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Evening star., 1938-05-20
WALKOUT CLOSES
GOODRICH PLANTS
Row Over Electricians Stops
Work-Union to Demand
Signed Pact.
Bythe Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
AKRON, Ohio, May 20.-All Akron
plants of the B. F. Goodrich Co. were
closed today in a walkout, which L..
L. Callahan. president of Goodrich
Local, United Rubber Workers OF
America, said started as a protest
against retention of eight apprentice
electricians while men with longer
service were being laid off.
Now that we are out, we are going
to demand signed agreement, vaca-
tions with pay and the stopping OF
production work by supervisors and
foremen," Mr.. Callahan said. No
company statement was Immediately
available.
Pickets marched this morning IN
front of entrances of five Goodrich
plants, turning back office workers as
we'll as factory employees. A sixth mill
had not been in operation recently.
Mr.. Callahan said maintenance
workers land any others needed for
plant safety" were being passed
through the picket lines.
Mr.. Callahan said the union would
meet late today. but that he did not
want strike vote until the men have
time to find out what it Is all about" :"
He said he hoped to meet with COM
pany officials today.
Evening star., 1938-05-20
STALEMATE CONTINUES
IN SPANISH CIVIL WAR
Small Advances Are Reported for
Rebels-Snow Blankets
Eastern Spain.

By the Associated Press.
HENDAYE, France, May 20.-Con-
tinuing bad weather stalemated op-
erations in the Spanish civil war
today except for small advances the
insurgents reported in the Villafranca
del Cid and Castellfort sectors south
west Of Morella.
An unseasonal snow blanketed the
mountains of Eastern Spain, adding
to the rigors of the campaign.
The snowfall was heaviest near
Fortanette and Penarroya de los
Pinares in the Gudar Mountains
where the insurgents have made their
greatest progress in the past few days.
A dispatch from Madrid said in
surgent warplanes yesterday bombed
Mules and Villareal, between Sagunto
and Castellon de Ia Plana. Govern
ment planes were said to have struck
back vigorously. renewing attacks on
insurgent air field at Caudete.
A government communique said sew
eral insursent planes were destroyed.
Evening star., 1938-05-20
WaterburyMayor and 26Others
accused in 81, 600, 900 Fraud
Frank Hayes, Who Also Is Lieutenant
Governor, Posts $25, 900 Bond
on Conspiracy Charge.

with defrauding the city. Warrants
charging conspiracy have been issued
against all q.
The Lieutenant Governor declined
to comment on the charge against
him.
At the Office of Court Clerk George
Freeman, Hayes handed over several
typewriter pages. apparently lists of
property holdings, and said to a
clerical assistant:
Those are bonds for myself and
Mr.. Minor"
The report also disclosed the grand
jury had been investigating lobbying
activities at Hartford, the State cap
ial, asserting that political influence
has been for sale by the secret lobby
lists during sessions of the General As
sembly and has frequently been pur-
chased has been vividly demonstrated
to this grand jury"
Besides Hayes, the warrant named
former City Controller Daniel j.
(See WATERBURY, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1938-05-20
ROOSEVELT ASKS
STUDY
Sends Message to Congress
Citing Conservation
Need in America.
Bv J. RUSSELL YOUNG.

President Roosevelt, in special
message to Congress. today declared
it is high time for the Nation to adopt
national policy for production and
conservation of phosphates and rec
commended that joint committee be
named to study the subject of phos-
phate resources and make a report to
the next Congress.
The President told Congress he could
not overemphasize the Importance of
phosphorus, not only to agriculture
and soil conservation, but also to the
physical health and economic security
of the Nation.
Mr.. Roosevelt called attention to the
fact that the phosphorus content of
the land of this country, after genera
tions of cultivation, has greatly di-
minished and needs replenishing. He
urged the wider use of phosphates in
the interests Of soil conservation.
Private Ownership.
The President furnished figures in
his message showing that the United
States probably has large phosphate
deposits, but that the principal de-
velopment is privately owned in Ten
nessee and Florida. The President
said that the total known world sup
ply of phosphate rock is estimated
at more than 10000 100000 tons. OF
which 7,250,0o0.000 tons is located in
the United States. Nearly all the re-
mainder is controlled by Great Britain
France and Russia.
Mr.. Roosevelt called especially atten-
ton to the fact that the Eastern sup
ply in private ownership is being ex-
ported in such quantities that when
and if, it is wholly depleted, Eastern
farms will have to depend for their
phosphate supply on lands in the Fal
West.
The President emphasized the fact
(See PHOSPHATES, Page A-13)
Evening star., 1938-05-20
ROOSEVELT TAKES NO PART.
News Men Told He Is Not Active in
Oregon Primary.

Ey the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt said today he
was taking no part in the Oregon
Democratic primary election.
The President made the statement
while explaining to news men that
he would not comment on the out
come of Tuesdays primary in Penn
sylvania. 1t. Gov Thomas Kennedy
was defeated there despite his indorse-
ment by Postmaster General Farley
In the Oregon primary Gov. Charles
H, Martin, seeking denomination. has
been criticized by both Secretary 1ckes
and Senator Norris, Independent. OF
Nebraska, who accused him. in effect,
of not being true New Dealer"
Mr.. Roosevelt, while making no ref
erence to the Ickes criticism of Gov.
Martin, indicated his own policy and
that of the administration, officially
at least, was to keep hands of.
John L. Lewis, the c. I. O. leader,
was scheduled for lunch at the White
House today, and Mr.. Roosevelt was
asked whether Pennsylvania politics
might be the subject of conversation,
Mr.. Lewis backed the defeated Ken
nedy in the primary.
The President replied that he be-
lieved they would discuss other mat
tiers.
When inquiry was made as to how
the Chief Executive felt about the
Pennsylvania primary results. he re-
called that he had wired the victors
yesterday of his feelings over the out
come of the balloting.
At another point. he declined to dis
cuss in any way the political situation
in Minnesota. He was asked whether
he desired the election of a Democratic
Governor in Minnesota.
He said he did not think he would
make any announcement about whom
he favored at this time, since a ques-
ton about one State would lead to
endless inquiries about others.
Evening star., 1938-05-20
Governments Side Draws
Near Close in 7.Year.O|d
Murder Mystery.
DEFENDANTS INTEREST
IN GIRL is DESCRIBED
Kelly Says Former Policeman
Admitted Entering Beulah's
Room at Night.
BULLETIN.

Mrs. Rose '. LangdOn was
barred, at least temporarily, this
afternoon from testifyihg against
her estranged husband, former
Policeman Robert F. Langdon, at
his trial on a charge of murder-
ing l9-year-old Beulah Limerick.
Justice Daniel w. ODonoghue in
terrupted Mrs. angdon's testimony
after she had answered three or
four preliminary questions. 1t was
not Immediately known If Mrs.
Langdon might return later to the
stand.
Evening star., 1938-05-20
Bv the Associated Press.


WATERBURY, Conn, May 20.-Lt.
Gov. Frank Hayes. facing grand
jury's accusation that he helped de-
fraud the City of Waterbury of sums
of money in excess of a million dol
lars" posted $4,000 bail today pend
ing his trial on a charge Of con-
spiracy.
Hayes. who also has been Mayor of
this city for the past eight years,
appeared at the Courthouse just be-
fore noon. With him were his mother,
Mrs. Ellen Hayes, and two of his
closest political allies. Henry w. Minor,
chairman of the Police Commission.
and Thomas P. Kelly, his executive
secretary.
Warrants Issued.
Hayes, Minor, Kelly and "a others,
many of them prominent in the city
administration, were named in an
extraordinary grand jury's report last
night as members of a powerful.
ruthless and corrupt group" charged
Evening star., 1938-05-20
BY WILLIAM il. SHIPPEN, Jr.


The Governments case agains
former Patrolman Robert F.. Langdor
drew near a close this afternoon, with
his estranged wife. Mrs Rose v
Langdon. ready to take the stand t
tell what. if anything, she knows O,
the 7-year-old Beulah Limerick murder
mystery.
Mrs. Langdon's testimony was to fol.
low that Of the detectives and police
who this morning described their
original investigation and told OF
Langdons intense interest in the
movements of pretty l9-year-old
Beulah and her gay playmates of the
prohibition era.
How Langdon explained his interest
in Beulah as being that of an officer
on investigative duty was told to the
jury this morning by Inspector Edward
J. Kelly. The gray-haired veteran was
a captain of homicide squad detectives
at the time of the murder, and was in
charge of the first inquiry conducted
into the strange death.
The inspector recalled details of the
Staying with clarity surprising in
view of the time that has passed since
Beulah was killed in the ub-basement
bedroom of her home at 18 Nineteenth
street Sc
Inspector Kelly said he first went to
the death house about noon on New
Year Day, 1881. in company with De-
tective John Flaherty, Walter s. Beck,
Thomas Sweeney and others since de-
ceased.
Talked to Sister.
"As we were leaving headquarters to
again visit the place the next day
Kelly said. Il received telephone call
from the dead girls sister. who then
was Mrs. Julia Bywaters and now is
Mrs. Julia Mason. AS a result of this
call, talked to Mrs. Mason before
going back to the home Of Beulah Linn
erick."
The inspector said that after his
where the body was found he received
information from Detective Flaherty
on January that Langdon had found
a shell, a slug and bullet holes in
the house while on guard duty the
previous night The officer turned
the shell and slug over to It. John
Fowler, the departments ballistic ex-
pert.
Inspector Kelly said he found Lang
don at the house when he arrived
fboro nv, op,1ory Q
"Langdon had a 25-caliber gun in a
holster strapped about his waist" In
spector Kelly testified He pointed
out to me the bullet hole in the mat
tress of the day bed on which the
body was found and another in the
floor beneath the bed. He said he
had found slug in the dirt under
the floor and an exploded .25-caliber
shell in a coffee cup in the kitchen"
This new evidence" was discovered
by Langdon on the previous night
after homicide squad detectives hao
examined the premises on the pre-
vious day. At that time Detective
Beck found an exploded .25-calibel
shell in the bedroom. The bullet which
killed the girl had lodged in her heae
(See LANGDON, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1938-05-20
OREGON NBALL0T|NG
|NPRMARY TODAY
Influence of Ickes, Norris
and C. !. O. as Party
Factors Meet Test.
BY the Associated Press.


PORTLAND. Greg, May 20-Ore-
gon supplanted Pennsylvania as the
Nations political sounding board to-
day as 248000 Democrats were called
to vote in test Of strength for Interior
Secretary Harold Ickes, Senator Nor
ris. Independent, of Nebraska and John
L. Lewis c. l. o. as State primary cleo
ton factors.
The Democratic gubernatorial con-
test between Gov Charles H. Martin
and his Norris-sponsored opponent,
Henry L. Hess of La Grande, has
eclipsed all other races. although more
than half a million Republicans and
Democrats will select candidates for
Governor, Senator and three Repre-
sertatives.
Censured by Secretary Ickes and
Senator Norris, Gov Martin closed his
campaign last night with sweeping
denunciation of labor racketeers, in
which he asserted they had "brutally
victimized their fellow workers in such
a manner as to parallel the first steps
taken by many European nations in
their march toward dictatorship"
Attacks Ickes' Letter.
The stocky, 74-year-old former Con-
gresham and retired major general re-
asserted his loyalty to the administra-
ton and attacked bitterly Secretary
Ickes' letter to Mr. Hess asserting that
Gov Martin was at heart no New
Dealer
Equally resentful of Senator Norris
remark that he was disappointed" in
the Governor, Mr.. Martin declared both
had differed with him over use of elec-
trical energy from the huge Bonneville
Dam project on the Columbia River.
Endorsement of Mr.. Hess, former
State Senator. by the Oregon Common
wealth Federation was described by Mr.
Martin as proof he was a Lewis candi-
date. Ben Osborne. secretary OF the
State A. F. L. Federation. had sale
the Commonwealth was affiliated
with the National Non-Partisan League
which he termed "the back door to the
CLIO"
Early Denies Statement.
Gov. Martins final cross-country
battle was touched off by Stephen
Early. secretary to the President, who
denied the Governors statement that
the President told him on Western
trip, You and I make good pair"
One other Democratic gubernatoria'
candidate is O. Henry Oleen. st. Helens
Republicans numbered eight, with
Charles L. Payne. Eugene; Charlie:
Sprague, Salem publisher, and San
Brown, Gervais, principal candidates
ROOSEVELT TAKES NO PART.
Evening star., 1938-05-20

fund for the new year, as compared
with this year. officials said further
drastic slash would occur unless Con-
eress overrides Budget Bureau
recommendation on pending de-
ficiency bill.
The Budget Bureau has disalowed
separate appropriation of sl89. 500 to
cover the Districts share of w. P. A.
costs and a separate appropriation of
$4,000 to cover the cost of sending
stranded translents back home. If
Congress approves this position. the
costs would have to come out of the
100000 general relief fund.
Welfare Board officials said if this
happens. it will be necessary to drop
tSee RELIEF, Page A-4
Evening star., 1938-05-20
Welfare Board to Remove
SO Pct. of d. C.. Relief Cases
Slash of 900 Out of $500 Cases on Direct
Aid List Held Needed after More
Money Is Denied.

Orders for removal of approXi-
mately 900 of the $500 cases on the
District direct relief roster-a slash
of 36 per cent-Were issued today
by the Board of Public Welfare as a
result of the refusal by Congress To
approve plans for an increase in the
relief fund above the 100000 appro-
priated.
Officials of the Public Assistance
Division were instructed to effect the
slash in the general relief loan by
July /, since no more than one
twelfth of the 100000 may be spent
per month in the new fiscal year
Describing the cut in the rolls as
surgical operation" made necessary
by the heavy reduction in the relief
Evening star., 1938-05-20

By the Associated Press.
SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mexico, May
20.-Slow talking, quick moving ex-
army general, Saturnino Cedillo, spread
his peasant army into the hills today
to prepare for guerrilla warfare with
the army of President Lazaro Car
denas.
He would not start it. but he was
ready with arms to repel "all aggres-
sion." said Cedillo 45-year-old Mexi-
can Indian. Rightist political oppo-
nent of President Cardenas and for
20 years the dominant power OF San
Luis.
Gen Cedillo was plotting rebellion,
charged President Cardenas, 42-year-
old radical leader of the nations pro-
gram of socialization of Mexico for
Mexicans" which was exemplified on
March 10 by government expropria-
ton of foreign-owned oil properties.
Repetition of Spain Feared.
Their dispute was that between the
Right and the Left. and many feared
that if fighting began it might spread
through the nation and make OF Mex
leo another Spain.
The Cedillistas fixed their number
at $4,000 to 10000. President Carde-
mas, invading San Luis in person to
establish calm. had 10000 troops in
the state Two regiments Of cavalry
were on the way from Chihuahua, 10
observation-c combat planes landed here
yesterday, and probably 10000 troops
could be brought quickly from nearby
states.
Gen. Cedillo said he had trust
worthy" information the President was
preparing to TRY to crush me by force
of arms" and that attack might come
today. He kept to his vast Las Palo-
mas estate near here with less than a
dozen men last night. but his peasant
force had taken to the hills, and Gen.
Cedillo was ready to follow.
Denies Plotting Revolt.
Bitterly the leader of Mexico's last
important private army. whose fealty
he held by land allotments on his
estate, denied he plotted rebellion.
He saw himself as the victim OF
efforts by his enemies to destroy him
carried on since his resignation as
Secretary of Agriculture in tilt with
President Cardenas last August.
Striking out at the President. Gen
Cedillo said in an interview with the
Associated Press that the Mexican
people was tired of the infamous die
tatorship, with communistic trimmings
that is putting an end to all sources OF
wealth and submerging the country in
ruin and misery"
The agrarian leader, who quit the
army this week rather than leave his
home state for new post, contended
that his moderate tendencies always
had and have now the support of all
the sane elements of the country"
Evening star., 1938-05-20
CHAMBERLAIN WINS
Aylesbury Constituency Kept in
Conservative Ranks.

LONDON, May 20 R.-The govern
ment today checked the trend Of un-
favorable by-elections by retaining a
House of Commons seat in the Ayles-
bury constituency by a margin OF
nearly 1000 votes.
Results in yesterdays voting gave
the Conservative candidate, Stanley
Reed, 81 sos; Liberal T. Atholl-Robert-
son, 1O,751, and Laborite Reginald
Groves, 1866.
The by-election was held to fill .
vacancy caused by the resignation OF
M. w. Beaumont, Conservative.
Evening star., 1938-05-20
NAVY PLANES GO TO SEA
TO SPOT ENEMY FLEET
Seven Take Off on 3OO-Mile Flight
as Part of Maneuvers Testing
Hampton Roads Defenses.

By tie Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, May 20.-A squad
ron of seven giant Navy patrol planes
took off for a 3OO-mile fight to sea
today in an attempt to locate the
enemy" fleet steaming toward the
Virginia capes.
The planes, commanded by 1t. w. j.
Slattery, left the Norfolk Naval Air
Base shortly before s am. (E. S. To
in the opening maneuver of joint
Army Navy exercises designed to test
the defense of the Hampton Roads
area.
The enemy" fleet is represented by
13 warships-the battleships New York
and Texas and II destroyers-in COM
mand of Rear Admiral A. w. johnson.
The Navy flyers are charged with
the duty Of locating the fleet and will
then flash it's position by radio to
Army bombing squadrons poised at
Langley Field The Army flyers will
then race out to sea to bomb targets
towed by the enemy" craft.
Evening star., 1938-05-20
100000 TRAPPED
IN SUCH0W AREA
Japanese Commander Says
They Have No Chance
to Escape.
B, the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
JAPANESE ARMY HEADQUAR-
TIERS SOUTH OF SUCHOW, some-
where in Anhwei Province. May 20
The general commanding the japanese
armies which advanced from the south
to the capture of strategic SuchoW
told this writer tonight that 40 Chi
nese divisions we're surrounded IN the
SuchoW area without a chance OF
escape.
He said most of these troops were
provincial leVieS (Which average rough
ly 1000 men TO divislonD and were
inside japanese lines incloslng an area
roughly % miles by 10.
Immediately after greeting a small
party of correspondents who had flown
by japanese Army plane $50 miles
from Shanghai, the general declared
the magnitude of Japan's victory at
Suchow. nerve center Of Chinas CEN
tral front resistance, was not yet
generally apparent. He would not
permit his name 20 be disclosed.
City Completely Occupied.
The japanese Army announced COM
plete occupation of SuchoW early today
The Japanese commander said the
huge Chinese forces around SuchoW
we're breaking up into leaderless dis
order and suffering terrible casualties
under the steady, merciless attacks
of the japanese Air Corps.
Other officers of the japanese COM
mand said the fall of Suchow by no
means marked the final phase of the
l0-month-old war.
They declared emphatically that a
new campaign destined to carry
Japans armies westward through the
heart of China south of the Yellow
River already was under way.
They would not disclose details, but
500 SI1CHOW Page A-9)
Evening star., 1938-05-20
Comment Is Caustic,
So President Keeps
Silent on Utilities
By the Associated Press.

President Roosevelt, asked for
comment on the sale of private
utility properties at Knoxville,
told his press conference today
the first thing that came to his
mind was caustic and that he
best not say it.
Sale of the properties to the
City of Knoxville and the Ten
nessee Valley Authority were ap-
proved yesterday by the private
utility's directors.
additional story on Page A-3)
Evening star., 1938-05-20
Summary Of Today's Star

FOREIGN.
Chinese planes reported raiding Japan
with leaflets. Page Al
100000 Chinese trapped around cap
tured Suchow. Page Al
Cedillo deploys troops to meet attack
by army. Page Al
Quints to live with family in new house
being planned. Page Al
French put question Of pact squarely
up to Mussolini. Page Al
NATIONAL.
Political theater features Oregon pri-
mary election today. Page Al
Vinson asks immediate funds for naval
building. Page A-12
Railroad labor threatens strike II
wages are cut. Page A-13
Southern Senators use w. P. A. pay as
lever in wage fight. Page Ais
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Welfare Board orders removal OF SO
per cent of relief cases. Page Al
House hearings on D. c. vote are
brought to close. Page Al
Milk distributors intend to stand pat
DESPITE strike vote. Page Al
lAngdon jury to hear original Liner
ick case detectives. Page Al
Evening star., 1938-05-20
Subway Crash Laid to Wiring.

LONDON. May 20 (P.-A public
inquiry disclosed today that faulty
wiring of a signal was responsible for
the subway crash in which six persons
were killed Tuesday.
Evening star., 1938-05-20
CED|LL0 DEP[0YS
GUERRILLA FORCE
Peasant Army Is Sent Into
Hills to Meet Attack
by Cardenas.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Tension gripping Merico amid
rumors of impending revolt by Gen.
Saturnino Cedillo, former secre-
tary OF agriculture in cabinet OF
President Ldzaro Cardenas, Who
yesterday demanded that his armed
forces become part OF the Merican
Army. Merican discomfort result
OF inability OF government to find
markets for oil produced by prop
critics taken ouer March IS.
Evening star., 1938-05-20
WEATHER.

~. S. Weather Bureau Forecastl
Local thundershowers. probably tonight
and tomorrow; warmer tonight; moderate
southwest shifting to northwest winds.
Temperatures today-Highest, 83, at 2
pm; lowest, 81. at 4 am
Full report on page Az.
Evening star., 1938-05-20

(See PHOSPHATES, Page A-13)
Evening star., 1938-05-20

(See SUCHOW, Page A-9)
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1938-05-19
MI AZ ELS0?

Vermont allamnak egyik kis
varosa, Springfield kulonos
meglepetessel szolgalt a vilag-
max, amely eddig mem tudott
letezese felol.
Springfield varoskanak van
egy methodista temploma, hit
k0zsege es mielott tovabb men
nenk, jo lesz, ha megemlitjuk,
hogy az Amerikara eroszakolt
szarazsag legfobb csahosa a
methodista egyhaz volt es ma
is az. A methodistak azok, akik
mindig az erkolcsok megjavi-
tasat szorgalmazzak es akik el
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1938-05-19
HIDEG ID0JARAS
Macy KART OKOZOTT

A mutt heti hideg idojaras
jelentekeny kart tett Ohio
egyes helyein kilonbozo disz-
cserjekben es gyengeszaru ker-
tt vetemenyekben. De a csutor-
tok esti fagy mar a szol6t is
erosen megcsipte, csak a tobbi
gyiimolcsfak, mint az alma,
korte es ehhez hasonlo fax ma
radtak mentesek egyelore. =
Tobb helyrol jott jelentes alap-
jan akkor este a fagy olyan
eros volt, hogy a meglocsolt
fuvon a viz reggelre megiege-
sedett, meg a kint felejtett To-
csolo csoben is jeg volt.