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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Porecast.) Cloudy, possibly occasional light rain tonight and tomorrow; aftern®dn and night, day—Highest, 74, at'2 at 2 am. Full report on page A. colder tomorrow Temperatures to- pm.; lowest, 48, New York Stock Market Closed To.dny 85th YEAR. No. CHIEF CONSUL OF U. S. IN SYRIA ASSASS TheodoreMarriner Slain After Visa Refusal. WIDELY KNOWN AS A DIPLOMAT SixBulletsPumped Into Body—Killer Is Captured. > By the Assoctated Press. BEIRUT, Syria, October 12.—James Theodore Marriner, one of the best known American foreign service offi- cers, was shot and killed today by an Armenian to whom he had refused a visa to enter the United States. The assassin’s gun felled the tall, scholarly Consul General as he stepped from his automobile before his office for the start of the day's official busi- ness. Marriner's chauffeur captured the assassin. Police, after a preliminary investiga- tion, said the Kkiller's name was Me- jardich Karayan. They reported he pumped six bulltes from a revolver into Marriner at close range. The Consul General was struck in the head, | sbdomen and thigh. He died instantly. | Examined by Magistrate. An investigating magistrate exam- ined Karayan. The prisoner, police announced, admitted that Marriner’s Tefusal to issue a visa for the United States was the motive for the attack. The authorities said the .merican official had blocked Karayan's entry on the grounds of insanity in the Ar- menian’s family. Marriner had arrived at the con- sulate general from his mountain home in Broummana, outside Beirut, when he was attacked at 8:30 a.m. Marriner, 45 years old, was known throughout the diplomatic service in Europe as a quiet-spoken, effective agent of his Government. He was 6 feet tall and weighed absut 185 pounds. Except for three years in the State Department at Washington, 1923-1926, when he also handled Western Euro- pean affairs, Marriner spent most of his career in Europe. He was a former counselor of the United States Embassy at Paris, where he was known principally as an ad- viser on disarmament and European affairs. Weak Heart Shaped Career. PORTLAND, Me., October 12 ().— J. Theodore Marriner, native of Port- land, who was assassinated at Beirut, Syria, where he was United States Consul General, entered the diplo- matic service because of a weak heart, friends here said today. As a Harvard graduate student, | Marriner tried vainly to enlist in the armed forces when America entered | the World War. Each time he was turned down because of a heart weak- ened by boyhood illness. So Marriner turned to the diplo- | matic service, passing its examina- | tions and becoming third secretary at Stockholm. Born here in 1892, son of the late James E. Marriner and Mrs. Marriner, he was graduated from Portland’s public schools, and from Dartmouth College in 1914. While at Hanover he edited the college newspaper, the Dartmouth, and was a member of | Kappa Kappa Kappa Fraternity and the honorary scholastic fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa. At Harvard he took his master's and doctor’s degrees. | Besides his mother, Marriner leaves & sister, Mrs. Louis P. Hammett, wife of a Columbia University professor, at whose New York home Mrs. Mar- riner has been staying. (Article by Constantine Brown on Theodore Marriner's career on page A-2.) QUEZON TURNS WRATH ON ATTORNEYS OF RICH By the Assoclated Press. MANILA, October 12.—Common- wealth President Manuel Quezon turned his wrath on “attorneys of vested interests” today and threat- ened to launch a League for Social Justice if they continue to oppose his efforts to provide “real human jus- tice” for the masses. He said that while the islands are unprepared for the jury system, he would ask it§ installation if the attorneys, whom he did not identify, eontinued their opposition. Only last month Quezon bitterly denounced the “inhumanijty” of a Philippine court decision and de- clared, “If judges are going to decide cases like that, we aie going to have & revolution.” Sunday thousands of students adopted a resolution protesting against the “hasty manner and language with which his excellency (Quezon) commented” on the judiciary. Quezon said the students were mis- Jed. The decision Quezon assailed denied a worker'’s family compensa- tion from his employer after he had been drowned while at work. VIOLINIST RECOVERING PALEMBANG, Sumatra, October 12 (#).—Bronislaw Huberman, cele- brated Polish violinist, is recovering from pneumonia which developed after he was injured in an airplane crash last week. Four persons died in the crash of the K. L. M. Royal Dutch Airways liner near here. Huberman suffered & broken radius bone in the left 34,132, Entered as second class matter, post office, Washington, D. C. INATED . at THEODORE MARRINER. 180 STEAMFITTERS - STRIKE AT CAPITOL jWaIkout Threatens to Spread to Other Federal Jobs Here. With a threat that the walkout | will be extended to all Federal jobs in Washington, 125 to 150 steamfitters and helpers employed cn the $4,000,000 air-conditioning job at the Capitol, the | Senate Office Building and the two House Office Buildings, and installa- tion of the refrigerating plant in the | Capitol power plant, were called off | | the job at 11 a.m. today. | _ The strike was ordered by John M. Botts, representing the Steamfitters | and Helpers' Association, Labor Union §02. The strike resulted from employ- ment of four non-union men, who are | receiving the prevailing wage rate, | from M. H. Pagenhardt, an open-shop | contractor. | Pagenhardt, who has been working | job for installing new steam headers | and boilers in the power plant. This job has no relation to the in- stallation of the air-conditioning s | tem being put in the Capitol by the | York Manufacturing Co. David Lynn, architect of the Cap- itol, has arranged for a conference this afternoon of representatives of all | parties concerned. He emphasized that Pagenhardt was the low bidder, |is paying the prevailing wage rate, is | employed by the York Co. and that| | he has been fulfilling contracts at the | Capitol for more than a year without objection from the union. The installation of the air-condition- | ing system in the Capitol and Senate and House Office Buildings seems to | have been “jinxed” from the start. | Architect Lynn was first called on ta| submit estimates for the work within three or four days so that the estimates were largely a guess. After walls in the four buildings had large holes torn in them it was found out that the ap- propriation was insufficient because prices had increased. The project had | to be delayed until a deficiency appro- priation was granted. Since then there have been two strikes by the Steamfitters and Helpers' Union. The first, several months ago, because laborers employed to place the pipes in the trenches had placed some of them together in a way which the union men claimed was an infringe- ment on their job. S 0 S Calls Intercepted. SAN FRANCISCO, October 12 (#). —The Coast Guard and Mackay radio intercepted two S O § calls from an unidentified ship apparently off the Japanese coast early today. The Coast Guard said the signals were weak and believed to have origi- nated off the coast of Japan. The for more than a year on Capitol con- | tracts, was the low bidder on a $39,000 | general, said an immediate investiga- | not in any way connected with the job | the episode with the gravest concern in | on which the union steamfitters are view of the previous attack on Sir| ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1937—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. #%# JAPANESE PLANES PEPPER BRITAIN'S DIPLOMATIC CARS Two Squadrons Strafe 3 Automobiles Bearing Union Jacks. NONE OF OCCUPANTS WOUNDED IN ATTACK Machine-Gunning Is Continued After Men Flee Vehicles Near Shanghai. BACKGROUND— Nationals and diplomats of third countries have been under increas- ing danger within Sino-Japanese “war” zone, and August 26 British Ambassador to China, Sir Knatch- bull-Hugessen, was critically wounded by Japanese planes which machined-gunned and bombed his car traveling on road from Nanking 50 miles from Shanghai. Japan ul- timately apologized and promised punishment for the aviators in- volved. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, October 12.—Three automobiles belonging to the Brit- ish Embassy were machine-gunned today by two squadrons of Japanese warplanes. None of the occupants was injured. The staff cars in which S. S. Mur- ray, the assistant air attache of the British Embassy, was riding with sev- eral other Englishmen, were attacked by the raiding Japanese planes near Minghong, 14 miles south of Shang- hai, about 4 p.m. Although the three motor cars car- ried the Union Jack, the British offi- cials said, the Japanese warplanes continued their machine gunning after the occupants jumped from the ma- chines and sought cover. Attackers Japanese. The British asserted the cars could have been identified easily and added there was no doubt that the attack- ing planes were Japanese. With Murray and the other Eng- lishmen in the automobiles, British officials stated, was a Soviet Embassy secretary named Shahov. He had been picked up 10 minutes before the attack, when his car broke down. Herbert Philiips, British consul tion had been ordered, although no details of the assault had yet been received by his office. The Embassy staff cars were en route to Shanghai from Nanking on the same highway on which two Japa- nese planes recently seriously injured the British Ambassador to China by bombing and machine gunning the automobile in which he was making a similar journey. British sources received the news of | Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, the Am- | bassador. Chinese Aid Sought. ‘The British Consul General imme- | diately communicated with the Chi-| nese authorities requesting their as sistance in the investigation. It was understood that Chinese military au- (See CHINA, Page A-5.) KING BACK IN LONDON George Returns With Queen After Holiday in Scotland. LONDON, October 12 (#).—King George and Queen Elizabeth returned to London today after a 10-week holi- day in Scotland and hurried to Buck- ingham Palace for the first official engagement of the busy Fall season. One hundred and fifty American Legionnaires and their wives were | received informally in one of the state | drawing rooms on the first floor. The King, looking rested and remarkably fit, was cheered by a crowd of about 200 at Euston Station. A Quake in Holy Land. JERUSALEM, October 12 (#).—A slight earth tremor was felt this morn- ing at Jerusalem, Jericho and Beer- sender did not identify himself. Summary of Page. Amusements - B-20 Auto Puzzle A-14 | Radio Page. Obituary 2 Comics . B-18-19 Editorisls _..A-10 Finance ... A-14| Sports __ A-15-17 Lost & Found B-14 | Woman's Pg. B-12 WAR IN FAR EAST. Japanese planes strafe three British diplomatic cars. Page A-1 Nanking bombed by 25 Japanese war planes. Page A-4 FOREIGN. TU. 8. Consul General is slain in Beirut, Syria. Page A-1 Spanish Loyalists to quit Valencia for Barcelona. Page A-4 British prepare to put pressure on Italy. Page A-4 NATIONAL. iy Al Brady and aide slain by G-men in Bangor. Page A-1 Varied subject matter seen for “fireside chat” tonight. Page ‘A-1 Former attorney loses appeal to Su- preme. Court. Page A-2 Possible increase in Federal revenue estimates seen. Page A-2 Young Mussolini flies to N. Y. after chat with President. Page A-4 Wallace faces job of picking farm tenancy committeemen. Page A-13 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY, Steamfitters strike on Capitol Hill Jobs, Page A-1 “Art for public's sake” is aim of un- precedented campaign. Page A-1 Serial Story_. B-8 Society .. . B-3 sheba. No damage was reported. Today's Star Restaurant keeper shoots would-be burglar. Page A-4 Total of $10,000 needed to begin free lunch service. Page B-1 Minimum Wage Board members ex- plain functions. Page B-1 Two brothers wounded in restaurant shooting affray. Page B-1 K. of C. parade to climax Columbus day here. Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. ¢ Page A-10 This and That. Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Page A-10 Political Mill. Page A- Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-10 David Lawrence. Page A-11 H. R. Baukhage, Page A-11 Mark Sullivan. Page A-11 Jay Franklin. Page A-11 Delia Pynchon. Page A-11 SPORTS Yankees rated peer of any team in history. Page A-15 White Sox near fourth straight Chi- cago city title. Page A-15 Early Fall harvest of gridiron upsets is high. Page A-16 Harvard ready to join Cornell in big grid comeback. Page A-17 MISCELLANY. Shipping News. Traffic Convictions. Vital Statistics. City News in Brief. Dorothy Dix. Betsy Caswell. Page A-6 Page A-6 Page A-6 Page A-7 Page B-12 Page B-12 Bedtime Stories. Page B-14 Independent budget office for D. C. to be urged. Page A-2 forearm and two broken fingers of the right hand. ) . $ Nine perwnl hurt in D. C. and nearby trafiic Page A3 [ Nature'’s Children. Cross-word Puzzle. Letter-Out. Winning Contract. Page B-14 Page B-18 Page B-18 PageB-18 ALBRADY AND AIDE SLAIN BY C-MEN IN BANGOR GUNFIGHT U. S. Agent and Third Gang- ster Hurt in Firing in Busy Street. TRIO CAUGHT IN TRAP FOR PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1 Indiana Mobster and Two Com- panions Walk Out of Store Into Gunfire of Federal Men. BACKGROUND— Al Brady, an Indiana hoodlum, has been No. 1 man on the G-men’s list since a year ago yesterday, when, with two companions—Clar- ence Shafler, jr., and James Dal- hover—he escaped jail at Green- field, Ind. Several murders in hold-ups were laid at the door of the Brady gang as it terrorized the countryside in Indiana and Ohio. Its members’ armed bravado against officers of the law was notorious. BY the Associated Press. BANGOR, Me., October 12 —Federal sleuths, operating with characteristic precision, today erased with a hail of machine gun fire the notorious Al Brady gang of Indiana outlaws. Swept to swift death as the Federals struck suddenly were Brady, leader of the gang, and Clarence Shaffer, jr., one of his henchmen. A third member, James Dalhover, threw down his pistol and surrendered after a machine gun bullet flecked his nose. He was quickly lodged in a jail cell. Only one G-man suffered injury, and he, Walter Walsh. was shot in the shoulder. At the Eastern Maine Gen- eral Hospital surgeons said they be- lieved his wound was not serious. The showdown between the Gov- ernment and the gangsters came as the latter left a sporting goods store they had visited to buy pistol cart- ridges. A Federal officer and a mem- ber of the Bangor police were in the store and the three gunmen became suspicious and fled. Met by Machine Guns. As Brady emerged, pistol in hand, they were met by a hsil of machine gun slugs directed by G-men con- cealed in a vacant building across the street. An attempt was made by the gunmen to return the fire, but spectators sald thé fusillade lasted less than five minutes. Brady then lay writhing on the pavement, blood gushing from his chest. Shaffer lay beside him, his head and chest riddled. Dalhover fled up an alley and attempted to hide, but he offered no resistance when Inspector Frank Golden of the Bangor police came up and snapped handcuffs about his wrists. In an automobile the gunmen had parked outside the store, officers found two Army machine guns, a can of engine oil and blankets. The car bore Ohio registration plates numbered KY747 After the coup, the officers said 17 Federal officers, headed by Myron Guerney, had been in the city working on the case during the last four days. They sprang into action today when Inspector Frank McClay of the Bangor police reported the bandit car was entering the city. Gang Had Awaited Guns. The Federal officers, as is their custom, declined to discuss their latest victory over outlawry, but Thomas J. Crowley, chief of the Bangor police, disclosed the Brady gang had been waiting a week for arrival of the two machine guns found in the bandit car. He sald it was his opinion a fourth member of the Brady “mob” was in the city, presumably the gangster who brought the machine guns. Crowley estimated that about 30 shots were fired in the brief but deadly fusillade. The Brady gang had enjoyed the unsavory prominence of occupying the head of the G-men's “wanted” list since finis was written to the career of John Dillinger. In the killing of Brady, the Depart- ment of Justice ended a career which they charge included the murder of an Indianapolis police sergeant, Richard Rivers; an Indiana State policeman, Paul Minneman, and Ed- ward Linsey, a Piqua, Ohio, grocery clerk. Brady also led his mob in numerous raids on banks in the Midwest, the officers said. He was known, like (See BRADY, Page A-5.) Baby Boy Dead, Revived, Lives After His Birth By the Associated Press. JERSEY CITY, N. J,, October 12.— A healthy baby boy squawked his mightiest today in evidence that though he had been dead for 15 min- utes he had lived 10 days since. then and was good for some time to come. Dr. Edward G. Waters, division chief of obsterics at Margaret Hague Ma- ternity Hospital, beamed proudly at the child as he described the rare case to a group of physiclans and surgeons from New Jersey and New York. Shortly after the mother, Mrs. Isabel Garry, arrived at the Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital October 1, Dr. Wa- ters said, a stethescopic examination of the unborn child revealed its heart had stopped beating. Assisted by the family physician, Dr. Morris Feldman, and Dr. Arthur B. R. Smith, anestheticlan, Dr. Waters made the delivery. He injected 50 drops of adrenalin directly into the baby’s heart, and 40 seconds later a heartbeat was detected. Dr. Smith ap- plied artificial respiration and about five minutes later the child drew its first breath. ‘Twenty minutes passed. The young- ster uttered a weak cry and since then has increased his vocal power and added to his birth weight of ¢ pounds 15 ounces. NOT A BAD OL’ COURT AT THAT! C.1.0. WILL SPUR ZINDUSTRY DRIVE Convention Hears Repbrts on Steel and Textile Onslaughts. BY JOHN C. HENRY, Btaff Correspondent of The Star. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, October 12.—Continued onslaughts on two of the Nation's giant industries, those | of steel and textiles, with expenditures of $1,000,000 already accounted for in each, were outlined to leaders of the Committee for Industrial Organi- zation, assembled here today. The progress and the prospects of these major engagements were dis- closed to the conferees by Philip Mur- ray, chairman of the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee, and Sidney Hillman, chairman of the Textile ‘Workers' Organizing Committee. Hillman characterized yesterday by William Green, president of the Amer- jcan Federation of Labor, as the Machiavelli of the C. I. O., told the session here that the whirlwind textile campaign of the last seven months has cost the C. I O. $970,000, but has brought signed membership cards | from 456,000 workers and signed work- ing contracts with 425 individual tex- tile concerns. Pay Rises Cited. Under the contracts, he said, 258,150 workers have received average wage increases of 30 per cent while the other workers have been granted 20 per cent wage increases. In another six months, he promised, twice as many companies will be under contract. . Earlier today Murray had reported growth of the steel union from 10,000 in June, 1936, -to 525,000 on October 1 of this year with 434 companies under contracts. This drive, it was| disclosed, cost the C. I. O. proper more than $960,000 with additional funds coming from the S. W. O. C.’s own income. Much of the expense, Murray noted, was occasioned by thé tactics of the bloc of four independent companies — Republic, Bethlehem, Youngstown and Inland—in refusing to negotiate. The latter two subsequently have signed agreements through Gov. Townsend of Indiana, but 10,000 workers still are technically on strike against Republic and will continue 50 indefinitely, Murray said for the time being, there is virtually no S. W. O. C. activity at Bethlehem. Board Election Victories. As these two of the key leaders in the C. I. O. made their reports, the conferees also heard from John Brophy, executive director, a sum- marization of National Labor Rela- tions Board elections showing 291 C. 1. O, victories in 374 polls con- ducted by the board. Of these victories, Brophy reported, 108 were scored against rival A. F. of L unions while 60 were won over company unions. By comparison, A. F. of L. unions won 25 such skirmishes while 37 company unions were vic- torious. The C. I. O. was unopposed in the remaining ballots. A third organization report for the morning was given by Heywood Broun of the American Newspaper Guild, who claimed 15,000 members for the newsmen’s union. Criticizes Publishers. - Broun sharply criticized the news- paper publishers for fighting the guild on a platform cry of preserving the “freedom of the press” and charged the A. F. of L. has patently attempted to break up the organ- ization by establishment of a dual union, The guild president reported strikes now being carried on at the Seattle Star and the Brooklyn Eagle are proving “an extreme drain on our resources.” Guild contracts, he said, have “lop- ped off 10,000,000 unpaid for hours of work a year for American newspaper men” through the reduction of work weeks from an average of 55 to 40. As the C. I. O. meeting devoted its attention to these reports an under cover explosion in the United Auto- mobile Workers appeared near with the arrival of Walter Reuther and Wyndham Mortimer, leaders in the faction - fighting President Homer Martin. Al sides in the intra- union battle declined any comment, but it is expected that the C. I. O. leadership and possibly the entire group sssembled here may be drawn into the controversy before the week s out, | ington University; Mrs. Henry Grat The Star Launches Campaign Of ‘Art for Public’s Sake’ (P) Means Associated Pre: Color Reproductions of 48 Great Paint-| ings to Be Distributed—Sponsored ‘by Leading Citizens. OINING in a Nation-wide movement sponsored by the National Com- | mittee for Art Appreciation, The Star today announces the opening of an unprecedented 12-week educational campaign to promote “art ! for the public's sake” among men, women and children of Washington and vicinity. With the collaboration of the National Committee and the support of | a notable group of national and local sponsors, The Star has agreed to | serve as the committee’s representative in the Nation’s Capital for the | distribution of color reproductions of 48 great paintings—old masters and moderns—selected by prominent art connoisseurs. Natlonal sponsors of the plan in-| clude John W. Studebaker, United | States commissioner of education; Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford | University; C. Powell Minnigerode, | director, Corcoran Gallery of Art; Horace H. F. Jayne, director, Amer- ican Federation of Arts, Frederick P. Keppel, president, Carnegie Corp.; George B. Cutten, president, Colgate University, and many other noted | educators and art leaders. Local Sponsors’ Committee, The local Committee of Sponsors consists of Commissioner George E. Allen, Dr. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, pres- ident, National Geographic Society; Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secretary, Smithsonian Institution; Dr. Cloyd | Heck Marvin, president, George Wash- tan Doyle, president, Board of Edu- cation; Robert Woods Bliss, former diplomat and Metropolitan Museum of Art: Mrs. Eugene Meyer, wife of the publisher of the Washington Post; David E. Finley, lawyer and representative of | the Mellon Art and Educational Trust; Duncan Phillips of the" Phillips Me- morial Gallery, Charles Bittinger, past president, Arts Club of Washington, and two national sponsors—Mr. Min- nigerode and Mr. Jayne. | The Board of Education, by unani-; Pa,, mous vote of its membership, has in-| for manslaughter in connection with a fatal automobile accident last April, of schools, to distribute to the teach- | Was being held for local authorities ers of the public schools sample pic-' today by police at Lancaster, Pa. Miss Peal was indicted here Au- gust 20 as the driver of an auto- mobile in which William K. Price, 35, of Lincoln University, Chester City, | was fatally injured about the | first of April. suffered a fractured skull and other injuries when the auto- mobile in which he was riding with Miss Peal crashed into the rear end of a street car on Rhode Island ave- nue near Sixteenth street northeast. Police said the street car was taking on passengers at the time of the accident. Miss Peal was treated for cuts and bruises and later left the city. A detective was to be sent from head- quarters today to return Miss Peal to Washington. Following the accident, Miss Peal was charged with reckless driving. The charge was dropped in Police Court, however, and she left the city before Price died in a hospital here. After Price’s death, a coroner’s jury ordered her held for the grand jury. Lookouts were posted following her indictment last August. dorsed the project and has authorized Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent | tures and informative literature, with a request that the campaign be brought to the attention of all stu- dents under their supervision. In taking this unusual action the board| Pa., recognized the definite educational value of the undertaking. Civic and cultural benefits of the | program will be outlined in a special radio broadcast over Station WMAL today at 6 p.m. by Commissioner Al- len, Dr. Marvin and Fleming Newbold of The Evening Star. The broadcast will be the first of a series arranged with the co-operation of the National Broadcasting Co. Perfection of Reproductions. The reproductions, to be sold at a price within the reach of nearly every one, are the result of a recently de- veloped multicolor printing process which it is claimed makes it possible to retain with complete fidelity all the color and spiritual values of the artists’ originals. ‘The selected paintings represent work of the great artists of five cen- turies, from the Italian Renaissance to the present time. They are ar- ranged in 12 sets of four paintings each. One set will be issued each week, beginning this week and con- tinuing for three months. Each set will illustrate the type or or country. One group, for example, refers to the Italian Renaissance, and includes paintings by Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian and Da Vinci. The (See ART, Page A-3.) Free Art Supplement Today Readers of The Star will find inclosed in today’s paper an 11-by-14 multicolor reproduction of Goya’s fa- rio de Zuniga.” This icture of the little Spanish prince, with his pets, is geing given free to all subscribers today, as a sample of the prints of 48 famous paintings to be distributed by The Star at a moderate price within the reach of all during a 12-week Art Appreciation Campaign which mous painting, “Don Manuel begins today. Nearl, in Washington and vicinity will wantets:sy;celrrint’;h?s]: remarkableg;orints. " For full details about the campaign, in- cluding how you may obtain a complete set of these pictures for your home or studio, turn to pages A 8-9 of today’s Star. Radio Broadcast. The origin, scope and objectives of the art appreciation campaign in Washington and vicinity, be- gun today by The Star, will be described in a special broadcast today at 6 p.m. over Radio Station life member of the WOMAN Is SE|ZED FOR ACCIDENT HERE Pennsylvanian Indicted for Man- slaughter in Traffic Fatality Last April. the 27, of Oxford, who is under indictment here Miss Betty Peal, Ring Lost 31 Years Found. CHICAGO, October 12 (#).—Mrs. Joseph Burnett was pulling up tomato vines in her garden when she spotted a wedding ring in the roots of a plant. school of painting of a given period| An inscription identified it as belong- ing to Mrs. Matt Van Parys, once occupied the Burnett's home. Mrs. Van Parys said she lost the ring 31 years ago while washing clothes. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 144,044 (S8ome returns not yet received.) HELD IM BACKGROUND— questions in lined in Chicago and Just how far is he toward reviving tazes? BY J. RUSSELL vember. tions and adjustment ones. House Leaders on tucky returned to the It also was stated ’thonty that Speaker legislation. of the subcommittee Vinson were strongly They said an effort undistributed profits the nuisance taxes. question of finally drafted. The subcommittee Vinson and will meet week in November. will be conducted by The President was “fireside chat.” representative lowing & call on the TWO CENTS. SPECIAL SESSION FOR NEXT MONTH MINENT President to Have “Impor- tant Announcement” at Press Parley Today. TWO HOUSE LEADERS REPORTED RETURNING At Capitol, 0'Connor Changes His Mind and Now Feels “Very Sure” of Meeting. When President Roosevelt closed his Western trip there were many the people’s mind. They wanted to hear more about his mew active foreign policy, out- developed the next day by the State Department. When is Congress to be convened? willing to go the processing YOUNG. Indications that President Roose- velt sometime today will announce his decision to call a special session of Congress for next month were seen to- day in a White House announcement and developments on Capitol Hill. It was stated at the White House that Mr. Roosevelt would have an "im- portant announcement” at his press conference this afternoon. - Expecta- tions were the announcement would deal with the extra session. At the Capitol Chairman O'Connor of the House Rules Committee, who expressed the belief there would be no extra session two weeks ago, said he has changed his mind and now feels “very sure” there will be a special ses- sion beginning about the middle of No- As the President completed work on | his radio speech of tonight, assurance was given at the White House that a tax bill will be reported out in the House at the next session. The meas- ure is expected to provide for modifica~ in the undis- tributed profits and nuisance taxes, but |is not expected to provide any new Way Back. O’Connor made his announcement |as he, Chairman Doughton of the | House Ways and Means Comumittee Commissioner George. E. Allen | |and Representative Vinson of Ken- Cloyd Heck Marvin, members of the Sponsoring Com- mittee, will speak on cultural and civic aspects of the program, and Fleming Newbold of The Star will give details of the plan. This will be the first of a series of broadcasts arranged through courtesy of the National Broad- Capitol from a | conference at the White House. on reliable au- Bankhead and House Leader Rayburn are on their way back to Washington. Doughton and Vinson were supposed to have been talking with the Presi- dent as a special subcommittee on tax Vinson also is chairman sponsoring the fourth of the administration’s reorgan- ization bills, which would create & new office of auditor general Both Representatives Doughton and of the opinion there will be no additional taxes. will be made to make necessary corrections in the tax as well as They indicated continuing the nuisance taxes will be considered by the committee before the bill is President Works on Talk. which will do the preliminary work is headed by about the first There will be public hearings, but it has not been decided whether these the subcommit- tee or the full committee. still busily en= gaged this morning putting the finish- ing touches to tonight's radio address. Probably no utterances he has de- livered recently has been looked for- ward to with more interest than this It was learned at the White House that Crown Prince Gustaf Adolfus of | Sweden would be a house guest at the White House next June, when he comes to this country as the official of Sweden at cere- monies to be held at Wilmington, Del., commemorating the 300th anniversary of the founding of the first Swedish colony in the Delaware River Valley. This was announced by W. Bostrom, Swedish Minister to this country, fol- President. After tonight's radio speech the (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-5.) - SENATE WILL PROBE who By the Associated Press. Arizona. ernment’s resources.” potash in California. a tract (in California) ernment. the lake, POTASH SYNDICATE Activities of Foreign Groups in Principal Sources in U. §. Questioned. PUEBLO, Colo., October 12.—Senator Alva B. Adams of Colorado said today a Senate subcommittee soon will in- vestigate activities of a foreign syndi= cate in two of this country’s principal potash sources in California and “It is our object,” he explained, “to find out just what the situation is, who controls this syndicate and what can be done about protecting the Gov- The Senator said it has been re- ported a syndicate of British and Ger- man origin is tapping a supply of The world supe ply, he added, is limited and value able in the production of munitions, “Through some method which is not quite clear,” Adams said, “a for- eign syndicate has got around our land patent laws and has obtained which includes about 15 per cent of a lake's surface. ‘The remainder is owned by the Gov- “However, in taking anything from the syndicate is able to drain the United States-owned por- tion as well as the part it controls.”