Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1933, Page 5

ENGINEERS RETURN T0°P. 0. BUILDING Temporary Agreement Ends Strike and 600 Men Resume Work. Several hundred men went back to Wwork today on the new Post Office Department Building at Twelfth street and Pennsylvania avenue, under & temporary agreement which still leaves the issues of a strike by hoisting en- gineers to be settled. Under the agreement, the two motor generator machines, which have been the center of the strike, were removed from the building to a shed on the grounds. The men who have been operating them, members of the Plum- bers and Steamfitters’ Union, quit their welding work, which had been done with the motor generator machines furnish- ing the current, and continued work on other parts of the job on the building. Meantime, the hoisting engineers, who had been on strike since last Fri- day, returned to their hoists on the Post Office Building. By lifting building ma- terials again, they enabled hundreds of men who had been thrown out of work to go back on the job. Dispute Unsettled. 1t was emphasized that the return to work does not settle the strike, but that | the issue over who shall operate the| motor generator machines still remains | to be decided between the two unions,| the steamfitters, who have been run-| ning them in the past, and the hoisting | engineers, who claim they should oper- | ate the machines. The agreement to resume work today was reached last night through nego- tiations in which many different parties participated. John Coefield, general president of the United Association of Journeymen Plumbers and Steamfitters of the United States and Canada, approved the plan, which permitted the contractor to stop use of the machines by members of his | union. The plan, Mr. Coefield said, was agreeable to him because of the large | number of men of other trades who had | been thrown out of work because of the | strike by the hoisting engineers. Not all of the 15 hoisting engineers | who had been on strike returned to the Job, but there were encugh of them to enable resumption of work. Before the end of the day, it was thought that most of the 600 men who were rendered idle by the strike would be back at work. Appeal to Federation. ‘The building trades department of the American Federation of Labor is understood to have been appealed to by contractors to settle the controversy, but under the rules of the federation, it was said, both international unions must request a settlement before posi- | tive action can be taken by the ‘edera- | tion officials. M. J. McDonongh, head | of the building trades department, is conversant with the issues at contro- versy. The Department of Labor, through | Hugh Kerwin, Director of Conciliation, and his staff, is understood to have | been willing to help settle the matter, but so far is leaving it in the hands of the two unions and the Federa- tion of Labor. The temporary arrangement has no technical name in the language of the | trade union movement, according to different union officials, but cculd be called an “armisticc” or an “abate- ment,” or just temporary agreement to allow work to proceed. FEDERATION HEAD NAMES COMMITTEES Judge Alfred D. Bailey Announces Personnel of Groups in Prince Georges County. SBpecial Dispatch to The Star. BLADENSBURG, Md., January 25— Judge Alfred D. Bailey, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations of Prince Georges County, has named the following eommittees for the year, the first named in each case being chair- man: Membership and credentials—G. Wat- son Lambert, H. W. Gilbertson, Clifford L. Johnson, George Morgan, Blair H. Riggles and Frank H. Fierstein. Public utilities—John R. Riggles, N. ©. Brigham and W. R. Beattie. Highways, parks and waterways—Fred W. Gast, Clifford L. Johnson, George Morgan and H. W. Gilbertson. Publicity—Frank H. Fierstein and E. J. Cannon. Health—George Morgan, Richard M. | Schuler, E. Donald Preston and George | Harris. Fire protection—W. R. Beattie and ‘William Fierstein. Police—H. W. Gilbertson and Blair Riggles. e ONE HELD, TWO FREED BY U. S. COMMISSIONER Charles County Man Placed Under $1,000 Bond as Result of Raid on Still. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., January | 25.—One man was held for the Fed-| eral grand jury and two others set free | when arraigned before United States | Commissioner J. Frank Parran on | liquor charges here yesterday. Arrested following a raid on a still near his home, Joseph Gray of Browns Toad in Charles County, was brought | before the commissioner on charges of manufacture and possession of liquor. He was held under $1,000 bail. | Commissioner Parran dismissed the ! charges against Dudley Willett and | Nelson Murphy, both of La Plata. They had been arrested by Federal agents on | the Southern Maryland pike, who testi- fied the men were carrying a cypress still, a copper still and a quantity of rubber hose an automobile. The | commissioner held there was not suffi- | cient intent to engage in the manufac- | ture of liquor proven since the defend- | ants testified that the stills were knock- ed down and they were taking them to | 2 junk dealer in Washington. | PRINCE WILLIAM SCHOOL LOAN RECEIVES APPROVAL | Board of Supervisors Authorize Borrowing of $8,500 for Addi- tions to Buildings. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. MANASSAS, Va., January 25—The Prince Willlam County Board of Su- pervisors yesterday acted favorably upon & request of the County School Board for permission to borrow the sum of $6,500 from the State literary | fund for the purpose of executing thres | improvement projects. | The bcard approved the borrowing of $5000 for the purpose of making | Brown Could Hold Office Extra Month Under Law of 1872 Postmaster General Made Exception of Rule to Retire on March 4. By the Assoclated Press. If Postmaster General Brown chose to become technical, he might continue in office for a while during the admin. istration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. ‘This would be possible, it was pointed out today at the Post Office Department, ‘;:'ldzer an act of Congress passed in That act provides that the Postmaster | lan General's tenure “shall be for and dur- ing the term of the President by whom he is appointed, ana for one month thereafter unless sooner removed.” The act was passed, it was explained, on the ground that the Postoffice De- partment was a business institution and the Postmaster General should remain a2 month to familiarize his successor with the duties. However, no one ever has remained beyond March 4. And if it were attempted against the wishes of a Presi- dent, the power of removal provided under the act could be exercised in & very few minutes. provision applies to no other cabinet position. VOTE COUNT BEGUN INIRISH ELECTION |Result Believed Close Be- tween De Valera and Cosgrave. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, Irish Free State, January 25.—Counting of the heaviest vote in Irish history began today, with indi- cations of an extremely close race be- tween President Eamon de Valera and ‘William T. Cosgrave for the presidency. A definite trend in yesterday's elec- tion of a new Dail Eireann—the Irish House of Representatives, which in turn elects the president of the execu- tive council—was not likely to develop until tomorrow. In some scattered dis- | tricts clerks will not be able to open ballot boxes until then. Rioting Frequent. Rioting, which featured many meet- ings during the whirlwind three-weeks campaign. carried right through into | election day, with the biggest free-for- | all at a polling booth in Ashburton. | Tear gas bombs used by troops, sum- moned from an army barracks several miles away, finally ended the row. Civil guards previously found they were unequal to the situation. The_election was considered so close that bookmakers were offering even money that it would go in either direc- tion—with De Valera retaining supreme power or with Cosgrave winning the necessary majority to return him to the presidenc; De Val . leader of the Republican party seeking the complete independ- ence of Ircland, was believed by some observers to have gained heavily in the rural districts. Cosgrave, who favors continuation of the Free State as an integral part of the British Empire, was believed strong in the cities. Vote Is Heavy. The vote ranged from 70 to 90 per cent of the enfranchised electorate, listed as 1,730,000 in the 1927 regis- tration. Of the eligible voters, 70 per cent went to the polls for the previous gen- eral election—last February 16—when Cosgrave, the first Irish President, was defeated for the first time in 10 years. That some small party, such as the new farmers’ organization or the Labor party, would hold the balance of power was considered likely by many. The Labor party had seven of the 153 seats last year and their support kept De Valera in power. MAN SAVED IN CAVE-IN Fellow Workers’ Speed Prevents Injury to Excavator. Buried under 6 feet of dirt in a ditch | cave-in near Adams Mill road and Wal- bridge place, Jack Kinard, 36-year-old colored laborer, escaped yesterday with only a sprained left leg, due to the quickness with which fellow workmen dug him out. Kinard was treated at Freedmen's Hospital and sent home. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25 1933. HOW HUMMING BIRDS REMAIN MOTIONLESS IN AIR DISCOVERED REAL ESTATE TAX BILL INTRODUCED Chairman :Norton’s Measure Provides for Quarterly Payments. Chairman Norton of the House Dis- trict Committee yesterday introduced a bill providing for quarterly payment of real estate taxes in the District. The measure is similar to that intro- duced in the Senate by Senator Cope- d, with an additional section. The bill would require the District assessor to send the owner of each family dwelling occupied by the owner a tax bill not less than 30 days prior to the date the installment is due. Any tax or special assessment omitted from that statement is not to be due or payable during the fiscal year for which the statement is sent. The new section provides that the Proj act shall be considered as applying only to such occupation as the owner shall have filed with the as- sessor with an affidavit as to residence and ownership. The form of this affi- davit is to be prepared by the assessor and show the beginning of domicile and the period during which occupled by the owner the location of the property and all trusts that may be against the roperty. " The bill provides that the collector of taxes shall extend the time for payment of real estate taxes and soecial assers- ments to any family dwelling occupied by the owner for not more than 90 days upon written application if the collector is of the opinion that through unem- ployment or other emergency the owner is unable to make tax payments. The owner would be required at the time of application to pay interest at the rate of 6 per cent on the amount of the tax or assessment covering the period of extension. ‘The bill further provides that no family dwelling occupied by the owner 11 be sold for delinquent taxes or special assessments unless notice has been served upon the owner personally or by registered mail not less than 30 days prior to the date of the sale. GEN. BLANTO.N WINSHIP TO BE GUEST OF S. A. R. Judge Advocate General to Be Principal Speaker at Ladies’ Night Banquet. Maj. Gen. Blanton Winship, judge advocate general of the Army, will be the principal speaker tonight at the Ladies’ night banquet of the District Soclety of the Sons of the American Revolution at the Mayflower Hotel. S. S. Willlamson, president of the so- ciety, will preside, and the program will include presentation of colors, pledge to the flag, installation of new members, presentation of war service medals and greetings from guests representing other organizations. Greetings also will be presented from President Hoover. CURTIS PAID TRIBUTE Congress Leaders Honor Vice Presi- dent on 73d Birthday. Both Republican and Democratic Senators joined today in felicitating Vice President Curtis on his 73rd birth- day anniversary. Mr. Curtis on March 4 will terminate 40 years of service on Capitol Hill as a Representative, Sen- ator and Vice President. Senator Watson of Indiana, Repub- lican floor leader, declared the Vice President “served the people of this country faithfully and well,” and wished him health, happiness and prosperity in the future. Senator Sheppard, Dem- ocrat, of Texas, and Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Massachusetts, also praised the career of the Vice President. e g WILL SPEAK ON RUSSIA Miss Clara Spier of Kansas City, Mo., will speak on “Present-day Rus- sia” at a meeting tonight in the Knights of Pythias Hall, 1200 U street, in com- memoration of the death of Nicolai Lenin. Miss Spier recently has returned from an 18-month tour of Russia. The session will begin at 8:30 o'clock. Plan Meetings for Orchardists. FAIRFAX, Va. Janugry 25 (Special). —Two meetings of importance to or- chardists are planned for Friday by County Agent H. B. Derr at 2:30 o'clock that afternoon at Beech Tree Farm, on the Falls Church-Annandale road, and another in the evening at the court house, in Fairfax, at 7:30 o'clock. 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Although the practical application is not apparent, it is noted that centuries of study of bird flight preceded the first successful steps in human avi- ation and the solution of another se- cret of the winged world may lead to far-reaching results in the future. “Modern dynamics have taught us,” | says the Carnegle report, “to calculate the force which lifts airplanes and ex- plain the sailing flight of birds. But no method has heretofore been given for calculating, upon dynamical prin- ciples, the effect of the pull of an oar or of the blow of the wing of a bird or insect. By the use of this formula, it proves possible to arrive at good first approximations of these forces. “Thus it is known that birds under normal flight lift only a part of their weight by the blow of the wings, the rest being lifted by the sailing effect in the intervals between the successive blows of the wings. For insects that can stand still in the air, it is found that the blows downward lift more than their weight, the excess compen- sating for the depressive effect of the blows upward.” ‘The formula {itself and the mathe- matical computations by which it was reached have not yet been published. The Norwegian group of ymathemati- cians and meteorologists is working under the direction of Prof. V. Bjerknes of the University o’ Oslo. The great advance represented by this for- mula is that it is based upon conditions as they actually are, and not on ideal hypothetical conditions called into ex- Istence to fit the explanation. Further work of the same group of investigators, it is announced, has suc- ceeded in revealing errors in the fun- damental equations of LaPlace and Sir Isaac Newton by which certain tide movements have been explained for centuries, so that “the entire theory of the tides must be recast.” CHAIRMEN ARE CHOSEN BY M. & M. DIVISIONS | Joseph B. 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The new Mackay Radio Service, link- !ing the United States and the Vatican, was officially opened yesterday with an exchange of messages between Cardinal Pacelli, papal secretary of state, and | Archbishop Fumasoni Biondi, npostollcl delegate in Washington. Cardinal Pacelli said Pope Plus XI| was gratified by inauguration of the | radio-telegraph service, and expressed | his confidence and ardent desire that | the new means of communication might | contribute to the realization of Christian ; prosperity. | Archbishop Biondi thanked the Pope | for his blessing. American cardinals | and other high Catholic dignitaries ex- changed messages with the Vatican. FATAL BURNS PROBED ‘Woman Dies After Being Found in Burning Bedclothes. An investigation will be ‘made by the coroner’s office into the death of Laura Owens, 35, colored, in Garfield Hos- pital yesterday from burns received De- cember 7, when bedclothing in her home, in the 2300 block of Pennsylvania avenue, caught fire. The woman was first treated at Emer- gency Hospital, where she was taken by the fire rescue squad. She was re- moved from there to Gallinger Hos- pital, and on January 4 was trans- ferred to Garfield. Her body was taken to the morgue. The chairmen of the | § ARMY BILL PASSED AFTER SKIRMISH Republicans Upset Demo- cratic Leadership and Put Through Increases. By the Associated Press. A War Department appropriation bill, carrying $348,895 for the military and non-military expenses of the Army next year, was passed by the House yesterday after a skirmish in which the Republicans upset the Democratic leadership and put through s number of increases, Two roll call votes were forced by Democrats in an effort to keep out of the measure $2,500,000 for citizens’ military training camps and $572,000 more than the budget asked for organ- ized reserves. But the effort’ was futile, for Republicans, joined by Democrats, among them the Tammany delegation from New York, obtained approval of both amendments. final vote on_th® reserves in- crease was 207 to 156, after Speaker Garner, on a standing ballot, counted 134 against the change and 127 for it. The C. M. T. C. allowance went in by a vote of 202 to 158. Both amendments were introduced by Representative Barbour, Republican, of California, members of his party, in- ;:‘il;\:lng Snell of New York, supported Another amendment, introduced by Representative Taber, Republican, of New York and expected to reduce the pay of nearly half the Army officers, was adopted by a 60-to-44 vote. The amendment, expected to save $3.500,000 a year, would change the basis of computation of longevity pay allowed Army officers. In only one instance did the Demo- crats succeed in eliminating an increase written into the bill, and that was spon- sored by a Kentucky Democrat, Chap- man. 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Free Parking at the Capital Garage While Shopping Here v LifovGhidge? o New York Avenue at Fifteenth Old Automobile Used by Burglars To Enter Building By the Assoclated Press. ATLANTA, January 25.—Ultra- modern burglars have solved the problem of what to do with old automobiles here—they’re using them for “jimmies.” Anyway, police said robbers who broke into an auto supply house yesterday and stole a quantity of goods used that method of entry. They smashed in the door of the building with the car and left it when they fled. TRIAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS REJECTED BY BOARD Prince William Supervisors Decide Against Proposal in Two- Hour Session. Special Dispatch to The Star. MANASSAS, Va., January 25.—At a hearing held here yesterday upon the matter of establishing a trial justice system in the county, the board of su- pervisors, by a vote of 3-2, decided against such a proposal. The board came to this decision following a ses- sion lasting for more than two hours. The strongest opposition to the pi posal was presented by several local at- torneys of whom Robert Hutchison was the chief spokesman, the common- wealth’s attorney, Thomas H. Lion, and the justices and magistrates of the county. The system was being advo- cated by W. M. Johnson, judge of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, and several of the leading citizens. S, Latest reports are that the Novem- ber hurricane in Orienta Province of Cuba destroyed two-thirds of the ban- and crop. IGE TRAPS FIFTY ON ONEIDA LAKE {Eight Fishermen Still Unsaved Despite Frantic Efforts to Reach Them. By the Associated Press. ONEIDA, N. Y, January 25.—Fifty ice fishermen were swept out into treacherous Oneida Lake today when wind, sweeping across the lake in & Northwestern direction, broke up the ice that had been weakened by Spring-like sunshine. Quick work by Trescuers using almost every available small craft on that end of the lake made possible the rescue of all but eight of the men within two hours after the ice had gone out. ‘The rescuers worked desperately to reach the others, through the field of floating ice cakes, before the larger sheets ground themselves down and dropped the fishermen into the chill waters. The ice drifted, under the force of the wind, from near Sylvan Beach, at the eastern end of the lake, toward North Bay, to the northwest. The men were engaged in what is locally known as “tip-up fishing.” Old- timers said the trick of nature was “what might be expected from that there lake,” which is known as one of the most treacherous bodies of water |among the many in the State, because I of sudden winds that often seem to rise from nowhere. 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