Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast) Fair and colder, lowest temperature about 20 degrees tonight; tomorrow fair with rising temperature. Temperatures— Highest, 52, at 1 p.m. yesterday; lowest, The only. evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. 29, at 4 a.m. today. Full report on page A-11. Closing New York Markets, Page 18 SRSV No. ered as second class maiter t oflice, Washington, D. C. NEW YORK HOTELS ARE FACING TIE-UP AS STRIKE EXTENDS Walkout Aimed at New Structures, With Threat Against Skyscrapers. 5,504 ELIGIBLE POLICE ARE BEING MOBILIZED Move Made to Combat Renewed Outbreaks of Violence—Arbitra- | tion Attempts Deadlocked. BACKGROUND— Controversy between New York building employes and management kas been going on for months. Strikes of short duration were held previously in downtown business section. Present walk-out, beginning last Monday morning, climaxes stale- mate between Building Service Em= ployes’ Union and Realty Advisory Board. Union sceks wage increases, hour reduction, closed shop and improvement in working conditions. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, March 6.—Hotel workers were called away from their jobs today in support of the building employes strike which strike leaders prepared to extend to Manhattan's important grand central zone, Brook- | lyn and Queens before nightfall. The first hotels affected were the Escape Bullets CHARLES S. WILSON. ch ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION q Star WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1936—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. HAGOOD INQUIRY VOTED DOWN, 12-2, BY SENATE GROUP Military Committee Blocks Proposal to Probe Re- moval of Army Officer. ROOSEVELT DECLINES TO COMMENT ON CASE Hopkins Reveals Complaint Came From Aubrey Williams During His Absence. By the Assoclated Press. The Senate Military Committee | today voted, 12 to 2. against the | command of the 8th Corps Avea for | | eriticizing Federal spending. | Only a few minutes before this ac- tion President Roosevelt at his press | conference refused to comment on the | Hagood case. | i In rejecting the resolution of Sen- | | ator Metcalf, Republican, of Rhode | Island for the inquiry, the committee | upheld a subcommittee of three which unanimously recommended disap- proval of ,the resolution. | The subcommittee, composed of Senators Logan, Democrat, of Ken- | tucky: Duffy, Democrat, of Wisconsin, | and Carey, Republican, of Wyoming, declared in its report that while Army | officers should be permitted to answer legitimate questions before congres- sional committees without subjecting L0BBY DECEPTON 5LAD T0 NULEN AT SENATE QUL Ex-Party Leader Accused", REQUESTED PROBERS | Smith and Others | proposed investigation of the removal | Burns, attorneys for Henry L. Doherty's | of Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood from | Cities Service Co., “deliberately misled” of Trying to “Cover Up” for Doherty Subsidiary. TO DROP PLAN, CHARGE in Liberty League May Be Summoned. Telegram Seizure Explained. BY REX COLLIER. Arthur Mullen, former Democratic national committeeman, and Robert the Senate Lobby Committee in an effort to cover up a Crew-Levick Co. campaign against holding company legislation, it was charged today by committee members at a public hearing. SensiohgSch pelenbach D"’“"”‘“-‘PROPER ATTITUDE FOR THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS, AS SUGGESTED BY HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON DISTRICT APPROPRIATIONS. of Washington, accused Mullen and Burns of requesting the committee not to investigate files of the Crew- | Levick Co. on the ground that oil sub- sidiaries of Cities Service had no part in the Nation-wide campaign to defeat the Wheeler-Rayburn bill last year. Burns, who was present as a spec- | tator, arose and denied he had made | “any such statement” to the com- mittee or any of its agents, whereupon Chairman Black swore as a witness | DIRECTED Y 1LL FRDIGT CLEARS TELERS | «Circulation ¥ ¥ | » “Old Messenger’ Pens Tribute to Justice Holmes ARMY BLOCKS NEW (®) Means Assiciated Press. CABINET IN JAPAN Over 140,000 TWO CENTS. D.C. SUPPLY BILL PASSED BY HOUSE WITHOUT CHANGE Measure Is Sent to Senate Carrying $2,700,000 as Federal Share. |EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE REDUCTIONS SUSPENDED | Dirksen Amendment to Take Out *“‘Outside Work"” Prohibition Is Killed Promptly. President Stands Firm for $5,700,000 District Allowance Piesident Roosevelt stands on his budget recommendation that the Federal Government contrib- ute $5.700.000 to the District of Columbia municipal budact de- spite the action of the House sub- committee, headed by Represent- ative Blanton, in slashing this figure to $2,700,000. While the President made no comment on the action of t subcommittee when asked direct Iy at the press conference today if he thought the 000 left a fair F the expenses of the Dis! replied that he could not ta of turn, but that he could refer Barbizon-Plaza and Hotel Windsor, both on Fifty-eighth street on the near West Side. Strike leaders said Colored Man, 74, Re- members Master He George S. Brown, committee -investi- | | gator, who declared Burns denied him | Clayton and Speich Never the inquirer to his budget recon mendations for the District. | themselves to discipline or punish- | ment, frcedom of speech as guaran- 'Military Leaders Still Pow- access to Crew-Levick records. PREMIER STOYADINOVICH. teed by the Constitution does not 30 employes left the Barmzon-P]afa’ ~—Harris-Ewing Photo. | and 35 the Windsor. | The managers of the hotels said | swift replacements of the strikers | had enabled them to continue service to the guests. Other smaller hotels were visited by strike leaders who reported that union members were responding to the walk-out call. The action came shortly after Chris Houlihan, president of the Hotel Workers' Union, left his offices with the announcement that he would *pull” the hotels. The Hotel Workers’ Union is a sub- sidiary of the Building Service Em- ployes' Union which is conducting the strike. | Army than for purposes for which he | considered wasteful and unnecessa; { The report added that “ample op- ! portunity was given him to revise his | testimony, which he declined to do.” | ‘ Up to Commander in Chief. { Whether the removal was justified | under the generally accepted ethics of military discipline, the subcommit- minority has | sidiaries,” Brown asserted. ters and barracks for housing the been demanding that Premier Stoy- tee said it was of the opinion that Files “Highly Confidential.” “He threw up his hands in horror | | When I asked for files of the oil sub- | “He said | they were highly confidential records of a highly competitive business—and either he or another official tol” me | the oil companies had not engaged in the drive.” Charles E. Foster, general manager ‘of Crew-Levick, had just testified that all records of his company’s campaign | were destroyed. The committee sought | by this testimony to justify its mass examination of millions of telegrams of hundreds of firms and individuals. Henry L. Doherty sold 200,000 shares | of Cities Service stock at a $17,748,000 | profit a few months before the stock market crash of October, 1929—at a time when the company was asking | employes to buy stock—the Lobby | Committee had disclosed earlier to- | day as the committee continued an expose of “lobbying” by Doherty sub- sidiaries, The attack on the Doherty interests overshadowed for the moment the | criticism launched at the committee for its mass examination of 5,000,000 ' telegrams of private firms and indi- viduals, . | | | | Should Have Been Indicted, Justice Says. | Stating that the defendants never should have been indicted and would not have been indicted had a proper investigation been made, Justice Daniel W. O'Donoghue of District Supreme Court today directed verdicts clearing Frank R. Clayton and Robert N Speich, former tellers of the closed Mounft Vernon Savings Bank. of an embezzlement charge which had been preferred against them. Justice O'Doneghue said that if Jus- | tice Department agents who investi- gated the case had done a thorough job the evidence they could have given to the grand jury would have indicated clearly that the two defendants were not guilty. The charge involved $2,181.25 in clipped coupons deposited by the Union Labor Life Insurance Co. on March 2, 1933, just two days before the Nation-wide bank closings. Speich, | who was assistant receiving teller, ac- | cepted the coupons, while Clayton, whose duty it was to make out daily } settlements, failed to credit the amount to the company's account, the Govern- | ment charged. Served 20 Years. HOLVIES. OLIVER WENDELL. membrance of the late associate Justice { the Supreme Court. OLIVER WEN- DELL HOLMES. who passed ward one year ago today, Mar Death is the eate to endless jos. we dread to_enter there HIS OLD MESSENGER. ARTHUR THOMAS. In sad re- | A One year ago today word flashed from here to the world that “the grand | old man of the Supreme Court,” Oliver ‘Wendell Holmes, had died quietly in | his red brick home. The President, Congressmen, Su- preme Court justices, leading members of the bar and a pretentious list of other notables publicly expressed their " (See HOLMES, Page 3) CURRAN SLATED FOR POLICE JUDGE erful Enough to Wreck Its Formation. BACKGROUND— While civilian population pays cost, militarist factions of Japancse government fight over government policy as represented by personnel of administration. Week ago Wednesday extremists suddenly opened campaign of ter- rorism by assassinating number of government leaders. Threat of general rebellion, however, was sub- dued within few days. Premier Okada, head of “conservative” fac- tion, who was reported slain, re- appeared, but resigned. Since then all eflorts have been turned to for- mation of mew government satis- factory to both factions. | (Copyright. 1930, by the Associated Press.) TOKIO, March 6.—Koki Hirota's hopes of introducing a new national cabinet to Emperor Hirohito immedi- ately disappeared today when the army arose to demonstrate that it was still politically powerful enough to wreck any efforts to form a ministry, despite its loss of prestige and popu- larity after last week's military up- Mr. Roosevelt then remarked that the bill has not passed yet BY JAMES E. CHID ‘The “Blantonize: supply bill was ru House today and sent to the Senate in the same form in which it was reported from the Appropriations Committee. The vote was 290 to 26. Not a figure or a punctuation mark was changed as the Blanton roller crushed every move to elim: some of the bill's major inequities. As it went to the Senate. the mca sure calls for appropriations totaling $42,573,283. and fixes the Federal pay- ment toward the expenses of the Dis- trict at $2,700.000, the lowest in his- tory. Restoration Efforts Futile. No efforts were made in the final hours of consideration of the measure to restore reductions made by the Ape propriations Committee in the ape proved estimates of the Budget Bureau for the Health Department. Public Welfare and the Police Department. The few members of the House in sympathy with the District's needs knew the futility of trying to make any alterations in the bill. ICorporation Counsel’s Aide Representative Dirksen. Republican, | “matters of military discipline must | of Illinois. and a member of the Dis= | be determined by the commander in | adinovich resign to make way for a general election. The premier holds Chairman Black grilled Burns re-| Early in the trial Justice O'Donoghue | rising. lentlessly regarding data read from | directed a verdict of not guilty as to mean “a license” to *use language | which may be interpreted as critical the President, Congress or other and referred to W. P. A. funds as “stage money.” | The Military Subcommittee declared | language critical of the President in in Gall Bul conveyed to the committee his opinion in Gallery a ulle that it would be much better to expena y as t public funds for the building of quar- of support from Paul N. Coulcher, sec- Crashes Above. retary-treasurer of the Hotel and 3 Restaurant Employes’ Union. BACKGROUND — Coulcher announced that 5,000 In recent months opposition pare nary precautions to protect property A parliamentary and citizens in the event of violence. More than 100 policemen were dis- patched to Harlem and Washington of Manhattan. | Estimates Vary. Varying figures concerning the ef- fectiveness and extent of the strike was 1,820, and that agreements had been signed with 115 of these. Attempts to arbitrate the strike remained deadlocked today and union eligible candidates for membership in | the police department as a reserve force to combat rencwed outbreaks | of violence. of Government officials. | Ordered to Home. | | Gen. Hagood was ordered to his | such instances was in violation of the | sixty-second article of war prescribed | Move Is Supported. The “general strike” threat voiced kitchen and dining room workers in = ties in Yugoslavia have become ine 100 hotels would join the picket lines creasingly critical of the govern- Heights, sections to which the walk- out spread yesterday following a came from union officials and police. The union claimed that of 10,395 leaders ordered a campaign of mass picketing, with wives of strikers swell- | Negotiations to settle the strike | broke down yesterday when building | home in South Carolina to await FIRING UN PREM'ER orders after he had testified before a | | by Congress. i | "1t added that in this particular case | earlier in the week by James J. Bram- brick, head of the Building Service | of the striking workers. ment, and their deputies have With the strike spreading, the Po- walked out of the chamber on ser- breakdown in peace parleys. “Flying squads” of motor cycle police building affected, agreements had been signed with 1448. Police reported ing the ranks of the demonstrators. | Police headquarters, in an almost ! operators refused the arbitration offer (See STRIKE, Page 3.) House appropriations subcommittee Charles S. Wilson Remains Hagood “by other language could have Employes’ Union,: received a measure lice Department continued extraordi- : eral occasions. were established in the downtown area that the number of buildings affected unprecedented action, mobilized 5,504 T i HITS TRADE TREATY Canadian Legislator Sees Country | Becoming U. S. Annex. OTTAWA, March 6 (#).—H. E. Wil- | ton, Conservative, told the Canadian | Parliament yesterday that he saw in the Canadian-United States trade agreement “the possibility of the American flag and not the Canadian flag flying over Canada.” During debate on the treaty, Wilton later said Canada was being practi- cally handed over to the United States and would become an American annex. War on Mosquitoes In Chicago Hailed As Colorful Job Sanitary Engineer De- scribes Plan to Spray Pests With Dyes. By the Assoclated Press, ATLANTIC CITY, N, J., March 6.— Mosquito extermination work in Cook County, I, promises to be a colorful business. Lyell Clarke, sanitary engineer for the Desplaines Valley 1mosquito abate- ment district, described plans for col- oring 50,000,000 mosquitoes red, green, yellow, blue, brown and then turning them loose in Cook County, which in- cludes Chicago. Clarke told members of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Asso- tion that staining of the insects by &praying them with aniline dyes will help test their flight range. Mosquito fighters equipped with portable sprayers will walk through | the marshes, spraying the insects as hey rise, & ot the majority in Parligment, the last division being 153 in his javor to 110 in opposition. The opposition partics contend that they hold the popular support of the country and that a new elec- tion would give them governmental power. Many of tHe opposition deputics are Croats and Slovenes. The late King Alezander of Yugoslavia was killed by a Croat two years ago -at Marseille. In 1928 the Croat leader, Stefan Radich, was killed in Parliament, By the Associated Press. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, March 6.— An assassin, firing wildly at Premier Milan Stoyadinovich, narrowly missed shooting Charles S. Wilson, United States Minister to Yugoslavia, today. Wilson was sitting in the diplomatic | gallery of the Chamber of Deputies when a Deputy of the opposition party suddenly jerked a pistol from | his pocket and started firing at the | premier. Other Deputlgi sciufi hjm: ;md the " (See ASSASSIN, Page 4) Greek Army Officers Arrested. ATHENS, March 6 (&) —Fifteen Army officers were reported today to be under arrest for hostile demonstra- tions against Gen. John Mextaxas, vet- eran Greek diplomat and newly-ap- pointed minister of war. It was understood that extra guards had been ordered placed at all army | garrisons. TaxFight Over $3,000,000 Gifts " Waged on Couzens by Bureau BY CARLISLE BARGERON. Senator Couzens, Republican, : of Michigan is having trouble with the Internal Revenue Bureau again. Com- missioner Guy T. Helvering, whose appointment the Senator severely crit- ieized, wants him to pay a gift tax on some $3,000,000 which he gave away last year. Of this amount, $2,500,000 is under- stood to have been given to the Chil- dren’s Fund of Detroit, to which the Senator already has contributed $10,- 000,000. The remainder of the amount. in question is understood to be the $500,000 which Couzens gave the Gov- ernment to carry out an experimental low-cost housing projeét at Pontiac, | Mich, So far the incident is not believed to have gone further than the' cor- respondence stage, but it is under- stood there has been a spirited ex~ change between Helvering and the Senator. % . In so far as the $500,000 is con- cerned, this was a gift which the Senator made to a corporation set up by the Government at a time when there was a controversy over whether low-cost housing was feasible and whether it could be carried out cheaply enough to benefit the people whom it was intended to benefit. The Sen- ator took the position the only way to find out was to give the plan a 'trial. The Government subsequently put up $350,000, and the project now is just about completed. > { chief, or proper officials of the War | Department. and that it would be un- | wise for Congress to undertake to de- termine what is, or what is not, proper military discipline, provided the same | | Is not contrary to the articles of war | | which Congress enacted as a statute | for the government of the Army.” | The report said there was “no ne- | cessity” for an investigation to de- termine the persons responsible for Gen. Hagood's removal, one of the 'wpro\'l.sinns of the Metcalf resolution. | It said under the Constitution the | | President is commander in chief of | | the Army and the order of removal | (See HAGOOD, Page 308 BRIEF COLD SNAP DUE IN CAPITAL TOMORROW Fair and Warm Week End to| Follow Drop to 20 Degrees, Says Weather Bureau, Washington is to have another | taste of Winter just before sunrise tomorrow, but only for a few hours, the Weather Bureau forecast today. After normal weather today, with the temperature reaching about 40 degrees this afternoon, the thermom- eter was expected to descend to about | 20 degrees. A fair and warm week end was| | expected, following the brief cold snap, with a “clear and normal” tomorrow and “mild” Sunday. The children’s fund has long been the Senator’s pet philanthropy. The story has often been told that it was the outgrowth of a cripple coming into his office one day selling pencils. Cou- zens rebuked him, but the next day he had his lawyers prepare a trust fund which would give aid to cripples in business undertakings. This did not work so well and the children’s fund | was evolved. Couzens was Helvering's bitterest foe when the latter's name was presented to the Senate for confirmation shortly after the New Deal came in. R It is recalled that about a decade ago the Michigan Senator was a severe eritic of Secretary of the Treasury Flellon. One day a $10,000,000 tax assessment, involving the sale of Cou- zen’s Pord Motor Co. holdings, was levied against the Senator. He charged this' was persecution, and after long litigation not only won the case but got a refund of $1,000,000. Virtually all of the Senator’s wealth, incidentally, is invested in Government tax-exempt securities. Recently he caused the administra- tion considerable embarrassment when he disclosed that. the treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, Wai- ter J. Cummings, was receiving. more than $90,000 & year in trusteeships over which the R. F. C. has control. He has since made inquiries of Chair- man Jesse Jones of the R. F. C. con= cerning similar cases which have come to his attentiom, . @ Donerty’s income tax return for 1929, showing the oil magnate’s sales of stock that year up to eve of the mar- ket crash. Doherty Accused by Black. Black charged Doherty was “getting his employes to hold the bag for him” while he was liquidating his own hold- ings. * Burns explained that Doherty sold only a quarter of his holdings in 1929 and that the sale was ordered because Doherty was “very sick” at that time and wanted to leave his estate ir liquid form if he died. The attorney, under questioning. admitted the employes didn't know Doherty was selling his stock at the time they were being asked to buy stock. “I didn't know it myself,” Burns commented. He admitted, however, that his wife had sold Cities Service stock in 1929 at a profit of $26,000. Charles A. Freehof, a director of Cities Service, at the same time sold 20.000 shares that had cost him $59,- | 000 for $1,200,000. Doherty, it was brought out, pur- chased municipal bonds with the pro- ceeds of his sale of his own stock. When Burns concluded, Senator Gibson, Republican, of Vermont, ad- vised him that he should “put in a good charge at the home office” for his testimony before the committee because he had “made the most of a very desperate situation.” Both laughed as Burns bowed. Tells of Stock Deals. The testimony and evidence showed that Doherty sold the 200,000 shares in March, 1929, for $20,500,000. The stock had cost him $2,751,967. Employes were privileged to buy stock under par through an “employes’ purchase plan.” Burns said the em- ployes continued to pay on their stock after the crash. “Of course, the employes and other (See LOBBY, Page 6.) ECUADOR GUARD SLAIN BY PERUVIAN PATROL Body Pulled Across Border, Says Report From Guayaquil—Lima Version Differs. By the Assoclated Press. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, March 6.— The killing of an Ecuadorian guard by Peruvian frontier guards was re- ported in dispatches from Santa Rosa today. These dispatches said Carlos Rodas, who had been on patrol duty in the territory near “Zarumilla since 1932, was killed on Etuadorian soil. Ecua- dorian sources declared the Peruvian guards pulled Rodas’ body across the border into Peru. (In Lima, Peru, it was reported that Rodas had been killed when he and a group of armed Ecuadorians crossed the frontier into Peru. (The Northern border of Peru, lying in’ jungle territory, has been the source of & number of incidents in re- cent years. Three years ago, Colom- bia and Peru nearly went to war be- cause of frontier difficulties.) ] ) | Speich, holding there was no showing | that he did enything more accept Early this afternoon he freed Clayton, | holding there was no evidence to show Clayton had embezzled anything. Clayton was represented by Attor- neys Bertrand Emerson and Joseph 1es and Speich by Attorney James | &. O'Shea. QUARANTINE CLAMP | " PLACED ON HARLAN 32 |Spinal Meningitis Causes Deaths in Kentucky * County. By the Assoclated Press. HARLAN, Ky, March 6.—A tight quarantine was clamped down on dis- | ease-ridden Harlan County today as | State and county health authorities fought to check the rampant spread of spinal meningitis, 90 cases of which have caused 32 deaths. ‘The quarantine order was issued by County Health Officer W. P. Caywood after the Harlan County Medical As- | sociation voted to ban church services, close theaters and other amusement centers and prohibit public meetings. Upon the recommendation of Dr. F. | W. Caudill, State epidemiologist, who said children were “better off there than anywhere else,” schools were not included in the quarantine. 180 HEROES OF ALAMO HONORED BY TEXANS Hundred Years Since Santa Anna | | | Troops Staughtered Defend- ers in Mission. By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 6— Texans remembered the Alamo today and the 180 heroes who died within its walls 100 years ago. Patriotic ceremonies included pres- entation of flags from 20 States and 6 foreign countries whose sons were slain within the tiny Franciscan mis- sion building in Texas’' war for inde- pendence from Mexico. Gov. Hill McAlister of Tennessee presented the flag of that State, the former home of Sam Houston, first President of the Republic of Texas. Not a member of the garrison sur- vived the storming by Gen. Santa Anna’s troops March 6, 1836. S AIR TRAFFIC OFFICER - A special officer to control air traffic was named today by the Bureau of Air Commerce. Earl F. Ward of Berwyn, IIl, the new official, will be 1n charge of work- ing out initial regulations designed to keep planes in courses to avoid col- lisions and landing conflicts. Development of instrument flying in foggy weather and increased traffic generally have necessitated this, the u said. - 2 than | the deposit of the coupons. | Understood Chosen as Suc- | cessor to Schuldt. ‘ Assistant Corporation Counsel Ed- | ward M. Curran is understood to have been selected for appointment to suc- ceed Judge Gus A. Schuldt on the Police Court bench. Judge Schuldt's term expired several weeks ago and ! indications are that Curran’s nomina- tion will be sent to the Senate by President Roosevelt probably tomor- | Tow. | Curran, a native of Maine, where | e was born 33 years ago, has been a | | resident of Washington for 12 years and has been assistant corporation counsel for three years. He at first was assistant corporation counsel at Police Court, but for more than two years has'been the leading trial lawyer | of the corporation counsel's staff. He | has had wide experience not only in general practice, but in court procedure and trial work. Curran studied law at Catholic Uni- | versity and after receiving his degree there, practiced law here with Miiton | | W. King. He is an honorary member | | of Gamma Etta Gamma and is on | (See CURRAN, Page 4.) MARRIAGE DELAYED | Lady Ashley Fails to Bring Neces- | sary Papers Along. PARIS, March 6°(F).—Lady Ash- ley’s failure to bring necessary docu- ments from London delayed her mar- riage to Douglas Fairbanks again to- day, just when the American actor thought he had everything arranged at last. Friends .of the couple said the needed legal paper was coming from England by plane, probably in time for a lale afternoon ceremony. The wedding, when accomplished, will be followed by a Riviera honey- moon and a trip to sAmerica. he Because high militarists disliked some of Hirota's liberal nominations. they influenced Count Juichi Terau- chi, proposed as war minister, to withdraw from the cabinet slate and indicated no other general would be permitted to join the ministry unless their terms were met. The militarists raised this unex- pected opposition to Hirota just as sweeping changes in the ermy leader- | ship arore as another sequel to the | short-lived insurrection, a. new com- mander-in-chief being sclected for Manchukuo and three more senior generals being retired. The army’s refusal to supply a general to fill the war ministry in the " (See JAPAN, | | FLOOD SECOND IN WEEK Juniata River Forced From Banks by Ice Near Harrisburg. HARRISBURG. Pa., March 6 (P).— The Juniata River, swelled by the ap- | proach of a huge ice field, left its| banks at nearby Amity Hall early to- | day for the second time in a week. | Swirling, muddy water 3 feet deep poured over the country side for a | half mile along the stream at the | Jjunction with the Susquehanna., not yet recovered from last week's flood. | The overflow rose at the rate of | more than a foot an hour as a 7-| mile length of grinding, crunching ice | neared the gorge at the mouth of the | Juniata, which caused the last flood. | 195 Million for Air Force. LONDON, March 6 (#).—Viscount | Swinton, British secretary for air, an- nounced today Parliament would be asked to vote £39,000,000 (about $195,000,000) to operate the United | Kingdom air force in 1936. The esti- | mate of air requirements was £13,- 015,000 (nearly $65,075,000) greater than the 1935 appropriation. trict Legislative Committee of the House, however, did attempt to have eliminated from the bill a new legis- lative provision designed to prevent District officials and employes who receive $2.400 a year or more from engaging in ‘“outside” work. His amendment to Kkill the provision met the same fate as all other proposed changes, Earlier today Minority Leader Snell protested against insinuations that Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, favored teaching communism. “There were certain insinuations made on the floor of this House late vesterday against Dr. Ballou, perhaps on the ground he favored commu- nism.” said Snell. “I do not know anything about the facts and about | communism in the schools. But I | have known Dr. Ballou since boyhood. | I know his whole family history. There | is nothing in the history of the whole | family to lead any one to believe he had any such tendencies. “I do not intend to let this insinua- tion go by without a protest.” Snell's statement was greeted with applause. In reply, Representative Blanton, Democrat of Texas, who is piloting the bill through the House. suggested that every member read Dr. Ballou's testimony before the subcommittee on appropriations. “Read all of Dr. Ballou’s answers,” said Blanton. “Read all of the evi- dence, and form your own con- clusions.” Yesterday 25 pages of the bill were skipped over rapidly, and every amendment offered was voted down, including one that would have re- stored the Federal payment toward the expenses of the District to $5,700,000. Zioncheck Battles. Frequent clashes between Blanton and Zioncheck, Democrat, of Wash- ington, marked the first actual con- sideration of the measure. Zioncheck, who has found it difficult to get along with Blanton on the House ' floor on previous occasions, obviously tried to heckle him whene ever the opportunity arose. Once Zioncheck told the Texan he is | “muscle bound behind the ears.” And another time there were threats BLUE STREAK " Noon Edition 2e report and news wireph now firmly established, newsstands, city-wide. please advise the Circu tional 5000, The Noon FEdition of The Star is the only newspaper. in Washington® containing the day Press with all of the news up to the minute of going to press before 12 o'clock. The sale of the new BLUE STREAK edition is If you are not able to get a copy promptly, 2 otos. of the Associated through newsboys and lation Department, Na- of a real fight, when Blanton was T (See SUPPLY BILL, Page 4.) Readers’ Guide Amusements Answers to Questions Comics . Crossword Puzzle. Editorial Finance . This Changing World.._. A-5 Washington Wayside..._C-12 Women’s Features........C-5