Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight, followed by showers to- morrow; not much change in tempera- ture; gentle northeast winds, becoming southerly tomorrow. Temperatures today —Highest, 87, at 2 p.m.; lowest, 75, at 8 am. Full report on page A-10. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 16 85th YEAR. No. 340 "~ RUSSIAN AVIATORS RACE OVER CANADA IN FLIGHT 70 . §. Expected to Be at San Francisco by 3 AM. Tomorrow. BRITISH COLUMBIA IS REACHED BY TRIO 4,000 Miles of Hop Completed. Plane Reported Averaging 120 M.P.H. BACKGROUND— Three Soviet aviators last month fiew from Moscow to Vancouver, Wash., in 63 hours and 17 minutes This was the first of @ contemplated series of trips looking to establish- ment of commercial airline between nations in near future. B the Associated Press, SAN FRANCISCO. July 13 —Safely through a North Pole snowstorm, three Russian_flyers roared over Northern British Columbia today en route from Moscow to San Francisco Their big plane had covered approx- imately 4.000 miles of the 6.000-mile Journey. and Army officers calculated the aviators might arrive here at 3 am. tomorrow (Eastern standard time), Reach British Columbia. The flvers gave their position at 11:35 am. (E. S. T.) as latitude 58 degrees 30 minutes and longitude 120. Army officers said this indicated the plane had reached Northern British Columbia between Fort Nelson and Hudsons Hope. Fort Nelson is in the northeast corner of British Columbia. Hudsons Hope. in the Peace River area to the southward, is near the Alberta border and about 700 miles from the United States. This would place it approximately 1,600 miles north of San Francisco. Hurdling over a cyclone and fight- ing through a snowstorm, the mono- plane crossed safely over the North Pole last night. and early today flew over Great Bear Lake. A radio message at 7:21 a.m., East- ern standard time, breaking througn | tional triumph in the British open | static which shut out United States Army Signal Corps stations listening in the United States and Alaska, re- ported “ev flew over McKenzie Territory about 1.400 miles south of the Pole. The message was intercepted by the Cana- dian Signal Corps. Army officers estimated the plane’s speed at approximately 120 miles an hour, Pass Through Snowstorms, Soaring through snowstorms and a | crclone area where rrific winds | buffeted the plane, the fiyers crossed | the North Pole at 4:14 pm. (7:15 pm.. | E. S. T, vesterdav), less than 24 hours after leaving Moscow. The plane took off from Tschelkovo Field, 35 miles from Moscow, at 8:22 p.m, E. 8. T, Sunday i The airmen—Pilot Mikhail Gromoft, | Co-pilot Andrei Yumosheff and Na\‘l-f gator Sergei Danilin—have fixed San | Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. 41. Architect Ordered to Revise . Plans for Jefferson Memorial HE Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission today voted to instruct the architect, John Russell Pope, to prepare modified plans for the au- thorized Jefferson Memorial so that the memorial will not interfere With the present outline of the Tidal Basin and the famous cherry trees which border it. Otherwise, the revised plans are to provide for the location of the me- morial in the same general area on the south axis from the White House to fill in the fifth cardinal point on the L'Enfant plan as developed by the Mc- Millan Commission. The change was ordered as a result of the Nation-wide protest against the contemplated changing of the contour of the Tidal Basin and replanting a number of the qherry trees. Under Pope’s original plan the Tidal®- Basin would have been redesigned | and approximately 2,000 cherry trees | would have been moved or destroyed. | vored the plan for a formal memorial to Thomas Jeffeson and asked Con- Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets would have been projected southward and the informal shoreline of the Basin would have been replaced with a series of straight lines. Beauty lovers all over the country protested against the destruction of the cherry trces and Representative | Boylan, Democrat, of New York, | chairman of the commission, went to | the White House to secure the back- ing of President Roosevelt. Without commenting on the pro- posed redesign of the Tidal Basin, President Roosevelt announced he fa- | gress to appregriate $500.000 at this | session of Coigress to start work on | the $3,000,000 femorial. Representativg Otha Wearin of Iowa | denounced Pope \ plans and introduced | a bill to amend the act creating the | Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commis- | slon with a view to holding up con- | struction of the memorial until a Nation-wide competition for a design was held. Representative Kent Keller of Illi- nois, chairman of the House Library Committee, backed a bill which would | prohibit construction of the memorial | in the Tidal Basin area. COTTON DEFEATS |Briton Wins, 6 and 5, in 72- | Hole Match for ‘World Championship.’ = the Assoclated Press. | WALTON HEATH., England, July 13 | —Henry Cotton, British open golf champion, today defeated Denny | Shute, United States P. G. A. title- i holder, 6 and 5. in their 72-hole match | for a purse of $2,500 and “the un- | official world championship.” After making the last turn with a | four-hole advantage, Cotton went | dormie 6 by sinking 15-foot putts | for birdies on the | sixth holes. They halved the last | hole with par 4s. | The victory. following his sensa- last week, gave Cotton $2,000 of the purse. The other $500 went to Shute, who never was in front after the half- i | t hol thing O. K. as the plane | way mark. They entered the final 36 | .c7eSt In foreign holding companies holes today with Cotton leading by two holes. 10.000 in Gallery. A crowd of 10,000 followed Shute and Cotton as they went out for the final 18 holes. Shute, conspicuous in a canary sweater, dropped a five-footer | for a birdie at the fifty-fifth hole, but Cotton, who over-drove the green, chipped back and sank a three-footer for a half, maintaining his lead of 5 up. They halved the fifty-sixth with boge; both taking 3 to get in from the edze of the green. On the 325- vard fifty-seventh Shute drove the green with a mighty wallop to get a birdie 3, but again Cotton tied him, chipping 4 feet of the pin and drop- ping his putt to stay 5-up. - SHUTE FOR“TITLE sixty-fifth and sixty- | Francisco as the goal, but may land | Shute rallied briskly and cut Cot- | at some other Pacific Coast city, de- | ton's lead to three holes after the six- pending on weather conditions and tieth. He won the fifty-ninth when fuel consumption aboard the plane, | Cotton needed 3 from the edge of the IAMES RODSEVELT DENESAVDIDANCE Used No Foreign Hoiding Company to Cut Taxes, He Says on Stand. BACKGROUND— Disappointing income tar returns ; last March led Treasury Depart- ment to make quick investigatiom. | Widespread use of certain avoid- ance devices were uncovered and | evidence laid before special Con- | gressional committee in open ses- | | sion. Common characteristic of | most such devices was that they | were being applied on advice of | tar lawyers, many of whom once had served in Government. BY JOHN C. HENRY. James Roosevelt. son of the Presi- dent, today denied any avoidance of Federal income tax obligations through | | | Stepping forward as the Special Congressional Tax Evasion Commit- tee was called to order, the tall and | athletic eldest son of the President |asked and was granted permission to | refute the charge implied last week | by Representative Hamilton Pish, Re- | publican, of New York. Fish had claimed that a man named Darbey of New York City had offered to sell him photostatic evidence of Roosevelt's ownership of a personal holding com- | pany in Nassau, aBhamas. After hearing Roosevelt. the com- | mittee received from O. John Rogge, spokesman of the Treasury Depart- ment, testimony concerning further tax avoidances through the holding company device. Hearst Heads List. Named in today’s session as effect- ing tax reductions in this manner were the following | which has a single wing 154 feet from | green and the sixtieth when he clouted | tip to tip and is powered by one mo- | tor developing more than 1,000 horse- | power. Plane Kept High. More than 8.800 feet in the air to escape snow and a cvclone area, the plane soared over the polar region and out across the bleak ice cap for the Northern Canadian shores, 1,500 miles southward The fivers planned to follow a course along the 120th meridian, which would bring them across the central portion of the District of Mackenzie, along the eastern borje! of British Columbia, over Cfntral Washington and Oregon and {into California. Before leaving Moscow, Pilot Grin- off said the flight'’s purpose was ‘o “‘confirm again the possibility of regu- lar communications intercontinental- 1y by way of the pole,” and to attempt breaking the non-stop distance record | of 5,637 miles now held by the French- | men Maurice Rossi and Paul Codas. It is approximately 6.000 miles by air line via the North Pole from Moscow to San Francisco, Reached Pole in Day. Pilot Gromoff's plane reached the pole in 8 minutes under 24 Mours, compared to the 28 hours required on the transpolar flight last month. Officials of the National Aeronauti- cal Association estimated the earliest possible arrival time at 4 am. tomor- row, which would make a flight of approximately 60 hours Weather Bureau officials here said the flyers probably would have clear weather across Washington and Oregon. AMBASSADOR THEATER LOSES $900 FROM SAFE Expert safe crackers who have taken some $3,000 in a series of recent rob- beries were blamed by detectives to- day for a $900 haul at the Ambassador ‘Theater last night. The gang always “punches” open safes, never using explosives, and is too adroit to leave fingerprints, offi- cers said. The cracksmen pried open a front door of the theater and made their way to the office of Robert Etris, man- ager, where the safe is located. They knocked off the combination and toak the night's receipts, police reported. The same elusive thieves are cred- ited with robbing at least five other safes. TUses Head to Escape. TIVERTON, R. I, July 13 (#)— ‘When Edward Correia, 20, was pinned beneath a tumbling pile of, logs in the basement of the Best Lumber Co., he used his head. Reaching painfully into a pocket; he extracted a match, lighted it and held the flame to a plug in a fire alarm sprinkler system just a mashie shot 5 feet from the cup and sank the putt. Unable to Watch Ball. Neither player was able to see where the ball was falling in the afternoon round. The crowd broke for the green as soon as the ball was in the air. 12-foot putt for a birdie 4 on the sixty-first saved Cotton from losing his third straight hole, as Shute’s putt from 100 feet out stopped on the lip of the cup. They halved the sixty-second with orthodox 4s, but Cotton ran in a 45- oot putt for a birdie on the sixty- third to go 4 up at the last turn, e ) RUSSIA CONDEMNS EIGHT FOR TREASON Bydy Mdivani Among Group Sen- tenced for Acts in Tiflis and Georgia. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, July 13.—Bydy Mdivani, former Soviet commercial attache at Paris, and seven others were sentenced to death for treason, terrorism and conspiracy in Tiflis and Georgia on July 9. said a communique in the Tiflis newspaper arriving here today. (Mdivani was identified by Soviet officials last January as a relative of the marrying Georgian princes. David Mdivani said in New York at that time that he never had heard of Bydy Mdivani.) “All pleaded guilty of treason as expressed through espionage on be- half of Fascist circles in one of the foreign « countries,” the newspaper communique read, “and to simultane- ous wrecking action in the national economy of Georgia. “The court sentenced all the ene- mies of the people as traitors to the highest measure of social defense, to be shot.” Roll Call Forced In House on Job Paying Only $1,200 BY the Assoclated Press. Economy - demanding House members forced a 40-minute roll call today on a $1,200-a-year janitorship. Chairman Warren of the Ac- counts Committee asked the jani- torship for the House Education Committee. Asserting the job was “un- needed” and that its proposal was in conflict with President Roose- velt's “economy program,” Repre- sentative Snell of New York, Re- publican leader, forced a yea-and- nay vote. The janitorship was everhead. Firemen and police re- sponded and extricated him, A voted 234 to 113, \ | ing firm; Frederick H. Prince, Boston | Spark Plug Co.; Charles Hayden, de- | William Randolph Hearst, pub- lisher; Albert D. Lasker, president of Lord & Thomas, Chicago advertis- socialite and chairman of the board of Armour & Co.: C. F. Kettering, vice preSident of General Motors | Corp.; Horace Havemever of New York, vice president of the Scranton & Lehigh Coal Co.: Robert A. and Frank D. Stranahan of Cleveland, principal owners of the Champion ceased, one-time partner in Havden, Stone & Co. of New York: William 8. Paley. president of Columbia Broad- casting System, Inc.; Jacob Ruppert, New York brewer and owner of the New York Yankee base ball club; | Edward A. Cudahy, jr. president of | the Cudahy Packing Co.; Mahlon D. Thatcher, Pueblo, Colo., banker sndi officer of the Great Western Sugar Co. Specifically, today's cited tax re- | ductions were accomplished by the use | " (See AVOIDANCE, Page A-6) Summary of Amusements B-16 | Radio ... Comics __B-14-15 | Short Story . Editorials ___ A-8| Society __ _B-3 Finance ____A-15| Sports A-11-12-13 Lost & Found B-m\ Woman's Pg. A-14 Obituary ___ A-10 FOREIGN. Soviet trio racing over.Canada on way to U. 8. Page A-1 Japanese open concerted drive to con- quer Peiping. Page A-1 200 planes in flerce fight on Madrid front. Page A-2 Cotton beats Shute, 6 and 5, for “world championship.” Page A-1 NATIONAL. James Roosevelt denies income tax re- duction charge. Page A-1 Senator Bailey renews attack on court bill compromise. Page A-1 Lexington air fleet ready for Earhart search. Page A-1 Hull and New Zealand official study trade pact. Page A-2 Helen Wills Moody, in Reno, may seek divorce. Page A-5 Youngstown Sheet & Tube reopens North Indiana mills. Page A-2 Helen Wills Moody may seek Reno divorce. Page A-§ Source of “Mysterious John” Mon- tague's income. Page A-2 Roosevelt urges action on farm pro- gram. Page B-2 Lewis announces drive for city, county and State employes. Page A-5 Institute told public must share re- sponsibility for security. Page A-2 “Bonding racket” jury selection con- tinues. Page B-1 SENATE WARNED OF SEIZING PONER BY COURT CHANGE Only People Are Sovereign in U. S., Bailey Says in Renewing Debate. SUBMISSION TO PUBLIC HELD DEMOCRATIC WAY “We Are Dealing With Only Mans of Justice to Numerous | People,” He Declares. BACKGROUND— The most momentous debate since the fight over the League of Na- tions is now under way in the Sen- ate, with opponents of the Presi- dent's Supreme Court bill deter- mined to defeat it regardless of po- litical consequences. The debate is on amended measure, authorizing appointment of one new justice a year for each member of court over 75. Original bill, permitting ap- pointment of additional justices immediately for all members over 70, was dropped after Senate Ju- diciary Committee reported it ad- versely by 10-to-8 vote. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Hoarse of voice due to his speech in the Senate yesterday, Senator Bailey of North Carolina today re- newed his attack in the Senate on the L IETTT Ty The only evening paper in Washington witg the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 136,824 (Bome returns not. vet received.) (#) Means Associated Pre TWO CENTS. —_—y TAXI UNION OPENS STRIKE CAMPAIGN IN BOND PROTEST 450 Night Drivers Reported Out—Support of Day Hackers Sought. AIM TO TIE UP ENTIRE CITY, SAYS SECRETARY SAVING THE COURT FROM POLITICS. LEXINGTON FLEET compromise court bill. If further powers are needed by Congress and the President, he told the Senate, they should be obtained through a constitutional amendment and from the sole souce of power, the American people. “The Supreme Court told the Presi- dent that he could not turn Humphrey | out of office as Federal Trade Com- missioner, by a unanimous opinion,” said Bailey. “The court said he had not the constitutional right. Poor | Humphrey died before he had been vindicated “The court said the N. R. A. and the A. A. A. were unconstitutional. It said that we had not the power to pass such laws and we all understand that now. We undertook to give away pow- | er to persons who had not even been elected to office. “Too Much Power" Feared. “The purpose of this bill is to create | court which will give us powers | a | which the Supreme Court has said we | did not have. “Senators, you may take this power | if you wish, but if you want more power don't get it by legislation. If You want more power there is only one source of power in the Nation. We are | not sovereign: the President & not a | sovereign. The people is the only source of power in this country. Go| | out to them, tell them what you want, If the people of America are willing | to vote for the centralization of power | and of government in Washington, let them take the consequences.” Senator Bailey referred to an ad- dress delivered by President Roosevelt | last March in which the President said to complete his program it was | impossible to delay one moment. He said further in that speech that “the court has cast dought on the | right of Congress to protect us.” Senator Bailey insisted that because | " (See JUDICIARY, Page A-3) %5 14 RAIL UNIONS GET 2-CENT RAISE OFFER To Confer Tomorrow With Road Committee on 20-Cent Demand. | By the Associated Press, The Railroad Management Commit- tee on Wage Negotiations said today it had offered a 2-cent-an-hour pay in- crease to 14 non-operating unions. The union demand is a 20-cent-an- hour raise. The management committee held a preliminary meeting today preparing for a conference tomorrow with union representatives. Today’s Star WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Cab strike plans, protesting bond, progress slowly. Page A-1 Four D. C. residents imperiled in Ches- apeake Bay storm. Page A-3 Mrs. Doyle assails Hazen plan for School Board. Page B-1 Mrs. King named to Public Welfare Board. Page B-1 Board to be urged to withdraw stand on Military road. Page B-4 SPORTS. Yankees rate with greatest of all ball clubs. Page A-11 Almada seen as vital cog in rebuilding Nats. Page A-11 Henry Armstrong, coming champ, gives boxing big lift. Page A-12 Slow pulse factor in Steele’s ring success. Page A-12 One-armed golfers shine, despite great handicap. Page A-13 EDITORIALS AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page This and That. Page Political Mill. Page Stars, Men and Atoms. Page Answers to Questions. Page David Lawrence. Page H. R. Baukhage, Page Mark Sullivan, Page Jay PFranklin. Page Delia Pynchon. Page MISCELLANY. Service Orders. Shipping News. Vital Statistics. City News in Brief. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Nature's Children. Cross-word Puzzle, 2 2 2 a3 3 Page Page Page Page A-7 Page A-14 Page A-14 Page B-14 Page B-14 -7 -7 -7 > Hatch, in Radio Forum, urges passage of eourt substitute, Page B-§S L} td Bedtime Stories. Letter-out. Page B-15 Page B-15 'Planes to Comb 36,000 | READY FOR SEARCH Square Miles for Earhart if Weather Permits. Thermometer Rising Again; Thundershowers Only Hope' {Heat Casualties in Washington sweltered again today | BACKGROUND— Amelia Earhart and Navigator Fred Noonan disappeared 11 days ago while nearing Howland Island after a 2.500-mile flight from Lae. New Guinea. near the end of the aviatriz’s globe-girdling attempt at the Equator. Continuous scarch by Coast Guard cutter Itasca and planes from battleship Colorado failed to provide clue as to whereabouts of intrepid airwoman and her aide. By the Associated Pr HONOLULU, July 13 —The great- est war air force ever assembled for & | peace-time mission—83 planes—was poised today ready to skim along the mid-Pacific Equator in the Navy's last search for Amelia Earhart, missing i1 | days. | If weather conditions are favorable the planes will zoom from the air- craft carrier Lexington to survey an area of 36.000 square miles centering about bleak Howland Island. It was Howland Island, a dot of land rising but 2 feet above the water, that the aviatrix and her navigator, Fred- erick J. Noonan, aimed for when they | took off from Lae, New Guinea—a flight of 2,570 miles. Their last l’fldlh; message, on July 2, said they were within 100 miles of their goal, that they couldn't see land and that their fuel supply was almost exhausted. Officials sald the giant carrier, ex- | pected to reach the search area by | dawn, was hampered last night by a | tropical storm, which might delay the aerial search. An area 60 miles wide and 600 miles | long extending north and south from | Howland was mapped for the first day’s survey in the hitherto fruitless search. While the Lexington neared How- land after a journey from San Diego, the Coast Guard cutter Itasca, pio- neer in the vast hunt, headed toward | the Gilbert Islands, 600 miles west of Howland. The cutter is expected to reach Arorai Island, which is populated, late tomorrow or Wednesday. Parley on Crisis In East Hinted In Britain’s Note Bs the Associated Press. Secretary Hull said today he had received a communication from the British government, which was be- lieved to contain a suggestion of the desirability of international consulta- tion concerning the Far Eastern situa- tion. He declined, however, to disclose the nature or text of the note or what reply was made by the United States. The Secretary said the communica- tion was recetved after ke had talked yesterday with the Japanese Ambas- sador and the counselor of the Chinese Embassy. He added that he believed action already taken here made any further moves unnecessary. The State Department announced late yesterday that Secretary Hull had told the Japanese and Chinese envoys that “an armed conflict between Japan and China would be a great blow to the cause of peace and world progress.” Hull emphasized in replies to ques- tions concerning the possibility of in- ternational consultation that the for- eign policy of the United States called for separate and independent action concerning the chief phases of inter- national questions. Anthony Eden, British foreign min- ister, hinted yesterday that Great Brit- sin might make overtures to the United States and other nine-power treaty nations concerning the desir- ability of consultations on the Sino- Japanese situation. Although Hull declined a direct an- swer to the question, it was assumed— and not denied—that the communica- tion from the British government to which he referred dealt with the pres- ent conflict between the two Oriental nations. | expected tonight and tomorrow. | southwest. under a relentless Midsummer sun i that drove the thermometer upward toward vesterday’'s high of 91 degrees The Weather Bureau forecast no change in temperature for tomorrow and the only possible source of reliaf was from intermittent thundershowers From a low of 75 at 5 am.. the mer- | cury climbed to 87 at 1 p.m. The high- est vesterday was registered at 4:15 p.m. The list of casualties here from the heat wave increased today with re- ports of another death and several prostratons. Frank Douglas, 1248 New Jersey ave- | nue, died in Emergency Hospital last night a few hours after he collapsed at Twenty-sixth and Water streets Coroner A. Magruder Mac- | Donald said his death was due to the heat. D. C. Increase as Weather Bureau Sees Little Relief in Sight. Temperatures: | 7 am.. Midnight __ 73| 8 am. T anm. .. 9! 9am. 2am. 7810 am.. 3am 4am 5 am Two persons were admitted to hos- pitals for treatment on account of the heat. They were Howard Truitt. 66, of 3030 Hanover street, Baltimore, Md., taken to Gallinger Hospital from seventh precinct early today after he had complained of being ill, and Helen Kukure. Cleveland, Ohio, who was taken to Emergency. Hospital attaches said Truitt was suffering from heat exhaustion. He (See WEATHER, Page A-4) JAPANESE OPEN DRIVE ON PEIPING 1,300 Troops Push to An- cient City’s Walls, Set Up Lines. BACKGROUND— Fighting between Chinese regu- lars and Japan's North China gar- rison broke out in Peiping Wednes- day. Japan has maintained heavy gar- risons of troops in the wvicinity since 1901, when protocol signed after Boxer uprising gave her and other major powers right to keep open an cutlet from Peiping to sea. B¢ the Assoctated Press. TIENTSIN, China, July 13.—Thir- | teen hundred Japanese troops from the East Hopei and Fengtai railway junction garrisons began today a con- | certed and direct attack on China's ancient and walled city of Peiping. Without awaiting arrival of further | Manchukuoan reinforcements the Japanese directed their attack against the city from the east and the south. ‘The troops drove to the very shadow of the ancient capital's walls in motor | trucks and under the protection of armored cars and Japanese infantry- men, supported by light field pieces. They threw themselves against the | Chinese defenders of the four eastern | and southern gates, but the Chinese defenders, semi-official Chinese re- ports said, withstood the assault. Blockade City Sides. The Japanese attackers were forced to content themselves with establish- ing a virtual blockade of two sides of Peiping. The Japanese also succeeded in cut- ting communication and supply lines between Peiping and Nanyuan Bar- racks, immediately to the south. The two Chinese brigades stationed there were cut off from other units of the Chinese 29th Route Army, except by & southern and roundabout route. Chinese troops succeeded in remov- ing sections of railway track skirting the southern and eastern walls of Peiping to prevent the approach of Japanese armored trains. New troop arrivals from Shanhai- kuan today brought to 3,500 the total of Japanese reinforcements poured into Tientsin from Manchoukuo since the Chinese-Japanese crisis developed in North China. Five trainloads of equipment and supplies, accompanying the reinforce- ments, indicated the Japanese antici- pated a long stay in Hopei Province. Denies Seeking Conciliation. At the same time, a spokesman for Gen. Sun Cheh-yuan, commander of the 29th army and ranking Chinese authority in North China, declared he had no intention of attempting to reach terms with Lieut. Gen. Kiyoshi Katsuki, the new commander of Jap- anese forces on the mainland. Gen. 8ung, chairman of the Hopei- | until 2 a.m. Sunday. HOUSE UNT VOTES DRINK SALE BILL Measure Permits Strong Concoctions to Be Offered at Lunch Counters. A bill permitting the sale of high- powered alcoholic drinks over lunch counters along with beer and light wines was approved today by a special subcommittee of the House District Committee after reviewing a series of six measures designed to liberalize and | alter the liquor control act. The subcommittee also puts its O. K on bills to stop the flow of tax-free liquor into the District and to vest in the District Court, instead of the Com- | missioners, the power to review de- cisions of the Alcoholic Beverage Con- trol Board. Three bills were flatly turned down, however. The principal one would have permitted hotels, night clubs and restaurants to sell liquor by the drink The present law closes bars in these places Saturday midnight. The other bills rejected would have prevented the transfer of liquor licenses and licensed solicitors for liquor whole- salers and manufacturers. The bill permitting the sale of hard drinks over lunch counters was in- dorsed despite the vigorous objection of Burt Lopatin, president of the Class C and D Liquor Dealers’ Association. who said the 250 members of that or- ganization are “thoroughly satisfied” with the existing law. Charles E. Sands, representing the Bartenders' Union. however, told the subcommittee the bill was drawn for the “horny-handed son of toil who comes into a lunchroom in overalls and sits down at a lunch counter for a highball.” “It's not for those who can go into hotel tap rooms and get swanky serv- ice,” he declared. A lunch counter sale of hard drinks also was opposed by George W. Offutt, chairman of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, and F. Joseph Dono- hue, attorney for Class C and D Liquor Dealers’ Associations. Donohue said the majority of these dealers felt en- actment of the bill might eventually lead to the “open bar.” The bill to prevent the shipment of tax-free liquor into the District for personal consumption, sponsored by Representative Shafer, Republican, of Michigan, is intended primarily to prevent New York firms from solicit- ing business in the District and under- selling licensed local dealers. He esti- mated that more than $1,000,000 worth of tax-free liquor is sold annually in the District by the New York firms. Offutt also objected to Shafer’s bill on the ground it would be difficult to enforce. . “We can't go back to prohibition days,” he said, “and stop and search all cars coming into the District.” Statistics were cited by Offutt to show the District is losing but little Chahar Council, arrived in Tientsin (See CHINESE, Page A-4.) revenue fro mthe liquor shipped here for personal eonsumption. Walkout Comes on House Failure to Couple Cab Limitation With Insurance. BACKGROUND— For two years many taricab op= erators have sought increased rates, fewer cabs on the streets. The Public Utilities Commission granted a rate increase in 1935, but the number of cabs has no limit. House District Committee last month agreed to cab-limit bll, but House bitterness at the Uitlities Commise sion led to voting the bill doun. With 450 night-shift cab driverg reported on strike, Morris Hollod, secretary of the Industrial Brotnere hood of Taxicab Drivers, a C. 1. O, unit, today launched a campaign te | persuade day drivers to join in the protest against passage of the compule sory liability surance bill by the | House yesterday. | “We want to tie up the whole city” Hollod declared at a noon meeting of 75 striking drivers at the Typographie cal Temple, 425 G street. “We want every cab on strike. The job of seeing that this is done is your job.” The night drivers met at 3 a.m. | Action of the House in Killing leg= islation which would force reduction of the number of taxicabs in Washe ington and thereby pave the way for higher rates with which to defray the cost of compulsory insurance angered | the cab drivers and brought on the | strike, Hollod said. Method of Reduction. The method of reducing the numbep of cabs as desired by the brotherhood would be through refusal to issue ree placements of hacking licenses for the first 1,500 drivers who turned in their | licenses and quit the business. Thers |are about 4,000 cab operators in Washington. Hollod said the brotherhood was unwilling at first this morning to call | a atrike, but the stand of the drivers led the officers of the brotherhood ta agree “When we saw that the men were out to strike we told them that the Industrial Brotherhood was with them to the end,” Hollod told the meeting in the temple. The brotherhood claims 850 members Hollod said he had received reports that the big taxicab associations are | threatening expulsion of drivers who | Join the strike movement. | “We will have to resist such action,® | Hollod said. “I don't think we have | bitten off more than we can chew.,” Insurance Bill Up to Senate. Because the insurance bill has yet to pass the Senate, Erwin Dollar, presie dent of the brotherhood, expects to give some thought during the next few days to the appointment of a drivers® committee to meet with members of the Senate District Committee to exe plain why the hackers want either both bills or no bill “Buses and railroad trains are not | compelled to carry liability insurance,* Dollar said, “so why should we unless We are going to be able to get some extra money to help pay the cost of the insurance?" | At the close of his 60-minute ex- hortation, Hollod asked the drivers ;pre.wm to go out and induce hackers | still operating to join the strike. The brotherhood has set this midnight as | the time for another meeting in the Typographical Temple to co-ordinate | the activities of day and night strike | ing drivers Recruits Sought. In connection with the meetings Cruising strike supporters have gone over the city since morning seeking to gain recruits It was reliably stated, however, that the strikers are for the time | being, at least, limited to independ- ent non-association drivers, who will | find it difficult if not impossible to Put up the large bond required by the liability bill, which must be ape proved by the Senate before it bee comes law, Bond Would Reduce Cabs. The problem of the bond, it was pointed out, would in the long run | do indirectly what a taxicab-limita= tion bill would have done directly—cut down the number of cabs on the street. Most associations are ex- pected to take care of the bonds of their members if the bill becomes & statute. The strike is the first serious labop trouble in Washington's transportation field since June, 1935, when all cabs refused to carry passengers for one day at the height of the Shrine cone vention. The taxi insurance bill passed with (See TAXIS, Page A-5.) OLIVER OWEN KUHN IN SERIOUS CONDITION Managing Editor of The Star Emergency Hospital Patient, I11 Several Weeks. Oliver Owen Kuhn, managing editor of The Star was in a serious condition at Emergency Hospital today from complications following a recent fll« ness. In poor health for some time, Kuhn had been confined to his home for several weeks. He was taken to the hospital last Friday, when he took a sudden turn for the worse. Mrs. Emma C. Kuhn, his mother, and a sister, Mrs. William T. Rose, both of Indianapolis. Ind., arrived here yesterday and joined his wife, Mrs. Lenora M. R. Kuhn. / | |