Evening star. [volume], April 18, 1937, Page A-18, Image 18

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Living Quarters Are Being
Made Ready for 25,000
Due Soon.
With little more than two months
remaining before 25,000 Boy Scouts
from the four points of the compass
descend on Washington for their 1937
jamboree, construction enginers, un
der direction of Harvey A. Gordon, na
tional director of enginering, have be
gun the task of providing living quart
ers for this army of youths on the 350
acres of land loaned by Congress for
that purpose. The encampment will
be held from June 30 to July 9.
The surveying of six tracts within
sight of the Capitol, Washington
Monument and Lincoln Memorial, and
an emergency plot in Abingdon, Va.,
has been completed. Pipe laying or
"ground work" and some actual camp
construction has begun.
The encampment will be divided
into 21 sections, not counting three
in Abingdon to be used only in case
of an overflow. Each section will pro
vide quarters for more than 1,200
Scouts.
The two section of the United States
Experimental Farm, Arlington, are
nearing completion, and seven sections,
very nearly covering Columbia Island,
are going up rapidly. Construction
work on three in East Potomac Park,
four in West Potomac Park, one at the
Cricket Grounds and one on the Monu
ment Grounds will be withheld until
June 1
In addition to the one section to be
used for living quarters, the Monu
ment Grounds also will be used for the
Jamboree headquarters and an arena
with a seating capacity of more than
20,000
Meanwhile, Gordon has begun work
on the director personnel for the jam
boree. Announcement was made yes
terday of the appointment of 34 adult
leaders from Boy Scouts Region 8,
composed of troops from Iowa, Ne
braska, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri
and Wyoming. More than 2,000 Scouts
and leaders are expected to come from
these States.
Judiciary
(Continued From First Page.)
Court proposal, with several members
on the fence. It is regarded as likely
that there will be enough Senators
who are supporting the President’s
bill, added to those strongly against
any increase in the size of the court,
to defeat all compromise amendments
in the committee discussions. If that
Is the case, the question will finally
come on reporting the bill as it
stands—on the Supreme Court. One
Senator who has been opposed to the
President expressed the opinion that
in such event, the measure would be
reported 10 to 8. Senator Ashurst
reiterated his confidence yesterday
that the bill would be reported and
passed.
Once the measure has reached the
floor of the Senate, a long debate is
expected, perhaps running two months.
After some weeks of debate, proposals
for a compromise may be expected to
come strongly to the fore. Senator
McCarran of Nevada, a member of
the committee, already has offered as
a substitute for the President’s pro
posal an amendment calling for the
definite appointment of two additional
Justices of the Supreme Court—and
no more. Such a plan, it was said,
may be found to have considerable
support when the showdown comes.
The hearing tomorrow will open
with Alan Lmburg, a New York
lawyer, on the stand. Chairman Ash
urst yesterday received a telegram
from Catherine Curtis, chairman of
the Women’s National Committee for
Hands Off the Supreme Court, ask- ;
ing that her group be given a chance '
to appear before the committee hear
ings close. She said in her telegram:
“Women have shared immeasurably
in the building of our Nation and are
deeply stirred over so grave an issue
which demands full and free expres
sion from the thousands of women in
•11 the States of the Union whose pro
tests we hold and who are vitally
concerned with the Integrity of the
American form of government”
Would Stop at Once.
The committee, meeting in execu
tive session yesterday, considered
only the question of when the hear
ings should be closed. Senator
Hughes of Delaware had had pending
for some time a motion to end the
hearings forthwith. After a dis
cussion in the committee, however,
he accepted amendments offered by
Senators McCarran and Pittman of
Shipping News
Arrivals and Departures
at New York.
ARRIVALS.
Today.
ACADIA—Norfolk _1.00 P.M.
ORIZABA—Havana _6:00 P.M.
PETEN—Port Limon ___ 1:00 P.M.
PILSl'DSKI—W. Indies cruise.. 8:00 A.M.
ROMA—Mediterranean cruise.
Tomorrow.
AMERICAN TRADER—London 0:00 P.M.
CHEROKEE—Jacksonville _7:00 A.M.
COAMO—San Juan _8:00 A.M.
COLOMBIA—Cristobal _8:30 A.M.
EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA—
West Indies cruise. 9:00 A.M.
M. OF BERMUDA—Bermuda ... 9:00 A.M.
QUEEN MARY—Cherbourg_10:00 A.M.
BCANYORK—Copenhagen ... 8:00A.M.
TRANSYLVANIA—Havana 6:00 P.M.
Saturday. April 21.
MARTINIQUE—Jacmet 8:30 A M.
M. OF BERMUDA—Bermuda 9:00 A.M.
PRESIDENT HARDING—Hamburg.
SAILING.
(Trans-Atlantic.)
Today.
BLACK HERON—Rotterdam, mis. d. noon.
Tomorrow.
NEW TORONTO—Lagos, mis. cl. 8 a.ra.
Thursday. April 22.
CAFE CORSO—Casablanca.
•Friday. April 23.
AMERICAN TRADER—London- 4:00P.M.
ILSENTEIN—Antwerp _ Midnight
TRANSYLVANIA—Belfast Noon
AMERICAN SHIPPER—London 11:00 A.M.
BLACK EAGLE—Rotterdam.
CONTE DI 8AVOIA—Genoa—. Noon
EXPACST—Constama.
II.E DE FRANCE—Havre_11:00 A.M.
ROBIN ADAIR—Belra.
BCANYORK—Hetsink.
SVANEHOLM—Gothenburg.
SAILING.
(South and Central America. Weat Indies
and Canada.)
Today.
ESSO ARUBA—Aruba, mis. cl. 6:30 p.m.
Tomorow.
(No sailings scheduled.)
Thursday. April 22.
COAMO—Ciudad Trujillo.-- 3:00P.M.
COLOMBIA—Cristobal _ Noon
NERISSA—Georgetown_3:00 P.M.
PETEN—-Port Limon . _ Noon
Q'N OF BERMUDA—Bermuda 3:00 P.M.
Friday. April 23.
FLORA—Maracaibo.
ORIZABA—Vera Cru* — _ 4:00 P.M.
LADY NELSON—Georgetown.
PAUL H. HARWOOD—Aruba.
SANTA BARBARA—Valparaiso Midnight
Saturday. April 24.
AM. LEGION—Buenos Aires __ Noon
AJLANTIDA La Cetba .11:00 A.M.
rr. TOWNSHEND-6t John’s 11:00 A.M.
KENTUCKIAN—San Francisco.
M. OF BERMUDA—Bermuda.. 3:00 P.M.
PLATANO—Puerto Cor ter _ Noon
BAN JACINTO—Puerto Plata — Noon
SANTA ROSA—Han Franoisoo. Moon
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Scout Tents Arise
of AT\ecoL\hfnlTmmen^0^eC^dAat wesi encL0/ *fte ArlinSton Memorial Bridge for the use
of the scouts who will attend the jamboree here this Summer. _star Staff Photo.
Nevada, respectively, to extend the
hearings to April 28 and to permit
the filing of 10 written statements on
both sides of the question. Opponents
of the President’s bill gave the names
of a dozen or 15 witnesses they had
invited to appear and insisted they
should not be cut off. Senator Ash
urst and other supporters of the bill
acquiesced. Ashurst insisted that the
committee meeting had been entirely
harmonious.
There will be no hearing tomorrow
afternoon ‘‘for reasons unannounced,”
said Senator Ashurst with a smile. The
base ball season opens here tomor
row.
While the committee prepared to
go ahead wdth consideration of the
court bill, the drive to put across the
President’s plan to increase the mem
bership of the Supreme Court—not
withstanding the recent decisions of
the court upholding the Wagner labor
relations act and the minimum wage
acts of the State of Washington and
of the District of Columbia—gathered
force. Tomorrow labor’s Non-Parti
san League will put on speakers for
the court bill in 25 or 30 large cities
of the country, and these speeches
will be carried over the radio. In
Washington Attorney General Cum
mings, Mrs. Borden Harriman, Demo
cratic national committeewoman for
the District, and M&j. George L.
Berry, head of the league, will speak
at 10:30 p.m. over the blue network
of the National Broadcasitng Co.
Last night Senator O'Mahoney of
Wyoming, a member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, delivered a radio
address in which he discussed particu
larly the Supreme Court’s recent de
cisions, and gave his opinion as to
their effect on future legislation deal
ing with industry and labor. He j
strongly urged the passage of his bill
for Federal incorporation of industry.
The Wyoming Senator linked with
the Supreme Court decisions the fact
that Government revenues have fallen
below estimates, and that there are
still, according to the American Fed
eration of Labor, 9.722,000 persons In
the United States ‘‘without normal
work in industry.”
Unemployment Problem.
‘‘Federal expenditures are to be re
duced," said O’Mahoney, "because
deficits are increasing. But unemploy
ment remains an unsolved problem.
There is a third circumstance that
must not be permitted to escape pub
lic attention. It is that the great
corporations of the country are once
more making large profits. The Na
tional City Bank of New York has
reported this month that last year
1,600 manufacturing and trading cor
porations in the United States made
an average profit of 10 1-10 per cent
on the book value of all their com
mon and preferred stock. To state it
another way, corporate prosperity has
been restored, but unemployment re
mains, and the Federal Government
cannot, within its revenues, supply
made-work at even security wages for
the millions who are still without
employment.
"Hitherto the rulings of the Su
preme Court have been regarded by
many as an insuperable obstacle
to any effective legislation by Congress
dealing with wages and hours in pro
ducing or manufacturing industries.
This barrier has now been struck
down by the high tribunal itself in
the memorable decisions of this month,
decisions which mark the end of one
era and the beginning of another.
“The great significance of the Wag
ner act decisions is that production
and manufacture can no longer be
held to be outside the authority of
the Federal Government, but that
they can be brought within that power
whenever the facts show they actually
affect interstate commerce. In other
words the Supreme Court has opened
its eyes to realities, and on the basis
of actual fact has finally broken
through the barrier of legalistic ob
struction. This is a gain that cannot
now be lost, because in this decision,
the most important in our generation,
the court has literally burned its legal
bridges behind it.
“Now Congress may proceed to the
permanent elution of the unemploy
ment problem, the problem of agri
culture and, equally important, the
problem of Government finance. In
deed, Congress must proceed to these
tasks."
“Interference” Denied.
Advocating the passage of his bill
for Federal Incorporation, O'Mahoney
said: "All necessary provisions may be
written into the charters so that every
one concerned will know his rights.
There need not be one bit more Fed
eral interference after the charter and
license is granted than there is State
interference now after the State char
ter is granted. National charters and
licenses provide the only practicable
means of preventing monopolistic
practices and preserving fiduciary in
tegrity. Every other possible method
has been tried and has failed.”
Senator Wheeler of Montana, an op
ponent of the court bill, in a statement
made yesterday protesting a proposed
increase in the land bank interest
rate, attacked "packing” the Supreme
Court. He said it was not “necessary
to pack the Supreme Court or to
change the Constitution in order to
help the farmers of this country get
out from under the load of debt they
have been carrying."
5 FINED IN LIQUOR CASES
Alleged “Nip Joint” Operators
Also Get Jail Terms.
By the Associated Press.
FRONT ROYAL, Va., April 17.—
Trial Justice Walter G. Olmstead yes
terday imposed $50 fines and 60-day
jail sentences on each of five alleged
“nip joint” operators who pleaded
guilty to charges of operating com
mon nuisances and violating the State
liquor law.
Thomas McGovern, Mrs. Joe Wil
liams and Mrs. Myrtle Kidwell were
ordered to serve their sentences. Joe
Williams and Mrs. Thomas McGovern
had their jail sentences suspended on
promises of good conduct and pay
ment of fines.
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ADMITS SLAYING
MOTHEROF NINE
Ex-Convict Tells of Slashing
Throat of Annapolis
Woman.
By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS. Md., April 17.—
State’s Attorney Roscoe C. Rowe said
Janies Irvin Howard, colored ex-con
vict, confessed after 12 hours of ques
tioning today that he killed Mrs.
Mary Gunther, mother of nine chil
dren.
The confession came Just after fhe
prisoner’s mother, Nanny Howard,
was brought in. The mother stated
that she “knew and loved Mrs. Gun
ther,” Rowe said. She told before
her son, Rowe added, that blood
stained clothing found in an outbuild
ing at the Howard home belonged to
Howard. She said she had patched
the clothes.
The prosecutor said Howard con
(eased then and later signed a writ
ten confession, in which he gave rob
bery as the sole motive for the crime.
In his statement Howard related
that he saw an automobile with sev
eral white people in it drive down
the lonely road near the Gunthers’
home. He plaoed a log across the
road and waited for the car to return.
Mrs. Gunther drove back alone and
got out to move the log. He said he
grabbed her from behind and cut her
throat. He said she did not have a
chance to make a sound,
The man said he took $17.50 from
a pocketbook on the seat of the car,
but never had a chance to spend the’
money. He said he showed it to Ar
thur Snowden, colored, shortly after
the killing.
Howard said he went home after
the slaying and changed clothing.
Howard was convicted for burglary
in Baltimore, and last month he fin
ished a term for burglary in this
county.
School Show Slated.
SILVER SPRING, Md„ April 17
(Special).—Montgomery Blair Senior
High School will present its second
annual variety show April 29 at 8
p.m. in the East Silver Spring Ele
mentary 8chool.
Two Boys Assume
Guise of Tarzans
To Avoid School
Sheriff and Aides Unable
to Catch Lads Living
in Oregon Woods.
Bf the Associated Press.
MEDFORD, Oreg., April 17.—What
to do about a couple of husky lads with
a Tarzan complex who have taken to
the woods to evade school worried the
authorities here today.
Sheriff Syd I. Brown said no im
mediate effort would be made to re
turn Edward Harris, 14, and his broth
er, Roy, 10, to home and studies, "as
they run like deer, and it would take
a posse of 100 men to catch them.”
‘‘We will Just bide our time, and
sneak up on them when they are not
looking,” he remarked.
The sheriff said the youths ‘‘can
take care of themselves in the brush.”
He said he believed the boys were
receiving aid and shelter "from neigh- ,
bore who sympathize with them” in 1
their desire to be In the open rather
than in school.
Deputies have tried daily to rounfl
them up, without results.
Sheriff Brown said two older broth
ers, and their step-father, Joseph
Schmelzer, a rancher of the Dead Hal
low district, ‘‘were not particularly
concerned."
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