Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1937, Page 12

A—12 %% VANDENBURG ASKS CRITICS TO SPEAK Wants Doughton and Others to Have Full Hearing on Social Security. By the Associated Press, Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan, has extended an olive branch to members of the House Ways and Means Committee who are critical of a social security investigation he helped initiate, “So far as I am concerned,” he said, “I shall be delighted to have Chairman Doughton and his colleagues represented in any fashion they de- sire in this orderly and fruitful and mutual exploration of the problem.” His statement followed one by Doughton, in which the House leader thrust sharply at Vandenberg and the Advisory Committee recently an- nounced by the Social Security Board and the Senate Finance Committee to consider the advisability of changes in the social security law. The advisory group was set up after Vandenberg had urged such a step. Doughton declared “the Michigan Heavy Rain Fails to Halt Annual Competitive Drill at U. of M. THE EVENING S TAR, WASHINGTON D. C, SATURDAY MAY 15, 1937. Senator is apparently ignorant of the fact that the Constitution of the United States provides that ‘all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives’.” County Chapter of the Reserve Officers’ Association, presen ington, who led Company C to victory in the company clos Lieut. A. A. La Mar, vice president of the Montgomery the Governor's trophy to Capt. Irving Mendelsohn of Wash- order drill competition at the R. O. T. C. review in College Park yesterday. He added Vandenberg apparently ¥ v “does not desire to consult the farmers of the country,” because they are not represented on this “so-called advisory | council.” Peer Dies Snowden (Continued Prom Pirst Page.), Bernard Shaw was affiliated in his | youth, and of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. Snowden was the Moses of the| British labor movement, the firebrand of its youth, the leavening agent and lawgiver of its more mature years. | Reduced to a mere shell of a phys- | ical man by an accident suffered when | he was only 27 years oid, he battled | his way to one of the highest offices Finally forced by his physical ail- | ments to give up his strenuous post after the second MacDonald labor cabinet had been overthrown in Au- | gust, 1931, he put on robes of scarlet | and ermine and took a seat in the House of Lords as the first Viscount | of Ickornshaw. This acceptance of & peerage added strength to the Labor | representation in the Upper House and kept his talents at the disposal of the | coalition government which had the | big task of steering the British Em- | pire through the cr t followed | was able to give his son only a rudi- suspension of the gold standard. mentary village schooling. He did, Hailed as Treasury Savior, however, ground the boy in politics, | At times, in his spectacular career, | (€aChing him the advanced liberalism | he was reviled as an atheist, a de- | Of the day, a form of radicalism which stroyer and pacifist. But in his second | ¥ould be far from startling now. term as chancellor he was hailedasa| ™ savior of the nation’s honor and treasury. In the trying times of the World War Snowden was regarded as a | scourge to British honor. Deeply paci- fistic, he spoke against not only war | | as an institution, but against the 1914- | they would not consent to a 100 per | 1918 conflict. He declared that battles ' cent union shop settled nothing and least of all the o o problems of the working classes, 1 STEEL LABOR DRIVE PUSHED. Yet a decade later the press of all | e tinges of political opinion in England | 100 Organizing Leaders to Map Tac- was hailing him as a bulwark of ties in Three Big Firms. British interest when at The Hague e debt conference he fought off overy | 07 N Astociated Press. VISCOUNT SNOWDEN. Labor (Continued From First Page.) Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord, adjutant general of Maryland and guest of honor, witnessed the presentations. | first open offer of its kind made by & | major steel company. Jones & Laugh- lin employes 27,000 men in its plants at Pittsburgh and Aliquippa, Pa. Previous union contracts—made with units of the United States Steel Corp. and more than 100 smaller pro- ducers independent of “big steel”— have recognized the representing its members | employ. Republic and Youngstown Sheet & Tube have refused to sign such an agreement. Murray said this week that strikes were “inevitable” at these companies and other independents in their organization, Included in the conference today were Clinton S. Golden, Pittsburgh regional director; Secretary David J. McDonala, Regional Director Van A. Bittner of the Chicago district, Noel Beddow of Birmingham, Ala, and William Mitch, regional director for Alabama. Union leaders said the drive would be extended shortly to the Bethlehem Steel Corp., largest independent em- ploying 80,000. Some steel labor leaders were urging an immediate strike call, but the ma- Jority seemed to favor a delay until after the J. & L. election next Thurs- day. Murray, claiming 500,000 mem- bers for the union that started its drive little less than a year ago, pre- dicted an overwhelming victory in that balloting. ST. LOUIS, May 15 (#).—A strike of American Pederation of Labor union employes was called today in 29 of St. Louis’ principal hotels. Union officials claimed sufficient strength to | tie up all elevator, restaurant, room and telephone service in a majority of | the buildings. Pickets were ordered to duty early today. The strike was ordered after a com- mittee representing the St. Louis Hotel Association refused the unions' de- mand for a “closed shop.” attempt to reduce Great Britain's| PITTSBURGH, May 15—One hun- share of the German reparations pay- | dred leaders of the Steel Workers' Or- | ments below the 22 per cent awarded ' §anizing Committee met in closed | her at the Spa conference six years executive session today to mobilize a | earlier. | militant drive for exclusive collective Snowden was wooed and won by | bargaining recognition from three of | gocialism while he was on his first | the Nation's largest independent steel | Ford to Oppose Union. DETROIT, May 15 (#).—The first apparent move of the Ford Motor Co. to oppose unionization of its 150,000 employes in the United States was re- vealed today. An announcement that cards bear- ing Henry Ford's views on labor or- serious sickbed. He was put there by being knocked off a bicycle, and to pass the time of his long convalescence he read everything he could get his | over what he called a producers. Chairman Philip Murray, jubilant “complete vic- tory” ending the 36-hour strike at | ganizations and policies will be circu- | lated among the workers Monday came | soon after the union indicated that it would seek a closed shop in General hands on. Some of that literature | Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. mills | poorg plants. was socialistic and he plunged into | yesterday, declined to discuss what | a study of it that converted him to its tenents. He rose from his bed with per- manent injuries to his back forced him to hobble with rubber- tipped canes through the rest of his life. But his dragging feet never faltered on the path which he picked the House of Commons. measures would be decided upon at today's meeting. Previously he had disclosed it would that | map strategy to be used against the | Republic Steel Corp., Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and the Crucible Steel Co. of America. Those concerns, employing approXi-| girector, made public the cards—la- | out for himself and ultimately they | mately 97,000 men, were named as im- | peje - Fy brought him to the front benches of | mediate objectives in the new policy of demanding sole collec- union’s | Conferences last night between union | officials and the management of two | strike-closed General Motors plants at | Saginaw provided for the men to re- I(m"l’x to work Monday, with negotia- | tions of the disputes opening the same | day. Harry H. Bennett, Ford personnel ordism™—that will be circu- | 1ated among the employes. “We have always made a better bar- Snowden was born July 18, 1864, in | live bargaining rights to represent| coin for our men than an outsider the West Riding of Yorkshire near the | their employes. Lancashire border where Wintry | winds sweep hanging mists across a | strike led to announcement of the! pen new policy by providing for a Govern- ment-supervised election May 20, to determine if the union his a majority of the workers. bleek countryside. The moorlands ran | into the backyard of the cottage where | he was born to John apd Martha Bnowden, weavers. 5 ‘The father was “a bit bookish” and Settlement of the Jones & Laughlin ‘The compeny agreed to deal with the Mked to read George Meredith's novels. | union as representing all of its work- He knew the value of education but'ers if it wins a majority vote—the “We have never had to bargain against ous And we don't expect to begin ] could.” they inform the workers. now.” Theater Baby Room Soundproof. A soundproof crying room for babies is being installed in a new movie the- ater at Gosford, New Zealand. ts e- <« {Maryland R. O. Company C, championship company of the regiment of 820 students who paraded on the campus. The championship company was led by Irving Mendel- sohn of 141 Uhland terrace northeast, Washington. The inspection was con- ducted by Lieut. Col. Charles A. King of the War Department. Chief judge of the competitions was Maj. Harvey L. Miller. For three hours the troops maneuvered on the soggy field adjacent to the Washington-Baltimore T. C Competes For Drill Honors in Downpour By a Staft Correspondent ot The Star. | coLLEGE PARK, Md, May 15— union only 85| Despite a continuous downpour of | rain, 820 University of Maryland students marched in the annual Re- serve Officers' Triining Corps com- petitive drill on the campus here yes- terday. Led by Irving Mendelsohn, 141 Uhland terrace northeast, Washing- | unless they signed contracts with his | ton, Company C took top honors in Winner of the | the company drill. platoon competition was the 2d Platoon, Company A, under Lieut. Parks Patterson of Baltimore, while the championship squad was the 1st | Squad, 2d Platoon, Company I, under the command of Corpl. H. W. Kreuzburg, jr., Silver Spring. Francis Zalesak of College Park won the individual manual of arms competition. He was awarded the “Class of 1899” gold medal, pre- | sented by J. J. Betton of Washing- | ton, a member of that class. Medals were also given the three | best drilled men in the Pershing Rifles, crack drill team which did not compete as a unit against the other companies. Recipients were Thomas W. Riley, Germantown, gold medal; John G. Reckord, Baltimore, silver medal, and W. H. McManus, jr, Ber- wyn, bronze medal. Young Reckord is the nephew of Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord, adjutant general of the State, who was guest of honor at the review. In addition to Kreuzburg. members of the winning squad are W. B. Rowe, 1502 Nineteenth street southesst, Washington; R. W. Farkus, York, Pa.; R. A. Brand, 1329 Trinidad ave- nue northeast, Washington: T. L. Coleman, 202 Cedar street, Washing- ton; R. W. Carroll, Alexandria, Va.; L. J. Mattingly, 3358 Tennyson street, Washington, and G. C. Ramsberg, Middletown. ducted by Lieut. Col King of the War Department. Chief Harvey L. (Heinie) Miller. HELIUM RELEASE URGEDBY LANHAM Not Deter U. S. Program, Texan Says. The Hindenburg disaster, | on Germany's lack oif helium for its inflation, should not deter this coun- try in the lighter-than-air vessel- {building program, Representative Fritz Lanham, Democrat, told Congress yesterday speedy enactment of pending |lation making the Federal supply of | helium at Amarillo, Tex., available to American commercial enterprise and to foreign countries under certain | conditions. The tragedy has em- | phasized, he said, that the United States has a practical monopoly on helium, “When this tragedy occurred at | in urging legis- resentative, an authority on helium, “the first thought which surged | had been thoroughly tried and found wanting. But our sober thought came with the true an | nouncement that had that dirigible been inflated with helium there would have been no such catastrophe. And now, much as we deplore it, the Hin- | denburg, like many other similar ves- sels, has gone the hydrogen route to the scrap heap. “Any one who boards a dirigible filled with hydrogen does so with knowledge of the fact that the lifting medium of that ship is highly explosive gas own hands,” Mr. Lanham pointed out. Hindenburg Crash Shouid? blamed | of Texas | Lakehurst,” declared the Texas Rep- | second | AL SHITH SALLS ONPLEASURE TRIP Right Rev. Fulton J. Sheen of D. C. in Party to Spend Six Weeks in Europe. B the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 15—Alfred E. Smith, whose knowledge of the sea has never extended very far bevond the waters of Coney Island, sailed for Europe today, for the first time in his life. And for the friends of . Governor and his wife it occasion, something of The friends the former was a gala major 1m- | portance seemed to | swarm over the Italian liner Conte di | They jammed the corridor | | Savoia. | outside the Smith state room, they | trailed the one-time Democratic presi- dential candidate from the boat deck | to the upper salon deck. Women though they hacdn't seen him in yvears. John J. Raskob was there. So was Senator Robert F. Wagner, and the 1 Smith children and grandchildren, old through our minds was that airshipé | school chums, political friends, law- | | yers, vriests. ‘The Smiths and their party, which ncludes Supreme Court Justice Ed- ward J. McGoldrick, Right Rev. Ful- | ton J. Sheen of the Catholic Univers- | ity, Washington, D. C.; Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Mooney and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Garey, will be abroad six weeks. The former Governor said they will g0 to Rome from Naples, then to Paris, London and Dublin. The Smiths | will¥ see the Pope, but the former Governor has no special message to and necessarily takes his life in hislbring from American Catholic lay-| Then he men, he said. Francis Zalesak of College Park, who won top honors in the indi- vidual manual arms competition. He received the Class of 1899 Gold Medal, presented by J. J. Betton, Inspection of the troops was con- | Charles A. | judge of the competitions was Maj. | ‘!klsed him, men shook his hand as | Boulevard. { Bedtimef | BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. 'Tis well that in this world of strife Folk differ in their wavs of 1i Old Mother Nature, T WAS a question who was the most surprised, Farmer Brown's Boy or Little Friend and Mrs. Little Friend the Song Sparrows, | when one of the downy babies of | Teeter the Spotted Sandpiper swam | out to a big stone, and then from that to a small platform of dead | rushes. That fuzy mite wasn't an | hour out of the nest, yet it had run astonishingly fast for such a tiny chap, and then, without hesitating an instant, had entered the water and started swimming. “I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. No, sir, I wouldn't have believed it.,” declared Mrs. Little | Friend, and both Little Friend and ! PFarmer Brown's Boy felt the same way. “Live and learn,” said Farmer Brown's Boy as he sal down to keep perfectly still and to watch. Mr. and Mrs. Little Friend went about their business of feeding their ever hun- gry and helpless babies. After some | time Teeter appeared. He stood at ! the edge of the water, bobbing and bowing in that funny manner of his as he eyed Farmer Brown's Boy somewhat suspiciously. H He called softly. Three fuzzy mites sprang up fram the places where they had been hiding among the stones and came running toward him. | | The one out on the little platform | of dead rushes popped up and took to the water again. He swam straight in o where Teeter was calling and | joined the others. Farmer Brown's Boy continued to | sit without moving. Teeter, no longer | suspicious, but watchful, just the | | same, began to hunt for food and the | | four babies ran after him, much as | you have seen chickens run after | thejr mother. He led them into the . where they were less likely to by hungry enemies and where, also, they were more likely to find insects. i “We have four babies, and he has | four, yet he manages to feed his | without any help from their mother, and it takes two of us, working from dawn to dark, to keep ours fed. I don't see how he does it,” said Little | Friend. “Well, I can see one reason,” re- plied Mrs. Little Friend. | “What's that?” asked Little Friend. | “He doesn't have to waste time and tire himself all out carrying food to them. You notice they always are | right there to take what he finds when he finds it,” was the reply. | “That's a fact. I hadn't thought | of that. That does make a difference. | It saves a lot of flying back and | forth,” replied Little Friend. “And at the same time those young- | | sters are learning to look for food | | themselves. I saw one of them chase | !a bug. There's one doing the same | thing now!” said Mrs. Little Friend. | “That's so! Look at the little ras- | cal run!” exclaimed Little Friend. | sighed. “It's a funny| world,” said he. BEN WEBSTER’S CAREER. WOW!/! A BUILDING ‘ol'Y A GTORE —\T'S FOLKS THAT MAKE A PLACE - X--1 WANT TO KNOW WHERE SPOT NUMBER ONE 15--QUICK AND NO FOOLIN'] QUICK:- GET.A you wouro | PAN'S LIKE TO KNOW WOULDN Yyou: CALL HE CHIEE-- PLANE--FIVE MEN IN A JAM! WE'VE GOT TO GET TO THE WATERFRONT IN JACKSON CITY. RIGHT AWAY! | V) BUT HOW DI, YOU FIND ouT, TRWIN? % WOULDN'T DARNED BROKE FIST! I 7 A T DON'T LIKE THIS DELAY-- 1 SAY LET's KNOCK OFF THIS COPPER! 7 NEAR [/ My |f GET / % Ly —By EDWIN ALGER GOTTA ALL BE AMOVED OUY FIRGT,5EE? AND THAT'S MY JOB/ X'S ON SOMETHING| VERY IMPORTANT BUT HE'LL BE THERE FOR SURE THE NEXT TIME T CALL, T WANT HIS ORDERS) BEFORE 1 00 ANYTHING ’99, of Washington. ; Independent Mites. —Star Staff Photos. StoriAes “What's funny about it?"” demanded Mrs. Little Friend. “Why. here are two of us, working our heads off to feed four babies that are perfectly helpless, and will be for a while, and there is Teeter, with no help from Mrs. Teeter, feed- ing four babies younger than ours, and I do believe he isn't working as hard as either of us. Instead of be- ing helpless, thase babies of his are already able to hide, run, swim and | even begin to look for food. They are pretty independent already. Just look at them! Mrs. Teeter deserted after laying the eggs, 1 was sorry for Teeter, left with the entire care of the family, but I'm not half so sorry now,” replied Little Friend. “It does seem funny there should be such a difference, but I suppose there is a reason,” replied Mrs. Little | | Priend thoughtfully. “Our babies I s ) g FARMER BROWN'S BOY CON- TINUED TO SIT WITHOUT MOV- ING. When I learned that | CHICAGO, GRAIN By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 15.—Wheat con- tinued its recovery movement todav with gains of more than 2 cents a bushel at times. Crop advices from dry sections of the Canadian prairies were unfavora- ble. There were further sales of Cana- dian wheat abroad accompanied by trade gossip that foreign demand for domestic grain might be expected to expand with prices in this eountry near an export basis. Wheat closed 1 to 2'4 cents higher compared with yesterday's finish, Mav, 1.2574-26; July, 1.18-18!3, and eorn was %-3 up, May, new, 1.307%; July, new, 1.17%-%. Oats were unchanged to % higher. WHEAT— Open. ay 2 02 1 1 Low, a1 150 1 1 M: 1.06% 1.16% 1.09% 1083, Kllz R0% 1 1 1 1 Chicago Cash Market. Oash wheat—No. 2, hard, 133Y, Corn—No. 3, yellow, 1.33a35!;: No, ]2, white, 1:34; No. 3, white, 133!, Oats—No. 2, white (cereal), 55';; No, 2, white, 53; No. 3, white, 55. Sov beans—No. 2, yellow, 1.75a75';. R —No sales. Barley, feed, 75285, mal inf, 1.00a28; timothy seed, 423a50, Clover seed, 23.00230.00. | Washington Produce BUTTER—92 score. 1-pound prints. Yi-pound prints, 37, tub, 40 score. { pound “prints, "14-pound prints, tub, 344 MEATS —Choice beef. lamb, 4 35 £l 1R calves fr rou fan. calves, Prices paid shippers—n 0 b Wi ington By the United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics EGGS—Market steady Current receipts, whites, 1% to 1913 cents graded and dated white eggs and v 18-1815 cents Gov changed henery extras. large. 9 dium. 191, cents 201, cents LIVE POULTRY —Market qu. changed prices Fowl Colored. heasv to 18 cents: Leghorns_ 14 to Chickens Rocks _and Crosses cents: Leghorns. 2 pounds 19 less than 2 pounds 17 to 1% e keys: ®Iid hens, 17 to 1 cents, 14 to 15 cents, THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair and con- tinued cool tonight: tomorrow fait and warmer; Monday showers; gentle northwest winds, becoming variable tomorrow. Maryland—Fair tonight and to- morrow; slightly cooler in east anc | central portions and probably light | frost in extreme west portion tonight; warmer in the interior tomorrow; Monday showers. Virginia—¥air and slightly cooler probably light frost in extreme wes! portion tonight; tomorrow fair, slight- ly warmer in the interior. West Virginia—Fair and continuec cool, possibly light frost in exposec places tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness and warmer; showers to- | morrow night or Monday. B ola toms, haven't the kind of feet and legs for running about. and, of course, they can't flv until their wings have grown. So until then perhaps it is best that they should be helpless so that they can't leave the nest.” When you think of it. Mrs. Little Friend probably was right. (Copyright. 1937.) Brain Twizzlers River Report. Potomac River slightly cloudy anc Shenandoah clear today. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature. Barometer De | Yesterday— Krees. t 24 Hours. (Prom noon yesterday to noon today. BY PROF. J. D. FLINT. N A military training camp there was an order posted forbidding | gambling among the enlisted men. There was also an unwritten rule that any officer who discovered men betting | was entitled to half of the profit. One day during an athletic training period | [ around a high-jump pit. One of them made & bet of $1 that another couldn’t jump over the bar at a certain height. The jump was about to be tried when a lieutenant walked up. Being lenient he not only allowed the jump to go on but bet the jumper half of his (the lieutenant's) share of the profit. The jumper made the jump and won his bets. How much did he win after the transactions were finished? Watch your step! (Copyright. 1937.) (Bee Answer on Page A-15) APPEAL TO WALLACE Cabinet Member Asked to Raise $100 to Defeat Court Plan. Secretary Wallace exhibited today a telegram appealing to him to raise $100 to help defeat President Roose- velt's court legislation. The telegram, he said, bore the name of “Sumner Gerard, treasurer, Gannett Committee to Uphold Con- stitutional Government.” Wallace chuckled and said he Highest, A1, at 3 pm. yesterdas. Yea o Lowest. 54. at 5:30 am. today. Ye ago, 43 Record Temperatures This Year. Highest. 93. on_Aoril 1% Lowest. 19. on Februars 28 Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (Prom noon yesterday to noon today . 98 per cent, at 9 pm. ¥ye3 . 57 per cent. at noon todary. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Geodetic Survey.) Today 11:50 am. 6:16 am pm 6:51pm The Sun and Meen. Rises. | sun. 458 | Sun: tomorrow 4 Moon, today 10:05 a.m. o Automobile lights must be turned o | one-half hour after sunset. today Preeipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in Capital (current month to date) Month January February | | " group of privates was standing | November _ 0 December _ 3 58 Weather in Various Cities. Temp Zain- Stations Abilene, Tex. Albany’ N. Y. Atlanta. Ga Atlantic City Baltimore. Md. Birmingham Bismarck. N.D. El _Paso. Galveston Helena, Huron Indianapolis | Jacksonville Kansas City aha. Nebr. Philadeiphia oenix. Ari; Pittsburgh guessed the committee did not know | Sal he was in the cabinet, or that it had misunderstood his speeches favoring the President’s bill SRR Getting Acquainted. UNION, 8. C. (#).—OCity Patrolman Keisler had seen the car before, but couldn’t remember just where. He tagged it, anyway, for overtime park- ing. Mayor E. R. Davis was the owner. He fined himself $1 in Mayor's Court. Patrolman Keisler then re- called where he had seen the car be- he had tagged it for the same tion once previously. San _ Pranciseo_ Louis, 3 St. Mo. Seattle. Wash. ( Spokane, Wash. Tamps. ~ Fia 34t POREIGN STATIONS. (7 am. Greenwich time. today) | London, England Rain Paris. Prance Ra'n | Vienna. Austria Cloudy 1 Berlin. _Germany Cloudy Breat ' Prance Glouds , Zurich. Bwitzeriand Cloud$ Stockholm. Sweden 0 Cloud3 Clouds Clear 5 (Noon, Greenwich time. today. Horta (Payal). Azores [ (Current observations.) Bt Georges. Bermuda Ban Juan, Puerlo Rico Havana,_ Cubs Colen. Ganal Zone _.