Evening Star Newspaper, November 23, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (0. B. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy tonight followed by rain; not much change in ; lowest to- night about 36 degrees; gentle, shifting winds. Temperatures—High, 44, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday; low, 35 at 7:15 a.m. today. The only evening paper in Wgshingbon with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Full report on page A-9. Closing New York Markets, Page 22 84th YEAR. No. MANY ARE BURIED, FOUR FOUND DEAD AS LANDSLIDE HITS JUNEAU N ALASKA Rescue Crews Dig Into 100- Foot-Wide Mass, 10 to 40 Feet Deep, Fallen From Rain-Soaked Mountain. VICTIMS UNIDENTIFIED, SEVEN KNOWN INJURED Apartment House Section Is De- stroyed—City Is Plunged Into Darkness and Telephone and Signal Corps Communications Are Disrupted. (Picture on page A-3.) B3 the Assoctated Press. JUNEAU, Alaska, November 23.— Four dead, seven injured and possibly 25 trapped were unconfirmed esti- mates today of a toll exacted by & huge landslide of mud and rock which fell with crushing force last night on Juneau'’s apartment house district. Through disrupted communications eame the reports of the dead and the estimate of Fire Chief V. W. Mulvi- hill that more than a score may have been killed or trapped by the 100-foot- wide mass which rumbled down from a rain-swept mountain. Muffied cries from the debris were heard as rescue workers toiled through the night. The slide demolished two apartment houses, a lodging house, & two-story concrete store and several homes. It-cut off power lines, plunging the eity into darkness, and disrupted tele- phone and United States Signal Corps communications. List of Injured. ‘The injured included: Alfred Bates, his side pierced by a board. Gust Erickson, dured internally. August Maki, a fractured ankle. Mrs. H. Lee, colored, a fractured leg. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Perrson and their two children, Gail and Allen, badly bruised and shocked. The reported dead were unidentified. The heavy rains of the last few days caused two slides. The first did slight damage. The second, a few hours later, was 100 feet wide and from 10 to 40 feet deep. ‘The rumble was heard by persons Hving at the foot of the mountain. 8ome rushed from their homes. Maki and Bates were hurt as they fled. Erickson and Mrs. Lee were trapped in his house, where rescue crews dug them out. The Perrson family was caught in the three-story Nickinovich frame apartment house and were among the first removed. A terrified woman and two chil- dren, none badly hurt, were taken from mud up to their necks. Building Carried Across Street. In the concrete structure which the slide carried across a street, Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Peterson were believed to have been caught. Their daughter, Lillian Peterson, was rescued. Mrs. Fred Mattson, a resident of the same apartment house, was missing. Before power was lights turned on, fire department trucks and automobiles poured their headlights' on the ruins while men hacked at the slide. A power shovel was moved up and bit into the mass. Mulvihill said efforts were centered on rescuing persons . whose voices could be heard. Four were believed to be in one place. In another a ‘woman apparenily was under a piano. Several slides have occurred at Juneau this Winter. One buried a woman up to her neck in mud and demolished her home. A great slide eovered the Glacier Highway yester- day and almost trapped a motorist Wwhose car was partly buried. MAN’S BODY FOUND FLOATING IN RIVER Victim Believed to Be Steamroller Operator From Vienna, Va. Last Seen at 4:30 A M. The body of a man identified as Timothy Donohue, about 60, of Vienna, Va., a former employe of Corson & Cruman Construction Co. was found floating in the Potomac River today at the foot of Thirtieth street. Donohue formerly operated a steam- roller for the construction company and, according to a night watchman, he was seen in the neighborhood about 4:30 a.m. today, less than three hours before the body was found. Police were told Donohue broke his arm recently when he fell out of an automobile, but refused to have it set. ‘The broken arm was crossed on the man’s chest outside his coat when the body was taken from the river by har- or police. ‘The coroner’s office is investigating. ARREST IS PROTESTED BUENOS AIRES, November 23 (). —The reported arrest of a Peruvian woman intellectual, Magda Portal, was protested today at the Popular Conference in Favor of Peace, organ ized by Argentine feminists as prelude to next month’s Inter-Ameri- crushed and in- 33,809. | air raiders attacked the Spanish capi- restored and| Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. . Th WASHINGTON, Dr. Sarga in Final Warm-Up As He Awalts Gong for 9 Duels DR. FRANZ SARGA, In this radio photo, is shown practicing with his sword in pregaration for duels. BULLETIN. BUDAPEST, November 23 (#).— The Budapest Court of Honor ore dered an overnight postponement late today of the first of Dr. Franz Sarga’s nine duels, or the ground the elaborate formalities were in- complete. B3 the Associated Press. BUDAPEST, November 23.—“Me- Against-Nine” Sarga (as they call him now in Budapest) donned a derby and Chesterfield and strode today from his modest flat to a gymnasium for a final dress rehearsal of two days’ wholesale dueling. * A mite of a man, but bouncing with energy, Dr. Franz Sarga was stopped every few yards en route to the gym- nasium by duel-loving Hungarians. They told him to “be brave.” Tonight and tomorrow he’s to fight nine opponents in defense of the honor of his blond wife and their unborn baby. The 20-year-old wife, Magda, who (See DUELS, Page A-4) MME. SARGA. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. SO FASSTS REREW MADRD ARRADS Bomb Damages Ministry o!. War as Planes Attack Heart of City. BACKGROUND— Fifth month of Spanish eivil war finds Fascists at gates of Madrid, where steady advance is checked by determined loyalist resistance. Non-intervention committee of European powers formed in Sep- tember, but two members—Italy and Germany—have eztended rec- ognition to rebel regime of Gen. Francisco Franco. Britain, mean- while, let it be known her warships would treat insurgent vessels as “pirates” if they touched British merchantmen. 8Y the Associated Press. MADRID, November 23.—Insurgent tal early today, dropping several bombs on the ministry of war in the heart of the city. ‘Windows in the war ministry, head- quarters for the Emergency Defense Council, were shattered when one ex- ‘Nearer My God’ Hymn Stilled By Gas Death Manager Who Played for Tenants Be- lieved Suicide. Every Sunday morning for many Years tenants of the apartment house t 1300 Eleventh street heard Stephen Hart, 80, resident manager, play “Nearer My God to Thee” on the piano which he kept in his kitchen. Yesterday they heard no notes from ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, SHIPS OFFICERS CALL WALK-OUT IN ALL PORTS OF . 3. McGrady. Pressing Efforts to Settle Water Front Disputes. HIRING VESSELS STUDIED TO SEND FOOD TO ALASKA Federal Agencies Also Consider- ing Pleas for Aid From Gov. Poindexter of Hawaii. BY the Assoclatea Press. SAN FRANCISCO, November 23.— Unions representing ships’ officers called a walkout for noon at all Amer- ican ports today. Officials here of the two American Federation of Labor unions—the Masters, Mates and Pilots Association and the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association—said it was the first time to their knowledge that a Nation- wide maritime strike has been called. Assistant Secretary of Labor Ed- ward F. McGrady, meanwhile, pressed efforts here to seitle the far-flung waterfront disputes and their at- tendant conflicts. Hawail Pleas Considered. Col, O. F. Ohilson, mansger of the Government-owned Alaska Railroad, discussed with McGrady plans for proposed chartering of ships to send food north. Pleas of Gov. James B. Poindexter of Hawali for aid also were considered by Federal agencies. The San Francisco Church Federa- tion appealed for “private and public prayers” for industrial peace. ‘The Nation-wide strike call, issued at New York Saturday by William 8. Brown, national president of the engine room officers, and James J. Delaney, national president of the deck efficers, officially extended the scope of the Pacific Coast general maritime strike. Seven unions, including the Marine Engineers and the Masters, Mates and Pilots, have been on strike on the West the piano and today they learned they | the will never hear them again. Hart was found dead this morning in the gas-filled kitchen of his apart- ment with three cooking jets and the oven open. Near him were three notes, one of them sealed. Neither of the other notes gave a reason for what appeared to be a suicide. A fourth note was found in a tenant’s door. Hart was acting landlord at the apartment house for Harrison Moore of Washington and Wilmington, Del. Moore is now in the latter city. The sealed note was addressed to him. Odell Osborne, colored janitor, plosive missile fell in the patio of the building. Two automobiles ‘standing in the courtyard were wrecked. Several other bombs fell in the cen~ tral district in the renewal of air as- saults, which had been suspended for three days. An estimate of the damage in the latest attack was not immediately available. Submarine Attack Charged. Charges that two foreign subms- rines attacked the government war- ships Cervantes and Mendez Nunez in Cartagena Harbor yesterdsy morning were made by the ministry of air and navy in Valencia. The government declared the Cer- vantes was damaged, but the Mendez Nunez was not. “This morning at 9 am. (Sunday) several submarines—at least two of which certainly must have belonged to a foreign fleet inasmuch as the Pascists never possessed ships of this kind nor could ever have built them— attacked warships of our fleet at the entrance to Cartagena Harbor,” the official announcement said. “One of the torpedoes hit our cruiser pedoes Mendez Nunez by a submarine of & different type than that which tor- capital, which began at 6 am., was chiefly of & propaganda nature, the Fascist pilots dropping bundles of leaflets in addition to a few bombes. (See SPAIN, Page A-5.) smelled gas when he went to work to- day and traced it to Hart’s apartment. He found .one door to the kitchen (See GAS DEATH, Page A-6) VANSWERINGEN, b7, DIES ABOARD TRAIN Railroad Magnate Had Left Cleveland Last Night for New York. By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, November 23.—Oris P. Van Sweringen, Cleveland financier, died today aboard a train en route to New York, his offices here announced today. Death occurred about noon. Van' Sweringen, who was 57 years old, boarded a Nickel Plate train here at 6:01 p.m. (Eastern standard time) last night for the trip to New York. Richer Living. Prospect Seen In Patent System Centenary| BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Henry an harassed and con- patents brought a demand for settlement from Dr. J. C. Geiger, director of public health, here today. The Cemetery Workers’ Union an- nounced its members will quit work Friday unless wage increases and time-and-a-half pay for Memorial day are granted. FIRE SWEEPS FREIGHTER Hamburg-American Line 8hip Puts in ‘at San Juan, P. R. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Novem- ber 23 (#)—The Hamburg-American freighter Saarland, carrying 21 pas- sengers, put in at San Juan today after fire had swept her cabins and destroyed her wireless equipment. The amount of damage was not estimated. There was no loss of life. The 6,725-ton Saarland was bound for Hamburg. Her last port was St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Summary of Page. | Isolated section in northeast seen if et A-16 Editorial _._.A-10 | Short Story B-13 Pinance ... A-22| Society _. B-3-4 Lost & Found A-3 | Sports A-18-19-20 Obituary -__A-14 | Woman's Pg. B-11 NATIONAL ©O. P. Van Sweringen dies aboard train en route to New York. Page A-1 Security Board says applications will | ; be delivered tomorrow. Page A-2 A. P. of L. records support of N. R. A. substitute measure, Page A-1 Bendix officials and workers to confer BRAINTRUSTER NoWw, EW, Jack? o Star MONDAY, NOVEMBER .23, 1936—FORTY PAGES. Rk HELLS U Means Associated Press. —— BELLS! | DONT BLAME YoU FOR LAUGH- ! OOWE‘EHA\IE ‘i HYSTERICS! B N Wi ’éfia e ttowe 17775 B v s /. Mr. Garner Finally Yields to Temptation and Accepts an Honorary Degree from Baylor Univ ersity. |Startled Judge Hears of Golf N' R A SUBST'TUTE Shots More Accurate Than Gun FAVORED BY A.F.L. Jurist Incredulous as Professor Ex- Convention Votes Support| plains Man’s Control of “720 Vari- of 0’Mahoney Industrial Licensing Bill. BACKGROUND— John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers and nine allied unions were suspended two months ago by American Federation of Labor for “insurrection” in forming Commit- tee for Industrial Organization, which aims to organize all workers in each big industry into one union regardiess of federation’s tradi- tiongl policy of organization by craft. Since then, varied peace maneu- vers have been unsuccessful and there has been running fire of sharp ezchanges between leaders in two campe. BY the Atsoctated Press. TAMPA, Fla., November 23.—The American on record today in favo: of the O'Ms- haney industrial licensing bill, an N. R. A. substitute. The bill would compel all corpora- tions doing an interstate business to obtain & Federal license and to con- form to Government-fixed wage and hour standards. Introduced by Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of Wyoming. the bill died in Senate committee. William Green, A. F. of L. president, said it would oe reintroduced. ‘While voting support of many legis- lative measures designed to better la- bor conditions, the delegates awaited & Resolution Committee report on John L. Lewis’ revolt. The report was expected about 3 p.m., eastern standard time. Lengthy debate was in prospect. Delegates indorsed a campaign for (Bee A. F. OF L, Page A-3) TR SEEErL JAPAN REDUCES ARMS ‘TOKIO, November 23.—At a time when most European nations are in- creasing armament expenditures, Japan will reduce hers by approxi- mately 200,000,000 yen ($57,200,000), budget estimates disclosed today. Estimates for the fiscal year 1937-38 reduced the army's expenditure to $205,000,000 and the navy to $194,- 480,000. The budget estimates will be submitted to the cabinet Priday. abattoir wins. Page B-1 One traffic death, nine injuries over week end. Page B-1 Duke, Hoeppels attorney, disbarred by Court of Appeals. Page B-1 Lord Marley tells Town Hall America has inferiority complex. Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. ‘This and That. Page A-10 Page A-10 Page A-10 Page A-10 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 Page A-11 G. W. shoots at three targets in West Virginia game. Page A-18 Rose Bowl choices, Army-Navy game leading grid topics. Page A-18 of unbeaten grid teams is cut to Page A-18 Keen putting touch gives Shute P. G. A. victory over Thomson. Page A-19 Scott-Williams bout tonight to test Page A-20 U. 8. Bonds Ease (Table). Page A-21 Plan for R-K-O Presented. Page A-21 Stocks Go Down (Table). Page A-22 . Page A-22 Page A-23 Page A-23 g3z 4441 FT resy ables” at Final Pin Ball Session.” BY WILLIAM S. TARVER. ‘The District Court’s pin-ball trial drew to a close today as a Bureau of Standards scientist and a distin- guished Catholic University professor dealt in abstractions before an atten- tive but, at times, incredulous judge. The climax came when Dr. Louis H. Crook, head of the department of aeronautics at C. U, insisted that & man can hit a golf ball with greater accuracy than & gun can shoot. Federation of Labor went | of Man can control the 720 variables involved in the release of the plunger and its striking of the ball much bet- ter than can a machine, Dr. Crook asserted, going into a lengthy discus- sion of vain attempts to build an ap- paratus capable of duplicating the action of a golfer driving a golf ball. By practice, an apt player can be- come more adept than any machine, he declared. About that time Justice O’Donoghue interrupted with a vigoreus cross- examination. “Do you mean to tell us, from your observation and experience, that a tenberg resumed the examination. “The court has asked you,” he be- gan, “the question whether or not, when some one shoots & goif ball, for (See PIN BALL, Page A-2) MISSON SERVIEES ATIRACT 20,000 Interest in Protestant Re- vival Movement Mounts as Sessions Open. Deeply inspired by the Capital's opening response to its Nation-wide appeal, the National Preaching Mis- sion today continued its fight to strengthen the foundations of Chris- tian faith and bring about a deepen- ing of the religious life in Washington. Interest in this far-reaching Prot- estant revival movement mounted to- day as the eminent clergymen and lay leaders already assembled here await- ed the addition to their ranks of Dr. E. Standley Jones, world-famous mis- sionary, and Miss Muriel Lester, noted social worker. Dr. Jones and Miss Lester were ex- pected to arrive by plane from Chicago this morning to fulfill the first of several speaking engagements during the four-day mission. The Protestant forces of metropol- itan Washington united with some of the foremost interpreters of the Chris- tian gospel yesterday to make the launching of this series of revival meetings one of the most auspicious events in the religious life of the city. It is estimated that a total of nearly 20,000 persons attended the opening sessions at the Washington Cathedral, Calvary Baptist Church. and other churches in wvunmmi i n and nearby Maryland and Virginia. Calvary Baptist Church, where the initial meeting was held, was filled to overflowing. Upward of 3,000 persons crowded the main auditorium, Wood- ward Hall and a third room on the fist foor to hear Dr. Jesse M. Bader, Mattingly Lays To Refusal to CHEST STLL S SEOO0F COA Workers Face “Stupendous Task”—Drive Will End Tomorrow Night. “The stupendous task” of raising $450,000 before 8 p.m. tomorrow faced Community Chest workers this after- noon as they launched into a desperate eleventh-hour attack to send contribu- tions over the top of $1,969,000. Reports at the final lJuncheon meet- ing today at the Willard Hotel showed the campaign had raised so far only 77.06 per cent of the goal. The city was thrown “wide open” by Chest offi- cials for solicitors to go anywhere, so- licit anybody, regardless of solicitation unit rules, in order to reach success. The five solicitation units today turned in a total report of 22,522 gifts amounting to $167,346.63, which brought the aggregate up to 140,169 gifts amounting to $1,517,468.36, which is 77.06 per cent of goal. The last report luncheon today will be followed by the final round-up meeting which is to be called to order at 8 pm. tomorrow at the Willard Hotel. Doors will be open at 7 pm. for workers to assemble. As they left the meeting today with challenges to over the top, the campaign solici- tors went out determined not only to go back to many previous givers but to comb the city for every possible contribution. Calls Task “Stupendous.” “We have a stupendous task ahead eunmun‘ chairman, yet to raise. Magnificent work has been done so far. But we must go (See CHEST, Page A-7) Jail Crowding Honor Releases attempt to force the issue until Jus- tice Cox acts on the suit brought by Hitiate, 133870 Some returns not yet received.) smn*l ireutation, 147,494 TWO CENTS. NEW YORK WORK INSURANCE LAW UPHELD, 410 4 Supreme Court Ruling Auto- matic, Due to lliness of Justice Stone. OTHER STATUTES MAY DEPEND ON HIS VIEW Action First on State Unemploy- ment Acts in Connection With Social Security. BY JOHN H. CLINE. Constitutionality of the New York State unemployment insurance law was affirmed by ap evenly-divided Su- preme Court today. This unusual ruling resulted from the inability of Associate Justice Stone to participate in the consideration of the case because of illness. The re- maining justices were divided 4 to 4, which automatically affirms the ruling of the courts in New York, where the legislation was declared constitutional. This is the first action of the Su- preme Court on a State unemploy- ment insurance law, passed in con- nection with the Federal social security act. It may leave the fate of similar State statutes hinging on the attitude of Associate Justice Stone if he should return to the bench in time to consider them. Announced Orally by Hughes. Today’s ruling was announced crally from the bench by Chief Justice Hughes, and there was no immediate indication as to which of the justices had voted for the New York law, which taxes employers to pay benefits to those out of work. Both the New York Supreme Court . and the Circuit Court of Appeals, after lengthy hearings, found the legislation did not contravene the provisions of the fourteenth amend- ment to the Constitution. The attacks on the validity of the statute were instituted by W. H. H. Chamberlain, Inc, and Associated Industries, Inc., both of New York. The New York statute requires an- nual contributions to be paid by em- ployers of four or more persons, based on the pay roll. The tax is 1 per cent in 1936, 3 per cent in 1937 and 3 per cent thereafter. These contributions are payable into a central “unemployment insurance fund administered by the industrial commissioner of the State, and ex- pended ultimately in the form of weekly benefits to a class 6f uneme ployed employes.” Upheld in Entirety. The Court of Appeals upheld the statute in its entirety, finding that it did not violate any of the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment. The complaining companies had contended the amendment was violated in that the statute takes from employers large sums of money annually to be paid out to a certain class of “unemployed employes.” While the legislation was supple- mentary to some extent to the Federal Social Security Act, the latter statute was not involved in the litigation de- cided today. During the recent political cam- paign, the various State unemploy- ment insurance laws were bitterly at- tacked as discriminating against em- ployers. The legislation, however, is considered one of the keystones of the New Deal’s program of social legisla- tion. Unemployment insurance is de- signed primarily to protect workers who may lose their jobs before reach- ing the age of 65, when they will become eligible for old age benefits, 22 Opinions Expected. During the next two weeks the jus. tices will prepare opinions in 22 cases argued during the last fortnight. It is possible that all, including five New Deal cases, will be decided on De- ocember 7. The New Deal disputes affect P. W. A. loans for publicly owned hydro- electric projects, a presidential em- bargo on shipment of arms for the recent Chaco war, the Ashurst-Sum- ners act to label prison-made goods, a 50 per cent silver profit tax and & question of procedure in obtaining s final decision on constitutionality of the public utility holding company act. —_— GIRL CHARGES ATTACK BY TAXICAB DRIVER Veterans’ Administration Clerk Causes Arrest and Police Investigation. A 28-year-old taxicab driver was held at the first precinct for investi- gation today on complaint of a 18- year-old girl who told police she had been assaulted shortly after last mid- night. The girl, a Veterans’ Administration clerk, went to the Union Station to see & young man friend off on the train, and she told the taxi driver to wait and take her home. After her companion left, she said, she gave the cab driver her address in the 1700 block of Massachusetts ave- nue. He went past the house, despite her protests, she declared, and drove out Massachusetts avenue extended, stopping at a deserted stretch of the road. There, she charged, the driver at- tempted to assault her, holding her for more than two hours before she succeeded in inducing him to take her to her home. She called police and, after making a statement at the Woman’s Bureau, was taken home. The driver denied he had attempted to assault the girl. ——— Britons Threaten Strike. LONDON, November 23 (#) —Union clerks in 600 United Kingdom shops threatened a Christmas week strike today. They sought a minimum weekly wage scale ranging from £3 to £5 (815 to $35) for branch t; ‘managt and from 34 tp 35 shillings ($8.50 $13.75) for 1&!10.