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A—-2 = THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, DAY, AUGUST 16 1937 WEIRTON" HEARING OPENEDBYN L.R.B. Board Refuses Company’s Request for Delay in “Terrorism” Quiz. By the Associated Press NEW CUMBERLAND, W. Va., Aug- ust 16.— The National Labor Relations Board today refused a company request | for postponement and opened its hear- ing on charges the Weirton Steel Co. used “termerism” to oppose the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee. Attorney William Z. Fay, counsel for the eompany, asked the delay for fur- ther investigation of the union's charg- es that its organizers were intimi- dated. More | than 200 busky men of the | mills crowded into the vine-covered | Hancock County Court House and | heard John W. Porter, board attorney, | declare in his opening address that: Wierton Steel, largest unit in the | National Steel Corp. headed by Ernest | T. Weir, had dominated its employes. | The company fostered and main- tained two employe organizations | And that the company discrimi- | nated against some of its employes. Edward Grandison Smith of Clark burg, W. Va., president of the gover- | nors of West Virginia University, pre- | sided as trial examiner for the board. | Most of the steel workers, includ- | ing members of the S. W. O. C., trav- eled less than 10 miles up the Ohio River Valley from the noisy, unincor- | porated city «! Weirton, where more | than 10.000 work for the steel ('om»l panv, to this quiet, rambling (n\n\" of 2,500, Assailed by Holt. And many came with their ears still | ringing with charges hurled by West | Virginia's vouthful, anti-New Deal | Demoeratic Senator, Rush D. Holt, | that the Labor Board has been giving “ever-lasting, lopsided decisions” which would lead to his demand for & senato investigation unless they were stopped Holt was speaking &t a mass meet- fng vesterday at a picnic grove out- side Weirton, Claude C. Conway, an officer in the Security Leagle, organ- iaed in Weirton to combat ‘“outside unions,” and sponsor of the gather- ing. estimated 8,000 were present, Holt, declared: “The National TLabor Relations Board has been just another alpha- betical way to spell C. I O. “The C. I. O. wants the National Yabor Board to decice its cases not on the question of right or wrong but on the campaign contributions of John | L. Lewis. Two-Mile-Long Parade, “I am going to do all in my power to see that * * * the board conduets its activities in West Virginia fairly and honestly.” Before the rally, a 2-mile-long pa- rade of Weirton workers marched four-abreast through the town to the | grove at the city limits, where Holt £pnoke. ‘The marchers, keeping time to five brase bands, carried placards denounc- | ing John L. Lewis, the C. I. O. and the | National Tabor Board. The crowd cheered wildly when Molt declared: “1 Am now preparing much data on the whole zet-up, and unless there is & rhange for the better in the Na- tional Labor Relations Board and it settles down to try to conciliate and | help industrial strife, rather than spread difficulties, and unless it stops | those everlasting, lopsided decisions, I intend to present the facts to the United States Senate in the next ses- sion and ask that body for an inves- tigation of the board.” Acouses Lewis, Holt then accused John L. Lewis, chairman of the C. I. O, of having determined either to rule or destroy the American Federation of Labor. “The very day that Lewis was de- feated in the race for presidency of the A. F. of L.,” the Senator charged, “he set out in an ambitious way to either rule or destroy that organiza- tion.” Representative Arthur P. Lamneck of the twelfth Ohio district, A Dem- ocrat, told the workers: "Organize as you please under the Wagner labor relations act and elect whom you please to represent you. “If that doesn't suit John L. Lewis, tell him to go to hell.” Lamneck declared that he under- &tood “members of the N. L. R. B. v fted some of you' workers in your homes in company with members of the C. 1. O. The N. L. R. B. is not | rupposed to take sides.” | SERVICES TOMORROW FOR BROTHER JOSEPH | Member of Christian Brothers, 84, Will Be Buried in Cemetery at Ammendale. services will be held at 9 am. tomorrow for Brother Beclam Joseph of the Christian Brothers, who died Saturday at Normal Insti- tute, Ammendale, Md. The final rites will be eonducted In the chapel at Ammendale, and burial will be in St Joseph's Cemetery there. Brother Joseph. whose family name was Michael J. Hossman, was born in Brookville, Pa. He was 84 years old He taugh for several years in Catholic &chools throughout the East, and three | vears ago celebrated his golden jubilee | 85 a member of the Christian Brothers. | Funeral Congress in Brief Tax Ioophole bill—House considers teday; Senate later. Wage-hour—Apparently blocked in House Rules Committee. Housing—Senate passed; considers Wednesday. Sugar—Passed both houses; on way | #o Conference Committee. | Deficiency appropriations — House Committee approves today. Black nomination—Senate Commit- tee considers today Crop control—House Agriculture Committee discussed bill today for next session TOMORROW, | House | Senate: May take up nomination of Senator Black to Supreme Court. District Subcommittee probably will eontinue hearings on race track bill. House: Will consider $78,000.000 third de- ficiency appropriation bill. If time is left, Speaker expects to have private calendar called, on which there are 75 bills. | “picking,” Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. SPORT. HE “sports page” of the Con- gressional Record was con- siderably brightened the other day by a speech made by Rep- resentative William L. Nelson, who invited all the members and the world At large to attend the National Corn Shucking Contest this year. For the enlightenment of city-bred members he explained that over 100,000 persons | attended the last national contest, putting the exhibition in a class by itself as an American sports spectacle. Some States refer to the process as “gathering” or “husking” corn. In Missouri the word is *'shuck- ing” and that's the title for this season. The contest runs for 80 con- | tinuous minutes, with no time out for rest or refreshment. Ears missed or thrown over the wagon are collected by gleaners, and for every pound missed the contestant is penalized 5 pounds. He is allowed 5 ounces of shucks to 100 pounds of corn. More than § ounces, and you get penalized for “dirty shucking” and are known all over the countryside as a dirty shucker. Very technical business. World's record is shucked in 80 minutes. If you want to, try your talents on the home lot and see if you belong in the big leagues. * o ok x CROPS. The Department of Agriculture, which likes to estimate crops be- fore they are harvested, might be interested to know that we have just received our fifth letter re- vealing the whereabouts of cot- ton patches being grown in the District of Columbia. Mostly in people’s back yards, where the vield is only moderate, but plow- ing under would be tough as any- thing. For a small consideration, we'll tell all. Mercenary—that's us. * k k% AGAIN? }xT THE entrance to the Berbarium of the Smithsonian a correspond- ent of ours claims he saw a sign the other day reading: “This case is freshly charged with bisulphide of carbon, "EXPLOSIVE. “Bring no fire near to it.” Rather puzzled him. since bisulphide of earbon has a terrifically bad odor, but hasn't been used for a long time to kill the insects inside a glass case. He wonders just what the Smith- sonian people do mean to say. (Prob- ably something bitter, now.) LR QUERY. WWILL somebody kindly explain to this department the exact mean- ing, origin and probable future of the term “nippy nodge,” which we are told is & pet Southern name for a concoc- tion eonsisting of a soft drink mixed with & drink of something you shouldn’t be drinking anvhow. Lot of mystery about the name around here, what with the users thereof snickering and refusing to talk, and other citizens looking wise but uninformative. Any answers? BREAKS. Last the Friday-the-13th varns is this ome. we promise, It's about a young Bostomian who drove down here over the week end from beantown. Arrived just after midnight, and about 12:02 am. Friday drove over a sajety marker at a street car stop. Knocked the battery out of his car. Replacement cost, $15. That afternoon he went out to see the Red Soxr play and stood up for them mightily against the . jeers of his Washington friends. Washington won, 3-0. Third strike came when he re- turned to his car and found that a new hat, purchased that morn- ing. was gone. By nightfall, he was gone him- 2elf, back to the Back Bay. * ok % % NUMBERS JOR a lass who was reading a book upside down all during her first visit to & polo game, the quite young lady we wrote about last week seems to have picked up a pointer or two at that. (She was the one who said that, any way you looked at it, a good book was better than a polo match.) Over the week end she happenasd to see her aunt, an elderly lady of 25, dressed in riding clothes and about to start for the country. “What number do you ride?” she demanded. “How do you mean, what number do I ride?” said not to say flabbergasted. “You know. What number?” “No, I don't know ‘what number’.” “Oh, auntie” said the little one. ‘ou know very well everybody has to ride some number. I heard them say so at the polo game. Either you're No. 1 or No. 2, or something. Now, Wwhat number are you?" “I guess I'm No. 2,” said auntie. “What number is Miss H?"—re- ferring to a friend, also about to start out for the ride. “She’s No. 3.” “What number is Mr. Whosit (an- other customer—this is develoning into quite a riding party, whag?)?” “He's No. 1.” “Ah,” said she. “Then why can't I go with you all and ride No, 4? Somebody has to, you know.” Maybe she was right. An upside- down book is a better thing by far, for children. of DANDALLSTOWN YOUTH IS DROWNED IN CREEK Elwood Ruppert, 17, Jumped From Rowboat for Swim Near Annapolis—Body Recovered. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, August 18.—Elwood Ruppert, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Naylor W. Ruppert of Randallstown, Md., jumped from a rowboat for & swim and, failing to come up, drowned in Bowers Cover on Mill Creek. Two younger boys, Wilbert and Ernest Ruppert, cousins of the drowned boy, were in the boat with him. When he failed to come to the surface after leaping into the water they called assistance and a motor launch from the Naval Academy recovered the body. Dr. Albert L. Anderson pronounced] the death a drowning and Police Magistrate Joseph M. Armstrong, act- ing coroner, said it was accidental. A 425 bushels | the aunt, puzsled | DEWEY INDORSED BY LABOR EROLP Rose Says Link Between Tammany and Underworld Will Be Broken. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 16-—Racket- wrecking Thomas E. Dewey, who has sent more than one union official to prison, today bore the indorsement of the American Labor Party in his quest for the district attorneyship of Manhattan, The youthful special prosecutor, who has convicted 72 of 73 men brought to trial in his campaign to smash New York City’s intricate busi- ness rackets, Saturday agreed to enter the Republican primary on a ticket headed by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Announcing the American Labor Party, already pledged to La Guardia, would give its full support also to Dewey, Alex Rose, executive secre- tary, said: “Labor has everything to gain and | nothing to lose from honest and efficient law enforcement. Mr. Dewey's | acceptance of the candidacy for dis- trict attorney® of New York County (Manhattan) will, following his elec- tion, infuse this office with dignity | and dynamic zeal and will effectively destroy the link which exists be- tween Tammany Hall and the wnder- | world.” Held Important Move. { Political observers attached im- | portance to the indorsement as in- | dicating there would be no organized | labor opposition to Dewey. Resent- | ment had previously been voiced | against the prosecutor because he | convicted several union officials dur- | ing Tacket trials Dewey said he had decided to enter the race because his investigation of rackets here had convinced him there was “an alliance of long standing be- tween crime and certain elements of Tammany Hall.” “For 20 vears Tammany Hall has controlled criminal prosecution in this county and for 20 years the power of the criminal underworld has grown.” | he said. “This alliance must be | broken.” i United States Senator Royal S. | Copeland, Tammany-indorsed Mayor- | alty candidate who also is running in | | the Republican primary against La | Guardia, declined to comment on | Dewey's charge linking Tammany with | the underworld. To Give Data to Senate. Senator Copeland, chairman of the Senate’s committee on crime and criminal practices, said before the | week was over he would submit to the Senate the result of the committee's | Nation-wide investigation of racketeer- | ing. United States Representative Martin J. Kennedy, Democrat, of New York replying to Dewey's attack on Tam- many said: “In my opinion, Mr. De\ oy owes it |to Gov. Lehman, who appointed him, |and the taxpavers, who have furnished | his salary, to name the political lead- |ers who he alleges are linked to or- | ganized crime. “Personally, T feel that Mr. | has uttered a deliberate lie.” Dewey | 'WORLD WAR HERO CLAIMED BY DEATH Sergt. Francis R .Warnecke Won Citation From Marshal Petain. Sergt. Francis' R. Warnecke, 58, U. 8. M. C., retired, a World War hern, died in Naval Hospital yesterday after | a Jong illness. | As a member of the 5th Marines, | KSm';u Warnecke won a citation from Marshal Petain of France for carry- | ing wounded from the battlefield while | under fire only four days after he had suffered & head wound from a shell ‘ragment. He had taken part in many | major engagements and had been | awarded the Croix de Guerre and the | Purple Heart, in addition to service medals. | Sergt. Warnecke, who retired about | 10 years ago, had seen service in | China, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Panama and other parts of the world. | He had resided in Washington since being retired, and at the time of his death made his home at 2224 M | street, Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Nora Warnecke; three daughters, Mary, | Frances and Lillian Warnecke, all of | this city, and a sister, Miss Frances Warnecke of Baltimore, Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday in St. Stephen's Cath- olic Church. Buiial will be in Arling- ton National Cemetery. . ESCAPED PRISONER IS CAPTURED IN PARK | Convict Who Scaled Michigan Jail's Wall Is Armed With a Bread Knife. JACKSON, Mich., August 16 (#).— John McAllister, jr., 24, Detroit con- vict who escaped from Southern Mich- igan Prison here Saturday night, was captured today as he sat in & Jackson park. Although he was armed ‘with a bread knife he did not resist. Two Jackson policemen made the arrest. McAllister was dressed in civilian _attire, _apparently stolen, | prison officials said. | McAllister was the only one of four convicts who scaled the prison wall as | guards opened fire on them. Prison | officers said all were considered | dangerous. McAllister was sentenced for breaking and entering. LAND DIES Former Clinical Association Head Taught and Wrote. PHILADELPHIA, August 16 (#)— Dr. Judson Daland, 77, a former presi- dent of the American Climatological and Clinical Association, died Satur- day at Ventnor, N. J., where he was & Summer resident. He made medical st(dies in nearly every part of the world and wrote | more than 100 articles on medical | topics. Dr. Dalahd was & graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, class of 1882, and was profes- sor of medicine there for a number of years. He was one of the founders of the Philadelphia Institute for Medica! Research. He was editor of the International Medical Magazine from 1891 to 1895. 3 DR.DA AT 77 3 | campaign | air or under huge tents. ‘4800 brought the total attendance up | management GERMAN SEAPLANE ENDS OCEAN HoP Nordmeer Lands in U. S. as Clipper 1l Starts on Southern Crossing. By the Assoclaied Press. PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y. Au- gust 16.—A German seaplane which flew from Furope on the Southern route alighted today as a huge Amer- ican flying boat was about to take off on its first survey flight over the same air lanes in the international race to establish scheduled trans-Atlantic fly- ing. First to greet Capt. Joachim Blank- enburg of the German Nordmeer was Capt. Harold E. Gray of the Pan- American Clipper III. which was warming up for a flight to Bermuda, | Azores, Lisbon and Southampton. Flight from Azores. Capt. Blankenburg's Nordmeer set- tled on Manhasset Bay at 6:37 a.m (E. 8, T, after a 150-mile-an-hour flight from the Azores, 2.392 miles The German flying boat, Nordmeer German Plane Completes Survey Flight 3 : , settled on Manhasset Bay, Port Washington, N. Y., today, completing its first survey flight from Europe otver the southern route. The plane is shown after it landed. Meanwhile, a Pan-American ship was being warmed up to make the west-east cross- ing over the same route. The crew of the Nordmeer can be seen in the stern of the motor boat. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. away, where his 19-ton seaplane with four Diesel 600-horsepower motors was catapulted from the steamship Schwabenland. He said he flew much of the way #t 20 feet above the water 10 avoid headwinds. The seaplane also | brought in his co-pilot, Count Siez- | fried Schack, Radio Operator Wil- | helm Kueppers and Mechanic Otto | Gruschwitz. The flight Was a continuation of survey trips over the same route suc- cessfully carried out last year by the seaplanes Zephir and Aeolus. Regular commercial trans-Atlantic service is expected to be established next year, not only by the German and American planes, but also by British and French. The Pan-Amemcan Clipper III took off four hours later at 10:30 am. (E.S.T) Caledonia Arrives. BOTWOOD, Newfoundland, August 16 (Canadian Press).—The British flying boat Caledonia landed here at 4:13 pm, E. 8. T, vesterday to com- | plete an experimental flight over a proposed trans-Atlantic commercial air | route from Foynes, Ireland | It was the craft's second flight from Foynes. BUILDING IS SOUGHT | FOR BERKSHIRE FETE Permanent Structure to House Concerts Will Be Object | in Drive. By the Associated Press STOCKBRIDGE, Mass., August 16 —Directors of the Berkshire Sym- phonic Festival today launched a for a permanent building to house concerts which in the past | have been given either in the open | The directors, supported by Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the famed Boston Symphony Orchestra, took steps to have the building erected at Tanglewood, permanent home of the festival Although the acoustics at concerts staged this Summer proved superb partly due to the accidentally excel- lent qualities of the temporary wood stage, the canvas proved no protec- tion against the noise of the rain. Yesterday's last-day audience of to approximately 27,000 for the six | concerts, It practically assured the that its $40,000 budget would be met. Miss Gertrude Robinson Smith of | the festival board announced a sub- | seription campaign for a permanent | building which will cost, it is esti-| mated, about $100.000 The festival will be repeated next vear. with six concerts scattered over two weeks, STRINGER FUNERAL | Funeral services for Charles F.' Stringer, 86, retired plate printer of | the Bureau of Engraving and Printing who died Friday at his home, 3546 Eleventh street, were held today at the V. L. Speare Co., funeral directors, 1009 H street. Burial was in Rock Creek Cemeter: Mr. Stringer retired from the bureau in 1922, after 42 years' Government service. Before the bureau was estab- lished, he had printed United States money under Government contract. U. 3. TO SIMPLIFY INCOME TAX FORM Action Intended Primarily to Make Task Easier for “Little Fellow.” By the Associnied Press, Treasury officials already are ar- | ranging to shorten the long lines of | income taxpayers who customarily’| throng collection offices on March 15 They will issue a new and simplified income distribute it January 2, and appeal to taxpavers | themselves to avoid the mid-March | scramble. | Authorities said today the forms | would be designed primarily to make the task of paying taxes easier for the “little fellow.” but that returns for upper-bracket individuals and cor- | porations also may be revised and | clarified Ore revision on the individual re- turns, they said, probably will be designed to simplify the reporting of | capital gains and losses. Space for | listing the item also may be enlarged,'| tax return, on | | possibly through inclusion of another page in the return. This would be | left blank by all taxpayers who had no capital gains or losses during the year. | Originally, the officials had con- | sidered using a standard form for all taxpayers whose income was derived chiefly from salaries and wages, re- gardless of the amount They said today, however, the present svstem of one form for in- dividual incomes of under $5.000 and | one for incomes over this figure probably would be retained. A single form for all income classes, they said, would have to be more de- | tailed than that now provided for incomes under $5.000, and this might be confusing to the small taxpayers LEGION AUXILIARY TO HEAR LEADER President of National Group to Address District Chapter Session Tonight. Washington members of the Amer- ican Legion Auxiliary will hear their national president, Mrs. Lorena Hahn of Wayne, Nebr., address the opening session of the District chapter’s twelfth annual convention tonight at the American Red Cross Building. Mrs. Hahn, who will be the second | national president to attend a local convention, directs the civic and pa- triotic program of the auxiliary's 8,500 units from its national head- quarters in Indianapolis. Mrs. Mary Killeen, department presi- | | dent, will preside over the convention. | At tomorrow night's session depart- | | ment officers for the coming year will be elected and installed I Louis Johnson, Assistant Secretary of War and a former national com- mander of the Legion, will give the | address of welcome tonight ;AG()OJ-l)y tow Training School | Mr. and Mrs. Hercle Cook le jor Girls at Tecumseh, Okla., The bride, 17, and the bridegr met again recently at a “date night” for the school’s honor The bride, formerly Evelyn Steel, was paroled to her hus-~ irls. and. aving the State Training School yesterday after their wedding. oom, 21, friends two years ago, —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Escapes Injury DIPLOMAT UNHURT WHEN AUTO OVERTURNS, YAKICHIRO SUMA, Counselor of the Japanese Embassy, and his wife escaped “without a scratch” when their automobile skidded and overturned near Goshen, Va., Saturday night. They 1were en route to Hot Springs, Va., Jor a dinner party given by Mme. Hirosi Saito, wife of the Japanese Ambassador, but re- turned to Washington when their car was righted. —Harris & Ewing Photo. OTIS H. GATES, 46, DIES IN HOSPITAL Agriculture Department Attorney Was Interested in Trail Club. | & unit. HOUSE UNIT WON T0 HOUSING B Recommends Enactment of Altered Version of Wagner Measure. By the Assoclated Press, The House Banking Committee for- mally recommended today enactment’| of a bill % with small incomes from “slum and hous- | to remove fam ing conditions which are injurious to Y the health and safety of the citizens of the Nation.” The measure, an altered version of the Senate-approved Wagmer housing bill, would allow the Federal ernment 1o assist political subdivisions Gov- States and their providing “de- | cent, safe and sanitary dwellings.” The committee’s report said was | | believed “housing can be provided | under the terms of this bill income group which wi under $1,000 per year." Tenants who would occupy the proj- | ects, it was estimated, would have 1o pay about 55 per cent of the rent Federal and local contributions would take care of the remaining 45 per | cent. The measure was changed materially | from the form in which it passed the | Senate, where a cost limit of $1.000 per room and $4.000 per dwelling unit | was imposed | The House Committee substituted a | provision that the cost of dwelling units should be no greater than the | average cost for privately-constructed housing of similar character. In any event. the cost could not exceed $5,000 | | “The use of such an average fig- | for an average well Otis H. Gates, 46, of 5400 Forty- | first Agriculture attorney, died last night pathic Hospital about three months. Mr. Gates had been emploved in the department since he was 19. While working there he studied at Washington street, Department in Homeo- of after an illness Grorge University, where he | received an academic degree and later | was graduated in law. He also studied Cornell University For many vears Mr. Gates had been an active member of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club. He had supervised the construction of many mountain shelters in the Blue Ridge and the George Washington National Forest. Last Summer he spent several weeks on & pack trip through the Sierra Nevada Mountains with the San Francisco Sierra Club. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Gates was & native of Cincin- nati. Surviving are his mother, Mrs M. A. Gates, and two sisters, Miss Stella Gates and Mrs. Mabel G. Slattery, all of this city. Funeral services will be held at 2 pm. tomorrow at the residence Burial will be in Prospect Hill Cemetery. MRS. SIMMONS DIES; WAS WIFE OF FURRIER at Native of Russia, ‘Washington in 1924—Funeral Today. Mrs. Annie Simmons, 61, wife of Abraham Simmons, retired furrier, died last night at her home, 2909 Thirteenth street, after an illness of three months. Mrs. Simmons, come to this city in 1924 after having lived in London for 30 years. was active in the Hadassah. Besides her husband, she is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Betty Jay of London and the Misses Sophie and Milicent Simmons, and three sons, Louis, Solo- mon and Harold Simmons, all of Washington. Funeral services aer being held this afternoon in the Danzansky funeral home, 3501 Fourteenth street. Burial will be in Tefereth Israel Cemetery. She Came to | a native of Russia, | She | ure.” the committee said, “will provide sufficient flexibility to permit the op- | eration of this limitation. notwith- | standing differences in construction cost depending upon the gengraphical location and the size of the city in which a project is to be located.” ROBERT J. GREEN, 82, FOUND DEAD IN BED Clarksburg Farmer Taught in Montgomery Schools 18 Years. | beginr Services Tomorrow. Special Dispaich to The Star CLARKSBURG. Md, August 16— Robert. J. Green, 82, well-known farm- er and former Montgomery County public school teacher, died suddenly Al his home near here yesterday morning, presumably from a heart attack. He was found dead in bed. He is survived by a son, Robert C Green, and a daughter, Miss Olivia M. Green, both of this vicinity. He | also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Prank | Watkins of near here and Mrs. Angie Amiss of Chevy Chase, Md The funeral will take place from the Clarksburg M. E. Church South at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon burial to be in Mount Olivet Cemetery, | Frederick, Md Mr. Green was a lifelong resident f this community. He taught in va- rious public schools of the county for 18 years. LARGE NUMBER OF IDLE | | of | REPORTED ON WAY HERE ! Police were watching todav for the | arrival of 15 truckloads of unemployed, reported en route to Washington by way of Hagerstown, Md. The authorities, however, had not been able to confirm reports that the | Job marchers were actually on the WAY. . David Lasser, chairman of a local | | committee on W. P. A. workers drop- | | ped from the relief rolls, predicted | thousands would come to Washington | | shortly to “protest against wholesale | | W. P. A dismissals.” He said the| | marchers planned to move into the | army tents used for the Boy Scout Jamboree. | Roanoke I sland For Roosevelt Talk Wednesday By the Associated Press. MANTEO, N. C, August 16.—A vivid symphonic drama based on the most puzzling riddle in American Colonial history—the fate of Sir Walter Raleigh’s ill-destined “lost colony"— is creating excitement on Roanoke Island akin to that marking the initial flights of the Wright brothers, from nearby Kill Devil Hill, in 1903, By the thousands, theater-goers, historians, farm families with picnic baskets and casual tourists are de- scending on this sleepy village on an isolated island, which calls itself “the birthplace of a nation,” to view the production. Staged four times a week ordinarily, but daily this week, the play is & part of a Summer-long celebration com- memorating the 350th anniversary of the founding of the colony and the birth and baptism of Virginia Dare, first English native of this continent. The celebration will reach a climax Wednesday—Virginia Dare’s birthday —when President Roosevelt speaks here. Village officials predict 50,000 persons will be present. Expects 50,000 | Written by Paul Green, 43-year-old | | North Carolina native, whose play “In | Abraham’s Bosom” won the Pulitzer | prize in 1927, “Lost Colony” is an experiment in dramatics—part nppra“[ part masque and part pageant—with | | music by sixteenth century composers | and Indian dances contributing mood, tempo, color and continuity. It is presented in a seaside amphi- theater, carved from sand dunes at the side of the colony by C. C. C. workers. There are seats for 3,500. Sir Walter's colony disappeared after three years and there was but one clue—the word “Croatoan” hacked in boid letters in the trunk of a live oak | in the star-shaped inclosure of the fort. 7 “Croatoan” is the name of a tribe of Indians and also of an island south of Manteo. Green does not try to solve the riddle of the colony’s fate, and there is no conventional ending to his sym- phonic drama Like the colonists themselves, it merely disappears, leav- ing & ‘bare stage, an empty stockade. A said | Medal to Col | ber, GUARD HAILS STEP T BUILD ARMORY Move to Help Morale, Says Col. Oehmann—Parade Staged at Camp. BY ROBERT A. FRWIN, BIAfT Correspondent ot The Star CAMP ALBERT C. RITCHTE, CAS- CADE, Md, August 18- President Roosevelt's request tn Congr $210,000 appropriation for pi of an armory site in Washington was received with elation by officers and enlisted men of the D Natione! Guard now in the second week of their annual encampment here Col. John W. Ochmann, eomman ing officer, xaid: “This is an important step ard ace sures us that erection of the arm building is destined at some near da For years we have strived to oba n an armory and we now feel ti efforts and the help of triends is being recognized “We are deeply ide our eommanders f action, and wish to assure him tha ill be of material benefit, to mor and encourage the members tn gre efforts.” The armory sit called to the atten men previous! by our m to the P ha e Guare on b the encam a lec ure at Get he Guard the best a bad s spirit despite tr | of an arm Behind Flan 100 Yer Cent. T 5 OLff. e are benind Lie an said, “We project cent ) A 00 pe new 5. vesterday afternnon The from (= Band Officer Menr prog xas opened by Guardsmen swung parade gr of martial mu: i accuracy covered yund displa acquired dur in pres 2 Oehmann Best Drilled Company. official. the A Conper B Rhode: d. Each compan am arrangements the special aw presented Orders were ing final night carm E tomorro them to | overnight neuvers to Camp Rit day marc by heat Capt. George o coa pup tents Hazen to Be Guest A 10-m be made dur ing each r Per; in bivouac to or gan:z plet the ticipation in to be held Th sioner Melvi e stop w ir of the mar teams and com par field mee Commt as ng of entries for rsda; C. Hazen hono neo Almiranez, a F emplove, was he was Kkicke by horse as he dismour parade grounds. Aln of Compa and has remain although he now His chest rays were to the extent of The special troops were to cand a riot duty drill today. Thes participate Wednesdayv a problem set up by Col. Shepard Pike of the division command. T will replace their scheduled o night trip Lieut. Col pino govern- d vester the ted lives in Baltimore was bruised badly and be made h to determ.: injuries in Pevton G. Nevitt ant adjutant general of the st Guard, arrived yvesterday tn ape the second week of encampment the Guard HORSES IN VIRGINIA HIT BY SLEEPING SICKNESS “‘Serious Epidemic” Reported King George County as Many AsS in Animals Die. By the Associated Press FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Aug “serious epidemic” of equins encephalomyelitis, & type of sleepinc sickness affecting horses, was reported to be prevalent in King George Count today by Dr. R. T. Gregory, local veterinarian. A considerable number of horses and mules in King George have been stricken since the disease was discov= ered last week and many have died Animals affected by the disease, which is believed to be spread by masquitos, develop blind staggers and die within a short time unless serum is administered at the first symptoms, Dr. Gregory said. Dr. Gregory stated that it was dif- ficult to secure serum here becauze of an epidemic of the disease in Western States which had used mos* of the available supply ‘The outbreak appears to be confine to King George Countv at p although Dr. Gregory said he hed ro- ports of soma cases in Siafard and arross the Potomac River in Marye land. the o =,