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OUSTED EMPLOYE AGCUSES FORD C0. “Unsatisfactory Work” Only Excuse, He Tells N. L. R. B. Boss Admitted. Pr the Assoctaied Press. DETROIT, July 14.—A discharged Ford Motor Co. workman told & Na- tonal Labor Relations Board examiner | today that when he was dismissed last | May 25 his foreman admitted that a notation of “unsatisfactory work” was only an excuse for the action. i Flmer Mackie, one of 15 men in a ®ishion department who he said joined | the United Automnobile Workers’ Union | April 3, was the witness as Trial Ex- aminer John T. Lindsay heard evi- dence on the N. L. R. B. complaint eharging the Ford Co. with unfair labor practices Mackie said Rudolph Prokob, the foreman, took him to the superin- tendent’s office and wrote “work un- £atisfactory” on a slip i ed him if that was why T was | being fired.” Mackie testified. “and he | #a1d ‘No, that T knew what I was being | fired for. Forty Men Involved. The N. L. R B. complaint charged the rompany discharged or transferred | nearly 40 men for union activity Mackie told the examiner that dur- ing the General Motors and Chrysler &trikes by U, A. W. members in Detroit last Winter, service men who police Ford property “were everywhere" in | nis department at the Ford plant in Dearborn “Every time vou'd look behind you,” ha said, “there would be a service man Jnoking at you. Every time vou'd talk to your partner, you could almost #ee the service man's ears streich to- ward vou, trving to hear what you! were saving."” When he mentioned “a couple of ive on the line” and louis J. Co- lombo, sr, chief Ford counsel, asked him to identify them, Lindsay inter- rupted to say: “Those men are Ford’s, Mr. Colombo quire the witness still working at 30 I won't re- to reveal their | | lot. Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. MR. B. OR heat nor humidity nor the midafternoon droops can keep us from being interested in a mystery, however languidly. The latest has bounded up on the rear boundary of a D street parking Posted on the wall of a building is the sign, “Reserved for Mr, Balser.” We wondered who Mr. Balser might be, to merit this attention, and we asked. Attendant said he really didn't know. Thought it was a right rieh fellow, though, because in the last four days four different cars had been parked in the space. * ok k% NO/ #oT ouTor P QTwATeR P & . DISORDER. Another mystery, short and re- latively shallow, has just been ex- cised from the life of Miss Olive E. Johnson, who works for H. O. L. C. These many months friends have been telling Miss Johnson that every time they asked for her branch mumber a booming male voice answered and said “out of order.” The friends were momplussed, Miss Johnson did very little talking om the telephome. Them lght dawned, ar it always does in our muystery yarns. Miss Johnson noticed that a Mr. N. G. Outwater, who is in the same division with her, never says “hello” when he anmoers the phome. He Just says “Outwater,” kike that. * X * X STRATEGY. names.” Denies Colombo's Implications. On eross-examination Mackie made fiat denials of several questions put ta him by Colombo, among them “Dhdnt Prokob warn you that your work was unsatisfactory” and “after you jnined the U, A. W. didn't you develop an arrogant allitude and think you were no longer required to do & full day's work?” | The board turned to these charges | after completing yesterdav its inquiry | mto the injury of more than & dosen , members of tha United Automobile | Workers of America while they were trving o distribute leaflets outside the eompany’s River Rouge plant May 26. Ciarenes E. Fleming. an automobiie Lindsay that he was dismissed by the Pord Co. May 24 without apparent veason after hie daily wage had been increased from $6 o $7.50 during the | = monthe he worked at the factory in suburban Dearborn, RITES SET TODAY FOR COL. R. T. OLIVER| Gen. Pershing Heads List of Hon- orary Pallbearers for Fort Myer Servioes. Puneral services for Col. Robert | Yodd Oliver, 89, former head of the | Army Dental Corps, who died Sunday | in Walter Reed Hospital. are being held today in the Fort Myer ehapel Burial will be in Arlington National | Cemetery with full military honors. | Gen. John J. Pershing heads a list of honorary pallbearers. The others| are Maj. Gen. Merritte W. Ireland, re- | tired. former surgeon general of lhet Army: Maj. Gen. C. R. Revnolds, Army | surgeon general: Brig. Gen. Wallace De Witt. assistant surgeon general; | Cols. Rex H. Rhodes and William L. Keller, both retired; Cols. Prank P. Stone. Robert H. Mills and Henry C.| Gnburn. jr.. of the Dental Corps; Lieut. | Cols. John W. Scovel and Raymond W. | Pearson, Dental Corps: Lieut. Ool.| William F. Rice. Medical Corps: Majs Walter D. Vail and Edwin St. C Wrenn. Dental Corps; Dr. Willard | Camalier. Dr. Le Roy N. S. Miner, Dr. H. W. Gillette and Dr. Charles Ash. Col. Oliver had served with distinc- #ion in the Spanish-American and World Wars. In the latter he was head of the Dental Corps of the Amer- fean FExpeditionary Forces. He was| made a member of the French Legion | of Honor and awarded the Distin- | guished Service Medal. Col. Oliver was president of the American Dental Association in 1930-31, | He was head of the Dental Corps, With headquarters in Washington, from the time of his return from over- #eas until 1924, Later he was ordered 0 duty.as professor of military sei- ence and tactics at Fvans Institute, University of Pennsylvania. where he remained until retired in 1932, INDUSTRY LECTURE SERIES PUBLISHED 83 Broadcasts by Daniel Put in Book Form to Supply Demand. Bo great has become the demand for printed copies of the Saturday afternoon broadcasts by Harry R. Daniel of the Commerce Department on stories of American industries that the first 23 talks have been published in book form by the Federal Gov- ernment, it was announced today. The talks have brought thou- sands of letters from industrial and educational leaders, students and the general public, it was ex- plained by the Commerce De- partment in an- ! nouncing the publication of the series. They have Been republished in foreign countries. The lecture series, broadcast every Saturday afternoon on a coast-to- coast hook-up of the Columbia Broad- eaxting System, began January 16, 1937. They proved so popular that the series has been extended three times and will eontinue through te Awgust 14, meking 30 industries which heve been eovw n all. i Werry R. Daniel [YNDER a “No Smoking™” sign at filllng station out street. there & & handsome cigarette vending machine. It works, too, and the people who run the place say it | has done s0 much business, human psychology being what it is (and what 1s it, by the way?), that they have no intention of moving the contraption or the sign. * k¥ x BEETLEHOUNDS. on Allison | | the borders of Southeastern Germany. | THE EVENING CHINA IS PIGTURED ASREADY TO FIGHT Intends to Maintain Terri- torial Integrity, U. of V. Institute Told. Bs the Associated Press. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 14 —China is a young and united nation that has just begun to fight for a rightful place in the sun, Dr. Chih Meng, director of the China Insti- tute of America, told the Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia today. “China in 1937 is a rejuvenated China,” he sald. “She is confident of her destiny. She has charted her course. For herself the plan is to apply modern sclence and technol- ogy for the betterment of the life of all “With other nations she ,would ar- duously work for peaceful and friend- ly relations. But in order to preserve her territorial integrity she is com- pelied to arm herself for self-de- fense.” In an address aponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, Mrs. Vinto Earl 8isson, chair- man of the D. A. R. Committee pn National Defense Through Patriotic Education, outlined the society's “at- tempts to safeguard American ideals and institutions.” Miss Jane Hoey, director of the Bureau of Public Assistance of the Soclal Security Board, told the same audience that social change has had An enormous effect upon Government participation in the field of social welfare and upon the public attitude toward Government responsibility for Social welfare. Sir Herbert Brownames., former financial director of the lLeague of Central Europe. He asserted that the independence of the little states of Oentral Europe mav be preserved only if & “rearmed Britain and a united France are willing 10 take positive Action on the lines laid down by the covenant of the League of Nations and if they are adequately supported by other league member states.” Czechoslovakia was seen by Sir Her- | bert as the present danger point. | ‘Crechoslovakia has a treaty of mu- tual assistance with Russia.” he said. ‘By this avenue Russia might reach | This alliance is intensely distasteful o Germany and the Crechs are told to renounce it or take the conse- quences. Hence German propaganda denounces Czechoslovakia as ‘an out- | post of bolshevism." Yet in no atate | of Europe is there less communism.™ Dr. Chih Meng, whor ecently re- ()UR market scout was down at the | Farmers’ Market, in Southwest, near the wharves, the ather day when |a country lad came in with a basket- ful of beagle hound puppies. Put them on display amongst the carrots, strawberries, tomatoes and whichnot and explained. to every- body who came by that these were especially fine “beetiehounds,” which | is rural for beagle. Finally an elderly colored woman stopped to gaze At the pupe and picked up a couple of fat ones to look them over. “What is they?" she aaid “Beetlenounds.” said the bay. “How much?" “Dollar apiece, even for the biegest one in there.” she said, m cook ‘em?” L COMIC STRIP. It haring been a theory of onrs for years that the funny papers were not half so funny ax people hane been persuaded to believe, e were inferested to note the other day mass reaction to a typical comic strip incident. Bus boy in a lunch room was rushing by, his tray piled high with dishes. when he stepped into a small puddle of water, skidded, fell. Down came the dishes with a crash. Nobody laughed. Nobody smiled. Everybody jwet went on eating soup. “but dow does * * o % % PATIENT. IP THIS were not a tip straight from the feed box, or rather the milk bowl, we'd be inclined 1o doubt it. What we doubt usually gets thrown | out the window (unless it's also funny). Anyhow, we hear that a veterinarian | out in Hyattsville was treating s sick cat and had %0 keep it in the hos- pital for several days. One afiernoon the owner, a lady, of course, came | around to see how Fluff was getting | along. Vet said. “Wait a minute,” and dia- appeared into the back of the estab- lishment. When he returned he said, “I'm sorry, but she is asleep, and don’t think she should be disturbed.” But seriously. The Iady thought this over and then deparied. Her laat words were, “When Fluff wakes up just tell her I| oalled.” * k¥ ¥ B COMPLMENTs To REONOSE" | 2 AUTOGRAPH. (:HAP named Chang, who & an| American citisen but born of Chinese parents. eame here recently with one of the Hawaiian Scout troops and performed deeds which, we be- lieve, would have won him the Croix de Guerre in Hollywood. Pursued by autograph hounds, he always obliged smilingly and scribbled beside his name each time a tiny inscription in Chi- nese. The people with the autograph books were enchanted by this novel touch, sometimes thanked him (an autograph collector usually just says “g0000” when the victim signs). Now safely on his way back to Hawaii, Scout Chang wonders if any of his Washington pals will bother $o have the inscriptions translated. Usually they read something like this, “To popeyes” or “Regards to big nose,” and less frequently, “To a besutiful irl” J. P. Morgan to Sail. NEW YORK, July 14 (#).—Follow- ing his old custom of visiting the Scot- tish Highlands for the grouse season, J. P. Morgan, financier, plans to sail next week for the British Isles aboard his yacht Corsair, associates said yes- terday. Chasecal buses are inacessing B [ | | |.sion continued to exert | the Works turned to America from a trip during which he traveled more than 12,000 miles in China, said that “although in manv places one still seea the marks of an ancient civilization, China to- day gives the impression of a young nation in her enthusiasm for aviation, engineering. military training and | popular educaton.” Nations, spoke on danger points of | STAR, Mrs. John Jacob Astor, 3d, her son William out for a stroll This is the first photo of the tw at $70.000.000. ON LOBBY CHARGE Prejudice” for “*Mistaken Sense of Loyalty.” Dismissal of Jabez G. Gholsion, di- the inspection the Public Works Administration, for connection with the emergency relief appropriation act of rector of division of “lobbying in 1937" was announced yesterday by The speaker said Japanese aggres- | & tremendous | unwholesome influence from the ont- side. We are compelied to devote An abnormally Iarge portion of our man power and resources to the prep- aration for war." 'W. P. A. RELIEF CUT IS SHORT OF GOA Abont 1750000 Persons on List Despite Re- ductions. Br the Assaciated Press, The campaign to cut work relief rolla to 1,600,000 persons by tomorrow. informed Government officials said to- day, s 150,000 short, of the goal About 1,750,000 persons atill are on Progress Administration list, it was learned. Persons close to Administrator Harry L. Hopkins said exact figures would not be avallable for several days. They pointed out that the 1.600.000 figure WaS not 1o be considered a hard and fast. maximum. The general program. officials said, Still is for the greatest possible reduction | in the rolls during the Summer to | leave enough siack in the relief ap- propriation for additions expected during the Winter. One authority said the present cut may leave the list as low as 1,200,000. W. P. A. announced early in July that 124,645 had been taken off the rolls from June 12 to June 26, leaving & total then employed of 1,821,151, as compared with 2249357 on July 25, 1936. When the W. P. A. rolls reached their peak for the week ending February 20, 1936, 3,035,852 persons were employed. The present reduction campaign be- RAD last January in an effort to lower the cost of Federal relief. For the year that started on July 1, Congress voted an appropriation of$1,500,000.000. Administrator Ickes Gholston was suspended some time | ago. and Secretary Ickes has been in- vestigating a charge that his aide was lobbying | In a statement | ston had been ‘separated from the sevice without prejudice.” the ad- ministrator said the inspection direc- tor had admitted such activities in { his answer to the complaint on which he was suspended. The statement added: | “Mr. Gholston, without the knowl- edge of any of his superior officers and without authority from any | source. sent a form of telegram to members of the P. W. A siafl in the field. which thev in turn were to cause to be sent to members of Congress {over the signature of municipal au- thorities, contractors, archiects and others. in order to influence the a announcing Ghol- | tion of the members of Congress re- ceiving such telegrams upon pending legislation “The administrator pointed out to Mr. Gholston that this act on his | part violated the principles of good government to the embarrassment of the Public Works Administration.” Ickes said that in view of Ghol- ston’s past record and the adminis- trator's belief that the officer acted through “a mistaken sense of Alty” to the P. W. A. prejudice was | not placed against his record. and | he was given the benefit of his ac- crued annual leave. Peremptory action against any other employes carrying on similar Activities was promised by Ickes In | & recent general order | J. R. McGuiness, who was assistant | director of the inspection division, has | been made acting director, Saves Girl, Then Drowns. ‘WILMINGTON, Del., July 14 (#)— | Mrs. Bertha Raughley, 34, | bers from Nonsuch Creek yesterday | and then drowned in a futile attempt | | to save her 9-year-old daughter Jean- nette, Retired on Pension, Messenger Goes on 64th Harry Parker, colored messenger for the House Ways and Means Com- | mittee. with & record of 63 years’ serv- ice at the Oapitol, rejoiced today that he doesn't have to work any more, but went on working just the same. In an unusual demonstration paying tribute to his long and faithful service, the House yesterday passed unani- mously a special resolution retiring him with a pension for life. But Harry likes to “keep doing something” and feels that “it would shorten my days to lose contact with these fine gentiemen,” and so vowed | that “as long as these old feet will carry me around, I'll be on hand as usual, doing all the good I can.” Harry doesn’t remember how old he is, but thinks he was about 12 years old when he was found wander- ing about the Capitol and given a job shining shoes in the House barber shop. That was 63 years ago and would make him about 75. For the last 49 years he has worked for the ‘Ways and Means Committee, starting when President McKinley was chair- man. In all that time he has steered clear of politics. Asked to what political party he belonged or' favored, Marry sald, “I'm just a servant of the people, looking out for everybody.” “Whatever's best for the people, I'm for,” he continued. *“Some folks like coffee and some like iced tes and it isn't for me to say which is best.” Old Days Happler. But he thinks the “horse and buggy “The gentlemon werked hord but had Year of Service lots of fun in those davs.” he said. “They would serve fine dinners right here in the Capitol. And they would have awful fights on the floor of the House, but go down to the bar and | drink it off and be good friends again.” Harry was born at Mount Vernon, Va. His paternal grandfather was recalled. He was mighty proud of all the fine things said about him on the House floor vesterday. Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the Ways and Means Committee and Representative Allen T. Treadway of Massachusetts, rank- ing minority member of the commit- tee, were among those paying tribute to his loyal service. *“I've never heard s word of criticism against Harry,” Doughton said. Harry thinks highty of all the eom- mittee chairmen he was worked for. He has his own system for sizing them up, he revealed as he sat beaming ‘utside the committee room door. “I watched Mr. Doughton pretty closely when he first came up here,” Harry said. “Then one day when I was un- packing his suitcase I found his Bible and decided that anybody who carries his Bible with him all the time is all right.” Harry is deeply religious and has built his life around the simple creed of “going through the world doing all the goed I can.” He is married and has a son he hopes will keep up the family tradition of Go service. He Mves ot s Jew weeks old. The boy, only 2, is heir to a fortune estimated loy- | of Oak| | Grove, rescued 11-year-old Lillian Al- | George Washington's body servant, he ! WASHINGTON the former Ellen French, takes at Baileys Beach, Newport, R. I. vo together since the child was a REORGANIZING BILL IN SUBCOMMITTEE Second of Four Measures Studied by House Civil Service Group. RY WILL P. KENNEDY. ‘The second of the four administra- tion reorganization bills to be pre- sented to the House was being con- sidered in executive session today by the Civil Service Bubcommittee of the House Reorganization Committee, of which Representative Mead, Democrat, of New York, is chairman. Although this bill covers the proposed reorgani- ration of the Civil Service, Chairman Ramspeck of the House Civil Service Committee was not consulted when the bill was being drafted and he was not Invited to today's meeting. The general opinion among those best informed in the House is that the bill has little or no chance of | being passed. The first of the administration ri organization bills, giving the Presi- dent suthority to appoint aix addition- al “administrative assistants” to the White House secretariat at salaries of $10,000 each was to have been con- sidered in the House Monday. Due to the absence of Representative Taber of New York and the illness of Representative Gifford of Massachu- setts, the two Republican members of the Reorganization Committee, ac- tion was postponed. Provides New Organization. The bill Represeniative Mead s sponsoring, provides for & new or- ganization “to be known as the Civil Bervice Administration” under an “ad- ministrator” at a salary of $15.000 a | Year, 1o be appointed by the President from a list of the three highest ean- didates certified as a result of open competitive examination and to be confirmed by the Senate | The present Civil Service Commis- | sion snd all its offices would be abol- | ished The new “administrator” would be authorized to: -—Wide World Photo. 0UST . W.A.AIDE JACKSON DEFENDS | MRS. ROOSEVELT Official Dismissed “Without 'Did All Si1e Could to Assure ! Payment of Any Taxes Due, He Says. he Associated Prass Robert Jackson. Assistant Attorney General, told congressional tax investi- gators in a letter todav that Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt “did all that a conscientious taxpaver could do”’ to | assure payment of any taxes that might be due in connection with a broadcasting contract she signed in 1935 Representative Fish, Republican, of | New York had accused the Presidents | wife of using a tax law “loophole” when she signed a contract for 10 broadcasts, under which she was to receive §1, with $3.000 to go to the American Priends Service Committee of Philadelphia. & charitable organiza- tion, after each program. In the letter, made public by Cha man Doughton of the Congressional Tax Committee, Jackson, former chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Bu- reau. said Mrs. Roosevelt had submit- ted her broadcasting proposal to the Treasury in 1934 to learn whether the proceeds might go to the charity, free of tax. or whether the contract was in such form that she should pay tax. By “She was In the position of an art- ist or actor who aids chanty benefit performance,” he wrote “There is no tax on such a kind- ness, and whatever spiritual enrich- ment comes of good works is not es- timated as taxable income.” | Explaining thst he headed the In- ternal Revenue legal office in 1934, Jackson said the questions raised by Fish “make it a duty of one who has knowledge and some responsibility lord is made straight.” | Jackson said in appraising Mrs. | Roosevelt’s handling of the matter | that these considerations should be | kept before the committee: “1. Mrs. Roosevelt voluntarily dis- closed the full transaction to the | Treasury in order to make provision | for the payment of a tax if one were | to become due. * * ¢ “2. This was not the case of adsign- ing. or diverting, compensation earned by her to some corporation or member | of the family from which she would receive an indirect benefit., pose was wholly to aid & charity, and | she had at no time any direct or indi- | rect benefit from the funds realized by the charitable society. ) 3. If the gentleman from New York desires to Indulge in criticism of this Treasury attitude, the responsibility for it is not that of Mrs. Roosevelt, but that of myself and others who were Treasury officials at the time. Mrs. Roosevelt, who did all that a con- scientious taxpayer could do, would therefore be dropped from this contro- versy, and if Mr. Pish wishes to con- tinue it. let him direct his criticism | At us men.” COMMITTEE APPROVES DRY STATE PROTECTION Bill to Put Guarantee in Statutes Is Sanctioned Unani- mously. By the Associated Press. The House Judiciary Committee ap- proved unanimously yesterday a bill placing in the statutes the Federal Government's guarantee of protection to dry States. Representative Tarver of Georgia, author of the measure, said it would permit the Government to proceed with & program to block the trans- portation of liquor into dry States. S S SR STORE OFFICIALS DINE One Hundred Lansburgh’s Execu- tives Gather at Mayflower. About 100 executives of Lansburgh's Department Store were entertained by the store last night at a dinner in the Mayflower Hotel. Among those present were Leonard Weinberg of Baltimore and Miiton Shlesinger of Cleveland, members of the Board of Directors. Beveral new emsoutives of the store were intro- | gested they might sttract large num- | to delermine the efficiency or ineffi- duced. 4 by a! for the situation to see that the rec- | The pur- | 1. Initiate grams. 2. Collect and disseminate informa- |tion regarding personnel standards, | practices and policies in governmental | | jurisdictions and private industry | employe-training pro. Girl Ready to Quit| Her ‘Playhouse’ in Oxygen ‘Iron Lung’| Child, 5, Completes 49th Day Without Aid of Respirator. B3 the Associated Pr BALTIMORE, July -14.—Five-year- old Betty Sue Martin soon will be able to return to her North Carolina farm home, well on her way ta re- covery from effects of post-diphtherial paralysis. Today she completed her forty-ninth | day “ouside” the “iron lung” at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she was brought for treatment last March | 21. She was unable to breathe with- | out aid of & respirator at that time. | Por 65 days she breathed with the aid of the machine. Now she is able | to get along withous it. The child calls the machine her | “playhouse.” That “playhouse,” however, is yet a hasard to her complete recovery. Physicians said persons who have used it and contract a eold in the ysar or 50 after its use are ausceptible to pneumonia. 1f she can get through next Winter without auffering a eold. they said, she should be out of danger. INQUEST OPENED INSTEEL SLAYINGS | 100 Witnesses to Chicago Memorial Day Rioting Are Called by Coroner. BACKGROUND— John L. Lewis' Committre for Industrial Organization called steel | strike against four independents last May. Trouble has been marked by violence, worst instance being at Republic Steel's Chicago plant on Memorial day, where 10 people were killed. Riot has been investigated ‘ by Civil Liberties Committee of | United States Senate. | | | | 3. Co-operate with public personnel Agencies in State, Territories, the Phil- | 1ppines and the District government | In development and extension of the merit aystem and estabiishment of eligibility registers. 4. At the direction of the President | of request of the head of any Govern- | ment agency. 10 eo-operate in instal- | lation and development of personnel standards, practices and policies 5. Request experts in various as-' pecis of personnel administration 10 !confer with the Federal administra- ! tion, 10 be paid subsistence and not to 1-xma 325 a day for expenses, plus actusl cost of transportation. | 6. Purchase manuscripts from ! private persons, corporations or or- Ranizations 1o meet costs of special studies made by them at the request lof or in co-operation with the ad- ministration, 7. Pay in advance membership fees | in personnel associations | | Advisory Board ef Seven, There would alto be established an | advisory board of seven members— | no member of which for five years preceding appointment would have been a member or officer of any local, | State or national political committes of any political party, or & candidate for any executive office. These mem- | bers would be appointed by the Presi- dent, to be confirmed by the Senate. | Members of this board would receive $50 & day for expenses, but no mem- ber to receive more than $1.500 per annum, exclusive of transportation This board would appoint five ex- aminers, without regard for civil serv- ice Jaws. to deiermine qualifications for the new office of Administrator. | Covering extension of the ciassified civil service the bill provides that after one year all positions in the | government agencies will be covered in the classified civil service except (1) in emergency agencies temporary in character; (2) in any corporation where & majority of the slock is owned by the United States and in | which no member of the board is ap- pointed or elected or appointed by pri- | vate interests; (3) which the Presi- dent finds are policy-making or policy- determining. But the President is given authority ai{ any time within | the year to cover into the classified | service such positions as he may de- lermine are not policy-determining. The President is given broad au- thority by executive order to except from or cover into the classified civil service any office or position when- ever he declares that good adminis- tration of the Government will be | facilitated thereby. ROOSEVELT SEEKS TO CUT HIGH RENTS Landlords Getting 50 Per Cent of Tenant's Income in Some Cases, He Says. B» the Associated Press. President Roosevell says he fs eon- | vinced Americans pay too much of their money to landlords. He has ordered the Government's housing experts to seek a means of cutting down rents. declaring some families spend half their income for shelter. Mr. Roosevelt talked with repre- sentatives of nine Federal agencies yesterday, especially concerning ex- tension. of the limited dividend cor- poration system. This system, he told his press con- ference, might help by making pos- sible the financing of homes and apartments for rent. Mr. Roosevelt recalled that Ameri- can families used to make it & rule to spend no more than 20 per eent of their income for rent, but now some have to pay 50 per cent. He contrasted this with average rental expenditures in France of 7 per cent of total income and in most of Europe an average of 15 per cent. In the 51 low-rent housing proj- ects of the Public Works Administra- tion, tenants are restricted to those whose income is not more than five times the established rental. This follows the old 20 per cent practice. The P. W. A. also has seven Hmited- dividend projects. These c@fporations get financial help from the Govern- ment, which in return seeks to pro- hibit overcharging of renters. The corporations are modeled some- what along the lines of bullding and loan associations. The Preaident sug- h--},-unmm By 'he Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 14 —Coroner Prank Walsh summoned more than 100 witnesses for an inquest today into the deaths of 10 persons in Chicago's Memorial day steel strike battle The inquiry into the bloodiest phase of the labor dispute that at one time affected 73,000 workers in seven | States came a dav after the of the major strike-bound plants resumed operations A six-man coroner's jury had the task of determining whether any one should be held eriminally responsiole for ine fatalities which foliowed a ciash between 200 policemen and some | 1500 sirike demonstrators near the Republic Steel Corp.’s South Chicago | plant. | Chief Deputy Coroner James J.| Whalen said the possible verdicts were justifiable homicide, mansiaughter and murder The C. I O. chieftain. John L | Lewis. and his aides of the Steel Work- | ers' Organizing Commiitee have said “the Chicago police murdered our people.” Poi “Self-Defenee.” Chicago’s police commissioner, James P. Aliman, and his subordinates have contended policemen used guns in self-defense” after thev were as- saulted with rocks and other missiles Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.! plants at Indiana Harbor, Fnd., re- opened yesterday without incident Officials said normal production was expected by the end of the week. when virtually the entire force of 7,000 men | will be back on the job. { Meanwhile, the National Labor Re- lations Board continued a hearing of charges that Inland Steel Corp. vio- lated the Wagner labor act. William Maihofer, & S. W. O. C. organizer. | testified he wax told by James H | Walsh, works manager of the com- ‘ptnys Indiana Harbor plant, that the firm would not sign a contract with the C.I. O, “even if an election zhows & majority of employes belong to the union.” A. F. L Tssues Steel Charter. The American Federation of Labor | chalienged the C. I. O. position in the | Chicago steel area today by issuing the first charter of ite new interna- tional—the American Federation of Steel Workers. | William Schoenberg. personal rep- | | resentative of William Green, A. F. of { L. president, said the charter was | issued 0 workers AL the Carnegie- | Ilinots Corp, and that the unit's | | merabership approximated 4.000 Schoenberg said the A. F. of I. planned to isue charters of affilia- | tion to independent unions at steel plants in the Chicago area with the | intention of enrolling at least 15,000 workers. He said a charter would soon | be issued to the Association of Steel Employes, an independent union at Sheet & Tube Co. | \MRS. JOHN F. WHITE DIES AT HOME HERE| Wife of Bank President Was De- scendant of Gov. Spotswood of Virginia. Mrs. Ellen Spottawood White, 64 wife of Jobn Francis White, president | of the National Bank of Washington, died today after a Jong illness at her home, 3331 Ashmead place. Mrs. White, a native of this city. was | the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. | J. M. A. Spottswood, members of old | Virginia families. Mrs. White was a| direct descendant of Alexander Spots- wood, early Colonial Governor of Vir- ginia. Besides her husband, she is survived by three sons, Jarrett C. White and H. Spottswood White, both of this city, and Edward S. White of Chicago: a | daughter, Miss Margaret A. White, and one grandchild, Miss Ellen Spotts- wood White. Funeral services will be private, the time to be announced later. Strike Settled, Plant to Reopen. DETROIT, July 14 (%) —Dallas E Windslow, president of the Copeland | Refrigeration Corp., said last night that & sirike which closed its plant here two weeks ago has been settled | and it will reopen at once® He said a ‘mutually satisfactory” agreement was reached with the Mechanics' Educa- | wonal Society of America on “wages, | hours and the right of the eorporation | deaf, e Claim cieney of fta empioyes.” » y |57 the number lost by | ships | station at INSURGENTS CLAIM MADRID VICTORIES Loyalists, However, Assert Attackers Are Being Surrounded. BULLETIN, LONDON. July 14 —Alfred Puft Cooper, first lord of the admralty, announced to the House of Com- mons that a British ship was eap- tured today while attempting to enter the Spanish government port, of Santander, current obfective nf the insurgent army’s northern cam- paign. BY (he Associated Pre HENDAYE. Franco-Spanish Prontier, July 14-Crack insurgent counter-attacking near anueva De) Pardillo, have broken the backbone of the Spanish government's Madrid of« fensive, Generaliasimo Pranciseo Pran- co’s headquarters asserted today. While Government sources insisied vesterday's fighting won new advances Into west of the capital. both Franco's communique and his military aides tn- dicated the pendulum of the offensiva nad swung to the insurgents. troops, ‘The communigue said government, | troops were “completely demoralized” libs heavy losses and their inability 10 gain more ground after a week of steady advances against the siege hnes, More than 10,000 Madrid “milicianc had bren killed, it declared Troops Fail to Make Contact. Franco's aides at general neadquarters of governmen pocket” into i of the capital, to mee inz from the Escorial collapse of the offensive On the Madrid front, insurgent air- men and anti-aircraft gunners shoa down eight more government planes. a Franco communique said, brinzing 'n Madrid forees in the offensive which has entered second week Franco, on the other hand, has lost only five planes in the recent Madrid fighting, 1t was said. Salamanca said the fail drive a second terntory, west troops advanc- sector eaused his RING OF FIRE FORGED. Loyalist Version of Fighting Telis of Offensive. Julv 14 (P - Prom s the sun-baked piains d, Gen. Jose Misia combined air and land forces were forging a ring of fire todav around a great segment of Generalissimo Fran- cisco Franco's insurgent army of siege. MADRID, sky and ac west of Ma \ tre The apparent strategy of the gov- ernment offensive, now in ite second week and marked by combat on World r scale, was to encircle the n- gents by & e at the same the oval-shaped trap to flerce o at the stil] 15 miles wet orth of Madnd, forn- positions today and Jaunched a slight artack on the owt- skirts of the town, Road Seethes With Fire. The road from Villanueva del Par- dillo 1o Majadahonda seetned with at- iack and counter-atiack. Artillerv shells and hand grenades ereated a g overtone, studded by the chatter of rifles and machine guns. Aerial operations have been on an almost unprecedented scale. Combat over the Madrid front at times has brought neariy 100 pursuit and bomb- nto action at onece. Tha rons engaged in no ey batties over Majadahonds, Navalcarnero and Villafranca del Cas- tilio yesterday. Twelve insurgent planes were reported shot down The government's light, fighting snub-nosed Ghatos and Moacas —and the insurgenis' Italian-made Fiat Romeo fighters darted and swooped 1n innumerable “dog fights" with their machine gun fire eriss- crossing the Summer sky. Plane Fights Described. An air ministry communique said a government bombing plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire over suburban Cara- banchel Alto and fell within the enemy lines. The communique added: “From our vantage point we eoild see how the piane, crashing into the ground, exploded and was destroved. One of the pilots who was abie 1o Jump in his parachute alighted verv near the antennae of the wireless El Campamento and was taken prisoner.’ i These are examples of the merial struggle: Over sector the Sierra (Guadarrama) nine government Moscas a!- tacked several insurgent Junker bombers. escorted by a fieet of fast Fiat Romeo fighters. The escort was broken up and several of the Fiats were reported shot down. Five other “Moscas” engaged nina Italian-made Fiats and a German- made Henikel about the same time in another battle which brought de- sruction to four insurgent shipe. The 14 Moscas of the two squadrons re- | turned intact to the government air- | drome. BRITISH CABENET MFETK. Most Extensive Coast Defense Exer- cises Yet Are Launched, By the Associared Presm, LONDON. July 14—Great Britaio Jeunched the most extenaive coa defense exercises in her hisory toda: as the cabinet met to eansider the latest British plan to keep the Spanisi Civil War from exploding into genera conflict. After the ministers have approvec foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's new plan—Britain’s Jast effort to keep ihe non-intervention ring insact while Spain's warring pardies fight % out alone—it will be communicated to the Non-Intervention Committee members Each representative of whe 26 gov. ernments will be asked %o have hit country’s opinion of the plan ready by Priday. Although the greatest secrecy sur- rounds the proposals, it was believed they provided for temporary mamn. tenance of non-intervention eonfra more or less on the present basix whil¢ & new and more effective scheme of eontrol is worked out The war games will reach theit climax between midnight and 3 am Friday, when the whole southwestern corner of England will be virtually in & state of national emergency. Warships and air raid defenses from & mythical “blue land"—for the purs poses of the games considered to exist 600 miles out in the Atlantic—will attempt to wipe out the importapl commercial ports and naval bases of Southampton, Plymouth, Portamoth and Portland,