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WEATHER. (U. 5. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight; tomorrow generally fair .and slightly warmer; moderate winds, be- coming variable. Temperatures—Highest, 70, at noon today; lowest, 46, at 6:15 am. today. Full report on page B-10. Closing New York Markets, Page 20 85th YEAR. No. 33,959. Entered as second class inatter post office, Washington, D. O. ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1937 —FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. sxsx . 1.0. OFFICIALS HELD IN MAINE STRIKE DISORDERS Lewiston Police Warrant Charges Three With “Riot- - ous Assault.” 300 TROOPS PATROL STREETS OF AUBURN Labor Leaders Appeal to Secre- tary Perkins and La Fol- lette Committee. BACKGROUND— John L. Lewis’ Committee: for In- dustrial Organization, seeking sole right as collective bargaining agent, through its afiliates, has had in- dustry in turmoil since last Fall, when sit-down strikes were inau- gurated in General Motors plants. Later strikes spread to Chrusler, Hudson, Reo and G. M. C. in Can- ada. Most recent scene of disorder is in Maine, where shoe workers are out in factories at Lewiston and Au= brrn, BULLETIN. ‘TORONTO, Ontario, April 22 (®)—An Oshawa General Motors | strike peace conference got under | way shortly after 1:30 p.m. today in the old-fashioned, high-ceilinged office of provincial Premier Mitchell Hepburn, outspoken Canadian enemy of John L. Lewis. By the Associated Press. LEWISTON, Me, April 22.—Police Capt. Joseph Picard today arrestedl Powers Hapgood, New England secre- | tary for the Committee for Industrial Organization, and William J. Mackesy, C. I O. director of a 29-day shoe Lewis Lieutenant Arrested WILLIAM J. MACKESY, John L. Lewis’ strike lieutenant, being carried on the shoulders of shoe strikers when he arrived yesterday in Lewiston, Me. Today he was arrested on a charge of riotous assault. —A. P. Wirephoto. BRITISH DISCUSS WAR DEBT PARLEY Baldwin and Chamberlain Also Broached on Eco- strike involving 6,400 workers and 19 factories in the Lewiston-Auburn area. | In addition Ernest Henry, a union organizer, was also arrested. The three men were seized at their hotel. A police warrant charged them with “riotous assault.” It was issued in connection with the stoning of State | Police Lieut. George Folwer, knocked | unconscious vesterday by a stone as State and Auburn -police turned back 1,000 strikers at a bridgehead Today's action followed on the heels of an injunction by Judge Hnrry\ Manser outlawing the strike and granting & temporary Lnjunctlon: against the strikers, and C. 1. O. re: torts that the court ruling was a “miscarriage of justice” that “meant | nothing.” Troops Patrol City. Three hundred National Guards- men patrolled Auburn today, hastily summoned by Gov. Lewis O. Barrows. Three melees and injuries to half a |Great Britain was ready to enter into | dozen persons and arrests of a like number called them to the scene. ‘ City Manager Frederick W. Ford | flatly asserted that recurrance of such | call—but only if an investigation shows | insurgent nomic Conference. By the Assoclated Press LONDON, April 22.—Britain's pre- mier and her chancellor of the exche- quer expressed qualified willingness today to talk war debt settlement and Jjoin the other nations in a conference on the world's economic perils to ace. The war debt statement in the House of Commons by Chancellor Neville Chamberlain was really a re- iteration of what England already has told the United States: That Britain is ready to resume war debt discus- sions when she considers the time is ripe. Chamberlain did not say that that time had come, nor would he be led into a detailed discussion of pos- sible methods. Other Parley Favored. Before the same listeners, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin asserted that & world “mutual understanding” con- ference such as Adolf Hitler this week suggested President Roosevelt might BRITISHFOOD SHPS TODEFY BLOCKADE {Warship Escort to 3-Mile Limit Promised Three Going to Bilbao. BACKGROUND— Shift in principal action in Span- ish civil war from Madrid, where Loyalist forces have held out nearly six months against a siege by Gen. Franco, to Basque capital of Bilbao, besicged by insurgent land and sea forces, has led to British govern- ment’s determination to protect its merchant vessels from insurgents on the high seas, but not to help them break the blockade within the SIMPSON DIVORCE AGAINQUESTIONED: WEDDING IN JUNE Attorney Expresses Doubt as to Legality of First Separation. HUSBAND NOT BELIEVED RESIDENT OF VIRGINIA Baldwin May Be Questioned as Tentative Dates for Marriage Are Announced. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 22.—Legal doubt of the validity of Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson's first divorce was raised again today after friends had dis- closed plans that would make her the June bride of the Duke of Windsor. A. Berriedale Keith, a famous con- stitutional lawyer, wrote to the Edin- burgh Scotsman expressing his doubt that Mrs. Simpson was properly di- vorced from her first husband in the eyes of British law. He again raised the issue, he said, because a date for the wedding has been fixed. Keith urged the government last month to remove all doubt of the marital status of the woman for whose love former King Edward VIII renounced his throne. Divorced in Warrenton. Mrs. Simpson was divorced from Lieut, Comdr. E. W. Spencer, jr., U. | 8. N, in Warrenton, Va., in 1927. Her conditional divorce from Ernest Aldrich Simpson was granted at Ipswich October 27 and is expected to be made final soon after April 27. “The only divorces which English law certainly recognizes as dissolving marriages effectively for purposes of status in England are those granted in the court of the husband's domicile,” Keith declared. “It seems plain that Mrs. Simpson's first husband was not domiciled in Virginia.” The remedy, Keith suggested, would be for Prime Minister Stanley Bald- win to be asked categorically and to state if his advisers consider that the proposed marriage to Windsor is valid. Would Eliminate Objection. If Baldwin says yes, Keith declared, | there would be no objection to the | wedding. If he says such assurances | 3-mile limit. British ships carrying food to the refugee-swollen population of Bil- bao were stopped by insurgent ves- sels en route to Bilbao and sought refuge in French port of St. Jean de Luz. | By the Associated Press. ST. JEAN DE LUZ, Franco-Spanish Border, April 22—A defiant fleet of Britlsh food ships, under the high | seas guard of British men-of-war, de- | termined today to smash the Spanish blockade of Bilbao and | violence would bring martial law and | & conference is likely to succeed, and |provision the near-starving Basque more troops “to uphold the police and the courts.” | Gov. Barrows, in sending troops into | the district, declared, “I am prepared ‘ to order out the entire military forces of Maine to preserve constitutional authority.” The strike issue revolves around wages and C. I. O. recognition. Judge Manser's injunction in effect held that the C. 1. O.-sponsored strike had been called before a vote had been taken to determine whether or not the union represented a majority of the workers and it was, therefore, illegal. Demands Investigation. Previous to his arrest Hapgood had sent a telegram to the La Follette Sen- ate Civil Liberties Committee in which he accused Maine manufactur- ers of hiring Boston private detectives. He asked immediate investigation.” The Shoe Workers' Organizing Com- mittee, in a telegram to Secretary of Labor Perkins, urged “every effort to secure our rights under the Wagner act, which have been arbitrarily denied us by the courts and police authorities of the State * * *.” Although Auburn was quiet through- out the night after the disturbance at4q the bridgehead, Police Capt. John J. O’Connell said he had arrested six youths on assault charges resulting from a complaint of an 18-year-old shoe worker that he had been bound, gagged and dumped onto the porch of his home. The youth, Alvarez Pelletier, had a sign tied to his back, the captain said, reading, “Don’t scab, you rat.” Two 80-pound concrete urns were thrown through windows of Peter Lemieux’s Lewiston home, one nar- (See STRIKE, Page A-14.) GEORGIA A, F. OF L. DIVIDES ON G. 1. 0. Demand That Lewis Spokesman Resign as Its Head Brings Break. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, April 22.—The conven- tion of the Georgia Federation of Labor split into two separate meetings today after representatives of the American Federation of Labor de- manded the resignation of A. Steve Nance, head of the Georgia organiza- tion. Frank Dillon, spokesman for Presi- dent William Green of the A. F. of L, demanded from the floor of the con- vention that Nance resign.or renounce his affiliations with the John L. Lewis Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion, Afterward Nance told newspaper- men he did not ‘resign, but had “put the matter up to the convention.” Dillon then called on all delegates “loyal to the A. F. of L.” to go with him to a meeting at another hotel. SARCREY Se iR Typhoon Kills 100. ‘TOKIO, April 22 (#).—More than 100 fishermen drowned and 170 others were missing today in the worst typhoon at the northern Japanese island of Saghalien since 1930, ” if there has been adequate advance preparation. Prime Minister Paul van Zeeland of Belgium now is trying to find an ap- proach to solving the international ec- onomic problems which are considered major impediments to such matters as disarmament and lasting peace. He is | acting at the behest of England and France and will see President Roose- velt in June. Sir Archibald Sinclair, the liberal leader, was quick to assail Chanceller Chamberlain for making no provision for solution of the war debts question. He declared it was true that New York businessmen, “whilst they do not expect to be paid in full, resent very much the cold and callous way in which the chancellor of the exchequer has told them: ‘I am not paying, I am not even discussing it.'” Debts Question Broached. The war debt question first was brought up today when Chamberlain was asked if he was prepared to effect an arrangement for war debt settle- ment with the United States on the basis of a 50-year loan in America. This question was asked, by advance arrangement, by the conservative Rupert de La Bere. Chamberlain replied: “As stated in the note addressed to the United States on October 13, 1936, capital. While three of the five freighters, | | driven' to cover here by attacks from | insurgent vessels, got up steam for the attempt to run the blockade, gov- | ernment shore batteries along the Bay | of Biscay coast started booming at dawn to sweept the turbulent waters of insurgent warships. ‘The food-laden British vessels were reported authorized by their owners | to run the gauntlet, despite a warning from the British government, and were promised an escort of British waships to the 3-mile limit. At that point, the government shore batteries and fleet of small armed craft will take over the job of fight- ing off insurgent attacks. Insurgent Ships Driven Off. The first victims of the effort to prove the way was open to Bilbao and its refugee-swollen population of 400,000 were three insurgent trawlers who came within range of the guns at Santander just after dawn. Attempting to raid a fleet of fishing | vessels anchored off Lequeitio, they were driven back by the long-range coast artillery of the Basques. Insurgent sources reported their ships ranged the Basque coast, just off Bilbao, ready to swoop down on any ships defying their blockade to (See PARLEY, Page A-7.) Finding of Old (See SPAIN, Page A-2.) Police Re port Reopens Jaynes Killing Probe BY PHILIP H. LOVE. Discovery of an old police “inci- dental” showing that Mrs. Lizzie Jaynes’ own description of the gunman by whom she was fatally wounded in no way fits Thomas Jordon, sentenced to die in the electric chair for the crime, has caused the Justice Depart- ment to reopen its investigation of the case, it was learned today. + Mrs. Jaynes, shot during a hold-up of the Garden T Shoppe, 1835 Colum- bia road, on the night of April 8, 1931, gave police a description of her as- sailant before she realized she had been wounded. She collapsed in her apartment about two hours later and died in Garfleld Hospital about 6:15 am. April 5. ‘The old police report, still carried in an “incidental book” on file at the second precinct, describes Mrs. Jaynes’ slayer as being “about 6 feet tall,” with “gray eyes and fair hair.” Jordon, now in a death cell in the District Jail, awaiting electrocution on May 14, is 5 feet 6% inches tall and has black hair and brown eyes. A teletyped copy of the incidental also is on file at police headquarters, along with & memorandum showing that the lookout broadcast for the killer and his accomplice described both men as being “about 6 feet tall.” Although Justice Department offi- cials declined to discuss the case, it was understood that the police report was one of several new developments. These included: 1. Statements from several members of the jury which convicted Jordon of first-degree murder in March, 1936, urging that the death sentence be commuted to one of life imprisonment and expressing belief “that honest jus- tice will be done by such action.” 2. An appea] to President Roosevelt for executive clemency by Associate Defense Counsel John M. Holzworth, citing both the descriptions of the bandits given in the incidental and the jurors’ statements. 3. A similar plea by Jordon’s former employer, George L. Goodacre, pro- prietor of a chain of restaurants. 4. Examination of Jordon by & psychiatrist, arranged by Chief De- fense Attorney Harry T. Whelan in an effort to prove that the condemned man's confession—repudiated during his trial in District Court—was the result of a severe attack of chorea (St. Vitus’ dance). The jurors’ statements were in cor- roboration of one made to Justice F. Dickinson Letts, scon after Jordon's trial, by Israel F. Good, who declared he and at least two fellow veniremen would not have voted for a first- degree murder verdict had they under- stood the court’s explanation of the District law. Holzworth’s appeal to the President was accompanied by a copy of the incidental, which was carried on the book over the signatures of Policemen T. F. Heide, now retired, and F. J. Haack, who interviewed Mrs. Jaynes and other employes of the restaurant. The report, in part, follows: “Mrs, Lizzie Jaynes, cashier of the Garden T S8hoppe, 1835 Columbia road northwest, reports that about (Bee JORDOK, Fage A-3) cannot be given, the lawyer urged l‘[ special act of Parliament to say that 'Father’s Right “THE TREASURY WILL BE PREPARED BY NOVEMBER To PRESENT To**+**(CONGRESS, INFORMATION AS To SUCH LOOPHOLES AS MAY EXIST (N THE PRESENT REVENUE LAWS" YES,AND | KNow WHAT LOOPHOLES to Spank Child Is Upheld in Court Judge McMahon Storm to | Ruling that a parent has an undis | puted right to spank an unruly child, | Police Court Judge John P. McMahon today exonerated Robert E. Storm, 57, of 1681 Columbia road, who had been charged with assaulting his 11-year- old son. Judge McMahon dismissed the case | witness stand. He had been arrested | 1400 block of R street. “The Government has failed to pro- duce any evidence to show that the de- fendant was cruel to his son,” Juage McMahon said. 1 Storm’s son, Fred, a bright-faced, | precocious youngster, testified his! Without Calling Dismis ses Charge Robert E. Testif y. | father hit him “about 25 or 30 times” ! last Thursday because he had stayed | out beyond his bedtime. The boy took | off his coat to show a faded bruise on | his arm, which he said was inflicted by his father. Mrs. Hoffman, auburn-haired, diminutive and testified that Storm without requiring Storm to take the divorced her in March, 1936, and was | awarded sole custody of their son. last week on a warant sworn to by his The father has never attempted to | divorced wife, Mrs. Margaret Hoffman, keep the boy from visiting her, she | | said. Under questioning by Jean Boardman, attorney for Storm, Mrs. Hoffman said that recently she threat- ened to attempt to have her former husband deported. In handing down his decision, Judge (See SPANKING, Page A-2.) (See SIMPSON, Page A-12.) e PARDON GRANTED MAN WHO FLED JAIL IN ’08 Tennessee Clears Him of Horse Stealing Charge After 29 Years. BY the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 22.—The State of Tennessee handed out a par- don today for a man who fled prison 29 years ago, but did not disclose the name by which his neighbors know him. The pardon bore the name of El- more Rollings, who, the pardon board said, now is living under an assumed name. Records show he was convicted at Knoxville in 1908 of horse steal- ing and escaped after serving five and one-half months of a one-year term. The board found, and Gov. Gordon Browning agreed, that Rollings “‘was not guilty of the charge upon which he was convicted.” “He has been tried 29 years and has —made an exemplary citizen,” B - added, “I thirk the ends of i ‘n best be served by re- \im from the old charge.” “i..: board said Rollings has mar- ried and is living with his wife and three children in Nashville. He needs his real identity restored because he has ‘“received or will come into an estate which amounts to a consid- erable sum of money and property.” Summary of Page. Amusements C-2-3 Comics __ Editorials Financial ___A-19 Lost & Found A-3 Obituary __._A-12 STRIKE SITUATION. Three C. 1. O. officials arrested in Maine strike. Page A-1 FOREIGN. British debate new war debts par- ley. Page A-1 British food ships to defy rebels in Bilbao blockade. Page A-1 Schuschnigg confers with I1 Duce in Venice. Page A-71 Legality of Simpson divorce again questioned. Page A-1 NATIONAL. Major farm legislation may be passed up due to economy. Page A-1 Passport office asks appropriations for more help. Page A-1 Gov. Chandler denied civil liberties, committee told. Page A-2 Pace of business may show whether new taxes are needed. Page A-18 “Kickback” charges made against Har- lan County sheriff. Page A-2 The Commonwealth accepted a jury in the Denhardt case. Page A-3 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Administration studies retirement act liberalization. Page A-1 Sultan proposes raised highways as trafiic relief. Page A-1 Justice Parker tells D. A. R. of de- mocracy’s danger. Page A-1 Man leaps to death from Baltimore hotel room. Page A-13 D. C. relief fund conflict to go before Senators. Page B-1 Education Board to seek ruling on wage law. Page B-1 Boylan Answers Criticism of Jeffer- son mmmmu. Page B-1 B-3 Short Story .B-14 Sports ___D-1- ‘Woman's Pg.. C-6 3 AGREEMENT ENDS TAILORS' STRIKE New Wage-Hour Schedule Announced—Return to Jobs Immediately. was announced shortly after noon to- day by Herman Holtznecht, national organizer of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers of America, following a vote of the strikers on an agreement proposed by an Arbritation Commit- tee of the Merchants and Manufac- turers’ Association. Holtznecht said the agreement af- fects approximately 200 tailors em- ployed in specialty stores which sell ready-to-wear apparel. He added that negetiations will be started immedi- ately with six department stores in- volved. Return to Jobs Immediately. The tailors returned to work im- mediately, Holtznecht said. The terms of the agreement, which Haltznecht said the store operators had accepted, sets the minimum wage for tailors and pressers at $33 a (See TAILORS, Page A-2.) Today’s Star Abattoir fight front shifts to Capitol Hill. Page B-1 Directed verdict for defense denied in blackmail trial. Page B-1 Prosecution plang to finish today in blackmail case. Page B-1 Rotarians to hold district convention in Annapolis May 2-4. Page B-2 Selection of high judges from teachers of law urged. Page B-2 EDITORIALS AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page This and That. Page Answers to Questions. PPage Stars, Men and Atoms. Page David Lawrence. Page PaPul Mallon. Page Mark Sullivan. Page Jay Franklin. Page Delia Pynchon. Page SPORTS. Nationals begin search to bolster pitching staff. Page D-1 Sentiment against golf stymie grows among players here. Page D-2 Tilden scores centralization of big tennis tourneys. Page D-3 FINANCIAL. U. 8. Bonds Rise (Table). Steel Stocks Gain (Table). D. C. Insurance Sales Jump. Curb List Mixed (Table). A-21 Clearings Below 1936. A-21 General Foods Profit Margin Cut. A-21 MISCELLANY. ‘Washington Wayside. After Dark. Shopping News. Vital Statistics. Traffic Convictions. Service Orders. City News in Brief. Bedtime Story. Nature’s Children. Crossword Puzzle, Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. A-19 A-20 A-20 Page A2 Page B- Page B-10 Page B-10 Page B-10 Page B-10 Page B-10 Page C-5 Page C-5 Page C-5 Page C-6 Page.C-6 Young Washington. Letter Out. Settlement of the tailors’ strike, with | a new schedule of wages and hours, | RETIREMENT ACT PLANGIVENSTUDY Hour Conference With President. BACKGROUND— For several years Federal em- ployes have sought liberalization of the retirement act which was passed in 1920. The principal change sought would permit retire- ment after 30 years’ service. As a result of the campaign of organized Federal employes for liberal- ization of the retirement act, the ad- ministration is making a study of the subject. This was disclosed today after a conference at the White House yes- terday, when President Harry B. Mitchell of the Civil Service Commis- sion, together with other members of the commission and Acting Budget Director Danjel W. Bell, spent two hours with President Roosevelt going over employment matters generally. Among the subjects discussed was a series of recommendations for per- sonnel improvement that have been submitted to President Roosevelt after a survey of the executive agencies by the Civil Service Commission. An agreement has been reached on several details in the retirement study, it was understood today, but on two major items for which the workers are pressing the decision will await fur- ther examination with regard to cost. Voluntary Plan Proposal. One of these is a proposal for vol- untary retirement after 30 years of service; the other, to revise the retire- ment system to provide payments to the dependent survivor of an an- nuitant—that is, to have the system cover two lives instead of one. The Civil Service Commission is pro- | posing a 30-year plan that would be | effective when the worker reaches the age of 60, under which the Govern- ment would have the same right to enforce retirement that an employe would have to step out. This, however, is opposed by organizations which want the option vested entirely with the employe. The commission has figured that its plan could be administered at & maxi- mum cost of $5,000,000 annually over the present system and that, as a mat- ter of fact, it probably would be sel liquidating either because of the in- creased numbers of employes who ¢ Foening Starp | Mitchell and Bell in Two-| The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 143,880 (Some returns not vet eceived.) (®) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. D.ARTOLDPERL | IN GOURT CHANGE Justice Parker and Mrs. Sis- son Urge Adherence to Americanism. John J. Parker, 41, Federal Cir- cuit Court justice whom the Senate rejected six years ago for the Supreme | | Court seat later given Benjamin Car- dozo, told the Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution today that democracy “Is in graver danger than it has been at any time since the fall of Napoleon.” Judge Parker's demand for strict ad- rerence to the Constitution as a guar- antor of meal democracy and funda- mental Americanism preceded a plea by Mre. Vinton Earl Sisson, chairman of the D. A. R. National Defense Com- mittee, that the Communist party be outlawed as un-American. “We must work to have the Com- munist party declared by law an illegal party with no right to protection under our form of government,” Mrs. Sisson told the delegates to the forty-sixth Continental Congress of the D. A. R. in Constitution Hall. She warned the 3,000 women that the Communists are masking their de: signs under the camouflage of the Farmer-Labor party. She condemned this “boring from witiin” as “far more dangerous to the welfare of this country than the open flaunting of revolutionary purposes, which for the present, they choose to conceal.” Court Proposal Target. Mrs. Sisson leaped squarely on Pres- ident Roosevelt's court change pro- posal, but Judge Parker, who sits in Charlotte, N. C., failed to mention it directly and astonished his hearers by suggesting some broadening of the scope of Federal authority might be desirable. “I think we must in some way give the general government a greater measure of control over these matters affecting the national welfare,” he said, “either by revising our concept of the power possessed by the Federal Gov- ernment under the commerce clause of the Constitution or by amendment of the Constitution to extend the power of the Federal Government to those phases of our life which have become of national significance.” That, however, was the extent of | Parker’s obeisance to constitutional liberalism, which the Supreme Court has already taken cognizance of in the ‘Wagner decision. He went on to up- braid the point of view which admits the “seductive fallacy” that the Con- stitution “has no application to con- ditions of danger or emergency.” “It is only in times of emergency and danger that liberty is likely to be overthrown,” Judge Parker said. He added that liberty must be protected by some such instrument as the Con- stitution, for “we flatter ourselves too much if we think that we have pro- gressed to the point where we no longer need to guard against tyranny in government.” For Stronger R. 0. T. C. Mrs. Sisson gave a large part of her report to & plea for strengthening the R. O. T. C. on the ground it was a less expensive agent of national de- fense than a large standing .Army. After slapping at the modern Social- ist party in the United States as little better than the Communist party, Mrs. Sisson outlined the D. A. R. peace program thus: Passage of pending neutrality legisla- tion. Active emulation by the rest of the world of the pacific example set by the inter-American conference last December at Buenos Aires. Drastic limitation of profits in war time. ‘The congress this morning voted to commend President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull for their work on behalf (See RETIREMENT, Page A-5.) (See D. A. R, Page A-5) at the Department of State because of an unprecedented rush caused by the British coronation, Mrs. Ruth B. Shipley, chief of the division, appesred before the House Appropriations Com- mittee yesterday to ask for a deficiency appropriation to pay additional help badly needed. Never before in its history has the passport office been s0 busy, Mrs. Shipley said. With 15,181 passporis and renewals issued in March, sn increase of 87 per cent over the same Passport Office Asks Boost In Staff to Cope With Rush With 36 extra employes already K month last year, work is nearly double working in the Division of Passports{ihe seasonal average. In good times, Mrs. Shipley says, the division counts on a yearly increase of around 10 per cent annually. Passport agency branches in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and Philadelphia report that appli- cants for passports are forced to stand in line daily. New York informed Mrs. Shipley that 25,000 persons, most of them eager to see the new King and Queen of England, were interviewed SULTAN PROPOSES RAISED HIGHWAYS AS TRAFFIC RELIEF High-Speed Elevated Roads Urged at Subcommittee Tax Hearing. WASHINGTON LAGGING, HOUSE GROUP IS TOLD Critical Situation Is Forecast Within Few Years if No Action Is Taken. BACKGROUND— With anticipated $6.000,000 short- age in District revenues in coming fiscal year, special subcommittee of House District Committee under- took study to develop tar program to offset deficit. Subcommittee also authorized to study proposals for reorganizing municipal government in interest of efficiency and econ- omy. BY JAMES E. CHINN. Construction of high-speed elevated highways in the congested sections of Washington to relieve traffic condie tions was advocated today by Engineer Commissioner Dan I. Sultan at a hearing before the special tax sube committee of the House District Come mittee. “I am afraid Washington is lagging behind in looking to the future in providing high-speed overhead highe ways in congested points,” he de= clared. “The situation is getting so bad we will find ourselves in a critical situation in a few years. I am afraid to put it off many more years. We had better do it now.” Col. Sultan said he had in mind elevated highways similar to that already proposed to be erected over K street to relieve traffic through George= town to the Key Bridge. Circle Subways Favored. Coi. Sultan also suggested that money be made available for that purpose as well as for the construce tion of underground passes at Dupont Circle and other “critical” points The discussion of traffic condi tions was suddenly injected into the tax hearing when Representative Dirk- sen, Republican, of Illinois inquired it the construction of subways would improve the situation. “That's a large subject,” said Col. Sultan. “People are talking about subways without knowing the cost or anything about them. I feel surveys should be made to determine where subways could be located and their probable cost. First, I believe undere ground passes should be constructed at Dupont Circle and one or two other critical points. They could be added to later.” Need for street widenings and other highway improvements to meet traf- fic conditions also was stressed by Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director of highways. Meanwhile, Representative Ellen« bogen, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, tos day reintroduced his bill to levy an income tax on the District, in order that it may receive consideration along with the other measures. Ellenbogen said this action was mo- tivated because District property owners “as compared to owners of per= sonal property pay an excessive pro= portion of the expenses of the District goveriment, No Large Bureau Set-up. “My bill provides for the payment of an income tax but does not set up a large bureau for the assessment and collection of income taxes,” Ellen= bogen continued. It assesses & per- centage of the income tax paid to the Federal Government. If the House District Committee de- cided upon an income tax, “it should adopt the method proposed in my bill as the most economical and cheapest (See TAXES, Page A-3.) 15 HELD FOR ILLEGAL BUILDING MONOPOLY Ring Alleged to Have Strong- Arm Control of Public School Painting. Br the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 22.—Fifteen persons, alleged members of an illegal, underpaying contractors’ monopoly ring, were arrested today on orders of Attorney General John J. Ben- nett, jr. Among those taken into custody was Martin Goldstein, whom Bennett described as a professional thug and head of & strong-arm gang. Seymour Magoon, said to be Goldstein's body- guard, also was arrested. The attorney general charged all the persons arrested with conspiracy. The so-called ring is alleged to have established a monopoly on public school painting and decorating in New York and to have used sluggers to prevent members of the American Fed- eration of Labor from protesting its activities. Attorney General Bennett said Goldstein and nis men are alleged to have received approximately 4 per cent on each of the total contract prices. Painters getting the work, Bennett added, were paid from $4 to $7 for an eight to nine hour day, whereas the prevailing rate is $9 for a seven-hour day. GRIFFS AéAIN IDLE Rain Washes Out Game in New York for Second Time. NEW YORK, April 22 (#)—For the second straight day rain caused the postponement of the game between the Nationals and the Yankees at Yankee Stadium. Today’s game was to have been the final one of a series. The Nationals will return to Griffith Stadium tomore Tow to open a series with the Phila- ~(Bos PASSPORT, Page A-2.) delphia Athletics, » ;