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PRESIDENT SIGNS
BELIEF MEASURE
Bin Carries $789,000,000
Intended to Keep 2,580,
.1000 on W. P. A. Jobs.
Bathe Associated Press.
President Roosevelt signed the
$950,000,000 relief-deficiency bill to
day. It carries *789.000.000 intended
to keep at least 2,580.000 persons on
W. P. A. Jobs.
Other funds provided in the bill
are: Civilian Conservation Corps.
$95,000,000; 1937 seed loans. $50,
008,000; miscellaneous, $16,000,000.
Should any W. P. A. money be
Used for emergency flood relief. Con
gress will be asked to reimburse the
relief agency in a later deficiency
measure.
The bill ended its legislative career
when Speaker Bankhead signed it last
night in the National Theater box
where he had gone from a House ses
sion to see his actress daughter, Tal
lulah.
The Senate and the House, faced
by the threatened suspension of relief
payments, labored until late yesterday
to adjust their diflerences over the
appropriation.
The chief dispute—whether con
gressional committees should be
allowed to use relief funds for investi
gations—was compromised in a ban
on borrowing certain personnel from
. relief agencies, effective in 30 days.
Representative Woodrum. Democrat
Of Virginia, a member of the House
Appropriations Committee which
fought such use of the funds, an
nounced the campaign for a complete
£an on the practice would be pressed
When the independent offices approp
riation bill, now pending in the Senate,
reaches the conference stage.
Judiciary
(Continued From First Page.)
^"Jtol Hill. II his proposal is adopted
-.inly three Justices instead of six would
y today fall under the retirement provi
aions of the President's plan. Two
Lahore. Including Chief Justice Hughes,
y.Urill reach the age of 75 within a short
r-time.
“W Favors 75-Year Limit.
fcy Senator Robinson said he believed
j-the retirement age for all Federal
^Judges should be increased to 75 years.
Representative Gayer of Kansas,
ranking Republican member of the
Judiciary Committee, issued a state
smen t today in which he said: "I shall
fight to the last ditch this proposal to
* pack the Supreme Court and render
It another pliant rubber stamp In the
hands of the Executive.
“There is a sinister danger in any
administration regardless of party, in
tampering with the Supreme Court of
the United States. There is an irre
sistible suggestion of an attempt to
control decisions of the court by pack
, Jng it with those whose opinions co
incide with the admnistration's. The
history of the Government of the
^United States under the Constitution
think very clearly demonstrates that
~14he judiciary has been the outstand
ing success among the branches of the
Government. That success has de
pended upon the Independence of the
judiciary. Untrammeled by political
influence, unafraid and unterrified, it
has performed incomparable service to
the country.
if "There is no necessity for any in
crease In the judiciary, either in the
-District courts or the Supreme Court,
‘last year we created a lot or addi
tional judgeships and we had to
atretch our imaginations to make
lome of them necessary. The office
Of Federal judge is about as easy a
Job as there is in the Federal service
Of the United States.
-■** Congestion in Dockets.
turn
' “At times, on account of sudden in
--greases of population at certain points,
’there is congestion in the docket;
however, much of this has recently
been caused by making the District
-Courts sort of police courts, with a
deluge of petty cases that really have
no place in the Federal court. This
condition arose by reason of the
greedy grasp of power and jurisdiction
by the Federal Government.
"The President discounts age. ex
perience and ripe wisdom when he
would banish from the Federal judici
ary men over 70 years of age. It is
just one other example of the en
croachment of the executive depart
ment upon the other departments of
the Government. We have a rubber
stamp Congress now. and there is
every indication in the President’s
message that he wants a rubber stamp
Supreme Court as well."
Representative Miller of Arkansas, a
Democratic member of the House
committee, also anounced his strong
3position to President Roosevelt’s
in to increase the membership of the
Supreme Court. •
Still the bill authorizing the volun
tary retirement of justices of the Su
preme Court was ordered favorably
reported by a vote said to be “almost
unanimous."
Judge Sumners said the bill as
drafted attempts to disturb as little
as necessary the existing procedure in
the courts.
Berry Supports President.
While opposition to the President's
Judiciary reorganization plan continued
to roll up in the Senate and House
today, labor's Non-partisan League
leaped into the fight with a strong
statement supporting the President.
It was issued by Maj. George L.
Berry, president of the league. It
said, “In submitting to Congress his
program for reform of the Federal ju
diciary. President Roosevelt has taken
a step essential to the fulfillment of
the most important of the pledges
made during his campaign for re
election.
‘fThe President's message is a
masterpiece of unassailable logic. The
Constitution itself makes the Federal
judiciary responsive to the elected
representatives of the people. Con
guess has often acted under its con
stitutional power to change the com
position or the jurisdiction of the
■Faderal courts to fit them to the de
vgjcfcjing needs of the country.
y J*There have been few emergencies
ULour national life when it was more
ilgjKrative than it is now that the
courts be brought into harmony with
tHi' will of the people. Congress and
the President owe it to the Nation,
and the President has recognized his
obligation, to modernize the Federal
courts—not to pack them but rather
to hinpack' a judiciary loaded by the
fact that appointments of long years
ago have put the America of 1937 in
subjection to the America of 1897.”
Telegraph company officials esti
mated their Capitol forces had han
dled more than 1.000 telegrams a day
since the President’s message was
read Friday.
t
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
GROUNDED.
AN AIR CORPS officer now In
Washington for the air safety
conference. Maj. Charles M.
Cummings, was telling a Way
side operator about a trip he made to
the West Coast on a commercial air
line recently.
There was a very pretty girl dressed
in traveling clothes among the pas
sengers when the ship took off. The
next morning, while Maj. Cummings
was still snoozing in his chair, he was
astonished to find her, still hatted
for travel, presenting him with a
breakfast tray.
"Why, if I may ask,” he said, “are
you giving me my breakfast? There’s
a hostess aboard."
It seemed that she had Just been
graduated from the air hostess
school in Chicago and that this trip
approximated her final examinations.
Air hostesses, the young lady ex
plained, get married so fast—12 in
the last few months, for example—
that it keeps the airlines busy train
ing others to replace them. An air
line hostess, it seems, accumulates
very little time in the air before be
ing grounded by matrimony.
* * * *
EXPERT.
Robert gncin, who trenf hospital
ing with the flu a while back, now
considers himself highly efficient at
estimating his own fever—when he
has fever. He had flu for a week
before he went to the hospital.
Each day he had his temperature
taken. It ranged from normal to
101.
On his first day at the hospital
the operative tasted a thermometer
supplied by the nurse. When she
took it out, he asked the reading.
The nurse replied, "1 can t tell
you."
"Well, it’s about 101" said our’
man.
"Just about right," admitted the
nurse.
Twice later he hit it accurately—
99 and 101. Science, what?
* * * *
VERBUM SAP.
Y'ERBUM SAP. When George Bur
nett King arrives at high school
age that will likely be one of his choice
Latin quotations. Some time ago he
entered the Powell Junior High
School and. incident thereto, his par
ents were afforded at least one hearty
laugh.
The music teacher at the Powell
School gave a tonal test to the new
pupils to assign them parts in group
singing and each was given a card
with their name and a notation
upon it.
Muter George stuffed his In his
pocket and proceeded with the daily
routine of studies and recitations.
When the evening study hour arrived
he found the card and with an ag
grieved countenance rushed to inform
his mother. “Maybe I couldn't sing
as well as some of the others, but there
was no need for the teacher to write
‘sap’ on my card "
His mother took one glance at the
card and explained that the teacher
had written "sop” to indicate he had
a soprano voice.
* * * *
BONUS.
TyjAYBE you think that the veterans
have all been paid their bonuses
now and that there’s no story in that
any more. Don't be too sure.
At the Treasury and elsewhere, they
are still tearing their locks over strange
and complicated claims for these same
adjusted compensations. For example,
two to three wives are often claiming
a dead veteran’s bonds. The Treasury
has to find out which one was really
legally married to him at the time of
his death. It involves the perusal of
all sorts of documents and makes the
Treasury a sort of postmortem do
mestic relations court. Then one in
teresting case isn't yet settled. An
imposter with the same surname
claimed the veteran's bonds and got
them cashed, too.
Before the Secret Service could
catch up with him. he had spent the
money. They caught him all right
and put him in prison, but that didn’t
help the original veteran get his
money. Of course, the officials say
he will get it all right some day, but,
down in his little Florida shack, he’s
wondering when.
* * * *
NO VOTE.
J^EPRESENTATTVE GRAHAM A.
BARDEN of New Bern, N. C.,
known to his constituents as "Judge,”
chuckled at length recently about a
meeting with genial Senator Bob Rey
nolds, also of the Tarheel State.
Barden had In mind Reynolds’ fame
for greeting voters.
Carrying two newspaper men, the
Senator was driving up Fifteenth
street a while back. One of the re
porters, frpm North Carolina himself,
called the Senator's attention to a
car at the corner with a N. C. license
plate.
“Let's go up and see who it is,’’ said
the Senator. Up aoomed the Rey
nolds car to the corner.
The man in the N. c. car turned
out to be Judge Barden. Everybody
hailed everybody else between the two
cars and then Reynolds drove on.
“That was a disappointed look on
Bob's face the other day,” commented
Judge Barden later. "He thought he
had found a voter from home it
turned to be a Representative.
* * * *
DIALECT.
An applicant for a Government
job showed up not long ago at the
office of Senator Caraway, Demo
crat, of Arkansas.
"I'm from ArKANsas," he an
nounced, with emphasis on the
middle syllabic and final "s," "and
I’d like your help in landing a
place."
Unless he reads this he probably
still is wondering at thfi lack of
concrete results after such courte
ous treatment by Garrett White
side, Senator Caraway’s secretary,
who surmised that if he didn’t
know the native pronunciation, his
claim of residence was more than
doubtful.
Bombs Not New to Them
These little girls, loho have taken refuge in the mouth of
a Madrid sewer during a Fascist air raid, appear to be more
interested than frightened, by falling bombs. Weeks of bombard
ment in the capital have made them familiar with civil warfare.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Spain
(Continued Prom First Page.)
the provincial towns before the ad
vancing Fascist armies.
In army trucks, wagons, on burros
and on foot they went silently back
to the homes that had been destroyed
by the retreating government forces.
The entrance of the Fascist soldiers
changed the city into a military camp.
Squadrons of airplanes settled down
at the Malaga airport, abandoned less
than 48 hours before by the govern
ment ships.
Anti-aircraft batteries were set up
on the outskirts of the city to protect
it from possible asqgult from govern
ment planes. Warships patrolled the
harbor front.
Bridges along the highways still
were strongly guarded and last night
the searchlight from Ceuta. Morocco,
across the Mediterranean, still swept
the straits.
Aspect of City Changed.
The population found the entire as
pect of the city changed when they
took their evening promenade along
the main street—the Passeo de la Ala
meda. All Socialist and Communist
bulletins and emblems had been tom
down or plastered over with insurgent
slogans by Fascist organisers who en
tered the city on the heels of the con
quering soldiers.
"Malaga today! Madrid tomorrow!"
was the cry of the troops, but the gen
eral staff plans remained a secret.
Most observers ixpected Generalis
simo Francisco Franco to use his crack
southern arm, with its enthusiasm
now at high pitch, to drive northward
against Almeria, Cartegena, Murcia
and Alicante.
It was thought he would finally un
leash a double attack of the northern
armies against Madrid and the south
ern armies against Valencia.
Their immediate attention, however,
was directed to consolidating their po
sition in the region around Malaga
and rebuilding the damaged sections
of the city.
City Sacked and Burned.
The entire central part of the Medi
terranean metropolis of 400,000 resi
dents had been sacked and burneo,
they said, before the Fascist southern
j army climaxed its drive with a tri
umphal entry.
Bands of anarchists, the leaders re
ported, had roved the city after the
sweeping advance threw them back
into the provincial capital and bottled
up Malaga’s exits by land and sea.
More than 5,000 Rightists, they esti
mated, had been killed during the So
cialist occupation.
As an indication of the sudden col
lapse of the city’s resistance, however.
Fascist officers said they found “nbt
a single body in the streets” when they
entered the city.
Vaaish Into Crowds.
When the first troops of Gen Gon
salo Queipo de Llano's western tea
board column marched through tne
suburbs they found no preparations
made to hold the defense positions—
the Socialist defenders had vanished
Into the crowds lining the sidewalks, ,
seeking to merge their identity witn
throngs welcoming the invaders.
The only continuing resistance came
from bands of anarchists armed with
pistols and hand bombs, who sniped at
the army of occupation from house
tope and upper windows in a futile at
tempt to harass the parading Fascists.
One of the first acts of the victori
ous commanders was to reclaim Ma
laga Cathedral, which had been used
as common living quarters by Social
ist refugees.
Whole families had been doing their
cooking and sleeping under the shadow
of the high altar in the almost mod
ern Renaissance style cathedral.
To facilitate rehabilitation of the
ancient seaport, whose history has
been one of recurrent sieges. Gen. de
Llano restricted -he movement of all
non-military persons.
It was expected, however, full free
dom of movement would be restored
later today.
City Officials Fled.
Facing the Insurgent commanders
was the probleL of organising the city
government, as no municipal authori
ties remained even to proclaim sub
mission.
One group of government leaders
was captured by the cruiser Almirane
Cervera while attempting to escape by
sea under cover of darkness. Another
got away by way of Velesmalaga to the
east before the Insurgents closed their
circle of steel to isolate the city.
The occupation from land was com
plete when the insurgent columns con
verged in the Plaza da la Constltucion
In the brilliant morning sun. A few
hours later the Insurgent fleet steamed
Into the harbor.
All was not joy, lowever, in the wild
scenes that marked the capture.
Some who sought their loved ones
found only grief. A broad-shouldered
Fascist regular, his rifle slung across
his back, stood hi the midst of a crowd
of old neighbors, sobbing with tears
rolling down his -iheeks, as they told
him how his father had been executed
hy Socialist*,
BOY, 10, INJURED
RUNNING INTO CAR
Doctors Have to Puncture
Spine to Restore His
Consciousness.
Eldon Root. 10. fifth-grade pupil at
Emory School, was in a serious condi
, tion in Sibley Hospital today, sufTer
| ing from injuries received when, police
reported, he ran
into the side of
an automobile on
Lincoln road
; northeast yester
Idav. He received
t other hurts, and
! a skull injury and
physicians found
it necessary to
puncture hu
spine in an effort
to bring him bark
to consciousness.
The driver,
‘Raymond J.
Eld.. Root, ?^D™U 24' ff
1940 Summit
place northeast, was not held Eldon
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross H.
Root, 28 Todd place northeast. His
father is a street car motorman.
Clayton A. Carmichael. 41, of 624
Ninth street southwest was cut when
his car collided at Seventh and G
streets southwest with an automobile
driven by J. R. Shorter, 248 Eighth
street southeast.
Donald Wright, 17. of 1224 Sixth
street southwest was injured when he
fell or jumped from the spare tire of
an automobile driven by Wilson Brad
shaw', 1209 Fourth street southwest.
The csr was being pushed by another
at Fourth and E streets southwest.
The motor started, police said, and
Wright dropped to the pavement. He
was removed to Emergency Hospital,
suffering from a severe head injury.
Lulu E. Walts. 55. of the 1700 block
of Kenilworth avenue, Beaver Heights,
Md.. was taken to Casualty Hospital
by the Bladenshurg Rescue Squad
after an accident on Defense High
way, directly in front of the fire
company building that houses the
rescue apparatus. He suffered a
fractured right leg and possible in
ternal injuries.
FUNERAL TOMORROW
FOR MRS. C. R. BROWN
Mrs. Alice Maud Brown, 58. wife of
Charles R. Brown, secretary of Thomas
J. Fisher & Co., Inc., died Sunday
night at her home, 4307 Thirty-eighth
street. She had been 111 about a
month.
Mrs. Brown, who had been active in
Catholic charity work, was a member
of the Christ Child Society, the Cath
olic Daughters of America and St.
Ann's Catholic Church. She was an
alumna of Holy Cross Academy. Her
husband is her only immediate relative
surviving. Her mother, the late Mrs.
Martha Gray, was one of the first
graduate nuraes in the District.
Funeral services will be held at 10
a.m. tomorrow In St. Ann's Church,
following brief private services at the
residence. Revs. Russell A. Phelan
and J. Maurice King, both of St. Ann's,
and Rev. Dr. John K. Cartwright of
Immaculate Conception Church will
officiate. Burial will be in Mount
Olivet Cemetery.
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
In recess.
Civil Liberties Committee continues
investigation of Pinkerton Agency’s
labor inquiries.
Special Joint Committee studies re
organization of Government.
House:
Acts on proposal to extend Presi
dent's authority to negotiate recip
rocal trade agreements.
Judiciary Committee studies Presi
dent’s court reorganization program in
executive session.
Committees resume hearings on
farm tendency, proposal to repeal the
‘‘long-and-short-haul” clause of the
interstate commerce act and bill to
take the profits out of war.
Considers miscellaneous bills on the
calendar.
Immigration and Naturalization
Committee meets at 10:30 am.
Rivers and Harbors Committee
meets at 10:30 a.m.
Peat Office Committee meets at
10:30 am.
District Committee meets at 10:30
am.
Subcommittee of the Appropriations
Committee continues hearings on Dis
tzlnt supply bill at 10 aa.
A -
LENTEN SERVICES
OPEN TOMORROW
Long Island Bishop to Give
Sermon at St. Thomas’
Church at 8 P.M.
Tbe first of a aeries of evening Len
ten services will be conducted at •
p.m. tomorrow in St. Thomas’ Epis
copal Church, with the sermon to be
delivered by Right Rev. Frank W.
Creighton, S. T. D., of Garden City,
Long Island, present Suffragan Bishop
of Long Island and recently elected
Bishop Co-adjustor of Michigan.
Other Ash Wednesday services at
St. Thomas will be holy communion
at 8 a.m. and Litany, penitential office,
address and holy communion at 10
a.m.
Address Each Thursday.
During Lent, there will be a cele
bration of the holy communion and
address by the rector, Dr. H. S. Wil
kinson, at 10 a.m. each Thursday.
Every Tuesday at 5 p.m. there will
be a brief service and address by Dr.
Miller, assistant to the rector.
Other Lenton pruachers Friday eve
nings. beginning February 19. will be
Dr. Hart of St. John's Church, Rev.
Frederic F. Bush, Garden City <N. Y.)
Cathedral; Rev. Calvert E. Buck,
Washington; Dean Kinsolving. Garden
City Cathedral, and Rev. J. G. Arm
strong. 3d, Georgetown.
Every Monday at 10 a.m. during
Lent a volunteer group of ladies will
meet in the parish house for Red
Cross sewing.
Bishop Creighton is a native of
Philadelphia where his lather was a
prominent artist. After a brief busi
ness career as a young man he en
tered the Philadelphia Divinity School
and was ordained by Bishop Rhine
lander, now warden of the College of
Preachers here.
After brief but successful rector
ships in Philadelphia. Albany and
Brooklyn Bishop Creighton was
elected missionary bishop of Mexico.
In Mexico he worked with the late
Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow to
cement friendly relations between tbe
United States and its Southern neigh
bor. He returned to this country
after Mexico enacted a law forbidding
BISHOP FRANK W.
CREIGHTON.
—Harris-Ewing Photo.
j foreign clergymen to remain beyond
a definite period of time and was
given charge of all domestic missions
of the church in the United States. |
Pour years ago Bishop Creighton |
was elected suffragan bishop of Long
Island. During the last week of Jan- .
uary this year he was elected bishop !
coadjutor of Michigan. If he accepts
this bishopric he will have charge of
all independent and eelf-supporting
parishes in Michigan, except the Ca
thedral. and will succeed to the dio
cesan bishopric upon the retirement
of Bishop Page.
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MOSES HERMAN RITES
HELD THIS AFTERNOON
Co-proprietor of Shoe Store Dies
of Injuries Received When
Hit by Car.
Funeral services for Moses Herman.
5«. for 27 years co-proprietor of Her
man's Shoe Store. 717 H street, are
being held at 2 o'clock this afternoon
at his late residence, 1729 Webster
street. Burial will be in Washington
Hebrew Congregation Cemetery.
Mr. Herman died Saturday at his
home of injuries received three days
earlier when struck by an automoble.
The funeral rites will be accom
panied by Masonic services by the My
ron M. Parker Lodge of Washington.
Mr. Herman is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Margaret Herman; a aon,
Harold Herman; a brother, Lewis A.
Herman, with whom he was associated
in the shoe business, and a sister, Mrs.
S. Optenheimer of Baltimore.
Bus Marooned on Brink by Sinking Highway
Passengers of this bus walked to safety across the sinking road just before this motor coach
was marooned on a link of the Oregon coast highway south of Portland during the heavy rain
and snow of this wash. There wars no injuries, , —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
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A - A
Dr. Townsend in Court
Dr. Francis E. Townsend fright), old-age pension advocate,
shown leaving District Court with his attorney. Joseph A.
Cantrel, after denying he was guilty of contempt of the House.
He said he is ready to carry on the work, of his organization from
jail if necessary. —Star Staff Photo.
‘SENTIMENTALITY’
HELD PRESS SIN
Sir Willmott Lewis Speaks
at the Churchman’s An
niversary Dinner.
Sentimentality is “the great sin of
the press,” a sin that has led to the
writing of news as features rather
than news. Sir Willmott Lewis, Wash
ington correspondent of the London
Times, said last night in an address at
the Raleigh Hotel before a dinner ob
serving the 133rd anniversary of the
founding of the Churchman, oldest
English language religious journal.
“I don't mean sentiment.” said Sir
Willmott. “Sentimentality is an emo
tion for its own sake, not for the
worthy object. This sentimentality in
the press is exempiified by the feature.
It works like Gresham's law. Gresh
am's law says that bad currency drives
out good currency. And so it is with
the feature, which causes a progressive
deterioration of the news. News is no
longer written as news, but as a fea
ture.
“The desire for sentimentality,” de
clared the speaker, “is in part an ex
pression of the confusion that besets
th« individual in this day and age.
The machine has standardized. It has
taken away the individual's initiative
and individuality. It has minimized
the creative effort, imposed upon men
and women the doing of the same
thing, in the same way and at the
same time every day. It has brought
uniformity, centralization and monot
ony.
"What la the press doing In our
countries to help the individual to
capture and hold the essential dignity
of the human being?”
The press, said Sir Willmott In
answering the question, "is feeding
him sentimentality.”
“A hundred years ago man made the
conquest of nature,” he asserted. "But
he has not yet made the conquest of
himself. That is where the church- :
man can help.”
Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington, presided at |
the dinner. He urged the dinner j
guests to support the Churchman,
stressing the Importance of the
church journal in strengthening the
church.
Other speakers were Rev. Howard
S. Wilkinson, D. D., rector of St.
Thomas' Church; Mrs. Mary T. Ban
nerman, national chairman of the |
Motion Picture Research Council; i
Oanon Anson Phelps Stokes of the
Washington Cathedral staff, Rev. W. [
SPONSORS SOCIETY
ADJOURNS TODAY
Reception at White House
Tonight to Be Climax
of Convention.
Looking to the Army and Navy re
ception at the White House tonight
as the unofficial wind-up of their
convention here, the Society of
Sponsors of the United States Navy
met in executive session today at the
Carlton Hotel to conclude a two-day
meeting.
Resolutions, not ships, were to be
launched this morning as the Navy a
official ‘•bottle breakers" settled down
to prosaic business matters in con
trast to pest colorful ceremonies at
tending the naming of Navy ship*,
which is the requirement for member
ship in the exclusive organization.
Of 300 living women in the Nation
wrho have christened Navy vessels,
some 75 are in Washington for the
convention, Mrs. Franklin D. Roose
velt. who was guest of honor at a
luncheon yesterday, became one of
the newest members of the society
when she christened the naval plane
carrier Yorktown last Spring. Mrs.
Claude A. Swanson, wife of the Secre
tary ol the Navy, is another new
comer.
Mrs. Evelyn F. Pooke of Washing
ton. 75-year-old daughter of the Con
struction Corps captain who built the
Navy's first iron-clad ship, is the
oldest sponsor present. She was only
12 years old when she smashed a
bottle over the U. S. S. Intrepid. Mrs.
George Buist Rivers. 25. of Charleston.
S. C., who christened the Charleston,
is the youngest member here.
The society dates back to 1906, with
Its membership scattered over the
world. Reminiscences at the meeting
recall prohibition days when a few
sponsors used ginger ale instead of
champagne to launch ships. Others
like Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. used water.
The society carries on charity work
in behalf of various naval causes and
helps with the education of sons of
deceased Navy and Marine officers
who wish to attend the Naval Acad
emy. Mrs, Russell C. Langdon is
president.
E. Rollins, D. D., dean of the Virginia
Seminary; Dr. Thomas F Opie, gen
eral chairman of the dinner; Mrs.
Richard Boekel. peace advocate and
author, and Dr. Guy Emery Shipley,
editor of the Churchman.
HIDING BEGUN
IN GREAT VALLEY
Mississippi Levees Hold in
Crisis and Authorities
Say Worst Is Over.
Br the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., February 9—A
wave bombardment helped ponderous
crests sustain flood perils along the
mid-Mississippi today, but strained
levees held and the Red Ooss began
mapping rehabilitation plans for the
valley.
Winds up to 38 miles an hour out
of the northwest rolled combers
against the sturdy dikes, but Army
engineers reported no major damage
and. with the peaks past Memphis,
reiterated belief the worst was over.
Red Cross officials’ faith in this
view was reflected in shaping of a
tentative, months-long rehabilitation
program for 75,00f refugees in Ten
nessee. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
and Western Kentucky.
While the fight went on in the val
ley, Washington surveyed the prob
lem of floods and flood damage from
all angles.
Bulkley Outlines Bill.
Senator Bulkley. Democrat, of Ohio,
said President Roosevelt is sympa
thetic toward Bulkley> bill to set up
an Ohio Valley authority empowered
to reforest river slopes, build dams and
check soil erosion.
The President's Flood Relief Com
mission. headed by Harry L. Hopkins,
reported after a tour of the flood sec
tor an urgent need for housing to re
place v#ter-wrecked homes, liberalized
credit and increased health protec
tion.
The death toll reached 430. as addi
tional refugees succumbed in relief
depots. The refugee list dropped *
steadily from its peak of nearly a
million, but hundreds of thousands
still were homeless.
Cairo. 111., grew more cheerful hour
ly as the Ohio's fall gained momen
tum, but guards patrolled the seawall
and kept sharp eyes on sand boils.
Paducah. Ky., felt better when a
rain and windstorm subsided after
threatening 50 boats engaged in rr
i lief work and driving W. P. A. work
ers to shelter yesterday. In the Mis
sissippi sector at Memphis a drop
in the wind last night eased some
of the tension created by 24 hours
of wind wave action. The winds and
- hard rain were general in the terri
j tory and disrupted some communi
cation lines, but Lieut. Col. Eugene
I Reybold. district engineer, said later
there were no points "considered crit
. ical at this time."
Rehabilitation Under Ray.
Rehabilitation took great strides in
the Ohio Valley—at Cincinnati,
Portsmouth, Ironton and other points
—where streets were cleared of debris
and public services began to function
normally. Five thousand workers
strove to clean up Louisville.
The river crested here at 48.53 on
the Weather Bureau gauge, and a
fqpt of this water was due to winds
which reached a velocity of 38 miles
on hour.
In Arkansas tributaries, except at
their juncture with the Mississippi,
were receding and refugees were be- •
ginning the trek home.
South of Memphis the Mississippi
was rising all the way to New Orleans.
All leveee were believed strong enough
to hold the water In sight,
. BLAME SET IN DEATH Or tl
Coroner** Jury Say* New Madrid Vic
tims Were Negligent.
NEW MADRID. Mo., February 9 <>P>.
: —A coroner's jury, at an inquest yes
terday. blamed "contributory negli
gence” of the 24 known dead and “in
j efficiency" of those in charge for the
sinking of a barge loaded with levee
workers in the Birds Point flood way
the night of January 30.
Coroner L. A. Richards, who con
ducted the inquest, said, "As far as I
am concerned, the case is now closed.”
Prosecuting Attorney J. V. Conran,
who questioned the witnesses at Rich
ards’ request, commented. "There will
be no further investigation into the
| matter.”
In its verdict the jury said the
Ohio-Mississippi floods created an
emergency responsible for the "lneffl
i ciency of the organiaation in charge
! of the ao-called quarterboat headquar
ters” and for the "necessarily hurried
and inadequate set-up” of bosses and
! foremen.
It declared the "contributory negli
i gence" of worker* "crowding upon the
barge when • • * it was being over
loaded” also was 'excusable under the
circumstances.”
The "headquarters” referred to in
the verdict was maintained by the
United States Army engineers on an
anchored quarterboat to direct sand
bagging of a levee guarding the rear
of the 131.000-acre spillway. The basin
was purposely flooded to relieve pres
sure of the water on the sea wall at
Cairo, 111.
The barge had brought a fresh crew
of 130 men to the levee and was tak
ing workers who had been relieved to
New Madrid when it sank, throwing
its passengers into the icy waters about
30 feet from shore.
P. W. A. AUDITOR KILLED
IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH
Hubert B. Cooley, Brother of Bep
resentative, Fatally Injured
Near Warrenton, N. C.
Hubert B. Cooley, 45. for two year*
assistant project auditor for the P.
W. A., was killed instantly in an au
tomobile accident near Warrenton, N.
C , last night.
Cooley was connected with the
Farm Credit Administration here lor
over live years, but has lived In New
York SUte since his association with
the P. w. A.
He is a brother of Representative
Cooley of North Carolina.
LENTEN SERVICE
Under the Auspices
OF
The Washington
Federation of Churches
Epiphany Episcopal
Church
TOMORROW AT 4:45 P.M.
Preacher:
DR. H.S. WILKINSON
St. Thomas' Episcopal
Church
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED