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L] WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair and colder; lowest tem- perature about 42 degrees tonight; tomor- row, fair; moderate winds, mostly west- erly. Temperatures—Highest, 68, at noon today; lowest, 58, at 7:30 p.m. yesterday, Full report on page A-12, Closing New York Markets, Page 18 85th YEAR. No. MISSING AIRLINER BELIEVED LOCATED INARIZONA RAVINE Wreckage of Tri-Motor Transport Sighted in In- accessible Region. DISAPPEARED SATURDAY WITH 8 PERSONS ABOARD Plane Was Being “Ferried” to New York for Shipment to Europe. BY the Associated Press. ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex, April 6.—Maj. A. D. Smith, division super- intendent of the Transcontinental & Western Air, in a radio message to the airport here at 10 a.m. today said the wreckage of an airplane was sighted northwest of Mount Baldy in Eastern Arizona. There was no sign-of life in the twisted mass. The veteran pilot, flying a tri-mo- tor transport, said the wreckage was in an inaccessible region. He told airport operatives here his ship was eircling the spot until Maj. Victor Bertrandias could arrive from Wins- low with his ship. which had been held on the ground there for an emergency. Plane Disappeared Saturday. Smith and Bertrandias, export manager of Douglas Aircraft Co. were leading a search for a Douglas airliner with eight persons aboard which disappeared Saturday while being “ferried” to New York for shipment to Europe. Baldy is about 30 miles west and slightly north of Alpine. where numer- | ous reports of sighting the plane came in yesterday and last night. It is on the border of the Fort Apache Indian reservation. The peak, which is 11,000 feet high, | south of | Is approximately 40 miles St. Johns, Ariz, and more than 60 miles off the course the huge Douglas skyliner was taking across continent. Maj. Smith said he was certain it was the twin-motored ship Pilot Glen Mosier flew out of Burbank, Calif., | Saturday morning. The ground party organized at Winslow included Maj. Bertrandias, in charge: Sheriff Lafe Hatch of Navajo County, Capt. Morgan of the Los Angeles, Calif., county sheriff's office and a Department of Com- merce inspector. U.S. FARM PURCHASE | PROPOSAL REJECTED House Agriculture Committee Re- fuses to Authorize $50,000,000 for Agriculture Unit. BY the Associated Press. The House Agriculture Committee refused again today to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to spend $50,- 000,000 annually to buy farms for re- sale to tenants and sharecroppers. A motion to reconsider the proposal, which the committee disapproved by a 13-to-11 vote last Wednesday, lost on a 12-to-12 tie vote today. The farm purchase plan was one phase of the tenancy program recom- | mended by President Roosevelt, Secre- tary Wallace and a special committee named by the President. Chairman Jones offered a substitute plan to authorize the Secretary to lend $50,000,000 annually to tenants for the purchase of farms on terms allow- ing them as long as 40 years to pay. The plan, which would eliminate Government purchase and supervision, ‘won a tentative agreement, Jones and other members said. A formal vote on it was planned tomorrow. Opponents of the Government land- buying proposal objected that it would place the Government in farming business. Action also is expected tomorrow on two other phases of the President's program—appropriation of $75,000,000 for rehabilitation loans and $70,000,- 000 for a four-year submarginal land retirement program. POLICE PRESS SEARCH FOR BRICKBAT SLAYER Records of Ex-Convicts Checked After Suspect Is Described. B3 the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 6.—Parole records of colored ex-convicts were checked by police today in the search for the brickbat slayer who killed Mrs. Edna A. Worden and her daughter Marguerite, 12, in their apartment Sunday during a robbery. Several housewives, beaten with a brick by a colored man in recent weeks, have described him to police. Capt. Burt Wallis said the suspect was 25, weighed 175 pounds and was 6 feet tall. Fingerprints found in the Worden apartment were checked against those of known criminals. Police also had two clay models of size 11 footprints. County Autopsy Surgeon A. F. Wag- ner reported no evidence of criminal assault. . JULIANA RETURNS Princess and Husband End Trip to Paris. PARIS, April 6 (#).—Princess Juli- ana, heiress to the throne of the Netherlands, and her husband, Prince Bernhard, started back to The Hague by automobile today after ending their honeymoon trip with a whirl at Paris night life. The royal couple carried with them & number of gifts for the court, in- cluding a box of exploding cigars which the prince bought at a joke shep. , 33,943. Entered as second class matter, post office, Washington, D. C. 1,500 Starving On Rebel-Held Spanish Peak Women and Children in Terror Reign of Two Officers. &Y the Associated Press. ANDUJAR, Spain, April 6.—Two madly-determined insurgent officers were reported today to have set up a reign of terror over 1,500 slowly starv- ing men, women and children on top of El Cabezo (the summit) Mountain in Southern Spain. A story of spreading sickness from malnourishment and of hard-fisted efforts to put down a move toward capitulation after eight months of siege was brought down from the 2,000~ foot high fastness by three men who fled the mountainside under cover of night and surrendered to government troops. The deserters, two civil guards and the young son of the chief guard of Lugar Nuevo Palace, pictured the populace as driven to desperation by hunger and accused the commanders, a Capt. Cortes and a Lieut. Ruano, of establishing military terror to quell a rising disaffection. A civil guard officer and many of | (See FORTRESS, Page A-8.) | 125,000 MEN IDLE INTWOINDUSTRIES Chrysler Settlement Near, | but Coal Miners Face | Long Lay-off. | BACKGROUND— Eighth day of negotiations for settlement of Chrysler Motor Co. labor troudle finds conferees near agreement, but disputes of soft coal miners in Alabama and Tennessee appear headed for long drawn out negotiations. Recognition of United Automobile Workers of America as bargaining unit is chief point at issue in parley at Lansing, Mich., while Southern coal miners de- mand wage scale which applies in Appalachian region. By the Assoclated Press. | Labor troubles in automotive plants | of the North and coal mines of the | South kept more than 125,000 wage earners idle today. Between the geographical extremes in the Nation were scores of minor | industrial disturbances. | Prospects for a quick settlement of | the Chrysler Motor Corp. strike in- volving 80,000 workers were bright as | negotiations were resumed at Lansing, | | Mich., today, but 20,000 Alabama | ch | Reserve Buying of U. S. Securities | WASHINGTON, INTEREST BOOST ISFEARED ONNEW U.S. BORROWINGS Fiscal Officials Speculate Over Maintenance of Present Rate. DISCOUNT BH.L ISSUE "TOTALS $300,000,000 | May Serve to Keep Charges on Bonds Low. By the Assoctated Press. Fiscal officials speculated today over whether low interest rates on past Government financing could be main- tained when the Treasury carries out its plan to borrow additional money before July 1. In its December and March financ- ing, the Treasury issued 2.5 per cent bonds. Now, however, bank liquida- tion of Government securities and other developments have led to a belief in some administration quarters that | any future bonds may carry a higher | coupon rate. In his statement that the Treasury | will borrow new cash this fiscal year, | Secretary Morgenthau did not say | how much would be borrowed, or what | type of obligations would be issued | The Treasury has been borrowing in anticipation of June 15 tax payments at the rate of $50,000.000 a week | through discount bill issues. Further Bills May Be Issued. Originally, Morgenthau contem- plated borrowing only $300,000,000 in this manner, but some informed au- ! | thorities said today further bill issues | may be employed for the projected ad- ditional financing. | With the sale of $50,000,000 of bills yesterday, the total issue reached $300,000.000. A slight stiffening of the rate on these bills was reported last night. One factor which may tend to keep interest rates low, however, is the Fed- eral Reserve Board's decision to buy Government securities on the open market. Meanwhile, members of Congress looked to the revised budget expected from President Roosevelt next week | | for an explanation of Secretary Mor- genthau's projected new increase in the Federal debt. Revenues have totaled $3.762.000,000 so far this fiscal year. Only three months of that year remain. Mr. Roosevelt's January budget estimated the year's revenue at $5,796,000,000. | Budget May Reduce Estimate. | Since heaviest revenues flow in with | the March income tax deadline. some persons doubt this goa' will be achieved. If income appears likely miners and 7,000 around Knoxville, Tenn., faced the possibility of a long | lay-off pending approval of a new | contract, All mines of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. | |and Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp. | remained idle, too, pending negotia- | tions on agreementns covering working | conditions. The Alabama and Ten—; nessee miners, a union spokesman said, would demand time and a half for overtime and a wage increase. Murphy Refuses Prediction. | Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan, | occupying the role of peacemaker in | the Chrysler dispute, declined to pre- dict when an agreement would be reached, but there were reports a pact | would be signed in time to permit re- | | sumption of operations next week. | Observers felt settlement of strikes involving 10,000 Hudson Motor Car Co. | employes and 2,200 Reo Motor Car Co. | workers hinged on the outcome of the | Chrysler parley. It affected 65,000 | Chrysler workers and 20,000 employes | of automotive firms selling to Chrys- ler. Alfred P. Sloan, jr., president of General Motors Corp., condemned sit- down strikes in a statement issuec at | Phoenix, Ariz. Their seriousness, he said, lay not in themselves but “in | what they will lead to.” | The Committee tor Industrial Or- zanization started a unionization drive in the oil industry with assur- ance from a union leader that sit- down strikes were not on the program. Disputes over wages and hours for clerks closed the fourteenth retail store in Akron and suburban Barberton, Ohio, yesterday. Akron auto mechan- (See LABOR, Page A-4) TAXES EAT UP ESTATE Inheritance Levies Amount to Half of McCormick Estate. CHICAGO, April 6 (#).—Illinois and Federal inheritance taxes will amount to more than half of the $22,000,000 estate of Cyrus Hall McCormick, an inventory on file today in County Court disclosed. The chairman of, the board of the International Harvester Co. died June 2, 1936, leaving an estate valued for tax purposes at $22,359,806. Trustees’ attorneys said the Federal Government would receive $10,397,942 in inheritance tax, the State $1,289,- 298, the total amounting to 52.27 per to fall short, the President's revised budget next week may scale down the estimate. Morgenthau said yesterday, “I am quite sure we will need new money between now and the end of the fiscal year, July 1.” He did not say whether the decision was prompted by failure of income tax receipts to meet esti- mates. About April 14, Mr. Roosevelt will | send a revised budget to Congress, and it may scale down the estimate. New High Debt Likely. The new borrowing probably will | | push the public debt over the $35.- | 026,000,000 originally forecast for the end of this fiscal year. At present, the | debt stands at a new all-time high of $24,782,000,000. Morgenthau's announcement of new borrowing followed the heavy liquida- | tion movement in the Government | bond market the past several weeks. It was this movement that led to the Federal Reserve Board decision to buy | Government securities on the open market for the announced purpose of maintaining “orderly” conditions. This action will tend to bolster banks’ supplies of idle cash, and thus officials expect it to maintain easy money conditions. Morgenthau described the Reserve Board action as “‘a constructive move.” He said the Treasury itself has no immediate plans for exerting any in- fluence on the money market, but that it is keeping in close touch with Fed- eral Reserve activities. MAKES OWN LETHAL GAS T0 KILL WIFE AND SELF Mailman Turns Apartment Into | " Death Chamber—Note Worry Over Debts. BY the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, April 6.—With a homemade lethal gas chamber Leroy Irish, 40-year-old mailman, ended his worries over debts at the cost of his own life and that of his invalid wife, police said today. Police Inspector George Engler said Irish dropped enough poison gas pel- lets into a vase of acid to Kkill every one in the apartment house where he lived and died. Only the perfection with which he sealed the apartment with tape saved other occupants. The bodies were discovered yester- day and with them, Engler said, & Blames cent of the estate. note blaming worries over debts. By & 8taft Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, April 6.—A housing authority to serve as “landlord” for Greenbelt is set up in a new bill passed by the State Assembly this morning. At the same time it adopted a second measure to incorporate the Resettlement Administration develop- ment near the National Capital. The new bill, which was prepared by Federal officials in Washington and brought to Annapolis last night, paves the way for rich revenues for both Prince Georges County and the State of Maryland, for it would take the I vast community out of the tax exempt classification it has enjoyed. While it provides for no direct levies Maryland Rushes Through Law| Authorizing Taxes in Greenbelt| against Greenbelt residents, it em- powers and instructs the supervising body to contract the county and State to pay the equivalent of what their respective levies would raise on prop- erty within the town. Valuations on the property would be fixed by the assessors for Prince Georges County. Should land rents fixed by the authority be insufficient to meet the county and State charges the difference would be made up from Federal funds appropriated under the Wagner act. In addition to its powers to fix rents upon tenants, the new board | tion last week. | Comics would be vested with authority "0 (See GREENBELT, Page A-6.) ¢ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, TUESDAY, A ROOSEVELT URGES. VAGE LAW DELAY ND.C.FRSTUDY Suggests Amendment to Minimum Pay Act Also Might Include Men. COURSE QUESTIONED BY HAZEN AND SEAL Commissioners Are Ready to Name New Board—Cummings’ Opin- ion Is Submitted. BACKGROUND— In 1918 Congress enacted a min- imum wage law for women eme ployed in the District of Columbia. The statute prevailed for more than four years, when it was chal- lenged by Children’s Hospital and a hotel employe, and was subse- quently held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. That decision since had stood as a guidepost in similar legislation. However, a week ago, in a historic reversal, the court ruling on an ap- ¢ Fpening PRIL 6, peal on a minimum wage law in Washington State, decided, 5-4, that the District law was valid. President Roosevelt has requested the District Commissioners to delay appointment of a Minimum Wage Board to administer the resurrected law governing the salaries of women | and minors, he revealed today in| messages to Vice President Garner and Speaker Bankhead The President said he made the | request to allow Congress an oppor- ‘. tunity to determine whether the min- imum wage act for women which has | been inoperative for the past 14 years | should be amended. Accompanying the President’s mes- sage was an opinion from Attorney General Cummings clearly contend- | ing that the once outlawed minimum wage law for women and minors is now effective. The Commissioners at their board meeting agreed to withhold action on the minimum wage law, in accordance with Mr. Roosevelt's request. Com- missioner Allen said he was glad the President had asked for the delay, pointing out that it will give the city heads ample opportunity to investi- gate the qualifications of the men whom they will appoint to the mini- mum wage board. President’s Message. The President’s message follows: “Fourteen years have elapsed since the Supreme Court, by its decision tn the case of Adkins vs. Children’s Hos- pital, 261 U. S. 525, rendered the District of Columbia minimum wage law inoperative. I submit herewith the opinion of the Attorney General, which makes clear that the recent | decision of the Supreme Court, in the case of West Coast Hotel Co. vs. Parrish, overruling the previous de- cision, has rendered the statute once more effective. “In view of the long interval during which it was impossible to administer (See D. C. WAGE, Page A-12) UNDER DOCTOR’S CARE HOLLYWOOD, April 6 (#).—Owen Moore, 51, one-time matinee idol, was under a physician’s care today after his release from the county psycho- pathic ward. An insanity complaint missed yesterday. Moore, former husband of Mary Pickford, was placed under observa- was dis- wife, the former Katherine Perry, stated he became intoxicated, threat- ened her and slashed his wrists with a knife. Summary of Page | Page Amusements B-18 | Radio B-13 | Society Editorials . A-10 | Short Story = A-7 | Financial - A-17 | Sports _ A-14-16 | Lost & Found A-3 Woman's Pg. B-12 Obituary A-12 SUPREME COURY ISSUE. Witness urges amendment instead of court enlargement. STRIKE SITUATION. Three new resolutions condemning sit-downs offered. Page A-1 Labor troubles keep 125,000 idle in mo- tor and coal industries. Page A-1 FOREIGN. 1,500 men, women and children starve under rebel rule. Page A-1 NATIONAL. Republicans and Democrats neck and neck in Michigan. Page A-1 Interest boost is feared on new U. S. borrowings. Page A-1 U. S. court upholds “windfall” taxes in North Carolina case. Page A-2 Sculptor, accused of triple slaying, hunted in Manhattan. Page A-1 ‘Twelve killed by rain and wind storms in South. Page A-2 Japanese urges elimination of tariff barriers. Page A-2 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Delay in D. C. wage law enforcement urged by Roosevelt. Page A-1 New bill authorizes State-county taxes in Greenbelt. Page A-1 Commissioners find $95,000 for relief of employables. Page A-1 virginia loath to try dentist on first- degree count. Page A-2 Several Alexandria homes to be opened first time for tour. Page A-3 Raids and Maryland legalization men- ace D. C. bookies. Page B-1 Maryland Assembly passes relief bill legalizing bookmaking. Page B-1 Paul Garber, antique dealer, kills self because of ill health. Page B-1 BALKAN PRESSURE An affidavit by his | Page A-2 | 1937—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. % ok k Yesterday’s Circulation, 142,461 (SBome returns not yet received.) ONTALY PLANED England, France Reported | Seeking to Preserve Pact on Spain. ‘ BY the Assoctated Press | Great Britain and France were re- ported ready today to try to line up the Balkans against Italy if Premier Mussolini moves to quit the interna- tional “hands off Spain” agreement. | That plan was recounted by an in- formed Paris source as the Spanish insurgents, friendly to Italy, claimed new important successes on the north- ern front. Their commanders asserted 2,000 government soldiers had been killed in recent fighting for Durango and Bilbao. The possibility Italy might quit the 27-nation non-intervention accord was raised by an Italian spokesman as | the outgrowth of authoritative Italian | charges that France had “flagrantly violated™” it, allowing aid to be sent to the Madrid-Valencia government Britain and France would act to isolate the Balkans from Italy only as a “last resort,” the Paris source said, as they are not anxious to at- tempt a major political realignment in Europe. Although all the nations in the non- intervention accord have already agreed to stop movement of volun- teers to Spain, the land and naval | patrol scheme for making the plan | (See SPAIN, Page A-3) | MOTHER GETS POST CARD FROM HER “DEAD” SON Bs the Assoctatea Press | FORT WORTH, Tex.. April 6.—A | message from the “dead” mystified a Burleson, Tex., family today. Mrs. W. G. Miller told Chief of | Detectives Tom Jackson that her son, ! Donald Miller, 37, sent her a post| card dated April 1 from San Fran- | cisco. On March 23 burial services | were held at Burleson for an auto- | mobile-train victim whose bodv was | sent there from California as that of | | her son. | He was presumed to have been killed | March 18 with two other men in a collision near San Bernardino. | The body buried at Burleson had been badly mangled. Today’s Star Three District bills may be considered by Senate tomorrow. Page B-1 Collins tax bills for D. C. criticized by Representative Kennedy. - Page B-1 Weather outlook favorable for Cherry Blossom Festival. Page B-1 | Doherty pushes attack on “confusing” no-parking signs. Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 | This and That. Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Page A-10 Political Mill. Page A-10 Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-10 David Lawrence. Page A-11 Paul Mallon. Page A-11 Mark Sullivan. Page A-11 Jay Franklin. Page A-11 Delia Pynchon. Page A-11 SPORTS. Linke appears suited for pinch-batter role with Nats. Page A-14 50 rooks on major rolls and 30 held likely to stick. Page A-14 Dempsey is astounded by fickleness of heavy scrappers. Page A-15 | Brooklyn and Billicnaire give Bradley | hope in Derby. Page A-16 | Nell Powell of Charlotte seen as com- ing duckpin queen. Page A-16 FINANCIAL. U. S. bonds ease (table). Daily oil output off. D. C. postal receipts rise. Stocks drift down (table). Curb list drops (table). Ingersoll-Rand net soars. MISCELLANY. Washington Wayside. Bedtime Story. Nature’s Children. Young Washington. City News in Brief. Vital Statistics. Traffic Convictions. Service Orders. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Crossword Puzzle. Letter Out. Page A-17 Page A-17 Page A-18 Page A-18 Page A-19 Page A-19 Page Page Page Page B-8 Page B-10 Page B-10 Page B-10 Page B-10 Page B-12 Page B-12 Page B-13 Page B-14 A-2 B-7 B-7 | increasing their lead over Republican Irwin May Be Walking Free | InMask He Made, Gedeon Says |Skill as Sculptor Cited by Father of‘j Slain Model—New York Police Combing City . BACKGROUND— | Veronica Gedeon, model; her mother, and Frank Byrnes, a lodger, | were slain Easter Sunday in their | New York rooming house. The | women were strangled and the | male roomer stabbed. Several suspects have been ques- tioned in the case and released. £5 the Associated Press ! NEW YORK., April 6 —The fantastic | possibility that Robert Irwin, sculptor | suspect in the Easter morning triple murders. was wandering about New York streets disguised in & masque of his own making spurred police combing every section of the city today. After 24 hours of searching answer- ing hundreds of anonymous telephone calls placing the former divinity stu- dent in the Bowery, the Bronx, Green- wich Village and a dozen other sec- tions, detectives in squad cars still had not caught up with him. “There is nothing new in the case.” announced Chief Inspector John A. Lyons at hearquarters. “The situation is unchanged.” i Joseph Gedeon, upholsterer father of the 20-year-old artist model, “Ron- ni2,” strangled with her mother and a roomer, Frank Byrnes, in their apartment Easter Sunday morning, suggested to detectives that Irwin might be wearing a mask of his own making. “He will try to disguise himself with a mask of some kind,” Gedeon, him- self questioned almost 48 hours as a suspect last week, told Lieut. Martin Owens, ir charge of detectives at the East Fifty-first street station. “He is very good at making masks.” Gedeon said. “He can make them so perfectly he could fool any one.” In the murder flat, on East Fifty- | third street, along with other clues police have announced point directly to Irwin as the murderer, was found a mask of the face of “Ronnie,” the popular model, perfect in its likeness, | Irwin, while a mental patient for three years at the Rockland County Hospital, sculptured busts of President Roosevelt, Max Schmeling. Marlene Dietrich, Prof. Einstein and other per- (See SC ge A-5) MCHEAN VOTE S VERY CLOSE Official Count May Be Nec-| essary to Determine Victors in Race. Y the Associated Press. DETROIT, April 6 —The possibility that the official count might be needed | to determine some of the victors in! yesterday’'s biennial Spring election developed today as lagging returns showed the closest races in recent Michigan history. A Republican and a Democrat were running neck and neck for top place in the contest to elect two Supreme Court justices, and two Democratic | aspirants for universitly regents were | incumbents. | Returns from 3.105 out of 3.480 pre- | cincts to name two State Supreme ! Court justices gave | Thomas F. McAllister, Democrat, 352,683; Walter H. North, Republican, 349,411; Louis H. Fead. Republican, 346,277. Walter I. McKenzie, Demo- | crat, 344,400. For State highway commissioner, 3,121 precincts gave Murray D. van Wagoner, Democrat, 399,230; Charles M. Ziegler, Republican, 317,162. Republicans were safely ahead in races for State superintendent of pub- lic instructon and member of the State Board of Education; Democrats led for two University of Michigan regents. Less than 5,000 votes separated four candidates for seats on the State SENATORS REPORT STOONN ACCOR Agreement on “Declqration of Policy” Announced by Robinson. BACKGROUND— The sit-down strike, senatorial bogey man for the past several weeks, jumped the traces Thursday when Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina offered an mendment to the pending Guffey coal bill, declaring these strikes il- legal and contrary to public policy. While Administration leaders fought to stave off a vote, Byrnes stood his ground, yielding only to the extent of offering a substitute amendment ertending the scope of the original to all sit-downs instead of only those in the coal-mining industry. Brynes‘ amendment was submit- ted after persistent demands that the Federal Government take a firm stand against this new labor weapon. Senate Majority Leader Robinson said today he had agreed with other administration chiefs on a “declara- tion of policy” on sit-down strikes. It will be brought before the Senate for speedy action tomorrow, he said. Robinson said a group of Democratic Senators had decided at a prolonged conference this morning on a modified | version of a resolution offered yester- (See MICHIGAN, Page A-4) (See SIT-DOWN, Page A-2) (P) Means Associated Pre: TWO CENTS. 350,000 AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY FOR D.C.EMPLOYABLES Commissioners Reveal Dis- covery of “Hidden Funds” for Relief, $130,000 DEFICIENCY ITEM TO BE SOUGHT City Heads to Ask for Additional Million Dollars to Care for Jobless Next Year. The District Commissioners revealed today they have discovered “hidden funds,” totaling $95,000, which will be made available immediately for relief of the city’s “unemployed employ- ables.” At the same time, the Commis- sioners announced they will formally ask the Budget Bureau today to ap- | prove a deficiency item of $130,000 for relief of employables in May and June. Later, the Commissioners said, they will go before the Senate Appropria- tions Subcommittee in charge of the District supply bill and ask for an additional million dollars in relief funds to care for employables in the next fiscal year. Action of the Commissioners followed demands of an aroused citizenry that vigorous action be taken to end suf- fering among 10,000 persons in the families of 3,000 employables, who have been denied both direct relief and work relief. Elwood Street, director of publie welfare, was directed by the Com sioners to map out immediately emergency program to alleviate suf- fering among the unemployed. Street scheduled conferences for today with | officials of the Public Assistance Divi- sion to develop the program. Discovered in Twe Accounts, Funds for immediate relief of the unemployed were discovered in two | accounts. In the direct relief account Auditor Daniel Donovan found $70,000 | which had been set aside at the be- | ginning of the current fiscal year for an emergency. Donovan explained | that 5 per cent of all District appro- | priations at the beginning of each | fiscal year are set aside in an emer- | gency fund to be held until the last quarter of the year. In funds left over from the tran- sient relief program Donovan four $50,000. and the Commissioners di- | rected that $25,000 of this amount be used to employ additional personnel to certify needy cases for direct relief. Street said he will budget the $70 | 000 over a three-month period. On 1 825,000 will be set aside for relief of | employables this mon “You can see that won't | far,” Street said. 1 May Be Used Immediately. ‘ If the requested deficiency appro- | priation receives the approval of the | Budget Bureau and Congress, Street | said, all of the $70,000 will be used " immediately. It was pointed out. however. even if the deficiency item is ap- ‘prmod by the Budget Bureau, 1t | would be at least a month before its | passage through the House and Sen= | ate could be completed. | Street said the present force of the | Public Assistance Division already is overworked and that none of that personnel could be used to certify the cases of the needy unem employables. Last Friday the Council of Social | Agencies informed the Commissioners that responsibility for the city's inade- quate relief program had been placed | squarely on them by the Budget Bu- |reau. Before then the Commissioners | had contended the Budget Bureau had | informally rejected a request for & | deficiency appropriation to care for | the employables. The action of the council was fol- lowed by a mass meeting of 1,500 zens Sunday, at which resolutions were adopted urging the Commise | sioners to ask for a deficiency appro- | priation providing $100,000 monthly until the end of the fiscal year and {an additional appropriation of at | least $1,000.000 for relief next year. g0 very that Allen Encouraged. | Commissioner George E. Allen, who has administrative control over local relief, said he is encouraged by the interest District residents are taking in aiding their unfortunate fellow | citizens, and added: | " “If the buck has been passed to us for failure to provide sufficient funds with which to care for the unem- ployed and their families, we shall certainly take steps to leave no stone unturned in our search for money, | The interest displayed by District citi- zens at the mass meeting was & healthy sign and we welcome it.” In advance of the mass meeting, The first award on record by the| United States Employes’ Compensation | Commission for disability resulting | from overwork was confirmed today by | the United States Court of Appeals. | The decision involved the case of James S. Rennie, 51, of Baltimore, claims adjuster for the Royal In- demnity Co. here. Evidence presented to the commis- sion showed he worked under contin- ual pressure, handling from 250 to 300 cases & month, whereas the usual case load was from 75 to 100. He testified he found it necessary to work late at night, Saturday afternoons and Sun- days frequently. The strain aggra- vated & pre-existing heart condition and brought on a heart attack May 5, 1934, the commission found. It held that this constituted an ac- cidental injury within the meaning of the statute, and awarded him com- pensation from the time of the heart attack to November 1, 1935. His employer and the insurance compeny, the Globe Indemnity Co. -Overwo_rk Disability Award Is Upheld by Appeals Court appealed to the District Court for an injunction against enforcement of the order. Assistant United States Attorney Allen J. Krouse, representing the com= mission, and Attorney James E. Mc- Cabe, who appeared for Rennie, moved to dismiss the suit, but their motion was denied, and an appeal was takea from the court’s ruling. Holding that the disability resulted from an accidental injury, Chief Jus- tice George E. Martin of the appellate court said the case was analagous to an injury resulting from physical ex- ertion. S 0 S CALL SENT OUT BY CHINESE STEAMER Y the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, April 6—Globe Wireless reported steamer Pei An had sent out an | urgent call for assistance after run- | | ning aground at Whampoa on the Chinese coast. early today the | (See EMPLOYABLES, Page A<5) 3 WOMEN MISSING ON HITCH-HIKE TRIP Foul Play Is Feared—Search to | Be Made for Them in Tijuana. EBS the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, April 6.—Three young women, last seen attempting to | hitch-hike a highway ride six days ago, were mysteriously missing today while parents feared for their safety. Mrs. Joseph M. Smith, mother of 18-year-old Caroline Smith, said her husband had gone to San Diego, in- tending to search the Mexican border town of Tijuana. Caroline, with Mrs. Violet Watkins and Mrs. Hazel Mae Mackay, both 27, left ostensibly on an automobile trip to San Francisco Wednesday. The machine was found abandoned next day in Redlands, where an oil station attendant said he saw them asking for a ride east. Mrs. Smith said she feared foul play, but there was a chance the three were on a vacation lark. )