Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U, 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight, minimum tem- perature about 28 degrees; tomorrow cloudy, followed by snow or rain; little tem= perature change. Temperatures—Highest, 36, at 5 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 30, at mid- night. Full report on Page A-6. Closing New York M 85th YEAR. No. 33,905. arkets, Page 13 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. WAR ON SIT-DOWN STRIKES GROWING: FORD IS TARGET Unions Will Defy Opposition of Jersey and lllinois Governors. THREE HURT IN FIGHT AT DETROIT PLANT| Two Waukegan Labor Organizers Jailed, Charged With Conspiracy to Prevent Arrests. BACKGROUND— Sit-down technique in strikes was used effectively in France last year when laborers protested People’s Front regime failed to give them promised benefits. Introduced in America on big scale for first time late in December in strike of United Automobile Workers against Gen- eral Motors Corp. That walk-out lasted about siz weecks and was settled only after long conferences. Complicated temporary truce Jailed to indicate clear victory for either side. but union leaders were quick to claim gains. This gave impetus to similar tactics against other industries and gradually dur- ing three weeks since G. M. C. peace was decided upon, such strikes have hit other industries until yesterday when about 35.000 workers were said to be aflected. BY the Associatea Press. Conflict over the sit-down strike method grew apace today, in many in- stances overshadowing the issues un- derlying labor disputes. «Some State and local officials and factory owners showed a stiffening opposition to the use of labor's new weapon. It was revealed by the arrest of strikers and strike organizers and the use of force to evict sit-downers. Three State Governors have voiced opposition to the sit-down technique. Gov. Henry Horner of Illinois said there was “no warrant in law to just- ify a so-called sit-down strike.” Govs. Wilbur Cross of Connecticut and Har- old G. Hoffman of New Jersey warned they would tolerate no sit-down strikes in their States. Gov. Hoffman's announcement drew from Homer Martin. president of the United Automobile Workers of Amer- ica, a rejoiner that sit-down strikes would be conducted “whether he likes it or not.” Martin said the Governor would “mo.c out of the way" if he doesn’t “join with us.” Ford Union Drive Pushed. The Committee for Industrial Or- ganization pushed plans for unioniza- ing the Ford Motor Co. assembly plant at Edgewater, employing 3,700 workers, and the Federal ship building and dry dock at Kearny, employing 4.000. A woman and two men were in- Jured as lead pellets were thrown in a battle between union strikers and non- union workers for possession of the Ferro Stamping Co.'s Administratioa Building at Detroit. The outbreak at the Ferro Co.. where a sit-down strike has been in progres for several days, was the first in any of the score of labor disputes whica gtarted here a week ago Striking employes took over the Ad- rainistration Building, which had been held by about 20 non-union employes and office workers. Wayne Marlett, chairman of the Ferro Strike Committee, said non- union men in the office building be- gan throwing lead pellets 3 inches in diameter through ventilators into two plants uccupied by strikers. He said the three persons injured were Anna Gouci, 23; Alex Laslo, 21, and Peter Kuhn, 23, all strikers. Striking workers swarmed to the roof of their building and dropped down on the administration building. All non-strikers fled except five workers and a company official. Fifty police broke their way into the office building with crowbars. They said the six had not been hurt. Sheriff's deputies arrested two C. L O organizers in Waukegan, Ill. They were charged with conspiring to pre- vent execution of a court writ for the arrest of sit-down strikers in the Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. plants. Five other organizers were being sought by deputies. downers were evicted in a tear gas attack. They mappel plans for a picket siege. Sit-down strikers _arrested (See STRIKE, Page A-12) after FRENCH RADIO POLL WILL TEST “FRONT” Blum Government Presses Advan- tage of 361 to 209 Vote of Deputies. By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 27.—The People’s Front demanded a new vote of confi- dence for the government today in the national elections for the councils of radio management. Pressing the advantage of a 361-to- 209 vote of confidence by the Chamber of Deputies, the government coalition appealed for the election of their can- didates to the control of France's 12 regional radio stations which serve 3,000,000 families. The government of Socialist Premier ‘Leon Blum survived the opposition on- slaught early today after Blum com- mitted himself to remain within the framework of the People’s Front pro- gram, All the 3,000,000 persons who paid the government tax on radio sets were eligible to vote at the polls scheduled to open tonight. Only government owned stations ‘were affected by the campaign. France also has private stations, similar to those in the United States, supported by advertising revenue. The government programs—mostly news, talks, plays, chamber music and recordings—are supported by the 50 franc ($2.40) a year tax on receiving sets, ch WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1937—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. ##% New “Snow” Parking Ban Void, Police Judge E. M. Curran Rules BULLETIN, Police Chief Ernest W. Brown today announced his force would abandon efforts to enforce the “snow removal” parking ban pend- ing decision of a higher court on Judge Edward M. Curran’s ruling in Police Court this morning that the regulation was “unreasonable” and invalid. Maj. Brown expressed the opinion that no court decision could be expected before the regu- lation expires March 15 under its own provisions. | The new “snow removal” parking ban under which at least a thousand warrants ave veen issued in the last | few day was dJeclared ‘“‘unreasonable and invaiid” in Police Court this morn- ing by Judge Edward M. Curran, who made a similar ruling several weeks ago on another “snow removal” regu- lation. All Cases Under Disputed Regulation Continued Indefinitely Pending Outcome of an Appeal. Judge Curran had the clerk an- nounce that all cases made under the disputed regulatior would be continued indefinitely pending the outcome of an appeal from his ruling by the cor- poration counsel’s office. Elwood Seal, corporation counsel, said he welcomed a showdown on the controversy and would apply to the Court of Appeals for a wri* of error. “For three years,” Seal said, “the Commissioners have been trying to | regulate parking on downtown streets | and important thoroughfares at night so that plows could work unobstructed in event of snowfalls. | “I want a ruling on the _uestion | from a higher court so that I can ad- | vise the Commissioners whether they ! have or have not the authority to | regulate parking with a view to snow removal.” | Meanwhile, Police Chief Ernest W.| Brown said he would ask legal advice | | 77" (See PARKING, Page A-12.) KIDNAPED B0Y. 2, S FOUND DEAD Body of Argentine Baby in Pig Pen Near Parents’ Estate. BY the Associated Press. LA PLATA, Argentina, February 27 —The unclothed body of Baby Eugenio Peyrera Iraola, whose three-day kid- naping stirred Argentina as the Lind- bergh case gripped the United States, was found today in the grime of a pigpen on the Baronial Estancia of his wealthy parents. The little body, bearing a scalp wound and a cut on one leg, was discovered in an outlying part of “La Sorpresa,” his parents’ estancia, about a mile an- a half from the house. The chubby arms were crossed over the chest. The clothing was not found. An immediate examination was begun at the estancia, where the blue-eyed, 2-year-old baby lived with his parents and six brothers and sisters, to determine the exact cause of death. . It was believed he had been killed Thursday, the day after he was kidnaped. A laconic communique from provin- cial police, who have searched the rich | resort countryside for three frenzied days for some trace of the child or his abductors, said merely the body had been found. It gave no theories as to who car- ried the boy away from the flower- bordered garden of the estancia short- ly after 7 o'clock last Wednesday eve- ning. while the baby’s mother left his side to greet her husband, a wealthy sportsman and horse fancier, upon his return from another of his ranches. Several Suspects Held. The announcement said nothing to indicate which, if any, of several sus- pects now held was believed responsi- ble for the crime. But it was known the police, at first believing remnants of the kidnap bafd of the late “Pibe Cabeza"—(“Baby Face”)—might be responsible, had in- clined to the theory the abduction | was the work of a moral outcast. | One wandering peon, who vanished | from the estancia environs about the | same time the baby disappeared, was | plied anew with questions. There were few clues. Most of them centered around the childish | story of 5-year-old Miguel, genio’s brother, who said he saw “a man” holding the baby in his arms a few minutes before he dropped | from sight. Police refused persistently to con- firm reports of ransom negotiations. Greatest Manhunt Ends. 1 It was a day of profound grief for Argentinans, from cattle baron to peon, ending as it did the greatest manhunt in the history of the republic. Hundreds upon hundreds of police Sixty-one sit- .4 plocked roads and searched fields | Gresham today. Attendants said his | and streams; volunteer searchers | } from the beautiful Estancias of the | Mar Del Plata countryside and bronzed workmen had hunted side by side, but in vain, for the baby or his kidnaper. Just before today’s police announce- | great | RODSEVELT ASKS STATE SOIL LAWS Calls on 48 Governors for Aid in Battle Against Dust, Floods. BY the Associated Press. President Roosevelt requested all 48 States today to enact soil-conserva- tion laws to bulwark the Federal fight | | against duststorms and floods. ; “The Nation that destroys its soil | destroys itself,” he said in identical | letters to State Governors. | Roosevelt’s court reorganization pro- With the letters went copies of a | State soil-conservation bill prepared | | by the Agriculture Department in co- | | operation with representatives of | many States. It provides for the organization of | soil-conservation districts to carry on i erosion-control projects, with the aid | of Federal funds, and for enactment of land-use regulations after they are | approved by local referenda. No Hearing on Benefit Payments. The suggested State laws would have no bearing on the Federal soil- conservation benefit payments, but their enactment would be necessary | before States could receive any Fed- eral funds for conservation demon- | stration work. | “I hope that you will see fit,” the President wrote, “to make the adop- | tion of legislation along the lines of | the standard act part of the agricul- | tural program for your State.” 1 After asserting dust storms and| floods had ‘“underscored the im-| portance of programs of control soil | erosion,” the President said Federal demonstration projects in isolated re- gions could only “point the way.” “The problem is further com- plicated,” he said, “by the fact that the failure to control erosion on some lands, particularly if such eroding lands are situated strategically at the heads of valleys or watersheds, can cause a washing and blowing of soil onto other lands, and make the con- trol of erosion anywhere in the valley or watershed all the more difficult.” | To be dealt with adequately, he added, the “erodible land in every w..tershed must be brought under some | form of control.” | State legislation, he explained, is im- | perative to safeguard results of Fed- | eral programs and to enable farmers to take the necessary co-operative action. In a foreword to the suggested model | §t.aw law, Secretary Wallace said (See CONSERVATION, Page A-6.) DR. WILSON RALLIES FROM SERIOUS ILLNESS Temperance Worker's Cordition Improves—Suffered Paralysis Stroke. By tke Associated Press. PORTLAND, Oreg., February 27— Dr. Clarence True Wilson, 64, nation- ally-known temperance worker, rallied from a serious illness at his home at condition was “encouraging.” Dr. Wilson suffered a stroke of paralysis Thursday, but his nurse said today he had regained his faculties and was conscious. Dr. Wilson, born in Milton, Del, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION DONAHEY AGAINST, BULKLEY FAVORS COURT PROPOSALS Ohioan Asserts U. S. Voters, “Source of All Power,” Should Decide. SENATE I;INE-UP STANDS 33 OPPOSED TO 26 FOR Half Dozen Formerly Announced as Concurring in Plan Say They Are Non-Committal. By the Associated Press. Senator Donahey, Democrat, of Ohio spoke out today against President gram after his colleague, Senator Bulkley, indorsed it as an effort “to restore our form of government.” Donahey in his first public state- ment on the court issue said: “This entire controversy vitally af- fects the judiciary, a co-ordinate branch of the Government, and should be referred to the people—the source of all political power.” | Bulkley, also a Democrat, declared | in a radio speech last night that op- ponents “should frankly take the posi- | tion which they are really supporting ‘ —that of unqualified judicial suprem- | acy.” Donahey’s declaration did not add to the total of Senators publicly com- mitted, however, because earlier word had come from his office on his stand. Bulkley had indicated his views pre- viously. Twenty-six Known as Favorable. The number of Senators publicly op- posing the Chief Executive’s proposal remained at 33, but the list of those openly favoring the plan dropped to 26 Half a dozen of those once counted | for the President asserted during the last few days that they were non- committal. Although-Donahey did not say in so many words he would vote against the | President’s proposal, he declared: “The Constitution is the founda- tion of our Government. The fathers builded the community temple and placed it in our hands for safe keep- ing, then passed on. “It is our solemn duty to place it in the hands of 'hose who follow us, enlarged, of course, but politically unprofaned.” Bulkley in his speech said the Con- stitution does not provide that the Supreme Court may pass on the validi- ty of an act of Congress. “How then,” he asked, “did the | Supreme Court get the right to be the final arbiter of the validity of an act of Congress? it e s “We are trying to check the Su- preme Court in doing what itself has held it has no right to do.” Others to Speak Against Plan. Opposition leaders declared another | Senator or two wou:d speak out against the presidential program early next week. They said nine more were pri- vately pledged to oppose the measure. | They, as well as administration | forces, were watching anxiously for any sign that tke voluntary retire- ment bill passed by Congress might bring witi.drawal: from the Supreme Court and possibly clear the way for | (See JUDICIARY, Page A-3.) It simply asserted LOUISVILLE SETS fOTAL i OF FLOOD DEATHS AT 90 | By the Associatea Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky., February 27.— Louisville's direct flood death toll was fixed today at the “almost unbeliev- able” total of 90 by Dr. Hugh R. Leavell, director of health. He listed the fatalities as follows: Drowning, 6; exposure, 10; burned or | | killed in explosions, 15; asphyxiation, | |2; pneumonia, 28, heart disease, 28: bacillary dysentery, 1. Mayor Neville Miller had estimated deaths from all causes during the | flood emergency, January 22 to Feb- ruary 14, at 429. | “Considering that more than half ¢ Foening Star The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 142,638 (SBome retu! “Aw, BILL, YOU'VE. GOT To PULL'EM BIGGER AND BETTER THAN Montgomery Finds 33 Homes [pOST (FFICE BARS Untaxed, Some for 10 Years 189,000 Garage in Center of Silver Spring | Business District Among Prop- erties Escaping Collector. ‘ By ¢ Staff Correspondent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., February 27 —Accidental discovery of 33 homes, valued at $72,000, and & $9,000 garage, not carried on the tax rolls of the east- ern suburban district, led today to re- newed demand by County Commis- sioner Paul M. Coughlan for a State- wide reassessment. Eight of the homes, which have es- caped the assessor for at least 10 years. were in one section, Seven Oaks, and the garage is in the commercial dis- trict of Silver Spring. The homes range in value from $2,000 to $8,000. Coughlan pointed out. The entire commercial area of Sil- ver Spring is assessed at a total of approximately $850,000, while the in- crease in population in the section, since the last assessment was made in 1927, has brought a rise in value to between $3.000.000 and $4.000,000. The reassessment, which is being | | talked of in the State Legislature, but on which no definite action has been taken, should be made to equalize taxes by discovering escaped property, and by recording the increase in val- ues resulting from the growth of many | Montgomery County communities in the last 10 years, Coughlan declared. “These 33 homes and the garage, which have not been on the tax rolls at all, were discovered entirely by ac- cident while looking into some other routine matter in connection with the properties.” he explained. “If we had a reassessment, I don't know how many homes, barns and commercial properties we would find. In some sections, property we have listed as a home, has now been con- | verted to commercial use and should bear a higher tax rate. “Under the law regarding escaped properties, the county can levy taxes | (See TAX, Page A-3.) | INSURGENT SHELLS 5000 T0 WATCH FALL IN MADRID Break in Downtown Streets, Scattering Children and Wounding Man. BACKGROUND— Spain’s civil war which started last July continues to rage bitterly, with government heads centralizing the defense of Madrid under Gen. Jose Miaja, while new internal troubles threaten to split the ranks of Gen. Francisco Franco. Since outbreak of hostilities, rivalry between Carlist, monarchist supporters, and Spanish Fascists have become more and more intense. Both parties publicly proclaim their solidarity behind Franco, but privately leaders admit after the war “there may be trouble.” BY the Associated Press. | MADRID, February 27.—Insurgent big guns sent shells screaming into mid-Madrid again today. Breaking five weeks of comparative SANTA ANITA RAGE Rosemont and Seabiscuit‘ Held Favorites in $100,- 000 Contest. Entries, jockeys, weights, prob- able odds, post positions for Santa Anita $100,000 Handicap today will be found on page A-10. BY GRANTLAND RICE. LOS ANGELES, February 27.—In the presence of some 50,000 turbulent “SHEERS NEWS Crowley Announces Cam- paign to Break Up Spread of Lotteries. Editions of newspapers and other publications containing reports of Irish Sweepstakes winners hereafter will be barred from the mails, Solicitor Karl A. Crowley of the Post Office Depart- ment, said today in announcing the inauguration of a vigorous campaign to break up the spread of lotteries in this country. The ban against sweepstake pub- licity, which includes stories and pic- tures of winners, is a sharp reversal of departmental policy. Such a curb was invoked in the Hoover adminis- tration while Walter F. Brown was Postmaster General, but was modified | When Postmaster General Farley took over. At that time it was said the department would be guided by a | “liberal interpretation” of the lottery laws, although it was emphasized that the department had no intention of nullifying postal laws or regulations with reference to the printing by news- papers of stories and pictures about winners of sweepstakes or lotteries operated in foreign countries. POOR VENTILATION DRIVE IS REVEALED Theaters and Public Halls Are Warned by Health Officer After Complaints. | Warning that owners or managers of theaters and other public halls |would be prosecuted unless they poor ventilation or other hazards to health was issued today by Health | Officer George C. Ruhland. | He revealed he had received many throats, Rosemont and Seabiscuit should lead the chase for $100,000 to- | day at Santa Anita, with Mr. Bones and Chanceview in close pursuit. It may be different, but the form chart points in this direction, despite the presence of such high-class entries as Indian Broom, Red Rain (another strong contender), Time Supply and several other fast-moving thorough- | breds that make up the big show. One hundred thousand dollars is and small theaters and public halls and directed his staff of inspectors to start a drive for full compliance with existing laws and regulations. He re- vealed the Health Department now has the services of a sanitary en- ineer, C. F. Browning, formerly at- | tached to the United States Public Health Service. Browning has been equipped with air-testing facilities and he is directed to take a series of samples of air| (P Means Associated Press. promptly correct any conditions of | complaints from patrons of both large | quite a chunk of change for either & from all places against which there of the people of this city (population | tranquillity in the besieged city itself, 330,000 was involved in the flood,” | the shells began breaking in down- commented Dr. Leavell, “one could |town streets and against business scarcely take that number of persons | buildings. At least one man was hit ment, the baby's patrician grand- | April 24, 1872, founded the Methodist | father, the powerful Senator Antonio | Santa Marina, raced out of Mar Del | Plata for the La Sorpresa Estancia |in a motor car crowded with phy- | sicians. It was a forlorn hope. The baby was dead. The first definite word that the body had been found by a Peon in that part of the estancia devoted to hog- raising and slaughter came from an uncle, in Mar Del Plata. | Mother Prostrated. | | Then the La Plata police told their story. Eugenio’s father,, Simon Peyrera ilraaln, also was in Mar Del Plata when the news came. He and his ‘ln.mily have been in the resort city, directing the search, since the kid- naping. He, too, rushed to the ranch. | The mother, the former Dolores | Santa Marina, remained prostrated at i Mar Del Plata with her other chil- dren, the oldest of whom is eight. Miguel, who saw the kidnaper, has been under a doctor’s care for near | hysteria since he saw “a strange, bearded man” pick up Eugenio. Also at Mar Del Plata, in the jail, * was the wandering peon, Jose Gan- cedo. He answered questions in dull monosyllables, and was unable to ex- . plain why he vanished from La Sor- | presa Wednesday night. . Seine and Yeres Rise. PARIS, February 27 (#).—Low-lying sections of Villeneuve St. Georges, 10 miles southeast of Paris, were evacu- ated today as the Yeres and Seine Rivers continued to rise. | | Episcopal Church Board of Temper- | ance, Prohibition and Public Morals and was active as its crusading sec- retary for more than a quarter of a | | century. He asked the General Con- ference of the church to accept his | resignation May 13, 1936, and came | to his Summer home at Gresham, | near Portland, a short time later. Sit-Down Strike Of Geisha Girls Startsin Temple Collective Bargaining Privileges Sought Geisha girls of this wealthy industrial city were walking out on its tired business men today, answering the call to a sit-down strike at the famous Gyokuzo Buddhist Temple on a nearby mountain top. They charged their employers with trying to destroy their labor organiza- tion, the Geisha Guild. The ranks of the original 80 “sit- dowmers” have swelled to 500 and the strike threatened to deplete Osaka completely of its 2,000 Geisha girls. | Books —. - Up the mountainside they trudged, canrying their samisens (three-stringed instruments) and _their cosmetics. (Ses GEISHA, Page A-S), J | on a picnic without losing almost as | Madrilenos, who had believed them- many.” Summary of .- B3 | Obituary . B-2 Radio - Church News, Real Esta B-5-6-7 A-13 | Short Story. B-7 Editorial ___ A-8 | Society __ __ A-7 Financial .. A-13 Sports A-10-11 Lost & Found A-3 Woman'sPg.. B-8 FOREIGN. 4,000,000 Poles back Koc program of nationalism. Page A-S Japanese officials differ on air defense adequacy. Page A-3 NATIONAL. Roosevelt asks State laws to aid dust- flood fight. Page A-1 Kidnaped son of wealthy Argentine man is found dead. Page A-1 Fight on sit-down strike method grows in U. S. Page A-1 50,000 to watch $100,000 race at Santa Anita. Page A-1 Donahey against, Bulkley for, Roose. velt courts plan. Page A-1 Senate prepares for neutrality legisla- tion battle. Page A-3 WASHINGTON . AND VICINITY. Judge Curran rules “snow removal” parking ban invalid. Page A-1 Townsend files motion for new trial; arguments Friday. Page A-2 Arlington, in surprise reorganization move, abolishes 4 offices. Page A-2 Thirty transfusions fail to save girl of 6. Page A-6 Two firemen hurt in crash on way to blaze. Page A-3 New bill throws civil service extension into politics. Page A-16 House subcommitte eonsiders District _ Pagede18 ’ Comics (See SPAIN, Page A-12.) Today’s Star Symphony group recruits 750 solicitors for fund drive. Page A-3| Relief is Government responsibility, | church group contends. Page A-16 | Hazen asks traffic obedience to cut | death toll. Page A-16 Change in collateral posting for motor- ists proposed. Page A-16 | EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page This and That. Page Answers and Questions. Page Stars, Men and Atoms. Page David Lawrence. Page Paul Mallon. Page Mark Sullivan. Page Jay Frankhn. Page Delia Pynchon. Page MISCELLANY. Washington Wayside. City News in Brief. Traffic Convictions. ‘Young Washington. Vital Statistics. Nature’s Children. Dorothy Dix. Bedtime Story. Crossword Puzzle. Letter-Out. ¥ Betsy Caswell. SPORTS. College boxing title lies between Duke, Maryland. Page A-10 Rosemont 2-1 favorite in Santa Anita race today. Page A-10 Max Baer set to sail for bout in Eng- land. Page A-10 A. A. U. aces mass for attack on track records. Page A-10 Western ties slipping Eastern in basket PR Page Page Page Page Page Page Page B-8 Page C-7 Page A-15 Page C-8 Page B-8 Q» Lbd A-9 C-7 C-1 man or a horse to win in less than three minutes. The picture becomes | even more colorful when you con- sider the surrounding scenery—orange trees among 3,000,000 flowering plants ! have been complaints. “We will appeal first for co-opera- tion, but if we fail to obtain desired co- operation, we will prosecute,” said Dr. Ruhland. “We have had complaints | and several hundred noted motion pic- ,gainst some of the finest theaters ture stars, all overshadowed by the gng public halls, as well as against snow-capped peaks of the Sierra| the older and inadequate buildings. Madres. | I believe that when the public pays Betting to Exceed $1,000,000. | admittance fees, they should be as- All this makes something to look | sured all the protection to health at. But when some 50,000 spectators that the law requires as to heating, Page A-11 owrney. < are betting well over $1,000,000 in one afternoon, the horse still is the main object of attention. Especially the horse that can lead a $100,000 race. In last Saturday’'s final test, it was Rosemont’s flying feet that beat the fleld, but Rosemont also had his full share of racing luck—a much better break than either Seabiscuit or Mr. Bones happened to draw. Seabiscuit, especially, had plenty to show when given a chance to rum, and, if he gets his chance, he will be something to beat through the stretch. Jock Whitney likes the starting speed of Mr. Bones. “In a big fleld,” he told me, “it is more than important to get out of the pack as soon as pos- sible, and I don’t think Mr. Bones will be caughs in any jam. He has a good chance in a hard race.” ‘There are many others who will be in back of Chanceview, Al Vander- bilt’s entry, which should be some- where close. When you throw in such horses as (See RACE, Page A-3.) - SUPPORTS COURT PLAN PORTSMOUTH, Va. February 27 (#).—Joseph Rossano, president of the Virginia Federation of Labor, yesterday issued a call to all labor locals in the State affiliated with the American Fed- eration to take formal action indorsing | President Roosevelt's Federal judiciary program and to forward letters or resolutions to the Virginia members of the Senate and the House of Repre- sentatives urging them to support the Tace. Catholic champ quint to enter Star’s iegislation necessary to carry out the Page A-11 proposals. A ‘ ventilation and lighting.” SNOW OR RAIN FORECAST IN CAPITAL TOMORROW Snow or rain is forecast for the Dis- trict and vicinity tomorrow. Little | change in temperature is expected. | The minimum temperature tonight | probably will be arcund 28 degrees. | The mercury failed to drop as low | | as was anticipated last night, reach- ing the terday afternoon. Sent to Butcher’s 28 Years Ago, Son Returns With Wife By the Associated Press. MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Feb- ruary 27.—Twenty-eight years ago Mrs. Emma Simms sent her young son Charles to the butch- er’s for a pound of liver. Today he is back with the liver —and a wife. He came from An- chorage, Alaska, where he had lived for several years. Mrs. Simms, resident of Aleppo. Pa., at the time she sent him w the store, had heard from him only once. " Years ago he wrote he hadn’t forgotten the errand and some day would complete it. lowest point—30 degrees— | about midnight. It climbed to 36 yes- | rns not yet reczived.) TWO CENTS. BUSSES ORDERED ON TAKOMA LINE, EFFECTIVE MAY 2 | Public Utilities Commission Approves Substitution for Street Cars. 13TH AND 9TH STREETS TO BE USED DOWNTOWN Fare Is Set at 10 Cents Cash, With Local Service Same as on Trolleys. Substitution of express and local bus services for the Takoma street car | line, as proposed during the past several months by the Capital Transit Co. and numerous civic groups, today was ordered effective May 2 by the Public Utilities Commission. Issuance of the order had long been anticipated, the principal issue being over the routes to be adopted The commission selected routes which are a modification of various pro- posals made at a public hearing last November. In the Takoma area some of the busses will operate on Third street and some on Fifth, and in the down- town region some will use Thirteenth street and some will be routed through Ninth street, where there is now no street car service north of G | street, | The fare on the express busses will | be 10 cents cash and on local services will be the same as street car fare Transfer privileges will be afforded at numerous points. Route to Be Changed. The commission also ordered = change in the downtown route of the Hyattsville-Laurel bus line of the €apital Transit Co., from Tenth to Ninth street to provide better service on lower Ninth street. This change will be effective March 14. Under the changes ordered in the ‘Takoma service, the Fourteenth street line, over which the Takoma cars now operate, will terminate at Kennedy street. where there will be a turn- around just off Fourteentl street. The tracks on Kennedy street to Geor- gia avenue already have been ordered removed The commission rescinded its old order requiring that the Takoma line be double-tracked from Georgia ave- nue and Kennedy street to Takoma. To provide a connection between the Takoma area and the new termi- nus of the Fourteenth street car serv- ice, the commission ordéred establish- ment of a feeder bus line, with street car token fare, run between the two points. The route will be from the loop at Fourteenth street east on Kennedy street, north on Third, east on Aspen, north on Willow, to the District line, south on urel. west on Aspen, south on Third and west on Kennedy back to the Fourteenth street loop. | Express Service Planned. An express bus service will be es- tablished, using Fifth street in Ta- koma, during the morning rush period Mondays through Saturdays, and dur- ing the evening rush period Mondays through Fridays. and in the Saturday afternon rush period (not including legal holidays). over the following route: From a terminal on Fifth gtreet south of Dahlia, south on Fifth street, west on Madison, south on Thirteenth, east on Pennsylvania avenue, south on Seventh, west on Constitution ave- nue, and northson Ninth street to a terminal between Constitution and Pennsylvania avenues. Northbound, these express busses will go north on Ninth, west on Pennsylvania avenue, north on Thirteenth, east on Madison, north on Fifth, west on Cedar, north on Sixth and Piney Branch road, east | on Dahlia, south on Fifth to the terminal. Passengers will not be permitted to board southbound busses south of Madison street, and, except at transfer points, they will not be permitted to leave these busses north of Massachu- setts avenue. The same limits are used in northbound travel. Another express bus service, using Third street, will be operated during the same rush period. The route for these will be, southbound, from & terminal on Laurel street and the Dis- trict line, south on Laurel, west on Aspen, south on Third street, Kansas Illinois, New Hampshire, Sherman and Florida avenues and Ninth street, east on Pennsylvania avenue, south on Sev- enth street, west on Constitution ave- nue, north to the Ninth street ter- | minal. | Northbound, the busses will follow the same route in reverse. Passengers | will not be permitted to board south- bound busses south of Gallatin street except at transfer points. and pas- (See BUSSES, Page A-12) JUDGE FREES TAXIMEN ON DAMAGE PAYMENT Changes $1,000 Fines in Rioting to $300 if 31 Liquidate Losses by May 1. | By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, February 27. Eugene O'Dunne freed 31 drivers today of sentences after conviction of assault, ri disorder, on the condition eac! his share of the total damage cabs during a recent strike of drivers. Thirteen of the defendants wi the group fined $1,000 each lasf urday and given a suspended se: of & year in jail. Most of the |had been held for sentencing. TWo convicted drivers were not affetted by the order. Judge O'Dunne, in striking out the previous sentences, gave each of the 31 drivers a term of three monthis in jail, suspended on condition of goad behavior, and a $300 fine, suspenced | on condition of repayment of the | taxicab damage by May 1 The total damage was listed as: Yel- low cabs, $892.02; Diamond cabs, $1,- 310.98, and costs, $432.10.