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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-06-17

ter Bradford Jones told postal inspec-
tors and state police that he had been
held up and beaten into unconscious
ness by an armed negro. Approx
mately $500 was taken from the post
office.
No suspects have been arrested.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-06-17
BIG PERCENTAGE OF
YOUTH USE INTOXICANTS

According to a survey of the Amer
lean Youth Commission among the
Evening star., 1938-03-23
STOCKS SELL OFF
ST TO SIS OR MORE
U. S. Steel Hits New Two-Year
Low at $47-Break in Carrier
Issues Starts Drop.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 23-Selling
which left the reporting machinery
several minutes behind transactions
drove stock market prices down 81 to
IS or more for many active leaders in
early trading today, but prices recov-
cred little toward midday.
Brokers saw many of the bell
wethers of the list at or approaching
the crossroads of the lows touched
in last falls selling wave and feared
the psychological effect on holders if
downturn should carry decisively
through those levels.
The general uneasiness was said to
have induced selling by some big in
vestors. which in turn had induced
many others to liquidate.
Rails, under the strain of falling
revenues and recent rate increases
which many termed inadequate" ap-
peared to have started the decline,
which quickly spread to other divisions
of the market.
United States Steel made a new
two-year low before meeting support
around the SAT level, and others show
ing losses of as much as So or more
included Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler.
International Harvester, j. I. Case and
Johns-Manville. Westinghouse Elec-
trio and Allied Chemical were OIL more
than S. each near noon.
AS midday approached selling slack
ened and the ticker tape was able to
catch up and relaxed selling pressure
permitted many of the earlier losses
to be reduced by 81 or so.
Evening star., 1938-03-23
THREE Die AS PLANE
FALLS AND IGNITES
Pilot, Unidentified Woman and
Son of Foreman of Auto
Plant Killed.

BY the Associated Press.
BENTON HARBOR, Mich, March
23.-Two South Bend, Ind, men and
an unidentified young woman were
killed shortly before midnight Tues
day when their four-seat plane crashed
into a swamp and burst into flames 2
miles north of Benton Harbor.
The men were Fred Wharton, 25 a
pilot with separate years experience,
and George v. Hepler, jr., 10, whose
father is general foreman of the
Studebaker Corp. plant and active in
South Bend public affairs including
promotion of aviation.
The plane cracked up shortly after
it left the Benton Harbor Airport on
q return trip to South Bend.
As the plane fell in swamp depu-
ties and volunteers went to the scene
to carry out the bodies.
The two men were badly burned but
the woman's body was thrown clear
Of the flaming wreckage.
Evening star., 1938-03-23

The District grand jury, which con-
Quoted an exhaustive investigation
last week into the Staying March 8
OF Leroy Keys, 3S, shell-shocked COL
ored World War veteran, officially
ignored the case today.
The jury's report automatically
clears Policeman John w. Nally OF
a homicide charge placed against him
after two coroner's iuries had been
unable to agree as to whether he
was criminally responsible for the
shooting. His s1,500 bail was auto
matically discharged.
Unless new evidence comes to light,
official investigation of the killing
probably is at an end, since the grand
jury's action represents the firal step
in the orderly legal procedure.
Keys was slain in his home at 247O
Ontario road NV, where he had
locked himself in. defied capture and
then set the place afire, an act which
police believed endangered the lives
of other persons in the house. Sew
eral shots were fired at him, and bal
listic tests indicated, it was said, that
bullet frfom Officer Nally's gun end
ed his life.
Mr.. Nally is the son of Detective
Sergt. Thomas Nally, veteran men,
Der of the Metropolitan Police force
He is a former Catholic Uniyers rsity
and Eastern High School athlete and
holds a second lieutenant's commits
sion in the Army Reserve Corps
A number of civic and veterans or
ganizations criticized the shooting, ex-
pressing the belief less drastic meas
ures, such as tear gas, could have
been employed.
Evening star., 1938-03-23
By tie Associated Press.

6S tAC hooOClhtcu IIcSh.
GAINESVILLE, Ca, March 23.-
President Roosevelt declared today
that national progress and prosperity
"are being held back chiefly because of
selflshness on the part of a few"
In a prepared outdoor address re-
plete with fresh attacks on special
privilege" and the ''feudal system, u
which he ranked with Fascism, the
Chief Executive also bluntly told Geor-
gia and the lower South that their
wages were far too low"
He called for Cooperation all along
the line" to rebuild the Nation on
sounder lines.
I'VE propose to go forward and not
back" he said.
Stopping here en- route from WASH
ington to Warm Springs, Ga, for To-
day rest, the President dedicated
Roosevelt Square. center of Gaines
ville's resurrection, with Federal aid
from disastrous tornado two years
ago. The President arrived aboard his
special train at IL am
Gainesville's cooperation IN the re-
building, he said, presented a prin-
ciple which if applied to national
problems would amply solve our ma
tional needs"
Evening star., 1938-03-23
Wages in South Far Too Lo,u,'
Roosevelt Tells Gainesville
Assails sFeudal System,' Declaring
Prosperity Is Being Blocked
by SeIfishness.

Mr.. Roosevelt then declared pros
perity was being retarded by "sel-
fish" minority who believe in q "dif-
fe1ent theory of government" give lit
tie thought to the "one-third ill-fed,
ill-clad and ill-housed," and regard
balancing the budget as more impor-
tant than appropriating for relief
But this Nation" he said in taking
his audience back to the Harding.
Coolidge and Hoover regimes, will
never permanently get on the road to
recovery if we leave the methods and
the processes of recovery to those who
owned the Government of the United
States from 1921 to 1888"
Hitting at his critics in Congress,
he said the selfish" few had the
same type of mind" as those who
vote against legislation to help social
and economic conditions, proclaim
ing loudly that they are for the OBJ
jectives, but do not like the methods,
and then fail utterly to offer better
method Of their own"
Then turning to conditions in this
my other State" the President spoke
in vigorous language against low
wages and low buying power. Many
in the audience believed he was refer
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1938-03-23
CRITIQUE OF TECHNIQUE!
England Holds
Italy'De Facto'
Ethiopia Ruler
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, March 23.-Haile Selassie,
the exiled Emperor of Ethiopia, lost
another battle today.
Chancery Court refused jurisdiction
in Selassies S50,000 suit against Gable
& Wireless, Ltd, and ordered him to
pay court costs.
The Negus contended the money
was due him under an agreement for
wireless service to London the day he
fled Adds Ababa in 1886.
The case revolved about whether
Selassie still was the sovereign power
of Ethiopia. The foreign Office, in re-
sponse to the courts inquiries, said it
recognized the Italian government as
the de facto government of virtually
the whole of Ethiopia"
The cable company had contended
King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy is
now the Ethiopian sovereign and that
Selassie's cause for action was vested
in the Italian government.
However, Mr. Justice Bennett point
ed out that Britain also continues to
recognize Selassie as Emperor de
jure" and said SeAssie's remedy
should be through diplomatic instead
OF legal channels.
Evening star., 1938-03-23

Confidential negotiations are under
way between the Federal Government
and the owners of the Chesapeake 4
Ohio Canal, it was learned today. with
q view to purchasing part Of the prop
crty for park and recreational pur-
poses. Government appraisers are 1T
work estimating its value.
The plans Of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission have
considered the possible use Of the old
canal, which runs from Cumberland,
Md. to the mouth of Rock Greek here,
as part Of . scenic development and
adjunct to the Washington parks sys-
tenn. One plan proposes that high
way be constructed over the canal right
Of way. Another program would pre-
Evening star., 1938-03-23
By ], A, O'LEARY.

The Controller Generals Office in
CURED the displeasure of "those in
high Office" by refusing to approve
certain Federal expenditures in recent
years. Senator Byrd. Democrat, of
Virginia, asserted in the Senate today
in a final plea against abolishing that
ofice under the pending reorganiza-
ton bill.
Leading the opposition bloc, the vir-
ginian is fighting to strike out the
provision that would split the func-
tions Of the General Accounting Of
flee by lodging control over current
accounting in the Budget Bureau. with
new auditor general to make post
audits.
In view of the failure of the opposi-
ton to change other essential features
of the bill, however, the odds favor
the administration to sustain the pro-
posed new accounting system.
Following decision on the General
Accounting Office, possibly late today,
the only remaining major test will be
the motion to recOmmlt the entire bill.
TOO Diligent."
Senator Byrd declared that, stripped
of all Its technical phases, the pending
issue is whether Congress should have
an officer, responsible to Congress, to
prevent unauthorized or illegal ex-
penditures, or transfer the function to
the director of the budget, an officer
subject to removal by the President"
He said no one has charged that the
controller general failed to carry out
the purpose for which the Office was
created, namely, to prevent unauthor-
lied expenditures The main charge,
he said, is that he has been too
dillgent, land has incurred the dis
pleasure of those in high Office" AS a
result, the Senator added, 19 New Deal
agencies created in recent years have
been exempt from supervision of the
General Accounting ONCE.
Some Of the decisions which Senator
(See REORGANIZATION page A.ll
Evening star., 1938-03-23
Ship Rescuers Dispatched.

TROMSOE, Norway. March % (P.-
A Norwegian government fishery pro-
lection vessel was dispatched today to
the rescue Of the sealing vessel Isfjell,
with 81 men aboard, disabled tn pack
ice between Spitzbergen and Green
land. The Isfjel lost her propeller
Monday and radioed that 4 hurricane
and heavy swell made her position
critical.
Evening star., 1938-03-23
Part of Old e.. and o. Canal
May Be Bought for u. S. Park

serve the scenic aspects Of the historic
waterway for its historical value. The
Government officials see in the old
canal potentialities for canoeing in
still water; picnic groves and other
attractions.
Ownership Of q portion Of the canal
In the vicinity Of K street and the
Rock Greek and Potomac Parkway has
been IN dispute in recent years, the
Federal Government claiming part of
1t for the parkway. A portion Of the
canal Is now entering within the Rock
Creek and Potomac Parkway. near
where the creek flows into the Po-
tomac River.
At present the canal company fur
nishes water power for the operation
a some paper mills IN Georgetown.
Evening star., 1938-03-23
Insurgents Shift Offensive.

HENDAYE, France, March % R.-
nsurgent guns thundered east and
northwest Of Huesca today as Gener-
alissimo Francisco Franco shifted his
drive northward to uberate that pro-
vincial capital In Eastern Spain from
its government pocket"
simultaneously, the southern Ara
gon army dug in along the Alcaniz
front with its guns raking the main
Valencia Morella Gandesa highway
from advantageous positions.
Evening star., 1938-03-23
PRESIDENT CLAIMS
LEGAL RIGHT FOR
MORGAN REMOVAL
Says Congress Clearly Has
Power to Hold Quiz of
T.V. A. Issue.
OPINION BY JACKSON
OFFERED IN MESSAGE
Custer of Chairman Necessary,
Roosevelt Declares-Senate
Probe Move Lost.
One Doesn't Ignore
The President,' Says
Morgan of Custer
Ey the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, March 23.-Dr.
Arthur E. Morgan. ousted chair
man Of the T. v. A., said at
press conference today I do not
believe it suitable for me to add
anything now to what I have
said" regarding his case.
Il do not choose to run away"
he told reporters but declined to
make any definite statement on
his next move.
DR.. Morgan came here by train
this morning.
Asked if he considered himself
ousted by the Presidents action,
DR.. Morgan replied, lone doesn't
usually ignore the President"
He said legal counsel" could
answer better than he whether
his position with the Authority
was vacant.
Evening star., 1938-03-23
DR.. RUMELY AGAIN
DEF|ES SENATORS
Second Subpoena Fails to
Produce Records for
Lobby Inquiry.
By the Associated Press.

DR.. Edward A. Rumely refused again
today on service of new subpoena to
produce records of the National Com
mittee to Uphold Constitutional Gov
eminent for scrutiny by the Senate
Lobby Committee.
Committee representatives served
new subpoena on DR.. Rumely, execu-
tive secretary of the committee. calling
for letters written by Frank E. Gan
nett. newspaper publisher and spon-
sor of the organization. to DR.. RumeIy
and Glen Hancock, assistant secretary.
The subpoena called for letters writ
ten on specific dates in May and June,
1887, which might influence, encour-
age. promote or retard legislation"
This was during the Senate fight over
President Roosevelt's plan to reor-
ganize the Supreme Court.
The subpoena also asked for records
on the committees efforts to control,
directly or indirectly, the sources or
mediums of information"
Answers to Be Same.
You refuse to produce those letters
in obedience to this subpoena?" asked
Chairman Minton.
Absolutely" Dr. Rumely replied.
He said every reply to requests for
records in what he termed a fishing
expedition" would be the same.
DR.. Rumely, called by the Senate
committee last week for an investiga-
ton OF the committees activities in
opposition to the reorganization bill
pending in the Senate, refused then
to produce records demanded by the
committees first subpoena.
The witness told the Lobby Com
mittee today that he would not produce
list OF persons who had contributed
500, or more. to the Gannett organiza-
tlon, because no such list existed.
Says Authority Exceeded.
Elisha Hanson, attorney for DR..
Rumely, told the committee he had
advised his client not to comply with
the new subpoena because he charged
the information on which it was based
was obtained illegally by H. A. Blom-
quist, committee investigator.
He said Mr.. Blomquist had learned
the dates Of the letters when he ex-
amined the organizations files in New
York under authority of the first
subpoena. Mr.. Hanson characterized
the original subpoena general
search warrant" in which he said the
committee had exceeded it's authority.
When the committee adjourned
Chairman Minton issued statement
in which he charged that Prank F..
Gannett's lobbying organization" was
attempting Ito thwart the Senate in
quiry by the old dodge of delay through
legal process which he and his lawyers
well know would collapse in the end"
Senator Minton contended the Com
mittee to Uphold Constitutional Gov
ernment had mailed out more than
100000 pieces of literature and has
spent hundreds of thousands of dol
lars" in attempting to influence legis-
lation.
"The Senate committee has an OBJ
legation to the American people, by
direction of the Senate, to ascertain
whether, or not. such organizations
sponsors have any motive other than
appears on the surface" Senator
Minton said.
Evening star., 1938-03-23
ARMY BILL SETS
18-YEAR RECORD
$447,808, ,555 Appropriation
Is Urged by House
Committee.
By the Associated Press.

/ b' ti.t faoooSldtCQ IlCoS.
The House Appropriations Commit
tee today asked Congress to provide
more money for the Army than it
has in l8 years.
The sum, $447,808,555, for the fiscal
year beginning July l. was s32.545.-
900 more than the current year and
only $50, ,754 900 short of the figure for
1901, when the army Of occupation
still was in Germany.
The committees recommendation
was below the Budget Bureaus esti-
mates, but included almost all of
the money President Roosevelt asked
in January for anti-aircraft guns,
manufacture of machines to produce
armaments and for replenishment of
ammunition supplies.
Approximately one-fourth of the
total appropriation, s124, ,0Oo. 900, would
go to the Air Corps The committee
said that among other things this fund
would provide 476 new planes, bring
ing the Army's total to 3.3o2.
Bureau Overruled.
The committee overruled the Budget
Bureaus recommendations in two
major instances. 1t increased the Ma
tional Guard appropriation 1885 1877
to provide an expansion in enrolment
from 100000 to 205,O0O on April l,
1899
The committee also recommended
that citizens military training camp
appropriation remain at S2,275, 900, al
though the Budget Bureau had pro-
posed cutting it to 100000. The
Army will train IS 1000 youths with the
money.
Among the Presidents recommended
tions which the committee followed
were appropriation of $6,800,000 for
anti-aircraft material; $5,000,000 for
manufacture of guages. dies and other
aids in making Army material, and
s2,000,000 to make up deficiencies in
ammunition.
The committee did not approve Mr..
Roosevelt's suggestion that $45OO 900
be provided for creation of a new en-
listed reserve force, on the ground that
legislation creating the reserve had
not been enacted.
Major Items in Bill.
Major items in the big bill are: Pay
OF the Army, s165,316,700; Quarter
masters Corps (food, clothing, trans
portation, etc., $86. .485, ,402: Air Corps,
proper, $70,799,532. plus authorization
to contract for $l9,126,894 worth of
new equipment; Ordnance Depart
ment, $33, ,620,074; seacoast defenses,
lSee APPROPRIATI0NS page A-ll
Evening star., 1938-03-23
Arms Withdrawal Demanded.

AAhS "ltuuIdWdl OCIu0huCus
PARIS, March % N.-French OFF,
cial sources said today France had told
Britain she was convinced that with
drawal Of foreign armaments from the
Spanish civil war must be linked with
the question of withdrawal Of the men
when this issue is discussed in the cur
rent Anglo-Italian talks.
Premier Blum, it was said, made this
clear to Prime Minister Chamberlain
through diplomatic channels. Oficials
here estimated that 400 modern war
planes manned and commanded by
Italian and German officers were con-
centrated in insurgent Spain. The per-
manent character of strong insurgent
air bases at Burgos, zaragoza and
other cities has worried the French air
ministry.
Evening star., 1938-03-23
c. A. 0. DEFENDED
BY SENATOR BYRD
Controller, TOO Di|igent,'
DispIeased Those in High
Office He Says.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Regrouping OF Government de-
pdrtmentS and bureaus is one OF the
most cherished reform measures
OF President Roosevelt and White
House advisers. AUdre OF strong
opposition. administration leaders
tUithheld bill from debate during
special session last jail, but are de-
ter1nined to pass it in present ses-
sion Early Senate tests on efforts
to amend bill indicate SUFFICIENT dd-
miniStTGtton poUer.
Evening star., 1938-03-23
Msgr. Ready Assails Hull.

By the Associated Press.
Msgr. Michael ]. Ready. general
secretary of the Catholic Welfare
Conference, said last night Secretary
of State Hull was not consistent in
his treatment of events in Spain.
The clergyman declared Secretary
Hull was silent when priests we're
murdered. but expressed horror at the
bombing of Barcelona.
Msgr Ready's statement follows:
Secretary of State Hull's exression
Of adherence at the hundreds of
deaths in Barcelona due to air bonn
bardment of that city reiterates this
Governments honorable position in
respect to a humane prosecution of
war. Mr.. Hull's reputation as a
distinguished American statesman
bears out the sincerity of his ex-
pressed grief. However, it cannot
fail to emphasize in many minds Mr..
Hulls complete silence when, also
in Spain. not hundreds, but many
thousands of priests and religious were
wantonly murdered These killings
had back of them not even the at
tempted justification of military ex-
igencies: they were perpetrated on the
simple basis of the victims being re-
ligious. Nor did Mr.. Hull feel called
upon to express horror. when, nearer
to our own country, in Mexico, civilians,
as well as religious, were killed in the
course of vicious religious persecu-
ton which still persists.
Gen. Franco in Spain asserts that
Barcelona held many military OBJ
jectives, such as munitions factories,
and that this justified the aerial
bombings. No one can be anything
but deeply regretful and shocked over
the fact that civilians in Barcelona
have suffered death from the air,
under whatever circumstances. One
would, however, expect from the lead
ing cabinet officer of our Government
somewhat more consistency in the
matter of such expressions as Mr.. Hull
has just issued"
Evening star., 1938-03-23
Staying Of KEYS
IGNORED BY Jury
Report Automatically Clears
Officer in Death of War
Veteran.

The killing OF Leroy Keys uas
subject OF ttCo protracted coroner's
inqnests, ,Uith jury failing to agree
in each instance, although second
panel 1tsited scene, and both heard
numerous witnesses. Presentation
to grand jury Uas ordered by United
States Attorney Dautd A. Pine, task
requiring three days and ~ uit-
nesses.
Evening star., 1938-03-23
GRANT HOLDS LEAD
GOODWIN Trails in Primary for
House Seat in Alabama.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, March % (HD.
George M. Grant, 40-year-old
Troy bachelor, attorney and sports
man. held 62O-vote lead over r.
Tyler Goodwin, Montgomery veteran
lawyer and legislator, in special
congressional Democratic primary to-
day as returns trickled in from rural
areas. The second district seat in the
House was vacated by Lister Hill. now
in the Senate as the successor Of
Justice Hugo Black.
Evening star., 1938-03-23
LITHUANIAN PREMIER
CONTINUES ON LEAVE
Likelihood of Cabinet Crisis Soon
Discounted as Tubelis Stays
in Switzerland,
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KAUNAS. Lithuania, March a.
The leave Of absence Of Premier Juozas
Tubelis. who IS Ill in Switzerland, was
prolonged for month today, indicat-
ing = cabinet change was not immi-
nent in the wake Of the Polish crisis.
At the same time it was learned Col.
Kazsis Skirpa, Lithuania's delegate to
the League Of Nations, would be named
Minister to Warsaw.