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A—2 x» FLICKERING SIGNS T0BE ELIMINATED Advertisers Pledge Aid in Drive on Devices That Distract Motorists. B7 the Assoclated Press., BALTIMORE, June 15.—Co-opera- tion with the State Roads Commission to eliminate flickering and illuminat- ed signs along the highways of Mary- land was promised by 34 adwvertisers and advertising agencies at a confer- ence with Dr. Homer E. Tabler, chair- man of the commission. Dr. Tabler called the conference to determine whether persons and agencies which place billboards along the State highways would be willing to abolish signs “of a distracting na- ture to drivers.” He advocated co- operation in an effort to reduce motor fatalities. Paul E. Sutherland, who has charge of issuing commission permits for roadside billboards, pointed out that gome signs which are lighted at night, especially with flickering or neon Ughts, took the attention of drivers from the highway and created a hazardous situation 34 Firms Pledge Aid. The representatives of the 34 ad- vertisers and agencies agreed unan- fmously with Dr. Tabler that they would co-operate in eliminating signs | which were determined as causing a hazardous traffic condition. No plan of action was determined at the meet- in HS\:\hs‘rh\ncl said he will make an in- vestigation of signs which might be included in this group and invited a representative of the advertiser to visit the highway near the sign at night to agree that it should be re- moved. Dr. Tabler said a purpose of the conference was to see if “the adver- tising fraternity has given thought to the part which advertising is play- ing in motor fatalities.” Holds No Antagonism. He said “I hold no antagonism against any one advertiser concerned, but I am merely interested in solving | the highway fatalities situation.” Mrs. H. Frew Waidner, jr., repre- gentative of the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland, spoke in favor of | eliminating the illuminated signs. Agencies and companies represented at the conference included firms of Baltimore, Washington, Cumberland and Hagerstown. . PREMIER ABERHART SURVIVES TEST VOTE Alberta Budget Adopted After Non-Confidence Move Fails. EDMONTON, Alberta, June 15 (Ca- nadian Press).—The Alberta Legis- lature yesterday adopted a budget for the coming year after defeating a non-confidence motion by Liberals against the Social Credit government of Premier Willlam Aberhart. J. E. Tremblay, Liberal member from Groudard, enlisting the support of Liberals and Conservatives, offered e non-confidence motion. Social ;edxt members united to defeat it Wy a vote of 40 to 7. ¢ His motion charged the Aberhart government had failed to increase purchasing power by paying basic dividends of $25 a month to every adult bona fide citizen of the province within 18 months and had failed to reduce taxation and abolish poverty. The budget, introduced in March, precipitated an Insurgent-Loyalist fight that resulted in it being side- tracked while a three months’ supply il was passed for temporary financ- pe. i BOY, 4, HALTS TRAIN Freight Delayed While He Drives ‘ Cows From Rails. « BROWNTOWN, Wis., June 15 (#). «Wayne Segner, 4, stood in a rail- Yoad right of way and waved a thun- ;ehrmg freight train to a dead halt. e engineer popped his head out and ked: ~ “What's the matter, son?” < “You can't drive that thing any farther till I get my daddy's cows off the track,” Wayne ordered. Then Ye called his father from a nearby feld to help drive two valuable Jersey Gows from the tracks. _— Kairos Klub to Give Party. “The Kairos Klub of Grace Baptist Church will give a garden party to- morrow evening on the church grounds, Ninth street and South Carolina avenue southeast. Congress in Brief T Senate: ~ Debates relief appropriation bill. + Joint. Labor Committee continues wage and hour hearings. « Finance Committee considers ex- tension of “nuisance” taxes. » House: - Considers War Department non- fhilitary appropriation bill. * Naval Committee considers resolu- n to suspend further naval promo- Slons. « Interstate Commerce Committee tudies new railroad retirement bill. » Flood Control Committee resumes hearings on $800,000,000 flood control Program. ~ Post Office Committee continues fearing on foreign airmail legislation. TOMORROW. TODAY., Qenate: » Probably will continue debate on felief appropriation bill. + Education and Labor Committee, ther hearings on wage and hour Bl * Post Office Committee, hearing re- flunc to foreign airmail, 10 a.m. louse : Bouse: 4 » Considers miscellaneous bills on $alendar. - Immigration Committee considers 0:30 am. Interstate and Foreign Commerce ommittee resumes hearing on bill to mend securities act of 1933, 10 a.m. & Post Office and Post Roads Com- ittee considers resolution providing or mail delivery to strike-bound lants, 10:30 a.m. + Rules Committee considers pro- 1 to grant special rule permitting use consideration of District tax Pill, 10:30 a.m. = District Committee oconsiders mis- Rellanecus bitls, xo:ao»“n. and Naturalization Starnes bills, | despite the difference, | sports department, Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. COMFORT. HE crying need for “paternity” rooms in hospitals was dis- cussed the other night by “Nick” Abbott, who is the father of a 2-months-old son. (Mrs. Abbott is a Washington girl, formerly “Aliebar” Price.) In Washington, it seems, no thought is given to the needs of the expectant father, whereas in Los Angeles hospi- tals have ceased exposing him to the unpleasant and unsympathetic atmos- phere of general waiting rooms, where “Nick” spent many unhappy hours in & local hospital in April. Nurses, he complains, are inclined to get young fathers mixed up and give them in- accurate information or none at all. A paternity room, on the other hand, - e < {". "3 ST B 243 S ] & -fl;“‘ is designed to ease his mental anguish, being equipped with comfortable couches and chairs, a radio, reading matter and, if we remember correctly, an ice box. Regular bulletins at stated intervals relieve the father of suspense, and everything is done to make it pos- sible for him to survive the ordeal with | the least possible damage. * X ok X PROBLEM. There's a problem bothering a local lad-abecut-town he could have solved for himself if only he liked lobster. He stopped in a restau- rant up on Fourteenth street the other night, looked at the menu, and his eye fell upon this: Lobster a la Newburg, .70. Broiled Lobster, etc., 1.25. Lobster a la Newburg, .75. The poor chap still is wondering just what lobster Newburg would have cost him. A nickel's a lot these days. ok ox % OUCH! TF ANY reader of this corner com- mits mayhem or anything like that on Patrick Ross, Mr. Ross will have no room for complaint. He's brought it all down on his own head. Seems he looked at the paper the other day, saw a story about the Basques, surrounded in Bilbao with only one exit, trying to force another way out. “Well,” said Mr. Ross, “you can't blame them for not wanting to put all | their Basques in one exit."” * % ok x WHAT'S IN A NAME? \‘YASHJNGTON newspaper men who have had their troubles keeping straight on the spelling of the names | of Arno B. Cammerer, director of the | National Park Service, and H. P.| Caemmerer, executive officer of the Fine Arts Commission, who are km{ now have a| real problem to worry over. | It is provided by a father and two sons who spell the family name three | different ways. The father is Joseph T. Staniszewski, 744 Quebec place. One of the sons is Second Lieut. Eugene Joseph Stann, who has just graduated | from the United States Military Acad- emy, West Point, as fifth man in his class in general standing. The other son is Francis E. Stan of the Star now assigned to the road with the Washington base ball club. Try to refer to that family collec- | tively! FOR MEN ONLY. L. B. Clark is a glass blower, par excellence, at the Smithsonian In- stitution during working hours. He makes glass equipment for labora- tories. But at home, in his lighter moments, he makes button hole vases. The glass tube is sealed at one end a flange ertends around the mouth of the other end. This e flange is painted with a solution containing gold and is heated. Presto, the flange is gold-plated. A few drops of water in the vase keeps the pansies fresh all day. * o x X INFORMATION. PUT this one down as an example of quick thinking on the part of an up-and-coming information clerk at a local travel bureau. = Your reporter had before him an address bearing the name of a hotel which looked like: “The William Len” of Memphis, Tenn. The handwriting was a bit illegible and he wanted to verify the name of the place. Addressing the clerk by phone, he asked: “Could you tell me if there is a hotel by the name of ‘William Len’ in Memphis, Tenn.?” The clerk hemmed for a minute and then he hawed, and after considerable delay the following questions and answers ensued: “Do you have any idea what town it is in, sir?” “Yes, it's in Memphis, Tenn.” (Longer pause.) “No—TI see no such hotel.” “Well, is there any hotel there bear- ing & name beginning with William?” (Pause.) “William? . . . yes, here’s & William.” “Well, William what?" “William Len.” “You don’t mean it! William Len!” “But that's in Memphis, Tenn.” “Not really?” Yes, sir.” “Well, thanks OFFICER “WINS” AUTO Br the Associated Press. CHICAGO.—Accused of speeding 38 miles an hour, Dorothy Brad- shaw told the court her car wouldn't g0 25 miles an hour and that she'd give it to any one who could drive 1t 40. Police Officer Harry Witt climbed behind the wheel and took Miss Bradshaw for a ride—at 43 miles an hour. Motor Cycle Officer Wesley Brown, jr, who trailed the car and clocked it at 46, has put in the first bid to buy Witt's new automobile when the fulfills | acter,” THE EVENING STAR, ?WASHINGTON. WAGE-HOUR BILL HELD UNJUSTIFIED U. S. Chamber’s President Sees No Emergency Calling for It. BACKGROUND— With elimination of sweatshop conditions as objective, administra- tion is sponsoring bill for Govern- ment regulation of wages and hours, prohibition of child labor in interstate commerce and outlawing use of professional strike-breakers and industrial spies. Reaction to bill as now drafted has been mixed with principal con= troversy centered over wide dis- cretionery powers granted to ad- ministrative board. Claiming the total of unemployment measured in a “realistic” sense is considerably below the amount held in popular opinion, George H. Davis, president of the United States Cham- ber of Commerce, told the Senate and House Labor Committees today that he saw no emergency sufficient to Jjustify such “extraordinary” legisla- tion as the pending wage and hour bill. Today's hearing on the bill also disclosed a difference 8f opinion be- tween John L. Lewis and Sidney Hill- man, co-leaders of ‘the C. 1. O, on section 5, one of the major provisions of the bill. Appearing this morning, Hillman spoke at considerable length in support of the provision which would empower the Labor Standards Board to estab- lish minimum wages below $1,200 year- ly in industries where collective bar- gaining had been found to be inade- quate or ineffective. Lewis previously opposed the pro- vision, claiming it would lead to wage fixing and intruded into the proper field of collective bargaining. During questioning Hillman ex- plained the difference of opinion by citing differences of the coal and clothing industries in which' the two leaders have gained their principal ex- perience. Leandon C. Painter, spokesman for | the Association for Progressive Po- litical Action, of Alexandria, Va., ap- peared in support of legislation direct- ed at improved wages and working | conditions. Measure Held Extraordinary. “Judged by any standards, the| measure which you have under con-| sideration is extraordinary in char- Davis said. “There would| seem to be possible justification for consideration of such legislation only in some extraordinary emergency. I know of no such emergency, I am not able to discover in our member- ship knowledge of such an emergency, and I have not learned of any other source from which information can be obtained. “On the contrary, the emergency | which we had has been passing. All of us, T know, have been looking forward to the time when we shall have it well behind us. A committee of the chamber which for a good part of last year studied employment | with the assistance or more than 200 | member organizations reached a con- | clusion early last Winter that unem-} ployment measured in any rellullci sense was less than the figures mvrni popular circulation, and that the time | had come to concentrate on training men and women for employment so0 | that they could advance beyond the class of common laborer.” Turning to possible effects of the legislation on agricultural pursuits, Davis claimed that, despite mention of exemption of farm workers, it would | “appear to be within the discretion of the Federal board to apply the wage- and-hour provisions to most of the regular employes of grain farms, dairy | farms, the farms which feed corn to | cattle and hogs which they ship in- | terstate to market, the live stock | ranches and the fruit and vegetable growers that look to markets in other States. According to my own reading | of the bill, there can be no other in- | terpretation of the language as it is| written. Costs Would Rise. “If some construction were found for this bill which would prevent its provisions from being applied to agri- cultural enterprises, and they were confined to industrial production, the measure would still have an impor- tant effect upon agriculture in all its forms in every part of the country. This bill would operate, and I believe the intention is it should operate, to increase the costs of industrial pro- duction. It is unavoidable that in- creases in such costs would be re- flected in price increases in everything the farmers buy. 9 “The national advantage which has been obtained through the efforts of the Federal Government toward giv- ing something like economic parity to work in agricultural production with work in industrial production would disappear, and the results of years of endeavor would be wiped out. We would be back where we began, with agriculture in a depressed situation in comparison with the other fields of economic activity in the United States. “Many of us believe that the cre- ation of such inequitable and unfair conditions would have serious effects upon industrial enterprises themselves, and all of their workers. The buying power of our farm population and of the still wider population directly re- lated to the farm population cannot be impaired without serious economic consequences for everybody.” Business Hesitation Feared. ‘The chamber spokesman warned the committee that uncertainties of busi- ness costs, as threatened by the wage- hour legisiation, would force business to hesitate and keep future business commitments down to the minimum, “The great bulk of our business in the United States is done on very narrow margins,” Davis continued, “which any increase in costs may more than wipe out, resulting in red figures that help no one, least of all Diyorced PALMER DISPUTE ENDS WITH $475,000 SETTLEMENT. MARIA MARTINEZ DE HOZ PALMER. ~—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. MRS, PALMER GETS DIVORCE DECREE Settlement of $475;000 Is Made—$200,000 to Be Paid at Once. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 15—The divorce suit of Mrs. Potter D'Orsay Palmer against the scion of the noted Chicago hotel family was consummated in a final decree filed in Superior Court to day and an out of court settlement of $475,000. Neither Palmer nor his wife, the former Maria Martinez de Hoz, were present when Judge Oscar F. Nelson signed the divorce decree yesterday. Judge Nelson established court at his home because of illness. The settiement provided for imme- diate payment of approximately $200,000 to Mrs. Palmer with the bal- ance to be paid when Palmer receives his inheritance. ‘The Palmers were married July 19, 1930, after the Chicagoan was divorced in 1929 by his first wife, Eleanor Gold- smith, 16-year-old daughter of a Sar- asota, Fla, truck driver whom he mar- ried in 1928. Mrs. Palmer, who is 27, is the daughter of M. and Mme, Mar- cisco Martinez de Hoz, socially prom- inent residents of Argentine and Paris. Palmer is the son of Honore Palmer and a grandson of Mrs. Potter Palmer, social arbiter of Chicago before her death {n 1918. He is 31. Mrs. Palmer's divorce suit, filed last January 18, charged cruelty. Her counsel said disagreement on terms of the settlement caused delay of the final decree. B — the Government with its income tax In differing from Lewis in section 5, Hillman said: “The omission of section 5, would, in my judgment, go far to emasculate the bill and to deprive it of many of its most valuable features. “I do not think that the Congrws will have begun to meet its obligations to the submerged third of our work- ing population by merely providing a 40-hour week which will give them, if they are lucky enough to be fully employed, an income of not more than | 4800 a year, or by providing a 35-hour week, which will give them an income of not more than $700 a year. Collective Bargaining Aided. “The provisions of section 5 are so worded that they will aid and not re- tard the process of collective bargain- ing. section only if it finds that the facili- ties for collective bargaining. have proved inadequate or ineffective. I have no worry that the board cannot effectively make and apply such a finding. “The law certainly should not stop short when the worker’s income reaches $800 a year. I do not think that a top limit of $800 a year keeps the Democratic party's pledges to working men and women in the last election.” Discussing the differential issue, Hillman declared he could see “little need for differentials or classifications in the application of the non-oppres- sive standards of 40 cents an hour and 40 hours a week. The differences in cost of living, in cost of production, and in other respects are not nearly 80 great or as marked as many people have been led to believe. “I should be unalterably opposed to the writing into the bill of any rigid requirement of a geographical differ- ential in the non-oppressive hour and wage scale.” Willing to Let Experts Decide. ‘The labor leader immediately qual- ified this opposition by conceding will- ingness to accept the provision by which such differentials might be determined after examination and hearings. “There is no reason,” he said, “why those of us who oppose differentials as well as those who favor them should not be willing to abide by the judgment of an impartial and in- formed board of experts.” The joint committee heard the bill attacked by several witnesses yester- day, most outspoken opposition com- ing from Mrs. Leila Bloomfield of the New York State Economic Council and from George B. Chandler, secretary of the Ohio State Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Bloomfield presented reports and statistics intended to show that New Zealand had suffered greatly from legislative efforts similar to the wage and hour bill. She admitted that her organization has opposed every piece of social legislation sponsored by the present administration, and that its principal support comes from a long list of utility and industrial firms. Huge Slabs of Marble Pillars In St. Peter’s Crash to Floor By the Associated Press. VATICAN CITY, June 15.—Huge sections of several of the enormous marble pillars inside St. Peter's, the world’s largest cathedral, crashed to the floor today. ‘The falling blocks of marble did not endanger tourists, but Eugenio Car- dinal Pacglli, the Vatican secretary of state, and Msgr. Luigi Pellizzo, secre- tary of the Cathedral Building Com- mittee, took immediate steps to insure the safety of visitors. inspection of all columns inside the cathedral. Vatican engineers said the marble fragments probably were loosened by sudden changes in the temperature during the past several days. After inspecting the pillars the engineers began to detach all marble facings that seemed insecure and roped off areas at the bases of pillars they considered unsafe. Vatican City authorities said they would undertake extensive and costly work of aligning and refacing the tremendous of which 8t. Peter's has about The board may act under this | D. C., TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1837. BRITAIN, SIX MORE DEFAULT WAR DEBT Payment of $85,670,765 Instaliment Refused in “Copy” of ’36 Note. By the Associated Press. Great Britain added its name again today to the list of defaulters on their war debt to the United States. In language almost identical with previous communications on the sub- Ject, Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambassador, notified Secretary Hull that his government's installment of $85,670,765 due today would not be met. He added that as yet Great Brit- ain had no proposal to offer looking toward a settlement of the account now in defaplt since 1933. 8ix other war debtors previously had notified this Government of their in- ability to meet the regular semi- annual payment, the total of which, including installments already in ar- rears, amounts to $1,520,159,863. Willing to Discuss It, When . ., , Acknowledging receipt of the routine American reminder of amounts due today, Ambassador Lindsay said: “I am directed to express the ap- preciation of his majesty's government of the assurance that the Government of the United States is fully dispoaed“ to discuss any proposals which his | majesty's government may decide to put forward in regard to the payment | of this indebtedness, and in return I am to assure you that his majesty's government will be willing to reopen discussions on the subject whenever circumstances are such as to warrant the hope that a satisfactory result might be reached.” Britain's total defaulted debt, in- cluding today's installment, amounts to $871.815,601. Six more nations defaulted yes- terday, netifying the State Depart- ment that they cannot pay their shares of a $1,520,159,863 instaliment due to- day. The six are: Italy, owing $81,978.163; Belgium, $56,657.631; Poland, $46,17 107; Czechoslovakia, $14,632.588; Ru- mania, $7.390,000, and Lithuania, $1,- 231,760. Latvia and Yugoslavia previously had proclaimed that they would not | pay. | Of 13 European debtor nations, Fin- | land is the only one which has not de- | faulted. That little Baltic republic in- | | formed the American governgent two | weeks ago that it would pay s $163.- | 143 bill promptly on June 15. Of the total sum due today, $205,- 338,754 represents the regular June 15 installments and $1,314,821,109 the| | payments in arrears. CCEPTS CINCINNATI OFFER | Will Take Post at City Manager | if Released From Present Contract. Col. C. O. Sherrill, president of the American Retail Federation, with headquarters here, announced today he would return to Cincinnati as city | manager, subject to obtaining his re- lease from his present contract. | He was Cincinnati’'s first city man- ager, and the City Council voted | unanimously yesterday to ask him to {return, according to the Associated Press. He was named to succeed the man who followed him, Clarence A | Dykstra, who recently resigned to be- | | come president of the University of | Wisconsin. The salary of city manager is| $25,000—just half Col. Sherrill's pres- ent salary—but he explained he felt ‘clrw to the people of Cincinnati and in sympathy with their problems | and could not refuse an unsought ! request to serve them again. Col. S8herrill’ has been executive | officer of the American Retail Feder- | | ation for two years. He will ask the | directors at an early meeting to re- | | lease him. | | He pointed out that the federation | bad made rapid strides in the last ‘rew years and was in excellent shape |'to be turned over to his succesor. Before heading the municipal gov- ernment of Cincinnati, Col. Sherrill was in the Army for 25 years. STORE CONTROLLERS MEET TOMORROW Session at Manor Club to Hear Tax Talk, Install Officers. The National Capital Group of Controllers, comprising the controllers and assistant controllers of local de- partment and specialty stores, will hold their final meeting of the year tomorrow at the Manor Club. Lunch- eon is scheduled at 1 p.m. and a golf tournament at 2. A business session will be held after dinner at 7 p.m. The meeting is being held just prior to the departure of several rep- resentatives of the group for Chicago to attend the session of the National Dry Goods Association. The Washington organization is competing again for the Alfred Henry Trophy, awarded each year to the group contributing the greatest serv- ice to the dry goods association. The local unit won the trophy last year. Adolph Weyl, controller of Lans- burgh & Bro, will speak at the eve- ning session tomorrow, discussing proposed District tax legislation. In- stallation of officers also will take place. Present officers are Harold G. Malone, controller of the Hecht Co., chairman; J. Frank Brown, controller of 8. Kann Sons Co, vice chairman, and A. Coonin, controller 6f William Hahn & Co,, secretary. President Has Class On Good Business For School Senior With President Roosevelt as his teacher, Willlam Lord Drake, ji Milwaukee High School seni was given a valuable pointer to- day in a class on good business practice. Winner of the Gorgas essay contest, the youth stood before the Chief Executive to receive a $500 cash prize. Handing an envelope to William, Mr. Roosevelt sug- gested, “You'd better look inside and see if the $500 is there.” Like any good pupil, Drake fol- lowed instructions—and, smiling, announced everything was O.K, Flags Torn by Storm W \ 1 DEFENSE IS PLEA INKILLING OF MATE less Christmas. Mrs. Frances N. Kellison, 36, who went on trial in District Court today charged with murdering her 28-year= old husband, John Kellison, last De= cember 26, told the jury that Keilison | drank to excess, beat her frequently i Yesterday’s storm, which caused postponement of the Flag day exercises at the Capitol, lit erally tore to shreds some of the flags placed on the dome to commemorate the day. Gus Cook, supervising engineer of the Capitol, is examining one of the flags, the stripes of which were knotted so tightly they could not be untied by hand. —Star Staff Photo. Tall Tale MOTHER CLEARS UP BOY'S STORY. SIMPLICIO BUCIA. —Star Staff Photo. HIS 7-year-old Filipino hung his head today when the yarn he told police about being forced out of his father's automobile in last night's rain was exploded. His mother, Mrs. Filotea Bucia, claimed him at the Receiving Home, where he was taken after being found at Penn- sylvania and Alabama avenues south- east. Mrs. Bucia said she and her hus- band, Simplicio Bucia, hunted hours for their son yesterday at the place | where they usually meet him to take him home after his classes at Ross School. The lad apparently had strayed away with playmates and made up the story in order to escape punishment, she said. Supt. G. H. Leonard of the Receiv- ing Home said the boy ruefully ad- mitted the hoax when confronted by his mother. HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS MISSING FROM HOMES Two Believed on Way to New York to Seek Stage Careers. Two high school girls, believed to be en route to New York to seek jobs on the stage, were being sought by their parents and | police today. The girls, Doris McWhirter, 16, of 409 New Jersey avenue southeast, and Isabelle Green, 16, of 512 Third street southeast, disap- peared from their homes yesterday. Before she left home, Doris told her twin sister that she and Isa- belle planned to go first to Balti- more and then continue on to New York today, police were told. . Queen Elizabeth will receive the degree of LL.D. from Edinburgh (Scotland) University. Doris McWhirter. BLOOM QUESTIONS |Says “There Are No Cred- ible Historical Data” to Support Flag Legend. Representative Bloom of New York, authority on George Washington and the Constitution, turned to the micro- phone yesterday to tell the Nation in his Flag day address that “there are no credible historical data to support the Betsy Roes story” after a thunder- storm had broken up the outdoor pro- gram at the Capitol. Bloom, the Navy Band and a few hundred spectators had gathered at the east front for the program when the storm broke. The spectators, many of them drenched. ran for cover under the Capitol's porticos. Two new earlier had floated preudly in t breeze were torn to tatters by wind and rain. Two poles were cracked. | “The origin of the flag remains a mystery,” Bloom sald in his radio speech on the 160th anniversary of the resolution of the Continental Con- gress which made the Stars and Stripes the flag of the United States. “We | probably shall never know the facts | about it. This is in spite of the fact that a most complete and romantic story associated with Betsy Ross has | been told for the past 60 years or more and believed by millions of peo- ple. It is unfortunate that there are no credible historical data to support the story.” “What we do know is that on June 14, 1777, the flag, very much as we know it today, became a reality, differ- ing only in the number and arrange- ment of the stars from today's flag.” Bloom is director general of the United States Constitution Sesqui- centennial Commission, Senator Lee of Oklahoma delivered a radio address at 10 p.m, under spon- sorship of the District American Le- gion. At Griffith Stadium, what is said to be the largest United States flag ever made—102 by 185 feet—was displayed by John L. Burnett Council, No. 4, Junior Order of United American Me- chanics. Representative Jenckes of Indiana, main speaker at the stadium, charged Washington is a “hotbed of national and international propaganda” and that propagandists “are at work to gain commercial advantages for for- ican agriculture and industry.” U.'S. TO BUY MILK By the Associated Press. The Agricultural Adjustment Ad- ministration announced today the Government would buy 3,264,000 pounds of dry skim milk under a marketing conditions and prices to farmers.” Bids of from 55 to 6.25 cents a pound were accepted from 12 com- panies, and the milk product will be distributed to State relief agencies. Deliveries this month will be from Maryland, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, Cali- fornia and New York. None Injured as Blast Blows Tires of Car at 90-Mile Speed The driver put both hands on the windshield, This failed to disturb several Wash- ington business men who were riding with him, although the car was roar- ing along at 85 miles an hour. What gave the passengers spinal chills was waiting for the blow-out they knew would occur in a few sec- onds—a blow-out assured by & wiring mechanism connected with dynamite caps in the right rear tire. As the car swept toward a group of spectators lining an airport run- way this morning, Eddie Koffroth, veteran demonstrator, let his knee slide toward the detonating button ... it was a big moment in the lives of the passengers. Those watching the demonstration, arranged by sales agents for a double inner tube, heard & sharp report as the car swept by them. But the ‘m(‘\lmfihfld“m-' veer one way or the other. -It merely sped along with the right rear wheel running on & somewhat lower level. Another run was made, with more volunteers, to demonstrate that a blowout on & tire equipped with the safety double inner tube was no more dangerous on a front than a rear. Then Koffroth turned about, had his tires changed and the wiring dis- connected from the casings, and came charging down the runway at 90 miles an hour to run his left front and rear tires over a double row of railroad spikes set in a steel plate before the crowd. There was a vicious hiss of air as the heavy machine flashed over the spikes, but the car held a straight course. The casings then were re- moved to show the inner tubes. The tubes within tubes had remained in- tact, with enough pressure to let the car down easy after the outer tubes Tbhwnwt. BETSY ROSS STORY| American flags that a few minutes | | eign nations which are ruining Amer- | surplus removal program “to improve | and left her and her children without food Christmas day. The brief trial was expected to be concluded this afternoon The shooting occurred about 2 a.m. in front of the Kellisons' home in the 1300 block of Eleventh street. Prompted by Defense Attorney Mil- ton I. Lewis, the defendant related & story of a destitute Christmas day which ended in the tragedy. “Had Only a Few Apples.” She said that Christmas eve her husband took $2 from her and spent it on whisky. The next morning, she said, he took 95 cents, all she had lef*, and went to the home of her eldest son, Roy, 23, and the two went to Baltimore, “I had no food in the house for the children except a few apples,” she de- clared Finally, however, she obtained a loan of $7 from the rooming ho prietress for whom she did h and bought groceries took her two small daugh the Christmas tree at a nearby church that evening, and, retur: rest of her children in bed. “I woke them up and got them | dressed and asked them to stay with | me because I knew that when my band came home he would fight me, and I was afraid to leave the: He Knocked Her Down. Until about 2 am. she sald, zhe and her children walked the streets or visited friends. Finally, as they were near their home on Eleventh street, Kellison appeared in an ine toxicated condition. She said that when she tried to pass him to reach their home first, he knocked her down and kicked her and then reached in his pocket as if to get something with which to hit her. She said that was the last she remembered. She i fied a revolver with which K n was shot as one she had purchased from a c ed man some time before. For a number of years, she said, | Kellison had beaten her frequent The trial is being held before Jus- tice Jesse C. Atkins. Assistant United States Attorney Samuel P. Beach is prosecuting the case. The chiidren were born to Mrs. Kellison by a prior marriage, e ——— 4 D. C. GRADUATES AT CARNEGIE TECH J. W. Brumbaugh Receives Chem. ical Engineering Degree, With Honor. Four Washingtonians were gradu- ated, one with honor, at final- exer= cises of Carnegie Institute of Tech- nology, Pittsburgh, yesterday. Theyr re John Brumbaugh, William Ward Martin, Robert Potter and Miss Dor- othy Eleanor O'Donnell. Brumbaugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Brumbaugh of 3001 Sixteenth street, received the degree of bach- elor of science, with honor, in chemi= cal engineering. Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walker S. Martin of 1826 Kilbourne place, took his degree in metallurgy, and Potter, son of Lincoln Potter of 6101 Connecticut aven too his in me- chanical engineering. Both students are members of honorary societies, Martin belonging to Tau Bet Pi and Potter to Phi Kappa Phi Miss O'Donnell, daughter of Mr |and Mrs. Thomas A. O'Donnell of | 5745 Thirteenth street, was awarded | the bachelor of arts degree in drama | by the colleze of fine arts. She ap- | peared in many productions of the drama department. FUNERAL IS CONDUCTED FOR JOHN C. DALPHIN Masonic Rites for Ratired Clerk in 0ld Office of Buildings and Parks. Funeral services for John C. Dal- phin, 69, retired administrative clerk of the old Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, are being held today in the Nevius fu- neral home, 924 New York ave- nue, with Rev, Dr. William 8, Abernethy, pase § tor of Calv { Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetety, with Masonic rites at the grave by the La Fayette Lodge of Masons, of Mr which Mr. Dal- 7 phin was a mem- ber. Mr. Dalphin died Saturday night in Hyattsville, Md., after a long illness. A native of New York, he retired in 1932 after nearly 35 years’ Govern- | ment service. The first nine years of | that time was spent with the United States Engineer’s Office in Boston and the remainder here. DOWLING IMPROVING Oldest Inhabitants’ Official Was Hit by Taxicab. Frank W. Dowling, 76, well known marshal of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Colum- bia, who was injured when struck by a taxicab Friday afternoon at Fourteenth and U streets, was improving slowly today at Emergency Hospital, where, however, he is not well enough yet to see visitors. A cast was placed on his left leg yesterday, in place of splints first ap- plied, for a broken bone between the knee and ankle. He is also suffering still from shock, a cut on the head and | bruises to the shoulder and hip. He | resides at 2109 F street. Dalphin. | The Virgin Islands of the United States, formerly the Danish West Indies, were bought for $25000,000 by the United States from Denmark in a treaty proclalmed January 28, ’17. .