Evening Star Newspaper, July 20, 1935, Page 14

NEW TRAFFIC WAR FOLLOWS KILLING OF . C. GIRL, 7 Relentless Drive Decreed by Brown and Hazen to Curb Death Toll. FATALITIES ONLY 7 LESS Boy, 2, in Hospital THAN IN 1934 PERIOD Police Ordered to Show No Quar- ter—May Demand License Revocations. War was declared on death drivers and other traffic violators today by Supt. of Police Ernest W. Brown with the active backing of Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen. Hazen called Maj. Brown on the telephone this morning and said: “I am with you. Go to it hard and heavy.” The police chief was aroused to demand the “big-stick” policy against reckless car operators after a 7-year- old girl died in Emergency Hospital yesterday as a result of an accident in nearby Virginia and 12 other per- sons were injured, several seriously, in | the District. | Yesterday's fatality was little Ann| Offenberg, 1631 Euclid street, who| was struck by an oll truck as she| made ready to board an automobile near the Airport Pool parking lot. Death Toll Is 62. The traffic toll thus far in 1935 is 62 deaths, just seven less than the 69 killed at this time in 1934, when| the record number of auto deams,] 135, was set. Both Brown and Hazen are ready | to junk educational campaigns in favor of a vigorous, no-quarter law- enforcement campaign. Inspector B. A. Lamb, chief of the Traffic Bureau, is ready to demand revocation of licenses of persons found guilty of reckless driving. Brown today sent word to all police officers to show no mercy to drivers who ignore red iights and stop signs and weave in and out of traffic lanes. Hazen said: “Idon't want to hear any screaming from people who get hit in the police campaign. If they get caught vio- lating rules, they'll have to take the punishment. “Some of these drivers are simply | speed crazy. They are not going any- where. There isn’t any reason for all | this hurry in defiance of regulations. “It seens you can't persuade drivers to live up to their responsibilities by educational campaigns. What else is | there for us to do but wield the big | stick?” George W. Offutt, chairman of the Traffic Advisory Committee, told Hazen: “The time has come to burn these drivers up. That is apparently the only way we can make drivers obey | rules established for the protection of the public.” Blair Via, 816 Twenty-first street, driver of the truck which struck the | Offenberg girl, was to appear at a hearing July 26 before Commonwealth H Attorney Lawrence Douglas of Arling- | ton County. No charges have been | filed against him. | Boy’s Leg Fractured. | A T-year-old “colored boy, Joseph Harper, 1034 New Jersey avenue, suf- fered a compound fracture of the leg and serious internal injuries yesterday | when he ran into the side of a car driven by Julian R. Howdershell, 61, of 215-A Bates street. He was taken | to Freedman’s Hospital, where his con- | dition today remained serious, officials | said. Bernice Manguette, 6, of 210 F | street, received a broken leg and | body bruises- when knocked down at Third and F streets by & car which police say was driven by Isaac E. Clinkett, colored, 51, of Ballston, Va. The girl is in| Sibley Hospital and physicians be- | [ lieve she may be disabled. Clinkett was charged with having bad brakes | and released on $300 bond. Another person reported seriously injured was Charles W. Ross, colored, 27, of 133 T street, who suffered a possible skull fracture and body in- Juries when his motor cycle collided with an automobile driven by George Hunt, colored, 46, of the 2100 block of Flagler street. ‘Two-year-old William Miller, 634 H street southwest, sustained a possible skull fracture and body bruises when struck at Second and M streets south- east by a car police said was driven by Clyde A. Shiffiett, 27, of Alexandria, Va. The boy was admitted to Gal- linger Hospital, but his condition was said to be not serious. None of the other accidents resulted in serious injuries. BOYS 6 T0 9 TO GET SWIMMING LESSONS Special Instruction Is Arranged by Y. M. C. A.—Classes Mon- day, Wednesday, Friday. Special learn-to-swim lessons for younger boys have been arranged by the Boys’ Department of the Young Men’s Christian Ascociation, to fill a demand that has leen manifest for some time, it was announced today. William Hutzell, boys’ swimming instructor, will conduct the classes, which will be keld sn Monday, Wed- nesday and Friday afternoons at 3 o'clock. Boys from € tn 9 years old will be admitted to *he classes. It is not necessary that they hold member- ship in the ¥. M. C. A Each lesson will consume half an hour. An effort will be made to keep each class small, so that individual attention can be given each student. AGRONOMISTS SAIL | Dr. Oswald Schreiner and Dr. A. G. McCall Among Delegates. Willlam Miller, 2, sitting up, and Bernice Manyette, 6, lying on the bed, arg shown with Miss Thelma ward of Gallinger Hospital. ANN OFFENBERG. ARMY PLANS MANY NEARBY PROJECTS $1,577,295 Asked for Fort Bel- voir and $114,800 for Front Royal Depot. Applications for allotments of $1,577,295 to Fort Belvoir and of $114,800 to the Front Royal Army De- pot have been made by the War De- partment in its requests for $11,500,000 of works funds for Army posts, the Federal Division of Applications and Information announced today. The department has applied for al- lotments to cover 29 projects for new buildings and improvements at Fort Belvoir, and for three projects for buildings and improvements at the Front Royal Depot. Tacluded in the Fort Belvoir pro- gram is an allotment of $250,000 for simplification of utilities and a new water tank; $40,000 for construction of a rifle range; $114,460 for rehabili- tation of barracks, quarters and other buildings; $125,390 for planting and landecaping; $125,000 for officers’ quarters; $139,500 for garage and shop, and $93,000 for reconditioning water, sewer, electric, telephone and other utilitles. Other projects listed are $25,000 for 8 veterinary hospital, $69,525 for stables, $65,000 for extension of the service club, $55,000 for a commissary ‘warehouse, $20,000 for a new laundry, $70,000 for a coal yard and $17,400 for training camp facilities. The Front Royal Depot program in- cludes - $105,000 for rehabilitation of stables, quarters and miscellaneous buildings and systems; $5,000 for a * | quartermaster’s garage and $4,800 for personnel garages. Filing of applications for allotment of funds does not mean that the pro- posed undertakings will be carried out, the Applications Division noted. Arranges for Convention. ING * Children Car Victims as Family, Evicted, Go With Kin. Cannon, supervisor of the children’s —Star Staff Photo. WO-YEAR-OLD William Miller, whose parents, two brothers | and a sister were evicted from their home only a short while before he was run down by aa auto- | mobile yesterday afternoon, sat | perched atop a white-sheeted bed in | the children’s ward of Gallinger Hos- | pital today while his brothers and sis- | ter sweltered with four adults and six other children in a two-room, | kitchen and no bath apartmeat at 506 Maine avenue. The child was struck by an automo. | bile driven by Clyde A. Shifflett, 27, | colored, of Alexandria, Va., who later was charged with reckless driving, at | Second and M streets southwest late yesterday. Sitting beside William at the hos- | pital this morning was 6-year-old Bernice Manyette, 210 F street, an- other traffic accident victim of yester- day. She was struck by a car operated by Isaac E. Clinkett, 51, colored, of Ballston, Va., at Third and F streets. | Bernice cried i go “home to my | mommy,” but William, other than be- ing puzzled by X-rays and the “ladies in white” at the hospital, seemed pretty well satisfled to be where he was. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Miller, parents of the injured boy, moved in with Mil- | ler's brother William, and his family after being evicted from their apart- ment at 634 H street southwest yester- day morning. The father works at | odd jobs to support his wife and four | children. ADDITIONAL TERM GIVEN TAXI DRIVER Mack Hutto Sentenced for Leav- ing After Colliding and Oper- ating Without Permit. ‘The same case which recently sent Mack Hutto, 31, of the 600 block of Fifth street, to jail for from two to six | years on a charge of assault with a | dangerous weapon, yesterday took him | to Traffic Court, where he was con- victed also of leaving after colliding and operating without a permit. Judge Gus A. Schuldt sentenced him to serve 180 days for leaving after colliding and to pay & fine of $100 or serve 60 days for operating without a permit. In the District Supreme Court trial the dangerous weapon was Hutto's taxicab which he is alleged to have driven deliberately into the automobile of Maj.. James A. Purcell on the Speedway more than a month ago after the latter and a companion rescued & woman who claimed she was being attacked by Hutto. After the woman was taken from the scene in Maj. Purcell’s car, it was alleged his car was struck in the rear by the taxicab, despite the fact that Maj. Purcell drove off of the pavement when he saw the cab in pursuit. Maj. Purcell was injured in the crash. (4 | SWIM VICTIM IDENTIFIED AS SAMUEL VAUGHN, 53 Certificate of Accidental Drown- ing Issued in Death in Chain Bridge Vicinity. The body of the man drowned in the Potomac River a half mile below Chain Bridge yesterday and recovered shortly afterward has been identified at the morgue as that of Samuel Vaughn, 53, of 811 Mount Vernon place. Vaughn and Richard and Otis Pos- ton, brothers, of 804 Poriland street southeast, met at the Union Wall Pa- per Co., 630 Massachusetts avenue, yesterday morning and decided to go on a picnic. Proceeding to the vicinity of Fletch- er's boat. house, Vaughn had a brief swim, returned ashore, ate heartily and returned to the water. Richard tificate of accidental drowning. TAX REVENUE SOARS | tions with the War Department. STAR, WASHINGTON. GRAND JURY PROBE HINTED IN' ARMY CONTRACT LOBBIES Military Affairs Committee Weighs Testimony of Law- yer Paid by Silverman. CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS LIKELY, SAYS McSWAIN Plot to Obstruct Justice Believed Unearthed in Hearings Held Recently. BY REX COLLIER. Anocther grand jury investigation of contract lobbying at the War Depart- ment was seen as a possibility today as the House Military Affairs Com- mittee weighed testimony that the lawyer for a “key” witness for whom the Department of Justice was search- ing received envelopes containing money from Joseph Silverman, then under inquiry by the grand jury. ‘The lawyer, identified by the com- mittee as Harold Schneuer of New York City, was supposed to be turn- ing the money over to Frank E. Speicher, it was testified, at the direc- tion of A. Mitchell Palmer, wartime Attorney General, who was attorney for Silverman. Speicher, tire sales- man, was wanted for questioning by the grand jury. ‘The testimony came from Thomas Jefferson Ryan, New York lawyer and friend of Silverman. Ryan rocked the committee yesterday by declaring under interrogation that Speicher had telephoned him several times during the justice manhunt. Criminal Proceedings Hinted. Possibility of criminal proceedings under the laws making it a felony to obstruct justice was hinted by Chair- man McSwain of the committee. “If some of these things are true,” McSwain said after Ryan’s testimony, “it looks to me as though there was a plot to obstruct justice.” Conflicting testimony by an earlier witness before the committee is being studied by the committee with a view to considering advisability of prosecu- tidn for alleged perjury, another mem- | ber of the committee disclosed. The committee meanwhile will await | testimony at its next session Wednes- | day by Dennis Mahoney, New York | City policeman, who, McSwain as- serted, received a $250 check from | Silverman last March. Silverman, | when questioned about this check, said the policeman frequently helped him cash checks. In Touch With Garnett. The House committee has been in close touch with United State Attor- | ney Leslie C. Garnett's office during the long investigation of Army con- tracts. As a result of information un- covered by the committee, Col. Joseph I McMullen, former chief of the patents section of the judge advocate general’s office, was indicted recently on a charge of receiving fees from | private business firms having rela- Speicher, who finally was located by J. Edgar Hoover's agents in New York City about six months ago, gave testimony before the House committee that led to the court martialing of Col. Alexander E. Williams, formerly a general officer and one-time actiag quartermaster general. Col. Williams was convicted of accepting a $2,500 loan from Speicher, who was endeav- oring to sell the Army leak-proof automobile tubes. In his testimony yesterday, Ryan said Speicher called him by telephone three or four times and told him he was “in trouble” and that he was being hunted in connection with a matter involving an Army officer. Ryan declared he told Speicher each time he was not interested in his troubles and advised him to “give himself up.” Pressed for the identity of the Army officer mentioned by Speicher, Ryan agreed with McSwain that it was Col. Williams. Tells of Meeting. Ryan testified also that Speicher and Col. Williams held a meeting in a New York hotel just prior to the officer’s court martial. Further details on this meeting were not revealed. Speicher’s testimony before the court of generals prompted the court to sentence Col. Williams to be dismissed from the Army. - Nathan Silverman, & brother of Joseph, has been summoned for ques- tioning by the committee next Wed- qesday. He will be interrogated about sums totaling nearly $500,000 alleg- edly spent by the Silvermans during their efforts to obtain surplus Army goods contracts from the War De- partment. BADEN-POWELLS LEAVE Oft for England, Completing Tour Around World. NEW YORK. July 20 (#).—Lord S. S. Baden-Powell and Lady Bad Powell and their daughters, Heather and Betty, sailed last night for Eng- land on the liner Majestic. They are completing an around-the-world tour. ‘Walter Head of St. Louis, president of the Boy Scouts of America, also was & member of the party. Lord Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scout organization. Sightseeing in Jimmy’s Place Dull for County Commissioners Prince Georges County’s commis- sioners yesterday made a “sight- seeing tour” of “Jimmay’s place” on road, but saw nothing. D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1935. Swimming Pool Goal of $750 Nears Contrfbutions Already Received Insure Pleasure for Children at Least Three Months. The line forms to the right at this fire hydrant when the mercury soars into the 90s and there’s no swimming pool for these tots to use. Left to right: Buddy Hart, 4; Mary Joan Daniels, 2, and Marian Feagins, 4, are getting their “swim” while others await their turns. “We have no swimming pool,” they'll tell you, we've got to do something.” O swimming pool for four to five| months. | Additional contributions have boost- | ed to $600.82 The Star's fund for re- opening the Y. W. C. A. tank at 614 E street. The money already | given by generous Washingtonians, | responding to a long-felt need for swimming and bathing facilities in the | area bounded by the Mall, North Capitol street and Eleventh and O streets, insures operation of the pool for at least three months. With the | fund more than three-fourths com- | pleted, backers of the movement | pointed out that the full $750 initially | set as a goal will make possible op- give hundreds of boys and girls in downtown Washing- ton a completely :quipped’ for a month next Summer. With the exception of $5 received at The Star today from Louise H. De Sieyes, anonymous. They totaled $107. The Star, the Central Neighbor- | hoad Council, 1101 M street, and Mrs. | Charles Goldsmith, Westchester Apart- | ments, who yesterday raised $30 among friends, will accept contribu- tions. | Under direction of Miss Edith Coul- | son, secretary of the Central Neigh- borhood Council of the Council of Social Agencies and officials of the Y. W, seven workmen were busy to- ; day cleaning the pool and its premises. The pool room has been a re- all today's donations were} 56 —Star Staff Photo. Christmas. Constructicn of a pro- room and some repairs are necessary which will require considerable time. However, the pool will be ready for swimmers next week, Miss Coulson promised. First precinct polive have offered to co-operate in protecting children traffic hazards in the alley through which entrance must be made and in the busy connecting streets. They will erect a warning sign in the alley. Miss Coulson planned to arrange today for volunteer life guard service, which probably will be supplied by the Red Cross. AIRPORT BATTLE INMIDST OF LULL Opposing Forces Dig With Action Unlikely, Next Few Days. The Washington Airport battle was | at a temporary standstill over the week end, with opposing forces “dug in” and holding their positions, ac- cording to congressional observers. Faced with certain objection to con- sideration of his Military road bill under unanimous consent, Chairman McSwain of the House Military Affairs Committee today proposed to let the| whole matter rest for a day or two to| await developments. There is little prospect of House action of any kind in the matter during the early part of the coming week, it was said. Representatives of Arlington County civic bodies, supporting a new plan for construction of highway ap- proaches to Washington which would permit the closing of Military road, are planning a meeting to agree upon a plan of concerted action prior to asking an open hearing of the County Board. A new element was injected into the congressional situation yesterday when Representative Nichols of Oklahoma, a member of the Airport Subcommit« tee of the House District Committee, announced that he will object to pas- sage of the McSwain bill by unani- mous consent. Nichols is opposed to outright transfer of Military road to Arlington County, as proposed in the McSwain bill as amended. Nichols’ opposition will make it im- possible for McSwain to get the bill through on the consent calendar and probably will force him to seek a spe- clal rule for its consideration. MORE NEW STREET CARS EXPECTED HERE SOON Second Group of 10 Is Tested in St. Louis Preparatory to Ship- In, Mrs. Greenway; Helper of Cupid, Gives Away Bride Office Staff Member and | Soil Service Em- ploye Wed. As energetic a Cupid’s helper as she is a legislator, Representative Isabella Greenway, Democrat, of Arizona, yes- terday “gave away” a bride and thus | climaxed an eight-year romance be- | tween one of her office assistants and a young friend. Daisy Henrickson of Mrs. Green- way's office staf and Newman F. Hauswald, an employe of the Soil Conservation Service, were married by the Rev. James Shera Montgomery, | House chaplain, in Mrs. Greenway’s | garden, at 3061 Whitehaven Parkway. | “One of the biggest jobs of my life,” said Mrs. Greenway, “was to get that pair together, and now that it is all over, I feel happy, but sad, that I have | lost two of my favorite children.” | The romance started eight years ago in Tucson, Ariz. The former Miss Henrickson was called to Wash- ington four years later to help Mrs. Greenway. Recently, with Mrs. Greenway's assistance, Hauswald was brought here to work with the Soil | Conservation Service. The couple will spend a few days{ honeymooning in New York before they return here, when Mrs. Haus-| wald will give up her job to become, according to her erstwhile employer, “a good, old-fashioned Southern wife and cater solely to her husband.” e PARK BANK LIABILITY REVIEW PLEA FILED Petitioners Take Issue With De- cision Dividing Savings De- positors Into Two Classes. The United States Supreme Court has been asked to review the question of whether directors of the Park Sav- ings Bank can be held individually and personally liable to depositors who | ment to District. The second group of 10 of Wash- ington’s modern street cars was being tested in St. Louis today preparatory to their being shipped here. The first 10, now in service from Rosslyn to Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, were made in Philadelphia and put in op- eration two months ago. The new trams are identical with 44 feet and width of 8 feet 8 inches, H seats 48 passengers and provides standing room for 50. tables and chairs piled high on one side. In an anie room on the third | quest for a review. placed money in the institution after its Alabama charter expired August 30, 1929. The petition for review was filed by John W. Thompson and by John F. Moran, the receiver of the bank, who points out this is one of a group of cases involving the liability of direc- tors and stockholders of banks or- ganized under State laws and doing business in the District. The petitioners take issue with the decision of the District Supreme Court in dividing depositors in the in- solvent Parks Savings Bank into two classes by holding that the direc- tors as trustees must accoun to those who were depositors on the date the bank’s charter expired, but that de- positors after that date may not main- THO CIRLS SAVED BYD. . SHINER Walter Rhinehart, G. W. Honor Man, Rescues Pair at Virginia Beach. ‘The news has just leaked out that Walter Rhinehart, president of last year's graduating class at George ‘Washington University and recipient of the Delta Tau Delta “best student™” award, was the hero of a narrowly Beach last week. Rhinehart, who majored in so- clology at school, now is employed at the National Training School for Boys here. Reluctantly, he related today | how he rescued two young girls, each about 20 years old. “I'd just eaten breakfast,” he said, “and had wandered out on la Walter Rhinehart. | the verenda of the hotel, when the | mother of cne of the girls came run- ning up the beach screaming that her daughter was drowning. “I ran across the beach, and across the breakers could see a girl's head just barely above the water. When I them. One was unconscious, and the other was nearly gone. It was a pretty tough job getting them both in, and I was plenty glad to get back into the breakers again. “That's about all. Those people down there thought it was great. It got so embarrassing I finally left.” The two girls, Lillian Royer and Grace Washburn, both of Topeka, Kans., were taken to a hospital, but were released two days later. - e RITCHIE TO BE GUEST By a Staff Coirespondent of The Star. FAIR HAVEN, Md., July 20.—For- mer Gov. Ritchie has agreed to at- tend the annual stag outing of the Young Men's Democratic Prince Georges County here today. Mr. Ritchie advised Senate Presi- dent Lansdale G. Sasscer yesterday that he would be glad to attend the affair. Although the outing is en- tirely informal, it is expected the for- mer Governor will be called upon to make an address. The affair will be held on the estate of Irvin Owings. Births Reported. George and Elizabeth Beyer, girl. . boy. tain an action against the directors | Ralph individually. The Court of Appeals affirmed this ruling, and the petitioners are asking the Supreme Court for a writ of cer- tiorari to review this decision. The court has not yet passed on the re- FOUR HURT IN WRECK Capital Family in Auto Crash at Fort Erie, Ontario. Albert H. Belfie of this city, zone | Al lacerations, and 2, suftered =.head injury. m wrecked. ., boy. Prank and Florence Coon. Jr.. boy. Walter and Dorothy Henderson. boy. George and Betty di Zerega. boy. Clarence and Virginia Shiffiett. boy. Jobn, and Mari m. boy. William and Luella O'Roork. Richard and Charlott Maley, BenJ: ith and Eli; Eivend Jepevs. o Ella Charl Willis arg Rickard, girl. Smith,” girl. Fioetnood and Alberta Carson. girl. Deaths Reported. Euizsbets C. De Plelds. 85, 4514 Connecti- ‘cut ave. aziah B. Pershing. 76, 3614 20th st. n.e. Anirew R Meixlelohn, 64, 6357 Georsia ave. ler. 64, Garfield ital. ‘fm 63, mm‘.’fi? Hospital. Lila Jones 59, id Hospita S b T T powtal James Newion, 3, Gallinger Hospital. WONAN STRHERS T CET NEW J0BS N ALEZAORA Mayor Arranges to Employ 95 Making Shirts for State Relief. HUUSEWMGED TO LOAN MACHINES Shirt Factory Picketing Con- tinued Pending Efforts Mon- day for Peace. By Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, July 20— Mayor E. C. Davison today announced plans to provide other jobs for 95 women striking against alleged “sweat shop” conditions in the shirt manu- facturing plant of Morris Weinman, at Wilkes and South Columbus streets. Davison said the woman strikers, who continued their picketing of the closed plant today pending an arbitra- tion meeting Monday, will be hired at $14 a week to manufacture shirts for |a Virginia State relief organization. He said the city alms house will be | converted into a temporary workshop | for the strikers and city trucks will transport their materials. Sewing Machines Asked. The mayor this morning issued an | appeal to sympathetic housewives of Alexandria, urging them to loan sew- ing machines for the destitute strikers. Club of Davison said he aiready had orders for 600 shirts and expected more in NLY $150 was needed today to| eration for the duration of the Sum- | pository for broken boxes, furniture | the near future. He expected the mer and either part of next Fall orf and toys which are to be patched up | work to last for the duration of the | for distribution to needy children at | strike. | Strikers maintained pickets all last | tective iron railing through a furnace | night and planned to guard the plant | until midnight tonight in an effort | to prevent the management from re- | moving the large quantities of cloth {used in the manufacture of work | shirts. Meanwhile, the first hope of arbi- | tration came late yesterday when | going to and from the pool from | Howard T. Colvin, Labor Department conciliation commissioner. persuaded !Lhe owner of the plant to meet with a committee of six women workers at 2 p.m. Monday. | Willing to Hear Plea. | The owner, Morris Weinman of Bal- timore, is quoted as having said he was | willing to hear the pleas of the strikers and diseuss their differences with the Labor Department envoy. According to the chairman of the Workers’ Committee, Miss Reba Don- ald, “sweat shop” conditions prevail | in the ramshackle building, wher 105 | women work under a tin roof which | intensifies the heat in Summer. Miss | Donald also charged that the building was inadequately heated in the Winter. The strikers declared they were paid as little as $8 for 36 hours of piece work under the N. R. A. code. and the top wages then were $14 |a week. This scale, it was charged, has received three 10 per cent cuts since June 1 and the work hours have been lengthened. Twenty-five women strikers yester- | day afternoon stood resolutely before | the doors of the plant as a truck | drove up to remove materials te an- | other of Weinman’s plants. The truck | driver asked for police assistance and | averted double drowning at Virginia officers were sent to the scene. Some one among the 100 women who collected about the truck re- moved the ignition keys from the switchboard, and the disabled vehicle was towed away two hours later with- out removing any of the goods. For Passive Resistance. The picketing employes declarec they would offer passive resistance and stand in the road should further attempts be made to take goods frou the factory. The strikers who have been oui since Monday morning were ore ganized several days ago by Mis | Virginia Lowry of Baltimore rep- iresenlmg the Amalgamated Clothiny | Workers' Union. The Central Laba Union of Alexandria also agreed t3 sponsor the pleas of the workers. The strikers said they would dis- continue their picketing at midnight tonight since there is a city ordinance preventing the trucking of merchandise or commercial materials on the Sab- | got there, I found there were two of | path without a special permit. Of the 105 women workers who operate the sewing and cutting ma- chines in the Century Manufacturing Co. plant 95 have signed union cards, the strikers claim. The four men em- ployes of the plant did not join the strike. \U.S. PLANS TO APPEAL GRAFT CASE VERDICT District Supreme Court Invali- dated Indictment in Texas P. W. A. Charges. The Government will take an ap- peal from a recent District Supreme Court decision invalidating an indict- ment returned after an investigation of graft charges in connection with construction of a $4,000,000 canal in Texas. The indictment was thrown out by Justice Jesse C. Adkins, who held it at- tempted to charge two offenses. The appeal was announced after Solicitor General Stanley Reed had approved such action. ‘The indictment, which named seven men, marked the first major graft charge growing out of the administra- tion of P. W. A. funds. The canal was proposed to irrigate a large area In Willacy County, but the project was abandoned after the graft charges had been brought to the attention of Sec- retary Ickes. PREMIER OF DENMARK WILL VISIT AMERICA Ruth Bryan Owen, U. 8. Minis- ter, Returning on Leave, to Welcome Him. By the Assoctated Press. Ruth Bryan Owen, Minister to Den- mark, will return to this country on annual leave August 22, arriving in time to welcome the Danish prime minister, Thorvald Stauning, who will reach New York August 24 on the Danish gunboat Ingolf. Stauning will visit President Roose- velt at Hyde Park, and then visit by airplane Detroit, Chicago, Racine, where his son lives;“San Francisco g’nd Los Angeles, returning to Ne’ §¥ork in time to sail September 17,