Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1937, Page 2

BYRD ASKS DATA ON HOMESTEADS Requests Wallace Records to Fix Cost of Shenan- doah Project. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia is determined to have a showdown on the actual costs of the Shenandoah Homestead Projects, which he has termed “appalling waste and extrava- gance.” He has called on Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, who inherited these projects from Dr. Rexford G. Tugwell, administrator of the Re- settlement Administration, for the record on seven specific items. This demand was made by Byrd as chairman of the Senate Reorganization Committee, with authority to require by subpoena or otherwise the desired information. He explained in his letter to Secretary Wallace that he felt com- pelled to act “because of the dis- crepancy between the $1,5620,219 esti- mate presented to me by Dr. Tugwell,” the estimate given through Budget Director Bell by C. B. Baldwin, as- sistant resettlement administrator, on May 21, and the estimate contained in Secretary Wallace's letter to him on May 26. Senator Byrd is the leading advocate n Congress for reorganization in the interests of economy and efficiency and ts author of the original reorganization resolution. He is sponsoring a series of bills and resolutions for & co- ordinating program of legislation which would show just how it is proposed to regroup, curtail, oco- ordinate or abolish certain agencies, with the estimated saving. Work as Governor. Tt was due to his efforts as Governor of Virginia that the Shenandoah Park was established, and it was as a result of a vacation period in the park area last Summer that his attention was called to the alleged waste in opera- tion of Shenandoah Homestead Projects. For more than a year he has been protesting against it. Senator Byrd explains that Dr. Tug- well originally gave him the estimate of $1,520,219. On May 21, Assistant Admunistrator Baldwin, in an estimate through the Budget Bureau, said that in the Ida Valley tract, where the | subsistence homesteads are about ready for occupancy, except for the | water system, the cost of the land | will be about $37,179 and the cost of he development will be $101,422, making an average cost of $6,929 per unit. The cost of the land in the Washington tract, in Rappahannock County, was estimated by Baldwin on May 21 as $33,065, and the develop- ment cost was estimated at $121,704. This is to care for 27 families and the figures indicate an average per unit cost of $5,703. Points to Discrepancies. “It is difficult for me to understand | why the assistant administrator, Mr. | Baldwin, gives an estimate on May | 21, which is entirely at variance with | the figures given by you on May 26,” | Senator Byrd wrote to Secretary Wal- lace. ‘A very substantial part of the total &llocation can still be salvaged,” he | added, in asking for the following &pecific information under authority of an act of Congress: (1) Copies of all contracts and sgreements of every kind that have been entered into with respect to these projects; (2) Itemized statement of the cost ©of completing each project; (3) An exact, itemized statement of all expenditures separated as be- tween the seven projects; (4) Complete statement of the over- head and administrative cost and a list of those employes at Washington and elsewhere and the salaries of all who perform, or have performed, serv- ices on these projects; (5) A list of the families, with ad- dresses, who have made agreements to rent the houses, and copies of the agreements; (6) A statement of the rent to be charged and the amount of principal payment required. (7) A statement of the number of sgreements, with tenants or prospec- tive tenants, which have been can- celed, and the reasons for each can- cellation, Senator Byrd emphasizes that he is “not opposing sound and practical re- lief to these worthy mountain fam! lies,” but that he does oppose this ‘“‘present scheme because it will not | be successful in giving the benefits ex- | pected.” He said that last Summer he | was “appalled” to find that “Dr. Tug- well intended to expend $1,500,000 on & resettlement program for about 250 | mountain families by means of col- | lective village farming, and that under | the proposals mountain people would | repay in part this amount to the| Federal Government in the form of rentals.” Says Project Changed. His protest to Dr. Mitchell resulted, Senator Byrd says, “in the changing of the original fantastic project, known as the C. B. I. Green project, as it was proposed by Dr. Tugwell. It was there proposed that 28 mountain families would operate as a common unit on a co-operative system similar to those in Russia. Dr. Mitchell recently advised Byrd that the collective farming feature of this project would be abandoned. | Secretary Wallace informed him that | an order for electric refrigerators had been countermanded. Senator Byrd points out to Secre- tary Wallace that while he ys the cost of the new units will not exceed $3,755 each, “the itemized statement of this cost does not include any ac- counting for the costly overhead which has been largely responsible for the ln?vnnne expenditures already made.” NEWSBOYS DISCOVER BODY OF WOMAN OF 58 Newsboys delivering morning papers early yesterday found the body of Mrs. Mary Matilda Conway, 58, a clerk in the Bureau of Engraving and Print- ing, lying in the doorway of her home, 828 Virginia avenue southwest. The coroner’s office issued a cer- tificate of death from heart attack. Mrs. Conway apparently was stricken s she returned home Saturday night and had lain in the doorway all night. Mrs. Conway, widow of a Spanish- American War veteran, is survived by & brother, Charles A. Poole, who made his home with her, but who was visiting in Baltimore when his sister died. The newsboys who found the body were Melvin and John Saunders, 900 bioek of O street southwest, | mouth all day,” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, MAY 31, 1937. Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. SHANGRI-LA. AYBE patience would e a good theme for an opening item today. At any rate there is & woman out Chevy Chase way who is being rewarded every warm day now for a decade of calm waiting while nature took fits course. Ten years ago she moved into a new home out there. It was to be a per- manent home, she figured, and just the place to plant two trees that some anchors for a hammock. Today she knows she is right. She planted the trees, elms. They grew, Just the right distance apart and pro- viding a leafy canopy against the midday sun, the 4:30 sun and all others. Now every day she lies in the ham- mock and reads and pauses in her reading only to think how kind na- ture is to those who don't try to goad her, * ok ok X RESTRAINT, Lieut. Thomas MacDonald of the Army Air Corps and a friend of his from Washington are regarding themselves as pretty ertraordinary Jellows these days. Lieut. MacDonald, now stationed at Dayton, and the friend met in New York the other night after years and years of not meeting each other anywhere—in Cleve- land, Washington, Montgomery, Ala.; Shreveport or West Point. The thing that made the meet- ing seem extraordinary was that neither of them commented on the smaliness of a world that en- abled them to meet on a busy street in its largest city. * % % x TIMES CHANGE. TACCATO journalism, the kind that saves time by resorting to a words-between-dots technique, has spoiled one of the favorite literary criticisms of a man who called up the other day. The criticism in question was one uttered by Edwin Muir, who said that every dot in the technique of A. M. S. Hutchison, the British novelist, re- minded him of a dog pausing to wag its tail after having done a smart trick. That kind of writing seems justi- fied in this day of haste, our inform- ant said. It ought to be good news to sports, night club, drama and other department scribes. * x ¥ w COCKER. RES!ARCH which an operative of the Wayside calls “exhaustive” presumably from habit and not be- cause it was exhaustive, has disclosed that there are no Dachshunds at the German Embassy. Representing the new Germany a Cocker spaniel. Thomsen. is It belongs to Frau * ok ok % Becoming interested in embassy dogs, our operative pursued the subject further via that bureau in the District Building where they license bow-wows. At the Peruvian Embassy there is a dog named Toby. A. L. P. Mark-Wardlow, British naval attache, has a wire fox terrier. Philip Broad, secre- tary at the same piace, has a Cairn terrier called Andrew. His ez- cellency, Ambassador Lindsay, de- votes himself at odd intervals to an English cocker answering to the name of Jumbo. The Polish Ambassador has sev- eral perudgreed specimens; Mr. J. K. Uys of the Union of South Africa calls his wire hair for ter- rier Scraps. E. H. Dimitriu, finan- cial counselor of the Rumanian Legation, and Juan Chevalier, Charge d'Aflaires from Panama, have likewise purchased licenses. * ok xox CONDITIONED. C W. LATTIMORE, an inspector * for the Health Department, is one man in 10,000. He enjoys among his friends a reputation as a man who chews, but never expectorates. To- bacco, we mean. If you don't think that is hard, try it some time. Even the snuff (beg your pardon) snoose addicts, who had their day in this column, cannot do that. When we heard about it we became alarmed for his health. There was no doctor at hand, so we called for advice from several medical students known to us. Their unanimous verdict was that his digestive tract is conditioned to to- bacco and that's all there is to it. “I keep s bit of tobacco in my he said. “I can drink water, but I don't like to; it dilutes the tobacco flavor.” Yes, he was ill the first day he ever tried it. ok x X TTORNEY GENERAL CUMMINGS natured raillery at a recent press con- ference over his choice of location for two large murals in his conference room. Seated at his desk, Cummings faces the panel entitled “The Defeat of Jus- tice,” but visitors sitting on the other side of his desk face ‘The Triumph of Justice.” Newsmen commented on Cummings’ | pessimistic of the two murals. “Well, to tell the truth,” Cummings chuckled, “I thought I could endure it better than you.” Privately he be- lieves the murals among the finest in the Justice Department Building. Aviation Co-ordination Sought. Japan is discussing the establish- ment of a government organization to co-ordinate the development of all phases of aviation. Congress in Brief TODAY. In recess. TOMORROW. Senate: Considers private calendar. Interstate Commerce Committee considers railroad retirement bill, 10:30 a.m. Joint Labor Committees of Senate and House begin hearings on wage- hour bill, 10:30 a.m. House: Considers private calendar and re- sumes debate on emergency relief ap- propriation bill. Tax Subcommittee of District Com- mittee considers $6,000,000 tax pro- gram, 10:30 a.m, day would grow up and make grand was subjected to some good- | choice to face the more ! NOW NOT NEEDED Decisions Change Situation, Says Senator Pope, Presi- dent’s Supporter. Recent Supreme Court decisions have removed the “impelling necese sity” for the President’s court reorgan= ization bill, Senator Pope, Democrat, of Idaho, a supporter of the measure, said today. Senator Pope anncunced this view as preparations were completed for the closing session of the tribunal te- morrow. No important rulings are pending, but the justices will an- nounce their decisions in several rela- tively minor cases and act on several applications for review of important lower court rulings. Tomorrow's session will mark the last time Associate Justice Van Devan- ter will sit on the high bench. A stanch member of the court's con- servative bloc, Justice Van Devanter will retire Wednesday to live or his recently-purchased estate near Elli- cott City, Md. Discussing the court bill, which would add a maximum of six new Jjustices to the tribunal unless mem- bers over 70 retire, Senator Pope safd: “The main reason for the bill was to have a court that would not ob- struct a constructive program for dealing with the Nation's problems.” Pointing to the court’s decisions on social security and the Wagner labor | act, he added: “I have a feeling that since a ma- jority of the court has adopted a constitutional view that is sensible | and liberal, the proposals of the President are less necessary.” Pope said he still believed the bill was “all right” and that probably the line-up in the Senate was unchanged by the recent decisions. In fact, he contended that those paris of the hill dealing with congestion in the courts were still as desirable as ever. Pope’s statement, first of its kind by | an administration supporter, added to | the prevailing uncertainty as to the | future of the controversial measure, | He is one of 33 Senators publicly com- | mitted to the bill Report This Week, Opposition Senators said they hoped | to be able to file the committee’s un- | favorable report on the measure in | the Senate this week, but there was | no word from administration leaders ‘as to subsequent precedure. Chairman Ashurst of the Senate Judiciary Committee said he assumed the Senate would take up the measure and settle the issue once for all, but | he did not claim to speak with au- tharity. Senator Robinson, Democratic leader, has refused to comment on the sit- uation ever since the Supreme Court [upheld the social security act a week | 880 today. | Some opposition Senators have said | the group of new legislative recom- mendations from the White House indicated a desire to turn the spot- light away from the court bill with a view to letting it die, but no con- | firmation has come from administra- tion spokesmen. Two of the newer proposals will | monopolize atttention at the Capitol | tomorrow. The President will send | | to Congress a message calling atten- | tion to loopholes in the tax laws and | asking for legislation to close them{ up. A hearing will begin on the administration's far-reaching wne1 | and hour bill, 'BOOS MARK RIVAL WEIRTON RALLIES Workers of C. I. 0. and Security League Groups Parade in Com- parative Peace. By the Associated Press. WEIRTON, W. Va, May 31.—Only & few scattered hisses and boos broke the peace that accompanied rival ral- lies of the Committee for Industrial Organization and Security League steel | workers yesterday near the smoke- belching mills of the Weirton Steel Co. Set up to preserve the Weirton Workers’ employe representation plan during John L. Lewis’ steel organiza- tion campaign, the Security League paraded the length of the town's 3- mile Main street to a base ball park without any disturbance whatever, While George Sokolsky, labor writer, Wwas denouncing the Lewis movement at the ball park rally, the C. L O. forces tooted through town in automo- biles to a soft-drink parlor, where their rally was held. A few league members booed while | the C. I. O. parade went by and snatched a few flags from the auto- mobiles, There was no other dis- turbance. Claud Conway, chairman of the Security League, said 9,000 marched in his parade. There was no estimate of the number in the C. L O. line. EARHART TAKE-OFF SET FOR TOMORROW Round-the-World Plane Given Final Test at Miami—Puerto Rico First Stop. B~ the Assoctated Press. MIAMI, Fla.,, May 31.—Amelia Ear- hart yesterday tentatively scheduled | her take-off on a projected West-East flight around the world for tomorrow. “If weather conditions are favor- able, she probably will hop tomorrow morning for San Juan, Puerto Rico,” said her husband, George Palmer Putnam. Miss Earhart went aloft for more than & hour for a final check-up on the plane’s radio and compass. It is the same ship that crashed with her at Honolulu to terminate her westward globe-girdling attempt which began in California. A decision to reverse the original Toute was announced by the famous fiyer Saturday night. She said weather conditions in the Caribbean and over Africa probably would be | more favorable now than in a few weeks and it seemed advisable to| cover that part of the trip first. Bhe mapped an equatorial route. From San Juan she planned to fol- | low the Pan-American Airways roum! to Natal, Brazil, from where she will cross the South Atlantic to Dakar, Africa. She will attempt to follow the Imperial Airways lane to Aus- tralia, thence aim for the tiny How- | land Island and Hawaii, stepping stones across the Pacific to the United States. Miss Earhart set no time schedule, declaring she “will not rush.” ) 1SUPTOMORROW Senafe and House Commit- tees Will Start Joint Hearing. The Benate and House Labor Com- mittees tomorrow start a joint hear- ing on the administration's new wage and hour bill. Robert H. Jackson, Assistant Attor- ney General, who was a member of the informal commission named by Presi- dent Roosevelt to draft the measure, is scheduled to be the first witness. He is expected to give his views on the constitutionality of the legislation, which is a modification of the out- lawed national recovery act, propos- ing to bar from interstate commerce products of industries which violate minimum wage and maximum hour regulations, employ child labor or ig- nore collective bargaining rights under the Wagner labor relations act. Opposition Evident, Sponsored by Senator Black, Demo- crat, of Alabama and Representative Connery, Democrat, of Massachusetts, the measure appears to be in for rocky going. Labor is cold toward it; in- dustry, which consistently has stood for self-regulation, can be counted on for opposition, and the New York Herald-Tribune, in a Washington dis- patch, today said that a spokesman for the National Grange declared this oldest of the farm organizations might also line up against the legis- lation. According to this Grange spokes- man, what the farming interests fear most are the “political implications” of Federal regulation of hours and wages. Once a Federal board is empowered to control these working standards, it is pointed out, “pressure groups” of workers, particularly in campaign years, would be able to force upward revision of wages, and a corresponding limitation on hours, thereby boosting | prices of things the farmer must buy. There is the added fear, also, it was said, that some move might be made toward bringing farm labor under Federal regulation, Unsatisfactory to Labor. ‘The “minimum wage” feature of the measure is unsatisfactory to the American Federation of Labor, and the Committee for Industrial Organ- ization has done no more than indorse | the “principal” of the legislation. The hearings will give the various groups an opportunity to air their views as to the lines on which they believe the legislation should be built. William Green, president of the A. F.of L;; John L. Lewis, head of the C. I. O, and Dr. Claudius T Murch- ison, head of the Textile Institute, are expected to be among the early witnesses. 'CORRUPT I;RACTICES ACT BEING STUDIED Group of Senators Begins Draft to Tighten Present Law, Ey the Associated Press. A group of Senators, with an eye to 1938 and 1940 national elections, began drafting today a tighter Fed- eral corrupt practices act. Chairman Minton expressed hope that the legislation would be ready soon It is supported by Senator Lonergan, Democrat, of Connecticut, | head of a special 8enate committee which surveyed 1936 campaign ex- penditures. The existing 1926 corrupt practices act was described as “only half a law” by Dr. James K. Pollock, University of Michigan political science professor, who is aiding the subcommittee. The new bill is based on a proposal | of Senator Nye, Republican, of North | Dakota to fix maximum limits for outlays in behalf of presidentia!, vice | presidential and congressional candi- dates. and require more ‘frequent and simplified reports with wider pub- licity. It would undertake to fix responsi- bility more definitely by requiring all candidates to designate fiscal agents, as in Pngland, and would create s standing joint congressional commit- tee on elections of 10 members. Pollock, undertaking the actual re- drafting, was directed to provide for a permanent Federal elections agency, instead of the congressional body. 0ddity Tennis Played. Novel tennis matches are being played at Dunolly, Australia. Man- ager Lawson of the Wedderburn Hotel was defeated when, using a racquet, he met R. A. Hill, civil engineer, armed with & mandolin. To get revenge he wagered that Alfred Greenall, with & frying pan, could beat Hill, wielding a racquet. Lawson lost his bet. COURTPLANHELD WAGE, HOURBILL | Away from the cares that ‘The Blessings of G Where I may own a pe: To rest when the day ©! Find me a place at the to en night shadows ero Where the breath of the pine, Where quiet and peace are To be closer to nature and to And to rest in the bright st hen the sunset of life’s d That I may find at the end of Peace, near the Maker, on veleran, hoved o The Place. By Lieut. Paul R. Jones. ©! Find me a place on the top of the peak, be, the better to seek, And His handiwerk better to see, O! Find me & place on some grass-covered knoll. Of peace that counters all strife, ind me & place at the end of the road— y from the land of regret, abode is set, of the climb, 'mid the peace then sublime, Whispers benedictions o’er me. O! Find me a place, just a sizable elod. supreme: nature's God arlizht's gleam. ©O! Find me a place in some high, open space rawing nigh— the race high. In 1931 Lieut. Paul R. Jones, a Washington World War ncurably til in o Denver Lospital verses of the “place on a grass-covered knoll And everlasting peace grave near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington. wrote these where he He found it in this MIDIE ECENE ATHLETIAVARDS June Week Visitors Also Watch Color Dress Pa- rade Rehearsal. By the Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, May 31 —Midshipmen at the Naval Academy honored their athletes and practiced for the presenta- tion of colors dress parade today, while June week visitors watched the cere- monies and attended a band concert. The presentation of athletic awards in the Thompson Stadium was the main event of the day’s program. Members of all sport squads of the academy during the year receive their letters, medals or other honors at this annual event, Garden Party Tonight. ‘The rehearsal of the presentation of colors dress parade was held on Wor- den Field. It was staged for the benefit of motion picture and news- paper photographers who swarmed about the field meking shots as the regiment went through maneuvers The spacious gardens at the home of Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers, superintendent of the academy, have | been decorated with vari-colored elec- tric lights and a fountain for the garden party the Admiral and Mrs. Sellers will give tonight for the gradu- ates and their guests. Members of the second class of mid- shipmen prepared for their “ring dance,” when for the first time they will be entitled to wear their class rings. The Academy ring is not awarded until the junior has passed his last examinations and is ready to move into the senior class. The second classmen and their girls will pass under a huge ring during the dance. Each girl will slip the ring on the finger of her escort. Chaplain Gives Challenge, Members of the graduating class met in the chapel yesterday to wor- | ship together for the last time as mid- shipmen and hear a challenge to be ready to “stand watch” in life. Seated under stained glass windows |ded1(‘nl!d to naval heroes, the 325 graduating midshipmen heard Comdr. William N. Thomas, U. 8. N., Academy chaplain, assert in a baccalaureate sermon “This is no day for weaklings and lovers of ease. The fight of your day will demand brains and strength of spirit.” —_ Lincoln’s First Speech. Lincoln’s maiden effort on the stump, interrupted by a fight in | which he threw a bully “12 feet | awi : “Fellow citizens, I presume | you all know who I am. Iam humble | Abraham Lincoln. * * My poli- | tics are short and sweet, like the old | woman's dance.. * * ¢ | my sentiments and political principles. | It elected I shall be thankful; if not, | | it will be all the same.” Mama Objects to Photo Scarlett, Rhett, Melanie and Ashley, have their picture taken, although mama seems to disapprove. lion cubs born in the Atlanta, Ga., Zoo were named principal’s in “Gone With the Wind.” nearly as rare as human ones. These quadruplet for the Lion quadruplets are P. Photo. These are | THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair warmer tonight; tomorrow fair and | continued warm, followed by local thundershowers late tomorrow after- noon or night; cooler tomorrow night land Wednesday; gentle to moderate southwest winds, shifting to north- | west tomorrow night Maryland—Fair and slightly warm- er tonight; tomorrow fair and conti {ued warm, followed by local thund | showers late tomorrow afternoon or night; cooler tomorrow night or Wed- nesday. Virginia—Fair and sligh tonight and tomorrow, followed by local thundershowers in West and North portions late tomorrow after- noon or night and in Southeast por- | | tion tomorrow night; cooler xomorrr;wi night and Wednesday | West Virginia—Fair tonight, fol | lowed by showers and thunderstorms and cooler tomorrow; much cooler to- morrow night. River Report. and Shenandoah Rivers and | warmer Potomac | clear today. Tide Tables. (Purnished by United States Coast and | S | Geodetic Burvey ) Todav High Bdam Low Hizh 208 Low v To 1 1 51 pm | The Sun and Moon. | Sun, todav Sun. tomerrow Moon. today Automobile lights must one-half nour after sunset. be Precipitation. Monthly precipit Capital (current mon | Month. | January February {and Sunday October Novemper December Temp Ra o Hh Low fal 0066 0.0 e Clear 0.14 Rain Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy 0.30 Cloudy ear Clear Clear 0.08 Clear Clear Columbia Denver. Colo. Detroit. Mich. Louisville Miami. Fla Min'ap-St, Paul New Orleans New York. NY. Oklghoma ' City Omahe Nebr Philadelphia Phoenix__Ariz Pittsburgh Portland. Me Portland, Orex 1006 7 1 C 3010 ) Cloudv 018 Cloudy Clear Clear Rain 0.86 Cloudy Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear 44 034 Cloudy X .82 Cloudv Spokane, Wash Tamps. ' Fla WASHINGTON FOREIGN. (7 am., Greenwich time, Temperat London. England - Paris. France __ - Vienna, Austria ___ Berlin.'Germany Zurich. Switzerland [ Stockholm. Sweden 52 Gibraltar, Spain__ 67 (Noon. Greenwich time. today.) Horta (Favall. Azores — 68 Cloudy St. Georges. Bermuda _ 76 Cloudy Ban Juan, Puerto Rico - K2 Havana,_ Cuba, Colon, Canal Zone Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Gl - 78 —e Monkey Catching Made Easy. CHICAGO.—Police were sent to catch a traffic-dodging Simian which | finally perched in a South State street ! book store. While colleagues searched | for the monkey's owner, Patrolman | Harry Mandell tried in vain to lure | the creature within reach. The owner came, exhibited a banana and got the monkey. A banana, he instructed the offi- cers, saves time in catching monkeys. —_— D. C. BRIDGE TEAM WINS Local Quartet Defends Laurels as Virginia Titlist. Dr. E. B. Connelly, Leroy Thurtell, Dr. A. J. Steinberg and Dr. M. Jacobs, all of this city, successfully defended their 1936 title as the open team bridge | champions of Virginia last night, sc- cording to an Assoclated Press dis- patch from Virginia Beach. The victory, scored after keen com- petition, climaxed the second day’s play in the fourth annual Cavalier bridge tournament at Virginia Beach, for the State championship. Inventors’ Output Drops. Patents granted to American in- ventors by Germany last year num- bered _ than half those of 1932. FARMER ADMITS DYNANITEDEATHS Wisconsin Man Used 40 | Pounds in Wiping Out Fam- | ily of 8, Police Told. ). announced Waszak, 54, farme slaying his wife and exploding 40 pounds today that had confessed S y John | CLOWILLENTER - NON-UNION TRADES Lewis’ Men Also to Bid for Workers “Not Cared For” by Their Unions. By the Associated Pracs The Committee for Industrial Or- ganization headed by John L. Lewis is going into every industry which has no labor organization or where ex- isting unions “‘are not taking care of their members.” This announcement was made yes- terday by John Brophy, C. I. O. di- rector, in answer to the new bid for supremacy in the labor feld by the American Federation of Labor. He said, however, that the C. I. O, had no intention of seeking a foothold in the building crafts or the railroad brotherhoods. Lewis and Brophy, renewing thelr titanic struggle with William Green, A. F. of L. president, over industrial and craft unionism, maintained strict silence on the five-State steel strike. They said Philip Murray, chairman of the Steel Workers' Organizing Ci mittee at Youngstown, Ohio, woul speak for them Brophy left here S I. O. headquarters e Pacific North- and a wood-cu to leave the A. P, join the Lewis forces. d a maritime convention in Portland next week. 20,000 May Quit. As Green prepared to create a new department of maritime unions to combat the Lewis movemen Bridges, West Coast presiden International Longshoremen's ciation, predicted 20,000 worke in his organization would quit federation if it ted | He and Brophy said they hoped & new C. I. O. national maritime asso= ciation would develop which would ene list support from both East and West Coast locals of the I. L. A Bridzes pledged his union's support rned red expulsion of Chi- ew York A. F. of L. unions ted with C. I. O, A. F. L. Shifting Ground. “That most certainly is no pected.” he s “It is only a teche nical expul because we have been | working tow different goals all | along.” “This $35.000 war chest the A. P. cago and affili April 18, A coroner’s repor! blast was accidenta reopened after Phyl of the two survivors, was arrested on another charge last Th 1ad said the the case was Test Breaks Him. ies then questioned Waszak, story given a t, Lowry said. They did, however, prevail upon him to subject himself to a test by the lie detector. Tests made at the Northwestern University crime laboratory indicated that he was lying when questioned concerning the blast, Lowry stated, and on his return to Waukesha he was examined again. Early Sunday morning he made a verbal confession admitting his guilt afternoon he 23-page confession, Lowry said. To Charye Murder, said Waszak admitted the 6-year-old dynamite from d to the coal bin of his home about a month before the explosion, having decided on wiping out his fam- The day of the b bittered because with the farm cho confessed, a he went to dynamite with st he became em- 0 one helped him Lewry said he after a short a; cellar and fitted caps. He ad Lowry declared, that he walked away “slowly in hopes it might get him, t0o0,” but he was 30 to 40 feet away when the blast sounded. Lowry said he would charge Waszak with first-degree murder today. 11 SAVED IN BOAT CRASH IN MARYLAND Coast Guardsmen Credited With Saving Lives at Ocean City. By the Associated Press. OCEAN CITY, Md., May 31.—Quick work by Coast Guardsmen from the Ocean City station was credited to- day with having saved the lives of | 11 members of a yachting party which came to grief in the pounding surf on | a jetty near here. “If it hadn't been for the Coast Guardsmen some of us would have drowned,” said Dr. Charles Law, owner of the 32-foot boat which crashed into the jetty yesterday after her steering gear broke. Dr. and Mrs. Law had been hosts to eight others during a short cruise into the ocean here. also was aboard. “The tiller rope broke as we were heading into the inlet,” Dr. Law said, “and we crashed into the north jetty, | bursting the bottom of the boat. “She was leaking so fast I ordered all to jump overboard, believing they could make it ashore, as we were not far out.” Dr. and Mrs. Law remained aboard with their son. Those who jumped were tossed against sharp rocks by the waves. The rocks were 30 slippery the swim- mers could not grasp them and only the arrival of the Coast Guard surf boat saved most of them. CENTRAL MEET GETS 33 MILWAUKEE, May 31 (#).—Mar- quette University athletic officials said today 33 schools had entered the central intercollegiate track and field | championships which will be held at Marquette Stadium next Friday. Big Ten teams registered are Chi- | cago, Ilinois, Indiana, Iowa, Purdue, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The I. C. 4-A is sending Pittsburgh, 1937 champion. Michigan State and Mar- quette also are listed among the con- testants. Other major entries include Notre Dame, Butler, Drake, Grinnell and North Dakots. London will have 1,000 trolley buses working by January i, 1938. signed a | Te- | Their year-and-a-half-old son ' of L. has been talking about doesn’t amount to anything” he said, “be= cause we've found by experience that amount would be inadequate. There's nothing new in their announcement about abandoning temporary eraft unions because they've been gradually ge! g over to our industrial type of unions for many months.” The A. F. of L, meeting in Cin- cinnat decided to raise $35,000 mon v in the fight against Lewis. C. I. 0. Claims Edge. C. I O. leaders expressed the opinion, meanwhile, the Supreme Court’s decision validating the Wagner labor act had sent the organization “away winging” in the Nationwide !'labor fight They claimed these advantages as both sides apparently settled down for & long struggle: 1. The Wagner act makes it diffie cult for A. F. of L. craft unions to win workers’ elections to determine & collective bargaining agency. 2. C. I. O. has approximately the same membership as its arch rival and claims to be ready to move ahead 3. Federation locals have been breaking away from the Green stande ard and have made overtures to the TWO IN PLANE DIE IN ALABAMA CRASH Insurance Firm Executive and Girl, 18, Killed as Craft Falls in Montgomery. Ey the Associated Press. MONTGOMERY, Ala, May 31.— Russell C. Luquire, Birmingham burial insurance company executive, and Miss Frances Williams, 19, of Montgomery, were killed yesterday when their airplane fell in downtown Montgomery. Luquire was 31. | The plane was rented at Montgom- ery Municipal Airport a short time | earlier, and Luquire was at the con- trols Witnesses said the plane was flying low as it approached the spot where it crashed, indica Luquire was in difficulty Screams of the woman, witnesses said, were audible on the ground The airplane fell in a small cleared space between two houses Axes were needed to chop the victims from the wreckage, a twisted mass of | metal and wires. Sarah Williams, sister of the 19~ year-old girl who died in the accident, was saved the same fate, she said, |“when we both wanted to go, but Russell suggested one of us had bet~ ter wait. I did.” 'MISSING AIRLINER LETTERS ARE FOUND Utah Villagers Gain Clue on Peak to Plane Lost December 15 With 7 Aboard. Br the Assoclated Press. ALPINE, Utah, May 31.—Weather= beaten letters, found several days ago, centered search for an airliner and its seven occupants—missing since December 15—upon this mountain vil- lage today. The Associated Press was told on good authority water stains had ob- literated the addresses on the letters but the postmarks were definitely those of mail carried by the lost craft. | Will Healy and Frank Bateman, Alpine residents, were credited with making the discovery on a peak over- | shadowing the town. The mail was taken to Salt Lake City, where Postal Inspector M. E. | Wenger admitted “we are working on some definite clues, but I can't tell you where or what they are.” Healy and Bateman returned to their Lone Peak base Saturday. Planes circled the vicinity the same day. Before resuming their search, the men told friends of ‘encountering snowdrifts 20 to 40 feet deep, clogging vault-like canyons where the wreck- age might lie. Half a foot of snow fell there yesterday. L ’ €