Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1935, Page 2

“A—2 ®x¥ ROOSEVELT IS SET ONN.R.A. PASSAGE Rumored Ready to Make Swaps for Enactment of Legislation. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. All sorts of perliamentary strategy, maneuvers, and all kinds of rumors of tricks, bargains and devices are in the air as Congress faces its next 30 days of legislative congestion. Here are the various schemes, some of them fanciful to be sure, but none the less the basis of conversation in- side and outside the Capitol: First, that the President will not let the Wagner labor bill go through the House if the business and indus- trial interests will help him get a two-year extension of N. R. A. through the Senate. Second, that the President will not let the Wagner bill go through the House unless labor helps him get the N. R. A. extension through the Senate. Third, that the President may favor & postponement of title two of the banking bill until next session if he gets N. R. A. extended and an assurance from bankers that they will | co-operate in financing the Govern- ment debt. May Delay Bonus Vote. Fourth, that the leaders of the Senate may delay a vote on the over- riding of the Patman bonus bill until they can get affirmative action on & rider to some appropriation bill carry- What’s What Behind News In Capital Bank Ownership Plans, Naively Announced, Show Strategy. BY PAUL MALLON. nonchalance with which the New Deal came out left-hand- edly in favor of buying the Federal Reserve System, lock, stock and faults, was somewhat mystifying. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau in- terjected his indorsement as a sort of “by the way” afterthought, while testifying about the new bank bill. President Roosevelt murmured a quiet approval while reaching for a cigarette at a press conference. Now, every- body knows that a Government does not ordinarily indorse any such seem- ingly revolutionary suggestions in such a casual way. But the New Dealers have per- formed many unprecedented feats before and have performed them casually. Consequently there ap- peared to be more behind this move than the ofi-hand treatment of it would indicate, and there is. The underlying explanation why ing a compromise plan for the pay- ment of the bonus so that Mr. Roose- velt will have the excuse that he can- not veto a particular item in an ap- propriation bill and will thus allow it to become law. Fifth, that the approval of a bonus payment plan will enable Senators to help sustain the veto on the Patman bill, and this would give Mr. Roose- velt a personal victory. Sixth, that the President is more | ifterested in N. R. A. extension than any other piece of legislation and is prepared to make sacrifices and com- | promises to get that resuit. Whatever merit there is in the foregoing outline of the ingredients of an alleged presidential strategy, the fact remains that some consid- erable diplomacy and brain power will have to be exercised in getting the legislative program ironed out @s the days between now and June 16. when the N. R. A. expires auto- matically, grow fewer and fewer. Filibuster Disastrous. A filibuster would raise Cain with | | Messrs. Roosevelt and Morgenthau did not go any stronger on it appears to be that they did not think it was important. Apparently they neglected to stress that because there are other people who think it is, notably Father Coughlin, It is a little-known fact, but the | Government could buy up the capital | stock of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks for $146,000,000. This is small change | to a Government spending $4,000.- | 000,000 for relief alone. The stock is now held entirely by member banks (those private bankers whom Coughlin always talks about). It is little to them financially because it represents only 3 per cent of their own total capital stocks. It pays dividends, but | it figures very small in the banking structure of the Nation, eny well-laid presidential plans, and | the situation is ripe for such a delay the more tangled it becomes. Incidentally, the utility company bill is in the background of the fight and there are groups which believe they have sufficient strength to force a modification, but there are o signs of any relenting on Capitol Hill unless the White House wants to give a hint to that effect. Meanwhile, business and industry and banking executives all over the tountry are worried about what the administration really wants to do to the present economic system and how far it is prepared to bring on an era of deflation and disorganization to achieve its reform objectives. The business men refuse to believe that the legislative program as a whole is | to be put through without material odification. Business Seeks Aid. ‘The Business and Advisory Council, known as the Roper Council, has meetings scheduled this week and next at the White House for its sub- committees in the hope that the Presi- dent will use his influence on Capitol Hill to get more workable legislation from the viewpoint of the businesses affected. But the only chance of such | in. I | | since the New Deal came in. Tllusions Are Lost. ‘The financial experts of the Govern- ment have never thought much about | buying this stock for the simple reason holding | that they run the 12 banks anyway. o | They did not figure that they needed | | to buy something they already oper- ated through the Federal Reserve Board. Apparently the system was set up that way to maintain the illu- sion that the banking system was Democratic. It was a proper con- stitutional subterfuge to let the bank stock be privately owned and | then have the Government regu- late the banks energetically. This regulation has always been more or less strong. The strength was increased by emergency banking acts And | under this new bank bill the board i wilt be able even to tell all the Fed- | eral Reserve bankers what color shirt Strategy of Expansion. You can see from this that the strategy of New Deal reformers has been to expand their power over the Federal Reserve. It will be complete if they get this new bank bill. That is what they are primarily interested But if any one seriously wants changes lies in the presentation of the | them to own it as well as operate it, srgument that the New Deal is trying | they are willing. to digest too much at one time andi that some of the proposals might better | acknowledgement and fulfillment of go over till the January session ilithe legal ruse by which they seized co-operation is really desired in de- veloping a practical economic recovery. Coincident with all this is the op- yposition of industry to certain features of the unemployment insurance tax on pay rolls and the complications that are arising daily over the best ways to spend the $4,000,000,000 work relief fund without jeopardizing the | employment rolls of existing businesses. | Truly when this session has ad- journed there will be some sighs of relief on the part of the business world, for no more drastic bills have ever been brought so far toward enact- ment as in the present legislative pro- gram of the New Deal. (Copyright. 1935.) BESIEGED WORKERS GET FOOD BY PLANE Strikers Block Entrance to Rayon Plant—Flying Permit Issued in Washington. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, May 21.—An air- plane was used last night to get food to workers in the Industrial Rayon Corp., where a strike was declared yesterday. The plant was ordered closed after the strike call. A short time after the plane’s flight 8.000 pickets and strike sympathizers attempted to prevent a private detec- tive from entering the plant. He gained entrance when several tear gas bombs were thrown into the crowd. The plane was drafted into service by company officials to bring food to the workers in the plant, while the strikers waited for them to leave. It circled around the factory sev- eral times and when it was within 100 feet of the ground two large pack- ages were dropped. William H. Kasson, union organ- izer, said he learned at the Cleveland airport that a special permit had been issued allowing the plane to fly low within the city limits. The permit wu:l issued in Washington, Kasson said. Union officials said between 850 and 1,000 workers are on strike. The number of employes in the plant was believed small. CZECH HITLERITES GAIN Nearly Oust Agrarian Supremacy in Parliament. PRAHA, Czechoslovakia, May 21 (P —The Hitlerite “Sudeten German party” almost sucdeeded in ousting the Czech Agrarians as the strong- est party in Parliament, returns from Sunday’s general parliamentary elec- tion show. 5 The Agrarians still topped the list with 45 seats in the Lower House and Senate, losing only one seat, but the sudden rise of the Hitlerites gave them 44 mandates. Authoritative sources said the pres- ent Czech government would remain intact for at least a day or two, it. It means the last trivial con- program of | stitutional delusion of private owner- ! ship is lost. If the trial kite which now has been casually attached to Father Coughlin’s balloon floats on the public breeze, you may expect that step to be taken. Apparently they do not |intend to do anything important about it now. But good prophets are betting that, within two years the step will be taken. If the thing is no more important financially than this, you may wonder | why Messrs. Roosevelt and Morgan- thau mentioned it at all. You under- estimate Father Coughlin. It is one of his pet policies. Even a left-handed indorsement of it may tend to as- suage his followers, which is a po- litically desirable result fro ma New Deal standpoint. Furthermore, it is an ideal man- tilla for the administration to wave in the faces of the bull-like bankers who are raging against the extension of governmental power contained in the new bank bill. Four democracies have central banking systems owned by the gov- ernment. They are Sweden, Finland, New Zealand and Australia. (Of course, Russia, Italy and Germany have dictatorships.) In France and England, a fiction of independence is kept, similar to ours, but actually it does not amount to much. Holding Causing Concern, The holding which is being done on the holding companies bill in- side the Rayburn subcommittee has been causing some concern inside the New Deal. The subcommittee is sup- posed to have divided three to three for several weeks, with one Demo- crat siding with the Republicans against the bill. The Corcoran- Cohen board of strategy has been working on the situation without effect. That is why the bill was rushed out of the Senate Committee with a top-heavy vote. The New Deal boys thought it would have a good psychological effect on the House Committee. However, the House snag ap- pears to be only a detail. The bill will eventually be passed by both Houses in much the same shape as proposed by the Senate Committee. Foremost Republicans say privately that the reason their Midwestern meeting was centered in Illinois was to get away from candidacies. Ap- parently a number of party leaders felt that the proposed big meeting in Kansas would promote the prospects of a well-known Kansas favorite son. The official explanation, of course, is that they wanted to get into Lincoln- lhn surroundings. (Co 19380 All it means to them is an ultimate | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MAY 21, COL.A.E WILLIAMS TRIAL DEFENDANT Secrecy Veils Court-Martial, Result of Testimony in House Probe. BY REX COLLIER. Col. Alexander E. Willlams, until recently brigadier general in charge of the transportation division of the Quartermaster Corps and for a while acting quartermaster general of the Army, is the officer whose trial opened yesterday at the Army War College under conditions of wartime-like secrecy. As revealed in The Star yesterday, Col. Williams—he is generally referred to as Gen. Willlams—is being tried by & court-martial of general officers or- dered to appear in civilian clothes instead of the customary formal uni- form and sidearms—to avoid attract- ing attention. Col. Williams is being defended by the law firm of A. Mitchell Palmer, former United States Attorney Gen- eral. The judge advocate serving as prosecutor is Maj. F. G. Munson of the judge advocate general’s office, Outgrowth of Testimony. The trial is the outgrowth of testi- mony given the Department of Justice and the House Committee on Military Aflairs by Frank E. Speicher, tire com- pany salesman, in connection with a loan of $2.000 he is alleged to have made to the then Gen. Williams while he was chief of Army transportation. Other financial dealings alleged to have been had with the quartermaster officer also were inquired into by the House Committee. Speicher, an elusive figure who could not be found when a grand jury wanted to question him more than a year ago in a lobbying inquiry and who finally was located last December by Department of Justice agents in New York, is expected to be the chief | witness against Williams. After Speicher had testified for sev- eral days in an executive session of the House Committee, Gen. Williams was called by the group and subjected to lengthy _interrogation about his al- leged relations with Speicher. Transcript Given Dern. ‘The committee turned over to Sec- retary of War Dern a transcript of the testimony by Speicher and Wil- liams, together with certain docu- ments found in what committee mem- bers described as “a little black bag” located 1n Speicher's hotel room by two agents of the committee. “Dyna- mite” was the term applied by a com- mittee member to the contents of the satchel. During taking of testimony Allen J. Krouse, an assistant United States attorney, sat with the committee on invitation of Chairman John J. Mc- Swain. Krouse received from the committee a transcript of the evi- dence and placed it before his chief, United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett. at the court house, however. Recalls Mitchell Trial. ‘The present court-martial is said to be the first brought against an )offlcer for alleged misconduct while | of general rank since the celebrated | trial of Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, ordination, some 10 years ago. Gen. Mitchell's trial was open to press tional verbatim testimony was spread upon the front pages of newspapers throughout the country. It was with a view of preventing another “such spectacle,” one Army officer confided, that the present trial was closed to the public. Inquiry at the War College elicited the informa- tion that the court itself voted to meet behind closed doors as the first step in its deliberations yesterday. BANNISTER FORCES FIGHT FOR CHILD | Obtains Court Order to Prevent Ann Harding From Removing Daughter From State. | By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, May 21.—Ann Harding, screen star, and her former husband, Harry Bannister, New York stage actor, neared a showdown today in their court fight over custody of their 6-year-old daughter, Jane. Bannister’s attorneys obtained a court order yesterday directing Miss Harding to appear May 28 to show cause why she should not be re- strained from removing the child from jurisdiction of the California court. “I don't know where any one got the idea I was planning on taking Jane out of the State,” the actress replied. “I am now busy in pictures again and will be for some months to come. “These moves are just as absurd as everything else they are trying to do to me.” Bannister’s second legal move was to have his ex-wife ordered into court May 29 to show cause why she should rot be compelled to give her deposi- tion in his action to gain control of their child. Miss Harding won absolute care of the child in Reno last Fall, and Ban- nister filed suit in Superior Court contesting jurisdiction of the Nevada Court and demanding that Jane be By the Assoclated Press. TODAY. Senate. Debates $460,000,000 Navy appro- priation bill Banking Committee continues hear- ing on omnibus bank bill. House. Holds memorial services for de- ceased members. Military Affairs Committee con- tinues probe of T. V. A. records. TOMORROW. Senate. Expected to meet in joint session with the House to hear the President’s bonus veto message. Will resume de- bate on Navy bill later in the day. Commerce Committee, further hearings on rivers and harbors bill. House, Receives President’s bonus veto message and votes immediately after- ward on motion to override. District Committee meets in execy- tive session at 10:30 a.m. to consider report of Crime Investigating Com- mittee. ‘ No action has been taken former Air Service chief, for insub- | | to wear and how to comb their hair. | and public, and much of the sensa- | The Fine Arts Commission has given general approval to plans drawn by Municipal Architect Nathan C. Wyeth for the new Police, Juvenile and Municipal Courts, to be erected in Judiciary Square, north of Dis- trict Supreme Court. The larger {llustration is of the side of the new Police Court Building which would face on the interior parkway or court. The “court” face of the Municipal Court Building would be the same. The smaller il- lustration is of the north facade of the new Juvenile Court Building, to be erected to the north and east of the District Supreme Court. The Commissioners have filed an application for $3,000,000 with the | Public Works Administration for funds for the projects, 70 per cent of which would be repaid with interest at 4 per cent. The National Capital Park and Planning Commission already has given general approval to the plans. Final working drawings are yet to be made, 1935. » fe ILLINOIS RELIEF SHOWDOWN NEAR Democrats and Republicans Marshal Forces as March- ers Gather. | By the Associated Press. | SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May 21— | Democratic and Republican leaders of the Illinois House of Representatives marshaled their forces today for what | promised to be a showdown fight on the State relief crisis while “hunger marchers” assembled for another dem- onstration near the capitol. | Minority Republican members of | the House, who have blocked passage | |of a 3-cent sales tax as an emer- gency act to provide relief funds, on | the eve of today's battle offered a definite alternative proposal. | Marchers in Session. Clinton Searle of Rock Island, mi- nority leader in the lower chamber, announced he would introduce a reso- lution which would “order and direct the people of the State to pay into the State treasury” all monies owing the Federal Government—and that | such funds should be used for imme- diate relief. ‘The vanguard of the “hunger march- ers,” after setting up kitchens to feed the several hundred they expected to attend from all parts of the State, went into secrct session to plan for a mass meeting today. They said the demonstration would be continued | with the entire group staying in | Springfield until & method to restore relief, which ended May 1, was found. State and city officials indicated, however, that the marchers would not be permitted to stay on after the mass | meeting. Democrats Hopeful. Democratic leaders were hopeful they could swing 102 votes for the emergency clause of the sales tax which would raise funds which Harry Hopkins, Federal relief administrator, insisted Illinois must produce before further Government money will be supplied. On four previous occasions Demo- crats have halied the roll call in the House when it became apparent they | lacked enough votes to pass the bill on an emergency basis. Today, how- ever, they have indicated they will allow the vote to be completed, win or lose. —_— LIEUT. W. A. MOFFETT TO SERVE AT ANACOSTIA ‘The son of Admiral Moffett, chief of naval aeronautics who was killed in the Akron disaster, is coming on duty here as a naval aviator. The Navy Department revealed to- day that Lieut. Willlam A. Moffett, jr., will be detached from VB Squad- ron 5-B aboard the new aircraft car- rier U. S. S. Ranger next month. He will come here to serve at the Naval Air Station at Anacostia. The young lieutenant is a brother of Lieut. George H. Moffett, U. 8. N., now on duty in the Navy Department |as alde to Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, chief of the Bureau of Aero- nautics. The aviator coming to Wash- ington was born in California, March 16, 1910. He entered the Navy in June, 1926, graduating four years later from the Ni Academy. He learned to fly at the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Fla. The Moffett family lives at 2019 Massachuisetts avenue, JEWISH TRAVELERS’ AID TO HOLD RUMMAGE SALE — Society Asks Donations for An- nual Event to Be Held at 1842 Seventh Street. The annual rummage sale of the Jewish Travelers’ Aid Society will be held at 1842 Seventh street, the week starting May 27. In announcing the sale today, offi- cials said donations of all salable rum- mage will be appreciated. The public was asked to send, or request a call for collection, by communicating with these members of the committee: Mrs. M. Dennison, 3609 Warder tel Adams 6310; Mrs. A. Shul- man, 1237 H street northeast, Lin- coln 2485, and Mrs. M. Waldman, L street northeast, Atlantic 1604-J. Six Marriages Licensed. FAIRFAX, Va., May 21 (Special).— licenses have been issued in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court as follows: Robert Archibald Willard, 24, Carbondale, Pa. and Frances Mae Bowers, 25, Washington; Daniel R. Moreland, 28, and Marjorie G. Moody, 31, both of Washington; William Ernest Braun, 21, Silver Spring, Md,, and Mary Irene Butcher, 21, Bethesda, Md.; Thomas West, 42, Englishtown, N. J., and Salina Pack- Asbury Park, N. J.; Arthur Eila E. Ennis, 24, R. F. D. 4, Alexan- dria, Va, and Graham Deponai, 28, lmmmn,mum =3 By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May 21.—The | Harvard Lampoon’s building was pad- Jocked today and three of its principal officers had quit. The Lampoon had put a parody last week on a nationally known mag- azine—a parody which resulted in the issue being barred from the mails. humorous publication. familiarly known as Lampy, was rather mysterious. terse statement by the university read: “The university has taken no action |in regard to the Harvard Lampoon | The trustees of the Lampoon have notified the university that the Lam- | poon building will be closed from Mon- | day, May 20, to Saturday, June 15, Lampoon’s Parody Issue Ousts Officers and Padlocks Office The plight of the undergraduate | A |and that the president. treasurer and | | secretary of the Lampoon have re- | signed.” There was a report, which could not be confirmed, that police would drop | threatened action in consideration of ’!he closing. The university office said it under- stood the last two issues of the year would be printed and sent out witn | student editors using their rooms as offices. John A. Carley of Sharon, Pa., suc- ceeded Robert M. Terrall of Lakewood, Ohio, who resigned &5 president, and J. Gordon Scannell of Boston Was succeeded as treasurer by Winthrop | H Lee of Concord. No successor has | been chosen for Arthur Perry, jr., of | Dover, who quit as secretary. BUILDING TRADES Court Holds Both Rival Fac- tions Not Lawfully Constituted. By the Associated Press. | _ Justice Jesse C. Adkins in District Supreme Court ruled today that both LEGALITY DENIED New Griffman || | | | | | | of the American Federation of Labor’s | | building trades departments were il- | legally constituted at present. Since January 1 each of the two de- | | partments has claimed it was the | “legal” department. The one headed by J. W. Williams and recognized by William Green, fed- eration president, asked the court to { enjoin the organization led by M. J. McDonough from calling itself the A. F. of L. building trades department. The injunction bill also asked that | McDonald be required to hand over to Williams the department’s funds and property. McDonough was elected at a con- vention in San Francisco last Sep- tember. The federation convention later called that convention “illegal” because bricklayers, | electrician delegates admittance.. Green then called a new conven- tion which the 1T unions following McDonough refused to attend. Wil- liams was elected at this second con- vention. were convention was illegal because the “Big Three” unions were denied seats and that the second was illegal be- cause Green had no power to call it. The court fight was part of the biggest family quarrel in the fed- eration’s history. 'SPANISH AVIATOR ON OCEAN FLIGHT |Leaves West Africa, Bound for Mexico, D. F., and Sweet- heart. By the Associated Press. MADRID, May 21.—With a picture of his childhood sweetheart in a pocket near his heart, Juan Ignacio Pombo, youthful Spanish aviator, was soaring over the South Atlantic today in his powerful plane, the Santander, His immediate objective was Natal, Brazil; his ultimate destination Mex- ico, D. ., where he hopes to persuade comely Eleana Rivero, whom he knew ::l;e child in Santander, to become his Conditiens Favorable. Pombo was reported in radio dis- patches to have taken off from Bath- urst, Gambia, West Africa, at 1:18 am., Greenwich Meridian time (8:15 pm. yesterday, Eastern standard time). He was assured of favorable ‘weather conditions. The 21-year-old flyer expected to negotiate the 1,800-mile hop in about 15 hours, If forced down short of his goal he believed he might land on the island of Fernando Noronha, within 250 miles of Natal, M’LEAN IMPROVED Physicians Express Satisfaction Over Condition. Physicians expressed satisfaction to- day over the progress of former Gov. Angus W. McLean of North Carolina, who has been seriously ill in Emer- gency Hospital since Priday with a blood clot in his right lung. Dr. Matthew W. Perry, who accom- panied McLean in a Coast Guard am- bulance plane from Atlantic City, where he was stricken, said his pa- tient had rested well during the night and that he continued to show im- carpenters and | refused | Justice Adkins found that the first | “BUCK” NEWSOM. Story on Page A-1.) STENNETLCASE DETALS BARED Hotel Clerk Testifies There Was a Delay Before Po- lice Were Called. . | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 21.—There was a | delay in summoning police when Rev. Joseph J. Leonard, New Jersey Cath- olic priest, and 17-year-old Ruth Arm- | strong Steinmetz were shot to death last November in the priest’s room in | the Knights of Columbus Hotel, | | Clement O'Malley. hotel clerk, testi- | fied today in the trial of Joseph Stein- | metz, youthful Brooklyn divinity stu- dent, indicted for slaying his wife and the priest. H Under cross-examination by De- fense Attorney Samuel Leibowits, | O'Malley said there was a delay of 15 minutes, & half an hour “or maybe 45 minutes” in summoning the au- thorities. O'Malley said he went to the priest’s room not because he had heard of the shooting but because he was notified a priest had a woman in his room. “You went to discover if there was any immorality, didn't you?” Leibo- witz asked. | “That was part of the reason,” O'Malley answered. The witness said he did not disturb anything in the room. He said Iszelnmetz. his wife and the priest 1 were all lying on the floor. He did not know, then, if any of them were alive. “Did the bed give any indication it had been slept on?” Leibowitz asked. “It was mussed,” O’Malley replied. The defense contends Steinmetz slew his wife and the priest in & rage of mental aberration when he found them together. —_—— CUBAN REPORTED HELD Secretary in Grau San Martin Regime Involved. HAVANA, May 21 (#).—Dr. Manuel Costales Latatu, secretary of educa- tion in the administration of former President Ramon Grau San Martin, was reported today by sources close to his family to have been arrested. Dr. Latatu resigned from his post as director of the Havana University Hospital at the time of the anti-gov- ernment general strike last March. Military authorities refused to com- ment on the report or discuss the charges which may have been brought LITTLE DEFEATS ERIC SMITH, 43 Plays Spectacular Game. Four Other Americans Triumph, By the Associated Press. ST. ANNES-ON-THE-SEA, Eng- land, May 21.—In a sharp form re- versal, contrasting yesterday's floun- dering exhibition, Willlam Lawson Little, jr., of San Francisco, the de- fending champion, gave a spectacular performance today in eliminating Eric Martin Smith, a former title holder, in the second round of the British amateur golf championship. Little won, 4 and 3. The husky Californian was one of four Americans who survived the second day of play. Four other in- vaders from the United States were sent to the sidelines. Four Americans Win, Besides Little the other winners were T. Suffern (Tommy) Tailer, jr.. of Piping Rock, Long Island, who shot the last six holes in two under par to eliminate Andrew Jamieson, jr., former Scottish champicn: Capt. A Webster-Sullock of Monterey, Calif., and Robert Sweeney, a former New Yorker now living in London. The defeated foreign contenders John Forsman of New York Robert W. Know jr.. of Brookline : Guy Hayes of rth Andover nd Robert Stranahan of To- ledo, Ohio. Dan R. Topping and Richard M Chapman of Greenwich, Conn. and Harvey affer of New York, the other members of the American con- tingent, were not scheduled to play today. LAWRENCE DEATH HELD ACCIDENTAL Soldier’s Story of Mystery Car at Scene Is Not Substantiated. By the Associated Press, WOOL, Dorsetshire, England. May 21.—Whether or not a mysterious black automobile had anything to do with the death of the almost legendary “Lawrence of Arab decided today that he dentally. Corp. Ernest Catchpole testified he saw Col. T. E. Lawrence swerve his motor cycle at the time of the ac- cident on May 13 to avoid an auto- mobile, colliding immediately butcher boy on a bicycle. . he said, was riding shire country road at an_hour. ‘The butcher boy's companion fied he did not see the auto: and no other witness appear tell of the mysterious car. bile d to Funeral Simple. Lawrence's body later was buried with simple ceremony in a tiny sunlit plot in the village of Moreton brief service was held in a little seventeenth century church which accommodated only 170 persons. Meanwhile, in London, an auction room sold a first edition of Law- rence’s “Seven Pillars of V printed in 1926, for £260. T ago such copies commanded as high as £600. A. W. Lawrence, brother of the dead man, asked Capt. P. C. Allen, the Medical Corps officer who performed the post-mortem on Lawrence's body. “Had his recovery somehow taken place, what would have been his con- dition mentally?” Memory Destroyed. “Had he lived.” Capt. Allen replied, “he would have been unable to speak. He would have lost his memory and been paralyzed.” The brother later made known that Lawrence’s will bequeathed him an estate consisting of about £200 (ap- proximately $1.000), some invest- ments, his little cottage at Moreton. the motor cycle on which he was' riding at the time he was fatally injured and some books and private papers. Iraq Rebellion Quelled. BAGHDAD, Irag. May 21 (£).—An official communique said today & second uprising in the Muntafig dis- trict had been suppressed by the com- bined efforts of the police and air force. Tribes in the Suq Esh-Shuyukh township were said to have revolted against local authorities and captured several police posts. TIPS by the NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL 4 Obedience. Obey trafic laws. Heed warning signs and signals. Co-operate with traffic officers. Traffic regulations often seem quite burdensome, but re- member, the main purpose is to save lives and prevent injuries. Many & tombstone is carved by chiseling in traffic; most of the time through willful disobedience of the laws of the highway or the laws of common sense. Stubbornness is also frequently a veason for disobedience of the traffic code. Some rules seem silly and per- haps are; others may seem altogether unreasonable. Public opinion will in time correct faulty legislation. But as long as the laws are on the books let’s observe them. Just remember that the other driver has no way ef knowing what you think or how you react. He has a right to depend on you to obey the traffic laws. Safe driving today demands obedi- ence and co-operation. When motor- ists learn to play fair with the rules and with each other the trafic flow will become not only safer, but faster. ‘Harmony in traffic, like the melodies of a symphony orchestra, can be spoiled quickly by & few sour notes. ] Al Forsman bowed out by the count of |5 and 4 to I. Lyle of England; Hayes dropped a 2-and-1 decision to Dr. A B. MacCallum, a Briton. and Strana- han was defeated by D. Coates of Fair Haven, 2 up. Sweeney, playing a belated first round match, caught up with e fleld by eliminating A. Walton, 2 and 1 while Tailer'’s advance to the third round was accomplished by one of the most topsy-turvy ormances of the tournament. he tall, sturdy American required 42 strokes for the first nine noies to reach the turn all even with An- drew Jamieson former Scottist title holider, and then he shaved twn strokes of incoming holes to_triumph n the third round e able and dan- former British Walker Cup p! in this championsh First Round Scores, D. Coats, England, defeated Robert A. Stranahan, Toledo. Ohio, 2 up. Leonard Cr England, defeated Otway Hayes, South Africa, 1 up. Robert Sweeney, formerly of New York, defeated A. Walton, England, 2 and 1. Second Round Scores. W. Fraser Lee, England, defeated J. H. Bryant, England, 1 up, 19 | holes. T. Suffern Tailer, jr. Piping Rock. Long Island, Zefeated Andrew Jamie- son, jr., Scotland, 4 and 3. 1. Lyle, England, defeated John Forsman, New York, 5 and 4 Dr. A. B. MacCallum. England, de- feated Guy Hayes, North Andover, Mass,, 2 and 1 Lawson Little, jr, San Francisce, defeated Eric Martin Smith, Eng: land, 5 and 3 Capt. A. Bullock-Webster, Monterey, Calif., defeated Bruce Thompson, England, 3 and 2 E. Halliwell, England, defeated Robert Harris, England, 4 and 3. D. C. EDUCATION UNIT HITS CAPPER BILL Association Opposes Measure Call- ing for Election of Board Here. Opposition to the bill offered by Senator Capper, Republican. of Kan- sas, for an elected Board of Educa- tion has been expressed by the District | Education Association. ~ Five other resolutions of general interest were passed at a recent meeting. They were: | 1. Petitioning the Senate Finance Committee, in its consideration of a social security law, to frame the act so as not to infringe on the duties (and responsibilities of educational agencies. 2. Indorsing the character educa~ tion experiment and asking for its | continuance. - 3. Favoring repeal of the married persons clause in the economy act. 4. Afirming the need for an in- ) creased public schools appropriation. 5. Indorsing the medical examina- tion program for public school pupils | being pushed by the Board of Educa- tion. STUDENT IS CLEARED IN CHILD'S DEATH 4-Year-0ld Jane Fowler Ran in Path of Auto Driven by Marian Voshall. Marian Salome Voshall, 17, Western High School senior, was acquitted yes- _ terday in the death of 4-year-old aJne | Elizabeth Fowler, killed by the stu- | dent’s car at the intersection of Hol- | mead place and Parkwood place Fri- | day afternoon. The coroner’s jury re- turned a verdict of accidental death The student, operating on a limited permit, with only a month's driving experience, was going north on Hol- mead place when she saw the head of the little girl, who was running out from the curb from behind a carked automobile of Mrs. Annie Jacobs, 2513 Holmead place. Already having slow=d down for the intersection of Park- wood place, she testified, Miss Voshall was unable to stop in time. The child was the daughter of Paul Fowler, 3523 Holmead place. Death was due to a fractured skull, ADMITTED TO COURT Woman, 25, Given Right to Prac- tice in U. S. Supreme Tribunal. Miss Janet Rutter, 25, of 2852 On- tario road, yesterday was admitted to practice in the United States Su- preme Court. Miss Rutter, said to be the youngest woman member of the bar ever to be admitted to practice in the highest court, is a graduate of the Cornell and George Washington University Law Schools. She is a native Washing- - tonian and is a graduate of Central High School. ‘