Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1936, Page 1

(U 8. Weather Bureau Forecast) . Cloudy and slightly warmer tonight; probably local showers tomorrow, followed by cooler. Temperatures—Highest, 87, at noon today; lowest, 62, at 5 a.m. today. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Full Report on Page 16. Closing New York Markets, Page 20 No. 33,659. Entered as second class matter post offics, Washingtoa, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1936—FIFTY PAGES. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION NAME OF ROOSEVELT IS PLACED IN NOMINATION BY JUDGE MACK; FEDERAL AID PLATFORM BASIS Nominator Indicates Principles | of New Deal, as a Government, Will Be Carried Out. BREATHING SPELL’S END SEEN AFTER NOVEMBER ELECTION ‘More Action Under an Inspired Leader’ . Promised—Cabinet and Members of Democratic Congress Are Lauded. Text of Judge Mack's speech on Page A-8. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. PHILADELPHIA, June 26.—Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York—and Washington—was today placed in nomination for the presidency by Judge John E. Mack of Poughkeepsie, while the Democratic National Convention roared its acclaim. The candidate was pictured by Judge John E. Mack as always & great humanitarian, an antagonist always of “special interests.” The President’s chief sponsor promised “more action under the inspired leadership of that great American whose name I give you as your candidate for President, no longer a citizen merely of one State, but a son Roosevelt.” of all the 48 States, Franklin D. If Judge Mack is correct in his diagnosis, the principles of the New Deal—as a government—are to be pressed; the breathing spell will be over after the November election. It was Judge Mack, who four years ago was selected by Presi- dent Roosevelt, then Governor of New York, to place his name in nomination at the Chicago National Convention of the Democrats. It was Judge Mack who placed Roosevelt in nomination for State Senator in New York 26 years ago. Praises Cabinet and Congress. The nominator of the President had a good word to say for the President’s cabinet and for the much-criticized Democratic Congress, during his speech extolling the President and his admin- istration. “He (the President) surrounded himself,” said Mack, “in his cabinet with the most able and progressive representatives in the Union. With the aid of this splendid cabinet, with the aid of a Democratic Congress and with the aid of the forward-looking, country-loving and far-seeing progressives and Republicans, he proceeded to place this country on its feet.” The Mack speech nominating President Roosevelt for a second term was made to an audience entirely-sympathetic. No dissenting voice will answer the roll call on the presidential nomination; no other candidates will be placed in nomination. The renomination of the President is only a question of a few hours—until the roll can be called, after his nomination has been seconded by speakers from every section of the country. Trained for Presidency. Roosevelt’s early career, Judge Mack indicated, was merely a training for the work he was to do later as Chief Executive of the United States. But always Franklin Delano Roosevelt was found aligning himself with the common people and against their ex- ploiters, the big and selfish interests. As State Senator he fought the election to the United States Senate of a man definitely tied up with a powerful traction interest, although the man had the back- ing of a leader of the Democratic party. As Assistant Secretary of the Navy 4n the Wilson administration he continued to serve his country, and in 1920 his party recognized “his fighting ability” by nominating him for Vice President. “Outstanding above all in that campaign,” said Judge Mack, *was his sportsmanship in defeat. He could take it.” The President’s serious illness, which came in 1921, was de- scribed by Judge Mack as a preparation by Providence “for the greater work the future had in store for him. N6 one can have full sympathy for the misfortunes of others,” the speaker continued, self. All of the suffering through which he has gone has broadened his heart, has given him a greater capac- ity for sympathy and understanding of human needs of all kinds.” Answered Call of Friendship. Roosevelt’s return to public life, as candidate for Governor of New York, which was at the request of the then Gov. Al Smith of New York and Demo- cratic candidate for President, was not because of any political ambition of his own, said Mack, “but solely in answer to the call of friendship.” When the crash came, and the coun- try was floundering in despair, “the country, led by the Democratic party, turned to this young Galahad for re- lief, for aid and for help.” Under Roosevelt's leadership, Mack said, “we have blazed a path to prosperity and security, Our faces are toward prog- ress. We shall not turn back in this conflict between greed and humanity.” Roosevelt’s enemies today are not the farmers and the laborers, the men and women who have been given aid and employment under the present administration, said Mack. They are “they who themselves brought on this great depression, the great financial interests whose high-powered sales- men induced foreign countries unnec- essarily to plunge themselves into debt and unload their bonds on trusting American investors. Ready for Issue. “We are ready for the issue,” said the spokesman for the President. “We have ended starvation, bread lines soup kitchens, and have brought this country through the greatest depres- sion ever known.” When New York’s name is reached on the call for seconding speeches for Roosevelt’s nomination it will pass. ‘The plan, Chairman Farley of the Democratic National Committee re- vealed today, is to have Gov. Lehman of New York make a seconding speech at tonight's session of the National Convention, after all other speeches have been concluded and just before the nomination is actually made. The Roosevelt leaders would be delighted if the Governor would give, in this speech, an intimation that he would be a candidate to succeed him- self. Among those who will second the nomination of President Roosevelt, in addition to Gov. Lehman, are several other Democratic Governors, including Gov, James M. Curley of Massachu- setts, an original Roosevelt man. Gov. Cross of Connecticut is not to make a seconding speech, since Attorney Gen- eral Cummings is to have that honor on behalf of Connecticut. Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller, sister of Senator “Joe” Guffey, the Democratic leader of Penn- sylvania, is one of a number of women who will make seconding speethes. Others are Mrs. Frank E. Johnease, chairman of the Idahc delegation to the convention; Mrs. Lucretia Del Valle Grady of California, Mrs. Mary T. Norton of New Jersey, chairman of the House District Committee, and Mrs, Manny Wood Honeman of Oregon, who is a candidate for Congress. ‘When the roll of States was called @ (Sec DEMOCRATS; Page 4.) “until and unless he has suffered him-g, such Delegates Go Wild [ Hailing Roosevelt’s Nomination by Mack BY JAMES E. CHINN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. PHILADELPHIA, June 26.—On its | homeward stretch, Democracy's great 1936 political drama is drawing to & | close today with the seventh session, | which may be the last if no candi- | dates arise to oppose the renomina- ‘tlnn of President Roosevelt. It's a 100-to-1 shot that nothing like that will happen. For some unknown reason the genuises who run this show scheduled it to start at 12:30 p.m., Eastern daylight saving time, the latest since the convention convened. It's 12:40 now by that big clock in the center of the auditorium and there are rather positive indications there won’t be the customary hour’s delay in start- ing proceedings. ‘The band, 'way up there in the up- per tier at the far end of the huge auditorium is playing a stirring march tune. Col. E. W. Starling, chief of the White House Secret Service, goes to the platform and engages in & whispered conversation with Forbes Morgan, secretary of the National Democratic Committee, and Col. Ed- ward Halsey, secretary of the Senate, who is acting as sergeant at arms of the convention. The conversation, no doubt, concerns plans for the cere- monies at Franklin Field tomorrow night, at which President Roosevelt and Vice President Garner are to be notified of their renomination for four years more, unless something unexpected develops. Heflin on Platform. ‘The minutes slip by rapidly.. Former Senator Tom Heflin of Alabama, as nattily dressed as ever in a white (See SESSION, Page 7.) Prehistoric City e JUDGE JOHN E. MACK. PRESIDENT PLANS 10 SOFTEN SPEECH Destroys First Draft of Ac- ceptance Address as “Too Rough.” BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Confessing that he had decided to pull some of his punches, President Roosevelt today was preparing an en- tirely new draft of the renomination acceptance speech, which he will de- liver tomorrow night at Philadelphia. A first draft was completed last night, he said, but on deciding it was “too rough,” he destroyed it and started a new version. He is attempt- ing to keep the speech within 2,000 words, he said. The President said he listened to convention proceedings on the radio last night and had called Senator Wagner of New York on the tele- phone to congratulate him on his reading of the new platform. Mr. Roosevelt declined to comment on the platform itself, indicating he might elaborate on certain parts of it in his acceptance speech. ‘This noon he listened to his old friend and neighbor, Judge John E. Mack of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., nominate him for re-election. Mack had con- ferred with the President on the nom- inating speech. Seventy Bills Left on Desk. At odd moments, the President has | turned his attention to the great batch of bills dumped on his desk with the adjournment of Congress. During the past five days, he has either signed or vetoed 300 of these measures and still has more than 70 left. In the batch of nearly 50 signed by him today were two affecting the Dis- trict. One provides for the inspection, control and regulation of steam boilers and unfired pressure vessels in the city. ‘The other conveys certain lands to the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission for park, parking and playground purposes. The President has not yet set the hour for his departure from Washing- ton tomorrow afternoon. After the Philadelphia speech he will go to his Hyde Park home, in New York, re- maining there until Monday night. With him he will take the bills not yet signed. Among these at present are the Walsh-Healey Government contract bill and the ship subsidy bill. Mr. Roosevelt conferred for two hours yesterday with Senator Norris, Independent Republican, of Nebraska. Shortly before Norris sat down for his conference, the President had talked with Robert W. Bingham, Ambassador to Great Britain, in this country to attend the Democratic convention. Bingham's Talk “Political.” Bingham, who returned to Phila- delphia immediately, said his talk with Mr. Roosevelt included “matters political.” Norris, who supported the candidacy of Mr. Roosevelt in 1932, said, as he emerged from the White House, that 1t ‘mattered little to him what sort of platform the Democrats adopted at Philadelphia. “Roosevelt is the platform,” he said, “and I'm for Roosevelt.” Norris declared his readiness to take the stump this year for the President. He expressed hope that others of political views in accord with his would call a conference in the near future to outline their course of action. The Senator predicted Roosevelt would carry Nebraska in November, adding that by thus turning prophet he was breaking a rule adhered to through his long political career. , Believed Largest in America, Found By the Associated Press. LYNCH, Nebr.,, June 26—Dr. Earl H. Bell, University of Nebraska an- thropologist, said today he and eight students had unearthed near Lynch what probably was the largest pre- historic city in North America. The primitive bed by Dr. Bell as “one of the most sen- sational sites ever found in this coun- try”’—was located beneath the shifting sands of an ancient desert. The anthropologist said the discovery indi- cated a Midwestern agricultural civil- ization flourished “possibly 4,000 years 2go.” The first excavations indicated the city 3 miles long and & half mile wide, and large sections evidently were in- habited densely. Remains uncovered included carbonized ears of corn, ‘*md small beans, and squash, Farm, Industry Control Idea Advanced. 'CONSTITUTION ' TO BE UPHELD Labor Program to Determine Need for Change. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. PHILADELPHIA, June 26.—The Democrats have written a New Deal platform for their presidential candi- date. It is consecrated to the theory that the Federal Government must come to the aid of the citizens. It goes beyond that. It firmly advances the idea that the Federal Government must so con- trol in agriculture and industry that all citizens may have an equal oppor- tunity. Throughout the length of the docu- ment runs the theme that the problems of the day transcend State lines and State government; that only the Fed- eral Government can effectively and efficiently deal with them. The platform meets the wishes of the presidential candidate. Its draft- ing was followed by him from start to finish and the platform was not presented to the convention until after he had had an opportunity to scan its final draft and to make such corrections as he thought fit. One of the reasons for the delay in the presentation of the platform to the copy of the draft was sent to the White House by airplane and then re- turned to the leaders here with those corrections. Without definitely committing the tutional amendment, the new Demo- cratic platform, under a subhead, “The Constitution,” lays down the proposi- tion that if it becomes necessary to deal with soctal and economic problems, the party will seek “such clarifying amend- ment” as will assure to the legislatures of the several States and to the Con- gress of the United States, each within its proper jurisdiction, the power to enact laws adequately to regulate com- merce, protect public health and safety and safeguard economic security. “Thus we propose,” says the plat- form, “to maintain the letter and spirit of the Constitution.” Positions Defined. As a prelude to this promise of an amendment to the Constitution if and when it becomes necessary, the Demo- crats in their platform clearly indicate the difference between their own posi- tion and that of the Republican enemy. ‘They clearly indicate also that they do not believe that the problems of the day can be dealt with “exclusively” by the States. They say: “The Republican platform proposes to meet many pressing national prob- lems solely by action of the separate States. We know that drought, dust storms, floods, minimum wages, maxi- mum hours, child labor and working conditions in industry, monopolistic and unfair business practices canniot be adequately handled exclusively by 48 separate State Legislatures, 48 separate State administrations and 48 separate State courts. Transactions and activi- ties which inevitably overflow State boundaries call for both State and Fed- eral treatment. “We have sought and will continue (Continued on Page 9, Column 1.) STREET CAR CRASH HURTS TRUCK DRIVER Vehicles Collide Near Glen Echo Park—Hit-and-Run Motorist Injures Girl. By a Staff Correspondent ot Tne Star. GLEN ECHO, Md, June 26— Glenn B. Craig, 38, of 3347 M street, ‘Washington, was seriously injured here today when a street car plowed into his tryck near Glen Echo Park. He was faken to Georgetown Hos- pital, where it was said he may be hurt internally, as well as being cut and bruised. Witnesses told Montgomery County police the street car was proceeding toward Washington when Craig drove out of a side road into its path. He was taken to the hospital by the Bethesda Fire Rescue Squad. In another accident Jane Doyle, 11, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Doyle, 300 Elm street, Chevy Chase, Md.,, suffered shock when a hit-and-run motorist struck her bi- cycle as she was crossing Wisconsin avenue in Bethesda. She was treated by a neighborhood physician. —_— NATS RAINED OUT Harrismen Will Play Two Games in Chicago Tomorrow. Spectal Dispatch to The Star CHICAGO, June 26—Rain today forced postponement of the Nationals’ opening game of a series with the ‘White Sox and necessitated the sched- convention yesterday was because a | Democratic party to a certain consti- | ¢ Foening Sfar FHP SENATOR LET 'EM Yesterday’s (Some retur: (®) Means Associated Press. Circulation, 134,273 DS not yet received.) TWGO CENTS. Long Aides, Free of Charges, ' Face $250,000 | BACKGROUND— Climazing feud between Roose- velt administration and Long po- litical machine in Louisiana was vigorous inquiry by Treasury and Justice Departments into income tar evasions by Louisiana group. with subscquent indictment of about dozen of the Long followers. Later, one member of group was convicted and sent to prisom, but death of Senmator Long brought period of inactivity in following up other cases. Recently, Justice De- partment dropped prosecution of remaining individuals and subse- quently was criticized harshly by members of grand jury. BY REX COLLIER. Income taxes and penalties aggre- gating more than a quarter of a mil- lion dollars are to be assessed by the | Senator Huey Long, despite cancella- group. Seymour Weiss, treasurer of the so- called Long “machine,” and 10 other LEAGUE IN SESSION FACES 2 DECISIONS |Moves for New Security With Italian Sanctions at Stake. BACKGROUND— After months of uncertainty over sanctions, the present sessions of League of Nations are erpected to shape its future course and destiny. With world powers failing to pre- vent annezation of Ethiopia by Italy through the application of sanctions, the League now is ex- pected to lift these penalties and map some other program to pre- serve its integrity. England, which took the lead to apply sanctions, again has taken the helm to reverse the sanctions. By the Assoctated Press. GENEVA, June 26.—League of Nations’ delegates, confronted with proposed reversal of sanctions against Italy, began a new search for col- lective security in the League Council today. Groups of diplomatic representa- tives in gloomy corridors expected two opposite decisions to emerge from the session: 1. Suspension of economic and financial penalties against Italy, con- demned as the “aggressor” in East Africa. 2. Refusal to recognize officially Italian annexation of Ethiopia, ac- complished after the occupation of Addis Ababa by the Fascist military forces. Contrasting Spirit. ‘The spirit through the League’s new contrasted sharply from the militant attitude of last October, when 50 nations approved application of sanctions. Then, after the “condemnation” of the invasion in East Africa, the League, with only a few- members disagreeing, imposed for the first time its “punitive” measures designed to compel a member.state to abide by the decision of the whole. to the Assembly, it was ltmofllm does not Treasury against followers of the late | tion of criminal charges against meI |Treasury to Order Assessment Paid Within 90 Days as Justice Unit Drops Criminal Counts. close friends of the former Senator, up or to appeal to the Board of Tax Appeals. Nolle prossing of the remaining criminal charges against the group was approved by the Justice Depart- | ment over protest of the Treasury. | Recently nine members of the grand | jury which indicted the Louisianans criticized United States Attorney Rene Viosca's action in dropping the tax charges and declared that, to be consistent, Attorney General Cum- mings should release from prison Joseph Fisher, only defendant con- victed. Customary Steps Being Taken. With undisguised dissatisfaction over Justice Department sanction of | the indictment cancellations, Internal Revenue and Treasury Department !omeixls are proceeding with “cus- | tomary” steps to enforce collection of large sums alleged to be due the Gov- ernment from the Long followers. Taxes and penalties involved in six |of the more important indictments [ 'AXES, Page 4.) PAY ROL TRUCH " DRVER WSV {Machine Carrying $16,000 Disappears and Is Found With $1,200 Gone. By the Assoctated Press. PAWTUCKET, R. I, June 26— The driver of an armored pay roll truck containing $16,000 disappeared today from Main street, although the truck was found nearby nearly an hour’ later, the operator missing. Po- lice reported $1,200 of the money also was gone. Police took all fingerprints irom the car befare they opened the locked machine which disappeared from the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Co. a few blocks from where it was found. Meanwhile Massachusetts and Rhode Island State police and agents of the United States Bureau of In- vestigation in Boston sought the missing driver, Walter Hussey. Police said they found a discarded blue shirt in the cab of the truck. One of two bank guards who said they left Hussey locked in the truck when they entered the Rhode Island bank reported his disappearance. Morton Swift, a guard, said he first believed Hussey had taken the truck to a garage to have the brake repaired. His failure to return, however, within a few minutes, alarmed Swift, and he called police. Swift estimated the truck had been gone 25 to 35 minutes before he re- ported its disappearance. A woman resident of Bowers street notified police the bank car was parked near her home. Its presence there, she said, aroused her suspicions. Illinois Publisher Dies. BELLEVILLE, Ill, June 26 (#).— Woodford W. Evans, 56 years old, publisher of the Belleville Daily Advo- cate, was found dead in bed, pre- sumably from heart disease, today. will be given 90 days in which to pay | ST.NAZAIRE NAVAL Taxes, Penalties WORKERS STRKE 10,000 Cease Work on All French Ships and Hoist Red Flags. By the Ascociated Press. PARIS, June 26.—Naval shipyards | workers declared a general strike at' St. Nazaire today, hoisting red flags. | ‘They stopped all work on new | units for the French navy and oc- cupied the yards. | The strike movement involved 10,- 000 employes and five yards—the | Loire, the De Penhoet, and the Loire St. Denis dockyards; the St. Nazaire foundries, and the West forges. The strikers demanded immediate pay ifiCreases and a 40-hour week. Striking Marseilles sailors, whose de- mands were approved by ship opera- tors, held out today for signed con- tracts before returning to work. Occupy Vessels. Naval strikers continued to occupy their vessels, over which red flags still flew. ‘The Federation of Labor came to the aid of the government in its effort to end the last of the “folded arms strikes.” Workers were urged by the federation not to call further walkouts before all means of negotiations with employers were exhausted. Strikers who have occupied the Nancy Gas Works for days were eject- ed upon order of the mayor. Fresh settlements in various indus- | tries brought the number of estimated | strikers down to 150,000. Bill Is Approved. The cabinet approved a bill for the nationalization of war industries by decree, and planned to submit it immediately to the Chamber of Depu- ties. Under the bill, the government would be authorized to expropriate all or part of any factory manufac- turing arms, buying up the stock at its average value for the past seven years and paying for it with special government bonds. Premier Blum’'s ministers also ap- proved a big public works program under which the treasury will be asked to advance money, pending the flotation of a loan for 4,000,000,000 francs ($264,000,000). The government plans to spend one- quarter of this amount in 1936 in rushing to completion the public works program of previous govern- ments on which 1,000,800,000 francs ($66,052,800) already has been spent. FIVE PLEAD GUILTY TO BURNING CAMP Men Held in Black Legion Inves- tigation Will Be Sen- tenced Later. By the Assoctated Press. PONTIAC, June 26.—Five men arrested in and County Black Legion investigation pleaded guilty today in Circuit Court to a charge of arson in the ‘destruction of the “Workers Educational Association™ camp in 1933. Judge George B. Hartrick deferred sentence. The five are James E. Bader, 51; his son George, 23; Randall Wilson, 28; Gordon Smith, 23, all of Pontiac, and Harry P. Davis of Flint. The State charges they were mem- bers of a terrorist “torch squad” as- signed to burn property of persons they suspected of being Communists. 600 Electric Refrigerators, Stoves Bounce Back on F. H. A. The muitiplicity of Uncle Sam's m business interests was revealed today to have expanded to include, at least temporarily, the sec- ond hand sale of disposal of almost 600 electric refrigerators and more than 300 electric and gas ranges, washing machines, ironers, store fix- tures, oil burners and water heaters, natmmun..c-onumo( paint Three months ago, by amendment of Congress, the Federal Housing Administration discontinued, with one exception, the 1d* appliances. on moveable ‘The aftermath on, however, with almost 1,000 articles stored here and there about the country in private stores and public warehouses, ob- tained by repossession for non-pay- ment of loans. The exception is re- placement of property lost in flood- F.H. A, as almost everybody knbws, will insure up to 10 per cent the total amount loaned by private financial institutions for home renovation and equipment. When almost 1,000 people became delinquent on loans for.electrical ap- pliances, despite efforts of banks and (8ee REFRIGERATORS, Page 2.) NEW RAIL PENSION LEGISLATION HELD INVALID IN"RULING BY DISTRICT COURT Acts of 1935 Inseparable and Intended to Accom- plish Improper Purpose, Justice Bailey Finds. HIGH TRIBUNAL VERDICT IN PREVIOUS CASE CITED Decision Declares Taxing Provi- sion to Raise Funds for Pensions Is So Arbitrary as to Com- stitute Violation of Due Process Clauses. BY WILLIAM S. TARVER. Holding the two acts which com- prise the 1935 railroad retirement leg- islation to be inseparable and intended to accomplish a purpose which the Supreme Court declared improper in an earlier decision, Justice Jennings Bailey of the District Supreme Court today declared the statutes uncon= stitutional and enjoined their en- forcement. He said the taxing act, by which funds were to be raised for payment by the Railroad Retirement Board of pensions to railway employes reaching the age of 65 was so arbitrary as to constitute a violation of the due process clauses of the Constitution. He said it was clearly the intention of Congress by the two acts to create a single system to replace the 1934 railroad retirement law, which was declared unconstitutional by the Sue preme Court in May, 1935. “The two taken together so dove- tail into one another as to create a complete system, substantially the same as that created by the railroad retirement act of 1934,” he said. “If the intent of the two acts taken together,” he continued, “is to take the property of one class for the benefit of another and the taxing act was not intended to provide for the | expenses of Government. but solely |for a purpose which the Supreme Court has held not to be within the domain of the Federal Government, it would seem to be immaterial that would be a m keeping and wou'l not affect the rights of the taxpayers.” Acts Held Inseparable. He said the two acts were “insepara= ble parts of a whole.” ~ The attack on the retirement legis= lation had been brought by 135 major | railroads which later were joined by other roads and rail enterprises, bringing the total number up to 434, practically a complete representation of the Nation's carriers. A group of Atlantic Coast Line em= | ployes also joined as plaintiffs in the injunction suit, telling the court they preferred their own pension system to the compulsory retirement and pen= | sion plan provided by Congress. The taxing act levied an excise tax on the railroads of 31; per cent of the compensation, not in excess of $300 a | month, paid by them to their employes, | and an income tax on each employe of 32 per cent of his compensation, not in excess of $300 a month. The com= | pulsory retirement act, passed the | same day, established a retirement system for railroad employes reaching the age of 65 with a maximum pension of $120 per month. Terms Act Arbitrary. Justice Bailey said the act was arbitrary in that it did not show a | basis of measuring the amount of tax { nor why a tax should be levied on the carriers and their employes and on no other class of employers or employes. POLICE SAVE LIVES OF BOY SWIMMERS Officer Hears Cries of Youths in Potomac, Throws Life Pre- servers From Boat. Quick action by Harbor Precinct Policeman Ray C. Ault saved the lives of two youthful swimmers today after they became exhausted while trying to cross the Potomac below the Three Sis- ters Islands. ~ The swimmers—Howard Passina, 14, of 1301 Massachusetts avenue and Charles Herrlein, 15, of 1100 Twenty= fifth street—were pulled from the river as they were apparently ready to sink. Ault, with H. G. Jenkins, a float ine spector. was cruising near Key Bridge in a police launch when he heard cries for help about the same time there was a call from the bridge that two swimmers were in trouble. He reached the swimmers,/'who had started from the Virginia side, and managed to get about halfway across by pushing the boat to top speed and throwing life preservers as he drew near. Readers’ Guide A-19-20-21 Lost and Found -- A3 News Comment Features A-11 Wayside. Women’s Mpatures ...