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HELD MiALIENS
Immigration Official Says 5
Arrested in Strikes Are
in U. S. Illegally.
My tbt Associated Press.
DETROIT. May 1.—Homer Martin,
president of the United Automo
bile Workers of America, said to
day the union's Executive Board had
dismissed "eight or ten” organizers
because they were not automobile
workers.
One of those dismissed was Kempton
A. Williams of Saginaw , organizer for
the Saginaw district. Martin did not
disclose the names of the others.
“The General Executive Board ruled
that the union's constitutional pro
vision demanding that organizers be
auto workers must be enforced,” Mar
tin said. “This rule had been waived
during the emergency period when we
were rushed to provide sufficient or
ganizers for the membership cam
paign.”
Williams, who directed a strike at
the Baker-Perkins plant at Saginaw
last Monday, charged his dismissal to
“politics.” Martin denied the charge.
John L. Zurbrick, district director
of immigration here, said today that
five persons detained by police in
connection with recent sit-down
strikes have been found to be aliens
Illegally in the United States. He
•aid they faced probable deportation.
Among them. Zurbrick said, were
these organizers for the United Auto
mobile Workers of America: Solomon
Fine, engaged in organizing Detroit
parking lot attendants; John G. Dol
phin, an organizer of Ford Motor Co.
employes, and John N. McLeod, an
organizer in Flint, Mich.
Strike
(Continued From First Page.)
itatement explaining its status until
Monday.
“It's up to the individual film play
ers at this time whether they want to
pass through the picket lines. The
Executive Board of the guild cannot
advise ths*i. Likewise, it is up to the
Individual stars and lesser players
whether, with the make-up artists on
strike, they want to make themselves
up.”
If the strike goes on. Paramount will
be hardest hit of all studios. The
company, fearing a walkout, recently
rushed 13 pictures into production,
hoping to complete them before a
tie-up.
The difficulty comes at an especially
inopportune time for Metro-Goldwyn
Mayer, which will be host to film ex
hibitors beginning Monday.
Other studios have tapered off on
production, awaiting strike develop
ments.
The strike of the four unions was
called as studio executives withheld
decision on union demands for a closed
shop as well as union recognition. Tne
other unions in the newly-formed Fed
erated Motion Picture Crafts, strike
sponsor, voted to defer until later today
any decision on joining the strike.
The "Film Daily’s Yearbook of Mo
tion Pictures” for 1937 lists Mont
gomery as president of the guild, James
Cagney as first vice president, Joan
Crawford as second vice president,
Chester Morris as third vice president.
Kenneth Thomson as secretary, Boris
Karloff as assistant secretary, Noel
Madison as treasurer and Murray Kin
nell as assistant treasurer.
The directors are listed as Edward
Arnold, Robert Armstrong, Dudley
Digges, Leon Errol, C. Henry Gordon,
Paul Harvey. Lucille Gleason, Jean
Hersholt, Claude King, Frederic
March. French Morgan. Ralph Mor
gan. Alan Mowbray, Edward G. Robin
eon, Lyle Talbot. Robert Young, Spen
cer Tracy, Arthur Vinton. Donald
Woods. Elizabeth Risdon, Pat O'Brien,
Humphrey Bogart, Francis Lederer,
Franchot Tone and Warren William.
Advisory Board Members.
The Advisory Board is listed as
Eddie Cantor. Berton Churchhill, Clay,
Clement, Frank Conroy, Gary Cooper,
Marlon Davies, James Dunn. Edward
Ellis. Florence Fair, Norman Foster,
Clark Gable. James Gleason, Otto
Kruger. Hugh Herbert. Miriam Hop
kins, Bela. Lugosi, Victor McLaglen,
Adolph Menjou, Jean Muir, Paul Muni, j
Bradley Page, Dick Powell, Jessie
Ralph, Ivan Simpson. C. Aubrey,
Smith, Charles Starrett, Genevieve
Tobin, Lee Tracy, Evelyn Venable,
Lois Wilson, Walter Abel, Maude
Ebume, Gilbert Emery, Brandon
Evans Porter Hall, Peter Lorre, Her
bert Marshall, Gloria Swanson and
Richard Tucker.
More than 2.500 members of the
four unions were involved in last
night's strike call. They were in- (
st.ructed not to go to work today.
Lessing declared other unionists
would not go through picket lines of
the striking unions.
He said, however, that full effect !
of the strike may not be evident
until Monday. There is little studio
activity on Saturdays.
Pat Casey, labor conciliator for the I
film producers, declared they would
wait to see the effects of a strike j
before deciding on the union demands, i
One hundred scantily-clad girls in i
the Paramount Studio picture, “Artists I
and Models," worked mo6t of the night
after being informed a strike might
Prevent renewal of their elaborate
make-ups for further scene-shooting
today.
The studio police force at Para
mount, where 14 pictures are in pro
duction, was put on 24-hour call.
Fifty-two productions, involving
millions of dollars, are affected at va- j
rious studios by the strike situation, j
After the Flood Is Over—the Work Has Just Begun
His home at 4600 Canal road half inundated by the flood,
Wilmer Donohue is shown as he started the sloppy task of shovel
ing muck from his kitchen. Even the coffee pot failed to escape ■
the lapping ivaters.
Donohue’s work will not be over when the kitchen is clean,
however, for the living room also can stand a “clean-up cam
paign.” The sofa apparently served as a filter for the debris
laden water. Even an overshoe washed aboard.
In order to complete the clean-up job Donohue will have to
retrieve the mattresses, placed high in the rafters to prevent
saturation. Even this move failed as the water rose above the
house. Note straw clinging to mattress. —Star Staff Photos.
PARK FLOOD COST
IS PUTAT &500
Finnan Estimates Work of
Cleaning Up Will Take
Three Weeks.
i
Estimating the total flood damage
in the park system at $3,500. C. Mar
shall Finnan, superintendent of the
National Capital Parks, today said
clean-up work will take about three
weeks. His announcement followed
an inspection of the parks that were
partially under water.
In Potomac Park and in the Rock
Creek and Potomac Parkway, south
of K street, the park chief placed the
total damage at $2,500. He declared
that in Rock Creek Park, especially
at Pierce Mill, the damage would
aggregate $1,000.
The total cost of erecting the dikes,
hastily built by Civilian Conservation
Corps, Works Progress Administra
tion and National Capital Parks labor,
reached $8,000, Finnan declared.
Surveying the damage, the park
superintendent asserted that, thanks
to the sandbag protection erected, the
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway
was not subjected to scouring action
by the rushing waters where the Po
tomac River takes a bend near the
gas light property. In the March,
1936, flood there was considerable
scouring there and topsoil, trees and
shrubs, as well as lawn areas, were
washed out. This time. Finnan said,
there was some damage to topsoil
and sodding, but plant material was
saved.
The pansy bed, unlike in the 1936
flood, was saved from the high waters
this time. A protective dike was
thrown up there. While the rose gar
den in West Potomac Park w>as flood
ed, despite the erection of sandbags,
caused by the backing up of water
through the drainage system, Finnan
declared the main rush of waters was
staved off. Because of this protection, ;
he said, the rose garden is not se- j
riously damaged.
Just how the National Capital Parks
will obtain all necessary funds for i
flood repair work has not been de
cided Anally, officials said. Mean
while W. P. A. workers are being
utilized on their regular assignments 1
and employes of the park system are ,
bearing the brunt of the clean-up job. I
_
Strippers
(Continued From First Page.)
shows as a menace to youth, and
a probable cause of sex crimes.
Burlesque itself offered little de-!
fense, save in general terms, and;
there were no objctions to any part
of the detailed reports of the shows,
given by Moss' inspector, Joseph F. j
Donovan.
‘‘I am satisfied,” Moss said in part
in his statement, ‘‘that the proof
before me clearly indicates that the
type of performance, the language
used, the display of nudity are coarse,
vulgar and lewd, and endanger public
morality and the welfare of the com
munity, and are a disgrace to the
people of the city of New York.”
Bandits Invade Home, Get $420.
Four colored men were robbed of
$420 last night when two armed hold
up men invaded their home in the
200 block of R street. Those robbed
and the amounts taken from them
were: Stephan Washington, $300;
Maurice Newsom, $36; James Curtis,
$24, and Harold T. Hawthorne, $60.
MUNI-HOPKINS’ PICTURE
CONTINUED AT KEITHS
“Woman I Love" Finds Its Major
Bits of Excitement in Some
Aerial Battle Photography.
•'rpHE WOMAN I LOVE" began its
second week at R-K-O Keith's
yesterday despite the fact that its fire
works come principally from a war
time aviator's machine gun, and not
from the expected sources. With a
cast including Paul Muni, Miriam
Hopkins and Louis Hayward, one
might have anticipated a rather vivid
drama here. Instead there is a slow
~nd slightly lugubrious story of a
young man (Mr. Hayward) who meets
a girl (Miss Hopkins) in Paris just
before he goes off to war, falls in love
with her. arrives at the front to be
come strong friends with a perfect
stranger (Mr. Muni) who is, it turns
out, the husband of his lady fair.
While there is a moderately piquant
psychological twist to Mr. Muni’s
characterization, most of the emo
tional punch of the tale derives from
its aerial photography, which is not
spectacular but vividly personalizes
the sensations of one aviator engaged
in the handsome business of trying to
blast the daylights out of another
aviator who happens to wear a dif
ferent uniform, a different insignia on
his airplane.
Keith's also has an array of short
subjects on its program.
B. R. P„ JR.
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May Dav
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E. Killeen, president of the Legion
Auxiliary. Music was to be furnished
by the Marine Band.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars will
hold May day services at the me
morial at 8:30 p.m.
The George Washington University
Peace Organization was granted a
permit by the National Park Service
to stage a demonstration in Franklin
Park at 1:30 p.m. on condition there
be no “inflammatory” speeches and
that no papers be circulated.
Guests at G. W. U. Event.
Approximately 100 high school girls
from Washington. Baltimore and near
by Maryland and Virginia were to be
guests at the George Washington Uni
versity May day celebration, to be held
under auspices of the university’s
Sorority Council. They were to regis
ter and then begin a tour of the
campus at 10 a.m., attend an assembly
conducted by the Hour Glass Society
at 11:30 a.m. and witness a dance re
cital by Orchesis, student dance
group, and a sports exhibit by members
of the Women’s Athletic Association,
in the university yard at 2 p.m. A tea
in Strong Hall was to conclude the
program.
The committee in charge of the
celebration includes Jeanette Gilbert,
chairman, Betty Mae Brown, Mar
garet Clark, Mary Fulgham, Mar
garet Graves, Betty Griswold and
Katherine Porter.
A May day procession was to be
held at the Church of the Immaculate
Conception, Eighth and N streets, at
3:15 p.m., with Miss Rita Koontz, 18,
of 1221 Jefferson street, as queen.
The Capital City Forum will hold
a May day fete at 1502 Fourteenth
street tonight. Kate Richards O’Hare
will speak. The Theater Group will
present “El Secreto," its first produc
tion, a play based on the Spanish
Civil War.
Girl Scouts of Northeast Washing
ton were to hold a May day rally
on the National Training School
grounds at 3 p.m. Games and other
sports were to be played, followed by
a picnic supper and a campfire pro
gram in wnich each troop will par
ticipate.
'HOSPITAL APPEAL
MAY DAYFEATURE
800 Women Offer Badges
in Crusade for Health
Contributions.
Washington is being asked today
to observe National Child Health day
by rallying to the support of the city's
nine united hospitals. Citizens are
being requested to buy a health cru
sader's badge from one of the 800
women who dot the town's busy cor
ners and "help hospitals help health.”
Because many thousands of dollars’
worth of free hospital and clinical
work has been left unpaid for so far
this year, it is necessary to appeal to
the populace, which supports the hos
pitals and is in turn benefited by
them, to make up the deficit, Charles
D. Drayton, chairman of the Hos
pital Presidents' Committee, said to
day.
Use of Contributions.
In a broadcast over station WOL
last night Drayton cited an individual
example of the use to which contribu
tions are put. He told of a boy suf
fering from a growth in his throat
which threatened to stop his breath
ing. The boy's family could not af
ford hospital rates. A specialist took
an interest in the case and oflered
his free services in curing the malady.
A bed. nurses, operating equipment
and other items necessary for treat
ment had to be provided, however.
"I saw that boy,” Drayton told the
radio audience, “and could not pro
nounce a death sentence on him. He
got the bed, nurses and other requi
sites. Now, however, some one has to
pay for them.”
Similar Program In Evening.
Rev. Calvert E. Buck, superintendent
of Episcopal Hospital, and Ross Gar
rett, director of the Central Admitting
Bureau for Hospitals, joined ii. a sim
ilar program later in the evening.
A girl who could not get a job be
cause of a disfigured face, a widow
with a sick child and a sick father on
her hands and only scant insurance
left by her husband and a clerk's sal
ary on which to draw, were cases
cited.
Garrett ended the program by say
ing the answers to these problems and
thousands like them are simple and
the people of Washington possess the
answer.
A program telling of actual activi
ties at Children’s Hospital, was broad
cast this morning at the hospital to
drive home the appeal. Miss Mattie
Gibson, superintendent, participated.
(Continued From First Page.)
had insisted on maintaing the Bilboa
blockade in conjunction with the land
offensive.
Conflicting reports as to the number
of fatalities when the Espana was
blasted amidships yesterday by a gov
ernment bomb dropped by an attack
ing plane is one of the ship’s funnels—
as government advices had it—persist
ed today.
Some dispatches said only 110 of
the Espana’s men and officers were
saved, but advices from the Governor
of Santander, Spain, said all the crew
were dragged from the water 4 miles
off Cape Mayor.
The normal crew of the Espana was
854 officers and men. The latest word
was that the insurgent cruiser Velasco
picked up the survivors—a fact ren
dering impossible precise knowledge of
the number of survivors or dead, since
the loes of the Espana had not been
officially acknowledged by the insur
gents.
Aside from Franco's expression on
evacuation of Bilbao’s non-fighters—
women and children and aged or in
firm men—the problem was still far
from solution. Worried border officials
did not believe that all refugees could
be rescued, but expected some of them
to be brought to St. Jean de Luz, a
French port near here and about 70
miles east of Bilbao.
They said removal of all the thou
sands of non-combatants presented
"insurmountable physical difficulties.”
Bilbao reports on the number seeking
such refuge have varied from 150,000
to 300,000.
Meanwhile, Franco's warriars, in
command of his aide, Gen. Emilio
Mola, maintained their pressure on
the Durango-Guernica front, the most
advanced section, about 10 miles east
of Bilbao, rectifying positions against
the stubborn Basque defenders and
bunching for a coup de grace.
Bilbao reports termed this pause the
result of counter-attacks by Basque
militiamen. The Bilbao defense coun
cil said its advanced forces had re
gained some positions against the in
surgents. while the remainder of the
defense army of some 40,000 was con
solidating for a last stand between the
Durango-Guernica line and the capi
tal itself.
Still more fortifications were being
thrown up in the frenzied effort to
build a solid wall of men, earth and
steel between the insurgents and their
objective.
Employes
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employed on contracts. The reduc
tion program there originally took in
approximately 865 employes, but this
difference was due to those able to find
places elsewhere.
The employes are being put on
90-day furloughs, and get two weeks’
notice in addition to whatever accrued
leave they have. In some cases, this
was reported to amount to a month.
The Treasury, where thousands of
emergency workers are located, be
cause of the expanding Government
spending, has been carrying out a
slight retrenchment program for
months, it was said.
The Procurement Division is drop
ping 206 technical employes May 15
as the result of curtailed building op
erations. These include 144 architects,
41 mechanical and electrical engineers
and 21 structural engineers. This will
leave an emergency technical force
of 295.
In Commerce, another large employ
ing agency, it was said that while
everything possible was being done to
save, no thought of personnel reduc
tion had entered calculations. Even a
slight increase there after July 1 was
forecast.
At the Post Office Department it
was pointed out that expenditures are
regulated by the demands of the
public for service, and that econ
omies are always in order wherever
they can be made effective. The de
partment, incidentally, is to finish the
year in good shape with the prospects
that receipts, originally figured at
*705,000,000 appear now to be on their
way to about *721,000,000. The de
partmental staff always 1s at bed
rock, and the effect of fluctuating
business on the postal service as a
whole is shown by the March per
sonnel report—an addition of more
than 1,100 employes, principally sub
stitute clerks and carriers.
’rtie monthly report also showed
seasonal increases in Agriculture,
Commerce, Tennessee Valley and
Treasury—income tax payments creat
ing more work in the Internal Reve
nue Bureau.
.-The breakdown in March employ
ment was: Old line agencies, 649.877;
New Deal, 52.407, and in both of these
categories, financed by public works
funds, 126,909.
Since December 31 total employ
ment has dropped about 2,000. but
there has been a decline of $10,000,000
in the pay roll.
Unless the economy move gets down
to abolishing functions, it has been
pointed out, a reduction in force is only
going to result in increasing the over
time load, which, the Civil Service
Commission report to the President in
January disclosed, is of mountainous
proportions.
Parades
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of the International Ladies’ Garment
Workers' Union.
Behind them, as the morning wore
on, thousands of others, swarming in
the streets of the wholesale garment
and millinery district, and farther
north in the neighborhood of Madison
Square Garden, fell into line and
moved southward.
United May Day Committee mem
bers had predicted that more than a
quarter of a million persons w ould take
part in the city’s celebrations, but it
was virtually impossible to estimate the
numbers. One thing was certain, how
ever. There were 1.750 policemen as
signed to active duty in the parade,
and all of the city's 19,000 police were
on reserve for the day.
Chant “Hands Off Spain.”
The paraders carried big banners.
They wore a variety of costumes, car
ried small flags and canes, and
marched through ever-recurring show
ers of confetti and torn paper. Their
mood was gay, even when they were
chanting, “Hands off Spain! Hands
ofT Spam!”
Down Eighth avenue they moved, a
mass of color and sound, to Thirtieth
street. Here they swung east to Fifth
avenue, south to Madison Square, veer
ing into Broadway to Seventeenth
street, then moving east to jam Union
Square.
At the end of the first hour ob
servers estimated that between 30,000
and 40,000 marchers had turned the
comer of Eighth avenue and Thirtieth
street.
"Free Tom Mooney!”, “Free the
Scottsboro boys!” "Support the Span
ish workers!" “Labor unites against
reaction—Organize the unorganized!"
screamed the banners and placards.
DEMONSTRATIONS MANY.
Child Ii Victim of Bomb Exploded in
Warsaw Celebration.
Thousands marched, cannons roared
and bands blared the ‘‘Internationale”
over the world today in traditional
May day demonstrations.
One bomb death occurred in War
saw, where Polish Socialists and Com
munists engaged in a turbulent cele
bration. A child was the victim.
Several others were hurt.
Huge throngs jammed streets of
European capitals and what was
termed the biggest May day parade
in New York's history proclaimed
proletaria solidarity.
There and in many other American
cities all police were held in reserve.
Cossacks paraded in Moscow's Red
Square before Communist Chief Joseph
Stalin, a half million persons gave the
clenched-flst salute in Paris and Ger
man workers heard from Adolf Hitler
in Berlin that the time for higher
wages had not yet come.
Loyalist-sympathizing paraders in
many cities over the world cried
“Help Bilbao,” as Spanish insurgent
guns hammered at the besieged Basque
capital.
The day also brought the film capi
tal of Hollywood its greatest labor
crisis in years, with possibility of a
walkout of 10,000 union workers in
movie studios.
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Statuta Is Brought From
Rome by Rector of
University.
The Statuta, new constitution under
which Catholic University is to oper
ate as a pontifical university, was
submitted yesterd^' to the trustees of
the institution, who had postponed
their meeting, scheduled for the second
I week after Easter, in order to receive
I the document.
The constitution was brought to
Washington from Rome by Right Rev.
Joseph M. Corrigan, rector of the
university. The Statuta, effective for
an indefinite period, was drawn in
accordance with the Apostolic Con
stitution, Deus Scientarium Dominum.
It was approved March 7.
The trustees, headed by Dennis
\ Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of
Philadelphia, accepted the resignation
I of Right Rev. David T. O'Dwyer as
| procurator and named Rev. Joseph N.
La Rue acting procurator. Msgr.
O'Dwyer will devote his time to the
Shrine of the Immaculate Concep
tion, of which he is director.
Besides Cardinal Dougherty, these
trustees weTe present at the meeting
in Caldwell Hall:
Most Rev. John J. Glennon, Arch
bishop of St. Louis; Most Rev. John
G Murray, Archbishop of St. Paul;
I Most Rev. Samuel A. Stritch, Arch
bishop of Milwaukee; Most Rev. Joseph
F. Rummel. Archbishop of New Or
leans; Mo6t Rev. Joseph Schrembs,
Archbishop of Cleveland.
Most Rev. John B. Peterson, Bishop
of Manchester, N. H.; Most Rev. Ed
win V. O'Hara, Bishop of Great Falls,
j Mont.; Most Rev. Peter L. Ireton,
Bishop of Richmond; Justice Pierce
Butler of Washington; John J. Sul
livan, Philadelphia; Clarence E. Mar
tin, Martinsburg, W. Va.; O. H. P
Johnson, treasurer of the university,
Washington; Msgr. Corrigan and
Right Rev. Patrick J. McCormick, vice
rector.
THE WEATHER
District of Columbia—Fair and
slightly wanner tonight and tomorrow;
lowest temperature tonight about 48
degrees; gentle variable winds.
Maryland and Virginia—Fair tonight
and tomorrow; slightly warmer tonight
and in east portion tomorrow.
West Virginia—Mostly cloudy to
night and tomorrow; little change in
temperature.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
! very muddy this morning.
Report for Lost 24 Honrs.
Temperature. Barometer.
Yesterday— Degrees. Inches.
4 P.m- 62 30.41
8 P m- 58 30.42
Midnight _ 51 30.42
Today—
4 a m_ 42 30 42
8 a.m._ 46 30.44
Noon _ 65 30.32
Record for Last 24 Honrs.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 63. at 3:30 p.m.: 84 year ago.
Lowest. 40, at 6 a.m.: 59 year ago.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 93, on April 18.
Lowest, 19. on February 28.
Humidity for Last 24 Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest. 79 per cent, at 6:15 a.m.
Lowest, 21 per cent, at 8:30 a.m.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High_11:34 a.m. 12:07 a.m.
Low _ 5:57 a.m. 6:43 a.m.
High _... . 12:23 p.m.
Low _ 6:40 p.m. 6:26 p.m.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun. today __ 5:11 7:00
Sun, tomorrow_ 6:10 7:01
Moon, today_ - - 9.29 a.m.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-hall hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation In inches in the
Capital (current month to date):
Month. 1937. Ave. Record.
January _ 7.83 3.56 7.83 '37
February _ 3.33 3.27 6.84 ’84
March _ 1.60 3.75 8.84 '91
April_ 6.85 3.27 9:13 ’89
May _ —- 3.70 10.69 ’89
June __ — 4.13 10.94 ’00
July __I_ 4.71 10.63 '86
August _ 4.01 14.41 '28
September _ ___ 3.24 17.45 '34
October _ 2.84 8.57 '85
November_ 2.37 8.60 ’80
December _ 3.32 7.56 '01
Weather in Various Cities.
Temp. Rain
Station Baro. H’h.Low.fall.Weath’r
Abilene. Tex. __ 30.02 90 56 Clear
Albany, N. Y._ 30.40 70 42 Clear
Atlanta. Ga. .. 30.18 58 54 0.18 Cloudy
Atlantic City _ 30.38 52 42 . Clear
Baltimore. Md._ 30.40 64 44 Clear
Birmingham 30.06 66 52 1.68 Cloudy
Bismarck N. D. 30.00 46 44 0.30 Cloudy
Boston. Mass. _ 30.30 56 48 Clear
Buffalo. N. Y. 30.38 68 52 ... Clear
Charleston S.C. 30.24 64 56 Cloudy
Chicago. 111. .. 30.14 62 52 0 86 Foggy
Cincinnati _ 30.18 70 58 0.02 Cloudy
Cleveland .. .. 30.28 70 50 ... Clear
Columbia. S. C.- 30.30 68 50 _ Cloudy
Denver. Colo_ 30.22 58 38 _ Cloudy
Detroit. Mich...30.30 64 4& ... Cloudy
El Paso. Tex... 30.06 72 44 Clear
Galveston. Tex._ 29.80 78 72 0.02 Rain
WASH., D. C._ 30.40 63 40 _Clear
CAMPAIGN STARTS
Observance Will Continue
Into Month—Fetes
Planned.
Observance of Child Health week,
which will continue well into the
month, began in the schools today
under sponsorship of the Department
of Education, the Congress of Parent
Teacher Associations, the Health De
partment and other groups. Special
programs were to be given on the 46
playgrounds throughout the city from
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Mrs. Roosevelt was to receive her
usual May day basket of flowers from
the children of Washington. Mrs.
Ernest R. Grant, director of the Tu
berculosis Association of Washing
ton, in charge of the presentation, and
Dr. Ella Oppenheimer, chairman of
the committee in charge of Child
Health day celebration of May day,
decided to “say it with flowers'1 to
Mrs. Roosevelt by wire.
The President’s wife now is on a
visit to Seattle to see her daughter,
Mrs. John Boettiger. The flowers were
to be selected this morning by four
school children. Joseph Urban, Mildred
Bauman, Morton Gooch and Joan
D. Perry, at a florist shop.
r.ntertainment at Hospital.
There will be a special entertain
ment at Children's Hospital, in which
clowns from the Potomac Avenue
Playgrounds were to appear A few
of the schools held programs yester
day, but the greater part of the Child
Health Week observance will be held
next week and continue well into the
month.
Efforts of the General Committee
will be devoted to impressing parents,
teachers and the city as a whole of
the importance of a year-round pro
gram of child health.
Speaking on child health yesterday.
Dr. William Mercier Spriggs, president
of the District Medical Society, said
"it is a great step forward in the pro
tection of child health when the coun
try becomes child conscious and real
izes that the child today is the man or
woman of tomorrow and into their
hands will be placed, in the near fu
ture, the responsibility of home, gov
ernment and society ax a whole It
necessarily follows in promoting child
health we are building for the future."
Dental Demonstration.
The school program for Child Health
week will include Monday a dental
demonstration in schools of the sixth
division, arranged by Dr. A. Harry
Ostrow, dental supervisor of the Health
Department.
Children at Wheatley School, Mon
tello avenue and Neal street north
east. will be examined by doctors and
dentists Monday morning, under aus
pices of the P.-T. A.
In the afternoon 760 pupils of the
school will participate in a "health fes
tival" in the school grounds. A health
demonstration will be presented under
the direction of Miss F. C. Mortimer
and her faculty.
CHICAGO GRAIN
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 1.—Reports of
growing seriousness of moisture de
ficiency in parts of the domestic
Southwest and Canada helped lift
wheat prices about a cent a bushel
today.
Private advices that rain is needed
badly in the western two-thirds of
Kansas and that Wichita experienced
the driest April in 42 years caused
some traders to say estimates of
Winter wheat production might have
to be lowered. One private statisti
cian lowered his prediction of Winter
wheat output 7.000,000, bushels com
pared with the month ago figures.
Wheat closed *8a7a higher than
yesterday's finish, May. 1.32%a'2:
July, 1.197aa20. and com was 7g to
2%, lower. May, 1.30*48%; July, 1.17*2
a5a. Oats were % up to % down.
CHICAGO. May 1 OPi.—
WHEAT—
Open. High Low. Close.
May- 1.31% 1.32% 1.31% 1.37 *•
July-- 1.19% 1.20*4 1.19% 1.19%
September 1.17% 1 18%, 1 17% 1.17%
CORN—
Mayinewi 1.33 1.33% 1.30% 1.30%
Mayiold' 1.78
July(new) 1.19% 1.19% 1.17% 1.17%
Julyloldi 1.10%
September 1.10 1.10% 1.08% 1.08%
OATS—
May- .50% .50% .50 .50%
July .45 .45% .44% .45
September 41% .41% .41% .41%
SOY BEANS—
May- 1.72% 1.73% 1.72% 1.73%
July. - 1.71% 1.72% 1.71% 172%
RYE —
May_ 1.13% 1.14% 1.13% 1.13%
July 104’, 1.05% 1.04% 1.04%
September .95% .96 .94’, .94%
BARLEY—
May_ __ - ___ .77
LARD—
May .. 11.45 11.60 11 45 11.55
i July-- 11.80 11.90 11.80 11.90
Septber 12.07 12.25 12.07 12.22
October 12.22 12.32 12.22 12.32
BELLIES—
1 May--- 15.50 _ ___15.50
I July_ - - __ 16.16
Chicago Cash Market.
Cash wheat: No. 1. hard, 138%;
com. No. 3 yellow. 1.36-1.3712: No. 4.
yellow. 1.33*2-1.37*2; No. 3. white,
1.36*2; sample grade. 1.30: oats: No,
1, white, 56*2: No. 2. white, 55%; No.
3, white. 53%-5412; No. 4. white. 52>4:
barley feed. 75-90; malting. 1.00-1.30;
timothy seed, 4 25-4.50; clover seed,
26.00-32.00.
l_
Monsanto Board
Declares 50-Cent
Common Dividend
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 1.—Monsanto
Chemical Co. announced today a divi
dend of 50 cents on the common, pay
able June 15 to stock of record May 25.
On March 15 the company paid 25
cents quarterly and 25 cents extra.
The concern has properties through
out the country and headquarters at
St. Louis.
Washington Produce
BUTTER—92 score, 1-pound prints. 3ft:
V4-Pound prints, 37; tub, 35: 90 score.
1-pound prints, 35; %-pound prints. 36;
tub. 34.
MEATS—Choice beef. 18. calves. 16:
veal. 16: lamb. 24: pork loin. 24: frozen
sliced bacon. 33; slab bacon, 28: com
pound. 13%; lard. 11%.
LIVE STOCK—Pigs. 8%a0: light hogs,
9a9%; mediums. 9%a%: heavies. 8%a9%:
roughs. 5%a8: calves. 6al0.
Prices paid shippers net f.o.b. Washing
ton. by the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural
Economics
EGGS—Market weak on nearby un
graded eggs. Receipts heavy. Price.*- %
lover. Government-graded eggs unchanged.
Current receipts. 19-19%: hennery whites
20-20%: Government graded and dated
white eggs tnet prices paid shippers, f.o.b.
Washington): U. S. extras, large, 23%; U.
S. extras, mediums. 1934. U. S. standards*
large 21.
LIVE POULTRY—Market steady at un
changed prices. Fowl, colored, heavy. 18
to 19. Leghorns, 14 to 15. Chicket .
Rocks. 22 to 24: crosses 21 to 23: Leg
horns, 13* to 2% ibs. and up., 20 to 21S
smaller sizes. 18: old guineas. 25 to -3JJ
each; turkeys, old hens 19 to 18; old
toms. 15.