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A—z x COURT BILL FOES SEEK COMPROMISE Some Opponents Will Yield If Logan Measure Is Modified. BACKGROUND— 3 President Rooserelt's original Su- preme Court bul, which would have permitted immediate appoint- ment of additional justices for all present members over 70, was given adverse report by Senate Ju- diciary Committee, 10 to 8. The 2ubstitute proposal limits appoint- ments to one a year and raises the age limit to 75. Some leading opponents of Presi- dent Roosevelt's court reorganization plan suggested a last-minute col promise yesterday, in hopes of avoid- ing a prolonged and bitter struggle which they feared might split the party. - Debate opens in the Senate Tuesday. Some of the opponents indicated that when it does they will accept the Logan bill “with one important mod- fication.” The Logan measure was introduced FPriday with the approval of Majority Leader Robinson and the White House. It permits appointment of one ad- ditional justice each year to supple- ment members who remain on the bench after reaching 75. Want Present Court Exempted. Some foes of court reorganization said privately they would agree to such legisiation—if it were not ap- plied to the present members of the court, There was no immediate indication that either administration leaders or even all of the opponents would agree to this New Deal chieftains insisted they could push the Logan bill through the Senate by a comfortable majority if it were permitted to come to a Vote. 36 Senators for Measure. Thirty-six Senators already are committed to the measure. . One hitherto uncommitted—Senator Mur- ray, Democrat, of Montana—said he believed the Logan measure was “probably the best compromise that can be worked out.” Senator Logan, Democrat, of Kentucky argued that in a showdown the administration could muster 54 votes. Nevertheless, the threat of some enemies of the court plan to filibuster indefinitely to prevent a vote on any legislation which would “pack the court” still stood. In the face of this, the more con- ciliatory opposition leaders appeared confident that both sides eventually could be persuaded to accept their modification of the Logan bill. Advocates of such a compromise feit that a filibuster might engender bitterness which would disrupt the Democratic party for vears to come, would reluctantly aid t resort. Logan Outlines Plans. Explaining that he had been asked to “manage” the new court compro- mise bill on the Senate floor, Sena- tor Logan continued: “It would be my guess that the original bill will be called up next Tuesday by unanimous consent, and then we will offer our amendment (the new bill) as a substitute, and as I see it, it makes little difference whether that is adopted at once or continued as a matter of debate. The {ssue would be the same in the end. ““The discussion could be legitimate for about two weeks and after that T would call it a filibuster. If I man- 8ge the bill, I would then insist upon continuous sessions, day and night, until we come to a vote on the bill. We are prepared to sit right through until January. “I think that behind all of this is 8 desire of the conservative Demo- crats to break the influence of the President so he will be unable to name his successor. They think they can do it by defeating the court plan. There is no question about it in my mind.” — INDIVIDUALS' TAXES NOW TOP U. S. LIST Corporations Drop Into Second Place, Despite Increase in Their Payments. BT the Associated Press. The Treasury disclosed yesterday that individual taxpayers displaced corporations as the biggest income taxpayers in the 1937 fiscal year. This was interpreted by some as indicative of the effects of the un- distributed profits tax which forced many corporations to pay larger divi- dends. A preliminary Internal Revenue Bu- reau analysis of receipts for the 12 months which ended June 30 showed corporations paid $893,955,576 in in- come taxes, compared with $610,014,- 432 in the previous year, while in- dividuals paid $996,361.289 last year, compared with $589,566,280 in the preceding 12 months. The report also disclosed $259,064,- 173 of the approximately $2,150,000,- 000 income tax collections last year was on back taxes. Collections on delinquent accounts in the previous year were $213,557,591, Chamber Too Cool, Members of House Now Are Reporting History May Be vMade Should ‘Frigidity’ Cause Early Adjournment. By the Associated Press. Hot weather often used to hasten Readers' Guide and News Summary The Sunday Star, July 4, 1937. PART ONE. Main News Section. FOREIGN. British leaders warn nations to respact Spain’s territory. Page A-1 Church is target of campaign by Soviet Union. A2 De Valera seems assured of majority in Dail. Page A-2 NATIONAL. Snow turns back plane going to hunt Earhart. Page A-1 Amelia’s husband holds out hope, com- forts navigator's wife. Page A-1 Flight intended as Miss Earhart's final aerial adventure. Page A-1 Foes of court bill suggest last-minute compromise. Page A-2 Three killed as private plane crashes and burns. Page A-2 Plugging of tax “loopholes” may meet little opposition. Page A-71 Roosevelt to speak at church fair to- morrow. Page A-7 STRIKE SITUATION. Sit-down strikes “unsuited” to U. 8, Secretary Perkins says. Page A-1 Roosevelt scans C. I. O. growth in Fed- eral ranks. Page A-1 Dynamite hurled at train leaving Cambria plant. Page A-1 Inland walks out of labor hearing in dispute. Page A-4 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Prominent Richmonder killed at show- place estate. Page A-1 Greenbelt landscaping costs double that of water system. Page A-2 Senate may give right of way to re- vised D. C. tax bill. Page A-7 Sunrise-to-sunset Fourth celebration set at Takoma. Page A-8 Institute of Public Affairs opens a U. of V. today. Page A-9 Bids for Carderock, Md., testing basin due July 21. Page A-10 Shake-up reports keep police on edge after indictments. Page A-18 Police Court rider found in D. C. ap- propriation act. Page A-18 Shot received in resisting robber fatal to grocer. Page A-18 No progress made i inquiry into death of cab driver. Page A-18 Esperanto convention closes with elec- tion of officers, Page A-18 Washington ready for biggest Fourth in history, Page A-18 SPORTS. * ' Pop-bottle attack on Powell marks Nats’ loss to Yanks. Page A-12 Budge completes clean sweep in net play at Wimbledon. Page A-12 Welsh defends D. C. net title against Lynch today Page A-13 Tolmich is double A. A. U. hurdle win- ner, defeating Towns. Page A-14 Three Pan-Americans will compete in Takoma 10-mile run. Page A-14 Sea Scouts staging novel regatta at Jamboree tomorrow. Page A-15 Holiday contests will draw throngs of golfers to links. Page A-16 Opportunity again knocks for Tow. with Brescia as foe. Page A-16 Esposa and Jay Jay annex big races at Delaware, Empire City. Page A-17 MISCELLANY. Washington Wayside. Obituary. Traffic convictions. Shipping news. Service orders. Vital statistics. Stamps. Cross-word puzzle. Educational PART TWO. Editorial, Finance. Editorial articles, Pages D-1-3 Editorials and comment. Page D-2 Military and veterans' news. ‘Women's clubs. Parent-teacher activities. Resorts. Financial news. Stock table. Bond table. Page D-9 Curb table. Page D-10 PART THREE. Society, Classified. Society news. PagesE-1-6 ‘Well-known folk. Page E-4 Barbara Bell pattern. Page E-6 Civic news. Page E-6 Lost and found Page E-6 Classified advertising. Pages E-6-12 PART FOUR. Feature Section. News features. Pages F-1-4 John Clagett Proctor. Page F-2 Radio programs, Page F-3 Amusements. Page F-5 Dick Mansfield. Page F-6 Automobiles. Page F-6 Children’'s page. Page F-7 FEDERAL BAR HOST T0 TWO SENATORS Lundeen and McCarran to Be Guests on Moonlight Cruise. Senator and Mrs. Ernest Lundeen and Senator and Mrs. Pat McCarran will be guests of honor at the Federal Bar Association’s annusl’ moonlight cruise down the Potomac on the S. 8. City of Washington next Friday night. Several heads of legal departments in the Government service are among members of the association who al- ready have made reservations for the cruise, according to William N. Mor- rell, chairman of the Social Com- mittee. Horace Russell, general counsel of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and its agencies, is president of the association. Tickets for the cruise aré' being sold under the supervision of David 8. Davison of the Civil Service Com- mission. KING AND FAMILY TO VISIT SCOTLAND Page A-2 Page A-10 Page A-10 Page D-5 Page D-4 Page D-5 Page D-6 Pages D-7-10 Page D-8 ‘adjournment of Congress, but this year the cold might do it. House members are complaining ‘more and more that their air-condi- - tioned chamber is too frigid. Many of them refer to it as the “jce box” and spend as much time - 88 possible in the warmer lobbies and cloak rooms. Representative Taber, Republican, of New York remarked that the House became increasingly uncom- fortable for members after they got all warmed up making speeches, and many of them were afraid of catching cold. The committee room in which the tax hearing has been held was so cool the other day that Representa- tive Crowther, Republican, of New York sat through the hearing with his coat collar turned up. [} Will Drive Through Edinburgh in State as Part of Coro- nation Program. By the Assoctatea Press. LONDON, July 3.—King George VI, Queen Elizgbeth and their two daugh- ters will leave London tomorrow night on a state visit to Scotland. Their majesties will drive through Edinburgh Monday morning. Thousands jammed Edinburgh to- night watching a rehearsal for the welcome and a procession nearly a mile long. It will be a triumphal rejurn for the Scottish-born lass who became Queen of England through marriage to the then Duke of York before the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII. The visit is part of the ecoro- nation program. [ THE SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON JULY 4 1937—PART ONE. Boardwalk Flames Cause $600,000 Loss at Rockaway Beach Washington Two persons were slightly injured and boardwalk con- cession property valued at $600,000 was destroyed in a blaze at Rockaway Beach, N. Y., yesterday. Flames and smoke at- tracted a 300,000 holiday crowd.—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. DE VALERA NEAR. MAJORITY IN DAL Seems Assured Also That New Constitution Will Be Approved. B the Associated Press DUBLIN, July 4 (Sunday).—With | 41 seats yet to be filled, President Eamon de Valera early today needed to win only 20 to gain an absolute | parliamentary majority in the Free | State's election. | He also appeared to be winning his | fight for a new constitution which | would cut his country's ties with Great Britain. At 2:30 a.m., 322919 votes had been reported in favor of the new charter and 264,688 against it. | De Valera's Fianna Fail party had won 50 of the 138 seats in the Dail (Parliament), former President Wil- liam T. Cosgrave's party 30, Labor 10 and Independents 7 All cabinet ministers were re-elected to the Dail. Latest returns in the plebiscite on | the constitution, however, showed 197,- 198 in favor and 156,143 against. Wicklaw constituency voted against | the proposed new constitution, as did | one Dublin and two Sligo constituen- cies, while the vote in severals others | was cloge. President de Valera had ex- | pressed confidence the charter would receive almost unanimous acceptance. | Opposition to it came chiefly from | women voters who, political observers | said, objected to what they regarded | an attempt to destroy equal rights | of citizenship with men All of De Valera's ministers except | two topped the poll in their con- | stituenties. Sean Lemass, minister | for industry and economy. was vic- torious in South Dublin, polling 16,000 | votes. | The last seat in Kilkenny went to | Thomas Derrig, minister for educa- | tion. Desmond Fitzgerald, Fine Gael | party man and former minister for external affairs, was re-elected also. SEARCH RENEWED FOR MRS. PARSONS| “Definite Suspects in Mind.” offi- | cial Says, as G-Men Pay Mystery Visit. Br the Associated Press. STONY BROOK, N. Y. July 3.— The search for Mrs. Alice McDonnell Parsons today drew the heads of both Federal and Suffolk County investi- gators back to the country home from which the Long Island heiress disap- peared 25 days ago. District Attorney L. Barron Hill said he planned to visit the Parsons home Monday or Tuesday. It was learned | that Earl J. Connelley, directing the | work of Federal agents in the case, also would be present. The exact purpose of their visit was | not disclosed. Since Federal and | State officials abandoned headquarters in Stony Brook, two Federal men have remained at the Parsons home, one of them in charge of a short-wave radio. Representatives of the district attor- ney's office said they had ‘“several definite suspects in mind,” but de- clined today to reveal their where- abouts, o HULL REAFFIRMS U. S. TRADE POLICY Tells International C. of C. Head of Readiness to Co-operate. B the Associated Press. Secretary Hull reaffirmed yesterday that the United States is ready to co- operate with other nations to improve international commerce—but without foreign political entanglements. Hull sent a message to Thomas J. Watson, newly elected president of the International Chamber of Com- merce, in session in Berlin. “The United States has most ex- tensive and varied interests in other lands and these offer a broad basis of co-operation without undertaking political relationships contrary to the American tradition,” the Secretary said. “The people of the United States further have always demonstrated a live interest in the affairs of the mind and spirit of other countries and a disposition to thare with them the fruits of advancement everywhere. “Today this disposition is touched with concern and fear, but the Amer- ican people, as well a5 the American business interests, would wish to strive to bring about conciliation be- tween peoples.” ’ |TOWNSEND HIT FOR | House, accused Dr. Francis E. Town- German Helicopter Sets Record Rises 8,123 Feet, Hits 77 m.p.h. EY tEc Associated Press. BREMEN, Germany, July 3.—| Heinrich Focke, German aircraft de- signer, announced tonight a new heli- copter built by him had attained an altitude of 2,500 meters (about 8.123 feet), far exceeding the world record. Maurice Claisse of France holds the recognized record of 158 meters (about 514 feet), made at Villacoublay, France, December 14, 1935. Focke sald the ship remained aloft for 1 hour 20 minutes and 49.89 seconds. He said it averaged 1225 kilometers (about 77 miles) an hour over a 20- kilometer (12'3-mile) distance, and | | 40 types of aircraft. made a circular flight of 80.6 kilo- meters (about 50 miles). Focke is the originator of nearly The new ma- chine carries two horisontal three- blade screws, instead of wings, geared to a 160-horsepower motor in the fuselage. It can hover over a point and can land with its motor cut off. Focke applied to the Interna- tional Aeronautical Federation for recognition of his claim. (The helicopter's horizontal blades are powered so that the machine takes Pff vertically instead of making a run | along the ground as do the auto gyro | and the airplane.) THREE LOSE LIVES INFLAMINGPLANE Fourth Passenger Burned as Manufacturer’s Private | Craft Crashes. Fy the Associated Press. ONEONTA, N. Y, July 3.—Three | persons killed and severely burned today in the crash of an airplane at a private landing | fleld near Morris, 12 miles from here. | The dead | Herricks H. Linn. 60, founder of the Linn Manufacturing Co., trailer manufacturers, and owner of the four- passenger cabin monoplane. Capt. George Stead, 43. of Norwich, | N. Y., Army Air Corps Reserve flyer and pilot of the plane Mrs. Dorothea Hansen, 30, of En- dicott, N. Y. Arthur Hansen, 34, husband of the dead woman. escaped with burns. He was taken to Bassett Hospital, Coop- erstown. Linn had started a business trip to Syracuse, and the Hansens, who had been visiting her father, Charles G. | Stone, superintendent in the Linn fac- | tory, had gone along for the ride. | | | another | were Eye-witnesses said the plane’s mo- tor stalled shortly after the take-off, and that the pilot swung the ship about and started to nose it down. | ‘When the motor started again and the plane resumed its course, the machine | hit a tree at the edge of a clearing and plunged to earth in flames. S AR ‘DESERTING’ PLAN Name Dropped Because It Was “Synonym for Politics,” 0'Connell Says. Ry the Asscciated Press. Representative O'Connell, Democrat, of Montana, youngest member of the send yesterday of ‘“‘deserting” his old- age pensions legislation “for a host of other issues.” In response to what he called at- tempts of “political shysters” to cre- ate the impression Townsend had been deserted by “traitors” in Con- gress, the Montanan said in a state- ment: “They are doing this at the ex- pense of the old folks whom Dr. Townsend has already gotten into a defense fund complex.” O'Connell said when Townsend's name was dropped from the new pen- sion measure introduced this year, it was done ‘“because the name was synonymous with partisan politics and political irresponsibility upon the part of Dr. Townsend.” O'Connell said the Steering Com- mittee of 40 members, “made up of Farmer - Laborites, Republicans and Democrats,” believed the bill “bigger than any individual” and they chose to support it. YOUTH AGAIN CONVICTED OF KILLING SWEETHEART By the Associated Press. VINCENNES, Ind, July 3.—Husky Ward Davis, 22, one-time Petersburg High School athletic idol, this after- noon was convicted, for the third time, of slaying his pretty 17-year-old sweetheart, Annavieve France. A Pike County jury held Davis guilty of voluntary manslaughter after deliberating since 9:56 p.m. last night. ; Judge Dale Eby sentenced him to 2 to 21.years in Indiana State Prison. Twice before Davis was convicted and sentenced to life, but woh new trials, \J | 80 Star employes, | Guild and the Teamsters’ Union. Mrs. John Boettiger Took Off Shoes at Wedding Reception Br the Associated Press. BOISE. Ildaho, July 3—The President’s daughter removed her shoes during the long reception after the Du Pont-Roosevelt wedding, but her long gown hid her feet. “I stood in the reception line four and one-half hours.” said Mrs. John Boettiger today as she stopped here with her husband. “Naturally T got tired. So I took off my shoes. But my gown was long and I think only one reporter noticed it The incident occurred Wednes- day after the wedding of Mrs. Boettiger's brother, Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., to Miss Ethel du Pont, INTER-UNION STRIKE MAY CLOSE PAPER! Teamsters Refuse to Move Edi-| tions Because Circulation Men Join Guild. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, July 3.—A news service | started moving equipment from the | Seattle Star plant late today after | members of the | American Newspaper Guild, struck in | & jurisdictional dispute between the | Guild officers said they had advised the agency they could not guarantee! safe passage through picket lines. The Star published all editions today de- spite the walkout and a picket line of | about 50 persons. It used a skeleton | news stafl of non-Guild members and the three printers whe were in the | building when the picket line was| formed. The strike occurred during the printers’ lunch period. Although only 19 circulation em- ployes were involved in the original dispute, the Star management said the strike would involve 220 full- time employes ‘if the walkout closes the plant Monday. Monday's picket iine was ordered to report at 6 am., and printers said they would not pass through it. The dispute started yesterday when teamsters refused to move papers and the Star missed two editions because circulation employes belonged to the Guild. The teamaters demanded that the circulation workers join a team- sters affiliate, the Newspaper Drivers and Helpers' Union. | spies and wreckers | “condemned” clergymen CHURCH IS TARGET INSOVIETS' DRIVE Clergymen in League With Fascism, Say Official Newspapers. BY the Associated Press. MOSCOW, July 3.—The Soviet Union’s drive against enemies of the state today turned sirongly against the church, Protestant, Catholic and Rusdian Orthodox alike. Official newspapers published warn- ings that churches were in league with fascism and capitalism, prepar- ing imperialist wars and masking spies and wreckers under clerical garb. They declared many persons recently “liquidated”—which usually means ex- ecuted—had church affiliations and disclosed others had been ‘con- demned.” Churchmen were declared to have figured in spy plots for Germany. Japan, Poland and Estonia, and to have operated in the Far Fast as well as near the union's western frontiers. The newspaper Pacific Star, pub- lished in Khabarovsk, Siberia, said a Lutheran minister and two Ortho- dox priests were among several ar- rested and “condemned” at Viadivo- stok. 131 Executions Recently. Pacific Star recently disclosed there had been 131 executions of alleged in the Russian months. The it said. had been spies who, “concealed behind priests’ robes,” actively prepared piots against officials of the state and the Communist party. It declared numerous members of religious congregations had been ar- rested at Viadivostok as “a bunch of hostile elements—bitter enemies of the people hiding behind a religious screen.” Leonid Zakovsky, chief of secret police in the Leningrad area, who yesterday disclosed the arrests of at least 120 alleged spies and “liquida- tion™ of at least 70, asserted many of these were priests, former monks or relatives of churchmen. 188 Executed in Year. Previous to Zakovsky's disclosures of fresh “liquidations” there had been 188 recorded instances of political executions in the Soviet Union since last Summer. N The newspaper Gudok declared that “the world clergy is trying to stretch its paws over the U. 8. 8. R. * * * It is known there are institutions training preachers to be sent to Rus- sia. Of course, under the guise of being preachers, they are spies and diversionists also.” Far East in recent “FAKE ACCIDENT” DEATH LAID TO RESTAURATEUR By the Associated Press. DULUTH, Minn, July 3.—County Attorney Thomas J. Naylor said today he would charge Charles Shidler, 49, restaurant operator, with first-degree murder in connection with the death of his wife. She was found dead near their car after what Police Sergt. Ralph Fiskett described as a “fake” automobile acci- dent. Shidler himself called police early today to report his wife had been hurt in an accident. Fiskett said he found s blood- stained monkey wrench under the front seat of the car. Shidler is held n jail, Roper to Speak in Forum SECRETARY WILL DISCUSS LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS. ECRETARY OF COMMERCE | DANIEL C. ROPER will discuss “Industry and Labor, Their Mutual Problems,” in the Na- tional Radio Forum tomorrow at 9:30 .m. The National Radio Forum is ar- ranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over the network of the National Broadcasting Co. Secretary Roper's official position keeps him closely in touch with in- dustry, business and labor throughout the country. He believes that problems of workers and managers are mutual and can be solved by improved co-operation and better understanding on the pert of business, industry and labor. The cabinet officer is expected to make constructive suggestions for a long-range program. Go Days Without Water. In Central Australia, where water is always scarce, a tribe of men who can go for many days without drink- SECRETARY ROPER. ». . Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. MUST. ITH the school term ended 7 only a short time, and with youngsters the land over trying to forget grammar drills until Fall, there comes the suggestion that English be abandoned in favor of Apache. There's considerable merit to the proposal, too. The office of Indian Affairs has just discovered that the language of these Arizona Indians, rich and expressive as it is, has no words for “must” or “shall” It is impossible to order any one to do anything. Boy, what the switch to Apache would do to city editors and top sergeants, ‘The nearest an Apache can come to “must” is “aganhnehgoh hnagoza.” That is not a typographical error (and even if it were it probably wouldn't make a whole lot of differ- ence). It means “so to do you are given room.” The Apache doesn't even add anything equivalent to “or else.” The idea is that the Apache phi- losophy has no concept of any outside force, least of all another human being, compelling any one to do any- thing. Man is free—and a free man does that which he sees it is good to do. * o x % OH, WELL. UT maybe the shift to the Apache tongue wouldn't help matters after all. From the same source we learn that “must” meant, in Anglo-Saxon and Old German, just about the same thing as “aganhneh- goh hnagoza.” Seems our barberian ancestors were just as advanced as the Apaches; Roman militarism brought things down to the “must” level. * x ok ox AFTERMATH. No, it is not a Dietrich contest. If you should happen to come across a pair of Representatives or a pair of Senators down on Capitol Hill pulling up trouser legs, they are not arguing about the sym- metry of their respective shinbones. They are comparing bites. It's all the aftermath of that island visit with President Roose- velt. Some of the boys blame it on “chiggers,” and others claim black flies did the dirty work. Whatever it was, a lot of the law- makers still are saying things they would not want printed in the Con- gressional Record to impress the Jolks back home. * x % % EXPANSION. this corner was a little hasty in advising that some one ®o around and tell Mr. Roosevelt he is Mayor of Los Angeles. That sign reading “City Limits—City of Los An- geles” {8 not planted at Seventeenth street and Constitution avenue as firmly as was believed. The Boy Scout who brought it here has been ferreted out by Robert L. Hanson and he says the sign is on the way to Holland. Washington isn't a suburb of Los Angeles; it's practically in the downtown business section. There's another Los Angeles City limit sign at Nome, Alaska, and one in Honolulu. Probably makes Mr. Roosevelt just & ward boss or something like that * % x % LEFT-RIGHT. ‘OU may have noticed that those arrows at Thirteenth and F, de- signed to keep people in line like nice little pedestrians, have been repainted. When first put down several days back, the guiding marks at three of the four cross-walks at the intersec- tion were left-handed, tried to make everybody go British and keep to the left. Now the first arrows have been rubbed out and new ones painted in, this time in the good, old United States keep-to-the-right tradition. Don't know it it was a mistake in the first place or if some paychologist Was experimenting to see if people would really follow the darned things. * ok % x CLARIFICATION. There's going to be no confusion in the air to color the evidence down at that investigation before the Senate Civil Liberties Commit- tee if Senator La Follette has his way. Just before the showing Fri- day of the newsreels taken of the Chicago strike riot the announce- ment was made: “The chairman requests every one to refrain from smoking, in order that the atmosphere may be kept as clear as possible.” - x ok % BOX (CAR) LUNCH INCE most of the principals have gone away for the Summer (and we hcgpe they find it), it probably is safe to tell the story of the picnic organized and directed by Mary Cootes. The picnickers planned to meet at & Potomac River boat house and rent canoes, but when they got there the boat house was bare. There just wasn't & canoe, rowboat, skiff or even a raft to be had. A\/1A‘x'B|"J Just as every one managed to develop & “What'll we do next” expression, a thunderstorm blew up and solved the problem. A string of empty freight cars stood on a nearby siding and into the first one open went the pic- nic, sandwiches, pickles, eggs, ants and sl Much fun whooping and eating and shouting and singing as the rain beat down, until a man arrived from one of those little house boats on LANDSCAPING COST - HIGH IN GREENBELT That Part of Work Took Twice as Much Money as the Water System. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. In the Greenbelt resettlement proje ect, to provide rural homes for worke ers in Washington, more than twice as much was spent for landacaping as for & water supply system, and almost as much was spent for a sewerage system. The figures. official as of May 15 and made public yesterday, are: Por landscaping, $456,603.50; water supply, $223,884.77, and sewerage, $536,262.31. “Land preparation” -cost $198,850.17 and streeis and roads. $238276.89. Out of & total of $10,446,085.44 for land improvement and construction, $207,838.91 was for a business center and $238,867.09 for & community cen- ter. The overhead expenses of the Washington office charged against the project, some times called Tugwell- town, up to May 15 totaled $116,013.72, With the expectation of having a meeting of his Senate Reorganization Committee during the coming week, Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia is having an extensive survey made of several homestead projects, with a breakdown of costs from official fig- uures. “Wanton Waste.” His interest and activity was spurred by the necessity of providing homes for the quatters and other cabin dwellers, ousted from the Shen- andoah National Park. The net resuit, he said, was that he discovered “wanton waste and shocking extrava- gance” in the housing projects. He hopes to have many millions of dollars salvaged by stopping further expendi- tures. The Government figures show that in the Tugwelltown project each unit has about 15 acres, while the project for those ejected from Shenandoah Park, who are supposed to earn their living by farming, approximately ths same acreage is provided Those who move into Tugwelltown are to be given homes that actually cost the Government more than $16,000, while those in the New Jer sey project at Hightstown are to have homes that cost the taxpayers of the whole country more than $20,000— in addition to being provided with a garment factory and a plant for pro= ducing cement slabs for the builde ing industry. Cost $10,000 in Virginia. In the housing project for colored people at Newport News, in an in= dustrial’ workers' community, each home costs nearly $10.000. In these homes for colored industrial work- ers about 33 per cent more is being spent on home furnishings than in the Greenbelt project for white peo= ple employed in the Capital City. The average cost per acre for land in the Greenbelt project is $90 72, while in the other urban area in New Jersey it is $66.89. and in the more rural section outside Newport News it is $128.69. Senator Byrd is having atudies made of the costs of these and other homestead and housing projects, whicia are supposed to be amortized on a rental basis. to see if it will be pos- sible for industrial workers or small farmers can pay for such elaborate and costly homes or if the Government —really the taxpayers—will be left holding an empty bag. ALFONSO, EX-WIFE MEET ACCIDENTALLY Brought Together by Birth of Son to Daughter—Far From Reconciliation. BY the Associated Press. ROME, July 3.—Close associates of the former King and Queen of Spain said tonight that although the couple met yesterday at the crib of a new grandson they still were far from a reconciliation Ex-King Alfonso XIII and the con- sort from whom he has been sep- arated since shortly after loss of his throne in 1931, Queen Victoria, met at the birth of & son to their eldest daughter, Princess Torlonia Friends said, however, it was oply A “polite accident.” The former Queen lingered to cuddle the child. while Alfonso came in before he was ex- pected. They were “humanly cordial™ to each other, an intimate asserted, “but that is far from a reconcilation.” Queen Victoria still lives at Tor- lonia Palace here. Alfonso lives at the Grand Hotel. They avoid each other where politely possible. PASTOR IS APPOINTED CHEST SPEAKER OFFICER Dr. J. W. Rustin, Former Civic Leader of Norfolk, Is Vice Chairman of Unit. Dr. John W. Rustin, pastor of the Mount Vernon Place Methodist. Church South, yesterday accepted the vice chairmanship of the Community Chest Speakers' Unit for the tenth anniversary campaign, completing plans for organization of that departe ment. Dr. Rustin came to Washington last Fall from Norfolk, Va., where he made a notable record as a civic leader. He was president of the Kiwanis Club as well as one of the principal figures in Community Chest work, serving the latter organization as chairman of the campaign drive last year. He was & member of the Board of Trustees of the community fund for four years, & member of the Budget Committee for three years and a member of the social service planning department for three years, Dr. Rustin also was appointed by the city manager to & position on the F. E. R. A, Advisory Committee for two years and on its Administrative Committee for two years. MEXICO TO CLOSE BARS, GOES TO POLLS TODAY By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, July 3.—Troops were held ready today and bar- keepers prepared to suspend sale of intoxicants tomorrow, when Mexico will go to the polls to elect a new Congress. Leaders of the National Revolution~ ary, or Government, party predict~ ed they would remain in power and national "policies would not be afe fected. . The party had candidates for all the the river's edge. Told them it was®173 seats to be filled, chosen in prie & residential neighborhood and if they diin't be quiet he'd have the law on 'em, b'gosh. maries and plebiscites, considered in most cases equivalent to slection. The new Congress convenes September 1.