Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1934, Page 16

A—16 s TRAFFIG TOLL 121 AFTER CHILD DIES; EIGHT ARE INJURED Fire Official and Driver Hurt Speeding to Answer Alarm. PEDESTRIAN IS STRUCK ON DOWNTOWN STREET All-Time Yearly Record of 123 Wealts Equaled After Series of Trawxc Accidents. While the Capital’s traffic fatalities mounted to within two of the all- time yearly record of 123 established in 1932, a 25-year-old woman Wwas critically injured and seven others, including a Fire Department official and his driver, lesser hurts in acci- dents during the past 24 hours. The deatlr yesterday in Freedmen's Hospital of Willie Gross, 5. colored, 1416 Swann street, increased the toll from accidents here to 121. The child was injured November 28 when struck by an automobile driven by James R. Hutchinson, 50, of 1616 Buchanan street. An inquest was to be held in the case today. Miss Anna Mae Martin, 1772 Massa- chusetts avenue. was critically injured when struck by an automobile at Fifteenth and H streets last night. At Emergency Hospital, it was said, he is suffering from severe inteynal injuries. Police said Miss Martin was hit while crossing against a traffic light. ‘The machine involved in the accident was driven by Mrs. Esther E. Kohler, 4000 Cathedral avenue. Fire Car Overturns. Speeding to answer a fire alarm last night, Acting Battalion Chief Otto Becker, 50, and Pvt. Arthur O. Hough of the 4th Battalion narrowly escaped | serious injury when their car over- turned in avoiding a head-on collision with another machine. The firemen were en route to & fire in the 7000 block of Thirteenth street when the chief's car, driven by Hough, sideswiped the automobile of Benjamin Rountree, 4419 Four- teenth street northeast. at Thirteenth street and Concord avenue. Although they both were badly bruised and shocked only Becker required hospital treatment. He was taken to Emer- gency Hospital. INDICTED IN DEATH OF BOY IN TRAFFIC Man Accused by D. C. Grand Jury as Driver of Car Which Killed Youth. ‘The District grand jury yesterday in- dicted Lester E. Athey on a man- tlaughter charge in connection with the traffic death of Floyd C. Jackson, 12. on November 13. The child was struck by an auto- mobile at Bladensburg road near Meigs place northeast. It is claimed that Athey was driving the car, Other indictments returned by the grand jury include John Hall, second- degree murder: George Mullen, alias ‘William G. Ackerman, grand larceny: ‘Thomas Jenkins, Oscar V. Reel and Thomas C. Brooks, housebreaking and larceny: Nathaniel M. Hawkins, Law- rence Pinckney and John Garner, rob- bery: Jimmy Jones. Asa Magbie and Lewis Lindsey, assault with a danger- ous weapon: Robert Hopkins, violating the liquor-taxing act, and Eugene Venny, carnal knowledge. Presentments against the following were ignored by the grand jury: Henry E. Eury, arson; Nicodemus Jackson Ready, manslaughter; Sam- uel Le Roy Clements and George H. Robertson, homicide. ITALIAN AMB.ASSADOR ADDRESSES STUDENTS Tells Convocation at American of Fascist Activities at University. Unlversity students have become a vital force in the Fascist party in Italy, Ambassador Augusto Rosso of Italy told students of American Uni- versity yesterday. Speaking before a student convo- cation at Hurst Hall, Ambassador Rosso described how several univer- sity organizations in Italy gradually have become merged into a single Fascist unit known as Groups of Uni- versity Fascists. With the growth of this intellectual organization, he said, fascism lost some of its purely po- litical character and became more truly representative of a new trend of Italian life. Membership in this student group has increased from less than 10,000 in 1927 to more than 65.000 now, he said. Membership carries many priv- ileges and interests of the groups range through athletics, science, the arts and all other elements of normal Ttalian life and culture, he said. Partly as a result of this variety of interests, the Ambassador said that Italian universities have begun to fol- low the American and English prac- tice of giving increased consideration to extracurricular activities. TRINKET CLUB TO ISSUE SUMMONS NEXT WEEK 876 Members to Be Asked to Ap- pear at Headquarters to “Pay Dividends.” A “trinket club,” which last year contributed more than 1.000 toys to children on Christmas day, will sum- mon its 376 members to appear next week at its headquarters. 1110 F street. to start “paying dividends.” Paul D, Morrison. a dealer in office furniture and stationery, organized the club in 1931 among his customers. It was suggested that they buy toys and deposit them in his store until Christmas, when they would be dis- tributed. That year 203 “members gave 620 toys. Last year, member. ship increased and 1,705 toys of all descriptions were given to children of the District. Notices have been sent out to most of last year’s members, but there are a few whose addresses have changed since Christmas. His summons this vear is to have every member con- tribute at least one toy and to urge persons who know of needy children to join, his worthwhile- work. Guard Goes M. Alligood, diminutive member of pulled in. Large or small, Washington's police force was prepared to guard President Roosevelt upon his recent return from the South. Washington's largest policeman, Bdward F. Brown, of the tenth precinct. weighing nearly 300 pounds, is shown in the train shed with Detective Sergt THE EVENI to Extremes gy Frank the automobile squad, as the train PAROLE REFORM PARLEY SCHEDULED Prettyman to Present Pro- posed Changes at Ses- sion Next Week. A preliminary report from Corpora- tion Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman on proposed .changes in the parole sys- tem will be considered next week by the District officials, who, with Pretty- man, are going over the system with a view to legislative reform Meanwhile, a recently paroled pris- oner from Lorton Reformatory, Kelly W. Holmes, 33, of the 1200 block of Randolph street, was convicted in Police Court yesterday on charges of threats against Mrs. Nellie Rohmer, 3536 Eleventh street. Judge Ralph Given placed Holmes under $500 bond and turned him over to the District Jail to await action of the Parole Board. Third to Be Seized. Holmes was released from the re- formatory August 4 after serving 20 months on a one-to-two-year term for robhery. He was the third paroled prisoner arrested in recent weeks, Recommendations of the District committee investigating the parole system will be placed before the Dis- trict Commissioners for action. Members of the investigating group are Commissioner George E. Allen, Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police; Prettyman and a represent- ative of the District Parole Board. At the public hearing on the matter the Parole Board was represented by Dr. Emmett J. Scott of Howard Uni- versity. Consider Emergency Power, One important point to be con- sidered by the committee, it was said today, is whether the Commissioners should be given a “reserve emergency power” in parole matters, or to act in the nature of a review board in special cases. One member of the investigating group already has indicated he be- lieves more publicity should be given to parole case records and that the time requirement making a prisoner eligible for parole should be raised from one-fifth to one-third of the term of a prisoner. In addition to these points, the committee will consider whether the Parole Board as an independent body can operate successfully with its present, stafl of but one field officer and whether the bad criminal record of a prisoner or his individual “capac- ity for rehabilitation” should be the major guide in deciding on parole, FIRST LADY HELPS FUND OF JOBLESS ARCHITECTS Mrs. Roosevelt's Contribution to Sum Announced by Women's Unit Chairman. A benefit fund for unemployed architects and draftsman has been swelled by a contribution from Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, it was an- nounced yesterday by Mrs. Joseph Urban, chairman of the Women's Division of the Architect’s Emergency Committee, with offices in New York. In addition, Mrs. Roosevelt has or- dered a tea set which the committee designed and has been marketing dur- ing the past several months. Mrsh Roosevelt was presented one of the sets last Spring for use in the White House, and her secretary said the new one probably will be a holiday gift to one of the First Lady's friends. The set is to be on exhibition next week at the home of Elsie Cobb Wil- son at 1709 H street northwest, DR. A. F. KEMPTON DIES Father of Local Motor Car Dealer Expires in New Jersey. Dr. Augustus F. Kempton, father of Robert Morris Kempton, president of Kempton Motors Co. of Washing- ton, died at his home in Ventnor, N. J, Thursday night, according to word received here today. He was a practicing physician in Philadelphia for many years before he retired a few years ago because of ill health. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Carolina Morris Kempton of New Jer- sey, and his son, Robert, whose ad- dress here is 4500 Cathedral avenue. Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed. COLLEGE FLYING MEETIS PLANNED Loening Trophy to Be Pre- sented at Session of Un- dergraduate Pilots. Plans for an annual national inter- | collegiate fiying meet. which would | bring together the Nation's foremost | undergraduate pilots, are being made | at a conference of representatives or: a number of the country’s leading colleges and universities todav at the National Aeronautic Association head- | quarters. During the conference. the Grover Loening Trophy, awarded annually to the American college with the best ' flying record of the year, will be pre- | sented to the University of Minnesota | Flying Club. The trophy will be received for the |club by Miss Jean Barnhill of Glen- dora, Calif., said to be the only co-ed aeronautical engineering student in | the United States, and Richard Jacobs, | both student members of the club. | Miss Barnhill holds a limited com- mercial pilot's license. Warner to Make Award. The presentation is to be made by Edward P. Warner, vice chairman of | the Federal Aviation Commission, | former Assistant Secretary of the | Navy for Aeronautics and N. A. A. governor. Among those attending today’s con- ference are Elliott Roosevelt, repre- senting both the N. A. A. and the Aeronautical Cramber of Commerce; Don C. Holme, jr.. of the Dartmouth Aviators' Club® William Slocum, pres- ident of the William and Mary Flight Club, and Col. E. C. Popp, faculty aviation adviser, College of William and Mary; J. Hopkins Smith, 3d, and | Beekman L. Sarbanks of Harvard; | William V. Strohmier of Amherst, | Charles L. Marks, former president of | the Yale Flying Club and present commissioner of aeronautics of Con- necticut, and R. L. Brooks and Wil- liam € Harding of the Long Island Aviation Country Club. Donor to Attend. Among those scheduled to attend the Loening Trophy presentation are the donor, Grover L. Loening; Fay Gillis, American woman flyer who re- cently returned from a year's study of Russian aviation: Chester H. War- rington, president of the Washington Air Derby Association; Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, retired chief of the Army Air Corps; former Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock, Dr. Willis R. Gregg, chief of the Weather Bu- reau, and Willam Enyart, executive secretary of the N. A. A. The trophy is accompanied by a cash prize, to be used in promoting flying during the coming year among club members of the winning uni- versity. Second place in the annual intercollegiate competition was won by William and Mary, while Harvard and Dartmouth were given honorable mention. RITES FOR MRS. CONLEY Wife of Doctor Is Buried Mount Olivet Cemetery. Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Mary Conley, wife of Dr. J. Leonard Conley, 2210 Pennsylvania avenue, were held this morning at St. Stephen’s Catholic Church, followed by burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Mrs. Conley, who died Thursday at Georgetown Hospital, was 26 years old. A native of Canton. Me., she had lived here from 1918 to 1924 and since 1929. Besides her husband, she is sur- vived by her infant son, John Leon- ard Conley, 2d. and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Barrett, 3800 Veazey street. in MERCHANT SLAYS SELF Body Found in Room, With Re- volver Laying Near. George Reynolds, 54, an antique shop proprietor, yesterday shot him- self at his home, 1742 M street. He was found dead in his room last night by his wife, Mrs. Elsie Reynolds. Near the body was a revolver. Mr. Reynolds, who had been in poor health, had been treated earlier in the day by his family physician. Dr. A. Magruder MacDoneld, Dis- trict_ coroner, issued a certificate of suicide. | Bowerman. PLAYGROUND RULE BY L. . UNIT AND GENTER FAVORED Special Committee Leans Toward Plan IV 0f- fered by Weir. APPOINTIVE COMMISSION IDEA ALSO SUPPORTED Financing of Any One of Schemes Would Come Out of Budget for District. ‘The plan proposed in the report of | L. H. Weir of the National Recreation Association that would strip the Dis- trict Commissioners of the Playground Department and turn recreational facilities over to the Community Cen- ter Department of the public schools and the National Capital Parks, was favored yesterday by a special com- mittee meeting under auspices of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. No formal vote was taken, however. Commisisoner Hazen sat through the three-hour session without saying a word and Engineer Commissioner Sultan asked only a question or two to clarify a blueprint. It developed that under any of the four plans, financing would come out of the Dis- trict government’s budget. Debate favoring Plan I, which would set up a Recreation Commission ap- pointed by the District Commissioners, was carried by Karl W. Corby, chair- man of the Board of Trade Park | Committee. | He made it clear, how- | ever, he was speaking only as an in- | dividual. He argued none is better | qualified to further the recreational interests of the people of Washington than are the District heads. Plan IV Wins Many. Favoring the so-called Plan IV, which proposes elimination of the | Playground Department of the Dis- | trict and would set up a Recreation Department, under the National Capi- tal Parks and Board of Education | were Rev. Russell J. Clinchy, chair- | man of the Recreation Committee of the Council of Social Agencies; Henry 1. Quinn, Board of Education member, and his colleague, Mrs. Henry Grat- tan Doyle: Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peeples. head of the Community Center De- partment; Thomas J. Llewellyn, chair- man of the Committee on Highways, Parks and Waterways of the Federa- tion of Citizens' Associations: Linn C. | Drake, Boy Scout executive: Edwin B. Henderson. head of the Depart- ment of Health and Physical Educa- tion in colored schools, and C. Mar- shall Finnan, superintendent of the National Capital Parks. Sponsoring the first plan. providing for centering recreation in the hands of the District Commissioners, with Corby, was Dr. George F. Bowerman, the librarian, who emphasized the value of a functional board that backs up its administrative officer. This, he contended, is provided under Plan I. If the District wants to go ahead in the development of recreational work, Plan I sets up a board of mem- bers who will “go to bat” with Con- gress and accomplish results, said Dr. Trend Beyond Cities, ‘Weir told the gathering the modern trend is for cities to extend their recreational actwvities out 5, 10 and 20 miles from their limits. In the future there will be means of trans- porting the poor at great outdoor recreational centers to get them out of their ordinary environment, he said. Here, he pointed out, the out- side areas, such as the George Wash- ington Memorial Parkway, Fort Hunt, Va.: Fort Foote. Md. and “sub- marginal land of some 8,000 to 10.000 acres” will be one of the piggest fea- tures of the recreational system. Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, who presided, insisted that his organization's interest in the subject is simply “better co-ordina- tion” and that it is not “playing favorites.” “We want to get the very best| schems that can be evolved and we! think this can be done by co-opera- | tion,” said Delano. Really One Budget. ‘Weir explained to the assembly that all properties outside of the District | do not go through the District budget. | The recreational expert asserted that | under plan four, there would be really | one budget, whereas now there are ! I three separate budgets for recreation. | | He said he saw no objection to having | the budgeting done either through the District Commissioners or through the Interior Department. Finnan pointed out that an ade- quate recreational system requires a large number of experts, and these the National Park Service of the In- terior Department has at its disposal. His group can call on other experts of the Federal Government, such as the Public Health Service, the Forest | Service, Bureau of Public Roads, etc., and does, to secure valuable advice, said Finnan. Under a new recrea- tional set-up. such as plan four, this i could also be done, he said. MEN SHOP TOO LATE, SO STORES PLAN PLEA Business Association Finds Male Buyers Particularly Trying at Yule Season. The shopping male has fallen into the bad graces of the city’s merchants and was branded today by the Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ Association as the problem child of Christmas buying. According to Edward D. Shaw, the association’s secretary, the men offer great resistance to the “Shop Early- Mail Early” campaign propaganda which has flooded the city, while women, quick to sense the value of the advice, are co-operating. As a result, Washington stores have been advised to direct their adver- tising appeals for earlier Christmas shopping almost exclusively to men, MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL IS DENIED GOLDSMITH A motion for a new trial in the case of Zacharias “Zebbie” Goldsmith, charged with selling liquor without a license at the Club Mayflower last February, was overruled today by Po- lice Court Judge John P. McMahon. Attorney Charles Ford, appearing for Goldsmith, asked for a new -trial because he said several jurors had taken notes during the recent trial when Goldsmith and three co-defend- ants were foulnd guilty, Underground Thrty-two feet below the street level, on the bottom floor of the Government's $10,000,000 Archives Building, part of the scientific air- conditioning machinery designed to protect priceless Federal records for posterity, is shown being inspected by J. A. Walsh (left) and H H. Buck, United States construction engineers. The air-conditioning system, using Tidal Basin Water, refrigerant, chilled city water and cooled air under forced draft, will keep the atmosphere throughout the huge Archives structure at the right temperature and moisture content to preserve Uncle Sam’s papers. The particular pump in- spected above draws city water from a deep “sump” below, while on the left is seen part of the bat- tery of pumps which automatically draw drainage water out from be- neath the thick concrete slab be- neath the building. Below is pictured the palatial ex- hibition hall on the main floor of the Archives Building, where Amer- jca’s prize document, the Declara- tion of Independence, will be en- shrined before a marble altar. Other papers of public interest will also be displayed here. A domed ceiling rises 74 feet in height above this magnificent hall. Work is be- ing speeded on the building. which probably will be occupied sometime next Spring. —Star Staff Photo. Pumps G _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1034, :eywmssastsias sy« « 4 ooy - NEW DEAL'S LABOR STAND HIT AT CIVIL LIBERTIES SESSION Roger N. Baldwin Declares Company Unions Should Be Outlawed. OTHER ADMINISTRATION POLICIES COMMENDED Conference Presented With 15 Proposed Bills—Legislative Program to Be Drafted. A sharp attack on the administra- tion’s labor policies by Roger N, Bald- win, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, marked the opening today of a conference on Civil Liber- ties Under the New Deal. The conference, which will meet far two days at the Arlington Hotel, was called to formulate a legislative pro- gram to be presented to the next Con- gress. Baldwin. discussing issues confront- ing the conference, charged “Govern- ment agencies have not acted to make good the promise implied in law of | Support of genuine collective bargain- ing.” Company Unions Rapped. “Company-controlled unions are recognized as legitimate agencies for bargaining when they should long since have been outlawed,” he said “Compulsory arbitration has been written into the coal code. The merit | clause in the code promotes discrimi- | pation against union labor. “All the codes are administered by employers’ associations. with a rare representative of labor here and there, Their labor provisions are thus in the hands of hostile forces. When Gov- ernment boards have taken a forth- right stand on labor's right, enforces ment machinery is inefficient and de- cisions unenforced are no decisions at all “The New Deal's labor policy is ob- | viously confused. vacillating and timid. It has worked out so far to the disad- | | | cant vantage of labor by refusing to back up in fact what it has promised on paper. The administration has clearly been unwilling or unable to make headway against the powerful indus- trial forces determined to prevent the unionizing of American indus Other Policies Commended. In what he called “the less signifi- activities of the Federal Gov- ernment. not affected by powerful | interests,” Baldwin said the Roosevelt | New Deal “has moved in the spirit of liberalism which its spokesmen profess.” He enumerated the admin- istration of the law affecting aliens, abolishment of lawless raids. admis- | sion of refugees from foreign tyrannies TROLEYS CHANGE ALTAVISTA ROUTE Passengers Will Transfer for Points in Downtown Capital. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. 'HUSBAND IS BLAMED | FOR REVOKED PERMIT B e | | Liquor License Is Canceled by Board After He Visits Shop, | Violating Pledge. ‘ | The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board has ordered the revocation of | the retail liquor license held by Mrs | Shirley Leish, 2416 Fourteenth street, | because it was charged that her hus- | band, convicted of a prohibition law | violation in 1933, had participated in | the management of the restaurant ALTA VISTA, Md, December 8.— | A new system under which street cars | traveling between Alta Vista and Washington will be routed to Wiscon- sin avenue and M street instead of into the Capital's downtown section was announced today by officials of the Capital Transit Co, to become effective tomorrow. Under the new schedule, it will be necessary for passengers to transfer at the District line, at P street. or at Wisconsin avenue and M street, de- pending upon the downtown points they desire to reach. They pointed out that transferring at Wisconsin and M street will afford patrons quicker transportation down- town than by traveling via P street and Dupont Circle, for service be- tween Rosslyn., Georgetown and the downtown section operates more fre- quently than from other points avail- able to Alta Vista patrons. Delays Cause Change. Transit officials said the change in the local routing was decided upon after long consideration, and was made necessary because of the fre- quent and serious delays to cars of this line in the downtown section, due pricipally to congested traffic condi- tions. Service on the Alta Vista line in recent months, they said, has been extremely irregular and unsatisfactory because of these delays. They fur- ther declared that outbound cars reaching the District line a few min- utes late upset the operation of all cars on the single track part of the line where crossover and signal lights are in use. Operation has been satisfactory in so far as the Rockville-Georgetown cars are concerned, as they are not subjected to the same traffic condi- tions as cars which go downtown over the route which has been em- ployed by the Alta Vista cars. It was said that while the change will require transferring of Alta Vista patrons, traction officials are confi- dent that a more regular spacing and consequently faster operation will greatly improve the service to the patrons. Slight Schedule Changes. Service to and from Alta Vista during the rush periods, morning and afternoon, will be practically the same as at present, with slight changes in the leaving time from Rockville and Alta Vista. In the non- rush periods cars will leave Rockville at 33 minutes after the hour and will leave or pass Alta Vista inbound at 26 minutes after and 4 minutes be- fore each hour. From Wisconsin avenue and M street the cars will leave at 5 minutes after the hour for Rockville and Alta Vista and at 35 minutes after the hour for Alta Vista only during the non-rush hours. e Street Cars Blocked. Street car traffic on Pennsylvania avenue was tied up for 24 minutes be- ginning shortly after 8 a.m. today when an eastbound car “pulled a plow” at Ninth street and the Avenue. Cars were tied up in an unbroken line reaching up Fifteenth street past the Treasury Department before the stop- page was cleared. The revocation was made effective at midnight December 13 | The board was informed the hus- band, Henry Leish. had been con- victed on a prohibition charge, which | made it impossible for him to obtain ! a license. Mrs. Leish had signed a stipulation that she would not allow her husband to make an appearance at the restaurant after the granting| of the permit Pvt. Paul F. Little, son of Sergt. George Little of the police vice squad. testified he had not only seen Leish in the establishment., but that Leish had served drinks there. DANISH YULE SEAL PIONEER HONORED Wreath Presented Capital Envoy by Tuberculosis Association. A symbolic wreath bearing the emblem of the anti-tuberculosis Christmas seal was presented to Min- ister Otto Wadsted of Denmark this | | morning as & memorial from tubercu- | 1 losis fighters of America to be placed on the tomb of Einar Hoelbell, the Danish postal official, who originated | the penny Christmas seal idea as a | means of financing anti-tuberculosis campaigns. ~The presentation was made in the | Danish legation at 1620 Belmont street by Miss Mildred Showalter, a member of the staff of the local Tuberculosis Association, who was costumed as “the spirit of the Christ- mas seal.” Miss Showalter was ac- companied by Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, executive secretary of the Washing- ton association. In her letter to the Minister asking him to transmit the Hoelbell wreath, Mrs. Grant said: “During each Christmas season for the past 28 years millions of our| people throughout the United States | have used the little penny Christmas | seals on their Christmas gifts and greeting cards. It is fitting. therefore, | that the memory of Einar Hoelbell | of Denmark, the man who first con- ceived the use of these seals as a means of financing the fight against tuber- culosis, should be especially remem- bered in the Yuletide season. “As an expression of our deep ap- preciation of his truly great human- itarian service, we desire to present this perpetual wreath, with the double- barred cross, symbol of the world- wide war to conquer tuberculosis, in the hope that it may be placed on his tomb. This token of our deep love and genuine gratitude is respect- fully presented by the District of Co- lumbia Tuberculosis Association on behalf of all the workers of the 2.084 affiliated organizations of the Na- tional Tuberculosis Association in North America.” | in both Japanese and English. TELEPHONE LINKS AMERICATO JAPAN Hull and Hirota Exchange| Greetings in Inaugurat- ing Service. Over 7.500 miles of land and sea | Secretary of State Hull and Foreign Minister Hirota of Japan exchanged | a friendly greeting last night and ushered in a direct trans-Pacific tele- phone service between the United States and Japan It was 7 pm. Friday in Washing- ton and 9 am. Saturday in Japan when a voice in Tokio shouted “Moshi! moshi!” the Japanese expression | equivalent to the American “hello.” | A few seconds later Secretary Hull | and Foreign Minister Hirota formally opened the vocal bridge across the | Pacific. When the formalities con- | cluded a general interchange of greet- | ings sped across continent and ocean Visions Vital Benefit. | Secretary Hull, sitting in his pri- | vate office in the State Department, expressed the hope that “by further- | ing the interchange of idcas and of | commerce which play so important | a part in the relationship of State, radio telephone service will be of great | and mutual benefit to our peoples.” He also complimented Ambassador Grew in Tokio for his “fine co-opera- tion with the State Department” and promised to ring him up frequently in the future. From Tokio came the Foreign Min- ister's answer, a hope that the trans- Pacific telephone service would pro- mote “understanding and good will” and predicting a time when television would further enhance “the intimacy which characterizes the relationship of our two nations.” 3 Hirosi Saito, Japanese Ambassador in Washington, after payjpg respect to his chief, chatted with® Ambassador Grew and wished him success in his official business, and his golf. Saito also informed Grew that his daughter, Mrs. J. Pierrepont Moffatt, was pres- ent and handed her the telephone for a minute. Her “Hello ‘Daddy’ " | Jjumped the Pacific. Eugene O. Sykes of the Communi- cations Commission also spoke briefly with Take Jiro Tokonami, Japanese Minister of communications. A group of American and Japanese officials “listened in” with headphones on the conversations. Japan, with its 65,000,000 persons served by 480,000 telephones, is the sixtieth foreign country to be brought with voice range of the United States. Its addition leaves few nations of commercial importance to be included in the world-wide telephone network in which this country holds a pivotal position. Telephone company officials said a 3-minute call to Tokio from Wash- ington would cost about $38. Deaths Reported. Daniel g, McCarthy, &5, Sibley Hospital. Mary E_ kes. 77, 177 nier pl Carrie C. Hugins, 73, St. Elizabeth’'s Hos- pital. John '8, Gelser. 64. Providence Hospital Hul‘h 1“ Fitzgerald, 59, Emergency H pital. William W. Davis, 58. Garfleld Hospiti d Hos William McGinniess, 87. Walter Ree pital. Ethel Wiser. 47. 1124 10th st. Minnie E. McGinnis, 44, Walter Reed Hos- Charles R Poser. Martin Beadsiec Elizabeth L. Poltz, 5. Sibley Hospital. Mary J. Bell, 4%, 510 50th st Casuaity Hospital. Boldiers’ Home ga- | and the entrance into this country for the first time in years of alien visitors known to have radical views, In the treatment of Indians, he said, advances have been made, but “of the treatment of the Negro minority less can be said.” Baldwin denied charges by “tory critics” that the administration has censored the radio and attempted to censor the press. He said these two agencies of communication are “as free as their owners permit.” “We, gathered at this conference, represent a section of American life close to the struggle of those endeavor- ing to organize for iheir own advance- ment, or of those striving to carry on agitation for a public cause.” he con- tinued. “We propose to the adminis- tration measures in the spirit of tra- ditionai American hberties which will help achieve freedom from the repres- sion of reaction ever present. Ours is the task to help substitute orderly processes for violence.” 15 Proposed Bills Submitted. Fifteen proposed bills were submitted to the conference for discussion. First as a bill to bring farm workers under the provisions for collective bargain- | ing. Others included a bill to protect share croppers and tenant farmers against discrimination because of or- ganizations for mutual protection; amendment of section 7-A of the N. I R. A. to outlaw company-controlled unions: amendment of the immigra- tion deportation laws to provide asylums for bona fide political refugees: liberalization of radio com- munication to permit discussion of all controversal questions, with an amendment to remove liability of radio station owners for libel and slander on programs presenting publie issues: a bill to provide for jury trials for matter excluded by the Post Office Department from the mails, and an amendment of the postal laws to permit dissemination of birth control information; a Federal anti-lynching law, and a resolution proposing a Senate inquiry into lawless activities of so-called vigilante groups attacking labor's right to organize, strike and picket. Arthur Garfield Hays, general counsel of the union, discussed the legislative program and the issues before Congress and courts. Dr. Harry F. Ward of New York acted as chairman at the morning session. He presented “the agenda of the con- ference. 'REPORTS SPUR HUNT FOR MISSING PAIR Two Bodies Believed to Have Been Sigthed Near Scene of Disappearance. By the Assoclated Press. ABERDEEN, Md., December 8.— Reports of sighting of bodies from land and air today spurred to new intensity the week-old search for two missing duck hunters in the Susque~ hanna Flats. Military and naval authorities joined with civilian forces in the quest off Plum Point on the Aberdeen Proving Grounds Reservation for the bodies of A. Ross Carey, 17, of Oak- ington, and Harry Porter, 51, of Bal- timore, who disappeared on a duck- hunting trip a week ago today. Lieut. J. P. Ryan, Army pilot from the proving grounds, sighted what he believed was a body in the muddy water off the point late yesterday. About the same time employes of a civilian contractor working on the reservation reported seeing a body in the channel nearby. Births Reported. Earley P. and Roby Johnson, girl. Martin W. and Margaret L. Hosselbarth, ®irl. Lawrence J. and Ruth Schreiber, girl. Arthur and Katherine E. 3 William E_and Q.\ln}u‘ T dnelen: ik st. n.e Eliza J. Sweetney. '40. Gallinger Hospital. Ciagerice “Washington. 37. Cagualiy Hos: Ovphelia_A. Jovce. 36. 1822 Gales at. n.e. Bowles, 1, Children’s Hospital. Joseph and Ethel M. Noel. girl Georse P and ‘Loueila Riggin, boy. rence L. and Johanna Wade. bov. John L. and Ella O Bavlor, ¢ifl. William and Jewel Moore, girl.