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A—2 xxx» TAMMANY IS TOLD 10 CLEAN HOUSE' Finlsh Fight Between Smith ‘and Walker Is Seem in i Bitter Battle. BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 6.—An edict to “clean house” in Tammany, issued by Chieftain Christopher Sullivan in & move to purge the hall of rebellious elements, stood out today in the wig- wam’s bitter internal feud over the New Deal. Behind that struggle political ob- gervers saw a fight to the finish be- tween two Tammany titans—James J. Walker, debonair “Mayor Jimmy” in New York's roaring late! 20s, and, former Gov. Alfred E. Smith, the “happy warrior” of bygone days. Ostensibly in political eclipse, the two men were viewed as behin-the- scene powers aligned against each other in the fight over whether Tam- many will enter the New Deal fold. The fight was brought to a head by Leader Sullivan’s attempt to bring to heel insubordinate Tammany chief- tains opposed to supporting United States Senator Royal S. Copeland in the primary mayoralty campaign. “They're either behind Copeland or they're out,” was Sullivan's succinct ultimatum last night. Copeland Indorsed. Senator Copeland, a critic of the Roosevelt administration, has been indorsed by a Tammany majority. A powerful minority faction, however, in which Walker's name daily looms | more prominently, openly said it would support the New Deal candi- date—first Grover A. Whalen, now former Judge Jeremiah Titus Ma- honey ‘Walker originally urged Mahoney as & compromise candidate, but when 8cnator Copeland, on advice Smith, refused to withdraw, Whalen Withdrew two days ago in favor of Ma- oney, & man he said was “better uipped” for the task of bucking | Tammany. - Sullivan’s ultimatum created vi @vil war in Gotham's democracy. ual ! THE EVENING Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. HOUND SERVICE. HE daughter of & deceased Pjttsburgh millionaire set room service back on its heels in a local hotel the other day by ordering a huge, raw tenderloin steak sent up to her room. When it ar- rived she explained she wanted it for her dogs, but sent it back because she wanted it for her dogs, but sent it back because it wasn't on a silver platter, Steak was hauled out again and re- turned on the specified platter. But, ho hum, the dogs weren't even hungry, although their steak did cost $9. * x ¥ % PRIVILEGE. Advertising for tenants in a local apartment house, management specified “No dogs allowed.” Good rule for the place, too. The janitor has a dog. The elevator operator has a dog. The man- ager keeps two. x ok % THE BLAST. AVING been almost literally blasted out of bed on three suc- cessive mornings, & Takoma Park correspondent of ours went out to investigate the source of these rousing matutinal salutes. Found an amiable chap named Jimmie Summers busy blowing up stumps which were in the way of the extension of New Hamp- shire avenue. Mr. Summers said he | had been *“playing around with the = The future of the historic wigwam as ew York City's dominant Democratic @rranization appeared at stake. ~ Population shifts in Porough of Manhattan, seat of Tam- many power, and leaders of Demo- €ratic organizations in the other bor- oughs, Brooklyn, Queens, Richmond prestige. All four are backing the Walker faction in supporting Mahoney. Would End Reign. A Mahoney victory in the primary | Beptember 16 would probably spell the end of the 161-vear-old hall's long Teign as the dictator of Democratic | party politics here. Walker, emerging from the obscurity in which he has dwelt since 1932, when he resigned as Mayor dur- tion, was said by his friends to be con- stdering taking the stump for Ma- honey Wi wed several weeks ago at the close of & conference with. President Roose- velt'in Washington, he laughed off the suggestion. he would take an primary campaign. o and the Bronx, have gained steadily in | political | | ing an investigation of his administra- | lker himself was boomed briefly | -8 mayoralty possibility, but. intgg- | | | At that time, however, he indicated | active part in the | | stuff"—meaning dynamite—for about recent years| \2 ve reduced the importance of the | years. During the conversation Mr. Summers packed another stump and casually. persuaded our operative to pick up a stick of the dynamite, which the lad considered no mean feat of daring. About that time Mr. Summers yelled, “Find a tree,” and the observation post was abandoned in a scramble. | Few seconds later there was a roar, and rocks, sand, mud, splinters and assorted other items filled the air. Our boy hero got a fine collection of | these in his hair, but at least he had seen a blasting, and he could face with peace and poise the future awakenings | caused by Mr. Summers' playing | around with the stuff. It is being noon at that point, Mr. | Summers laid off blasting. He picked | up his dinner pail, placed it on a stump, and sat down on the box of dynamite to eat. Eating slowly, he fished s magasine from his pocket to| read. IL'Wa§ talled “Adventure.” £ x ok x BIG SBHOT. BEING decidedly too lazy to go out and dig up any curiosities among the ruins of this once-flourishing eity (we've been behind an air-cooling sys- Auto Crash Kills Mother Mrs. Levie Roberson (second from left), who was killed in an automobile accident today near Charlotte, N. C., is pictured here with her husband, Marshall C. Roberson, who was seriously in- jured, and their two daughters, Mabel (left) and Letha. (Story UEAR NEASURE COLLERTROPY SUGAR MEASURE BAGKERS ADVISED| 70 PAN AMERICAN [4 Jones Tells Them They Would ‘Be Wise’ to Accept Today to Reward Work Over Pacific. | Administration Views. President Roosevelt today presented | By the Associated Press. Chairman Jones of the House Agri- | the famous Collier Trophy, high- est award in American aviation, to| culture Committee today told HousevP A A A e ntiion y 3 : | Pan-American Airways in recog | supporters of a new sugar control bill| " o lichment, of the trans- | they would “be wise” to accept admin- | pacific air line and the successful ex- | istration yiews on the legislation. ecution of extended over-water navi- | He made this statement after offer- | gation in .the regular \’D"fl‘luni ing an amendment to strike from the | thereof.” bill a provision restricting refined | “You well deserve it," sugar imports from Hawaii and Puerto | said to Trippe at the White House Rice. 3 ceremony. “You have done a grand Sugar bloc leaders, meanwhile, | job.” the President | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1937. 0.C, UARDUNTS | Driven From Spain by War LEAVE TOMORROW Four Detachments to Spend Two Weeks at Camp Ritchie, Md. Four detachments of the District National Guard completed prepara- tions today to entrain at 6:30 a.m. to- morrow for Camp Albert Ritchie, Cas- cade, Md., where they will spend the next two weeks in their annual en- campment in the Maryland-Pennsyl- vania mountains. National Guard leaders announced there will be 820 officers and men at the encampment, the majority from the 121st Engineers Combat Regiment of the 29th Division, commanded by Col. John W. Oehmann, head of the District Guard and District building inspector. The other groups are the 29th Divi- sion Special Troops under Maj. Wil- liam T. Roy of the District Guard; the 1st Battalion of the 104th Quar- termaster Regiment under Maj. F. F. Bernsdorfl, also of the 29th Division, and Company A, 372d Infantry, col- | ored guardsmen, under Capt. Arthur C. Newman. The latter company is attached to the same division, Leave Train at Buena Vista. The guardsmen, traveling in a spe- cial train of 11 coaches and 3 baggage cars, are scheduled to leave the train at Buena Vista, Md,, at 9:40 am. to- morrow and spend the rest of the day establishing themselves in tent quar- ters on the camp ground. The en- campment will end Saturday, August ! 21, with the guardsmen leaving Buena | Vista at 8:45 a.m. and arriving in Washington at 11:55 a.m. Highlights of the two-week moun- | tain encampment will be the annual | overnight field bivouac on Tuesday, | August 17, when the Engineers will | leave the camp and deploy over the surrounding country in Army engi- neering operations, spending the night in the field and returning to camp the next day; annual regimental day | ceremonies next Wednesday afternoon, | a visit to Gettysburg battle field next Friday, the week end visits of friends tander. Mrs. Paulino Rojas, born at Dawson, N. Mex., the safety of her homeland from war-torn Spain, bringing her brood with her, but leaving her Spanish husband still at San- With New York’'s skyscrapers towering aver her, she bravely declared she would find work to support her children. sought to demonstrate they could over- ride a veto with which President Roosevelt said he would return the measure to Congress if it included the quota restrictions. Jones announced yesterday that was | the President’s position. “I believe,” the chairman said today. “the true friends of this legislation, if they are wise. will accept this amend- ment. I hope those who want to se- cure legislation will not permit their pride or feeling to control their judg- | ments.” Matter of Principle. He added that President Roosevelt and the State, Interior and Agricul- | ture Departments “insist upon elimi- nation of this restriction as a matter | of principle.” They felt, he said. that the restrictive provision discriminated | against the islands. Pointing out the proposed legisla- | tion would be in effect only until 1941. Jones said the amount of re- fined sugar imported from Hawaii and Puerto Rico would be little different Whether the restriction were deleted or left in the bill. He predicted the islands could not refine their full raw sugar quotas dur- ing this period because of lack of facilities. ‘Trans-Pacific service has been in operation for a year, except for the | final link between Manila and Macao, China, established last April. Pan- American since has pioneered & route to New Zealand, down the center of the South Pacific; a Bermuda service, | now in regular operation, and a trans- Atlantic service, now in the flight- test stage. The Collier Trophy s awarded an- nually for “the greatest achievement in aviation in America, the value of which has been thoroughly demon- strated in use or in practice during the preceding year.” Trippe to Receive Trophy. Juan T. Trippe, president of international airline. received the trophy from the President in the presence of a group of former win- ners and other aviation leaders. Sen- ator McAdoo of California is chair- man of the Awards Committee of the National Aeronautic Association, which selected the winner. the broadcast over the red network of the National Broadcasting Co., dur- ing which Senator McAdoo, Trippe and William L. Chenery, editor of | and relatives of guardsmen and offi- | cers and regimental fleld day on | Thursday, August 19, when friends and relatives will be permited to attend Maj. Gen. Milton Reckord of Balti- | more, commander of the 29th Division, accompanied by other high officers, will visit the camp on Sunday, August 15. Rigid Training in Program. ‘The District Guardsmen will follow a program of rigid training. exercise miltary instruction and maneuvers during the two-week period. with peri- ods for rest and recreation during each day. Except for Sunday, when reveille will be at 6:30 am., the Guardsmen will have to tumble out of their camp cots each morning at 5:30 o'clock and be at the breakfast table at 6. There will be a physical drill each day after | breakfast. | ceremonies. | The Advance Detachment under | Second Lieut. Richard B. Thrift and | Later today there was to be a special | the Camp Supply Detachment under | ]‘Clplv Walter S. Welsh reported for | Loading of supplies | | duty Wednesday. | on freight cars. to be transported to | camp. was concluded yesterday. Assist- During the first week in | | camp, the period from 8:30 to 9 am. | will be devoted to practice in military | ELECTIONS ASKED FOR AUTO PLANTS Union Seeks Votes in All Chrysler Factories as 21,006 Are Idle. By the Assoctated Press. DETROIT, August 6.—The United Automobile Workers, engaged in a dis= pute with the Chrysler Corp. which has kept the Plymouth plant closed since Wednesday. disciosed today it had asked the National Labor Rela- tions Board to conduct an election in all Chrysler plants Although the first announcement said a petition had been filed with the N. L. R. B, Richard T. Prankensteen organizational director of the unio; said later the formal petition would be withheld until “we sec whether there is time for an election befors the Summer shut-down.” If the Chrysler plants close soon for retooling. in preparation for new models, he explained, the election might be deferred until they reopen. Frankensteen said he discussed the matter with Frank Bowen. regional director of the labor board. Tuesday. That was 24 hours before the out- break of violence between members of the U. A. W. A. and the independ= ent association of Chrysler employes resulted in the closing of the Plymouth plant. An estimated 21,000 automobile workers in the Plymouth plant and factories supplying Plymouth bodies | were idle while charges and counter- returned to —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. WANTED: MILLION TOCOUNT METEORS Perseid Barrage to Stage, Annual Sky Show Aug. 11 and 12. By tke Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA August 6. —A million volunteer watchers are wanted to count the Perseid meteors, which | will make the nights The call terday by their annual appearance of August 11 and 12 for them was issued yes- Prof. Charles P. Olivier, University of Pennsylvania astron- omer. For several Summers tors have been counting these me- teors, giving the number seen hourly to the American Meteor Society Olivier. specta- | tem and a venetian blind so long the fall of civilization sounded no louder Collier's, were to speak. The test og strength of the sugar ° through Prof. ing in advance arrangements were| rp. (ounes enable astronomers ' than a rebel's rock, rattling off the|Doc was expected on Jones' amend- In the announcement of the award | First Lieut. Joseph F. Fitzgerald of W. P. A. ROLLS TOTAL 1,656,533 PERSONS Figure Was Reached Two Days After Reduction Deadline. BY the Associatea Press The Works Progress Administration reported yesterday that it employed 1.656,533 persons July 17, two days | after the deadline set for cutting the rolls to 1,600.000. On July 3 the figure was 1.776,239. On January 30 it was 2.138,059 i ‘The report showed a total of 2,281.- | 184 on all Federal relief agencies as nf; Judy 17. In addition to those on W. P, | A.-the following were listed: | Emergency conservation work, 321,- !Q_Q: Bureau of Public Roads (exclud- ing« employment on Federal aid and | Spte highway projects not financed by | emergency relief funds), 50,003: Pub- | lica. Works Administration, 111,630; | u&sg agencies, 141,643 - e report said 1,603,253, or 6.8 per €&HE, of the persons employed on W. P. A8s of July 17 were “certified as in need of relief.” In the emergency con- sérvation work the percentage was 85.4, | or 274,300 persons. The report added that 89.2 per cent of all persons employed in all relief agencies of the Government on July 17 ‘were needy persons. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TO HAVE UNION LODGE Starting with 17 members, a lodge in the United Federal Workers of Amer- ica, C. I. O. affiliate, is being formed in the Library of Congress. “The organization meeting was held ‘Wednesday, when officers were named anll formal application made for a U. F. W. charter. “The nucleus of the group consists of members who have withdrawn from the National Federation of Federal Employes and the American Federa- tion of Government Employes. The latter had a lodge there which sus- pended. ; ‘Officers of the new organization are: P. H. Hylton, president; James D. Montgomery, vice president; Elden Billings, financial and recording secre- tary, and O. A. Kelley, corresponding Bemate: Continues debate on Wagner hous- ing bill, Wheeler Committe continues rail finanéing inquiry. 8pecfal Committee continues Gov- ernment reorganization hearings, House: Resumes debate on sugar legislation. ‘Banking Committee continyes hear- ing on housing bill i Agriculture Committee studies crop Insurance. Al Post Office Committee. considers proposed extension of 2-cent postal rate. ‘TOMORROW. Benate; wad a4 to whether it will meet. T WHNHIM. A ! part of French Indo-China. { Not one man in a million has the window pane), we revert once more to tales of strange people in other strange lands. Yesterday, for example, we swiped from Dr. John M. Cooper an item about the Tlokos. & tribe whose name and West and refining States of the | resembles the noise of a man swallow- Atlantic seaboard—was to defeat the ! ing a grape. Today we have the Harhndeangs, who live in villages in the northern | Each Harhndeang village has a; mayor, selected in a fashion that is/ worthy of emulation. He is always the | local fool. When anything goes | wrong he catches the devil—especially if it is something which displeases the French authorities. On the other hand he doesn't know | enough actually to exercise any of the authority with which ancient tradi- | tion invests the office, so folks do just | about as thev please. * x x & CAREER. A SOMEWHAT similar system, we might inform Dr. George Deve- reaux who supplies the details of his life among the Harhndeangs to “Prim- itive Man,” exists in New England where each town elects each year three public officials known as “fence view- ers.” There is something in the laws of the New England States which Te- quires towns to have fence viewers. slightest idea of what a fence viewer is supposed to do, except do nothing. So it is the custom to elect each year three recent bridegrooms. Now and then the voters slip up and elect some newlywed who is not silly and um:;n INCHES not a good sport. He looks up the law and finds that a fence viewer was a very important functionary indeed 150 Years ago and that the authorities of the office never have been repealed. So he makes a general nuisance of himself by informing folks that their fences are an inch or so out of line and making them move them. There is nothing they can do about it, unless they want to go to court and have their lands and the adjoining lands resurveyed at very comsiderable ex- pense. We warn the Harhndeangs to make sure they always select a real, cer- tified fool for their mayor, * x % x OUTCAST. When these Harhndeangs really want to punish a fellow for break- ing a serious tribal tabu, we learn from Dr. Devereauz, they exempt him, in eflect, from all tazes and allow him to become wealthy. Ordinarily the shamans, or vil- lage priests, take away from a fel- low about everything he can scrape together. When he has a good rice crop, they order him to have most of it brewed into ceremonial beer. When his herd increases, they order him to sacrifice excess animals to the gods. But when he becomes a criminal, he is cast out and not permitted to live in the village. He must go live in the forest. There the shamans have mo comirol over him. As a rule, he clears land for himself and 200n becomes very prosperous, for r. ment. Strategy of Bill's Supporters. The strategy of supporters of the| bill—principally representatives from sugar-producing States of the Midwest amendment by & two-to-one vote, if they could Such a vote, their leaders said, would indicate the bill could pass the House over a presidential veto. Should the vote be closer, these leaders added, they might be disposed to compromise with the administration rather than see the legislation die. The legislation would establish 2! Glenn new quota system under which the domestic sugar market would be di- vided among various producers. It would levy an excise tax to finance benefit payments to growers. Administration forces in debate yes- terday contended the measure would give domestic refiners a monopoly on the manufacturing phase of the in- dustry. Supporters of the bill, denying this, asserted it would prevent destruction of American refiners by assuring them business which the administration would turn over to the islands. TOM MOONEY PASSES CRISIS IN ILLNESS Attorney Will Seek Court Order to Place Him in San Francisco Hospital. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, August 6.—Tom Mooney apparently has passed the crisis in the illness which sent him to San Quentin Prison Hospital, but his attorney prepared to seek a court order transferring him to a San Francisco institution in the event of & relapse. Warden Court Smith reported Mooney, convicted of bombing the 1916 Preparedness day parade here, was resting easily after treatment for a gall bladder infection. Smith said Dr. Leo Eloesser of Stanford University, who was called in for a oconsultation, and Prison Physician Leo L. Stanley hope to avoid an immediate operation. The warden represented Mooney and his attorney, George T. Davis, as being ‘“perfectly satisfied.” Mooney, now 54, had been under treatment for stomach ulcers. Davis asserted he collapsed Tuesday. APPROVED FOR POSTS Senate Confirms Four Ministerial Nominations. The Senate yesterday confirmed the nomination of Frank P. Corrigan to be Minister to Panama. It also con- firmed the following other ministerial nominations: . Frederick A. Sterling, Estonia and Latvia; Robert Fraszer, El Salvador, and Arthur Bliss Lane, Yugoslavia. —_— there is nobody to take his surplus away from him. Theoretically, he has been de- prived of his human status. But when the fellow becomes rich, he usually pays to get dack in the fold. Then the shamens hold him up in proper style; the story of Pan-American was re- ferred to as one “in which science, diplomacy, imagination and roma; co-operate to tie the world together. The trophy was first presented in | 1911 and was won in that year gnd | the next by Glenn H. Cuetiss, and | by Orville Wright in 1913. Since | | the World War the trophy has been won by Grover C. Loening, the United | States Airmail Service, the Army Air | Service, S. Albert Reed, Maj. E. L.| Hoffman, Charles L. Lawrance, the Aeronautic Branch of the Commerce Department the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Harold F. | Pitcairn, the Packard Motor Co., L. Martin, the Hamilton Standard Propeller Co., Capt. Albert F. Hegenberger and the present hold- er, Donald W. Douglas. Milestones of Air History. Milestones in aviation history rep- resented by the awards include the | automatic stabilizer, gyroscopic con- trol, the drift indicator, the metal propeller, the parachute, the radial air-cooled engine, the high-speed, weight-carrying airplane; the con- trollable pitch propeller, the blind flying system and the current big commercial transport airplane. “But in no modern times,” it was said in *the announcement of the award, “has the demonstration within the meaning of the trophy's concep- tion been more conclusive. In no other year has the opinion of the industry been unanimous, as now, that 2 different selection would have been inane. The scheduling of the Pacific Ocean, widest of seas, by Juan Trippe and his Pan-American co-workers Was not only a milestone in air travel; it was perhaps the most spectacular, most challenging day in transporta- tion history.” DOYLE GOES TO SESSION OF COSMOPOLITAN CLUB Departs With Wife for Saskatoon, Canada, Where He Will Be D. C. Representative. Judge Michael M. Doyle, accom- panied by his wife, departed last night for Saskatoon, Canada, for the International Convention of Cosmo- politan Clubs, representing the Wash- ington Cosmopolitan Club as official delegate. The Capital District Federation of Cosmopolitan Clubs will be represent- ed by about 10 delegates. They will meet first at Chicago and then go to 8t. Paul, Minn, where special cars for the convention will await them. James E. Colliflower was presented with & certificate of merit at yes- terday's club meeting Past president of the organization, he received the award from Laurence E. Rubel. Rev. Michael A. Mathis, C. S. C., showed the club movies of the famous Notre Dame-Ohio State foot ball game of 1935, won by Notre Dame in the last minute of play. Chicken for Farm Hands. RED WING, Minn.,, August 6 (). —Hungry harvest hands hereabouts are getting Spring chicken as a reg- ular diet. Prices of beef and pork have soared beyond the point where farm housewives can economically serve them to threshing crews. Many farmers are killing their chickens to appeass the ravenous appetites of the threshers. ! 194 the Engineers, Capt. John T. O'Neal | Regiment, | of 104th Quartermaster Lieut. Elmer W. Humphrey for special troops, and Lieut. Cornelius A. King for Company A, 372d Infantry. Camp on High Plateau. The Guardsmen will be encamped on a high. cool plateau in the moun- tains. at an elevation of 1600 feet and only 2 miles from the Summer re- sort of Blue Ridge Summit. Pa The transportation equipment in- cludes 23 heavy Army trucks, 9 sta- tion wagons and 2 dump trucks Preliminary arrangements for the camp have been in charge of Lieut. | Col. Peyton G. Nevitt, assistant adju- tant general of the District National Guard. ‘The roster of officers for the en- campment follows: Commanding officers. Col. Oehmann; Lieut. Cols. Nevitt and Julian S. Oliff; | Majs. Roy, Bernsdorff, James R. Lusby, | Ralph S. Childs, Sidney Morgan, Clar- ence S. Shields, Joseph Greenlaw of the Medical Corps, Arthur L. Smith and Just O. Jensen. Captains—Newman. Albert Ridgeley, Douglas A. White, William F. Jorgen- sen, Samuel R. Turner, Louis M. Go- sorn, Charles E. Smithson, who is ad- jutant to Col. Oehmann; George W. Johns, Welsh, William I. Mushake, Ralph L. Walker, George L. Evans, Walter A. Knight, Hugh Everett, jr.; Robert M. Bolton, James R. Quade, Francis J. Tartaglino, Emil J. C. Hilde- brand, George F. Harbin, Cooper B. Rhodes and John T. O'Neill. First lieutenants—Cornelius A. King, Edward A. McMahon, Fitzgerald, Pear- son C. Conlyn, Luther B. Hall, Edward O. Hamilton, Howard A. Burd, Humphrey, James B. Bradley, Harold W. Leath, Donald A. Falk, James D. Tanner and Reynold C. Feldt. ¥ Second lieutenants — Sylvester L. Blackwell, Henry B. Cockrell, Lewis A. Jackson, Malcolm T. Powell, Charles L. Rust, Thrift, Ellis H. Martin, Henry M. Boudinot, Harry Gaberman, Henry L. Green, 3d; William J. Conlyn, jr.; William D. Putnam, Edward D. Mul- vanity and Anton G. Mensik. PARADE MONDAY OPENS ST. DOMINIC’S CARNIVAL Route of Procession Is Announced. Detailed Plans Are Laid by Features Chairman. The route of the parade that will mark the opening of St. Dominic's Catholic Church carnival was an- nounced today, as chairmen of i- ous special features went ahead with detailed plans. The carnival will open Monday and continue until August 21. The opening parade, of which Al- bert Headley is marshal, will form near the church, Sixth and E streets southwest, move north on Sixth street to Maryland avenue, east to Fourth street, south to M, west to Sixth and back to the church grounds. Among those in charge of various special features are M. Davis, William McDermott, James Echoles, Miss Frances Dwyer, Mrs. Viola Stephen- son, Miss Eleanore Diegleman, Miss Margaret Shireman, Otto Lisse, Mrs. Marie Hawk, William Hennessy, Mrs. Lena Kunold, Miss Theodosia Smith, P. Rice, Mrs. Mary Kines, John ‘Drucker, Mrs. Charles Newman and Miss Mary Broderick. to get a better idea of the nature and habits of meteors, which are bits of dust or chunks of stone or iron con- | stantly flying free in space The Perseids are named for the constellation Perseus, from which they | appear to come. This constellation rises in the northeast. The meteors may be seen in all parts of the sky, but the best place to look is north- | east early at night and overhead from midnight on These meteors have never failed to appear each Midsummer since they were first reported, 1,106 years ago, in 830 A. D. They appear to be lttle | the size of grains of | things, wheat they about Traveling 40 miles a second, burn from friction in the air { with the momentary brilliance of | cRRS U O stars. “While the actual maximum oc- curs on the night of August 11-12, as a rule, on both the night before and the night after, as many as 50 me- teors per hour are often seen when the observer is away from artificial lights and in a good place for ob- servation,” Prof. Olivier said. “The American Meteor Society, whose headquarters is at the Flower Observatory, Upper Darby, Pa. will welcome reports of all kinds made | by persons during the severai days before and after the maximum, as well as on the night of maximum itself.” TRAPPED CLIMBER SAVED FROM DEATH ON LEDGE Guide Toils 513 Hours to Bring Calgary Man 1,000 Feet Up Steep Surface. MORLEY, Alberta, August 6 (Ca- nadian Press).—Humphrey Cooper, Galgary mountain climber, was res- cued yesterday from a narrow ledge on End Mountain, where he had been trapped for more than 40 hours. Victor Kutschera, an Austrian guide, made a difficult descent to the ledge, fastened a rope sling about the climber and brought him to the mountain top almost single handed. He worked five and one-half hours to bring him 1,000 feet. Cooper fell to the ledge Tuesday night and was painfully injured. As Kutschera got him to the mountain top the injured climber was placed upon s stretcher for the journey over & rough trail to the base camp. FIVE SENATORS NAMED Chosen to Attend Virginia Dare Fete in North Carolina. Vice President Garner yesterday named five Senators to represent the Senate at the Virginia Dare celebra- tion at Roanoke Island, N. C., August 18 when President Roosevelt is sched- uled to attend. They are Barkley of Kentucky, ma- jority leader; Glass, Virginia, and McKellar, Tennessee, Democrats, and McNary, Oregon, minority leader, and Lbdge of Massachusetts, Republicans. SUEE e Baker Entertains Kiwanians. ‘The Washington Kiwanis Club at its weekly luncheon yesterday at the Mayflower Hotel was entertained by Harry Baker, officer of the Wilson Line, who performed tricks of sleight- of-hand. Baker was introduced by Frank Peckham, program chairman, A (3} | the report suggested that 100 per cent | PROPOSALS PLUG TAX LAW CHINKS Committee Holds Program Spells Death for Personal | Holding Units. | By the Assoctated Press | Members of a congressional com- mittee on tax evasion said today that if the Senate and House accept thei recommendations a “death sentence” awaits personal holding companies They submitted their report yester- day, giving specific suggestions on how to close loopholes in the tax laws | The recommendations would disal- | low virtually every tax deduction now granted the ‘“incorporated pocket- books” and would boost surtaxes on their undistributed income to as much as 65 and 75 per cent. Statement by Vinson. Representative Vinson, Democrat of Kentucky said that if the proposals were enacted there would be no ad- ! vantage to any one in creating a per- | sonal holding company. He said the tax committee's recom- mendations could result also in the Government collecting taxes on the | gains realized from dissolution of hold- ing companies Existing surtaxes are graduated from 8 to 48 per cent. The commit- tee said these provided two serious loopholes: 1. The fact that the graduated rates | are less severe than graduated rates | applicable to wealthy individuals en- courages use of the personal holding 2. The graduated rates in the low brackets have led to multiple personal holding companies, among which in- come was scattered. Application of Rate. The proposed new 65 per cent rate | would apply against undistributed ad- | justed et income up to $2.000, the 75 per cent levy against the income | in excess of $2,000. i To encourage prompt liquidation of foreign personal holding companies of the gains recognized on such liquida- tion be taken into account in com- puting net income. permits computation on as little as 30 per cent. The committee proposed to tax shareholders of such foreign corpora- tions on the basis of their stock hold- ings and the income therefrom, whether it was distributed or not. NEW CAMP DINING HALL IS NEARING COMPLETION Finishing Touches Being Applied to Building for Family Groups at Chopawamsic. A new dining hall for the family groups camp in the Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area at Dumfries, Va., is receiving finishing touches today. This Summer the family group camp has been leased by the Family Service Association of Washington for a co-educational camp composed of boys and girls from 9 to 14. In future, however, the camp will be used for mothers with small children. The camp is one of three now in use. Development work now is in the hands of the division of recreational planning and State co-operation of the National Park Service, but when finished the area will be turned ower to the jurisdiction of the Office f National Oapital Parks, headed by C. Marshall Finnan. The number of camps is expeoted | to be increased to five in &he future. Noted Bacteriologist Dies. GIESSEN, Germany, August 6 (). —Prof. Philalethes Kuhn, noted bac- teriologist, died yesterday at the age of 70. Alaskan “Betsy Ross” Weds. | in the event that t The law now | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, August 6 (#).—Mrs. Emily Craig, “Betsy Ross of Alaska,” was married yesterday to Dr. J. H. Romig, Mayor of Anchorage. Mrs. Romig made the first American fisg n Alaska in 1897, ; charges flew. Negotiations were re- | sumed this morning | A spokesman for Chrysler | Plymouth parent concern, d a “tissue of inaccuracies” ment by Homer | president of the United Automo Workers of America. Martin ascribed | the shutaown to a “lock tion of an agreement strike affecting all C last March and company had * | which was independent affliations, Cory that ysler divisions that the a rival unjon, of national Union Violation Charged. The company charged the U. A. W, A. with violation of the same March compact, negotiated in the office of Gov. Frank Murphy in the State Capitol, on ee counts. The accusa- tions were union members had “intimidated"—specifically, beaten— Plymouth emploves, staged a strike in protest aga dismissal of four men the company believed responsible without resorting to the machinery designated to handle such griev and participated generally in d | ances that led to a riot call after 10 men were ir The corporation said Plvmouth officials offered plant vesterday, b headed the union cor say that the members of his union would return.” It insisted that it “has scrupulously lived up to” its own part of the March agreement and charged that the union either “does not control its own members” or “has no respect red for its contractual obligations.” More Idle Seen. Martin insisted the unionists “dee sire the agreement to function” and were willing to abide by its terms. He criticized the company's conferees for refusing “to accept arbitration under any circumstances” and said the union | would “abide by the law of the land™ 1f the company would submit to an employe election on collective bargain= ing “They even refused to agree that themselves wers satisfied the men had been wrong- fully discharged that they be reine stated with back pay Officals of feede todey they would be f their own plants if Plymouth shut- down continues, increasing the number of idle by additional thousands. Hog on Water Wagon. FINCASTLE, Va. (P —Willie Huff- man'’s hog is on the water wagon no: Given some blackberry preserves grown potent with age, Mrs. Huffinan fed them to the hog at the rate of & quart a day. When her husband took over the feeding he tripled the ration The hog passed out. Huffman said and when it revived, fell twice in at- tempting to stagger to another wallow- ing place. | AlexandriaDummy Returns to Glory High Up in Cupola Surveys Scenes of For- mer Triumphs From Penthouse. BY a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va. August 6 —Al- exandria’s famed dummy. whose stormy past has been somewhat veiled in mystery. apparently is destined to spend his declining years in the se= questered isolation of a local apart- ment house cupola For some six months the plaster and straw effigy has been gazing with its usual glassy-eyed stare through the window of its compact pent house. The dummy was placed there by John Loughran owner of the apartment house, at 513 North Washington street, The dummy became famous during some 28 years while it sat at the win= dow of the Express Spark Plug Face tory, which was located in the builde ing, remodeled &s an apartment house two years ago. Many were the fane tastic tales expounded to tourists con= cerning the creature’s origin. He was even branded as & murdered night watchman's effigy, placed there to frighten the slayer if he should return to the scene of the crime, Local students of history, however. {a- vor the theory that the dummy is part of an old Federal exhibition held in the 100-year-old building before it became a factory and was left behind when the exhibitors departed. He was reported to have represented a fisher- man, stolidly holding a pole in pure suit of the sport Nearly three years ago the dummy was stolen from his window. He was soon afterward discovered by early morning motorists dangling groe tesquely from Taft Bridge i Wash= ington. “Rescuers” turned him over to the local police force and he was clad in a brass-buttoned uniform. He then was placed on public display in various store windows. As he sits in his cupola today, the dummy mutely supports the “fisher« man” theory—he is still wearing his rubber boots. <