Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1937, Page 1

WEATH! (U. 8, Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and continued w. tomorrow, except possibly a local thunder- shower tomorrow afternoon; light variable Temperatures today—Highest, 93, winds. at 2:30 p.m.; lowest, 76, Full report on page B- Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales—Pg. 14 ER. arm tonight and at 3 am. 10. 85th YEAR. No. 34,0 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. 37. WHEELER OPENS SARCASTIC SALLY ONCOURTMEASURE Senator Charges Intoler- ance to Administration and Bill’s Supporters. COURT’S DETRACTORS ARE HELD TURNCOATS Leaders Who Attack Hughes, Roberts All Voted to Confirm Them, Senator Says. BACKGROUND— Seeking a Supreme Court that would be sympathetic toward the legislative aims of the New Deal, President Roosevelt last February asked authority to name additional justices immediately for all mem- bers of the court over 70. This measure was defeated. by Senate Judiciary Committee, and compro= mise proposal, authorizing ap- pointment of one additional justice a year for each member over 75, is now being debated on Senate foor, BY G. Gd[ LDVI.I\'('OI“\" With biting sarcasm, Senator Wheeler of Montana today launched | for foes of the plan a two-day attack upon the so-called compromise court bill and its administration supporters. The Senator charged the adminis- tration with intolerance in its effort to drive the court bill through the Senate. He said the administration had marshaled all its forces to whip Congress into line. Postmaster General Farley, chair- man of the Democratic National Com- | mittee, he declared, had lined up the | postmasters, Secretary Wallace had been sent out to line up the farmers, and Harry Hopkins, relief administra- tor, had undertaken to line up all those people who needed relief for the court bill. "“One of the so-called farm leaders told me,” said Wheeler, “that he was invited to the White House for the first time. He was told that he should line up the farm organizations against every Senator from the Northwest who dared to voice his opposition of this legisla- tion. Foes Dubbed Tories. “Because Congress had placed money in his hands to give aid to drought- stricken farmers, Secretary Wallace went on the radio to line up the {armers. The implication.was that the farmers wouldn't get the money if this bill were not passed. Secretary of Treas bers Clash With asked the special Congressional as Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President the Secretary’'s wife and father, Henry | | to have assisted in his re-election tos the House. | Fish also asked that the same “piti- less light of publicity” as has been cast on the tax practices of some 40 anti-New Dealers be brought to bear on the income tax returns of Labor | Leader John L. Lewis, W. P. A. Ad- ministrator Harry L. Hopkins, Jacob Ruppert, base ball magnate and brew- er: Bernard Smith, big Democratic contributor, and the Democratic Na- tional Committee. (Though it was not brought out at today's hearing, the name of Jacob | Ruppert was included in one of the lists recently made public by the com- mittee.) Remarking that his testimony re- sembled a presentation of Romeo and Juliet without Romeo, since he was prevented by a decision of the com- mittee from mentioning President Roosevelt, Fish later handed to the press a clipping from the Chicago Tribune Press Service relating how Mr. Roosevelt had described in 1934 a reduction in his tax liability through | charging off depreciation on a worth- | less barn on his Dutchess County farm. | Roosevelt Refuses Comment. | The President, questioned at his | press conference today about Fish's charges, said he did not wish to dis- cuss them at this time. | Except in the case of Mrs. Roosevelt, | in which Fish presented a photo- | static copy of a radio contract, the New Yorker admitted that his com- | plaints or suspicions about the tax (See QUIZ, Page A- ch WASHINGTON, Fish Asks Congress Probers To Study Income Tax Returns Of Mrs. Roosevelt and 2 Sons ury, His Wife and Father Also Named—Committee Mem- Representative. J BY JOHN C. HENRY. EPRESENTATIVE HAMILTON FISH, Republican, of New York today Committee on Tax Evasion to examine the income tax returns of such noted Dutchess County, N. Y., residents James and Elliott Roosevelt, sons of nd Mrs. Roosevelt; Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and | Morgenthau, sr. All have legal residence in Fish's district, although they are not believed REPRESENTATIVE FISH, As he appeared today before the Congressional Committee on Tax Evasion.—A. P. Photo. JANBORE L0SES WITH FLAG RTES Bugles Sound Retreat as Hundreds of Banners Are Lowered. Full Page of Jamboree News NATS-YANKS TIED, -, IN 2D INNING Di Maggio Hits Homer After Griffs Open With Three Singles. BY FRANCIS E. STAN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, RAIN THREATENING 10 DELAY SEARCH FOR MISS EARHART Warship Officers Planning i toCatapult Three Planes in Hunt. POSSIBILITY THAT PAIR ARE ON REEF IS DOUBTED Battleship Colorado Proceeds Slowly Through Perilous Un- charted Pacific Waters. | By the Associatec Press. HONOLULU, July 9.—Equatorial rain squalls threatened to interrupt the search for Amelia Earhart, which Navy airmen considered was entering its most crucial phase today. Despite a forecast of rain and poor visibility, officers aboard the battle- ship Colorado planned to catapult her three planes aloft again in expectation of completing an aerial search of the Phoenix Islands tomorrow. Today and Saturday, they said they felt, was the most critical period since {the Coast Guard cutter started the search just a week ago. | Airmen felt in flights yesterday and | Wednesday they definitely eliminated ! the possibility she was in the area | ground Winslow Reef. 136,000 Square Miles Scoured. By sea and air search for the missing aviatrix and her navigator, Frederick J. Noonan, has encompassed approxi- mately 136,000 square miles without even sighting some of the shoals and | sandspits supposed to exist in the vast area. | The flyers vanished a week ago to- | day m an attempt to fly the 2.750 miles from Lae, New Guinea, to How- | 1and Island, a dot of land but 2 feet above the sea. Three planes from the Colorado, steaming steadily from the equator southward to the Phoenix Islands, soared over the area east and south of Howland Islands yesterday but sighted no trace of the pair. The planes, piloted by Lieuts. J. O. Lambrecht, L. O. Fox and W. B. Short, | | ir., could not even find Winslow Reef, which old charts showed peeked just | above the sea 175 miles southeast ol[ | Howland. | Mariners expressed belief the only | available charts either misrepresented | the location of the reef, which might | have offered a precarious emergency | anding spot, or else the little known | outcropping had sunk below the sea's | | surface. | | FRIDAY, JULY 9, BACKGROUND— Despite John L. Lewis’ Commit- tee for Industrial Organization's success with “big steel's” com- panies, the independents since last May have fought its unionization eflorts. Series of strikes, many marked by violence, have occurred. Fed- eral mediators’ eflorts to bring ac- cord have been unsuccessful. Br the Associated Press. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, July 9.—A call for a new strike at Republic Steel | plants here by the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee apparently was | ignored by workers today as the dead- line of 11:30 a.m. (Eastern standard time) passed with no workers leaving | the mills, Republic officials said “not | & single man left the plant.” ! Republic officials said a few auto- mobiles went in and out the gate, but | these were “ordinary traffic.” The night relief of police, whom Chief Carl Olson had held in reserve, was dismissed at noon. | 1937—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. #*% Strike Call at Republic Steel parently Ignored by Men/ ¢ Toening Star K NO HOLDS BARRED. The only Yesterday’s in Washington wit! Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. evening paper the Circulation, 137,368 (Some Teturns not yet received.) (®) Means Associated Press. Half an hour before the time set for the walkout, a crowd of strike sym- pathizers and curiosity seekers, esti- mated by Chief Olson at 2,000, gath- | ered near the gates but National Guardsmen, special police and deputy sheriffs kept the crowd moving. Scotty O'Hara, in charge of the S. W. O. C. organization of Republic| workers here, saild that he expected | large numbers of those now working | in the Republic mill to stay out in later shifts. Tom White, president of Republic Lodge, said that some of the men in the mill had come out, but he did| not have a report on the total num- George Silcox, vice president of | the Steel Workers' Organizing Com-; mittee unit at the Republic plant here, had announced that & new strike | would be called today. Silcox's state- | ment followed by a few hours the as- sertion made in Washington by Wil- liam Green, president of the American | " (See STEEL, Page . D. . HEADS FIGHT FORTAXBILL SPEE Shelves Proposal to Borrow Money—To Talk to Senate Leaders. BACKGROUND— District Government faced deficit 0/ $7.000,000 when Congress decided to impose new tazes on local resi- dents rather than increase Federal lump-sum payment. Beginning of fiscal year found mew revenue pro- gram incomplete. Senate District Committee finally reported bill containing heavy ®ew land tax and 2 per cent luzury taz, but measure was sidetracked when debate on Supreme Court reorgani- zation bill started. BY DON 5. WARREN. A last-ditch fight for prompt pas- sage. of a District tax bill to meet the | impending $7,000.000 deficit was TWO CENTS, ROOSEVLT PLANS NDPERSONEL T N 10% SAVINGS Hopes 6nly to Keep From Filling Vacancies as They Appear. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING OF EMPLOYES BARRED Right of Government Workers to Strike Does Not Exist, President States. BACKGROUND— Fears of many Government work- ers about their jobs were intensified several days ago when President Roosevelt announced his intention to call on all heads of departments and independent establishments to save 10 per cent of the funds ap- propriated for their use during the current fiscal year. Many Federal employes long have belonged to unions, either independ- ent or with A. F. of L. affiliation Recently the C. I. O. sought to or- ganize Government workers. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. | tive statement today President Roosevelt made the posi- that his plan to save 10 per cent of appropriations for Government activities during the present fiscal year does not call for Government employes to be discharged or furloughed. The President also said at his press | conference there can be no collective | bargaining between the Federal Gov- | ernment and its employes because the law prohibits the Government from entering into contracts with employes. | Moreover, he explained, compensation | of employes and administrative offi- cers is fixed by law | His comment on collective bargain- ing was made by the President in view of a movement which has started to bring Federal employes' unions into John L. Lewis’ Committee for Indus- trial Organization. The President also said that any group or individual employed by the Government had the right to present its case before a board representing the Government. He added that. be- cause the Government enters into no contract with its employes. the latter, | therefore, do not- have the right to | strike While discussing his money-saving | program, by which he hopes to im- pound approximately $400,000.000 by | the end of the present fiscal year, the | President emphasized for the purpose | of relieving the minds of a large num- . m Page A-6. | ber of Federal workers that he has ‘Every one who opposed this meas- o 9 NEW YORK, July 9.—Washington | Will Swing South Again. and New York met in the first of a ure was dubbed an economic royalist or a Tory or something worse. “This same spirit of intolerance | manifested itself in the Senate yes- terday. Because we dared to ask questions and to conduct a genuine debate, the majority leader invoked rules against us. Apparently they | of the first national Boy Scout Jam- | As bugles sounded retreat, hundreds | of flags all over the vast city of tents | were lowered from their staffs this| afternoon, marking the official close boree. % While the Scouts stood at attention, fear a full debate of this compromise measure. They know that they had 60 votes in the Senate for the original | bill when it was first presented. They | saw Senators drift away one by one and then by threes and fours until the | Democratic leader the other day an- | nounced that they did not have votes | enough to pass that bill. | “They say now they have the votes to pass this compromise bill. And ! what did they do when they opened the debate? They appealed to party loyalty. They said to you new Sen- ators that because you rode in on the coat tails of the President you should | vote for this bill. “On My Own Coat Tails.” “I didn’t ride into the Senate on the coat tails of the President, nor did | I say that I would support him 100 per cent. I am responsible for what | I do here. And if I go out, I'll go out riding on my own coat tails, not on those of somebody else. “Finally the new Senator was told: ‘You will break the President’s heart if you don’t vote for this compromise bill’ Well, this is not what the Pres- ident wanted; he wanted six new jus- tices of the Supreme Court. You | came down first to four and now you | have come down to one a year. Now it is proposed to pack the Supreme (See COURT, Page A-5) WOMAN, 55, SUICIDE; BODY FOUND HANGING Mrs. Sarah Popluder Is Discovered After Invalid Husband Calls for Help. Mrs. Sarah Popluder, 55, hanged herself today in the rooms in which she and her invalid husband lived. at the rear of their grocery store at Georgia avenue and Harvard street. Her body was found, by police and ambulance physicians, hanging by a clothesline from a door transom be- tween her second-floor bed room and a hall. Her husband, Jake, suspected his wife was dead when she failed to answer his call this morning. Bed- ridden with lumbago, he called for help. Samuel Shinberg, proprietor of a next-door radio store, heard his shouts and summoned police and an Emergency Hospital ambulance. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald issued a verdict of suicide. Mrs. Pop- luder was said to have been in ill health and despondent for the last year. -Coroner MacDonald said she apparently had hanged herself shortly after closing the grocery store at mid- night. Her body was fully clothed except for shoes. Caro] Starts Seven-Week Tour. BUCHAREST, Rumania, July 9 (®)—King Carol, traveling alone and incognito, left today for Belgrade to start a seven-weeks holiday tour. He will visit also in Paris, Brussels, Scotland and Germany. Diplomats here said he would discuss French in- fluence in the Balkans during his stay in Paris. Y L] | was that chartered by 237 Scouts from | the Fourteenth street terminal. the 1400 flags stretching from the | Washington Monument to Hains Point and Columbia Island were low- ered. At the same time, Dr. James E. West, chief executive of the BO)'| Scouts of America, met with the | Scout leaders and jamboree officials | to express his appreciation of their work during the 10-day encampment. Preceding the flag-lowering cere- monies, Commissioner George E. Allen, chairman of the President's Special Jamboree Committee paid a last-min- ute visit to the khaki city to tell the scouts that their visit to the Nation's Capital was as enjoyable to the resi- dents of Washington as to the scouts themselves. The Commissioner ex- pressed deep satisfaction with the manner in which the unusual encamp- ment was carried out. Tents Are Struck. Tents were coming down, knapsacks were being packed and trains were being loaded with homeward trekking Scouts even in advance of the formal retreat ceremony. Jamboree officials said that 92 spe- cial trains or special cars will carry more than 12,000 Scouts out of the city today. The departing groups were headed for scattered sections of the Continent and some for points abroad. Another 12,000 were due to leave the tented city tomorrow by special train, bus and automobile. Less than 1,000 of the group will remain in camp over the week end. The flag-lowering exercises were to be the only highlight of the final day of the big jamboree. The last of six arena shows was held last night. Nearly 3,000 New England Scouts will depart by train from Rosslyn, beginning at 7 p.m. A group of 28 Scouts from New Mexico and Oklahoma left camp last night in order to catch a boat for Europe, where they will be among 800 American participants in the world jamboree in Holland next month. Among the first special trains carry- ing jamboree Scouts from the city Fox River Valley, Wis. This train left The last group of Scouts in camp will be the Minnesota contingent cofn- posed of more than 500 boys and leaders. They will deport by special train Monday at 1:30 p.m. Dismantling of the camp will begin at 8 a.m. Monday under the direction of Ray Bryan, engineering expert of the Boy Scouts of America. TROYANOVSKY SAILS Will Return to U. 8. in Septem- ber, Red Ambassador Says. NEW YORK, July 9 (#).—Alexan- der Troyanovsky, Soviet Ambassador to Washington, sailed today on the Ile de France for a two-month vaca- tion at home. “I return to this country in Sep- tember,” he said. His statement was in answer to a question whether he was slated to replace Foreign Affairs Commissar Maxim Litvinoff. The Ambassador’s wife and son, Olig, sailed with him. three-game series here this afternoon. | The score at the end of the second ©Ver the week end from the aircraft | i | WASHINGTON—AImada fouled to | west of the Phoenix and Howland | inning was 1-1. FIRST INNING. Rolfe. Lewis was called out on strikes. Kuhel singled to center. Stone sin- gled to right sending Kuhel to third. Travis singled to left scoring Kuhel, Stone stopping at second. Myer grounded to Gehrig. One run. NEW YORK.—Crosetti struck out. Rolfe flied to Stone. Di Maggio hit & home run into the left field stands. It was his twenty-first of the season. Gehrig walked. Myer tossed out Dickey. One run. ‘Washington, 1; New York, 1, SECOND INNING. WASHINGTON—Hill struck threw Hill out at first. Ferrell flied to Hoag. Rolfe threw out Fischer. No runs. NEW YORK—Travis threw out Powell. Lazzeri flied to Almada. Hoag grounded to Travis. No runs. Washington, 1; New York, 1. Ammunition Stores Explode. HELSINGFORS, Finland, July 9 (#). —Ammunition stores exploded near here today with a terrifying roar, which shook the whole city. Thirteen persons were injured. Summary of Editorials - Finance - Lost & Found B-10 Obituary _..A-10 FOREIGN. Litvinoff issues sharp counter-warning to Japanese. Page A-1 Japanese and Chinese reported evacu- ating trouble zone. Page A-2 NATIONAL. $18,000,000 saving is seen as result of Byrd bill. Page A-1 President plans no reduction in Fed- eral personnel. Page A-1 Workers ignore steel strike call in ‘Youngstown. Page A-1 Wheeler launches sarcastic attack on court reorganization. Page A-1 Study of tax returns of Mrs. Roosevelt and sons asked. Page A-1 Rain menaces air hunt for Amelia Earhart and Noonan. Page A-1 C. L O. answers Green statement that strikes were lost. Page A2 “Married persons clause” repealed by ‘House, 203 to 129. Page A-2 Myron C. Taylor may resign post with U. 8. Steel January 1. “Page A-4 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY, Commissioners-plan to plead for im- mediate tax bill action. Page A-1 Two or three more days of intense heat seen for city. Page A-1 Twelve thousand of jamboree Scouts leave for home today. Page A-1 Bernard Eaton, traffic victim, dies; toll 57 for year. Page A2 P. J. Haltigan, reading clerk of House, dies after long illness. Page A-3 Persons indicted in gaming drive to be arrsigned Monday. Page B-1 Contributions give six children care in tuberculosis camp. . Page B-1 [ ports ‘Woman's Pg. .B-6 out, | Dickey dropped the third strike, but | The Colorado's fiyers, awaiting aid | carrier Lexington's plane armada, to- | day planned to swing southward once again but come back on a course Islands. This expedition would cover area | previously unexplored by the Coast Guard cutter Itasca, which carried |on the search alone for days near Howland Islands before the Colorado | sped southward from Hawaii, more than 1,500 miles away. Yesterday's flight of more than 500 miles after the planes were catapulted | from the battleship's deck covered hundreds of square miles not previ- ously scanned. Today the aviators planned to go as far south as Gardner Island and Carondolet Reef, the southernmost | center 280 miles south of lonely How- | land. Planes from the Colorado, which | was proceeding cautiously to avoid | uncharted reefs in the little traversed equatorial area, were expected to com- plete search of the Phoenix group before arrival of the Lexington, be- ing refueled at Lahaina Roads, near Honolulu. The $40,000,000 aircraft carrier, which sped from San Diego to Hawaii, was expected to get away for the 1,500- mile dash to the search area today and spread her brood of planes prob- ably next Monday. Today’s Star Senate committee to begin study of ‘Wagner housing bill. Page B-1 Government use of non-union labor on building jobs protested. Page B-1 & Laundry strikers may parley with in- dividual employers. Page B-1 District deficiency estimates totaling $60,000 sent to House. Page B-1 Aviation Bureau expected to back pilots on airport. Page B-1 | EDITORIALS AND COMMENT. Editorials, Page ‘This and That. Page Political Mill. ‘Washington Observations. Answers to Questions. David Lawrence. H. R. Baukhage. Constantine Brown. Jay Franklin. Lemuel Parton. SPORTS. Hill is taking place of Sington in out- field for Nats. Page B-7 Hubbell didn’t have his stuff, says Terry of all-star tilt. Page B-7 Army and Navy racketers in Leech Cup match tomorrow. Page B-8 Golf tops in providing sports person- alities, says Rice. Page B-8 Dawn Play, mare, bids for 3-year-old turf championship. Page B-9 MISCELLANY. ‘Young Washington, Betsy Caswell. Dorothy Dix. Nature's- Children. Cross-Word Puszle, Bedtime Stories. Letter-Out. Shipping News. Vital Statistics. Traffic Convictions, Winning Contract. Page ‘ Page Page Page Page Page Page Page 2 A 2 3 53 3 © ©© ©© e Page B-2 Page B-6 Page B-6 Page B-14 Page B-14 Page B-15 Page B-15 | Brookings Expert Supports part of the Phoenix Islands, which | S18.000000 SAVING Federal Home Credit Administration. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. A saving of $18.000,000 a year wouid result from the bill sponsored by Sena- tor Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia to establish a Federal Home Credit Ad- ministration co-ordinating the Fed- eral Home Loan Bank Board, the Home Owners’ Loan Corp. and the Federal Housing Administration, Dr. Charles O. Hardy of the Brookings Institution estimated today. i The estimate was made at an open | hearing before the Senate committee investigating executive agencies with & view to reorganization. Officials of the various organizations affected were present on invitation of Chairman Byrd. After Dr. Hardy had made his state- ment, John H. Fahey, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and chairman of the board of directors of the Home Owners’ Loan Corp., asked that he be furnished with a stenographic repcrt of the hearing, after which he would be prepared to appear before the committee in & week or 10 days. Must Study Finance Phases.\ Explaining that a careful study must be made of various financial phases, he specifically asked Dr. Hardy to supply him with an itemized state- ment of the estimated savings. Sena- tor Byrd said a similar statement would be supplied to the F. H. A. Dr. Hardy pointed out that the Brookings Institution had not made a study regarding the worthwhileness of any functions being performed, but that, in its judgment, there was not enough material difference between the F. H. A, an agency supervised by the F. H. L. B, and others to make nec: essary the maintenance of two sepa- rate agencies. He said he had found unnecessary duplication of work, con- fusion in the minds of the public and some competitive effort. Saving in Field Offices. ‘There would be considerable saving by consolidation of field offices of the F. H. L. B. and the F. H. A, Dr. Hardy said, with the saving greatest in sparsely settled aleas. He called at- tention that there are six assistant general managers of the H. O. L. C. and six deputies of the F. H, A. There is duplication also in research organi- zations supported by the two agencies, the F. H. A. spending $250,000, and F. H. L. B, $200,000 per year. Con- solidation of these research units would be more effective with a saving of about 30 per cent of the $450,000. Consolidation might reduce by $3,- 500,000 per annum the joint cost of operation of the F. H. A. and the F. H. L. B, Dr. Hardy emphasized. Sale of assets of the H. O. L. C. slso was discussed by Dr. Hardy, with two outstanding possibilities: (a) to sell the good mortgages without guarantee and turn over the balance for service under the F. H. L. B. system; (b) sell | planned today by the Commissioners | meeting in emergency session. | The board shelved the proposal ;nu intention of reducing personnel in voiced last night by | the old-line departments or the in- 10 SHUN" SIBERIA Litvinoff Says Soviet Troops | Have Orders to Fire on Invaders. BACKGROUND— Tense relations between Russia and Japan constantly are being further strained by clashes along border. Most recent incident was clash at islands in Amur River, when Soviet gunboat was sunk by Japa- nese. By the Associatea Press. MOSCOW, July 9.—The Soviet gov- | ernment warned Japan today to keep out of Siberia and declared Russia would use “all possible means” to pre- vent invasion of its territory by Jap- anese-Manchukuoan forces. The newest development in the dis- pute over the ownership of the Sen- nufu and Bolshoi Islands in the Amur River along the Siberian-Manchu- kuoan boundary in the Far East came after the Japanese Ambassador had told Russia that border clashes were too numerous. Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff promptly rejected this pro- test as “untrue.” An official Russian communique accused Japan of failure to evacuate troops from the barren sandspits in the river. Litvinoff told the Japanese Ambas- sador, Mamoru Shigemitsu, that the | islands belonged to Russia. Changes Flights Over Border. Litvinoff also requested Shigemitsu to inform his government that al- leged invasions of Siberian territory by Japanese - Manchukuoan forces were occurring too often. He added that Japanese planes were making repeated flights across the frontier of *Siberia from the Japanese-inspired Manchukuoan state. The communique said that Lit- vinoff at this point warned the Jap- anese Ambassador: “Soviet frontier Commissioner | Hazen for a joint resolution authoriz- ing the District to borrow from the Treasury as a “stop gap” for payment of bills pending collection of additional Tevenues that might be collected under a tax bill that might be passed later. The Commissioners were to go to the Capitol this aernoon and use every argument at their command to persuade Senate leaders to pass the tax bill without further delay. An appeal to the President to use his influence to obtain prompt action of the tax matter appeared likely, al- though the Commissioners made no statement on that point, Crisis More Acute. With the District tax bill blockaded { by the Senate battle over the Presi- dent’s court reform bill, District offi- cials became increasingly alarmed over the District’s financial ecrisis. According to calculations made hastily today, the Commissioners said the District would be absolutely “broke” August 1. For working capital since the opening of the new fiscal year, July 1, they have had available only the Federal payment of $5,000,000, plus small incidental driblets of tax payments which have come in. ‘The first big tax payments will come in in September, but even these have been endangered by the log jam hold- ing up the tax bill. The Commis- sioners have delayed fixing the real estate and tangible personal property tax rate, hoping congressional action on the new tax bill would be com- pleted within the next few days. The District Commissioners say they will not be able to prepare these thx bills in time for the September pay- ments unless the rate is fixed by July 15. Normally the rate is fixed on July 1, As delay succeeds delay in the fiscal fiasco, the 11,000 or more District em- ployes began to have visions of pay- less pay days. Under existing law the Commissioners have no authority to (See TAXES, Page A-10) ROOSEVEL'I::FO CRUISE Yacht Over Week End. President Roosevelt will spend the week end cruising about the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay with a small party of friends. He will leave tomorrow afternoon aboard the presi- troops have firm orders in no case to (8ee MOBCOW, Page A-4.) dential yacht Potomac and plans to return Sunday night. Heat Wave Here to Continue For Two or T QGripped tightly in the worst heat wave of the year, Washington can ex- pect no relief for two or three days, the Weather Bureau predicted today as the temperature climbed to 87 de- grees at noon. ’ Overcast skies which held & vague promise of thundershowers later in the day protected the city from direct rays of the blazing sun and held the mercury slightly below the record tem- peratures of yesterday, when ther- mometers registered 89 degrees at noon. Even a driving thunderstorm would afford only temporary relief from the all mortgages not nearly ripe for fore- closure, using & guarantee as far as is necessary. heat wave, which has gripped the en- tire Nation east of the Rocky Moun- tains, the Weather Bureau said. > hree More Days | “There is no place nearby where any cool air can come from at the present time,” it was explained. Miss Anne Kelly, 36, of 1703 D street northeast, was the first heat victim reported today. She collapsed soon after reaching her office at the Ladies’ Exchange, 807 Vermont ave- nue, and was treated at Emergency Hospital. After setting the season's record high when it touched 94.7 degrees at 3:30 p.m. yesterday the temperature dropped to 76 degrees at 3 a.m. today. But an hour later new masses of hot air rolling in from the Midwest sent the mercury up three degrees. If the skies clear later today with- (8ee WEATHER, Page A-10.) A Will Take Party of Friends on | | dependent establishments and emer- gency agencies. The President said | there are many other ways of effect- | ing savings which will be sufficient to |reach his goal of balancing the | budget, except for the extraordinary | spending in the name of relief. | The President explained he is hope- | ful of effecting substantial savings by not filling vacancies when they occur {in the Government service. In addi- tion. huge savings can be accom- plished by reducing or slowing up cer- tain activities, he said. In other words, he has given instructions to delay certain work, which could be accomplished within the present year and extend it over into the fol- lowing year. In discussing his economy aims the President pointed out that considera- ble savings should be effected in travel expenses and by reducing the numb-r of telephone calls and amount of public printing done each year. He declared there is entirely too much printing done by the Government. much of which, in his opinion, is a waste of money. He added that most Government officials seem to want to print anything and everything con- nected with their department or agency. Aid Pledged at Conference. The subject of money saving was discussed thoroughly yesterday after- noon at his conference with the rep- resentatives of 28 independent estab- lishments and agencies, the President said. He indicated the conference was a great success and, judging from the response to his appeal. he will be able to accomplish the desired savings. A similar conference will be held at the White House this afternoon when the President meets with mem- bers of his cabinet. He has indicated he is not as hopeful of affecting any great savings in the old-line depart- ments as in the case of the independ- ent establishments and agencies. When asked for an opinion on the possibility of employes bringing pres- sure to bear in the matter of wage | scales, the President said this would be a matter for Congress and is gov- erned to some extent by civil service rules, Old Ruling Recalled. In relating a story of his connection with Navy contract jobs while he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, the President recalled that it was his job to set wage scales for Navy contracts. He said fat, under an act of Congress. the Navy was te pay the scale of private industry in the vicinity of the Navy Yard in question. He added that in the matter of arriving at a definite scale and in fixing other details deal- ing with working conditions, he had the local boards hold hearings to listen to any one who had anything to say and then reach a decision and rec- ommend to him their findings. The President recalled that the question onmce arose whether the Navy would enter into a contract agreement with the draftsmen’s union. He disposed of this problem by making a ruling to the effect that the Government does not make contracts with its employes. Japanese Air Leader Killed. TOKIO, July 9 (#).—Maj. Gen. Kenjiro Nagasawa, president of the Kumagai Aviation School and one of the pioneers of aviation in Japan, was fatally injured today when his monae plane crashed in & dense fog near the city of Fukushima. L)