Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1936, Page 5

_ROOGEVELT SEEKS NRA. ALTERNATIVE White House Favors Each State Legislating for* Itself. B the Associated Press. Ways to bring about adoption of minimum wage and maximum hour standards in all the States, rather than attempting another N. R. A, are being studied within the admin- istration. Members of Congress, arriving in » Sreater numbers today for the session ~ to convene next week, found that sub- Ject among the foremost at the Cap- itol. While President Roosevelt has kept his views to himself, some leading Democrats evidently do not expect him to side with advocates of an im- mediate attempt to amend the Con- stitution or to curtail the powers of the Supreme Court. Committed to N. R. A. Goals. They predicted he would discuss the problems of spreading employment and purchasing power at least broad- ly in his opening message to Congress or in his inaugural address, but might let detailed recommendations await reports being prepared. Committed to pursuit of N. R. A. objeetives, the administration has met difficulty in devising specific methods. ‘The White House preference ap- parently is for each State to legislate for itself on labor standards and fair business practices, and establish Fed- eral jurisdiction when problems be- come interstate or national in char- acter. Success of such a plan would be con- tingent on conformance by virtually all States. Up against the same handi- cap on unemployment insurance, Con- gress imposed a uniform pay roll tax Oppose Bill for Sunday Liquor Here right. These photographs were snapped at the District Building today as representatives of dry and other reform groups appeared en masse to oppose the Dirksen bill, which would permit the sale of hard liquor here on Sundays. J. R. O'Neal is shown at the left and Wilbur La Roe at the Both men criticized the measure. Berlin (Continued From First Page.) offered Germany's support ‘for a British proposal to halt the influx of volunteers, but coupled with it a de- mand that financial assistance to the - DEFIED BY HOLT PATRONAGE LOSS | —Star Staff Photos. Liquor (Continued From First Page.) would lose respect for myself,” John R. O'Neal, retired farmer, told the Commissioners. “When a man comes here to destroy the Sabbath, he comes | NDAY, DE PARLEY 1S BEGUN Progress of Health Prob- lems in Higher Institutions of Education Reported. Five years of progress in health and hygiene in higher institutions of education were reported at today's session of the Second National Con- ference on College Hygiene, which opened a four-day meeting in the Wardman Park Hotel. More than 500 representatives from colleges throughout the coutnry were in attendance to hear committee re- ports, Dr. Livingston Farrand, president of Cornell University, presided over the conference. Dr. Hugh S. Cum- ming, former head of the United States Public Health Service and now director of the Pan-American Sani- tary Bureau, was chairman of the local committee on arrangements. Thg meeting was sponsored by the American Student Health Association, #he National Health Council and the President’s Committee of Fifty on Col- lege Hygiene. Dr. Storey Speaker. Among speakers are Dr. Thomas A. Storey of Stanford University, whose book on the status of hygiene in colleges and universities published 10 years ago led to calling of the first national conference on the problem in 1931 at Syracuse University. “Authorities in our higher institu- tions of education have come to realize that health and hygiene are more than a question of providing a physician to treat a student who is taken ill while he happens to be attending their | schools.” said Dr. Storey. “The value of preventive measures is being stressed and we are attacking EMBER 28, 1936. Beach Wear for 1937 OLGA CORNETT Of Los Angeles wearing an attractive outfit that proved a sensa- tion at the Sunshine Fashion Revue held at Miami recently. The ensemble features white poinsettias on a black ground, with cut- out flowers for trimming. The set also has a long princess coat split up the back and trimmed in rick-rack. A white shell neck- lace completes the outfit. —Wide World Photo. | eration from all departments of thel college or university.” Dinner Tonight. higher education of the United States Office of Education; Dr. M. A. Bigelow, | Representative Nichols, Democrat, of professor of biology at Teachers’ Col- MEAD QUITS RACE FORHOUSE LEADER Rayburn, 0’Connor, Rankin Promise “Tie-Up” on First Ballot. By the Associated Press. ‘The list of active candidates for the House Democratic leadership nar- rowed to three today as friends of Representative Mead, Democrat, of New York, sald he was out of the race. Still in the battle, the bitterest for many a session, were Representatives Rayburn, Democrat, of Texas, and O’Connor, Democrat, of New York, with Representative Rankin, Demo- crat, of Mississippi, claiming enough votes to “tie up” the scrap on the first ballot. House Democrats will caucus next Monday to elect their floor leader and renominated William B. Bankhead for Speaker. Both O'Connor and Rayburn have been claiming sufficient votes to win on the first ballot. If all 333 House Democrats take part, 167 votes will be needed for a victory. So many moves and counter moves have entered into the contest that many neutral observers are willing to g0 no further than predicting the race probably will be ciose. Mead had not been an aggressive candidate for the second highest posi- tion in the House. O'Connor sup- | porters contended his withdrawal | would solidify the 29 New York votes for their candidate. Rayburn forces, nevertheless, were counting on some New York strength. They were figuring, too, on 26 of 27 | votes from Pennsylvania, although Oklahoma, an O’Connor campaign under which the co-operating States Ret back almost all they put in. The non-co-operating States lose their share. | manager, has asserted the Texan will get no more than 10. Some Representatives looked for new discussion of a possible “dark horse” Spanish fighters likewise cease. like the reds of Russia." Edward C. Potter of the Forest Hills Citizens’ Association said people who must have liquor now have six days, each week in which to procure it. and there is no necessity for extending the sale to Sunday. the problem on a much wider front| A dinner for visiting delegates will | lege, Columbia University; Dr. E. Lee | than heretofore. We hope to inculcate | be held in the hotel tonight with Dr. | Shrader of St. Louis University, presi- | a general knowledge of health prob- | Kendall Emerson, managing director | dent of the American Student Health lems and their solution during the stu- | of the National Tuberculosis Associa- | Association, and Dr. John Sundwall, dents’ college course. To do that re- | tion, presiding. Speakers will include | director of the division of hygiene and | selection. An outsider might have a | quires a more closely integrated pro- | Dr. Cumming, Dr. Farrand, Dr. | public health of the University of | chance, they said, should neither Ray- gram that was thought necessary a few | Thomas Parran, director of the United | Michigan, who is president of the | burn nor O'Connor win on the initial Russian Collections Made. | S€Nator Says He Will Not Be Ne less, t in | contonten. Boviet mucian sovecions | Controlled by $370 Worth of Jobs. | to assist the Spanish Soclalists con- | tinuea. | Der Fuehrer, among his inner cir- 37 States Join Program. At least 37 States will have joined that program by the end of this week, Some officials have suggested a similar plan might work for business regula- tion. Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of . Wyoming proposed a different line of attack today. Pointing to the recent | Supreme Court decision upholding the subjection of prison-made goods to the laws of the State into which they may be transported, he said his revised bill for a Federal charter act would provide similar protection for States banning child labor and instituting wage and hour standards. Under it. no goods could be sold in a State unless produced under stand- » ards enforced in that State. “One purpose,” he said, “is to en- courage a better distribution of the national income. The need is illus- trated by the recent repert of the Securities Commission, indicating that | “insiders’ hold about 21 per cent of all | capital stocks to the detriment of the interests of the 79 per cent.” Plane (Continued Prom First Page.) where their Northwest Airlines plane | erashed December 18. List of Passengers. Others aboard the plane were: A. L. Markwell, Los Angeles dia- mond broker. Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Ford, jr., Ban Marino, Calif. Ford is a son of Steamship Co. John Korn, believed to be from El | Centro, Calif. H. 8. Teague, Los Angeles. Mrs. W. A. Newton. M. P. Hare. A. Novak. Miss E. Valance. Co-Pilot Robert McLean, Oakland. Stewardess Yvonne Trego, Hastings, Mich. The airline sent a squadron of planes aloft at daybreak and searched by land with a caravan of automobiles. * John Kimmel, operations field man- ager, said the search would be con- centrated within a 40-mile radius of the Union Air terminal. At 7:36 p.m. Pacific time, Pilot Blom asked the control tower at the Burbank Airport for a radio beam. Previously he had reported he would be seven minutes later than his schedueld landing time of 7:30. When the tower operator requested his position, Blom replied, “Wait a minute,” and nothing further was heard from him. The fact that he used his day frequency was taken as evidence his radio was out of com- mission. Search Begun. Other United Air Line planes in the air during the evening were or- dered to land at Bakersfleld w0 keep the radio channels clear for contact with the lost plane. Ground stations in Western Arizona and Southern California made repeated efforts to reach it, broadcasting weather condi- tions. There were low-flying clouds et the time and frequent rain squalls. Regular transport planes flying up and down the Pacific Coast were in- structed to maintain a sharp lookout. All airports, emergency landing fields, ‘weather bureaus, forestry stations and other possible points of contact were asked to keep watch. In the possibility that the plane might have crossed the Sierra Madre Mountains into the Mojave Desert, the search also was extended there. Plane Heard Over Lake. One report, received by air line offi- eials from the Weather Bureau station at Lebec, between here and Bakers- Qeld, said a large plane had been heard circling over Quail Lake, in the Tehachapi Mountains, 100 miles northeast of here, about 9:30 p.m. Markwell, one of the plane passen- gers, was returning to Los Angeles from a business trip and a visit witn pelatives in Hayworth, Calif. A pioneer aviation enthusiast, he habitu- ally used planes for travel and former- iy piloted his private ship. Ford and his wife, the former Char- Jotte Hall of Pasadena, were married six months ago. They were returning from a holiday visit with his father in San PFrancisco. ‘Weary snowshoed searchers finally Jocated the bodies of pilots Joe Liver- more and Arthur A. Haid in the Northwest Airlines plane on & moun- tain side, but searchers for the Utah plane said concealing snows might hide its fate until Spring. All seven of its passengers were believed dead, if not from injury, then from ex- posure. Bags of Christmas mail were re- covered from the Idaho plane which vanished December 18. ‘Women of Transvaal, South Africa, | sion of the - the president of the Grace Line | e Qetman ulkmatum o In-| | manding a halt of volunteers for | cle of advisers, often has repeated that | Germany must try to come to some | arrangement with Britain—cost what | it may. Hence, although the volunteers may | well contipue from Germany to Spain, | informed persons believed Hitler had | no desire to risk losing British sym- pathies for good by going to war on | Madrid with regular soldiers and war- | ship guns. . | A definite announcement -on naval plans, growing out of the Palos in- cident, is expected soon. | In shaping a, policy to aid Gen. Francisco Franco, the insurgent dic- tator-designate in Spain, without act- ually declaring war, Gen. Wilhelm Faupel, the German charge d'affairs to Fascist Spain, is credited with a | major role. With true Prussian devotion to duty, | Gen. Faupel decided to be his own courier and bring important informa- tion personally to Berlin. His decision was made, it was dis- closed, after a German Lufthansa plane carrying an extensive report w‘ Berlin on the Spanish situation | crashed near Annecy, in the Alps, on | December 4. | Since his recent arrival here, Gen. | Faupel has been in almost continfious conference with the German general | staff. Especially, it was said. he stressed the dearth of non-commis- sioned officers in Franco's insurgent army. Meanwhile Germany formally gave the Spanish Socialists just a day to | free the captured Palos. The exten- | clude today came after an official | spokesman had declared: “We are awaiting the Madrid gov- ernment’s next move.” Earlier it was announced “neces- sary measures for obtaining the re- lease of the steamer have been taken.” Chancellor Hitler was at his holi- day retreat of Berchtesgaden in Ba- varia when the British and French Ambassadors paid a Sunday call to the foreign office with notes de- the Spanish insurgents. The notes caused speculation on possible colonial and economic con- cessions for Germany if she would guarantee peace, SIX-POWER PATROL STUDIED. LONDON, December 28 (#).—A six- power naval patrol, designed to “keep volunteers and arms out of Spain,” i8 under consideration by British officials, | informed sources asserted today. Germany, Russia, Italy and Portugal may be invited to join Great Britain and France in forming the coastal pa- trol, they said. Ships of the fleet would carry foreign observers as a guarantee of impartial- ity in blockading shipments of mu- nitions and men to either side in the Spanish civil war, reliable persons de- clared. In authoritative quarters the plan was described as scrapping all pre- vious efforts of the International Non- Intervention Committee and making & new start to isolate the Spanish con- flict. Earlier hope was held in the for- eign offices of Europe’s great powers for diplomatic solution to the threat- ened spread of the Spanish civil war through German intervention. The continent focused its attention on snow-covered Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, where Adolf Hitler pondered problems which may decide the ques- tion of peace or war for Europe. Firm refusal of the Spanish So- cialist government to heed a German ultimatum to free the captured steamer Palos in the face of Naszi threats of “reprisals™ was believed to have placed the immediate decision of backing the insurgents to the limit up to Hitler, Adding to to the seriousness of the question were the reported demands of the Fascist leader, Gen. Francisco Franco, for 60,000 troops to aid his drive on Madrid. But France and England hoped offers to aid Germany's economic and colonial needs in return for non-in- tervention would weigh heavily. SPAIN DEFIES GERMANY. PARIS, December 28 (#).—The Spanish government spiritedly defied German demands today for the release of the captured freighter Palos and charged the ship was bearing contra- band of war to aid insurgent Fascists. Resisting both threats of German action and diplomatic pressure from other nations desiring to calm the crisis, the Basque Nationalists an- nounced through the Spanish Em- bassy: “There is no question of releasing the Palos.” The French government, fearing the incident would upset its efforts to enforce neutrality in the civil war, summoned the Oouncil of Ministers to meet tomarrow. ? By the Associated Press. Senator Holt, Democrat, of West explained the action against him by saying, “I have told too many truth- ful things to suit their bitter par- tisanship.” Senator Hayden. Democrat, of Ari- zona, chairman of an unofficial party | committee controlling certain Capitol patronage, notified Holt last week he would lose an elevator operator and two Capitol police jobs. Holt has been a bitter critic of the | W. P. A. During the election, he campaigned against Senator Neely, Democrat, of West Virginia and was | charged with being friendly to the [ A. L. Baldwin, president, Chevy Chase Republican Gov. Landon. In a statement released through his office today, Holt said, “I am not going to be controlled by $370 presidential candidate, | worth of patronage”—the total of the monthly salaries of the three jobs. “The control of legislators by pa- tronage is a most dangerous mroad against good government,” he asserted. “Too many men in official life are controlled in this way. “This will not discipline me. It makes me realize that I have told too many truthful things to suit their bitter partisanship. It is the truth that hurts.” Holt is now at his home in Weston, W. Va. HOLT ASSAILS PRACTICE. BY the Associated Press. WESTON, W. Va., December 28.— Senator Rush D. Holt, Democrat, of West Virginia assertet today Senators he declined to name “seem to be more interested in finding jobs for three friends than in finding jobs for mil- lions of unemployed.” He made his remark in saying he had been informed by Senator Carl Hayden, Democrat, of Arizona that “in all probability” Holt would lose “pa- tronage positions now assigned to you.” Holt added: “If they (the unnamed Senators) were to spend more time on unem- ployment problems than in releasing three men to punish me the country would have a higher opinion of the Senators involved.” Holt said he would oppose any op- position to his right to recommend ap- pointees for Federal posts. JOINT DRIVE PROPOSED TO CURB BOOTLEGGING By the Associated Press. Repeal Associates yesterday in- vited prohibition organizations to join in a campaign against post-repeal bootlegging “and the crime it sup-’ ports.” W. H. Stayton of the repeal organ- ization said the invitations were ex- tended “despite a fundamental dif- ference in our philosophy as to the best methods for handling the liquor problem.” The letters, he said, went to the Anti-Saloon League of America, the State Anti-Saloon Leagues, the Wom- en's Christian Temperence Union, the United Dry Forces, the Methodist Board of Public Morals, the Depart- ment of Social Service of the Federal Council of Churches and others. | “Liquor is doing terrible things i1 |our city.,” declared Rev. Charles H.: | told on good authority that small boys | go around the city with wagons col- lecting empty whisky bottles from | which they drain the dregs. Other Opponents. Others who opposed the bill in- | cluded Elizabeth M. Cox of the Wom- |an’s Council of the Federation of | Churches, R. H. Miller, Executive Com- mittee, Federation of Churches; Dr. ! | Everett M. Ellison, United Dry Forces years ago, and we are attempting to States Public Health Service: Dr. Fred | American Association of School Physi- outline policies which cali for co-op- C. Kelly, chairman of the division of | cians. ballot and a threat of a deadlock | arise. \..;1.5 F STREET E of the District; Mrs. Simon McKinney, | g Parkview Citizens’ Association; Mrs. | W. C. T. U.; Rev. R. W. Brooks, Inter- | denominational Ministers’ Alliance; Mrs. H. F. Stephens, president, Gospel Mission W. C. T. U.: Mrs. Charles H Schaffer, Chevy Chase Presbyterian | Church; John B. Hammond, United | Dry Forces, and Jesse C. Suter. | The second bill on the proposed leg- islative program, designed to strength- | en the existing gambling laws, was ! briefly considered. This measure is | aimed particularly at control of the -called “numbers racket.” It would | make possession of numbers slips | | prima facie evidence of guilt. Suffrage Leader Is Dead. ROME, December 28 (#).—Senator | Amedeo Sandrini, 70, a champion of woman suffrage, died today. ‘Sena_tor Howaird Is Here for Term \ Ending January 5| | Minnesotan Was Elected to Complete Tenure of Schall. Guy V. Howard, Republican, of ! | Minnesota, who was elected November | |3 to one of the shortest senatorial | | terms on record, is on the job, but | will hardly have time to see the sights | of the Capital before his period of | service ends. In fact, his term will expire before he has a chance to take a seat in the | Senate—or introduce a bill. He was elected to finish the rest of the term | of the late Senator Schall. and the day Congress convenes he will be suc- ceeded by Senator-elect Ernest Lun- deen, Farmer-Laborite, elected for the new six-year term. Howard is not a stranger in Wash- ington, having served as a page in the | House of the Fifty-fifth Congress, and | later as an employe of the House post office. But when he arrived for his | brief sojourn as a Senator he found a f vastly different city. Commenting on |the improvements that have been made in the National Capital in re- cent years, he said: | “Every dollar that has been spent here has been well spent. This is a | great city.” Howard brought a secretary, James W. Nash, to Washington with him. They will remain until after the Sen- ate convenes on January 5, and then return to Minneapolis. 1 Spirit of 1929 Is Resurrected For New Year Eve in Gotham BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 28.—Gotham will watch the old year out and the new year in with the old sky-larking spirit of 1929, say the impresarios of after-dark entertainment along Broad- way. ‘The cash registers will clink to the tune of & higher fee than they did last New Year eve in most of the bright spots, and Jack Demosey—an author- ity on many subjects—estimates that there will be 1,000,000 celebrants in and about the city at midnight in paper hats. Some of the night club managers have saluted the new “era of ‘good feeling” by announcing the same cover charge they made last New Year eve, and & haM dozen did the dramatic thing, and reduced the price. ‘The average rate for the night’s cele- bration, however, is from $1 to $5 more than when New Yorkers bade farewell to 1935. < An example is the Broadway Dance Palace, which offered the most reason- able New Year eve available on Broad- way last year—$1.50 for floor show, dancing and noisemakers, This year, it's $2 more. One club in the theater belt en- §aged s bigger and better ficor show Pa) ¥ i i than last year’s, and upped the price from $5 to $20. One smart night spot which charged | 435 last New Year eve cut the fee $10 this year. ‘To skylark in Park Avenue's largest hotel and in the town’s loftiest night club will cost the same as it did last year. Almost every hall which has as many as two chairs is advertising a celebration. Some of the larger hotels expect 3,000 or 4,000 guests and will have from five to seven parties going at the same time. A good average New Year eve will cost $15 a couple, with supper, paper hats, noisemakers and souvenirs for the weaker sex included. Several places announce & quart of champagne—America’s favorite New Year drink—to a couple or & table for four. Many say, “Entertainment ‘til dawn, with breakfast.” The goings-on will extend to the suburbs. A Coney Island hotel adver- tises “an eight-course supper, with all the trimmings.” All the bright spots offer special diversion. At one there will be Scot- tish bagpipers to pipe in the New Year. Men wait because of the SHARP SAVINGS in Grosner’s c Group One: Regular $29.75 & $35 SUITS « O°COATS We've talked a lot about “Chesty,” “Tick” and “Sport Backs.” Modified drapes, too! $29.75 and $35 were the bottom prices! grays, plain shades, checks or stripes. Single and double breasted overcoats; raglan and set-in sleeve models. 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