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witness stand what she thought Of
the New Orleans affair"

witness stand what she thought Of
the New Orleans affair"
I'm confident it Is q frame-up," !"
she declared.
AS soon as McCuistion was re-
called to the witness stand Rhea
Whitley, committee counsel, asked
him If he had an opportunity to
leave Washington after New Orleans
police notified Washington authori-
ties he was wanted for questioning
in connection with the murder in
the Crescent City of Philip Carey,
an official Of the National Maritime
Union.
McCuistion said he had read in
the newspapers he was wanted in
New. Orleans and could have "fied," I"
before his arrest.
I'm a SEAMAN" he declared. II
could have been on the way out"
McCuistion yesterday told news
papermen he was not in New
Orleans when Carey was slain and
charged that attempts to involve
him in the case constituted q
frame up"
Mrs. Crawford said Curran made
the statements she attributed to him
in the presence of "Jo-Jo" Curren,
who McCuistion later described as
"a tough little kid from Sing Sing
who idolized the Maritime Union
official, but was very much opposed
to Communism. Mrs. Crawford, in
her testimony. explained "Jo-Jo"
had committed suicide by Jumping
into the sea from . transatlantic
liner.
Tells Of Threats.
Mrs. Crawford spent most Of her
time on the witness stand describing
efforts to locate her son following
his desertion from the Spanish
Loyalist Army in 1897. She told Of
appeals to CurraA to help her locate
cCuistion, who finally was found
In Havre, France.
Throughout this period Mrs.
Crawford said she also appealed
to an official Of the Abraham Lin
coin Brigade in New York and said
she was told by him:
II have no use for your son. II I
have anything to do with 1t he's not
coming back"
When McCuistion--who previous
" had testified he had been "in and
out" Of the Communist party for IA
years-gave indications OF his In
tention to fight Communism Mrs.
Crawford said she was warned that
something's going to happen to him
II he ever starts anything against
the Communist party"
McCuistion 70 Re Recalled.
McCuistion IS to be recalled to the
witness stand for the fourth time
when the committee resumes It's In
quiry tomorrow at 10 am.
| He told newspapermen as he left
the witness stand today for . quick
lunch and to prepare for his appear
ance before the civil liberties divi.
sion Of the Department of Jastice
early Ia tn a1tegnOnn that ~ hAd
Evening star., 1939-11-01
PonhelIsnic Meeting Toniokt' !

The Panherenic Alumni Aasocia-
ton Of Washington win meet 1t z,
O'Clock tonight in wesley Hall. l7os,
Z street NV, for it, first dinner.
session Of the season. /.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Jonet Goynor's Successor
Also Is Honeymoonino

BY the Associated Press.
ENSENADA, Baja Calf, Aug.
17.-Janet Gaynor's successor in a
fllm role, like Miss Gaynor herself,
is honeymooning in the land of
manana.
Rochelle Hudson, who stepped into
her first big part when Miss Gaynor
withdrew from "Way Down East"
and who advanced quickly to star
dom after several pictures with Will
Rogers, was married late Tuesday
to HalsThompson Of Hollywood,
writer at Walt Disney Studios.
Like Miss Gaynor and Clothing
Designer Gilbert Adrian, who were
married at Yuma, Ariz., Monday,
Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson were some
where in Mexico" today.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Pepco Denies Using
High for Low Poles,
Muti|ating Trees
Alto Visto Complaint
Hit; Auxiliary Line
To Hospital Admitted
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 1.-THE Poto-
mac Electric Power Co. of Wash
ington has filed with the Maryland
Public Service Commission a denial
Of charges that the company sub
stituted high poles for lower ones
on Cedar lane, Alta Vista, Md,
and had mutilated trees on the
street.
The charge was made by James
B. Latta of 315 East Cedar street,
Alta Vista. Treasury Department
engineer, who told the commission
the poles were to carry an auxiliary
service to the new Naval Hospital.
The company used a report Of
J. H. Ferry, vice president and chief
engineer, in its reply.
Number Of Poles Reduced.
Mr.. Ferry said that the old IS
and 40 foot poles were in such con-
dition that it was necessary to
replace them and because of the
heavy tree growth it was consid-
cred advisable to use taller poles so
only minimum of tree e-trimming
would be required. In rebuilding the
line, he said, the number of poles
has been reduced from 18 to IL,
those erected consisting of eleven
IS feet high and one so feet.
Permission to erect new poles was
given by the State Roads Commits
sion and each property owner along
the route gave verbal or written
permission, according to the engi-
neer's report. The reply also stated
that permission to trim the trees
was given by the State Board of
Forestry and the work was done by
an expert under the supervision of
the State board.
Anticipates Hospital Line.
It is true, the report told the
commission, that the company an
ticipates running 13,000-volt line
from the Old Georgetown pike
through Cedar lane to the Rockville
pike. thence south to both the Naval
Hospital and the United States
Health Center
I'VE planned the auxiliary line
through Cedar lane in order to
avoid as far as possible coincidence
of hazards to service which would
exist II both lines to these impor-
tant institutions were run on the
same poles," the report stated.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
'Hexer' Of Redskins Foes
Faces Training Period in Jail

John Lone Star, who says he has
put the "hex" on opposing teams
for the Washington Redskins pro-
fessional football team many a time,
today may feel like the hex" has
turned on him.
Lone Star, otherwise known as
John Edwards, is a 47-year-old In
dian of River Bend Camp, Va. Un-
less friends come to his rescue, how
ever, he will spend the next 30 days
in the Hyattsville (MdJ Jail.
In imposing a penalty of $50 or 80
days on Lone Star yesterday in Hy-
attsville Police Court, Judge Walter
Green figured that, at worst, the
Indian will be at liberty in time
for the opening game on the Red
skins home schedule.
Brought before Judge Green yes
terday on drunk and disorderly
charge, Lone Star launched into a
story of how he had just moved
with his family to Prince Georges
County when he ran afoul of the law.
Did you move your family with
you from the Marlboro Jail?" Judge
Green asked casually.
Lone Star blinked and lowered his
head.
"You were arrested on the same
day you got out of the Marlboro Jail
after serving Is days on another
drunk and disorderly charge, weren't
you?" Judge Green continued.
Yah" Lone Star grunted discon-
solately.
You probably didn't recognize me
today, because I'm wearing eye
glasses" explained the judge. Il
wasn't wearing them the day you
appeared before me in Marlboro"
Lone Star told the court he had a
job with the Redskins passing out
Evening star., 1939-08-17

handbills to spectators.
When does the season start?"
the judge wanted to know.
Middle of September" said Lone
Star.
"All right, this is a second Of
fense, and I've got to be harder on
you this time. Thirty dollars or 30
days. If you can't pay the fine,
you can still be out in time for the
first home game"
William Maynard, colored, of
Lanham, Md, was fined $24O on
three charges of traffic violation.
County Officers E. r. Thompson
and r. A. Pearson testified that
on the night OF August 8 Maynard
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Then the Brush Fires

INDEX, Wash, Aug. II R.-
Thrifty citizens of this village re-
fused to 60 into debt to purchase a
new, modern fire engine. Instead
they bought secondhand manual
pumper from nearby Sultan.
Then came the brush fires.
The Presbyterian Church, parson-
age and five other buildings were
destroyed as the wind whipped the
flames into town.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
World Series Exclusive
On MutuoI System

The Mutual Broadcasting Co..
whose local outlet is Station VOL.
will have exclusive broadcasting
rights to the 1899 World Series, it
was announced today.
The sponsor of the broadcast series
will be the Gillette Safety Razor Co.
This Is the first time in the his
tory of the baseball classic that
play play descriptions of the
games will be heard solely over one
radio network. s . -.
& The series will be broadcast over
the $50 stations comprising the Mu-
tual chain and over an international
network as we'll
Evening star., 1939-08-17

sped down the Defense highway
near Bladenspurg at 80 miles an
hour, flashing his lights on and
of, apparently to avoid identifica-
ton of his license number, and that
he swerved across to the left of the
road.
Maynard entered a plea of not
guilty, said that he didn't believe
himself guilty of those offenses, that
he simply was driving along mot
paying much attention.
Judge Green fined Maynard $125
on the speeding charge, SIS for
failing to keep to the right of the
road and 500 for turning of his
lights Ito avoid arrest or identifi-
cation"
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Pleads to EmbezzIinq
Before Court-Mort;ol
Nv the Associated press

By the Associated Press.
San FRANCISCO, Aug. l7.-First
1t. Herbert Rocker, 80, Hewlett,
N. Y, an Army Reserve officer,
pleaded guilty before an Army
court martial board yesterday to
embezzling $500 in c. c. c. funds
while in command of c. C. c.
company at Harrison Gulch, Calf.
Sentence recommended, Army Of
ficers said, was dismissal from the
Army, forfeiture of all pay and al
lowances and confinement IL years.
The sentence will not become ef-
fective until 1t has been approved
by President Roosevelt. Place of
confinement will be designated later.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Expects Lunar Flight

I LIVERPOOL (R-"A successful
ascent to the moon within this cen
tury" is practical, says Prof. A. w.
Low, president of the British In
terplanetary Society, which is urg-
ing the Air Ministry to experiment
with rocket ships.
Evening star., 1939-08-17

Film fans of Mexico have turned
against the "ranchero," or cowboy
type OF picture.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Having qualified as Administrator
of the estate of Alexander Hargrove,
late of Vance County, North Caro-
lima, this is to notify all persons hav-
ing claims against the estate of said
deceased to exhibit them to the I'M
dersigned at the office of H. E.
White, Attorney, in Henderson, ~
c., on or before the 18th. day of
March, 1910, or this notice will be
plead in bar of their recovery. All
persons indebted % said estate will
please make immediate payment.
This the 18th. day of March, 1899.
ALFRED CARROLL,
Administrator of the Estate Of
Alexander Hargrove.
17-24-31-7-14-21 ~
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
Ballyhoo For
Politicians
Sought Free
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY HENRY AVERILL

Raleigh, March 24.-When North
Carolina politicians speak of free
dom" of speech, they mean they
want to be truly "free"' in the sense
OF without cost, according to the
terms of bill introduced in the Sen
ate yesterday.
They not only want it gratis and
for nothing, but they want to make
it as loud as they please without be-
ing troubled or hampered by any To-
cal anti-noise ordinances.
In short, the bill provides that
there shall be no restrictions upon
the use of loud speakers in North
Carolina where their devices are en-
ployed in political campaigns and for
the benefit of political candidates.
Under it, this freedom of ballyhoo
would prevail Notwithstanding any
and all local laws or ordinances
which prohibit the use of loud speak
ers in cities or towns or which levy
license fees therefor.
There is no direct evidence that it
was inspired by any particular per-
son, or for the benefit of any par
ticular purpose or cause; but pres
ence in Raleigh of Wilmington's
Mayor Thomas E. Cooper at the time
the bill was introduced has given
rise to more than modicum of sus-
picion that he is behind the bill.
Certainly it would not hurt the
campaign of sound and fury which
the New Hanoverian is said to be
planning for next years guberna-
torial primary. According to these
reports, Tom plans to hire himself
not hall, but fleet of sound trucks
and a quartet or two and go tour
ing of the State after the fashion of
Texas Lee O'Daniel who rode right
into the Lone Star governors chair
by means of hill billy band.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Having qualified before the clerk
of the Superior Court for Vance
County as administrator of the. es-
tate of j. D.. Neathery deceased, late
of Vance County, this is to notify
all persons having claims against
said estate to present them to the
undersigned on or before the 24th
day of March 1910 or this notice will
be pleaded in bar of their recovery
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate settle
ment.
This the oath day of March 1889.
r. r. NEATHERY,
Administrator of Estate OF
R. A. NEATHERY,
A. A. Bum, Attorney.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-24
Tax Value Is
Not Boosted
From Beauty
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel

Raleigh, March 24.-Taxation and
Identification, seldom associated to-
gether, will go hand in hand in North
Carolina under new rule Of policy
laid down in the pending machinery
act which will come before the Cen
eral Assembly for consideration with
in the next day or so.
For the most part, the 194-page
bill is full of pains and penalties,
leVies and assessments and the means
and methods of extracting the same
from more or less recalcitrant and
resistant citizenry; but along about
page 81 there is let into it bit OF
Illuminating sweetness and light, as
"policv' is announced as follows:
"It is hereby declared to be the
policy of this State so to use its syS-
tenn of real estate taxation as to en-
courage the conservation of natural
resources and the Identification Of
homes and roadSideS, and all tax as
SCISSORS are hereby instructed to make
no increase in the tax valuation OF
real estate as a result of the owners
enterprise in adopting any one or
more of the following progressive
policies:
81. Planting ana care OIL lawns,
shade trees, shrubs and flowers for
on-commercial purposes.
SO. Repainting buildings.
"3. Terracing or other methods Of
soil conservation, to the extent that
they preserve values already exist
ing
"a. Protection of forests against
fire"
And so property owners need not
go out and make their land and
buildings look as disreputable as pos
sible along about tax assessing time.
The assessors have their orders not
to penalize, but to favor, enterprise
which tends to beautify or conserve.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-26

asked that "every worker who wants
to remain free look long and
searchingly at each proposal"
He asked "every employer who
wants to remain at peace" to do the
same.
For One A. F. of L. Amendment
Wagner said he was prepared to en-
dorse only one of the A. F. of L.
amendments--to give employers the
right to petition an election.
He made the statement in answer
to questions by Rep. Bruce Barton.
Wagner said it "may be possible to
clear up the unit rule better than it
is now," regarding the size of bar
gaining units, but said that to restrict
the labor board to prescribing the unit
of collective bargaining to restricted
area might require a multiplicity of
contracts "where a union makes con-
tract with a group of employers"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-26
LOUISIANA LABOR
SEEKS SLARGE FUND

Shreveport, La. (ILNS).- The Lou
isiana State Federation of Labor fired
it's opening gun here in a victory
drive" to raise 100000 by Labor Day.
Approximately 500 attended the meet
ing. Holt Ross of Atlanta, Ga, south
ern representative of the American
Federation Of Labor, announced that
an appeal will be made among all un-
organized labor in the state "to come
into the folds of the A. F. of L.
E. H. "Lige" Williams Of Shreveport.
president of the state federation,
asked that every member of the fed
Grafton contribute 81 to the fund be-
tween now and Labor Day. The fund
will be used to meet employers dol
lar for dollar" in any labor difficulty,
Williams said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-26

We are 27.8 per cent below 1926
production
While little Latvia is producing "a
per cent over 1929
Even Germany is producing 262
per cent more than in 1929
And they want us to take on Eu-
ropes burdensi
We ought to be shipping some OF
our surplus over there!
There are a lot of detectives and
degenerates here, too
There!
That is the argument
At it's baldest and coldest-
Against the Wagner-Rogers Joint
Resolution
To raise the immigration bars and
let in 10000 children
Homeless, prosecuted, hopeless, hun
cry and scared
Spewed out because they have in
them blood of Hebrews
Escapes from pogroms and concen-
tration camps
Tapping at the door of the only
country with food enough
Land of inherited liberties
For which most of us had to do no
fighting
And our mothers did not raise US
to fight.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-26
WAGNER DEFENDS
LABOR ACT, But
APPROVES CHANGE

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-Sen-
ator Robert F. Wagner of New York
author of the National Labor Rela-
tions Act, defended the act before the
House labor committee, and declared
that "to dull this instrument would
be an act of unreason, to discard il
would be an act of folly"
He attacked bills proposed by Reps
Clare Hoffman and G. Arthur Ander-
son which would radically change the
act to separate the administrative and
quasi judicial functions of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board.
Under the two House proposals
Wagner asserted, "The employer
would be entirely free to meet or talk
to the strikers representatives, and
to destroy their organization by meth
! DDS of coercion and intimidation"
Asks Close Study of Proposals
He said that he believed employers
certainly should have the right tc
petition an election" and that nothing
in the current law denied this privi-
lege. This, he said, arose from 9
ruling Of the labor board.
The Senator said the amendments
proposed "by labor groups and by la.
boris friends deserve the most careful
consideration" but warned that while
some complaints against the law were
valid, "many of those who are indict
ing the labor act can lay no claims te
having been the friends of labor" HI
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-26
NATL FARM GROUPS
OPPOSE ACT CHANGES

Washington, D. G. (ILNS) Five
national farm groups asked Congress
to defeat the Norton wage-hour act
amendments. They complained that
the changes would "strait- jacket ag-
riculture"
The amendments redefine exempted
agricultural activities, provide ex-
emptions for white-collar workers
earning 5000 month or more, and
change other phases in the wage
hour law.
The farm groups circularized the
House with a letter charging that the
Norton amendments sponsored by
Representative Norton of the House
labor committee would strait jacket
agriculture, "and leave it helpless"
"At no time was the farmer given
an opportunity to express his views
before the committee" the farm or
ganizations pointed out. "This de-
spite repeated requests for public
hearings"
The protest was filed by the Amer
lean Farm Bureau Federation, Ma
tional Grange, National Cooperative
Milk Producers Federation, Agricul-
tural Producers Labor Committee and
National Cooperative Council
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-26
IS A
NATIONAL PROBLEM,
SAYS W.P A. DEPUTY

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-How-
ard O. Hunter, deputy administrator
of the Works Progress Administra-
tion. delivered a radio address which
was model of packed facts lighted
by clear reasoning, and blisterlng
Indictment of those who want to END
the federal governments part in re-
lief. The last will have to be omitted
for lack of space.
"Out of my close experience with
the problem of unemployment and the
various means used to relieve the suf-
fering caused by it," says Mr.. Hunter,
"I have reached some very definite
convictions.
"The first of these is that unemploy-
ment today and in the future is ma
tional problem and not local one.
| There is no local community in Amer
lea today that can do anything about
unemployment.
No Longer Emergency Matter
''The second conviction is that un-
employment in private enterprise is
no longer an emergency matter. This
is definitely and probably true. In
creased productivity of labor through
mechanization of industry and agri-
culture has made it possible to have
vastly increased production of all
kinds of goods with decreasing man
power. This means that private in
dustry in this country cannot for many
years to come absorb all of the un-
employed, no matter what government
does or does not dc. Stopping gov
ernment spending and stopping the
w. P. A. will only increase the num-
ber of unemployed.
"The fact that our business and
industrial system cannot absorb all
our unemployment is not, in my opin-
ion, an Indictment of the system, nor
of mechanical production.
I Urges Facts Be Faced
81 would not advocate the abolition
of any labor-saving device or mechan-
ical improvement. | would advocate
an honest recognition of the fact that
there is no way conceivable of re-
employing all the unemployed in any
short period of time in private indus
try. And | would advocate spirit
of intelligent cooperation on the part
of industry in meeting the problems
of democracy in answering the needs
of the unemployed.
''This leads up to my third convic
tion, that program Of public work
for considerable number of the un-
employed is an essential factor in the
continuation of a decent democratic
government and also in the preser-
walton of our economic system of pri-
vate enterprise"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-26

The House has passed and sent to
the Senate a bill forbidding Grover
Bergdoll to return to America. Why
not let him come and serve the prison
sentence that he lodged by running
away?
A man told New Jersey court the
other day that he had II children when
he married his second wife, that she
had II, and that % kids in one house
hold annoyed each other. How
strange!
+
George Stephenson was held up to
ridicule because he believed his loco
motive could be developed to go mile
minute. No one laughs when the
War Department announces an air.
plane expected to go more than
miles minute, 500 miles an hour.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-26
HAMILTON SPECIALS

Cards have been sent to all members
of Butler Aerie, No. 407, Fraternal Or
der of Eagles requesting that they
be present at meeting Monday night
May 10Th. A vote will be taken on
organizing a ladies' auxiliary. The
cards were mailed by Harry Hetterich
secretary.
Fifteen members of the Young Peo.
pies Dramatic Club of ST. Johns
Evangelical Church motored to Day
ton last Sunday afternoon to visit the
museums and art institute. The TRIP
included a picnic supper.
The annual memorial services will
be held in ST. Stephens Cemetery
Sunday afternoon, June A, at 2:3(
o'clock, it was announced by Rev
Patrick McArron, pastor of st. Ste.
phen's Church.
The services will begin with a pro.
cessional through the cemetery, abso.
luton prayers, prayers for the repose
of the dead, and a sermon.
Committees are to be appointed ano
other arrangements perfected by the
Butler County Republican Central
Committee tonight for the visit OF
Governor Bricker here probably in
June, Fred M. Stitsinger, chairman
said tonight.
First solicitation in the employees
division of the Hamilton Community
Chest campaign, which is to be opened
officially June 5, was begun Wednes-
day morning at the General Machin-
cry Corporation, North Third Street
The workers hope to complete their
canvass this week. Solicitation in all
other branches of the division is to
be begun Monday.
Bathhouse facilities at the East
view municipal swimming pool will
be improved when the pool opens early
in June. Twenty-four boys, under the
supervision of the National Youth Ad-
ministration, are building new bath
stalls and repairing the fixtures. The
N. Y. A. is spending $575 for labor and
the city $40O for materials. Fred
Sanders is the project supervisor.