Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1937, Page 5

BPERATIONBY LS. FEARED FOR RAILS jvate Financing Is Too < Unstable, Senator Tru- man Warns. B the Associated Press. FActing Chairman Truman of the Sfnate Railroad Finance Committee warned a New York banking execu- tive today that the Nation’s railroads atk heading toward Government oper- aflon unless private financing becomes re stable. SWe're trying to find a way to keep tRe railroads of th= coutnry in a stable cgndition and in the hands of the operator and owners so the Govern- ment won't have to step in and take charge of them,” Truman told Ben- Jamin J. Buttenwieser, partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., New York bankers. “And that's what you're heading for if you keep on having receivership after receivership,” the Missouri Sen- ator added. Buttenwieser was testifying concern- ing the 1917 reorganization of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which be- | came a part of the Van Sweringen railroad system in 1930 and went into receivership in 1933. Success Hinges on Earnings. Truman asked Buttenwiser whether he believed the proposed Missouri Pa- cific reorganization would “last as long as the other one did.” Buttenwiser had testified that one of the partners of his firm was a member of the railroad’s Bondholders’ Committee which has proposed a plan of reorgan- zation. Réplying to Truman's question, But- tenwiser said success of the reorgan- ization proposal would depend partly on how well earnings fulfill expecta- tions. Previously, an attorney for the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York had told the committee its published record contains ‘“serious errors” captions” in testimony of company officials before the committee last winter. Asks Corrections. James N. Rosenberg, counsel for the New York banking house, obtained permission to read to the committee a Tetter from William C. Potter, chair- man of Guaranty Trust. Potter as- and “biased | serted the first volume of the com- | mittee’s printed proceedings contained | | an exhibit in which there were “no fewer than 81 errors.” He asked that undistributed copies be corrected and that persons who had received copies be notified of“the “errors.” THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair and slightly warmer, with lowest tempera- ture about 38 degrees tonight; tomor- row increasing cloudiness and warmer; showers tomorrow night; urday; moderate southerly winds. colder Sat-|—— Maryland and Virginia—Fair and | alightly warmer tonight; tomorrow in- creasing cloudiness and warmer; showers tomorrow night and probably in extreme west portion tomorrow | afternoon; Saturday. colder in the interior | West Virginia—Increasing cloudiness | and warmer tonight, followed by showers and warmer tomorrow; colder | tomorrow night. River Report. Potomac River very cloudy and Bhenandoah slightly muddy at Harpers Ferry; slightly muddy at Great Falls today. Report for Last 21 Hours. Record for Last 21 Hours. (Prom noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest. 46. 3 pm. vesterday. Year Lo-zsn. 33, 6:15 &0, am. today. Year leeord Temperatures This Year. Highest, 97, on_August 20" Lowest. 19."on Februsry 28. Humidity for Last 21 Hours, (Prom noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest. 91 per cent. at 7 a.m Lowest, 38 per cent. at. noofi today. Tide Tables. (Purnished by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Tomorrow 1am T SHe pm The Sun and Moon n, today un, tomorrow Moon, today - _ 5 Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month. November ember _ Welther in Various Citles. fall. Weather ‘Aulanta, Ga.' Atlantic City Charleston, S. Chicago. Til Cincinnati, Ohis Cleveland,” Ohi Columbis, 8. C. nver, Colo. Detroit, Mich E] Paso, Tex Galveston. Te: al Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City - Los Angeles Toutsville, Miami, Mpls-St. Paul New Orleans, La New York, N. Y. Oklahoma’ City aha, Ne Pittsburgh, Portland, Me. DO YOU NEED COAL Fuel Qil 'FELEPHONE 714 lth St. Natl 3068 Average. Record. | Gaithersburg, Mrs. Roosevelt receives a t man, Roosevelt. THE EVENING STAR; WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1937. YOU DON'T HAVE TC HUNT FOR THESE “TW0” ey SPORT GENTER icket to the Armistice Day ball. T ammany (Continued From First Pag victory, was shoved again to the fore by a telegram from the head of the organizatiom pledging new allegiance to Mr. Roosevelt. The labor party polled more than 200,000 votes for the President in the 1936 national election, and made cer- tain La Guardia’s re-election by giving him some 450,000 votes in the munici- pal election. Alex. R« State executive secretary of the party, informed the President that he “resented the interpretations by the reactionary elements in the Republican party that the people of the city have repudiated the New Deal. The American labor party is still its stanchest adherent.” Particularly disturbed about the post-election situation was Tammany itself, which found in a full survey of election results that its position was | desperate. Lesser Offices Wiped Out. The sweep of the fusion ticket saw lesser office holders of Tammany affili- ation wiped out as their leaders went down to defeat. Besides the defeat of Jerimiah T. Mahoney for Mayor and of Harold W. Hastings for New York County district attorney by Thomas E. Dewey, special rackets prosecutor, Tammany and its allies lost the controllership, presi- dency of the Council, a borough presi- dent, 10 assemblymen, 2 city court judges, 7 municipal court judges and other offices. Another significant after-campaign development was the resignation of Charles A. Schneider as assistant at- torney general of New York State, Schneider, a Tammany leader, was attacked sharply during the campaign by Dewey. Schneider, accused by Dewey of ac- cepting fees from racketeers for de- fending a man charged with murder in a 1934 labor war, said in his resig- nation he did not want the State “sullied” by the “false” charges. Yesterday Mayor La Guardia pre- dicted the “doom forever” of New York City machine government, adding: “Four years ago a non-partisan non-political government in New York City was a sort of experiment, but we have demonstrated that it is pos- sible and also desirable.” First Two-in-a-Row Defeat. He was speaking of machine poli- tics of Tammany Hall, defeated for the first time twice in a row by “reform candidates,” and which whas staggered by the blow dealt by voters Area (Continued From First Page.) rett Park road to Wheaton road, thence northeastward along Wheaton road to old Bladensburg road, thence road to the Montgomery Prince Georges County line. Other Districts. Prince George County: Chillum, Riverdale, Hyattsville, Bladensburg, Seat Pleasant and Spaulding districts. Virginia: Alexandria and Arlington County. The commission ruling was a com- promise between conflicting views ex- pressed at the hearing on the zone issue. The Board of Trade argued for a radius of 20 to 25 miles from the zero milestone, which would have taken in Olney, Laurel, Bowie and Marlboro. Md. and Dranesville and Fairfax County, Va. explaining County- southeastward along old Bladensburg | that Washington merchants make free deliveries within that area. The Capital Transit Co. had sought exemption for its bus operations to the limits in Maryland suggested by the Board of Trade and also as far south as Mount Vernon, Va. | ‘The District of Columbia Trucking Association had argued that the com- mercial zone should not extend beyond | the city limits of the District, saying that otherwise a no-men’s land for | regulation would be set up. The same | argument was advanced by the Cor- | poration Commission of Virginia, which proposed Rosslyn as a limit. The I. C. C. said that the Mary- land and Virginia points for which | the Board of Trade and the transit | company argued “are not sufficiently adjacent to Washington to be con- sidered within the Washington com- mercial zone.” The Census Bureau considers Rockville, Bowie and, part of Fairfax County as being in the ‘Washington metropolitan area. Green (Continued From First Page.) hibited no friendliness to labor while | she lived here. “Immediately preceding this visit (te the United States),” the resolu- tion declared, “the Duke and the Duchess * * * visited Nazi Germany and * * * studied labor under the personal guidance of Dr. Ley (Dr. Robert Ley, leader of Germany's labor front), the man who ordered and ruthlessly directed the destruction of all German free trade unions. * * * continued their study of labor prob- lems with Adolf Hitler, the world’s most notorious foe of democracy.* ** “(They) have announced that they will study labor in this country under the guidance of Charles Bedaux, whose vicious adaptation of the Taylor system, like the labor appeasement progrom of Germany, would apply the stretch-out system to labor in this country. * * *” Of the former Baltimore debutante who married a =ember of a royal family, the document said she was “one who while a resident here in no way showed the slightest concern nor sympathy for problems of labor or of | the poor and needy.” Joseph P. McCurdy, president, in in- troducing the resolution laid particular stress on labor's antipathy toward Bedaux, whom he termed an “arch enemy” of labor. “This man, this Charles Bedaux, created more harm and havoc here in America with his speed-up and stretch- out system * * * than any other thing that has cropped out against the labor secret . . «* = * The former King and his wife | No one has guessed L'Origan’ . its glowing threads of fragrance are so intricately woven. A gift for a fascinating woman. In many sizes, from $55 to $1. Also Gift Sets in this exquisite odeur. | movement in many years,” he said. It was not the first time that| Bedeaux’s efficiency system has drawn the fire of labor’s ire. Bedaux terms it the “B plan.” It uses as a basis what are termed “B units.” When Bedaux introduced it, he and his assistants watched a normally productive worker and noted the time it took him to perform a par- ticular task. If it took an hour, the normal speed for the operation was placed at 60 “B units”"—60 minutes. Assuming the pay for the work was 60 cents an hour, another worker who completed the same job in 40 “B units”—40 | minutes—would save 20 units and would be paid 80 cents an hour. However, a worker who took 80 minutes for the job still would re- ceive the basic 60 cents per hour. On this ground Bedaux has asserted his system does not tend to “speed up” labor output. Labor, on the other and results in a speed up. hand, has charged the system exerts s pressure to work for additional pay Mrs. Roosevelt Gets Tlcket to Ball In the photo, left to right, are Stephen Nichka, general chairman, Veterans of Foreign Wars Armistice Day ball; Dave Her- department commander, presenting ticket; Dr. Victor Cercell, ticket chairman, and Mrs. —Star Staff Photo. in spite of pleas for Mahoney by Post- master General James A. Farley, Gov. Herbert H. Lehman and other Demo- cratic leaders. Today, all Tammany had to say was to echo Christopher Sullivan, its leader: ¥ “We face the future cheerfully and look forward to glorious victories in 1938 and the years to come. “The work of building and strength- ening the party begins today and prep- arations are under way already for perfecting the organization to bring it to a higher state of efficiency to assure success next year.” PLAN SCHOLARSHIPS Harvard Business School Alumni to Recommend Two. The Washington Club of Harvard Business School Alumni will recom- mend candidates for two scholarships of $300 each to be awarded to stu- dents entering the business school January 31, officers of the local club announced today. Admr. Long Hurt On Head in Paris By Hotel Elevator By the Assoctated Press. PARIS, Nov. 4 —Rear Admiral Andrew T. Long, U. S. Navy, re- tired, was injured painfully today when struck on the head by a descending elevator. Long was taken to the Ameri- can Hospital, where attendants said his condition was not serious. Mrs. Long said her husband had opened the door into the elevator shaft at their Paris hotel to determine whether the ele- vator was rising. It was descending. BLACK CHALLENGED IN COURT PETITION Three 0il Companies Ask Justice Be Disqualified in Plea for Reconsideration. A new attack on the qualifications of Associate Justice Black was made yesterday by three Florida oil com- panies in a petition asking the Su- preme Court to reconsider its refusal to interfere with attempts by the Se- curities and Exchange Commission to subpoena telegrams which the con- cerns had sent and received. The court was asked to disqualify Justice Black in the case on constitu- tional grounds and for the additional reason that he was chairman of the Senate Lobby Committee when that body seized telegrams of firms under investigation. “Justice Black,” the petition con- tended, ‘“recorded himself as being definitely attitudinized in favor of the right of a Government agency to coerce private telegrams from a tele- graph company by the use of a blanket subpoena.” ‘The court last month refused to hear two attacks on the constitutionality of Justice Black’s appointment, asserting the petitioners did not have a suf- ficiently direct interest in the matter. ‘Whether the court thinks the Florida concerns have such an interest may be announced Monday. The petition was filed by the Ryan Florida Corp. of Tampa, Income Royal- ties Co. of St. Petersburg and Florida Tex Oil Co. of St. Petersburg. R L R R JUDGE RULES PARENTAGE NOT ISSUE IN CUSTODY Wife Meets Husband’s Habeas Corpus Action by Asserting Boys Were Adopted. By the Agsociated Press. PITTSBURGH, Nov. 4—A County Court judge ruled yesterday that the parentage of two boys, represented to their relatives and friends as twins, was not an issue in William S. Bales’ habeas corpus action to gain partial custody of the boys. Bales' former wife, Mrs. Elva May Bales Tortorice, challenged his right to them, denied they were twins and asserted they were not their children. Presiding at the tenth suit for cus- tody of the 8-year-old boys, Judge John H. Wilson said it makes no dif- ference whether the parents are “nat- ural” or “adopted.” Mrs. Tortorice contended the chil- dren were brought to her as babies while she was in a maternity hospital and that they were represented to her husband’s three maiden sisters as ‘her twins to “please them.” “l Have Aged 10 Years in 5” the letter says . . . “and it’s all be- eause of sluggish kidneys.” Don't grow old before your time. Drink the natural Alkaline water that doctors have prescribed for 75 years., Let us send a case to you. Phone MEt. 1062. MOUNTAIN VALLEY From HOT SPRINGS, ARK. MINERAL WATER 1405 K St. N.W. MEt. 1062 TOMORROW ONLY! WOMEN’S :‘I:TD MISSES® $6.95 to $12.95 NEW FALL DRESSES Almost unbelievable — yet true! We've taken 60 dresses right out of our regular fall stock and will sacrifice them at this ridiculously low price TOMORROW ONLY. New fall shades and styles. Sizes 12 to 50. BETTER COME EARLY. 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