Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weatner Bureau PForecast.) Partly cloudy, probably local showers today; tomorrow fair, not much change in temperature} moderate southwest winds. Temperatures—Highest, 82, at 3 p.m, yes- Subscriber or Newsstand Copy terday; lowest, 69, at 3:30 a.m. today. ¢ Full report on page A-9. (#) Means Associa No. 1,586—No. 33,339. d P r Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. . he und WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION . WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 11, 1935-104 PAGES. SWEEPING TAX RAISES VOTED BY SENATE GROUP HIT LOW-INCOME CLASS Major Political Fight Seen in Change. Proposed Inc By the Associated Press. Following is the new income surtax schedule approved yesterday by the Senate Finance Committee, compared Bracke!, | $3,000 to $4.000 $800 AND $2,000 PAY REACHED 468 Million Held Revenue Total ' Under Bill. BY JOHN C. HENRY. | The skeleton of sweeping increases | in taxes today is rattling in the closets of the New Deal. | Kept out of sight for months while ! Republican foes shrieked that only | higher taxes could ever meet the ex- | travagant spending habits of the Democratic administration, the skele- | ton was exposed for the first time ! yesterday when the Senate Finance Committee voted to broaden its pend- ing tax legislation to a point vhere every single person earning as much as $800 and every married couple having a net income of $2,000 would be affected. Revised in several other major p visions, the legislation, now calcu ted to bring the Federal Government approximately $468,000,000 additional revenue, will be reported to the Senate tomorrow or Tuesday. Political opin- | ion differs as to the fate of the mes- sure there, but virtually a unanimity of opinion exists that the House, more finely attuned to the immediate re- action of the voting taxpayers. will shrink from enactment of a bill sure to cost so many people money | Recommendations Ignored. Further removed from the Presi- dent’s recommendations than was the | legislation approved by the House, the | principal features of the Senate’s tax bill are: (1) The normal income tax exemp- tion for unmarried persons is reduced from $1,000 to $800 and that of mar- ried couples from $2,500 to $2,000. Exemption for dependents remains at $400. with the age limit of such de- pendents raised from 18 to 20 years. (2) Surtaxes will begin at the $3,000 net income bracket instead of $4,000 | as at present. The rate, always to be added to the normal income tax rate of 4 per cent, will be 4 per cent for $1,000 between $3,000 and $4,000 net income. Prom this point up the rate will increase by at least 2 per cent for | each $2,000 of added net income. At the 850,000 income bracket, where the | House bill made so bold as to jump the existing rate from 30 to 31 per cent, the Senate Finance Committee bill will call for a 40 per cent surtax. As the income gets into the millions, however, the Senate bill falls into al- most complete conformity with that | approved by the House, the rate on | incomes between $1.000.000 and $2.- 000,000 being 73 per cent, while that | on incomes above $5000,000 yearly | will be 75 per cent. (3) Existing estate taxes, with the exemption lowered from $50,000 to 840,000, are doubled in the lower | brackets and are graduated as high as ! $50,000,000 where the tax will be 70 per cent. The rate on the first $10,000 taxable will be 2 per cent instead of 1 per cent as at present. That on an estate of $10,600,000, the highest point ! at which graduation of rates is now continued, will be 67 per cent instead of 60 per cent. Inheritance Taxes Out. In arriving at this decision to boost estate taxes, the Senate committee de- | - cided to abandon the entire program | of inheritance taxes, a provision spe- cifically requested and given great em- phasis by President Roosevelt and car- | ried out by the House. It was on this | 1ssue that the Senate group took its | only record vote of the two-day delib- | erations, the count being 11 to 8'\ egainst levying inheritance taxes. The Senators lined up as follows on | this question: Against inheritance taxes—King of | Utah, George of Georgia, Walsh of Massachusetts, Gore of Oklahoma, | Bailey of North Carolina, Byrd of | Virginia, Lonergan of Connecticut and | (See TAXES, Page 4.) MME. JERITZA TO WED Opera Star to Be Bride of Win-| field Sheehan. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., August | 10 (#)—Winfield Sheehan, motion | picture producer, and Maria Jeritza, | the opera singer, obtained a licease to wed here today and said they would be married Monday at the Old Mis- sion. Mme. Jeritza is Baroness Maria von Podharagn. | $4,000 to $6,000 | $6,000 to $8,000 $8,000 to $10,000 $10,000 to $12,000 $12,000 to $14,000 $14,000 to $16,000 $16,000 to $18,000 $18,000 to $20,000 $20,000 to $22.000 $22,000 to $26,000 $26,000 to $32,000 $32,000 to $38,000 $38,000 to $44,000 $44,000 to $50,000 $50,000 to $60,000 $60,000 to $70,000 $70,000 to $80,000 $80,000 to $90,000 $90,000 to $100,000 $100,000 to $150,000 $150,000 to $200,000 $200,000 to $250,000 $250,000 to $300,000 $300,000 to $400,000 $400,000 to $500,000 $500,000 to $750,000 - $750,000 to $1,000.000 $1,000.000 to $2,000,000 $2,000,000 to $5,000,000 Over $5,000,000 - Preposed rate, ome Surtaxes with the House bill and existing law: Proposed Present surtax. surtax. $40 160 320 520 760 1,040 1,360 1,720 2,120 2,560 3,520 5,140 6.940 8.920 11,080 13,080 19,480 24.280 29,420 35,080 64,080 94.080 125,080 157,080 223,000 291,080 466,080 646,080 1,376,080 3,596,080 SBurtax under House bill. i 80 180 300 440 600 780 1,000 1.260 1,560 2,240 3,380 4,640 6,080 1.700 10.960 14,860 19,400 24,500 30,000 59,000 89,000 120,000 152,000 218,000 286,000 461,000 641,000 1,371,000 3,591,000 80 | 180 | 300 44 600 | 780 | 1,000 | 1,260 1.560 2,240 3380 | 4,640 6.080 7,700 10,820 | 14,420 18.500 | 23,000 28,000 54.000 80.500 107,500 134500 189,500 245,500 | 388,000 533,000 | 1,123,000 2,893,000 END OF CONGRESS SESSN NEARING Adjournment May Come in 10 Days With Tax Bill Storm Center. BY J. A. O'LEARY. Congress is heading toward ad-! journment in about 10 days, with the tax bill likely to be the storm | center in the closing hours of a tedi- ous seven-month session. There is a strong desire in both major parties to throw the legisiative wheels into high gear and get through next Saturday, but it is doubtful whether conference reports can be| adopted and other last-minute odds | and ends disposed of before the mid- | dle of the following week. In any event, there were no indications yes- terday that the session will run be- yond August 24. The key to the entire situation is in the Senate, and the date of ad- journment depends largely on how many amendments to the tax bill are offered from the floor, and how much debate they provoke. The Finance Committee is striving to get the revamped revenue measure ready for Senate debate by late Tues- day or early Wednesday, and Chair- man Harrison expressed the personal hope yesterday that one or two night sessions of the Senate be held. if necessary, to expedite its considera- tion. McNary Urges Speed. Senator McNary of Oregon, Repub- lican floor leader, is one of those who believes Congress should complete its labors as quickly as possible and adjourn. He still hopes this may be possible by Saturday, August 17, but, | like congressional leaders, he realizes that, even with steady progress, sev- eral legislative days beyond that date may be required. | One thing is fairly certain, namely, that once the tax bill is through, it will be extremely difficult to hoid the lawmakers in session for other last- minute, controversial issues. The Senate is likely to pass the tax bill by Saturday, even if adjourn- ment is not possible by that date, and while conferees are working out the differences between the two Houses on that bill, the remaining conference reports on other “must” bills could be called up and disposed of. Other Measures Unfinished. Major issues that have passed both House and Senate, but are still in an unfinished state include: Revision of the agricultural .djust- ment act, on which the agreement of (See ADJOURNMENT, Page 11.) Meteor Nearly Hits Farmer. BRIGGSDALE, Colo., August 10 (#)—While he was “roeing beans,” farmer Tom Everett reported today. a meteor whizzed by, narrowly missing his head. Looking up, Everett said he saw a cloud of dust. Several yards away he found a molten mass so hot he had to let it cool before he could pick it up. Egg-shaped, it weighed one-half pound. 100 House Members Are IlI, Says Maverick By the Associated Press. One Congress member’s collapse and another’s death brought renewed de- mands yesterday for speedy adjourn- ment. “I believe at least 100 members of the House could be classified as ill,” said Representative Maverick, Demo- crat, of Texas. “We are being maimed politically and shot in health.” After Priday's sudden death of Representative Truax, Democrat, of Ohio, it was learned yesterday that Representative Sutphin, Democrat, of New Jersey, is in a hospital following & physical collapse. Mrs. Sutphin re- ported him resting comfortably. Truax died of heart disease in his apartment only four hours after he had been in the midst of activities on the floor. The body left Washington last night for burial in Sycamore, Ohio, Tuesday. ¥ , Urging Breakup His death was the fourth among members of the House at this session. Representative-elect Landis, Repub- lican, of Indiana, died shortly before Congress convened; Representative Griffin, Democrat, of New York, in January, and Representative Garden, Democrat, of Kentucky, at his home a few weeks ago. Others who have been ill during the session include Representatives Bank- head, Democrat, of Alabama, the Democratic floor ' leader; Cochran. Democrat, of Missouri; Oliver, Demo- crat, of Alabama; Bulwinkle, Demo- crat, of North Carolina, and Peyser, Democrat, of New York. Acting Majority Leader Taylor of Colorado said yesterday he felt Con- gress should go home “as soon as the tax bill is passed.” “The quicker we get out, the bet- ter,” agreed Minority Leader Snell of New York. | only one district, the Ohio election OHIOVOTE DEMAND SOUNDED BY G.0P. Election of Truax Successor Would Show Trend in Important State. BY THEODORE C. WALLEN. Republican national .eaders, taking up Democratic protestations that the Rhode Island special election consti- tuted no reliable index to public senti- ment, virtually challenged President | Roosevelt last night to submit the | New Deal to a cross-section vote of | confidence a year in advance of the | Presidential election of 1936. It was pointed out that the vacancy in the Ohio delegation due to the death of Charles V. Truax, New Meal Representative-at-large, offered an “excellent” opportunity for a test of President Roosevelt’s policies in a pivotal state which occasionally swings the balance of power in national elec- | tions. | Charles D. Hilles, New York mem- | ber of the Republican National Com- mittee, led off with a statement urg- ing Democratic national leaders, 1n ef- fect, to join with Republicans in urg- ing an election to fill the Ohio va- cancy before the January sitting of Congress. Hilles was backed up by Representative Snell, minority leader of the House, and other Republicans | who pointed out that, if the Rhode | Island Congressional election. covered | would be statewide, since Truax repre- sented the State at large. | Seen Political Hazard. The effect was to confront the | President with an unexpected political hazard. Were he to bring about an Ohio election and fail to carry it. he would suffer a tremendous psychologi- cal setback on the eve of his cam- paign for re-election. Were he to | side-step a test, it would be said he (See OHIO VOTE, Page 5.) Readers’ Guide PART ONE. Main News Section. General News—Pages A-1 to B-6. Changing World—A-3. Lost and Found—A-9. Death Notices—A-9. Vital Statistics—A-9. Washington Wayside—A-10. Service Orders—A-13. Stamp News—B-6. Sports Section—Pages B-7, B-11. Boating and Fishing News—B-11. PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial Articles—Pages D-1-3. Editorials and Editorial Fea- tures—Page D-2. Short Story—D-4. | Civic News and Comment—D-4. | Who Are You?—D-4. Women’s Clubs, Parent-Teacher Activities—D-5-6. Veterans’ Organizations, Na- tional Guard and Organized Reserves—D-5-6, Resorts—D-7-8. PART THREE. Society Section. Society News and Comment— Pages E-1-10, E-12. Barbara Bell Pattern—E-10. PART FOUR. Feature Section. News Features—Pages F-1-3. John Clagett Proctor’s Article on Old Washington—F-3. Books and Art—F-4. Cross-word Puzzle—F-4, Stage and Screen—F-5. Music—F-6. Radio News and Programs—F-7. “Those Were the Ha.gpy Days,” by Dick Mansfield—F-8. Automobiles—F-8. Aviation—F-8. Serial Story—F-8. Children’s Page—F-9. High Lights of History—F-9. PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Financial News and Comment, Stock, Bond and Curb Sum- mari 1-4, | vailed in the first Rhode Island con- | | erally speaking. DOWN EAST STATES LOSTT0 NEW DEAL, OBSERVERS FEEL Base Belief on Swing of 34,000 Votes in Rhode Island Election. A.A.A. TAX AND SPENDING PROGRAMS DISTASTEFUL People Have Not Forgotten Thrift and Look With Anxiety to Meeting Tax Bill. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Staft Correspondent of The Star. BOSTON, Mass, August 10.—New England is lost to the Roosevelt New Deal, in the opinion of careful ob- servers of political sentiment here. The recent election in the first con- gressional district of Rhode Island, when Risk, a Republican candidate for the House, won because of a swing of some 34,000 votes since last Novem- ber's election of a Democrat, has served to cement this idea. How far the Republican party will be able to capitalize on the discontent of the New England voters with President Roosevelt and his New Deal policies re1 ains to be seen. Up to tke present time the Republican party organization in this section of the | country hi been nothing to boast of s’ 'ce the Democrats took charge in Washington. But that situation pre- | gressional district before the election. And if the Republicans are able to go | ahead and defeat the New I “al Demo- crats without any particular organi- zation in Rhode Island, it is argued | that they can do it in Massachusetts and other New England States. Gazins Increased in 1934. In 1932, to be sure, Roosevelt car- ried onl’ two of the six New England States—Massachusetts and | Rhode Island. The rest—Maine. Con- necticut, Vermont and New Hamp- | shire—all went for Herbert Hoover, | th-ugh ¥ .arrow margins. In 1934, | however, there was a continued Demo- | cratic swing in New England, gen- For example, Con- | necticut and Rhode IslanC both elected Democratic Senators to sup- plant Republicans, and James M. Curley, a Democrat, won by a big vote in the gubernatori:® contest in Mas- | sachusetts. It may be urged in some quarters thht if the entir> six New England States were lost to Roosevelt and the New Deal next year, it would not be much of a blow—me:.cly the loss of | two States which supported Roosevelt in 19°2. On the other hand, if there is dissatisfaction and discontent with | the Nevw Deal throughout New Eng- iand, is there any good reason to be- lieve that discontent may not have ¢ read into oth - sections? New England congressional elections to fill vacancies in the House have at least twice in the past given a clear indication that the sentiment of the country had swung against the ad-' ministration in power. In March, 1910, midway through the Taft ad- ministration, Eugene N. Fess, running as a Democrat, swept Cape Cod in | reaction against the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. The Fess victory in this Massachusetts district forecast the | utter route of the Republicans in 1919. Twenty years later, in 1930, Repre- sentative William J. Garfield swept | the Springfield district in Massachu- | setts in a February by-election. The Grandfield election was the first real indication of the rising tide which | was to engulf the G. O. P. later. So ' it is not so easy to laugh off or di count what the voters of a New Eng- land congressional district may do at the polls. Democratic Stronghold. The first Rhode Island district had | been considered a strong Democratic | district. No one, Republican or Demo- cratic, believed that Risk would carry the district last Tuesday with rare exceptions. The Democrats believed that their 21,000 margin of victory in the dis- trict last November might be reduced. But that the Republican would win with a lead of more than 12,000 votes | they would have laughed to scorn an hour before the counting of the votes began. Their amazement in Demo- cratic headquarters in Rhode Island Tuesday night as the returns rolled (See POLITICS, Page 6.) Capital Boy Killed by Ball Watching Camp Letts Game 13-Year-Old Roger Cal- vert, jr., Victim of Vacation Accident. The second day of what was to have been a happy vacation at Camp Letts for a 13-year-old Washington boy ended tragically yesterday when he was fatally injured by a base ball. ‘The boy, Roger Calvert, jr., son of Mrs. Bernice Calvert, 3502 Connecti- cut avenue, former assistant manager of the Broadmoor Apartments, died en route to Emergency Hospital in Annapolis. Roger was standing on the side- lines watching a group of his com- panions play ball when a line drive over the foul line struck him on the head. ‘When first aid failed to restore him | tion. | wreckage SEEMS TOME (& THIS 1S WORTHY oF A SPECIAL POSTAGE STAMP ISSUE, Official Forecast FVEAREKILED %t Farce INTRAGTION CRASH i 47 S {Commerce Department Score of Others Injured as, Sees Fall Revival Cars Collide Near As Stocks Boom. Springfie'd, Ohio. “Expectations of a considerable in- crease in Fall business” were an- By the Associated Press. ‘nuunced officially yesterday by the SPRINGFIELD, Ohio. August 10.— | Department of Commerce at the Helplessly trapped in a telescoped in- | same time that Wall Street experi- terurban passenger car, five persons | enced its fastest Saturday stock mar- were killed today and a score injured, ket since February 24, 1934, and several critically. bullish trading pushed numerous is- A northbound work car of the Cin- sues to mew high levels for the year cinnati & Lake Erie Traction Co. col- oOr longer. lided head-on with the southbound | The Commerce Department's opti- passenger coach near here with a crash | Mism was_announced in its weekly that was heard over the countryside (See BUSINESS, page 2.) and brought thousands of persons to | the scene. Crashed on a Curve. The two cars came together on a curve during a rainstorm. The old: B CARDENAS FOILED length. H The dead: Miss Helen Wingfield of Bellefon- | Confession Is Reported. Two Officials of Town Seized and Hanged. taine. By the Associated Press. Charles Murray of Urbana. | Roy Zimmerman of Springfield, motorman of the passenger car. 1 Miss Ruth Gibson. 25, of Westerville, | identified by a teacher's certificate., An unidentified woman. MEXICO CITY, August 10.—Fol- lowing close upon the heels of a dis- | closure today by reliable militarv Volunteer rescue workers and trac- Sources that an attempt on the life tion company employes dug into the Of President Lazaro Cardenas had quickly with axes and |been foiled, came word from Vera Cruz Every ambulance in Springfield and | Urbana responded to the calls for help. brought out the dead and injured. | !Pat & group of armed men attacked Ran Past Switch. | Doctors and nurses fought their way to the scene through a graffic blockade that extended a mile I\ either direc- intendent of the C. & L. E. line, said | Bcvernment and the secretary and Zimmerman ran past Switch No. 61 |kanged them to a tree on a nearby and that the motorman had orders to | mountainsiae. take the switch to let the line car| Three of the rebel group were cap- pass. . { tured and five were jailed and held A. N. Allen of Bellefontaine, motor- | incommunicado in connection with man of the work car, told an lm-lvhe alleged plot in the capital. bulance driver that he had the right- | One of those held is Reuben Gomez of-way and that the passenger coach Prado, a native of Jiquilpan, State of should have taken a side track. | Michoacan, which is Cardenas’ home Seven unidentified persons iay in town. He was carrying a revolver and | hospitals. 11 cartridges when seized. The city hospital cared for 15 in-| The military sources said Prado jured. Some were not expected to contessed he intended to kill the recover. | President and that “they sent me here (Wirephoto on Page A-2.) to kill Cardenas.” Belief was ex- 534 pressed he was an old enemy of Cardenas. The identity of the four others held was not learned. Lourdes Visitors Typhoid Victims | GLASGOW, Scotland, August 10 (#).—An outbreak of typhoid fever | was reported from three Scottish | counties today among children who | recently made a pilgrimage to Loudres, France. Six were admitted to hospitals here, and others were under observation. Ousted Dictator Flees. VILLA HEERMOSA, Mexico, August 10 (#)—Tomas Garrido y Canabal, his 15-year-old dictatorship of Ta- basco state definitely at an end, left | today by private airplane for Guate- mala en route to Puerto Rico, where he intends to live permanently in exile. . . Garrido's party included his wife and three children, Senator Ausscen- clo Cruz and Federal Deputy Perez, formerly director of the radical “red shirts” organization. The radical state dictator’s down- fall was a direc* result of the students who invaded Villa Hermosa July 15. Pive of the group lost their lives in a machine gur. volley fired from an automobile as they walked down the main street Public indignation forced President Lazaro Cardenas to declare the state government non-existent, thereby stripping Gerrido of his power. Immediately after Garrido’s depart- ure, state officials announced several of his decrees had been nullified, in- cluding those prohibiting the display of crosses in cemeteries, the wearing of mourning veils, the playing of jazz and dancing. A committee of prominent citizens petitioned the federal undersecretary of the interios, Alfonso Arroyo, to re- store freedom of worship. Arroyo re- plied he was forwarding the request 250-FOOT FALL FATAL Girls Marooned on Cliff—One Plunges Over. SANTA BARBARA, Calif, August 10 (#).—Sixteen-year-old Joy Quinton was killed today in a fall from s cliff 250 feet high at the Red Rock camp in the Santa Barbara National Forest. She and Catherine Rutherford had become .narooned on the cliff. Miss Quinton slipped ROGER CALVERT, JR. He was a pupil at the Phoebe Hearst School here. Mrs. Calvert, who is a clerk at the Emergency Relief Administration, is the widow of Roger L. Calvert, for- mer president of the Washington Chemical Corp., who was killed in an automobile accident several years ago. She hasa daughter a few years older , and fell. Miss Ruth- qflflmmfluflhmww a Shaf [Fas | | Poliomyelitis Scare Bans the town of San Jose Mahiatlan, kid- | T. Curtiss of Dayton, general super- | Daped the president of the municipa | FIVE CENTS TEN CENTS IN_WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS| ELSEWHERE STRIKE ORDER 0UT, UNIONS AND WP A DIG IN FOR BATTLE U. S. Officials Prepare to Hire Others if New York Workers Quit. LABOR HEAD PROMISES WALKOUT TOMORROW Relief Wage Not l;ough. Regu- lar Scale Should Apply, He Says, Defying Roosevelt. L By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 10—Both sides dug in tonight for a show-down Mon- day in the wage dispute between labor unions and the Federal Government. Taking their cue from President Roosevelt, works relief officials re- fused to recognize the existeace of a strike, and prepared to hire replace- ments as rapidly as men walked out A large scale walk-out—aimed at enforcing payment of the union scale on work-relief jobs—was promised by George Meany, president of the State Federation of Labor. By Monday, he said, the city’s 36 building trade unions will have stopped their work- ers on “all the jobs we haven't yet | reached.” They were determined to hold their ground, he declared, despite Presient Roosevelt’s warning that | those who turned down relief jobs | would be cut off the dole. | _ “That means the men would starve.” | Meany said. “Do you think we are going to bow to anything like that?” | “Prevailing Wage” Held Preferred, | (Note: In Washington yesterday Secretary Ickes asserted many ]Wt:ulrn cities had rejected more B iberal terms from Harry Hopkins Local Militia—Dr. Ruhland = in nis w. p. A pro)oc!ys b-?cpa'.:sc | they preferred to pay “prevailing Minimizes Peril. | wages” on P. W. A. projects. The statement was interpreted as a bid Pennsylvania health authorities yes- for the Ickes program over the terday banned District of Columbia Hopkins program, now jeopardized | National Guard troops, along with the in some degree by the W. P. A. | military units of Virginia, from enter- strike. Story on page 3.) ing the State for maneuvers. The ac- | Approximately 2,000 of the 10,000 to tion was meant as a safeguard against 15000 union men employed on Work: the possible spread of infantile paraly- | Progress Administration projects had | sis. answered the strike call up until last The order brought an immediate night. Tcday was a holiday, but th protest from Dr. Géorge C. Ruhland, stage clearly was set for a test of District health officer, that facts re- strength. garding prevalence of the disease in Administrator Hugh S. Johnson or- the District have been “distorted.” At ' dered all men to be back on the job the same time, Dr. Ruhland sought to | Monday. The Executive Strike Com- | quiet any fears the public may have mittee of the Central Trades and Labor that an epidemic condition exists. He | Council ordered all members out Mon- was emphatic in his denial that the day. situation here warrants such drastic | action as taken by the Pennsylvania ~ Which order will be obeyed remained authorities. to be seen, but Tenement House Com- | Dr.Ruhland also questioned whether Missioner Langdon W. Post directed | the ban would be binding on the Dis- that Work be resumed on tie only trict government. He conferred with | Project halted by the strike, regard- both Commissioner George E. Allen | less of whether the men returned or and Corporation Counsel E. Barrett DOt. If they do not, he said, their Prettyman to ascertain what the Dis- Places will be taken by workers re- | trict government can do to make Cruited rrqm the National Re-employ- | formal representations of protest to ment Service. | the Quaker State officials. | The project. a slum clearance job on | Conference Is Asked. | the lower East Side, employs 362 men. {of whom 170, including most of the Allen directed the health officer t0 | skjlled workers, have Waiked out. advise Harrisburg of the true situa-| commissioner Post, citing President tion here and to confer with United | Roosevelt's assertion’ that refusal tw States Public Health Service officials accept relief work could not be called to see if they would join in clearing | , srike, said it followed, therefore. up any erroneous impression held by | that replacement of the men could not the Pennsylvania authorities. | be construed as strikebreaking. “There is nothing we can do, how- | The walkout was voted Thursday ever” Allen said. “I can’t order the | night as a protest against the Gov- National Guard not to go to Mount | ernment’s security wage scale, which | Gretna and I feel that the ban was| in New York ranges between $55 and intended chiefly as advice raiher than | $93.50 a month for 120 hours’ work. as an outright order. Want Hourly Scale Used. Prettyman also said later that he| The unions seek substitution of the did not believe District civil officiais | prevailing hourly scale. which in the | could do anything about the situation. | case of carpenters, for example, is $1.40 but that it appeared likely the Penn- | an hour. Under the Government scale, sylvania authorities could keep the | they contend, carpenters receive only troops out of the State. | 73 cents an hour, and they demand | Meanwhile, at Baltimore Brig. Gen. | that regardless of how many hours are Arthur 8. Conklin, chief of staff of | worked their union scale be adhered to. the 3d Corps Area, announced that| Gen. Johnson told them that they plans for the maneuvers in the Mourt | could earn more under the security Gretna and Indiantown area are go- | wage over a long period, since they ing t:tuulm"y}I f(;lrew:la\: bnnd that the | were assured of six months’ work, than matter of e an “is purely STR one between the States.” oee STRHEE' ey Richmond Receives No Order. ‘At Richmond, Adjt. Gen. S. Gard- | ATHENS FIGHTS STRIKE ner Waller of Virginia said he had re- | i ceived no orders changing plans for | Law for Compulsory Arbitration the annual encampment in Pennsyl- . vania, and Dr. I. C. Riggin, Virginia Passed in Face of Threat. ATHENS, August 10 (#).—The gov- (See PARALYSIS, page 2.) —_— ernment took steps tonight to keep iCHIDED, BOY HANGS SELF | Public service enterprises operating in | the face of a general strike called for Tuesday by the Greek Federation of Was Refused Nickel to Buy Pop- stick Two Days Ago. | Labor. INDIANAPOLIS, August 10 (#)— A law was passed making acbitra- tion of labor differences compulsory. Fourteen - year -old Elmer Durham asked for a nickel to buy a frozen Premier Kondylis announced the an- pop stick two days ago. His father, thorities would not tolerate “the slight- est degree of illegality” by labor foreas. Elmer Durham, chided the boy, who became incensed. Strikers at Patras and Piraeus is- sued demands for new social legisla- Today the boy’s body was found | hanging in a garage at the rear of tion, while the conservatize labor wing of the federation demanded the re- his home. The father, who told of the pop stick incident, said he knew lease of strike leaders and the punish- of no other reason for the act. N . T CRARMM |7 WO NATNL | 0 W'cow«\-r'fzs B GENERA \ WASH-D.C. -, 0.5, GUARD BARRED BY PENNSHLVANI Work on Project 'to Go On. ment of police at Crete and indemni- ties for families of victims in the latest Bare-up of trouble there. Farley Sees Clipper Set Record, Predicts Air Mail Route Soon By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, August 10.—The Pan- American clipper pilane sailed into Honolulu today tc set a new flight record from California and moved Postmaster General James A. Farley, who witnessed the arrival, to predict establishment of a Pacific airmail Toute soon. Alighting at 5:42 am., the big air liner negotiated the 2408 miles in 17 hours and 12 minutes—33 minutes under her previous best time. It was her third flight westward from Alameda and the first leg of a 5,000-mile journey to tiny Wake Island, third stopping point on the projected airline from the Unil States to the Orient. L “We will advertise for air mail serv- ice soon,” Farley said, “and I am sure it will be established within a reasonable time.” 4 ‘The Postmaster General explained 60 days would be required in adver- tising for bids. He said it would be possible to start flying mail across the Pacific 30 days after that time, if the company receiving the cofitract was prepared to start. The deficiency bill includes an appropriation for the Pacific airmail. Farley ran afoul regulations pro- hibiting taking pictures inside the navy yard. He was asked to stop using his movie camera. Capt. R. O. D. Sullivan, master of the big, four-motored flying boat, taid the plane would leave Pearl Har- bor for Midway Islands early next week, probably Tuesday, spend two or three days there and continue to Wake Island before returning here. It is 1,323 miles from Honolulu to Midway, and 1,191 miles more to Wake. el