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Juvenile Court Measure Likely to Be Revised to Meet Objections ] • ■- 1 ' ■— ■' A I*™^a>M^^A. 52 JURY TRIALS TO * Also Would Open Records of Court to Block “Secrecy Criticism.” REPORT BY WEDNES^A? AIM OF SUBCOMMITTEE Adjournment in June May Pre vent Action on Plan at Thii Session. BY JAMES E. CHINN. The Norton bill to broaden the powers of Juvenile Court and modern- » lze Its procedure probably will be revised by the special subcommittee of the House Dlsrict Committee which has just concluded public hearings on the measure. Representative Nichols. Democrat, of Oklahoma, chairman of the sub committee. is known to favor changes that will more adequately setout the safeguards that the bill’s opponents believe are not clearly defined. He also wants to Incorporate in the pro posed new legislation some of the best features of existing Juvenile Court law. » First of all, Nichols is anxious to assure the right of every defendant • to a trial by jury, not because he beUeves children should at any time be subjected to such procedure, but merely to prevent the bill’s consti tutionality from being challenged in the courts. Jury Trial Provision. "I don’t think a jury trial belongs in a Juvenile Court.” said Nichols. "But I believe provision should be made for jury trials ’for those who demand them’ to protect the bill. I am sure a vicious attack might be made on the biH’s constitutionality by its enemies if a right to a jury trial is denied.” Nichols also plans to have a pro vision relating to the privacy of Juvenile Court proceedings modified to meet the objections of those who fear that under the proposed new set-up, persons interested in a par ticular case might be unable to get any Information about it. "I see no reason for keeping the records of the court secret,” he said. , "Provision should be made for inter ested parties to see the records. I, personally, don't want to set up a bureau and say to it, ‘you are hidden from view.’ ” Nichols, however, is strongly in favor of the general plan ^ embodied in the bill to change the present criminal procedure of the court to a chancery system. Likewise, he firmly believes in the provision to exclude the general public from the court’s proceedings. Like “Executive Session.” * “I don’t think a Juvenile Court functions as well before a crowd of morbid curiosity seekers as well as in a proceeding that we members of Congress might describe as an exec utive session," he declared. Representative Dirksen, Republi can, of Illinois, an active member of the special subcommittee. Is understood to share Nichols’ views. An effort will be made to complete the proposed revisions in the bill in time to report it to the full District * Committee Wednesday. Even if the bill is placed on the House calendar In the near future, it is doubtful whether it will be acted on at this session of Congress if present plans are carried out to ad journ the first week in June. The Sisson bill to repeal the so-called "red rider” to the 1936 District appropria tion act will have the right of way on the next "District day,” May 25, and if Congress adjourns before June g, that will be the last day of the . session devoted to District legislation. LEGISLATION ASKED ON DISCRIMINATION House Committee for Curbing Price Practices in Inter state Commerce. By the Associated Press. A special House Committee yester- [ day recommended legislation making » unlawful the granting of price dis criminations by those engaged in In- j terstate commerce. The committee recommendation was contained in a report to be presented • the House Monday. Representative Patman, Democrat, of Texas, is chair man of the committee. The report said evidence received by the committee "shows that manu facturers make a practice of extend ing to certain buyers price conces sions and other trade advantages not given to others who purchase the same quantities under the same con-. - ditions.” > Adoption of legislation was proposed "making it unlawful for any persons engaged in interstate commerce • • • to discriminate in price or terms of sale between different purchasers of commodities of like grade and quality * by granting price concessions or other advantages under tbe guise of: - “(1) Advertising, sales, promotion?!' or other allowances when the same' are not earned and offered openly to* the trade generally. "(2) Brokerage fees and commis sions. "(3) Volume or quantity discounts not offered to the trade generally and - which are not made on the basis of' differences in the coat of manufac- > ture. sale, transportation and dis- . trt button. "(4) Rebates." BILL FOR PARLEY SIGNED _ v Roosevelt Approves Participation in American Conference. A bill providing for participation by the United States in an lnter-Ameri can conference at Buenos Aires or some other capital of an American republic this year was signed today by * President Roosevelt. The conference, to discuss methods .• of maintaining peace and neutrality, was suggested by the United States. — * A ALLEN WILL OFFER DEMOCRATS PLEA OF D1FOR VOTE Congress Representation Appeal to Be Made at Philadelphia. PRIMARY FOR DISTRICT IS PLANNED FOR MAY 20 Balloting Will Be Here Ratifica tion of List of Delegates 0. K.’d by Committee. BY J. A. O’LEARY. Washington’s plea for national rep resentation in Congress and the right to vote for President and Vice Presi dent will be presented to the Demo cratic Convention at Philadelphia nertt month by Commissioner George E. Allen. This was decided on last night by the Democratic Central Committee for the District when it met to make final arrangements for the local primary May 20, at which 12 delegates and 5 alternates to the national convention will be elected. Seventeen Democrats had filed for places on the local delegation. The District is entitled to only 6 votes in the Democratic conclave, but the Cen tral Committee decided last night to send 12 delegates with half a vote each and 5 alternates. Contest Eliminated. This plan enables all who filed to go to the convention and eliminates any contest. For this reason the primary will be merely a formal ratification of the list. The Central Committee, neveruieie&df ucuucu iu uwisunw. polling places in different parts ol the city to give local Democrats an oppor tunity to vote, John B. Colpoys, chairman of* the committee, an nounced. The polling places will be announced Tuesday. The committee decided that, as one of the city Commissioners. Allen was the appropriate member of the dele gation to present the arguments for national representation to the Plat form Committee in Philadelphia, and also to the convention. Commissioner Allen will be assisted by Colpoys in urging Democratic sup port of a Constitutional amendment that would give District residents rep resentation in Ooth branches of Con gress and in the Electoral College. Colpoys, a veteran leader in the local Democratic organization, has advo cated the national representation plank at previous party conventions lor a number of years. He is a mem ber of the Citizens’ Joint Committee on National Representation. McConihe Nomination Ratified. The local Democratic leaders also ratified last night the nomination of Malcolm S. McConihe, realtor and builder, to be the District’s new Na tional Committeeman and Mrs. J. Borden Harriman for re-election as National Committeewoman. Mc Conihe will succeed John P. Costello, who is retiring after 24 years as local Democratic leader. A plank on national representation for the people of the District also will be urged at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Senator Capper, Republican, of Kansas, for mer chairman of the Senate District Committee, announced several weeks ago he would ask for such a plank at Cleveland. Senator Capper is co author of the resolution dealing with the subject, now pending in Congress. TWO NEW TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS LISTED Woman and Man Injured, as Po lice Seek Relatives of Mrs. Mary J. Fleming. While police sought relatives of Mrs. Mary J. Fleming. 57, retired Post Office Department clerk, killed in a Mount Rainier (Md.) traffic accident, they received reports of three other mishaps occurring last night and today. ivijo. rieuuiig wiu> strucK. yeaieruay by a truck at Thirty-fourth street and Rhode Island avenue as she ran to board a street car. Norman Cush ing, the driver, was said by Prince Georges County police to have skidded his truck 20 feet to avoid the woman. Mrs. Fleming's relatives include a husband and two sisters, police were told. She was a native of Rochester, N. Y. Maxine Snyder, 22, of 716 Rock Creek Church road, may have re ceived a fractured right ankle early today when the car In which she was a passenger struck one belonging to John Bianca and parked in front of his home at 622 Minnesota avenue northeast. She was treated at Casu alty Hospital. The automobile in which she was riding was driven by Tyler G. France, 24, of 422 Nichol son street. Thomas Griffith, 42, of 927 Culleir street southwest, suffered fractured ribs when he was struck yesterday at Pennsylvania avenue and Seventh street by a car driven by Elta Camp bell, 40, of 4835 Liverman street. He was treated at Emergency Hospital. Jack Ford, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Prank D. Ford of the Stanhope Apart ments, New Jersey avenue and H street, was slightly Injured today when hit by a truck driven by Hugh J. Gowles, 31, driver for the J. P. Maher Co. The accident occurred in the 700 block of First street. Jack was treated at Casualty Hospital. Gowles was re leased by police. Two Planes Collide. FRANKFORT - ON - THE - MAIN, Germany. May 16 (*>).—Two German military planes, flying in formation during maneuvers, collided today and crashed, killing one civilian. The pilots of both planes leaped to safety with parachutes, but one of the ships crashed through the roof of a farm house, killing a woman. Victim of Fall Recovering. Hale Holmes, 21, of 1321 Irving street, was recovering in Casualty Hospital today from injuries received yesterday in a 15-foot fall from a ladder while he was hanging an awning at the home of Joseph H. Eckert, 4304 Thirteenth street. A Donkey Obedient To Traffic Sign, ^ But Is66Arrested” Animal Found Waiting at Intersection Taken to Pound. A donkey with a smattering of traf- I flc knowledge, but Inclined to overdo things, ended up at the District pound today after he was found patiently waiting at a “stop” sign at Eleventh ind N streets southeast. Policemen A. J. Kaskeski and J. O. Middlethon discovered the educated • beast while patrolling their beats, rhese skeptics were inclined to believe the donkey couldn't read, but merely bad obeyed a natural impulse to stop. At any rate, the donkey apparently thought it was a permanent stop, < judging from the difficulty police ex perienced in, getting their prisoner to the fifth precinct Hospitality was showered on the lost animal at the station by members of the Police Boys’ Club who dined their guests' on pats and water before he was taken ’to the pound to await a claimant. HOWARD 0. REPORT HITS 0. S. CONTROL Margold Says Supervision Is Limited to Funds. Meetings Waived. The Interior Department's super vision over Howard University is lim ited to control of Federal appropria tions and does not include authority "to prohibit use of buildings at the institution for any purposes," accord ing to an opinion by Solicitor Nathan R. Margold, included In a report to the Senate yesterday regarding in vestigation of alleged communistic .ctivities at the university last year. The report was in response to a resolution by Senator Hastings. Re publican, of Delaware, asking for the information. The data indicated the department's inquiry dealt mainly with the question of whether any radical speeches were made at a series of conferences on th# economic con dition of the colored people, held in one of the university buildings a year ago. The records sent to the Senate show that various memoranda prepared by the department’s investigators were submitted to the solicitor, resulting in the ruling. Solicitor Margold stated the question as to whether the Board of Trustees of the university is em powered to refuse use of the buildings I for certain purposes was not before him for decision. Going further, the solicitor added: held last May apparently was predi cated on the belief that the Secretary of Interior posse, led visitorial powers over the affairs of Howard University. Since such powers are limited to the control of the expenditures of Federal funds, there exist grave doubts wheth er any investigations of the university except in this limited field may prop erly be made by the department.” Acting Secretary of Interior West submitted the files without accom panying recommendations and the data was ordered to be printed and tabled. SHEARER’S AIDE DIES “Contact Man’’ at Geneva Arms Conference Figured in Probe. NEW YORK. May 16 (VP).—Henry C. Hunter, 68. who figured proihinently in a 1929 Senate probe of the activ ities of William B. Shearer at the Geneva Arms Conference in 1927, died yesterday following an operation. He was an expert in admiralty law and specialized in legislation affecting shipbuilding and related industries. In the Senate inquiry it was disclosed that he was Shearer’s “contact man” and paymaster during Shearer’s activ ity as “observer” at the Geneva ses sions. AUTO MECHANICS THREATEN SPREAD OF STRIKE TODAY )eny Open Shop Is Involved. Invite Firms to Con %> ' ference. rRADE ASSOCIATION HIT FOR 'BECLOUDING ISSUE’ Spirited Mass Meeting Addressed by Union Leaders—Dealers' Stand Criticized. Following a spirited mass meeting of the automobile mechanics last night, when they defined the issues af their strike against seven local flrms. the mechanics union planned to spread the strike today still further throughout the city. The mass meeting at Pythian Hall last night took sharp Issue with the Washington Automotive Trade Asso ciation. By resolution it “condemned” the “open shop” resolution adopted by the dealers as a “cheap piece of trickery designed to deceive the public regarding the real issues involved in this strike.” They insisted the "closed" or "open” shop was not an Issue. At the same time, In a letter to the trade association, Oliver N. Gar rison. business agent for Lodge 193, International Association of Ma chinists. recognized the Washington Automotive Trade Association as "a responsible spokesman for its mem bers,” and invited a conference to discuss "wages, hours and terms of employment prevailing in the repair shops of trade association members.” The dealers were asked to name the time and place for such a conference. The mass meeting was addressed first by Garrison, who outlined the strike situation where he has pulled men from seven firms. He criticized William J. Hill, president of Hill & Tibbitts Inc., for Hill’s statement that only 25 men struck. Garrison said *38 men struck from Hill & Tib bitts yesterday. Victory U Predicted. Fred Hewitt, editor and manager of the Machinists Journal of the International Association, told the men they had a good cause, and “if you stick it out you will win within a reasonable length of time.” This is a union city, he said, predicting that thousands of union members here would stop doing business with firms where the strike was in progress. He pledged support of the interna tional so far as possible. Other speakers included Harvey Brown, vice president of the Inter national Association of Machinists, and David Kaplan of the research department of the association. 3 “A proposal was made to the auto dealers,” said the resolution, “and dispatched to them by registered mail, to raise the inadequate wages of jour neymen auto mechanics to 90 cents per hour and helpers to 50 cents per hour and lower the insufferable, long hours to 44 per week, which was the standard established in the N. R. A. code.” The customer at an automobile re pair shop, the resolution pointed out, in the majority of cases ’’pays $2 per hour to the dealer and pays extra costs and profits for parts and acces sories,” while the "journeyman auto mechanic who does the work receives as little as 60 cents, leaving $1.40 to the dealer for profit and overhead.” Pointing out that an attempt was being made to bring in out-of-town strike breakers, another resolution authorized the spread of a warning concerning the strike through Cen tral Labor Unions and State Federa tions of Labor. I? appealed to car owners of the city to “make certain that only qualified and experienced mechanics are permitted to repair and service their automobiles, and to beware of poor workmanship as a menace to their safety and the safety of the public." Young Washington Tap dancing is the forte for this student at the Bethesda, Md., Elementary School. She is Martha Ann Harper, 9, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Harper, of New Cut road, Bethesda. Monday: Billy Simms, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Simms, 315 Seventeenth street northeast, at Maury School.—Star Staff Photo. A A House Fired in Gun Battle That Cost Three Lives The "burning home of William Wells, colored farmer, and his sister Cora, at Gordonville, Va., which uas fired after a savage gun battle with, hundreds following the fatal shooting of Sheriff W. B. Young and the wounding of several others. Officers are shown shooting into the fire. Wells and his sister, wounded or slain, toppled into the pyre. Three Die (Continued From First Page.1 pair with tear gas, but Town Sergt. J. R. Yeager said it had no more effect on the couple than "water.'’ Capt. H. B. N. Nichols, superinten dent of State police, and Yeager de clared Young dropped mortally wounded when he endeavored, despite other officers' warnings, to unlatch the front door of the house through a panel which had been kicked out by another policeman. "Let's go and get him,” Nicholas quoted Sheriff Young as calling as he stooped to reach through the opening. A pistol barked from within the house and the Sheriff fell back into the yard. Sheriff Young, Yeager and State Trooper H. L. Dulaney had been to the house at 1:30 yesterday afternoon to serve the warrant, but Cora Wells told them "William ain’t done nothing” an locked the door in their faces. They returned at 4 o'clock with 10 State troopers summoned from their training camp near Fredericksburg and municipal officers and self-elected possemen from Charlottesville. Rich mond, Elkton, Culpeper, Luray and Alexandria. Using a road "cut” as their brest works, the officers and their aides rained bullets on the structure for hours while the occupants kept up an exchange. When Deputy Sheriff Ed Payne of Culpeper flung his gasoline-soaked shirt into the outbuilding the end of the struggle was at hand. Flames shot high through dry Umber and quickly spread to the house, which turned into a ravine furnace. The Negroes, forced to the openings by the heat and flames, provided clear targets, silhoutted against the leaping flames in the background, for officers’ guns. The charred body of the Negro man was raked from the embers at 1:40 ajn. while a handful of the hundreds watching the spectacle earlier looked cm. The woman’s body had not been located this morning. CHILDRENRESCUED AS FIRE THREATENS Two Colored Boys Carried From House as Flames Imperil Structure. Two colored children were carried to safety by a white man today when a burning mop that hung from a second-story window of their home at 414 D street southeast threatened to set Are to the house. Attracted by the flaming mop and hearing the children’s cries, Raymond Martin. 32, of 502 D street southeast entered the house and carried Paul Barnes, 2. and his brother, Junior, 3, to the street. Firemen extinguished the flames before they had done more than scorch the side of the frame house. The Barnes children were alone at the time. Police said their father la Elbert A. Barnes. It was not known how the mop caught fire. A Some of the participants in the fight: S. L. McWilliams, one of the wounded, is shown at right. Others in the picture are John Neun. State officer, with gun shield (left), and John Q. Rhodes, director of the division of motor vehicles (center), -■ - - 10 BE SEEN TODAY First Public Showing to Fea ture Second Day of George town Pilgrimage. The first public showing of the famous and historic gardens of the Georgetown Visitation Convent, Thirty-fifth and P streets, will be the feature of the second afternoon of the annual Georgetown Garden Pil grimage today from 2 to 7 p.m. This is the oldest Visitation Con vent in America and the garden dates back almost to the foundation of the institution in 1799. Virtually unknown to most Washingtonians, the 40 acres of the Convent grounds, though in the confines of the City, include orchards, venerable dogwoods and redwood trees, a pasture for cows, vegetable gardens, a private golf course, horse-show ground, tennis courts and other sport and 'recrea tional facilities, in rtitlon to beautiful formal gardens. Tea is to be served on the lawn outside the new gym nasium during the afternoon. The list of gardens on view today, in addition to that at the convent, in cludes those of Mrs. Gordon Dun thorne, 3304 N street; Mrs. Henry Leonard. 3038 N street; Mrs. Lincoln Green, 3025 N street; Mrs. Walter Peter, 3027 N street: Mrs. Ruth Hanna Sims. 1224 Thirtieth street; Miss Bertha Looker and Miss Florence Dedges, 1312 Thirtieth street; Mrs. Herman Hollerith, 1633 Twenty ninth street: Mrs. John Ihlder. 2811 P street; Miss Cecil Jones, 2906 P street; Miss Lucy Bentley, 2918 P street, and Miss Katherine Dougal, 3030 P street. Green and white flags which give annual notice of the pilgrimage will fly again today as a guide to the hundreds of garden lovers expected to visit the gardens opened today. For seven years, the Georgetown Children's Committee has held the pilgrimage to raise funds for child welfare in Georgetown. Tickets for the pilgrimage may be obtained at the Mayflower, Dodge and Willard Hotels and at the offices of the American Automobile Association. Mrs. R. F. Whitehead, 1524 Twenty eight street, is chairman of the com mittee in charge of the tour. - % —— I A. A. A. SHIFT TALK CAUSES CONCERN Many Farmers Asking Whether Ickes or Wallace Will Handle Program. By the Associated Press. Possibility of transfer of the A. A. A. to the Interior Department today was reported to be causing agricul ture officials some concern. Likewise, A. A. A. officials said, an increasing number of farmers from many States are sending telegrams and calling by telephone to learn whether Secretary Ickes would re place Secretary Wallace as boas of the soil conservation program. This furore, still fledgling, was caused by Senate passage and trans mission to the House of the Lewis bill authorizing a change in the name of the Interior Department to the Department of Conservation. The bill was Introduced by Sena tor Lewis, Democrat, of Illinois, a year ago. It would provide that the President might transfer to the pro poned Department of Conservation any Federal agencies he determined should be co-ordinated In the interest of conservation of natural resources. An undercover battle was reported to have „been waged between Ickes and Wallace for more than two years over control of some of the conserva tion bureaus, with Wallace checked up as the winner of the last round. The Soil Conservation Service, for merly the Soil erosion Service, was removed from the Interior to the Agriculture Department and made a permanent bureau. Medical Fraternity to Meet. Dr. Raymond W. Murray will speal tomorrow at 3:30 pm. before Ch Delta Mu Medical Fraternity, a col ored organization, at the Metropolltai Baptist Church on R street Betweei Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. Dr O. J. Saunders is chairman of th< program, under auspices of the Junta Fellowship Society. A CITY HEADS SILENT “Matters of Urgent Import ance” Discussed by Texan and Commissioners. The Commissioners today declined to state what were the "matters of urgent important” which Representa tive Blanton laid before them at a sudden visit to theOlstrlct Building late yesterday. The conference was staged at the request of Blanton, who said he had questions of great importance which he wished to present to all three Com missioners and not to just one of them. After being closeted for 45 minutes with Commissioners George E. Allen and Dan I. Sultan, Blanton told re porters he had invited the Commis sioners to attend the Texas Centennial Exposition. Asked if other questions had been discussed, the Representative said: "Oh, we gassed about a lot of things. I have no statement further than that.” He then invited reporters to come to the exposition and prom ised them If they drove cars in Texas like Representative Zloncheck in Puerto Rico “nothing wiU be done about it.” Blanton chuckled over that .i.i__L statement. It was understood that District budget problems were among ques tions discussed at the conference. Blanton is striving to reduce the Federal payment toward District ex penses from $5,700,000 to $2,700,000. The Commissioners said they could not reveal the conference subjects beyond stating that they were not committed on any proposition, that Blanton had not asked them to pledge themselves on anything. Melvin C. Hazen, president of the . Board of Commissioners, was not present at the conference. He had gone home ill. SWANK PROMOTED Officer Who Saw Service in Ar gonne Made Lieutenant Colonel. John Clinton Swank, 202 South Asaph street. Alexandria, Va„ a World War officer who took part in the Ar gonne campaign, today became a lieu tenant colonel in the Officers’ Reserve Corps, Infantry section. Lieut. Col. 8wank is assigned to duty with the 310th Infantry, 79th Division, the outfit with which he served first ' as second lieutenant and then as first , lieutenant during the war. He entered , the organization at the Fort Niagara , Officers’ Training Camp. He was promoted to a captaincy i when the outfit was reorganised after the war as a. Reserve division under the national defense act. ▲ PLAYGROUND FUND Miss Baker Urges Organized Civic Support to Get Equipment. Organized civic support for adequate appropriations for municipal play ground equipment was urged last night by Miss Sibyl Baker, playground superintendent, at a meeting of the City-wide Playground Council. Declaring there never had been an adequate allowance for playground facilities. Miss Baker said the District has spent only $100,000 in the last 20 years for equipment. As a possible test of the costs for proper equipment, she cited the spending of $50,000 for the Improvement of Franklin Park. To equip completely one large mu nicipal playground would co6t at least that sum, she said. “You will never get the playground facilities needed unless there is an energetic demand on the part of the public,” she added. Roark Montgomery protested that the Western High School stadium, lo cated in the Burlelth section, is “locked up” in Summer vacation months while children play in the streets. Provision of a swimming pool to replace those taken out of the Monu ment Grounds last Fall, was urged. The body asked that such a pool be operated without charge to swimmers. U. S. CONTINUES STARK HUNT MONTH LONGER Four-Month Search for Aviator Who Disappeared January 16 Proves Fruitless. By the Associated Press. Despite a fruitless four-month search for Howard.,C. Stark, com merce aviation inspector, the depart ment announced today it will continue the hunt for another month. Stark, who lived in Alexandria, Va., disappeared January 16 while flying between Rock Springs, Wyo., and Salt Lake City. No trace of the missing pilot or plane hes been found. If another month produces no results, the search will be discontinued. POPPY DRIVE STARTS Special Dupeten to Tne star. SILVER SPRING. Md„ May 16 — Clssel Saxon unit, American Legion Auxiliary, suited its annual poppy campaign yesterday, with members selling poppies on the streets of the community. Proceeds from the sale of poppies, made by Maryland disabled veterans, will be used entirely for welfare work. Mn. James m. Buffln heads the com mittee in charge. f