Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1936, Page 2

WEATHER GAMBLE ON ECLIPSE SLOST Dr. Paul A. McNally Returns From Futile Trip to U. S. S. R. for Observation Good sportsmanship and a gam- bler's willingness to stake eyerything on the wheels of chance are among the requisites of an astronomer. “We gambled on the weather and lost,” was the laughing comment yes- terday of Dr. Paul A. McNally, 8. J., director of the Georgetown University Qbservatory in explaining on his re- turn from the Siberian solar eclipse expedition how he had made a round trip of 20.000 miles to see a rainstorm. _“The day before the total eclipse of June 19 was O. K. for observations.” he said, “and the day following was perfect, without a single cloud in the gky. It was just our hard luck to bave rain on the one day when we Pad staked everything on clear weather.” “ Dr. McNally revealed it wasn't such & bad gamble for during the month e was at his station in the Siberian wilds, “the weather was perfect 90 per cent of the time.” He had chosen carefully the site at Kustanai for that Feason. % Work Spoiled by Rain. « While Dr. McNally admitted that #he rain on June 19 had spoiled the mvork for the Georgetown-National Geographic Society expedition as it #lid for many others, he was not com- pletely disappointed. Although the sun was almost totally obscured by the slouds, he managed to get some accu- «ate determinations of the second and Ahird contacts with a special electrom- eter which the expedition carried. ‘e has not vet completely reduced the photographs he made of the light intensity but hoped for good results. * Dr. McNally recalled that when he ‘]‘en Washington last April, with five ons of equipment, he had pointed out 4t was a “gambler’s chance” that they were willing to take. “Our expedition was one of the best equipped in the field,” he said, “and awith good weather we had hoped to duplicate the photographic records made of the eclipse at Fryeburg, Me., in 1932. But luck was against us.” It took the expedition a month of hard work to establish its base of op- erations. [Kustanai, where the ob- servation was set up, is 500 miles east ©of Moscow. “The co-operation of the Soviet Russian scientific organizations was excellent,” Dr. McNally said. “They went out of their way to lend every ‘one helpful assistance.” Broadcasts Not Made. The Georgetown and Harvard ex- peditions were to have broadcast re- ports of the eclipse immediately after the 127-second spectra took place, but on account of static conditions, as ex- plained here, the broadcasts were not made. “We tried from 9:30 p.m. to mid- night,” Dr. McNally explained, “but Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. PICK-UP. AYMOND MINOR HUDSON, Jr., is going to think twice before giving a lift to a stranger again. On one of Hudson’s recent frequent trips to the Midwest he stopped at the top of a mountain to inquire as to the best route to the next town. A nice-looking chap instructed him most politely and then asked, if the driver didn't mind, to be given a lift. Hudson acquiesced. “Going anywhere in particular?” asked Hudson. “Home,” replied the stranger. “Haven't been there for a couple of years.” “Been stopping near here?” “Yep, down at the jail.” “Jail?” asked Hudson, wondering if the man could be the jailer. “Yep—wuz locked up for gittin’ caught in a gun fight.” “Serious enough to keep you locked up for two years?” “Wall, they said it was. got killed.” “How's that “I shot 'em! What Hudson is still trying to figure ‘out is how his beneficiary got away with only two years. s * X * % SUMMER SESSION. Had it not been for legal re- quirements, the Zoming Commis- sion could just as well have dis- pensed with a recent public hear- ing to consider three proposed amendments to its regulations. Only two persons attended. One of these had no comment to make. The other had his say, but it was about a matter heard and decided at a previous hearing. It was the shortest zoning hearing since the commission was created in 1920. * ok ok x DACHSHUND. | DURING one of the recent polo i matches in the Southeastern | tournament down at Potomac Park ! field a small and sort of slap-happy dachshund dashed onto the fleld, raced down toward the north goal, | skidded, slightly veering toward the ,river, and pulled up short—beneath a sprinkler that had been turned on to spray the turf next door. Two men l ‘I think the real reason why the broad- | casts were not made was the reluc- Rance of the Soviet officials to admit that the observations generally made of the eclipse were disappointing.” The Georgetown astronomer, who ‘had made such a notable record dur- ing the 1932 eclipse, was busy yester- day preparing his report for the Na- tional Geographic Society, which had promoted and co-operated in the ex- pedition. He was accompanied to ‘Washington by Rev. Emeran J. Kol- meyer. S. J., his chief assistant and Rev. T. J. Smith, S. J., both of George- town University, who shared in the disappointments of the expedition. Two of the other assistants will return later. They are Carl Striegel of the Geographic Society and W. Robert Moore of Georgetown. The former is remaining for a while in Germany and the latter made a trip to Southern France. TWO GET 3 YEARS IN BOND FRAUD CASE Plead Guilty to Charge of Selling Forged Securities—Three Others Released. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., July 21.—Irvin Kott of New York and Joseph O’'Neal of Port Arthur, asserted members of an international bond theft ring, were | sentenced yesterday to three years in Leavenworth Penitentiary after en-| tering pleas of guilty to charges of selling five forged bonds. Similar charges against Alfred U. Morrison, Robert Earl Doty and George G. Zinn, executives of the Guaranty Securities Corp. of Hous- ton, were dismissed. The five men were taken into cus- tody here several weeks ago in a Department of Justice drive. Other arrests were made in Miami, Fla., New York City and Paris, France. The indictment charged Kott and O'Neal with violation of the national securities act and with mail fraud in a transaction in which five forged bonds of the Eastern Shore Public Service Co. were brought to Houston and then sold in Chicago. FERRIES TO REVIVE STEAMBOAT RACING Victor McLaglen and Mayor Rossi to Pilot Rival Vessels on San Francisco Bay. Ry the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, July 21.—Steam- boat racing, the sport the Misstesippi River made famous, will be seen on Ban Francisco Bay Sunday. Two bulky ferries, which for years plied placidly on the bay, are being put in trim to revive a competition which flourished in Civil War days. Victor McLaglen, screen star, will captain the San Francisco Press Club- sponsored Natchez. As mates he will have Lieut. Gov. George Hatfleld of California and Walter Mails, funny man of the San Francisco Seals base- ball club. The Robert E. Lee will be skippered by Mayor Angelo Rossi of San Fran- cisco, with Frank “Lefty” O'Dqul, manager of the Seals, as first mate. { ‘There the animated blimp sat, in drenched repose, throughout the game. At the last whistle he got up again | and paddled cheerfully back to his | owner. i SIMPLE LIFE. FAMILY up from the South for several years found out the other night that a maid they brought up | with them has not been attending | law school since she left them shortly | in logical sequence, speaking very dis- | It is not that | passionately for a “rabble-rouser” and | | after arriving here. | they thought she had been going to | law school. That's only an awkward | way of beginning the story which just {did not seem to want to begin. At any rate, the former maid came | over for a visit the other night, seiz- |ing the occasion to announce that she was going to be married. Mary?” They asked. “I don't have to have one” Mary explained. “This is another State.” They told her otherwise, but she | left obviously determined not to let { their knowledge of law. interfere with | her plans. Patently life looked simpler as she is accustomed to living it. BECAUS!: & man became bankrupt, one of his creditors found a way to beat the downtown parking prob- lem, temporarily at least. The creditor was assigned a small delivery truck which had belonged to the bankrupt. Some time later, when he found his wife had taken out the family car, he remembered the truck. It would do. . He hopped into it and went to town. Finding no parking place, he parked double and went about his business. Returning, he ex- pected to find a ticket, but nothing had happened. Trucks, he then re- called, may be parked double long enough to make deliveries. There- after, he placed several parcels in the truck and traveled in the guise of a deliveryman. * ok k% GUIDE. While on a shelter-scouting ez- pedition in the Monongahela Na- tional Forest, Myron H. Avery, president of the Appalachian Trail Clud, inquired of a native: “Can you tell me the road to Alpena?” The native replied: “You take this road down about @ mile and turn to the left"—pause. _“No., stranger, you all take this road - down two miles and turn to the right.” Another pause. “Stranger, this ain’t no road to get to Alpena from.” * ok x % ONE WAY OUT. A WASHINGTONIAN freshly re- turned from Honolulu finds the city’s trafiic light a more vivid mem- ory than that residue of consciousness Rabbi Group Elects. CHICAGO, July 321 (#).—Rabbi C. Wishkin, director of Chi- cago Hebrew schools, was elected president of the Rabbinical Assocla- tion of the Hebrew Theological Col- lege of Chicago last night. Rabbi Joseph Krikstein of Salt Lake City, Utah, was elected vice president; Rabbi Uri Miller, New Orleans, sec- retary; Rabbi Charles B. Chavel, Louisville, treasurer, and Rabbi Louis Lebrfield, Chicago, retiring presi- nt, became chairman of. the Execu- tive Board. ’ “But have you had a divoree, ! COLORFUL FIGURES “Sockless lJerry” Simpson, One of Greatest, Was Third Party Man. BY ALEXANDER R. GEORGE, Associated Press Staff Writer. From pre-Civil War days, when it was called “bleeding Kansas,” to the current Ali Landon era, the Sunflower State has produced more than its quota of picturesque political figures. But it took a third party uprising in the politically turbulent Kansas of the 90s to give the Nation one of the most colorful Congressmen of all time — Jeremiah “Sockless Jerry” Simpson, sage of Medicine Lodge and campaigner extraordinary. The agrarian Midwest was experi- encing one of those periodic electoral revolts against “railroad-banker domi- nation” and the interests” when Sockless Jerry. sailor and farmer, was earried to Congress on a wave of Populism which swept Western Kansas. Simpson had been a sailor on the Great Lakes for 20 years before tak- ing up farming and politics at Medi- cine Lodge, Kans. An incorrigible non-conformist, Jerry relished argu- ments with the preachers and be- came known as the town atheist. sional race was a fashionably dressed, urbane orator named James Halloway. Delivering a campaign speech to a group of Kansas farmers and their wives, Jerry said: “Ladies and gentlemen: My op- ponent, Prince Hal, wears fine, soft silk socks. I have no money to buy | silk hosiery. The fact is that I have | no socks at all save the natural buff that my mother gave me.” Sockless Jerry. Then to prove it, Candidate Simp- son elevated his pants legs and dis- played bare shanks. From then on he was “Sockless Jerry.” Although he did not regularly eschew hosiery, a sockless reputation among poverty- pinched voters. carried cards reading “Jerry Simpson, Medicine Lodge, Congressman-elect, | the big seventh (district). N. B. No socks.” On Capitol Hill, however, Simpson wore socks. About 5 feet 9 inches tall, with coal black hair, straight as an In- dian’s, drooping mustache and gold- boned glasses Representative Simpson was a sartorial headliner in a “store” suit of broad yellow stripes on a back- ground of chestnut sorrel. The press reported later that he became “acclimated” to Washington and that “there was consternation in the short grass country when the news was flashed to Southwest Kan- ing a bright red necktie, had fallen victim to the bicycle craze and was one of the prominent wheelmen on Pennsylvania avenue.” Some ‘“city slickers” in Congress thought at first that Farmer Simpson would be fair game for their dialectic talents. But after two or three dis- astrous encounters with Jerry’s sting- ing repartee and whimsical ridicule, they let him alone. His purported uncouthness masked a tip-of-the-tongue familiarity with the classics, as well as political his- i tory and economics, and an inherent | graciousness. He was a powerful | campaigner, building up his arguments "pumng his adversary in a ridiculously | untenable position. | Ridicule Becomes Respect. | There is a story that a sedate Wash- | ington lady sald to him: i “Mr. Simpson, would you mind showing me whether you really wear | hosiery or not?” “Not in the least, madam,” Jerry graciously replied, adding quickly, “and you will reciprocate, of course?” He readliy crossed oratorical swords with the powerful Tom Reed, czar { of the House before Joe Cannon took |over the speakership. Although lam- | pooned in story and verse when he | first became a national figure, turned ridicule, in time, to respect | and admiration. Jerry served three terms in Con- gress, covering the periods 1891 to 1895 and 1897 to 1899. Shortly before his death in 1905 he remarked in la- menting the disintegration of the Populist party: |8 corporation and then | erying.” Tomorrow: The Bull Moose Revolt, PORTSMOUTH, VA, YOUTH KILLED IN CRATER FALL Accident Occurs in Descending Jagged Sides to Swim in Ex- tinct Volcano Lake. By the Associated Press. KLAMATH FALLS, Oreg, July 21 —Warren Bowden, 19, Ports- mouth, Va,, fell over the rim of Crater Lake and died on the rocks below. The lake, one of the West's fa- mous beauty spots, lies about 1,000 feet below the rim of an extinci vol- cano, whose sides are scarred with jagged precipices and occasional ledges. Bowden, accompanied by Newton Pettijohn, 17, and Bill Baker, 16, both of Portsmouth, had started down the steep wall to go swimming. The accident occurred about one-third of the way down the cliff from the Sinnott Memorial. The burst out His opponent in his first congres- | he recognized the political value of | On first coming to Washington he | |sas that their statesman was wear- | be DEUTERONOMY- PAPYRUS “Think of me as a land agent for | WASHINGTON, D. C, WALKER SHRODE. RIDDLE OF LIFE NEARER SOLUTION Discovery of Chlorophyll in Lettuce Seed Hailed by Scientists. by the Associated Pross. | Discovery that chlorophyll, the | green coloring matter of plants, is | | also present in Ittuce seed is hailed | | by two Washington scientists as a new | contribution to the understanding of | | how plants grow and and aid in solv- | ing of the basic riddle of life. Dr. Lewis H. Flint of the Depart- ment of Agriculture and Dr. E. D. McAlister of the Smithsonian Insti- tution said they found that chloro- phyll in the seeds responded to light in almost exactly the same way as chlorophyll in the leaf of a plant. By exposing the seeds to the right kinds | of light, they said, they increased the | fgermimuon of dormant seeds by more | than 400 per cent. Certain Wave Lengths Best. Yellow, orange and red wave lengths of light were found to be the stimu- {lating rays, McAlister said, adding | that those rays were absorbed to a | much greater extent and apparently | | supplied the spark which sent the | chlorophyll in the seeds into action | and resulted in sprouting. | Chilorophyll is regarded by scientists {as the enzyme which uses the energy of sunlight to manufacture carbohy- drates out of carbon dioxide and water through complex chainlike chemical | reactions. And, since all man's food and clothing and much of the power | he uses is dependent on plants, chlo- | rophyll is one of the fundamentals of | existense, they say. The discovery of chlorophyll in let- tuce seeds brings the problem of chlo- rophyll action one step nearer to solution, McAlister and Flint said, since it apparently must be present | for growth even to begin. They sug- | | gested the possibility of further an- | | alyzing it by exact determinations of | the quality of light reaching the earth from the sun. Carrot Yellow Predominates. The green pigment is present in | the lettuce seed only in small quanti- | ties, McAlister explained, most of the coloring matter being carotene, or the | yellow pigment most noticeable in | | carrots. A solution made from the | | seeds when viewed through a 4-foot tube showed a dominant yellow color | with a tinge of green. | “The close analogy between the | critical wave lengths of radiation in- | fluencing seed germination and the | lcrmcal wave lengths of radiation ab- | sorbed by chlorophyll and allied pig- | ments places a distinct emphasis {upon what perhaps is a new and| | promising viewpoint,” the scientists | | said. MANUSCRIPT IS FOUND | Four Fragments Said to Antedate by 300 Years Any Other Biblical Original. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 21—Four frag- ments of papyrus roll on which the Book of Deuteronomy is inscribed, said to antedate by. 300 years any other Bible manuscript, was found in John Ryland's library in Manchester, C. H. Roberts, fellow at St. John'’s College, Oxford University, announced yesterday in a new book entitled “Two Biblical Papyri.” The roll, which is part of the Greek version of the Old Testament, the Septuagint, was written in the second century, B.C., Roberts said. (Ac- cording to legend, the original Sep- tuagint, which is still used by the Greek church, was written in Alex- andria in 72 days by 72 Jews at com- mand of the Egyptian ruler, Ptolemy Philadelphos, some time between 280 and 130 B.C.). Roberts said the papyri, part of a cartonnage used to wrap mummies, which the library bought in 1917 in & large bundle of miscellaneous papyri, bore no indications of its origin. Falls Over Bannister. Jessie B. Moore, 26, of 616 Sixth street, was seriously injured early to- day, when she fell over a second-floor bannister while visiting' at 1019 Eighth street. National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH RACTICALLY eyery day now a fresh presidential poll greets the eye. Almost any poll appears to be first-page news. What do they amount to? Probably a lot. At any rate, the side = favored gets & renewed confidence and the betting odds are affected. On the other hand, the side that gets-the worst of one gets to work to dis- count and discredit it. There are also the individual investigators who make a habit of asking casual strangers how they are going to vote. ‘Taxicab drivers are their meat, from all accounts: There can be hardly a a day subjected to the inquiries of his fares as taxicab driver in the land who is not many times to his political opinion. 3 - One wonders whether the people of the coun-- try, who are being o constantly polied, may not Alice Longwerth. searchers alter straws in develop a sense of mischief and frame their re- plies to mislead instead of inform the inevitable the political wind. * (Covyrisht. 1036.) TUESDAY, From Bicycle by Car, Dies in Hospital. - Walker Shrode, 12-year-old trom- bonist in the Elks Boys’' Band, died in Georgetown Hospital early today of injuries received last night when he was knocked from his bicycle by an automobile as he rode toward his home after recruiting another musician, ‘Walker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion G. Shrode, 4926 Forty-seventh street, suffered a fractured skull and other injuries when struck at Forty-second and Fessenden streets by a machine operated by C. Holden Ourand, 30, of 3428 Oliver street. Accompanied by another bicyclist, Randolph Reed, 15, drummer in the band, who lives across the street from the Shrodes, Walker had interviewed a prospective member of the band. Randolph cleared the intersection safely as they pedaled homeward, but Walker's bicycle was struck squarely. Ourand took the boy to the hospital, where he died about eight hours later. The death brought the 1936 traffic fatality total to 46, according to po- lice records. Joann Raymond, 6, of 4433 Alabama avenue southeast, was in Gallinger Hospital today, her right leg frac- tured by an automobile which struck her while she was crossing a street yesterday. Police said the girl ran into the path of the car driven by Philip M. Bailey, 67, Forestville, Md. Collision of two automobiles at Massachusetts avenue and Sixth street yesterday sent Charles M. Skidmore, 28, of 504 F street northeast, to Cas- | ualty Hospital, where he was treated for brain concussion. FARNSWORTH DUE TO GET ATTORNEY Cousin Expected to Name Defense Counsel After Conference Here Today. A defense attoiaey for John 8. Farnsworth, former naval officer charged with espionage, is expected to be named today, Ward Farnsworth, Chicago real estate broker and cousin of the accused man, announced this morning. Ward Famsworth returned yester- day from Cincinnati, where he con- | ferred with the former naval leu- tenant commander’s father, Fred W. Farnsworth, and is expected to have a final conference with a promineat | Washington attorney during the dny.] ‘The former officer's father is in an extremely nervous condition as a re- sult of the charges brought against his sc), Ward Farnsworth said, and may not come to Washington for some time. The accused officer is being held in the District jail in default of $10,000 bond, after pleading not guilty to the charges before United States Commis- sioner Needham C. Turnage. The report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation cn the case has not been turned over to the district at- torney’s office, according to Assistant District Attorney Roger Robb, but is expected today or tomorrow. POLICE WILL QUIZ TWO IN SHOOTING Two Detectives Were to Question Men Held by Authorities at Fredericksburg. leave this morning for Fredericksburg, JULY 21, 1936. Hour” in Fight With Steel Industry. By the Assoctated Press. PITTSBURGH, July 21.—A hint came today that April 1 may be the “zero hour” for the John L. Lewis in- dustrial union cohorts to “go over the top” and demand recognition from the steel magnates as collective bargaining representatives for the industry’s 446,000 wage-earning employes. A usually authoritative source said that date “appears a logical one” while discussing the situation in the wake of a mass meeting of 100 key organizers. Date Seems Logical. Declining to permit use of his name, the speaker said: “Our biggest achievement, I believe, has been to convince the workers we are not trying to promote strikes; that we seek orderly organization which will force recognition peacefully. That we are doing. “Barring some untoward incident, promoted by the steel masters to em- barrass us by a strike or lockout, the date (April 1) seems logical now.” The labor contracts between mine operators and the United Mine Work- ers of America, headed by Lewis, ex- pire April 1. The statement came in reply to questions about repeated assertions by | steel trade papers and cthers that the ! ! drive is progressing much slower than its sponsors had hoped when they launched it a month ago. Labor’s Biggest Task. Philip Murray, chairman of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, re- plied to that, saying: “This is the biggest task ever un- dertaken by organized labor within the | memory of man. Reports made at our meeting show absolutely that never has 50 much progress been made in any like campaign, as has been made in | the one month of this drive.” He reiterated that 3,000 members of | a Chicago employe representative | group joined the drive in a body, a| report steel executives privately have questioned. Murray also said his committee is “attaching no significance to the pres- ent American Federation of Labor dis- pute,” involving craft and industrial union advocates. Compromise Unseen. was that there appeared little chance of a compromise between the rival | forces headed by Lewis and Willlam Green, A. F. of L. president. The 12 members of the Lewis Committee for Industrial Organization have been cited to appear August 3 before the | dual organization. A majority of the leaders who would talk expressed the opinion privately that the council was without legal authority for its action and will be ignored. . “TREASURE TROVE” FARM {IS SEARCHED FOR $21,000 Iowa Judge Postpones Time for Filing Final Report on Iwers Estate. By the Assoctated Press. | TIPTON, Iowa, July 21.—Judge | search for $21,000 more in road bonds CALLOWAY GRIFFITH. YOUTHLEAVES D. . FOR SLAYING QUIZ Calloway Griffith Surren- dered Here in Uncle’s Death in Tennessee. Eighteen-year-old Calloway Griffith was on his way back to the Tennessee | mountains this afternoon to face ques- tioning in connection with the murder of his uncle a year ago. Under arrest here since Sunday. when he surrendered to police, the youth waived extradition when ar-| raigned in Police Court this morning on a fugitive warrant. He was taken into custody imme- | W. F. Gibson and State Police Sergt T. D. Seymour, who arrived here last | night by automobile | | The Tennessee police drove to Washington after being notifled of the youth's presence here. | ‘They told Washington police Cal- federation council for trial by the loway’'s uncle, Reath Griffith, 37, of mise might be accep council on charges of promoting a City Cove Community, Tenn., was shot | whether the summons to appear on | to death a year ago and his murderer had never been apprehended. Calloway had been sought since the murder. The youth was held at the first pre- | cinct Sunday after he told police he was “wanted by the sheriff down in Tennessee.” Declaring he was tired after travel- ing “through the States,” the youth | refused to discuss the murder of his uncle with police, merely saying: “I | haven't admitted doing it.” ROBBERS GET $575 IN SERIES OF THEFTS A similar robbery was reported by ‘Theft of $300 from the Childs res- ‘ taurant at 1340 New York avenue was | John T. Moffit yesterday postponed | reported by police today. Joseph M. been indicated by leaders in the Lewis the time for flling a final report for | Stewart, manager, said the money !group that they consider the pending the John Iwers estate to permit a had been taken from the cash register. | summons no more binding than a C.1.0. UNION HEADS MEET WITH LEWIS Course of Action on Two Battle Fronts Will Be Determined. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Meeting to determine their course of action on two battle fronts, repe resentatives of 12 member unicns of the Committee for Industrial Organi- zation were gatherimg here today in answer to a special call from John L. Lewis, chairman. According to spokesmen for the C. 1. O, most important subject on the docket is the organizing drive just getting under way in the steel indus- try. John Brophy, executive director of the committee, was due back from Pittsburgh with first-hand informae tion on the membership campaign. Discussion also is expected on the less extensive drives contemplated in the automobile and rubber industrics, both of which are represented by member unions of the C. . O. A fourth campaign by an affiliate of the committee was announced yesterday by the United Textile Workers, di- rected at 55,000 workers in the rayon industry. Analysis of Pay Roll Berving as spokesman for the steel industry's defense, the American Iron and Steel Institute this morning made public an analysis of pay roll figures for its employes. According to the institute study, based on figures compiled by th2 De- partment of Labor. 446,000 em in the steel mills are receiving an average wage 18 per cent higher than the average for all manufacturing in- dustries. In March, for instance, the steel employes were receiving a weekly average of $26.38, as compared to $22.25 in all manufacturing. Steel employes worked an average of 405 hours per week, compared to the mane ufacturing average of 39 hours. On an hourly basis, the steel em= ploye received 66.2 cents last March, as compared with 65.4 cents in 1929 In the four years from 1929 to 1983, dividends to steel stockholders were reduced more than 94 per cent, the in- stitute says, the payments dropping from $189,000,000 to $11,000.000. In 1935, when steel pay rolls ex: $550,000,000. stockholders received I than $39,000.000. Four Charges Face C. L. 0. Sharing general interest at today's meeting and of equal importance to the labor movement is the issue of C. I.O. policy with regard to a summons to Cloak room gossip at the gathering | diately by Deputies S. B. Lattmore and ' ;12 "herore the Exe the Ameri Four i John P. Frey, pr trades department of the federation, are facing the C. I. O. u Two questions face the C. I. O. in this connection: fi what compro- e, and second August 3 will be honored in the event no compromise is reached in the meantime. Already insistent that nothing shall be allowed to interfere with their in- dustrial unionization cam , it s certain that any reconciliation with the craft union majority of the A. F. of L. must include approval of these drives. On the other hand, federation spokesmen have made it plain that nothing short of outright dissolution of the C. I. O. as a distinct unit would be acceptable to them. An attempt to reconcile these two viewpoints is planned before August 3. with admin- istration officials likely to aid in the effort. Summons Not Taken Seriously. As for appearing at the trial, it has previous “invitation” to conferences believed hidden on the Iwers' “treas- Dent M. Freeman, manager of a coal | with the council, which they ignored. ure trove” farm. yard at 619 Third street northeast. The presidents or designated rep- A total of $203,500 already has He said $175 was taken yesterday from | resentatives of the following C. I O. Two Washington detectives were to | Peen found on the farm of the three | the counter of the yard's office. | Iwers brothers, of whom Henry Iwers | " John Nicolopolous, 1420 Chapin | unions were expected to attend to- day’s session: United Mine Workers, Va., to question two men arrested last | WaS the last to die. He left his estate | street, said he was held up in his | Internationai Typographical Union, night by Virginia police in connection with the shooting of Joseph Edward O'Brien, 23, of 100 Massachusetts ave- nue northeast. O'Brien is in Providence Hospital with two bullet wounds in his right leg and one in his left, but his condi- tion is not regarded as serious. He was standing in front of 212 Second street southeast when the shots were fired from a car which drove up to the curb and drove away again immedi- ately after the shots were fired. O'Brien saw the license number of the car and notified police after he went to the hospital in a taxicab. The two men held in Fredericks- burg gave their names as George Hawkins and George F. Tear. Declar- ing they knew nothing of the shooting, they were held pending the arrival of the Washington detectives. They were arrested near Dumfries, about 25 miles north of Fredericksburg, on 2 l}ookout broadcast by Washington police, e PENSION NUMBERS WILL BE ALLOTTED Identification Numerals for Appli- cants Expected to Be Desig- nated by November 15. Allotment of identification numbers for application of the Federal old-age benefit provision of the social secur- ity law is expected to take place by November 15, it was sald today at offices of the Social Security Board. The plan is to allot each of about 30,000,000 individuals a number, which will be recorded along with other data necessary in administration of the Federal old-age benefits. Blocks of numbers are being set aside for each State, the nume number to be avail- able for unemployment compensation identification in States where approved systems are in effect. The board received word yesterday that the Internal Revenue Bureau _Rabbi Dies After Injury. CHICAGO, July 21 (#).—Rabbi died yesterday of the estate. Attorneys for all the interested parties agreed to the postponement of the report yesterday. Judge Mof- fit set the new date for July 30. FELAND BURIAL SET Marine Corps Officer to Be Interred in Arlington. Burial services for Maj. Gen. Logan Feland, U. 8. M. C,, retired, who died Friday at Columbus, Ohio, will be held at 11 am. tomorrow in Arlington Na- tional Cemetery, with full military honors. Honorary pallbearers will be Maj. Gen. Louis McCarty Little, Brig. Gen. Hugh Matthews, Brig. Gen. Richard P. Wililams, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hol- comb, Col. Frederick A. Barker, Col. Ralph 8. Keyser, Col. Ross E. Rowell and Lieut. Col. Alphonse de Carre, all of the Marine Corps. As Edwin Cherry, 11, son 3313 Q street, of 5-B ‘ar , Cuil ing, Thomas Futch, 8, son M street, of shot. Young Washington Tomorrow: Stanley Brown of Go armed with an automatic pistol. Another robbery which police ware | investigating today was that of Walter J. Brawer, 38, of 3220 Thirteenth street southeast. ing on Pennsylvania avenue between Sixth and Seventh streets. His as- sailant took $47. e T. V. A. REVENUE GAINS CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, July 21 {#).—Revenue produced by the sale of power generated at the Tennessee Valley Authority'’s Wilson Dam more than doubled during the last fiscal year. Figures released yesterday by C. Lee Karr, T. V. A. superintendent of power operations, showed gross revenues amounted to $1,197,763 for the 12 months ending June 30, 1936, as com- pared to $595,188 for the year ending | June 30, 1935. Brawer reported | he was slugged last night while walk- | | | to two cousins, but nearly a score of | liquor store at 1719 Pennsylvania | Amalgamated Clothing Workers, In- other relatives have since begun court | avenue last night and robbed of about | ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers, actions in efforts to obtain a share in | $100 by two men, one of whom was | United Textile Workers; Oil Field, | Gas Well and Refinery Workers; Cap |and Millinery Workers; Mine, Mill |and Smelter Workers; Federation of | Flat Glass Workers; Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers; United Automobile Workers and United Rubber Workers. . FARLEY DEPLORES CAMPAIGN METHODS Racial and Religious Issues to Have No Part in Democratic Discussion, He Says. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 21.—Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley said yesterday he deplored the injec- tion of racial and religious issues into the campaign and pledged the Demo- cratic efforts to remain free from “such intolerance.” Cammenting upon the -declaration of the Republican national chairman, John D. M. Hamilton, last week—in which Hamilton charged the Demo- crats with fostering rumors and re- ports that he was anti-semitic—Farley said today he wanted to have “one last word” on the subject. “That is not the way we run a cam- paign,” the Democratic chairman said. “We don't do things that way. I'm not responsible for such charges that will probably appear frequently in the course of the campaign. Mr. and Mrs, Fred Cherry, Sch. s ool, prepares for a kill- of Mr. and Mre. Bert Futch, 3405 the second grade of the Hyde School, raon Funtor Bigh I —Star Staff P “In all my public career, I have tried to play the game fairly. “We will not be responsible, and we are not responsible, for anything of such a nature as stooping to inject racial and religious issues into this campaign. That is my attitude and it will be the attitude of the Demo- cratic party.” The national chairman said he would not, “at any time,” take any cognizance of personal attacks made against him in the campaign. SOVIET ADDS TO CABINET Health and Justice Departments Are Cheated. MOSCOW, July 21 (#).—The So- viet government announced yesterday that two new all-union posts have been added to the cabinet—those of health and justice. Gregory Kaminsky was named all- union commissar of public health and Nicolai Krylenko of justice. As for the justice depar‘ment. the decision means there will be one vai- form code of criminal and civil laws for the whole union. Health. regu- tions will be uniform also, 4