Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight and tomorrow; warmer tonight; moderate to fresh south winds. Temperatures today—Highest, 69, at 2 p.m.; lowest, 44, at 6 a.m. Full report on page A-13. Late New York Mark ets, Page 18 85th YEAR. No. 34,138. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. The WASHINGTON, Fhoeni WITH SUNDAY MORN D. C, MONDAY, OC ING EDITION TOBER 18, LOST AIRLINER SIGHTED:;KILUNG OF 440 TWO FROM D. C. AMONG 19|INFIGHT REPORTED DOWN IN WYOMING HILLS|N Sl Afc Searching Pilot, Unable to Tell If Any Live. BAD CRACK-UP, FIRE FEARED Wreckage Is Held Scattered; 10-Mile Foot Trip Seen. By the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, October 18.—A giant “Mainliner” of the United Air- lines, lost 14 hours with 19 persons, was sighted in rugged Southwestern ‘Wyoming today with first indications it either had been wrecked or burned. Whether any one had escaped alive could not be determined until ground searchers reached the scene—a mat- ter of hours. Arthur Willoughby, postal inspector, said he “understood” the plane was “burned or badly cracked up.” “They have nothing definite on it vet, but it is my understanding the men who found the ship got the im- pression it either had been badly smashed or had been partially burned,” Willoughby said Among the passengers on the missing airliner were Mrs. Campbell Prichett, socially prominent in Washington and Charles D. Renouf, also of Washing- ton, a former U. A. L. district traffic manager. Is a Desolate Spot. The plane was located by air| gearchers a relatively short distance | from an emergency landing field on | its regular westbound route from | Cheyenne, Wyo., to Salt Lake City. The nearest settlements were Evans- ton. Wyo., to the east, and Knight, | ‘Wyo., to the west. The rugged, deso-! late spot was about 85 miles east of Salt Lake City and was known to resi- dents there as Haydens Peak or Poi cupine Ridge. R. W. Schroeder, vice president of | United, announced the mighty trans- | continental transport was sighted Bob Bergensen, pilot, and Observ Bill Williams, who then radioed [h[‘yl would land at the Knight, Wyo., field, near the Utah border. In rough, broken country, the scene of the apparent crash can be reathed only by a difficult wagon road. Schroe- | der said. Rain and snow may make access even more difficult. | Hayden's Peak is a promentory | Jutting out of the wilderness country | at the eastern edge of the Wasatch Mountain range. An Evanston party of searcher: organized by Sheriff F. L. Narramore, intended to go first to some flats| about 10 miles from the peak, where they would enlist a party to climb the mountain side. | 10-Mile Trip By Foot. | The Evanston sheriff estimated a circuitous 10-mile trip on foot or pos- | sibly more would be required from | the nearest point where a horse or wagon could approach the plane. | The terrain prohibits the use of automobiles. Narramore made this comment: “The meagery, information reaching | my office does not indicate whether any of the persons aboard the plane | escaped injury, but there is sufficient evidence to believe the plane was| badly damaged, as one report said| wreckage could be seen for some dis- tance from the i Radioed “All 0. K.” Evanston is 85 miles northeast of tah’s capital, on the east side of the mighty Wasatch range of mountains. The plane, with 16 passengers and a crew of 3, left Cheyenne at 6:25 pm. (M. S. T.) last night for Salt Lake City, and was due here at 8:42 pm. (M. S. T). At 8:16 p.m. Pilot Earl D. Woodgerd reported he was over Rock Springs, ‘Wyo., 75 miles east of Salt Lake City. “Slightly rough. All O. K.” was his report. It was the last word from the | plane. At that time a drizzling rain and heavy fog blanketed Southwestern ‘Wyoming. This morning there was only a 200-foot ceiling at Cheyenne, and spotty weather conditions pre- vailed generally. Snow fell at Denver. The Air Commerce Bureau at Wash- ington dispatched seven airline in- spectors from Oakland, Calif.; Los Angeles and Chicago to aid in the search. The plane did not have sufficient fuel to remain aloft until daybreak. The transport left Chicago at 12:30 pm. (C. S. T.) yesterday. Many Possible Landing Sites. Airmen said that the expanse be- tween Rock Springs and Salt Lake City, which crosses the treacherous ‘Wasatch Mountains, was blanketed in heavy clouds yesterday and that it rained much of the day. Shortly after midnight the clouds (See PLANE, Page A-3) PLANE WITH IRON LUNG TAKING GIRL TO HOME Paralysis Victim Being Flown in Craft Obtained Through Plea to Roosevelt. By the Assoclated Press. TULSA, Okla, October 18.—An Army airplane, obtained through an appeal to President Roosevelt, will be used today to carry Dorothy Ruth Chastain, 16-year-old infantile paraly- sis victim, to her home at Wichita Falls, Tex. The plane, fitted with an “iron ~lung,” was to have arrived yere yes- terday, but was forced down’at Okla- homa City by bad weather. After the girl was brought to a hospital here five weeks ago, Wichita Falls residents purchased the “lung” through popular subscription. MRS. CAMPBELL PRICHETT. 3 WELL KNOWN HER Mrs. Prichett Left D. C.-on, Friday—Renouf on Way j | to Coast for Rest. Mrs. Campbell Prichett, Washing- ton socialite, and Charles D. Renouf. former district traffic manager for | United Airlines here, were among the | passengers listed cn the missing United transcontinental plane. J Mrs. Prichett has been making her home with her aunt, Mrs. Sidney Clo- | man, in the Cordova Apartments. She | visit her father in California. and had | planned to remain in Chicago over the | week end. | The former Natalie Campbell, Mrs. | Prichett was divorced from Wilson | Prichett, who resides in Haverford, Pa. Their son, Wilson, jr., is in school. The engagement of Mrs. Prichett and Eugene L. Vidal, former director | of the Bureau of Air Commerce of the | Commerce Department, was reported last Summer, but denied. For the past year Mrs. Prichett had been a contributing writer for the society department of The Star. Renouf was on his way to California for a rest because of poor health, friends here said today. He had been transferred from his position as district traffic manager for United Airlines here to a similar position in Pittsburgh about six months age and had just resigned there to “take it easy” for a while in California in an cffort to improve his health, friends said. Renouf, 29 years old, is well known in commercial aviation circles through- out the East. A native of Pennsyl- vania and a graduate of Ohio State University, he came to Washington about four years ago as district traffic manager for Transcontinental & West- ern Air. Several months Jater he re- signed and worked with Eastern Air- lines at Boston for a while, return- ing here more than a year ago as dis- trict traffic manager for United. He is a member of the Junior Board of Commerce in Washington and of the Bon Vivants, travel club. His wife resides here at 2318 Huidekoper place. They formerly lived at the Park Cen- tr 1 Apartment Hotel. She was over- come when informed her husband was aboard the airliner. Recluse Found Dead in Coffin He Made of Box The body of Littletor L. Walker, 80-year-old recluse, who had led a life of mystery for the past 25 years behind the padlocked iron doors of his home at 4840 Reservoir road, was found to- day in a crude, coffin-like box with a glass door. Police battered down a door of the dilapidated structuyre and found the box containing the body in the attic. Apparently the man had been dead four or five days. His body was taken to the District Morgue, where, pending an autopsy, no cause of death was given. Seventh precinct police said Walker had lived alone in the vine-draped home for 25 or 30 years. All of the doors of the place, they said. were “(See RECLUSE, Page A-2) { —Underwood Photo. TWO ON AIRLINER CHARLES D. RENOUF. | left Washington Friday afternoon to| (Other pictures on page A-3.) List of Passengers THREE ABOARD WERE MEMBERS OF CRAFT'S CREW. CHICAGO, October 18 (#).—Harold Crary, vice president in charge of traffic for United Airlines, announced today the names of the 16 passengers and three crew members on an airliner missing between Rock Springs, Wyo., and Salt Lake City, Utah. Members of the crew were Pilot Earl W. Woodgerd, Denver; Copilot John B. Adams, Denver, and Stewardess Leah Derr, Cheyenne, Wyo. Crary said passengers on the ship were: Louis Cleaner, Portland, Oreg., com- pany copilot, riding as a passenger. / George Ferreria, Cheyenne, Wyo., company mechanic. Mrs. Phyllis Ferreria, his wife. Ralph McKeown, Glendale, Calif., company employe. John Conboy, Cleveland, Ohio, com- pany employe. Charles D. Rencuf, Washington, D. C., former company employe. 'W. Pischell, Salt Lake City, real es- tate man. William Pitt, news reel man. J. Pergola, New York, Pathe news reel man. Mrs. Campbell Prichett of Wash- ington, D. C. D. A. McMillan, Murray, Utah, president, First National Bank of Murray. Mrs. J. Hammer, Cleveland. W. J. Hart, Sharon, Pa. Charles Jamison of the Denver Produce Co. C. L. Jensen, San Francisco. Dr. L. Cross, flying from Cleveland to Sacramento. s Gas Masks for Babies. LONDON, October 18 (#).—Home office experts announced today they would conduct gas mask fitting trials on babies Wednesday at an infants’ nursing home at Hawkhurst, Kent. New York, Pathe The babies, some only a few months'| old, thus will serve as models for the rest of Great Britain’s baby population in the event of an air raid. EE s Ty Confession Is Announced. COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 18 (#).— Police Lieut. Thomas A. Scully re- ported today that Donald White, 29- year-old former convict, had confessed abducting 10-year-old Betty Jane Rush, but denied assaulting the child during the six hours sbe was held cap- tive in a vacant house October 9, i3 | air 'LAG IS PREDICTED Death Battalion of 1,400 Chinese and 3,000 of Foe Declared Slain. FOREIGNERS FEARFUL AS BOMBING RESUMES Shells Fall in Hitherto Safe French Concession Where Many Americans Live. BACKGROUND— War in Far East already has wiped out years of progress in China. Over $700,000 is declared amount needed monthly to feed refugees in Shanghai alone. Vast area of China already is dominated by Japan, and Tokio leaders threaten further devasta- tion. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, October 18.—Chinese authorities said today that a death battalion of 1,400 Chinese troops and more than 3,000 Japanese attackers were killed in a battle for possession of Tazang, about 5 miles northwest of Shanghai. They described the engagement, in which Chinese fought to protect supply bases, as the heaviest single encounter in the Shanghai area since hostilities began. Col. Chin Ching-wu, commander of the Chinese force at Tazang, had de- clared they would fight to the last man. After 30 hours of continuo battle against Japanese infantry, sup- ported by planes and naval guns, Col Chin was killed and his force wiped out. Bombing Is Resumed. Resuming the bombing of civilian areas outside Shanghai, Japanese planes were said to have killed and wounded more than 200 Chinese, most- ly peasants. Chinese authorities estimated that 100 were killed and injured in an air raid on Chenju, where the American- | installed $1,000,000 Chinese govern- ment radio station is located. Thirty civilians were reported killed at Hung- jao, where Japanese airmen were said to have machine-gunned the populace. At least 60 noncombatants were said | to have been casualties of a Japanese | attack on a passenger train in | the Changan station, 20 miles north of Shanghai. International Settlement Fearful. Chinese and Japanese air raids and | anti-aircraft shelling caused increasing | fears in the International Settlement that Shanghai may suffer a repeti- tion of the *“bloody Saturday” ca- | tastrophe of August 14 There was a growing demand among | foreign residents for some sort of | remedial action. It was learned that | " (See CHINA, Page A-3) IN FARM DEMAND U. S. Experts Forecast Business Slack Will Be Reflected in Consumers’ Incomes. By the Associated Press. Government economists, for the first | time.in more than a year, today fore- | cast a lag in domestic consumer de- mand for farm products. They said the general downward trend in business and industry of re- cent weeks would be reflected “to some extent in consumer incomes be- forg the end of the year.” The forecast came from the Bureau >f Agricultural Economics after a broad survey of Government and private data. It said recent declines in prices of stocks and commodities revealed a “general spirit of hesitation on the part of business.” “Last Winter and Spring,” the econ- omists said, “pronounced business op- timism led to much advance buyving and many price increases of a spec- ulative nature.” This spurt carried along early this year, they said, as many important in- dustries operated on unfilled orders “at a rate considerably in excess of current sales.” I JESSE HJoNES. NEW DEAL CRYSTAL 1937—THIRTY-SIX ng Star PAGES. %% %% 1 SEE FDK. STRENUOUSLY TRYING TO BALANCE THE BUDGET! WOULDNT TRY _OLAUNTIC ¢ BROALCASTBAND WOENEDBYF £ Reallocation Brings “10 Times Ether Space” Un- der Regulation. By the Associated Press The, Communications Commission opened up a huge new field of radio transmission today by a widespread | reallocation of radio frequencies from | 10, to 300,000 kilocycles The order, effective as of October | 13, last. will affect all fields of radio | communication The reallocation, the commissiol said, brought under regulation 1 times the ether space” that previously has been regulated ir the United ! States. | Heretofore the commission's rules with respect to the use of radio for | practical purposes have been confined | to the spectrum from 10 to 25,000 kilocycles. Commercial Stations Allotment. The commission assigned 75 chan- | | | nels in the band from 41,020 to 43,980 | kilocycles to the “regular” aural. or | commercial, broadcast stations which | up to this time have operated on fre- | quencies from 550 to 1.600 kilocycles. The commission assigned channels | from 44,000 to 108,000 kilocycles for available television service. In this connection, the commission said, there does not appear to be “an | immediate outlook for the recognition | of television service on a commercial | bagis.” The commission assigned 16 chan- | nels from 30.830 to 39,820 kxlocycles: for relay broadcast stations. | For police service the commission | | allocated frequencies between 30,000 | of broadcasts during the e |and 40.000 kilocycles for 29 stations. | campaign, conducted in co-operation | Four Italian Renaissance Features Art Appreciation This W eek| | mission Old . Masters of “Golden Age” Pre- sented by The Star. The “Golden Age” of art, born with sthe Italian Renaissance and spread | throughout Europe and the rest of the | world from Florence, the “Cradle of | Painting.” is the feature this week of | The Star's art appreciation campaign. Off to a flying start for the second week of the 12-week program, The | Star and the National Committee for Art Appreciation are presenting the works of the world's greatest painters. | Composing the second set of the 48 amous paintinge offered in the art project are “Mona Lisa,” by Leonardo da Vinci. “The Creation of Adam,” by| Michelangelo. “Madonna Tempi,” by Raphael “The Duke of Ferrara,” by Titian. Feature Weekly Broadcast. These artists and thefr work will | be the feature of the weekly radio | broadcast on the art campaign, to be presented at 7:45 o'clock tonight over Station WRC, through the courtesy of the National Broadcasting Co. Richard Lahey, principal of the Corcoran School of Art, well-known artist and art critic and member of the art jury for the last Corcoran Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Painting- at the Cor- coran Gallery, will be introduced by S. H. Kauffmann of The Star and interviewed on the Italian Renaissance art period by James E. Chinn of The Star reportorial sta | Lahey will give many hun.an-interest sidelights on the four old masters of | the Renaissance. Tonight's broadcast will be the second of the weekly series 12-week Twenty-five of these frequencies, the| With the National Broadcasting Co, commission said, will be available to| municipal and county governments | and four to State police agencies. | In accordance with an engineering | plan to be announced, the commis- | sion said, these police frequencies will | be assigned on a “shared use” basis. In view of projected plans of the " (See RADIO, Page A-3) 3 Missing in Hotel Fire. SHERBROOKE, Quebec, October 18 | (Canadian Press).—Three persons, | listed as missing, were believed to have died today in flames which destroyed the 75-year-old Grand Central Hotel, injuring 12 other persons, two of them critically, and causing damage esti- mated as high as $100.000. Yale Student Dies in Crash. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. October 18 (#).—Brooks Bauman, 23-year-old Yale University student, was killed instantly yesterday when his auto- mobile swerved from Cat Rock road near Garrison, N. Y., and crashed into a stone wall Summary of Page. _A-12 | ———-B-11 Serial Story B-16 | Page. | Amusements -A-8 Auto Puzzle A-ul Comics . B-14-15 Editorials ---A-10 Finance -A-17 Lost & Found B-11 Obituary Radio - Society --.---B-3 Sports A-14-15-16 Woman's Pg. B-10 WAR IN FAR EAST. 4,400 reported killed in fierce battle near Shanghai. Page A-1 FOREIGN. Berlin and Rorhe seen holding advan- tage in parley. Page A-13 Insurgents continue to press advantage in Northwest Spain. Page A-2 NATIONAL. All fields of radio communication af- fected by new order. Page A-1 Administration to estimate 1938 Treas- ury deficit tomorrow. Page A-1 Landon to give radio address tomorrow on “questions of day.” Page A-3 Troops ban public from Rhode Island race track. Page A-2 Dr. Prank Morley, noted mathemati- clan, dies in Baltimore. Page A-12 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. | Safecrackers get only $8 at school, fail on theater jobs. Page A-2 Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, widow of financier, dies at 75. Page A-6 Police drive on park loiterers follows attack on co-ed. Page B-1 Girl bicyclist, baby and woman killed in traffic. Page B-1 Drug store messenger is robbed of $2,000. Page B-1 Scottish Rite Masons observe Consti- tution night. ',!Pwe B-1 Today's Star EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-10 This and That. Page A-10 Answers to Questions. Page A-10 Washington Observatio Page A-10 David Lawrence. Page A-11 H. R. Baukhage. Page A-11 Dorothy Thompson. Page A-11 Constantine Brown. Page A-11 Lemuel Parton. Page A-11 SPORTS. College foot ball hereabout has low average rating. Page A-14 No. 13 is lucky and uniucky in bi- cycle contests. Page A-14 Perfect grid records face drastic re- vision this week. Page A-15 Redskins, flashy again, handily de- feat Pirates. Page A-15 Fast fights due tonight on “free lunch” ring card. Page A-16 Magoffin still tops after 25 years as veferee. Page A-16 FINANCIAL. Bond Changes Slight. (Table)__A-17 Power Industry Faces Obstacles. A-17 Stocks Dip After Early Rise. (Table) D Tidewater Associated Net Up. A-18 Curb Shares Mixed (Table) A-19 Price Policy Aids Steel Market A-19 A-18 MISCELLANY. . Shipping News. Page A-13 City News in Brief. Page B-7 Dorothy Dix. Page B-10 Betsy Caswell. Page B-10 Bedtime Stories. Page B,11 Nature’s Children. Page B-11 Cross-word Puzzle. Page B-14 The time and station for next week’s broadcast will be announce later. Two Sets on Sale. Two sets of paintings were on sale today at the art booth in the business | office of The Star, on the first floor, | including the first group offered last | week and the second set, already named, which went on sale today at very nominal prices. Saturday was a rush day for the booth and its clerks, the entire first- floor lobby being jammed with patrons shortly after the noon hour. For the first time, the art program reached all Washington schools simul- taneously today with distribution of sample prints and literature to teach- ers in the public elementary schools and junior and senior high schools and teachers’ colleges. This distribution was authorized by the District Board of Education, which gave unanimous indorsement to the art campaign for its educational and cultural value. The teachers will call the program to the attention of their pupils. Brief Sketches . Paintings. Brief sketches of this week's paint- ings, described along with the Italian Renaissance in general by Bernard Myers of New York University in the second of the series of Lessons in Art Appreciation, follo: The “Mona Lisa”—This is probably the world’s most famous painting. Hanging in the Louvre in Paris, it has been seen by more people than any other painting. The pleasing, fleeting smile has defied description through the centuries. The “Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper,” both by Leonardo da Vinci, are perhaps the two most priceless paintings on earth. At auc- tion, either would bring a kingdom. There are only half a dozen undis- puted Leonardos on record. Da Vinci is said to have had the finest mind yet given to man. He was an architect, engineer, mathmetician, anatomist, scientist, inventor, sculptor, poet and musician. He invented an army tank and made drawings of airplanes. “The Creation of Adam”—This painting shows Jehovah about to touch (See ART, Page A-5) Do You Know— Lisa’s The secret of Mona smile? What famous Italian painter was “P. W. A. director” of his time? What artist of the Italian renaissance was a youthful prod- igy? For answers to these and other popular questions concerning the current set of paintings of the old masters, offered in the art appreciation campaign, listen in tonight at 7:45 o'clock on the program to be broadcast ever Radio Station WRC. Letter-Out. Page B-14 ‘Winning Contract. Page B-15 The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. NOW, JESS, You AGAIN To FoOL. SATURDAY'S Circulation, (Some return (#) Means Associated Press. 135,089 SUNDAY'S Circulation, s not yet received.) TWO CENTS. 152,903 RICHARD LAHEY. DEFICIT ESTIMATE 1S DUE TOMORROW Nation. Waits Its Possible | Effect on Congress and 1938 Elections. B) the Associated Press The administration will make its row, at the size of the 1938 Treasury | deficit The figure will be received with in- tense interest in political and financial | circles. Politicians are interested chiefly in the possible effect on the next sessions | of Congress and the 1938 congressional elections. Financial men will watch for its effect on the markets. | The administration already has | guessed at the figure twice with vary- | fng results. Tomorrow's estimate will be contained in the annual budget re- vision which will give the first broad | spring. First Figure Revised. President Roosevelt estimated last January the budget for this fiscal year could be held in balance if relief ex- | penditures did not exceed $1,500,000,- | | his workers 1s an unf third guess this week, possibly tomor- | | picture of the Treasury condition since | ISTIGES REFUSE T BAR SBPOEN OFWRESBYS £ Decline to Review Decision Against Florida Concerns in Lower Court. LABOR BOARD SCORES IN ANOTHER RULING Action Ordering West Virginia Company to Re-employ Workers, in Effect, Is Upheld. | BACKGROUND— Telegram seizures by the Senate Lobby Committee, headed by the then Senator Black, stirred a bitter controversy about two years ago. A flood of telegrams against passage of the holding company act launch- ed the committee into this field in investigating their origin. In one local case Silas Strawn, Chicago lawyer, got an injunction in Dis- trict Court to keep the Western Union from turning over amy of his telegrams to the committee. In another action, started by William Randolph Hearst, the court held it had no power to restrain the come mittee from seizing telegrams. BY JOHN H. CLINE. uthority of the Securities Com- to subpoena telegrams of concerns under investigation was, effect, upheld today by the Supre Court The justices refused to review a lower court decision asserting the rights of the commission to take such action. In another important case the jus- tices refused to review a lower court ruling upho! the action of the National Labor Relat Board in ordering the Jeffery-Dewitt Insulator Co. of West Virginia re-employ several workers who lost their jobs Thy ing to | following a labor dispute Of outstanding importance in the labor case was the ruli proved, that strikers do n status as employes ana that the re- fusal of an employer to negotiate with labor practice despite the failure of previous negotia= tions. The Securities Comm been followed with inte anxious to see whethier tice Black, who was involved in a somewhat similar controversy while in the Senate, would participate in the decision. There was no official !un'(-mnm on this point. An an= ! nouncement ordinarily is made when justices for any reason disqualify themselves from passing on litigation. Firms Attack Authorit} ‘The authority of the commission to subpoena the telegrams was attacked by the Ryan Florida Corp. of Tampa, the Income Royalties Co. of St Petersburg and the Florida Tex Oil Co. of St. Petersburg. The concerns contended that the commission, in subpoenaing their te grams, merely was conducting an e | ploratory search for evidence. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, whose opinion was upheld by the Su- preme Court, affirmed the right of the | commission to require the production of telegrams sent and received by | persons suspected of obtaining money and property by means of faise | fraudulent representations in cc | tion with the issuance, offer lin interstate commerce of securities. | Jeffrey-Dewitt Dispute. | The Jeffery-Dewitt case involved a | dispute between that concern and a number of its emple who were | members of a union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. The union called a strike in an un- successful effort to compel the em- ployer to meet certain demands, and then sought the aid of the Labor Re- lations Board. After a hearing, that body held that the company had violated the labor on case had by persons Associate Jus- fradulent 000. | Feilure of revenue to reach the esti- | mated level required a revision, how- ever, when the President submitted his relief estimate of $1,500,000,000 in At that time he forecast a probable deficit of $418,000,000—about equal to promised to try to eliminate it by cutting expenditures and liquidating assets of emergency agencies. Then his estimates for the year were: Receipts, $6,906,000,000; ex- penditures, $7.324,000,000. Brighter Picture. So many factors have changed that observers were reluctant to predict what tomorrow’s revision would show. It was apparent, however, the picture would be much brighter than it was a year ago. About this time in 1936 the revised budget estimated a deficit of $2,096,~ 000,000 for the last fiscal year. Be- cause an additional relief appropri- ation was found necessary and be- cause of the drop in expected revenue the year ended with a deficit of | $2,811,000,000. This year, with no veterans’ bonus appropriation and with lower relief costs, the estimated deficit is expected to be only a fraction of that figure. Should the report tomorrow estimate a bigger deficit than has been gen- erally accepted. there would be new demands for increased taxes and cur- tailed spending at the coming ses- sions of Congress. Also observers said it might prove politically embarrassing to the President, who talked repeatedly during his Western trip of the better financial outlook and said confidently the budget would be balanced next year. 30 Per Cent Higher. The outlook depends chiefly on rev- enue estimates. The last estimate of $6,906,000,000 was about 30 per cent higher than last year. So far, Treas- ury income has been running more than 40 per cent higher. I this increase carried through the year, it would bring $500,000,000 more into the Treasury than estimated last April. | the unexpected loss of revenue—but | act by refusing to bargain collectively | with the union a month after the strike began. The board ordered the com- pany to bargain collectively with the anion and to offer employment to those who went on strike and who had not | been re-employed. This order was | affirmed by the Circuit Court of Ap- peals in the decision the Supreme Court refused to set aside today The court did not announce a tion in a Philadelphia case olving the legality of sit-down strikes, nor did it rule on another appeal in the celebrated Scottsboro case. The jus- tices will hear argument until Monday and then recess for two weeks, MAN LOSES ATTACK ON BALM SUIT "AN Supreme Court Dismisses Hus- band’s Appeal Assailing New York Statute. By the Associated Press Lawrence Hanfgarn of Floral Park, Long Island, lost in the Supreme Court today in his attack on the con- stitutionality of a 1935 New York statute barring civil actions for alien- ation of affections, seduction and breach of promise. Saying there was no “substantial Federal question” involved, the high court dismissed an appeal from a judgment against Hanfgarn by the New York State Supreme Court. He brought suit for $30,000 against George Mark of Elmont, Long Is- land, charging alienation of the af- fections of Jennie Hanfgarn, his wife. The New York court ruled that “in view of the broad and almost unlim- ited extension of the rights of married women * * * we think that no court of this State would decide that the rights which a husband has by virtue of the marriage relation, con- stitute property rights.” The husbhand said in his petition that “if the personal, private and inti- mate relationship is subject to public y ac- April and would more than wipe out the deficit estimated at that time. « [ regulation, then private propeny‘hu indeed been devoted to public use,