Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1937, Page 2

A—2 ¥%¥ WOMAN'S COUNCIL HAS INGATHERING Annual Rites at National Christian Church Are Attended by 700. Nearly 700 members of the Woman's Council of the Washington Federation of Churches attended the annual “in- gathering” yesterday at the National City Ohristian Church, Fourteenth | street and Scott Circle. Following the invocation by Rev. Dr, R. H. Miller, pastor, and a message from Africa by Miss Margaret Wrong, secretary of the International Com- mittee of Christian Literature for Af- | rica, the “ingathering” procession was held. Membership Rolls Read. | but she hid the bill in a side pocket of Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. DUCKS AND FIVERS. NE of those lawyers about town who cashes in plenty helping rich folks fix up theiy income tax blanks received & $100 bill as & cash payment from his client, He was going out of town, so handed the bill to his wife, saying, “Put this in the bank Monday." It was Saturday and wifie was very busy, a pasteboard hat box up on the closet Eighteen women, representing {he | Protestant denominations and each | bearing a floral gift and a scroll con- | taining the names of the members of | her denomination who belong to the | Woman’s Council, walked down the | aisle in pairs. The flowers were left and the membership read off as each | presented her scroll. The count re- vealed a membership of 3,613, | The women then stood under the | pulpit while Mrs. Harper Sibley, wife of the president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, gave a brief | convocation address. | Cincinnati Woman Speaks. The principal speech was made by Mrs. Jessie Burrall Eubank of Cin- | cinnati. Dr. William L. Darby, execu- | tive secretary of the Federation of Churches, pronounced the benediction. Following the service the flowers | were distributed to Gallinger, Garfield, | George Washington and Emergency Hospitals, under the direction of Mrs. Tlizabeth W. Murray, hospital worker for the federation. CARRIERS T0 SAIL ON VIRGINIA TRIP Sixty-Five Winners in Washing- ton Star Contest Embark Today. Sixty-five Washington Star carrier boys, selected in a contest to deter- mine outstanding ability and ambi- tion, will sail on the S. 8. Northland from the Norfolk & Washington | Steamboat Wharf this evening at 6| o'clock for & tour of Virginia | After dinner aboard the boat the hoys will be entertained by Meyer Goldman, popular orchestra leader, and will join in group singing. Pri- vate busses will be ready in Norfolk w0 carry the boys on a tour of the city. The boys will visit the Newport News Shipbuilding Yards and the Mariners' Museum. From Norfolk, the busses will carry the boys to his- toric Williamsburg, where they will have luncheon. Charles Duke of Wil- liam and Mary College will tell the boys of the history of Willlamsburg and they will visit all peints of in- terest there Leaving Williamsburg the boys will ride to Jamestown, Yorktown, Fortress Monroe and Langley Field. There will be a guide with each bus to point out rcenes of interest and explain their history. ‘The boys will embark at Old Point Comfort for the return voyage and ar- rive in Washington Friday morning. Accompanying the boys on the tour will be Galt Burns, circulation mana- ger of The Star, and his assistants, Charles A. McKenney, D. N. Nicklason &nd John Beha, WRITERS IN LONDON MOURN COLLINS Former Chief of Associated Press Bureau Expires—Was Born Here in 1867. The American Correspondents’ As- sociation in London, England, today rdopted resolutions of condolence, the Associated Press reported, at the death of Robert Moore Collins, 69, former chief of the London Bureau of the Associated Press, who died in Bournemouth, England, yesterday after having been an invalid for 12 years. He was boarn in Washington in 1867, the son of Dr. and Mrs. William 'T. Collins. Collins' early newspaper experience included a short period with the Washington Post, which he left in 1893 to join the Associated Press. Four years later he was sent abroad for the first of his foreign assign- ments, which included coverage of the Boxed Rebellion, the Russo-Japanese ‘War and the World War. Collins was in charge of the London office from 1907 until 1925, when he was stricken with paralysis. He had been educated at Washington schools and took his B. A. in 1889 from Mid- dlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. He began his newspaper career the year be graduated, when he was employed by the Akron, Ohio, Daily Beacon. Woman Finds Age Incorrect. After scores of messages had reached | her and hosts of friends had congratu- | lated her for having attained 100, Mrs. M. Green of Scarborough, England, found that an entry in the family Bible was incorrect and she is only 99. Congress in Brief TODAY. Eenate: b Debates Guffey-Vinson coal eontrol ill. Judiciary Committee hears oppo- nents of Roosevelt court bill. House: Continues consideration of legisla- tive appropriation bill. Rules Committee opens hearings on resolution to investigate sit-down strikes. Judiciary Committee begins hear- ings on anti-lynching bills. TOMORROW. Senate: Expected to continue work on Guf- fey coal bill. 4 Judiciary Committee continues hearings on President’s court bill. House. Begins consideration of District ap- propriation bill. Rivers and Harbors Committee meets, 10:30 a.m, Labor Committee meets, 10 a.m. Education Committee meets, 10 a.m. shelf. She never thought of it agsin until husband returned on Wednesday and casually inquired about it. Then she swooned. The hat box was gone. Quickly she got in touch with Sally, the colored maid, who said she had been cleaning up Saturday and had taken that box as a new home for the ducklings, which some kind soul had given to the children of her mistress' house. “John,” an unemployed young man to whom they had often given work, had been around, and didn't her mis- | tress remember saying, “Oh, give John those ducks . . . I'm sick of them.” They didn't even know John's last name, but they knew he lived in some shack with another man out Silver Spring way. The lawyer and his wife went to the relief bureau at Bilver Spring. Yes, they recognized John | from the description and they could tell where he lived. Qver unkempt roads they finally arrived at the shack. There were the ducks all right, wad- dling around. John wasn't home, but his pal was there, and over in one corner—could she believe her eyes— was the hat box. “I'll give you $5 for that hat box" she said. “Why, yes'm, certainly.” The man took the fiver in puzzled fashion and handed over the box. In {uel B. Hayden, Douglas Good, W. G. the car, she quickly explored the pocket. The bill was there. But in the meantime, husband was | looking around. “Look here, pet,” he | said, “we're pretty well off. I never realized how some of these poor guys | are living. Now we're $100 ahead. | I'm going to get out and give this chap another fiver.” He stepped out, went | back to the shack. By this time| John's pal was sure his visitors were | daffy. “Look here, what sort of work | can you do?” ‘'Most anything, boss.” “Well, come around to the office to- | morrow. I'm going to give you some kind of a job—don't know what it will be—but T'll find something. And give this bill to John, will you?" They drove off and a bewildered once-forgotten man scratched his head and pondered on the strangeness of fate. * % ¥ % PRONTO! Although police radio calls are frequently answered in less than a minute, acoording to Inspector Bernard W. Thompson, Capt, Ira Keck, his assistant, believes the one-second response to one of his calls yesterday to be a record. Detective Sergts. Thomas Sweeney and Michael Mahaney were wanted at headquarters “pronto,” and nobody seemed to know where they were until they opened the captain’s door in re- sponse to a radio call they had overheard while a few feet away. * %k % CARPETING OBSERVATIONS. Senate, in 1842, was an as- sembly of immortals with such names as Webster, Clay and Calhoun on its roll call. But it didn’'t make a favorable impression on one keen ob- server who sat in the visitors' gallery an hour or s0 one day. “The Senate is handsomely car- peted,” he wrote, “but the state to which these carpets are reduced by the universal disregard of the apit- toon, with which every honorable member is accommodated, and the extraordinary improvements on the patterns which are squirted and dab- bled upon it from every direction do not admit of being described. I rec- ommend to all strangers, if they drop anything, though it be their purse, not to pick it up with an ungloved hand on any account. “It is somewhat remarkable to see 80 many honorable members with swelled faces caused by the quantity of tobacco they contrive to stow within the hollow of the cheek. It is strange to see an honorable gentleman leaning back in his titled chair with his legs on the desk in front of him shaping his plug with a penknife, and when it is quite ready for use, shooting the old one from his mouth as from & pop- gun and clapping the new one in its place. “Even the steady old chewers of great experience are not good marks- men, which has even caused me to doubt their general proficiency with the rigle. Several gentiemen fre- quently missed the spittoon at five paces and one mistook a closed sash for the open window at three.” ‘The observer was Charles Dickens. * ok % % HOME. GREEN, the national color of the Irish Free State, shows the way home every day for Betty, Prench poodle owned by Mrs. Winifred Haynes of Clifton Terrace. Betty plays daily outside the build- ing. Returning to her third-floor home, she often has wound up on the L floor below, barking for admittance at the wrong door. Mrs. Haynes got s green ribbon, tied it to her door and then familiarized Betty with the decoration. Betty loses no more time getting home. —— District Committee meets in spe- cial session, 10:30 a.m. Yugoslavia will construct two addi- tional ‘automobile factories at Zemun. | 2 THE EVENING ELECTIONS HELD BY EPISCOPALIANS Nearby Maryland Churches | Select Officers for New Terms. Annual Episcopal Church elections in the Washington diocese, in addi- tion to those announced yesterday in | The 8tar, include: Ascension (Silver Spring, Md.). 8enior warden, William E. Perry; S TAR, WASHINGTON, SOCIAL SECURITY AIDS 164,000 HERE D. C. Participates to Full Extent With All 10 Pro- . visions in Effect. ‘The Social Security Board an- nounced today that 164,000 men, women and children in Washington are benefiting directly under all 10 provisions of the security act. The board estimated that 141,000 junior warden, Charlea Leizear; reg- [Persons are working under provisions ister, George Werner; treasurer, Lloyd Clark; vestrymen, Willlam Nixon, Mr. Werner, Roland Davies, Julian Cate, Clement Evans, John Compton, Louis Kummel and Daniel Bowie; delegate to the diocesan convention, Mr. Nixon; alternate, Mr. Perry, St. Barnabas’ (Oxon Hill, Md,) and | St, John's (Broad Creek, Md.). | Senior warden, George F. Von Os- termann; junior warden, J. Owen | Kerby; register, George M. Kerby; treasurer, Mr. Von Ostermann, 8t. John's; treasurer, G. M. Kerby, 8t. Barnabas'; vestrymen, G. M. Kerby, Austin L. Adams, James R. Edelen, John A. Russell, Eugene Latimer, Stanley Pumphrey, Arthur B. Riche ardson and Miss K. V. Grimes; dele- gate to the diocesan convention, Mrs. | Edgar J, Thorne; alternate, Miss | Grimes. i King and Queen (Chaptico, Md.). 8enior warden, T. Barber Brook- | bank; junior warden, Addison Her- | bert; register, Theodore B. Carpenter; | treasurer, W. Guy Herbert; vestry- men, Truman H. Thomas, James E. | Davis, Alfred Davis, 8. S. Reedes, Sam- Herbert and Mr. Carpenter; delegate to the diocesan convention, Mr. Reedes; alternate, Mr. Good. Pinkney Memorial (Hyattsville). | Senior warden, Elgin Noack; junior | warden, John H. Burton; vestryemen, S. Marvin Peach, Stanleigh Jenkins, Harry A. Boswell, Ernest Gasch, | Noble L. Owings, Charles G. Lanhardt, | G. Hodges Carr and Harry R. Hall, §t. John's (Bethesda). Vestrymen, Harry D. Amiss, Edwin | G. Balinger, J. C. Benzing, Robert D. | Hagner, Thomas D. Lewis, F. Eliot Middleton, Windsor Offutt and R. Hanson Weightman. St. John’s (Mount Rainier, Md.). Chairman of the Parish Committee, | John Martin; register, Phillip Rus- | sell; treasurer, Percy Boswell: com- mitteemen, Wilbur Burch, Samuel | Fort, Mrs. Edith Ford, Mrs. Julia! Stansbury, Mrs. Virginia Bose, Mrs Pearl Miller and Mrs. James Ham- | vention, Mr. Boswell; alternate, Mrs. | Mark Skinner; delegates to the north- ! ern convocation, Joseph T. K. Plant | and Mrs. George Seymore; aiternates, Mr. Russell and Mrs. Miller. | St. Paul's (Baden, Md.) and St. Mary's (Aquasco, Md.). Senior warden, W. W. Wilson: jun- ior warden, R. E. Young: register, J. | Roy Baden: treasurer, Dr. Harry M Bowen: vestrymen. W. B. Young, J. Amos Davis, A. D. Jones, Henry Comp- | ton, E. C. Trueman and Kenneth Wil- | son; delegate to the diocesan conven- tion, Mr. Wilson; alternate, Mr. True- | man. | Father strument in the head of Byrnes and of the District's unemployment com- pensation law, and 5,580 persons are being cared for urder approved public assistance plans. Records show that 158,480 workers have applied for accounts under the old-age benefits program. Virtually all these are covered under the Dis- triet'’s unemployment compensation law. The board pointed out that in the year since Federal funds became available under the security act the District has taken steps for full participation in all provisions and is now receiving Federal assistance. Jobless Benefits Cited. The board called attention to the fact that the unemployment com- pensation law entities jobless bene- ficiaries to 40 per cent of their full- time weekly wages, plus 10 per cent for a dependent huaband or wife, plus 5 per cent for each dependent rela- tive up to a maximum of §15 a week. Benefits may last up to 16 weeks during a year, depending on the work- er's past employment. The District funds under this law, which stipu- lates that unemployment compensa- tion payments will begin in January, 1938. The District has received Fed- eral grants of $110,783 to defray the expense of administering the law. The board stated that under State- Federal public assistance programs, approximately 5580 of the District's needy are receiving regular cash ale lowances from funds provided in part by the District and in part by the Government., Of this total, about 2,000 are needy old people. 130 are blind and 3450 are dependent thll-‘ dren in 1,230 families. March Payments. It was estimated that in March the District will pay out from combined Federal and local funds a total of $117.100 for public sssistance, of which $50,800 is for old age assistance, $3.200 for aid to the blind and $63,100 for aid to dependent children In January, average individual pay- | mond; delegate to the diocesan con- |ments to the three groups were: Aged, $25.34; blind, $24.45; dependent chil- dren, $18.24 per child, or $51.17 to each family The District's public assistance plans under the act were approved on December 31, 1935, and it was among when funds became available in Feb- ruary, 1936. All told. it has received Federal grants of $522,060.35 for public assistance. Of this total, the Federal contribution for old age assistance comes to $189,332.31, for aid to the blind to $20824.70. and for aid to dependent children to $311,903.34. The board pointed out that before the District began co-operating with the Federal Government in these three provisions, it already had made certain public assistance provisions, notably the law for aid to dependent children, passed in 1926, and the law for old age assistance passed in 1935. financial | | already is collecting the moment he throttled the girl. ‘ Service Extension Provided For. Fowler. whose marriage to “'Ronnie” was quickly annulled, told detectives fare programs, administered by the earlier that he had not seen her for | Children’s Bureau of the Labor De- some time, but that their relations | partment, provide for extension of always had been friendly. He works such services, particularly in rural now in a sandwich concession at the | areas. The District had an approved | American Bowling Congress. | plan for maternal and child health Miss Carp told police that she nar- | services for 1936 and Federal pay- rowly missed spending Saturday nignt | ments totaling $14,522.80 had been in the apartment where the murders | made by June 30. wese committed. She called off aA| The plan approved for the fiscal “date” to go out with “Ronnie” and |vear ending June 30, 1937, provides The three maternal and child wel- | friends, and spend the night there, because of a cold, Miss Carp said. Gueret, unemployed chauffeur who was released yesterday after 30 hours as a “guest” of the police, walked into the station in a new suit, contentedly puffing & big cigar. Gedeon, previously questioned after finding the bodies Sunday morning when he came to the apartment with his married daughter and her hus- band, was brought in from his uphol- sterer's shop on East Fifty-first street. “We don't want him,” Detective Capt. William T. Reynolds said before the other three were brought in. With most of a squad ¢ 50 detec- tives running down feint clues in various sections of the city, police activity was speeded considerably. A ceaseless stream of relatives, friends and the inevitable collection of morbid today crowded the funeral parlors where Veronica snd her mother lay. Considerable mystery, detectives ad- mitted, surrounds the search for the weapon with which Byrnes, an Eng- lishman who worked as s waiter in a fashionable club, was stabbed to death through the ear. Lieut. Walter Harding also said the police were anxious to interview a Mrs, J. Perry, listed as a partner of Gedeon in his upholstery shop. District Attorney Dodge, after ques- tioning the four for an hour, told reporters: “It looks good. The ‘cops’ are doing s fine job. Please be patient.” | for a Federal grant of $43,316.64. | Under the 1936 approved plan for services for crippled children, $5,586.68 had been paid to the Dis- |trict by June 30, 1936. The 1937 plan, as approved, includes a Fed- | eral grant of $25000. A Federal | grant of $1,666.30 was paid the District for the child welfare services under the 1036 plan. For the fiscal year | ending June 30, 1937, a Federal grant |of $10,000 was provided in the Dis- triet plan as approved. The purpose of vocational rehabili- | tation is to provide re-education for workers crippled in industry. At the end of the last fiscal year, 413 such persons were receiving training under | the District's program, for which the city has received Federal grants of $30,000. |52 YEARS WITH SCHOOLS |BRINGS HONOR TO CLERK Dr. John F. W. Smith, clerk in the statistical office at the Franklin Ad- ministration Building, was to be honored at an informal oceremony today for his 52 years’ service in the public school system. His retirement becomes effective today. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintend- ent of schools, was to present Dr. Smith, on behalf of the Franklin Building employes, a brief case and money for the purchase of iaw books. Man in “Iron Lung” to Travel 10,000 Miles b¥ the Associated Press. PEIPING, China, March 31. — Frederick B, Snite, jr, Chicsgo in- fantile paralysis victim, today entered his second year in an “iron lung,” cheered by news he is soon going to start the 10,000-mile trip home. The 26-year-old victim's father an- nounced elaborate plans to take his son, still imprisoned in the artificial respirator, back to Chicago for treat- ment, sailing from Shanghsi June 2. A special train, outfitted with com- plete hospital equipment, is being pre- pared to take Frederick and his “iron lung” to Shanghai from Peiping, where he was stricken on a world tour & 0. mA;c‘:mmel him will be at least 25 doctors, nurses and electrical ex- perts responsible for keeping the lung machine in operation every minute of the long journey, which will cost an estimated $50,000. Trucks will be used to transport the six-foot steel cylinder, which has pumped air into Frederick's lungs since his lung muscles were paralyzed & year ago, between the special train and the boat. A duplicate “iron lung.” special electric generators to supply the ma- [0} for Treatment chine’s current, emergency resuscita- tors and a device to combat seasick- ness will be taken along to meet any emergency arising on the long trip by land and sea. “At least I will be the first human to half-circle the globe in an iron lung,” said Snite today, smiling with the unflagging coursge he has shown throughout his illness. His father sald Bnite’s “progress is slow but encouraging. I believe Fred- erick will be rid of this machine some day.” Since he was stricken Young 8nite has learned to speak Chinese and has mastered ‘the game of chess while lying helpless in the lung machine, with only his head protruding. Some use has been restored to his paralyzed legs, but the youth's arms remain useless. His longest period outside the machine has besn five minutes and ten seconds, but the air pressure has been gradually reduced until Snite is able to do two-thirds of his breathing unaided. 8ix nurses attend him, working in shifts. His parents, sister and a friend, Clarence J. Dillon, fermer Notre Dame University classmate, have been with Snite since he was taken Ll D. C, WE DNESDAY projectile in excess of 25 miles. , MARCH 31, 1837 Three like it will form the battery. Moved to Guard Golden Gate This giant coast defense gun was moved to Fort Funston to become a part of the United States Army’s defense fortifications at the Golden Gate. The gun weighs 143 tons and hurls a 2,400-pound —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. LOANS ARE DENIED TOFARM TENANTS Proposal to Allot $50,000,- 000 as Purchase Aid Re- jected by House Body. BY the Associated Press. The House Agriculture Committee today rejected a proposal to allot $50.- 000,000 to assist farm tenants to buy farms on easy credit terms. The proposal was part of the ad- ministration’s $185,000,000 farm ten- | ancy program. Chairman Jones said the commit- tee voted, 13 to 11, against recom- | mending such legislation, urged by | President Roosevelt, Secretary Wal- lace and a special committee on tenancy named by the President The committee took no action on proposals to appropriate $75,000,000 | for rehabilitation loans to low-income |farm groups and a $70,000,000 sub- | marginal land retirement program. Seven Democratic members of the committee joined six Republicans in opposing the farm buying plan. Action came after 11 weeks of hear- ings and debate on the program. Jones said s motion to reconsider the unfavorable vote pending. He ex- | jected. ! The chairman said most of the members objected to the land-buying | program on the ground it would put | the Government in the land business. | The measure rejected was the third | tossed aside by the committee. It would have suthorized the Secretary | of Agriculture to “uy farms for re- iaale to tenants . terms that would | give them as long as 45 years to pay. The interest rate would have been 3 per cent. | President Roosevelt, who talked yes- terday with Chairman Jones and other | committee members, told newspaper men tenancy legislation must be on s | | demonastration basis if large costs are to be avoided. The $100,000,000 crop insurance measure, approved by the Benate yes- terday without s record vote, next will be studied by the House committee. R — Cold Halts Herring Run. LEONARDTOWN, Md., March 31 (#).—The run of herring, which began unusually early several weeks ago, ceased with the recent cold weather. Water men here said, however, they expected the fish would appesr again shortly, making the season about a month longer than usual. In Court TRIAL SET IN McADOO-DE ONATE DIVORCE. MRS. ELLEN McADOO DE ONATE. RAFAEL LOPEZ DE ONATE. The daughter of United States Senator William G. Mc- Adoo and her ummgcd hus- band are shown as they ap- peared in Los Angeles court g’uterdav for a preliminar, earing on Mrs. De Onate’s divorce suit, which he iz con- testing. Trial of the action 'or Friday. ht, 4. P. Wirephoto. BY BLAIR BOLLES. Among the reasons 300 serious- minded men from 20 countries are gathering here for the World Textile Conference is that women's clothes are too scanty and men's wardrobes slimmer than they were when Theo- dore Roosevelt was President and King Edward VII was the style ruler of the globe. Out of the conference, which fis the first of its kind ever held, is likely to come a set of resolutions urging women to lengthen their skirts, | to bring back the flounce, to demand | petticoats at least three deep, to con- | demn the knee-length hose and to | Insist that their husbands, fathers | and lovers own at least one suit for | tion special wear for evenings, co- | tillions and weddings. | Harold Beresford Butler, secretary | general of the conference, yesterday explained the “why” of the interna- | tional reverberations from the short- | ened skirt and the general dismissal | of the corset, which have set the Ithe first to receive Federal grants Pressed the opinion it would be re-| textile industry on its ear. | Per Capita Use at Standstill. “During the last 25 or 30 years' he said on his arrival here. “there has been no per capita increase in | the consumption of textile goods. de- | spite the use by industry of textiles on an ever-increasing scale. “I suppase it is because people are wearing fewer clothes than they used |to. You know clothing people is like feeding people. If you could | enable people 0 eat more food it would go better for the farmer. So with textiles. The more they wear Textile Industry in 20 Nations |Conference to Consider Fuller Ward- robes and Center Attention on Hours and Wages. every day in the week, not to men- | | prepared by the International Labo! ! Office, which remarks the better the textile business. But unless you can increase consumption, things are not going to get better. They will probably get worse.” Scanty F ashions Menacing CROWLEY EXPECTS 4 U.5. CREDIT CUR Favors Letting Commercial Banks Resume—F. H, A, Quits Repair Field. B7 the Associated Press. Chairman Leo T. Crowley of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said today the Government should step out of the money-lending business as rap- 1dly as commercial banks are prepared to enter it. He made this comment as the Fed- eral Housing Administration arranged to close down tonight its half-billion- dollar business of insuring home mod- ernization and repair loans Its bigger business of insuring new home construction, now in a boom phase, will continue. Expiration of powera to insure loans for home repair will terminate the emergency portion of ihe housing pro- gram. The Home Owners Loa Corp., set up in 1933 to save homes from foreclosure, stopped its loaning activi- ties last year and is being liquidated $533,000 in Loans Insured. Up to March 20 & total of 1,399,804 home repair loans aggregating $533.- 827,492 had been insured by © H A. The loans were made by 6420 banks and other private financial institu- tions. The insurance has cost the Gowvern- ment so far an estimated $15,000,000, of which $4.769,930 was the net Inss in paying claims on defaulted loans and the balance was cost of operation Crowley asserted that “all Federal lending agencies probably will be glad to co-operate with chartered banks in | withdrawing from credit activities.” | President Tom K. Smith of the Butler suspects the delegates to the | American Bankers' Association said conference, which opens Friday, will | recently the organization is making be more eager to discuss working | studies to serve as a basis for nego- hours, wages, conditions of labor for | tiation with Government officials on men, women and children in the in- | the curtailment of this activity. dustry and the migration of textile | Would Aid Smaller Banks. mills than to consider as deeply as| Restriction of Federal lending, Crow- it merits consideration the short skirt | ley said, would be especially beneficial as a factor. But without such dis- | to smaller banks which are encoun= cussion, he intimated. the meeting | tering difficulties in finding invest- really can get nowhere. for it will | ment channels for idle funds. be overlooking basic factors | Citing that the Reconstruction Fi- American Use High. | nance Corp. already has curtailed The secretary general admitted. | lending, Crowley sald “it is on its way however, that the American woman Ouf" and the American man are not so | I the famm credit field. he said the much at fault in this universal fash. | Federal land bank system should be jon conspiracy against the textiles |retained for any future emergencies as are the countries abroad. He re-| Meanwhile, fiscal authorities said ferred reporters to a page in the re- | the Treasury may urge revision of the port on the world textile industry | $1.000.000,000 Wagner housing bill in r | an effort to keep next year’s expendi- | tures close to budget estimates. The measure is being atudied by Treasury experts. Their findings prob- ably will be transmitted soon to Sec- retary Morgenthau Low-Rent Projects Are Idea. Under the bill, offered by Senator “In 1929, for example. the average | inhabitant of the United States was | using four times more cotton (per- sonally and industrially) than the average inhabitant of the world, 10 times more silk, 3 times more jute, 5 times more rayon and an equal Wagner, Democrat. of New York, a amount of wool—in sum, at least from “United States Housing Authority” three to four times more of all textile | would make loans and grants to local fibers taken together.” | agencies for low-rent building projects. In support of his relation of under- | Funds would be provided through consumption to scanty clothing But- a $51.000,000 appropriation, transfer of ler pointed to the record for the ' available money from the Public Works Sudan, Ceylon. Nyasaland, Kenya | Administration and borrowing. and Uganda, the Netherlands East| Officials said the Treasury study i Indies, Tanganyika. French West |centering on provisions which would Africa and Britist West Africa, most | enable the Housing Authority to run of whose inhabitants are satisfied to |up & $200,000,000 debt, through the wear a loin cloth or a sarong. and |issuance of Government-guaranteed where consumption of textiles is no- toriously low. “I do hope something can be done to induce people to wear more or to hang more drapes or something,” | Butler said | | B te Associated Press. The largest and most completely | equipped eclipse expedition ever gath- ered together, Geographic Bociety officials said yesterday, will sail from Honolulu May 6 for the Phoenix Islands in the South Pacific. Led by Dr. 8. A. Mitchell, director of the Leander McCormick Observa- tory at the University of Virginia, the party of 11 scientists will leave San Francisco in groups between April 15 and April 37. The last group will sail on the Mariposa. The acientists’ trip from Honolulu will be made on the Navy mine sweeper Avocet, which also will carry National Reco-rd Expedition ;"or l:?cl;pse Sails May 6 for South Pacific| ; Scientific work to be undertaken { will include accurate timing of the beginning and end of the eclipse: | measurements of the sun's light at various stages with spectroscopes, in- struments which break light down into its constituent wave lengths; photographic studies of the corona of flaming gases shooting out from the sun’s surface, and visual observa- | tions through telescopes, Dr. Mitchell said. Other members of the scientific staff will be Capt. J. P. Hellweg, superin- tendent of the Naval Observatory, who will have charge of the Navy's participation; Dr. Paul A. McNally, their scientific instruments, including \ director of the Georgetown University camerss, food and water for the | Observatory; Dr. Heber D. Curtis, di- entire party for six weeks, cement rector of the University of Michigan with which to build concrete bases for | Observatory; Dr. Floyd K. Richtmyer the instruments, terials. on which the total eclipse will be visible for alightly more than four minutes on June 8, and will spend almost a menth in preparation for the event. a complete radio | of Cornell University; Dr. Irvine C. broadessting station, and other ma- | Gardner of the Bureau of Standards; | Dr. Theodore Dunham of Mount Wil- The expedition will establish itsell | son Observatory, California; | on either Canton or Enderbury Island, E. Sawyer, Harold assistant director of McMatn-Hulbert Observatory; John W. Willis of the Naval Observatory; Richard H. Stewart of the Geographic 8ociety and Philip I. Merryman, radio engineer. Probe (Continued Prom First Page.) ceeded in winning for labor only such industrial liberties as both law and morals has long sanctioned. The sit- down has been provoked by the long- standing ruthless tactics of a few great corporations who have ham- strung the National Labor Relations Board by invoking injunctions in the courts, which they have a perfect legal right to do; who have openly banded together to defy this law of Congress quite independently of any court ac- tion, which they have neither the legal nor the moral right to do, and who have systematically used spies and discharges and violence and terrorism to shatter the workers’ liberties as defined by this Congress, which they have neither the legal mor the moral right to do. “The organized and calculated and cold-blooded sit-dowr sgainst Federal law has come, as always, not from the common people, but from a few great vested interests. The-uprising of the; common people has come, as always, only because of s breakdown in the abllity of the law and our economic system to protect their rights.”™ Citing the practice of the corpora- tions, particularly in the General Mo- tors’ oontroversy, in obstructing operae tion of the National Labor Relations Board by legal recourse, Wagner de- clared that “the only way to avoid industrial strife is to have that two- year-old act of Congress so interpreted in the courts that it may be applisd on a Nation-wide scale to the promo- tion of industrisl peace.” Cry for Legislation. Deriding the hue and ery for new Pederal legisiation, Senator Wagner said: “1t s proposed to remedy the often- r alleged ‘one-sidedneas’ of the national labor relations act by giving employers substantive rights equivalent to those which workers are accorded under the act? Have not employers already made manifest their right to organize and bargain collectively through mon- ster corporations and Nation-wide networks of trade associations? Have employers not secured their right to choose their own representalives ah- solutely free from interference by workers? Have not employers the right to apply the principle of ma- Jority rule to their corporate affairs, and to the selection of their apokes- men for purposes of dealing with their workers?" Answering the claim of the auto- mobile industry that their wages are high, the New Yorker quoied a profit increase to the industry of 51 per cent between 1929 and 1936, with the full time wage of the worker decreas- ing during the same period by 12 per cent. “And for good measure,” he added, “the automobile worker today is work- ing four hours a week longer than he did in the days of the N. R. A." Proposal for Interventien. The Senator referred with some sarcasm to the recent proposal by the National Association of Manufacturers for Federal intervention in labor dis- puies, recalling their unqualified in- sistence that the national labor rels- tions act was unconstitutional because the Pederal Government has ne power to intrude in matters of purely local coneern. “If they and others are right when they elamor for Federal action in situations analogous to the G. M. or Chrysler trouble,” he said, “then they iand the 53 Liberty League lawyers who pronounced the national labor relations act unconstitutional in toto were wrong.” Meanwhile, Representative Dies, [} | obligations. in the fiscal year ending | June 30, 1938. Aggregate borrowing | could be increased to $1.000,000.000 after July 1, 1940 Although no alternative has been devised, informed persons said, con- sideration is being given to scaling down borrowing authority. Unless this were done or new revenue provided, they asserted. the legislation would knock President Roosevelt's budget out of kilter. —————eeee Democrat, of Texas termed the site down strikes practice an issue "ine finitely more important than the Supreme Court reform,” as he ap- | pealed to the House Rules Committee to report out favorably his resolution | calling for a thorough investigation into the causes and background of this new labor technique Because two other members of the committee, of which Dies himsel! is a member, indicated determined oppo- sition to his resolution and the ques- tion of obtaining further information lon the whole issue from outside aources was raised, the committee cur- | tailed its open hearing on the resolu- | tion temporarily to discuss further procedure in executive session. It seemed likely, however, that more extensive open hearings will be held | on the resolution, possibly with labor and industry representa‘ives invited to preseni testimony. Charges Communist Influence. In substance, Dies' argumen. on be- half of his resolution was centered principally on the alleged communist influence in the Michigan sit-down | strikes in plants of General Motors and Chrysler Corps. “Forelgn" speakers, he declared. have been numerous through the strike areas, as communists “literally de- scended” on Detroit. In addition, he charged, complaints have been made to him that “racketeers” from Chi- cago and New York have invaded the strike zone to piay s “prominent part” in the labor activities. Citing section 5299 of the Revised Statutes of the United States as ap- plicable to the present situation in permitting Federal intervention, Dies suggested a ruling on this issue from the Attorney General, adding his con- viction that the anti-trust laws would be applicable if the quoted statute is not. From outside the committee came a strongly worded protest against the resolution and defense of the atrikers oontained in a statement presented to the committee and reieased to the press by Representative Teigan, Farmer-Laborite of Minnesota, Representative Teigan's statement follows: “I am unalterably opposed to any attempt to legislate against labor's methods to better its conditions. Iam particularly opposed to the resolution offered by Mr. Dies calling for an Investigation of sit-down strikes by & special committee of the House. It is perfectly clear that this resolution would permif, under the cloak of & congressional investigation, a reac- tionary expedition against unionism. It would present to the enemies of Iabor a gift, which they would use for nothing except the suppresison of democratic rights. “The sit-down strikers are strug- gling merely for the basic rights which are guaranteed to them by law. Their struggle is to secure their legal right to join unions and to bargain collec- tively through representatives of their own choosing, free from the opposi~ tion of the employers stool pigeons ll' gunmen.”