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SI THE WEATHER Fair Friday nd fomewliat warmer; unsettled Saturday METROPOLITAN FINAL EDITION Friday, June 3, 1938. 108th Year. No. 30 On Guard for Over a Century 26 Pages Three Cents 7 A (IS VJ JU JV 15 Years in Cell May Be the Lot of Mrs. Barker 'She Awaits Sentence After a Verdict of Manslaughter 21 -Hour Jury Session Ends in Compromise Senate Turns own Ban on Relief Politics G-Mens Chief Directs Posse; Clews Lacking Several Are Quizzed in Cash Abduction; Boy Feared Dead June Bride and Groom Fierce Debate U.

S. Seeks to Drop Cases Against Auto Companies I i I I mtf ii 'L VO V- i ,1 4 1 A I 1 A i r'v" A 14 i 1 I 1 I f-JI i i i A twenty-one-hour deadlock bver the guilt of Mrs. Julia M. Barker in the death of Mrs. Edith Mae Cummings was broken at 30:33 a.

m. Thursday with a compromise verdict of manslaughter. A predominantly feminine group tt eight jurors wanted to convict Mrs. Barker of murder, and a predominantly masculine group of four jurors sought to acquit her. Manslaughter, defined as killing Vithout premeditation or malice, carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and $7,500 fine.

Awaits Probation Report No date was set for sentencing. Fircuit Judge Ira W. Jayne remanded Mrs. Barker to the Wayne pounty Jail to await a report of the probation department. The poker face of the woman Jvho for years played In the fast Detroit real-estate market with her ten-million-dollar holdings as Stakes, then lost them all, did not change as she heard herself declared guilty.

Before the verdict (he had explained her calm. "I know what it is to have things go against me," she had Said. "I've been in the enemy's camp before." rirnt Division Is Wide The Jury, made up of eight vomen and four men, stood four for acquittal, six for first-degree murder and two undecided on the first ballot, according to Dell Valrance, Flat Rock butcher, who served as foreman. When its members were locked tip for the night at 11:40 p. m.

Wednesday the vote stood four for Scquittal and eight for either first-degree or second-degree murder. The four urging acquittal were Valrance, Alexander Kosclnlk, of 7552 Burnctte a salesman; Ted Fangboner, Wayne (Mich.) factory Vorker, and Mrs. Marguerite Carrey, of 6327 Northfield Ave dis-, pensary clerk. Woman Last to Give In Mrs. Carney was the last to hgree to the compromise.

It was her capitulation Thursday morning iwhich sent Valrance to the jury room door to announce: "We have reached an agreement." She said that she based her tloubt of guilt principally on the testimony of Mis. Evelyn Foscha, regarded by the Slate as its star Witness. Mrs. Foscha testified that she saw Mrs. Barker beat and kick the prone and unresisting Mrs.

Cummings. "I think the shooting must have ticcurred while the women were struggling on the ground," she laid, Credits Long Friendship Fangboner said that the long friendship between the two women influenced him to believe that a premeditated murder could not have occurred. Valrance, too, said that Mrs. Foscha's testimony seemed inconclusive to him because she did not witness the actual shooting. The testimony of Thomas Cummings, linking the death gun with Mrs.

Barker rather than with his mother, seemed extremely Important to the Jury, he said, i When the verdict was reached, court attendants went to get Judge Jayne, who was hearing another case while the Jury deliberated. Mrs. Barker was taken from the Sheriff's office on the fifth floor of the County Building to the fourth-floor court room of Circuit Judge Theodore Richtcr, Where the verdict was received. Please Turn to Page 4 Column 1 A. P.

Wirepkoto ANDRE KOSTKLANETZ AND LILY PONS After the Weddinj Ceremony Thursday. Kostelanetz Weds Lily Pons as 13th Proposal Succeeds of the department, has conferred for three days with attorneys of the Ford, Chrysler companies and the three concerns which do most of the financing for these two auto manufacturers. Involve Political Ixsue Because the indictments promise to become a major political issue in the heated senatorial campaign in Indiana, the Administration is anxious to drop them. They were returned through the efforts of James R. Fleming, district attorney at South Bend, and political protege of Senator Sherman Min-ton, of Indiana.

For several months Minton has consistently condemned the entire motor industry and has sponsored a resolution calling for a Federal Trade Commission investigation of manufacturer-dealer relations in the industry. The Indictments came as a surprise to Arnold, who had announced that at least six weeks would be required to present testimony to the grand jury. They were returned after the jury had been in session five days. Roosevelt Reported Amazed President Roosevelt also was reported to have expressed amaze-' mcnt over the indictments, as ho had stated following a meeting with executives of the motor industry and the financing companies that he believed they would eliminate all alleged abuses voluntarily. A consent decree had been prepared, whereby they would agree to discontinue deficiency judgments, alleged coercion of dealers and other conditions about which complaints were made.

Responsibility for the indictments is denied by Washington officials. They pass the buck to Fleming. The speed with which the indictments were returned has been described as "gross irresponsibility" and "evidence of woeful lack of co-ordination among agencies of the Department of Justice by one high Administration official. Hardy Held Not to Blame Russell Hardy, special assistant to the attorney general, had been in charge of the presentation of evidence at Milwaukee. Hardy was sent to South Bend, but Fleming immediately took over the grand jury proceedings.

Hardy is described by associates as possessing a "prosecutor complex," but he is not held responsible for the hasty proceedings in Indiana. Please Turn to Page 4 Column 5 Peruvian Gunfire Arouses Ecuador QUITO, Ecuador, June 2 (A. Semiofficial advices today said that two Ecuadorian soldiers were killed and a lieutenant was wounded when three Peruvian gunboats fired on an Ecuadorian garrison. The incident occurred along the River Aguarico in the northeastern portion of a large jungle area whose ownership has been disputed for 100 years by Peru and Ecuador. The disputed region is inhabited chiefly by Indians.

The Cabinet met three times today to consider the incident. Unofficially, it was said that the Ecuadorian minister to Peru had been instructed to demand an explanation. One conference at the Foreign Office was attended by the Peruvian minister and a representative of the United States Legation. Daylight Saving for City Is Defeated by Council An effort to put all Detroiters on daylight saving time failed Thursday when the Common Council heard the petition of How ard Snyder, of 1304 Lafayette Building. The Council tabled Snyder's plea until next March.

Councilman Henry S. Sweeny pointed out that Detroit is now "stealing" 28 minutes on the sun by being on Eastern Standard time. Is Climaxed in aNarrowVote Big Spending Bill May Pass Today; Curb on PWA Beaten WASHINGTON. June 2 (U.P.) A grim struggle by anti-New Deal Democrats and Republicans to curb the Administration's power program and to isolate relief work ers from political activities was defeated in the Senate tonight as the $3,422,000,000 spending bill neared enactment. Virtually all but the controversial earmarking amendments had been disposed of when the second consecutive night session of the upper house recessed at 10 p.

m. Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, of Kentucky, plans to hold members In session tomorrow until the measure is passed. Three Major Battles There were three major battles today and the New Deal won them all. The proposed appropriation for the PWA was increased to a total of $965,000,000 after feeble opposition.

The Senate Appropriations Committee had reduced it to $865,000,000. Without record vote and after a stormy argument Administration forces eliminated a committee amendment which would have denied PWA loans or grants for construction of municipal power projects in competition with established private utility plants. Support for the proposal col lapsed after Barkley disclosed that President Roosevelt had authorized him to say that Federal money would not be used to encourage municipal competition to private utilities unless and until the latter had rejected a "fair price offered in good faith" for the purchase of their facilities by a public body. On President's Word Barkley pointed out, however, that the President preferred to give his own assurance rather than have the matters of "good faith" and "fair price" written into the act, since any specific provisions of that sort might lead to endless court tests and delays. A compromise by Senator Francis T.

Maloney, Connecticut Demo-crat, under which a private utility would have been given 30 days' notice of intention to build a municipal plant and another 30 days in which to accept a "fair" price for its facilities, was rejected 46 to 30. By a vote of 56 to 17, the Senate then rejected an amendment by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Massachusetts Republican, which Please Turn to Page 9 Column 3 Ship Strike Called in Union Rivalry NEW YORK, June 2 (A. The C.I.O.'s National Maritime Union went on a one-day strike today affecting 43 ships in New York harbor in a demonstration against the A.F.L.'s International Longshoremen Association. The C.I.O. union ordered the demonstration ended this after noon and called it a success in showing the unity and strength of the seamen.

A specific purpose of the strike was to force the Shepard Line to reinstate some 30 crew men ordered off the S.S. Sea Thrush several days ago. Meanwhile, it developed that the Sea Thrush had quietly sailed for Albany last night with an A.F.L. crew. Thrush of the Force Can Sing and Swing Patrolman Carl Sobel, singing policeman frequently before radio microphones, thumped his night stick so violently on the head of a man carrying 52 radiator caps that the victim went to Receiving Hospital Thursday.

Sobers quarry was Carl Ham-cher, 35 years old, of 1508 Fifth St. Police said he admitted the radiator caps had been stolen. Donald Darling, 22 years old, of the same Fifth St. address, was arrested as Hamcher's accomplice. Sobel and Rergt.

Hugo Ftck encountered Hamcher at 1:30 a. m. Thursday at Michigan Ave. and Fifth St. Explorer Ellsworth Plans Another Antarctic Jaunt Threat to Blow Up Busy Bank Foiled Ex-Convict with Dynamite Seized at Window BUFFALO, June 2 (A.

Police announced today that they had seized a former convict as he, threatened to blow up a crowded downtown bank unles he was given 0,000. Thomas G. McGreevey, detective sergeant, said that the man was carrying two sticks of dynamite and a bottle containing an unidentified fluid. McGreevy said that the man had given his name as Beno de Elbe, 32 years old, and bore a discharge from Huntsville (Tex.) Penitentiary. When De Elbe stepped up to a teller's Window and presented a note on which was scrawled a demand for $10,000.

"or else I'll blow you all up," the teller told De Elbe to wait and summoned McGreevy and a bank officer, who made the arrest. Spanish Truce Seems Nearer Russia Accepts Plan on Volunteers LONDON, June 2 (A. Withdrawal of foreign fighters from the Spanish civil war drew closer to reality tonight after nearly twp years of bickering among Europe's major powers. If the plan works out, Great Britain will throw her diplomatic power into an effort to bring about a truce in Spain. In Paris, Jose Antonio Aguirre, former president of the defunct Basque Republic, admitted the pos sibility of mediation by outside powers In the Spanish war.

Aguirre said that he expected to have a statement on the matter within five or six days. A Spanish Government spokesman at Paris said that mediation efforts would be logical in connection with a real removal of troops, but declared that action in five or six weeks would be more likely. Soviet Russia, at a meeting of the nine-nation nonintervention subcommittee, agreed to the pro posal for sending commissions to Spain for removing 10,000 volunteers from each side as a sign of good will. Although pointing to many previous disappointments, the British Foreign Office admitted that the situation was better than any time since the hands-off Spain committee held its first meeting Sept 9, 1936. While Russia agreed to the plan for sending commissions into Spain, her representative, Samuel Kagan, demanded strict enforce mcnt of sea control of the country and refused to agree to contribute the assessment against Russia for financing the withdrawal.

Spanish Battle in Deadlock with Huge Losses Reported HENDAYE, FTance, June 2 (A.P.) Crack Spanish Government and insurgent troops fought steadily today along the Teruel-Mediterranean Highway without scoring appreciable gains. Government dispatches said that 1.200 insurgents were killed from midnight to noon along the ten-mile battle front from LaPuebla de Valverde, 13 miles southeast of Teruel, east to Mora de Rubielos. Insurgent advices said that Government losses were "enormous. Gen. Jose Miaja.

the Government's central front commander, rushed w-ell trained youth brigades from Madrid to harry the flanks of the insurgent thrust toward Castellon de la Plana, and his revived air force joined planes from Catalonia in strafing the insurgent rear. Generalissimo Francisco Franco's bombers were reported to have killed 16 persons and wounded 40 in raids on Vail de Uxo and Scgorbe, towns along the Teruel-Sagunto Highway. state and unable to give a statement. One of the men wore a mask, Kuhne said that he had been told. The two entered the priest's home without knocking.

The housekeeper, Kuhne said, attempted to jerk the mask from the face of the one. She was siuggen as the pair fd to the door. I jriji.r Ein'g thm to 1 the porch, where he was shot, By Clifford A. Prevost (Copyright, 1938, The Detroit Free Frew) WASHINGTON, June. 2 The Department of Justice is seeking a basis for dropping the indictments returned at South Bend, against Ford Motor Chrysler General Motors their financial affiliates and 50 executives, It was established here today.

Toward this endThurman Arnold, chief of the anti-trust division CityWillBuild 4 New Schools $8,215,888 PW A Plan Approved by Board rians for the construction of two elementary schools, an intermediate school and a high school under pending PWA legislation were approved Thursday by the Board of Education. The total cost of the building program would be $8,215,888. Sites for the new schools have not been selected, but the two elementary schools provide for a capacity of 580 pupils for the Crary and Ohio-Espcr Schools at a cost of approximately $200,333 each. Flans for the new Cooley Intermediate School provide for 2,000 pupils at a cost of $1,000,000. Would Cost $1,387,000 The new high school, with a capacity of 2,320 pupils, will cost $1,387,000, and will supplement facilities in the Wyoming-Thatcher Ave.

district, where plans were made for additional school facilities before the Council rejected the Chicago-Wyoming site for a low-rent housing project. Alterations to elementary schools include plans for $205,817 to the Vetal School, $205,965 to the StellwBfrfn School, $152,127 to the Burt School, $147,141 to the Gardner School, $250,000 to the Van Zilc School, $400,000 to the Baker School, $40,000 to the Macomb School, $100,000 to the Hubert School, $70,000 to the Mason School, $180,000 to Wavne School, $160,000 to King School. $160,000 to tho Arthur School and $92,823 to the'CoolidgOi School. Plans also provide for additions to intermediate schools as follows: $1,000,000 to Cooley Intermediate, $285,924 to Greusel Intermediate and $273,357 to Wilson Intermediate. rcrtihing Gets $175,000 Additions to high schools include expenditures for Pershing High School of Chadsey, $375,000, and Redford $200,000.

A $1,000,000 addition to Wayne University on Second Ave. also Is proposed under the Board of Education's program. In approving the proposed program the board also sanctioned a reduction of approximately in capital costs and $814,000 In maintenance items. Proposed capital costs of $5,765,000 were reduced by Mayor Reading and the Council to approximately $1,700,000. Included among the board's savings were $40,000 in fire insurance, $25,000 in reduction of requests for additional textbooks and $50,000 in research funds.

Little Traffic Teacher Forgets Own Lesson Betty Lou Roberts, six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed ward F. Roberts, or IVW ueiuwaie spoke a piece to her classmates a few days ago in the Thir-kell School on the necessity of looking out for cars. Thursday she was in Providence Hospital with a fractured leg because she forgot, momentarily, her own traffic lesson.

She was struck Tuesday afternoon by a car driven by Alex Kownacki, 15 years old, of 7717 Beaubien when she ran Into the street after a ball. Kownacki was exonerated, Attack-Slayer of Girl, 8, Dies in Chair at Sing Sing OSSINING, N. June 2 (U. Lawrence Marks, who criminally attacked and murdered eight-year-old Paula Magagna, died for it tonight in the Sing Sing electric chair. WPA Rebels Fined MILWAUKEE, June 2 Three WPA workers accused of having beaten their foreman when he 1 ihm to work were fined by Judge Harvey L.

Neeien I "Don't bi" t'h hand that feeds i I von." Judge Neclcn warned the i defendants, I PRINCETON. June 2 An army of 2.000 men. searching 80 square miles of South Florida back country, failed today to uncover any trace of kidnaped James Bailey Cash, missing now six nights. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, flew to Miami and took personal command of the hunt for the abductors who collected $10,000 ransom from the father Tuesday.

The FBI posted a reward of double the face value for finders of the first 100 ransom bills, the serial numbers of which were published yesterday. It also broadcast a description of the five-year-old blond, blue-eyed youngster. Victim Feared Dead All Indications were that the Federal agents had given up hope of finding the boy alive. The parents remained In their home behind locked doors. At a press conference Hoover limited his comment to the ob servation that this farming region was the worst country In which his men ever hunted.

His aides apparently were continuing to question a number of persons they thought might throw some light on the crime. The Miami Herald said that they Included Willard Campbell. Miami roadhouse proprietor: John Campbell, his brother, who operates a resort at Princeton; James Hern-don, M. F. Braxton and his son-in-law, Ray Rayburn.

Death Report Unfounded A widespread report tonight that the Miami office of the FBI had announced that the kidnaped boy was dead, that a suspect In the kidnaping had been arrested and that he had confessed and named another man as the killer proved unfounded- Searchers again beat the woods and fields and a fleet of 65 boat covered 175 miles of Biscayne Bay shoreline east of Princeton and 251 miles of Everglades canals. Divers searched Btreams and 31 water-filled limestone pits. Naval and private planes flew low over" the region. The Red Cross set up field kitchens In Princeton to feed the searchers. Reports of suspicious automobiles carrying children believed to resemble the Cash youngster came from Oneida, N.

Bethesda, and Lakeland, Fla. Mother of Missing Girl, Broadcasts Plea for Return BRADFORD, June 2 (A. Today, the fifth birthday of blue-eyed, red-haired Marjory West, who disappeared mysteriously on a Mothers' Day picnic 25 days ago, brought a plea from her distracted mother. "Won't you return Marjory to me today, her birthday?" begged Mrs. Shirley M.

West, In a broadcast to "the person who picked her up." "I'm giving you a chance to return her with safety to yourself. I cannot sleep or eat until my little girl is returned," the mother said. "If this appeal Isn't answered the police will follow all clews until they trace you. Her father and I never will rest until Marjory is found." Five Polish Fliers Cross South Atlantic to Africa DAKAR, Senegal, June 2 (A. Five Polish airmen, flying from Los Angeles to Warsaw, crossed the South Atlantic from Natal, Brazil, in 11 hours today.

Their plane arrived at Dakar at 12:50 p. E.S.T. Start the Day Right with the Free Press Pages Alden, Ruth 13 Around the Town 16 Chatterbox 12 Collyer, Bert 20 Comics 23 Crossword Puzzle 5 Editorial 6 Financial 21 Foreign News Good Morning 6 Guest, Edgar A 6 Iffy the Dopester 3 I Wish to Report 12 National Whirligig 6 Newton. Dr. Joseph Fort.

6 Obituaries 23 Quillcn, Robert 6 Radio Programs 5 Screen 10 Second Guess Serial, 'Siren and 25 Society 12 State Newg in Hollywood 11 Tlii-Ater Vital Statistics Ward to the Wise 17 i i 7 waiver of the State law requiring a rive-day waiting period. The marriage took place less than an hour after the two had obtained the license at the office of Town Clerk Clayton F. Gregory. They were whisked by automobile to the singer's Silvcrmine Colony home, where Judge Nehemiah Candee performed the marriage. Geraldine Farrar, retired Metropolitan Opera star who lives near Norwalk, was matron of honor.

The best man was Charles H. Harris, wealthy retired glass manufacturer. Kostelanetz gave his age as 36 years, and his birthplace as Petro-grad (now Leningrad), Russia. The dark-haired singer gave her age as 33 and her birthplace as Draguignan, France. Miss Pons has been married once before, It was Kostelanetz's first venture.

The romance of Miss Pons and the orchestra leader has stirred Hollywood and New York for two years, with numerous reports that they had been married. Miss Pons admitted more than a year ago that she was engaged to Kostelanetz, but said that they had set no date. Kostelanetz made 12 unsuccessful trips to Hollywood by airplane between radio performances, to propose. "The thirteenth was lucky," he said. Miss Pons' first husband was a plump Dutch, financier, August Mesritz, whom she met aa a girl.

Many years older than the singer, he guided her early career. In 1933, after a series of tri umphal tours, Miss Pons announced her Intention of divorcing Mesritz and later that year ob. tained a decree In Paris. She explained at the time that she felt "like a bird In a gilded cage," and wanted freedom to pursue her operatic career. Standard Oil Heir Starts Pacific Hop SAN DIEGO, June (U.P.) Richard Archbold, heir to a Standard Oil fortune, took off this afternoon with five companions aboard his $250,000 flying laboratory for Honolulu on the first leg of a flight to Dutch New Guinea.

Archbold, thirty-year-old explorer and naturalist, expected to fly the 2,257 miles to Honolulu in 18 hours. Weather reports indicated a clear ceiling ail the way to trp-n ivs bi'aty he wo i be forced to fly tt- tere 1 rns'orm h. NORWALK. June 2 (U. Lily Pons, opera soprano and film actress, today msrried Andre Kostelanetz, orchestra leader who admitted having proposed to her 13 times before she accepted.

The ceremony was completed In a rush, the couple obtaining a Submarine Plant Loses NLRB Plea WASHINGTON, June 2 (U.P.) Overruling contentions that the men had endangered the national defense," the National Labor Relations Board tonight ordered the Electric Boat of Groton, which builds most of the Navy's submarines, to reinstate 125 sit-down strikers. The men, members of the C.I.O.'s Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, were discharged Feb. 23, 1937, after a one-day sit-down and later were convicted and fined $3 each for violating a Connecticut trespass statute. The NLRB held that the company's claim that the men had "endangered the national defense by passing through restricted areas" within the plant "would not bear scrutiny." The board pointed out that no property was damaged or persons injured In the strike. "It is true that the board in its discretion has withheld orders for reinstatement of strikers because of crimes committed during the course of strikes," the board said.

"But in each case the crime has been a far more serious offense, amounting to a felony rather than a misdemeanor as here, and involving such conduct as shooting or dynamiting." Just Freed from Asylum, Father Kills His Children CHICAGO, June 2 Less than a day after he had been released from an insane asylum as cured, Charles Joksus, 52 years old, today beat to death his two children, Leonard, 5, and Eleanor, 18 months old, with a hammer. His wife Anna, 29, suffered serious injuries but managed to wrest herself free to run to a near-by Tersely Descriptive NEW YORK, June 2 (A. P.I TTH NaM'tsai Fiwetv for Ad- vaneemer.t of Gastroenterology has dH1d to shorten its ran-, to t'- "-Nutional A- soc; Mine Blast Leaves 10 Dead and 6 Hurt SCRANTON, June 2 (A. Ten men were, killed and six injured today in nn explosion of gas almost a mile down in the Coal anthracite mine. Rescue crews, wearing gas masks, searched for at least two others reported to have been in the mine.

Those who survived the blast said a rock fall preceded the explosion, shutting off the ventilation, and that accumulated gases were ignited either by the miners' lamps or sparks from motors. Gov. George H. Earle sent his son to investigate. The blast was the seCond in Eastern Pennsylvania In a little more than a month.

Eight were killed and ten injured April 27 in the St. Clair Coal Co. mine, near Pottsville. Denies Wielding Ax to Collect Debt of $1 Charged with malicious destruc tion of property amounting to $,6.04, Charles Slunyck, 52 years old, of 4182 St. Antoinc accused of using nn ax on a auto to satisfy a $1 parking debt, pleaded innocent Thursday before Recorder's Judge Arthur E.

Gordon. He was hdd under bond for examination next Wednesday. The crr.plair.sr.t was Louis Gunfberg. of im95 Warrington Drive. who had been parking in Stunyek's front yard fr 10 tents a day, police were toM.

Priest in Missouri Is Slain When Bandits Enter Home VIRGINIA BEACH, June 2Vnce Btatln fr aid. (A.P.) Lincoln Ellsworth, ex-1 CENTRALIA, June 2 (A. The Rev. Father Charles Einig, a Catholic priest, was shot and killed tonight by one of two men who entered the priest's home here. Irvin Kuhne, city marshal, said that the men.

apparently bent on robbery, nad slugged the priest's housekeeper wtth a blackjack. K'ihne said that th hou- Veerer was to a highly nervous i plorer and writer, who is spending! a vacation here, announced plans; for another polar expedition, his seventh, c'xrting in th fall. Just tmee weeKS ago I uerid-; 1 ei suioemy arvt overmen', tnat i musi cac me he sild. i lM.r-(.