Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1937, Page 15

Washi ngton News he Sundwy Stae Sports—Pages 6 to 11 i e —— WASHINGTO! D. C, SUNDAY e MORNING, AUGUST KENNEDY SEEKS D. . SENTIMENT ON REORGANIZING Urges Plan Be Studied Until Congress Meets in January. PROGRAM PROVIDES EIGHT DEPARTMENTS | | | Federal Budget Bureau Would Be | Stripped of Power to Dictate | on Finances. | BY JAMES E. CHIN. Representative Kennedy, Democr of Maryland announced last night he did not propose to push his plan for drastic reorganization of the Di: government until the people to affected had spoken He wants the Commissioners, muni- cipal department heads and civic organizations to study the program seriously in the next three”or four months, and tell Congress n it reconvenes in January whet the plan, or any part of it, has sufficient merit to be adopted *It is my thought t if this matter is given the serious study to which it is entitled, and if all parties con- cerned are given an opportunity to be heard.” said Kennedy. “the House | District Committee could present to| Congress appropriate legislation with | complete, detailed information in a manner that I feel would be given fair consideration by every member of Congress, and would work to the ad- vantage of the citizens of the Dis- trict of Columbia.” Proposes General Overhaul. Kennedy's plan proposes to o haul the municipal government give it the first general reorga since the present commission was established in 1878 s of the program W tion form of nearly all mu- nicipal activities under eight new de- partments to pre t overlapping and duplication. 2. Creation of an adv tee of five citizens and of the BSenate and House Committees to co: the Commissione: problems. 3. Appointment of a special budget officer to prepare the annual -budget on a scientific basis, and strip the Federal Budget Bureau of its authority to dictate financial policies of the District by allowing it to comment and suggest only on the estimates of the Commissioners and ‘‘recommend” the amount of the Federal payment toward municipal expenses. 4. Establishment of a merit system for all municipal employes—a system modeled after civil service, but sep- arate ang distinct “because of the peculiar qualifications required many municipal activities ent different from general Federal ser and because of the propriety of I residential requirements for position: paid from local tax reven . Studied Set-up Four Months Kennedy developed the plan after & four months’ study of the m government set-up, a d him by former Chairman } the House District Committee at the time she appointed him chairman of 8 special subcommittee to frame the new tax bill, now at the White House awalting the signature of President Roosevelt. The eight new departments sug- gested by Kennedy and the activities they would embrace follow 1. Pinance—Budget, accounts and audit, purchases and supplies, tax as- sessments, tax collections and pen- sions 2. Safety inspection 3. Welfare—Public assistance employment compensation, adult institutions, juvenile training s and parole. In addition t ment, according to Kennedy, have a citizens’ board of parole 4. Works and engineering tion—Highways, sewers, water and trees, zoning, architecture veying and inspection 5. BEducation—8chox recreation 8. Health—Hospit Infectious diseases. garbage and rubbish health inspection 7. Licenses—Professions tions, businesses, markets. mesasures, insurance wrestling and alcoholic 8. Personnel—Appointment, cl fication and compensatior ratings, reassignments workmen's compensat Would Form binel.” Directors of these eight ments, according to Kennedy constitute an consultation ‘The entire designed to r of many de tention can tive functio The Commissioners, he “should be free for superviso tions and inspections, regul: con- sultations and conference with the eongressional committees having leg- islative powers over the District, and for the careful consideration of poli- cles.” Kennedy struggled with the problem of selection of an advisory committee to the Commissioners for several weeks and failed to reach a definite conclu- sion in his final program “It may be,” he said, “that the more practical way to select this committee would be by presidential appointment or by the election by the people of one member from each of five designated | districts.’ Six Would Be Independent, There are six municipal activities which Kennedy believes should not be placed under the proposed eight new departments, but should remain as independent offices. These are 1. The corporation counsel’s office 3. Unpaid boards of public-spirited | eitizens created for certain policy- making functions | 3. The National Capital Park and Planning Commission, whose ‘“‘per- petuity and its direct contact with (Bee KENNEDY, Page B-2) | commit- chair Distri It with and advise on all municipal Police, fire, traffic, auto pa libraries and contagio linical removal s and service and and voca- weights and boxing beverages records and tirement a: depart- sho func- 1 \ | by the Public | ILLBE REPORTED Sultan Waits Word From Engineers Before Making Reply to Ickes. Zagineer Commissioner Dan 1. Sul- tan expects to receive a report this E lems to determine whether the new disposal plant at Blue Plains is capable | of providing adequate treatment of extensive industrial waste Until this information is reported was indicated yester the Dis- trict Commissioners will delay making a formel reply to Secretary Ickes, who requested a report on proposed meas- | ures to protect the P. W. A.-built dis- posal plant from possible overloads of slaughter house waste. Corporation Counsel Elwood Seal also is giving his attention to the situation growing out the proposed Adolf Gobel Co. aughtering operations in Benning. ¢ engineers have been look- n matters brought up Health Service in con- the $4,125,000 disposal This plant is now undergoing operations prepar: o the in- ts 1 r pumping serv- tion Cenflicting Evidence. There i dence on s the proble tary engineers, in view of the absence of actual operations here. The Pub- lic Health Service estimates that be- tween 500 and 60 gallons of water would be used &t the proposed Gobel plant each day for each animal killed Fr e plans of the slaughter house estimated 3,150 animals a s its total capacity Other reports indicate 200 to 250 gallons per used in man that animal packing plants is of 3,150 animals figure which the v denied— from the s dd a load to the Blue treatment plant equivalent to population of 140,000 stimates of sewage of this kind smaller amounts water d reduce the equivalent to rom 70,000 to 80,000 persons The District engineers started stud- e sewage problems early in from are of and before then infor- | obtained in Bal 1 the sewage of packing plants When Secretary Ickes mmissioners 10 days ago, Sultan ordered a report from his own engineers May Comment on Collins Bill. he Com 8ls0 to expr ioners are expected iews on a bill oduced last Representa- Ross an the t Appropriations Subcommittee, 1 would empower them 1o regu- the amount of industrial sewage treated at the Blue Plains plant. Un- y could exact payment y company or association that es morg than 30,000,000 gal- s of sewage in a year The Collins bill hits at the proposed Gobel slaughter house, but there is id to be no chance of it being con- late sidered by the House District Commit- | tee this session m now it the same fat industries t Representative Jennings Democrat, West If called up in com- probably would share as the anti-nuisance ttee Randolph, the sewage bill, and so informed Col- A be similar roduced in give both Dy portunity to take convenes again in January In view of uncertainty as to the Gobel company’s plans to build on its site in Benn there was some senti- ment in Congress in favor of delaying consideration of the Collins bill. Dis- trict offictals were frank in admitting yesterday that the Gobel firm has them sing.” it is understood, will the Senate. That up when Congress “gu Mars Hated by Own Parents. k based on & study of sewage prob- | Virginia said he | would do what he could in behalf of rict Committees op- | P iy The hazard to crippled children in wheelchairs which could not be moved down ordinary steps in event of a fire emergency at Weightman School, where there is only one ramp for them, is one of the problems confront ng District school officials Shown conferring on the situation are J. J. Crane and R. L. Haycock, firs Doyle, chairman of the Board assistant superintendents of schools, and Mrs. Marion Wade of Education They plan to replace all the old school buildings that now fall below fire safety standards u as fast as the money is available B. J. Drake, teacher in charge of pith modern, fireproof structures Mrs. Doyle, Crane and Mrs. crippled children at Weightman School, are shown here looking over plans for one of the pro- posed new buildings. Fire-escape facilities at some of the out-dated buildings fall short of the District fire-escape law requirements, the school officials have been warned by F ire Department inspectors. One of those cited was the 55-year-old Grant School, where Haycock is shown examining one of the building. two fire escapes in the 12-room —Star Staff Photos. 8, 1937. * PAGE B—1 School Officials Study Ways to Lessen Fire Haza:ds at Old Building 3 | * WEASUREPASSES Senate Postpones Action on Resolution to Curb | | : f | Picketing. | Development of a new naval hos- pital and medical center in or near Washington was brought a step nearer yesterday when the Senate passed a House bill adding $1,650,000 to a pre- vious authorization of $3,200,000 to rebuild the institution. | This sends the bill to the White House, where approval is expected, since Secretary of the Navy Swanson informed Congress when he submitted | the proposal that it was in accord | with the President's program. The important feature of the bill | is that it enables the department to | | place the new buildings on a larger | | and more suitable site, not yet se- | lected, instead of rebuilding at the | present location, west of Twenty- third street near Constitution avenue. Picketing Action Postponed. Shortly before passing this bill, the Senate postponed action on the Pitt- man resolution to curb picketing demonstrations near embassies and legations in Washington. It came up under the unanimous consent rule, | but Senator La Follette, Progressive. of Wisconsin requested that it be deferred until he could give it further study. The resolution, which was recom- mended by the State Department would prohibit demonstrations, includ- | ing the display of banners, within 500 feet of an embassy or legation, without police permit. During a brief discus- sion of the resolution, before it was | postponed, Chairman Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee placed in the Record a police report listing occasions on which groups have as- sembled in front of various embassies with banners and placards. 42 Sites Considered. The report of Chairman Walsh of the Naval Affairs Committee on the new hospital program said the Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Commission snd the Fine Arts Com- mission both urge removal of the naval institution to another and more adequate site. It was pointed out that at the present site less than 10 acres are available for building pur- poses, which would be inadequate even for present needs and would be “wholly insufficient for any emergency or wartime expansion.” Forty-two sites in and near Wash- ington at present are under considera- tion for the new naval hospital. Two of the more favored locations were inspected last Wednesday by President Roosevelt The additional authorization makes the total limit of cost $4,850,000, of which not more than 15 per cent could be used for a site. The funds will have to be made available later in an appropriation bill if the Presi- dent signs the measure. PHILIP DIX BECKER WEDS | ? MISS MILDRED PEACOQCK | 20ywhere without action on their own | Father of Bridegroom Exposed German World War Plots and Propaganda. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, 8. C, August 7.— | Philip Dix Becker of New York and | Brunswick, Ga,, was married here this | |afternoon to Miss Mildred Virginia | Peacock of Charleston. Becker is a | son of Alfredy Leroy Becker, New York | lawyer, who exposed German plots and propaganda in 1918-9. The wedding took place in St. An- drew's Lutheran Church, with Rey Dermon A. Sox officiating, assisted by Rev. Clarence K. Derrick, pastor of St. Andrew's. Mrs. Roy J. Baugh of Charleston was matron of honor, the bride’s only attendant The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Peacock and is a grad- | | uate of Memminger High School. | Becker was graduated from Phillips | Exeter and attended Webb Institute of Mars, the god of war, according to| Naval Architecture and the Massachu- legendary lore, was so savage in his | setts Institute of Technology. He is nature and so delighting in rude war- fare, that he was hated by the other gods and even by his own parents. L | associated with Stone & Webster Corp. 1n Brunswick, where the couple will reside. | continued Boy Saved at McKinley Pool; ‘Had Sunk Twice With Cramps Rescued after sinking twice when he was seized with a leg cramp while swimming in the McKinley High School pool late vesterday, Albert Schroen,15, of 231 Eleventh street northeast, was in a critical condition in Cas- ualty Hospital last night, suffering from severe shock i and concussion. The youth, youngest of four brothers and fiv: sisters, was pulled } out by Don Rob- | ertshaw, a life guard, after his plight had gone unnoticed for some Albert Schroen. time because of swimmers in the pool pool superintendent, cries could scarcely the clamor. the large crowd of John Walch, said be heard above | The boy is believed to have lePd‘ | into the shallow end of the pool and | struck his head on the bottom, knock- |ing himself nearly insensible’ before | being overcome by cramps | It also was reported two unidenti- | fied men, who attempted rescue be- | fore the guard arrived, accidentally iknnrkrd the boy's head against the side of the pool. While the head injury was not con- | sidered particularly serious, hospital physicians pointed out lextremely weakened by the strain on his lungs. DISTRICT'S APATH Teigan “Disappointed” in Indifference of Residents to Lack of Representation. District residents' apathy toward their own undemocratic plight in be- ing denied a vote was criticized y terday by Representative Teigan Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota In a letter to Karl Gerber, president of the Committee for Progressive Action for the District of Columbia whose main object is to secure suffrage for Washington, Teigan said “Every now and then when District measures are being considered, Wash- ingtonians get up on their hind legs and protest against unfavorable legis- lation and voice approval of such legislation as they believe to be in their interests Yet the most important thing of all, that of securing a voice in Govern- ment, is almost wholly neglected. The people of Washington are not, in my opinion, going to be successful in se- justice for themselves until have representation in both Houses of Congress.” On making public Teigan's letter, Gerber also announced his committee will hold an open meeting to arouse interest in suffrage at 8:30 p.m. Tues- day in Wesley Hall, 1703 K streét “It- seems beyond belief,” Teigan “that the citizens of the Capital City of the United States should be without representation in Congress and without any say-so in their own local governmental affairs No democratic government of Europe denies the citizens of its capital city the franchise ‘The thing that is most disappoint- ing to me in this matter is not the cold, indifferent attitude of our mem- bers of Congress but rather the in- activity on the part the people of Washington themselves, who have thus far not presented an organized front to make Con; act. Nothing can be gained for the common people 5- of part them ““Just to foist an iniquitous sales tax upon the people of the District. There is no worse form of taxation than this. The people of the District have es- caped this objectionable tax for the time being. I am confident this tax can be avoided for all time provided the citizens of the District obtain representation in Congress.” to secure what is coming to CAMP TO BE INSPECTED Boys' Club Trustees to Be Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Reeder. Trustees of the Boys' Club of Wash- ington and their families will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Foster M Reeder Wednesday on a visit of in | spection to Camp Reeder, the Boys' Club camp on West Hatton Farm, in Charles County, Md Starting from the local club at 230 C street, guests will journey to Wico- mico House, the Reeder home at Hat- ton Farm. After inspection of the site, six new cabins will be dedicated. 4 | recently Congress was about | |Orchestra, Band | Play Tomorrow TOWARDVOTEHIT, 4+ Moy Fumerl Rites Set for 3 P.M. | Burial in Cedar Hili i Cemetery. An American orchestra and a Chi- nese band, if one is obtainable, will play tomorrow as Washington's Chinatown leaders pay their last re- spects to their former On Leong chief, Charley Moy. Funeral services, devoid of the usual | fireworks and celebrating characteris- tic of native Chinese rites, will be held at 3 pm. at 611 H street. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Lima-Nai-Moy (Moy's native Chi- nese name), who was 49, died Friday in Casualty Hospital, | of para 5. He was stricken as he sat behind the cash register in his restaurant, the Joy Inn, 609 H street Coming to Washington 29 years ago as a poor Cantonese, Moy became the unofficial “mayor” of Chinatown and head of the On Leong Merchants' Association He leaves a prosperous restaurant business to his survivors, including his wife and three children, George, 21; Charley, jr., 4, and Virginia, 6. KEEP TANKS FILLED, MOTORISTS ADVISED Condensation of Water After High-Altitude Trips Cited by Air Corps. By the Associated Press DAYTON, Ohio, August 7.—Army Air Corps engine experts came forth today with a suggestion to vacation- | ing motorists—that if and when they enter high altitudes, they keep their gasoline tanks filled io assure smooth- running performance Airplane pilots have found, they | said, that if gas tanks are not filled | immediately upon landing from a flight into high altitudes, cooling may cause water to condense in the bot- | tom of the tank, particularly on warm, humid days. A sputtering motor, or complete stoppage is the result, “A man driving, say into Rockies, where temperatures even in the SBummer time are below freezing, might encounter a small amount of water in his gasoline once he returns 0 a warmer, lower level and lets his car stand,” said one officer, MARINE PROMOTiONS Thomas B. Gale Advanced Rank of Lieutenant Colonel. | Promotions of officers in the United States Marine Corps were announced yesterday as follows To rank of lieutenant colonel, Thom- as B, Gale; to rank of major, Melvin E. Fuller, Prancis I. Fenton and Gerald C. Thomas. To rank of captain: Otheo | C. Ledbetter, Harry C. Lang, Albert F. Moe, Joseph M. Berry, Orin K. Preseley, John B. Kill, Chester R. Allen, Willlam F. Parks, Clarence J, O’Donnell, George H. Cloud, Wallace | M. Greene, jr, and Russell Lioyd. A the boy's | the boy was | after a stroke | the | to | CHEST CAMPAIGH - 1 Be Launched at Mass } Meeting. The Community Chest will conduct its 10th anniversary campaign Novem- | was an-| ber 10 to 23, inclusive, it | Committee. The drive will be launched by mass meeting and pageant at Consti- tution Hall to present dramatically the work of Community Chest agen- | cies. Nationally known speakers will address the gdthering. vember 10, at 12:30 p.m. and the campaign will end Tuesday night, No- vember 23. tors will have two week ends in which to intensify their work. There will be ne meeting Thursday, November 11 Armistice day. Clarence Phelps Dodge, titular chair- man of the Campaign Committee, will preside at the opening report meeting The Special Assignment Unit, as usual, will st under way with solicita- tion about two weeks preceding the regular opening of the campaign. SENATE BILL SEEKS U.'S. MINIMUM PAY Bulow Offers Companion to Rams- peck House Measure on | Federal Wages. Chairman Bulow of the Senate Civil Service Committee yesterday intro- duced a companion bill to the Ram- speck House measure to make $1.200 the minimum salary for full-time Fed- eral employes under the classification act He indicated, however, he was not hopeful of obtaining action before the close of this session, He pointed out that the effective date of the measure, if enacted, would be July 1, 1938. He said the bill was prepared by the Civil | Service Commission The bill would bring up the wage level of a large group of employes in the lower brackets of the sub-profes- sional and custodial services a The first report meeting of the cam- | paign will take place Wednesday, No- | With these dates for the drive solici- | SEEKTODISPOSE. DATESNOV.1023. OF DISTRIT BILLS |Tenth Anniversary Drive Will House and Senate Hope to! Clear Calendar—Taxi Hearing Tomorrow. | “District sion, day” of the meeting called for 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. committee is ready to act on. { Taxicab Hearing. by Senator Tydings, Democrat am pleted in time. Ome bill, carry liability insurance. The other, which awaits action by both houses, seeks to limit the number of cabs to| on unpaid taxes be licensed in the future There are only three bills awaiting | action in the House, the most impor- tant of which would tighten and mod- ernize adoption proceedings | Barber Shop Control. Another bill would regulate and control barber shops, and the third provides a series of amendments to the liquor control act. These amend- | ments would permit the sale of hard | liquor by drink over bona fide lunch | counters, stop the flow of direct-to- consumer tax-free liquor into the Di trict, and vest in the courts rather | than the Commissioners authority to review decisions of the Alcohol Bev- erage Control Board A bill to regulate adoption proceed- ings passed the Senate Friday and Chairman Palmisano of the House District Committee is expected to sub- stitute this measure for the one on the House calendar in an effort to complete legislative action. Considerable debate is expected over the barber bill, as well as the pro- posed changes in the liquor law, but Palmisano believes the House will be able to pass all three bills in about | two hours. ' Born as Exper | By the Associated Press Every week or 10 days a dozen men sit dowp around a table at the Com- | merce &‘parfment and talk over avia- tion problems Represented are flying theorists and men who are carrying on the daily job of air transport—pilots, airport managers, Army, Navy, Coast Guard | and Bureau of Air Commerce officials. They help the Federal Government co- ordinate air regulations and integrate aviation policy The group has the title of National Airways Operation Advisory Com- mittee. “We are pretty informal.” says Earl P. Ward, chief of the bureau’s airways operations division, who organized the commitee. “We just sit around and chew the fat. “I think we are getting somewhere though, and that the members of the committee have contributed some valu- able ideas to each other and the bu- | reau.” The committee was organized last month with representatives from the | National Aeronautical Association, the Btate Aviation Commissioners’ Asso- Navy Department, the War Depart- ment, the Airline Pilots Association, the Coast Guard, the American Muni- cipal Associatlon and the Air Trans- port Association. Loosely organized, the committee meets on call of Ward. Richard Ald- worth, superintendent of the Newark Airport and former Army flyer, has been designated to act as chalrman when Ward is absent. A ciation, Aeronautical Radio, Inc.; the| Solutions to Aviation Problems ts ‘Chew the Fat’ | “One of the chief advantages of the said Ward, “is the oppor- tunity for each group to get ideas of the other’s problems. “We talk of all sorts of things—the size of airports, how long a pilot should fly without rest, regulations, radio frequencies. One questjon we have been into is how wide a Federal airway should be The present width is 50 miles. say 10 is enough. We are ahout agreed on 20, “The exchange of views is helpful to all and I think {t is going to mean a great deal in the progress of avia- tion."” VIRGINIAN ASKS CUSTODY OF SON NOW LIVING HERE Has Filed Action Attacking Di- vorce of Ex-Wife, He Claims. Edward L. Axselle of Henrico County, Va,, yesterday asked the United States Distriet Court to award him custody of his 8-year-old son, Wallace Axselle, now living with his mother, Mrs. Alex- arder Gray, at 3213 Fairlawn avenue southeast, Axsellé said he hasdied a petition in the Wirginia courts to T a di- vorce obtained by his wife Phere set | aside. « He also claims her marriage | to Gray is not valid on the ground she did not wait six months as required by Virginia law before remln'ylnt\ b While the House tomorgow is sched- uled to make another atidmpt to clear its calendar of all pending District nounced last night by the Campaign | legislation on what may be the final current ses- other bills affecting Washing- ton are expected to be put before the | Senate during the closing days as a result of a Senate District Committee Senator King, cpmmittee chairman, said yesterday he would go through | the committee calendat to see how | many of the remaining measures the Some | TAX COMMITIEE CHOSEN T0 REVSE REVENUE SETUP Citizens to Be Added Soof to Strengthen Structure * in Next Session. INEQUITIES ANTICIPATED: IN BILL JUST PASSED $5,000 Afforded for Expenses of Survey—42 More Employes Sought to Aid Assessor. ! i Determined to strengthen the Dise trict’s new and hastily-revised ta% the Commissioners yesters day appointed a special committee 1o & comprehehsive municipdl e program submission to ress next year Representatives of District citizenry | will be added to the Tax Revision | Committee probably this week, Come | missioner Hazen said. The commit= | tee will be organized around a nucleus | of District officials. Possible weaknesses and inequalis ties in the tax program embodied in the bill now awaiting President Roose~ velt's signature are readily apparent, Commissioner Hazen said. It will be the duty of the committee to follow closely operations of the tax program after it is put into effect and plup { all the loopholes it can find. | Study Privilege Tax. re for “It will be up to the committee,” | Hazen added, “to recommend whether we shall continue with the business privilege tax next year or whether we should seek revenues through other sources such as the sales tax ‘It may be that the committee will find that the business privilege tax could be made more satisfactory than a sales tax if there were certain re- visions. It seems to me that the busi- ness privilege tax would operate un- fairly in some instances by taking a man's gross receipts instead of his income.” Available to the committee for such personnel as it may need will | be 85,000, the espenditure of which | was authorized in the tax bill for a survey of municipal finances. District Auditor Daniel J. Donovan has been named chairmen of the | committee. Other members already selected are Corporation Counsel El- wood Seal, Public Utilities Commis- sioner Richmond Keech, District Ase sessor Fred Allen, Collector of Taxes Chatham Towers and Director of | Highways H. C. Whitehurst. Plans Held In Abeyance. Plans for putting the new tax pro- | gram into effect immediately after | the bill is signed by the President are being held in abeyance pending | Budget Bureau action on the Com- Meanwhile, a subcommittee, headed | missioners’ request for additional em- of Maryland, will hold a hearing at 10:30 | permission tomorrow on taxicab legislation, which may come before the full com- mittee Tuesday if the hearing is com- already passed by the House, requires cabs to ployes. The Commissioners have asked to spend $92,180 from | the general appropriation for the assessor's office to employ at least 42 additional permanent employes and a number of temporary clerks. Immediately after the President signs the tax bill the Commissioners will meet to extend the penalty date ‘The bill gives them authority to extend the dead line for tax payments 60 days beyond Sep- tember 1 'POPE ATTACKS FOES " OF CATHOLIC TENETS Remark Is Seen as Warning to Germany—Pius Blesses U. S. * Pilgrims. By the Associated Press CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, Au- gust 7.—Pope Pius XI called down “woe” today upon any nation which would obstruct Catholic education and associates interpreted his remark as a warning to Germany Addressing Belgian pilgrims, the pontiff said he saw happiness for the Belgian people as long as they mained faithful to their Catholic tenets but disaster for those who for- got or attacked those teachings (The pope criticized the Nazi re- gime in a pre-Easter encyclical. Cath= | olic education in Germany has suf- | tered from the government’s efforts to | increase its control over the training | of youth.) | In English, the pope blessed Ameri- can pilgrims, saying, “Our special | blessing to all the United States.” | In the party were Bishop Daniel . | Desmond, Alexandria, la.. Msgr. | Leonard Borgetti, New York City: Auxiliary Bishop Francis J. Spellman of Boston, Mass., and seven Negroes from New York City. ‘New Cort;(;r;l’i(;ker Designed to Take Only White Bolls | Photo-Electric Cell Is Used to Leave Unripe Fibers on Plant. | By the Associated Press. A cotton picker designed to “see” ivhp ripe, white bolls and leave the others alone has been patented, ac- | ecording to the Patent Office, by Charles M. White of Moline, Ill ‘The invention makes use of a photo- electric cell, or eleétric eye. to tell what's ripe and what's green, like | humsn cotton pickers do. | The eye pays no attention to green bolls, the inventor told the Patent Df« fice. By an adjustment, light cast by | & green boll is absorbed and the ma- | chine does not respond. | PBut when the boll is white, the | light is reflected and the eye signals | an_electric hand to reach out The Lands of the machine are mov= ing belts studded with small metal teeth to pull the fiber out of the boll and carry it to a container much like the long bags which cotton pickers drag behind them. \