Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1936, Page 5

TRADE BOARD ASKS FOR MORE POLIGE 115 Additional Members and Funds for Housing Are Advocated. Enlargement of the Metropolitan Police Department by 100 officers and 15 policewomen and appropriation of funds to provide proper housing of the department were urged last night by the Public Order Committee of the Board of Trade. The recommendations were con- tained in a resolution adopted at a dinner meeting of the committee at the Raleigh Hotel, and were the result of a survey of police conditions made in co-operation with Maj. Ernest W. Brown. Reports on the survey were made by members of a special subcommittee headed by Harry Dean. In addition to recommending an increase in the per- sonnel of the Police Department, the subcommittee also suggested division of the second precinct into two sta- tions and abandonment of obsolete motor equipment used by the depart- ment. New Building Urged. In suggesting that the second pre- cinct be made into two units, it was that the headquarters of the additional division be located in old No. 2 station, on Fifth street between M and N, now occupied by the Wom- an's Bureau. Pointing out that the present quar- ters of the second precinct are in bad condition, the committee also sug- gested that they be replaced by a new building. Further ipvestigation will be made of conditions in the second precinct before definite recommendations are made. With regard to motor equipment used by police, it was pointed out that scout cars, used 24 hours a day, aver- age approximately 55,000 miles a year. Such heavy duty, Dean’s subcommittee claimed, makes these cars unfit for service after & year. In this connection, the subcommit- tee said it would be cheaper to buy new cars each year than it would be to keep making repairs on the worn- out machines. Special Group Named. Another special subcommittee, headed by A. F. Miller, was named tc make further investigations into the police car situation, and the original subcommittee was asked to continue 1ts inquiries. Forecasting that the District's pop- ulation will have increased by 100,- 000 in a few years, Edward F. Colla- day, Republican national committee- man for the District, outlined a $30,- 000,000 improvement program that he thought necessary for the Capital. Strike (Continued From First Page.) negotiations by tonight “at the latest.” Courts at Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Baltimore figured in the far-flung disputes. Judge Robert F. Stanton in Baltimore issued an Ijunction bar- ring a seamen’s committee from try- ing to induce marine workers to strike. United States Marshall Robert Clark announced at Los Angeles he will report to Federal District Judge Paul J. McCormick that execution of an order to unload bananas from the strike-bound liner California would invite violence. A Federal District Judge George A. Welsh urged striking seamen at Philadelphia “to keep cool” and promised them “a full airing of all your troubles” in an injunction suit filed by five ship operators. The Joint Policy Committee of the seven Pacific Coast maritime unions, representing 37,000 strikers, repeated cable instructions to crews of vessels tied up in Honolulu to bring them to home ports. Gov. Joseph B. Poindexter of Hawail informed McGrady 1,729 pas- sengers and crew members of seven stranded ships “are eating on shore end depleting our supplies.” The Honolulu Strike Committee de- elared it had not received previous in- structions from here to release ships bound for home ports. At Ketchikan Alaska, stores ra- tioned eggs and vegetables from nearly exhausted supplies. The Ketchi- kan Chamber of Commerce urged suspension of tariffs on food imports from Canada until the strike is wettled. Food prices in Hawaii and Alaska have skyrocketed since the coast-wide strike was called October 29. In announcing his latest plans for settiement of the strike, which has tied up 178 West Coast vessels and has spread sympathy walkouts at Atlantic and gulf ports, McGrady set & conference for today. He called a meeting of offshore ship owners, who have refused to grant the unions’ key demand for control of hiring. If the ship owners agree to resume negotiations, broken off before the strike was called, Mc- Grady said he believes peace discus- sions can be undertaken immediately. Trade Journal Editor Dies. NEW YORK, November 10 (#).— Walter B, Graham, 60, editor of the Tes and Coffee Trade Journal, was found dead in his apartment here Yesterday. TI-IE’ EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. Folds Up Like a Bird NEW LAWS LAUDED BY MISS PERKINS Co-operation of Federal and State Labor Groups Praised. Secretary of Labor Perkins told the SEMINAR:IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE TO-OPEN Four Yormial Papers to Be Read Tonight st George Wash- ington University. Pour formal papers will be read to- night at the opening session of seminar in the history of science at George Washington University. The seminar is the outgrowth of s pro- posal made at a recent meeting of TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1936. |otrse Wastingan a0a_samoces| Ry |N GAS PRICE Tonight's program will deal with sciences. Smithsonian division of the Library of Congress on Issac Newton. Dr. Wood Gray, history department, will lead the discussion following pre- sentation of the papers, INDICTMENTS MEETS Gives No Indication Whether Ad- ditional Action Would Follow Against 0il Companies. By the Associatea Press. today gave no indication whether ad- ditional actions would be returned to follow up previous indictments charg- dividuals were named in the first group of indictments returned by the jury August 4. They were charged with conspiracy to maintain gasoline prices. Defendants, .in most cases, s in the districts where they resided or operated and posted bonds of $5,000 each. No date was set for trial. A second group of indictments was returned last Priday. Many of those named in the first actions were rein« dicted. Named were 21 companies and 46 individuals. The charge was conspiracy to fix and restrict gasoline margins of profits in prices to jobbers, Co W. B. Kinner, Los Angeles aircraft builder, beside his pat- ented new type plane with folding wings, which can be laid flat against its fuselage in three minutes by one man. The plane has a 40-foot wing spread and is 24 feet from the propeller to tail. It has attachments for seaplane pontoons. a 125-horsepower motor, which and has a top ceiling of 10,000 feet. 1. SPENDINGHELD BLOW TO CRARITY Smith Declares Donations Drop as Result of Expenditures. BY the Associated Press. SUFFERN, N. Y., November 10.—In his first public speech since the elec- tion, former Gov. Alfred E. Smith last night declared that donations to pri- vate charities had decreased because of Governmeni expenditures and said that overextension of Federal char- itable activity would result in taxation causing “great distress.” “If the Government takes too much, then private charity must suffer, un- less the time comes when the Govern- ment takes over private charity in its entirety, but, thank God, we don't want that to happen,” Smith told an audi- ence of about 1,500 at a benefit per- formance held at a motion picture theater here for the Good Samaritan Hospital. If the Government tried to handle all charity, Smith said, “the taxation would be so high the Government couldn’t take care of it.” “The Government can’t do the work of the hospitals. If it tried, the tax- ation would be so great there would be great distress,” the former presi- dential candidate said. MILITARY PLANES SALES POLICY SET Decision Reached by Department Heads in Conference With Roosevelt. Announcement will be made shortly of the Government's policy in the matter of permitting the sale of mili- tary airplanes to foreign countries not at war, This was decided on at a confer- ence held by President Roosevelt to- day with Secretary of War Woodring, Secretary of the Navy Swanson, Act- ing Secretary of State Moore and Its motive power is drives it at 120 miles and hour, —Wide World Photo. BOY SOLE SURVIVOR OF VESSEL INGALE 17-Year-Old Only Member of Crew of 40 Saved From the Isis. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 10.— Fritz Roethe, the plucky cabin boy who was the sole survivor of 40 hands aboard | the foundered Hamburg-American motorship Isis, gained strength and the admiration of seafarers today. The crew of the S. S. Westernland, touched by the 17-year-old sailor's grim story, dubbed him “Mein Frits.” ‘The Westernland, answering an S O 8 from the Isis, found one life- boat at the spot where a mad Atlantic gale had dashed in the Isis’ hatches and sent it to the bottom about 200 miles off Land’s End, England. Sele Occupant of Boat. Fritz, too numbed and exhausted to speak, was the sole occupant of the boat which had been tossed for 12 hours on the storm-swept sea. Wrapped in blankets and partly re- covered, he told the Westernland's commander how the storm struck the Isis Sunday night, of the sinking ship’s lurch which sent its crew sprawling into the water and of his own struggle to remain in the water-filled bottom of the lifeboat. First, he said, the sea smashed in the Isis’ No. 1 hatch and poured into the vessel. The captain mustered his crew on deck, he related, but hoped the Isis could resist until a rescue ship answered the S O S. ‘At 8 pm,” he went on, “a big breaker came over the ship and ap- parently bulkhead No. 2 gave way, causing a heavy list to port with the boat deck 1 foot above water. We all held on for our lives “The captain shouted to the chief officer to launch boat No. 2. Some shipmates and I went to the boat when—bang—another breaker struck, smashing the boat completely. “I found myself in the water . . . I saw the fore of the ship completeiy submerged , , , The stern was almost straight up . . . Down it went, slowly. Calls for Help Died Away. “I was awfully scared. I saw my mates spill off into the water. I heard their calls for help which grad- | do ually died away until only the gale roared . » . Then all was black and Acting Attorney General Reed. Rear | lonely. Admiral Adolphus Andrews, chief of the Navy Bureau of Navigation, also attended the conference. According to the agreement reached, no manufacturer of airplanes may sell to a foreign government until one year after the delivery of the second order of that particular type of plane to the United States Government. As explained by Secretary Wood- ring, this has been the policy of War Department for some after the study of the subj President’s office today it London will spend $1,760,000 in building new municipal fiats. HAVE spent years buying advertising printing. Naturally I have some ideas upon the subjec, and they are precey positive idess. The chief of these is that you cannot buy printing by the yardstick. I have “I saw an upturned boat and made for it . . . I found another mate clinging to it. Another breaker turned the boat right side up and I was able to scramble into it . . . The other’s hand loosened and he was swept out of sight . . . “Hours and hours it seemed I held Up and dow: REAL SUMMER WARMTH AMID.— WINTRY BLASTS uimaux Weather” your home ortably When * it find snug and warm, comfe and economically heated by the all-automatic ABC Ofil National Conference on State Labor |the History of Science Society. better” labor laws, national and State, had been passed under the New Deal than in any previous three years of American history. She credited much of the legislation to » unity of purpose of the Federal and State labor depariments. “Oo-operation between Pederal Department of Labor the labor departments of the different States has resulted in increasing the efficiency of labor law administration,” Miss Perkins said. An example of such co-operation, she sajd, was Federal training courses for State factory inspectors. Security Act Listed. ‘The Social security act, elimina- tion of child labor, shorter hours for workers and “insurance to the work- to “level upward” the labor of the Nation, the delegates were un- folding plans to take advantage of what the President described as “an unmistakable mandate” given In last week's election to assure decent work- ing conditions. Gov. Bibb Graves of Alabama and Gov. Olin D. Johnston of South Caro- lina were to speak today on the accom- plishments of newly labor departments in their States. Besides Alsbama and South Carolina, Kene tucky, Rhode Island and Louisiana have organized State labor depart- ments since the first labor legislation conference was called by Secretary Perkins in 1934. Unemployment Insurance. Laws to provide unemployment in- surance, s shorter work week for women and full exercise of civil liber- ties will be placed on the statute books in Pennsylvania, John Phillips, presi- dent of the Pennsylvanis Federation of Labor, promised. For the first time in history the State house is overwhelmingly Demo- cratic and the Democrats have & two- thirds majority in the State Senate, Phillips said. This will make possible enactment of the State Federation's program, to which the Democratic candidates were pledged, he pointed out, In Indiana, creation of a State La- bor Department will occupy first place on the legislative program, delegates reported. Many laws beneficial to labor are now in effect, but a labor department is expected to co-ordinate enforcement and map a program for further gains, it was explained. Amendment to the workmen’s com- pensation law to include occupational diseases, State control of insurance companies underwriting workmen's compensation, unemployment insur- ance and an anti-injunction law are measures which will be sought at the coming session in that State, while factory inspection will be strengthened and laws affecting women and children in industry will be amended. KELLY NOT BIDDING FOR CABINET POST Philadelphia Democratic Chair- man Being Pushed for Secre- tary of Labor. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, November 10.— City Democratic Chairman John B. Kelly said last night he is not mak- ing & bid for the labor portfolio in President Roosevelt’s cabinet. * Petitions urging that Kelly be named Secretary of Labor appeared in the city earlier today, following a rumor that Secretary Perkins might resign that post. “Nobody has talked to me about the secretaryship of labor,” Kelly said. |* “I do not kmow that Miss- Perkins is going to resign and do not want to be placed in the position of seeking 2 place that is not open. It would be very presumptious on my part to 07 Kelly is also revenue. State secretary of QGreat Britain is producing 30,000 sutomobiles a month. . 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