Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1930, Page 10

A—10 % LEWS AUTHORTY ‘tion to Dissolve Unless | Supported. ILANIER HEIGHTS Mine Officials of Three States Declare Union Constitution Has Expired. Urges Taxpayers Bureau to Be Check on District Expenditures. By the Associated Press. i CHICAGO, March 8.—John L. Lewls, | head of the United Mine Workers, faces | on March 10 another test of his author- | ity, the latest of several during the | m"‘h:“},"m‘;‘;gm";‘;f‘;,f‘”l:“:;e“;fm: tumultous decade of his presidency. | Heights section of Washington than has On that day he will convene at In- | hitherto been manifest in that com- dianapolis an international convention ig‘tmmngrw bmt‘-'c w;hew:!‘t:;l:rr “{ltr‘g:“'-_s %o pass upon acceptance of a challenge | o rontity scssion agein. According to by officials of the Tilinois district, larg- | R. Woodland Gates, attorney, and pres- est division of the decimated ranks of | ident of the civic group. O o e the. ofloials of ithols, | Charges Apathy. ©Ohio, Kansas and Pennsylvania wili | | | | ciizene THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. MARCH, 9, 1930—PART ONE. CIVIC APATHY SCORED BY PRESIDENT GATES R. WOODLAND GATES. —Star Staff Photo. ]WUMEN APPROVE GRAVELLY POINT Adopt Resolution Favoring, Site for Permanent Model Airport. Resolutions approving the establish- } ment of & permanent model airport for the National Capital on the Gravelly | Point site and the mzdh'tgh pglv?r‘fc': f a tem] ry airport for the Disf 2{ ::ol\lmlsl’:‘ll close as possible to the businesss section of the city until the Gravelly Point site can be made ready have been adopted by the Women's City Club, it was announced yesterday. ‘The Women's City Club is the first woman's organization in the city, it was announced, to inaugurate an active cam) for a District airport. Coples e ruolu!:un ';:a letters requesting co-operation in airport cam have been sent by the club wu Federation of d lub and organiza. and every woman's club an - “The club alss has begun a cam e clul has a 3 2V SATEE change Club _ an S o IS city selected as the starting point of the next national woman’s air derby, to be the National Air Races at Chicago. “We feel it imperative that there be an official District airport with first class facilities from which the woman | pilots can make their sta: club offi- | held next Summer in .connection with | clals sald. “The Women's City Club hopes that with an adequate trict airport as an inducement, the National Capital may be the city selected for the National Air Races in 1931." Lieut. Walter Hinton, first transat- lantic pilot, author and explorer and chairman of the aviation committee of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, will address the aviation section of the Women'’s City Club on “Opportunities for Women & Aviation,” at & meeting in the club house, 22 Jackson place, at 5 p.m. Priday. The aviation section will meet at & p.m., March 21, to discuss the economic issues involved in the acquisition of an | airport in accordance with the recom- | mendations made by the congressional | joint commission on airports for the | | District of Columbia. FUTILE SEARCH MADE FOR TRACE OF “BODY” Suspected Grave. Montgomery County police, acting on information given them yesterday hy‘ a plowman, are investigating the pos- sibllity that a human body lies buried in a shallow grave on the Kenny farm near Forest Glen, Md, adjoining Imports into Canada from Germany | last year were 11 per cent greater than in 1928, while those from France were 6 per cent less, Brookville and Forest Glen roads. ‘The workman, Earl Smith, said he was plowing yesterday afternoon when his blade tipped some foreign substance in the soil. He said his | horse stopped while he freed the |and as he did so he glimpsed some: thing which appeared to be a body. | Smith related how two dogé substation, g, but 'S heavy rains had obliterated all traces of the spot.” Corpl. George Windham and Patfol- man Joseph Nolte were detailed by | Sergt. Guy Jones to make an investi- gation. They reported that Smith dug | about the field for several hours yes- terday afternoon until darkness forced him to abandon the effort. Ostrich raisers of South Africa are again in trouble because of the lessen- ing world interest in ostrich feathers and ostrich skins as .rnaments and ma- terials for articles. call to order in Springfield, M. & *e- | by in the District generally, Mr. Gates | organization convention. tend the mine union constitution ex- ired last year and Lewis is without au- ority. Opposition from within the union is not a new situation with the sombre, serious Lewis, who resembles Senator Borah. In 10 years he has beaten off at least three foes who arose to oust him. Last Summer Lewis questioned the integrity of Harry Fishwick, president of the Illinois miners, and other State Jeaders. After an investigation, which, Lewis said, found irregularities, he summoned the Mlinois chiefs to an In- dianapolis hearing. They refused and he revoked their charter, set up a pro- | said yesterday that the mere handful of { members that are customarily in at- tendance at the meetings of his associa- tion are not representative of the com- munity bounded by the Lanier Heights civic body and that unless promise of better co-operation at these meetings was I‘:rul.hcomml, he would not call the { association together again. The regular meeting of the Lanier group was scheduled for tomorrow night. The assoclation’s last meeting was called January 13, but in view of | the absence of a quorum the presi- dent declared the session void. Taxpayers' Bureau Urged. Declaring that the taxpayers of the | visional district and undertook to ob- | District should take more interest in tain control of district records and of- | the appropriations and action that is| fices. A court injunction stayed his |taken by the Government of the Dis- hand. | trict of Columbia, Mr. Gates advocated {a bureau representing the taxpayers | Will Determine Enemles. | and organized along the lines of similar Herzog to Leave Germany. BERLIN, March 8 (#).—J. Silva Her- | 208, former Mexican minister to Soviet | Russia, will sail from Hamburg Tues- | day on the Rio Bravo, due at Vera Cruz March 31. The former minister, who left Mos- | cow in February after diplomatic rela- tions were severed by the two countries, said today he had spent a year investi- gating agricultural conditions in all parts of Russia. He added that Russo- Mexican trade was small—not more than $100,000 last year, of which only |5 per cent represented Mexican exports to Russia. Among the Nambudiris, a Cochin sect, only the senior male member of family may marry a woman of his own caste, and this has given the country a Offering Furniture Suggestions that are backed by special quality and special style appeal—marked at remarkable prices. A March episode at the home of “Furniture of Merit.” The Indianapolis convention, he de- | bodies in other cities of the Union. The clared at an Indiana district conven- | . “is going to determine who are | loyal members and who enemies. { From without, as well as within, Lewis repeatedly has been attacked | since 1920, when he succeeded Frank | Hays as president of the miners. Com- | munist_agitators, seeking to bore into | the union, always found Lewis’ determ- | ination pointed against them. Efforts | ©of mine owners, in both soft and hard | coal fields, to lower wages steadily met | with_opposition. { When President Harding in 1921 re- ) minded the miners’ president that the industrial readjustment of that period demanded that all workers take a wage cut, Lewis disagreed and uttered the slogan of “no backward step,” which the | miners sounded during the next five | years. i Alexander Howat of Kansas disputed Lewis' authority and soon found him- | self on the outside. Frank Farrington, suave and diplomatic Illinois spokes- man, also met defeat when he tested Lewis’ power, and John Brophy, nervous little leader in Pennsylvania, met a similar fate. Calls Harvard Graduate. ! During the 1927 convention at In- dianapolis, a young Harvard graduate, Powers Hapgood, who had become & miner, sought to assail Lewis. Lewis declared he was not a member of the union. During the verbal melee that followed Lewis hurled this reply: “The chair is prepared to preserve order. Any one who thinks he can ;bt}se the privilege of the chair is a ool Through all the difficulties of the first six years of his tenure as President, Lewis emerged with a. solid central com- But when e shutdown of 1927 came the operators of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Western Pennsylvania—the central competitive fleld—refused to negotiate as a unit. FProm that stand they did not waver| and Lewis saw his force of active miners | dwindle. Lewis, now in his fifty-first year, be- came a union miner 4n 1908 whem" was a humble coal worker at Panama, Jll. He later was an-organizer and in 1917 was elected a vice president. During the costly strike of 1922 he mortgaged his property to raise, with other international officials, $900,000 to {rnflde funds for striking miners and heir families. * T e WILLIAMS TO QUIT SERVICE ON JUNE 16 Pahncke Accepts Resignation of Navy Aviation Ace Seeking ‘World Speed Record. Resignation of Lieut. Alford J. Wil- lams, the Navy’s aviation ace and its best hope for bringing the world sea- lane speed record back to the United tates, was accepted yesterday “with the deepest regret” by Ernest Lee Jahncke, Acting Secretary of the Navy. | Lieut. Willlams submitted his resig- nation Friday after he had been ordered to three years of sea duty. To have ac- cepted sea duty wauld-have ended per- manently his plans for entering a speedy seaplane in the 1931 Schneider Cup | races in the hope of regaining the trophy from Great Britain. | Lieut. Williams' time Iimit for shore duty expired months ago, and the Navy Department was faced with the alterna- tive of losing its greatest racing pilot or further extending his shore leave at the expense of strict discipline. Acting Sec- | retary Jahncke decided, therefore, to accept the resignation. It becomes effective on June 16. TWO MOTORISTS HURT IN CRASH WITH CAR Women Receives Serious Injuries in Collision at Seventh and C Streets Northeast. Two persons were injured, one seriously, shortly after midnight last night, when a street car crashed into their automobile at Seventh and C streets northeast, carrying the car along the tracks more than 125 feet. Mrs. Lydia Pigott, 49, 1231 B street southeast, suffered possible internal in- Juries, bruises, shock and laceration to the head and neck. Her condition is said to be serious. John Wood Oliver, 43, of 22 Eigh-! teenth street, driver of the automobile, received numerous cuts and bruises. His condition is not serious. According to police, Oliver was driv- ing south on Seventh street when the ‘Washington Railway & Electric Co. street car, bound east on C street, struck his car, carrying it more than 125 feet along the tracks. car skidded the entire distance without purpose of these bureaus, Mr. Gates said, is to see that “the taxpayers' money is wisely and properly expended, assessments of real estate made in an equitable manner and the District busi- ness economically m: " CAR THIEF KNOCKS VICTIM INSENSIBLE Passerby Lying Beside Curb. Harry 8. Harrington, 22 years old, of 533 Ingraham street, was heaten into unconsciousness by an unidentified rob- ber last night. who left him lying in the street and escaped in his victim's automobile. side the curb and took him to a nearby house. r he regained conscious- ness, Hal told Detective Sergt. Michael Dowd that he had just parked his car lnh!ir.unt ok{’ hhn:ho?ehmfl Was inspecting his parking when some one struck him over the head with a blunt instrument. Harrington, other et o ey T e 2 3 The detective bureau flashed a de- seription of H ’s automobile to the 14 precincts of the city with the order to arrest its occupants. Police recovered the automobile early today, parked in the 2100 block of Fourth street. —l s CURTIS SPEEDS HOME FOR TAFT FUNERAL Cuts Indianapolis Visit Short on Learning of Former Chief Justice’s Death. By the Associated Press. Vice President Curtis, Mrs. Dolly Gann, his sister, and Claudius H. Huston. Re- publican national chairman, left here for Washington at 6:10 o'clock tonight upon beffig informed of the death of !or,x;lrer President Taft: -« have been the principal speakers at the ve n of the Indiana Re- publican Edi Association here to- night. United States Senator James E. Watson and Arthur R. Robinson re- mained behind, Senator Watson to give a.memorial address at the session. Mine Blast Kills Fi.ve. 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