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ASSOCIATED PRESS PROMOTES PRICE Head of Capital Bureau Is Named Executive News Editor. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 29.—The appointment of Byron Price as “the executive news editor of the Associated Press.” with headquarters in New York City, was announced yesterday by Gen- eral Manager Kent Cooper. In this newly created post Price, head of the Washington bureau since 1927, will be responsible only to the general man- ager for the general news service, Cooper’s announcement said it was intended “the commendable rivalry be- tween the day, night and Sunday ad- ministrations of the general news serv- ice by news editors identified there- with shall be continued under Mr. Price.” The general news service in- eludes the national, foreign, sports, markets and elections. The present | responsibility to the general manager | of chiefs of bureaus for personnel and | for the administration of strictly State or vicinage news continues. Also the executives in charge of the news fea- tures service and news photo (includ- ing wirephoto) continue directly un- der the general manager. Joined A. P. in 1912, Price's advancement to the highest news editorship follows 24 years of varied experience in Associated Press assignments. He began newspaper work in his high school days and served on several Indiana newspapers before joining the Associated Press in | 1912, Between that date and his as- | signment to Washington in 1914 he was a member of the Atlanta staff and _bureau chief at New Orleans. His work as a reporter has brought him to the firing line of many impor- tant news stories, ranging from the leo Prank murder case in Georgia to the London Naval Conference of 1930. He was with President Hard- ing on his trip to Panama, and with President Wilson on his last tragic | transcontinental campaign for the League of Nations. He has helped eover 11 national political conventions, being in charge of the As:ncmted\ Press stafl of six. For several years | OPENS GONVENTION 11,500 at Parley in Richmond. Appointed BYRON PRICE. —~A P. Photo. LANGUAGE: GROUP Teachers of German Elect Officers. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, December 29 —Edu- cators and linguists attending the | | Aifty-third annual convention of the | Modern Language Association of | America gathered today for the first | general session of the three-day con- | ference. About 1500 were expected to hear the discussions of problems facing | the modern language instructors. On today's program was Dr. Mimi | Jehle of the University of Illinois. She was to address the modern Ger-‘ man literature section of the asso- ciation on the importance of women | in modern German literature. \ Other speakers included Dr. C. F. | offered by the union.” THE EVENI MARITIME STRIK CHARGES HURLED Opposing Forces Clash in Debate Over Responsibil- ity for New Crisis. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, December 29.— Opposing forces in the Pacific Coast muritime strike exchanged charges of responsibility today for what Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. Mec- Grady termed “the first real crisis” in the 61-day shipping tie-up. McGrady said the new break in peace negotiations was over the vital issue of control of hiring, as it would affect licensed ships’ officers. Both sides admitted this was the deadlocked issue, but the Ship Own- ers’ Committee declared in a statement by T. G. Plant, chairman, “the bomb- shell that blasted hopes of an early peace” was a demand for settlement with striking machinists at San Fran- cisco Bay shipyards, Peace Hope Held Fautile. “Ship owners and water front em- ployes,” Plant's statement said, “have no relations whatsoever with ma- chinists. The attempt to include them in present negotiations as the prh!e for settlement of the maritime strike | makes any hope of peace almost tutile.” He said representatives of the Mas- ters, Mates and Pilots—one of the| seven striking maritime unions— | evaded a direct answer on whether | walkouts of rank-and-file seamen at Eastern and Coast ports would hold up settlement. Statement Issued. A statement from the Masters, Mates and Pilots said: “The operators broke off negotia- tions very definitely by stating they would not consider (union) preference |of employment for any of their licensed officers, including the mari- time enginesrs, despite modifications ‘The modifications were reported to STAR, WASHINGTON Borah Threate Allison’s Record Of Senate Service Mark of 35 Years and 5 Months May Be Exceeded. By the Associated Press. ~ ‘Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, who begins his sixth successive term next week, may break the Sen- ate's record for continuous service. He equaled one mark by his re- election last month, becoming the second Senator in history to be chosen for six consecutive six-year terms. Both records have been held for a quarter of a century by the late Sen- ator Allison of Iowa, elected for the first time in 1872 and re-elected five times. Allison, by serving to his death near the end of his sixth term, established the longest continuous record of 35 years and 5 months. Borah can break that record by serving throughout his sixth term, MSGR. CORRIGAN ILL IC. U. Rector Is in Rome on Busi- ness Trip. Information that Msgr. Joseph M. Corrigan, rector of Catholic Univer- sity, is ill in Rome, where he has | been on business for the last week, was received last night by Catholic University officials. His condition was not described, Msgr. Corrigan, formerly rector of St. Charles’ Seminary, Philadelphia, was appointed rector of C. U. last March, include a proposal thai ‘union mem- bers be given preference for third and fourth mate positions, with employers | free to select officers of higher rank. Plant said his committee “cannot | make it too plain that under no cir- | he has written a Washington political | mucrer Brooke of Yale University | cumstances can they agree to union | ecolumn Directed Large Staff. As a news executive, Price has had under his direction at the National Capital the largest news-producing | staff in the world to be operated as a unit_under one directing head. Hn‘ administration of the Washington bu- | reau has been marked by successful administration of many pmgresmve‘ departures and expansions in news handling. His successor at Washing- | ton will be named later. Price was born 45 years ago at To- peka. Ind. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wabash College. During the World War he served in France az a captain of infantry. CROSS-CHECKING OF TAX INCREASED Bocial Security Returns Will Pro- vide Means of Closer Secrutiny. By the Associated Press. Operation of recently enacted taxes, Treasury officials said today, will pro- vide important new machinery for | checking evasions of other levies. Returns to be filed under the tax provisions of the social security act| and the new undistributed profits tax, they said, will give the Internal Reve- | nue Bureau a vast fund of informa- | tion usable for cross-checking other returns. This method of unearthing evasions already has been utilized to some ex- tent by State tax agencies, which ac- easionally check a State income ux‘ return against the Federal one. Officials said no effort can be made to cross-check all returns for the 26,- | 000,000 employes affected by the so- | cial securit act, but that returns filed | “by employers would be valuable m‘ checking corporation and other large | income tax payments. Smaller income | tax returns are investigated on a *“sampling” basis, it was exphlned. with a certain percentage chosen at Tandom. Officials declined to estimate how much money would be put in the Fed- | eral till through the cross-checking method. They said, however, it might amount to a considerable sum over | long periods. The double-check system can be tised with present facilities at no addi- tional expense. MRS. FITZGERALD DIES Srecial Dispatch to The Star. BETHESDA, Md., December 29.— Mrs, Rebecca Hamilton Fitzgerald, 44, wife of William M. Fitzgerald, de| Bunday at her home at Bethesda. She is survived by a son and two daughters, William M. Fitzgerald, jr., and Ann and Patricia, all of Bethesda, and two sisters, Mrs. Adelaide Fuller and Mrs. Julia March, both of Win- ehester, Va., and her husband. The funeral took place this morn- ing from Our Lady of Lourdes Catho- lie Church, Bethesda, burial being in 8t. Mary's Cemetery, near Rockville. e WHERE TO DINE. Collier Inn 18th & Columbia Road N.W. Dinners 06, 65c, 706 Dinners FOR YOUR New an’s Parfiu Iu - punch, cheese ete. detivery Make Reservation Now Open all Winter for xoed Luncheans and Dinners Sunday Breakfast Phone SHepherd 3500 |ONE DEAD, THREE HURT | Hopkins University, who were to dis- | cuss the theme, “The Relation of the | Modern Language Association to, Scholarship and Culture.” Dr. How- | ard Mumford Jones of Harvard Uni- versity planned to follow the same general theme in his address before | the convention tonight. | Yesterday the American Association of Teachers of German elected Frank H. Reinsch of the University of Cali- | [fornia at Los Angeles, president. The | American Association holding its fifth annual convention here is an affiliate | of the Modern Language Association. | Pive other natlonal edteators’ groups are meeting in conjunction with the general convention. The German section voted to hold its annual convention next year in; Chicago. IN AUTO TRUCK CRASH| Telegraph Operator Victim of Col- | lision on Lee Highway Near Fort Chiswell. | By the Associated Press. PULASKI, Va., December 29.—One | person was dead todav as the result of an automobile-truck collision four miles from Fort Chiswell, which brought in- | juries to three others yesterday. | Tom J. Brawley, 32-year-old tele- graph operator at Newport News, died | in the Pulaski Hospital. where he was | taken after the accident His uncle, J. W. Vaughan of Mullens W. Va., received a broken leg and | other injurles, and Jimmy Mullens, 16, | was treated for cuts and bruises. Lewis W. Terrell of Roanoke, driver | of the truck, escaped with minor hurts. Approximately four and a half mil- lion persons were injured and 31,500 | ! killed in their homes in 1935. It°s Our CLEARANCE ENTIRE STOCK OF GENERAL ELEC- TRIC APPLIANCES-fcor medels, trade-ine and repossessed models. 0% to 50 REFRIGERATORS Close out $99.50 $99.50 $89.50 $109.50 $119.50 $120.00 5 eu. 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Mrs. von Matsch divorced Ross J. Mcckll-nd electrical engineer, in Reno in 1919. GOLD TO BE MOVED Secretary Mnrzemmu reported to- day that the movement of the Gov- | ernment’s gold to the new Fort Knox, Ky.. repository will start shortly after January 1, | OI.D G O L D AND SILVER will bring qou Annual PRICE REBUCTIONS % WASHERS & IRONERS Close out $49.50 $64.50 $79.50 $49.50 °8 L Lo, Capast Washer. or (Moot | K gF ] 39 i.@; Iz VAGUUM CLEANERS Close out $44.50 $49.50 $53.50 $50.50 G._B. Vacuum Cleaner (Feor model.) 276.50 E. Vacuum Geiner Simoor ‘moders 37650 G. E. Vacuum Cleaner. (Ficor medel RANGES Closs owt . 8. (3 burner) $79.50 0.L.0RAMAM. Rus. %M 1328-30 New York Ave. N.W. All 530 SUITS, 1 BILL SEGREGATING TRUSTS IS LIKELY Seourmes Commission Moves to Regulate In- vestment Business. BY the Associated Press. Legislation completely separating the $2,000,000,000 investment trust business from other forms of finance probably will be recommended to Con= gress by the Securities Commission. Nearing the end of a long study of investment trusts and their methods of doing business, the commission be- gan hearings today on the activities of the Liberty Shares Corp. of Buffalo. The investigation was ordered by Congress to determine whether the investment trust business should be regulated, and, if so, how. On the basis of evidence already in the record, commission officials were sald to have reached the conclusion already that regulation is needed, and now to be exploring methods. A recommendation for legislation segregating investment trusts from banks, brokerage firms and other busi- ness was said to have been virtually Devoe’s Linseed Oil and Zinc Paint 922 New York Ave you asked for.. Wym TOPCOATS and O'COATS D. JKAUFMAN mwc 1005-07 Pa. Ave. 14th and Eye Sts. {744 Pa. Ave. JECEMBER National 8610 29, 1936. decided upon as one, but only one, step in a general plan. The record of the investigation holds evidence that investment trusts have been organized by banks and subse- quently have taken unsalable stock off the banks’ hands, bought in the banks’ loans and borrowed from the banks. Officials contend there is evidence, too, that some brokerage houses have formed investment trusts principally to benefit from commissions derived tcom handling the trusts’ account, with the latter engaging in frequent and numerous transactions, Officials estimate that at the 1929 peak from five to eight billion dollars were invested in investment trusts. They set the present-ddy figure at two to three billions. The hearing on the Liberty Shares Corp. is expected to take two or three days. George D. Kleindinst, president of the corporation during much of the period covered by the commission’s study and now president of the Liberty Bank, is expected to be the principal witness. SR e Ea 0il and Gas Wells Increase. In the first nine months of 1936 18,518 oil and gas wells were drilled in the United States, compared with 16,081 in the same 1935 period. Car Tags Governor's Initials. FRANKPORT, Ky., December 29 (#).—Gov. A. B. Chandler's automobile will no longer be identified by the usual number. His 1937 license tag will carry his initials instead of numenl.l a3 on other Dumerabas onothercars, LIQUID. TABLETS SALVE, NOSE DROPS n;un COLDS FEVER first day he, 30 Mmu!n Best Liniment Sixth Annual F OOD SHOW Opens JANUARY 11th Calvert Exhibit Hall Start the “New Year” Right. 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