Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1935, Page 6

A—6 LAVAL IS CHEERED - ASHENEARS ROME _Populace Shouts Welcome as Frenchman Travels to See Mussolini. " By the Associated Press. TURIN, Ttaly, January 4—With the « udream of a rapprochement with France near realization, thousands of massed 1! Ttallans cheered Pierre Laval, French ‘foreign minister, as he arrived here today on his way to Rome for a con- ference with Premier Mussolini. ‘The rallway station was filled with +Ttalian officials; an excited populace «gathered outside to shout a welcome; »the stage wns set for negotiations in & friendly Italian atmosphere. Agenda of Conference. A high authority said ‘the proposal 7. which the two statesmen will discuss I ”in Rome is threefold, as follows: 581, A declaration that France and + + Jtaly will respect the independence of % " Austria, + 2. A five-power pact, by which each * isignatory would pledge itself not to any other, to be presented to Italy, . - Czechoslovakia, Austria, Yugoslavia .and Hungary. , 3. Other nations, such as France, % /Great Britain and Rumania, which do not touch Austria, to be asked to ad- here to the five-power pact. ‘Welcomed by Il Duce. A representative of Mussolini boarded Laval's train to accompany the visitor as I Duce’s personal aide. . .. Laval alighted from the train and re- ' "sponded to the city’s warm greeting. An elaborate reception was being <planned at Rome in honor of Laval's wvisit. PARLEY TO AID ACCORD. Visit Is Culmination of Barthou Plan. The visit of Pierre Laval, foreign minister of France, to Rome is the culmination of a long projected pro- gram to promote Franco-Italian ac- cord. ; Louis Barthou, Laval's predecessor es foreign minister, had planned a similar mission at the time of his » @ssassination with King Alexander of Yugoslavia in Marseilles. A pact to guarantee the inde- pendence of Austria and preserve ~peace in Central E is expected to be one of the fruits of the dis- cussions between the statesmen of the two nations. Its conclusion will mark a long step in the compromise of Franco-Italian differences, which for a time appeared to have been so . sharp that hope for achieving the accord was all but abandoned. The differences center chiefly in the Danubian Basin area, where France has made its influence felt in support of the “succession states,” Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Ru- fhania, members of the Little Entente, whose boundaries were fixed in the *partition of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of the World War. Italy, on the other hand, has been friendly toward the aspirations of . ©, Hungary, eager for treaty revision to regain some of the territory she lost to her neighbors in the post-war reconstruction of the map of Europe. ;BROTHER AND SISTER Laval's BURIED SAME DAY [ 'Miss Katherin Briscoe Victim of Explosion and Man of Long Illness. Specid] Dispatch to The Star. PRINCE FREDERICK, Md., Jan- suary 4—A double funeral was held here Wednesday for Miss Katherine McPherson Briscoe, 51, who was killed &t her home, in Baltimore, Monday, when an explosion occurred in the piece of metal pierced a lung, and ;for Laurence Morton Briscoe, 46, her :;uther‘ an invalid, who died Tues- - 5 The service was held in St. Paul's ‘otestant Episcopal Church by Rev. urrie B. Hardin, assisted by Rev. Dr. Benjamin B. Lovett, rector of Me- «morial Protestant Episcopal Church, ‘Baltimore. 3 Pallbearers for Miss Briscoe were £wo brothers, W. Norwood Briscoe and !Philander B. Briscoe of Baltimore, Admiral William 8. Pye, U. 8. ¢ i Lieut. W. Satterlee Pye, U. S. -’Harry Lee Bowen of Woodville and H. Clare Briscoe of Calvert. . Mr. Briscoe's pallbearers were J. Briscoe Bunting, Malcolm Grahame, Benjamin Hance, Thomas Parren, Archie Parran and Douglas Parran, all X this county. The sister and « Brother were buried in the family lot ./#n the church cemetery. They are also survived their other, Mrs. Kate M. Bflu:oe of nox of Washington and two brothers tenuoned above. *RICKENBACKER IS NAMED ‘:- ;3ecomes General Manager of Eastern Air Lines. NEW YORK, January 4 (#).—Capt. die V. Rickenbacker, war ace, vll ‘mamed last night general manager :.e Eastern Air Lines, a8 dlv'lslon o( « sNorth American Aviation, Inc, of . “Which he is vice president. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. ‘ TODAY. ‘2 -Meefins‘ Texas State Society, May- ‘aver Hotel; 8 pm. ‘TOMORROW. " Lecture, Dr. John B. Nichols, before ‘National Genealogical Society, Y. W. C. A. Seventeenth and K = 1r ars Dinner, Crane University Alumni, mmflum Hotel; 6 pm. Lecture, Harry D. Anplehr.v‘ before ‘Treague for the Larger Life, 1414 Six- ' ‘teenth street; 8 p.m. Smoker, Military Order of the *'orld War, Mayflower Hotel; 8 pm. 4 +iDinner, Masters’ Association of :QM, Mnyflow Hotel; 6 pm. % % iMusical program, benefit Washing- -4 Missionary College, Columbia % «Hall, Flower and Carroll avenues, # “Takoma Park, D. C.; 8 pm. %4 ! Banquet, Sigma Tau Fraternity, La #Byette Hotel; 8 8 pm. % £ SDinnner, Soroptimist Club, Willard * #otel; 7 pm. £ 5 £ Ball, National Association Rainbow § on Veterans, Willard Hotel; i P THE EVENING 'STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1935. Wirephoto Identifies “Dead” Woman These wirephotos figured in an alleged attempt to collect on an in- surance policy when San Francisco police notified Chief H. A. Alber of Des Moines, Iowa, that a woman resembling a Mrs. Minnie McKirgan, missing from Des Moines since February, had been Jocated in San Francisco. Alber requested a picture and one was trangmitted in 8 minutes. He identified it as being Mrs. McKirgan, but informed them there was no charge against the woman, and she was released. The large photo at left shows Mrs. McKirgan. Her daughter, Mrs. Lucille Goelsing (inset), with whom she was living when located, had told police in Des Moines in Glass, 77 Today, First Man Who Mentions It Knows He Must Be Old, : but Won’t Ad- mit It. Will Spend Day Quietly. at Work in Senate as Usual. By the Associated Press. Carter Glass, Virginia's peppery Senator, entered a new year of his life today with a feeling that age is largely & state of mind. Glass is 77. His memory goes back to the time when ragged, tired men in gray returned home from Appomatox. as & small red-haired boy then. Nou—— “I know from the date of my birth | I must be an old man,” he sald,fi’buz ! I don't feel like an old ma don’t think of myself as such. Asked what he would do'on his sh- mnmry day, he said with a broad “Murder the first man who refers to it.” In much better health than on his last birthday, the veteran banking authority planned to spend this one 8t work—as he has done almost al- ways in the past. He disdained to talk of other birth- days and called “too generous” & speech that Senator Ashurst, Demo- crat, of Arizona, made a year ago to- dey on the Virginian and his public career. Ashurst said Glass was one of the few men in public life “who | | wealth. would be at ease in the company of, and who would clearly understand the plans and purposes and processes of thought of the Olympian philoso- phers.” MRS. COLLINS’ FUNERAL TOMORRCW MORNING Resident of Silver Spring Section Leavee 2 Sons, 3 Daughters and 2 Sisters. Special Dispatch to The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md, January —Funeral services for Mrs. Martha A. Collins, 74, who died yesterday at her residence at Seeks Corner fallow- ing a long illness, will be held tomor- row morning at 10 o'clock from St. John’s Catholic Church at Forest Glen, Md. Mrs. Collins, & lifelong resident of this community, was the widow of James M. Collins. She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Nollie Hardesty of Silver Spring and Mrs. Irene German of Pinecrest, Md.; two sons, James Collins of Silver Spring and Elmer Collins of Washington, and three daughters, Mrs. Florence Collins of Pinecrest, Mrs. Grace Conine and Mrs. Mary Irene Seek, both of Takoma Park, Md. JOHN L. WALTER DIES; WAS NATIVE OF D. C. Had Been Connected With Wil- liam Hahn Co. 55 Years—Fu- neral Services Tomorrow. John L. Walter, who had been with ihe William Hahn Co. shoe stores here for the last 55 years, died yesterday at his home, 4104 Garrison street, after a three-weeks’ illness. Mr. Walter was born in Washington Hi SEEEEE WHEEL CHAIR RETURNED CHICAGO (#)—The new year, sad- dened for crippled Robert Vik, 28, since its first day, is bright again. Robert was attending a New Year party with some friends when a “Will Murder” | | SENATOR GLASS. Slowed down physiéally—mostly on the arders of his physician. eonfidant anc devoted friend, Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson—Glass still retains the vigor for which he has been noted all his life. A marble bust of Senator Glass, which some day will join the statues of Virginia's great at Richmond, has just been presented to the Senator’s family. The donor, a resident of an- other State, who required that his name be withheld, turned over the statue temporarily to the Glass fam- ily of Lynchburgh, with the under- standing that at some future time it shall be turned over to the Common- The bust is the work of Elie Nadel- man, a French artist. It has been ac- claimed by family and friends “a per- fect likeness.” BANKHEAD’S CONDITION IS HELD SATISFACTORY Doctors Decline, However, to Pre- dict When He Will Take Leadership Duties. Physicians nttending Representa- tive William Bankhead, newly- elected mnjomy “leader of the House, who is ill in Naval Hospital, today | charted his condition as satisfactory. No one at the hospital would pre- dict, however, how long he must re- main away from Congress. Dr. Luther Sheldon, Bankhead's physician, saw his patient early today and made a formal report, “condition satisfactory.” The Alabaman’s wife and brother, Senator John H. Bankhead, attributed his condition to s cold and stomach ailment. Probe Report Due February 4. The House granted the special committee investigating un< American activities until February 4 5 make its report and recommenda- lons. Chairman McCormack said there would be no further hearings. %flWINOU!chIE PER $8.50 TON {1 mich 1p Beats (2) Free Burn- J. Edw. Clnpmm 7 n s Nw. FIREPROOF HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS CAREFULLY HANDLED AT SURPRISINGLY LOW STORAGE RATES HAULING TO |Magazine Article Charges | By the Associated Press. lwns pledged to a program of waste | Collier’s Weekly in an article by Owen hIckes said that .he had no quarrel GEorgia GEorgia | 5, Day 760 0|Nite 3233 February that her mother had jumped into the Des Moines River from a bridge while they were returning from a movie She is alleged to have later attempted to collect an insurance policy on the grounds that her mother was dead. Payment, however, was refused. At the right Police Chief Alber is shown examining the OIL WASTE LAID 10 STATE OF TEXAS Evasion of Conserva- tion Laws. A published assertion that Texas and evasion of oil conservation laws dominated a series of petroleum de- velopments yesterday. The statement was published by P. White, a native Texan. At about the same time, Secretary | We pictured just 5 of wirephoto of Mrs. McKirgan. —Copyright A. P. Wirephoto. with a proposal to hold up a Federal oil production cantrol law until the results of interstate compacts could be determined. A recommendation that the ail States be given a chance to con- trol crude oil production through in- terstate compacts, with the possibility of a new form of Federal supervision should they fail, was the basis of Ickes’ report. ‘The Collier's article, with which the magazine said the Secretary was familiar, said “the atmosphere of the East Texas fleld is tainted with brib- ery, thuggery, official dishonesty and cheating by everybody.” “All of the States except one are trying to conserve their oil, obey the Pederal Government and co-operate,” it said. “Texas isn't trying and accord- ing to what the newly elected Gov- ernor told this writer, it has no in- tention of doing so.” The article added that “as Secre- tary Ickes frankly stated to this writer, he could have accomplished much more if it had not been for the | fact that the Texas delegation de-| liberately killed the oil bill that he and the President both asked to have the many styles fea- tured in this unusual collection . . . Envelope, Pouch, Backstrap and Top-handle models included . . . in fine calf, antelope or grained leathers .. . 2 handbag opportunity - worth taking advantage of. 1314 F Street N. W. Mail and Phone Orders Filled PREVAILING WAGE TESTIMCNY TAKE Capt. Clark Hears Contrac- tors and Spokesmen for Organized Labor. The long contest over what should be ruled the prevailing rates for cer- tain ‘classes of construction trades- was revived today when Capt. Howard P. Clark, assistant District Engineer Commissioner, as agent for the Baard of Labor Review, took tes- timony from contractors and spokes- men for organized labor. $5,000 Is ‘Withheld. A scale of wages was announced by the Federal board months ggo as the prevailing scale for this region. Con- tractors protested and gained a de- cision from the board for a review, now being held. Meanwhile, the Dis- trict is impounding the difference be- tween rates pald by contractors and the scale announced by the Pederal board. A recent check showed some $5000 in payments to contractors had been withheld for this reason. This will be continued until a final decision is reached. The Federal board ruling was that the scale for bricklayers should be $1.75 an hour. District officials are Informed they have been paid $1.10 an_hour. The Federal rule was for a wage of $1.25 for pile drivers, whereas in some icases the actual payments have been 65 cents an hour; that rod men should | be paid $1.25, whereas testimony |sbows they have been paid in some | cases $1.10; and that operating engi- | Imeers should be paid $1.25, while re- ports are that some contractors have | been paying $1.10. Clark Takes Evidence. The Federal board asked Capt. Clark, head of the District Wage Compliance Board, to take evidence and to forward the data to the Fed- eral agency. Sitting with Clark at the hearings are P, H. French, secretary of the Board of Labor Review, and W. T. Evans of the board's staff. Spokesmen for the Warren F. Bren- izer Co. and the Peter D'Adamo Co. I SALE ALL $3.85 SOFT HATS $ now reduced to $5 DERBIES now reduced to $10 FINE now reduced to c-ae aze apxae puvnlnnz wages as of April 30, 1933, not those adopted by the Fed- ml bomi as the prevailing scales as date. Contrary views were vr“ud by organized labor spokes- men, including John Locher, presi- dent of the Central Labor Union and ucreury of the Washington Building DORSEY HYDE NAMED AIDE TO ARCHIVIST Appointment of Civic Leader to Post November 28 Is Revealed. and other concerns testified that t.he} Dorsey Hyde, for 15 years prominent in eivic and organization work here, and until recently secretary of the wflhlngton Chamber of Commerce, is now special as- sistant to the archivist in charge of the Government doc- uments to be de- posited in the new Archives Building when it is opened about April 1. Hyde has held this position since November 28 and his ap- pointment was not disclosed until his name appeared in the new Congressional | Directory. When Hyde came to Washington 15 years ago, he was assistant manager of the civic development department of the National Chamber of Com- merce and was in charge of local gov- | | ernment research work. He has been president of the Mon- | day Evening Club and president of the Special Libraries Association, a na- tional organization. He has been an officer of the American Library Asso- ciation and of the American Statis- tical Association, and a board member of the Public Offices Information Service. Dorsey Hyde, Busby Gets U. S. Job. Jeff Busby, former Democratic Representative from Mississippi, was | | today named assistant to L. E. Bird- sell, general counsel of the Federal | Deposit Insurance Corp. CAUCUS SUPPORTS TOWNSEND PLAN Fifty Representatives Meet to Map Plan to Push Pension Scheme, By the Assoclated Press. Definite steps were announced to- day to put before Congress the Townsend plan, under which the Government would pay $200 monthly pensions to every person over 60. After a dinner and caucus last night of 50 House members on the proposal, Representative Hoeppel, Democrat, of California, sald he would introduce soon s bill to enact the pension plan into law. Dr. E. 8. Townsend, physician from Long Beach, Calif., and suthor of the plan, was the guest of hqnor. In- troduced as an “instrument of God,” he outlined his project, predicting it would eliminate poverty and restore prosperity by increasing buying power. A condition of the pension payment would be that the recipient spend every cent of it within 30 days. Dr. Townsend estimated the plan would cost $24,000,000,000 annually, which would be raised by a general sales tax. “It is high time we do something for the body politic,” he asserted. “If we don’t, we'll have no country worth saving. I have traveled all over the country, and the people are ready to do something drastic.” Although the administration has looked coldly on his plan, the diminu- tive, gray-haired doctor claimed mil- lions of supporters and predicted po- litical death for its opponents. Sponsoring the gathering last night with Representative McGroarty, Dem- ocrat, of California, were Representa- tives Smith, Washington; Martin, Colorado; Colden, Costello and Scott, California, all Democrats, and Burn- ham, California, Republican. In explaining his plans, Dr. Towns- end estimated that with a volume of business such as that of 1929, on a basis of bank clearings at $1,250,000.- 000,000, the cost of the plan would run about 2 per cent of that turn- over. Everybody kmows Brodt's, Inc., Hats . . . famous for over 50 years Our Last Big Sale Was a year ago Remember it?> Most Wash- ington men do! Once a year, at this time, Brodt’s fine soft hats, derbies and caps are reduced in price for quick removal. 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