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WEEKEND TRAFFIC
P. C. Death Toll Reaches 40
, as Wagon Driver, Hurt
April 10, Dies.
"Fourteen person* were injured, five
seriously, in traffic accidents In the
District and nearby Maryland and
Vft-ginla over the week end. Meantime,
the local traffic toll for the year was
increased to 40—nine more than lor
the same period in 1936—with the
death ol a man injured In a freak
tQjshap April 10.
William Kettle, 61, oolored, 324 Ana
ooetia road northeast, died in Casualty
Hospital yesterday of a fractured skull,
received when he was thrown from his
wagon seat as his horse slipped and
fell on Benning road northeast.
Four persons were Injured at Twen
ty-second and M streets as they stood
In front of a car discussing a minor
collision when another automobile
crashed into the standing vehicle,
pushing it against them.
Driver Is Arrested.
The most seriously injured was Moe
Morgan, 48, of 1108 Ninth street,
whose back possibly was fractured. The
offler victims, all of whom were taken
to Emergency Hospital, included Wil
liam Howard, 50, of 3931 Military
road, fractured left knee; William
Carruther, 22, University of Virginia,
hip Injury; and Philip 8. Ball, jr„ 21,
Annapolis. Md., leg hurts and brain
ooneussion.
lJr.
James P. Crocker. 30, of 1006 Twen
ty-seoond street, driver of the colliding
machine, was arrested and charged
with reckless driving, defective brakes
(pid defective windshield wiper. He
was released on *700 bond. Police
did not ascertain the drivers of the
other Involved automobiles.
Mrs. Annie M. Corder, 88. of 3248
M street received severe head cuts in
a collision at Harewood road and
Michigan avenue between cars op
erated by Earl N. Ritenour, 21, of 1212
Ijongfellof street and William F. Wag
ner, Jr., 21, of Hyattsville, Md.
Mrs. Cordor was a passenger in
Ritenour's car, as was Miss Elisabeth
Motley, 34. of 1451 Park road, secre
tary to Police Chief Ernest W. Brown,
who was only slightly injured. Mrs.
Florence O. Motley, 55, mother of
Elizabeth, also a passenger, was not
injured. Mrs. Corder is Mrs. Motley’s
mother.
Mrs. Virginia L. Wagner. 21, and
William F. Wagner, 30, wife and son
of the other driver, received only
bruises.
William K. Butler 44, of 2620 Sixth
street northease, poasibly had his skull
fractursd when struck by a Capital
Transit Co. bus, operated by Frank
C. Moore, Hyattsville, at Fourth street
and Rhode Island avenue. He was
taken to Casualty.
Others Injured.
Serious head injuries were sustained
by Mabel Dunlop, 34, colored, 1514
R street, when she was struck by an
automobile while crossing at Sixteenth
and R streets. She was taken to
George Washington Hospital.
Wayne Hall, 29, and his wife, Mary
3B, 27, of 1717 Seventeenth street
southeast, were taken to Casualty
from an accident near Laurel, Md.
Hall was treated for severe head cuts
and his wife for a broken left arm.
Miss Billy Patterson, 2032 Belmont
■Toad, and Miss Katherine Miller, 25,
,#ame address, were injured yesterday
when their car was struck by another
bear Falls Church, Va., as they turned
Into the main highway from a side
road. Mias Patterson remained in
Georgetown Hospital today for treat
ment of internal Injuries. Miss Miller
suffered the loss of several teeth and
cuts and bruises.
CHARGES OF ASSAULT
ON GIRL NOL PROSSED
?ufTh Drop* Case Againtt John
Henry Burn*, in Who»e Ca*e
Jury Disagreed.
•» » Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md., April 19.—
Charges of criminal assault against
John Henry Bums, proprietor of a
fruit store at Eighteenth street and
Columbia road, Washington, were nolle
pressed In Circuit Court here today.
Bums was tried at the November
term of court on charge of assaulting
a Washington girl whom he took home
from a party early last Pall, but the
Jury was unable to agree and was dis
charged. The case had been set for
the current term, but State's Attor
ney James H. Pugh requested the case
be nolle proesed when court opened
today.
Burns had been at liberty under
$15,000 bond.
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Simmons Tells
Of $1,100 Loss in
I Hutton Hearing
Reveals T ransaction
in 200 Shares of
Atlas Tack.
»r th« Associated Praas.
A1 Simmons, the Washington Sena
tors’ new outfielder, told the Securi
ties Commission today he lost $1,100
on a transaction in Atlas Tack Oorp.
Stock In the Fall of 1936.
Simmons, recently acquired from
the Detroit Tigers, was called as a
witness at the commission hearing on
charges against W. E. Hutton A Co.
of manipulating Atlas Tack stock.
Slouching in his chair, Simmons re
cited details of his purchase of 200
shares of Atlas Tack in late 1936 and
early 1936.
He said he bought the securities
upon receiving a letter from Mickey
Cochrane, manager of the Detroit
Tigwra Simmons gave his testimony
fust before donning his uniform for
his first game of the regular are non as
a Senator.
Commission Counsel Jaoob Oruber
attempted to show that Cochrane had
been advised to buy Atlas Tack by
Jerry McCarthy, customers’ man in
the Hutton Detroit office.
Asked by Oruber why he had re
ceived Information about Atlas stock
from Cochrane, Simmons asserted
that “Mickey and I had been team
mates for years. Whenever he had a
tip which might make us a few dollars
he passed it on to me, and I did the
same."
Simmons testified he bought 100
•hares of Atlas Tack at 19% and 100
•hares at 31%. He sold his total
holdings, he said, at 1$^
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
UNOFFICIAL.
ACCORDING to Holland Hunt
ington, one of the more foot
loose and observant of the
W a y s i d e’s correspondents,
there Is a man In this town who al
ways wondered if all the business con
ducted over the two-way police radio
system came under the head of “offi
cial.”
Well, the man found out the other
day—found out that it wasn't official.
He deduced that from a broadcast
he heard being made from a scout
cruiser, which ended up with the fol
lowing sentence:
"There are a lot of new houses out
this way which I have to keep an
eye on, but I’ll bring you that tobacco
as soon as I come in.”
* * * *
COURTESY.
Phyllis Stoever of the Chevy
Chase Stoevers ought to be written
down in your book, or "up" in the
Wayside column as one of the more
sensitive and considerate children
of the community. That seems to
be the implication of an anecdote
about her which was just related
to us.
Phyllis and her mother, it seems,
were buying a pair of shoes.
"How do they feel?" the tales
man asked the child at what
seemed to be the finale of the deal.
"Fine," said Phyllis.
Once in the shoes and outside
the store her grimaces of pain told
another story, however.
“Why didn't you say so before
we left the store?" her mother
wanted to know.
"And hurt that nice man's feel
ings?" Phyllis countered.
* * * *
HAPPY ENDING.
TP THE Mr. Acheson who found and
turned in a lady's bag to the street
car conductor the other day reads this
column, he will learn that the whole
Incident ended quite happily.
The bag belonged to a Mrs. Sey
mour (our informant neglects to say
which Mrs. Seymour), who left it on
the car. Mr. Acheson found it. Like
a good citizen should, he turned it
over to the conductor. A few blocks
after he had done his duty and got
off at his destination, a taxi charged
up alongside the car, its driver and
passenger waving frantically. The car
stopped, the cab passenger got on
and both vehicles resumed their jour
ney during the negotiations in which
Mrs. Seymour (we thought you knew
all the time it was she) got back her
bag. The deal completed, she got
off, entered the cab, which had trailed
along, and went away with every one
waving farewell to every one Involved.
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It was all very nice and unplanned,
and it seemed only fair that Mr. Ache
son should know the ending.
* * * *
EAGLE.
Alexandria people, the story
goes, look skyward as they drive
toward Washington in the morning
hoping to catch sight of the bald
eagle which has taken up resi
dence in the vicinity of the game
preserve south of the Capital.
Why should they want to see an
old bald eagle?
For the very good reason that
it is regarded as an assurance of
good luck during the day to catch
a glirgpse of the old fellow wing
ing his way across the sky.
* * * *
IT WORKS.
pDWARD B. BEALE is one Alexan
drian who is pretty sure the eagle
is a good luck pieoe. He saw the bird
the other morning and went around
all day feeling something pretty fine
would happen as a result.
That night, or maybe it was early
in the morning, Mr. Beale found out
Just how right his feeling was. As
he walked into his house he saw a
white package glistening in the moon
light on the porch steps. He picked
, it up, walked inside, opened it and
found it to oont&in every single item
of a large collection of valuable Jew
elry that had been stolen a month
earlier.
* * * *
PARTY.
TP YOU had a dog and wanted to
give it a birthday party, with its
more intimate canine friends as
guests, what would you serve in the
way of refreshments.
The menu born of the inspiration
of Mary Jane and Dorothy Chase
might be helpful in case you haven't
a single idea on the subject. At their
party for "Mac,” the Chase collie, the
high light of the refreshments was a
banana layer cake. For desert there
was a bone for every guest, those who
were invited and those who Just came
anyhow. The species represented were
English and Irish setters, Belgian
shepherd, Dachshund and mongrel.
There was quite a bit of snarling
over the food.
* * * *
HUMAN.
Maybe every one in the world
but us knows this, but it seems
very nice that many stores will take
back nursery fumitury if some
thing goes amiss and the furniture
is not needed. It is a money-back
proposition, too, we understand.
We discovered it the other day
i* the course of a chat in which
the information also was vouch
safed that one establishment in
town will double, or triple (free
of charge) an original furniture
order if the baby turns out to be
twins or triplets.
Scout Saves 12,000 Pennies.
So that he may attend the Boy Scout
1 World Jamboree in Holland this year,
Scoutmaster M. Whlttred of Queens
land has saved 12,000 pennies in two
yean and these will pay his fare ter
the ll,MO-fnfie
PUBLISHERS MEET
A. N. P. A. Celebrates Gold
en Jubilee—Roper Talks
at A. P. Luncheon.
>r th. Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 19.—The men
whose publications record the news of
the world daily for readers numbered
in tens of millions gathered in New
York today for the annual meeting of
the Associated Press and the golden
jubilee of the American Newspaper
Publishers’ Association.
Late this morning, hundreds of pub
lishers, from hamlet and metropolis,
thronged into a midtown hotel’s con
vention hall where President Prank B.
Noyes of the Associated Press presided
at a session devoted to discussion of
membership, the directorate and an
expanded news and photo service.
"During the last week I have gather
ed from a number of casual conversa
tions that there is an expectancy that
on this occasion I will make some ref
erences to decisions in Washington
that may—or may not—have a pro
found effect on the Associated Press,"
said Mr. Noyes in opening his remarks.
As a further preface, Mr. Noyes said
he was speaking entirely on his own
responsibility and “any remarks, criti
cisms or facts are, as we say in Wash
ington, solely for ’background pur
poses,' and that I am free to repudiate
them if and when I may find it ex
pedient to do so.”
No Complaint on Decisions.
Mr. Noyes added that he had “no
hesitancy in saying I have no squawk
to make over the decision (on the
Wagner act) recently announced by
the Supreme Oourt. My profound re
spect for the court is in no wise abated,
though I would have been glad if one
of the fullbacks had not been overcome
by an urge to become a quarterback
and to make a dash with the ball of
a quarter of a mile or so.
“Be that as it may,” he continued,
“we of the Associated Press have be
lieved that we had a right to select
the employes through whom we must
act in collecting the unbiased, un
colored, impartial news report upon
which the 1,300 members of the or
ganisation insist as the foundation
rock of a free press in America.
"The men who go out to collect our
news and edit it after collection are,
and must be, a body of trusted men.
In their hands rests our honor.
"In full recognition of this I think
I may say that inspection of the
employer-employe relations in the As
sociated Press by any one will show
rather an enviable record. Indeed,
without prompting from the outside
or the inside, the Associated Press al
most 40 years ago began giving vaca
tions with pay. Almost 30 years ago
it granted sick benefits to its employes.
Almost 20 years ago it granted in
surance and at the same time put into
effect a pension plan.
Five-day Week Established.
“Almost three years ago it tried the
establishment of the flve-day week,
and after temporarily suspending it
because it was not sufficiently inclu
sive, it has established the flve-day
40-hour week generally among its
news employes.”
Mr. Noyes added that the social se
curity for Associated Press employes
established almost 20 years ago “is
fuller in its benefits than will ever be
reached under the national legislation
on this subject.”
He told the Associated Press mem
bers that at the present moment, the
reserves held for the protection of em
ployes amount to more than *3,500,000.
"I ardently hope,” he said, "that no
condition that it may confront will
require a discontinuance of the plan.”
“I do not in any way differ as to
the desirability of the purpose of this
social security legislation,” Mr. Noyes
said. “I merely desire to point out
that Associated Press employes now
enjoy, without participatory payments,
and I hope they may continue to en
joy, much more liberal treatment than
is provided by legislation for em
ployes less favored.”
The annual lunchaon of the Asso
ciated Press, with Secretary Roper of
the Commerce Department, as guest
speaker, followed.
Roper Outlines Needs.
The Nation's two outstanding needs,
Secretary Roper said, are to awaken
people further to their responsibility
for law and order and to halt “the de
terioration of home life and the com
mon virtues inherent therein.”
“The challenge is upon us as a peo
ple to realize that laws cannot be wise
ly constructed nor effectively enforced
without the assistance, understanding,
sympathy and co-operation of the
people. • • •
“It is, therefore, of prime Impor
tance that the people should be
aroused, through thoroughly informed
leadership, to study the theory and
practice of this government and their
respanslbllities thereunder."
On the second point he said, “Cen
sus statistics disclose that those of our
people who are best situated to typify
character, integrity and intelligence
are not on the increase. Those who
have contributed leadership in every
field of our national life are falling in
the Important responsibility of self
production.”
Morality of People Lags.
A “drift of rural population to the
already congested cities,” he said,
is leading to "the erosion of rural
life.” Along with "uncontrolled In
dustrialism,” he added, “the morality
of the people has lagged behind our
mechanical development.”
“The plan should contemplate a
system of training potential workers
as a reserve corps for industries in
which shortage of skilled workers la
actual or probable and thus spread
security among many who are handi
capped by vocational Illiteracy. • • •
“In fact, we must recreate the
home life of this country.”
In the solution of these problems,
the secretary said, “the newspaper
can render constructive assistance.”
Reviewing the history of the As
sociated Press, which he praised as
"the only non-profit-making news
association In the world,” Roper urged
that co-operation between Govern
ment and newspaper “In behalf of the
common good * * * unquestionably
should be the chief purpose and
ambition of the two outstanding
groups which we represent."
Press Agency for Peace.
The American press is one of the
greatest agencies for International
peaot today, he said, provided It pro
motes the virtues of peace more than
the possibilities of war.”
“Notwithstanding and to some ex
tent because of widespread armament
activities, the real crux in any general
warfare Is, in my opinion, passed,” he
commented.
The growth of the newspaper In
dustry from #70 daily papers in 1880,
with 4,000,000 circulation and an in
sane of $#0,M0,000^o 8400 papssa In
Opening Day Fans Line Up for Bleacher Tickets
This is the crowd that formed outside Griffith Stadium this morning some time before bleacher seats for today’s game went on sale.
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1937, with 40,000,000 circulation and
an income of more than $1,000,000,000,
indicated strongly, he said, that "news
paper men have wisely analyzed public
desires and have ably arisen to their
mission. But the challenges are con
tinuous."
"In three-fourths of Europe," he
continued, "the lamp of liberty is
flickering if it has not gone out. Our
own country is one of the few remain
ing strongholds of democracy and its
liberties.
"To retain democracy’s vigor and
permanence here, its practice must
be brought into harmony with its
professions. The responsibility for
making democracy work does not be
long to one economic group or one
political party.
"Perpetuity of our democracy re
quires that we each adjust ourselves
to the interrelationship that we bear
to others. As good citizens we have
the paramount duty of co-ordinating
the thinking on agriculture, labor,
Industry and commerce. • • •
Act in Segmentary Fashion.
“Yet this is a fact that is either
not recognized or Ignored by many
people. We are too much Inclined to
think and act in segmentary fash
ion. • * *
"In carrying forward this objective
program, the press should become an
even stronger bulwark against internal
enemies which cause disequilibrium in
our national life and become a more
potent force for accelerating and
safeguarding the progress of our
civilization.”
Current national problems, the sec
retary said, bring a "challenge to the
press of America as an educational
and patriotic agency, such as it never
before faced.
“The marvelous accomplishments
of the Associated Press in the past
encourage me to believe that it will
not fail in this crisis, but that it will
be found in the forefront, leading the
way for the future.”
He recalled that "nearly half a cen
tury ago, Victor Lawson uttered a
dynamic idea when he said, ‘I believe
the American people are capable of
self-government and if so they must
be able to form judgment. They must
be given the facts free from the slight
est bias, leaving to them the business
of deciding their own opinions.'
Stands Alone in World.
I “Thus was the present-day Asso
ciated Press conceived and now, with
1,300 members and its reporters in
every corner of the globe, it stands
alone as the only non-profit-making
news associaion in the world.
“Its growth is a dramatic story of
human progress. On its roll of honor
are etched such illustrious names as
Victor Lawson, Charles Knapp, Clark
Howell, Melville Stone, Frederick E.
Murphy, Frank B. Noyes, Adolph
Ochs and other pioneers, living and
dead.
“During the past decade distinctly
forward steps have been taken under
the progressive leadership of that in
defatigable executive, Kent Cooper.
The report of Kent Cooper, the gen
eral manager, scheduled to be pre
sented to the membership, reflected
the expansion in the last year of both
the news report and the photo service.
1936 Events Diversified.
“The world's news and pictorial
events in 1936,” he said, “were so
diversified and sustained in develop
ments that the dally demand on the
facilities of the organisation reached a
new peak.”
Important to the membership at the
annual meeting was discussion of the
question of amending the by-laws to
admit associate members permitted to
receive the association's services, but
without protest or other rights.
Three new directors, to represent
newspapers in cities under 50.000
population, will be elected, as well as
five others to fill expired terms.
Addressing the A. N. P. A., conven
ing tomorrow for a four-day session
in celebration of the 50th anniversary
of its founding, will be Senator Ben
nett Champ Clark of Missouri. John
Stewart Bryan, president of William
and Mary College and publisher of
the Richmond (Va.) News-Leader, was
unable to make a scheduled address
because of illness.
Deliberations on Cost.
Publishers expressed belief that in
creased cost of producing newspapers
would play an important part in their
deliberations. Some predicted an an
ticipated rise in the cost of newsprint
would result in the establishment of
more paper mills in Southern States.
Hotel lobby talk reflected the back
home Interests of the publishers.
Mark Ethridge, general manager of
the Louisville Courier-Journal and the
Louisville Times, brought news of
business recovery in the Kentucky
flood area. The best year for Middle
Western grain fanners since the de
pression was forecast by Oscar 8.
Stauffer, publisher of newspapers in
Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Okla
homa.
Cotton Quality Improve*.
AUBURN, Ala. (JP).—The Alabama
State Farm Bureau says a State-wide
cotton improvement program has re
sulted in the return of the quality
staples and grades that characterized
crops grown before the War Between
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John Meloy, 15, oj 638 Massachusetts avenue, the first in
line, perches on a stool waiting for the office to open.
_ —Star Staff Photos.
Labor
(Continued From First Page.)
In closed session and reported to be
debating advisability of outright ex
pulsion of the C. I. O. unions.
The ostensible purpose of the ooun
cil meeting, however, was to discuss
a general membership campaign and
the situation created by the Supreme
Court’s validation of the national
labor relations act.
Despite the threat of labor diffi
culties, the Ford company meanwhile
announced plans for expansion of its
plant. An official said Ford had ap
proved construction in Detroit of a
2,500,000-cubic-foot gas holder "as
high as an 18-story building.”
18-story building.”
Membership Campaigns.
Membership campaigns of both
labor factions apparently were spurred
by the Supreme Court's decisions on
the Wagner act.
The act provides that a union
shown by an election to cover the
majority of employes in an industrial
plant may bargain collectively for all.
The break between Lewis and the
American Federation of Labor came
a year ago over the question of craft
unions or industrial unions.
The federation's policy had been
to organize each craft separately,
lewis contended all workers in a
major Industry should be in one big
union, regardless of their craft.
Impatient with the A. F. of L. policy,
Lewis formed the Committee for In
dustrial Organization with the United
Mine Workers as its key union. Nine
other big unions joined him. All
were suspended by the federation.
Since then Lewis’ organization has
carried on active membership drives
and called sit-down strikes in the
automobile and other Industries.
The meetings of leaders of the rival
labor factions were on the eve of a
joint business-labor conference, called
by Secretary Perkins, to discuss prob
lems of collective bargaining under
the Wagner act.
Lewis and Green Invited.
Both Lewis and William Green,
president of the A. F. of L., were
among those invited. Lewis accepted
and Green said he would attend if
possible, but that his council's ses
sion, scheduled for three days, con
flicted with it.
A wide representation from industry
was assured.
Secretary Perkins left the confer
ence program wide open for discussion
of all aspects of lndustrlsl relations
to "effect s general understanding be
tween workers and employers as to
the procedure and method of con
structive collective bargaining."
She said suggestions for new labor
legislation or amendments to existing
laws would not be ruled out. although
the meeting was not arranged for
that purpose.
Questions expected to come up for
debate were:
1. What should be the ethical atti
tude of employers and workers enter
ing bargaining negotiations?
2. What does the Wagner act con
sider as "good faith" on the part of
the employer in trying to reaeh an
agreement?
G-Man
(Continued From First Page )
had admitted the Topeka shooting.
Hoover said his information was that
Baker had surprised Power at a p06t
office window and that Suhay had fired
upon the agent from a "lookout" posi
tion he had taken up some distance
back of his partner.
Both men then ran from the build
ing and fled.
They were captured Friday night,
without a shot being fired, by Homer
Sylvester, 5-foot 4-inch sheriff, and
his deputy, at Plattsmouth, Nebr. Sher
iff Sylvester recovered $4,800. An ad
ditional $6,954 was found in a room
in a Kansas City hotel the men had
occupied Thursday.
Baker was the tenth Federal agent
killed in the line of duty since 1925.
NAME TO GO ON PLAQUE.
I -
Baker Killed In Line of Duty—Cheek
Sent to Father.
BY REX COLLIER.
The Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion prepared today to add the name
of Special Agent Wimberly Wayne
Baker to its bronze plaque in memory
of agents who sacrificed their lives
“in line of duty.”
As orders were being issued for
a new name-plate, sorrowing com
rades of the 27-year-old victim of
the Topeka post office gun battle
noted, with evident bitterness, that
virtually every gun-wielding slayer
of a G-Man had been a recipient
of official clemency.
J. Edgar Hoover, F. B. I. director,
long a vigorous critic of ‘maladmin
istered parole,” stressed that Robert
Suhay and Alfred Power, bank ban
dits charged with the murder of Agent
Baker, were at large because of sus
pended prison sentences.
Suhay, a 24-year-old New York
hoodlum, who, Hoover said, shot Baker
in the back as he sought to arrest
Power last Friday, ”is at the present
time on parole until 1944 from Great
Meadows Prison, Comstock, N. Y.”
Prior to the robbery of the Katonah,
N. Y., bank, for which Agent Baker
was seeking him. Hoover said, he had
been reporting regularly to the parole
officer in New York.
Power, after escaping from Great
Meadows Prison in 1934, was returned
there, but was released last November
to immigration authorities for depor
tation. Records show he was deported
on the 8. 8. Scythia to London last
November 14. How he slipped back
into the United tSates is a mystery.
DR. STONE WITHDRAWS
ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 19 OP).—
Frank T. Stone, 60-year-old retired
druggist of Arlington, today an
nounced his withdrawal from the race
for the Democratic nomination for
Lieutenant Governor.
ferees had In negotiating wags agree
ments?
4. Does an employer have to enter
Into an agreement after negotiations?
5. How are employers to negotiate
with unorganised workers?
6. What constitutes an “unfair la
Judiciary
(Continued From First Page.)
the committee, It would be voted
down,” he said. “Mr. Drewry has
done an excellent job as chairman of
the congressional committee.”
No effort would, or should, be made
to restrain a member of the House
from expressing his persor^l views
on the President's bill, it was indicated
by both Rayburn and Crowe.
Meanwhile, Alan M. Limburg, nep
hew of New York's Democratic Gov.
Lehman, told the Senate Judiciary
Committee the President's judiciary
plan is "an insult to the Nation.”
Limburg, a New York stock broker,
said he also is related by marriage
to Secretary of the Treasury Mor
genthau and is a life-long Democrat.
"I have always supported the Presi
dent,” he said, "but I cannot go along
with him on this issue.”
Declared Insult to Nation.
"In my opinion,” he aded, "it is an
insult to the Nation even to hint that
our Supreme Court is not 100 per cent
honest in its opinions.”
Limburg was the only witness to
appear before the committee today.
"If the plan goes through,” Lim
burg said, "it would be a farce to call
ourselves a democracy. We might as
well not have a Supreme Court of the
United States as to have a subservient
one ”
Limburg drew an an analogy between
the court plan and the steps leading
to the Hitler dictatorship in Germany.
Senator Burke, Democrat, of Ne
braska, leading Senate opponent of
the court plan, announced that to
morrow's witnesses will be Dr. Wil
liam A. Eddy, president of Hobart
College; Catherine D. Gallagher of
Goucher College, Baltimore, and Col.
Frederick H. Allen, director of the
Constitutional Democracy Association,
of Charleston. S. C.
A leader of the Senate opposition
to the Roosevelt court bill meanwhile
said the measure would pews if the
President would accept two. instead of
a potential six, additional Supreme
Court justices.
The Senator, who asked not to be
quoted by name, said a modification
would win over enough Democrats
who want to "get right" with their
party leader and their constituents
i to pass the bill.
! It was the first time any of the lead
1 ing opponents of the hotly contested
measure had agreed it could be en
acted with a provision for any in
crease in the sise of the court.
Opposition leaders heretofore have
insisted they haa a solid block of 43
votes against the bill—and that no
measure could pass the Senate with
that many fighting opponents.
Labor's Non-Partisan League will
hold mass meetings tonight in 26 cities
in support of the bill. George L.
Berry, league president, and Attorney
General Cummings will give Nation
j wade radio addresses.
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EX-VICE PRESIDENT
OF ARGENTINA DIES
By th« Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, April 19.—Enrique
Santamarina, 84, a former vice presi
dent of Argentina, died yesterday,
after a long illness.
He was a leading figure in Argen
tine business and cattle-raising cir
cles, and was created a knight of the
French legion of Honor in 1927 for
his horse-breeding activities.
He was a grand uncle of Argen
tina's "baby Lindbergh,” Eugenio
Pereyra Iraola. who was kidnaped and
alain last February.
Santamarina was vice president dur
ing the provisional regime of Gen.
Jose Felix Uriburu, which ousted Dr.
Hipolito Irigoyen in 1930. He re
mained in office until February, 1932.
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
May take up Harrison-Black edu
cational aid bill.
Judiciary Committee resumes hear
ings on court bill.
Congressional conferees study per
manent neutrality bills.
House:
Debates minor ■ egislation.
Rivers and Harbors Committee re
sumes Bonneville Dam bearings.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Will take up State, Justice, Com
merce and Labor appropriation bill.
Judiciary Committee, further hear
ings on President's Court bill.
House:
Considers resolution providing for
Federal participation in New York
World’s Fair.
Military Affairs Committee con
siders bill governing production and
exploitation of helium gas, 10:30 a.m.
Judiciary Committee considers bill
i to prohibit interstate transportation
of certain merchandise, 10:30 a.m.
Special subcommittee of District
Committee begins hearings on Ool
Xn^Mu MB. 10 am
IS NAMED ENVOY
Nominated Minister to Nor
way—Pell Gets Portu
gal Post.
Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, promi
nent in the District for many years
in social, political and charitable
activities, today was nominated by
President Roosevelt to be Minister to
Norway.
Mrs. Harriman will succeed Anthony
J. Drexel Biddle, jr„ of Pennsylvania,
who today was nominated by the Presi
dent to be Ambassador to Poland, suc
ceeding John Cudahy.
The President also nominated Her
bert Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island
to be Minister to Portugal, succeeding
Robert Granville Caldwell of Texas,
who was nominated to be Minister to
Bolivia, succeeding R H. Norweb.
Howard J. Klossner of Minnesota
was nominated to be a member of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Board of Directors for the unexpired
term of two years from January 22,
1936,
Other nominations included:
Henry F. Grady of California to
be a member of the Tariff Commis
sion for the remainder of the term
expiring June 16, 1941.
Raymond S. Patton of Ohio to be
director of the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey for a four-year
term beginning April 29, 1937.
Mrs. Harriman. who has been Dem
ocratic national committeewoma n
from the District for a number of
years, is the second woman to be
appointed to a high diplomatic poet
by the President. The other was
Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, who while
Minister to Denmark married Capt.
Boerge Rhode of the King’s Life
Guard, and later resigned.
Mrs Harriman, a native of New
York, became a resident of Washing
ton nearly 25 years ago, and her
home, Uplands, on Foxhall road, has
been a social center for years.
Grady, for many years dean of the
College of Commerce of the Uni
versity of California, and recently
chief of the Trade Agreements Divi
sion of the State Department, suc
ceeds the late Thomas Walker Page.
Grady, who is 55 years old, is a
recognized authority on foreign and
domestic commerce. He asked to be
relieved of State Department duty
about a year ago and returned to the
university.
He served as a special expert of
the Bureau of Planning and Statistics
of the United States Shipping Board,
1918 to 1919. and was United States
trade commissioner to London and
Continental Europe in 1919 and 1920
to make a report on post-war financial
conditions. For a period during that
service he served as acting commercial
attache in London and in a similar
capacity in Holland.
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Base Ball
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fans—men, women and children—
coming prepared to spend the rest cl
the day. The longest lines were at
the windows handling standing-room
accommodation, but the pavilion was
getting a good play, and there was also
a crowa at the bleacher entrance.
The pavilion line formed first, and
at its head was John Meloy, 15 years
old, of 638 Massachusetts avenue
northeast. Eastern High School,
where John is a first-year student,
had a prior claim on his attendance
today, but his father put an okay on
an application to go to the ball game—
so he said.
No President has been luckier for
( Washington ball clubs than Roose
velt, who is the sixth Chief Exec
utive to perpetuate the bail-tossing
custom since President Clark Griffith
of the Nationals prevailed upon Wil
liam Howard Taft to inaugurate the
stunt 26 years ago. Roosevelt never
has seen the Washington club lose
a ball game.
The President started attending
opening games in 1917, when he was
Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
Washington won that day. Attend
ing a world series game writh the
Giants in 1933, Roosevelt witnessed
the only triump for the Nationals in
the classic. In 1934 Washington lost
the first game, but the President
was forced to leave in the fifth
inning and did not witness the de
feat. The Griffmen haven't lost an
opener since.
Greats, near-greats and just plain
folks were to lay down their tools
to join the President. Shortly before
game time Vice President John Nance
Garner was to head a parade of
Washington and Philadelphia players
to raise the flag. In the presidential
party were expected to be many
leading political figures. And, of
course, ih the background were to be
thousands of Washingtonians mourn
ing the passing of their grandmothers
Few Washington ball clubs have
captured more completely the fancy
of local fans than the current edition,
lean and sun-tanned from six weeks
of Spring training in Florida and
barnstorming on the road in exhi
bition games. The team is faintly
reminiscent of the 1924 team, which
won a pennant and world champion
ship, in that it is a mixture of young
sters and veterans. Managing the
club again is Bucky Harris, who
piloted the lone National team to win
a world series.
For the last five weeks the club has
played consistent ball in exhibition
competition, which ended yesterday in
Baltimore with Washington winning
a 15-to-9 decision over the Orioles.
It was the Nationals’ twentieth victory
in 29 games this Spring.
The choice of Cascarella to pitch
the opener came as a surprise when
Harris made his announcement last
Saturday, but none of the qther
hurlers deserved the assignment more
than did the reformed crooner, who
for two years was a featured singer
on a regular network program. From
a minor member of the mound staff
Cascarella made amazing strides this
Spring to earn the honor which was to
be his today.
Cascarella broke into the majors
with the Athletics, but, after enjoying
early success, he drew the ire of
Manager Connie Mack and was
shipped to the International League.
From this loop he was plucked by the
Boston Red Sox, who last 8ummer
traded him, plus cash, for Jack Rus
sell of Washington.
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Bird Turns Panhandler.
WATKINS glen, N. Y. <£>}.—
There’s a robin in these parts which
does everything but say, “Buddy, can
you spare a dime?”
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Dedomi report
that each day it taps on the cellar
door of their home, and, If no food
is forthcoming, it flies around Mid
leap* on liw kttetwn wtndoaa.