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95th Year. MADISON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1934 14 Pages Price Three Cents if 01 Crop Failure roes 5,000 Aluminum Workers Strike in Mellon Plants Crash Victim Dies, Second Is Badly Hurt Youth Near Death After Car Rolls in Collision to Redtacti OBI Firm Hires Guards Nearly Equal to II Strikers Wounded Officer Hears Burial Plans, Escapes Grain Prices Fall Full Limits in Day Resigns Post i jiiilS Alter 'Rosso, the man held, Edward Debau and two other youthful hoodlums whom the constable identified as frequently arrested petty gangsters. One man wrenched away Griffin's gun. He fired, and then shot again and again. With Griffin writhing on the ground the attacker stooped, placed the revolver against the constable's ear and fired again.

A fifth shot entered his side. Hastily then the four gangsters threw Griffin's limp body into an automobile and drove to a lonely spot on the banks of the city drainage canal. "Go get a couple of shovels," ordered one. "We'll bury this guy right here." Escapes, Assailant Held Griffin, only stunned by a head wound which had failed to pierce his skull, revived sufficiently to hear. In pain so intense he hardly could see, the youthful officer watched through narrowed eyelids while two men went to prepare his grave.

Minutes passed, with the lap of water in the canal the only sound. The two gangsters remaining with the "corpse" fidgeted and cursed. "I'm going to see what's happened to them guys," exploded one. "Me too," said the other. Hastily they tramped away.

Griffin rose to his knees, struggled to his feet In agony he climbed into the gangsters' car and drove to headquarters of the Cicero fire department. Police sent to the intended site of his grave found no one but Rosso was arrested at home later with Griffin's gun in his possession. Wooden Pistol Fails, Two Convicts Killed BATON ROUGE, La. (U.R) The wooden pistol ruse lost its effect today and two convicts were killed and six wounded in a wholesale break at the Angola prison farm The 13 desperadoes made for two of the guards, brandishing wooden pistols that were painted black. The guards replied with a burst of fire and 10 of the 13 scattered and fled, two falling dead.

THE REV. F. W. HYSLOP Hyslop Called to New Pulpit Invited to Wisconsin Rapids Church The Rev. Frederick W.

Hvslon today submitted his resignation as Congregational student pastor at the University of Wisconsin to the Rev. Alfred W. Swan, pastor of First congregational church, and the Rev. T. R.

Faville, state superintendent of the denomination, following his election as nastor of the First Congregational church at Wisconsin Rapids. A verbal call was extended to Dr. Hyslop after a church meeting at Wisconsin Rapids Friday night His acceptance will be subject to approval of Faville and acceptance of his resignation of the Madison post, which would be effective Sept. 15. Dr.

Hyslop would succeed the late Dr. J. Merle Stevens, who occupied the Wisconsin Rapids pulpit more than eight years. He died June 2, 1934. The new pastor would preach his first sermon at Wisconsin Rapids on Sept.

16. Dr. Hyslop received his B. A. degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1928 and his doctor of divinity degree at Chicago Theological seminary in 1931.

He began his service here Sept. 31, 1931. Previously he had served summer pastorates in (Continued on page 2, column 1) Mayor Picks 10 to Survey Transit Knot Council Approves Plan, Votes Refunding Bond Issue A committee of five citizens and five aldermen was appointed by Mayor J. R. Law, on authority granted by the common council Friday night, to help the city and the public service commission analyze Madison's transportation problem.

The move was suggested, Law informed the council by members of the state commission Friday at a conference attended by the mayor, City Atty. John Harrington, and officials of the Madison Railways co. in connection with the investigation of streetcar and bus fares and services undertaken at the city's request. Holds Service in Jeopardy "It must be obvious to everyone," the mayor's communication to the council said, "that the existence of organized transportation in the city of Madison is in jeopardy and further that immediate measures must be adopted which will stabilize the industry and establish better service to the public on a permanent basis." The council approved his proposal with only Aid. F.

Halsey Kraege dissenting. The mayor today appointed, as citizen members, W. Russell, president of the Madison Federation of Labor; the Rev. S. G.

Ruegg of Plymouth Congregational church; T. Murray of Bur dick and Murray; Prof. Harold M. Groves of the university economics department; and Ross W. Harris, consulting engineer.

Fireworks on Two Proposals Aldermanic members of the committee are H. J. Schmiege, Harry Alwinr Leo G. Straus, Henry. -A.

Meyers and Walter L. Plaenert. The mayor and city attorney also will serve. Oratorical fireworks at Friday night's council session were centered upon two proposals. The city planning commission's recommendation that the vacant lot at Monroe st.

and Breese ter. be rezoned from commercial to light industrial for the sole purpose of erecting a filling station on the site was defeated by failure to muster the necessary majority, though (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) Hedemark, 112 Sixth Seymour Pederson, 115 S. Forrest and Wilson Lormer. Maple Knoll Wins at Fair 'Home Ec' Team New Victory in BY I. M.

KALNES Maple Knoll 4-H club's home economics team won the demonstration contest at the Dane county fair Friday. On the team were Helen Theis and Virginia WeiseneL The leader is Margaret Weisenel. Irene Seamonson and Lorraine Groven, representing the Burritt 4-H club, near Stoughton, copped second place. The Burritt leader is Mary Jane Lorimer. Third place went to Ethel Best and Jean Vroman of the Fitchburg club, of which Mrs.

J. A. Vroman (Continued on page 2, coL 3) Wallace Promises Profiteering Check By WILLIAM A. BELL, JR. United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON The new deal's farm program hung in the balance today in the face of the worst crop disaster the nation had ever seen.

The cold statistics of the official government crop report today lefS none in doubt of the crisis in agriculture. Fears were voiced that ths forces set in motion by nature would jeopardize the whole elaborate ma chinery created by the AAA. Wallace Fears Profiteering: Aroused at the threat. Sec. of Agric Wallace rallied his forces to a defense of the experiments in planned agriculture.

He emphasized the necessity of maintaining control in order that the balance might not be shifted just as sud denly back to the tragedy of over abundance and low prices. He was equally concerned over the dangers of profiteering and high prices resulting from the widespread shortages of almost every food pro duct. Acreage Limits Delayed Official production estimates based on Aug. 1 conditions wrote the epitaph for this year's erops. If any hope had been held out for corn, wheat, hay and oats, it was abandoned Friday.

The principle of acreage limita tion, it was generally admitted. probably will be held largely In abeyance for another year at least. None would predict specific changes in the control programs but it was conceded they would be "material" ones. Besides its more Immediate and painful effects, the has presented these problems: Farmers will be encouraged by the higher prices accompanying; shortage and by the rude experience of this year to coax as much as possible from the soil and the surplusage may reappear. Food prices, Wallace said, wiU necessarily be materially hiffher though the farmers won't get the share of the consumer's dollar which the AAA considers proper and the government will be confronted with resulting- "drought profiteers." To combat the first danger the AAA plans to maintain its contractual relationships with producers so that it may order reductions if bumper yields are indicated and may resume restrictions in 1936.

"It seems to me," said Wallace, "that in order to avoid getting very seriously out of balance in 1935 it is necessary to maintain some form of control. "The drought makes it more essential than ever to be in a position to carry through next year to real control in 1936 or prices might be cut in half." Act to Check Profiteers Publicity weapons of the consumers' counsel could be utilized to check the second danger. Or the AAA might apply its broad licensing powers to "middlemen." It might (Continued on page 2, coL 3), mi lpw (. Lack of Evidence Releases Brokaw P. L.

Brokaw, 1015 W. Johnson was dismissed from charges of drunken driving in superior court today when City Atty. John Harrington recommended the action because of lack of evidence. Brokaw was arrested on the complaint of Everett Ballard, special deputy sheriff, who was reported to have pulled a gun on him. Car Charge Schlotthauer Fined On recommendation of City Atty.

John Harrington, a charge of reckless driving against George Schlotthauer, Madison attorney, in superior court today was charged to running through an arterial. Schlotthauer pleaded guilty to the amended charge and paid a fine of $1. New Sherman Ave. Bridge Is Opened, Opening of the new Sherman ave. bridge at the Yahara river was scheduled for 3 p.

m. today. The structure was erected at a cost of $18,000. Work started in May and the last concrete was poured Tuesday. Doctor Denies Theft of Auto at De Forest Dr.

Robert Lehigh, 58, of Do Forest, was charged to superior court today with taking a car owned by I. Ellis, De Forest. He was arrested Friday in Mauston, where he formerly practiced medicine, by Capts. Leo Kinney and Ole Sefland, of the Madison police department. He pleaded not guilty and was held under $500 bond for hearing Aug.

1 A Mt. Horeb man died in a Madison hospital Friday night of injuries received in a motor accident last Sunday and another man was in a serious condition at Wisconsin General hospital today as a result of another accident Friday night. The latest victim of an epidemic of accidents in Dane county was Raymond D. Nelson, 39, Mt. Horeb justice of the peace, who died of internal injuries in a hospital here where his wife and child are eon-fined.

His wife was seriously hurt. Car Hits Trailer Nelson, prominent in Masonic and American Legion circles at Mt. Horeb, was injured last Sunday one mile west of Verona when his car hit the trailer of a truck driven by Ray Piatt, 320 W. Mifflin and the boom of the crane on the trailer collapsed on the car. The body of Nelson was taken to the Fraut-schi Funeral home.

In an accident Friday night on highway 51 near the Quaker Oats farm, George Scatterday, 22, Lake Edge park, received a broken back and a possible fractured skull. Car Overturns, Kolls County Officers E. W. Kelzenberg and A. C.

Pope said Scatterday was driving south of highway 51 and turned left in Lake Edge park. A car driven by J. M. Straus, 55, Sun Prairie, going north on the same highway, tried to cut in front of Scatterday's car, the officers said, causing a collision which overturned the Scatterday car. The car rolled 45 feet into a parked car of A.

J. Opstedal, 1207 W. Johnson pushing the car through the plate glass window of the Deutsche Wurst shop. Mother a Nurse Scatterday walked around for half an hour before discovering he was seriously injured. He collapsed when taken to the home of his grandmother, Mrs.

Margaret Jackman, Lake Edge park. When notified of her son's condition, Mrs. Gertrude J. Allen, a nurse at Wisconsin General hospital, had her son removed to the hospital where she was on duty at the time. Open Train Death Probe Mr.

and Mrs. H. F. Wollenzien, Mukwonago. sitting in the parked car, received minor injuries, the of-ficers (Sstficl Elmer Faling, 31, Cottage Grove, was treated-at St.

Mary's hospital early today for an injured finger. The finger had to be amputated, hospital attaches said. Faling was attempting to untangle two cars hitched by their bumpers when he was injured. Coroner W. E.

Campbell and Police Chief William H. McCormick today opened an investigation into the death of the Rev. Herbert C. Townley, 43, Oregon teacher, who was killed Friday when he was struck by a freight train at the University ave. railroad crossing near the former Forest Products laboratory.

Aid. Lawrence poses Project Pro-in Public Works Construction of a municipal water softening and filtration plant as a public works project was suggested to Mayor Law Friday by George D. Lawrence, 12th ward alderman. As city-wide projects, Lawrence also suggested that Madison pipe in natural gas and use modern neolin lights as an economy measure, and that it build a new city auditorium, new city hall, and a municipal pier with facilities for aquatic sports at all seasons. Open Brooks by Viaduct For his ward, Lawrence proposed; Opening of Brooks st.

from Dayton to Spring, by means of a viaduct; Relocation of poles and construction of pavement on south side of the Milwaukee road tracks from University ave. to Randall, eliminating a half turn on University ave. and preventing necessity of crossing the tracks twice when firemen of No. 4 station answer a call in far west side of city; Establishment of a playground in the triangle between Milwaukee and Illinois Central tracks on Mills Removal of car tracks and re-grading of Mills st. from University ave.

to Regent; Replacement of part of rock curbs on Brooks, Mills, Charter and Orchard sts. with cement; Removal of electric power and telephone poles from streets and placing wires underground; More Safety Islands A building program of 100 small homes, costing $3,500 to $5,000, in creasing tax roll by $350,000 to Safety islands on each side of street at Orchard and University ave. and Charter and University widening the avenue if necessary from Charter to Orchard. Aid. Leo G.

Straus, 18th ward, proposed to Mayor Law that the railroad crossings on E. Johnson st. be eliminated. He asked that Sixth st. be extended to Winnebago st, declaring many, residents employed at the Ray-o-Vac plant must walk a block east or west to cross E.

Washington ave. Children of Sherman ave. attend- Three Fined, Six Held After Stoughton Raids VRW KENSINGTON. Pa. (U.R) 'The American Federation of La bor and the Mellon dominated co.

of America lock- horns in a bitter strike to wn- that held the potentialities of ioveloping into the worst labor lismite of the new deal. Five or the company's eight plants were 'arced to close ana tne otner tnree expected to follow quickly. The strike. bacKed by tne ieaer- ition and officially sponsored by William Green, federation presi dent, went into effect at midnight, rromntlv at that hour, the 15,000 jm embers of the National Council kif Ahiminum Workers, federation InWMataA rvnranWuri frvr militant the three chief plants here, another Hn East St. Louis.

111., and a fifth 'in Areola, Tenn. They prevented non-union men rrom going to worn on the midnight shifts and the company decided to make no immediate effort to continue operation. Guards, Police Equal Strikers Plants at Baden; N. Massina, N. and Fairfield, were not at once affected, seemingly because union officials there had not been notified of the strike call.

The com nan mustered special guards and police almost to equal the number or strikers at au ai-fected plants. The shift going to work at midnight is small and pick ets had no difficulty in stopping wnrlrrrs rpnortinsr for duty. Pick ets were good-natured, but obvious-ly prepared to fight. A picket and a non-striker were slightly injured in the only incident of violence. Bicker for Three Months Labor decided upon militant action after three months of bickering with aluminum industry officials.

They chose to strike first at Ahiminum co. of America, largest of aluminum utensils manufacturer and largest of the units of the so- (Continued on page 2, col. 8) Behind The News By Paul Mall on fCnpyrisht, 1934, by Paul MallonJ WASHINGTON The best monetary critics always laugh when Mr. Morgenthau sits down to play the silver lute. After hear-O liver ing his technically perfect rendition of "Nationalization" they are still laugh-ins.

For many reasons, they stubbornly decline to take the administration very seriously on the silver question. The reasons are not hard to find. No insider or outsider in Wash-ington believes that Mr. Morgenthau (or, indeed, President Roosevelt, whom he accurately represents) is either a silverite or an inflationist. Their motes on silver usually are timed to meet some inflationary uprising in congress, and these moves so far have been wisely cautious.

The latest one also is in that category. Three very natural reasons for the move are generally accepted in the Washington inner circle. One is the financial situation. rTi pro 4c npar. Explanation ly a billion and a half dollars in hoarding.

The people who are hoarding it will rush to put it back into circulation if they think monetary inflation is coming. The administration's silver move may encourage them to think so. Another reason is Sen. Thomas. Ho is the most persistent and annoying inflationist, extant.

A few days ago he conducted a poll of congress and announced that a majority of his colleagues have been disappointed with the administration silver policy. Nationalization of silver is supposed to make him and his weeping colleagues dry their ryes and keep quiet for at least a few more weeks. Also, don't forget that a warm congressional election contest is starting in western silver states. Thus, three very big problem birds are supposed to lie down and roll over at the one big silver blow. These are rather shallow reasons, but you will find no deeper ones in the nationalization policy.

All it means now Inflation? is that the government is going to buy about $100,000,000 worth of silver in this country. (There are roughly between 150,000.000 and ounces subject to seizure at 50.01 cents an ounce.) A hundreds million will be only a ripple in the five billion dollar mon- (Continued on page 2, col. 2) Seven Boys Killed by War Time Shell WARSAW (U.R) Seven schoolboys of the town of Kovel were killed today when an abandoned war time shell exploded while they were playing with it. The explosion also wrecked house. Trading Becomes Riot as All Sell CHICAGO (U.R) Prices of the four major grains fell to the lowest point possible under trading restrictions today, the market closing with an avalanche of selling orders unexecuted.

The normal bedlam of the board of trade pits became a riot as stop loss orders poured in over flooded wires. Even with wheat and rye off 5 cents from Friday's closing price, corn off the permissible limit of 4 cents and oats down 3 cents, there were few buyers. Wheat for September delivery, both old and new crops, closed at 1.04 a bushel. December futures closed at 1.07 and May at 1.10. September corn was offered at 75 cents, December at 791, and May at 83.

September oats futures were at 50 cents and September rye at 81. Expert observers of the market, although many of them were caught unaware by the most powerful bear movement in weeks of drought and pessimistic crop reports, explained that Friday's government grain estimates and announcement that crop reduction plans will be altered for 1935 made the reaction inevitable. Traders generally had overestimated the crop damage to be shown in the government report and were forced to revise their figures on demand and prices. TruckStrike Writ Denied Minneapolis Mar tial Law Upheld MINNEAPOLIS (U.R) Martial law in Minneapolis was upheld by three federal court judges in a decision filed in United States district court here today. The decision, a victory for striking truck drivers, denied a petition of two groups of employers for a temporary injunction to restrain Gov.

Floyd B. Olson from enforcing martial law. The petitions protected that military rule was unwarranted and was paralyzing business. Union leaders hailed the verdict as a decisive victory in their week- long battle. Employers would not comment.

Their attorneys had not decided what further action would be taken. Federal mediators hoped that the verdict, whieh will permit na tional guardsmen to continue patrolling Minneapolis streets, would again open the way for negotia tions leading towards strike set tlement. The decision was handed down by Circuit Judge John B. Sanborn and Federal Judges Joseph Molyneaux and Gunnar H. Nord- bye.

In effect, it held that martial law was necessary for the safe guarding of Minneapolis residents and to preserve order the strike area. Evansville Man in Michigan Hospital TState Journal Xews Service! EVANSVILLE Harley Smith, head of a tobacco firm here, underwent an operation for mastoid at Ann Arbor, according to word received here today. He was treated for throat and ear trouble in a Madison hospital early this summer. mvomng j-airoanKs occurred, ac cording to the bill of particulars, in 1919 and 1920. Miss Pickford was divorced from Owen Moore in 1920.

His attention first was called to Fairbanks in 1918, Hemmer declares, when Miss Pickford's mother, the late Mrs. Charlotte Pickford telephoned him and begged him to hurry to Denver to suppress publicity unfavorable to the actress. The publicity centered around the friendship between Fairbanks and Miss Pickford. Hemmer related how he summoned reporters to a conference at which, he said, he appealed to their finer sensibilities to suppress stories concerning the romance. "Broke Up" Other Romance Three years earlier, Hemmer relates, Miss Pickford's mother called upon him to break up another ro- CHICAGO.

(U.R) John Griffin, 22-year-old constable, lay Friday night literally on the brink of the grave. Through a haze of agony, with bullets in his head, abdomen, side, one arm and a leg, he heard members of a hoodlum gang plan his burial as a dead man. Today Griffin was in a hospital with a chance to recover, while one of his assailants was in jail and at least one other was identified and a fugitive. "I can take it," grinned Griffin through pain contorted lips. "When I get up I'm going to find out if that gang that got me can take as much." Shot Five Times Griffin was attacked when he attempted to arrest Michael Continue Hunt forBertrand Police, Coast Guards Resume Dragging Dragging operations were resumed today by Madison police, members of the U.

S. coast guard at Racine, and members of the University of Wisconsin life-saving crew in a search for the body of Joseph B. Bertrand, 444 Hawthorne who drowned in Lake Mendota Thursday. The Bertrand drowning was the first in Lake Mendota in more than a year and the first summer mishap there in more than two years. Clarence S.

Hult was drowned when- his car went through the ice early in January, 1933, and Prof. S. A. Leonard was drowned in the spring of 1932 when his sailing canoe capsized. Dane Hay Fever Sufferers to Band at Meeting Here An effort to form an organization of Dane county hay fever sufferers will be made at the courthouse Tuesday night, when a meeting open to all afflicted with the disease will be held.

Fred Evans, Madison attorney, called the meeting and scheduled it for 8 p. m. Plans for a concerted annual campaign for the eradication of ragweed and other plants that spread hay fever will be discussed, and if the interest is sufficient, a permanent organization will be formed. Hay fever sufferers are especially interested in gaining the cooperation of farmers and town boards in getting rid of ragweed and pigweed, Mr. Evans said.

These weeds -grow profusely along many Dane county roads and on farms in the county, and the disease would be far less widespread if they could be cut down, it is believed. Ludendorff Explains Absence at Funeral MUNICH (U.R) Gen. Erich Ludendorff, von Hindenburg's chief of staff on the western front; today broke his silence regarding his refusal to attend funeral services for the late president, with the declaration that he had refused to participate in the ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the battle of Tannenberg even before the president died. Ludendroff attacked "certain newspapers" for their refusal to print "a true account of my participation in the fall of Liege," ending his comment with the declaration that "my enemies, the Jews, their obscure tools are rejoicing at this refusal. But I hold my peace alone, even as I did at Liege." Pair's Sauabble Over Expo Trip Ends in Divorce A July 4 trip to the Wisconsin Outdoor exposition opened a marital rift which resulted today in the divorce of Mrs.

Emma- Perry, 32, Madison, from Russell Perry, 33, in superior court. Mrs. Perry testified that her husband wanted to go to the exposition but she refused. Later he came back, under the influence of liquor, and insisted she go with him. They visited several taverns, and after she had to wait for him an hour and a half in one, she left and went to a show, she said.

When he returned home, he was angry at her for leaving, she said. Afterwards she started divorce proceedings. She had previously started proceedings in February, but dropped them. The couple was married at Roekford Jan. 16, 1926.

Mrs. Perry is employed at the French Battery co. and Perry at the Oscar Mayer packing plant. Mrs. Perry, who has a son, 13, by a previous marriage, was allowed to resume her maiden name of Graf, City Water Softener, Filtration Plant Sought Three Stoughton residents had been fined and six others held for hearings Aug.

17 in superior court today as a result of raids conducted at Stoughton Friday by Sheriff Fred T. Finn and state officers from the treasury department. Mrs. Clarence Felland, 210 S. Fifth was fined $150 and costs for operating a tavern without a license and $100 and costs for sale of unstamped liquor, with alternatives of 90 and 120 days in the county jail She admitted she had been selling liquor for more than a year and knew she was violating the law.

Asst. Dist. Atty. Card Christianson recommended the penalties. Hector Haugen, alias Hector Ber-ge, and Conrad Metzler, each were fined $50 and costs or 30 days for sale of liquor and $100 and costs or 60 days for operating a tavern without a license.

Pederson was arraigned Friday afternoon, and Haugen came into court" today. All the other defendants pleaded not guilty to both charges and were held under $500 bond each for hearings Aug. 17. They are Mrs. Lydia Hanson, 309 S.

Fourth Mrs. Melida Stokke, 113 S. Forrest Harry Bjoin, East Main Herman Columbia County Seeks Suspects in Bank Robbery State Journal News PORTAGE Columbia county officers Friday night began a search for two men who answered descriptions of the two bandits who stole $400 at the Milton Junction State bank Friday. Search was started after two men, driving a car which answered the description of the bandit machine and which carried Wisconsin licenses bolted over Illinois plates, stopped at a garage on highway 16 at the edge of the city. William Klenert, Columbia county vigilante, noticed the car as it left the garage and learned about the license plates from the garage-man.

He notified Sheriff Robert Roche, who with Klenert and Deputy Harry Hibner started a search which led them to Wisconsin Dells. They failed to find the suspected car, and instituted a search on other county I roads. ft Asks $250,000 for Job qf Keeping Mary Pure Preacher, Bitten by Snake, Claims Faithful Immune SYLVA, N. C. (U.R) Albert Tees-ter, holiness preacher who was near death during the night from rattlesnake bite, today proclaimed from his bed in a little mountain cabin that he will preach again Sunday.

His condition this morning was reported improved as he courageously fought for life, still declaring "I will get well, for the faithful, are immune to death." A mountain rattler bit him in his pulpit last Sunday night as he sought to show the congregation the snake would not attack a "disciple of God." Teester's original contention was that he was immune from such an attack. Once the snake bit him, however, his faith manifested itself in the assertion that, despite it, he was immune from death from such a cause. Kohler, Strikers to Meet Again CHICAGO. (U.R) Federal mediators resumed efforts today to bring peace to the strike embattled "model" village of Kohler, with former Gov. Walter J.

Kohler sitting across a conference table from leaders of his striking employes. A conference Friday night, lasting until after 10 p. was adjourned with no announcement except that Kohler and his brother, Herbert V. Kohler, would meet again today with members of the Chicago regional labor board and strike leaders. Edgerton Man, 70, Shoots, Kills Self EDGERTON Despondent over ill health, Freemont Ide, 70, committed suicide Friday night by shooting himself through the head with a shotgun.

Ide, a widower, lived alone. A son, residing next door, hearing the shot and summoned a physician. The aged man died shortly after his Chased Doug for Years to Save Star's Repu tation, Manager Claims 1 NEW YORK. (U.R) A picture of Douglas Fairbanks sprinting from Mary Pickf prd's dressing room on a Hollywood lot and leaping over a fence, with an irate manager, waving a revolver, at his heels, is sketched in a bill of particulars on file today in federal court in connection with a $250,000 breach of contract action against the actress. The plaintiff is Edward Hemmer, Miss Pickford's self-styled foster father and manager.

He claims the sum is due him for his unflinching devotion to the preservation of Miss Pickford's fair name with the movie public. Protected Her, He Says Hemmer describes himself as the manager in the Pickf ord dressing room incident. He mentions it, he says, to show to what extent he went to avert unfavorable publicity for "America's The alleged incident and several others on Page 2, CoL 4). (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4).