Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1931, Page 4

- SEEXS T0 BLOCK | WAGE REDUCTIN (ldminlstration Holds Cut jould Violate Pact Between Labor and Industry. By the Associated Press. The administration is trying to erect # blockade on the path to lower wages. “Through Secretary of Labor Doak it | has notified workers and employers alike that any general efforts to reduce pay should be & violation of the agree- ment reached between labor and indus- try in the 1920 conference cailed by President Hoover. The Secretary said yesterday there had been no revocation of that agree- ment to maintain wage levels despile the depression. He added that general reductions would be a violation of con- fidence and would permit employes to demand more money, although they had decided to abide by present pay scules. Large Industry Is Responding. Doak said he belleved pay slushes shown in recent compllations by his department could be attributed to the smaller businesses. The larger indus- tries have not reduced, bul are re- sponding “fairly well” to insistence that the level be maintained. he asserted. ‘The Secretary had not been told of- ficially about the statement of Presi- dent William Green of the American FPederation of Labor that workers would be justified in striking to fore- stall wage cuts. Nor did Doak discuss the announce- ment by the executive council of the federation that certain bankers and in- dustrialists were planning general re- ductions. Doak said he had heard unconfirmed reports of general wage decreases, al- though major railroads assured him they contemplated no sweeping changes. Predicts Labor Disturbances. ‘While the cabinet member was mak- ing his statement, Fred C. Croxton, sct- ing chairman of the President’s Emer- gency Committee for employment, held Green's warning did not presage wide- spread labor .difficulties. He did pre- dict, however, additional labor disturb- ances if the depression continued. Doak contended that in the last 10 years reductions in employment and pay rolls had been normal and that within the last six weeks controve:sies between employers and employes had been settled by a reversion of old wage scales. He interpreted the depression’s comparative lack of strikes as a result of the agreement belween capital and labor. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. ‘TODAY. Dinner meeting, Georgetown Clinical Bociety, Hamilton Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Card party, Mother’s Club, St. James’ Catholic Church, Thirty-seventh street and Rhode Island avenue, 8 p.m. Meeting, Gold Star Mothers, Hamil- fon Hotel, 8 p.m. i Meeting, Petworth Citizens' Associa- tion. Petworth School, Eighth and Bhepherd streets, 8 p.m. Meeting, Zeta Chapter, Beta Gamma Phi Sorority, Hamilton Hotel, 8 p.m, - _ Dinner, Samuel Gompers Lodge, Hamilton Hotel, 7 p.m. Meeting. Columbia Historical Soclety, Cosmos ib, 8:15 p.n. meeting, Alumni Clubs of Schools, Hamilton Hotel, Edi Meeting, th M. Rogers Lodge, Chapter No. 4, Disabled American Vet~ erans, United States Soldlers’ Home. Entertainment, All Saints’ Parish Hall, Minnesota avenué and Foote street northeast, 8 p.m. Meeting, Priendsh)) Chapter, No. 38, O. nedy street, 8 pm. FUTURE. Luncheon, Optimist ‘Club, Hamilton Hotel, tomorrow, 12 noon. Luncheon, Monarch Club, Hamilton Hotel, tomorrow, 1 noon. Meeting, National Conference of Or- ganizations Supporting the Eighftenth amendment, Hamilton Hotel, tomorrow, 9 am. : Luncheon, Exchange Club, Carlton 1, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Lambda Chi Alpha Alumni Association, Huston Hotel Restaurant, 1 Dinner Northfield 7:30 pm. Club, Federal . 8., 1311 Ken* week air service has been fnaugurated between Juneau, Alaske, lnnd Seattle, Wash, a distance of 900 miles. Named Assistant JOHN W. WOOD GIVEN POST IN ATTORNEY'S OF E. JOHN W. WOOoD, United States Attorney Leo A. Rover| has snnounced the sppointment of John W. Wood, 8 native of Washington, to be | au ussistant United States attorney to Al the recently created place to handle exclusively war risk fnsurance cases and other litigation involving the Veterans' Bureau. Wood is 32 years old and was gradu- ated from Central High School in 1916, He took his law degree at George Wash: ington Law School in admitted to the bar in the |He has been connected with the law | offices of Barnard & Johnson and Wal- ter C. Balderston. He is & member of the Bar Associa- tion, Manor Club, is married and also is @ member of Delta Sigma Phi and Kappa Alpha Praternities. He is affili- ated with Masonic kafayetle Lodge, No. 19, and is also & member of the Mount Vernon, No, 3, Royal Arch Masons. SUNDAY GAS SALES LEGAL IN DANVILLE! |Jury Holds Motor Fuel Business as Necessity in Test Special Dispatch to The Star DANVILLE, Va., May 19.—As a re-| sult of & jury's decision yesterduy it | the sale of gasoline within the city of Danville was a necessity, contained in its verdict acquilting W. C. Lewss,| nilling-station operator, of violating the Sabbath law, gasoline stations are ex- pected 10 operate on Sunday here. The case was in the nature of & test. The point at issue was whetlier the State law which prohibits Sunday oper- ation of _ b unless the guods | handled 15 & necessity applied here. Filling stations in the county just outside the corporate limits have been :?enung Sundays. With the aequittal Lewis the State nolle prossed cases against other flling-station proprietors. KIN OF EX-GOVERNOR GIVEN LIQUOR TERM Bryan Johnson Sentenced to Four Months in Jail by New Cumberland Judge. Special Dispatch to The Btar. CUMBERLAND, Md., May 19.—Judge | W. Calvin Chestnut, Baltimore, recent- ly appointed to the Maryland district bench 1o succeed Judge Morris A. Soper, presided st the opening of the Spring term of the Federal Court here yesterday. One of his first acts was the sentencing of Bryan Johuson of John- sons, Garrett County, on the National Highway, four miles west of Prostburg, to_four months in jail, Distinguished linesge was invcked in | 8 plea for clemency by former State Senator Willlam A. Guntér, who said sSon was & great-grandson of Thomas Johuson, former Governor of | Maryland. Johnson had pleaded guilty of bootlegging in Garrett County. Sen- ator Gunter declared Johnsgn was not & “common” bootlegger, but the scion of 'l‘.:abh house, who had made & m s 3 Johnson's excuse was that the dry weather of last year was bad on farm- ers and he needed the money. Col. ‘Thomas dley, Pederal agent, who posed as & big whisky buyer, told the court Johnson had whisky cached at various places about his farm, amount- ing to 300 gallons, and offered to supply | Batley at least 100 gallons a week. | When curtly sentencing Johnson, Judge Chestnut sald it was “a distressing sit- uation.” | part—has | Plain what lines it will follow. THE "EVENING EX-GOV. CHASE OSBORN ADOPTS SECRETARY AS HIS DAUGHTER JEANS SEES ANSWER 10 BLAST THEORY Tells Audience at National Museum Solution Will Come in Few Years. (Continued Prom First Page.) the solar system is an insignificant situation ever faced by science. Stars Meving Frem Earth, Following this conference, the great British onomer said, a solution is beginning 10 appear, He did not ex- ‘The enigma of the astronomers, Sir James explained, is due to the indications the spectroscope that the great ci of stars which dct space out to & dis- tance of at least 84,000,000,000,000.000.- 000 miles—the farthest range of the most powerful telescopes i present are moving away from the earth st an spproximate speed of 12500 miles a second. If this is actually the case, he snid, it memus something like sn ex- ploding crestion. Now the Milky Way system —composed of at least 100,000, 000,000 stars comparable Lo Lhe sun ur larger—Is just oue of the spiral nebulse which cowpose creation. It must be moving outward also, if the evidence of the spectroscope Is uccepted literally at | its face value. But, Sir Jumes said. if this actually is the emse the size of the universe or the dispersion srem of the MHying fragments of the exploding shell would double every 1.400,000.000 yew or thereabouts. During the approxi- mate age of creation as calculated by estronomers it must have doubled its size many times. If this has been the case It must have been concentrated in the beginning in & much smaller space than there is reason to belleve was the case. Falrly Uniform Distribution. Dr. Hubble's observations, Sir James sald, Indicate that the “star citles” have & fably uniform distribution through the 84 billion billiot miles of celestial countryside which the tele- scope has been able to penetrate. 1f the spiral nebulae are fairly stationary be explained, an approximate picture of creatioh can be had by uuagining a radius of one mile on the earth over which has been scattered 300 tons of spples. Each apple represenis s uni- verse of billlons of stars concentrated into & system. This was about the pic- ture accepted by astronomers before the strsuge shift of the lines in the nebu- ry spectra was called to their miten- tion. The position of these lines 1is considered & practically infallible indi- eation of movement and the extent of the shift tells astronomers almost th exact speed and direction of the move- ment. But, Sir James indicated, in this case 1t will be necessary to find mnother explanation or sdopt a radi- cally different view of the structure of creation, The British astronomer pictured the Milky Way galaxy itself—fairly typlcal of all the others—as an almost un- Imaginably vast rotating cartwheel with the sun and its planets about one-third of the way from the hub to the rim slong one of the spokes. The whole cariwheel —sun snd earth along with it 18 rotating st the rate of 200 miles & second or mbout 3,600 times as fast as | bos, 1s the flight of the fastest airplane. But it s so incredibly vast that approxi- wmately 200,000,000 years of rotation at this speed is required for a single revo~ lution Sf the system about its axis, Weight of 2 or $ Billion Suns, All the other star citles appear to be acting in about the same way aud to be about the same magnitudes. They range grom the grest nebula tn Andromeda which can be seen faintly with the naked eye and which is ouly aj mately 800,000 light years—or the dis- tance light traveling at 186,000 miles & second would traverse 1o 800,000 years—1o the celestial metropolises of the far frontiers of space, 140.000.000 light years from the earth. Study of such & near neighbor as the Andro- meda nebule, he sald, reveals that it has & diameter of approximately 300.000,- 000,000,000,000,000 miles, or 50,000 light years. It can even be welghed by cal- culated the gravitational attraction of its center for particles—that is, clusters led to perhaps the wierdest | - | Sylvester, Ga., on April 30, was not re- roxi- | STAR, Stefla Lee Brunt, 37, Will As-| sume Name of Her 72-Year- 0Old Benefactor. Both Engaged in Literary Work—She Began Her Education at 21. By the Associated Press. MACON, Ga. May 19.—Miss Stella |Lee Brunt, who went to night high | school when she was 21 and theu | | worked her way to an M. A. degree at {the University of Michig; is the | adopted dsughter of Chase Saimon Os- born, rmer Michigan Governor, lec- | turer and writer. 1 Name Becomes Osborn. | The aduption, which took place in & special court session in chambers in vealed until toduy. Miss Brunt, who has been literary secretary to Osborn for many years und whose home is in Ham- { titon, Onhr:zo:’:)l %m&h 7‘1 i By the n 158 runi ‘gru{!,ed the name of Stells Lee Osborn. | | Osborn explained that his sdvancing |age 8nd increased literary work re- | quired some one to give him constant sttention, and he wished to give his| falthful secrctary all the advantages |of & legal duughiter Writing History. WASHINGTON, | at Sault Ste. Marje, Mich. D. C. TUESDAY, CHASE SALMON OSBORN, ary scholastic fraternity, and is a mem- ber of the Michigan Academy of Sci- ence. She is now engaged in preparing history of the University of Michigan. Osborn, who has & home near here, and Miss Osborn left for the Ngrth yesterday. Osborn has & Summer home She remained today at her foster- | father's hunl-lnf‘ Jodge mnear Sylvester, Gu., awaiting his return from a trip to the’ North. His destination was not Miss Osborn received the master of | arts degree in 1930. She also won mem- | bership in the Phi Beta Kappa, honor- | of stars—on its edges. Buch calcula- tions give su_ approximate weight of four suns for every human being on earth. 1t & telescopic photograph of one of these nebulae could be enlarged to the size of the North American continent, Sir James sald, 1t might be possible for & person with exceptional eyesight to | find an object as large a8 the sun, The stars which have been discerned in of light, two or three billion suns—or three or| the nebulae are cephid variables, indi- | cated by the varylug iutensity of points | definitely determined, but it was indi- | cated he would return to Georgia Sunday. CHILD, 6, IS STRUCK BY CAR NEAR HOME Condition of Hyattsville Boy Re- ported Unchanged at Hospital. Special Dispateh to The Star. Pictures Mass of Gas. In the beginning, as pictured by Sir Jawes, Wiere probably was & chaotl mass of gas spread through space. | Mathematical calculations show, he sald, that such & mass of Aufinitely | finely dispersed gas particles could not remaln uniformly ~ distributed, but, through action of gravity, must con- dense 1flo enormous balls of gas which would begin to rotate. Such a system, he said, s represcnted by the greatl globular nebulae which have been lo- | tion of the same process of condensa- | tion the spiral stagt would be reached | when- saaller and far denser particles, the stars, would begin to be formed | mlong 1he edge of the whirling mass, sl- | ready flattened by ite rotation into the | familiar cartwheel form which seems fundamental in creation. Mathematical cslculstion, he sald, | shows that such & whirling mass of gas | at last must condense into drops of | about the size of stars. On & far smaller scale, the earth and the other planets | were formed as drops of condensed gas | torn from the sun by some passing star. By means of these mathematical deduc- | , be said, il now is possbile to recoginze the different formis of nebulue | pholographed Ly Dr. Hubble as an | sequeuce from baby universes to universes with the star drops concen- trated about the rims of the cart- wheels. Besides the great “star eifles” Sir James explained, there are smaller nebulous masses which appear o be simply of the Milky Way galactic system, great clouds of dust given & sort of phosphorescent effect by the light of the neighboring stars which falls upon | them. “They are, he sald, “the smoke of our own star city. Democratic Head Named. MARTINSBURG, W. Ve, May 19 (Special).—J. C. McKown, former sheriff here, has been named chair- man of the Berkeley County Demo- cratic Executive Committee, which is responsible for proj names for officials to man, the polls at elections. He succeeds J. Fred Wilson, no longer a resident her cated by the telescope. By & continua-| HYATTSVILLE, Md., May 19.—Con- | | dition of Daniel West, 6 years old, who | Was struck by an automobile driven by | fwun-m Bursiem, 19 years old, of 3| Cedar street yesterday afternoon on | Oakwood road near Franklin street was reported unchanged this morning at Sibley Hospital, Washington. The boy's face ‘is 50 badly bruised, according to word received at his home here, that an | X-ray cannot be underlaken for a day | or two, The boy and his sister, Bertha, 8 years old, alighted from @& bus which had brought them from Maryhurst | School, which they attend, and after | | walking along Oakwood road for a short distance starled across the street to their home, when Danlel was struck. Burslem stopped his car and accompa- nied another machine which rushed | the boy to the hospital | ‘The children live with Mr. and Mrs. ‘Thomas L. Mann in Hyattsville Hills, Candidate for Senate. DANVILLE, Va., May 19 (Special) — lJ\m.e E. J. Harvey of Chatham has an- |nounced his candidacy for State Sen- | | mtor, representing the thirteenth sena- | rial district, which takes in Patrick, ittsylvinia and Henry Countles. =show which way the wind blows SENNITS of Novelty Braid Swadder Stylea $1.95 1930 Price Was $3 32 95 1930 Price Was $4 and $5 | ple of our constitutional syste e against Miss | | may MAY “RED FLAG” LAW 1S HELD INVALID 19, 1931 | California Statute Prohibit- ing Display of Anarchistic Emblems Unconstitutional. By the Assoctated Press. Free political discussion of the Gov- ernment remains a constitutional right. For that reason, among others, the Supreme Court found defective the Cali- fornia red flag law under which Yetta Stromberg, a native American of Rus- sian parentage, was convicted. ‘The decision yesterday sent the case back | to the State court. The woman was prosecuted because children at a camp to which she was attached were assembled each morning to salute the Russian Soviet flag and promise allegiance to it. State officers testified they found considerable anar- chistic propaganda when they searched the camp. The California law prohibits the dis- play of & red flag or any other device in & public place as & sign of “Opposi- tlon to organized government or as an invitation or stimulus to anarchistic action or as an ald to propaganda that is of a seditious character.” Free Discussion Fundamental. Chief Justice Hughes' opinion sald, “The maintenance of an opportunity for free political discussion to the end that government may be responsive to the wil of the people. and that change 1agy be obtained by lawful means, an opportunity es: the Republic, is a fundamental princi- stel A review of the c Stromberg, the Chief Justice said, did not disclose whether she had been found guilty of “opposition to organized gov- ernment” alone or “anarchistic action” or engaging in “propaganda that is of a seditious chaiacter” as well. Since the statute is “so vague and indefinite as to permit the punishment of the fair use” of the opportunity to organized government, Hughes 1t 1s “repugnant to the guaranty of liberty contained in the fourteenth amendment.” Hence, he sald, the first clause of the law being invalid, the conviction which have rested upon that clause ex- clusively “must be set aside.” Justices McReynolds and Butler, in their separate dissenting opinions, con- tended the evidence clearly showed Miss Stromberg had violated all three pro- hibitions of the California statute. - 2 Puget Sound, Wash., distributed 1,850 cases of canned salmon and an esti- mated 500,000 pounds of fresh salmow to needy families in the State. 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Among those who paid final honor to the lad at impressive rites in the Mary- land Park Christian Church and at| Congressional Cemetery, Washington, were many of his classmates in the | seventh grade of the Maryland Park High School who were excused to attend the services. | All day yesterday children from the ' ® WASHINGTON'S FINEST Maryland Park and Seat Schools called at the Birch m Pleasant street to console his mother, Mrs. Iva Birch. The boy fa alsp sur- vived by a sister, Virginia, aged 8, and & brother, Edward, 7. He fell into the water while reaching for a dead fish and drowned despite heroic efforts of Carroll Clark, 12, & companion, to save him. Dance to Raise Funds. By & Btaft Correspondent of The Star. 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