Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1935, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1935. CHARNAN NAMED | FORNAVYINQURY Admiral Clark to Conduct| Case Against Comdr. Weyerbacker. Rear Admiral Frank H. Clark, chair- man of the General Board of the Navy, today was designated by Sec- retary Swanson as president of the Court of Inquiry to inquire into the case of Comdr. Ralph D. Weyerbacher of the Construction Corps. now on | duty in the Bureau of Aeronautics. | Comdr. Weyerbacher allegedly wrote & letter to an aircraft concern, offer-: ing his services as technical adviser. | The court will convene Monday at the Washington Navy Yard or as soon as practicable thereafter, the Navy De-l partment announced today. | The board will “inquire into certain alleged unecthical actions” on the part of Comdr. Weyerbacher, the depart- ment said in making Secretary Swan- son’s action public. Other Board Members. | Serving with Admiral Clark on xhc' court will be Rear Admiral Walter R. Gherardi, | hydrographer at the Navy Depart- ! ment; Capt. William G. Du Bose, as- ! sistant chief of the Bureau of Con- struction and Repair. m(. Capt. W. W. Wensinger, U. S. M. C, who is sta- tioned at Quantico, \nx. and will be | Judge advocate. Officer to Have Hearing. The Court of Inquiry will determine if any disciplinary action against | Comdr. Weyerbacher is indicated so | the cabinet officer may take action ac- cordingly. The court is being sum- mmonel, SecTelary \SWansin exiained, to permit the officer to state his own case. He will be permitted counsel and be afforded the privilege of cross- examining witnesses appearing against him. Swanson told newspaper men Wed- nesday that the letter attributed to Comdr. Weyerbacher was written | about five vears ago. This has just come to light, however, and Chairman McSwain of the House Military Com- mittee announced a few days ago that he was interested in knowing what the Navy Department is doing about the ‘Weyerbacher case. TODAY’S FOOD SHOW PROGRAM CROWDED|, Fashion Show, Contests and Cook- ing School Offered Visitors at Auditorium. Another showing of review, which proved t attraction opening of contests and th the cooking school are offered in tod: essi of the Urited Food Exposition in Washington Atditorium, The cooking school w open at 3:45 pam. ir In addition, a s will be given away during the aft noon. The fashion shew, by a department store, will tonight. Ten young models play the latest styled frocks that will be in vogue this Spring. The feature prize of the evening is a vacuum cleaner. The first section of the baby con- test ended yesterday with a couple of | very young ladies in a tie for first honors. After much argument and debate over the physical assets of the two, the judges agreed that both had won, so show officials awarded each a large silver loving cup. Miss Frances Marie Miller, 6 weeks old, and Miss Joyce Ann Walls, will be 6 months old soon. were the winning pair. They are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. M. Miller, 4011 Gault| place northeast, and Mr., and Mrs. P. R. Walls, 30 Bates street. The two brushed aside all opposition within their sex and then eliminated the half dozen boys with equal ease. They will be eligible for the grand finals for babies scheduled February 16. Two other preliminaries will be held in the meantime. John Martin of Kew Gardens Apartments, outwhistled a large field that included a girl in the whistling contest last night and was awarded first prize. A prize of a $25 order of food on any United store was won by J. M. Scherger, 1008 K street south- east. FIVE C. U. STUDENTS WIN IN ARCHEOLOGY CONTEST Highest Award, a Gold Medal, ‘Was Won by Raleigh T. Dan- iel, a Junior in Architecture. Five students of Catholic Univer- sity won awards in a Nation-wide archeology contest conducted by the Beaux Arts Institute of New York, it was announced today. The highest award, a gold medal, was won by Raleigh T. Daniel, 3229 Idaho ave- nue, a junior student in architecture. A first mention was won by Paul A. Rigali, a special student. Men- tions were awarded John A. Brady, Brooklyn, N. Y., a graduate student, and John E. Dundin, Hartford, Conn., and Charles H. Coogan, East Orange, N. J., members of the senior class. The title of the contest was “A French Medieval Stained - glass Window,” designed to be placed in the west end of a great cathedral. HECHT NAMES OFF OFFICIAL Louis E. Shecter Made Sales Pro- motion Head. fashion | who ¢ New Wing Commanders This Changing World Punishment Is Behind Il Closing U. S. Consu- lar Agency in Russia. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. in its great wisdom to withdraw the American consular officers from Moscow and close the consulate gen- eral, This means that henceforth there will be no consular agency in |the U. S. S. R. any more. Secretary Hull disclaimed any re- .tnmtm motive in this move, which was prompted merely by the desire ! of the State Department to “adjust the clerical and other forces to our * k% se, is a_mere diplo- expression. Behind the closing of the only consular agency in Russia lies undoubtedly Iut fir\'n to punish the Soviet ic for having rejected the n credit terms. United States maintains a con- in the Republic of San Marino, th whom our trade does not exceed | a few hundred dollars a year; we have a consulate in the principality of Monaco, with two officers to take oubtedly, transactions with Monte Carlo: Duchy of Luxemburg, in the Free City Danzig, to say nothing of the | om of Iraq, and Austria, where | we maintain a number of consular officers and a consul general. The trade with all these countries together not exceed a few million dollars It is true that in 1934, the trade insignificant sum of $12,000,000. But in the years preceding the recognition of the Soviet government the trade | averaged a little over $100,000.000 a year. The great complaint of the ex- porters and importers at that time was that they had to obtain their ! clearance papers from Riga. Since the recognition of the Soviets, the restriction of visitors and immi- removed. The left in Moscow will hardlly have time to cope with the immigration questions and the visas; how they will be able to deal with the eventual commercial transactions which come before the consular officials nobody quite knows. Business men may have to go to Riga again. or stop doing business with | Russia altogether. ke ‘The withdrawal of the air attache many observers. Russia has today a very important and progressive air force. According to some it is one of the largest and the best in the world. ‘Why should this force be neglected is a mystery. It will be interesting to know whether the Russians will follow our example and withdreaw the generals and admirals they sent to Washington last year. It is doubtful. The Soviets are keen to find out what the American Navy, the American Army and the aviation is doing and will not be foolish enough to get peeved at our gesture and miss a good chance to learn things which they could ob- tain onl yin a second-hand man- ner, if they did not maintain ow= cial representatives in Washing=- ton. * Kk k% The Greek government intends to close the last citadel “for men only” which has existed on Mount Athos for almost 1,000 years. There, monks organized a prac- tically independent republic in the year 963 and no woman has set her foot on the towering cliffs of the mountain since its beginning. The Louis E. Shecter has been appointed sales promotion manager of the Hecht Co., succeeding James Rotto. 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Insured truck._Phone ECONOMICAL. Georgia 6431 CHAMBERS 5,908 of tbe larsest dertakers underta s world. Qomplete funerals as lal as cars. ‘heatses ana ambulsnces. twenty-ove undertakers and assistanis. up Six chapels. twelve parlor: r 'S|any longer. restrictions against the weak sex have gone so far that only roosters, drakes and ganders are permitted in the back yards of the cloisters. ‘The downfall of the Czarist regime, and other changes which have occurred since the end of the war have brought serious hardships on that republic of the monks. The Greek government, which maintains a nominal sovereignty over Mount Athos, had to come to the rescue. but cannot stand the burden Hence the decision to liquidate the republic and send the monks away. * K ko The meetings of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva are not always as dry as press re- ports represent them. Some of the delegates have even a sense of humor which the dignity of the League secretariat does mot per- mit to be known to the public. Recently one of the diplomats was complaining about the slowness of the pefice machinery. It looked as if a long and dreary discussion would fol- fow, when one of the members who had an important personal engagement got up and said, “Why not motorize the peace angel?” The meeting was adjourned in time for that delegate to keep his date. of the important | we have a consul in the little | with Russia had dwindled down to the | grants from the U. S. S. R. have been | two clerks who are from the Soviets is also a puzzle to | LIEUT. COL. HENRY C. PRATT. The State Department has decided | LIEUT. COL. GERALD C. BRANT. b.H. 0. AR FORCE LEADERS NAMED §Col. Andrews to Command. Wing Chiefs to Be Promoted. | ] Appointment of three wing com- manders and five staff members of the new | Force was announced this by the War Department. ‘They will serve under the air force commander, Lieut. Col. Frank M. An- afternoon who is slated to become a! general. The eventual strength of his staff will be about officers and additional officers from other services. Wing Commanders. The new wing commanders are: 1st Wing, on the Pacific Coast, Lieut. | Col. Henry H. Arnold. commander of the Army flight to Alaska last ye 2d Wing, on the East Coast. Lieut. Col. Henry C. Pratt, and 3d Wing, in the Central States, Lieut. Col. Gerald C. Brant. Arrold and Pratt are scheduled to | become brigadier generals and Brant | will be promoted temporarily to the grade of colonel. Andrews' staff will be headed by | Maj. Hugh J. Knerr, chief of staff, | who' will be promoted to the rank of | colonel. Others of Staff. | The other members of the staff. all | of whom will become temporary lieu- | tenant colonels, are Majs. Harvey S. Burwell, assistant chief of staff in ‘charge of personnel: Follett Bradley, | assistant chief of staff in charge of | intelligence and public relations: Capt. George C. Kenney, assistant | chief of staff in charge of operations and training, and Maj. Joseph T.| McNarney, assistant chief of staff in charge of supply and war plans. All the officers appointed today are expected to begin functioning under their higher ranks when the G. H. Q. air force officially comes into existence on March 1. . Physician-Author Dies. LOS ANGELES, February 8 (#).— Dr. James Harvey Cleaver, 76, author of “Quaint Philosophy of a Physician” of Council Bluffs, Iowa, died in a hos- pital here last night from an internal disorder. He was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University. immediately. General Headquarters Air | 3 Air Corps | and other works and one-time mayor | SOCIAL SECURITY HEARINGS ENDED House Committee to Begin Work on Bill Monday Be- hind Shut Doors. By the Assoclated Press. The administration’s social security program moved a step nearer the statute books today when the House Ways and Means Committee ended hearings and set Monday for begin- ning work on the bill behind closed doors, Chairman Doughton foresaw get- ting the measure to the House floor week after next. Hearings still were in progress be- fore the Senate Finance Committee where Marion B. Folsom, officer of | the Eastman Kodak Co., urged that States be permitted to choose between the pool plan of unemployment insur- ance and the Wisconsin plan for separate company funds. Folsom served on the Social Security Advisory Council. Pay Roll Tax Questioned. A contention that the pay roll tax in the administration’s social security bill is unconstitutional ‘brought the disclosure today that the Justice Department is studying that very phase of the measure. The argument was advanced by James A. Emery, general counsel for the National Association of Manu- facturers, one of the last witnesses before the House Ways and Means Committee. Emery did not use the word “un- | constitutional,” but expressed his view of the unemployment insurance tax of 3 per cent on pay rolls in this language: “The tax here imposed we believe to be injurious instead of beneficial, and when we examine it closely we belme it is not a legal tax at all.” Assistant Assigned. | Chairman Doughton subsequently | informed reporters that he had asked Attorney General Cummings to assign an assistant to consider the consti- tutionality of the bill. “A man has been made available,” Doughton added, “and we shall look {into it.” Asked whether he thought Emery was right, Doughton replied: “I'm not a lawyer.” Emery's argument was that a tax {to be legal should be purely for the ! purpose of raising revenue for the Federal Treasury. “This legislation upon its face,” he told the committee, “is pointed to one result—that is to secure State legisla- tion upon a subject on which the States have not legislated.” 6. W. U. ENGINEERS’ BALL WILL BE HELD TONIGHT Men’s Glee Club Will Have Part | in Entertainment During Dance. The fourth annual ball of the | Engineering School of George Wash- ington University will be held at 10 o'clock tonight at the Shoreham Hotel. Invited guests include Commissioner and Mrs. Melvin C. Hazen, Commis- sioner and Mrs. George E. Allen, Engi- neer Commi: Mrs. Sultan, Dr. and Mrs. Cloyd H. | Marvin, Mr. and Mrs. George O. San- | ford, Maj. and Mrs. Philip B. Fleming and the dean of the Engineering School and Mrs. John R. Laphan. Terry McAdams, president of the | Engineers’ Council, and others of the student body nave charge of the ball. | These include A. B. Freeman, social chairman; Harold Link, chairman of | the Ticket Committee, and Harold L. Sangster, chairman of the Publicity Committee. The George Washington University Men’s Glee Club, directed by Dr. Rob- | ert L. Harmon, will sing. PENDULUM SWINGS OKLAHOMA CITY, February 8 (®). —The whirligig of time brought a yesterday. | liberations. It was only six years ago that a State Senate, sitting as a court of im- peachment, convicted Johnston, then Governor, on_impeachment charges If You Sufferfim PILES Blessed relief has been the experience of thousands who have used PILE-FOE. This soothing ointment relieves burning and itching of Blind, Bleeding, Pro- truding Piles. Promotes healing and tends to reduce swelling. Don't suffer needlessly . . . get a tube of soothing PILEFOE foday for guaranteed re- sults. At Peoples Drug Stores or other good druggists. The Night Final Edition on White Paper Beginning next Monday, February 11, the use of pink paper in the Night Final Edition of The Evening Star will be discontinued and thereafter the front page of this edition will be printed on White paper. RED STARS A row of Red Stars will be printed down the right-hand margin of the front page to identify the Night Final Edition. Call National 5000 and order the “Night Final” de- livered regularly to your home, and delivery will start foner Dan I. Sultan and | strange picture to Oklahoma’s Senate | Senator Henry S. Johnston presided | for two hours over the Senate de- ! No need to go to Miami. Make your own climate with Colonial Anthracite—Penn- sylvania’s finest Hard Coal. DANIELS ACCUSED OF “TYRANNY AID Recall From Mexico Urged by House Speaker Who Cites Recognition Pact. By the Associated Press. Ambassador Josephus Daniels was accused today by Representative Con- nery, Democrat, of Massachusetts, of “co-operating with the tyrants of Mexico to enslave the Mexican people.” In a speech on the House floor, the | Labor Committee chairman demanded | that #he United State withdraw rec- ognition of the Mexican government. “Liberty of religious worship, of edu- cation, of speech, and of the press are denied all who live in Mexico,” he said. Connery had this to say of Daniels: “Mr. Speaker, I believe that the Hon. Josephus Daniels and other rep- resentatives of the American govern- ment in Mexico, who for some un- known reason are co-operating with the tyrants of Mexico to enslave the Mexican people, should be summoned back to the United States and forced to tell the truth of the conditions which exist in that country at this time.” Mexico, he charged, has violated an agreement by which the United States, in the Wilson administration, recog- nized the Mexican government with a specific reservation that all Mexicans be granted freedom of worship. “It is the duty of Congress, the duty of the State Department,” Con- nery declared. “to notify the Mexican government that they, having vio- lated the agreement * * *, we on our | part, to be consistent, are forced to| withdraw further recognition and to withdraw from that country any rep- resentatives we may have there.” Pointing to what he described as ample precedents for interfering be- | low the border, Connery asserted this country never had qualms about ln~‘ terference when the interests of | American corporations were at stake. | , He advocated an inquiry immedi- ately should there be any doubt in | the State Department or Congress as | to “intolerable slavery which exists in Mexico.” “The people of Mexico today are | suffering under the lash of oppression. | a lash wielded by a tyrannical group, | a minority in power in the govern- ment,” Connery said “These men are using the military forces of that country in the age-old | effort of paganism and atheism to ! forbid free Mexicans from worshipin the Divine Creator in their churches; and by teaching Communism in their schools, which they have placed ab- solutely under their domination, they are striving to obliterate the name of God from the minds of the children.” He said that while the republic is | 90 per cent Catholic, it is not only Catholics who are suffering persecu- | tion and that spokesmen for other | religious groups have complained. | When the New —old that it has whiskers, Marlow’s Famous Reading Anthracite will still be genially warming Washingtonians. Begin NOW to enjoy the even, steady, safe and econom Pennsylvania hard coal. Just call NA. 0311. | there are thousands outside who do,’ | at Willesden, Englan AUTO CODE FACING CHANGE IN LABOR CONDITIONS FIGHT (Continued From First Page.) Labor leadership and Donald Rich- berg, presidential adviser. The N. I. R. B, in its letter, said there was “no blinking at the fact that industrial relations in this in- dustry call for constructive treat- ment. Income Held Inadequate. The research and planning report said a study of 799 families showed the “worker in ahnost all instances with an inadequate total annual in- come”; that the “workers contend that at the present time they cannot g0 to the toilet and cannot even get a drink of water”; that workers put m a considerable amount of time “without compensation.” It said “many of the complaints against management will disappear when and if facilities are fully ex- tended” for collective bargaining. “The uncertainty of employment is the spectre which is haunting the au- tomobile worker today and which has been haunting him for the past few years,” the report said. “The atti- tude of his foreman, his fear that the company will feel him too old to carry on his job while he is still a young man, his fear of the espionage system which he knows is spying on | him’day and night—all are elements of his fear of losing his job. “The position of the foreman in the automobile plant today is not a happy one because he is called upon by his superiors to produce at ridicu- lously low prices and he must make demands upon the workers which he knows are difficult, if not impossible, to meet. “The petty whims of the foreman | seems to be the controlling influences in the lives of many of the autmo- bile workers. Favoritism and direct financial demands on the workers by the foreman seem to have been common. “One of the psychological problems faced by the automobile worker today | is the gamble that he knows he is| facing as he goes to work each day. | He sees the men waiting at the gate for an interview and employment. If he is feeling badly on a particular day and slows down in his gait, his straw boss or foreman tells him ‘step on it. If you don't want the job, or ‘look out the window and sce the men waiting in line for your job. " = Ashamed to Sell Fish. “The prisoner now sells fish. Hith- erto he bore a good character,” de- | clared a witness during recent trial | LAWYERS' BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING BYRON S. ADAMS Deal Is So &2 ical heat of this better 77 Years of Good Coal Service Marlow Coal Co. 811 E St. N.W. A Protective Food For Expectant Mothers . 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NEW YORK, February 8 —Fay Webb Vallee, whose father says she learned | to drink from her husband, Rudy | may be put on the witness stand "today to tell how much of a Vallee, tippler she really is She may be usked by her husband’s | lawyers to tell of the quart of whisky NOW I EAT CABBAGE No Upset Stomach Thanks to Bell-ans Quicker Rellet becaute it DISSOLVES in | water, reaches stomach ready to acf. & Relief since 1897 and Trial is Proof. BELL-ANS FOR INDIGESTION d! Turn your old trinkets, jewelry with a $100 bill knotted around the and watches into MONEY at neck in a colorful was a Christmas prest ribbon ent in 1931, Bigger Allowance Sought. Mrs. Vallee 1s suing her crooner hus- | Avthur J. Sundlun, Pres. band for abrogation of a separation vhich she receives $100 agreement by a week. Justice Sal Supreme Court, earnings which, so a year. vatore Cotillo, is hearing her appeal for a larger share of her husband's far, he has been unable to estimate to within $100,000 that her father, Police Chief Clarence Webb of | Santa Monica, Calif., said yesterday | A J(a/m Jne. 42 YEARS at 935 F STREET R TOOEESSS GATE LEG TABLE Walnut_fini<h. very usefu) in Little testimony trickled through the sieve of lawyers’ wrangles that marked the first four days since the case opened. The first day was spent be- hind closed doors in fruitless confer- ences and negotiations. Another was spent in 1dleness while accountants audited Vallee's earnings. Would Prove Disloy: . Hyman Bushel, Vallee's attorney told the court at the outset that he | would prove Mrs. Vallee “the most ln).’ul wife ever a man had” and that he does not deserve to share in her estranged husband’s earnin; Go]d Qutput Heavv. In the first 10 months of last vear over 30,215,000 tons of gold ore were | mined in South Africa and wen"built table, e Specially % priced for s $6.65 PJ.Nee Co. FINE ruwnuu. 7th & H NW. The Two FASHION SHOPS FAMOUS ANNUAL 5 CLEARANCE OF Just “odds and ends” to us but worth-while bargains to you! A store-wide clean-up of all Fashion Shop clothing and furnishings, reduced from our regular stock. Nothing is bought for this event. Quanti- ties limited and subject to prior sale! OVERCOATS . . . 17 OVERCOATS .. On Sale at Both Stores Dar 11 OVERCOATS 28 OVERCOATS 2 OVERCOATS 57 OVERCOATS 30 OVERCOATS TOPCOATS 11 TOPCOATS Grey 17 TOPCOATS Were On Sale at Both Stores SUITS 63 SUITS .......Blue. erey 69 SUITS 33 SUITS uced. Some as low SHIRTS ......Woven madras ane and regular checked p S1.95 and & 2 SHIRTS . SR e ds newest 4 ks. "Were 59¢ =IES ... up to SI.5 All handmade ties $1.00. no 39¢ Pull-over ar\d zipper styles. Were up to $4.50, now §2,19 now TIES Broken lots. Were up to SWEATERS 2901 K STREE P AT LEATHER JACKETS LEATHER JACKETS 2 PR. GLOVES PR. GLOVES PR. GLOVES Regular & Famous styles Tan Pigskin Gates make. and coat Finest Fawnes Were $6.00, i Tan Pigskin Were 3 45. now Black Pigtex Hundreds of Other Items at Both Stores Drastically Reduced. ALL SALES FINAL . . . NO EXCHANGES . .. NO REFUNDS