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ILLINOIS RESULTS
PROVIDE RIDDLE
Size of Knox-Borah and
' Roosevelt Vote May
Alter Strategy.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
If Illinois were a radically minded
State or if it had been sending to
Congress Republicans of the Norris or
LaFollette type instead of being re
garded for generations as a stronghold
of Republican conservatism, the pri
mary election this week would not be
the occasion for more than passing
Comment
But the Illinois results, while favor
able to the Knox candidacy, revealed
a strong Borah trend down State. This
by itself would not be indicative of
anything more than the usual con
servative and radical split In the Re
publican Party in Western States. The
riddle of the Illinois primary, however,
is what was in the minds of the
1,000,000 Republican voters who par
ticipated in the gubernatorial primary.
but who refrained from voting in the
Borah-Knox contest.
Thus the combined Borah and
Knox vote was about 729,000 with
most of the districts accounted for by
Friday. This means that nearly 300,000
Republicans were sufficiently Inter
ested in the gubernatorial primary
but did not take enough interest
to choose as between Knox and Borah.
Conversely in the Democratic pri
mary. Mr. Roosevelt, who was unop
posed, got about 1,292.000 votes, where
as the Democratic gubernatorial race
attracted 1.348.000 votes.
mayoe timers rreimea.
Seemingly Mr. Roosevelt received
500 000 votes more than the Knox
Bcrah totals. This need not be con
strued as meaning that no Republican
other than Messrs. Borah or Knox
would have received the full Repub
lican vote. It could be argued that
more than 300,000 Republican voters
did not care for either the Borah or
Knox candidacy, but did care for Gov.
Landon or Senator Vandenberg or
some other Republican.
The larger significance, of course, is
that the Democratic gubernatorial
candidates had a larger vote than the
Republicans, though the latter real#
had no such bitter contest as was
staged in the Democratic primary.
Mr. Roosevelt’s complimentary vote
may have been related to the fact that
the voter ordinarily in a party primary
does have to consider all the names
on the ballot irrespective of whether
there is a contest. The fact that Mr.
Roosevelt did poll not many votes less
than the two gubernatorial candidates
must mean that he is stronger than
the State ticket. For if the result of
the Bundeson-Horner contest for Gov
ernor is to drive away some Democratic
votes from Gov. Horner, the fact re
mains that partisans of both candi
dates voted almost unanimously for
Mr. Roosevelt.
Situation May Change.
In other words, the Roosevelt
•trecgth in Illinois—for many years a
ktaunch Republican State—is phe
nomenal for a primary showing. The
Republican point of view here, how
ever. is that when a presidential nomi
nee is chosen there will be much more
concentrated opposition to the Roose
velt policies than has been manifested
thus far. It cannot be overlooked,
however, that both Senator Borah
and Col. Knox have been campaign
ipg against the New Deal and it would
seem logical that the effect of their
argument would be to draw converts to
their side.
,; The failure of the combined Knox- ;
Borah effort to pull a bigger vote may
have some explanation in the way the
Illinois vote was handled by the big
organisations in Cook County, but
until some explanation of a convincing
character is offered, the Illinois pri
mary would seem to indicate that
neither Col. Knox nor Senator Borah
has as yet hit upon a formula for at
tracting votes and that may be Gov.
Landon and Senator Vandenberg can
learn a lesson from the negative cam
paigns that have been waged thus far
on national issues. Certainly Repub
lican strategy wUl have to undergo
considerable revision if the Illinois pri
maries are to be taken as the trend
in a State normally counted as over
whelmingly Republican, both for Gov
ernor and for the presidency.
(Copyright, lyati.)
MAYOR OF HAGERSTOWN
QUITS CONGRESS RACE
Wertz Withdraws From G. O. P.
Contest—Health Given as
Reason.
By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, April 17.—Dr. Irvin
M. Wertz, mayor of Hagerstown, with
drew yesterday from the Republican
primary race in the sixth Maryland
Congressional district.
Mayor Wertz said he dropped out
because of his health. In a statement
issued at his home, he pledged his
support to whatever Republican can
didate is chosen at the polls.
The withdrawal leaves seven Re
publicans in the race for the nomina
tion. They are: A. Charles Stewart,
Perry A. Nicklin, Albert A. Doub and
Thomas L. Popp of Cumberland;
State Senator Harry W. Legore and
Leo Weinberg of Frederick, and State
Senator Ernest W. Miller of Hagers
town.
; K of C. Mass Is Set.
GAITHERSBURG, April 17
(Special). — Montgomery Council,
Knights of Columbus will hold Com
munion Mass at St. Rose’s Church,
Cloppers, Md., Sunday morning at 8
o’clock. Breakfast will follow at St.
Martin’s Hall, Gaithersburg.
[Congr ess in Brief I i
TODAY.
Senate:
Votes on impeachment charges
lodged against Judge Halstead L.
Ritter of Florida.
Lobby Committee hears Kurt Grun
wald. farm organisation man.
House:
Considers bill for creation of Dis
trist rent control commission.
Appropriations Committee contin
ues consideration of deficiency appro
priation bill carrying $1,500,000,000 re
lief item.
Ways and Means Subcommittee
meets cm tax bill (executive).
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Probably will not be in session.
Appropriations subcommittee (exec
utive) to act on changes in District
supply bill.
House:
Will not be in sesison.
What’s What
Behind News
in
Army Again Troubled
by Provoking New
Politics Charge.
RMY high commanders these
days look like the private
who was caught with a speck
of dust on his gun. Their
trouble, as it is well known, is polit
ical dust.
They dare not say it aloud, even
in an executive session of a congres
sional committee, but they would like
to get further separated from political
influence or else borrow Charlie
Mlchelson from the Democratic
National Committee to tell them how
to make adequate excuses for political
mistakes.
The turn of two recent events
has flustered the whole inner Army
circle to the core.
Latest embarrassing moment devel
oped when Maj. Gen. Bolles, com
manding the 3d Corps Area, ordered
out two companies of Infantry and
a band to whoop up a Democratic
rally in Baltimore. The Democratic
Arrangements Committee requested
the whoopers for their torchlight
parade, in honor of President Roose
velt's speech.
The order offered a wide open mark
for Republican Dr. Fletcher to shoot
at. He did not miss. His shots
screamed "Hitler and Mussolini meth
ods." Sentor Carey followed with an
embarrassing letter to War Secretary
Dern reminding him that the Marine
Band had been withdrawn from the
Woman's Patriotic Council here be
cause the New Deal was criticized
at that meeting. No plausible answer
or excuse was at hand.
Look in Books.
The generals called for the regula
tion books and searched fast. Finally
they noted that the Federal troops
may be called out either for review
or as an escort for the President.
Mr. Dern quickly announced that
the troops were ordered out on the
“assumption" that the President would
be in the parade. The only trouble
with that is he wasn't.
Just prior to that, the high com
manders were explaining publicly
(and not with entirely straight
faces) that Gen. Hagood was re
stored because the Army is short
of major generals. They will tell
you on the side the real reason
he was restored was political pres
sure from Capitol Hill. They do
not like it at all.
The Army crowd seems to feel that
it was bad enough to fire Hagood for
confidential testimony before a con
gressional committee, but worse to
have Democratic Senators get a sub
stitute job for him.
Capitol Scored Beat.
There is no doubt in their minds
that this is exactly what happened.
Senators interested in the Hagood case
spread the word of his restoration
two days before It was announced,
and before he had accepted the
Chicago post.
Note—What happened technically
wsa this: Chief of Staff Craig notified
the President he had two posts open
for Hagood, the 6th Corps Area at
Chicago or the 7th at Omaha. By
seniority, he deserved the second, at
Governors Island, but that is a choice
post. Mr. Roosevelt called Hagood
to the White House and told him
he could have either Chicago or
Omaha. Hagood wanted neither. So
he took Chicago.
Latest Italian raids In Ethiopia are
really peace-table maneuvers. Musso
lini’s men have now gone beyond their
communication and supply lines much
too far for military safety. They will
probably withdraw a considerable dis
tance before the rains start. By that
time the League will have decided
either to do something or nothing.
This, of course, is the major objective
of the raiding campaign.
Italian successes are due primar
ily to the failure of the Ethiopians
to stick to their original defense
plan, conceived for them by smart
military advisers. Their plan was
to keep out of the way of the ad
vancing Italian Army, to catch
small Italian detachments off
guard and wipe them out by over
whelming numbers. The Ethio
pians followed it at first and it
worked perfectly. Italian com
manders were worried.
But then Haile Selassie’s men be
came foolishly overconfident and con
sidered themselves a match for the
Italians in direct modern warfare.
This was their big mistake.
Nobody knows, but the best guess
here has been that the British would
fail to get the League to do anything.
Oil sanctions will not stop Italy now.
The only thing that would stop her
would be to close up the Suez CanaL
That Is war, and our best people doubt
that Sir Anthony Eden is capable of it.
Diplomatic advices indicate the
smaller nations have had sufficient of
the League for the present. Britain and
Prance are using it as an instrument
of policy and nothing else. R-ance
wants sanctions against Germany, but
not against Italy. England wants
sanctions against Italy, but not against
Germany. France thinks only of the
Rhine, England only of the Mediter
ranean and Lake Tana. This makes
everything pleasant for. Hitler and
Mussolini.
(Obpyricb. 1036.)
DR. WALSH TO LECTURE
Dr. Edmund A. Walsh, S. J, vice
president of Georgetown University,
will resume his weekly schedule of
publio lectures tonight at 8:30 o’clock
in Gaston Hall, Georgetown. His
topic is, “Liberty Under Democracy."
He will bring the series to an end
next Friday evening when he discusses
the American Constitution. Due to
the audiences that have crowded Gas
ton Hall for the lectures, the univer
sity has equipped the Copley lounge
with loud-speakers to provide for the
overflow.
4
VOTE-FOKM
APPEALGROADCAST
Mrs. Marie Flynn Maddox
Urges State Societies
to Aid Cause.
America wai called on to rally be*
hind the District in efforts to obtain
the franchise fdr residents here in a
radio address last night by Mrs. Marie
Flynn Maddox, Washington attorney
and member of the Columbia Heights
Citizens’ Association.
Urging membei* of State societies
and patriotic groups to work in their
home territories,'to promote the right
to vote for the voteless half million In
the Capital, Mrs. Maddox declared:
"You who possess the vote can, if
you will, do more for the citizens of
the District than, with no vote, they
can do for themselves.”
She cited statistics showing the Dis
tricts’s Internal revenue payments in
1935 were greater than the amount
paid by 23 States and more than the
combined payment of nine States.
Compared with the 43 largest cities in
the United States, Washington ranks
third in the per capita tax burden, al
though fourteenth in population, she
said.
Answering critics who say the Dis
trict, when it had the vote, experienced
“so much corruption that it sank
hopelessly into debt,” Mrs. Maddox
said:
“This indebtedness was not due
so much to corruption in office (al
though Washington had been pillaged
by agents appointed by Congress), but
because in that period the Federal
Government paid not one cent toward
the city’s expenses.”
The woman lawyer was vigorous
in declaring opposition to suggestions
that the Capital should be moved to
a centrally located city. She remarked,
however, that “many citizens of the
District would gladly go forth with
crowbars and help dislodge from their
untaxed acerage those marble edi
i flees seldom open to District citizens
i who have no State connections.”
The address, broadcast over Station
WMAL, was one of the series spon
sored by the Federation of Citizens’
. Associations.
I
HOUSTON NEW HEAD
OF BAR ASSOCIATION
| Former Member of Education
Board to Succeed Thurman
L_ Dodson, Retiring.
William L. Houston, former mem
ber of the Board of Education and pro
fesosr at Howard University Law
School, has been elected president of
the Washington Bar Asosciation. He
will succeed Thurman L. Dodson, re
: tiling president and an instructor at
the Robert H. Terrell Law School.
Other officers elected last night are
George A. Parker, first vice president;
Ollie M. Cooper, second vice president;
George W. Peterson, secretary; Wil
liam A. Lee. jr., corresponding secre
tary. and Augustus W. Gray, treasurer.
Dodson tnd three other members of
the association were elected to the
Executive Committee. The others are
Belford V. Lawson, Richard D. Atkin
son and Edward W. Howard.
TRAFFIC
CONVICTIONS
SECOND-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
Albert M. Hazel, 5017 Ninth street,
$10.
FIRST-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
John J. Gavaghan. Maryland. $15.
Charles W. Gamble, Maryland. $10.
James W. Proctor, 3535 Sheridan
road southeast, $10.
James H. Ellis, Maryland, S5.
Carl Backmeir, Maryland, $15.
Robert E. Tate, Maryland, $10.
Alfred W. Stowe. Virginia, $5.
Francis I. Ford, 631 South Carolina
avenue southeast, $10.
Daniel 6. Howard, 2630 Sixteenth
street, $10.
Alexander S. Lukas, Walter Reed
Hospital, $10.
Curtis F. Thatcher, 1526 A street
northeast, $5.
Robert F. Donaldson, 3523 Nichols
avenue, $5.
George W. Simp6on, 1122 Park road,
$5.
Louis W. Gianoly, 614 Kenyon
street, $5.
Lynnwood B. Peyton, 3600 Connecti
cut avenue, $5.
John W. McNamara. Maryland, $10.
Earl Edwards, Virginia, $10.
Arthur E. Tew, 6409 Western ave
nue, $10.
Jefferson W. Humphries, 87 Fenton
street northeast, $10.
PERMITS. SUSPENDED.
Joseph C. Fought, East Falls
Church, Va., 15 days.
Walter F. Green, Upper Marlboro,
Md., 15 days.
Joseph R. Holland, Silver Spring,
Md., 30 days.
Truby D. Horton. 930 Quincy street,
revoked.
Edith C. Macrae, 1733 Nineteenth
street, 15 days.
Charles H. Moore, 436 Tenth street
southwest, 30 days.
William F. Newman, 57 Quincy
street, 15 days.
Robert B. Palmer, 1854 Kalorama
road, 15 days.
Clifford Poole, 1549 Thirty-third
street, 30 days.
Henry W. Reeder, 516 Concord ave
nue, 30 days.
Hebe L. Reynolds, 2126 Connecticut
avenue, 30 days.
George L. Ridgley, 1249 Wisconsin
avenue, 30 days.
William Roberts, 800 P street, 15
days.
Bernard F. Robey, 3513 Seventeenth
street, 15 days.
Nate Sauber, 647 Massachusetts ave
nue northeast. 30 days.
Richard L. Seiss, 1433 East Capitol
street, 15 days.
Charles Spanos, 1113 Massachusetts
avenue, 30 days.
Rudolph T. Toogood, 718 Rhode Is
land avenue, 15 days.
Ernest L. Wagner, 33 W street, 15
days.
Steve Walsh, 5128 Fulton street, 30
days.
Nathaniel Washington, 2218 Fort
place southeast revoked.
Cone J. Weeks, 918 Virginia avenue
southwest, revoked.
J. A. Weinberg, 1403 Montague
street, 15 days.
James W. Wilson, Bethesda, Md.,
15 days.
Barbee O. Towell, 1421 Monroe
street, 15 daya.
Borah Here Since 1907.
Senator Borah of Idaho has been in
continuous service ia the Senate sinoe
1907.
SENTINEL DONORS
REVEALED IN QUIZ
Secretary Tells Lobby
Probers Pitcairn Family
Gave $96,000.
BY REX COLLIER.
Foregoing threatened contempt pro
ceedings against a recalcitrant witness,
the Senate Lobby Committee today
disclosed contributions to the Senti
nels of the Republic, anti-New Deal
organization, of more than $96,000 by
the Pitcairn family of autogyro fame.
After deciding not to cite Kurt
Grunwald, consulting agricultural en
gineer of the Fanners' Independence
Council, to the Senate for refusing to
answer certain questions, the commit
tee obtained from an officer of the
Sentinels a list of contributions total
ing more than $130,000.
The Sentinels have conducted a
campaign against the “pink slip" pro
vision in the income tax law. social
security legislation and other New Deal
measures, it was said.
Reveals Pitcairn Gifts.
David F. Sibley, assistant treasurer
of the Sentinels, told the committee
Raymond F. Pitcairn, whose "chief
occupation." he said, is the Pittsburgh
Plate Glass Co., "advanced" the Senti
nals more than $83,000 in recent
months.
Harold F. Pitcairn of the Pitcairn
Autogyro Co. gave $7,500, Rev. Theo
dore Pitcairn $3,500, Mrs. Raymond
Pitcairn $1,000 and Mrs. Harold Pit
cairn $500.
Sibley said Raymond Pitcairn’s
money was given with the understand
ing it would be repaid "if and when"
the organization was able. None has
been repaid to date, he said.
Other prominent contributors In
cluded J. Howard Pew. $500; E. T.
Stotesbury. $1,000: George Wharton
Pepper, $500; Nicholas Roosevelt,
$500; Irenee du Pont, $100; W. W,
Montgomery. $1,000; Edward B. Smith.
jr., si.uuu; Aaron ej-k, si.uuu; Aiirea
P. Sloan, Jr.. $1,000; C. H. Geist Co.,
$1,000; George F. Tyler,*$1,000; R. L
Montgomery. $1,000; S. Griswold
Flagg, 3d. $1,000; Charles J. Eisenlohr,
$1,000; A. Atwater Kent, $1,000: John
E. Zimmerman, $1,000; Horatio G.
Lloyd, $1,000; Walter C. Janney,
$1,000; Philemon Dickinson, $1,000;
Walter 8. Thompson. $1,000; William
P. Gest. $1,000; J. E. Windsor, jr.,
$1,000; Harry W. Harrison, $1,000.
Letter Tells of Threat.
The committee read into the record
a letter in which Alexander Lincoln,
president of the Sentinels, told a law
yer "the Jewish threat is a real one."
Lincoln was replying to a letter in
which W. Cleveland Runyon, New
Jersey attorney, denounced the “Jew
ish brigade Roosevelt brought to
Washington.
“This fight for Western Christian
civilization can be won,” the lawyer
told Lincoln, "but only if we recog
nize that the enemy is worldwide and
that it is Jewish in origin.’*
The lawryer, in a second letter to
Lincoln, said:
“I wish you could have heard a
Souttkerner tell me yesterday aoout
his conversation with Southern Sen
ators. They know the New Deal is
communist, but there must be an
aroused public opinion to cause Con
gress to rebel.
“The Sentinels should really lead on
the outstanding issue. The old-line
American of $1,200 a year wants a
Hitler.’*
The committee read a letter In
which a Washington representative of
the Sentinels urged Lincoln to have
the organization oppose legislation to
create a Juvenile Court in the District
of Columbia.
Lincoln replied he would give the
matter consideration. Sibley, however,
told the committee he did not think
the organization had taken any part
in connection with the District Juve
nile Court legislation.
Questioned About Tour.
Sibley was questioned briefly about
a truck wrhich the Sentinels sent on a
tour of the country to show “educa
tional movies” in various cities and
towns. He was excused at noon, but
wa» told to return at 2 p.m. tor fur
ther questioning.
Gnmwald had refused yesterday to
name persons with whom he discussed
anti-New Deal activities of the Farm
ers* Independence Council in South
Dakota and other Western States.
Chairman Black gave no explanation
of the committee's overnight decision
not to cite Gnmwald. The later had
forced adjournment of yesterday’s
hearing by his belligerent refusal to
identify men he had approached re
garding the council.
When the committee opened its
VlMfinn iUir nU.I. S.1J /-I_
w&ld he was "excused.”
"Do you mean you are through with
me?” inquired Grunwald.
“Yes. You may obtain your attend
ance fee at the committee office,” said
the chairman.
“Thank you,” Grunwald uid, as he
left the room.
The committee then began question
ing Sibley.
Grunwald’s defiance of the com
mittee followed by 24 hours similar
action by a representative of the
Southern Committee to Uphold the
Constitution. The latter, Vance
Muse, was threatened with citation to
the Senate, but after he had com
mented this would be an "honor”
the committee took no action.
Grunwald is a naturalized citizen of
German extraction. He said he came
to this country to escape the Russian
Cheka and added “I don’t want to
go through that here.” He told the
committee he had been "persecuted”
here during the World War because of
his German origin.
He said he had been employed as
an agricultural expert by many cli
ents, among them sugar companies.
Sought A. A. A. Foes.
He came to Washington In January
of 1935, he said, "to find some he
men who would go out and fight the
triple A.” He discussed with Morse
organization of the Farmers’ Inde
pendence Council at that time. Morse
then was "consulting agriculturist”
with the American Liberty League.
Morse, according to Grunwald, wrote
him to come back here In April of
last year and he then attended a
meeting in the Raleigh Hotel of seven
founders of the council. Among these
were Morse and Representative Fred
R. Crawford, Republican, of Michi
gan, he said.
Later, he told the committee, be
made a trip through Ohio, Indiana,
South Dakota and other Western
States in the interest of the council.
It was when he was pressed for names
of persons he saw on the trip that
Grunwald declined to answer.
Court Action Continues.
Court action in connection with the
committee’s work continued yesterday.
The Federal Communications Com
mission petitioned the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia to
dismiss William Randolph Hearst's
k
New Parkway Here to Rank With Finest
Workers Under New P Street Bridge Soon to Have Link
, Completed, Connecting Parks.
The last segment of the Rock Creek-Potomac Park driveicay, that at the P Street Bridge,
now is being completed. Within the next 30 days the road is expected to be ready to take its
place as one of the most important connecting links between Chevy Chase and downtown
Washington. —Star Staff Photo.
BY JOHN JAY DALY.
MEN at work under the new
P street bridge soon will pul
into place the last connecting
strip of roadway in the Rock
Creek Park-Potomac Park driveway.
When that little patch of pavement
■panning the creek is completed,
Washington will have one of the
grandest automobile parkways in the
world.
In less than a month, southbound
motorists from the Chevy Chase
Bethesda area will have the privilege
of riding downtown through a veritable
fairyland, a natural setting from na
ture's own workship, and not so much
as a traffic light to impede progress.
There is, perhaps, no city in the
! world offering such scenic beauty for
| those going to work.
Traffic Director Van Duzer says:
! “This new driveway is going to be a
wonderful outlet for Connecticut
' avenue traffic all the way down to
j Potomac Park. There are no grade
; crossing*. It means a straight shot
at the heart of the city. The only
thing I'm afraid of is that it might
be necessary to make this winding
lane a one-way street in the mornings,
and the other way in the afternoon.
This, because the road is rather
narrow.’1
When Van Duzer says that, he
smiles. For Washington's traffic di
rector has no jurisdiction whatsoever
over the new Chevy Chase-Potomac
Park driveway.
Controlled by Commission.
This magnificent new contribution
to Washington's network of drive
ways is completely under control of the
; National Park and Planning Com
j mission, with C. Marshall Finnan In
1 command.
Under the present set-up. it is pos
sible to enter Rock Creek Park at
any one of the upper Chevy Chase
entrywsvs and keep coming down
i town through natural wooded area
| without so much as sighting a sign
: of business or commercial activity
: — -
I until the driveway intersect* with K
!street.
It is at K street that the inbound
J motorist will encounter the first traf
! flc light. It is not Installed yet, but
soon will be. This traffic light, since
it will be partly on District and partly j
on United States Government prop- |
erty, will be paid for Jointly by the
two government*.
If the motorist elects to turn left
on K street, he leaves the new park
way drive and confronts the usual run
of traffic. If he continues across K
street, the parkway Is entered again
and he may proceed southward to any
number of traffic lanes entering the
1 city proper—down to the Monument
j Grounds.
Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director of
highways in the District, was asked
if the city planned to take care of
any overflow from the new driveway
by widening Twenty-second street—
south from P street.
“Street widening is not a very popu
lar feature—especially in the residen
tial sections,” Capt. Whitehurst re
plied. "There has been some talk of
! widening Twenty-second street, south
from P street—and there was even
a plan proposed. But that will have
to be revamped now, in view of the
near-completion of the new Chevy i
Chase-Potomac PaPrk driveway. In
so far as the District is concerned, we
want to wait and see what effect the
new driveway will have on traffic.”
This much Is known: Where the
old riding academy stands at the
southwest corner of Twenty-second
and P street, there will be a gas sta
! tion.
There have been reports that the
Government would purchase the old
' riding academy property and convert
it into a small parkway, to sep’e as
i an exit from the Chevy Chase
Potomac Park driveway. With that
I arterial widening, traffic could be more
I easily shunted down Twenty-second
street in the busy morning hours—a
! one-way flow—and started again
northward in the afternoon on a one- j
1 way system home. With one of the i
larger oil companies getting control
of the riding academy property, this
plan is out.
Nevertheless, Twenty-second street
will continue as an arterial highway
up and down town.
From Chevy Chase Circle.
From Chevy Chase Circle to down
town Washington—say. in the vicin
ity of the Mall—is a good 7 miles
If Connecticut avenue is used.
Through the park, and over the new
driveway, this distance is increased,
but the absence of cross traffic makes
for faster travel.
There is one odd limitation on the
use of the new driveway. It is a
through route only during the day
time. This Is because the National
Zoological Park stands in the way,
and the gates to the Zoo are closed
each night at sundown.
That means that the new Chevy
Chase-Potomac Park driveway may
be used as a 24-hour route only from
Cathedral avenue downtown.
As a matter of fact, the traffic ex
perts of Washington feel that the
average motorist will enter the new
driveway either at Cathedral avenue,
turning into It under the Calvert
Street Bridge, or starting at some point
along the northern boundary line
marked by Calvert street. There is a
natural entrance to the new driveway
just west of Connecticut avenue.
Only those leisurely souls who like
a good long drive along the waters
of Rock Creek will enter the new
driveway as far north as Military
road or Grant road or Broad Branch
road—any one of which permits of
easy access to Rock Creek Park.
The highway is not a new idea. It
was proposed by the Board of Trade
as early as 1900—or thereabouts.
First, the new driveway was planned
merely as a bridle path. Then other
plans were submitted. Always, it was
difficult to get the apropriation
through; but, eventually, the city
beautifiers won out—and now the
new Chevy Chase-Potomac Park
driveway is almost ready for use.
application for a permanent injunc
tion against seizure of his telegrams.
The commission contended the in
junction would have no purpose since
the commission no longer has any
such telegrams.
Elisha Hanson, counsel for Hearst.
issued a statement in which he inter
preted the commission’s motion as
“virtually accusing the Black commit
tee of being the guilty party in the
whole transaction."
“Of course, every one knows this to
be a fact," said the publisher's lawyer.
“However, the commission pleads with
the court to dismiss a bill, as to it, on
the ground that it will not commit
any more offenses of a similar na
ture.”
Ritter
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after going on the bench, ror the Mul
ford Realty Co., and receiving a $2,000
fee.
The vote on this ballot was: For
conviction, 44; for acquittal, 39.
The fourth count was the alleged
receipt of $7,500 from the late J. R.
Francis, Flint, Mich., manufacturer,
for legal services.
This was the first vote on which
the defense had a majority. The bal
loting showed 36 for conviction and
48 for acquittal.
The fifth charged failure to pay in
come tax on $12,000 in 1929, including
the money received from the Mulford
firm and Francis.
The vote was 36 for conviction to 48
for acquittal.
’ The sixth involved alleged failure to
pay Income tax on $5,300 received in
1930 in addition to his salary, includ
ing $2,500 from Rankin.
On this count, the vote was 46 for
conviction and 37 for acquittal.
The Senate late yesterday concluded
13 hours and 9 minutes of deliberation,
“very learned” and involving “politics”
according to one Senator, and was
ready to vote separately on each ac
cusation on convening today.
Each Senator will be given four days
after the voting to file a written
statement in the record explaining his
vote.
MENINGITIS VICTIM
REMAINS CRITICAL
Physician Beports Only Slight
Improvement in Condition
of Student.
Miss Margaret Graham. 17-year-old
high school student from Wickford.
R. I., remained in a critical condition
today in Garfield Hospital, where she
has been in a semi-conscious condition
from meningitis since Tuesday night.
Very slight improvement was reported
by her physician.
Miss Graham was a member of a
party of 30 students of the Rhode
Island school who came to Washington
for an Easter tour. She became 01
Tuesday and her mother was sum
moned here from Wickford the next
day, when specialists handling the case
feared an operation might be necessary.
Yesterday, after it was decided the
illness is of communicable type, ar
rangements were made to send all other
members of the party back home ar
once. They left in a special car on
an afternoon train from Washington
to Boston and were to be placed under
quarantine on arrival at their homes
last night,
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SOCIAL SECURITY
BILL ON GRIDDLE
Textile Union Official Says
Measure Fails Aged
and Unemployed.
By tbe Associated Press.
The New Deal's social security act
was criticised today by Francis J.
Gorman as offering no security either
to the aged, the unemployed, or mid
dle classes.
The vice president of the United
Textile Workers of America was a
witness before a Senate Labor Sub
committee.
“President Roosevelt said in his
opening re-election campaign speech
the other night in Baltimore that
those of us who kept saying that the
army of unemployed was 'permanent'
are mistaken,” Gorman told the com
mittee. “If that be so, why does the
security act look only to the future in
its provisions for social insurance?
If that be so, why is the number of
jobless growing steadily instead of
decreasing?
“The plain truth is that the ad
ministration recognizes that unem
ployment of employables is a perma
nent institution in this country when
it passes even the security act.”
Gorman indorsed the Frazier-Lun
deen social security bill, which is the
subject of the committee hearing. It
would provide a minimum of S10 a
week and a maximum of $20 a week
for unemployed, with compensation
for aged and for maternity periods.
It would have the cost borne solely
by the Federal Government, initiated
with a $5,000,000,000 appropriation.
Also indorsing the bill was Miss Mary
Van Kleeck of New York, national
chairman of the Interprofessional As
sociation.
Gorman said the State co-operation
I
I provision in the present social security
! act made the law subject to opposition
! of “reactionary” State Legislatures.
Moreover, any participation by the
States, he said, meant the burden
would fall on the workers themselves
and on “the middle class, already bled
to death with a legion of various sorts
of taxes.”
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HEARINGS ARE APPROVED
FOR EXCHANGE MEASURE
By the Associated Press.
The Senate Agriculture Committee
voted yesterday, at the request of the
Chicago Board of Trade, to hold hear
ings next week on the commodity e^*
change bill.
The Chicago Board will be allowed
to protest the bill Tuesday and sug
gest amendments it desires. Support
ers of the bill, including farm co
operative groups, will appear Wednes
day.
The committee action was taken as
the outgrowth of a meeting of Demo
j cratic and Republican Senators a week
ago which urged hearings on the bill
; without taking it of! the Senate cal
endar.
The bill would expand present con
trol of the Agriculture Department
i over the commodity exchanges.
WEED GROWERS MARCH
GREENVILLE. N. C . April 17 yP>.—
Leaders in a movement here to “march
on the capitol” in the interest of a
special legislative session to enact to
bacco control laws sought today to en
| list the co-operation of other tobacco
sections.
A mass meeting of 500 members of
the Pitt County Farm Bureau decided
to send delegations to Raleigh next
Tuesday in an effort to persuade Gov.
Ehringhaus to call a special session,
and to ask other counties to join the
movement.
The farmers requested that local
stores close for the day to permit busi
ness men to join in the trip to the
capitol. A request was made for a
thousand automobiles for the trip.
The National Scene
BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH
E HAVE grown so accustomed to the spectacle of wanton
spending that the abandonment of Passamaquoddy and
the Florida canal arouses little more than perfunctory
comment. Twelve million dollars have gone to
waste on these two projects before the President
and Mr. Hopkins reached the belated decision
that none of the one and a half billion relief
appropriation dollars would be used to complete
them.
The ship canal might be feasible if the
country could afford it The tide-harnessing
scheme was from the start a vast and flagrant
boondoggle. It leaves the administration with a
scenario hamlet on its hands which it might
perhaps use for one of its propaganda movies,
or for another Tugwell-town of the Reedvllle
variety, where the inhabitants can lead the more
... abundant life principally on cranberries.
A flve-and-a-half-million-dollar scar across the face of Florida
and a deserted village on the Maine coast are all that remain of
these pet projects of a President who asserts bis disbelief in panaceas.
(Copyright. 1936)
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Directors, However, Report
Deadlock With Union
Over Musicians.
The National Symphony Orchestra
Association has the financial backing
to go ahead with a season of concerts
next Winter, but no agreement has
yet been reached with the Musicians’
Union for the employment of players,
it was revealed at the annual meeting
of the symphony group yesterday.
While the association is prepared to
give the Winter concerts w ith the sup
port of a sustaining fund approxi
mately the size of that raised last
year, failure of the recent financial
campaign to achieve the $100,000 goal
makes it impossible to assure outdoor
concerts this Summer.
$60,875 It Reported.
These developments were disclosed
by Corcoran Thom, president of the
association, who stated this year's
Campaign Committee, headed by Mrs.
Walter Bruce Howe and Haroid N.
Marsh, had reported the collection in
cash and pledges for the 1936-7 season
of $60,875, some $300 less than that
raised at this time last year. It was
pointed out, however, that campaign
workers expect to receive sufficient
further contributions to bnng the
final total to $68,543, which was raised
in 1935.
In informing the members that the
association is still at a deadlock witn
the Musicians’ Union in negotiations
for a contract for the employment of
orchestra players, Thom declared the
symphony association board of di
rectors would make every effort to
continue the National Symphony.
“Beginning last November," he said,
“your board of directors has been in
, negotiation with the authorities of the
Musicians’ Protective Union for a con
tract for the employment of the
orchestra musicians for the 1936-3;
season, but agreement has not been
| reached on matters which your board
of directors regards as essential to the
| maintenance cf the artistic standards
j of the orchestra, the normal future
t development of those standards and
the necessary authority and control
, of the conductor and the manager in
their respective spheres.
un Marcn 30 the musicians’ union
wrote that it would not further
! discuss the open questions above re
ferred to. Then the board of directors
of the Orchestra Association was and
remains unanimous in the opinion
that these questions are vital end
that no contract should be made
which dees not fairly assure these
essentials.
"There is an apparent deadlock,
but your board of directors assures
you that it will make every effort
consistent with its convictions to con
tinue the National Symphony Orches
tra without interruption.”
Kindler to Conduct.
In announcing that Hans Kindler
will continue as conductor of the
symphony for another season, Thom
paid tribute to the leader's untiring
efforts in developing the orchestra
since it was organized five year a ago
"Five years ago, when the personnel
of the orchestra was first assembled."
he said, “it was an orchestra un
trained and inexperienced Today the
orchestra is recognized as one of the
finest in the country.”
During a business session at the
meeting, which was held at the United
States Chamber of Commerce Build
ing. the association elected five board
members to fill vacancies left by mem
bers whose three-year terms have ex
pired. The board then elected new
association officers.
Thom was re-elected president and
Dr. William McClellan and Walter
Bruce Howe were re-elected vice presi
dent and secretary, respectively.
Mark Lansburgh was made a mem
ber of the board, while four others,
Mrs. Howe. L. Corrin Strong, Dr. Mc
Clellan and Thom, were re-elected.
Holdover board members include Clar
ence A. Aspinwall Mrs. Robert Woods
Bliss, Mrs. Eugene Byrnes, Mrs. Tracy
Dows, Mrs. Reeve Lewis, George
Hewitt Myers. Mrs. Edwin B Parker,
Paul Wilstach and H. L. Rust, jr.
Rust was elected to the Administrative
Committee, which includes the three
officers.
George Gaul will again act as per
sonnel manager and librarian of the
orchestra and C. C. Cappel will con
tinue as manager with the same staff,
which comprises Edward R. Norris,
: box office manager; Mrs. Willis H.
Fisk, office manager, and Mrs. R. H.
Dunlap, secretary of the Campaign
Committee.
SHIPPERS OPPOSE
DISMISSAL WAGE
Declare Wheeler Bill Provisions
Would Impose Restrictions
on Railroads.
By the Associated Press.
Spokesmen for two groups of ship
pers went before the Senate Interstate
Commerce Committee today to protest
the Wheeler bill to provide dismissal
compensation for employes dislodged
by railroad consolidations.
William H. Day of Boston, repre
senting New England shippers, said
the legislation would impose restric
tions on railroads for care of employes
without imposing similar restrictions
on competing transportation and put
them under a disadvantage.
Charles R. Seal of Baltimore, speak
ing for the National Industrial Traffic
League, was the other witness.
The bill. Introduced by Chairman
Wheeler at the behest of railroad
brotherhoods, would provide that em
ployes dislodged by consolidation of
lines or services should receive two
thirds pay until re-employed. They
would have the option of accepting a
year s pay in advance with dismissal.
"Every time that you impose re
strictive forces upon the railroads that
you don’t impose on other transporta
tion,” Day said, "you further endanger
operation of the railroads. Yet wa
must nave the railroads.
"If this regulation la to apply, it
should apply to all forma of trans
portation.”
SEE RED IN HARVARD
CAMBRIDGE. Maas., April 17 0P>.—
Harvard’s veterans of future wars mut
tered last night about "possible com
munistic and subversive implications’'
in the crimson color of Harvard’s ban
ners.
Crimson must be eradicated as Har
vard’s color, said the leader of the vet
erans' chapter, Rolf Kaltenborn. '37,
of Brooklyn, N. Y. He called a meet
ing for Monday to consider a hue to
replace the crimson which has been
Harvard's for 80 yean.
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