Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1937, Page 2

A—2 xxx REBELS TAKE FORT, CUT MADRID LINE Loyalists Are Driven From a Main Stronghold and Iso- lated—Huge Stores Lost. BACKGROUND— In the thirteenth month of civil war, rebel chieftatn, Gen. Francisco Franco, is trying still to take Madrid. If the current drive is successful, the Loyalist forces will be split, for Madrid is the inland headquarters and Valencia, the other stronghold, is on the coast. By the Associated Press HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish tier, August 3.—Two insurgent bri- gades were reported today to have driven Madrid-Valencia troops from their principal mountain fortification on the Teruel front near Bezas and to have cut their main communica- tions artery. An official insurgent communique recounted in detail the twin opera- tions, the latest developments in Generalissimo Francisco Franco's ef- fort to hammer a wedge into govern- ment territory in Eastern Spain and split the liaison between inland Ma- drid and coastal Valencia, temporary seat of the republican government. ‘The two-headed thrust brought cap- ture of the government field head- q at the summit of a 4,000- foot pineclad mountain and huge stocks of munitions and supplies, the communique said, and at least 100 | government dead were left in Bezas | by the routed troops. But perhaps the most important result of the attack was the govern- ment'’s loss of a secondary roadway linking its forces in that sector of the Teruel front. Reinforced by Italians. Bezas, southwest of Teruel, is about 15 miles north of the Cuenca road, an immediate object of Franco's drive toward the main Madrid-Valencia highway. The Cuenca highway, an improved throughfare, offered Franco's legions full play for their mechanized equip- ment—if they could reach it. Once on it Franco might quickly paralyze the provincial capital, Cuenca, and then strike directly at the Madrid- Valencia highway with whica the road connects. But between the spearhead of the nsurgent Aragon or Teruel offensive lay desolate stretches of mountainous country such as was the setting for yesterday's fighting near Bezas. Madrid sources declared Franco's | Teruel army was recently reinforced by Italian troops from Cadiz. The government admitted losses in the Bezas sector, but asserted it had taken the town of Pancrudo, 31 miles of Teruel, and nearby Corral Vo and Baguenas, in a flanking ve. The Madrid-Valencia commu- nique also claimed capture of La Man- ga and Cimero on the Biscayan front in Northern Spain. 580 Square Miles Taken. Franco’s Salamanca report, at the same time, described ‘“annihilation” | of four government battalions on the Austrian front in the Spanish nort- west. The insurgent successes in the Bezas sector were said to have added about 580 square miles of territotry to the ever deepening “pocket” about 100 miles east of Madrid. Many of the government soldiers, put to flight at Bezas, were reported by the insurgent communique to be | deserting to the insurgents. The communique said the war stores eaptured at Bezas included ammuni- tion, grenades and other equipment, sufficient to equip a battalion, more than 1,000 pairs of shoes and enough food to feed two regiments for a month. Insurgent dispatches also reported geven government planes dropped 20 bombs on the outskirts of Burgos, Franco's former general headquarters. One person was killed and two in- jured. Damage was only minor, it was said. FORT MYER fron- s. C.M.T.C. EXERCISES BEGIN 100 Parents Watch Cavalry Re- view Opening Day's Graduation Rites. ‘The annual parents' and gradua- tion day exercises of the Citizens' Military Training Camp at Fort Myer began today with a colorful Cavalry review under the critical eye of Col. Jonathan M. Wainwright, command- ing officer, and the fond gaze of more than 100 parents. Promptly at 10 a.m. three companies —E, F and MG in that order—ma- neuvered their horses into parade columns and swung in behind the post band at the west side of the drill field. Facing them across the turf were Col. Wainwright and his staff. A sharp command and the band struck up a military air. Reserve officers of the 308th Cavalry shouted orders and the review began. Walking | at first, the wavering columns gath- | ered momentum as they rode three times around the field, trotting and finally at a gallop. A chorus of appreciative “oh’s” and *“ah's” went up from the crowd of spectators, many of whom were giving little cries of encouragement to their embryo officer sons Thick clouds of dust enveloped the riders, making them hard to distin- guish. Only the brilliant red and white troop guidon flags could be easily seen bobbing above the horsemen. Twenty-five minutes later the rear detachment, a machine-gun troop, had passed the reviewing officers for the third and last time. The order to “fall out” was given, horses were stabled and the C. M. T. C. boys sought out their parents to escort them to lunch In the Reserve mess. Lieut. Col. John H. Shenkel, com- manding officer of the C. M. T. C. squadron, was well pleased with the | showing, as were Col. Wainwright and others of his staff. At 2 p.m. the cadets will execute the same maneuvers dismounted and un- der their own officers, after which prizes and medals will be awarded. Thursday camp will be broken and the boys will return to their homes. Gans to Visit “Army” Camp. Isaac Gans, president of the advisory board of the Salvation Army, was to make his annual visit toda® to the army's camp on the Patuxent River. For & number of years the army has operated the camp for the benefit of children of the District. Gans has { (QUR social service scouts tell us of | ment (you know, bird’s nest pudding Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. POLICY. IGN in a small country store near Winchester, Va.: “CREDIT EXTENDED ONLY TO PERSONS 70 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER, ACCOMPANIED BY THEIR PARENTS.” } Yo vrmsaws { oveR 70 YEARS If you will pardon us for taking up a bit of a personal matter, we would like to complain to the man- agement about the clock situation around here. Arriving at dawcning work in the early ed. please note!, we take a look at the clock standing out- side the bt 0. and congratulate ourselves on being almost 10 min- utes earlier tha ad thought, Walking thro; street floor lobby, clock and discover six or seven minutes have passed in a trice. (“The postman always rings trice”—James Cain.) We refer back to the Old Post Office clock, and nought is set aright. So, who says we were late to work? ® ox X PRECOCITY. 7OUNG lady by the name of Shirley Jane Sherier, who has| attained the ripe old age of 5, stopped | in a Thirteenth street restaurant | with some friends the other day and said to a waltress: “A Scotch and soda, please.” Waitress promptly brought her a butterscotch sundae. | Egged on by her companions, quoth | Mile. Shirley: “Oh, no. I said a| Seotch and soda.” Waitres walked came bac away, brooded, said she. “We can't serve mixed drinks on Sunday.” Well, it wasn't Sunday, did the butterscotch know? * x ok x LOUDER, PLEASE. \ JE ONLY sed the left eyvebrow a trifle upon noting at the bottom of a menu in a Pennsylvania avenue cafe: SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO LADIES WITHOUT ESCORTS. * ox % x CONTENTS UNKNOWN. but how a Chinese family which, prefer- ring to mix its own brew for nourish- and all that) began selling off a con- signment of canned footstuffs to the | neighbors. | Prices were cheap. but the buyers had some trouble because the dis- pensers had removed all the labels from the cans. When the can opener was in hand, none could guess what was forthcoming—bean soup, spinach, tomatoes, chili, a bird's nest. Only one family was badly stung. however. They bought 12 cans, and all of them were beans. * ok K ok GUARDIAN. l:LASH‘ A youngster named Janet Rex, who is visiting Stella Akin here in Washington, has relayed to us a story about a woman who lives on | a solitary isle off Florida and has a python for a watch dog No comment. Comes under the heading of the What Is the World Coming to Department. * K %k CUT-RATE. Sign in an Oriental store on H street: “LACQUER—ONE-THIRD OFF.” Sorry to be snooty, but no sale. YOUTH,BACK BROKEN,| CONDITION CRITICAL Edward Cannon, W. P. A. Work- er's Son, Hurt Diving, Under Care of Specialists. Edward Cannon, whose back was broken Saturday when he dived into| shallow water at Crystal Beach, Md., was under the care of specialists at Emergency Hospital today, still in a critical condition. The young man's parents, Mr. and Mis. Bernard Cannon, who, with | their four younger children, live in a basement apartment at 424 Third street, put together what money they had yesterday and borrowed enough from neighbors to make up $10. They used this to hire an ambulance in which the injured youth was brought from Annapolis to Emergency Hospital here. The Star stated yesterday that an operation required to save Cannon’s life could not be performed because the family lacked funds, but it was explained at Emergency Hospital today that he would be operated on if at- tending specialists considered it neces- sary, regardless of cost. The question of cost, it was explained at Emer- gency, would not determine the pa- tient’s care at the hands of specialists. The youth's father is a part-time W. P. A. worker. “FLIVVER” AIR TRIP SET SAN DIEGO, Calif.,, August 3 (&) — Flying & 550-pound “flivver” plane, Maj. Merrill K. Ridick, 43, Hormell, N. Y., rested here today on a flight which he says may take him to Asia, India and Europe. Ridick said he was earning his Way carrying passengers on scenic hops. He left Hormell July 5. Despite “trouble with the Depart- ment of Commerce in obtaining a permit to make the hop across Bering Straits,” Ridick said, he planned to leave later today for Los Angeles, beent president of the board for the last nine years. ¢ . then go to Alaska and across the Bering Straits to 'f" | honor.” THE EVENING RIVAL UNIONISTS CLAIM ADVANCES A.F.of L.andC. . 0. Report | Many Contracts Being Signed. By the Assoclated Press. Both John L. Lewis’ C. I. O. and the American Federation of Labor re- ported gains today on several fronts in their battle for supremacy in the organized labor rgovement. The Committee for Industrial Or- ganization said in its weekly bulletin that various affiliated unions bad signed contracts in the last six weeks covering 23,000 workers in the Ohio | Valley without a single strike. It also reported that the Trans- port Workers’ Union, an affiliate, had | signed a closed-shop agreement with | the New York City Omnibus Corp. to cover 1,800 bus drivers and me- chanics. The Textile Workers' Organizing Committee, a C. I. O. subsidiary, re- ported gains in the South, asserting it had 42,000 of the 58,000 employees in the 136 plants where a membership drive now is concentrated. Appeal to Court. The A. F. of L, however, said Marl- boro Mills employes in Bennettsville, S. C, had asked the court “to release them from tyranny of the C. I. O, Textile Workers’ Organizing Commit- tee and to stop check-off dues collect- ing system.” The A. F. of L. said two Pacific Coast State federations were working to combat C. I. O. activity in that region. The Washington State federation, & bulletin said, has issued a state- ment stating in part that the Com- munist party of America, the Socialist party “and every other organization whose mission it is to undermine, in one way or another, our own demo- cratic form of government” were “or- ganized with the C. I O. in helping them in their endeavors to destroy the American Federation of Labor.” The California State Federation, the A. F. of L. said, has sent out “a strongly worded and well documented warning that Communist agencies are conspiring to destroy organized labor, | encourage general strikes and sell out the working men and women of Cali- fornia to the C. I. 0.” New Contracts Reported. The federation reported new con- tracts in Austin, Tex.; Rochester, N. Y.. Merced, Calif.; Miami, Fla.; Memphis and Chattanooga, Tenn,, and Minneapolis. | The rival reports came just a year after the A. F. of L. council voted to suspend the C. I. O. unions for setting up a dual organization | From Milwaukee both camps re- | ported gains. The A. F. of L. said: “Organized labor in Milwaukee un- der the banner of the American Fed- eration of labor continued to march | militantly ahead with agreement after agreement negotiated with employers.” The C. 1. O. said: “While the A. F. of L. leaders curse | the C. 1. O. and weep in their beer, the trade union movement has had the most sweeping organization drive {n the State’s history. Whole towns that | the A. F. of L. never could or never cared to organize are today 100 per | cent C. I. O. towns.” COAST GUARD, 147, MARKS BIRTHDAY Morgenthau Sends Greeting as | Anniversary Nears Tomorrow. By the Associated Press, The Coast Guard, which once had the job of keeping pirates off the high | seas, is 147 years old tomorrow. | Secretary Morgenthau sent all hands a birthday greeting, praising the Coast Guard's “splendid record” which he said had always been ‘“marked by | The 9.000 Guardsmen rescue about 6.000 persons a year: in fact, it is in | the life-saving fleld the service has | become best known. The Coast Guard also combats smuggling, protects fisheries, guards seals, sea otters and whales, warns of | icebergs and looks after phases of im- | migration, quarantine and neutrality. Officials currently are engaged in a modernization program which in- cludes the decommission of 13 At- lantic life-saving stations. Rear Admiral R. R. Waesche ex- plained a marked increase in the use of motor boats and radio has tended to reduce the need of stations being close together in certain regions. The Coast Guard got its start Au- gust 4, 1790, as the revenue cutter serv- ice. Until 1798 the little fleet was the young republic's only armed force afloat. Congress combined the cutter service and the life-saving service in 1915 and gave them the name Coast Guard. MRS. EMILY H. ROSS DIES AT HER HOME Great-Granddaughter of Signer of Declaration of Independ- ence Was 89. Mrs. Emily Hopkinson Ross, 89, great-granddaughter of Francis Hop- kinson, one of the signers of the Decla- ration of Independence, died yesterday &t her home, 3206 P street, after a short {llness. Mrs, Ross was the widow of Col. Burton R. Ross of the District Militia former military instructor in the high schools here. Her father was the late Thomas Johnston Stelle and her mother, Anna Maria Hopkinson Stelle, Mrs, Ross, who leaves a daughter, Emily Hopkinson Ross of the P street address, will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery today following fu- neral services at the home. ADMIRAL WORTHINGTON EXPIRES IN CALIFORNIA | Rear Admiral Walter Fitzhugh Worthington, 82, died Sunday at his home in Pasadena, Calif, where he had lived since his retirement in 1919, the Navy Department announced yes- terday. He was a holder of the Cuban Campaign Medal. Admiral Worthington is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Jean W. Lange, Gainsville, Fla, and Mrs. Gordon Claude, Annapolis, Md., and a nephew, Lieut. Joseph M. Worthington of the office of the judge advocate general here. Detalls of funeral service have not been announced. 4 | Robert Tyler, Ira C. Whitacre, Dr. S. STAR, WASHINGTO SEEKS CONFERENCE ON FIDELITY CASE Mrs. M. C. Bullis, jr., Tries to Bring Together Three Agencies’ Officials. Renewed efforts to bring together in a conference officials of the three principal agencies involved in the case of the closed Fidelity Building and Loan Association were being made today by Mrs. Mark C. Bullis, jr, chairman of a depositors’ committee. Mrs. Bullis, who is a substantial shareholder in the Fidelity, said today ’ she has virtual promises from certain officials that they will get together s o m e time soon to help iron out differ- ences of opinion. Officials of the three agencies concerned include the office of the Controller of the Currency, which has control of the Fidelity through its receiver, James H. Nolan; the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and the First Federal Savings and Loan Association, which was char- tered by the Home Loan Bank Board to take over Fidelity and pay 85 per cent. At a meeting of 100 of the largest shareholders last night it was agreed to seek immediate reopening of the institution, Capt. Austin B. Brown announced. He said these shareholders, who had | more than $1,000,000 involved, were | willing to leave their money in if the Fidelity were opened and felt confi- dent it could operate successfully. A committee’ was instructed to con- fer with Treasury and Home Loan Bank Board officials regarding the possibility of reopening. The com- | mittee, as announced by Capt. Brown, | consists of G. A. Sullivan, chairman; | C. C. Dill, former Senator from Wash- | ington; James C. McCodden, Vincent | A. Sheehy, Mrs. M. B. Devaney, Dr, Mrs. Bulli A. Maddox and Miss M. O. Tew, secre- tary, Meanwhile it was indicated that leaders in the building and loan asso- ciation field were becoming aroused over delay in disposing of the Fidelity case to the pomnt of planning soon to confer on the problem. What they may or can do will be taken up. Treasury Department officials have been conferring daily on the case and it was believed some kind of action would be forthcoming soon from the Treasury. GREAT FALLS PARK PLANS ADVANGED Buying of Land in Arlington to Begin—State to Match Funds. Plans went forward today for pur- chase of land bordering the proposed George Washington highway in Ar lington County—intended eventually to connect Washington with Great | Falls through Virginia—following an | informal meeting of the Park and Planning Commission and the Arling- | tcn County Planning Board yester- day. Under a tentative agreement reached yesterday the State Legisla- ture would match county expendi- tures in the land purchases and the | Federal Government, through the Park and Planning Commission, | would match the total, according to Thomas S. Settle, secretary. Future projects in Virginia within | & 25-mile radius of Washington which in any way involve the Park and Planning Commission were fur- ther clarified for county officials yes- terday when they were presented with | a county map on which park and planning projects have been drafted. Among other matters discussed by the joint gathering were the proposed rading of the Old Dominion Railroad right of way into a road which would extend from its intersection with the Lee Boulevard at Kirkwood road to | connect with the George Washington Boulevard, thus diverting traffic from the Lee Highway; also a proposition whereby the county would make into parkland the two-acre extreme corner of Fort Myer cut off by the Lee High- way. County officials present at the meet- ing were Col. Christopher Garnett, chairman of the Arlington County Planning Board; H. C. Hanrahan, county manager; Gabriel Harman, Judson Reamy, members of the board, and C. L. Kineer, county engineer. FORESTRY SERVICE TRANSFER ASSAILED Former Chief Urges Senate Group to Hold Up Power for President. By the Associated Press. W. B. Greeley, former Forest Serv- ice chief, urged a Senate committee today to withhold authority for the President to transfer the service from the Department of Agricukture, Greeley testified the administra- tion's Government reorganization bill would give the President power to hift the service, abolish it altogether or “dismember it like Poland and scatter its fragments about the Gov- ernment generally.” Now secretary of the West Coast Lumbermen’s Association, Greeley headed the Government's forestry work from 1920 to 1928. He tgld the Senate Committee on Reorganization he feared the service would be transferred partly because of a proposal in the reorganization bill to “rechristen” the Department of Interior as the Department of Con- servation. An official of the Interior Depart- ment, he added, had testified at a recent House hearing that the trans- fer of the service to the Interior De- partment would “further” the Presi- dent’s reorganization plans. Wallace to Be Speaker. KEMMERER, Wyo., August 3 (#).— n address by Secretary Henry A. Wallace tomorrow will highlight the opening day’s program of the annual convention of the Wyoming Wool Growers' Association. Senator -Joseph C. O'Mahoney of | have been | mittee for Progressive Action was se | ces wymn)‘wmmx ) ~ While coming in for a landi wings in midair 300 feet above the of the monoplane, Chester O. Powe: killed. D. C. TUESDAY, AUGUST 3 Midair Plane Crash Kills Two 1937. i m— ng at a Los Angeles air; 2 g, 36, of the biplane, igation of the crash port a monoplane and a biplane locked ground, narrowly missing a house as they crashed. The pilot 7S, 24, and his passenger, Harry Allen Wigley, jr., Frank Jamison, 31, and Joe Vierlin ment of Commerce inspectors began invest 17, were were seriously injured. Depart- today. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. NEGLECT OF D.C. BY CONGRESS SEEN District Suffrage Advocate | Urges Vote as Remedy for llis. The District Committees of the House and Senate “do not have time” to legislate for the District, Charles Franklin, vice chairman of the Citi- zens' Committee for Progressive Ac- | tion, said last night in speaking on | “Suffrage for the District of Colum bia” before the Washington American Youth Congress at the Y. W. C. A “In the whole five months Congre. has been in session, 12 District bills passed,” Franklin said, “and only six of them have actual effect on the District. The others dealt with licensing of doctors for the healing art or arrangements for the | inaugural parade. Olviously the Dis- | trict Committees are not taking care | of it.” The speaker reviewed the govern- mental history of the District, begin- ning with an appointive mavor in 1801 and leading to the present vote- less commission form of government, inaugurated in 1874. The citizens’ associations. Trade and Real Estate Board exert more influence upon Congress than any other groups, Franklin said. He offered illustrations to show how con- flicting interests of various District groups “can work to the detriment of the city as & whole” and asserted suffrage was the answer to the prob- lem, as well as a matter of justice to the District's citizens. Franklin said the Citizens' Com- Board of up to fight for suffrage. Its nex meeting will be held in Wesley Hall a week from tonight. Its immediate aim, he said, is to popularize the idea of a vote for the District and the ne- ity of suffrage He urged the members of the Youth Congress to support the movement. Several dele- gates were named to represent the | congress at the committee’s session. CAPE HATTERAS PARK| MEASURE IS PASSED House Votes to Bring Section of Sea Shore Into National System. By the Assaciated Press. The House voted yesterday to bring & section of seashore into the national park system for the first time. It passed and sent to the Senate a bill for the establishment of “Cape Hatteras National Seashore” in North Carolina. Secretary Ickes, indorsing the bill, advised the House Public Lands Com- mittee that the seashore was one type of landscape not adequately repre- sented in the park system. One of the most promising areas investigated by the Interior Depart- ment, he reported, was Cape Hatteras, where a narrow barrier reef extends about 275 miles along the North Carolina coast. The fact that the barrier islands are almost inaccessible from the mainland, the Secretary said, has preserved them from private and com- mercial development. The Interior Secretary would designate the boun- daries. of the national seashore on Chicamacomico, Ocracoke, Bodie, Roanoke and Cillington Islands. All the land would have to be ac- quired by public or private donation to the Government. If it was not ob- tained in 10 years, the Secretary would be permitted to declare the project abandoned. DRIVERS OF TAXICABS GIVEN VERBAL LASHING Judge Curran Addresses Remarks to Group at Trial of One for Violation. Washington taxicab drivers were giverr a verbal lashing by Police Judge Edward M. Curran today when Repre- sentative Hendricks of Florida ap- peared in court as the complaining witness against Rafael Sistoza, a cab driver, charged with failing to give the right of way. Sistoza, who lives at 2413 Eighteenth street, pleaded not guilty. Judge Cur- ran found him guilty, however, after Representative Hendricks testified the cab driver had turned his machine in front of him at Connecticut avenue and L streets, striking his fender. The case was continued until Saturday for sentence. “It is high time you taxi drivers be- gin to realize that there are other per- sons on the streets besides yourselves,” mmrm Floating Bottle Bears Note Asking Aid Off Lookout By the Assoclated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md.. August 3.— Local police today were puzzled by a message found floating in a bottle at Benedict, Md.. and brought to police headquarters. A note, written in pencil on & flattened-out drinking cup, read “Beatrice Thornton needs help, 20 miles off Point Lookout.” The note bore no date, so offi- cers were unable to tell how long the bottie had been overboard It was found yesterday. PHANTOM" BANDIT HUNTED BY POLICE 18 Robbery Suspects Are Slated to Face Line-up Tonight. Police intensified today their ef- forts to stem a minor crime wave, marked by a steady increase in hold- ups and burglaries With 18 out of 37 suspects ar- rested in week end rooming house raids slated to face a line-up to- night, Chief of Detectives Bernard W. Thompson continued to direct a search for criminals. He was espe- cially eager to find a “phantom” liquor-store bandit credited with tak- ing in more than $4,000 since the i | middle of March. Sixteen more burglaries during the night in various sections of the city plagued the detectives. In one case a fire was started, apparently in an effort to cover up the theft of $150. The victim was Mis. Lillie Beard, 2137 I street, who was aftending a movie at the time. Firemen Discover Theft. Firemen, summoned by neighbors, who saw smoke pouring from the windows, quickly extinguished the blaze but discovered the house had been ransacked. Damage to the house was estimated at $100. Police said all clues had been ob- literated in putting out the fire, which had been started in two places. The money was taken from a bed room. Arthur J. Stephens, manager of a jewelry store at 625 Seventh street, reported jewelry worth $63.16 taken | from a smashed show window. A Sanitary grocery at 1771 U street was entered and mercHandise valued At $21.90 taken, the manager, A. Turner, reported. There were 14 other minor burglar- ies at stores and residences, netting cash, jewelry and other articles valued at about $400. Of the 18 suspects held for tonight's police line-up, 1 was implicated in & kidnap-robbery. Four others were charged with ransacking a warehouse, two of them said to have been caught in the act. Two others were identi- fied, according to detectives, as gas station and liquor store bandits. The 18 prisoners will be viewed by 67 victims of recent store' and street hold-ups. 19 Others Are Released. The police released 19 others of the 37 caught in the week end net spread over cheap rooming house districts by the robbery squad under Lieut. John Fowler. The “phantom” bandit, hunted in vain for months, always operates alone and in nearly every instance has selected liquor stores tc rob, usu- ally on Friday or Saturday nights, when receipts are heaviest. Victims describe him as tall, thin, tastefully dressed and laconic in speech. Beyqnd warning his victims to keep quiet. he seldom says any- thing. If there are customers in a liquor store he usually pretends to exam ne labels until all or most of them have gone, then pulls & gun on the manager. Numerous victims have examined rouges' gallery pictures at headquar- ters, but none resembled the elusive bandit. Despite the posting of de- tectives close to outlying liquo: stores, especially at week ends, the man has continued to prey on such shops. TOLL BRIDGE MEASURE The Senate Post Office and Post Roads Committee today approved a bill establishing premiums for mak- ing toll bridges free. Senator Black of Alabama, author of the measure, said its enactment would mean about $3.000,000 in Fed- eral funds for a road building program in his State. Alabama has lifted tolls on 15 bridges since the Spring of 1836. » ROOSEVELT HITS RIGID GURRENCY {Opposes Thomas’ Plan to! Stabilize Value of | Dollar. By the Associated Press Shi President Roosevelt, in a letter to | Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Okla- | homa, made public today, said: “It | would be dangerous to adjust ourselves | to any rigid pattern” in seeking to stabilize the value of the dollar. Mr. Roosevelt referred to “the com- | plexity of the rapidly shifting inter- | national scene at present” in raising | objections to Thomas' proposal to| create a sliding scale of values by | altering the dollar's theoretical gold content | | Thomas made public the President’s views at a Senate hearing on his bill. | Mr. Roosevelt wrote: “I am in complete sympathy with your objective with respect to the| elimination of unnecessary fluctuations | in the value of the dollar. The United | States is still seeking ‘the kind of dollar which a generation hence will | have the same purchasing power as the | value we hope to attain in the near | future.” Stabilization Methods. | “I am sure that you also agree with | me that stabilization of the value of | the dollar will be attained not merely | by monetary means and devices— | though these are necessary—but much more by the achievement of balanced and orderly recovery throughout the | whole economy and by its maintenance | once achieved. “However, in view of the complexity | of the rapidly shifting international | scene at present. it would be dangerous | to adjust ourselves to any rigid pattern. | | "It is doubtful whether procedure on | the lines you suggest will be rewarded | with that measure of success which we could justly expect were the interna- | tional " situation to have undergone clarification. | “For that reason. I believe that to commit ourselves definitely at this time | to a formalized course of action might | well be premature and might, there- fore, even do more harm than good, both at home and abroad | | “You may rest assured that we are | | watching all developments in the| monetary sphere with a view to making | any timely contribution we can [ “The monetary understanding | | reached last September. first with Eng- | land and France and then with a| [ number of other countries, was rightly | interpreted as being a great step for- | ward in the attainment of the external | { stabilization of the dollar as well as in | the promotion of international co- operation.” Bridges Seeks Repeal. Simultaneously. Senator Bridges, Republican, of New Hampshire, pro- posed legislation to repeal that part of the President's monetary power which would permit him to issue paper currency up to $3.000.000,000. In a statement commenting on his bill, Bridges said this provision “au- thorizing the President to direct the issue of unsecured United States notes | (greenbacks) disregards the simplest monetary lessons of the worl “Although the power to issue these | 8reen backs has yet to be exercised, the law is unsound and should be . Bridges asserted issue of such paper currency would severely injure the wage earner, | the salaried man, the savings bank depositor, the owners of life insurance | policies and those living on fixed in- comes from investment not only in bonds but in rents.” “The President has so repeatedly proclaimed his intention to balance the budget,” Bridges added, “that he should be the last to object to the elimination of this dangerous pro- vision and its constant threat to the wage earners and their savings.” MRS. MARY PRICE DIES AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS Funeral Services to Be Held To- morrow Afternoon at Family Home in Gala, Va. Mrs. Mary Elizabetn Price, long a resident of Gala, Va, died yesterday in Arlington at the home of her son, Robert, after a brief illness. She was born in Roanoke in 1861, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Palmer St. Clair, members of prominent Vir- ginia families. Her husband, Robert R. Price, died about 30 years ago. Mrs. Price is survived by four other children besides her son in Arlington. They are Mrs. Arthur Murrell of Washington, Mrs. William Hubler of Marseilles, France; Mrs.. Graham Buhrman of Gala and A. Nelson Price of Richmond. Funeral services will be held tomor- row at 2:30 pm. in the family home at | vention goscios. 10 am. CONSTITUTIONTALK BY PRESIDENT SET Roosevelt Will Speak Monument Grounds Here September 17. President Roosevelt will deliver an address at the Sylvan Theater in the Monument Grounds September 17 at a ceremony commemorating the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Con- stitution, the White House announced today The speech will be broadcast, the Good 1 arrange simultaneous banquets all over the country so the dine in groups to the Presider ing over the loudspeakers, Arrangements for the cerem: here were discussed this mo; a conference between the Pr and Representative Bloom, Democrat, of New York, chairman of the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission. White House officials aid Mr. Roost velt had written Mavor S. Davis Wi son of Philadelphia yesterday in rep to the mayor's invitation to the Pres: dent to make a speech in his city Sep= tember 17 at another Constitution day celebration. The s of the re- ply were not made publs of in conter celebration of ths s from 30, 1939, t { George Washi ton’s inaug he first Pre dent, accord proclama issued by Mr. Roosevelt a month ago. Ar iential address on an historica set for Aug 18 at Roanoke Island, N. C T of the ceremonies marking the 350 anniversary of Sir Walter Raleigh hmert of an English colony or and £ 1d of the birth of the fir e child on the North American nent, Virginia Dare. Meanwhile, the President plans tn leave Washington Thursday or Fridav for a three or four day stay at his Hyde Park, N. Y., hom DEMOCRATS Septembe 150th ar ATS TO SELL CONVENTION REPORT Stenographic Record of Philadel- phia Meeting Will Re- tail for $5. By the Ascociated Press. The Democratic National Com tee ught to fill its depl drawer today by off ographic reports of the Philadel national convention for sale at $5 a volume will g0 into party’s treas: Charles Michel director of national committee p licity, said. Last June 1 the par had a deficit of $216.000 Michelson said total sales of convention reports probably would reach only $5.000, not enough to take the committee out of the red Similar reports covering the 1022 national convention at Chicago were sold between paper covers at $25(p he said. Sales were not heavy, how- ever, because the volumes were pur chased principally by delezates an alternates who had attended the con The current issue will be distributed exclusively from head- quarters here, U. S. DEFICIT FOR JULY IS PUT AT $249,384,405 Wider Gap Between Income and the Spending Is Shown for First Month of Year. By the Associated Press The Treasury rounded out the first month of this fiscal year with a $249,- 384.405 deficit, compared with §1 221.873 in the same period last vear The Treasury's summary for July 31 showed today the wider gap be- tween income and spending this ye. was due to a falling off in reparm to lending agencies and greater e penditures for ordinary Governme operations. These items, however. were offaet part by a decline in outlavs listed f “recovery and relief” and increa revenue For July this vear receipts agare- gated $409,160.636, compared wi $293,886,769 in the same month a year AgO. On July 31 the Treasury reported national debt reached a new peak nf $36.715.695,702. This compared with $33,443,795.237 on July 31, 1936. 5 Healthy Retirement. SPARTA, Ga., August 3 (#).—Twen- ty-eight years ago the North Georgia Methodist Conference retired Rev John R. Lewis because of declin | health. Today Mr. Lewis, now 85, is look: forward to arother good crop from small farm, on which he does all his own work. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Debates Wagner housing bill Rail Finance Committee inqu into Van Sweringen purchase. Reorganization Committee continues hearings on Government revision. House: Considers minor bills. Labor Committee resumes study of wage and hour bill Agriculture Committee wheat insurance bill. Joint Committee considers tax-eva- sion legislation Rivers and Harbors Conamittee con- tinues hearing on power legislation. Interstate Commerce Committee considers food and drug bili. TOMORROW. considers Senate: May take up routine bills on unan- imous consent calendar if Wagner housing bill is passed. Foreign Relations Committee meets in executive session, 10:30 a.m. District subcommittee holds hear- ings on House bill to license real es- tate brokers and salesmen, 2 p.m. Education and Labor Committes meets in executive session, 10 a.m. House: Considers miscellaneous bills on cal- endar, including one to regulate ex- penditures in executive departments. Foreign Affairs Committee begins hearings on resolution authorizing Government participation in the Mex- cado International Exposition in Los [}