Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1937, Page 2

A—2 wx» THE EVENING STAR, POLAR FLYERS SEE US-TO-RUSSIALINE Regular Commercial Air Service Possible Soon, Aviators Say. Regular commercial air transport service between the United States and Russia is possible and practicable within two years, in the opinion of Pilot Mikhail Gromov, commander of the Soviet plane which established a world non-stop distance record be- tween Moscow and San Jacinto, Calif. Gromov expressed the belief that year-around service across the North Pole is feasible with equipment now in sight, “linking by the shortest route two great neighbors.” ‘The airplane in which he made the record flight with Co-pilot Andrei Yumashev and Navigator Sergei Dan- ilin, he said. is five years old and, with technical data already in hand, supplemented by the experiences of the two Russian polar flights, air- planes much better suited for the work can be built. In their first press conference since their arrival in Washington by com- mercial airliner last Saturday, the three aviators late yesterday at the Boviet Embassy told, through Charae d'Affaires Constantine A. Oumansky, the story of their flight and their Views on its results Optimistic Over Results. Clad in spoiless white, the trio re- laxed in easy chairs at the Embassy, tired after a hot day of official cour- tesy calls and sight-seeing. Big, husky, clean-cut men, all three, they &poke frankly of their experiences and expressed optimism over the results of their trail blazing in the furthering of air transportation of the immedi- ate future Their single-engined airplane, they &aid, has & maximum range of nearly | 8700 miles, under the conditions of storm and difficulty encountered in Arctic flying, or a little more than 9.000 miles in normal operation. In 1934, they said. their polar airplane made a flight of 7.707 miles around a closed course and landed with fuel for 372 miles still remaining in fits tanks During their flight from Moscow to Eouthern California, they explained, they covered an actual ground dis- tance of 6,309.36 miles, not including mileage flown in hunting for a clear Janding area. They could, they said, have gone nearly 500 miles farther gouth on their remaining fuel, but cut the flight short in order to land with- in the United States The great range of their airplane, slready obsolete in terms of military development on standards adopted by and other air powers. uted to the fact it is mingle engined, has unusually large gpan and has its performance charac- teristics all shaped toward range. Favor Two-Engine Ships. Puture airplanes for polar transpor- tation, Gromov said, should have two | engines and higher speed than their ehip, which required 62 hours for the | trip. For pure long-range flying, how- | ever, he admitted. a single-engined | &hip would be preferable. Such an‘ airplane could be built. he believes, which would nearly double the range | of the record breaker | “Then you could fly from Moscow | across Canada. the United States, Mexico and Central America into | Bouth America.” it was suggested. “Why not?"” he asked with a shrug. Asked whether he and his fellow | crew members would recommend to the Soviet government that such air- planes he built as a result of the flight experience, Gromov replied that “the | whole spirit of our aviation is looking shead; we are always seeking greater epeed and longer range.” He said that in reguiar h'nnspolu” eervice, service can be maintained ; safely using a range between fueling | &tops of about 5,000 miles. It would not be necessary to establish fueling bases on the Arctic ice, he said, though he expressed a belief this could be done 1f necessary. As to their flight, he said, the only dangers actually realized were at the start, in taking off with their great load of fuel, and in fighting around four “cyclones” encountered en route, one of them in California. They landed at a time when all regular transport airplanes were fog-bound at California airports, Oumansky vol- unteered. Reminded that Californians might not like this testimony as to their weather, Oumansky translated the remark and Gromov replied hastily: “But it always clears by noon.” During their 62 hours in the air, Danilin said, they had 52 hours of continuous daylight. Visit Langley Field. Today the visitors were flown to Langley Field, Va, to inspect the Army's main East Coast air defense base and the laboratories of the Na- tional Advisory Committee for Aero- nautics as the guests of officers of the General Headquarters Air Force. A reception in their honor will be given at 9 o'clock tonight at the Embassy by M. and Mme. Oumansky. They will leave Washington tomor- YOW MOTNing s passengers on a regu- lar Eastern Air Lines transport plane for New York. The piane, however, after completing its scheduled run at Newark Airport, will continue to a new airport at Queens to land them within the metropolitan limits of New York. ‘They are to spend a week in New York, making visits to airplane fac- tories and other points of aeronautical interest in New York and nearby Btates. Their plane has been dismantled and will be shipped to New York, where they will take charge of it dur- ing the trip by steamer to Paris. Instead of flying the plane from Paris to Moscow, as had been planned originally, they probably will continue by rail rather than undertake reas- zembly of the ship in France, they said. eem e GORED D. C. EMPLOYE Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. ARCHITECT. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT. ac- cording to news that sneaks in on us via the grapevine by Wwhich news always is sneaking in on us, finds time amidst his other duties to keep an eye on the buildings the Government constructs here and abroad. When the President made his last visit to Hyde Park he took a side trip to Poughkeepsie, to give the begin- nings of the new post office there A once-over-lightly. He did not like the stone being used and what's more he did not like the way it was being applied. The result was a trip to Pough- keepsie by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. He agreed with the President and. as the work had just been started, the stone work not liked was ripped off and new specifications worked out sevelt has ideas about the construction of buildings in foreign countries, too (according to that same grapevine). He likes Jeffersonian ideas, columns, porte cocheres and whatnot, if the climate will permit their use. The Dutch comes out when he con- siders the cold countries: he feels stone houses in the Dutch Colonial style are just the thing for Americans in lands where the mercury is apt to drop to 50 below. * x % x SETTLED. Issac Gans has discovered, nearby to Washington, what he feels is the most fascinating estate mame of them all. Mr. Gans called on some friends at their country place the other day, found over the en- trance the sign “Dunmovin.” Thought it had been borrowed from the Indians who used to in- habit this part of the country, and asked what the translation was. “Well,” replied the head of the establishment, “we've moved 20 darned many times it's become tiresome. When we moved here we decided it would be the last time. We stay right here: that's what the sign says and what it means.” * ok X % LESSON? EMEMBER the case in the news journals a short while ago of the fellow who checked out of a down- town hotel via the window, taking along the radio and neglecting to see the cashier before he left? Well, a few days later at the same hotel an overnight guest stopped at the desk to pay his bill, was told he could leave his suitcase in his room if he called for it before 6 o'clock. So he left it, decided also to pay his bill later when he called to pick up the luggage. sent & bell boy up after the bag and, in & hurry so that friends in a. car outside wouldn't be kept waiting, just walked out. A week later he got & bill for three days' rent at the hotel. Took them that long, it seems, to discover he had left Apparently the fellow who went out the window did not teach them a lesson. ® % % % SUSPICION. F COURSE it all goes back to & tenet that has given ‘“confidence men” a certain peace of mind all these years. The boys who make a practice of tricking people out of things and cash know full well that others aren't going to be suspicious of you until you give them good rea- son. This chap just mentioned was com- pletely aboveboard in his dealings with the hostelry. The other fellow might have known that leaving a hotel by way of the window, with the hotel's radio under one arm, is likely to arouse a hint of suspicion, even in ‘Washington, where anything can hap- pen. * X * % TREED. N/IARJORY HENDRICKS, sister of Genevieve Hendricks, the in- terior decorator, is something of a farmerette over in Montgomery Coun- ty. Among other things, she raises pigs. The pigs give her a lot of trou- ble. They keep getting out of their pen and running to the woods a mile or two away. And when the pigs run away Marjory has to go boar hunt- ing; and when she goes hunting the porkers she wears a special costume for the occasion. We don't know why, but it's a fetching affair, con- sisting of brown overalls and a bright red shirt. (She wears shoes, too,, if anybody is ready to raise a question.) Couple of days ago she was in the midst of one of these searches when she saw two large animals, with mean- looking hooked horns, lowering their heads, leering at her. Having no Spanish matador in her blood and thinking of the red shirt, she dived for the closest tree. Safe among the branches, she looked down to see a field hand haw-hawing for all he was “What's the matter, lady?” he asked. She told him. “Why, ma'am,” was his cornful re- ply, ‘them's caows.” IN SERIOUS CONDITION Attacked by a buli, Harry Thomp- eon, 32, & foreman at the District Home for the Aged at Blue Plains, was in & serious condition at Casualty Hospital today from a fractured skull and other injuries. ‘Thompson was gored by the animal Bunday as he walked through its pen. -Hearing his cries, his brother, Jesse Thompson, rushed in with a pitchfork and drove the bull away. The foreman was picked up uncon- ecious. At the hospital it was found he had a skull fracture, a crushed chest and several hm‘n Tibs. Marjory’s face was slmost as red We know one on a local secre~ tary, but we won't give her away. Letter was dictated to her the other day, wherein occurred the phrase “five ton element.” Epistle brought instant response from the recipient. He wanted to know what his dusiness had to do with a “five ton elephant.” * ¥ ¥ % STREET SCENE. HE was one of those large, capable matrons, who like to take charge of things: one of those fortunates never plagued by dvt on any sub- Later in the afternoon he returned, | RANDALL HHAGNER| DIES IN NEW YORK Head of Real Estate Firm Was Active in Civic Affairs. Randalll H. Hagner, member of an old Capital family and long a:tive in the affairs of the city, died early last night in Presbyterian Hospital, New York. He was 57 years old. Mr. Hagner, who headed the real estate firm which bears his name, was en route to join his family for the Summer at Watch Hill, R. I, when stricken July 20. At the hospital it was found that he was suffering from bronchial pneu- monia. He was placed under an oxy- gen tent, but his condition rapidly grew worse. His wife and two sons were at his bedside when he died. ‘The body was brought to Washing- ton today. TFuneral arrangements were expected to be announced during the day. Mr. Hagner was born September 21, 1879, the son of Charles E. and Isa- bella Davis Hagner. The late Justice Alex Hagner and Gen. Peter Hagner were his great-uncles. Founded Real Estate Firm. In 1904, not long after he completed his education in Mistrict public schools, he and Alexander B. Brown, who died last year, founded Randall H. Hagner & Co. and built the business to one of the largest in the local real estate field. Hagner & Co. was largely responsi- ble for the transformation of Con- necticut avenue from a residential to a commercial section, since the trans- actions for most of the stores on the avenue were made through the firm. Among the principal sales Mr. Hag- ner negotiated were the Transporta- tion and Woodward Buildings. The Hagner company engages in a general real estate and insurance busi- ness and is mortgage loan corre- spondent for the New York Life Insur- ance Co. The company is located at | 1321 Connecticut avenue. Was Bank Director. Mr. Hagner was a director of the | Riggs National Bank, to which posi- tion he was elected in January, 1922; a member of the Washington Real Estate Board, the Metropolitan and Chevy Chase Clubs and of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church. 1 He is survived by a brother, Dr. | Francis R. Hagner, prominent Wash- ington surgeon; hi: widow, Mrs. Mar- | guerite Colton Hagner, formerly of | Tllinois, and four children, Alexander | B. Hagner of Warrenton, born of Mr. Hagner's first marriage to Anna Law- rence; Randall Hagner. jr.. Mar- guerite Colton and Isabella Louisa | Hagner, all of this city. The family ' home is at 2339 § street. A TEACHER ENTERS RACE IN ARKANSAS Robert F. Waters, 48, High School Superintendent, Church Choir Leader. Br the Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 27—A | mountaineer achool teacher-humorist | challenged today Gov. Carl E. Bailey's candidacy for the Senate seat left| vacant by the death of Joe T. Rob-‘ inson. While political leaders debated what course to pursue in the face of the Democratic nomination given Bailey by the party’s State Committee, Robert F. Waters, 48, announced he would enter & special Senate election this ! Fall as an independent candidate. He | never before has sought an elective public office. The effect of his announcement on | other prospective independent candi- dates was not immediately apparent. Mentioned for the race have been Mrs. | Ewilda Gertrude Robinson, widow of the late Senator; Representative John | L. McClellan of Malvern and Attorney | C. A. Walls of Lonoke, a Robinson kinsman. None made any statement. Bailey, deferring selection of the election date, which must be between September 14 and November 12, also declined comment. Waters, superintendent of the Dan- ville High School, Yell County school examiner and writer under the pen name of “The Ambassador “rom Yell,” made his announcement in a personal letter to a Little Rock reporter and confirmed his intentions in a state- ment today in which he said he could not believe “that a majority of the People approve of the committee nomi- nation of Gov. Bailey.” He did not announce a platform. ‘Waters is a native of Havana, small community in the Ouachita Mountains of Western Arkansas. A graduate of the University of Arkansas, he re- turned to Havana to teach a rural school and later moved to Oklahoma, where for nine years he was a teacher and county agent. He did graduate work in English at the University of Chicago and returned to Yell Colnty to become county school superintend- ent. He is an active member of the Bap- tist Church, teaches a Sunday school class, belongs to the B. Y. P. U. and leads the church choir. EDITOR APOLOGIZES Bad Photograph of Dead Soviet Official Brings Explanation. MOSCOW, July 27 (#)—The editor of the newspaper Soviet Art, in s public apology for a bad photograph of Felix Djherjinsky, former secret police chief, that he published on the eleventh anniversary of the official's death, explained today it was not “sabotage” but poor printing. The newspaper Izvestia had sc- cused the editor of “hostile” journal- istic malpractice. 12 Die as Train Hits Bus. MEXICO CITY, July 26 (#).—Twelve persons, all Mexicans, were killed and 22 were injured yesterday when a train crashed into & bus near Tampico. The dead included several men, four women and a child. e —— ject. 8he was sight-seeing, with six or seven other tourists in tow. At Fourteenth and ¥ streets she stopped, peered across and saw the sign “Na- tional Press Building.” “There,” she explained to her charges, “is press headquarters. That's where all the newspaper men come and get the Wi n news we all WASHINGTON, D. C , TUESDAY, - Realtor Dies RANDALL H. HAGNER. WAL GEN. SUMNER DIES IN BROOKLINE Veteran of Two Wars Had Long Career in United States Army. Maj. Gen. Samuel S. Sumner, 95, U. S. A, retired, veteran of the Civil and Spanish-American Wars, died yes- terday at his home in Brookline, Mass. it was announced by the War Depart- ment. Gen. Sumner, a native of Carlisle, Pa., was the son of Maj. Gen. Edwin V. Sumner, whom he served as aide after Joining the Cavalry in this city as a second lieutenant in June, 1861. His Civil War service also included duty as aide to Gens. Wool, Burnside and Parke. With his regiment, just after the close of the war, he served as escort to Gen. Grant here. Several times he was raised in rank for meritorious service at Antietam, Fair Oaks, Vicksburg and Jackson, Miss. After the Civil War, he took part in & number of campaigns against the | Indians. Later, in the Spanish-Amer- | ican War, he was awarded the Silver Star Citation for service during the Battle of San Juan. He was military attache at the American Embassy in London in 1900, until ordered to command a brigade in & China relief expedition. He after- ward saw service in the Philippines and then as commander of the Depart- ment of Missouri, the Southwestern Division and Pacific Division. Gen. | Sumner was a member of the Ex- amining Boards here in 1893. He was retired in 1906. Surviving are a niece. Mrs. C. Her- bert Halcomb, Brookline, and a nephew, Brig. Gen. John M. Carson, retired, living in Connecticut. TEMPERATURE LOWER HERE BY 10 DEGREES 75 at 10 A.M. Compares With 85 at Same Time Yesterday. Two Were Prostrated. Cooler weather was welcomed by the District today after showers yester- day afternoon broke up the heat wave of the last few days. The temperature, rising to 90 de- grees shortly before 2 p.m. yesterday and causing two prostrations in the Washington area, dropped to 73 in the wake of the rain. It was 67 at 5:30 this morning and had risen to 75 by | 10 o'clock, 10 degrees cooler than at | the same hour yesterday. Yesterday's heat victims were Dan- fel Gant, 33. of 3530 O street south- west, who collapsed at Nichols avenue and Talburt street southeast and was taken to Casualty Hospital, and Ed- ward C. Clarke, 23, of New Kensing- ton, Pa., overcome near Fairfax, Va., and treated at Georgetown Hospital. Both are reported in satisfactory con- | dition today. A return to warmer weather is ex- pected tomorrow. FARLEY DOUBTS THIRD PARTY IN 1940 POLLS By the Axsociated Preas. LA CROSSE, Wis, July 27.—Post- master General James A. Farley told interviewers here yesterday he did not believe there would be a third party in 1940. The Postmaster General stopped here en route to Oconomowoc, Wis., to dedicate a new $80,000 post office to- day. He had been touring Minnesota. He said the Democratic party always had been a liberal party and he be- lieved it fulfilled all the aims of the proposed new party. He declined to discuss the possibility of President Roosevelt running for a third term, TODAY. Senate: Considers wage-hour bill. Judiciary Committee considers court procedure bill. House: Considers routine business and per- haps bill to provide six presidential assistants. Senate-House Committee discusses plugging of tax loopholes. Agriculture Comgmittee general farm program. Labor Committee studies wage and hour bill. Rivers and Harbors Committee con- tinues hearings on regional power and conservation authorities. Naval Committee holds hearing on bill to authorize construction of a dirigible. discusses TOMORROW. Senate: Probably will continue debate on wage and hour legislation. Indian Affairs Committee meets at 10:30 a.m. on miscellaneous matters. Agriculture Subcommittee meets at 10:30 a.m. on bill relating to packers and stock yards act. House: Considers immigration and naturali- zation bills. Banking and Currency Committee considers monetary bill 10:30 a.m. Merchant Marine and Pisheries Committee begins hearings on Coast Guard efficiency bill 10 am. Immigration and Naturalization Committee begins hearing. on mis- cellaneous bills 10:30 a.m. District Subcommittee begins hear- ings on bill to establish five-day week in Fire mnt 10 am. RULING ONW.P.A. DISMISSALS ASKED C.'l. 0. Affiliate Hits Quota Method in Request to Cummings. Charging the Works Progress Ad- ministration with unfair laBor deal- ings in its “arbitrary” method of dis- missing 500 employes of the adminis- trative staff here, the W. P. A. local of the United Federal Workers has asked the Attorney General for an interpre- tation of a provision in the relief appropriation act making State quotas a basis for lay-offs. “The administration has made an unnecessary and extreme interpreta- tion of the law,” it was charged in & statement issued yesterday by the union, which is affiliated with the C. I o. The statement charged that in using State apportionment as a factor in selecting employes for dismissal, W. P. A officials based State quotas on the number from each State employed in W, P. A. alone instead of in the entire apportioned Federal service, “involving & complete concession to political patronge.” It was on this point the Attorney General's interpre- tation was asked. The W. P, A, is not under civil service. The union insists that seniority should be the principal factor in de- termining dismissals, TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR SUBSIDIES STUDIED Maritime Commission Expected to Report to President ‘Within 90 Days. Granting of subsidies for opera- tion of trans-Atlantic air transport service is being studied by the Mari- time Commission, which s expected to deliver its report to the President within 90 days. There now is & bill pending before Congress which would prohibit award- ing of contracts for trans-Atlantic airmail service, making subsidy pay- ments impossible. This measure would permit the Post Office Department to put mail aboard the best available carrier on a poundage basis. It is the purpose of this bill to prevent the establishment of a monopoly, feared | (it a contract were awarded to a single company. The Maritime Commission stud: was discussed with the President yes- | terday at his first conference with the on | Interdepartmental Committee Civil International Aviation, of which Kennedy is a member. At this con- ference Kennedy was authorized for- mally to go ahead with the subsidy studies. He revealed after the con- ference, however, that the Maritime Commission already has made a good start on these studies and will be ready to report in the Fall, when Pan- American Airways and British Im- perial Airways are expected to begin Tegular service across the Atlantic, BANKER’S WIFE bIES | Mrs. G. E. Rooseveit Related to President by Marriage. NEW YORK, July 27 (®—Mrm Julia Addison Roosevelt, wife of George Emlen Roosevelt, who is a second cousin of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, died yvesterday in Roosevelt Hospital. She was 48 and had been 11 for several months. She was a daughter of Rev. Charles M. Addison, retired Stamford, Conn,, Episcopal Clergyman. Her husbend is senior partner of the banking firm of Roosevelt and Son. JULY 27, 1Y Action at the Circus Ray Goodie, wire artist, wi ing a back somersault on the | Actor Stages Riding Ex-! ploits That Won Him Fame in Movies. The Tom Mix Circus,—trick horses, trained elephants, szebras, lions trapeze artists, sawdust and every thing—opened yesterday at Twenty- fifth street northeast and Benning road and is giving four more perforin- ances, two each today and tomorrow, starting, respectively, at 2 and 8 pm The opening crowds, more than half small boys, cheered Tom Mix as the | aging but still agile Westerner revived some of the riding exploits that won | him fame in the movies, such as roping four galloping horses with one lasso. Erma Ward duplicates the gymnas- tic daring that cost the life of Lillian leitzel, famous trapeze performer. Erma, swinging from a high rope by | one arm. turns over 100 times. Frank Shepherd does two and a half soraer- saults under the tent roof and is caught neatly by another performer— a feat said to be unique. There are the Hanneford ‘amily, bareback riders; Little Eva, the eie- phant that does evervthingz, from | dancing to bowling: horses that rescue | Tom from the outlaws. Thers are many other lively features during the two and & half hours of each per-| formance, |ARRANGEMENTS MADE FOR LOCAL PARKS TOURS Dates for specially conducted tours through local parks were announced today by C. Marshall Finnan, super- intendent of National Capital Parks. Tomorrow a junior nature walk is scheduled for 3:30 p.m, starting at Boulder Bridge in Rock Creek Park. A campfire program is set for 8 pm Priday at Pierce Mill Picnic Grove, | when U. 8. Lyons, associate astron- | | omer at the United States Naval| | Observatory, will give a talk entitied | “The Heavens Above." An ali-day trip including & nature | walk in the Chopawamsic Recrea- tional Area has been set for Sunday, | Finnan said today. Swimming facili- | ties will be offered by the Jewish Com- ' munity Center. Workers’ Bargaining Demand| Catches U. A. W. A. by Surprise| The office force of the 1 America headquarters in Detroi ployers yesterday by presenting union demands of their own. Muriel Jenkins, chairman of the Negotiating Committee, is as- sisted by Vivian Fox, Thelma Ethel Polk in drawing up their By the Associated Press. DETROIT, July 27—Unionization of 35 girl clerks and stenographers employed at international headquar- ters of the United Automobile Work- ers of America puts George F. Addes on the other side of the conference table today. Addes is secretary-treasurer of the U. A. W. A. The girls served notice on him yesterday that they, too, had joined the Committee for Industrial Organisation. Their union is the United Office and Professional Workers of America. Along with notice that collective bargaining was imminent right in the U. A. W. A office, the girls, with Miss Muriel Jenkins as spokesman, sub- mitted & lengthy list of demands and questions they regarded as ripe for dllcunio’ United Automobile Workers of t turned the tables on their em- Goldman, Sylvia Lerman and demands. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Addes, after brief reflection, an- nounced that “we’ll met their de- mands.” although he appeared to be unfamiliar with them. He said he hadn’t read the list carefully, but that it would be discussed in detail at a meeting with the U. A. W. A. on the 1 J. Wilbert, employers’ side of the table and the girls on the other. with a broad smile when the employes first made known their intentions. The girls desire a closed shop, 35- hour week, minimum weekly wage of $25, time and & half for overtime, arrangements for vacations, provision for wage increases in the future, seniority rights, proper lighting and sanitation, payment of wages weekly, two weeks' notice of discharge or lay- off and provision for discharge and lay-oft ‘unly for cause. th the Tom Mix Circus, which opened a three-day stay here yesterday, snapped in midair do- vire. -—Star Staff Photo. TOM MIX CREUS COMMITTEE 0. 'S OPENS 3DAY STAY SECURITY WORKERS Nominations of 41 Experts and Attorneys Approved by Senate Group. ‘The Senate Appropriations Commit- tee today approved the nominations | of 41 of the experts and attorneys of the Social Security Board whose jobs were jeopardized by an Independent Offices appropriation bill rider, w the committee backed No action » was taken today on 10 others, includ- ing three high-ranking officials. The three were Frank Bane, execu- tive director: John J. Corson, assistant | executive director, and Le Roy Hodges, | director of the Bureau of Old-Age Benefits. All three are from Virginia. ‘The rider in question made subject to nomination by the President and confirmation by the Senate all posi- | | tions of expert and attorney at the board for which the pay is $5.000 or more annually. Under it, this with. Favorable Reporis Ordered. ‘The committee ordered favorable reports on the following: Jesse O. Irvin, Georgia: John R. Campbell, jr., Massachusetts; Thomas H. Eliot. general counsel, Massachu- setts; Mary R. Wing, Ohio; Leonard Wisconsin; R. Gordon Wagenet, Connecticut; Curtis K. Lakeman, Connecticut: John F. Hardy, Massachusetts; Joseph L. Fay, Massachusetts: Isadore F. Falk, Con- procedure Merton L. Emerson, Massa- | Robert P. Bingham, New Hampshire; Robert E. Huse, Massa- chusetts;: Norman J. Ware, Connecti- cut; Thomas C. Broadaway, Arkansas: James Guy Pepper. Arkansas; Edward B. Williams, Arkansas: Leonard J Calhoun, Mississippi; Edward J. Mec- | Cormack, Tennessee; Jack B. Tate, Tennessee; Sue S. White, Tennessee; Elliott H. Moyer, Michigan; Thomas C. Billig, Maryland; Goffrey May, Maryland: William M. Galvin, Mary- land; A. Delafield Smith, New York; Mary E. Austin, New York; A. Mel- vin Sims, New York; Mary Ross, New York; Louis Resnick, New York; Har- old P. Packer, New York: Rose J. McHugh, Joseph E. McElvain, Jane N. Hoey, 8. Park Harman, Walter Gellhorn, Thomas C. Blaisdell, jr., and Paul E. Betzell, all of New York; Merrill G. Murray, Minnesota; Ruth O. Blakesiee. Pennsylvania and James | S. Douglas, Louisiana. The following were listed as still awaiting committee action: Alanson W. Wilicox and Thomas I. Emerson, District of Columbia; William R. Wil- liamson, Connecticut; Helen R. Jeter, California; Agnes Van Driel, Illinois; Gladys A. Harrison, Minnesota: Ben- jamin S. Beecher, Wisconsin, and Bernice Lotwin, Wisconsin, REDUCTION SOUGHT ON “CANNED MUSIC” Federation of Musicians Hold Discussions With Radio and Recording Firms. By the Associateq Press. NEW YORK, July 27.—American Federation of Musicians' officials be- gan negotiations yesterday with radio and recording firms which they hope will bring an agreement by Priday for drastic restrictions on the use of “canned music.” Joseph N. Weber, president of the federation, has threatened a Nation- wide strike against the making of further recordings after August 14 unless the radio and recording firms come to terms. The federation, an American Federation of Labor affili- ate, has 700 locals. Although the big radio networks have a general rule against using re- cordings except for special sound ef- fects, they are participating in the discussions later in the week because they are afliated with small radio stations which use redordings. ‘The musicians’ association objects to unlimited use of recordings on the grounds that its deprives musicians of work. FIVE, ADRIFT, RESCUED HARBOR BEACH, Mich,, July 27 (A.—A Coast Guard power lifeboat reached Harbor Beach at 8:40 o'clock this morning with five men who were taken last midnight from the drifting barge Michigan in Lake Huron. The barge, with two more men aboard, was approaching Harbor Beach in tow of the tug Harrison. The Ooest Guardsmen reported the pulpwood cargo was lost, as the barge rolled all night long in storm winds and high seas, but that the entire crew was safe. none of | the incumbents could draw pay unuil | nad been complied | = [10DNOW ENROLLED AT HEALTH CAMP Six More Stricken Get Chance to for Life. The number of tubercular children fighting their way back to health at the District Tuberculosis Association camp on Bald Eagle Hill grew to 100 today as a result of contributions from generous Washingtonians Receipts of $33377 yesterday and today raised the total donations so far to $2,995.77, enabling six more chil- dren to enter the camp, with $3077 left toward care of the 10lst child. It will cost only $60 to care for each child during the remaining six weeks of the camp period When the camp opened three weeks 8go today, the association had funds to care for only 60 children. There is room at the camp for 125. News- paper descriptions of the plight of those left behind because of the in- sufficient funds stimulated the flow of voluntary contributions, which have given the 40 additional children a chance for health With camp facilities for 25 more children, whose treatment can bae financed only by additional contri tions, there are more than 200 young ters on the waiting list. They { suffering from tuberculosis | early stages, which can almost tainly be cured by the medical care, nourishing food and rest waiting for them at the health camp. But un- less given this care and taken out af contact with the pulmonary cases of tuberculosts in their homas they hava little chance, according to Mr. Ernest R. Grant, managing director of the association. One of the contributors vesterday created consideraole excitement by walking into the association's head- | quarters at 1022 Eleventh street and | laying down a $100 bill. She refused to give her name; just asked that the money be used for the benefit of the tubercular children Another donor sent & $7 check with | this explanation: “Today would hat | been my mother's birthday and nstear | of taking flowers w0 her grave I ar sure she would prefer helping | youngster.” Children Fight are the cera some 'SENATE APPROVES TRAIN LIMIT BILL ' Remains in Session Until After | Sundown and Sends Measure to House. By the Associated Press A limit on the length of freight trains, advocated by Senator McCar- ran, Democrat, of Nevada, az a safety measure, received approval of the Senate yesterday The chamber remained in session until after sundown to pass McCar- ran’s proposal and send it to tha House. There was no record vote The Nevada Senator appealed fnr support of his bill, which would Lmit freight trains to 70 cars, on the | ground it would tend to preserve botih life and property. Senator Bailey, Democrat, of North Carolina, joined Senators White and Hale. Maine, Republicans; Senator | Copeland, Democrat. of New York, and | Senator Dieterich, Democrat, of | nois, in expressing opposition Bailey asserted enactment would cost the railroads about $150.000.000 A year. The public, he added, ulti- mately will pav the bill The only amendment adopted fixed the effect date of the bill as July 1, 1938. HOOVER IS GIVEN GOLD BADGE, WATCH He Also Gets a Sombrero, a Stack of Telegrams on 20th Year in Bureau. J Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today is carrying a new gold badge It was presented to him vesterday by associates in the bureau. in observanre of the twentieth anniversary of his appointment to the Department of Justice. He also was showing friends an engraved watch, a sombrero given by Tom Mix and a stack of letters and telegrams from admirers in all parts of the Nation and from abroad Among the letters was this one from Attorney General Homer Cummings “Dear Edgar—For 20 years you have been & trusted member of the Depart- ment of Justice. It is a record of distinguished public service, rendered with zeal, fidelity and intelligence. “Yours has been a difficult task, but you have discharged it in & man- ner that has won the confidence of your associates and the high favor of your countrymen. I cannot let the anniversary pass without sending you my affectionate greetings and my best wishes for your continued success in the days to come.” Many others prominent in puble life sent felicitations during the day, —_—_— VIGILANCE IS CALLED FREE PRESS PRICL. Preservation of Independe Papers Vital to U. S., Asserts Clark Howell. By the Associatea Press. ATLANTA, July 27—Clark Howe!', publisher of the Constitution, declarc- here today that preservation of a fre. press is the only certaln way to fore- stall “the depredations of plutocracy on one hand, of predatory poverty on the other.” Howell was chief speaker on todayv's program of the Atlanta Kiwanis Club, James R. Gray, vice president and edi- tor of the Atlanta Journal. and Her- bert Porter, publisher of the Atlanta Georgian and American, were special guests. The club today paid triou‘s to Atlanta’s newspapers. Howell said the Nation's newspapers are unfettered now but warned “tha price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” He cited forthright criticism of Pres< ident Roosevelt by widely read columne ists as evidence that American news- papers are filling without fear their vital role of “censors” for the Gove ernment. The speaker cited as a “milestone in our history,” the Supreme Court's in= validation of a tax on newspaper au- vertising which was passed by the. 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