Evening Star Newspaper, July 20, 1937, Page 2

HULL DRIVES ANEW FOR TRADE PAGTS Agreement With Britain Major Goal, but Others Are Pending. Br the Ascocated Press. Secretary Hull, apostle of reciprocal trade pacts, is putting fresh impetus behind the State Department’s cam- paign for additional most-favored- nation agreements An agreement with Great Britain, the biggest customer for American goods, is the major goal, but discus- #ions with other nations are proceed- ing Sixteen reciprocal pacts now | are in effect. The United States Embassy stafl in Moscow and Soviet officials are negotiating a renewal of the special frade agreement (one of the rare departures from Hull policy), under which Russia pledged itself to make purchases here of $30,500,000 in re- turn for the same trade treatment accorded other nations, Russian purchases during the year of the agreement exceeded $36.000,000, well above the designated figure. The | amount designated in the pact under | consideration is reported to be con- #iderably more than the present figure. Soviets Have Monopoly. | he Soviet pact ia not of the most-favored-nation type because the Soviet government has a virtual mo- nopoly on Russia’s foreign trade. | Instead of making concessions favor- | able to American goods, it guarantees their purchases. egotiations under way with Czech- oslovakia are expected to culminate a00n in an agreement. Preliminary | discussions have been held or are in progress with Argentina, Chile, New Zealand and Australia Recent talks with the finance min- | tralila and New Zealand | med to lay the groundwork for pacts with those important Brit- | ish commonwealths and to clear the wayv for a British-American accord. The chief barriers are the Ottawa agreements under which England | ®ives members of the empire preferen- tial treatment British Advantages Sought. The discussions in progress and ex- changes of views with the British are understood to have as their objective a reduction in the preferential margin | which would permit American goods, especially agricultural products, to compete in the British market In return it would be necessary for the United States to grant concessions on some British and empire exports. American officials consider the plug- gmng last week of loopholes in the Brazlian-American pact a significant advance in the trade program Under a “gentleman’s agreement” made necessary by Germany's suc- | invasion of the Brazilian mar- Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. PLUG NICKEL. 1SS DEAN HOLMEAD, & correspondent who had us intimidated with the first three lines of her Iletter, writes in to tell of an experience with guns, money, cashiers and the 5 and | 10 cent store. elements which inject | a large part of all melodrama into ! modern life. Says she was out target shooting one afternoon when a friend asked her if she could hit a penny 50 feet away. She did (this was the part that scared us). So she set up a dime at the same distance and hit that too. Few days later she was in & five and dime store and offered the dime in payment for an article. Noticed the salesgirl bounced it up and down on the cash register a few times, then dis- appeared. Came back with the man- ager, who looked like he suspected | something. definitely. | “Sorry.” he said, “but we cannot accept this coin.” Miss Holmead went home, took a hammer, flattened out the dime where it had been nicked by a bullet, took it back to the same store, same counter, same salesgirl, bought some- | thing and passed the coin. She feels much better now. So do we. having & friend who can shoot like that. k% X NAMES. Noted among the monnikers of creexa, and trickles Richmond : No Creek, Po Creek * % % % EFFICIENCY. dozens of runs, inlets between here and 'WO newsboys who deliver this sheet | out in Clarendon have worked | out a svatem of their own probably ! on the theory that what builds char- | acter in a child also builds it in parents. [ Each aftermnoon they ride along THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. TUESDAY. NEW D.C.LANDTAX PLANKSSAVETOWN 0PPOSED BY BOARD Real Estate Already Bears 60 Fer Cent of Load, Senators Told. Pointing out that real estate already bears about 60 per cent of the city's tax load, the Washington Real Estate Board has sent a protest to members of the Senate againat the heavy land tax approved by the Senate District Committee. The board appeals for a more equitably distributed tax pro- gram. The lawmakers also are reminded that the land tax, which is a modifi- cation of the Henry George theories, would lead to density of population in- stead of enabing home owners to have | sunshine and air. The letter, signed by W. C. Miller as chairman of the Real Estate Board Committee on Taxation, reads, in part, as follows: “We citizens of this District are not unmindful of the many and varied duties which you, in your own com- mittees and in the Senate, have im- posed on you, but as you are charged with the responsibility and trusteeship you must be regarded by us as our bulwark against unjust exploitation. Tax Held Unfair, “This bill (contrary to the modern trend in real estate taxes which in its attempt to encourage home ownpx'v! ship, inclines to limit to a maximum | of 1'; per cent the tax which may be imposed upon real property) in- creases by 662; per cent the tax con- templated on land within this dis- trict. The inequities of the proposed tax are clegrly shown on the inclosed clipping which we earnestly »pequest you to read “If, in your opinion, the city should be developed with & minimum of land and a maximum of housing, thereby increasing the density of the popu- lation pattern, you can, of course, fol- | managed low the theories of Henry George, of | which this bill 15 a modification, but if you believe that every home should have as much sunshine and air as is within the power of the purchaser to own, you cannot but be against this increased land tax | “We well realize that adequate rev- | | enue must be provided for good gov- ernment and that our municipality should not be run with unbalanced ! budgets and we are for paying our | way as we go. In an emergency we are not opposed to Congress im- posing & sufficient tax to pay for the | expenses of the Government, but we feel it must be borne in mind that | real estate proximately 60 per cent of the total tax bill for the District of Columbia and that taxes should be levied in 8 consistent manner, where one class of taxpaver should not be forced | to bear the burden of the increase. is already carrying ap- | | from Works FROM PEST ARMY Horde of Mormon Crickets Diverted From Sundance to Grain Fields. By the Associated Press. SUNDANCE, Wyo, July 20.—A huge brown wave of Mormon crickets, repulsed from Sundance by a barrier of tin and planks, last night turned to the county's best wheat crop in eight years. (3 Farmers and ranchers, seeking to save their grain and pastures from the invading horde, plowed deep furrows and filled them with oil. Mpre than 100 P. W. A. workers battled the pests with poison. Mile-Long Wall Erected. The crop-destroying legion, travel- ing southwest at the rate of more than a mile a day, was turned back from Sundance with a mile-long wall of planks, surmounted by & strip of tin. Only a few of the wingless pests to crawl over the barrier, and they were trapped by a second wall. The bulk of the crawling invaders, however, veered from the town into the grainfields and pastures. Northeastern Wyoming has been fighting the crickets for years, but never before in such numbers. High- ways are paved with them. Fences and houses In some sections are cov- ered. Near Dakota Line. In all directions from Sundance ap- proximately 1,000,000 acres of land are infested with crickets. Yesterday the eastern edge of the advancing army reached Beaulah Hill, about 3 miles of the South Dakota line. John Hartney of the State En- tomology Department warned Sun- dance’s 500 residents that the danger of infestation was not past, even though the pests had been turned away. He said 90 per cent of the crickets were females, ready to lay eggs. and another wholesale invasion was threatened, JAMES ROOSEVELT SIDETRACKS PLAN| Awaits Bay State Industry's Work Program as Substitute. By 1he Associated Press. BOSTON, July 20—James Roose- velt, son and secretary of the Presi- dent, vesterday sidetracked his plan for finding jobs for persons laid off Progress Administration | projects after announcement that the Associated Industries of Massachu- se! Left: building ®Right: barrier to the hordes of insects. stopped there. ULY 20 Mormon crickets, moving hungrily toward Sundance, Wyo., climbed up and over nearly every obstruction in their path. This mile-long fence, topped by an eight-inch strip of tin, was the onl The crickets could climb the This festoon ascended a ranch to ravage its gardens, v effective planking to the tin, but were NEW FARM PLAN OFFERED INHOUSE Jones Bill Combines “Ever- Normal” Granary and Crop Production Control. E the Associated Preas Chairman Jones of the House Agri- culture Committee proposed today a new general farm bill embracing the | “ever-normal” granary and crop pro- | duction control features . B. C. Plans Series Of Programs About New Studios in D.C. An extensive series of pro- grams has been arranged by N B. C, in connection with the opening of its new studios in the Trans-Lux Building. Today is devoted to a press preview. In addition to the features listed below, regular artists will be heard in special presentations 4 pm—WRC, WMAL. “Meet the Staff.” Informal interviews with those emploves who work behind the scenes, are now heard on the air 5 pm—WMAL, “Front Row, Center!” Prominent local the- i —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. | | | TENHURT INFIGHT AT TINPLATE MILL Cumberland C. I. 0. Pickets | Attempt to Halt Car Entering Plant. | By the Associated Press CUMBERLAND, Md, Julr 20 least 10 persons were injured, with four requiring hospital treatment. in a battle that followed attempts of pickets to halt two maintenance employves ! driving into the N. & G. Taylor Ti At his fine OLIVER 0. KUHN RITES ARE TODAY Managing Editor of The Star to Be Buried in Rock Creek Cemetery. Funeral services for Oliver Owen Kuhn, managing editor of The Star, who died Sunday at Emergency Hos~ pital from uremic poisoning, will pa held today at 4 pm. at the National City Christian Church, Thomas Circle, Rev. Raphael H. Miller, pastor the church, will officiate. Burial be in Rock Creek Cematery The bocy wes removed to the church at 10 o'clock this morning to lie in state until the services, A‘ Messages of Sympathy. R Messages of sympathy and floral tributes were being received today from many parts of the country and from persons in all walks of life Mr. Kuhn was known to radio lis teners all over the Nation as “master of ceremonies” of The Star’s National Radio Forum, in which he presented discussions of public probiems by men high in Government. Many officials sent expressions of condolenca to the bereaved family or to The S Mr. Kuhn, who was 51 breakdown several weeks ago, but h condition did not become critical July 9, when he was taken to the h pital. will of thewe suffered Many Express Sorrow. EXpressions of sorrow Mr. Kuhn continued his widow and to The on the deat com r toda of to The Bethesda C Com-= merce, of which Mr, 1 was a lifa member, appointed a committee 1o draft resolutions of sympathy Newspaper Women's Club of Washington, r its pres Ned Brunson H wrote club wishes to ex its d in the pass [e) Kuhn, Mr. Kuhn was he esteem by the womar they have lost a real f Stephen Early, secreta Roosevelt Mrs. Kut friendsh 0 Preside in a letter of condolence 1n He has gone in ale talen'sy and abilities which had carried him from one achievement to another. Tha pity is that he could not have been longer spared both for the sake of his loved and loving family and beepusa the newspaper profession can 11l afford 10 lose one who had shed such luster upon it. For many and mar | we shall remember him. and m {and mourn him, and be thank We were permitted to know h | love him." thalt it it he Lol Seer it s was formulating a plan to return | atrical figures and stage acts are | ' plate Co. plant, early today Lohr Sends Sympathy. ket. Brazil agreed to several additional | protective measure “to safeguard its | (the Brazilian-American pact) prin- | ciples and benefits, in view of the | form of trading pursued by some other | countries.” FISH ‘PROBES’ RULE ON CHARITY GIFTS Legislator Asks if Tax Bureau Gave Mrs. Roosevelt a Decree. By the Azsoclated Press. Representative Fish, Republican, of | New York asked Secretary Morgen- thau vesterday if the Treasury had | d that Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt | does not have to report for income tax purposes the proceeds of her charity | broadcasts. Fish also inquired, in a letter, if their mother at the wheel, the boys | standing on the proaching a customer’s house on the right side of the street, the boy on the paper up to the porch, dashes bark to catch up with the machine. Same for the customers and the lad on the left-hand side. Bometimes, on their collection rounds, poppa comes along to drive them. One subscriber says the sight of a parent sitting in the car always has an almost magical effect in mak- |ing her pay up. The boys may have thought of that, too. * x ¥ % RACE. \ E HEAR a tale of another team of newsboys down in Richmond who have quadrupled their sales by Now when they spot a customer they start off in a big race, whooping, “Peppah, mistah, peppah,” and run- ning like mad. sich a ruling had been made public and if the Treasury “still approves of &uch a ruling.” | Robert H. Jackson, Assistant Attor- | ney General, said recently that the Internal Revenue Bureau had held | that Mrs. Roosevelt need not report | money received from broadcasts, since | it is turned over to a charitable insti- | tution. Jackson is & former general | counsel of the Revenue Bureau “If such ruling exists?” Fish wrote Morgenthau, “what is there to pre- vent business men from taking one day out of each week's earnings and | giVINg it to charity without having to report it as income? * * * Would not the ruling of Mr. Jackson, if ap- plied equally to all donors of charity, parmit assignment of income that | would defeat the Government in the collection of much-needed taxes?” ¢ * ¢ e PRESIDENT SIGNS FLOOD FUND BILL $194.536,063 Appropriated for Control and Other Work by Measure. President Roosevelt today signed a bill appropriating $194,536,063 for flood control and other non-military activities of the War Department for the current fiscal year. The amount provided for the flond- control projects was $105,000,000, half of which is to be taken from the newly appropriated $1.500,000,000 relief fund. All but $7,500.000 of this earmarked relief money will be spent on projects under Works Progress Administration regulations requiring relief labor. Preliminary studies, looking to flood control on the North Branch of the Potomac River, in the vicinity of Keyser, W. Va,, would be authorized under a measure the House adopted vesterday and sent to the Senate. Similar surveys would be ordered on the Tygart River near Elkins, W. Va. The United States Engineer Office, under jurisdiction of Maj. Walter D. Luplow, district engineer for the War Department, would likely undertake the job. The measure, as passed by the House, would authorize prelim- inary flood control examinations and surveys on upwards of 500 tributaries In some 20 States. The major item carried in the measure is authoriza- tion of $24.877,000 for flood control work in the lower Ohio River basin. AD CLUB PREVIEW Members of the Advertising Club of ‘Washington will get a preview tomor- row night of the new National Broad- casting Co. studios in the Trans-Lux Building, which will be formally dedi- cated Thursday night. A special program, entitled “The Romance of Advertising.” will be brosdcast over Station WMAL from 9 to 10 pm. in salute the club. A reception for the memwers is scheduled from 5 to 7 p.m. the innocent bystander takes pity on the loser and buys one from him too. One of the lads expiained they had decided to form a team when sales began to slow up on them. then, he said, they'd increased volume, each of them made an equal amount of profit. “You see,” he said, “first he wins a race, then I win one.” * x x % THE BIRD. Until we heard of the great canary mystery in Mrs. Caroline O’'Day’s office, we thought the con- stituent’s plea to Representative Mary Norton please to find him a good, strong wife just about topped items out of the congressional mail bag. Representative .O’Day’s letter came from a fellow in her district who begged her to send a canary bird to his old mother. She did. Few months later came another epistle. Fellow said the canary had died. Meanwhile, his mather also had passed away. Would Mrs. O’'Day mind sending him another canary, to remind him of his mother? She did that also. * ok % X CHANGE. ITE’M we printed here some time past about & chap who enjoyed an evening's entertainment gratis be- cause nobody could change a $10 bill inspired another local lad to try the trick, He started out with a twenty, just to be on the safe side, and met his first nemesis on a street car. Proffered the bill and the motorman promptly shelled out one $5 bill, four $1 bills and the balance in change. Not yet defeated, he went into a tavern and offered his $5 bill in pay- ment for & mug of beer. They changed that easily enough. Then he tried to exchange the street car silver for fold- ing money. They agreed all right, but he found that instead of having $10.90 in silver, he had only $7.90. Having learned that the chisel is a two-edged weapon, when he goes out at nights now he takes along nothing but car tokens, and not many of those. *xox % PENAL NOTES. “TDB AND TIED,” the Lorton Re- formatory’s monthly magasine, is running s serial crime story. Started in the June issue. Can hardly walt for the next. install- ment, but if the beat the bank robbers, who werefingenious charse- ters to say the we are going to be sore as hell. running board. Ap- | that side of the car jumps off, takes | the simpie method of joining forces, | The winner almost | always makes a sale, and sometimes | Since | Increase in Population. “The increase in the number of | Federal employes from about 65,000 in 1932 to about | civic services with a burden for which we should be favored rather than penalized. We must extend to these Federal employes police and fire pro- tection, hospitalization, sanitary serv- ices, educational opportunities and many other like services, which are not proper burdens upon the finances of the District of Columbia But from the time this additional load was imposed upon our municipal es- | tablishment the Federal contribution has been reduced from $9,691,000 in ! 1932 to $5.852,000 in 1936 and from 22.25 per cent to 15.24 per cent of our general funds. At the same time great areas, formerly producing revenue for the District of Columbia, have been purchased by the Federal Government for parks, playgrounds and for Fed- eral improvements in an attempt to | great name and the magnificent Re- public in which we live. “May we depend upon your earnest efforts to give us a fair sax bill, one which is equitable and just to all, and one which would be a credit to the citizens of the District of Columbia, and may we remind you that those administering our finances and gov- ernment should confine their expendi- tures to the normal revenue to be ex- pected from the customary tax base A memorandum accompanying the letter estimates the impending deficit at about $8,000,000, but shows that both the House and Senate tax sched- ules would raise more than that. The House bill, the committee figures, would produce $9.250,000, while the Senate changes would raise about $10,- 350,000. The memorandum also calls attention to the high percentage of tax-exempt property in the Capital. For the last fiscal year the assessment figures are given as follows: Taxable property, $1,144,457,153; tax exempt, $809,003,021. aetee NAVY TUG TO ASSIST IN FLOATING CRUISER Arrives at Castle Island Light. Omaha's Captain Reports Smooth Seas and No Danger. By the Associated Press. The Navy Department said today the Navy tug Patriot had arrived at Castle Island Light, at the approach to Crooked Island Passage in the Bahamas, to aasist in floating the light cruiser Omaha. The 7,050-ton oruiser went ashore there early yesterday while en route from Central American waters to Charleston, 8. C. The Omaha's captain reported his ship was not afloat at high tide this morning and that work was contin- uing to lighten the vessel. The salvage ship Killerig is en route to the scene and the Navy tanker Salinas, with a lighter, is due along- side the Omaha at 8 o'clock tonight. The Omaha’s commander reported smooth seas and no danger. | the unemploved to work 117,000 in 1936, as | shown in the Jacobe report, loads all | make our Capital City worthy of its| trusteeship toward the disfranchised | Albert N. Murray, president of the Associated Industries, said his organ- ization in a few davs would announce details of its plan, which he described as “entirely free from politics.” Murray had previously declined to accept the chairmanship of a com- | mittee to organize the Roosevelt plan, explaining he did not think the method proposed would “get us there. The President’s son expressed sur- prise and pleasure at Murray's an- nouncement and said the organizing | committee he had named would be kept in existence pending the success or failure of the Associated Industries plan. P. A, O'Connell, president of the Boston Retail Trade Board, was elected chairman of the Roosevelt Committee, GREEN'S EXPULSION DELIBERATED TODAY Debate Treason Charge for Fight Against C. I. 0. By the Associated Press. William Green, president of American Federation of Labor, faced expulsion today from the United Mine 47 years, The miners' international board as- sembled for its first meeting since last Winter. It accused Green of high trea- | %on in helping the A. F. of L. baitle | John L. Lewis' Committee for Indus- trial Organization, that Green's approval of an A. F. of L. charter for the Progressive Miners of America, rival to the U. M. W. in Illinois, was the count about which the board was most concerned. Green belongs to the U. M. W.s Coshocton, Ohio, local and has paid his $1-a-month dues throughout the A.F.of L.-C. I. O. battle. He also paid the special assessments to help fight the federation. Expulsion from the U. M. W. wouid not cost Green his federation post. He also holds an honorary membership in the Musicians’ Union. TWO DROWNED, 9 SAVED AS SHIP SINKS SUDDENLY By the Associated Press. SAULT STE. MARIE. Mich., July 20—Two men drowned yesterday near the ore carrier Alcott, when the 287-ton supply ship Prontier sank suddenly. Nine persons, including three women, were rescued. The men drowned were Joe Man- ning, & fireman, and Walter Craven, & dock blacksmith. William Maxwell, agent for the Pittsburgh Steamship Co., its dwners, said the ship was loaded with meat, groceries, ice and other supplies. He withheld comment on the cause of the accident. The Frontier went down quickly in 124 teet of water. By the Associated Press. Senate freshman Democrats today thanked Senator Norris, Independent, of Nebraska for “gallant leadership” of the liberal cause. Senator Smathers, Democrat, of New Jersey made public a letier, signed by 13 of the 14 first-year Democrats in the Senate, which was sent to Norris yesterday. Smathers was instructed to prepare the letter at a recent meeting of the group. Senstor Andrews, Democrat, of Flor- ida, who was ble to attend the meeting, was the ginly one of the fresh- men who did nof* the message. “I% mAy interest you to know,” #he 13 Freshman Senators Send Leadership Thanks to Norris group wrote, “that we, the under- signed, representing the ‘freshman class'—the last group of United States Senators to come to that body from the people—met this morning and pledged ourselves to continue the fight for liberal and progressive policies as exemplified by your record in public life. “We acknowledge our debt of grati- tude to your gallant leadership, which has brought so many liberal ideals into & reality for the betterment of the Government and benefit of the people.” ‘The me! e closed by wishing Nor- ris a quicl overy from the iliness which has kept him from the Senate. United Mine Workers' Board to! the | Workers, to which he has belonged for | Usually well-informed persons said | | The bill. which Jones introduced when the House convened. would use | the present soil conservation benefit payments and penalty processing taxes as machinery to effect crop control It would give the Secretary of Agri- culture authority to establish a mar- keting quota for all producers of such products as corn, wheat, cotton, to- bacco and rice. Farmers who sold more than their quota would be denied | soil conservation benefit paymen which last year totaled approximat $400.000,000. | When the granary threatened overflow, the Secretary would have authority to establish processing taxes | on the products of which there was an oversupply. The tax would be as follows: Cot- ton. 2 cents a pound: wheat. 10 cents | a bushel; rice, 10 cents a bushel, and 25 cents a hundred pounds on hogs | when there was an oversupply of hogs. (Most of the corn crop is marketed a5 hogs.) i The measure contained many provi- sions of the proposed “agricultural ad- justment act of 1937, sponsored by the American Farm Bureau Federation and indorsed in principle by Agricul- ture Secretary Wallace. It did not contain, however, a pro- vision for cash payments from the Treasury to supplement growers' in- come when farm prices fall below the | “fair” price level. It was this provi- | | sion of the federation bill that drew | | Jones’ objection. | | The measure also would establish a | fund for the purpose of disposing of surplus commodities both at home and | abroad. It would give the Secretary | of Agrictulture authority to file appli- | cations on behalf of farmers for ad- Justment in freight rates. STRIKERS’ CLUBS DESCRIBED T0 JURY Vendor Says 300° or 400 Demon- strators Had Weapons on to | Memorial Day. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 20.—An ice cream vendor, Clyde James. 19, testified today he saw “300 or 400" steel strike demon- strators carrying clubs in a parade that preceded the Memorial day battle | with police in which 10 men were killed. James told & coroner’s inquest jury he s0ld ice cream at the strikers' tav- ern headquarters a quarter mile from the Republic Steel Corp. plant during | & mass meeting that preceded the parade and riot. He seid he saw banners handed | through a tavern window to 35 or 40 | marchers as they began to line up and heard one man say, “Break off the bot- tom part and use them for clubs.” Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Probably takes up farm interest rate veto; may resume couri debate. House: Considers private bills. Naval Committee holds hearings on modernizing aircraft carriers. Rivers and Harbors Committee con- siders regional planning bill. Agriculture Committee studies farm credit and crop insurance bills. TOMORROW. Senate: Will be in recess until Thursday. Democrats will caucus at 10 a.m. to elect a leader to succeed Senator Robinson, House: Considers miscellaneous bills on calendar, Immigration and Naturalization Committee considers miscellaneous m. Committes considers bills bills; 1 Distri to liGuor eontrol act: 10:30 am, presented in a salute to the thea- ters 5:35 pm—~WRC, “The Fourth Estate” A tribute to the press with well-known newspaper men taking part 6:45 pm —WRC., Gordon Hit- tenmark interviews members of the press attending the reception. MRS. STURGIS DIES; WAS D. C. EMPLOYE Secretary to Chief Bacteriologist Had Held Post for 29 Years. Mrs. Louise T. Sturgis. 69, for 20 vears secretary to Dr. John E. Noble chief bacteriologist in the Dis Health Department, died in Casualty Hospital today. Mrs. Sturgis, who had lived in Washington since girlhood, entered the District service 29 years ago and was within one year of retirement. Dur- ing her later years she lived with her brother, John Thomas Tabler, at 18 Eighth street southeast. She was a native of Prederick, Md Surviving, besides her brother, are ! a daughter, Mrs. Norman Luber; an- other brother, Urner Tabler, now in California, and four grandchildren. Private funeral services will be held | at Chambers funeral parlors, 517 Eleventh street southeast, at 11 am Thursday. A GLASS CASTIGATES INDIANA GOVERNOR Wouldn't Have Any Respect for Virginian Who Paralieled Him, Senator Says. By the Associated Press. A White House visitor's prediction of future political difficulties for Sen- stor Van Nuys of Indiana. an oppon- ent of the Roosevelt court bill, drew criticism yesterday from Senator Glass, | Democrat, of Virginia. Glass referred to the statement of Gov. M. Clifford Townsend of In- diana after a White House conference that he did not believe the Indiana Democratic organization would sup- | port Van Nuys for renomination in 1938. “I don'{ desire to project myself into Indiana politics,” Glass comment- ed, “but I have no hesitancy in say- ing that I would not have one perticle of respect for any Governor of Vir- ginia who would come to Washington | and be guilty of such a performance.” Four persons, injured when the car crashed into a concrete pole along | the plant driveway., were taken to Memorial Hospital. They were | Leo Lechliter, 22. driver of the car ries to his head and arms Pete Zebec, 32, cuts and bruises about the nose and arms. He and | Lechliter were in the latter's car Miss Bessie Radcliffe, 29, a striking | mill emplove, crushed right foot and injuries to her right thigh | George T. Miller, 23. also a picket, | injuries to his right shoulder and right | leg | Police said at least six other pickels were knocked down in the melee fol lowing the wrecking of the car. None was taken to the hospital. however and officers said they were removed by other pickets Twenty officers, including several special men, were on duty at the plant | entrance when the pickets attempted to halt the coupe occupied by the two maintenance men. The crowd around the gates and in the driveway. on company property. were estimated to exceed 200, of whom a large number Were spectators or members of other unions who bolstered the S. W. O. C line The tear-gas cartridges were dis- charged by police to disperse the crowd following the wreck and ensuing hand- t0-hand fighting. At noon less than 30 men and boys were around the gates. and all automobiles parked in that area were ordered removed by Chief of Po- lice Oscar A. Everman. “No parking” signs were erected this afternoon on | streets near the plant, which has been | closed since Mav 26 by the C. I. O drive against the unit of the Republic Steel Corp. 'MATTERN'S POLAR FLIGHT IN DOUBT Commerce Department Says There Is Little Chance of Ap- proval for Hop. By the Associatea Press. Commerce Department officials said today there is little chance that Jimmie | Mattern will be permitted to make a | proposed North Pole flight to Moscow. | These authorities, wanting to pre- vent recurrence of such air tragedies as the loss of Amelia Earhart, said it | also is doubtful that projected world | flights by Howard Hughes and Dick | Merrill will be authorized. Similar views were expressed regard- ing & proposed globe-circling flight by Merrill and Mark Hellinger, news- paper columnist. Merrill had intended | to take off from New York late this | month in an effort to break the round- the-world record of 7 days 18 hours chalked up by the late Wiley Post. | First “Boss Sit-Down Striker” Again Strikes, Closing Plant By the Associated Press. DETROIT, July 20.—Walter L. Fry, president of Pry Products, Inc., who became the first “boss sit-down strik- er” last February, was on strike again today. He told his 250 employes at & meet- ing last night he would quit work rather than deal with the United Automobile Workers of America. .The employes voted to stand by the union and Fry today closed the plant which makes automobile seat covers. “I don’t intend to run a plant where the U. A. W. is boss or even part boss,” Pry told the workers. ‘“There can be only one boss in a company. He is responsible for its success or failure. If I must accept that fe- sponsibility then I must have the right to be the final and last word in the operation of this piant.” “The union—perhaps not alone in our plant, but by wildcat strikes in plan our customers—has directly cal s loss of $22,500 to the Pry company in the first six months of this year," Fry continued. “In addi- tion, we have lost more than a quar- ter million dollars’ worth of business. “Congvess can pass laws and the National Labor Board can hold all the hearings it wants to. Perhaps they can fine me and put me in jail, as the union organizer says, but all the laws put tegether can't force me to operate this company at a loss simply to em- ploy you.” “I have no objection to unions,” he said. “I would welcome a strong, well-maraged and responsible union. But as the U. A. W. is now constituted, with its present leadership and tac- tics, I have no confidence in its re- sponsibility to keep an agreement.” He offered to permit the union to remain intact as a local and to deal only with representatives who are Fry employes. Fry and his employes engaged in simultaneous sit-down strikes last Feb- ruary, Fry in his office and the em- ployes in the plant. An agreemenf§ for recognition of union members | ing | contri | ended the strikes. Lenox R. Lohr. president of the Na- tional Broadcasting Co. who eollano- rated with Mr. Kuhn in the broadcast~ of 1 Radio Porum, wired it me to express for my= !f and the National Broadcasting Co, our sincere sympathy in a lo&s whirh will be feit nationally Mr. Kuhn's 1on to a national clear think- ing is one which only time can ap- praise at its true high value. Walter M son. managing edi- tor of the Daily Oklahoman, gent this telegram: “The newspaper world has lost one of the finest forces in the death of your capable managing edi- tor, Oliver Owen Kuhn. The staff of he Dx Oklahoman, where he worked many vears ago &S managing edit extends sympathy." John M. OConnell. jr, of the Bangor Daily News, seni this mes- sage: “Just learned with deepest regre, of the death Mr. Kuhn My sym- pathies to you good friends of whom he thought much, and w0 his familv 50 Carter Barron, directs theaters in this area, sent this tele- gram Our theatrical family in Washington mourns vour loss of Oliver Owen Kuhn. Please express to friends , on The Star the sense of deep shock we feel over Mr. Kuhn's death. Those of us who knew him loved the deep of Loew s | human warmth of his personality even more than we admired his great talent as & journ In this message of condolence Mr. Howard Strickling, Don McElwaine and Barrett Kieslirg of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, join me most sincerely.” YA Gifted From John Oliver LaGorce came & note of sympathy in which he euin- gized Kuhn as “a gifted journalist and editor, & modest, considerate gentle- man of rare ability and unswerving integrity,” and added. “the Nations Capital has indeed lost a distinguished citizen and friend.” L. E. Rubel, president wood & Underwood, wrote that Mr Kuhn's death “is a 10&s to the city s well as a loss to The Evening Star and particularly to those of the city for whom various charitable works have been undertaken Journalist.” of Under- “Appreciative always of The Star's sincere interest and furthering cause of such enterprises as the Com- munity Chest, Red Cross. Metropolitan Police Boys' Club, Symphony Orches- tra, etc, Mr. Kuhn, through his per- sonal and genuine interest, heiped make their continuance possible.” Henry M. Snevily, general manager of the Bell Syndicate. Inc, wrote that “we are deeply grieved about the loss of Oliver. I am sure that The Star | going to miss him."” b4 Arthur Reilly, Washington Herald news commentator, paid tribute to M Kuhn over Station WRC last night “Oliver Owen Kuhn's philosophy nf life was predicated upon a genuine re- ligious fervor,” Reilly said, “with 1= twin attributes of humility of soul and an abiding love of his fellow man. He walked with the great, ax became his exalted position, yet he was humble of hesrt, as became his very greatness.” the THREE ARE FINED $100 IN BIRTH-CONTROL CASE - By (he Associated Press SALEM. Mass, July 20-—Three women, & doctor, & nurse and the wife of a physician, were convicted today of disseminating information on birth control and were fined $100 each. They appealed. District Judge George B. Sears handed down the decision against Dr. Lucille Lord-Heinstein of Salem, Mrs. Flora Rand, Brookline, the nurse, and Mrs. Carolyn P. Gardner of Salem, g The charges arose from a police seizure of alleged contraceptives at a .. North Shore mother's health office In ruling that the health office wa: operating illegally Judge Sears sald: *As long as the statute continues iA force T see nothing but. that the prac- tice (of birth control) is fllegal.”