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WITH CHRYSLER;
SHIPYARDSTRIKERS
EVICTED BV POUCE
Auto Magnate Refers Union
to Aides in Detroit for An
swer—G. M. C. Agrees on
Seniority Rights.
SUBMARINE BUILDING
FIRM IS PICKETED
Officers Clear Yards at Groton,
Conn—All in “Sit-Down’’ Are
Dismissed by Company—Doug
las Plane Plant at Santa
Monaca, Calif., Occupied.
BACKGROUND—
Sit-down strikes, prevalent in
France last year, were introduced in
the United States in January, when
method was used by Committee /or
Industrial Organization against
General Motors Corp. After about
six weeks, when more than 150.000
workers were made idle, temporary
peace was arranged, and now ne
gotiations looking to permanent set
tlement are in progress.
Union gains are disputed as re
sult of strike, but labor leaders have
claimed important concessions, if not
open victory, and have busied them
selves extending sit-dou ns to other
industries in last feio weeks.
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT. February 24—The
United Automobile Workers of America
requested a national collective bar
gaining conference with Chrysler
Corp. executives today as union repre
sentatives reached agreement with
General Motors negotiators on sen
iority rights.
Walter P. Chrysler, president of the
Chrysler Corp.. at New York advised
the union leaders that Lester L. Col
bert and Herman L. Weckler, Chrys
ler executives here, “will speak for
the corporation.” The union in its
request claimed to represent “a ma
jority of your employes.”
Conferees seeking to settle issues
remaining from the recent widespread
General Motors strikes withheld de
tails of the agreement on seniority
rights except to say it will apply to
departments instead of plants, except
Under special conditions.'
Discuss “Speed-Up’’ System.
They turned this afternoon to a
discussion of wages and "speeding up”
of production. The union has de
manded abolition of piece-work and
group bonus systems of pay, wages
“commensurate with an American
Standard of living," and agreement on
production speed between management
and a union shop committee.
Richard T. Frankensteen, organi
sational director of the U. A. W. A.,!
sent the following telegram to
Chrysler:
“Representing a majority of your
employes who are members of the
United Automobile Workers of
America, we hereby request a national
conference with you or your appointed
representatives at the earliest possible
date for the purpose of working out a
collective bargaining agreement. We
suggest as a convenient time to us the
first part of next week and a place
mutually agreed upon.”
Big Companies Objective.
When the U. A. W. A. started its i
itrikes against General Motors after
the corporation refused its demand for
a national collective bargaining con
ference it announced its objective as
the signing of bargaining agreements
with every producer in the automotive
industry, from the “big three”—Gen
eral Motors, ChrysleT and Ford—down
to the independent companies.
Frankensteen recently announced J
that elections in employe representa
tion groups at Chrysler plants had
given the union control of a majority
of what he termed “company unions.”
Homer Martin, U. A. W. A. president,
has said the union’s relation with
Chrysler have been "satisfactory.” He
explained a few days ago that ■ the
(See STRIKES, Page A-5.)
austrIadebaTes
RETURN OF OTTO
Claimant to Hapsburg Throne
Gazes Longingly Toward
Native Land.
By the Associated Press.
INNSBRUCK, Austria, February
24.—The Archduke Otto, young claim
ant to the Hapsburg throne of Austria,
was reported to have stood on the
Swiss border today and looked long
ingly toward his native land.
Otto accompanied his sister, the
Archduchess Adelaide, to the frontier
city of Buchs, where they separated.
6he left for the Tyrol, while Otto
planned to motor to Liechtenstein by
Way of Davos.
VIENNA, February 24 (^.—Restora
tion of the Hapsburgs to the non
existent Austrian throne, admitted by
officials to be a pressing question, en
gaged the attention of the nation to
day as a result of two days of tense
negotiations between Germany and
Austria.
A communique issued after the de
parture last night of Baron Konstantin
von Neurath, German foreign min
ister, did not mention the restoration,
but many close observers believed it
played an important part in his con
versations with Chancellor Kurt
Schuschnigg.
Several persons were injured in
street rioting between Nazis and mem
bers of the government party, the
Fatherland Front, as crowds surged
through police lines near the deco
rated station where Von Neurath en
trained for Berlin.
Thirty persons were reported ar
rested.
Plan to Pay 23,000 Depositors
Of Mt. Vernon Savings in Full,
Would Form Mortgage Body
7,000 School Children Among Those to
Receive All Deposits Back if
Project Is Approved.
BY HAROLD B. ROGERS.
Plans to pay oft 23.000 depositors of the closed Mount Vernon Savings
Bank in full within a few months, and to pay the other 2.000 depositors in full
later on, were made public today by the Mount Vernon Liquidating Trust.
The new proposal was mailed to about 2.000 depositors, from whom ap
proval Is expected.
The new plan, if adopted, would mean that more than 7,000 school
children from all parts of the city who*
had money In school savings accounts
will be paid in full. These 7,000 chil
dren are among the 23.000 depositors
having less than $100 in the bank
when it closed who would receive all
their deposits.
All having more than $100 in the
bank when it closed would receive
payments later on.
The plan was made possible by the
International Association of Machin
ists, the largest stockholder in the
Mount Vernon Savings Bank. This big
union turned over to the liquidating
•
trust assets of a “present realizable I
market value of $150,000," out of the
proceeds of which the payments can
be made.
The plan calls for formation of a
new organization to be known as the
Mount Vernon Mortgage Corp. The
new corporation will take over the
assets of the Mount Vernon
Liquidating Trust, estimated at $1,
200.000, and will receive the ad
ditional assets of a market value
(See ^ANK, Page A-2.)
BY SPANISH SHELL
Battleship Believed Struck
by Missile of Leftist Anti
Aircraft Gun.
BACKGROUND—
Spanish civil war has brought
Fascist insurgents near Madrid on
north, west and south, but road
eastward to Mediterranean port of
Valencia, where the Popular Front
government has located itself after
flight from the capital, has re
mained open except for attacks by
insurgent artillery from nearby
hills.
Gen. Francisco Franco, rebel
commander, has turned his atten
tion southward from Madrid, after
repeated assaults upon capital have
proved unavailing.
Br the Associated Press.
LONDON. February 24 —The ad
miralty announced today that five
members of the crew of the British
battleship Royal Oak, including sever
al ranking officers, had been injured
when a shell burst on the quarterdeck
during the Spanish insurgent air
bombardment of Valencia yesterday.
The shell apparently came from a
Spanish government anti-aircraft gun
which was firing on the attacking
planes. The planes dropped incen
diary bombs on the port section jf
Valencia, with damage described in
Spanish advices as “slight.”
None Incapacitated.
Capt. T. B. Drew, three other officers
and one seaman aboard the Royal
Oak were slightly hurt by shell splint
ers. None, it was announced, was
"incapacitated." Later the battleship
put out to sea.
It was the second such incident
in the last two weeks. On February ,
15 it was announced the British de- j
stroyers Havoc and Gypsy had fired j
on a plane, believed to have been an
insurgent craft, which tried to bomb j
them near Cape Tenez off the Alegrian
coast.
No Protest Reported Planned.
Authorized sources said the British
government contemplated no protest,
since the incident, technically speak
ing. was “more or less an act of God.”
They explained the Royal Oak was
lying just outside Valencia Harbor at
the time of the bombardment and that
there was, obviously, no Spanish in
tention to damage it.
HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT FOR HILL.
Loyalists Seek to Protect Madrid
Valencia Road.
MADRID, FeDruary 24 OP).—Govern
ment militiamen and an insurgent de
tachment struggled hand-to-hand to
day for possession of strategic Pin
zarron Hill commanding a vast area
of the Jarama River front.
The government forces, after a 20
hour battle for possession of the
(See-SPAIN, Page A-4.)
Fight in New
Diet Building
Goes 3 Rounds
U ppercut and Straight
Right to Teeth Fob
low Objection.
BT the Associated Press.
TOKIO, February 24.—Japan’s cost
ly new Diet Building received its bap
tism by blood today when two mem
bers of the House of Representatives
tried to settle political differences with
their fists.
The fight started at a committee
meeting on the war-time protection
law when Independent Jiichiro Mat
sumoto, a huge fellow, challenged the
committee’s right to elect a chairman
when no quorum was present.
Norio Nanjo, a member of the Sei
yukai, one of the two major political
parties, insisted the election proceed.
"You shut up!" Matsumcto ex
claimed, Jumping to his feet. “You
belong to a corrupt political party.”
The diminutive Nanjo retorted by
calling his opponent a political green
horn and a fool.
Matsumoto’s answer was an upper
cut, causing Nanjo to bite his tongue,
but he retaliated with a straight right
to the Jaw, breaking two of Matsu
moto’s teeth.
Other committeemen separated the
combatants and rushed them to the
Diet surgery, where, while being
treated, they started quarreling again.
. >
Eats Nails, Glass
As Parlor Trick,
Goes to Hospital
Victim Recalls Sadly
Hotv Audience En
couraged Him.
By the Associated Press.'
PROVIDENCE. R. I.. February 24 —
Anthony Lewis. 52. was taken to a
hospital here early today with the
strangest case of indigestion on the
records of the institution—caused by a
diet of nails (two sizes), screws and
glass.
"I went to a party in East Provi
dence,” Lewis explained to Dr. Robert
Murphy and Police Sergt. William
Cummings, "and some of the people
there started doin’ tricks.
"So I took three 6-inch nails and
swallowed thei. They were startled.
"I took a handful of two-penny nails
and swallowed them. They were
astounded.
"Spurred on by their applause. I
picked up four or five medium-sized
screws and swallowed them ersily.
The applause was deafening.
"I finished by downing four slivers
of glass without even chewing it.”
The hospital immediately prepared
the X-ray. the fluroscope and bron
choscope for emergency work.
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$500,000 Action Against
Rubinoff Ended on At
torney’s Motion.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. February 24—Peggy
Garcia's $500,000 breach of promise
suit against Dave Rubinoff ended ab
ruptly in Supreme Court today when
Justice Salvatore A. Ccttillo granted
a motion to discontinue made by her
counsel. Bernard Sandler.
Sandler’s decision to drop the action
against the radio violinist occurred
while Peggy was on the stand relating
the details of her marriage in 1925
to Taylor Vance Guinn. Justice Cot
tillo broke in and said:
“There is no desire on my part to
continue this trial and drag in dirt
and havp the names of innocent per
sons dragged into it. Why doesn’t
counsel make a motion to discon
tinue?”
In discontinuing the case, Justice
Cotillo said that the minutes of the
testimony would be sent to the office
of District Attorney William C. Dodge
for consideration.
Marriage Laws Considered.
Sandler’s action followed a digest
by Justice Cotillo concerning marriage
laws in the State of Virginia, where
Peggy admitted that she wed Guinn
in the City of Salem.
The digest reads:
“A marriage contracted by a female
in the State of Virginia at the age
of 12 years without the consent of her
parents, even though there has been
no co-habitation and even though
after the marriage ceremony the
(See SUIT, Page A-4.)
MIDSHIPMAN CASE
DECLARED CLOSED
Swanson Satisfied There Was No
“Railroading” of Colored
Student.
Secretary Swanson today told news
paper men that as far as he Is con
cerned, the case of the 135 Midship
men dropped from the Naval Acad
emy is closed. James Lee Johnson, jr.(
1737 S street, only colored Midship
man, was included in the number.
“I am satisfied from the evidence
presented me by the chief of the
Bureau of Navigation (Rear Admiral
Adolphus Andrews) that there was no
railroading of the colored Midship
man," Swanson asserted.
“Nothing can be done now about
it," the cabinet officer said, explain
ing that the 135 midshipmen are
definitely out. They were dismissed
for deficiencies in studies or health.
Swanson pointed out that, at his
request, the Academic Board at the
Naval Academy, which has the final
say on scholastic standing of midship
men, had re-examined the papers.
The board confirmed its original
opinion, Swanson said, and under the
law, that is the last appeal.
President Roosevelt has been fur
nished with a copy of the Academic
Board’s report, Secretary Swanson de
clared.
TOWNSEND DENIES
HOUSE SUBPOENA
CONTEMPT CHARGE
Winning Directed Verdict
on Second Count, He *
Battles First.
PLANNING OF WALKOUT
SCOUTED IN TESTIMONY
Opposing Counsel Prepare Final
Arguments as Case Nears
Jury.
BY JOHN H. CLINE.
Dr. Francis E. Townsend, elderly
advocate of old-age pensions, today
concluded nis defense of charges that
he is in contempt of the House with
a crisply-worded denial of the Gov
ernment's contention that he failed to
comply with a subpoena served on
him by the legislative body.
Earlier in the day. Justice Peyton
Gordon, presiding at the District
Court trial of the physician, granted
him a directed verdict of not guilty
on the second count of the indict
ment, which charges he refused to
testify before a House committee in
vestigating his pension plan last May.
The defense closed its case after Dr.
Townsend left the witness stand, and
opposing counsel began preparation of
their final arguments. It is expected
the case will go to the Jury this after
noon.
Dr. Townsend, somberly attired In
a brown suit with the tie to match,
was on the witness stand less than
10 minutes. At no time raising his
voice or manifesting of more casual
interest in the proceedings, he denied
he had failed to comply with the sub
poena served on him last April.
The physician also denied he had
“agreed to stage a walkout on the
committee at the psychological mo
ment,” as testified yesterday,
He said he attended a meeting with
his associates in Baltimore prior to
the hearing when the question of his
appaerance before the committee was
discussed.
"I insisted upon appearing before
the committee," he testified. "I felt
it was an excellent opportunity to get
our plan before Congress.”
Admits Walking Out.
On cross-examination, he conceded
he had walked out of the committee
hearing, telling the legislators in sub
stance: “In view of the apparently
unfriendly attitude of this committee
toward me and my associates, I deem
it my duty to leave and do not in
tend to return except under arrest.”
The first defense witness called was
Representative Tolan of California, a
member of the committee appointed
to probe Dr. Townsend's pension plan.
After the committee hearing, Tolan
filed a minority report dissenting
from the views of the majority of the
committee. Hanson sought to in
troduce this report at the trial, as
serting it would "show any witness
was justified in refusing to remain
before the committee and answer
questions, since they were not per
tinent to the inquiry.”
Garnett objected to the admis
sibility of the report and was sustained
by Justice Gordon.
Tolan said Dr. Townsend had told
him he wqnted to testify before the
committee, but another Government
objection was sustained when Hanson
asked the witness to describe Dr.
Townsend’s "attitude.”
Arguing in support of the suffi
ciency of the Government's evidence,
Garnett said:
"Can it be that Congress is power
less to punish a witness who sticks his
(See TOWNSEND, Page A-3~)
MRS. GARNER STRICKEN,
REPORTED“VERY SICK”
Suffered Severe Attack of Indi
gestion Last Night, Vice
President Says.
Br the Associated Press.
Vice President Gamer said today
that Mrs. Garner had suffered a “very
severe attack” of indigestion last night
and was still “very sick" today, but
that he believed her condition was not
serious.
“The nurse and doctors think she
is going to be all right," Gamer said.
Summary of Today’s Star
Page. Page.
Amusements A-8 Radio _B-8
Comics.B-13 Short Story.B-14
Editorial ...A-10 Society_B-3
Financial ...A-17 Sports ...A-14-16
Lost & Found A-3 Woman's Pg.B-11
Obituary ...A-12
FOREIGN.
British warship officers injured by
Spanish shell. Page A-l
NATIONAL.
Peggy Garcia discontinues $500,000
suit against Rubinoff. Page A-l
ladings added to ranks of courts
plan opponents. Page A-l
U. A. W. ask parley with Chrysler on
bargaining. Page A-l
Pownsend denies he planned walkout
on committee. Page A-l
Protest spurred on shipment of nitrate
to Spain. Page A-6
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
2,600 delinquent taxpayers face court
action. Page A-1
Plans to pay off Mount Vernon deposi
tors are announced. Page A-l
Nice denies charges of Maj. Garey at
Senate probe. Page A-2
Hunter tells jury he does not remem
ber slaying wife. Page A-2
Three new House appropriations sub
committee heads possible. Page A-3
Selassie's financial adviser dies in
D. C. hospital. PageA-12
Woman bandit weeps during hold-up,
permits capture. Page B-l
Mrs. Norton cancels today's District
Committee meeting. Page B-5
Junior bar to campaign for judiciary
bill discussion. Page B-6
Senate committee approves Capitol
extension plan. Pag* B-l
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BEGINS NEXT WEEK
Collins Telegraphs Jacobs
to Come to Explain Three
Point Formula.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.
The House Subcommittee on Ap
propriations in charge of the 1938
District supply bill will begin its study
of the Jacobs fiscal relations plan
next week. Chairman Collins an
nounced today.
Collins telegraphed Jacobs in Chi
cago he expected him in Washing- j
ton "at his convenience" some time
next week to explain the three-point ’
formula he recommended as a new !
basis of fiscal relationship between
the Federal and District Govern
ments.
Collins also has arranged to call
before the subcommittee George Lord,
Detroit tax expert, who was employed
by the Special Mapes Committee of i
the House when it made a similar j
fiscal relations study about five years
ago.
Hearings Adjourned Last Week.
Collins disclosed plans for beginning
the fiscal relations inquiry shortly
after his subcommittee resumed hear
ings on the 1938 district appropria
tions bill. The hearings were ad
journed last week to permit Collins
to return to his home in Mississippi
on an emergency mission.
Eselmates of the Public Library and
the Highway Department were con- !
sidered at the morning session of the
subcommittee. The witnesses in
cluded Dr. George F. Bowerman, li
brarian of the Public Library, and
Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director of ,
highways.
Collins declined to reveal the dis
cussion, in keeping with the sub
committee’s' strict policy of secrecy,
(See FISCaETPage*A-3.) —
T. W. A. ORDERS 6 SHIPS
FROM BOEING AIRCRAFT
Construction to Begin Immedi
ately on 32-Passenger Planes.
Delivery Next Year.
B7 the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, February 24.—Boeing
Aircraft Co. will begin construction
immediately on an order from Trans
continental & Western Air. Inc., for
six 32-passenger transport planes.
Harold Mansfield, company spokes
man, said first of the planes, to be
used between Los Angeles and New
York, would be ready for delivery
early next year.
The new transport ships. Mansfield
said, would be capable of flying at
20.000 feet, 250 miles an hour. Four
motors will develop 4,820 horsepower.
The ships will carry a crew of four.
Citizens angry at budget official for
relief stand. Page B-I
Citizens’ committee may seek freedom
from Budget Bureau. Page B-l
Conference today may map study of
Jacobs fiscal report. Page B-l
Edward J. McGee found guilty of
criminal assault. Page B-l
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-10
This and That. Page A-10
Answers to Questions. Page A-10
Washington Observations. Page A-10
David Lawrence. Page A-ll
Paul Mallon. Page A-ll
Constantine Brown. Page A-ll
Headline Polk. Page A-ll
Dorothy Thompson. Page A-ll
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
Vital Statistics. Page B-4
City News in Brief. Page B-8
Betsy Caswell. Page B-11
Dorothy Dix. Page B-11
Bedtime Story. Page B-12
Winning Contract. Page B-12
Nature’s Children. Page B-12
Men’s Fashions. Page B-12
Crossword Puzzle. Page B-13
Letter-Out. Page B-14
Traffic Convictions. Page B-16
Young Washington. Pape B-18
SPORTS.
Matulewicz, Duke boxer, gains 5 wins
in less than 3 minutes. Page A-14
Louis is handicapped by lack of dash,
Dempsey declares. Page A-14
Pole vaulting ability due to flexibility,
Ohe of Japan says. Page A-1S
Lawson Little is generous with tips to
golf duffers. Page A-18
Brothers Minsky, at Hearing,
Chorus Strip-Tease Defense
Champion “Strictly American Art99
Before House Committee in
Indorsing Dickstein Bill.
The Minskys played the Capitol to
day as champions of the "strictly
American art” of strip-teasing.
Appearing in duet before the House
Immigation Committee, Herbert Kay
and Morton Minsky, brothers and
kings of burlesque, threw their un
qualified support behind the Dickstein
bill for "reciprocal trade agreements”
in "flesh on the stage ”
Burlesque, they explained, has been
the savior of vaudeville artists forced
"on the street" by increased popu
larity of movies and radio, but must
be kept pure for American artists
alone.
The pending bill would require
Labor Department permits for ad
PUN TO CONGRESS
Wagner - Steagall Measure
Offers Four-Year Billion
Dollar Project.
Br the Associated Press.
Senator Wagner. Democrat, of
New York, and Representative Stea
gall. Democrat, of Alabama, submitted
to Congress today a $1,000,000,000
four-year low rent housing and slum
clearance program, claiming indorse
ment of many "sectors of the Federal
Government."
It embodies "in improved form,”
they added, the major provisions of
the housing bill which passed the Sen
ate last year but failed in the House.
The measure provides for Federal
loans and grants to assist local au
thorities in developing low-rent hous
ing and slum clearance projects for
families of small Incomes.
Proposes $1,000,000,000 Bond Issue.
It proposes a $1,000,000,000 bond
issue and a Federal contribution of
$50,000,000 during the four years.
Estimating $500,000,000 of non
Federal loans would be available, the
authors said this would provide for
$75,000 family dwelling units at $4,000
each.
Establishment of a new United
States Housing Authority, they said,
“will enable the President to gather
under one roof the scattered organiza
tions now empowered to engage In
housing.”
The Reconstruction Finance Corpo
ration and the Federal Housing Ad
ministration, they contended, “can do
no more than facilitate the financing
of homes for people who can afford
homes and who have credit standing."
The annual Federal contributions,
they said, would be “based upon the
remarkably successful English sys
tem” and would not exceed 45 per
cent of rentals.
U. S. Spending Small Portion.
“Federal expenditures, in terms of
appropriations over the four-year
period, will be only $1 for every $29
of private money drawn into the
building program,” the sponsors as
serted.
“And when we take into account
the likely effect of this low-rent hous
ing program upon housing for other
income groups generally, we may say
that each dollar of Federal expendi
ture will evoke $50 worth of private
investment in home building.”
Senator Wagner claimed the project
would stimulate durable goods indus
tries, augment and insure recovery
from the depression and “provide bet
ter living quarters for millions who
now dwell in dismal and Insanitary
surroundings.”
The bill, he contended, contains
adequate safeguards against compe
tition with private industry.
REFUGEES MIGRATE
Hundreds Reported Arriving? in
. California Each Day.
LOS ANGELES, February 24 (IP).—
Hundreds of flood refugees from the
Middle West are arriving in California
daily, Earl Lee Kelly, State director of
public works, estimated here today.
mittance of foreign artiste, with such
permission dependent upon reciprocal
admission of American artiste to other
countries.
‘ Burlesque, as you probably know,
consists of comedy and strip tease
artists,” Minsky explained. "These
artists must be caught to do their act
in rhythm. They are taught by ex
perts to unclothe."
“We have plenty of Americans will
ing to act in our theaters," the im
presario continued. "We have no
need for foreign actors and actresses.
"Stripping is definitely an American
act.” Minsky resumed as the commit
tee tittered and the audience guf
fawed.
“In other words.” Dickstein inter
(See MINSKY, Page AOj
D. C. TO SUE 2,600
IN TAXATION DRIVE
Property Owners Fail to
Make Returns Sworn
in U. S. Reports.
District tax officials prepared today
to take court action against 2.600
property owners found to have failed
to make personal tangible and in
tangible returns due last July.
This many property owners have
been found so far to have failed to
make returns to the District on prop
erties which they did report in their
returns to the Federal Government
on sworn income tax reports.
Since last Summer agents of the
District tax assessor have been busily
engaged checking returns to the Dis
trict against those made to the In
ternal Revenue Bureau. Such a check
was made possible by the act of Con
gress of April. 1935. under which tax
payers had to fill out a duplicate of
their statements to the Federal Gov
ernment on the “green sheets." The
District promptly sent agents to the
Internal Revenue Bureau after last
July 1, the deadline for District per
sonal tax returns.
$116,130 Netted District.
The drive so far, according to Dis
trict Tax Assessor Fred D. Allen, has
netted the District $116,130. The
amount of tangible personal property
assessed in the drive amounted to
$342,000, and the amount of intangible
so assessed to $22,200,000.
District agents so far have checked
returns to them against the Federal
(See TAXES, Page A-2.)
Motor Is Good,
But Ambulance
Just Won’t Run
Machine Is Laid Up
With Severe Juris
dictional Trouble.
By t Staff Correspondent o. I'he Star.
ARLINGTON, Va., February 24 —
Motorists and pedestrians expecting
to have accidents in the near future
are warned not to have them in this
county until the county ambulance,
now laid up in the garage with a se
vere case of Jurisdictional trouble, is
again free of red tape and ready to go.
The motor runs fine, the tires are
practically as good as new and it shines
in all its post-free wheeling glory.
But until County Manager Frank C.
Hanrahan, Sheriff Howard B. Fields
and Fire Chief Maynard Saunders
can settle the proper channels through
which shrieks for help can be re
ceived and transmitted into action
for relief. In the garage she stays.
Since the county bought the ambu
lance two years ag), the simple pro
cedure of trusting the first passerby to
rush to the nearest telephone, call the
court house and tell the operator there
was an accident at such and such a
place has been followed. The court
house operator relayed the call to the
(See AMBULANCE, Page A-2.)
COURT PLAN FOES
CLAIM STRENGTH
TO DEFEAT BILL
Tydings Joins Ranks of Sen
ators Opposed to Roose
velt Program.
HOPE TO STOP MEASURE
IN JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
Administration Forces Give Im
mediate Backing to Voluntary
Retirement of Justices.
By the Associated Press.
Senate opponents of President
Roosevelt’s court program said today,
after Senator Tydings. Democrat, of
Maryland joined their ranks, that
“enough votes to defeat the bill are
in sight.”
They did not claim sufficient votes
already vere committed, but insisted
thev had enough to “stop" the bill by
holding it up in the Judiciary Com
mittee or preventing a final Senata
vote.
Administration forces contended
they had enough votes to pass the
bill, but their immediate attention
was centered on enacting during the
next day or two the voluntary retire
ment bill for Supreme Court justices.
This bill, approved by Mr, Roose
velt, but not an integral part of his
broader program for putting “new
life” into the bench, was expected to
meet little opposition. It provides
full pay for justices who wish to leave
the high court at 70.
Senator Pittman. Democrat, of
Nevada served notice, however, he
would renew the unsuccessful fight he
made in committee to eliminate the
section subjecting retired justices to
be on call for service in lower courts.
Senator McCarran, Democrat, of
Nevada, in charge of the bill, said he
would call it up either today or to
morrow, depending on developments
in the debate over the reciprocal tariff
law.
Despite the conflicting claims of op
posing leaders on the President's pro
posal to enlarge the Supreme Court
unless older justices retire, the public
commitments showed little change.
Senator Tydings' declaration raised
the opposition ranks to 33. On the
other side were 29. with the balance
still non-committal.
Privately, administration leaders said
they had 48 votes; the opponents
claimed 42. The Senate has OS
members.
Burke Is Confident.
The claim to have enough votes "in
sight" to defeat the program came from
Senator Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska.
He said there was a notable “stiffening
of the opposition ranks" In the face of
Mr. Roosevelt’s insistence on enact
ment of the bill.
Tydings. who heretofore has been
classed as uncommitted, said in a
statement:
“I do not feel that the proposed en
largement of the Supreme Court is
proper. In reality such enlargement
really settles nothing permanently.
“If wider legislative powers are de
sired for Congress, then the orderly
way to secure such wider powers foe
the Congress is through the method
of constitutional amendment, where
the people may grant or withhold the
powers requested."
Both sides expect an endurance con
test when Senate debate opens unless
there are unexpected developments.
If one or more justices should leave
the bench after enactment of the re
tirement bill, however, some Senators
expressed the belief the reorganiza
tion measure might not be pushed.
The decision to defer a House vot*
was viewed in some quarters as admin
istration strategy for use at a psycho
(See JUDICIARY^ Page A-6j ’
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DUKE OF KENT VISITS
EDWARD IN VIENNA
Former King and Favorite Brother
Visibly Moved at Short
Reunion.
Br the Associated Press.
VIENNA. February 24.—'The sell
exiled Duke of Windsor and his fa
vorite brother, the Duke of Kent, were
visibly moved when they met today
for the first time since Edward abdi
cated the British throne.
The young brother rushed up to
Windsor in the lobby of a hotel and
grasped his hands affectionately. For
a moment he held them in silence, and
then they withdrew for a long, inti
mate chat.
“They touched on everything,” an
adjutant said afterward.
Kent had been reported in London
to have a family mission to help iron
out the tangled finances of the British
royal house, particularly the question
of an allowance for the former mon
arch.
Kent arrived alone, explaining his
wife had already left Munich for Lon
don. He was in a hurry himself, he
explained, and said he would prob
ably remain only one day.
Windsor had burrie'd back to Vienna
after a visit to his old friends, the
Count and Countess Paul Muenster,
at Noetsch.
There he played golf by the River
Woerthersee, in the shadow of the
Karawanken Mountains, and poked
about old Muenster Castle, which
friends say he would like—some day—
to buy for Wallis Simpson, the woman
for whose love he gave up his empire.
Mrs. Simpson Dines Out.
CANNES. Prance. February 24
(/P).—It wasn’t the heat, it was the
curiosity, for Mrs. Wallis Simpson.
The Duke of Windsor’s bethrothed
dined out at a hotel restaurant last
night—an unusually warm evening—
as the guest of Sidney T Allen and
Mrs. Allen of St. Louis, Mo.
Despite the heat, she insisted on
having all the windows closed, tho
curtains drawn and a screen placed
I around her table.