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Washington News BRODKINGS REPORT URGES FREEDOM FOR U. 3. AGENCIES Independence of Control by President of Regulatory Bodies Is Sought. EIGHT PROPOSALS MADE TO BYRD UNIT Expanded, Stronger Federal Trade Commission—New Court System Asked. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Control over the policy and admin- istration of Federal regulatory agen- cies should not be given to the Chief Executive, the Brookings Institution warned today in submitting eight defi- nite recommendations to the Senate Committee on Government Reorgani- ration, headed by Senator Byrd, Dem- ocrat, of Virginia. The report emphasized that, these independent agencies reg.lating pri- vate business enterprises are really “agents of Congress performing the same functions Congress would if it had time”; that they are “in a real sense creators of law, rather than en- forcers,” and almost without exception “are handling large questions of so- cial and economic policy which are too complicated, detailed and chang- ing in nature for Congress to deal with except in broad outline.” Stronger Trade Body Urged. Enlarging and strengthening the Jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Com- mission by transfers from the Justice and Agriculture Departments also was recommended. A new foreign trade promotion co- ordination arrangement between the State and Commerce Departments and transfer of the Weather Bureau to the Commerce Department or some agency directly concerned with trans- portation were two of the three recom- mendations by the institution regard- ing agencies engaged in promoting commerce and industry. The third urged corrections for “ad- ministrative defects” in the granting of patents, trade marks and copy- rights, “attributable to the scattering of activities and procedural shortcom- ings.” Senator Byrd, in making public a summary of chapters 9 and 10 of the report the Brookings Institution is | making in fulfillment of its contract with the Byrd committee, pointed out that this latest study covered more than a score of independent boards | and commissions and executive de- partments and their divisions which are engaged in Government promotion and regulation of business. Eight Recommendations. Regarding regulation of business, the report explained that “there is a clear line of demarcation between types of economic situations controlled by Government departments those regulated by independent boards and commissions.” Broadly speaking, the report draws this line between (1) &ituations in which the formula of po- lice regulation, standardization, grad- ing. etc, is largely applicable, and (2) regulatory situations which involve | questions of public policy, complicated economic relationships and problems of public management. The eight recommendations regard- ing agencies concerned with regula- | tion of business—in the interests of economy and efficiency—are: 1. Reorganization of the Federal Trade Commission to eliminate con- fusion of powers and strengthen its | functions. 2. Transfer of certain unfair trade | practice functions—including control | over packers and over food and drugs, In so far as unfair competitive meth- ods are involved—from the Agricul- ture Department to the Trade Com- mission, 3. Transfer of control over com- | modity exchanges from the Agricul-i ture Department and the Commodity Exchange Commission to the Trade | Commission. Abolish F. A. C. A, 4. Transfer of Justice Department powers over monopolies and restraint of trade under the anti-trust act to the Trade Commission, except trial of criminal cases. 5. Transfer of Bureau of Air Com- merce regulatory functions to the In- terstate Commerce Commission or some agency in the general field of transportation. 6. Abolish the Federal Alcohol Ad- ministration, members of which have ‘not yet been appointed, and continue alcohol control in the Treasury De- partment, at a saving estimated by experts up to $250,000. As an alter- native—divide the control according to (a) pure food and drugs, (b) so- cial and (c) trade aspects, and dis- tribute it accordingly to the Pure Food and Drug Administration, the Treasury Department and the Trade Commission. 7. Control over the policy and ad- ministration of the Federal regulatory bodies should not be given to the Chief* Executive. New Court System. 8. An administrative court system to enforce regulatory laws, a code of administrative adjudicatory proced- ures, proper system of enforcement methods and a simple but adequate system of appeal. Experts say this recommendation should result in economies which would offset by far any moderate additional costs in- volved. This same chapter touches on sev- eral agencies in the field of power, minerals and finance, which have been or will be discussed more fully in other chapters, Senator Byrd ex- plained. Discussing its differences with the Brownlow Committee report regard- ing independent regulatory agencies, and particularly regarding its rec- ommendation that Congress should not surrender control oyer these agen- cies to the President, the report said: “In ¢ase the independent boards and commissions were placed within executive departments, there un- doubtedly would be strong control ese tablished over sublegislative and ad- and | an 8-year-old boy can be. Zhe Ty WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Sfar WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1937. Well, Here You Are, Joe! This is Joseph Theirault being cared for by his nurse, Mary Talman, at Georgetown Hospital. Joe is spending these hot days and nights with his legs in one of those baking contraptions— which can't be a lot of fun for a wide-awake boy. One of the legs was crushed by a truck last Wednesday, and the nert day a pkotographer arrived and took a picture of another injured boy. Joe thought he was the subject and looked at all the papers that reached his bed, but nary a picture of himself could he find, and he was as nearly heart-broken as So this morning a nurse tipped off The Star, and within a few minutes Joe was smiling for the cameraman. —Star Staff Photo. JORDON TOLEARN FATE THIS WEEK {Department of Justice to Re- port on Condemned Jaynes Slayer. With Thomas Jordon's electrocu- | tion only one week off, Justice De- partment officials today were nearing conclusion of their study of new evi- | dence presented in his behalf by per- sons who claim he did not receive a fair trial for the murder of Mrs. Lizzie S. Jaynes. Attorney General Cummings is ex- pected to receive shortly from Pardon | Attorney Daniel M. Lyons a compre- | hensive report of his findings in a ! renewed inquiry, launched after a Star reporter discovered a police inci~ dental throwing doubt on Jordon's identification in the slaying. Description at Variance. The incidental, signed by two po- licemen, quoted Mrs. Jaynes as de- scribing her assailants as being two men 6 feet tall. Jordon is of less than | average height. There were other points in the description that were at variance with Jordon's appearance. While Justice officials today declined to discuss the inquiry, there were in- | dications at the department that Jor- don would be spared from the electric chair at the District Jail next Mon- day. Persons who have been following the case closely are of the opinion the Attorney General probably will rec- ommend to President Roosevelt that Jordon's sentence be commuted to life imprisonment. Amendment to Law Considered. Meanwhile, the Justice Department is weighing the advisability of asking Congress to amend the laws governing court procedure 50 as to permit a con- demned man to seek a new trial on newly discovered evidence up to the time of his execution. Jordon is pre- vented from seeking a new trial be- cause the incidental and other evi- dence were not found within 60 days | from the date of passing sentence. Woman Stricken on Bus. WOODSTOCK, Va., June 7 (#).— Mrs. J. M. Wallace, 25, was removed from an Atlantic Greyhound bus here yesterday and rushed to a local hos- pital, where an examination disclosed she was suffering from a severe ab- dominal ailment. Mrs. Wallace, who was stricken a few miles south of here, was en route to her home from Kingsport, Tenn. Dr. Roy C. Fravel, her physician, said Mrs. Wallace's condition was not critical and that she will probably be able to continue to Washington today. Child Injured in Fall. Leslie Dixon, 3, was injured seri- ously yesterday when he fell from the front porch of his home, at 2150 Thir- tleth street northeast, to a concrete walk 15 feet below. He was treated for a possible skull fracture at Cas- ualty Hospital, where he was reported in “fairly good” condition today. —_———— degree to the proposal to give control of sublegislation to executive depart- ment heads. “To the contention that large fields of public policy are dominated and controlled by these commissions, the answer is that they should be. It is not desirable that these newer social policies be the foot ball of politics. “These boards and commissions are agents of Congress, both for the mak- ing of investigations for Congress and the formulation of sublegislative pol- icy. They are in no sense agents of the President. In case the President should control their administrative activity, he would almost of necessity also control their policy. “It is conceivable that the Presi- dent might be opposed to the will of Congress and, consequently, might fail to implement the acts of Congress in such a way that their purpose would be fulfilled. “Several of these commissions are in a broad sense exercising powers of management rather than of more ministrative activities of the regula- tqy authorities. “Arguments for oentralization in the President apply in almost equal regulation, and some are engaged the adjustment and reconcilistion conflicting interests and serving in advisory capacity.” LODGES DEMAND OPEN HEARING Seven Suspended Units An- nounce Refusal to Enter “Secret” Proceedings. The seven lodges suspended by the American Federation of Government Employes for pushing an independent “anti-economy” drive, today demanded an open hearing and announced they would not take part in any ‘“secret” proceedings. The declaration was the answer to & communication from Charles I. Stengle, national president, informing the seven that a committee from the Executive Council would convene here Saturday morning to go into their case. The lodges are campaigning against the proposed Government retrench- ment program, and have called a mass meeting at the Willard Hotel Thursday night in deflance of orders from na- tional headquarters. *“You charge that we have criticized the national office and Congress,” the communication to Stengle said. “It is true that we have attacked the na- tional office, but we have not attacked Congress nor do we intend to. We are merely fighting to protect our jobs and the interests of our members. We are acting within our legal and con- stitutional rights in expressing their views on legislation of interest to them. Says Stand Inconsistent. “Your persistence in sabotaging all efforts to fight false economy meas- ures is the latest manifestation of your consistent policy of serving the interests of personnel and employ- ment officials rather than those of the great body of Government em- ployes. “Among trade unlonists, organiza- tlons dominated by such policies are called company unions. It also has been stated that some officials of the A.F. G. E. are using their high Gov- ernment positions not only to ham- per activities in behalf of Govern- ment workers, but to discriminate against individuals who participate in such activity. “You invite us to an investigation to be held on Saturday, June 12. In the past you have‘used such secret hearings to lend the trappings of legality to decisions arrived at in ad- vance. We have before us the bitter experience of five lodges who were denied reinstatement in the A. F. G. E. after a hearing which wasa travesty on justice and more nearly resembled star chamber proceedings than it did & hearing conducted by a labor.or- ganization in the United States® of America.. The A. F. G. E. has had enough of star chamber proceedings and of inquisitions held behind closed doors. Willing to Submit Issue. “We are willing, however, as an ex- pression of our good faith, to submit the entire question to a public hearing to which members of the press will be admitted and at which both parties will appear as equals, with equal right to call witnesses, to have counsel, to have its own stenographers and to have equal time for presentation. We feel that such proceedings would bring out the true facts and would conse- quently benefit the membership of the A F.G.E. Any other form of hearing would be & mockery and would serve only to set a rubber stamp of approval on the action already taken by you. “We will accept and participate in 8 hearing under the conditions out- lined above. We cannot participate in any secret ‘hearings’ conducted by persons who by their very charges against us have proven themselves bit- terly antagonistic to the purposes of our campaign and who, as accusers, nOW propose to stand in.judgment on these charges.” g ‘The lodges involved are from Labor, Agriculture, Interstate Commerce, General Accounting, Resettlement, ‘Works Progress and Beltsville. While the 1,385 members of these are under suspension, it has been said by na- tional officers that if they repudiate the action of those responsible for the “rebellion,” only the latter will be disciplined. Otherewise, the whole matter will go to the annual conven- tion in Philadelphia in. ber, where a row is in prospect '-nhlt in_Detrott this_past, yesr, ve lodges were ousted. . EXCURSIONGRAFT DISABLED INRIVER WITH 350 ABOARD Potomac Towed Ashore at Quantico After Fouling Paddle Wheel. BLAZING SUN KEEPS TEMPERATURE HIGH Maximum of 86 Forecast for To- day—Swimmers Jam Lo- cal Pools. Fouling her paddle wheel on a sub- merged log, the steamer Potomac— carrying 350 beach-bound Washington excursionists—had to be towed ashore st Quantico, Va. yesterday and her passcngers sent back by bus. Thousands of other heat-dodgers were more successful in their cfforts to vacate the sultry Capital during the day, and beaches and other nearby resorts were crowded to near-capacity as the mercury reached 90. Another hot afternoon was in pros- | pect today, acording to the Wefllheri Bureau, but tonight is expected to be | “not so warm.” Tomorrow, che fore- caster says, will be fair and ~ontinued warm. Today'’s maximum probably | will be about 86. The Potomac was about 10 miles | below Quantico when one of the paddle-wheel “buckets” cracked after coming in contact with a water- | soaked log. Stopping to survey the damage, | Capt. Philip Barbour discovered it | was still possible to navigate, but de- cided against it, preferring not to risk having another “arm” of the wheel | snap under the added burden. Tug Called to Scene. Donald Hotaling, assistant engineer, went ashore in a small boat and |called the Potomac River Line's | | Washington office for aid. A Navy | tug was dispatched to the spot where the Potomac had anchored and towed the steamer to Quantico. Eight busses brought the passen- gers, who considered the incident in | the light of & lark, back to Wash- ington. The steamer had left the Seventh Street Wharf at 9 am. for Colonial Beach. The mishap occurred about noon, and the passengers arrived back shortly before midnight. While the steamer was anchored, the passengers whiled away the hours by dancing to the ship's orchestra and listening to the radio. Steamship line officials said the paddlewheel would be repaired today, in time for the Potomac to make its regularly scheduled cruises tonight. Parks and Pools Filled. With a blazing sun keeping the temperature at high levels through- out the day, those who didn’t leave the city on swimming parties or cool- ing drives sought other forms of re- lief at home. Swimming pools were jammed, the parks were overrun with picnic par- ties and more than 32,000 persons passed through the Zoo during the day. When the temperature reached its peak of 90 degrees early in the aft- ernoon, a section of concrete street in the 100 block of Poplar avenue, Takoma Park, Md, buckled. The concrete heaved up with a sharp re- port that sounded like a cannon be- ing fired. Only minor traffic accidents, with no fatalities or serious injuries, were reported to police over the week end. Robert Cavanaugh, 3, of 300 Four- teenth street southeast was struck by an automobile which, police said, was operated by Charles R Smith, jr., of Philadelphia, as he played in the street near his home. He returned home after treatment for bruises at Casualty Hospital. Blanche Simpson, 21, of 1048 Bladensburg road northeast, and | John Wheeler, 20, of 735 North Capi- tol street, were injured when the car in which they were riding crashed into a lamp-post at Twenty-fourth place and Bladensburg road north- east. The driver, B. 8. Niceley, 630 Laynan place northeast, escaped in- Jury. Struck by an automobile as he was standing beside a street car at Florida avenue and fourth street, Joe F. Jack- son, 54, colored, 1900 block of W street, was treated at Freedmen's Hospital. Police arrested Finnis J. Sullivan, 23, of 618 Eighth street northeast, driver of the car, on reck- less driving charges. Woundeti Driver Brought in Court On Stretcher Roscoe W. Kirk, Par- alyzed, Tells Grand Jury of Assault. Paralyzed by two bullets fired into his back, Roscoe W. Kirk, 52, a taxi- cab driver, was brought into District Court on & stretcher today to testify before the grand jury concerning an assault made on him last February 5. Kirk, who lives at 500 L street northeast, was shot by a colored pas- senger in his cab. Subsequently, Willie J. McClendon, 25, colored, 100 block of Sixteenth street southeast, was arrested and charged with assault with & dangerous weapon and with in- tent to kill. Kirk allegedly told police he picked up & man at Fifteenth and H streets northeast. At Nineteenth and B streets southeast, his passenger dis- played & gun and told him to drive to Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, to keep in the mid- dle of the road, and not to exceed 6 or 8 miles an hour. When they came to a road on the left leading to the river, the pas- senger- said-“he intended to take me back along the river and shoot me and then throw my body in the river, snd that dead men could not talk,” Kirk told investigators. Instead, Kirk swerved to the right toward a gas station pes- senger. fired three ing his back, he stited. The Heat Did This in Takoma Park With a cannon-like explosion, this section o nue, Takoma Park, Md., buckled under the ray neighborhood. but causing no damage, except to the street. Alice Bladen, 11, is sh. own looking over the result. Society and General WORLD'SW.C.T. PICKS MRS, BOOLE B ] FOR” THRD. TERM Brooklyn Woman to Head Organization for Three Years More. [FIRST VICE PRESIDENT TO BE MRS. WISE SMITH Vote on Other Officers Incomplete. Talks on Liquor and Peace Are Heard. Mrs. Ella A. Boole of Brooklyn, N, Y, was chosen president of the World Women's Christian Temper- ance Union for her third consecutive three-year term, at the organizatior election of officers today in Constitu= tion Hall. Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, Evanston, I, president of the na= tional W. C. T. U., was re-elected first Vvice president of the World Union f concrete highway in the 100 block of Poplar ave. s of the sun yesterday, startling residents of the —Star Staff Photo. EXPED Canton Island Group Has Finished Three-Week Prep- aration for Event. On the heated sands of tiny Canton | Island, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, final preparations have been completed for the total eclipse of the sun, which will take place there to- morrow, and which will be the longest eclipse in more than 12 centuries. Radio reports received here from the National Geographic Society-Navy expedition indicate that three weeks of intensive preparation have been completed, and every operation to be performed during the eclipse has been carefully timed and rehearsed in ad- vance so that not one of the 213 sec- onds of the total eclipse will be wasted. The eclipse shadow, averaging about 140 miles in width, will nove 8800 miles across the Pacific. Canton Island is one of the few points of land in the path suitable for making ob- servations. The total phase of the eclipse will begin at 7:39 a.m., Canton | Island time (2:06 pm. Eastern standard time). A partial phase of the eclipse will be visible from the Southern United States. To Be Broadcast. The eclipse and activities of the scientists while making their observa- tions will be described in a radio pro- gram direct from Canton Island, | in the | | United States on the network of the which will be rebroadcast National Broadcasting Co. Members of the eclipse expedition are Dr. S. A. Mitchell, University of Virginia Observatory director, scien- tific leader; Capt. J. F. Hellweg, super- intendent of the Naval Observatory here, in charge of the Navy participa- tion; Dr. Paul A. McNally, S. J,, di- rector of the observatory of George- town College here; Dr. Irvine C. Gard- ner, Bureau of Standards; Dr. F. K. Richtmyer, Cornell University; Dr. Theodore Dunham, jr., Mount Wilson Observatory, California; Charles G. Thombson, Foundation for Astro- physical Research, New York; John E. Willis, Naval Observatory; Charles Bittigger, local artist; Richard H. Stewart, staff representative of the National Geographic Society, Wash- ington; Walter Brown, New York radio engineer; M. S. Adams, San Francisco radio engineer; George Hicks, radio announcer, all three of the National Broadcasting Co.; Lieut. Herman A. Gross, Navy surgeon, Honolulu, and Lieut. T. B. Williamson, conimander of the expedition ship, U. S. §. Avocet. Air-Conditioning Plant. Canton Island consists of a narrow rim of sand a quarter mile wide in- closing a lagoon 27 miles in circum- ference. Cameras, spectrographs, tele- scopes and other instruments have been mounted on concrete bases along the shore. Members of the expedition are camped nearby in tents. Probably the first air-conditioning plant ever set up on a desert island is in operation to keep the photographic dark-room at a temperature of 65 de- grees so films and plates will not be injured by the tropical heat. During the eclipse, the scientists will make intensive observations of the chromosphere or atmosphere of the sun, the gases of which give clues to the composition of the sun itself. They also will photograph the corona and measure the total amount of its light and record the polarization of this light. The exact times of contact of the edges of the sun and moon will be recorded as a check on calculations of the length of the day and year. This will be one of the important functions of the Naval Observatory, the official timekeeper for the Nation. Effects of the eclipse on the electri- fied region of the upper air which re- flects radio signals will be measured. The colors of the eclipse will be re- corded both in natural color photo- graphs and by Bittinger, who will make a quick painting. Many black- and-white photographs will be taken and motion pictures will be made of the entire eclipse. The American expedition has been joined by an :expedition from New Zealand, led by C. B. Mickey, which arrived at Canton in the patrol sloop H. M. 8. Wellington, and set up camp near the American base. In radio broadcasts picked up here, members of the party have described their weeks of life on the island as far from dull. The only vegetation is nine lonely palmtrees and scattered pigweed. There are numbers of rats 30 tame .hey eat from the hands of members of the party. Hermit crabs raid the camp and have u;xrg:: trying to drag away e '] of dnret& ‘cameras. TION PARTY READY FORECLIPSE MISSMNANTZ. T, SUCCUMBS HERE Retired Principal of Ed- monds School Was Native of District. Miss M. Alice McNantz, 76, retired principal of the Edmonds School, died | today after a long illness at the home of her nieces, Miss M. Louise Under- wood and Mrs. Lee Sudwarth, Pelham Courts Apartments, 2115 P street. Miss McNantz, widely known in educational circles, was retired about 10 years ago after long service in the public school system here. A native of this city, she was the daughter of the late Patrick Henry McNantz and the late Mrs. Louise J. McNantz. She was descended from a family | prominent in early Maryland history. | One of her ancestors was Capt. James Neale of Walliston Manor, Md. Her great-great-uncle, the Right Rev. Leonard Neale, was the second Arch- | bishop of Baltimore and founder of the Visitation Convent here. Another great-great-uncle was Rev. Charles Neale, who gave the tract of land and established the first Carmelite Con- | vent, near Port Tobacco, Md. Miss McNantz numbered among her school pupils many persons now prom- | inent in business and professional life. One of her pupils was Stephen \ Early, assistant secretary to Presi- dent Roosevelt. Miss McNantz was instrumental in organizing the Teachers’ Aid and An- nuity Association and took an active part in bringing about the organiza- tion of the Edmonds School Parent- | Teacher Association. She was a char- | ter member of the Women's City Club | and the National Education Associa- | tion. Besides her nieces, she is survived by Mrs. Howard Brooks and Mrs. Mox- ley Underwood, both of this city. Funeral services will be held at 9 | | am. Wednesday in St. Matthew's Catholic Church. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. DR. LAURA MULLEN, CHIROPRACTOR, DIES Practiced Here for 20 Years. Deceased Was Native of Wisconsin. Dr. Laura Ross Mullen, 72; a chiro- practor here for about 20 years, died yesterday after a long illness. Dr. Mullen had been actively engaged in her profession until taken i1l last No- vember. Her residence and office were located at 2901 Sixteenth street. A native of Wisconsin, she came to Washington with her family as a child. Before taking up the study and prac- tice of chiropractic, she had held po- sitions in the Pension Office and the State Department. Dr. Mullen was the daughter of the late Rev. W. C. Mullen, who was known as the “singing evangelist of the Baltimore Conference” of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. Mullen was pastor of the Gorsuch M. E. Church in Southwest Washington for several years. Dr. Mullen is sur- vived by a sister, Miss Mary Mullen, 1314 Belmont street. Funeral services will be held at 3 pm. tomorrow at Chambers’ parlors, 1400 Chapin street. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. — MRS. ISABEL DAUGHERTY DIES AT AGE OF 76 Deceased Was Mother of Rev. Daugherty of Memorial U. B. Church. Mrs. Isabel Vernon Daugherty, 76, mother of Rev. Simpson B. Daugherty, pastor of the Memorial United Breth- ren Church, died yesterday at her home. 2 Adams street. Mrs. Daugherty was the widow of Rev. Dr. William E. Daugherty, who formerly was pastor of the Fulton Avenue United Brethren Church in Baltimore and the First United Brethren Church in Coatesville, Md. Bhe had been living here with her son for the last four years. She was born in St. Marys County, Md. Mrs. Daugherty is survived also by two other sons, Wilson E. Daugherty of Westville, N. J, and J. Howard Daugherty of Douglaston, Long Island, and a daughter, Mrs. Robert Bagnell of Harrisburg, Pa. Funeral services will be held to- morrow at 10:30 a3 st Hines’ funeral parior, 2901 i th street. Burial ‘will be in Greenmount, Md. Returns on the other positions to ba filled were incomplete when the con- vention adjourned at noon, and an- nouncement of other officers elected )3 | to be made at the session tonight. Delegates and visitors attending the | convention will make a sightseeing | tour to Mount Vernon this afternoon ! instead of holding a session at the hall. | Senator Sheppard of Texas, co- | sponsor of thg prohibition law and chairman of the Senate Military Af- fairs Committee; Miss Lucille Hinshaw of the University of Oklahoma and Maj. Thomas Macleod, a captain in the British air force during the war | and an early leader in England's air | transport service, spoke on programs iyes'.erday afternoon at the Sylvan ; Theater and last night at Constitution Hall. Speaking at the Sylvan Theater yesterday afternoon, Senator Shep- pard paid tribute to the W. C. T. U. 25 “an inspiring example of combined opposition to war and alcoholic drink.” Warns of War Perils. | “No finer benefit can betall mankind « than a union of the forces o peace and MISS LUCILLE HINSHAW. —Star Staff Photo. GAZLEY WILL HEAD AIRBUREAU UNIT Aeronautical Engineer Is Named Chief of New Safety Division. Appointment of Richard C. Gazley, chief engineer of the Bureau of Air Commerce, to the newly created post of chief of the bureau's safety and planning division was announced to- day by Secretary of Commerce Roper. Gazley has been with the bureau & number of years as an aeronautical engineer, and is recognized nationally as a leader in the fleld. As chief of the new division, created under the reorganization plan for the Bureau of Air Commerce, Gazley will have charge of seven sections engaged in development apnd promotional work, including studies for all other divi- sions of the bureau and in studies with relation to airline activities, air- | craft and power plants and instru- ments. The sections over which he will |hnve supervision are accident pre- vention, airports, air transportation, aircraft, instruments, international and educational. Gazley joined the Bureau of Air Commerce, then the aeronautics branch of the Commerce Department in 1927 as an engineer. He resigned in 1929 to go into business for himself as a consulting engineer, but rejoined the bureau in July, 1930, as chief of the engineering section. Since 1930 he has been in charge of the preparation of engineering standards covering aircraft, engines, propellers, repair stations and the checking of technical data and stress analyses submitted by aeronautical manufacturers. Gazley was graduated from the Uni- versity of Michigan in 1924, with the degree of aeronautical engineer, and | was appointed an engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Laboratories at Langiey Field, Va. He left seven months later to join the Glenn L. Martin Co. as staff engineer in charge of am\cmni' design. BAND CONCERT. st 7:30 o'clock tonight. Charles Benter, leader. Morris, assistant. PROGRAM. Suite: (a) “Perpetuum Mobile” __ Strauss (b) “Plight of the Bumble Bee,” Rimsky-Korsakow (¢) “Mosquito Dance”_ ‘White ‘“Coronation Scene” (from “Boris Goudounow”) Moussorg! Suite de Valse, “A Night in Vienna,” 'Humoresque, Round and Round” “Mardo and Taranfello” ~(from “The Robber Symphony”) ... Feher Characteristic, “Ride of the Val- Kkyries” (lmm'rh- Valkyries”), ‘Wagner “The Star Spangled Banner.” sky |8 prohibition against war and alcoholic | drink,” he said. “It is hardly to be | expected that a world addicted to drink | can understand the significance of | worla peace or act with sufficient unity and ability to accomplish world peace | It will take a sober world to make a peaceful world. Remember that when | we entered the World War we sup- | pressed drink because we knew that | alcohol interfered with a Nation's in- | telligence and efficiency. If we aboi- | ished drink to help us make war, why do we not abolish drink to help us | make peace? If prohibition is & good | thing in war against human beings, why is it not a better thing in war | against poverty and crime and the | other handicaps of civilization largely due to drink?" “All the effort a nation may make for domestic good may be dissipated and destroyed in the flaming furnace of war. Already the science of destruction has advanced beyond the devices of the late world strife. Gasses are being devised that are deadlier than ever. Guns are being developed with caliber and firing radius larger than ever. Indeed, the doubt fre- quently is being expressed whether civilization can withstand another | earth-wide conflict.” Student Leader Speaks. Miss Hinshaw, who besides being chosen a beauty queen at her school this Spring was also president of the Campus Drys, youth organization of the W. C. T. U, held the interest of an attentive audience as she assailed, generally, the effect of liquor on the individual and society, and specifically the liquor advertisers, which she said “apparently are trying to outdo each other in bidding for the youtn of the United *States of America to become the future market for the breweries and liquor interests of the land.” In her description of youth's attis tude toward liquor and its promoters, she added, “Bhey say alcohol is a stimulant. We know it is a narcotic and a poison. They say that it braces you up. We know it lets you down. They say that it speeds you up. We know it slows you down. They say that it warms you. We know it re~ duces bodily temperature. They tell you that they judge by experience, that they can trust their feelings. We know that alcohol dulls nerves so that your ‘feelings’ do not indicate true conditions.” Maj. Macleod, who, besides design- mg and building planes and training pulots for them in the first part of the war, also was under fire for months with the British air fdrce on the front, made a plea “that we get be- hind ‘error of judgment on the part of the pilot’ as the reason for a great many of our plane crashes and find out whether that error of judgment was caused by the effects of even s small dose of alcohol taken before the flight.” Backing up his plea for “teeto- taler” pilots, Macleod cited many incidents i hiz e nce where he said alcobs! was d ¥ responsibie for plane crashes Harry N. Holmes of New York City, | associate secretary,of the World liance for International Through {ie Churches, s that | dozen incidents in the last 12 mol recipitated war 20 yeurs redicting that peace causes d &chieve their end in years to ut 500 members of the cast of is Courngeous,” pageant to be At the ciosing night of the con- tomorrow, will hold dress re~ sal at 7 o'clock tonight at Thome n0ol, Twelfth and L streets, NEW TITLE CHOSEN LONDON, June 7 (#).—Sir Stanley Baldwin, K. G., who formaliy becomes Earl Baldwin tomorrow, has chosen “surprise” second title—Viscount Corvedale. He had been expected to select the name Bewdley, the Worcestershire division he has represented in Com- mons for 29 years. Instead, it was disclosed today, he chose Corvedale, which is a Shrepshire valley near the village of gMuch Wenlock, where the present win family originated 299 vears pen,