Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1934, Page 2

A—2 = HUGE VOTE BACKS FLANDIN BUDGET French Premier Pushes WarI Chest Toward Early Passage. By the Associated Press Heads Bureau | | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 2, 1934—PART CLEARING HOUSE FORTOYS T0 OPEN | Gifts to Be Collected for The Star-Warner Bros. Matinee. Establishment of The Evening Star PARIS, December 1. — Premier | Pierre Etienne Flandin got an over- | whelming vote of confidence in the| | Chamber of Deputies today as he| pushed the 1935 budget, with its 12,- | 000,000,000 francs (approximately 790.000.000) for the French war chest. toward early passage through Parliament. H The vote, 457 to 120, even bigger than that given Flandin when his government tock office, came after the premier asked secret appropriation of | 3.700.000 francs (about $244,000) “to insure peace at home.” A French bid for preservation of ! the status quo in the Saar was made, | meanwhile, by Foreign Minister Pierre | KATHERINE LENROOT. Laval when he tacitly promised the Saarlanders that France will not op- pose the region's eventual return to Germany if the voters want to wait for the end of the Hitler regime. Free Hand Promised Saar. Laval told the Chamber of Depu- ties that the government would not offer opposition if the League Coun- cil decided to give the Saar to Ger- many later on in the event the region votes to remain under League of Na- tions jurisdiction at the plebiscite January 13 (The Saar will vete whether to rejoin Germany. unite with France, or remain under the jurisdic- tion of the League of Nations.) The government policy of arms strength as the best safeguard against war was virtually unopposed in the Parliament, which yesterday heard Laval ask Hitler to show that he means peace by deeds, not words. The Socialist leader. Leon Blum, bitterly assailed Hitlerism at today’s session, asserting a “moral quaran- tine” should be established against the Nazis, but urged direct conver- sations with Germany in the ends of peace. “We should reach out to clasp any hand stretched toward us, even hands of blood,” Blum said Hitler’'s Aide en Route Rome. Meanwhile, Joachim von Ribben- trop. Hitler's personal emissary, who was in the galleries yesterday when Laval urged Germany proposed Eastern Locarno security pact, departed for home today after an automobile accident in which he narrowly escaped injury. Whether Von Ribbentrop's reported efforts to get French and German war veterans lined up together to work against the fear of war were success- ful could not be ascertained, but he did manage to start something ap- proaching war in the Chamber of Deputies. Deputy Franklin-Bouillon last night accused Robert Monnier, municipal councilman. of being an informer and an accomplice of a notorious spy, this in connection with the an- nounced disposition of French veterans | to negotiate privately with German veterans, and today Monnier asked a veterans’ publication to name a “jury of hanor” to consider the contro- versy. A duel seemed likely. e secret funds voted Flandin to- day, part of which will go te French newspapers. will be devoted to secur- ing peace in the interior of France. the premier said, “just as secret funds in national defense (used for espionage and counter espionage) were voted to secure international peace." AX MURDER SUSPECT COMMITTED FOR TRIAL By the Associated Press. BELLEVILLE. Ontario. December 1—Harold W. Vermilyea, Ontario, Calif., citrus grower, today was com- mitted for trial on a charge of mur- dering his aged mother, Mrs. Na- thaniel Vermilyea, mother-in-law of J. A. Faulkner, Ontario minister of health. Mrs. Vermilyea died October 5 of wounds suffered the previous night. She apparently had been attacked with a hatchet. Police maintained that after Mrs. Vermilyea was slain Vermilyea fled to California by automobile, train and airplane. .He telephoned his sis- ter, Mrs. Faulkner, two days after the attack on their mother and said he had just learned of the incident by reading the newspapers. CANAL OFFICER DIES Capt. Charles Svensson Succumbs in Sleep. PANAMA, December 1 (#)—Capt. | Charles Svensson, assistant port cap- | tain of the Panama Canal, died in his sleep Thursday night aboard the | yacht Aldebaran, which arrived today at Buena Ventura, authorities here | were notified today. The United States Navy destroyer Dahlgren left here shortly afterward for Buena Ventura to get the body. Svensson piloted the first commer- cial ship through the Canal in 1914. He has teen in service at the Canal ever since. The cause of his death was not immediately learned. s Will Expel U. S. Girl Held on “Serious” Charge) Attractive Young W oman Not a “Professional Spy,” Officials Told. By the Associated Press BERLIN. December 1.—Tsobel Lil- lian Steele of Hollywood, Calif., who spent her 24th birthday anniversary and Thanksgiving day in grim Moabit Prison. may be at home for Christmas and New Year. The Prussian ministry of justice today informed Douglas Jenkins, United States consul general, who previously had sought in vain to ob- tain information concerning the girl's four months’ detention, that she will be _expelled from Germany. Investigations disclosed that Miss Steele is “not a professional spy,” Jenkins was informed. Previously the only hint as to the reason for her detention had been the vague state- ment that she was held in connection with “a serious offense.” The secretary of the Prussian min- 1stry of justice said the government would ask the department of justice to issue an order for her expulsion. Miss Steele was arrested August 10 by secret police and has been held virtually incommunicado while Amer- ican authorities repeatedly sought an explanation of the charges against her. Though her life in prison was re- duced to drab routine, the attractive young American, in letters she sent friends here, said she was well treated. 4 to enter the | | ago. BUREAL POST OES TOMISLEWROT Succeeds Grace Abbott as: Head of Federal Child Welfare Work. By the Associated Press. Miss Katherine Lenroot, a native | of Superior, Wis., was named yester- | day by President Roosevelt to be chief | of the Children’s Bureau on the basis of her long record of service in that | bureau. i The daughter of former Senator Irvin Lenroot, 8 Wisconsin conserva- | { tive Republican, Miss Lenroot will | succeed Miss Grace Abbott as chief of | the bureau. | The new chief entered the Chil- dren’s Bureau years ago in a minor | post on a pure civil service status, ! and by quiet. efficient work gradually { advanced until she held the post of | assistant to Miss Grace Abbott When the latter resigned a few months ago she strongly recom- mended Miss Lenroot as her suc- | cessor. Becomes Third Chief. Miss Lenroot is but the third chief that this Federal bureau. devoted to the interest of children, has ever had. All three of them, the late Miss Julia Lathrop, Miss Abbott and Miss Len- root, have combined a Midwestern background with the social service experience of the period g Miss Lenroot is a studious research worker in child’s welfare problems. For the past few Summers she has been acting chief of the bureau, while , her predecessor was spending weeks | in Colorado building up her health. | Miss Lenroot is president of the National Conference of Social Work, a member of the Executive Committee | of the American Association of Social | Workers, a member of the Council of the International Institute for the Protection of Childhood, with head- ! quarters in Uruguay. She was chair- man of the United States delegation | to the fifth and and sixth Pan-| American Child Conferences at Hl—! vana, Cuba, and Lima, Peru. Also she represented Miss Abbott at a| meeting of the Advisorv Committee for the Protection of Children and Young Persons at the League of Na- tions last March. ‘Was Born in Wisconsin, Born in Superior in March, 1891, she attended the public and normal schools there and later graduated | from the University of Wisconsin in 1912. The next year she was ap- pointed woman deputy of the Wis- | consin Industrial Commission In 1915 she was appointed to the Children’s Bureau. Seven years later | she became assistant chief and has | actually headed the bureau since Miss Abbott’s resignation in July. Miss Abbott resigned at the zenith of a brilliantly successful career to | accept a position at the University of | Chicago, where she could be with her | sister, Miss Edith Abbott, dean of its | social service school. INSURANCE SLAYING LIFER DENIED FREEDOM | Dentist Fails in Court Skirmish. Says He Ordered Fraud, Not Death, of Victim. By the Associated Press. PINE BLUFF, Ark., December 1.— | Dr. Andrew J. Bass, 57-year-old Co- lumbia. Mo., dentist, serving life for the 1930 slaying of Robert William Pearman, today lost the first skirmish in his fight for freedom on claims that Pearman was not slain in Arkansas | and that he was not the slayer The Jefferson County Court held it was without Yurisdiction. Bass pleaded guilty to the murder charge four years The dentist testified today he had arranged “with St. Louis gangsters” to provide a body resembling Pearman in order that $200,000 insurance made | payable to Bass might be collected on | a false identification, but he asserted the gangsters instead seized Pearman and killed him near Mineola, Mo. . DYER STRIKE ENDS ! | PATERSON. N. J., December 1 (#).— | Local 1.733 of the Federation of Silk and Rayon Dyers and Finishers of America agreed today to the proposed peace terms to end the strike of 20,- 000 dye shop workers, but the signing of contracts was deferred until five other locals of the union vote on the | settlement terms. The workers demanded a closed shop and a 30-hour week at $1 an hour. Under their old contract they worked 40 hours a week at 57'; cents an hour for men and 40 cents for women. The new contracts, for two years, provide for a 36-hour week and 66 cents an hour for men and 48 cents for women. The demand for a closed shop, the principal stumbling block through five weeks of negotiations, was compro- mised. Under the contract employers hire only union workers to fill vacan- cies left by union workers. F. H. A. LOANS JUMP Home modernization loans were re- ported yesterday by the Housing Ad- ministration to have risen for 15 weeks to a total of $19,998,125 last November 28. The first week the modernization [ Lives” and * section of the housing act became operative, loans were $57,000. At the end of the fourteenth week, F. H. A. said the average was about $500.000 a day. A slight drop was recorded last week because of the Thanksgiving holiday. , | nue, operated under the direction of E the Christmas Exchange of the Coun- | cil of Social Agencles, marks the ini- ! tial step in the plans for the handling | and distribution of new gifts and arti- | cles of clothing for Washington's | needy children to be collected at { The Star-Warner Bros’ fourth an- nual Chrisumas matinees. This shop, which occupies the en- tire building which was recently the Galt jewelry store, will be open at 10 {a.m. every day, beginning tomorrow, {until Christmas. It will also be a clearing house for all toys and cloth- | ing sent to The Star and to the Coun- cil of Social Agencies for Washing- ton's poorer families this Christmas. Miss Mary Edith Coulson, secretary of the family welfare and recreation division of the Council of Social Agencies, and directress of the Christ- mas Exchange, urges that all who have anything to contribute to the children of the poor this Christmas, should please bring their offerings to The Star Toy Shop, or communicate with the council so that some one may be sent to the donor’s home to | call for whatever they may wish to give. Urges Early Registration. The Council of Social Agencies, with headquarters at 1101 M street, may be reached by telephoning Metropoli- tan 2284, or the Toy Shop. which will be in charge of Mrs. Frank T. Par- sons and Mrs. Loren Johnson, may be reached directly by calling Ster- ling 4999. Miss Coulson also urges that all who wish to look after the needs of par- ticular families, or who are interested in making the Christmas work more effective, will please register their names with the council's Christmas Exchange as early as possible. The purpose of careful registration, she points out, is to avoid unnecessary duplication in cases where families are being looked after by certain groups or individuals, and to facili- tate the work of the council in mak- ing sure that as many needy persons‘ as possible may be reached. Churches, schools, clubs and other organizations, as well as individuals, are appealed to to register. In discussing the Christmas work of the council Miss Coulson stressed particularly the valuable aid which has been rendered in past years and which is again being offered by the parent-teacher associations and the Boy and Girl Scouts organizations of ‘Washington. 30,000 New Toys Distributed. Last year 30,000 new toys and articles of clothing brought to The Star-Warner Bros’ Christmas mat- inees were distributed to needy chil- dren by the council with the aid of & large force of volunteer workers. It 1s felt that the need this year will be far greater and many requests for aid have already begun pouring in at the council’s headquarters. A letter received yesterday by the Christmas Exchange from a needy mother gratefully stated that her eight | children had been made happy last | Christmas through the splendid work {of The Star-Warner Bros. matinees and the Council of Social Agencies | and expressed the hope that her little ones would not be forgotten this year. This is but one of a great number of requests from unfortunate mothers who are gravely concerned over what little ray of happiness Christmas may bring to their children But matching these pathetic appeals | are letters offering aid and promising contributions. Plan Christmas Matinee. Realizing that there are many gen- erous persons among the more fortu- nate in Washington who wish to help, The Star-Warner Bros. have once, more made plans for the Christmas matinees which have been so success- ful in the past. All who possibly can are urged to attend and to bring with them new gifts and toys, and those who cannot be present themselves are asked to send their contributions to any of the: theaters listed. Programs, more elaborate and en- tertaining than any before presented, have been planned in the 11 theaters where the matinees will be held on Saturday, December 15, and those who attend will be well rewarded. The sole price of admission will be a new tov or article of clothing. Following is the full schedule of the Christmas matinees: Outstanding Pictures on List. TIVOLI—Shirley Temple in “Baby Takes a Bow,” a Laurel and Hardy comedy, “Busy Bodies”; “The Night Before Christmas” and “The Man on the Flying Trapeze,” a Popeye comedy. AMBASSADOR—Jackie Cooper and Wallace Beery in “Treasure Island,” “The Shanty Where Santa Claus an You Take It,” a Pop- eye comedy. SAVOY—Joe E. Brown in “The Cir- cus Clown,” “Bedtime Worries,” an Our Gang comedy: “Touchdown Mickey,” a Mickey Mouse comedy, and “Let’s You and Him Fight,” a Popeye comsdy. COLONY—Shirley Temple in “Lit- tle Miss Marker,” “Wild Poses,” an Our Gang comedy, and “The Night Before Christmas,” a Silly Symphony. YORK—Joe E. Brown in “Son of a Sailor,” “Dirty Work,” a Laurel and Hardy comedy, and “Touchdown | Mickey,” a Mickey Mouse comedy. AVENUE GRAND—Shirley Temple “Little Miss Marker,” “Dirty Work,” a Laurel and Hardy comedy, and “Sockabye Baby,” a Popeye comedy. Shows Include Comedies. APOLLO—Joe E. Brown in “The Circus Clown,” “His Neighbor,” an Our Gang comedy, and “Mickey's Good Deed,” a Mickey Mouse comedy. HOME—Bruce Cabot in “Midship- man Jack,” “His Neighbor,” an Our | Gang comedy, and “The Three Little Pigs.” METROPOLITAN—George O'Brien in “The Last Trail,” “Oliver the Eighth,” a Laurel and Hardy comedy, and “The Big Bad Wolf,” a Silly Symphony. EARLE—Charlotte Henry in “Alice in Wonderland” and “Shanty Where Santa Claus Lives.” AVALON—Jackie Cooper and Wal- lace Beery in “Treasure Island,” “Santa’s Workship.” a Silly Sym- phony, and “Shoein’ Horses,” a Pop- eye comedy. Following its showing at the Metro- politan Theater this week, The Star expedition moving picture, “Search for Santa Claus,” will be shown at the following Warner Bros.’ theaters: Ambassador, December 5, 6, 7; Colony, December 7; Avalon, December 8; Avenue Grand, December 9, 10, 11; Apollo, December 12, 13: Home, De- in | cember 14, and York, December 14. l'I‘K)Y Shop at 1107 Pennsylvania ave- | ELMOS J. NOAKE | ARMS MEN HELD OPPOSING PARLEYS Senate to Hear of Efforts to Block Disarmament Conferences. By the Associated Press. New evidence that munitions mak- ers actively sought to block disarma- ment was arrayed yesterday for pub- lic disclosure when the Senate In- vestigating Committee renews its hear- ings Tuesday. An informed source reported that the new evidence was so sensational | “international its in- that would follow in character reverberations” troduction. Among other things, Senate Muni- tions Committee members hoped the disclosures would result in a thorough inquiry into the arms industry in ready had been proposed, and in other countries also. Supervision Seen. Other committeemen were under- stood to feel proof that munitions firms endeavored to sabotage peace gument for international supervision of the arms traffic. Such supervision recently was proposed by the State Department. For the hearings which open Tues- day, the Senate committee, headed Dakota, has summoned officers of the Colt Patent Firearms Co. the Win- chester Arms Co., the Remington Arms Co. and the E. I du Pont de Nemours Co. Du Pont officials tes- tifled at the hearing last Fall There was no indication as to which of these concerns, if any, had opposed arms limitation agreements. Slighting references by some muni- tions company officials to disarma- ment conferences and negotiations al- ready have been introduced into the records of the committee. which is conductirg the first arms inquiry held by this or any other modern nation. A South American representative of a New York submarine maker, wrote his firm that he could be sent as a delegate to a Geneva Peace Con- ference and suggested that his em- ployer take care of his expenses. Charges Promised. This proposal was not accepted, but in informed quarters yesterday it was said that the data in possession of the committee went beyond proposals and definitely showed that arms con- cerns tried to make disarmament par- leys a failure. A series of protests from foreign countries over disclosures in the muni- tions inquiry already has been made. They caused uneasiness at the State, War, Ccmmerce and Navy Depart- ments and the committee in turn has complained that the executive depart- : holding information. A meeting is scheduled tomorrow to discuss this situation and to determine whether a compromise can be worked out. “ALL’S WELL.” REPORT ENDURANCE FLYERS Two Aviatrices Enter Second Day of Attempt to Break All Present Records. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, December 1.— Two blond young women, seeking the women's endurance flight record, wheeled over Wiley Post Airport to- night, reported “All's well—only nine days to go.” Twice before Jean La Rene of Chi- cago tried for the record with Mary Owens and failed. This time she is accompanied by -Henrietta Sumner, California transport pilot. They took off at 7:42 p.m. (Central standard time) yesterday, hoping not only to break the women’s record of 9 days 23 hours and 45 minutes, held by Frances Marsalis and Helen Ritchie, but to set a new men's record, now held by their flight manager, Kenneth Hunter, and his late brother, John, England, where an investigation al- | conferences would add a powerful ar- | by Senator Nye, Republican, of North | ments hampered the inquiry by with- | “ The three youngsters above have been identified as the children whose bodies were found November 24 in a forest near Carlisle, Pa. They are, left to right: Norma, Cordelia and Dewilla Noakes. Noszkes, their father, and Miss Pierce, his neice and housekeeper, were found shot to death about 100 miles from Carlisle, the same day. The photo of the young- sters was made about a year ago, while that of Noakes was made while he whs serving in the Marine Corps several years ago —A. P. Photo. MOUNTAIN DEATH VICTINS BUNED Carlisle Residents Pay Ten- der Tribute to Waifs | Killed in Hills. | By the Associated Press CAPLISLE, Pa., December 1.—The | Blue Ridge Mountains tonight enfold | the bodies of the three little girls in Pennsylvania’s mysterious “babes in the wood" tragedy. | Residents of the historic Cumber- | !land Valley bore them there through the rain today with the same tender- ness they would have shown were they their own. Several hundred men, women and children stood bareheaded in the downpour while the white caskets were lowered into muddy graves on the fringe of the broad, flat, pine-studded cemetery, which holds the remains of some of the valley's most distinguished people. Few Go to Cemetery. | The services were brief and only a few cars followed the three hearses to the mountain cemetery after two Protestant ministers and a Catholic priest prayed for the dead at the 125-year-old mansion that is now & funeral parlor. Rain pelted the window panes while the Legion quartet sang a hymn. Hundreds stood in the street hoping | for a glimpse into the softly lighted | room. | Then. Boy Scouts. Girl Scouts and | Girl Reserves bore the floral pieces to waiting cars, State police, guard- ing the doors, made a path through the onlookers, and the cackets were removed to the hearses. The crowd quietly dispersed. Some of its members dabbed {ieir eyes with handkerchiefs. Police Continue Activity. | ? When they were gone, State police and county authorities turned again | to investigation of the mystery case | which links the strange slaying of | | the children with the man and wom- ! an found shot to death in a railroad shack near Altoona, about 135 miles away. | The five have been identified as Elmo J. Noakes. a former Marine: his Lnil‘ce. Winifred Pierce, 18, and his three daughters, Cordelia, 8; Dewilla, 10, and Norma, 12. The United States Marine Corps has identified Noakes through finger- prints, and the children’s grand-| | mother in Salt Lake City has recog- | | nized pictures of them. Police hold | | clues to substantiate these identifica- | tions, but the “key” to the tragedy | remains a mystery. PROBE IN WEST ENDS. | ROSEVILLE, Calif., December 1 (). —Officials here ended their investiga- | | tion of the Pennsylvania babes-in- | the-woods mystery tonight after dis- closing they had conducted a secrst | inquiry to determine whether the | tragedy had been something other than a case of slaying and suicide. | Police said a check had been made | | among relatives here after the iden-| | tities of the five victims had been | determined, but that nothing had | been found to change previous theories { on the deaths of Elmo J. Noakes, 32; his niece, Winifred Plerce, 18. and his three children, Norma, 13; Dewilla, 11, and Cordelia, 8. “It looks,” sald one official, “as though Noakes, tired of the family disputes and the gossip circulated. decided to get away from it all, picked up his things and dropped from sight. He was known to be proud and pos- sibly, when he fell into financial trou- ble in the East, he was driven to a madman’s act rather than ask for help from those here. “We have closed the case.” DRINKING ROW FATAL Triple Murder and Suicide Cli- maxes 3-Day Party. ROCHESTER, N. Y., December 1 (P)—Four persons were slain in an apartment here tonight in what police described as a triple murder and sul- cide climaxing a three-day drinking party. The dead were Mrs. Minnie M. Frary, 60, in whose apartment the tragedy occurred; Charles T. Ritchie, 60, a private detective and said to have used the gun; and two unidenti- filed men, each about 42. ‘The shooting occurred as two police- men stood outside the apartment door, after having been summoned by neighbors, who protested against the disturbance in the adjoining fiat. ‘SEVENTH TYPHOON | shacks still flattened by winds that! | dealers who had obtained Federal | By the Associated Press. ON WINIFRED PIERCE. NEWAES SLANLS Philippines, With 60 Dead: in Last Storm Thursday, Posts Warnings. By the Associated Press MANILA, December 1—Another typhoon neared the Island of Samar tonight as the Central counted 60 dead or missing in Thurs- day's tempest, sixth of a series of hurricanes which have caused more | than 300 deaths in less than three months, With hundreds of flimsy native Philippines i roared across the islands toward the | China coast, belated dispatches told of scores of fishermen drowned or missing and of deaths on shore. Manila itself escaped. | Islands and provinces southward of Manila, however, felt its full force. Ten dead fishermen were flung ashore | on Antique Island, which reported 21 | others missing | From various central provinces | came reports of 24 dead or missing, ' and the Island of Leyte told of two fishermen dead and possibly three others drowned. DRYS BAND TO FIGHT | CHANGE IN ALABAMA Legislature's Action in Doubt, Due to Recent Shifts in Sentiment. By the Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala,, December 1 —United dry forces of Alabama today had sounded the tocsin for a rally here to organize for a militant cam- paign against wet determination to modify the State's 20-year-old prohi- bition laws. The Alabama Temperance Alliance, in annual session here Wednesday. proposes to make plans to “hold the line” against any attempt to modify the dry laws in the Legislature, which meets in January. Meanwhile, Gov. B. M. Miller de- manded that the State laws, openly and widely violated since the repeal of national prohibition, be strictly enforced. One of the active leaders in the formulation of a campaign to keep the dry laws is J. Bibbs Mills, super- intendent of the Alabama Anti-Sa- loon League, who, during the Summer, demanded that the 3,000-odd beer permits be forced to pay the $1,000 excise tax. This tax recently was imposed, and' 18 dealers in Montgomery paid it. This action brought from Gov. Miller a demand for law enforcement and impeachment proceedings against Sheriff 8am Stearns of Montgomery, who resigned Monday. Prohibition repeal was a sharp issue in the Democratic primaries in May and June, but just how the Legisla- ture will line up in January still is an open question, due in some part to shift of sentiment in recent weeks. UTAH BANKER NAMED ASSISTANT TO ECCLES Lawrence Clayton of Ogden En Route Here to Take Fed- eral Reserve Post. RAINS INUNDATE VIRGINIA ROADS Some Bridges Washed Out. | Flood Dangers Decline As Storm Passes. Serious floods in parts of the Upper' Shenandoah Valley were arrested last | night with the cessation of the rains which had caused the Potomac River to rise rapidly above Washington. From Richmond and other sections of Virginia, however, came reports of bridge washouts and inundated roads. Property damage was not great, it was said. The Potomac, between Harpers Ferry and Chain Bridge, is scheduled to reach its peak tonight, and prob- ably will overflow a few feet, accord- ing to reports. ‘The Weather Bureau, meanwhile, | predicted fair and colder weather for | the Capital today. Temperature Drops. N.R. A LABOR RULE UPHELD BY COURT New York Supreme Judg: Holds 7-A Does Not Bar “Closed Shop.” By the Associated Press NEW YORK, December 1.—Up- holding Section 7-a of the N. I. R. A. as “the Rubicon of industrial rela- tions,” Supreme Court Justice Wil- liam Harmon Black ruled today in & !lengthy dispute between a union and a doll manufacturer that the con- troverted clause does not bar the “closed shop.” | He gave the Ralph A. Freundlich Co., Inc., and the Doil and Toy Work- ers’ Union a week during which to settle their differences. Otherwise, the court held, it will see that pro- | visions of 7-a are strictly enforced. Justice Black said he “knew of no more courageous piece of legislation The rainfall since 8 p.m. Friday was | ever adopted” than Section 7-a, which | State. 1.20 inches, .60 of which fell between | Provides for collective bargaining be- 8 am. and 8 pm. yesterday. The mercury dropped from 68 at 10 am. | to 44 at 10 p.m., and was expected to | go several degrees lower. | Evacuation of the thickly-populated | Back Creek Valley area, just south of | Waynesboro, Va.. was halted when | the huge Northfork Dam, at the; junction of two tributaries of the ! Shenandoah River, was reported out of danger of bursting. The dam has been nearly completed | by the Government in the George | W. chington National Forest for the purpose of making an artificial | recreational lake, and during the past few days the tiny Blue Ridge Moun- | tain streams had been turned into | roaring rivers. Flooded roads made it impossible | to reach the dam early vesterday, and rumors that it was giving way had caused considerable apprehension, families in that immediate section being warned to prepare to vacate. A group from the Robertson C. C. C. Camp finally managed to make their way across the swollen streams to Sherando, at the foot of the Blue Ridge below the dam. and reported ' that the water was receding after reaching a height of 18 feet, and the | dam was safe. Bridges Damaged. Associated Press dispatches from | Richmond said the State Highway Commission had reported damage to bridges in several sections of the Bridges destroyed were princi- | pally on secondary roads. but some | primary route bridge approaches were | under water. . | The Weather Bureau at Richmond | reported that at Columbia the James River had reached a height of 28 feet, as compared with a 27-foot crest in the | | to reach Columbia around midnight was expected to approach 30 feet. ! When the bureau made its observa- tions the Richmond sea level gauge stood at around 15 feet. compared to a 17-foot peak in 1932. Chief Meteor- ologist F. N. Hibbard predicted that on the basis of past experience the top would be around 20 feet and would reach Richmond some ti tonight | Approaches to the Pemberton Bridge ver James River were under water and those of the Maidens Bridge were at water level and expected to be| covered before the flood crest had passed. | tween and added: Deplores Use as “Fort.” employer and worker, “If 7-a is sustained better relations between employer and employe may go forward. * * * If it is to be used as a fort, behind which either side may retire every time a situation arises not entirely to its liking, its passage, instead of being a benefit, | will be a detriment to the rights of everybody. * * *” The court held untenable the Freundlich concern’s contention that 7-a prohibited a “closed shop” and threfore marred an agreement with the union providing for such a shop. “Defendant cannot now repudiate the agreement on the ground that it contrary to 7-a.” said Justice Black “The agreement does not violate 7-a. It avails itself of it and illustrat 1ts value in settling industrial rights. Union Sought Injunction. The union, in suing for a perma- nent injunction to bar the company from allegedly breaching provisions of the section, charged specifically that the concern had transferred workers from New York to its Clin- ton, Mass.. plant, where it could pay lower wages and increase working nours. During the case before Justice Black, Robert Freundlich, president of the company, agreed to employ at Clinton “each and every worker here- tofore employed in the defendant’s factory in New York” who might ap- ply for work on condition that the court hold the “closed shop” agree- ment did not violate 7-a. Mrs, Elinore M. Herrick, chairman of the Regional Labor Board, hailed the court's decision as a major tri- umph for the board. which previously 11932 flood, and that the crest scheduled | arbitrated differences between the doll manufacturer and the workers. The arbitration led to the “closed shop” agreement. ULM TO ESTABLISH AIRLINE TO HAWAII Weekly Service Projected at Australia by Flyer Held in U. S. by Bad Weather. There were similar reports from | Amelia, Powhstan, Mecklenberg and | gy the Associated Press. Brunswick Counties, the Culpeper.. OAKIAND, Calif, December 1.— Lynchburg and Staunton districts and | piizht Lieut. Charles T. P. Ulm, ready OGDEN, Utah, December 1.—Law- rence Clayton, vice president and, manager of the Ogden branch of the First Security Bank of Utah, an-, nounced today he had accepted ap-! pointment as assistant to Marriner S. Eccles, governor of the Federal, Reserve Bank. Clayton said the appointment was; tendered him by Eccles in a telephone conversation from Washington, and that he will leave tonight to assume his new duties. Clayton, who is 43 years old, is a graduate of Leland Stanford Univer- sity and obtained a law degree at Harvard. He served as major in the World War. [ other sections. Water Reaches Warehouses. | Goods stored on the first floor levels of city warehouses on the; Richmond dock were moved in time to prevent them from being damaged by water which swirled through the buildings. Streets leading to the ware- houses were covered by water which. | | as it continued to rise, threatened to | nave Besn completed,” Ulm said become impassable except in boats. Mr. and Mrs. William Lee Elliott | and their daughter were forced to| abondon the cabin they had occupied for six years on a tiny island at Rich-| mond between a creek and James | River as the flood waters threatened | to carry the structure way. In a flood two years ago Elliott was stranded until a new bridge could be built to get him to the mainland. The Charles Town, W. Va. race| meeting. scheduled to open yesterday, Was postponed until Thursday when it was found the heavy rains hadi washed about six holes in the track. | The sun broke through the clouds | at Cumberland, Md. vestcrday for | the first time in five days. | Between | 3 and 4 inches of rain-had fallen in drizzling showers during the week. No flood threat or damage was reported, the Potomac Leing only about three feet above normal. Damage in Thousands. Hagerstown also was oelieved out of | danger, although the river was still rising last night at the rate of 6| inches an hour and had reached 12'z | feet above normal at Williamsport. From Keedysville came reports of thousands of dollars’ damage to high- ways, bridges and property in the section south of Hagerstcwn. Rural highways were blccked most of the day and were washed cut. while hun- dreds of cellars were flooded. The flood threat at Frederick, Md also seemed averted following a preci itation of 139 inches vesterday. Monocacy River was rising a foot an hour, but State road officials reported all roads leading into the section were open. Near Martinsburg, W Va, strecams began to return to their banks cfter the peak of the water from a 3.1-inch | rainfall in a 24-hour periol had passed. Both the Potomac and Shen- andoah Rivers at their confluence at Harpers Ferry showed rises of several feet, but no serious damage was an- ticipated. RICH NEW YORKER GIVEN $2,500,000 BY SISTER| Half of Trust Fund Set Up by Henry Clay Frick Reverts to His Son. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, December 1.—A gift of nearly $2,500,000 by Miss Helen Frick of New York to her brother,| Childs Frick, is disclosed in the audit | of the estate of their mother, Mrs. Henry Clay Prick, widow of the coke and steel king. ! ‘The document, flled in Orphans’ Court, cites the transfer of Miss| Frick’s half in a $5,000,000 trust fund ' which she was to share with her| brother under the terms of the will of Mrs. Frick, who died in 1931. Both ‘were bequeathed fortunes in 1919 upon the death of their father, who left approximately $94,000,000. Henry Clay Frick established the great Connellsville coke fields in Penn- sylvania. He rose from a humble po- sition as a youth and was one of the wealthiest men in the country at the time of his death. < to take off for Australia. said tonight his flight would be the forerunner of weekly airplane service between Aus- tralia and Hawaii Ulm's plane. Star of Australia, was prepared for the 8687-mile trip he will undertake with two companions tomorrow if weather conditions per- it. “Full financial and technical plans 1 expect the airways company of which I am managing director, to establish a weekly service between Australia and Hawaii in the next two years.” Planes once a week each way be- tween Sydney and Honolulu. to con- nect with steamer service between the United States and Honolulu, will re- duce transporation time of 21 days from San Francisco to Sydney to 7'z, Ulm said There is no question in the minds of Ulm and his crew. G. M Little- john, co-pilot, and J. L. Skilling, nav- igator and radio man, that they will reachr Australia Weather reports which told of cloudy conditions oyver Hawaii kept him from hopping off late today The plane will carry about 609 gallons of fuel. Its motors will use 28 gallons an hour. FATHER SHOOTS BABES WHEN IRKED BY WIFE Wounds Crippled Boy and Infant. Says He Is Sorry He “Took Spite Out” on Tots. By the Associated Press. INDIANA, Pa. December 1 Firing with cool deliberation, Heber Westover, 28, today sent four bullets into the bodies of his two babie: Wendell, 2-year-old cripple, and Charles, 4 months. Continual bickering with his wife and knowledge that if he left her she would get the children. caused him to shoot, Westover told Policc Chief William J. Kelley, to whom he surrendered. “I'm sorry I had to take this spite out on the children,” Kelley quotcd Westover as saying. “But we, Olive and I, had another quarrel and I knew if I ever left she would have the children, so I shot them.” Westover used a 22-caliber rifle, similar to the one that Elmo J. Noakes used a week ago to slay his niece and himself at Duncansville, 50 miles west of here. Two bullets were sent into both children's stomachs. They | are not expected to live. REPRESENTATIVE FINED Keeps Meat Market Open on Sun- day, Violating Ordinance. SCOTTSBLUFF, Nebr, December 1 (#).—Representative Terry Carpen- ter, Democrat, today was convicted in Police Court on a charge of keeping his meat market open on Sunday, in violation of a city ordinance. He was fined $25 and costs by Police Judge W. W. Dingman. Carpenter, who retires from the House of Representatives at the end of the year, said he would appeal. He offered no defense and no testimony was prsented in his behalf. Pre- viously he entered a plea of not guilty. —— Help Concert for Poor. ‘Thirteen ministers of Glasgow, Scot- land, recently took part in a concert to raise funds for the poor.