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Mi no li WM 1 CONTEMPT CI II A PROBE Rep. Zioncheck Is Arrested On Lunacy Charge PUS 1 1 ACTION in II. s. VICE PRESIDENT? A sii a y-lfsjl liW.y ils 3 Gigantic British Liner Given Noisy Welcome to New York Judge McDevitt Places Officials in Custody of Counsel Run "More For Money Than Ideals," Charles Hawks Says Five to Four Decision Makes Future Wage Legislator Impossible Another Series of Wild Escapades Lands Congressman in Municipal Hospital; Wife Deserts Him, Policeman Hits Him DOCTOR A STRATEGIST REFUSED TO TESTIFY DISAPPOINTMENT ABOARD HUGHES IS OPPOSED fAll Named in Warrants Sworn Out by Senator Mason Passengers Expected Ship to Set New Atlantic WASHINGTON, June 1 (UP) Police today ordered the arrest of Rep. Marion (Wildman) Zioncheck, Wash, after he had turned the capital topsy-turvy during another day of fantastic escapades.

Says Townsend Found It Wiser Not to Pay Attention Subpoenas Chief Justice Writes a Vigorous Dissenting Opinion Owlett Record PHILADELHIA, June 1 (UP) Judge Harry S. McDevitt today dismissed charges of contempt against six persons who were under technical arrest for refusal to testify before a state senate investigating committee. Judge McDevitt said he had no By LOUIS F. KEEMLE, United Press Cable Editor. Aboard S.

S. Queen Mary, at the end of the voyage, June 1 (UP) Just short of a record for North Atlantic speed, Great Britain's proudest ship steamed majestically into New York harbor to find it a bedlam of welcome today. The Queen Mary, officials aboard announced officially, arrived off WASHINGTON, June 1 (UP) Charles M. Haw ks, who resigned a key post in the Massachusetts Townsend pension organization in order to testify in the house pensions inquiry, charged today that the $200-a-montb old age drive waa run "more for money than for ideals." Hawks, elderly father of Frank Hawks, record-holding speed aviator, said he had quit his job as WASHINGTON, June 1 (UP) Police today arrested Rep. Marion A.

Zioncheck, D. at Naval Medical Center on a lunacy warrant and took him to Gallinger municipal hospital for mental observation. The warrant, signed by Al. P. Stump, Sanitary officer of the police department, charged the playboy legislator with driving "his auto In a reckless manner" and annoying citizens and public officials.

"Annoy" was hardly the word, jurisdiction in the case. Special arrangements for mailing of veterans' bonus bonds, which will be oosted the night of June 15, were made when Postmaster Vincent E. Burke, seated, of Washington, conferred with veterans' leader on plans to insure speedy delivery WASHINGTON, June 1 (UP) The Supreme Court today in a sweeping 5 to 4 decision which probably will doom any kind oC state or federal wage and hour legislation today held unconstitutional the New York minimum wage law for women and children. The ruling, while applied only to the New York law, was expected to mean the end of similar legislation in many states including seven which had joined with New York in appeal to sustain the validity of the law. Justice Owen J.

Roberts cast hia vote with the four members of the conservative bloc who voted against a similar law in 1923. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes wrote a vigorous dissent which w-as concurred in by Justices fc i-A lini, JE-i Massachusetts Townsend director after he was ordered to defy the house comittee. Tim defiance or Ambrose Lightship at 9:05 a.m New York time. Unofficially we are 44 minutes under the record for North Atlantic passenger travel from the Cherbourg breakwater. It was 8:48 a.m., New York time, whe the bridge signalled for half A conference between Gifford Pin-chot (above), former Governor of Pennsylvania and Gov.

Alf Landon in Kansas City, has given strength to the rumors that the Pennsylvania liberal may be chosen as the Kan-san'a running mate in the event Landon it nominated at the Cleveland G. O. P. convention. Bonus Bonds To Arrive June 15, Cash in 2 Days der was issued by Dr.

Francis E. Townsend, against whom contempt proceedings have been initiated by the house. Hawks said he was still convinced of the soundness of the Town-send pension program but charged that the movement had been taken over by people "more interested in money than ideals." speed. Rockaway Beach was sighted at 8:10 a.m. All preparations were completed to receive the doctors, customs, immigration men, newspapermen, guests and official wel-comers at quarantine.

Certain at last after four days ot police reported after an all-morning chase of the representative and reports of his arrest from numerous ends of the town after he had called at the White House with some empty beer bottles and later had sought the arrest of Vice President John N. Garner. One group of police thought they had nabbed Zioncheck in the fashionable district near his apartment. Simultaneously a downtown traffic officer reported Zioncheck had nearly run over him in his freshly-dented roadster. PHILADELHIA, June 1 (UP) Six persons charged with contempt lor their alleged refusal to testify before a state senate investigating committee were arraigned today before Judge Harry S.

McDevitt. The defendants, four of whom yere junior WPA officials, were released to the custody of U. S. District Attorney Cullen Ganey, their defense counsel. Arrest of the six was only technical.

They were named in warrants issued last week on request of State Senator Mason Owlett, head of the senate comittee which sought to investigate WPA activities in Philadelphia. Assistant District Attorney John H. Maurer and Senator Theodore L. Bean, Norristown, appeared at the heading today as prosecuting attorneys. Franklin G.

Connor, head of the Louis D. Brandeis, Harlan F. Stone and Benjamin Cardozo, Hughes dissented on the grounds that there was a substantial differ-ence between the 1923 District ot Columbia case' and the New Yorlc hectic speculation that there was no record the passengers turned from arguments over speed and BOY TELLS HOW IE KILLED MOTHER TO GET FAMILY CAR LEWIS SEEKS TO Laws and Hammond Arrange to Distribute Valuable Documents to Sayre Veterans on June 16th biniultaneously. Rep. Joseph P.

Monaghan, charged in the house that the Townsend iu-vestigation was designed to "des-troy the greatest single pension movement ever organized." "It hag been an inquisition," the red-haired Townsend supporter shouted. He added that house action in citing Townsend for contempt for refusing to answer ques- position to last minute packing. All of the 1,805 passengers, still not willing to believe we had failed to make a record, fot out thelt passports for examination. One passenger, a stowaway, had no passport. The 1,101 members of the crew busied themselves with land 1 WORKERS Hardly had these flashes cleared on the police teletype system, before another report came in, saying that he was at Naval Medical Center, for reasons" known only to himself.

Officers Joseph Sinkovitz and law. "And I can find nothing in th federal constitution which denies to the state the power to protect women from being exploited by over reaching employers through the refusal of a fair wage as defined in the New York statute and ascertained in a reasonable manner by competent authority," Hughes Plans to deliver bonus bonds to Sayre veterans June 16 are being STEEL MILLS lions was a miscarriage of jus ing preparations. made by the local postoffice, as the result of advices on the distribu Aubrey Tolson were dispatched posthaste to the naval hospital, where they captured their sweater- PITTSBURGH, June 1 (UP) A 17-year-old high school boy sat calmly before Allegheny county detectives today and related, they said, how he fatally shot his mother when she refused to let him use the family automobile. After changing his story for the WASHINGTON, June 1 (UP) John L. Lewis, president of United Mine Workers of America sternly Philadelphia office of the Federal State employment agency and one of the defendants, was charged with refusal to answer questions.

Other defendants were: E. Kaye Hunter, assistant WPA administrator; Henry T. Seibert, Edward R. Yarnelle, Bessie Dumas and Claude McKinley. They were charged with ignoring subpoenas Is.

gued last week by the committee for them to appear at a public her-ing and testify. clad quarry, who still was looking for his missing wife, and who still is announcing that he intended to get himself sworn in as a deputy advised the Amalgamated Associa second time, the sou, John tion of Iron, Steel Tin Workers today to cease its "fluttering pro tice. Hawks said Townsend called him from Baltimore recently aud said: 'Charley, our strategy is to pay no attention to the "I said, 'Okay, Doc, I will think it I thought it over and believed the doctor was being advised by somebody to violate a federal law. I thought too much of my government and family to let that occur to me." Hawks said he then resigned his post at state area manager in the movement for Massachusetts so that he could testify. "I think the movement is in the Hanna, admitted that he shot Mrs.

Tressa S. Hanna because she As we moved on into quarantine dozens of glistening white yachts escorted the Queen Mary, now moving at a slow speed in brilliant morning sunlight. The airplane continued to hover overhead. A strange freak symbolizing internal amity occurred as we steamed past Ambrose Lightship. To the sound of a siren the crew in the forepeak sprang smartly to the halyards and hoisted the Stars and Stripes.

The American flag became entangled with the Union Jack and so remained for 30 seconds while the bridge furiously barked orders. crastination" and fall in line for in-dustrial organization of the na-tion's workers. said. This was in direct contradiction to the majority ruling, written by Justice Pierce Butler, which was based squarely upon the court's ruling in the District of Columbia case. Butler said the court majority adhered to the principles of tha District of Columbia case, finding them "sound." While Joining in the Hughes opinion, the three liberals joined also In a separate opinion by Justice Harlan F.

Stone. Stone's opinion said the liberals would not distinguish between the District of Columbia law and the New York tion obtained by Postmaster A. L. Laws and Assistant Postmaster Earl Hammond. Both of the officials attended a meeting in Williamsport at which tentative plans for the distribution were made.

It is planned to place the bonds for Sayreites in the mail at midnight June 14, in Philadelphia, Mr. Laws said. They probably will arrive here on the Black Diamond the following day, and will be delivered on the 16th. All veterans should be at home on that day to receive their bonds, as they can be delivered only to the person to whom they are addressed, Mr. Laws said.

However, there will be an extra delivery in the evening attempted to stop him when he went to the garage for the car, according to county detectives. Shot In the head, the woman's body was found late last night on POSTPONE CONVENTION Lewis warned Louis Leonard, secretary of the steel union, that workers in the steel Industry "are u-man. Sinkovitz phoned the central station. "We got Zioncheck!" he shouted. Headquarters wouldn't believe him, but Sinkovitz insisted there ha.

I been no mistake. A Zioncheck who's been drinking Zioncheck zippers (rye and honey) all morning, isn't hard to recognize, he said. The chief said, take him to Gallinger for observation. The officers did that, as quickly as possible. The chief, Ernest Brown, said he had ordered arrest of Zioncheck because, congressman or no congressman, he was "a wild man." the lawn of her North Fayette township summer home.

According to the boy's reported statement, he going to be given a chance to become organized with or without the benefit'' of the Amalgamated union. HAZLETON, June 1 (UP) The tri-district convention of anthracite miners, which was scheduled for June 3, today was postponed until June 17. dragged the body out of the garage Tne warning was made In a tele hands of people who do not know what the ideals of the Townsend Plan really are," Hawks said. "I think it is in a deplorable condi law as the sole basis of decision. gram which marked another chap so that he could drive the family sedan away.

150 KILLED 01 of that day to care for those who are "I attach little importance to the fact that the earlier statute was TREASURY BALANCE tion and needs more reorganization Although the district attorneys unable to be at home in the day ter in the long fight between Lewis and the American Federation of Labor over the question of the Industrial, as opposed to the craft. office declined to reveal the full aimed only at a starvation wage time. Anyone may leave word at than ever." A number of letters allegedly written by the Rev. Clinton Wund- Mi text of the youth's alleged confes- and that the present one does not WASHINGTON, June 1 (UP) The treasury balance to May 23 yas' $2,374,022,093.69. his home as to what day he will be at home, during the subsequent 30 prohibit such "wage unless it is er, former Townsend regional man (Continued on Page 9, Column 6.) method of unionization.

It was reported that William Green, A.F. of L. president, wag considering taking drastic action ager, were introduced, but an Inquiry official said they were "so WASHINGTON, June 1 (UP) The escapades which brought Rep. Marion Zioncheck numerous fines, a wife, a bump on the head and threatened law suit ceased tem vicious and obscene" that he re days, and the bonds will be delivered on the day he names. Mr.

Laws said that veterans should not call at the postoffice for their bonds if it can be avoided, because of the extra difficulty of iden By UNITED PRESS The annual surge of America's millions to the highways for the first big holiday of the year left at least 150 mangled victims in against nine unions which had refused to heed his orders to cease also less than the reasonable value of the Stone wrote. "Since neither statute compels employment at any wage, I do not assume that employers In one case, more than in the other, would pay the minimum wage if the service were worth less. "The vague and general pro. (Continued on Page Column 3) porarily today while he searched Check and Double Cheek On Zioncheck Today efforts for industrial organization. fused to permit them to be read in the open hearing.

Rep. Scott W. Lucas, Ill, a committee member, read the letters and said: for his bride of a month. 0 morgues and undertaking parlors, tification. It will be much simpler These unions Include the mino The Seattle "wild man'' avoided victims of accidents, a United workers, and unions in the textile for them to receive them at home.

Plans also are being made to as police as he crashed into homes of and garment manufacturing Press survey indicated today. Twenty-five of the most densely After hearing the obscene, de- friends, forced his way past hotel employes and sped about Wash- populated states reported 95 violent sign a staff of four clerks to the task to certifying for bonds deposited with the postoffice for pay (Continued on Page 9, Column 6.) ington in a frantic search for Mrs. Zioncheck, who "walked out" on zooming effort to drive away from his parking place in front of the court. He nearly runs over numerous citizens and races, zig-zagging, down Pennsylvania avenue, ignor him early Saturday. man was reported to have received Zioncheck narrowly avoided an a telegram from her in Richmond, Striking Miners Use Guns To Keep Mines Closed other clash with police when he deaths for Memorial Day week-end.

The National Safety Council predicted a final death toll of slightly over 150. A pre-holiday campaign by the Safety Council was credited with reducing the toll below the average. The Council had anticipated 135 deaths on the basis of former saying she was "on my way home." Whether she referred to left a hotel hurriedly after being WASHINGTON, June 1 (UP) The Zioncheck time table today: 7 A. M. Zioncheck rises and pours himself some rye and honey Zioncheck Zippers.

7:30 He telephones District Attorney Leslie C. Garnett and demands arrest of Vice-President 3arner on charges of hiding Mrs. ioncheck. 7:40 He drives downtown on the wrong side of the boulevard, goes the wrong way on a one-way street, drives over curbs and ment. The place of certification will be selected later and may be somewhere other than the post-office, Mr.

Laws said. Veterans will be required to bring their bonds to that place and Identify themselves, after which they will be given a receipt and the bonds will be for-warded, to a district paying office. refused permission to search its rooms. He dashed up a stairway when barred from an elevator, but ing red lights. 11:08 Arrives again at the White House and again is informed the president Is not available He says he will return.

11:15 Police Chief Brown sends a squad of strong arm officers to the White House to wait for him. The police are instructed to ar years. and civic organiza Checks, cashable at any bank, then her former home at Texarkana, or Washington was not clear. Zioncheck's attorney, L. C.

Q. Lamar, said he believed Mrs. Zioncheck was still in Washington. He said he knew where she went after she left Harvard Hall, but "she's moved around quite a bit since them" and that he did not know her present whereabouts. Miss Marion Young, Zioncheck's secretary who posted $25 bond to get him out of jail Saturday, said By MAYNARD ST1TT, (United Press Staff Correspondent) BESSEMER, June 1 (UP) Striking iron miners sniping with rifles from mountain eyries defeated attempts by a subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation to op- night in preparation for an attempt to remove the beleaguered miners this morning.

Shooting began less than two hours after 2,200 men struck at the three mines, located in a mountain district where two years ago two will be sent the veterans. Because of the rush expected In I tions campaigned during the last 12 months for highway safety. The Safety Council sent out a last-minute warning against speeding and careless driving. The apparent re certifying for the bonds, and the came down when he found it did not lead past the second floor. Police, arriving a moment later, saw him climb into a taxicab.

He banged on doors of acquaintances, stuck his head inside and inquired: "Have you seen my wife?" Haggard from lack of sleep and distraught with anxiety, the playboy congressman refused to give up the search. At his disordered Harvard Hall apartment, scene of his clashes Friday and Saturday nights with erate three mines under an al-1 men were killed, several wounded. fact that only regular postal employes can be used for this work, the proposed civil service examination scheduled for June 18 has been postponed until June 23. duction this year will encourage more spirited safey campaigns, the rest him on charges of being "a wild man" and take him to Gallinger hospital for mental observation. 11 45 Zioncheck, who has a radio in his car and who follows all developments in the hunt for him via broadcasted news reports, still had not shown up at the Safety Council said.

down sidewalks, and finally parks where he iu front of the White House. 8:10 Unable to see President Roosevelt, he leaves the latter a present, consisting of two empty beer bottles and says he was seeking the president's aid in calling out the army machine gun corps to bombard the hotel in which he believed Mrs. Zioncheck was hiding. 9 He makes a personal call on Garnett to renew his demands for arrest of Garner. Several states reported drown all she knew was what she "read in the papers." Zioncheck, she said, had not been to hi3 office.

ings as summer weather attracted NO GOLD ARGUMENTS leged "stretch out" wage scale today. Hidden sharpshooters dangerously wounded two deputized company guards and kept 93 non-union miners besieged in the Wenonah mine of the Tennessee Coal, Iron Railroad company. Reports persisted that a negro Friends of Mrs. Zioncheck said millions to Deacnes and lake re sorts. Airplane crashes and shoot police and neighbors, Zioncheck they believed she was in the city but that she was being kept away ings helped swell the total.

White House for his date with the police. 11:43 A. M. to 12:30 P. M.

Police teletype system goes wild with WASHINGTON, June 1 (UP) The Supreme Court today granted the administration's plea that it refuse to answer questions certified to it by the court of claims in the and the national guard mobilized in another strike. The T. C. I. wholly owneo by United States Steel, had ordered one of three shifts of miners laid o- and the remaining men transferred from an hourly wage scale to a tonnage basis.

A. E. Horn, district president of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, charged that the change was the first move of a national effort by the steel industry to "mop up" trade unions around its fringe in preparation for resisting a campaign to unionize, mill workers. Only a fraction of the normal forces entered the mines at 6 p.m., when whistles summoned ths first from the representative until she recovers from the strain of Friday night's battle. It was that battle that started an miner was killed and two others.

FARMERS IN CONFERENCE CHICAGO, June 1 (UP) Delegates to the first national conference looked to their par gold clause test suit of the Dixie Terminal of Cincinnati. gulped down a "Zioncheck Zipper," a potent invention of his own, and declared "They can't do this to me." Mrs. Zioncheck, the former Rubye Louise Nix, PWA stenographer, in her flight from the apartment in the wake of the early-Saturday morning fracas, took with her the Zioncheck black roadster, familiar to Washington, Alexandria and North Carolina speed cops. A few hours later the coapeifr one a union man, were wounded in an exchange of shots at the company's Muscoda mine. Company officials excluded everyone but police officers from the properties and instituted a rigorous censorship of news.

intermittent 48-hour siege of the apartment by police and Mrs. Benjamin Scott Young, who sub-let it to the Zionchecks and became dissatisfied with her tenants. When she attempted to reclaim 10 He goes to police court across the street and confers for ian-liour in vain attempt to get a warrant charging his landlady with stealing his gold watch. 11 Announces that he wants his wife and intends to get himself sworn in as a deputy G-man to find her. 11:05 Smashes his front fender aud then his rear in a zipping, numerous reports Zioncheck arrested here and arrested there.

A policeman on street reports that a black roadster, with a pale faced man at the wheel, nearly runs over him. Latest police reprt says Zioncheck located at Naval Medical Center. Medical Center denies report. Noon Zioncheck arrested on lunacy warrant. I ental Minnesota organization today to lead the way Into the national legislative campaign this year aud the presidential race in 1940.

All agreed they must send enough delegates to congress this year to "save" the nation from war, dictatorship and reactionaries, 4, FEARS DICTATORSHIP June 1(UP) Sen. Daniel O. Hastings, charged today that the work relief appropriation creates grave danger of dictatorship in the United States. the apartment she alleges she was The Birmingham sheriff sent hastily mobilized deputies to the Wenonah mine throughout th (Continued on Page 7, Column 5). (Continued on Page 7, Column 4.) 1 1 c..