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A2 COTTON'S 290 WINS BRITISH OPEN TITLE Charles Lacey, With 293 for Second, Leads U. S. En- tries—Whitcombe Third. By the Assocfated Press. CARNOUSTIE, Scotland, July 9.— Tall Henry Cotton, famed British pro- fessional, won the British open golf championship today for the second time in three years, posting 290 for the 72-hole tournament after a heavy rainstorm threatened for a time to force replay of the final round. Cotton, holder of the tite in 193¢ and acknowledged king of the British shot-makers for several years, had the title in the bag for several hours be- fore a ruling by the tournament com- mittee of the Royal and Ancient Club of St. Andrews made it official. After lengthy conference the offi- eials decided that the fourth and final round would stand as played. ‘This decision gave Cotton, who kcored a brilliant par 71 in his last round at the height of the storm, the <hampionship by & margin of two ftrokes over Reginald Whitcombe, youngest of the three famed British golfing brothers. Leading the American contingent by virtue of a spectacular finish was Charley Lacey of Great Neck. Lacey put together rounds of 70-72 over rain-swept Carnoustie today for a 72- bole total of 203. Charles Whitcombe, Reginald's brother, was next with 294. Two strokes back was Byron Nelson, with big Ed Dudley alone in the 297 bracket. Defending Champion Alf Padgham finished with 298. Horton Smith, racing back in 34 as the rain slackened, posted a final round 72 for a total of 299, a stroke ahead of Ralph Guldahl, United States open king, and Sam Snead. Final Scores. Third and fourth round scores and 2-hole totals: * Denotes amateur. J. J. Busson, Britain, 151-79-76— 308. Jack Taylor, 312, Johnny Revolta, U. 8., 152-83-76—311. Reggie Whitcombe, Britain, 142-7¢- 76—292. Sid Fairweather, Britain, 152-83-81 ~—315. William J. Cox, Britain, 151-81-73— 305, Rt Britain, 153-83-76— Alf Padgham, Britain, 146-76-76— 298, Ernest E. Whitcombe, Britain, 153 81-77--310. John Burton, Britain, 151-77-83— 310. Bobby Cruickshank, U. 8., 152-77-85 —314. Walter Hagen, U. S, 228-80-81— 309. Allan Dailey, Britain, 153-79-79— 311 Fred Robertson, Britain, 148-78-78 ~—304. Byron Nelson, U. 8. 206. Henry Cotton, Britain, 146-73-71— 280 Bill Bhankland, Britain, 151-82-81 ~—314. Denny Shute, U. 8., 146-76-80—302. XBobby Locke, South Africa, 148- 77-79—304. Jack Seager, Britain, 317 Charles A. Whitcombe, Britain, 144- 74-76—294. David J. Rees, Britain, 148-" 305. 151-71-T4— 153-83-81— 79— Arthur Havers, Britain, 152-76-76— 304 Henry Picard, United States, 153- 70-80—303. Charles Lacey, United States, 151- 70-72—293. L. B. Ayton, jr., Britain, 153-80-79— 312 Bill Nolan, Britain, 153-78-81—312. . Tom Dobson, Britain, 153-79-82— 14. Ed Dudley, United States, 144-78- 75—297. Jack McLean, Great Britain, 152- 81-76—309, et EASTMAN REAPPOINTED TO COMMISSION POST Roosevelt Nominates A. Manuel Fox to Tariff Body, Erwin Envoy to Honduras. Joseph B. Eastman, a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission since 1919, was reappointed today by President Roosevelt for another term. Eastman, who is 55 and a native of New York, had been relieved of his duties temporarily in 1933 and 1935 to serve as Federal co-ordinator of trans- portation. Mr. Roosevelt also nominated A. Manuel Fox of New York, one of the economists in the Research Division of the Federal Tariff Commission since 1924, to be a member of the commis- sion, to fill the rest of the term of Lincoln O'Brien. 1t expires June 16, 1942, John D. Erwin of Tennessee, a news- paper correspondent here for a num- ber of years, was nominated to be Minister to Honduras. U. S. FISHERMEN INSIST JAPANESE INVADE ZONE B5 the Assoctated Press. SEATTLE, July 9.—American fish- ermen. in telegrams received here from the Bristol Bay area of Alaska, contradict Japanese claims that their Vvessels are not fishing for salmon off the Alaska coast. Harry Stuhr wired Alaska Fisher- men's Union headquarters here he has “clearly obeerved” salmon on decks of Japanese vessels from an air- plane. H. Friele of the Nakat Packing Corp., who also took part in the aerial survey, confirmed Stuhr’s account. Fishing authorities here said Japa- neze government officials have stated that no Japanese vessels were being licensed to fish for salmon in Alaskan waters. - . Dope Doctors Hit. By order of the Home Ministry in Tokia perfectural police chiefs through- out Japan will cancel the licenses of physicians and pharmacists who ad- minister an excessive amount of nar- cotics. Ministry figures show that in & year registered dope addicts have increased from 3,000 to 3,400. Ome sufferer spent $9,000 taking costly treatments and eventuslly had to apply to & public institution for free aid. A doctor with only three dope Ppatients made a good living. a Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. LUGGAGE. ’I‘ODAY the Wayside's Department of Statistics, Vital and Non-Vital, steps forward with an amazing item of useless information with which to startle the males of the town. Our interest piqued when a young lady had trouble locating the lip-stick in her purse, we made her dump the contents of the handbeg in her lap, Jjust to bring more knowledge to the world. Listed in the order the articles were replaced, here's what the lass was lugging about: $38.06, key to room, 1 lip stick (hah, we found it right away), paste rouge, half pack of cigarettes, receipted bill from a department store, 3 folders of matches, 1 mirror, office keys, powder puff wrapped in handkerchief, trick powder puff, 3 theater passes, 1 hand- kerchief, 1 comb (red), 1 telegram, 1 letter, invitation to hear Emil Ludwig speak, notice from dentist (getcha teeth cleaned now), receipted bill from another store, bill for shirt and tie (unpaid), 6 postage stamps, 4 in- visible hairpins, pencil (large and black), dry rouge, 1 Caterpillar Club pin, bill from a peychiatrist (unpaid). What, no can opener? * ok K % SUMMATION. In summing up these statistics it prodadly will be well to present a defense for that “invisible hair- ping” item right away. Some ome is sure to want to know how we could count invisible hairpins. Well, they weren’t really invisible on account of we saw them, but the girl said that was the name. Furthermore the people whose bills still are unpaid shouldn’t have to worry. Not while the young lady is $38.06 solvent. The only one who has to worry is the psychiatrist. If he ever sees that list he'll probably give up the whole thing as hopeless. * x % x PROBLEM, CHILDREN. ONE of our local operatives has just heard from friends out from Wis- consin a little yarn that has her go- ing around talking to herself. Seems a Mrs, Mary Krogan mar- ried a John Schaatz, shortly after her son married Mr. Schaatz’s daughter. Now Mrs. Krogan is step-mother-in- law to her own son and both mother- in-law and step-mother to young Mrs. Krogan. And John Schaats is step- father-in-law to his daughter and father-in-law and step-father to his son-in-law and step-son. It makes young Mr. and Mrs. Krogan brother and sister or something and it makes us slightly daffy trying to figure it all out. At any rate any l'ttle Krogan chil- dren are going to have only one set of grandparents, regardless of the Mendelian theory, the law of aver- ages, or Who's Who in America. * x x x MEMO. (:OMES today the latest of the odd inter-office communications to make its way to this corner. It's a penciled notice found in a wash room in the Administration Building of the Department of Agricuiture. “Wash Room Cleaner: You people are all ways complaining about some- one Emptying Cuspidors in The Wash Room , . . No one here Empty Cuspi- dors in The Wash Room. 1 Empty The peil of Water in There. That's what you are geting paid for. To clean up. The Cuspidor Man.” * % % x ON THE CUFF. 'HERE'S one man in town who has found how to spend an evening with & minimum of expense. All the equipment he needs is & $10 bill. C. W. Lawrance boarded = bus to come to a downtown movie, proffered the ten spot to the driver. Driver said he was sorry, but what with being short of change the ride would have to be on Capital Transit. Arriving at the theater for which he was bound, Mr. Lawrance discovered the film he wanted to see wouldn't open until the next day, then began berating the cinema house's system of advertising for the confusion it caused. The manager heard him, invited him in- side. So Mr. Lawrance enjoyed s free show. On the way home after- ward he caught another bus, caught another bus driver short of change, and finally went to bed with the bill still intact., * x x x AT HOME. Betsy Smyth, who lives up on Calvert street, vouches for this tale. She saw @ pair of little girls sitting on the fromt steps, ap- proached by a salesman. - “Is your mother home?” asked one. “Yes sir, she is,” the lass replied sweetly. In @ few minutes he returned after getting no answer to his push- ing of the door bell. “I thought,” he. said, “you told me your mother was home.” “She is home,” the girl main- tained, still sweet about it all. “But we don’t live here.” * % % x BELLE LETTRE. I'ra & known fact that anything is likely to happen in a newspaper shop, so there’s not much point in repeating it except that it gets this paragraph started. Anyhow a letter came to the city deek the other morning that brought the boys up short. “Please call at 1718 Blank street,” it read, “and find any information necessary leading to my whereabouts. I do not think it will be necessary he to explain further.” No, don't tell 'us, Let us guess. & THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1937. SOLUTION OF CRISIS 1S LEFT TO BRITAIN Powers Stay Deadlocked on Patrol Question—France May Open Border. Br the Assoclated Press. LONDON, July 9.—Great Britain was.intrusted with finding a quick so- lution of the present deadlock over the Spanish non-intervention scheme tonight after France had threatened to suspend frontier patrols Monday along the Pyrenees. France threatened to thus open the Spanish border to arms traffic on Mon- day unless the non-intervention equi- librium was restored. An afternoon session of the Non-in- tervention Committte ended with the participating nations still deadlocked and without any useful suggestion for compromise being advanced. Britain, whose proposal that she and France take over the entire interna- tional naval patrol around Spain was turned down by Germany and Italy, had looked to those two nations for new proposals on how a non-interven- tion program could be effectively car- ried out. It was understood the Netheriands’ representative had proposed that Lord Plymouth, chairman of the non-in- tervention group, again try to find a solution of the problem. Hence, once again, Britain will be playing the familiar role of trying to keep the Spanish civil war confined to Spain. The French Ambassador to Lon- don, Charles Corbin, was understood to have declared that his government would end the system of international frontier supervision between France and Spain the first of next week un- leas the gaps in the sea patrol were restored or British observers were re- turned to their functions on the Port- uguese frontier. Britain and France acted to restore the naval patrol to its full power after Germany and Italy withdrew their warships because of Spanish govern- ment attacks on them. Opening of the French frontier along the Pyrenees would clear the way for the Spanish government to obtain arms and men by that route. Portugal already had withdrawn her observers along the Spanish frontier adjacent to insurgent territory and has suspended facilities for aiding British observers. BUSINESS MEN HOLD OUTING ON THURSDAY More Than 300 Expected to At- tend Frolic on Chesapeake Bay. More than 300 Washington business men and their wives and sweethearts are expected to take part in the an- nual outing of the Federation of Busi- ness Men's Associations next Thurs- day afternoon at Broadwater Beach on Chesapeake Bay. Arthur C. Smith, chairman of the Outing Committee, said the Georgia Avenue Business Men's Association and the Central Business Men's As- sociation, two of the 14 organizations making up the federation, had planned their annual outings in conjunction with the federation’s. The other as- sociations will be represented by five delegates each. A police escort will lead the group in & motor caravan to the beach, de- parting from Thirteenth and N streets at 2 pm. next Thursday. Entertain- ment plans include a men's “bathing beauty” contest, a base ball game and sports of all kinds, dinner and refresh- ments. BRITISH DAVIS CUP HOPES DEALT BLOW Hughes, Doubles Player, Drops Out of 8quad After Break- down. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 9.—Great Britain's hopes of retaining the Davis Cup, emblem of international tennis su- premacy, were dealt a crushing blow today when George Patrick Hughes withdrew from the aquad because of a breakdown, following overexertion and strain. He will be replaced by Prank H. D. Wilde. Hughes, one of the world's finest doubles players, had been counted upon to team up with C. R. D. Tuckey in doubles. Together they figured to give any combination tossed in against them in the challenge round a tough fight. Expert forecasts have indicated Great Britain will need to win the challenge round doubles if it is to have any hope whatever of retaining the cup. H. W. (Bunny) Austin and young Charles Hare will handle the singles assignments. Just which nation will face the British in the challenge round has not yet been determined. W. U. THREATENED Justice Department Considers Anti-Trust Action. Justice Department officials said yee- terday anti-trust division attorneys were considering prosecuting the West- ern Union Telegraph Co. for alleged violation of anti-trust laws. They added no decision had been reached yet. ‘The contemplated action is based on complaints lodged with the Justice De- partment six months ago by the Postal Telegraph Co., which charged Western Union with taking options on prop- erties with the stipulation that Postal Telegraph not be permitted to rent or lease space on the same premises. CHURCH RITES PLANNED ‘Washington and Takoma Park Sev- enth-day Adventist Churches will join with other churches of the de- nomination in the United States in the observance of Educational day tomorrow. ‘The observance was arranged by the department of education of the general conference of the denomina- tion to “bring home to the member- ship again the importance of having their children and young people re- ceive the blessings of a Christian education.” Mission Group Elects. ARLINGTON, Va., July § (Special). —The Womans Missionary Society, ‘Wilson Botllevard Christian Church, at its annual meeting elected Mrs. Ira P. Harbaugh president, Mrs. Edwin P. Moss vice president and Mrs. Joseph B. C.1.0. DISCREDITED, GREEN DECLARES Statements of A. F. of L. Leader Answered as Being “Empty and 01d.” BACKGROUND— C. I. 0. and A. F. of L. split became official last Summer, when Ezecutive Council of latter ordered suspension of afiliates of former. Since then conflict between them has been unceasing. By the Assoctated Press. The Committee for Industrial Or- ganization put an “empty and old" label today on an American Federation of Labor contention that the C. I. O. had lost fits steel strike through “stupid blunders.” William Green, president of the A. F. of L, made the assertion in a statement, which declared also that Ppublic opinion resented C. I. O. tactics. John Brophy, C. I. O. director, char- acterized it as “just as empty as Green'’s previous statements.” “There is nothing new in it,” said Brophy. “The ideas are just as old as Bill Green himself, and do not reflect any new opinions. It’s just the same sort of statement he has aiways been making.” Lewis Makes Brief Comment. (Commenting on Green's statements, John L. Lewis, chairman of the C. L O, said: (“I consider it the droolings from the pallid lips of a traitor. That is all I have to say.”) Green's statement said the C. I. O. had organized only & minority of the steel workers. “Public opinion was aroused be- cause of the violent policies pursued by the C. I. O. in automobile and steel during the past year,” he said. “We cannot permit all organized labor to be penalized because of the stupid mistakes of the C. I. O.” Green added. He declared “repressive legis- lation” against all union men had been proposed as a result. “The violation of agreements,” the seizure of public property, violence, riots and uprisings can have no place in the social, economic and industrial life of America,” he sald. Stresses Law-Abiding Principle. Workers are willing to strike and fight for higher wages and improved working conditions, Green said, but they will do s0 “as law-abiding people through the exercise of every moral, legal and economic right to which they are entitled, in an orderly way and in conformity with the laws of the land.” “No hostile employer in America has done the cause of organized labor more harm than those who formulat- ed. executed and administered the policies of the Committee for Indus- trisl Organization during the past 18 months,” Green declared. Resentment and disappointment among workers who joined the steel strike, he said, “is bound to follow.” “The strikes exacted their toil in human life and human suffering. No one can correctly measure the extent of the distress which individuals and whole communities have suffered and will suffer.” NEW OFFER MADE IN SEATTLE STRIKE Star to Resume Publication Under Police Protection if Necessary. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, July 9.—The Seattle Star prepared to resume publication today under police protection if striking American Newspaper Guildsmen re- fused to sccept its latest peace offer. The Star management made its counter-proposal after rejecting the strikers’ peace offering last night. The Star plan would provide: ‘The Star continue on its pay roll 19 circulation employes involved in the dispute until the question of whether the Guild or the Teamsters’ Union has Jjurisdiction over them is settled by the National Labor Relations Board, the courts or by mutual consent. That all persons employed on July 2 are invited to return “without dis- crimination.” ‘That the Guild call off the strike. Police moved back the Guild's picket line yesterday, and a night shift of printers went on duty. The Guild then presented a peace proposal which provided for retention of the circulation men, pending & Jurisdictional decision. The Guild had previously rejected this suggestion. CONTRACT AGREEMENT REACHED ., MILWAUKEE, July 9 (#).—Paul Holmes, executive editor of the Mil- waukee Sentinel, announced last night the Sentinel management and the Mil- ‘waukee Newspaper Guild, a division of the American Newspaper Guild, had agreed on a one-year contract affecting members of the newspaper's editorial department. Holmes said terms had been agreed to verbally by the guild'’s Bargaining Committee, but that signing of the contract was not scheduled until today. STEEL CARGO SHIP BIDS ARE HIGHER 13 New Proposals Received and Opened Affecting 28 Vessels to Be Scrapped. BY the Associated Press. ‘The Maritime Commission announc- ed yesterday that new bids for the purchase of 28 steel cargo vessels in its laid-up fleet were substantislly higher than those it recently rejected. Thirteen new bids were received and opened. The highest offer for the 28 ships a3 & whole was $660,000, while the highest bids on the ships in- dividually totaled $1,021,135.97. Officials said these figures compared with a rejected high bid of $350,050 for all of the vessels. The commission first offered the ships for sale for scrap last May, but the resulting bids were rejected on the grounds they were under the current price of scrap and unfair to the Government. Police Use Smaller Sticks. BERKELEY, Calif, July 9 (®.— Berkeley’s acientific police department is to throw away its night sticks. In- stead it will use “yawars sticks” knobbed hand-fitting wooden instru- ments the sise of & small corn cob with which the user can strike both backward and forward. They are the invention of & 8an PFrancisco Japa- nese, Adorn the Beach at Cape May ke i - Pictured in this beach costume of national colors on the sands at Cape May, N. J., is Miss Barbara Stokes, social registrite of Greenwich, Conn. s Here's Miss ey Text of Green’s Statement By the Associated Press. The text of the statement by Wil- liam Green. American Federation of Labor president, on steel strikes fol- lows: It now becomes certain that the steel strikes at Chicago, Cleveland, Johnstown, Youngstown, Canton and other cities are lost. That means that the Comm’ttee for Industrial Organization failed to meet its first major test successfully. The strikes exacted their toll in human life and human suffering. No one can cor- rectly measure the ‘extent of the dis- tress which individuals and whole communities have suffered and will suffer. The hosts of labor are truly sorry because of the fallure of the costly | experiment and its tragic outcome. They regret that thousands of work- ers were persuaded to sacrifice them- selves as victims of ill-advised and untimely strikes. Resentment and disappointment among these workers is bound to follow. Questions Miners' Action. ‘The query now is, what steps will now be taken by the one who formu- lates the policies of the Committee for Industrial Organization. He ordered those employed in the mines of the independent steel companies to strike in sympathy with the steel workers. Those workers are idle now for the alleged purpose of preventing the independent steel companies from securing coal. Now that the steel mills are in operation, will he cail out on strike those mine workers who are employed at mines where the steel companies will now buy their fuel supply? He is now confronted with the problem of carrying out his threat to call miners on strike who are work- ing under contract in mines where coal will be mined and shipped to in- dependent steel companies or directing those employed at mines owned by said independent steel companies back to work, defeated and de- moralized. There are two outstanding reasons why the strikes were lost. First, because only a minority of the steel workers employed st the plants involved were organized when the strikes were called. Aparently, the C. I O. leaders are atrong for minority action and minority control. They sought to win & major battle with only & corporal's guard in action. The C. I. O. was not defeated because the small number of victims who par- ticipated n the strike lacked heroism or courage, but simply because the overwhelming majority of the steel workers refused to join the C. I. O. and participate in the strike. The es- sential requirement of a strong and complete organization of workers, preliminary to the calling of & strike, ‘was completely ignored. Sees Public Aroused. Second, public opinion was aroused because of the violent policies pursued by the C. I. O. in automobile and steel during the past year. It became openly hostile, Here, again, the power and force of public opinion is em- phasized. The leaders of the C. I. O. may as well make up their minds that they cannot win strikes against which public opinion sets itself. The resc- tion of public opinion against the C. L O. and C. 1. O. methods is re- flected in the creation of vigilante organizations in different cities, in the enactment of legislation such as the new labor relations act in Michigan, and the threat of repressive legisia- tion in other States, as well as in the Congress of the United States. As a result of the creation of hostile public opinion against the C. 1. O, the Amer- ican Federation of Labor must inten- sify its fight against the enactment of repressive legislation, such as com- Ppulsory arbitration, the incorporation of trade unions and the restriction of the rights which organized labor may exercise, both in carrying out con- tracts and in the inauguration and prosecution of justifiable strikes. We cannot sll organised labor to A. F. of L. President Charges Failure of Steel Strikes, Due to C. I. O. Minority and Enraged Public. be penalized because of the stupid | mistakes of the C. I. O. Says Violence Doomed. ‘The violation of agreements, the seizure of public property, violence, riots and uprisings can have no place in the social, economic and industrial life of America. No union of work- ers who resort to the use of such methods can succeed. Failure for | those who pursue such a policy is in- evitable. Workers of the United States understand this to be true. They are willing to strike and fight for higher wages and improved con- ditions of employment, but they will do s0 as law-abiding people through the exercise of every moral, Jegal and economic right to which they are en- titled, in an orderly way and in con- formity with the laws of the land. No hostile employer in America has done the cause of organised labor more harm than those who formu- lated, executed and administered the policies of the Commitiee for Indus- trial Organization during the past 18 months. —_— |POLO FALL IS FATAL TO HOWELL HOWARD Publisher's Son Dies of Injuries After Horse Rolls Over Him During Game. By the Associated Press. MINEOLA, N. Y., July 9.—Howell Howard, son of Maxwell Howard, Day- ton, Ohio, publisher, died today from injuries suffered yesterday when he was thrown from his horse while play- ing polo at the Meadow Brook Club. Howard, a five-goal player, was 39 yearg of age. His father is the owner of a large string of race horses, trained by Earl Sande. The accident occurred when Howard, riding at No. 2 on the Narragansett polo team, was thrown while his pony was going at full speed. He reached over to get a better shot at the ball when, without warning, the pony's forelegs crossed and went down. Howard's head hit the ground and the pony rolled over him. At the hospital an examination showed & fractured skull and neck injuries. He never fully regained con- sciousness, dying at 12:48 pm. (East- ern standard time). All polo games at the Meadow Brook Club today were postponed. WOMAN IS BURNED IN BLAZE AT HOME Seared About Neck and Shoul- ders by Fire Starting From Gasoline. Mrs. Mollie Johnson, 59, was severely burned on the face and shoulders today from fire that apparently started from gasoline she was using to clean & second-floor bed room at her home, 1447 Fairmont street. She was taken to Emergency Hospital, where her con- dition was said to be undetermined. Miss Mildred Summers, s roomer in the home, said she heard Mrs. Johnson’s screams and ran upstairs to find the upper parts of her body en- veloped in flames. Firemen, who had been summened by a neighbor across the street, tore Mrs. Johnson's clothes from her and extinguished the flames, which did but slight damage to the bed room. Miss Summers said Mrs. Johnson ‘was using & can of gas in the upstairs room, but that she was not sure how the fire originated. Moonlight Cruise Tonight. A moonlight cruise aboard the steamer Southport will be taken at 8:30 tonight by employes of the Ra- leigh Haberdasher. » Lorraine Littlefleld, daughter of Mrs. W. L. Littlefleld of this city, playing ball on the beach at Cape May. —Wide World Photos. .S, REFERENDUM | ON WAR IS URGED Proposal One of Four Ad- vanced in Neutrality De- bate at U. of V. BY the Associated Press. CHARLOTTEBVILLE, Va.. July 9.— Dr. Clark M. Eichelberger, director of the League of Nations' Association, termed the refusal of the United States to join the Lesgue as “the greatest single tragedy of the post-war period” in an address last night before the Institute of Public Affairs at the Uni- versity of Virginia. Dr. Eichelberger. charging that “American history is a denial of our ability to be neutral,” declared that the United States can no more escape the resuits of another World War than it can escape the preparation for it. ‘The other speaker in the joint debate on the question “Can America Remain Neutral?” was Representative H. Jerry Voorhis, Democrat, of Oalifornia, who advocated a national referendum on Wwar as one of four ways by which he said America can remain neutral. “Policy Not Adequate.” “Our neutrality policy is inadequate for the United States, because it is a policy of trying to stay out of war rather than trying to prevent it,” Dr. Eichelberger said, reviewing the United States’ experiences with neutrality legislation. He termed the United States a “great power,” but asserted that “our absence from the League of Nations has been the greatest factor in weakening it.” Dr. Eichelberger pictured the United States as “retreating to its isolation,” after making victory in the World War possible, and not assuming the “re- aponsibility” attendant with that vic- Voorhis declared America “can re- main neutral and keep the peace if America does four things and does them now.” His four-point plan included: Writ- ing into the Constitution the Ludlow amendment which gives to the Amer- ican people the right to decide by na- tional refefendum whether they want to go to war; halt the growth of a boom in munitions and war materials before “it becomes a Prankenstein monster; discovering and putting into practical operation™ the positive side of the “good neighbor policy” and makinig the Nation “propaganda- Weuld Tighten Bends. “The United States can continue the work aiready started at Buenos Alres of building an American peace-group, covering the entire West Hemisphere,” ‘Voorhis declared. “Bonds of trust and understanding, the basis for increasing trade and interdependence in this Hemisphere, should be forged as tight- 1y as possible. The stronger our pure- ly American ties become, the weaker the drive to involve us in old world brawls will be.” ‘The “unequal distribution™ of sources of food, raw materials and markets among the nations is “one of the strongest factors making for war to- day,” Voorhis said. ROOSEVELT SILENT ON LEWIS REPORTS Will Neither Confirm Nor Deny Allegations of Rift With C. I. 0. Leader. By the Assoctated Press. President Roosevelt refused again today to comment on reports that he was about to sever relations with John L. Lewis, head of the Committee for Industrial Organimation. He told a press conference he was neither afirming nor denying all the various reports reads in the news- pers every day. p‘lle laughed as he told another in- quirer that also went for stories re- garding the absence of Vice President Garner, now vacationing in Texas. MAN DIES OF HEAD - INJURIES N CRASH D. C. Toll Raised to 57, Com- pared to 45 for Same 4 Period in ’36. b} Bernard Eaton, 23, of Clinton, Md., died in Gallinger Hospital this after- noon of head injuries received last night when his motor cycle was struck by a hit-run driver at Fifth street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast. His death raised the District traffic accident fatality toll to 57 for this Year, as compared with 45 for the same period of 1936. Noah Lee Weekley, 27. of 1510 Trini- dad street northeast, arrested shortly after the accident, was ordered held for the coroner at Police Court today when a reckless driving charge against him was nolle prossed following Eaton's death. Evelyn Green, 22, of 1225 Thir- teenth street, who was riding on the motor cycle with Eaton, received a broken leg and severe bruises. Both were taken to Casualty Hospital and Eaton later was transferred to Gal- linger. Four Children in Car Upset. Four children and two adults were in the car operated by Gertrude Rass- back, 38, of 1437 Whittier street, which turned over after colliding at Piney Branch road and Sheridan street with & machine driven by Albert George, 39, of 765 Princeton place. Those hurt were Carl Rassbach, 8, cuts to the hand and face; Herman Rassbach, 4, cuts to the left leg and hand; Joan Brauner, 9, Silver Hill, Md,, cuts to the face, neck and left shoulder, and Billy Rubin, 6, 6611 Six- teenth street, cuts to the face. All wera treated by a private physician. Eisie Brauner, 37, of Silver Hill, Md., suf- fered cuts to the left leg and fore- hea J. Mulligan, 57, of 2610 K street, suffered two broken arms and body bruises when struck at Penn- sylvania avenue and Twenty-sixth street by a machine operated by Green W. Hackworth, 57, of 3714 Morrison street. She was treated at Emergency Hospital Hip Broken by Auto. Junianta R. Lusk, 72, of 511 Sixth street, received a broken hip and bruises when she was struck by a car operated by Lynn P. Fullington, 43, 1311 Wisconsin avenue, as she was crossing New York avenue at Four- teenth street. Fullington took her to Georgetown Hospital in his machine. Miss Katherine Schaumloeffel, 2400 Sixteenth street, suffered a concussion and multiple bruises when struck and knocked down at Pourteenth and E streets by a car operated by Samuel L. Jenkins, 30, of Arlington, Va. She Wwas treated at Emergency Hospital. A coroner’s jury today was to in- Vvestigate the death of Arthur J, Dun- ning, 27, of 308 Thirteenth street southeast, who was fatally injured yesterday when struck at North Oap- itol street and Massachusetts avenue by a car operated by Tannar P Slaughter, 29, colored, of Charlottes- ville, Va. Dunning, an employe of the City Post Office, died in Emergency Hospital an hour after the accident. = RITE TO BEGIN WORK ON BOYS’ CLUB HOUSE Ground-Breaking Ceremony to Be Held on Tuesday for $200,000 Building. Ground-breaking ceremonies for the new $200.000 structure of the Boyas' | Olub of Washington, Inc.. will be held in the presence of numerous District, officials and public-spirited citizens at 10 a.m. Tuesday on the site at Seven- teenth street and Massachusetts ave- nue southeast. The club building for underprivi- leged boys will be the largest and most complete in the city. The club's headquarters are now at Third and C streets, and there is another branch in Georgetown. Contract for the three-story struc- ture was awarded yesterday to the Joseph Parkhill Construction Co. for $165.000. The land was purchased last year. The new building will have a large gymnasium, a 75-foot swimming pool, & play roof, game rooms, a health clinic and a projection room. Prank R. Jellefl, who has been president of the club for 17 years, will officiate at the ground-breaking exer- oises. It was under his leadership that the raising of funds for the building was begun. |COMDR. HARRY PATRICK GOES T OBSERVATORY Will Relieve Capt. Andrew 8. Hickey as Assistant Superin- tendent, Navy Announces. Comdr. Harry Gates Patrick, U. § N., will relieve Capt. Andrew §. Hickey as assistant superintendent of the Naval Observatory, it was announced at the Navy Department today. Capt. Hickey will leave early next month to command Destroyer Squad- ron 3 of the Scouting Force. His flag- ship will be the U. . S. Clark. He has been on duty at the Naval Observatory since September, 1934. Comdr. Patrick, who has been serv- ing aboard the U. S. 8. Gamble as commandant of the Mine Division of the Mine Squadron, Minecraft of the Battle Porce, is & native of Evansville, Ind. He was an outstanding base ball player at the Naval Academy. In 1906 Comdr. Patrick married Evelyn W. McNeely of Evansville, and they have two children, Harry Gates Patrick, ir., and Evelyn Louise Patrick. Congress in Brief TOAY. Senate: Continues court bill debate. Labor Committee considers Wagner. housing bill. Reorganization Bubcommittee begins hearings on Dbill to merge Pederal housing agencies. Heuse: Considers conference report on $194,000,000 appropriation for War Department civil functions. Joint Tax Committee hears Repre- sentative Pish, Republican, of New York explain charges against two ‘members of Roosevelt family. TOMORROW. 3 Senate: 1s expected to be in session 1o keep the Supreme Court debate going, Heuset "mtnbu-lllflhh-l-.