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A—2 ¥» BIBLE STUDENTS ENIOY BANQUET Class Association Holds An- nual Event at Calvary Baptist. Addresses and a program of musie marked the eighth annual banquet last night of the Organized Bible Class Association of the District in Calvary Baptist Church. Representative Randolph of West | Virginia urged honesty, faith and service by churches and individuals to accomplish good. Rev. A. P. S8hirkey, pastor of Francis Asbury M. E. Church South, the other speaker, said: “We can bring the Kingdom of God Christ dreamed of into being through indi- vidual sacrifice.” ‘The program was opened with selec- tions by the National Brass Quartet, composed of James Maughn, Cecil Mc- Lendon, Norman Irvine and Joseph Virga. The remainder of the program included singing by the assemblage, led by William R. Schmucker; invocation by Rev. Dr. Edward H. Pruden, pastor of First Baptist Church; an instrumen- tal solo by Mr. Virga, accompanied by Mrs. Page McK. Etchison; a vocal solo by Robert Ewing, accompanied by Raymond E. Rapp, and benediction by Rev. Dr. Willlam L. Darby, executive secretary of the Washington Federa- tion of Churches Nearly 300 persons attended. Among ‘honor guests were Police Superintend- ent and Mrs. Ernest W. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Merritt O. Chance and Leon- ard W. De Gast, general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Associa- | tion, Chamber (Continued From First Page.) of eriticism of the act, accompanied by & move to put the chamber on record as favoring amendment to create a dual responsibility of employe and em- ployer under its provisions. The chamber auditorium, which ac- commodates about 1400, was crowded to hear McGrady, and the Labor De- partment official was warmly ap- plauded as he concluded. The session also heard a plea for better understanding be‘ween man- agement and labor from P. W, Litch- fleld of Akron, Ohio, president of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co From another quarter, howaver, came a bitter attack on the admin- istration as Virgil Jordan of New York, president of the National Ine | dustrial Conference Board, Inc. as- | sailed “the jesting Pilates of politics who today exploit the ignorance and superstitions of the masses and per- | mit or provoke them to crucify the principles of personal freedom and re- sponsibility which have given them the greatest prosperity and security they have ever seen or will ever know.” Prefacing his remarks with the dec- laration that the full scope of the | Supreme Court decisions on the Wag- ner act still is uncertain, McGrady | added, however, that “it is not easy | to doubt that they have given us a ecompletely new basis for the relation- ! ship between labor and management | under supervision of Government.” Two Aspects of Problem. “Labor is principally interested in two aspects of this problem,” he con- tinued. “PFirst it regards the right of oollective bargaining through rep- resentatives of its own choosing, in- dependent of employer influence, as absolutely necessary in this modern age. Secondly, it believes that there should be some floor under labor re- lations which will protect labor againat sudden and destructive downswings in wages and lengthening of hours to the unemployment and distress of millions, such as were witnessed dur- ing the depression. These two aims seem now within the range of ac- complishment.” Labor, the speaker explained, be- Heves there must be either collective | bargaining “or no bargaining at all,” because of the growth of corpora- tions that has so widely separated employer and employe. On the con- trary, he added, “some great employ- | ers have insisted, at least until re- eently, that they will never negotiate with representatives of their men in any way except individually—'man to man'” “The idea that there is any such thing as individual bargaining in mod- ern industrial circumstances,” he em- Dhasized, “is just not true. Unless labor, grouped collectively, can have its expert representatives, wholly inde- pendent of employer influence, speak for it with a powerful voice, there is | Do real bargaining at all, and wage rates only an arbitrary decree of & more or less beneficient despotism, fixing the conditions of labor in its own untrammeled discretion. “It won't do. I know you recognize it won't do. The whole world recog- nizes it. The principles I have dis- cussed have been adopted in every im- portant industrial nation and put in practice to a far greater extent than have ever been practiced here.” Sanctity of Contracts. Declaring “the essence of successful labor relations is an unvarying re- ! spect for the sanctity of contracts,” McGrady recalled that “the veil of | the temple of labor is rent asunder now by fratricidal strife, but if you will examine the records of the prin- cipal leaders on both sides of that un- fortunate rift you will find, I think, an invariable history of absolute adher- ence to the pledged word.” “I can assure you of one thing, McGrady concluded, “labor approaches its new power with a due sense of its obligations. Labor does not seek trouble. You won't get arbitrary at- titudes, unreasonableness, violence or hostility from labor, except in the measure that you mete it out. I know from personal contact.” Urges Reason and Calm. Litchfleld told the chamber he placed “little credence in the some- what prevalent fear that a revolution against democracy is at our door,” adding that “there are current na- tional dangers, but none which will not respond to intelligence, fairness and honesty of purpose, and it would seem that the time has come when Wwe must return to reason and calm.” He proposed a plan for maintain- ing industrial peace along the lines of the principles of the railway labor act. Jordan unleashed the bitterest crit- icism against the administration that has been heard at the convention, de- claring the tendency is toward de- struction of the “enterprise princi- ple” and that the “chief responsibil- ity for leadership and action in this erisis rests now with business man- agement.” “This is a revolution,” he assert- ed. “You cannot compromise with revolution; you can only co-operate with it or be liquidated by it.” Meanwhile the program to which the chamber will be committed for » | | wouldn't, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1937, Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. FISH. N THE Springtime Dr. Julian Howe's fancy turns lightly to thoughts of trout fishing, a sport he enjoys at a stream on his father's farm near Frederick, Md. Dreaming of whipping great heaps of three and four pounders out of the water the other day, it occurred to him that maybe it would be a good idea to put some fish in the water before trying to snap them out again. He wrote to friends up in Penn- sylvania beseeching them to supply him with about four dozen trout to be taken along on his next expedition. Few days later an expressman arrived at Dr. Howe's house on Rhode Island avenue, delivered a huge wooden box. After paying rather stiff express charges, Dr. Howe opened it. There were brook trout inside all right, neatly packed on ice, clean and | ready for the frying pan. * Tk ok % ADORATION. Another Spring-struck gentle~ man showed up out at a popular rural eating place in Maryland last Sunday. He had a girl with him. They sat down at a table for two and entered into a rapturous con- versation. After luncheon a wait- ress came around to clear the table and noticed that a bus boy had carelessly left a large, oval ash tray in the chair seat occupied by the swain. He had been parked on it, all unconscious, speaking we know not what dulcet words to his lady fair. When he left, the ash tray had @ slight list to the port side. * % % x PRANKS. IRVING HELBING, supply clerk of the National Labor Relations Board, came shuffling into his office the other morning at 8:59. It was raining rivers outside, but Mr. Helbing was walking along peacefully in & pair of bed room slippers. “What's the idea?” some one in the office asked him Mr. Helbing shrugged his shoulders. “Eric hid my shoes somewhere,” he said. “I couldn't find them and he I didn't have much time left to get to work, so here I am, like this.” Eric, in case you haven't guessed, is a police dog ¥ x % X POESY. THREE members of the Capito! po- lice force recently have been con- ducting an argument, half in jest, through the medium of doggerel rhymes, about a dozen of which turned up on this desk the other DEFICIENGY BILL 1S CUT$18.828,000 House Committee Reports Measure Which Carries $79,206,000. The House Appropriations Com- mittee, spurred by President Roose- velt's demand for economy, slashed $18,828,605 today from the Budget Bureau's estimates for the second defi- ciency appropriation bill. The committee approved $79,208,- 943, this going to the Tennessee Valley Authority, to defray administrative expenses of paying the soldiers’ bonus, and to finance varied Federal activi- ties for the rest of this fiscal year. The largest item was T. V. A's— $40,166.270-—for use during the fiscal year beginning July 1. Permission to make contracts total- ing $4,000,000 also was given T. V. A, The total of $44,166,270 made avail- able to that agency represented a re- duction of approximately $4,524,000 from the current year's figure. Cut in Tax Fund. The principal reduction was $15,.- 000,000 cut from $30,000,000 recom- mended by the Budget Bureau for re- funds and payments of processing and related taxes. The tax refunds were made necessary by Supreme Court in- validation of the agricultural adjust- ment act, but Congress provided that processors must prove—before receiv- ing such refunds—that they had not passed the taxes on to consumers. Treasury officials estimate they will have to refund only about 10 per cent of $1,000,000,000 in processing taxes collected under the invalidated act Milton E. Carter, assistant internal revenue commissioner, told the sub- committee that the Treasury expected to return no more than $96,000,000. Flood-Control Restoration Asked. Restoration of $1,000,000 to the ap- propriation for flood control on the Mississippi River was recommended be- cause of recent floods. The committee said topping of weak points in the levees and opening up of the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway would consume $4,169.000 of the appropria- tions already made The committee did not allow a re- quest for $5.000 for publishing and editing the code of laws of the Dis- trict in the years 1937 and 1938 The bill includes an item of $3.- 120.36 for adjusted claims against the District in 1937. The bill carries $11,500, the same amount as the budget estimate, for the National Training School for Boys in ‘Washington. River | (Continued Prom First Page.) | Committee and Representative Driver, Harbors Congress, who held the figure | inadequate. More Flood Funds Held Need. | said, declaring 30 million dollars would be just a flea bite.” | Prepared for any eventuality, despite | predictions that the flood would not |'be as serious as last year’s, more | than 2.000 men threw up sand bag | dikes in West president of the Natlonal Rivers and | Twice that much is needed, Copeland | Mrs. Roosevelt Plans Vacation Visit to Seattle Will Make but One Ad- dress While Guest of Mrs. Boettiger. While the President fishes in the Gulf of Mexico, Mrs. Roosevelt will slip away to visit her daughter, Mrs. John Boettiger, in Seattle, she dis- closed today at her press conference. Mrs. Roosevelt did not set the date of her departure, but said it will be an “off-the-record” vacation, with only one address scheduled. At the suggestion of the Seattle Mayor, Mrs. Roosevelt said she has agreed to speak to a joint gathering | in the Clvic Auditorium of all the groups who have requested a per- sonal appearance. The vacation will afford Mrs. Roose- velt her first visit with her daughter since the latter left for the West | Coast with her husband, who is pub- lisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. It also will be her first visit to Seattle since her husband was Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy. Mrs. Boettiger now is editor of the woman's page of the Post-Intelligencer, Mrs. Roosevelt said, but she is hoping to see a great deal of her children in spite of their busy routine. CAPT. F. E. GUEST EXPIRES IN ENGLAND Former Secretary of State for Air | Was Father of Winston Guest, BY the Associatea Press, LONDON, April 28.— Capt. Fred- erick Edward Guest, former secretary of state for air, died of pleurisy today at Sunbury-on-Thames. He was 61. He was the father of the noted American polo player, Winston Guest, and an international player. He also was a big game hunter and aviator. He was a cousin of Winston Churchill, noted British statesman. Capt. Guest, third son of the first Bavon Wimborne, was aide-de-camp to field marshal Sir John French dur- ing the World War. Early in his political career he was Churchill's private secretary and later he became a member of Parliament. He served as treasurer of the King's household fsom 1912 to 1925 and was air secretary in 1921 and 1922, companies of Civillan Conservation | Corps men, totaling 800, and morei than 200 regular employes of the parks on the dike construction. | The C. C. C. men came from Fort | Dupont, from Fort Hunt, Va, on the | Mount Vernon Memorial Highw: from the camp near Theodore Roose- velt, and the colored camp from the | National Arboretum. | Starting work yesterday afternoon, | last night, when the W. P. A. group came on. Additional W. P. A. em- | ployes were on the job at midnight. The C. C. C. resumed work this morning, and Finnan expected that the measures would be complete by uled. | BUSINESS NEEDS T0LD ADVERTISERS Recapture of Public Confi- dence Essential, Conven- tion Speaker Says. By the Associatea Press. HOT BSPRINGS, Va, April 28— H. A. Batten, president of N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc., told the Association of National Advertisers today that the immediate and pressing need of Amer- ican business is to get back the lost friendship and confidence of the pub- lic through advertising. Speaking on the subject of “Public Relations,” Mr. Batten, head of one of the country's largest advertising agencies, described it as a long-term, constructive thing. “It is a bullder, not merely a mender,” he said. *“And it involves not only the public portrayal and rep- resentation of a business, but the actual molding and shaping of the| business itself. | “Any public relations worthy of the name must start with the business itself. Unless the business is so or- ganized and so administered that it can meet at every point the test of | good citizenship and usefulness in the | community, no amount of public re- | lations will avail.” He told the advertisers that to build & program of public relations that will “really amount to something” it is essential that wages in general be kept up, that prices in general be kept down, that relations with employes be conducted in & spirit of trust and | friendship and that management be | able, enlightened, technically expert and native to the business. With such a foundation, he said, business can build a program of pub- lic relations which will really amount to something by telling the story of | the business to the public. “If I had something vitally im- portant to tell the public,” Batten said, “I should not rely wholly on editorial columns of the newspapers and magazines to tell it. I should turn to the advertisting columns and there I should tell my story—when I wanted it, where I wanted it, the way I wanted it, without a line of it left out or a word changed.” Judiciary (Continued From First Page.) May 18, the debate in committee will | coniinue until that date. In Response to Request. Solicitor General Reed's letter, ad- dressed to Chairman Ashurst; was written in response to a request for information made by the chairman. “In reply to your first question” wrote the solicitor general, “I may state that my comments on the work of the Supreme Court contained in the annual report of the Attorney entirely consistent with the language | in the President's message on judicial reorgangzation and the accompanying letter of the Attorney General. These | documents contain nothing which could be construed as an intimation FIRST TRIAL UNDER S.E.C.ACTTO OPEN Alleged Misstatement Is In- volved in Hearing Sched- uled for Today. The first trial resulting from an al- leged misstatement to the Securities and Exchange Commission was to open in District Court this afternoon. The case involves the registration statement of the Continental Distillers & Importers Corp. The accused are Harry E. Hanes, general manager of the Standard Appraisal Co. of New York, and Milton Janis, salesman for a New York stock underwriting con- cern. Lawyer Not to Be Tried. Dan F. Reynolds, well-known Wash- ington lawyer, who was indicted along with Hanes and Janis a year ago, will not be tried at this time because of ill health. Justice Peyton Gordon granted a severance when Reynolds’ attorneys presented a letter from two physicians, Dra. H. A. Fowler and Arthur Hooe, stating that Reynolds is seriously ill and probably never will be able to stand trial. He is 76 Chief Assistant United Stafes At- torney David A. Pine said the case | probably will consume more than a week, since the Government alone has 23 witnesses. Pine will be assisted in the prosecution by John Jackson Securities and Exchange Commis- sion officials disclosed that some $40,000 of stock in the distilling cor- poration was sold, although the con- cern never began operation | Reynolds, Hanes and Janis are charged with conspiring with Ira Janis, now dead, and Daniel Reich, president of the distillery, to misrep- resent facts in the concern’s registra- tion statement, which was flled De- cember 29, 1933. Neither Reich nor Ira Janis was indicted. Property Involved. The alleged false statements con- | cern the value and description of the corporation's property at Shrewsbury, Pa. Officials say that buildings on the property were not suited for dis- tilling purposes, as asserted in the reg- istration statement. 8everal prominent persons were di- rectors of the company, although not connected in any way with the alleged | conspiracy. They included former Senator Marion H. Butler of North | Carolina, Harry E. Hull, former com- | missioner of immigration, and the late Dr. James F. Coupal, private physician to President Coolidge | The indictment alleged seven overt aces. Janis will be represented by Attor- neys William E. Leahy and Willlam J. Hughes, jr. Hanes’ attorneys are John J. Sirica and Richard Doyle. SRS AMemorial- (Continued From First Page.) | such memorial projects the architect the C. C. C. labored until 10 o'clock | G€neral for the fiscal year 1936, are | is required to furnish plans for de- velopment of the surrounding area, but that the cost of carrying out those plans is not included in the cost of the memorial itself. | For example, he said, the authoriza- tion for the Lincoln Memorial was | 10 o'clock, when high tide was sched- | hat the Supreme Court 15 not up with | $2,000.000 and the final st Was $2.- | tined on several accacione previously | its work. Any charge that the Presi- dent was misled by erroneous infor- | morning. No room for them here, but | Potomac and Rock | The National Capital Parks em- when Irish police sergeants start com- posing light verse at this date, be assured that the season of the great foolishness is truly upon us. * % % % ANTIC. Motoring around town with some friends in his car, a young man suddenly discovered the other night that he was half past his favorite street. He gave the car a quick jerk to the right, there was a screech, a bump and the passen- gers saw an automobile tire go rolling by the right side of the car. They climbed out to investigate. The left rear tire had been wrenched off. What it was doing over on the other side, they never did figure out. * ok ok x NIGHTMARE. B. HYATT, of one of the down- * town hotels, was asleep at about | 3 o'clock the other morning when he distinctly heard his telephone ring. | heard a strange voice say that a relative here | He answered it sleepily, Creek and Potomac Parkway late yes- terday and last night. After the abutments were com- | pleted, the flood army continued on take further protective measures if necessary. winds were seen as important factors tions. An east or strong southeast wind would have backed up the waters and perhaps caused damaging overflows. Trio Rescued. The woman and two men rescued by Williams were Mrs. Josephine Leopold, 26; her husband, John 35, a ton, 24, all of Rosslyn, Va. Thev were thrown into the river when their canoe capsized above Key | Bridge as they attempted to paddie down the river to a friend’s house boat. The mishap was witnessed by T. Keith Shreve, Arlington, Va., who notified Park Policeman H. M. Borger. duty throughout the night, ready to | Clearing skies and the absence of | in the prevention of serious inunda- | cab driver, and a friend, Thomas Fen- | | ployes were supplied from the recrea- | tion division, headed by Alvert Clyde- Burton; from the force of George E. Clark, in charge of maintenance and construction, and from David Saun ders, chief of the horticultural divi: sion. Some 5,000 tons of sand were or- dered for the flood-control job, and 117,000 bags were utilized. Dikes were constructed in the Rock | Creek and Potomac Parkway from the gas company’s plant to the Titanic memorial and the slopes were revetted with sandbags from the Titanic me- morial to Constitution avenue. This job was necessary, Finnan said, to save the trees, shrubs and topsoil re- cently placed in the parkway. The Marcth, 1936, flood washed Gut | the material planted there. In West Potomac Park. the site of the pansy beds, a small dike was con- structed from the inlet bridge to the Highway Bridge approach. This was done to preserve the pansy beds. A | mation furnished him collapses be- | fore the obvious fact that no such po- | sition was taken. As no such position | was taken, any discussion designed to | refute it is, of course, wide of the mark.” Reed said the President's message pointed out that “even now the Su- preme Court is laboring under a heavy burden.” and suggested that this bur- {den will be increased if certain recom- mendations are followed, and raises the question whether “full justice is “achieved” when, faced by the sheer | necessity of keeping up with its busi- | ness, 87 per cent of the cases in which certiorari is sought by private litigants are declined without explanation. “There is nothing in my report,” sald Reed, “which considers the very serious and important question thus raised by the President. My report explicitly stated, of course, that the work of the court is current and that cases are promptly heard. This no one | has denied or would attempt to deny.” | 939,720, in addition to which Congress appropriated $100,000 for roads and walks and $584,000 in four installments for the reflecting pools. Privacy Asked for Reports. At the opening of the hearing Tread- way drew from Cammerer an admis- sion that the Memorial Commission | had asked that the reports to it from the National Capital Park and Plan- | | | | lie. Cammerer told the committee the | commission had the power to make a contract with the architect Both Chairman Keller and Treadway re- iterated that they will stand firmly | aaginst any attempt to interfere with | that contract and declared their en- tire confidence in Pope. Cammerer said the L'Enfant plan is | not sacrosanct and that because many | changes have been made the McMil- |lan Commission was appointed to | bring that up to date in 1901. He ad- vised the committee that eventually & | ——— SALARY PUBLICITY BANPASSES HOUSE Senate Action Awaited on Repealer of $15,000 Pay List. Py the Associated Press. Senate action on the proposal to abolish publication of corporate sale aries in excess of $15,000 was being awalted today by proponents of the Son Slain TELLS OF BOY'S DEATH IN HARLAN COUNTY CABIN. ning Commission and the Fine Arts | Commission should not be made pub- | MARSHALL A. MUSICK. Mrs. Musick, shy and thin- shouldered, and her husband, a Baptist preacher and part- time miner, yesterday told the Senate Civil Liberties Com- mittee how their son Bennett, 19, was killed by a burst of gunfire which tore through the walls of their Harlan County cabin. He attributed the killing to resentment against his union activities —A. P, Photo. La Follette (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) after a drinking bout in Harlan Town, left for “old man Musick’s house” in nearby Evarts on the evening 10- year-old Bennett Musick was killed. The departure of the squad of gun- men was about 7 o'clock, some 90 | minutes before the killing, according to testimony given by Lawrence How- | ard and his wife, Martha, who had been eating and drinking with the deputies in the Harlan Grill between 6 and 7 o'clock. | The youthful Howard, who has tes- | and who has been threatened since coming to Washington, said he had been asked to “go along” with the squad that night, but declined. He | has now been warned not to return | to Harlan, he added. Two of the Accused Listen. Two of the deputies in the alleged | drinking bout,-George Lee and Allen Bowlin, sat near the witnesses, their broad-brimmed black hats clenched | tightly in their hands, as they heard | themselves drawn into the murder picture. | Previously the committee heard | James H. Brewer, Baptist deacon and | part-time coal loader, tell of events preceding the firing on Mr. and Mrs. Marshall A. Musick on Sunday after- noon, January 31, 1837. A mine su- | perintendent had tipped him off that | something of the kind was going to | happen, Brewer said. Testifying in a flat, nearly inaudible | | tone, Brewer recalled that his brother- | | in-law, Tom Holmes, a mine superin- e Racing to Memorial Bridge, Barger had been injured in an automobile accident. Voice said he should come Met Williams. and both tossed lfe similar dike was built from the High- Court Burden Held Increased. way Bridge to the railroad bridge to The solicitor general said tha prevent high water from damaging | though the court has remained abreast the rose garden. | tendent, told him on the afternoon of decision will have to be made regard- ! ing the Tidal Basin site because both | JAnUATY 31 not to become excited at once. Bewildered and stunned, he dressed, left the hotel, hailed a taxi and went to the relative’s house. The place was dark. He rang the bell frantically, called, threw pebbles at windows. Finally an upstairs window opened. Y —— The supposed accident victim stuck his head out. It was not at all gory. “What do you want?” said a sleepy voice. Mr. Hyatt explained. most finished when slammed down. Early the next morning, back in his bed, he heard the telephone ringing again, giving him an eerie feeling that this stuft was going on forever. This time he recognized the rela- tive's voice. “What was the idea of getting me up at 3 o'clock?” it said. “What were you doing, sleep-walking?” And that, friends, is one of the questions Mr. Hyatt would like to have answered for him, * % ok ok EXAMPLE. AUGHT in the rain, unable to get a cab, and in a great hurry to get to the office, our Miss Frances Lide, who edits a page about children, solved the difficulty in a way she'd never recommend to her little readers. She hitch-hiked. Just stood by the curb and thumbed vigorously until some one stopped. Got a ride all the way, too. the forthcoming year was being whipped into shape in preparation for presentation and indorsement at the final business session tomorrow. Two major items—the labor rela- tions and taxation—developing from group meetings yesterday, were up for the consideration of the directors, through whom they must pass to reach the Resolutions Committee. ‘The former proposes definition, under the Wagner act, “of unfair labor practices that apply to em- ploye as well as employer”; the lat- ter would amend the current tax act to exempt 30 per cent of accrued profits from the corporate surplus tax, . ¢ He had al- the window | preservers to the three as they floated | downstream holding to the over- | turned canoe. | When these rescue attempts proved | unsuccessful, Williams grabbed a rope | and drove with Borger along Me- | morial Highway, almost to Highway Bridge. Carrying the rescue line, the bridge tender plunged into the swift current and swam into the path of the Leo- polds and Fenton, who were still cling- ing to the canoce. A crowd which had ; gathered on shore pulled them to safety. The Leopolds and Fenton were treat- ed at Emergency Hospital for exposure, but Williams proceeded to his home at 5524 Eights street. The office of Maj. Walter D, Luplow, district engineer for the War Depart- ment for the Washington area, said that by tomorrow the volume of water in the Fotomac here will be materially reduced. Tidal Action Registered. Tidal action was registered on the gauges of the United States Engineer ‘Wharf near the Navy Yard at 8 o'clock | | { 9.4 feet, compared with earlier read- ings at 5 a.m. of 9.1 feet. At Great Falls, in the March, 1936, flood, & maximum of 9 feet was reg- istered, but at midnight last night, the crest reached only 8 feet, and by 8 o'clock this morning had dropped to 7.7 feet. At Key Bridge, in March, 1936, the greatest reading was 18.3 feet, but at 3 o'clock this morning, when the crest reached here, the best the waters could do was 153 feet, and by 8 o'clock this morning, there was a drop of a tenth of a foot. A lessened flood this year com- pared with last Spring was illustrated at the Arlington Memorial Bridge, when the raging waters reached 13.5 feet over a year ago and at 3 o’clock this morning there were only 11.7 feet. The peak at the United States En- gineer Wharf was reached at 3 am. !lllfl, the reading there being 9.2 oet. Maj. Luplow had predicted yester- day that the flood crest would be “flattened out”—continuing for a Jong time. This is precisely what has happened, the Army engixmeers say, and is very close to what they ex- Ppected. . C. Marshall Finnan, superintend- ent of the National Capltal Parks, and his assistant, Frank T. Gartside, were in general charge of the flood- control work. There were 1,000 Works Throngs Visit Chain Bridge. As the water began to rise during the night, throngs visited Chain Bridge, | where the river flowed only a few feet | below the flooring of the span { Many of the Summer cottages and year-round homes on the banks below Chain Bridge have been vacated, but some residents remained. Those who stayed, however, remained up most of | the night, ready to flee if the river continued to rise. | Camp fires burned along the shore, | with groups of men huddled around them, watching the current aweep | along all types of debris and looking | At Key Bridge several houses were | | half submerged. The water at the for any signs of life. i of its work, “there can be no question in my judgment that the burden rest- ing upon the court has increased sub- stantially in recent years—both the burden of hearing and deciding cases and the burden of determining whether petitions for review should be granted. That greatly increased bur- den is demonstrated and not refuted, by my report.” “In answer to your question as to Whether the President's proposal for relieving congestion and xpeedmzi litigation in the lower Federal courts Will further increase the burden of work on the Supreme Court, I am of the opinion that the adoption of he proposals would have that result. “In answer to your question con- cerning the power of Congress to fix | Wisconsin avenue marker was 14 feet | the number of justices of the Supreme above low tide at 3 am. Court, which shall constitute a The canoe and boat clubs, flooded | uorum, I feel that I should refrain almost to the second story, were cleared | {rom exercising an opinion. I think yesterday of everything that could be | i Droper, however, to recall the moved, all small craft being taken to | historic fact that the Congress has | | tioned Mr. Cammerer regarding other of those fundamental plans provide for | a major memorial on that south axi | from the White House. He expressed confidence that future years will see a very decided change in that section. ‘ Rock Expected at 85 Feet. Nagle testified that core drilling | showed the base for the proposed memorial may find rock bottom at 80 feet, but certainly at 85 feet. At the Lincoln Memorial, rock foundation | ‘was struck at 55 feet. The Washing- | ton Monument never went to rock,! but is on what is called a “floating foundation.” Cammerer said Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, per- sonally favored locating the memo- rial in Lincoln Park, where the L'En- fant plan intended to have a his- | toric column. Representative | Treadway ques- sites, especially in the Soldiers’ Home ground on the line of North Capitol street with a vista of the Capitol. this morning, when the reading was | higher ground. K street was under water all through the night, a depth of four to five feet being recorded at the intersection of Thirtieth. Engines kept busy yesterday after- noon shifting freight cars from the area expected to be flooded. Capt. P. J. Carroll, commander, and virtually- his entire force worked all night. Capt. Carroll said this morning that practically all the roads in the park system, with the exception of East Potomac Park and the underpass highway, leading southward from Con- stitution avenue past the Water Gate, will be open to traffic. The Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, closed due to high water, again will be in condi- tion for motorists today, the captain said. At the Water Gate, the waters swept in logs and other debris, making the opening of that thoroughfare imprac- tical at this time. The permit office in the new Interior Department Building, across from park police headquarters, was turned into s barracks last night. C. C. C. workers utilized cots that were set up for their convenience. This morning trafic was moving freely on Seventeenth street, south of Constitution avenue, where, in the March, 1936, flood, the way was barred by an embankment of sand- bags. At the rear of the Navy and Munitions Building, there were no sandbags in evidence, either—unlike the picture presented & year ago in March, when they were piled high to Progress Administration workers, four| keep back the swirling waters. » f | assumed to exercise such power ever since the court was established - and the power has never been Judicially | questioned. Doubts Efficiency Injury. “In answer to your question whether | an increase in the membership of the court would impair its efficiency, I can only express the opinion that, consid- ering the special function of the Su- preme Court and the volume and na- ture of the litigation that comes before it, such should not be the result. “The President's proposals would enable each member of the court to devote a larger share of his time and energies to the most vital phase of the court’s work. The most exacting and important task of the justices, and the most significant in contributing to the development of the law, is the prepa- ration of opinions. It seems plain that the performance of that function would be measurably aided by an in- crease in the number of justices, which would occasion the writing of rela- tively fewer opinions by each.” The solicior general suggested that it would be possible to distribute peti- tlons for certiorari among the justices 80 that no more than a quorum need Pass on one opinion. He also sug- gested that to relieve the court from excessive conferences an arrangement might be made under which not more than a quorum of the eourt would sit upon cases which are not of the gravest public importance. R NP0 6o Nearly 2,000,000 pounds of c¢offee were produced in Panama in the last year, Representative Wearin of Iowa sought a ruling that if the selection by the commission of an architect is bind- ing, it should also be binding regard- ing the site. Both Keller and Tread- way refused to admit that. Treadway said Wearin's proposal for an architectural competition had been thrown out and that the testi- mony regarding the ultimate cost of the Jefferson Memorial “throws this plan out the window also as far as I am concerned.” Removal of All Trees Expected. In reply to questions, Cammerer ex- | pressed the opinion that practically 100 per cent of the cherry trees| sround the Tidal Basin will have to be | removed and that the larger trees,| which have a span of life of about 10 years more would die if an attempt | to replant them was made. Willard M. Kochenderfer, executive | secretary of the Hotel Men's Associa- | tion, said the cherry blossoms draw more visitors to Washington than any- thing else. He said the hotel men are vitally interested because this means business for them. He urged that an- other site be selected for the Jefferson Memorial. Others who pleaded for preservation of the cherry trees included Mrs. Ernest W. Howard, for the District Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Frances Jack- son Stoddard, who read a poem, “Plea of the Cherry Trees”; Mrs. W, F. Rands, representing the Sixteenth Street Heights Citizens’ Association; Mrs. Katherine Tabney and Royal H. Carlock, Brookmont, Md, who dis- played artistic pictures of the cherry blossoms, | he wanted to accompany them. about anything that might that day. Later, he said. Mrs. Musick came to | call, and Mrs. Brewer told of seeing some automobiles parked up the road and asked Mrs. Musick to stay for fear | she would be molested. | happen After Mrs. Musick rejoined her hus- band at a neighbor’s and both walked down the road, Brewer said, he heard some shooting. Recognizes Deputies. | He went down where the shooting occurred and said he recognized Depu- | ties Bob Eldredge, Hugh Taylor and | Frank White. A few days later, Brewer continued, Lee and Bowlin came to his house, saying they had a search warrant for 1,100 pounds of meat.” They looked for the “meat” in his | dresser drawer, Brewer said, explain- | ing he supposed they were looking for | United Mine Workers' literature. Brewer said he had not been a mem- ber of the U. M. W. since 1934. | Taylor also told of the Musick kill- | ing, testifying that Irving told him that if Musick’s wife hadn't been along that Sunday afternoon, Musick would have “got a bullet in him.” Taylor said he was approached by Frank W. Hife to participate in the shooting up of the Musick house. At this point, an affidawit from Claybourne Taylor, brother 4 Hugh, was introduced, stating that Irving told him “they were going to kill Musick or run him out of the State.” Both Taylors refused. Night of February 9 Recalled. Calling Mr. and Mrs. Howard to the stand, La Follette returned to events of February 9, the night Bennett Mu- sick was murdered. About 6:30 in the evening, Mrs. Howard said, she and her husband were in the grill with Deputies Lee, Allred, Angel, Bowlin, White and Merle Middleton. The men were drinking “quite a bit,” Mrs. Howard continued, and Lee placed two guns on his table. After Bowlin had said several times that they must go, the witnesses agreed, the deputies asked Howard if “We're going up to see old man Musick,” they quoted one of the sheriffs. “The deputies left about 7 o'clock, Mrs. Howard said. The Musick slay- ing occurred about 8:30. “Have you heard from home since you've been in Washington?” La Fol- lette asked. “Yes, from my brother,” Howard answered. “He said my mother was worried about stories that the deputy sheriffs were going to take me for a ride.” ’ f | s1.000 move. The section of the tax statutes requiring publication of these salaries, which originated in the Senate, was repealed in the House yesterday by & vote of 229 to 112 In recent years, the list of core poration salaries has been submitted to Congress by the Treasury and turned over to the House Ways and Means Committee. Members of the committee have protested that regu- lar committee work was interrupted by streams of curiosity seekers and persons who wanted to copy the lists and sell them During yeseterday's debate, C gressmen thumbed through the latest volume, a volume containing approxi- mately 30,000 names, at a table in the center of the chamber. Doughton Sees No Good. Chairman Doughton of the Ways and Means Committee told the House the lists have served no good purpose. He said they had not helped the Treas- ury obtain a single additional doliar of revenue, and that the costs of preparation were $50,000 to $100000 annually The ranking committee Republican, Representative Treadway of Massa- chusetts, asserted that blackmailers, thugs and thieves could buy the lists for a2 few dollars from “some lady downtown."” The chief opposition to repeal came from Progressives, Farmer-Laborites 'and members of the “liberal” bloc Representative Sauthoff, Progres= sive, of Wisconsin attempted to put through a change which he told re= porters would have permitted agents | of the Justice Department to inspect | corporation salaries at any time His motion was shove aside, 92 to 22 Incomes Held Public Business. “I submit that the income of the individual is public business,” Repree sentative Boileau, Progressive, of Wise consin argued. “I submit that the public has a vital interest in knowing how wealth is distributed.” “Isn't it true” interrupted Repre- sentative Johnson, Farmer-Labor, of | Minnesota, “that the reason for this repeal is that some of the boys are s little bit ashamed of what they do take?” Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: In recess. Judiciary Committee considers Roosevelt court bill in closed session. La Follette Committee continues in- quiry into labor conditions in Harlan County, Ky., coal fields. House: Considers second deficiency appro= priation bill Ways and Means Committee cone tinues on Marihuana control and taxe ation. Agriculture Committee considers sugar quota legislation. Interstate Commerce Committee studies “hot oll” control bill. TOMORROW. Senate: Program uncertain. Judiciary Committee meets in executive session on President’s court bil]. Appropriations Subcommittee starts work on agricultural supply bill. Immigration Subcommittee meets at 10 am. on Reynolds immigration bill. Commerce Subcommittee meets on a bridge bill House: Begins debate on War Department appropriation bill. Post Office Committee considers air- mail bill, 10:30 am Public Lands Committee considers bill to increase area of Yosemite Na- tional Park, 10:30 a.m. Special Tax Subcommittee of Dis- trict Committee resumes hearings on $6,000,000 tax program at 10:30 a.m. FIRST RACE—Purse, $1.000; 2-year-old maidens. 4 furlongs. Acute (Holland) 16 T 15 Miss Bones (Johnson) Grape Thief (Fallon) Fancy That (Saunders) Do (Lauch) 4-vear-olds and up Rideaway (Thedore) Wood Wind (Mitchell) a Souwester (Clements) Big March (Eaby) xOmel (Havhurst) Saluda (Leonard) a Teddy the Bold (Jennings) Swimalong (Brook) aMis. F. A, Clarke entry THIRD _ RAC olds and claiming: $1.000 E—3-vea 174 miles. 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