Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1940, Page 2

A2 Wagner Denounces Smith Committee’s Plans fo Revise Act Declares Amendments Would Be Weapon to Oppress Labor e By the Associated Press. Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York, champion of the Labor Board, declared in a Senate speech today that amendments proposed by the Smith Committee would turn the National Labor Relations Act into “a delusive remedy for the worker and a concrete weapon for the oppression of labor.” Meanwhile, Chairman Mary T. Norton predicted that the House Labor Committee soon will report out some sort of bill making changes in the Labor Act, following an ex- ecutive session at which the com- mittee took up the-preliminary re- port of the special Smith Committee recommending drastic amendments to the law. Silent on Nature of Changes. Mrs. Norton made it clear she was not speaking for the committee and she would not venture to forecast the sort of bill which the group would recommend. - The only definite action which the committee took was to set next ‘Tuesday to start actual considera- tion of all the suggested amend- ments to the act—those of the Smith Committee and others which have been suggested to the Labor Com- mittee. Senator Wagner, who sponsored the law, said he was ready to sup- THE EVENING SYRACUSE, N. Y.—AND SPRING JUST AROUND THE CORNER—Winter clung to upstate New York with a tenacious grip this week, even though its official tenure is almost over. A plough is shown bucking 10-foot drifts on the outskirts of Syrgcuse in the wake of a snowstorm that closed schools and isolated farm dwellings and hamlets. —A. P. Wirephoto. part any “sound” changes proposed by others and was seeking himseif to advance suggestions which would “lead to a still better national labor policy.” But he expressed blanket opposi- tion to the Smith amendments and set forth eight “conclusions” about them in explanation of his position. The amendments were drawn by a special House committee headed by Representative Smith, Democrat, of Virginia, after weeks of inquiry into the Labor Board. They had the support of three of the five commit- tee members, including Mr. Smith, and were opposed by the other two. In general, they call for creation of & new Labor Board limited to judi- cial functions, delegation of admin- | istrative functions to an independ- ent officer and numerous changes in board procedure. Bata Firm's Motion For Deporfation Ban Due fo Come Up Today Shoe Concern Seeks Temporary Injunction To Keep Workers in U. S. A motion for a temporary injunc- tion against Secretary of Labor Perkins and Jarfles L. Houghteling, commissioner of immigration and natyralization, was expected to be N p = argued in District Court today in Committee Action to Wall. | the fight of the Bata Shoe Co, Inc., Before Senator Wagner Spoke, | or Aperdeen, Md.. to prevent the word spread about the Capitol that | {reatened deportation of 45 work- President Roosevelt, although op- | e brought from Czecho-Slovakia. posed to the Smith recommenda- | A complaint for an injunction and tions, was willing to accept amend- | declaratory judgment was filed by ments designed to improve the labor | the plaintiffs in District Court late law’s functioning without impairing | yesterday. The court was asked to its collective bargaining principle. |jssue a temporary injunction and Mr. Roosevelt conferred yesterday | set aside an order of the Secretary with Mrs. Norton. |of Labor; grant a permanent in- While granting that N. L. R. B.| junction on final hearings and en- administrative procedure might be join the two Federal officials from improved, Senator Wagner urged | instituting and prosecuting any pro- Congress not to make “radical changes” until it could be guided by | ing any of the individual plaintiffs the report of the Attorney General's | or in any way interfering with them. Committee on Administrative Law, ceedings for the purpose of deport- | Westerners Give Horse Laugh To Pony Express Stamp’s Critics By the Associated Press. l , Mo, March 13— N ST UOSTER MO < | Another critic said the type of sad- Stamp and pony eXpress experts are | 41 yag not ysed until 50 years after giving the horse laugh to “riding | the pony express. academy critics” of the new pony ex- | “That's a lot of hooey,” retorted press stamps. Don Houseworth, editor of the Inter- Some philatelists in Washington | national Stamp Review. “The saddle forward to give the pony freedom for his galloping start.” Peace, but Fears For the Future ‘Northern Defense Union Discussed; Swedes Call for Guarantee By the Associated Press. COPENHAGEN, March 13.—Scan- dinavia received the Finnish peace today with relief that the war was over, sadness at Finland's capitula- tion and with forebodings for the future. Talk of a northern defense union in which the little countries would band together for protection against more powerful neighbors was brought- out into the open with a rush. Early editorial comment empha- sized that Finland had made enor- mous sacrifices in the interests of peace in the North. In Sweden especially there was in- dication that popular opinion, shocked at the severity of the terms imposed upon Finland, would insist that some guarantee be given that Finland will not have to fight alone in the event of a new attack. Open to New Attacks. Norway, too, was concerned. The Oslo newspaper Dagbladet 8aid that “the peace conditions made it im- possible for Finland to resist even- tual new Soviet attacks.” “With a railway to be built to Kemi (on the Gulf of Bothnia) the Soviet army can at any moment cut Finland in two and get to the Swed- ish border,” said the paper. “The whole south of Finland will be de- fenseless by losing the Mannerheim Line fortifications and in the Rus- sian occupation of Hanko.” This paper observed that “this is a very hard peace, but under the present circumstances it was the| best solution.” “If Finland had continued the war, Germany might have stepped in and taken the whole of Finland | before help had arrived from the western powers,” Dagbladet said. A similar view was expressed in Denmark. Typical of Danish press comment, the Copenhagen after- noon newspaper Ekstrabladget said: have been criticizing the stamp—duejis, as near as can be determined April 3—and about everything on it. | from the picture, an exact reproduc- ; The pony express ran between St. | tion of the pony express saddle_ rpade Joseph and Sacramento. Calif., and |in St. Joseph by Israel Landis’ fa- folks here think they know a little mous saddlery. It is a modified de- | bit about it. | sign of the regular Western stock One critic said the rider is being saddle.” ) 1 | casual about his reins. The horse is | As for criticism of the horse's nos- | galloping, but the reins are dangling. | trils, L. D. Blunt, another expert, re- “Whoever heard of a Western torts: . | pony being kicked into full gallop| “The nostrils are distended and | with the rider holding tight reins?” | the horses’s mouth is open because asked G. J Luhn, treasurer of the | the pony needs lots of air at once for St. Joseph Stamp Collectors’ Club. | the great effort exerted in his flying “The rider is throwing the reins !start.” Count River Work |Senafe Subcommitfee As Asset, Not a Cost, Votes Anfi-Lynching Bill Report, 5to 1 & group of judges, lawyers and teachers now studying the N. L. R.| B. and other agencies. Law Called ‘Helpful’ Summarizing his oppositon to the Smith proposals, the Senator as- serted that: | 1. The Smith Committee has failed | to develop “any substantial facts to | refute the overwhelming weight of | the evidence that the Labor Act has promoted industrial peace and pre- | served industrial freedom.” | 2. Greater public understanding | and judicial clarification have made the Labor Act “more helpful to busi- ness men today than when it was enacted,” and “radical and incon- siderate tampering” with it will re- sult in “grave uncertainty until the | courts get through interpreting the new law.” | 3. The amendments “would more | than repeal the Labor Act; they| would make it a delusive remedy for the worker and a concrete weapon“ for the oppression of labor.” 4. Proposals for substantive | changes “would not only remove the | provisions designed to redress labor’s | economic inequality, but moreover would place upon labor’s right to seek legal redress unique limitations never applied to any other group.” Held Matter of Personnel. 5. Proposed procedural changes would hamper administration of the law and prove “a blessing to those | anxious to disobey the law.” 6. The administrative defects re- vealed by the Smith Committee in- quiry constitute “almost entirely a| matter of personnel administration” | and would be “multiplied by the pro- posed amendments.” 7. The amendments are “providing & strategic rallying point for the | enemies of the Labor Act.” 8. The act “and all who believe in | it are now faced by a new threat, as menacing as any which they over- came in the pact,” and “the friends of industrial democracy must again rally to repel this latest danger.” Mrs. Norton said a majority of the House Labor Committee members seemed to feel that the Smith report went “too far” in its recommenda- tions. All 21 members of the committee were present at the session today. ‘With three members called out of the committee room when a vote | was taken, the group voted, 17 to 1, | to take up all Wagner Act amend- ments next Tuesday. | Mrs. Norton indicated that the | committee showed no disposition to | delay action on Labor Act legisla- tion. She pointed out that the Smith report had not yet been printed and committee members wanted a chance to study it before | taking up the amendments suggested | by the special committee. Will Take Up Remedies. ‘The committee decided it would hold no further hearings on the Wagner Act but would take up in executive sessions all suggested rem- edies for alleged inequalities and in- efficiencies in the law. Asked when she thought the spe- cial committee would complete its task, Mrs. Norton said: “I presume when its second $50,000 runs out.” Mrs. Norton said she had not changed her own position that the Smith probe should be ended be- fore the Labor Committee took up its findings, but she felt the com- mittee was disposed to recommend to the House at an early date a bill dealing in some way with the ‘Wagner Act. The C. I. O. lost no time in an- nouncing its opposition to the Smith Committee proposals, which it de- clared in a letter to the Labor Com- mittee were “directed toward the < Lawfully Admitted. The plaintiffs said they were law- | fully admitted to the United States and that, with the exception of one woman who married an American | citizen since coming to this coun=-| try, all of them maintained domi- ciles in the protectorate of Bo- hemia-Moravia, formerly the Re- public of Czecho-Slovakia. Because of present European conditions, they said they are prevented from re- turing to their domiciles. Representing the plaintiffs are Francis W. Hill, jr., president of the District Bar Association; Wal- | ter G. Moyle, Ralph P. Wanlass and John W. Cragun. The court was informed the Czecho-Slovakians were brought here to train American employes in the operation of special type ma- chinery used by the Bata company. penses. Would Hire 2,500 Americans. The firm now has a three-story office building, a five-story hotel and five new homes under construction; has broken ground for another five- story factory building and has spen! $1,800,000 at Belcamp at Aberdeen in connection with the development, the court was told. By January 1, 1941, the company has planned to permit employment of an additional 1,000 American citizens, which would bring the total number of American employes to 2,500, according to the; suit. The Bata firm was organized by Jan A. Bata and others to operate shoe factories in Holland, England, France, Netherland Indies, English Indies, Canada, Switzerland, Egypt, Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary, Yugo- slavia and other countries. The court was informed that the | United Shoe Workers of America, |8 C. I. O. affiliate, were permitted | the Labor Department and to file a memorandum regarding termina- tion of the permits of the alien visitors. No notice of the revoca- tion of the permits was first given to the plaintiffs, the suit declared. Finnish Relief Drive To Continue Locally The campaign of the Finnish Re- lief Fund, Inc, in the Capital will continue, despite cessation of hos- tilities in the Russo-Finnish con- flict, the Rev. Dr. Edmund A. Walsh, chairman of the Washington unit of the fund, announced today. “The needs of the 1,000,000 home- less evacuees in Finland remain. Food, clothing, shelter and medical aid must be supplied to them with unrelenting support,” Dr. Walsh's statement declared. “Accordingly, the activities of the Finnish Relief Fund already scheduled in Wash- ington will continue.” Eescructinn of the rights of labor | guaranteed” by the Wagner Act. “No evidence has been pro- duced the justify these emascula- tory amendments,” said the C. I. O. statement, drafted by Lee Pressman, general counsel. “Dictator” Feared. It asserted that the proposal to set up an administrator for the Labor Board would create a “dic- tator.” A suggested amendment giving courts broader powers in re- viewing board findings, it said, was designed “to make the board im- potent through strait-jacket rules.” The C. I. O. argued that the Smith Committee would change the entire declaration of policy of the Wagner Act and thus “negative the basic recognition of the right” of col- lective bargaining. Creation of a new board, it said, would allow “large corporations now resisting the Wegner Act to upset previous board orders.” to examine confidential records of | ‘Assembly May Ask | Congress May Get Plea For Change in Method Of Bookkeeping Congress may be asked to set up waterway and reclamation improve- ments as assets of the Nation rather than as expenses. | | The Projects Committee of the National Rivers and Harbors Con- | gress voted today to appoint a com- i mittee empowered to draw up a, resolution asking that these proj- ects which are of permanent value | be entered on the country’s ledger ! as assets. The National Congress, | in its ann@al appropriation for this | work, has considered them as ex- The suggestion was made by Roy | Miller of Corpus Christi, Tex. | | He urged that the various proj- | | ects be appraised periodically and | their value be kept as-assets while | part is written off as depreciation. | This, he said, is the cwstom prac- ticed universally by private business and should be the custom of the| Nation. | He was supported by H. H. Buck- | man of Jacksonville, Fla., and J. J. Woodward of Seattle, who suggested that reclamation projects be in- cluded. The Projects Committee heard pleas from several dozen persons that it approve ,waterways, flood control and dams in several sections of the country. Among the pleaders were Representative Edith Nourse Rogers, Republican, of Massachu- setts, who asked for a flood control along the Merrimac River. One of the committee members asked her: “Do you think it is the responsi- bility of Congress to procure funds for flood control?” Former Represcentative William J. Driver of Arkansas, president of the Rivers and Harbors Congress, ruled the question was out of order. Citizens Vote o Forego Revenues From Racing Holding that no amount of revenue the District might reap from a track would warrant bring- ing racing to the Capital, the Logan- Thomas Circle Citizens' Association | last night opposed the Reynolds bill. Nearby tracks were said to be easily accessible to race enthusiasts, and fear was raised that a local track would draw persons of ques- tionable character to Washington, increasing crime, already a problem here. . Representative Sheridan’s move for a congressional investigation of the “small loan racket” in the Dis- trict was commended by the associa- tion, but full indorsement was with- held pending further study. The association favored the re- duction of the maximum fine for violation of pedestrian control laws to $50, contending the present maximum was too high in propor- tion to fines imposed on motorists. A committee will, visit the opening of the Thomas Circle underpass to pedestrians late today. It was in- dicated that if the underpass proves successful, the association will go on record as favoring similar projects at Logan and Scott Circles. The association at one time opposed the Thomas Circle underpass. The association made its semi- annval donation of $5 to the Metro- politan Police Boys’ Club. The meeting was held at the home of the president, Mrs. Ella M. Thompson, 1120 Rhode Island ave- nue N.W. The association held its Connally Concedes Measure Will Reach Calendar, Promises Fight By the Associated Press. A Senate judiciary subcommittee approved the controversial anti- lynching bill today, 5 to 1. Chairman Van Nuys said the re- port would be made to the full Judiciary Committee Monday. He predicted that the bill would be re- ported favorably to the Senate a week later. Senator Connally, Democrat of Texas, who cast the lone dissenting | vote 1n the subcommittee, conceded that the measure would reach the Senate calendar, but said Senators from Southern States would “resist its passage with all ‘the endurance and fortitude of which they are capable.” The bill, which has been beaten several times by Senate filibusters, already has passed the House. It would make it a felony for a State or local peace officer to fail to use “all diligent efforts” to protect an arrested person from a lynch mob. Three or more persons would constitute a mob. In addition, the political subdivi- sion in which a lynching occurred would be liable for civil damages up to $10,000 to a lynch victim or to his next of kin if he was fatally in- Jured. 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Street or Rural Route City State 15th annual banquet preceding the meeting, © (Please Order by Mall Oaly.) | Cripple Kills Elderly Vi’air “Finland sacrificed more for the | | cause of the north countries by ac-} | cepting peace than by conducting | war. By taking the heavy burden | of peace on herself she has pre- ;\'emed the Scandinavian counlriesi | from becoming a new theater of | war.” Swedes especially expressed grief for Finland and a developing con- cern that the peace terms may bring new threats to Sweden's own safety. | Concerned Over Railw: | _The proposed new rail to | Kemijarvi, in the center of Finland, | from the Russian border, making a through line to Kemi across Central | Finland. especially orought concern | lo Stockholm. It was pointed out | here, as in Oslo, that it may provide | the Russians with direct military | !transporlauun toward North Swe- d=n. The newspaper Svenska Dag- bladet asks if “the safety of the fu- ture has not been sacrificed for a momentary peace?” | The Swedith government newspa- | per Socialdemokraten said that “only a defense alliance in life and | death between the northern coun- | tries can give all even a relative | feeling of safety for the future which we are unable to procure as single States.” It continued: “We do not believe in the dura- bility of the new peace, and we do not believe in peace guarantees from a power which has dismembered and violenced a free people.” | In general, however, Swedish re- | action was that of evident relief | that the immediate threats to Swe- | den’s neutrality had been removed. Swedish Activists Bitter. The peace terms came most bit- terly to Swedish activists, who had campaigned for active Swedish in- tervention in the war. This group now is to continue its energies toward | securing financial and other help | for Finland in the task of recon- struction. Now, more than ever, the Swedish | press said, Finns will need Swedish help. The conservative Svenska Dag- bladet called the Moscow treaty a “hard peace.” “Many will say that Sweden is to | blame,” the newspaper went on, “but | at least the peace now must be guaranteed by Sweden in a defense union with Finland and possibly with Norway.” Swedish Aid Cited. The Stockholm Tidningen com- mented that without Swedish ma- terial and help the Finns could not have held out as long as they did and added, ““Sweden must stand side by side with Finland with all re- sources, including military.” ‘The Dagens Nyheter said the war had demonstrated the limitations of | Russian military power and the worth of Finnish arms, adding that | Sweden must give Finland all pos- sible help “in the new situation.” Matching Swedish optimism was resentment, openly expressed, that the allies, through an 1lth-hour offer of an expeditionary force to help Finland, had sought to com- promise Sweden’s neutrality. It' was believed in Stockholm that Helsinki’s parliamentary ratification of the treaty, vet to be given, was only a formality. The Finnish ne- gotiators were generally supposed to have been given governmental ap- proval before they signed the treaty. | During Attempted Atfack By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 13.—A crippled youth committed suicide after slay- ing an elderly couple who inter- vened when he attempted to ravish their granddaughter. The youth was Howard Larimer, 18, a senior in the Morrill School for Crippled Children, where he had been regarded as a brilliant student. His victims were Hugh J. Welch, 72, and his wife, Mary, 70. The slay- ings occurred late yesterday in their South Side apartment. Bernadette Welch, 17, victim of the attempted attack, and her sister, Mary Ann, 16, were hysterical for several hours after the shootings. Mary Ann, a schoolmate of Larimer, discovered her grandpar- ents’ bodies. She summoned a neighbor, Mrs. Mercedes Carlson, who found Larimer struggling with Bernadette. She said Larimer fired at her, but missed. While he was reloading the gun Bernadetie and Mrs. Carlson escaped. Larimer later was found fatally wounded. | food and supplies to the inhabitants. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1940. Scandinavia Greets | Two Convicts Cut Off Legs In Mutilation Outbreak By the Associated Press. HUNTSVILLE, Tex., March 13, —O0. J. 8. Ellington, general man- ager of the Texas prison system, disclosed today two convicts had cut off their legs in the latest outbreak of selt-mutilation at Eastham Prison Farm. He said both were drug addicts. Eight other prisoners have broken arms, three have broken legs and one sliced the flesh off his heels. Ellington said a prac- tice of serving coffee to men in the fields recently was discon- tinued, arousing enmity of the prisoners. “There will be no investiga- tion,” he said. “There is nothing to investigate.” Dr. Sidney M. Lister, Prison Board chairman, commented: “There is not much we can do about it. It is another of those waves that break out there from time to time. They are the worst convicts in the system.” He recalled several previous epidemics of self-mutilation. One involved 19 prisoners. ' ' Two guards have been dis- charged for permitting an ax to be smuggled into the prison. Grand Jury Probes Mayne Lefters in Dies Invesfigation Pel.ley Faces Return To North Carolina On Old Charge ‘The District grand jury today be- gan to question witnesses about the background of the Mayne letters, | allegedly forged, purporting to show |a sympathetic link betweew. Chair- | man Dies of the House Committee on.Un-American Activities and Wil- | liam Dudley Pelley, the Silver Shirt | leader, who faces return to North | Carolina to face a five-year-old | criminal charge. | David D. Mayne is among the | nine witnesses who, it is known,; have been subpoenaed to testify be- | fore the jury, whose proceedings are | secret. Mr. Mayne is claimed to have sold the letters to Gardiner Jackson and Herman Weisherg. who said they were told that Mr. Pelley | Finnish refugees from the Russian- | wrote them to Mr. Mayne. Repre- | sentative Hook, Democrat, of Michi- gan, created a furore in the capital | when he quoted from the letter in | the House in the belief that they were genuine. Other Witnesses Called. | The other eight witnesses include Gardiner Jackson, legislative rep- | resentative of Labor’s Non-Partisan League, who requested a forgery | warrant, through Attorney William | A. Roberts, against Mr. Mayne. took this step after Representati Hook. convinced that the letters wi ere | spurious, asked on the floor of the House to withdraw the quotations from the letters which he had had inserted into the Congressional Record. | Mr Weisberg, John M. Henshaw, Charles Appel, special agent of the | Justice Department, which, through | | the Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion, last summer inquired into Mr. | Pelley’s activities; James Stedman, connected with the Dies Committee, | |and Wayne Birdsall, notary public. Special Agent Appel is considered an | expert on questioned documents | David A. Pine, United States at- terney for the District, who on Feb- ruary 25 received from the Dies Committee all its information on the letters, appeared before the grand jury today on the matter with Evan T. Davis and: John J. Wilson, assist- ant United States attorneys. Pelley Awaits Hearing. Meanwhile, Mr. Pelley, $5.000 bond. awaited a hearing set for next Wednesday before Justice F. Dickinson Letts in District Court on his habeas corpus petition. Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat yesterday ordered him returned to North Car- olina but instructed deputy United States marshals to delay the re- moval until the habeas corpus pro- ceeding had been completed. T. Edward O’Connell. Mr. Pelley’s attorney, charged that his client was being “framed” in the extra- dition proceedings. Mr. Pelley in 1935 was convicted of violating the North Carolina blue-sky law and of false pretenses in connection with the sale of securities. The charge agairst him in North Caro- lina is that he violated his parole after receiving a suspended sen- tence. Leeds’ Yacht Rammed By Coal Barges By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 13.—The 278- foot yacht Moana, owned by Tin- plate Heir William B. Leeds, was rammed by coal barges early today in the East River. A report received by Manhattan police said one person was injured. Mr. Leeds had planned to leave this | week for Pitcairn Island, carrying | Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Leaders seek agreement to short- en debate on Hatch Act amena- ments. Foreign Relations Committee con- siders proposal to invoke Neutral- ity Act in Sino-Japanese war. Judiciary Subcommittee continues | ; hearings on anti-lynching bill. District Committee considers fair- trade bill. House: Debates appropriation for con- gressional expenses. Labor Committee discusses Wag- ner Act amendments. Agriculture Committee continues hearings on revisions of farm credit machinery. Special subcommittee of District Committee resumes liquor investiga- tion. Appropriations Subcommittee re- ;Iixlrlms hearings on District supply TOMORROW. . Senate: wl;mblbly will continue on Hateh House and Senate conferees will meet again on transportation bill. Appropriations Subcommittee on Non-Military Functions of the War Department. House: - Considers bill providing for ap- pointment of additional District and Circuit Court judges. Patents Committee begins hear- ings on bill to protect Government in patent infringement suits, 10:30 am. Fiscal Affairs Subcommittee of | Lo House District Committee begins | 1o consideration of proposed changes in income tax law, 10:30 am. Subcommittee on Appropriations resumes hearings on District ap- propriation bill, 10 a.m. | free in | Hoover Says Peace Terms Mark 'Sad Day for Civilization’ Finnish Relief Work To Continue to Meet Civilian Emergencies By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 13 —Former President Herbert Hoover today de- clared that the peace terms “im- posed on Finland” mark “another sad day for civilization.” “The Finns have made an heroic defense that will live for all time,” | he said, “but the odds were in- superable.” (President Kyosti Kallio of Fin- land today sent a cable to Mr. Hoover asking that American help for Finland be continued.) Mr. Hoover, head of the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc., said the organi- zation would continue its work for | the present “to meet the civilian| emergencies for which it was cre-| ated.” “There will be thousands more acquired territory for whom new Social Workers Study Problems of Youth Without Work Ways of Co-ordinating Guidance Service In District Sought Problems of the 16,000 Washing- ton young people who are out of school and out of work were dis- cussed last night by a panel of speakers at a meeting of the Amer- ican Association of Social Workers in the Y. W. C. A. Considering the youth employ= ment problem were Howard Ennis, chairman of the Washington Youth Council; Miss Marie Gurley, head of the Junior Counseling divi- sion of the District employment center; Mrs. Dorothy Dunn, who is in charge of certification for C. C. C. camps for the District; Mrs. Francoise Bell, District N. Y. A. director, and Hugo W. Wolter, rec- reational secretary of the Council of Social Agencies. Survey- Ordered Here. Emphasis was laid on the ne- cessity for continuing the National Youth Administration, Civillan Conservation Corps and other gov- ernmental projects affording op- portunity for work experience and training. ‘The organization passed a reso- lution to appoint a committee to study the youth employment prob- lem and to consider means of co- ordinating the guidance services for youth in the District. Mr. Ennis asserted the two major problems facing youth here were the dearth of jobs, which he said could only be met by expanding pri= vate employment or by a program of public works, and “the inade- quacy and even the lack of facili= ties for vocational guidance and vo= cational preparation in the publie schools.” More Girls Placed. Miss Gurley reported that from June, 1938, to June, 1939, only a third of the more than 10,000 young homes must be found,” he said. “The homes destroyed by air at- | tack in every town and city must| be rebuilt. There are many des- titute who need to be carried over until employment can be resumed.’ He expressed hope that the fund would continue to receive ‘“the nited support of the American peo- ple.” Last night, Mr. Hoover, chairman of the Commissi who is on for He | polish Relief, told a rally of 15,000 yo fore the year is over relief to Poland “on a huge scale” must be found and that it may cost as much as $50,- “I presume that all the need we are looking for the next six months could be covered with one-half of 1 per cent of that which we are spend- ing on our own umemployment,” he said. “America is still silly enough to stretch another . per cent.” A message from President Roose- velt was read at the garden meeting praising American efforts to estab- lish relief in war-torn lands as “eloquent witness to our traditional |interest in alleviating human suf- | fering.” Army Board Seeks Cuusel Of Pursuit Plane’s Crash | By the Associatec Press. DAYTON, Ohio, March 13—A | board of inquiry of the Army Air Corps sought today to determine whay caused a pursuit plane capable | of speeds up to 300 miles an hour | to crash yesterday, killing the pilot, Clark N. Piper, 35, of Paris, Ill. Mr. Piper, attacned to the aircraft laboratory at Wright Field, was on a | routine navigation training flight in | the single-seater when the crash oc- | curred, 3 miles north of the field. | William J. Payton, a witness, re- | ported that the ship apparently | failed to come out of a power dive. Citizens to Meet ‘The Waycroft Citizens’ Association of Arlington, Va., will hold its March meeting at 8:15 p.m. tomor- row at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Borcherding, 4716 North ‘Washington boulevard. Dr. R. H. Bogue will talk on ‘Impressions of Scandinavia.” people who registered at the Dis- | trict Employment Center were placed in jobs. Almost twice as | many girls as boys were placed, she | added, because of the demand for | commercial and domestic workers. The number of young people em- ployed by the N. Y. A. has doubled during the last year, Mrs. Bell said. Mrs. Dunn told the association that a great need in the District is a larger C. C. C. quota for colored uths. District recreational facil- Ve | at Madison Square Garden that be- | ities for older boys and girls are completely inadequate, Mr. Wolter \said. Pennsylvania Avenue Parkway Profection Asked Curbing to protect the parkway on Pennsylvania avenue from auto- mobile traffic between Second street SE. and Seventeenth street SE. was asked by the Summit Park Citi- zens’ Association at its meeting last night, on the motion of W. J. Smith. Mrs. Leila Marshall. president of the group, added that “new hedges and trees woula certainly beautify the | Avenue also.” The association favored Repre- sentative Sheridan’s bill to investi- gate the small loan business in the District to uncover "vicious rackets.” A letter was sent to the District Commissioners asking them to in- vestigate the feasibility of charging for milk bottles to lessen the cost of milk. The group commended the work of Thomas E. Lodge, chairman of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, who has been under fire in connection with the District liquor system investigation. Members of the association com- plained the no-parking signs on | Nichols avenue S.E. from Good Hope road SE. to beyond No. 11 precinct station interfered with business in that vicinity. The meeting was held in the East Washington Heights Baptist Church. Injuries to pedestrians last year in the District from March, when pedestrian control regulations were placed into effect, to December, | showed a decrease of 118 from the | total pedestrian injuries during a " similar period in 1938. east shifting to southeast winds. | tomorrow rain; slowly rising tempe: Virginia—Rain with slowly risin, Weather Report (Furnished by the United States Weather Bureau.) District of Columbia—Rain with slowly rising temperature tonight | and tomorrow: lowest tonight about 33 degrees; moderate northeast and Maryland—Rain in south and rain or sleet in north portion tonight; rature tonight and tomorrow. g temperature tonight and tomorrow. West Virginia—Rain tonight and tomorrow, changing to light snow tomorrow afternoon or night; warmer tonight, colder tomorrow afternoon and night. The Southwestern disturbance has moved eastward and it now extends from the Gulf of Mexico northward to the upper Missi States, the Southern Rocky | Tesion and the West Gulf States. Report for Last 24 Hours. | ‘Temperature. Barometer. Mountain | Yesterday— Degrees. Inches. 4 pm, _ 42 8 p.m. 39 Midnight 35 Today— 4 am. 31 8 am, _ 30 Noon 34 Record for Last 24 Hours. Precipitation. sipel, Valley and Lake Michizan, Feori Monthly precipitation in inches in the m;'lnn Ind 1011 -3y "mmh‘“ (d Capital (current month to date) inches), and Brownsville. Tex.. 10.12. Month. 1940, Average. Record. millibars (20.90 inches). Pressure {s low January 1 55 7.83 ‘37 gver the Gulf of Alaska, Kodiak. Alaska. | Februarv 7 684 R4 $97.0 millibars (20.44 inches). "Pressure | jarch 15 884 a1 is high and rising over the western half of | APTIl 7 913 ‘g8 the United States. and it remains high over | May 1088 's9 the northern and eastern Lake reglon and | June 1o9s 00 the Atlantic States. Pembina. N. Dak.. |3\~ 1063 ‘86 1035.9 miilibars (30.59 inches): Canton. | S84 - 1441 128 N L. 10349 mu 30. m(bmchesr.wn‘u; Geteber 1; ‘s‘;' g; aker es.. 10322 millibars _ (: Gosaner . ! inches) Precipitation has occurred al- | November 7 .89 ‘89 most senerally trom the Rocky Mountain Decanibes S region eastward to the Ohio Valley. the 7 ubper Lake region, the Southern Appa- e & S a o lachian rezion and the South Atlantic|. g, JTemp. ~Rain- Coast. Heavy rain fell in the lower Missis- | , Stations h. fall, Weather sippi Valley and nortions of the East Gulf | Rpuene - 0.08 ~ Cloudy | States. Greenwood, Miss. reporting the | JIDAAY - Clear | Breatest ‘amount. 3.35 inches.” The tem-|AHAMA o - Rain perature has risen in the Ohio Valley. the | AH1UIC Cloudy Southern Lake reglon and portions of the | ghitmote - Cloudy Middle Atlantic and North Atlantic States, | Bimingham Rain while cold polar air overspread the Plains | Blsmarc u AR 3 (From noon vesterday to noon today.) |Jacksonville30.00 73 3 ogHiEhest, 43. 3:45 pm. yesterday. Year | Kol Anecics 5007 B8 3% E -3 o 4 7 33 gglO™eits 20. 6:30 am. today. Year ago. |if 0 ;7'.‘5 ;,é Record Tembperatures This Year. .00 &2 83 Highest. 64, on February 12. 45 35 21 Eoveer 7> on anoary" 20. a8 3 3 Humidity for Last 24 Hours, 36 3 3 (Prom noon yesterday to noon todsy.) 48 40 28 Highest, 47 per cent. at 11 a.m. today. | © Eanote o8 Lowest, 20 per cent, at 5 b.m. yesterday. LI ] River Report. 58 41 | Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers cloudy 38 31 Harpers Ferry: Potomac slightly muddy 38 34 at Great Falls today. :u 23 Tide Tables, S o (Purnished hi nited States Coast and A2 31‘ letic Burvey.) 56 38 1(Roday o 74 A0 Glandy 3 43 2 Cloudy Foreign Stations. (Noon. Greenwich time, toda; ) "Temperature. Weatl 8un, today D, Azo q‘.w 8Sun. tomorrow HoTts (FRE ot Shservations.) Moo, todey -2 Sa Jusn, Fuerto %y tomobile javana, 2 nalt oo A tter wameets Colon. Canal Zon ¥ ~ 5 ) ’ »