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west and northwest winds, diminishing ■ btmday Moming and
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REBELS REPORTED
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LOYALISTS PLEAD
FOR BRITISH HELP
Insurgents Cross River, Re
porter Told—53 Die in Air
J Raid—Spanish Emissary
Appeals to Parliament.
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MISSION IS REVEALED
BY LONDON PAPER
Sadden Fascist Bombardmenl
Shakes Crowded Plaza in Heart
of Capital, Injuring More Than
150 and Causing Widespread
Damage.
( BACKGROUND—
Heaviest fighting in Europe since
World War has raged in Madrid
during last few weeks as rebels
against Communist regime intensi
fied drive to capture city. Begin
ning last July in Spanish Morocco,
the rebellion spread rapidly to the
mainland, with the insurgent
forces making gains repeatedly.
Military observers believed Loyalists
were so weakened that Madrid
would be taken when the "ring
of steel" was completed. Loyalists
evidently concentrating on desper
ate fight have withstood severe at
tacks with enemy at gates of city.
" Spain and Italy have been accused
of aiding the Fascists and Russia
of aiding the Communists, but
international complications have
been dioarfed in recent weeks by
intensity of actual fighting.
Sr the Associated Press.
Unconfirmed and unofficial report!
•aid Spanish Fascist troops entered
the edge of besieged Madrid Saturday
after insurgent airmen killed 53 per
sons In a bombardment of the city.
The report received by a correspond
ent with the Fascist troops outside
the capital said the attackers forded
the shallow Manzanares River between
the Toledo and Princess Bridges, south
of the city after a lull in government
•rtillery fire in that section.
A dispatch from Madrid, where cen
sorship is strict, made no mention of
any entry into the capital, but said
the »o-called ‘'International Legion"—
» body of foreigners fighting for the
• government—repulsed an attempt by
Fascist* to invade the city by crossing
the Los Franceses Railroad Bridge
over the Mazanares. Madrid's de
fenders withdrew from some positions
to the south as a matter of "prudence,”
the government radio said, however.
APPEAL IS TOLD.
Parliament Asked to Block "Massa
cre,” Paper Say*.
LONDON, Novembtr 14 (JP).—The
Madrid government, the Sunday Ref
eree asserted today, has sent an urgent
• appeal to members of the British
Parliament to save the Spanish capital
from the Fascist siege and "prevent
the most horrible massacre in modern
history.”
The newspaper said an emissary of
Premier Francisco Largo Caballero
reached London by plane today and
presented his appeal in a private meet
ing of members of the House of
. Commons.
He pleaded, the newspaper con
tinued, that members of the house ac
company him back to Madrid in an
effort to save the capital's million
end e half inhabitants from catas
trophe.
Emissary Makes "Impression.”
The emissary was described only as
e Scotsman of 33 who made " a pro
found Impression" on the parlia
mentarians .who listened.
He was said by the newspaper to
have told the legislators he had defi
nite information that Fascist Comdr.
Francisco Franco, angered by Madrid's
resistance, was preparing to gas the
city.
But he declared, according to the
newspaper, the Socialistic government
believed Franco would not dare use
•uch • weapon if responsible observers
Were in the capital.
99 AJLLE.U liv Ain uaivi
Crowded PUza Bombed by Rebels, 150
Injured.
MADRID. November 14 (A*).—Fas
cist aviators killed 53 persons and
wounded at least 150 today in sudden
bombardment of a crowded capital
plasa, where workers had gathered
t to discuss the defense of Madrid.
Today’s raid was one of the most
disastrous to the capital, and damage
was extensive. Dead and wounded
lay about the streets. Panic swept
the crowd. One bomb crashed through
• supposedly bomb-proof subway.
In an angry demand for reprisal,
Military Governor Jose Miaja ex
horted his troops to “wipe out 50,000
' (See SPAIN, Page A-3.)
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Ref uses a Kiss,
CarlsWrecked;
Damages Lost
|l the Associated Press.
WORCESTER, Mass., November 14.
> _Min Dorothy Bellows, who refused
to five her escort a kiss while motor
ing in Wheelwright, Mass., failed to
day to recover damages for injuries
she suffered when the car struck a
tree.
The kiss refusal and a poke in the
riba which she gave John Mucha of
Hardwick, Mass., were contributing
causes of the accident. Auditor Wil
fred B. Peiga said in bis report filed
In Superior Court.
Mist Bellows, who asked $1,000
v damages, said Mucha lost control of
the ear.
Engagement of Ethel du Pont
To Young Roosevelt Revealed
MISS ETHEL DU PONT AND FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. JR.
—A. P. and Harris-Ewing Photos.
I BT the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON. Del.. Novem
ber 14.—Mr. and Mrs. Eu
gene du Pont announced
■ tonight the engagement ol
I their daughter. Miss Ethel du Pont
j to Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr.. son ol
j President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
The wedding will take place the
latter part of June.
Miss du Pont is the eldest of the
four children of Mr. and Mrs. du
j Pont of Greenville. Del. Her father
is a member of the board of the E. I.
j du Pont de Nemours & Co.
Miss du Pont is a niece of Lammot
du Pont, president of the company;
Pierre S. du Pont, chairman of the
board, and Irenee du Pont, a member
of the board.
After her early education at the
Tower Hill School. Wilmington. Miss
du Pont attended the Ethel Walker
School in Simsbuty, Conn. Indica
tions of her friendship with young
Roosevelt became apparent in 1934
because of his frequent visits to the
| Walker School while a freshman at
i Harvard.
Miss du Pont, blond and of medium
height, was selected by the artist,
Don Flowers, as the most beautiful
j and most eligible of the wealthy
| ‘ bachelor girls" in America. She is
| an ardent horsewoman and skillful
I (See DU PONT. Page A-4)
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S. $. WASHINGTON
By Land, Sea and Air Sail
ors Picket Pride of
U. S. Marine.
BACKGROUND—
Bitterness has become more
marked in the maritime strike
which has gripped the Pacific, Gulf
and Atlantic Coasts. Negotiations
between shipowners and seamen
have failed repeatedly. Since Sep
tember 30 Pacific Coast maritime
unions, who started the strike, and
employers have been unable to
agree on the workers’ “fundamental
demands" concerning the hiring of
labor, chief of which is union con
trol of ‘‘hiring halls." Seamen else
where remain out in sympathy.
Ev the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 14 —With
out a dime in their "war chest," but
with unlimited faith in their new
found leadership. New York's striking
sailors hitched up their belts today
and laid siege to the United States
liner Washington.
By land, sea and air they picketed
the pride of the American Merchant
Marine when she arrived from Ham
burg bearing P. A. S. Franklin, chair
man of the ship's mother company,
who returned from a European trip
with the declaration, "The Govern
ment could end this strike if it would
take some action.”
"Our contracts with the union don’t
seem to mean anything,” he said.
"This strike is costing us a fortune.
It has ruined our entire business on
I the Pacific Coast. We are put in an
outrageously unfair position, caught
right in the middle of an internal
union struggle.”
The rank and file seamen, who re
pudiated their union officers two weeks
' ago and aligned themselves behind
, the square-jawed, fiercely handsome
| Joseph Curran in a demand for new
i wage and working agreements, ex
pressed a determination to prevent
the Washington from leaving on her
regular eastbound crossing Wednes
day.
An airplane was hired for one hour
by the strikers and sent out to “picket”
the liner as she steamed Up the bay.
Department of Commerce regulations
made it necessary to cancel plans to
shower the vessel’s decks with leaflets
calling on the 600 members of her
crew to join the walkout.
Verbal appeals were shouted
(See STRIKE, Page A-57)
DEATHOFRUSSELL
TO BE MAW
Detectives to Carry New
Probe to Gouverneur
Morris Home.
Bt the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. November 14.—On
' the lawn swing at the palatial Gouv
erneur Morris Beach home where his
; body was found last September, de
! tec t Ives Monday will try to re-enact
j the death of Reid Russell, 25. first
< called suicide, but now the center of
a reopened investigation.
Capt. Clyde Plummer of the district
attorney's office said today 'nvestiga
tors would return to the writer’s
Manhattan Beach residence after
questioning Morris, bis wife. Mrs.
Ruth Morris, and Lila Lee, film ac
tress. a guest at the Morris home at
the time Russell’s body was found.
During the questioning. Mrs. Mor
ris became ill and left the room, say
ing she had nervous indigestion. She
asked for pineapple sherbet. After
eating some she said she felt better
and returned.
The Morrises and Miss Lee came
voluntarily to Plummer's office today
to aid in the inqury, reopened at the
request of the dead man's mother,
Mrs. Victoria Russell.
Reveals Sympathetic Letter.
Mrs. Morris told Plummer that sev
eral days after Russell's death she
found a note from him which said:
"I told you I would do it and now
you see.”
The investigator later made public
a sympathetic letter Morris wrote Mrs.
Russell shortly after her son’s death
which said in part:
••Your boy had my affections and I
think I had his. • • • Why he came
here to end hi3 troubles I cannot
know. He was always so courteous
and considerate. But surely he was
old enough to know he was letting
people who had been kind to him in
for a lot of slander, scandal, sus
picion and God knows what.**
In both the first and the present
inquiry, Mrs. Morris and others
said Russell had been depressed over
financial troubles and several times
talked of suicide.
Mrs. Morris said she burned the note
because she “thought it best,” declar
ing the case had been closed, and “I
thought it a mistake to bring it up
again,” Plummer reported.
Russell had been a frequent visitor
tSee RUSSELL, Page~A-47)
Howard Students Talk Strike
After Team Refuses to Play
a seemingly sympatnetic stuaent
body talked strike on the campus of
Howard University last night after
the refusal of the school’s foot ball
team to play on “empty stomachs.”
The fomentation came after How
ard's Bison* wait to a theater in
preference to meeting Virginia Union
University’s eleven here yesterday and
several hundred spectators were re
funded their money.
An editorial in The Hilltop. Howard’s
school paper, said: “The players are
poorly fed. • • • Varsity men should
not have to borrow money for break
fast on the day of a game; they
should not be fqrced to live on a diet
of hot dogs during the week. Varsity
men should not have to suffer from
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mus-meu cramps a u ring me imra
and fourth quarters of a game.”
While the more frivolous classmen,
and co-eds last night attended a dance
In the university gymnasium, serious
minded supporters met in scattered
groups to discuss a proposal calling
for undergraduates to fall to attend
classes tomorrow.
Hundreds of handbills distributed
among the students late in the after
noon read: "Howard students! Your
foot ball team has today walked out
in protest of existing conditions. What
are you doing to support them? Let’s
got All right then! Let every stu
(See BOW AHA rage A-2.)
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A. F. OF L. LEADERS
SCORN BERRY PLAN
TO END m RIFT
Green Sees Arbitration Pro
posal “Not Acceptable
• to Either Side.”
EXPULSION OF LEWIS
FACTION TO BE URGED
Resolution to Be Introduced To
morrow at Opening Session
of Convention.
BACKGROUND—
United Mine Workers' Union, of
which fiery John L. Lewis is presi
dent, and nine allied unions were
suspended two months ago by
Executive Council of American
Federation of Labor for forming
Committee for Industrial Organiza
tion. which aims to bring all work
ers in each big industry into one
big union without regard for tradi
tional A. F. of L. craft union lines.
Expulsion of rebel unions will be
asked at A. F. of L. convention at
Tampa. Fla., this week. Labor men
agree this move would start greatest
labor war since A. F. of L. dis
placed Knights of Labor as key
stone of American labor movement
SO years ago.
BY JOHN C. HENBY.
Staff Correspondent of The Star.
TAMPA, FIs., November 14.—In
creasingly bitter In their hostility to
ward John L. Lewis and his confeder
ates on the Committee for Industrla:
Organization, leaders of the American
Federation of Labor tonight were pre
paring for one of their most moment
ous conventions since the turbulent
I World War era.
So noticeably has this antagonism
deepened during the past few dayi
that an arbitration proposal made In
formally this afternoon by MaJ
George L. Berry, co-ordinator for In
dustrial co-operation, and president
of labor’s Non-Partisan League and
of the Printing Pressmen's Union, has
been dismissed virtually without con
sideration.
The proposal, in brief, was for arbi
, tration through appointment of com
j mittees of equal number from each
side in the controversy with a neutral
Individual to serve as arbiter. By
agreement in advance, the arbiter’s
decision would be accepted by both
sides.
William Green, president of the fed
eration, noting that the suggestion
1 was not before him officially, passed It
i over with the curt comment that it
. ’ probably would not be acceptable to
j either side."
Net Discussed et Meeting.
Coming from e meeting of the ex
ecutive council later. Green said the
proposal had not even been discussed.
Other members of the council, ques
tioned after the session, either re
jected the suggestion or declined to
comment.
John Coefleld, president of the
Plumbers' Union and a Republican In
politics, not only rejected the proposal
without reservation, but criticized the
ethics of such an effort being made
by an individual connected with the
Federal Government. Berry Insisted,
however, he was acting only in his
capacity as a leader In labors own
circles.
Prom leaders outside the council
came more outspoken denunciation.
John P. Prey, president of the metal
(See LABOR, Page A-2.)
DISTRICT MAN KILLED,
WIFE HURT IN CRASH
Maurice Dean Is Victim in 3-Car
Accident in Vir
ginia.
B» the Ateoeleted Press.
McKENNY, Va., Novermeber 14.
Maurice Dean of Washington was
killed and his wife seriously hurt in
a triple automobile crash one mile
south of here on U. S. Route No. 1
late tonight.
Persons living near the scene ol
the accident said the Dean car was
sideswiped by a southbound machine
and crashed into a third car. Occu
pants of the other machines escaped
with only slight injuries.
Dean’s body was removed to Peters
burg. His wife was taken to a Peters
burg hospital.
The telephone directory lists a
Maurice Dean living at 2126 P street.
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THE DOCTORS’ DILEMMA!
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TWO CHEST UNITS
$599,160 Given by 16,349
Contributors, 30.43 Pet.
of $1,969,000 Goal.
Despite the week end holidsy, two
units of the Community Chest cam
paign organization today will carry
forwsrd the drive for the Chest ob
jective of $1,969,000 by November 24.
These units of C-men are the Metro
politan and the 8pecial Assignments
groups.
Otherwise, the Sunday recess In
Government ana business brought to
a momentary halt the solicitation, but
full work will be resumed tomorrow.
Attractions prepared for public ex
hibition in two downtown department
stores are groups of babies from two
institutions supported by the Chest.
Nurse* U Attend Babies.
Babies from the Washington Home
for Foundlings will find a new tempo
rary home in the windows of Lans
burgh Sc Bro. department store, and
babies from the Florence Crittenton
, Home will be placed In a Palais Royal
window. Nurses will be In attendance
at both places.
Coleman Jennings, campaign chair
man. who dally has appealed to the
workers at the noon luncheons, said
j the aituation here had changed mi
j terlally since last year, necessitating
substantial support for the Chest.
“8ince the Community Chest cam.
palgn last November.” he said, "sweep
ing changes have occurred in the
division of welfare responsibilities be
; tween the Federal, District and pri*
, vate organizations.
"These changes, without a possi
bility of immediate modification, have
' thrown upon the local community a
I greater burden than it has carried
: since 1931-32.
“It la true that the Federal Gov
ernment has, at the present time,
i given jobs to thousands of people on
public works; In fact, there were 11,
175 District residents on the rolls of
the W. P. A. on October 1; the-great
majority had been taken from the re
lief rolls. In addition. 5.413 families
(See CHEST, Page A-2.)
I CREW OF SIX RESCUED
AFTER SHIP BURNS
Schooner Destroyed by Eire Off
Cape Saumon—Men Picked
Up Prom Lifeboat.
BT th* Associated Press.
QUEBEC, November 14.—The six
man crew of the 117-ton Marie Ama
ble, which burned off Cape Saumon,
. reached here today aboard the coastal
schooner Metis, which rescued them
from a lifeboat.
The ship caught fire at 2 a.m., Capt.
David Tremblay said, but rescuers
were prevented from reaching her by
fog and heavy seas.
“We didn't have a chance to fight
the fire,” one of the crew said. "A
strong southwest wind whipped the
flames and the vessel soon was ablaze
from stem to stern.”
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Yale Trims Tigers; Army Loses;
G.W. and C.U. Win; G.U. Beaten
Ycame a 16-point handicap and
enabled It to beat Princeton
in a free-scoring game, 26-23,
proved the high light of yesterday’s
battles on the Nation's gridirons.
Two of the three major undefeated
and untied elevens, Northwestern and
Marquette, continued on their winning
ways, the Wildcats stopping Mich
igan. 9-0, and Mississippi falling
| before Marquette, 33-0. Santa Clara,
i the third big school with a clean
• slate, plays St. Mary’s today at San
! Francisco.
| The service schools won and lost,
Navy finding double satisfaction at
the end of the day in which it
trimmed Harvard, 20-13, and learned
that Army had fallen, 20-6, before
Notre Dame, the Middies' victim of
a week ago.
Duke came through, as expected,
to win the South’s big classic from
North Carolina, 27-7.
Locally, Georgetown dropped from
the ranks of the unbeaten by lasing
to Manhattan in New York. 13-0;
Maryland’s homecoming was turned
into gloom by V. M. I.'a two last
Terps. 13-7: Catholic U. delighted
its old grads to a 7-6 conquest over
North Carolina State, and American
U. surprised its homecoming crowd
with a 14-6 win over Johns Hopkins.
George Washington ran roughshod
over Catawba, 50-0, but Oallaudet
was trounced, 39-0, by Mount St.
Mary's, at Emmitsburg.
Other leading scores:
Columbia. 17; Syracuse, 0.
Temple, 6; Villanova, 0.
Dartmouth, 30; Cornell, 6.
Pennsylvania. 19; Penn State, 13.
Tennessee, 36; Vanderbilt, 13.
Georgia, 13; Tulane, 6.
L. 8. U., 19; Auburn, 6.
Alabama, 30; Georgia Tech, 16.
Minnesota, 47; Texas, 19.
Purdue, 13; Iowa, 0.
Ohio State, 13; Illinois, 9 .
Pittsburgh. 19; Nebraska, 6.
Arkansas, 17; Southern Methodist, 0.
Texas Christian, 36; Centenary, 0.
Rice, 34; 8am Houston, 7.
California, 38; Oregon. 0.
Washington, 13; Southern Cali
fornia, 0.
Stanford, 30; Oregon State, 14.
Washington State, 33; U. C. L. A., 7.
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Boy, 9, Carries Home Dying
Child, Struck Down hy Auto
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Youngster Struggles Up
Three Flights of Stairs
With Lad, Aged 4,
Nine-year-old Billy Kidwell. playing
on the sidewalk In front of his apart
ment at 676 Fourth street northeast
last night, saw an automobile bearing
down on a little boy he knew.
It was over In a minute, and Rob
ert S. Dyke, 4. who lived in the same
building with Billy, was on the ground,
his jaw broken and his head cut.
Before the driver of the car could
alight. Billy had Robert in his arms
and was carrying him up the steps to
his mother on the third floor.
Billy kicked at the door and Mrs.
Grace Dyke, 22, saw the crushed form
in his arms when she opened It.
Robert, her only son, who a few
minutes before had slipped away from
a merry gathering of youngsters in his
own apartment, was dying.
The first available means of trans
portation—the car of the driver that
struck the child—was used to take
Robert to Casualty Hospital, where
physicians tried in vain to save his
life.
Shortly before midnight he died.
Police said the car that struck him
was driven by Joseph F. Pitts, 19. of
726 Maryland avenue northeast. The
police were told that Robert walked
from behind a parked ear.
Mrs. Dyke, wife of Robert S. Dyke,
has one other child, a daughter,
Joan, 3.
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AUlUPiiY IJJ HtLU
Stain on Road Is Studied as
Accused General Awaits
Trial.
B? the Associated Press.
LA GRANGE. Ky.. November 14 — j
Evidence yielded by the grave of Mrs.
Verna Garr Taylor established today
that the aocially prominent Blue Gras* j
beauty met death the night of No
vember 8 from one bullet which cleft
her heart, although two shot* were
reported to have been heard.
Investigators for Coroner D. L.
Ricketts, who exhumed the body tor !
an unexpected autopsy last night, j
while this aristocratic community,
slept, studied the findings of two
physicians. At Louisville Brig. Gen.
Henry H. Denhardt, accused of mur
dering the attractive widow, con
I ferred with attorneys preparatory to
his examining trial at New Castle
next Friday.
Detective Sergt. John I. Messmer. !
chief of the Louisville Criminological
Laboratory, said the autopsy showed
(See DENHARDT. Page A-5.)
G-Men Arrest Suspect.
DALLAS, Tex, November 14 {/ft.—
Department of Justice agents an
nounced the arrest here tonight of
Herbert dangle, who they said was
wanted In Suffolk, Va„ in connection
with a fake eye doctor ring. The
officers said Crangle operated under
the name of "Dr. Avery.”
Post Office to Deliver Forms
Listing 26,000,000 to
Employers Tomorrow.
The machinery of enrolling 26.
000.000 wage-earners for Federal old
age benefits when they become 65
starts turning tomorrow.
Post offices over the country will
deliver to employers blank forms to
furnish data that will be the basis
of the comprehensive system of
records necessary for making the pay
ments that start January 1, 1942.
Between three and one-half and
four million of these forms already
have been placed with the Post Of
fice Department for distribution.
They ask such information as name
of employer, location and character
(See SECURITY, Page A-3.)
Farmer Ends Life in River
After Giving Away Savings
Special Dispatch to The star. i a brother. Maurice Perrigo, of Oxon
OXON HILL, Md., November 14.—
Clinton Perrlgo, 49-year-old farmer,
former Prince Oeorges County consta
ble, ended his life by drowning in the
Potomac River this afternoon after
withdrawing his savings of (500 from
a bank and distributing It among
relatives and friends.
His body, a length of wire tied
about the ankles and looped around
a tree near the water's edge, was
recovered by Inmates of the District
of Columbia Home for the Aged, at
Blue Plains.
Justice of the Peace J. R. Creecey
of Suitland who Issued a suicide cer
tificate, was told that Perrigo, who
had been despondent since the death
of his wife, several years ago, with
drew bis entire savings of about (500
earlier in the day and gave it away.
Apparently Perrlgo had tied himself
to the tree to facilitate recovery of
his body and then plunged into the
Hill, told authorities Clinton appeared
at his home In the early afternoon
and left *354 with his wife, refusing
to otter any explanation beyond that
he “wanted her to have It” Police
said several friends declared Perrigo
gave them smaller sum;.
Several inmates of the District in
stitution, located just across the Dis
trict line from the scene of Perrlgo’s
death, found the body while out for
a walk. On the bank, a short dis- >
tance away, were Perrigo's cap and
sweater.
Perrigo, who served on a mine
sweeper in the Navy during the World
War, had made his home here with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Per
rigo, since his wife’s death.
In addition to his parents and
brother Maurice he is survived by two
other brothers, Elmer and Leroy Per
rigo, both of Oxon Hill, and two sis
tera, Mrs. Margaret Lanahan of Oxon
Hill and Mrs Annette Fisher of 8eat
Pleasant.
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ROOSEVELT RUNS
CONGRESS ACTION
Also Will Seek Legislation to
Bring New Units Into
Civil Service.
RECOMMENDATIONS DUE
IN HIS ANNUAL MESSAGE
Number to Get Status Dependent
on Emergency Agencies to
Be Betained.
President Roosevelt, at the coming
session of Congress, will seek legisla
tion to reorganize Government depart
ments in the interest of economy and
efficiency, and to bring under classi
fied civil service employes of those
emergency agencies which are to be
made permanent.
This was learned at the White House
late yesterday, after the President
had conferred with members of the
Civil Service Commission and mem
bers of his special committee on gov
ernmental reorganization.
The President will discuss the ques
tion of reorganization In his forthcom
ing annual message to Congress, It
was learned, and later In the session
will send to Congress a special message
specifically recommending legislation.
This legislation would empower the
President by executive order to extend
the classified list, but the intention is
not to do this by a blanket order, but
to admit emergency employes through
■laminations, which would not neces
sarily be competitive In nature. There
ire approximately 300.000 unclassified
workers now employed In the entire
Government establishment.
imi service Long Urged.
Harry B. Mitchell, president of the
Civil Service Commission, who, in
company with Commissioner Leonard
D. White, discussed this matter with
the President, said the number of
workers to be brought under civil serv
ice would, under a commission pro
posal. be guided by the extent to
which emergency agencies are to be
retained. The Commission has con
sistently urged civil service for the
new groups that are to be permanent.
The President already has indicated
that Resettlement, the Civilian Con
servation Corps and the National
Youth Administration will be ab
sorbed by existing departments or
some new agency to be created under
reorganization, and there are other
establishments, set up outside of civil
service that are destined to remain a
part of the Government machine.
Mr. Roosevelt discussed reorganiza
tion with Louis Brownlow, former
District Commissioner and now chair
nan of the committee which the Chief
Executive named on this subject. A
senate group headed by Senator Byrd
>f Virginia, and one from the House,
if which Representative Buchanan of
Texas is chairman, also are studying
the subject. Luther H. Gulick of New
Sfork, one of Brownlow s aides, accom
panied him to the White House.
Brownlow and Gulick were with the
President two hours. They said their
report would be ready for the Presi
dent in a few weeks.
Committees Mark Time.
The Senate and House committees
virtually are marking time pending re
ports from the Brookings Institution,
which is engaged in some fact-find
ing studies for them.
While the reorganization studies
were, generally speaking, entered on
tor the purpose of eliminating so
called useless agencies and overlapping
(unctions, there were indications yes
terday some officials are looking at
the problem from a much broader
standpoint.
“Simplification of procedure in do
ing business with the Government
should be one of the principal aims,"
one official said. “Economy is ad
mirable, but in view of large fixed
charges, such as the interest on the
public debt, pensions, postal system
appropriations and similar items, tht
amount that could be saved by per
sonnel reduction and bureau elimina
tion would be comparatively unim
portant.”
In connection with the reorganiza
tion plans, the old agitation for merger
at the War and Navy Departments
Into a Department of National De
tense is stirring again, it was made
itnown. A number of such bills are
ylng dormant in committee files, and
It was said that requests had been
received for reconsideration of these.
The Navy budget was another topic
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-5.)
(500 BOND IS SET
FOR EX-LEGISLATOR
former Indiana Representative
to Face Jury on Reckless
Driving Charge.
Former Representative Ralph E.
Updike of Indiana was held under $500
»nd yesterday for Jury trial In Traf
fic Court on a charge of reckless driv
ing after he pleaded not guilty before
Judge John P. McMahon.
Updike was arrested by Policeman
Maurice C. Barco. third precinct, fol
lowing a collision between his car and
i truck driven by William H. Richards,
14. of Hyattsville, Md., at Twenty
sixth and I streets Friday afternoon.
Richards was slightly injured in tha
rrash, as was Updike's brother-in-law,
trie P. Renn, 45, of <053 Twenty
second street, a passenger in the for
ner Representative’s car. The truck
Iriver’s scalp was lacerated, while
Elenn was reported to have suffered a
fractured collar bone.
After striking the car, according to
;he police report, Updike’s car ca
reened across the street and tore a
porch from the building at 2600 I
street and then ran on the sidewalk
for a distance of more than 100 feet.
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