Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy with light snow or rain this afternoon and possibly early tonight; tomorrow, partly cloudy; minimum tonight about 30 degrees. Temperatures—Highest, 49, at 4:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 3), at 10:30 a.m. today. Full report on page B-5. Closing New York Markets, Page 18 85th YEAR. 4 No. 33,902. UAW.ASKPARLEY WITH CHRYSLER: SHIPYARI] SIR'KERS 7,000 School Children Among Those to Receive All Deposits Back if Project Is Approved. BY HAROLD B. ROGERS. Plans to pay off 23,000 depositors of the closed Mount Vernon Savings Bank in full within a few months, and to pay the other 2,000 depositors in full later on, were made public today by the Mount Vernon Liquidating “Trust. The new proposal was mailed to about 2,000 depositors, from whom ap- EVIGTED BY POLIGE Auto Magnate Refers Union to Aides in Detroit for An- swer—~G. M. C. Agrees$ on Seniority Rights. SUBMARINE BUILDING FIRM IS PICKETED Officers Clear Yards at Grotom, Conn.—All in “Sit-Down” Are | Dismissed by Company—Doug- las Plane Plant at Santa Monaca, Calif., Occupied. BACKGROUND— Sit-down strikes, prevalent in France last year, were introduced in the United States in January, when method was used by Committee for Industrial ~Organization against General Motors Corp. After about siz weeks, when more than 150,000 workers were made idle, temporary peace was arranged, and now ne- gotiations looking to permanent set- tlement are in progress. Union gains are disputed as re- sult of strike, but labor leaders have claimed important concessions, if not open victory, and have busied them- selves extending sit-downs to other industries in last few weeks. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, February 24 —The United Automobile Workers of America | requested a national collective bar- gamning conference with Chrysler Corp. executives today as union repre=- sentatives reached agreement Wwith General Motors negotiators on sen- fority rights. Walter P. Chrysler, president of the Chrysler Corp., at New York advised the union leaders that Lester L. Col- bert and Herman L. Weckler, Chrys- ler executives here, “will speak for | the corporation.” The union in its request claimed to represent “a ma- Jority of your employes.” Conferees seeking to settle issues remaining from the recent widespread General Motors strikes withheld de- | tails of the agreement on seniority | rights except to say it will apply to | departments instead of plants, except | under special conditions. Discuss “Speed-Up” System. They turned this afternoon to & discussion of wages and “speeding up” of production. The union has de- manded abolition of piece-work and group bonus systems of pay, wages *commensurate With an American standard of living,” and agreement on production speed between management and a union shop committee. Richard T. Frankensteen, organi- eational director of the U. A. W. A, sent the following telegram to Chrysler: “Representing a majority of your smployes who are members of the United Automobile =~ Workers of America, we hereby request a national eonference with you or your appointed representatives at the earliest possible date for the purpose of working out a eollective bargaining agreement. suggest as a convenient time to us the first part of next week and a place mutually agreed upon.” Big Companies Objective. When the U. A. W. A. started its[ strikes against General Motors after the corporation refused its demand for a national collective bargaining con- ference it announced its objective as the signing of bargaining agrezments with every producer in the automotive industry, from the “big three”—Gen- eral Motors, Chrysler and Ford—down to the independent companies. Frankensteen recently announced that elections in employe representa- tion groups at Chrysler plants had given the union control of a majority of what he termed “company unions.” Homer Martin, U. A. W. A. president, has said the union’s relation with Chrysler have been “satisfactory.” e explained a few days ago that-the (See STRIKES, Page A-5.) AUSTRIA DEBATES RETURN OF OTTO Claimant to Hapsburg Throne Gazes Longingly Toward Native Land. By the Assoclatea Press. INNSBRUCK, Austria, February 24.—The Archduke Otto, young claim- ant to the Hapsburg throne of Austria, was reported to have stood on the Swiss border today and looked long- ingly toward his native land. Otto accompanied his sister, the Archduchess Adelaide, to the frontier city of Buchs, where they separated. She left for the Tyrol, while Otto planned to motor to Liechtenstein by way of Davos, VIENNA, February 24 (#).—Restora- tion of the Hapsburgs to the non- existent Austrian throne, admitted by officials to be a pressing question, en- gaged the attention of the nation to- day as a result of two days of tense negotiations between Germany and Austria. A communique issued after the de- parture last night of Baron Konstantin von Neurath, German foreign min- ister, did not mention the restoration, but many close observers believed it played an important part in his con- versations with Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg. Several persons were injured in street rioting between Nazis and mem- bers of the government party, the Fatherland Front, as crowds surged through police lines near the deco- rated station where ¥Von Neurath en- trained for Berlin. Thirty persons were reported ar- rested. B Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Fpening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1937—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES.’ Planto Pay 23,000 Depositors Of Mt. Vernon Savingsin Full, Would Form Mortgage Body proval is expected. had money in school savings accounts will be paid in full. These 7,000 chil- dren are among the 23,000 depositors having less than $100 in the bank when it closed who would receive all their deposits. All having more than $100 in the bank when it closed would receive payments later on. The plan was made possible by the International Association of Machin- ists, the largest stockholder in the Mount Vernon Savings Bank. This big union turned over to the liquidating The new plan, if adopted, would mean that more than 7,000 school children from all parts of the city whou, trust assets of a “present realizabie market value of $150,000.” out of the proceeds of which the payments can be made. The plan calls for formation of & new organization to be known as the Mount Vernon Mortgage Corp. The new corporation will take over the assets of the Mount Vernon Liquidating Trust, estimated at $1,- 200,000, and will receive the ad- ditional assets of a market value (See BANK, Page A BRITISH WARSHIP OFFICERS INJURED BY SPANISH SHELL Battleship Believed Struck by Missile of Leftist Anti- Aircraft Gun. BACKGROUND— Spanish civil war has brought Fascist insurgents near Madrid on north, west and south, but road eastward to Mediterranean port of Valencia, where the Popular Front government has located itself after flight from the capital, has re- mained open except for attacks by insurgent artillery from mearby hills, Gen. Francisco Franco, rebel commander, has turned his atten- tion southward from Madrid, after repeated assaults upon capital have proved unavailing. By the Assoclatea Press. LONDON, February 24—The ad- miralty announced today that five members of the crew of the British battleship Royal Oak, including sever- al ranking officers, had been injured when a shell burst on the quarterdeck ! during the Spanish insurgent air bombardment of Valencia yesterday. The shell apparently came from a Spanish government anti-aircraft gun which was firing on the attacking planes. The planes dropped incen- diary bombs on the port section Jf Valencia, with damage described in Spanish advices as “slight.” i None Incapacitated. | Capt. T. B. Drew, three other officers and one seaman aboard the Royal Oak were slightly hurt by shell splint- ers. None, it was announced, was “incapacitated.” Later the battleship put out to sea. It was the second such incident in the last two weeks. On February 15 it was announced the British de- stroyers Havoc and Cypsy had fired € on a plane, believed to have been an insurgent craft, which tried to bomb them near Cape Tenez, off the Alegrian | coast. No Protest Reported Planned. Authorized sources said the British government contemplated no protest, since the incident, technically speak- ing, was “‘more or less an act of God.” They explained the Royal Oak was lying just outside Valencia Harbor at | the time of the bombardment and that | there was, obviously, no Spanish in- tention to damage it. HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT FOR HILL. | Loyalists Seek to Protect Madrid- Valencia Road. MADRID, Feoruary 24 (#).—Govern- ment militiamen and an insurgent de- tachment struggled hand-to-hand to- day for possession of strategic Pin- zarron Hill commanding a vast area of the Jarama River front. ‘The government forces, after a 20- hour battle for possession of the (See SPAIN, Page A-4.) Fight in New Diet Building Goes 3 Rounds UppercutandStraight Right to Teeth Fol- low Objection. BY the Associated Press. TOKIO, February 2¢.—Japan's cost- ly new Diet Building received its bap- tism by blood today when two mem- bers of the House of Representatives tried to settle political differences with their fists. The fight started at a committee meeting on the war-time protection law when Independent Jiichiro Mat- sumoto, a huge fellow, challenged the committee’s right to elect a chairman when no quorum was present. Norio Nanjo, a member of the Sei- yukai, one of the two major political parties, insisted the election proceed. “You shut up!” Matsumcto ex- claimed, jumping to his feet. “You beleng to a corrupt political party.” The diminutive Nanjo retorted by calling his opponent a political green- horn and & fool. Matsumoto’s answer was an upper- cut, causing Nanjo to bite his tongue, but he retaliated with a straight right to the jaw, breaking two of Matsu- moto’s teeth. Other committeemen separated the combatants and rushed them to the Diet surgery, where, while treated, they started quarreling Eats Nails, Glass As Parlor Trick, Goes to Hospital Victim Recalls Sadly How Audience En- couraged Him. By the Associated Press.” PROVIDENCE, R. I, February 24.— Anthony Lewis, 52, was taken to a hospital here early today with the strangest case of indigestion on the records of the institution—caused by a diet of nails (two sizes), screws and glass. “I went to a party in East Provi- dence,” Lewis explained to Dr. Robert Murphy and Police Sergt. William Cummings, “and some of the people TOWNSEND DENIES HOUSE SUBPOENA CONTEMPT CHARGE Winning Directed Verdict on Second Count, He * Battles First. PLANNING OF WALKOUT SCOUTED IN TESTIMONY Opposing Counsel Prepare Final Arguments as Case Nears Jury. BY JOHN H. CLINE. Dr. Francis E. Townsend, elderly advocate of old-age pensions, today concluded nis defense of charges that he is in contempt of the House with & crisply-worded denial of the Gov- ernment’s contention that he failed to comply with a subpoena served on him by the legislative body. Earlier in the day, Justice Peyton Gordon, presiding at the District Court trial of the physician, granted him a directed verdict of not guilty on the second count of the indict- ment, which charges he refused to testify before a House committee in- vestigating his pension plan last May. The defense closed its case after Dr. Townsend left the witness stand, and opposing counsel began preparation of their final arguments. It is expected the case will go to the jury this after- noon. Dr. Townsend, somberly attired in & brown suit with the tie to match, | was on the witness stand less than | 10 minutes. At no time raising his voice or manifesting of more casual | interest in the proceedings, he denied | he had failed to comply with the sub- poena served on him last April. The physician also denied he had “agreed to stage a walkout on the committee at the psychological mo- ment,” as testifled yesterday, He said he attended a meeting with there started doin~ tricks. “So I took three 6-inch nails and swallowed ther. They were startled. “I took a handful of two-penny nails and swallowed them. They were astounded. “Spurred on by their applause, I picked up four or five medium-sized screws and swallowed them ersily. The applause was deafening. “I finished by downing four slivers of glass without even chewing it.” ‘The hospital immediately prepared the X-ray. the fluroscope and bron- | choscope for emergency work. ST 1S DROPPED BY PECGY GARCIA {$500,000 Action Against Rubinoff Ended on At- torney’s Motion. BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 24.—Peggy Garcia's $500,000 breach of promise suit against Dave Rubinoff ended ab- ruptly in Supreme Court today when Justice Salvatore A. Cettillo granted a motion to discontinue made by her counsel, Bernard Sandler. Sandler’s decision to drop the action against the radio violinist occurred while Peggy was on the stand relating the details of her marriage in 1925 to Taylor Vance Guinn. Justice Cot- tillo broke in and said: “There is no desire on my part to continue this trial and drag in dirt | and have the names of innocent per- sons dragged into it. Why- doesn’t counsel make a motion to discon- tinue?” In discontinuing the case, Justice Cotillo said that the minutes of the testimony would be sent to the office | of District Attorney William C. Dodge | for consideration. Marriage Laws Considered. Sandler’s action followed a digest by Justice Cotillo concerning marriage laws in the State of Virginia, where Peggy admitted that she wed Guinn in the City of Salem. The digest reads: “A marriage contracted by a female in the State of Virginia at the age of 12 years without the consent of her parents, even though there has been no co-habitation and even though after the marriage ceremony the (See SUIT, Page A-4.) MIDSHIPMAN CASE DECLARED CLOSED Swanson Satisfied There Was No “Railroading” of Colored Student. Secretary Swanson today told news- paper men that as far as he is con- cerned, the case of the 135 Midship- men dropped from the Naval Acad- emy is closed. James Lee Johnson, jr., 1737 8 street, only colored Midship- man, was included in the number. “I am satisfied from the evidence presented me by the chief of the Bureau of Navigation (Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews) that there was no railroading of the colored Midship- man,” Swanson asserted. “Nothing can be done now about it,” the cabinet officer said, explain- ing that the 135 midshipmen are definitely out. They were dismissed for deficiencies in studies or health. Swanson pointed out that, at his request, the Academic Board at the Naval Academy, which has the final say on scholastic standing of midship- men, re-examined the papers. The board confirmed its original opinion, Swanson said, and under the law, that is the last appeal. President Roosevelt has been fur- nished with a copy of the Academic Board's report, Secretary Swanson de- his associates in Baltimore prior to | the hearing when the question of his | appaerance before the committee was discussed. | “I insisted upon appearing before | the committee,” he testified. “I felt | it was an excellent opportunity to get | | our plan before Congress.” Admits Walking Out. On cross-examination, he gonceded he had walked out of the committee hearing, telling the legislators in sub- stance: “In view of the apparently unfriendly attitude of this committee toward me and my associates, I deem it my duty to leave and do not in- tend to return except under arrest.” The first defense witness called was Representative Tolan of California, a member of the committee appointed to probe Dr. Townsend's rension plan. After the committee hearing, Tolan flled a minority report dissenting from the views of the majority of the committee. Hanson sought to in- troduce this report at the trial, as- serting it would “show any witness was justified in refusing to remain before the committee and answer questions, since they were not per- tinent to the inquiry.” Garnett objected to the admis- sibility of the report and was sustained by Justice Gordon. Tolan said Dr. Townsend had told him he wanted to testify before the committee, but another Government objection was sustained when Hanson asked the witness to describe Dr. Townsend's “attitude.” Arguing in support of the suffi- ciency of the Government's evidence, Garnett said: “Can it be that Congress is power- less to punish a witness who sticks his (See TOWNSEND, Page A-3.) RN S MRS. GARNER STRICKEN, REPORTED “VERY SICK” Suffered Severe Attack of Indi- gestion Last Night, Vice President Says. BY the Associated Press. Vice President Garner said today that Mrs. Garner had suffered a “very severe attack” of indigestion last night and was still “very sick” today, but that he believed her condition was not serious. “The nurse and doctors think she is going to be all right,” Garner said. Summary of -A-10 Financial ___A-17 Lost & Found A-3 Obituary _._A-12 FOREIGN. British warship officers injured by Spanish shell. Page A-1 NATIONAL. Peggy Garcia discontinues $500,000 suit against Rubinoff. Page A-1 Tydings added to ranks of courts plan opponents. Page A-1 U. A. W. ask parley with Chrysler on bargain Sports. Woman's Pg-B-11 ing. Page A-1 Townsend denies he planned walkout on committee. Page A-1 Protest spurred on shipment of nitrate to Spain. Page A-6 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. 2,600 delinquent taxpayers face court action. Page A-1 Plans to pay off Mount Vernon deposi- tors are announced. Page A-1 Nice denies charges of Maj. Garey at Senate probe. Page A-2 Hunter tells jury he does not remem- ber slaying wife. Page A-2 Three new House appropriations sub- committee heads possible. Page A-3 Selassie’s financial adviser dies in D. C. hospital. Page A-12 ‘Woman bandit weeps during hold-up, permits capture. B-1 Mrs. Norton cancels today’s District Committee meeting. Page B-5 Junior bar to campaign for judiciary bill discussion. Page B-8 Benate committee approves Capitol extension plan. Page B-1 b ZOUNDS ! SHADE OF SVENGALI! The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 143,242 (Bome returns not yet tesived.) *%k%K (P) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. 4 COURTPLANFDES CLAM STRENGT 10 DEFEAT BIL Tydings Joins Ranks of Sen- ators Opposed to Roose- velt Program. {HOPE TO STOP MEASURE IN JUDICIARY COMMITTEE Administration Forces Give Im- mediate Backing to Voluntary Retirement of Justices. By the Assocated Press. Senate opponents of President Roosevelt's court program said today, after Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland joined their ranks, that “enough votes to defeat the bill are in sight." They did not claim sufficient votes already were committed, but insisted thev had enough to “stop” the bill by holding it up in the Judiciary Come mittee or preventing a final Senate vote. Administration forces contended they had enough votes to pass the bill, but their immediate attention HS[}A'_ Pi_AN STUDY!Brothers Minsky, at Hearing, ' Chorus Strip-Tease Defense BEGINS NEXT WEEK {Collins Telegraphs Jacobé to Come to Explain Three- Point Formula. BY JAMES E. CHINN. The House Subcommittee on Ap- propriations in charge of the 1938 District supply bill will begin its study of the Jacobs fiscal relations plan next week, Chairman Collins an- nounced today. Collins telegraphed Jacobs in Chi- cago he expected him in Washing- ton “at his convenience” some time | | next week to explain the three-point formula he recommended as a new basis of fiscal relationship between the Federal and District Govern- ments. Collins also has arranged to call before the subcommittee George Lord, Detroit tax expert, who was employed by the 8pecial Mapes Committee of the House when it made a similar fiscal relations study about five years ago. Hearings Adjourned Last Week. Collins disclosed plans for beginning | the fiscal relations inquiry shortly after his subcommittee resumed hear- | PLANTO CONGRESS ings on the 1938 district appropria- tions bill. The hearings were ad- journed last week to permit Collins to return to his home in Mississippi |on an emergency mission. Eseimates of the Public Library and the Highway Department were con- sidered at the morning session of the subcommittee. The witnesses in- cluded Dr. George F. Bowerman, li- brarian of the Public Library, and Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director of highways. Collins declined to reveal the dis- cussion, in keeping with the sub- | commiggee's' strict poligy qg _secrecy, (See FISCAL, Page A-3.) —_— T. W. A. ORDERS 6 SHIPS FROM BOEING AIRCRAFT Construction to Begin Immedi- ately on 32-Passenger Planes. Delivery Next Year. | BY the Assoctated Press. SEATTLE, February 24—Boeing Aircraft Co. will begin construction | immediately on an order from Trans- continental & Western Air, Inc., for six 32-passenger transport planes. Harold Mansfield, company spokes- | man, said first of the planes, to be used between Los Angeles and New York, would be ready for delivery garly next year. The new transport ships, Mansfield said, would be capable of flying at 20,000 feet, 250 miles an hour. ur motors will develop 4,820 horsepower. The ships will carry a crew of four. Today’s Star .| Citizens angry at budget official for relief stand. Page B-1 Citizens’ committee may seek freedom from Budget Bureau. Page B-1 Conference today may map study of Jacobs fiscal report. Page B-1 Edward J. McGee found guilty of criminal assault. Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 This and That. Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Page A-10 Washington Observations. Page A-10 David Lawrence, Page A-11 Paul Mallon. Page A-11 Constantine Brown. Page A-11 Headline Folk. Page A-11 Dorothy Thompson. Page A-11 MISCELLANY. ‘Washington Wayside. Vital Statistics. City News in Brief. Betsy Caswell. Bedtime ggl'! ‘Winning Contract. Nature's Children. Men’s Fashions. Crossword Puzzle, Letter-Out. Traffic Convictions. ‘Young Washington. SPORTS. Matulewicz, Duke boxer, gains 5 wins in less than 3 minutes. Page A-14 Louis is handicapped by lack of dash, Dempsey declares. Page A-14 Pole vaulting ability due to flexibility, Ohe of Japan says. Page A-15 Lawson Little is generous with tips to golf duffers. Page A-16 Page A-2 Page B-4 Page B-8 Page B-11 Page B-11 Page B-12 Page B-12 Page B-12 Page B-12 Page B-13 Page B-14 Page B-16 Pape B-18 Champion Before House “Strictly Art” in American Commiittee Indorsing Dickstein Bill. ‘The Minskys played the Capitol to- day as champions of the “strictly American art” of strip-teasing. Appearing 1 duet before the House Immigation Committee, Herbert Kay and Morton Minsky, brothers and | kings of burlesque, threw their un- qualified support behind the Dickstein bill for “reciprocal trade agreemants” in “flesh on the stage.” Burlesque, they explained, has been the savior of vaudeville artists forced “on the street” by increased popu- | larity of movies and radio, but must be kept pure for American artists alone. The pending bill would require Labor Department permits for ad- | mittance of foreign artists, with such permission dependent upon reciprocal | admission of American artists to other | | countries. “Burlesque, as you probably know, consists of comedy and strip tease artists,” Minsky explained. “These artists must be taught to do their act in rhythm. They are taught by ex- perts to unclothe. “We have plenty of Americans will- ing to act in our theaters,” the im- presario continued. “We have no need for foreign actors and actresses. “Stripping is definitely an American act,” Minsky resumed as the commit- tee tittered and the audience guf- fawed. “In other words” Dickstein inter- (See MINSKY, Page ) LOW-RENT HOUSING Wagner - Steagall Measure Offers Four-Year Billion- Dollar Project. BY the Associated Press, Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York, and Representative Stea- gall, Democrat, of Alabama, submitted to Congress today a $1,000,000,000 four-year low rent housing and slum clearance program, claiming indorse- | ment of many “sectors of the Federal Government.” It embodies “in improved form,” they added, the major provisions of the housing bill which passed the Sen- ate last year but failed in the House. The measure provides for Federal loans and grants to assist local au- thorities in developing low-rent hous- ing and slum clearance projects for families of small incomes. Proposes $1,000,000,000 Bond Issue. It proposes a $1,000,000,000 bond issue and a Federal contribution of $50.000,000 during the four years. Estimating $500,000,000 of non- Federal loans would be available, the authors said this would provide for $75,000 family dwelling units at $4,000 each. Establishment of a new United States Housing Authority, they said, “will enable the President to gather under one roof the scattered organiza- tions now empowered to engage in housing.” ‘The Reconstruction Finance Corpo- ration and the Federal Housing Ad- ministration, they contended, “can do no more than facilitate the financing of homes for people who can afford homes and who have credit standing.” The annual Federal contributions, they said, would be “based upon the remarkably successful English sys- tem” and would not exceed 45 per cent of rentals. U. S. Spending Small Portion. “Federal expenditures, in terms of appropriations over the four-year period, will be only $1 for every $29 of private money drawn into the building program,” the sponsors as- serted. “And when we take into account the likely effect of this low-rent hous- ing program upon housing for other income groups generally, we may say that each dollar of Federal expendi- ture will evoke $50 worth of private investment in home building.” Senator Wagner claimed the project would stimulate durable goods indus- tries, augment and insure recovery from the depression and “provide bet- ter living quarters for millions who now dwell in dismal and insanitary surroundings.” The bill, he contended, contains adequate safeguards against compe- tition with private industry. REFUGEES MIGRATE -~ Hundreds Reported Arriving in California Each Day. LOS ANGELES, February 24 (#).— Hundreds of flood refugees from the Middle West are arriving in California daily, Earl Lee Kelly, State director of public works, estimated here today. D.C. TOSUE 2600 ‘Property Owners Fail to Make Returns Sworn in U. S. Reports. District tax officials prepared today |to take court action against 2,600 property owners found to have failed to make personal tangible and in- tangible returns due last July. This many property owners have been found so far to have failed to make returns to the District on prop- erties which they did report in their returns to the Federal Government on sworn income tax reports. Since last Summer agents of the District tax assessor have been busily engaged checking returns to the Dis- trict against those made to the In- ternal Revenue Bureau. Such a check was made possible by the act of Con- payers had to fill out a duplicate of ernment on the “green sheets.” The District promptly sent agents to the Internal Revenue Bureau after last July 1, the deadline for District per- sonal tax returns. $116,130 Netted District. The drive so far, according to Dis- trict Tax Assessor Fred D. Allen, has netted the District $116,120. The $342,000, and the amount of intangible 50 assessed to $22,200,000. District agents so far have checked (See TAXES, Page A-2.) Motor Is Good, But Ambulance Just Wor’t Run Machine Is Laid Up With Severe Juris- dictional Trouble. BY & Staff Correspondent 0."Ihe Btar. ARLINGTON, Va., February 24— Motorists and pedestrians expecting to have accidents in the near future are warned not to have them in this county until the county ambulance, now laid up in the garage with a se- vere case of jurisdictional trouble, is again free of red tape and ready to go. The motor runs fine, the tires are practically as good as new and it shines in all its post-free wheeling glory. But until County Manager Frank C. Hanrahan, Sheriff Howard B. Fields and Fire Chief Maynard Saunders camn settle the proper channels through which shrieks for help can be re- ceived and . transmitted -into action for relief, in the garage she stays. Since the county bought the ambu- lance two years ag), the simple pro- cedure of trusting the first passerby to rush to the nearest telephone, call the court house and tell the operator there | was an accident at such and such a place has been foilowed. The court house operator relayed the call to the (See AMBULANCE, Page A-2.) 4 INTAXATION DRIVE gress of April, 1935, under which tax- | their statements to the Feceral Gov- | amount of tangible personal property | assessed in the drive amounted to| returns to them against the Federal | was centered on enacting durirg the next day or two the voluntary retires ment bill for Supreme Court justices. This bill, approved by Mr. Roose- K\'el!, but not an integral part of his ‘bronder program for putting “new life” into the bench, was expected to meet little opposition. It provides full pay for justices who wish to leave the high court at 70. Senator Pittman, Democrat, of Nevada served notice, however, he | would renew the unsuccessful fight he made in committee to eliminate the section subjecting retired justices to be on call for service in lower courts. Senator McCarran, Democrat, of | Nevada, in charge of the bill, said he would call it up either today or toe morrow, depending on developments in the debate over the reciprocal tariff | law, Despite the conflicting claims of op=- posing leaders on the President’s pro- | posal to enlarge the Supreme Court unless older justices retire, the public commitments showed little change. Senator Tydings' declaration raised the opposition ranks to 33. On the other side were 29, with the balance | still non-committal | Privately, administration leaders said they had 48 votes; the opponents | claimed 42. The Senate has 96 members. Burke Is Confident. The claim to have enough votes “in sight” to defeat the program came from Senator Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska. He said there was a notable “stiffening of the opposition ranks” in the face of Mr. Roosevelt’s insistence on enacte | ment of the bill. Tydings, who heretofore has been classed as uncommitted, said in a | statement: ! “I do not feel that the proposed en= largement of the Supreme Court is | proper. In reality such enlaigement really settles nothing permanently. “If wider legislative powers are de sired for Congress, then the orderly way to secure such wider powers for the Congress is through the method of constitutional amendment, Where the people may grant or withhold the powers requested.” | Both sides expect an endurance con= test when Senate debate opens unless there are unexpected developments. If one or more justices should leave the bench after enactment of the re- tirement bill, however, some Senators | expressed the belief the reorganiza- tion measure might not be pushed The decision to defer a House vote was viewed in some quarters as admine istration strategy for use at a psycho= "(See JUDICIARY, Page A-6) 'DUKE OF KENT VISITS EDWARD IN VIENNA Former King and Favorite Brother Visibly Moved at Short Reunion. BY the Associated Press. VIENNA, February 24—The self- | exiled Duke of Windsor and his fa- | vorite brother, the Duke of Kent, were visibly moved when they met today for the first time since Edward abdi= cated the British throne. The young brother rushed up to Windsor in the lobby of a hotel and grasped his hands affectionately. For a moment he held them in silence, and then they withdrew for a long, inti- mate chat. “They touched on everything,” an adjutant said afterward. Kent had been reported in London to have a family mission to help iron out the tangled finances of the British royal house, particularly the question of an allowance for the former mon= arch. Kent arrived alone, explaining his wife had already left Munich for Lon- don. He was in a hurry himself, he explained, and said he would prob- ably remain only one day. Windsor had burried back to Vienna after a visit to his old friends, the Count and Countess Paul Muenster, at Noetsch. ‘There he played golf by the River Woerthersee, in the shadow of the Karawanken Mountains, and poked about old Muenster Castle, which friends say he would like—some day— to buy for Wallis Simpson, the woman for whose love he gave up his empire. Mrs. Simpson Dines Out. CANNES, France, February 24 () —It wasn’t the heat, it was the curiosity, for Mrs. Wallis Simpson. The Duke of Windsor’s bethrothed dined out at 2 hotel restaurant last night—an unusually warm evening— as the guest of Sidney T. Allen and Mrs. Allen of St. Louis, Mo. Despite the heat, she insisted on having all the windows closed, the curtains drawn and a screen placed around her table.