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Other Transportation Work
ers May Join 25,000 in
Sympathy Walkout.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. May 1.—Twenty-five
thousand London busmen went on
strike today, seriously crippling the
city's transportation system, and the
possibility arose that subway and
street car workers might join the
strike to paralyze completely the
metropolitan transport network.
The May day walkout, only 12 days
before King George's coronation,
started shortly after midnight in an
attempt to enforce workers' demands
for a reduction of the working day
from eight to seven and one-half
hours and for slower bus schedules.
Busmen asserted the strike was 100
per cent effective m the London area.
The familiar red busses were absent
from city streets for the first time
sine the general strike of May, 1926,
when 2.500.000 striking workers para
lyzed the nation.
Thousands of Londoners wheeled
out their bicycles—some of them
tandems—and pedaled to work. Street
cars and subways were jammed dur
ing the morning rush hour.
At all bus garages strong lines of
pickets, each wearing a red rosette,
stood in an orderly manner under the
watchful eyes of police.
Goteminent negotiators attempted
to find a solution, fearing the sub
way and surface car unions, allied
with the busmen, might strike in
sympathy when London is jammed
with coronation visitors.
The tie-up of 5.000 busses on 240
routes was expected to throw a strain
on the already crowded underground
system, particularly since more than
100.000 soccer fans would attempt to
reach Wembley Stadium to see the
soccer cup finals, one of England's
premier sporting events,
Ernest Bevin, secretary of the
Transport and General Workers
L7nion, said the strike applied only to
the London area, but representatives
of 120.000 provincial busmen, in 10
counties, were asked last night at an
unofficial meeting to join in a sym
pathy strike.
The strike was called when the Lon
don Transport Board rejected union
demands. Minister of Labor Ernest
Brown promptly appointed a board of
inquiry which met briefly and then
adjourned negotiations until Monday.
The Transport Board, asserting a
shorter work day. is an economic im
possibility. was believed to be count
ing heavily on public indignation
against the strike.
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G. W. U. President Honored on Anniversary
President Cloyd Hech Marvin of George Washington University. shown as he received a gold
watch from Secretary Harry Davis of the board of trustees at a banquet last night at the May
flower Hotel. In the center are Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat of District Court and Charles S.
Baker, president of the Alumni Association.
_____
At a celebration earlier in the evening in Corcoran Hall. Left to right: Robert Doolin. Charles
S. Baker, Dr. Marvin, William Roshelle and Dean Henry Grattan Doyle. —Star Staff Photos.
Senator Wheeler Says His
Speech Was Eliminated
by Express Order.
BACKGROUND—
Kansas State Censor Board re
cently ordered elimination of short
speech by Senator Wheeler from
news reel, holding remarks were
immaterial. Alf M. London. 1936
G. O. P. Republican presidential
nominee, urns among protestanU.
The board since restored the
speech.
Bj the Associated Press.
TOPEKA. Kans., May 1.—A charge
that Postmaster General James A.
Farley was to blame for censorship
of a film containing remarks against
President Roosevelt's Supreme Court
program was left today with the peo
ple of Kansas by Senator Burton K.
Wheeler, Montana Democrat.
Last night in an address here, Sen
ator Wheeler said:
"I wasn't exactly sure whether I'd
be welcome if I came out here to dis
cuss a proposal which the Board of
Censors, on the order of Jim Farley,
had decreed you should not hear. I
thought some one might try to stop
my speech.”
' You elected a Democratic Governor
out here last Fall for the first time
in some years,” Wheeler noted.
‘‘Apparently it went to their heads
and they seem to have adopted a rule
not to let anybody disagree with Far
ley or the administration in Wash
ington.”
Gov. Walter A. Huxman, Landon’s
successor, ordered the re-examination
which resulted in reinstatement of
Wheeler’s remarks.
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Toothache Is Fire Alarm.
Mrs. Ellen M. Hart escaped with
slight burns from her blazing cottage
at Cockfleld, near Bury St. Edmunds,
England, after being warned by her
son, who was wakened by a tooth
ache.
Clicking Mugs
Welcome Beer
Back to Kansas
3.2 Beverage Legal
Again After 56
Years’ Absence.
By the Associated Press.
TOPEKA. Kans., May 1—Clicking
mugs and gay shouts of "Prosit" wel
comed legal beer back to Kansas to
day after a statutory absence of 56
years from the State where Carry
Nation's hatchet once hacked saloons.
The 3,2 beverage now legalized has
been sold in many cities, along with
more potent varieties since the Na
tion deserted prohibition, but it was
without benefit of law—also without
benefit to State coffers.
Prosecutors strove in vain to find
juries which would hold the beverage
intoxicating.
Today while the thirsty quaffed the
first legal beer since May 1. 1881, the
State which long was known as "bone
dry” had not only a new source of
revenue but of law suits as well. At
torney General Clarence V. Beck esti
mated as many as 50 may be necessary
to decide all questions. One suit
pending in Ottawa, Kans., chal
lenges the right to zone against sale
within 300 feet of a church, thus
cutting off a drug store’s business.
Holders of 8,000 Federal malt bev
erage permits took inventories of
stocks upon which the State requires
payment of 5 cents a gallon in taxes.
The State also collects $300 a year
from wholesale distributors. Outside
distributors must establish branches
in Kansas if they are to operate.
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GO TO DANCE FESTIVAL
Twelve Washingtonians Join in
New York Fete.
Twelve danoers from the Thomson
Community Center will represent
Washington at the English folk dance
festival in New York today.
Under the direction of Miss Mar
garet Cross, this group will join ap
proximately 400 others in Morris and
sword dances. American country
dances and a coronation ballet.
Steak and Greens First Meal
For Tennessee 52-Day Faster
By the Associated Press.
STOOPING OAK, Term., May 1.—
A fruit-jar full of choice cut-up steak
and a pot of greens boiled at the cabin
home of Jackson Whitlow today while
the emaciated religious faster pre
pared for his first "real meal” in 92
days.
He was ready to eat, but none could
say how his weakened body would
react to the food doctors have warned
may prove fatal unless carefully taken.
Whitlow broke his fast yesterday
morning by drinking a half-cup of
what he said was grape juice. The
neighbors who brought it claimed it
was elderberry wine.
The 45-year-old Cumberland Moun
tain fur-trapper said he began the
fast last March 10 "at the call of the
Lord.”
“My fast is over. My trial is ended.
I know God is with me and I am not
afraid,” Whitlow said when he set his
wife, Florence, to boiling the greens
for “pot liquor” and cutting the juicy
steak into bits for beef broth. "Wild
salate," a mountain delicacy, similar
to turnip greens, was choeen by Mrs.
Whitlow.
Happy, but woefully weak, Whitlow
declared: “I received a sweet mes
sage from the Lord. He told me to
abstain from water and drink a little
wine for the stomach’s sake. I un
derstand that wine is the fruit of the
vine and not a fermented or alcoholic
beverage. I absolutely did not drink
any wine and will not.”
Although Whitlow will not accept
medical advice because of a religious
belief, he looked forward today to
another of the periodic visits from
Dr. R. E. Standifer of Dunlap, 10
miles below here, who has examined
him four times since April 18.
On Dr. Standifer’s last visit, two
days ago, the physician reported
Whitlow weighed only 93 pounds. His
normal weight is 137.
Dr. Standifer said that Whitlow
should eat under "careful medical
supervision” when he resumed taking
food. The doctor felt, however, that
Whitlow would not take such advice
and said that in such an event, he
probably would be unable to assimi
late the food "and would pass out."
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Federation Head Disap
pointed Over Failure to Get
Post, Is Charge.
By the Associated Press.
TULSA. Okla . May 1.—Disapproval
of the President's Supreme Court plan
by the Council of the General Federa
tion of Women's Clubs quickly drew
neated replies today from Democratic
| officials of the host State.
The Tulsa World said several party
leaders voiced "charges that the dis
loyalty of Mrs. Roberta Campbell Law
son. president of the clubwomen, to
the Democratic party was prompted
by her disappointment in not getting
the post of Minister to Denmark."
• Mrs. Lawson laughed today over the
charges of the leaders.
“That's a scream!" she said.
"You just say that 'Mrs. Lawson
never was a candidate for that post.
Mrs. Lawson is a candidate for no
political position. Mrs. Lawson pre
fers America and non-partisan posi
tions where she can work for Ameri
cans and American ideals.
“X am not a candidate for any
political office.”
She declared there was nothing
partisan In the vote of the council
meeting of the general federation
against the President’s court plan.
Mrs. John Catlett, national Demo
cratic committeewoman for Oklahoma,
declared the council vote of 285 to 66
against the plan was "an insult to
Oklahoma Democrats who were called
on to use their influence in arranging
the program for the council."
She insisted that "hand-picked dele
gates brought down here to Oklahoma
to take a slap at the F'resident cer
tainly don't represent an accurate pic
ture of the position of 6.000,000 club
women.”
A report was circulated here that a
Democratic meeting at Oklahoma City
Monday would consider a resolution
expressing confidence in the President
and disapproval of the clubwomen’s
action.
At Oklahoma City, Sam Battles,
Democratic State chairman, said he
did not know of any move for such a
resolution but “if the court plan
comes up, however, I’m sure the Okla
homa State Democratic organization
will indorse it.”
Scott Ferris, State Democratic com
mitteeman, said "there’s no doubt in
my mind that Oklahoma Democrats
are behind the court plan.”
INJURED AMERICAN
FLYERS NOT RESCUED
400 Persona Try to Reach Crashed
Plane in Venezuelan
Jungle.
By the Associated Press.
The State Department has received
word from Venezuela that two Ameri
cans injured in the crash of a plane
in a Venezuelan jungle on April 23
had not been rescued up to noon yes
terday. Previous reports indicated they
had been rescued.
Meredith Nicholson, American Min
ister to Caracas, cabled the depart
ment that 400 persons, aided by gov
ernment aircraft, still were trying to
reach the injured men a week after
the accident.
The men are Frederic D. Grab of
Chicago, commercial attache of the
American Legation at Caracas, and
William Armstrong Perry, a geologist
of Westport, Conn.
Nine Speakers Review
Achievement of G. W. U.
Head in 10 Years.
All elements of George Washington
University life last night paid tribute
to President Cloyd Heck Marvin for
the 10 years of physical and intel
lectual growth of the university under
his leadership.
More than 1,000 alumni, under
graduates, faculty members, trustees,
representatives of the Lady Managers
of the Hospital, the Columbian Women,
the Faculty Women's Club and
friends filled the spacious Mayflower
ball room and overflowed into the bal
conies to toast the energetic, gracious
\ esterner who was brought here a
decade ago to take over the admin
istration of the institution.
Seated in the center of the long
table lined with educational and other
dignitaries, Dr. Marvin, nearly hid
den behind a huge basket of
flowers, heard nine speakers laud
his achievements as university execu
tive and received from Secretary
Harry Davis of the Board of Trustees,
a gold, inscribed watch as a token of
appreciation.
Presentation of Watch.
In presenting the watch to Dr.
Marvin, Mr. Davis alluded to the
sponsors’ committee as representing
the "university family,” and referred
to the wide recognition of Dr. Mar
vin's high ideals, his culture and learn
ing and his "unmitigating efforts”
in behalf of the university. He em
phasized the words "admiration,”
"appreciation” and “affection" con
tained in the inscription and at the
conclusion of his brief presentation
address called for a standing toast,
to which the gathering responded.
Dr, Marvin was also given a charm
and made honorary member of the
University Glee Club, which, with
the University Orchestra, provided
the entertainment of the evening.
Mrs. Marvin was given a basket of
flowers by the girls of the glee club.
Deeply affected. Dr. Marvin was
somewhat at a lass as to what to
say. “What would you say if you
were I?" he wanted to know.
With Robert V. Fleming, president
of the Riggs Bank, presiding as toast
master, Dr. Joseph R Sizoo, pastor
of the Collegiate Church of St.
Nicholas, New York, and principal
speaker on the program, spoke feel
ingly of "The University Unmasked
and Unafraid."
University for Truth.
Such a university will teach the
truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth, will never compromise
with good will nor with character, he
declared.
"The university is not a Morro
Castle with every man for himself.”
the pastor insisted. “It is, rather,
a place where people learn to live
in harmony together." He expressed
the hope that George Washington
would some day have a school of re
ligion in addition to its other com
ponents to make it a "complete” uni
versity.
Of Dr. Marvin, Dr. Sizoo. speaking
with the attractive trace of accent so
familiar to Washington audiences, said:
"He is a man of absorbing passion
and compassion—passion for the uni
versity and compassion for humanity.”
The speaker made the trip down from
New York to do honor to his old
friend.
Taking over the chair from Charles
S. Baker, president of the George
Washington Alumni Association,
earlier in the evening Toastmaster
Fleming had declared Washington for
tunate to have such a leader as Dr.
Marvin, calling attention to the "de
votion, self-sacrifice and tireless en
ergy” represented by his achievement.
Dean Henry Gratton Doyle of Co
lumbian College of the university,
made the opening address of the eve
ning. Describing the job of university
president as "no bed of roses” and as
"being educational nursemaid to a
swarm of peculiarly irascible bees.”
he said Dr. Marvin had assumed con
trol at a very critical time.
"No one will say he has not made
mistakes, for that would be saving that
he is not lovably human, but he has
worked with us and for us and has
made us financially secure,” the dean
asserted.
The president has shown great
moral courage in dealing with con
tending pressure groups, he con
tinued. pledging faculty support and
co-operation.
Dean Doyle then Introduced Prof.
Charles S. Collier, who read a testi
monial to the executive, drawn up in
the form of a citation for meritorious
service as a sincere expression of
good wdll from members of the fac
ulty. The language described Marvin
as a “builder of university unity" and
a “trustee of material resources.”
Benefit to Students.
Representing the student body, Ross
Pope, president of the Student Coun
cil, and son of the Senator from
Idaho, extended congratulations. Of all
the groups to benefit from the Marvin
administration, he said, the student
body certainly benefited most.
Fleming then introduced Miss May
P. Bradshaw', principal of Roosevelt
High School, who spoke on secondary
schools and the university. The raised
academic standards In George Wash
ington during the past decade have
materially raised the teaching level in
the District schools, she said. She
cited the close tie between the uni
versity and the schools through schol
arships.
The next two speakers revealed
through statistics the concrete achieve
ment of the president.
Alfred Henry Lawson, chairman of
the Committee on Buildings and
Lands, enumerated many new build
ings erected since Marvin’s arrival.
In 1927 the university had 156.000
square feet of land; now it has 290,
000, he declared. The real estate
value has increased 89 per cent over
what it was 10 years ago, he added,
which Is “tangible evidence of the
wisdom and devotion of Dr. Marvin.”
Charles Carroll Glover, jr., chair
man of the Financial Committee,
pointed out that the university assets,
totaling about $6,000,000, have in
creased more than $3,000,000 in the
last decade, while the liabilities went
up only $117,000. This, he felt, was
eloquent tribute to the president.
Univeraity’a National Obligations.
The university has national obliga
tions as well as local, Dr. Charles R.
Mann of the American Council of
Education asserted, and it has done
its task well. Dr. Marvin has served
on the American Council, he said, and
has brought national recognition to
the university.
Still further tribute was paid, the
educator by Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr.,
a trustee. “He has always pulled a
laboring oar and bent his back to any
burden that presented Itself,” she
said. “I am proud to have been a
member of the Board of Trustees that
brought Dr. Marvin to the university.
His supreme achievement, she felt,
was the enrichment of the lives of the
students which she considered far
more important than endowments.
As final speaker on the program,
Dr. Marvin made his response. The
university must serve the people and
serve well, he declared, adding simply
that "any laurel wreath must be
divided among all of us."
Gathering of Students.
Earlier in the evening a group of
slightly more than 100 students
gathered in Corcoran Hall and heard
the president’s praises sung by Baker,
representing the alumni, Dean Doyle,
speaking for the faculty, and William
Rochelle, president-elect or the Stu
dent Council. Robert Doolin, presi
dent of the George Washington Stu
dent Union, presided.
Manifestly touched, Dr. Marvin sat
on the platform and heard his achieve
ments at the university recited to
the enthusiastic audience in terms of
motive, statistics and personality. He
grinned as Doolin referred to his 10
year “reign" at the university and
steadfastly regarded the toe of his
shoe as Baker declared that Marvin's
leadership had made the university a
great institution.
“If George Washington had not been
inaugurated President of the United
States, there probably would have
been no George Washington Univer
sity,” the alumni president said. "If
Dr. Marvin had not been made presi
dent of the university 10 years ago,
the university would not be what it is
today, He is motivated not by am
bition, but by a close synonym—aspi
ration."
Cites Figures of Growth.
Calling upon figures, Rochelle re
vealed the progress of the institution
under Dr. Marvin by a little simple
arithmetic.
"In 1926 the university had an
enrollment of 7,000, now it is 8.000."
he declared. "At that time we had
an endowment of something over
$800,000, now it is $2,500,000. We
have had a 74 per cent increase in
faculty membership since then, with
154 per cent more Ph. D.'s."
Figures, however, cannot show the
increased interest among the student
body in the university, he continued.
"We look to the past and present
with pride and to the future with
assurance.” he concluded, "and I am
sure I am speaking for the entire
student body when I say we will
lend Dr. Marvin our complete co
operation.”
Dean Doyle congratulated Dr. Mar
vin on a wonderful 10 years, speaking
as one who knew the university before
and after the Marvin administration.
' Calling the honor guest a "great
executive.” he emphasized the "friendly
phase" of the president’s leadership.
"The faculty feels it is enlisted
under one banner in the pursuance
of a great ideal,” he declared.
The president, again last to speak,
feelingly declared that the university
has been "my life for 10 years."
"We have a single ideal—the free
dom to develop ourselves to the maxi
mum capacity—and hut a single
method—to do everything extraordi
narily well.” he said. "Such tradi
tions are hard to maintain and there
fore very worth while.”
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Appropriation
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not be cut arbitrarily, comprise so
large a part of the $7,500,000,000
budget for next year, fiscal experts
are becoming more convinced that
personnel is likely to bear a substan
tial part of a percentage cut in the
■ remainder. Exemption of fixed
charges leaves less than $4,000,000,000
to which the percentage slash could
apply.
Senator McCarran. Democrat, of
Nevada, expressed fear early in the
week that salaries would be cut. Ad
i vocates of the percentage theory
promptly disclaimed any intention of
affecting salary rates, but admitted
i the number of employes might have
' to be reduced in some departments to
make the percentage sating effective.
Army Total Up $25,037,589.
As it left the House last night
the Army bill is the largest peace
time measure for purely military pur
poses. Although the House trimmed
it $358,079 below the budget total
it is still $25,037,598 above the
strictly military sum for the cur
rent year. Formerly, rivers and
harbors work and other non-military
engineering projects were made a
part of the War Department bill, but
this year the House decided to handle
those items as a separate bill.
Representative Taber, Republican,
of New York, moved to recommit
the Army bill with instruction* to
the committee to take off 10 per
cent, but the House said "no" with
out a record vote. Taber had made
a similar move on the agricultural
bill last week, at which time it was
made knowm that any percentage pro
gram will be tackled as n general
proposition later.
The rivers and harbors. Interior
Department and unemployment relief
funds for next year constitute the
major appropriation bills remaining
to come before the House.
When the $1,251,250 deficiency reso
lution to meet special needs of the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
Federal Trade Commission. Railroad
Retirement Board and several other
bureaus came up in the House for
action on the Senate's 25 per cent
reduction, declared acceptance of the
amendments would “close up two or
three important bureaus of the Gov
ernment for the remainder of the
present fiscal year.”
Woodrum said that after the Budget
Bureau and the House had cut the
deficiency resolution, the other branch,
“in a moment of economy hysteria,”
gave it another 25 per cent “whack
right down the line.”
Calls for Logical Action.
The Virginian said he is for rigid
economy and the discontinuance of
unnecessary o erations, “but do not
let us get emotional, hysterical and
dramatic; let us go at the thing in a
logical, orderly way."
The Army bill contemplates an in
crease of 6.000 in the average num
ber of enlisted men next year, from
156,000 to 162,000. The budget esti
mate allowed for 165,000.
Of local interest is an item of $746,
000 for continuing development of
the new Bolling Field.
The next major development in the
framing of next year’s budget will be
the reporting of the agricultural sup
ply bill from the Senate Committee,
probably within a week.
Meanwhile, House and Senate con
ferees are meeting today to adjust
differences in the Treasury-Post Office
bill, twhich passed several weeks ago.
Falls on Concrete, Lives.
HOUSTON, Tex. (4*).—Andrew Ogg
fell 20 feet from a scaHold and landed
on a sidewalk. Although the force
of the fall drove his head into the
concrete, Ogg suffered only minor In
juries. The sidewalk was newly laid.
FOES OF HAYASHI
SWEEP ELECTIONS
Premier Won’t Quit, Despite
Setback, and May Abol
ish Parties.
BACKGROUND—
Dissolution of the last Japanese
Parliament mas preceded by
charges that Premier Hayashi fa
vored army domination of govern
ment. Election of hostile majority
to new Diet likely to continue the
deadlock. Army leaders want
political parties abolished, charg
ing them with interference with
national defense. Two parties,
Minseito and Seiyukai, united
forces in current election in at
tempt to increase the 375 seats
they controlled in last Diet out of
total of 466.
fcf the Associated Press. |
TOKIO, May 1.—Japan’s two
major political parties, Minselto and
Seiyukai, both opposing Premier
Senjuro Hayashi’s government, regis
tered sweeping victories today in early
returns from the most orderly election
in history. Voting was light.
Not a single government candidate
was elected to the House of Repre
sentatives in early returns from four
large cities—Fukushima. Wakamatsu,
Hainan and Matsue.
Whatever the outcome, the govern
ment of Premier Hayashi has an
nounced it would retain power and
some observers believed political
parties were doomed if the government
does not find some compromise system
for working with the new Parliament.
Proletarian candidates made striking
gains, particularly in Tokio, where
seven seats were filled by candidates
of the Social Masses party.
Six Seiyukai and two Minseito can*
didates wer* victorious in Tokio. -
Returns tabulated at 4 p.m. showed *,
that out of 466 seats in the Lower •
House, Minseito captured 61, 8eiyukai, -
39; the Social Masses, 18; independ*
ents, 5; Show'akal (government), 3;
Kokumin Dome!, 1, and others, 3. In
dications were that the Social Masses
more than doubled their representa
tion in the Diet.
Though the swing left was most pro
nounced in the nation's capital, pro
letarians also won two seats in Osaka.
The Minseito elected six, Seiyukai
three and the government party, Sho
wakal, one.
An unprecedented number of elec
tors stayed away from the polls, in
some places more than half the quali
fied voters, due largely to the absence
of well defined issues and to apathy
of the puzzled public.
JOHN R. KIRKWOOD, 53,
REAL ESTATE MAN, DIES
Resident of Washington 31 Tears
Was Active in Insurance
Business Also.
John R. Kirkwood, 53, active in
the real estate and insurance busi
ness here for more than 20 years,
died today at his home, 3574 Jenifer
street, after a short illness
Mr. Kirkwood moved to Washington
31 years ago. He was a member of
the Congressional Country Club.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Irene
S Kirkwood, and a daughter, Mrs.
Milton C. White. Burial will be in
Glenwood Cemetery at a time to be
decided later.
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