Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1937, Page 3

SEES ‘TENDENCY' 10 REORGANIZE Charles E. Merriam Tells Senators of Trend in States and Cities. By the Associated Press. Charles E. Merriam of President Roosevelt's Executive Reorganization Committee testified today there was a “growing tendency” toward reorgani- ration of State and city governments. Merriam was the first witness when & special Senate committee opened hearings on a bill to reorganize the administration machinery of the Fed- eral Government He said the President’s committee “had no hand” in drafting the bill before the Senate committee, but it had drawn two bills, considered by the Senate committee earlier this year, carrying out its recommenda- tions. ‘The bill under consideration today was introduced by the late Senator Robinson of Arkansas. It would ex- tend civil service to many new Gov- ernment departments and give the President broad power to group, con- solidate, abolish or create various Federal agencies. It also would authorize appointment of six administrative assistants to the President. Merriam asserted the trend among cities was toward the city manager plan of government. Senator Mc- | Nary, Republican, of Oregon said he | did not believe there was & trend to- ward giving more governmental power to an individual. Merriam replied he thought the trend was “the other way” despite the increase of manager type government. Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir- ginia interrupted Merriam's testimony to assert the reorganization bill would pive the President ‘“vast power over the Government's business which Con- gress could not recover without a two-thirds vote if the President used his veto power.” Merriam told the committee, “I don't know whether Senator Byrd seriously intends to intimate the committe did not intend to maintain the democratic form of our Government. If he did, I resent it.” Byrd shot back, “I said nothing| about anybody's intentions. I only zaid vhat was in the bill and nobody can deny it's there. I don't know | anything about your intentions and I don't care anything about them.” Byrd said that if Congress should not approve of something the Presi- dent might do under the bill, an ef- fort to invalidate the action would be subject to executive veto. requiring a two-thirds vote of Congress to over- ride. Byrd is chairman of a Senate com- mittee studying Government reorgan- 1zation along lines somewhat different from those suggested by the President. | | $1.800 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 37 Caught in Police Dragnet Robbery Squad Opens Round-Up After Week End Hold-Ups. Chain Gang Fugitives Sought. Faces turned away from the camera, some of the sleepy men garnered in to police head- quarters today in a series of early morning flop house raids. by victims of hold-ups over th e week end. Tonight 18 of them will be viewed —Star Staff Photo. A week end robbery toll of nearly resulted early today in the arrest of 37 suspects in a series of early morning forays by the police headquarters robbery squad, under direction of Lieut. John Fowler. Of the 37 suspects, 18 were held for fingerprinting and appearance in po- lice line-ups tonight and tomorrow night. Fowler said a number of those taken in the round-up would be held for possible identification as escaped members of & North Carolina chain gang. He said police here had been notified by authorities of that State to be on the lookout for fugitives be- lieved headed for Washington. ‘Two men to appear in the line-ups have been identified by a liquor store and a filling station manager as the persons who robbed them recently. | An attempt will be made to link them with other robberies before they are | | charged, according to Chief of De- | tectives Bernard W. Thompson. ‘The Garden T Shoppe, 1835 Colum- bia road, whose cashier, Mrs. Lizzie S Jaynes, was shot to death in a hold-up | six years ago, was broken into last| night by thieves, who carried off a | steel safe containing an unestimated | amount of cash and jewelry. Mrs. Grace Carl, assistant man- ager, said the robber apparently gained entrance by smashing the glass in the rear door and opening the latch. She said the loss “might, exceed $400." A man, who first ride in his automobile, snatched | Marthe Bryant's purse ldst night. got back in his car, and after empty- | ing the handbag threw it back at her, she reported to police. The in- asked her to cident occurred near the corner of Eighteenth and H streets. Police said she reported the man, described as well dressed, followed her for sev- eral blocks in his machine and asked her several times to ride with him. Jeanett Meloy, 1739 F street, re- ported her apartment was entered last night and a mink coat, valued at $300, and a $20 wrist watch were stolen. Hubert George, an employe of the Farmers’ Market, Tenth and Water streets southwest, said he was robbed of $35 yesterday by a white man Wwho assaulted him as he was asleep in the cab of his parked truck. Total robberies for yesterday and last, mostly in purse snatchings, hold-ups and housebreakings. minor China (Continued From First Page.) States Army officer and missionary were halted at the east gate and re- fused permission to set out on a mis- sion of mercy to Tungchow. They wanted to investigate damage done to the American missionary which was maintained through Japfl-’ nese protection. Yin Ju-Keng, former head of the ‘state,” was safe in the Japanese Embassy here after having | been reported slain by Chinese troops | { who revolted against his pro-Japanese policies. He had been shorn of his power, however, and Japanese authorities named his former secretary, Chi Tseng- Mou, as his successor. BLADENSBURG DELAY TO DRIVERS SHOWN Auto Club Reveals Cars Are Halted 15 Minutes to Hour and Half. night were estimated at $803, | 105 JAPAN DECREES WARTIME STATUS Huge Bond Loan Floated While Millions More Will Be Acquired by Taxes. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, August 2.—Emergency fiscal and commercial measures put Japan on a virtual national war-time footing today for the first time since the Russo-Japafese War. Neutral observers sald the decrees would give the Japanese nation and foreign powers a concrete idea of how determined Japan is to achieve by war those aims in China she failed to obtain by diplomacy. Bans against American and other foreign coastal shipping were lifted, apparently for the threefold pur- pose of : 1. Diverting foreign vessels from the coast of China, where the Japanese Navy may establish a blockade. 2. Making available all Japanese tonnage for shipments to China. 3. Providing means of transportation for essential commodities in foreign vessels. Besides raising 400,000,000 yen fabout $120,000,000) for war purposes by issuing special bonds, the govern- ment decided to acquire several hun- dred million more yen by decreeing a one-year increase in taxes on national bonds, stock dividends and corpora- tion profits It also levied a surcharge on profits | accruing from the hostilities in China | to munitions makers, corporations and | individuals. It imposed a 20 per cent ad valorem tax on cameras, films, motion picture | apparatus, phonographs, records, musical instruments, precious metals, | jewelry, tortoise shell,-pearls and coral. An anti-profiteering act, enforce- ment of which starts tomorrow, is ex- pected to yield an additional 80,000,000 yen (about $24,000,000) for war ex- penses. Anti-profiteering regulations | | were applied to 20 articles, including | munitions, foodstuffs, iron, coal and chemicals. {DANCE SLATED AUG. 11 BY INTERIOR WORKERS Two-Orchestra Event to Mark Housing of Employes Under Own Roof. A dance, featuring varied types of | entertainment, including old-fashioned | | square dancing, will be held August 11 to celebrate the housing of Department of the Interior workers under their own roof, it was announced today by Hillory A. Tolson, assistant director of the National Park Service and presi- dent of the newly-formed Interior De- partment Recreation Association. Plans call for two orchestras to play MONDAY, AUGUST 2. 1937. housing four new class rooms. Catholic dignitaries, By the Associated Press. Mrs. Ruth B. Shipley, chief of the State Department’s Passport Disision, runs a mail-order business which just | now is bringing the Government $1.500.000 & year. She directs a staff of more than 100 in deciding questions of nationality, issuing passports, instructing foreign | service officers on those subjects and | writing letters of introduction for Amercans going abroad. All this is done so quietly that thou- sands never know the “R. B. Shipley” | who signs their passports is a woman. | “It’s a thrilling job,” she said today. | “Developments are so unexpected. It | concerns people—not just papers.” She sat at a huge desk piled high with the books that helped her learn diplomatic histor; St. Ann’s Auditorium Begun torium to seat 700 students of the parish school. two-story building of Indiana limestone, costing $97,000, and Msgr. Eugene Connelly of St. Peter’s Church addressed the who were present. Father James Brennan of the Sulpician House of Studies, Catholic University. Father Barnabas of Holy Name College, and Father R. A. Phelan, assistant administrator of St. Ann’s. Representative Jenckes of Indiana also attended. Mrs. Shipley Runs Mail Order Business of Million for U. S., #5 A3 POLICE ARREST 11 FOR PICKETING PAPER News Guild Members Charged With Disorderly Conduct in Seattle Strike. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, August 2.—Police ar- rested 19 men and women members of the American Newspaper Guild today in dispersing a picket line of about 50 persons who blocked entrances to the 8eattle Btar plant where a guild strike has been in progress since early July. Two pickets, bearing strike signs, were permitted to remain in front of the plant, which has been publish- ing after a four-day shutdown ended early last month when polic? dispersed & similar picket line. Capt. J. J. Haag, who directed that those arrested be booked for disor- derly conduct, said they were not le- gal pickets. They included Jack Heise, reporter-photographer and chairman of the Star guild unit. The strikers said they were ready to return to work in a body, but that the management said it desired to leave the entire matter to the Na- ional Labor Relations Board, to which the guild originally complained. The board has the charges under advise- ment. Auto Painting haleys 2020 M ST. N.W. Let Haley's Do It Right! It is to be a Among them were Star Staff Photo. “See Ets and See Better” 1928. She entered the State Depart- ment 23 years ago this month, when her son was 5 years old. A Mary- land clergyman's daughter, her only previous work had been in the Patent Office. The passport business has grown rapidly since Mrs. Shipley helped Americans get home in wartime. The | annual total jumped from 23.977 in | 1910 to 160,488 in 1920 and 203,174 in | 1930 before the depression slowed | it down. Each passport requires a | $10 fee Foreign travel has increased greatly | this year, Mrs. Shipley said. The 119,390 passports issued in the first six months represent a 43 per cent increase over the same period last year When you plon your sum- mer's vacation don't forget that extra pair of glosses Having them with you will aodd much to your peace of " ETZ Optometrists 608 13th N.W. Between F and G N.W. school at the capital of the East| Hopeh autonomous regime. Tungchow | was severely bombed last Friday in an effort to quell an uprising of mili- | tarized Chinese police. alternately; one will concentrate on square dances and the other on melo- dies of a more conventional type. Between numbers there will be enter- international law, | passport and citizenship precedents. | She was all business when errand boys rushed in and out with papers for signatures, but smiled at mention | Four Americans, one of them a woman, and 23 other foreigners brought a story of death to Tientsin | after escaping a train wreck only to| Power to Remain Same. Merriam asserted the President's committee intended only to ‘“leave! the balance of governmental power Having checked an average of 4,000 automobiles each Sunday for the last | month, the Keystone Automobile Club has found that motorists are being | where it is.” He contended the language of the | bill was “similiar” to a law enacted at the close of the Hoover administration and to the economy act of 1933. Under Hoover, he said, the presi- dential power was broader than that proposed in the bill before the com- | mittee. Minority Leader McNary said the Republican measure had an 18- menth time limit Byrd asserted either branch of Con- gress could have by resolution nulli- fled any of the President’s reorganiza- | tion acts under the economy measures. Merrian said the Republican plat- form, Will Hayes, former Postmaster General, former Vice President Dawes and fofmer Gov. Frank Lowden of Tlinois had indorsed similar programs. “None of these individuals has the slightest influence on me or this com- mittee,” McNary said. “Are we to| listen to mere citations of what people think and political platforms, or are we to have an analysis of this bill?” | “If it's embarassing to the committee | for me to cite provisions in political | platforms, I'll withdraw it,” Merriam said. S NINE DIE IN CRASH OF ITALIAN PLANE s Craft Bounces “90 Feet in Air” After Touching Ground—One Engine Catches Fire. By the Associated Press. WADI HALFA, Anglo-Egyptian Su- dan, August 2.—Four passengers and the crew of five of an Italian com- mercial plane were killed today when | the plane crashed near the Wadi Halfa Airdrome. The craft was southbound when the | accident occurred. All aboard were | killed. Witnesses said that when the plane was about to land the pilot speeded up the engine, apparently deciding he could not make a safe landing at the moment. The machine touched earth and then “bounced about 90 feet in the nir,” a spectator declared. One en- gine caught fire as the plane fell. _— e Male Ostrich Sits on Eggs. PHILADELPHIA (#).—Papa Rhea, 8 South American ostrich at the zoo, was a puzzled parent today. His wife laid six eggs, then went gadding about. Bird house keepers put the first egg under a peahen with maternal instincts. That egg hatched & rhea. Papa Rhea today was sitting on the other five himself, waiting. RESORTS. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. The Ambassador ATLANTIC CITY. EDUCATIONAL. fi(gUITAR BANJO, MANDOLIN, ETC. SOPHOCLES PAPAS 1508 19th St. N.W. NO. 0644 “SUMMER RATE" WHERE TO DINE Tuesday Dinner Special “Good Food Is Good Health” Sugar Cured 5 5° Boked Ham___ Fresh Corn Mashea Potatoes Beverage LOTOS LANTERN Hot Rolls 733 17th Bt. N.W. The Japanese army, heavily rein- forced, was penetrating rapidly to the south along the strategic railway to Hankow, which has been the main | artery of the reported advance of | 50.000 Central Government troops commanded by Gen. Chen Cheng. Reinforcements for the some 25,000 Japanese trcops mopping up in the area were being poured into North China both through the great wall passes to the north and by rail from | Shanhaikwan on the Manchukuoan border to the east, Troop movements completely dis- rupted all normal rail service through- out Hopeh Province. Schedules were almost inoperative north of the border of Shantung Province. Tientsin Quiet but Tense. Tientsin, Japanese army headquar- ters 60 miles southeast of Peiping, was quiet but tense. The Japanese tightened their grip on the city as a result of reports that Chinese airplanes in great numbers had been scouting the Tientsin area. Japanese authorities claimed that the Chinese mint had been converted into an arsenal and filled with rifles and explosives. The Soviet consulate general at Tientsin was invaded and wrecked by white Russians. Soviet sources charged Japanese plain clothes operatives aided in the raid during which many of the consular records were carried off. Japanese denied they had partici- pated. The Russian report said that the raiders, armed with rifies and ma- chine guns, broke down the consulate’s doors while Japanese troops halted traffic in the vicinity. Peace Group Set Up. Japanese headquarters in Tientsin, headquarters of the Japanese Army in North China, said a “peace mainte- nance commission” had already begun administering affairs in Tientsin, The last vestiges of Chinese resistance were crushed there by Japanese map-up de- tails after the city was almost lost in a surprise attack that was routed only after the Chinese sections of the city were devastated by air and artillery bombardment. A similar organization was expetted to be set up in Peiping today, effecting by force of arms the increase of hege- mony Japan claims is her right in the rich North China provinces of Hopei and Chahar.. Chinese expected the new regime to be modeled on that of Manchukuo and based the East Hopeh government —_— e Broiled Maine 7 5c Lobster Luncheon ___ ) ESTABLISHED 1858 Alr Conditionea. 1107 Conn. Ave. R HERBERT TAREYTON | be caught in an artillery battle be- tween Chinese and Japanese near ‘Tankku, one of Trientsin's twin port | cities. ‘The Americans were Carl John Es- | ‘kellne of Proctor, Vt. Tientsin man. ager of the Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. | of the British-American Tobacco Co.; | Mrs. Robert Barrett, wife of the Tient- | sin agent of the States Steamship Co., | and Sergt. Johnson of the 15th U. S. | | Infantry. ‘They said Japanese troops had com- | pelled them at pistol point to leave the | scene of the wreck. After a three- | hour march across country, they re-" lated, they reached a telephone, sum- moned a launch and sped down the Hai River to Tangku, where they took refuge aboard British warships. ADVISED TO FLEE. | | | American Women and Children Told | to Leave Shantung Province. NANKING. August 2 (#).—The United States consult at Tsinanfu to- day advised all American women and children to leave the interior of Shantung province. Because of the “precarious situa- tion,” the consult said, women and children should go either to Tsinanfu or to Tsingtao, on the coast. Japanese women and children crowded downriver ships, taking Jap- anese nationals from the Yantze Val- | ley. The Japanese consulate at Chungking was closed. Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese central government head, was reported to have left for Kuling to confer with | Gen. Pai Chung-hsi, Kwangsi (southern) Province leader, on a united Chinese front in the North China crisis. s Convicts to Pay Way to Jail. SPARTANBURG, 8. C, August 2 () —Lawbreakers here henceforth will have to pay taxi fare to jail. City authorities added 75 cents for transportation to fee of each person convicted in Police Court. Receipts will be put into a fund for mainte- nance of police motor equipment. “FAIRFAX" House Paint Tdea] for all exterior painting. Gallen usually enough for Wind Butler Flynn ' PAINTS 609 C St. N.W. " GLASS MEtro. 0150 Distiner IVE, Grmoke Exceptional tobaccos plus the nicety of the .Tareyton %M’ /4 &/b ) or e v STICK VO YOUR wow onty 754" CIGARETTES "Theres SOMUINING about lhom you'll liks?) . | delawed from 15 minutes to 1!, hours at the Bladensburg (Md.) Peace Cross intersection, it was announced today George E. Keneipp, manager of the club, in making the announcement, said: “During the past four Sundays A. P. Tucker of Gold Leaf, Va., employe | members of the Keystone Motor Patrol | have been stationed at the Peace Cross | intersection, checking conditions and placing in the hands of motorists cards to be filled out, stating the length of the delay experienced. Thousands of these cards have been returned to the club and our patrol- men themselves have made detailed reports. “We have checked on an average of more than 4,000 cars per Sunday, beginning late in the afternoon and continuing until 10 pm. We find that motorists are being delayed any- where from 15 minutes to an hour and a half, with the average delay running about 35 minutes. Frequently the line of traffic backed up along the Defense Highway from the inter- section is more than 6 miles long. ASSIGNED TO 7H0LY NAME ‘The Rev. Remigius Fleishell, F. M., & native of Washington, has been transferred from St. Bonaventure College, Allegheny, N .Y., to Holy Namg College, Sixteenth and Shepherd streets northeast, it was announced today. Father Fleishell was graduated from St. Bonaventure in 1925 and two years later he became procurator of that college after an interim as rector of a parish in New Jersey. tainment by members of the associa- tion, arranged by Evelyn Adams, chair- man of the Committee on Entertain- | ment. | Featured is a square dance exhibi- | tion, for which rehearsals will start to- morrow afternoon. The Entertainment Committee hopes that all interested will be at the activity space in the basement of the Interior Building at 3:30, Miss Adams said. — \TWO RUSSIAN AIRMEN VISIT NIAGARA FALLS By the Associated Press. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., August 2. —Two of three Russian flyers who flew over the top of the world to & new long-distance flight record yesterday gaped at “Honeymoon Hobnob's” tumbling cataracts. “The whirling pools in the water remind me of cyclones and anti- | cyclones we encountered at the roof,” declored Co-pilot Andrei Navigator Sergei Danilin nodded in agreement. 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