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A2 % ACCORD REACHED IN MOTOR STRIKE U.'A. W, Committee Will Act Today—Plants May Reopen Tomorrow. By the Associated Press DETROIT, August 7.—Officials of the Plymouth Motor Car Co. and rep- resentatives of the United Automobile Warkers ©f America announced a “basis of settlement” tonight which, | Advo‘m-nmeyvu r.xf 'Canzrnss PXPe(‘LE;‘l they. predicted, would result in re- | Within two weeks Page A- tion of normal operations dn me;Pfl;'.‘i-:fld.n[ar'»:m;annrm-e B gr:relx‘arlw ymon lant Monday morning. olicy staleme e A- Elgmouth p 3 d “.f t Sugar compromise sought in effort to "Batalls of 1‘“'_"‘}‘:":’11 e et | avert presidential veto. Page A-2 ;:re“nnt d‘[rn()::m“ m”\xmg of Ply Senate reorganization group plans all- st o REr day hearing Page A-2 :;:“U"’!“P‘%"' :n:‘;_r:‘:‘ members of |y glafn, third convict may die in s prizon-break effort Page A-3 ““The management, officials of the | Senate passes bill for census of unem- anion and the negotiating commit- ployed. Page B-4 ees have agreed on & basis of settle- aent which will be presented 'at a | WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. afembership Committee meeting at Ph: .. Sunday for formal ratificatios natural causes Page A-2 Richard T. Prankensteen, U. A. W.|p (. National Guard digs in for two- A)rgummunrahl unrkfer‘ :n:munrrd fol- week encampment Page A-3 wing a night conferenc “It is expected that the meeting | will ratify the agreement and that all wfrkers affected by the closing will return at their regular hours Monday.” News Summary The Sunday Star, August 8, 1937, PART ONE. Main News Section. FOREIGN. peace overtures Reconciliation of Alfonso and ex- Queen is announced. Page A-5 Britain protests to insurgents on ship attack. Page A-5 NATIONAL, Garner “gavels” remnants of court bill through Senate Page A-1 Page A-1 in Massachusetts Sultan to receive report problems Page B-1 D. C. residents criticized for apathy Accord on Basis. | toward votes Page B-1 Attorney Lester L. Colbert, counsel | F10Use and Senate try to clear calendar for the Chrysler Corp., Plymouth par- | _ °f District legislation Page B-1 eafvoncern, sald | Senate approves extra $1,650,000" for “We have agreed with the officers | Naval Hospital Page B-1 ofwthe U. A. W. and the negotiating | Committee named to study D. C. tax clifimittee on a basis of settlement| Program. Page B-1 of*the controversy at the Plymouth Kenredy seeks D. C. sentiment on re- c&nl If the settlement is approved organization plan Page B-1 b§"the members of the U. A. W., the | Motorists told to course” Piymouth plant will go into full opera- through traffic. Page B-3 tfhs for all shifts on Monday.” . . S | SPORTS. Eeven thousand cplymouth em ) i, i vide with: Tigers by uphill win Page A-10 on sewage “chart War fears grip Central China despite | cian doubts Dr. Greenhut died of | Rites for Justice Van Orsdel to be held | THE SUNDAY SUIGIDE HINTED INDEATH IN CELL Jail Physician Doubts Dr. Greenhut Expired of Nat- ural Causes. | By the Associated Press. BEL AIR. Md., August 7.—Dr. Charles Richardson, jail physician here, expressed the belief tonight that Dr. Armen Greenhut, convicted of | having attacked a 13-year-old patient, did not die of natural causes. Dr. Greenhut, convicted yesterday, was found dead in“his cell today. Dr. Richardson and Dr. J. Howard Maldeis of Baltimore performed an autopsy on orders of State's Attorney D. Paul McNabb. “In my opinion, death was not due to natural causes,” Dr. Richardson said. “We found a condition that indicated that some drug had been introduced, although we will have to make some chemical and microscopic tests to definitely prove our con- clusions.” Tests May Take 10 Days. He said the tests would require a week to 10 days | | Death in the jail bed saved Green- | hut, 39-year-old Austrian-born phy- | sician, from possible execution on the | gallows Sheriff Granville C. Boyle and Fred- | erick Lee Cobourn, counsel for Green- hut, said the physician probably died |in his sleep. Cobourn added he be- lieved Dr. Greenhut “died from ner- vous excitement and the strain of the trial.” Inquest Is Adjourned. Magistrate Stanley S. Spencer, act- ing coroner, called a jury and viewed | the body. The inquest was adjourned | | until Monday and Spencer issued no | statement | State’s Attorney D. Paul McNabb STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST_ 8, Edward and Wally in Venice The Duke and Duchess of Windsor with the Duke’s equerry, Mr. Fulwood, in between them, photographed in the city of the canals recently. -—Wide World Photo. RITES TOMORROW | nental | Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Philippines moves have been idle since Wednes dey. More than 9,000 others, em- nloyed making bodies for Plymouth in nighteap. Page B-6 | ordered an autopsy on the body, al- | Seabiscuit takes $50,000 handicap at| though counsel for Greenhut protest- Jurist Dead FOR VAN ORSDEL Suffolk Downs. Page B-6| Battle for D. C. horseshoe title appears | wide open. Page B-7 | Lynch and Mitchell meet today for| Mid-Atlantic net title. Page B-8 5 Pumpkin, favorite, comes through in the U. A. W.s riegotiations for con- Bt revisio with. Genemsl viotans | BATatofs Speciai rag B pe 5 | Classi~ Hambletonian trot to attract Corp., another of the “big three” of | 40,000 to Goshsn the sutomobile industry. These meet- | py.0i0¢ hogte will be prominent in Old | ings had been under way for several i | iy prior to the Plymouth disturb-| - minion meet. Fagel-il apce | MISCELLANY. ! | Washington Wayside. | Obituary. | Shipping news. | Lost and found. ig the Briggs Manufacturing Co. and Dodge Brothers' plants, also have blen out of work. | =The settlement conferences with ysler officials have interrupted | Next Step Wednesday. ‘The next step in the U. A. W, cam- peign to unionize workers of the Ford Motor Co. is scheduled for Wednes- day, with a renewed attempt to dis- | Vital statistics. tribute literature to workers in the | Bervice orders glgantic River Rouge plant in Dear- | Traffic convictions. bdrn. Ford plants closed for a three- | Week inventory period will reopen | PART TWO. Monday. Editorial Section. { Maurice Sugar, U. A. W. attorney, | Bditorial articles ¥as advised by Dearborn City Ator- | pditorials and comment ney James E. Greeme today that & | ciyic news Bearborn ordinance provides for issu- | Cross-word puzzle ence of licenses to distribule literature | yrijiiary .ndm‘"u“m- #hd slso “provides that there shall be | news. ro disorderly conduct permitted.” |'Resorts. “A provious attempt to distribute | Stamps, handbills near the Ford pplant May 26 | Winning sontract. Page D-8/ resulted in a riot in which 18 union- | Educational. Page D-8 were injured. Assault charges were | ught against seven Ford employesl PART THREE. & result; the National Labor Rela- tions Board inquired into the riot | Soty Eecton. during its hearing- on a complaint | Society news charging the Ford compeny with un- | Well-known folk. fair labor practices, and a judge’s Barbara Bell pattern presentment may bring five policemen and a police matron to trial before the PART FOUR. Dearborn Bafety Commission Septem- | Feature Section News features ber 13. John Clagett Proctor. Meanwhile, higher price levels, long | Dick Mansfield. 8 topic of the motor car industry, will | Automobiles become s reality over s large part of | Amusements, the industry next week. Producers | Children's page who have not announced price in-| Radio programs. creases are expected to do so within the next few weeks. | PART FIVE. The increases so far announced are | Financial, Classified. by Pord and all General Motors di- | D. C. store sales gain Page Vvisions. They range from $15 to $100 | Rise in prices watched. Page and are said in informed sources 1o | Siocks edge up. Page represent hardiy half tie increased | Stock table, ©ost of materials and higher wages to | Bond table. rhich they are generally attributed. | Gurb table In these same sources the prediction | Classified advertising. already is being ventured that a| | OLICE YO QUIT | Page A-2| Page A- Page A-12 | Page A-12 | Page A-12 Pages D-1 Page D-2 Page D-4 Page Pages D-4-5 Pages D-6-7 Page D- Pages E-1-10 | Page E-3| Page E-9 Prices to Go Up. Page Page | further advance will be made before | the year end, or not long atier the | ASKS P 1938 models sre introduced i Price advances have been under eonsideration since the beginning of the current year, but lacking know- ledge of the Ford Motor Co.’s plans, | most produsers have been reluctant| Aunt of Missing American Dancer | to take the initial step in an upr“lrd; Thinks Paris Officials May revision, Impede Return. | By the Associated Press. ‘ PARIS, August 7--Miss Ida Sack- | heim tonight requested Paris police to | abandon search for the missing Amer- | fean dancer, Jean de Koven, for fear | their activities “might interfere with | the safe return of my niece.” The 22-year-old dancer’s aunt dis- closed she had received a total of four ransom notes demanding the speedy payment of $500, after Miss de Koven dropped from sight two weeks ago “I have it ready and waiting,” said Miss Sackheim, indicating she was at- | tempting to establish contact with the | writer of the notes Bhe said e girl's parents or her brother, Henry de Koven of Brooklyn, | N. Y., would sail for Paris unless the girl returns “within the next few | hours Police who traced the first telegram received by Miss 8ackheim, ostensibly from the dancer, saying she was well said it had not been sent by Miss de Koven. Tle ransom notes had been mailed from the Montparnasse quarier | or delivered by taximen who were un- able to identify the sender. Bandit Robs Man As Wagonload of Patrolmen Passes DISPLAY MENPLAN | CONVENTION HERE Iaternational Club to Hold Ses- sions at Wardman Park Next Year Next year's co: national D held in Wa sntion of the Inter- | Men's Club will be it was announced r following a report from the organiza- tion’s annuel con- vention which has just ended in Chicago Joseph B MeCann, splay manager of 8§ Kann & 8ons Co and & member of the national board of directors of the ¢ and Curtis Hodges executere director of ?}:n'im'" 5 Joseph McCann. | tended th the 1938 gather: 1y to bring | & to Washington In reporting r successful efforts McCann said “we are especially happy | over the victory view of the fact| ours s the youngest elub in the n:~‘ tional organiza The local club| Was reorganized a few months ago The convention. to be held at the| Wardman Park Hotel, will bring ap-| A patrol wagon loaded with police- proximately 1000 delegates to the city. | Men passed Wiiliam Bloodworth, 29, The exact date has not been set. " {of 2720 Twenty-eighth street north- *ast, at the very moment he was being robbed last night ed. “We are satisfied it was a natural death,” said J. H. Fletcher Gorsuch f defense counsel. “I think the State should be done with Dr. Greenhut,” Gorsuch added “I am opposed to an autopsy. We don’t want anything of that sort.” Gorsuch said Greenhut recovered Page B-10 | recently from a severe illness and was | 25 pounds underweight Sentence Was Waiting. The court had not passed sentence |on Greenhut, waiting disposition of « | defense motion for a new trial. The | motion was to have been filed Monday, | there yésterday. The rites will be at Conviction carried with it a possible Page A-12 | death sentence, in discretion of the | garet Zimerele of Was Page A-12| court. The statute provides for death | Whom the Justice and Mrs. Van Ors- or for & prison term Sherifft Boyle, going to the cell to awaken Dr. Greenhut for breakfast, found him dead Boyle said the body bore no marks order. Other prisonerssaid they heard nothing from Greenhut's cell during the night. Greenhut was calm and composed during the entire trial. He did not break during three hours on the wit- ness stand, nor did he show any nerv- ousness when he heard the jury fore- man pronounce him guilty. | ARREST POLICEMAN IN SLAYING OF MAID New York Suspect Admits Kill- ing Woman in Row, Com- missioner Says. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, August nounced tonight the arrest of Mount- ed Patrolman Arthur Chalmers for the slaying of Irma Louise Pradier, 35, a Prench maid whose bullet-torn body was found July 20 in the Harlem River Speedway. The commissioner said Chalmers had confessed the killing In the woman's pocket, when she was found, were six lumps of sugar that detecitves thought might have been intended for a mounted patrol- man’s horse. Ballistic experts said the gun that killed her was a police- man's revolver. Commissioner Valentine quoted | Chalmers as saying the woman was | Miss Pradier left her job at Mount Sinai Hospital, the police learned, with the intention of going to Cali- fornia “to marry a policeman.” after withdrawing her savings of $314 from a bank. Chalmers said, according to Valen- | tine, that he drove the woman 1o the American Express Co. to dispatch her trunk and she insisted he accompany her to California. Later, driving to- ward Kensico, N. Y., Valentine said | the patrolman told him, they stopped on the Harlem Highway and the woman threatened him with the pistol. | The gun discharged in the struggle that followed, Valentine said Chal- mers explained | Commissioner Valentine commented that Chalmers’ story did not coincide fully with the facts. Miss Pradier was | shot twice, not once, the official said and one bullet was fired into the body | of the car, TRAFFIC DEA.TH TOLL 65 | AS CRASH KILLS WOMAN Total Is Four More Than Figure for 8ame Period of 1936, Four Others Unhurt. The sixty-fifth traffic death this year, four more than for a similar period in 1936, was recorded here early | lcday when Wanita Lee, 40, colored, ‘1504 Seventh street, was almost in-| | stantly killed in & crash on Nichols | avenue southeast in front of St. | Elizabeth's Hospital. | Police said the woman, who was | pronounced dead on arrival at Cas- | ualty Hospital, was a passenger in | | & car operated by Mahlon Ellis, 34, | colored, Casualty ambulance driver | Elis' car, police reported, struck the | | rear of the machine of Cornelius | Tucker, 36, of East Falls Church, Va. | | Another woman in Ellis’ car and one in | 7.—Police | | Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine an- |Great Barrington, Mass., to | Be Scene of Funeral for Justice. be Mass., Funeral Great will held tomorrow services in | Barrington, | for Justice Josian A. Van Orsdel of | the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, who died | {4 pm. at the home of Mrs ington Mar- with | del were visiting when he was stricken with a heart ailment three weeks ago. | Burfal will be in Blue Springs, Nebr., Mrs., Van Orsdel's old home | Justice Van Orsdel, who was |of violence and that the bed was in | yeras old, died at 1 pm. about 24 [e77¢d upon the Federal Government hours after he had sunk into & coma | Hopes for his recovery virtually had | been abandoned several days ago. | Wife at Bedside. | Mrs. Van Orsdel and their niece | Mrs. Katherine Warren, who made | her home with them at the Roosevelt Hotel here, were at his bedside. A nephew, Ralph A. Van Orsdel, vice president and general counsel of the | Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., | | accompanied by Mrs. Van Orsdel, left for Great Barrington on receiving | word of the jurist's death. | A native of New Bedford, Pa | siah_Alexander Jo- Van Orsdel was born on November 17, 1860. He was edu- cated at Grove City Normal Academy | and Westminister College, then studied | {law at New Castle, Pa. Going west, | the young lawyer settled at Blue | Springs, ard winning admission to | the bar, began practice while man- ager of a milling plant, in 1890. In 1891 Van Orsdel went to Chey- | enne, Wyo., to practice, and the same | | year was married to Miss Kate Bar- | num of Blue Springs. They had no children. | A Republican, Van Orsdel entered politics soon after his arrival in Wyoming, and in 1892 was elected attorney of Laramie 1894 he was elected to ng House of Representa- tives, and in 1897 became attorney general for the State | First on Bench in 1905, Justice Van Orsdel the bench in April, associate Wyoming Supreme Cou there | when first went to 1205, when he justice of the He served until the following February President Theodore Roosevelt named him an Assistant Altorney General of the United States. On December 13, 1907, the President se- lected him for the Court of Appeals and there he remained. In Justice Van Orsdel's long service | torneys arguing ‘n his court | Congress of Lawyers and Jurists, and | |EDMUND PEARSON, 57, | pital of bronchial pneumonia JOSIAH A. VAN ORSDEL, to regulate ‘housing’ or to populations.” ‘resettle’ 1937—PART ONE SEEK COMPROMISE ON SUGAR QUOTAS Leaders Seeking Way Out of Impasse Over Hawaii, Puerto Rice. By the Associated Press. Senate sugar bloc leaders discussed yesterday the possibility of a compro- mise on new sugar control legisiation, with the hope of forestalling a threat- ened presidential veto Senator Adams, Democrat, of Colo- | rado, chairman of a gro. » of Senators from Western and Sov.nern sugar- producing States, said “we are seeking 2 way out” of an impasse over a pro- posed limitation of refining in Hawaii and Puerto Rico. In the face of a warning that Presi- dent Roosevelt would reject a bill “discriminating” against the island territories, the House voted, 135 to 92, Friday to retain the disputed curb and then passed the bill. Might Extend Refinimg. Though Adams was silent on. com- promise terms, others suggested it might embody extension to all refining operations—including those on the continent—of the quota system al- ready applylng to the marketing of raw sugar. Some described it privately as a “face-saving” device to surmount the President’s objections, and questioned whether it would serve the purpose. The new legislation, one of the re- maining major controversial issues on the congressional program before ad- Journment, would displace the 1934 Jones-Costigan act, which expires at the end of this year. It would continue the marketing quota system applying to the conti- beet and cane producers, and Cuba. Would Revive Excise Tax. The measure also would revive an excise tax of 50 cents per 100 pounds to finance benefit payments to pro- ducers. A similar tax was invalidated by the Supreme Court's decision on the agricultural adjustment act. The fight over sugar legislation shifted yesterday . to the Senate | Pinance Committee, which heard ob- | jections from Sam King, Hawalii's congressional delegate, to the refining curb. Florida Senators renewed pleas for larger quotas for that State Chairman Harrison said he planned to complete the hearing Monday and other administration leaders said they hoped to start Senate consideration {lhe following day. |PRESIDENT RELAXES AT HYDE PARK HOME Sharp in Questioning. Of keen intellect, and following | each case closely, Justice Van Orsdel had a reputation for the sharp ques- | tioning he invariably directed at at- | He was regarded as particularly able in deal- | ing with land cases, a heritage of his early days in the West. In his social contacts Justice Van | | Orsdel was cordial and friendly. He | | | was a past president of the Society | | of the Sons of the American Revolu- | tion, and was a member of the Ameri- | can Bar Association, the Universal the University and Chevy Chase | Clubs He was afliated with the Presbyterian Church. CRIME WRITER, IS DEAD | Noted for Borden Case Chronicle. Widow Former Mary Sellers of Washington. {he Associated Press W YORK, August 8 (Sunday).— | Edmund Pearson, 57, America's fore- most writer on criminology, died at 12:30 o'clock this morning (E. 8. T.) at Harkness Pavilion Presbyterian Hos- He was | ly well known for his chron- | the famous Borden murder particu. icle of case Pearson had been ill for several weeks, He was & native of Newbury- port, Mass., and a graduate of Har-| ard University in 1902 His widow, the former Mary 8. Sellers of Wash- ington, to whom he was married | October 15, 1908, survives ‘ His latest book, “Trial of Lizzie Bor- | | den,” was published this Spring. In addition to his many books on |a crime. Pearson wrote about books among his better known works being “The Old Librarians’ Almanack,” “The Library and the Librarian” and “The Librarian at Play.” He was a frequent contributor to there were two decisions that at- tracted wide attention. In 1932 he held that a person violating the Ped- eral prohibition law was not of good moral character. The other decision was in connection with the 1935 relief | periodical publications. He made his act, carrying an appropriation of | pove i New York City. $4,880,000,000, which he excoriated as | entailing “an improper delegation of | powers to the President, an invasion | of Btates' rights.” He was pnmru—‘ TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, August larly sharp in his condemnation of [T (#).—The death in Guatemala of the Resettlement Administration, de- | Gen. Justo Umana, one of the most claring “the Constitution will likewise | famous rebels in the history of Hon- be scanned in vain for power con- ' duras, was announced here today. Mrs. Norton Forum Speaker Famous Rebel Dead. WAGE BILL TOPIC OF HOUSE LABOR COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, EPRESENTATIVE MARY T NORTON, Democrat, of New Jersey, the first woman chair- man of the House Labor Com- mittee, will discuss labor conditions in | the United States during the National Radio Forum tomorrow at 9:30 p.m Arranged by The Washington Star, | the forum program is broadcast over | national network of the National | Broadcasting Co. and is heard locally | through Station WMAL. ! Mrs, Norton will explain the so-| called wage-hour bill with which her | committee has been struggling for weeks, and the effect it will have on | the country’s labor and economic sys- | tem. The committee just recently | SUICIDE ON BAY BRIDGE Californian, 80, First to Jump From Golden Gate Span BAN FRANCISCO, August 7 (@) He let the officers go by without| TUcker's lulo;’n.hvbfle were shaken up, calling for help for & good reason— | Ut r&nxhrr they nor the drivers re- | there was & gun pressing against his| uired treatment. Tibs, Bloodworth later told police that a| Federal Workers' Unit to Meet. { molored man, threatening him With 8| “1ye Treasury Department Local gun, jumped onto his truck as he slowed down in approaching the in- tersection of Rhode Island avenue and Fifth street. The bandit held the The first suicide from recently opened Golden Gate Bridge was reported to Btate police today by Dr. Lewis Hast- | ings Naylor, professor of languages at | gun pointed at his side and ordered Trinity Coliege, Hartford, Conn | him to drive to Pifth and § streets, Dr. Naylor said he had met H. B.! Bloodworth said Wobber, about 60, of Palo Alto, Calif, | It was en route there that the patrol on & bus and they had decided to|wagon passed by. H walk across the bridge. He said Wob-| The colored man fled with ber suddenly leaped from the ralling | taken from Bloodworth when to the water 200 feet below. s $90 the truck reached the & street intersection. | | No. 11 of the Uni ted Federal Workers | of America will meet at 8 p.m. Tues- | | day i Thomson School, Twelfth and | L streets, - . Safety Fund Voted The Senate joined the House yes- terday in approving s $35,00( author' zation for continuing the Commeree Department’s national safety and ace cident prevention campaign. 4 voted to substitute the Senate-approved wage-hour bill for the House bill in | order to expedite action on this legisla- | tion, which President Roosevelt placed | on the “must” list for the current ses- | sion of Congress | Mrs. Norton was elevated to chairmanship of tine House Labor Committee several months ago follow-| REPRESENTATIVE NORTON. ing the death of its former leader, | - Sivis Representative William P. Connery, | resents in the House is made up largely pr., of Massachusetts She was for-| of Jabor. She took over the chairman- merly head of the Disirict Committee, ship at a critical time, when the coun- | & position she held for six years, try was torn by labor disorders—a | The House placed Mrs. Norton on | time when the Labor Committee sud- {hr Labor Committee soon after her | denly moved into the public spotlight eluction to Congress, because of her as one of the most important standing pro-labor views. The district she rep- | committees of the House, 4 [} | the | | Plans to Inspect His Forestry Project—Returns to D. C. Today or Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. HYDE PARK, N. Y, August 7.—| President Roosevelt returned for a brief stay at his boyhood home on the Hudson today and relaxed into tue easy-going routine of a country gen- tleman. Arriving early in the morning by special train from Washington he was greeted a few minutes later at his mother's home by his wife, who has been here for several weeks. A fam- ily Mrs. J. R. Roosevelt, the President's sister-in-law. No business callers were on his en- gagement list for the week end, a though Maj. Gen. Frank R. McCoy, 2d Corps Area commander at Gov- ernors Island, and Mrs. McCoy were invited to dinner tomorrow. The President will return to Washington | tomorrow or Monday night Summer White House officials said he worked for a short time on mai during the day and planned during his stay to inspect again his nearby forestry project. The presence at the estate of two secretarial aides, Miss Marguerite Le Hand and Miss Grace Tully, aroused some speculation whether the President might not have sought the seclusion of his New York home to start writing a speech, but White House officials sald no address was in the making. —e CATHOLICS DECLINE BID TO CONFERENCE Archbishop Informs Denomina- tions “It Is Wise to Pursue Different Lines of Service.” | By the Associated Pres: EDINBURGH, Scotland, August 7.— The Catholic Church today declined | the personal invitation of the arch- bishop of York to send delegates to the second World Conference on Faith |and Order in session here In a courteous response to the invi- tation from the second ranking prelate of the Church of England, Archbishop Joseph MacDonald, Catholic prelate of this eity, blessing, but said: | “It is wise to pursue our different | lines of service independently.” The 400 delegates to the conference from almost every Christian denomi- nation except the Catholic, have been working on the problem of a world ! unity of Christianity. The Archbishop of York's personal invitation was wunderstood to be a tactful effort to learn whether an | official invitation from the conference | would be acceptable to the Cathollc Church, Unofficial Roman Catholic observ- |ers have attended the gathering, but have not participated in discussions. st ol DAM STRIKE HINTED C. I. 0. Workers at Grand Coulee May Walk Out. GRAND COULEE, Wash, August T (#)—C. 1. O. workers on the Gov- ernment’s $120,000,000 Grand Coulee Dam rallied today, assertedly in prep- aration to strike Monday and shut down work on the largest hydroelec- tric and reciamation project ever at- | | tempted. The C. I. O. asserts it ean close the project through “100 per cent membership of 150 pipefitters” on the dam. The strike move was precipitated, | C. I. O. leaders said, by the discharge of nine C. I. O. workers last week after the union had protested against the exclusive agreement between Ma- #on-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier Oo. and the APL Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. FLOATING POWER | ary ladies of Washington, ac- cording to a headline in a local paper: | D. €. CLUB WOMEN DISCUSS WRITING ON AIR SATURDAY. | For week days, we recommend the |0ld pen and paper and a nice dark | room. * x ok % SURRENDER. Convinced at last that he would never be able to discover any sig- nificance in the event, a corre- spondent of ours has sent a simple note, saying: “There were five humming birds humming around.a plant at one end of the veranda at the Congres- gional Country Club the other aft- ernoon Furthermore, there are more humming birds around the Congressmen’s country home than at any other spot near Washing- ton.” Five at one table, did you say? Hmmmm. UMMER sports among the liter- | ALL-DAY HEARINGS ON REORGANIZING Joint Committee to Push In- quiry Tomorrow in Drive for Calendar. BY WILL P. KENNEDY, With adjournment of Congress im- | minent, the Senate members of the | Joint Committee on Government Re~ organization will nold all-day publie hearings tomc effort to | close their inqui ys and get a bill on the calendar for priority | consideration as soon as Congress re- turns Chairman Byrd of the Special Sen- ate Committee on Reorganization and Minority Leader MoNary, ranking Re- publican on the committee, are de= termined the bill shall not be reported out and placed on the Senate cal- endar until adequate hearings have been held as promised by the late Senator Robinson, Democratic leader, The bill under consideration is the product of earlier hearings by the | Joint committee and s drafted along the lines of President Roosevelt's re- organization program, which con- templates, principally, the subordina= tion of all the independent agencies to cabinet control so far as their admin- istrative functions are concerned, and | the replacement of the Civil Service Commission members by a single administrator, of Divergent Views Expressed. hearing widely views were expressed by nesses on the civil ice featu | the bill, which includes also a | gram to bring the thousands of non= civil service ons throughout the | Government, under the merit system, and build a career service in the Gov= ernment. At the request of Senator Byrd, who | yesterda verger di- wit= e of pro= posit F luncheon also was attended by | is arguing for consolidations and elim= * X ¥ % inations, and opposes the plan to ARCEINES. S shift control of the independent ACK from a journey to Texas, |agencies it was decided to call to= Frank Ford Burnet reporis to us the chairmen of the Iuters on the effect the more abundant life. | state Commerce Communications, as supplied by Roosevelt legislation, is | Federal Trade and Federal Power having on ancient customs of the| Commissions, to ask how these Nation agencies would be affected Says he knows a man down there It then that Senator Byrnes, who felt it particularly essential that | Democrat, of South Carolina. who suc~ his son’s social security card number | ceeded Senator Robinson in the chair= should be recorded for future refer- | manship, announced all-day hearings | ence. Thought and thought and would be held | thought about it, and finally opened | The bill under consideration lists up the family Bible as independent agencies subject to the On the page containing the entry. | proposed change, legisiative courts, “James Doe,” born June 6, 1912, etc.” | Board of Tax Appe: those groups he added carefully “social security | to be studied tomorrow and the Coal, card No. 0001-1234-00 isued May 1,/ Securities and Exchange, Maritima 1937." | Commissions and the National Labor Relations Board. Congress Keeps Consent Power. The bill authorizes the President by executive order to transfer to an execu= tive department any of the routine morrow was | * ¥ ¥ % BY A NOSE. PHRASES are coined and borrowed | not only in newspaper columns and theaters. The airline pilots have | contributed a few of their own. Latest | 8dministrative and executive functions | of these is & synonym for crack-up, |Of 8ny independent establishment Seems a big liner was fighting its | Which are common to other agencies way into Washington in plenty of | Of the Government, such as the prepa= weather, all of it bad, with one pilot | Tation of estimtaes of appropriations, handling the controls and riding the | the appointment of personnel and beam, the other staying in telephonic | Maintenance of personnel records, the communication with the airport. | Jw0ocurement of material, supplies and | Washington called him and asked | €quipment, .the accounting for public | would he piease check the beam to see | funds, the rental of quarters and re« it it were on course or swinging (not | lated matters a 1a Benny Gcodman, either). This| Under the bill when the President seemed the height of dumbness to the | lssues an executive order relating to | co-pilot, because he could scarcely see | the transfer, consolidation or abolish- his wing-tips much less see the | Ment of agencies, the order must be ground to ch-ck on the radio beam. | Submitted to Congres to become effece He looker. over at the pilot, decided | 'ive In 60 days if Congress is in ses- he was no: an individual to be both- | 100, otherwise the executive order does not become effective for 60 days after Congress reconvones—this is to “Listen,” ke snapped. “If the beam’s | 1V¢ Congress an opportunity to pass O. K., we'll be there in 15 minutes. If |® 1AW prohibiting the change it'’s not, this is going to be a photo| Principal support for the pending | foita i foeRiiE evipeert bill yesterday came from Luther C. | i Steward, president of the Nationa] | S ihror Pederation of Federal Employes. It Sign in @ cormer Siug store win. | 725 Attacked by Charles 1. Stengle, s g e ‘Z H streets. |President of the American Federation | dow near Fijteenth and H streets: | ¢ Government Employes, and H. Eliot Nine Old Men"—while they |gaplan, secretary of the National last, 93c. | Civil Service Reform League. Steward said his organization be« lieves the bill, which was sponsored | by Senator Robinson, “despite certain | pines to be the skipper of a moth | imperfections, represents a long step | (8 moth being one of the smallest of | forward toward the goal of a merit sallboats, next to the frostbite | system Federal service which will op- dinghy) heard about s second-hand | erate efficiently and effectively for the number down on the Washington wa- | public.” He was emphatic in approv- ter front. Price, $50. He went down, |ing the administrator plan for eivil looked it over and liked it, but couldn't | service as a move toward greater effi- clency. ¥ i ant? o > r BB | | ered at the moment, so answered for himself | * ko X | NO SALE. Y\‘AUTICAL chap around town who i ; Clear Definition Sought. ' A The N. F. P. E. head urged “a very {:" 4 M/"”f“/ e clear definition of the meening of ‘policy making’ positions,” which are not scheduled to be brought under | civil service, saying the number should | be small. The proposal to make heads of bureaus subject to presidential ap- gave the conference his | find the owner, so he left his telephone number. Waited several days, but there was no call. He went down to see the dock man who had taken the number “Oh, yes; oh, yes,” said the dock- keeper. “I remember you all right Gave your number to the fellow that owned the boat. He called your house and your wife said you couldn’t have i.” * %ok x TARS. JHICH reminds us that the nifty appearance of those blue and white S8ea Scout uniforms during the | recent jamboree seems to have had an effect on local talent. The Boy 8couts of Prince George County are going to “anchor” a “ship” near River- | dale soon, and first-class Scouts over 15 years of age will be eligible to join the crew. Neweil Bowman will be the skipper. e RELIGIOUS SERVICES ALLOWED TO RESUME Valencia Government Believed to Be Near Reopening of Churches With Pledge. By the Associated Press. VALENCIA, Spain, August 7.—The Spanish Government, in what was regarded as a step toward the reopen- ing of churches, today authorized the resumption of religious services in ter- | ritory under its control The government said it was fulfill- ing its pledges for freedom of wor- ship, but guarding against assumption of political power by the church Priests and nuns were assured free- dom from molestation, but the stipu- privately Manual Irujo, minister of justice, disclosed he r had permitted the reopening of a convept in Valencia where 140 monks are making clothes for government. soldiers. Other convents will be permitted to opmn, he said. 4 A lation was made that services be held | | pointment was criticized by Steward, | who said it as “a clear concession to | the spolls system | Stengel was sharp in his attack, de- | claring the plan would develop s | “spoils system more obnoxious than that which existed before the present | civil service system,” and would throw the Government service into a “state | of constant anxiety and disorder.” Hes | added the measure would “forever blast our hopes for a career service.” Stengle's argument was along the line of a recent statement in which | he declared the measure was full of contradictions. | Kaplan condemned the personnel provisions as “vague and contradic- | tory.” | “There are some good features in the bill, but we are frankly disap- pointed,” he said Kaplan declared also that liberal interpretation of the measure would provide “no real ex- tension of the merit system.” POLICE HOLD BROTHERS OF GANGSTERS’ VICTIM Tom and Lucian Langetta Are rested in Florida—Guns Found in Home. By the Associated Press s TAMPA, Fla, August 7—City and county officers tonight arrested Tom | and Lucian Langetta, who said they were brothers of a Philadelphia gang | killing victim, and seized a quantity of guns and ammunition in their home, | They also held them for investigation in several hold-ups in this section Officers also took into custody pretty Frances Langetta, 25, wife of Tom, and kept the men's mother under sure veillance Chief of Detectives W. D, Bush said no charges had been placed against them. He said Philadelphia author- | ities had been informed of their de- | tention, and the victims of a theater | hold-up in St. Petersburg were asked to look at the men. Mrs. Langetta told Chief Bush the family came to Tampa last Bpring after a brother had been slain in & gang war, and they sought safety. | | |