Evening Star Newspaper, July 10, 1937, Page 2

A2 =« STALLING GHARGED 10 DRY CLEANERS League of Women Shoppers Accuses Proprietors of Plants. Charges that dry cleaning plant owners are “stalling” in an effort to break the strike against their estab- lishments were made today by the Washington League of Women Shop- pers. Samuel Rubenstein, spokesman for the 13 plant owners affected by the strike, emphatically denied the charge and declared the employers are wait- ing for the National Labor Relations Board to hold an election and deter- mine whether Laundry Workers, Dyers and Cleaners Union, Local 187, which is conducting the strike, repre- sents a majority of the employes in- volved. The plant owners adopted a sympa- thetic attitude when they attempted to negotiate with the union, Rubenstein said, but felt they had to discontinue negotiations because pickets persisted | in intimidating employes who refused to strike. Since the strike started 16 days ago, & number of employes have returned to their jobs and several of the plants are now opersting at full capacity, Rubenstein said. The League of Women Shoppers de- clared its representatives have ‘“been on the job since the outset” and have seen no evidence to back up assertions that the strikers had resorted to vio- lence. “On Tuesday owners met and showed a willingness to negotiate, but on Wednesday employers ceased negotia- tions,” the league's statement said. *In the opinion of the league the owners are stalling.” . SMALL HOME UNIT ACCORDED PRAISE Demonstration Program Work Hailed in Three Broadcast Addresses. The work of the National Small Homes Demonstration Program, or- ganized in an effort to convince the | public that desirable homes can be built at a total cost of $5,000 or less. was praised yesterday in three radio addresses broadcast over national hook-ups. The radio addresses were made by Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the Central Housing Committee, who apoke from New York; Stewart Mc- Donald, director of the Federal Hous- ing Administration, speaking from ‘Washington, and Dr. Wilson Comp- ton, secretary and manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers’ As- ‘sociation. Houses in more than a thousand eommunities have been completed or 1are nearing completion under the !program. None cost more than $5,000, the larger proportion being priced between $2,000 and $4,000. All are financed or may be financed through the F. H. A. system of insured mort- gages. Dr. Compton read the following Message from Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the President, who has taken an active interest in the pro- gram: “I am sorry that other engage- sments will prevent me from accept- «ing your invitation to participate in the opening of the Small Homes Dem- onstration. I was given the oppor- tunity to drive the first nail in one of these small homes built for show- ing in New York City and later took the occasion to inspect the com- pleted house. I believe that any one eould be happy in such a delightful | £mall home. It is wonderful to think | of a thousand of these little houses | being built in America as a demon- stration to the people that almost any one can own his own home. You are blazing new and thrilling paths— creating opportunities for home own- ership that we had not known before. Please keep on.” LILIENTHAL HAILS VITAL CONTRACTS T. V. A. Director Says Recent Agreements Assure Financial Success, " By the Associatea Press. .. MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 10.—David Lilienthal, Tennessee Valley Authority ‘ power director, said last night the T. “V. A. “is over the hill financially.” ° “We definitely crossed the financial “dividing line in the past 10 days when “three contracts were signed, one with ‘the Aluminum Co. of America, one Wwith the Arkansas Power & Light Co., and a third with a large industrial eoncern whose name I can not now divulge,” Lilienthal told an inter- viewer, “In addition to this we anticipate another contract within a month of $450,000. These industrial contracts are just the first drops of a steady flow, if not a flood, over the T. V. A. dams. =T, V. will not actually be finan- eially successful until 18 months when these contracts are using their normal consumption. They will then provide revenues substantial enough to double our level and bring it to $6,000,000. The industrial. contracts also give us necessary balance, that 15, & diversity that will permit distri- bution in hours and season of power to cities and plants.” Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things, ALTERATIONS. ‘ HEN Jean Blackwell, of the dance team known as Jacke \/ J son and Blackwell, leaves town she is not going to re- gret it a whole lot. Seems a dress- maker here has given her the wrong impression of Washingtonians. Jean had & new gown made while the dancers were playing their engage= ment at a local eabaret. Three times it had to go back to the dressmaker for alterations. Once Miss Blackwell took it in, asked that the waist be re- duced by three inches. Then when she tried it on, found the dress was three inches larger around the waist. iShP lost a little respect for the dress- | maker, for some reason. | But she gave up completely when | she sent the gown back to have a bow attached to it. Came back to her with | the bow inside the dress instead of out- | side, * % X K WHITHER ROMANCE? There’s a young lady in town, who, jor good if mot obvious rea- sons, shall go unnamed, though she gives voice to the saddest com= plaint heard in years. She’s com= | plaining because the apartment where she lives boasts the most sociable and affable, not to men- tion ubiquitous, detective and night watchman she ever heard of. A gal getting home after midnight can be sure he'll meet her at the door and escort her to the elevator —maybe right to her apartment door. The lass and. her roommate ar= rived home a recent 2 a.m. and be= fJore the girls and their escorts could get from the tari to the front door, there was the watchman— pleasant and friendly, full of mild f“ SweL warnings about nmot making any noise on account of sick babies and sleeping tenants. Then, instead of leaving, he stayed right there. Just joined the conversation, passed quips back and forth with the boys, but never once relared his hold on the door. Finally the lads- in-waiting saw the futility of it all and gave up waiting. “SOME ROMANCING!” screams the poor damsel, “with this guy around.” * % ok % NAMES. T'S a great feeling. at last we have mystified some one. The young lady who lost and found her gloves on the Rockville bus writes in to tell us our sleuthing was all wrong. Rouleau and she does not live in | Rockville. How, Dorothy Rabkin wants to know, did we come so close to her first name, why did we think she was French, and how did we ar- rive at the name we mentioned, get- ting the correct initials when she wasn't carrying an initialed bag? Please, Miss Rabkin, you read too fast. We did not say Dorothea Rouleau was the gal concerned; we said she saw the incident. And it's easy to explain how we “arrived at the name mentioned.” It was signed to the note telling us about the affair. S'help us, we did not make it up. * k% EVIDENCE. T WOULD be a shame to let the managing editor know about it because he might think we ought to go to work. But just now we picked up a piece of copy from a basket on the desk and a moth flew out. It's an insult. Somebody planted it there. * % k% CORRESPONDENCE. Young Bob La Follette Sucher, nephew of Senator La Follette, has gone off to New England to a Sum- mer camp and recently his mother thought it would be wise to admon- ish him by mail and remind him to take good care of his teeth. Quickly he replied: “I'll have you know, mother, that I am washing my teeth twice a day—and my face every other day.” Bob has prospects for later in the Summer, too, which appear even more attractive than camp. He’s been invited to visit the old- est son of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in Massachusetts before re- turning to Washington. So he wrote further: “I think, mother, that we should mot plan on my staying at camp too long. I might get discontented.” * ok K % ‘WORKING. ‘HE day of the all-star game an operative passed a power line pit at Fiorida avenue and Fifth street. Signs on all sides advised “Men Work- GORDON IS NOMINATED FOR THE NETHERLANDS B3 the Associated Press. , President Roosevelt today nominated \George A. Gordon of New York to be ,Minister to the Netherlands. Gordon, ,8 career diplomat, has been Minister ,to Haiti since June, 1935. , At The Hague he will succeed Gren- ville T. Emmett, who has been desig- ,nated Minister to Austria, in succession to George A. Messersmith, named As- .sistant Secretary of State. Gordon was born in Huntsville, Ala., and was educated at Harvard and Co- Jumbia before practicing law. Congress in Brief TODAY, Benatet Debates court bill. Rolises In recess. “Aha,” said the operative to her- self. “If those signs are correct, these probably are the only men in Wash- ington who are working.” She made a closer inspection and found the “Mem Working” protected from traffic by a nice iron rail and pro- tected from the sun’s rays by a big canvas. Each had a comfortable seat on a roll of wire, there was a radio tapped onto the main line in the pit for its power—and th‘e game was on. * % % LIFT. WABHINGTON'B cab drivers con- tinue to do the unpredictable. They're almost as unfathomable as ‘women. H. R. Westerman reports the latest episode. Westerman and a crony found themselves stranded down on the Potomac Park golf course the other night around 10 o'clock. The last Hains Point bus had passed about 9, so the two were faced with & long walk to the car line at Four- teenth and Water atreets. Anufiamobih."ndlul THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, JULY 10, 193 PRESIDENTCRUISES DURING WEEK END But Plans to Work Hard on Four Reports and Accumulated Mail. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt is spending the week end cruising about Chesapeake Bay aboard the presidential yacht Potomac. He left the White House shortly after 11 am. for Annapolis, Md., where he boarded the yacht, and, according to his present plans, he will dock at the Washington Navy Yard late tomorrow. The President has mapped out a program of hard work during his brief absence. He took with him several days’ mail and four reports, all of which are more or less voluminous and will take considerable time to read. To assist him in his work, Mr. Roosevelt has with him Miss Margue- rite Le Hand, his private secretary, and Miss Grace Tully, his principal stenographer. Others in the party are James M. Landis, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Mrs. Landis; Representative Rayburn of Texas, Democratic leader of the House, and Capt. Paul Bastedo, White House naval aide. One of the reports which the Presi- dent has with him deals with prob- lems arising from inventions, their effect on the social life of the Nation, on employment, industry and busi- ness. The report, which is from the Na- tional Resources Committee, will be made public July 18, together with a statement from the President. The other reports deal with slum conditions in rural areas, “‘unemploy- ment and destitution” and power de- velopment and the diversion of water from the Niagara River, POLO PLAYER DIES OF FALL INJURIES Howell Howard, 39, Succumbs After Horse Goes Down, _ Rolls Over Him. 1 the Associated Press. MINEOLA, N. Y., July 10.—Injuries suffered Thursday while playing polo at the Meadow Brook Club proved fatal vesterday to Howell Howard, 39- | vear-old five-goal player from Day- | ton, Ohio. Howard, treasurer of a chain of paper companies headed by his fa- ther, Maxwell Howard. suffered a fractured skull and other severe inju- ries when he was thrown from his pony while riding at No. 2 with Ger- ald Dempsey's Narragansett team. While leaning over in an attempt to get a better shot at a bouncing ball, Howard's pony suddenly crossed his forelegs and went down. How- ard’s head hit the ground and the | pony rolled over him. He never fully regained consciousness and died shortly after noon yesterday. Howard had been playing | nearly 20 yvears and competed in | nearly every section of the world. | Although he played merely as a pas- | lo for She is not, she maintains, Dorothea | time, his ability was widely known | | throughout polo circles and the Mid- | | dle West. His father is the owner of |8 stable of race horses, trained by | | Earl Sande | Young Howard was married and had four children. Funeral arrange- | ments have not been announced, | TENANGY AID BILL ACCORD REACHED Compromise Would Leave to Wal- lace Creating of Super- visory Body. | By the Associated Press. A joint Senate and House committee | has agreed on a bill to help farm | tenants become landowners by lend- | ing them Government money at 3 per cent and granting immediate title to the land. 5 The bill, a compromise between the original House and Senate versions, left up to the Secretary of Agriculture the question of creating a Farmers’ Home Corp. to supervise the loans. It authorizes lending of $10,000,000 this fiscal year. $25.000,000 in the next and $50,000,000 for each subsequent year. One clause forbids sale of the prop- erty by the borrower for five years in order to prevent land speculation. Bor- rowers would be required to take the Agriculture Department’s advice on farming methods. The measure also provides for a $10,000,000 appropriation to .buy and retire submarginal land from culti- vation this year and $20,000,000 for each of the next two years. The final draft must be approved by both houses. SOVIET PLANS PAIR OF FLIGHTS TO U S. Success of Recent Hop Inspires Two More Like It—Both to Start Within a Month. Bs the Associated Press. MOSCOW, July 10.—Two more So- viet polar flights to the United States have been planned, one to begin as soon as weather is favorable and the second to follow probably within a month, it was disclosed today. The success of last month's hop to California inspired completed plans for the additional flights. The famous Soviet long-distance fiyer, Mikhail Gromoff, and two com- panions will comprise the first crew. Sigismund Levanevsky, who rescued James Mattern from the Siberian wastes when he cracked up on a world- girdling hop several years ago, dis- closed that he would make the fol- lowing flight probably before the month is up. hopeful thumb was raised. Maybe they wouldn't have to walk after all. The car stopped, and—you guessed it —turned out to be a cab. A hurried search of pockets produced nothing more than a couple of car tokens. The strandees shrugged, showed them to the cabbie and advised him to be on his way. “‘Come on,” he said. “I’ll give you & lift. What if I am -driving & cab?” And he proceeded to ‘o just that, chat- ting about the Boy Scout Jamboree and depositing them at the car stop with a cheery ”01 night.” | large | establishments, | cafes which opened for business F ligitives From Heat Wave Relax in Park Typical of scenes in the city’'s parks last night was this view of an entire family, bedding and drove to Hains Point to seek including relief from the heat and to sleep. the pup, who packed up their —Star Staff Photo. ARIS STRIKERS, WORKERS BATILE Waiters Stage Pitched Fight as Rioting Follows De- mand for 5-Day Week. B: the Assoctated Press. PARIS, July 10—Striking waiters and men hired to take their places staged a pitched battle in a boulevard cafe today—one of a series of minor disorders at the start of a hotel, cafe and restaurant strike. Emergency police order in the place aft was injured on the 3 Mobile guards were posted along the boulevards and in front of many hotels. Pickets paced the | streets, seeking to spread the walkout | which was called in demand of an unconditional five-day week | In the morning it was confined to | the large cafes and hotels. Smaller staffed by families, did a rushing business in serving squads restored a counterman | Parisians with their morning coffee and rolls. Strikers Repulsed. Twenty strikers entered a cafe in the financial district, smashing bottles behind the bar and throwing chairs into the street Squads of police ejected the demonstrators. | The same group later returned with reinforcements, but police blocked entrances. Committees of three affiliated unions of hotel and cafe employes, cooks and | kitchen boys broadcast the strike call | and instructed members to cease work €xcept in establishments where a strict 40-hour week was in effect The employers’ syndicate countered the movement with a warning they would close their places rather than modify their working hours from the provisions of the Government's labor accord of July 2, which established an approximate 5'.-day week. Nation-Wide Showdown Seen. The operators urged Premier Camille Chautemps to enforce the agreement which he helped formulate to avert a threatened nation-wide strike in the food and hotel industries. Many proprietors refused to close to- day when their waiters and other help failed to show up. They donned white jackets and served table themselves. Squads of police were kept busy dis- persing demonstrators in front of the The strikers paraded the boulevards, chant- ing “Five-day week, five-day week.” There were only slight scuffles with the gendarmes. Chautemps’ office let it be known arbitration conferences would con- tinue today. 10 Quaker Colleges. ‘There are 10 Quaker colleges in this | country, Haverford College in Penn- sylvania being the oldest. | credit Alasica Colon&’s Crop Doomed As Wheat Seed Error Is Found | Special Dispatch to The Star. PALMER, Alaska, July 10 (NA. N.A).—They sent the wrong kind of seed wheat to the colonists. It was learned Friday that, through an error, Winter wheat instead of Spring wheat was parceled out to the Government's Matanuska Valley col- onists and planted by them. This means that they will be able to harvest no substantial wheat crop this Fall, as Winter wheat planted in the Spring does not ripen that same Fall The mistake was discovered only after the grain had started popping | through the fertile soil of the valley. Loe Jacobs, acting general manager, said that responsibility for the error is being traced Colonists had been counting on the | wheat harvest for feed for their 50.- 000 chickens and their ducks, geese and turkeys. The error probably means that the fowl will have to be fed an- other year on purchased feed Jack Hermon, formerly of Plymouth, Wis., acres with the seed, said that “This | means the loss of a whole year to me and ends any possibility of me meet- ing payments on my farm when due unless some adjustment is made.” Colonists are buying their farms on from the Government and some had been counting on the year's harvest to reduce their debts. Of course, most of them have planted other crops. who planted all his 12 cleared | Practical farmers believe the only thing that can be done with the un- seasonable crop this Fall will be to turn the cows into it or cut it for hay, although wheat “straw” makes mighty expensive cow feed. There are widespread rumors, not involving the wheat seed incident, that the colony's executive staff is to be reduced sharply soon In addition, eight or ten colonists | have not yet signed agreements to | produce and market thelr crops | through the colony's co-operative, al-| though the deadline for doing so is nine days past | (Copyright, 1937, by the North American | Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) W. P. A. HEADS ASTONISHED, Official in Charge of Colony Picked as | Agriculture Expert. Officials of the Works Progress Ad- ministration, sponsor of the Mata- nuska project, expressed astonishment today at the reported plight of the wheat-growing colonists. They sent a message at once to Palmer to verify it. Chief cause of the astonishment | was the fact that the man in charge of the colony is Ross Shealy, picked for the post because of his expert knowledge of agriculture. He was 1 erlv manager of agricultural ex- | | tension work in Alaska. | JIMMY WALKERS ADOPT EIGHT-WEEK-OLD BOY B3 the Assoctated Press. CHICAGO. July 10.—Another Jim- my Walker made his debut yesterday. He is an 8-week-old boy adopted by former Mayor James J. (Jimmy) Walker of New York and his wife, the former Betty Compson, actress, from the Cradle in Evanston The Walkers said the baby, their second adopted child would be christened James John Walker. He will be a companion for Mary Ann Walker, 17 months old, who was pro- cured from the Evansten institution in April, 1936 The Walkers departed last night for New York after signing adoption papers approved by County Judge Edmund K. Jarecki. MOONEYS ATTEND RITES Brother of Assistant Postmaster Dies in Ohio. W. M. Mooney. assistant postmaster of Washington, and Mrs. Mooney left | today for Steubenville, Ohio, to at- tend the funeral of Mr. Mooney's brother, Robert J. Mooney, who died this morning. Robert J. Mooney was an advertis- ing man and a former city editor on New York and Chicago dailies. W. M. Mooney formerly lived at Steubenville, Dora Mae Huffman, 6, who was with her father, Robert L. Huffman, 1121 Fourth street southwest, when he captured a colored man who allegedly had held up a store at Seventh and G streets southwest this morning. Huffman, a taxicab driver, caught the man before police had been notified of the hold-up. (Story on‘aaa A-1.) —Star Staff Photo. 115,70 SELL 80D FORCHINESESILVER Supplementary Pact Is in Accord With 3-to-1 | Balance Plan. Br the Associated Press. The Treasury put today a new give-and-take monetary | agreement with China. | | 1t provides that China will buy “a substantial amount” of this country's gold hoard, which aggregates $12.300.- 000,000. The Treasury in return will buy more of China’s silver. A statement by Secretary Morgen- thau and Dr. H. H. Kung, Chinese finance minister, said the accord will supplement an understanding effected in May, 1936. The United States agreed at that time to buy an undesig- nated amount of Chinese silver. The two officials said the new agree- ment would give China additional gold | reserves and & supply of American dollars in exchange for her silver. The | gold and dollar exchange, they said, | | will be used for currency stabilizing | purposes. Other Pacts Unaffected. Morgenthau said the Treasury fol- lowed its one-nation-at-a-time policy in drafting the accord. It does not affect the existing English-French- American monetary agreement, he said, except that increased co-opera- | tion' between the United States and | China will help strengthen all foreign exchange relationships. Morgenthau said the agreement is in line with the silver purchase pro- gram which requires the Treasury to buy silver until it equals one-third of gold stocks or until it reaches the monetary price of $1.29 an ounce. A steady influx of gold from abroad has kept the Treasury from reach- ing the projected gold-silver ratio. Its silver holdings now are only about | one-fifth of the gold reserves. Morgenthau and Kung would not say specifically how much gold and silver the agreement involved. It was assumed Chinese silver would be acquired at the world market price, now about 45 cents an ounce, and that gold would be sold to China at this country’s statutory $35-an- ounce price. Kung said gold and dollar exchange acquired by China would be left on deposit in this country, still serving as backing for Chinese currency. into operation To Aid Chinese Currency. NEW: YORK, July 10 (#)—The agreement between China and the United States announced last night in ‘Washington, by which the former will exchange silver for our “sterilized” gold, will contribute greatly to the stability of the Chinese currency, Wall Street banking quarters today be- lieved. While the effect here possibly would be to increase excess reserves of mem- bers of the Federal Reserve Bank Sys- tm through the issuance of silver cer- tificates, they said, it was pointed out the sum involved probably would be too small to make much impression on the credit structure. Real significance of the move, it was felt, lies in the distribution of even a small portion of the unwanted gold now piled up in Treasury vaults of this eountry. ' | l Japanese May Protest. CHINESE PATRIOT ASK WAR ON JAPAN Nationalists Call for Force, While Diplomats Seek Pacific Solution. Br the Assoctated Press. SHANGHAI, July 10 —Chinese Na- tionalists today urged immediate war on Japan as a result of the clash| between Chinese and Japanese troops | near Peiping, while diplomats sought a pacific solution of the Sino-Japanese crisis. Japanese newspapers in Shanghai reported the National Salvationists, a patriotic group, headed by Mme. Sun | Yat Sen, telegraphed Gen. Sung Cheh | Yuan, chairman of the Hopei-Chahar Council, asserting “China should fight Japan immediately.” Another group, the Democratic Sal- vationists, including 300 business men | and teachers, sent messages to Gen- eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, Gen. Sung and other leaders asking war. Battle “Incident” Studied. In Nanking Foreign Minister Wang | Chung-Huit, who hurriedly returned from the Summer capital at Kuling, plunged into a study of the incident | that resulted in a two-day battle near | Marco Polo Bridge, west of Peiping. Japanese said 10 of their men were | kil and 22 injured. There were heavy Chinese casualties. Firing broke | out about midnight Wednesday be- | tween two bodies of troops near where Japanese military forces were engaged | in war games. Under the Boxer treaty Japan keeps some 7,000 szoldiers in the Peiping area. The counsellor of the Japanese Embassy in Nanking, Shigeru Hidake, declared that Japan, though desiring | a local settlement, would register a | formal protest if the Chinese demand | compensation for lives lost. The counsellor conferred with Chen | Chieh, vice minister of foreign afla:rs_J who told him that China held Japan | responsible. Japanese military authorities in Tientsin announced they would con- duct negotiations for settlement. Peiping was placed under martial law after 8 o'clock last night, but the | tension in the ancient city was eased. Bl T M’KELLAR RECEIVES TRIBUTES AT DINNER| Veteran Tennessee Senator Gets Greetings From Roosevelt and Many Others. U. S ENFORCEMENT MERGER IS URGED Brookings Institute Asks Expansion of F. 8. I. to Include Others. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Expansion of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to include the lawe enforcement functions of the Secret Service and the post office inspectors, and to centralize certain aspects of law enforcement officer training, is proposed in a report by the Brooke ings Institution to Senator Byrd, Democrat of Virginia, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Re= organization of Executive Agencies. This ninth chapter in the Brook= ings survey is a 70,000-word discus- sion of more than a score of agencies which have a combined personnel of more than 16,000, and administrative expenses amounting to approximately $50,000,000 annually. Attention is centered particularly on the Bureau of Investigation, the office of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of enforcement, the intelligence and alcoholic tax units of the Bureau of Internal Rev= enue, the Bureau of Narcotics, the Secret Service, the Customs Agen Service, including customs patrol, Coast Guard, the Immigration Bo: der Patrol, the Immigration and Nate uralization Service and the office of | chief inspector of the Post Qffice De- | partment, Customs and Immigration, ‘The report also recommends a joint study of the Bureau of Customs and the Immigration and Naturalization Service with & view to local consolidae tions and local interchanges of pere sonnel and work. Definite steps to insure a greater degree of co-ordina= tion among enforcement agencies also is strongly urged. Establishment of a co-ordinator of law enforcement, under the President, and possibly in the Budget Bureau, or the setting up of central and regional co-ordinating committees of agency heads is suggested as a possible alter= native for co-ordination of enforce- ment agencies and a re-examination and definition of executive policy with regard to publicity and the giving of credit in law enforcement. “The fear that a strong Federal police force mig be used as an in- strument of oppression” was taken cognizance of by the Brookings Ine stitution, and it states this policy of the Federal Governme “To con= tinue to view crime as a national problem and to co-ordinate and assist 50 far as possible State and local en= forcement agencies.” With this policy in mind, the report says “logic would seem to dictate a centralization in the Department of Justice of all gen= eral law enforcement activities of the Federal Government. In the face of criminal elements, division of leadere ship or responsibility is not desire able.” Jealousy Is Cited. In justification for the proposals for co-ordination among enforcement agencies and the giving of credit in law enforcement, the report explains that “among a few agencies jealousy and antagonism exists. Every effort should be made to establish cordial feelings, for it is only through mutual acquaintance and mutual respect that co-operation and co-ordination ean be insured. The unfavorable condie tions that exist at present might be, in large part, removed if the Pre dent were to instruct the heads of the law enforcement agencies not on! to refrain from ° ing’ tactics, but also to get together at least monthly for an informal discussion of their common problems.” WIFE~SLAYiNGTTRflL ENDS IN DISAGREEMENT Jury Unable to Reach Verdict in Case of Minister Charged With Killing Mate. Br the Associated Press. BECKLEY, W. Va, July 10.—The trial of a mountain minister, Rev. Monta H. Ball, on charges of killing his second wife, ended abruptly yes- terday with the jury in disagreement. Judge Harley M. Kilgore dismissed the panel after the foreman reported Greetings from President Roosevelt, Gov. Gordon Browning of Tennessee, the Mayor of Memphis and many other | legislators and Government officials here were expressed last night to Sen- ator McKellar of Tennessee at a din- | ner at the Mayflower Hotel given by | the Tennessee State Society in tribute | to the Senator's long service at the | Capitol. More than 175 telegrams and over | 100 letters of greeting were sent to | Senator McKellar, who has represented his State for more than 20 years, The tributes were read to the group of 400 guests by Jack W. Gates, presi- dent of the society. The entire Ten- nessee congressional delegation, with the exception of three members who were out of town, was present, Toastmaster of the evening was Judge Finis J. Garrett of the Court of Customs Appeals, with Ewin L. Davis of the Federal Trade Commis- sion making the principal speech. Guests at the table of honor who also made short speeches included Postmaster General Farley, Attorney General Cummings, Assistant Post- master General Smith W. Purdum, Senator Bankhead of Alabama, Mrs. Lucille Foster McMillin, civil service commissioner; Senator Guffey of | Pennsylvania, Senator Berry of Ten- nessee, Senator Minton of Indiana, Senator Pittman of Nevada, Senator Bilbo of Mississippi, Jesse Jones, head of the Reconstruction Finance Corp.; Assistant Attorney General Joseph B. Keenan and Karl Crowley, solicitor for the Post Office Department, THREE U. S. VOLUNTEERS KILLED IN MADRID FIGHT By the Associated Press. MADRID, July 10.—Eighteen Amer- icans were listed today among volun- teers wounded while fighting with Spanish government troops in the cur- rent offensive against insurgents out- side Madrid in addition to three Americans reported killed in action. The wounded Americans are patients in Madrid hospitals, but shortly will be transferred to other institutions. Members of the George Washington Battalion said the Americans killed were Jean Bronstein, David Walba and Ray Peters. Their home ad- dresses were not given. ‘Wounded by machine gun or rifle bullets included Tanno Lundsten of | seven hours of deliberation left it | hopelessly deadlocked. The State contended 29-year-old Mrs. Bictory Gay Ball was shot last March because of jealousy and for gain. - Ball claimed the shooting was accie dental. Prosecutor W. H. Thornhill, jr, charged an insurance policy the min- ister carried on his wife played a part in the tragedy. Son Runaway, Capital Mother Dies in Hospital Mrs. Lillian Stephens died in Galline ger Hospital early today without seee ing her runaway son, whose return, her friends hoped, would prolong her life. Relatives of the ying woman yesterday had ; police broadcast a k lookout through the Eastern coastal States for 15-year-old John William Harrie son. The boy left home last Sum- mer shortly be- fore his mother married Charles Stephens of 487 I street, a brick- layer. Stephens offered to finance the boy's return to Washington and to provide a good home for him here. Mrs, Stephens had been in the hospital for several weeks, suffering from a complication of ailments. Her husband and friends believed a sight of her son might revive her waning strength, Young Harrison's disappearance was not at first reported to police because his mother thought he had gone to live with relatives. Efforts to get in touch with the relatives later were unsuccessful. Mrs. Stephens, who also was the mother of a young daughter, had lived in Salisbury, Md., before coming to Washington. Mrs. Lillie Stephens. | \