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FORD SIT-INS WELD
GATES, HOLD PLANT
AS PEACE PARLEYS
REOPEN IN DETROIT
1,400 of 2.000 Workers at
Kansas City Assembly
Unit Affiliated With C. 1.0„
Leaders Claim.
GENERAL MOTORS TALKS
SEEK NEW SETTLEMENT
Chevrolet Sit-Down Strike Ends as
Employes Leave—Chrysler and
Lewis Due to Confer Again To
day on Deadlock—Others to
Deturn to Jobs.
BACKGROUND—
Strife in automobile industry
began last December with sit
down strike of C. I. O s United
Automobile Workers of America
against General Motors Corp.
This trouble settled. U. A. IV.
turned to Chrysler, where strike
was called March S.
Third big automobile manufac
turer eyed by growing U. A. W.
was Henry Ford. Yesterday at as
sembly plant at Kansas City a sit
down began over the seasonal lay
off.
Br the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY. April 3.—Welded
switch gates shut in freight car loads
rf automobiles today as the first sit
down strike directed at a Henry Ford
Unit moved into the second day.
A carcKplaying, gayiy shouting band
of men. claiming to number 1.400 and
to be in a union backed by the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization
held possession of the Ford assembly
plant beh.ind striker-guarded doors.
The plant, employing approximately
2.000 of Ford's 150,000 workers, was
shut down yesterday. Strikers claimed
seniority rights were ignored and union
men discriminated against in the sea
sonal laying off of workers.
There was no violence. The strikers
let down a sign from the top floor of
the three-story building in Kansas
City’s northeast industrial sector
reading:
"Lincoln freed the slaves. Ford
brought them back.”
Switchyard Gates Welded.
Switchyard gates through which
railroad track spurs are run into the
rear of the plant were welded shut
last night. At a mass meeting to or
ganize for the supplying of bedding
end food, speakers said all efforts
would be made to prevent moving out
env assembled cars.
One workman, apparently unaware
of any labor troubles, appeared at the
front door, dinner pail in hand.
He was turned back by a man who
said:
"Hell, buddy, you ain’t gonna work
for a long time.”
Homer A. Kelley, who identified !
himself as a committeeman for a
newly-organized Ford plant chapter
(See STRIKES, Page A-3.)
NEARLY 100 SEARCH
FOR MISSING WOMAN
Mrs. Ella Stone, Mother of Several
Children, Disappears From
Glen Burnie.
Br the Associated Press.
GLEN BURNIE. Md.. April 3 —
Several police, 30 Boy Scouts and
shout 40 neighbors joined today in 1
the search for Mrs. Ella Stone. 75- j
year-old mother of several children,
reported missing from her home since
noon yesterday.
Anne Arundel County officers were
asked to aid in the search late yester
day. On the same day Mrs. Stone
disappeared Mrs. Marie Gunther was
found murdered on a Stony Creek
farm between here and Baltimore.
COURT ASKED TO FORCE
DIETZ D. C. TAX RETURN
City Heads Say Alleged Racing i
Information Proprietor Has
Not Filed Schedule.
The Commissioners asked District
Court today to compel William (Jew
Boy) Dietz. 1732 Hobart street, de
scribed by police as proprietor of a
city-wide racing information service to !
gamblers, to file a personal property
tax return for the fiscal year ending
June 30. 1937.
In a mandamus suit, the Commis
sioners said Dietz repeatedly has been
requested to file a return, but has
"neglected or refused to do so." They
requested that he be ordered to file
a complete return of his personal
property, both tangible and intangible.
He has not paid any personal property
taxes for the current year, they stated.
The suit was brought by Corpora
tion Counsel Elwood H. Seal and his
aide. James W. Lauderdale.
Dietz, whose real name is said to be
Abe Plisco, was arrested a month ago
when police and Treasury men raided
the headquarters of his National Tele
cast, Inc., in the Albee Building from
which racing information allegedly
was disseminated throughout the city.
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MAN, 72, DIES IN SURF
Heart Failure Fatal to Illinois
Resident While Swimming.
PORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., April 3
(/Pi.—The body of Norman Jefferson,
72. of Hinsdale, 111., was found in
the surf at Las Clas Beach yesterday
and a physician said he had died of
heart failure while swimming.
Jefferson was a retired building
contractor.
Pickets Smash Police Car
Strike rioters at the American Gas Machine Works, at
Albert Lea, Minn., yesterday stoned and clubbed this police car,
then pushed it into a lake. Another police car and a machine
company truck were ivrecked and set afire.
. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Violence Flares as Unions
j Threaten to Call Out All
Laborers.
BILLETIN'.
WILMINGTON, Del.. April 3
(,Ti.—Mayor Walter W. Bacon an
nounced today that the strike
railed by the Central Labor Union
had been cancelled, effective at 2
o'clock this afternoon.
By the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON. Del. April 3.—Brick
throwing, window smashing and other
sporadic disorders marked the start of
a strike of the building trades called
by the Central Labor Union to enforce
a settlement of a truck drivers' strike.
Eleventh-hour efforts of Gov. Rich
ard C. McMullen and Mayor Walter C.
Bacon failed to prevent the strike from
going into effect. Union leaders said
they intended eventually to "pull out”
every one of Wilmington’s 3,500 or
ganized workers.
The walkout began several hours
after police arrested two union officials
on warrants charging assault and bat
tery and threats to do bodily harm. .
They were released in bail.
As Saturday is a holiday in many
industries, it was not possible to learn
to what extent the Central Labor
Union strike call had been obeyed.
Windows Are Smashed.
Windows of a number of central city
buildings were smashed. Brakes of a
parked chain store truck were released
and the vehicle smashed into a build
ing near Eleventh and King streets.
No serious injuries were reported.
Pickets paraded in front of the
Wilmington trolley car barns, urging
operators of street cars and busses
to join the walkout.
The strike tightened the tie-up of
trucking and brought out workers in
the building trades, but several key
unions asked their international head
quarters for instructions, doubting the
power of the Wilmington Central
Labor Union to compel a general
walkout.
Among these workers who did not
immediately answer the call were the
trolley car employes and members of
the typographical union in the city’s
two newspapers.
The union did not include milk i
and bakery wagon drivers in the
general strike order, and deliveries
of these necessities continued.
Trouble Over Pay Raise.
The trouble developed from a strike
started March 15. In an effort to
obtain increase in pay and new work
ing arrangements, drivers and helpers
employed by long-haul truck operators
who had not granted the Philadelphia
union scale went out. They were ask
ing for $48.50 a w'eek for long-haul
drivers and $28 for helpers, and $34
for local drivers and $27 for helpers,
with an eight-hour day and a six-day
week.
A few of the employers agreed.
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3,525 Pennies in Collection.
XENIA, Ohio, April 3 (jP).—Grocer
R. E. Caplinger’s hobby—he calls it
“centsible"—is adding to his collec
tion of 3.525 Indian head one-cent
pieces. He began the collection w-hen
he was a grocery clerk and aimed at
acquiring 250 coins of each date.
Senate Expected to Act
Monday and House Thurs
day or Friday.
bs the Associated Press,
Administration leaders acquiesced
today to demand that both Houses
of Congress vote next week on the
bitterly-argued sit-down strike issue.
The Senate faced the question in a
direct form—approval or rejection of
a blunt condemnation of sit-down
tactics, offered by Senator Byrnes,
Democrat, of South Carolina, as an
amendment to the Gufley-Vinson coal
control bill.
The House expected to vote Thurs
day or Friday on a demand for an
investigation of sit-downs.
Democratic chieftains predicted
scant opposition to the House measure.
It was approved yesterday by the Rule3
Committee after a conference between
Chairman O'Connor and the President.
Efforts of both Democratic and Re
publican spokesmen to sidetrack the
prickly issue in the Senate finally col
lapsed .yesterday after five hours of
acrimonious debate.
Kooinson Sees Passage.
Democratic Leader Robinson said he
believed a satisfactory arrangement on
the Byrnes amendment could be
reached early Monday and that the
Guffey bill then would pass without
delay.
He had led a stubborn battle to
refer the amendment to a committee
or to consider it apart from the coal
bill, surrendering only after Senator
Bailey, Democrat, of North Carolina
had objected to every substitute
proposal.
‘ I want to vote on thus issue right
now." Bailey declared. “The Senate
can't afford to delay or compromise
on a fundamental question of law
and order."
Although no Senator defended the
legality of sit-down strikes, Senators
Wheeler. Democrat, of Montana; Wag
ner, Democrat, of New York; Borah,
Republican, of Idaho, and others in
sisted that a declaration of policy
against the strikes had no place in
the Guffey bill.
“It is not necessary to declare as
(See SIT-DOWN, Page A-2.)
WINDSOR WEDDING
PLACE IS HINTED
But Friend of Mrs. Simpson De
nies Site Will Be the Chateau
de Saint Saens.
B* the Associated Press.
ROUEN, Prance, April 3.—The
Journal De Rouen said today it was
reliably informed the Duke of Windsor
and Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson
would be married at the Chateau de
Saint Saens, near Rouen, which is
owned by the Duke of Westminster.
The newspaper said the chateau was
selected as the wedding site because
Queen Mother Mary planned to at
tend ihc ceremony and wished to
avoid a long trip to Austria or a more
distant point in Prance.
Strike Sentiment Is Subsiding
In Union Ranks, Martin Says
Br the Associated Press.
FLINT, Mich., April 3.—Homer
Martin, president of the United Auto
mobile Workers of America, who came
to Flint to pacify striking Chevrolet
Motor Co. employes, said today strike
sentiment is subsiding among union
members.
“Our members are beginning to
realize that this kind of procedure is
not only harmful to the corporation,
but also is detrimental to their own
organization,” he said.
' We look toward the future with
hope and confidence for an amicable
relationship with the corporation
based upon real collective bargain
ing.”
A conference of union officials with
Arnold Lenz, manager of Chevrolet
operations in this area, on grievances
that caused the strike began this
morning. Martin said it seemed
“absolutely certain” that Chevr^tt
operations would resume Monday
morning.
Commenting on reports he planned
a “purge" of Communists and radicals
within the U. A. W. A. Martin de
clared that “there are only a few
Communists within our organization”
and that “the labor situation always
has been in the hands of the union
itself.”
“I don’t believe there are 25 active
members of the Communist party
among our 300,000 members,” he said.
“We are not Communists and we never
will be and we shan’t become severely
exercised by the fact that 25 of our
number are Communists.
“The union is an economic organ
ization and not political.”
Of the recent strikes in General
Motors plants, Martin said the out
break which began Thursday in Pon
tiac and Flint wa# “the first major
disturbance since the beginning of the
truce on February 11.” ^
BLOODY BA1TLES
Fighting Centers Around Bil
bao in North and Cor
doba in South.
GOVERNMENT RUSHES
TROOPS TO MOUNTAINS
Success Near Basque Capital
Would Give Franco Control
of Ports.
BACKGROUND—
Spanish civil war, starting last
July, has outlasted all expecta
tions. Last Fall defeat of Govern
ment forces was predicted in al
most every quarter, with rebels
controlling virtually all of the
country. Gen. Franco's army at
one time was knocking at the
gates of the Capital and its fall
was expected momentarily, but in
spired Loyalists+rallied. and, start
ing an offensive of their own in
the past few weeks, have driven
the Insurgents back in mad retreat.
H5 tne Associated Press.
Two of the bitterest, bloodiest and
most important battles of the Spanish
civil war raged on widely separated
fronts today.
In the northern sector near Bilbao,
the Spanish government rushed mobil
ization of all available fighting men
to repel a big insurgent advance and
sent its militiamen up a 4.600-foot
mountain peak to block one segment
of the assault
Far to the south in Cordoba Provinc”,
opposing armies still were locked in a
furious struggle for the possession of
a rich mining country. But here, the
insurgents were on the defensive
The success or failure of the in
surgent drive in Northern Strain was
construed in many quarters as likely
I to have a decisive effect on the future
of insurgent Generalissimo Francisco
i Franco, particularly in view of recent
I lasses in the Guadalajara sector north
east of Madrid.
Should he capture Bilbao, more than
200 miles north of Madrid on the Bay
of Biscay, he would be in a position
to control all ports along the Northern
Spanish Coast and cut off ready ac
: cesslbility of supplies for government
troop6 there.
In the Cordoba sector government
troop>s launched a double attack de
signed to trap 15.000 Spanish and
; Italian Insurgents in what was said
may be one of the great mass slaugh
ters of the war.
Cordoba, about 150 miles south of
Madrid, is an important supply base
for the insurgent forces. Insurgents
were reported to have retreated more
than 15 miles after an unsuccessful
siege of Pozoblanco.
Northern supporters of the Valencia
government also started a new cam
paign against Oviedo, long-besieged
provincial capital in the Asturias sec
tor, heavily shelling insurgent posi
tions in the city.
Tanks, armored cars, planes, big
guns and hand weapons were brought
(See SPAINTPage A-127)
Gas Shipment
For Insurgents
Laid to Reich
BJ the Associated Press.
VALENCIA, Spain, April 3 —
The Spanish government issued
a statement today declaring large
quantities of poison gas were be
ing loaded at Hamburg, Germany,
for shipment to insurgents.
The government declared its
information came from "official
sources."
BERLIN, April 3 </P).—A Ger
man government spokesman said
today that a statement from the
Spanish government at Valencia
regarding purported poison gas
shipments to insurgents from
Hamburg was "too ridiculous to
deny.”
lew/TP®'
MY SHIRT!
WHAT'S THIS—THE LATEST STRIP TEASE?
GERMAN STEAMER
HELPLESS AT SEA
Ship Takes Water, Steering
Gear Disabled—Vessels
Speed to Assistance.
&y the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 3 —The City of
Norfolk advised Radio Marine today
that the German steamer Borkum was
in distress in mid-Atlantic and that
at least two steamers were speeding to
her assistance.
The City of Nolfork. a coastwise
steamer, wirelessed at 4.53 a m. (East
ern standard time) that the German
steamer gave her position as 40 2 de
grees longitude and 35 21 latitude. Her
steering gear was out of commission,
she reported.
Radio Marine said the steamer Co
lombie, about 200 miles away, re
sponded to the .3 O S of the distressed
ship. The steamer Zealandi estimated
she would reach the Borkum by 4 p.m.
The Coast Guard, w'hich received
the same information as Radio Ma
rine, said it also was advised that the
ship was taking water through her
plates.
Lloyd's register lists the Borkum as
of 3,670 gross tons. She was built in
1922 at Emden and is owned by Nord
deutscher Lloyd. Her home port is
Bremen. She is 369 feet long and
has a beam of 50 feet.
Radio Marine Corp. reported at 7:45
a.m. (Eastern standard time) that the
Borkum was still sending distress sig
nals because its receiving radio equip
ment was out of order and the opera
tor had no way of knowing his signals
were being picked up. The Borkum
probably carried 25 to 30 men.
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FIRST OF IDLE FLEET
IS SENT TO DRY DOCK
By tt.e Associated Press.
NEWPORT NEWS. Va„ April 3 —
The Kisnop, first of the 54 ships of the
77 in the idle fleet at Fort Eustis to
undergo inspections looking to recon
ditioning, arrived at the Newport News
Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. yester
day and will be placed in dry dock
Monday, it was announced by officials
of the shipyard.
The ships are to undergo cleaning,
painting and survey. The Kisnop
was built in Portsmouth, N. H., in
1919, and has a net tonnage of 5,874
tons. She is approximately 410 feet
in length. She was constructed for
the United States Shipping Board to
meet the war-time emergency. Many
of the ships in the idle fleet have not
been dry docked for as much as 16
years.
Summary of Today’s Star
Page| Page
Amusements-C-16 j Lost & Found A-3
Art_B-3 ; Music _B-4
Books _B-2 ! Obituary _A-6
Church 1 Radio _A-6
News.. B-5-6-7 : Society _A-7
Comics _A-13 ; Short Story B-7
Editorials_A-S ! Sports A-10-11
Financial —A-13 1 Woman’s Pg. B-8
SUPREME COURT ISSUE.
Court bill foes to continue testimony
until April 17. Page A-2
STRIKE SITUATION.
Disorders mark Wilmington strike;
spread threatened. Page A-l
Both Houses to vote next week on sit
down strike issue. Page ,A-1
Sit-down strikers weld gates, hold
Ford plant. Page A-l
FOREIGN.
Bloody battle rages in mountains near
Bilbao. Page A-l
NATIONAL.
Mrs. BriU flees to escape process
servers. Page A-2
Winant sees trade pacts needed to aid
textle workers. Page A-12
Use of public works money proposed
in controlling prices. Page A-l
WASHINGTON AND VTCINITT.
D. C. bill sent to Senate with 17 riders
eliminated. Page A-l
Wealthy Lynchburg man held under
bond in double murder. Page A-2
Woman fatally injured when struck
by street car. Page A-l
Labor leaders meet to discuss prob
lems in Virginia. Page A-6
D. C. bill provides branch library
at school. r\ Page A-16
Mass meeting to formulate definite
relief program. PageA-16
Traffic survey here proposed by Sena
tor Gibson. Page A-16
Charter sought for new Federal Sav
ings & Loan Association. PageA-16
EDITORIALS AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-8
This and That. Page A-R
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-2
Vital Statistics. Page A-4
Young Washington. Page A-4
Traffic Convictions. Page A-4
City News in Brief. Page A-4
Crossword Puzzle. PageA-13
Nature’s Children. Page B-6
Bedtime Story. Page B-7
Betsy Caswell. Page B-8
Dorothy Dix. Page B-8
Letter-Out. PageC-11
Service Orders. PageC-11
SPORTS.
Wright makes hay while Sington sits
in shadows. Page A-10
Griffs rated surprise entry in flag
race. Page A-10
Braddock. Louis preparing to enter
training. Page A-10
Birmingham beaten, but Alperstein
fights for title. Page A-11
WifTy Cox sticks in Augusta golf tour
nament. Page A-ll
D. C. rollers fire at prizes in national
tourney. " Page A-ll
A
World Broadcast
To Be Made May 12
By King George VI
fly tt.e Associated Press.
LONDON. April 3 — King
George VI will participate per
sonally in an elaborate world
broadcast a few hours after his
coronation May 12
The British Broadcasting Co.
today announced plans for the
broadcast. It said all empire
prime ministers and the viceroy
of India would follow the King
to the microphone to laud him
in an around-the-world relay en
titled “The Empire's Homage.”
BT STREET CAR
Mrs. Mary M. Shloss, 58,
Mother of I. N. S. Writer,
38th Traffic Fatality.
Mrs. Mary M. Shloss, 58. of 1926
Calvert street, mother of Leon W.
Shloss. International News Service
correspondent, was fatally injured to
day when struck by a street car at
Eighteenth street and Columbia road.
Mrs. Shloss was pronounced dead
on arrival at Emergency Hospital,
where she was taken in a private car.
Police said she was crossing Eight
eenth street, just below Columbia
road, when she was hit by the street
car. of the one-man type, operated
by J. S. Higdon, 1630 G street
southeast.
38th Traffic Death.
The death is the thirty-eighth traf
fic fatality here this year. Last year
at this date. 23 persons had been killed
in traffic accidents.
Mrs. Shloss. a native of Butler, Pa.,
had been living in the Capital
since 1918.
She recently moved to the Calvert
street address after living for some
time with her son in Silver
Spring. Md.
Eight other persons were injured in
traffic accidents reported during the
past 24 hours.
One of the most seriously hurt was
Betty Stansbury, 10, of 807 F street
northeast, who received a broken
collarbone when, according to the
police report, she ran into the side of
a moving automobile near her home.
She was taken to Casualty Hospital.
Police said the car w^as operated by
Elsie Statter, 38. of 2117 Fourth street
northeast.
Car Runs Off Road.
George J. MoCloud, 21, of 1613 O
street, suffered severe cuts to the
face and bruises of the left leg and
arm when his car ran off the road
and struck a tree at Sixteenth and
Emerson streets today. Police quoted
McCloud as saying he went to sleep
at the wheel. He was treated at Gar
field Hospital.
Four of the other victims were pas
sengers in taxicabs.
Two of them, Bertha Mclntire, 49,
of 3000 Connecticut avenue, and Kate
Smith, 40, of 3100 Connecticut avenue,
suffered shock when the taxicab in
which they were riding was in colli
(See TRAFFIC, Page A-2.)
Plane Aids Sick Sailor.
NEW YORK, April 3 (/Pi—Flying a
hundred miles out to sea, a Coast
Guard plane last night removed a
sick sailor from the freighter Mon
tanan, off Cape May, N. J.
The sailor, Diomicio Santos Rodri
guez, 30, of San Francisco, was un
conscious when brought ashore and
taken to a Cape May hospital.
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Swing to “Consumer” Proj
ects Suggested—Eccles
Asks Budget Balancing.
By toe Associated Press.
The administration proposed today
the use of public works money in con
trolling prices as its latest answer to
possible dangers in business recovery.
Fiscal experts explained the Gov
ernment might cut the hazard of too
J rapid upswing of prices in the durable
goods industries by reducing its pur
| chase of such goods as steel and
| copper.
Instead, the money would be spent
1 on projects intended to increase the
; demand for consumers' goods.
President Roosevelt's declaration cf
this new policy followed a series of
actions by high officials against the
• potential perils of a business boom.
Treasury officials previously had
been studying the inflow of foreign
money into the United States, which
Secretary Morgenthau called "a source
of worry." The Federal Reserve Board
laid the groundwork for closer control
of credit by requiring member banks
to keep more capital on hand.
Eccles Asks Budget Balancing.
Chairman Eccles of the Reserve
Board recently declared "inflationary
price levels" would have disastrous
effects, and called for budget balanc
ing. Secretary Roper asked business
to take independent action to prevent
unwarranted price rises.
President Roosevelt, saying prices
of durable goods have swept upward
too swiftly, explained to a press con
ference yesterday how public works
expenditures might be channeled into
projects which would boost consumer
goods industries.
Instead of spending for permanent
projects requiring large amounts of
steel and other durable goods, he said,
the Government should dredge nvers
and build earthen dams, spreading
purchasing power for foodstuffs,
clothing and similar consumer articles.
Administration economists said
withdrawal of the Government from
any particular market might make
little difference in aggregate demand,
but still might exert some influence
on prices.
Mr. Roosevelt's statement sent stock
prices tumbling $1 to 15, with durable
goods shares plunging downward.
Federal Reserve Board experts have
advocated using relief funds as a bal
ance wheel against commodity price
trends for some time.
Chairman Eccles suggested the Gov
ernment curtail public works spend
ing as private industrial expansion
rSee BUS IN ESS, Page A-3J
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APRIL FOOL FUNSTERS
FIND JOKE BOOMERANG
Young Men Have Until May 9
to Pay for Grappling Iron
After Suicide Note.
By tne Associated Press.
NORTH ANDOVER. Mass . April 3.
—Two young men. who as an All
Fools day prank left a "suicide" note
and an old overcoat on a bridge, today
discovered the joke was on them.
Judge C. J. Mahoney continued the
cases of Oswald Seyfferth, 23, and
Frederick Berthel, 22, charged with
disturbing the peace, until May 9 to
give them the opportunity to pay for
a grappling iron police lost searching
for “the body.”
The note said: "Please don’t be
sorry for me Ann. I've broken your
heart. Take good care of the kid.”
“Faith Loans1'’ by Rural Banker
Make Farm Boys Neat Profit
By tne Associated Press.
CYRIL, Okla., April 3 —Farm boys
counted 39 per cent profit today on
“faith loans’’ made by a country bank
er in this Southwestern Oklahoma
community.
T. D. Call, executive vice president
of the Bank of Cyril, loaned *1,800 to
45 youths who invested it in farm
projects. They gathered around a
banquet table last night and their rec
ords showed they had turned it into
*2,506.64.
Call started the loans three years
ago as a “community project.” The
only security he i is a boy’s willing
ness to work. He requires no interest
the first year.
"This is sound business—not senti
ment,” Call explained. "As a commu
nity grows, so grows the bank. And
helping farm boys is the best way I
know to help a community grow.”
He has loaned $3,700 in three years.
He also helps the boys with business
advice and bookkeeping.
“The loans made to these boys are as
liquid and as sound as any bank could
make,” he declared.
“The satisfaction I get in seeing
the boys develop and the material
progress it brings the community is my
reward.” 7
D.C. BILL, PASSED
BY HOUSE, MOVES
OVER TO SENATE
17 Riders, Including Some
Vital to District, Ousted
in Debate.
$5,000,000 LUMP SUM
RESTORED TO MEASURE
Appropriation Reduced $111,000
Under an Original Total of
$45,228,024.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.
The 1938 District appropriation bill
minus 17 riders and reduced $111,000
under an original total of $45,228,
024, moved from the House to the
Senate today on its legislative jour
ney toward enactment.
The measure passed the House las'
night, after surviving six hours of par
liamentary attacks and escaping a
move by Representative Ford, Dem
ocrat of Mississippi, to force its re
turn to the Appropriations Commit
tee for reconsideration.
The $5,000,000 lump sum Federal
share recomended by the committee
was returned.
All of the changes were due entirely
to the District legislative ommitfee
of the House, which, in its zeal to pro
tect prerogatives it charged trn- Ap
propriations Committee with usurping,
stripped the bill of several items
which, unless restored by the Senate,
will abolish William A. Van Duzer's
department of traffic and vehicles end
preclude the purchase of 1938 auto
mobile tags.
Points of Order Wreck Riders.
Members of the legislative com
mittee, working in relays, hammered
I away consistently at the legislative
provisions with which the measure
| was loaded, and one by one succeeded
I in having a majority of them removed
J on points of order. Representative
j Nichols, Democrat of Oklahoma,
played the principal role, and took
credit for eliminating 13 of the riders.
Chairman Norton of the committee
and Representatives Brewster. Repu'o*
i liean of Maine, and Palmisano, Dem
1 ocrat of Maryland, killed the others.
Chairman Collins of the Subcom
mittee on Appropriation, which framed
the supply bill, vigorously fought some
of the moves of members of the leg
islative committee, but smiled charac
teristically at the others.
After the battle, in the empty House
1 chamber Collins turned to newspaper
men and said:
"Now wasn't that a pathetic spec
tacle?"
One of the principal targets of
attack was a rider transferring juris
diction over the Gallinger Municipal
j Hospital and the new tuberculosis
sanatoria at Glenn Dale. Md.. from
the Board of Public Welfare to the
Health Department. It was stricken
from the bill on a point of order
1 raised by Mrs. Norton, but parlia
mentarians are still in a quandary as
to the exact status of the appropria
| tions for these institutions.
Collins said the situation is "all
bawled up." and will have to be
j straightened out in the Senate.
Appropriation Wording Causes Mix-up.
The undetermined status of the ap
propriations for these hospitals is due
j to the fact that they were included
! in the bill under the Health Depart
ment instead of the Welfare Board.
; Mrs. Norton's sustained point of order
1 removed the language "which, on and
after July 1, 1937, shall be under the
direction and control of the Health
Department of the District of Colum
bia and subject to the supervision of
the Board of Commissioners.”
Since the law places these hospitals
under control of the Welfare Board,
some parliamentarians insist the law
will govern, and even though the ap
propriations are carried under the
Health Department in the bill, the
Welfare Board will continue to con
trol them Others, however, take the
position that the Welfare Board will
have control, but that the Health De
partment will direct the expenditure
of the appropriations. In other words,
the Welfare Board will have control
and the Health Department the
money.
Collins explained that regardless of
the outcome of the questionable status
of control over the hospitals, the
Health Department will determine
who shall be admitted to the lnstitu
> tions because the bill as it passed the
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CAPPER RECOVERING
AFTER OPERATION
Kansas Senator “Doing Nicely"
After Operation for
Appendicitis.
Senator Capper of Kansas was re
ported "dokig nicely” today in Emer
gency Hospital following an operation
I there last night for appendicitis.
The veteran Republican Senator be
came ill shortly after dinner last night
and summoned Dr. Frank Hornaday.
physician at the Mayflower Hotel,
where Capper lives. Dr. Hornaday
ordered him taken to the hospital
where the operation was performed at
10:30 pm. by Dr. Daniel Borden, guest
surgeon on the hospital staff.
Senator Capper, who is 71. has been
in the Senate since 1919. A member
of the Senate District Committee, he
has long been considered a friend of
' the Capital.
BODY FOUND IN BAY
Papers Identify Drowned Man
Missing Several Days.
PENSACOLA, Fla., April 3 (fl5).—
The body of a man identified
papers in his pockets -
of Howell, Mich.,
in Pensacola Bay
smack Seminole.
Safety Director Eu
Cook had beeAmissin