Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1937, Page 4

A—4 =x THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1837. gas cells’ covering was “doped” with | GAPITAL MIDDIE WINS GOLD MEDAL Cecil Rice Welte Takes Tar- get Practice Award—Six Others Honored. By the Assoctated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 21.—Seven midshipmen today were selected to re- ceive prizes and other honors for their accomplishments during the school year at the Naval Academy. The prizes will be awarded at a dress parade on June 2, during the F June week cere- monies Three of the midshipmen were declared winners of medals for gen- eral excellence in small arms target practice. These are presented an- nually to mid- shipmen of the #econd (junior) class. Midshipman Cecil Rice Welte, Washington, D. C., was awarded the flist prize, a gold medal; Midshipman Donald Emanuel Smith, Trenton, N J.. the second prize, a silver medal, Cecil Rice Welte, and Midshipman Robert K. R. Worth- | ington, Philadelphia, Pa., the third Pprize, a bronze medal. The name of Midshipman William Draper Brinckloe, Easton, Md.. will be | inscribed on the General Society, Sons of the Revolution cup for being most proficient in practical ordnance and | of lhe‘ gunnery. He is graduating class. Midshipman Richard Philip Nichol- son, Valentine, Nebr., was awarded the class of 1871 sword for proficiency a member in practical and theoretical ordnance and gunnery. The prize consists of a sum of money for the purchase of a Navy dress sword Midshipman Kenneth George Rob- inson, Newburgh, N. Y., won the Col. Robert M. Thompson binoculars by taking first place this year in inter- class sailing competition. Midship- man Robert Wari McNitt, Perth Amboy, N. J was awarded the Thompson spyglass for taking second | place in the competition. Narcotics a jamboree breakfast. Left to right: . M. Dignitaries Turn Boy:A gain At Scout Jamboree Breakfast “For it's always fair weather When Boy Scouts get together ...” So sang Senators, Representatives, a cabinet member and high officials of the United States Government, | along with leaders of the Boy Scout | movement as they gathered at & jam- boree breakfast this morning in the Senate Restaurant—the “Let us be boys again” spirit rampant All decked out in a Boy Scout uni- form and looking for all the world like a member of the Northwest Mounted, Representative Sol Bloom of New York, chairman of the Con- (Continued From First Page.) | Mmeeting McAvoy and that the latter has made a writien statement tending to incriminate the agent. The sus- pension was based on the allegation | that Hansen had “guilty knowledge” of | the dope operations, it was stated. | Hansen was appointed to the Nar- cotics Bureau in 1928. Before that he was an inspector attached to ths California Board of Pharmacy, and earlier he had served as a policeman in Fresno, Calif The 58-year-old agent had been as- signed by the Sacramento office of the bureau to investigate the narcotics | traffic in Reno. Formerly he had worked in the Los Angeles and Seattle districts. | The Associated Press said that Weo | Sing, Chinese operator of the Public | Club in Reno, is the only one of the | eight in custody who had been booked | formally today. The dispatches said McAvoy is a | former internal revenue agent and | was employed by the W. P. A. as a | photographer. The Federal agents | and Washoe County officers raided the | Public Club and two other places, but | found narcotics in possession of per- sons only at the Public Club, it was | stated. | The raids were planned after the headquarter’s agents had purchased ! nearly $1,000 worth of “dope” in nine transactions. | The raid on the Public Club was | made after the McAllister girl had | purchased $195 worth of opium at | the club with marked money, officials said. The money allegedly was found | on Sing after his arrest. The woman was quoted as saying *I saw youngsters, boys and girls of college age, scraping together dollars to buy dope. That made up my mind that I was going to smash the nar- cotics ring.” WINS $10,000 VERDICT FOR INJURIES BY AUTO A $10,000 veerdict was returned | late yesterday by a District Court | jury in favor of Mike Miller, 206 Massachusetts avenue, who was struck by an automobile and seriously in- | Jured April 30, 1935, as he alighted from a street car at Calvert street and Cliffbourne place. The defend- ant was Anthony B. Fennell, 1409 K street. Miller's attorney, H. Clay Espey, contended that the machine, which | was driven by an agent of Fennell, was proceeding at an excessive speed. As a result of his injuries Miller ‘was confined to a hospital for almost & month. He said his skull was frac- tured and his shoulders injured so as to restrict permanently the use of his arms. | semblage—got stitution Committee—host to the as- the breakfast under way by herding a battery of camera men up to the speakers’ table. Senator Willlam GibRs McAdoo of CalifgFnia, honorary vice president of the Boy Scouts of America, sat in the presiding chair and said “that as every organization must have its flower, Bloom, represented by Sol, the per- petuator of the Constitution.” Greeted by Bloom. Sol Bloom stepped aside for other speakers after he had delivered the morning’s moin- | ing—a word of greeting to the men of official Washington who had been Boy Scouts in other days. First speaker was Speaker of the House Bankhead, who caled the title of his office a misnomer, because a Speaker never speaks. “And 80, he said, “I embrace this opportun- ity &+ en He did and made one of the long- est speeches of the morning, second only to the oratory of Secretary of Commerce Roper, who paid tribute to the organizers of the Boy Scouts’ jamboree. “The most important thing in life,” Secretary Roper said, “is to get asso- ciated with the right people, who know where they're going—and are on their way—who have the vision to see and | the courage to do.” It was all very inspiring as the old- time Boy Scouts proceeded from great goblets of orange juice to deep-dish oat-meal and on through generous portions of ham and eggs—with fish cakes for those who observe Friday. D. C. Scout Head Speaks. All indoor activities came to an end with the speech of James E. West, head of the Boy Scouts in the District and editor of Bovs’' Life, who was in- troduced by Senator McAdoo as “My good friend, John T. West"—but as everything was in the spirit of youth, this slip of the tongue was forgiven and Mr. West didn’t care whether they called him Johnny or Jim. Neither did Colin Livingston, for 15 vears president of the Boy Scouts of America, get excited when he was re- ferred to—time and time again—as so the Constitution has fts | modestly bowed and | far corners of the room, “fifteen years president of the Boy Scouts.” | So when they had drunk the last cup of coffee the old-time Boy Scouts | stepped out on the east portico of the Capitol and posed for the motion- | picture camera men. Thus the na- lnoml archives will one day possess | pictures of the first Boy Scouts in America to make good. Judiciary (Continued From First Page.) port said he expected to finish the re- port by the end of next week. Ruling May Intervene. That probably would put off debate on the bill until June 2 or 3 and delay it until after the Supreme Court’s ex- pected verdict on the constitutionality of the social security act. Many Senators who have forecast eventual compromise have predicted that no agreement would be reached until the court had decided on the law. Speculation over the possibility of appointing Senator Robinson, Demo- crat, of Arkansas to the Supreme Court continued among his colleagues. They generally expected it, but no one claimed to have any word from the White House on the subject. In some circles there was discus- sion whether Robinson could sit in Judgment next year on the constitu- tionality of legislation which he helped put through Oongress this year. Senator Pittman, Democrat, of Nevada said there was ample prece- dent for that. In one instance, he added, Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase voted to declare unconstitutional a bill which he had championed vigor= ously as Secretary of the Treasury. Feeling Flares at Hearing. Deep feelings over the court issue flared into the open in an Interstate Commerce Committee hearing on child labor legislation. Chairman Wheeler, & leading opponent of the bill, clashed repeatedly with L. E. Oliver, vice presi~ dent of Labor's Non-Partisan League. “The league has been trying to get —_— PONTIAC Sixes & Eights IMMEDIATE DELIVERY WE NEED USED CARS Flood Motor Co. Direct Factory Dealer 4221 Connecticut Ave. the man who for 10 years was presi- dent, with voices shouting from the Clev. 8400 — The Foening Star AI]VERTIEEMEH As Congressmen Turned “Scouts” Py Boy Scouts for a day, the high and mighty of the Nation gather in the Senate Restaurant at Secretary of Commerce Roper, Senator McAdoo, Repre- sentative Sol Bloom and James E. West, chief of the District Boy Scayts. o —Star Staff Photo. six new judges for the Supreme Court S0 you can get whatever kind of labor legislation you want,” said the chair- man. Oliver replied that the object of the league in backing the President’s bill was to bring ebout a court which would “more nearly conform” to modern trends. Wheeler said the league had been sending agents into States whose Sen- ators oppose the court bill to work up sentiment against them and for the measure. During the day word came direct from Chief Justice Hughes that he has no present intention of following Van Devanter into retirement. This stilled reports that an announcement of his withdrawal from the court was im- minent. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend of In- diana told the Women's National Democnatic Club here last night that the people of his State are behind the President’s bill. BOOSTED FOR BOARD Representative Robertson, Democrat, | of Virginia, said today he had indorsed W. B. Shafer, jr., of Norfolk for ap- pointment to the Board of Veterans' Appeals to fill the vacancy caused by the death of former Gov. John Gar- land Pollard. Shafer had been indorsed for the position by various posts of Veterans of Foreign Wars. BARUCH CRITIGIZES PITTMAN STATUTE Warns Act Is “Exact Re- verse” to Keeping U. S. Neutral in War, By the Associated Press, CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 21— Bernard M. Baruch, former chairman of the War Industries Board, said in a prepared speech here today that the Pittman neutrality bill “is not & neutrality bill at al “The Pittman act may or may not keep us from actually fighting, but it certainly does not prevent our taking part in & war,” he said. “On the con- trary, it may require us to take a very effective part—perhaps the determin- ing part.” Baruch, addressing the Foreign Affairs Council, sald he does not con=- demn the Pittman act. “It sails an uncharted sea,” he de- clared. “I am only trying to consider it cold-bloodedly. It is the exact re- verse of keeping out of war in the modern sense.” The Pittman bill prohibits certam implements of war from being sold or shipped to nations at war, prohibits giving them credit, and among other things mandates that Americans shall not travel on “belligerent ships” ex- cept “as the President permits.” Baruch said no nation is completely self-contained for the purposes of sup- ply in war. “The point T am making is that if a nation is cut off in war from the kind of supplies it needs for its civilians and has been getting in peace, it is in deadly peril of destruction,” he said, adding: “Naturally, if that curtailment is caused directly by the action of an- other nation with which it is at peace, the embattled nation is eertainly not 8oing to regard that sudden strangula- tion of its economic windpipe as ‘take ing no part in war, directly or indi- | rectly’ It will regard such action as | taking a deadly, hostile and deter- minative part on the side of its enemies."” | Baruch said that should the United | States be engaged in war with Japan, and Britain, Holland, Brazil, Russia, Canada and Cuba shut off supplies they ordinarily send here, “we certainly would not regard that as being neu- tral.” TEXTILE EXEMPTION Miss Perkins Lays Down Rules | for Girl Workers. Secretary Perkins granted the cot- ton textile industry an indefinite ex- tension today of an exemption rmm‘ the child labor provisions of the | Walsh-Healy Government contract act | as they affect girls from 16 to 18. I The extension was granted with ' these conditions: | That no girl under 16 shall be em- ployed; that no girl under 18 who was not working before last October 15 | shall be employed; that no girl under | | 18 shall work at night or in any job | | “hazardous” or “‘dangerous to heslth,” and that a specific lunch period shall | be established for woman workers. DENIES DIRIGIBLE ENGINE SET FIRE German Construction Chief Says Sparks From Motor Were Safe. By the Assoctated Press. LAKEHURST, N. J., May 21.—Dr. Ludwig Duerr, chief construction di- rector of the Hindenburg, told the Department of Commerce Investigat- ing Board today that it was impossible to set a dirigible on fire by engine sparks. His testimony struck a blow at the theory that sparks flying from the Hindenburg's motor exhausts some- how ignited the ship’s highly imflam- mable hydrogen and caused the May 6 disaster, which took 36 lives. Dr. Duerr, who began his sirship career with Count Zeppelin and has supervised design of every dirigible built in Germany in the last 38 years, described experiments conducted to determine if exhaust sparks were a danger. Substances Never Ignited. Gasoline, hydrogen and even nitro- cellulose were placed inside exhaust pipes in these experiments to test whether the sparks would ignite it, he said, and the inflammable substances were never ignited. Discussing specifically the possibility of hydrogen being ignited, he pointed out the exhaust pipe temperatures of the Hinderburg’s motors were between 230 and 250 degrees centigrade, whereas hydrogen does not reach the combustiop point until the tempera- ture is between 500 and 600 degrees centigrade. First of Germans Called. 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