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A2 x K SNELL ASKS PROBE OF CONTRIBUTIONS Demands House Investi- gate if Roosevelt and Far- ley Aided Law Evasion. By the Associated Press. Minority Leader 8Snell demanded yesterday that the House investigate whether President Roosevelt and Post- master General Farley had been parties to a scheme to evade the law governing political campaign contri- butions. The New Yorker introduced a reso- lution calling for appointment of a &pecial House committee to investigate the alleged sale to corporations of editions of the Democratic campaign book of 1936 autographed by President Roosevelt at $250 per copy. Asserting the Federal corrupt practices act expressly forbade cor- porations contributing to presidential election campaigns, Snell said his resolution related to matters “in- volving, in my judgment, a clear violation™ of the act “The information before me,” he safd, in a formal statement, “names the President of the United States and the Postmaster General as parties to a scheme of evasion per- fected and applied through the Demo- cratic National Committee.” Farley {s Democratic national chairman as well as Postmaster General. Refers to Book Sale. Snell embodied in the resolution what he called a letter of solicitation from M. H. Porter of the Democratic Natfonal Committee. It sald sale of the autographed book was being used to clear up the committee's deficit and that it “enables us to legally aceept corporation checks ae e Although he said he was “‘cognizant” of an official White House statement of June 9 that the President did not realize his autograph was to be used for that purpoee, Snell said ‘“‘never- theless, the evidence before me in- dieates that the chairman of the Democratic National Committee has discovered several ingenious methods of raising campaign funds.” “Some of these methods,” Snell con- tinued, “to use the words of the President, as set forth in his message of June 1, on taxation, ‘have the color of legality: others are on the borderline of legality; others are plain- 1y contrary even to the letter of the Snell said if the House approved the inquiry, he would lay before the committee “purported” photostatic copies of the sales contract promis- ing delivery of the President’s auto- graphed editions and the Democratic National Committee’s letter of solici- tation He raid he also would furnish an affidavit from a business man who was “subjected to various threats and measures of intimidation by officers and agents of the Resettlement Ad- ministration” when he declined to purchase $500 worth of the books, Other Things Promised. In addition, Snell promised to sup- A list of corporations in at least 15 States which he said already have made substantial contributions to the Democratic National Committee “through this device of evasion.” “Evidence that in at least one Federal jurisdiction formal complaint against attempted coercion in the sale of these books was placed before the United States district attorney, with no legal action resulting there- from. Circumstantial evidence that lists of corporations doing routine busi- ness with various agencies of the United States Government were fur- nished to the Democratic National Committee as “prospect lists” for the book salesmen. The resolution would empower the committee to subpoena witnesses, as- certain the names of all agents or solicitors employed to obtain contribu- tions for the book, the names of all corporations and persons subscribing and whether any of them were en- gaged at the time of signing the con- tract in furnishing supplies or mate- rials to the Government. GERMAN PILOT TOPS GLIDER STANDINGS Wilmington Youth Second as National Soaring Contests Near End. By the Assoclated Press. ELMIRA, N. Y., July 10.—Peter Riedel, German glider pilot, topped the point standing in the eighth na- tional soaring contests tonight, on the eve of the meet's conclusion. Riedel, who as & foreigner will not be eligible for the title, had 186 points, while in second place was Richard C. du Pont, Wilmington, Del., with 175, Other leaders were Chester Decker, Glen Rock, N. J., 175; Emil Lehecka, Long Island City, 173; Harlan C. Ross, Montebello, Calif, 172, and L. B. Barringer, Philadelphia, 171. Lehecka made an unofficial altitude flight of 4,000 feet in 3 hours; Dupont soared over Harris Hill for 5 hours in an ineffectual attempt to set a record. In distance flights Lehecka soared to Nichols, N. Y.. 25 miles, in 2 hours; Riedel soared to Noxen, Pa., 66 miles. in 4 hours, and Decker and Barringer each made a 2-hour flight to Chemung, N. Y., 15 miles. Pilots counted on continued hot weather to aid their final-hour at- tempts at records early tomorrow, NOTED VIOLINIST, HURT, GOES DAY UNIDENTIFIED By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, July 10.—Manuel , Whose violin technique is familiar to audiences on two conti- nents, spent seven hours as an uniden- tifled accident victim on the city's drab Welfare Island, his friends re- vesled today. The noble-born, 46-year-old Span- {ard was reported recovering from a compound fracture of the left leg and severe head lacerations. His valuable hands were spared when he fell beneath the screeching wheels of a taxicab at Broadway and Forty-third street Thursday. Alone and unconscious, the artist, whose good friend and frequent accompanist is Jose Iturbi, another name of in- ternational renown, was sent to the island. Seven hours later, atter some one ‘was produced who could understand the French of his adopted home in Paris, Quiroga’s friends were sum- moned. They gent him to a private hospital. 1 The accident caused indefinite post- porement of & tour he was to have made. scross the Continent. 4 Readers' Guide and News Summary The Sunday Star, July 11, 1937, PART ONE. Main News Section. FOREIGN. Japan reported pouring troops into North China. Page A-1 Insurgents report slaying 3,000 loy- alists near Madrid. Page A-1 Violence marks spread of hotel strike in Prance, Page A-2 NATIONAL. Lexington speeds to Earhart hunt as hopes dwindle. Page A-1 McCarran looses strong attack on court plan substitute. Page A-1 Snell asks Roosevelt-Farley campaign contributions probe. Page A-2 House to push wage-hour bill while Senate debates court. Page A-2 Fugitive golfer freed on $10,000 bond in Los Angeles. Page A-4 House considers recess while court bill is snarling Senate. Page A-12 STRIKE SITUATION. Youngstown and Republic Steel to re- open last closed plants. Page A-1 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Airport landings ‘responsibility” of pilots, Roper says. Page A-1 New York youth in toils as result of big hotel bill. Page A-1 Doughton favors curb on one-time Federal tax attorneys. Page A-3 House may vote tomorrow on first re- organization bill. Page A-3 18-year-old youth is drowned in Wash- ington Channel. Page A-4 Police link hold-up suspect with three other robberies. Page A-5 Two taxicab bills before House in Dis- trict day tomorrow. Page B-1 Development type to determine site of proposed auditorium. Page B-1 D. C. tax bill awaits lull in court de- bate. Page B-1 Business outlook good following store sales report. Page B-1 Italian says five-power pact soundest idea for peace. Page B-2 Bond “racket” trials slated at Marl- boro tomorrow Page B-2 Strike-bound Covington rayon plant plans to reopen. Page B-3 Jackson's strategy in Maryland race only stirs opposition. Page B-4 Annapolis’ woman candidate to spend election eve darning Page B-4 Domestic airmail reported virtually self-sustaining. Page B-¢ Roosevelt abandons ecity's heat for Chesapeake cruise. Page B-§ Silver Star home in Maryland open to public today. Page B-§ SPORTS. Yankees hand Griffs another shellack- ing, by 12-2 count. Page B-6 Oxford-Cambridge win track meet from Yale-Harvard Page B-6 Navy tennis team beats Army for ninth time in cup play. Page B-7 Havens proves star as W. C. C. pad- diers win M. A. honors. Page B-8 Great field of outboard drivers due in cup meet here. Page B-9 Jake Kilrain, famous fighter, losing battle to live to be 80 Page B-10 Seabiscuit and Strabo annex races at Empire and Delaware, Page B-11 MISCELLANY. ‘Washington Wayside. Obituary. Vital statistics. Traffic convictions. Shipping news, Cross-word puzzle, Stamps. PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial articles. Pages D-1-3 | Editorials and comment, Page D-2 | Women's clubs. Page D-4 Civic news Page D-4 Public library. Page D-5 Military and veterans' news. Resorts. Winning contract, PART THREE. Society Section. Society news. PagesE-1-10 Well-known folk. PageE-3 Barbara Bell pattern. PageE-7 PART FOUR. Feature Section. News features. Pages F-1-4 John Clagett Proctor, PageF-2 Radio programs, Page F-3 Amusements. Page F-5 Dick Mansfield, Page F-6 Children’s page. Page F-7 PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Crope and travel spur trade. Page G-T Wheat recovers part of drop. Stocks go down, Stock table, Bond table. Curb table. Lost and found. Educational. Classified advertising. Page A-2 Page A-10 Page A-10 Page A-10 Page A-10 Page B-S Page B-12 Page D-5 Pages D-6-8 Page D-10 Page G-1 Page G-1 Page G-2 Page G-3 Page G-4 Page G-5 Page G-5 Poages G-5-14 —_— . NEW YORK PAGEANT TO HONOR PIONEERS Occasion to Mark 158th Anniver- sary of Passage of 1787 Ordinance. B the Assoclaten Press. NEW YORK, July 10.—America's pioneers, who carved a Midwestern civilization out of wilderness, will be commemorated here next week in elaborate pageantry. The occasion will mark the 159th anniversary of the passage of the ordi- nance of 1787, providing for creation of the Northwest Territory, out of which came five States and part of a sixth. On the site of the old New York City Hall, where Congress was in session at the time the ordinance was passed, 130 actors will take part in a pageant de- picting eight critical periods during the formative period of the Nation. The public ceremonies will open at 3 p.m. Tuésday, with & message from President Roosevelt., —_— POPE PIUS THOROUGHLY EXAMINED BY PHYSICIAN Bs the Associated Press. CASTEL GANDOLFO, July 10.—An “eminent” physiclan recently made 8 thorough physical examination of Pope Pius XI with apparently favor- able results, Vatican sources disclosed today. The pontiff, who had walked little since his limhs were afflicted by his critical liness last Winter, has taken frequent strolls through the gardens of his Summer palace since the ex- amination. Pius, delivering s message on the occasion of the feast day of St. Theresa, is to be heard in an early morning broadcast in this country 8unday. The message, scheduled for WEAF-WJZ-NBC and WABC only st 8 am, is to be followed by an Eng- inslation, 3 B THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, WAGEBILL TO GET HOUSE PRESSURE “Careful” Study of Measure May Delayv Action in Cominittee. BACKGROUND— Since the death of the N. R. A. there have been recurring eflorts in Congress to re-enact legislation that would provide for minimum wages, mazimum hours and outlaw child labor. One step in this direction was the Walsh-Healy act, applying to Gov- ernment contracts. Finally, a new bill to accomplish these objectives was introduced under the sponsor- 3hip of Senator Black, Democrat, of Alabama and the -ate Repre- sentative Connery, Democrat, of Massachusetts. BY JOHN C. HENRY. While the Sepate is spending an unpredictable arfount of time on the court reform proposal, pressure of ad- ministration leadership will be exerted on the House side to effect passage there of wage-and-hour legislation, it was learned yesterday. If efforts to get such legislation through the House during the next month are successful, administration advisers then hope to jam it through the Senate in what will probably be the closing days of the. session. Greatest potential obstacle to this plan in the House is the Labor Com- mittee itself. With a majority of its members favoring substantial modifi- cation of the bill as introduced and the driving force of the late chair- man, Connery of Massachusetts, co- sponsor of the measure, being miss- ing, this committee is now committed to a “deliberate and careful” study of the bill before reporting it. Two-Week Study Expected. Beginning its deliberations tomor- row, the committee is expected to take at least two weeks for executive con- sideration and is expected to rewrite the bill pretty completely before bringing it out. Once on the House calendar, how- ever, the legislation may reach the floor without undue delay since the legislative situation at that end of the OCapitol is not as congested as In the Senate. In the opinion of Representative Ramspeck, Democrat, of Georgia and & member of the House Labor Com- mittee, a principle task of those re- shaping the legislation is to simplify and modify it to a degree where it will receive public support and its enforcement thus become easier and more effective. Cites Apathy to N. R. A. ‘We had an example in prohibition and again in the N. R. A. of how the enforcement of & law becomes a virtual impossibility when public sup- port is lackin the Georgian said. “The N. R. A. was dead a long time before the court said s0, and it was because the public had given up in the face of the mass of complicated re- quirements and conflicting orders. The present attempt to improve labor standards will run into a lot of the same situations as plagued the N. R. A" For the most part, the major changes made by the Senate Labor Committee before reporting the re- written bill out during the past week have been received with favor. For instance, both House and Senate members express agreement with the provision to empower the Tariff Commission to investigate complaints of unreascnable under- selling of foreign goods here as a result of increased domestic produc- tion costs. Many Sources for Inquiries. Under terms of the revised bill, such inquiry may be made upon request of NEW YORK, July 10 ().—Pope|. the President, of either branch of Con- gress, of the Labor Standards Board, or upon the judgment of the commis- sion itself. Before his death, Connery on num- erous occasions at hearings on the bill expressed support for some provision to assure tariff protection. From other sources came expres- sions of favor at the elimination of the provision allowing the Labor Stand- ards Board to prescribe wage and hour figures better than the basic figures where collective bargaining was deem- ed inadequate. The committee propos- al is that no minimum wage may be set above 40 cents per hour and no maximum hour week set below 40 hours. DOWNPOUR, WINDS PARALYZE WHEELING Mother, Two Children Rescued as Torrent Carries Their House Downstream. By the Associated Press. ‘WHEELING, W. Va, July 10— ‘Torrential rains and high winds struck the Wheeling area late today, wrecked homes, flooded business districts, par- alyzed traffic and marooned hundreds. More than 500 automobiles were abandoned on U. S. Route 40 east of Elm Grove, it was reported. The high- way was under 4 to 6 feet of water. A tourist camp on .he highway just east of Elm Grove was completely wpshed out. In the same sector more tian 100 yards of Baltimore & Ohio railroad track were washed out. A Pittsburgh-Wheeling train, ‘due in ‘Wheeling at 7 p.m. (Eastern standard time), was halted outside thc city. A rallroad bridge and & highway bridge were reported swept away by the surging rain-swollen Wheeling Creek. Many narrow escapes from death were reported, but there was no known loss of life. Telephone com- munication in the district was almost entirely cut off. A mother and her two children were trapped in ‘the second floor of their house as the plunging, powerful flood water tore it,from its base and carried it downstream. The three climbed out on a second-ftory porch. The house hit a wooden pier, the porch snapped off and caught in the middle of the rushing torrent. ¥ A rescue squad of 12 men. working nearby, formed a human chain by Joining hands and wading out into the creek. They managed to pass the three safely to shore from man to mam 3 . Mrs. Field Wins Decree. CHICAGO, July 10 (#).—Mrs. Fliza- beth Sturges Field, 32, was granted a divorce today by Judge Philip J. Pin- negan from Henry Field, 35, assistant curator of anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History. S8he charged desertion. They were mar- . Tied Janmary 19, 1088, ¢ -\ 1fPllo\'\' countrymen and who was shot D. C, JULY 11, 1937—PART ONE. Broken-Back Diver Swims Ray Woods, professional high diver, who fractured his spine in a di e from the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge last March, is swimming again, although he hasn’t recovered use of his legs. He is shown at a St. Louis pool. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Irish Member of Parliament Responsible for the Filibuster With the Senate emmbarked on & debate which may lead to one of the most significant filibusters in Amer- ican history, the origin and the tech- nique involved in this term become of more than ordinary interest. Briefly, filibustering today means that a mi- nority in a legislative body takes advantage of parliamentary rules— or the lack of them—to prevent ac- tion by the majority. In this man- ner, laws may be permanently shelved or delayed so long in passage that concessions are wrung from the dom- inant faction. The word in itself is applied in reproach. Filibuster (originally Dutoh, meaning freebooter) was synonymous with buccaneer, when these pirates roamed the Caribbean. It was re- vived in the 1850s to describe expe- ditions setting out from supposedly triendly countries to assist or pro- mote revolutions in other states. Wil- liam Walker, for example, the Cali- fornia lawyer, who took over the government of Nicaragua in 1855 with the assistance of a party of in 1860 as a resuit, was a celebrated filibusterer. The word was also used in the same sense of those Americans and Cubans who used this country as A base of supplies and recruits during the rebellions that eventually culminated in the Spanish-American War. Present Use More Recent. As a description of legislative ob- structionists, the word is more re- cent, but it was already in common usage in 1883. At all events, it was Just about that time that the tech- nique of delay was first really intro- duced into national legislatures, though sporadic instances of it had been encountered long before. And it was not in the United States that filibustering first became a national issue but in the English House of Commons. It was started there by an Irishman, Joseph Biggar. Charles Stewart Par- nell, the great Irish Nationalist leader, took over the practice and developed it to a highly annoying point in his effort to win & hearing for Ireland. His method was not that of talking measures to death, but of presenting “dilatory motions"—trivial amend- ments, motions to adjourn or to re- cess. Finally, in 1881, the speaker of the House refused to entertain any more motions which were obviously in- tended to delay legislation, and in 1887 a closure rule was adopted by Parliament to prevent excessively lengthy debate. Csar Reed Ended 'Em. During the same period, the United States House of Representatives was employing much of the same tech- nique. One-fifth of the members present could demand a roll call on any motion: & motion to adjourn would be submitted, two other mem- bers who wished delay would move amendments, and each motion would be put to a roll call vote. If they failed, & motion to recess would be introduced, and the same procedure would follow. In one case, the House remained in session eight days snd nights, with over 800 roll calls on mo- tions to recess or adjourn. The clerks who called the roll were so exhausted that Congressmen had to take their places. In 1890, Speaker Thomas B. Reed— “Czar” Reed—followed the precedent of his English colleagues and refused to entertain dilatory motions. This practice was embodied in the House rules. Reed also, in the same session, ended another form of delay—that of “breaking the quorum.” Minority members would take their places in the House as usual, but when the roll was called, they would not answer, If a quorum were not shown by the votes, the roll call was invalid. X Reed astonished the House one day, when a querum had been broken in this manner, by pointing out some 25 members who were pres- ent but not voting and ordering the clerk to list them for the purposes of a'quorum. One member objected, and appealed to parliamentary law. “The chair,” said Reed, “is making a statement of fact, that the gentle- man from Kentucky is here. Does he deny it?" Reed's innovations, plus the exist- ence of the one-hour rule, which, in the House forbids any member except the one reporting a bill from com- mittee to speak more than one hour on any bill, plus the “previous question” rule, whereby the majority can usually close debate, have virtually eliminated filibustering the House. But the Sen- ate rules still permit it. From 1789 until 1806 the Senate had provision for moving the pre- vious question. When this is done, in common parliamentary practice, no de- bate and no amendments are in order on the motion. If the motion passes the main subject at issue is imme- diately brought to vote. The previous question was only used six times in the Senate, and then the rule was dropped. The Senate also still retains in its rulebook a provision which reads: “No one is to spake impertinently or beside the question, superfluously or sly.” This was enforced by the President of the Senate in the early days, but has gradually lapsed. Now there is no check on debate, except a rather unmanageable rule intro- duced in 1917. Sixteen members may petition the President of the Senate that debate be limited. At the next session a vote is taken, and if two- thirds assent, each memmber is re- stricted to a speech of one hour, La Follette Set Record. Minority groups in the Senate have often used their freedom to check legisiation. A bill providing for Fed- eral supervision of elections in the South was filibustered for two months in 1890 and killed. At that time one Senator spoke for 13 hours. This record was raised three years later when Senator Allen of Nebraska talked for 14 hours in a vain attempt to stop the repeal of the silver purchase act But Senator Robert La Follette, father of the present Senator of that name, seems to have the all-time high of 18 hours. .He achieved this in 1908, tak- ing light lunches of sandwiches and milk during the roll calls on motions to adjourn which punctuated his speech Single-handed filibusters are seldom successful. although once Senator Tillman of South Carolina won a point by threatening to read Byron's works to the Senate unless it passed a war claim he advocated. The Senate capitulated. But the usual method is for several Senators to speak in re- lays. This was done by the “little group of willful men,” 11 in all, who talked for three days against the bill to arm American merchantmen against German submarines in 1917. The Senate adjourned without taking action on the bill. (Copyright. 1937, by New York Herald Tribune.) PRESIDENT'S MOTHER EN ROUTE TO GENEVA Leaves Naples After Touring City With Ambassador and Visiting Pompeii. Br the Associated Press. NAPLES, July 10.—MTrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of the United States President, sailed from here for Genoa tonight after visiting Naples and Pompeii. Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by her grandson John, is on a European vaeation. She received an enthusiastic wel- come when she stepped ashore here from the liner Conte di Savoia. United States Ambassador William Phillips and Mrs. Phillips accompanied her on an afternoon tour of the city and she motored later to Pompeii ‘where, carried in a portable chair, she visited several sections of the ancient city. John motored to Sorrento and played golf with friends before pro- ceeding to Rome to visit for several days. Compromise Author in Forum SENATOR HATCH TO SPEAK ON COURT PLAN. ENATOR CARL A. HATCH, Democrat, of New Mexico, and original proponent of the com- prontise court' bill xow being accorded administration support, will be the speaker on the National Radio Forum tomorrow night. Broadcast at 9:30 p.m,, the Forum program is sponsored jointly by The Washington Star and the National Broadeasting System. The program goes over & Nation-wide network of N. B. C. stations, and is heard locally over Station WMAL. The Senator will discuss the com- promise court proposal in his address. In brief, the proposal is that the Presi~ denf be empowered to appoint one additional fustice each year whenever & member -75 years of age fails to retire. - be Senator Hatch submitted this sug- gestiofr during“early stages o} commit- tee consideration of the bill. When a majority of the Judiciary Committee returned an adverse report on the bill, Benator Hatch signed it, but filed a supplemental statement to the effect he would eeek: adoption of his com- promise plan. ] SENATOR HATCH. ¢ HOTEL STRIKERS RIOT IN FRANCE Walkout Spreads, Closing 12 Hostelries and Hundreds of Cafes. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 10.—Outbreaks of vio- lence tonight accompanied the spread of a strike by hotel, restaurant and care workers demanding an uncondi- tional five-day week. A dozen of the largest Paris hotels and more than a hundred cafes and restaurants were strikebound when committees of three affiliated unions called their .workers out, except in establishments already on a 40-hour, five-day week. 5 One big boulevard hotel said most of its guests left when the strike was declared. Its American guests, how- ever, preferred to stay, even though they had to prepare their own meals and make up their own rooms. Most of the disorders were created when roving squadrons of strikers at- tempted to call out employes of eating places that remained open. Emergency police squads restored order in one cafe after an employe was injured and mobile guards were stationed near the large hotels and cafe-lined boulevards. ‘Twenty strikers smashed bottles and hurled chairs in & restaurant in the financial district until police squads ejected them. They returned with re- inforcements but police blocked the entrances. The employers’ syndicate warned they would shut their doors rather than modify the general accord of July 2, reached through government mediation, which established an ap- proximate five-and-a-half-day week Premier Camille Chautemps, who has endeavored personally to reconcile the workers' and employers' demands, planned to continue arbitration con- ferences. —_—— SOVIET SABOTAGE IS LAID TO JAPAN Pravda Claims Chinese Railway Was Bought to Establish Espionage System. By the Associated Press MOSCOW, July 10.—Pravda, organ of the Communist party. declared to- day that Japan took advantage of Russia’'s sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway in 1935 to establish an es- pionage system in the Soviet Far East. Pravda’s article was designed to throw light on the wave of executions in Far Eastern Siberia, especially among railway workers. Pacific Star, has listed 217 such executions in the Far East in recent weeks. When the railway across Northern Siberia was sold to Manchukuo in March, 1935, thousands of Russians employed by the line, including many high executives, returned to the Soviet Union. Many of these were hostile to the Moscow regime and Japan recruited them as her agents, Pravda declared. It added they returned to Russian territory to caITy on espionage, sabo- tage and wrecking. Pacific Star today announced the arrests of three heads of Soviet agri- culture in the Far East for alleged | conspiracy to sabotage crops as an aid to “Japanese conquest.” The men were Chermanoff, Khavkin and Vasil- evitch, | Latest sabotage denunciations turned | to the state bank. Economic Life, or- (gan of the finance commisariat, | charged that Lev Efimovitch Mariasine, | former vice commissar of finance and president of the bank, removed from both posts a year ago, had aided “enemies of the people.” His offense was sald to have been sabotaging in 1931 a plan for improving the bank's circulation and reserves. CAR KILLS WOMAN; HUSBAND IS HELD Virginian Tells Officer Victim Ran Into Road in Effort to Halt Machine, By the Associated Press. STAUNTON, Va, July 10.—Mrs. Florence Fridley, 20-year-old mother of & small boy, was fatally injured today when struck by an automobile State Policeman D. R. Haskett sald was driven by her husband Haskett said R. A. Fridley told him the young woman ran into the road at Augusta Springs apparently in an effort to halt the oncoming machine, which hurled her more than 35 feet despite his effort to avold striking her. Fridley, the officer quoted him as saying, was returning from Staunton with Miss Bessie Gladwell of Fordwick, who had accompanied him there earlier today. He sald he swerved the car to the left but his wife also ran in that direction and he could not prevent the accident. The ma- chine continued off the road and struck a parked truck. Mrs. Fridley died a few minutes after being rushed to a hospital here. Haskett arrested Fridley on charges of manslaughter, reckless driving, causing an accident and driving with- out an operator's permit. Survivors, beside the husband and & 2-year-old son, Edward, include her mother, Mrs. George W. McCutcheon; a brother, Henry McCutcheon; a sis- ter, Mrs. Emma Fridley; two half brothers, Albert and Paul Mec- Cutcheon, all of Augusta Springs. DYER DECLARED SANE; HEARING IS TOMORROW Confessed Slayer of Three Girls Is Called Sadist and Sex- ual Pervert. BY the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 10.—Five alienists reported today that Albert Dyer, ¢onfessed sex-slayer of three little Inglewood girls, is sane. Deputy District Attorney Eugene Williams sald the substance of the prosecution alienists’ findings is: “Dyer is sane. His intelligence is only slightly below average. He knew what he was doing. He has no hallu- cinations but is a sadist and sexual pervert.” Willlams said the reports will be presented in court Monday when Dyer, 32-year-old school crossing guard, ap- pears to plead to grand jury indict- menta. Three defense alienists aico will newspaper published at Khabarovsk. | i, her friend, Ruth Smith, once of Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. OTIS. T'S JUST like Edward Arlington Robinson says, “Wisdom s like a dawn that comes up slowly out of an unknown ocean.” E. A. R. may not have had Otis in mind when he thought that one up, but it would have been under- standable had that been the ease. Otis is a butler, or rather he was a butler. He had butled reliably for years in one of the nicer Washington families. Recently, however, his efficiency began to sag. His usual happy face began to take on a care- worn expression. Finally, it all came out one day when he approached the mistress. “I'm going to quit,” Otis said briefly. “I've got to quit. I've finally realized I can't win at poker or the | numbers while I've got work on my mind. I think I'll quit 50 I can con- centrate on them.” He quit, too. - x K * QUESTION. Jennie Goodman has taken those half-moons in her finger nails for granted. They simply were there, and Miss Good- man never thought anything about them, ome way or another. She might have gone on that way, too, ercept for a street car ride the other day. In the course of the trip she be- came conscious that she was the object of a neighboring passenger's (woman) scrutiny. She could not fgure out just why until the curious one blurted out: “Would you mind telling me where you got those moons in your nails?” Miss Goodman had to admit she didn't know—guessed they just grew or something. * x % x HONOR. AKERS of wood cuts are not with- out honor among their friends after they have been exhibited in the National Museum. Until then, always i) REORGANIZING BILL NEARS HOUSE VOTE Passage Likely Tomorrow on First of Four Measures. BACKGROUND-- Question of governmental yeor- ganization has been sharply to the Jore in the present session of Con- gress, with Roosevelt advocating a program to centralize control of all erecutive establishments in the presidency, and a committee head- ed by Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia, backing certain consoli- dations along lines proposed in a study by the Brookings Institution. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The Holse expects tomorrow 1o pass the first of four bills drafted to carry out the reorganizaton recommenda- tions of President Roosevelt If District legislation doesn't take too long the House will pass the bill reported by Chairman Robinson au- thorizing the President to appoint six additional administrative assistants at the White House, at salaries not to ex- ceed $10,000 each, without regard tn civil service or other personnel require- ments, and to perform such duties as he may assign It also was disclosed yesterday that the President’s Advisory Committee on Administrative Management, has “folded its tent like the Arab and has silently stolen away” from its erstwhile headquarters in the National Emer- gency Council, Brookings Report Proves Bomh. The recommendations of the Brook- ings Institution to the Senate Reor- ganization Committee for enlarge- ment of the Federal Bureau of Investi- gation to include the general law-en- forcement functions of he Secret Service and the Post Office inspectnrs seems to have thrown a bomb inta the high command of the administration forces and the party leaders in Con- gress. In round numbers this means about 75 per cent of the work now performed by the Secret Service and about 25 per cent of the work done by the Post Of- fice inspectors. It has brought into the limelight the reported friction between Postmaster General Farley and J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation. Hoover has let it be known that he, personally, 15 desirous of avoiding inter-agency friction, and has no aggressive designs on any other unit of government, but wishes he might be left free to continue to de- velop his own bureau and its work as= signed without disturbance, Consolidation Favored on “Hill.” At the same time leaders in Con- gress say it is proper, even impera- however, Lillian Miller was just that |"Ve. and almost inevitable that the Chicago, now of here Miss Smith, a wood cut enthusiast of a kind, noticed the name of Miss Miller on a number of things dis- played in the Museum. “That's funny,” she thought, “the Lillian Millers of the worid seem to go in for woodcut making. I used to know one at the University of Chi- cago who did the same thing. She even gave me one of them one day while we were walking across the campus.” After this bit of celebration, Miss Smith was led to investigate. She found that it was the same Lillian Miller, whose old woodcut now hangs 50 prominently in the Smith manse. * % % % NICE. Story comes to us of a girl who spent a lot of luncheon hours re- cently in the office of a man for whom she wanted to work. She never found him in, dut she waited with a great sense of her remark- able persistence. When finally she did catch him in, it occurred to her that he might admire that quality in her, 30 she told him about it. 's a nice place to wait, im't it?” he observed, quite impressed with the office. * ok o* % REQUEST. BBING chairman of the House La- bor Committee has little rami- fications that. Mrs. Mary Norton hadn't realized when she took the job. She ran into one the other day, however, which taught her that almost anything can happen in the life of a Labor Committee chairman. It took the form of a request from a farmer that she get busy and find a wife for him. The farmer said he'd appreciate it if Mrs. Norton would pick out one with a strong back and a willingness to take her turn as a fleld hand be- tween the cooking. baking and other things which happen around a farm house. * K X % SYSTEM. George J. Fink, taxi driver, finds the radio a great help in keeping straight on one-way streets. Fink turns hig radio in his cab on periodically to get the correct time. This enables him to watch the hours closely when streets be- come one-way during certain times and keeps him from getting the un-~ desirable “ticket” for violating the regulations. He finds the radio more dependable than ordinary timepieces, which might become jolted in Washington's tangled traffic situation. Thus, he says, he has an eye and ear check on the correct time. * K SHINER. ISS MARY C. SHERIER, who takes pride in thinking up new and different things to do, enlisted a male companion as accomplice in one of her pranks the other evening, and she was completely satisfled with the results. | Federal law enforcement activities and agencies should be consolidated The recommendation for transfer ring the White House police force and, in general, the protection of the President and his family from the Treasury to the Justice Department is also causing intra-cabinet contention, While the Brookings Institution, after a 70,000-word discussion of the subject made nine definite recom- mendations, it at the same time re- frained from recommending six other proposals which it had carefully con= sidered. These included the central ization of all Federal law enforcement work in the F. B. L; transfer of the Enforcement Division of the Aleohnl Tax Unit to the F. B. I.; transfer of the customs patrol and the immigrae tion border patrol to the Coast Guard; distribution of the functions, equip- ment, and personnel of the Coast Guard among various other executive agencies which make use of floating equipment: and transfer of the immi- gration border patrol to the Customs Service, or the Customs Patrol to the Immigration and Naturalization Serv- {oe. F. B. L. Expansion Rapid Since "24. While the Bureau of Investigation has existed since 1871, one year after the creation of the Department of Justice, its expansion has been most rapid since 1924. Since then, prac tically all the technical and eo-opera- tive features of the F. B. 1. work have been developed such as elaboration of the identification files, the technical laboratory, the single fingerprint files, the modus-operandi file, the stolen property file, the F. B. I. National Po- lice Academy and the compilation and publication of crime statistics. The United States Secret Service i 10 years older—it was organized and the first chief appointed in 1865, at first supervised by the wolicitor of the Treasury Department, then by an assistant secretary, but since 1833 it has been reporting directly to the Secretary of the Treasury. In pursuance of the duty to protect the person of the President and his immediate family, members of the secret service supervise itineraries, arrange with local officers for the President’s safety outside of Washing- ton, accompany him on trips, investi- gate crank letters, etc. By act of September 14, 1922, the White House police force was established, and an act of May 14, 1930, placed this police force under control and direct auper- vision of the chief of the secret service. Would Divide Duties. The Brookings report emphasizes that the protection of the President and the maintenance of the White House police are unrelated, not only to Treasury administration but also to the other duties of the secret serv- ice. Investigations performed by the . secret, service for establishments out- side the Treasury, such as the Federa! , Deposit Insurance Corp., could. be performed as well, perhaps better, by the Bureau of Investigation. These various activities take sbout 75 per cent of the time of the secret service personnel. It would seem logical, it is said, that a division be made of the activities of the secret service and that those activities which relates to counterfeiting, forgery, protection of the President and Government agencies outside of the Treasury be transferred, Wwith & proportionate number of secret service personnel, to the F. B. 1. The Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion has a personnel of 1569 and * annual ‘expenditures of $§5,097,057. Being in possession of a grease-paint | The secret, service has a personnel of stick (black), she daubed one of her own and one of the associate’s eyes deftly, produced a pair of perfect simulated “shiners.” joined the remainder of the group from which they had contrived to stray. They said little to each other, and such syllables as did pass were particularly caustic. The effect was marvelous, according to Miss Sherier’s confederate. Others in the party viewed the darkened optics with amazement, made furtive inquiries of the principals, speculated among 382 and expenditures of $955845, while the postal inspection service - has a personnel of 590 and expendi- The pair re-| tures of $3,009.971. ‘The Brookings report contemplates - transferring to the F. B. I. about 25 per cent of the work of the post office inspectors which covers general - law enforcement. 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