Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1935, Page 12

SENATE APPROVES WALSH WAGE BILL Measure Would Insure Pay- ment on Federal Build- ing Jobs. By the Associated Press. The Senate yesterday passed, and sent to the House, the Walsh bill designed to insure the payment of prevailing local wages to workers on Federal building projects. The bill was drawn by the Senate Labor Committee, after extensive hearings, during which much testi- mony was introduced from Washing- ton tending to show that employers required workers to “kick back” por- tions of their pay envelopes. As sent to the House, the measure provides principally: | That laborers and mechanics on | construction work of anykind in ex- cess of $2,000 are guaranteed local prevailing wages. For a predetermination of the pre- vailing wage so that the contractor | may know definitely in advance of submitting his bid what his approxi- mate labor costs will be. For withholding payments to con- tractors to reimburse workers not paid _the prevailing wage. For a system of co-ordination be- tween Government departments to assure that the Government will not be in the position of continuing to| contract with a firm which disre- garded obligations to workers and subcontractors. That workers aggrieved by forced | Tebates may have the same right of action against a contractor which is now conferred by the bond statute | VWill Wed Briton CANDY HEIRESS ENGAGED TO KENIGHT. MISS CATHERIN SCHRAFFT, Candy heiress, left Mexico City re- cently for New York, She is en- gaged to Sir Peter Norton Griffith, British sub-official of the Aguila oil Co. —A. P. Photo, MAN ASKS DIVORCE Baltimorean Charges Riverdale Woman With Desertion. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md, July 31.—Charging desertion, C. Roland | Gartrell of Baltimore yesterday filed suit in Circuit Court for an absolute divorce from Virginia V. Gartrell of on persons furnishing labor and ma- | Riverdale. terials when there are no funds to withhold for reimbursement. . 2 Parking Ban Considered. Johannesburg, South Africa, may ban parking in the central area. Through Attorneys J. Wilson Ryon and Albert R. Hassell, the husband told the court his wife left him in ‘Washington, September 10, 1931. The icouple was married in Baltimore, | April 17, 1924, and has no children, | according to the bill of complaint. take me home! What would you do if the most beautiful girl you ever saw suddenly turned to you at a dinner party and issued that command? ... John Storm obeyed . .. and then he got another surprise. On the way home she suddenly demanded that he kiss her. He did ... and thus began the mad battle between in- fatuation and love. Sur- prising climaxes, thrills and dramatic suspense. A scintillating story of life and love IN THE SOCIAL SET IN THE NA- TION’S CAPITAL ... a story by PHYLLIS MOORE GALLAGHER... who is a member of and knows inti- mately the society life of our own Washington, D. C. begins August 4th in THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, CRASH OF SEAPLANE TAKES THREE LIVES Dean R. W. Brock of University of British Columbia Among Dead in Accident. By the Assoclated Press. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 31.—Three persons are dead and one critically in:jured as the result of & seaplane crash at Alta Lake, 50 miles north of here. Dean R. W. Brock of the University of British Columbia and William Mc- Cluskey, an airplane pilot, were killed | into trees at the south end of the lake, Mrs. Brock died early today of her injuries. L. David Sloan, managing director of the Pioneer Gold Mines of British Columbia, a passenger in the plane, suffered badly fractured legs. The bodies of Brock, widely known educator in applied science, and of McCluskey, who served in the Royal Alr Corps during the World War, were being brought here. Flyers familiar with the lake said a prevalling down current of air at the south end probably was responsible for the wreck. McCluskey is survived by his widow and two children. e Several native banks at Shanghal, and Mrs. Brock was fatally injured | China, have closed as the result of yesterday when their plane nose-dived | the serious financial situation there. ikt an O Gowo fOT young Ideas D. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1935. DEATH HELD ACCIDENTAL Fall Is Fatal to Mrs. Helen Web- ster Ingleton, 70. A certificate of accidental death || has been issued by Coroner A. Ma- | | gruder MacDonald in the case of || Mrs. Helen Webster Ingleton, 70, who was fatally injured Monday when she fell on the stairs leading to the | | basement of her home, 1901 Park road. | | Mrs. Ingleton, who resided with her | | daughter, Miss Helen T. 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