Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1936, Page 2

EKINS COMPLETES “ WORLD AIR RACE Ghbc-Cimlinq Reporter Ends Journey of Less Than 19 Days. @y the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 19—H. R. WRihs, world-circling reporter, official- iy ended his trip in the Jobby of the Mew. York World-Telegram at 11:14 8.m. todsy, completing his dash around globe in slightly more than 183 FXins, reporter for the World-Tele- | gam and other Scripps-Howard pa- ?’q. thus became the official winner the unofficial race he staged with Pafothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and International News Serv- ioe and Leo Kieran of the New York 8. Both of Elkins' rivals still are in Ma- | pila, awaiting departure for Call-| fornia of the first passenger flight of the China Clipper, giving Ekins a win- | fing margin of some 10,000 miles. Ekin's official time for the trip was Wnnounced as 18 days 14 hours and 68 minutes. ‘When Ekins left New York on Sep- Ssmber 30 on the Zeppelin Hinden- with Miss Kilgalien and Kieran, announced intention of each was to fiy across the Pacific from Mlnlll‘ on the Pan-American China clipper. But Ekins, flying the Dutch Im- perial Airways from Frankfort, Ger- many, across Europe and Asia, to Manila, was able to reach the Philip- pine capital in time to catch the Hawaii clipper, freight and mail plane, | whose take-off for the United States had been held up by storms. These‘ continued storms have held up the start of the China clipper from Man- fla, thus giving Ekins his great ad- | vantage. Ekine' time is recorded as the sec- | bnd fastest ever made for & trip| around the world, surpassed only by Wiley Post's solo flight mark. Ekins| said he only established trans- ‘portation lines on his 24,720-mile dash. Washington Waysid . Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things, SONNY BOY. AY TUTTLE, director of the new Washington Civic Thea- ter, father of four children, manager of two Summer playhouses famous throughout the country, director of stars like Ina Claire and Margaret Sullavan, ran past a stop sign near Twenty-ninth street on his way to his Georgetown home the other day. A large, officious policeman waved him over to the curb. “Whadaya think you're doing?” he inquired, delicately. “I'm gorry, officer,” Mr. Tuttle re- plied politely, “I didn't see the sign. I'm new to the city.” “Well, whadaya doing around here anyhow,” pursued the cop. “Just on my way home from down- town,” said Tuttle. “Yeah,” said the law, “but whadaya doing in Washington? Going to school here, sonny?” Mr. Tuttle hasn't quite recovered yet. * ok ok X RETORT, A slightly inebriated gentleman boarded a street car at Twelfth street and Pennsylvania avenue, lurched tc the front of the car, wheeled, and announced to his fel- low passengers: “Ladies 'n’ gentl'men, I'm for Landon—see this sunflower in my buttonhole?” “Well, buddy, you'd better cover it up on November 3 or the frost will kill it!” (Note: The gentieman at the rear haprened to be Representative Luther A. Johnson, Democrat, of Tezas.) FHe went entirely by air, except for au- tomobile ferries to and from airports snd landing fields. | Elkins landed at Newark Airport at New York. | The commercial air line which brought Flkins into Newark circled the | United States Naval Air Station at Lakehurst en route to Newark. Leke- | hurst marked the actual start of Ekins’ air journey September 30, when he embarked on the German dirigible Hin- | prer the air station at 10:32. KIERAN TO LEAVE. Will Depart From Philippines by 3 Dawn Temorrow. ol BY LEO KIERAN. illadlow'nu Star. | CMANILA, October 19 (NANA) — ly tomorrow this traveler again will | aloft, beginning the second half #f his trip around the world. " The Pan-American Airways’ China has been gone over from | to tail and is ready to start return flight to San Francisco daylight tomorrow. The sched- zalls for the Clipper to make the | §200-mile fight by Saturday. | Last night brought a torrential rain . Manila and it was feared for a! pe that the typhoon might be ve-| It passed over without' much wind, however, and weather | @sications seem fair for the take-off.| - Spends Busy Day. #¥esterday proved a busy day for| , with three separate functions in my honmor. I arose early to d services at the cathedral, an| a built about 1590 and with walls | feet thick. It is mow being re-| . The women all wore lace! tillas in lieu of hats and their ive costumes lent a colorful touch fb the ancient church. The cathedral W part of the walled city, housing #hé army post and the older Philip- | plne quarter, four or five churches most of the monasteries and con- ts dating back to the Middie Ages. | ¥A luncheon and entertainment was tn my honor at the Elks Club! ‘Walter Robb, a veteran of 30 ars in the Philippines as a news- | man, and this was followed | & similar party given at the Manils Hotel by David Boguslav, a | focal newspaper editor. A dinner | y was given for me by Mrs. R. iAurs 8mith, wife of the New York | 3mes correspondent. - Talks With Quezon. ‘The arrival of the Clipper with its et air passengers from San Fran- eisco greatly excited Manila, and the are second only to those | royalty. = Before the Clipper arrived. my fel- ¥ow passenger, Miss Dorothy Kilgalien, 1 had lunch with President | n. I found him a lively con- Wersationalist, greatly interested in: transportation and replete with | alogies covering the trend of hu- | ghan nature, foreign affairs, political | mm other subjects. t. 1936, by the Noith American ¢ Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) [-;WEATHER HALTS FIRES f* BAN PRANCISCO (#).—Rains | California's $1,000,000 forest Pres today and threatened damage o a 1,000,000 lettuce crop. =~ Scattered fires throughout the State, Which claimed three lives last Friday, were quenched or checked when rain, €now and cooler weather came to the sid of 1,000 fire fighters. { Peace Society Acts to Stifle Martial Music Orchestra Leader ‘Asks Ban on “War” National Council for Preven- ‘War has gotten a nationally ce orchestra leader to ask ® % % BUSY KITTY. THE strap hangers waiting for a street car at G and Thirteenth streets at the close of the business day are joined almost every evening by a woman who comes out of a nearby office building with & cat romping ahead of her on a leash. She and the cat get on a homeward- bound street car. The cat seems to be quite a favor- | ite with the passengers, who pet him and ask if he had a hard day at the office. * ¥ % % MYSTERY GIRL. IME: Midnight. e # Place: Military road, = Rock Creek Park, dense woods on both sides. Girl: Beautiful, young, in striking white sweater, close fitting, and men’s slacks, -on one side of the road, alone, apparently. - Two Federal agents in a car see her wave to the car in front. which pases her by. They also pass her by, th some misgivings, and curiosity. They look back. She waves to the| car behind, which also passes. “Poor girl,” they thought, “all she | wants is a lift, probably. Maybe walk- ing home” So the agents began backing their car toward the mystery girl in white. When they had traversed approxi- mately half the distance, a shrill whistle from the nearby thicket sud- denly split the night air. The girl]| ducked, startled, into the woods, and | disappeared into the underbrush! L HUNGRY? VARXETY may be the spice of life, but there is some question as to whether that kind of seasoning makes for a sound digestion, all of which is inspired by a preliminary report on retail distribution, prepared under the supervision of Fred A. Gosnell for the Department of Commerce. Figures presented in this report show it would be possible to have din+ ner in a different place in the city over a period of two years if any one had the ambition and constitution to follow such a plan. The agents who made the canvas found 997 places (exclusive of board- ing houses) which served meals, of which 820 were restaurants, lunch rooms or cafeterias; 119 lunch coun- ters and refreshment stands and 58 drinking places. It's not in the re- port, but there is one place in the city which serves close to 7,500 meals a day. Over in Baltimore they take their “eats” more seriously, for they have 2,608 places catering to the public, or THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1936. Thrilling Rescue Marks Lake Erie ShiRWrecli MILK PRICE ORDER 1S CRCUMVENTED High Stores Charge 15 Cents a Quart, Refund 5 Cents on Bottle. Clifford Y. Stephens, president of the Highland Farms Dairy, said today his company was circumventing the order of the Virginia State Milk Com- mission prohibiting the retail sale of milk in the Alexandria-Arlington area at less than 13 cents a quart, by sell- ing milk for 15 cents and returning customers 5 cents on the bottie. Highland Farm distributes milk in the area through four High's ice cream stores. The stores were closed Saturday night by order of Sheriff Howard B. Fields of Arlington Coun- ty forbidding them to sell milk in violation of the State commission’s order. They resumed business yes- terday afternoon, however. “We're going to exhaust the legal fleld to keep 10-cent milkk on the Washington and Alexandria-Arlington markets,” Stephens said. He said the new practice of selling a quart of milk for 15 cents met the commission's requirement. The cus- tomer does not pay a deposit, but gets five cents for each quart bottle re- turned, providing he buys another quart in the same transaction. The dairy, which buys all its milk from independent producers, also pro- poses to get around the commission’'s minimum-price requirement by ship- ping milk from Washington into the Alexandria - Arlington area. This would involve the customer paying & day in advance for milk to be de- livered the following day. If he want- ed to buy a quart of milk for delivery | Priday, he would give his delivery man a dime on Thursday. The pur- chase, therefore, actually would take place in Washington, where there is no fixed minimum retail price. Highland Farms has unsuccessfully sought injunctions agsinst the com- mission in both State and Federal courts, both of which upheld the regulatory body, set up by act of the 1934 General Assembly. The dairy will carry its fight for 10-cent milk to the Supreme Court, according to Philip Rosenfeld, attor- ney. Rosenfeld was in Richmond to- day at a hearing before the commis- sion. MORGENTHAU PLANS ANSWER TO HOOVER Secretary Will Release Statement Today, Advancing-Date for Reply. President Roosevelt has turned over to Secretary oi the Treasury Morgen- thau the task of answering the attack made by former President Hoover on | the administration’s method of book- keeping delivered in & radio address last Friday night, The reply was to be made at the Secretary's press con- ference this afternoon. Morgenthau was to have answered the charges in & speech he is sched- uled to deliver at a banquet in New York Friday night. After the Presi- | dent went over the address with Mor- | genthau today, however, it was de- | cided not to wait that long before re- plying to Mr. Hoover. Mr. Hoover accused the New Deal | of using “double bookkeeping” and | indulging in “hypecritical, misleading | figures” in analyzing the financial tatus of the Government. and drinking places and Philadelphia has 3,947. * k% % KEBP OFF. A certain bus driver on the Sixz- teenth street run will learn prob- ably from this column for the first time why passengers along his route the other day were hesitant about hailing him and somewhat surprised when he stopped to pick them up. Some wag had pasted on the front of the bus, without the driver's knowledge, of course @ paper sticker reading: “No Riders.” x Xk % ¥ CURIOSITY. UT on Sherman avenue there is | a filling station which has a sign- board proclaiming “Gyp” gas, 8% | cents. The “Gyp” is punctuated with quo- tation marks. Some day one Wayside observer, succumbing to his curiosity, will stop in there and find out what “Gyp” means. * % % % ENGLISH. One of Shirley Temple’s latest hits, “The Littlest Rebel,” has done some traveling around the world. It went to France, was translated into that language, then to Ger- many, with another translation. Finally, it headed back for this country as a shipboard film on the German liner, S. 8. Europa. It had to be transiated back into English for American passengers. There were numerous chuckles from movie - minded Americans when the sub-title, having run the gamut of English, French, German and English again, was flashed on one to every 300 inhabitants, as against one to every 500 in Wash- ington. New York has 14,936 eating the screen. It said: “Shirley Temple in the Most Insignificant Insurgent.” : The National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. INCINNATI, October 19.—The campaign is entering that fervid stage which always occupies the last two or three weeks before election. Smith College girls pull bhair, seratch, and knock out zeal. Father | pushing us forward, almost throwing | teeth in a sudden flare of partisan Coughlin doffs his ecclesiastical dignity long enough to snatch eyeglasses off the nose of an inquisitive journalist. The President generously gives his necktie to & Nebraska lady, to whom he had previously given his shirt. All the vivaclous and high-tension electionsering s in line with the more primitive American po- litieal tradition. The two major candidates maintain & measure of restraint in their references o one another; Gov. Landon calls upon the President to say what he intends to do with the Constitu- tion if he is re-elected, but even this pertinent Alice Longworth. challenge s couched in ‘civil lamguage. Mr. Roosevelt is not quite so-sfiibontrolled. His offensive-defensive bius- tering, however, has & synthetic, histrionic and almost colle= giate quality that steals away its sting. ACbpyright, 1936, Capt. Graham McLelland of Cape Tormentine, New Bruns- wick, as he described the sinking when it overturned in Lake Erie near Cleveland. of his ship, the Sand Merchant, Eighteen men and one woman lost their lives. Thrilling photo made by Herbert Hay, fireman on the freighter Thunder Bay Quarries, as a survivor of the Sand Merchant was rescued from his capsized lifeboat. Seven mem- bers of the crew, including one shown here, were rescued, Three survivors shown clinging to their overturned lifeboat as the rescue ship bore down on Wirephotos and Wide World Photos. hem. Drownings (Continued From First Page.) hanging onto a rall along the top of | the cabin. “We stayed like that until after 6 o'clock; it began to get dark and we were drifting into the ship channel, toward the Eastern Shore. I tried fo get a battery out of the cabin, think- ing I could hook up a light to signal for help, but the cabin was full of | water. There was a heavy sea run- ning, all of us were soaked through | and shivering cold. Atiempt to Keep Warm. “We slashed up the mainsail and wrapped pieces of it around us mdI huddled together as close as we could | trying to keep warm. The waves kept us off. All of us were in good spirits, but getting tired. “I tried to get life preservers out of the cabin, but the water had pin- ned all of them against the ceiling and I couldn't get at them. I got one ‘cushion” preserver out and gave it to one of tne fellows who couldn't swim. The other two could swim a little, “It got so bad we wrapped the one who couldn’'t swim in a piece of sail and tied him to the rigging s0 he wouldn't wash over. (This apparently was Winkler, al- though McKenzie was unable to re- member the man's name.) “Beveral times we saw boats but couldn't make them hear. Finally— I don’t know what time it was; it was pitch dark—I decided to try to swim ashore. I figured it was about a mile and a half and that I could make it all right. “I took the cushion preserver with me because the waves were 5o high. Sometimes I straddled it. It must have been daybreak when I got to a place where I could wade. I don't know how long I swam. I got shore at the bottom of a cliff (Kent Is- land) and couldn’t see any houses or lights. Swoons in Field. “I climbed up the cliff and walked about 100 yards through a field—then everything went black. When I came to it was daylight and the sun was shining. “I tried to walk again and got a little farther and collapsed. T'd walk & bit, then rest. Finally I got across the island and hailed some men in some boats. “They took me aboard and gave me some coffee. I told them, ‘Go get those other fellows,’ but the sea was 50 heavy they decided to take me to Claiborne and try to get & larger boat ments, 2121 New York avenue, and bureau since May 2, 1935. He had Howard Ralph, 31, of 3618 lmzn-th«n with the Commerce Department house street, believed to have drowned atter an all-night battle to keep their | precarious places on an overturned sloop from which one companion al- ready had slipped to his death while another escaped. ‘The recovered body was that of Ed- , ward Winkler, 28, also of the Boule- vard Apartments. J. Chase McKensie, 35, of 1515 Twen- tieth street, owner of the sloop, was the lone survivor. All four men were employed in the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, Commerce Department. ‘Winkler's body was at Solomons Is- land, pending word from Washington. His wife, Mrs. Margaret R. Winkler, on hearing of the tragedy, went to the home of Capt. H. E. Sweet, 123 South Chelsea lane, Bethesda, Md., senior navigation officer of the bureau, who went to Solomons Island today to claim the body. ‘Warner's wife, Mrs. Helen Warner, also is staying at the home of Capt. and Mrs. Sweet. Mrs. Emily V. Mc- Kensie, wife of the lone survivor, left this morning to go to her husband. Ralph also was married. First knowledge of the tragedy came yesterday morning, when H. R. Ham- berry, keeper of the Bloody Point lighthouse, off Kent Island, saw the wreckage of the sloop nearby. In- vestigating, he found Winkler's body caught in the rigging, where he ap- parently had become exhausied and drowned. Hamberry took the body ashore and signaled the Coast Guard cutter Apache, which took it to Solomons Island. Capt. Halert Shepherd, acting di- rector of the Bureau of Marine In- spection and Navigation, sald Wink- ler came to Washington from Port- land, Oreg. He sald Warner was from Nebraska, and Ralph was & native of the District. Search for the missing men was abandoned late last night until today, with & Coast Guard launch standing by. Little hope was held out for them, however. Possibility Warner and Ralph es- caped by swimming ashore and land- ing & some isolated spot was declared remote by Coast Guardsmen, who ex- pl the vessel evidently had rolled over several times. ‘Winkler, one-time private secretary to the director of the Bureau of Navi- gation and Steamboat Inspection, was an employe of the Merchant Fleet Corp., but recently had been detailed as special assistant to the Navigation Bureau director. Previously he saw service in the Buresu of Air Com- merce. Wamer was chief of publications and statistics, having been with the since August, 1928, and formerly worked in the Bureau of Lighthouscs and the Bureau of Air Commerce. Ralph, whose father, the late Joseph E. Ralph, was director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for 16 years, retiring in 1917, had been with the Navigation and Steamboat Inspection Bureau since June, 1935. Previous to that service, he had work- ed in the Census Bureau, Justice De- | partment, Treasury Department, Civit Service Commission and National Re- covery Administration. EARLIER RECORD BAN CITED BY COLUMBIA Before Vandenberg, Says Radio Chain Head. The Columbia Broadcasting System's rule prohibiting the broadcasting of phonograph records or electrical transcriptions on its network, which Teceived publicity in connection with the Senator Vandenberg broadcast | from Chicago Saturday night, also was invoked against the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Anning S. Prall, within the past two | weeks, Harry C. Butcher, head of Co- lumbia's Washington office, said today. “The chairman had been invited by the owners of Station KTSA, at San Antonio, Tex., to speak in a program over the Columbia network on Sunday evening, October 4,” Butcher said. “The chairman accepted the invitation to speak for 5 minutes, prepared his speech, and then discovered that it would not be convenient to go to the broadcasting studio on that evening. Some one suggested to him the pos- sibility of recording his voice so that it could be put on the air without his presence. Without thinking to check as to the network rule pro- hibiting use of records or transcrip- tions, the chairman had a recording made and sent the recording to Co- lumbia’s Washington office for use on the network. “The chairman was informed of the rule. Neither the transcription or the chairman himself appeared on the network program. The chairman made no complaint. “The fact that Columbia barred & recording by the Democratic chair- man of the Federal Communications Commission would hardly seem to sup- port published implications that our action in the case of Senator Vanden- was dictated by fear of either the Democratic administration or the Fed- eral Communications Commission.” Night Final Delivered by Carrier Anywhere in the City Full Sperts Wmulmofthlm,ut-txm i o Sports the World, Whatever it is, you'll ind Edition, < | Kept Chairman of F. C. C. Off Air, Shipwreck (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) something hit me, T don’t know where, and I went out like a light. The next | thing I remember was some one pull- ing my hair, and it made me mad. “During the night several boats | passed within sight, in fact one was | only about a quarter of & mile away. | We had no way to attract their at- tention. Several times Dault and Ideson pulled me back on the lifeboat when I thought I was gone. After 10 hours of hanging on we were rescued. “I wouldn't have lasted much longer and Ideson wouldn't have lasted 10 minutes,” said the captain, one of living triplets. Jack , & deck engineer, saved “the only real treasure I had in this world—my girl's picture. I always did think it was a pretty good thing to carry along with me and I'm cer- tain of it now.” Meuse said “I've sailed my last trip :-m-mmberorsnymver-ny “Amos Dault, one of the wheels- men, was my pal., He had a girl and I had one and we always made s foursome when we were back home. I saw Amos standing up there on the after deck. “He said, ‘Jack, good luck to you; God be with you’ I said, ‘Amos, we're going to need it and the same to you.' Then we went over the side to the overturned lifeboats, he to one and I to the other. “We clung to the boat—at least seven of us—all night. We kept hol- lering out our names. That's the way we kept track of each other. The boys slipped off one by one. There were four of us left.” Held Brother Four Hours. Meuse'’s friend, Amos Dault, slipped into the chilling, clutching waters of the lake only a half hour before the other three were rescued on the other lifeboat. His brother, Herman Dault, said he “held on to him for four hours. I couldn't hold him up any longer. I kept slapping him to keep the blood on. say a thing when he went down. He just stipped.” A third brother, Joseph Dault, also was lost in the mishap. It was the second sand-sucker trag- edy on the Great Lakes this season. The Material Service sank off Chicago on July 27 with 15 lost. Coast Guards from Cleveland, Lo- rain and Toledo searched for bodies without success. Only bits of the broken Sand Merchant were visible on the agitated waters. “We saw driftwood and pillows and other wreckage, but there was not & sign of anything else,” said Wil- liam E. Crapo, head of the Cleve- Jand Coast Guard. Inquiry Is Planned. At Ottawa R. K. Smith, deputy minister of marine, said immediate stops would be taken for a prelim- inary inquiry as the basis for a for- mal inquiry. Capt. George Barrett of the United States Coast Guard at Erie, Pa, said a lone unidentified sailor on the barge Genevieve Meyers had drowned off Conneaut after the barge broke loose in the same storm. ‘The 26 sailed from Point Pelee, Ontario, Thursday afternoon with & load of sand. ‘The ill-fated Cleveland- bound boat ran into the gale Satur- day night. After a battle with the mounting, commanding seas, it cap- sized at 10 o'clock 14 miles northwest of Cleveland. First word of the disaster came when the seven survivors, four on the one overturned liftboat and three on the other, were rescued by the freight- er Thunder Bay Quarries and the car Ferry Bessemer & Marquette, No. 1. J. D. Payne, general manager of National Sand & Materials, Ltd., own- ers of the 9-year-old, 2,000-ton steam- er, announced today that the offi- cial death list was 19 persons, all Canadians. List Is Announced. ‘The list announced by Payne was: Bernard Drinkwater, first mate, Port Stanley, Ontario, and Mrs. Lillian Drinkwater, his wife. John Bourrie, second mate, and Daniel Bourrie, wheelsman, brothers, of Victoria Harbor. Amos Dault, wheelsman, and Joseph Dault, pump engineer, of Victoria Harbor, brothers of Herman Dault, Bay du vin Beach, New Brunswick. Sandford Gray, third engineer, Vic- toria Harbor. Nicholas McCarthy, oiler, Sydney, Nova Scotia. Roland de Mille, oiler, Rexton, New Brunswick. Herold Cannon, fireman, Cape circulating, but I just couldn't hold | I was all exhausted. He didn't | FOUR DIE AS FIRE * DAMAGES LINER Three Crew Members of Vul- cania Killed Fighting Two-Hour Blaze. By the Associated Press, PALERMO, Sicily, October 19— The death of four crew members in a fire aboard the luxurious motorship Vulcania was disclosed today when the vessel reached port, her third- class quarters charred by a menacing two-hour fire. An orchestra player leaped over. board during the height of the blaze, which caused an 8 O 8 and sent 1,100 anxious passengers to the decks. He was drowned. Two stewards were burned to death helping to fight the fire and another was asphyxiated in his cabin. Mystery Surrounds Origin. Immediately after the Vulcania's arrival here, the ship’s captain pre- sided at an inquiry commission which sought to determine the cause of the fire. Considerable mystery surrounded the origim of the fire as authorities re- fused to discuss it. The captain informed investigators the biaze broke out in the third-class quarters and an alarm was given bv a sailor at 5:15 a.m. He said more than two hours were spent battling the flames before they were fully extin- guished. The fact that the fire developed s soon after the ship left Naples gave rise to the conjecture that some one might have started it before the Vul- cania departed. 8he stops at Lisbon, en route to New York. It is to Lisbon that Italian ships recently have been taking Span- iards who have fled from the wrath of Leftists at Madrid and Barcelona. The crew of the 23.970-ton liner put out the fire just as the first of a half dogen rescue craft, includinz a destroyer, two fireboats, a trans- Atlantic liner and two packet boats, neared her side, approximately 45 miles off Naples. Rescye Ships Turn Back. Most of the rescue ships turned back upon receiving Capt. Stuparich’s wireless that the fire was quenched mendous stir here and at Naples. Hundreds of passengers, many of them in their nightclothes, ran to the decks while the ship hove to and the crew brought her firefighting appa- ratus into play. There was little panic. however, even in the third-class quarters, and the general conduct of the passengers was described by the ship’s officers as “ex- cellent.” One officer said: “They co-operated with the officers very well upon re- ceiving assurance that the situation was capable of being controlled.” Court (Continued From First Page.) from P. W. A. or relief funds to aid in to Plainview, Tex., and Florence, Shef- fleld, Tuscumbia, Decatur, Hartselle, Guntersville and Russellville, Ala. In the Jones case, the justices re- fused to review a ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals at New York upholding a temporary injunction re- straining him from vislating the secur- ities act. Jones had consented to ths granting of the injunction, but last April sought to have it set aside. Government Assertion Upheld. Despite his assertion that the con- stitutionality of the entire act was involved, the court apparently agreed with the Government's assertion that his suit presented only the question of whether the injunction should have been affirmed or set aside. Since this involves no Federal question, it is not subject to review. Oonstitutionality of the act was challenged once before by Jones. In |a 6-to-3 opinion delivered last term, the court did not pass on the validity of the legisiation, but held the Securi- ties and Exchange Commission could not compel Jones to testify concerning a registration of securities that was withdrawn before the registration bee came effective. In the present case, Jones also had contended some of the evidence | against him had been illegally secured and asserted it could not be used against him. This, too, had been de- nied by the commission. Rauling on Appeal Delaved. ‘The court took no action on an ap- peal by the Associated Press attacking the constitutionality of the Wagner labor relations act. A ruling on this appeal is expected next Monday. The justices announced the follow- ing rulings on important State cases sent up for review: Granted a request by the State of Washington for a review of its effort to sustain the constitutionality of a State law imposing a 2 per cent sales tax as applied in a case involving purchase of material for construction work on the Grand Coulee Dam. A three-judge Federal court in Wash- ington declared the law void and un- enforceable as to the particular tax involved in the case. Denied a request by John Jacob As- tor and Waldorf Astor for a review of their suit attacking a $10,810,856 Fed- eral estate tax on property left them by their father, William Waldorf Astor of Great Britain, who died in 1919. Lower courts had held the tax valid. Granted & request by Dirk De Jonge, a Communist, for a review of a seven-year sentence in the Oregon State Prison for alleged violation of the State’s criminal syndicalism law. He contended the law violates the right of free speech and free assembly, Ontario, brother-in-law of Second Mate Bourrie. Peter Daigle, fireman, Rexton. Henry Lytle, first cook, Toronto. Frank Burns, second cook, Toronto. William Grant, pump engineer, Thorald, Ontario. R. Harper, fireman, address un- known. —— Pierrault known), Windsor. Harry White, deckhand, son of the second engineer, who was rescued. The rescued were: Capt. MacClelland, Cape Tormen- tine, New Brunswick. Herman Dault, crane operator, Vic- toria Harbor. Martin White, second engineer, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Pred Mprse, crane operator, East ‘Windsor, Ontario. William 'J. Gifford, crane operator, New Castle, New Brunswick. Jack Meuse, deck engineer, Yar- (first name un- Earlier, the § O 8 created a tre- furnishing ecity-owned electric systems® ° L4