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Annual Rites at National
Christian Church Are
Attended by 700.
Nearly 700 members of the Woman'*
Council of the Washington Federation
of Churches attended the annual "in
gathering" yesterday at the National
City Christian Church, Fourteenth
street and Scott Circle.
Following the invocation by Rev. Dr.
R. H. Miller, pastor, and a message
from Africa by Miss Margaret Wrong,
secretary of the International Com
mittee of Christian Literature for Af
rica, the "ingathering" procession was
held.
Membership Rolls Read.
Eighteen women, representing ^he
Protestant denominations and each
bearing » floral gift and a scroll con
taining the names of the members of
her denomination who belong to the
Woman's Council, walked down the
aisle in pairs. The flowers were left
and the membership read off as each
presented her scroll. The count re
vealed a membership of 3,613.
The women then stood under the
pulpit while Mrs. Harper Sibley, wife
of the president of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, gave a brief
convocation address.
Cincinnati Woman Speaks.
The principal speech was made by
Mrs. Jessie Burrall Eubank of Cin
cinnati. Dr. William L. Darby, execu
tive secretary of the Federation of
Churches, pronounced the benediction.
Following the service the flowers
were distributed to Gallmger, Garfield,
George Washington and Emergency
Hospitals, under the direction of Mrs.
Elizabeth W. Murray, hospital worker
for the federation.
CARRIERS TO SAIL
ON VIRGINIA TRIP
Sixty-Five Winner* in Washing
ton Star Contest Embark
Today.
Sixty-five Washington Star carrier
boys, selected in a contest to deter
mine outstanding ability and ambi
tion. will sail on the S. S Northland
from the Norfolk & Washington
Steamboat Wharf this evening at 6
o'clock for a tour of Virginia.
After dinner aboard the boat the
hoys will be entertained by Meyer
Goldman, popular orchestra leader,
and will join In group singing. Pri
\ ate busses will be ready in Norfolk
so carry the boys on a tour of the
Gity.
The boys will visit the Newport
News Shipbuilding Yards and the
Mariners’ Museum. Prom Norfolk,
the busses will carry the boys to his
toric Williamsburg, where they will
have luncheon. Charles Duke of Wil
liam and Mary College will tell the
boys of the history of Williamsburg
and thpy will visit all points of in
i'’rest there.
Leaving Williamsburg the boys will
ride to Jamestown, Yorktown, Fortress
Monroe and Langley Field. There will
be a guide with each bus to point out
scenes of interest and explain their
history.
The boys will embark at Old Point
Comfort for the return voyage and ar
rive in Washington Friday morning.
Accompanying the boys on the tour
will be Galt Burns, circulation mana
ger of The Star, and his assistants,
Charles A. MrKenney, D. N. Nicklason
and John Beha.
writersTnlondon
MOURN COLLINS
Former Chief of Associated Press
Bureau Expires—Was Born
Here in 1867.
The American Correspondents’ As
sociation in London, England, today
Eflnpted resolutions of condolence, the
Associated Press reported, at the
death of Robert Moore Collins, 69,
former chief of the London Bureau of
the Associated Press, who died in
Bournemouth, England, yesterday
after having been an invalid for 12
years.
He was born in Washington in
1867, the son of Dr. and Mrs. William
T. Collins.
Collins' early newspaper experience
included a short period with the
Washington Post,, which he left in
1893 to join the Associated Press.
Tour years later he was sent abroad
for the first of his foreign assign
ments, which included coverage of the
Boxed Rebellion, the Russo-Japanese
War and the World War.
Collins was in charge of the London
office from 1907 until 1926, when he
was stricken with paralysis. He had
been educated at Washington schools
and took his B. A. in 1889 from Mid
dlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. He
began his newspaper career the year
be graduated, when he was employed
by the Akron, Ohio, Daily Beacon.
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Woman Find* Age Incorrect.
After scores of messages had reached
her and hosts of friends had congratu
lated her for having attained 100, Mrs.
M Green of Scarborough, England,
found that an entry in the family
Bible was Incorrect and she is only 99.
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
Debates Gufley-Vinson coal control
bill.
Judiciary Committee hears oppo
nents of Roosevelt court bill.
House:
Continues consideration of legisla
tive appropriation bill.
Rules Committee opens hearings on
resolution to investigate sit-down
strikes.
Judiciary Committee begins hear
ings on anti-lynching bills.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Expected to continue work on Guf
fey coal bill.
Judiciary Committee continues
hearings on President's court bill.
House.
Begins consideration of District ap
propriation bill.
Rivers and Harbors Committee
meets, 10:30 a.m.
Labor Committee meets, 10 a.m.
Education Committee meets, 10 a m.
District Committee meets In spe
cial session, 10:30 am.
Washington
Wayside
Tales
P '
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
DUCKS AND FIVERS.
ONE of those lawyers about
town who cashes tn plenty
helping rich folks fix up their
Income tax blanks received
a $100 bill as a cash payment from his
client. He was going out of town, so
handed the bill to his wife, saying,
"Put this in the bank Monday." It
was Saturday and wifie was very busy,
but she hid the bill in a side pocket of
a pasteboard hat box up on the closet
shelf.
She never thought of it again until
husband returned on Wednesday and
casually inquired about it. Then she
swooned. The hat box was gone.
Quickly she got In touch with Sally,
the colored maid, who said she had
been cleaning up Saturday and had
taken that box as a new home for the
ducklings, which some kind soul had
given to the children of her mistress'
house.
"John,” an unemployed young man
to whom they had often given work,
had been around, and didn't her mis
tress remember saying, "Oh, give John
those ducks ... I'm sick of them.”
They didn't even know John’s last
name, but they knew he lived in some
shack with another man out Silver
Spring way. The lawyer and his wife
went to the relief bureau at Silver
Spring. Yes, they recognized John
from the description and they could
tell where hp lived. Over unkempt
roads they finally arrived at the shack.
There were the ducks all right, wad
dling around. John wasn't home, but
his pal was there, and over in one
corner—could she believe her eyes—
was the hat box.
"I'll Rive you $5 for that hat box,"
she said. “Why, yes'm, certainly.”
The man took the fiver In puzzled
fashion and handed over the box. In
the car, she quickly explored the
pocket. The bill was there.
But in the meantime, husband was
looking around. "Look here, pet,” he
said, "were pretty well off. I never
realised how some of these poor guys
are living. Now we're $100 ahead.
I'm going to get out and give thia chap
another fiver.” He stepped out. went
beck to the shack. By this time
John's pal was sure his visitors were
daffy. "Look here, what sort of work
ran you do?” "Most anything, boss."
"Well, come around to the office to
morrow. I'm going to give you some
kind of a job—don't know what it will
be—but I'll find something. And give
this bill to John, will you?”
They drove off and a bewildered
once-forgotten man scratched his head
and pondered on the strangeness of
fate.
* * * *
PRONTO!
Although police radio calls are
frequently answered in less than a
minute, acoording to Inspector
Bernard IV. Thompson, Capt. Ira
Neck, his assistant, believes the
one-second response to one of his
calls yesterday to be. a record.
Detective Sergts. Thomas
Sweeney and Michael Mahaney
were wanted at headquarters
“pronto,” and nobody teemed to
know where they were until they
opened the captain’s door in re
sponse to a radio call they had
overheard while a few feet away.
CARPETING OBSERVATIONS.
rJ>HE Senate, In 1842, was an as
sembly of immortals with auch
names as Webster, Clay and Calhoun
on its roll call. But it didn’t make a
favorable impression on one keen ob
server who sat in the visitors' gallery
an hour or so one day.
"The Senate is handsomely car
peted,” he wrote, "but the state to
which these carpets are reduced by
the universal disregard of the spit
toon, with which every honorable
member is accommodated, and the
extraordinary improvements on the
patterns which are squirted and dab
bled upon it from every direction do
not admit of being described. I rec
ommend to all strangers, if they drop
anything, though it be their purse, not
to pick it up with an ungloved hand
on any account.
"It is somewhat remarkable to see
so many honorable members with
swelled faces caused by the quantity
of tobacco they contrive to stow within
the hollow of the cheek. It is strange
to see an honorable gentleman leaning
back in his titled chair with his legs
on the desk in front of him shaping
his plug with a penknife, and when
it is quite ready for use, shooting tha
old one from his mouth as from a pop
gun and clapping the new one in its
place.
“Even the steady old chewers of
great experience are not good marks
men, which has even caused me to
doubt their general proficiency with
the rigle. Several gentlemen fre
quently missed the spittoon at five
paces and one mistook a closed sash
for the open window at three.”
The observer was Charles Dickens.
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HOME.
r^REEN, the national color of the
Irish Free State, shows the way
home every day for Betty, French
poodle owned by Mrs. Winifred
Haynes of Clifton Terrace.
Betty plays daily outside the build
ing. Returning to her third-floor
home, she often has wound up on the
floor below, barking for admittance at
the wrong door.
Mrs. Haynes got a green ribbon, tied
it to her door and then familiarised
Betty with the decoration.
Betty loses no more time getting
home.
Yugoslavia will construct two addi
tional automobile factories at Semun.
Nearby Maryland Churches
Select Officers for New
Terms.
Annual Episcopal Church elections
in tha Washington diocese, In addi
tion to those announced yasterday in
The Star, include:
Aacanaien (Silver Spring, Md.).
Senior warden, William E. Perry;
junior warden, Charles Leiaear; reg
ister, Oeorge Werner; treasurer, Lloyd
Clark; vestrymen. William Nixon. Mr.
Werner, Roland Davies, Julian Cate,
Clement Evans, John Compton. Louis
Kummel and Daniel Bowie; delegate
to the diocesan convention, Mr.
Nixon; alternate, Mr. Perry.
St. Barnabas’ (Oxon Hill, Md.) and
St. John's (Broad Creek, Md.).
Senior warden, George K. Von Os
termann; Junior warden, J. Owen
Kerby; register, George M. Kerby;
treasurer, Mr. Von Ostermann, St.
John’s; treasurer, G. M. Kerby, St.
Barnabas'; vestrymen, O. M. Kerby,
Austin L. Adams, James R. Edelen,
John A. Russell, Eugene Latimer,
Stanley Pumphrey, Arthur B Rich
ardson and Miss K. V. Grimes; dele
gate to the diocesan convention, Mrs.
Edgar J, Thorne; alternate, Miss
Orimes.
King and Queen (Chaplico, Md.).
Senior warden, T. Barber Brook
bank; junior warden, Addison Her
bert; register, Theodore B. Carpenter;
treasurer, W. Guy Herbert; vestry
men, Truman H. Thomas, James E.
Davis. Alfred Davis, S S. Reedes, Sam
uel B. Hayden, Douglas Good, W. G.
Herbert and Mr. Carpenter; delegate
to the diocesan convention, Mr.
Reedes; alternate, Mr. Good.
Pinkney Memorial I Hyattaville).
Senior warden, Elgin Noack; Junior
warden, John H Burton; vestryemen,
\ S Marvin Peach, Stanleigh Jenkins,
Harry A. Boswell, Ernest Gasch,
Noble L. Owings, Charles O. Lanhardt,
G. Hodges Carr and Harry R Hall.
St. Johns (Rethesda).
Vestrymen, Harry D. Amiss, Edwin
Q. Balinger, J. C. Benzing, Robert D
Hagner, Thomas D. Lewis, F. Eliot
Middleton. Windsor Offutt and R,
Hanson Weightman.
St. John's (Mount Rainier, Md.l.
Chairman of the Parish Committee,
John Martin: register. Phillip Rus
sell; treasurer. Percy Boswell: com
mitteemen. Wilbur Burch, Samuel
Fort, Mrs. Edith Ford, Mrs. Julia
Stansbury, Mrs. Virginia Bose, Mrs.
Pearl Miller and Mrs. James Ham
mond; delegate to the diocesan con
| vention, Mr. Boswell; alternate, Mrs.
■ Mark Skinner; delegates to the north
ern convocation, Joseph T. K Plant
and Mrs. George Seymore; alternates,
j Mr. Russell and Mrs. Miller.
St. Paul's (Raden, Md.l and St. Mary's
lAquasro, Md.l.
Senior warden, W W Wilson; jun
! ior warden, R. E. Young; register, J.
Roy Baden: treasurer. Dr. Harry M
Bowen; vestrymen, W 8. Young. J.
, Amo* Davis, A D Jones. Henry Comp
ton. E C. Trueman and Kenneth Wil
son; delegate to the diocesan conven
tion. Mr. Wilson; alternate, Mr. True
man.
Father
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strument in the head of Byrne* and
the moment he throttled the girl.
Fowler, whose marriage to "Ronnie"
was quickly annulled, told detectives
earlier that he had not seen her for
some time, but that thetr relations
always had been friendly. He works
now in a sandwich concession at the
American Bowling Congress.
Miss Carp told police that she nar
rowly missed spending Saturday nignt
in the apartment where the murders
weae committed. She called off a
“date” to go out with "Ronnie” and
friends, and spend the night there,
because of a cold, Misa Carp said.
Gueret, unemployed chauffeur who
wa* released yesterday after 30 hours
as a "guest" of the police, walked into
the station in a new suit, contentedly
puffing a big cigar.
Gedeon, previously questioned after
finding the bodies Sunday morning
when he came to the apartment with
his married daughter and her hus
band, was brought in from his uphol
sterer's shop on East Fifty-first street.
"We don’t want him," Detective Capt.
William T. Reynolds said before the
other three were brought in.
With most of a squad <" 50 detec
tives running down feint clues in
various sections of the city, police
activity was speeded considerably.
A ceaseless stream of relatives,
friends and the inevitable collection
of morbid today crowded the funeral
parlors where Veronica and h«r
mother lay.
Considerable mystery, detectives ad
mitted, surrounds the search for the
weapon with which Byrnes, an Eng
lishman who worked a* a waiter in
a fashionable club, was stabbed to
death through the ear.
Lieut. Walter Harding also said the
police were anxious to interview a
Mrs. J. Perry, listed as a jprtner of
Gedeon in his upholstery shop.
District Attorney Dodge, after ques
tioning the four for an hour, told
reporters: "It looks good. The 'cops’
are doing a fine job. Please be
patient.”
AIDS 164.000 HERE
D. C. Participates to Full
Extent With All 10 Pro
visions in Effect.
The Social Security Board an
nounced today that 164.000 men,
women and children in Washington
art benefiting directly under all 10
provisions of the security act.
Tha board estimated that 141.000
'persons are working under provisions
of the District's unemployment com
pensation law, and 5,580 persons are
being cared for ur.der approved public
assistance plans.
Records show that 158.480 workers
have applied for accounts under the
old-age benefits program. Virtually
all these are covered under the Dis
trict's unemployment compensation
law'.
The board pointed out that in the
year since Federal funds became
available under the aecurity act the
District has taken steps for full
participation in all provisions and
1s now receiving Federal financial
assistance.
Jobless Benefits Cited.
The board called attention to the
fact that the unemployment com
pensation law entitlas Jobless bene
ficiaries to 40 per cent of their full
time weekly wages, plus 10 per cent
for a dependent husband or wife, plus
5 per cent for each dependent rela
tive up to a maximum of $15 a week.
Benefits may last up to 16 weeks
during a year, depending on the work
er's past employment.
The District already is collecting
funds under this law, which stipu
lates that unemployment compensa
tion payments will begin in January,
1938 The District has received Fed
eral grants of $110,783 to defray the
expense of administering the law.
The board stated that under State
Federal public assistance programs,
approximately 5.580 of the District's
needy are reoelving regular cash al
lowances from funds provided in
part by the District and in part by
the Government. Of this total, about
2,000 are needy old people. 130 are
blind and 3,450 are dependent chil
dren In 1,230 families.
March Payments.
It was estimated that in March the
| District will pay out from combined
Federal and local funds a total of
*117.100 for public assistance, of
which $50,800 is for old age assistance,
$3,200 for aid to the blind and *63,100
for aid to dependent children.
In January, average individual pay
ments to the three groups were: Aged,
*25.34; blind, *24.45; dependent chil
dren, *18 24 per child, or *51.17 to
each family.
The District s public assistance plans
under the act were approved on
December 31, 1935. and it was among
I the first to receive Federal grants
| when funds became available in Feb
ruary, 1936. All told, it has received
Federal grants of *522.060.35 for public
assistance. Of this total, the Federal
' contribution for old age assistance
comes to *189.332 31, for aid to the
blind to *20,824 70. and for aid to
dependent children to *311.903 34.
The board pointed out that before
the District began co-operating with
the Federal Government in these
thtee provisions, it already had made
certain public assistance provisions,
notably the law for aid to dependent
children, passed in 1928, and the law
for old age assistance passed in 1935.
j Service Extension Provided For.
The three maternal and child wel
fare programs, administered by the
Children’s Bureau of the Labor De
; partment, provide for extension of
such services, particularly in rural
J areas. The District had an approved
plan for maternal and child health
services for 1936 and Federal pay
ments totaling *14,522 80 had been
1 made by June 30.
The plan approved for the fiscal
I year ending June 30, 1937, provides
i for a Federal grant of *43,316.64.
Under the 1936 approved plan for
services for crippled children,
*5.586.68 had been paid to the Dis
| trict by June 30, 1936. The 1937
plan, as approved, includes a Fed
l era! grant of *25,000. A Federal
grant of *1,666.30 was paid the District
| for the child welfare services under
• the 1936 plan. For the fiscal year
' ending June 30, 1937, a Federal grant
1 of *10,000 was provided in the Dis
I trict plan as approved.
The purpose of vocational rehabili
tation is to provide re-edueation for
workers crippled in industry. At the
end of the last fiscal year, 413 such
persons were receiving training under
the District's program, for which the
city has received Federal grants of
*30,000.
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52 YEARS WITH SCHOOLS
BRINGS HONOR TO CLERK
Dr. John F. W. Smith, clerk In the
statistical office at the Franklin Ad
ministration Building, was to be
honored at an Informal ceremony
today for his S3 years’ service in the
public school system. His retirement
becomes effective today.
Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintend
ent of schools, was to present Dr.
Smith, on behalf of the Franklin
Building employes, a brief ease and
money for the purchase of law books.
Man in “Iron Lung” to Travel
10,000 Miles for Treatment
hr the Associated Press.
PEIPING, China, March 31. —
Frederick B. Snite. jr„ Chicago in
fantile paralysis victim, today entered
his second year in an "iron lung,"
cheered by newt he is soon going to
start the 10,000-mile trip home.
The 26-year-old victim’s father an
nounced elaborate plans to take his
son. still imprisoned in the artificial
respirator, back to Chicago for treat
ment, sailing from Shanghai June 2.
A special train, outfitted with com
plete hospital equipment, is being pre
pared to take Frederick and his “iron
lung” to Shanghai from Peiping, where
he was stricken on a world tour a
year ago.
Accompanying him will be at least
25 doctors, nurses and electrical ex
perts responsible for keeping the lung
machine in operation every minute of
the long journey, which will cost an
estimated $50,000.
Trucks will be used to transport the
six-foot steel cylinder, which has
pumped air into Frederick's lungs
since his lung muscles were paralyzed
a year ago, between the special train
and the boat.
A duplicate “iron lung," special
electric generators to supply the ma
rt
chine’s current, emergency resuscita
tors and a device to combat seasick
ness wtll be taken along to meet any
emergency arising on the long trip by
land and sea.
"At least I will be the first human
to half-circle the globe in an iron
lung," said finite today, smiling with
the unflagging courage he has shown
throughout his illness.
His father said finite’* "progress is
slow but encouraging. I believe Fred
erick will be rid of this machine some
day."
Since he was stricken Young Snite
has learned to speak Chinese and has
mastered the game of chess while
lying helpless in the lung machine,
with only his head protruding.
Some use has been restored to his
paralyzed legs, but the youth’s arms
remain useless. His longest period
outside the machine has been five
minutes and ten seconds, but the air
pressure has been gradually reduced
until Snite is able to do two-thirds of
his breathing unaided.
Six nurses attend him, working in
shifts. His parents, sister and a
friend, Clarence J. Dillon, farmer
Notre Dame University classmate,
have been with Snite since be was
i taken 11L
4
Moved to Guard Golden Gate
This giant coast defense gun was moved to Fort Funston to become a part of the United States
Army’s defense fortifications at the Golden Gate. The gun weighs 143 tons and hurls a 2.400-pound
projectile in excess of 25 miles. Three like it will form the battery. —Copyright, A, P. Wirephoto.
LOANS ARE DENIED
TO FARM TENANTS
Proposal to Allot $50,000,
000 as Purchase Aid Re
jected by House Body.
BJ ih. Ai.oci.t.d Pr*»«.
The House Agriculture Committee
today rejected a proposal to ellot $50.
000,000 to assist farm tenants to buy
farms on easy credit terms.
The proposal was part of the ad
ministration's $185,000,000 farm ten
ancy program.
Chairman Jones said the commit
tee voted, 13 to 11, against recom
mending such legislation, urged by
President Roosevelt. Secretary Wal
lace and a special committee on
tenancy named by the President.
The committee took no action on
proposals to appropriate $76,000,000
for rehabilitation loans to low-incoma
farm groups and a $70,000,000 sub
marginal land retirement program.
Seven Democratic members of the
committee joined six Republican* in
opposing the faym buying plan.
Action came after 11 weeks of hear- j
Inga and debate on the program. |
Jones said a motion to reconsider the i
unfavorable vote waa pending He ex- i
pressed the opinion It would be re- j
jected.
The chairman said most of the
member* objected to the land-buying
program on the ground It would put
the Government in the land business.
The measure rejected was the third
tossed aside by the committee. It
would have authorized the Secretary
of Agriculture to ’ uy farms for re
sale to tenants <■ \ terms that would
give them as long as 45 years to pay.
The Interest rate would have been J
per cent.
President Roosevelt, who talked yea- !
terday with Chairman Jonea and other ;
committee members, told newspaper |
men tenancy legislation must be on a
demonstration basis If large eoeti are
to be avoided.
The $100,000,000 crop Insurance
measure, approved by the Senate yes- j
terday without a record vote, next will j
be studied by the House committee. ,
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Cold Halts Herring Hun.
LBONARDTOWN, Md.. March 11
UP).—The run of herring, which began
unusually early several weeks ago,
ceased with the recent cold weather.
Water men here said, however, they
expected the fish would appear again
shortly, making the season about a
month longer than usual.
In Court
TRIAL SET IN McADOO-DB
ONATE DIVORCE.
MRS. ELLEN McADOO
DE ONATE.
RAFAEL LOPEZ DE ON ATE.
The daughter of united
States Senator William G. Me
Adoo and her estranged hus
band are shown as they ap
peared in Los Angeles court
yesterday for a preliminary
hearing on Mrs. De Onates
divorce suit, which he is con
testing. Trial of the action
was set for Friday.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirepheto.
Scanty Fashions Menacing
Textile Industry in 20 JSations
Conference to Consider Fuller Ward
robes and Center Attention on
Hours and Wages,
BY BLAIR BOLLES. !
Among the reason* 300 serious
minded men from 20 countrio* *r*
gathering here for the World Textile
Conference is that women’s clothes
are too scanty tnd men's wardrobe*
slimmer than they were when Theo
dore Roosevelt was President and
King Edward VII was the style ruler
of the globe.
Out of the conference, which is
the first of it* kind ever held, is
likely to come a set of resolutions
urging women to lengthen their skirts. I
to bring back the flounce, to demand
petticoats at least thro* deep, to con
demn the knee-length hose and to
Insist that their husbands, fathers
and lovera own at least one suit for
every day in the week, not to men
tion apecial wear for evenings, co
tillions and weddings.
Harold Beresford Butler, secretary
general of the conference, yesterday
explained the "why" of the interna
tional reverberations from the short
ened skirl and the general dismissal
of the corset, which have set the
textile industry on its ear.
Per Capita Lae at Standstill.
"During the last 25 or 30 years.”
he said on his arrival here, "there
has been no per capita increase in
the consumption of textile good*, de
spite the use by industry of textiles
on an ever-increasing scale.
"I suppose it is because people are
wearing fewer clothe* than they used
to. You know clothing people is
like feeding people. If you could
enable people to eat more food it
would go better for the farmer. So
with textiles. The more they wear
the better the textile business. But ,
unless you can increase consumption,
things are not going to get better.
They will probably get worse "
Butler suspects the delegate* to the
conference, which opens Friday, will1
be more eager to discuss working ;
hours, wage*, condition* of labor for
men, women and children in the in
dustry and the migration of textile I
mills than to consider as deeply as
it merits consideration the short skirt j
as a factor. But without such du- .
russlon, he Intimated, the meeting j
really can get nowhere, for It will !
be overlooking basic factors
American Use High.
The secretary general admitted. |
however, that the American woman
and the American man are not so
much at fault in this universal fash
ion conspiracy against the textile*
as are the countriea abroad He re
ferred reporter* to a page in the re
port on the world textile industry
prepared by the International Labor
Office, which remarks
"In 1929, for example, the average
inhabitant of the United States wa*
using four times more cotton i per
sonally and industrially) than the
average Inhabitant of the world. 10
time* more silk, 3 time* more jute, 5
times more rayon and an equal
amount of wool—in sum. at least from
three to four time* more of all textile
fibers taken together.'’
In support of hi* relation of under
consumption to scanty clothing But
ler pointed to the record for the
Sudan. Ceylon. Nyasaland. Kenya
and Uginda. the Netherland* East
Indies, Tanganyika. French We*t
Africa and Britisl West Africa, most
of whose Inhabitants are satisfied to
wear a loin cloth or a *arong. and
where consumption of textiles is no
toriously low.
"I do hope something can be done
to Induce people to wear more or to
hang more drape* or something,"
Butler said.
Record Expedition for Eclipse
Sails May 6 for South Pacific
By tit ARAotiated Press.
The largest and most completely
equipped eclipse expedition ever gath
ered together. National Geographic
Society officials said yesterday, will
sail from Honolulu May 6 for the
Phoenix Islands In the South Pacific.
Led by Dr. S. A. Mitchell, director
of the Leander McCormick Observa
tory at the University of Virginia, the
party of 11 scientists will leave San
Francisco in groups between April
15 and April 37. The last group will
sail on the Mariposa.
The scientists’ trip from Honolulu
will bo made on the Navy mine
sweeper Avoeet, which also will carry
their scientific instruments, Including
cameras, food and water for the
entire party for six weeks, cement
with which to build concrete bases for
the instruments, a complete radio j
broadcasting station, and other ma- 1
terials.
The expedition will establish itself (
on either Canton or Enderbury Island,
on which the total eclipse will be
visible for slightly more than four
minutes on June t, and will spend ,
almost a month in preparation for j
the event. I
Scientific work to be undertaken
will Include accurate timing of the
beginning and end of the eclipse:
measurements of the sun's light at
various stage* with spectroscopes, in
struments which break light down
into its constituent wave lengths;
photographic studies of the corona
of flaming gases shooting out from
the sun's surface, and visual observa
tion* through telescopes, Dr. Mitchell
said.
Other member* of the scientific stall
will be Capt. J. F. Hellweg, superin
tendent of the Naval Observatory,
who will have charge of the Navy's
participation; Dr. Paul A. McNally,
director of the Georgetown University
Observatory; Dr. Heber D. Curtis, di
rector of the University of Michigan
Observatory; Dr. Floyd K. Richtmyer
of Cornell University; Dr. Irvine C.
Gardner of the Bureau of Standards;
Dr. Theodore Dunham of Mount Wil
son Observatory, California; Harold
E Sawyer, assistant director of
McMath-Hulbert Observatory; John
W. Willis of the Naval Observatory;
Richard H. Stewart of the Geographic
Society and Philip I. Merryman, radio
engineer.
Probe
i Continued From First Page !
ceeded in winning for labor only such
industrial liberties ss both law and
morals has long sanctioned. The sit
down has been provoked by the long
standing ruthless tactics of a few
great corporations who have ham
strung the National Labor Relations
Board by invoking injunctions In the
courts, which they have a perfect legal I
right to do; who have openly banded I
together to defy this law of Congress
quite independently of any court ac
tion, which they have neither the legal
nor the moral right to do, and who
have systematically used spies and
discharges and violence and terrorism
to shatter the workers’ liberties as
defined by this Congress, which they
have neither the legal nor the moral
right to do.
“The organized and calculated and
cold-blooded sit-down against Federal
law has come, as always, not from the
common people, but from a few great
vested Interests. The-uprising of the
common people has come, as always,
only because of a breakdown In the
ability of the law and our economic
system to protect their rights."'
Citing the practice of the corpora
tions, particularly in the General Mo
tors’ controversy, in obstructing opera
tion of the National Labor Relations
Board by legal recourse, Wagner de
clared that “the only way to avoid
industrial strife Is to have that two
year-old act of Congress so Interpreted
in the courts that it may be applied
on a Nation-wide scalt to the promo
tion of industrial peace.”
Cry far Legislation.
Deriding the hue and cry for new
Federal legislation. Senator Wagner
said:
“It Is proposed to remedy the often
r.
alleged 'one-sidedneas' of the national
labor relations act by giving employers
substantive rights equivalent to those
which workers are accorded under the
act? Have not employers already
made manifest their right to organize
and bargain collectively through mon
ster corporations and Nation-wide
networks of trade associations? Have
employers not secured their right to
choose thPtr own representatives ab
solutely free from interference by
workers? Have not employers the
right to apply the principle of ma
jority rule to their corporate affairs,
and to the selection of their spokes
men for purposes of dealing with their
workers?"
Answering the claim of the auto
mobile industry that their wages are
high, the New Yorker quoted a profit
increase to the industry of 51 per
cent between 1939 and 1939, with the
full time wage of the worker decreas
ing during the same period by 13
per cent.
"And for good measure," he added,
"the automobile worker today is work
ing four hours a week longer than
he did In the days of the N. R. A."
Proposal for Intervention.
The Senator referred with some
sarcasm to the recent proposal by the
National Association of Manufacturers
for Federal Intervention in labor dis
putes, recalling their unqualified In
sistence that the national labor rela
tions act was unconstitutional because
the Federal Oovernment has no power
to Intrude In matters of purely local
concern.
"If they and others are right when
they clamor for Federal action in
situations analogous to the O. M. or
Chrysler trouble.” he said, "then they
and the 53 Liberty League lawyers
who pronounced the national labor
relations set uneonititutlonal in toto
were wrong.”
Meanwhile, Representative Dies,
«
CROWLEY EXPECTS
U. S. CREDIT CURB
Favors Letting Commercial
Banks Resume—F. H. A.
Quits Repair Field.
Br ths Associated Press.
Chairman Leo T. Crowley of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said
today the Government should step out
of the money-lending business as rap
idly aa commercial banks are prepared
to enter it.
He made this comment as ths Fed
eral Housing Administration arranged
to close down tonight its half-billion
dollar business of insuring home mod
ernisation and repair loans.
Its bigger business of insuring new
home construction, now in a boom
phase, will continue.
Expiration of powers to insure loans
for home repair will terminate the
emergency portion of the housing pro
gram. The Home Owners Loa Corp .
sei up In 1933 to save homes from
foreclosure, stopped its loaning activi
ties last year and is being liquidated
(533.000 in Loans Insured.
Up to March 20 a total of 1.399.804
home repair loans aggregating (533 -
827,492 had been Insured by ’ HA.
The loans were made by 8.420 banks
and other private financial institu
tions.
The insurance has cost tne Govern
ment so far an estimated *15.000.000.
of which *4.769.930 was the net loss
In paying claims on defaulted loans
and the balance was cost of operation
Crowley asserted that "all Federal
lending agencies probably will be glad
to co-operate with chartered banks in
withdrawing from credit activities."
President Tom K. Smith of the
American Bankers’ Association aaid
recently the organisation is making
studies to serve as a basis for nego
tiation with Government officials on
the curtailment of thii activity.
Would Aid Smaller Banks.
Restriction of Federal lending. Crow -
ley said, would be especially beneficial
to smaller banks which are encoun
tering difficulties In finding invest
ment channels for Idle funds
Citing that the Reconstruction Fi
nance Corp. already has curtailed
lending, Crowley said "It is on its way
out."
In the faitn credit field, he said the
Federal land bank system should ba
retained for any future emergencies.
Meanwhile, fiscal authorities said
the Treasury may urge revision of the
*1,000.000.000 Wagner housing bill in
an effort to keep next year's expendi
tures close to budget estimates.
The measure is being studied by
Treasury experts. Their findings prob
ably will be transmitted soon to Sec
retary Morgenthau.
Low-Rent Project* Are Idea.
Under the bill, offered by Senator
Wagner, Democrat, of New York, a
"United Stales Housing Authority"
would make loans and grants to local
agencies for low-rent building projects.
Funds would be provided through
a *51.000.000 appropriation, transfer of
available money from the Public Works
Administration and borrowing.
Officials said the Treasury study i#
centering on provisions which would
enable the Housing Authority to run
up a *200.000.000 debt, through the
issuance of Government-guaranteed
obligations, in the fiscal year ending
June 30. 1938 Aggregate borrowing
could be increased to *1.000.000.000
after July 1, 1940
Although no alternative has been
devised, informed persons said, con
sideration is being given to scaling
down borrowing authority. Unless this
were done or new revenue provided,
they asserted, the legislation would
knock President Roosevelt's budget out
of kilter.
Democrat, of Texas termed the ait
down strikes practice an issue "In
finitely more important than tha
Supreme Court reform,” as he ap
pealed to the House Rules Committee
to report out favorably his resolution
calling for a thorough investigation
into the causes and background of this
new labor technique.
Because two other members of the
committee, of which Dies himself is
a member, indicated determined oppo
sition to his resolution and the ques
tion of obtaining further Information
on the whole issue from outside
j sources was raised, the committee eur
I tailed Its open hearing on the resolu
tion temporarily to discuss further
procedure in executive session.
It seemed likely, however, that more
extensive open hearings will be held
on the resolution, poasiblv with labor
and industry represen ta'ive* invited
to present testimony.
Charges Communist Influence.
In subs lance. Dies’ argumen on be
half of his resolution was centered
principally on the alleged communist
influence in the Michigan ait-down
strikes in plants of General Motors
and Chrysler Corps.
“Foreign” speakers, he declared,
have been numerous through the atrlke
areas, as communists “literally de
scended” on Detroit. In addition, he
charged, complaints have been made
to him that “racketeers” from Chi
cago and New York have Invaded the
strike zone to piay a "prominent part"
in the labor activities.
Citing section M99 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States u ap
plicable to the preaent situation in
permitting Federal intervention, Dies
suggested a ruling on this issue, from
the Attorney General, adding his con
viction that the anti-trust laws would
be applicable If the quoted etatute is
not.
From outside the committee came
a strongly worded protest against the
resolution and defense of the striker*
contained in a statement presented
to the committee and released to the
prass by Representative Telgan,
Farmer-Laborite of Minnesota.
Representative Teigan's atatement
follows:
“I am unalterably opposed to any
attempt to legislate against labor's
methods to better its conditions. I am
particularly opposed to the resolution
offered by Mr. Dies calling for an
investigation of sit-down strike* by a
special committee of the House. It
is perfectly clear that this resolution
would permit, under the cloak of a
congressional Investigation, a reac
tionary expedition against unionism.
It would preaent to the enemies of
labor a gift, which they would use for
nothing except the suppreslson of
democratic rights.
"The sit-down strikers are strug
gling merely for the basic rights which
are guaranteed to them by law. Their
struggle Is to secure their legal right
to join unions and to bargain collec
tively through representative* of their
own choosing, free from the opposi
tion of the employers stool pigeons
ai^ gunmen.”