Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1937, Page 3

DEFENDERS TRAL N BRIDGE PLAY Jacoby-Burnstine Team |Is 37th as Becker-Leight- ner Take Lead. By the Assoclated Press. ASBURY PARK, N. J., August 6.— B. J. Becker, Philadelphia, and Theo- dore A. Leightner will enter the sec- ond round of the American Bridge League's masters’ pair championship tonight with a 9'.-point lead over the | record field of 49 pairs. | The team, winners of the title in 1935, totaled 433!, points yesterday afternoon in the opening round of the blue ribbon event of the bridge league's eleventh annual Summer tournament. Second place for the round went to Charles Lochbridge, New York, and | S. Garton Churchill, Great Neck, Long Island, with 424 points. A tie | developed for third place between the teams of John Rau, New York, Bnd! William K. Barrett, Augusta, Ga., and | Lewis Bernard, Chicago, and Morrie | Elis, New York. They each had 421 points. Far down in thirty-seventh place was the defending team of Oswald | Jacoby and David Burnstine, two of the New York Four Aces. John C. Kunkle, Harrisburg, Pa., and Dr. L. W. Lord, Baltimore, were eighth. The field of 27 teams in the knock- out team-of-four event was reduced to 16, as play in the qualifying round was completed last night. The team of Robert Appleyard, Irving Epstein, H. Ziman and B. Metviner, New York, topped the list of qualifyers with 32!, points The Chicago team of Walter Ja- eobs, S. M. Becker, jr.; Arthur Glatt and Albert Weiss placed second in| the qualifying round with 32 points. ZIONCHECK WIDOW FIRES AT ‘PROWLER’ Takes Situation in Own Hands After Police Fail to Find Any One. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOQD, August 6.—Rubye Rioncheck, widow of the Repre- sentative from Washington, got her gun and took the situation into her own hands today after police sought in vain for a prowler she reported. Mrs. Zioncheck called police and | reported the presence of a prowler in | the yard, but officers searched the | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ke @y FRIDAY, AUGU Ursuline Nuns Show Prowess on the Tennis Court One of the nuns at the Ur. pictured during a game on one of the courts on.the academy Competitive sports have no place in their secluded | lives, but, on occasion, the sisters sh grounds. of the net game. suline Academy in Dallas, Tez., ow an excellent knowledge | FOREST SERVICE REMOVAL OPPOSED Senate Reorganization Unit Asked Not to Shift It From Agriculture. By the Associated Press. Representatives of various forestry organizations urged the Senate Reor- ganization Committee today to pre- | vent removal of the Forest Service | from the Agriculture Department, They asked the committee to write into the Robinson Government reor- grounds without result Two hours later the police station | received a call that there had been| & shooting at the home of Miss Page | department, possibly the Interior De- | Ayres, Mrs. Zioncheck's aunt, with whom she is staying. | The officers rushed back and dashed | into the house. Gun in hand, Mrs. | Zioncheck stood looking at a neat | hole she made in a window blind | when she shot at what she said was the prowler. Another careful search by the po- YNce failed to produce him. BILL SEEKS TO ALTER NAME OF POLICE COURT McGehee duces Measure-—Is Referred to District Committee. The official name of Police Court | would be changed to City Court of | the District of Columbia under a bill | introduced late yesterday by Rep- resentative McGehee, Democrat, of | Mississippi. McGehee, a member of the House District Committee, said he thought the name City Court would “sound better” than Police Court. The bill was referred te the District Committee. Representative Intro- Major (Continued From First Page.) up the river to swim” and “brush the cobwebs” out of her brain. The note was dated at 5 am. Sun- day. Miss Major, who lived alone and had comparatively few intimate friends, had been accustomed to swim- ming alone in the Potomac, at a point. which she never revealed. Sometimes £he drove to the swimming site in her tiny automobile and other times she would take a taxicab. Detectives today were checking the eab companies in an effort to learn if any driver remembers taking the girl “up the river” early Sunday. Investigators, too, were considering the possibility that the girl voluntarily | left the city. Miss Major, daughter of Malcomb | Major, Washington artist, attracted | considerable attention as she drove | sbout the city in her tiny automobile, accompanied by a fawn-colored great dane, which occupied more than half the room in her coupe. ganization bill a provision preventing transfer of the service to some other partment, which under the bill would | become the Department of Conserva- tion. James G. K. McClure of Asheville, N. C, president of the American For- estry Association, said, “to take the conservation of trees out of the De- partment of Agriculture would be like taking a piston out of an automobile.” H. A. Smith, Columbia, S. C., presi- dent of the Association of State For- esters, asserted: “The management of organic life and the soil from which the life springs should be centered in the Department of Agriculture.” F. R. Cope, president of the Pennsyl- vania State Forestry Association, said the transfer of forestry would be “logi- cal in theory and disastrous in prac- tice.” Dr. Edward H. Cary, Dallas, Tex., and Dr. William C. Woodward, Chi- cago, told the committee the American Medical Association favored making the Public Health Service an inde- pendent agency. If the agency could not be given an independent status, they said, the as- sociation wanted it “surrounded by safeguards” so it would not *‘come un- der the domination of political influ- ences.” NAVAL RESERVIST GETS COMMISSION IN MARINES Robert D. Heinl Becomes Second Lieutenant—Graduated From Yale With Honors. Robert D. Heinl, jr., 2400 California | street, ensign in the Washington Naval | Reserve, yesterday was commissioned second lieutenant in the United Four of Nine Plants Hit by | ployes, States Marine Corps. Lieut. Heinl was an adjutant in the Naval R. O. T. C. unit at Yale University where he was graduated with | honors this year | He participated | last Summer in a cruise to Ha- waii aboard the | U. S. S. Idaho. Among other | honors Heinl received at Yale was the Houghton Mifflin literary prize as as- sociate editor of the Yale Literary Magazine. Before entering Yale Heinl won the Lane-Johnson medal in the Washington Cathedral choir, the English medal at St. Alban's School and a silver cup when the St. Alban's News took first place among the country’s preparatory school pub- lications while he was editor. Yy Lieut, Heinl. FETED BY FRIENDS Mrs. Anna M. Casey, 3604 Ninth street northeast, today celebrated her 70th birthday anniversary and her | retirement from the Government serv- | | ice, where she had been employed for | | many years. Friends and associates in the Na- tiongl Guard Bureau of the War De- partment showered her with cards a‘nd gifts and decorated her desk with flowers, candies and a birthday cake. Officiating at the retirement cere- monies were Gen. Albert H. Blanding, chief of the National Guard Bureau, and Herbert C. Davis, chief clerk. Her graceful bearing and gliding walk was known to patrons of the pop- ular night clubs where she has worked for several years. When she failed to report for work Monday night her as- sociates at the hotel began a quiet in- vestigation. The disappearance was reported to police yesterday and Capt, Ira Keck took charge of the investigation. Keck and his assistants today were check- ing the girl's belongings, left in her apartment, in an effort to learn how she was dressed when she dropped from sight and if she took a bathing suit along. Detectives had failed to learn where the girl was accustomed to go swim- ming on the Potomac above Washing- ton. As far as could be learned, Miss Major did not pack a suitcase for an out-of-town trip and had little money with her. Apartment Examined. A preliminary examination revealed she had left her apartment just as might have been expected had she intended being away for only a few hours. Miss Major is a striking blond with a graceful figure, fair complexion and blue eyes. She is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 140 pounds. A crew of detectives was assigned this afternoon to & search of the Po- tomac River banks above Washington in an effort to find some clue to the girl's disappearance. Own Auto Damaged. Miss Major was using an automobile rented from a garage at the time of her disappearance, her own machine having been damaged last week in an accident on the Speedway. The rented car was found Monday morning parked in front of her apart- ment. The garage man said the bat- tery was weak and probably would not have cranked the engine. ‘The missing girl is the mother of two young children who live with relatives, one in Washington and the other in New York City. The mother visited the latter child last week, her friends said. The dog which was Miss Major's almost constant companion belonged to a friend, and was not at her apart- ment when she disappeared. Treaty 1Cnntmuo§ From First Page.) granting of most-favored-nation treat- ment is expected to have the effect of exempting Soviet coal and coke from a special American tax assessed against such imports under the reve- nue act of 1932, This law taxes at the rate of 10 eents per 100 pounds of coal shipped to this country by a foreign nation in excess of American exports of the same eommodity to the same country. Renewable at Year’s End. ‘The Netherlands, which has & re- eiprocal most-favored-nation agree- ment with the United States, was ex- empted from the tax by a Treasury Department ruling that the tax is not applicable where treaties “other- ‘wise provide.” Soviet Russia reserved the right to terminate the new agreement on 30 days’ notice after January 15 if the American law does not operate in the same way in its case. The Soviet government has assured the United States, the State Depart- ment said, that its coal exports to this country in the next 12 months will not exceed 400,000 tons. This was described as slightly less than the amount shipped here from the Soviet Union in the last calendar year. The new agreement, like the one 1t replaces, will be renewable after 12 months. The State Department said actual under the expired agreement were about $37,000,000 in 1935-6 and $36,- 000,000 in the first 31 months of 1936-17. All countries with which the United States has trade intercourse are ac- corded most-favored-nation treatment except Australia and Germany. These two nations are listed by the State De- partment as practicing discriminations against American commerce and there- fore not entitled to preferential treat- ment by this country. Big Machinery Exports Seen. NEW YORK, August 6 (#).—The new commercial agreement between the United States and Soviet Russia, by which the latter nation agrees to purchase at least $40,000,000 from this country in the ensuing year, was regarded by trade experts here today as assuring an increase of American industrial machinery exports to Rus- sia. Although D. A. Rosoff, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Amtorg Trading Corp., the official Soviet trade organization, would comment only that he “understood the agreement had been signed,” from other trade sources it was learned Russia is steadily increasing her consumption of American machinery. Russia, it was said, is manufactur- ing automobiles and motor trucks on a constantly increasing scale, using a constantly growing proportion of American high-speed machinery. Since Russia’s production of oil is in- creasing, it was asserted the United '&-un purchases in this country summumwuumeum!m drilling and refinery tools and ma- chinery, during the next year. Other American machinery is being used to a greater degree in plate glass and bottle manufacture, in soap and cosmetics, in printing and in radio. At the same time, the chief Russian imports into the United States were listed as bristles, sausage casings, lico- rice roots, vegetable oils, caviar and animal skins and furs. Small amounts | will be paid for overtime and a mini- | provisions | “all equally favorable to the employe,” | where of Russian coal and pig iron enter this country, while about half the manganese the United States requires for steel production is imported from Russia, TONIGHT ALL THE CRABS YOU CAN EAT for 50¢ At Silver Spring Hotel Garden rgia Ave. and District Line WHERE TO MOTOR AND DINE. Log Inn On Chesapeake Fine for diplomats. Just as good for Sena- tors — Congressmen like it—why not you? Fetch your topcoat—it's cool. Rates by day. American plan. $5 each; by week. $20-$25. Sea Food Dinners Route: Defense High oia Ann g SRR IS i Ao P. O. Annapolis, Md. 1 As enthusiastic and as eager to learn as schoolgirls, a party of the nuns may be seen almost any afternoon covering the courts with an agility that is surprising in view of their voluminous vestments. —Wide World Photos. UNION CONTRACTS SIGNED BY CLEANERS Strikes Recognize Bargaining Representatives. Four of nine cleaning and dyeing plants recently tide up by strikes have signed union contracts with their em- it was announced today by Calvin Cousins, president of the local unit of the Laundry Workers, Cleaners and Dyers' Union Employes of the nine plants went on strike for more than a week early in July and more recently balloted to determine whether they wished to be represented by the union and to se- lect their representatives for collective bargaining. Under terms of the contract en- tered into by Samuel Grosbein, pro- prietor of the Globe Cleaning & Dye- ing Plant at 923 Florida avenue, all persons engaged in the future will be hired through offices of the union; working hours for men are reduced from 54 to 48 hours and for women from 48 to 44 hours: time and a half mum wage of $16.50 a week is estab- lished. In describing terms of the contract, the first to be signed, Cousins said the in the other three were but said he was not able to disclose the names of the plants. Contract negotiations are under way in the | other five of the nine companies lished by the vote ordered by the National Labor Relations Board July 16, Cousins said. Jackson Hit U. S. Bank. President Jackson in 1828 launched union majorities were estab- | an attack on the Bank of the United States as he considered it a detriment to State banks. Justice Crater Becomes ‘Dead’ Legally Tonight Jurist Disappeared After York Party 7 Years Ago. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 6.—The shad- owy figure of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater, missing for seven years, drifted today into the eerie “half world” of legal dead. His fate—whether murdered, a sui- cide, & victim of amnesia or a fugitive from fears connected with his po- litical career—remains one of the most baffling enigmas in New York crime annals. If alive, the brilliant but eccentric Jurist has until this’ evening to step forth and reclaim his identity. For it was on August 6, 1930, seven years ago tonight, that Justice Crater arose from a gay dinner with friends at a Times Square restaurant, stepped alone into a waiting taxicab and rode away into the darkness. Clues Proved Futile. Ever since investigators have searched to the four corners of the world. Clue after clue has been hunt- ed down in vain. Today his wife—or widow—Mrs. Stella M. 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The Interior Department intends to go collegiate—at least it's going to| have a varsity and is planning a| “prom” for next Wednesday night. | A concerted membership drive now is being carried on by the new Interior | Department Recreation Association, headed by Hillory T. Tolson, assistant | director of the National Park Service. | More than 400 employes of the 16 bureaus, divisions and offices in the department already have joined and are looking forward to participating in “intramural” sports. The plan is| to pick “varsity” or departmeental teams from the “intramural” squads for competition with other depart- | ments and agencies, according to Ed- ward Kelly, administrative assistant to C. Marshall Finnan and chairman of the Athletic Committee. As for the “prom,” it's scheduled for 9 p.m. Wednesday and tickets are being sold to members of the associa- | tion and non-members alike Swing time for the youngsters and square dances for the oldsters are both on the program. The space ad- joining the interior cafeteria and part | of the cafeteria itself will be used as a dance floor. Dance tickets are 50 cents apiece and | annual dues of the association are only $1. ¥ MRS. BRECKINRIDGE GRANTED DIVORCE Daughter of Senator McCarran Charges Cruelty «in Suit. Mrs. Sylvia Patricia McCarran Breckenridge, 18-year-old daughter of Senator McCarran of Nevada, won an uncontested divorce in Virginia City, Nev.,, yesterday from John D. Breck- enridge, 22, former sergeant of the Capitol Police force, with whom she eloped last year. Mrs. Breckenridge won the de- cree on a cross-complaint to her hus- band’s suit, according to an Asso- ciated Press dispatch. 8he charged cruelty. The couple was married August 14, | last year, in Carson City, Nev., but | the marriage was kept a secret until several weeks later. Mrs. Breckenridge was graduated from Western High School here and Was a popular member of the Capi- tal's younger set. PAULA STONE TO_WED Daughter of Fred Stone to Marry Hollywood Cafe Owner. HOLLYWOOD, August 6 () —| Paula Stone, one of Fred Stone's actress daughters, is to marry George | Walker Mason, Hollywood cafe pro- prietor. | ‘They filed notice of intention to wed | yesterday. Mason said he had been married and divorced. Miss Stone has not been married. | S0P wondering and worrying about out-of-town relatives and friends. LO0N in the front of the telephone direc- tory at the list of Long Distance rates and see how little it would cost to call them. al to their familiar voices telling you all you want and putting an end to all the worries you've been having about them. T H =g THE CHESAPEAKE AND POTOMAC N. W. 723 13th Street, Tateg to know week- FUND COMPLETED FOR TUBERCULARS Check by Anonymous Donor Will Let Four Children Remain at Camp. A check from an anonymous donor today completed the fund necessary to take care of 125 tubercular chil- dren at Bald Eagle Hill Camp and assured that four children sent there yesterday in spite of lack of funds would be allowed to remain. The four were sent to fill the camp to its 125-bed capacity by Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, director of the Tuberculosis Association, who gambled that gen- erous Washingtonians would contrib- ute the $50 apiece needed to treat them during their stay there. She had about $100 of the needed sum yesterday, and this morning a check was received to make up the remain- der, the sender requesting his name not be made public. ‘The completed fund will permit all | the children to remain in camp for the | full period of five more weeks. When Bald Eagle Hill opened early in July the associgtion had funds to take «are of only 60 patients. Patients at the camp receive ex-| pert attention, regular meals and rest periods. Those who have heen in| the camp since it opened have showed steady gains in energy and health. Contributions to support the ciation's camp have been recefved a: headquarters regularly since the ap- peal was first made early in July. They have averaged about $100 a day, and a total in the neighborhood of $4,000 has been received. The drive for funds received irhpetus shortly after it began when Mrs. Roosevelt heard of the camp and wrote Mrs. Grant expressing her interest in it. Pumarejo Off for Cuba. MIAMI, Fla, August 6 (2. —Lopez | Pumarejo, Colombian Minister to tne United States, left at 8 am, E. 8. T, today by plane for Havana, Cuba, where he will attend the Pan-Amer- ican coffee conference which begins Monday. Pumarejo arrived here by train from Washington late yester- day. $3:25 salion Ideal for all exter- L ting. Gallon orel Phone your We deliver. Buder Flynn NOW 1 EAT HOT DOGS Upset Stomach Goes in Jiffy with Bell-ans PAINTS | 609C St N.w. 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