Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1937, Page 2

THE SUNDAY ITALY HELD WO T0 PEACE PACT But “Changed Conditions” Must Be Recognized in Accord, Official Says. BACKGROUND— Conditions agreed on by the five #lgnatories of the Locarno peace pact in Europe were upset by Ger= man remilitarization of the Rhine- land. Recent British eflorts to obtain another agreement for Western Europe have been hampered by the Franco-Soviet mutual assistance accord and renewed sword rattiing by Germany. BT the Associated Press ROME, March 13.—Italy is ready to enter a new pact Western European peaoce official said tonight But, he declared. occurrences such a® Germany's remilit ation of the nd and Fran mutual pact with Russia must 1to accoun The statement was made as an out- “tenor” of the Italian Britain yvesi:rday, re- plying to Britain's proposal for a new Western European security treaty to replace the Locarno pact. ‘That agreement—under which Brit- ain, France, Germany, Italy and Bel- gium undertook to maintain Western European peace—was made fTective bv Germany's Rhineland remilitariza- tion. Germar reply to Britain yesterdav. itative London quarters the opinion was expressed that both Italy and Germany would refuse to join in a seourity pact unless France scrapped ber military alliance with Russia. The Italian note—handed Eric Drummond. British Ambassador to Rome, yesterday ad not been made public, but the Fascist official outlined Italy's position thus: 1. Ttaly is ready to enter into a new agreement on the lines of the old Lo- earno, which would be of “indubitable service” to peace. 2. The new treaty should recognize however, that new ‘“realities” and *changed conditions” exist. His ref- erence was to the Rhineland coup and the Franco-Russian pac 3. The new treaty uld be simple and of ready application, establish- ing precisely the obligations of the signatories. a Fascist n be 4. Italy is ready to guarantee Bel- | gium's integrity and independence, to the same extent that Britain, France and Germany do so. (In Paris Prench official waid renewed Fascist-Nazi thrusts at the Pranco-Soviet pact would meet with little success, although Socialist Premier Leon Blum was reported will- Ing to let Franco-Russian relations enol somewhat if that would please Reichsfuehrer Hitler.) —_—— INDUSTRIALISTS ASK = BAN ON CHILD LABOR National Association of Manufac- turers Backs Clark-Con- nery Bill. BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK. March 13 —The Na- “tional Association of Manufacturers tonight urged Congress to enact the Clark-Connery hill to eliminate chil- dren under 16 years of age from gail ful employment In a letter 10 Senators and Repre- sentatives, the association's president, Willlam B. Warner, declared there was Lttle likelihood enough States would ratify the Federal child labor amendme year and suggested an early hearing on the Clark-Connery bill. Under the bill the Federal Govern- ment would prevent the shipment into Btates of goods produced by child labor in violation of the State’s law. The sssociation has proposed that the bill ‘be broadened to enntrol such goods at the point of origin also, sources Your Income Tax Method of Ascertaining Bad Debt Deduc- tions Given. XIIT. Bad debts constitute a considerable ftem in the returns of many taxpayers and may be treated in one of two ways —either by deduction from gross in- come in respect to debts ascertained to be worthless either in whole or in part, or by a deduction of a reasonable addition to a reserve for bad debts. Taxpavers were given an option for 1821 to =select either of the two | methods. The method used in the return for 1821 must be used in re- turns for subsequent vears unless per- niission s granted by the commis- &ioner of internal revenue to change to the other method. Application to change must be made at least 30 days | prior to the close of the taxable year | for which the change is to be effective. However, a taxpayer flling a first re- turn in 1936 may select either of the two methods, subject to the approval of the commissioner upon examina- tion of the return. Permission to adopt the reserve method is limited to taxpayers having a large number of fccounts where credit is extended over a considerable period of time. It is not granted for the purpose of handling one specific debt. ‘What constitutes a ‘reasonable ad- dition” to a reserve for bad debts must be determined in the light of the facts, and will vary as between classes of business and with condi- tions of business prosperity. It will depend primarily upon the total amount of debts outstanding as of the close of the taxable year, those arising currently as well as those arising in prior taxable years, and the total amount of the existing reserve. In case subsequent realizations upon oustanding debts prove to be more or less than estimated at the time of the | creation of the existing reserve, the amount of the excess or inadequacy in the existing reserve should be re- flected in the determination of the regsonable addition necessary in the taxable year. A taxpayer using the reserve method should show in his return the volume of charge sales (or other business transactions) for the year, and the percentage of the re- serve to such amount, the total amount of notes and accounts receiv- able at the beginning and end of the taxable vear, and the total amount of the debts ascertained to be worthless and charged against the reserve dur- ing the taxable year. guaranteeing | as- | submitted a similar | In author- | | to Sir to make 1t effective this | Readers' Guide | and News Summary The Sunday Star, March 14, 1937, PART ONE. Main News Section. SUPREME COURT ISSUE. Senate court hearings expected to last till mid-April. Page A-1 Senator Clark denounces packing of court Page A-3 Roosevelt asks to back court plan. Page A-3 Gov. Hoffman plan for amendment Page A-3 Letters express readers’ views on Su- preme Court, Page A-8 LABOR SITUATION. C. 1. O. launches campaign to union- ize electrical workers. Page A-1 Two pickets arrested here; Alexandria bakers strike. Strikers picket court during Chrysler eviction plea hearing. Page A-4 Miners’ pay conversations enter final phase ‘i Labor assails U. 8. contract with Rem- | ington-Rand Page A-5 | c 1 0. plans drive in Texas oil belt. Page A-5 Georgians presses o | | FOREIGN. Madrid government files protest on foreign soldiers. Page A-1 peace pact. Page A-2 Schuschnigg seen seeking plan for Hapsburg return. Page A-3 NATIONAL | Income tax rush boosts receipts near | $840,000.000 Page A-1 | Miss Earhart to start today on world flight. Page A-1 I D. C. woman and seven others saved from burning ship. Page A-1 Mayors request $2,200,000,000 for W. P. A. during 1938. Page A-1 High fiscal officials confer on bond market situation. Page A-2 | WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. “Thin man” held here in burglaries | nefting $10.000. Page A-1 | Changes in District Juvenile Court | measure assailed Page A-7 | 31.000 trout placed 1n Md. streams. Seagon opens April 1 Page B-1 Colored race to raise $20,000,000 for memorial Page B-1 | Public hearing to be held on barber | bill Page B-1 Mellon art Senate to- morrow. Page B-1 Rhodes of Fidelity to be tried again next month. Page B-1 | Opposition expressed to District rac- | ing bill Page B-1 nglon supervisors indorse Sunday beer ban Page B-2 | Democrats ready with new move to | enact job-saving bills. Page B-2 {‘me hope seen for increased school funds in Montgomery. Page B-2 SPORTS. bill before | i National regulars slug in ball game at training camp Page B-T Columbia captures team echampionship in I. C. 4-A games, Page B-7 Berg and Bauer make peace after tiff in Florida golf match Page B-§ Quintets are eager to see action in Star's tournament, Page B-9 Four Maryland teams to figure in 51 dual Spring affairs Page B-9 National pin meet at Norfolk to have record entry list. Page B-10 Turfman declared not to be true label for Col. E. R. Bradley, Page B-11 MISCELLANY, Washington Wayside, Lost and found, Traffic convictions. | Service orders, Obituary. Page A-2 Page A-3 Page B-3 Page A-7 Page A-14 PART TWO. Editorial Section. | Editorial articles Pages D-1-3 Editorials and comment. Page D-2 Civic news Page D-4 | Women's clubs. Page D-5 | Parent-teacher activities,. Page D-5 Military and veterans news. | Educational, Resorts, Stamps Winning contract. PART THREE. Society Section. Society news. Pages E-1-11 | Well-known folk. Page E-8 City news in brief. Page E-10 Marriage Licenses. Page E-10 Barbara Bell pattern Page E-11 PART FOUR. Feature Section. News features Pages F-1-4 John Clagett Proctor, Page F-2 Dick Mansfield, Page F-2 Radio programs. Page F-3 Amusements, Page Automobiles. Page F-6 Aviation Page F-6 High lights of history. Page F-6 Children's. Page F-7 Pages D-6-7 Page D-8 Pages D-9-11 Page D-12 Page D-12 PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Peoples Drug profits rise. Page G-1 ‘Trade forges up. Page G-1 Staples at another probe. Page G-1 Stocks go down (table), Page G-2 U. S. bonds steadier (table). Curb list lower (table). Cross-word puzzle, Classified advertising. Page G-3 Page G-4 Page G-5 Pages G-5-15 DR. B. M. SQUIRES DIES; WAS LABOR CFFICIAL | BY the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 13.— Dr. Ben- | jamin Mark Squires, 47, widely known | as an industrial arbitretor, was found dead in bed at his home late tonight. Dr. E C. Olson, family physician, said death was due to an overdose of sedative apparently taken unintention- ally. For several years Dr. Squires was known as the “czar” of the Chicago cleaning and dyeing industry. In 1933 he was named chairman of the Chi- | | cago Industrial Relations Board set, | | up under the cleaning and dyeing code. From 1914 to 1916 Dr. Squires was | | special agent of the United States | States Bureau of Labor Statistics and was commissioner of conciliation for the Labor Department from 1916 to | 1920. He was a member of the Alaskan board of mediation and arbitration in 1916 and also held a position as administrative member and chairman | of the New York Wage Adjustment | Board from 1917 to 1918. e Robbers Get $1,265 Pay Roll. NEW YORK, March 13 (#).—Side- walk robbers took a $1,265 pay roll from the messenger of an advertising firm in busy Manhattan today, but in Brooklyn a similar robbery attempt was thwarted by the shouts of two returning employes of & produce com- pany who saw the firm's assistant credit man being held up by two gunmen, ¥ Page A-2 | Page A-5| Italy declared ready to enter into new | | Driver, Alexandrian, Is Charged DOGTORS CONCUR IN TRADER CASE 3 Agree Operation Might Have Saved Life of Woman. BY the Associated Fress. SALISBURY, Md, March Three physicians told a coroner’s jury today that the late Mrs. Jeannette B Trader, indicted for the murder of her husband, would have had “excellent | chances” of recovery if an operation had been performed a week earlier. Without making a recommendation, | ; the jury, assembled by Coroner Marion | | A. Humphries, concluded the inquest 1.’(—-‘ | into her death by reporting it was due “to peritonitis caused by abdominal | adhesions following prior surgical operations.” | Mrs. Trader died March 3 following | an operation at a hospital here. She | had been removed a short time before | to the Wicomico County Jail from | Snow Hill. She had been held there | after being indicted for the fatal | shooting of her husband,-Clarence J, | Trader, Stockton utility operator. The jury heard a report from Dr | Howard Maldeis, post mortem physi- | | cian of Baltimore who examined the | | woman's viscera. Dr. Maldeis reported | | that there was no trace of poison in | | the organs and further examination | | bad determined her death was from | | natural causes | Physicians Agree. Dr.J. McFadden Dick and Dr. Ran- | dolph M. Nock, who performed the operation shortly before her death and | the autopsy, agreed on their conclu- | sions They and Dr. Charles R | Truitt, jail physician, testified she may have recovered had the operation been | performed several days earlier | Dr. Dick said that the examinations made by him and Dr. Nock indicated | that the abdominal adhesions which | | made the final operation necessary | | had developed into peritonitis and the | disease was the actual cause of death. Dr. Dick said he was called into consultation on March 2 after the woman's condition became acute. He reported to Judge Benjamin A. John- son then that she had “one chance of 2,000 to recover if she is treated lat once” and suggested the opera- tion. | Dr. Truitt and Sheriff Charles H | Truitt testified Mrs. Trader was not able to retain any food after she ar- | rived at the Wicomico Jail The sheriff said he summoned the physi- cian when the woman complained of being ill Mrs. Trader during her confine- ment of about a month in the Snow Hill Jail had complained several times of iline. Dr. Truitt said he had followed in- | structions from Dr. John L. Riley for treatment of the prisoner for acute indigestion. He said a maid attend- | ant was kept in her cell constant and | she was also attended by a public | health nurse. Dr. Riley, the Snow Hill Jail physi- cian for 30 vears, told of his treat- | ment. He said she complained of stomach pains and he prescribed for | those ailments. He added he saw | (her two and three times a day for a time Coroner Humphries said he had | ordered the inquest because of the ugly rumors being spread that she had been poisoned.” Mrs. Trader's three sons, Estel, 21; Richard, 18 | and Reginald, 14, were represented at the inquest by their mother's at- torneys, Godfrey Child and John L. Sanford, jr The final action in the case sulting from the mysterious shooting | of Trader January 14 at the home of his estranged wife was expected to be taken at the convening of the March term of Worcester County Cir- cuit Court on March 22 State’s Attorney Thomas F. John- son was scheduled to make his recom- mendation for the disposition of the murder indictment against Mrs. Trader. One course left for him was | to enter a notation “abated by death” for the approval of the court. THREE-WHEEL AUTO HITS PEDESTRIAN With Reckless Driving. Free on Bond. A three-wheeled automobile, said by its owner to be one of three of its particular type in this country, struck and critically injured a pedestrian at | Seventeenth street and Park road | about 8:30 o'clock last night. The | driver of the car, Marvin C. Solo- man, who lives near Alexandria, was | charged with reckless driving ane released on $1,000 bond. Louis Nusbaum, 58, of 1646 New- ton street, was taken to Garfield Hos- pital, where surgeons said he was | suffering from internal injuries and that an emergency operation would be performed Police said the machine was steered from the one rear wheel. A test showed the brakes to be in good con- ditfon, police said. Solomon and two passengers in the car were uninjured. { BELGIAN CONSUL WINS ACQUITTAL IN TAX ROW | Refused to Permit Water at Home | in Mobile, Ala., to Be Shut Off. By the Assoclated Press. MOBILE, Ala., March 13.—Belgian Consul A. J. Teilier was acquitted to- day of disorderly conduct ::l-mx-ge.vk growing out of his opposition to a city sewerage tax. Unsuccessful opposition to the efforts | of officers to shut off the water to | his home caused his arrest Wednes- day. Recorder D. H. Edington discharged Tellier after Detective Lawrence Ar- ras, who with Officer Denny Lynch made the arrest, testified the Consu! | “had not acted disorderly.” Arras said the Consul merely stood | on his water meter and pushed De- | tective Lynch off the lawn. He said no | blows were passed. | Immediately after the hearing Tel- lier said he was acting “solely as a private citizen and not as a Consul.” | “If the city does not make a public apology for the incident within a reasonable time,” he asserted, “I will | enter civil suit against the city.” Tellier, along with other home own- ers, has vigorously protested the city's cut-off program, inaugurated recent- | and as late as January, 19. | Tuesday. |a message to Congress dealing with STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢ U.S. Torn Between Old Policies And Desire for Real Neutrality “Freedom of Seas” Has Been American Principle, but New World Threats May Force Revision. (This is the first of a series of articles summarizing the back- ground and nature of present at- tempts to define through legislation the meutrality policy of the United States, ith particular reference to the House and Semate neutrality bills.) BY JOHN C. HE Y. From their very beginnings the na- tions of the world have talked of peace and prepared for war. Today they do likewise with an in-| tensity that is alarming to those who reckon the final costs in blood and gold. And playing the game accord- | ing to the same rules is the United | States, whose people “love peace and hate war, and covet no other nation's | territory,” but who force through rec- | ord military appropriations while its pacificists clamor for neutrality by | mandate. Bounded by the great oceans and increasingly concerned with the vary- ing health of our international: com- | merce, America’s policies of neutrality | have revolved principally around a traditional insistence upon “freedom of the seas.” To protect this “free- | dom” we have fought wars, most re- | cently that of 1914-17. | War, but No Guarantees. From that war, as from others, re- | sulted nothing in the way of guar- | antees that the principles we have reputedly cherished would be more scrupuously observed in the future than in the past. Despite this experi- | ence little thought was given the ques tion of revising our neutra during the decade followi iy beliefs | g the war 2, the Sen- ate ratified the Havana convention of 1928 in which was contained many of the old rules of martime law, Something of & departure in practice had occurred. however, in 1931, when | the United States co-operated closely | with the League of Nations fn con- sideration of Japan's action in Man- churia and this was followed in August, | | 1932, by the public contention of Sec- ret of State Stimson, and advocate of co-operative action by nations, that the Kellogg pact of 1928 had destroyed the basis upon which previous doc- neutrality were predicated ple Indorsed in Politics. he Fall of that year both major political parties indorsed the principle of consultation among nations and | this shifting of opinion was climaxed n May, 1933, when Ambassador Davis told the Disarmament Conference at Geneva that if a reduction of arma- ments were effected by general inter- national agreement this country would consult with other states in case of a threat to peace. Purthermore, and of increasing significance, he told the conference that in cases of agreement as to designation of an aggressor the United States would “refrain from any action tending to defeat” collective measures taken by other states to re- store peace. Application of such a policy would make the principle of freedom of the seas distinctly su- bordinate in determining America's conduct toward belligerents In the Spring of 1934, public inter- est in the question of overhauling our neutrality policy was sharpened some- what by a magazine article written by Charles Warren, who as Assistant Attorney General had been in charge of enforcement of American neutrality laws and obligations from 1914 to | 1917 An excerpt from Warren's article follows “In order to av plications with (United States) must be prepared to impose upon the actions of. its citizens greater res international law requires. It must also be prepared to relinquish many rights which it has heretofore claimed and asserted, and | to yield to contentions by belligerents, | hitherto denied by it, with respect to | interference with the trade and travel of its citizens on the high seas, if the | interests of the belligerents seem to them so to require.” Arms Probe Gave Impetus. the same Spring. war clouds In friction and com- In | began to pile up on the European hori- zon and questions of neutrality became | news. | Additional impetus followed through | the Senate investigation of the arms traffic with the direct effect of that probe being reflected in the consolida- tion of the mandatory neutrality bloc composed of Senators Nye, Clark and Bone. The real force of this bloc was dis- played in the closing days of the 1935 session of Congress. neutrality measures to the Senate in July, the committee agreed to with- draw their proposals on assurance of the State Department that it would co-operate in drafting a general meas- ure. When adjournment seemed imminent in August, however, without any action scheduled, the Nye group threatened to tie things up. The result was speedy recommendation and passage of a neutrality resolution, With part of the legislation effective only to February, 1936, it was extended last year to May, 1937, two major pro- visions added and the degree of man- datory effect increased. Mandatory Provision CHed. In brief, the law now contains the following provisions: That the President, whenever he “shall find that there exists a state of | war” between two or more foreign | countries, shall so proclaim that fact, | and that exportation of implements of war from this country to a belligerent state or to a neutral port for trans- | shipment to a belligerent state shall become unlawful. This provision is mandatory. Fines, imprisonment and confiscation are the prescribed punish- | ments. That trading in securities or loaning of money or extension of credit to belligerents shall become unlawful That “no citizen of the United States shall travel on any vessel of any | belligerent nation except at his own risk.” That manufacturers, exporters and importers of implements of war must register with the Secretary of State and obtain licenses. That entry of belligerent subma- rines into American ports may be prohibited, as may the delivery of men or munitions from American ports to | belligerent ships at sea. Arms Ban Expires May 1. The first two of these provisions ex- pire on May 1 of this year, while the others are permanent law. Expiration of these important fea- | tures of the present law, plus the in- tensified rearmament race in Europe, are the reasons for pressure for en- |actment of new neutrality legislation at this time. On March 3 the Senate approved a | new bill introduced by Senator Pitt- man, chairman of the Senate Poreign Relations Committee. This measure will be discussed in a second article tomorrow. EXPULSIONS HAL{ED BY COMMUNIST PARTY Reinstatements Begun After Rep- rimands to Local Committees Over Injustices. BY the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, March 13-—The Com- munist party called a halt today to mass expulsions of its members, many of whom were deemed to have been dropped for trivial reasons Party officials delivered caustic reprimands to local committees and began immediate reinstatement of what they described as victims of the most flagrant injustice. Pravda, the Communist party news- | paper, pointed out the case of one Communist who was dropped because | he was one month in arrears on his dues after 15 years of loyal member- ship and of another who was expelled because he was absent from one meeting “The time has come,” the newspaper declared, “for all party leaders to stop the practice of mass expulsions.” The move was linked in authori- tative eircles to a drive launched last week for greater democracy within the party ranks and to an official report which estimated party membership had fallen off to about 1,400.000. iquty to Get Blzst of Cievel missing from the coat—will be a | Cleveland's birthday gift to this city The presentation will be made by a Yale student, George Urban, jr., whose grandfather resurrected the bust from a corner in a granite shop 10 years Aago. There it had stood, gathering dust among tombstones, for 42 years. “Because of that missing button— the second from the top—nobody wanted it,” said young Urban's father, George Urban, sr. “But Cleveland always had trouble with buttons, so the bust is realistic.” The late Grandfather Urban, whose first name also was George, was Re- publican chairman of Erie County. Cleveland, a Democrat, was shenfl'.‘ But in spite of their political differ- | ences they were close friends Wher he died in 1928, Chairman | COLORADOAN TO DISCUSS SUG. “The American Sugar Bowl” will | be the subject of an address by Sena- | tor Alva B. Adams of Colorado in the National Radio Forum tomorrow at 10:30 pm. The National Radio Forum is arranged by The Washing- ton Star and broadcast:over the net- work of the National Brofldcssung' Co. President Roosevelt recently sent the sugar situdtion and Senator Adams is one of the sponsors of a bill designed to assist in the produc- tion of sugar in this country and | to maintain sugar quotas for foreign | importations. Senator Adams insists that the measure will not increase the price of sugar to the housewives of America. Sugar is produced in 17 States in this country, including the cane sugar producing States. Paris Population Decreases. ly to force payment of the sewerage tax. | The Consul said his tax was $9.34 in | arrears Remaval of residents to the suburbs | has caused & decrease in the popula- tion of Metropolitan Paris in the last | five years, ami Rejected for Lack of Button BY the Associated Press BUFFALO, N. Y., March 13.—A bust of Grover Cleveland—rejected by buy- ers 52 years ago because & button was Urban willed the bust to the city, to | be presented at an appropriate occa- sion. His son said today that the button actually is missing. and is not merely hidden beneath an unbuttoned coat flap. Three other buttons adorn the dou- | But where the | ble-breasted coat. fourth should be there is only an empty button hole “When Cleveland became Presi- dent,” Urban said, “the bust was ordered by a group of his friends in Buffalo, where he had been sheriff. “Pierre, a New York sculptor, was commissioned and President Cleveland sat for the bust in Washington. “But when it was delivered, minus the button, the purchasers refused to accept it.” Tuesday, at the Cleveland birthday celebration in a Buffalo hotel, it will be accepted for the city by Mayor George Zimmerman and will be placed in City Hall, Senator Adams in Forum AR ISSUE TOMORROW NIGHT. ALVA B."ADAMS. ) Presenting two | VIRGINIA' FISHERS WILL END “STRIKE' Adopt Resolutions Designed to Improve Market Conditions. BY the Associated Press. MATHEWS, Va, March 13.—The “sit-down strike” of shad fishermen in the Fox Hill and surrounding areas of Elizabeth City County probably is ended, it developed at a meeting of the Tidewater Fishermen's Associa- tion here tonight. The fishermen, who did not fish | yesterday or today, said they expected, | | on the strength of promises from the Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. SCOURGE. This item is printed in the spirit of pure cussedness,; trusting that it will bedevil others as it has us. There is nothing phoney about it. Every prob- lem posed below can be answered. Heh, heh. You try. The questions are ex- tracts from a super-intelligence test | with which a professor at Massachu- | setts Tech has been working to under- mine the good dispositions of his stu- | dents and colleagues. they desired. About 50 fishermen attended to- | night's meeting and adopted several resolutions which enable them to obtain better returns. The body agreed to the wholesaler pound more to retailers for shad. Daily telephone contacts with mem- bers of the association will be main- | of the body, who obtains quotations from New York and other leading markets daily. The Fox Hill sgroup adopted the Gloucester-Mathews method of de- York and other leading markets daily. Newcomb & Co., Inc., tonight de- clared published reports of a fisher- men’s strike were a tempest in a teapot. “There are 9 or 10 out of approxi- mately 100 shad fishermen who are not working their nets,” he said, “and none of them do business with us. —e MARYLANDER SEEKS ROAD HEAD'S OUSTER Dr. Tabler Called “Arch County Politician™ in Attack by Democrat. BY the Associated Press, BALTIMORE, March 13 —Kent R Mullikin, Democratic floor leader of the House of Delegates, demanded to- day that Dr. Homer E. Tabler, who he called “that arch county pol- |itician,” resign or be dismissed as chairman of the State Roads Com- | mission | Mullikin said that a discussion of | the threatened loss of Federal -oad | money had convinced him that the | State’s road financing would not be in such a “muddle if members of the | commission gave more time to roads and less time to politics.” The Fed- | eral Governmnet has threatened to cut its allotment to Maryland, because, it |claims, the State has diverted roads | tunds to other uses L. Smith, chief engineer of the Roads Commission and, like Tabler, a Re- publican, be appointed chairman of the commission Mullikin said that the commission’s auditor will confer again with offici of the Federal Bureau of Public Roads on Thursday in an attem to show the diversion has not been increased S TWO D. C. MEN GET HONORARY DEGREES Bishop Hughes and Francis M. Durrance Get Doctorates at Florida Southern College. | By the Associated Press, LAKELAND, Fla. March 13-—Dr. Congregational Church of Springfield, Mass., was awarded the honorary de- gree of doctor of divinity by Florida Southern College at a founders' cele- bration today. Francis Marvin Durrance of Wash- ington. D. C, received a doctor of laws degree. Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes Washington, who will end the five- day celebration with two speeches to- morrow, will be awarded the honorary degree of doctor of humanities then. Francis M. Durrance, an examiner with the United States Tariff Com- mission, lives at 4007 Connecticut avenue. D. C. MAN DIES IN CRASH Companion Critically Hurt in Capitol Heights. George W. Gibbons of 501 Twelfth street northeast, was killed, and a companion was critically hurt when the coupe in which they were riding swerved and struck a telephone pole at the intersection of Central and | Orystal Springs avenues in Capital Heights, Md., early today. ( Gibbon's companion was mediately identified. to Casualty Hospital. FIRE SWEEPS SHOP not He was im- taken Threatened by Blaze. momentarily threatened adjoining ed the interiors of a cleaning and pressing shop at 213 Pennsylvania avenue southeast and an upholstery firm at 211 Pennsylvania avenue. Although two alarms were sent in, the flames did little damage other than to the two ground floor buildings and did not spread into a bowling alley on the second floor. C. I. 0. GROUP TO MEET | Building Trades Department Or- ganized Month Ago. James F. Gill, president of the C. I. O. Building Trades Depart- ment, announced last night that a meeting of his group will be held tomorrow night at 1743 Q street. Gill said the department was or- ganized about a month ago and has 125 members. Its membership, he added, was drawn from those dissatis- fled with the American Federation of Labor. Any one interested is invited to attend the meeting, Gill said. Guy Warner is secretary-treasurer of the depertment. wholesalers of higher prices Monday, to fish again that day, though they | | reserved the right to ship their fish if | it is believed will | buyers’ request to charge 1 cent a | tained by G. G. Buroughs, secretary | manding price quotations from New | At Phoebus, Va, W. H. Graham, | manager and secretary of the L. M. | Mullikin recommended that Nathan | of | Other Buildings in Southeast Are | Fire of undetermined origin which | buildings last night, virtually destroy- | Take it away, victim: “Punctuate the following sentence | so that it makes sense: James where | John had had had had had had had had had had had the professor's ap- | proval. “A man was traveling in a country | where all the inhabitants were either | knights or knaves. The knaves never | told the truth. The knights never lied. The traveler met three men | coe 0© S0 et 5 IR = Aweel e He asked one of them whether they were knights or knaves. He did not hear the man's answer and asked another what he said. ‘I think he said knaves.’ said the second man. ‘I think he sald knights' said the third man What did the first man say? “Two silver coins, one bearing the inscription ‘Caesar, 46 AD’ and the other ‘George I, 1714 AD' were | brought to & collector to learn their | value. The collector said that such coins actually had been issued but tnat these were both counterfeits. How | | did he know? | | “In how many ways can six nines be | combined to give 100—such as 99 99 99 “In a certain college the president, | & professor, an instructor and a janitor | are named Brown, Green, White and Black—but not in that order “In the same college are fo dents with the same names The student with the same name as the professor lives in Black's fraternity. Green's daughter-in-law lives in adelphia The father of one of the students, who is not absent-minded, confuses White and Green in class. White is tne instructor’s father-in- | law and has no grandc “The president’s oldest son is seven “Name the men in order.” “PING.” Young colored prisoner was being grilled by police about several ai- leged burglaries, which he not only admitted, but boasted about Did you take anything else in the lady's room but her pocket- book?" he was asked. “No. The family was in the nert room listening to Amos and Andy, he answered. “I did look in a drawer, but there wasn't anything interesting.” Didn't you touch anything else in the room?>” “Well, mebbe one. As climbing out the window I sow a ukulele, and I couldn't resist. [ just reached over and plucked one string—just one ‘ping.’” MANAGER. ADD the name of 10-year-old Sa = Williams to the list of enviable persons you know who were born 1 the knack of getting things done | quietly, effectively and with a minimum | of expense. | Sallie decided a month or s agn |it was high time her mother had a| nice birthday party since, fortunately, | Ph | I was | far off. So out of her weekly allowance, | | plus her daddy’s bonuses for the “A | grades she gets in school, Sally saved | enough to be the sole backer of the party. Her father's offer of ass ance—financial otherwise—was | refused. Down to her daddy’s office in the ‘Pre.“ Building sneaked Sallie one | afternoon and invited her mother's | triends by telephone. All by herself she ordered the rather elaborate re- | freshments. The decorations were arranged under Sallie's personal super- | vision. Possibly Sally’s father had a qualm or two as to just how much of a surprise the surprise party was going to be to his wife. Sallie wasn't wor- | | ried | The guests arrived on time, removed their wraps and came downstairs just as the most surprised mother Sallie |ever had walked in the front door |from & pleasant afternoon’s auto- | | mobile ride—which she had no idea | her 10-year-old daughter had ar- ranged for. and * ox % x Wrong Start. BYSTANDER was watching one of the recent gambling raids along Fourteenth street. Oblivious to what | went on around him the man stood | with his nose flattened on the plate ‘mus window as the raid progressed | | inside. Suddenly a girl came run- | | ning out the door brandishing a water glass, stopped near him and yelled “You look like a photographer and | you can't take pictures in there!"- The man knew what he was and it wasn't a photographer, but the girl looked very angry and she waved the | glass very violently. Like any man | of prudence he lit out. He slipped on the curb. hurt his knee, resumed | flight and promptly bowled over a | |little girl, apologized and finally stopped when he saw no one was chasing him | Cautiously he made his way back to the scene of the raid. “Boy!” said a photographer, brushing himself off and eyeing his smashed camera, “that girl with the glass nearly ruined me. | She was almost as mad as she was cross-eyed.” MYSTERY. A news secribe who shares an apartment in town with another scribbler returned home the other afternoon to find his friend down on hands and knees, crawling ¢ | | broaden By | straining OFFICIALS CONFER - ONU.S BONDSALE {Reserve Board Reported Ready to Check Any Sharp Market Break. BY the Asscciated Press, Top-ranking fiscal ferred yesterday amid eon- officials talk that 2 | Federal Reserve Board might step to check any sharp break in the Gov ernment bond market Becretary Morgenthau Eccles, chairman of the serve Board, and memt board's Open Market mmittee di cussed Friday's heavy selling of Go ernment bonds in an hour-] sion Afterward Eccles told reporters he saw no cause for alarm Asked what action might be tak the Reserve Board, he repliec obvious that, if anyth overnment bonds d on the open marke the Open Market genthau conferr with W. R. Bu gess, vice president of the New Y Federal Reserve Bank and n of the Reserve system’s open ma account Burgess and the Open Market Com- mittee have charge of the Reserve system's policies in the purchase and sale of Government obliga informed selli. Marriner § Federal Re- rs of the ng ses- by was done pu developed to any appre: the Reserve system wo eral bonds Eccles said there was no thought of changing the board's “easy mone policy and that the conference w Morgenthau was primarily a review of general credit Morgenthau, accompanied by Morgenthau and his son Robert last night for a two-week vacation at Sea Island, Ga TOWNSEND’S ARREST MAY BE DEMANDED Mrs oft | California Labor Commission De- mands Payment for Discharged Employes. oetated Pr FRANCISCO Dreyf attorr As SAN Charles there was a p rest would ask wa { Dr. Fran ead of the old-age h 9, demanding b, rtified check for $474 to of six d ployes her of Chicag: in fus said il the check was no' received by March tory e son warrants would charges of viola semi-monthly pay law compe! day violation could be 1 and a $500 fine YOUNG BRIDE SCORES IN FIGHT FOR JOB John Homer Miller, pastor of the Hope | her mother's natal anniversary wasn't §chool Chancellor Terms Married Woman Ban “Unreasonable.” Injunction Stands. BY the Ass, HOLLY ciated Press SPRINGS, Miss, ng bride won the to retair March t rou her teach he chancell to disso tion obtained by Mrs prevent d from forcin, refused . Janelle Oxf er res the De- Educaticnal aut force he yo woman to school after r ma e cember. She refused Mrs. Elliot said she would resume her classes Monday Chancellor Smith grar nent injunction to Mr Supt. A. B resignation and enjoining tw from serving in he ition Counsel for the school boa nounced an appeal hor sought Teavd last nted & perma- Elliot Webb, from re- who her foreir o teacher STORE STRIKE SETTLED Murphy H:lps in A;xrem’nl at Detroit Company. DETROIT, March 13 (#).—A strike that closed the Crowley-Milner Co Department Store, one of the largest | in Detroit, last Wednesday was set- tled tonight in a conference ar- |ranged by Gov. Frank Murphy. The store will reopen Monday. James B. Jones, president of the company, said the Governor ‘“has done an excellent job and has been fair to both sides.” Terms of the settlement were not announced immediately around the front room, examining light plugs and wires “What the——2" said the First Seribe “Can't figure this out,” said the Second Scribe. “All the light globes in the place seem to have burned out at once. Very strange. I don't see anything wrong with these connections.” The pair decided to summon the janitor “Say.” they shouted at him in indignant chorus, “what do you suppose makes the lights go off in this place all at once for no rea- son at all? What about getting 'em back on? You know how to do it?" “Well,” said the janitor, “I wouldn't be sure, but the electric company man that was here today said he thought maybe if you paid your bill—-"