Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1936, Page 2

A—2 =% CATHEDRAL RITES PRAISE ERASMUS Dr. Born and Dr. Stokes Explain Scholar’s Ideals %" at Quadricentennial, « " ¥ Erasmus, great Dutch philosopher, ead 400 years, has a message of prac- Hical idealism for humanity today. ~ Such was the keynote of the quad- Ficentennial commemrioration: of the Tamous scholar’s life and work yes- rday. The celebration culminated in a special service at Washington ‘Cathedral, Mount St. Albar. where ‘Fepresentatives of the Government of the United States and of many foreign dands, the schools and churches of tne District of Columbia, numerous learned ocieties and cultivated Washington 2n general heard “the pioneer leader ‘of the Renaissance” praised and his doctrines expounded. “ Dr. Lester K. Born, author of the Jatest study of Erasmus and chair- man of the Washington Erasmus Committee, told the story of his career and read excerpts from his writings ‘to demonstrate the importance of his teachings in the twentieth century. ‘Born at Rotterdam in 1466, he had “een “a universal man,” the speaker said, living at different times in Eng- Jand, France, Belgium, Germany, Jtaly and Switzerland; corresponding with kings. princes, popes, cardinals, ‘teachers, artists, printers and . pub- lishers; reading the classics of an- Yiquity and interpreting them to his own era; translating the New Testa- ment into Greek, advising emperors, ‘Dleading for reform in state and ‘church, but particularly among indi- viduals; exemplifying in himself the Christian tolerance and charity he desired to see in others. Based on Ethical Conduct. “It is impossible” Dr. Born de- plared, “to divorce Erasmus’ doctrines of religion, education and social phil- osophy. All three rent upon the same Jfundamental of individual responsi- bility and ethical conduct.” ~ The sage urged education as a cor- Yective for crime and arbitration for “war. He forecast such recent policies .as large public works, advocating the ‘ponstruction of public buildings, bridges, river walls, water systems, good roads. “But why,” Dr. Born asked, “if ‘Erasmus is all that he is sald to be, Tave his ideals yet to be realized? The answer is as simple as it is embar- rassing. His ideals can only be brought to complete fruition after a funda- ‘mental change in human nature. The effectiveness of this commemoration Adepends upon those of us who are Participating. “If there be any truth in the feel- Ang that the lessons of the past can “help us in the problems of the present, “we should turn again to the pages +of Erasmus. No finer tribute can be Jpaid to him whose life knew no boundaries of space, whose immortal anind knows no boundaries of time.” Rev. Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes, for- jguer secretary of Yale University, now canon residentiary at the Cathedral, discussed the contributions of Eras- gmus to religion and education, ex- ‘plaining how and why the philosopher JXriticised existing practices in the in- stitutions of his genemation. Urged Freedom of Will. s “Luther was a nationalist, Eras- us an internationalist,” Dr. Stokes 9nsisted. “Also, Luther was an op- “ponent of freedom of the will, Eras- fnus a supporter of it. The former specame convinced that revolution was necessary; the latter continued to trust in evolution. “The influence of Erasmus may be summed up by saying that he was the greatest Christian humanist of all time. If we would be true to his example, we should try to restore ‘o the church of Christ the deep teligious and moral note of the New Testament.” Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian of the Washington Public Library, zead the lesson and marched in the procession with Dr. Born and Dr. Btokes. ! Earlier in the day Dr. Born took part in an international hbroadcast ‘over the Columbia network, introduc- 4ng Federal Communications Commis- sioner George Henry Payne, Dr. Edu- ard Feer, counselor of the Legation of Switzerland, and B. Kleinje Mole- %amp, commercial counselor of the Jegation of the Netherlands, all of whom paid tribute to Erasmus as a Fvorthy mentor for mankind in the ‘present period of history. ¥ An exhibition of books and prints pelating to the philosopher will be Opened at the Library of Congress today. It has been arranged by Mar- £in A. Roberts and David C. Mearns. Irvin S. Cobb Says: Hollywood is Anxious for Chapter of Nobleman’s Club *. LANCASTER, Calif,, July 13.—Out z:n we're waiting for that Spanish ron and that French count back in New York to form the mother branch of their Noble- Ren's Club for fhe protection of holders of genu- Toe titles in erica, a n d, presumbably, as & guarantee to eur own home- glown heiresses that, when they ‘marry foreign frincelings or ‘what not, the goods will be de- bed. There’s a lot of -legging, you “-As soon as the organization gets wtarted we're going to open the Holly- division. Since only the au- tic nobility may qualify, it's fig- ued that the active roster will be oonfined to a very limited group. The efher 200 or 300 self-anointed grand dgkes and marquises and things will be carried as honorary members or they can help the janitor. .eThere was a time when, like the oolored lodge, the lowest office here wAs that of imperial supreme king. t now, if they're going to call for tials, I look for & feairful mor- 1 Washington Wayside | Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. COOLER. OOLING systems costing what " they do, one of the members of a local theater chain staff decided to devise his own air- cooling contraption in his home. With- out benefit of blue prints or a single memorandum to anybody anywhere, he rigged the thing up and says it reduced temperatures in his house about 15 degrees. Here’s the way it was done: He started an electric fan stirring up the air in the basement, where the ther- mometer registered about 70, com- pared to 95 on the upper floors. Closed all windows in the house. Rut an- other fan in a circular window open- ing in the attic, and packed it in tight so the blade would draw hot air out. Left a slight hole beside the fan big enough to slip a hose through, and set the hose up so it sprays the roof. The basement fan kicks the cool breezes up to the first floor, where the hot air is rising and drifting up to the second floor, thence to be drawn to the attic by the fan up there. The hose spattering on the roof cools it a bit, but as nobody is in the attic any- how, its main virtue is the sound, like cool tropical rain. If a cat steps on the hose, that winds the clock, which rings an alarm and fries the breakfast eggs, in the Frigidaire. * ¥ X X ARTISTS' WAY. If you like a bit of inside ine Jformation on how newspaper artists work, here’s something that may prove interesting. One of the best of them was working away the other morning on a sketch from a photograph. “What are you grinning at?” & caller broke in on the man’s com= plete absorption in his work. “Nothing,” he said, “just grine ning.” “But why?” his interrogator pere sisted. “Because I'm drawing a picture of some one who is grinning.” “And when the subject jrowns what do you do?” “I frown, too,” said the artist. Odd, what? * x x TURTLE. | TURTLE on the car tracks on Georgia avenue in front of the Brightwood fire house the other morn- ing was not just a turtle to a taxi driver who happened to spy him. He was an inferior form of life who commanded the moral obligation of the superior to protect him from his own blundering stupidity. ‘That is why the taxi driver, seeing the turtle, swung his vehicle in ahead of the street car, came to a screeching stop, and forced the street car to do 50 before it ran down the slow-moving reptile. As the driver dismounted | and carried the turtle to the safety of the curb, he waved apologetically to| the motorman. The latter waved back that he completely understood the sit- uation; that in the taxi man’s place he would have done the same thing. * %k x “CANNONBALL* Portly, ruddy-faced Pvt. Samuel Francis Smith, sr., of the first precinct, has what his “beat-walk- ing” friends choose to call an ap- propriate nickname — that of “Cannonball” Appropriate and just, in that he “blows up” as fel- low policemen tell it, or is always “storming” about something. Furthermore, Samuel Francis Smith, sr., likes his given “mon= niker.” Xk X % FUTURE. GOVERNMENT official who is be- ing transferred to a South Car- olina post on the first of August is discouraged at the prospect. Perhaps he cannot be blamed for feeling that way. Visiting the town in which he is to be stationed, he asked about every- thing imaginable concerning schools, stores and 50 on. As an afterthought he stopped in a hardware store to inquire whether the electric current was alternating or direct. ‘The hardware man repHed: “Well, I guess it's alternating. Some- times its nice and bright and then agin its kinda dim. No, sir! I couldn’t nowise say it's direct cur- rent.” * % X % REMEMBERED. A MAN walked into the office of & Baltimore instrument manufac- turing firm last week with a handful of blond hair. It seems that the heart of a humid- ity-registering device is composed of a “rope” of some 12 human hairs, treated to extract all oil and mois- ture. The hairs are extremely sensi- tive to changes in humidity and record them on a scale which controls the operation of air-conditioning ap- paratus, ;. “Why use this hair?” asked the manager of the firm. “It will take a week to prepare it, and we have plenty on hand.” “I know,” the customer insisted, “but this hair is from my wife’s head. She died yesterday, and I want it permanently installed in the humidi- fler recorder in my home.” The amazed manager complied with the request. Incidentally, tests have shown that blond hair makes superior instruments, and that it improves with age. Skyline Under Ban. Port Elizabeth, South Africa, has banned a.skyscraper skyline because it would spoil the view of the bay from the base of the monument on THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. AID FUNDS URGED INFLOOD CONTROL President Hears Represent- atives of Eastern and Inland States. Py the Associated Press. HYDE PARK, N. Y, July 13.—Rep- resentatives of a half dozen Eastern and inland States came here today to urge President Roosevelt to set aside a large chunk of the 1936 relief act funds for emergency flood con- trol reservoirs and other works. Before entering the conference, spokesmen for the groups representing various regions of the United States Flood Control Federation said many projects could not wait until Congress appropriated money to carry out authorization recently approved under the $320,000,000 omnibus flood con- trol law. Earmavked Sum. Norman McLeod of Pittsburgh, rep- resenting the Tri-State Authority em- bracing Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, told newspaper men $128,000,000 was earmarked in the $1,425,000,000 relief act for flood control and conservation, but said the President previously had indicated most of this earmarked money would have to go for conservation. Others who entered the Hyde Park temporary White House for the parley were: Dr. Charles E. Holzer, president of the Ohio Valley Conservation and Flood Control Congress; State Senator W. B. Rodgers and Dr. James H. Green, Pittsburgh members of the Tri- State Authority; Thomas R. Hutton of Binghamton, N. Y., representing the Central Southern Flood Control Council, Dudley Harmon Expected. Dudley Harmon, vice president of the New England Council, was expected to arrive later to put in a recommenda- tion for Connecticut and Massachu- setts, other States hit hard by floods early this year. After a long wrangle, the last Con- gress passed an omaibus flood control bill authorizing $320,000,000 of proj- ects throughout the country. The President signed the measure, but pointed out it was merely an au- thorization and carried no appropri- ations. An inter-departmental committee thereafter was set up to study the subject. White House officials said the Pres- ident would take things easy the re- mainder of the day. He is eager to get behind the helm of the Sewanna with his boys—so eager that he said he would “pray for fog” in order not to have to sign a “bucket full uf mail” every day. Communication Depot. With the presidential yacht Po- tomac and a Navy destroyer serving as escort and supply ships for the cruise, postal officials announced they would set up a temporary communi- cation depot at Bar Harbor, Me., to handle urgent mail from the White | House that will require replies from | the Sewanna. Two Navy seaplanes and two speed boats will serve as dispatch carriers. Herbert Theurer, postal inspector, will be in charge at Bar Harbor, Mr. Roosevelt spent a quiet Sunday, enjoying a swim in the afternoon. The day was in contrast to a busy Saturday, during which he dedi- cated the Triborough Bridge in New York, addressed several hundred Hyde Park neighbors informally and at- tended the wedding of Mrs. Ruth | Bryan Owen to Capt. Boerge Rohde. CROSSING DANGER TO BE ELIMINATED Plans Completed for Bridge Above B. & 0. Tracks at Belts- ville. Engineers of the Maryland Roads Commission today finished plans for grade crossing elimination on the Baltimore & Ohio at Beltsville and forwarded them to Washington for consideration by officials of the United States Bureau of Public Roads. Meanwhile construction of the over- head span at Rockville is moving for- ward steadily and is approaching the half-way mark, while the State high- way executives have been advised that work will begin within a week on the crossing elimination at Kensington. Regarded as one of the most dan- gerous intersections of its kind in the country, the Beltsville crossing will be disposed of by the erection of a bridge from the Washington-Baltimore Boulevard to the county road on the eastern side of the railroad right of way. The crossing is negotiated each day by hundreds of automobles and trucks traveling between the boulevard and the United States Government's ex- perimental farm, as well as by many residents in that section of Prince Georges County. Several fatal acci- dents have occurred at that point, Nathan L. Smith, chief engineer of the State Roads Commission, said that plans for the span would be made public as soon as they receive the ap- proval of the Bureau of Public Roads and that bids probably will be sought by his commission within two weeks. Under the agreement through which Federal funds were obtained for the bridge the plans are subject to the approval of the United States Bureau of Public Roads before they can be carried out. The Toll Nears 1,200 Drought' Takes Year's Highest Disaster Figure. Ry the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, July 13.—Excessive heat took front rank today among the nat- ural disasters of 1936 as the United States marked up more than 1,100 deaths in the heat wave, directly or indirectly attributable to high temper- atures. This was more than twice the 500 killed in the January and February cold waves or by the Spring tornado which took 466 lives in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. Heat deaths by States: 10 New Jersey. 5 New York 8 North Carolina 1 North Dakota. -187 Ohlo - 28 Pennsylvania.. - 65 South Carolina 1 South Dakota- - 19 Tepnessee ... 1 Utah ... . 3 Virginia _ 231 Washington, -3 D.C . Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska New England.. 43 GOODYEAR DENIES N.L.R.B. CHARGES Complaint Held “Unfair and Unwarranted” by Rub- ber Company. Ey the Associated Press. AKRON, Ohio, July 13.—The Good- year Tire & Rubber Co. issued a statement today terming ‘“‘unwar- ranted and unfair” charges contained in a complaint issued in Washington against the company Saturday by the National Labor Relations Board. The complaint charged the com- pany with “complicity” in three as- saults on members and organizers of the United Rubber Workers of Amer- ica at Gadsden, Ala.; asserted an “in- dustrial assembly” of Goodyear work- ers was “under the domination of the company,” and that the company had | made “threats” to remove some of its operations from Akron. The statement follows: “Goodyear has no information re- | garding the complaint which it is said will be filed by the National Labor Re- lations Board. No notice of the filing | of charges has been served upon the company. Charges “Unwarranted.” “If the National Labor Relations | Board plans to make a complaint | against Goodyear and if the charges | contained in that complaint are irr ac- | cordance with press reports, then the | charges are unwarranted and unfair. The N. L. R. B. complaint as quoted in press reports is in the main merely a repetition of the propaganda which has been employed for weeks past by the more intemperate union spokes- men and agitators in their campaigns to force the employes of Goodyear into the union. “Goodyear has repeatedly disclaimed any connection with the assault cases at Gadsden; and 4t is significant that the tactics of one of the Labor Board's | investigators in Gadsden drew from the city's governing commission a ‘shup charge of unfairness and preju- | dice. “So far as the industrial assembly plan is concerned, it was instituted in 1919 and for many years has stood as & model of co-operation and harmony between management and employes. Under its operation, Goodyear em- ployes attained the highest wages among mass industries, in addition to short hours, paid vacations, retirement pensions and many other unusual penefits. The Industrial Assembly continues to represent a vast majority of Goodyear employes, despite the de« termined assaults of outside agitators. Production Stepped Up. “In the matter of decentralization, Goodyear has refrained from any an- nouncement of any preliminary plans. It is a fact that production in our Gadsden and other subsidiary plants has been stepped up because of diffi- culties in obtaining satisfactory volume from the Akron plants. It is like- Wwise a fact that plans are progressing for additional outside production and that current conditions make it appear that these plans will have to be pushed to an early conclusion, “However, these moves are not de- signed to strike at the union, but to insure the company’s ability to fill cus- tomer orders. In due course, proper legal steps will be taken by Goodyear in connection with the Labor Board’s charges.” e NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING GAINS OVER LAST YEAR Lineage for Week Ending July 4 Is 10.2 Per Cent Over ’35 Figure. BY the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 13.—Retail adver- tising lineage in newspapers of 66 major cities was 10.2 per cent greater for the week ended July 4 than the corresponding week of 1935, Advertis- ing Age reported today. The total was 13,343,831 lines, com- pared with 12,111,293 a year ago. For the year to date, the lineage in the 66 cities totals 21,202,218 lines ahead of last year, an increase of 4.9 per cent. National Scene BY ALICE LONGWORTH CERTAIN number of English politicians became vastly alarmed because the Hindenburg flew over England on her way home, These are the more vocal patriots, whose type we know so well in our own country. Sensible Mr. Will Thorne the labor leader, appropriately dismissed the whole to-do by saying that Germany already knows more about England’s ports and dock yards than she could learn by flying over them. When we check our curses and blessings during this hot weather, we should not forget that this is one of the few countries in the world that does not keep itself in a turmoil with spy scares and mortal fear that some foreigner will fly over Washington and take a picture of the Capitol. Since N. R. A, A. A. A. and potato control are no longer with us, we are free also from a spy menace in our na- tional household which those New Deal innova- tions were calculated to bring into existencs. (Copyright, 1936.) C., TWO HEAT DEATHS MAKE EIGHT HERE Several Prostrations Added to List—Stricken Woman Is Identified. Two additional deaths—one from prostration and the other from drowning—occurred yesterday to biing the Capital’s heat fatalities to eight. 0 others: have lost their lives in nedrby Virginia since the heat wave started. The latest victims are William Budd, 60, coiored, and Fred Brown, 19, also colored, of 825 Fourth street. Budd died before medical aid arrived after he was found uncopscious in the hall of his home at 441 N street. The Brown youth was seized with cramps while swimming in the Airport basin on the Virginia side of the Po- tomac River. The body was recov- ered by Harold Proctor, lifeguard at the Airport swimming pool. Several prostrations also were re- ported here yesterday. They in- cluded Anna Leuby, 25, of 2121 New York avenue, who was treated at Emergency Hospital and sent home; Marcus Fraziel, 51, of Bethesda, Md., who was taken to Georgetown Hos- pital after he collapsed near his home, and Willlam Sterling, 23, of Masontown, Pa., who was treated at Gallinger. Identification was made yesterday of a woman who was stricken by the heat Priday night while walking in the 3100 block of Twenty-fourth street. She is Miss Anna H. Lander, 60, of 1221 Massachusetts avenue. Willlam Taylor, of the same address, identified her. Weather (Continued From First Page) Washington's relief, instead of com- ing from the Western sector, will en- ter the “back door"—by way of the Hudson Bay ares. | Local thundershowers are expected late tomorrow afternoon or night. Real relief is not expected before the middle of the week, officials said. With the sun obscured and light east winds sweeping the city, the tem- perature was staying at a reasonable level here early today. Reaching a low of 73 at 5:30 am., the mercury had risen only 2 points by 9 oclock. The 9 o'clock reading of 75 was considerably below yester- day’'s mark of 86 at the same hour. At noon the reading was still 75. The “high” yesterday was 95, reached at 4 pm. The humidity was somewhat above normal during the day, however, and added to the dis- comfort caused by the continued high temperatures. Two more deaths were reported, one from the heat and one from drowning. RAINS “FIZZLE OUT.” No Relief in Sight for Hard-Stricken Area, CHICAGO, July 13 () —Drought and record-shattering heat clung to the long-suffering Middle West and East in the Northern half of the Na- tion today as life-giving rains in pore tions of the Northwest and the South over the week end which were ex- pected to aid other afflicted sections “fizzled out.” Death from prostration and drown- ing mounted to at least 1,247, and crop destruction continued at a dev- | astating pace with damage in excess of | $300,000,000 when a relentless sun seared “the major 1936 natural disas- ter” in burning words across the | country. Government Meteorologist J. R. Lioyd at Chicago made this a “Dblue Monday” for harassed farmers in the bread basket of America and their gasping urben dwellers when he an- nounced no new rains were in sight for the Northwest or any other heat- baked area. Heat to Continue. He said generally fair weather with torrid temperatures would continue today and tomorrow for drought areas in general, but that cooler weather was likely in the eastern sectign of the Northwest tomorrow. Purely local showers were forecast for North Dakota and Northwestern Minnesota, and for North Dakota, Northern. Minnesota, Northwestern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan to- morrow. There was hope, Lloyd said, of re- lief from the intense heat in Illinois, where prostration has taken almost 200 lives, and States to the east, pos- sibly by Wednesday, but he could not sight the urgently needed rain for the major corn States—Tilinols, Jowa, Nebraska and Indiana. Some Areas to Be Cooler. He explained that a new cool wave, moving down from the Northern Pacific States, would probably bring cooler weather tomorrow to the Da- kotas, Nebraska, Minnesota, North- western Wisconsin, Upper Michigan and the extreme northern portion of Lower Michigan. When this joins with the cool wave which halted at the western border of middle America yesterday it is likely the combined forces of the two will be able to break the mass of heat possibly Wednesday over the Central States, he added. The precipitation over the week end in the Northwest was of untold benefit. Besides aiding crops and pasturage in some sections it also lifted the fire scourge in FEastern ‘Wyoming and Southeastern Montana. Men and women laughed and shouted in the rain, and their chil- dren played in mud puddles. Farmers wondered if the cool weather and rain would rid the area of the grasshopper and cricket horde. More than 1,000 fighters of the huge Black Hills forest blaze for more than a week breathed easier as the moisture quenched all but a few spots. Relief for South. Elsewhere, too, in the Nation wel- come rain revived the spirits over a | 50 per cent in 1933. This amounted | sorely tried populace the week end. In Connecticut the drought was be- lieved definitely broken, and tempo- rary relief was given in New York State, New England, Nebraska, Geor- gia, Virginia and South Carolina. But as a general continuation of the drought was predicted, prices on major grain markets, which tumbled practically the full limits Saturday upon a forecast of probable relief from heat and aridity, opened today slightly lower than Saturday’s close, then steadied to about the closing level. Initial downturns of as much as 3 MONDAY, JULY 13, 1936. A Dionne Objects Joe, newest member of the Dionne family of Callander, Ontario, and brother of the famous quintuplets, doesn’t seem to appreciate the ministrations of Nurse Charette, as she powders him after his bath. —Associated Press Photo from News Syndicate Co., Copyright, 1936. BANK'S REGEIVER REPORTS PROGRESS District National Liguidation Gains Substantially, Hamilton States. Bubstantial progress in the liquida- i tion of the closed District National | Bank was shown today in the final | report by Norman R. Hamilton, re- ceiver, recently resigned, for the quar- ter ending June 30. Hamilton has been succeeded by Justus 8. Wardell of San Francisco. The estimated value of assets re- maining in the receivership has in- creased from $2,258,235.54 in March to $2,314,598.19, including the cash on ‘hand, which has increased from $636,- 580.56 to $648,039.90. A total of $1,01244172 has been paid on the total R. F. C. loan of $1,193,641.72. | With assets in this condition, it would appear that a new loan might | be obtained from the R. F. C. to pay a dividend to depositors, but, accord- ing to reliable indications, nothing can be done until final determination of a court battle. Some stockholders have been fighting the right of the receiver to levy & 100 per cent assessment against their holdings. They have lost in both the District Court and in the Court of Appeals. Suit Delays Collections. Some collections have been made from stockholders, but the funds have not been credited to the assessment because of the suit. They are held in an account which includes some other funds and stands at $583,405. Depositors received one dividend of | to $1,934,247.05. Unsecured liabilities due depositors at the date of suspen- sion of the bank March 5, 1933, were $4.841,414.78. Hamilton also issued receivership reports for the four other local banks, which he turned over to Wardell. The Potomac Savings Bank, which has paid dividends of 62'; per cent amounting to $1,281,889.27 was shown to have remaining assets of $697,- 325.06 including $13,695.20 casa on | hand. It has repaid $652,075 of its | $963,375 loan from the R. F. C The Northeast Savings Bank, which has paid depositors 85 per cent,| amounting to $903,347.04, has remain- | ing assets listed at $200,899,69, of which 1 $45901.39 is cash on hand. It has| paid back all of its $696,730 loan to the R. F. C. The Seventh Street Savings Bank, which has paid depositors 80 per cent, amounting to $844,959.71, has remain- ing assets of $306,888.80, including $32,000.41 cash. It has paid back $563,- 307 of its $623,407 loan from the R.F.C The Washington Savings Bank, which has paid depositors 80 per cent, amounting to $279,015.69, has remain- ing assets of $152,13183, including $8,618.62 cash. It has repaid $355,395 of its R. F. C. loan of $387,495. FIRE RUINS YIELD TWO MORE BODIES Baltimore Dead Now Four, With One Man Stll Unaccounted For. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, July 13.—Firemen recovered the bodies of two men today from the charred and water-soaked ruins of a blasted warehouse. A third man died of injuries suffered in the explosion, bringing to four the number of known dead. The body of a young woman stenographer was found pre- viously. One man is still missing, but police inclined to the belief that he was not in the building when the explosion in- terrupted the unloading of a tank car | of alcohol. This man and the two found today had been missing since the blast Saturday. Three score firemen hacked broken timbers in a search for the missing men. Recurring outbursts of Same hampered their work. The two bodies were found at the bottom of what had been an elevator shaft, under a heap of bricks which had been a two-story brick building. Police said the men had not been burned to death, but apparently suf- focated in the smoke which hung over the wreckage after the explosion. One of them had wrapped a piece of can- vas around his head as an extempor- ized but futile smoke mask. Ten persons were still in the hos- pital, suffering from injuries received in the accident. Police and firemen said they had been unable to determine the cause of the blast which leveled the two- story naval stores plant of A. L. Webb & Sons, shattered three walls of an adjoining brick building and rocked an entire block. ¢ PEEK IS UNDECIDED ONG.0.P. SUPPORT “Haven’t Got That Far Yet,” He Tells Newsmen as He Visits Landon. Py the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kans, July 13.—George | N. Peek, arriving for a conference with | Gov. Alf M. Landon, told newsmen to- day, “I haven't got that far yet,” when asked whether he would support the Republican nominee for the presi- dency. Peek's remark was made when tne farm expert and former A. A. A. ad- ministrator was asked whether he was going to campaign for Landon. The former New Deal official was greeted upon his arrival by Prof. Olin Glenn Saxon, member of the Repub- lican National Committee’s research division. Refreshed by a week end’s rest in the country, Landon reached his office shortly after 10 o'clock for a long series of conferences. Fisher Pays Visit. Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale dropped in for a visit on the way Eastward from Colorado Springs. Bernarr McFadden, the publisher, also talked with Landon. A letter from William Cabell Bruce, former Democratic Senator Maryland, saying he was ‘“bitterly disappointed” in President Roosevelt and “deeply gratified” at Alf M. Lan- don’s nomination was made public earlier at the office of the Republican presidential candidate. Beside the Bruce letter, half a dozen | others signed by persons representing themselves as Democrats who would support the Landon-Knox ticket, were made public at- the Kansas governor' office. Peek Requests Conference. Landon aides said Peex, who was the first administrator of the New Deal's A. A. A. and later a special adviser to President Roosevelt on foreign trade, had requested the conference with Landon. Since withdrawal from th Roosevelt administration, after split. ting with Secretary Hull over reciprocal tariff policies, Peek has been a fre- quent critic of the New Deal. Peek favored bi-lateral trade treaties as opposed to the rTeciprocal tariff pacts negotiated by Hull, which, under the most favored-nation policy, extend the benefits granted in a single recip- rocal treaty to all nations having most-favored-nation agreements with the United States. The Bruce letter, addressed to Lan- don and dated June 16, said: “I am 76 years of age and, with the single exception of Mr. Bryan, when he ran for the presidency in 1896, I have voted for every Democratic can- didate for the presidency during my long life, though in the State of Mary- land and Baltimore City campaigns, where reform issues of vital impor- tance were at stake, I have quite fre- quently voted for Republican candi- dates. Disappointed in Roosevelt. “I have been bitterly disappointed in Mr. Roosevelt as an incumbent of | the presidential office, and I am deeply gratified by the nomination of yourself as the presidential candidate of the Republican party and by the nomination by it of your vice presi- dential running mate, and by the admirable platform, on the whole, on which you were both nominated, and especially delighted am I with the ad- denda which your enlightened apd fearless spirit made to that platform in relation to gold as a monetary agency, and the Federal merit system of appointment.” F. F. DETWEILER, 79, DIES IN-EMERGENCY Son of Printing Firm Founder Had Been in Ill Health More Than Year. Frederick F. Detweiler, 79, son of F. M. Detweiler, co-founder of the Judd & Detweiler printing firm, died today in Emergency Hospital, where he had been confined several weeks. He had been in ill health over a year. Mr. Detweiler, whose home was at 2122 California street, was superin- tendent of the printing concern’s com- posing room for & number of years. He retired and had sold his interest in the business. His father and the late John Judd founded the organiza- tion in 1868. Another son, John C. Detweiler, died some years ago. Besides his wife, Mrs. Rosa B. Det- weiler, he is survived by two grandsons, one of whom is Moreland W. Schnei- der. Both were away at the time of Mr. Detweiler’s death. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Hysong's funeral parlors, 1300 N street. Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery. h RAILROAD PENSION PAYMENT IS BEGUN Appeal Planned on Ruling Taking Away Means of Tax Collection. BACKGROUND— Twice Congress has sought to establish mandatory railrcad se- tirement pensions Uy tazation of vailroad income and pay rolls. Twice the courts have overruled the constitutionality of the tar. But Congress in passing the most recent of the ill-fated acts ap- propriated $46,685,000 for the pen= sion payment on the theory the money would eventually come from the tax. When the District Court here ruled the tax invalid tuwo weeks ago it upheld the retirement Jeature of the act. So the Treas- ury is able to disburse the ap- propriation. The administration today began to pay railroad pensions out of the Tre: ury, although a recent court ruli left it without any immediate m of collecting taxes for the retirement fund The Railroad Retirement Board an- nounced “an appeal probably will taken” from the decision, A 1 | Supreme Court ruling on this appe: | could be reached before the present | congressional appropriation was ex- pended by the end of the fiscal year The board said in a statement that initiation of the rail pension disburse- | ments marked the first operation this country of a governmental old age retirement system for other thar governmental employes. 4,000 Immediately Eligible. About 4,000 workers are immediate!; eligible for benefits, the board said and an additional 20,000 have filed applications but have not yet fulfilled |8l conditions necessary for receiving | benefits. The board said it was “proceed at top speed to certify to the * * = %Treasury annuity payments railroad workers who are eligibls | As a start, the board continued, 13 annuities have been certified, ranging from $13.55 to $91.04 a month. The pensions are available for workers of | 65 or who have served for 30 years o more. They are based on length of | service and rates of compensation “The payments which are being made today have great historical sig- | nificance, not only to railroad work- ers,” said Murray W. Latimer, chair- man of the board, “but to workers of all sorts in America.” Indicate Security Benefits. He said this was because “they from | forecast what is in store for 26,000,000 to 30,000,000 American working men | and women for whom somewhat sim- | 1lar annuities begin to accrue January 1, 1937, under the social security act.” | _ Latimer also serves as director of the Social Security Board's Bureau of Federal Old-Age Benefits. Asked what would happen to a rail worker who retired to accept a Gov- ernment pension in event the Supreme Court eventually knocked w:wn the | entire pension system, Latimer said this “is a matter between the indi- viduals and the roads themselves.” He said he understood that some {labor groups had been negotiating | agreements with the roads under which they would be reinstated in the | event the pension program collapsed. If the act is finally declared invalid, the possibility also would arise that the Government would lose whatever sum it had expended in pensi Latimer said, however, if the present system was voided, another attempy would be made to enact a retirement law which would meet the court’s aps proval. Of the first 18 annuities certified to the Treasury for payment, the largest, of $91.04, will go to Thomas Biddle Strain, 73, of Johnson City, Tenn, who has been employed on various railroads for 54 years. Biddle was | retired on the East Tennessee & West- | ern North Carolina Railroad. Another of the payments will go to Irs. Cora Miranda Jones, who retired after long service as station agent at Iuka, Kans. for the Wichita North- western Railway. 'MRS. JENNIE C. PAUL DIES IN SANITARIUM | Funeral Services for Takoma Park Woman, 78, Held This Afternoon. Mrs. Jennie C. Paul, 78, of 43 Wood- land avenue, Takoma Park, Md., yesterday at Washington Sanitariu | Short funeral services were to be con- ducted this afternoon at the Cham- | bers chapel by Rev. Dr. Charles P. | Longacre, pastor of the Takoma Park Seventh Day Adventist Church. Bur- | 11 will be in Bedford, Mich., on Wed- nesday. | After the death of her husband, Mrs. Paul came here 13 years ago with |one of her daughters, Miss Mary G | Paul, who is employed as a secretary at the Seventh Day Adventist General | Conference. Mrs. Paul was a native of Chilsea, Mich. Other survivors are Mrs. Lloyd M. Fisher of 33 Woodland avenue, Takoma Park; Mrs. Harold B. Fisher of Sao Peulo, Brazil; Dr. Roger Paul of the Seventh Day Adventist Sanitarium at Shanghai, China; Arthur G. Paul of Battle Creek, Mich., and Deo Paul of San Bernadino, Calif. L;l.)or (Continued Prom First Page.) mittee to make further study of the issue qnd report back at the next meeting of the council in the Fall or to the federation convention in Tampa next November might avert both con- sequences temporarily but would leave the issue still before them for eventual disposition. Meanwhile, the council's delibera- tions are being watched closely by in- dustrial leaders, particularly those of the steel industry where the C. I. O. is undertaking a gigantic campaign of organizing 500,000 workers who never before have been affiliated with the recognized labor movement. Terms of settlement of the Wheeling Steel Corp. strike in Portsmouth, Ohio, where the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers seems to have scored a victory for 5,500 workers has caused the industry some apprehension about what might hap- pen on a broader front if the labor forces are not split. Watching the dispute closely also are political leaders of both major parties as the Democrats fear a split in labor’s vote and the Republicans hope for the same thing. /