Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1937, Page 2

A—2 x» STORY OF KILLING Jessie Pepper Claims Self- Defense in Shooting of Her Chum. By the Assoclated Press. COUSHATTA., La., July 7.—Comely Jessie Pepper met with a plea of self- defense today the murder charge that fallowed the “gossip” Killing of May Elvin Allen, her lifetime chum. The 17-year-old high school grad- uate calmly told a five-man coroner's Jury last night that she shot her friend during a cow pasture quarrel Monday only after she had been attacked by Elvin and the dead girl's mother. ‘The jury found that the Allen girl, also 17, “came to her death by gun wounds at the hands of R. Jessie Pep- 1. -H. H. Allen, father of the victim, 8} once swore out warrants charging Jessie with murder. and her mother, Minnie Pepper, with “lying in wait to murder.” Returned to Jail. | Jessie Pepper was returned to jail after the hearing to await grand jury action. Sheriffl Floyd Jones did not difclose whether he had served the warrant on Mrs. Pepper. “Jessie, clad in an attractive pink silk dress told her story in an even, mod- ulated voice “My mother and Mrs. Allen had their hands on the gun,” she said. “I went to take the gun. I placed my hands on the gun and Mrs. Allen| pulled the trigger. The gun went off and burned my left hand.” “Elvin came about the time I had the gun. Elvin had a stick in her hand. Elvin’s mother came upon me from the back and Elvin came from the front. “I shot by her. She kept coming | and caught me by the hair. When I} shot at her the last two times, they took effect. “The reason I shot was Mrs. Allen| and hor daughter were both coming o me at the same time and both were larger than me.” Declares Lies Were Told. Mrs. Allen testified Jessie “had been telling lies on Elvin.” (Elvin) spent a month with her Uncle Bill in Vivian. She (Jessie) | told that Elvin had a baby while up | there.” | Mrs. Allen vigorously denied that her daugher advanced on the Pepper | girl with a stick or that Jessie had| been beaten. Mrs. Pepper confirmed her daugh- ter's story. IRRIGATION TUNNEL HIT AS EXPLOITATION Destruction of National Parks Seen Result of Rocky Moun- tain Project. : Seven national conservation organ- Yations yesterday issued a joint state- ment attacking the ‘“unprecedented | exploitation” of a national park | threatened by the action of a House committee in approving construction of a tunnel through the Rocky Moun- tain National Park in Colorado. } The tunnel, provided for in a bill Yeported by the Irrigation and Recla- mation Committee as a rider for the| Interior Department appropriation bill, would be used for commercial diversion of irrigation waters and the development of electric power, the agencies pointed out, at a cost of development of $900,000. “Exploitation of one of the great national parks is bad enough,” the statement read, “but the precedent | once established will make all the national parks, including Yellowstone, more easily vulnerable to the com- mercial demands of pressure groups and may lead to the ultimate destruc- tion of one of the Nation's great con- servation achievements—the national park system.” The signers of the statement in- clude the American Civic Associa- tion, the American Forestry Asso- ciation, the National Parks Association, the National Association of Audobon Bocieties, the Izaak Walton League of America, the Camp Fire Club of America and the Wilderness Society. — - O’NEILL NOT MARRIED Wedding Erroneously Reported in Star Last Week. i Representative O'Neill of New Jer- 2ey. the new member of the House Dis- rict Committee, has been kept busy— @nd embarrassed—the last few days genying he is married. The Star er- foneously printed an announcement that he was married in St. James Phurch, Newark, last week. This was the day on which Mrs. Catherine Joy, Arlington, N. J., formally announced Yhat her daughter, Miss Helen Marie Joy, is to be married to Representa- Yive O'Neill on August 28. The Star Fegrets this error and gladly prints this correction. —_— Watchman Inherits $650,000. LAPORTE, Ind., July 7 (#)—Leo Nichols, 48, a factory night watchman, fold today of recetving word from Los #Angeles of an inheritance of $650,000 rom the estate of his great-uncle, Yoseph Daniels. Nichols said his uncle Joined the gold rush and became wealthy. Burton Fitts, Los Angeles mttorney, sent the notification of his heritance, Nichols said. Nichols has Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. LABOR RELATIONS. OHN L, LEWIS probably would have stopped in his tracks with a gasp of horror. Of course, the chap who did the deed that might bave caused Mr. Lewis to stop in his tracks may not belong to a union affiliated with the C. I. O,, in which case Mr. Lewis probably would have just laughed and laughed. Anyhow there is a picket in front of a downtown restaurant. Couple of doors away is a sandwich grill, oper- ated by the same man under the same name, both places served from one kitchen. And the other day the picket walked dutifully up and down, in front of the place. It was hot. He got thirsty. Something had to be done, So the picket left his post in front of the restauragt, stepped into the sandwich grill for a beaker of suds. P. 8—Fellow who runs the restau- rant is considering sending lunch out to the chap, now. Feels a dissatis- fied picket wouldn't be good adver- tising. * % ok % SPILL. Down the Avenue of Flags at the Boy Scout Jamboree strolled a lady in snowy white, one of those recent days when persistent rain had turned the grassless ground to a treacherous, gooey mess. In jront of the public relations tent the slippery footing won the battle and her fect went one way (up) and she went the other (down). Nobody broke the breathless silence. The lady picked herself up, looked ruefully at what had been spot- less white, addressed the world in general: “If any one is interested,” she said, “I don't think I have any business being here.” * % ox ok ERRATA. SOMEHDW when we printed that item & couple of days back about the policeman who warned a motorist to turn on his lights and was told it wasn't “technical” sunset yet, we had a feeling there was something | wrong. We couldn't figure out what me. and besides there's not much point in trying to figure it all out when, up until now, there | always has been some one around to| point out our mistakes. Mr. William Graham has stepped into the breech to point out this one. With a note advising “don't let a cop kid you,” he sends a clipping showing the sun should have set at 7:37 the day the item appeared and if it was supposed to it probably did. And a couple of days earlier, when the representative of the law and the motorist had their meeting, the sun probably set at 7:38, which makes everything all right, because the motorist said he wasn't supposed to turn on his lights until 8:30, which would have been a half hour after sunset. when lights must be turned on. (Just can't keep the Depart- ment of Utter Confusion down.) So the motorist was right and the policeman was wrong. e was wrong mostly for telling us something to the effect that automobile lights are due on a half hour before this “tech- nical” sunset that started all this. We thought it should be “after” when we wrote it, but you won't catch us arguing with the law. * kX NECKTIES. EPRESENTATIVES are called upon for myriad things Ly their con- stituents, but comes now the latest demand upon them. The boys down on the Hill are about to lose one necktie or more per capita—all because California’s Representative Charles Kramer recently sent this letter to his colleagues: “One of my good friends, who is very talented in the art of rug mak- ing, is desirous of making a souvenir rug from the discarded neckties of members of Congress and other prom- inent officials, to be called ‘The Con- gressmen's Rug.’ “This lady is seeking my assistance in obtaining the neckties for her from my colleagues, and if you will telephone me, I shall be glad to send for your discarded ties.” We can't help but feel that it's a beautiful opportunity for members of Congress “and other prominent offi- cials” to turn those Christmas ties into a profit by donating them to a good cause. * ok % % WISE. Of course, that last remark loses its effect (if any) when you remember that a guy can’t buy a decent necktie during the month of December, because most stores have become wise beyond belief in this matter. Won't put any but the quietest and drabbest of ties on the counters for the women to select for Christmas gifts. And how did Christmas get in here in July, & wife and daughter. Illness Pr;vents Secretary Ickes’ City-Farm Trips Interior Head Sets Up Living Quarters in Office Suite. By the Associated Press. Secretary Ickes, prevented by recent {llness from making daily trips be- tween the city and his farm home, has set up temporary living quarters in his office suite in the Interior Depart- ment. The Secretary of the Interior was at his desk yesterday for the first time since he went to Naval Hospital about & month ago for treatment of a stom- ach ailment. anyhow? * ok ¥ % COMPASSION. IG business and industry are not heartless. We've been won over completely by the manner in which a local drug store chain handies the ice situation. ¥ A CARTON OF . ICE. ves 1ce ! Suppose vou feel sort of party-ish of an evening, call the drug store and order a carton of ice. Tsk, tsking to itself, the drug store charges you a dime for the ice. Next morning you wake up, scream- ing for the cat to stop stamping its feet, call the drug store and order the Doctors advised him against under- taking immediately the daily 20-mile trips to and from his farm in nearby Maryland, same amount of ice you got the night before. “Is this for an {llness?” asks the drug store, ita pretty heart full of ) THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 163 GIRL, 17, RELATES |[wrashington || MARITIME UNION {HEARING SLATED LEADERS CONFER Talk With Lewis on Plan to Consolidate Organi- zations. Maritime union leaders from the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts met here today with John L. Lewis, head of the Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion, to plan for a consideration of the two unions into a national industrial group. Harry Bridges, president of the Pa- cific Coast district of the Interna- tional Longshoremen's Association, who led the West Coast shipping strike, was expected to attend to report on the progress of the Pacific Coast workers’ referendum on proposed C. L O. affiliation, Lewis invited to today's conference officials of 17 maritime organizations —some affiliated with the rival Ameri- can Federation of Labor—to “formu- late plans for the complete organiza- tion of the workers in the maritime industry.” Woodworkers’ Plan Accepted. Hal Pritchett, president of the Fed- day Lewis has agreed to accept the federation’s plan for proposed affilia- tion with the Committee for Indus- trial Organization. Pritchett, who is from Vancouver, British Columbia. is head of wood- workers organized in the Northwest- ern States and Western Canada. He said Lewis agreed to charter the fed- eration’ internationally if it decides to resign from the American Federation of Labor. Members are now voting on the question. Pritchett and O. M. Orton of Aber- deen, Wash, member of the federa- tion’s Executive Board, conferred yes- terday with the C. I. O. chairman If the federation votes for affilia- tion, Pritchett said, an international organization drive, “financed by the C. I O. if necessary,” will be con- ducted at once, with 50 organizers selected from the present federation, 1,000,000 Members Sought. Pritchett said a goal has been set of 1,000,000 new members, represent- ing “all workers in wood from the stump to the finished product.” A total of 100,000 woodworkers ar organized now as the United Brother- hood of Carpenters and Joiners, an A. F. of L. amliate, he said. He predicted that “90 per cent of the federation membership” now be- ing polled will have favored C. I. O. affiliation by the time the ballots sre counted at the Tacoma, Wash., con- vention July 15. Lewis told them, Pritchett said, that he believes “the Oregon and Washing- ton Commonwealth Federation and labor's Non-partisan League should | work harmoniously for President | Roosevelt's program.” 'SPANKING CASE BOY ELECTS TO G0 HOME, Fred Storm, 11, Leaves Receiving | Home After Three Days of Thinking It Over. After spending three nights in the Receiving Home for Children, Fred Storm, 11, central figure in the sensa- tional parental spanking case several weeks ago, was released last night in the custody of his father, Robert E. | Storm, 57, of 1681 Columbia road. The lad was sent to the Receiving Home Saturday night after Policeman J. L. Titus of the third precinct, re- sponding to a report of a fight, found him arguing with his father at Eighteenth and Columbia road. “The boy said he wouldn't go home with his father, who is his legal guardian, so I just sent him to the Receiving Home, where he could sleep until he made up his mind,” Titus said. At the Receiving Home it was re- ported that Fred left willingly with his father when Storm called for him last night. The elder Storm was arrested in April on an assault warrant sworn out by his divorced wife. Mrs. Mar- garet Hoffman, 1400 block of R street, after the son complained of a spank- ing he had received for staying out late. Judge John P. McMahon dis- missed the charge, ruling that it is a father’s right and duty to discipline an unruly child. When Storm divorced his wife the court awarded him sole custody of their only child. THE NETHERLANDS BUYS WAR GOODS Largest Purchaser in June Pays $621,446 for Planes and Sup- plementary Equipment. By the Associated Press. The little kingdom of the Nether- lands was the largest purchaser of po- tential implements of war, K in the United States during June, State De- partment statistics showed yesterday. Most of its total expenditure of $621,- 446 was devoted to non-military air- craft, engines and equipment. (Under neutrality law requiring registration of certain exports, all aircraft are classed as implements of war.) Great Britain and Northern Ireland. with a total expenditure of $471,634, was second, and Canada, with pur- chases of $460,740, third. mercy, compassion and other noble sentiments. “Yes,” you say—definitely. “In that case we only charge 5 cents 8 carton,” says the dear, kind drug store. (Somebody told us all this.) * ok X % DEDUCTION. R. JAMES FARLEY'S machine (postal, not political) met up with another acid test the other day and, as usual, triumphed over long odds. There arrived a postal card ad- dressed only “Boy Scout Jamboree, Washington, D. C.” On the other side the card bore the salutation “Dearest Johnny” and was signed “Mother.” With 25,000 Boy Scouts scattered throughout the 350 acres of camp, there must e countless lads named Johnny. The post office decided it would be hopeless to circulate the card until it came to the right one, so the headwork was started. The postmark was deciphered and a little detective work determined in what region, section and troop Johnny should be. He was. |9 eration of Woodworkers, said yester-s ON RASKOB TAXES Couple Due to Explain Hold- ings Before Maryland Board Tomorrow. Bs the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, July 7.—John J. Ras- kob, former Democratic national chair- man, and Mrs. Raskob are to appear before the State Tax Commission here tomorrow on a hearing on their tax- able intangible personal property in O. Levin, chairman of the ion, said the hearing was scheduled after Harry C. Reynolds, supervisor of assessment for Queen Annes County, asked the commission to try to determine the amount of this property. Owned Large Estate. Reynolds in his petition alleged Mr. and Mrs. Raskob failed to give full and particular account of their tax- able intangible personal property for last year. The Raskobs owned a large estate on Chester River near Center- ville. The Board of Commissioners for Queen Annes County notified the Tax Commission two weeks ago that the Raskobs “filed a joint report of their securities holdings and individ- ual reports for their children on May 14, 1936." Saying this torm of report was not acceptable to the tax body, the eounty commissioners added that, due to Raskob's illness and absence from New York, “the complete itemized re- | rts covering their: individual se- curity holdings were not received until August, 1936." No Evasion Disclosed. The commissioners concluded that “the statement filed by Mr. and Mrs. Raskob has been the subject of rather intensive investigation by the State | Tax Commission and no evasion Whatsoever has thus been disclosed.” | It was said at the commission office that the property in question for the | hearing includes interest on bonds, | interest in mortgages on real estate | held outside Maryland and shares | of corporations that are dividend- | bearing. " MIDDIE RESIGNED, MITCHELL IS TOLD | Colored Youth Quit Naval Acad- | emy of Own Accord, Officials { Declare. | Special Dispatch to The Star. | ANNAPOLIS, Md, July 7.—Repre- | sentative Mitchell, only colored mem- ber of Congress, was told today George J. Triver, colored youth he appointed to the Naval Academy several weeks | ago, had resigned of his own accord The Illinois Democrat had come to Annapolis to investigate Triver's res- ignation, declaring, “I want to get the facts in this case because another Ne- gro whom I appointed to the acad- emy was railroaded out of it.” Capt. Forde A. Todd, acting super- intendent of the academy, told Mk chell that Triver, who lives in Chi cago, had resigned of his own accord. | Triver was quoted in other quarters | as saying that he realized he “is not fit for naval service,” - Mitchell received word of Triver's resignation yesterday and immediately | arranged an appointment to see Act- i‘mz Supt. Todd this morning. | The Illinois Representative said that another of his colored appointee: James L. Johnson, jr., who was drop- ped last Spring, had been held defi- cient as to eyesight, English and de- | portment, “all of which is a lie.” | AIRPLANE CARRIER | PROVES HER SPEED U. S. S. Yorktown Exceeds All Naval Requirements on Build- er's Run Off Capes. Br the Associated Press. NEWPORT NEWS, Va. July T— The aircraft carrier Yorktown, new queen of the United States Navy, yes- terday exceeded all requirements on her builder's run off the Virginia Capes and will leave Monday for her standardization trials off Rockland | Me. Not only did the Yorktown develop more power and speed than was re- quired of her, but she went through gear whine which gave trouble on the trial run held several weeks ago hav- ing been corrected. A speed of 327, knots was attained, this in spite of the fact that the craft needed to go into drydock to have her | bottom cleaned and painted. The craft was drydocked today. The steering tests, during which the ship makes a series of figure eights, demonstrated that in spite of the great size of the Yorktown she is | easily handled. |MAN, 70, FACES CHARGE OF KILLING KIN IN 1917 Suspect Lived 18 Years in Vir- ginia as Law-Abiding Citizen. By the Associated Press. DENDRON, Va., July 7—Nick Col- lins, 70, who lived in Surry County as “Capt. Harris” for the last 18 years, was in a North Carolina jail to- day, charged with a murder that was committeed in 1917. Collins has been a law-abiding citi- zen here, working in a lumber plant and also as a farmhand. He will be tried in September for the fatal shooting in September, 1917, of Abe Collins, in Jones County, N. C. The shooting is said to have taken place after a dispute over a property boundary. Sheriff W. L. West of Surry County said Nick Collins was traced through information given Carolina officers by a man whose father harbored him for several months after the shooting. West said Nick Collins and Abe Col- lins were distant relatives. Secretary Wallace yesterday signed an order limiting the shipment of watermelons from four Southern States for 48 hours starting at 12.01 am. tomorrow. Southern growers had asked the | the mist. her paces silently and efficiently, the | Pennies Finance Baby Financial worries about doctors’ and hospital bills won't take the edge off the happiness of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pesta, sr., of Cleveland, Ohio, in the arrival of Earl, jr. they had saved 5000 pennies for just such an event. Before he came Pennies, mother and somewhat tired-of-it-all Earl, jr., are shown. DUDLEY SHOOTS 10, TAKES GOLF LEAD U. S. Entry Is First to Break Par in First Round of British Open, By the Associated Press. CARNOUSTIE, Scotland, July 7.— Veteran Ed Dudley of Phi'adelphia, first man to break par today over Carnoustie's wind-swept course, took brilliant 70, one under standard fig- ures, The American ace achieved his sub-par score in spite of an injury to the arch of his left foot which made him limp. He got two strokes from par on the out-going nine with a 34, then lost one while coming home in 36 A cold, hard wind from the east proved too much for the rest of the field—that and the extra yardage add- ed by setting back several of the tees. Two strokes behind Dudley, at 72, came Defending Champion Alf Padg- ham, whose showing was somewhat of McMinn, former Western Scotland pro champion, and Bill Branch, Bel- gian open winner last year. Shute Next at 7 Denny Shute came next among the American contenders at 73, with Byron Nelson, Sam Snead and Amateur Rob- ert Sweeny two strokes farther back Four United States stars were bracket- | ed at 76, Veteran Walter Hagen. Henry | Picard, Johnny Revolta and Charley | Lacey. United States Open Champion Ralph | Guidahl, who went six over par on the | back nine, posted a 77, one shot ahead | of Wee Bobby Cruickshank, who had 41 to the turn. The Britons, too. were feeling the —A. P. Photo. Hop Through Tuwilight Bouwl |Capt. Gray Describes “Pleasant” Flight Through Horizonless, Visionless Infinite BY HAROLD E. GRAY, | Caprain, Pan-American Chpper ML | FOYNES, Ireland, July 7 (By Wire- less) —When a dark smudge ap-| peared through the misty curtain, 30 miles through, the first break in a | gray horizon that held unchanging | since the sun disappeared behind low- | hanging cloud banks off the New | foundland coast last night, First Of- ficer William De Lima, sharing the bridge watch with me, turned shightly, | nodded his head and said, “There | she 1s.” Navigation Officer William H. Mas- {land, who had estimated fully two hours bafore that we should be able to make our landfall on the loop head | along the delta of the Shannon at | 4:22, came forward with his contour | | chart of the coast to verify our sight. | Radio Operator Roberts raised the | earphones from his head, peered | around the direction finder transmit- | ter, took one long look, but he didnt lose a single dash as, at the slm?‘ time, he tapped out our sighting mes- sage to Foynes ahead, to Botwood and Port Washington. C. D. Wright, our engineering officer, remarked that he thought it was go- ing to be green, that this rain that had given us a soupy gray mist to fly through for the past two hours would have to spoil the end of his first trip to Europe. A few minutes later we made out the village of Foynes itself, and then familiar objects—radio tow- ers, buildings, shipping in the harbor tock on more definite shape through Until then, the first trans- Atlantic transport survey flight from America had been just another flight operation based upon the same rigid engineering specifications that have long become standards with the Pan- American Airways system. “In No Manner Difficult.” ‘The sight of the Irish coast—a bit of land that many airmen before us have strained their eyes to see—was a really welcome sight. Not that it} meant the end of a difficult flight. The | flight was in no manner difficult. To us it meant the completion of an as- | signment satisfactory in every respect | and accomplished in a manner thai should aid the acceptance of trans- | Atlantic air transport as a dependable, properly safeguarded means of mod- | ern travel. | Through the misty morning we swept in a wide arc over the village from | | the North, another half arc into the wind again and then dropped under | full power to within a few feet of the | surface. At 4:41, exactly 12 hours 30 minutes from our departure last night | from the North American mainland, | the keel of our clipper easily louchefli the waters of the River Shannon and | our flight was over. | Some of the meaning of the coming trans-Atlantic air service became evi- dent in the enthusiastic welcome we received, as, our clipper securely moored at the same base from which Imperial Airway's R. M. A. Caledonia had departed 16 hours before on their brilliant flight against the same winds that had helped us, to land on schedule | in Newfoundland, we stepped ashore | for the first time. Going Remarkably Smooth. President Eamon de Valera, Minister of Commerce Sean Lemass, the Amer- ican Minister, and other officials ex- tended us warm and complimentary greetings, bade us welcome to Ireland, and spoke enthusiastically of the com- ing establishment of regular trans- Atlantic air service and the value of this to Ireland. We were not particularly tired. We had had ample rest in Botwood be- fore our departure and had taken our watches regularly through the night. But every one was most solicitous of us. Actually the flight had been en- tirely pleasant. During the first half of the flight the going was remarkably smooth. The skies above us were clear, so filled with stars that we checked our course with celestial sights every 30 minutes. After sunset a twilight filled the great bowl through which we were steadily moving east. Through this, giving the appearance of the slightest mists, the stars were not particularly sharp. So we all took as much practice as we could at sighting the Atlantic's stars through the twilight that lasts much of the year. Our friendly westerly winds held well. increasing at times to a velocity of 40 miles an hour, and during one hour pushing our speed up to well over limitation to permit markets, over- supplied largely as a result of holiday shipments, to N 200 miles. At 10:06, as we neared the halfway mark, we checked bearings with the ). Depth. R. M. A. Caledonia, actually passing within 60 miles of us. Of course, we did not see them. They were nearly 10.000 feet below us at that time, hid- den beneath the solid ceiling of clouds that formed, for us, a solid floor 7.000 | feet below. And, too. we were on the great circle course while they were following the rhumb line direct to Newfoundland. By the time we had exchanged greetings and wished them luck, the Pan-American Clipper had passed the halfway mark and we had | started down the long “hill” toward Ireland. Two hours farther we ran into the first rain. Spotty at first, it soon set- | tled into a heavy gray mist through | which we made our way on instru-| ments, watched over so carefully by our powerful radio direction finders, while we verified the bearings coming | to us from ground stations with cross- | bearings taken by our own goniometer on the S. S. American Banke the S. S. American Trader and the S. S. period we raised bearings from nine different steamers—although the At- lantic shipping lanes. the marine charts showed, were all but “empty” last night. Only Visionless Depth. There is no way adequately to de- scribe this type of flying in a big transport plane, designed and equipped for ocean flying. Watching wings, tail surfaces, the sides of the big hull it- self for any sign of ice formation, we seem 1o be sweeping along inclosed in a rich, muffled roar of power that | Rational Congress on Mental Hygiene | actually becomes almost a silence. The click of the radio key, for instance.: | the whine of the transmitter as it is switched on are sharp and distinct against the engine's background. There 1s no horizon. There is only an infinite depth above, below, on all sides, a gray, visionless depth, motionless, ex- cept where sufficient moisture gathers in one spot to spread a river of rain drops across the windshield. And through it all the blue exhaust flames from the Sikorsky's big Pratt & Whit- ney Hornets cast an eerie glow that is reflected back into the cabin. Just before we entered this wind shift line, which had been charted on our weather map 12 hours before, we had finished our dinner. At tables set in the lounge room, Ship's Clerk Thaler served two of us at a time. | On linen tablecloths, served on china, with a complete silver service, the dinner was more complete than our previous night's meal, excellent though it was, at Botwood. Shrimp cocktail, hot cream soup, filet mignon with mushroom sauce, fresh vegetables, a green salad with a choice of dressings, ice cream, cakes and demi-tasse. That meal—and the service that went with it—is itself a graphic example of the difference in ocean flying today and probably the sharpest reminder of all of that remarkable flight of Lind- bergh's just 10 years ago that fostered | & public support upon which the mod- ern ndustry of air transportation has been largely reared. Could Go 2,000 Miles More. We realized the difference, too, in the “blind flying sector of our the ‘blind flying” sector of our course—scarcely two hours in all—as we went so securely, so confidently on our way with a dozen different guarding points to help us. Less than a hundred miles off the coast the clouds began to break. Ninety miles out we got the first glimpse of the ocean we had not seen except through a rapidly closing hole inthe clouds since we were 90 miles off the Newfoundland zoast last night. Directional radio bearings came aboard and checked our navigated course as nearly perfect. With that assurance, we dropped down from our flight lane 2 miles above the sea, for the first time, and, leveling off at a thousand feet, moved swiftly on to our landfall. Ashore we checked our log. Our average speed was 160.1 miles per hour, a trifle slower than we had anticipated. Helping winds had averaged 20 miles per hour for the en- tire run, their higher velocity on the first half counteracted in part by the beam and slightly head winds we en- countered through the wind shift line on the “other side.” In the big wing and cabin tanks, our clipper still had enough gas to carry us on nearly another 2,000 miles. And, if it were desired, we all felt well fit to go on. (Copyrighs, 1037, by the North American Newspaper Alliagce, 1ne.) effects of Carnoustie’s hazards. Two | were tied with Shute at 73; Henry | Cotton, British all-around ace, was one of three at 74, with the rep: sentation becoming heavy at | higher. Just Routine, Says Clipper Pilot re- 75 and Charles Whitcombe, captain of the British Ryder Cup team, blazed down the back nine in 35 for a 73 that put him even wi | Shute and two other Britons, A. Cairncross and Fred Robertson. Smith, Guldahl Get 77. Horton Smith, who won the quali- fying medal with two brilliant subpar 69s, was unable to retain magic touch under today's conditio: He dropped three strokes to par on each nine and joined slope-shouldered ! Ralph Guidahl, American open cham- i pion, who followed the unfortunate | example of his compatriots with a finishing 41, six over par, that gave | him a 77. th D greens, went 5 over par on the first nine with a 41, lost a similar number | coming back for a 40, and finished up 11 strokes behind Dudley with an 81. | A pair of 36s for a 72 lifted Reginald | Whitcombe. brother of Charles, into |8 second-place deadlock with Pad- | gham, McMinn and Branch. Joe Kirkwood, Chicago's Australian- born trick shot specialist. who set a course record at Burnside yesterd: with a 67, soared 13 strokes higher in | his first championship round to an 80. | Tony Manero, United States open champion in 1936, bettered Kirkwood's score by two strokes, coming home with a 38 after going 4 over par on the | Washington. Altogether during this | first nine. FIVE SAIL FOR PARLEY ON MENTAL HYGIENE Dr. Treadway Heads Group Des- I tined for Conference in | Paris. A delegation of five Americans, | headed by Dr. Walter L. Treadway | assistant surgeon general of the United States Public Health Service, sailed | from New York today for the Inter- in Paris, July 19 to 24. | The only paper to be read by a | member of the American delegation | will be “Prophylaxis in Alcoholism,” | by Prof. Walter Miles of the Insti- tute of Human Relations at Yale Uni- versity. Others in the American group in- Hygiene; Dr. Martin Cooley, Medical and Hospital Service, Veterans' Ad- ministration, and Dr. Arthur Ruggles, president of the National Committee | for Mental Hygiene and superintend- ent of Butler Hospital, Providence, R. I Another American delegate, Dr. Claude C. Pierce, medical di- rector, United States Public Health | service, already is in Paris. R AT e |PRESIDENT WON'T DEIGN TO GIVE FISH A REPLY Deducted Hyde Park Losses in Tax Return. | By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt gave the silent treatment yesterday to Representative Fish, Republican, of New York, who has been demanding that the Con- gressional Committee on Tax Evasion and Avoidance look into Mr. Roose- velt's own income taxes. At a press conference, it was made plain that the Chief’ Executive does not intend to reply to Fish's repeated statements. The Representative has declared that the President deducted losses on his Hyde Park property from his tax- able income. Fish said the property was not a farm in the commercial sense, but a “palatial residence.” DETROIT GAS COMPANY TRANSACTION EXEMPT Securities Commission Holds It Does Not Come Under Holding Act. By the Associated Press. A $9,000,000 security transaction by the Detroit City Gas Co. is exempt from the public utility holding com- pany act, the Securities Commission announced yesterdays. ‘The commission said the transaction is for the sole purpose of financing the company’s business. The company said it will issue $500,000 of nine-month 2! per cent notes, $500,000 of 25-month 3 per cent notes, $4,000.000 of 3-year notes bearing interest of 2 or 3': per cent, depending upon security behind the notes, and $1,500,000 of first mortgage 4'; per cent bonds due in 1965. In addition, it intends to pledge 82,500,000 of 4!, first mortgage bonds now held in its treasury. 2 the l¢ad in the first round of the | British open golf championship with a | a surprise, and two fellow Britons, Bill | 43-vear-old | Gene Sarazen, complaining violently | |about the trampled condition of the | clude Clifford W. Beers, secretary of | the National Committee for Mental | Refuses to Answer Statements He | BRITAIN RESISTS - SPAIN AID REPORT Eden Directs Rome Envoy to Protest Press Reports of Arms Exports. By the Associated Press, i LONDON, July 7—The British gove | ernment today instructed its Ambuse sador to Italy to make “representae | tions” to the Italian government against Italian press statements that volunteers, arms, ammunition and air- | planes had been sent to Spain from Great Britain. | Foreign Secretary Anthony | directed the ambassador, Drummond, to act Today Eden appeared before the | House of Commons and declared Brit- ain had no intention of offering new proposals for Europe's “hands-off- Spain” policy at a non-intervention meeting on Friday. Asked by a Labor member to clear up “anxiety” regarding the none | intervention committee’s position, | Eden said he had nothing to add to a | previous statement that Britain had made her suggestions and was ready to consider any new ones that are “Just and fair.” He added he would have something to say about Brit. s action after Friday's 27-Natio Non-Intervention | Committee meeting Franco Note Threatening. Earlier, a threate demand for | belligerent rights by isurgent Gen, Francisco Franco was feared to have d the long-sought 1 mise plan to revitalize the non- intervention safeguards against spread of the Spanish civil war The insurgent insistence, |with a prompt threat that natwons | which refused might find themselves barred from Spanish markets, amazed the British foreign office Later, however, one official sourca said “the summary (of the Franco | demand) is not clear, but we do not attach undue importance to ity' Only yesterday B with the insurgents w much 1mprcved as a result of Franco | assurance that British iron ore sh | ments from the Bilbao mines could be resumed. Then came a warning from Franco | that the return of foreigners to ine surgent-held territory would be fore bidden. This, with the subsequent note to European powers demanding belligerent rights, provoked the great- est surprise here view of Franco's apparent earlier tude of concilia~ tion, Informed quarters agreed the note would be considered particularly ill- timed in view of the fact the whole question of granting belligerent rights 1 both the Valencia government and the insurgents had reached the crucial Stage in the 27-nation “hands-offe Spain” Committee Troops Withdrawal Urged. The Earl of Plymouth, chairman of the body and spokesman for Britain, was believed to have intended *o ine troduce the new compromise plan be. fore the full committee Friday Well- informed political circles suggested the British proposal would have cfe fered belligerent rights to the com- batants in exchange for German and Italian co-operation in withdrawing volunteers from the canflict. | The two Fascist countries, which | recognize the Franco regime as the true Spanish government, disrupted the previous neutrality system when they bolted the four-power naval pa= |!rn1 in anger over alleged Spanish gove ernment attacks against their war- ships. The proposal to grant belligerent | rights was the Italo-German sugges- tion for continuing the Neutrality | Committee’s work. The two powers had refused to agree to an Anglo- French proposal to take over the entire naval control. 'ELEVATOR WORKERS FORM NEW UNION Second D. C. Local of Interna- tional Organized—Affiliated With A. F. of L. | Composed of both man and woman operators of elevators in department stores, office buildings and Federal structures throughout the city, a new union known as Local No. 121 of the International Union of Elevator Con- structors, Operators and Starters of America was formed last night at Pythian Temple. There was a large attendance. This is the second local union of the same international organization here. The other is Local No. 10, composed | of “constructors,” men who build ele= vators. Charter for the new local 121 was presented by John Proctor, Vice presi= dent of the International, and business | representative of Local No. 10. Officers of the new local were elected as follows Jack Major, president; William Parks, vice president; Timothy Morely, secretary-treasurer; Edward Duck, business representative. The new organization is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, { Eden Sir Eric coupled at Congress in Brief By the Associated Press. TODAY. Senate: Debates court bill. Labor Committee may vote on wage= hour bill. | Agriculture Committee continues hearings on power-flood control bill. House: Labor Committee considers wage- hour bill. Interstate Commerce Commitiee re- sumes study of bill to broaden scope of Federal Trade Commission. TOMORROW. Senate: Will continue debate on Supreme Court issue. District of Columbia Airport Com- mission, executive, 10:30 am. Joint meeting of Commerce Com- mittees on cancer control legislation, 10 am. in Senate committee room. Indian Affairs, open meeting, 10:30 a.m. House: Considers naval bills and special rules. Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee considers textile bills, 10 am. Heavy Customs Duties. Droghadda, Irish Free State, is protesting because after waiting a year for the order to be filled, its new $6,875 fire engine had $2,075 cus~ toms duties attached. ¢