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A2 PRIESTS TOREPLY TONAZI CHARGES Church Roused by Goebbels Declaration Immorality Sets All-Time Mark. BACKGROUND— George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago remarked that Hitler was ~an Austrian paperhanger and a poor one at that” and that he and his ‘“‘crooked minister of propaganda” were spreading false tales of German Catholics. Ger- many protested to Washington and demanded “repudiation” from Holy See. Vatican refused: said car- dinal might exrpress own views. Reich severed relations with Vat- ~tiean. Br the Assoclated Prass BERLIN, June 5.—German Cathol- | feism, roused to action by the Nazi regime's charges of widespread im- among its priesthood and f fmllh' back tonight The church leaders of diocese sent a statement to their priests, with instructions that it be read from their pulpits tomorrow, to answer Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels' assertion the pres- | ent wave of Catholic immorality trials {s the worst in history It declared there are 25635 priests | in Germany, and only 538 are in-| volved in the charges of immorality, | less than one-fourth of 1 per cent The contents of the statement were not disclosed to the general public tonight and churchmen expected a record attendance of the faithful, anxious to hear their leaders break s silence they have maintained since Goebbels' speech. May 28, The statement issued to Berlin priests by the church authorities said, | in part: “The Reich's propaganda min- ister May 28 claimed it was not a question of individual cases, but of | general moral degeneration such as has not happened in the enti# cul- tural history of mankind to such an appalling extent. * * * | “In Germany there are more than | 100,000 male and female members | of lay congregations. How many of | them have been dragged into the present trials could not be determined exactly. However, from all German | dioceses, of 21,461 Catholic priests, 39 sre involved of these, 21 have been found guilty and the cases of 28 still | Are pending “ "Of priests belonging to orders, nine are involved, among whom only one has been found guilty.” Pope Pius in A message March 21 accused the German government of | violating the 1833 Reich-Vatican con- | cordat. which limited government and | church to separate fields. the Berlin NEW CLUES FOUND IN AIRLINER SEARCH Grove of Beheaded Trees, Frag- ment of Letter Push Re- ward Seekers. B the Associated Press. ALPINE, Utah, June 5—The wind howled a new storm warning high up on the mighty Lone Peak tonight A& searchers pushed on through drift- ed snow in an effort to solve “the mystery of the missing plane” Some professed belief it was only a | matter of hours until wreckage of the Wastern Air express transport and its seven occupants, lost since De- cember 15, would be found. Searchers, camped 5 milese above Alpine, concentrated on these new | clues | 1. An aspen grove through which | the il ted airiiner, swooping blind- I¥ in a December storm, apparently | cut a wide swath. 2. A fragment of another like six found previously, from the Jott transport. It was picked up near the beheaded trees. Snow banks, some 25 feet deep, be- low where the trees were sheared Pt were fruitlessly probed with wire and attacked with shovels. . Only fragments have been found. This. M. C. Wenger, Post Office De- Ttment inspector, theorized, may icate the craft struck with terrific pact, tearing open mail sacks, Tsting bundles. “Lured by the airline’s $1,000 re- | ward offer, scores of bikers trudged | But of this village, 25 miles south of | Balt Lake City, for week end hunts. | P letter, EE:WO BOYS DIE AS TRAINS = TRAP THEM ON BRIDGE Fouths Step Out of Path of One =% An Front of Another in Crossing Span. T the Associated Press, “WILLIAMSPORT, Pa.. June 5.— rapped between two trains on a lroad bridge today, John Wrench, and his brother, Robert, 11, were | led. “oRallroad officials said the boys, re- tyrning home from a swim, walked &eross a bridge spanning Lycoming Lfeek. They stepped out of the way ®of a freight train crossing the span ®ad did not see a passenger train en- Ting the bridge from the opposite ection. 2 Witnesses said the boys leaped from the footwalk against the freight ain, which hurled their bodies un- ¥r the wheels of the passenger loco- metive The bodies were dragged Aout 100 feet. 00 JAMES P. PEPPER, 73, - EXPIRES IN HOSPITAL = R Prominent Many Years in Repub- e e lican Circles in Northern Virginia. James P. Pepper, 73, for many years Prominent in Republican circles in Morthern Virginia, died in George- %own Hospital last night after an {ll- Bss of about 10 days. *¥Born in Illinois, he entered the vernment service in the Agricul- %iire Department and later transferred “y the Shipping Board. He was re- &ed three years ago after about 40 éars In the Government. +~-He was chairman of the Arlington Lounty Republican Committee for Any years, and for some time was e chairman of the Virginia Repub- {lgan State Committee. asgurviving are his widow, Mrs. Vir- ihia Pepper: a son, William E. Pep- | Obituary. | Educational Cross-word puzzle, | 1 D. C. store sales up. | Stock table, | Bond table, | historical Episcopal Parish. | estimated to be “in excess of $20.000" E..:nd two daughters, Mrz. Ida Moor and Mrs. E. D. Gothwaite. . Readers' Guide and News Summary The Sunday Star, June 6, 1937. PART ONE. Main News Section. FOREIGN. Diplomats try to get Italy and Ger- many back in patrol Page A-1 German Catholics to hear statement on Nazi charges. Page A-2 | NATIONAL. Republic Steel goes to court to free plants Page A-1 Vandenberg hits haste on wage-and- hour legislation Page A-1 8nell starts inquiry into Democratic fund-raising Page A-2 Leaders outline Congress objectives before adjournment Page A-2 Union speakers assail Ford at mass meeting. Page A-2 Roosevelt seeks assurance before offer- ing court compromise. Page A-4 Lumberjacks vote to end strike: repu- diate leaders Page A-5 | Change in House rules on fund ex- penditures considered. Page B-5 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. | Sewage system addition held required | by slaughter house. Page A-1 State’s attorney assails early closing | of Keene case Page A-1| Indefinite tax program faces indefi- | nite fate this week Page A-1 Grotto defeats Shrine in fleld day base ball feature Page B-1 | Stock issue authorized for proposed | doctors’ hospital. Page B-1 Federation asks 5-cent fare and cut in milk price Page B-1 - | Banquets and reception mark W. C. T. U. convention program. Page B-1 University of Maryland graduates hear | | Senator Tydings. Page B-2 SPORTS. War Admiral marely romps to annex classic Belmont. Page B-6 Peru running ace flies 4,500 miles for | Star’s race. Page B-6 Fischer gets bad start and Nats bow to Tribe, 8-6. Page B-7 Wheatley team carries off honors in | elementary meet Page B-8 Big D. C. fleet to figure in regatta | coming week end Page B-9 | | Louis plans to fight Schmeling next if | he beats champ. Page B-10 | French Trap scores upset in feature | at Charles Town. Page B-11 MISCELLANY. | | Washington Wayside Page A-2 | Lost and found Page A-3 Traffic convictions. Shipping news, Service orders. Vital statistics City news in brief. Page A-12 Page A-16 Page B-4 Civic news. PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editoria] articles Pages D-1-3 Editorials and comment. Page D-2 Military and veterans' news Women's clubs, Parent-teacher activities. Page D-4 Page D-5 Page D-6 Page D-6 Resorts. Page D-7 PART THREE. Society Section. Society news. Pagee E-1-9 Well-known folk. Page E-5 Barbara Bell pattern. Page E-9 PART FOUR. Feature Section. News features Pages F-1- John Clagett Proctor, Radio programs. Amusements. Dick Mansfield. Automobiles Children's page. PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Weather helps trade. Page G-1 Page G-1 Page G-1 Page G-2 Page G-3 Page G-4 Page G-5 Pages G-5-17 Retmi i VANDALS MUTILATE TRINITY CEMETERY Stones in Historic Episcopal Yard Desecrated Second Time in 24 Hours. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 5.—For the sec- | ond time in 24 hours, vandals stole into old Trinity Chureh’s Uptown Cemetery last night and desecrated graves of the aristocratic dead of the Page F-6 Page F-7 Stocks steady. Curb table. Stamps. Classified advertising. ——— Between 40 and 50 tombstones were uprooted, broken or otherwise mutilated, but feverish detectives, who had discovered two sets of foot- prints as their only apparent clue, said no attempt had been made to break into vaults. Thursday night, similarly wrecked. 150 graves were The damage was by the Rev. Dr. S. Tagart Steele, vicar of the nearby Trinity Chapel | of the Intercession. The cemetery, separated into two sections by Broadway and 155th street, is guarded by a 10-foot stone wall topped by iron grill work. The second episode was not dis- closed by ponce until tonight, NEAR- RIOT DISRUPTS DEMOCRATIC MEETING Police Called Out to Quell Dis- order at Cambridge, Mass., Convention. B> the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 5—A near-riot, precipitated by an order to adjourn, tonight disrupted the fifth annual convention of the Young Democrats of Massachusets at a hotel here. Panic-stricken at the sound of 400 delegates shouting over the adjourn- ment order of President William H. Hanify of Swampscott, the hotel man- agement called police. Two riot squads responded, but before they arrived Hanify had left the hall with his supporters and was holding & sidewalk convention. Meanwhile, those remaining in the convention hall elected Charles T. Brooks of South Boston convention chairman, and the session resumed. Hanify declared the rumpus started “because two or three Boston clubs were trying to run the convention.” Penny ngarettel Popnlu. Penny cigarettes are becoming the | Brotherhood of America. Inc | days, | founders, | “company | company | . | has been in effect since a widespread | strike ended February 11 and no move THE SUNDAY FORD ASSAILED AT UNION RALLY Effigy of Industrialist Be- side Nazi Swastika !s on Speakers’ Stand. BACKGROUND— United Automobile Workers of America, a C. I. O. affiliate, con- tinues intensive drive to organize workers in plants of Ford Motor Co. First eflorts a week ago re- sulted in the beating of wunion leaders and investigation by court. Since then repeated eflorts have been made to sign up workers, but apparently with little success. U. A. W. A. also has had trouble with members in plants of Gen- eral Motors, Chrysler ard Packard, where bargaining contracts are in force. Br the Associated Press. DETROIT., June 5.—Henry Ford | was assailed by speakers addressing a ! rally of members of the United Auto- mobile Workers of America today within sight of the Ford Motor Co.'s | Rouge plant. The meeting, part of the union's drive to enroll Ford workers, was held | as a protest against the beating of | U. A. W. A. members near the plant last week and as a challenge to the | formation of an “independent” group | by company employes. ; Homer Martin, international presi- | dent of the U. A. W. A, declared that the union would “drive Henry Ford out of business” and demanded that | the Federal Government “disarm the Ford arsenal and Ford thugs.” Described as Fascism. | An effigy of Henry Ford beside a| German Nazi swastika faced the au- | dience from the speakers' stand | The union chief described Ford's | labor policies as *fascism,” and, turn- ing to the effigy, said “If you stay in America, you are RoIng to go along with the American people.” Representative Maury Maverick, | Democrat, of Texas, said the union's campaign to organize Ford employes | is “the major surge of the workers'| movement of America” and said Ford | would be “stupid” not to line up with | the union. | “You can have as much brains and better leadership than the industrial leaders of this country.” the legi lator told the union auto workers Another U. A. W. A. outdoor rally at Flint tonight was postponed to t10- morrow night because of & thund.r- storm., { Rival Group Revealed. organization of the Ford . with & 7.000 members signed in two was revealed by one of the Byrd W. Scott, who said he has been & machinist at the Ford Co. | for 20 vears | Immediate charges of U. A. W. A. | leaders that the brotherhood was a union” were met by a from Scott that the D d no backing of any kind he company. H. Bennett, Ford personnel said he had no knowledge of the organization and intended to investigate, Scott said, “The organization was formed because we wanted an inde- pendent labor organization, one not affiliated with any national union.” He said the F. B. A. would seek to extend its activity to Ford plants in other parts of the country. Not Active During Hours, Soliciting of F. B. A. memberships during working hours. Scott said, had been discontinued “at the request of officials.” The brotherhood in tion fee of 50 cents. Scott said it has no dues, but each member may be assessed up to maximum of $1 a year o cover expenses Walter Reuther, president of the A. W. A. West Side Local which is active in the attempt to include Ford employes in the Committee for Industrial Organization affiliate, said of the brotherhood “Every other company has given birth to a company union when it knew the workers were beginning to organize in a legitimate labor or- ganization. * * * This move isn't go- ing to stop them from organizing in & real union.” The U. A. W. A called its mass meeting in Baby Creek Park today to protest against the beating and ejec- tion of union members who tried to distribute handbills at gates of the Ford company's River Rouge plant May 26. Reuther was one of 18 union- ists injured. To Distribute Letters. The union printed for distribution at the meeting an ‘“open letter” to Ford {from Martin, asserting the “Ford Motor Co. will never stop the workers in their God-given right to organize | against the terror and tyranny of institutions such as yours.” Bennett said 80.698 of the 82.064 workers employed at the huge rouge plant have voluntarily signed “loyalty” pledges stating “complete confidence and agreement with the policies of Mr. Henry Ford” and expressing hope they will be continued “without hindrance from any source.” Also assembled in Detroit were dele- gates from U. A. W. A. locals in Gen- | eral Motors plants throughout the country, meeting to frame demands | for revision of the union's agreement with that corporation. The agreement | The claim of charging an for revision can be made before June 11. A sudden wave of sit-down and “slow-down” strikes and shutdowns that made nearly 19,000 workers in several automotive plants idle yester- day appeared to have subsided. Employes in three units of the Chrysler Corp. here, in the small-car divi- sion of the Packard Motor Car Co., and in the Fisher Body and Pontiac Motor plants at Pontiac, Mich., were to report back to their jobs Monday, their disputes either settled or in process of negotiation. $20,000 IN GEMS LOST Disappeared During Short Walk From Bank, New Yorker Says. NEW YORK, June 5 () —Some- where between his office and a safe deposit box in the Marine Midland Trust Co., just around the corner, Jack Milner reported to police today, he lost diamonds valued at $20,000. Milner, a diamond merchant, said he went to the bank shortly before noon to get 21 small packets contain- ing unset diamonds. He placed them in a large envelope in his inside coat pocket, When he returned to his Nassau street office the envelope was missing. “I wasn't held up and I don't think my pockets were picked,” Milner told most popular smoke in Germany. > detectives ) STAR \\'ASHI Eight Years Mrs. Edith Brockman, a member of the waitresses’ union in who recently completed slightly more than consecutive picketing, planned to resume the work It was estimated that in her eight years St. Louis, vears of after a short vacation GTOX D. C, JUNE 19 7—PART ONE of Picketing | eight of picketing she earned a total of $9,440 at the rate of $1 an )mm —W:de Wr)rld thn DEMOCRATCFUND PROBE CONSIDERED Snell Stirred by Proposed Sale of Books to Corpo- rations at $250. An inquiry was begun yesterday by Representa Snell of New York, minority leader of the House, to de- termine whether he should offer a resolution f an estigation by Congress to determine if & fund-rais- ing plan of the Democratic National Committee was contrived to get around the 1925 The Republican leader said there had come into purported to be photostatic copies of a contract and a letter on the letter- | head of the Democratic National Commitiee’s New York headquarters advising corporations that the com- mittee may legally accept corpora- tion checks for copies of the 1936 campaign book autographed by Pres- ident Roosevelt. The books are be- ing offered at $250 a copy. Methods Are Questioned. is information came to me from t appear to be authentic sources,” Snell. “These papers are un- tood to be copies of a letter and contract used in selling the Presi- dent’s edition of the Democraic book of 1936. If further investigation sub- stantiates the authenticity of these documents, then I think Congress ought to look into the methods and procedure of replenishing the Demo- cratic campaign fund.” Snell added that if he was salis- fied that Lo whi said for obtaining campaign contributions from corporations in violation of the | spirit, if not the wording. of the rnrrum practices act he would offer a ' corrupt practices act of | his possession what | the Democratic National | Commitiee was sanctioning a scheme | parachute jumper, fell 500 feet to his | | resotution for vestigation Snell insisted that section 313 of w the corrupt practices act of 1925 clear- Iy was intended to make it illegal for any corporation to contribute to the campaign fund of any political party. Statement “Amazing."” Republicans on Capitol Hill said they were amased at what appeared o be an admission by a spokesman for the Democratic Committee that ale of the campaign book would ena- ble the committee legallv to accept | corporation checks that normally could | not be received without running afoul of the corrupt practices act The purported letter assures the re- cipient that it is legal for the com- mittee to accept corporation checks for the campaign books and adds that this is the way all of the companies who are assisting the commiftee are handling such expenditures. The campaign book which is now being offered as “The President's Edi tion of the Democratic Book of 1936 is the same book that the thousands to Democratic support- erz at the Democratic National Con- vention in Philadelphia for $250 a copy. The President's edition. how- ever, leather and autographed by the Presi- dent. The committee undertakes to stamp the name of the purchaser in gold lettering The National Committee apparently | considered the possibility that pur- chasers of more than one of the cam- paign books would not care to keep all of them. For the contract pro- vides that the “subscriber may turn over to the committer such books as he does not desire for ribution by them as they see fit.” Thus it would be possible to offer the same book for sale several times. (Copyright. 1837 New York Herald-Tribune.) & congressional in- Parachute Jumper Killed. DETROIT, June 5 (#).—Claude L. De Geer, 39, of Detroit, an amateur death at an amusement park here today when his parachute failed to open after he leaped from a balloon. Al Smith and Mussolini Talk 15 Minutes—Most of It Secret By the Associated Press. ROME, June 5—Al Smith talked | to Benito Mussolini today but what | they said is tentatively stored away | under Al's brown derby. The former Governor of New York came from Florence to see Il Duce. They talked in English for 15 minutes. “We banged it off 50-50," Al said later. “I interviewed him half the time and he interviewed me half the time. We each had a batting aver- age of .500.” But what Al seid to Benito and | vice versa is still pretty much of a secret “I'm going to write about that my- self.” Smith said. Al did say he told the premier he still treasured the autographed pho- | tograph Mussolini sent him in 1924. Asked whether he gave the Fascist salute when he entered Il Duce's Wage-Hour Bill Forum Topic SENATOR BLACK TO EXPLAIN PROPOSAL Senator Hugo L. Black. Democrat, of Alabama will discuss the proposed minimum wage and maximum hours labor law in the National Radio Forum tomorrow at 9:30 pm. The forum is arranged by The Star and broadcast over the network of the National Broadcasting Co. Senator Black is chairman of the Senate Committee on Education and Labor and is the sponsor of a new bill designed to protect the laboring classes from “starvation wages’ and oppressive working conditions. Long an advocate of the short work wee, Senator Black in the past has suggested even a 30-hour work week, Senator Black in the exceptions. The present bill has the support of President Roosevelt and his ad- visers on social legislation. Under. terms of the bill, there would be created a National Board of Labor Standards to administer far-reaching provisions of the act. Senator Black will explain the various details of the proposed law to the radio sudience, ) | great office, Smith replied: “T don't knnw what I did. That | escaped me." | Mussolini asked him about condi- { tions in America, Smith said, but | what reply he gave he did not disclose. | Tl Duce also asked him how he was | enjoying Ttaly, “You've got & gorgeous country.” Questioned on whether Mussolini talked peace, Smith again promised he would write about that. He did | say, however, that the premier talked good English. “It was good enough for me to un- derstand, and I don't pretend to be any scholar.” After the interview, Mussolini ac- | companied him to the door of the | office, and Smith introduced him to Eugene I. Garey of New York. Al was scheduled to leave Rome | for Milan tonight. was sold by ! is a de luxe edition, bound in | and Smith rephed:i SENATOR BLACK, CONGRESS FACES EXTENDED STAY 'House Leaders Chart Aims ! for Rest of Session With Roosevelt. Es the Associated Press. House chiefs looked over the legisla- tive slate with President Roosevelt yesterday and returned to the Capi- tol with predictions that Speaker Bankhead and House Ma- Jority Leader Rayburn described the Congress | | probably would be In session until late | Summer. President as anxious for Congress to act before adjournment on: Revamping the Supreme Court, f®- organizing governmental agencies, set- | ting wage and hour standards, plan- | ning conservation of water, soil and power resources, aiding farm tenants, building low-cost dwellings, closing loopholes used by tax dodgers and ex- tending nuisance taxes. “Mr. Roosevelt,” Bankhead said | “didn’t insist on anything being passed but urged that we try to get all these | first, mAtters through as soon as possible.” “I think we'll be here maybe until | the end of August,” Rayburn re- marked. Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. AGES HAT fellow with the gleam in his eye has been here again, dishing out statistics like mad, | this time about a trick system for guessing the age of your friends acquaintances and enemies. If you can make an original guess that is within nine years of the correct figure | application of the system is supposed to guarantee precise results. So hold on, pals, while we instruct you in one more Way to become & parlor terror, Have the victim set down any num- ber he pleases of five or more digits | Tell him to jugele the digits around “I'm somewhat of a pessimist on | adjournment,” the Speaker said, “but I certainly hope to be in Alabama on | Labor day.” Additional Plans Limited. Planning and conservation legisla- | night Congressional leaders said thev looked for no more major suggestions for legislation this session The Roosevelt proposal to add five Justices to the Supreme Court unless mrumb«nu past 70 retire remained th big hurdle in the path to adjourn- | ment. Bankhead and Rayburn said they discussed it only generally at the White House, The House leadership decided to seek action on the two tax features of the legislative program this week | Chairman Doughton and Representa- tive Vinson, Democrat, of Kentucky of the Ways and Means Commitee discussed them yesterday with Mr Roosevelt Probably Tuesday the House will act on a Senate-approved resolution to investigate tax dodgers. Amendments to restrict publicity and the use of Treasu, employes may necessitate further Senate consideration Vinson said legisiation to close up the gaps which permit avoidance of taxes probably would be sought with- out waiting for completion of the inquiry Postal Resolution Due. A resolution 1o extend ‘nuisance” taxes and the 3-cent postal rate for two years will come up Thursdav. A return to 2-cent postage. the admin- istration estimated. would cost upward of $100.000.000 in revenue and failure o continue the nuisance levies would shut off more than $500.000.000 of income The latter taxes apply to such arti- cles as automobiies, gasoline. furs, electricity, matches, chewing gum and radios. The situation with regard to the rest of the program, as House leaders see 16, is this 1. Consolidation and reorganization of Government agencies. Senator Robinson is working on a new bill which may help to compose some con- gressional differences. 2. Farm tenancy. Legislation prob- ably will provide for a $10.000.000 ex- perimental system the first year and authorize $25.000.000 the second vear and $50,000,000 for ten years there- after 3. Low cost housing. The Treasury and sponsors of legislation are in dis- pute over financing provisions. A smaller program than that proposed by Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York Is likely. Wagner's bill provides for a $50,000.000 appropriation each year for four gears and a $1,000.000,000 | bond issue. Minimum Pay Plans Urged. 4. Wages and hours. fix minimum wages and maximum hours for interstate industries prob- ably will be enacted before the end | of the session. The Senate and House Labor Committees are holding joint hearings on it now. 5. Conservation and power authori- ties. Bankhead said “there may be such a row on that nothing will get through.” | tion was the only addition yesterday | to & program disclosed by Senate Ma- | | Jority Leader Robinson after a con- | ference at the White House Thursday | A measure to | ! | A bill by Senator Norris, Independ- ent, of Nebraska would set up cor- porate conservation authorities and regional agencies would fix power rates. A bill by Representative Mans- field, Democrat, of Texas, would create regional planning agencies and cor- porate regional power authorities, with the Federal Power Commission de- termining power rates. The planning is to cover flood con- trol, soil erosion, navigation, droughts and allied problems. SHIPPING TIED UP BY OMAHA STRIKE | 8,000 Out in Truck, Dockhand! Walkout—1.500 Ve- hicles Idle. B¥ the Axsociated Press. OMAHA, Nebr., June 5.—Thousands of dollars worth of merchandise, con- signed to points throughout the Mid- die West, in cold storage tonight, tied up by a city-wide strike of drivers, helgers and dock hands. The strike also has partly paralyzed Omaha trucking. Officials of the union to which the strikers belong, an American Federa- tion of Labor affiliate, declared a general strike of truckers within the city, preventing delivery of milk, gro- ceries and other perishable commod:- ties, would be attempted unless freight truck lines doing interstate business signed closed shop agreements by Monday. Virgil Floyd, Joliet, Ill., an organizer for the union, the International Brothi- erhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America, announced tonight a concerted move- ment had been started in Iowa, Ne- braska, Kansas and Missouri to stop movement of live stock in trucks until the strike is settled. An effort would be made, he said, by placing pickets on all leading high- ways to the terminal markets at Omaha, Kansas City and St. Joseph, | Mo, to induce live stock truck drivers | | & straight jacket and a police ambu- | him a ride to the nerest clothing store. to refrain from working. He estimated 6,000 men had joined in the walkout since it started last night. He placed the number of trucks idle {n Omaha at 1,500, ¢ lay on loading docks or | somehow 50 that the second figure is less than the first. Tell him to sub- tract the second sequence from the | result. LAl Presume that the first wrote was 789 523.461. Juggle and re- duce it to 523,164,987. Subtract the second from the first and get 266,358~ 474 Now suppce2 that the person's age 24. That number added to the above g us 266358498, Add up the digits in the figure and you get 51. By looking at the subject, it is rossible to see that 51 is not correct Subtract 9. and you have 42. This obviously is wrong take away 9 more. You get 33. Here you believe vou are close. but not close enough Subtract another 9, the res This seems in the rig obviously would be too vo: Say “Twe right. If ¥ within 9 vears each t be right teo Personally a look at the number he s0 ou're we'd birt - * CENSUS SPEAKING of ages. as we certainly were. the people who the truth to the census workers back in 1900 may go forth reioicing now, for the business of for F. O. A B. pension claims is much simplified for them The records of the 1890 census would have been more desirable for this job, from the Government's point 1 hem were de- r messed up in A fire vea stored in basement the old Commerce Building Business of transferring 32.000.000 names from census portfolios was done in St. Louis under the direction of & Mr. Gerald Ryan, who should by now know the exact meaning of the Holly- wood term ‘“colossal.” In writing the cards, which give the name, sex, color, family relationships, citizen- rather just ask for 1 certificate, told ship and birthplace of the citizenry, | some two billion separate items were transcribed. About 2.500 clerks worked 7 hours a dayv for more than a year at the task, while 500 others acted as supervisors or handled suptlies Today all the cards are in the new Commerce Building in 1,200 fireproof cabinets, which 1f piled upon top of one another would make a stack four times as high as the Empire State Building. .filled with a darned sight more people Despite the incredible number of items filed, a clerk can fip out your personal card quicker than a magician can jerk a ra out of a hat, or as fast as you can sav Jack Robinson that hapyens to be yo you chance to wander around among the name files very long. you'll prob- ably get a fair idea of your personal importance in the scheme of things it r name. Sould in the United States of America. Very | good for vour perspective—or bad for it—depending upon how you think about these matters. * % SLIPS. This may not come under our department, eractly, but a lady correspondent has informed us rather angrily that the manufac- turers of “slins” (laughingly known as petticoats when we were girls have failed to take notice of the fact that dresses are shorter this season. Result, chronic cases of slips showing beneath the hems of milady's Summer frocks. She thought something ought to be one about it, as the girls are get- ting fed up. So do we. * ox ox x DESHABILLE. x "THE sequence of these stories may | counsel, had had him brought on not be quite right, please. Not long ago we had a yarn about & mighty Viennese Don Juan who went whipping off on a crusade of amour without discovering that he had put the wrong trousers—a pair much too small for him—in his luggage Hearing of this a certain famed but skip it, Washington chemists came forth re- | cently with a similar incident in his otherwise sedate life—similar, that is, SemaTuneh in a small way. ’5 EIY o { Cieter Seems he had ~ompleted a lecture tour in the Midwest, and took a train one night in Chicago, bound for Philadelphia. Having shipped - his trunks ahead, he had only one suit with them, and he turned that over to the porter to be pressed overnight. Next morning he rang for the porter, who came around, but said he couldn't find the suit. for the conductor, who said my oh my, the Pittsburgh. Said he'd fix everything. however by wiring ahead to Phila- delphia. The conductor thereupon sent & wire, saying “Man on board without pants, be ready.” Everybody was ready, all right, including a squad of policemen with Jance, who waited to take the crazy man off the train. When the situation was explained to them; they told the professor to ¢ They called | valet car had ben dropped at| EARHART PLANE EROOMED FORSEA Aviatrix Pauses at Brazilian Port to Prepare for Ocean Hop. BY AMELIA EARHART. | Special Dispatch to The Siar and add his own age to the | | Several FORTALEZA, Brazil, June 5 —In= stead of pushing on to Natal on our | flight around the world, as we had planned, we decided to make the final preparations for the South Atlantic hop here Pan-American Airwaye offers excellent mechanical service and Capt. Macedo, in charge of the airport, has put all facilities at our disposal While everything working well, the plane requires a thorough inspec= tion before undertaking such a long hop. and an oil change. greasinz. in- spection of landing year, gas and oil lines, etc. I shopped this morning for sponge rubber to replace some weare ing on the cockpit hatch. The best part of the purchase was that I was | not allowed to pay for it. Capt. Pred Noonan, my navigator, and I cleaned house while the men worked on the plane. We repacked all spares, sent back home the maps used so far, washed the engine and propeller covers and sorted what ws | had accumulated in the last few davs, | including everything from a gift pine- apple to calling cards. Navigator Buys Overalls. Another purchase was overalls for Capt. Noonan. He was measured for them at 11 oclock in a shop where 10 or more women sat at sewing ma- chines, ready to pounce on the cloth s soon as it was cut. By afternoon he was properly garbed to do any kind of manual labor, I had brought my own suit along Fortaleza is one of two cities in Brazil which is laid out with straight streets, The water front is interesting. I saw the fishermen returning with the day’s calch in catamarans. Most of them are very small, consisting of logs bound together, with a large three-cornered sail. The men ven- ture as far out as miles and are famous for their skil in handling. Yarge, rount. hand-made baskets, lashed to the masts were the usual containers for the fish. Sale of the wares began as soon as”tha boats beached and rolled back under palm trees which line the ghore, Women Carry were the Loads on Heads. The skill of the fishermen their field not more than that of the women whom I saw balancing loads deftly on their heads while they paced along with large bundies or baskets with of bread The only venience seems to be their to turn their heads quickly if anye thing worth looking at passes. The custom appears to aid the carriage and seems altogether sensible 1 “went st” and took pictures of burros loaded with produce and human beings. They wear an ingeni- ous combination of pannier and saddle, and carry staggering loads, is not meant to imply tha$ is not modern. Busses, street cars and automobiles abound next to oid-style buildings roofed with weathered tile. New typrs of architecture are beginning to appear in many churches and schools. Boys in school. I noticed, were dressed in uniforms resembiing the military, and girls were .n blue and red skirts with white blouses. While there were other uniforms, these seemed to precominate. I shall dislike leaving tomorrow. However, the plane is ready and we plan to start for Natal early, for, if the weather is promising, we might try to take off the same day lor Dakar, Freiach West Africa (Copyright, 1837.) CONVICTED KOREAN COMMITS SUICIDE Leaps From Court Building as Counsel Preperes Ap- peal. he Associated Press. | YONKERS, N. Y. June 5.—While | his attorney was preparing an appeal | argument at his el>ow, Chang 800 | Lee. Korean houseboy convicted of | poisoning two Mooresville, Ind., rela- | tives of his wealthy employer, shed Oriental blandness in a flash today and leaped eight floors to his death, He landed on a concrete wall | A moment before, handcuffs had been removed from the diminutive, 40-vear-old domestic who last March started to serve a Sing Sing sentenca of from 2'; to 5 years for attempted murder of Mr. and Mrs. Georre | Reeves He jumped from the chambers cf Supreme Court Justice Sidney A. yme, where Charles D. Lewis, his loaves incon- inabiliry Fos | habeaus corpus in his trial The former employe of Mrs. Ida Churchill, aged widow, had exhausted his lifetime savings in his defense The prosecution claimed he had secreted poison in her relatives’ food | because he regarded them as an ine terference to the substantial inheri- tance he had expected from Mrs, | Churchill. Neither of the victims has | fully recovered from the partial paralysis that resulted At the trial, Chang said he had no relatives. His body was still une claimed mmgm MINERS’ BODIES FOUND Both Crushed to Death in Cave-in in Iron Workings. ELY, Minn, June 5 (#)—A relief rescue crew, digging since early this morning, late today reached the body of Tony Kramer, second of two miners buried last night in a cave-in 1300 feet underground in the Pioneer “A" iron mine here. Like that of his partner, John Kavach, 46, found this moming, Kramer's body, buried in mucky ore, was badly crushed. ¥rit alleging errors Teachers Flee Parents. PLENITSA, Rumania, June 5 (#) school teachers here were obliged to flee from angry parents bee cause 12 children drowned when » school picnic boat capsized today on | Lake Werbita. e — hop in the ambulance and they'd give They never did believe that stuff about the valet ear, however. Just marked him down as another absent-minded professor. ’