Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. {U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy tonight, probably followed by occasional rain tomorrow; lowest tonight about 34 degrees; rising temperature to- morrow. Temperatures—Highest, 42 at noon yesterday; lowest, 35, at 10:30 a.m. today. Full report on page A-12, Closing New York Markets, Page 14 85th YEAR. No. 33,858. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ch EUER'NG 10 VISIT Madrid Evacuates Thousands, ROME TOMORROW; HITLER APPEALS FOR “REAL" PEACE Nazi Official’s Trip Held ““Im- . portant” in Spanish Crisis. " Fuehrer Avoids Direct Mention of War in Talk. BRANCE SEES GERMANS BARRED IN MOROCCO Paris Believes Spanish African Authorities Have Promised to Get Berlin Troops Out of Area. Stand Fast by Demands. BACKGROUND— Spanish civil war is causing new alignments among European powers. Germany and Italy favor Fascist rebels, while France and Russia lean toward Socialist Loyalists. England plays tradi- tional middle-of-road role seeking to reconcile differences and pro- tect own far-flung interests. Vol unteers from other nations have gone to aid of Spanish fighters on both sides and Non-intervention Committee marks time. France has heard Nazis are mobilizing in Spanish Morocco and has sent de- mand they withdraw or be met by French troops prepared to force evacuation. Meanwhile, ships of all major countries are concen- trated in danger zone awaiting out- come of crisis. By the Assoctated Press. BERLIN, January 11.—Gen. Her- mann Wilhelm Goering, the Reich’s highest Nazi official next to Fuehrer Adolph Hitler, will leave for Rome tomorrow on what diplomatic circles believe is an “important mission” in connection with the Spanish crisis. An official announcement by the German News Bureau described the vice chancellor’s prospective stay in the Fascist capital as a “vacation.” Diplomatic sources, however, pointed out Gen. Goering has been vacation- ing in Rominter Forest in East Prussia and expressed surprise Hitler's chief . WOUM plan « otidiid “vacation” during the prevailing European crisis. Hitler Asks “Real” Peace. Plans for Gen. Goering’s trip were disclosed after Der Fuehrer had re- emphasized Germany’s desire for in- ternal order and “a real reconcilia- tion among peoples” during a reception for the dilpomatic corps. . Carerut to avoid any mention of Spain, Bolshevism or rearmament, Der Fuehrer declared at a belated New Year reception: “In attempting to establish moral and economic order among the Ger- man people, we are thereby not only safeguarding our own future, but, ac- cording to our own conviction, serving the rest of the world.” French Ambassador - Andre Fran- cois-Poncet, on behalf of the diplo- mats, said: “May peace reign supreme among all nations and within each nation. * * * May Germany in an ever in- creasnig manner contribute to a firmly founded general peace of Eu- | rope and the world.” To Continue Drive on Jobless. Hitler declared Germany had suc- ceeded in further alleviating the “scourge” of unemployment and said &he was determined to continue the work. He added: “If for this purpose we shall further intensify and secure economic self- sufficiency for the German people, this will not be done in order to cut ourselves off from the world about us, but in the conviction that a really healthy world can be built only on healthy individual economies and that a solution of the world economic crisis must have its origin in a solu- tion of the political and economic domestic crisis of individual peoples.” Germany as a bulwark of true ‘European -culture and social justice, he said, “will constitute a more de- pendable element of European peace and order than a turbulent state torn by many different opinions and suf- fering economically.” Germany was believed to have wel- comed the strong British note asking again that volunteers be banned from the Spanish war, because it was ad- dressed as well to France. The impression was said to prevail at the foreign office that France was trying to delay imposition of the check on aid to the Spanish combatants, and for that reason the point-blank note from England was well received. New Representation. ‘The new representation, informing Germany that Britain had forbidden her nationals to join either side and asking similar measures from the Reich, was presented to the foreign office late iast night. Informed sources said the French press campaign alleging invasion of Spanish Morocco by troops ‘was regarded as a df te effort to destroy the effeci of the British note. ‘The text of the new demands was relegated to inside pages of newspdpers which devoted their space to the Moroccan crisis. “Paris wants war in Morocco! Paris planning military intervention in favor of Spanish Bolshevists!” read head- + lines in Chancellor Adolf Hitler's ‘Voelkischer Beobachter. ‘The Montagspost headlined: “Secret intention of the French gen- era] staff! Annexation of Morocco planned!” g Disclosure of a new German-Port- uguese agreement signed last June (See EUROPE, Page A-7.) S Seven Fishermen Drown. LONDON, January 11 (#).—Seven fishermen were drowned When the French trawler, Notre Dame de Lourdes, sank after collision with the steamer Theems at the mouth of ‘Thames. (r Train Guns BACKGROUND— When Spanish civil war broke out last July in Morocco rebels advanced quickly to mainland and began long, slow process of en- circling Madrid. One by one all important cities were taken by Fascist foes of the Socialist- Communist regime and the fall of Madrid was looked forward to as the signal of victory for the rebels. The actual storming of Madrid began last October. but the em- battled Loyalists withstood the at- tack better than any one erpected and the city remained untaken. Both sides are in need of morale- sustaining tvictory, so mew, hard fight for capital city looms. | By the Assoclated Press. MADRID, January 11.—Madrid's defense command speeded. a 24-hour evacuation of 2,500 non-combatants to the south today and announced 11 Fascist deserters had related that one insurgent general ordered 15,000 per- sons shot in the first six months of the civil war. ‘The 2,500 women, children and old men were the first da; llotment PONTA VORKERS FELT STRKER U. S. Intervention Expected as G. M. C. Walkout Hits Deadlock. By the Assoclated Press. PONTIAC, Mich, January 11— Non-union employes of the Pontiac Motor Co., a General Motors unit, said they had ejected forcibly five members of the United Automobile Workers, who attempted a “sit-down” strike in the plant today. The Pontiac division of General Motors so far has been unaffected by strikes. Ninety-three hundred men were at work today in the plant. A spokesman for the non-union men said the five men who “sat down” at their places were picked up bodily by other workmen and carried from the plant. Anticipating an attempt to picket the plant, . the non-union workmen appointed & committee to request police protection of City Manager Wil- liam P. Edmonson. Officers said they had received no report of violence at the Pontiac fac- tory. LEAVE FOR WASHINGTON. Martin and Brophy Will Confer With Lewis. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, January 11.—Homer Martin, president of the United Auto- mobile Workers whose strikes -have thrown nearly 100,000 out of work in General Motors automotive plants, an- nounced today he and John Brophy would leave by airplane this afternoon for Washington to confer with John L. Lewis, head of the Committee for Industrial Organization. Brophy is a director of the C. I. O, supporting the automobile union’s dis- pute with General Motors Corp. Martin said the conference with Lewis would be at 8 o'clock tonight. He sald only that they would discuss strike “strategy.” At Lansing, Mich., C. L. McCuen, president of the Oldsmobile division, has announced that 9,000 of the 12,000 employes in the Olds and Fisher Body plants at Lansing would be laid off tomorrow night because of strikes in other plants. Pontiac and Oldsmobile are the only General Motors divisions whose production lines have hitherto been unaffected. At U. A. W. A. headquarters in De- troit, a union spokesman said he had been informed that company guards attempted to stop an unde- termined number of men as they walked out of the Pontiac plant. The spokesman said several of the men were struck with clubs. He said he knew of no altercation between union and non-union workmen. James F. Dewey, Federal labor con- ciliator, remained in Detroit today, but he said no conferences were sched- uled with either party to the labor controversy. Gov. Frank Murphy, who has acted as mediator in a futile (See STRIKE, Page A-3.) College Chemist Dies. PASADENA, Calif, January 11 (P).—Funeral services, to be held Tuesday, were arranged foday for Rev, Victor A. Bast, 53, nationally-known chemist of St. Joseph's College, Moun- tain View, Calif. He died in a hos- pital here yesterday. Case Drop United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett today nolle prossed charges of cruelty .against Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Moore, who were held for the grand jury.under $300 bond in Police Court Thursday for leaving their 8- month-old son, Franklin, jr., locked in an automobile while they attended a moving picture show. Garnett decided to drop the charges after reviewing the case this morn- ing. Attorney Earl Davis, appointed by the court to represent the parents, told Garnett he had proof that Mrs. Moore left the show to feed and care Jor the infant about 20 minutes be- fore police took him from the parked car. Meanwhile, Capt. Rhoda Milliken, chief of the Women's Bureau, said for New Attack Capital to Be Citadel, All Non-Combat- ants Gone—Rebels Shoot 15,000 -in Six Months, Is Report. in the new order to empty Madrid of all but fighters and make it a mili- tary citadel of siege. Their destina- tion was Ciudad Real Province. From the Cordoba high command, in the south, came the deserters’ stories. It was Gen. Gonzalo Queipo De Llano, Fascist southern com- mander, who decreed the 15,000 exe- cutions, they were quoted as saying. They said also that whole battalions of German troops, completely equipped with supplies, ambulances, fast motor | cycles, trucks and motor cars had | joined the insurgents at Seville. British See Damage to Embassy. ‘The British aerial attache, Flight Lieut. H. M. Pearson, came to Madrid from Alicante to study the effects of last Friday’s bombardment of the i British Embassy. He was to be joined by the military attache, Maj. Rich- ards. Spanish armies of siege and defense rushed up ammunition and supplies under heavy cannonades today in preparation for a new and bitter Fas- cist onslaught on Madrid. Both Fascist attackers and So- cialist government defenders fever- (See BATTLE, Page ) CONGRESS 10 GET ROOSEVELT PLANS President Puts Finishing Touches to Details in Message. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt whipped to- gether today the final details of his program to reorganize the Federal Government, with efficiency rather than economy the primary goal. He will let Congress decide, after outlining his proposals in a message tomorrow, wnether any Federal ac- tivities should be abandoned or cur- tailed. Mr. Roosevelt explained his ideas for regrouping the manifold Government and five other Democratic leaders at | the White House late yesterda; The cabinet’s turn for an advance peek at the report of his special in- vestigating committee came today. as Congress began its second week with only routine business at hand. impending, pleas of “save my job, if necessary” were reaching the Capitol from cffice holders. Some officials believed four prin- cipal reorganization suggestions might be made: 1. That a welfare department of cabinet rank be set up to take over the social security and relief systems and possibly educational agencies. 2. That almost all Government con- struction activities, such as roads. public works allotments, encourage- ment of housing, etc, be combined, possibly under another cabinet post. 3. That the Department of the In- terior be made a conservation de- partment, in line with Secretary Ickes’ preference, and be given con- servation duties now exercised by the Agriculture and other departments, along with jurisdiction over the Ci- villian Conservation*Corps. 4. That, should “log-1olling” threat- en achievement of reorganization by Congress, the authority for minor shifts and consolidations be entrusted to the President. Chairman Byrd of the Senate com- mittee studying reorganization planned to insist on economy as an objective as well as efficiency. He would con- (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-2.) \GOVERNOR TAKES DERBY FOR HIS INAUGURAL Walter, A. Huxman Spurns Silk Hat for Ceremonies at To- peka Today. By the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kans, January 11.— Walter A. Huxman, a Democrat, spurned a silk hat in favor of a derby today for ceremonies inaugurating him as Governor, replacing Alf M. Landon, Republican. The successor to the 1936 Republi- can presidential nominee was greeted by a Republican-controlled Legislature. Most of the State executive offices also are held by Republicans. Huxman, fifth Democrat to become Governor of Kansas, tried on a silk hat yesterday, which he will wear in at the President’s inaugural ball. Then he commented: “No high hat for me tomorrow. I'm going to wear a derby.” ped Against Couple Who Left Baby Locked in Car Moore, a P. W. A, worker, who lives with his wife and.child in & one- room home at 1215 Eleventh street, said he and his wife had no one with whom to leave the baby when they decided to see their first mov- ing-picture show in five months. ‘The couple was jailed and released on bond in Police Court the follow- ing day. After stories of the case appeared in the newspapers, several persons volunteered to care for the child from time to time to permit the Moores to get some recreation at night. ‘The baby was sent to Gallinger Hos- pital after police broke in a window agencies on a functional basis to Vice | President Garner; Speaker Bankhead | report. Amid rumors of major consolidations | Washington, D. C., later this month ! ¢ Foenir WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION CLARK PROPOSES NEWINQUIRY INTO FIGCAL RELATIONS Commission Would Include 5 Senators, 5 Representa- tives, 5 Citizens. INCLUDED IN PLAN FOR TERRITORY HERE Sewator Says fie Does Not Believe Reimbursement for Services Would Work. An entirely new investigation of the fiscal relations problem by a com- mission of five Senators, five Repre- sentatives and five residents of the today by Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri, as part of his plan to set up a territorial form of government for Washington. ‘While the main purpose of Clark's resolution is to have an organic act drafted for a territory, it also directs the commission to recommend what would be a fair and equitable amount to be paid by the United States toward the expenses of the Capital City. It was referred to the Territories Com- mittee, of which Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland, is chairman. Commenting on the fact that his resolution covers the question of fiscal equity, Senator Clark said: | “That is the only reason for having | the commission appointed. The fact that the United States owns so much property here and that it is not proper to allow a creature of Congress, such as a territorial governing body, to levy a tax on Federal property makes it necessary- to determine what would be a fair payment in lieu of such taxes.” * Reimbursements ““Non-practicable.” ‘The Missourian said he has not had time to read the details of the recent fiscal relations report transmitted as part of next year's budget, but he in- dicated he did not believe it would prove practicable to try to settle the question by having each Federal agency here.reimburse the District for | services rendered. This was one fea- ture of the formula proposed in the Senator Clark said he had been con- ‘aldgrm’ the territorial form of gov- ernment for the District for & long time, and that he decided to introduce the resolution following the long dead- { lock over the District appropriation | act at the last session. Meanwhile, Senator Capper of Kansas, ranking Republican on the Senate District Committee, said today that Congress should allow the people of the District to conduct a ref- erendum on the question before con- verting the District into a territory. Senator Clark’s resolution read in part as follows: “Resolved by the Senate and 'House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to establish a terri- torial form of civil government in the District of Columbia, and that after the enactment of an organic act for that purpose the District of Columbia shall be known as the Territory of Co- | lumbia. “Section 2 (A). There is hereby established a commission, to be known (See CLARK, Page A-2.) — STORE ROBBER SLAIN Unidentified Gunman Shot While Fleeing in New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, January 11 (#)— An unidentified gunman was shot to death in flight today after robbing the downtown drug store of Raoul Degruy | of $51. | Patrolman Vincent Ventura reported | Degruy said he seized a pistol when | the robber departed through the front | door, stepped through a side window, met him at the corner and shot him three times when he ignored an order to halt. i Ventura said the man had robbed Eugere Smith, 38, of $20 at a filling station a mile away in an earlier morning hold-up. Summary of Amusements B-16 Lost & Found A-3 Obituary -.-A-10 NATIONAL. Supréeme Court upholds retroactive tax on silver transactions. Page A-1 Landis is reported due to head Harvard Law School. Page A-2 Farm groups deinand Senate vote on trade agreements. Page A-7 1937 national income estimated at $67,000,000,000. Page A-7 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. President asks $790,000,000 deficiency appropriation. Page U. 8. attorney drops charges parents of Moore baby. o Slar WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1937—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. *#*%x* GIVE IT A PUSH IN THE RIGHT District was proposed in the Senate |. BODY OF WOMAN 10 BE EXHUMED Father Asks Action After Young Wife of Virginian, 72, Dies. B3 a Btaft Correspondent of The Star. LURAY, Va, January 11.—The body of Mrs. Mamie Yager, 26-year-old wife of John S. Yager, 72, Shenandoah farmer, will be exhumed this after- noon to determine the cause of her death Friday. ‘The exhumation order was issued by Commonwealth Attorney Lynn Walton on complaint of the young wife's father, Ernest Cubbage. Cubbage told Walton he had no definite suspicion, but believes it “strange” that he was not notified of her death, Friday, nor of the burial which took place Satur- day morning on the Yager farm about 20 miles south of here, near Shenan- doah, The Yagers had been married for about 10 years. Mrs. Yager was the mother of two young children. She was Yager's third wife. ‘Walton said the coroner, Dr. Virgil Hammer, had not been notified of Mrs. Yager's death, as required by Iaw when no physician is in attend- ance. Dr. Hammer had questioned the undertaker, W. O. Brill of Elkton, Va, who, with his wife and a friend, prepared the body for burial. 2 According to Dr. Hammer, Brill said he found no marks or any evi- dence of external hurts on the body. Buck Painter, constable, of Stan- ley. said that the body was buried, not in the family burial plot, but in a cornfield nearby. Dr. B. C. Schuler of Shenandoah told Walton he was the Yager's fam- ily physician and had attended Mrs. Yager in October for a skin ailment, but had not been advised her fatal illness. In issuing the death certifi- cate he stated the causes were “un- known.” ‘Walton said that the body may be sent to the University of Virginia Medical School at Charlottesville for an autopsy. He said he would not decide definitely, however, until after the body had been exhumed. BOOK KEPT 40 YEARS Borrowed Volume Finally Re- turned to Syracuse Library. SYRACUSE, N. Y, January 11 (#).—A book borrowed from the Syra- cuse Library May 10, 1897—and 40 years ‘“overdue”—came back to the library with a group of gift books. Attracted by the title, Dr. Paul M. Paine, librarian, thumbed through its pages, found an identification mark, looked at the records and wondered if he ought to fine somebody for keeping a book 14,600 days overtime. EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. This and That. Page Answers to Questions. Page Washington Observations. Page ‘The Political Mill, Page David Lawrence. Page Page Page Page Page A-9 Page A-13 Page A-14 Page A-14' Page A-1§ Page A-15 Page A-15 ‘Wilson & Co. net drops. Steel activity eases. SPORTS. Minor league head sees increased pros- perity this year. Page B-10 Pro- | "G, basketers play Duquesne tonight; Department. Man drops dead at start of transfusion to son. Page A-1 Warning issued against theory of work hour slashing. Page A-2 $10,000,000 private housing project here announced. Page B-1 Resistance to big military appropria. tion being organized. Page B-1 ‘Ten ambulance stations for insugural are announced. Page B-1 Sisters, aged 8 and 9, killed in truck accident. 2 Page B-1 Libel suit for $10,000 filed in Cat Panciers’ dispute. Page B-1 Far East trip, G. W. meets Elon. Page B-10 1| District high school quints in full swing tomorrow. Page B-10 Nazi boycott here may send Max- Braddock bout to Germany. Page B-10 Golf rules based on plain sense, analysis shows. Page B-11 Fred Ramsdell, novice, wins Wiffy Cox skeet trophy. Page B-11 MISCELLANY. City News in Brief. Bedtime Story. Winning Contract. Page A-12 Page DIRECTION People Honest Says Man Whose Pocket Leaked Only $140 Missing of $991 Lost in Street by Plese. By the Associated Press. JOLIET, Ill, January 11.—Matthew Plese, who last week lost $991 through a hole in his trousers pocket, retained his faith in the inrate goodness of mankind today, though $140 had not been returned. His faith, he affirmed, was just as strong as it was last week when total strangers picked up $851 about the city streets and gave it to him. “I know that if any one found the other $140 he would return it to me,” Plese said. “I guess the wind blew it into the river, or down a sewer—or maybe a dog got it. Anyhow, I'm glad so many good people helped me out.” SAILORS PICKET COMMERCE UNIT Police Prepare for Week of Demonstrations—Peak Friday. Six striking seamen began picket- ing the Commerce Department today in protest against labor provisions of the Copeland act as Metropolitan and Capitol police prepared for a week of demonstrations expected to reach a peak Friday. Police headquarters, meanwhile, was informed that 200 striking seamen moved from Philadelphia to Baltimore on freight trains yesterday, presum- ably with the intention of coming on to Washington. Only about 25 dem- onstrators have arrived so far, how- ever, according to the Public Relations Bureau of the Police Department. While taking precautionary meas- ures, Washington authorities are con- vinced that labor leaders exaggerate the number of men supposed to be organizing in various cities. for pro- test ‘'marches on Washington. The seamen will be joined later in the | week, it was said, by W. P. A. em~ ployes being organized in New York City by the Workers’ Alliance. They ation. Establish Picket Beats. The sailors at the Commerce De- partment established picket beats on the Fourteenth and Fifteenth street sides of the building under direction of Pat Whalen, chairman of the joint strike committee of the Rank and File International Seaman’s Union of Baltimore. The pickets carried pla- cards. The seamen claim the Copeland act, which goes into effect January 20, obliges sailors to carry continuous discharge record books which would enable employers to blacklist men who have complained of conditions at sea or participated in moves to better their wages, hours or living conditions. There was no demonstration as the men began marching in. pairs. They said they expect to be joined some- time during the day by about 15 other seaman from Norfolk, Va. The pickets themselves said they do not know how long the demonstration is to continue, but said they thought it seamen protest to President Roosevelt against the anti-labor act, H. R. 8597.” Another said, “Protest to your Con- gressman and Senator agsinst anti- labor clauses in the Copeland bill.” A third voiced a protest against the (See PICKETS, Page A-2.). The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. will demand a larger relief appropri- | NEW DEAL WINS SILVER TAX CASE - Supreme Court Upholds Re- troactive Levy—D. C. Jury Rehearing Denied. BY JOHN H. CLINE. ‘The New Deal won another victory in the Supreme Court today when that tribunal delivered a decision upholding the validity of the retroactive tax on silver transactions in the early part of 1934. Under the provisions of this statute, which had been declared unconstitu- tional in the Court of Claims, the Gov- ernment had collected approximately $400,000. The Supreme Court’s opin- ion, delivered by Associate Justice Van Devanter, was unanimous. In other important actions, the court: Noted probable jurisdiction in the appeal by the Highland Farms Dairy and Luther W. High, local milk dealer, from a lower court decision uphoiding the validity of the Virginia milk con- trol act. Ordered the disbarment in the Su- preme Court of Attormney Jesse C. Duke, who appeared for former Rep- resentative John H. Hoeppel of Cali- fornia. The Representative was charged, with his son, of conspiring to | sell & West Point appointment. Rehearing Request Denied. Refused a request for a rehearing of its recent decision declaring Gov- ernment employes eligible for service on criminal juries in the District. Declined to review the conviction in New York of Mae Scheible on white slave charges. She had contended agents searched her apartment and seized evidence in violation of her constitutional rights. The justices withheld their opinion on the constitutionality of the State of Washington’s law prescribing mini- mum wages for women and a Mass- achusetts case brought to determine whether the 1933 resolution prohibit- ing the payments of obligations in gald applies to bullion as well as coin. Like- wise, the court did not announce whether it will reconsider its ruling upholding the constitutionality of New York's unemployment insurance law. The attack on ‘the silver profits tax was filed by Percy K. Hudson, a New York broker, who contended the retro- active feature of the act was uncon- stitutional under the fifth amendment since it was “unreasonable and arbi- trary.” Tax Held “Special.” Justice Van Devanter said the tax, which placed a levy of 50 per cent on profits realized from transactions in silver prior to the enactment of the statute, was in the nature of a special income tax and therefore valid. “On May 22, 1934, the opinion said, “the President sent Congress a mes- sage recommending legislation for in- creasing the amount of silver in our monetary stocks and further recom- mending the imposition of a tax of at least 50 per cent on profits accruing from private dealing in silver. The bill which continued the silver pur- chase act was introduced May 23 in response to this message. In these cir- cumstances we think the period of (See COURT, Page A-2.) —_—— GUNMEN RAID STADIUM 40 Concession Employes Robbed of $3,500 in Chicago. CHICAGO, January 11 (P).—Four gunmen invaded the basement of the Chicago Stadium in a midnight raid, . | cowed 30 man and 10 woman conces- sion employes with shotguns and pis- tols and robbed the Illinois Sports Service of about $3,500. The money was receipts from stands and hawkers operating at the Chi. cago-Toronto Sunday game night and the Vines-Perry tennis match Ssturday night. Father Drops Dead at Start Of Transfusion Tests for Son BY the Associated Press. » PORTSMOUTH, Va., January 11.— Clarence J. Belch, 34, of Waterview, Norfolk County, dropped dead yester- day at a local hospital at the start of a blood test preparatory to a trans- fusion to his only son, C. J. Belch, jr.. who les ecritically ill from complica- tions from a recent abdominal opera- Page A-11 | tion. Page B-8 Page B-3 Dr. Edward T. Glover, city coroner, today - pronounced the desth due to shock. Belch was an executive rate clerk in the general offices of the Seaboard Air Line Raflway in Norfolk. He was a native of Norfolk and the son of William David and Mrs. Lola Wil- - loughby Belch. Physicians worked over Belch with artificial respiration for two hours be- fore abandoning hope of reviving him. Funeral services will be conducted here tomorrow afternoon. Interment will be lo Portsmouth. A ” SATURPAY'S 134,637 (Bome returns not yet received.) UP) Means Associated Press. SUNDAY'S Cireulation, 148,188 TWO CENTS. DEFICIENCY SUM OF §750.000000 FORWORK ASKED President Seeks Employment for 2,580,000 Persons During the Winter. LONGER HOURS WEEK DECLARED BIG FACTOR Industry Is Urged to Step Up Workers on Ratio With Production. By the Assoctated Press. o President Roosevelt asked Congress today for a deficiency appropriation of $790,000,000 to provide work dur- ing the Winter months for at least 2,580,000 persons, a net reduction of over 800,000 since last March. In so doing, he mentioned as a fact “worth noting,” that “the tendency toward a longer work week has had an extremely important effect on re- employment.” His request was in a letter to Speak- er Bankhead read to the House by a clerk. The President reiterated the hope expressed in his budget message that employers take as many workers as possible off relief by giving them Jobs in private industry. “Great assistance can be given to the Government,” the letter said, “if all private employers in every part of the country will seek, in so far as they reasonably can, to obtain addi- tional workers from the relief rolls, In this connection, it is worth noting that by far the larger part of those on the relief rolls fall into the cate- gory of unskilled workers.” Expresses Position. In noting a “tendency toward a longer work week” among some em- ployers he asserted: “Every action of an employer along these lines obviously tends toward the stepping up of production’without an equivalent stepping up of employment. “It is not unfair to say that these employers who are working their em- ployes unreasonably long hours are failing to co-operate with the Govern= ment and their fellow citizens in pute ting people back to work.” Although further reductions in relief rolls were predicted in the Spring and Summer with seasonal increases in private employment, the letter pointed out that as a result of the natural in- crease in population, 400,000 new workers are seeking work each year. Accounting Submitted. The President also sent to Congress an accounting of $6,100,000,000 ap- propriated for recovery and relief since 1935. As the two reports reached Cone gress, Senator Pope, heading a come mittee of Western Cengressmen seeke ing a larger appropriation, called a meeting for tomorrow to plan strategy of their campaign. He said the first move probably would be a request for a presidential order relaxing Works Progress Ad- (See DEFICIENCY, Page A-2) 'MUTINY THREATENS SHENSI PROVINCE Foreign refugees, Flying to Shang- hai, Report Thousands of Troops Involved. By the Associated Press. SHANGHALI, January 11.—The first foreign refugees from Sianfu, capi- tal of Shensi Province, reported “thou- sands of troops are on the verge of open mutiny,” as they arrived today by airplane. The group, numbering half & dozen German missionaries and commer- cial representatives, said Shensi prov- incials and Marshal Chang Hsueh- liang’s former Manchurian army had refused to recognize the autharity of the central government since their revolt last Decmber 12. They were reluctant to discuss the situation because of possible repercus- sions to other foreigners, many of whom are Americans. Foreigners and Chinese alike, they said, were apprehensively awaiting the outcome of the revolutionary feeling they said was sweeping the province. Forces of the Nanking government, they asserted, were nearby, awaiting orders. The group of Germans said they believed preparations were being made to evacuate British subjects, but said they thought American representatives had not yet arrived in the city. (Reports from Peiping last week reported American Embassy officials flying to Sianfu to arrange the evacu- ation of Americans.) e BRIDAL PLANE TQ STOP HERE ON WAY SOUTH Joseph S. McLennan, Jr., Son of Nova Scotia Senator, and Wife Mexico Bound. By the Associated Press. BEVERLY, Mass, January 11— John S. McLennan, jr., son of a Syd- ney, Nova Scotia, Senator and pub- lisher, and his bride, the former Saliy ‘White Houghton, took off today on & pleasure flight to Mexico. ‘The only occupants of a three-place cabin plane, the couple planned to stop at Washington, D. C., Memphis and Los Angeles en route. McLennan is a composer of music. His bride is the daughter of E. Lau- rence White, New York banker, who has an estate at Beverly Farms. They were married in- New York shortly before Christmas. Mrs. McLennan was divorced from Samue! Houghton of Boston. Prior to ber first marriage she and Howyghton sat in several divorce cases to learn, they said, why marriage sometimes i