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2 PUBLISHER PUSHES OPEN SHOP FIGHT Stanlman Appeals to Edi- torial Association to Lend Aid. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, July 19.—James G. Stahiman, Nashville, Tenn., president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, appealed today to mem- bers of the National Editorial Associa- tion to affiliate in opposition to a *closed news or editorial shop.” Stahlman, who was named chair- man of “The Newspaper Committee” at a meeting of publishers and editors in Chicago three weeks ago, was prin- cipal speaker at the opening session of the fifty-second annual convention of the N. E A. here. The organization is made up of publishers and editors of non-metropolitan papers. Stahlman told of the action in the Chicago meeting and said that Clayton T. Rand, Gulfport, Miss., president of the N. E A, had sent a telegram to the meeting promising the “co-opera- tion” of his organization. %% Invites Co-operation. *“Taking you at his word,” Stahlman taid, "I am commissioned by my associates on that committee, repre- genting practically all the 2.000 daily hewspapers in America, to extend a cordial invitation to the National Edi- torial Association to affiliate with the committee and join us in this effort to protect and defend a free press.” “Never has there been such a clear eall to duty to the country, to its in- stitutions, its people as rings in the ears of the newspaper publishers of America today,” Stahlman declared. Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things, SALES TALK. ALKING along Fifteenth street late one afternoon, a friend of ours who is wired for sound heard a blare of music and glanced around (look, he glances with his ears). He was facing west toward the Treasury Building, whence came loud music and talk. Since it was long after closing hours, he couldn't imagine what went on, unless a few bank notes were whooping it up, playing “Never in a Bullion Years” or “You Were Mint for Me.” Then he heard a booming voice, which spoke not of deficits and taxes, but of clothing bargains. Certain that the Federal Government, as much as it needs revenue, hadn't gone into suts and cluks, our tone de- tective turned around some more and stretched his ear to the east. Finally he located the source—a loud speaker in a shop across the street from the Treasury, which served as a perfect sounding board. * K ¥ ok SNOOZE. We will not insist upon this point very long, it being much too hot even to stay on a point for more than 5 minutes at a time, but— inasmuch as the Weather Bureau is turning this into a regular tropical Summer with scorching days, show- “The challenge is before us. We alone €an make answer to that challenge. “If there is doubt in the mind of any gane man that ‘the time is out of Joint,” let him look about him. If any of you harbor any such doubts, turn to the pages of your own news- Ppapers for confirmation. Sees World Gone “Haywire.” “The world has gone ‘haywire' and unless the press of America fulfills its high mission in the days that are ahead we, t0o0, will find that we have gone the way of the rest.” “Freedom of the press” Stahlman defined as “responsibility to keep the people informed through a truthful and unbiased presentation of the news to which they are entitled and which Wwill enable them to determine those things of a public nature which are either favorable or inimical to their own welfare and to act accordingly.” Prior to the opening of the first gession, President Rand said that “there is no doubt the National! Edi- tortal Association will indorse the Newspaper Committee's stand on free- dom of the press and opposition to the closed editorial shop.” Interest of Group. “Our interest is more an academic concern with freedom of the press.” Rand said, explaining that the closed &hop so far “is not much of & problem to the small town newspaper pub- lisher.” Committee reports dealing with matters before the convention will be presented Wednesday morning. “Never in the history of the Ameri- ean Commonwealth.” Stahlman said “was there such an opportunity for constructive service on the part of the press. Never has there been such a clear call to duty. “I have heard it said that the peo- ple of Amercia are tired of hearing about ‘freedom of the press.’ that ‘free- dom of the press’ has become shop- worn and trite. Shopworn? Maybe, ‘Trite? Perhaps. But to me it is as fundamental as the decalogue and as eternal as the stars, Meaning of Free Press. “A free press does not mean my right, nor yours, as a publisher, to publish whatever we please, to violate any laws, to invade personal privacy or to ignore the ethics of a great pro- Zession “It does mean our responsibility to comment fairly and intelligently in our editorial columns upon those things in order that we may help an informed people reach sound and en- lightened decisions on matters most affecting their present and their fu- ture. “A free press is nobody's right except a free people’s. Newspapers are but trustees of that right and we ean only deserve to hold it by proper and unselfish observation of our re- sponsibilities in & republic such as ours.” LEGISLATORS END VISIT ers in the afternoon and cool nights, how's about the siesta? You know, the siesta. = x In Washington the custom could never get a real foothold without Government sanction. Federal bu- reaus would have to decree that employes could snooze between the hours of 1 and 3 p.m. (we mean in a nice cool place, not at their desks as before/, which after all is not so revolutionary. In most Central and South American countries, a government that came out against the siesta would be bound to fall, even if it only fell asleep. * ok % X TRUTH IN ART. X'ESTERDAY we had a story brought o0 us by Artist Davy Crockett, who told of seeing the boys and girls down at a certain North Carolina resort go home, get dressed up fit to kill in the evening and then scoot off to the beach club to dance—barefooted Mr. Crockett read the copy on his own story (the last line was “nobody ever wears shoes at all”), made a note, then drew an illustration for the tale. In the drawing Mr. Crockett put high-heeled shoes, with little bows on 'em, on the girl. * % ¥ BRIDE. {ROM the society columns of a lo- cal sheet: “The bride, who was given in mar- riage by her father, wore a powder blue chiffon down, with a cowl neck- line and puffed sleeves . . .” Must have looked ducky. * % % x YEAH? IGN in a Fourteenth street estab- lishment: “ROACH TABLETS—TAKE ONE." * ok ¥ % CONSCIENCE. Manager of a 5 and 10 cent store here recently received the following letter: “I inclose 25 cents in stamps to cover payment in full for a Wash- ington Guide Book for which I did not pay. Please put the money in the cash register so I will get a load off my mind. Thank you. “P. S. Don't you take it, because then you will have a load on your mind.” LI LABOR NOTE. REMENEBER the story about the picket who marched up and down, up and down, in front of a local res- taurant on a hot day, then put down his sign for a while, went inside to cool TO 11 NAVAL CENTERS By the Associated Press. A party of 11 Representatives re- turned today from a week end in- spection of naval establishments around Norfolk, Va. The delegation arrived at the Wash- Ington Navy Yard aboard the Coast, Guard cutter Sebago, which left the Norfolk Naval Base late yesterday. During the three-day visit, the 8roup, members of the House Naval Affairs and Appropriations Commit- tees, saw at first hand the national defense activities at the Naval Base, the Naval Air Station and the Nor- folk Navy Yard. CLUB IS STARTED Interior Employes Organizing Athletic, Social Group. Organization of Interior Department employes for athletic, social and edu- cational activities has begun under the chairmanship of Howard R. Stin- son of the office of the solicitor. Formed after the scattered bureaus ©of the department had been assembled in the new Interior Building, the rec- reation association was first broached &t & mass meeting July 9. Congress in Brief Considers $25,000,000 flood control program for Lower Ohio Valley. TOMORROW. Benate: Program uncertain: may resume de- :aze on Supreme Court reorganization il House: Considers omnibus bills on private calendar. Agriculture Committee considers farm credit and crop insurance bills, 10:30 am. Post Office Committee considers bilis relating to custodial employes, 10 f off and get a glass of beer? We heard the other day he had lost. his job as a picket. Fired for crossing the picket line, MAN FRIGHTENS WOMEN Virginia Prisoner Denies Assault Motive—Sought Money. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. July 19 P).—Joe Jackson, 20, colored, who was brought to the Albermarle County Jail and charged with frightening two Orange County housewives, denied today that he attempted to attack the women and said he only wanted money. Scissors Caesarian On Dead Mother, 14, Saves Life of Baby By the Associatea Press. HAMILTON, Ohio, July 19.— A Caesarian operation with a pair of “‘common scissors” saved the life of an 8-pound boy after the death of the mother, Dr, Mark Millikin reported today. Mrs. James Still died unexpect- edly, Dr. Millikin said. She was only 14 years old. “I was in my shirt sleeves and I didn’t have the necessary equip- ment with me, so I just grabbed a pair of common scissors and peformed the operation in about five minutes.” To take time to go to the oper- ations room of the hospital might have been fatal to the child, he said. The boy is “doing nicely.” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 10 (B MONDAY, JULY 19, 1937. - Crowd Packs Arkansas Capitol at Rites for Robinson Part of the crowd that pa vesterday to view the body of S R L2 cked the capitol at Little Rock enator Joseph T. Robinson. BROUNISTERNED STOOGE OF RS Green Calls on Guild Head to Resign—Cites I. E. B. Desertion. Bs the Associated Press. William Green, president of American Federation of Labor, tacked Heywood Broun yesterday a “stooge for avowed Communists and called on Broun to resign from the presidency of the American News- paper Guild. About a year ago, Green said in a formal statement, Broun ‘*‘came knocking at the doors of the Ameri- can Federation of La seeking a federation charter for the guild. The charter was granted, Green said, but he added that at a recent convention of the guild in St. Louis President Broun, “inspired by some very astute Moscow-trained revo- the at- as lutionaries,” took the guild into John | L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organization. Text of Statement. The full text of Green's statement, released here, follows “Mr. Broun was one of the origina- tors of the Newspaper Guild, and came knocking at the doors of the American Federation of Labor about a year or so0 ago asking a charter. “When I went to New York at Mr. | Broun's invitation to present that charter, speech,’ attempted to dictate my ad- dress. Failing in that, he proceeded to hurl investive in my presence. Immediately I concluded my remarks, which were, in effect, a warning of | where the Committee for Industrial| Organization was attempting to lead the workers of America. “That warning went unheeded, and | e few weeks ago at St. Louis, at what | was to have been a convention of an | international union of the American | Federation of Labor, Mr. Broun, in- spired by some very astute Moscow- trained revolutionaries, took the guild into the C. I. O. He opened the mem- bership to every one in the newspaper plants from newsboys and charwomen to classified ad takers, forgetting that before the guild existed there were | unions of working newspaper men em- ployed on labor publications and in the foreign language press and there were affiliate unions in which newsboys, charwomen, office workers, et al. were perfectly free to join. Farmer-Labor Party Backed. “Mr. Broun, who calls me the| ‘Benedict Arnold’ of American labor, also placed his convention on record, | thereby binding some 10,000 working | newspaper editorial men in favor of a | Farmer-Labor party and in favor of | one faction in Spain. As Paul Y. An- derson, Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, no friend | of mine, so wittily put it, “The con- vention did not indorse murder, high- way robbery or arson.’ “Last Friday night the Washington unit of the guild held a special meet- ing to give Mr. Broun a hearing. The Washington unit, the Columbus (Ohio) unit and other units from California to Michigan to Massachu- setts are now in process of holding a referendum in which complete re- pudiation of the St. Louis convention appears on the ballot. “Mr. Broun admits, among other things, in his hearing before his fellow newspaper workers that: “1. He has been deserted by his own international executive board, which favors a referendum, “2. He admits that in return for $1,000 per month per capita dues, John L. Lewis of the C. I. O. proposes to spend $10,000 a month for C. I. O. organizers to be sent into American newspaper plants to ‘organize.’ 3. He still feels that a union dom- inated by men like Anderson of the Post-Dispatch; Walter Lippmann, Mark Sullivan, Walter Winchell, Dorothy Thompson, Frank Kent, Louis Stark, Sidney Skolsky, Paul Mallon, Ed Sullivan, Westbrook Pegler, Henry L. McLemore, Charles W. Dunkley and the great rank and file in the editorial rooms of the American press could hold common aims with telephone operators, ad takers, carrier boys and what have | you; and that the guild is in a posi- tion to carry on a fight for them, when it is in reality in a death grapple with the American Publishers’ Asso- ciation, “Tear-jerking Address.” “Mr. Broun made what one news- paper man termed a ‘tear-jerking address.” He tried to justify his con- duct and pleaded the referendum, if voted adversely on the question of C. 1. O. affiliation, would in effect re- pudiate his leadership of the guild. He pulled his old act of characteriz- ing me as ‘Benedict Arnold.' He ran the entire gamufgof emotions and Mr. Broun, defender of ‘free | { granted an American Federation of went home in a huff because the more | boisterous members present gave him & few boos, catcalls and hisses. The American Federation of Labor may be all Mr. Broun and some of his more youthful associates say it is, but | nowhere in its entire history has a| national convention been repudiated by any of its afiliates by a vote of | more than 2-to-1 as was done last Friday night. “What Mr. Broun has actually complished, as I warned his fellow craftsmen a year ago he would ac- complish, he has sold down the river | a lot of earnest, sincere, hard-working newspaper men, who now see their | organization, which had succeeded in making better working conditions, | torn to shreds, with its subordinate | officers set out like ducks on a rock for the publishers to shoot at. Suggests Resignation. “Has it dawned on Mr. Broun that | the press should be unfettered poli- tically? That it should not be made a tail to Mr. Lewiws' political kite? | That & labor organization learns to | walk before it tried to run? And last, ; but not least, it might be a good idea for Mr. Broun, who is a stooge for the avowed Communists in the C. 1. O, to resign his presidency of the guild, at least until the referendum is com- | pletea: | “What does Mr. Broun think about typical reactions among his fellow | guild workers in New York City? “At last Friday night's meeting the conservative Herald-Tribune unit re- | pudiated him and all his works. The | liberal New York Daily News unit did likewise, “Funniest of all. the unit of the guild in the Daily Worker, newspaper | of the Communists of the United | States, repudiated Mr. Broun on the ground, I am reliably told, of ‘in- fantile leftism.'” GUILD FEDERATION URGED. Broun Favors Separation of Office Employes. COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 19 () — Separation of newspaper business office employes and editorial workers in the American Newspaper Guild was advocated today by Heywood Broun,| guild president Broun voiced his stand at a meeting of the Columbus Guild unit, which| has proposed a national guild refer- endum on the question of the union’s affiliation with the Committee for In- dustrial Organization. The Columbus unit oposed allowing office workers admitted to the guild to vote. Broun asserted that he also op- posed the plan, which bore the ap- proval of New York guild officials. Favors Federated Units. Broun said he now favored “organ- ization of newspaper offices into fed- erated units, with editorial workers retaining their own autonomy,” and that he had not realized there would be opposition to business office em- ployes joining the guild. The guild president said that more than 3,000 business office workers had affiliated with the guild since the re- cent convention of the union in St. Louis. where the guild swung over to the C. I. O, although it had been Labor charter earlier. BUCK ANSWERS GREEN. Denies Guild Feels Superiority Over Other News Workers. Robert M. Buck, president of the Washington Newspaper Guild, today issued the following statement in re- ply to President Green of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor: ““Mr. Green, basing an attack against Heywood Broun on the action of a meeting of the Washington News- paper Guild last Friday night, stated | as an accusation against Broun, the | following: “‘He still feels that a union domi- nated by the rank and file of the editorial. rooms of the American press could hold common aims with telephone operators, ad takers, carrier boys and what have you; and that the guild is in a position to carry on a fight for them when it is in reality in a death grapple with the American Publishers’ Association.” “The members of the Washington Newspaper Guild feel no superiority over workers in other than editorial offices in the newspaper industry, and it hopes that Mr. Green does not, not- withstanding the seeming implication of his words. The Washington Guild is actively engaged in helping to or- ganize the workers mentioned by Mr. Green and is trying to organize them effectively in unions of their own with close affiliation in the guild, instead of within the same unit because, as Mr. Green says, it is not yet in a position | to make their fight for them.” Ladies’ Aid Elects. HERNDON, Va., July 19 (Special).— The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Hern- don Methodist Episcopal Church has elected the following officers: Mrs. Zene MoMillen, president; Mrs. Wal- ter J. Baker, vice president; treasurer, | Northeastern Vice President Garner, Senator Key Pittman and James A. Farley, as they paid last respects to their colleague. \ —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. PICCARD 10 TRY BALLOONS AGAIN Will Make Strato Flight in New Type Craft, De- spite Accident. Br the Associated Press. ROCHESTER, Minn, July 19 —Dr Jean Piccard announced today he would make a stratosphere flight in his new type aircraft made up of many small balloons. He said his test ascension yesterday, in which he soared 11.000 feet in his strange airship to land after six hours in a clump of trees at Lansing, Iowa, had proved its practicabil After his return here today, Piccard said he was seeking a sponsor for a high altitude flight in a similar craft. “We have learned many things.” he said, “but there are some chanhges to be made.” He said his wife, who directed infla- tion of his craft here and who made a stratosphere hop with him from Detroit in 1934, would go along on the next trip. The Swiss-born aeronautical scien- tist said he would use a sealed gon- dola, such as the one employed in the Detroit flight, for the next ascension. He said he did not consider the fire, which broke out in the gondola as he landed in a deep valiey in Towa, destroying the duraluminum shell and damaging the equipment, a serious matter. “It was unfortunate,”” Mrs. Piccard said, “but the really big thing is that the balloon has proved practical for the work.” His craft, named the Pleiades, had 95 small balloons for lifting power, PASTOR OUT OF JAIL Congregation Welcomes Him Back After Mann Act Sentence. ZION, IIl, July 19 (#.—Rev. Finis Jennings Dake, 35, back from five months' confinement in the Milwau- kee, Wis, House of Correction, went about his usual pastoral way today. Welcomed ~enthusiastically by his Christian Assembly Church congrega- tion yesterday, Mr. Dake sounded & | pigay warning against “human weaknesses” and urged his parishioners to “forget the past.” the pulpit since his conviction in Fed- eral Court on charges of violating the Mann act. He was accused of taking trips to Bloomington and East St. Louis, IIL YOUTH éONGRESS | A meeting of the Washington Amer- | ican Youth Congress will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the Y. W. C. A,, Seventeenth and K streets A discussion on the “Need for Suf- frage in the District of Columbia” will follow a report of the Model Youth Congress convention at Milwaukee, Piccard Looks at Wreckage Dr. Jean Piccard shown after he landed his multi-ballooned craft in trees on a farm mear the novel stratosphere craft. Mrs. James Myres; secretary, Mrs. Willlam W or. Lansing, Iowa. Fire enveloped Aided by spectators, Dr. Piccard carries the gondola from Y 3p s the ravine, where he la: ight, A, P. Wirephotos. [J It marked his first appearance in | | | | | | | { for the election and to select a pos- a 16-year-old Kenosha, Wis.. girl on | : | posed Robinson in the party primary | \l st August, said | enter the race against him as an in- | of Newport and Cravens have been | 1ast three years, issued a statement |VIRGINIAN, 30, SLAIN, ROBINSON OFFICE EYEDBY SEVERA Bitter Party Fight Looms in Arkansas—Special Elec- tion Likely Sept. 14. By the Assoclated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Julv 19— The prospect of a bitter party fight | over selection of the successor of | the late Senator Robinson loomed to- day as the State Democratic Com- | mittee was called into sepcial session | Gov. Carl E. Bailey indicated a spe- | cial election would be held about September 14 to fill the post. The 42-year-old Governor, consid ered a certain candidate, held in hi hands the power both to set the time | sible interim appointee. Chairman Thomas Fitzhugh, who managed Bailey's gubernatorial cam- paign, issued a call for the meeting of | the State Democratic Committee. It | is empowered to nominate the party candidate or order a primary. A ma- jority of the committee are politically aligned with the Governor. Interim Appointment Discussed. It was indicated Brooks Hays, Dem- ocratic National ~ Committeeman, | might receive the interim appoint- ment, but Bailey disclosed he had | advised Postmaster General Farley he | preferred to make no temporary ap- pointment. He said he pointed out | that a special election to fill the va-| cancy must be held between Septem- ber 14 and November 12 under Ar- kansas Jaw. A stormy session of the State Com- mittee was presaged by the telegraphed | protests of seven county committees | against reports that a nomination would be made. They demanded a primary, the counties offering to bear their share of the election costs, es- timated at between $30,000 and $40,- | 000. . | Should the committee nominate, other Democrats could run as inde- pendents. Republican leaders re- mained silent on their plans. Last vear Republicans competed unsuccess- fully for all State offices. Robinson defeated his Republican opponent by more than six to one. Venable May Enter Race. | J. Rosser Venable, World War vet- | eran and Little Rock attorney who op- “If the committee nominates Carl | Bailey as the Democratic candidate | and no one else announces, I shall dependent.” Of the seven Arkansas Congressmen who came home yesterday for the Robinson funeral, only one—Repre- sentative Cravens of Fort Smith—re- turned to Washington. Representatives Driver of Osceola, McClellan of Mal- vern, Fuller of Eureka Springs, Miller mentioned as possible senatorial can- didates if a primary is called. Adkins Mentioned as Candidate. Internal Revenue Collector Homer Adkins, close political ally of Robin- son, also has been mentioned as a| possible candidate in a primary. Former Gov. J. M. Futrell, at odds with Bailey many times during the last week urging that Mrs. Robinson be selected to fill her husband's un- expired term. Bailey said Farley had discussed with him an interim appointment, adding that the cabinet member “posi- | tively did not suggest any individual for such an appointment.” NEIGHBOR IS ARRESTED Woman Witnesses Say Prisoner Shot Victim After Quarrel at Front Royal. Bs the Associatea Press, FRONT ROYAL, Va, July 19.—| James Costello, about 30, was shot to death here last night, and Paul Ownes, & neighbor, was arrested in connection with the shooting. Commonwealth's Attorney John H. Downing said Mrs. Langdon Smith and Mrs. Nora Williams, who said they witnessed the shooting, told him Cos- tello started up on Ownes’ porch and the latter shot him in the chest with & small rifle from the doorway. Costello was said to have:crawlad to Mrs. Williams’ porch, where he died a few minutes later. } Downing quoted the women as say- ing the men had been drinking and quarreling during the day. Costello was the father of four small children. e e Junior League Elects. CAMP SPRINGS, Md., July 19 (Special). — The Junior League of Bell's M. E. Church, South, has elected Miss Fern Smith, president; Miss Louise Dishner, first 'vice president; 110,000 men ROBINSON BURIAL HELD IN ARKANSAS Scores of Nation’s Leaders Join in Final Tribute—Over 10,000 Pass Bier, By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 19.—Ths chapter of American history written by Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkan- #as ended today in a flower-banked grave. Scores of the Nation's leaders joined thousands of saddened Arkansans yes- terday in final tribute as the State's illustrious son was returned to his native soil. The elements furnished a dramatic climax to the Senator's greatest home- coming of nearly half a century in public life. A biistering sun beamed throughout the forenoon. While the body lay in state at the Arkansas Capital, a sudden shower scattered the mourners briefly. Thousands Line Funeral Route. Again the sun shone, sweltering un counted thousands who lined the 3 mile route of his funeral procession, interrupted from the Capitol to the grave by services at fashionable First Methodist Episcopal Church South Clouds darkened the sky as cortege entered the gates of Roselay Memorial Park. Thunder echoed over the rolling hills. Rain splattered the mourners as Rev. H. Bascom Watts intoned the burial ritua torrential downpour ser friends alike scurrying for Despite the weather, po tained a guard over the grave unti] late last night, protecting the im- pressive floral display from souven.r hunters. Garner Attends Services. Robinson's last rites brought to- gether people from every walk of life Vice President John Nance Garner came from his home at Uvalde, Tex, to represent officially President Rnose- velt. Postmaster General James A Farley stood beside his grave, Near] 50 of Robinson's colleagues and a large delegation from the Hous served as honorary pall bearers Former Vice President Charles G Dawes and Patrick Hurley, Secretar of War under President Hoover, fol- lowed in the funeral procession. Gor- ernors of Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma were among an estimateri and women, white and black, old and young, who walked past | his bier. “Perhaps no man has been more nea a representa- tive American,” said Rev. Mr. Watts in his funeral sermon at the church “When a history of the Congress and the crucial issues before it, in the last three decades is scientificalls presented by careful students of the period it cannot omit him from rank with the foremost.” Body Arrives in Special Train, The day of public sorrow began with the arriwal of Robinson's body on a special train from Washington. Ac- companying it was his grief-bowed widow, members of her family, the congressional delegation and other dis- tinguished visitors. For a few brief hours the gray cas- ket remained at the family home—a private period during which Mrs. Robinson was allowed to be alone. Then a military escort carried the casket to the State Capitol, where for three hours a constant stream of people moved past it. Flowers, from orchids to roses, banked the rotunda on three sides. Behind the casket the floral tributes rose 12 feet high. Wreath Placed on Casket. Shortly after the doors were opened Col. E. M. Watson and Capt. E. H Bastedo, military and naval aides to the President, marched to the casket bearing a huge wreath of symbolie bay leaves, bound wi a simple streamer of dull bronze taffeta. the casket, the offic ment, our generat S paused & mo- and withdrew ner led the co: delegation past casket. As he approached Texan averted his head, look upon his long-time death, The casket was draped with a hu, American flag. Inside the fastened a small Arkansas flag. Thes two mementoes with the President wreath were presented Mrs. Robins after the funeral. 'ROBINSON'S DEATH HITS REORGANIZIN Chances for Legislation at T Session Believed Di- minished. By the Associated Press. The death of Majority Leader R inson has raised new doubts about t} future of the administration bill t reorganize the executive branch o Government., Some legislators said it chances for passing at this sessio: have diminished. Senator Robinson, they said, wa almost the only member of the Sen- ate’s Reorganization Committee t take an active part in pushing the bill As chairman, he directed a prelimin- ary study of the measure and draftec & revised version which he introduce in the Senate shortly before his death Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia | economy advocate. who lays more stress on curtailing Government ex- penses through reorganization than do backers of the administration pro- | posal, expressed opposition to quick action on the bill. He said he would demand full public hearings. Before Robinson's deatl Byrd said, the majority leader agreed to hold hearings L fore submitting the measure to the Senate. Byrd estimat- ed several months would be necessar: to explore the subject adequately. Under the Robinson bill, the Presi- dent would be given broad power t | transfer, group, consolidate or abolish agencies of Government, although his acts would be subject to congressional review. The measure calls for ex- tension of the merit system and estab- lishment of a career service. The General Accounting Office would be brought under the Budget Bureau, with a general auditing office set up to make a post audit of public accounts, The bill would also create a new cabinet post, the Department of Public Welfare, and would authorize ap- pointment of six executive assistants to the President. Some Senators predicted the split in Democratic ranks resulting from the court fight would carry over to consideration of Government reor- ganization. They said many of the same Senators who now oppose the refusing to friend Miss Alberta Willett, second vice presi- dent; Miss Jeannie Corkran, secre- tary and Miss Hope Pyles, treasurer. revamping of the court would be lined up against the other administration =