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A—2 ww* LABOR PROTESTS SUNDAY BEER BAN Virginia Federation Adopts Resolution Asking Order Be Rescinded. B the Assoctated Press. LYNCHBURG, Va., May 18.—The Virginia State Federation of Labor, by a vote of 52 to 32, today called on the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to rescind its order prohibiting the Sunday sale of beer. The resolution, adopted after spirit- ed debate, was offered by A. G. God- win and J. E. Moore of Brewer Work- ers’ Local 188 of Norfolk and E. L. Pickler of Norfolk Central Labor Union. The resolution asserted that Sun- days were the best days in the year for the sale of beer and that prohibi- tion of those days meant that many licensees would be compelled to liqui- date their businesses. It also asserted the Sunday ban on beer would increase the number of unemployed, promote bootlegging and would not further the cause of tem- perance. Rising Vote Necessary. Several delegates opposed the reso- lution on the ground that it was not a labor measure and that the federa- tion's membership itself was divided on the question. A division was necessary and on a rising vote the secretary declared the resolution adopted, 52 to 32. The Virginia federation will today re-elect Joseph Rossano of Portsmouth president and hear an address by Tom Carroll of the International Machin- ists’ Union. Carroll was the personal representa- tive of Willlam Green, head of the American Federation of Labor, who Wwas unable to attend. Other speakers listed for today's session include Mrs. Elizabeth Hogan of New York, representing T. A. Rick- ert, president of the United Garment Workers of America. Rossano Nominated at Caucus. Rossano was nominated at a caucus last night, which also selected Peters- burg as the 1938 convention city. Nom- ination is equivalent to election. O. C. Moore of Norfolk was slated for first vice president and E. J. Shave of Hampton for re-election as secretary- treasurer. Shave also received the nomination as delegate to the oon- vention of the American Federation of Labor. Executive Board nominations includ- ed: Alexandria, Vernon Marsh; Clifton Forge, J. D. Rapp: Danville, Lew Rog- ers; Lynchburg, Mrs. C. 8. Clinebell; Petersburg and Hopewell, John A. Tit- mus; Richmond, W. D. Anderson. C. 1. O. Reinstatement Refused. John Hopkins Hall, State commis- sioner of labor and industry, presided over the caucus and received the nomi- nations without a single contest. The federation yesterday refused to reinstate four C.I. O. unions suspended April 3 and rescinded a resolution adopted last year indorsing the indus- trial union organized under the “ban- ner of the American Federation of Labor.” W. F. Robinson, Richmond labor leader, explained that the latter action was taken to show the American federation that the State group wants American Federation of Labor organ- 1zers sent to Virginia. A resolution indorsing the Presi- dent's court reorganization proposal received unanimous approval. FARNSWORTH WED BEFORE DIVORCE DAY Cincinnati Records Clear Point as Second Wife Sues on Prison Record. Former Lieut. Comdr. John 8. Farnsworth, now serving a prison sentence for allegedly conspiring to sell naval secrets to Japan, married Mrs. Oatherine B. Barrett in 1934 before he had obtained a final divorce decree from his former wife, according to an Associated Press dispatch re- ceived from Cincinnati, Ohio, today. The Associated Press said Domestic Court records in Cincinnati show Mrs. Barrett and Farnsworth were married March 26, 1934, three days after Famnsworth's divorce suit had been heard, and that the final decree was not issued until April 10, 1934. ‘The present Mrs. Farnsworth filed suit for divorce several days ago, citing her husband's imprisonment as grounds for action. Arrested here last year, Farnsworth refused to admit or deny the charge against him when arraigned in Dis- trict Court. He was sentenced to serve 4 to 12 years in prison. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: In recess. Judiciary Committee Roosevelt court bill. Interstate Commerce Committee considers Wheeler child labor bill. House: Considers minor legislation. Agriculture Committee continues hearings on farm program. Labor Committee resumes consider- ation of Ellenbogen textile bill. Interstate Commerce Committee eontinues hearing on railroad retire- ment legislation. TOMORROW. votes on Senate: ‘Takes up House bill extending cer- tain features of the soll conservation act. District subcommittee resumes hear- ings at 2 p.m. on King bill to restrict so-called nuisance industries in Wash- ington, < Commerce Committee meets at 10 a.m. on safety-at-sea legislation. Interstate Commerce Subcommittee meets at 10:30 a.m. on railroad pen- sion hill. House: Considers miscellaneous bills on calendar. Civil Service Committee begins hearings on bills dealing with prefer- ence to veterans in civil service em- ployment, 10:30 a.m. Territories Committee considers sev- eral Alaskan bills, 10:30 am. Ways and Means Committee ocon- siders proposed amendments to 1930 tarift aet, 10:30 am. District Committee iders Nor- ton “nuisance industris” bill, 10:30 am. Roanoke, Jack Johnson, and | Washington Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. IGH school or college students cramming for finals might try L. 8. Webster's method for finding out how well they Mr. Webster is taking a course in public speaking. He is pretty busy, what with his job and life in gen- eral, so he utilizes the precious min- machine-age improvement on ‘“nome work."” Of a recent morning a stop light halted the Webster car, but not Web- tlon, unmindful of an audience of Ppedestrians standing on the curb. The audience, however, was not un- mindful of Webster. They applauded glving him the feeling that he is getting along right well in the course. x X X X ARTLESS. known by Mrs. Chauncey Wighte man is a woman who can stand only 80 much irritation in this world, Be- yond that point she is likely to re- other day, in fact, and we thought you might like to read about it. The friend of Mrs. Wightman was interviewing an applicant for a job Wayside SPEECH. are getting along with their work. utes in traffic to practice—a sort of ster. He went right on with his ora- 88 he shifted gears and started away, AMONG the interesting people sort to sarcasm. Did so just the 88 maid. “Can you clean and launder?” asked the lady. The would-be maid said no. “Can you cook?” said no. “Can you play the piano?” was the third question. The maid couldn't do that either. “That's too bad,” Mrs. Wightman' friend sald. “I thought you might be able to piay the piano while I did the work.” * x *x % ROBINS. Note for some of the suburbanites who soon will be busy picking up young robins on their lawns. Workmen building a house near Chevy Chase Circle returned to the job on Monday after the Sun- day holiday to find a robin’s nest on a saw trestle left uncovered on the first floor of an unroofed house. They set it up on the beams, the nest building continued. When this floor is completed, they will take it on up to the second and hope to get the young dirds out of the nest before the house is finished. o xx DASH. “mn' we will refer to as the | Federal employes’ marathon is run each morning in Washington. The time is 8 to 9 am. The course leads down Connecticut avenue and ends in any Government building. A Wayside operative arrived at the office the other morning panting as if she had just played a few sets of tennis. She's been walking to work from Dupont Circle to keep her weight down and says that any one who has any real sporting spirit can't take the | { course slowly. A group collects at & red light, the more venturesome some- | times jumping it and glancing back | with triumph at others left on the curb. The morning walker feels hu- miliation over not arriving at the next corner with the companions of the last light. Ladies in high heels are sometimes seen sprinting discreetly in order to make it. Down around Lafayette Park the pace becomes ter- rific. Caught in the middle of charg- ing automobiles the real Washington walker never turns back. Our operative thinks the marathon may be responsible for the pedestrian accident rate in the Nation's Capital. x x x x|, ROMANCE. 'HERE'S nothing like the shimmer of moonlight on the billowing waters of the Atlantic to promote ro- mance, according to Gertrude Maser of Federal Housing Administration, who just returned from a most ex- citing trip on the Normandie. The beautiful blue-white 5-carat diamond she sported was proof. What & ring! Her office chums were fllled with envy. And the tale of ardent wooing begun over a smoke on the boat train from Paris to Havre Was just too thrilling. The girls oh-ed and ah-ed while the men calculated the value of the stone on the basis of what they paid 20 years ago to buy a fifth of a carat diamond. The next day the leg-pulling was confessed! Gertrude had settled a lot of old scores with her girl friends. The diamond, dear friends, was some of the best paste obtainable in Paris, and the man—well, we don't know yet whether he is one of Mme. Tus- sand's wax works or what. k% % WANDERER. Lighter-than-air craft haven't done very well 20 far (ezcept our own local blimp), every one seems to admit. (We have no desire to belittle—we know about pioneer- ing.) But our National Defense Again the maid | |and I hope she will not try it again. THE EVENI AIRRACE SHIFT 10 GANADA SEEN Commerce Department Ban on Atlantic Flight Raises Proposal. Confronted by the dictum of As- sistant Secretary of Commerce J. Monroe Johnson that “there will be no race” from New York to Paris this Summer, French aviation authorities are considering transfer of the starte ing point of the race to Canada, according to an Assoclated Press dis- patch from Paris. Johnson reiterated his statement late yesterday that, although details of the means to be employed in blocking the start of the race from within the United States have not been worked out, he is determined there shall be no race. Formal notification of the decision of the United States Government to | ban the propose race because of the | “risk of needless loss of life” was made by the State Department to the French Embassy yesterday afters noon. Opposes Thrill Flying. “Buch a race,” Johnson repeated, “would involve extraordinary hazards and would be an invitation to dis- aster. It is the function of the Com- merce Department to make aviation safe and to take the thrills out of flying.” Asked whether the Commerce De- partment would be able to prevent foreign pilots starting in the race from the United States, Johnson re- | peated that the details had not yet been worked out and emphasized his statement that ‘“there will be no race."” The Associated Press reported that after Johnson's ultimatum had been delivered in Paris there were rumors that plans were being considered for transferring the start of the event to some Canadian point to remove it from jurisdiction of the Commerce Department. Johnson said it will be the policy of the Commerce Department to tablish minimum standards for air- craft, pilots and equipment partici- pating in flights involving unusual hazards. Only when the Commerce Department is satisfled that there is | & very great probability that the flight will be a success, he said, will such undertakings be approved. Aviatrix Has Permit. He said that Amelia Earhart Put- nam already has a license for her projected flight around the world, de- layed because of an accident in tak- ing off from Honolulu recently on | the second leg of the trip. “Since that permit already has been issued,” Johnson said, *“she probably | will be permitted to go ahead with her | arrangements. Personally, however, I am oposed to her making the flight, She i8 much more valuable to avia- tion right here in the United States doing nothing than she would be ex- posing herself to the hazards of such a flight.” Johnson sald it was the goal of the | Commerce Department “to make fly- ing as safe as railroad transporta- tion.” Any flights which involve un- necessary dangers, he said, will be frowned upon by the Commerce De- partment. | He pointed out that as late as 1880 “railroads were considered unsafe and many people refused to ride on them.” | It was more than a third of a century | before the railroads established them- selves in the public confidence, al- though they were undertaken as com= mercial enterprises from the begin- ning. Aviation, he said, did not en- ter its commercial phases until after | the World War and therefore has | progressed as rapidly as the rail-! roads in establishing itself. ACTION IS SOUGHT ON ‘RIDER’ REPORT Conference Findings to Be Called | Up in House by Kennedy. House action on the conference re- port on the ‘“red rider” repeal bill will be sought tomorrow by Chair- man Kennedy of the House Confer- ence Committee. The conference report, calling for outright repeal of the rider but stipu- lating that “nothing herein contained shall be construed as advocating com- munism,” was complete late yester- day by House and Senate conferees. Action of the conferees was re- garded as a compromise, since the Senate twice voted for outright repeal of the rider, while the House adopted the McCormack amendment, which would permit teaching of the facts of communism in the public achools but forbid its advocacy. The Mc- Cormack amendment also removed the requirement that teachers sign a statement each pay day that they had neither taught nor advocated com- munism. Since House rules require a con- ference report to lay on the table for at least 24 hours, Kennedy said he would not make any effort to call it up before tomorrow, if that arrange- ment is satisfactory to House leaders. If the House adopts the confer- ence report it will require similar action by the Senate, as well as the approval of President Roosevelt, be- fore the rider is wipe1 off the statute books. MOTOR CYCLE OFFICER MYSTERIOUSLY HURT Motor Cycle Policeman Horace W. Carmichael, 28, of 3410 Eighteenth street northeast, was relieved from duty suffering from two broken ribs early today after he arrested a motor- Operator heard a atory the other day about seven Zeppelins leaving Germany to raid London, and only one of them getting dack and none of them were shot down, either. The story was told by Lieut. Col. Frank Scowden of Washington, who was stationed at Chaumont in 1917, near where one of the Zep- pelins came down. Op their way home from their dombing-Lendon party, a storm scattered the seven “rubdber oows” (war parlance) all over the map, including the Medi- terranean Sea.. Officers of the Zep that came down near Chaumont were sent to internment camps with their faces red, Col. Scowden says, and the ship was conflscated. A young officer who'd never deen around in wars much said he'd keep the log dook )Mor & souvenir. Some ome suggestd that #t Dde ist for speeding at Ninth and H streets northeast. Carmichael, who said he did not know how he received the injury, was stricken with a piercing pain in his chest after taking Joseph A. Turano, 25, a printer, of 908 Virginia avenue southeast, to the ninth precinct to de- Posit $27 oollateral on charges of While waiting for a police patrol at the call box at Eighth and H streets northeast, Carmichael reported, one of Turano’s elbows poked him in the chest, but he did not think he had been hurt at the time, translated first. It coniained a mination of the Government's tempt to solve the serious fiscal prob- | ere all German be located for handy list of submarines weeks ahoad. NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUES DAY SOGAL SECURTY OPINONDLE SO Attacks on Legality of Act Only Major Issue Before Court. BY JOHN H. CLINE. Three attacks on the legality of the social security act and supplementary State legislation were the only im- portant cases left on the Supreme Court docket today, as the justices prepared to recess for the Summer on June 2. Unless present plans miscarry these cases will be declded next Monday or on the closing day of the term. The failure to announce the social security rulings yesterday came as a sharp disappointment to a large crowd that filled all available room in the spaclous court chamber. In its most important action at yesterday’s session the court declined to order the Government to refund some $963,000,000 in processing taxes collected under the invalidated agri- cultural adjustment act. Another highly important ruling up- held the Louisiana chain store tax, enacted during the regime of Huey Long. McReynolds Alone Dissents. Delivering the 8-to-1 opinion in the processing tax case, with Justice Mc- Reynolds dissenting. Chief Justice Hughes said the law gives a tax- payer means of recovering the tax if he cap show it was not passed on to the consumer. The Anniston Manufacturing Co. of Alabama, plaintiff in this case, contended it was impossible for it to show the tax had not been passed on, but the Chief Justice said the ques- tion of impossibility was not properly before the court. Asserting that “impossibility of proof may not be assumed,” the Chief Justice added in part: “It cannot be doubted that the re- quirement (of proof) has appropriate and valid effect in placing upon the claimant the duty to present fully all the facts pertaining to the question of the shifting of the burden of the tax and in denying relief where the facts justify a conclusion that the burden has been shifted from the claimant to others. “When the facts have been shown it becomes the duty of the Board of Review to make its determination ac- cording to the legal claimant. Claim Held Premature. “Petitioner's contention as to impos- sibility of proof is premature. Mani- festly there is no impossibility so far a3 the production of proof of peti- | tioner’s operations * * * is concerned. What is meant by impossibility of Pproof is impossibility of determination after these facts are in. Whether or not any such impossibility of determi- nation will exist is a question which | properly should await the ascertain- ment of the facts. For the present purpose it is sufficient to hold, and we do hold, that the petitioner may constitutionally be required to present all the pertinent facts in the pre- scribed administrative proceedings and may there raise, and ultimately may present for judicial review, any legal question which may arise as the facts are presented.” Justices Stone and Cardozo oon- | curred in the opinion, but expressly reserved their vote as to the constitu- tional or statutory rights of the tax- payer in event it shall be impossible | | to ascertain whether there has been a shifting of the tax. Cummings Gratified. Hailing the decisions as an impor- tant victory for the Government, At- | torney QGeneral Cummings issued & | statement saying: “The decision is a gratifying ter- at- lems arising from invalidation of the agricultural adjustment act processing taxes. “It was unthinkable that the Gov- ernment should pay gigantic windfalls to those who are not harmed by the imposition of the tax. “Over $063,000,000 was collected under the A. A. A, and an automatic | refund to the nominal taxpayers would have placed a very serious bur- den on the United States Treasury. The processor who was the nominal taxpayer ordinarily did not in fact bear the economic burden of these taxes, but recouped their amount from his customers, or from those who sold to him. On the other hand, the ex- ceptional processor who in fact bore the burden of the tax should have a means of recovery, to the extent that he was actually harmed by its imposi- tion. Title 7 of the revenue act of 1936 represents an attempt to solve the complicated economic problem of transiating into dollars and cents the amount of the tax burden which the A. A A taxpayer actually bore. “The decision of the Supreme Court sustaining the validity of this act is an important recognition that the Constitution contains nothing to pre- vent the Government from adopting the fairest possible alternative in the difficult task of being just to taxpayers who have paid an invalid tax without placing unwarranted burdens upon the Federal Treasury.” Chain Store Tax Upheld. The legality of the Louisiana chain store tax was upheld by a 4 to 3 vote in another opinion. Justice Roberts delivered the majority opin- jon, with Justices Sutherland, Mc- Reynolds and Butler dissenting. Jus- tices Van Devanter and Stone, for an unannounced reason, took no part in the case. The attack on the tax was flled by the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tes Co., which operates or controls 15,082 stores, 106 of which are in Louisiana. The company contened the tax statute denjed them equal protection of the laws and was an attempt by the leg- islatures to reach industries beyond the State boundaries in violation of the interstate commerce clause. The graduated levy imposes a heavier tax on chain stores than on individugl establishments in the State. The company asserted that under the law it had to pay a tax of $550 for each of its stores in Louisiana, while one of its competitors, H. G. Hill Stores, Inc., which operates 87 stores in New Orleans, had to pay only $30 per store. The A. & P. contended that if the act were upheld “the era of the national chain is over” and “it may perhaps also be said that the era of national corporations and of firms or individuals doing business in more than one State is over.” Not a Denial of Due Process. Justice Roberts, however, asserted that “the policy Louisiana is free to adopt with respectsto the business ac- tivities of her own citizens she may apply to thY citizens of other States Wwho eonducs the same business within rights of the | trash truck with the cry, “Hey, haps spectators were speechless “I thought I saw Ileaple look The classic Arch DU PONT QUIZZING ENDED INTAX CASE lu.s. Hammers at Point That Prices Were Fixed in Stock Sales. | B the Assoctatea Press | NEW YORK, May 18—The Govern- ment ended its questioning of Pierre 8. du Pont abruptly today and a recess was taken before Du Pont was questioned by his own counsel. James |S. Y. Ivins. on the cross-sales of securities following the 1929 Wall Street panic. Du Pont had been on the stand only half an hour when Mason B. Leming, chief of Government counsel, turncd to Ivins and sald “You may take the witness." Ivins asked for a brief recess to go | over the direct examination of Du | | Pont by the Government | In the cross-sales, Du Pont and | Raskob established losses of more than 187,000,000, which they deducted from | their 1929 income tax. The Govern- ment, contending the sales were ficti- tious and were made with an illegal 'n‘purchuing agreement, seeks to col- | lect a deficiency tax of $617,316 from ! Du Pont and $1,026.340 from Raskob. Quizsed on Sale. Leming, chief counsel for the Bu- | reau of Internal Revenue. turned again to what he contends was the “balancing off” transaction between Du Pont and Raskob—the ‘short” sale by Du Pont on January 3, 1930, of 27000 shares of Warner Bros. stock at 40, which he “covered™ later in the month' at 50. Raskob paid $1,080,000 for the stock, giving Du Pont his interest-bearing note. When | he covered. Du Pont gave Raskob a “thtck for $1,350,000, Raskob making | & profit of around $262.000 after in- terest on the note was deducted. | Leming once more asked Du Pont | about the check for $1,350,000 paid | for the 27,000 shares of Warner Bros. | sold “short” when he “covered” at 50. | Above Market Price. The “covering” was made on Jan- uary 30, 1930, and was entered in Du Pont’s ledger on that date and in Raskob's on the 27th. The Govern- ment contends the price of 50 was not a market price, but was arbi- trarily fixed and showed the “com- munity of interest” between Raskob and Du Pont. “I ask you again, Mr. able to find any market price of 50 for Warner Bros. stock on any date between January 27 and January 302" No,” Du Pont repli her borders, and this irrespective of whether the evils requiring regulation arise solely from operations in Louisi- | ana or are in part the result of extra- State transactions.” The statute, he added, was not a denial of due process. Justice Sutherland, in his dissent- | ing opinion, said that “the exaction here involved is not a tax upon Louisiana property or business, but is essentially a penalty imposed upon an reach of the law or that State.” Joining with the A. & P. in attack- ing the law were the F. W. Woolworth Co., J. C. Penny Co., Montgomery ‘Ward Co., Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Liggett Drug Co. Another ruling affirmed an amend- ment to the Frazier-Lemke act broad- ening the definition of the term “farmer.” The sole question involved was the status of Francis E. Beach of Trumbull, Conn, who was held to be a farmer within the meaning of the act. Jim Crow Law Attack Lost. Mamie Kinchlow, colored, of New York City lost her attack on the con- stitutionality of a 1930 Virginia law governing the segregation of races on bus lines. The high court refused to pass upon a2 judgment against her by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. 8he brought her action for dam- ages against the People's Rapid Tran- 8it Co. and the Richmond Greyhound Lines, Inc. She bought & bus ticket on August 1, 1933, for transportation between New York and Norfolk, Va. In her petition she contended that after the bus passed over the District line into Virginia the driver told her she must change her seat. She re- fused, she said, was' arrested for violation of the segregation law, and was fined $25 after being held in jail overnight. Police testified she was removed from the bus for disorderly conduct. “Cassius McDonald, one of the per- sons convicted in connection with the kidnaping of Edward George Bremer of 8t. Paul, Minn, on January 17, 1934, lost his effort to escape serving & 18-year sentence in the Leaven- worth, Kans, FMederal Penitentiary when a review of a decision by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals sus- taining his eonviction was denied by the highsyribunal. He 15 now at Leaven | Tence; four sisters and three brothers. du Pont,” Leming said, “if you were | operator of business wholly beyond the | MAY 18, 1937. “Hey, Your Truck’s on Fire!”—and It Was your truck’s on fire!” with surprise. ing at us kinda funny,” Pou said. ves Building is in the background. Firemen spent a few minutes extinguishing a blaze and half an ‘hour cleaning up the mess at Constitution avenue and Seventh street this morning after a motorist halted a passing three-ton The driver, James Pou, colored, 202 Morgan street, and his he?)er had been driving along Constitution avenue, complacently unaware that their load was on plained no one had said anything, although the fire must have been obvious for blocks. Per- re behind them. They ex- —Star Staff Photo. CADETS HONOR GUARD AT MURPHY BURIAL With the cadet regiment at Western High School as guard of honor, fu- neral services for Lieut. Joseph G. Murphy, 42, were held at 8:30 am. to- day at his residence, 4422 Harrison street. Mass was said in St. Ann’s Catholic Church following the services, | with interment in Arlington National | Oemetery. Lieut. Murphy, commercial law in- structor at Western for the last 10| years and in charge of the cadet unit | there for the last five, died Saturday | in Mount Alto Hospital following & heart attack. He was stricken two days before his Western military unit | | marched off with top honors in the | annual cadet competitive drill May 10. | | During the World War he was a | second lieutenant in the Rainbow Di- | vision. He was a native of Hazelton, Pa, and was educated in Hazelton public schools, State Normal School at Bloomsburg, Pa., and the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. | Burviving are the widow, Mrs. Elsie | Murphy; two sons, Gerald and Law- NEWSPAPER VALLE. IS DECLARED BEST Managing Editor Regards It Cheapest Item in Family ! Budget. BOGLEY RECEIVES EVENING STARCUP Civic Leader Honored at Montgomery Federation’s Banquet. B> & Btaff Correspondent of The Btar. | SILVER SPRING, Md, May 18.— The Evening Star Cup for meritorious work in civic flelds was awarded to Emory H. Bogley of Friendship Heights at the Montgomery County Civic Fed- eration’s annual banquet at Indian Spring Country Club last night. More than 200 members and their | guests saw Stephen James of Linden, former president of the organization, | chairman of the Advisory commm.ed and himself & former winner of the | trophy, make the presentation, James described Bogley as one of FUTURE ARPLANE TOLSECATAPLT Distinguished Gathering at Langley Field for Revelations. BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON, Aviation Editor of The Star. LANGLEY FIELD, Va, May 18— Dipping into its big silk hat, the Na- tional Advisory Committee for Aero- nautics today drew out in the presence of a distinguished audience a strange bird—the airplane of tomorrow. The hat is the N. A. C. A’s research laboratory at Langley Field, and the audience is composed of several hun- dred of the Nation's foremost aviation leaders, headed by the first aviator, Orville Wright. and including such pioneers as Glenn Martin, Grover Loening and Maj. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois, the world’s first military pilot. Tomorrow's airplane, the Federal aeronautical scientists revealed, will involve such strange problems as “shock waves,” which occur when air moves at the veloéity of sound, in the vicinity of 710 miles per hour. Such waves are encountered around airplane engine cowlings and at other critical points as airplane speeds approach 500 | miles per hour. New Type Cowling. Tomorrow's airplane will have its engine inclosed in a new type of cowling which will be efficient at the lt.remendoua speeds scientists believe | are coming, and which will be ca- pable of doing what the present cow! cannot do in the way of effectively cooling the engine. The limiting fac- tor in engine power, they showed, is the amount of heat that can be car- ried away from the cylinders. The newly developed N. A. C. A. cowling shown for the first time today is re- garded as the most effective oooling means yet produced, and it opens a | new fleld in engine design ‘The committee showed experimen's in a spinning tunnel which make it possible to determine before an air- plane is built whether it will be sub- Jject to fatal spinning characteristics. Models of all new single-engine mili- itary airplanes now are being made in this tunnel before the full-sized air- plane leaves the drawing board. Asa result, pilots need no longer jeopardize their lives in flight testing an air- plane which may go into an uncon- trolled spin and crash Gleaming Metal Wings. The airplane of tomorrow will have wings of gleaming metal. unmarred by | & seam or rivet. So effectively have | fuselages and engines been streamlined | that the wings today constitute the I was shown in the new 500-mile-pe:- hour wind tunnel that exposing the heads of rivets as small as 1-16 of an inch on the wing of a 20,000-pound airplane requires 82 additional horse- power at 225 miles per hour. An increase in the size of the rivet heads to 3-32 of an inch calls for | greatest source of air resistance. the founders of the federation and lauded him for his sactive interest in all of the endeavors of the civic or- ganization, which he now serves as chairman of the Committee on Con- stitution and By-Laws. Bogley was selected as the recipient of the trophy this year because of his efforts in behalf of the Somerset Park | project, successfully advocating adop- | tion by Congress of a bill extending to the county the use of the Federal ! experimental farm at Somerset as a public park. Bogley is the twelfth member of the federation to receive the cup, which was presented to the civic body by The | B the Associated Press. | HOT 8PRINGS, Ark.,, May 18.—Roy | A. Roberts, managing editor of the Kansas City Star, told the Southern Newspaper Publishers’ Association here | today that the daily newspaper con- tinues to be “the cheapest thing that | goes into the family budget.” Urging the importance of news- | papers with personality and individu- | ality, Roberts said that “by and large, | American newspapers deliver a better }produc&. going to more expense and | effort to bring to the customers—the | readers—the news of the world | coupled with entertainment and in- | formative features, than any other in- | dustry I know of, and we offer it at a cheaper price, t00.” “I wonder if readers really realize what they get for their money,” he sald. Served Rain or Shine. “I wonder if many of them stop to think when they growl at their paper, that they are getting it the whole year around, rain or shine, at & price that represents less than the increase they paid, for example, this Spring over last Spring's new hat or suit, “In short, the newspaper brings to their doors news, pictures and world events within 12 hours after they happen and it is the cheapest thing that goes into the family budget. newspapers to be on the defense to anybody or any other line of work.” Giles J. Patterson, Jacksonville, Fla., attorney, discussed what he described as a trend toward a democracy gov- erged by a centralized national gov- ernment. Tyranny of People Dangerous. “American representative democracy tends to become & pure democracy,” he said in his prepared speech. “The authors of the Constitution knew the evils of democracy as they knew the evils of autocracy. They knew that the former were more to be feared. ¢ * * The power of the autocrat can be curbed by the people, but who is there that can curb the tyranny of the people themselves? “I think our people became so ac- customed to thinking of liberty in contrast with the unlimited power of a ruler that they fail to realize that liberty in America today is related to protecting the rights of individuals and minorities against the tyranny of majorities.” The speaker said only an independ- ent judiciary and free press offered checks upon these majorities. He added that “the judiciary is already under attack,” and reviewed recent court decisions which he sald gave possible weapons to be used “to pun- ish newspapers for attacks upon the heads of government.” High Requirements of Press. “To continue to exercise its influ- ence for the good of all the people is the solemn and inescapable duty of the press because of the power it pos- sesses,” he uld.m’!'o wr;tn‘dm its o‘ptrweml' 1t must possess lence e people. To possess their confidence it must place adherence to principle above desire for selfish gain, it must live up to its best traditions, it must not become the advocate for special interest, but must impartially publish all the news. ‘Above all, it must be courageous and fearless. Patterson is a member of the Na- “There is no need for American | | Star shortly after the former's or- ganization in 1925 and is awarded each | year to the delegate or committee per- | forming the most outstanding service | in behalf of the county. | The speaker was Robert Lincoln | O'Brien, chairman of the Tariff Com- mission, who related many humorous glimpses into the personal lives of the | United States’ Presidents. | President Washington I. Cleveland, | who presided as toastmaster, delivered | brief talk in which he related the | federation’s achievements of the past | year, including its successful program of legislation. | of the federation's legislative proposals } to the work of the Committee on Legis- i lation and Legal Action and praised particularly the work of its chairman, Col. O. P. M. Brown. During his address of welcome Cleveland presented Thomas E. Lodge, president of the District of Columbia Federation of Citizens” Associations innd chairman of the Inter-Federation | senting the Arlington County Civic Federation; Judge Alfred D. Bailey and Hugh C. Bickford, president and vice president, respectively, of the Prince Georges County Federation of Citizens’ Associations. STAR'S GLEE CLUB PRESENTS CONCERT Employes of Company, Their Fam- ilies and Friends, Hear Initial Performance. The Evening 8tar Glee Clup, organised two months ago under direction of Alice Eversman, music critic for The Star, presented its first concert last night before employes of the company, their families and friends. ‘The initial concert was given in the club room of The Star. Thirty men and women, representing almost every department in the organization, com- prise the musical group. Oley Speaks’ “Morning” was sung by the full chorus as the first selection on the program. This was followed by Burleigh's “Deep River,” sung by the men’s chorus with Newbold Noyes, associate editor of The Star, as soloist. Mr. Noyes and the men's chorus also sang “On the Road to Mandalay.” Barcarolle, from “The Tales Hoffman,” and Martin's “Come to ths Fair,” were offered by the women's chorus. The program also included several selections by & male quartet, piano solos, a recitation, a chalk talk by Clifford K. Berryman, The Star's cartoonist, and 15 minutes of magic by Herman 8. Cole, aasistant super- intendent of The Star Building. Cow Dies by Watch. DEOORAH, Iowa, May 18 (#).— ‘When & farmhand lost & dollar watch in the hayloft of a barn, Leon John- son had no idea it would cost the life of his cow. The animal swallowed the watch while eating hay. The cow’s digestive tract rebelled against the metallic et, but the timepiece was still gklnl off the seconds with regular- tional s;:n‘nmu on Co-operation Be- tween and Bar. it when Johnson recovered it. He attributed the adoption of many | Conference; Dr. Victor Myers, repre- | 182 additional horsepower to maintain | the same speed. Merely painting the | wing demands 91 horsepower more than a smooth metal wing for the same speed. The day is at hand. it | was pointed out, when economy de- mands that even the dust be wiped off | the wings of high-speed airplanes at | each stop to prevent the loss of speed | and horsepower. | Tomorrow's airplane probably will | have a tricycle type of landing gear, which was demonstrated here today. With such gear, the airplane can be flown safely to a landing on ground | which the pilot cannot see without | danger of nosing over or ground loop- | ing. it was demonstrated. | The airplane of the immediate future may have to be launched from a cata- | pault because of the ever-increasing | speed of take-off and the demand it | makes for larger airports | Delegates to the Twelfth Annual | Aircraft Engineering Research Cone | ference of the N. A. C. A. left Wash- | ington yesterday evening aboard the | Norfolk steamer for today's demon- | strations and a conference at which | they will co-operate with the Federal research authorities in laying out an | aeronautical research program for the | coming year. The party which is at Langley today | will be followed by a similar grouy | which will leave Washington Wedne: | day night and participate in a “re | peat” program at Langley Field Thursday. Division of the program into two sections was necessitated by demands for representation of the | aviation industry which overtaxed | transportation facilities and the ea- | pacity of the laboratories After nearly four hours in the lab- | oratories the delegates will be divided into conference groups, which will | meet this afternoon to consider the outstanding problems of engineering confronting American aviation and deciding upon a program of research for the coming year. GIRL IS FOUND DEAD IN APARTMENT HERE | Body of Miss Rachel Conyers’ Dis- covered in Gas-Filled Kitchenette. Miss Rachel Conyers, 23, s drug store cashier, was found dead yester- day in the gas-filled kitchenette of her apartment at street. Her body was found lying on a cot by David Taylor, colored service boy, who entered the apartment when ne smelled gas, police said. He had just delivered a package to a nearby apart- ment. Three jets on a kitchen stove §as range were open. A note addressed to her roommate, Mrs. Edna Thomas, a P. W. A. em- ploye, was found by police. It asked that the reason for “her act” be kept from her mother, Mrs. 8. C. Conyers of Wilson, N. C. Miss Conyers came here several months ago to study nursing, her roommate said. She gave up the idea when her parents objected. Police said the dead girl had been treated Saturday for an overdose of & hypnotic. Coroner A. Magruder Mac- Donald sald he would issue a certifi- cate of suicide. WREATH TO BE PLACED Dr. Cesar Charlone of Uruguay to Pay Visit to Mount Vernon. Dr. Cesar Charlone, minister of finance of Uruguay, who s visiting in the Capital, was to visit Mount Vernon today to place & wreath at Washington's tomb. Tomorrow Dr. Charlone will be re- ived at the Capltol by Sena! Fiichdoo. » 705 Eighteenth -