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P A2 %% AIRPORT MERGER ~ UPTO CONGRESS Adequate Aviation Terminus .Held Dependent Upon Con- gressional Action. The merger of Washington Alrport and Hoover Field into an adequate | aviation terminus for the Capital now depends upon Congressional action, it | developed today with the announcement | of the purchase of Hoover Field by the | same company which bid in the airport | at public auction about two weeks ago.| The National Aviation Corporation of New York, an investment trust com- pany specializing in aviation securities, has been disclosed as_the owner of | both fields. Frank F. Russell. its vice | president. said todav the two fields probably will be merged if authority to, close Military road, which separates the two properties, can be obtained from Congress. He said unofficial assurance has been received that the proposition is agreeable to the War Department and that a number of mepnbers of Con- gress are favorable to th® idea ! Hoover Field was sold Monday ntl ublic suction to the Ludington | rothers of Philadelphia for $174.500, thus protecting their mortgage hold- | ings. It was immediately resold to the New York concern at an undis-| closed figure. Title to both properties Tests in the | National Airport Corporation. a Dela- ware company, entitled to operate in Virginia, which is a subsidiary of the Nattonal Aviation Corporation Mr. | Russell is vice president and treasurer | of the local operating company. | Pending hoped-for merger of the flelds, the property to the south of Military road will continued to be operated as an airport, while Hoover | Field will be used for storage as in the past M?. Russell said thlfd since both roperties were purchased as money- | lr,nmng propositions, they would be #old if an attractive enough figure was \ offered. Vw PRESIDENT LEAVES STRIKE PEACE MOVE What’s What Behind News in Capital: Miss Perkins Almost Ruins Steel Code Show by Speech Advance. M hearsed backstage for the maximum theatrical effect. No one was supposed to know that the steel companies were abandoning the open shop section of their code. It was to be sprung spontaneously at the open- ing of the hearing. Gen. Johnson was supposed to say (sternly) the company union provision could not stand, because it modifies the law of Congress. Then Lamont was to BY PAUL MALLON. ME. PERKINS nearly ruined the big event in the steel code. It had been carefully re- | chime in (meekly) for the steel people The Steel Institute was to in and agree meet on the statement and give (with feeling) They all acted out their parts per- fectly—no one missed a cue. The stern- ness, meekness and grimacing were all well done. But somehow or another the scene fell flat. No one applauded. Perkins Speech Already Out. Some of Johnson's drama makers in- vestigated. They found that Mme. Per- Kkins had prepared a brilliant speech on the steel labor subject two days betore. She sent advanced mimeographed copies around to the Washington newspaper offices about 12 hours before the hear- ing was scheduled. \ In it she congratulated the steel crowd for abandoning the company union provision. That set the town agog. Johnson, Lamont and a hundred others were routed out of bed by eager newsmen asking if it was true that steel had THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, C., WEDNESDAY Police Use Night Sticks to Rout Strikers EIGHT FARMERS INJURED IN ATTEMPT TO STOP MILK CKS. day, when 400 farmers. many armed with axes and clubs, blocked the passage of two Dairymen's League by 16 cars of State police. Eight farmers were injured. farmers retreated and the milk NE:W YORK State police, armed with night sticks, going after striking dairy farmers, at Boonville, N. Y., yester- trucks com'ofled went_through. The strike was called by the Empire Dairymen's Associatfon who are demanding for the farmers a larger cut of the consumer's milk dollar than the State Milk Control Board is willing to give them. A. P. Photo. DISTRICT 10 OPEN 3 RELIEF STATIONS Federal Fund Assurances Stir Action for Revamping Force and Expanding. | District officials moved quickly today Urschel Describes Kidnaping Spent Most of Nine Days Sleepless—Lapses From Sheer Exhaustion, Broken by Wild Dreams of Family and His Friends. Charles F. Urschel, Oklahoma oil mil- lionaire. who has just been released by kidnapers. who held him captive for nine days. wrote the follcwing description of Mhis experiences BY CHARLES F. URSCHEL. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., August 2 (NAAN.A,) —If my story is a little bit given up the ship. They managed 10 keep any one from publishing the story, but they could not keep it from being whispered around. The result was that nearly every one that one striker was killed and more | knew the plot of the drama in advance. than a score wounded in disorders yes- | It was about as thrilling as sitting terday. through a movie the second time. The Frick announcement asserted the Johnson is not only an able actor. company does ‘ot plmpu«e Iodlefif:‘rdtlgv He is a fighter as well. the lives of its employes” ani e | mines will be closed until the authorities | Like John L. Sullivan, Testimony to that effect is offered “provide protection” for its men. 1 Pickets have clashed frequently with | privately by & certain lumberman. He | special deputies employed by the com-{and Johnson had words during the pany to protect its workers. Louls|lumber code hearing. It ended with Podorsky, 28, the striker who dled in|Johnson calling his adversary a lfar. yesterday's disorder, was shot near the As usual. Johnson was right. The company’s Colonial No. 3 mine. lumberman found he had made an error. 8130vT10 /A8 008 Are/OmE. Next day he told a friend: Sympathetic walkouts and other “This fellow Johnson is more like strikes have extended the coal strike jonn 1, Sullivan than any man I ever zone to eight counties in the great gaw He can hit from a standing, sit- bituminous field: estimates of the num- | ting, backward or front position. And ber on strike run between 30,000 and! every time he hits you it's a knockout.” 40,000. | Notified of the plan for ‘“union Another who was floored was [iead guides.” Maj. Kenneth W. Momeyer,| ©0f @ well known manufacturers’ as- commanding 325 National Guardsmen| soctation. His crowd sent kim here to take Johnson down a peg. He was in Fayette County, said his task will be | “greatly simplified” if it becomes effec- | supposed to tell Johnson to take the code and jump in the Potomac. tive. Union leaders agreed with Gov. Pinchot to give the authorities advance | Jolnson heard ‘the adviee caimly. notice of picketing plans. The plan | T Be SIAFIS 1o BLEUE. K ot odes bars demonstrators from trespassing on | o~ of your peopl{ L s private property where owners object. | - ht-hi Gen, 'Johnson. i his HMarrisburg | TAKS You my right-hend man.’ - 5 : 8| Before the fellow ohnson's of- apeech, 15 expecied 10 detl Specifically nce' e promised {0 jeave. the. man wgurm; n‘\l-u:"d“,. oidbredis, th';rlciu‘rern' “uso' clation afld h:fi:p:h National Gusrdsmen, who have beenlmhg o et s withdrawn from patrol duty, responded | 8 %o riot calls and restored order. Guns Sought to “Show Him.” These things will give you & better and tear gas were used by the special | deputies against pickets LVing 10 Pre- |, qerstanding of what happened to al border State Congressman who under- | vent workers from reaching the mines. took to put Johnson in his place. Scores of shots were fired. 1) Vi IT. Fortunately he called Johnson's sec- MUEE Woll!li QUIE: retary instead of Johnson. He told the! secretary that the general would have | Company Official Says Raise and Mour | 15 stop appointing Republicans around | there. He grew angry and said he Cut Are on Way. 4 2 personally doubted whether Johnson CLEVELAND. August 3 UP.—While | o0 "y pemocrat. He was going to take Government authorities sought today t0 | the matter up with Mr. Rooseveit, the settle a strike of 1300 union garment | Supreme Court amd almost t\'t;ry onev‘ 2 lants, | Johnson's secretary uses just 2as workers in 8 qonen aressmakiog plants | ;o S2ng, So U R goer e Tetal abor trouble developed in the HUPP jieq in kind, saying: Motor Car Corporation plant and the “Don't talk about Gen. Johnson to| Van Dorn Iron Works. me. If you have snything to say Hupp officials said “several” employes | a¥3inst him I'll make an appointment TO AIDES IN CAPITAL | (Continued From First Pagt to bring about & revamping of the local | ggetchy, blame it on the fact that I relief administration, together with an | have slept scarcely at illll for t,he‘ ll;t\ i | nine days. First of all, you simply expansion of its services, in compliance Dine deys. Furst of S0 SOL SEPE with suggestions made by the !'Qdelll‘k alive and well, It has been a har- emergency relief administration in its | fouino experience, probably even more Although T lost track of time, they told me when it was Sunday and sug- gested that it was possible I was going to be released that day. When the | hours passed and no move took place my motale went very low. Sunday night was very, very long. I don't think I slept a wink. * Knew Release Effected. Monday things picked up around the shack. There was a different tone to the voices and I felt that the end of | | funds would be made available announcement that ample Federal to the District to meet needs here. Upon receipt today of the f *mal an- nouncement by Harry L. Hopkins, Fed- eral relief administrator. that the Dis- trict would receive an allotment of $173.353 at this time, District officials | made plans to open three branch relief stations in scattered sections of the District. One will be located in the western section, possibly in or near Georgetown a second will be in the north-central section near Florida avenue, and a third in the eastern section. The main head- quarters will be retained at the present location at John Marshall place and C street. Rellef Budget Increased. George 8. Wilson, director of the Board of Public Welfare, also an- nounced that the weekly relief budget had been increased from $48,000 to $50,000. He added that this budget would be further increased upon re- ceipt or announcement of a grant of additional sums from the Federal re- lief appropriation In keeping with another suggestion from Alan Johnstone, field representa- tive of the Federal relief. administra. tion for this area. the District Com- mittee on Employment will meet tc- mOrrow evening o map out pians for making that organizarion a constitu- ent, part of the District’s relief organi- by Ernest H. Danfel. my imprisonment was near. When one of the fellows said. “Well, Mr. Urschel. we are going to give you a shave and clean you up for a trip to town.” I knew arrangements for my release had ‘be;n enemad % Tt cetans like & vear sinice we were| wondered how much money they “oridge on_ our sun porch a|had obtained. I felt sure that with when | business conditions as they are today two men entered with machine guns |and the ofl business such as it is, my and demanded that my friend, Walter | family and associates would have had Jarrett, and I leave with them. Thelr |28 great deal of difficulty raising any faces were in the shadow at the time.|8Teat sum of money. | All T could see was the menacing ma- | We were 12 hours driving back. My chine guns. I felt that they had me |eves were taped again immediately after | cold and that it was foolish to think |I finished shaving and I again was piled | of doing anything but obey their com- |in the back of an automobile and | mands. bumged over endless, country roads. Eesimagshiat: Ones | North of Norman, just within sight of . | the lights of the town, I was released I remember a sort of empty feelldg and told where I was and how to make as I got up, gave one look at my wife, | my way from that point. I walked to |and stepped outside as the man With nLamburger stand. called a taxi by tele- | the machine gun nearest me directed. | phone and was taken 20 miles to my There was & quick ride over the pave- | home in Oklahoma City. | ment for a couple of miles to a point | | where the kidnapers told Jarrett to| Refused Admission to Home. get out. Then they taped my eyes, put | A man I never saw before answered | a big plece of tape over my forehead | the door and refused to let me in. Tired and pushed me down into the bottom |and near exhaustion as I was. I got a of the small sedan in which we were big laugh out of being refused admis- driving. I think it was a Ford or & sion to my own house. I went to the { Chevrolet, | back door and as soon as some of the One man with a machine gun rode | help were aroused. of course, the family in the seat, above me. I was cramped | began to show up and everything was | and as soon as we got on the dirt roads | rosy. | the bumps were terribe I was not| Although I do not care to discuss Mrs. bound. The men told me they did|Urschel's part in this affair in detail, | terrible for my wife and family and | | close assoclates than for myself, be- | cause T never felt that my abductors | would harm me. .I would not go through it again for anything in the world, | playing bridge on | week ago last Saturday night. | yation. The committee now is headed | not want to hurt me. but that under |1 want to say I believe she was respon- no circumstances should I make & Show | sible for the quick and successful cul- | of fight, or else it would be too bad. had left their jobs, but at the Cleve. land Metal Trades office it was assert-| ed “from 1.000 to 1.500" had quit in protest against present wages and houu‘ of labor. The 125 Van Dorn employes who | marched out were advised by D. P. McMahon, business representative of the | International Association of Machinists, to return to work and organize. An official announcement said the Hupp Motor Corporation would be- come a party to the code of practice submitted by the auto industry to the | Government and would make wage fe- adjustments retroactive to August 1. Meanwhile, labor leaders called an | unionization meeting. | Strike of garment workers meln-‘ while spread to the planis of the | Bloomfield Co. at Canton and Minerva, | Ohio, said Abraham Katovsky, mana- | ger of the Joint Board of the Ladies Garment Workers' Union. Workers in the Bloomfield plant here joined the arment workers' strike only yester- | ay. | Little progress was reported in the | negotiations for settlement &t which | Government rtepresentatives were pres- | ent. Nine manufacturers were reported | to have submitted a proposal for wage increases which Katovsky refused. The ! labor manager insisted on renewal of | the terms of the 1931 agreement and | 8 guarantee of 38 weeks work a year. | Under the 1931 pact cutters received | $4350 a week, pressers $42.50 and women operators $32. | WORK SPEED-UP CHARGED. Strikers Say Pressure Used to Make Up For Hout Cut. By the Associated Press. READING, Pa. August 2—First to| strike in an establishment operating | under the N. R. A., 550 girls at the Bob | 8hirt Co. yesterday marched out to fire whistles and sutomobile horns. The girls. according to Leo Kryzcki, eneral organirer for the Amalgamated !flothmg &orkers. charged the man- agement with attempting to organize & ‘“new deal” compahy union, and claimed an_intensive speed-up in the | work to offset the shorter hours and | higher wages. At the same time, 185 employes of the Merrit Shirt Co. aiso went out on strike, Kyrzcki said, for similar reasons. TIRE WORKERS STRIKE. 800 Walk Out at Falls Co.—Prempt | Adjustment Seen. AKRON, Ohio, August 2 () —Three | hundred employes of the Falls Rubber | Co. at Cuyahoga Falls today walked out, | dissatisfied, their spokesmen said, with | wage and hour conditions. | ice President Frank Millhoff of the company said he had contacted N. R. A. officials and Department of Labor heads at Washington and expected the diffi- culties would bé promptly ifotied out. ‘The rubber company was the scene of Jabor difficulties several months 8go, you and you can say it to his| Withdraws Republican Charge. The Congressman calmed down. He apologized for calling Johnson a Re- publican The upshot of it was he and the Sec- etary went out for an ice cream soda or something equally palatable. Those close to Johnson believe the surface success of the high wage drive is now assured. They count on the concessions he made quietly in the past few days. One permils employers to work out their own ad- justments of salaries above $15 a week. Another gives retailers the 48-hour week. The steel code adjustment also was | an important strategic coup. This does | not mean Johnson is out of the woods. | There will be a crisis occurring from time to time. The arguing over details will never end. At any time they may | meet important reverses in the courts. The psychological success is only half | the battle. The big question is whether it will bring sufficient results in in- creased purchasing power. Infiation Held Likely. ‘The existing situation strongly indi- cates the results will be only a fraction of what is hoped for. Other stimulative efforts will be necessary. That means dollar revaluation. ‘The recent idea that the administra- tion would not inflate came about in a peculiar way. A man who speaks for the admin- istration was asked about the pros- pects of inflation now. He replied: “Oh, that is one of those July stories.” Some one pointed out {0 him there were then only three more days in July. He laughed. The group concluded from that, there would be no inflation. Wall Streeters heard about it and took it seriously. They say that is why stocks sold off Saturday and Monday. \ . BRAIN ’Tlnj% = ‘The fact is there is not a single brain trustee who does not say privately that inflation is coming as soon as the N. R. A. gets under full sail. It is not to be the kind of inflation where you grind out paper money. In fact you could call it stabilization of currency instead of inflation because that is what re- valuation of the dollat really is. Also we are having inflation now to the ex- tent of the public works program and the unbalanced budget. The chances are fully 10 to 1 that you will get a financial readjustment to boost commodity prices within 60 days —no matter what name ,'--l‘ (Copyright. 1933, by North Am| paper Allanees Work Closely Co-ordinated. Its work has been closely co-ordin- ated with the District's organization, but the Federal administrator indicated his conviction that it should be made definitely a part of the public adminis- tration here. One reason for tlis is that no part of Federal relief grants may be disbursed by private agencies. | They further expressed regret that they had to cramp me down in the bottom of the car, but said it was necessary be- cause they might meet officers and there would be some shooting and they did not want me harmed. Could See Daylight. We rode over dirt roads all night,| mination of the negotiations with my abductors. I do not know how much help I can be to the Federal authorities. 1 shall be glad to be of whatever service I may. | My present feeling is one of great joy at being restored to freedom and my family. ~ Naturally. I shudder at the thought of the things I have experi- enced and hope that no other man or ‘The announcement from the Federal I do not know in what direction. S8ome | woman or child may ever have to go Relief Administration pointed out that | time after daybreak—I could just tell | through such an ordeal. the grant of $173353. which amounts to one-third of public | the difference between daylight and 1 feel that everything the Federal Government can funds spent dark over my tape—they stopped and do to put an end to kidnaping in the here during the second quarter cf 1933, gave me & bottle of soft drink. I dig United States is an imperative necessity. not get up or get out | (Copyright. 1933, by North American News- would relieve the k few weeks. The Federal agency an-| nounced it would consider. probably about Scptember 1. the gquestion of an | additional grant under the sum of $250,000.000 which the Federal officer may allst on his own finding of needs over the country. 4l situation for a FIRST HEURICH BEER ON WAY TO MARKET| Owner of Capital's Largest Brew- ery, Aged 91, on Hand for First Shipment. ‘Washington's biggest brewery, larger | than any this side of Philadelphia, to- | day started more than 5000 cases and 150 barrels of legal beer on its way to the trade. It had made no beer since prohibition went into effect. | Christian Heurich, spry and active | despite his 91 years, was on hand early | today to superintend the movement of | the beer. He had doubled the staff of 75 at the brewery when the beer bill was enacted, and started making beer, but leit it to age before selling any of it so as to maintain the reputation and character of his brew, he said. For three months the beer was al- lowed to age in wooden vats. Now, ac- | cording to Brewmaster Paul Kaiser, it | has “character.” Keiser 15 a native of | Germany. The renaissance of the anclent brew- ery, after 16 vears of idleness, meant purchase of all new equipment, machin- ery,, casks, bottles and cases—thousands of cases and 10,000 gross of bottles. HUEY LONG FORCES ROUTED AS COURT ORDERS VOTE COUNT ___(Continued Prom First Page.) issued a rule and said » date for hear- ing would be set. The Colomb statement led to a long series of controversies that resulted in the calling out of troops Sunday soon after the return of Senator Huey P. Long from Washington, their dis- bandment Monday morning, the dec- lération of martial law &t moon Mon- day and the lifting of the martial law early today. Yesterday six uniformed and armed artillerymen guarded the grand jury, bt they were absent today with the lifting of martial law. ‘The grand jury appafently had plan- fed to spend the day at the court house, judging from a lunchéon order of 12 Spring chicken, 12 orders of po- tatoes, 12 &t green peas and tomato salad and 30 bottles of . When the jurors wete discharged, the order was caneeled. The counting of votes was ted We continued our ride until some | time in the afternoon. when we reached | our destination. It was a backwoods bungalow. By my movements about it I learned that it was of three rooms, | a rude sort of place in, I should say, tenant farmer country or possibly foot- hill country. The equipment in the shack was very poor. The beds were cheap. 1 was tied up at night, but had the freedom of my hands and legs in the daytime. ‘There were guards at the shack in addition to the two men who took me away from my home. They seemed to be the principals in the case. The guards did not know much about the case, in my judgment. They were decent, but not talkative. I do not remember them calling each other by their first names, nor do I remember the two principals referring to each other by first names. I never saw one of them directly and I could not identify them now. Permitted to Write Note. Wednesday of last week the tape was femoved and I was permitted to write a note in which I said exactly what my jailers directed me to write. howevet, and smartly kept me from getting a look at them. It was diffi- cult for me to see after being so long in the dark. The only other time my eyes were untaped was Monday after- noon, when I shaved myself. I must have been a sorry looking sight with the beard I wore. 1 did not get a ehange of clothing from the kidnapers, although one of them de- cently lent me a pair of pajumas to live ¥n. They fed me regularly, al- though the fare was sorry, mostly canned gghodn, ang tomatoes and baked beans. e coffef was the kind a man often gets on camping trips without a cook. We had no fresh vegetables or fresh meat, as there was no cooking, except coffee for early breakfast. 1 am sure a store of &ovhmns Was lald in before we reached the place and that no contact was made for food efter we afrived there. They were generous with cigars, but these were not my brand. Journey Took 14 Houfs. Wes were 14 hours in making the journey from Oklahoma City to our destination. ‘The length of the trip in miles, of course, would be a wiid estimate. 1 do not think we traveled any more than 40 miles an hour any of the time, and much of the time we slowed down to 15 or 20 miles. It may have been 300 miles and it may have been 500 miles away frém Oklahoma ty. Under the circumstances I could fiot sleep. Every hour seemed s week long and every day was a month. I was very sore from the long ride knotted up in the bottom of the car, and was physically uncomfortable for the first two or three days. Of course I had a lot of time to think. When I dozed off occasicnall; I would be the victim of the wildest sort of dreams: I wondered what my friends wefe doing and how they were . 1 knew my & great deal of satisfaction out of the thought that my wife and Arthur to cofisume most of the- W&l- trict attorney said he wotild have noth- :‘.wfiundlm had | Seeligson capable of handling The men turned their faces from me, | paper Ailiance, Inc.) MOLEY IS DETACHED FROM JOB TO LEAD | WAR ON KIDNAPERS | (Continued From FPirst Page.) |and the latter left here with the ‘undenundmg that he would take up ilhe new assignment at once. In the | meantime the President has communi- | cated with acting Secretary of State | Phillips and the latter will officially | give Prof. Moley a leave of absence. | _ Mr. Roosevelt indicated that while |no definite plan of action has been worked out, he is aiming at a co- | operative network of national, State and munleipal erime investigators, re- quiris little if any legislation for its establishment, instead of creation of a asuper-crime investigating agency along | the lines of Scotland Yard, as has been reported. Regardless of the heat. President Roosevelt stuck close to his desk dur- ing the first half of today. He talked | over the long-distance telephone with | Secretary of the Treasury Woodin, who informed him of the greatly over- subscribed eight-year bond issue, and | who made him happy by advising him that as a result of this successful re- | inancing the cash balance in the Treasury on August 15 would be the {largest in the history of the country. | The balance then wili be $1,500,000,000, the President jubilantly announced to newspapermen here after his talk with the Treasury head. The President received a delegation | of local political and civic leaders who are endeavoring to arrange satisfactory date for a celebration of the President’s “home-coming” by the Roosevelt Home Club of Dutchess County. The Presi- ! dent was unable today to set a date, but will do so later. URSCHEL CASE OPENS UP. OKLAHOMA CITY, August 2 (#).— New stories of what, supposedly, hap- |m in the Charles F. Urschel kid- | naping case broke today #inst & | barrietr of silence from the millionaire | and his aseociates while Federal agents worked silently to track the abductors who held him nine days. At Tulsa, John G. Catlett, prominent oil operator, conferred by telephone with Lamar Seeligson and E. E. Kirk- patrick, members of the Urschel coun- cil of strategy here. to say if he had & of the family for to nmln ‘kwnlp:or:dwm lreedn Urschel on & rain-swi near Norman, = Monday night e Prom the Urschel home came a repe- | They tition of what the 40-year-old oil op- erator said yesterday: “We consider the fdker of the deal ! and the fansom & private matter and will make no further comment.” As for the Federal operatives, they barred all outsiders from their Okla- homa City office. It was ow- iestioned Catlett about airplane trips ity prior AUGUST 2, 1933. PARK BANK FIGHT 1S BEFORE COURT U. S. Moves to Drop Action Seeking to Oust Treasury Receiver. The Government today moved in the Supreme Court of the District of Co- lumbia to administer affairs of the Park Savings Bank by cursory receiv- ership regardless of whether the court decided the bank is a corporation or & co-partnership. In a two-part action, the controller of the currency moved to dismiss that part of the bill filed by a Depositors’ Committee of the bank seeking to oust the Treasury receiver, while the receiv- er, in an answer to the bill, presented arguments showing why he should re- main in charge to liquidate the bank. Q. B. Springston of the Treasury De- partment appeared as counsel for the controller, while J. Bruce Kremer ap- peared on behalf of the receiver, John F. Moran ‘The Depositors’ Committee had aske the court to oust the Treasury receiver and replace him with a receiver to be appainted by the court. The commit- tée claimed the bank by virtue of the expiration of its charter in 1929 was no longey a corporation, but had be- come & co-partnership under which the directors and stockholders were personally liable for the losses of more than $1500,000 discovered after Rob- ert 8. Stunz, the bank’s vice president, committed suicide March 14. The receiver in his answer today did not maintain that the bank was still 8 corporation, but left this issue for the court to decide upon the basis of the facts and the arguments to be pre- sented by the Depositors’ Committee and the directors' counsel. M is ex- pected that the answer of the directors and stockholders who are made de- fendants in the bill will be filed to morrow. The receiver in his answer asked the court for a realignment of parties, to make the receiver a plaintiff in a case against the directors. In the original bill by the Depositors’ Committee, the conservator was made defendant, but the former conservator has been re- placed by the Treasury receiver who answered in the court. In addition to the Government's pleadings in the Park Savings Bank case, it was expected there would be filed today the pleadings of the other defendants. including the bank itself, the directors and the stockholders, who are represented by three counsels, Otis Kent, Joseph T. Sherier and Ralph B. Fleharty. It was also indicated that a motion would be flled soon by the Depositors’ Committee asking formally for appoint- ment of a court receiver in place of the | Treasury receiver. ‘The Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion has already filed its motion to dis- { miss the case as it applies to the |R. P. C. Thus the Park Savings Bank case ties into it'a complex series of questions which will make it one of the most important insolvent bank cases ever tried in the District. FLAG ASSOCIATION T COMBAT CRIME Nation-Wide Move Under Auspices of Council Head- ed by Hurley. A nation-wide organization for com- bating crime will be set up by the | National Council of ‘76 of the United | States Flag Association. it was an- | nounced here today by the Steering Committee of the organization. Joseph B. Keenan. special Assistant Attorney General, addressed the meet- ing of the committee and enthusi- astically indorsed the plan, the details of which will be announced at a con- | vention of the National Council here September 11 to 14 At that time the scheme will be made operative. 1t calls for the setting-up of crime- combating organizations in every sec- tion of the country and is designed to organize America’s law-abiding citizens to fight crime by rallying public opinion in support of strict law enforcement by local, State and Federal authorities and to bring about greater respect for law and the duties of citizenship. Hurley National Chairman. Former Secretary of War Hurley is chairman of the National Council of '76 and the Steering Committee includes Senator Copeland of New York, former Attorney General Palmer. Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, William Green, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor; Rcweunfis— tive James W. Wadsworth of New York, Newbold Noyes, Grover A. Whalen and Col. James A. Moss, president general of the United States Flag Association, of which the honorary president gen- eral is President Roosevelt. Every State and the District of Co= lumbia is represented on the ecouncil by patriotic citizens appointed by the several Governors and the Board of Commissioners here. The organizations represented on the council by their presidents include the American Federation of Labor, the American Bar Association, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the Boy Scouts of America, the National Edu- cation Association and the Congress of Parents and Teachers. Cilizens’ Support Needed. Lauding the plan of the National Council, Mr. Keenan emphasized that success of the Government's drive on organized crime depends on the co- operation and support of the eitizenry. “The eriminal has overshot his mark and his days are numbered.” he de- clared. “We cannot and we will no longer stand for his activities against the people of out country. The war is on and the war will be won. The speed of winning that war depends*to a great degree upon the active and thoroughly aroused public support which we must have and I firmly be- Meve will have from the loyal law- abiding American citizens in every community.” At the conclusion of their meeting the members of the Steering Commit- tee called on Attorney Genefal mings to offer the suj t of their organization in the fight on racketeer- . WILL 2 UP IN GOLF FINAL WITH RIPP Seventeen-year-old Harlan Will was 2 up on Claude Rippy st the end of the first round over the East Potomac Park course today in their match the District public links ehampionship. are to finish the match with an- other 18-hele round at Rock Creek Park this afternoon. Consistently outdriving Lis opponent, the Will youngster was 1 up at the ninth hele, with Rippy missing twe short putts. Both were out in 38. Rip- py went 1 up by winning the tenth and eleventh holes, but Will squared things reéported, | ever, that members of theit cotps had |by winning thé twelfth hole with a|son. colored, 3 nd ' northeast; W, par 4. Will won the seventeenth #: cslg.wm.mmmmnmmmemmmd,n round 2 up. Will scored 38—35—73 against 38—37—15 for Bippw _ Primary Winner GEORGE C. PEERY. G. C. PEE;Y NAMED DEMOCRAT CHOICE FOR GOVERNORSHIP (Continued Prom Pirst 'age.) to arch above his forehead gives added height to an already imposing figure, has two sons, Albert Gillespie Peery, a graduate, of Washington and Lee and an attorney at Tazewell and George C. Peery, jr., who is employed with a coal company at Cincinnati. His on | daughter, Miss Nancy Peery, is a stu- dent of Collegiate School here. The nomination comes as a birthday anniversary present to Mrs. Peery, the former Nancy Bane Gillespie of Taze- well, and Senator Smith in his tele- | gram after returns came in congratu- {lated her. Both Deal and Smith sent telegrams to Peery conceding their defeat and promising support in the election, when he will be opposed by Fred W. Mc- Wane of Lynchburg, Republican gu-| ‘bernatorial nomine\. The Democratic nominee issued a statement urging party harmony. in the general election. the result of Although failing to win a congres- sional district, Deal led Smith by a small margin and held second place in the voting. The vote by congressional districts l!rom 1,423 of the 1665 precincts fol- ows: Pre- Report- District cincts. ing. rst ... 153 13 | Second .. Third ... Fourth Fifth Sixth . Seventh.. Eighth .. Ninth . Tenth Deal 3,769 5416 5.095 3822 2345 9504 4,947 10,070 888 10,081 605 554 192 1916 MACKALL DELEGATE NOMINEE. Peery 7,406 8.497 11.741 5.856 Smith 1.195 1216 8507 1373 1.394 1.311 Fairfax Voters Give Scattering of Bal- lots to Allen. The eighth Virginia congressional district remained true to its representa- {tive “in Congress, Howard W. Smith {Of Alexandria, by giving his brother, | State Senator W. Worth Smith, a sub- stantial majority over George C. Peery, who carried the State nearly 4 to 1 for the Democratic nomination for Governor, but registered several up- sets, notably in the gubernatorial and | Democratic committee fights in Arling- Iton County, the civil and police court justice contest in Alexandria and the; House of Delegates race in Fairfax | County. Arlington County departed the Smith | ranks by giving Peery a majority of {335 votes over Smith and practically | ignored Joseph T. Deal, the third can- | didate, by giving him only 54 out of more than 3.000 votes. Board Member Lyman M. Kelley lost his fight for ! membership on the Democratic Com- mittee to H. B. Mitchell in Clarendon No. 1 precinct and Mrs. Clara Nevin won the other place, which also had been sought by Mrs. Ellie Stoody. Mrs. Nevin received the highest vote, 195. County Chairman W. L. Bragg emerged victorious in Clarendon No. 2 precinct, but Robert N. Anderson de- feated F. Freeland Chew, long a mem- ber of the committee. 1In East Falls Church precinct R. C. L. Moncure and Charles R. Penwick combined to unseat J, V. Turner. another veteran member of the committee. Pairfax County gave Smith a ma- jority of 651 votes over Peery and elected John C. Mackall to the House of Delegates by a large majority. The total vote in Fairfax County was: For Governor, Peery, 762; Smith. 1,403, and | Deal. 80. House of Delegates, Mackall, 1,500; Herbert F. Williams, 320, and L. C. Painter, 319. In Prince William and Stafford counties, both of which were carried. by Smith, Delegate George W. Herring defeated® Mrs. Nelle Holmes, his only oppoment for the nomination for the House of Delegates, by only 132 votes SLIGHT RESPITE FROM HEAT IS SEEN FOR DISTRICT TODAY rst Page) (Continued From | number of those given a half holiday were in the various bureaus of the Treasury Department. while four bu- reaus of the Agriculture Department also dismissed all employes. As many as could be spared in the State Depart- ment were allowed to go home. Last night 18 women workers in the contracts unit section of the Agricul- ture Department, quartered in the base- ment of the new extension building. were treated at the department’s emer- gency room for the heat, but none had to knock off from work. Highest temperature registered yes- terday was at 2:40 p.n., when the mercury climbed to 98 degrees. Lowest for the past 24 hours ‘was at 5 am. today, with 78 degrees. From then on the temperature increased steadily i and at 10 o'clock had reached 90. There was but a jump of one degree in the next two_hours. George F. Burch, 60, of 136 Twelfth street northeast, collapsed at his honie y afternoon, suffering from & heart attack superinduced by the heat, sccording to Dr. J. Rogers Young of Casualty Hospital, who pronounced him dead. Only feur prostrations had been treated at hospitals hefe today up to noon. They were Mary Wells, 33, of 1404 Military road, Fort Myef, Va., who collapsed at Fifteenth street and Penn- sylvania avenue, treated at Emergency Hospital; J. P. Chaney, 25, 118 L street | northeast, stricken at his home, also treated at Emefgency; iildred Gram, colored, 24, 1783 Corcoran street, treated at Hospital, and Cecelia Murphy, colored, 20, 1415 Girard street, treated at Hospital. Among those treated yesterday after- noon were: Daisy Ferris, 25, 1347 L street; 'James Douglas, colored, 30, 1120 | Union court; Archie Barross, 49, Balti- {more, Md.: Milton Paziar, colored, 24, 131 Florida avenue; William Maedel, 41, 702 F street northeast; George Nel- 49, 4314 Douglas street illiam Washington, col- Marion street. and Rob- 24, 2121 H street, all at H ert P m————————— MODIFICATION SEEN FOR STEEL CODE Industry May Ask for Aver- aging of 40-Hour Week During Six Months. e By the Associated Press. The steel industry today faced the possibility that the Recovery Admin- istration may ask a modification of its plan to average over a six-month period the 40-hour week proposed in its code. With the elimination of the company union provision, this has become a Pprincipal point of attack by the spokes- men for organized labor, who asserted weekly and daily maximum hours of work should be provided. They com- platned that the six-month average left the 12-hour day and seven-day week firmly entrenched in the industry. ‘While the record of Monday's hear- ings was analyzed at Recovery Admin- istration headquarters yesterday, the directors of the American Iron and Steel Institute held a day-long meeting at the Mayflower Hotel, which they said was devoted to a general discussion of the situation. Call Upon Lamont. Gerard Swope and Walter C. Teagle of the Industrial Advisory Board called ¢ | briefly upon Robert P. Lamont, presi- dent of the institute, who presented the code of competition at the hearings. Hugh 8. Johnson, the recovery ad- ministrator, said a period of at least five days would elapse before the rec- ommendations of his subordinates are submitted. Then, if he decides the code must be changed. the representa- tives of the industry will be called back and negotiations looking toward an agreement will ensue. Both Secretary of Labor Perkins and ‘William Green. president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, in addition to terming the wages of 30 to 40 cents an hour too low and the 40-hour week too long, denounced the proposed method of making the basis of the lat- ter a six-month average. Miss Perkins pleaded that the men of the steel mills be guaranteed one day's rest a week and protection against an overlong day. She asserted, to0o, the plan would make for periods of much work followed by periods of lit- tle work. Green's Plan Vetoed. One of Green's proposals received a definite veto from Administrator John- son yesterday so far as inclusion in the code is concerned. This was that it contain provision for the workmen to vote secretly on whether they prefer [to join company unions or organiza- tions formed by themselves. Buch a proposal. Johnson said, lies outside the authority conferred upon him by the recovery iaw. Green contended the action of the manufacturers in eliminating the com- pany union clause, with an accompany- ing statement that they would do what- ever they could to continue this method of dealing with employes, showed them to be not conforming to the spirit as well as the letter of the law. In connection with the company union controversy between organized labor and the steel industry, a state- ment made by Johnson was regarded as significant. The recovery law plainly specifies, he said. that to obtain the ad- vantages of a code the industry must be ready to bargain collectively with what- ever union or other organization the workmen may form. The attitude of the industry, holding the company union to be the best method of settling the joint problems of employer and employe, was emphe- sized yesterday by a statement from | George H. Verity. a director of the in- stitute. He said some mewspapers had erroneously interpreted the elimiration of the company union clauses as mean- ing that form of organization had been abolished from the industry. CIRCUS ARRIVES HERE FOR 2-DAY STAND Hagenbeck-Wallace Tents Go Up Early Today at Fifth and Florida. Replete with wild animals, human {reaks, clowns, trapeze artists and all the trappings of the big top and saw- dust, the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus ar- rived in Washington at dawn today and began hurriedly to establish head- quarters at Fifth and Florida avenue northeast, preparatory to its opening performance this afternoon. The first show was scheduled to be- gin at 2 pm. and the evening per- formance will be given tonight at 8 o'clock. The program will be repeated at the same hours tomorrow. Featured in the show this year are Clyde Beatty, most famous of modern lion tamers: Princess Mu Kaun, the giraffe-necked woman of Burma: the Hanneford family of bare-back riders and a variety of other stars. The doors of the circus will open at 1 and 7 p.m. daily to allow the crowds to inspect the menag-rie. Othe - performers included the fa- mous “Poodles” Hanneford and his bareback riding family, representing three generations of big top aristocracy; Bombayo, Hindu marvel who does dou- ble backward somersaults on the bound- ing Indian rope; the renowned Billetti troupe of high-wire daredevils, and many other acrobats, clowns and mid- gets. Following performances today and to- morrow, the show’s long silver and scarlet trains will be loaded for a move to Richmond, where performances will be held Priday. Safe Driving Hint Inattention If there is any placé in the world where silence is really golden, it is in the driver's seat. ‘When the tongue wags, the mind lags. gmm; a car is a full-time job. It cannot safely be combined with sociability, “necking,” sightsee- ing, window shopp! or day- dreamin ming. Just remember that if you are traveling at even 30 miles an hour you will go 44 feet in that single second that your head is turned of that your mind lapses. If an- other car is approaching yours at the same speed your speed is automatically doubled as far as your relative position with that other car is concerned. Keep your eyes on the road and your mind on your driving. National Safety Couneil.