Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1936, Page 3

HOPKINS' DEMAND THREATENS SPLIT Request for $750,000,000 Brings Division in Admin- istration Ranks. By the Associated Press. Y A reported ultimatum from Harry L. Hopkins that he will resign as works progress administrator unless he gets $750,000,000 to carry the relief program through next June threat- ened today to split the administration forces in the new Congress. One group was described as lining up behind Hopkins, while another is eounseling cuts in relief spending to pave the way for a balanced budget. Hopkins’ $750,000,000 request is half again as much as President Roosevelt has mentioned as a maximum neces- sary to meet the deficiency in veliet funds until the end of the fiscal year. President Undecided. At his press conference late yester- day the President said he had no idea whether he would raise his own $500,- 000,000 figure in his recommendation to Congress early in January. He did say, however, there was & possibility funds from other sources might be transferred for work relief to supplement a congressional ap- propriation. Further information is being sought, he said. Most authorities agree the key to the problem is the rate the unem- ployed are being absorbed into private industry, but no definite figures on this point are available. The congressional group arguing for relief cuts is reported to be insisting steps should be taken now to make possible greater cuts next year, and thus help in the job of ultimately bal- ancing the budget. Mayor's Protests Cited. The other faction contends relief needs actually are not decreasing rapidly, and points to recent protests by Mayors and relief workers against any reduction in W. P. A. rolls. The W. P. A. figures for the week ending December 5 showed & net de- crease of 93,770 in non-administrative | employes, dropping the load to 2,384,- 202 persons. More than 100.000 were dropped the previous two weeks. Hopkins' $750,000,000 proposal indi- cates he believes the minimum re- quirement for work relief through June to be an average monthly expenditure of $150,000,000, as there are enough | funds for most of January. In November, W. P. A. expenditures were at the rate of $165,000,000 § month, Assistant Administrator Aubrey Williams said recently. He added he believed that figure to be a “valid lJevel” of spending. * In view of recent moves by city Mayors and relief workers to prevent cuts in W. P. A. rolls, Hopkins un- doubtedly would draw strong support n Congress for his program. Tondon's vacant buildings decreased | by 891 in the last year, the first drop in 12 years. __LOST. BLUE STONE BROOCH. through Plaza. BOSTON BULL. 1714 D st. ne Lincoln 2415 CAT—White and black. short. Reward for return to 1 st. n.w._Phone Adams 48 Iver setting: bet. on E st n.e. answers to rd. 5 month ite icinity 1hth and Whittier at valued as Christmas gift. Reward. 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Instead Mrs. Merryman left for the Belvedere at noon Thursday to direct the packing of Wallis' luggage at 16 Cumberland terrace. .By midafter- noon the bags had betn packed and newspaper men watched them depart in one of the King’s cars. A flood of rumors inundated London. The car with the luggage stopped at the fort only long enough to pick up a few more pieces and then headed for the port of New Haven. Some time after the sun sank over the tall trees of Windsor Park Wallis Simpson bade adieu to the man she was never to see again as King. A royal car whisked her to New Haven. By dawn she had crossed the English Chan- nel, had landed in Dieppe and was on her way to Villa Lou Viel at Cannes. Historical . novels will be written about those indelible hours at Fort Belvedere. Imagination can do much with the casting of that final die, the problems that were faced and pushed aside, the emotions of those two who were changing the course of an em- pire. What novelist wouldn't sell his soul for a glimpse into the mind of Wallis Simpson as she geered through the rear window of a limousine and watched the lights of Fort Belvedere recede into an English mist? Edward VIII, born to the purple and reared to reign, was left behind to relinquish his birthright for the opportunity to exercise a privilege un- denied the humblest of his subjects. Backed by King's Party. The man who was King knew he could demand another throw of the dice. He knew there was a King's party willing and anxious to fight for his right to marry a commoner—even & twice-divorced American—and keep his throne. But he knew also that such a fight might tear the empire asunder and would unquestionably leave scars impossible to heal. It was a situation unparalleled out- side of fiction, and it produced an atmosphere completely bizarre. Ex- cept for King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, I doubt if Eng- land ever developed so chivalrous a group as one branch of the King's party. With two friends, one American and one English, I left 16 Cumberland tere race at midnight a day or so after Wallis had gone to Prance, but before the King announced his decision. My friends both were ardently pro-King and they knew I shared their enthu- "| siasm. They asked me if I wanted to| X_se ok attend a secret meeting of the King's 24+ | loyal supporters and I assured them I would be delighted. We taxied to the side entrance of a large home in the heart of London's best residential district. In the hall- way we were met by our host, a mem- ber of the House of Lords. After a quick introduction we were led up a flight of stairs to an upper hall. A man was stationed at a closed door at the head of the stairs. At a word from - | our host he opened it and permitted us to enter. We passed through a second 1| doorway into a private study. Air Electric With Excitement. There, grouped around a fireplace, were a number of members of both Houses of Parliament as well as other less important but equally loyal friends of King Edward. Although the meet- ing was being conducted with typical British restraint, the air was electric with the submerged excitement of those in attepdance. It is impossible, of course, to dis- close what happened there. But-I am sure I am violating no confidence when I say that every man present was prepared to carry on with the King to any extreme. For & moment I was a Yankee in Wo&w&%{ Gifts ENGRAVED may still be bought Traveling Goods Jewelry Umbrellas ‘Leather Goods You may purchase them up until noon Thurs- day and they:will be. r them before 6 o'clock. or marking will be taken in the departments in which purcl’n!!s are made. D& LOTHROP King Arthur's Court. This was the twentieth century and countless gen- erations had come and gone in the shadow of London Tower since knight- hood's flower was supposed to have withered and died. But as I listened to the eager words of these loyal Eng- lishmen, I could not help but vision & fleld of honor with plumed horsemen in armor straining to shatter a lance with any foe in defense of their King. After nearly two hours of unanimous agreement that nothing could be worse than abdication, the members of this conclave asked those of us who were in communication with the King to convey their assurances of fealty, whatever road he might choose to travel. New Cabinet Proposed. Names of a possible new cabinet had been canvassed, and the platform on which such candidates might ap- peal to the country in a general elec- tion defined. Because of the com- mitments I made before entering the meeting, I cannot reveal these pro- posals. The situation implied by this meet~ ing was precisely what Edward want- ed to avoid. If he allowed his sup- porters to carry the issue to the people, he might well have won the right to marry the woman he loved without giving up his throne. But this, he felt, would have precipitated a crisis beside which the flurry over his pos- sible abdication paled into insignifi- cance. He knew the forces arrayed against him—the hierarchy of the Church of England, the government of Stanley Baldwin and all the element of ultra- conservatism voiced in a powerful sec- tion of the British press. He knew his own strength—the poor that he had befriended, the soldiers who had fought beside him, the common peo- ple of England, to whom the idea of 2 commoner Queen was eminently ap- pealing. He was not afraid of defeat, but of victory. A firm believer in a consti- tutional monarchy, he felt that popu- lar acclaim might lift the crown to a height both unwise and unsafe for the empire. And so, in those four hours at Fort Belvedere, Wallis Simpson. Those who may condemn his choice must at least re- alize it was made in all sincerity, in all honor, and, as he saw it, in the best interests of his people. (Copyright, World Rights. 1936.) NORBECK SUCCESSOR| QUESTION HELD UP Funeral Services for Late South Dakota Senator Held Today at Redfield. @y the Assoctated Press. PIERRE, 8. Dak, December 23— ! The question of who will succeed the ! late United States Senator Peter | Norbeck was sidetracked temporarily | yesterday while State officials attend- ed the funeral of the late Republican leader, who will be buried today near Platte, his former home. Gov. Tom Berry, mentioned most prominently in speculation which fol- lowed the Senator's death, main- tained silence concerning plans to fill the vacancy. Lieut. Gov. Robert Pe- terson,” facing embezzlement charges in connection with a bank failure, was firm in his decision not to resign. Peterson would have the power of appointment if Berry should decide to resign to accept the senatcrship. Puneral services were held at Our Savior's Lutheran Church at Redfield for Senator Norbeck. All business houses were closed for a half hour. A final tribute will be paid to Sen- ator Norbeck at Platte tomorrow, when the body will be interred in the Bloomington Church Cemetery. DEATH HELD NATURAL ‘The death Monday of Mrs. Mary Snyder, 70, of 1120 Seventh street was due to natural causes, Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald decided yes- terday after an autopsy. Mrs. Snyder was admitted to Gal- linger Hospital suffering from pneu- monia and other ailments, but the autopsy was held to determine if her death might have been hastened by the collapse of her hcspital bed. to be or MARKED - Silverware Toilet Articles Metal Wares for you to call for rders for engraving he stood his trial with [ — MARIINE PEACE CONFERENCE SET Moves Practically Dead- locked—McGrady Delays Return Here. BY the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, December 23.— As each side bhnud the other for blocking settlement, peace moves prac- tically were at a standstill today in the Coast maritime strike, affecting nearly 40,000 men and estimated by employers to have cost $385,000,000 to date. Assistant Labor Secretary Edward F. McGrady temporarily abandoned plans to return to Washington for Christmas after announcing ship owners and licensed deck officers would confer today on possibilities of renewing ne- gotiations in the 55-day deadlock. A spokesman for the maritime fire- men said they would not vote on whether to accept a tentative agree- ment until proposals were ready for other striking unions. Sailors left in- definite the date on which they will take a similar vote. Bridges Is Accused. T. G Plant, spokesman for the off- shore shippers, accused Harry Bridges, West Coast Longshoremen’s president, of blocking settlement and attributed to him the remark that there can be no Coast peace until striking Eastern seamen win their demands. Bridges promptly denied any such stand. He sald “no smoke screen” can be “big enough to conceal those really responsible for prolonging the | g strike.” “After weeks of negotiations,” said Plant, “we are convinced that only the highly arbitrary attitude of Mr. Bridges and a few of his close asso- ciates prevents a settlement. It is high time that the public minutely examined his motives. * * ¢ “It is regrettable that in the face of reasonable hopes for an early agree- ment Bridges d ds to the level of a mere wrecker.” Ship Owners Blamed. Bridges, recognized leader in the powerful maritime federation of the Pacific, charged ship owners were at- : tempting to disrupt union co-operation by demanding separate votes on the tentative agreements. “The only questions regarding the Eastern seamen’s strike which has been raised,” he said, “is what consideration will be shown seamen on American ships that regularly ply between inter- coastal ports. The unions are wary and suspicious of any attempt to create a ‘hot cargo’ situation imme- diately after a settlement is reached * * * by bringing ships from the East coast manned by strikebreakers and demanding they be worked. —_— Britain (Continued From First Page.) committee, was understood to have asked information on the identity of the proposed observers, their functions | and other details of the already nul- lified plan. The Spanish Socialist government | notified the committee it accepted the | control plan in principle without ex- amining it in detail. The Socialists reserved the right to reject it if it should at any time be deemed harm- ful to their territorial integrity. SPANISH CHRISTMAS GRIM. Madrid Fighting to Continue Without Festivities. MADRID, December 23 (#).—The crash of enemy shells in the trenches northwest of the Spanish capital to- | | day foreshadowed a grim Christmas- | tide for the city's Socialist defenders. | Militiamen at the front wistfully expressed the hope some of them might be allowed to return to Madrid | for the day, but the ever-present fear | of insurgent attack on the strategic | communications with E1 Escorial held | them to their posts. ‘ The government estimated 15 shells | fell in the heart of the capital yester- ] day during a long-range bombardment in which insurgent artillery cen- tered its fire on the $1,000,000 Tele- phone Building, tallest structure in the city. Little War Activity. Although several persons in the streets were injured by the tumbling masonry, young girls busied themselves collecting gifts for the = “militia's Christmas.” The presents obtained from Madrid’s already tried civilian population con- sisted mostly of old clothes, books and much-needed shoes. Cigarettes and cognac will be freely distributed on “Buena Noche” to the soldiers in the trenches. Except for the intermittent artil- lery duel there was little activity in the bitter cold of the front lines. “Wine with Turkey Dinner?” SPARKLING BURGUNDY For jolly holiday dinners, abottle of BaG Royal Pur- ple Sparkling Burgundy. A great festive wine... lively ++. mellow. . rich and warming. (serve very cold.) BaG-Barton & Guestier, have been growers and shippers of finest French wines for over 200 years: & Sckenley Import from Friames BARTON- & GUESTIER Alseshippors of the famens B& G Olive OU D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER. 23, 1936. Thrills of Pago Pago Told By Returning Naval Officer American Rules Island of Heavy Rains, Comdr. Green Says. From the emerald isolation of Pago Pago, in the South Seas, where an American naval officer is almost an absolute monarch, and where the rain beats so hard that Somerset Maugham wrote a play about it, Lieut. Comdr. Lucien B, Green, U. 8. N, retired, arrived in Washington today to report that the most important treasures to the carefree Polynesians are canned salmon and Navy regulation under- shirts. Green, who lived here three years 2go as aide to Admiral Henry Butler, commandant of the Navy Yard, went down to Samoa in October aboard the Monterey to look into the possibilities of doing & picture for Samuel Gold- wyn on “The Hurricane,” which was bought from Nordhoff and Hall, the authors of “Mutiny on the Bounty.” These writers live a few hundred miles from Samoa, at Tahiti. A month later Green caught the Monterey on its way back to the United States from New Zealand. There were times when he and his fellow passengers doubted whether they would ever reach the continent. The Pacific maritime strike was in full blast and, as it happened, the Monterey was the last American trans- Pacific ship to dock in a Western port. The white men through the South Sea Islands have no hopes of recelving Christmas presents, waiting Illog::fll! which do not leave their Destination Was Unknown. “We didn't know when we left Pago Pago if we were headed for San Fran- cisco or Los Angeles, or whether we would stop in Hawail,” Green said. “We kept getting conflicting orders from the Strike Committee on what to do. Finally we were told to head for Hawaii to pick up 500 stranded men and women. “We came near Honolulu one morn- ing at 6:30 o'clock. But the fog was 50 thick that we did not enter the harbor. Soon the weather blew a gale and the captain of the Monterey kept his boat moving off Honolulu until 9:30 that night—always just outside the 3-mile limit, so that any untoward move by the sailors would be mutiny instead of a strike. “Finally a pineapple barge ploughed out to the ship with the 500 persons. In the heavy sea the barge and the ship were lashed together, s gangway was thrown down and the throng be- gan to climb aboard. It was a wild night. Women fainted, and most of the passengers felt pretty fll.” In Honolulu harbor nine ships were stranded, and the 3,000 seamen who made up their crews were idle in | Hawali with nothing to do and no money. So the members of the crew of the Monterey took up a collection for their colleagues, put the money in a canvas bag and entrusted it to Harold Gatty, the man who toured | the world by plane with Wiley Post. Gatty took the money ashore and beat the Monterey to San Francisco. 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He stayed at the naval establishment, near the quarters of Capt. Milne, whose word is law in the islands. “What he says goes,” Green learned. “If Washington doesn't like it, it's usually too late for Washington to do anything about it. The Navy De- partment puts him in charge, and he's really a king.” Once a year the native chiefs gather around a palm tree to hold their ' LAWYERS’ BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING BYRON 8. ADAMS Wl;rmhon Work k | 2020 M St. N.W. Lu_llulay. Do It R:glu! i J) ADVERTI EMEB T. HOW T0 CHECK 'LOOSE DANDRUFF AND SCALP ITCHING When your clothing is showered with loose dandruff scale: to do something about i Skin specialists say that excessive dan- druff is one oty the important causes of hair loss. Two things can be done to check | loose dandruff: First, shampoo once a week (of- tener if necessary) to keep the scalp free from oiliness or crust- ing, uxmg a rich lather of mild Resinol Soap and rinsing thor- eughly. 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