Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1937, Page 17

AVIATION BUREAU EXPECTED T0 BACK PILOTS ON AIRPORT D. C. Commission Prepares to Send Congress Its Recommendations. CAMP SPRINGS SITE IS BELIEVED FAVORED Maintenance of “Close-in” Ter- minal Also Is Thought Likely to Be Suggested. Belief that the Bureau of Air Com- merce will back up airline pilots in their refusal to continue operation of new high-speed transport airplanes from Washington Airport was ex- pressed in aviation circles today as the District Airport Commission pre- pared to file with Congress its rec- ommendations for development of a permanent governmental airport for Washington. Following the Airport Comm was reported that tions would be filed today Vice President and Speaker. ! Although the utmost secrecy has‘ surrounded. all the actions of the com- mission, there have been persistent rumors that it will recommend de- velpoment of a site outside the metro- | politan area on open, level farm land near Camp Springs, Md., about 11 miles southcast of downtown Wash-‘ ington. | May Urge “Close In” Terminal. | There also have been rumors v.hali & site just beyond Bethesda, Md., was i being considered. The commission | also was expe 1 1 four-hour session of | yesterday, it B recommenda- | the | its ed to recommend main- | tenance of a “close in” terminal, the | site of which was not expected to be named. As a result of the ultimatum of pilots operating out of W on Airport that they will r to continue to land and take off the big, high-speed transports zards are eliminated, believed that a showdown was approaching in Jong fight for adequate airport facili- ties for Wa The u of the pilots of Eastern Air Lines and American Air- | lines, delivered to the Bureau of Air | Commerce yesterda y. was discussed at | a conference between Assistant Sec- retary of Cominerce J. Monroe John- son, Director of Air Commerce Fred D. Fagg, and As ant Director Howard Rouzh late yesterday. After the conference, Director Fagg said that the bureau “probably will have something to say tomorrow” about the ultimatum. He said that| the bureau has realized for a long | time that conditions at Washington | Airport are not actory. U. S. Action Held Next Move. ‘The next move is u WASHINGTON, When New York's temperature climbed last night, this East Side family took to the fire escape. Thousands of others swarmed to fire escapes, roofs and parks. D. C, FRIDAY, JULY 9, This photo, snapped through the whirling blades of an elec- tric fan, shows Senator Claude Pepper seeking relief. Adhering strictly to custom, the Floridan refused to remove his coat. N —A. P. Photos. 1937, ———— PAGE B—1 HOUSE STRIKES 0UT MARRIAGE CLAUSE OF ECONOMY ACT Section 213 Repeal Voted 203 to 129—Amendment Attempts Fail. COCHRAN LEADS FIGHT TO RETAIN PROVISIONS Offers Unsuccessful Substitute to Extend Former Regulations to New Deal Agencies After tense debate, durinz which stories of hardships and injustice were told. the House late yesterday repealed section 213 of the economy act of 1932, commonly known as “the mar- ried persons’ clause.” The roll-call vote was 203 to 129 Earlier, three attempts at amend- ment had failed and a motion to re- commit with amendment had been re- jected, 173 to 87 | The bill as | measure sponsored by | Celler. Democrat, of New York | vides that *no person shall be eriminated against in any case becau, passed—the Representa Little Michael Francis, 9 months, was a little too young for wading pools in New York, so his mother conceived this clothes line idea for keeping hin. high a mercury went to 98. nd dry as well as cool when the IX TUBERCULARS HELPED BY GIFTS Get Chance to Regain Health at Camp This Summer. Contributions from individuals and the 'orzanizations already have given six | tubercular children a chance to re- gain their health at the District Tu- berculosis Association camp this Sum- mer, Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, manag- ing director of the association, an- nounced today. Nearly half of the total of $520 so far contributed came this week from persons influenced by newspaper de- scriptions of the camp opening Tues- day at half capacity because of lack of funds, Mrs. Grant said. The association’s budget could finance the care of only 60 children this Summer, although the new camp on Bald Eagle Hill, beyond Anacos- tia, has room for 120. Initial con- | tributions by the Parent-Teacher As-iga | sociation and a group of colored or- | tives chosen by our Tespective em- | to the Fed- | 8anizations provided for three addi- | ‘LAUNI]RY STRIKERS!Iceberg Scouting by Airplanes | | SEEK NEW PARLEYS | | \ ; (Individual Pacts Sought | After Exchange of Charges ‘ With Rubenstein. Plans to negotiate with individual | employers instead of with the Plant | | Owners’ Committee were being made | | today by officials of the Laundry Work- ‘ lers, Dyers and Cleaners’ Union in an | ieffort to settle the 15-day-old strike | affecting 450 workers and 13 whole- | sale cleaning establishments. Samuel Rubenstein, chairman of the Plant Owners’ Committee, said nego- | tlations with the union’s representa- | | tives would not be resumed until in- | timidation of non-striking workers by | union members ceases. In a messaga] | delivered to union leaders last night, ! i Rubenstein said: | “We are ready at any time to bar- | in collectively through representa- | Rejected for Ship Patrol Plan Keen-eyed pilots of clipper planes ! flving on regular schedule above the | North Atlantic will never replace the | sailors who scan the seas from surface ships on the iceberg patrol, it was de- ‘ clared at Coast Guard headquarters here today. | Possibility that it might soon be | feasible to abandon the surface ship | patrol was suggested when the Coast | Guard here received for the first time in its history a radio report on the | locality of an iceberg from a trans- Atlantic flyer. The message read: “For information of General Greene (Coast Guard cutter) from Capt. Gray, Pan-American Clipper III | Please report to ice patrol, iceberg | medium size sighted {rom 15 miles at | latitude 50.18 north, 2.50 G. C. T.” The Coast Guard made it known to- day, however, that it had thought of | scouting for icebergs with airplanes long before Capt. Harold B. Gray de- cided to fly from Newfoundland to| Ireland—thought of it, experimented and then gave up the idea at least for | the present. Airplanes 50.14 west at | are excellent scouting | crashed into an iceberg 25 years ago | ships on clear days, Comdr. W. W Derby of the Coast Guard said. but fog hangs over the Newfoundland Banks 75 per cent of the time.! The fog rises when the warm waters of the Gulf Stream meet the cold waters of the Labrador Current. The temperature of the Gulf Stream is| about 70 degrees Fahrenheit and bright blue. The current is about 40 degrees and dull green It was in the vicinity of the meet- ing place of the Gulf Stream and Labrador Current that the Titanic and sank—a tragedy that resulted m} the establishment of the ice patrol. | The berg Capt. Gray saw, it was pointed out, was lolling in the water | far north of the trans-Atlantic ship lanes. The Coast Guard keeps its| Vigil by ship in the iceberg danger | zone south of Newfoundland from | Avalon Peninsula to the “ail” of the | Grand Banks from February or March | until June. In those months approximately 50 icebergs sail down from the north into the path of ocean liners before they slip into the Gulf Stream and melt. { & strike on Government buildings if | NON THREATENS . BULDING 1083 Painters Assert They'll Tie Up Work if Demands Are Not Met. Protesting against award of con- tracts to two painting and decorating | firms employing mon-union labor for Government painting, the painters' | union has threatened to mobilize the | forces of organized building trades in | the non-union men go to work Mon- day. B. P. Holcombe of the painters' union was represented as saying the other crafts of the building trades would back up the painters in a strike to protest Government use of non- union labor. The two firms against which pro- test was lodged were William Wilson & Son of Atlanta, which has a con- | tract for interior painting at the In- | ternal Revenue Building, and Counes | & Raplis of New York City, which 0. C. DEFICIENGY FUNDS RE ASKE $60,536 Estimates Carry $13,000 for Fish Market, $4,500 for Bridge Wall. Deficiency and supplemental esti- mates of appropriations for the Dis- trict totaling $60.536.76 were submitted to the House today by the Budget Bureau This includes an item of $13.000 for repairs to the municipal fish market on Water street, made necessary by settling of the west wall as a resu of the drought and unusual low water marks., There is an item of $4.500 for re- pair of a wing wall protecting one of the bridge tiers on Little Patuxtent River, flowing through the grounds of the District Training School, near Laurel, Md. This is essential because | all coal used in that institution and | all farm products and supplies anust be hauled over the bridge. For repairs at the Industrial Home {of his or her martial status in ex- | amination, appointment, reappoint=- | ment, re atement, | promotion, transfer, retransfer, demo- tion, removal tirement.” The House Civil Service Committee | had reported the bill with a committee | amendment that “no original appoint- | ment may hereatter be aproved in any case where the combined salaries of the members of a family after such appointment, would equal or exceed $4.000.” The question was brought before the House under a special rule. Section 213 Defended. i | Chairman Cochran of the Expendi re-el ture Committee, author of section 213, led the fight against the proposal to | abolish or amend it. He offered a substitute for the committee ame ment which would leave section 2 | operative and extended so as to clude all other activities and agen. |of the Federal and District gover | ments, including the New Deal eme: { Rency agencies not included in the | classified Civil Service. Representative Boileau, Progressive of Wisconsin, offered an amendme. | which would wipe out the Civil Service | Committee amendment. except the one | simple statement, “Section 213 of the jact of June 30, 1932, is hereby This proposal was defeated, | pealed " | 81 to 23 The Cochran substitute was accepted in the Committee of the Whole by a | teller vote of 110 to 106, then by a roll call vote of 123 to 115, but was rejectod | on a subsequent roll call vote of 203 to | 138 when the test was made in the !Hn\:se itself. Chairman Palmisano of the House District Committee surprised many in the galleries by voting for the Cochran amendment to make Section 213 ap- plicable to District Government em- ployes. We are ready to recognize as | eral Government, Edward G. Harril- | tional children. | exclusive representatives of all our ton, local represeniative of the Na-| Mrs. Grant said other contributions | employes the representatives desig- | tional Air Line Pilots' Association, | since Tuesday, ranging from $5 to $25, | nated or selected by them in each | which is acting for the pilots, said | now amount to $250. This is enough | instance for the purpose of collective today. | to send two more children to camp for | bargaining by a majority of our em- “The pilots are deterniined that they | the full nine-week period, and another | ployes. will not continue to ris | for seven weeks. “We shall select the he lives of their passengers | three children and send them to the h oy | Scnool. $2,000 is asked. This is to repair | i § Officials ‘of the Treasury Depart. |dition one vertical ZsAhmem“,”[\med against it. While this proposal ment, which let the contracts, indi. | boler. This work must be done in| %3S under consideration. Chairman | cated these firms were low bidders on | OFG€r thal the school may be properly | Ramspeck of the Civil Service Co: | the two jobs and, under the law, were | heated next Winter [t ectskeck Cochan il ftmould jap: | % | For St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, $39,000 | PI¥ to employes of the legislative establishment and he replied that he awarded the contracts. | . | is asked. The June expenses - e i ; In union circles it was indicated Denses are Tun \” Hamilton said. “Unless | camp immediately.” Mrs. Grant said, something is done within 60 dars to | “hoping that at least another $20 will remedy the insufferable condition | come in to keep all of them there for which exists here, the pilots are go- | the duration of the camp.” ing to be forced to take the matter | into their own hands | The association will rest on its ultimatum until a reply is received | from the Bureai of Air Commerce, | Hamilton said. He indicated tha the | association expects a reply within a | few days. As a result of the association’s ac- tion and the statement of Mrs. Frank- | lin D. Roosevelt yesterday at her press | conference calling attent'on to the | dangers at the local airport, pressure | was developing at the Capitol today | for immediate consideration of the secret report of the Washington Air- port Committee, oon to be filed in the Senate and House. beveral occasions has threatened to close Washington Airport to air trans- port operations. It has been no secret for the past four years that bureau officials have been watching developments there apprehensively and have been ready on an instant’s notice to slap an embargo on airline operations at the least sign f diffi- culty. They have made it clear that | the airport is operating “on suffer- | ance,” in so far as the airlines are | concerned, | Elmer Cross, operations manager of Eastern Air Lines, said that pilots of his line now are given complete dis- cretion as to whether they will land or take off from Washington Airport. There is no interference with them from any source in deciding whether to land here or to “pass up” the local stop on any trip. Unless they are satisfied in their own minds that it is safe to make the attempt, they are Informed that it is their right to avoid the local field. Pilots exercise their prerogatives on an average of three or four times every week, he said, and go right on by Washington. Dry Ice Enables Inventive Police To Cool Offices Loan from Vender and Electric Fan Solve Officers’ Heat Problem. Something new in the way of “air conditioning” was devised at police headquarters yesterday, and here’s how: Detectives in the office of the cen- tral bureau were sweltering under a eombination of mounting tempera- tures and high humidity. Then an {ce cream vendor trudged in, carrying his wares packed in dry ice. Detective Sergt. Hoyle D. Secrest borrowed some of the chemical ice, set it in front of an electric fan and— Well, the officers claimed the office w# more comfortable by 10 degrees. Today’s mail brought a touching letter with a $5 contribution, Mrs, Grant said. The letter read: “In re- sponse to your worthy newspaper appeal, kindly accept this small con- tribution. My children recently be- came motherless, and I find it diffi- jcult to raise them, being they are well, let alone being ill. I trust some- one else will match my little bit, thereby giving another youngster a | chance to smile.” “‘anonymous.” “I wish the entire community would come out to camp and see what we are trying to do for those children, “Mrs. Grant said. “Visitors are welcome at any time. Perhaps if enough people knew what we are doing, enough money would flow in to fill the camp.” Approximately 300 children are on the waiting list, denied the life-giving camp treatment by what Mrs. Grant described as a “tragic” lack of funds. All the children sent to the camp are in the very early stages of tuber- culosis and with the proper medical care, good food and rest provided by the camp can easily be cured, Mrs. Grant said. They are selected from homes in which there are communi- cable, pulmonary cases of the disease. Unless taken from these homes they have little chance. The children range from 2% to 12 years old. At camp they are required to go to bed by 7:30 each night and take ad- ditional morning and afternoon rest periods of two hours each, as rest is such an important factor in arresting tuberculosis. Their play activities are carefully supervised so that they will use up the least possible amount of physical energy. They. get three nourishing meals a day and some, on doctors’ orders, are given extra milk in midmorning and midafternoon. Such treatment arrests tuberculosis in from 60 to 70 per cent of the chil- dren in camp each Summer, Mrs. Grant said. LUTHER LEAGUE HONORS MISS GLADYS BROEKER Washington Young Woman Is Named Recording Secretary at Ohio Convention. Miss Gladys Broeker, 2153 California street, has been elected recording sec- retary of the Luther League of Amer- ica, which closes its five-day conven- tion today in Springfield, Ohio. Miss Broeker is a member of the Zion Lutheran Church, superintendent of the primary department of the Sunday school and secretary of the Luther League of the Synod of Maryland. Other officers elected were John George Kruzenknabe, Harrisburg, Pa., president; Alvin H. Schaediger, North Bergen, N. J, vice president, and Charles W. Fuhr, Pittsburgh, treas- It was signed “The stoppage of negotiations was | caused solely by the breach of the| promises made to plant owners by your ’ committee that all violence would ' cease. It is entirely within your power to remove the cause of this cessation | of negotiations and if these attacks, intimidations and coercion of those who desire to work ceases, negotiations can and will be resumed. We are ready to meet representatives at any reason- able time to discuss and consider these matters and to negotiate providing you are representing a majority of our employes.” | Calvin Cousens, president of the union, in replying to Rubenstein, issued the following statement: “The union scores the statement | issued by Mr. Rubenstein, owner of one of the striking plants, as un- founded and misleading and regards it as an attempt to discredit the union wnile in the midst of negotiations. It is an unsuccessful attempt to impair the strong popular support which these underpaid and overworked employes have received from consumers in the District. “Rubenstein Is Guilty One.” “The only intimidation of workers in this strike has been by Mr. Ruben- stein himself. He has failed to keep good faith with the representatives of the strikers, but other plant owners whom he purports to represent have independently expressed a willingness to negotiate with the union for a prompt settlement. The union is ar- ranging for such conferences for to- day.” Meanwhile, the Retail Tailors’ Asso- ciation, which is supporting the union, appointed a committee to arrange with out-of-town firms to handle the cleaning work of its members. The committee was authorized to go “as far as Philadelphia,” M. Kuppersmith, president of the association, declared. The union is demanding an $18 minimum weekly wage, a 40-hour week, time and a half for overtime and recognition. Agriculture Lodge, No. 31, today sent to the District Commissioners a resolution urging the extension of re- lief to the striking laundry workers. SPAN IS GATEWAY Roanoke Scouts Set Up Model of Natural Bridge. Although gateways and entrances to the 780 Boy Scout troop camps have included reproductions from ' parts of the world, one of the most orginal has been in Region 3, Sec- tion 8, near the Lincoln Memorial, where Scouts of the Roanoke, Va. Council reproduced the Natural Bridge in model form. The bridge, labeled, “One of the seven wonders of the world,” had s clearance of about 25 feet and is made of painted canvas and fiber over a wooden framework. The en- trance to the camp is under the span. As a special attraction, the Roanoke boys distributed a pamphlet, “The Story of the Natural Bridge,™ pre- pared for their eouncil. % | |AMERICAN FLAG GIVEN ON GAMINGCHARGE Arraignment Monday Before | Justice 0’Donoghue on Indictments. The 124 persons indicted a week ago in Washington's greatest anti-gam- bling drive will be arraigned in Dis- | trict Court Monday before Justice Daniel W. O'Donoghue. All but 10 had been arrested pre- | viously and were at liberty on bail when the indictments were reported. | Two of the 10 since have surrendered | and officials expect the other eight will be on hand Monday to plead to the charges. 32 Named in One Indictment. Thirty-two men, among them Abe Plisco, alias Jewboy Dietz, proprietor | of an extensive racing information | service, were named in a single con- | spiracy indictment, They include the so-called “big shots” of the gambling fraternity, officials said, as well as five policemen accused of furnishing pro- tection to gamblers. In addition, there were 34 other in- | dictments charging substantive viola- tions of the gaming laws. 65 Raids Were Made. All of the true bills resulted from a series of 65 raids, beginning last Feb- ruary, when internal revenue agents raided Dietz's offices in the Albee Building, where was located the nerve center of an extensive system of tele- phone lines which covered the city. Police say most of Washington's bookmakers received their racing in- formation by this means. PUERTO RICAN SCOUTS Gov. BlantonWinship Makes Pres- entation After Flight From San Juan. Maj. Gen. Blanton Winship, Gov- ernor of Puerto Rico, presented an American flag yesterday to 12 Puerto Rican Scouts assembled at the foot of the Monument. Gov. Winship flew to Washington from San Juan, bearing the flag as & “symbol of the American citizen- ship enjoyed by the people o* Puerto Rico and in recogniiton of the splen- did work of character building being accomplished by the Boy Scout or- ganization.” In presenting the flag Gov. Win- ship said: “I followed and loved the American flag throughout my Army career. It was the flag which took me to Puerto Rico as your Governor. Let the American flag be your guide and ideal as United States citizens.” Dr. James E. West, chief Scout ex- ecutive, and Dr. Ernest J. Gruening, director of the division of territories and island possessions, Dep: ent of the Interior, attended the y. ON HOUSING BILL Chairman Black of Senate Committee Asks Imme- diate Consideration. By the Associatea Press. Chairman Black, working the Senate Labor Committee at top speed, asked it today to consider immediately the | Wagner housing bill. Weary members finished several weeks of concentrated work yesterday by approving a revised wage and hour bill. Like the housing proposal, it is | & major administration measure. Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York, was invited to explain to the committee today an amendment off- | ered to meet Treasury objections to his bill. The amendment would permit cap- ital subsidies of 45 per cent as an alternative for the annual operating subsidy which the bill would grant to low-rent housing projects. The measure would authorize a billion-dollar bond issue and a $50.- 000,000 appropriation during the next four years. Black's committee recommended in #s wage-hour bill that a five-man board, less potent than at first sug- gested, could establish minimum wages, in no case higher than 40 cents an hour. It could not bring the hour limits under 40 a week. The bill would outlaw trade in goods produced by children or by any persons working contrary to wage and hour limits. It would exempt agricultural labor, most railway employes, seamen and fishermen, most workers engaged in intrastate productionf alone, and all those in executive, professional, ad- ministrative or local retailing pur- suits, BAND CONCERT. By the Army Band at the Capitol at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hubner, assistant. Program. March, “The National Geographic,” Darcy Overture, “Oberon” Cornet solo, “Carnival of Venice,” Clarke Ralph Ostrom, soloist. Popular, “The You and Me That Used to Be“____ Symphonic prelude, “Exaltation,” Suite, “Espagnole”. Fantasia, “Old Folks at Home in foreign lands).__ Xylophone solo, “Splittin’ ‘Wood” ___ Two Folk Tunes (b) “Shephert March, *“Hostrauser’s”. ‘“The Star Spangled ‘nne H conferences were under way today in | PIDE $194,000. while the balance avail- an effort to prevent the non-union |A8ble for June was approximately | Jobs from getting under way Monday. | $154.000. If the building trades were all called | For judgments, gasoline tax, road out on strike, it would tie up construc- | 8nd street improvements, $1.990.64 is | tion work on several big jobs, includ- ing the Apex Building, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Annex, the | Federal Reserve Board Building and | the Government Printing Office, where | two structures are going up. . MEETING IS HELD BY WAGE BOARD No Conclusions on Procedure Are Reached, However—Hearings | Date Unfixed. Members of the recently appointed District Minimum Wage Board met today to plan procedure in the deter- mination of minimum wages for wom- en and minors, but announced later they had reached no conclusions. . A statement given out by Mrs. Wil- | lism Kittle, chairman, said: “The| board will endeavor to push various | investigations as rapidly as possible, | but no action will be taken until ample opportunity has been given for hearing for all parties concerned.” Mrs. Kittle said a number of pro- cedural questions had to be settled by the board before it could announce the date for the first public hearing. OFFICER PRAISES BOYS Head of U. S. Park Police Com- mends Good Behavior. Capt. P. J. Carroll, head of the United States Park Police, today was high in his praise of the Boy Scouts, who are encamped on the park land in Potomac Park. on Columbia Island and along the Mount Vernon Me- morial Highway. “They are certaintly a nice, well- | behaved group of boys,” declared | Capt. Carroll. Y. M. C. A. FILM TONIGHT The regular Friday educational mo- tion pictures, under auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association, will be shown at 8 o'clock tonight in the Sylvan Theater. Tonight's pictures include “The Eyes of Science,” “Nickel,” “Explor- ing the Coffee Continent,” “Dangerous Dusts” and a reel of popular songs. _— Roosevelt. Given Canoe Model. President Roosevelt today was pre- sented with a scale model of an out- rigger canoe of the type in which early Pacific islanders sailed the sea. The canoe was presented by Richard Noda and Hiroshj Daifuku, two Boy Scouts from Honolulu, who were accompanied to the White House by Samuel W. King, the delegate Congress from the Territory of Hawal. included, and for payment of audited claims, $46.12. DENTAL CERTIFICATES ARE ISSUED T0 18 Stohlman Elected President of Examiners’ Board for Dr. Coming Year. The Board of Dental and 10 dental hygienists who passed examinations held last month. Dr. Martin Stohlman was elected president of the board for the com- ing year, succeeding Dr. Charles T. Bassett. Dr. E. M. Colvin, jr., was re- elected secretary-treasurer. Those given certificates to practice dentistry were: Drs. W. L. Alexander, William A. Curtis. R. J. Bamich, L. C. Fairbanks, Samuel Feldman, A. S. Goldblatt, E. M. Henderson and Sheldon Sutin. Dental hygienists who received cer- tificates were Helen Briggs, A. E Forzano, Betty Jane Keefe, Ferna Kendall, Bernadette Lange, M. A Tomlinson. Reba E. Turley, M. E. McCottry, J. M. Childress and Anna Mae Davis, QuizT 0 RESUME | Probe of A. B. C. Board Here to | Begin Anew Tuesday. The Palmisano Subcommittee of the House District Committee will resume Tuesday its investigation of the activi- ties of the Alcohol Beverage Control Board. This subcommittee held hearings some time ago which were not com- pleted. 300,000 Lbs. of Tooth Powder. More than 300,000 pounds of Amer- ican tooth powder and paste were used in British India in the last year. Bath Costs $10 To Man Who Uses Tub of Strangers Any old tub in a heat wave was the- philosophy of John P Jenkins, colored, as he sweltered in the 1900 block of Thirteenth street yesterday. The tub selected by Jenkins, however, was in the home of complete strangers, who sum- moned police when they found him basking in its cool waters. Judge Edward M. Curran fined Jenkins $10 on an intoxication charge in Police Court today. Examiners | today issued certificates to 8 dentists | hoped it would be so construed. Recommittal Rejected. After the Cochran substitute had been defeated Representative McFar- | lane of Texas offered a motion to re- commit with an amendment limiting the joint salaries of members of a fam- ily in Government service to $3.600. This was summarily rejected The vote then was taken to adopt | the original Celler bill It is expected an identical bill will | be promptly passed by the Senate as the Civil Service Committee has suci a measure pending During the debate in the House. the question was asked repeatedly why low-salaried married persons in the Government service should be di criminated against while nepotis prevailed in the legislative branch Representatives Rogers, Republican, of Massachusetts and Norton insisted that there are innumerable cases of husbands and wives on the pay roll in the higher-salary brackets who were not affected by the section. Chair- man Ramspeck confirmed this state- ment. Other speakers charged there had been *rank discrimination” under the clause. Fails as Economy Measure. It was emphasized by many that it was part of an “economy” bill which produced no economy, and that while 1.835 persons were affected it had not reduced a single position. It did re- sult, however. in throwing many de- pendents of discharged persons on re- lef rolls, it was pointed out. Boileau said young men and women must not be told that because their | father may have a job with the Gov- ernment they are forever prohibited from aspiring to serve, ‘The section has had the effect of causing married persons to go into the divorce court and of driving children from their homes, he said. Rampseck emphasized that of all | those affected. scarcely any received | salaries of $2,000 and most of them | received less than $1,500. It was | pointed out by Represantative Millard, Republican, of New York that this is the only bill before Congress on which women’s organizations are all in agreement. Representative Bigelow, Democrat, of Ohio charged that it was “an un- warranted interference with marriage relations and rank discrimination against women” He argued that it “fixed a certain maximum for family support.” Ramspeck charged that it was con- trary to public policy to say to boys and girls ambitious to go into the Government service that they must not marry. Representative Cole, Democrat, of Maryland asked if it did not “place a premium on legiti- mate marriage.” Representatwe Hook, Democrat, of Michigan insisted that a similar rule should be applied to members of Con- gress, n ——e Roof Cut to Save Trees. To save two beautiful trees, holes have been made in the roof of the opera house at Glenbourne, England, to make room g them.