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Evening star., 1938-02-17
tijuana SUSPECT
KILLED BY TROOPS
Soldier Accused in Death of
Girl, 8, Is Taken From
Jail and Slain.
fPictme on Page A-5.)


3, the Associated Press. ~ -sezs>es<a- ss- -
TIJUANA, Mexico, Feb. ia de-
tachment of 30 soldiers was reported
early today to have marched upon the
Tijuana Jail, seized former comrade,
Juan Castillo Morales, "a, accused as
the slayer of little Olga Conseulo
Comacho, 8. taken him to hilltop
cemetery and executed him with a
volley of rifle bullets.
Soldiers made the traditional Mexi-
can explanation that Morales was
shot while attempting to escape"
1t was a startling climax to four
days of wild excitement, rioting, burn
ing and bloodshed that followed the
ravishing and Staying of the little girl.
1t forestalled further disorders,
feared in connection with the funeral
today of Vidal Torres. Sc, who died
Tuesday night of a bullet wound re-
ceived in street fighting with Mexican
troops.
Justo Verduzco, warden of the
temporary Jail which was burned by a
mob Tuesday, was routed from bed at
4:3O am.
Morales has been sentenced to
DEATH a spokesman told him.
Then the 80 soldiers from the
Tijuana garrison marched to the Jail,
seized the prisoner and took him to
the old cemetery on the hill. There
was a volley of shots.
Evening star., 1938-02-17
Great Room Three Miles Long
Found Near Carlsbad Cauer1

seen, even by the aid of powerful
flashlights.
The party pushed slowly on for six
hours, covering an estimated 3 miles.
Only when the chamber made sharp
curve did they turn back, fearing they
might become lost.
Huge, snow-white stalagmites, larger
even than the 100-foot monoliths Of
Carlsbad Cavern. dotted the floor.
Ancient Indian pottery and the bones
of deer gave evidence the cave once
had been used for human occupancy.
Col. Thomas Boles, superintendent
of Carlsbad Cavern National Park, ex-
pressed great interest.
II believe the park service will de-
velop the new cave along with the old
one, if further explorations bear out
its promise" he said.
Tom Tucker, q sheep rancher,
stumbled onto the caves entrance, 700
feet up the steep side Of . mountain
and concealed by jutting rock.
Evening star., 1938-02-17
CAPITAL TRANSIT
FLOATS $1,O(O,ODO
EQUIPMENT LOAN
Money Borrowed From D. c.
Banks to Purchase New
Cars and Buses,
5.YEAR IMPROVEMENTS
NOW TOTAL S11,2O0,00O
Money Will Be Paid to the Ma.
tional Savings and Trust Co.
. as Trustee.

Washington banks have subscribed
to new sl,000,000 loan to the Cap.
ital Transit Co., to be used for pur-
chase of new equipment, it was
learned today.
The company applied to the Pub
lie Utilities Commission today for
approval of the loan of s99l 900
to be expended for so new stream.
lined street cars and % new buses.
The commission previously has indi-
Gated that it believed the company
should borrow money to improve its
equipment.
A year ago the Capital Transit Co.
borrowed sl,500.000 from group of
20 Washington banks for purchase Of
70 new buses and As new streamlined
street cars. which are now being op-
Grated on Fourteenth street.
The orders for the additional new
equipment were placed early in jan
uary, President Edwin D. Merrill said
today.
Previous Terms Arranged.
The new loan has been made on the
identical terms and secured in the
identical way as the loan negotiated
last year. The money will all be paid
to the National Savings e. Trust Co.
as trustee, the trust company taking
title to the equipment in its capacity
as trustee.
Title to the equipment will be held
until the loan has been paid off. Tven-
ty-flve per cent Of the loan, or S248. 900
will be repaid within five days from
the date of the loan and the remaining
rs per cent will be in the form of
five-year notes secured by the equip
ment purchased, bearing interest at
the rate of 4 per cent per annum.
The loan contract provides that the
Capital Transit Co. is to curtail these
notes by semi-annual payments of 10
per cent Of their face value beginning
January /, 1899. This means that 20
per cent of the loan will be paid Of
each year.
| This loan. like the one made last
year, offers an attractive form of in
vestment to local banking institutions,
bank officials said today At the same
time President Merrill announced that
the loan had been oversubscribed.
Bus Delivery in March.
President Merrill added that delivery
of the new buses will be made on
March Is and the first of the so new
street cars will begin arriving on July
l. They are to be put into service
Immediately.
The expenditure of the approx.
mately sl,000,000 at this time is re-
garded as rather substantial contri-
button toward recovery by Capital
Transit Co. officials. The new cars
and buses also will mean further i'm
provement in the transportation serv-
ice for the people of Washington.
The expenditure brings the total
outlay of the Capital Transit Co. since
the date of the merger on December
!, 1888. for improvement of its facih-
ties, to S11,200,000 This includes a
large amount of track work in addition
to the new cars and buses.
The 1891 900 loan was arranged
through the Office of Y. E. Booker e.
Co. investment banking firm. The
same firm arranged the 800, 900 loan
last year, President Merrill stated.
Evening star., 1938-02-17
DAvEY DEAL is LAID
TO GENERAL MOTORS
$4,000 Given Campaign Fund
for Half of States Business,
Salesman Testifes,
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Feb. l7-Lee Brad
ley, an asphalt salesman. testified to-
day General Motors Corp. had con-
tributed $4,000 to Gov. Martin L.
Davey's 1884 campaign fund with the
understanding the company would get
half the States motor business.
Bradley, witness before State Sem
ate committee, said Gov. Davey was
to receive half of Bradley's 1920 per
cent commissions from General
Motors.
Bradley testified this arrangement
was made at a conference in a New
York hotel attepded by Gov. Davey,
bradley and L. L. Tramper, whom
the witness described as a representa-
tive of General Motors.
What did you say?" asked James
Metzenbaum, committee counsel.
I'VE discussed the possibility of Gov.
Davey's being a candidate for Gov
ernor and if General Motors would
contribute to his campaign fund and
If they would favor General Motors
with purchases"
At Columbus Gov. Davey said:
These statements are slanderous
falsehoods. If he bradley dares
to make them outside the Senate COM
mittee where he is protected by i'm
munity, he will 60 to jail for criminal
libel"
Evening star., 1938-02-17
REVISE LABOR ACT,
ROOSEVELT ASKED
Business Council Asks Aid
to Let Employers Invoke
Board Services.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt was urged by a
Business Advisory Council Subcom-
mittee today to support council recon-
mendations for giving employers. as
we'll as employees, the right to invoke
the services of the Labor Relations
Board.
Other amendments to the Labor
Relations Act also were proposed in
one of two reports submitted to the
President on behalf of the councils
Industrial Relations Committee by
Charles r. Hook and John D. Big
gers, chairman and vice chairman, re-
spectively, of the committee.
Both reports had been approved
by the council unanimously.
The first report. approved April 5
1887, declared Federal and State legis.
htion should encourage peaceful set.
tlement of labor disputes. It added
that resort to force was Injurious
to all concerned.
The second report was approved
January 20, 1898. and contained the
following proposed amendments to the
Labor Relations Act:
Neither the act nor its administra-
tion will favor any particular form OF
any bona flde labor organization.
Employees shall be free in self-or-
ganizaIion and collective bargaining
from interference. restraint or CO.
prciOr1 from onV Sn1IrCo
ANY party to labor dispute shall
be able to invoke the services of the
board.
The functions of fact-finding
prosecution and judicial decision shall
be separated and not combined in a
single agency"
Evening star., 1938-02-17
LOST BOY, IL, FOUND
DEAD NEAR HAVEN
In Search Of Help for Sister and
Self, He Dies 100 Feet From
Lighted Mines.
Az the Associated Press,

By the Associated freSS.
P1TTSBURG, Kans., Feb. IL
Searchers found 12-year-old Bert Lee
Walker dead of exposure yesterday
only 100 feet from two brightly lighted
mines where he could have found a
haven for himself and his 8-year-old
sister, Vivian May.
Bert Lee and Vivian May became
lost on bicycle ride Sunday night.
Rescuers found Vivian May, on the
verge Of pneumonia, in field is miles
from home late Monday. Returned to
her parents. Mr.. and, Mrs. Bert Walker,
she incoherently told of vainly having
sought directions at two farm houses
Finally, Bert Lee had told Vivian to
remain in the field alone-"and don't
be scared of the dark"-while he
sought help.
That was the last any one saw Of
Bert Lee until his body vas discovered,
face down. in several inches Of water
In a drainage ditch.
Searchers-more than 200 citizens,
c. G. c. boys and miners who aban-
doned work to join in the hunt-sur-
missed Bert Lee had become exhausted
and had fallen into the ditch.
Evening star., 1938-02-17
-Four Scientists
To Stay on Floe
TMShipC0n,es
By the Associa ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCAW, Feb 17.-Soviet Rus
sia's four drifting scientists drank beer
and ate tangerines today and decided
to stay on their ice foe camp until the
breaker Taimyr reaches them. =.
Their first taste of the outside world
after more than eight months on the
foe came yesterday when two airplanes
landed from nearby rescue ships of
the Greenland coast and delivered a
half dozen bottles of beer and bag OF
tangerines.
Ivan Papanin. the camps com
mander, sent word back to Alexei Os-
taltseff, chief of the rescuers aboard
the icebreaker Taimyr. that he wanted
to move out all the scientific equip.
ment the party used in polar weather
observations before quitting the camp
1t was expected, however, that they
would be taken of soon.
Ostaltseff radioed to Moscow that hi
was confident the Taimyr would sue,
ceed in plowing its way up to the camp
The greatest obstacle. he said, was
miles OF thick pack ice about the ex
plorers' fos. =
Evening star., 1938-02-17
RENO GAMBLERS GET
9.YEAR SENTENCES
Graham and Mckay Also Fined
$1,000 Each for Mail Fraud
and Conspiracy.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Feb. 17.-William ].
Graham and James c. Mckay, promi-
nent Reno gamblers. today were SEN
fenced to nine years Imprisonment
for mail fraud and conspiracy in q
s2.500000 Nationwide swindling
ring. They were fined $1,000 each.
The two gamblers were sentenced
to serve five years each on the first
count in the mail fraud Indictment,
one year on the second and one year
on the third In addition. each re-
ceived two years on the conspiracy
charge. the sentences to run con-
secutively.
They were fined $1,000 each on the
first count of the mail fraud in
dictment and $4,000 each on the con-
spiracy charge
Justice Willis Van Devanter gave
them 20 days to go to Reno under
$4,000 bal! each and settle their bus
mess affairs there
Boies Heed of Phoenix, Ariz., third
defendant in the case, was sentenced
to five years Imprisonment and was
fined $500. Allen Conner of Sioux
City. Iowa, fourth convicted swindler,
was sentenced to five years impris-
onment and fined $780,.
Evening star., 1938-02-17
PRESIDENT GETS
KENNEDY ATTACK
ON PRICE OF SHIPS
Letter Warns Excessive"
Costs Threaten Whole
Merchant Program.
FIGURES NOT JUSTIFIED
BY COSTS, HE CONTENDS
Five Alternatives Cited-Private
Industry Held Unable to
Meet Situation.

Joseph P. Kennedy, retiring chair
man of the Maritime Commission,
threw parting shot into the troubled
merchant marine picture today in a
letter to President Roosevelt warning
that excessive" ship building prices
threaten to balk" the entire program
of rejuvenating the industry.
The contents of Mr. Kennedy's letter
were outlined by Chairman Copeland
of the Senate Commerce Committee
as that group completed hearings on
the maritime labor controversy.
Citing bids received by the COM
mission for II cargo vessels, MIR.
Kennedy termed all but two excessive
and added that unless ship building
costs can be brought far below those
cited. there will be no American
merchant marine worthy Of the
name The bids ranged from ST.
S56,000 to S3,40O,00O. prices at which
private industry cannot afford to build
even with Government subsidy, the
commission official said.
Without attempting to explain why
the figures were at such an exorbitant
level, Mr.. Kennedy pointed out that
neither prices of materials nor wages
justify the bids received.
Five alternatives are available. he
said. as follows:
Cd Pay the prices: (2) build in
Navy yards; go rehabilitate private
building facilities; "a permit Ameri-
can operators to build abroad: 80
authorize the commission to build the
ships.
Citing objections to all, he made
no recommendation as to which
should be chosen as least evil.
Evening star., 1938-02-17
COAL PRICE-FIXING
ENJOINED IN ILLINOIS
Certain Parts of National Com.
mission Order on Railroad Fuel
Are Held Up for Time.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Feb 1.-THE United
States Circuit Court of Appeals en-
joined the National Bituminous Coal
Commission today from enforcing GER
tain parts of its price-fixing order on
railroad locomotive fuel.
The temporary injunction was asked
by seven coal companies claiming to
have an investment of $23l00,000 in
Illinois and Indiana. They attacked
the price schedules as 'confiscatory"
and asked that general price schedules
be vacated or that that section apply
ing to Illinois and Indiana prices on
locomotive fuel be set aside.
In asking relief, the companies
termed the prices discriminatory, espe-
cially since no allowance had been
made for differentials in the grades
of coal mined in Southern Illinois and
other Illinois and Indiana districts
The injunction was issued by Judge
Evan A. Evans, Will M. Sparks and J.
Earl Major. The court heard argu-
ments last week.
Evening star., 1938-02-17

ate of the Committee for Industrial
Organization, spoke with contempt of
shipowners and red-baiters alike, and
also excoriated Joseph P. Ryan. presi-
dent of the rival East Coast longshore-
mems affiliate of the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
Suit is being brought against Mr..
Ryan, the sailor disclosed, for i'm
pugning the character of the N. M. U.
and slandering Mr.. Curran personally
in previous testimony before the COM
mittee.
In refutation of testimony by Mr..
,See MARITIME. PAGE A-5)
Evening star., 1938-02-17
T0DOUBLE
RELIEF SEEN DUE
Senate Body Calls Williams
to Explain Need for w.
P. A. Fund Boost.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Administration hopes tor a sharp
reduction in relief expenditures ran
atoul OF mounting unemployment
resulting from the unforeseen are
cession." Instead OF the expected
absorption OF unemployed by indus
try, thousands ,uere throun out OF
uork and on relief. The desperate
plight OF these needy ones led Pres
ident Roosevelt to abandon re-
trenchment in relief program and
recommend emergency appropria-
ton of s250,000, 900.
By the Associated Press.
Senator Frazier. Republican, Of
North Dakota predicted today an effor,
would be made in a Senate Appro-
priations Subcommittee to double the
s250,000.000 emergency relief appro-
priation
The committee called Aubrey Viii.
liams, acting Works Progress Admin
istration director, before it this after.
noon to explain the need for the re-
quested increase in w. P. A. funds
voted yesterday by the House.
The House, meanwhile, commenced
debate on sl3O,07l, los appropriation
to run the State, Justice, Commerce
and Tabor Departments during the
fiscal year beginning July l.
Report Likely Tomorrow.
On the Senate side, Chairman Ad-
ans said the Relief Appropriations
Subcommittee would complete hear
ings on the S250,0O0 900 measure
either late today or early tomorrow
and that it could be reported to the
Senate tomorrow. This would pre-
clude Senate consideration until Mon
day, lending weight to talk of week
end recess today.
Senator Frazier said drought con-
ditions in the Plains States had made
relief demands there acute. He said
he understood there was strong sup
port" for move to increase the
emergency appropriation.
Some opposition has developed to
the emergency appropriation, Senator
Adams said, but he predicted that
there would be little change in the bill
as it passed the House.
The House approved the fund last
night by the top-heavy vote of 352
to %. All efforts to make major
changes in the measure were over
ridden. Only one amendment, barring
relief to aliens temporarily in this
country, was authorized.
May Oppose Interruption.
While the relief measure pointed
toward Senate action, leaders of the
Southern fllibuster against the anti
lynching bill indicated they would op-
pose a temporary interruption to de-
bate relief. Instead. they want the
Senate by majority vote to lay aside
the anti-lynching bill for the remain
der of the session.
Although sponsors declared they
would continue efforts to vote on the
anti-lynching bill, they were disheart-
ened by defeat yesterday of their mo.
ton to limit debate.
The House killed, 189 to II, a pro.
posal by Representative Voorhis, Dem.
ocrat, Of California to increase thu
relief appropriation to $400, 0,00o, 900.
The Works Progress Administrat ton
IC.n pET TTE D. 2
Evening star., 1938-02-17
Nv the Associated Press.

CARLSBAD, N. Mex, Feb. IT,
Discovery of a magnificent limestone
cavern, with one vaulted chamber
more than 3 miles long, was reported
here today.
The great cave, said r. P. Burnet,
curator of the Carlsbad Museum. out
rivals in beauty the famed Carlsbad
Cavern nearby and may be the largest
in the world.
Carlsbad Cavern and another near
Mexico City now vie for the title Of
the worlds biggest "hole in the
ground" Neither has beeen explored
thoroughly.
Burnet led a small party of ex-
plorers through the tiny, hidden en-
trance, deep in the Guadalupe Noun
tains of Southern New Mexico, u
miles south of Carlsbad Cavern. They
found themselves in an immense un-
derRround room, TOO feet wide and
with q ceiling 20 high it could not b
Evening star., 1938-02-17
POISON limited IN DEATH
OF LEON TROTzKY'S SON
Leon Sedof, SO, Died Yesterday in
Paris Hospital-Peritonitis
Autopsy Verdict.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS. Feb. 17.-An onicial in
vestigation was ordered today into
the death of Leon Sedoff, 32-year-old
son OF Leon Trotzky, to determine
whether poison was q cause Of death.
Sedof died yesterday in a Paris
hospital after a weeks illness. A
police surgeon who performed an au-
topsy said death resulted from intes-
tinal perforations due to peritonitis.
On the insistence Of friends and
relatives. however, police decided to
submit vital organs to genealogical
examination.
Sedon was named, together with his
father, in the Moscow treason trial
Of January, 1887. as q conspirator
against the Soviet state. Trotzky Is
now IN exile near Mexico City.
Evening star., 1938-02-17
TORNADO HITS TOWN
Nine Hurt as West Texas Twiste1
Smashes Buildings.

MERTON, Tex, Feb. II R.-A
twister swept the business district and
part of the residential section of this
small, West Texas town early today.
Nine persons were injured
officers and volunteer workers from
San Angelo dug through twisted debris
at daylight searching for other vic
tins of the wind which struck this
Irion County town at 1925 am. Cen
tral standard time).
Half a dozen buildings on the north
side of Main street were demolished.
The windstorm was followed by driv-
ing rain.
Evening star., 1938-02-17
NAVY YARDS HELD
LACKING FACILITIES
Admiral Du Bose Testifies
Equipment Needed for
Ship Program.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
President RooseUelt's request for
100000 900 for Ndual expansion
,Uds made in the face of q QroUing
menace from the Far East and Eu-
rope and onlens OF an arms race.
Reports hare been current that
Japan is planning to build battle
ships IN eIcess OF the 35,O0O-ton
treaty limit and to thus upset the
5-5-3 ratio. Toxic won't say.
BY the Associated Press
The Navy's chief constructor told
the House Naval Committee today ad.
ditional facilities would have to be
provided at every Navy yard to permit
expeditions construction Of the pro.
posed s800,oOO,OOO naval expansion
program.
Rear Admiral William G. Du Bos,
explained the facilities needed woult
include new ways and other equip.
ment. He urged the bill be amended
to give the department authority tc
put the yards in shape to handle the
work.
Representative McGrath, Democrat
Of California asked if Admiral Du
Bose would recommend that the Gov
ernment provide funds to improve
private ship yards at the same time,
because the bill stipulates that half
Of the Al warships and % auxiliary
vessels be built in Navy yards and the
remainder in private yards.
To Hear Opponents.
The admiral said he would leave
that question to Congress. but said his
amendment was broad enough to cover
both types of yards.
Admiral Du Bose began his testi-
mony after the committee spent al
most two hours in stormy debate over
a proposal to end opposition testimony
on the bill.
The committee voted, II to 3, to set
aside two more days for opposition
witnesses and voted specifically to hear
DR.. Mauritz Hallgren, Baltimore edi-
torial writer; Benjamin P. Marsh OF
the Peoples Lobby, DR.. Thomas Healey
Boake Carter. radio commentator, and
Lester P. Barlow, Stamford Conn. }
inventor
The committee voted for further
hearings after members became en-
broiled in bitter debate over a pro-
posal to terminate opposition testi-
mony.
Representative Brewster, Repub-
ican, Of Maine engaged in several
&C.. DrnaArcr - a = -.
Evening star., 1938-02-17
By JOHN C. HENRY.

BY JOHN c. HENRY.
~ ENYING any affiliation with
the Communist party, Joseph
Curran. husky sailor president
of the National Maritime
Union, told the Senate Commerce
Committee today that unless this con-
tinual branding of every worker as a
Red and Communist for having the
courage to demand decent living and
working conditions. is not stopped and
legislation is enacted designed to pro-
tect the constitutional rights of organ
lied labor, We are not going to help this
country maintain its democracy"
Mr.. Curran, whose union is an affili-
Evening star., 1938-02-17
Rumania Curtails Politics.

BUCHAREST, Feb. II P).-Ru-
mania's reorganized government today
decreed sharp curtailment of politi-
cal activity. The order forbade meet
ings, and group singing of songs with
political themes. Public employees
were required to resign from plitical
parties within seven days or forfeit
Jobs and pensions.
Evening star., 1938-02-17
FRESH FOOD IS FLOWN
TO SNOWBOUND TOWN
Tahoe City Had Ample Canned
Goods, But Horse Was Killed
for It's Meat.

TAHOE CITY, Calf. Feb. H.
Tahoe City's 400 snowbound men.
women and children feasted today on
fresh vegetables and meat. flown from
San Francisco to relieve diet of
canned goods and, in the case Of at
least one man, horseflesh.
Five hundred pounds of foodstuf
were dropped on the golf course Ia
night from a plane after nr
sponsored by San Francisco ne
paper.
There was plenty of canned
but Carl Bechtold, inn proprietor
horse had been killed for its
Snow-20 feet deep in some PHI
has closed roads leading init
Tahoe district 10 Of the past
Evening star., 1938-02-17
More Than Score Are Missing in

MOre Than Score Are MISSING in
japanese Storm.
TOXIC, Feb. II (R.-At least five
persons were killed and more than q
score were missing today as a result
of violent winds and SHOWS that swept
Japan. Many were buried under deep
snow.
Rescuers were reported to have ex-
tricated 300 persons from under feet
of snow in Kanazawa Prefecture In
the northwest Of Honshu, Japan's
main island.
Evening star., 1938-02-17
FORD PLANT SHUTS
st. Louis Unit Will Reopen in
Seven Days.

ST. LOUIS Feb. II (P.-The Ford
Motor Cos St Louis assembly plant
employing about $50 production work.
ers, was closed today for the third
time within three weeks because OF
what officials said was heavy slump
in the sale of new automobiles.
Milton N Johnson, manager, stated
the plant would resume operations
February %. the shutdown being
effective for seven operating days. The
plant has been turning out less than
half its capacity of 1875 cars daily since
production Of 1888 models began in
November