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bv Th9 l'htadtfitiha Inquirer Co. 12 Sections U0 Pages abode (j A TRICE, TEN CENTS Mrs. Biddle Bought Democratic Books, $20,000 Worth eXp. judges gain support Li.l.Li. LEADERS BELIEVED READY IRB ACCUSES WEIRTDB STEEL OF 'TERRORISM' CodonaY Ex-Wife Dies Despite Operations LONG BEACH, July 31 (A.

Double tragedy wrote an epitaph today over the ruined career of Alfredo Codona, 43, once world-renowned master of the flying trapeze. His divorced wife. Vera Bruce, 32, WA GE-HOUR BILL, WIDEL CHANGED, WINS IN SENATE TO QUIT EWIS JF DEMOCRATS Kelly-McCloskey Faction To Back Six Republicans also famed aerlallst. died of pistol- bullet wounds he Inflicted late yes Pictured as Differing With Him on Sit-down, Steel Strike Violence and Break With Administration Complaint Says Company Coerced Men, Discharged S. W.

O. C. Members and Used Spy System isKSft I And Nine of Own Party Murphy Flies to Join President on Yacht Cruise terday Just before shooting himself to death. They were at a lawyer's office to discuss a division of property. Twice even before his divorce, tragedy struck at Codona, the onetime star performer of The Flying Codonas, family troupe which several times toured the world.

FATE III DOUBT AS HOUSE BLOC For Re-election By JOSEPH H. MILLER WASHINGTON. July 31 (A. Predictions that a Federal Judge will be promoted to fill the Supreme Bpttciat to Tk Inquirer. WASHINGTON, July Is reported to have broken out within the ranks of the hltih command of John L.

Lewis's Committee for Industrial Organization. Al Court vacancy quieted speculation The Kelly-McCloskey Democratic organization yesterday announced Its support of six Republican "sitting" In Bddltion t0 nlne Democratic Jurists for re-election at PITTSBURGH, July 31 (A. The National Labor Relations Board served complaint today charging the Weirton Steel Company employed terrorism against the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Charles T. Douds, regional Labor Board director, announced the com PREPARES In 1931.

his Internationally noted second wife, Lillian Leltzel Codona, I plunged to her death when an aerial I ring broke while she was performing at Copenhagen, Two years later his I shoulder was so badly injured in a I fall during his act In New York that today over the availability of Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan. The forecast came from two high though there has been no open re c.nt.nihfr Drimaries ana inc oc" vnwmber municipal balloting. pudtation of the Lewis leadership, the more conservative union heads j.iarnt.ion on behalf of the plaint had been served, setting the hearing date August 9 in Hancock county court house, New Cumber iU3 made by Democratic City allied with the industrial unionism drive are pulling away and shaping Upper Chamber Votes 2-1 For Plan With Many Revisions; Child Labor Control Dropped land, W. Va. Chairman John B.

Kelly, la in direct contrast to the stand taken by the uin nreanization. which will their own policies along more traditional lines. Six influential C. I. O.

leaders are Based on charges by the S. W. 0. the board's complaint asserted Vl ct on! inmnomt lr UTnlnn Mr tr hiv unw VUI1I.B11; II. If bllVUII) Vfl.

said to be In sharp disagreement with their chief. This group, it is a subsidiary of E. T. Weir's National learned on good authority, disap I Steel Corporation, opposed the S. he never was able to make a comeback.

Codona, who was the only circus aerlallst ever to make a successful routine of the triple somersault, married Miss Bruce some 19 months after Miss Lettzel's death, and she succeeded the latter as a member of The Flying Codonas. Miss Bruce divorced him a month ago, charging cruelty and Jealousy. Codona died Immediately after the shooting. His ex-wife lingered on in Seaside Hospital until 10.30 A. M.

today, when she succumbed desplte-repeated operations and blood O. C. by bribes and threats to shut prove the use of the sit-down strike. the violence in the Steel Workers Administration officials shortly before Murphy arrived for a week-end cruise with President Roosevelt. When he reached the capital.

Murphy said he was paying merely a "social visit" und knew of no specific question which would be discussed on the Presidential yacht. DENIES SIGNIFICANCE The red-haired Governor, before flying from a special session of the Michigan Legislature, said the visit had no significance. Senator Prentiss M. Brown Mich.) earlier had said It was "entirely possible" a successor to Justice Van Devanter would be discussed. The Administration officials, who preferred to remain anonymous, pointed out that four or five of the Federal Court circuits are not represented on the Supreme Bench.

It would be logical, they Indicated, to select a Jurist from one of those cir Organizing Committee's strikes against the Independent steel com panies, and Lewis's appointment ot By WILLIAM C. MURPHY, JR. WASHINGTON, July Administration Wage and Houn bill, riddled with exemptions and battered by a three-day assault of coalU tlon of conservative Democrat and Republicans, was passed by the Senate today. The real test on the measure cams on a motion to recommit the bill to the Committee on Education and Labor, offered by Senator Tom Connelly Tex On that vote the Administration forces won, 48 to 38. down.

ESPIONAGE ALLEGED The board listed these six additional charges: By threats and coercion, Weirton Steel obtained signatures of workers to a petition approving a "company union." The company maintained a system of espionage on the union. Secret police known as the "hatchet gang" were sponsored by the MRS. A. J. DREXEL BIDDLE Who was disclosed yesterday to be Pennsylvania's biggest contributor to the Democratic organization's "department of letters." She bought $20,000 worth ot the Democratic Convention Books.

Her husband is Ambassador to Poland. By JOHN M. CUMMIN GS Mrs. A. J.

Drexel Biddle, wife of the six Republicans and oppose the nine Democrats. In announcing the organization's support of the Judges, Kelly and his co-leader. Matthew H. McCloskey. defied the wishes of the Guffey-Lawrence State leadership, which urged opposition to all Republican Jurists in Philadelphia.

Senator Jo-leph P. Guffey and David L. Lawrence, Democratic State Chairman, ire opposing Republican Judges for re-election in their home county, Allegheny. C. O.

P. FACES RIFT Meanwhile, the Republican organisation here was faced with a bitttle against its slated candidate for City Treasurer, Deputy Sheriff David E. Watson, 22d ward leader. Former Registration Commissioner Austin Meehan, 35th ward chieftain, expressed his intention of fighting Wat-on for the nomination unless President Judge Harry S. McDevltt, of Common Pleas Court No.

1, telis him to get out of the race. "Ill do whatever Judge McDevltt tells me to do," Meehan said follow Harry Bridges as C. I. O. director on the Pacific Coast, DISLIKE WHITE HOUSE BRFAK The more conservative C.

I. O. leaders also are pictured as displeased with Lewis's attitude toward the Roosevelt Administration and the critical resolutions recently adopted by the S. W. O.

C. and the executive board of the United Mine Workers of America. Among those who are said to have drawn away from the Lewis banner are Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and leader of the C. I. drive to organize the textile work the American Ambassador to Poland TO BE INDEPENDENT cuits.

i vv 1 I rr 1 Sii.V..lm.. i it wiiWimuM vvent bookish in a big way last fall. Her fondness for the printed world in carload lots was disclosed yester day in a list of Pennsylvanians who TWO JUDGES MENTIONED Judge Sam G. Bratton, of New Mexico, and Judge Joseph C. Hutche-son; of Texas, have been mentioned In that category.

Bratton Is a former Senator and Hutcheson The bill now goes to the House, where It is Indicated there will be considerable controversy Inasmuch as the House Labor Committee is known to favor a bill with substantially different standards. Whether the two houses will be able to compose their differences In conference In time to permit enactment of thla legislation during the present session remained a question tonight. FINAL VOTE 56 to 28 The vote by which the bill was have purchased copies of a literary work of mixed authorship called the company and Indulged in terroristic acts." Two hundred and seventy-nine workers were fired for union activities between July 5, 1935 and July 21. 1937. By discharges, layoffs, demotions and refusals to re-employ or re-ln-state employees, the company discriminated against the union.

Weirton Steel illegally jupported two company unions by financial contributions. "DOMINATION" CHARGED Democratic Convention Book. HERSHEY, July 31. Men form once was Mayor of Houston. Mrs.

Biddle took $20,000 worth ol ing a national federation ot "ln- the books. Altogether, Pennsylvanians forked pendent" unions were urged to day to make "a declaration of In dependence from labor leaders X' cept those of your own choosing." over $100,000 for the privilege of pe passed was 58 to 28. rsulng the 394 pages liberally sprink Final action came after a week of led With masterpieces from the pen of ing a conference with Mayor Wilson in City Hall. He refused to discuss his conversation with the Mayor, Representative Clare E. Hoffman Mich.) voiced the appeal before There were unconfirmed reports Attorney General Cummlnga had informed Mr.

Roosevelt he could make a recess appointment after Congress adjourns. The President said yesterday he had received the informal opinion, but did not disclose Its nature. Mr. Roosevelt began his cruise on the yacht Potomac last night without waiting for Governor Murphy, Jim Farley and other topnotchers In These were some of the charges bitter debate, rivalling that which prevailed while the Roosevelt Su 100 delegates from a dozen States, ers; Charles P. Howard, president of the International Typographical Union; Francis Gorman, head of the United Textile Workers; David Dub-insky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union; Harvey C.

Fremmlng, president of the Oil Field. Gas Well and Refinery Workers, and Max Zaritsky, president of the Cap and Millinery Department of the United Hatters Cap and Millinery Workers International Union, Tlje.se leaders, it was learned, the world of literature. RELEASED BY G. O. P.

other than to say he received "sound Hoffman, foe of John L. Lewis' preme Court bill waa being considered and Anally defeated. advice" from Wilson. I. said he would compare Lewis with King George III and asserted After passing the wage-hour bill.

The list, reputedly taken from the official files of Congress, was released DEAL TURNED DOWN the Senate voted to begin debate on made last May by the steel union. The board's complaint continued: "The respondent, through Its officers, agents and representatives at its plant In Weirton, has exerted a preponderant Influence upon and has dominated the government, d-mlnistration of Justice, business af an "independent union" is as neces Last week Kelly, in an open letter to Jay Cooke, Republican City Chair the Wagner housing bill when It ty the Republican National Commit tee. Many Pennsylvania corpora' who had telephoned the White House sary now as was a union of colonies convenes Monday at noon. man, sought a deal whereby both par in 1776. He added: that the legislative session would de lay him.

The Michigan Senate ad The group of Southern Democrats Hons, a considerable number nf breweries and an Imposing array of "At that time the issue was tax ties would support the Judges, but Cooke refused, declaring he would led by Senator Pat Harrison blame Lewis for alienating the White Journed late last night without ap ation without representation. Now GOV. FRANK MURPHY The Michigan executive photographed as he stepped from an air liner at Washington yesterday for a conference with President Roosevelt aboard the presidential yacht Potomac in Chesapeake Bay. Mlsa.) which assailed the wages- House and depriving the C. I.

O. of fairs and social relationships of the community, to the serious prejudice proving the Governor's labor rela not be a party to assisting the Demo individuals thought it worth while to purchase either the plain, unadorned edUion, or the deluxe volume at $250 its greatest source of strength the tions bills. The House, however, re hours bill kept up their fight to the last and Indicated their opposition malned In session, with the Gover crats gaining control and "prostituting" the Common Pleas courts. "The Democratic party In this city tacit approval of the President. ORGANIZATION SLOWS of the liberties of its employees in the exercise of their rights of self-organization and collective nor's eight-point legislative program will be renewed when the measure la returned from the House to will continue to support sitting Organizers in the field have re a throw, which carried the autograph of President Roosevelt.

The biggest consignment was listed In the name of Margaret Biddle, Green Hill Farms Hotel Inquiry at FDLLETTE PIVOT The steel workers' committee last It is the collection of dues." WOULD BAR COMMUNISTS The delegates, meeting behind closed doors In the "town that chocolate bult," named Hoffman, by acclamation, first honorary vice chairman. The new organization will be known as the "Independent Labor Federation of America," said J. Paul MacElree, attorney for the Coates-vllle chapter of the Independent workmen. The bill as passed today and sub high and dry. BACKS ROOSEVELT Murphy arranged to take a commercial plane to Washington this morning, reaching the yacht by a ported to the union heads that since the widely publicized "break" between Lewis and the President, the July 2 petitioned the Labor Board to hold an employees' election to determine whether it was favored by a majority of the steel men as their Continued on Page 8 ROOSEVELT PLANS ject to numerous qualifications would set up a five-man labor standards board which would be authorized to prescribe a minimum wage of not more than 40 cents an hour and fix organizing drive has been slowing up.

It is no longer possible, the organizers say, to lure recruits with naval plane bearing mall to the Pres ident. collective bargaining agency. IN 7 MORE A. P. I am devoted to the President and Weirton Steel, today's complaint maximum work week of not less assurance "the President wants you to Join." From Th Inquirer ffurmu.

Judges who deserve re-election," Kelly said yesterday. "Now let Mr. Cooke and the insidious interests back of him, who really tell him what to say and do, demonstrate how that constitutes a 'Democratic scheme to grab control of the "I asked him to stand by the sitting judge principle. He won't. Well, will.

The Democratic party will support sitting Judges all down the line-Republican Judges and Democratic Judges." The Board of Judges of the Com- his leadership, and am privileged to "Whatever you do In organizing an WASHINGTON, July 31. One of than 40 hours. Workers, according to the organ enjoy a close personal friendship set forth, has encouraged the growth of the "plan of employee representation" and the "Weirton 8teel Em the biggest question marks In the MANV EXEMPTIONS Independent labor movement," Hoffman urged, "write into your constitution clause barring Communists BEATEN BY STRIKERS ployees' Security League." Officials of the company declined to comment on the Labor Board's action. izers, are no longer sure that the President Is behind the C. I.

O. and are more reluctant to sign up. Word haa been passed down through the ranks of organized labor that William Green, president of the rival American Federation of Labor, Is regaining his standing as Federal and State conciliators la with him." said Murphy, former Governor General of the Philippines, Another State Oovernor Philip La Follctte of Wisconsin was among the President's cruise guests last week-end. Mr. Roosevelt will Join President Lebrun of France tomorrow In dedicating America's monument on national political situation Just now la Robert M.

La Follette, 42-year-old Progressive Senator from Wisconsin and head of the political dynasty founded by his late father. The reason why "Young Bob" suggests a huge Interrogation point to many political leaders Is that they bored last night to arrange a settle from membership. "A union today is as much a necessity as it was In the days of 1778 because in union there is strength. But labor should be represented by prople who know what's going on In the plants." BLOW AT "AGITATORS" The assertion was Interpreted as Agricultural labor, employees In seasonal and "service" trades, retail store employees and those engnged In enterprises of a purely local character would be exempted. Product of child labor would be dented Interstate status, leaving the States free to exclude them If the latter so desire.

An amendment adopted by the Senate today stripped control over child labor from the proposed board which, under the Continued on Page 8 Continued on Page 9 ment of the city's two truck strikes, marked again yesterday by outbursts Continued on Page 6 rench soil to the soldiers of the two would like very much to know where he, and the forces he represents, fit Continued on Page 8 a blow at "professional agitators and Werrenrath Sings At Son's Wedding NEW BURGH, N. July 31 (A. Reinald Werrenrath, opera and concert star, was soloist at the marriage today of his son, Reinald, to Miss Elizabeth Imbrie, of Newburgh. He sang "Oh, Perfect Love." The bride's father, the Rev. Charles K.

Imbrie, performed the ceremony in the First Presbyterian Church, of which he is pastor. Into the political plans and strategy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. CRUISE SPOKESMAN During the last week they had additional cause for wonderment, but of violence in which seven men were injured, four seriously. All were Injured in connection with the strike of contractor drivers for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, They were guards employed to protect trucks still In operation. Meanwhile Mayor Wilson declared Gaslon Means Sent To Hospital WASHINGTON, July 31 (U.

Gaston B. Means, sentenced to prison In connection with the defrauding of Mrs. Edward B. McLean In the Lindbergh kidnap case, was ordered organizers" whom the independent unionists hope to purge from the nation's Industrial picture. Hoffman was bitter in his criticism of the National Labor Relations Board wheh, he contended, apparently only "hears what it wants to hear" in times of Industrial strife.

He declared Lewis and his followers In the C. I. O. drive for un'onl- N. Y.

Socialite Dives Into Lake to Save Girl ROCHESTER, N. July 31 fA, A socially prominent young New Yorker, Thomas I Boutllller, played hero today In the re.sctic of a girl whose sailboat capsized at the Freeman Cup races off the port of Rochester. 13 Wild Ducks Halt Park Traffic The wheels of progress stopped TMterday betore 9 A. 60 automobiles halted instinctively, time stood and Mother Nature chuckled As a mother wild duck and her brood of 12 ducklings waddled across busy East River drive, in Falrmount Park. Not a motorist hooted, not an auto horn blew, nobody shouted: "Come on, come on, what's hold-ta8 UP the line?" After th Drukman Murderer To Die in September NEW YORK, July 31 (U.

Fred J. Hull, convicted of first-degree murder In the Sam Drukman case In a gamble for his life was sentenced by Supreme Court Justice Ersklne C. Rogers today to die In the electric chair during the week of September 5. Defense Counsel Joseph A. Solovel announced he would file an appeal.

received no enlightenment. That was when Mr. Roosevelt Invited La Follette to spend the last week-end cruising on the Presidential yacht In the Potomac. On the same cruise was Senator Albcn Berkley the newly elected majority leader of the Senate. transferred today from Leavenworth Prison to the Federal Hospital for Defective Delinquents at Spring-! The bride, voted an outstanding student at Wells, is associated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Werrenrath is affiliated with the New York City business staff of a radio company. zatlon of the nation's workers "ad- field, Mo. The reason was not made i known. the A. and the Supplee-Wllls-Jones Milk Co.

and the Pep Boys strikes "will be settled by Monday." He began a conference at midnight with representatives of both sides in the milk strike in his City Hall office, in an effort to effect a quick settlement. Continued on Page 6 Le Boutllller, guest aboard the The general expectation was that It was the principal business of the cruise to map out the legislative proffrnm for th rmntnrtr of CHARLES HIRES DEAD; ROOT BEER MA GNA TE yacht of former Commodore William Barrows of he Rochester Club, liivtu into Hie lake and puiittl Helen Reed to the Barrows yacht while Coast Guardsmen rescued her male companion. present session of Congress, and the road, and disappeared in the The order was Issued by the Bureau of Prisons to Warden R. H. Hudspeth at Leavenworth.

Meaas will be moved Immediately, it was learned. Means was sentenced on May 23, 1933, to 15 years, one month and 23 days on conviction of conspiracy, grand larceny and embezzlement af Barkley was expected to make an THE WEATHER CTIlIuI New Jersey and Delaware: Fair Sunday and Monday, little change In temperature. Sun rises 5.57 A. M. Sets 8.14 P.M.

Moon rises 12.47 A. M. Sets 3.54 M. Other Weather Reports on Page I Continued on PagL. 8 oushes below Strawberry Mansion, Jhe was an added moment's hush, wheels of progress start- 50 ATTACK GUARDS The first disorder occurred on Walnut near 38th, where the A.

and P. freight loading platform is located. A group of about 50 strike sympathizers, who apparently had gathered there to watch for trucks leaving the plant, suddenly converged upon two guards who had driven up to a gasoline station. The second and most serious dis Charles E. Hires, root beer manufacturer who built a 5,000,000 business out of roots, bark and berries, died yesterday at his home, Buck lane, Haverford.

JOHN M. HEMPHILL GETS RENO DIVORCE ter he had taken more than $100,000 from Mrs. McLean on the assertion that he could return Charles A. Lindbergh, to his parents. Misting Persons Eighty-five years old, Mr.

Hires suffered a stroke Friday and never recovered consciousness. He had re W1LK1N.S Wld. Brt(lre or hflr of MUM Sadie Wilkim, born about JStio. P. O.

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O. Box 147, Chicago. Lost and Found again. Tinted Bug Ambles 15 Miles for Science C6LORADO SPRINGS, July 31 (A. with yellow dye for Entomologist Harold Willis, who Ranted to find out how far a grasshopper would travel, one little PPer hiked Utkmiles to the entomologist's father, Raiph Willis.

Highly prized by Entomologist Willis, this 'hopper holds the night order occurred on Mascner at Glrard where four guards were tired from business 11 years ago, but still lived an active life, and was an The wartime romance of John M. Hpmphill, Democratic nominee for Oovernor In 1930, ended In the Reno divorce court yesterday. Mrs. Anna Price Hemphill, who married the attorney at Whit lord, Fishing Is Self-Defense In Lake Mendota MADISON, July 31 (A. Mrs.

Austin Forkncr reported that a wall-eyed pike, flipping its fins near the shore of Lake Mendota, chased her through the water after LOST Colli engine turned elKttrettii cae, enitraved "L.H.W." neighborhood Lani'aa-ter it Ia Brvn Mawr. Reward. Kelura J. K. CHldwell ChenlnulftJuniper 111.

ardent fisherman. He was preparing to go on a fishing trip when he was stricken. Mr. Hires was born in Roadstown, beaten with clubs and pieces of pipe. Both men injured in the riot at 38th and Walnut Joseph de Ful-go, 23, of 722 Wlnton and Fred Fennelll, 29, of 1418 8.

15th were taken to University Hospital, where physicians said they had suffered A property settlement and provisions for support of the children In Joint custody are understood to have been arranged. Hemphill, who is 48, is a member of one of the oldest of West Chester families. He maintains a law office here at 1516 Chestnut St. When he ran for Governor he was Instrumental In having the Democratic Party advocate repeal of the 18th Amendment. He was defeated by Glford LOST Pair of glasw In cane.

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Initial E. M. Hew. Sharon WW Both received deep lacerations of Just before he sailed to France as a member of the 47th Infat.try, Fourth Division, In 1917, did not contest his charges of cruelty. Many friends of the couple were surprised at the announcement which Indicated a rift after twenty years of married life.

They have three children, Alexander, 16; Dc.llet, 13, and Dolly, 9. th head, and de Fulgo suffered a sh hit It with an oar. She said she caught it with a net. Laren Evans, of New Paris, University of Wisconsin student, displayed a 30-pound carp which he said struggled with him In the same lake for half an hour and finally had to be shot with a bow and arrow, 'whopper area. Today's Radio Program Is Given on Page 9 Of Another oction -2 hlack ault rae from on Lei- LOST- the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science.

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His clubs Include the West Chester Golf Club, Tredyffrln Country Club and Corinthian Yacht Cluu. Cornl i lTHKRX6sT AM) KOI'NH ON --w i CHARLES E. HIRES Continued on Page 4 Continued on Paie 6.