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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-10
Leaves Hospital.

Leaves HOSpICaI.
Mrs. E. A. Hoyle, who underwent
a major operation at Maria Parham
hospital, has returned to her home
and is reported to be improving grad
ually.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
PART FIVE.
New clue Is Found
To iorsc Slayer
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Jan. 7.-Detective
Peter Merylo, dogged veteran of q
three-and-a- -half-year search for
Cleveland's mad torso killer, rubbed
his hands hopefully today over the
latest development in his blood
splattered chase.
He called "a very precious clue
the best tip we've had a letter
police received from person in Los
Angeles purporting to be the long
sought slayer.
There are certain things in that
letter that make me believe its
writer knows plenty about the torso
cases" Detective Merylo commented.
For instance he tells of killing
somebody out there and severing
the head. Then he buries the head
minus features Several of the
heads we found here were disf1gured
with lye."
The letter said the --latest victim,
the head, minus features" was
buried in gully on Century boule-
ward" Los Angeles.
The letter also contained refer
ences to Pasteur, science, and the
medical profession, which Detective
Merylo said confirmed his belief the
killer is madman, experienced in
surgery, who is attempting some
fanciful experiment with human
blood.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Wage.Hour Law Aids
Equal Rights Proposal

Passage Of the Wage-Hou Act
has given the proposed equal rights
amendment a new lease on life in
the opinion Of Mrs. Stephen Pell,
chairman of the National Woman's
Party.
Mrs. Pell is in Washington over
the week end to be guest of honor
at a banquet at 8 pm. tonight at
party headquarters. IA B street
NE. The banquet opens the 25th
year of the party's existence.
In an interview yesterday Mrs.
Pell said that the constitutional
amendment which would guarantee
that men and women shall have
equal rights throughout the United
States and every place subject to
its jurisdiction" stands a better
chance than ever of being passed
because national precedent in the
form of the Wages and Hours Act
has hurdled the chief obstacle in the
path of the measure.
Before passage Of the act, Mrs. Pell
explained, legislators opposed the
amendment on the grounds it would
either junk existing wage-hour leg
islation for women or extend such
legislation to men In what hereto
fore has been termed violation Of
the contractual right of men guar
anteed in the Constitution.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Detective Who Cuuqht
SmuggIers Louded
By the Associated Press


NEW YORK, Jan. John
Sweeney, the detective whose astute
under-cover work led to the CAP
ture OF an alleged opium smuggling
ring. today received public COM
mendation and promise of promo
ton.
The praise came from Police Com
missioner Lewis j. Valentine, who
also recognized Sweeney's achieve
ment last night in capturing two
men who had held up and robbed
a motorist.
This second feat came less than a
day after seven men were trapped
in a spectacular waterfront gun
battle and opium valued in bootleg
channels at s250,0O0 was seized.
Long before the capture, Sweeney
had posed as a Marine police SER
geant corrupt enough to be bribed
for carting the opium from ship to
shore.
The seven prisoners-three from
Brooklyn and four of the crew of
an Italian freighter-were charged
with smuggling and possession of
narcotics. After the capture, Fed
eral agents left on secret assign
ments to Boston and Baltimore to
hunt for other members of the al
legged ring.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Senator Walsh in Forum
National Defense Will Be His Subject
Over Radio Tomorrow Night

National Defense" will be the
subject of an address by Senator
David I. Walsh, Democrat, of Mas
sachusetts in the National Radio
Forum at 10:30 pm. tomorrow. The
forum is arranged by The Star and
broadcast over a Nationwide net
work of the National Broadcasting
Co. The broadcast is heard locally
through station WMAL.
The Senator's topic will be time
ly one, inasmuch as President
Roosevelt stressed the need for an
adequate home guard in his message
to Congress, and other administra-
ton leaders have emphasized the
Importance of building up the Ma
tion's protective forces.
And as chairman of the Senate
Naval Affairs Committee and a
member of the Finance Committee,
Senator Walsh is well qualified to
discuss the subject.
Senator Walsh appeared in the
National Radio Forum in July, 1885,
when he discussed taxes.
He went to the Senate in 1918,
when he was the first Democrat
Massachusetts, sent to the senior
branch Of Congress since before the
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Peace and Democracy
League Protests
Dies Methods
Un-Americon Manner
Of Conducting His
Hearings Raped

An affidavit protesting against the
'un-American manner" in which
the proceedings of the House Com
mlttee on "Un-American Activities
have been conducted was filed with
Chairman Dies yesterday by DR..
Harry F. Ward. national chairman
OF the American League for Peace
and Democracy.
The affidavit was In answer to
charges filed with the Dies Com
mittee that the league itself has
engaged in un-American activities.
THE record of your hearings"
DIR. Ward stated, shows a con-
tinuous violation of the fundamental
principles of fairness and decency.
Although your committee was pre-
sumably interested in ascertaining
what the American League for Peace
and Democracy Is and stands for,
you failed to call single representa-
tive of the league, to make any in
quiries Of the league, or even to
permit the league to submit the
facts to your committee"
Instead, DR.. Ward stated, the
committee permitted persons pref
udiced toward the league Ito clutter
up the record with falsehoods, sly
insinuations and half truths"
The league chairman said this
group had forwarded a protest to
Speaker Bankhead.
He admitted there are Com
munists in his organization, but
insisted the league lis to be judged
by their behavior in relation to the
organization and not by any other
connection"
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Four International Brigade Veterans
Here for Lift EMBARGO Meeting

is "a years old and a native OF
Boonton, N. ]. In New York City
he has been employed as labor
union organizer.
The others are Johnny Gates, rs,
Youngstown, Ohio, lieutenant COL
onel and political commissar of the
18th International Brigade, who said
he joined the loyalists two years ago
to help "stop the Fascists before
they got to America; Yale Stuart,
q, New York, headquarters COM
pany commander In the Lincoln
Battalion, whose left arm was shot
of in battle, and 1t. Elias Begelman,
2e, New York, the battalion's chief
observation oficer.
Gates was q friend of Jim Lard
ner, the New York newspaperman
and son Of the late humorist, Ring
Lardner. Jim also Joined the loyal
lists and has been missing so long
he is believed to have been killed
In battle.
Evening star., 1939-01-08

-Four young American veterans
from the Spanish loyalst army,
members of the last remnant of
United States volunteers to return
from the civil war, were in WASH
1ngton today to appear tomorrow
before the National Conference to
Lift the Spanish Embargo.
All of them are officers who fought
against the insurgents for more than
a year. One of them lost his arm
IN the Ebro River offensive last
summer. Another, taken prisoner
by the insurgents, escaped by over
powering his guards and swimming
the Ebro with an insurgent bullet
In his side.
The contingent, back only three
weeks, includes Fred Keller, hand
some and husky former pugilist,
political commissar in the Abraham
Lincoln Battalion. It was Keller
who escaped from his eaptoes. Hs
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Capone Transferred
ToCorrectiona| Jail
With Great Secrecy
Gonester to Serve Year
In Light, Airy Prison
Thut Hos No Wall
By the Associated Press.

SAN PEDRO, Calf, Jan. with
considerable secrecy, AL Capone
once millionaire overlord Of Chicago
gangdom, was transferred today to
the light, airy Federal correctional
Jail on Terminal Island in Los
Angeles Harbor, to serve year.
Capone was brought here from
Alcatraz Island Federal Prison in
San Francisco Bay. There he has
spent the last four and one-half
years.
Convicted Of income tax evasion,
Capone started serving a 1O-year
term in May, 1882, in the Federal
prison at Atlanta, Ga, before his
transfer to AlcatraZ.
Details of Capone's removal to
Terminal Island were suppressed.
At the $1380O00 Terminal Island
Jail, Warden Edwin Lloyd declared,
"All I can say is that he is here"
Transferred at Night.
From confidential source it was
learned, however, that deputies from
the United States marshal's Office in
San Francisco brought the former
gang leader south on an overnight
train.
He was removed from the train at
Glendale this morning and taken by
automobile 80 miles to Terminal
Island.
Transfer to fiat, sandy Terminal
Island, which lies almost against
the mainland shore, is somewhat of
a promotion" for Capone after his
not-too-happy years at grim Alca-
traz, which was fitted up especially
for hardened desperadoes. There is
no wall around the Terminal Island
institution.
Tax Sentence Due to End Soon.
The Terminal Island Jail was
opened last May primarily to pro-
vide better conditions for short
term Federal prisoners than could
be counted upon in the county jails
of Southern California and ada
cent Southwestern States, Federal
Prison Director James Bennett said
at the time. It was planned that
no prisoners with terms exceeding
l8 months should be brought here.
At Alcatraz, Capone was involved
in fist fights. He also was stabbed.
in June. 1886 with scissors welded
by another prisoner and was re-
ported to have been ostracised by
fellow convicts in September, 1897,
for refusing to participate in Sit
down strike.
Capone's term for tax evasion is
due to end January 10, counting
of credits. He still has a years
misdemeanor sentence hanging over
him, however.
(Story on decline of Capone's
power will be found on Page C-5.)
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Jewish Boy Refugee Delegate
To Democracy Session
Michael Now ID,
Left Germany
a Years Ago

A 14-year-old Jewish boy whose
mother sent him out of Nazi Ger
many four years ago is the youngest
delegate attending the Fifth Ameri-
can Congress for Peace and De-
mocracy.
Michael is his given name and
only Michael" appears on his dele
gates badge. His father, a professor
OF languages, is still in Germany
and because Of the fear of possible
reprisal against his parent, Michael
Is not using the family name when
he tells Of conditions in Germany.
Michael, blond, blue-eyed and
well-educated lad, now lives with
his mother and 13-year old sister,
Hannah, in New York. They came
to this country a year and a half
ago. The boy was sent to the con-
gress as a delegate from Metropoli-
tan Vocational High School, where
he is learning to be a printer.
Sent to Holland.
Speaking almost perfect English,
with hardly a trace of his native
German accent. Michael told how
his mother sent him and Hannah
away from their Berlin home to
boarding school In Holland in 1884.
Michael was only 10 years old then
and he didn't know why he was
sent to Holland.
Il know now," he said ut was too
dangerous. 1t was just after the
Staying Of several high Nazis."
In New York, Michael's mother
works to support the children, and
the only word they receive from his
father is by family grapevine tele-
graph. Michael has an uncle in
Switzerland and other relatives in
New York, and through them his
mother learned recently the father
is still in Germany and trying to
reach the United States.
Reads Newspapers Closely.
The lad displayed a wide knowl-
edge Of current world affairs. He
reads newspapers closely and regu-
Evening star., 1939-01-08

larly and believes that some day the
Nazi regime will destroy itself by an
internal putsch, which will be the
result of strife and rivalry among
high NaZi officials.
A few months ago Michael at
tended the zero hour meeting for
Czecho-Slovakia in Union Square in
New York. This stimulated his
interest in the causes of the Ameri-
can League for Peace and Demo-
cracy, and in December the Ameri-
can Student Union invited him to
attend the congress which is in ses-
sion at the Rialto Theater this
week end.
Michael likes the United States
very much" He is a great admirer
OF DR.. Thomas Mann, noted German
author who came to this country as
a refugee recently. He has heard
DR.. Mann speak at several meetings.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Amateur Sky9ozers
Hear Expert Talk

Sky splendors and sky puzzles were
discussed last night by DR.. w. j.
Humphreys at the January meeting
of the National Capital Amateur
Astronomers Association in the Ma
tional Museum.
The former member of the Wealth
er Bureau described light defractions
In the atmosphere and analyzed sky
conditions of the morning and eve
ming. He told the astronomers about
the formation of rainbows and dur
ing his illustrated lecture pointed
out variations to be found resulting
from changing atmospheric condi-
tions.
DR.. F. R. Moulton, secretary of the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, will speak
February at the next meeting.
Officers for 1889 include Stephen
Macy, president: U. Sherman Lyons,
vice president; G. A. Peterson, treas
urer, and Mabel Sterns, secretary.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Link Of 5LiHIe Steel
Companies Charged
In Probe Report
Understanding on Policy
Indicated, Senate
Committee Soys
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
The Senate Civil Liberties Com
mittee asserted in an exhibit placed
IN its records yesterday that there
were indications Of "a sympathetic
understanding in matters of eco
nomic policy" among five companies
Of the Little Steel" group.
In statement, which the COM
mtttee included with the exhibit, E.
B. Greene, president of the Cliffs
Corp. and Of the Cleveland Cliffs
Iron Co. of Cleveland, charged that
I'm addition to many misstatements
OF fact, the exhibit contains numer-
GUS assumptions, inferences and con-
clusions which are incorrect and un-
founded"
Analyzing the corporate structure
OF the Republic Steel Corp. and the
youngstown Sheet e. Tube Co., the
exhibit said it found that the largest
financial interests in these compan-
les were controlled by the Cliffs
Corp. and the Cleveland Cliffs Iron
Co. in which William G. Mather was
said to be the dominant figure.
Girdler's Name Entered.
The exhibit said also that the two
Cliffs companies were among the
largest investors in the Inland Steel
Co., the Otis Steel Co. and the
Wheeling Steep Corp, all included
in Little Steel
The committee exhibit, citing
testimony taken during it's investi-
CATION last summer of the Little
Steel" strike Of 1887, said that ap-
parently Mr.. Mather and Cyrus
Eaton were instrumental in bringing
Tom M. Girdler into the combine"
by which the Republic Steel Corp.
was formed in 1929 and 1890.
Mr.. Girdler, president of the
American Iron and Steel Institute,
served as the spokesman for Little
Steel operators who fought against
unionization by the c. I. o. in the
1887 strike. Mr.. Eaton was described
as having sponsored" Continental
Shares, Inc, an investment trust.
S52,s2o,o0o Investments.
The exhibit said that at the end
Of 1887 the Cliffs Corp. and the
Cleveland-Cliffs Co. carried invest
ments in the five Little Steel" COM
panies which totaled s52,820, 900 on
the books.
The committee said another basis
Of community interest between the
steel companies was established
through common management of
iron ore properties, some of which
were managed by Pickands, Mather
& Co., a Cleveland mine manage
ment firm.
1t said H. G. Dalton of Cleveland,
senior partner in Pickands, Mather,
also is chairman of the board of
youngstown Sheet & Tube and
formerly was a director of Beth
lehem Steel Corp.
The committee quoted Frank
Purnell, president of the Youngs-
town Sheet & Tube, as saying i'm
portant questions of policy in that
company were referred to Mr..
Dalton.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
House Unit Head
ToAsk Lindberqh
To Testify
3y the Associated Press.

Chairman Vinson of the House
Naval Affairs Committee said last
night he intended to invite Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh to appear be-
fore the committee.
Representative Vinson said he
would write to Col. Lindbergh, who
Is spending the winter In Paris, after
President Roosevelt had sent his
message on national defense needs
to Congress.
The Georgian said he would ask
the noted flyer to give Congress the
benefit of his knowledge Of avia-
ton"
Col. Lindbergh and his family left
the United States December 20, 1885,
to take up residence in England.
They have remained abroad, except
for q brief visit to this country
q year ago.
The flyer was the center Of several
controversies during the past year,
including sharp attacks by the
Soviet press after a visit to Russia.
1t was reported Friday that he had
submitted a confidential statement
to United States officials on Ger
many's air strength.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Aid Reported Rushed
1oSouthwest 10 Stem
loya|ists' Advances
Government Said to
Have Driven n Miles
In Three Doys
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Loyalists, faced Nth Gen.
Frances mass driue on Barcelona
to Din the ,0dr. opened one OF
their o,On. A strategic mope,
the attack 1pas launched on the
southwestern front to divert at
tention and relieue pressure on
the pital Barcelona front.
By the Associated Press
HENDAYE. France CAT the Span
ish FrontieD, Jan. 7.-Insurgent
Generalissimo Francisco Franco
was reported tonight to be rushing
reinforcements to the Estremadura
front in Southwestern Spain in an
effort to halt a government drive
which apparently was gaining mo-
mentum.
Government troops were said to
have advanced approximately 81
miles in three days in the attack
which was begun to relieve insurgent
pressure on Catalonia, in the north
east, where Frances command re-
ported important successes.
Late in the afternoon the govern
ment reported capture of the COM
munications centers of Peraleda de
Saucejo and Fuente Ovejuna, in the
region about ITO miles southwest of
Madrid. Barcelona advices said
the drive thus far had resulted in
capture Of $50 square miles of in
surgent territory
To the south, government troops
approximately Is miles north of
Cordoba were fighting their way
westward through the Sierra de
Morena.
The insurgents reported their To-
day campaign in Northeastern
Spain, against Barcelona, capital of
autonomous Catalonia and provi-
sional seat of the republican govern
ment, was unchecked by the diver
sion attempted by the government
in the southwest.
1nsurgent advices said no reserves
had been shifted to meet the Estre-
madura offensive. The two fronts
are 375 miles apart.
Generalissimo Franco had ordered
the insurgent fleet from the vicin-
ity Of Gibraltar to support the Cata-
lonian drive possibly by shelling
Tarragona, major seaport about
so miles southwest of Barcelona.
The date of the fleets arrival was
a secret of insurgent strategy.
The principal point of insurgent
pressure was in the Sierra de la
1lena, where an army division was
said to have hemmed in the village
Of Ulldemolins, about Is miles north
west of Tarragona on a highway
descending to Reus and the Tarra-
gona coast.
This, part Of the southern wing
OF the offensive. had swung about
10 miles eastward from Granadella
In q week.
Foggy weather slowed the insur-
gent advances east of the Segre
River toward the fertile Urgel table
land. The offensive extended from
the vicinity of Artesa, which fell
during the week, southwark to the
Falset- -Tarragona road area, appar-
emily at no point closer than 60
miles to Barcelona.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Botistu to Visit Mexico

HAVANA, Jan. 7 @.-Col. Full
gencio Batista, Cuba's strong man"
and head OF the island republic s
army, announced today he would
leave January 81 for an official visit
to Mexico.
Col. Batista, who recently visited
the United States at the invitation
of President Roosevelt, was expected
to spend two weeks in Mexico.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
lnhaIator Used in Vain
FiQhf 10 Save Girl

Firemen used an oxygen inhala-
tor for almost an hour last night
in futile effort to save the life Of
5-year-old Mary Paulett Of 360S
Quesada place NV. who had suf-
fered throat hemorrhage following
the removal of her tonsils.
The child. daughter of Gray j.
Paulett, a buyer for a downtown
department store, had her tonsils
removed at a local hospital yester-
day. She came home today and ap-
peared to be recovering until the
hemorrhage developed suddenly.
A physician was summoned and
then Rescue Squad No. l after the
little girl tainted. Firemen Frank
McGovern and P. H. Thrift applied
the inhalator for more than 40 min
utes to no avail.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Nuns to Emiqrute

VIENNA, Jan. 7 R).-The Angus
tine nuns of Salzburg, whose schools
were famed throughout the Ger
man-speaking world, have decided
to emigrate to Chile, it was learned
today after they were compelled to
turn over their convent and school
to Nazi workers organizations.
A similar fate befell the school
sisters at Wells, in upper Danubia.
1t is not known what will become of
them.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Weather Report

District OF ColmbaFair
Tuesday mild temperature gentle
becoming east southeast by
Maryland
Tuesday ran mild temperature
West Vigna-Fa today
afternoon night continued mild temperature.
Evening star., 1939-01-08

The extensive Northern disturbance is
over extreme northern Hudson Bay.
Chesterfield. 1924 inches, while the dis
Friday night has moved northeastWsrd
to Southwestern Quebec Doucet 29.7O
inches. Pressure remains low over New
Mexico and Southwestern Texas Alpine.
Tex. 20. SO inches, and from Alaska south
eastward to Saskatchewan. Dutch Harbor.
Alaska. 1856 inches. Pressure is high
almost generally over the United States.
Western Ontario and the western Atlantic
Ocean. Asheville. N. c., 30.44 inches:
Pocatelle. Idaho. 30.36 inches. and Peoria.
has prevailed except for rain in Texas
New Mexico and Washington. and snow
in Northern Arizona; unseasona6ly mild
the Rocky Mountain region to the At
lantic Coast.
River Report.
potomac and Shenandoah clear at Har-
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Readers Guide
News Summary
PART ONE.
The Sunday Star, Jan. 8, 10
Main NeDS Section.

Foreign.
Phillips talks spur hopes for results
in Jewish situation. Page AZ
Britain and France put up stop"
signs to dictators. Page A-10
Daladier plans special session of
war council. Page Ais
Hungarian police wound 3 in new
border incident. Page Ais
National.
President urges all liberals to back
New Deal. Page Al
Proposed sales tax would exempt
liquor and gasoline. Page Al
Mooney freed, pledges life to new
social order" Page Al
Civil Service Commission defends
"blanketing in" order. Page A-l3
Panama and Nicaragua canal bills
introduced In House. Page B-4
Labor Board chairman hits back at
senator Burke. Page b.
Washington and Nearby.
Commissioners ask supplemental
FUNDS Tor library. Page Al
Work to start on two low-rent hous-
ing projects. Page Al
Lewis suggests evacuation Of strand
ed families on relief. Page Al
Walter johnson to officiate at burial
1or foXhound. Page B-1
commissioners due to approve drafts
OF D. c. legislation. Page B-1
Funds for National Guard Armory
seen by legislators. Page B-1
Evening star., 1939-01-08

Government employees In England
Increased 20.l62 to 37e.4e1 In the
last yeaS.