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STRIKES GROWING;
FORD IS TARGET
Unions Will Defy Opposition
of Jersey and Illinois
Governors.
THREE HURT IN FIGHT
AT DETROIT PLANT
Two Waukegan Labor Organizers
Jailed. Charged With Conspiracy
to Prevent Arrests.
BACKGROUND—
Sit-doum technique in strikes teas
used effectively in France last year
when laborers protested People's
Front regime failed to give them
promised benefits. Introduced in
America on big scale for first time
' late in December in strike of United
Automobile Workers against Gen
eral Motors Corp. That walk-out
lasted about six weeks and was
settled only after long conferences.
Complicated temporary truce
failed to indicate clear victory for
either side, but union leaders were
quick to claim gains. This gave
impetus to similar tactics against
other industries and gradually dur
ing three weeks since G. M. C. peace
icas decided upon, such strikes have
hit other industries until yesterday
when about 35.000 workers were
said to be affected.
By the Associated Press.
Conflict over the sit-down strike
method grew apace today, in many in
stances overshadowing the issues un
derlying labor disputes.
.Some State and local officials and
factory owners showed a stiffening
opposition to the use of labor's new
weapon. It was revealed by the arrest
of strikers and strike organizers and
the use of force to evict sit-downers.
Three State Governors have voiced
opposition to the sit-down technique.
Gov. Henry Horner of Illinois said
there was “no warrant in law to just
ify a so-called sit-down strike.” Govs.
Wilbur Cross of Connecticut and Har
old G. Hoffman of New Jersey warned
they would tolerate no sit-down strikes
In their States.
Gov. Hoffman's announcement drew
from Homer Martin, president of the
United Automobile Workers of Amer
ica, a rejoiner that sit-down strikes
would be conducted “whether he likes
it or not." Martin said the Governor
would “mo.e out of the way" if he
doesn't “join with us.”
Ford Union Drive Pushed.
The Committee for Industrial Or
ganization pushed plans for unioniza
ing the Ford Motor Co. assembly plant
it Edgewater, employing 3,700 workers,
and the Federal ship building and
dry dock at Kearny, employing 4.000.
A woman and two men were in
jured as lead pellets were thrown in a
1 battle between union strikers and non
Union workers for possession of the
Ferro Stamping Co.’s Administration
Building at Detroit.
The outbreak at the Ferro Co . where
a sit-down strike has been in progress
for several days, was the first in any
of the score of labor disputes which
started here a week ago.
Striking employes took over the Ad
ministration Building, which had been
held by about 20 non-unior. employes
and office workers.
Wayne Marlett, chairman of the
Ferro Strike Committee, said non
union men in the office building be
gan throwing lead pellets 3 inches in
diameter through ventilators into two
plants occupied by strikers.
He said the three persons injured
were Anna Gouci. 23: Alex Laslo, 21,
and Peter Kuhn. 23. all strikers.
Striking workers swarmed to the
roof of their building and dropped
down on the administration building.
All non-strikers fled except five
workers and a company official.
< Fifty police broke their way into the
office building with crowbars. They
said the six had not been hurt.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested two C. I.
O organizers in Waukegan. 111. They
were charged with conspiring to pre
vent execution of a court writ for
the arrest of sit-down strikers in the
Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. plants.
Five other organizers were being
sought by deputies. Sixty-one sit
downers were evicted in a tear gas
attack. They mappel plans for a
picket siege.
Sit-down strikers arrested after
* (See STRIKE. Page A-12.)
FRENCH RADIO POLL
WILL TEST “FRONT”
Blum Government Presses Advan
tage of 361 to 209 Vote
of Deputies.
B» the Associated Press.
PARIS, February 27.—The People’s
Front demanded a new vote of confi
dence for the government today in the
national elections for the councils of j
radio management.
Pressing the advantage of a 361-to
209 vote of confidence by the Chamber
of Deputies, the government coalition
appealed for the election of their can
didates to the control of France’s 12
regional radio stations which serve
3,000,000 families.
The government of Socialist Premier ,
Leon Blum survived the opposition on
ulaught early today after Blum com
mitted himself to remain within the
framework of the People’s Front pro- |
gram.
All the 3,000,000 persons who paid
the government tax on radio sets were
eligible to vote at the polls scheduled
to open tonight.
Only government owned stations
were affected by the campaign. France
also has private stations, similar to
those in the United States, supported j
by advertising revenue.
The government programs—mostly
sews, talks, plays, chamber music and
recordings—are supported by the 50
franc ($2.40) a year tax on receiving
sets.
ft
New “Snow” Parking Ban Void,
Police Judge E. M. Curran Rules
All Cases Under Disputed Regulation
Continued Indefinitely Pending
Outcome of an Appeal.
BULLETIN. |
Police Chief Ernest W. Brown
today announced his force would
abandon efforts to enforce the
“snow removal” parking ban pend
ing decision of a higher court on
Judge Edward M. Curran’s ruling
in Police Court this morning that
the regulation was “unreasonable”
and invalid. Maj. Brown expressed
the opinion that no court decision
could be expected before the regu
lation expires March 15 under its
own provisions.
The new “snow removal” parking
ban under which at least a thousand
warrants ave jeen issued in the last
few day was declared “unreasonable
and invalid” in Police Court this morn
ing by Judge Edward M. Curran, who
made a similar ruling several w'eeks
ago on another “snow removal" regu
lation.
Judge Curran had the clerk an
nounce that all cases made under the
disputed regulation would be continued
indefinitely pending the outcome of
an appeal from his ruling by the cor
poration counsel’s office.
Elwood Seal, corporation counsel,
said he welcomed a showdown on the
controversy and would apply to the
Court of Appeals for a wri* of error.
"For three years,” Seal said, “the
Commissioners have been trying to
regulate parking on downtown streets
and important thoroughfares at night
so that plows could work unobstructed
in event of snowfalls.
“I want a ruling on the uestion
from a higher court so that I can ad
vise the Commissioners whether they
have or have not the authority to
regulate parking with a view to snow
removal."
Meanwhile. Police Chief Ernest W.
Brown said he would ask legal advice
~' (See PARKING, Page A-12.)
KIDNAP BOY. 2,
IS FOUND DEAD
Body of Argentine Baby in
Pig Pen Near Parents’
Estate.
By the Associated Press.
LA PLATA. Argentina. February 27.
—The unclothed body of Baby Eugenio
Peyrera Iraola. whose three-day kid
naping stirred Argentina as the Lind
bergh case gripped the United States,
was found today in the grime of a
pigpen on the Baronial Estancia of
his wealthy parents.
The little body, bearing a scalp
wound and a cut on one leg. was
discovered in an outlying part of
"La Sorpresa,” his parents’ great
estancia, about a mile ar.u a half from
the house.
The chubby arms were crossed over i
the chest. The clothing was not
found.
An immediate examination was
begun at the estancia, where the
blue-eyed, 2-year-old baby lived with
his parents and six brothers and
sisters, to determine the exact cause
of death.
It was believed he had been killed ■
Thursday, the day after he was \
kidnaped.
A laconic communique from provin
cial police, who have searched the rich i
resort countryside for three frenzied
days for some trace of the child or his !
abductors, said merely the body had
been found.
It gave no theories as to who car
ried the boy away from the flower
bordered garden of the estancia short
ly after 7 o'clock last Wednesday eve
ning. while the baby's mother left his
side to greet her husband, a wealthy
sportsman and horse fancier, upon his
return from another of his ranches.
Several Suspects Held.
The announcement said nothing to
indicate which, if any. of several sus
pects now held was believed responsi
ble for the crime.
But it was known the police, at first
believing remnants of the kidnap bafid
of the late “Pibe Cabeza”—("Babv
Face”!—might be responsible, had in
clined to the theory the abduction
was the work of a moral outcast.
One wandering peon, who vanished
from the estancia environs about the
same time the baby disappeared, was
plied anew with questions.
There were few clues. Most of
them centered around the childish j
story of 5-year-old Miguel. Eu- '
genio's brother, who said he saw
"a man" holding the baby in his
arms a few minutes before he dropped ;
from sight.
Police refused persistently to con
firm reports of ransom negotiations.
Greatest Manhunt Ends.
It was a day of profound grief for
Argentinans, from cattle baron to
peon, ending as it did the greatest
manhunt in the history of the
republic.
Hundreds upon hundreds of police
had blocked roads and searched fields I
and streams; volunteer searchers
from the beautiful Estancias of the
Mar Del Plata countryside and bronzed
workmen had hunted side by side, but
in vain, for the baby or his kidnaper.
Just before today’s police announce
ment, the baby's patrician grand
father, the powerful Senator Antonio i
Santa Marina, raced out of Mar Del
Plata for the La Sorpresa Estancia
in a motor car crowded with phy
sicians.
It was a forlorn hope. The baby
was dead.
The first definite word that the body
had been found by a Peon in that ’
part of the estancia devoted to hog
raising and slaughter came from an
uncle, in Mar Del Plata.
Mother Prostrated.
Then the La Plata police told their
story.
Eugenio's father,, Simon Peyrera j
Iraola, also was in Mar Del Plata
when the news came. He and his
family have been in the resort city,
directing the search, since the kid
naping. He, too, rushed to the ranch.
The mother, the former Dolores
Santa Marina, remained prostrated at
Mar Del Plata with her other chil
dren, the oldest of whom is eight.
Miguel, who saw the kidnaper, has
been under a doctor’s care for near
hysteria since he saw “a strange,
bearded man” pick up Eugenio.
Also at Mar Del Plata, in the jail,
was the wandering peon, Jose Gan
cedo. He answered questions in dull
monosyllables, and was unable to ex
plain why he vanished from La Sor
presa Wednesday night.
--•
Seine and Yeres Rise.
PARIS, February 27 OP).—Low-lying
sections of Villeneuve St. Georges, 10
miles southeast of Paris, were evacu
ated today as the Yeres and Seine
Rivera continued to rise.
A
SIAM. LAWS
Calls on 48 Governors for
Aid in Battle Against
Dust, Floods.
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt requested all 48
States today to enact soil-conserva
tion laws to bulwark the Federal fight
against duststorms and floods.
"The Nation that destroys its soil
destroys itself,” he said in identical
letters to State Governors.
With the letters went copies of a
State soil-conservation bill prepared
by the Agriculture Department in co
operation with representatives of
many States.
It provides for the organization of
soil-conservation districts to carry on
. erosion-control projects, with the aid
i of Federal funds, and for enactment
of land-use regulations after they are
approved by local referenda.
No Hearing on Benefit Payments.
The suggested State laws would
have no bearing on the Federal soil
conservation benefit payments, but
their enactment would be necessary
before States could receive any Fed
eral funds for conservation demon
stration work.
"I hope that you will see fit," the
President wrote, "to make the adop
tion of legislation along the lines of
the standard act part of the agricul
tural program for your State."
After asserting dust storms and
floods had "underscored the im
portance of programs of control soil
erosion,” the President said Federal
demonstration projects in isolated re
gions could only "point the way.”
“The problem is further com
plicated.” he said, “by the fact that
the failure to control erosion on some
lands, particularly if such eroding
lands are situated strategically at the
heads of valleys or watersheds, can
cause a washing and blowing of soil
onto other lands, and make the con
trol of erosion anywhere in the valley
Dr watershed all the more difficult.”
To be dealt with adequately, he
added, the "erodible land in every
w..tershed must be brought under some
form of control.”
State legislation, he explained, is im- 1
perative to safeguard results of Fed
eral programs and to enable farmers to
take the necessary co-operative action.
In a foreword to the suggested model
State law. Secretary Wallace said
(See CONSERVATION^Page A-6.,) -
— -
DR. WILSON RALLIES
FROM SERIOUS ILLNESS
Temperance Worker's Condition
Improves—Suffered Paralysis
Stroke.
By the Associated Press.
PORTLAND. Oreg.. February 27.—
Dr. Clarence True Wilson. 64. nation
ally-known temperance worker, rallied
from a serious illness at his home at
Gresham today. Attendants said his
condition was "encouraging.”
Dr. Wilson suffered a stroke of
paralysis Thursday, but his nurse said
today he had regained his faculties
and was conscious.
Dr. Wilson, born in Milton, Del.,
April 24. 1872, founded the Methodist
Episcopal Church Board of Temper
ance, Prohibition and Public Morals
and was active as its crusading sec
retary for more than a quarter of a
century. He asked the General Con
ference of the church to accept his
resignation May 13, 1936, and came
to his Summer home at Gresham,
near Portland, a short time later.
_
Sit-Down Strike
Of Geisha Girls
Starts in Temple
Collective Bargaining
Privileges Sought
■ by Group.
By the Associated Press.
OSAKA. Japan, February 27.—
Oeisha girls of this wealthy industrial
city were walking out on its tired
business men today, answering the call
to a sit-down strike at the famous
Gyokuzo Buddhist Temple on a nearby
mountain top.
They charged their employers with
trying to destroy their labor organiza
tion, the Geisha Guild.
The ranks of the original 80 "sit
downers” have swelled to 500 and the
strike threatened to deplete Osaka
completely of its 2,000 Geisha girls.
Up the mountainside they trudged,
carrying their samisens (three-stringed
instruments) and their eosmetios.
(Sea GOSHA. Page A-6.)
m
DONAHEY AGAINST.
BULKLEY FAVORS
Ohioan Asserts U. S. Voters,
“Source of All Power,”
Should Decide.
SENATE LINE-UP STANDS
33 OPPOSED TO 26 FOR
Half Dozen Formerly Announced
as Concurring in Flan Say They
Are Non-Committal.
By the Associated Press.
Senator Donahey, Democrat, of
Ohio spoke out today against President
Roosevelt's court reorganization pro
gram after his colleague, Senator
Bulkley. indorsed it as an effort "to
restore our form of government.”
Donahey In his first public state
ment on the court Issue said:
“This entire controversy vitally af
fects the judiciary, a co-ordinate
branch of the Government, and should
be referred to the people—the source
of all political power.”
Bulkley, also a Democrat, declared
in a radio speech last night that op
ponents "should frankly take the posi
tion which they are really supporting
—that of unqualified judicial suprem
acy."
Donahey's declaration did not add
to the total of Senators publicly com
mitted. however, because earlier word
had come from his office on his stand.
Bulkley had Indicated his views pre
viously.
Twenty-six Known as Favorable.
The number of Senators publicly op
posing the Chief Executive’s proposal
remained at 33, but the list of those
openly favoring the plan dropped to 26
Half a dozen of those once counted
for the President asserted during the
last few days that they were non
committal.
Although Donahey did not say in so
many words he would vote against the
President's proposal, he declared:
“The Constitution is the founda
tion of our Government. The fathers
builded the community temple and
placed it in our hands for safe keep
ing, then passed on.
"It is our solemn duty to place it
in the hands of hose who follow us,
enlarged, of course, but politically
unprofaned."
Bulkley in his speech said the Con
stitution does not provide that the
Supreme Court may pass on the validi
ty of an act of Congress.
“How then.” he asked, “did the
Supreme Court get the right to be the
final arbiter of the validity of an
act of Congress? It simply asserted
it. • • *
“We are trying to check the Su
preme Court in doing what itself has
held it has no right to do.”
Others to Speak Against Plan.
Opposition leaders declared another
Senator or two wouid speak out against
the presidential program early next
week. They said nine more were pri
vately pledged to oppose the measure.
They, as well as administration
forces, were watching anxiously for
any sign that the voluntary retire
ment bill passed by Congress might
bring withdrawal from the Supreme
Court and possibly clear the way for
(See JUDICIARY, Page A-3.)
LOUISVILLE SETS TOTAL
OF FLOOD DEATHS AT 90
By the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, Ky„ February 27 —
Louisville's direct flood death toll was
fixed today at the ''almost unbeliev
able” total of 90 by Dr. Hugh R.
Leavell, director of health.
He listed the fatalities as follows:
Drowning. 6: exposure. 10: burned or
killed in explosions, 15: asphyxiation.
2; pneumonia. 28. heart disease, 28:
bacillary dysentery. 1.
Mayor Neville Miller had estimated
deaths from all causes during the
flood emergency. January 22 to Feb
ruary 14, at 429.
"Considering that more than half
of the people of this city (population
330,000) was involved in the flood,”
commented Dr. Leavell, "one could
scarcely take that number of persons
on a picnic without losing almost as
many.”
Summary oi Today’s Star
Page. Page.
Amusements C-12 ! Music -B-4
Art_ B-3 Obituary ... A-6
Books__ B-2 Radio _A-9
Church News, Real Estate.
B-5-6-7 C-l to 6
Comics A-13 Short Story B-7
Editorial — A-8 Society-A-7
Financial A-13 Sports A-10-11
Lost & Found A-3 Woman’s Pg.. B-8
foreign.
4.000,000 Poles back Koc program of
nationalism. Page A-3
Japanese officials differ on air defense
adequacy. Page A-3
NATIONAL.
Roosevelt asks State laws to aid dust
flood fight. Page A-l
Kidnaped son of wealthy Argentine
man is found dead. Page A-l
Fight on sit-down strike method
grows in U. S. Page A-l
50,000 to watch $100,000 race at Santa
Anita. Page A-l
Donahey against, Bulkley for, Roose
velt courts plan. Page A-l
Senate prepares for neutrality legisla
tion battle. Page A-8
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Judge Curran rules "snow removal"
parking ban invalid. Page A-l
Townsend flies motion for new trial;
arguments Friday. Page A-2
Arlington, in surprise reorganization
move, abolishes 4 offices. Page A-2
Thirty transfusions fail to save girl
of 6. Page A-S
Two firemen hurt In crash on way to
blaze. Page A-S
New bill throws civil service extension
into polities. PageA-lS
House aubcommltU considers District
Mils. „ FSgSA-lS
M
Symphony group recruits 750 solicitors
for fund drive. Page A-3
Relief is Government responsibility,
church group contends. Page A-16
Hazen asks traffic obedience to cut
death toll. Page A-16
Change in collateral posting for motor
ists proposed. Page A-16
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-8
This and That. Page A-8
Answers and Questions. Page A-8
Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-8
David Lawrence. Page A-9
Paul Mallon. Page A-9
Mark Sullivan. Page A-9
Jay Franklin. Page A-9
Delia Pynchon. Page A-9
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-«
City News in Brief. Page A-4
Traffic Convictions. Page C-7
Young Washington. Page A-9
Vital Statistics. Page C-7
Nature’s Children. Page C-7
Dorothy Dix. Page B-8
Bedtime Story. Page C-7
Crossword Puzzle. Page A-15
Letter-Out. Page C-8
Betsy Caswell. Page B-8
SPORTS.
College boxing title lies between Duke,
Maryland. Page A-14
Rosemont 2-1 favorite in Santa Anita
race today Page A-10
Max Baer set to sail for bout in Eng
land. Page A-10
A. A. U. aces mass for attack on track
records. Page A-10
Western ties slipping Eastern In basket
race. Page A-ll
Catholic champ quint to enter Star’s
tourney. p»b a-ii
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Montgomery Finds 33 Homes '
Untaxed, Some for 10 Years
$9,000 Garage in Center of Silver Spring
Business District Among Prop
erties Escaping Collector.
E* f Stall Correspondent ot The star. l talked of in the State Legislature, but
SILVER SPRING, Md., February 27. on which no definite action has been
—Accidental discovery of 33 homes, t taken, should be made to equalize
valued at $72,000, and a $9,000 garage, taxes by discovering escaped property,
not carried on the tax rolls of the east- and by recording the increase in val
em suburban district, led today to re- ues resulting from the growth of many
newed demand by County Commis- Montgomery’ County communities in
sioner Paul M. Coughlan for a State- the last 10 years. Coughlan declared,
wide reassessment. j "These 33 homes and the garage.
Eight of the homes, which have es- *hlrh have 001 I*™ on the tax rolls
caped the assessor for at least 10 years. at a'!- were discovered entirely by ac
were in one section. Seven Oaks, and cident while looking into some other
the garage is in the commercial dis- routine matter in connection with the
trict of Silver Spring. The homes properties." he explained,
range in value from $2,000 to $8,009. "If we had a reassessment, I don t
Coughlan pointed out. know how many’ homes, barns and
The entire commercial area of Sil- commercial properties we would find, j
ver spring .s assessed at a total of ,In *ome sections property we have
approximately $850,000. while the In- ,lstfdaf a home- h“ now
crease in population in the section. ''er,ed commercial use and should
since the last assessment was made bear a hlgh*r tax rate
in 1927. has brought a rise in value to "Under the law regarding escaped
between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. properties, the county can levy taxes .
The reassessment, which is being i (See TAX, Page A-3.)
INSURGENT SHELLS
FAIL IN MADRID
Break in Downtown Streets,
Scattering Children and
Wounding Man.
BACKGROUND—
Spain’s civil war which started
last July continues to rage bitterly,
with government heads centralizing
the defense of Madrid under Gen.
Jose Miaja, while new internal
troubles threaten to split the ranks
of Gen. Francisco Franco.
Since outbreak of hostilities,
rivalry between Carlist, monarchist
supporters, and Spanish Fascists
have become more and more intense.
Both parties publicly proclaim their
solidarity behind Franco, but
privately leaders admit after the
war “there may be trouble.’’
By the Associated Press.
MADRID, February 27.—Insurgent
big guns sent shells screaming into
mid-Madrid again today.
Breaking five weeks of comparative
tranquillity in the besieged city itself,
the shells began breaking in down
town streets and against business
buildings. At least one man was hit.
Madrilenos, who had believed them
(SeeSPAIN, PageA-12/)
50.000 TO WATCH
SANTA ANITA RACE
_
Rosemont and Seabiscuit
Held Favorites in $100,
000 Contest.
Entries, jockeys, weights, prob
able odds, post positions for Santa
Anita S 100.000 Handicap today
will be found on page A-10.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.
LOS ANGELES. February 27 —In
the presence of some 50,000 turbulent
throats. Rosemont and Seabiscuit
should lead the chase for $100,000 to
day at Santa Anita, with Mr. Bones
and Chanceview in close pursuit.
It may be different, but the form
chart points in this direction, despite
the presence of such high-class entries
as Indian Broom. Red Rain (another
strong contender). Time Supply and
several other fast-moving thorough
breds that make up the big show.
One hundred thousand dollars is
quite a chunk of change for either a
man or a horse to win in less than
three minutes. The picture becomes
even more colorful when you con
sider the surrounding scenery—orange
trees among 3.000.000 flowering plants
and several hundred noted motion pic
ture stars, all overshadowed by the
snow-capped peaks of the Sierra
Madres.
Betting to Exceed $1,600,000.
All this makes something to look
at. But when some 50,000 spectators
are betting well over $1,000,000 in one
afternoon, the horse still is the main
object of attention. Especially the
horse that can lead a $100,000 race.
In last Saturday's final test, it was
Rosemont's flying feet that beat the
field, but Rosemont also had his full
share of racing luck—a much better
break than either Seabiscuit or Mr.
Bones happened to draw.
Seabiscuit, especially, had plenty to
show when given a chance to run,
and, if he gets his chance, he will be
something to beat through the stretch.
Jock Whitney likes the starting
speed of Mr. Bones. "In a big field,”
he told me, “it is more than important
to get out of the pack as soon as pos
sible, and I don’t think Mr. Bones will
be caught in any jam. He has a good
chance in a hard race.”
There are many others who will be
in back of Chanceview, A1 Vander
bilt’s entry, which should be some
where close.
When you throw in such horses as
(See RACE, Page A-3.)
SUPPORTS COURT PLAN
PORTSMOUTH, Va., February 27
OP).—Joseph Rossano, president of the
Virginia Federation of Labor, yesterday
issued a call to all labor locals in the
State affiliated with the American Fed
eration to take formal action indorsing
President Roosevelt's Federal judiciary
program and to forward letters or
resolutions to the Virginia members of
the Senate and the House of Repre
sentatives urging them to support the
legislation necessary to carry out the
proposals.
I
POST OFFICE BARS
Crowley Announces Cam
paign to Break Up Spread
of Lotteries.
Editions of newspapers and other
publications containing reports of Irish
Sweepstakes winners hereafter will be
barred from the mails, Solicitor Karl
A. Crowley of the Post Office Depart
ment. said today in announcing the
inauguration of a vigorous campaign
to break up the spread of lotteries in
this country.
The ban against sweepstake pub
licity, which includes stories and pic
tures of winners, is a sharp reversal
of departmental policy. Such a curb
wras invoked in the Hoover adminis
tration while Walter F. Brown was
Postmaster General, but was modified
when Postmaster General Farley took
over. At that time it was said the
department would be guided by a
"liberal interpretation" of the lottery
laws, although it was emphasized that
the department had no intention of
nullifying postal laws or regulations
with reference to the printing by news
papers of stories and pictures about
winners of sweepstakes or lotteries
operated in foreign countries.
POOR VENTILATION
DRIVE IS REVEALED
Theaters and Public Halls Are
Warned by Health Officer
After Complaints.
Warning that owners or managers
of theaters and other public halls
would be prosecuted unless they
promptly correct any conditions of
poor ventilation or other hazards to
health was issued toda> by Health
Officer George C. Ruhland.
He revealed he had received many
complaints from patrons of both large
and small theaters and public halls
and directed his staff of inspectors to
start a drive for full compliance with
existing laws and regulations. He re
vealed the Health Department now
has the services of a sanitary en
gineer. C. P. Browning, formerly at
tached to the United States Public
Health Service.
Browning has been equipped with
air-testing facilities and he is directed
to take a series of samples of air
from all places against which there
have been complaints.
“We will appeal first for co-opera
tion. but if we fail to obtain desired co
operation, we will prosecute," said Dr.
Ruhland. “We have had complaints
against some of the finest theaters
and public halls, as well as against
the older and inadequate buildings.
I believe that when the public pays
admittance fees, they should be as
sured all the protection to health
that the law requires as to heating,
ventilation and lighting."
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SNOW OR RAIN FORECAST
IN CAPITAL TOMORROW
Snow or rain is forecast for the Dis
trict and vicinity tomorrow. Little
change in temperature is' expected.
The minimum temperature tonight
probably will be around 28 degrees.
The mercury failed to drop as low
as was anticipated last night, reach
ing the lowest point—30 degrees—
about midnight. It climbed to 36 yes
terday afternoon.
Sent to Butcher’s
28 Years Ago, Son
Returns With Wife
By the Associated Press.
MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va.( Feb
ruary 27.—Twenty-eight years
ago Mrs. Emma Simms sent her
young son Charles to the butch
er’s for a pound of liver.
Today he is back with the liver
—and a wife. He came from An
chorage. Alaska, where he had
lived for several years.
Mrs. Simms, resident of Aleppo.
Pa., at the time she sent him to
the store, had heard from him
only once.
• Years ago he wrote he hadn't
forgotten the errand and some
day would complete it.
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BUSSES ORDERED
EFFECTIVE Nifty 2
Public Utilities Commission
Approves Substitution
for Street Cars.
13TH AND 9TH STREETS
TO BE USED DOWNTOWN
Fare Is Set at 10 Cents Cash.
With Local Service Same
as on Trolleys.
Substitution of express and local
bus services for the Takoma street car
line, as proposed during the past
several months by the Capital Transit
Co. and numerous civic groups, today
was ordered effective May 2 by the
Public Utilities Commission.
Issuance of the order had long
been anticipated, the principal issue
being over the routes to be adopted
The commission selected routes which
are a modification of various pro
posals made at a public hearing last
November.
In the Takoma area some of the
busses will operate on Third street
and some on Fifth, and in the down
town region some will use Thirteenth
street and some will be routed through
Ninth street, where there is now
no street car service north of G
street.
The fare on the express busses will
be 10 cents cash and on local services
will be the same as street ear fare.
Transfer privileges will be afforded
at numerous points.
Route to Be Changed.
The commission also ordered a
change in the downtown route of the
Hyattsville-Laurel bus line of the
Capital Transit Co., from Tenth to
Ninth street to provide better service
on lower Ninth street. This change
will be effective March 14.
Under the changes ordered in the
Takoma service, the Fourteenth street
line, over which the Takoma cars now
operate, will terminate at Kennedy
street, where there will be a turn
around just off Fourteenth street.
The tracks on Kennedy street to Geor
gia avenue already have been ordered
removed.
The commission rescinded its old
order requiring that the Takoma line
be double-tracked from Georgia ave
nue and Kennedy street to Takoma.
To provide a connection between
the Takoma area and the new termi
nus of the Fourteenth street car serv
ice, the commission ordered establish
ment of a feeder bus line, with street
car token fare, run between the two
points. The route will be from the
loop at Fourteenth street east on
Kennedy street, north on Third, east
on Aspen, north on Willow, to the
District line, south onAaurel. west
on Aspen, south on Third and west
on Kennedy back to the Fourteenth
street loop.
Express Service Planned.
An express bus service will be es
tablished. using Fifth street in Ta
koma, during the morning rush period
Mondays through Saturdays, and dur
ing the evening rush period Mondays
through Fridays, and in the Saturday
aftemon rush period (not including
legal holidays), over the following
route:
From a terminal on Fifth street
south of Dahlia, south on Fifth street,
west on Madison, south on Thirteenth,
east on Pennsylvania avenue, south
on Seventh, west on Constitution ave
nue. and north'on Ninth street to a
terminal between Constitution and
Pennsylvania avenues. Northbound,
these express busses will go north on
Ninth, west on Pennsylvania avenue,
north on Thirteenth, east on Madison,
north on Fifth, west on Cedar, north
on Sixth and Piney Branch road, east
on Dahlia, south on Fifth to the
terminal.
Passengers will not be permitted to
board southbound busses south of
Madison street, and, except at transfer
points, they will not be permitted to
leave these busses north of Massachu
setts avenue. The same limits are
used in northbound travel.
Another express bus service, using
Third street, will be operated during
the same rush period. The route for
these will be. southbound, from a
terminal on Laurel street and the Dis
;trict line, south on Laurel, west on
1 Aspen, south on Third street, Kansas.
Illinois. New Hampshire. Sherman and
Florida avenues and Ninth street, easi
on Pennsylvania avenue, south on Sev
; enth street, west on constitution ave
nue. north to the Ninth street ter
| minal.
' Northbound, the busses will follow
the same route in reverse. Passengers
' will not be permitted to board south
bound busses south of Gallatin street
except at transfer points, and pas
. See'BUSSES,"Page" A^12j‘ “
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JUDGE FREES TAXIMEN
ON DAMAGE PAYMENT
Changes $1,000 Fines in Bioting
to $300 if 31 Liquida**
Losses by May 1.
i BT ti.e Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, February 27.
Eugene O'Dunne freed 31
drivers today of sentences
after conviction of assault,
disorder, on the condition ea
his share of the total damage
cabs during a recent strike
drivers.
Thirteen of the defendants
the group fined $1,000 each li
urday and given a suspended i
of a year in jail. Most of thi
had been held for sentencing. Two
convicted drivers were not affected
by the order.
Judge O'Dunne, in striking out the
previous sentences, gave each of the
31 drivers a term of three monthi'
in jail, suspended on condition of good
behavior, and a $300 fine, suspended
; on condition of repayment of the
taxicab damage by May 1.
The total damage was listed as: Yel
i low cabs, $892.02; Diamond cabs, $1,
I 310.98, and coats, $432.10.
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