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(A—16 4w 2 RANDOLPH PUSHES FIAT T0 ANSWER BLANTON ATTACK f awmakers Separated on ““House Floor After Row m{f Over Speech. i CRITICISM OF CRIME " REPORT IS RESENTED Texan Objects to Unanimous Con- “sent: for Reply Unless He Gets Time, Too. . “Representative Randolph, Democrat, of West Virginia, chairman of the special Crime Investigating Committee .of the House, announced today he would make another attempt Monday to reply to the attack on him by Representative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, Three times yesterday, Randolph made futile efforts to get the floor for 10 minutes to answer Blanton. Twice Blanton blocked his move by “obijecting to a unanimous’ consent re- - quest unless he, too, was granted three ‘ minutes. Blanton’s objections finally aroused Randolph’s ire and a few minutes be- fore the House adjourned he walked toward the Texan with clenched fists. .Chairman McSwain of the Military ., Affairs Committee, standing behind Blanton, threw out his arm and sepa- rated them. Severe Critic of Report. Blanton has been one of the severest eritics of the Crime Committee's re- - port which contains a recommendation for removal of United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett and his Police Court mssistant, Karl Kindleberger. He also has been critical of Randolph, and in his recent attack he criticized the Crime Committee chairman for ap- ppearing in the District Supreme Court ®s a -character witness for a con- -stituent. The last brush between Blanton and Randolph on the House floor came when the West Virginian renewed his request for 10 minutes’ time. “I am perfectly willing to give the _gentleman from Texas as much time “us he may desire,” he said. “I object unless I can answer the “gentleman for three minutes,” said Blanton. = “The gentleman can have an hour so far as I am personally concerned,” ‘declared Randolph. Others To Reply. . “I am going to take an hour when- ever you attack a United States Dis- ‘trict Attorney appointed by your President,” said Blanton. . Two other members of the Crime “«Committee—Representatives Schulte, Democrat of Indiana, and Reed, Re- publican, of Illinois—plan to join dolph when he replies to Blan- “ton. % The crime report, approved by the 1 District Committee Wednesday, fter a slight revision to eliminate Police Superintendent Ernest W. rown and Inspectors Thaddeus R.- and Albert J. Headley from a ommendation for retirement, is to sbe filed with the House early next ‘week. At the same time a minority ireport is to be filed by Representa- ftive Werner, Democrat, of South kota. Both reports are to be placed on ‘the House calendar, but no further action is expected. 'BAN ON COMMUNIST "TEACHING EXPLAINED ‘Gen. Fries Says Amendment Is Needed to Protect Schools. { The conference amendment to the ! District appropriation bill providing in general terms that no money is to , be available to pay persons who teach ‘or advocate communism was made necessary by the presence in the Dis- i trict schools as a character education consultant of an “adviser of a Com- munist college in a foreign country,” . Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries declared in & formal statement last night ~ He referred to Dr. W. W. Charters :of the University of Ohio, whose con- nection with the University of Moscow already has been approved by the Board of Education. “Of course, parents want com- . munism taught to their children” Gen. Fries declared. “But they want it taught by 100 per-cent Americans ‘who hate communism. “The subject of communism should be handled exactly as we handle the subject of crime, sin, murder or high- way . We want our Children ¢ taught about -those things, but we i don’t want them taught by murderers, highway robbers, sinners or people ! in sympathy with them. And we don’t want our children taught anything { by Communists or by snybody in | sympathy with or working in any . way whatever with Communists or communism.” i ! tion' experiment- and does not teach here. | Slewfoot Issues |- Parking Tickets { . And Goes to Jail ' Hoax Bared With Arrest | of Hairdresser Caught Tagging Cars. Da- | Lymian Slated To Major General of Mar Selected Roosevelt to Succeed Late Gen. Harry Lee. Rose From Ranks to Win Commission in 1899. Native of Ohio. FORMER enlisted man in t!:eJ District National Guard, Brig. . Roosevel maj general of the Marine Corps, it was disclosed today, Gen. Lyman, Fleet Marine The selection was made by a board of admirals, whose recommendation was transmitted to the President by Secretary Swanson. Recently Gen. Lyman, with mem- bers of his staff, has been with the fleet during the war games in the Pa- cific. President Roosevelt soon will forward the nomination for the ad- vanced rank to the Senate for con- firmation. ‘With 36 years of active duty as an officer of the Marine Corps, Gen. Lyman is a graduate of both the Army and the Naval War Colleges. He served during the Spanish-American War as an enlisted man in the District National Guard and on July 1, 1899, was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Rear Admiral Frank H. Clark, chairman of the General Board of the Navy Department, was president for Promotion ‘. [ - BRIG. GEN. CHARLES H. LYMAN. of the selection board which recom- mended his promotion. Gen. Lyman was born in Ravenna, Ohio, - September 22; 1875. During the Boxer uprising in 1900 he served aboard the Monocacy and performed outstanding duty. In 1903 he participated in the Marine expedition to Panama, He served here in 1910, as aide to the major general commandant at Marine Corps headquarters. He returned in June, 1917, and served untll Novem= ber, 1918, in the adjutant and in- spector’s department at Marine head- quarters. > Gen. -Lyman has been at Quantico since April, 1932. In September, 1933, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. At present there are only two major generals in the Marine Corps— John - H. Russell, the commandaht, and James C. Breckinridge. . BRIGGS ELECTED BY WEIGHTS GROUP, Bureau of Standards Chief Named Head of National Conference. | Dr. Lyman J. Briggs, director of the | Bureau of Standards, was elected president of the National Conference on Weights and Measures at the clos- ing session of its twenty-fifth annual meeting late yesterday at the Wash- ington Hotel. Dr. Briggs fills a vacancy that has | existed for nearly three years due to | the fact business conditions forced the cancellation of the regular meetings | since 1932. John P. McBride of Boston was | named first Vice president; C. D.| Baucom, Raleigh, N. C., second vice president; Martin L. Lang, Indiana- | polis, third vice president, and J. C. | Tinkey, Columbus, Ohio, fourth vice | president. _ Holbrook Re-elected Secretary. 8. F. Holbrook of the Bureau of Standards was re-elected secretary, and George F. Austin, jr., of Detroit was named for another term as treas- urer. Among the last papers read to the | conference was one by George M. Roberts, superintendent of weights, measures and markets for the Dis- trict, who told the delegates the “meat dealer no longer weighs his hand,” but the “machinations now resorted to frequently represent a high degree of efficiency or schemes planned by so-called efficiency engineers. Some such schemes, when finally uncovered, afe amazing in their simplicity. “Every well organized weights and measures department,” Roberts said, “should maintain & staff of keen- minded investigators and undercover buyers.” Gasoline Cheating Found. Roberts explained that as a result of using such a staff, a chain of filling stations in Washington was discovered giving short measure of gasoline 23 times in 36 purchases. Similar cases were found among gro- cers, many of whom were selling to persons on relief rolls, The superintendent lamented the fact his office is understaffed be- cause of the lack of financial support allowed by Congress. From 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 tons of coal are sold annually by “coal boot- leggers” in the Eastern part of the United States, S. T. Griffith, chief of the weights and measures division Baltimore, told the conference. The “bootleg” coal industry, Griffith said, employs close to 100,000 persons who illegally mine and market- fuel valued in excess of $35,000,000 a year. The mushroom growth of the industry was traced by Griffith to the depres- sion, with thousands of unemployed miners and their families taking coal from land they do not own and truck- ing it directly to consumers. The source of almost all the “boot- leg” coal sold in the country, he said, comes from the anthracite fields of Eastern Pennsylvania. | PAROLE OF E. D. RHEEM TO COME BEFORE BOARD | Former Broker ‘Included Among Those Seeking Re- lease. The District Parole Board will meet o8 is gz 3 B z§ ghif BUS HEARING FRIDAY _ | Substitution for Street Cars on Connecticut Avenue Asked. hearing will be held by Utilitles Commission ; : i £ f g i ' -§8 8 5% i Weights Head DR. LYMAN J. BRIGGS. THREE HURT HERE I LT MISHAPS Pedestrians Struck Down. Two Children Injured in Bicycle Accidents. Three pedestrians, one a small boy, were seriously injured in traffic ecci- dents during the past 24 hours. Two other children were hurt in accidents involving bicycles. : Jackie Conrad, 7, of 944 Virginia avenue southwest, suffered a brain concussion when struck by an auto- mobile in the 200 block of Tenth street southwest. ‘At Emergency Hous- pital, X-rays were to be taken to de- termine whether he has a skull frac- ture. Lillian E. Waldron, 25, of 619 Ot.‘l; place, was driving the car, police said. Bernard Carty, 32, of 800 G street northeast, received serious head in- juries when hit by an automobile near Pennsylvania avenue and Sec- ond street southeast. He was treated at Providence Hospital, where it was said he may have a akull fracture. of | W. V. Doyle, Greater Capitol Heights, Md., was the driver, according to Ppolice. ECONON REPORT S RETED BY WETHODST ROLP ‘More Equitable Distribution of Wealth and Union Sec- tions Spurned. “SOCIALISM” CRIES HEARD IN DEBATE “Liberty Not Regimentation” Is Slogan as Churchmen Deplore “Tugwellian” Theories. After nearly two hours of spirited debate in which such terms as “Tug- wellian v “false economics” and recriminations of varying degree were passed back and forth between two opposing fac- tions, delegates to the 151st session of the Baltimore Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church re- fused today to accept a section of a report submitted by their Social Serv- ice Commission dealing with the sub- ject of “economic justice.” In its stead, there was voted reaf- firmation of & section of the Social Creed of the church, dealing with similar matters in terms of more gen- eral nature. In the disputed report were para- graphs calling for more equitable dis- tribution of income, extension of social ownership and control of natural re. sources, and affirmation of “not only the theoretical right of labor to or- ganize, but also the constructive ef- forts of labor in practice to effect organization.” Centroversia] Section, ‘The controversial paragraphs fol- low in part: “We heartily favor such measures as the following to alleviate injus- tice and insecurity: Adequate relief to all who are worthy; State and Fed- eral programs of public works at pre- vailing wages; unemployment insur- ance; old-ege penhsions; minimum wage legislation; abolition of child labor, and g broad public program of slum clearance and home building. “None of these measures, nowever, can take the place of a fundamental reconstruction of our economic sys- tem. Economic expediency, ro less than justice, demands a much wider distribution of purchasing power than has so far proved possible. “In 1929, 36,000 American fumilies with incomes apove $75,000 rcceived the same aggregate income as 11,650, 000 families with incomes less than $1,500. It is those at the bottom who do most of the buying; those at the top spend only a small p of their total income. In short, the bulk of the purchasing power is not where it is most needed. “Depressions can be prevented, therefore, only !f buying capacity is more-equitably distributed.” “It becomes increasingly clear that covernmentmrhelu‘:ut:n alone cannot accomplish s e past two years profits have increased while real wages have decreased. ‘The spread between the lower and the higher incomes is greater than before. Such believe, an extension of social owner- ship and control of our natural re- sources and basic industries and their operation for the welfare of all. * * * “A co-operative Christian society Wwill not come in & day. In the midst of efforts on its behalf, more imme- diate objectives must not be forgotten. Among these the strengthening of the labor movement is of primary impor- tance. If purchasing power is ade- “|quately to be distributed, wages must be greatly increased.” With the rallying cry of “I want |liberty &nd not regimentation,” Dr. | Francis R. Bailey of the East Balti- | more district led the fight against | the report and in favor of substitu- tion of the church's social creed. Among other things, he termed the |section “too = emotional—false eco- and Father Coughlin—political social- ism—if the Government would make it possible for dusiness men to have confidence, we would be much further out of the depression.” A subsequent speaker deplored such church not become a semi-political organization. A third questioned Their pleas availed little, however, as a show of hands on the question were | revealed a clear margin in faver of SCHOOL SAFETY PATROL IS HONORED AT PART the substitute proposed by Dr. Bailey. In the same report, the conference ‘went on record in opposition to com- by il | H frtilens g considerations render advisable, we ! |nomics that sound like Huey Long | “Tugwellian theories,” urged that the | D C, SATURDAY, Spirited rivalry has cropped up be- tween Robert P. Smith, now potentate of Almas and director general of the Shrine Convention, and Leonard P. Steuart, who was potentte of Almas in the previous convention in 1923, and who now is about to be elevated to the post of imperial potentate. Each is joshing the other about | which one can put on the best show | for the visiting Shriners. When Steuart was potentate in 1923, he called the gorgeousiy decorated court before the White House, the “Garden of Allah,” but now “Bob” | Smith has chosen to call the same | place, under different decoration, “The Pavilion of Omar.” “The Pavilion of Omar” this year, which was designed and executed under the direction of Porter and | Lockie, architects of this city, is |rapidly nearing completion. Huge sphinxes and camels with Arabian | riders rising high into the air have just been placed in position, attract- ing fresh attention from the public. The sphinxes, typifying Egypt and | the desert, mark entrance and exits | of “The Pavilion of Omar,” while els and riders ‘at the East and CITY TO SEEK END OF DUMPING SITES Alexandria Plans to Aid Scheme to Remove Eyesores to Tourists. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Vs, June 8.— Elimination of the city dumping grounds on North Washington street, held to be an cyesore for the thou- sands of tourists who pass along the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, will be attempted by Alexandris under its large work-relief program for which funds already Lave been asked from the Federal Government. Mayor E. C. Davison zaid today. The task of closing this dumping area is contingent upon the installa- tion of a new trunk line sewer on Queen street, needed tn drain the sec- tion in which trash now is Leing deposited, Davison said. He esti- mated the cost of the new sewer at $50,000 : Since| ordering renewed enforce- ment mvuh ago of the law prohibiting buming of dumps in Alexandris, city cfficials have re- ceived no further complaints from citisens living in the vicinity of the Four Mile Run dump who complained to City Council of smoke and odor nuisances, : The present Alexandria law does not prohibit dumping on the two specified grounds, but specifically for- bids burning of trash on these dumps and the depositing of garbage on The North Washington street dump i8 located at the north entrauce to the Memorial Highway into: Alex- andria. Its elimination will require either the location of another dump B o s [ considered to date. o . BREAKS LEG IN FALL Two Shrine Leaders Become Rivals in Staging Shows Here| @ | | | West Executive avenues typify the| | Arab and his favorite steed. Massive columns 52 feet high and 8 | feet in diameter, marking the East and West Executive avenues, are purest | Egyptian. | Intabliture connecting each pair of | columns bears the royal scarab, which | is the symbol of eternity. Hiero- | glyphies on the columns depict various scenes of Muslim, domestic life and| the buds at the bases portray the | growth that is eternal. The royal fans | of Cleopatra, probably the most out- standing motif in the immediate pavil- ion, are symbolic of the peacock, the Oriental bird of great splendor. While Porter has devoted most of his time to the execution of the work in the Court of Honor—“Pavilion of Omar’—and while his creative genius is shown in the well-balanced acheme, it is Lockie who receives the credit for research into Egyptology, which has made this remarkable pavilion architecturally correct. Omar, for whom the pavilion was named, reigned over Islam from 634 to 644 AD, and saw the transforma- tion of Islam from a religious sect to an imperial power. ENGINEER’S OFFICE REPLIES TO CRITICS Hodgson Declares Atiack Un- founded in Answering Criti- cism of School Board. Criticism of the District Engineer Department by the Board of Educa- tién for failing to complete the new Woodrow Wilson Senior High School and the Anacostia Junior-Senior High School in time for the scheduled Fall opening of the school year was de- clared “unfounded” yesterday by Maj. P. A. Hodgson, assistagt District engi- neer commissioner. He said the schools officials- were unnecessari to cause a minimum of inconvenience. Bad weather conditions last Winter which retarded the of con- struction and not lack of concern on the part of the Engineer Department, as charged, were blamed by Maj. Hodgson for delays encountered. Despite conditions over which they had no control, he said the Wilson High School should be ready to turn over to.the School Board by the middle of August, nearly three months ahead of the contract date, called for completion by November 30. The Anacostia school, Maj. Hodgson explained, is about two months behind schedule, but he said he hoped to “make up” at least one month. In ‘that event, the school would be com- pleted by September 15, unless un- foreseen complications arise. LAYMAN MUSIC COURSE PLANNED BY CONVENT Mme. Olga Samaroff Stokowski Heads Move to Give Modern PROBE OF L 0BBY" B Majestic and silent, this repro- duction of the Sphinx of Egypt Teposes in front of the Treasury Department and marks the en- trance to the “Pavilion of Oma along the route of the Shrine pa- rades. The camel statue is erected at the corner of Lafayette Fark, while another stands on the White House grounds corner. —Star Staff Photos. PAVING CAMPAIGN WILL BE SPEEDED Bethesda C. of C. Commit- tee to Reorganize on Wis- consin Project. BY JACK ALLEN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md, June 8—The general committee conducting the | Bethesds Chamber of Commerce's | drive for the paving of the entire | surface of Wisconsin avenue from old Georgetown road to the District line is to be reorganized over the week end and groups assigned to various | phases of the campaign. ‘Three subcommittees will be formed to confer with the State Roads Com- | mission and Gov. Nice, to solicit the | county commissioners’ indorsement of the plan and to support the Capital | Transit Co.'s petition for permission to abandon the Rockville trolley line in favor of modern bus service. Petition Being Drafted. Attorneys for the traction firm are | now engaged in drafting the petition | for presentation to the Maryland Pub- lic Service Commission—a move vol- untarily made by the company to| open the way for paving the center | of the avenue which it now uses for of-way is leaving the company’s tracks in a dangerous dit¢ch running | the length of Wisconsin avenue from | Washington through Bethesda. For- | mation of this ditch incited the | chamber’s drive. The general committee met last night and authorized William Buck- ley, president of the trade body, to appoint the three subcommittees. His appointments will be made known at the chamber’s meeting scheduled for 8 o'clock Monday night in the | County Building. ‘Wil Urge Qriginal Plan. One of the committees will urge | the State Roads Commission to carry out its original plan to improve the avenue to a width of 75 feet by pav- ing over the right of way when it is abandoned. The same group is to confer with Gov. Nice and escort the | AIDED BY SEIZURE OF FILED LETTERS Four Investigators to Spend Ten Days in Study Prior to Hearings. MERCHANTS MYSTIFIED AT CONGRESSIONAL ACT Declare Government Decision Came Before Organization Was Perfected. Four investigators, working for the House “Super Lobby” Committee, in- vestigating activities of the American Retail Federation, Inc., which reeently opened offices here, were busy today going through files seized under offi- cial subpoena from an affiliated or- ganization, the Food, Drug and Gro- cery Chain Stores of America, Inc. The files were taken from offices in the National Press Building by a rep- resentative of the House sergeant at arms. Representative Patman, Democrat, of Texas, chairman of the Investi- gating Committee, has allotted 10 days for his men to look over the seized files—two truck loads of them— and to bring any relevant papers to his attention before June 17, when committee hearings will be resumed. Meanwhile, many of the retail mer- chants who were here recently to at- tend the hearings insist they do not know what it is all about. All they know is that the Government stepped in with an investigation before a pro- posed organization actually got started, Thorough Probe Planned. While the merchants were wonder- ing, Patman let it be known that his Investigating Committee has every idea of carrying on an investigation ranging from charges of lobbying to cut-rate buying and selling. He in- timated the work before the committee may approach proportions equal to those of celebrated investigations of the past. The letters in the seized files, if they tell the story Patman believes they will tell, will stand as evidence in the hearings, which may be conducted in other cities outside of Washington &s well as here. So far, Patman has declined .to dis- close what has been found in the files of the food, drug and chain stores of America, although he intimated the search has not been in vain. The decision to subpoena the Chain | Store Association’s records was made at the outset of this week's opening hearing after John A. Logan, execu- tive secretary and manager of the Washington office, had insisted the committee’s representative specify what files were wanted before he would hand them over. Powers Are Broad. Patman told newspaper men that under the amended House resolution authorizing the committee to go into whatsoever practices of retailers and wholesalers it believed necessary, ;‘we have broader powers than even the Federal Trade Commission.” Asked how far the committee would go, he said, “just as far as is necessary.” Patman also said he was drafting & bill to prohibit rebates from manu- facturers to chain store buyers that are not given also to independent and other buyers, on grounds tha cuch practices are discriminatory. It was developed at the commiftee hearings earlier in the weék that the most influential member of the Food, Drug and Grocery Chain Stores of America, Inc., is the Kroger Grocery and Bakery Co., of which Col. C. ©. Sherrill, head of the American Re- tail Federation, formerly was vice president. It also was stated that another executive when he comes here this member is Safeway Stores, of which month to view the ditch. | the Sanitary stores here are units, The second committee is to work | and that Safeway Stores is J. P. Mor- with a similar group from the Rock- |gan owned. It was said today by ville Chamber of Commerce in an | Sanitary officials that Morgan had no effort to obtain the county commis- sioners’ indorsement of the proposed paving project, while the third will implore the Public Service Commis- sion to approve the traction com- pany’s petition. It was announced at last night's meeting by Samuel E. Stonebraker that rallway officials have agreed to re- move both the tracks and unsightly ‘wooden trolley poles if the petition is spproved. He further said he had when the poles are removed-from the center of the avenue. ALUMNAE HYGIENISTS TO INSTALL OFFICERS Miss Marguerite Currau, President, to Be Greeted at Ship Banquet. Miss Marguerite Currau, newly Georgetown New interest in Safeway. CITY HEADS AWARD STREET CONTRACTS Total of $858,936 Is Involved m Work Let in Program of - Improvement. Eight contracts to speed the Dis- trict’s street and alley improvement program were awarded yesterday by the District Commissioners. A total of $856,936 was involved. 1 Work ©n the street improvements is contingent upon the President the 1936 District appropriation L The Highway Department is ready fo start soon after the bill is signed By Mr. Roosevelt. H ‘The Highway Department is pre- pared to rush the program through. The improvements affect practically every section of the city and outlyisg districts. The firms to do the wr and the amounts involved in ea¢h accepted bid are as follows: The W. F. Brenizer Co., $118,205 for repairs to concrete surface streets: Alfred J. Wise, $11,600 for grading certain streets, roads, avenues aad alleys; the Union Paving Co., $109,885 for reservicing various roadways by the replacement method; Corson & Gruman, $265,842 for repaving sheet asphalt pavements, bituminous, cof- crete and macadam roadways; W. . Brenizer Co., $97,550 for improvigg ; | streets with reinforced cement com- crete; the Robert Paving Co. of Salis~ bury, Md., $62,122.50 for cement com- crete in alleys and , and the Wilmoth Paving Co., $114,952 for cement, concrete, curbs and: gutters TO SPONSOR DESTROYER Great-Granddaughter of Famous Naval Officer Is Chosen by and laying asphaltic surfaces; § In each case the Board of Commis- sioners approved the lowest bid. i MISS HYDE WEDS |