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Temporary Order Delays
Action Due Monday in
l4| Wendel Kidnaping.
Ms the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April 13.—Federal
Circuit Judge J. Whitaker Thompson
issued a temporary order today re
straining the Government from trying
Ellis Parker and his son, Ellis Parker,
jr., at Newark, N. J., next Monday on
a charge of conspiracy in the Paul
H. Wendel kidnap-torture case.
Judge Thompson granted the order
after a hearing at his home, where
he is confined by an illness.
The appeal—the eighth legal move
against the trial in Newark Federal
Court—was from Federal Judge Phillip
Forman’s refusal in Trenton to re
strain the trial in Newark and open
the v ay for its being held in the Bur
lington County Court House at Mount
Holly, where the Parkers live, or in
the Camden or Trenton Federal Courts.
Judge Thompson fixed April 26 for
argument before the full Circuit Court
in Philadelphia on the question of
aite of the trial.
THREE ARE INDICTED
AFTER GUN BATTLE
Robbery of Grocery in Del Ray
Charged by Grand Jury
in Alexandria.
Indictments charging robbery of a
Sanitary grocery store in Del Ray, Va.,
on March 26 were returned by the
grand jury in Alexandria, Va„ yes
terday against three youths captured
here last week after a gun battle in
which Precinct Detective John A.
Caton was wounded.
The Indictments named Lewis
Knight, 18: his brother, William, 17,
and Robert Martin Sands, 23. Lewis
Knight, who was shot through the
chest by Caton before the officer was
felled by three bullets, was transferred
from Emergency Hospital to Gallinger
Hospital yesterday.
Caton surprised the Knight brothers
end Ferguson Thiebolt, 19, attempt
ing to rob an ice cream store in the
800 block of Upshur street. He is re
covering in Walter Reed Hospital from
wounds received in the gun battle.
After their arrest the trio impli
cated Sands as an accomplice in pre
vious robberies, police said.
BURKE WON’T FIGHT
JUDGE’S NOMINATION
6ays, However, Williams’ Prom
ise to Quit at 70 Was
Unwise Act.
By the Associated Press.
Senator Burke, Democrat, of Ne
braska, said last night he would not
oppose confirmation of Judge Robert
R. Williams’ nomination to the Tenth
Circuit Court of Appeal* bench in
Oklahoma when the nomination comes
up for Senate consideration.
"I think Judge Williams is a good
Judge and will make an excellent judge
of the Circuit Court of Appeals," said
Burke, an opponent of President
Roosevelt’s court reorganization plan.
‘ I think he acted unwisely when he
declared his support of the President's
plan and promised, in his letter to the
Department of Justice, to retire at 70.
Such action might be the start of a
program under which a President could
demand such an agreement from Judi
cial nominees, which would amount to
presidential amendment of the Con
stitution. Amendment of the Consti
tution can only be done properly by
submitting the proposal to the people.
"I may have occasion to reiterate
my previous remarks regarding Judge
Williams' attitude, but I will not op
pose his confirmation."
TWO CHILDREN RUNNING
IN FRONT OF CARS HURT
Two children were slightly injured
yesterday afternoon when, police were
told, they ran in front of automobiles
from behind cars parked at the curb.
Five-year-old Oswrn Harris, 415 A
street, suffered concussion and cuts on
his forehead when struck by a car
operated by Irene Fitzgerald, 24, of
1414 Pennsylvania avenue southeast,
while crossing the street near his
home. The child was admitted to
Casualty Hospital, where his condition
was described as not serious.
Two-year-old James McDenial, col
ored, 210 D street, was knocked down
near his home, police reported, when
he ran from behind parked cars into
the side of a machine driven by Rob
erta R. Ehrlich, 28, of 1215 Sixteenth
street. The child was taken to George
Washington University Hospital, ex
amined and sent home.
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
In recess.
Judiciary Committee hears oppo
nents of Roosevelt court bill.
House:
Considers Gavagan anti-lynching
bill.
Labor Committee discusses Senate
resolution condemning sit - down
•trikes and labor espionage.
Rivers and Harbors Committee con
tinues hearing on Florida ship canal.
Military Committee resumes consid
eration of bill to take profits out of
war.
Agriculture Subcommittee studies
•ugar legislation.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Will not be in session.
Education and Labor Committee
hearing at 10:30 a.m. on Wagner
housing bill.
District Committee hearing at 10
a.m. on 8mall Claims Court bill.
Education and Labor Subcommittee
resumes hearings on civil liberties, 10
a.m.
Judiciary Committee continues
hearings on President’s court bill.
Foreign Relations Committee, reg
ular weekly executive meeting.
House:
Considers miscellaneous bills.
Immigration and Naturalization
Committee meets, 10:30 a.m.
Indian Affairs Committee meets,
10:30 a.m.
District Committee meets, 10:30
a.m.
Special subcommittee of District
Committee begins consideration of
Collins tax bills, 2 p.m.
W ashington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
PAY-OFF.
HIS yarn should bring solace
to the hearts of all victims,
past, present and potential, of
practical jokes; to the boys
who have been burned by the “hot
foot” and tried to grin and bear it;
to the people who have a prejudice
against practical jokers and to those
who could be persuaded to work up
such an antipathy.
It’s about a Washington newspaper
photographer who was down in Char
lottesville recently covering a murder
trial. One night he decided to have
a bit of sport with his roommate, the
reporter on the story, by taking out
all the electric light bulbs in the room
and replacing them with flash bulbs.
Then the hocus-focus artist went
to bed, and laughed himself to sleep,
chortling particularly about the four
bulbs he had arranged in a cluster
in the ceiling fixture.
Several hours later the cameraman
woke up, bedeviled by a hangover and
a great craving for ice water. For
getting all about his little joke he
reeled out of bed, and—you guessed
itr—turned on the lights. In the en
suing explosion he was almost 'blown
through the wall. Said his first im
pulse was to jump out the handiest
window.
"Why didn't you?” some cynic asked
later.
“Those four bulb6 going off at once
made me so blind I couldn't find it,”
he confessed.
* * * *
LOBBY.
This being the happy hunting
ground for all manner of lobbies
and lobbyists, we welcome to the
city one more outfit, the American
Veterans' Association, which has
retained Mr. Andrew Ten Eyck as
general counsel to fight its legisla
tive battles. The purpose, says Mr.
Ten Eyck, is to oppose the extension
of pensions to the widows and chil
dren of any and all veterans enlist
ed in our last tear. Group contends
that eventually this is going to
amount to giving out pensions to
about 4,000,000 men, regardless of
what they happened to do about
fighting the war.
Beal charm of the organization,
we think, lies in the fact it is
financed by the bonus money of
those conscientious veterans who
opposed payment of the bonus be
fore 1945.
★ * * *
NEW RULES.
^N AGREEABLE English chap over
here for his first visit recently
asked a bellboy at a downtown hotel
what was the average tip in “Amed
dica.” Explained it was his first ven
ture in the States and he wanted to
do the right thing by every one.
“Oh, about a dollar,’’ said the bell
hop.
Visitor handed over that amount
after being escorted to his room and
was rather surprised at the amount
of bowing and scraping produced by
his contribution.
“If that’s only average, why so
much fuss?” he wanted to know.
“Well, mister,” said the bellboy,
“you’re the first one to come up to
the average in a long, long time.”
* * * *
TOUGHIE.
QUR personal nominee for the most
rugged citizen of the week is Jack
Skinner, the Middleburg steeplechase
rider, who broke his collar bone when
a horse fell with him in a race last
Saturday, rode back to the paddock
in an ambulance, stepped out, non
chalantly covered the injured wing
with a coat and went about the busi
ness of directing the saddling of a
horse for the next race. As a trainer
Iris presence in the paddock was re
quired during the saddling Skinner
wound up the job, saw the horse run
third in the race and then betook
himself off to Winchester to the hos
pital.
* * * *
PRODIGY.
JP A certain taxi driver around town
can’t find his way on sight-seeing
tours, it will not be the fault of Lil
lian Wilson, 11, of 134 Tennessee
avenue northeast who has prepared
for him an illustrated sign embracing
about 40 points of interest in and near
Washington.
The significance of the various sym
bols is clear as anything, too—an air
plane to mark the site of the Smith
sonian Institute (where more people
want to see Lindbergh's plane than
all the other attractions put together);
a pair of scale balances to represent
the Bureau of Standards; an American
flag for Constitution Hall and a Sher
lock Holmes cap and microscope to
guide the curious to the Department
of Justice.
* * * *
MINOR MATTER.
The policeman who told us this
one said the taxi driver who told
it to him asked that no names be
used, and we are abiding by the
rule, leaving out even our own
name and the monniker of a pair
of beagle hounds purchased last
week. (This has nothing to do
with the story, so calm yourself.)
Seems this hacker was driving
through the Capitol Grounds when
he saw an ambulance whiz past,
siren wide open. It turned down a
side street near his own home.
Pressed by a premonition of dis
aster, he turned his car around a
few minutes later and went to his
house. There was a note on the
door, scrawled by his young son.
It said:
"Don’t worry, dad. They’ve only
taken mother to the hospital:"
* * * *
DISAPPOINTMENT.
CHORTLY after the fire siren sent
up its weird howls out in Silver
Spring the other night, word spread
around town that the Woodside
School was on fire. School children
by the score, envisaging an early1
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EDUCATOR TALKS
TO SOCIAL CROUP
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More Personal Relationship
With Clients Advised by
Dr. Sternheim.
Social workers must guard against a
"predominantly institutional mind"
and develop a more personal and in
dividual relationship with clients, Dr.
Emanuel Sternheim. Chicago educator,
author and lecturer, told members of
the Council of Social Agencies yes
terday,
Speaking in Barker Hall on the
sixteenth anniversary of the founding
of the council, Dr. Sternheim charged
that pragmatism in the sense of eval
uation of work by Immediate results
and egotism are the two great enemies
social work has to vanquish. He de
clared social workers far too frequent
ly are “all bundled up in terminology"
and added:
"We have now a vocabulary of social
work because we have gone technique
wild. We must extricate ourselves from
the morass of terminology.”
Social workers, Dr. Sternheim said,
are divided into three classes, those
who regard their work as a Job started
at 9 and ended at 5, those who feel
that the cosmos revolves around their
personality and those who are the
“gods and goddesses" of social work.
"The educated social worker,” Dr.
Sternheim said, “must have a whole
some respect for facts, a broad un
derstanding of diverse values, a dis
ciplined sense of his relationship to
future events, a knowledge of the re
lation of means to an end and a re
sponsible awareness of his relation to
society.”
Rev. Russell J. Clinchy, president of
the council, urged the group to become
more vocal in arousing District citi
zens to conditions that exist in the
city. "We must lift up our voices to
Washington,” he said, "and make it
hear what needs to be done.”
The Godwill Industries of Washing
ton was admitted to membership in
the council, bringing the number of
affiliated groups to 81.
Elected to the board of the council
for three-year terms were Miss Lavinia
Engle, Mrs. John Jay O’Connor, James
V. Bennett, Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone
and Maj. Campbell C. Johnson.
Members of the board re-elected at
large for one year included Mrs. Jesse
Adkins. Rev. John K. Cartwright,
Mrs. Whitman Cross, Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle, Clarence Phelps Dodge.
C. Marshall Finnan, John Ihlder, Rev.
J. H. Hollister, Owen Lovejoy, Mrs.
John Jay O'Connor, Dr. Frederick W.
Perkins, Willard C. Smith, Walter S.
Ufiord and Mrs. Walter S. UfTord.
HAWKS ON SPEED FLIGHT
EAST HARTFORD, Conn., April 13
—Frank Hawks called upon his
new speed plane today to carry him on
a 2,600-mile round-trip which will in
clude a stop for lunch this noon at
Miami, Fla., and supper this evening
in Newark, N. J., on his way back to
the home field here.
Before lifting the 1.000-horsepower
plane into the air at Rentschler Field
at 8:25 a m. this morning. Hawks said
he ought to complete the trip—1,304
miles each way—in 12 hours.
Graw Entries
for Tomorrow
FIRST RACE—2-year-olds; claiming;
$1,000; 4>2 furlongs.
Brown Moth (Rosengarten)_ 3Oft
Brim wick (Wagner). _ 3 03
Micro <DeCamillas) _ . __103
aLocal Boy <KnaDD* _ loft
Madame Walter (Gordon)_ 3 0]
aNational (S. Renick) _ io«
Witch Hazel 'Saunders). _ 107
Best Bet 'Parke)_304
xMafuta <Eccard> _ _ 09
Bunny Baby (W’estrope). _ 310
Radio Charm (Kurtsinger)_3 1ft
Miss Sis (LeBlano . 102
a A. G. Vanderbilt entry.
SECOND RACE—3-year-old maidens;
$1,000; 6 furlongs.
Gemwick fCubitt)___ _ 313
Teneriffe (Root) _ 318
Jack Pine 'O'Malley)_ 118
Skeaboy (Holland)_ 118
Locomotive (Westrope)_ 118
Prince Alone (Bailey)_3 18
Leap (Knapp) _ 118
High Velocity (Grigg)_3 18
aMelodlana (Gilbert)_ 3 13
Chiriqui (DeCamillas)_ 113
aPompish (LeBlanc) _.... 113
Broadkill (Richards) _ _ _ 318
a Mrs. R. A. Van Cliffe and W. R. Coe
entry.
THIRD RACE—4-year-olds and up:
claiming; $1,000: 6 furlongs.
xWlse Sister lEcc&rd) _inn
bGrand Duke (Kurtsinger)_ 108
bSlr Quest (Kurtsinger) _ 110
aScotch Bun (8. Renick) _108
Purple Knight (M. Peters)_110
aDusky Prince (Knapp) _ 106
White Cockade (Richards) _126
Deflate (Le Blanc) _ __103
Rowes Crump (Wagner)_100
aA. G. Vanderbilt entry.
bMrs. E. Denemark entry.
FOURTH RACE—3-year-olds; $1,000; 6
furlongs.
Morning cLe Blanc) . _106
War Admiral (Kurtsinger)_ 120
aSavage (Knanp) _114
aAir Flame (8. Renick) _ 117
Sun Power (E. Porter)_ 111
aStand In (Knapp) _ 111
Cllngendaal (M. Peters) _ 111
America First (Madeley)_111
aA. G. Vanderbilt entry.
FIFTH RACE—3-year-olds and up;
$1,200; 1 mile and 70 yards.
Tempestuous (L. Fallon) __110
New Deal (E Smith) _ 112
Master Lad (Le Blanc) _ 104
aGenie Palatine (Kurtsinger)_109
Kenty (Schmidl) _ _ 96
aFloradora (E. Porter)_112
Kievex (Wagner) _102
Bootless (De Camillas) _ _ 105
aMrs. E. Denemark and E. D. Shaffer
entry.
SIXTH RACE—Purse $1,000; claiming;
4-year-olds and up; 1miles.
Fez (L. Fallon) _ _„ 112
Black Mischief (Kurtsinger)_112
xCount Tetrarch (Schmidl)_ 107
xPretty Lass iSarno)_105
Boosel (Rosengarten) _110
xFlagstone tShelhamer)_113
xJim John (Eccard)_110
Pass (E. Smith) 112
Caesar's Ghost (Richards)_112
xCredulous (Le Blanc)_107
More Pep (O'Malley)_112
xlcy Wind (Gordon)_102
SEVENTH RACE—Purse. $1,000: claim
ing: 4-year-olds and up: l'/« miles.
Precious King (M. Peters)_110
xSecret Vote (Gordon)_105
Mystic Flyer (Parke) _ 110
xRunntng Water (Le Blanc)_105
xQueen Elizabeth (Duffy)_110
xSun Abbott (Schmidl)_105
Tragedian (Haritos) _110
Post Brigade (Johnson)_110
Dearzin (O’Malley)_115
xPopo (Eccard)___105
Scraf-chet for Today—
Clear and Fast.
First race—Jungo, Lady Awake.
Second race — War Rumor, Gold
Clip, Royal Tuscan.
Sixth race—Happy Easter.
vacation,’ tumbled out of houses and
went tearing to the scene.
There they found the firemen and
the school janitor staring blankly
at one another, the firemen having
shouted “Where’s the fire?” and the
janitor having shouted right back,
“That’s what I was going to ask you;
where is it?”
Turned out some one had seen
sparks flying over the school roof.
The janitor said sure, they usually
did when he stirred the fire in the
incinerator. The firemen said O. K.,
they’d go home. What the children
said we didn’t quite hear. They were
sort of mumbling to themselves.
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Enforcing of Present Laws
and New Proposals
Widespread.
Supreme Court validation of the
State of Washington minimum wage
law for women has precipitated in
tensive efforts in many States to enact
such statutes or to enforce and bring
up to date such laws already on their
books, it was disclosed today by the
Women’s Bureau of the Labor Depart
ment.
Supporting this renewed interest
also was the circulation by the bureau
of results of a study recently com
pleted on the benefits of such legis
lation. In brief, the study showed that
minimum wage laws resulted in in
creases in earnings of women, did not
cause a lowering of high salaries
toward the minimum, did not have
the tendency of making the minimum
also the maximum and did not cause
any permanent of material displace
ment of women by men.
Women’s Wages Still Lowest.
This latter finding, of particular in
terest to the District in view of some
expressed fears that women would be
displaced by cheaper male labor in
certain enterprises, contains the fol
lowing statement:
’’There are two reasons why mini
mum wage laws do not tend to cause
displacement of women by men. First,
women’s wages, even after they are
increased by minimum wage laws,
tend to be considerably lower than
men's. As a rule, women's earnings
are from 35 to 55 pier cent lower than
men's. Seldom have wage orders
increased women's earnings more than
20 or 30 pier cent, leaving them still
well under those of men, and pre
serving the economic advantage for
the employer who employs them.
"The second reason * * * is that
women seldom compete directly with
men. Men and women do different
work. Their Jobs are often similar,
but almost never identical. Women
are employed for the work they do,
not only because their wages are lower
but because they are particularly well
fitted for those Jobs.
"In many manufacturing estab
lishments women would be employed
at the W'ork they are now doing even
if their employers were compelled to
pay them more than they pay men.
uecause oi tneir superior dexterity,
lightness of touch and patient atten
tion to detail. Both men and women
are employed as clerks in department
stores, but seldom in the same de
partments. Experience has proved
that women are far more successful
than men in selling women's wearing
apparel and merchandise used almost
exclusively by women. Women would
be employed in these departments in
preference to men, no matter what
their wages. The same thing is true
of laundries, of tea rooms and restau
rants where attractive appearance is
featured as part of the service, and in
the housekeeping departments of
hotels."
Report of 1922 Board.
Of even more pertinence to the Dis
trict were the findings of the Minimum
Wage Board in its annual report of
1922.
"The District of Columbia minimum
wage law has not resulted in the dis
placement of woman workers by men,’’
the board stated flatly.
Citing then a survey of five classi
fications of industry, the board dis
closed that total employment of wom
en had increased by 0.2 of 1 per cent
between 1919 and 1922. the period of
effectiveness of the law. During that
time the only appreciable drop was
in the restaurant classification, where
woman workers decreased in number
from 469 to 359. In contrast, there
was an increase in non-commercial
printing and publishing employment
for women from 422 to 603, a jump of
42.9 per cent.
Officials of local trade organizations
said there is a possibility of displace
ment of women in some occupations,
but that no movement in this direction
has jet been observed.
Circular Letters Sent’Out.
In its effort to further stimulate in
j terest in this type of legislation, the
Women’s Bureau today directed to
State labor commissioners a circular
letter reciting developments in this
field since the court decision on the
Washington law two weeks ago.
Signed by Miss Mary Anderson, bu
reau chief, the letter contained the
following:
Minnesota, wnose law was declared
invalid in its application to adult
women in 1925 by the state attorney
general, has asked for a new ruling
from the Attorney General.
“Wisconsin has introduced a bill to
restore the cost of living provisions of
its old minimum wage bill.
"The District of Columbia minimum
wage law declared unconstitutional in
1923 has been re-established.
“New York has introduced a bill
providing that a minimum wage shall
equal the cost of living, as well as
‘the fair value of services rendered.’
“Colorado is making an attempt to
have its act amended to bring it into
conformity with the Washington law
and to secure an appropriation for its
enforcement.
Bill Offered in Missouri.
“In Missouri a minimum wage bill
was introduced in the Legislature at
the instigation of labor a few days
after the Washington decision.
“The Governor of Nevada signed a
minimum wage bill providing $18 for
a 48-hour week for women on March
29, the day of the Washington de
cision.
"The Legislature of Utah in its
recent session, appropriated $20,000
for the administration of the minimum
wage law enacted in 1933 and never
before put into effect because of lack
of funds.”
Renewed efforts to obtain passage
of minimum wage bills were reported
in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Texas,
South Carolina and Oklahoma. Miss
Anderson said a minimum wage law
would be introduced in Florida at the
present session.
She said the 18 States now operat
ing under minimum wage laws report
increased enforcement activities since
the Supreme Court decision.
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NEW STORE TO OPEN
Sears, Roebuck & Co. to Have
Place on Georgia Avenue.
Sears, Roebuck & Co. will open its
third Washington store Thursday in
a one-story building at 5928 Georgia
avenue, it was announced by the
company today.
The new building contains one floor
and a basement, with approximately
12,200 square feet of floor space avail
able for sales and stock rooms. An
automobile servicing department will
be included in the building.
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Prize-Winning Corcoran Caricature
i 1st I
I WiNNtfk. I
xuis ounesque of a painting in the Fifteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Ameri
can Oil Paintings, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, won for Ruth Bigelow Degges, student of the
Corcoran School of Art, first prize in a novel “sideshow” of caricatures of works in the big exhibi
tion. The burlesque picture, like the one it copies, is called “When My Baby Walks Down the
Street. ’ Shown admiring the painting are Art Students Olive Bohannon of the Ontario Apart
ments and Mrs. Mary E. Early of 1713 M street.
Anderson
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author and is a member of the
League of American Pen Women.
Mr. Anderson's diplomatic service
was rendered in England, Italy, Bel
gium and Japan. He devoted several
years to pleasure jaunts about the
globe.
He served as captain, assistant ad
jutant general and acting adjutant
general of the 2d Division Army Corps
in the Spanish-American War. Dur
ing the World War he was active in
Belgian relief and Red Cross work.
His diplomatic career began even
before he completed his schooling.
His education was begun in Paris,
where he was born August 15, 1866,
the son of Gen. Nichojgs Longworth
and Elizabeth Kilgour Anderson, and
continued at Phillip Exeter Academy
in New Hampshire and at Harvard
University, although he had been in
the Harvard Law School but one year
when President Harrison in 1891
named him second secretary of the
American Legation at London.
Then Sent to Rome.
President Cleveland in 1893 ap
pointed him first secretary at the
; embassy in Rome, where he later was
Charge d'AfTaires. While in Rome he
met and in 1897 married Miss Isabel i
Weld Perkins of Boston, daughter of
Commodore George Perkins, U. S. N. J
The following year he enlisted for j
service in the war against Spain. He !
resumed his interrupted diplomatic \
work in 1911, however, when he was
appointed envoy to Belgium by Presi
dent Taft, and the next year was made
Ambassador to Japan, where he re- j
mained until 1913, when the adminls- j
tration changed at Washington.
He was a member of the Society or
Cincinnati, in which city he lived for a
time: the Loyal Legion and clubs
in Washington, Boston. New York,
London and Paris. Japan decorated
him with the Order of the Rising
Sun, from Italy he received the or- j
ders of the Grand Cross of the Crown
and of SS. Maurice and Lazarus. !
and from Belgium the Grand Cordon
j of the Order of the Crown.
Mr. Anderson's wedding on June
10, 1897, to Miss Perkins, w'hose in
heritance of $17,000,000 made her
one of the world's wealthiest girls,
was a social event and was reported
to have cost $100,000.
Organized charity also attracted Mr.
Anderson and his wife. Their Italian
villa in Brookline was opened to pub
lic inspection periodically and their
valuable art collections placed on dis
play. After the World War this mag
nificent residence was given over to
Summer encampments of members of
the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
under instruction at Harvard.
Mr. Anderson's gifts included $25,
000 to Phillips Exeter and $200,000 to
Harvard, where he received his
bachelor of arts degree in 1888. The
gift to Harvard was for erection of
the Anderson bridge, named for his
father, near the Harvard Stadium.
Bought Remarkable Car.
Despite their wealth and their lavish
entertainments, the Andersons avoided
ostentation. Perhaps the most notable
exception was the purchase in 1908
of a foreign-made automobile which
was a sensation. Capable of the then
almost incredible speed of 50 to 60
miles an hour, the vehicle contained
electric lights, heat and fans, toilet
equipment, w'riting desk, larder, re
clining seats and a library.
Besides his travels as a diplomat,
Mr. Anderson reached many corners
of the world on pleasure tours. After
being graduated from Harvard College
he traveled about the world for two
years, and on his honeymoon he was
said to have covered 75,000 miles.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson entertained
King Prajadhipok of Siam when that
sovereign came to Washington in 1931
for optical treatment at the hands of
the late Dr. William Holland Wilmer.
Their home constantly was a center
of activity In the arts as well as society,
and their friends included represent
atives of all schools and classes of
people.
Oil Development Planned.
Oil fields In the mandated territory
of New Guinea, now under Australian
control, are to be developed on a large
scale.
TUESDAY, APRIL 13.
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State Labor Relations Laws
Seen Following Wagner Ruling
Industry, Union and Government
Spokesmen Optimistic, but Effect on
Court Reorganization Is Disputed,
Impetus to enactment of State labor
relations laws was foreseen today as a
corollary to yesterday’s decisions of the
Supreme Court upholding validity of
the national labor relations act. With
the Federal Government’s authority
to protect workers in interstate com
merce assured by the court’s findings,
passage of State laws for similar
localized set-ups would extend this
public protection down to virtually
every form of industrial activity.
Two States, Utah and Wisconsin,
already have such laws, while a third
is under consideration in Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile, spokesmen of labor, in
dustry and government were virtually
unanimous in the hope that the cause
of industrial peace was brightened by
the findings of the court yesterday.
Linked with such comment also were
the views of several leaders that the
decisions would, and would not, have
an important effect on President
Roosevelt's plan to revise the Federal
Judiciary.
President Delays Comment.
The President, delaying extended
comment until his regular press con
ference today, did make the observa
tion to Speaker Bankhead that “It’s
a pretty good day for all of us.”
Complimenting the court for "put
ting aside the narrow notion of the
horse and buggy days,” Senator Wag
ner, Democrat, of New York, sponsor
of the law in the Senate, declared in
a radio talk that:
"In holding that what happens in
our great manufacturing industries
is or national import, the court has
performed an act of industrial states
manship ranking alongside the work
done in the days of John Marshall.
"The principles of the labor law
were founded upon the accepted facts
that we must have democracy in in
dustry as well as in government, that
democracy in industry means fair
participation by those who work in
the decisions vitally affecting their
lives and livelihoods, and that the
workers in our great mass production
industries can enjoy this participation
only if allowed to organize and bar
gain collectively through representa
tives of their own choosing."
See* Srtikes Prevented.
If the authority of the act had been
recognized long ago, the New Yorker
continued, there would have been no
wave of sit-down strikes.
"Denial of basic industrial rights
produced industrial strife,” he con
tinued, "but when peace terms in the
great motor industries were drawn up
they embodied the very principles of
just dealing and fairness which were
written into the labor act and
unanimously approved today by the
court.
“Let no one any longer take the
law into his own hands, through self
appointed interpreters of what the
Constitution means, through hired
police or spies, or through any
precipitate and unreasonable resort to
force of any kind.”
J. Warren Madden, chairman of the
board which administers the labor re
lations act, said the decisions laid the
foundation for peace in industry.
"If employers will comply in the
spirit of the decisions,” he said, “it
will not be necessary to have any more
strikes to establish recognition of the
right of collective bargaining.”
Madden said he believed the rulings
made certain the power of the Labor
Relations Board, on which he sits with
Donald Wakefield Smith, a lawyer,
and Edwin S. Smith, an economist.
Asked about the effect of the deci
sions on Henry Ford, who said recently
he intended to bargain with his work
ers individually and not through un
ions. Madden said:
“It leaves Henry Ford subject to the
law.”
Manufacturers’ View.
From the National Association of
Manufacturers came the statement
that it has “always stood for the en
forcement of and obedience to the laws
of the land.
"The national labor relations act as
interpreted by the Supreme Court is
no exception,” the statement added.
"We trust that similar respect for this
law and other laws will be recognized
as well by leaders of organized labor.
"Now that doubt as to its consti
tutionality has been removed, it is to
be hoped that harmonious working
arrangements as affected by the law
can be speedily worked out between
employers and employes.
“While labor, under this law is not
compelled to assume any responsibil
ity, satisfactory working arrangements
must be based upon the assumption
of genuine responsibility for its ac
tions. Where there are rights there
must be corresponding duties."
Secretary of Labor Perkins immedi
ately took steps to translate the de
cisions into action by announcing she
would invite representatives of labor
and management to meet here April
20 to discuss how they can co-operate
in peaceful conciliation under the
validated act.
“The Supreme Court has done away
with the principal cause of industrial
unrest,” the Secretary said.
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Impetus to the organized labor
movement and demise of the company
unions was foreseen by William Green,
president of the American Federation
of Labor.
“Labor everywhere,” Green said,
“will welcome the decisions of the
Supreme Court upholding the con
stitutionality of the national labor re
lations act with feelings of approval
and genuine satisfaction. The de
cisions are in keeping with the eco
nomic and industrial changes which
have taken place and the development
of human relations in industry, which
now play such an important part in
the social life of the Nation, and rep
resents progress as well as the estab
I lishment of a rational relationship
between employers and employes.
"The decisions are fraught with
deep significance and will prove to be
of tremendous importance. Labor
will now be free to organize without
fear of discrimination and persecu
tion. A new impetus will be given the
organized labor movement. It means
the end of company unions.
“The Supreme Court’s decisions
must be held as a triumphant achieve
ment for the American Federation of
Labor and its friends who fought so
persistently and so hard to secure the
enactment of the national labor rela
tions act.”
John L. Lewis, chairman of the
Committee for Industrial Organization,
interpreted the decisions as proof of
the need of a revision of the Supreme
Court set-up. The President’s plan,
he said, “is the immediate answer.”
“Legalistic Whims” Hit.
His comment follows:
“An astounding judgment. The
quibblers of ancient Greece were intel
lectual sluggards as compared with our
Supreme Court. Apparently, the
destiny of our republic and the well
being of its population depend upon
the legalistic whims and caprices of
one man. Yesterday the Guffey coal
stabilization act was struck down.
Today the Wagner labor relations act
is sustained. If today the court is
right, then yesterday, forsooth, the
court was wrong.
The court is as variable as the
1 winds, and the people wonder how long
| they are to be the victims of its in
stability. Obviously the situation needs
change. The President's court plan is
the immediate answer."
"Had the labor relations act been
effective before, the major strikes in
the automotives industry would never
have happened,” said Homer Martin,
president of the United Automobile
Workers, at Detroit.
Many others linked the events of
yesterday directly with the fight over
the Supreme Court plan.
Attorney General Cummings said
that “for more reasons than one, the
decisions show the wisdom and sound
ness of the President's plan.”
Congress Is Stirred.
The decisions stirred Congress more
than any since the A. A. A. and N. R.
A. verdicts. Conflicting comments
poured from party leaders, with some
suggestions of compromise on the
court issue from Senators still uncom
mitted on the measure.
Senator Brown, Democrat, of Mich
igan, who had been counted as non
committal but was regarded as friendly
to the court reorganization proposal,
said the court’s verdict “opens the way
for a compromise.”
Senator Schwellenbach, Democrat,
of Washington, another Senator in the
same category, remarked at first that
the decisions would have no effect,
but added that perhaps they would
lead to increasing the court by three
or four justices instead of six.
Senator Duffy, Democrat, of Wis
consin, a third doubtful Senator,
commented that the decisions would
“take the pressure off” the bill.
One of the Judiciary Committee
members, who has been classed as
"doubtful” but friendly to the pro
posal, Senator Hughes, Democrat, of
Delaware, commented that the deci
sions might lead him “to conclude
it won’t be necessary to go so far.”
“I would like to see some kind of
compromise,” Hughes added.
Senator Robinson, Democratic
leader, refused to link the decisions
with the bill, while Senator Byrnes,
Democrat, of South Carolina, another
administration spokesman, contended
that they would not “affect a single
vote in the Senate."
Many members of Congress re
marked that regardless of the fate of
the court legislation, the way was now
open for “liberal” legislation, and for
“orderly settlement” of industrial dis
putes.
Every one conceded that if the de
cision had gone the other way, they
would have given impetus to the
Roosevelt bill. Only time could tell
what effect the favorable verdict might
have.
Sees Court Bill Defeat.
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon
tana flatly predicted that the decision
meant “the defeat” of the court bill.
“I feel now there oan’t be any ex
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CORCORAN PUPILS’
Caricatures of Paintings in
Main Exhibition Are
Seen Here.
In a spirit of artistic fun, students
in the Corcoran School of Art have
opened a "sideshow'’ at the Fifteenth
Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary
American Oil Paintings in the Cor
coran Gallery of Art, featuring cari
catures of pictures in the major show.
Many of the paintings, including
several which took prizes in the big
exhibition, have been burlesqued in
the ^sideshow, which has been set up
in a room to the right of the New
York avenue entrance to the gallery.
As in the biennia) exhibition, a
Jury of artists has passed on the side
attractions and, in an informal cere
mony yesterday afternoon, prizes were
awarded to the best caricatures.
First Prize Awarded.
First prize of $20 was taken by Ruth
Bigelow Degges, 3726 Connecticut ave
nue, for her bit of artistic fun at the
expense of a work in the main show,
entitled, "When My Baby Walks Down
the Street.” The picture shows a
colored girl swaggering down the street
as her neighbors gaze in wonder.
Second prize of $10 went to Martha
Crittendon Shaw, 4 Riggs court, for
her burlesque of the picture "Her
Daughter.” Whereas the original
painting shows a mother fondly fixing
the hair of her little daughter, the
caricature shows four ugly little girls
fixing each other’s hair. The picture
was named "Her Dodoes.”
Honorable mention was given Mrs.
W. R. Winslow, 3136 P street, for her
humorous combination of three paint
ings into one effort. The paintings
she "massacred" were “Intimate In
terior,” "Missouri Musicians” and
Harry Oottlieb’s “Self Portrait.”
List of Judges.
The judges were Clifford K. Berry
man, Charles Dunn, Will Hutchins
and Jerry Farnsworth.
Guy Pene du Bois’ second prize
winner in the main exhibition, a
lustrous painting of a semi-nude wom
an seated, entitled "Meditation,” was
a popular subject of fun-poking by
the students, several of whom have
shown the lady in the throes of a bad
cold. In one picture she has her feet
In hot water.
Even Richard Lahey, principal of
the Art School, came in for a share
of “kidding." His painting in the big
show called “Portrait of the Artist's
Wife” became, In burlesque. “A Por
trait of the Artist’s Wife's Husband.”
showing Lahey at work with his
brushes.
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Paintings
(Continued From First Page.)
her husband, Gen. Andree W.
Brewster, Boston, and five paintings
to another sister, Mrs. Margaret Grif
fin Geraghty, Chicago.
Bequests to Individuals
Mrs Brewster also was bequeathed
$10,000; Gen. Brewster, $5,000; Mrs.
Geraghty, $10,000; her daughter, Miss
Margaret Geraghty, $10,000, and a
niece, Helen Cullen, Buffalo, N. Y„
, $10,000, and another niece, Maria
Cullen Satin, also of Buffalo, $5,000.
Mrs. Walker specified that should
1 the cash bequests total more than 25
| per cent of the value of all her per
sonal property they should be cut down
to that proportion.
Frank Crowe, a butler, was given the
mortgage on his cottage in Windsor,
j Ontario.
The testatrix stated that she was
making no provision for a brother, P.
Harry Griffin, or his children, explain
ing she had been out of touch with
him for years. She stated also in the
will that she was making no provision
for the daughter of a dead brother,
Thomas F. Griffin, because that niece
already was well provided for, and
also was omitting bequests to the other
children of Mrs. Geraghty and the
j other children of her dead sister, Mrs.
j Ellen Frances Griffin Cullen. One of
! Mrs. Cullen’s children, Helen, was pro
I vided for in th^ will.
The exact extent of the estate will
be disclosed in a petition for probate
j to be filed later.
LOAD LIMIT HIT
AS FIRE MENACE
Hillcrest Citizens’ Association Sees
Heavy Equipment Barred
From Bridge.
Declaring that property in the Hill
| crest section was being jeopardized by
lack of fire protection since the load
limit on the Pennsylvania Avenue
Bridge had been reduced to 12,000
pounds, making it impossible for the
larger fire trucks to cross, the Hillcrest
Citizens’ Association last night asked
that this matter be taken up by he
association’s Executive Committee and
that some plan be evolved to remedy
the situation.
It was pointed out that the nearest
station with a hook ard ladder truck
is across the bridge and that limiting
the load makes it necessary for larger
trucks, some of which weigh more
than 17,000 pounds, to take a round
about route in answering a Are in
the section.
Robert Haycock, assistant superin
tendent of schools, told the associa
tion that property for an elementary
school in the section had not been
deAnltely chosen but it would be in the
vicinity of Alabama and Pennsylvania
avenues southeast if the Ave-year
school building plans are carried out.
Musical entertainment was fur
nished by the Potomac Electric Power
Glee Club.
relief client jailed
BUFFALO, N. Y„ April 13 OP).—
Harry Gutschow, 27, relief client, went
to jail because he could support a big,
Ane car but not his wife and their
six children.
He failed to post *500 bond for sup
port of his family and City Judge
George W. Woltz sent him to jail.
cuse for wanting 15 members on the
court,” Wheeler asserted.
Schwellenbach, noting that all but
one of the decisions were by 5-4 votes,
said, "We are still up against the prop
osition that on any question that
raises an issue, the Government must
get a unanimous decision from the Ave
unprejudiced justices.”
Speaker Bankhead did not discuss
the effect on the court legislation, but
said "I am very glad to hear they have
conArmed for another time the judg
ment of Congress that its acts are con
stitutional."
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