Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1937, Page 2

A2 #x THE EVENING FARN BLLAY I ON 58 CALENDA Move Planned to Speed End of Session and Reassure Agricultural Interes’s. B the Associated Press. Democratic leaders today considered making formal announcements to the Senate and House that farm legisia- tion will be the first business of the 1938 congressional session. They had a triple purpose: 1. To expedite adjournment and re- move the possibility of a special Fall session 2. To ease concern of farm-belt legis- lators that industrial area representa- tiver would give less support to a farm bill once wage-hour and housing meas- ures are enacted 3. To assure the President Congress will provide crop controls so he might feel free to authorize price-stabilizing crop loans through the Commodity Credit Corp. Whether an announcement of inten- Hions would be a sufficient guarantee for Mr. Roosevelt or whether adoption of a resolution would be needed was undetermined. At any rate the insistence of farm- belt. Congressmen for enactment of a farm bill immediately appeared to be fading End Seen August 25. House leaders accordingly were speaking optimistically of adjournment prospects. Malority Leader Rayburn, mentioning dates for the first time. told the House vesterday the session &hould end letween August 21 and 25 Members noted, however, that plans for the House to pass the housing as well as the sugar bill this week had not warked out The sugar quota bill was approved | by the House yesterday, despite a warning by President Roosevelt that he would veto It unless it was mod- ifled The members defeated an adminis- tration amendment to lift the meas- ure’s restrictions on imports of re- fined sugar from Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The Senate passed housing bill vesterday. but limitations which sponsors declared blocked part of its purpose. Repre- sentative Steagall, Democrat of Ala- bama said the measure probably would not be ready for the House earlier than Wednesday or Thursday. Status of Bills. Blocking its consideration late next week are plans to begin debate on the controverted wage and hour bill Thursday. A bill to close tax law loopholes has not yet been drafted. The House Ways and Means Committee will start hearings Monday on the pro- posed changes The court bill. once the cause of the hottest row of the session, appar- ently will be enacted quickly now that sll references to alteration of the 8upreme Court have been deleted. The Senate took it up today. The status of preadjournment I MKlation Wage-hour—Passed Senate, await- ing House debate Tax Joopholes—Being framed by House eommittee. Sugar—Passed started in Senate. Court—Passed House in reatricted form, Senate debating. Housing—Passed Senate, tn House sommittee Deficieney appropriations—8till un- framed. Orop insurance —Passed pending in House committee, the Wagner inserted House, hearings pending Senate, G. 0. P. WOMEN STUDY | HIRING OF DIRECTOR National Committee Members to Meet Wednesday to Talk Party Rebuilding. By the Associated Press. Republican Natlonal Committee- woten, meeting here next Wednes- day, will discuss employment of & paid director to rebuild the women's division of the party. Leaders said they want to make the division an active factor in the 1938 congressional campaigns. It has been inactive since Mrs. Wilma D. Hoyal resigned as director last Fall in order to resume her jewelry busineas in Douglas, Ariz. John D. M. Hamilton, national Re- publican chairman, expreased hope that Wednesday's meeting “will be the start of a rebuilding of our women's organisation throughout the eountry.” “Not for a handful of women,” he said. “but on an organization base so broad—and so wise—and so thought- ful of the needs of all our people that it will be a force for forward-look- ing government in every precinct and ward." Direction of a Nation-wide cam- paign is expected to begin immedi- aiely from the Washington headquar- ters, leaders said, if committeewomen approve the program. e THREE-DECK BUILDING FOR PARKING IS BEGUN “Streamlined parking” is the purpose 6f a modernistic building on which construction was begun yesterday at &ixth and E streets by the Hecht Co. Designed to meet increasing traffic problems, the structure is to be built in three decks of reinforced concrete. ‘The sides of each are open to the air and the top deck is uncovered. Patrons of the store will leave their ears with attendants, who will drive them to the higher levels by means of an interior ramp. The building’s corners are to be rounded. About 1,000 cars will circu- Iate through the garage in a day, it is estimated by the architects, Abbott & Merkt of New York. A waiting room it to be on the first deck. Construc- tion iz expected to be completed early next month. PRIEST’S MOTHER DIES WEST POINT, N. Y., August 7 (). ~Mrs. Catherine Hollahan Murdock, 77. mother of Rev. George G. Mur- dock, Roman Catholic chaplain at the United States Military Academy, died yesterday after an iliness of several months. She was the widow of James William Murdock, public utilities official. Besides Father Murdock, she is sur- vived by a son, James, who is district manager of the Western United Gas & Flectric Co., and lives at Joliet, L. Buria] will be at Indianapolis, Ind., next Wednesday. P . Washington Waysid aysiae Random Obseryations of Interesting Events and Things. JOURNALISM. ROM Alaska comes the best answer of the year to the perennial question, “What is news?” It is contained in a copy of the Nome Daily Nugget, just received in this office. The paper's editor has taken a three-column ad- vertisement to announce: “Your friends and the paper are interested in knowing whether you have—died, moved, eloped, sold out, been shot, been born, had a baby, caught cold, been robbed, been gypped, been married, been arrested, gone crazy, bought a car, been visit- ing, had company, been courting, been in a fight, stole anything, gone to church, cut a new tooth, sold your house, had an operation, been anake bitten—or done anything at all.” And seen any polar flyers passing the house. % ox ox APPLICATION. Local lad out of work was wait- ing around the personnel ofice of a drug store chain here when he saw another young chap come striding out briskly, all aglow. “Any luck?” said No. I. “Sure,” said No. 2. “Plenty. Job starts Monday. But listen, you have to use a system or something.” Whaddya mean?” said No. 1. “Well, I waited around for days, trying to see this guy who does the hiring and firing. Finally 1 got tired of it, so I went tnto a tele- phone booth here in the drug store, called up and sent him a telegram, telling him I was waiting outside to see him. Worked, too, all the way through.” * ko ox BLUFF. “'ALKING their beat on & quiet day. a couple of policemen told Judge John P. McMahon in Police Court the other day, they espied a colored man scuttling through an alley with a S5-gallon can slung over his shoulder They chased and stopped him “Whatcha got there?” they said. “Kerosene,” sald he indignantly. “If you don't thinks so, smell it.” The officers did. It smelled exactly like corn liquor—which it was. % ox x BON VOYAGE. [ INOTE from a Mr. Vernon Bryer, who signs himself “Operator 95860 "—sorry, we don't recognize the number “'Gentlemen: “Out of work in vour fair city, I thought of trying Baltimore. “After hitch-hiking, mostly hiking, a pal and myself got here about 12 midnight. Next day, success. Now all my hotel bills and food bills are on the Army, and I'm on the way to Hawali via New York, Panama Canal, San Francisco. So long 'til three years, ete.” Goo' bye. * ¥ x % TRAVELOGUE. \‘7ASHINGTON lad just back from a trip to Amish and Mennonite Countiees, Pa., brings us more valued items for our store of little-used in- formation In Lancaster, pretzels with cake A well-known restaurant there spe- cializes in “beer donuts.” You don't dunk the sinkers in beer. They're made out of the stuff. ‘The men never shave after mar- riage, 80 8 House of David base ball team wouldn't even get a play if it came barnstorming into town. Farmers raise tons of tobacco but | seldom use it And a village named Ephrata, Pa., has & sign in the street “DRIVE SLOWLY-—-NO HOSPITAL HFRE." says he, iee cream they serve instead of WRONG IDOL. Nothing we can say, not even about an obscure ritual in Japan, but that some one eomes along to tell us we should have said some- thing else. Miss Lucy McClenon, for exam- ple, informs us that the geisha girls, who have a special service in honor of dead cats each year in Japan, are barking up the wrong tree. Cat- gut, says she, is mot made from the innards of kittens, but from the inside furnishings of sheep. There- fore, she jeels the geisha giris should have & huge, * ’scuse it, please” ceremonial, to straighten everything out. And if pou think we're going to take sides in a controversy on that subject——hah!! x ox * x TIMING. EFT alone to await the arrival of her date at a friend's apartment the other night, & lass we know was supplied with the usual soda, ice and whatnot for refreshment. The date was late, and she thoroughly relished the brand of potable that had been left around. In fact, by the time he arrived, she had acquired what is impolitely known as a snootful. Escorted almost directly to her home out in Virginia, she skipped merrily in the door, picked up a letter lying on the table and took it along up to her bed room. There she sat down on the bed to read it. It was a circular from the manufacturers of the exact brand she had been imbib- ing. She went on to read the glowing words about its quality, body, beauty, tender effects on the human system. Then she arrived at the climactic paragraph of all such billets doux— the one describing how the customer never, never has a hangover if the product is used in moderation, “Uh,” she sighed, in great relief, and went peacefully off to slumber, lulled by the magic harmonies of an ad copy writer. Caters to Americans. A large department store in London has established an American section devoted exclusively to women's fashion goods made in the United States. Senate: Routine business; Jjudiciary bill. Special committee oontinues hear- ings on Government reorganization bill. Finance Committee opens hearings on sugar legislation, may take wp House: In recess. [ 3 STAR, WASHINGTON D. BATURDAY BLAZING LINER'S WHISTLE BROKEN Bartender Reveals He Tripped Over Cord in Flee- ing City of Baltimore. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, August 7.--The mys- tery of why the whistle on the burning ateamer City of Baltimore would not blow was solved yesterday by a bar- tender who sald he tripped over the whistle cord and broke it as he left the blazing vessel. The bertender, Macon Williams, testified today before s Federal board probing the ship fire which left three dead. Williams showed the board a mark on his leg which he said he re- ceived when he tripped over the cord. Previously, Capt. Charles O. Brooks had told the board that the whistle failed to sound when he tried to give the fire signal on it. The whistle cord runs from the pilot house across the boat deck to the whistle on the ship's stack. Saw Hose Working. Williams asaid after the fire alarm Wwas given he unhooked a hose line and saw water coming from it. Previously some witnesses said no water had come from the hose lines, while others said it had He said Capt. Brooks ordered him into a life boat and he broke the whistle cord while rushing toward the boat. The Federal board plans to make another inspection of the beached hull of the boat to determine the condi- tion of the fire pump, whether the throttle on the main engine is closed. They also want to learn whether the cork insulation around the ship's ice box is burned and whether the fire mains were broken at any point. Comdr. H. N. Perhan, a member of the board, said that cork insulation had been known to take fire spon- taneously. Another witness before the board was a veteran Chesapeake Bay pilot Who lauded the discipline and order aboard the burning ship. Pilot Tells of Rescue. The pilot was Capt. Richard Wy- song, who was in command of the pilot boat William D. Sanner. Most of the 89 persons rescued from the boat were put aboard the Sanner. Capt. Wysong sald the Sanner, with members of a Baltimore organi- zation aboard, were bound down the bay when they saw the burning City of Baltimore. Capt. Wysong said he put the pilot boat within 50 yards of the City of Baltimore and put both the Sanner’s lifeboats overboard. He said he took command of ome of the boats, which picked seven per- sons out of the water on the way to the burning ship. He said there was & moderate sea running. Capt. Wysong said about 10 persons, in- cluding Capt. Charles O. Brooks, master of the City of Baltimore, were | standing in the bow of the burning | ship, but they were not excited. | Says Discipline Excellent. He said he returned to the Sanner and found the City of Baltimore's | own boats had put 54 rescued persons aboard. He said that the discipline of both the passengers and crew aboard the City of Baltimore were ex- cellent. He added that, because all those brought aboard from the burn- ing ship had on life preservers, he judged that orders aboard the other ship had been carried out as they should have been. Charles Winstead, colored chef, said | he helped to untangle some hose after the fire alarm was given aboard the Oity of Baltimore. Then, he said, he got into the last boat to leave the ship, but gave his place to the stew- ard. Winstead said he had given his own life preserver to a girl. Winatead | said that after he left the lifeboat he was picked up by a boat from the Sanner in about 10 minutes. PRESIDENT GETS PLEA FOR MOONEY CASE QUIZ Defense Committee Says “‘More Than 100 Members of Con- gress” Bigned Petition. By the Associated Press. The Tom Mooney Defense Com- mittee announced last night it had presented 30 President Roosevelt a petition for a Mederal investigation of the Mooney ease. The petition, the committee said, was signed by “more than 100 mem- bers” of Congress. Mooney was sent to San Quentin Prison for the Preparedness day bombing in San Francisco in 1916, Years of efforts to procure his freedom have included appeals to the United States Supreme Court, H un-l‘f;éid.;r R;t;l,rn To Enjoy Peace Of Quaint Tangier Families Reunited as Island Turns Out for Home-Coming. By the Associated Press. TANGIER ISLAND, Va., August 7.— Scores of native sons and daughters returned yesterday to this quaint, quiet dot of land in the Lower Chesapeake Bay for the island’s annual home- coming celebration. Families were reunited and old friendships and acquaintances renewed amid the gracious hoepitality of the island's fisherfolk, who turn out once & year to welcome back former resi- dents. Droves of visitors and vacationists descended upon the island for the two- day celebration, drawn by stories of the peaceful spot where there are no automobile and none of the noises and nuisances of city life. Only the “put-put” of motor boats disturbs the quiet of the tranquil is- land. All day long boats plied back and forth between here and Crisfleld, 12 miles across Tangier Sound on the mainland, bringing the island's former residents home again. Actlvities centered last night in the island’s lone place of worship, the Swain Memorial Methodist Church, of which Rev. J. C. Bolton is pastor. The speaker was Dy. J. J. Bunting, superiniendent of the Salisbury dis- trict of the Wilmington Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In charge of the home-coming was Mayor William T. Crockett, chairman. of the Celebration Committee. He was assisted by Rev. Mr. Bolton. On the bay side of the island there | | higher prices,” Celler said. | tion, 15 misieading and deceiving were fishing, bathing and boating due- ing the day. Train Crash Kills 27 Twenty-seven persons were killed and scores injured when a Paris-St. Etienne train derailed at Villeneuve Saint George near Paris recently. Smoke still pours from the buried engine shown in this general view of the wreckage. —A. P. Photo. TAXBILL UNSIGNED AS VETO 1S ASKED President Leaves for Week End Without Acting—Price Rider Is Opposed. With no action in prospect on the District tax bill until he returns, President Roosevelt is in Hyde Park for the week end. The President left last night and is due back Monday. There has been no indication from the White House as to whether the bill will be signed, the difficulty aris- ing because the legislation was made the vehicle for the Miller-Tydings price maintenance rider which the | President disapproves. An appeal to the President to veto the measure because of the rider was made by Representative Celler, Demo- | crat, of New York in a telegram late yesterday. He assured the President the bill “could readily be repassed before adjournment.” . “Such price maintenance spelis “‘Millions of consumers whose voloes are in- articulate and who have no paid lobbyists in Washington will be com- pelled to pay highly increased and maintained prices for clothing and food with no concomitant incresse in wages." The President was urged to con- sider that “tacking on as a rider to & purely local bill applicable only to the | District of Coiumbia a higher price guarantee bill of national importance, which is applicable to the entire Na No opportunily was given to the House membership either to debate the rider or offer amendments.” HULL SAYS JAPAN HASN'T ASKED HELP No Representations Made Over Recruiting for Chinese Army, He Asserts. By the Associated Press Secretary Hull said today no rep- resentations have been made to the | State Department by the Japanese gOV- ernment concerning recrulting of American citizens for Chinese service in the Far Eastern hostilities The Secretary made the statement when asked at his preas eonference Whether the Japanese government had sought assurances that the United States would discourage recruiting in this country. Hull reiterated yesterday's statement that the Government would “conaist- ently” enforce a law which prohibits American citizens from engaging in milltary service against a nation friendly to this eountry. SENATE E~DS ACTION ON SHIP SCHOOL BILL President Gets Legislation to Ex- Pand Authority in Locat- ing Base. By the Associated Press. The Senate completed congressional action yesterday on a bill expanding the authorization for a ship school in the Norfolk, Va., area. The bill now g0es to the White House. Present law authorizes establishment of a school at the “Port of Norfolk.” The bill passed yesterday amends the law to provide that “the Port of Nor- folk” shall be construed as embracing the territory served by the Norfolk cus- toms collection district headquarters. Under the law the Federal Govern- ment will contribute up to $25,000 an- nually, to ¥ matched by State or mu- nicipal funds, for maintenance of a achool and provide a vessel for use as & training ship. Naval officers are detailed as superintendents and in- structors. ARRESTED FOR BATHING Colored Man, 70, Dofts Clothing in Roeck Creek. Fountain Hickson, colored, 70, learned today that his own particular method of taking baths in South Caro- lina is not the accepted thing in some quarters of the Capital. Hickson, who sald he lives in Aiken, 8. C, was arrested yesterday on a charge of indecent exposure after he was discovered bathing and washing his clothes in Rock Creek in the park just off Massachusetts avenue. His case was referred to Joseph W. San- ford, probation officer at Police Court. “Boss, that's the only way we take baths at home, and I thought it would | attracted a erowd estimated at 225,000 ba okay here,” the colored man told Sanford. . 725,000 APPLALD RUBINORF' SOLOS Record Audience Attracted to Free Concert in Chicago. B the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August T.—A little man with a little violin beneath his chin filled the Chicago lake front with music last night and entranced nearly & quarter milijon persons with rhythm and melody for an hour. Dave Rubinoff was the man who by Herbert Carlin, official of the Chi- cago PFederation of Musiclans, to the Grand Park bandshell. The previous high of 175,000 was set last Saturday night when Lily Pons sang and Andre Kostelanetz waved the baton. In another of the | series of free Summer concerts. ‘Thunderous applause greeted each number by the little man and his violin. When he paused in the midst of the program to shout out a cheery “You're not in & hurry to go home, are you?” The response came back in & mighty roar from the multitude— “No!"” AUGUST 17, LIGHTNER, BECKER NEAR BRIDGE TITLE Hold 25'4,-Point Margin. Jacoby and Burnstine Far Behind. B the Associated Press. ASBURY PARK, N. J., Auguat 7.— A new championship team of two in national masters’ contract bridge loomed today as Theodore A. Lightner of New York and B. J. Becker of Philadelphia awaited the call for the final round. Lightner and Becker finished the second round last night in the blue ribbon event of the eleventh annual American Bridge League tournament with & margin of 35% points over| their nearest rivals and 144 points over Oswald Jacoby and David Burn- stine, defending champions. ‘The leaders finished the second ses- sion with a total of 884'4 points, while the team of Charles Lockridge, New York, and 8. Carton Churchill, Great Neck, Long Island, held second place with 829. Jacoby and Burnstine, with 740'3 points, elimbed from thirty-seventh to twenty-seventh po- sition, but their hopes of retaining the crown won here a year ago seemed dashed. In Striking Distance. Mrs. R. C. Young and C. H. Goren | of Philadelphia were in third place | and stlll within striking distance with 822 points. And the Boston team of C. C. Harvey and E. N. Mar- cus was fourth with 813 points. John C. Bunkel of Harrisburg, Pa., and Dr. L. W. Lord of Baltimore were tenth with 77915 points. Eight teams will compete tonight in the quarter-final round of the knockout team-of-four championship. | The team-of-four, led by Mrs.| Anne Leary of New York, gained the quarter-finals after & protest had | been decided in their favor by the Tourncmént Committee. The hand | involved was played by Mrs. Edith | Russell and Miss Ruth Chase, East- | West, against Robert Appleyard lndi Harold Ziman. The protest arose when Appleyard spread his hand on | & six diamond bid with a spade queen | finesse yet to be completed. ‘The committee upheld the conten- tion of Mrs. Russell and Miss Chase that failure of the finesses would set the band for & 100 minus score. | If the contract had been completed | Appleyard and Ziman would have scored 1.370. The victors’ winning margin was 630 points. And with | their triumph came the right to meet | the defending champions in the | quarter-finals. | Causes Major Upset. The Harvey team caused the major | upset of the first knockout round as it eliminated the team composed of | Lightner, Becker, Samuel Fry, jr, and Edward Hymes, jr, New York Andy Casner and Abe Rosen, New York, held the lead at the end of the first round in the President's pair event, limited to players having less | than 10 master pointa. They topped | section A with Miss Olga Ross, Asbury Park and Vinton Hammels, Phoenix, Ariz., second. Willlam J. Huske, pub- licity director of the league, was first in the newspaper men's tournament. | Registered from the Cleveland Press, | 1937. Serious and solemn for classical numbers snd again clownish as he wiggied his hips to the rhythm Mlby one point, John E. Tyne, Atlanta, been head of the piano and organ | “1s it True What They 8ay About Dixie,” Rubinoff held the throng | POints and Max Fisher, ‘Waterloo, | nary. This also is his second mar- | spellbound as he plaved his beloved Stradivarius. Amplifiers carried the | strains to the crowd two blocks from the bandshell Park officials installed 30,000 extra seals in the sioping amphitheater around the bandsheil, raising the seat- ing capacity to 50,000. Long before the | concert they were filled and later ar- rivals spilled out over the grass in| Grant Park. When Rubinoff was in- troduced the crowd reached the Field Museum, two blocks south. In front row seats an aged couple kept their faces upward as they beamed on the man who entertained 50 masterfully. They were Libby and Reuben Rubinoff, parents of the viollnist, intrigued by the first of | their son’s concerts they have at- | tended. When the concert was over the crowd sighed, and as it turned re- luctantly away the tunes of ‘‘The Love Bug Will Bite You if You Don't Watch Out” and Kipling's Barrack Ballads were hummed by hundreds. THIRD OF STRIKERS GETS PRISON TERM Bond of Another Covington Man Canceled as Charge of Threats Is Made. By the Associated Pres COVINGTON, Va, August 7—A Highland County jury in Alleghany County Circuit Court yesterday found Charlie Mundy gullty of a charge of assault and battery while a member of a mob, and fixed his punishment at two years in the penitentiary. Mundy was the third sentenced to prison of 16 union men indicted on identical charges growing out of a clash on July 7 between upion and non-unfon men &t the Industrial Rayon Oorp. piant, in which six were injured. Glenn Perkins and Ray Beatty were oconvicted and given terms of four and three years, respectively. Gene Floyd, another of the 18 in- dicted, pleaded guilty to the charge | yesterday. Asked if he had been threatened by any one, Floyd said Glenn Perkins had told him if he came into court and told what he knew, the defendants would place all the blame on him. Judge Benjamin Haden immediately cancelled Perkins’ bond and ordered him placed under arrest. Perkins, who had been released on bond of $3,000, was reported to be in West Virginia. Floyd was released on his own rec- ognizance of $1,000 to appear in court September 1. Judge Haden promised him the court’s protection. ‘The trial of the next defendant was scheduled to begin August 11. PARK POLICE CHANGE 8. to Have Jurisdiction in Shenandoah Area. The Senate passed and sent io the ‘White House yesterday a bill to per- mit Pederal assumption of police juris- diction over the Shenandoah Na- tional Park‘in Virginia. The Interior Department explained it would egable the National Park Service to administer the park area effectively by providing for the ap- pointment of a United States eommis- sioner t@hear and act on eompiaints. u. Huske, who edits the league’s monthly ‘i bulletin, scored 99 points to nose out | iGl, Miss Ross was third with 87!, | Iowa, fourth with 81!, points. | Mrs. H. D. Rothschild and Mrs | Butler Thompeon, New York, won the | open duplicate games with 97 points. In second place was the team of C.| SBweeney, Pittsburgh. and A. J. Perres, Ridgewood, N. J, with 93!y points. STREET THIEF SEIZES | $460 FROM WOMAN Youthful Pocketbook Snatcher | Victimizes D. C. Resident on Twentieth Street. A pocketbook snatching in which Mrs. Marie Tucker, 1901 Wyoming | avenue, lost $400 in cash and $60 | worth of traveler'’s checks, headed a! | 1ist of thefts totaling $1.192 which | were reported to police during the last 2¢ hours. Mrs, Tucker, an employe of the | Agriculture Department, was robbed | of her purse last night while walking | in the 2300 block of Twentieth street. | 8he described the thief a3 a youth about 18 or 20 years old. Miss Minnie Bittingler, 4230 Fes- senden street. reported that $77 was stolen from s traveling bag in her | bed room, and Charles H. Payne, 3101 South Dakota avenue northeast, told | police $50 had been taken from a | box in the basement of his home. Twenty-five other pocketbook snatch- ings, housebreakings and hold-ups were | reported. Two colored men were arrested last night in connection with the at- tempted hold-up of a cab driver as police continued their drive against the current wave of petty crime. The men were taken into custody after George Cameron, 613 Kenyon street, the hacker, reported one of two col- ored men pressed a knife against his neck and demanded money after he had taken them to an address in the 1000 block of Second street southeast Cameron said the men fied when he tussied with one of them. e ARCHITECTS-ENGINEERS’ | UNION LINKED TO A.F.G.E. Charter Is Issued to New Local in Office of Quartermaster Gen- eral in War Department. The American Federation of Gov- ernment Employes issued & charter | yesterday to the new local union of | Architects and Engineers in the quar- termaster general's office of the War Department. This, according to an snnouncement by the American Fed- eration of Labor, is the first time in the history of the Government that professional men have joined any union. ‘Temporary officers are Charles Pet- tit, president; James Strickland, sec- retary, and Earl Bailey, treasurer. The federation’s announcement said “the A F. of L. was selected due to its constitution, which states there shall be no strikes or picketing against the United States Government, and tast but not least, because it is an American institution for Americans.” Senate Passes Pay Raise Bill. The Senate phased and pent to the | White House yesterday & bill increas- | March 27 | 37 vears of married life. Married | e | | | MRS. ALFREDA BINGHAM GREGOR. HENRY GREGOR. EX-MRS, BINGHAM ISWED TOTEACHER Former Senator’s Divorced Wife Becomes Bride of Henry Gregor. Mrs. Alfreda Mitchell Bingham, weaithy divorced wife of former Sen- ator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut and Henry Gregor, widely known in Capital musical circies, were married vesterday in Municipal Chapel, New York City. The Binghams were divorced last and on June 25 the former Senator married Mrs. Suzanne Car- roll Hill of Baitimore, divorced wife of former Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland In applying for their license Mrs Bingham gave her age as 63 and Gregor as 51. Both gave their residence as Salem, Mass. She was born in New York, the daughter of Alfred Mitchell Like her husband, Mrs. Gregor has been prominent in musical circles. Gregor, Russian-born composer, has department at National Park Semi- riage, the first having ended in divorce in Rockville, Md, in 1928 The Binghams were divorced after The decree was obtained in Miami by the former Mrs. Bingham, who charged cruelty Bingham's counsel entered a general denial, but he did not testify. They had seven sons. COAL COMMISSION ASSAILS REPORTS EChuirmnn Hosford Says Attempt Was Being Made to Hurt Ad- ministration of Act. By the Associated Press. Chairman Charles S. Hosford. of the Bituminous Coal Commission charged today an attempt was being made “to hinder” administration of the coal control act. “It would appear.” he said in a statement, “that persons who failed to prevent enactment of the law are now attempting to hinder its admin- istration and to discredit the com- mission by insinuations that there are fundamental differences of opinion among those members who represent | capital and labor in the industry as well as between those who represent the public. “As a matter of fact, members of the commission do not represent any particular group or interest and all seven are honestly and earnestly assisting in administering the act with due regard to the interest of consumers, miners, distributors and producers of coal.” 0’CONNOR ‘CONSIDERING’ RACE FOR GOVERNOR Controller Bays He May Enter Campaign in California Year Hence. By the Associatad Press. J. F. T. O'Connor, controller of the currency, sald today he was seriously considering running for Governor of California, but that it was too early to make a definite decision. Returning from a visit to Califor- nia, O'Connor issued the - following statement to reporters at the Treasury: “No immediate decision is necessary. ‘The election is more than a year aw: and the primary nomination about year. The people of California are engaged in their various business af- fairs and prefer not to be diverted by a campaign a year before election. “There are hundreds of fine citi- zens in my State who could serve Cali- fornia honestly and efficiently as Gov- ernor. It is true I am giving serious considerstion to the suggestion that I submit my name to the voters next August for the gubernatorial nomina- tion.” NAVY CLAIMS 0. KD ‘The Senate passed and aent to the | White House yesterday a bill to reim- burse civilian employes of the Navy for person:! effects destroyed in a fire | at the Norfolk, Va., Naval Air Station May 15, 1936. ing the minimum aalary of deputy marshgls from $1,620 to $2,000 a year. The bill authorizes payment of claims aggregating $1,101.20. | GEORGIA 10 SEEK RETURN OF BURNS Action Considered Against States Refusing to Yield Escaped Convicts. By the Associated Press ATLANTA, Ga., August T —Georgix shaped today an appeal to Federal courts for the return to its chaingangs of Robert Elliot Burns and other less noted fugitives who have found haven in Northern States Gov. E. D. Rivers instructed As- sistant Attorney Generais W. H. Duck- worth and Marshall Allison to confer | today with United States District Ar- | torney Lawrence Camp on possible | mandamus action against States which | have denied extradition of escaped prisoners because of Georgia's penal system. The Governor indicated he | stirred to action by the recent ref of Gov. Hurley of Massachusett approve extradition of James ningham, a colored fugitive, on | grounds that the eonvicted burglar had been treated “brutally” in Georgia chaingangs. A few days ago Rivers charged that a wave of recent escapes in Georgia was due to Hurley's ruling Gov. Rivers said he was convinced the “full faith and credit” clause of Federal laws covering extradition made it mandatory that fugitives be turned if there was no question of jur- isdiction He sald if action was taken against | Massachusetts an attempt also would | be made to force New Jersey to return | Burns, whose case became known tn | millions through his book. “I Am a | Fugitive From a Chaingang.” and a movie based on the story. | Efforts to reach Burns in Newark, | N. J, where he runs a tax | sultant’s service, were unavailing last night and New Jersey officials withheld comment. THEATER PARLEY OPENED AT C. U, | Second National Meeting of Con- ference on Dramatics Started. Delegates from many sections of ¢ country were gathering at Cathn | University today for the second na- | tional meeting of the Catholic Theater Conference. organized on a Nation- wide basis :n Chicago twn months agn to stimulate interest and participa- tion of Catholics in dramatic activi ities The first session this morning was tn be addressed by Right Rev. Msgr. Joseph M. Corrigan. rector of Catho- lic University The keynote of conference will be sounded by Right Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, professor of the philosophy of religion at the | university. The group hopes to plan a move- ment for the advancement of play se- lection, playwriting and productions in Catholic parishes and educations! in- stitutions, Permanent officers are to be chosen during the session, wWhich will continue through tomorrow | Tomorrow the conference wili apen | with a solemn mass at which a sermon will be preached by Very Rev. Michael J. Ready, general secretary of the Na- tional Catholic Welfare Conference. | There will be a banquet. tonight and the final general session tomorrow will be followed by entertainment in evening CHINA BUYS ARMS WORTH $309,870 was 1=al to tha con- Makes Largest Purchases From U. S. During July—Japan Also in Running. By the Associated Press China the largest bus | arms. ammunition and implement. war in the United States State Department statisti today that that Nation spent $293226 in this country for airplanes designed for aerial warfare. The remainder of its total expenditure of $309,870 went, for rifles and carbines, revolvers and automatic pistols and ammunition and non-military airplane equipment, Japan also was one of the three | largest purchasers, spending $203.578 of which $92.340 was for military air- planes and $97.415 for non-military aircraft engines. | Mexico spent $205.835, more than { two-thirds of it, for non-military air- planes, equipment and engines Sales of arms, ammunition and im- plements of war to China and Japan | would be stopped if President Ronse- velt decided to invoke the neutrality act against them as a result of hos- | tilities in North China was er \Bat Nearly Steals | show at Dance of Dancing Masters |Bill Cassidy Finally Lures Creature Into Handkerchief. A bat, unlisted on the program, nearly stole the show at the annua! dinner dance of the Dancing Mastars of America in the Mayflower Hotel last night. Entering the scene as the group of about 1,000 spectators was being en | tertained by a ‘The Black Swan" dance by Miss Ray Russell, the bal thoroughly disrupted the performance and frightened the feminine audience with & few routines of his own ‘Women screamed and covered their head with table cloths or napkins, while some of the men ineffectually hurled various objects at the bat, which glided into the balconies, ereating panic there as well ax on the main floor. In the end, Bill Cassidy, Allisnce, Ohio, dancing master, with absolutely nothing up his sleeves, lured the in- truder into his handkerchief to-end the act. The dinner dance was one of the final events in the fifty-fourth annual convention, which ends at the May flower today. Before the dance, Mrs. Montie Beath, president, and several | other speakers talked on the work of the organization. Mr. and Mrs, Leroy Thayer, Jocal dance instructors, who were hosts ta the convention this year, were awarded gifts of appreciation. '