Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1937, Page 5

. ARMY-NAVY UNION BOOSTS AVIATION Asks 10,000 Planes and 100,000 Pilots—Con- vention Opens. Legislation designed to give the na- tional defense forces 10,000 planes and 100,000 pilots will be pushed at the forty-ninth annual convention of the Army and Navy Union of the United States, which opened today at the Willard Hotel The organization sponsored a pend- ing bill to carry out the program, and efforts to arouse general interest in the measure will be made at the con- vention. The union founded Aviation day, May 28. Another important topic under dis- eussion at the convention is the vari- ous phases of social security. Dunn, traveling representative of the Social Security Board, spoke at the opening session this morning More than 200 delegates, from every | Btate in the Union, representing a membership of 187.000, gathered for the meeting, which will last three days The delegates will discuss plans to establish a national headquarters in Washington. A national charter from Congress will be sought. The con- vention also plans to launch a mem- bership drive to enlist 12,000,000 eligi- bles in the organization The Army and Navy Union was or- Ranized in 1886 and is open to all men and women who have served or are serving in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard or National Guard ‘The national commander, Oakley Rookstool, is presiding over the con- vention, The delegates were welcomed to ‘Washington at the opening session by Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen. “We have demanded,” Comdr. Rook- #tool said in his opening address, “an air force of 10,000 planes and a re- serve of 100,000 trained pilots. We want no more of our men sent into front-line trenches without knowing how to shoot a gun. “We want our country to stop be- ing the good fellow of the world by helping other people while our own | starve to death. We want our com- rades who were disabled taken care of before those who fought against us are helped with our money.” In addition to a number of former Army nurses who are members, the convention drew a large delegation from the Ladies’ Auxiliary, which will hold separate sessions. o Children (Continued From First Page.) meeting the Federal requirements, but that a District program finally was approved by the Children's Bureau in June of last year. But then some members of the board wanted it re- vised slightly, delaying its actual oper- ation “During the Summer it was difficult for the board members to get together for final action,” Kirby recalled was authorized. Then we had to get the Commissioners’ approval and sub- | mit it to the Children's Bureau, going through all the machinery again.” Late in November of last year the second plan finally was approved by the Children’s Bureau. Then came the task of setting up the machinery to get it going. Job classifications had to be approved by the local Personnel Board, the Commissioners and the Civil Service Commission before anybody could be hired for the crippled chil- dren’s work. Before the organization was set up there came plans early this year for transferring the appropriations for the hospitals from the Public Welfare Board to the Health Department, and this threw another snag into the crip- pled children’s program Marked Time in Uncertainty. “There was no use trying to start the work,” Kirby said, “with another change in the offiing, so we marked time until the uncertainty was re- moved. We could not hire qualified persons for the work with no assur- ance of security in their jobs. We did transfer a girl in another position here to be director of the new program and she laid some of the groundwork, but eould go little further.” Transfer of the hospital appropria- tions to the Health Department finally was voted by Congress in passing the eurrent District appropriations act on | June 29 of this year. And on July 1 the crippled children's program went back to the Health Department, which must again go through all the ma- chinery of working out a detailed plan and getting it approved by the Commissioners and the Children's Bureau. Under the approved programs that never actually got under way, the District was paid a total of $6.250 in Federal grants. Most of this sum re- mains as a cash balance toward launching the projected new plan, Dr. Beckinger said. Dr. Seckinger said he hoped the program would be ready for operation within a month or six weeks, A elinic for crippled children probably Will be established at Gallinger Hos- pital, he said, where facilities for orthopedic treatment already are available. The physio-therapy pro- &ram at Weightman School probably Will be expanded, he added, and a stafl of medical-social workers em- ployed for following through the treatments in the homes of the chil- dren, Existing Agencies Used. “The program will be tied up with all existing agencies for the care of erippled children,” Dr. Seckinger em- phasized. “Our object is not to re- place, but to supplement the work that already is being done.” Under the social security act, the program must include “locating crip- pled children and providing for med- doal, surgical, corrective and other services and care, and facilities for diagnosis, hospitalization, and after- ocare for children who are crippled or who are suffering from conditions which lead to crippling.” ‘The Children’s Bureau explains that the aim “is to give every crippled child in need of care such services as will enable him to be put in the best possible physical condition and will help him find his place for service in the world’s work.” The bureau estimates that about six of every thousand persons under 21 .years old are crippled. Of each 100 crippled children, approximately. 24 were born that way, 11 had acci- dents, 10 had improper food or in- adequate sunlight when they were babies, and 55 were crippled as & result of disease, Three out of ten were crippled by infantile paralysis. A total of $2,679,283.66 in Federal grants has been distributed to the 45 8tates co-operating in the program, according to the last report, on June 4. ’ Frank | “and | it was September before a new plan | | | | | Institution. The comet is now small diffused object near the h tail, as shown in the photograph the diameter of the moon. The This promises to be a record year for comets | Three of these wanderers of space | now are chasing each other through the solar system | Seven have been observed alread: | with five more months to go. T | greatest number ever recorded was in | 1932, when 13 comets were seen Of the three now visible from the [earth, only one, Finsler's comet, can | be seen with the naked eve. It is of the sixth magnitude, barely observable without some sort of telescope. It will be at its brightest tonight and should be looked for about 9 o'clock in the neighborhood of the big dipper. A little farther to the west, just below the limits of naked-eye vision, |15 Whipple's comet. Three days ago | still another was observed coming | over the horizon. This was discovered {by Dr. Edwin P. Hubble, astronomer | of the Mount Wilson Observatory of | the carnegie tution of Washing- ton, and is known as Hubble's comet. One Comet Miscalculated. Of the seven recorded thus far, four have been new and unexpected sup- posedly h: g recently entered space of the solar system. Three had made their appearance many years | before, their orbits around the sun | calculated and their reappearance pre- {dicted. One, Daniel's comet, which ‘appeared in January, had been mis- ‘cslculatedv Some Japanese astron- omers detected what they thought was an error in the calculations, looked for the comet where it was scheduled | to appear a year later, and found it | Al three of the comets now in the | heavens are observed nightly through | the 40-inch telescope at the Naval Observatory. The observations are primarily to fix the exact positions of the | THE EVENING Finsler's comet, first seen by a Swiss astronomer early in July, was photographed by W. H. Christie with the 10-inch tele- scope of the Mount Wilson, Calif., observatory of the Carnegie visible to the unaided eye as a andle of the Great Dipper. The 1, s about 10 degrees, or 20 times many light streaks are star trails caused by the long exposure of two and one-half hours. —Wide World Photo. | the celestial obje so that their rate | of motion and direction can be deter- mined and the probable time of their reappearance predicted May Break 1932 Record. One other comet, the so-called Encke's comet, which last was seen about 40 years ago, is scheduled to return this Fall. From the rate new ones have been showing up, even the 1932 record may be broken before the end ot the year. There is an average of five comets a year, Naval Observatory astronomers say. Of these, one is bright enough usually to be seen with the naked eye, No reason can be attributed for the unusual number this year. Comet | vears long were regarded as years of | disaster the world over, and old rec- ords show continual successions of wars, famines and other catastrophes in vears when particularly bright ob- Jects of this sort were in the sky. In the big comet year of 1932 Amer- ica reached the depths of the depres- | sion. | Leonids Watched. | Scores of small telescopes were turned on the skies over Washington last night in search both of the comet and of the showers of Leonids, the August | shooting stars. The comet also drew a sizable gal- ‘lsry at the Naval Observatory, arous- ing 80 much interest among amateur astronomers that they made plans to organize a society. More than 100 persons viewed the flashing green streak through the 12-inch telescope. Washington's amateur astronomers “W'.II meet at 8 pm. Saturday at the observatory to discuss forming an | organization Stephen Nagy, | makes telescopes as a hobby, is lead- ing the movement . | BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, Associated Press Science Editor. PHILADELPHIA, August 11.—The | Perseid meteors, which Irish peasants called the “Tears of St. Lawrence,” | partly because they are shaped like | tear drops, will be seen by the hun- | dreds tonight 1in their annual “shower.” Away from city lights, and where skies are very clean, these meteors can be seen at rates of anywhere | from a dozen to 50 an hour after 10 |Pm. (E.S.T.) They are fast—40 miles | 2 second—so their streak of light across | the sky is seen only by the person | Who happens to be looking directly | upward before the meteor appears. | Astronomers want a million lay- |men to count these meteors by the | hour tonight. The counts should be | mailed to Prof. Charles P. Olivier of Flower Observatory, Upper Darby, Pa. This simple counting of meteors | may be an aid to solving one of the great mysteries, whether the universe is youthful and growing, or ancient and dying. Newton, from observing meteors, suggested that it is youth- ful, and that meteors are bits of mat- Astronomer Asks Laymen ' To Count Perseids : Tomght ter flving about to build new worlds. are fragments of worlds which have been destroyed. Counting them accurately and ob- serwing their directions has resulted in determination of the following facts to date: 1. Perseids are all size. 2. They travel in an elliptical orbit around the sun. grain-of -dust to make one circuit. long and “stands on its head” with reference to the earth: that is, they come down nearly perpendicularly to- ward the plane of the earth's orbit. 5. They seem to be a continuous stream, 15,000,000 miles wide, with a concentration near the center about 3,000,000 miles wide. 6. The earth cuts through this stream every Summer and has been doing so for more than 1,000 years. 7. Counting and observing the Per- seids gave astronomers their first definite evidence that meteors’ streams are somehow related to comets. It is suspected the streams are fragments of broken comets. China (Continued From First Page.) | bornly to some intrenchments in the | area.) : After sharp fighting with consider-~ able losses to both sides, the Chinese troops were reported to have fled northward, tearing up tracks of the Peiping-Suiyan Railroad as they went to hinder a Japanese advance. The railroad runs through Nankow. Troops of 89th Division. The Chinese troops were from the 89th Division of the Central Army. Other troops of that division were re- ported to be threatening an attack along the southwestern frontier of Jehol Province, about 150 miles north- east of Peiping. Flames from burning Nankow City, said the dispatches, threw the nearby Great Wall into sharp relief. The Japanese had advanced on the city early in the morning from a walled town. The pass, which overlooks the fa- mous Ming Tombs, is the place where Mongolian hordes in ancient times sought repeatedly to penetrate the Great Wall. It is also the gateway from the North China Province of Hopeh to the Mongolian Province of Chahar. Both Nanking and Japanese troops have been reported massing in the area since Japanese drove Chinese forces out of Peiping. But today's was the first report that units of the Chinese Central Army had partici- pated in & major combat. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese premier, and army som- ) mander, was said here to be com- pleting the movement of Chinese kow to Peiping and Pukow to Tientsin railroads. This movement has been going on since the first clash occurred on July 7 and was considered as evi- dence of his intention to recapture Peiping and Tientsin. Simultaneously, the generalissimo, described by foreign military experts as one of the greatest strategists in the orient, is moving a large force from the north along the Peiping-Suiyuan Railroad to strike the now extended Japanese Army in the rear and en- velop them in the vicinity of Peiping. Fear Bombing of Tokio, Japanese authorities were afraid that China would strike without warn- ing against Tokio with the powerful Chinese fleet of American-made tri- motored bombing planes. To offset this threat, construction of five new airdromes was ordered on the outskirts of Tokio. They re to be equipped with fast pursuit ships of the latest design, powerful anti-air- craft batteries and bombproof dugouts. Because of the hostilities 10,000 Chinese students and other Chinese residents have left Japan and 7,500 Chinese have returned to China from Korea, Japan's possession on the main- land. _— - William Tell Act Fatal. Trying to emulate William Tell, Istvan Debreczeni wagered at a rifie shoot at Mickole, Hungary, that he could hit an apple placed on the head of Jozsef Szollosis at 100 feet. De- breczeni took aim and fired. Szollosis fell to the ground fatally injured. De- breczeni was promptly arrested. ‘ STAR, WASHINGTON, P37 May Set Mark for Comets, With Seven Already Recorded who | The other interpretation is that they | 3. It takes them about 108 years| 4. Their orbit is billions of miles | FIGHT T0 DEPOSE GREEN FORESEEN Mov\ement to Unseat A. F. L. Head Seeks to Draft Woll in October Election. BY JOHN J. LEARY, Jr. For the first time since that drab November day in 1924 when he was made president of the American Fed- eration of Labor against his will, Wil- liam Green today faces the probabil- | ity of opposition to re-election in the October convention at Denver. How far the opposition to Green will go may be determined in At- lantic City late this month, when the Executive Council of the Federation meets to draft its annual report. Such meetings are always a ‘“gathering of the clans” where plans are made in smoke-filled rooms and votes lined up for conventions to follow. The opposition to Green rests on the charge that he has lacked aggres- siveness and has, at times, vacillated on legislation affecting labor. The opposition would like to draft Matthew Woll, vice president, over whom Green was designated by the Executive Council of the Federation after the death of Samuel Gompers. Woll Has Refused to Run. Woll for some time has been under | pressure to make the fight. Since his return from Europe a few days ago the pressure has been redoubled. Thus | far he has refused to permit the use | of his name. “Time was when I would have taken the position,” he told this writer “That, however, is not now. I have the affairs of the Union Labor Life In- surance Co., owned by labor men and labor unions, to consider. That obli- gation cannot be lightly disregarded Furthermore, I must consider my health.” His health, it may here be said, s good. He has, however, told intimates he is not at all sure he could stand up ander the strenuous organizing cam- paign he feels he should initiate were he elected. The pressure on Woll comes in tne main from a group that has been quietly working for months, to use the language of one leader, “'to get a presi- dent who will stay put and fight,”” and | it reflects much feeling in the ranks | of the skilled craftsmen who consti- tute the backbone of the federation. Opposition Under Cover. Mainly because of the C. I. O. fight the opposition to Green has been kept | under cover. Now, however, with the | slackening of interest in C. I. O. affairs, the opposition of Lewis is no longer an asset to Green. 4 More recently, the opposition to | Green has come into the open, with | J. W. Williams, president of the build- | ing trades department, and John P. | Prey, president of the metal trades | department, appearing before congres- | sional committees to oppose measures he has approved. Not so publicly. but | quite as effectively, representatives of union groups have worked in opposi- tion to him “on the hill.” Mainly, the chief specification against Green is that he has been too considerate of legislation favored by Secretary of Labor Perkins, rated in | federation circles as its enemy and the espeeially good friend of Lewis and his aide, Sidney Hillman. Also, there is the charge that, in the C. 1. O. fight, Green has lacked aggres- siveness, that he allowed the C. I. O. to get well under way before moving against it. Possibly as great a factor as any in the feeling against Green is the natural | accretion of enmities that no man in his position could avoid making in 13 years | (Copyright, 1837, by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) MOTHER-IN-LAW SLAIN LISBON, Ohio, August 11 (#).—John H Bordwardt, 23, was in Columbiana | County Jail here today awaiting ar- raignment in the shotgun killing of his former mother-in-law, Mrs. Wil- liam Cranston, 45, wife of a Sebring, ©Ohio, potter. Bordwardt was brought here last night from Alliance where he was ar- rested, and where Police Chief Harry L. Stark announced the lanky dairy hand had confessed shooting Mrs. Cranston, whom he blamed for break- ing up his marriage to her daughter Evelyn, 20. Mrs. Cranston was shot to death at midnight Monday as she lay reading in bed at the Cranston farm home 6 miles southeast of Alliance. GARMENT BILL 0. K.’D . The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee approved a bill today to permit the Federal Trade Commission to outlaw the misbranding of woven and knitted fabrics. The bill, introduced by Senator Cap- per, Republican, of Kansas, would re- quire labels to show the content of the goods. Hunters in Autos Chase Buffaloes Away From Tracks Animals Turn on Pursu- ers, But Are Routed by Blasts of Horns. CLAYTON, N. Mex., (#).—Authori- ties smiled when buffaloes were re- ported blocking the Colorado and Southern Railroad tracks. Then a State policeman spotted a buffalo—in the flesh—and turned in four alarms. Big games hunters pursued the beasts—two of them by now—in auto- mobiles. The buffaloes then charged the cars, but were turned back by honking horns. With the help of a couple of old- time cow waddies, the buffalo posse corraled one and then rounded up its mate, which was running with & herd of cattle in Ralph Morledge's cow lots. lots. ANOTHER MAN HUNTED BY MURDER DEFENSE Counsel in Los Angeles Attack Case Seeks to Transfer Blame, Create Guilt Doubt. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 11.—Ellery Cuff, deputy public defender assigned as counsel to Albert Dyer, said today another man is being sought in the triple murder for which Dyer is on trial for his life. Cuff said the man was Fred Godsey, a former Utah convict, who, he as- serted, had been identified from photo- graphs by several persons as a man they saw loitering about the park from which Madeline and Melba Ev- D. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1937. erett and Jeanette Stephens went to their death. Dyer, meanwhile, begged Cuff to let him deny from the witness stand his repudiated confession that he lured the girls from the park, strangled and ravished them. He told newspaper men he signed the confession when police “ganged up on me.” Attorneys thought a jury would be completed today. Man Would Cork Sound. Cork facings for city buildings to absorb street noises is the idea of Prof. L. Wilkinson of Sydney, Aus- tralia. He believes that, although the cork would not last a long time, the experiment is well worth trying, and should prove a boon to modern city ' life. EX-CONVICT ACCUSED OF PRISON BURGLARY | Suspect Already in Linocln, Nebr.,, Jail for Drinking When Prison Officials Ask Arrest. 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