Evening Star Newspaper, July 20, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain this afternoon, followed by gen- erally fair and continued cool tonight; to- morrow fair and warmer. today—Highest, 74, at midnight; lowest, 66, at 7:30 a.m. Temper 68. Full report on page Closing N.Y. Markets—! Temperatures ature at 2 p.m,, B-4. Sales—Page 16 85th YEAR. No. 3 4,048. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Ch WASHINGTOM ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 0. C, TUESDAY, RUMUR PR[S"]EN]'D C. Girl Is Kicked and Shoved By Japanese Sentries in Pei ping MAY DROP COLRT * PLANSTIRS SEMATE NG AT CAPIOL High Officials Express Opin- ion Compromise Satisfac- tory to All Will Be Worked Out Within Week. COMMENT IS DECLINED ! BY SENATOR BARKLEY | Wheeler, Leader of Opposition, Declares Any Compromise on Measure Must Exclude Any In- crease in Membership of the Supreme Court. BACKGROUND— Presidential suggestion for reor- panization of Federal judiciary pre- cipitated bitter party fight last Winter. Finally, administration leadership threw support to com- promise proposol and debate began in Senate early this month Last week, Majority Leader Rob- inson died and issues of court bill and new party leadership in Senate have been tied up together since then. President is still insistent on court action this year. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. TUnconfirmed reports that President Roosevelt was willing to compromise the court bill, even to the elimination of reference to the Supreme Court threw the Senate wing at tihe Capitol into confusion today. Without going fo the extent of ad- mitting an elimination of the Su- preme Court feature of the bill, a high official of the Government expressed the opinion that within & week a com- promise satisfactory to all sides wouid be worked out Senator Wheeler of ana, leader of the opposition to the court bill, im- | mediately declared that any compro- mise would have to exciude any in- crease in the membership of the Su- preme Court Senator Barkley of Kentucky. act-! fng Democratic leader, declined to comment upon these repo: He said tomorrow the Democratic caueus of | the Senate would elect a new leader to succeed the late Senator Robinson That lJeader. he said. would then confer with the President and a decision would be reached in regard to the | court bill In some quarters that the court reform bill contamne five principal poinis. Four of have been generally accepted by the Senate, it was said. The fifth was the Supreme Court feature. This sug- gestion was interpreted as peaning the President possibly wouid ' be willing | ta take four-fifths of his bill and let the other fifih go. Senator Wheeler said that Was to be such a compromise, |h-i only thing to do was to recommit | the bill to the Judiciary Committee | and refer it to a subcommittee of | liberal Senators, He agreed that there were some re- | forms in the judicial sysiem that can be made. He suggested that three Judges, instead of one, in the inferior courts should pass on constitutional questions. He suggesied there should be some limitation placed upon the fees permitted in receivership cases. He suggested alzo that steps be taken | to speed up and that judges be given the right to dismiss cases unless the litigants were willing to come to trial. Wagner Prepares Answer. Senator Wagner of New York, who | returned to Washington today, pre- | pared a letter in answer to Goy. Leh- | man of New York. Lehman wrote ! ‘Wagner yesterdav urging him to op- pose the President’s court bill. Wag- | ner’s reply, it is expected, will be given | out for publication later today. It is | believed Wagner will decline to oppose | the court bill, The Senate adjourned today until noon Thursday after a session lasting | only a few minutes. Ostensibly, the adjournment was taken to permit the election of a Democratic leader to succeed the late Benator Robinson of Arkansas before the judiciary bill fight is resumed. The leadership contest has narrowed down to Senator Harrison of Missis- sippl and Senator Barkley. The Democrats will make an effort to elect their new leader at a caucus tomorrow | morning. Opponents of the court program held a conference this morning and | decided to postpone a motion to re- | commit the bill. Senator Wheeler announced that when the court bill, which is the un- finished business of the Senate, comes (See COURT, Page A-3.) t d them if there | WILL OF ROCKEFELLER ADMITTED TO PROBATE Chief Beneficiaries Are Grand- daughter, Her Children and Rockefeller Institute. By the Associated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, July 20— The will of the late John D. Rocke- feller, sr., disposing of an estate esti- mated at about $25000.000, was ad- mitted to probate today by Westchester Oounty Surrogate William J. Shiels. The chief beneficiaries named were the oil magnate's granddaughter, Mrs, ‘Margaret Strong de Cuevas, her chil- dren, and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. The executors and trustees of the bequest are John D. Rockefeller, jr.; Bertram Cutler, and Thomas M. De- bevoise, the last two residents of Green ‘Village, N. J. Mizell Wilson, counsel for the execu- fors, said Federal and State tax Awould take avout half the astate, Rockefeller died May 23 in Florida. His will was filed June 5. i | MISS CAROL LATHROP. —Underwood & Underwood Photo. B: the Associated Press. PEIPING, China American women were kicked and | shoved. they told the United States Embassy today, by Japanese sentries on guard before the Japanese Em- bass The women were Mrs. Helen R Jones of Detroit, Mich., and Miss Carol Tathrop of Washington, D. C. The American Embassy said it was calling attention to the attack to Japanese officials, after depositions were made by the two women. Mrs. Jones related We were walking toward the hotel July 20 —Two through the Embassy quarter, decid- | FIERCE FIGHTING ARES AT PEIPING 1,000 Japanese Troops Par- ticipate in Two-Hour Attack on Suburb. B the Associateq Press. SHANGHAT, July 20.—The Chinese arsenal and barracks at Wangpingh- sien burst inio flames. the Domei (Japanese) News Agency reported to- night, under punitive shelling by Jap- anese artillery. Fighting broke out at Wangpingh- sien and other positions just to the west of Peiping at 2:30 pm., two and | one-half hours after an ultimatum demanding Chinese evacuation of the area had expired. Fire still raged in the Chinese bar- racks at 6 pm. tonight (5 am, E. BS) A thousand Japanese troops partici- pated in the attack against Wanpingh- sien, and the city was shelled for more ' than two hours. Peiping dispatches said the town was badly damaged, and that Marco Polo Bridge, 100 yards to the west, was subjected to shelling. Plane Circles Over City. A Japanese plane circled over Peiping at 6 pm., and Chinese there were fearful of drastic action by Japanese. “Fighting at Peiping to- night,” many predicted. The Japanese version was that their troops were acting in retaliation for “unprovoked and intermittent Chinese firing against Japanese lines.” The Japanese artillery began its| advance against Wanpinghsien under fire from Chinese field guns. The advancing Japanese units re- turned the fire, and after a brief ex- change the Chinese guns were silenced. (See CHINA, Page A-6.) i | ing that was safest due to martial law We were walking in the center of the street, talking of personal affairs and not on the sidewalk. Suddenly we were terrified by a ‘Japanese war cry from the sentries who rose up behind sandbag barricades. At least three sentries, besides the two first visible, charged us, giving Carol & terrific shove.” “Carol burst into tears. then the sentry kicked her in the side. Mean- while, another sentry held me fast with the flat of his bavonet “In the midst of the confusion I «aw a machine gun mounted on a ba (See LATHROP, Page A-6.) TWO COLORED MEN LYNGH VICTIN Youths Found Dead After Arrest for Stabbing Tal- lahassee Officer. B: the Associated Press. TALLAHASSEE. Fla., July 20.—As- sistant Chief of Police W. L. Prater said two young Negroes, charged with the stabbing of a Tallahassee police- man, were persons early today. Prater said the onlv information he had was that the Negroes were miss- ing from the jail and that their bodies had been found near a highway out- side the city | The two Negroes were arrested Sun- day on a charge of stabbing Policeman V. F. Kelly when he attempted to question them about breaking into a restaurant. Kelly, stabbed seven times, is in a serious condition in a hospital here. The bodies were found after day- | light, in a ditch close by a clump of oak trees a short distance off the Jacksonville highway about 3', miles from the State capitol. The bodies still were there an hour after they were found. This was the first lynching in | Florida this year and the first double lynching in several years. |~ Eugene Ward, a city policeman, said | he heard the Negroes were shot to death. | "I don't know whether one man or | a hundred took them out,” he said. Sheriff Frank Stoutamire was out | of his office and could not be reached. The victims were listed at police | headquarters as Richard Gawkins and | Ernest Ponder, each about 18 years old. Warrants charging them with as- | issued yesterday after, the police said, they confessed stabbing the officer. Strange Kidnaping of Baby Is Laid to School Teacher| The weird twist in the mind of a woman believed to be & ‘Washington high school teacher—a married woma which caused her to seize an infant last night, drive away with him, strip n with 14 years of honorable service— boy from the midat of his playmates | the clothes from his body, but sppar- ently leave him uninjured, confronted Prince Georges County authorities today with a strange conundrum in human behavior, They were waiting for State's Attorney Alan Bowie to decide what charge to place against the woman, now held at the Hyattsville Jail for investigation after the alleged kidnaping of 20-month-old Philip Shane, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norris Shane of Beltsville. The baby is back home, none the worse for his eerie experience with the woman who fought so violently when captured that it required eight strong men to subdue her and take her to jail. Back Within Hour. Little Philip, kidnaped from the street near his home on a side road & block off the Baltimore-Washington Boulevard in Beltsville last night, was returned to his parents within an hour., The kidnaper snatched the child into her automobile and drove away. Fol- lowing her arrest at a gasoline station At Berwyn an hour later, she refused to talk to police. Mrs. Alice Shane, mother of the boy, & | was watching her children at play when she noticed a woman talking to them at about 7:30 p.m., she told State police. When she called to the chil- dren to come inside, she said, the woman picked up Philip and put him | In her car, with the remark: I “All right, I'll take this one.” Playing with Philip at the time were his sister Joan, 7, and brother Allen, 5. As their brother was whisked away the other two children shrieked in terror, bringing several neighbors to the scene. Mrs. Shane ran into the house and | called the State police s hs:uon at Laurel. Speeding to the Bergt. (8¢e KTDNAPING, Page A-3) Iynched by unidentified | sault to murder Policeman Kelly were | PALMISANO SEES TAXBILL FAILURE AT THIS SESSION | Advises Commissioners to “Stop Squawking,” Raise District Levies. KENNEDY MEASURE WILL BE TRIED AGAIN Chairman to Try Monday to Push | Through Loan Bill, Beaten Twice Already. | BACKGROUND— With large deficit looming for District in present fiscal year, Con- gress decided to impose new tares on local residents rather than in- crease Federal contributions to sup- port of Nation's Capital After considerable wrangling over best tar program, whole movement was stalled. Meanwhile, although fiscal year had begun and junds were needed, House twice has re- fused to allow District to borromw jrom Treasury in anticipation of tax income JULY Chairman Palmisano of the House | District Commiitee today predicted that Congress will fail to enact a tax | bill At the current session, thereby | forcing the Commissioners to increase | the real estate and personal property | levies from $1.50 to $2.20 to raise the | necessary $7.000.000 to meet the an- ticipated budget deficit. Palmisano’s forecast was based on the already prolonged delay of the Senate in passing the tax bill, coupled with the “irritated” feeling of the | House with respect to District taxation | Even if the Senate should pass the tax bill befose adjournment, Palmisano | | believes, it will become deadlocked in | conterence Despite Palmisano’s belief, he said he will make another eflort Monday to push through the House the Kenney bill authorizing the Commissioners 0 borrow Federal funds—a measure de- signed as a stop gap in the serious financial plight that will confront the municipal government August 1, when its funds will be exhausted. Authority Refused Twice. Twice within the past month the House has refused to grant such au- thority to the Commissioners. Palmi- sano, however, believes a third attempt will be successful. | “I believe when the House under- | stands the seriousness of the situation it will pass the bill" he said | Palmisano was critical of the Com- | missioners, placing on them the blame for the present financial dilemma. He said their reluctance to advance the real estate levy when it became appar- ent the tax bill was to be tied up in the Senate was largely responsible for | the present situation. Had the Com- | missioners increased the real estate | tax, he said. the House probably would not have twice refused to permit them to borrow Federal funds to tide the municipal government over the pe- | riod of prospective insolvency from | August 1 until about October 1. when its treasury will be replenished with | tax revenues due in September. | (Note: It has been emphasized | repeatedly at the District Building that the District’s immediate need for revenue has nothing to do with the fate of the pending tax bill. Had that bill been enacted a month ago, the District would still need advances to tide it over until its own revenues, including new tax revenues, would become available. Had the Commissioners increased the real estate and personal tax rate at the beginning of the fiscal year, the situation would remain unchanged, for such revenues would not be available until Sep- tember. The Commissioners have not increased the real estate tax rate because the tax bill was ap- proved by the House as a direct method of avoiding such an ine crease.) Raise the Tax, He Says. “I don't believe Congress will give the District a tax bill this year,” said Palmisano. “I think the best thing the Commissioners can do is to stop squawking about the financial situa- | tion and go ahead and raise the tax " (See D. C. LOAN, Page A-4) Summary of Page. | B-16 | Radio __B-14-15 | Serial Story _B-10 A-8 | Short Story._B-10 Finance ____A-15 | Society - 3 Lot & Found B-10 | Sports FOREIGN. by Japanese sentries. Page A-1 200,000 loyalists and rebels battle for Madrid. Page A-3 Fierce fghting flares at Peiping: arsenal shelled. Page A-1 NATIONAL. Unconfirmed rumor says Roosevelt may abandon court plan. Page A-1 Court orders Ford company 4rial in assault case. Page A-1 Murdered woman believed victim of underworld ride. Page A-1 Jersey City V. F. W. to combat Ger- man-American Bund. Page A-4 A. F. L. to seek to organize editorial workers. Page A-18 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Palmisano predicts tax bill failure at this session. Page A-1 Sympathy strike action postponed; picketing here continues. Page A-1 New move planned to pass D. C. loan bill. Page A-1 Real Estate Board protests proposed heavy land tax plan. Page A-2 Herbert Moffat testifies fol fense as bonding trial resumes. Page B-1 Special board clears garbage service head. 20, 1937—THIRTY-FOUR PAGE ¢ Foening Star S, #xx AND THERE ARE SOME T4 WANT ME To TRY IT! The only in Washin, Associated Yesterday’s Ci evening gton wit| Press aper the News and Wirephoto Services, irculation, 137,356 (Bome relurns not yet recaived ) (#) Means Associated Pr TWO CENTS. ARCONI EXPIR AT HOME N ROME Inventor of Wireless Dies at 63 of Heart Paralysis. 20 (P).—One minute of silence is to be observed on American networks Wednesdav at 12 noon E. S. T simultaneously with the tuneral services of Gug- lielmo Marconi in Rome. By (he Associsied Poess ROME, July 20 —The Marquis Gug- lielmo Marconi, who invented wirele | telegraphy when he was only 21 years old, died suddenly at 3:45 am. today | (9:45 pm. Monday, Eastern standard A-11-13 | Political Mill. Obituary .. A-10| Woman's Pg. A-14 | Washington girl kicked and shoved | H. R. Baukhage. into Page B-1| time) at the ancient palace in down- town Rome, where he lived and worked As the early Roman dawn came across the Alban hills, the 63-year-old conqueror of the ether died quietly of heart paralysis. His widow, the Countess Cirstina Bezzi-Scala. was at his bedside. She had been called back from the seaside resort of Viareggio when he began o feel ill yesterday afternoon, Their daughter, Elettra Elena, whose godmother is Queen Elena of Ttaly, re- mained at the resort and will not re- turn to Rome until time for the state funeral. Today is her eighth birthday Premier. Mussolini, whose ardent supporter Marconi had been, was noti- fied of the death immediately. He dis- patched a telegram of condolences and later went to Marconi’s home in the Via Condotti and paid beside the body. A state funeral will be given for the inventor Saturday afternoon officially announced. An imposing | funeral procession will move from the | academy, probably to the Church of St. Mary of the Angel. which is built the old Roman baths of Diocletian, Fascists believed Mussolini would walk in the procession. Canceled Talk With Duce, ‘The first intimation that Marconi was not feeling well came yesterday afternoon when he was forced to can- cel an appointment with Il Duce. Pope Pius XI, with whom the in- ventor had had a long audience Sat- urday comcerning the new radio sta- | tion he was building for the Vatican, was notified by telephone at his Sum- mer residence at Castel Gondolfo. He sent a special blessing to the inventor. Marconi had been closely associated T (See MARCONI, Page A-5.) ELECTION SET BOSTON, July 20 (#).—Gov. Charles F. Hurley announced today a special election would be held September 28 to | choose a successor to the late Repre- sentative William P. Connery, jr, of Lynn. Today’s Star Luke I. Wilson, well known business man, di Page B-5 EDITORIALS AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page This and That. Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page bboDobimnn Stars, Men and Atoms. Answers to Questions. David Lawrence. Mark Sullivan, Jay Franklin. Delia Pynchon. SPORTS. Nats’ fourth-inning jinx factor in 9th loss in row. Page A-11 Mansgerial opportunity knocking for Gabby Hartpett. Page A-11 Pilot Frisch of cards cheered by Dean's return. Page A-11 Steele, 3-1 choice, rated too clever for Williams. Page A-12 Chicago strong for Braddock vs. Baer bout. Page A-12 Record purse awaits pros in Mid-At- lantic golf. Page A-13 MISCELLANY. Washington Wayside. Young Washington, Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. City News in Brief. Shipping News. Vital Statistics. Traffic Convictions. Nature's Children. Cross-Word Puszie. Bedtime Btories. Letter-Out. FEE Page A-2 Page A-16 Page A-14 Page A-14 Page B-7 ‘Page B-7 Page B-7 Page B-7 Page B-14 & PageB-14 Page B-1§ Page B-15 his respects | it was | ‘Budge Noses Ou In 5 Sets, Gives Californian | WIMBLEDON, England, July 20 (P —In one of the most dramatic | matches in Davis Cup history, Don Budge, the California red-head, spot- ted Baron Gottfried Von Cramm two #ets and then beat him todav, 6 -8 5—7. 6—4. 6—2. 8—6, in the fifth and deciding match of the interzone finals between the United States and Ger- many. Budge's victory sent the United States into the challenge round against Great Britain. Heinrich Henkel, stolid Teuton ace, beat the “Atlanta atom”, Bryan M. | (Bitsy) Grant, 7—5. 2—6. 6—3 and 6—4 in the dav's other singles match. | Budge, heavily favored over Von Cramm, whom he beat in straight sets in the all-England finals recently, found the titled Teuton at the height of his game and had to play the tennis of his life to emerge with the victory. WOMAN BELIEVED GANG RIDE VICTIM | Shot Three Times Near . Heart, Body Is Found on Harlem River Speedway. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, July 20.—An attractive young woman was shot and killed early today and left by the roadside of the old Harlem River Speedway, where the town’s gay blades raced their trotters in the 90s. | No one could be found who heard | any shots, but the police concluded from the rumpled condition of the | woman’s clothing and a dirty abrasion | on her face that she had been thrown from an automobile as it moved down the speedway, a lonely and deserted road at that hour. The victim, apparently taken for a ide in gangster fashion, had been shot in the abdomen and over the heart When the first police arriving on the scene turned her body over. a .38- caliber bullet dropped from her cloth- ing. | | Sugar in Pocket. ? They also found in a pocket of & leather windbreaker she was wearing six lumps of sugar. She wore a purple blouse and blue skirt of inexpensive rayon, tan stock- ings and blue oxfords and was in her early 30s. Sewed to her dress was a small piece of cloth bearing the name “Irma Pradier.” Detectives learned | later that a woman of that name had | been employed by the New York Insti- | tute for the Education of the Blind as | & maid, but had quit in 1932, | A Columbus Hospital surgeon who | examined the body said the woman | had been shot at such close range her skin and clothing were burned. She bled freely, but the stains on the grass by the roadside were slight, indicating, police said, she was shot elsewhere, probably in an automobile. Recall Gordon Slaying. The police recalled the killing of Vivian Gordon, six and a half years ago, about 4 miles north of the speed- way in Van Cortlandt Park. ‘The Vivian Gordon murder was one of the city’s most spectacular crimes. It climaxed a period when gang rides 4s & means of eliminating competitors in the field of bootlegging, the policy game and the various rackets which flourished so mightily in prohibition days, had become fairly common. Vivian, garroted and dumped in the park on February 26, 1931, was & play- girl of the bright lights. She kept many little black books, inscribed with the names of clients, and with numer- ous sinister notations expressing her fear of gangland vengeance. Police ran down some 600-0dd leads, trying to get her killers. They made & number of arrests, even brought two men to trial, but in the end the crime was set down as another un- solved mystery. In recent weeks there appears to have been a revival of the ride as a means to an unpleasant end. Last week two ride victims were found in Brookl ‘Whether they‘. were boonzggmx‘vicum or were rubbed out in s pMicy racket warfare the police have yet to determine. vever Ahead Until Last Games of Final Set—W ins, 6-8, 5-7, t Von Cramm U.S. Series, 3-2 2 6-2, 6—4 and 8-6. ‘ Victorious over the Germans. matches to two, the American team will face Great Britain in the chal- lenge round, starting Saturday. The Americans will be heavily favored, for the British will be without the services of Fred Perry, now a professional. and George Patrick Hughes, who is ill Aside from a temporary let-down in the secend set. Henkel kept the tiny Grant pretty well under control 1o bring the series count to two vic- tories each. o It was Grant's second successive defeat of the series. He bowed to Von Cramm. 6—3. 6—4. 6—2 in the opening match Saturday. Henkel split even in his two singles engage- ments, bowing to Budge, 6—2. 6—1 6—3. on Saturday. The Americans second point came yesterday, when Budge and Gene Mako whipped Von 1See DAVIS CUP, Page A-5) three FORD FIRM TRIAL | IN RIOT ORDERED vCompany and 8 Individuals‘ Named in Citation on | Assault Charge. | | BACKGROUND— | United Automobile Workers, a Committee for Industrial Orgamza- tion affiliate, turned attention to union campaign in Ford plants last Spring. Henry Ford announced he would resist. On May 26 union men, attempting to distribute liter- ature at gates to River Rouge plant, were severely beaten by men iden- tified as Ford workers. Court suits followed, and the company was cited by the National Labor Rela- tions Board on a charge of unfair labor practice. By 1he Associated Pre. DETROIT, July 20.—Common Pleas Judge Ralph W. Liddy today ordered eight individuals and the Ford Motor Co. as a corporation, held for trial in the Wayne County Circuit Court, on an assault warrant based on the riot at the Ford plant gates May 26 The formal charge was assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than the crime of murder, in connec- tion with the beating of United Auto-, mobile Workers' members attempting to distribute union literature near Ford's River Rouge plant in suburban Dearborn. Judge Liddy acted after hearing evidence that William Merriweather, on whose injuries the warrant was based. suffered two broken vertebrae. He said he found “probable cause” has been established against all of the de- fendants. | Conviction on the charge might re- sult in a maximum penalty of five years' imprisonment and $1,000 fine. Individuals Listed. The individuals held for trial in the | court’s September term ,are Everett Moore of the Ford service department, which polices company property; Wil- | fred Comment, Samuel Taylor, Wor- | shon Sarkisian, Charles Goodman, Oscar Jones and Theodore Greis, all Ford employes, and Russell J. Edick, | former newspaper circulation employe. | A ninth defendant, Angelo Caruso, has disappeared. The warrant was issued after Judge | Liddy conducted & one-man grand | jury inquiry into the fighting. Among | the union men beaten were Richard "7 (See FORD, Page A-18) DESIGN BA.TTLESHIPS NEW YORK, July 20 (#)}—Five hundred draftsmen today began the 14-month task of designing plans for the first battleships to be built by the United Statse since 1923. Capt. Charles A. Dunn, industrial manager of the New York Navy Yard, said plans alone for the 35,000-ton battleships, the North Carolina and the Washington, would cost $3,000,000. The ships. identical in design, will cost approximately $60,000,000 each. The North CRolina will be con- structed in. Rrookiyn. the Washington | ness manager of the Painters | in | reason AL D. . PAINTERS IRDEREDTOSTRE N0, S, J0BS ROW | | 500 to 600 Union Men Called Out in Blow Aimed at Contractors. SYMPATHY WALKOUT ACTION STILL DELAYED Other Labor Organizations Will Consider Possibility at Meet- ing Tomorrow. BACKGROUND. Most local contractors have co- operated with building o pay wage scales use union men on public j0hs Deciding cases where refused. organized workers went on stri five school projects unions union and to force showdown in such 1 co-operation construction last week on esterday ocal painters went out Jobs. same issue on Federal All union painters emploved Washington were ordered o this afternoon. it wa headquarters of loca ers' union The action in six hundred emploved on work, it was local's drive Government labor. The controversy to a nnounce. foree ca Jobs t tractc ) use only has been brought head during the last few davs as an Atlanta, Ga. firm Wilson & Sons, placed r at work on cor Post Office and ternal Revenue Labor Union Backs P: The pai bers off terday in protest firm's policy Labor Union as indorsing tion of yester h nions allied industry met Washington 12 ract the eau ters' unic Last night placed the paint sentatives a Build no act g Trades Council on was taken on mpathy strike of the Executive Board of the Council will be held tomorrow witn consideration of a city-wide Federal building strike expected then The strikes already under way here were called by B. P. Holcombe, busi- Unio of protest against u: non-uni labor on contract jo City Post Office and the Bureau of Internal Rev~ ente Picketing Began Yesterday. Picketing began yesterday at the Internal Revenue job and was scheds uled to start today, weather permit- ting. at the post office. The 1 painters out in protest were taken from jobs at the Government Printirg Office. the Procurement Diw: Archives Building and the new Ape Building Major Federal projects now under way in the District and which might be brought to a standstill by a gen- eral strike call are at the Apex Build ing, Archives Building, Printing and Engraving Annex, Printing Office warehouse and at the Procurement Division itself In event the local impasse cleared up satisfactorily with days, Holcombe said he would appeal to his international headquarters in Lafayette, Ind., to issue a strike call to all union painters on Procurement, Division jobs throughout the con try As the Federal situation appeared | heading for a showdown, machinery | set up yesterday to straighten out an | identical controversy with regard to | District building projects was set in motion. Formal Complaints Due, First step will be submission of for= mally prepared complaints by the Building Trades Council againsi twa firms using non-union labor on threa District school jobs, the complaints 19 £0 to the newly-created District Labor Relations Board, which is charged witn maintaining fair practices in muni pal contract work Capt. J. S. Bishop, jr., chairman ot the new board, said the complaints will be submitted immediately to the Labor (See LABOR, Page A-4) 24 MORE REPORTED EXECUTED BY SOVIET “Trotskyist and Japanese Spies’ Were Accused of Sabotage on Railroad. By (he Associatec Press MOSCOW. July 20 —Execufion 24 more alleged “Trotskyist and Jap anese terrorist spies and wreckers™ was reported from the Soviet Far East today. The Khabarovsk, Siberia, eourt which sentenced them to death ac- cused sthem of sabotage along the trans-Siberian Railroad (The executions raised the total of persons reported executed in Soviet Russia’s spy hunt in re- cent months to 322, most of them in the Far East.) Pravda, Communist party news- paper, charged delay in harvesting the Soviet's bumper wheat. crop. The charge was linked with new shake- ups in high offices. Edward P. Rosenthal, vice com- missar of water transportation. was removed from office for an undisclosed and succeeded by Georgi Kucheroff. Tursun Khodjaieff, com- missar of domestic trade in the Uzbek Republic, was succeeded by Akbardjan Akhmedoff, former Uzbek commissar for grain and cattle breeding on state farms. Pravda reported that only 31.310.- 000 acres ofgfwheat, 14 per cent of scheduled reaping, was harvested by ion % fow not ot at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. July 15.