Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy, possibly local showers and, thundershowers tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; gentle Temperatures today—Highest, 86, winds. at 2 pm.; lowest, 75, at Full report on page A- Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 18 6am. 19. ch 85th YIEAR. No. 34,070. Entered as second class matter post. effice, Washington, D. C. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST - FEAR OF FASCIST IN BRAZIL IS HEL BEHIND SHIP LOAN Possible Revolution Spurred Country to Ask U. S. Aid, Is Theory. PLANS ARE SPEEDED TO REPEL “INVADERS” Attack by Any European Power Believed Remote, However, by Observers Here. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. Fear of a possible Fascist-tinged revolution is believed in well-informed iplomatic quarters to be the funda- ental reason why the Brazilian gov- jernment has asked the United States | for the lease of six destroyers which are no longer in commission with the fleet. The Brazilians supported their re- quest with these two reasons (1) The Brazilian government is endeavoring to rejuvenate its obsoles- cent fleet. It has placed orders for construction of several units in its own navy vards and has asked for bids from foreign countries. Pending completion of the warships, the Bra- eilian Navy Department indicated it wanted the personnel of its future warships to be fully trained at the time when the new destroyers are commissioned. Hence the need for the American over-age units 2. There are apprehensions that in these days, when international agree- ments are treated like foot balls, some of the nations which are in need of raw materials which exist in large quantities in the South American re- public might be induced to invade Brazil. The example set by Italy and Japan in recent years is not an encouraging factor for nations which are rich and lack the necessary national defense Consequently, the Brazilian govern- ment, it is said, intends to build up its naval forces 5o as to be able to repe a foreign invasion until such tim. that the other nations interested in the Monroe doctrine are able to rush to her rescue. Attack Is Doubted. While the first point of argument is considered adequate and logical, there are doubts regarding the fears of Brazil of being attacked and con- quered by any of the “have-not” powers. It nds mest implausible that Germany, with a comparatively #mall fleet, or Italv or Japan will risk to send their naval units thousands of miles across the ocean, far from any naval bases, to execute a landing in a territory with a large popula- tion. But while open warfare is not con- ceivable, there are strong reasons to believe that the Fascist ideas and propaganda have made deep inroads in Brazilian politics The govern- ment is worried lest at the next presidential elections there should be a distinct tendency toward fascism Buch a movement would be accom- panied by the usual violent outbreaks which characterize the introduction of a totalitarian regime in a demo- cratic country. Chairman Pittman said today he would call a special meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee tomorrow to consider the legislation authorizing leasing of destroyers to American republics. Pittman said that, although the proposed resolution would not restrict the use of the destroyers, terms the Government would insert in any lease | would prohibit their use for combat purposes. « The President, Pittman said, would require a “recapture clause” whereby the destroyers would be reclaimed if used against any other government Pittman emphasized that Brazil wanted the warcraft only for “train- ing purposes.” Eagerness Over Spanish Wa It was pointed out by observer: that the Spanish Civil W s followed throughout the South American con- tinent with an eagerness unknown in this country. With the Brazilians and Argentinians, it is not a matter of following the news end of the con- flict. They are interested in the political fight which has brought about the civil war in Spain, and ac- oording to reports from the various South American capitals, the number of the pro-Fascists exceeds by far that of the sympathizers Loyalist government. In Brazil, where the affiliations with Portugal are very strong., public opinion is reported to be overwhelm- (See BRAZIL, Page A-6.) AL JOLSON ENDANGERED AS BOTTLE IS HURLED Ruby Keeler in Peril, Too, and Chico Marx Slightly Cut in Affair at Prize Fight. By the Assostated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 11.—Police jailed Theodore Watts, 26, early to- | day on suspicion of throwing an empty liquor bottle that endangered Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler and slightly cut Chico Marx when it splintered against the Olympic Auditorium boxing ring. The bottle crashed over the heads of ringsiders in the seventh round of | the main event, between George God- frey, colored heavyweight, of Leiper- ville, Pa., and Hank Hankinson, Ak- ron, Ohio. Referee Max Baer stopped the fight while officers searched the balcony. Visibly shaken, Jolson clapped on his straw hat, while Miss Keeler, his wife, brushed glass off her dress. They left immediately, but the piano-play- ing Marx brother and Mrs. Marx stayed for the fight. Marx suffered a slight scratch on his arm. Refreshed by the 2-minute rest, Hankinson made short work of God- frey. The 265-pound colored man went down for nine in the eighth and his seconds threw in the towel. Hank- inson weighed 215. with the | D. C. School En Stands on Roof 2 Hours [ Before Somersaulting ‘ to Ground. A 48-year-old public school steam engineer, despondent over financial matters, somersaulted 20 feet to his death today after refusing to heed the pleas of his 14-year-old stepson as he stood on a roof outside the boy's bed room. The man, Charles Givaudan, father of three other children—one born only | last Friday—stood on the roof over the kitchen of his home, at 1232 Mon- | tello avenue northeast, for almost two | | hours, neighbors said. | The boy, Paul, saw his stepfather outside his window when he awoke | The man talked with him for almost | a quarter of an hour, Paul said, bab- | bling incoherently at times, before | diving to the ground. His body turned | |a complete somersault, striking the ground head-on. | | _Two of his children, Dorothy, 10, and | Charlotte, 11, were asleep in another | bed room at the front of the home. | | They were not awakened immediately, | the stepson asking that they not be told of their father’s death until later Paul pleaded with his stepfather al- most 10 minutes, then went downstairs | and out to a neighbor’s house to sum- mon police. Returning to the room | he found Givaudan sull standing on the roof. | "I couldn't understand much what he was talking about,” Paul said. “I | kept telling him to come back in the | room. but he didn't seem to hear me." | Just as Policemen R. W. Smith and H. M. Hilldrut stepped into the youth's | bed room they saw the man leap, } they said. A Casualty Hospital ambu- | lance was called. but Givaudan was | | dead when it arrived | Givaudan's wife Margaiet, 41, gave birth to her fourth child last Priday. She is still in Gallinger Hospital gineer Leaps To Death as Stepson Pleads | i i | | PAUL GIVAUDAN. | —Star Staff Photo. | Paul. & son by a former marriage had taken his stepfather’s name Paul told police his father seemed to think at times that “some people | were after him.” A neighbor said the older da ter, Charlotte, told her recently that | her father had been worrying about money and had said he didn't know how he was going to buy clothes fo the new baby. ends at the Webster School Tenth and H streets. where he had been emploved since September, 1934 said Givaudan had been “worrying about something” for almost a year. He always had been a faithful worker, they said Mrs. Harold J. Monahan, another neighbor, took Paul to her home and | told police she would take the girls | there when they awoke Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald said he would issue a certificate of | suicide. i STRANSKY CHILD WITH HER FATHER ‘ 7 . Parent's Lawyer Reports Group Was Accused of Con- Little Girl, Taken From | Mother, Is Safe. ‘ | (Picture on Page B-1.) | A battle for custody of their 6-year- old daughter, begun a year ago in | Singapore, was climaxed yesterday aft- ernoon when Dr. Pavel Stransky, dis- tinguished Czeghoslovakian diplomat went unannounced to East Falls Church, Va., home of his estranged wife, Mrs. Anna Henry Stransky, and drove off with the child. | Dr. Stransky's attorney, James R. Murphy, reported to the Missing Per- | sons Bureau of the Washington Pol Department that the girl, Mary Pey- ton Stransky, is in the custody of her father, well taken care of and safe. Murphy declined to say whether the plomat had left Washington with her After the girl was spirited away from the home of her grandfather. Rev. J. B. Henry. retired Methodist minister, her mother went to Minister Vladimir Hurban of Czechoslovakia and asked his assistance in regaining custody of the child. The diplomat informed Mrs. Stran- sky that if Dr. Stransky was in Wash- ington, he came in an unofficial ca- | pacity and did not announce his pre ence to the legation. Dr. Stransky | 1s in this country in the course of his | transfer from Singapore to his native city, Prague. Mrs. Stransky, who returned from Singapore with her daughter about a vear ago, has petitioned the Arlington County Circuit Court for Mary's custody. The petition was contested | by the father, and the case will be brought up at the Fall term of the court. | The mother, who is employed as an | assistant in the office of Dr. Charles | | F. Kincheloe of Falls Church, was | away at work, she said, when two | automobiles turned into the driveway | and stopped in front of her grand- father's home, where the child was | Playing in the yard. Mrs. Stransky said the only witness | was her brother, Province Henry, about who had never seen Dr. Stransk: The brother said the front car con- | | tained two men wearing dark glasses, | while the other machine was occupied by only one man. Child Held Taken Forcibly. Henry had supposed the men stopped to ask directions until one of them | suddenly leaped from the front ma- chine, seized the child, placed her in the machine and sped away. Mrs. Stransky said her daughter kicked and screamed as she was carried away. | Murphy. however, said he was as- | sured by the father that his daughter | voluntarily entered his car and ac- companied him after he called to her. Murphy said Mrs. Stransky left Singa- pore with the girl while her husband was out of the city on official business. The attorney for the husband said he was hopeful of effecting a recon- ciliation between the estranged couple. Mrs. Stransky, however, laughed at the possibility of a “reconciliation.” She said the matter was in the hands of her attorneys and she was confi- dent they would win the immediate return of her daughter. Murphy said he did not know Whether the father planned to take the child out of the United States prior to settlement of the custody | petition in court. The attorney | would not reveal Dr. Stransky's pres- | ent whereabouts. The couple was married about 10 years ago while Dr. Stransky was first secretary of the legation here. Later, the diplomat was assigned to Singa- pore as consul. $65,000 in Lumber . Burned. WILLOW GROVE, Pa., August 11 (#)—Fire swept through a lumber yvard of the Dyre Moyer Coal & Lumber Co. today, causing damage estimated by firemen at $65,000. Two ' firemen were slightly injured. | Comics _ SOVIET EXEQUTES | T2 RAIL WRECKERS niving With Japanese | Secret Service. | HOUSE COMMITTEE THWARTS ACTION ON PAY-HOUR BILL 0’Connor Calls Off Meeting. Lever to Enact Farm Legislation Seen. LEADER CLAIMS VOTES LACKING FOR APPROVAL Test of Strength Is Expected in Getting Measure to Floor at Once. BACKGROUND— The wage-and-hour bill, most im- portant item on administration’s legislative calendar, has been passed by Senate and is awaiting House action. Amendments adopt- ed by House Labor Commattee may cause delay in final enactment. Bill as now written authorizes firing in certain industries of minimum wage higher than 40 cents per hour and work week of not less than 40 hours. By the Associated Press. Stubborn opposition blocked the administration’s wage-hour bill, at least temporarily, today in the House Ruiles Committee Plans to clear the way for debating the measure tomorrow were side- tracked unexpectedly when Chair- man O’'Connor announced without ex- mittee had been called off There were strong indications decision tempts to work out some sort of set- the t tion situation Some Rules Committee members have announced v would try to keep a wage-and-hour bill from the House floor until they had assurances a farm bill would be enacted Following announcement the postponement, one administration leader told reporters that proponents of | of the bill simply did not have at the time enough committee votes to get the wage-hour measure to the floor Compromise Seen. President Roosevelt has made au- thorization of crop loans dependent on | enactment of a crop-control law. One BACKGROUND— Wholesale erecutions have been carried eut by Soviet Government during last year in purge of ail departments. High Government of- ficials, ranking army generals and many minor chieftains have been mowed down by firing squads. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, August 11.—The execu- tion of 72 alleged Far Eastern Railroad wreckers accused of conniving with the Japanese secret service was re- | ported today by the Irkutsk newspaper East Siberia Pravda.” The executions followed others in series, but the group was one of the largest to be execuied in Soviet Rus- sia’s far-flung Siberian purge Now the total of known executions in this Far Eastern campaign to root out spies and wreckers is 320 The Irkutsk band was described as | made up of Trotskyist, Rightist ter- rorists who wrecked trains along the Siberian Railway at the behest of the Japanese intelligence service, thus weakening Soviet transportation in the case of war with Japan. They were charged with causing | one wreck in which 14 persons Were' killed and many injured. The victims were workers and their families, en | | Toute to settle the new town of Kom- | somol, =l 3 =5 Man, 74, Sues Bride, 35. MACON, Ga., August 11 (#).—R. T.| Perry, 74, filed a petition for divorce | against his 3 stating he is “to old to stand the cruel treatment of his wife,” whom he mar- said there was vault space enough to | ried May 19. | Summary of Page. Page. B-16-17 | Radio B-6 ___B-18 | Serial Story B-11 Editoriais _ A-10| Short Story A-9| Finance . A-17| Sports _ A-14-16] Lost & Found B-11 | Society B-3| Obituary __ A-12| Woman's Pg. B-10 Drama FOREIGN. \l Japanese warships choke Whangpoo River at Shanghai. Page A-1 Soviet executes 72 railway wreckers in | purge. Page A-1 Zionists vote to negotiate with Britain on Palestine. Page A-3 NATIONAL. Rail unions and company heads in1 wage parley. Page A-1 Reorganization program dead this ses- sion, Byrnes says. Page A-2 Hint of Fall session seen in Roosevelt farm loan comment. Page A-2 President’s voice missing from chorus of harmony pledges. Page A-3 Coal freight rate cut would bankrupt railroads, says Young. Page A-4 This promises to be big year for com- ets; seven seen already. Page A-5 Committee O. K.’s bill to give President reorganization power. Page A-2 Accused teacher denies teaching evo- lution. Page B-8| WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. D. C. crippled children denied security! benefits due them. Page A-1 Man plunges headlong to death as step- son pleads ‘with him. Page A-1 Committee recommends reinstatement of Cole as policeman. Page A-2 Zoo receives seven rare dwarf kangaroo rats, all tame. Page A-T Five local bills to be reporcea favor- ably to Senate. Page A-5 D. C. Guardsmen observe regimental day ceremonies. Page A-9 Western Maryland combed for trio of Brady gangsters. Page A-6 Seven prisoners in Cecil Jail saw locks and escape. Page A-12 ’ | the wage-hour biil unless farm legis- | lation goes through this s group in Congress wants 1o pass action on such a law over until next session. Another, of farm State members, as threatened to fight for delay in ssion. One leader indicated a compromise was in the wind. ILending strength to that idea was the fact that Charles ‘West, liaison man between the White House and Capitol Hill, called on House leaders early this morning. Afterward Speaker Bankhead and Majority Leader Rayburn talked with O'Connor. The announcement of can- cellation of the Rules Committee meet- ing followed Some Congressmen said if the wage- and-hour legislation was held a while in the Rules Committee there would be opportunity for evolving some farm plan as well as for attempts to swing more committee votes into line behind the labor standards b: Test of Strength . There was no immediate indication how long the meeting would be de- layed. House leaders realized they faced a test of strength in the com- mittee vote on getting the wage-hou: een. | bill to the floor immediately. Some Southern members of the (See CONGRESS, Page A-4.) 50 BODIES IN VAULTS City Space Will Month More in Strike, KANSAS CITY, Mo.. August 11 (#) —Fifty bodies have been placed in re- Kansas Last ear-old bride yesterday, | ceiving vaults here since grave diggers | struck last Thursday. Undertake: last four weeks more if necessary. Today’s ‘Star ' Girl, 20 months old, killed by truck as | mother watches. Page B-1 Four boys, 17, indicted in three recent strong-arm robberies. Page B-1 King plans parley with McCarran on slaughter house bill. Page B-1 SPORTS. Griffs’ outlook dark, despite twin win over A's. lement of the crop loan-farm legisla- | | planation that a meeting of the com- | | blueja | | Page A-14 | Harry Saunders regains District horse- | shoe title. Page A-14 D. C. fans held willing to pay for | top tennis. Page A-15 Weight-for-age races rated turf’s big- | gest need. Page A-15 Four D. C. pro golfers plan Winter circuit tour. Page A-16 FINANCIAL. Bonds uneven (table). Power output gains. Page A- Steel backlogs drop. Page A- Stocks mixed and quiet (table). Page A-18 Page A-19 Page A-19 Page A-17 17 17 Curb list narrow (table). Earnings improve. EDITORIALS AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 This and That. Page A-10 Questions and Answers. Page A-10 ‘Washington Observations. Page A-10 David Lawrence. Page A-1] H. R. Baukhage. Page A-11 Dorothy Thompson. Page A-11 Constantine Brown. Page A-11 Lemuel Porton. Page A-11 MISCELLANY. ashington Wayside. Shipping News. Vital Statistics. Traffic Convictions. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell, Nature’s Children. Cross-word Puzzle. Bedtime Stories. Letter-Out. Winning Contract. Men's Fashions. Page Page Page Page Page B-10 Page B-10 Page B-11 Page B-16 Page B-16 Page B-17 Page B-17 Page B-§ A-2 A-6 B-6 B-6 i, J 1937—THIRTY-EIGH ¢ Foening Star PAGES. #x¥ Associate Yesterday’s (Some retw The only evening in Washington wit aper the d Press News and Wirephoto Services. Circulation, 135,885 rns not yeu received.) (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. AND IVE UST BEGUN To FIGHT! W il vy ! N | | it g m o { JAPAN'S WARSHIP CHOKE WHANGPOO Reported Waiting Beyond Woosung Forts. BACKGROUND— Fighting between Japanese and Chinese troops which raged first at Peiping, then at Tientsin, now cen- ters around Naknow, beyond the Great Wall, 30 miles northwest of Peiping, where a Japanese detach- ment was annihilated yesterday Meanwhile Japanese reinjorce- ments are being rushed, while the ranguard of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s Nanking army 1s report- ed near Peiping. Peace is scen further compromised by slaying of Japanese naval officer and a sailor at Shanghai Airport. By the Associated Press SHANGHAL August 11 -—Japan choked Shanghai’s Whangpoo River with & score of warships, scattered others to the mouth of the Yangtze and poured between 500 and 1000 ekts into this city in the new- est Sino-Japanese War crisis tonight Two aircraft carriers, said uncon- firmed reports, were waiting bevond the Woosung forts, which lie at the confluence of the Whangpoo and Yangtze. Japanese naval authorities said events that were brought to a head by the Hungjao Airport slaying of & Japanese naval commander and his driver “mean that Japan's Navy ef- fectives in China must be increased!” Advance elements of Japan's first fleet, 12 destroyers and three light cruisers led the way to Shanghai. Count 20 Men o’ War. Those were the total of today's ar- rivals, sald the Japanese, but foreign port authorities tallied 20 Japanese | men o war—15 destroyers and 5 light cruisers—jammed along the Shanghai 15 water front. The Japanese were tight-lipped about the report that the airplane car- riers, with their broods of warbirds tucked safely aboard, were also some- where off Woosung. They acknowledged the Japanese | garrison here had been reinforced by 500 bluejackets from the nmew ships. Other sources said these totaled 1,000, The ships which rushed to Shanghai today were said to have steamed under forced draft at a speed of 35 knots from the Japanese naval base on Kyushu Island, one of the the main islands of Japan See Threat to Residents. Rear Admiral Rokuzo Sugiyama, third fleet chief of staff, declared the increase in Japanese naval forces at Shanghai did not indicate a change in Japan's “judicious, calm” attitude toward the crisis. “Recent events at Shanghai, how- | ever, constitute a threat to Japanese residents,” he said. The Japanese officer and seaman slain at the airport were awarded posthumous promotion in rank. Chinese and Japanese continued a crossfire of accusations on responsi- bility for the incident, and no im- mediate diplomatic settlement was in sight. Japanese consular officers cautioned Japanese residents to “maintain a calm attitude while authorities seek a settlement.” Consuls of other nations asked beth Chinese and Japanese to prevent a spread of hostilities, but neither rac- tion replied. Nankow in Flames. TOKIO, August 11 (#).—Flames lighted ramparts of the Great Wall of China, Japanese dispatches said to- night, after a Sino-Japanese battle at ancient Nankow Pass, which re- sulted in a rout for troops of China's Central Army. Heavy Japanese artillery bombard- ment set Nankow City afire, said the advices. g (Domei — Japanese — news agency, advices also told of the battle and the firing of Nankow City, with Japanese occupying positions in the environs, but said Chinese were holding stub- (See CHINA, Page A-5.) BRI AR e Mother Joins Children in Death. LAWRENCE, Mass, August 11 (#). —Mrs. Isabella Diblas, 32-year-old divorcee. who had been unconscious since found Monday morning with the lifeless bodies of her three children in their gas-filled home, died today an hour before the scheduled time of the children's funerals. Area in Idaho | A Mile Square || Starts Sinking By the Associated Press. BUHL Idaho, August 11.—Almost was intertwined with at-| TWo Aircraft Carriers Are | before eves of watchers, a land area | approximately one mile square is sink- | ing away. Farmers in the area eight | | miles from here are hastily harvest- | | ing crops. | | “I cut grain in the new valley all dav. at times within six paces of the edge where fissures several feet wide were opening. and you could actually see the land sinking,” said Farmer H A. Robertson, One 10-acre cornfield has dropped 200 feet within the last two weeks, a neighbor said | Horton B. Abell, geologist, studied | the area today. 'HOMESTEAD STRIKE | PEACE IS REPORTED West Virginia Communities De- i1e to Present “United Front” in Dispute. he Associated Press ELKINS, W. Va, August 11.—Both | sides of the inner-community conflict which developed in conjunction With the strike at the Tygart Valley home- steads “buried the hatchet” today and | awaited word from Washington to re- store homestead operations to nor- | malcy. | | L. O. Baker, secretary of the home- stead association which called off its two-week-old strike, and C. I Heck ert, secretary of the non-strike group, wired Milo Perkins, acting Fed- | eral resettlement administrator, that | “united we stand.” | Perkins had urged both groups to | settle thelr differences and present “a united homestead front” before agree- ing to resume construction of 24 new | houses on the homesteads which was | halted by the strike called to protest | | “inefficiency and waste” by the Re- settlement Administration. Heckert's group demanded yester- | day that Robert Z. Willson, outspoken leader of the strikers, be asked to leave the community. DR. MANN STARTS BACK FROM INDIES S. S. Silverash Transformed Into Latter-Day Noah's Ark, Is Word | From Zoo Director. ‘With a veritable “Noah's Ark"” load | of rare animals, birds and reptiles, Dr. William M. Mann and his companions on a collecting expedition have sailed | for home from Medan. Sumatra, on | the other side of the world, aboard the | s. 8. silverash The National Geographic Society, | which, with the Smithsonian Institu- tion, sponsored the expedition, an- | nounced that the ship should dock at Baltimore late in September after a voyage via the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. No list of the many animals was available, but Dr. Mann | promised some ‘“surprises” for Zoo | fans when he arrives here. | | Dr Mann is accompanied by Mrs | Mann, Dr. Maynard Owen William:. | Geographic staff representative; Mal- | colm Davis, keeper of the Zoo bird house, and Roy Jennier, keeper of the reptile house. By | | Representative Sacks, | just NEAR-RIOT FLARE ATD. C. HEARIN Attorney Holzworth Ejected by Police After Hot Words Fly. A wild disturbance bordering on a riot marked a special meeting of House District Committee today as a result of efforts by John M. Holzworth attorney, had police during his who has several en- counters with the brief career in Washington, to make a speech against the wishes of the mem- bers Holzworth ed for a while to save Thomas Jordon slayer of Mrs Jaynes, from paying a penalty for the crime in the electric cha who fi in efforts convicted was forcibly ejected from the committee | room by Capt. Jeremiah A. Sullivan of the fourth precinct, before order was restored. A few minutes after the committee convened Holzworth arose from a front seat and started to speak. Chair- | man Palmisano advised him the meet- ing had been called for a specific pur- pose and that anything he had to say would be taken up under ‘new busi- ness.” Hot Words Fly. new business, shouted “I want to talk about a has been before your “It isn't Holzworth matter that | committee for two and a half months.” Palmisano ordered his secretary to get a policeman to “throw” Holzworth out. “You're nothing but a fixer and a go- between, and you have been ever since you've been chairman of this commit- tee,” barked Holzworth. Holzworth continued his tirade and Democrat, of lvania screamed for ‘“regular A moment later Representa- tive Arnold, Democrat, of joined in the demand for order.” “Throw him ou “He's a faker You have given that man an opportunity to appear before the committee.” “You're a faker yourself,” replied Holzworth. Direct and Flank Attacks. Arnold leaped from h chair. “Come on, let's take him o he shouted as he started in the direction of Holzworth. Sacks and Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal simultaneously advanced also. By that time Capt. Sullivan, who had left the committee room after appearing as a witness before a special subcommittee of the District Commit- tee, returned at the request of Palmi- sano’s secretary, pinned one arm be- hind the shouting lawyer and led him from the room. Capt. Sullivan escorted Holzworth to the elevator in the House Office Building and warned, “Now get out and don't come back, big boy. They don't want you in there.” At one point during the hubbub Holzworth invited the committee mem- bers to “come outside and settle it.”” Holzworth was arrested on the Cap- “regular said Arnold itol steps last week for displaying a | banner. He is scheduled to appear in Police Court this afternoon to answer this charge. Several months ago he was forcibly | ejected from District Court. Maryland Road tion of the unsuspecting Maryland | State Roads Commission, Frederick County farmers yesterday “unveiled” a huge signboard in honor of Mary land's most famous bad road, accord- ing to an Associated Press dispatch. At the most conspicuous point along | the Georgetown pike, between Fred- erick and Urbana, the Farm Neigh- bors’ League has erected a huge sign urging motorists to: | “See America’s most famous bad | road, the road that Gov. Nice promised | the farmers March 11, 1937, to be re- built at once. “See ‘Dynamite Bend’ where an auto was blasted from frozen mire— five miles south—40 minutes from the Nation's proud capital.” Charles L. White, secretary of the league, organized several months ago | to negotiate for & new road, explained that the State Roads Commission is- | 4 Board Permits Sign Honoring Noted Mud Hole | With the full but unwitting sanc-)sued the permit to erect this sign— bert L. Rawding came home yester- before reading the wording of it. White promised that the wording would be changed at intervals until the road is repaired. Eventually it may read: “Visit Maryland—the best cooking and the worst roads in the world.” The Urbana-Thurston road, about a mile long, is in the Sugar Loaf Mountain district of Frederick County and will be impassable this Winter as it was last unless it is repaired, White declared. The motorist who furnished the inspiration for the curve to be known henceforth as “Dynamite Bend,” worked for hours attempting to free it from a mud hole before taking up a collection from drivers of cars lined up behind nim. He bought several sticks of dynamite to blast out his stalled machine. He sueceeded in blasting it out, but also wrecked it. ) Elizabeth | Tllinois | should never D. C. Organization Delay | Holds Up Benefits for | Unfortunates. 'PROGRAM IS EXPECTED IN EFFECT THIS FALL Funds to Help About 1.000 Can Be Nearly Doubled With Federal Money. Crippled children in the District have been denied benefits due them from Federal social security funds for nearly 18 months because of delays in organizing a local program to share in the Federal grants, it was disclosed today Sidetracked after it was all set to g0 into operation more than a year ago, the District-Federal program now s of the Health Depart- 10pes to put it into ef- Assistant Health Officer Daniel id the program would 1 facilities and hods of care rippled children t health as possible estimated there are 1,000 crippled children in the District who might benefit by the program. The District already spending about $28.000 a year on their behalf, he said. This can be nearl doubled by qualifying 1o share in the Federdl funds 966 Apportioned to D. C. the Children's Bureau tment of Labor, which sters Federal aid for crippled en under the social security act show that a total of $27.966.74 was apportioned to the I but not 1g the 1936 and 1937 fiscal vailable, but can- g of Dis- -for-dol- allotted to fiscal year, 9 available L. | other “most designed me to Dr. Secki approximately lar. Another $24,136.05 the District for the 19 making a total of $52 in Federal grants. To make use of the Federal money, the District must set up a program for aid to crippled children that meets re- irements of the social security act and the Children's Bureau Then, Whatever money of its own the local government spends on this program will be matched by Federal grants, Wwithin stipulated limits Numerous reasons, mostly involving the “red tape” of governmental organ- izations, account for the delay in get- ting an approved program actually rles W. Pimper, president of the Crippled Children Society, which spon- sors an independent movement to aid :[hP afflicted c¢ iren, said that it ap- peared to be “just one of those things." Wwith 10 person to blame. “But I hope they can get going soon,” he added, | “for the sooner these youngsters can get the proper treatment the more chance there is for improvemnt.” First Efforts in 1935, First efforts to develop a local pro- gram for sharing in the Federal grants for the aid of crippled chil dren began shortly after the social security act was passed, on August 14, 1935, The Health Department was designated the administrative agency and spent several months working on plans. Then technical obstacles arose to administration by the Health Depart- ment. It was discovered that under its direction at that time the local am could obtain only $4.000 of » Federal fund annu s was because the Healtn De- ment spending only that amount directly for aiding crippled children—on maintaining treatment rooms and two physio-thera at the Weightman School in co-opera- tion with the School Board. Most of the District fu for the benefit of crippled children— some $25,000 anually—went for serv- ices at Gallinger and Children’s Hos- pitals and the Tuberculosis Sa | tarium, which were administered by the Public Welfare Board And, | under | was nds going the Federal regulations, the Health Department could not claim | credit for these expenditures for matching purposes. | As a result, the Commissioners transferred the proposed crippled children’s program to the Public Wel- fare Board almost at the sama time |as the Children's Bureau began, on | February 1, 1936, to pay out Federal | grants to States that were ready to | co-operate. Paul L. Kirby, assistant director of public welfare, said it took considerable time to work out details of a plan | 7 (See CHILDREN, Page A-5) | 'SKIPPER DENIES CHARGE CREW LACKED FOOD Sailor Asserts Water Was Ra- tioned, Provisions Ran Out Quickly. By the Associated Press VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass, August 11.—The four-masted schooner Her- |day at the end of a towline, with captain and crew members disagree- ing over whether there had been a | food shortage during the 29-day voy- | age from Newcastle, New Brunswick. Seaman Joseph Henry of New Bed- ford, taken to Marine Hospital for |a stomach ailment, said water had been rationed out at two drinks daily | for several days, while thermometers were close to 100. He said provisions ran out early because the steward had | provided for only a 12-day trip. | Robert W. Rickson of Malden. cap- tain, asserted the vessel earried enough water and staple provisions for six months. He said she was |held up by winds in the Straits of | Canso, and on August 1 ran into & | gale off Cape Sable which disabled her rudder. The Coast Guard cutter Algonquin took her in tow 120 miles ! east of Cape Cod. ¢