Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1937, Page 4

A—4 xx EDISON WILL TOUR PACIFIC STATIONS Assistant Navy Secretary to Spend Four Days With Fleet. By the Associated Press Charles Edison, Assistant Secretdry of the Navy, leaned far back in his chair today, his light-blue eyes twink- ling. his face wreathed in smiles, and said: “Beginning August 3, for four weeks I am going to be a real seagoing As- sistant Secretary. And unless I miss my guess, I will have one grand time.” The son of Thomas A. Edison, who holds the Job that President Roose- velt once filled, disclosed he will in- &pect the Navy's shore stations on the Pacific Coast and will spend four days with the United States Fleet. It will be his first actual sea experience since he took office last January 17. Job Like Heading Corporation. Edison says he hasn't found his job much different from being directing head of a private corporation. He formerly was president of the Thomas A. Edison Industries “There are some differences, of course,” he said. “For one thing, in this job there are civil service restric- tions as to the selection of personnel Also, T find there is less freedom in making decisions. “Aside from that, tame. I work as formerly. My dut largely to the Navy where ships are consructed and re- paired. I'm a sort of industrial man- ager for the Navy.” Edison’s aides say he has inherited his famous father's enormous capacity for work. He arrives at his office early and remains until after 6 p.m. Tricks Navy Yard Head. One of the best stories told of him | {z the trick he pulls on the command- ant cf the Washington Navy Yard The Government furnishes him an official car. but frequently when he | visits the Navy Yard he sends his aides ahead in that car and follows in his small one He chuckles when he sees the official car get the smart salutes from Navy Yard officers while his own goes un- noticed. When he was appointed he found that the ship placed at the Assistant Secretary's disposal bore the name U. 8. S. Skaneatles. It was too much | for him, He ordered it changed to the U. S.S. Milan—the name of his father's birth- place in Ohio. it's much the hard as I did s are confined s shore stations TAFT T0 MAKE RACE ATI. July 29 (P).—Robert A. Taft, bitter foe of the New Deal, | declared informa vesterday his in- tention of seeking the Republican npmination for the United States Sen- ate The term of Robert Bulkley, Demo- crat, of Cleveland expires next vear. Taft. elder son of the late President | and former Chief Justice of the United | tates, made his statement in letters | sent to newspaper editors of Ohio and to his former colleagues in the Ohio Legislature. . Germans Conserve Grain. To conserve the bread supply, Ger- many has forbidden the use‘of wheat, barl rve, oats, buckwheat, maize or millet in making lquor. 'Legislators Confer in Effort to Presentation medals of cers’ Washington, above,, from Institite, was honor student. Mad. awards marked the close yesterday of a sir-week Infantry Reserve Offi- Training Corps camp at Fort . Fiedler, the Vtrgznuz Military He is a native of Greenport, Long Island. THE EVENING Ceremonies Close Six Weeks’ and Brig. took over the post. Corps Area. SUGAR BLOC TALKS WITH ROOSEVELT Reach Decision on Quota Legislation. By the Associated Press. A group of Senators and Repre- sentatives from sugar States arranged a conference with President Roosewelt this afternoon in an effort to reach an agreement on sugar quota legis- lation Senator Adams, Democrat, of Colo- rado, head of the Senate sugar bloc, said he would be accompanied to the White House by Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of Wyoming, and one other Senator, whose name he was not ready to announce House members to attend the meet- ing are Chairman Jones of the House Agriculture Committee and Repre- sentatives Cummings, Democrat, of Colorado, and Robinson, Democrat, of Utah. Adams said his chief interest is to bring to a vote the sugar bill now awaiting action in the House. HOPPERS SHUN SALTS VANCOUVER, British Columbia A —Farmers of Okanagan Valley are trying their own brands of grass- hopper poison as the result of failure of Epsom salts to lure the pests to their death. Attempting to develop & bait fatal to grasshoppers but not to cattle, the provincial department of agriculture set out mixtures of salts, bran and molasses. Watchers reported that in the first 24 hours not a single gras hopper sampled the bait STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY, Training Gen. Dana T. Merrill, new commanding general of the 16!h Brigade, is shown presentmg the reserve offi- cer trainees with medals in all classes. public ceremony for the new brigade commander since he Following the presentation monies, there was a review of the 450 student soldiers, representing 20 colleges and universities within the 3d This was the first cere- —Star Staff Photos. Two Giant Spots Now Visible, Indicate Great Blast Inside Sun By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, July 20.—If you want | to see spots before your eyes get an over-exposed film negative or a smoked | glass and take a look at the sun ‘There are two giant spots, one of them an estimated 100,000 miles in | diameter, visible on the sun these days. They cover between 1-300th and| 1-400th of the sun’s surface and will take about a week to close Old Sol's face, traveling to the left Dr. Clyde Fisher, curator at Hayden Planetarfum, said they were the ol individual sun spots he had ever seen without a telescope and possibly the largest ever observed in New York ‘The larger of the two is bigger than Jupiter, greatest planet in the solar system, diameter of the sun The spots were first noticed by Hugh S. Rice, associate in astronomy at the planetarium. He explained that sun spots are storm centers, caused by the whirl-pool exchange of gaseous materials from internal layers of the | sun to the surface He said the spots indicated a tre- mendous explosion of gases from the inside of the sun, but added with a laugh that “it's been happening for so long that I don't think the sun is | blowing up.” 600 ICEBERGS SEEN BY COAST GUARDSMEN Patrols Have One Springs Since 1920's Record of 1,300 Bergs. By the Associated Press. Coast Guard officials, surveying re- sults of this year's ice patrol, said today a mild Winter usually means a busy Spring for its iceberg watchers From Woods Hole, Mass., the cut- | ter Gen. Green reported yesterday | the sighting of 600 icebergs during | its four months' patrol Lo s e s oo 100 last year and 1.300—the larg(-sl‘ number ever recorded—in 1929. | Officials said mild weather last Winter probebly was a major factor in the increase over 1936. In mild | weathef, they explained, bergs break | loose from glacial masses more easily. of Busiest | ern’ champion, ARCHERY EXHIBITION SET FOR TOMGRROW Jean Tenney and Mrs. Gladys Hammer to Display Skill at Playground. Jean Penney. champion for this Gladys Hammer, national year, her teacher, former archery national title holder and present West- | provide an exhi- | will bition of archery at the Chevy Chase Playground tomorrow at 5 p.m. About the city are expected to attend the exhibition, arranged by Mrs. John R. Murdoch, wife of the Representative at large from Arizona. who is well known in archery circles Miss Mary Baker of Phoenix, Ariz., who i in charge of archery in the District playgrounds, was once a pupil of Mrs. Murdoch. and is about one-eighth the | and Mrs. | 500 children from all over | SLAYS 2 WOMEN, THEN KILLS SELF Maryland Mountain Farmer Believed He Was Robbed by Pair. By the Assoclated Press. FREDERICK, Ma,, July 29.—Charles Martin, tall, 58-year-old mountain farmer, late yesterday shot and killed two women he said had robbed him, waited at his home until officers ar- rived and then killed himself. Sherifft Roy M. Hiltner and Deputy Charles W. Smith, called to the Blue Mountain settlement 12 miles from here, found the body of Mrs. Hannah Hahn, 38, more than a mile from her home, In the Hahn home they found Mrs. Mary Albright, 36, originally of Gettys- burg, Pa., with a bullet wound in her head. Her young child, covered with blood, but not injured, was in her lap. Mrs. Albright died in a hospital here. Deputy Smith, informed that Mar- tin had gone to his home, went there and found the farmer sitting on the porch. When the deputy called to him to surrender, Martin walked inside the house. Smith, hurrying to the dwelling, heard a shot. He found Martin dead, & pistol wound in his head. William H. Green, a farmer who lived near the Hahn home, told Hiltner and Smith that Martin came to his home and said “I just shot those women. took me home Monday night and robbed me of $2,100. They took the money from under my pillow.” Green said he called officers after Martin left. Mrs. Hahn's husband, William Hahn, a railway employe in Thurmont, was away at the time of the killings Mrs. Albright went to live with the Hahns about a year ago. Martin's wife died about two years ago. He is survived by two grown | sons, They 'GERMANY STUDYING NOTE FROM BRITAIN Message Designed to Accelerate Western European Security Pact Received. By the Associated Press BERLIN, July 29 —Great Britain has sent & new note to Germany which is designed to accelerate the | lengthy negotiations looking toward a Western European security pact, informed sources said today. Details went undisclosed, was stated the note was being tully examined.” SAN FRANCISCO HOTELS REOPEN AFTER STRIKE but ft | “care- JULY 29, 1937. Mother Slain Miss Thelma Miller, a neigh- bor, holds the year-old child of Mrs. Mary Albright, 36, of Frederick County, Md. Police Jound Mrs. Albright fatally wounded with the child in her lap. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. JESSE JONES GUEST Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Also At- tends San Francisco Affair. SAN FRANCISCO, July 29 (P — Jesse H. Jones, head of the R. F. C, | were | and Theodore Roosevelt, jr. guests today at the San Francisco Bo- hemian Club encampment on the Rus- sian River. Although Jones said he was on vaca- tion, he conferred yesterdey with A. P. | Glannini, Bank of America executive Jones and Roosevelt arrived from the East on the same trair ster —_— VILLAGES DESERTED IN FEAR OF QUAKE Indians on Orizaba Slopes Quit Settlements After Fatal Mexi- can Upheaval. By the Assoclated Press, VERA CRUZ, Mexico, July 29.—In- dians living on the slopes of Orizaba Peak, the second highest mountain in North America, were reported yester- day abandoning their villages in fear new earthquakes would follow Sun- day night's disaster. A report reaching Vera Cruz said the Sunday quakes, which killed 34 | persons, injured hundreds and caused inestimable property damage in Puebla | and Vera Cruz States, changed the conformation of the mountainous country in several places around the long-dormant volcano. It rises 18,200 feet. At one place, it was said, a small | lake disappeared and a hill some 100 feet high reared up where it had been. The state government sent to Mal- trata, where damage was heaviest, tons of foodstuffs to aid homeless ref- ‘| ugees, estimated at more than 1,000 in that town alone. Housing was an acute problem. Many persons slept in the open. Communication lines still were dis- rupted. —o ROAD T0 2 SHRINES MAY BE IMPROVED Route From Charlottesville to Jefferson and Monroe Homes Taken in Primary System. PERU PRESENTS EXHIBIT Pan-American Exposition Is Give en Display by Officials. DALLAS, Tex., resentatives July 29 (#).—Rep= of the Government of Peru yesterday formally presented the Peruvian exhibit to the Pan- American Exposition here and cele= brated for the first time in the United States the independence of their na- tion During the ceremonies, Fernando Berckeln commissioner general to the exposition, and Luis P. Novarro, who assembled the exhibit, stood bee neath the portrait of Gen. Oscar Benavides, president of Peru. Flags of the United States and Peru were crossed above them. Peruvian independence was first proclaimed by Jose De San Marin in Lima July 28, 1821. Duchin Flies to Greet Son. NEW YORK, July 29 (# —Eddia Duchin, the piano-playing orchestra leader, flew from Chicago to New York yesterday to greet his first child, a boy. on his arrival at a hospital here. Mrs. Duchin is the former Mar= Jorie Oelrichs, PSYCHOMETRY DELINEATIONS Grace Gray Delong Life Reader Adviser 11 AM to 9 PM. YCHIC MESSAGE COUNCIL 1100 Twelfth St. N.W. Corner of 12th a Telephone MEt By the Associateo Press. RICHMOND, July 29 —An improved way frm the secondary to the primary highway system. Highway Commissioner H. G. Shirley said the improved stretch would ex- and within a short distance of Ash Lawn. the Monroe estate. Its transfer to the primary system followed a re st from a Charlotes- | which conteuded the present poor con- homes created an unfavorable impres- sion among out-of-State visitors. =g highway from Charlottesville to ‘he | nomes of Thomas Jefferson and James | Monroe was in prospect teday follow- | ing the transfer of the section of road- | ter.d past Monticello, Jefferson's home, | vilie and Albemarle County delegation, | dition of the highway to the famous| ECIAL PRICE APPLIES TO P LE POUND QUANTI nvv etearanh Monte Carlo Trade Booms. | announce that they have not been af- | fected by French labor disputes and e ting norm Monte Carlo hotels and restaurants | Open Eveninlgs and Sundays | By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, July Francisco's largest hotels, ke since May 1, were open to the | | public again today with indications | thev will be operating on virtually a | normal basis by the end of the week. | All of the hgfels except the St Francis opened last night. It planned t0 open todar. | In addition to the 16 so-called class A hotels and three class B establish- ments closed by the strike, 36 class B hotels signed agreements with the | unions 20 —San | Wage-Hour (Continued From First Page) as thgs bill pretends he will be,” Atstin | declared. He said the proposed labor | £tandards board would have authority to fix wages and hours for employes of | grain elevators, creameries and process- ing plants of various kinds. | The result, he clalmed, would be to | increase the cost of labor to the farmer and to decrease the prices paid him for his products. Senator Bilbo, | Democrat, of Mississippi interrupted to propose an amendment exempting | &easonal operations of cotton gins from | regulation. Agreements to defer two controver- #ial side issues cleared & path some- | what for a quick Senate vote on the bill. It faced a further obstacle, however, in the House, whose labor committee wrote drastic changes into the original | measure Senate debate was curtailed by Senator Vandenberg's decision not to press for a vote on his rider, which would have increased union responsi- | bility under the Wagner labor rela- | tions act. Chairman Black assured Vanden- berg the Labor Committee would hold hearings on his proposal as soon as possible. | any-lynching bill onto the wage and Barkley to consider action at this anti-lynching legislation, ors sald, removed another pos- sibility of delay. In exchange for that assurance, Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New | York, agreed not to continue his ef- forts to tack the Wagner-Van Nuys hour or other measures as a rider. Proponents of the labor legislation, however, predicted a disagreement be- tween the House and Senate. The House Labor Committee ap- proved yesterday an amendment em- powering an administrative board to fix minimum wages not higher than 70 cents an hour and a maximum work week of not less than 35 hours. The proposal was made by Repre- sentative Wood, Democrat, of Mi souri, for 24 years president of the Missouri State Federation of Labor. He is a union cigarmaker. Under his amendment the work week could not be made longer than 40 hours, except under special circumstances. Provisions of Senate Bill. Under the Senate bill the board could not fix a minimum wage higher than 40 cents nor & maximum work week of less than 40 hours. Both measures apply only to industries in interstate commerce. Members of the House committee A promise by Majority Leader The new W box that saves you or "e___und save. THE Air=Cooled HECH ondersoft KO‘C mot said the amendment was approved | economy - o} el 0 SPECI?. Shis low 1 Stock up @ T CO after Chairman Norton broke a tie Representative Ramspeck. Democrat, | of Georgia, ranking majority member. | opposed the change, declaring it would defeat the bill in the House. Much of yesterday's Senate debate concerned Vandenberg's union re- sponsibility amendments. He called the Wagner labor act a “one-way street” which, he said, should be| transformed into a highway protecting employers and the public, as well as | labor. Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New | York, replying, read a letter from William Green, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. It called | the amendments “a first step toward Government control of unions—a step similar to that which led to the elim- ination of free trade unionism in Germany, Italy and Soviet Russia.” They would enhance rather than mitigate, he said, the “inequality of bargaining power between ployers and the workers." Vandenberg declared the em- interests. He proposed written bar- gaining contracts, suspension of the rights of any union which violated a contract and forbidding of sit-down strikes and political contributions by labor organizations Discussing the wage and hour bill | itself he contended it would give an administrative boara “life or death" authority over industry “I doubt if Congress was ever asked to delegate wider, more potentially dangerous power to a bureau,” he said. “It is not humanly any five men to make the thousands of decisions to govern tens of thou- sands of industries and hundreds of thousands of men which this bill proposes.” "Family Health Depends On Much Always Having Hot Water At Hand" says this nurse You never know what an incon- venience it is to wait heat until you are confronted with an emergency! And you will never know what a great convenience a dependable supply of hot water is ‘until you install the Pittsburg Automatic Gas Water Heater. 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The tank is heavy gauge gal- vanized metal. operating parts are sturdy and wear- wgm( ] steel - All closed by M W hode of Brand-new Fall 1937 Suits, Top Coats & 0’Coats You have never seen the equal of these The Bitter Truth We sadly over- bought last Spring, fluenced by rapidly creasing wholesa costs (and still rising). into the market a they are We went in. ine le Group 1 $35 nd placed enormous or- ders in addition to eur regular commitments. As a result of our op- timism we are frigl fully overstocked. Result, this remark- able sale. We hope we never have to duplicate it. All Mode Neckwear Now 69¢ 95¢ $1.29 $1.59 $1.89 $1.00 $1.50 $2.00 $2.50 $3 & $3.50 G roup 2 $40 ht- Suits, Top Coats O’Coats p3 $45 and $50 %m35éewzo ultra-smart garments, each an authentic ex- pression of modern Fall, each offered at a handsome saving. Only Richard Prince & Fashion Park __Clothing is offered in this Sale 1937, fashion; and Sum and Top Coats Suits and Top Coats and 534 Group 4 $50 to $65 Suits, Top Coats O’Coats and e Mode Shirts Fancy Shirts and plain Glenbrooks; 3 for $2.00 3 for $2.75 3 for $3.75 3 for $4.50 3 for $5.50 lar attached. collar attached. Were $2 and $2.50—now $1.59 3 for $4.50 White Southampton Broadcloth, col- Were $3.50—now $2.59; 3 for $7.50 e e e e e L Plain and Fancy Were $2 and $2.50—now $1.59 Pajamas I | 3 for $4.50 | Fancy Sport Hose Were 50c and 75¢c—now 35¢; 3 for $1 Were $1.00—now 69¢; 3 for $2.00 ————————— e e e e Mode Under French-back Shorts and Undershirts. $1.50 Madras Athletic U Summer Ro Were 75¢—now 45c. wear | | Athletic Lisle Werels) nion Suits, 79¢ bes Were $4 and $5—now $2.95 Were $6.50 to $10—now $4.95 All Wool Robes (Kimono Style) Were $10—now All two-tone Oxfords. $7.50—now $4.39 All Stiff Straw Hats Mode, Finchley and Stetson Were up to $6—now $1.79 Panamas Were $5 and $6.50—now $2.95 Were $7.50 to $10—now $4.95 Convenient Charge Accounts Courtesy Parking N.W. Corner 12th & E Sts, F at Eleventh Mode Sport Shirts and $1.50—now 79¢ Fancy Handkerchiefs Were 35¢—~now 19¢; 6 for $1 Shoes and white Oxfords; also small lots of regular tan and black Broken sizes. Were up to $4.65. Manhattan Sale of Fancy Shirts and Pajamas pos ends tomorrow, Friday night. ively Store Hours, 9to6; Saturdays, 9to3