Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1937, Page 2

A2 MANEDVERS SET BYDISTRETCUAR Cool Mountain Air Greets Men—Field Bivouac Is Planned. BY ROBERT A. ERWIN, Btaff Correspondent of The Star. CAMP ALBERT RITCHIE, Cascade, Md., August 9.—Cool mountain air and sunshine gave the District Na- | tional Guard ideal weather today for | the first round of military maneuvers and drills of the annual encampment here. This followed in the wake of | rain late yesterday that drove the | soldiers off the parade ground as they started to stage a regimental. parade. Plans progressed, meanwhile, for the overnight field bivouac to be held August 19, when the Guardsmen will epend the night in the field. Lieut. | Col. Julian S. Oliff, executive officer of the camp, announced a site at Eu- | clid, on the Pennsylvania-Maryland | line, 3 miles from here, had becl\} secured for these maneuvers. The Guard was completely settled in camp today after spending Sunday in general clean-up, weed picking, grass cutting, sidewalk making and the whitewashing of posts all over the reservation. ¥ ¥ Rifle Team Leaves. Under orders of Capt. Charles E Smithson, adjutant to Col. Ochmann, the District National Guard rifie team departed vesterday for the Marine | Corps rifle range, Quantico, Va., for two weeks of duty, to be followed by | 8 three-week period at Camp Perry, | Ohio. The group included the commanding | officer, Maj. Just C. Jenson, Ordnance | Department, State staff, District Guards; Technical Sergts. Warren G Snyder and Raymond L. Taylor, Staff Sergts. Alex J. Thill, Harry B. Parson, Ernest V. Gonzales and Phillip C Geraci, Sergts. John M. Crandall, Milton Kurland, Jack E. Dove and Hubert L. Cocke, Corpls. Edwin L. Staubus and Robert E. Black, Pvis, First Class Gray K. Ethridge, Paul T. Lane and Pvis. Robert L. Mattinly and Frenleigh R. Graninger. A motion picture show was held yesterday at 8 pm. in the camp ampitheater, Shows also will be pre- sented tonight and Wednesday night of this week: Sunday, Monday and { Thursday of next week at the same hour under auspices of the 121st Engineers. Religious Services Held. religious services preceded last night's show at 7:30 pm. with Maj. Arthur C. Smith, the camp , In charge. Protestant and services were held in the schedule of the 29th troops was announced Donald Falk. athletic officer. assist s are Technical rgt. Charles A. Norris, Sergt. Joseph | Lesser and Corpl. Richard H. Bradley. | The various companies will compete | for the next two weeks in volley ball and solf ball leagues. The special troop field day will be held Thursday, August 19, with indi- vidual and team prizes for winners| in the field events Regular Army inspectors of the Third Corps Area were on duty today for the encampment. They are Maj. Alexander Ackerman, C. E, Phila- delphia, of the 12Ist Enginee! in- structor of the 103d Engineers, and Maj. W. C. Hoffman, Washington, Army Medical Corps, inspector of the | medical regiment, Col. Pike at Camp. Col. Shepard L. Pike of the Regular | Army, senior structor of the 29th Division and instructor of the special troop, also was on duty at the camp. Capts. Hugh Everett and Louis M. Gosorn of the special troop, made a reconnaisance in the neighboring territory today, plotting and mapping problems and field movement of the £pecial troop, to be staged today. The troop will set up division headquarters, and wire commu ocate the “enemy” and take up its battlefield | position. In their fir v day in camp | the 121st Engineers carried out the following prograr 5:30, reveille; 6, breakfast; 6:30, sick call; 7, physical drill: 8, close order drill; 8:30, practice in ceremonies; 9. rest; 9:15, extended order drill: 10, lecture on morality; 11, engineering operations and sup- plies; 12:15 pm., dinner: 2:30, com- mand post exercise, all officers, 4:30, mand post exercise, all officers; 4:30, talion parade: 6, supper; 6:45, recre- ation: 10, call to quarters, 11 pm, "Taps.” CIRCUS FANS ELECT D. C. MAN PRESIDENT Melvin D. Hildreth Will Succeed Frank A. Hartless, Norfolk Convention Decides. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va, August 9.—The Circus Fans' Association of America, in annual convention here, yesterday elected Melvin D. Hildreth of Washing- ton, association president, to succeed Frank A. Hartless of Chicago. Other officers elected were Col. C. G. | Sturtevant, San Antonio, Tex., South- ern vice president; Karl K. Knecht, Evanston, Ill, Central vice president; | Harper Joy, Spokane, Wash., Western Vice president, and George Duffy, Fort Plain, W. Y, Eastern vice president, all of whom were re-elected except Joy, who succeeds J. A. Westmoreland, Los Angeles. Walter M. Buckingham, secretary-treasurer, also was re- elected. Walter H. Hohendel, Rochelle, m, was re-elected editor of the associa- tion’s magazine, White Tops, and Col. Sturtevant was chosen again as his- torian. The committee on the 1938 conven- tion site recommended Portland, Me., but the convention will act on the rec- ommendation later. The convention will end Tuesday. LABRADOR IMPORTS ICE Ten Tons Arrive by Boat for Use in Salmon Packing. BATTLE HARBOR, Labrador, August 9 (#).—Ice has become scarce in this land where many persons think there is a perpetual supply of it. . Ten tons, imported from Halifax, Nova Scotia, arrived here aboard an auxiliary schooner for use in packing salmon. The scarcity of icebergs in the Belle Isle Straits during the Summer made it necessary to import the ice for dis- tribution in settlements where none has been available for packing since the Spring break-up. | dition. | if they didn't walk the chalk for him. Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. SALE ALES of the high-pressure sales- men who have been telephon- ing people and saying, “Your tires are in a dangerous con- You need new tires,” reminds us, for exactly no reason, of something that happened to a friend who owned an extremely costly, beautiful and luscious sport phaeton. One night he left it on the street while dropping in for a twirl at a night club. Came out with his party | to find a note stuck on the windshield. In excellent handwriting, it said, “If | you ever want to sell this car please telephone me at, etc., etc.” With his pals he went on to another night club, meanwhile threatening to sell the car right out from under them At the next spot they were relating the incident to Ramon, once the most famous. of the village's head waiters, | when a tall, dark-haired fellow arose from & nearby table. “I see you found my note,” said he. “Rigl said the owner of the car. ut I like that bus, too.” “I'll give you such and so for it,” said the man, naming a neat figure. “Interesting. But I'm just about to start off on a month’s trip.” “How’s about when you get back?" All right,” said the owner. “You're on. I take my trip. When I come back the car is yours.” “Sold,” said the dark-haired man. They went through with the deal, too. * ok ok ok LOSER. Once you start a run on phaeton stories among fanciers of fine cars, no telling where it will end. Prom- ise to let you off today with just one more. It's about a college lad we knew who owned an exrpen- sive and high-powered car. When he'd had it a couple of years, he began trying to sell it to some of his friends. No takers. Finally he said one day, “I think this car is worth $1,500 as she stands, if it's worth a nickel. May- be more. Butl'll set a price of $800 on it, and match anybody double or nothing. If he loses, I get $1,600. If he wins, he gets the car.” In about five minutes he had a chap to play at that game. They matched. The owner lost. A broad grin spread over his face. “Boy, oh, boy, what luc chortled. “I'll say you're a good loser, to put it weakly,” said the winner “You don't know,” said the other lad. “I've been trying to get my father to let me trade this job in on a new one. He kept saying ‘What's the matter with the old one?” Well, nothing was the mat- ter, so there I was. Now I haven't any car at all, and where will he be with his arguments?” The “old man” was stuck for a he new car, that's where he was. * % ox % COOK. 'rHIS sounds like it came out of a | Joke book, but our informant swears he has witnesses. - Says they heard a chef at a large hotel here sighing mightily one day. Wiped his | brow and moaned, “Boy, will I be| glad when my wife gets back from vacation. Two weeks she's been gone, and I haven't had a decent meal since she left.” * ok kX DIPLOMACY. {NGINEER who lives in a Sixteenth street apartment house sometimes experiments with radio apparatus in his quarters. There were complaints from some neighbor. Figuring that it was probably the lady who lived directly above him, he decided to use guile. He made friends with her dog. Got to the point where he even took the dog out for walks regularly. Later he learned that the complain- ant was not the one he had suspected. Now he and the dog won't even speak. L AD. Tl-lls little item has settled the mat- ter. Hereafter when we go past a drug store window at a walk it'll ' i 806 Juict | 23¢PINT be because we're wearing blinkers. Sign in a local pharmacist's shop: “BUG JUICE—23c PINT.” * % % x CUB. One of our cubs around the office has been yowling lately because he called up to make a check on the river stage and mud suspension in the Potomac the other morn=- ing, and when he asked, “How's the river today?” a wvoice drawled, “Purty fine, catching plenty of bass this mawnin’.” Phooey on such impatience. In our day we once called up the same place about the same matter, and when we asked “How's the river today?” fellow at the other end of the wire said, “Which one you mean?” OPEN NEW OFFICE Social Security Field Headquar- ters Operated at Richmond. G. R. Parker, regional director of the Social Security Board, announced today the opening of a board fleld office in Richmond, with James W. Dinwiddie of Franklin County, Va., in charge. The office will be located in the Post Office Building and will serve the Counties of Campbell, Amherst, Appomattox, Prince Edward, Char- lotte, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Hali- fax and Pittsylvania. Other Virginia field offices have been THE EVENING STAR —WASHINGTON, D. 10 SAVE ESCUDER Seeks Aid Throughout World for Ex-Editor Facing Doom in Spain. By Radlo to The Star. PARIS, ‘August 9 (N.AN.A)— While her youthful newspaper .hus- band stands to his fate behind a locked court room door in Valencia, Mrs. Joseph M. Escuder, a native of Tampa, Fla, and a former instructor at Barnard College, Columbia Uni- versity, New York, sits here racking her brain for means of making his trggedy stand out above all the thou- sands of others that daily wet Spain's earth with tears. She believes that if the.world can be made to know his tragedy, it would be shaken. “It would do something,” she says. urely, there is something it could do.” The attempt to shake a world pre- occupied with its own troubles goes on in a hastily found room here where Mrs. Escuder is living under an assumed name. Communists had hounded her from her husband's side in Barcelona, where she was devoting herself to relief work for refugee chil- dren while her husband, well known in New York, was editing “La Batalla,” P. O. U. M. (Party of Marxist Unity) newspaper. When she came to Paris, “somebody—perhaps Communist | agents,” started opening her mail, so that an assumed name and a change in residence became necessary. Cables Make Two-Foot Pile. send letters and cables to every- body,” she says. “I tell everybody who knew of my husband, whether personally or by reputation, and get them to prote: Former Premier Largo Caballero, who says himself that his refusal to arrest my husband was one of the reasons why the Commun- ists ganged him out of office, told a friend of mine the cables of protest over the crime against my husband came from all over the world and. made a stack 2 feet high on his desk There are people left on earth wh want to see justice done.” If he dies, will he have died for his principles? Mrs. Escuder, just turned 30, dainty - featured, large - eyed, short, determined, crisp-talking, did not blink the question or wring her hands. “If & social conscience is a principle, the answer is yes,” she said, “but then only indirectly. Directly, he will have died for his enemies’ lack of prin- ciples. He has been trapped by a political machine, and that is what will mangle him.” Her husband, she said, was ar- rested by the Communists without | the knowledge of the government and along with leaders of the P. O. U. M. party. “The P. O. U. M. has 40,000 sub- scribing members and was the first revolutionary party in Catalonia to send volunteers to the front. It ob- Jected in speeches and in its press to the Communist minority's attempt to dictate the policies of the govern- ment—an attempt made powerful, out of all proportions to its popular strength, by the Soviet government' aid to the loyalist forces. So the Communists had the P. O. U. M. sup- pressed, at & cost of 600 lives in a single day so far, and had its leaders arrested on, of all things, charges of espionage for the Fascists and | Trotskyism. My husband was not ! even a party leader, but merely editor | of the party paper. He was taken | along. Father Owned Chain Stores. “Espionage for the Fascists? tell you this about that: My hus- band's father was a chain-store owner | and wanted to put him in the way | of wealth. But he turned his back | on that and, as a boy in his 'teens, joined the fight against the monarchy. He used to live in cellars with a portable press, issuing handbills in behalf of a republic and hunted by the dictator’s terrorists. “He might have been anything. He | wrote well, he painted beautifully, he had a head for business. But he was cursed with a social con- science. He could not be happy while the poor suffered. His grandfather | used to visit the slum quarters in Barcelona as a sort of everyday Santa Claus. ‘What do you need most of all right now?’ he would ask the poor he visited. A doctor, a bed, a broom, medicine, shoes. He would buy it right away. My husband went around among the poor with his portable press. ust before the revolution broke out in July, 1936, we returned to the United States for a visit. The United States was my home and a second home for my husband. He took a position with Twentieth Century-Fox Films and we had an apartment and might have been happy. “I remember that Summer, how he used to sit all night long before the radio with tortured eyes, waiting for news bulletins. “He wanted to go back right away. But his friend, Andres Nin, a recent | victim of assassins in Madrid, then | minister of justice for Catalonia, told | him he could do better work explain- ing the Loyalist cause to Americans, raising funds, buying supplies. In the Fall came a cable from Nin, offer- ing him a post in the government. He sailed as soon as he could pack. Italian Ships Menacing. “Italian warships were then off Barcelona and Italian planes were nesting on Majorca. A bombardment of Barcelona was expected momen- tarily and he said I should not come with him, but he would send for me as soon as he felt it was safe. “While he was on the high seas Nin was forced out of the cabinet by the Communists. My husband undertook work for American magazines and newspapers in order to live, and edited La Batalla. Last Christmas he wrote me that what was happening in Bar- celona would go on happening with- out change for years and that I could | join him. “So I went to him. In Barcelona he worked himself into sickness. I never saw him during the week; only on Sundays. During the week he was at the paper, he was here, there. Sun- days we were together. That is why, now. it is the Sundays that are worst of all” - She closed her eyes briefly. “It is this man,” she said with sudden bit- terness, “they are railroading to death behind locked doors in a secret trial on charges thought up to get rid of one who knew how to explain to peo- ple what they were doing and why it Was wrong. “If their charges are not paper-thin, then why is there not a fair and open trial, as was promised by Premier Ne- grin? If their murder of my husband is not a crime against justice, then why is it being done secretly?” opened at Richmond, Roanoke, Nor- folk and Bristol. (Copyright, 1937, by the North Americaa Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) | and James P. Day, all of whom were INTRAINDERAILING B. & 0., With 200 Aboard, Gets Over Road Trestle. No Serious Hurts. By the Associated Press. CARLYLE, Ill, August 9.—Railroad detectives and Clinton County officers hunted clues today to plotters who they said derailed a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train last night as it sped 200 passengers across a highway underpass near here en route to St. Louis. Minor bruises were the only injuries reported from what trainmen called “an apparent attempt to wreck the train.” They said unofficially they be- lieved cranks caused the wreck, A heavy steel “fish” plate, found still fastened atop the rail, was blamed directly for the derailment which sent the engine and tender plunging down & 20-foot embankment, Railroad investigators said only the train's speed of about 65 miles an hour carried it across the cut and prevented a more serious wreck. The 12 cars remained standing. some bal- anced precariously on the trestle acrdss the highway. Workmen started early today re- pairing the 300 feet of damaged track. 110 STAR CARRIERS GET TRIP TO RESORT Winners in Efficiency and Sales- manship Contest to Go to Atlantic City. Winners in an efficiency and sales- manship contest last month, 110 Star carrier boys will be Atlantic City- bound tomorrow for a two-day visit to the beach resort as guests of The Star. Leaving at 8 am. from Union Sta- tion, the boys will arrive in time ta register at one of the leading hotels and get out on the beach for an afternoon swim. ‘Tomorrow night they will go to the steel pier for a round of movies, circuses and other places of amuse- ment. Wednesday will be spent seeing the town and swimming. the group returning home that night. Charles A. McKenney of The Star circulation department will be in charge of the trip. He will be assisted by D. H. Burrows, D. N. Nicklason, J. H. Moore and Cedric Johnson, BILLS TO REINSTATE POLICE TO BE STUDIED | Hearings were to be resumed tod. by a subcommittee of the House Dis- trict Committee studying bills for the reinstatement of four dismissed po- lice officers. The policemen are D. R. Thomp- | son, Ralph S. Warner, Amos B. Cole dismissed after investigations by the trial board At the hearings last week Represen- tative Bates, Republican, of Mass- achusetts, charged the Police De- | partment with ineficiency. He de- clared there was “cause for removal | of men for neglect of duty” in the | handling of the Jordon murder case, | in which he said major witnesses had | not been interviewed over a period of | years. Lying Down, | Senate-House conference Age Catches Old Babe Retired Circus Elephant at Zoo Sleeps Headkeeper of the Zoo William H. Blackburne photographed this morning beside Babe, the old circus elephant. The steel “fish” plate shown still fastened to the rail is blamed by investigators for the wreck of the Baltimore & Ohio’s fast passenger train, the Diplomat, near Carlyle, I11., Only minor injuries were reported by the 200 persons aboard. terday. MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1937 WIFE STRUGGLING [PLOTTERS SOUGHT | “Fish” Plate on Track Blamed for Wreck late yes- —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. COURT BILL SENT 10 CONFERENCE iJoint Committee to Work Out Agreement Acceptable to Both Houses. By the Associated Press. The House sent the Senate's lower | court procedure bill today to a committee | to work out an agreement acceptable | to both houses. Chairman Sumners of the Judiciary Committee obtained unani- mous consent of the House for this action. Leaders said it eliminated the need for extended consideration of the re- vised measure by the House Judiciary Committee. Speaker Bankhead appointed Sum- ners and Representatives Weaver, Democrat, of North Carolina: Walter, | House | Democrat, of Pennsylvania Mc- | Laughlin, Democrat, of Nebraska Guyer, Republican, of Kansas, and | Hancock, Republican, of New York, to represent the House at the confer- ence. Bankhead said no disposition to change the bill was in prospect, how- | ever, and it probably would be ac- cepted early in the week. Containing no mention of the Su- preme Court, the measure shot through the Senate Saturday without a record vote under the parliamentary adroit- | ness of Vice President Garner. Pounding his gavel, Garner took the Senate by surprise and shut off de- bate by jumping from adoption of a minor amendment to passage of the bill “Without objection. the amendments (the bill) in the nature of a substi- tute will be agreed to,” he said. “The ‘chair hears no objection. Wllhou(‘ objection, the bill is passed.” That was the end of the controversy | which split the Senate for five months. Stays There. | Barnum circus, | operation, ¥ . ;/)' —Star Staff Photo. LD BABE'S eyes seemed as bright as ever this morning, but—although Zoo officials hate to admit it—they believe old age finally has caught up with her. ‘The famous circus elephant, who was retired to the Zoo three years ago, slept lying down last night—the first time she had been off her feet in nine years. Ralph Norris, the elephant keeper, thought she might be up and lumbering around today, but Babe just lay quietly in her quar- ters. Headkeeper William H. Blackburne offered her a little hay, but she wouldn't eat any. To add to the weariness of old age, Babe 8 bothered by an ingrown toe-nail, for which a veterinarian has been treating her for about a month. Blackburne, veteran former circus elephant trainer, who trained the famous Jumbo and knew Babe for 30 years before she came o the Zoo, said Re didn't believe she would ever get up again. Old age has sapped her strength and she may have to be de- stroyed, he said. “Maybe she’ll get all right, and be up and around again,” said Ernest P. Walker, assistant Zoo director, “but it's hard to tell. She may not live very long. There seems to be a general wearing out—you know, an elephant’s life span is just about the same as that of a human being.” They don't know Babe's exact age. She is somewhere between 80 and 100 years, Zoo officials believe. She spent a half century with the Barnum & Bailey Circus. The circus said she hadn't 1ain down for six years, and Zoo officials are certain that last night was the first time she had laid down here. Babe started to back out of her quarters in the elephant house yester- day morning, but fell. Her 8,500 pounds wedged in the doorway, it required a block and tackle to move her inside and then she wouldn't, or couldn’t get up. b J Embryonic Twin Is Severed From Child, 7 Months Girl Reported Doing Well in Huntington, W. Va., Hospital. By the Associated Press. HUNTINGTON, W. Va., August 9.— The separation of a 7-month-old baby from an embryonic twin joined to her hip was disclosed today at a Hunting- | ton hospital, The baby, reputed to be the great- great-granddaughter of one of the original Siamese twins with the P. T. was reported *“just | fine” at the St. Mary's Hospital. | Attendants declined to discuss the performed last Thursday by Dr. Francis Scott of Huntington, be- | fore a gathering of physicians from the Lower Ohio Valley. Dr. Scott would not answer inquiries about the operation, but said the child would recover. The undeveloped twin, sources close |to the hospital said, was attached to | the normal baby by a band of flesh and there was no juncture of the spines. The operation was delaved after birth until the normal twin could withstand the shock. Names of the baby and her parents | were withheld by physicians and the | hospital. STREET ROPED OFF FOR MOY FUNERAL | Two Orchestras to Play at Rites Today for Former On Leong Tong Head. The 600 block of H street, heart of | Washington s Chinatown, will be roped | off today for the hundreds of Chinese | and American friends of Charley Moy | expected to attend the last rites for the former On Leong chief Two orchestras, one a Chinese group from New York, will play for he suffered a paralytic stroke Friday. He died late in the day in Casual: Hospital. After the services, which, according | to Moy's lifelong friend, George Wen, will be “like your American funeral” without the celebration peculiar to Oriental rites, burial will be in Cedar who was 49, is survived by his widow and three children, George, 21; Charley, jr, 4, and Virginia, 6. BABY SHOWS LISTED - ON PARKS PROGRAM Trip to Zoo on Schedule for Fri-| day—Pet Exhibit Will Be Held. Events ranging from baby shows to & Visit to the Zoo have been scheduled for the public recreation program this week, the office of National Capital Parks announced today. Baby shows will be held at the ‘Wheatley Community Center Wednes- day, the Eastern Community Center and Henry-Polk Playgrounds Thurs- day and the Buchanan Community Center Friday. Children at Langdon Park will enjoy the trip to the Zoo Park Friday. A puppet show is scheduled for Priday at the Dunbar Community Center, while a sports costume show will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Stanton Playground. Pet shows will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Noyes Playground, and 3 p.m. at Congress Heights Playground and Takoma Recreation Center. Other pet shows will be held at the Paul Community Center Thursday and Mann Playground Friday. A bicycle race for boys will take place at the Stanton Community Center Friday, while a health show is scheduled for Georgetown Play- ground Wednesday. A baby and pet show and a vehicle parade will be held Friday at the Jefferson Junior High School Play- ground. Bathing beauty contests for girls under 12 will take place at Buchanan Community Center and Janney Playgrounds Wednesday. MISS DEWSON SPEAKS New Deal Success ‘“Inevitable,” She Bays in Maine. LEWISTON, Me., August 9 (#).— Miss Mary W Dewson, Washington, vice chairman of the Democratic Na- tional Committee, told Democrats of four States here yesterday that the Nation’s upward movement under President Roosevelt “may be halted, but its ultimate and complete success is inevitable.” Miss Dewson was one of several speakers at an outing here sponsored by the Ladies’ Roosevelt Club of Anc droscoggin County and attended by Democrats from Maine, Vermont, the | | services at 3 pm. at 611 H street, next door to Moy's famous Joy Inn, where | JOBLESS CENSUS SEENRELIEF BASIS Black Bill Aim Discovery of Number and Class Need- ing Work. By the Associated Press. A census of the unemploved. which the Senate approved Saturday, may help lay the basis for the Govern- ment's future treatment of the relief policy. The bill, introduced by Senator Black, Democrat, of Alabama, declares the aim is to determine the number, class and distribution of those need ing work, and their occupations comes and dependents, “to aid in tre formulation of a program for re-em- ployment, social security and unem- ployment relief.” Years of agitation lie behind the !approval of the measure by the Sea- | ate. There has been much criticism that relief activities have been more or less haphazard, due to being based on insvfficient data concerning those out of work. Estimates of the army of the jobless have varied by millions. | Hopkins’ Data Held Adequate. Administration officials have con- tended. however, that Harry L. Hopo- kins, W. P. A. administrator, has col- lected sufficient statistics on which to proceed intelligently with the W. P. A. program. They added, howaver, that a census would be a good thing If voted by the House, the census will be held before April 1, at a cost of $4,000.000 to $5,000,000. The bill would let the following group determine the exact type of count, who would conduct it and the nature of the questions: Secretaries of Labor and Commerce, the works progress administrator, chairmen of the Social Security and Central Sta- tistical Boards and the census director. A year ago proposals for a “door- bell-ringing” unemployment were shelved. Later, President Roose- velt expressed favor for a voluntary registration scheme which wouid have become the only basis for exiension of relief. Patronage Plum Envisaged. Hugh S. Johnson, former national recovery administrator, termed the former method ‘“cockeyed.” He as- serted it would be a costly patronage plum But Secretary Perkins said there was nothing in the voluntary registration plan to prevent a person registering in ise\‘ernl places in the hope of increasing | his chances of obtaining work. With introduction of each relief bill the last two years, some members of Congress have demanded a count of the unemployed. The Senate in June rejected a proposal by Senators Lodge, Republican, of Massachusetts, and Bridges, Republican, of New Hamp- shire, for a $20,000,000 census. A short time later, administration leaders said privately they would not oppose the Black bill. It passed the Senate when sponsors of similar bills withheld their objections. VAN ORSDEL FUNERAL IS TO BE HELD TODAY Rites Scheduled for 4 P.M. Massachusetts—Burial in Nebraska. Funeral services for Justice Josiah A. Van Orsdel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District were to be held at 4 p.m. today in Great Barrington, Mass,, at the home of Mrs. Margaret Zimerele of Washing- ton, with whom the Justice and Mrs. Van Orsdel were visiting when he was stricken with a heart ailment three weeks ago. The jurist died Saturday at 76 After the funeral rites, the body will be taken to Blue Springs, Nebr., Mrs. Van Orsdel's old home; for burial. in Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Debates Bonneville Dam bill. Finance Committee considers sugar legislation. Wheeler Committee opens inquiry into financial history of Virginian Railroad. Special committee studied Govern- ment reorganization bill. House: Considers District legislation. ‘Ways and Means Committee begins hearings on bill to plug tax loopholes. Banking Committee studies housing bill. TOMORROW. Senate: Program uncertain. District Committee considers mis- cellaneous bills, 2:30 p.m. House: Program uncertain. Banking and Currency Committee resumes consideration of Housing bill, 10:30 a.m. Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee considers bill authorizing loans for construction of floating prop- Massachusetts and Connecticut. L3 erty, '0 am. ‘| mer White House by Ed census | ROOSEVELT SEES BRONX CHIEFTAIN Possibility of Influence in New York Mayoralty Speculated Upon. BACKGROUND— Fiorello H. La Guardia elected Mayor of New York in 1933 om fusion ticket after Tammany pow= er swflered setback in internal fight after resignation of James J. Walker in 1932. La Guardig in- tends to seek re-election and Sen- ator Copeland accepted bid of ons Tammany group to become candi- date for mayoralty. Grover Whalen, originally included in race for Democratic nomination, has retired. By the Associaled Pres HYDE PARK, N. Y., Auz Whether President Roose come a behind-the-scen in the fas oralty con! conjecture here today among political ob after & visit to the & Democratic leader of the Bronx. Silent on Reason for Call. The dapper Bronx chieftain and New York secretary of State was an unannounced guest at the Roosevels estate yesterday. While presidential aides insisted there was no political significance in e Visit, some obs ers of the New York C on contended the fact that | not offici | velopmen note. Flynn was not disclosed as a Roose | velt luncheon guest until he appeared |in an automobile with the President during an inspection of tvpes of stone for a Poughkeepsie post office would not d 1e call was a de- an casual 1ced was call The Bro chieftains York boroughs outside where Tam n Jeremiah T. Ma former State | supreme Court justice, for the Dem- ocratic nomination is believed to have the in Natiopal Chairman James A. Farler, Tammany Backing Copeland. Tamm: 1ator Roval | 8. Copeland i Dealer with Mayor La Guardia, fusionist with the American labor party support also may figure in the battle for t Republican nomination Whether he would a end the Dem- ocratic senatorial “harm d | tomorrow night in Washington t given for Maj Leader Barkley, | was uncertain, the President told a press conference at his home yester- so said he had not made would not d» morning. SCORED BY COPELAND. Personal Dictatorship Charged In Mayoralty Influence. Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, commenting today on & I that President Roosevel himself into the New | Y campaign, said, “At t ted States personal dictator it not political dictator : Aroused published i thrown “t | hrown |men t more in five mi ocratic harmo in a ger |Island picnics a: Tuterference Jefferson peace dinner: Undemocratic Copeland added that e President had t to that support | former justice, we is gratuitous and ur “Franklin D. Roosev Jeren | voter in New York C | York Senator. who ed | mayor, asse | ested in what h be. But wh Roose- | velt attempt to Demo- crats of my city w d do?” Talking informal 10 newsp r men, Copeland a. ed the P was actually for re-election of May La Guardia, He said La Guardia was the candidate of the Commun the Socialists, the radicals and labor, and “it's the same group that is back of the President.” Won't Hurt La Guardia. “The President,” he added, | going to do any Guardia. If the Whi would be a weak candidate ag La Guardia it would support me.” At the same time, Copeland suz- gested that if there was White House opposition to him it was based on 1 fight against the Roosevelt c “They talk about prisal; he said there will be reprisals us who opposed the President’s plan will be proceeded against. You have got to be 100 per cent for the Presi- dent or he is against you." Coveland expressed confidence, that his court bill stand t hurt him in the mayoralty campaign. Pointing to big envelopes in his closet, he said they contained 100,000 letters against the court bill from New Yorkers and only 4,000 for it “Who Is Flynn,” Says Copeland. Copeland commented on a pub- lished report that the President had tacitly thrown his support to Ma- honey. The President conferred yes- terday with Edward J. Flynn, Dem- ocratic leader in the Bronx, who is supporting Mahoney. “By the way, who is this E d | J. Flynn mentioned in the dispatch?” Copeland asked. “He is the same so- called political leader who corrals the office of secretary of state of New York at $12,000 per year and the com- missionership of the world's fair at $10.000. Hence he has a total of $22,000 income from appointive posi- tions, and I have no personal knowl- edge of what service his law firm may be rendering public or semi-public in- stitutions.” o Report Tobacco Sales. ATLANTA, August 9 (#)—The State Department of Agriculture has announced reports from 46 of 56 warehouses in the Georgia tobacco belt showed unofficially 25,071,723 pounds sold last week at an indicated average of around 25 cents a pound. This gave a cash total of approxi- mately $6,267,930. 4