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PUBLIC LIBBAHY THE WEATHER Cloudy and cold Thursday and partly cloudy Friday SUIT -TtuiFniTTriM 1 inamaiii jj 1 If III" Thursday, January 6, 1938. 107th Year. No. 247 On Guard for Over a Century 26 Pages Three Cents mm Roosevelt to Face Fight in Congress over Budget Plans NLRB Denies Ford a Rehearing; Plans Immediate Suit for Order to En force Wagner Act Decision New Deal Due for a Majority in High Court Roosevelt Prepares to Replace Sutherland with 5th Liberal Heart Attack Spurs Justice's Retirement Named by Murphy Failure to Provide Busses Keeps 20 Pupils on Strike Company Response Says It Has Not Violated Law LJ I I 4 I Farm Laborer Is Sought in Six Rural Murders Michigan Police Link Fenton Slayings to Ohio Case Same Methods Used, Authorities Point Out EAST LANSING, Jan. 5 (A.

State Police, believing that there might be a link between a triple killing on a farm near Fenton last April and a like slaying on a farm near Youngs-town, Tuesday, forwarded the files on the Fenton case to Youngs-town police today. Detectives at State Police barracks here pointed out that the methods used by the slayer of Henry Baumeister, 35 years old, his wife, 40, and Baumeister's sixty-year-old father were the same as those used by the man who slew Jehiel Davis, 76; his wife Eleanor, 73, and his sister, Mrs. Lydia Hilderbrandt, 72, on their Fenton farm. Farmhands Suspects Police investigating the Fenton slaying have searched for Roy Larsen, youthful farmhand who disappeared after the murder. A youthful farmhand is the suspect in the Baumeister killings.

The search in the Ohio slayings turned to West Virginia today. The farmhand was believed to have left Parkersburg early today. Police said that in each case the supposed slayer had been employed for only a month or six weeks prior to the crimes. Davis was found fatally beaten in the bedroom of his home and the bodies of hi3 sister and wife were found stuffed In a feed box in a bam. Mrs.

Davis died a few days later of her injuries. Farmer Found Shot In the Ohio slaying, Baumeister was found in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor of their farm near Youngstown, shot through his heart. 'His wife and father were found in the barn, their heads and bodies covered with knife wounds and their bodies partly concealed by corn husks. A corn-husking knife, covered with blood, was found near by. Ohio authorities said that the missing farmhand left the Baumeister farm in an automobile owned by the family an hour before the bodies were discovered.

Acfions Open Way for a Legal Test of the abor Board's Power over Firm's Operations The National Labor Relations Board Wednesday denied the petition of the Ford Motor Co. for a rehearing of the board's complaint that the company had violated the Wagner Labor Act. The board made ready to begin suit immediately in some Federal Circuit Court of Appeals for a compliance order to enforce its recent decision calling for the reinstatement of 29 discharged employees by the Ford company and directing that the company "cease and desist" from certain alleged unfair practices. No statement was made as to what court would get the case. Simultaneously with the Washington action the Ford company through P.

E. Martin, vice president, filed here with Regional Director Frank II. Bowen, of the NLRB, a response to the board's mandate denying that it had violated the law in the past, is violating the law or that it intends to violate the law. Refusal of the three-member board to reopen the case on the claim of new evidence and new proofs by the Ford company, and the company's contention that the recent order violates trict 9, one-half mile west of Telegraph Road on Plymouth Road, throughout the winter. The children started their strike last Monday.

They regard the strike merely as another holiday, and spend the time sledding and playing in the snow. The parents did not have to ask the boys and girls twice to start the strike. Meanwhile, two officials of the board, F. J. Sylvester, moderator, and Edward Mass, treasurer, were firm in their opposition to providing a bus.

One sentiment expressed by both of them was: "The only children who are not going to school are those who have colds or the measles." Mass termed the strike "a lot of hooey," and said: "There won't be any bus because I won't give it to them. I don't think it is too far to walk." Other persons in the Joy-Telegraph Road district rallied to the support of the parents and children. Milton Kolarov, oil-station proprietor, said the children wouldn't be hanging around his place so much if they had colds or measles, nor would they be playing in the snow. George Merrick, grocer at the corner who has two children in school, instigated the strike. He said the families were willing to pay a higher tax if a bus could be provided.

Until two weeks ago the bus driver who was hired by District 9 to take those children to Spouse Keeps WifeinChains for 23 Years Swelal to Free Prexe and Chiearo Trlhnne WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 New Deal dominance of the Supreme Court became absolute and unquestioned today as President Roosevelt prepared to name a sym pathetic liberal to the post lert vacant by the resignation of bearded, seventy five-year-old archconservatlve Justice George Sutherland. Sutherland, a verbose and positive opponent of New Deal legislation, probably will be replaced by one of these Democratic liberals: Samuel G. a 1 1 of New Mexico, circuit Judge and former senator; Solicitor General Stanley Reed, of Kentucky; Senator Sherman Minton, of Indiana;" James M. Landis, dean of Harvard Law School and former chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission; Govornor Frank Murphy, of Michigan.

High on President's List These are the names that stood high on the list that the President scanned before he appointed former Senator Hugo L. Black, of Alabama. At that time the President explained that only the Federal circuits of the Deep South and the Far West lacked representation on the supreme bench. Black was named to give the South its representation when Justice Willis Van Devanter retired. Washington believed tonight that Bratton now was the favored candidate.

His nomination would be set down as proof of the President's recognition of New Deal zeal beyond the Rockies. Bratton's friends pointed out today that their youthful, red-haired idol strove for objectives similar to the New Deal's when he was in the Senate in Hoover's day. Bratton became a United States senator at 36, and may be a Supreme Court justice at 49. The tenth judicial circuit in which he now sits was that left without Supreme Court representation on the retirement of Van Devanter. Spurred by Heart Attack Sutherland's retirement was spurred by a recent heart attack.

He had long been telling intimates that die would retire at the end of this term of court and would have done so earlier, he declared, had he not been urged by his conservative colleagues McReynolds, Pierce Butler and Roberts to ro-main and hold the conservative fort. The retirement places the liberals Justices Brandeis, Stone, Cardozo, Black and Sutherland's successor in a five-man control, regardless of the unpredictable attitudes of the Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Justice Owen J. Roberts. Sutherland announced his retirement at a brief press conference in his chambers at the court building and handed reporters a letter addressed to President Roosevelt. "Having reached the age of more than 75 years, and having held my commission as associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and served in that court for 15 years, and thus being eligible for retirement under the Sumners Act of March 1, 3937, entitled 'An Act for the Retirement of Justices of the Supreme I desire to avail myself of the rights, privileges and judicial service specified In that act, and to that end, I hereby retire from regular active service on the bench, this retirement to be effective on and after Tuesday, the eighteenth of January, 1938." Can Serve in Lower Court Sutherland will be retired on his full salary, and has the right to serve in the lower Federal courts, as Justice Van Devanter has done, if he chooses.

Please Turn to Page 2 Column 8 Where to Curtail Spending Is Issue President Estimates a Deficit of Billion in 1938 and in 1939 i Will Send Message on Increasing Navy WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (U. President Roosevelt today demanded that Congress curtail pork-barrel spending, warning in his annual budget message that another billion dollars would be needed for relief In 1939, and that (lie sharp business slump had crushed immediate hopes of a bal-jnced budget. The message forecast a deficit of $1,088,129,600 for the current fiscal year which ends June 30, tnd a deficit of $949,606,000 for the 1939 fiscal year. It forecast a gross public debt of $38,528,252,918 on June 30, 1939, as compared with a debt of $37,279,291,518 on Jan.

1, 1938, and $22,538,700,000 In 1933, when the New Deal was iwept into power. Looking to Primaries Patronage-hungry 1 i slators facing primaries and elections this year heard the President's demands in silence. The savings ax is poised over such projects as Federal aid to highways, reclamation, rivers and harbors and othor local undertakings that provide jobs, contracts and other valuable patronage to constituents. The legislators are faced with curtailing this flow of largess and risking reprisal at the polls or continuing it and shouldering a large share of responsibility for the unbalanced budget. May Cut Pet Agencies An undercover drive was on tonight to bridge the crisis by making even wider slashes In appropriations than recommended by the President, but making the severest cuts in money pointed for pet New Deal projects, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority.

The recession has brought to an tnd a period of steady gains In revenue collections, the message sh-wed. Receipts for the 1937 fiscal year amounted to 10,237. which was $534,000,000 Nj than was estimated in the 18 forecast but a gain of $1,178,000,000 over collections in the 1936 fiscal year. Total expenditures for the year were as compared with earlier forecasts of $8,480,804,493. Revenues Below Estimates Total ivcnues from all sources fr the 11 Tent fiscal year will reach $6,0,513,000, which is $973,100,000 elow the President's estimates in January, 1937.

Total expenditures for the year now are estimated at $7,408,600,000. During the 12 months beginning July 1, the message estimated collections totaling $5,919,437,000, or $101,076,000 less than the anticipated amount for 1937-38. The need of economies was further emphasized when the Chief Executive disclosed that the budget may be even more unbalanced by relief needs and world unrest. Reiterating the New Deal's pledge that no person will be allowed to starve, Mr. Roosevelt has placed the ultimate size of the relief bill on a week-to-week basis.

Its rise cr fall will be determined, he said, by the scope and duration of the trade reversal and the co-operation extended by industry to relieve the Government's burden toward the distressed. VUtiae. Turn to Page 2 Column 6 Gungirls Facing Trial for Lives State Would Send Both to Chair -iP'-ml lo Free pruw und'Ctilcajn Tribune NEWARK, Jan. 5 Disowned their parents and excoriated their victim's family, Newark's swaggering gun girls were pushed along the path to the electric chair todav. Their own cold blooded exactness recorded by a movie camera as they re-enacted their $2.10 murder for detectives will become an exhibit to clinch a charge of premeditated murder.

The film, authorities said, will he developed tomorrow In Rochester and will be ready for use for first time in the history of Kew Jersey justice when the girls pi to trial. Meanwhile Essex County Prosecutor William A. Wachenfcld will ask the grand Jury Friday to indict them for first degree murder for killing William Barhorst, Totowa bus driver, on Dec. 21. The girls, Ethel Strouse Sohl, -0, and Genevieve Owen, 17, will i'e confronted in the next few by a group of alienists, 'aehenfeld said.

This step is taken to forestall an in-' defense. Isle Fire Burns Self Out lire Inch burned ovrt 1 iii-res on uninhabited Fight--Island, on the Canadian side the D. ttoit River, opposite; fcviirid'itte. whs allowed to burn it- constitutional rights of the company and is without supporting proof clears the path for a legal test of the board's power over Ford operations. The company denies the finding of the board that the 29 workers were discharged for union activity, that it ever has interfered with the free organization of its employees; that it dominates or has control over the Ford Brotherhood, held by the board to have been a "company union." The company takes the position that it is unnecessary to "cease and desist" practices which it claims it was not guilty of In the first instance.

Charles Fahy, chief of counsel for the retused to say whether the suit of the board would be in the Sixth Circuit Appellate Court in Cincinnati, or elsewhere. Michigan being part of the Sixth Circuit, the expectation all along has been that suit would be brought in this court. Other Court a Possibility Because of recent hearings involving Ford workers in St. Louis and Kansas City, it is now thought possible, however, that the action may be started in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Suit will be filed Thursday, It was indicated.

The disputed finding of the Labor Board was made Dec. 23 by J. Warren Madden, chairman: Edwin S. Smith and Donald Wakefield Smith, members. They upheld, after prolonged hearing, the board's own charges that the Ford company had resorted to coercion, restraint and Intimidation in interfering with the self-organization and collective bargaining rights of the U.A.W.; that it had discriminated in regard to hire and tenure of U.A.W.

members, and that it had dominated and interfered with the formation and administration of the Ford Erotherhood. Told to 'Cease and Desist' It waa ordered to "cease and desist" from discouraging U.A.W membership; dominating or interfering with the Ford Brotherhood; organizing or maintaining or assisting vigilante groups; threatening, beating or intimidating U.A.W. or any other labor groups; circulating disparaging propa ganda of labor groups and other Parents of 22 children in Red-ford Township District No. 6, around Joy and Telegraph Roads, remained adamant Wednesday night in tJieir stand that their sons and daughters will continue to strike until their school board furnishes a bus to take them to and from their daily classes. Petitions were being circulated by Bert Turner, father of four of the children, stating their case and demanding that transportation be supplied.

Tho signatures of all parents will be sought and will be presented to the board. The parents are unanimous In insisting that their children must not be forced to walk nearly two miles to the Fisher School in Dis- Legal Fees Hit-in Shelby Case One Firm Withdraws $30,000 Request Interrupting testimony in a hearing on fees asked by parties to the reorganization of the Fort Shelby Hotel, Edward A. MacDon-ald, an attorney, termed the demands too great and withdrew his own firm's request, leaving the amount at the discretion of the court. 18 Others Enter Requests The law firm of which MacDon-aid is a member, Miller, Cnnfield, Paddock and Stone, had filed a petition asking $30,000 for legal services rendered in the reorgani zation of the hotel, begun in 1932 and completed recently after lengthy court litigation. Eighteen other law concerns and banks involved had entered requests for an additional $158, 000, All were represented Wed nesday at a hearing before United States Commissioner J.

Stanley HuM. "My partners and myself were greatly shocked at the amounts asked in this action," MacDonald said. "They are entirely too much. We asked for $30,000 but did so before we knew how much the others were to be. Because of the other excessive demands, would like to withdraw our sug gestion as to the amount due us and leave it entirely in the hands of the court." MacDonald had risen to Interrupt Lawrence I.

Levy, attorney for B. C. Schram, receiver of the First National Bank-Detroit, who asked for $11,500 as holder of the first and second-mortgage bonds, Bondholders Protest Further evidence of the general reaction to the fee.i asked was offered by Herman A. August, at torney for the permanent trustee, who said that he had received an avalanche of letters of protestation from bondholders. Earlier, William Darnton and Leo C.

McClarty, officials of the Detroit Trust explained their employer demands for $11,050 as first-mortgage trustee and an ad ditional $13,411 as pay for pro viding a bond depository. The motion of Arnold F. Zelez- nik, attorney for a bondholder, asking dismissal of all petitions for fees on the grounds that the court had no jurisdiction was denied by Hurd because it had been improperly filed. 31 Expectant Mothers Offer Babies for Film HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 5 (A.P.) Thirty-one prosective mothers had applied to M-G-M studio today for a film part for their unborn babies.

The studio is seeking an infant but a few days old for the part of the French Dauphin, Louis Charles, in "Marie Antoinette." A Quebec applicant submitted a geneology of her expected baby showing its French ancestry back to the days of the ill-fated Queen, the studio said, "and guranteed that it would be a boy." Life of Farmer's Dog Is Up to Essex Court In the next few days Magistrate W. A. Smith, of Essex County, will decide whether Fannie, a dog owned by Leo Talbot, a farmer of Colchester North, is a member of a pack that has killed nearly 400 sheep in the Windsor vicinity in the last year. Talbot denies that the dog is a killer and has ignored an order to destroy the animal. If the Magistrate upholds the order Talbot plans to carry the fight into the highest court if necessary.

Mrs. Woodworth Is Wed to Leader of Orchestra STUART. Jan. 5 (A. -Mis.

Irene Shreevp Woodworth, socially prominent in New York and Faim Beach, and Vai Ernie, heie today. The bnde. widow of Chaiuieey Clark Woodworth. wealthy perfume man'ifactuter Cve h'-r ALVAN MACAULEY, JR. Macauley Gets Banking Post Succeeds Fisher in State Office LANSING, Jan.

5 Alvan Ma cauley, son of the president of the Packard Motor Car became banking commissioner of Michigan Wednesday. He succeeds Charles T. Fisher, son of the General Motors Corp. executive. Macauley is a Yale graduate and an assistant vice president of the National Bank of Detroit.

Gov. Murphy, in making the appointment, said that Macauley would carry on the policies of Fisher. "The essence of good banking Is soundness and stability for the protection of depositors, "Murphy said. "Macauley has been selected to carry out this aim. Fisher's retirement to re-enter banking in Detroit became known several days ago.

Murphy wrote Fisher a letter Wednesday, saying: "Your administration of the banking department I consider to be. the most unusual in the recent history of the State. "During this year of your administration the state has been free of bank failures, deposits increased by more than $25,000,000 in the first six months, a new bank was organized. 22 banks increased' their capital by $833,000, 68 banks retired preferred stock aggregating more than $1,500,000, and the release of dividends totaling more than $13,300,000 was authorized. "It is obvious that the achievement of such a record requires an unusually efficient and far-sighted administration of the banking department." Macauley served as1 second lieutenant in the World War, subsequently being associated with the Packard Motor Car and other Detroit firms before becoming associated with the National Bank of Detroit.

Family of Seven Put Out of House William E. Cripps, who with his four children, his wife and her eighty-four-year-old mother were evicted Wednesday from their house at 3426 Fourth said Wednesday night that high rentals asked by landlords prevented him from finding an adequate place to live. The family took turns watching the furniture, piled in front of the house. Some sat in front of a crude stove, while others warmed themselves in neighbors' houses. Cripps, who is ill, has been on welfare for six years.

He said that he could not find a four-room house for $20 a month which the department will allow him. Appeal for Blood Donors Brings Help to Detroiter Results of an appeal by the Free Press for blood donors wno nave rornverprt fmm a rare disease were revealed at Edyth K. Thomas Memorial Hospital Wednesday, when it was announced that Leo Lyons was recovering. Lyons, afflicted with granulocytic angina, has received his fifth blood transfusion, from Leo Kauff-man, of 3551 Roosevelt Ave. Doctors said that he no longer needed transfusions.

The ailment suppresses the formation of white blood corpuscles. Nation's 1937 Auto Toll Rises 5 Pet. to 39,243 WASHINGTON. Jan. American Automobile As-Mx-miion tonight tentatively placed the nation's 1917 death toil from accident at 39.2 13.

five 1 1 cent thaa in IK. the Fisher School used to stop, "out of the kindness of his heart" at Joy and Telegraph Roads, and pick up the District 6 children. Suddenly, he stopped. "Either he was told to stop the practice by District 9 Board, or he found his insurance would not cover the District 6 children," Merrick said. "I don't blame him.

But I do blame our school board for not providing a bus of our own. That board is a closed corporation." Welcome "Awaits Bennett Elopers A family welcome was waiting in Ypsilanti Wednesday for Gertrude Bennett Hughes and her bridegroom, Russell Hughes. No word has been received from Harry Bennett's seventeen year old daughter since she eloped Monday night, precipitating a frantic nationwide search until records of the marriage were found at Auburn, Ind. Bennett, head of the Ford Motor Co. personnel division, Wednesday said he believed that the couple probably was afraid to communicate with him, but that "she's still my and I want to help them." Both are students at Michigan State Normal College.

Outbreaks Sweep Holy Land Again British Act Protested; Three Are Slain JERUSALEM, Jan. 5(U. P) Fresh terrorism broke out in the Holy Land today as warring Jews and Arab leaders turned their criticism upon the British Government)! announcement that it intends to carry out its proposed partition of Palestine into sovereign Jewish and Arab states. Ambush attacks on busses and trains were reported. British courts, functioning under virtual martial law enforced by nearly 10.000 troops, continued to hand down death sentences in a stern effort to stamp out the disorders.

Six have been sentenced to death since establishment of the military courts Nov. 18. Only two have been executed. The sixth was sentenced to die for smuggling arms. The military tribunals also have sentenced 11 Arabs to long terms.

The crown prosecutor in demanding the sentence penalty for the young Bedouin, said it would serve as an example to "ignorant Arabs and Bedouins." An Arab policeman and two Jews were killed in today's ter rorism. Guilty Conscience Chased Up an Alley and Caught An alleged parole violator was captured by detectives Wednesday night while trying to elude ai policeman who had chased him four blocks and fired two shots. Patrolman William Riley became! suspicious when the man ran past him at Grand River and Times Square. Riley gave chase down side streets and rlleys, and the shots he fired attracted the attention of Detectives Marvin G. Lane and Ernest A.

Johnson. The detectives cornei-d the fngi- live in an alley. At head'iuartei he gave narc.e as Ci'o A. -'i years old, of Na-iiviilf. Ter.n explained thnt be was running hoi ti.e he thought au-fhontics vtrrtma -r ps an violator.

I I I FRESNO. Jan. The children of Marcas Cadcna, 70 years old, waited today until their father was safely behind bars, then told authorities how he had kept their mother confined at home for 23 years, putting her in chains when he left the house. The father was In jail waiting a sanity hearing to determine whether he will serve a sentence of 10 months for assault upon his wife. The nine children, five boys and" four girls, range in age from four to 21.

A married daughter, Mrs. Vera Muran, 19, signed the complaint to have Cadena arrested. The children explained that they had been afraid of beatings if they had talked before. Their story was: Mrs. Cadena, now 38, was 14 when a circus came to her home town of Santa Rosa, N.

M. There she married Cadena, who was with the circus. From that time until today, with the exception of time spent in moving" to Gallup, N. and to Fresno six months ago, the mother never left home, the children said. Cadena choked their mother almost into insensibility, the married daughter said in signing the complaint.

The mother was placed under a doctor's care today. The only outsider permitted in the home at any time, Mrs. Muran said, was a midwife to attend the mother at childbirth. She also said that the father took the children out of school when they reached 12. The entire family lived here in a three-room, shack.

Irene Castle Demands More Heat for Home CHICAGO, Jan. 5 (A.P.) It's so cold in her suburban Lake Forest home, Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin complained today, that even her three pet dogs must wear sweaters to keep warm. The former dancer's complaint haw ks Hockey Club, owned by her husband. Start the Day Right with the Free Press Pages Alden, Ruth 11 Around the Town 23 Chatterbox 10 Collyer.

Bert 17 Comics 25 Crossword Puzz.e 13 Editorial 6 Financial 19 Foreign News 14 Good Morning 6 Guest. Edgar A 6 Iffy the Dopester 3 I Wish to Report 12 Lippman, Waiter 5 National Whirligig 6 Newton. Dr. Joseph Obituaries 23 Quillcn. Robert 6 Radio Programs I Screen 9 Second Guess li "Scandal Bride' 25 S'MletV Id State News IS Vit Family on WPA Has 2-Car Garage Filled RICHMOND, Jan.

5 (A. Mr. and Mrs. Ben H. Jones, both WPA workers, have so many automobiles that they get in each others way.

Mrs. Jones, 38 years old, told Police Judge Leo Marcollo that Jones, 44, was riding in his car Sunday night; she in hers. Their autos collided and she had Jones arrested on charges of drunken driving. Postal Messenger Is Slain in Holdup Police Chief Felled; Thugs Get $25,000 GUTHRIE, Ky Jan. 5 (A.P.) Fatally wounding a sixty-two-year-old Negro postoffice messenger and shooting down the chief of police, three masked bandits escaped late today with a mail bag containing $25,000.

Arthur Mimms, the messenger, was felled as he walked toward the rail station where the money was to be put on a Louisville train. Chief C. M. Sherrod fell with three wounds. A clerk was forced into the robbers' automobile and put out a half-mile away.

uniform or hat or a cap. If the uniform were to be provided in every case, the sentence should have read, 'a uniform and a hat or etc." Michigan State replied that "although the statement is slightly ambiguous it was intended in our opinion to indicate that the railroad corporation is to provide three things, viz: (1) a uniform, (2) a hat or cap, (3) and a badge. Bewildered by the disagreement among the erudite, Starr sent Assistant Attorney General Bland Pugh to the lawbooks to see what he could find. Pugh came back with the startling information that the comma between "uniform" and "hat" had no legal meaning at all. I "Punctuation is not a part of the English language, Pugh re-' ported.

(The professors ought to glad to hear that.) "The words i control the punctuation marks and1 not the punctuation marks the i words." Tugh recommended that Starr adopi the interpl elation "piovide! a uniform ari-l a hat or cap and1 i a ruling di.NUngi.it.hmjr badge." I The Oneral so wise impending from organization as coupled to a demand that her of the workers estranged husband. Maj. Irederic The company was ordered to McLaughlin, wealthy coffee impost in its principal plants and porter, provide a new heating keep posted for 60 days notices j'plant. that it would "cease and desist" She is being paid $T50 a montri the complained of practices. temporary alimony.

She also com- 1'lenx'e Turn to Paae Z-Column plained that she no longer got free tickets to games of the Black- A Misplaced Comma Gives Every Conductor a New Suit Colleges Split over Punctuation, but Legal Mind Finds a Way Out News of Primary Defeat Kept from Senator Hef lin LAFAYETTE, Jan. 5 (A. News of his defeat in yesterday's Democratic senatorial primary still was kept today from former Senator J. Thomas Heflin, ill of pneumonia for two weeks. Dr.

N. A. Wheeler described Heflin as definitely on the road to recovery, but said that the sixty-eight-year-old patient was not even told because "we don't want to excite him Rep. Lister Hill was the victor. IJ.

S. Navy Will Bolster i i Air Strength in Honolulu SAN DIEGO. Jan. 5-I (A.P.) Plans to make Navy air-) craft in Hawaii the swiftest and most powerful ever based there by adding 42 long-range patrol and bombing planes in 1938. were announced tonight.

The greatest long-distance mass flight ever dertaken hv the Xavv wdi iauiV thf transfer of the lighting craft Jan. If. when IS piants will leave San Lnej-i rem Honolulu, nore th in 2 a LANSING. Jan. 5 Attorney General Raymond W.

Starr took sides Wednesday in a quarrel between two schools of English and handed down an opinion awarding every railroad conductor in Michigan a new suit of clothes. The cause of the quarrel was that lowest form of punctuation a comma. This particular comma has appeared since 1879 in the Michigan law which says that "every railroad corporation shall provide a uniform, hat or cap and a distinguishing badge" for each conductor, brakeman and other employees dealing with the public. For 59 years the Interpretation of the law ha3 been that the railroads- must provide uniform caps and badges, leaving the employees to buy their own uniforms. When the Michigan Public Utilities Commission recently asked Starr to construe the law, Starr wrote tn the English departments of the University of Michigan and Michigan State Coliece.

The U. of replied that the phrase "must be understood grariiati-ally as either a.