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tue THE WEATHER Showeri Saturday and late Sunday; warmer on Sunday METROPOLITAN FINAL EDITION Saturday, May 28, 1938. 108th Year. No. 24 On Guard for Over a Century 22 Pages Three Cents Ul ill mi Mr. Roosevelt Allows Tax Bill to Go on Books Refuses to Place His Signature on It with 'Defects' Objections Explained to Nation in Air Talk Hague's Police Throw Out Rep.

O'Connell As Congressman Was 'Deported' Sloan, Chrysler and Edsel Ford Named in Bills Among 50 Executives Accused Under Antitrust Act SOUTH BEND, May 27 (U. A Federal grand jury late today returned indictment against the Ford Motor Gen Si 1 Officers Brutal, Speaker Says; Wife Is Injured Congressman Nabbed for Trying to Read BUI of Rights I Didn't Kill My Friend, Mrs. Barker Tells Jury Mrs. Julia M. Barker took the witness stand Friday in her trial for murder and began before Circuit Judge Ira W.

Jayne and a jury her story of the events which left Mrs. Edith Mae Cummings dead in the bloody snow at the bottom of a lonely ravine near Belleville on Jan. 15. "You told the jury on direct examination that you didn't shoot Mrs. Cummings?" Prosecutor Duncan C.

McCrea asked on cross-examination. "I'll tell the world that," the former millionaire real estate dealer said in a barely audible voice. "Well, did you shoot her?" McCrea asked. "Not to my knowledge," Mrs. Barker said.

"Don't you know?" "I'll say positively I never shot Edith Mae Cummings." "Yet you tried to knock the gun from her hand?" "Yes, I did" Mrs. Barker said. "I knocked it from her ho i1 1 V'' 0 i r' Boy Acquitted in Love Killing Court Orders Study by Sanity Experts ARTHURDALE, W. May n- a. President Roosevelt Irt the new aid to business tax till become a law without his nicnature tonight, adopting this unusual procedure as a.

means of calling "the definite attention of the American people" to what he considered its vital defects. Standing 'n white clapboard sr.hoolhouse about which life In this mountain homestead community revolves, Mr. Roosevelt explained the reasons for his unprecedented step in a speech broadcast to a nationwide audience. He said that some revisions which lighten the burden on small business and remove nuisance taxes are justified and that In certain respects the bill is a good one. See Loss of Principle But, he argued, by leaving only a shred of the New Deal's undivided-profits tax enacted in 1936 and by sweeping changes downward in the rates on capital gains, the bill abandons the principle of laying the tax burden on those best able to pay.

"If I sign the bill," Mr. Roosevelt said, "and I have until midnight to night to sign it, many people will think I approve the abandonment of an important principle of American taxation. 'If I veto the bill it will prevent many of the desirable features of it from going into cflcct. "Therefore, for the first time nince I have been President, I am going to take the third course which is open to me. I am going to let the act go into effect at midnight tonight without my approval." Wants Further Action "I hope that when the new Con-press meets next year it will undertake a broader program of improving the Federal tax system," he said.

Noting that the tax bill retains enly a shadow of the undistributed profits tax, the President said: "The penalty for withholding dividends to stockholders is so small only 2 per cent at the most that it is doubtful whether it will 1 1 eliminate the old tax-avoidance practices of the past." As to the adoption of the flat-rate capital gains tax, the President asserted: "The abandonment of the principle of progressive tax payment in accordance with capacity to pay may encourage a umall amount of capital to go Into productive enterprises, but chiefly it will help those who make large profits in buying and selling existing stocks." Says rtains May Be Lost He said that there was no assurance that untaxed savings would go into new investment. "They may be hoarded or lost In the inflation or deflation that nrrurs in the shuffling about of sifting investments," he commented. Turn to Page 2-Column 5 A. P. Wirephoto Rep.

Jerry J. O'Connell is shown, as he was being escorted from the Jersey City police station by an officer Friday night. He was seized by police when he attempted to speak in defiance of Mayor Frank Hague's ban. From the police station, he was taken to a train, ordered to leave town and "never come back again." Cedillo Trapped in Hills After His Airplane Fails AlimonyWrung from Tombs of Stone Age Men With tears in his eyes, Harry Hosack, forty-one-year-old collector of Indian relics, Friday watched his former wife, Mrs. Ida Hosack, 38 years old, of 511 Middlesex MRS.

IDA HOSACK Dearborn, load his treasures in a bushel basket and depart from the court room of Circuit Judge Harry B. Kcidan. Mrs. Hosack, after conferring with Judge Kcidan, had agreed to accept, the relics in lieu of $6,500 in alimony which Hosack had not paid since their divorce on Feb. 7, 1929.

Hosack, who lives at 1763 Vermont said that his precious arrowheads, tomahawks and hatchets, among other things, were worth at least $5,000 and that museums had asked for them. Some are believed to be Stone Age remains. Mrs. Hosack charged that over a period of nine years she had received just $500 for the support ot her two children, Verona, 17, and Anna, 15, both of whom are now being cared for by the American Legion at the Soldiers and Sailors Home at Kingston, Ind. In October, 1933, Hosack married the second time and is now the father of four children by that marriage Christine, Harry, 4, and Gilbert and Fern, five-month-old twins.

Hosack said that be was a roof-rr by trade, but had bpen working only three days a week. He has appeared before six Circuit Court judges on show-cause or ders for his failure to pay the alimony of $12 a week ordered by the court and has been placed on nrnhation twice, in addition to serving one year at the Detroit House of Youth Battles Dog to Rescue Girl, 4 Four-year-old Jeanne McLeod, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald McLeod, of 905 Lake Shore Road, Grossc Pointe Shores, was recovering Friday from Injuries suffered when she was attacked by a German shepherd dog. Joseph Powers, 17, of Hll LflKe snore Road, beat the dog off after a fifteen-minute battle Thursday.

The child was taken to Cottage Hospital, Crosse Pointe. where it was necessary to take 20 stitches in her scalp, which had been slashed in three places. Doctors then released her, as her condition was not held to be serious. Powers received several nips on the hand in his struggle with the dog. The animal had entered the McLeod yard where Jeanne and her young sisters, Joanne and Patsy, were playing, and for a time had romned in a friendly (fashion with the youngsters.

Suddenly the nog lungea ri Jeanne, pinned her down and snapped at her head and shoulders, according to Powers, who had been mowing the lawn. The animal has been impounded by Grosse Pointe Shores police for 10 days' observation to determine whether it is rabid. Quints, 4, May Have More Sheltered Life CALLANDER, May 27 (Canadian Press) The Dionne quintuplets will be four years old tomorrow, and there were signs that they soon may be shielded from the public curiosity that never has ceased since their birth. Indications that the guardians were leaning toward a policy of sheltering their charges more than irs tnf. nr.

in nic v. s. rangenierts for tomorrows birthday celebration. It is to be a quiet affair without the international broadcasts that have marked previous anniversaries. hi eral Motors and Chrysler 33 affiliated finance com panies and subsidiaries and 50 executives for alleged violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

United States District Attorney James R. Fleming said that the indictments charged violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. The jury, which had deliberated since Monday, had investigated al leged coercion of automobile dealers and purported discrimination against independent finance com panies. Company 1 leads Named Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor Alfred P. Sloan, chairman of General Motors William Knudscn, president of General Motors, and Walter P.

Chrysler, chairman of the Chrysler were among those indicted, leming sain. The grand jury's report was un expected. Fleming earlier had said that it would be at least six week! before the investigation was complete. The jury returned three blanket indictments one for each of the automobile manufacturers and IU finance affiliate. 50 Executives Accused The Chrysler indictment named 19 credit companies, five subsidiary auto corporations and 18 Individuals.

In the General Motors indictment were named three financi companies and 19 Individuals. The Ford indictment listed six credit companies and 13 individuals. Fleming said the individuals indicted would be taken Into custody by Federal officers in their home cities. He said that their bond would be fixed shortly. Conviction on the charges carries a fine of not more than 15.000 and a sentence of not more than one year imprisonment.

Government attorneys indicated that the companies and executive would be brought to trial in South Bend, probably in early fall. Indictments Not Disclosed Fleming did not immediately reveal the contents of the three indictments, but said that they were "similar in language, and involved practically the same charges." "There were other a'filiates of these so-called affiliated finance companies indicted," Fleming said. "I am unable to announce those at present." About 150 witnesses were said to have testified before the grand jury. They included automoblla dealers and representatives of independent motor finance companies. Defendants Are Listed Those indicted, according to Fleming, included: General Motors Corp.

William S. Knudsen, Alfred P. Sloan, E. W. Berger, George F.

Benkhart, M. E. Coyle, James D. Deane, Nelson C. Dezendorf, August Freise, Richard H.

Grant, Roy Hill, W. E. Holler. W. F.

Hufstader, H. J. Klinglcr, Russel Lesher, Ralph Moore, W. J. Mougey, Arthur B.

Service, John Schumann, and G. I. Smith. Please Turn to Page 2 Column 3 Rain Threatening Holiday Week-End Detroiters planning to open summer cottages Saturday may be disappointed in the weather forecast for the first part of th Memorial Day week-end. Cloudy skies and scattered thunderstorms are forecast for Saturday, but an expected rise in temperature may clear the weather situation in time for the big' Memorial Day parade and also for the baseball fans looking forward to a double-header at Briggs Stadium Monday.

$66,000 in Four Years Is Loot of Flying Bandits KANSAS CITY, May 27 (U. Two Midwestern bandits tonight told how they robbed 12 banks in four states over a period of four years, taking loot totaling $66,156.73. and then were nabbed for a holdup which netted i them only $19.50. Ernest H. McCarthy.

CO years olJ. Harry Korte. -Z. who aii they bought an airplane to sur-e- pros pe-v't i vp hanks f-r rorr'i- entered picas cf i.itv to trtr.k rrhpi'-'. Trry uere p.i?i U--er KS.OCO bcr.i.' JERSEY CITY, May 27 Rep.

Jerry J. O'Connell, Montana Democrat, was forcibly "deported" from Jersey City tonight after his second unsuccessful attempt to speak here in defiance of Mayor Frank Hague. He had tried to read the Bill of Rights. Just as he appeared before a turbulent crowd of from 20,000 to 25.000 persons at Pershing Field, O'Connell was seized by Hague police and whisked off to a police station. After being questioned for an hour he was put on a train for Newark.

Mrs. O'Connell Injured O'Connell said there that he was uninjured but had been "handled very brutally" by Jersey City police. Mrs. O'Connell, who slipped into the field just before her husband's appearance, charged that uniformed policemen threw her to the ground and Injured her. She showed newspapermen bruises and cuts on her left log.

Both her knees were, bruised and cut. The congressman said that Hague's police had "jumped on me, badgered me and shoved me around." Hague, who is under attack as Jersey City's all-powerful "dictator" and implacable, foe of the C.I.O., had refused O'Connell a city permit to speak. First Attempt Balked Three weeks ago O'Connell was dissuaded from a similar venture with Rep. John T. Bernard, Minne sota Farmer-Laborite, for fear of bloodshed.

Tonight the representatives motored to Jersey City from Passaic with a party which included Al Harrison, of the Textile Workers Organizing Committee. The big crowd had assembled at Pershing Field to see whether Connell would appear. An Amer ican Legion band paraded, followed by war veterans. The crowd appeared to be in an angry mood, although there was a liberal sprinkling of O'Connell supporters. Harrison said that O'Connell left their car a few blocks away from the field and permitted Mrs.

O'Connell who had refused to stay away to slip in ahead. He Walks lo Field O'Connell went the rest of the way on foot, passing a Democratic club where 200 persons were assembled. They did not recognize him, Harrison reported. O'Connell walked into the field and announced: "I am O'Connell. I'm going to speak." The crowd, surprised by the dramatic entrance, roared.

Witnesses heard cries of "There's O'Connell, the bum!" "Throw him out!" "Kill him!" "Let hi.n talk!" "The hell he will!" "Give us your speech, Jerry!" Hundreds of men surged into the field. As if by signal, police surrounded O'Connell and quickly led him out through the angry, scuffling crowd. Mrs. O'Connell, who had followed him in, was kicked on the shin. Police could not find her for some time.

Five detectives and three policemen, out of 600 guarding the field, hurried the congressman to a big black police car. The Bill of Rights He had previously released a speech to the press with the comment that he had no illusions that he would be able to make it. He said that he intended to start out with a reading of the Bill of Rights, which guarantees free Please Turn to rage Column 2 Dog Bites His Owners as They Treat Injury Mrs. Dorothy Keffer and Mrs. Mary Humphreys, of 1813 Merrick were bitten severely Friday by their Boston bulldog as they were taking a bandage off his foot, which was cut by glass a few days ago.

The dog apparently was maddened by pain. Mrs. Humphreys was bitten on both arms and Mrs. Keffer on her hands. The women were given Pasteur treatment at Herman Kiefer Hospital and then taken to Receiving Hospital for tetanus injections.

The dog was taken to the pound for observation, although pound officials said that he apparently did not have rabies. Fall Is Fatal CROSWELL. May 27 William .1 Pur.r.hv 1ft yar old was fatally injured Friday when he slipped and fell at the Cros-well plant of the Michigan whre tad been err.ploved suv.e May 15. hand and I struggled for it. wanted to throw it away.

I don't remember everything that happened." Tells of Financial Trouble Earlier, she told under direct examination by her attorney, Harry F. Kelly, of the financial distress which the defense maintains caused Mrs. Cummings to attempt suicide and murder, and of the shooting. "She (Mrs. Cummings) haJ not been able to earn much money, and she was trying to raise money to cover her checks," Mrs.

Barker said. On Jan. 13 the two women went to Kalamazoo, and from there Mrs. Cummings went to Chicago by bus to try to borrow money from a friend, but returned the next day without it, Mrs. Barker testified.

Needed $1,250 Cash "She said she just had to get some money she just couldn't carry on without it," Mrs. Barker said. "I think the sum was $1,250. "When she left for Chicago, I was to stay at Kalamazoo to transact some business, and she was to return from Chicago to Detroit by train. When I came back from lunch Jan.

14, there was a wire telling me to wait; she was going to take a bus back to Kalamazoo." "When I came back to the hotel, about 4 p. she was there. Told of Fruitless Trip "We checked out immediately. She told me she hadn't been able to locate Mr. Benduhn, her friend in Chicago, and that she had arrived in Chicago between 5 and 6 a.

taken a bath at the bus station, cashed some checks! and come back without sleeping. She said it was a terrible trip." The two stopped at Ypsilanti for dinner and then decided to spend the night there, Mrs. Barker testified. riease Turn lo rage 3 Column U. S.

Holding Four oi Bremen's Crew Liner's Captain Testifies in Espionage Inquiry NEW YORK, May 27 (A.P.) United States Attorney Lamar Hardy announced tonight that four members of the crew of the German liner Bremen, now in port, would be held as material witnesses in the Government's espionage investigation here. Capt. Adolph Anrens ana several officers and crew members, onhnenned when the shin arrived yesterday, testified today before a special Federal grand jury. They presumably were questioned regarding the flight of Dr. Ignatz Griebl, scheduled witness in the.

spy inquiry, to Germany on the. liner's last trip. The four ordered held today were arraigned on an affidavit and held in bail as follows: Wilhelm Boehnke, listed as a pantryman but said to be political leader of the ship, Johann Klciber, second radio officer, Walter Otto and Johann Hart, seamen, $5,000 each. Youth Is Given 10 Years for Threatening Levine TRENTON, N. May 27 (A.

Stanley a Jasosky. twenty-year-old Newark youth who pleaded guilty to Federal indict ments charging him with mailing threatening extortion letters to the father of missing twelve-year-old Peter Levine, of New York, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison. The United States attorney's office said that investigation showed that Jasosky had no connection with the boy's disappearance. True Tale About Lira NEW YORK, May 27 (U.P.) Frank Restuccia. a money changer, told police today that two young men entered his office and asked him to exchange $1400 worth of Italian lira.

Restuccia got the money, the men produced revolvers and walked off with the $1,400, the lira and ResV-iccia's pants. Lazaro Cardenas' radical Mexico-for-Mexicans program, was said to have made a hurried take-off when a Federal force surprised him and a band of his followers in the nigged Huasteca hill country of San Luis Potosi state. Twelve Federal airplanes started in pursuit from San Luis Potosi, and when news of the forced landing was received infantrymen were sent out in trucks. The troops reported back that they had found Cedillo's plane abandoned. A Government spokesman said that capture of the Cedillo plane spelled the last of the rebel leader's two-plane air force.

They said that his other plane had been seized earlier in the week by Federal troops. Going Great, Says Cedillo McALLEN, May 27 (U. Revolution, which appears to have spread a I 1 through Central Mexico, will break out in the northern section of the republic "within a few days," Gen. Saturnino Cedillo was reported to have told newsmen in an interview by short-wave radio tonight. The rebel commander, said to be carrying a portable short-wave broadcasting set in his flight from Mexican Government troops, answered three of a dozen questions submitted to him several days ago.

The answers were reported to have been received by Cedillo agents via short wave at a point in Northern Mexico near this border city. The agents told reporters that Cedillo had established headquarters at one of his many mountain retreats in southern San Luis Potosi. Three Youths Hunted as Yacht Disappears SANTA CRUZ, May 27 (A. Three adventurous 'teen-age boys believed to be on the way to Honolulu in a stolen yacht were sought by sea and air today. Missing from their Sar.ta Cruz homes since Wednesday night, the three were believed to be aboard the Diesel-equipped $20,000 sloop Tira, missing off the municipal i pier since early yesterday.

The craft is owned by Lew K. Foote. crf owner. I The hoys believed are Ly Tyra, 17 years 1, dcsn.red i by his mother a- W.h the sa Jarre jer, 17, 1 an: E.U 15, NEW YORK, May 27 Donald Carroll, a thin, bookish youngster of 16, who shot and killed his eighteen-year-old sweetheart, was acquitted of murder tonight, and the mother of his victim tried vainly to embrace him. The boy had testified that he killed Charlotte Matthicsen be cause the girl, about to become a mother and in terror of imminent social disgrace, had begged him to do so.

The verdict, not guilty by reason of insanity, left unended Donald's "tragedy of adolesence," as the slain girl's mother, Mrs. Fred Mat thiesen had called it. County Judge Thomas Downs 61 rected that Donald be sent to gloomy old Bellevue Hospital for observation in the psychopathic ward, saying that if experts there thought that the boy was now in sane, a hearing would be held to determine whether Donald was to go to a State institution. Mothers Weep for Joy It was an extraordinary demon1 stration in the Queens Courthouse as the jury reported and the Judge angrily cleared the room. Two mothers the mother of the slayer and the mother of the victim both wept in happiness.

Mrs. Matthiesrn, who had faint ed in the early uproar, ran across the center of the court room toward Donald, holding her arms wide and crying. "My boy, my boy!" but the officers took him away quickly. Mrs. Donald Carroll, had remained in the Prosecutor's office.

As they brought her the news, she sighed; "Now my prayers are. answered. I'll have my little boys (the younger ones had been away in the coun try) back soon. "I know my girl would like it (the jury's decision)," Mrs. Mat-thiesen sobbed.

Regrets 'Teasing' Daughter "I didn't take it (the daughter's affair) seriously; I teased her too much. I'd like to tell all mothers to treat their girls seriously treat them as grownups." The boy himself stood twisting his hands for five minutes. At the trial Donald had insisted that he shot Charlotte after they had decided on a suicide pact, but then had lacked nerve to kill himself. Please Turn to Page 2 Column 8 Come on In, Folks, the Water's Br For the hardy mermaids or mermen who are not afraid of goose-flesh or chilblains the following announcement from C. V.

Mc-Grath; superintendent of Public Service Enterprises of the Department of Parks and Boulevards, undoubtedly will bring last year's bathing suits from the mothballs: "The bathing beach at Belle Isle and -River Rouge Park will open for the season Sunday. Until further notice the hours will be from 11 a. m. until 7 p. Sunday also will mark the opening of the Casino at Eclle Isle, McGrath announced.

Tax Evader Pays Up to Relieve Conscience WASHINGTON, May 27 (A, The Treasury received the following letter today from a St. Paul (Minn.) resident: "I have for some time hat! an from uhiV-h (ny been paid. To relieve my conscience on this score I cricke herewith four $100 bonds. Will thank you for no further SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mexico, May 27 (A.P.) Federal Government aviators today forced down an airplane carrying rebel Gen. Saturnino Cedillo.

Cedillo, whose peasant army has clashed with Federal troops for a week, fled with five followers. Troops virtually surrounded the site of the forced landing, at Estanzue.la, about nine miles northwest of here. Cedillo and his followers jumped from the plane and fled into thick brush. Reports reached San Luis Potosi that the rebel chieftain had been captured, but they were not confirmed officially. In fleeing, Cedillo left behind five suitcases.

Federal troops under Gen. Lucas Gonzalez set out immediately to trail the fugitives. Cedillo, rightist foe of President U.S. Is Vindicated in 12-Year Search After a twelve-year search which began with the finding of several articles of men's clothing on the shore of a Massaachusetts river, immigration inspectors have discovered Joaquin C. Valcnte, 38 years old, living at 5151 Pennsylvania Ave.

Valcnte, a Portuguese, was admitted to the United States on a six-month visitor's permit at Providence, R. in March, 1925. When some of his clothes were found near New Bedford, in January, 1926, friends who had posted $500 bond to guarantee his departure sought return of their money. Refusing to believe that Valcnte had committed suicide, the Immigration Department retained the bond. It was rewarded for its stand with the discovery recently that Valente lived in Detroit.

Inspectors said that he had been notified that deportation proceedings would be started at once. Valente, who married in 1934 in Highland Park, has one child. Death for Girls' Slayer Confirmed in California SAN FRANCISCO. May 27 (U.P.) The California Supreme Court today confirmed the death sentence of Albert Dyer, convicted slayer of three little Ir.glewood (Calif 1 Dyer was convicted of attacking murdering Madeline Everett: 1 her Meiba Everett. ard Slenher.i in June 11337, Four Linked to Theft of Milk for Fat Boy VUNT, May 27 The appetite far milk of a nineteen-year-old youth, who weighs 320 pounds, landed him and four companions In jail Friday.

"As far as we can ascertain," Sheriff Thomas W. Wolcott re-Parted, "four of the boys had been stealing the milk over a period of month to keep Herman Dart, the one, supplied." Two quarts of milk were found In the car in which Dart and Wirsing, 17, were captured Friday. Others of the theft ring iHrt with Dart and Wirsing were Kiispcll Kyio, 18; Jesse Marvel. 17, nd Tucker, 18. All will be "ifncd Saturday.

Noted Surgeon Killed MO.IAVR, May 27 (A. Dr. Allen Buckner Kanaval, yens old, Pasadena physician former president of the American College of Surgeons, was killed near here today when the automo-in which 'he was riding left the highway and overturned. Start the Day Right with the Free Press Pages A Irin. Ruth 11 Around the Town 8 Church News 4 Collyer, Bert 15 Comics 21 Crossword Puzzle 16 Editorial 6 f-'mancial 17 Foreign News 2 Good Morning 6 Edgar A 6 the Dopester 3 1 ish to Report 10 '-jppmann, Walter 7 Rational Whirligig 6 -'riitiiaries 19 Quillen, Robert 6 Radio Programs 19 Srref 9 rund Guess 14 e'ril.

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