Evening star. [volume], December 21, 1936, Page A-5, Image 5

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Skill of Dick Merrill Credited
With Avoiding Fatal
Accident.
By the Associated Press.
PORT JERVIS, N. Y„ December 21.
—Department of Commerce inspectors
combed the wreckage of a giant air
liner today to determine the cause of
a mountainside crash Saturday night
In which 11 persons miraculously
escaped death or serious injury.
"We are going over the ground step
by step,” R. I. Lossow, one of four in
vestigators, said, “but it will be some
time before we have any definite in
formation.
Dick Merrill Injured.
Meanwhile Dick Merrill, trans-At
£antic flyer, whose skill brought the
14-passenger Pan-American, Eastern
Airlines transport down without loss
LOf life, lay In a hospital with injuries
\o his jaw and ankle.
"I’m so thankful that I was hurt
worse than any of the passengers,” he
said.
The storm-tossed ship fell in a wild,
wooded section near Matamoras, Pa.,
junction of New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania boundary lines, narrowly
missing a cliff in its plunge.
Merrill was the only one of four
fatten to the hospital whose injuries
kept him tnere today. Samuel Sag
gio. Milburn, N. J., and Co-pilot John
Battle, left yesterday, and Herbert
Hall of Harrington Park, N. J.. was
. discharged last night. All suffered
lacerations or contusions.
Hit Bad Weather.
Headed for the Newark, N. J., air
Sart on a flight from West Palm
each, where the plane participated
In an airport dedication Saturday,
Merrill said raiu and fog plagued
them all the way.
• Everything closed in from Jack
sonville south and from Richmond
north,” Merrill said, “* * * there
, was no visibility and static prevented
us from picking up the radio beam.
“We thought we were near Camden,
N. J., when we came down to try to
! find some lights to guide us and
■ turned north instead of east.” The
I point where the plane fell is approxi
mately 60 miles from Newark.
Pope
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in the holy father’s condition yester
day w as ascribed to his restressness be
cause he couldn't celebrate his own
anniversary mass himself.
He was compelled to listen from
his bed room to the mass honoring
the fifty-seventh anniversary of his
ordination into the priesthood as it
was recited in an adjoining chapel
by Msgr. Vennini, one of his secre
taries.
The Pope is 79 years old.
American Network.
NEW YORK. December 21.—Ameri
can networks will join in the Thurs
day morning broadcast of Pope Pius’
Christmas message to the world.
Time for the transmission has been
set for 0:30 a.m. (Eastern standard
time) via the combined WEAF
WJZ-N. B. C. and WABC-C. B. S.
networks. It is expected an English
translation will follow the Pope's ad
dress in Latin.
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Quake
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stories and built with thick walls which,
when crushed inward by 'he quake, j
Y'ould have buried occupants under
tons of debris.
The town, founded three centuries
ago, is about 10 miles in from the Pa
rific Ocean and about 40 miles from
Ban Salvador.
It is one of the major stations on the
narrow-gauge International Railways
of Central America owned by United
6tates interests.
NO AMERICAN COLONY.
Minister to El Salvador Says There
Are Only 100 in Country.
CLEVELAND. December 21 OP).—
Dr. Prank P. Corrigan of Cleveland,
United States Minister to the Republic
of El Salvador, said last night that
there are only about 100 American
citizens in El Salvador.
The city ot San Vicenti, reported
to have been destroyed by an earth
quake, had no American colony, he
•aid.
“If there were any Americans there
they would have been salesmen or per
haps railroad men,” he said.
Dr. Corrigan said he had received no
official word of the earthquake, but
•ny of his services would be toward
lining up any needed supplies.
“I have a competent staff in San
Salvador," he said, "and I know they
can handle our affairs there very well.”
Dr. Corrigan said San Vicenti had
• mild earthquake about a month ago.
Only minor damage was done. The
•tricken city celebrated its 300th anni
versary a few months ago.
Dr. Corrigan left San Salvador in
October and has been in Washington
most of the time. He has planned to
return to his post the first of the year.
Jazz Music for Silk Worm.
TOKIO (>(P).—A Japanese authority
•tates his belief that jazz music can
save the Japanese silkworm industry
from great damage by driving a para
sitical worm into the body of the silk
worm where it dies of asphyxiation.
CHARLIE
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Swin(trs
Plane Slashes Trees in Landing
Air view showing Eastern Air Lines plane after it crashed against a mountain at Port Jervis,
I N. Y. Eight passejigers and three crew members escaped death.
This photo shows clearly how the big craft, piloted by Dick Merrill, trans-Atlantic flyer,
knifed through trees. Flying through a driving storm, Merrill lost his way. He was injured.
Note heavy bole of tree snapped off by impact. ' —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
U. S. Seeking to Determine
if Provisions Send Up
Cost of Supplies.
B» the Associated Press.
Two Federal agencies—Treasury and
Labor Departments—have undertaken
a study of the Walsh-Healy act to de
termine if its provisions are causing
the Government to pay more for sup
plies.
Enacted in the last session of Con
gress, the law forces all concerns bid
ding for Government business to op
erate on a 40-hour work-week basis
and meet other labor standards, if
the contracts Involve S10.000 or more.
It has been argued In some quarters
that the law would raise the cost
of' Government purchases materially.
Officials said the survey m>w under
way is to determine whethfl this has
been true. They did not indicate that
any action other than the study itself
is contemplated. Any such survey, it
was indicated, can provide only rough
comparisons of prices before and after
enactment of the act. because many
other factors enter into supply costs.
The Labor Secretary can waive the
regulations where the Government is
being affected adversely.
Strike Against Act Reported.
Recent refusal of some industries to
bid on Government contracts has
given rise to reports of a "strike”
against the Walsh-Healy act.
In Government circles, there existed
divergent views over the absence of
contract bidding. High naval officials
were inclined to blame the Walsh
Healy labor requirements. On the
other hand. Secretary Perkins at
tributed the failure to receive the
usual number of bids to increased de
mands of private Industry for steel.
Some industries, it was said, were
“a little doubtful" about effects of the
act for a time, but had resumed bid
ding. In many cases, officials said,
industries already are meeting the re
quirements of the act, so it entails
no added operating costs.
Navy Unable to Get Bids.
Recently, the Navy was unable to
get any bids when it sought to buy
2,500,000 pounds of copper and its
call for bids on 8,000 tons of steel
brought proposal's for only about one
fourth that amount.
There have been several instances
where manufacturers offered ‘(split
bids” on contracts to keep under the
$10,000 limit. In one of these, cover
ing machinery, all bids were rejected
and new proposals asked, and officials
said there was no indication of an
attempt to repeat this move.
Security
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nature the condition is viewed as not
1 working a particular hardship a;
present. In those, however, which
undoubtedly will go on lor many yeat ?,
it is different.
One non-civil service agency—the
Federal Reserve Board—moved on its
own initiative to correct this situa
tion two years ago when it ins tailed
its own retirement plan. Membership
in it is mandatory and it is financed
without government assistance, the
employes and the member banks con
tributing. The benefits are more lib
eral than in the regular governmental
system, which applies to about 500.003
workers, but the employe deductions
are 5 per cent as compared to 312
in the regular Federal set-up. The
retirement age is different, too, being
65 instead of 70. ♦
G. O. P. Leaders Shift Stand.
Pending supreme Court decisions on
social security act. Republican leaders
in Congress appeared ready meanwhile
to accept its fundamentals as one
basis for future party policy.
While reticent to speak for quota
tion, outstanding minority members
Indicated they would make no such
offensive against sections of the se
curity act as characterized the presi
dential campaign. Some have called
the campaign tactics a mistake.
They made plain, however, that
there will be no passive acceptance of
the law as it stands or of administra
tion recommendations for revision.
Exemptions to Be Sought.
In common with some Democrats,
more orthodox Republicans will press
to exempt establishments with private
pension plans from the general pen
sion system and to modify the pro
vision looking to a $45,000,000,000 re
volving pension fund eventually.
They regard the size of this pro
jected fund a temptation to exceasive
spending by Congress.
Six more State Legislature*— Iowa,
Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey,
South Dakota and Vermont—were in
session today to enact unemployment
insurance.
This rush to get in under the Decem
ber 31 deadline for co-operation with
the nation^ pension program, on top
of the massive Roosevelt vote last
month, was a definite influence in dis
cussions among Republicans at the
Capitol.
Appeal for Refugees.'
NEW YORK, December 31 UP).—
The American Christian Committee
for German refugees announced last
night 130 religious leaders, College
presidents and other prominent. lay
men have signed a Christmas appeal
in behalf of Christians who have fled
from Germany. The appeal deplored
what is described as the “terrible dis
crimination against ‘non-Aryan' chil
dren, both Jewish and Christian, in
the German schools.”
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LAST RITES HELD
FOR GEN. FISHER
Services for Retired Army Medical
Officer Held in Walter
Reed Chapel.
Funeral services for Brig. Gen.
Henry C. Fisher. 69, retired Army
Medical Corps officer, were held today
in Walter Reed Memorial Chapel.
Burial was in Arlington National
Cemetery.
Honorary pallbearers were Maj.
Oen. Charles R. Reynolds, surgeon
general of the Army; Maj. Oen. Mer
rittee W. Ireland, retired, former
surgeon general; Brig. Oens. Carl R.
Darnall. Frank R. Keefer and George
C. Shaw, all retired, and Cols. James
D. Fife and Joseph F. Siler, both of
the Medical Corps.
Oen. Fisher died Friday night in
Walter Reed Hospital. He had won
citations for meritorious service in
both the Spanish-Amerlcan and
World Wars, the citation In the for
mer being for gallantry in action in
attending wounded while under fire.
He had held important posts in both
wars, in the Philippines, the Canal j
Zone and the United States.
17 HURT IN COLLISION
Two Street Care Crash Head On
in New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS. December SI UP).
—Seventeen persons were injured,
three seriously, in a head-on collision
of two street cars on the West End
route today.
Street car men blamed' the acci
dent on a mistake in track switching
signals and a heavy fog and smoke
which made visibility poor.
Three persons were brought to
Charity Hospital for treatment. They
were Julius Goldman. 33; Sidney
Smith and Alex B. Clark.
— — ■ ■ • —
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in shipping and foreign trade.
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PERJURY INQUIRY
ASKEDINDIVORCE
Discrepancy in Turk Suit
Papers Called to Court’s
Attention.
After being told by a husband,
through his attorney, that either he or
his wife had committed perjury In di
vorce litigation instituted by-trie wife.
Justice Joseph W. Cox of District
Court today advanced the case for
trial.
"It is obvious that either the plain
tiff in her bill of complaint, or the
defendant in his answer thereto, has
committed gross perjury with respect
to the time and manner of their sepa
ration,” the attorney, Jean M. Board
man, stated in the motion to advance
the hearing. "It is imperative to the
administration of justice in the Dis
trict of Columbia that it be promptly
determined by this court which of said
parties has committed perjury, and
that the guilty one be indicted by the
grand jury and criminally prosecuted.”
Henry W. Turk Sued.
This situation arose in the abso
lute divorce suit brought by Mrs. Car
rie E. Turk, 3807 Twentieth street
northeast, against Henry W. Turk.
625 Seventh street northeast. Mrs.
Turk charged that her husband de
serted her May 13, 1933, and that
the desertion has continued with
out interruption since.
The husband, in a sworn answer,
i denied the desertion on the date
claimed, saying he and his wife lived
together from the date of their mar
riage until about December 1, 1934.
On or about March 1, 1935, they went
back together until June 1 of that
year, he asserted.
Trial Date to Be Set.
Justice Cox sent the case to the
assignment commissioner with lnstruc
tlons to set It for trial at the earliest
convenient date.
He directed the husband to pay
Mrs. Turk S50 a month during pen*
dency of the litigation.
BRITISH FIGHTER DIES
f » •
Poole Commanded North Russian
Expeditionary Force.
PAR. Cornwall, England, December
21 (IP).—Maj. Gen. Sir Frederick
Cuthbert Poole, 67, commander of tha
North Russian expeditionary force in
1919, died here today of pneumonia.
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