Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair today; tomorrow cloudy; rain to- morrow afternoon or night; not much change in temperature. Temperatures— Highest, 71, at 5 p.m. yesterday; lowest, Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos 40, at 6 a.m. yesterday. Full report on Page B-3. {(#) Means Associated Press. No. 1,676—No. 33,969. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D C. he WASHINGTON, RESCUE OF BILBAD CHILDREN RUSHED: FRANCO AT FRONT I ritish Work Against Time as Rebels Push Nearer Capital City. EVACUATION OF 300,000 IS HELD IMPOSSIBILITY Insurgents’ Refusal to Respect Foreign Refugee Vessels Men- aces Mass Migration. BACKGROUND— The Basques joined the Madrid government against the Spanish insurgents to realize their cherished ambition, autonomy. The first war parliament granted it last October 1, but the three Basque provinces— Alava, Guipuzcoa and Viscaya—re= mained invaluable Madrid allies. Irun and San Sebastian, captured by insurgents in the first ferce northern fighting, are in Guipuzcoa Province. Besieged Bilbao is the capital of the people some believe stem from the lost cqutinent At- lantis. Basque foundries have turned Basque iron, copper and tin into government munitions. By the Assoclatea Press. HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, May 1.—Anxious Basques and willing British skippers worked against weighty odds tonight to evacuate Bilbao’s non-combatants beyond the range of Spanish insurgent bombs and cannon. Refuge around the Bay of Biscay's | weapon in labor disputes is “fore- | bend in France for some children was | doomed assured when the masters of nine Brit- ish freighters in Bilbao Harbor volun- teered to evacuate as many as possible from the imminent menace of bom- bardment and siege. But a shortage of ships and insur- gent Gen. Francisco Franco's refusal to respect foreign refugee vesseis run- ning his Bay of Biscay gauntlet menaced the success of & mass migra- tion. Neutrality Bill Signed at Sea; 2 Proclamations Issued Here (Full tert of proclamation on Page A-18.) By the Associated Press, President Roosevelt signed at sea last night the broader “isolationist” neutrality bill passed by Congress to replace the temporary law expiring at midnight. The measure, which makes perma- nent the present embargo against munitions to foreign belligerents and gives the President discretionary authority to restrict trading in goods useful to warring nations, was rushed to the President's fishing craft off Aransas Pass, Tex.,, by plane, auto- mobile and small boat. It was flown to Galveston from Washington, picked | up by the White House staff on ar- rival from New Orleans. It was signed at 6:30 p.m. (8:30, Eastern Stand- ard time) on the U. S. S. Potomac, to which the President had trans- ferred from the Moffett two and a half hours earlier. Isolation Policy Permanently Fixed by President as Old Law Expires. Banned Arms Lis t Larger. Two proclamations, one entitled “Enumerations of Arms” and the other “Export of Arms,” were signed at five-minute intervals after the bill be- came law. The list of arms, ammunition and implements of war in the proclama- tions has been approved by the Na- tional Munitions Control Board and is more extensive than the lists contained in previous proclamations. The Presi- dent listed several new poison gases for the first time in any proclamation issued on the subject. He also in- cluded a more comprehensive list of propellants and high explosives. The first proclamation declared the existence of a state of civil war in Spain and listed articles of war which may not be shipped to belligerents. The second related to registration of manufacturers and shippers of arms and war materials. In making public the proclamations, the Secretary of State, acting under (See PRESIDENT, Page A-2) GOV. MURPHY ASKS STATELABORUNITS Violence as Weapon in Strikes Doomed, He Tells Women’s League. Declaring the use of violence as a to failure,” Gov. Frank| Murphy of Michigan last night advo- | cated establishment in each State of a board of industrial relations with broad powers to deal with labor prob- lems. He spoke before the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom at its annual banquet in the Washington Hotel. Industrial disturbances created by | labor controversies affect the public | interest and demand governmental in- Franco Takes Command. 1 Time also became a factor when | Gen. Franco arrived on the northern | front to take personal command of his | troops, poised about 10 miles east of Bilbao on the Durango-Guernica line. | Reports from the northern war zone | #aid Gen. Emilio Mola, commanding | the drive against Bilbao, had sent an utlimatum to the Basque president, Juan Antonjo Aguirre, demanding the immediate surrender of the city “to avoid useless sacrifice.” From Bilbao came & report Aguirre offered to ship out all insurgent hostages if Franco ‘would permit evacuation of non-com- batants. Insurgent officers declared they were eonfident the Basques' ‘“desperate military situation” would force them to surrender. At Gen. Mola’s Vitoria headquarters it was asserted the insurgents had reached a point 12 miles from Bilbao | in their advance northwestward from | Durango. Important new gains were rlalmsdl for the insurgent right wing, sweep- | ing along the Bay of Biscay coast. The insurgent colors were flving | tonight from the town halls of Ber- | meo, Mundaca, Pedernales and Al- | tamira, all between 16 and 20 miles from Bilbao. A Vitoria communique reported 100 deserters who came into the insurgent lnes with their arms said the Basque and Asturian militiamen were ex- hausted by continual fighting and re- treating. Basques Claim Gains, Basque reports declared the in- surgent advance had been halted. The defense lines, they said, had been reorganized and firmly entrenched and the Basques had been able to turn and thrust back in a local of- | fensive which recaptured Garono | Mound, nicknamed “Hill 450,” in the | Guernica sector. In the face of an expected urgent need for speed in removing Bilbao's noncombatants and a scarcity of ships in which to carry them, re- moval even of the 150,000 mentioned by French and British officials as | their goal seemed unlikely. Diplomatic sources said the evacu- ation of 300,000 of the city's aged, women and children—which is the number Basque President Aguirre has #aid should go—was beyond possibility. (Officials in London disclosed that British warships would protect mer- chantmen evacuating civilians from Bilbao and that the fieet in the Bay of Biscay—a battleship, a cruiser and five destroyers—has been instructed (See SPAIN, Page A-4.) REBELS REPORTED ATTACKING BRITISH Paris Hears Destroyer Is Target of Bombs, but London Has No Information. By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 1.—An insurgent air- plane attack on the British destroyer Faulknor in the port of Bilbao was re- ported tonight by Agence Espagne, official Spanish government news agency. The agency said three tri-motored sirplanes, described as of Italian make, dropped five bombs near the warship, but returned to their base when they failed to &core a hit. , It asserted the attack occurred at 6:30 o'clock (1:30 pm. E. S. T.) to- night after the warship arrived to protect the evacuation of women and children from besieged Bilbao. (In London a spokesman for the British admiralty said it had received no information on the reported at- tack on the destroyer Faulknor. He said he did not know if the Faulknor had steamed within the 3-mile limit.) A Basque Defense Council com- munique broadcast from Bilbao re- ported Bilbao's defenders in a coun- ter-offensive éaused 3,000 casualties tervention and control, declared the- Michigan Governor, whose handling of automobile sit-down strikes which be- | gan on the day he took office have! gained him national attention. | The State boards, Murphy ad-| vocated, should deal not only with industrial disputes, but should make investigations of conditions and practices “that are inimical to the interests of the public and to em- | ployers and employes.” | New Program Begun. Last night's dinner meeting. de- voted to the subject of non-violent techniques in labor disputes, marked the opening of a new program for the Women's League, Which recently created a labor division to deal with | matters of strike violence as a threat | to domestic peace. HITLER DENOUNCES CHURCH AND JEWS Also Tells Workers Time for Higher Wages Has Not Yet Come. BACKGROUND— Conflict between Nazi govern- ment and church has raged almost since Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. In his pre-Easter encyclical Pope Pius charged the Germans had en- croached on the church sphere, especially in regard to its influence over Catholic youth, and has set up a false deity in Hitler. Concordat of 1933 set up separate spheres of church and state in- fluence. Nazis now apparently have begun a well-publicized campaiga to show the church itself overstepped the line. Several Catholic chaplains recently weer tried and sent to prison for allegedly fostering a Catholic-Communist front. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, May 1.—Adolf Hitler stood amid May day throngs today to de- -nounced clerical “interference” and the Jews, and to tell the third Reich’s workers that the time for higher wages has not yet come to Germany. There was varying applause for these pronouncements. Fifty thousand Berlin workers massed before Der Fuehrer in the Lustgarten Square, often the scene of monster Nazi demonstrations.’ | Earlier, 180,000 boys and girls packed into the Olympic Stadium heard the “Peace and freedom need cham- | pions as much in 1937 as they did in | 1915,” Gov. Murphy said. “What is more important, they are needed sore- | ly here within our own borders, as | well as on the meeting grounds of na- | tions. For the methods of force and | violence that you have fought so | mobly to eradicate in international | relations are eating insidiously into the relations between many members of the American commonwealth, Not | a few employers and employes are eyeing each other with defiance and truculence, ready at a moment’s no- tice to enforce their demands by vio- lent means. “Governments, forsaking the dic- tates of reason, employ their armed might for purposes of coercion, in- timidation and oppression. Citizens, inflamed by passion and prejudice, cry out in anger at those of their public servants who believe in the methods of peace as opposed to the ways of violence. At this moment, unpleasant as the fact may sound, the flames of industrial war smoulder in the hearts of many who could and should be working harmoniously together g mutual self betterment. Deplores Use of Force. “Force never settles industrial dis- putes. Those who advocate it can- not now claim that by such methods they achieve good ends. It is in- escapably futile.” A more effective and intelligent weapon, he said, “is the power that is born of unity and wielded through the rational, orderly procedure of col- lective bargaining.” The recent labor troubles in Michigan, he said, have demonstrated that labor, “when treated in the spirit of equality that underlies the democratic philosophy,” shows a purpose to negotiate its differences “in an atmosphere of reason and Justice.” “This fact” he said, “became ap- parent to capital as well as to other persons who are willing to recognize and admit the truth, however dis- tasteful to them it may be.” Government that supresses labor (See MURPHY, Page A-12.) first of two apparent warnings to| catholicism. His allusion to Jews brought up- roarious applause, but only moderate cheering followed his appeal to - *ork- ers and employers to increase pro- duction without demanding higher wages or increased prices. The Lustgarten throng cheered more heartily when Der Fuehrer de- clared labor service, without higher wages, “will force better class respect of the worker.” Answers Encyclical. Repercussions of the controversy between nazism and catholicism, which was brought into the open by Pope Pius’ pre-Easter encyclical charging Nazi violation of the church- state concerdat, were sounded by both of Der Fuehrer's speeches today. Said Der Fuehrer today to the workers: “If anybody tries, through encycli- cals, sermons or other religious meas- ures to disturb our community spirit, we will simply withdraw the clergy- man’s license from such. “It will not do for certain circles to criticize our morals when they have (See HITLER, Page A-12.) PLUNGES TO DEATH FROM TWELFTH STORY Mauran Smith, Reputed Grandson of Wells-Fargo Founder, Chicago Victim. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 1.—Mauran (Bud) Smith, 36, said by police to be a grandson of one of the founders of the Wells-Fargo Express Co., plunged to his death today from the twelfth floor of a hotel after barricading the door of his apartment. Smith had stopped at the hotel intermittently during the last 14 years, officials said. Thomas Wheelock, a friend, told police that Smith was a grandson of the late Francis Wells, a founder of the famous express company, By the Associated Press. ROME, May 1.—Absence of Gen. Attilio Teruzzi, former head of the Italian Fascist militia, from the fu- neral of his sister Amelia, led today to the disclosure he is in Spain. Fascist circles disclosed Premier Mussolini sent Teruzzi there follow- ing the defeat of Italian troops who were fighting for insurgent Spanish Gen. Franco at Guadalajara. Informants said Italian volunteers for Franco had at first been selected too freely and were in need of train- ing. Teruzzi has been praised for his organizing ability since he developed the Black Shirt militia. Another noted personality now re- ported to be in Spain is Gen. Ettore Bastico, who commended the 4th Italian Army Corps in the Italo-Ethi- opian war. among the insurgents in Saturday's fighting. Gen. Teruzzi, one of Il Duce’s Ex-Head of Duce’s Militia Sent To Spain to Train Fascists of Italy’s turmoils of the current gen- eration. Mussolini chose him to command a crack Black Shirt division called “February 1,” when the Italo-Ethio- pian war was imminent. He asked to be relieved of his post as chief of staff of the Fascist milita in order to fight in the African campaign. The bearded general was born in Milan in 1883. In 1911 he volunteered for the Libyan campaigns and emerged with a silver medal of valor. He was captain in the regular army when the World War broke out and in front line service was deco- rated three times. At the end of the war he returned to Libya as a major. Recalled to Italy in 1920, he left the army and threw his fighting tal- ents into Mussolini’s Black Shirt rev- olution. As a reward for this work he was made vice secretary of the party. He has also served in the Fascist re- gime as subsecretary of the interior “bearded lions,” has figured in ‘mt " and Governor of Cyrenaica. JQ(“\ 3 D. O, SUNDAY MO WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION RNING, HOLLYWOOD FACES PARALYZING STRIKE AFFECTINGT0,000 Four Unions Already Out and 14 Others Will De- cide Today. SCREEN ACTORS’ GUILD ALSO CALLS MEETING Federated Crafts Bank on Actors for Support of Demands for Recognition, BACKGROUND— Labor troubles involving wages and hours and union recognition, bringing into play sit-down strikes which have paralyzed the automo- tive industry since last Fall, now center in Hollywood, although walkout method is being employed. Affiliaes of John W. Lewis’ Com= mittee for Industrial Organization inspired strikes in the motor plants, but this time it is the newly formed Federated Motion Picture Crafts, an affiliate of the American Fed- eration of Labor, which has issued the call. Union demands are re- ported to involve a closed shop, recognition and adjustment of wages and hours. . By the Associated Press HOLLYWOOD, May 1.—Picketing increased at major studios and spread to others tonight as the threat of a paralyzing strike which would affect more than 10,000 craftsmen and play- ers hung over the multi-billion-dollar motion picture industry Four unions with a membership of some 2,500 already were nominally on strike under a call issued last night. The question of whether 14 other unions will join the walkout will be | decided tomorrow morning at a meet- ing of the recently organized parent | body. the Fecerated Motion Picture Crafts, strike sponsor. Its unions were voting today to determine strike senti- ment. The powerful Screen Actors’ Guild | also called a mass meeting for tomor- |row night in the Hollywood Legion Stadium to decide whether 5,600 mem- bers, including nearly all the film colony’s top-notch players, will pass through picket lines into the studios. Federated Crafts officials are bank- | ing heavily on the Actors’ Guild for | support of their demands for a closed | shop and union recognition in the in- dustry. Producers’ representatives so | far have declined to grant these de- mands before receiving and consider- { ing any wage and hour requests which | the crafts may expect to make. Effect Not Determined. Effect of last night's strike call to the four unions could not be deter- | mined definitely today, Saturday being | & light day at most studios. Pat Casey, labor conciliator for the | producers, declared very few workers | failed to report for work and such | urday was not hampered. | President Charles Lessing of the | Federated Crafts also said he did not “expect much to happen until Mon- | day.’ The four unions called on strike are the painters, make-up artists, scenic artists and draftsmen. Draftsmen at R-K-O and Colum- bia studios walked out this morning. Other unionists, including studio cooks | and culinary workers and 195 camera machinists, were reported walking out in advance of the federation meeting tomorrow. A walkout of M-G-M studio chefs prevented serving break- fast at the commissary there. Picketing was orderly and good- natured. No attempt was made to pre- vent any one going into the studios. Union officials estimated the various 500 by noon. Clark Gable, a member of the Screen (See STRIKE, Page A-3) | production as was scheduled for Sat- | picket lines had increased to nearly | D. C. TOBACCO TAX FACES OPPOSITION Proposals Under Considera- | tion by Commissioners to Meet Fight in Committee. BACKGROUND— A prospective deficit of $6,000,000 in District revenues for the fiscal vear 1938 has resulted in proposals for a series of new tazes. Automo- biles, gasoline and tobacco are among the items which are under consideration for bearing the brunt of the increase BY JAMES E. CHINN. A proposal under consideration by the Commissioners to impose a sales | | tax on tobacco to help make up an | anticipated budget deficit in the com- | ing fiscal year is expected to meet pro- | nounced opposition in the special tax | subcommittee of the House District | Committee, now at work on a new $6,000,000 program of increased taxa- tion. | Although the Commissioners have not yet recommended the tobacco sales tax, Representative Dirksen, Republi- can, of Illinois, an active member of MAY 2, 1937— iy Star 136 PAGES. Every Sunday Morning and Afternoon. FIVE CENTS TEN S| CENTS U | FRE AGAINS COURT Ta DEE DA WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY. T THE PLAN, oet n! 1!he subcommittee, has undertaken a | study to determine the equity of such | | a plan. | | Unwilling to commit himself on the | proposal at this time, Dirksen, how- | | ever, pointed out the House Ways and | | Means Committee several years ago took the position that tobacco, which is producing about $1.08 per pound in | Pederal revenue, is bearing more than a fair share of the Nation's tax burden Whether it should be singled out by | the District for further taxation, he |sald is a question deserving serious | consideration. Report Opposes Increase. A report prepared by the Interstate | Commitee on Conflicting Taxation, | Dirksen said, opposed additional taxes on tobacco. Voluminous statistics are cited in this report, he declared, to show the burden tobacco is bearing in various States which already have it under taxation. Rates of taxation, as well as meth- ods, vary in the different States. For instance, some of them tax cigarettes only, while others tax all forms of | tobacco. Six States have a 2-cent tax per package of 20 cigarettes. The State of Washington has a Il-cent tax. Oklahoma, Texas, North Dakota and (See D. C. TAXES, Page A-12) Fund I:ayment Municipal Relief Association Feud S_[_)lits Veteran and Youthful E ernment Disagree on Distribution of Benefits in Treasury—Test Case Filed in Court. BACKGROUND— To be assured of ready cash for Juneral expenses, District employes 25 years ago formed Municipal Im- mediate Relief Association. Mem- bers paid 25 cents monthly for $100 insurance; received $50 if benefi- ciary preceded them in death. Financial backlog was $400 received annually from program promotor. Commissioners forbade program publication 10 years ago. Facing financial dificulties, association voted last month to disband. A bitter feud between veteran and youthful employes of the District gov- ernment is being waged over the dis- tribution of death benefits in the treasury of the Municipal Immediate Relief Association, it was learned last night. So intense has feeling between the two factions become, it was revealed. that Ringgold Hart, former principal assistant corporation counsel, has ap- pealed to the Commissioners to inter- {vene with a declaration that moral obligations should take precedence over legal rights in distribution of the funds. When the Commissioners refused to take sides in the dispute, Hart said, william Franklin, president of the association when the schism developed, filed a test case in Municipal Court to determine whether the assets of the organization should be divided equally among the members or on a percentage basis to be determined by the amount each individual paid into the treasury. In the advent of an adverse decision in Municipal Court, Hart said, it is probable that the dispute will be car- “ mployes of District Gov- ried before the equity branch of Dis- trict Court for a decision. Franklin said the association, which was formed on May 12, 1912, voted to dissolve at a meeting in the Dis- trict Biulding on last April 19. By a vote of 23 to 20, according to Frank- lin, the organization agreed to dis- burse its assets totaling $3,499.13 on &. percentage basis. Reconsideration of the vote was de- manded and Franklin refused to rec- ognize the member who moved for that action, contending he was out of or- der. Franklin explained that the mem- ber had voted in the negative and therefore was not entitled to move for reconsideration. In the squabble that followed, Franklin left the chair. Thomas Cos- tello, first vice president, moved in as presidihg officer, granted the motion to reconsider and then announced that 2 motion to disburse the assets on a pro rata basis had been adopted. Later Franklin received notice that his office had been declared vacated and. that Costello had been elevated to the presidency. Franklin said that on the basis of the pro rata distribution plan, new members who had paid only 75 cents in dues would receive approximately $30, while members who had been pay- ing $3.25 annually for 25 years would receive a like amount. “Many of the old members of the association are retired,” Hart said, “and need every penny that is coming (See BENEFTTS, Page A-4.) Radio Programs, Page F-3. Complete Index, Page A-2. P.W. A. to Cut Sharp Cuts Unlikely Elsewhere Rolls by 2,000 1.000 Must Leave Ickes’ A gency on Ma 15; Other Curtailment to Be Made Gradi BY NELSON M. SHEPARD. ) More than 2,000 administrative em- | ployes must be dropped permanently | from the rolls of the Public Works | Administration, it was stated officlally yesterday, to scale down the force in| conformity with the drastic curtail- | ment of the P. W. A. program. The nearest approach to an esti- mated reduction in personnel was given as “more than 25 per cent” of | the approximately 8,000 employes now | remaining on the depleted rolls. Last February 1, when P. W. A.| funds were either tied up or lacking, 2,000 employes were discharged or furloughes indefinitely. The ax wvill fall first on May 15, when 1,000 furloughed men and women will be definitely stricken from the | rolls, it was said. After that date | there will be a gradual but continuous reduction. Officials have no way of knowing y | wally. what is to happen to P. W. A. em- | ployes after they are let out of the service. Some probably will be ab- sorbed by other agencies, but the great majority, it was admitted, will swell the ranks of the unemployed. The reduction is a matter over | which the P. W. A. has no control As projects throughout the country are completed, the need for a large administrative force wifl be reduced correspondingly. Out of the total of 25.129 P. W. A. projects begun in the last three years, on April 1 there remained 3,415 under construction. Many of these have since been com- pleted Compared with the billions that formerly were at his disposal, Admin- istrator Ickes now has a revolving fund of only about $150,000,000 from which to draw for future projects. Even this relatively small amount (See P. W. A, Page A-4) BURKE GITES COURT PLAN OF BROWDER Foe of Roosevelt Proposal Recalls Communist Ad- vocated Increase. BACKGROUND— A series of decisions by the Su- preme Court invalidating New Deal laws was climaxed in February by the request of President Roosevelt for authority to add to the court as many as sir members—one for each justice over 70 who did not retire. Lengthy hearings on the proposal have been held by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and some compromise measures have been advanced. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Increase in the membership of the | Supreme Court was openly advocated | by one candidate for President during | the 1936 campaign—Earl Browder, | candidate of the Communist party—| Senator Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska declared in a letter made public last | night. | Senator Burke. an opponent O'l President Roosevelt's bill to increase | the Supreme Court membership, was replying to criticism leveled at him by two former Nebraska Representa- tives, Dan V. Stephens and Edgar Howard, for his failure to support the President. “I would like,” said Burke in a let- ter to Howard, “to ask these men who now assail me this simple ques- tion: When did you for the first time have an intimation that demand would be made on Congress at this session to creat six vacancies on the Supreme Court in order that the President, with the approval of the Senate, might have the opportunity to fill the places with nominees, who, ‘Party to Oppose Only Bad i HANILTON DEFNES NEW G. 0. P HOPES | New Deal, Says Chairman, in Radio Address. BACKGROUND— Silent since the Democratic ava- lanche of last November, Chairman | John Hamilton of the Republican National Committee has begun a vigorous offensive looking to the | congressional campaigns a year | hence. The program was announced | a few days ago. John Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee charted & course of constructive op- position for the G. O. P, in a radio speech last night over a national hook- up. The party, he insisted, will distin- guish between the good and the bad proposals of the New Deal adminis- tration and cppose only the bad. Hamilton’s address was the first of a series which he will deliver regard- ing the rebuilding of the Repubiican | party and the public issues of the day. | Taking cognizance of suggestions that the Repuklican party should be- come a new party, with a different | name, or that there should be some | entirely different political alignment, Chairman Hamilton said: | “There are those who have suggested | that the name of the party be changed | upon the theory apparently that those who vote against the Republican can- didates do so without any affirmative | convictions. There are those who speak of amalgamations and there are those who speak of new parties. I will not dispute with any man what may be the future form or character f the political parties in this country. " (See HAMILTON, Page A-5.) New York Burlesque Reopens And Again Is By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 1.—Burlesque,; shut up in a closet today as Broad-! way’s naughty child, kicked a couple of slats out of the door tonight. A few hours after License Commis- sioner Paul Moss refused to renew expiring licenses for 14 theaters, counsel for two houses obtained a court omder permitting a stay in enforcement of closing order pend- ing a hearing before Justice John F. Carew in Supreme Court at 10:30 | a.m. Monday. Counsel for the Gaiety, a Broad- way house controlled by the Minskys Jim Corp, and the Eltinge, in the heart of Times Square, located Supreme Court Justice Edgar J. Lauer at his Park avenue home tonight and persuaded him to sign the order. Then as the attorney sped to two precinct police stations to serve the order, performers at the two theaters donned their make-up, ticket sellers took their places and by 9:15 barkers 4 e Closed by Courtj ‘appeared in front of the marquees announcing “The show is on.” | The legal immunity from Com-! missioner Moss’ closing order was brief, however. In a game of legal | checkers with the counsel for the | theaters, Corporation Counsel Paul | Windels prepared an order vacating | the earlier show cause writ, and obtained the signature of presiding | Justice Francis Martin. Armed with the vacation order, police made a return visit to the Galety, where nearly a thousand pa- trons waited for the usually spicy midnight show to open. The writ was read, police took possession of the stage, and Manager Joseph Weinstock asked the audience to “please go home.” ‘There was no disorder as the crowd left. Police then visited the Eltinge, where the process was repeated. This, explained Windels, left the whole thing right where it began (See BURLESQUE, Page A-4) SPOTLIGHT TURNS T0 RELIEF FUNDS INECONOMY DRIVE Appropriation” Cut Plans Awaiting Return of Roosevelt. HEARINGS WILL START ON $1,500,000,000 PLEA House Deficiency Subcommittes to Take Up Extension of P. W. A. Tomorrow. BACKGROUND— Failure of March income tazx re- turns to measure up to expectations caused President Roosevelt to sub- mit to Congress a revised budget and call on departmental heads to curtail expenditures Congressional leaders pledged eo- operation, some proposing to go Jurther than the President and trim $500,000,000 from his $1,500,- 000,000 relief request Senator Byrnes of South Carolina suggested 10 per cent slash in all appropria- tions. Representative Cannon of Missouri offered plan to impound 15 per cent, this fund to be used at discretion of President. BY J. A. O'LEARY. While congressional the return of President Roose conferences on alternate pl plying a percentage cut to nex appropriations, the eco: will turn this we amount of the fund for the y Before starting hearir or Thursday on the Presid 500,000,000 relief request Subcommittee on De priations tomorrow wi separate bill to prolong Public Works Ad years from June 30 Other developments 1 movement yesterday w Chairman Woodrum of Appropriations handled the $900, offices money & independen ment to “resurt ion two more the economy the House ttee, which 00.000 independent ked heads of 32 cies of the Govern= and reconsider your ds for 1938" with a the Appropriations t & 10 per 1 his letter, Wood- i at the first meeting of the full Approy Co tee he would s est that chairmen of o tees in charge of big s bills make similar economy moves. McKellar Has Own Resolution. Senator McKellar of Tenne: ranking Democrat on the Appropria- tions Committee, predicted the com- mittee will go carefully” into the percen method of reduc- ing the tot to accomplish as much econor tent with men tiviti such as program. McK: also has beer or two on, a perce olution of his ow McCarran. Dem: Nevada, made known Green, president of the Federation of Labor. has with him regarding the fea ran expressed in a lette leaders that a per ge appropriations might hit Government employes in the lower brackets. Mce Carran said Green agreed with him that nothing sk be done to re= duce the pay of the lower-salaried workers. Sponsors of the percentage plan have disclaimed any of cutting ries, although admit- ting that a 10 per cent saving might require the letting out of employes in some bureaus, Conflicting viewpoints were ex= pressed at the Capitol on whether the 15 per cent discretionary i pounding plan, sponsored by Re) sentative Cannon Democra Missouri could be ¢ ed out by Gove ernment departments without ac- tion by Congress. This proposal yes= terday received the support of Repre- (See ECONOMY, Page A-2.) THROWS CHILD OFF BRIDGE, THEN LEAPS Young Mother Is Killed, but Daughter Survives 100- Foot Fall. Picture on Page A-2. By the Associated Press. PASADENA, Calif., May 1.—Horror= stricken bystanders helplessly watched a young mother hurl her 3-year-old daughter off 100-foot high Colorado Street Bridge here today, then plunge over herself to death. The child struck a pepper tree and landed in loose earth. Hospital ate tendants said she may recover. The mother died in a short time. Motor Cycle Office: Lee Forrester said she left a note in a small bundle of clothes on the bridge identifying here self as Mrs. Myrtle Ward of Los Ane nten | geles and her baby as Louise. Charles Willlams and Sam Davis of Pasadena, who were driving on a highway beneath the bridge, told police: “Apparently the first thud we heard was the baby landing. Then as we looked up we saw the woman. We shouted for her not to jump. She hesitated a split second and then plunged over “Then we looked around. There, in a plowed spot of ground, was the little girl. She was sitting up and crying. She was asking for her mamma. There was a big pepper tree near where the baby landed. Un- doubtedly the boughs of the tree broks her fall. The mother, though, fell clear of the trees and didn't move after she landed.” } »