Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1937, Page 2

A—2 %% EARHART TAKE-OFF LIKELY TOMORROW May Wait Until Thursday to Avoid Conflict With Clipper. By the Associated Press. OAKLAND, Calif., March 16— ‘There was a “50-50 chance” that Amelia Earhart might take off late today for Honolulu, the first stop on her globe-circling flight. George Palmer Putnam, hus« band of the aviatrix, said reports showed favorable tail winds and clearing weather along the route. BY C. B. ALLEN, @pecial Dispatch to The Star OAKLAND, Calif, March 16.—A sgluggish bad weather area which has been hanging off the California coast for 10 days and had forced Pan- American Airways Hawalian Clipper to turn back twice in the last week on attempt to reach Honolulu, yester- day caused Amelia Earhart to call off for at least another 24 hours the start | of her projected equatorial flight | sround the world. Present indica- tions are that her take-off, originally scheduled between 4 a&nd § o'clock yesterday afternoon, will not take place before tomorrow. Yesterday's decision was reached after a morning conference attended by Miss Earhart, Paul Mantz, her tech- nical adviser, who is to accompany her as relief pilot on the 2410-mile flight to Hawaii; John A. Riley, Gov- ernment weather forecaster at Oak- land Airport, and Willis H. Clover, chief meteorologist of Pan-American Alrways Pacific division. The meeting was held at Pan-American’s Alameda base where Clover's weather maps confirmed those of Riley in showing that if Miss Earhart were to go| through with her plan of taking off | vesterday afternoon she would face unfavorable winds and generally haz- ardous flying conditions during the first 400 or 500 miles of he. trip, owing | to & series of Jow-pressure areas that | have failed to move off her course in accordance with the weather expert.('i earlier anticipations THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1937. Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. BONNET. HE fair young matron who had just made a fancy dive into an indoor swimming pool was much flustered when she heard people laughing as she came to the surface again. She checked up surreptitiously to make sure there were no rips in her bathing suit, then climbed out and, determined not to be put down by a gig.le, walked straight out to the end of the spring- board and dove again. When she came up, the laughing be- | gan, much louder. By this time she was blushing furiously, to state it precisely. Her angry swagger toward | the board was interrupted by an at- tendant: “Madam.” he said quietly, “is it a bet?” He was staring at the top of her head. She reached up wildly and there, perched over her swimming cap, was her new Spring bonnet—plastered to the head and soggy as a swamp, Then she remembered having parked the | hat on top of the swimming cap while | rearranging things in her locker, Exeunt in confusion. | * % x ¥ CUSTOMER. The counterman in the corner drug store was lounging morosely behind his battery of equipment when our agent came in to look things over. Two empty sugar bowls were in front of him, and the | service-with-a-smile boy seemed particularly unhappy as he con- templated them. Clipper Waits Till Tomorrow. These conditions are considered 0 | adverse that Pan-American officials said there was no prospect of their giant Clipper starting across the Pa- cific again before tomorrow afternoon. | Miss Earhart said that she might con- sider taking off on her flight if the stretch of bad weather was nearer the other end of the course to Honolulu, but that she did not care to risk her | ‘Wasp-motored Lockheed Electra “fly- | ing laboratory” in the turbulent air she was assured the “lows” would in- volve during the initial stage of the flight when her ship will be in a heav- 1ly overloaded condition There is also a possibility that she will delay her flight one day after the Hawaiian Clipper’s take-off in order | that Pan-American’s radio direction- finding ground stations here and in | Honolulu will be able to devote their full attention to checking her position on the way across the Pacific and not have their problem unduly compli- cated by having to shepherd both the Clipper and the Electra at the same time. Mr. Mantz said after the weather esonference that he meant to t-“e a United Airlines plane to Los Angeles | during the afternoon to attend to| some business affairs there before the | trans-Pacific take-off. He indicated that he would return this morning or later if weather conditions on the | eourse to Hawail continue as stagnant 8z they have been for the last few | days. Mantz left on the noon plane. | Work on Radio. Capt. Harry Manning, who is to be Miss Earhart's navigator as far as Port Darwin, Australia, and a radio expelt brought here from Los Angeles Bunday night continued to work on the “flying laboratory’s” radio set in an effort to make it work satisfactorily on the steamship band of 500 kilo- cycles, as well as on its two radio tele- phone frequencies on 3,105 and 6,210 kilocycles. Manning considers the 500~ I‘ kilocycle band the most important of | the frequencies which Miss Earhart's | ship is licensed to use because ships | at sea and shore stations operating | in code on this wave length will be practically his sole source of radio assistance after leaving Honolulu. Manning was aided by Fred Noonan, who 15 to aet as relief navigator as far as Howland Island, Miss Earhart's Dext stop beyond Honolulu Prior to the weather conference, at which the decision to postpone yester- day's take-off was reached, George Palmer Putnam, Miss Earhart's hus- band and business manager, issued a statement that the “laboratory” plane ‘was packed and ready to go except for making up lunches for the crew and filling the vacuum bottles in which they will carry water, hot tomato juice, coffee and cocoa. The statement in- cluded a message received by William T. Miller, Bureau of Air Commerce representative who is assisting in preparations for the flight, from Rob- ert, Campbell, engineer in charge of preparing the Howland Island “air- port.” (Copyright. 1037.) HORNER TESTAMENT BEQUEATHS $215,000 Will of Washington Real Estate Owner Filed for Probate in District Court. Disposing of an estate valued at approximately $215000, the will of Firman R. Horner, Washington real | estate owner, who died March 5. was | filed for probate in District Court | late yesterday It provided for a $100,000 trust | fund, the income from which will go to Mr. Horner's son and daughter, Charles B. Horner of Los Angeles and Mre. Marcis Cotter, 1215 Monroe street northeast, who will receive two- fifths and three-fifths shares, respec- tively. In addition, each was be- | queathed $5,000 and all of the estate which remains after the specific be- quests are subtracted. Mr. Horner provided that the prin- cipal of the trust fund be divided at the death of his son and daughter among their children, The following gifts also were made: One thousand doliars to & sister, Mrs. Elisabeth W. Swett; $1,000 to an- other sister, Mrs. Lydia H. Hum- phries; $500 each to Violet H. Jordan, Theodora Bailey and Elizabeth H. ‘Templeton, all nieces, and o like sum to Mrs. Anna Blair, < | | keyholes “Boy, boy, boy,” said the fellow | as the customer sat down. | “Whassamatta?” seid our chap, who s an Oxford graduate and | still bears the marks. “You see those two girls in rid- ing clothes go out the door as you came in?” “Mmmm.,” said O. M. “Well, every Sunday it's like this They buy two bottles of pop and sit there lapping ‘em up, and I'm busy. see? Then, wnen they go, there's no sugar lumps left in the bow!. Boy, I sure mever thought I'd work any place where you had & horse for a regular customer.” . ox o | REVIVAL. | JOR some reason the World War, which we had turned over to the historians and news reel men. seems to be playing to a great revival in our daily correspondence. Robert Lorenz Hansen of 2127 California street northwest drops us & line about some pipes down in the Munitions Building which he says | were made by the Krupp steel works in Germany—the people who were | S0 busy building big guns in 1917-8 | to be fired at Americans, who in turn | had their ammunition doled out through orders from the Munitions Building | Then a fair damsel in the office offers a memorandum about & story | she heard from a veteran World War | fiyer whe used to spend his spare time swooping over the American trenches and dropping current mageazines, eig- arettes and chocolate bars to his pals, to give the war the personal touch. One day when he came home from | one of these amiable excursions he | found 20 bullet holes in the rings and | fuselage of his plane—put there by some nervous and inexpert infantry- man who didn't recognize the ship s an American craft. “What'd you do about it?"” she asked the aviator. “I fixed 'em, all right,” he . jut- ting his jaw belligerently. “I didn't give 'em any more chocolate bars.” % o¥ ¥ RETALIATIOL. IEUT. CLARENCE TALLEY of the | Police Department was in a gay mood the other day and went about headquarters giving every one he knew the hot foot, or rather the hot hand, with one of those little gadgets that are concealed in the paim of the hand and buzz madly when pressed against another palm. ey et —_ |G R SN The lieutenant shook hands with all | the police reporters, fellow officers, visitors and building workmen he could find. Then, tired of play, he re- laxed in a swivel chair, perhaps to muse upon the remembrance of startled mankind. As he leaned back comfortably, he clasped his hands be- hind his head and . . . you guessed it. Justice is inexorable. * k X ¥ GIPT. 4 Washingtonian who is & trifle excited about things Irish, particu« larly since one of his relatives was hanged in Dublin for participat- ing in the rebellion 20 years ago, was pleased as Punch the other day when a friend gave him a minia- ture clay pipe in honor of the ap- proach of St, Patrick’s day. He admired the dudeen and talked about it and turned it over and over in his hand, thinking of the Auld Sod, until one day he hap- pened to notice on the bottom of the bowl: “Made in Latvia.” * ¥ % ¥ DOMESTICITY. 'E TRY to encourage our heipful friends not to fall through any in overhearing oconversa- tions that might be worth reporting, but one lady writes us this bit of dialogue she ‘ fust couldn't help hear- ing” the other day. Two women, one of them the wife of & Representative, were talking over their personsl finances. The wife of the legislator the blues about her allow- ance. “But, Mary,” said her companion, “any one would be satisfied with the allowanee Jack says he gives you.” "“Yeah,” sald Mary wearily. “So would L” ’y‘ . D.C. TAXRETURNS INCREASE 10,000 All Records on Income Lev- ies Are Believed Broken This Year, As Treasury estimates placed the number of income tax returns made before the deadline last midnight at ebout 6,500,000, it was learned that Washington taxpayers, filing through the local deputy collector's office here, made more than 10,000 returns in ex- cess of last year's total. If Treasury estimates of $840,000,000 tax collections this month for the country are borne out, it would mean they would re than double last year's figures ahd be $164,000,000 over 1929, Treasury figures today showed rev- | enues between July 1, 1936, and last Baturday, totaled $3,002,344,350, of which $919,348,535 came from income taxes. March income tax collections reported through last Saturday totaled $112,650,892, or $27,932,391 more than the same period last year. At the office of Deputy Collector A. Parks Rasin, tn the Internal Revenue Building, the erowd kept up until| about 10:30 p.m., with most of the force of 70 experts busy helping the taxpayers with returns. A few more | came in later and by midnight. when the door was closed, there were two | persons on hand, a man and a woman, to make out the Jast two returns. | Increases Shown, A check-up of figures on the locnl‘ of 1,796 in one day. | For the month preceding March 15| the number of returns increased from rise of 10,087. Treasury officials began scrutinizi | closely the decision yesterday by tgi iSupreme Court ruling that an employe | of & city water works system is ex- empt from Federal income taxation Charles T. Russell, chief of the in- | | come tax unit, %aid the decision would be scrutinized closely to determine its effect on Federal revenues. He added, however, that no large-scale refunding of taxes is anticipated | Regular employes of city and State | governments have been exempt from | income taxes in the past and officials | sought to ascertain how much this ex- | emption would be broadened by the court’s ruling yesterday. | MRS. H. S. ROBINSON FUNERAL TOMORROW | Wife of Treasury Division Chief Succumbs to Heart Ailment. Mrs. Clara E. Robinson, wife of Howard 8. Robinson, a division chief in the Treasury Department. died yes- terday of a heart ailment at her home. | 1306 Decatur street. She had been ill since Baturday. | Mrs. Robinson belonged to the Epis- copal Church of the Transfiguration and was an active member there in the Daughters of the King and the Ladies’ Guild. 8he also was a member of the Ladies’ Board of the Episcopal Home for Children and of the Wash- ington Centennial Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. Besides her husband, she leaves a | daughter, Miss Howardine Robinson, this city; a sister, Mrs. Calvin Hicks of Gambrills, Md.; six brothers, W. A., W. H, C. A. and Robert Trotter, all of this city: J. B. Trotter, 8t. Louis, and T. M. Trotter, Boston, and a half brother, Wilmer Trotter, Falls Church, | Va. Funera] services will be held at 11 A.m. tomorrow in the Church of the Transfiguration. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. AT, Children Go With Paintings. 80 keen are the authorities in Ger- many on large families that portrait painters depicting family groups are being instructed to include four chil- dren whether they exist or not. | | Congress in Brief Senate: In recess. Judieiary Committee resumes hear- ings on Roosevelt court bill. House: Debates permanent neutrality legls- lation. Banking Committee considers flood loan bill, Agriculture subcommittees continue hearing on sugar tax and study re- enactment of marketing agreements provision of agricultural adjustment act. ‘TOMORROW. | Senate: Probably will take up Treasury- Post Office appropriation bill. Judiciary Committee is scheduled to continue hearings on President's court bill. Education and Labor 8ubcommit- tes will continue investigation of eivil liberties. House: Considers miscellaneous bills on eal- endar. Indian Affairs Committee meets 10:30 am. Appropriations Sulscommittees con- sidering War, Agriculture and In- terior supply bills resume hearings at 10 am. Distriet Committee meets am. Special subcommittees of District Committee begin hearings on Jacobs fiscal relations repert, 1 p.m. LENTEN SERVICE Under the Auspices oF The Washington Federation of Churches Epiphany Episcopal Church TOMORROW AT 4:45 PM. Preacher: Dr. John W. Rustin Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal Church Seuth THE PUBLIC IS INVITED 10:30 Charged With Having Ob- tained Over $14,000 by Forging Veteran’s Name. Charged with having obtained more than $14,000 in pensions and bonuses by forging the name of a World War veteran, Irvin B. F. Rosen, 45, of the 200 block of Second street southeast yesterday was remanded to jail in lieu of $15,000 bond set by United States Oommissioner Needham C. Turnage pending further hearing March 29. Rosen's case was said by Secret Bervice officials who ‘arrested him in | & downtown hotel several days ago to | be one of the strangest growing out of the World War. With the exception of some $900 in bonus certificates, which he allegedly secured under false pretenses, Rosen, officials charge, obtained the remain- der of the money in comparatively small sums during the period since the war. Much of it, the officials say, was paid in pensions, which at one time amounted to approximately $100 & month. Rosen is alleged to have used the name of Benjamin Peiring of New York in obtaining the money. Although he denied the charge, offi- cials said he must have applied for & certificate in Feiring’s name shortly after the war. Pelring, who is understood to be well-to-do, is said never to have applied for compensation. When he |office showed that the number of re- | APPlied for his bonus, however, it | turns increased from 4,518 on Maych | VA discovered that both the com- | 15 last year to 6,314 yesterday a gain | PENSation and the bonus already had been drawn. Examination of finger- prints revealed the alleged hoax. Apparently Rosen had obtained a | 36,098 last vear to 46,185 this year, a | copy of Feiring's discharge papers and sel out to impersonale the vet- eran, Treasury authorities explained. | Yesterday before Commissioner | Turnage and at the time of his arrest, | Rosen insisted he was Feiring. | Treasury Department agents will at- tempt to have Feiring come here from New York for the second hearing. Labor lCOnllijd Pfom Pirst Page) cbeying the injunction ordering them to evacuate eight plants. The Governor's statement calling for order was issued in Lansing at the end of a conference with a group of prosecutors and State officials. In De- troit, a short time before, Richard T. Prankensteen, organizational director of the United Automobile Workers of America, said: “Knowing their (the strikers’) sen- timents, I don't think they’ll come out of the plants.” Homer Martin, U. A. W. A presi- dent, announced that a plan to have the strikers vote on whether they would abide by the Circuit Court order, issued yesterday, had been abandoned. Martin Refuses Poll. “We did not put the men in the plants,” Martin said, “and we are not going to take them out. We are not going (o vote on that question.” | Gov. Murphy canvassed Michigan's | | troubled labor front with three State :o!!cm and prosecutore from the in- | dustrial centers of Detroit, Plint, Lans- | | ing, Pontiac and Mount Clemens. All [13 ROM symphony to the dogs and back to symphony again,” sighs Paul White- man, who hopes you won't take his little figure of speech— though true—too seriously. Whiteman and his orchestra ap- peared not long ago in concert with the Philadelpiha Symphony in New York. More recently his orchestra played two tunes between every race and s fanfare at the beginning at a Miami, Fla, dog track. Yesterday in Washington he was “back to symphony again,” rehearsing his and the National Symphony Or- chestra for a joint concert to be given in Baltimore tonight and at Consti- tution Hall here tomorrow night. Yesterday, also, he held open house at his suite in the Willard at noon, appeared before the House Immigra- tion Committee to declare, with con- ductorlike geatures, that American musicians and singers should be given the same protection other countries afford their artists, held the joint re- hearsal in the main ball room of the | Raleigh Hotel, presided at an open- house cocktail party at the Raleigh at 5 p.m., and heaven knows what in the evening. He was talking about another rehearsal. Art Greater Than Laws. In his hotel room in shirt sleeves yesterday moon Mr. Whiteman pro- nounced sagely that “art is greater than geographical boundaries, and real art will move from country to country in spite of legislation. Laws I mean,” he said, “can’t stop it. It's international In more or less the same breath: “1 don’t believe foreign actors and musicians have to pay as much income | tax as I do, either. I have to give the Government about 50 per cent of what I make. I bet they don't have to pay the Government that much. If the Dickstein committee or the Immigra- tion Committee will do anything about that situation, I'm for it.” “Umm, hmm,” said Mrs. Whiteman, | and a manicurist, a barber, three re- porters, three photographers, a bellboy and a lady from next door agreed in awed unison. Abruptly, Mr. Whiteman, Mrs Whiteman and an omnipresent genii | who can talk your arm off —if you have & pad and pencil in your hand—left of them joined in signing the state- | ment with the Governor. “The agencies of Government, both executive and judicial, are bound to take proper steps to see that public au- | thority is preserved and the rights of private property are respected,” said | the statement | None of the conferees elaborated upon it. All labor disputes. it asserted, | | can be adjusted peaceably through ne- | gotiations, and added “Neither party to any dispute can afford to take & position in defiance of the law. The public authorities, charged with the responsibility for the | to employ proper means to this end | “The constitutional authority of the | and freedom from arbitrary action and coercion. This is as important te workers as to employers. of labor and all other citizens are ex- pected and urged to co-operate with duly-constituted law-enforeing agen- eies in every community and make ex- treme measures unnecessary.” Martin visited the striker-occupied plants during the night and Maurice | Sugar. attorney for the union, said they would confer. He did not reveal | the purpose of their meeting, nor could | it be learned what the union president | told the strikers. Judge Allen Campbell, granting the Chrysler Corp.’s petition for the in- Junction, set the deadline for evacua- tion tomorrow and fixed a penalty of $10,000,000 to be levied on the defend- ants’ “lands, goods and chattels” for non-compliance. Chrysler executives withheld eom- ment on what they would do if the strikers ignored the order. OMcials of the U. A. W. A. and the Commit- tee for Industrial Organization were named defendants along with the sit- downers. If the deadline passes without com- pliance with the order, the eorpora- tion could obtain writs of attachment for the arrest of the violators on eon- tempt charges, then Sheriff Thoma: | C. Wilcox would be charged with | serving the writs. With numerous other strikes in {efloct in Detroit as well as those in | the autemotive industry, city police went on 12-hour shifts today instead of the usual eight hours. | Other Detroit Strikes. Other Detroit strikes involved 3,000 truck drivers, workers in the United States warehouse in which 50,000,000 pounds of foodstuffs were stored, 10,000 Hudson Motor Car Co. employes, and 17,000 employes of the Briggs Auto Body Co. Sit-down atrikers occupied the Simplicity Pattern Co. plant at Niles, Mich,, and 3,200 were idle in the Reo Motor Car Co. strike at Lansing. Brooklyn police arrested 19 sit-down strikers after bettling striking em- ployes of Jewish Hospital. The strike was said by spokesmen i have been called to bring sbout recognition of the Hospital Employes’ Union, in=- creased wages and two weeks’ annual vacation. The 19 were arrested after police broke down barricades ip various rooms, and most of them still were in jail today, unable to provide bond. The strike ended shortly after the fight with the police, and after a sonference between officials and werk- ers. No announcement was made re- garding sny agreement. L | proteetion of the public, are prepared | | courts must be respected if we are to | | have orderly government and society, | with security for persons and property | “Employers and the representatives | the hotel suite “for lunch and the Im- | migration Committee. Better come along,” said the maestro. “I'll prob- ably need some help.” Favors Reciprocity. ‘Whiteman toid the committee he favored a system of reciprocity to con- trol entry of foreign stars. He e pressed belief enactment of the Dick- | stein bill to establish such a system | would soon break down the barriers other countries have erected agains} | Americans 1 The “King of Jaze” conceded the Dickstein bill might react unfavorably on grand opera in this country—but not for Jong. “The Metropolitan might suffer at first,” he said, “but these foreign stars would raise such a hullaballoo in their own countries, they would soon relax | their barriers.” Mr. Whiteman hurried back to the Raleigh Hotel and on the way molted me-anotherness.” serfous, tall 195-pound man when he stepped to the conductor's stand be- fore the combined orchestras The first three pieces rehearsed were | one where the orchestra played to give | the impression of a bagpipe. another called “Tabloid,” depicting in music mphony Tomorrow, King of Jazz Says Legisla- tion Can’t Stop Invasions. Paul Whiteman (right) and and featured soloist with White in on a printing press as Grofe “Tabloid,” which he specially con men. A New York newspaper m BONUS HOAX LAID Whiteman Laughs at Laws Restricting Art SYMPHONY FUNl]‘ 10D, C. RESIDENT | ece to Leaa s REACHS 566 Progress Reported on All Fronts in Campaign to Raise Goal. The National Symphony Orchestra's campaign for & $110,000 sustaining fund today had passed the one-third Ferde Grofe, one time arranger man’s Orchestra, shown tuning absorbs the motif for the song, nposed for the Whiteman music an thought up the idea for the song, which will be a highlight in the joint concert of the White- man and National Symphony Orchestras in Constitution Hall tomorrow night. the workings of a newspaper, and a third called “All Points West." Former D. C. Resident Soloist. The vocal soloist in the last song is a former Central High School student, Robert Lawrence, jr., who, at the age of 29, has risen to a place in the spot- light with Whiteman's music men Whiteman didn't have to correct him but once, and that’s good. “Bob” will be singing to an audience of friends and admirers in Constitu- tion Hsll tomorrow night and one of his most honest, most sincere admirers will be Whiteman, who calls him “the kid, Bob.” but says it so0 often in the course of a dav that it naturally makes impressions on you. Besides the spectacle of Whiteman and Hans Kindler “joining hands" at the concert, another high light will be the appearance of Deems Tavlor. re- nowned composer and music com- mentator. who will give oral program annotations from the stage. Angus MacMillan Fraser, Peter MacKinnon, Duncan MacAskill and Adams Pearson, pipe major and three of the best pipers of the Lovat Pipe Band of New York, arrived last night at the Raleigh Holel to take part in tomorrow night's symphony. They will provide bagpipe music for Scottish movements in the selections. Fraser. who has been leader and pipe major of the band for more than More F lexibie 17chtrall;t' Likely to Be Voted in House McReynolds Measure Is Basically Sim- ilar, However, to Pittman Pro ject | Congress.) BY JOMN C. HENRY, 63 to 6 to have the Nation's neutrality policy established rigidly ~ law, such as that of the Pittman bill, the Por- eign Aflairs Committee of the House has reported and seems likely to effect the passage of & much more flexible Ppiece of legislation. Basically, the measures are similar and their objective is the common one of keeping American lives and prop- erty out of wartime danger with the inevitable consequences of bad feeling, demands for protection and probable involvement in another conflict. Each measure, for instance, pro- vides a mandatory embargo against export of arms, ammunition and im- plements of war to belligerents, either foreign nations or factions in a civil strife. In this provision, however, the Pittman bill possesses the element of rigidity in stating that the arms, am- munition and impiements so affected shall be those enumerated in the presi- dential proclamation of April 10, 1936. ‘The House bill, on the other hand, specifies that the President may enumerate the embargoed supplies on each occasion, a difference which not only allows presidential discretion, but also allows greater effectiveness in event implements of war not enumer- ated on April 10, 1936, are devised in the future. Each Extends Embarge. Each bill aiso carries an extension of the embargo principle to “articles or materials” in addition to those of direct warlike use; in other words, to foodstuffs and raw materials o es- sentia] to prosecution of a war. And each, in the same asection, specifies that a policy of cash and carry be applied in connection with these addi- tional articles to the extent that they shall not be transported in American vessels and that full title to them must be acquired by a foreign government before shipment may be made. In that section, however, the msjor differences between the House and Senats bills follow: In section 2 (a) of the Pittman measure no exceptions or limitations are allowed in the ban on trnasporta- tion in American vessels or articles or materials designated by the President. In section 2 (b) of the Pittman measure there is likewlse Do leeway for exceptions or limitations in the requirement that full title must pass out of American hands before ship- ment is made. Furthermore, this sec- tion of the Pittman bill becomes effec- tive automatically upon deciaration of the mandatory smbergo en export of arms, ammunition and implements of war, N \ | | Already Passed by Senate. (This is the third of a series of articles summarizing the background and nature of attempts to define through legislation the neutrality policy of the United States, with particular veference to bills now before By contrast, section 4 (a) of the Although the Senate displayed its | McReynolds bill specifies that move- willingness by the eonvineing vote of | ment of certain designated articles in American ships shall become unlaw- ful, “except under such limitations and exceptions as the President may prescribe.” Section 4 (b) of the McReynolds measure contains the same discretion- | ary clause about “limitations and ex- ceptions” and further specifies that that provision of the act instead of becoming effective automatically does not become effective until such time 8. the President finds it essential for preservation of .ecurity, peace and neutrality. An illustration of how these differ- ing provisions might work out was given by Representative McReynolds during debate in the House last Fri- day. Referring to the ban on transporta- tion of certain articles to belligerent countries in American ships, McRey- nolds cited the working of this pro- hibition in the event England, aided by Canada, were at war. Assuming naval activity in waters adjacent to England, the ban might be invoked against shipping by vessels of Ameri- can registry in that area. With no discretion allowed as in the Pittman bill, the ban automatically would ap- ply in Canadian waters such as the Great Lakes and normal commerce betv.een such ports as Detroit and To- | ronto would be interrupted. Under the exceptions allowed in the House bill, Great Lakes shipping might be excluded from terms of the prohibition. Loan Solicitation Banned. ‘The same illustration was applied to the cash-and-carry requirement con- tained in the specification that title must pass to foreign hands. In one case, that of an embargo against loans and credits to all bellig- erents, the McReynolds bill gres a step farther than the Pittman measure in banning solicitation of contributions for any belligerent. Both measures prohibit American citizens from traveling on vessels of belligerents, with the Pittman version extending to aircraft. Both give the President authority to prevent Ameri- can ports from being used as supply stations for belligerent vessels and both specify that the law does not apply to an American republic en- gaged in war against & non-American state. Both prohibit American vessels from carrying arms, ammunition and implements of war to a belligerent, but | only the Pittman bill contains & pro- hibition against arming of American merchant vessels. ROBERT LAWRENCE, Former Central High School student, who will sing “All Points West” on the Paul Whiteman-National Sym- phony Orchestra program. 20 years, is winner of many bagpiping prizes and is also official piper of the St. Andrew’s Society. ARTIST, 68, KILLEb IN 3-STORY PLUNGE C. C. Burdine, Also Mechanical Engineer and Inventor, Had Been 11l Charles Chester Burdine, 68-vear- old artist and mechanical engineer, plunged to his death late yesterday from a third-story window of his home at 1215 FPairmont street He was found lying in the rear of the house by his brother, Dudley E. Burdine & retired patent attorney, who had been baking in the kitchen Burdine, an inventor, had been under a physician's care for some time, hiz brother said, but had been in the best of spirits lately. He had received a royalty eheck for $1.200 on & weather-stripping invention last | Friday | His wife, Mrs. Bertha W. Burdine, told police he often had difficulty | breathing. Poliee said the window was 50 low that he eould easily have fallen while trying to get air Burdine had patented several in- ventions on typesetting machines, his brother said three oil paintings in the Biennial Exhibit of American Artists sched- uled at the Corcoran Art Gallery on March 28 Born in Kentucky, he lived in New | | York from 1916 until October, 1936, | when he came here with his wife to Join his brother and his mother, Mrs. Eliza Burdine. He was a member of the Business Man's Art Club in New | York. o quor - (Continue om Pirst Page) | to Commissioner George E. Allen. who | supervises the operations of the A. B | C. Board, for study. It is likely the proposal also will go to Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal for a legal review Unit Would Be 12 Ounces. | Specifically, the proposal is that | there be & ban on the sale of liquor in any container whose content is less than 12 ounces. The present mini- mum limit is 6'y ounces. Mrs. Mason said: “The reason for the recommended change is that the most trouble we are having in enforce- ment is caused by the half-pint bot- tles of liquor. We find that patrons of beer parlors, places having Class D licenses, will carry half-pint flasks | with them and drink liquor in the beer parlors. This is a violation of the law. | carry the full pint of whisky and the use of & full pint in a beer parlor could more easily be seen by the proprietor. “The present use of half-pint bottles also tends to encourage drinking of liquor in public places, which is for- bidden. I do not believe any large per- centage of the public buys half-pint bottles of liquor to take home for home consumption.” Early in the career of the A. B. C. | Board, its inspectors found children liquor. A He had just entered | “A person could not conveniently | were buying the miniature bottles olf | mark. New contributions of $15,017.50 | were reported by the volunteer workers | at the second report luncheon yester- | day at the Hamiiton Hotel, raising the total of $36,861.17. | Al campalgn divisions. ex | the Education Committee. made | ports yesterday Committee cha men pointed out that while progr 15 being made on all fronts, there are still many prospects to be heard from. A feature of the drive was heard over station WJSV last night when Dr. Hans Kindler and part of the | orchestra gave & brief concert. and | Senator Radcliffe of Maryland spoke on behalf of the campaign The Maryland Senator declared that, since the orchestra, is the National | Symphony Orchestra, it should be an expression of the highest cultural de- velopment not only of the municy ity. but of the Nation as a whole Paul Whiteman, whose orchestra wiil be heard with the symphony tomorr night, will be guest of honor at t third report luncheon tomorrow the Raleigh Hotel John R. Hill, reporting $500 in new gifts from the Men’s Business Commi! tee, explained that many businesses and firms planning to subscribe to the orchestra’s fund could not announce their amounts before midweek. Mrs. Miriam Hilton of the Educa- tion Commitiee reported enthusiasm in both public and private schools Teachers and students are rallying | to the support of the orchestra, she | said. Many of the schools, before the campaign ends, will turn in $25 mem- | berships to the National Symphony Orchestra Association, she predicted New contributions reported by the several commitiees were as follows Special Gifts, $10,350; Me: Business, $500; Women's Business, $798, Army, $285 Associations, $1.057 Civic $635 Government, $700 Junior League, $93: Navy, $312. Orchestra Guild, $212. and Suburban, $75. C. C. Cappel, manager of the or- chestra, told the workers that “Whiteman is most keenly interested in our orchestra and has assured me he will do everything he can during his stay in the Capital to advance our campaign Harold A. Brooks, campaign vice chairman, told the workers that, While the response w0 the present time is “most gratifying—the time has come to ‘speed up' our drive. “Let’s show Paul Whiteman on Wednesday that we mean business.’” said Brooks. “We can do that by bringing in reports that will total $80,000 or more—and 1 am sure we can do that because our campalgn is now running very JUDGE STEPHENS, 84, DIES IN MISSISSIPPI Former State Senator Leaves Capital to Attend Funeral of Father. Judge Zachariah Marion Stephens. father of former Mississippi Senator Hubert D. Stephens, 2701 Connectie av €, died Sunday night at his home in New Albany, Miss., it was learned through the Associated Press. Fu- neral services were scheduled to be held today. on what would have been his 85th birthday, Former Senator and Mrs. Stephens left here yesterday for New Albany and were scheduled to arrive there today. Mr. Stephens is a member of the law firm of Stephens, Spearman and Roberson here. Judge Stephens several times had been a member of each House of the Mississippi State Legislature and had practiced law for 60 years. MRS. GRACE ELWOOD, 80. EXPIRES AT HOME HERE Funeral Services to Be Held To- | morrow for Wife of Former | V. 8. Employe. { | Mrs. Grace Elwood, 80 wife of | Ernest J. Elwood retired proof reader of the Government Printing Office died last night at her home, 635 F street northeast. Death was due to | a cerebral hemorrhage, with which she was stricken about three weeks ago Mrs. Elwood was a member of Beth- lehem Chapter of the Order of the | Eastern Star and for many years had attended Ninth Street Christian Church. A native of Plainfield, N. Y., she was married to Mr. Elwood Sep- tember 7, 1881, and came here with | him in 1903 from Utica, N. Y. | ' Besides her husband she leaves t10 | daughters, Mrs. Rexford L. Holmes |and Mrs. Prederick Leslie Wight: a | son, Brnest J. Elwood. and five grand- | ehildren, all of this city | Puneral services will be held at pm. tomorrow in Lee's funeral home, Pourth street and Massachusetts ave- nue northeast. Rev. Dr. Clifford H | Jope, pastor of Ninth Street Christian | Church will officiate. assisted by Rev, Dr. Alfred E. Barrows pastor of East- ern Presbyterian Church. > I Ambassador i (Continued From Mirst Page.) | by organizers of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America Meanwhile, negotiations between the Hotel Men's Association and the Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ Alliance were at & standstill following postpone- ment of a conference on the plan drawn up by representatives of the two organizations last S8aturday, Negotiators for the hotel men were to meet yesterday to give the proposed | solution consideration, but L. Gardi- lner Moore, chairman of this group, | announced later the conference was postponed until Friday morning. There has been no indication as to the terms of the proposed agreement, both sides being pledged to secrecy. It is understood, however, that the proposed plan does not attempt to set up a wage-and-hour scale for Wash- ington's hotels as a group. Negotiations were started as a re- sult of the sit-down strike of waiters |and kitchen employes at the Willard | Hotel a week ago yesterday, which |was ended after the intervention of Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward MeGrady. L}