Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Fair tonight; tomorrow, partly cloudy, slightly warmer, probably followed by showers at night; gentle, variable winds, becoming moderate southwest. Tempera- tures today—Highest, 78, at 10:30 a.m.; lowest, 68, at 4 a.m. Closing N.Y. erkeh—Sllel—Pue 18 85th YLAR. No. REPUBLID SENDS ARLEYTHREATTO SUE OVER MAILS Lawyer for Steel Firm Asks Official to Open Service. CLIENT LOATH TO USE FORCE, HE WRITES HERE | Move Follows McKellar Promise of Inquiry Into Alleged In- terference in Strike. By the Associated Press. The Republic Steel Corp., assert- ing it was denied use of the mails | for sending food to its workers in strike-besieged plants, advised Post- master General Farley today it would take legal action unless the mails were opened to it. The corporation, through John S, Brookes, Jr., official and counsel, made formal demand on Farley “to issue orders to the postmasters at Niles and at Warren (Ohio), respectively, to accept for delivery and deliver all Matter submitted for mailing to ad- dresses at the plants” of the com- pany at those places. Brookes reiterated earlier Republic charges that union representatives of the strikers were permitted to ex- smine packages submitted for delivery to the company plants. He said it was understood that “only those packages which met with the ap- proval of such representatives were accepted or delivered.” Newspapers Held Refused. “We are informed,” he added, “that daily newspapers have been refused | under similar circumstances.” Brookes wrote Farley frankly that the company needed the use of the mails in order to supply its picketed workers with food and thus avoid the possibility of violence which might result should the company itself at- tempt to deliver the food through the usual “convenient channels.” “Such is our emergency,” he wrote, *that if your position and the sup- Porting practice which you are quoted s relying upon are founded in fear of violence which may be committed upon the facilities of your department or your personnel, this corporation stands ready to be deputized to func- | tion for your department in making deliveries of mail to its plnts at Niles and at Warren, Ohio, and will place both means of transportation | and personnel to man the same at your disposal.” | The formal Republic demand was disclosed shortly after Chairman Me- | Kellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, of | the Senate Post Office Committee, | said he had asked the Post Office Department. for a report on the al- leged interruptions of service in the strike area. McKellar Expects Report. McKellar expected the report to reach his committee Friday, when it is scheduled to take up a resqlution | by Senator Bridges, Republican, of New Hampshire calling for a Senate inquiry. The Tennessee Senator said Assistant Postmaster General Howes probably would appear before the | committee. | Brookes wrote Farley that his ex- planations of the reported condition of mail service at Warren and Niles 15 “obviously unsatisfactory and unre- | sponsive in view of the actual hap- penings.” He quoted Farley as having wired to Tom Girdler, Republic Steel chair- | man, that normal mail service was| being continued at the two towns. Brookes said of the workers in the | plants that they had to be kept where they were “in order to secure to them their right to continue on their jobs.” “The convenience channels for the | regular transportation of food to them | sre closed to us by picket lines, unless we are willing to match force with force,” he continued. “Loath to Use Force.” “This we are loath to do unless all other means fail. “We are compelled, therefore, to resort to every other method avail- able to us for our purpose. We have presumed * * * that the United States mails would afford us the same facili- ties which are afforded generally throughout the country. “These have been denied and are being denied to us through your action (See MAIL, Page A-4.) EXPOSED TO DISEASE. DOCTOR SOUGHT ON ROAD ‘Warning to Submit to Immediate Examination Awaits Man Going to Coast. B the Associated Press. ROCHESTER, N. Y, June 8.— Feared to have been exposed unknow- ingly to a dread disease, a young Rochester ‘doctor was being hunted along the automobile route to Los An- geles today in an attempt to warn him to submit to immediate examination. He is Dr. Harold A. Cohn, who is driving to a new post in Los Angeles County Hospital. A radiologist at Strong Memorial Hospital for the last year, Dr. Cohn is believed to have visited an {ll friend just before his departure for the Pacific Coast last Tuesday. After he left, it was discovered the friend had spinal meningitis, which proved fatal Priday night. If Dr. Cohn has contracted the disease a blood culture ‘would re- veal it before other symptoms made it apparent, and immediate treatment might forestall severe illness, doc- tors said. Kills‘ Mother Accidentally. LOVELAND, Calif., June 8 (#).— Mrs. George Parsons, 32, died last night an hour after her 7-year-old son acci- dentally shot her while displaying a 34,006. ! result of convention addresses by Maj. | ment control. Entered as second class matter Ppost office, Washington, D. C. Party H opes Scientists will be hunting th longest total eclipse in 1 ,200 years—a mazximum totality of 7 minutes—offers oprortumty for the limit of the ec pse | | | BULLETIN. The United States Navy-National | Geographic Society expedition on | Canton Island. in mid-Pacfic, re- ported at 2 pm. (E. S. T.) today that it had “absolutely perfect weather™ to view a total eclipse of | | the sun. | Br the Associated Press JOINT United States Navy- ! National Geographic Society expedition, poised on a mid- Pacific island to view the longest total eclipse of the sun in 12 centuries, reported it was hopeful skies would clear today In time for g ch Navy-Geographic Eclipse WASHINGTON, for Clear Skies e secrets of the sun today as the observation. This chart shows —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. a full view of the solar show. A broadcast from Canton Island, where the observers nervously watched the sky, informed National | Geographic headquarters here a storm | BY the Associated Press with overcast skies was breaking up.! The report came from the isolated | astronomers two hours before the start of the eclipse. Dr. F. A. Mitchell, director of the University of Virginia Ohservatory | and head of the joint party, radioed that the encampment was “not wor- | rying very much and we have great | hopes.” Some of the party of 15 scientists - (See ECLIPSE Page A-3) ROAD SAFETY AN INW.C.T.USVOTE Asks Government to Ban Alcohol Sale to Public Vehicle Operators. A plea to “the transportation au- thorities and governments of all countries to prohibit the consumption of alcoholic liquors by the drivers of road vehicles, by the pilots of air- | craft and by the operating penonnel‘ of railroads and watercraft when on | duty and for 24 hours before going on uty,” was recommended today in the report of the Resolutions Committee | and immediately adopted by delegates to the sixteenth triennial convention of the .World's Womans Christian | Temperance Union. “In the interest of public safety, we also ask them to prohibit the sale or supply of alcoholic beverages at airports, aboard aircraft, in filling stations and on railroad trains,” the report continued. This resolution was seen as a direct Thomas Macleod, captain in the Brit- ish Royal Air Force during the World War and a pioneer in England's air service. He attacked bitterly the use of alcohol by commercial pilots and by operators of all other transport ve- hicles. “Eradication” Seen Solution. A second resolution, also adopted, read: “The repeal of prohibition in the United States and in Finland has not solved the liquor problem in those | countries, nor has so-called govern- Other methods sub- | stituted instead of prohibition have proven ineffective in lessening the | consumption of beverage alcohol. “We declare our conviction that eradication, not restriction, is the only | solution of the world-wide liquor prob- lem.” A third in the list of 10 resolutions presented to thte convention this morning for approval asked, in part, that the League of Nations “make further comprehensive investigations on the close relation of the use of | beverage alcohol and the iniquitous | traffic in women and children.” Under the heading “Drink and Na- tive Rlces," the committee stated, in | part, “this convention expresses its| concern that governments permit the manufacture and importation of alco- | hotic 1iquor to native territories,” and COMMITTEE LAUDS | priate for the project, begun in 1935 | | Florida would drain off or pollute un- FLORIDA CANAL Benefits of Cross-State ! Waterway Cited in House Report. “OBJECTIONS OF SPAIN ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION BRITAIN OFFERS THREE-POINT PLAN IN SPANISH CRISIS Would Extend Safety Zones to Bring Italy and Reich Back in Fold. ARE NOT CONSIDERED Prospects for Agreement Not Viewed With Optimism in France. BACKGROUND— Bombing of Italian and German cruisers, members of non-interven- tion patrol in Spain, brought re- taliation by Reich in shelling of Almeria and withdrawel of both nations from Non-Intervention Qpmmittee. Great Britain, fearing breakdown of eflort and spread of war to Eu- Tope, backed Fascist nations in pro- tests and has been seeking their return to the committee. BULLETIN. MADRID, June 8 (#).—Police reported late today that they had uncovered evidence that a German spy and propaganda center existed in Madrid before the start of the Spanish civil war. LONDON, June 8.—Great Britain offered a three-point proposal-today to induce Germany and Italy back into the Non-Intervention Committee | and to safeguard Europe from the chaos that might spread from a new “incident” in the Spanish civil war. Great Britain proposed: 1. Extension of safety zones for | neutral shipping and warships in the neutrality fleet patroling Spain. 2. Assurances from both sides of the | Spanish conflict to abstain from prov- | ocations, such as the recent Spanish | government aerial bombardment of | the pocket battleship Deutschland, a neutrality patrol vessel, in Ibiza Har- | bor. 3. An arrangement, in the event the first two measures fail to bring Italo. German agreement, to bring the mat. ter up for consultation by all four | powers engaged in the patrol—Britain, France, Germany and Italy—to con- sider necessary action. The prospects for an agreement ‘were not viewed optimistically in Euro- pean chancelleries, but the situation | Was not regarded as hopeless. By the Associated Press. The House Rivers and Harbors Com- mittee told Congress today the eco- | nomic justification of the Florida ship | canal “is beyond question.” | The committee report, written by Chairman Mansfield, strongly recom- | ! mended completion of the cross-State | waterway and answered point by point | objections on which railroads and Olh- ers based their opposition. The committee voted two weeks ago to recommend completion of the canal, on which work was interrupted after | Congress refused last year to appro- | with $5400,000 of relief funds made | available by President Roosevelt. The Republican minority filed an ! opposition report, and dissenting Dem- | ocratic members, headed by Repre- | sentative Beiter, Democrat, of New York, also registered their protest in | & statement attached to the majority | report. | The majority discounted assertions that the canal cut across Northern derground streams which furnish the peninsula’s fresh water supply. “After a very careful consideration of all the evidence submitted, both pro and con,” the report stated, “your com- mittee concludes that the findings of | the chief of engineers in this matter are correct and supported by ample | data, evidence and authoritasive opin- jon. “It regards the assertions that ground water Supplies in Southern Florida will be adversely affected to be wholly be- yond the realm of reason.” Maj. Gen. Edward M. Markham, chief of Army Engineers, had assured Congress in his report that there woulg | be no appreciable damage to the un- derground reservoir. He recommended (See CANAL, Page A-3) Bear Flees Zoo, Is Caught. PORTLAND, Oreg., June 8 (#).—The fun was over for Jimmy, & 200-pound black bear, today. Trapped in a wire- inclosed tennis court late last night he was shot by police after escaping from the z00, biting a pursuing policeman, smashing windows and driving panic- stricken residents of the zoo area in- Re portto Cumm BACKGROUND— Mrs. Lizzie S. Jaymes, cashier of Garden T Shoppe, was shot in robbery of establishment on April 3, 1931. Thomas Jordon was arrested, but not indicted. Four years later, from Mount Vernon, N. Y., he wrote to United States Attorney Garnett, asking if he had been cleared of all suspicion, Arrested again, he was convicted and sentenced to electrocution. He has been given siz stays of exect- tion. That Thomas Jordon will escape electrocution for the murder of Mrs. Lizzie 8. Jaynes, cashier of the Gar- den T Shoppe, was a virtual certainty today. As Daniel M. Lyons, Federal par- don attorney, sent to Attorney Gen- eral Cummings a report containing confidential recommendations in the case, there were strong indications that new evidence recently presented in Jordon's behalf would save him from the electric chair next Monday. .22 rifie he had found, Coroner Wil liam Brooks said today. Department of Justice officials de- To Win Jordon Commutation ings Held Sure ing action by President Roosevelt. Cummings planned to study the re- port this atfernoon preparatiory to making a formal report to the White House. Commutation of Jordon’s death sen- tence to life imprisonment was ex- pected to result from Cummings’ study of the new evidence, which tended to cast doubt on identifica- tion of Jordon as one of the slayers of Mrs. Jaynes. Cummings ordered Lyons to reopen the department’s study of the murder case after a Star reporter discovered & police “incidental” quoting Mrs. Jaynes, just before her death, as de- scribing her assailants as two men 6 feet tall. Jordon is 5 feet 6% inches. The incidental was not introduced in Jordon’s defense st nis trial. President Roosevelt, a few days before discovery of the incidental, refused to extend clemency to Jordon and preparations for his electrocution at the District Jail were begun. When the new evidence was brought to light, | Note points to kidnaping of London In the face of Reichsfuehrer Adolf | Hitler's threat to resume liberty of action in Spain in the event of further “provocations,” some French quarters expressed the belief any ef- !fort to win Rome and Berlin back to | collaboration was doomed to failure. | Others believed he might change his | | stand. | They said Hitler was insistent that | Germnny, confronted by another such incident as the Deutschland bombing, would consider herself free to take whatever retaliation she deemed nec- essary. Well-informed quarters con- sidered this stand a threat to repeat measures such as the shelling of Al- meria, Spanish seaport, by five of the Reich's warships. Another impediment. they declared, was the stand of the Spanish central government, which has refused to grant zones of security in Spanish ' territorial waters. British diplomatic quarters never- theless, looked more hopefully for a solution, No Provisions for Spain, The three-point plan made no sal- lowance for the possibility that the Spanish government might object. It was proposed that, after a tentative agreement among the four powers, it be submitted for approval by the Valencia and Insurgent Spanish regimes, then returned to the Neu- trality Committee for final ratification. Summary of Page. | Amusements C-10 | Radio - ___ ‘ Short Story. Society S8ports._ [ ‘Woman’s Pg. .B-8 Comics ____C-8-9 Editorials ___A-10 Financial ___A- Lost & Found A-3 Obituary ____A-12 FOREIGN. Amelia Earhart sets record in Atlantic crossing. Page A-1 Britain offers three-point plan in non- intervention crisis. Page A-1 soclety beauty. NATIONAL. Funeral services for Jean Harlow to be tomorrow. Page A-1 Senate bill to nationalize munitions announced. Page A-2 Senate committee to probe alleged in- terference with mails. Page A-2 House to take up proposal for tax- evasion inquiry today. Page A-4 Black defends wage-hour bill in Radio Forum, Page C-4 Page A-1 WASHINGTON AND NEARBY. Keene knots not tied by expert, says detective. Page A-1 Five-cent-per-zone increase in taxicab rates here proposed. Page A-1 School Board appointments announced by justices. Page A-1 Commutation for Jordon regarded as near-certainty. Page A-1 Bill to create independent civil service for D. C. Page A-1 Larger deficit seen as Benate debates D. C. bill. Page A-1 Changes authorized by District Zoning Commission. Page A-¢ Work to start tomorrow on Mellon Art Gallery. Page B-1 ‘Trailer laboratory to check perishable foods, Page B-1 Fractional breach in A. F. G. K. widens. Page B-1 ined to discuss Lyons’ findings pends however, the execution date post- poned in order to give Lyon;&mr- tunity to reconsides the Maj. Brown replies to ciation findings. joe Asso- B-1 | Doyle of George Washington Uni- | TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1937—FORTY-TWO I’AGES. ¢ Foening Sfar ANYHOW AL SMITH I1SNT GETTIN’ ANYTHING EITHER! S == e~ THE CASTAWAYS. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. ¥¥¥ Yesterday’s Circulation, 140,466 (8ome “returns not yet received.) (P Means Associated P TWO CENTS. TWOSCHOOL BOARD VAGANGIES FILLED Charles D. Drayton, Attor- ney, and Col. West A. Ham- ilton Are Named. (Pictures on Page A-4.) The justices of the District Court | today announced the appointment to the Board of Education of Charles D. | Drayton, well-known attorney, Col. West A. Hamllton, pmmlnem in colored civic and patriotic circles. | They succeed. respectively, George M. Whitwell, who has served on the | board since 1931, and Dr. J. Hayden | Johnson, dean of the board,.who for | the last 21 years has taken part in its deliberations. Mrs. Marign Wade Doyle, president | | of the board, was resppointed. She | in the wife of Dean Henry Orattan | versiy. Ali'three appointees will serve three- year terms, expiring June 30, 1940. Drayton, who was graduated from National University Law School in 1905, became & member of the District | Bar Association the following year. President of Children's Hospital ‘ and chairman of the Hospital Presi- | dent’s Committee, he also has recently | been elected to head the newly-: rormed hospital association. He was chair- man of the recent United Hospital Appeal. The new member bears a striking resemblance to Abraham Lincoln, and, | In false whiskers, has taken many | prizes at fancy dress social events for his likeness to the Great Emancipator. Shakespeare is one of his particular hobbies and he has delivered lectures | to local groups on the subject. A native of South Carolina, he lives at 2425 Kalorama road and main- | tains offices at 1001 Fifteenth street. | He is married, has a son and two daughters, and is a member of Chevy Chase Club. Col. Hamilton lives at 413 T street and has a printing office at 1353 U street. He is & colonel in the Reserve Corps, a warden of St. Luke's Protestant | Episcopal Church, vice president of | the Community Center Council, a for- mer trustee of the Community Chest, & director of the Washington Welfare Association, & member of the Execu- tive Committee of the Boy Scouts of America and prominent in the Amer- ican Legion and Masons. Today’s Star SPORTS. Team honors lure for marathoners here Saturday. Page C-1 Boys'. juniors’ net play here has na- tional angle. Page C-1 Navy rated big threat in coming Poughkeepsie ‘regatta. Page C-1 Purse for Preakness may be increased to $100,000. Page C-2 Disappointing Griff pitchers being tagged for shipment. Page C-2 “Go West” proves unprofitable slogan for Yankees. Page C-2 Automatic entry reward seen due ex- open champs. Page C-3 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 This and That. Page A-10 Political Mill. Page A-10 Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Page A-10 David Lawrence. Page A-11 H. R. Baukhage. Page A-11 Mark Sullwan. Page A-11 Jay Pranklin. Page A-11 Delia Pynchon. Page A-11 FINANCIAL. Bonds are narrow (table). ‘Ward sales set record. D. C. postal receipts soar. Stocks irregular (table). Curb list edges up (table). General Motors sales sag. Page A-17 Page A-17 Page A-18 Page A-18 Page A-19 Page A-19 MISCELLANY. 8hipping News. Service Orders. City News in Brief. Vital Statistics. Traffic Convictions. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. ‘Young Washington, Cross-word Purzle. Nature's Children. Bedtime Story, Letter-Out. Page A-13 Page A-13 Page A-13 Page A-13 Page A-13 Page B-3§ Page B-8 Jean Harlow Predicted Death When Stricken, Friend Recalls Associate Tells of Slar’. Estate Left by Actress Is Estimated ,000,000. | phire ring on the third finger of her | to Be $1 Ev the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 8.—The body of Jean Harlow, clad in white, her favorite color, lay in a bronze coffin that the blond fiim star voiced a and | Premonition of death when she was blonde,” stricken ill on May 29. The strange fear of the actress, | Who amassed an estimated $1.000,000 | in seven years of screen success, was described by Violet Denoyer, friend and make-up attendant for Miss Harlow. “Jean looked at me strangely one | morning—the same day she was taken | 11, said Miss Denoyer. “‘You know, Violet,’ she told me, | ‘T have & feeling I'm going away from here and never coming back.’ Ever since Christmas the 26-year- old actress hnd worn & huge star sap- Premonition. | THOMAS PREDICTS NEW D. C. LEVIES UPTO 9 MILLION Capital May Have to Raise That Amount, Senator Warns in Debate. COMMITTEE REPORTS | $46,600,000 SUPPLY BILL Total Additional Taxes Needed Here Estimated by That Body as $7,500,000. BULLETIN. With only a few last-minute changes, the Senate this afternoon passed the 1938 District supply bill, carrying approximately $46,600,000, and sent it to conrrrenre BY J. A. O'LEARY. A prediction that the District may have to raise eight or nine million dollars in new revenue for the coming fiscal year was made today by Senator Thomas, Democrat. of Oklahoma as the Senate began debate on the nu- merous changes in the 1938 District appropriation bill, As reported from committee late vesterday, the measure called for ap- | proximately $46.600.000, counting items | slated to be added on the floor. While this total is estimated to call for $7.500,000 in new taxes, Thomas said whether the deficit goes above that figure will depend on the receipts from existing sources of revenue, Although the new taxes are to be dealt with separately, Senator Borah, Republiean, of Idaho turned the dis- cussion to the revenue situation by asking Thomas about reports that a right hand. It was a gift from Wil- liam Powell. In death her hair was not the plati- what she had described as a “honey its natural color before she | entered the movies. Miss Harlow was wearing the m-‘ tural shade in her last film when she was stricken with her fatal iliness of uremic poisoning. The body of the star who died at the height of her career as did Rudolph Valentino and Barbara Lamarr was held at a mortuary for her mother and immediate relatives to | | look upon a last time before a funeral | service tomorrow. The glamorous actress’ mother, Mrs. [ Jean Bello, was in & state of near- (See HARLOW, Page A-3) 1., I SERVEE BILL T0 BE DRAWN Commissioners Ask Draft| to Establish Independent System for City. BACKGROUND— Federation of Citizens’ Associa- tion has led fight of organized citi- zens’ groups for “District jobs for District residents” for many years. Particular objection has been against appointment of “carpet- baggers” and out-of-town residents. Besieged to appoint hundreds of politicians’ friends when they took office, Commissioners several times have urged separate civil service Jor municipal government. 4 | T | Creation of an independent civil service system for the District govern- ment will be provided in a bill to be drawn by Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal, under directions issued today | by the Commissioners. ‘The plan is to submit the proponl‘ to Congress for possible action at this | session. The Commissioners, it was sald, are advised that Chairman King of the Senate District Committee has taken an interest in the proposal, and they asked Seal to expedite preparation of the measure. ‘The hope of the Commissioners for » separate civil service system, inde- pendent of the Federal program, is based on the repeated demands of or- ganized Washington civie groups that District residents should have first call | for jobs in their municipal govern- | ment. Under the United States civil service | District residents would be subject to the quota system for all the States. It is feared that such a system would’ force many District applicants to stand | aside while jobs were awarded to resi- | dents of other States. The District now has no civil service status, except for policemen and fire- men, through arrangement with the United States Civil ‘Service Commis- sion, and except that the school teach- ers have their own merit system. ‘While the details of the bill are not yet known, Commissioner Hazen indicated today it was his idea that the policemen, firemen and school teachers should be brought into the proposed District civil service when one is established. The great body of municipal work- ers do not have civil service protec- tion. 8ince the Hoover administra- tion, however, an executive order has provided that persons appointed to fill District jobs shall be drawn from the eligible lists of the United States Civil Service Commission. This rule is waived when the commission has no eligibles and when there are no funds availale for holding of new examinations. Department heads and certain professional positions also are exempt from the terms of the exec- utive order. Commissioner Allen has suggested that the bill be drawn to provide that & person must have been a bona fide resident of the District for three years to become eligible ginder the proposed District civil pian. SCENT-A-ZONERISE INCAB RATE ASKED Randolph Advises Boost at| Hearing on Bill to Limit | Number of Taxis. BY JAMES E. CHINN. An increase of 5 cents per zone in | District taxicab rates was advocated | today by Representative Randolph, Democrat, of West Virginia during a hearing before a special subcommittee | of the House District Committee on a bill that would limit the number of | cabs in operation. sales tax is being considered. Thomas explained the Appropria- tions Subcommittee, of which he is chairman, has not considered the sources for new revenue, but that he | today as a close associate recalled num hue she made famous, it was personally is opposed to the sales tax Hospital Change Asked. Asked by Minority Leader McNary to outline the Senate changes, Thomas said the major one is to restore a pro- vision transferring public hospitals | from the Weifare Board to the Health Depnrtmem. which went out in th> House on & point of order. The chair- man revealed the Senate committee is favoring this change on the advice of | Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, a physician ‘Thomas also declared Rzpresemnme Collins, Democrat, of Mississippi, in charge of the bill in the House, wants to see this transfer made. Senator Norris, independent, of Ne- braska asked for a further explanation of the hospital change, and Thomas said it was thought the hospitals should be under the agency dealing primarily with health rather than the | general public welfare agency. When it passed the House two months ago with a total of $45,116,584 the bill called for $6,146,000 of new revenue. While the Senate was preparing (o boost the outlay in the supply bill, Chairman Kennedy of the special tax subcommittee of the House yesterday introduced in that body the omnibus local tax bill which would add about $7,000,000 to the city's general fund from five sources and $1,500,000 to the gas tax fund through a weight tax on motor vehicles. The tax bills | were referred promptly to the House | District Committee, where they may come up at the regular meeting to- | morrow, or a special session Thurs- day. Drops Proviso for Advances. In a last-minute decision to spir Congress on in the consideration of Randolph, chairman of the subcom- mittee, said he believed the 20- cent} zone fares are too low to permit drivers to earn a decent livelihood. | Representative Nichols, Democrat, of Oklahoma, who appeared as a wit- | | ness, supported the proposed increase, pointing out an additional 5 cents per | zone would enable taxi operators to carry liability insurance for public protection. Higher rates were suggested by | Randolph after boos and cries of | “baloney” greeted a statement by | Harry H. Bettleman of the Consoli- dated Cab Association that the con- scientious driver who works regularly earns from $6 to $15 a day. Ran- dolph warned the taxi drivers who | jammed the committee room that further demonstrations would result in the room being “cleared.” “We must have order and deco- | rum,” he declared as he pounded the gavel. Elgen at Hearing. Executives of the Public Utilities | Commission, which controls taxi fares, | were present when both Randolph and | Nichols advocated an increase, but made no comment on the proposal. | Among them were Riley E. Eigen, | chairman; Richmond B. Keech, vice | chairman, and James L. Martin, exec- utive secretary. The commission members lppnred: before the subcommittee to indorse | the bill, which would give them au- | thority to reduce gradually the num- ber of cabs. Keech told the sub- committee there are 4,757 cabs li- censed to operate in Washington, or | more than in operation in Chicago, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh com- bined. Elgen declared the proposed legis- lation is necessary for the ‘“proper regulation of the taxicab industry” in the District. “Some limitations are needed,” he | said, “both for the benefit of the operators and to improve traffic con- ditions.” Randolph also injected the subject of financial responsibility for taxi- cabs into the hearing by declaring Congress had been derelict in its duty by having falled to enact legislation for that purpose “years ago.” Nichols questioned the necessity of legislation to limit the number of cabs on the ground that compulsory lia- bility insurance sutomatically would achieve that goal. He is chairman of 8 subcommittee of the House District (8es a& Poge A the new tax bills, the Senate Appropri- ations Committee left out the author- ity sought by the Commisisoners to ob- tain advances of funds from the Fed- eral Treasury early in the new fiscal year. Senator Thomas, who will guide the | supply bill through the Senate, made it plain this borrowing provision was omitted because of a belief that if it existed the new tax bills might not pass. City officials had told the 8en- ate group, however, that even if the new tax measures pass promptly, the city still might find itself in need of the advances for the first few months while the machinery for collection of the new levies is being put in motion, Realty Tax Hike Looms. Meanwhile, prospects that the Com- missioners will be forced to increase the real estate tax rate should Con- gress refuse to authorize them to ob- tain advances from the Treasury, pending collection of the proposed new tax levies, were seen today at | the District Building. District officials, however, appeared not to be greatly perturbed, evidently believing the authority for the ad- vances will be provided if the House | promptly passes the proposed new tax program. It appeared probable, however, that | even with approval of the new tax " (See D. C. BILL Pue A- ) FAIR AND WARMER IS FORECAST HERE No Relief in Sight From Heat Wave Which Pros- trated Two. Fair and warmer weather & foree | cast by the Weather Bureau for to- night and tomorrow, offering virtually no hope for relief from the heat wave that caused two prostrations yes terday. From 68 degrees at 4 a.m. today the mercury climbed to 77 at 10 a.m. Yesterday's high was 86, at 2:45 p.m. The heat victims were Beity Allen, colored, 924 P street, taken to Gal- linger Hospital from Nineteenth street and Massachusetts avenue southeast, and Bernard Weaver, 55, colored, 2018 Georgia avenue, W. P. A worker, overcome on a project at Mount Olivet road and Montello avenue northeast. His condition was dee scribed as se; st Casualty Hos» pital