Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1940, Page 2

U. 5. Merine Burean Rejects Charges Against Gainard City of Flint's Captain _Is Praised in Letter Refusing Inquiry A National Maritime Union re- quest for an investigation of charges of “gross misconduct” sgainst Capt. Joseph A. Gainard of the City of Flint, brought by s mess boy and a cook, was rejected today by the Bu- reau of Marine Inspection and Navi- gation in a reply praising the “wis- dom, patience and forbearance” of the captain during a perilous voyage. Addressing William L. ndard, general counsel of the ritime Union, Comdr. R. 8. Field of the Marine Bureau stated “the evidence which you have submitted does not Justify the institution of any inves- tigation on the part of this bureau.” On the basis of affidavits by the cook and mess boy, Mr, Standard had demanded that the bureau sus- pend Capt. Gainard's license pend- ing an inquiry into his conduct of the long voyage which took the City of Flint into Norwegian and Rus- sian ports in charge of a German prize crew. Replies to Charges. “The principal complaints of these two crew members seems to be that Capt. Gainard failed to communicate with the American Consul at Tromsoe, Norway, and re- fused to allow the crew to com- municate with the Consul there and, further, that Capt. Gainard failed to proceed with his ship after Rus- sian authorities removed the Ger- man prize crew at Murmansk,” Comdr. Field wrote. The reply to the first charge, Comdr. Field pointed out, was the simple fact that there is no Ameri- can Consul in Tromsoe. As to the second charge, he quoted from the ship’s log to the effect that the Rus- sians took the ship's papers in Mur- mansk when the German prize crew went ashore. The captain was not allowed ashore and was unable to communicate with American au- thorities. Capt. Gainard Praised. When the ship's papers finally were restored, the City of Flint was turned over to the prize crew again and sailed for Norway. “It is noted particularly,” the| commander wrote, “that every man | who left the United States in the| City of Flint on September 25, 1939, returned to Baltimore with that ves- 8el on January 27, 1940. “Capt. Gainard was faced with| unusually difficult problems. Any | false or ill-considered move on his | part or on the part of any members | of the crew would have involved the United States in serious interna- tional difficulties and might have led to bloodshed or serious danger to the vessel and personnel. It is apparent that Capt. Gainard performed his | duties through the whole affair with wisdom, patience and forbearance.” President’s Cup Regatta_. Association Names Remon John A. Remon, telephone com- pany official, last night was re- elected head of the President’s Cup Regatta Association at the group’s annual meeting in the Willard Hotel. Following election of officers, the directors met to draw up prelimi- nary plans for the 1940. regatta, September 14, 15 and 20, 21 and 22, Also re-elected were R. Lyman Sexton, vice presiden}; Harry P. Somerville, executive secretary; Robert V. Fleming, treasurer, and James A. Councilor, controller. Named to the Board of Directors, in addition to the officers, were Ed- ward C. Baltz, Dr. G. Bache Gill, William C. Shelton, B. M. McKelway, L. Gordon Leech, Thomas E. Lddge and Col. R. S. Thomas. Murray Seeks to Expand Jobless Aid Benefits By the Associated Press. Senator Murray, Democrat, - of Montana introduced legislation yes- terday to liberalize unemployment compensation benefits. Senator Murray’s bill would in- erease benefits by extending the per- lod for which they are paid from the present 12 to 15 weeks to a flat period of 20 weeks. Payments would range from a minimum of $7 to a max- imum of $25 a week. The Montanan said in a state- ment that there is available at the present time more than $1,000,000,- 000 which has been collected for re- serves for unemployment compensa- tion. Most States, he said, are pay- ing out in benefits about one-half the funds they are currently col- lecting in taxes. e A Booklet on How to Tell Fortunes Fortune Telling is a booklet showing how to read fortunes in a variety of ways. It tells what the stars predict, what the lines of your hand foretell and what your dreams mean. 1t also tells how to read cards, how to interpret tea leaves and coffee grounds, and con- tains a wealth of interesting facts on signs, omens and su- perstitions. This kind of study is great fun and affords end- less amusement for parties.” Order your copy of this fasci- nating publication today. In- close ten cents to cover cost and handling. USE THIS COUPON. Frederic J. Haskin, Director, ‘Washington, D. C. I inclose herewith TEN CENTS in coin (carefully wrapped) for a copy of the FORTUNE TELL- BOOKLET. State (Pleass Order by Mall Only.) {Tuberculosis Germ AS POST-GRADUATE CLINIC OPENS—On hand at the opening today of the eighth annual George Washington University post-graduate clinic were (left to right) Dr. Arnold McNitt, presi- dent of the George Washington University Medical Society; Dr. Roger M. Choisser, chairman of the Post-Graduate Committee; Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of the university, and Dr. Walter A. Bloedorn, dean of the Medical School and professor of medicine.—Star Staff Photo. Jobless Tax Rating System Under Study by Employers D. C. Groups Seek Trial of Plan Conceived to Stabilize Employment By DON\S. WARREN., Since employer experience rating as a part of unemployment com- pensation insurance is contemplated in the Federal program and is pro- vided for in the laws of 39 States, there is wonder why some influences have been thrown against it—before the plan has been given a fair, practical trial. So far such a plan has been in force as long as a year in but one State, Wisconsin, and is just now going into effect in three others. The Federal social security plan, dating back to an act of 1935, pro- vides for the use of rating plans, and the question is currently of interest to the District since its present law calls for adoption of such a program for use beginning next January 1. Amendments to the District act, proposed in the McGehee bill, now awaiting House action, calls mereiy for further study of the formula. Washington business interests are urging that such a system, perfected and modernized, be given a trial here. Board Policy Undetermined. It is noted that while the Amer- ican Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organiza- tions have gone on record as op- posed to experience rating plans for employers, their objections so far have not been directed at the Dis- trict . program-—which, admittedly, has gome “exceptional hasic condi- tions. Also, while Director John A. Marshall of the District Unemploy- ment Compensation Board has told The Star he believes the rating plan is “unworkable,” the Social Security Board has not taken any official stand on the pending Wash- ington legisiation. This is in keep- ing with its general policy not to m out, formsally at least, on e legisiation. It may respond, if Congress calls on it for a report on the pending McGehee bill. Belief that the Social Security Board is “backing away” from use of the rating system, however, is supported by references the Federal agency made to the subject in its annual report for the past fiscal year. In that document, forwarded to Congress by Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer last November 10, appear these arguments: ‘That present operations of State laws have not yet developed a “sig- nificant body of information on the validity of the assumption” that differential contribution rates would inspire employers to stabilize em- ployment and permit them to offer their workers a greater degree of economic security. (This argument is contested by some spokesmen for | ‘Wisconsin, the one State where ex- perience rating has been given an actual trial for as rhuch as a full year.); Cost Item Watched. That “continuing careful study” should be made of the stated as- sumption "and of the procedures used in various types of rating plans and of the probable administrative costs of their use. (Proponents of the rating plans urge that nc handicap be placed in the way of further and more extensive trial of such methods to seek employ- ment stability) ; And that operation of State laws has not yet been extended over a sufficient period to warrant final conclusion as to the adequacy of present resources to meet the effects of the gwing of business cycles. To this the Federal board added: “It is clear, however, that no con- tribution rate yielding less than 2.7 per cent of pay rolls can be con- sidered a safe basis for general operation of the programs of the States. Should the circumstances in any particular State indicate, after continued and varied experi- ence, that the funds available for benefits exceeds the amount re- quired to finance the State’s exist- ing provisions, the board believes that the first chdrge on the excess should be to make benefits more adequate.” Reserve Piles Up. In the District case, the compen- sation fund has a surplus now ex- ceeding $16,000,000, and this will grow to more than $20,000,000 by the end of this year; the present pay roll tax rate is 3 per cent— the highest flat rate in the country; present taxes are producing more than four times the amount of benefit charges under the present law; and, under the proposals in the McGehee bill for liberalization measures for both the worker and the employer, it is estimated the tax still would be cing twice the amount of benefit charges, creating a surplus each year of between $2,- 000,000 and $3,000,000. It also should be noted that while the McGehee bill permits the Dis- trict rate to be reduced to 2.7 per cent—in line with the new national policy, which the States have adopted—it also calls for increased benefits in a variety of ways for the eligible jobless, to an extent which so that it has been characterized as & “model” for the States, In the arguments as to whether there is merit to employer experi- ence ratings, these questions are being debated: Are such plans workable? Do they tend to stabilize work and reduce unemployment? Would such plans deplete * State jobless insurance funds? Would operation of the plans permit the employer to hurt the cause of the laid-off worker, assuming that he would want to? Does the employer with a good un- | employment risk deserve a prefer- ential or lower tax rate? And, with- out a rate differential, what incen- tive would there be to an employer to strive ta stabilize his pay roll? Numerous statements have been compiled on these points, in na- tional discussions of the issues. Wisconsin Advocate Gives Views. Among the proponents of rating system is Prof. Emerson P. Schmidt of the University of Wisconsin. In reference to the experience there, Prof. Schmidt is quoted in the Jan- uary 1, 1940, issue of the Barron's National Financial Weekly, in part, as follows: “The writer has had occasion to interview a large number of Wis- consin employers in this respect during 1939 and found .what may be actually called a movement to stabilize. Chambers: .of manufacturers' trade associationsfrequently refer in their weekly news bulletins to the tax savings which employment stabilization will yleld. In & num- ber of cases special bulletins-on the subject have been sent to all mem- bers. In other instances, groups of employers have held - meetings for | the discussion of ways and means for providing more steady employ- ment. “Every large employer with whom | the writer has talked has had a special study of employment and | stabilization made with reference to ! his own plant. Out of hundreds of | interviews with employers, the writer | has not encountered a single em- ployer in Wisconsin who has not in some way altered his policies so as to qualify for a reduced unemploy- ment compensation premium rate. In one striking case a meat packer who laid off an average of about 65 per cent of his employes annually | from 1926 to 1935, has been able to achieve almost complete pay roll stability. In the last six months of | 1936, after his stabilization plan went into effect, he laid off fewer than 40, out of a total pay roll of about 1300. Formerly, he would have as many as 500 layoffs in the first six months of the year. Inci- dentally, this employer is now seri- ously considering the placing of all his employes on an annual wage basis. Jewelry Case Cited. “In another case, a jewelry man- ufacturer who specializes in the production of a type of production which simply cannot be sold at all during the summer months has achieved stability. Since the un- employment compensation law went into effect he has not laid off a single employe because of lack of work.” The A. F. of L, meeting in con- vention in Cincinnati last October, adopted a report by its Executive Committee, calling for elimination of all employer experience rating plans, and since then the national officers have issued & pamphlet arguing that merit rating would not reduce unemployment, insisting that & flat rate was fairer than differen- tial rates, contending that “unem- ployment is a social problem, not largely controllable by management. Ofien that which appears as stable employment in one plant may in- crease instability elsewhere. ‘The total cost is therefore not reduced. * * * To force out of business by high unemployment compensation risks those plants in normally un- stable industries which cannot ma- terially reduce that instability will increase the problem of unemploy- ment. * * ¢ There is no justice in putting the cost of that instability on the producer who cannot lessen it and removing it from the buyer who caused it. A flat rate recog- nizes the interdependence of all in- dustries and the real nature of un- employment controlled by forces reaching throughout the entire labor market, across individual plants and industries.” Reduction “Alibis” Feared. Again, the A, F. of L. states: “The employer will have a direct financial interest in keeping down the amount of benefits paid to his ex-employes. taxpayers. mmm b wiwe Controllers’ Group Urges Action on D. C. Jobless Act Back Two Amendments Making Legislation Conform to U. S. Law The National Capital Group of Controllers, representing retail es tablishments, has called for imme- diate action on two specific pending amendments to the District Unem- ployment Compensation Act. Harold G. Malone, chairman of the Tax Committee of the group, announced letters had been sent to Chairman Randolph of the House District Committee, Chairman King of the Senate District Committee, the District Commissioners and others urging that action be taken now, in order to facilitate passage of the two amendments. They are: Restriction of the tax on employ- ers to only the first $3,000 of any employe’s salary. Reduction of the tax rate here from 3 per cent to 2.7 per cent. Would Make Act Conform. These proposals would make the District act conform in these two respects to the Federal Social Se- curity Act, and should be made retroactive to January 1 of this year, Mr. Malone said. These two changes would result, he claimed, in an estimated saving of $1,000,000 annually to District in favor ‘of liberalization of benefits,” expla: Mr. Malone, in his letter, “in favor of making a study of the various plans of experi- ence rating to apply to future years, and in favor of other .modifications that have been proposed in the (pending) McGehee bill, but we be- lieve that any piece of legislation at the present time that attempts to do more than amend the District act to conform with the Federal act will become so controversial that all legislation may fail.” Opposes Previous Action. Action of the controllers followed a recent telegram sent to congres- sional leaders by several outstand- ing business and professional organ- fzations asking for delay in consid- eration of the legislation. Mr, Malone sent the controllers’ letter to all these organizations, in- cluding the Board of Trade, Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ Associa- tion and others. Among the officials notified was Director John Marshall of the District Unemployment Com- mission. New York Pythians To Join Exercises Here A delegation of 400 members of the Knights of Pythias from New York City will arrive at Union Sta- tion at 2 p.m. tomorrow. The dele- gation is coming here to celebrate the 76th anniversary of the founding of the order. Headquarters of the New York delegation will be at the Ambassador Hotfl, where a banquet and dance will be held tomorrow night. Memorial services will be held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery at 2 p.m. Sunday. , After the services members of the order will go to the Lincoln Memorial for commemora- tion exercises. Lincoln was Presi- dent when the order was founded in ‘Washington. The delegation will attend the opening of the 75th annual session of the Grand Lodge of Washington Monday night at the Pythian Tem- ple, 1012 Ninth street N.-W., and will leave at midnight to return to New York. Dr. Parr Discusses Disease ot G. W. U. Post-Graduate Clinic Approximstely half the American population - has been invaded by the tubercle bactllus, in the majority of cases without producing an sc- tive infection, Dr. Leland W. Parr, bacteriologist of George Washing- tonl University Medical School, told the post-graduate clinic there this morning. A popular belief has grown up, he said, that “everybody has had T. B,” but the latest findings in- dicate that this {s far from the truth. For unknown reasons, it seems to avold some persons almost regardless of the degree of exposure. The bacillus, he sald, is not a very virulent microbe and human beings have a high resistance to its inroads, shown by the fact that there are only about a million active cases in the United States out of approxi- mately 60,000,000 who can be shown to have harbored the organism. Not Declared Conquered Disease. It is, he stressed, far from a con- quered disease and still represents one of the leading causes of death in the United States. It apparently can be acquired at almost any time of life, he said, but is much more than commonly prevalent among medical students and nurses. A rigid program of detection and pre- vention is now underway in the medical classes at George Washing- ton, he explained, with the purpose of catching the malady at its ear- liest manifestations. During the past two years, he said, four cases have been detected in this way and all the victims are now completely cured, although they might have developed fatal cases if discovery d been made later. Failure to find any evidence of scurvy in District penal institutions, although the blood content of vita- min C, or ascorbic acid—the scurvy preventative found in fresh fruits | and vegetables—was much below the recognized safe minimum, was re- | porfed by Dr. Joseph H. Roe, pro- | fessor of bio-chemistry. ‘The prisoners also failed to show any great prevalence of colds or similar infections supposedly influ- enced by ascorbic acid deficiency. One explanation, he stressed, is that the prisoners may have a stored re- serve supply of the vitamin in their tissues at the time of entering jail which is sufficient to keep them from the observable defects of deficiency. Thus, he pointed out, the diet of the be adequate, although shaving the danger line very closely. Sulfapyridine Dangers. One of the side dangers of sulfapy- ridine, the drug now widely used in treatment of pneumonia and various other cocci irifections, is its tendency to form kidney stones, said Dr. George B. Roth, professor of phar- macology. This tendency is not pos- sessed by its parent drug, sulfanil- amide, he said. Actually some, deaths have been repdried due. to this tendency. More than two-thirds of the water in the body is inside the body cells and most of this in muscle it was explained by Dr, E. C, Albritton, professor of physiology. 3 ‘Whenever there is a depletion of this stored water, he said, the in- dividual probably, has the sersation of thirst. The sensation is felt in the throat but this is only a focussing of a demand of the body as a whole. More Housing Bonds Seen Affer U. S. H. A. Issue" The United States Housing Au- thority anticipated today that new issues of long-term bonds will be offered for sale by additional local housing authorities within the next two months. The successful sale of the first issue by four authorities pointed the way, Administrator Nathan Straus said yesterday, to a general broaden- ing of the new financial program that would permit investment of per- haps $400,000,000 of private capital in slum clearance and low-rent housing projects. The four local authorities floated $1,681,000 of long-time, tax-free bonds to finance from 10 to 25 per cent of the cost of $8,070, of projects. Heretofore local authorities have borrowed 90 per cent of the cost of project construction from the Government at an average of 3 per cent to 31, per cent interest. The sale of notes to private in- vestors brought an average reduc- tion of 25 of 1 per cent in the interest rate. The bond sales were: Syracuse, N. Y. $993,000 (26 years maturity) at less than 3 per cent interest. Allentown, Pa., $342,000 (26 years), 257 per cent. Utica, N. Y., $242,000 (27 years), 2.70 per cent. St. Petersburgh, Fla., $104,000. (15 years), 2.66 per cent. may lead to a gradual decimation of its reserves. It says that while on July 1, 1938, of those employer reserve accounts into which con- tributions had been paid for 2% years, and benefits withdrawn for one-half year, less than 1 per cent had drawn out over half the con- tributions; that of the accounts with 3% years' contributions and 1% year's benefits 7.1 per cent have used over half the funds, and that for those of the longest' experience, four years of contributions and two years of benefits, 9.1 per cent had withdrawn over half their contribu- tions in benefits. The annual report of the Social Security Board for the last fiscal year shows that for Wisconsin bene- fit charges for the 1939 fiscal year, ended last June 30, amounted to $6,261,000, whereas funds available for benefits as of June 30, 1939, amounted to $43,742,000. It is cal- culated that as of the last fiscal year, Wisconsin used 375 per cent of its total collections for. the. year in benefit payments. . - . ~Wisconsin Evidence Submitted, An outstanding proponent of the rating system the Social Security Act. He sub- mitted, among .other evidence, a long list of statements from Wiscon- sin employers as to what they were doing to stabilize employment as & result of Wisconsin’s jobless aid pro- gram, which includes an employer rating system. s Among the letters presented to the Senate committee by Mr. Raushen- bush was one from a Racine, Wis., company, which wrote: “Due to & difficult situation exist- ing in one department, which works only about six months of the year, we are one of that group of em- ployers whose rate was raised at the first of this year. This has served to bring home to us*the incentive feature of the law. This has caused us to redouble the efforts which we have made during the past few vears along the following lines: prisoners in this respect appears to | Five Marriages Two Other Roosevelts Have Been Divorced B the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Feb. 16—The romances of President Roosevelt's children five times have resulted in marriages, twice in divorce and re- divorce action. The record: James. Cushing, daughter of Dr. Cushing, famous brain surgeon, in June, 1930; yesterday in Los Angeles he filed for divorce, charging deser- tion; they have two children. Married Ruth Googins July 22, 1933, following his divorce from hi first wife, Elizabeth Browning Don- a little more than a year; he has one son by his first wife, a son and & daughter by his second. Franklin, Jr. Married Ethel du Pont June, 1937; one child, Franklin D. Roosevelt, III. John, Married Anne Lindsay Clark June, 1938; no children. Anna. 1926; divorced July 30, 1934; married John Boettiger January 18, 1935; she and Mr. Dall had two children, “Sistie and Buzzie” combination; she has a son by her second marriage. marriage, and now once again in| The eldest son married Betsey' f Harvey ' ner, after a marriage which lasted | Married Curtis Bean Dall June,| Anna and Curtis, the White House | J |James Roosevelt LOS ANGELES.—JIMMY AND FRIEND—James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President, who yesterday filed suit for divorce from Betsey Cushing Roosevelt, is shown here with Romelle Theresa Schneider, in whose company he has frequently been seen. She was his nurse when he underwent an operation for ulcers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., in 1938. They're shown at a football game at Palo Alto in 1938. —A. P. Wirephoto. MRS. BETSEY CUSHING ROOSEVELT. This picture of Mrs. Roose- velt was made recently in New York—A. P. Wirephoto. | ibrderly Living Urged As Key fo Success In College and Later | Georgetown Students Hear Father O’Leary; 16 Make Honor Roll College students must develop character, initiative and an “order- ly” life during their school years if they hope to achieve success after graduation, the Very Rev. Arthur A. OLeary, S. J., president of Georgetown University, today ad- vised the student body at the mid- winter convocation for the bestowal of academic honors. The “failures” among college grad- uates, he said, are generally those who “lacked the sense of order, the sense of a definite objective in weld- ing all the activities of their college life into one grand purpose. This has been wanting in college and it has been wanting since. “We can give you the means, we can present principles, we can teach you,” he added, “but we can’t make you orderly unless you are willing and interested enough to become orderly of yourselves.” Father O'Leary deprecated “mere education” for the sake of a degree. “A learned man, an educated man can be a positive harm to any com- munity,” he said, “unless he is a man of correct convictions—convic- tions founded on right principles of perseveringly, honestly tries to live according to those principles, that man is a menace to himself and to his country.” Sixteen students were placed on the semester. Their names were read by the Rev. John E. Grattan, follows: Senior class—Dexter L. Hanley of the District of Columbis. Juniors—John P. Beall of the Dis- trict of Columbia, George A. Christy of the District of Columbis, Louis L. Cross of Maryland, Alvin J. Cum- mins of Maryland, Joseph L. Ecken- rode of Pennsylvania and Edward J. Keenan of New York. Sophomores—Edward W. Bodnar, Michael M. Healy and Leon-A. Le Buffe, all of the District of Colum- bia; James J. McKay and Arthur J. of New York and Robert B. Neu of Virginia. Freshmen—Charles W. Daly of Connecticut and James L. Pish of New Jersey. morality and truth. And, unless he | Br S. J,, dean of arts and sciences, as | ti New York and Harold W. Oliver of | b Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: In recess. House: Votes on naval appropriation bill. Agriculture Committee continues hearings on new farm programs. | Jones on Finnish loan. Veterans' Committee studies bills | to extend soldiers’ benefits, TOMORROW. Senate: ‘Will not meet. House: Will not meet. Army Engineer to Speak Col. Steuart Godfrey of the Army Corps of Engineers will address a luncheon meeting of local alumni of Theta Tau engineering fratern- ity at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Harrington Hotel. His subject will be “the Role of the Military En- gineer.” perature. eastward and its center is now L000 miles east of the New England coast. but gales continue over a wide area. essure is high from the eastern portion of the Lake region southeastward over the Middle Atlantic Sta tes, Alpena, 1035.2 millibars (30.57 ver thi s, inches). the honor roll for achieving the Chisti,” grade of “A” in each subject during | yaoe. y Mountain and Plateau regions. Temperatures have fallen ey ‘are ral v and the Southern States. River Revert. and Shenandoah Rivers muddy t’l:l ers Ferry: Potomac uddy st af rs Perry: very muddy & today. Great Higheat. 36, 3:50 p.m. yesterday. Year 880, 36. nmm. 26. 7:15 a.m. today. Year ag0. Recerd me This Year. oty B Hamidity for Last 24 Hours. Jyesterday to noon 3 t%7 30 28 per cont. sk 8 B, q Banking Committee hears Jesse | - | Columbia Will Fly East Today But Won't See Wife President’s Son Is Due To Make Speech in Philadelphia Thursday HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 16.—James Roosevelt, the President's son, who has become a movie executive, planned to fly East today to make & speech, but presumably will not see Betsey Cushing Roosevelt, whom he has sued for divorce. He is to speak at a Washington’s Birthday banquet in Philadelphia next Thursday. In his complaint, filed in Los An- geles Superior Court yesterday, Mr. Roosevelt charged desertion. He and his wife have been separated for the last 1€ months of their 10-year marriage. They have two daughters, 8 and 4, who are with their mother. In New York, Mrs. Roosevelt said she would answer her husband's complaint and ask a divorce herself. She added that a settlement had been reached, and she would have custody of the children. Attorney Issues Statement. In New York Mrs. Roosevelt's at- torney issued a statement over her signature: “I now confirm the fact that my hushand and I have separated and that he has brought an action against me in California for divorce, In due course I shall answer his complaint and myself seek a decree of divorce. “Under our settlement agreement I have the custody of the children. I expect to reside in the East, My husband, I am informed, will continue to reside in California. All other matters between us being of an entirely private nature there is nothing more to be said of public interest.” Had Denied Suit. As recently as two days ago Mr. Roosevelt had repeated his stock answer: “Nothing to say,” to a re- port he would soon file suit. A few months ago, when the ru- mor bobbed up, an associate told a | reporter: “There will be no divorce action by either party, I can assure you, until after the ‘third term issue’ is decided. Jimmy would not want to | embarrass his father until that ques- | tion is settled.” | The popular Jimmy, who jumped |into the Hollywood picture from a sickbed a little over a year ago, has participated little in movie social life. His occasional companion at film affairs has been Romelle The- resa Schneider, who was his nurse in 1938 when he underwent an oper- ation in Rochester, Minn, for a stomach ailment. Her sister, Phyl- lis, is his secretary. From Rochester he came to a California ranch to recuperate, and & few weeks later became “fiscal agent” for Samuel Goldwyn and vice president of Goldwyn, Inc. Wife Left After Brief Visit. His wife came West with him, but left after a brief visit. He saw her in the East several months ago when he attended the funeral of her father, Dr. Harvey Cushing. Under California law, desertion can be made a ground for divorce after a year's separation. Jimmy’s association with Goldwyn was a busy one; spent largely learn- ing the business. Recently he became president of his own company, Globe, which is readying its first production. He and Miss Betsey Cushing were married in Brookline, Mass., June 4, 1930, two days before he graduated from Harvard. He entered the in- | surance business and formed his own firm in 1935, but quit to becoms | “administrative assistant” to his father January 1, 1937. He resigned this post November 15, 1938, while still recovering from his operation. Fire Insurance Head Dies in Connecticut By the Associated Press. HARTFORD, Conn., Feb. 16.—M. Lewin Hewes, 78, organizer and first president of the Standard Fire Insurance Co., died today. In recent years he had been serve ing as chairman of the firm’s Board of Directors. Mr. Hewes, who is survived by three sons, started his career in Baltimore. Weather Report (Purnished by the United States Weather Bureau.) District of Columbia—Increasing cloudiness, lowest temperature about '22 degrees tonight; tomorrow mnostly cloudy, snow or rain by night; gentle variable winds becoming moderate easterly. Maryland—Generally fair and continued cold tonight; tomorrow in- creasing cloudiness followed by snow in west portion. Virginia—Increasing cloudiness tonight; mostly cloudy tomorrow followed by rain or snow in southwest portion; not much change in tem- ‘West Virginia—Increasing cloudiness tonight followed by rain or snow tomorrow; rising temperature. Jhe ‘Atlantle storm_continues to move —————————————————— Preeipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches ta Capital (curr:nt month to date)® Month 1940, @ £ . Aver, 3.58 3. ] $SESSESf January _, February M; 2.12 183 i 105 b o238 HER RN , 2| gl o it 83 S Weather in_Varieus Cities. Stations. Bar. High. 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