Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and cooler tonight and tomorrow, probably preceded by a thundershower this afternoon. Temperatures today— Highest, 89, at 2 p.m.; lowest, 77, at 7 a.m. Full report on page A-15. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 14 85th YEAR. No. 34,054. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, D.C. HEADS PARLEY WITH CONFEREES ON LOCAL TAX BILL Prospects for Other Meas- | ures Fade as House Can- cels District Day. COMMISSIONERS PLAN ATTACK ON LAND LEVY | Resolution for a Temporary Loan | Must Now Wait Until August 9 for Action. BACKGROUND— In face of deficit of about §7.000,- 000 looming for present fiscal year, Congress decided to impose new tazes on District residents rather than increase Federal contribution to support of Nation's Capital House passed taxr measure many weeks ago: last week Senate pushed through bull. Many important dij- Jerences indicate lengthy confer- ence consideration. Efforts to whip together a mutually satisfactory revenue bill for the Dis- trict were ready to begin in earnest this afternoon with the District Com- missioners scheduled to go into ses- slon with House and Senate conferees but prospects of other desired legisla- | tion for the Capital were dimmed | when House leaders decided to cancel the District day scheduled for today | With the House and Senate tax bills | widely divergent in character, the Commissioners were planning to direct their first opposition to the 1 per cent land tax provision which the Senate inserted. Favoring rather some sort | of business privilege tax, the Commis- | sioners are bearing statistics in sup- port of their contention that the land tax would force local property owners to bear 70 per cent of the impending deficit The action of canceling today's pro- | gram in the Ho means that four | District bills on the calendar must await consideration until the next | scheduled District day, August 9, if | Congress does not adjourn in the meantime. Loan Bill Delayed. The principal measure on the Dis- roke Fatal at 44 to. Copeland Backer and | New Deal Foe. i | By the Associated Press NEW YORK, July 26.—James J. Dooling, 44, leader of Tammany Hall, | died of a stroke early today in the midst of the bitterest political fight of | his organization's 151 years of ex- | istence. | Dooling, although already stricken ; and knowing his death might come at | any time, had just successfully | blocked an ouster movement against him, put through his own anti-New Deal candidate, United States Senator Royal S. Copeland, for the New York mayoralty against an unprecedented revolt, and brought about indirectly a split in Mayor Fiorello H. La Guar- dia’s fusion party ranks. Dooling had had several strokes. The final one ended in death at 7:30 this morning at his peaceful home at Belle Harbor, in the Rockaways, sur- rounded by his relatives. Dooling was unmarried, but closely attached to his relatives, especially his three sisters William P. Kenneally, chairman of | the Executive Committee of Tammany Hall, automatically succeeded to the | leadership of the organization by vir- tue of his office. He will hold office | until the Executive Committee selects & permanent leader. No comment was forthcoming im- mediately from Tammany members on what effect Dooling’s death would J. J. Dooling, Taimmany Head, Dies in Midst of Political War' - J. J. DOOLING. have on the approaching mayoralty campaign. Imniediate speculation among polit- ical observers as to who might succeed to the Tammany chieftainship brought forth two names, Christopher D. Sul- livan and John J. Kelly, long Dooling associates, but frequently opposed within the organization. In the re- | cent fight, Sullivan supported Cope- land and Kelly supported Grover A. Whaien. It was predicted in some political "~ (See DOOLING, Page A-3.) LOYALISTS MASS TODEFEND MADRID Insurgent Push Menaces| Pivotal Towns—60 Die in Barcelona Raid. BACKGROUND— Goaded by fall of important cit- ies in Northern Spain and French pleas for show of strength n face of ineflective mon-intervention de- liberations, Loyalist —government made brillant eflort to lift siege of Madrid. Recapture of Brunete marked beginning of determined trict calendar would authorize the | Commissioners to borrow Federal funds to tide the municipal government over | its prospective period of insolvency ! between August 1 and October 1. Ma- | Jority Leader Rayburn pointed out a | similar loan authorization is contained | in the District tax bill now in confer- | ence, and there is no necessity of sep- | arate action on the loan measure. The three other District bills on which aetion was delaved were de- signed to amend and liberalize the liquor control act, license and control barbers and to provide stricter regula- tion of adoption proceedings. The orincipal alteration in the liquor control act would permit the | sale of hard liquor by the drink over | bona fide lunch counters. Another is | intended to stop the flow of direct-to- | consumer tax-free liquor into the District. | The House named as its conferees Chairman Palmisano of the District | Committee and the following mem- | bers of that group: Representatives | Kennedy of Maryland and Nichols of | Oklahoma, Democrats, and Dirksen | of Illinois and Short of Missouri, Re- publicans. Kennedy, Nichols and | Dirksen were members of the special subcommittee which framed the origi- nal tax bill Senate Asks Parley. The Senate named its conferces last week A few minutes after the House con- | vened at noon the Senate sent formal | word of its passage of the tax bill last week and requested a conference. Action on this request was celayed | for 40 minutes, however, by a roll call of the House forced on a point of no quorum, raised by Minority Leader | Snell. Senator King said he is optimistic over the prospects of the conferees reaching an early agreement on con- troversial provisions of the tax bill, which has been in dispute since last March. The House conferees are expected to insist on inclusion of a business priv- {lege tax in the bill. This provision | was approved in the House bill, but was eliminated by the Senate. ‘The Commissioners are prepared to argue, it was learned, that an increase in the real estate tax from $1.50 to at least $1.70 seems inevitable and it ‘would be unfair in the face of this to saddle property owners with an addi- tional 1 per cent tax on their land. ‘The Commissioners have pointed out that taxes from real estate already constitute 60 per cent of the city’s gen- eral revenues and the increase pro- posed by the Senate would add an additional 10 per cent to this burden. SR e DR. J. H. HAWKINS, 55, FOUND DEAD AT HOME Biological Chemist Is Believed to Have Been Victim of Heart Attack. Dr. J. H. Hawkins, 55, was found dead on the floor of the kitchen of his home. at 3515 Livingston street, this afternoon by his colored maid. Police believe he died of a heart attack. Dr. Hawkins, a biological chemist, eonnected with the Navy Yard, had been dead apparently three hours when the body was found. A wound which police thought was suffered when he fell caused considerable loss of blood. Dr. Hawkins' wife and three chil- dren are vacationing in New Hamp- shire. Col. E. M. House Is 79. MANCHESTER, Mass., July 26 (&). —Col. E. M. House, wartime adviser of President Wilson and a close friend of President Roosevelt, observed his 79th birthday anniversary quietly at his Summer home today. His activities were restricted by & slight illness, § counter-ofiensive to regain large area of lost ground. By the Associated Press. MADRID, July 26 —Crack Spanish government troops massed before the | vital communications center of Villa- neuva de la Cana today to halt the ' shattering drisz fhat swept victorious | insurgent troops into Brunete, spear- head of the government's western sal- ient. Locked in battle for command of the siege lines west of Madrid. insurgent and government commanders threw into combat the greatest war machines yet assembled in the year-old civil war. Military observers believed the fate of the government's attempt to lift the Madrid siege might hinge on the Villaneuva battle. The town, 18 miles | west of the capital, is the key to com- munication lines in the 100-square- | mile wedge driven by Gen. Jose Miaja | into the insurgent lines. The government announced Brunete fell before a withering insurgent at- tack vesterday after a battle that see- | sawed back and forth across the shell- raked village. “The enemy displayed formidable resistance and with the aid of its| aviation and artillery succeeded in foiling our advance, and captured Bru- nete,” said a government communique. Driven Deep Into Salient. Generalissimo Francisco Franco's| reinforced army seat of Brunete drove deep into territory won by the gov- ernment's two-week offensive and forced Gen. Miaja's troops back with heavy casualties. Fierceness of the fighting at Brunete was confirmed, but government sources minimized the importance of the ad- vance, saying the insurgents won ground only at the expense of many (See SPANISH, Page A-3.) Lakes on Honeymoon. SAN SIMEON, Calif,, July 26 (#).— Arthur Lake, screen dancer, went honeymooning today with the former Patricia Van Cleve. They were mar- ried yesterday at the ranch of Wil- liam Randolph Hearst. Summary of Page. B-14 B-16 Page. -B-7 Serial Story..B-8 Short Story._B-11 Society -B-3 Sports A-11-12 ‘Woman's Pg. B-10 Comics Drama Editorials 8 Finance A-13 Lost & Found B-11 Obituary -_. A-10 FOREIGN. Madrid troops mass to prevent fall of communication center. Page A-1 Budge and Mako give U. S. 2-1 lesd in tennis. Page A-1 Gates of Peiping reported under Jap- anese attack. Page A-1 NATIONAL. Roosevelt expected to name Supreme Court justice soon. Page A-1 J. Dooling, Tammany chief, dies. Page A-1 Senate ponders whether freight trains should have 70 cars. Page A-1 Senate to consider wage-hour bill as step to adjournment. Page A-1 Reorganization legislation this session believed unlikely. Page A-2 Ford employe accuses attorney of La- bor Board. Page A-2 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Remaining program for Congress to be announced soon. Page A-1 Model for Little Lord Fauntleroy dies a hero. Page A-§ Twenty-seven-year-old mother drown- ed at nearby beach. Page B-1 Hearings on May airport bill scheduled tomorrow. Page B-1 Treasury projects face new delays in painters’ strike. Page B-1 Soviet fiyers are received at White House, Page B-1 4 J. BUDGE AND MAKO CAPTURE DOUBLES Defeat Tuckey and Wilde in 4 Sets to Give U. S. 2-1 Lead. BY the Associatec Press. WIMBLEDON, England. July 26.— Overcoming surprisingly stubborn re- sistance, Don Budge and Gene Mako whipped C. R. D. Tuckey and F. H. D. ‘Wilde in the doubles today, 6—3. 7—5. 7—9, 12—10, and gave the United States a 2-1 lead over Great Britain | in the Davis Cup challenge round with | two more singles matches yet to be played. With that one point advantage. American supporters now are confident Budge will whip enry Wilfred (Bunny) Austin in the final singles matches tomorrow for the clinching point_even if Frankie Parker bows to | Charles Edgar Hare in the opener, Have Tough Match. Budge and Mako, the all-England champions and conquerors of Ger- many’'s crack combination of Gott- fried von Cramm and Heinrich Henkel in the interzone finals, gave their fol- lowers many anxious moments today before they finally pulled the doubles match out of the fire After sweeping through the first two sets in rapid style, the Californians appeared headed toward an easy triumph. But with the veteran Tuckey performing brilliantly in sup- port of the untried Wilde, the British | came roaring back to win the third set and almost snatched the fourth as well Finally Crack Tuckey's Service. By a strange quirk, Tuckey captured every one of his service games until the twenty-first game of the fourth set And when Budge and Mako broke through then, it spelled curtains for the British. Leading 11—10 then, Budge served a love game in the twenty-second game for set and match. Three great smashes by Mako and an ace by Budge gave the Americans their winning points in the closing game. In the long run, it was Wilde's weak play that helped the Americans to win. Budge and Mako broke through his delivery in the eighth game for their decisive advantage in the opening set; (See TENNIS, Page A-3) Capone's Nemesis Dies. KANSAS CITY, July 26 (#).—David Nolan, Internal Revenue agent cred- ited with obtaining, evidence which helped send Al Capone, Chicago gang- ster, to Alcatraz Federal Prison for income tax evasion, died here yester- day of a complication of diseases. He was born July 28, 1882, at Peru, Ind. Today’s Star Commissioners against five-day week bill for firemen. Page B-1 EDITORIALS AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-8 This and That. Page A-8 Washington Observations. Page A-8 Answers to Questions. Page A-8 David Lawrence. Page A-9 H. R. Baukhage. Page A-9 Jay Franklin. Page A-9 Constantine Brown. Page A-9 Headline Folk. Page A-9 SPORTS. Surprising Griffmen return for long home stand. -Page A-11 Boston's busy Bees win 22 of last 30 games. 3 _.Page A-11 New 14-club rule is worrying golf pros. Page A-12 Budge earns good will for U. 8. on British courts. Page A-12 FINANCIAL. Corporate bonds up (table). Steel activity mounts. Stock traders cheerful. B. & O. earnings rise. Stocks hesitant (table). Curb list gains (table). MISCELLANY. ‘Young Washington. ‘Winning Contract. Shipping News. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Nature's Children. Cross-word Puzzle. Bedtime Stories. Letter-out, Page A-13 Page A-13 Page A-13 Page A-14 Page A-14 Page A-15 Page B-7 Page B-9 Page B-10 Page B-10 Page B-14 Page B-14 Page B-15 Page B-1§ 1 Page B-5 WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. MONDAY, CHINESE ENSNARE JAPANESE TROOPS, THEN FIRE ON THEM 500 Soldiers Enter Peiping, Gates Are Closed and At- tack Is Begun. DEFENDERS CLAIM FOE ATTACKED ENTRANCE Assault by Machine Guns and Hand Grenades Inflict Heavy Casualties. BACKGROUND— Most recent Far Eastern crisis resulted from Japanese clash with Chinese at Marco Polo Bridge, near Peiping, July 7. Several truces failed ‘to bring settlement of dis- pute, which centers around Japan's demand for economic dominance in North China. 87 the Associated Press. TIENTSIN, China, July 26.—Japa- nese army headquarters reported to- night that a battle was raging at a gate in Peiping's outer wall after Chinese permitted half a column of Japanese troops to enter the gate and then fired on them The Japanese column of about 500 men intended to enter Peiping by the southwest gate to “protect Japanese citizens.” The Japanese here said the Chinese announced they would permit the entry, then let half the Japanese troops come in and opened up with machine guns and grenades. Heavy Japanese casualties were re- ported both inside and outside the gate. (There already is a Japanese Em- bassy guard of about 500 men in Peiping.) Chinese reports said the Japanese attacked the gate shortly after a Jap- anese ultimatum demanded that Chi- nese troops quit Peiping and its en- virons or face drastic action. Reports of the new clash followed Japanese air bombardment of the 38th Chinese Army Division at Langfang, midway on the Peiping-Tientsin Rail- road. The Chinese government Central News Agency declared in a Peiping dispatch that Japanese used machine guns and light artillery in the en- gagement just outside Peiping walls. Chinese defenders patrolling the walls called out reserves. opened the | barred gate, rushed them eut and fought off the attackers, the report said. Chinese estimafed the attackers numbered about 500, and said they came from Fengtai, Japanese field headquarters southwest of Peiping. Probers Go to Langfang. Two Chinese and two Japanese Army officers left Tientsin on a special train for Langfang to investigate the main Sino-Japanese encounter. (At Nanking. China’s capital, the foreign office expressed indignation at the “Japanese attack.” The cap- ital heard reports that Chinese were taking up new positions and strengthening their forces south of Peiping, indicating there was no intention to bow to the Japanese ultimatum. (The Japanese Embassy curred with Chinese officials in viewing the situation as “most grave.” both factions professing to believe that “war is inevitable.”) At Langfang, Japanese bombs and machine guns were believed to have taken a terrific toll of Chinese lives, Reinforcements Arrive. con= Early this morning, after a bnttle{ had raged for several hours, Japanese reinforcements of men and planes ar- rived. Chinese officers said that {7 Japanese war planes subjected the Chinese Langfang garrison of about 1,000 troops to such punishment they were forced to withdraw after 12 hours. Chinese casualties were believed sev- eral hundred. Japanese officially listed fewer than 10 dead. Lieut. Gen. Kiyoshi Katsuki, com- mander in chief of the Japanese North China Army, demanded of Gen. Sung Cheh-yuan. Chinese warlord in the Hopeh-Chahar district: 1. That all units of the 37th Division of the 29th Chinese Army withdraw southward to Changsintien from the Lukouchiao-Wanpinghsien area south- west of Peiping before noon Tuesday. 2. That all other 37th units now in Peiping or in the west barracks gar- rison withdraw west of the Yungting River by noon Wednesday. Otherwise, said the Japanese general, there will be drastic punitive action by the Japanese Army. Already, Gen. Katsuki let it be known, all available Japanese strength was drawn up for such a punitive campaign. Resistance Reported Ordered. Gen. Sung, the Chinese warlord who commands both the 29th Army and the Hopeh-Chahar Political Council, was reported without confirmation to have refused the Japanese ultimatum and to have ordered his men: *Resist!" Chinese said the Langfang battle started when Japanese attacked troops of the 38th Division en route to Peiping to take over the Chinese garrison from the 37th in accordance with Japanese demands. Japenese, however, declared the at- tack was in reprisal for a Chinese assault against a Japanese signal corps detachment which was attempting to restore military telephone service. Chinese positions at Langfang were reported blown to bits. Hundreds of Chinese soldiers and civilians were re- ported killed. The Japanese ultimatum followed efforts of the Hopeh-Chahar Political Council to reopen truce negotiations with Japanese after the Langfang clash. Chinese proposed to suspend hostil- ities immediately, Domei (Japanese) news agency said. Gen. Katsuki was quoted as de- scribing the Chinese overtures as a “makeshift attempt.” He refused to negotiate until Chinese 37th Division troops were withdrawn from their positions, -~ & JULY | through C. I O. picket lines 1937. —THIRTY-TWO PAGES. ¢ Foening Star COME ON The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. L L . 144,938 TWO CENTS. OL PAL, LETS LET BYGONES BE BYGONES! TASTES GOOD, BUT HOW ABOUT ITS HEALING PROPERTIES? OINJURED INRIOT AT REPUBLIC MIL Police Break Picket Lines ! as 1,000 Strikers Mass Around Gates. E3 the Assoctated Press. | CLEVELAND. July 26 —Steel strike | violence broke out anew today. At least 20 persons were injured in riot- ing at Republic Steel Corp's Corri- gan-McKinney plant in Cleveland; 11 were arrested Clashes occurred when police broke Tom Glowacki, 51-year-old picket, suffered critical injuries when he was | run down by a car containing four men trying to enter the plant. Two policemen were hurt Some 1,000 strikers and sympathiz- ers. witnesses said, massed around one of the approaches to the plant's main | entrance. About 100 officers, many on horses and on motor cycles, at- tempted to clear a path. At first only boos and cat calls! came from the crowd, but as more | cars carrving non-strikers passed | through the line rocks fiew from the | strikers, police said | Il Fill the Hospitals. In melees which followed. Mounted Patrolman Rowley Oker was hit on | the back of the head. He remounted | and charged a crowd of 300 on the sidewalk, witnesses said. bringing his night stick down on the head of a striker, Matibida Manguos, 35, who collapsed under the blow. After the violence, first here since Republic reopened its Cleveland plants July 6, the strikers marched on City Hall in & mass protest against police action. Their ranks swelled and the | milling crowd was estimated at almost | 5,000 persons. | A committee of 15 carried a protest to Mayor Harold H. Burton. “I'll fill St. Alexis' Hospital with you people today if you don't get out of here,” James Quinn, financial di- rector of the C. I. O. Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, quoted Police Inspector Martin A. Horrigan as say- ing. Horrigan denied making the statement. One of those arrested was William Johnson, said by police to be the driver of the car which ran down Glowacki. Held for questioning. he said he lost control of his car when rocks were hurled, breaking two win- daws, and that he then drove into the crowd surrounding him. Police Car Injures Man. Smaller groups of pickets were on duty at the four other gates leading into the plant. While most of the rock-hurling occurred at the main gate, it was at one of the other en- trances that Glowacki was run down. Joe Blonk, 23, treated at a hospital for a bruised leg, reported that Hor- rigan’s cruiser knocked him under the fender of a car parked near the main gate. Since the reopenings of Corrigan- McKinney and Republic's three other Cleveland plants sporadic window- smashing, assaults and other vandal- ism has occurred. State troops, on hand for the reopenings, were with- drawn recently. Today's new drive to keep non- strikers out of the plant followed an order by Sheriff Martin L. O'Donnell removing a ban on picketing and a statement by Mayor Burton that po- lice had no right to bar pickets from zones around the plants without a court order. WHEAT GOIN.G TO SEED IN SOVIET’S FIELDS { By the Associated Press. Old Reaping Methods Too 8low to Cut Bumper Crop, Iz- vestia Claims. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, July 26.—Wheat going to seed in the flelds is cutting heavily into the Soviet's bumper crop, the government newspaper Izvestia de- clared today. It ascribed most of the loss to use of old-fashioned reaping methods for 46 per cent of the crop. Modern combines had been expected to har- vest 75 per cent of it. Only 234,000,000 bushels were har- vested, while 30,000,000 more remained in the fields up to July 20. Izvestia said the harvest, up to then, was 12.500,000 acres behind the corre- sponding date in 1936. 4 | Newspaper Ban | At Coney Beach Brings Protests Police Yank Journals From Owners in Clean-Up Drive. NEW YORK, July 26.—Freedom of the press was a burning issue today to 1.100.000 persons who were denied the right to read newspapers on the sands of Coney Island. They were told they not only couldn’t read them—but they couldn't sit on them either The edict was issued by New York City's department of sanitation in & drive to keep Coney Island’'s beaches clean. Yesterday 100 members of the de- partment’s litter squad walked meth- odically through a crowd of 1.100,000 week-end sun worshippers, yanking their newspapers right and left. There were many protests, but all to no avail. The law had decreed clean | beaches. Newspapers litter beaches. Newspapers must go. They went, LAFOLLETTE SEEN COURT POSSIBILITY Senator and Brother Are | Guests of Roosevelt on Cruise. BACKGROUND— Desirous of placing younger men on Supreme Court bench, President last Winter suggested sweeping re- organization of Federal judiciary. Revolting party members have Jforced abandonment of plan in so far as it afects highest tribunal. One opportunity for pro-Roose- velt appointment arose during Spring, when Justice Van Devanter retired and death of Senator Rob- inson left mo conservative with prior “claim.” By the Associated Press. The general expectation that Presi- dent Roosevelt will fill the Supreme | Court vacancy before adjournment of | Congress renewed speculation today over his possible choice. The latest name mentioned in the Capital was that of Senator Robert A. La Follette, progressive, of Wis- consin. The 42-year-old Senator and his brother, Gov. Phil La Follette of Wisconsin, accompanied Mr. Roose- velt on a week end cruise. Nothing was said on their return last night to indicate whether a suc- cessor to Justice Van Devanter, who retired in June, had been discussed. The President told his press confer- ence Friday that he had not yet con- sidered the appointment. Some persons suggested Gov. La Follette, as well as his brother, might be receiving consideration. Senator Norris, independent, of Nebraska, commented at his Summer home at Waupaca, Wis., that Robert La Follette was too valuable a member of the Senate to be spared for another posi- | said, “carried a ve (See COURT, Page A-4.) BARKLEY TOGIVE SENATE PROGRAM Promises Statement in “Day or Two” as Ad- journment Is Urged. BACKGROUND— Administration seeks to accom- plish many industrial reforms through omnibus labor standards bill; measure deals with regulation of wages and hours, elimination of child labor in industry and mainte- nance of other desirable working standards. Joint hearings were held on bill, after which Senate committee re- vised 1t greatly; House committee has not yet reported is version. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. A promise that “within a day two” he would make a statement to the Senate regarding the program for the remainder of the present session was made to the Upper House today by Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the new Democratic leader. Senator McNary of Oregon, Repub- lican leader, brought up the matter of adjournment on the floor soon after the Senate met. Arising in his place, he said he had noticed in the morning newspaper that Senator La Follette of Wisconsin was quoted as saying Congress should stay here and or complete the administration’s program | of legislation. McNary said he realized the Sen- ator from Wisconsin, who is very in- fluential with the administration might be considered a leader. He said, however, he would like to hear from the other leader, who had been on a | week-end trip with La Follette and with the President. He was referring to Senator Barkley. Speedy Adjournment Sought. McNary said many of the Senators believed the Senate should conclude its business now that the court bill is out of the way. He said that per- sonally he had purchased a ticket good for August 5 and he hoped to be able to use it. So he asked Senator Barkley what the prospects were for adjournment. “The press this morning,” McNary ment issued by the senior Senator from Wisconsin, who is a powerful | and influential force in this adminis- tration, to the effect that we are to have a rather ambitious program the remainder of this session of Congress. I doubt not that he spoke the voice of the President. “Accompanying the President with the Senator from Wisconsin was the Senator from Kentucky, our new leader. I am very anxious to know, and I shall be listressed to learn, that we are to follow the leadership of the Senator from Wisconsin and remain much fonger during the session. 1 have felt, since the capitulation which occurred last week under the manage- ment of our able Vice President, that we would probably adjourn, at any (See CONGRESS, Page A-3) SRR R El Centro, Calif., Shaken. EL CENTRO, Calif., July 26 (£).— A minor earthquake was felt in El| Centro at 11:37 o'clock last night, but no damage was reported. Senate Argues F reight Trains Of Only 70 Cars, Plus Caboose Possibly to demonatrlte‘ its versatil- ity, the Senate skipped from the size of the Supreme Court to the size of freight trains today. ‘The freight-train issue sneaked into the Senate last January, ahead of the Supreme Court proposal, when Sena- tor McCarran, Nevada, Democrat, in- troduced a bill to limit the length of such carriers to 70 cars, exclusive of caboose. The proposition was referred to the Committee on Interstate Commerce, where Senator Wheeler, Montana Democrat, who agrees with McCarran that the Supreme Court should be let alone, also agreed with him that freight trains should be shorter. Ac- cordingly, the Senator reported the bill with recommendation for passage, and it was at the top of the calendar when the lawmakers returned from week-ending today. hs Arguments on behalf of the move- ment for shorter freight trains center mostly ‘about safety. The committee report cited tests conducted by the American Railway Association, show- ing that a half-minute lag exists be- tween the time of effectiveness of brakes applied on the first car and the last car of & 100-car train. In one test, it was reported, on a 150-car train there was no braking effective- ness from cars 50 to 149. Other tests, it was reported, showed that 33 out of 35 signals given from the caboose of a 60-car train were understood correctly in the locomo- tive, but that only 13 were correctly transmitted in the same manner in a 70-car train and only 3 out of 35 for an 80-car train. The best solution, the committee contends, is to have less train between the caboose and the locomotive. 4 v interesting state- | NEW WAR BUILDING S ELIMINATED BY ECONOMY ORDER President Serves Notice to Congress to Hold Down on Construction. JEFFERSON MEMORIAL DELAYED INDEFINITELY Post Offices and Other Proposed Federal Structures to Be Sidetracked. BACKGROUND - President Rooserclt has made several recent suggestions for econ= omy in departmental erpenditures as tar returns fell below erpecta- tions and erpenses remained at high level At suggestion departments are to hold 10 per cent of appro- priated funds n during present fiscal year. nwhile, legislation plug loop= holes 1s expected. his reserve Me to taz la BY J. RUSSE President Roosevel L YOUNG, wants Congress of spending to hold down the matu money for new Governmer not only in Washington but throughout the cour The Pr e wh {and in the meant gress to put form of spendir This viewpoint of ¢ clear t D ident et %a et | White House he would ca back to Cap sident’s ideas He was of ths will endeavor to for | were to be pr deficiency bill | by the Appropriz i | which will be passed within a few days. New War Building Doomed. ccording to Wood W proposed Thomas which wa the soutk be postponed indefinitely, il the new home for the War Department. which it was claimed would cost about $26.000.000 The general bt ng program Wwas gone over by the President and Repe ative Woodrum during their ence today. and it was not de= ned whether or not the proposed 1ilding to house the Social Security Board has such a tremendous office force, could be postponed. Jefferson Jefferson |, memorial, erected o Ba. offices propose: United € the Government has the money and can afford to spend it purposes. This proposed line with the President’s determination to save r possible with a view to br a balanced budget within vear or so. to spend for these the next Reaction Unpredictable. Representative Woodrum, who was selected by the President to carry the message of retrenchment the Capitol. intimated that he was heart= ily with the President's policy, but that he was unable to say just what the ultimate action would be in Con=- gress. The Associated Press reported meanwhile that fiscal officials were passing the word that the President may instruct Government credit agencies to tighten their lending and | collection policies 1n an effort to bale | ance the budget this fiscal vear. This move, they said, would supple- ment the administration’s announced program to curtail expenditures Mr. Roosevelt already has asked de- partment heads to impound 10 per cent of many appropriations. Officials ex= pressed belief that this order. plus ine creased receipts from credit agencies, will materially reduce or eliminate the $418.000.000 deficit forecast for this fiscal year. ‘They said that the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and similar agencies could improve the fiscal picture by restricting lending policies, by declin- ing to grant extensions of outstanding loans and by liquidating assets. Best Loans Already Liquidated. These persons added, however, that, it may be difficult for some agencies to increase receipts appreciably bee cause many of their best loans ale ready have been liquidated The R. F. C. for instance, collected $4,640,086,000, or 71 per cent of all loans other thar those to governmental agencies. Railroads now have replaced banks as the big- gest R. F. C. debtors, owing $354,- 320.000. Thus far this fiscal year, repay- ments to lending agencies have fallen short of last year. Since July 1 collections have exceeded outlays by only $17.087,000, compared with a $204.066.000 excess of collections in the corresponding period last year. A $75,000,000 decline in direct spending for ‘“recovery and relief” has been offset partially by a $35,= 000,000 increase in expenditures for ordinary government operations. The deficit already has reached $194, 549,000, compared with $62.- 729,000 in the same period a year ago. has 0ld X-Ray Burns Fatal. LOS ANGELES, July 26 (4 —Burns suffered 10 years ago when he was manufacturing X-ray machines caused the death yesterday of Thomas B, Rider, 52, electrical engineer, [}