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Evening star., 1938-05-31
SIO7 in NickeIs
Posted by Man
On Charges

Police were counting nickels q long
time after they arrested Morris Cohen
on charge of second-offense speeding.
They took Mr.. Cohen, who lives at
16 Third street Sc, to the station
house, where he was asked to put up
SILT on charges of speeding and driv-
ing on the wrong side of the street and
for two old parking tickets.
Mr.. Cohen telephoned friend, who
arrived at the precinct with a bag
which contained $l07, mostly in
nickels.
The officers had to count the money,
and today the financial clerks Office
in Police Court had to do likewise.
Mr.. Cohen forfeited 50 on the charge
OF driving on the wrong side of the
street, paid So each on the parking
tickets and obtained continuance on
the second -offense speeding count.
Three additional counts were made
Of the money by Policeman Donald
Siegrist when he brought 1t to Police
Court from the precinct. The first
time Pvt. Siegrist was 10 cents short,
the second time he was SO cents short
and the third time. 80 cents short. ~
In encouragement, he dug into his
own pocket for four nickles to make
the total.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
Woman in Black Var,ishes
As Taxi Passes Cemetery

willie Love doesn't exactly believe
in ghosts. but his mind would rest
easier If somebody would explain what
became of the woman dressed in black
who apparently vanished into thin air
from his taxicab early today.
known and respected by police as
an honest and trustworthy colored
taxicab driver, Willie, who is SO
and lives at 624 Columbia Road NV,
appeared at the second precinct short
,ly before dawn to tell his weird story,
Cruising in the northwest section
and in good spirits after receiving q
quarter tip from q passenger, Willie
said he was hailed at North Capitol
street and Rhode Island avenue by .
middle-aged white woman, dressed in
black. He thought she must have been
In mourning.
She asked to be driven to some
Northwest address his experience
few moments later drove the exact
memory Of IL from Willie's mind.
As he drove along in the vicinity Of
q cemetery in that section, Mr.. Love
said the woman remarked:
Driver, you are going rather fast." :"
mo, ma'am, I'm only going 25,"
Willie replied.
''Will you give me q cigarette them"
his passenger asked moment later.
Certainly, ma'ain," said Willie,
reaching In his pocket.
he pulled out q cigarette and
reached back to hand It to the woman.
Evening star., 1938-05-31

But it was not taken from his hand.
He turned to look, keeping his cab
in motion all the while, and nobody
was in the passengers seat!
Alarmed, Willie stopped his cab
got out and looked up and down the
street. Nobody was in sight. He
opened the rear door and looked on
the floor. Frantically, he even picked
up the rear seat and peered under
1t. Nowhere was there sign of the
women dressed in black.
This was at North Capitol and r
streets, Willie said. He hurried to
nearby fire truck company No. 4
and started telling his story to the
f,remen. They told him to tell q
policeman. He stopped cruising
squad car. The officers thought he'd
better 60 to the second precinct
station.
There he persuaded Policeman e.
A. Fuller to listen to his story.
To ease willie's mind-and per-
haps their own--the police sent a
squad car to search over the route
the hacker said he had driven the
woman dressed in black. But the
officers found no trace Of the van
ished woman.
And Willie-and the police still
don't know what to think, and are in
no mood to listen to ghost stories.
There was one cynic, however. He re-
called similar weird story that Is
told by Alexander Woollcott, the
raocnteur.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
EARTH SLIP JARS
SOUTH CALIFORNIA
Million Homes Are Shaken by
200-Mile-Long Movement,
but No Damage Done.

P> the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, May 31.-A giant
earth slippage Jared million South
ern California homes at 1875 am.
(3:35 am. E. s. T) this morning, but
spared the area of damage.
The quake, one of the most severe
since the disastrous one in 1888, was
felt for 200 miles along the Pacific
Coast from Santa Barbara to San
Diego and inland $50 miles to the
Mojave Desert and the Coachella VAL
ley.
Alarmed families were frightened
out of sleep by the rippling, sidewise
motion of the earth. Dishes ratified
in cupboards. Lights swayed. Houses
creaked.
Long Beach, center Of the .destruc-
ton in '33, quickly reported "all's
WELL" and other cities, such as Santa
Barbara and San Jacinto, which were
hard hit by past earthquakes, went
through today's without harm.
The post-midnight calm at police
headquarters and newspaper Offices
was shattered by a flood of question
ing telephone calls. All asked If there
had been any damage. None had
losses to report.
The earth shocks, three in number,
lasted several seconds. They were
strongest on the Los Angeles ocean
front, stirring up high waves.
Imperial Valley, which experienced
series of quakes in recent months,
was not shaken. .
A survey indicated that the Jared
area, about 10000 square miles, es-
capped with nothing more serious than
few broken windows and cracked
sets Of glassware.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
WARR|NG ORDERED
HERE IN TAX CASE
Rags to Be Brought From
Prison for Arraignment
on Evasion Charge.

Charles "Rags" Warning, serving 9
term in the Atlanta Penitentiary fol
completely In gang shooting, will be
brought here for arraignment Friday
on an indictment charging him and
his brothers, Emmitt and Leo p, and
two others with conspiracy to evade
income taxes on numbers racket
profits.
At the request of United States At
torney David A. Pine, Justice Joseph
C. Adkins signed a writ ordering
rags" Warning brought to Washing
ton, 1t was learned today.
While 1t was planned at first not te
bring him here until the day OF the
trial, the present move was decided on
it is understood. to avoid delays which
might have followed had his attor-
neys filed preliminary motions at the
time OF the trial. Such motions may
not be made until a defendant has
been arraigned.
A demurrer attacking the legal sufi-
cheney Of the indictment has been
argued and taken under advisement by
Justice Joseph c. Cox, but this ap-
piled only to Emmitt and Leo Warning
The other defendants in the con-
spiracy case are Gordon L. Sadur, tax
accountant, and Henry L. Sherr, an
employe Of the Sadur firm.
The Warnings are charged with de-
frauding the Government of portions
Of taxes allegedly due from income on
the numbers game for three years.
United States Attorney Pine hopes
to bring the case to trial before. the
summer recess of court, which starts
late in June. All the defendants ex-
cept Rags" Warning are under bond.
He was convicted in connection with
the shooting and serious wounding Of
Joseph OBrien as an alleged act of
gang vengeance.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
Blacks Dissent
Brings Decision
To Reconsider

Justice Black, whose numerous dis.
senting opinions since his appoint-
ment to the Supreme Court have been
the subject of some comment, ap~
peared to have emerged victorious In
at least one case today when the
other justices decided to reconsider Q
ruling to which he had objected. ..,
The case involved the technical
question of patent law which grew
out of a controversy between the
General Talking Pictures Corp. anc
the Western Electric Co., Inc. The
court will reconsider its decision when
it meets in October.
In his dissenting opinion, an
nounced May 2, Justice Black pro-
tested that the courts ruling will in
evitabiy result In a sweeping expan-
sion of the statutory boundaries con-
stitutionally fixed by Congress to limit
the scope and duration of patent mo-
nopolies."
Evening star., 1938-05-31
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, May 31-Tabasco
State, where religion-hating Tomas
Garrido Canabal leveled every church
during his 10-yesr dictatorship, has
again become q scene of violent con-
f1ict between Catholics and authori-
ties.
Dispatches reaching Mexico City to-
day said efforts of Catholics at villa
hermosa to erect church on the site
Of Conception Church, which Garrido
razed while governor, precipitated a
clash with police in which four per-
sons were killed and five wounded. A
policeman was among the wounded.
Garrido was ousted In 1885. Re-
Gently he was in exile in Costa Rica.
Last Anti Church Redoubt.
Because Of President Iazaro Car
denas' policy of Give and let live," the
State of Tabasco was almost the last
redoubt of the anti-church feeling
which flared so bitterly in Mexico q
few years ago.
On May II, Catholic peasantry In
q concerted movement began hockine
into the capital and demanding that
Gov. Protein Bobadilla repeal laws
forbidding worship and requiring
priests to be married. Bobadilla re-
fused, Catholic sources here said. He
warned the peasantry that he would
use force unless they dispersed.
This Vas followed by q demonstra-
ton in which Catholics estimated
$4,000 persons paraded. It failed to
change Bobadilla's attitude, dispatches
(See MEXICO, Page A-3.l
Evening star., 1938-05-31
Supreme Tribunals Refusal Of
Rehearing Sharpest Rebuke to
New Deal Since Court Fl ight.
LABOR BOARD WINS DECISION
REPUBLIC STEEL STRIKE ROW
Ruling in Order Requiring Company
to Rehire Workers Expected to Be
Applicable in Ford Battle.
BY JOHN H. CLINE.

In opinion the Supreme Court today refused
to reconsider its ruling in the Kansas City Sockyad but the
Justices in another ruling held that the National Labor Relations
Board has authority its against the Republic Steel
Corp. '~
expected the latter ruling also will be applicable to the
boards controversy with the Ford Motor Co.
The court did not act petition by Thomas Mooney for
writ to have the tribunal review his conviction participating
the 1915 Preparedness Day bombing San Francisco which
is serving life sentence this last the
ruling MONEYS petition will Forthcoming
Evening star., 1938-05-31

justices convene in October.
In deciding the Kansas City stock
yards case several weeks ago, the
court held the Department of Agricul-
ture, by failing to publish findings of
fact, had denied fair hearing in a
proceeding to lower rates charged by
the stockyard men. That decision
was attacked by Secretary wallace
on the theory that the court had re-
versed itself. since it ruled in 1885
that the submission of findings of fact
was not essential to fair hearing.
Judge Black Dissents.
Solicitor General Jackson, after wide
publicity had been given to Secretary
Wallace's assertion. asked the court
to reconsider its decision.
In q per curiam decision, with JUS
tice Black dissenting and Justices
Cardoza and Reed taking no part, the
court said:
THE solicitor general moves for
rehearing upon two grounds: The first
ground that the court has reversed
itself; that the present decision is
directly contrary to the law of the
case as established by the courts
decision on the former appeal, and
that a procedural omission previously
held to be of no significance Is now
regarded as fatally defective
"These assertions are unwarranted.
Not only are the two decisions con-
sistent, but the rule announced in our
former opinion was applied and was
decisive in the present appeal. And
the Government is in no position to
claim surprise. The question as to
whether there has been fair hearing
in the present case, in the light of the
situation disclosed by the Secretary's
testimony and the other evidence was
fully argued at bar"
Reviews History Of Cases.
The court then reviewed the his
tory of the two cases, pointing out
that in 1886 the matter was sent back
to the lower courts solely for the pur-
pose of ascertaining whether the Sec
retary had adequately considered the
evidence.
When that determination had been
made, today's opinion said, it then be-
came apparent that the stockyard men
had not been served with findings Of
fact and therefore were not adequately
informed as to the charge against
them. That deficiency, the, opinion
stated, was the reason that the court
set aside the rates fixed by the Sec
retary.
"The statement made In the petition
for rehearing that the present decision
is contrary to the law Of the case, as
declared in our first opinion, is wholly
unfounded," today's ruling said. ""
The effort to establish case for re-
hearing, either because of that asserted
inconsistency in our ruling or because
of lack of opportunity for full argu-
ment, is futile"
The justices also decided that
ruling as to disposition Of some $780,
600 which had been impounded while
the new rates were in effect, must be
left to the District Court.
The courts refusal to reconsider its
decision was the sharpest rebuke it
has administered to the New Deal
Evening star., 1938-05-31
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

A decision regarding President
Roosevelt's reorganization bill will bt
announced at the Capitol tomorrow
Senator Barkley, Democratic leader
and Speaker Bankhead announced
after comforting with the President al
the White House today.
Both Senator Barkley and Speaker
Bankhead declined to amplify thi.
statement. Two schools Of thought i'm.
mediately developed. One was that the
President had determined to go aheat
and seek action on his reorganization
bill before Congress adjourns. Those
who supported this theory contended
that if it was not planned to take ur
the bill no statement would be issued
The other theory was that the ad.
ministration would put the reorganiza.
ton bill over until the next Congress
and go to the country in the meantime
in the congressional elections on thai
issue.
Fight Is Promised.
Opponents Of the reorganization bill
in Congress promptly declared that Il
tine bill were taken up 1t would be
stoutly resisted.
The reorganization bill should &c
over until the next Congress" said
Senator Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska
IAN Of us believe there should be
some kind Of governmental reorganiza-
ton, but many Of us are opposed to
the bill in its present form. If the
measure is revived, it will be many
weeks before Congress is able to ad-
journ."
Nationwide Protests.
The bill passed the Senate on March
28 by vote Of 49 to AZ. Later it was
debated in the House and finally re-
committed. Congress was deluged
with thousands Of protests from all
parts of the country, the burden of
the protests being that the measure
would give the President dictatorial
powers.
Any attempt to revive the reorgani-
zation bill probably would be followed
by another flood of protests. The op-
position to the reorganization bill in
the Senate has Grown even stronger,
it was said today, since the bill was
considered in the House and recon-
mitted.
COnfers With Leaders.
President Roosevelt conferred with
Congressional leaders at the White
House today. when the leaders
emerged, Senator Barkley said:
The reorganization bill was thor
ougnly discussed. An announcement
will be made by responsible authority
within a day or two
Speaker Bankhead Immediately
added that the announcement would
be made tomorrow.
It is presumed that the announce
ment will be made by Senator Barkley,
although he indicated that had not
finally been determined. II the an
nouncement does not come from the
Kentucky Senator, 1t is expected to
(see REORGANIZATION, Page A-12.)
Evening star., 1938-05-31
YACHT OWNER BURNED
BY ENGINE ROOM BLAST
George L. Kreider Of Lebanon, Pa,
Was Repairing a Blocked
Gasoline Line.
Rs the Associated Press.

Rs the Associated Press.
CHESTERTOWN. Md, May 81
George L. Kreider, Lebanon, Pa, is in
the hospital here today critically in
jured with burns suffered when his
yacht, the Susie-Q. exploded and
caught fire in the Chesapeake Bay.
Kreider was in the engine room
working on q blocked gasoline line
when the explosion occurred last
night. He and the five members of
the party on q holiday cruise were
forced to abandon ship.
Evening star., 1938-05-31

since President Roosevelt advanced
his proposal to enlarge the court last
year. In view of the pressure brought
to bear indirectly on the court through
public statements by Secretary Wal
lace and other administration sup
porters, the strong language employed
by the court in standing its ground
was construed as an implied notice to
the New Dealers that the justices viii
not be stampeded.
Some time before the Kansas City
decision, Secretary Wallace revised
his departments procedure so as to
furnish findings of fact, and that re-
vised procedure was approved by the
court today in an opinion upholding
rates fixed by the Secretary in pro-
ceeding involving the Denver Union
Stockyard Co.
The sole question involved in the
Labor Board case was whether the
Third Circuit Court, where the con-
troversy arose, had acquired juris-
diction in the matter.
Reinstatement Ordered.
The boards order in that case di-
rected Republic Steel to cease certain
anti-labor practices and to reinstate
some 1000 employees who had been on
strike.
Apparently fearing its procedure
had not conformed to the specifications
announced by the Supreme Court in
the Kansas City case, the board de-
cided to reopen the Republic Steel
matter. In the meantime, however.
that corporation had filed petition
with the Third Circuit Court attacking
the validity Of the order.
When that petition came up for,
hearing several weeks ago, Charles
Fahey, general counsel for the Labor
Board, attempted to withdraw the
case, asserting that, under the terms
of the Wagner Act, the board could
vacate an order at any time before the
filing of q certified transcript Of the
record in court.
Took Different View.
The Third Circuit Court took diff
ferent view, however, and issued an
order directing the board to file a
transcript and to refrain from taking
any action In the case until the court
had acted on it.
In holding that action Of the ap-
pellate court to have been improper,
the Supreme Court said:
"Since the statute empowers the
board, before the filing of transcript,
to vacate or modify its orders, cer-
tainly 1t does not confer Jurisdiction
upon the reviewing court to prohibit
the exercise Of the granted power. It
is obvious that Congress intended to
confer no Jurisdiction upon the re-
viewing court to prevent the board
from seasonably vacating or modifying
its order so as to make 1t comport with
right and justice"
Justice Roberts delivered the ma
jority opinion, with Justices Mercy
nolds and Butler dissenting. Justices
Stone and Cardozo did not participate.
After passing over the Mooney case.
the court took the unusual step Of ex--
planning its failure to act, the clerk
asserting that the court, at the re-
quest Of Mooney, had consented to-
consider his application on the un-
printed record which comprises over
$4,000 typewriter pages and over SOC.
exhibits. A study Of this, it was
pointed out, will require considerable.
time.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
panal Chamberlain Dies

MUNICH, May 81 LP.--Baron
Tneodor Won Cranaer-Klett, 63, a
papal chamberlain, benefactor of the
Benedictine Order and long prominent
in Bavarian Catholic affairs, died yes
terday.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
British Steamer Is Sunk.

MADRID, Spain, May 81 (R.-The
British freighter Penthames was
bombed and sunk in an air raid on
Valencia Harbor this morning. No
lives were lost.
A Spanish vessel also was sunk. Air
raid alarms kept the harbor district
in state Of tension from II pm.
last night until after daybreak.
The Penthames was the third Brit
ish ship sunk recently at Valencia,
Spanish government port on the Medi-
terranean. Others were the Thorpe
hall on May "a and the Greatend on
May %.
A French sailor was killed yesterday
and several British seamen wounded
in Valencia Harbor raids In which
the French steamer Diem was set aflre.
The 'Penthames had previously been
bombed at Valencia on May 20 dur
ing an insurgent air raid. Three
sailors were wounded then and she
was set afire, but the flames were
quenched in an hour. The Penthames
at that time was unloading q cargo
Of wheat. She is q 3,9s5-ton vessel.
The Penthames was hit by three
bombs and settled to the bottom at
Caballeros Dock, with her masts and
funnel still showing.
The Diem. after burning all night,
lay on the beach, a complete loss.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
FALL KILLS MAI. IPOCK

Retired Army Officer, 81, Meets
Death in New York.
NEW YORK. May 81 (R.-Maj
Byron T. Ipock, 81, U. S. A., retired,
fell to his death from the window OF
his second-story hotel room today.
Mr.. Ipock, a native of North Caro-
lima. enlisted as q private in the Army
In 1908 and won his first commission
during the World War. He was retired
IN 1885 for disability in the line of
duty.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
NIAGARA ICE REMAINS
Remnants of jam Which Crushed
HONEYMOON Bridge Found.

Honeymoon Bridge Found.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, May 81
R.-Remnants Of the record-break-
ing ice jam which crushed the Honey
moon Bridge last January still clung
to rocks below the Niagara Gorge
bank at the Canadian Horseshoe Falls
today.
Tracy Levee, chief Of the Niagara
Reservation Police, was not impressed,
however.
I'm 1920 we still had ice on June
21," he said.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
Windsors at Riviera.

ANTIBES, France, May 81 R).--.
The Duke ana Duchess Of Windsor
came today from Versailles to this
Riviera city to make their home in
The Chateau ds Ia Cros.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
REBELS KILL 43O,
BOMBING MARKET
Women and Young Comprise
Most of ToII-1OO More
Believed Dead.
e, the Associated Press.

L ~r VIC saooOtiatcu EiCoes
BARCELONA, May 3l.-At least 43C
| persons were killed today in an insur-
gent air raid on the town of Granollers
| 16, miles north of Barcelona. That
many bodies we're taken from the
ruins, and authorities believed 100
more still were buried.
Forty bombs were dropped by five
tri-mqtored bombers, IL of them plung-
ing into the market square at its most
crowded hour. Early reports indicated
most OF the victims were women and
children.
Entire Red Cross Mobilised.
The raiders arrived at 8 am. and
took only few minutes to dump their
cargo of bombs. Many women were
doing their marketing. Long queues
of men. women and children were
waiting to get potato rations. At one
spot SIS persons were killed. At an
other so died. Approximately IS
buildings were destroyed completely.
Granollers, center of a rich potato
growing district, had a normal popu-
lation of 10000, but this had been
swollen by refugees from the war areas
OF government Spain.
Wounded Sent to Barcelona.
The nearest hospital soon was over
flowing and as wounded were brought
in they were sent on to Barcelona or
nearby villages.
The defense ministry said the planes,
described as Junkers German made)
apparently had tried to reach Barce-
Iona, but were forced off by this citys
defenses against aircraft.
Barcelona had three AFRAID alarms,
but was not bombed, althoug planes
flew over the city in the afternoon.
Bombs fell on some surrounding viii
lagos, where several persons were in
jured.
Morgue Overflows.
At Granollers the morgue was too
small, and relief squads laid the dead
along the walls Of the cemetery. There
the ratio was five women or children
to every man killed.
More than 100 wounded who were
able to travel made their way to the
hospital at La Garriga, miles away.
The roads leading out of Granollers
we're jammed with old men, women
and others fleeing from the town with
few belongings.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
CATHOLIC REVOLT
FLARES IN MEXICO
Open Rebellion in Tabasco
State Is Reported to
Mexico City.
BACKGROUND

Reuolt by Gen. Snturnino Cedillo
began May 20 tn San Luis Potosi
state in Merico after President
Cardenas had rushed seperal thou
sand infantry. capalry and other
armed units into troubled area.
Cedillo quickly fled hts pdlattal
Hacienda OF Las Palon,Gs, and bare
ly escaped capture p7,en his plane
iuns forced doDn near San Luis
Potosi City.
Evening star., 1938-05-31
BULLETIN.

President Roosevelt's reorgani-
nation bill will not be called up for
consideration again at this session
of Congress, according to informed
sources at the Capitol today. It is
hoped to adjourn Congress some
time between June 10 and June IS.