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260. ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1934 40 PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS. HOUSE COMMITTEE URGES IMPEACHMENT OF U.

S. JUDGE TEXAS OFFICERS TRAP AND KILL CLYDE BARROW AND BONNIE PARKER Votes 15 to 5 for Action Against C. E. Woodward, Chicago Cases of Others Named in Bankruptcy Inquiry Up Friday. i i Outlaw, Supposed Woman Aid and Ranger H)nIMM- 1.111111 IIIIMI Jinn I II.

I Iliiiiiin I IftlWSWssssllil iT'llM ii rWHI 1 pUffgmxm nil Will itVT ll 'I I II IV 1 1 1 pJ Ex-Ranger Tells How He Clyde Barrow Ran Down 'Shot Devil Out of Him TROOPS ARE CALLED IN STRIKE RIOT AT TOLEDO Four-Persons Injured Taken to Hospitals After Fight in Which 3000 Stone Electric Auto-Lite Factory. BESIEGERS USE BULLETS AND BRICKS Fire Hose, Tear Gas and Clubs Employed Against Crowd Five Arrested Workers Unable to Leave Plant. Bv the Associated TOLEDO, May 23. Tear gas ombs were hurled from -windows V.f the Electric Auto-Lite Co. plant here late today at a crowd of about 3000 persons gathered in the street in a strike demonstration.

Several persons who fell were revived in the plant. Police officers in the crowd also were affected. In retaliation, bricks were thrown from the street through windows of the factory. A girl picket. Alma Hahn of Mill-bury, was taken to St.

Vincent's Hospital. She was struck on the head hv a siTc-inh Hnlr 'wVtifVh jvrikers said was thrown from a tourtn story winaow or me factory. A call for troops was sent out by National Guard observers after four persons were taken to hospitals with injuries received in the renewed rioting. Bullets, bricks, clubs and tear gas were used. The call for troops was made by Gen.

L. S. Conelly of Cleveland, sent here to observe conditions for Adjutant-General Frank D. Henderson when Auto-Lite officials appealed for help after yesterday's rioting-. Gen.

Conelly, who, with Col. E. W. Fuhr, of Columbus, was inside the plant during today's rioting, said the situation was oue of the control of local authorities. Bullets and Bricks Used.

Bricks were thrown through win-0 iws of the office of C. O. Miniger, president of the company. Revolver shots were fired from the crowd. One bullet went through the window of Miniger's office.

Policemen used their clubs freely on the rioters. One policeman was knocked to the ground. Men and women lay in the street overcome by the gas bombs. One of the centers of the outbreak was at the main gates of the plant. Workers unable to leave the plant massed behind the gates and Fere targets for bricks thrown from the street.

The workers picked up the bricks and threw them back. Five arrests were made. Two policemen were taken to the hospital with injuries received when they were hit by bricks. Most of the workers remained in the plant after work ended for the day as they were besieged by the crowd of strike sympathizers outside. Company employes took a nre hose into the street and turned on the crowd in an attempt to clear a way for the workers as they attempted to leave the plant.

Company men using sticks and iron bars joined police in pushing the crowd back about 30 from Othe gates. Some of the employ.es engaged in hand-to-hand fights "'lu tnose in the crowd. fTDUSTRY LOAN MEASURE PASSED BY HOUSE, 178 TO 6 Made Available; Provision Added to Pay Back. Salaries of Teachers. WASHINGTON, May "ouse today passed the industry 'oan bill to make $440,000,000 available through the RFC and Federal Reserve Banks.

The Senate already has passed a "nar bill. he standing vote on House nas- sage was 178 to ne measure also allows the RFC 10 lend not more than $75,000,000 to Public school districts so they may Pay hack salaries due to their teachers. This provision was the Senate bill. not TEE AMERICAN STUDENTS "ELD BY CHINESE BANDITS f'O Kansom Demanded for Each; Seized Ln Autos of Stand-ard Oil Co. A mice auiuiuvuiio s'andard Oil Co.

of New York nj kidnaped their occupants, who eluded three American students, 11 the ilf.mii,'tn;,j An miioo ion, Frank Hamer Says Relating Success of Six-Month Hunt. SHIP COMPANIES' Roosevelt Line Paid Stock holders $669,000, Had $613,000 Surplus on $75,000 Investment. $250,000 BONUS GIVEN OFFICIAL P. A. S.

Franklin, Head of Holding Firm Gives Testimony Before Black Senate Committee. By PAUL Y. ANDERSON, A Staff Correspondent of tb Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, May 23. Evidence showing large profits made by ship companies having ocean mail contracts, and the payment of impressive salaries and bonuses to officers of those companies, was presented as the Black Senate committee resumed hearings today.

The testimony concerned lines controlled by the International Mercantile Marine in which Vincent Astor, President Roosevelt's friend and vacation companion, is a large stockholder. The lines are the United States Lines, the American Pioneer Line and the Baltimore Mail Steamship Co. The evidence disclosed that the Roosevelt Steamship which operates the three lines for International Mercantile Marine, up to the end of 1933 had returned $669,000 to its stockholders, and had a net surplus on hand of $613,000. The total original investment in the company was $75,000. P.

A. S. Franklin, president of the International Mercantile Marine was on the stand most of the morning. It was disclosed that a free passage to France and return was given by the Roosevelt Co. to the wife and daughter of Walter Barrett, an official of the Shipping Board, who is a subordinate of the official who passed on a loan to the International Mercantile Marine companies.

Bonus of $250,000. Black questioned Franklin about salary and bonuses paid to him. Among the latter was a bonus of $250,000, given for selling the White Star Line to English interests. From A. J.

Palmer, secretary, Black elicited an admission that the company, with the report which the law requires it to make to the Government, listed this sum as an item of "expense" in connection with the sale. International Mercantile. Marine is a holding company, its operating subsidiary is the Roosevelt Steamship of which Kermit Roosevelt, son of the late Theodore Roosevelt, is president. It operates several lines which have Government mail contracts. The evidence showed that after these contracts were obtained, the Dollar-Dawson Line bought a 45 per cent interest in the Roosevelt Co.

and paid for it out of its first year's dividends. The book value of the Roosevelt Co. in 1931 was $26,000. By 1933 it had increased to $481,000 after pay ment of $167,000 in dividends. Mail Contract Taken Over.

John M. Franklin, son of the president of International Mercantile Marine testified that he obtained a contract to purchase five government-owned ships from the Shipping Board. He also had an ocean mail contract. Officers of the International Mercantile Marine and certain banks organized the Baltimore Mail Steamship Co. to operate the ships and take over the mail contract, and John Franklin received 25,000 shares of the stock as his reward for having obtained the two contracts.

Black frequently implied that the profits of the International Mercantile Marine companies was due' to their mail subsidies, although di rect evidence of this was lacking. Jbmaiiy, However, in reply to a question from Black, Kermit Roose velt said he "believed the Roose velt Steamship Co. suffered a net loss each year until it got a mail contract. Loan by Shipping Board. John Franklin pointed out the cost of reconditioning the five ves sels bought from the Shipping Board was $1,670,000 each, plus $100,000 for furnishings.

He said this was about $1,000,000 less than the cost of new ships. Black asserted that if the Govern ment had paid the company on an actual weight basis for mail carried during five months of 1931, the cost would have been $20,000, whereas under the contract it actually received from the Government 000. In 1932, the payment on a weight basis would have been $24, 000, whereas under the contract the company received $1,247,000. Senator White Maine, au thor of the law under which the PROFITS ON MAIL CONTRACTS ruptcy administration of judges Wilkerson and Lindley, both of Chicago. The committee in considering the McKeown report, at one point called on the Treasury Department to produce the income tax reports of the three jurists.

The "delicate matter" which com mittee members said would be discussed at tomorrow's executive session later was explained to hinge upon the possible appearance of Samuel Ettelson, former Corpora tion Counsel of Chicago and at one time attorney for the Insull inter ests. Ettelson, it was said, was expected by the committee to be present as a witness. At the same time, it was indicated, Judge Lindley himself also might be asked to ap pear. Although Congressmen explained they were uninformed on the nature of the information which Et telson was preparing to give them, they said they would listen with the "greatest interest." The Senate, preparing for House action, began consideration of the Ashurst resolution which would permit a special committee of Senators to take evidence and make recommendations to the whole Sen ate. This was done, it was ex plained, so that impeachment proceedings would no longer necessitate the whole Senate's remaining in the capital during the hot sum mer months.

Any evidence gath ered by the committee would be presented to the Senate at its next session. ROOSEVELT ASKS CONGRESS TO SAVE HIS OIL PROGRAM Requests Regulations Be Tightened for Fear Whole Control Plan Will Col-lapse. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, May 23. Presi dent Roosevelt today asked Congress to tighten up the oil control program at this session.

In a letter to Chairman Logan of the Senate Mines Committee and Chairman Rayburn of the House Interstate Commerce Committee, the Presi dent asserted that illegal production of oil was threatening the structure of the newly organized oil production cnotrol system. Text of Letter. His letter follows: "I have received a disturbing letter from the Administrator for the petroleum industry, Hon. Harold L. Ickes, informing me of the continued daily production of oil in excess of the maximum amount determined on by the administrator pursuant to authority under the petroleum code.

"The administrator states that the records of the Bureau of Mines during the first three months of this year show a daily average production of 'illegal' oil of 149,000 barrels. "Technically spea'ung, this may not all have been 'hot' oil, but in a real sense it is, since it is oil produced in excess of the allowable. "While the final figures of the. Bureau of Mines are not available for the months of April and May, it is unquestionably true that there is growing disregard for production orders issued under the petroleum code and that thf trend of hot oil produced is upward. Some Other Estimates.

"For example, it is stated on reliable authority that the daily excess production in the East Texas field alone is running at 60,000 to 75,000 barrels per day. "Other estimators say that this figure should be much higher. The Oil and Gas Journal recently esti mated that there was illegal production in the country as a whole of 198,475 barrels per day during the week ending May 12. "If the principle of prorating production under a code is to be maintained, it seems necessary that the existing law should be strength ened by the passage of the bill which has been introduced in the Senate by Senator Thomas (of Ok lahoma) and in the House by Congressman Disney (of Oklahoma) and supported by the Oil Adminis trator. Fears Collapse of Flan.

"It is a simple fact that as a re sult of the work of the Oil Admin istrator definite progress has been made both in eliminating unfair practices and in raising the price of crude petroleum to a reasonabla level, which has brought added em ployment and more wages to those engaged in oil production. "I am frankly fearful that if the OUTLAW'S AUTO RUNS INTO AMBUSH IN LOUISIANA Pair Are Riddled With Bullets on Highway Neat Black Lake Before Their Machine Runs Into Embankment. WAITED TWO MONTHS FOR DESPERADOES Former Ranger Directs Pur- tuit and Attack Fugitives, Weapons in Their Hands, Unable to Fire a Shot. By the Associated Press. BLACK LAKE, T.a., May 23.

Clyde Barrow, the Southwest's Na. outlaw, and his gun woman companion, Bonnie Parker, were trapped and shot dead by Texas and Louisiana officers near here today. Disregarding a command to halt and unable to get their weapons into play, the desperado and his cigar-smoking companion crumpled up in the front seat of a speding car. The car careened into an embankment and was wrecked. In the wreckage the officers who had set the trap found both bodies riddled with bullets.

The woman was almost doubled over the machine gun she had held in her lap. Barrow's body was twisted behind the steering wheel, a revolver gripped in one 'hand. Work of Former" Ranger. The trap was arranged by Frank, Hamer, a former Texas Ranger; B. M.

Gault, a highway patrolman and Ted Hinton and Bob Alcorn. Dallas County Sheriffs. Hamer was recently commissioned as a high- way patrolman by the State of Louisiana for the special purpose of getting his man and, in this case, his gunwoman. 'Hamer had learajed of the highways frequented by the pair, and with Gault, had been scouting ths Black Lake hideout two months. Several weeks ago they barely missed the pair at the rendezvous.

After that they adopted a policy of "sitting and waiting." The robbers trail was picked up this morning by Hamer and three Texas Ranger associates in Bossier Parish, where Barrow was reported to have relatives residing. They fol lowed the car to Bienville Parish, where the Rangers were joined by Sheriff Henderson Jordan and a staff of deputies. With the posse hiding in brush along the paved highway. Barrow's car broke over the horizon at a high speed. Story of Killing.

The officers were concealed in high grass over a distance of about half a block when they sighted Barrow's car approaching the hill. There were two trucks on the Castor-Gibsland road, going in opposite directions, according to a correspondent of the Shreveport Journal. These trucks served as an extra shield against discovery by Barrow and his companion, who were first fired upon by Deputy Sheriff Oakley. He used a shotgun loaded with buckshot and he fired quickly after ordering Barrow to stop, which warning Barrow ignored. Barrow opened a door of the car evidently to fire a sawed -off shotgun which he held in one hand, but Deputy Oakley and the five other officers who immediately joined ln the shooting, were too quick.

Barrow's car, after moving about half a block from the point where Deputy Oakley opened fire went into the embankment, but was not seriously damaged except on wheel, which had been shot purposely, and the body of the car, which was peppered with missiles from the officers' guns. The Barrow car, when the shoot- ing started at the top of the hill. Continued on Paffe 2, Column By the Associated press. WASHINGTON, May 23. The House Judiciary Committee voted, 15 to 5, today to recommend to the House that Federal Judge Charles E.

Woodward of Chicago be Impeached. A subcommittee headed by Representative McKeown of Oklahoma investigated the handling of bankruptcy cases in the courts of Judge Woodward, Judge James H. Wilker-son and Judge Walter C. Lindley and called the attention of the full committee to practices which it said were "open to criticism." Chairman Sumners said the vote had been taken on the whole record. A report will be made by the committee to the House possibly tomorrow.

Sumners indicated there might be a minority report. A bill of specifications would accompany the resolution to the House, he said. Neither of these has been drawn up. Sumners said the action of the committee was.based on the McKeown sub-committee's investigation. Sumners said the committee would meet tomorrow to discuss what he said was a "delicate matter" in connection with the Woodward case.

He refused to give the names of those voting either for or against the Woodward impeachment motion. He said the committee would meet Friday to discuss the subcommittee report on the bank HAROLD F. M'OORMICK SETTLED FOR $65,000 Mrs. Doubleday Had Sought for Breach of Promise. By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, May 23. Mrs. Rhoda Tanner Doubleday received $65,000 in settlement of her breach of promise suit against Harold F. McCormick, wealthy Chicagoan, ac cording to Henry A. Uterhart, Mrs.

Doubleday's New York attorney. Uterhart said the settlement was made about a week ago in Chicago, and that the details were handled by Mrs. Doubleday's Chicago attor ney, Henry K. Urion. Mrs.

Doubleday had asked for $1,250,000. In the settlement, she returned several letters from McCormick, Uterhart said. 500,000 CATTLE TO BE MOVED Shipment From Drouth-Stricken Regions Is Planned. By the Associated Press. PIERRE.

S. May 23. Half a million cattle will be moved out of South Dakota within the next 30 days to alleviate the livestock industry burdened by low prices ujid drouth, the State Relief Administration has decided. There are about 2,414,000 cattle in the state. Gov.

Tom Berr said he had assurance that the Federal Government would buy the cattle in the regions hardest hit by the drouth. A group of bankers conferred with the Governor, who said he wanted to learn what they were willing to do in cases they have mortgages on cattle which must be moved. CHOLERA EPIDEMIC IN CHINA 500 Dead of Disease in the Vicinity of Chungking. By the Associated Press. HANKOW, Qhina, May 23.

Five hundred persons have died of cholera in the vicinity of Chungking, where an epidemic has broken out, said dispatches reaching here today. SOMEWHAT UNSETTLED TONIGHT AND TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES. 1 a. 65 9 a. m.

70 2a.m. 63 10a.m. 73 3 a m. 62 11 a. m.

75 4 a. m. 61 12 Noon 76 5 a. m. 6 a.

m. 7 a. m. 60 1p.m. i 60 2 p.

m. 79 fii Sum. 80 8 a. m. 67 4 d.

m. 80 Yesterday's high 81 3:45 p. low. 67 (7 a. Official Forecast for St.

Louis will Electoral and Vicinity: college have a hat unsettled night CLk0VW and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. i ouri: Somewhat unset tled tonight and tomorrow: not much change in temperature. Illinois: Gener ally "fair tonight and tomorrow. except unsettled in extreme south portion; cooler to POST-OISPATCH morrow in north WEATHERBIRO PAT OFF portion. Sunset.

7:13: Sunrise (tomorrow) 4:41. Stac-e of the Mississinrd at St. Louis, 2.0 feet, a fall of 0.7; at Graf ton, 111., 2.5 feet, a fall of 0.2; the Missouri at St. Charles, 11.4 feet, Who Trapped Them TJPPER right, rogue's gallery photograph of Clyde Barrow. The picture of the woman, identified by police as a likeness of Bon.

nie Parker, was found with others in a house the outlaw had occupied near Joplin, Mo. Lower right, FRANK HAMAR, former Texas ranger, who recently was commissioned as a highway patrolman to run down the fugitive pair. BAKERS VOTE TO TURN IN THEIR BLUE EAGLES New York State Association Complains NRA Hasn't Restored Profits. By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N.

May 23. Delegates to the annual convention of the New York State Association of Retail Bakers, representing 'more than 2000 in the State, unanimously voted yesterday to return their Blue Eagles to Washington. In the resolution the association complains that, although the bakers made an agreement with the President for re-employment on the understanding he would approve a code of fair practices, which, would assure each baker the opportunity to produce and sell at a profit, and although the bakers reduced hours and increased wages, additional burdens were placed cn them by the processing tax on wheat, increasing costs of ingredi ents and materials. Before signing the NRA code, the bakers said, many were operating at a loss and since the agreement many bakers have- become bank rupt, destroying the business of the independent merchant and increas ing unemployment in the industry. TWO KILLED IN NAVY, PLANE Ensign and Machinist In Crash at Colon, Panama.

By the' Associated Press. COLON. Panama, May 23. Otto Weiselmeyer, ensign In the United States Naval Reserve on active duty, and Aviation Machinist Mate Mike S. Rice, San Francisco, were killed today when their land plane crashed 500 yards off Paitilla Point.

They were on a practice flight and were returning from Coco Solo. and Woman Compan All six of us on one side we didn't want any cross-fire and when they came along we hollered at them to stop. They both reached for their guns, but they were kind of slow. Seemed like they must have had cramps or something. "They were too slow.

They didn't get to fire a shot. The car smashed into an embankment after we fired. Clyde was driving when we tried to stop them. Bonnie was sitting beside him. "Now don't, please, put it in your paper that I'm with the Rangers.

I'm not. I was for 27 years, but when they elected a woman Governor, I That was on 1, 1932, just before she took office." A few years ago Hamer was stationed at one end of a bridge over a river that separates Texas and Oklahoma when the Governors of those states were in a dispute as to whether the bridge should be opened or closed. Oklahoma National Guardsmen were impressed when the ranger Captain, who has survived many pistol encounters, organized a pistol shoot and entertained the guardsmen by splitting matches with revolver bullets. ILLINOIS BANKER, INJURED IN ENDS LIFE W. W.

Armstrong of Aurora, 111., Found Shot to Death in Automobile. By the Associated Press. ELGIN, 111., May 23. W. W.

Armstrong of Aurora, head of W. W. Armstrong large investment firm, was found shot to death in his automobile on a rural road about five miles from here today. He was the father of Don Armstrong, State amateur golf champion. "Armstrong was injured in an automobile accident three months ago and left the hospital only a few days ago.

He had suffered major injuries and his jaws had been held in place by wires. Company officers at Aurora said Armstrong left the city yesterday afternoon, saying he was going to Chicago on a business trip. The car was seen parked on the roadside about 10:30 o'clock last night by George McQueen, a farmer. Inves tigating today he found the banker slumped over the wheel and a re volver at his side. 5 Drowned in Gold Stream Flood.

SANTIAGO, Chile, May 23. Five deaths were reported among gold hunters working In the Andacollo district of Coquimbo Province where a swollen river swept a wide area, isolating gold washing en campments, yesterday. Band Concert Tonight. Columbus Square, 2 to 10:30. (Copyright, 1934, by the PalltM Publishing; Co.) A Post-Dispatch reporter who talked with Frank Hamer, former Captain of the Texas Rangers, by long-distance telephone at Arcadia, this afternoon, was informed by Hamar that he had been search ing for Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, the outlaw's gun-toting woman companion, for the last six months.

Hamer said he had been employed as a law officer to make the search but declined to say what agency employed him, "because there's some other tough-shooting fellows I may be hired to go after." he said, "I can tell you what happened this morning. We just shot the devil out of them, that's all. That's all there was to it. We just laid a trap for them. A steel trap.

You know, Bessemer steel, like gun barrels are made of. "There were six of us, two deputy sheriffs from Dallas, a Texas State Highway patrolman, Sheriff Henderson Jordan of Arcadia and his deputy, Mr. Oakley, and myself. "We were hiding beside the road. VOTES TO LET PRESIDENT BAR GRAN CHACO ARMS SALES House Passes McReynolds Resolution; Sends It On for Action by Senate.

By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, May 23. The House today voted to give President Roosevelt authority to bar sale of arms and munitions in the State for use In the Gran Cha-co war between Bolivia and Paraguay. The McReynolds resolution was sent to the Senate without a dissenting vote after brief consideration. Chairman McReynolds Tennessee, of the Foreign Affairs Committee, submitted to the House a table showing tbat during 1933, United States exports of munitions to Bolivia amounted to $408,707 and to Paraguay $38,511 and in the first three months of 1934, $253,161 to Bolivia and $60,218 to Paraguay.

Later, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the resolution unanimously and Chairman Pittman Nevada, said he would seek Senate action today. THREE KILLED IN VINEGAR VAT Two Die of Poison Gas in Trying to Save Companion. FLEMINGTON, N. May 23. Three men were killed today by poison gas in a vinegar vat one had been assigned to clean.

Two of the men, employes of the New Jersey Cider Vinegar Works, died in rescue attempts. aof Peiping bandits demanded a ransom ($3500) for each of their I Continued on Page 2, Column 5. Continued on Page 2, Column S. a fail or u.y..