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LOUIS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1937 32 PAGES. I MADRID ARMY'S AIRLINER WITH 13 ABOARD WARMER TONIGHT, UNSETTLED, AND SAME TOMORROW IS REPORTED WRECKED IN ILLS NEAR LOS ANGELE Explorers in i Ml i 1 1 1 1 MRrANti'Mfts. MARTIN JOHNSON. Strikers' Friendly AKout GKrysIer ROOSEVELT PROPOSES TO REORGANIZE GOVERNMENT President Recommends to Congress That Office of Comptroller-General Be Abolished and Powers Reassigned. FOR EXTENSION OF MERIT SYSTEM Two New Departments I.

C. C. and Other Now Independent Agencies Would Be Put Under Ad-ministrative Control. By RAYMOND P. BRANDT, A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 12. Presi dent Roosevelt, In a special message to Congrrss today, recommended a radical reorganization of the administrative division of the Government. The President disclaimed any in-tmtion of asking for increased power for the exeoutive, saying that hat he sought was distributing work that the President could discharge his powers effectively.

Report. The recommendations were In the form of a report by the President's Committee on Administrative Man-armnt of which Louis Brownlow of Chicago is chairman and Charles E. Merriam and Luther IL Gulick are the other members. The report contained more than 30.000 words and recommended the following five major changes In governmental itructure and management: 1. Creation of two new regular departments, one for social welfare, the other for public works, and the overhauling of more than M0 independent agencies, administrations, boards, authorities and Government corporations for In-rluMn In these and the 10 present departments.

The Interior IVj'urtment would be changed to Department of Conservation. 2. Extension of the merit system (civil service requirements) "upward, outward and downward to cover all non-Doiicv determin ing pouts" and replacement of the Civil Service Commission Jot three members by a single ad ministrator responsible, to the I'remdi nt and a Civil Service advisory hoard of seven outstanding nen and women drawn from private business, education, labor, agriculture and professional life, ho would serve without salaries as the "watch dogs" of the merit t.m. 3- Enlarging of the present hite House staff to include not tonre than six executive assisting to aid the President in deal-to with the regular departments id agencies. la addition to making the f'wl arrvice administrator response to the President, placing of the Bureau of the Budget and a Peirnanent National Resource fr'aid directly under the Presi- M.

Atxntion of the Independent 1'ire nf Comptroller-General and he e.uhijahment of the office of Auditor -Ceneral in the Treasury i "to restore to the executive romplete responsibility for amounts and current financial 'rnctiona." resident on Ills rowers. In formal letter to Congress the committee's re-the President declared that not rrrnmmfnitln 4h ln- f't the powers of the presi- enrv. "Th presidency as established In Constitution of the United he said, "has all of the that are required. In spite Mimid uls in 1787 who feared Government, the presi-nrr was established as a single chief executive office in hlrh was vested the enUre execu- Iiv, Power of the national Gov- even as the legislative was placed in the Congress ht judicial in the Supreme prt What I am placing before ta not the request for more 'r. but for the tools of manage-nd the authority to distrib- work so that the President 2 'feetlvely discharge those which the Constitution now Ton him.

Unless we are Pated to abandon this irapor- Part of the Constitution, we Jgqulp the presidency with aU-tS. lnue SM A Mums 1. I ON FOR ER OF BOY Charles Mattson Believed to Have Been Beaten to Death 3 Days or Longer Before Finding of Body. ABDUCTOR AFRAID TO COLLECT RANSOM Father in Communication I With Him Several Times Officers Have Little to -L Work On. By the Associated Press.

TACOMA, Jan. 12. Finding of the body of 10-year-old Charles Mattson in a brushy area near Everett, yesterday was the signal for a wide-flung search for his kidnaper and murderer. In a guarded mortuary, Federal agents and physicians examined the body. From the autopsy officers hoped to obtain clews leading to the man who broke into the Matt-son's home Dec 27, carried the boy away and left behind him a note demanding $28,000 ransom.

All efforts of the boy's father. Dr. W. W. Mattson, to pay the ransom failed.

Paul Sceva, a friend of the family who helped identify the body, said "Charles has been dead a long time, probably between three days and a week." Blood on the body was frozen, indicating the boy had been killed elsewhere. "The kidnaper has acted like a trout coming out of his lair," Sceva declared, "almost taking, the bait and crawling back in again. Lack of Information. Federal agents' under Harold Nathan were silent. Other authorities admitted they were as yet without a definite bit of information as to the identity of the kidnaper.

The man sought as the kidnaper is about 45 years old, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches tall, weighing 145 pounds, of swarthy complexion, possibly left-handed. At the time of the kidnaping he had several days' growth of beard, wore dark trousers, blue slide- fastener jacket and light tan checkered cap and carried a blue steel pistol. The grief-stricken Mattson family refused to see anyone hut intimate friends. "Dr. Mattson has asked me to tell you he has 'made every effort humanely possible to pay the ransom to gain the return of my son, Sceva said.

"The doctor has broken down for the first time since Charles was kidnaped, and the entire family is badly shaken. Mrs. Mattson is under a nurse's care. "The ransom definitely was not. paid, although the doctor made many attemks to pay it.

The kidnaper was too yellow to come out of his hiding to obtain the Sceva, when asked if Dr. Mattson ever went out to make "personal contact with the kidnapers," said he would not "deny this." Signs of Rough Treatment. Three times Dr. Mattson made contact with the kidnaper through letters and by telephone in an effort to pay the ransom, but failed to receive assurance his son lived. His openly expressed fears were confirmed when Gordon Morrow, 19, found the nude, frozen body of the boy in a slight depression in the snow while bunting.

At Seattle, Otto Mittelstadt, King County Coroner, reported evidence the boy had been bound and roughly treated before he was killed. Dirt and grease the skin possibly indicated the boy had been taken on the floor of an old automobile to the spot where he was found. "There was an ugly wound on the left side of the head, where the boy had been struck with some blunt object," the Coroner said. "On his wrists were marks of a small rope or cord, showing he had been bound. There were other marks and bruises on the body.

I would say, from these indications, he had been badly abused and roughly handled. "The body, nude, "was lying on Its back. The right knee was bent, drawing the leg up. The body was frozen so stiff the leg could not be straightened." Blue-gray clay on the fingers led the Coroner to believe the body first was left along a river bank, then transferred to the brushlands. Footprints In Sriow." Federal agents made casts of a single set of footprints in the snow leading from a highway to the place where the body lay.

Likewise, they recorded automobile tire tracks at the roadside. Prowlings about the George G. Franklin home in Tacoma and the finding of a ladder there late in November were not overlooked. The Franklins, believing an attempt was under way to kidnap their 5-year- Continued on Par Column 2 DE-SPREAD HUN MURDER KIDNAPED Mostly for Tactical Reasons Union Leaders Say There is "Room for Improvement" There, Although Admitting Collective in a Way, Exists. COUNTER-ATTACK tUnSHBELS Sudden Loyalist Offensive West of the Capital Halts Advance by Fascist Soldiers.

FIGHTING ALONG ESCORIAL ROAD Government Artillery Pounds Enemy Evacuation of Civil Population Continues. By the Associated Press. MADRID, Jan. 12. Government forces started a siidden offensive today and reported later that they had stopped the Fascist rebel advance against the western edge of the capital.

The loyalist counter-attack extended along the vital Escorial road between Las Rozas and Aravaca, some Government soldiers filter ing through the back territory near Pozuelo de Alarcon and El Plan-tio. Las Rozas was the pivotal point in the Fascist attack on the western side of Madrid last week. After driving northward to cut the Government's communications to El Escorial and the Guadarrama Mountain region, the Fascists turned toward the capital beyond Aravaca, about five miles from the center of the city. Government artillery pounded insurgent concentrations incessantly in today's attack and won jthe praise of Gen. Sebastian Pozas, Government commander in the area.

Loyalists north of Aravaca as far as El Pardo road blocked Fascist attempts to advance from the west against strategic outposts in the capital's defenses. Gen. Jose Miaja, chief of the defense administration, expressed confidence the defense lines now could not be pierced. A War Office bulletin said a Fascist attack also was blocked in the Guadalajara region northeast of Madrid. The compulsory evacuation order stood in Madrid.

About 2500 women, children and aged men were started yesterday for Ciudad Real Province in the south and plans were made to move 35,000 other civilians as soon as possible. FRENCH FIND NO NAZIS IN MOROCCO PARIS, Jan. 12. Resident-General August Nogues of French Morocco informed the Foreign Office today that Gen. G.

H. Ber- enger, one of his aids, had inspected the Spanish zone and reported he could find no evidence of large numbers of German troops. Fascist authorities in Spanish Morocco, Nogues said, supplied British and French army officers at Tangier with permanent passes so they might enter the zone at any time. In Berlin Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and French Ambassador Andre Francois-Poncet exchanged assurances of territorial integrity for Spain and its territories, including Spanish Morocco. Immediately after the exchange, Francois-Poncet left for Paris.

In his talk with the French Ambassador, Hitler told him he had no intention, and never had had the intention, of violating in any manner the integrity of Spanish territory or Spanish possessions, the French Embassy said. Francois-Poncet replied France was resolved to respect the integrity of Spain and Spanish Morocco. Reaching Paris today, Francois-Poncet conferred immediately with Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos on his conversations with Hitler. Officials said he brought no specific "plans or suggestions. The Foreign Office kept an eye on the Moroccan situation, however, despite the Hitler assurance which was forthcoming after France and England co-operated in their Morocco policy.

Rebel Planes and Warships Bombard Malaga; 100 Casualties. By the Associated Press. G1BKALTAK, Jan. iz. six insurgent Spanish airplanes and two warships bombarded Malaga for two hours yesterday, causing more than 100 casualties and heavy damage, say reports reaching Gibraltar today.

The Norwegian steamer Saga and the Danish steamer Signe, which were in the harbor, were forced to put out for Gibraltar after shell fragments struck the boats, slightly wounding several members of the crews. here, the seamen said large buildings in Malaga had collapsed under the bombardment and that a hos pital and bull ring were destroyed. THE TEMPERATURES. 1 a. m.

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26 28 28 28 28 29 30 4 p. m. 20 Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Somewhat unsettled tonight and tomor-row; slightly warmer tomorrow; lowest tem-serature tonight about 25. Missouri: Mostly cloudy and unsettled tonight and tomorrow, possibly light rain In extreme south portion tonight: Must Missouri double rrs KILL-ISSUE? slowly rising temperature in west nd north portions tomorrow.

Illinois: Gener-allv fair In POST-DISPATCH WEATHERBIRO M. u. pat rr. ar Portion. unnpttloH in possibly light rain in extreme south portion tonight; tomorrow cloudy and unsettled; no decided change in temperature.

Sunset, sunrise (tomorrow). 7:19. Stage of the Mississippi at St. Louis, 8 feet, a fall of at Grafton, 111., 6.1 feet, a fall of the Missouri at St. Charles, 12.3 feet, a fall of 1.2.

ROOSEVELT SAYS MATTSON MURDER 'SHOCKS THE NATION' Declares Hunt for Kidnaper Will Not Be Given Up; $10,000 Reward Offered. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. President Roosevelt said today the murder of 10-year-old Charles Mattson in Washington State had "shocked the nation" and added "every means at our command must be enlisted to capture and punish the perpetrator of this ghastly crime." In an official statement, the President said Attorney-General Cummings had offered a reward for Information leading to the arrest of the criminal and that special agents of the Justice Department were engaged in a search which "will not be terminated until the murderer is caught.

Simultaneously, Attorney-General Cummings offered a $10,000 reward for arrest of the kidnaper or kidnapers of the boy. Mrs. Roosevelt commented today on the Mattson killing as follows: "One is horrified that there are people in the world who can be such brutal people." KANSAS CITY GRAND JURY HEARING 76 MORE WITNESSES All From Twelfth Ward. Where 30 Were Indicted for Election Frauds. By th Associated Preys.

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 12. Federal grand jurors, resuming their investigation of the Nov. 3 election here, began hearing 76 witnesses today, all from the Twelfth Ward, In which 30 election officials and political leaders were indicted last Saturday. All but two of those indicted made bonds yesterday of $2000 for men and $1500 for women.

Two indicted women remained home ill today. Judge Albert L. Reeves, directing the Jury, will hear arraignment of 15 of the accused tomorrow and the other 15 will be arraigned Thursday before Judge Merrill E. Otis. Officials had not yet disclosed names of six others accused in a secret indict- nrent.

MUSSOLINI GIYEN ARMY FLYER'S LICENSE AFTER TEST He Pilots Tri-Motored Craft on Two and One-Half Hour Flight. By the Associated Preaa. ROME, Jan. 12. Premier Mussolini was given a license to pilot an army plane today after a two and one-half hour flight in a tri-motored military ship.

Mussolini, who began flying in 1919 and holds a private pilot's license, took off from Littoria airfield near Rome, ascended to 10,000 feet and went through regulation maneuvers as an examining committee headed by Gen. Giuseppe Valle, Undersecretary of Air, watched from the ground. LEAGUE COUNCIL SUMMONED Neutrality Problems on Agenda for Session Jan. 21. GENEVA, Jan.

12. The League of Nations Council was summoned today to meet Jan. 21. The agenda will include neutrality problems of the Spanish civil war, the French-Turkish dispute over the independence of the Syrian cities of Antioch and Alexan-dretta and proposals for revision of the League covenant. Rnk Head's Pay Raised $25,000.

By the. Associated Preaa. NEW YOKK, Jan. xt. Perkins, chairman of the board.

National City Bank, addressing shareholders today, disclosed that his salary and that of Gordon S. Rentschler, president, had been advanced to $100,000 each for 1937, against $75,000 last yr. LEAVES IjWUUj AS EDUCATIONAL FUND Will of Charles Hayden, Wall Street Banker, Provides for Foundation. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan.

12. The bulk of the fortune of $50,000,000 which Charles Hayden amassed as a Wall Street banker is to be used for establishment of an educational foundation bearing his name. His will was filed today. After specific bequests of of which $1,000,000 goes to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $2,000,000 for establishment of a trust fund for his brother Jo-siah of Lexington, and lesser bequests to other relatives and friends the will directs that the rest go to the foundation. Terms of the will give a wide latitude to the foundation in use of the funds "to assist native boys and young men" in their educational pursuits, and provides that preference be given activities centering in New York City and Boston.

Mr. Hayden, senior partner of Hayden, Stone died Friday. ILLINOIS RIVER SEARCHED FOR TWO FLYERS AND PLANE Massachusetts Guardsmen Were Bound for Mollne; Fanners Saw Ship Go Down. By the Associated Press. HENNEPIN.

111., Jan. 12. Search was made in the swollen Illinois River today for" a missing airplane in "which' two Massachusetts national guardsmen were flying. The craft was missing on a Chicago to Mollne (111.) flight. Three farmers said they saw a monoplane of similar description fall last night either into the stream or the adjoining swampland.

Aboard the plane were Lieut. Frank Otis of Boston, the pilot, and Sergt. John F. Gibbons, of Natick, both of the 101st Observation Squadron, Massachusetts National Guard. They were en route to visit the lieutenant's father, Dr.

Frank Otis, at Molina. Dr. Otis and another son, William, arrived today to aid in the search. 40 FALL INTO RIYER AT NICE WHEN PROMENADE COLLAPSES Strollers, Many of Them Women, Are Fished Out by Firemen With Ladders. NICE, France, Jan.

12. Forty persons, including a number of women, were thrown into the Pail-Ion River when a section of the Promenade des Anglais, concrete walk along the Mediterranean, collapsed today. The collapse was caused by the river's undermining of the promenade's supports. Approximately 1000 persons, including some Americans, were on the promenade when the section fell. Firemen rescued victims from the water with ladders.

First reports said severe bruises were the only injuries. The center part of the Grand Casino, a pavilion at the mouth of the river, dropped 20 feet into the water. ADMITS KILLING 1000 CATS IN TOKIO AND SELLING SKINS Japanese Trapped Them With Catnip and Live Sparrow; Pelts Used in Musical Instruments. TOKIO, Jan. 12.

Eikichi Tat-suguchi, 71 years old, who said "every cat looks like five yen to me," was arrested today and confessed killing more than 1000 To-kio cats. He explained he sold them to the makers of samisens (Japanese banjo-like instruments). Catskin is used for the drumhead of the samiseto, which is popular among Geisha girls. Police said Tatsuguchi sprinkled catnip in streets and back gardens in the twilight, then placed a live sparrow near by with a string attached to draw cats into his hands. TAX FRAUD DEFENDANT PAYS GOVERNMENT $2,000,000 Brooklyn Man Settles Civil Suit and Is Put on Probation on Plea of Guilty.

By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 12. In pleading guilty to a Federal" income tax fraud charge yesterday, Moses Par-shelsky, a Brooklyn dealer in building supplies and real estate, paid the Government $2,000,000. Federal Judge Robert A.

Inch suspended sentence and placed Par-shelsky on probation for five years after an Assistant United States Attorney informed the Court Par-shelsky had paid the amount in six certified checks, to settle a civil suit filed the Government. 46,000.000 ONLY WORD IS 'NOT ALL' OF THEM AREJEAD Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson Among Those on Transport Last Reported Near Where Ship Crashed Dec. 27, Killing 12.

RANCHER REPORTS HEARING MOTOR DIE Last Radio Message From Pilot, Received at Office, Said, 'Am Coming Down Into Localizer (Directional Beam)' From Field. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12. -Wreckage of the Western Air Express Transport, missing with 13 persons, was reported found today three miles la the hills above Olive View sanitarium, fire miles from San Fernando.

"The plane has been located three miles up in the hills," said the telephone operator of the sanitarium. "Men haev gone up there, but we do cot know whether anyone is alive in It or not." Arthur J. Will, officer of tha sanitarium, said by telephone: "All I know Is that not all are dead." By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12.

The Western Air Express reported at 12:10 p. m. today that an air transport from Salt Lake City, with 10 passengers and crew of three aboard, was overdue at Union Air Terminal. The plane was due at 10:45 a. m.

It was last heard from at 11 :05 a. near Newhall, south of the Tehachapi Mountains in Southern California. The last report from the plana was from a position within a few miles of the spot where a San Francisco-to-Los Angeles air liner crashed on the night of Dee. 27, killing 12 persons. Among the passengers were Mr.

and Mrs. Martin Johnson, explorers and big game hunters. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Johnson.

th passengers were: D. E. Spencer. H. Hules, T.

Tilllnghast, J. Braden, S. Robinson, A. L. Loomis, Miss James and R.

Anderson The crew: W. W. Lewis, pilot; C. C. T.

Owens, co-pilot, and Esther Jo Conner, stewardess. John Wood, rancher four miles east of Newhall, drove into the Sheriffs substation at Newhall shortly before noon to report that he heard an "airplane engine sputter and finally die" near his ranca at 11:15 a. m. Jack Bernard, amateur radio op erator at Pasadena, informed the Sheriffs office that he believed he hard, on a short-wave radio length, the words: "Coming, down to lo calizer at. field." This was in reference to picking up the directional radio beam.

Before the radio went silent ha siad he heard the words: "We are going down in a crash." The air line office said no such message about a crash had been received. The last message from the plane at 11:05 a. was the on about the localizer, the office said. Western Air officers, with a ground crew, left from the terminal immediately by automobile for the Newhall region. "Sit-down Strike at Rubber Plants.

LA CROSSE. Jan. 12. Two departments of the La Cross rubber mills, scene of labor differences in 1935 and 1936. began a "sit-down" strike today: Th mill and cutting room employes were reported to be attempting to Indue members' of th company union to Jofa th United Rubber Workers' Union local, organised during th eajlier-trlkes.

Wrecked Plane -4 3 Statement Company: By SPENCER R. McCTJLLOCH, A Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. DETROIT, Jan. 12. Although the campaign of the United Automobile Workers of America to organize the automobile industry is focused against General Motors, the major factor in the field, other concerns represent part of the ultimate goal to enforce recognition of the union as the bargaining agent for all automotive employes.

John L. Lewis, creator of the Committee for Industrial Organization, which is sponsoring the strike, using the automobile workers as shock troops, has stated that the Ford Motor the second largest concern in the industry, will be next if the union wins in the present major engagement. So widespread has the tieup become throughout the General Motors organization that about 112,000 men were out of work today. Lewis has advanced the opinion that if "General Motors capitulates the conquest of Ford will be merely a mopping up operation." In the meantime, the campaign against General Motors, made thus doubly important, is enlisting every resource of the Lewis organization. Professions of amity by union leaders toward the Chrysler Corporation, the third largest concern in the industry, and several other companies, including Studebaker, Hudson and Nash, should be taken with several grains of salt.

i One War a a Time. expressions regarding Chrysler, for Instance, which Is operating but has not recognized the union as the collective bargaining agency for all its employes, must be viewed largely in the light 'Of strategy. Although Lewis bas expressed himself as "entirely content" with the attitude of Chrysler, his field commanders here have told the writer there is "room for improvement," although observing that collective bargaining exists there in a way. It is sound tactics to let it appear that several companies are not averse to doing what the strikers are trying to compel General Motors to do. As far as the company is concerned this correspondent learned authoritatively that it has no idea, of dealing with Lewis as Continued on Page 2, Column 14 SHOT.

20 IN AUTO STRIKE RIOT Flint (Mich.) Police Use Guns, Tear Gas in Attempt to Eject 'Stay-in' Group. By the Associated Press. FLINT, Jan. 12. Michigan National Guardsmen were mobilized as a precautionary measure today after 14 persons were shot and 20 others injured in rioting last night at the strike-closed Plant No.

2 of the Fisher Body a subsidiary of General Motors. Two of the men shot were seriously wounded. Flint police used riot guns and tear and nauseating gas in a two-hour fight in which they tried unsuccessfully to dislodge the "stay-in" strikers who have held the plant nearly two weeks. The clash followed the removal by company guards of a ladder used to deliver food to the strikers inside through a second-story window. The strikers defended themselves with bottles, stones, nuts, bolts and other objects.

About 1000 strikers took part in the clash. The fighting brokje out about 9:30 p. m. outside where a crowd had gathered when they learned the 200 strikers inside were being prevented from obtaining food. Strikers Break Open Door.

The throng had been marching back and forth in the cold shouting encouragement to the "stay-in" strikers when Victor Reuther, Flint strike leader, arrived and directed those inside to break open the door. He gave his orders through a loud speaker mounted on a The men' inside immediately forced the door and five or six of the strikers on the outside rushed past the company guards with food. Just at that time about 50 policemen were seen marching up the street. They rushed forward and started shooting tear gas through the open door and through windows they broke open. Then the fighting started in earnest.

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