Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1937, Page 2

A—2 ¥ HE EVENING STAR, " WASHIN ON, D. C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1937. —_— e e WAGE-HOUR FIGHT INA.F.OF L. SEEN Few Old-Line Leaders Ex- pected to Make Stand Against Green. By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. August 21 A fight within the American Federa- tion of Labor's Executive Council over wage and hour legislation was forecast in usually well-informed quarters to- day as members met to draft plans for a Fall campaign against John L. Lewis’ C. I. O. A few old-line federation leaders were expected to make a last-ditch fight at the meeting starting today | to keep the A. F. of L. from support- ing revival of the Federal wage and hour bill that the House Rules Com- mittee killed at this session of Con- | gress. Council members said the meeting will last about 10 days. William Green, federation presi- dent, supported this bill over the pro- test of these old-line leaders. Last night in Washington he as- the street they were salled the Rules Committee for refus- ing to allow the measure to go to the | House floor for a vote “What right has the Rules Com- mittee to defeat the will of Congress?” he said in a statement. “Surely the members of Congress ought to be ac- corded the privilege of passing the wages and hours bill or of defeat- ing it “That is democracy and democratic procedure.” Plumbers Against Bill. On the other hand, John Coeficld, president of the plumbers, said his union was against any wage and hour legislation, except for women and children, ard that he would oppose its enactment whenever presented. Several other building and metal trades union leaders were in Coe- field's camp, although they would make no statement for publication Some leaders predicted that the whole issue might be fought out at| the federation's Denver convention | next October, Pre-meeting indications pointed to & continuance of the strategy mapped at the Cincinnati meeting last May, when battle plans were outlined. | At that meeting the council de- Cided: | (1) To consolidate A. F. of L. ranks and to conduct a co-ordinated | organization campaign mrmxxhout] American industry. 1 (2) To set aside, temporarily, the | federation’s traditional policy of en- rolling workers into eraft unions when -industrial organization was more feasible. (3) To increase the federation’s | “war chest” by doubling dues. All A. F. of L. unions now are supposed | to pay 2 cents instead of 1 cent for | each member each month. | (4) To disregard the claims of all C. 1. O. unions of the right to enroll | certain groups of workers; to invade C. I. O. territory at every turn. Report Strategy Successful. Council members privately said this strategy had proved ‘“‘extremely suc- cessful” and they expected it to work even better as the membership cam- paign was intensified The council met in a Boardwalk hotel across the street from the con- vention hall where Lewis signaled his break with the federation nearly two vears ago by punching William Hutcheson, hefty president of the Car- penters’ Union, in the jaw. Throughout that 1935 convention | Lewis pleaded with the delegates to | #dopt an unqualified industrial union program for the mass production in- dustries—to try to bring all the work- | ers in each industry into one big union. Only Third of Delegates Agreed. His pleas moved only one-third of | the delegates, however. Two-thirds | voted to stick to the craft union pol- icy handed down by the late S8amuel | Gompers, A. F. of L. president for | 40 years. A few weeks later, having punched | Hutcheson for trying to silence an Akron. Ohio, rubber worker, Lewis | organized the Committee for Indus- | trial Organization to carry out the | program the A. F. of L. turned down. ‘The Federation called this move “rebellion” and suspended 10 of the C. I O. unions. Open labor warfare resulted The C. I. O. now says it has up- ward of 3,000,000 members. Frank Morrison, A. F. of L. secretary, says the Federation has 3,200,000. Says Revolt Is Faced. Lewis Hines, in charge of the Fed- eration’s anti-Lewis campaign, said he would report to the council that the C. 1. O. faced a revolt by highly- skilled workers in its industrial unions. | Hines said many of these workers already had discovered they had “little in common with unskilled labor and soon might break away.” Already. he said, groups of skilled workmen from the automobile and &teel unions had talked with him about the possibility of joining A. F. of L. craft unions or forming new unions. Council members said the meeting probably would last about 10 days. I MRS. MINNIE HUSKE, LONG ILL, DIES HERE Widow of Opticlan Was Native of Baltimore—Funeral Today. Mrs. Minnie Huske, 52, widow of Dr. George L. Huske, formerly in the optical business here, died late Thurs- day after a long illness at her home, 5521 Colorado avenue. Funeral services are being held to- day at the Hines funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street. Burial will be in Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore. A native of Baltimore, Mrs. Huske had been a resident of this city since 1907 and for a number of years had been employed at Foster's Rempm- brance Shop on Thirteenth street. 8ince the death of her husband many years ago she had lived with her mother, Mrs. Caroline Yeadaker, at the Colorado avenue address. Besides her mother, Mrs. Huske leaves two brothers, Earl Yeadaker, Miami, Fla, and Mark Yeadaker, Washington Wayside Random Observations| ! of Interesting Events and Things. GUIDES. AIR of young girls about town passing the White House the other day were stopped by one of those sight-seeing guides who lie in wait there for unsuspecting tourists. “Like to be shown around?” the guide asked, politely doffing his cap. The gals were confused, either by the question or by the hat-tipping. Finally they managed: “No, thank you ... we ... we live here.” On down stopped again. “You ladies like to see the town?” the second guide asked. He didn't doff his cap, so there was no con- fusion and the answer was im- mediate. And definite. “No, thank you, we live here.” They went on, decided then that they'd fight it out past the White House if it took all Summer. Another guide came up. The girls had the ritual down pat by this time, so before he even asked the question they answered it. “No, thank you “You live here?” “Yes!” “You really do?” “Really!” “You aren't spoofing me" “No” A née of finality mingled with resignation crept into the young lady’s volce. “We are natives!” { “Well, do you know,” the guide offered in his surprise, “you are the first Washingtonians I ever saw prxmpj their hair as they passed the White | House."” We live here.” * ok ok X TROUBLE. This happened way back in Feb- Tuary and it probably is an off-the- record yarn which shouldn't have been repeated, but it was told to us and we're duty-bound to pass it on. Besides, we thought you might like to remember February. Anyhow, seems there was a small dinner party at the White House (we'll get out of that neighborhood in just a minute). Lady on the President’s right asked him how he was feeling. “Oh, fine,” Mr. Roosevelt told her, “except I am having that same trouble I always have between Jan- uary and June.” “Oh,” said the guest of homor, “and what is that? Sinus trouble?” No,” smiled Mr. President. “Congress.” * o % % HA'NTS. LWAYS thought the forces of Right would take steps about the IWayside department when they got around to it. Looked up from the typewriter the other day, and standing on the ledge of the office window was a Thing. Was not pink, and was not one of the Brooklyn Boys. Just a Thing, and it sat there, not saying a word, just spreading around a bit of a leer and a look of scorn. The office naturalist was called in. He saw it, 100, s0 we felt better. He says it was a Praying Mantis, but he couldn't tell us where it came from, or how or why it had come to pray for us * % % WOMAN ALONE. The following information is passed on to you for what it is worth with your after-dinner coffee. Among the thousands of men em- ployed for two years building Greenbelt, the Resettlement Ad- ministration’s town out beyond Berwyn, there is one woman. She is Lenore Thomas, a sculp- tress. Clad in overalls and covered with stone dust, she puts in a full day’s work, carving bas reliefs with hammer and chisel. x ox % % HEAT. 'OUPLE of days ago, in a downtown office building, boys were sitting about, melting right down ‘nto their shoes, passing away the time by doing as little work as possible and as much griping as possible because there was no cooling system in the place. There was a sudden rattle through the office, as of radiators knocking. Sure enough, that's what it was —radiators knocking. They got warm. Then they got down- right hot. Visitors to the place on business were pretty well startled by it all, but each of them managed to ask how the employes liked the new cooling system. * The boys never did find out what it was all about. There were various suggestions that there was trash being burned; that the furnace was being tested; that somebody had just plain gone nuts. ‘We agree with the latter school of thought. The radiator in our office has a valve on it by which it can be turned off in case somebody starts shooting steam through it in August. Ever think of that, boys, while you were cussing the janitor? * kX Xk DONATION. A SPY informs us that Bert Shelton is looking through the ads in attempt to find Summer suit bargains. Had a very fine Summer suit up until Meridian, Miss., and a half sister, Miss Ella Yeadaker, this city. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Acts on housing bill conference re- House: Acts on housing bill conference re- port and considers ondary legis- lation. 'fi a couple of days ago. He discovered it needed cleaning, tossed it in the car and set out for the tailor’s. But he couldn’t find a place to park and the tailor paid no attention to his bleating horn. Then he saw & man idling in front of the place, called him. “Say, Buddy,” he asked, “will you do me a favor? Can’t find a place to park and I want this suit cleaned. Will you take it in and ask how soon I can get it?” Man was very obliging. Came out in & couple of minutgs, said the tailor Was busy and the it couldn't be Ready to Protect American Liv - When the fury of the Sino-Japanese hostilities struck Tientsin Americ soldiers hurriedly erected sandbag barricades and took up positions to protect American lives and property in the International areas. of the 15th Infantry on the alert behind protective sandbags and barbed wire. Upper left: Members - an beneath steel by clipper. Lower left: A qfiiet momen es and Property in China t in a sandbag plate bomb protection. dugout as an American soldier relazes Right: A non-commissioned officer and a private “stand by” watching developments what the United States is doing to protec GUARDSMEN END 2 WEEKS OF CAMP Roll Back Home by Train] and Truck Bronzed by Trooper Life. BULLETIN, The District National Guard ar- rived at Union Station today from Camp Ritchie. The troopers, witha out ties and their collars open, passed in final review before their officers at Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth street before they entered the armory BY ROBERT A. ERWIN, Staff Correspondent ot The Star CAMP ALBERT C. RITCHIE, CAS- CADE, Md,, August 21.—Sun-bronzed and hardened by two weeks of Army life, approximately 800 District Na-| tional Guardsmen embarked at 8:30 am. today by special train and truck on the return trip to the armory and to homes in Washington Already packed, bag and baggage a4 majority of the troopers boarde: | Western Maryland special in This group of pictures showing nationals was rushed to America —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. FRANCO ADVANCES IN EASTERN SPAIN Strategic Position Seized From Government on Teruel Front. BACKGROUND— Forces of Gen. Francisco Franco in Spain have concentrated action | in recent days on capture of San- tander, on morthern coast, while troops in Eastern Spain have en- deavored to cut the Madrid-Valen- cia communications to complete encirclement of Madrid. Capture of | Santander meanwhile appears im- minent. | | By the Associated Press. | HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- | tier, August 21—Insurgent forces on | the Teruel front in Eastern Spain | were reported today to have wrested a strategic position known as “Rincon | del Molinero” from government troops near Albarracin, | Generalissimo Francisco Franco's | communique asserted the mountainous | position was seized yesterday in a | Stiff battle that resulted in 1,000 gov- | | ernment casualties. Six hundred bodies were reported abandoned by | the Madrid-Valencia force. | Other government units attacked insurgent positions on the Aragon | front, near Monte Calvario and De | La Sierra Alcubierre, but Franco's | men resisted the effort to break | through. | A government eommunique asserted Madrid-Valencia forces had taken | Punte Calvario on the same front, | Ppossibly in the same sector referred | to by the insurgents, and had driven | the insurgents back a considerable | distance. Government airmen bombed air- ports at Soria and Vitoria, loosing ex- | plosives on 38 grounded planes at | the latter, and reported new internal fighting back of Franco's lines at Porcuna and Bujalance on the south- ern front at Zaragoza, the Aragon capital in the northeast. Turk Cabinet Meets Suddenly. ANKARA, Turkey, August 21 (#)— The cabinet held an emergency meet- ing last night after the unexpected re- turn of Kemal Ataturk, President of Turkey, all ministers and Chief of Staff Fevzi from maneuvers. It was understood the meeting was called to discuss the situation created by repeated attacks of merchant ship- ping by an unidentified submarine in or near Turkish waters. Ttalian Leads Santander Drive. ROME, August 21 (#).—Italy's gen- eral “with an electric beard” and his flame-throwing blackshirt followers were credited by Itallan correspon- dents yesterday with leading the Span- ish insurgent advance on Santander. The newspaper La Stampa of Turin published a picture of the general, which was unmistakably a photo- graph of Gen. Attilio Teruzzi, former head of Fascist militia, whose bristling whiskers gained him fame in the Ethiopian wars. DUCHESS’ C(;USIN GETS PRELIMINARY DIVORCE Mrs. Rose Caperton Brown, a cousin of the Duchess of Windsor, the for- mer Wallis Warfleld, yesterday was granted a preliminary divorce in Cam- den. N. J., from John Wilson Brown, 3d, of Washington, the Associated Press reports. Mrs. Brown brought suit originally at Cape May, N. J., charging desertion. She was given custody of their five children. Prominent in Southern society, Mrs. Brown is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Caperton of Richmond, Va. Her wedding to Brown took place in 1918 in Richmond. Brown’s address is listed in the 1700 block of Sixteenth street, but he was Teported to be out of town for the Summer. He is an attorney. I I — ready for four days. Shelton returned. Tailor couldn't find the suit. Then after a detailed description of the man who_brought it in, he remembered. “Yes,” said the tailor, “that fellow came in & few minutes later and told me he had to go to New York in Four days later |Governor Says He Will Send & hurry and could he have the suit back because he ted to take it with him.” REPORT ON GUIDE GVEN T HURLEY It to Roosevelt With De- mand for Action. By the Associated Press BOSTON, August 21— State Yi-| brarian Dennis L. Dooley today placed in the hands of Gov. Charles F.! Hurley his report on the Works Prog- | ress Administration’s Guide Book of | Massachusetts which stirred up a tempest. over references to the Sacco- | Vanzetti murder case | Gov. Hurley, who declined to dis- close contents of the report, said he would study it over the week end and forward it to President Roosevelt with a demand that the volume be revised or suspended, and Federal writers and editors responsible for it be dropped The Boston American said it learned the librarian's report contained | “a sharp denunciation of the sections which have been under criticism.” | The report, the paper says, attacks | the implied criticism of Massachusetts for its conduct of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, and carries the librarian's opin- | fon that the book “is inadequate in | its treatment of the history of Mas- | sachusetts labor, industry. judiclary, | military and other events.” | Addressing the State convention of | the American Legion in New Bedford | vesterday, Gov. Hurley charged the offending chapters were inserted after proofs had been approved by W. P. A. officials in Washington. The insertion, he said, took place after he and Secretary of State Fred- eric W. Cook had seen proofs and written a preface. Bartolomoeo Sacco and Nicola Van- | zetti, radicals, were executed for the | slaying of a guard during a pay roil | hold-up. PAY NO TAXES * HUNTINGBURG, Ind., August 21 (#)—Citizens are convinced this Southern Indiana community is the only place to live, for they will be free of city taxes for the fifth con- secutive year. The City Council, learning suffi- cient funds were on hand to pay all obligations, decided against city levies on personal and real property. Abandoned Mine Robbed. OGDEN, Utah, August 21 (£).—K. B. Cornia went to his abandoned potash mine, found it had been robbed. ‘The missing eight tons of equip- ment were found in Ogden junk yard, 75 miles away. Officers arrested one suspect. Heat Victim ROPER'S DAUGHTER-IN-LAW OVERCOME. MRS. RICHARD F. ROPER, Daughter-in-law of the Sec- retary of Commerce, who fainted because of the heat while driving in the 3100 block of Connecticut avenue yes- terday and crashed into a parked car, causing slight damage to both machines. No one was injured. Driven to her home at 418 East Leland street, Chevy Chase, Md., by | and even some women who want to be a passing motorist, Mrs. Roper today waggeported completely recoveredf)—Harris & Ewing. For Difficult ADMIRAL YARNELL. 'Yarnell and Beaumont F itted Far East Tas BRIG. GEN BEAUMONT. By the Associated Press. Two hard-fisted naval officers who | often have brushed shoulders with actual hostilities have the job of pro. tecting American nationals in chaotic | Shanghai | Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, | commander of the Asiatic Fleet, saw | duty in European water during the | World War. Soon to join him is Brig. Gen. John C. Beaumont, commanding the 2d Brigade of the United States Fleet Marine Force. Beaumont will sail from San Diego within a few days with 1,200 Marines to bolster the 1,050 already at Shanghai. The 58-year-old Marine officer will take command of all Marines in China. He has seen the thick of bat- tle in the Philippines, Nicaragua and Haiti. Beaumont's reinforcing contingent was asked by Admiral Yarnell after the Aslatic commander weighed the gravity of the Far Eastern conflict. Yarnell, 61 years old, has a naval background embellished by World War service, during which he com- manded the U. S. 8. Nashville and served as alde on the staff of the commander of the United States | years 11 X ors. naval forces operating in E\Jmpefln\"fl” telling him six or sever men | waters. For this service he received the Navy Cross and a distinguished service citation. WERTON NQURY TOLAST HONTHS E300 Witnesses Called by Labor Board, Same Number by Firm. By the Associated Press NEW CUMBERLAND, W. August 21.—A Labor Board | into “terrorism” charges against the | Weirton Steel Co. may continue “for | months,” attorneys said today at the ! end of the first week's testimony More than 300 witnesses have been called by counsel for the board and | company attorneys indicated would summon as many or more Before the board recessed yester- | day until Monday a mill worker testi- | fied he had been offered $10 & day to ! help “keep organizers out” of the mill town of Weirton, W. Va Theodore Schroyer asserted Claude Conway, chairman of the Weirton Em- ployes' Security League, made V8., | would be used on “the special job." | “Did he say what you were to do | to keep organizers out?” inquired At- inquiry | they | the | campground after an early break | fast, final clean-up and general cam; | inspection. | Their last official event was a “Kelly | parade. In dress uniform the guar: | formed late yesterday for their I | parade of annual encampr before their commanding officer, C | John W. Oehmann. Rain that hac | threatened all day finally broke anc forced them off the field. In mu:- tary terminology was a “Kel | parade.” Receive Pay This Afternoon. Today's schedule called for the troop train to reach Union Station & 11:40 am, followed by a march o the armory at 8ixth street and Penn- sylvania avenue. The afternocon was | to be spent in checking and storing equipment and paying the troopers They were to return to their homes | late in the day. | The special train carried 12 da coaches and 5 baggage cars, 4 of thel latter bound for Washington and the other to Norfolk, carrying equipment lof the Signal Corps and othe) | branches of the service from V | ginia. The 104th Quartermasger Reg! | ment made the trip in trucks. | As camp broke up a final tribute| was paid to Maj. Arthur L. Smith)| chaplain of the guard, who reaches| the retirement age of 64 early nex year and will not return officially another annual encampment. His service from 1899 to the present | time, including overseas service with| Gen. Charles P. Summerall during | the World War, was recommended|] ‘hlfh]\' by fellow officers. Througt Maj. Ralph 8. Childs he was present-| | ed with a traveling bag as a parting Col. Oehmann assured Maj gift Smith a tent always would be avail able for him at camp. Plans to Go to Estate. The chaplain, Washington apart ment house operator, plans to retir | next year to hus estate at Tryon, N. C. | The 29th Division special troops, commanded by Maj. William T. Roy, { held their annual field day yester. | day afternoon, with the medical de tachment carrying away chief hon. The results Standing broad jump—First, Josep! Meyer, Headquarters Company; sec. | ond, Benjamin Russell, Military Po He also has commanded destroyer | tOrney John W. Porter. board counsel. | lice: third, Kenneth Ford, Headquar squadrons in the Atlantic Fleet and aircraft squadrons at intervals during 15 years. He was naval adviser at the London Treaty Conference in 1930. After service as commandant of the at Pear]l Harbor, Hawaii, he was made commander in chief last Fall of the Asiatic Fleet Gen. Beaumont started his Eastern experience in 1901 as a lieu- tenant in the Philippine Islands. Eleven later, as a captain, he com- “Yes, to use force, beat them up,” | Schroyer answered Helen Barrone, sister of Constable | Steve Barrone of Weirton, testified she was beaten by a “hatchet gang” | 14th Naval District and the navy yard | While in the company of Kenneth | Koch, &n organizer for the Steel ‘Workers' Organizing Committee, | She said she fainted from a blow Far | to the eye and corroborated Koch's | story that he was blackjacked and knocked unconscious. All attempts to organize the 12,000 | ters Detachment | Running broad jump—Little, Sig. | nal Corps: Russell, Military Police] Ford, Headquarters Detachment. 100-vard dash—John Rizer, Me | cal Detachment; Charles Watson, Headquarters Company; Rober Smith, Military Police High jump—Joseph Pitcher, Med: | cal Detachment; Rizer and Karl Rose | Military Police Six-man relay—Medical Detach. ment, adquarter; any, i manded a company of Marines in Nic- | Weirton employes, Koch related, met | Headquarters Company, Mi aragua. In 1915 he took part in skirmishes | with Haitian rebels, commanding a company of Marines. More recently he commanded the 4th Regiment of Marines at Shanghal, relinquishing that command to Col. | O. F. B. Price in June, 1936, when he | became general officer in charge of | recruiting. He was made cnmmmdingi general of the 2d Brigade last June. Yarnell is a native of Independence, Towa. Beaumont was born in Wash- ington, D. C. ‘Offers of Would-Be Recruits Swamp Soldier of Fortune By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August21.—A tired soldier of fortune, Gen. Russell Hearn, laid a handful of letters on a table, called attention to their varied post- marks and said: “One day’'s mail. Guys from every- where want to join me.” Since Hearn let it be known a few weeks ago that he is assembling—not recruiting, positively not—other sol- diers of fortune to fight for China, he said he has been deluged with mail. “I haven't been able to sleep,” he complained. “Answering the time. “About 12,000 people have written me already, I guess,” Hearn said yes- terday. “Not only pilots, but cavalry- men and infantrymen and engineers | nurses. They all want to know when we leave and how we get there. “I can't tell them anything definite. There’s & law which makes it illegal to recruit men in the United States for service as combatants against a wation with which we are friendly. “Now I don’t wan't to violate the law. I'm even operating on my own funds. I refused to take money to meet my expenses, because that would be a technical violation. I'm trying to avoid breaking the law as much as possible.” Hearn, who is 35, says he was in the French Foreign Legion, fought in three Mexican revolutions, fought with the ‘White Russians and commanded a division of Manchurian troops from 1923 until 1928, admits that he was approached by a “high-ranking Chi- nese officer” with the idea of forming an “international brigade.” “The transportation problem is the vital one right now,” he explained. “Even if I had it, I couldn’t give these guys money to go to China. What I'll have to do is tell them to meet me there. But a lot of them are broke and won't be able to get there.” Hearn refused to indicate when he letters all | will leave tg join the Chinese. “That's Vething I can't tell any- body,” he said. But when he does leave, he promised the manner of his taking off will be “front-page” news. “People seem to think I'm in this for the dough,” Hearn scoffed. “My sympathies are with the Chinese. A force of 15,000 trained fighters ought to do some good over there.” Disappears Mrs. Rose Williams, 32, and her 6-year-old son Frank, one of the two children left behind when she disappeared early today two hours before her | with violence and intimidations from | the | | the “hatchet gang.” a name |S. W. 0. C. applied to a group of men | it charged was sponsored by the com- | pany and the Security League to | attack organizers. MAN IS ELECTROCUTED ON TRAIN AT ANNAPOLIS Killed by 1,200 Volts When He Plugs in Portable Headlight. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, August 21.—Magis- trate Joseph M. Armstrong, acting coroner, began an investigation today Baltimorean the Baltimore-Annapolis railroad here. Young was killed last night when he plugged in a portable headlight on the 10:15 train, which was preparing to leave for Baltimore. The light ap- parently became short circuited. A shock of 1200 volts passed through Young's ody. Goebbels Lures Austrian Nazis To Nuremberg Art Journey Is Cloak for Attendance at Party Meeting. By Radio to The Star. VIENNA, Austria, August 21.—The ingeniousness of Dr. Joseph Goebbels’ propaganda office in Berlin has suc- ceeded in finding a means to bring Austrian Nazi sympathizers to the forthcoming Nuremberg party meet- ing under the cloak of an art Journey, An important Austrian association known for its sympathies for Ger- many advertises a trip to Munich for the week end when the Nuremberg show begins. The purpose of the journey is given to inspect the ex- hibition of German and, particularly, of degenerate art in Munich. But the journey is so arranged that afternoon tea will be taken at Brau- nau, native town of Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler in Austria across from Bavaria, while in Munich train con- nections will be available to Nurem- berg. On the way back the group will visit Hitler's houte at Berchtesgaden, in the Bavarian Alps. husband, Malcolm Eugene Wil- liams,, was found shot to death The entire trip, including board, will cost $10 per person. (Copyright, 1937.) | tary Police. Volley ball—Headquarters Company. Track meet pennant—Medical De | tachment | Soft ball champions—Signal Corps A boxing show concluded the guar: sports program last night, ITALIAN RACERS MAY COMPETE HERE Count Rossi, World's Record Holder for Outboard Boats, Tentatively Accepts Bid. Count Theo Rossi of Italy, holder o the world record for outboard moto | into the death of James Young, 27,|boats over a measured mile course, | of Baltimore, who was electrocuted on | tentatively accepted yesterday the in | vitation of John A. Remon, president o | the President’s Cup Regatta, to com | pete here in the Potomac classic Sep tember 25 and 26. | In a telephone conversation wit Remon, the Italian racer declared h and his countryman, Signor Guidc | Cattaneo, planned to visit the Capita | after the Gold Cup races in Detroif on Labor day, for which they havd been pointing their two boats. Ross& | recently sped a measured mile at 90.9 miles per hour for a new mark. Count Rossi, whose recent marl | eclipsed the record previously held b: Cattaneo of 85.51 miles per hour and later by the Frenchman, Maurice Vas- seur, of 87.16, arrived in New Yor! with his two boats and meghanics yes terday. Vasseur, also planning to compete ir the Gold Cup races, is due to arrive | New York today with his boat and mechanics. {THOMAS EARL CROSON FUNERAL TO BE TODAY| Engine Dispatcher at Washington| Terminal Died on Thurs- day. Thomas Earl Croson, 55, of 532 Second street, for the last 30 years engine dispatcher at the Washington| Terminal, died Thursday in & loca hospital after a short illness. Funeral services are being held this afternoon in Hines funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street. Burial will be i Glenwood Cemetery. Mr. Croson was a native of Alex-| andria, Va. He is survived by his| widow, Mrs. Martha Croson; a daugh. ter, Mrs. Margaret Maynard, this city a s0n, Joseph M. Croson, an employd of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board; a brother. John W. Croson, this city, and a sister, Mrs, Roberta Hall, Takoma Park, Md. He also ves one grandchild.