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The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06
WLB Locked.
In Arguments.
On Coal Wage.
M Indication Seen When
Vote May Come On
Latest Row
IN CLOSED SESSION
deliberations Resumed By
Board After Day OF
Indecision

w ADlI1ANN' "
Ry-The War Labor Board
was locked in argument to-
night over the Ickes-Leejs
coal wage agreement, and
there was no indication when
vote might come on the
onestion of approving it.
A vota originally had been
scheduled for II a. m. &c. W.
~ Members said last night
after all-day study Of the
nroposal that there was an
agreement to take a ballot at
that hour this morning. In
stead, the board remained in
session behind closed doors
all the forenoon, recessed for
lunch, and then resumed de-
ibprations which went on in
TO flo MONT.
Board Must Okeh Plan
The board must approve t h e
agreement if it is to become eff
ective, and reports from the coal
fields said many miners were de-
aving return to work until it
acts. Partial operations were re-
umed in major producing states.
John L. Lewis. president of the
United Mine Workers, ordered the
strikers to resume production as
quickly as possible after he and
Secretary of Interior Ickes. as gov
eminent operator of tn e seized
mines, agreed Wednesday on a
working contract for the period of
government operations.
One WLB member said tonight
al the start of a dinner recess
$3.50 to $3.50 pm. EWT) that the
board hoped to reach decision
Oh the agreement within hours.
This contract embraces essential
features of the previous agreement
negotiated between Lewis and the
Illinois operators association but
turned down by the WLB. To meet
WLB objections to the $3.50 a day
increased earnings provided in the
Illinois proposal, Lewis and Ickes
rup0Sed to increase the working
tine Is minutes by cutting the 30
minute lunch period in half.
It would mean a basic wage of
$3.50 a day for an 8 3-4 hour ''por-
tal-to-portal' working day. TIL e
scale has been 81 for a 7-hour
Gay calculated on the basis of time
spent at the coal face or seam.
Anthracite miners, adding IS r..
utes to their 7-hour working day
by a similar cut in the lunch pc
ROO, would receive 37.8 cents a
Gay increase in earnings.
With coal production reduced by
The series of earlier scattered
strikes as well as the general shu$
Gown beginning last Monday, there
We're increasing reports of f u e
Shortages.
Governor B. B. Hickenlooper an
bounced at Des Moines that the
iowa state capitol was so nearly
cut Of coal that a half-time heat
ing program was being instituted.
At Wilkes-Barre, Pa, in tn e
Eeart of the anthracite belt, it was
decided to extend the Armistice
LAY school holiday until the fol-
io"lng Monday because schools
are short of fuel.
reports on the progress of re-
Guided - W. - ' ''O'
IA Allnois-operations about IS to
~ per cent Of normal. Several
nous thousand miners asked to be al
t INV a, to go back to work under
tbe 1 Dla contract pending study Of
-OAeS'LeWls agreement, but op-
nued On Page Five. Col. a.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06
Japs Reinforcing Rabaul
To Offset Allied Drives



Saturday, Nov. 6-QP-Presaging heavy naval and air
cruisers from Tru Rabau in frantic effort to halt the
Allied drive up the Sooons headquarters disclosed today
1t appeared likely that at least five such conveys
are southbond over the 800 miles from Tru toward Ka
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06

Jap fighting strength in the southwest Pacific is
the
Allied march through the Solo
Isabel
Islands, ChOiseu Bougan
a mounting Allied strength and
waning fighting relationship the vital base to
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-06
WEATHER

FORECAST: y
NORTH CAROLINA: Cloudy and
warmer today.
Eastern Standard Time)
By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:30 p. M, yesterday.
Temperature
30 a. m, 81, 1880 a. m, so, 80
p. m, II, 7:3o p. M, ST. Maximum IS,
Minimum At, Mean CO. Normal SO.
Humidity
80 a. m, IS, 7:30 a. M, 81, 1870
p. M, II, 1880 p. m. 83.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880
p. M, 0.01 inches
Total since the first of the month,
0.01 inches.
Sunrise, $3.50 a. M, Sunset, Sis p. M.
Moonrise, 2:15 p. Moonset, 1924 a.
Tides FOr Todov
Evening star., 1943-06-02

the victims we're bludgeoned with a
heavy instrument and then while
they lay helpless were shot in cold
blood. The criminologist further said
there was no evidence of a struggle
by any Of the victims, indicating the
murderers probably we're known to
them.
The autopsies last night revealed
the following facts:
All the fatal shots were fired from
20 caliber rifle which lay at Mr..
Russell's side. A piece of stock of
an old rifle also was beside the
tenants body. On Mr.. Russell's S
person was found wallet belong
ing to the elder Love, containing a
check for 1891, made payable to
Mr.. Love. The skull of the elder
Love was crushed by blow from
croquet mallet as ne sat in a rocker
on his front porch.
Mrs. Love was killed with a single
bullet fired into her heart as she and
her son were in their dining room.
The skull of their son. James Love,
was crushed and he also was shot
through the heart.
Mrs Russell was shot twice,
through the right temple and
through the heart, in her two-story
home about 300 yards from the
Love residence.
Mr.. Russells skull was fractured
through rear head blow and he
also was shot through the heart
His body was found in corn field
near barn approximately 200 yards
to the rear of the Love home and
another 100 yards from his own
house.
Thus five persons were killed in
four different places.
One definite clue was supplied bv
Mr.. Blevins. He was talking with
Mrs. Fenton Piggott in front of her
home $50 yards uphill from the front
gate entrance to the Love farm. He
said it was shortly after 10 am.
yesterday when he saw a man un-
latch the Love farm gate and re-
enter an old gray or green automo-
bile on the right side. This indicated
to him that two men may have been
in the car, inasmuch as a driver
getting out from the left side ordi-
narily would re-enter an automobile
the same way.
1t was agreed among officials that
the five killings occurred between 8
am. and 10 am. Coroner Gibson
said that the blood there was still
uncongealed
They emphasized that dishes in
the Love kitchen had not been
washed, milk in the basement had
not been strained and the chickens
had not been watered or fed, indi-
eating the slayings occurred early
yesterday.
A metal-tipped stick was stuck in
the ground near Mr.. Russell's body.
He had been struck on the back of
the head and had no opportunity to
use the stick as a defensive weapon,
police said. It was used in thinning
corn.
Police attached great importance
to the stories told by the first two
persons to reach the scene of the
slayings. Mr.. Blevins told newspa-
permen:
II have a monthly route. My visit
to the Love farm was my second call.
Evening star., 1943-06-02
Trade Pucts
Continued From First Page.)

Secretary of State Hull, who insisted
any alteration would be interpreted
abroad as casting doubt on the de-
sire of Congress to have this Nation
cooperate with others in solving
postwar problems.
Critics replied that postwar poll
cies are not at issue, adding that
since little can be done toward ad-
iusting tariffs in war time the eX-
tension has no particular signifi-
canoe.
Before the final vote, the Senate
turned down long series of amend
ments, most of them offered by
Democrats.
With administration forces N the
saddle, the Senate defeated, a. to
80, today a proposal to amend the
legislation to provide for Senate
ratification of the trade agreements.
Maloney Plan Defeated.
Criticized as a proposal which
would disrupt the 9-year-old tariff
adjustment program, this amend
ment, offered by Senator Maloney,
Democrat of Connecticut, was re-
jected in action that presaged final
approval of the legislation in the
form in which it passed the House.
Although other restrictive amend
ments are in the offlng, administra-
ton leaders are confident they can
complete legislative action today on
the measure, extending the Presi-
dents authority to negotiate trade
agreements for two more years.
Acting Majority Leader Hill pre-
dicted passage by midafternoon as
a result of a unanimous agreement
to limit debate on remaining amend
ments.
If all amendments are defeated
and Senator Hill declared none had
a chance-the resolution continuing
the trade law will go to the White
House unaltered from the form In
which 1t passed the House.
Two Amendments Rejected.
It's approval by the President was
a foregone conclusion. The admin
istration had won a big point yes
terday in overriding with Repub-
Evening star., 1943-06-02

worked through the night in an ef-
fort to find clues.
| Police revealed the blood stained
croquet mallet was found early
today about As feet from the
front porch of the Love home and a
second gun had been discovered.
The mallet was hurried to Lees
burg, and then to Washington
where it was given to DR.. Rosenberg
who will conduct blood tests on the
instrument. The mallet, according
to Deputy Sheriff j. r. Chamblin,
who found the alleged death weapon,
was bloodStained at both ends and
blood had splattered halfway up the
handle.
Police reasoned the ma1let had
been tossed away from the porch
by the murderers with no attempt to
conceal the weapon.
DR.. w. H. Grubb of Purcellville,
brother Of Mr.. Love, said his son,
frequent companion of James, had
recognized the gun and was reason
ably" sure it was the gun belonging
to the slain youth.
The killers planted Morris Loves
wallet and three unfired 22-caliber
rifle bullets on the person of Mr.
Russell, in order to convey an
impression that Mr.. Russell had
hand in the killings, DR.. John
Gibson. Loudoun County coroner,
said. He also attributed the finding
of .22-caliber rife near Mr. Russell s
body as part OF plot to cast sus-
picion on the murdered farm tenant
Laborer Had Dispute.
DR.. Grubb pointed out that per-
sons hearing shots might not have
paid any attention to the noise
because of the known fondness of
James for hunting and target
shooting.
| Parker. former laborer on the
Love farm, allegedly quit recently
after disagreement over wages
Parker and his father had been
reared by the Love family.
Only the fact that Miss Sarah
Love, "a, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Love, was correcting examination
papers at Aldie, Va, where she
teaches high school, kept her from
visiting her parents and possibly
being a sixth victim, police and
neighbors speculated. A similar
opinion was offered by Wirth T
Blevins, salesman for an extract firm
and discoverer of the slayings, who
said matter of a few minutes de-
lay in reaching the Love home prob
ably saved his own life.
we are completely bafied," DR.
Gibson said. Mr. Love was pop
ular and highly esteemed citizen, his
wife and son likewise were highly
regarded and the Russells also en-
joyed a good reputation. Robbery
could not have been a motive, for
the elder Mr.. Love seldom kept
monty on hand, always paying his
bills by check. If revenge was the
motive we know no one he had
offended"
DR.. Rosenberg, who aided Coroner
Gibson in performing autopsies on
the victims last night. said his OBJ
servations led him to believe the
slayings were crimes of revenge"
committed by more than one. prob
ably two persons.
DR.. Rosenberg said he believed
that with the exception Of Mrs. Love,
Evening star., 1943-06-02
Transit Officials
Confer With WLB
On Baltimore Strike
Union, Disreeording
Buck-to-Work Order.
Won't Be Represented
By the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE. June 2.-Repre-
sentatives of the Baltimore Transit
Co., whose operations have been
partially affected for nine days as a
result of the strike of American
Federation of Labor members, went
to Washington today to confer with
the War Labor Board.
However, International Represent
ative A. H. Keeler of the Amalga-
mated Association Of Street Electric
Railway and Motor Coach Employees
said the union would not be repre-
sented. since the WLB had specified
the strikers must return to work to
become eligible for a meeting.
Meanwhile, several more instances
of disorders we're reported by city
} police. The officers said streetcar
motorman told them some one threw
can of paint through front win
dow of his home, splashing rugs,
walls and furniture.
The authorities added that an
other motorman suffered a cash
above his left eve when a brick was
nurled through the WINDOW OF a car
he was operating.
Transit company officials said
service still was running at a little
more than 80 per cent of normal.
The strike climaxed a lengthy,
three-cornered dispute involving the
company. the AFL union and the
War Labor Board.
The company declined to comply
with a WLB directive to reinstate
certain discharged employees. cease
recognition of an independent union
and recognize the amalgamated
union for the purpose OF settling
grievances, taking the matter to
the courts. 1t now is pending before
the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
at Richmond.
Evening star., 1943-06-02
U-Bouts
Continued From First Page }

Of the sea prowlers were damaged in
various attacks by Allied naval and
air attacks, Mr. Alexander reported
In the last two months. he as
serted, the number of U-boats in
Atlantic waters appears to have de-
creased This, he said, no doubt
was due to more than one cause. but
the principal one was undoubtedly
due to the rising rate of this de-
struction.
Mr.. Alexander described March as
"a poor month in the battle against
the submarines, but said it still was
not the worst month of the war in
the campaign to free United Nations
supply lines of the underseas
menace.
Because of the high output of
new shipping in the United States
he said. there was substantial net
gain of the overall tonnage in
March.
His statement disclosed that In
April and May merchant shipping
losses were reduced below the level
of the three months from December
to February after heavy losses In
March.
"a DNB report broadcast today
from Berlin and recorded by the
Associated Press listed IS British
and American merchantmen. to-
falling 100000 tons, as sunk in
May by Nazi submarines. This
was drastic reduction compared
| with the usual monthly totals
| issued by the Germans.
(The German summary also
| credited Nazi aircraft with sink
ing an additional $4,000 tons of
Allied shipping in May
Mr.. Alexander said the improved
situation reflected the growing sizt
of the Allied escort forces-botf
ships and aircraft-and the in.
creasing deadliness of the new
| weapons and devices.
Giving the lie to an Axis claim
that April sinkings fell off because
of the scarcity of shipping, Mr.. Alex
ander said that during that month
our imports were the highest since
the beginning of 1912"
Evening star., 1943-06-02

| tive of the killers. There was a
steady stream of automobiles passing
the main road leading from Hamil-
ton to Purcellville. In Leesburg
the county seat, grim determination
was voiced today to utilize every
resource to bring the killers to
justice.
May Have Been Called Out.
An indication that the killing
might have been committed by a
visitor or visitors who had called
Mr.. Love away from the breakfast
table and sat talking with him on
the front porch was seen today in
a description of the usual morning
routine OF the Love family. The
/ description was given by a hired
hand, who was working on the farm
today and was familiar with the
! habits of the victims.
Breakfast usually was eaten about
730 am, the hired hand said. Be-
fore breakfast, James Love MIXED
the cows. Immediately after the
meal, the milk usually was strained
while Mrs. Love went out to feed
and water the chickens and Mr.
Love went Immediately to the field.
he said. The chickens had not
been fed or watered and only the
youths boots were muddy when the
bodies were found.
The hired hand said Mr. Love
never went to sit on the front porch
after breakfast, but went directly to
work. When his body was found
yesterday, it was on the front porch
in sturdy white rocking chair.
Porch Door Open.
When police arrived at the scene
| they found the door between the
dining room and the porch partially
open, leading to the assumption
that the killers might have gone di-
rectly into the dining room and
killed the other two members of the
family after killing Mr.. Love on the
front porch.
The rocking chair in which Mr.
Loves body was found was near the
front door. The porch goes at right
angles and follows around the side
of the house. The dining room is on
the side of the house, and according
to the hired hand. was usually en-
tered through the side instead of the
+. front Goor.
The home is a very large, SUBJ
stantial, white frame house, sur
rounded by a well-kept yard. 1t is
about three miles off the main high
way. on dirt road. From this road
passersby can see the barn ano
tenant house, but cannot see the
homestead. which is completely sur
roun 1ed by trees.
Evening star., 1943-06-02

I saw a car drive away from the
Love farm, turning left in the direc-
ton OF Hamilton. I walked to the
front door of the Love home, set my
basket down as usual, and rang the
bell
Il turned to my left and saw Mr.
Love slooped in his rocking chair
and partially covered with an empty
feather bed tick. saw poo
of blood.
Called Neighbor.
II went to the tenant house anc
raped on the front door. Had ]
gone to the rear door I would have
seen Mrs. Russells body through
an open rear door.
Il returned to Mrs. Piggott's home
told her something horrible had
happened, and she went back with
me.
I'VE called the coroner and po-
lice, after she had entered the Love
home and found the bodies of Mrs
Love and the son lying on the din
ing room floor. When police ar
srived they went to the tenant house
and discovered the body of Mrs
Russell. Later they found Mr.
Russells body near the barn. It
was gruesome sight. I have been
sick all day"
Mrs. Piggott, whose husband was
a first cousin of Morris Love, said
she saw an old-model car leave the
Love front gate between 10 and
1890 am. and turn in the opposite
direction.
Discovered Mrs. Loves Body.
when Mr.. Blevins told me what
he had seen,' she said, II went with
him to the Love home. I called
Ruth, meaning Mrs. Love, and went
IN when there was no response. She
was dead on the floor, facing her
son. She did not have a mark on
her, except shot through the chest,
Later, I saw Russell's body near the
barn. His hands and shoes were
muddy. He had been thinning corn.
We called the authorities"
DR.. Grubb told newsmen that any
theory that ANY of the persons
killed committed suicide after kill
ing the others is contrary to reason
and the physical facts" DR.. Grubb
is a widely known Loudoun County
veterinarian.
From Edward Grissom, II, who
had thinned corn Monday on the
Love farm, police learned that at 8
am. yesterday he saw a colored
man standing near a church, not
far from the Love property. The
boy could not identify the person.
Mercer Love, brother of Morris
Love, said he could not account fol-
the wholesale killings. He knew nc
one who harbored a grudge against
his brother.
Mrs Grubb said she had talked
with Mrs. Love by telephone or
Sunday and that she had seemed
quite cheerful. DR.. and Mrs. Grubt
agreed that if Mrs. Love had re-
ceived any threat or had been
troubled by any major difficulty
she would have mentioned it te
them, because the families were
extremely close.
Taught Sunday School.
Morris Love was a Bible class
teacher, a steward OF the Harmony
Methodist Church in nearby Hamil-
ton and handled the rationing Of
Evening star., 1943-06-02
Murders
Continued From First Page.)

lOlJl SG dSC(
the single row up the lane to the
house.
May Have Heard Cry for Help.
From this it was deduced that
James. whose thinning stick was
stuck in the ground only few feet
from Mr.. Russell's, had been at
tracted to the mouse, possibly by a
cry from his mother. Leaving Mr.
Russell to continue thinning the
corn. James hurried up the lane
toward the gate where he met his
attacker, Mr.. Harrison theoried
Among the details which Mr. Har-
rison said were puzzling police were
the following:
Why did the murderer cover Mr.
Loves slumped body with an empty
bed ticking when he presumably had
to 60 to the rear of the house to
get the sheeting? A companion
piece of ticking hung up to dry
was found on the back porch.
How could the murderer approach
each victim from the front and
shoot at such point-blank range
that powder stains were found on
their bodies without their trying
to escape?
What had Mr.. Love put on his
glasses to read at the time he was
bludgeoned to death? No paper
was found around his body, but
he had pencil in his hand.
Why did the murderer plant" a
false clue that would lead the police
to suspect Mr. Russell of the crime
when the murderer had bludgeoned
the tenant farmer to death, in
curing wounds which he obviously
could not have inflicted upon him.
self?
Suspect Several Killers.
There was agreement that more
than one person did the slay-
ings with a croquet mallet and a
.22-caliber rife and that the killings
we're the work OF maniacs. Police had
Evening star., 1943-06-02
D. {. Crimino|ogists
Working on Murder
Have Fine Records
Rosenberg, F|oherty,
FeIber Helped Solve
LoveIess Staying

Three crack Washington crimi-
nologists who assisted in solving
another Loudoun County CVa.)
murder case have been assigned tc
investigate the Purcellville slayings
They are Deputy Coroner Richard
Rosenberg, 1t. jeremiah Jerry
Flaherty, veteran chief of the Wash
ington homicide squad. and his
assistant, Detective Sergt. Richard
Felber.
The ace trio helped solve the
murder on November %. 1941, of
Ward Loveless, prominent Washing
ton attorney who was shot three
times in the back in his Loudoun
County home.
The three were assigned to the
case after Virginia authorities-as
in the present case-requested as
sistance from Washington.
Deduced Robbery Motive.
While most persons clung to the
theory that Mr.. Loveless was killed
by some one close to the family-in
a revenge slaying-the veteran police
officers after surveying the scene,
stated the attorney was killed when
he surprised the murderers in the
act of robbing his home.
Only clue in the case-except the
general picture of the crime scene
which means so much to an expert
enced investigator. was a hat be-
longing to Mr. Loveless. One of the
killers had taken Loveless' hat be-
lieving it to be his own and had
abandoned it on the front lawn.
In the few minutes that the killer
had worn the hat he left one tiny
strand of hair. Dr. Rosenberg. who
has outfitted his own crime labora-
tory, conducted microscopic tests on
the hair and came to the conclusion
that one of the murderers was a
blond young man in his teens.
Fugitives Caught.
1t. Flaherty and Sergt, Felber
questioned neighbors and friends of
the slain man and arrived at the
conclusion that the murder was
committed by two youths-one of
them blond and at least one of whom
previously had worked on Loveless'
farm.
The theories were proven correct
when two boys were arrested a few
days later in Cumberland, KY,
where they had fled in car stolen
from the Loveless farm. Both boys,
Herbert Porter and Paul Hoback,
l6 years old. were sentenced to life
imprisonment after pleading guilty.
Washington police also partici-
pated in minor way in two other
Ioudoun County slavings-the mur-
ders on January 13, 1882, of Mrs.
Spencer Ilsley. 42-year-old Middle
burg society equestrienne, and her
maid, Mrs. Nina Buckner, S. Both
battered bodies were found on the
IlSley estate.
Washington police assisted in get
ting flngerprints on the scene which
later convicted George Crawford. "a
colored. BY coincidence. Crawford
was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Evening star., 1943-06-02
Society JeweIer Denies
$125,384 Gem Theft
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June Paul E..
Flato, AZ, internationally known So
ciety jeweler. pleaded innocent to-
day to an indictment charging first
degree grand larceny and the theft
OF $125, 1874 in jeWelry.
He appeared before General Ses-
sions Judge Jonah j. Goldstein and
was released in the $500 bail under
which he had been at liberty since
he was arrested last week
Mr.. Flato has lavish Offices here
and in Hollywood and had wealthy
and prominent clientele. including
stage, screen and radio celebrities
and European royalty.