of the bonds
would have to be through Reserve
bank buying were said to have con-
tributed to the slump. In early trad
ing 10 issues were quoted at new lows
for the year, several of them below
parity.
The stock market, after yesterdays
sharp upturn, was irregular, with steel,
motor and rail shares inclined to be
lower and oils and metals little
higher.
Cotton futures ranged from Is cents
a bale lower to As cents higher.
Evening star., 1937-03-31
ILL SAILOR RESCUED
Taken From Ship on Cutter te
Delaware HOSPITAL,

CAPE MAY, N. j., March 81 (P).-A
stricken member of the crew of the
S. S. Cherokee was transferred at sea
today to a Coast Guard cutter and
taken to Beebe Hospital, Lewes, Del.
Louis Forrest %, Jacksonville. Fla,
suffering from a stomach ailment, was
removed from the passenger craft
when his condition became grave.
The Cherokee, en- route from New
York to Miami, was 20 miles of Cape
May at the time of the transfer.
Evening star., 1937-03-31
40 Americans
Killed, 100 Hurt
In MSpanish Var
Casualties Reported
in Fighting on lara.
ma Front.
81 the Associated Press.

BY lne ASSOclRted Press.
VALENCIA, March 31.-Forty Amer
ican volunteers in the Spanish govern
ment's Lincoln brigade were reported
today killed, with 100 wounded, In
fighting on the Jarama front south OF
Madrid during the last two weeks Of
February.
A check-up disclosed the American
casualties had not been as great as at
first feared and several men who were
reported killed in action later were
discovered In hospitals.
Brigade officers said no authoritative
list of dead and injured had as yet
been compiled
Evening star., 1937-03-31
Liquor Bill Opposed.

AUGUSTA, Me, March 81 P.-
The Maine Legislatures Temperance
Committee today reported unfavorably
on a bill to repeal law prohibiting
sale of liquor to Indians. There are
two. two Indian tr6es on reservations in