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NEW YORKATHAR ON2BERACKETS Insurance Frauds and Fake Accident Claims Under Legal Fire. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 22.—Twin multi- million-dollar rackets — insurance frauds and fake accident claims— tonight were under the legal gunfire of Federal and local authorities. Fifteen arrests in two days—includ- Ing & physician and two lawyers— several confessions and ominous threats of reprisal constituted the initial results of a seven-months’ undercover campaign. The arrest of scores of others, officials said, awaited only the com- pletion of preparations for handling the prisoners. Adding impetus to the Government drive was a continued local campaign which in a few months last Winter ensnared 117 physicians, lawyers and “runners,” sent 52 other lawyers up for Bar Association discipline, and reduced accident “negligence” cases 37 per cent. ‘With each step of the investigations, new ruses by which the swindlers kept their pockets bulging with stolen dol- lars have been uncovered. Here, according to Assistant United | States Attorney Lamar Hardy and As | sistant District Attorney Bernard | Botein, are some of the racketeers’ humerous methods: The latest is filing claims on faked disability cases—heart trouble, arth- ritis, tuberculosis and mental disease— cunningly simulated by unethical doctors through drugs, over-exertion, timed “heart attacks” and plain well- coached acting. Then there’s the same idea in re- verse—ferreting out fatally diseased persons, pawning them off on insur- ance companies as healthy, and forging death certificates and destroy- ing the tell-tale remains when the victims die. ‘There are also the familiar staged accidents, brought about by scouts with scores of willing ‘“victims,” always on the watch for broken steps, slippery floors and poorly lighted hall- ways where accidents conveniently can | happen. Reliable Ambulance Chasing. Pinally there's the old reliable am- bulance chasing. with taxi drivers, drug store clerks, doctors, hospital | employes and even policemen en- | couraged by bribes to tip off swindle rings about accidents that can be blamed on somebody to yield cash. After eight months of chasing am- | bulance chasers, Botein estimated | their annual toll in New York City at $5.000,000 to $10,000,000. | “One ring,” he reported, “employed | & short-wave radio set to intercept | emergency calls and try to beat am- | bulances to accidents. Members of | the ring, at first competitors, combined | into & trust with rules that forbade encroachment on each other's ‘legal preserves.’ Each made about $200 a week. “One notorious runner of dignified appearance bribed hospital employes to let him put on a white surgeon’s apron and carry a stethoscope through | wards. He would persuade accident | cases to let him call in his lawyer, Had 3,000 Pending Cases. *One lawyer we convicted had 3,000 pending negligence cases. An ‘in- | suranc: broker' earned $250,000 a year for at least five years, mostly on | sattiements, until he was jailed.” 8amuel Bornstein, sent to peison last month for a maximum of three years, was held responsible for hun- dreds of thousands of dollars in | illegitimate claims in a short period. | The depredations against insurance | eompanies by a Brooklyn ring, 39 | members of which pleaded guilty last January, were set at $100,000. The racket’s ramifications and or- ganization were quickiy demonstrated | after this week's arrests. Within a few hours, Hardy declared, a carload of gunmen was cruising the city in search of one of the released de- ! fendants, | One ‘“outside” agent of a ring sought a habeas corpus writ to free | another defendant, who pleaded to be | kept in Jail for protection. Mall Fraud to Be Charged. The Government's weapon in the | chase is the charge of using the mails | to defraud. Tonight the city's grand jury inves- | tigation, halted after the latest arrests | to go over the confessions, was ready | for more seizures Monday. On the Federal side, Hardy com- Mented : “These 15 arrests represent only the opening skiimish, for, as a result of several thousands of records of actual conversations, evidence is already in the possession of the United States attarney which will lead to the prose- cution of many more participants in these frauds.” OLD LAW SEEN BAR T0 CHURCH UNION Bishop Denny of Richmond Re- ported to Have Made Discovery. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va, May 22.—The Times-Dispatch said tonight that the discovery of a hitherto overlooked law of the Methodist Episcopal Church South has “virtually dissipated” hope for early adoption by that church of the unification plan already approved by the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Protestant Church. %The law was discovered, the paper said, by Bishop Collins Denny, Rich- mond, who is regarded as an authority on ecclesiastical law. “It seems to be universally assured,” said Bishop Denny, “that the approval of three-fourths of the members of the several annual conferences, present and voting, and two-thirds of the suc- ceeding general conference is all that is legally required. “Such action by the annual and general conferences, however, will not be sufficient under our law. The law of the church demands in addition, that the plan must meet with the approval of & majority of each annual conference.” © Bishop Denny in explaining the #ffect of the law on the plan for voting on the union of churches said there are about 40 annual conferences in the Southern church. If the smallest of them, having only a few votes, balloted gainst the plan for the union of the ethodist Churches, the plan would be “defeated, he said. The campaign for adoption of the plan is scheduled to start in the annual conferences next month. The general conference assembles in Bir- mingham next May. Service orders. Readers' Gui&e and News Summary The Sunday Star, May 23, 1637, PART ONE. Main News Section. FOREIGN. Russian explorers await equipment for stay at pole. Page A-1 Germany joins London move to end war in Spain. Page A-1 More than 20 Russian plotters exe- cuted at Tiflis. Page A-1 Prance permits Madrid planes, forced down, to go to Bilbao. Page A-3 NATIONAL. Actors threaten to “wreck” movie strike. Page A-1 Hull warns of peril in Nation's traae isolation policies. Page A-1 House to take up anti-nuisance bill tomorrow. Page A-1 Two vast rackets under legal fire in New York. Page A-1 Court plan foes striving to prevent even a compromise, Page A-1 Roosevelt working on wage-hour rec- ommendations today. Page A-1 Supreme Court may rule tomorrow in social security cases. Page A-2 Start on reorganization work this week is expected. Page A-2 Union leases offices preparatory to drive on Ford. Page A-12 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Sales tax sentiment grows in House District Committee. Page A-1 Occupational education experiments een for next Fall. Page A-1 Campaign to arouse fresh interest in D. C. vote planned. Page A-2 Elimination of reorganization D. C. bill items seen. Page A-5 Repeal of “red rider” up before House tomorrow. Page B-1 D. C. attorney on trial tomorrow on robbery charge. Page B-1 Randolph threatens fight against day- light saving plan. Page B-1 Michigan avenue overpass dedication held despite storm. Page B-1 Board of three, unpaid, to administer wage law here. Page B-1 Memorial services war planned here today. Page B-1 Garner gets hat, despite rain, at Press Club outing. Page B-3 National negotiations asked by mine sit-down strikers. Page B-3 18 Catholic printing plants reported closed by Nazi. Page B-3 SPORTS. Nationals top Tribe, 4-1, in battle halted by rain Page B-7 Osgood of Michigan breaks record for low hurdles. Page B-7 Competition is hot in opening rounds of women's tennis. Page B-8 Zabala of Argentina may run in Star's marathon here. Page B-9 Potomac sailors to stage three-dav program of races. Page B-10 Virginia and Maryland tourneys get District golfers. Page B-11 Flying Scot is easy winner in Withers Stake at Belmont, Page B-12 MISCELLANY. ‘Washington Wayside. Lost and found. Obituary. Traffic convictions City news in brief. Shipping news. Civic news. PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial articles. Pages D-1-3 Editorials and comment. Page D-2 Military and veterans' news. ‘Women's clubs. Parent-teacher activities. Cross-word puzzle. Resorts. Winning Contract, Public Library. Stamps. for Page A-2 Page A-3 Page A-12 Page A-6 Page A-6 Page A-15 Page A-16 Pages D-3-4 Page D-5 Page D-5 Page D-6 Pages D-7-8 Page D-9 Page D-9 Page D-10 PART THREE. Society Section. Society news. Pages E-1-9 Well-known folk. Page E-6 Barbara Bell pattern. Page E-9 PART FOUR. Feature Section. News features. Pages F-1-4 John Clagett Proctor. Page F-2 Radio programs. PageF-3 Amusements. Page F-5 Dick Mansfield. Page F-6 Automobiles. Page F-6 Aviation. Page F-6 Children's page. Page F-7 PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Corn at i2-year peak. Page G-1 Stocks go higher. Page G-1 Industry holds stride. Page G-1 Cotton regains losses. Page G-1 U. S. bonds up. Page G-1 Stock table. Page G-2 Bond table. Page G-3 Curb table. Page G-4 Educational. Page G-5 Classified advertising. Pages G-5-17 Vital statistics. Page G-5 Page G-3 —_— STRIKERS APPEAL TO MRS. ROOSEVELT Employes of Detroit Lock Firm Which Plans to Close Seek Her Aid. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, May 22.—Striking em- ployes of the Yale & Towne Manufac- turing Co., which announced it was closing its Detroit division, addressed an appeal for help tonight to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the President. The United Automobile Workers of America, which called the strike March 9, released the letter sent to Mrs. Roosevelt. The sit-down strikers were ejected by police and deputy sheriffs April 14. The strikers’ letter said they struck “because of the low wages and inhu- man conditions of work.” It said the company had 500 workers, mostly women, and their weekly wages aver- aged $10 to $14. It added that some workers’ fingers were “smashed or cut off”” because of the speed at which they were required to operate dies, and said “some girls get higher pay if they are willing to g0 out with their boss.” The plant manufactured locks for automobiles. The management an- nounced yesterday that it was aban- doning its Detroit operations as not “profitable.” GIVEN SCHOLARSHIP Massachusetts Law School Prize for P. M. Davenport. Philip M. Davenport, 114 East Brad- ley lane, Chevy Chase, Md., has been awarded a scholarship at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Mass, it was announced yesterday by Dean Halford L. Hos- kins. Davenport, the son of Royal W. Davenport of the United States Geo- logical Survey, is at present at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennaylvania, where he 1s specializing in foreign trade. dead | | | | | THE SOCIAL SECURITY RULING POSSIBLE Supreme Court May Decide 0Old-Age and Unemploy- ment Questions. BY JOHN H. CLINE. Drawing rear the end of an epochal term that has made the country “Supreme Court conscious” to an unprecedented degree, the nine Justices of the high tribunal will assemble tomorrow for a session that may bring a decision on constitu- tionality of the far-reaching social security act. Should the court uphold this basic law of the New Deal's program of social legislation, it would give the Roosevelt administration an unbroken record of victories in litigation reach- ing the tribunal this term. Tomorrow’s meeting, incidentally, will mark the 67th birthday annivere sary of Associate Justice Cardozo, newest member of the Brandeis, Stone and Cardozo liberal bloc. Involved in the social security liti- gation is the validity of the old-age benefits and the unemployment com- pensation sections of the law. The court also must determine the legality of the Alabama State unemployment insurance law, enacted in compliance with the Federal statute. About 26,- 600,000 workers and 2,700,000 em- ployers will be affected by the decision, which, if it is not announced tomor- row, must be handed down Tuesday, June 1, the last day of the term. 4 Developments of Term. The current term of the court, marked by greater public interest in its proceedings than at any time since the Dred Scott decision, has produced four significant developments. These are: 1. The drive by President Roosevelt to secure passage of a bill that would give him authority to name six new Justices to the court unless present members over 70 retire. 2. The open defense of the court’s efficiency before the Senate Judiciary Committee by Chief Justice Hughes and his plea for maintenance of an independent judicial system in an address at the annual meeting of the American Law Institute. This was one of the rare occasions in our his- tory when a Chief Justice has come to the defense of the court, either directly or indirectly, while it was under fire 3. A marked liberal trend in the rulings of the court as evidenced by the Wagner act decision and the re- versal of the 1923 prohibition of mini- mum wage legislation. 4. The announced Justice Van Devanter, one of the four “irreconcileable” conservative members of the court. Justice Van Devanter's jaction was unusual in that he an- nounced his intention to retire :wo weeks before he would leave the bench, | It has been the custom of retiring | Justices to wait until they are ready | to doff their judicial robes and then | inform the President of their inten- tion, leaving it to him to make the announcement. Significant in History, These developments, however they | may be viewed by contemporary par- tisans, will constitute a highly signifi- cant chapter in American history, for they are but the outward evidences of a bitter struggle between the execu- | tive and judicial branches of our gov- ernment. Regardless of which wins, the future of the country will be pro- foundly affected for years to come. In this situation, the ruling on so- cial security embraces a greater sig- nificance than that involved in the | importance of the legislation itself. Friends of the court say a favorable ruling will knock the last piop from under the President’s program, while an adverse decision, especially if of the 5-t0-4 variety, would undoubtedly spur the demand for “infusion of new blood” in the judiciary. The trend of the court toward lib-| “I want to make & protest,” de- | raised the suggestion of an extensive | trict Subcommittee may resume hear- erality, resulting largely from the po- | sition taken by Justice Roberts, is best illustrated by the fact that prior to this term the New Deal had lost 11 of 13 cases, while it has emerged vic- torious in all major disputes since. Revenues Near Billion. Revenues from social security taxes are expected to be nearly one billion dollars during the next fiscal year. This means that the Treasury De- partment, as well as the Social Se- curity Board, is awaiting the fuling with acute anxiety. Loss of these revenues would force the administra- tion, which now hopes to postpone tax legislation until next session, to ask for compensating taxes at this session of Congress, a dire political prospect with an election in the offing. Justice Cardozo, a bachelor, took his seat on the court in 1932, making him the youngest justice in point of service and the third youngest in years. He was chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals when nom- inated to the high bench by President Hoover. Reputedly the possessor of one of the country’s best legal minds, he asks few questions from the bench, but these are clear anc penetrating, and his opinions are written in precise, schol- arly fashion. It was understood that he plans no celebration ef his birthday anniver- sary. MAN SLAIN EY OFFICER DURING RAID ON STILL Stumble Over Log Fires Pistol When Inspector Starts to Put It in Holster. By the Associated Press. LAWRENCEVILLE, Va., May 22.— Dewey Temple, 35, was shot and killed while officers were raiding a still near here today. Sheriff H. E. Valentine, a member of the raiding party, sald the shoot- ing was accidental. The officer said the pistol of State A. B. C. Inspector A. R. Hurshmann discharged when the latter attempted to push it back into its holster and arrest Temple. Hurshmann stumbled over a Iog, Valentine said, the weapon firing as he fell. The bullet struck Tempie in the chest and he died within a few minutes. RAILROAD SUES 8T. LOUIS, May 22 (#).—This time & railroad company is the plaintiff, not the defendant, in a damage suit resulting from the collision of a train and a truck. The New York Central Railroad filed suit today in a circuit court ask- ing $430 from the Mound City Motors Co. of Bt. Louis. The complaint alleged the locomotive and four cars of a train were damaged when struck by s truck near Livingstor, Ill, July 1, 193¢, ~ retirement of | SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Norman Westberg, 17, righ contemplate possible life sentence while awaiting arraignment at Onida, S. Dak., for hitch-hike slaying of South Dakota teacher. Held in Hitch-Hike Slaying D. C, MAY t, and Howard Christensen, 16, ~—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Campaign Spurs New Interest In Representation for D. C. An intensified campaign to arouse fresh interest in national representa- tlon for the District of Columbia is to be launched looking towards a hearing next session of Congress on the pend- ing joint resolution to enfranchise the National Capital Such & campaign was authorized at an enthusiastic meeting of the Joint Committee on National Representa- tion for the District of Columbia Fri- | day at the Harrington Hotel Decision to launch was reached by the committee on the | basis of a report by Commissioner | George E. Allen, chairman of a sub- committee on congressional hearings, and subsequent discussions. Allen, in his report, pointed out that there had been no hearings this session, and no insistence from the District for such hearings on the joint | resolution, because of the “unprece- dented legislative situation,” and the “local fiscal tangle.” He hoped, how more favorable. He thought the time now was ripe for action. Report Keynote of New Plans. “We should plan very carefully for & hearing to be held early next ses- sion.” Allen said in his report, which became the keynote of the Joint Com- | mittee’s new plans. “In the meantime there should be extensive local agita. tion so as to arouse the interest and support to an enthusiastic pitch and thus give vigorous support to those who are to be our spokesmen at the hearing.” The situation has never been better to press for a hearing than at the next | session, according to the chairman of the Joint Committee, Theodore W. | Noyes, who presided. clared Mr. Noyes, “against the idea Aim Is Hearing in Next Session of Con- gress on Pending Joint Resolu- tion for Franchise. the movement | ever, that the legislative picture next | session of Congress would be much | Among the projects before Congress interfering with the issue, Allen ex- plained, were the President’s judiciary reform program, the President's re- organization program and the “local fiscal tangle.” “The questions of appropriation and 23 1 93! SLAUGHTER HOUSE BANBYHOUSE SEEN Mrs. Norton Predicts Bill That Comes Up Tomor- row Will Be Passed. BACKGROUND— Controversial storm iast Fall greeted proposal of meat packing firm to erect slaughter house in Benning section. Refecting per- mit application, Commissioners set rigid standards for establishment of such an enterprise here. Com- pany granted permit after revising plans to meet standards. Meanwhile, King-Norton legisla- tion, regulating such industry in Washington, was reported favor- ably by House District Committee last Wednesday. ‘The next skirmish on the King- Norton bill, which would have the effect of banning new industries of the nuisance type in the National Capital and strengthening the con- ol of the Zoning Commission over similar existing plants, is due tomor- row in the House. Chairman Mary T. Norton of the House District Committee, who will call up the bill during consideration of the District calendar, said last night she was ‘“confident” of its passage Mrs. Norton said she had discussed the legislation with numerous mem- bers of the House and had found no one who was opposed to its passage. Meanwhile, the Senate District Subcommittee, which has devoted six days of hearings on the same bill, continued in recess. Senator Pat Mc- Carran, chairman of the subcommit- tee, is engaged in helping to prepare the adverse report of the Judiciary Committee on the Supreme Court reorganization bill. Until this task is completed it will be impossible for his group to resume hearings on the anti-nuisance bill. Tomorrow Is “District” Day. Tomorrow is regular “District day” in the House and Mrs. Norton who 1is heartily in accord with the purposes of the anti-nuisance bill, anticipated no difficulty in bring- mg it to a vote. It was ordered re- ported from the District Committee with very little discussion, due in part to the desire of a few members who felt action should be delayed un- til the McCarran subcommittee con- | taxation confronting the District have | been engaging the time and energy of g those of us upon whom would fall the | heaviest burden of a national repre- | | sentation hearing.” Allen said. "It | therefore has seemed impracticable to | enter upon such an enterprise. To ar- range for and conduct a comprehensive and impressive hearing will require painstaking preparation involving real labor. It is extremely difficult to en- gage in such an undertaking while we |are confronted by the critical fiscal situation with which the District is | now faced.” Suter, in expressing disappointment that there had been no hearing this year, pointed out, however, that the | citizens’ joint committee has been up | against the Jacobs report on fiscal re- lations, and is still up against the prob- | lem of District finances. Many of | those who would have to carry a large | part of the burden of a national repre- | | sentation hearing are now busily en- | | gaged, he said, in trying to save the | District from extortionate taxation. Emery thought there would be a very good chance of getting consideration | before the judiciary committees at the next session. | Greater Activity Promised. { | John H. Small, chairman of the | SBubcommittee on States’ Co-operation, | declared his committee would become “more active and use more facilities to keep the subject alive in the minds | of the more intelligent and aggressive | | men and women of the country.” He | and more expensive natior.al campaign cluded its hearings. Support for the legislation comes almost unanimously from the civic associations in the District and from heads of Federal departments and bureaus that are interested in park Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. RS. JAMES V. BENNETT, comely wife of the Justice Department'’s director of Federal prisons, probably is the first female motorist to sing her way out of a traffic ticket. One recent evening as she drove cityward through Rock Creek Park she succumbed to the soft, fragrant evening air and burst into song. Sud- up alongside and waved her stop. o a denly a motor cycle policeman pulied | START EXPECTED ON REORGANIZING Week Likely to See Steps Taken to Draft Bills on Roosevelt Lines. BY WILL P, KENNEDY, Definite assurance that a real start will be made this week on carrying out | the President’s reorganization program | was given yesterday by Chairman | Cochran of “the House group, who | said he intends to confer with Chair- | man Robinson of the joint committee, | and is confident a meeting will be held, | Other members of both the Senate and the House groups do not want to meet until the following week. Repre- | sentative Vinson, Democrat, of Ken- tucky, is going to Kentucky, while Representative Taber, Republican, of New York, ranking minority member of the Appropriations Committee, will be busy on the floor with appropria= tion bills. Thus far there has been no dis= cussion of any procedure to carry into S, Rather lamely the driver explained that if she were speeding it was be- cause she was late for night school. “Sure,” said the officer in a deep Irish brogue, “and do you always go to school dead drunk?” Taken aback, Mrs. Bennett ex- plained she “just couldn't help it” because the Spring evening was so fine. The officer was unconvinced “And phwat was that ye was singin'?” he asked. Mrs. Bennett thought fast. ““Oh,” she said with a sugary smile, “that was ‘When Irish Eyes Are 8milin’.” The officer’s face lit up. “Ye don't say,” he ejaculated, climbing off his machine. “Let's hear it again.” Unabashed, Mrs. Bennett obliged. “That's a verra fine voice ye have there, lady,” the policeman said “Stick your head out of the window and I'll join you.” Mrs. Bennett boasted to friends later that the duet was really some- thing to hear. “Well,” said the officer as he climbed back on his machine and waved her along, “You were mig lucky, lady, to run into an Irishman. ok ok % PAY-OFF. Yesterday we had a story about an office wag whose colleagues had avenged themselves upon him by loading the bottom of his golf croxeTy developments in the Anacostia Val- ley and in the Northeast section Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal said that while the King-Norton bill was aimed at all “‘undesirable” types of industry in the District, its passage would have the effect of prohibiting the erection of the slaughter house which Adolf Gobel, Inc.. New York packers, propose to build near the Benning viaduct. Hearings Mas Resume Soon. The issuance of a permit to the Go- bel Co., which the Commissioners were compelled to do under the then exist- ing zoning regulations, served to focus attention on the inadequacy of such regulations for the protection of Washington. The zoning regulations were made more eflective last November, giving that body discretionary power over nuisance operations. The effect of the King-Norton bill would be to put more “teeth” in the zoning law by taking discretion from the Zoning Commission and freeing Washington from the threatened en- croachment of slaughter houses and other industries which Federal and | District officials regard as undesirable in the Nation's Capital. It is possible that the Senate Dis- ings on the bill the middle of this | expressed by some that the battle of | to “introduce to the pecple themselves | Week. It recessed last Thursday, sub- | the civic army which fights for Wash- | ington is approaching a standstill. I want to express my contention that | never at any time in the historv of our fight have the forces that fight for Washington been so strong. so well organized, and so enthusiastic. The taxpayers of Washington, includ | ing the representatives of our citizens who vote the plight and the need of the citizens of the District of Colum- bia | Mrs. Weston, representing the Vote- {less District of Columbia League of Women Voters, stated that for some time Federal suffrage for the District of Columbia has had first place in the | support program of one of the general Ject to the call of the chairman. Position Clarified. During the taking of testimony on the final day of the hearing, one of the witnesses appearing in support of the King bill was Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke of 3021 N street. Inadver- tently, The Star made it appear in its bag with lead Today we wish to make a simple announcement, The gentleman who drew the cartoon for that story was Mr. G. Crockett of The Star Art Depart- ment, The gentleman whose golf bag is loaded with lead is Mr. G. Crockett of The Star Art Depart- ment. If he doesn't think so, let him take a look. ® ok ok X RICH NAMES. 'HE modernistic motif which pre- vails at the Department of Jus- tice Building gives the interior a | distinctive touch much more cheer- ful than in the other Government buildings in the triangle. Even the plate holders which tell who's who and where are different, probably the swankiest used in any of the departmental buildings. The border has a silver finish and the room number and name plate are of laminated bakelite with white let- tering on a blue background. Cost— $7.00 each. Five dollars for the holder, $1.00 for the plate and $1.00 for carving the name and room num- ber. When such labels are required for several thousand rooms a simple computation shows what it costs to be fancy. Just now the Interior Department is revising the door sigms, due to | moving from the old to the new | building. Taking into consideration the other public building under the supervision of the Interior, it will be necessary to print some 20,000 cards to properly label the rooms and oc- | cupants. The plates used by the | Interior Department to hold these organizations, have been harassed and | departments of work of the National nagged into the contention or con- | League of Women Voters. It is now viction that without a volce in our | the purpose of the Voteless D. C. affairs it is impossible to attain any League, she said, to endeavor at the measure of fiscal equity. early account of the hearing that | cards cost 29 cents each, and the cost Mrs. Brooke was testifying in cpposi- | of printed cards to fill them is nom- tion as a defender of the Gobel plant. | inal. The department has a patented Mrs. Brooke yesterday requested |flat bed printing machine in vogue The Star to make her position clear, | with merchants for printing placards legislation the President’s recommen- | dations. After the White House con= ference of the Democratic members of the House group it was stated that the President wishes this legislation taken up first in the House after passage of the appropriation bills, while the Senate is still concerned with the Supreme Court reorganizaiton q tion, and that there would probe be two bills. | One of these would be to enlarge the White House secretariat with th managerial agencies in charge | planning , personnel and budg | matters. | The second bill would give the Presi- | dent blanket power to reorganize and | consolidate the Government agencies, | including the setting up of two new | departments. | Civil Service Bills Hinted. From other sources it was disclosed that two additional measures hav | been discussed by the President’s closest advisers One of these would cover extension of the civil service to cover all non policy-making positions, and substit ing a single civil service administra- tor for the Civil Service Commission— with an Advisory Boand for the ade ministrator The fourth bill would make & new auditor general with a post-audit 1 | stead of the present controller gen- | eral, directly responsible to the legise | lative branch rather than to the exe~ cutive, and with pre-audit The latter is the most hi troversial of all the President’s re= organization proposals. It is the one which the big majority of the members of both House and Se be passed, because it tak Congress powers directly entrusted to it by the Constitution, and is am essential balance to the Budget Bureau directly responsible to the exscutive. There have been two pricipal wit- nesses before the joint Committee on Government Organization in its exe- cutive sessions. The first was Louis Brownlow, chairman of the President's Advisory Committee. The other wit- | ness was a representative of the Brookings Institution, who appeared only regarding the proposal to take the controller general away from Con- gress and place the audit system under the administrative branch. The m: bers expressed themselves as rather in sympathy with the Brookings re- port Protest Desultory Proceedings. The White House conference week was in protest against the des tory proceedings of the Joint Comn tee and it is said that the Presider and the House group feel that reo:- ganization legislation may be ex- pedited by having the House grou take the bit in its teeth and go ahea. with one or two bills as a tryout of strength in suport of the President It is said that Chairman Cochran uf the House group hopes to get some sanction from the joint committee at its next meeting to go ahead along that line, with a very distinct under- | standing that is the President's wisn ! In the meantime Senator Byra Democrat, of Virginia. chairman of the original Senate Reorganization Committee, who is also a “smothered’ member of the joint committee, is going ahead with his independent study of the Brookings reports whicr emphasize economy and a reduction ir Mhe costs of Government as far a! | compatible with efficient service. He | has already received nine chapters cf “Then we have the women's or- ganizations, who were never so0 thoroughly aroused and active in meeting the duties which fall on them through the national organizations to perfect the legislation giving the women of the States the right of national representation, to extend the right to women of the District who did yoeman's work in securing the franchise for all women of the country, except themselves. Third, we have the labor people, organized and un- organized, thoroughly and earnestly for the cause.” Report Generally Discussed. ‘The Allen report was generally dis- cussed by members of the committee, who agreed in a comprehensive con- sideration of the matter that it had been wise not to press the national representation issue at this session. Agreeing to this point of view were Chairman Noyes, Jesse C. Suter, Fred A. Emery, Mrs. Louis Ottenberg, Miss Etta Taggart, John H. Small, Mrs. Charles H. Weston and Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley. McAdoo to Speak in Forum next convention of the national organ- |1zation to have this question of | national representation placed on | their major legislative program. Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley of the Gen- eral Federation of Women's Clubs re- ported she had spoken before the national convention of the federation at Tulsa, Okla,, recently. She showed s letter which she said had been dis- tributed to the delegates at Tulsa, and credited Mrs. Horace W. Phelps with having the question placed on the study program. The federation, rep- said, necessarily moves slowly, and has not yet indorsed national representa- tlon for the District. But the question has been on the federation program for two years, Mrs. Wiley said, and she hopes to have it indorsed at the con- vention in 1938, Cities Aid Poorer Ones. Prosperous cities of England are “adopting” and aiding communities which have not felt the return of prosperity. HE future of American aviation will be discussed by Senator Willlam Gibbs McAdoo of Cal- ifornia, the “Flying Senator,” in the National Radio Forum tomor- row night at 9:30 o'clock. The Na- tional Radio Forum is arranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over a coast-to-coast network of the National Broadcasting Co. and by WRC locally. Senator McAdoo has for years been keenly interested in the subject of aviation. He has maintained an air- plane of his own and has used it con- stantly in trips across the continent. The problems of commercial avia- tion and the development of the air- lines are prowinently in the fore- ground today, and Senator McAdoo is expected to present in his discussion some new and interesting suggestions. While air transportation is a com- peratively new study to the Senator, his background on general transporta- tion problems is authentic, aince he formerly served as director general of United rallroads. “FLYING SENATOR” TO DISCUSS AVIATION. resenting some 2,500,000 women, she | and in connection with her testimony said: “During the years I was chairman of the Subsistence Garden Committee of the District, the ground in the Benning road area was improved ex- tensively and many new homes were constructed in the section. “Those now living in this neighbor- hood should be protected from the Also, the money spent by the Govern- ment in developing the gardens and improving the section should not be Jeopardized.” In answer to arguments during her testimony before the committee that the slaughter house would give em- ployment to many persons, Mrs. Brooke pointed out that those needing work could be utilized in laying foun- dations for additional homes in the area. SLOT MACHINES TO GO Florida Governor Committed to Measure Passed by Legislature. TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 22 (#). —The Florida Legislature today cli- maxed a bitter, prolonged fight by voting 76 to 11 to outlaw slot ma- chines. The measure was sent to Gov. Fred P. Cone, who had previously said he would sign it. Slot machines were legalized by the 1935 Legislature and legislators estimated the “take” was approxi- mately $60,000,000 a year. Civic and religious organizations raised a hue and cry against the machines. A referendum last Fall was unfavorable to the machines in the 50 counties passing on the question. o AUTO FIRM RAISES PAY Studebaker Wage Increases End Three-Day Strike. SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 22 (#)— Officials of the Studebaker Automobile | Corp. here announced a general wage | increase totaling $700,000 annually today as part of an agreement which Wwill end a three-day walkout of 6,000 employes. The increase includes a fiat raise of 3 cents an hour, plus piece-rate ad- SENATOR McADOO. L] Justments, boosting the plant average from 90 to 96)a cents an Lour. depreciation that would follow with | erection of a slaughter house nearby. | | and labels, and each battery of type | comes in four sizes. The battery | fonts are interchangeable. The re- | sults not quite so gaudy, but we be- | | lieve you can find whoever you want | just as well. * %ok x KICK-BACK. Dorothy Neff had to go all the way to Sydney, Australia, for a laugh. But it was worth writing home about to see a well-meaning aunt kicked fore and aft by tuo kangaroos—both claiming a bat- tered potato chip. Writes our Sydney correspond- ent: “Auntie was peacefully en- gaged by a dainty, deer-faced kangaroo nibbling a potato chip out of her hand. Suddenly another beastie galloped up jrom behind and Aunt Mary turned to ertend the courtesy of the remains of the chip. “In protest the first kangaroo leaned back on his tail and shot out a swift ‘onc-two’ with his powerful hind legs. “Somewhat confused, Auntie faced front, this time laying herself open to attack from the second animal behind her.” Both kangaroos must have been pulling their punches since Auntiec was not hurt, but our correspondent confesses that her shameless hilarity ended in a cer- tain coolness on the part of the good lady for the nert day or two. . Merrill to Get Degree. NEW YORK, May 22 (#).—The de- Will be conferred upon Henry T. gree of doctor of aeronautical science | the Brookings reports and expects it get two more this week. As fast as h receives and digests these reports b |is having a series of separate drafted for presentation to Congress In this way he hopes to get piece- meal legislation according to a co-o dinated scheme covering the 1 establishment. The feature of his legislative pro- gram that appeals to the members ¢ both House and Senate is that he makes specific recommendations as to just how units of the Government service will be co-ordinated and what the expected savings in cost will oe In that way Congress would avoid any blanket surrendering of its const tional powers, would know exa what it was approving and would be in & position to stop any contemplated wiping out of an agency or undue ex- pansion and would have a Govern- ment organization by law rather than by executive decision. RULING BY N. L. R. B. ON SIT-DOWN SEEN Newton Packing Co. Case May De- cide Employers’ Duties if Strike Violates Injunction. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, May 22.—Attorneys said today the National Labor Relations Board's decision in the Newton Pack- ing Co.s case may be a ruling on the use of the sit-down strike as a labor weapon. The Newton case was concluded to- day after eight days of testimony be- fore Robert M. Gates, examiner for the board hearing Attorneys said they expect the case to determine whether an employer is relieved of his duties under the Wag- ner act when a sit-down strike vio- lates a court injunction Strikers were evicted from the New- ton plant here the first of April, after injunction orders were ignored. Lawyers in the case said that if the board determined that the Newton (Dick) Merrill, trans-Atlantic fiyer, | company refused to bargain with it | by Pennsylvania Military College at | commencement day exercises June 8, | it was announced here today. Mer- rill, the fourth man to be thus hon- | ored by the Chester, Pa., college. has made two round-trip airplane flights employes, then it would have to decide what effect the strike had on the com« pany's violation of the Wagner act. Gates' recommendation will accom- pany the 2,000-page transcript of testimony when it goes to Washingipn across the North Atlantic. for review by the Labor Board. B f