Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1937, Page 4

A—4 « B0YSEOTS F 2 HATONS N ROUTE Two Netherlands Members First to Arrive for Jamboree. The vanguard of some 400 Boy | Scouts from 24 foreign nations is en | route to Washington for the National | Boy Scout Jamboree to be held here; June 30 to July 9. 1 Two Scouts from the Netherlands were the first of the foreigners to| srrive in this country for the big cele- | bration, which is expected to bring more than 25,000 boys and thrice that | number of grown-ups to the Capital | over the 10-day period. Two South American Scouts have entered the country from another direction—and on foot. This was dis- closed last night by Linn C. Drake, | Seout executive, who has received word that the hiking Scouts are headed toward Washington from Tennessee. The South Americans, whose names and home countries were not avail- | able last night, have been walking in easy stages toward the jamboree center for many months. Drake said | they had to cut their way through Jungle undergrowth in an earlier stage | of ‘the long trek. They bear letters to | President Roosevelt | The Dutch boys landed in New York | CHty last Thursday from the cargo | Presto! but always new to those who many Boy Scouts who helped men, merchants and manufact work quicker than their eyes can see. THE SUNDAY And Magician Charles W. Townsley pulls a white bunny out of the Boy Scout hat of William Moyer. delighted and surprised at this trick which is as old as magic William was like to see the magician’s hand William was one of the deliver to Washington business urers yesterday appeals for pur- chase of tickets to the series of magic performances to be staged at the thional Theater the week of June 14 for the benefit of STAR, WASHINGTON, Chango! Scout Leonard Broider is just as Magician Townsley Leonard’s bright necktie. The rabbdit, the hat and William are gone. D. C, JUNE 6, 1937—PART ONE. And surprised at the sleight-of-hand uses to draw a handful of cards from The pictures were taken at the National Education Building, where the Scouts assembled with Mrs. Walter Fry, president of the District P.-T. A. Team captains and their workers, representing the 15,000 school mothers of the P.-T. A, will begin tomorrow the ticket sale drive designed to raise $10,000 for the committee's work. Townsley will direct the District Parent-Teacher Association Student Aid Committee. the shows. —Star Staff Photos. ship Black Condor, whicheleft Antwerp, Belgium, May 22. - Rover and Rover Squire. “They are Jef L. M. Heroid, 25, & rover Scout of Utrecht and a student ai the University of Amsterdam, and | Hans J. Wouterlood, 18, a rover squire 8cout of Bussum. Holland. The latter | 1 8 high school graduate who has | ambitions of becoming Jjournalist. “ Herold and Wouterlood will collab- d¥ate in writing their American ex- | periences for a group of provincial newspapers in their native land. They Will write also for a travel magazine, stressing motorized trailer life and canoeing activities in the United States, s and measures office The House itself rejected two months ago lapguage recommended by its committee to transfer admin- istrative control over public hospitals from the Welfare Board to the Health Department, appropriation the money the hospitals to operate | Welfare Board it undoubtedly will | transfer the necessary operating | money back to the welfare appropri- ation. Followed the House. The Senate also will restore Souvenirs for “Swap.” funds for salaries and expenses of The boys brought with them three | the Department of Vehicles, which Tirs of wooden shoes and six pairs of ' were dropped out entirely in the miniature wooden shoes, with a view to | House as a result of the defeat of & ‘Ewapping” them at the jamboree for |rider intended to transfer this ex- such souvenirs of America as cowboy | pense from the general fund to the peraphernalia and other articles pe- gasoline tax fund. Quiiar to this country. A similarswap-| In a majority fest will be held for the benefit of all | helieved the foreigners intent on taking Amer- igan souvenirs back to their homes. . D.CBill (Oontinued From First Page.) of the Senate Subcommittee the Commission‘rs and other Dis- trict officials on disputed items. The proposal to have the Federal Government meet a fixed share of the expenses of the higher courts of the District is a recognition of the contention, frequently advanced in | past studies of the fiscal relations an | problem, that because Washington is the seat of government, a sub- stantial part of the work of these courts is national in character. favoring and others opposing additional $1,000,000 for relief. | * The subcommittee is said to have | thcluded a new provision under which | the Federal Government would bear ® definite percentage of the cost of malntaining the United States District Qourt and the United States Court of Appeals, based on the percentage of | Purely Federal litigation as distin- | guished from local court business, hile the percentage ratio for each urt and other details have not Been made public, adoption of this | principle may save the District some- Where near $150,000 to be applied to |the President in a press conference #s many other obligations. Friday on the Supreme Court, and ¢Funds to start construction of a |his strictures in regard to the court's rew bridge across the Anacostia River | having adjourned last Tuesday for &t Pennsylvania avenue southeast, are ! fours months. McCarran said: “The understood to have been included, in | Supreme Court made & great mistake Court (Continued From First Page.) being forced through by the adminis- tration. Bqth Senator McCarran and Sena- tor Burke resented the attack made by mlace of the $40.000 allowed by the |when it adjourned; it should have | House to repair the old structure. gone fishing instead.” Senator Burke “ School building items were revised | said that probably by tomorrow a bill to bring the amounts for colored and | would be introduced in the Senate de- white schools closer to the ratio of nying the Supreme Court the right white and colored children in the | (o take such a long vacation. public school system. It is understood | is such a bill.” he said, “there will be two reductions were made in White | another to eliminate presidential fish- | 6¢hool construction items in arriving | jng trips.” at this adjustment. During the hear- | senator Robinson of ings a delegation representing various | pemocratic leader of the Senate, who colored organizations contended that | conferred with the President for reductions in the House gave the |y, hours Thursday night on the eolored school divisions only 17.7 per | court bill and then indicated that a cent of the construction program, al- compromise might be sought, was out though those divisions have approxi- ‘ of the city over the week end. How- but left in the health | If the Senate decides | to leave administrative control in the | the | instances it is | | has followed the recommendations of | | chance now of a compromise measure | “If there | Arkansas, | | ment if that was the intention of the administration. Situation Much Changed. A month or two ago the President, | might have had comparatively smooth sailing with the court bill. Today the situation is much changed, with | those Senators who had offered com- promises unwilling now to support them, Senator McCarran, for example, | offered & compromise calling for the appointment of two additional judges. He is' adamant against any compro- mise now that looks to an increase in the size of the court. Senator Borah of Idaho, staunch foe of the court bill, said yesterday he was opposed to any scheme which gives, or tends to give, political control over the courts. He charged that for years the judges of the lower courts | have been picked by political machines. He said that Congress could do the people a favor by removing the court further and further from political control of the Government. Norris May Offer Amendment, 1t is expected that when the court bill is brought before the Senate, Senator Norris of Nebraska will offer as an amendment his proposal to make it impossible for the Supreme Court to hold an act of Congress unconsti- tutional except by a 7-2 vote or more. ‘The Nebraska Senator is the author, too, of a proposed amendment to the Constitution which would provide for the appointment of all Federal judges, including the Supreme Court, for & specified period of years. Such an amendment, he believes, would make the judges much more responsible and responsive to the wishes of & majority of the people than they are now, when they are appointed for life. Pos;(.)f f i(;a not been normal functions prior to the occurrence of strikes.” Donaldson said there is no specific question of food deliveries in strike- bound areas. “The policy of the department.” he said. “is to avoid taking sides in any strike or riot. These strikes are | different from anything we have had before. There is no basis of com- | parison for these shut-in plants and | sit-down strikes. I wouldn't say that | we've ever had a situation like this before | “In the past we have refused de- | | liveries into flood areas or riot areas had he been willing to compromise, | post office regulation bearing on lhe’ | | business license office to the weights = himself would not support the amend- | we were trying to run a ‘whizzer’ on | them. Of course, we were not. It wouldn't be beneficial to the strikers or any one else if a mail employe | should be killed while delivering mail.” Under postal regulations, he added, postmasters are required to inquire as to the nature of packages sent through | the mails. In case of evasive or ap- parently untruthful enswers, he said, the packages would be examined by postal authorities. | Donaldson added he has received | | no complaints from any civilian or postmaster in the strike area. After receiving complaints that strikers were examining the mails, he said, he made a personal check and found the com- plaints were groundless. Since the strikes began, Donaldson | said, there has been a large increase in demand for mail deliveries of food | in some of the strike areas. said, was because the steel companies, | | and notably the Republic Steel Corp., had been unable to contract with | trucking firms to take supplies through the picket lines. Recalls Other Examples. Donaldson recalled other instances | in which the Post Office Department has stood on its policy of “neutrality” and refused to undertake “abnormal deliveries or irregular services. Dur- | ing the General Motors strike, early | this year, he said, the wife of & “sit- down” striker in Flint, Mich., tried to send a food package to her husband in the plant by special delivery. The | Post Office Department refused to accept the package for the same rea- son that it is now refusing to accept food for delivery into & picketed plant. | | In another case, he added, a Phila~ | delphia department store, during a | strike of truck drivers, wanted from the store. A postal substation was in the store, but during the strike the department refused to accept from this substation any abnormal quanti- ty of outgoing parcel post represent- ing goods that ordinarily would have gone by truck. It accepted these extra | shipments only when they were carried to an outside postal station by em- | ployes of the store. Donaldson said & similar policy was followed for the first time during & strike in Portsmouth, Ohio, about seven months. Typewriter in 1714. The world’s first successful type- | writer, Remington's, was made in this | country in 1875; but England has record of & patent taken out by one | Henry Mill, back in 1714, for an ap- paratus “for impressing and trans- scribing of letters singly or progres- sively one after another, so neat and This, he | the department to handle deliveries direct | AIRLINER CRASHES: SESCAPEINIRY Plane’s Wing Hits Speaker’s Stand Near Pittsburgh Airport Building. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH June 5 —Fifteen persons escaped injury tonight in the crack-up of a Transcontinental & Western air transport at Allegheny | County Airport, | | A wing of the Douglass plane | struck a speaker’s stand near the air- | port administration building. More than a score of persons waiting for the ship’s arrival saw the crash Airport ing wheel had apparently just before the ship settled Jack Zimmerman, the pilot, said: | “I had landed the ship when I heard a sharp crack in the rear end. The plane started to curve to the left. I used the left motor to try to straighten the ship up, but it failed. “When I saw I couldn't make it, I tried to ground-loop (spin the ship). I would have made it if it hadn't been for that speaker’'s stand. The stand had been built for an air derby at the field tomorrow. The left wing of the tri-motored plane was badly damaged “Skip” Kimball, the co-pilot, sai “The passengers weren't much dis- turbed.” Jammed AIRLINE HEAD ABOARD. Two Theatrical People Among Pas- sengers on Plane. NEW YORK, June 5 (& .—Two prominent theatrical people and the president of the T. W. A. Airlines | were among passengers who escaped injury when a T. W. A. plane cracked up landing at Pittsburgh tonight An incomplete passenger list given out by the Transcontinental & West- ern air office here included Leland | Hayward, theatrical agent and hus- oand of Actress Margaret Sullavan; Erin O'Brien-Moore, movie actress, | and Jack Frye, the line president. Other passengers who boarded the plane at New York, and whose ad- dresses were not known, were: Frank Alvarado, Leo Herman, a Miss Wol- man, Paul Ortega, Paul Beckner, officials said a rear land- | ROOSEVELT SEEKS COURT ASSURANCE Leaders Feel He Favors Compromise That Would Carry. BY JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt would readily agree to a compromise on his Supreme Court proposal if he could be sure such a course would remove the present well-organized oppositjon in the Sen- ate, congressional leaders feel, Mr. Roosevelt has been a political battler long enough to know that Sen- ate opposition is well intrenched and numerically strong enough to defeat him if his original proposal is brought to & vote any time soon. Mr. Roosevelt's nature and manner of combat is to be able at the start to sense victory or at least be sure of some sort of glory in defeat. There- fore, while he has been listening to his counsellors on Capitol Hill urging com- promise, and has indicated he would compromise, he is hesitating because he has no assurance that the lowering of his battle flag would in any sense appease that determined group in the Senate which has been so vigorously opposing his original proposal. What would be the sense in sur- rendering to a compromise, he rea- sons, if he is not certain that this compromise proposal will not be fought Jjust as hard and diligently as was the original proposal.? Mind May Be Changed. Up until & few days ago such a thing as a compromise was decried at the White House. But since Sen- ator Joe Robinson of Arkansas, Dem- ocratic leader of the Senate, inti- mated strongly after a long talk with the President Thursday night that a compromise might be possible, {and since the President himself at| his most recent press conference parried all questions on the sub-| Ject, there is reason to feel that he has changed his mind. Representative Sam Rayburn of | Texas, Democratic leader in the House, strongly intimated yesterday after & conference with the President | | that the thought of a compromise | is in the President's mind. Just what the President’s ultimate | | course will be is now uncertain, but | |in political circles the feeling is | that in the end there will be some- thing in the form of a compromise | and that ultimately the President | will bring about what might be de- scribed as a substantial court re- | form. Counting on Opinion. Mr. Roosevelt is counting heavily |on public opinion. Not only is he | convinced that there is a great need for court reform, but he is convinced that the country believes as he does. There are those who feel the Presi- dent does not want his court proposal | |to come up for a vote immediately, | |but would rather postpone matters. | Some say he has proposed a recess | | of & couple of months to give him | | time to bolster up his forces and make isufflmenl appeal to the country at large to bring sufficient support for complete victory—at least to make it poesible for him to come out of it all with some glory and not igno- miny. For the time being, however, the original court enlargement proposal is being given a place on the list of preferred legislation to be put through at the present session of | Congress. Both Senate Leader Rob- inson and House Leader Rayburn have made a place for this proposal in the program which they will fol- low for the remainder of the session. .. Will Speak at Warrenton. ‘WARRENTON. Va, June 5 (Spe- cial).—BEar] Godwin, radio speaker and | member of the staff of the Washing- | ton Times, will address the Northern Virginia League of Democratic Women Woman and Child, Feared in Bus Fire, Are Safe in Oregon REDDING, Calif, June 5.— Authorities expressed doubt today that a woman and her child per- izhed in the bus accident which killed sever. men near here yes- terday, after the safety of Mrs. Cordy Sunderman and her daugh- ter had been determined in Medford, ;Oreg. Mrs. Sunderman said she and her child were passengers on the bus as far as Redding, where they changed. The bus she left overturned and was consumed by flames. JAPANESE GROUP COMING TUESDAY Economic Mission Will Visit | Departments and Meet President. A Japanese economic mission that has been in this country for the last | month will arrive here Tuesday night for & two-day stay, in which the mem- | bers will be received by President Roosevelt. v SCOUTFETF OPEKS Litl 13 Patrols Hike to Dunlsp Farm for Annuai Camporee. Bs a Stafl Correspondent ot The Star. CABIN JOHN, Md, June 5—Thire teen patrols arrived on foot this after= noon for the annual camporee of | Montgomery County Boy Scouts, held on the Dunlop Farm between here and Potomac. In accordance with custom, each patrol is permitted to bring only such equipment as the members can carry on their hike to the camp grounds. District Scout Commissioner Paul T. Hannen was in charge of ar rangements. The patrols, which were from troops in Bethesda, Cabin John, the Baptist Home, Rockville, Somerset and Chevy Chase, competed during the afternoon for the rating of “standard camporee patrol.” Members of each patrol scor= ing & rating of 500 out of 600 points will be entitled to wear the insignia of standard camper. Ratings are based on personal inspection, camp- craft, scoutcraft, which includes pack appearance, construction and water- proofing, camp sanitation and ar- The mission, headed by Chokyuro | rangement, cooking and many other phases of scouting. Ratings will be Kadono, executive director of the | announced at the Scout Court of Japan Economic Federation of Tokio, | Honor at Bethesda next Saturday. is discussing with business men com- The night program included camp- mercial questions of mutual concern | fire stories by Frederick Stuart, music to their own and this Nation. The|by Larry Pettis and “stunts” staged visitors also are going into Canada, by the various patrols. Judges were from New York, which they reached | J. P. Hovey, field executive, and H. L. several days ago by easy stages from | Maze, assistant, both of Washington, 8an Francisco through the South and | The camporee will end tomorrow Midwest. | morning &t 10 o'clock On Wednesday morning the Japa- The patrol leaders participating nese will be received first by Secretary | ¥ere Fred Kraft, William Kerr and of Commerce Roper, and then by Sec- | Frank Seward, Bethesda; Richard retary of State Hull. - In the after- | Rawdon and Richard Armstrong, noon they will be guests at a garden | Cabin John; Robert White, Baptist party at the Roper home, and that HOme; Willlam Veazey, William Tal night will be entertained informally | 0t and Warren Fisher, Rockville; at dinner by the Japanese Ambassador. | Robert Rickey and Carroll Grenfell, The meeting with the President is | Foot o 809 Phillp. Davison and set for 10:45 Thursday morning, and | ' 8" T8ylor, Chevy Chase. afterward Cable and Radio Rate Com- | = = mittees of the mission will confer with | Dr. Irvin Stewart, vice chairman, Fed- | eral Communications Commission. Outing Tomorrow. ; An outing of the District Associ- ation of Retired Policemen will be held At luncheon the visitors will be | tomorrow at the home of President guests of the Business Advisory Coun- | John E. Catts, Capitol Heights, Md. | cil of the Department of Commerce at | A bus will leave Seventh and K streets the Mayflower, and that night will at 1 pm. attend a dinner given by Harper L.| Sibley, former president o’ the Cham = ber of Commerce of the United States Sixes & Eights : IMMEDIATE DELIVERY The Washington headquarters will | be the Cariton Hotel. | WE NEED USED CARS Flood Motor Co. i Direct Factory Dealer 4221 Connecticut Ave. Clev. 8400 Lackey High Graduation. LEONARDTOWN, Md,, June 5 (Spe- cial) —The seventh grade of the Lackey High School will hold its commencement exercises on June 10 at 8 pm. Miss Grace Wood, president of the class, will welcome the audience, and the students will present a play called “Danger at the Door.” 3 Due to the Sudden Death of Mr. J. Frank Kelly, the Offices of J. Frank Kelly, Inc., 2121 Georgia Avenue N.W., Will Be Closed All Day Monday. June 7, 1937. Wednesday at 3 pm. in the Warren Green Hotel. wately 36 per cent of the 5¢hool | ever, Senator Minton of Indiana, a | where such deliveries would have been | Bopulation strong supporter of the President’s a physical impossibility. It may be exact as not to be distinguished from | Donald Ross, A. A. Schubert and Ed- Tax Boost Is Seen. | original court bill, conceded that there | that we couldn't deliver food into + It s understood the Senate appro-| st be a compromise or no bill. He fa:mns group did not attempt to al in the supply bill with the tax blem to meet the increased outlay, ce tax proposals must originate in e House—and there were no tax features in the appropriation bill to open the way for Senate amendments. * The House is working on a separate Mill embodying a series of tax proposals designed to meet only the District’s @timated deficit of approximately $5.000,000 created by the supply bill @& it passed the House. « If, as indicated by yesterday's de- ?lnpm?nw. the Senate increases the total outlay in the supply bill, the tax gram would have to be broadened accordingly. All Senate increases in propriations, however, must run the mut of conference with the House, e final clue to the amount of new pvenue the city will have to raise. By the time the supply bill gets o conference, the separate tax pro- @ram probably will have reached the enate, where it could be amended to lance the budget as finally worked Qut in the appropriation conference room. : Advances Sought. + An amendment will be offered to the gppropriation bill in the Senate, how- ever, to restore to the Commissioners the power they hed for a long time for to 1927, to obtaln advances of ds from the Treasury early in the tcal year, to be paid back as soon as al tax collections come in. % Even if the new tax bills are pushed g:rough both houses before July 1, e beginning of the new fiscal year, District officials realize it will take e to start the wheels that will ing in the revenue, and they are arful the city may find itself with- ut sufficlent funds to meet current bligations for the first few months nless the power to obtain temporary asury advances is reinstated. % The fact that the Commissioners | ust fix the annual real estate tax te during July, to leave time for !r!pamtlon of the tax ledgers and ills, was cited yesterday by one Dis- $rict official as a reason why Congress ould agree by that time on the mount of new revenue to be raised $rom other sources. ¢ Reorganization Opposed. £ Although it will not be definitely own until tomorrow what action thz Senate subcommittee took on sev- ral House provisions seeking to ransfer municipal functions from e office to another, there is known be a feeling in the Senate group inst incorporating such reorgani- tion steps in an appropriation bill. ong these proposals were: Trans- ler of 15 playgrounds from the Play- gweunds Department to the Com- munity Center office; transfer of the . |said: “I do not think we could ever | pass the bill as it now is, we'll have to | work out & compromise to save the | bill. 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