Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1937, Page 2

A—2 xx3 SHIP WATCHMAN . DESCRIBES BLAZE Started in Bagged Sugar and Spread Like Gasoline, Board Told. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE. Md., August 2—The watchman aboard the steamer City of Baltimore, which burned with a loss of three lives, told a Federal inve gating board today that the fire up” from a pile of bagged sugar. The watchman, Frank Barnes, was the first witness called before the board at the second day of the hear- ing. He said he went amidships Thursday night to check cargo. “I had been gone about three min- utes,” he said. “I wajked back for- ward and one of the sailors called to me: ‘God, there's a fire! “The blaze was licking along the edge of one of the bottom sugar bags. I jumped for it and stamped it out. “A sailor helped me and we got that blaze out without any trouble But in two minutes, half way between the front and the midships gangway, some 7 or 8 feet from where I was standing, fire shot up from the top of the sugar like some one had thrown gasoline on it.” Barnes threw up his arms to show Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. GEOGRAPHY. RIEND of ours who lives in nearby Maryland Lappened to hear his gardener-handyman in conversation with a motorist who had paused in front of the house the other day. “You know where Cumberland street is?” said the man in the car. “Nawsuh, never heard of it,” said the gardener, who has only been working at the place for a couple of years, (Cumberland is the next street over from the house.) “Well, isn't this Somerset?” quired the fellow in the car. in- w the blaze sprang up |« saw that it was serious and ran | and hollered to the pilot | he continued. “Every one | yelled fire. I hollered up the tube to | “Nawsuh, (The house is always has been.) “Then where is Somerset?" in Somerset and the second officer in the pilot house “‘Fire on the freight deck.’ I heard him | turn and tell the captain.” i Barnes said he got a fire hose, | but no water came from it. The second mate turned on the sprinkler system, he said, but he didn’t know whether it worked. He said he thought he saw | it working in the after section of the | ehip. After the first hose failed, he eaid, he connected another one with the help of the chief engineer and this | one threw water on the fire. Smoke and fire drove him from the hose, | however. The Federal board was particularly interested in the location of the fire | outlets aboard the Baltimore-Norfolk | boat. | The bodv of a third man killed was identified as Cy Havnie. an ofler | in the sh ne room. The body | was found fic 0 feet from the hull of inded after &he caught The engineer offi have not yet appeared before the | board. dreds of sightseers were fer- ried out to the wreck by boatls from ghore yesterday, out EX-CAPTAIN LOSES LONG REINSTATEMENT FIGHT Oberlin M. Carter, Ousted 39 Years Ago, Fails in Final Court Battle. Oberlin M. Carter, who was missed as a captain in States Army 39 vears ago, day in his final effort to secure an equity court order compelling the | Becretary of War to reinstate him. | Carter, who argued his own case, eontended his dismissal was based on improper and false testimony sub- mitted to a court-martial that was| hostile o him. The lower court dismissed his suit, and his action was approved today by | the United States Court of Appeals, which held a co of equity had no right to overthrow the finding of a | court martial unless the latter was without j In this case, the isdic- dis- | the United | failed to- tion was not rais INJURED DIVER LACKS FUNDS FOR OPERATION | Buffers Broken Back in Plunge Into Shallow Water at Crystal Md. Lacking funds for an operation by 8 specialist, Edward Cannon, 28, of ©12 New York avenue, lay in Emer- gency Hospital today with a broken back, the result of a dive into shallow water at Crystal Beach, Md. Cannon was brought here yesterday from Annapolis, where he taken after the accident Saturday. Physicians said a delicate operation, which can be performed only at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, is neces- sary to save Canrnon from paralysis and perhaps death. The operation would cost about $200. HEAT PROSTRATES MAN AT GRIFFITH STADIUM Fairly high temperatures, which the Weather Bureau said will continue in- definitely, resulted in a heat prostra- tion yesterday when John G. Forman, 49, of Roanoke, Va., was stricken at Griffith Stadium. At Casualty Hospital, physicians sald the heat aggravated a brain ail- ment that led to Forman's collapse. He was allowed to go home after treatment, The mercury climbed to 84 shortly after 2 pm. and this morning it again appeared headed for the mid- dle 80s. Today and tomorrow, the forecaster said, will be fair, Beach, L Six Hurt in Bus Fire. ANNAPOLIS, August 2 (P)—Six colored children were slightly injured when a bus containing 30 Sunday school pupils caught fire while return- ing from a beach outing. The chil- dren were hurt as they rushed to escape through doors and windows, Congress in Brief TODAY., Benate: Begins debate on Wagner housing 1 Special committee begins hearings on Government reorganization. House: Debates minor bills. TOMORROW. Senate: Continues debate on housing bill. Interstate Commerce Committee eonsiders railroad financing investiga- tion bill, 10:30 a.m, House: May consider private calendar snd eonference report on District tax bill. Banking and Currency Committee considers housing bill, 10:30 a.m. Labor Committee considers wage and hour bill, 10 am. “Never heard of any such place,” said the gardener, digging into the earth. The eavesdropper slouched back to his library and went digging in the shelves. Brought out a world altas, set it up on the table in front of him, and began to read it, upside down, * ok ok x MESSAGE. This same chap continues to have his troubles with the messenger boys. Recently a colleague in an adjoining office handed a messen- ger an envelope, said: “Deliver this to Mr. So-and-So.” Couple of hours later Mr. and-So's telephone rang. “This is the Post Officc Depart- ment,” said a voice id you send yourself an airmail letter and jorget to put the address on it?” “Uh, mo.” said our friend, weak bewilderment. “All the same, there’s an airmail letter over here, addressed to you, and it's inclosed in an envelope with a Star letterhead. Whadya make of that?” Said he didn't make anything; would they please send it back. P. 0. said O. K., but some papers and slips and things would have to be signed. When they were, and the envelope opened, out tumbled the interofice memo. Now he doesn’t know whether the airmail stamp is a collector’s item or not. * o ox % FLAUTIST. \lAYBL’ We haven't been around 5 much where people were brush- ing up on their flute playing, but sp far as we know the only lady flautist (flautiste in this case?) in town is Mary Allen, a student at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania during the Winter, and in the Summer flute tootler for the Washington Gas Light Volunteer Band. She also plays the cello and viola, and with her father, Allen, well-known local engineer, could almost make up a band at home. Mr. Allen plays with the W. G. L. Volunteers also, however, and the bandmaster gives Miss Allen special attention. She's the only woman member of the organization, joined up when the leader couldn't find any volunteers who would go so far as to volunteer to play the flute. * ok x % EMBASSIES. JROAMING around ~ the Forcien Y Buildings Office of the State De- partment in search of new and useless information, we heard that Finland, & country dear to the hearts of Ameri- cans for reasons too obvious to men- tion, is to witness the building of a new American Legation at Helsinki this year. The building will be of conservative Geurgian style, for rea- sons best known to the architects. Also heard that the United States own a palace in Berlin near the Adlon Hotel, but no Ambassador to Germany has ever lived in it. Reason is it needs thousands of dollars’ worth of renovation and repair, and the United States no has done. * %k ¥ % HEARTY SPIRIT. On the west side of Wisconsin avenue near O street is a building that has a garage on the first floor, storage space on the upper floors. Passersby on the street car have noted this Summer that a sumac bush, apparently taking root in the stone and nourishing itself upon carbon monoride gas, has grown to a height of almost 4 feet along the second-story window ledge. So- in X kK X ‘WHY NOT MONEY? LERK in a local shoe store was startled out of his late afternoon slumber the other day when a young lady waltzed in, asked if she might purchase some of the bright green wrapping paper the firm uses to bundle up shoes. “Be glad to give you some, madam. No charge,” said he. “Oh, but I want about five or six yards.” “‘Quite all right. insisted. When the roll of paper was tuckes under her arm she turned at the door and said sweetly, “You Ekmow, I thought this would be so nice draped around my bed room. I'm doing a new color scheme, and green is such a cool color, don't you think?"” SPONSORS CRUISER Daughter of Hawaii Governor ‘Will Christen the Honolulu. NEW YORK, August 2 (#).—Selec- tion of Miss Helen Poindexter, daugh- ter of Joseph B. Poindexter, Governor of Hawali and former Montana at- torney general, as sponsor of the new 10,000-ton cruiser Honolulu was an- nounced yesterday by Navy Yard officials. The Honolulu will be launched August 26. Gov. Poindexter also is expected to sttend. No charge,” he THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1937. WOMEN RALLIED BY MME. CHIANG Calls for Sacrifices to Meet Japanese Threat to China. By the Associated Press, NANKING, August 2—Mme. Chiang Kai-shek has called on the women of China to fight Japan “according The Wellesley-educated wifs of the head of the central government her- self secretary- general of his air forces, declared yesterday: “In the World War the women of every country gave their best— the women of China are no less David | patriotic or capa- ble of physical endurance than the women of other lands. This we shall show the Mme, ‘;'l‘:l:l"‘ Kal- world.” B Mme. Chiang was addressing delegates of numerous women's organizations which have undertaken war relief work. Victory “to Erase Sham.” “Our final victory,” she declared, “no matter how belated it may be, Wwill erase forever the days of hu- miliation which for so long have crowded our calendar, and remove the sorrow which for years has bent our heads and bowed our hearts. “China is facing the gravest crisis in its history. This means we must sacrifice many of our soldiers, masses of our innocent people, much of the nation’s wealth and see ruthlessly destroyed the results of our recon- struction.” Mme. Chiang has taken the lead in organizing civilian support for the army in the conflict with Japan. She has been active with war plans for the Chinese Red Cross. She devotes. several hours a day to her duties a5 head of the Chinese air force, although there is still no indication of the role it may play in the hos- tilities in the North. Serves as Interpreter. Speaking English fluent, Mme. Chiang aids her husband by inter- preting' for him in interviews with foreign diplomats The “give one day to your country” campaign, which was launched last year at the time of the Japanese- inspired offensive against Suiyuan, has been revived. Chinese are urged to contribute one day's pay each month to the nation. Collection boxes are placed in most public places. Newspapers are conducting campaigns to gather funds for war purposes. The government has undertaken to control food prices, which have risen partly as a result of its own heavy purchases of rice and other staples. In the capital the conviction {s| Rrowing that war with Japan on a national scale is inevitable, 15 INDICTED, FIVE CHARGES IGNORED Grand Larceny and Joy Riding Counts Hold Greatest Number. The District grand jury today re- turned 15 indictments and ignored charges in 5 cases. Those indicted, with the charge against them, were: Richard Chase, Charles Leonard Wynn, George Prentiss, Helen M. Sul- livan, Buddy Hannah, James Walker and Wilson Branson, grand larceny; Arthur W. Kirkorian and Claude Alexander, housebreaking and lar- ceny; Clarence W. Jones, William Evans, Richard Evans, Earl I. Chase, Leo B. Curry, Paul A. Heindl, Milton C. Richards, John E. Evans and Willie Smith, joy riding;Francis E. Bur- roughs and John E. Evans, joy and grand larceny, and Harry Nolan Moody and Garland Davis, violation of national motor vehicle theft act. The following were cleared of the charges indicated: Edwin Poole, James W. Marceron and Joseph R. Gordon, grand larceny, and Jack De Witt Futch, robbery. e ‘MISSING’ CAR SHOWS UP Parking Boy Returns Senator Pope's Auto to Home. Senator Pope of Idaho, driving to Grifith Stadium for the ball game yesterday afternoon, left his car in care of an accommodating colored boy. At the close of the game, the car was missing. The Senator reported his loss to the police. But when he returned home a surprise awaited him. The boy had misunderstood where he was to meet the Senator and, unable to find him, had taken the car to his residence, the Northumberland Apartments. —_— Santiago Iglesias to Speak. Santiago Iglesias, resident commis- sioner of Puerto Rico in Congress, will be principal speaker at a meeting to be held under auspices of the Spanish Committee in Defense of Democracy at the Earle Restaurant at 10 p.m. tonight. | any riding | | District Dog-Catchers Begin Annual Round-Up The pound men the pound for any dogs caugh dropped the dragnet today, and it's t without licenses. Here we see some of the dog-catchers in search of tagless animals. SEASON ON DUGKS WL OPEN Y. 27 Hunting to Last 30 Days in Maryland, Virginia and Other States. The 30-day duck hunting season for 1937 for Maryland, Virginia and other Southern States opens November 27 and closes December 26, the Depart- ment of Agriculture announced today. This vear's regulations were approved July 30 by President Roosevelt. At the same time the department said the mourning dove hunting season runs from September 1 to September 30 and from November 15 to December 31 for Maryland. There is no open season on this bird in Virginia. The Maryland and Virginia woodcock sea- son runs from November 15 to Decem- ber 15. Number of Birds Increased. Ducks, geese, Wilson's snipe and coot can be bagged in the duck season, which opens as early as October 9 in the Northern States The limited season, the Biological Survey reported, has resulted in increasing the number of birds available, but it added “it will be vears before the refuge program will produce maximum results, and in the meantime the preservation of ade- quate breeding stocks is an especiaMy critical problem.” Every duck hunter, the department reminded, must have a Federal stamp. Other hunting regulations and re- strictions, which will be followed by hundreds of thousands of gunners who take to the woods and the rivers in the Fall, include: Continuation of the regulation pro- viding no open season on snow geese and brant in Florida and in States north thereof that border on the At- lantic Coast, and no open season in part of the United States on Ross’ geese, wood ducks, ruddy ducks, canvasbacks, redheads, buffiehead ducks and swans. Duck Bag Limit 10 Daily. Bag and possession limits, continued from the last two seasons, place the daily bag limit‘on ducks at 10 in the aggregate and make the possession limit conform to the daily bag. The daily bag and the possession limit on geese and brant of the kinds permitted to be killed have been in- creased this year to five in the aggre- gate of all kinds. Last year the limit was four, The new daily bag limit on coot is Last year the limit was 15. Baiting of waterfowl and doves and the use of live decoys in hunting waterfowl are not authorized, regard- less of the distance between the bait or decoys and the shooter. The three-shell limit on repeating shotguns, either hand operated or automatic loading, in effect the last two seasons, is continued this season. Hunters may use shotguns not larger than No. 10 gauge. Waterfowl and coot may be hunted in season from 7 am. to 4 p.m. Snipe, rails, gallinules (other than coot), woodcock, mourning doves, white-winged doves and band-tailed pigeons may be hunted in season from 7 am. to sunset. No changes were made in the regulations on band- tailed pigeons. Open seasons on rails and woodcocks have been readjusted in several States, and the daily bag limit on sora rails has been reduced from 25 to 15. These birds, the Biological Survey explains, are abundant only in a few restricted areas. 25 Evicted Family Finds a Home After Sleepless Nights in Auto Her little body exhausted from four nights of trying to sleep in a borrowed automobile on a downtown parking lot, 16-month-old Shirley Butterworth slept all day yesterday when she found herself in a real bed at last. “She was plumb worn out,” said her young father, Clifton Butterworth, with a fond smile today as he faced life with fresh hope inspired by the generous response of kind-hearted ‘Washingtonians to a description of the family's plight published in The Star Saturday. Unable to pay rent until pay day on a new job after three weeks of idle- ness, Butterworth and his family were evicted from rooms on Ninth street last Tuesday. With no other place to 80 unless they separated, Clifton, his wife, Margaret, and Shirley lived until Saturday night in the automobile of s friendly attendant on a parking lot at Constitution avenue and John Marshall place. Then help came from several readers of The Star. One was Mis Maud Maxwell, who took the But- terworths to her home at 129 North Carolina avenue scuthesst and told ‘ them they could stay as long as they desired. She gave them a com- fortable bedroom and the use of her kitchen. “It is fine to get under & roof again,” Butterworth said. “We proba- bly will have to stay there until the | 15th, when my first real pay-day comes.” He will get only about $8 today for a few days' work as an auto painter, but on the 15th he will be paid $30 for two weeks' work. “Then we may stay on with Miss Maxwell and pay her rent, if she is willing,” he said. “‘But there’s no telling how long we will be able to pay rent, even then,” he added ruefully. “I don't know whether this job is steady or not. NEW LEVIATHAN'S PLANS REVEALED Work May Start This Year on Safest, Most Modern Liner as U. S. Flagship. By the Associzted Press. Maritime commissioners expressed the hope today that construction can start this year on a new American flagship, which they said would be the most modern and safest liner afloat. The commission called for bids on behalf of the United States Lines on a ship of its own design. They will be opened September 15 Reunion in the pound brings together Frances Spruce, 10, of 11 Drummond avenue, Chevy Chase, Md., and Wiggles, her missing pet. L2 —Star Staff Photos. Poundmaster Catches Own DogFAUNfl_ERUY UN” In Launching Annual Round-U p The first catch in the poundmaster's annual dog round-up, which began today, was Poundmaster Frank Marks’ own pet of 12 years, Foxie, a shepherd dog Foxie a few nights ago wandered away from his home. Last night citizens complained to police that a barking dog was disturbing their sleep. The police ordered the poundmaster to investigate, and who should it be but Foxie? “If Foxie's foxy.” Marks said, “he’ll remain indoors while this dog hunt is on.” At the start of the annual round-up, Poundmaster Marks and three of his men, all armed with nets, got out on the highways of Bluefield and Deanwood at dawn, and before noon they came back with a choice col- lection of tagless dogs—and a flock of fleas Scratching began at 11 o'clock in the dog pound. What with getting acquainted with one another, the dogs started up a flea exchange. So by noon they had to be puffed and powdered and made ready for the boudoir and an afternoon's siesta— all preparatory to the lethal chamber, unless owners claim them, putting up $2 each for tags. Just about to complete his first year's service as poundmaster—he was sworn in last August 19—Marks is having the pound whitewashed and renovated, with separate accommoda- | tions for the ladies and gentlemen of | | the dog world. To date, only one | | gentleman has appeared—an Irish | terrier of aristocratic appearance. Not a lady in the pound. All others are | | just plain mutts, both male and| female. If a poundmaster's dog isn't safe | from the dog catchers, whose dog is? | That is the question the attendants at the pound would like to have an- swered. This afternoon the one and only pound wagon will be up around Chevy Chase in a round-up of stray pets without muzeles or licenses. Already today several boys and girls went to the pound to get their dogs out. “The law is no respecter of dogs." ‘lhe poundmaster said, in his annual | warning to the people of Washing- | | ton who have, to date, permitted 8,000 | pets to go without tags. Deadline for obtaining tags was originally July 1. This was extended to Aukust 1—and | that's the last extension. From now lon it's every dog for himself. 1,500 Attend Party Of Hobbs, Lewis Families Near Here The third annual reunion of two Marviand clans whose strains crossed more than a century ago was held yesterday as four generations of the Frederick and Montgomery County Hobbses and Lewises picniced in Jessup Blair Park, on Georgia avenue at the District line. With a third of the two families missing, the assemblage yesterday still totaled approximately 1500 persons. Judge Lewis Hobbs of Colesville, | Md., whose name combines that of both families, said the strains crossed when his grandfather married a Margaret Lewis. The Lewis family, he said, was de- scended from French Huguenots who left their country and went to Wales, later coming to this country, where most of them settled in Virginia. One of the family, Fielding Lewis, married Betty Washington, sister of the first | President, he said. Indoor base ball, horse shoe pitch- ing and a lot of old-fashioned get-to- gether chatting were the principal items of entertainment yesterday. JOHN A. HALL DIES, WAS G. P. 0. WORKER| Spanish War Veteran, 57, Had Been I11 Long—Burial to Be at Arlington. John A. Hall, 57, 831 Whittier place, Spanish War veteran and employe at the Government Printing Office for the last 11 years, died in Walter Reed Hospital yesterday after a long illness. Born in Sweden, Mr. Hall was brought to this country while an infant, making his home in Quincy, IIl. There he became a member of the Lambert Lodge of Masons. During the Spanish-American War he served in the Army as a non-commissioned officer., Mr. Hall came to Washington in 1926 to take a position as proofreader with the Government Printing Office. Surviving him are his widow; Mrs. Hazel Hall, and four daughters, Caro- lyn, Clara, Mary Louise and Mrs. Susan Shuey, all of this city; his mother, Mrs. Sara Hall, and three brothers and three sisters, all living in Illinois. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Hines' funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street. Burial will follow in Arlington National Cemetery. Alice Longworth’s Mimicking Helps First Lady on Air By the Associated Press. Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt credited a take-off by her Republican cousin, Alice Roosevelt Long- worth, today as “the most help- ful criticism” she has received of her radio broadcasts. I'd like to get a steady job as an automobile or truck driver—-most of my experience has been as a chauf- feur.” To help tide the Butterworths over, $8 in small amounts was left for them by callers at the parking lot Saturday. . One woman contributed clothing and some toys for Shirley. ‘Two offers of places to live came after they went with Miss Maxwell, aQ Beginning a column of ques- tions and answers in the August Democratic Digest, publication of the party women's division, Mrs. Roosevelt wrote that after watching Mrs. Longworth mimic her, she realized she had many things to correct in her rad® technique. s MAN BEATEN, ANOTHER BITTEN; SUSPECT HELD Alleged Housebreaker Detained for Investigation After His Companion Flees. Arrested after he is said to have struck one man on the head with a milk bottle and bitten another on |the finger, James Gregory, 27, col- ored, 1300 block of U street, was being held for investigation today in con- | nection with an alleged housebreaking attempt. Gregory and another colored man, !who escaped, were apprehended Sat- | urday night, police were told, trying to open the door of the apartment of Edgar W. Geoghegan, 28, of 2008 | Sixteenth street. When his companion fled, Gregory | allegedly struck Geoghegan with a milk | | bottle and bit the finger of Glen | Zimmerman, 22, of 610 Twenty-second street, a visitor at Geoghegan's apart- ment, before he was overpowered. | mander. HONORS BURNETT Society Pays Tribute to Pro- totype of Famous Char- acter in Book. Twenty-five members of the Faunt- leroy Literary Society 1219 T street yesterday to pay tribute to Vivian Burnett, prototype nf the character which thousands of mothers in the last 50 years have considered the ideal son and thousands of boys over the same period have considered the perfect sissy—Little Lord Faunt- leroy. Burnett, who died last week cn his sailboat afier rescuing four persons in Long ILsland Sound, having stc- cessfully lived down the appellation “sissy” by 'his adventurous life, was described as “gentle,” “kind” and “manly” in an address given ky Ernest C. Rick, president of the society. He was, Rick said, the society’s “most honorable honorary member.” The exercises, which included trib- utes to Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, who in 1884 wrote the book which im- mortalized her son, were in commemo- ration of the day a year ago that the cociety placed a memorial tablet at the house on I street where the book was penned. An evergreen wreath was placed under the bronze plaque. Present at the ceremony were the following officers of the society: Mrs. Judith King, secretary; Mrs. Mable Rick, treasurer; Mrs. Rose Weisbrod, chairman of the Membership Commit- tee, and Rev. Waldo Manley, who gave the benediction. Shortly after his return from the exercises Rick received a letter from Lord Robert Baden-Powell. founder of the Boy Scout movement, accepting honorary membership in the society. FORMER CONSUL DIES HONGKONG, August 2 () —Harry L. Paddock, former United States con- sul at Amoy, China, and a retired naval officer, died yesterday of pneu- monia. He was 57 years old. Paddock, a former Californian, was an engineer with Admiral Dewey's fleet during the Spanish-American War with the rank of lieutenant com- He later entered the consular service and served at Amoy until ill health forced him to resign in 1908. All three required treatment at Emergency Hospital. Since then he had been in the insur- ance business in Hongkong. Reporters traditionally meet “such interesting people” and here is a picture of one, William A. Bell, jr., of The Star, inter- viewing the pet boa constrictor of the attractive opera star, Dorothea Lawrence, at the Willard-Hotel today. Miss Lawrence displays last season’s skin, recently discarded b;g the reptile. tar Staff Photo. 4 gathered at | Although not 5o large as some of the present foreign luxury liners, the new ship, commission members said, be “a model of modern construction.” Specifications include: Length, 723 feet; beam, 92 feet; depth to prome- nade deck, 75 feet; speed, 22 knots passenger accommodations, 1,200; crew, 630. Bafety arrangements will permit flooding of as many as three compart= ments. Most lifeboats will be motor= propelled and radio equipped The vessel will be built under sub- sidy provisions of the maritime act. Fire-Resisting Materials. The liner is intended to replace the decommissioned Leviathan, operated until 1 by the United States Lines. In planning the vessel, commission officials and designers used such sea disasters as the Morro Castle fire as object lessons. Fire-resisting ma= terial will be used throughout the 34.000-ton liner, they said. The new craft is designed as a companion ship for the liners Man- hattan and Washington, although slightly larger. Bids were asked on both a fixed sum and an adjusted price basgis. The latter {s subject to adjustment be- cause of changes in the cost of labor and materials, providing anv resultant increase in cost does not exceed 15 per cent. The flexibility of this alternate arrangement is ex- pected to facilitate the biddings, Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy said. United States to Contribute to Cost. The ship will be b under construction differential subsidy pro- Visions of the merchant marine act, These authorize the Government tn contribute up to 50 per cent of total construction cost, depending on the | difference between foreign and do- mestic costs The United States Lines laid up the Leviathan, with the permission of the Government, after contending | the cost of running her had risen too high to allow competition with mode ern trans-Atlantic craft The commisison asked some months | ago for bids on two types of ships | to replace the Leviathan. The' bids | were rejected June 2 on grounds that they were so qualified that a flat price could not be determined. The two bids submitted at that time on a ship of the Manhattan- Washington type were $14.375.000 and $14.995.000. Bids for an alternate ly larger ship were $15.- 455,000 and $15,665,000. HELIUM EXPORT BILL WAITS HOUSE ACTION Measure Would Authorize Sale of Gas to Foreign Lines Op- erating in U. S. By the Associated Press Legislation to relax restrictions on helium exports, opposed by some members of Congress because Ger- many would be its principal bene- ficiary, is awaiting action in the House. The measure. ministration, of the non-: the sponsored by the ad- would authorize sale flammable gas, of which this countr has a monopoly. to foreign commercial airship lines, | provided they operate to the United States or its territories Exportation of the gas would have to be approved by the National Muni- tions Control Board and the Secre- tary of the Interior Ten members of the House Mili- tary Committee opposed the bill in its present form, partly because it would permit a foreign country to “acquire and accumulate a quantity of helium sufficient to operate mili- tary airships or commercial airships other than those operating between | such countries and the United | States.” | The group pointed out the United | States was making a °vigorous ef- | fort” to foster trade relations with Latin America and that Germany also was competing in that field. “Under this bill as drawn,” the group said, “the United States Gov- ernment would be placed in the posi- tion of subsidizing a German enter- prise to compete with American con- cerns for South American business.” GRAND CHEF IS ELECTED BY CAROLINA 40 AND 8 Dr. E. J. Johnson of Spartanburg Named by Legion Fraternity on Eve of Convention. By the Associated Press. ROCK HILL, 8. C., August 2—Dr. E. 1. Johnson of Spartanburg was elected grand chef de gare of the 40 and 8. American Legion fraternity, yesterday on the eve of the annual convention of the South Carolina De- partment of the Legion. Other officers elected were: James W. Cullens of Beaufort, grand chef de train; James C. Bush of North Augusta, grand conducteur; L. A, Hamilton of Columbia, grand garde de la porte; Julian Wolfe of Orangeburg, grand avocat; Wade H. Gladdenmf Chester, grand historian; Joseph W. Hudgens of Taylors, cheminot na- tionale; Rev. Waldo Lever of Landrum, grand amonier, and Dr. John D, Setzler of Columbia, grand medecin 118 Labor Rows Settled. ‘The Conciliation Service of the Labor Department adjusted 118 strikes, threatened strikes and labor controversies involving 83,000 workers in the four weeks' period ending Sate urday, it reported yesterday. RS Curb on U. S. Spending Urged. John C. Gebhart, director of the National Economy League, yesterday urged curtailment of Federal spend- ing, with the warning that successive Treasury deficits would lead to “dis- astrous inflation” or “insuperable tax burdens.” [}