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The Washington times., 1938-03-02
Detroit Faces
Transport Strike

DETROIT. March 2 1NS).
The Motor City faces a possible
transportation strike at midnight
tonight as street railway motor
men and conductors met to vote
on the demand of a strong group
of D. S. R. workers that a strike
be called in protest against the
failure of the city to put into ef.
feet the seniority system twice
approved in city elections.
The Washington times., 1938-03-02

General Pershing's temper.
ature is normal and he has been
taking food and fluids through
out the day. The absence of
any relapse is a favorable sign"
DR.. Dawson revealed that Gen
eral Pershing has been eating
cereal and cruel and said, ulti-
mate recovery depended entirely
on General Pershing's heart.
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
Japanese Limit
Gasoline Sales

TOKYO, March 2 QN.s0.-In
a drive to reduce wartime con-
sumption by 20 per cent, the Jap
anese ministry of commerce and
industry decided today TO place
sales of gasoline and oil under
license. Sales will be permitted
only to holders Of tickets issued
by authorities.
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
Value of Won Blau Trial
To Citizenship Is Lauded

developments in this sensational
murder case.
With the radio audience taken
right inside the grand jury room
ano given an opportunity to see
how the law is really enforced.
the production was praised by Of
Continued on Page s, Col. u
The Washington times., 1938-03-02

Lawyers, jurists and public Of
ficials today praised the radio
of the grand jury
Investigation of Baron Won Blau.
Tonight, at $50 o'clock, the
third session Of the radio grand
Jury will be heard over Station
VOL, bringing new and thrilling
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
Removes
Duty From Corn

MEXICO CITY, March 2
G.N.S).-The Mexican govern
ment today authorized free i'm
portation of corn for the present
year In order to forestall shortage
in some regions where the crop
has failed.
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
Navy Yard Blaze
Quickly Checked

A small fire in the planning
shop of the Navy Yard sent fire
apparatus to the yard shortly
before noon today, but the
naval fire-fighting apparatus had
checked the blaze before the
arrival of the engines. Damage
was nominal.
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
Col. House, Wilson
Aide, Improves

NEW YORK, March 2 G.N.S).
Col. Edward M. House, President
Woodrow Wilson's wartime ad-
wiser, was reported at his home
here today as feeling better"
He has been i'll of pleurisy. Col
onel House is 70 years old.
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
Glass Backs Bank
Holding Co. Bill

G.N.SO Senator Carter Glass
CD of Virginia, introduced in
the Senate today a bill to freeze"
bank holding companies at their
current field of operation, with
provisions for more rigid Federal
regulation,
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
TREASURY CONDITION

Q.N.S.) Treasury balance as
Of February 28-$2,974, ,677, 800. 80.
Internal revenue, $6,828,347.65;
customs receipts, $24, ,203, ,2S7.2 81;
receipts, So, $3.50, 1884, ,765; expendl-
lures, $4,913, ,483 ,25O.
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
ToDAY's SCRATCHES
SANTA ANITA

SANTA ANITA
FIRST RACE-Apollo.
FOUR RACE E-Plum Elected,
;plashalong, Easter Tommy.
EIGHTH RACE-My Boss.
Weather, raining; track, slow.
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
CRASH FEARED
AS WIDE HUNT
PROVES FUTILE
2 Women on List
OF Passengers

BURBANK, Calf, March =
GN.S0 S0.-Balked by driving rain
fall, searching crews plodded slow
ly over unbeaten paths and noun
tain trails in the rugged Teha.
chapi Mountains between Fresno
and Bakersfield today in search Of
a missing TWA luxury passenger
plane, feared to have crashed with
nine persons aboard.
Six Of the nine were passengers;
three made up the crew of the big
$125 900 sleeper plane.
FRESNO SEARCH BASE
Fresno has been established as
the search base in the belief Of
TWA officials that the plane was
forced down or crashed in that
vicinity rather than farther south.
Fresno is ITS miles southeast Of
San Francisco and about 800 miles
north Of Burbank, site of the Los
Angeles Union Air Terminal.
One large searching crew left
Fresno at daybreak and began q
search on foot about 80 miles east
of the city.
Another was to start shortly,
and as soon as weather conditions
permit airplanes will be used In
an effort to locate the missing
plane, last reported at 9:16 o'clock
last night.
STORM BLAMED
Piloted by John D. Graves, the
big plane was one of a fleet Of
sleeper air liners. It was believed
that Pilot Graves ran into storm
difficulties over the Tehachapi
range and decided to turn back
to Bakersfield.
The plane was reported sighted
at $40, four minutes after Graves
had radioed his position to the
Burbank airport.
PLENTY OF FUEL
When it left San Francisco, it
carried 500 gallons of fuel, suftt.
cient to keep it aloft until ap.
proximately a. m. Up. S. To
today.
Search for the plane, which was
being directed by Jack Frye, preSf-
dent Of TWA, en- route here from
Boulder City, New, was begun
under extremely adverse condi.
tions.
Torrential rainfalls whipped the
San Joaquin Valley, while in the
higher regions of the TenachapiS.
where it was feared the plane may
have crashed, snow was reported
falling.
HOPES DIMMED
At $50 a. m. (P.S.T), IL hours
after the plane left San Francisco
and slightly less than nine hours
after it was last heard from, air.
port officials advised that no trace
of it had been found.
Those aboard the plane were:
Pilot John Graves, PaIO Alto.
COpiIOt c. w. Wallace, Of
Tucson, Ariz., temporarily sta.
toned in California from his
regular Kansas City base. .....
Hostess Martha Wilson, Of
Philadelphia.
J. Tracy DirIam, 21, Stanford
University senior. and his sis
ter, Miss Mary Lou, 19, a junior
(COnfinued mn PAGE . Col a
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
RELIEF PROBLEM

Senator Elmer Thomas CD of
Oklahoma, chairman of the sub
committee, indicated as its mem
bers went into its final session
that the school system would get
everything recommended by the
Budget Bureau including appro-
priations for additional teachers
and new buildings.
The House cut $685., ,O06 from the
1899 budget estimates for schools.
With civic organizations land
other local groups in conflict over
solutions for the health, relief and
welfare problems Of the District,
the committee threw up it's hands
and all but swept the deck clean
of innovations introduced by the
House.
CHANGES REJECTED
Proposed changes in the Dis
trict Setup are understood today
to have been rejected by the Sen
ate committee, including the plan
to set UP Homeopathic Hospital
as health center auxiliary; abol.
ish the Children'S Receiving Home
and move the occupants of the
National Training School for Girls
to Occoquan, Va, and the pro-
posed transfer through the Com
Center Department of the
school system of Fairgrounds now
under the Fairgrounds depart
ment of the District Government.
If sustained by the Senate when
the bill is reported, all of these
proposals, with the increase in
school appropriations, will be
thrown into conference between
the Senate and House for final
compromises.
Relief appropriations for the
year remain at 100000 in both
the Senate and House bills, but
are backed up by a provision ap-
propriating funds for an investi-
CATION of relief needs in the Dis
trict. The House provided IS. 900
for this purpose and the Senate
committee has increased this to
$500, with the understanding if |
additional funds are found neces-
sary they will be provided.
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
Break Near in Case
OF Missing N. Y. Boy
G-Men Pay Mystery Midnight Call to Home
Of Peter Levine, Gone FiUe Days

NEW ROCHELLE N. Y, March (I.N,S) )-Search for 12-
yearod Peter Levine wdened today and appeared that
break in the case expected
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
SENATE GROUP
FORBIGGERD.C.'
SCHOOL FUNDS
Budget Figure Due
For Approval

Washington's public schools
seemed likely to get the big break
in 1899 District appropriations to-
day as the Senate Appropriations
Subcommittee gave the annual
supply bill it's final touches before
it to the Senate.
Decisions on the Dupont and
Thomas Circles underpass were to
be reached this afternoon. These
projects, together with the queS-
ton of repairing the old Pennsyl-
vania Avenue Southeast bridge Or
building a new one, we're the only
problems remaining before, the
committee.
The Washington times., 1938-03-02

Fair today, slightly warmer; rain to-
morrow, colder at night "Details on
Page 81.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-03

1 Do you recall directing Miss Mar tin in December of 1897 to purchase and have engraved with certain initials two gold keys-keys which you selected from whole lot brought for your approval?" he asked. Miss Simon said yes.
 And didn't you instruct Miss Martin to cable Paris for gold watch in the shape of golf bail, and didn't you have the same initials engraved on this, and didn't you give it to the same persona" Miss Simon admitted this, and also that she later bought pair of gold back hair brushes.
 The hair brushes were engraved with the same initials as the keys, were they not, and that time in your own handwriting?" "Yes."
 And you did give the two gold keys to your home and the other gifts to the person whose initials were engraved on them?"
 Miss Simon pouted little, then replied with another weak "yes".
 And did you also tell Miss Mar tn," asked Simpson, ito buy a dressing gown for $l80, also some pajamas and slippers? And weren't they also gifts for the same per- son?"
 "Yes, but took the paiamas back"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-03
Sin1one Simon Two Gold
 Keys Excite Screen Colony

Hollywood, May 3.-(UP)-The identity of the holder of two gold en keys to Simone Simon's front door set the screen colony to guess ing today. The French star stirred interest in the question by her con- versation with reporters as she left the courtroom yesterday after an appearance at the hearing of her former secretary, Sandra Mlrtin, whom she had charged with theft. "Wouldn't you like to know?" she answered a question. Well, you never will" She tripped out of court and her former secretary went back to jail.
 Miss Simon gave two golden keys to her friends as Christmas pres ent, she admitted. The questioning did not reveal the identity of the friend. Whoever he or she was, the friend also received 8 dressing gown worth $180, slippers, and a gold watch shaped like a golf ball. It came out when she was cross examined by lawyers for Miss Mar tin, who is accused of appropriating k23,00O from her employers bank account. Miss Martin was bound over for superior court trial.
 Attorney William E. Simpson, at tempted to show that Miss Simon's bank balance shrinkage had been que to her own extravagance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-03
Gaelic Scholar WiU Be President or Fire

friend, to heaven with Ireland"
 He will be installed in office as quickly as possible after his "elec- tion," taking his oath in the pres ence of both houses of parliament and supreme court judges.
 The selection of Protestant for such a high office, was believed to be a gesture to Protestant Ulster (northern Ireland) which Prime Minister Ramon De Valera hopes to incorporate into a united Ireland.
 What He Can Do
 Under the constitution, the presi- dent may not hold office for more than two seven-year terms, has the right to appoint the prime minister, summon and dissolve parlis ment on the prime minister's advice and IS commander n-chief of the armed forces. He Is forbidden to leave Fire without the governments consent.
 Hyde was born in 1860, the son of country clergyman. He toured the United States in 1905-1906. He is re- garded as the greatest living Gaelic authority and one of the greatest living Irish scholars and authors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-03
ARRESTS COMING
 IN MERRITT CASE

Bridgeport. Conn.,, May 3-(UP)- Arrests resulting from the indict ment by the extraordinary Merritt Parkway grand jury of an unnamed number of persons in connection with state land deals, were expected this week, according to available information today.
 The indictments were handed up last Thursday but the names were not disclosed because some of the persons lived outside the state and time was needed to prepare neceS- sary papers for their return here for trial
 The out-of-Stat warrants were dispatched yesterday by registered mail, it was understood, and arrests in this state will be made when other services are completed.
 It has been reported from six to eight true bills were returned by the jury which was recessed inde- finitely after deliberating the land transactions since Jan. 25.
 Three other persons were indicted in March and will be tried the June term of criminal superior court on charges of common law conspiracy to split approximately $86,000 in commissions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-03
Market Opens Better
 With Steadier Tone
Volume Continued Ight-Technical Recovery Seems
 Due-Traders, However, Are Still Cautious

ctr four sessions of decline that re- duced the industrial average more than 5> points. Volume continued light. Bonds firmed. Cotton tu- lures lost 2 to II points.
 Some commentators believed technical recovery was due after the recent decline. Traders, however, continued cautious about making new commitments and dealings dragged along.
 Price changes were fractional with few more advances than de- clines. A sizeable group was un- changed. Aviation shares were in favor at small advances Oils were steady. Steels eased small amounts and then recovered. Rails were dull.
 U S. Steel was at Al 34 off 1-2 and eBthlehem A 5-8 off 5-8. Both firmed later. Anaconda and Ameri- can Smelling lost small amounts. International Nickel rose 5-8 to A 3-4 on 1000 shares.
 Chrysler opeend at 39 3-8 off 1-8 and then turned the loss into a gain. Glenn Martin and Curtiss- Wright A led the aviations higher. Small gains were noted in Montgom- cry Ward, Standard of New Jersey and General Motors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-03
BOY MET
 HORRIBLE DEATH
Impaled on Handle of Car He Was Liberated After
 Hard Task

Jersey City, N. j., May 3.-CUP) Louis Silverman stopped his car last night with boy impaled to the door handle.
 Tn crossing the street, John o. Neill, Jr, 8, had walked into the side of the car. The long, sharp door handle struck him behind the right ear and penetrated his skull four inches. He was dragged along the street on his feet until Silverman could stop.
 Dr. June Schaefer arrived with an ambulance. She feared the boy would bleed to death if his head were removed from the handle Silyerman had no tools in the car
 Oscar F. Peterson, a bystander, ripped the windshield wiper from the car, tore away the interior covering the door and used the wiper as a screWdriver to remove the lock nut so that the handle could be pulled out.
 This took Peterson ten minutes Dr. Schaeffer and a bystander SUD- ported the boy. Silverman tainted was carried to tailor shop anC revived. He was arrested.
 Freed from the car. the boy was taken to a hospital with the handle still protruding from his head. Ht lived an hour after it was re. moved in an operation. Death was caused by a compound skull frac- ture.
 Silverman, 27, was booked on a homicide charge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-03
Unemployed Present
 Recovery Resolution
Committee Appointed to Study Requests; No Approval
 for Roosevet's Policy; Controller Reports on Funds

The Waterbury Association of the Unemployed presented two resolu- tions at the board of aldermen'S meeting last night and a member, John w. Ostrom, of 288 Lounsbury street, after urging adoption of the resolution calling for increased well fare appropriations asked that, at least, the board send resolutions to congress demanding passage of all of President Roosevelt's recovery meas ures. The Republican, controlled board failed to act on this latter de- velopment of the resolutions.
 Committee to Study
 But a committee of five was ap- pointed to study" the resolution asking that appropriation be found to supplant welfare funds, quoted as having been 31 per cent expended in the first quarter of the year. The other resolution dealt with probable closing of WPA projects employing no men and sought contribution of $22 ,OOO from the city to obviate this possibility.
 (The matter of the WPA employ ment of no persons was brought be- fore ,!e board of finance last month by the board of education and will be acted upon Thursday, it is planned, when the board of finance will recommend to the board of al- dermen that the appropriation be made by transfer from department of public welfare items, it is re- portedD
 Bids Submitted
 Bids for purchase of property taken over by the city for non-pay- ment of taxes included: From An- tonic Feliciani of Camp street, $2,O5O
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-03

for building at 965 South Main street; from P. H. De Nicola, $2,010 for the same property; $l,950 from Urbano Mori for the same property; $1 300 from Mrs. Rose Coebiola of Walnut street extension for property at 176 Charles street; $l,250 from Saverio Perugini of Charles street for the same property; $500 from Patsy Luciano of Jefferson street for the same porperty; $250 from Gus DeCicco for lot No. AIS on the east side of Walnut street ex- tension; $200 from James Alish- auski for lot No. 28 on Poplar street; $2l5 from Mstausas Skar- natis for lots no and 120 on oCn- gress avenue extension; $50 from William Carroll of Baldwin street for lot No. 17,152 on the west side of Thomaston avenue.
 Report of Controller Sherwood L. Rowland to Mayor Frank Hayes on the citys finances was re-submitted by the mayor to the board and shows that 24.56 per cent of the years appropriations have been ex- pended in 25 per cent of the year, or the first quarter. This is in excess of the spending of the city for the same period of last year and was ex- plained by the controller as being due to Including encumbrances against appropriations" as well as actual expenditures. The controller claimed last years first-quarter re- port showed only actual expendi- tures."
 The report shows only $228,lO3 in revenue received so far this year, of which $l19,403 is from the old age tax, $73,475 from state grants and $30,225 from general revenue. Elk penditures have totaled $1,537 956. The available balance in the gen. eral fund on April l, after making reserve for encumbrances, was $468,5 ,538.
 Z0ning Change
 A committee consisting of Alder men Kingston, Niver, Kolbeck, Bergin and Belval was appointed to hold a hearing May 20 on the application of Vito Mastracchio that his property at Seymour street and Highland avenue be changed from Residential Zone B to business zone.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-03
Military Department
 Plans Reorganization
Legislative Council Committee to Report Thursday;
 John D. ThOms Secretary of Group

general, post now held by Briga- dier General William F. Ladd. There is also quartermaster general, now Allen B. Lambdin in general charge Of military property, including ar mories. There is an armory board, also with control over the armories, and several special commissions in vestigating the need for new ar mories in their neighborhoods. The quartermaster general and the adju- tant general are both members of the governors staff.
 How jurisdictions could be more confused and lines of authority and responsibility more tangled it is hard to conceive, said the Reorgan- iza tion Commission of the military establishment. It recommended that the armory board be abolished, the quartermaster general made only position on the Governors Staff, and that the responsibility and au- thority be centralized in the adju- tant general
 Also on the legislative councils agenda for Thursday is continued discussion of agricultural reorganiz- ation, with a committee of the Con- necticut Agricultural Council invit- ed to attend.
 Motor Vehicles Commissioner Michael A. Connor has submitted several proposals for changes in the motor vehicle laws which will be discussed, and Edward Fisher, ex- ecutive secretary of the Judicial De- partment, is proposing codif1cation of the laws relating to costs in criminal actions.
 The laws which determine the fees for peace officers in local courts MT. Thomas explained, are now scattered through the criminal stat utes, MT. Fisher proposes they be overhauled by the legislative coun- cil, and codifled, the general assem- ply to be asked then to pass on the codification.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-03
By WILLIAM H. LAWRENCE Limited Press Staff COrreSpOndent

Washington, May 3-(UP)-La" bor'S civil war was intensified today by the American Federation of Labor's severance of final ties with all but one of the seven rebel unions and the Committee for h. dustrial Organization.
 Most observers regarded the fed eration executive councils decision to leave David Dubinsky's Interna- tional Ladies Garment Workers union still technically affiliated with the A. F. of L. as more significant than the formal expulsion of six other unions.
 Federation President William Green would not comment on the lack of action against the garment workers, but it appeared to be a formal bid to Dubinsky to return to the A. F. of L. with his 252,000 members. He has been reported ready to bolt the c. L O. and has publicly disagreed with c. l. O.. Chairman John L. Lewis over es- tablishment of the insurgent labor organization as a permanent rival to the federation.
 Six Charters Revoked
 The federation's council late yes terday revoked the charters of six c. I. o. unions which claim a total membership of 1,747 200 workers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-03
POKER CAME NOT YET REPLAYED
Englishman Drops $780, 900 in What May Have
 Been Stud Poker

Hollywood, May 3.-(UP) Jerry Giesler, attorney for an English poet who said he lost $150000 in a poker game, said today that he would determine at deposition hearing Thursday whether he would seek permanent injunction to pre- vent payment of the checks cover ing the amount
 If he is convinced that the game was stud, not draw poker Giesler said, he will seek permanent in- junction. Harry T. Clifton, wealthy Englishman, paid Lew Brice, broth CT of Fanny Brice, with two checks, Giesler said, one for $100,000. the other for $50,000.
 Brice Must Appear
 Giesler obtained a deposition or der which made it mandatory that Brice appear in his office to answer questions concerning the game. A recent ruling of the state attorney general held that draw poker was legal in California and stud was not.
 Brice told Investigators for the district attorneys office that the game was draw poker and that he could remember no pot or more than $40,000. Clifton said that he lost the entire $l50,00O in a pot where he had a pair of jacks and a pair Of kings beaten by Brice's three Sevens.
 Players Did Not Appear
 Chief Investigator John Klein said that the game would be re- played in his office yesterday, but two of the players, George Lewis and Jack Reynolds, failed to appear. He did not say whether he would make another attempt to get the players together again before the injunction hearing Friday.
 The Rev. Violet Greener, at whose home Clifton is a guest, said that she would testify that the game was stud poker because "a voice told me-. The Rev. Greener fre- quently is referred to as the Ghost of Hollywood"
 Ut was as if I were there" she said. T saw everything, even the number of checks and IOU's that went into the pot"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-03
(SDecial to The DemOcrat)

Hartford, May 3-A committee of the Legislative Council will report at the full meeting of the council Thursday on plain for reorgani- zation of the military department of the state, but advance informa- ton on what the report will call for was not forthcoming today.
 Sen. E. Gaynor Brennon and Sen Raymond J. Devlin constitute the committee and have notified Secre- tary John D. Thoms of Waterbury that the report will be ready for the May meeting.
 Complicating their task has been the fact that Connecticut's military establishment must conform to federal regulations as well as the laws of the state. AS basis for the study Brennan and Devlin secured reports on the military setup of all the states on the Atlantic seaboard, and the history of the Connecticut military organization from it's be- ginnings.
 Chief executive officer of the mill itary department is the adjutant