Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1937, Page 13

. GRAY IS NAMED [CKES® ASSISTANT Housing Division Head Is Made Assistant P .W. A. Administrator. Moward A. Gray, director of housing under Secretary Ickes, whom President | Roosevelt passed over in naming Na- then Straus of New York to admin- ister the new $526,000,000 housing program, was promoted today to as- sistant administrator of public works. ‘The appointment, which the Presi- dent made at the solicitation of Secre- | tary Ickes, carries a salary of $10,000 | & year, the same as that which Straus | will receive. Secretary Ickes placed full responsi- bility for the new housing program under the Wagner-Steagall act square- 4-Year-Old’ Screams Foil Bank Robbéry By the Associated Press. TAMPA, Fla., October 20.—Screams of 4-year-old Frank Fleitas, jr., broke up &n attempt of three gunmen to rob the Broadway National Bank yes- terday. Chief of Detectives W. D. Bush said the robbers apparently were timid amateurs. ‘Two of the men backed up the boy's father, teller of the bank, when he arrived at the opening hour and forced him to lie on his face. When the third moved to the Fleitas’ motor car and ordered Mrs. Fleitas to the back seat, Frank, jr., opened up with a yell. To a startled gesture for silence, Frank only screamed louder. All the men dropped their pistols, fled to another car and sped away. e FATHER IS SENTENCED IN SHOOTING OF TWO 1y on the shoulders of Straus. “I hope that Mr., Straus will be | given an opportunity to make good | before the loudly baying critics give | him the benefit of what they don't| know about housing,” Ickes said. The new housing administrator will | be greeted at the White House later | today. | Mr. Gray succeeds Col. Horatio B.{ Hackett as administrator of public | works. U. S. LABOR BOARD REBUFFED BY COURT, California Appeals Jurists Decline | to Order Five Strikers | Reinstated. By the Assoctated Press, SAN FRANCISCO. October 20.—The Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday denied an appeal of the National Labor Relations Board. seeking an or- der requiring the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Co. to reinstate five men who lost their jobs as a result of the 1935 strike Sixty-nine men struck and 64 were reinstated. The company claimed the 5 failed to apply for reinstatement | until after others had sought the jobs. | The court refused to enforce the order at the first request and re-| fterated its contention today. | “T conclude that under the statute properly construed in the light of the | Constitution,” wrote Circuit Judge Curtis D. Wilbur, “the power of the board to order ‘reinstatement’ of an | employe does not authorize an order | Wounded Girl Tells of Beating Off Attacker With Shoe While in Parked Auto. By the Assoclatea Press. PLYMOUTH, Mass., October 20.—A | 27-year-old father of three small chil- | | dren, Leo F. Mockus, last night went to State prison for from 25 to 34 years for & midnight assault on a! Brockton couple, and an attempted | attack on a 16-year-old girl in their | parked automobile. | Superior Court Judge Walter Collins imposed sentence after Mockus pleaded guilty to assault with intent to kill Walter Gay, 20, and pretty Sylvie Paulding as they sat in Gay's machine on the night of October 2. Both were shot. The girl testified she fought her at- tacker off by beating him in the face with a shoe. Gay, still in ecritical condition 'n | Brockton Hospital, was unable to ap- pear at the trial. | Potato Grows in Coconut. | ST. PETERSBURG. Fla., October 20 (#).—W. F. Smith displayed today A sweet potato that grew inside & coconut. | Smith said he set out sweet potato vines over the spot where he had planted a coconut, and one vine pene- trated the nut. requiring the employer to re-employ | & st his former salary or wage, or other- wise, a striking employe who was on s strike and who had thus voluntarily terminated his right to salary or wages at the time the alleged un- fair labor practice was committed by the respondent.” Justice Clifton Mathews concurred but Justice Francis A. Garrecht dis- kented. Garrecht said he felt thould grant the petition. clared “the order is fully under the Wagner act.” the court and de- Justified Gas Station Uses Hay. DES MOINES, Jowa, October 20 (). ! ~—The city fathers scratched their heads when Des Moines’ municipal gas station put in a request for four bales of hay. | Attendants, however, quickly ex- | plained that the hav was needed to pack around underground gasoline tanks to prevent loss by shrinkage in cold weather. RASKOB IS PATIENT —_— | ROCHESTER, Minn., October 20 (A .—John J. Raskob, former chair- man of the National Democratic Committee and prominent Eastern in- | dustrialist, was at the Mavo Clinic in | Rochester today undergoing a periodic routine physical checkup. He ex- pected to remain several days. repairs, MEMBER FEOERAL OEFOSIT INSURANER GORPORATION & Amoing’ thé hundeads of Sqbibh Products offared by yout SQUIBB TOUTH POWDER SQUIBE SODIUM BICARBONATE SQUIBB MINERAL OIL N THE EVENING STAR, \-VASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1937. L0RDRUTHERFOR, SOENT, DES Nobel Prize Winner Devoted Part of Energies to Atom- Splitting Study. By the Associated Press. 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