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A2 wxm T MAYORSAPPERL FORJOBLESS AD Warn Against Making Polit- Ical Capital of Unem- ployment Issue. By J. A. FOX. ‘The United States Conference of | Mayors today warned against mak- ing political capital of the unemploy- ment issue. In an unusual declaration, proposed by the eonference president, Mayor Fiorella H. La Guardia of New York, the Mayors representing cities all over the countiry recited the gravity of the problem involved and added: “We warn the Nation that this is too serious a problem to be used as a political buldgeon for any person or party. but cries out to every red- blooded American for solution.” The declaration. which is to be broadcast nationally, concluded with &n appeal for universal co-operation. Asks Mavors to Sign, President 1a Guardia asked that each of the mayors sign the declara- tion, which was adopted as the con- ference ended a three-day session at| the Mayflower Hotel by voting ap-| Ludwig Trims Biography for Live Rqosevelt By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 17.—Emil Ludwig said last night in an interview he wenld be forced to restrict his biog- raphy of President Reosevelt “since he's not dead yet.” “When I told President Roosevelt I was sorry he is still living as it must leave ‘my book without his eomplete career.” Mr, Ludwig said, “he laughed and laughed.” The author said he was impressed by the President's “activity, courage, capacity to know the right moment, to fight his own class, his love for the poor and his skepticism against the rich man.” WAGE BILL HELD BUILDING THREAT 250 Construction Officials Warn That Plan Menaces proval of a series of resolutions and re-electing President La Guardia and other officers In considering the twin problem of relief, the conference directed its Ex- ecutive Committee to conduct a survey of conditions in December and repoys its findings. together with specific recommendations, to Congress in Jan- uary. The city executives repeated their frequently-expressed belief that if the relief load continues to increase, the Works Progress Administration will have to increase its emplovment quota | in the affecied areas and that it v\lll} be necessary (o get a deficiency appro- priation to finance this. Congress al- | ready has appropriated $1.500,000.000 for relief for the fiscal year ending June 30 next and W. P. A, Administra- tor Harry L. Hopkins has expressed belief this will be sufficient | The mayors also did the expected | and called on the American Federation | of Labor and the Committee for Indus- | trial Organization to compose their | differences. The contesting labor fac- tions are to be advised “that it is of the greatest public interest, including the best interest of labor, industry and the generai public, that at the earliest poscible time” peace be re-established. Ask Airport Aid. | Another resolution called for con- tinued Federal aid in the construction of municipal auports and the Execu- | tive Committee was instructed to de- cide if the Mayors shall indorse pro- posed legislation to transfer juris- diction over air carriers from the | Commerce and Post Office Depart- ments to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Arguing for support of this legisla- | tion. Mr. La Guardia declared that President’s Program. A warning that enactment of the| administration wage-hour bill will in- | crease building costs, which President Roosevelt recently said should be low- ered, was sounded today as some 250 leaders in the construction field met here to discuss means of stimulating private building. This warning, by E. M. Oettinger of | Greensboro, N. C.. was coupled with the assertion that existing building costs can not be lowered at this time. The meeting, held at the headquar- ters of the United States Chamber of Commerce, was called for a general discussion of construction problems. President Roosevelt and other admin- | istration leaders during the last few | days have urged expansion of private business operations as the most effec- | tive means of checking the present buajness slump. | Oettinger told the conference that | building costs cannot be lowered while | other costs remain high. He men- tioned specifically excessive taxes, in- | creased freight rates and high labor | costs. He said that in his experience | as a manufacturer of architectural woodwork he has found that the ma- | terial going into modern homes is of | higher quality than in the past. citing | after failing &s & unit to draft & farm from interference and WALLAGE URGES FARM BILL CARE Secretary Advises Senators to Take Middle Course on Crop Controi. By the Associated Pross. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace sdvised Senators today to adopt a “middle course” between extreme com- pulsory control and voluntary control over farm production and marketing under the new farm program. Secretary Wallace's views were re- ported by Chairman 8mith of the Senate Agriculture Committee after a two-hour closed session in which the Secretary explained details of his ‘“‘ever-noymal granary” proposal to members of the committee. As the committee assembled Sen- ator Gillette, Democrat, of Iowa pre- dicted a compromise on econflicting opinions in an effort to get a farm program before the Senate within “a few days.” “There is no doubt a general farm bill will be ready for the Senate before long,” he said. Compulsory Cotton Control Suppert. Senator Bankhead, Demoerat, of Alabama said Southern Senators would support his compulsory eotton control proposals as the cotton section of the Senate farm bill. “A cotton program is not worth a cent,” Senator Bankhead said, “with- out something to enforce it.” 8enators on the committee said| Southerners probably would write cot- | ton, tobacco and rice sections while | the outline of the Pope-McGill bill| would be followed for eorn and wheat. | This measure follows administration | ideas for an “ever-normal granary.” Jones Asks for Patience, As Mr. Wallace led a squad of Farm Administration officials and farm or- | ganization leaders before the Senate committee to explain provisions of the Pope-McGill bill, Chairman Jones of the House Compittee called for “patience and tolerance” during the work of writing & farm bill. He, too, proposed that Congress enact a bill following “a middle course” between the extremes of “un. reasoning reduction” and production “in unlimited quantities.” Chairman Pierce, Democrat, of Ore- gon meanwhile called his Wheat Sub committee into closed meeting earl: in the day to attempt to draft provi- sions for control of both wheat and rice production. By dividing | into subcommittees, HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, A Farm Bill Huddle Called to help the Senate Agriculture Committee frame a farm bill in a hurry, Secretary of A lat{e (center) is shown in a huddle f riculture Henry A. Wal- oday with Senator Elli- son D. “Cotton Ed” Smith (right); Democrat, of South Caro- lina, chairman of the committee, qnd Howard R. Tolley, admin- istrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. HIGH COURT HEARS POWER FIRM’S PLEA Its Business in Four Towns Would Be Destroyed by P. W. A.-Built Plants, Is Argument. Py the Associated Press. The Alabama Power Co. told the Supreme Court yesterday that the con- cern’s business in four municipalities would be destroyed if the Federal Gov- ernment were permitted to finance competing, publicly-owned electric plants. It contended also in a brief that the 1935 Emergency Relief Appropriation Act and a portion of the National In- dustrial Recovery Act were unconsti- | tutional if construed to permit Federal | loans and grants for electric projects The brief was flled as a prelude to verbal arguments December 6 on the | power company's suit to enjoin the | Government from furnishing funds to our Alabama cities—Decatur, Hart- selie, Guntersville and Russellville. Newton D. Baker. former Secretary of War, and other attorneys contended in the document that the company had a “right to conduct its business free infury from this as another justification for higher | measure, the House Agricultural Com- | Public officials acting without authority costs. May Retard Business. Opening the conference, John W O'Leary, chairman of the chamber’s Executive Committee, said the confer- ence was called in the belief it would provide a timely opportunity for Chambers of Commerce and business | generally to become familiar with the mittee resorted to the expedient of | dealing separately with each of the | five basic commodities—wheat, cotton, | corn, rice and tobacco—in order to give Congress a start on the admin- | istration program. ‘Wheat Provisions Rewritten. Later Representative Pierce said his in law.” LORD BEAVERBROOK QUITS D. C. BY AIR —A. P. Photo. SAILOR RETRACTS FORCED SOS GLAIM | Engineer on Ill-Fated Ship De- nies He Had to Draw Knife to Make Operator Ask Help. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va, Nov. 17—Kostas Palaskas, youthful third engineer on the Greek freighter Tzenny Chandris which sank Saturday off Cape Hat- teras, yesterday retracted a state- ment, attributed to him by an in- terperter, that he had to draw a knife Ito force the radio operator to broad- | cast an SOS. Testifying before Dr. C. D. J. Mac- Donald, city coroner, in a bedside inquest at the Marine Hospital, Pa- laskas explained that he did rot threaten the radio operator and that the knife in his hand at the time was there innocently, as he had been using it previously. | Palaskas, speaking through an in- terpreter, also denied that the vessel was unseaworthy. His original state- ments were made through C Maroulis, Norfolk restaurant operator. “Palaskas said he threatened the radio operator with a knife to make him send the SOS.” Maroulis said. ‘We took the captain in to see Pa- lazkas and told him to make his charge now. He sald the same thing Furthermore, Palaskas said that when the ship left Morehead City, N. C., it | was listing about 5 degrees and the | (Gus) | NOVEMBER 17, 1937. GARTNER FUNERAL RITES TOMORROW Attorney Who Committed Suicide Will Be Buried in Arlington. Karl Knox Gartner, 51-year-old at- torney, who killed himself yesterday in despondency over iil health, will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery at 3 p.m, tomorrow following family funeral services in his apartment at 2126 Connecticut avenue N.W. A native of Knoxville, Tenn,, Mr. Gartner came to Washington in 1914 #s an examiner and attorney for the Interstate Commerce Commission. During the World War he served as a first leutenant of feld artillery with the 80th Division in France Mr. Gartner returned to Washing- | ton after the war and entered the | private practice of law, specializing in matters pertaining to interstate com- merce and other Federal practice. He was the author of several articles and books relating to interstate com- merce. He was educated in private schools at Nashville, Tenn., and at Yale Uni- versity, from which he receivéd a Ph. D. degree, and Vanderbilt University, where he received his bachelor of laws degree in 1909. He had started the practice of iaw in Louisville, Ky., in 1910. His brother and partner in the law business, Allen G. Gartner, said he had veen despondent over continued ill health. His body was found in his apartment yesterday afternoon, a gun- | shot wound in the heart. A 45-caliber Army pistol lay nearby. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald issued a certifi- cate of suicide. Mr. Gartner is survived by his widow, Mrs. Kitty Beale Gartner; his brother, Allen, and his mother, Mrs. Anna M. Gartner, all of Washington. SHIPSTEAD SEES WAR WILL GROWING U. 8. Public Opinion Being Pre- pared for Conflict, Minnesota Senator Fears. | By the Associatea Press New Valjean, Father of 8, Gives Self Up Stands Ready to Serve Rest of Sentence Imposed in 1904. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Nov. 17.—In 1904 a 16- year-old boy and his companion | knocked the locks off some gum- | vending machines in a raiiroad station | and took $30 in coins. The boy was caught and sentenced to three and a half years in the North- | umberland County, Pa., prison. | One night six months later he and accomplices cut a hole in the roof and | scrambled to freedom. | Yesterday, Harry Burns, 40, re- | spected citizen and father of eight children, surrendered at a police sta- | tion. He still owed Pennsylvania three vears, he said, and he wanted to settle the score. Burns told Detective John Hanan | he hid out for a year after his escape, then came to Chicago, got a job and married. “It would be nice if Pennsylvania would wipe my slate clean and let me stay in Chicago,” Burns said in his cell, where he will be held pending word from Sunbury, Pa.authorities “I had to tell. I had to get it off | my mind.” MUNICIPAL UNITS T0 BE INSPECTED Chairman Collins Plans Visits as Prelude to 1939 Budget Hearings. Chairman Collins of the House Sub- committee on District Appropriations made tentative plans today to begin An inspection tour next week of ! various municipal institutions as a prelude to the 1939 budget hearings to begin December 1 The itinerary has not yet been mapped out, but Representative Col- lins indicated it would include Gal- linzer Hospital, the jail, reformatory and workhouse, the new tuberculnsis anatoria at Glenn Dale, Md. and National Training School for Girls, scene of a recent series of riots among inmates. A number of public schools also are 1o be visited and the streets in- | Senator Shipstead. Minnesota Far- | mer-Laborite, urged the American ! | people last night to shun foreign eon- | flicts | “The most dangerous thing con- | nected with war is the people's will to war.” declared the tall Minnesotan in a radio address under auspices of the Council for the Prevention of War. “That will must be manufactured It has been going on in this country | of ours for several s, It has| shown its ugly face in this country by speakers appearing before peace spected with a group of H partment officials headed Capt Herbert C. Whitehurst, director of | highwavs. Mr. Collins predicted the 1939 ap- propriation bill for the Distri be the first supply mea. to the House when the reg | of Congress starts January 3. Serving with Mr, Collins on the subcommittee will be Representative Starnes of Alabama and Caldwel] of Florida. Democrats, and Engle, Re- publican, of Michigan. There is one | the end of the bienn PROBE OF RELIEF - OPENED BY EARLE Political Fate of Pennsyl- ‘ vania’s Secretary of Public Assistance in Balance. By the Asseciatec Pres HARRISBURG, Pa.. Nov. 1T.—~A month’s investigation, on which hangs the political fate of Karl De Schweine itz, Pennsylvania’s secretary of publis assistance, started today by order of Gov. George H. Eatle. Three picked for their counting ability, were assigned to comb the five-month. Department Assistance for any sign of inefficiency men, ace d of that might explain part of a $26,000.« 000 geficit De Schweinitz himself pre= dicted the department would have by im, June, 1336 Thus the behir centering around De the admin:stration relief entered the showdown day before Earle embarked for a trip to Bwed The Governor was all d yesterday with De Schweinitz. In t conference was Mrs. Emma Guff Miller sister of United States Senat Joseph F. Guffey, mate in 1934 and a cratic committeeworr Mrs. Miller b efficiency Schweinitz Also p the cluding Au Roberts ren Mick A staur itz in times be say: “I have not reached a whether or not he (De Schweini a gnod manager.” GUNDERMAN AWAITS NEW TRIAL DECISION Ex-State Policeman Will Learn Whether Plea Will Be Granted Thursday. By the Associated Press SOMEPSET Stacev Gunder con hwe and “politics ment ent were the mer al end of against nder of D re, Ea 2) 18 a; gets Pale and wo was S Kkeep T ear societies talking about the horrors of WAar and at the same time arguing when war comes we cannot keep out of it and we must do our share." vacancy on the subcommittee due to 1936, the resignation from House member- | heada: ship of former Representative Hig- (OF G gins, Republican, of Connecticut, subcommittee was rewriting wheat provisions of the House farm bill “to make them more amenable to control | of a possible surplus crop next year.” Publisher Leaves in Own Plane | '8t became worse.” ; | When the coroner sought to inter- | for Florida and Jamaica After | view Capt, George Coufopandelis. 55, Seeing Sights. of Chios, Greece. the captain said he aviation was being made “a political tball” under the present method | PFORFAMS of important units in the focioal B | building industry to stimulate private- of control and that it was necessary 155 J . for its progress that regulation be |V financed low and medium priced | Senator shifted to the 1. C. C., which, he em- | Tesidential building. phasized, had demonstrated its non- | political eharacter. | The conference, which earlier in the | day had heard the new slum clearing and low cost housing program outlined | by Nathan Straus. administrator for | the United Biates Housing Authority. | veted its approval of this and urged | that the law be broadened to make | possible rehabilitation of sub-standard homes and blighted areas. Early Misgivings Cited. “When the Wagner-Steagall bill, as | finally enacted, became law, there were | many notes of misgiving, even among | friends of housing,” Mr. Straus said, ! “We were told that the Jaw was im- practical and unworkable. We were told that 1t had been so amended as to be useless, or, at most, a very weak | instrument of decent, low-cost hous- | ing. Those prophets of evil were rightly condemned as unworthy of much attention. “However, I feel today that we are In danger of falling into an error al- most equally great. There {5 a sense of complacency I find among the | ‘housers,” s0 many of whom are also| officiels of wide-awake city govern- | ments. This is almost as dangerous to the housing program as counsels of despair. “On the one hand, the law is not | unworkable, in my belief. On the other hand, we must admit that it! has net yvet worked. Until it does, let us apply ourselves earnestly to the task of making it work. To build | 100,000 or more minimum-cost homes | within the meaning and intent of this law in a period of three years 15 at best not a simple or an easy task.” In advancing their Federal-aid needs | for unemployment, the mayors were bolstered by a vigorous declaration by Mr. Hopkins in favor of the continu- ance of the works projects program, which he coupled with an assault on its critics “I am convinced that public opinion is with us in terms of providing work for unemployed people in America who cannot find work in industry,” Mr. Hopkins told the mayors late yesterday. “I am convinced of that. I am convinced that we have far more public opinion behind this than the so-called organs of public opinion woulc lead us to believe.” Channel Swimmers' Aide Dies. WALMER, England, Nov, 17 (#).— Capt. 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LT LT — Age (if student)eoeaeenanea..,.Years, | ington Gas Light Co.. died yesterday \ATOVT8)i @1 @101/ 81/ 8Yii/@11 81311/ @\1/@\0 @11 p ART PICTURES Now Available NY one is entitled to one week's set of Four Pictures in the Art Appreciation campaign of The Star upon payment of only 39c at the Art ness Office of The Evening B; ma}?— addressed Yo the Art Appreciation Counter, The Indicate desired set—No, 1——2——3—4—5—6 B “Business, labor and the Govern- ment are all eager for the building program to go forward vigorously,” Mr. O'Leary said. ments wants to obstruct recovery. | Through misunderstanding or through | possessing only a partial understand- | ing of the factors which induce build- ing and retard it, they may be do- ing s0” Lowell J. Chawner, chief of the | Construction Economics Section, De- partment of Commerce, urged local Chambers of Commerce to make peri- odic surveys of real estate conditions in communities of 10,000 or more | population. These surveys, he said, should seek to ascertain: Information Sought. 1. The number of properties vacant and the number occupied 2. The major number of families added in a given year by marriages, | less dissolutions by death and divorce, and the number added by migration. 3. The distribution of the number of families according to income levels. | The delegates also were given a digest of a recent survey by the Na- tional Resources Committee of urban trends and traditions. This digest | was submitted by Harold A. Merrill, | assistant executive officer of the com. mittee, who stressed the dangers in. cident to “uncontrolled subdivisions. The conference will meet this afte ernoon and tomorrow, concluding with a dinner at the Washington Hotel. THOMAS F. KEEHAN, 67, ENGINEER, IS DEAD Retired Expert of Washington Gas Light Co. Succumbs to Long Illness. Thomas Francis Keehan, 67, a re- tired stationary engineer of the Wash- #t his home, 1919 Thirty-fifth place N.W., after a long illness. Mr. Keehan, who retired about 13 years ago, served with the gas com- pany for 37 years. He was a native of Ireland. * Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Maria Keehan; two sons, John J. and Wil. ilam J. Keehan: three daughters, Mrs. Myles Torreyson, Mrs. Bernard Quinn and Mrs. Burt Putch; a brother, John J. Keehan, and a sister, Mrs. Richard Leach, all of this city. He also leaves eight grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 9§ am, Friday, in Holy Trinity Cath- olic Church. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. 2,34 5and 6 (stamps not acceptable), “No one of these ele-| § |Graduates of State's Colleges to Be The new section, he added, would | carry & provision for “small benefit | payments” to farmers co-operating in an screage-reduction program. . MISS SCOTT, ARTIST, | DIES IN NEW YORK Sister of Dr. James B. Scott Suc- | cumbs to Long Illness in Skaneateles Home. Miss Jeanette Scott, 73, artist and sister of Dr. James Brown Scott, sec- retary of the Carnegie Endowment for | International Peace, died yesterday at her home in Skaneateles, N. Y, ac- cording to word received here. She | had been ill three months. Dr. Scott left here yesterday for Bkaneateles. Funeral arrangements are to be announced later. A native of Ontario, Miss Scott had been a frequent visitor to Wash- ington and was here last spring. Miss Scott made a number of paint- ings of her brother., one of which hangs in the Georgteown University Law School building, another in the Harvard University Law School and another in the University of South- ern California. Beside her brother, sh: is sur- | vived by two sisters, Dr. Mary Scott, | physician and diagnostician, who was the first woman admitted to study under Pasteur in Paris, and Miss | Margaret Scott, a graduate of the | Sorbonne in Paris and former mem- | ber of the faculties of Illinois and | Syracuse Universities. BARRETT IS ELECTED FELLOWSHIP HEAD Mrs. Daniel Poling Speaks at| Christian Endeavor Alumni Meeting. Alfred A. Barrett of Covenant First Presbyterian Church last night was elected president of the Christian Endeavor Alumni Pellowship at the fall meeting at the new home of the Washington Federation of Churches, 1751 N street N.W. Other officers named were Frank C. Keefer, Luther place Memorial Church, vice president; Miss Helen Beiswanger, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, secretary, and Mrs. R. Willi~ ford, treasurer. Guest speaker at the meeting was Mrs. Daniel A. Poling of Philadelphia, wife of the president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union, who talked or “Christian Endeavor—Past, Pres- ent and Future.” ILLINOIS UNIT MEETS Honor Guests. Honor guests at the Illinois State Saciety dance tonight at the \Willard Hotel will be alumni of colleges and uriversities of the State who are residents here. Members and guests will be greet- ed by Representative Keller, president, and the Reception Committee headed by Mrs. Walter Bastedo. A ahort busineas meeting, at which nomina. tions for offices will be spnounced, is to be held Yukon Salmon Crop. Salmon are the most important kind of fish taken in the waters of the Yukon Territory, last year's cateh by the salmon fishermen amounting to $1,000 pounda F Lord Beaverbrook, famous British publisher, left Washington today in his amphibian airplane for Florida and Jamaica after a flying visit to the Capital, in which he visited the White | House and saw Congress in action The publisher and three friends flew down from New York yesterday. Lord Beaverbrook put in a strenuous day sight-seeing and last night discussed current topics briefly with reporters in his hotel room. He expressed his admiration for President Roosevelt, who, he said, is | looked on in the British Empire as a benign gentleman, working for hap- piness and peace.” Lord Beaverbrook plans to go to Jamaica for & rest before returning home, E. W. SATTERWHITE FATALLY STRICKEN Assistant Superintendent of U. S. Railway Mail Service Served 40 Years. Eugene Walker Satterwhite, 62, as- sistant superintendent of the United States Railway Mail Service, died last night of & sudden illness at his home, 3621 Everett street N.W. For nearly 40 k. years in the serv- ice, Mr. Satter- white had lived here since 1924. He had served as superintendent B of the 16th Di- vision, Rail way Mail Service, with headquar- ters in Pitts- burgh, prior to becoming assist- ant superintend- ent. He was a native of Rossville, Il Active in the Masonic fraternity, Mr. Satterwhite was a member of the Theodore Roosevelt Lodge in Pitts- burgh, the Columbia Commandery of the Knights Templar and Almas Tem- ple of the Shrine here. He also belonged to the Railway Mail Association and the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, He had been active in the current Community Chest campaign. Burviving are his widow, Mrs. Min- nie M. Satterwhite, and a sister, Mrs. Nettie Miller, the latter of Rossville. Burial will be in Toledo, Ohlo. The time of the funeral and other details of the funeral arrangements were to be announced Ilater. MOTHER MARY XAVIER DIES IN HOSPITAL HERE Had Been Stationed at Ursuline Convent Since 1916—Native of New York, Mother Mary Xavier, nee Nelly Hart, stationed at the Ursuline Convent here since 1918, died Monday in Providence Hospital after a short illness. Mother Xavier was born in Brook- lyn. N. Y, in 1861, and last summer celebrated her silver jubilee as & mem- ber of the Ursuline Sisters. She was educated in Brooklyn and'was at the Ursuline Convent at Frostburg, Md., before coming here. Surviving are a nephew, William Hart, lawyer, formerly of this city and now living in New York, and a niece, who lives in New York. Puneral services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the Ursuline Con- vent, 819 Fourth street N.W. Burial will be in ‘mmt Olivet Cemstery. A E. W. Satterwhite. was “feeling dizzy" and did not wish | to testify. Admitting that his inquest was per- functory, Dr. MacDonald rendered a verdict that the seamen came to | their death “as a result of exposure {and exhaustion resulting from the | sinking of the steamer Tzenny Chan- dris.” | Seven men lost their lives and 2! were saved. D. C. LAW DELEGATES SUBMIT REPORTS Bar Association Members to Be Sent Questionnaires on Child Labor Amendment. Washington delegates to the ses- | sions of the International Congress on Comparative Law, held at The Hague last summer, and the American Bar | Association's convention in Kansas City submitted reports last night at a dinner of the Women's Bar Asso- ciation of the District at the Conti- nental Hotel | Walter Bastian, who represented the | District Bar Association at the Kan- sas City meeting, said the House of | Delegates authorized sending a ques- tionnaire to members of the American Bar Association to determine their attitude on both the pending child labor amendment and the proposed Vandenberg amendment. Judge Ellen K. Raedy described the part taken by woman lawyers at the sessions. Reports on The Hague conference were made by Miss Mary Agnes Brown, corresponding secretary of the local woman's legal association, and Mrs. Grace Kanode Vickers. Miss Brown said the preparation of an interna- tional dictionary of legal terms was advocated as a step toward improved understanding between nations. About 90 members and guests at- tended last night's meeting. Judge Annabelle Matthews, president, pre- sided, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry I. Quinn and Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Mor- ris were guest§ of honor | | | LAYMAN MISSION UNIT HOLDS BANQUET FRIDAY Rev. Dan A. Poling tosAddress Members of Movement in Cal- vary Baptist Church, The Rev. Dan A. Poling of Phila- delphia will address approximately 500 men, representing different de- nominations in Washington party to the Laymen’s " Missionary Move- ment, at a ban- quet Friday night at Calvary Bap- tist Church. The banquet is a sequel to Men and Missions Sunday. held in ‘Washington Prot- estant churches Sunday and pro- moted by the na- tional committee of the movement through the Washington Fed- Rev- D- A. Poling. eration of Churches and the Minis- terial Union. The theme of this year's annual celebratian has been “The Gospel for a Groping World.” One of the high points of last Sun- day's celebration was a talk by John R. Mott, one of the founders of the movement in 1910, at' the National * Cathedral, Shipstead described eco- | nomic boycotts or blockades as “the first step to war.” He was opposed, | he said, to dispatching our military forces to foreign countries “to do mis- sionary work with the bayonet among | other nations and to compel other nations to be good.” MRS. C. L. ARLEDGE DIES AT RESIDENCE Native of King William Court House, Va., Would Have Been 95 on January 2. Mrs. Caroline Littlepage Arledge. 94, for 47 years a resident of this city, died yesterday at her home, 2628 Gar- field street N'W. She was the widow of George H. Arledge, who died many vears ago. The first services of All Souls’ Me- morial Episcopal Church Parish wr-e held in Mrs. Arledge’s home on Gar- fleld street in 1911. Subsequently services were hold in a rented house, then in a portable building and after- ward in a stone structure which was enlarged to make the present structure. | Mrs. Arledge had been an active mem- ber of the church since the parish began. A native of King William Court House Va., Mrs. Arledge was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Livingston Littlepage. She would have been 95 on January 2 Surviving are two daughters, Miss Virginia L. Arledge and Mrs. Caroline A. Hunt, both of this city; two sons. Hardin B. Arledge, this city, and George H. Arledge, Hampton, Va.; four grandchildren and two great-grand- children, Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow in All Souls’ Memorial | Episcopal Church. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. | SHIP’S FATE UNKNOWN British Vessel Radioed Yesterday Planes Were Attacking. LONDON, Nov, 17 (#).—The fate of the British merchantman Cardium remained undisclosed today, nearly 24 | hours after she had flashed an SOS | saying she was being attacked by air- | planes off the Spanish coast. Neither the British nor French | admiralties had received word of the | ship. The SOS was received in Bar- | celona yesterday. Congress in Brief ‘TODAY. Anti-Lynching—Southern filibuster | delays Senate vote. ‘Wage-Hour—House Labor Commit- tee considers redrafting bill: petition started to wrest it from Rules Com- mittee. Farm—Agriculture Committees still drafting bills. ‘Taxes—House Subcommittee consid- ers how much revenue would be lost by modifying undistributed profits tax. TOMORROW. Senate: Probably will continue efforts to take up controversial anti-lynching bill, Agriculture Committee meets again on draft of new farm relief bill. House: Program uncertain. Agriculture Committes resumes con- sideration of farm bill, 10 a.m. Subcommittee of Ways and Means Committes resumes eonsideration of DRAFTING OF WOMEN iN WAR IS PROPOSED By the Associated Press The Senate' t woman mem- ber. Mrs. D Graves, Democrat, of Alabama, proposed vesterday that the government be empowered to d women as well as men in time of war. “When war exists or is imminent,” men. women. money and mater; should be available for “unlimited and service” and “without profit,” resolution said. The women. presumably, would not be members of the fighting forces, but could be drafted for other se; \GINNINGHAM NAMED George C. Ginningham was elected commander of onal Press Club Post, No. 20, American Legion, at a | Press Club. Other officers chosen were: Edward Kelly, senior vice com- mander: W. D. Campbell, junior vice commander: Nathan Golden, ad, tant: Harry Radcliffe, finance officer | H. R. Baukhage, chaplain, and So- terios Nicholson, judge advocate. Col. Brasted to Speak. Col. Alva J. Brasted. chief chaplain of the Army. will address the Inter- | national Aleph Zadick Aleph at a | meeting sponsored by the Simon Atlas | Chapter at 8 pm. tomorrow at the | Jewish Community Center. The meet- ing is open to the public and will be foliowed by entertainment and danc- ing. | el her | meeting last night at the National| degree tion that | of 12 men \ Justice Maxey anr ced he would give his decision on a new trial at 3 pm. Thursday, as attornevs come pleted two days of arsument in which and Margiotti repeate launched an resulted in th BETTY GRABLE TC WED COOGAN ON SATURDAY By the Associated Press HOLLYWOOD, Nov 17.—Ji ) race to fame and for HEAD OF LEGION POST | rent picture Coogan waif 17 pic Grable ye RACING RESULTS | ., FIRST RACE—Purse $1.000; 2-vear-olds: & furlangs. | Ghost_Queen (Napier) | Mon Doit (Peters) 0am Serviee (McCombs) claiming: 520 PR 100 1.60 1090 19.50 anz<top. Jen. Mahletis Bie Scold. Rakish. Bricht Sox. fPrivats Car and fHenrietta. f{—Field SECOND RACE—Purse, ¥1.000 olds and up: 1 mile and 30 Spotless (Linch) 630 Clean Heels (McCombs) Secret Chatter (Eccard) Time. 1:52 Also ‘ran—Roy o | Stravol, Fivine Vim. ¥ way, tinneal, Au_Fally ver ¢ and Jig- scand —a new daily feature on Monday, by JOSEPH W. ALSOP B r11liant S Washington § newspaperge correspond- § ent and co- author of ‘“The 188 Days,” astory of the recent dramatic Su- preme Court fight. there is a need for news tha Monday, N and Appearing tax ug[‘uzm. 10 am. THE CAPITAL PARADE on what lies behind the news in official Washington, starts in he Foening Star November 22 and ROBERT E. KINTNER Whose cover- age of the economic and financial side of Washing- ton news was f preceded by Wall Street training and has been marked by many exclu- sive stories. Washington is the nerve center of the Nation and more and more is it affecting the lives of all the peopie. Because t interprets news, not only of what happens, but how and why it happens, The Star and North American Newspaper Alliance present ) “The Capital Parade” Beginning ovember 22 Daily Thereafter