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CHILD’S LEARNING
CAN BEPARALYZED
Medical Society of District
Told of Retreat Com
plex Caused by Fear.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
An intelligence paralysis in children
was reported to the Medical Society
of the District of Columbia at its an
nual scientific assembly today by Dr.
Agnes Greig, child psychiatrist.
It simulates actual feeble-minded
ness, she said. The child is unable to
learn. Standard intelligence tests,
even when administered by an expert,
show poor capacities.
• But. Dr. Greig said, these manifesta
tions should not be taken at- their face
value, especially if they are out of
keeping with the previous records of
the victim. Ever, an exceptionally good
intelligence may be paralyzed, espe
cially when the child first goes to
school.
This paralysis, she said, appears to
result from confusion and fear.
“Intelligence tests,” she stressed,
"9ire very valuable if we accept them
for what they are worth and do not
endow them with magical qualities.
They tell us the child’s functioning
Intelligence, but not his potential in
telligence.”
Teachers Often Misunderstand.
.Even the most intelligent, teacher
who knows a good deal about the
effects of emotional conflicts in the
cfiild is apt to misapprehend such a
child, Dr. Greig said. She thinks he
cAn't keep his mind on his lessons
because of distractions elsewhere and
may deal quite gently with him. She
falls to appreciate that he may be
thinking of nothing but his lessons
ahd trying his best to leam, but that
the mind simply will not function.
-“Such a state of paralysis," she said,
“6 not infrequently present in the
child at the beginning of his school
cAreer. The cause can invariably be
traced back to fear of a lack within
himself to cope with the Situation in
Hand. He may be likened to the turtle
who at the first sign of danger draws
Hack into his shell and will venture
forth only when the threat seems
removed. We realize that no amounts
of threats or prodding will bring him
forth, but with children we do just
that.
“Childhood is a strenuous battle.
From the beginning the child is forced
to defer and modify the gratification
of instinctual needs, and each new ad
justment is frought with anxiety.
Much creative impulse must be
checked by this anxiety, as creative
freedom can ekist only in an atmos
phere of peace. Any new venture is ,
met with this anxiety. If it is not too
great and one ventures cautiously, and
meets with success and approval, there
is a great release of energies. If one
meets with failure and disfavor one re
treats.
I asi Mjccess Holds Over.
"When the individual has met with !
ft reasonable measure of success he ,
can stand more failures because he I
has the supporting force of the past ‘
success. But the child has not had
time to build up a past. Total defeat
robs him of the vital force necessary
for success.
”**Our competitive mode of life tends
tft make us measure children by a I
common yardstick. The tangible in
tellectual abilities are made the cri
terion and the Intelligence tests which
were designed to aid in grouping chil
dren to their own advantage arc
COQhmonly made to cover the total
personality, with a fine disregard for
•motional values.”
Dr. Greig presented the case his
tories of two Washington children who
were victims of this intellectual paraly
sis. In one case even the boy's father
was convinced that he was feeble
minded and only a loving mother's re
fusal to believe in the face of all the
evidence finally led to saving a nor
mally intelligent child from this stig
ma of inferiority throughout his
school days.
The 80 hospitals with a total of i
nearly 50,000 beds maintained I
throughout the country by the Vet
erans' Administration constitute "the
gTavest threat of State medicine of
anything on the horizon," Dr. Arthur
C. Christie told members of the so
ciety. Last year, he pointed out,
about 90 per cent of all ailments
treated free by the Government at
these hospitals did not originate in
War service. Bills calling for four
more large veterans’ hospitals now
are before Congress, he said.
Health Insurance Opposed.
Dr Christie also opposed systems of
health insurance, either compulsory
or voluntary. Due to an economic
fallacy, he said, the latter cannot work
and eventually have to be supported
by the State. He warned that there
is how a strong movement to organize
Fueh a voluntary insurance system In
the Government departments here.
Economically sound Insurance, he
said, is possible only against events
that happen with relative Infrequency,
which are of major importance, and
whose rate of occurrence can be ex
actly calculated. Sickness is fre
quent, usually trivial, and there are
no adequate tables for its prediction.
Consequently, he said, this sort of in
surance is bound to fail without a
subsidy and this leads to compulsion
of employes, contract medicine and
inefficient service.
Private physicians, he stressed, are
making an enormous charitable con
tribution to the District of Columbia.
Few realize, he said, "that the actual
medical care of all the inmates of
Gailinger Hospital, of the ward pa
tients in the community hospitals and
of all the thousands of attendants at
free clinics is given absolutely with
out charge by the physicians of
Washington. The home care of the
Indigent sick is on a still less satisfac
tory .basis. For the most part the
poor in their homes are cared for by
private physicians without charge."
Direct observation of the blood ves
sels in the retina of the eye as a
means of detecting diseases of the cir
culatory system was described by Dr.
Benjamin Bones.
The physician is able to look through
the eye directly upon the retina by
means of an Instrument known B6
the opthalmascope. The appearance
of the vessels may indicate the prog
ress of such disease as arterioscle
rosis, especially in tfc- young, where it
Indicates a particularly serious condi
tion.
FALSE BURGLAR ALARM
Responding to a burglar alarm this
morning from the Katz jewelry store,
110ft block of P street, first precinct
policemen found workmen repairing a
sidewalk trapdoor.
The workmen arrived before store
officials turned off the alarm system.
The policemen, cruising In a scout car,
were only three blocks away when they
received radio orders to respond. The
radio was repeating the order when
the car stopped In front of the store.
I
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
NEIGHBORS.
THERE'S a block in Georgetown
where the neighborly spirit is
a thing of beauty and a joy
forever. It would have aroused
the envy of Emerson and Thoreau,
and brought happy little gurgles
from their confreres in the Brooke
Farm Community. Eight houses have
eight little gardens, each closely ad
joining. The gardens are separated by
6-foot board fences which present a
labyrinthine pattern, but do nothing
to obstruct the intercommunication of
the house owners, who visit each
other's plots almost every sunny Sun
day and wax ecstatic with mutual ad
miration. Mr. A comes over to Mr. B's
for coffee and cereal, and they con
tinue the meal at A's with waffles and
honey. C and spouse bask in bathing
suits in a "garden” 8 by 6, while D
chats with them from his second-story
window. E and P toss a tennis ball;
it goes into G's garden, and G gets up
from breakfast to throw it back. More
cross-fence cross-chat. But just as
there are pests for every flower, ants
for every picnic, this pretty little urban
idyll has its blemishes. Neighborly
Spirit, Inc., takes a 10-point drop every
time one of the householders throws a
garden party. Not only does the sound
of revelry waft (that's too gentle a
verb i through open windows all
around, but the house walls are thin
as paper and little more soundproof.
SCIENCE.
Arthur Godfrey, the radio soft
speaker, has added the modern
touch to the fine art of grooming
horses down on his Virginia farm.
When his animals have been out
rolling in the dusty paddock, he
has his colored groom, Joe, clean
’em up to high polish when they
return to the barn—using a hand
vacuum cleaner plugged in the
stable lighting system.
* * * *
SEQUEL.
'T'HE Battle of the Blue Pencil con
tinues between a lady columnist
on this paper and the copy reader
who handles her writings. You re
member not long ago she objected
strenuously because she saw a bit of
her literary art marked “slug" at the
top of the page, thinking the word
signified physical violence.
Recently she sent in another piece,
with a note attached saying. "Mr.
So-and-So gave me permission to
discribe his costume worn at the
races, so I hope you won’t cut it out.”
The copy reader left in the para
graphs about the costume, but wrote
a little note In reply.
"Mr. Noah Webster," he said, "of
the dictionary Websters gave me per
mission to describe (correct) your
spelling as shocking."
* * * *
MEMENTO.
J^AST Fall, you may remember, a
team of Chilean Army officers
came here for the Inter-American
Horse Show and defeated the United
States Army Olympic riders in an
international jumping contest. Elated,
the Chileans returned home and
promptly invited the North Ameri
cans down for a visit and exhibition
in South America.
In commemoration of the two com
petitions. the United States Cavalry
School recently received from the
Chilean Cavalry School (the latter,
no doubt, with its tongue in its
cheek) a beautifully modeled bronze
trophy. The statue is the figure of
perhaps the sorriest looking, droop-1
headed, sway-backed nag ever im
mortalized by a sculptor.
The officers in our Cavalry School
already have decided what they will
do if they conquer the Chileans in
Washington this Fall. They are go
ing to send them a statue of a bird.
FROG.
For three weeks in succession
now one of our fellow scribblers
has made a date each Monday to
go swimming with a fair lady.
Each Monday he has broken the
engagement for one reason or an
other, mostly laziness. He was feel
ing a mild pain in the conscience
this last Monday when the tele
phone rang and he heard the lady’s
voice. She wanted to know what
about that swim.
As he started to answer, he
caught a "frog” in his throat and
suddenly his voice rasped like that
of a man with at least bronchial
pneumonia.
"O. K.," he grated, "I’ll go,
busy as I am.”
"What about that cold?" said the
girl, soliciously.
"Oh, that’s all right," said our
hero. "I made the date and I’ll
keep it."
"No, indeed," murmured the
lass. "You can't go swimming
with a cold like that. I won’t
hear of it."
"Well, if you insist," the scribe
said, the conversation ending just
in time to prevent his natural voice
from going out on the wire.
Now he’s wondering what you do
when you want to repay the im
promptu favors of a frog.
REFLECTIONS.
p®OM our friends the editor* of
A Time and Tied at Lor ton Reforma*
tory we borrow a story this day not
because it has anything In particular
to do with Washington, but Juat be
cause.
It's about a backwoods mountaineer
who found a mirror l06t by a tourist.
He looked into it and said, "Well, If It
ain’t my old dad. I never knowed he
had his pitcher took!”
He took the mirror home and slipped
up to the attic to hide it, but hi* sus
picious wife saw him when he did.
That night she sneaked to the attic
and found the mirror.
"Ha ha,” she giggled, looking Into
the mirror, "so that's the old hag he'*
been chaain.’ ”
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KING PONDERS NEW
D. C. TAX SOURCES
Income and Estate Levies
Held “Fair” Way to
Fund Deficit.
About 1.000 persons who gathered at
Central High School Auditorium last
evening heard Chairman King of the
Senate District Committee explain
why their taxes for the coming year
must be increased by $6,000,000.
"I do not know how we are going to
raise the $6,000,000," Senator King
told the guests at the second annual
get-together of members of the Key
stone Automobile Club. "We can do
it by an income tax, which is the fair
est in all the world, and we can do it
by an estate tax, which is a fair tax."
The Senator spoke shortly after a
recitation by the University of Mary
land Glee Club and Just before an
orchestra" overture, two of the features
on a program which included tumbling
acts, song and dance bits, a sensa
tional barrel novelty and Chelm 3t.
Orr, "the armless wonder.”
Says Improvements Spell Taxes.
The new taxes, on which the House
District Committee has just reported
to the House, are made necessary by
the growth of Washington and ac
companying demands for improved
municipal facilities, especially as re
gards schools, Senator King said. He
added:
"We cannot have the improvements
we need without paying taxes. We
cannot reach into the sky for money.
"I hope we may work out a plan
for the coming year which will not im
pose undue hardships on the auto
mobile user. I am opposed to an in
crease in the gasoline tax and I am
opposed to an increase in the tax on
your homes.”
Senator King, who prefaced his re
marks with a warning that what he
had to say would not be welcomed by
the throng, urged the audience to be
come more "civic-minded,” and as a
first step in that direction to do what
they could toward insuring enactment
of legislation giving the District Com
missioners more authority for routine
administrative matters.
Graft Held Absent Here.
Washington, however, the Senator
was quick to say, has in recent years
showed a record clear of governmental
graft, something which could be said
for few other American municipalities.
However, he added that the city's
traffic problem needs immediate
amendment, because “it is bringing
criticism upon us," and continued:
"I am not satisfied with having the
District streets used as garages. This
organization must help the Commis
sioners to solve the traffic problem."
Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer and Supt. of Police Ernest W.
Brown, both of whom attended the
meeting, are doing their best in the
face of a trying situation, King said.
George E. Keneipp, secretary of the
Advisory Board of the motor club,
read the Keystone 12-point platform
for 1937, which was approved viva voce
by the audience.
Keneipp opposed an increase in the
motor vehicle tax and urged improve
ment of the bottle-neck problem at
Peace Cross. Bladensburg: improve
ment in Defense Highway, a larger
force of traffic police and the forma
tion of a traffic safety committee for
the District.
JORDON’S LAWYER
REQUESTS HEARING
Wants Oral Arguments on Plea
to Entertain New Trial
Motion.
John M. Holzworth, attorney for
Thomas Jordon, asked the Court of
Appeals today to grant him a hearing
on his petition that District Court be
ordered to entertain a motion for a
new trial of the condemned man. Oral
arguments are needed to clarify his po
sition, he asserted.
Jordon was convicted last year of
murdering Mrs. Lizzie Jaynes in the
Garden T Shoppe hold-up of six years
ago. His attorney contends newly
discovered evidence shows the descrip
tion of the murderer does not tally
with Jordon's appearance.
The attorney contended yesterday
that the record In the third-degree
prosecution of Detective Sergt. Robert
J. Barrett, durmg the course of the
Jaynes shooting investigation, disclosed
that Barrett and several other officers
knew at that time Jordon did not fit
the description of the slayer.
Holzworth has sent out 1,000 letters
to leading residents of Washington,
asking them to attend a meeting to
morrow night to take some action to
stop the electrocution of Jordon, which
is set for May 14.
The attorney invited the residents
to meet with him at 8 o’clock at the
Shoreham Hotel to take "such action
as may be deemed advisable” to pre
vent a "miscarriage of justice.” In his
circular letter the attorney suggested
that a defense committee be formed
tomorrow night.
Answering a plea by Holzworth that
the court of Appeals order District
Court to entertain a new-trial motion
for Jordon, Assistant United States
Attorney Roger Robb contended yes
terday the case passed out of Jurisdic
tion of the Appellate Court when that
tribunal affirmed the conviction and
remanded the case to District Court.
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REPORT DENIED
Delegate White Did Not Urge Sine
Die Adjournment.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 5.—On May
1 The Star published a story in which
it wa* stated John S. White, delegate
from Prince Georges County, had
moved the previous day to adjourn
sine die the special relief session of the
Maryland Legislature. The story was
in error. White’s statement actually
was that a number of members of the
House of Delegates were prepared to
support "a move to adjourn sine die.”
The Star regrets the error, which was
made as a result of confusion during
the debate on the floor of the House
of Delegates, making it difficult to
understand the remarks of the dele
gates.
RHODE ISLAND DINNER
The Rhode Island delegation of the
Colonial Dames of America entertained
several national officers and State
presidents at a private dinner last
night at the Shoreham.
The committee in charge, assisting
Mrs. Walter S. Ball of Providence, R.
I., president, Included Mrs. Frederick
S. Peck, Barrington, R. I.; Mrs.
Thomas E. Steere and Mrs. E. Colt
Anthony, both of Providence.
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CHILD MARRIAGE
BAN IS REPORTED
Bill Sent to House Also Re
quires Three-Day Wait
for Licenses.
Denouncing "child marriages” and
“cocktail marriages,” the House Dis
trict Committee today favorably re
ported a bill that would have the
dual effect of raising the age of con
sent and preventing the issuance of
all marriage licenses until three days
after the filing of anrapplicatlon.
The committee also decided to
renew consideration at its meeting next
Wednesday of the controversial bill
to legalize horse racing under the pari
mutuel system. This measure was
withdrawn from the House calendar
more than a month ago as a result of
charges that it had been "railroaded"
out of the committee.
Amendment Adopted.
The bill to prevent child mar
riages, as origlhally introduced sev
eral months ago by Representative
Dirksen, Republican, of Illinois, would
raise the minimum age limit of legal
marriages from 16 to 18 for males
and from 14 to 16 for females. The
committee, however, adopted an
amendment to present the issuance
of a marriage license to any appli
cant until three days after filing of
the application.
Action on the bill was preceded by
prolonged discussion. Representative
Schulte, Democrat, of Indiana said
a girl of 16 is too young to be mar
ried and urged that the age limit be
raised to 18. Representative Nich
ols, Democrat, of Oklahoma argued
that this plan would "make per
jurers out of young people ”
“Sixteen-year-old girls are quite
mature," Nichols declared. "If a 16
year-old girl wants to get married at
16 you would make her a perjurer. I
know a lot of fine mothers who were
married at 16 and are doing pretty
good at it.”
Compromise at 17 Proposed.
Chairman Norton proposed a com
promise ai 17 for girls, but Schulte
declared: "Too many young marriages
wind up in the divorce courts. They're
gin weddings.”
Representative Jenckes, Democrat,
of Indiana then proposed an amend
ment for a three-day intermission be
tween the application for a marriage
license and its Issuance. She con
tended such a plan "would do away
with gin and cocktail marriages."
Two other bills were reported favor
ably by the committee. One would
regulate and control beauty parlors
and the other would authorize the
Commissioners to issue licenses for
the practice of the healing arts and
save Congress the necessity of passing
bills for this purpose.
Bills to Subcommittees.
A number of other bills were re
ferred to special subcommittees for
consideration. These include the Wood
bill to abolish the office of director of
public welfare and substitute a paid
board of three members for the pres
ent board of nine, a bill to reduce the
number of taxicabs, a bill providing
for the retirement of police and flre
m l and a bill to regulate proceedings
in adoption of children.
The subcommitte named to con
sider the Welfare Board bill is com
posed of its sponsor, Representative
Wood, Democrat, of Missouri, and
Representatives Hull, Progressive, of
Wisconsin, and Brewster, Republican,
of Maine. Representatives Randolph
of West Virginia and Sacks of Penn
sylvania, both Democrats, and Brew
ster constitute the subcommittee to
consider the taxicab bill. The police
and firemen retirement bill will be
handled by a subcommittee composed
of Representative Jenckes and Wood
and Bates, Republican, of Massachu
setts.
Chairman Norton urged each of the
subcommittees to hold early hearings
on the bills.
WASHINGTONIAN GETS
SCHOLARSHIP TO YALE
Henry W. Snyder, jr., Son of Cap
ital Pastor, to Enter Divinity
School in September.
Henry W. Snyder, jr., Gettysburg
College senior and son of Rev. Dr.
Henry W. Snyder, pastor of St. Paul's
Lutheran Church here, has been
Henry W. Snyder, Jr.
awarded a schol
arship by the
Yale Divinity
School, it was
learned today. He
will enter next
September.
Snyder, a West
ern High School
graduate, was
that school's en
trant in the
tenth National
Oratorical Con
test in 1933 and
was named alter
nate to the na
tional finals from
me evening star area.
During his senior year at Gettys
burg he has been editor in chief of
the Gettysburgian, college weekly,
and president of the Phi Sigma Kappa
Social Fraternity. He also is a mem
ber of Phi Beta Kappa.
LIEUT. ROGER R. OLSEN
IS BURIED IN ARLINGTON
Navy Medical Corps Officer Was
Found Dead in Bed at St.
Elizabeth's.
Lieut. Roger Ralph Olsen, Navy
Medical Corps, who was found dead
Sunday hi St. Elizabeth's Hospital,
was buried this afternoon with full
military honors in Arlington National
Cemetery. Lieut. Comdr. Alfred D.
Vogler of the Navy Corps of Chap
lains, officiated.
Honorary pallbearers were Lieut.
Comdr. George B. Dowling, Lieut.
Comdr. J. Gregg Smith, Lieut, Thomas
J. Carter, Lieut. Harold V. Packard,
Lieut. Joseph F. Rech and Lieut.
Howard L. Puckett, all of the Medi
cal Corps.
Lieut. Olsen served recently on the
battleship Idaho.
MOROS KILL SOLDIERS
MANILA, May 5 OP).—Newspaper
correspondents reported today three
Philippine Constabulary men were
killed when ambmushed by More out
laws in the Bayang district, Lanao
Province. Dispatches said the sol
diers were shot down while getting
water at a mountain spring. The
outlaws escaped.
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Strike Fails to Halt Work on Film i
Despite the presence of pickets outside in the Federated Motion Picture Crafts’ strike, many
prominent players were at work yesterday in Hollywood studios. Here is Bing Crosby on the set
of his nexo film ‘‘Double or Nothing.” Left to right: Andy Divine, Crosby, Mary Carlisle and Fay
Holden. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
M’GARRAN OFFERS
NEWJOURT BILL
11 Justices Provided in Sub
stitute to President’s Plan.
No Lower Changes.
BACKGROUND—
Dwarfing all other issues, the
fight over President Roosevelt’s
plan to add a maximum o) six new
justices to Supreme Court unless
those over 70 retire has tied up nor
mal business of Congress despite
numerous attempts at compromise.
Chairman Ashurst of the Senate
Judiciary Committee has rejected
all middle-ground proposals, in
sisting on "President’s bill or noth
ing," although some opposition lead
ers have indicated recently they
might accept a modified plan.
BY G. GOCLP LINCOLN.
A substitute for President Roose
velt's entire court bill was laid be
fore the Senate Judiciary Committee
today by Senator McCarran, Demo
crat. of Nevada, a member of the
committee
The substitute provides for a Su
preme Court composed of a Chief
Justice and 10 associate justice*.
This is two more members than the
court now has. It Is in line with
the original proposal made by Sen
ator McCarran as a compromise for
the President's bill, which would au
thorize a maximum increase of six
additional justices.
The Nevada Senator in his substi
tute not only changes the President's
plan as regards the Supreme Court
but also as it relates to the inferior
courts.
No Lower Court Judges.
He makes no provision for additional
judges of the lower courts. The Pres
ident's bill authorizes maximum ap
pointment of 50 new judges.
Senator McCarran said the Chief
Justice would be in a position, as he
is now, to inform Congress when ad
ditional district judges were needed.
Also he would leave to the Chief Jus
tice the duty of assigning district
judges already on the bench to work
in other courts when needed.
The McCarran substitute provides
that the associate justices of the Su
preme Court shall be appointed from
the judicial circuits, with each cir
cuit having a justice on the bench.
As retirement or death removes a Jus
tice from the present court a new ap
pointment would be made from a Ju
dicial circuit not represented on the
court.
The President's bill provides for the
appointment of a proctor with impor
tant duties to watch over the work in
the various Judicial circuits and dis
trict courts.
Proctor Not Provided.
Senator McCarran makes no provi
sion for such an officer. He said he
considered a proctor unnecessary and
that the appointment of a proctor
might result In far reaching effects.
Under his substitute each Justice
of the Supreme Court would receive
periodically from the clerks of the
court in his Judicial circuit detailed
reports of the state of the dockets.
The associate justices would then re
port to the Chief Justice on the state
of the court in their circuits and the
Chief Justice would make recom
mendations as necessary. This Is
somewhat similar to the system now
In existence.
It is Senator McCarran's opinion
that the judicial syatem he proposes
would work more advantageously than
that provided in the President's bill.
His substitute is the first attack in
the committee on other sections of
the President's bill than that relating
to the Supreme Court. The Nevada
Senator discussed his substitute In
detail at today's session of the com
mittee.
Senator Borah. Republican, of Idaho,
commenting on the McCarran substi
tute, said it was "interesting,” but did
not commit himself. Senator Hatch,
Democrat, of New Mexico questioned
the power of Congress to pass a law
directing that associate justices of the
Supreme Court must be appointed
from each Judicial circuit. Such a
provision, he said, might not be con
stitutional, and also might infringe
upon the power of the President to
make appointments.
After today's meeting Chairman
Ashurst announced the committee
would not assemble again until Mon
day. Although members continue to
insist they are now ready to vote on
the court bill, Ashurst announced defi
nitely at the meeting today there was
no possibility of a vote before that
date.
Brazil Seek* Trade Fact.
RIO' DE JANEIRO, May 5 (IP).—
President Getullo Vargas made known
yesterday that Brazil is negotiating
In London a trade treaty with Britain
and the Dominions.
Strike
(Continued From First Page.)
feel justified in asserting that the
strike will be called off,” he said.
Later, the Screen Actors’ Guild, po
tentially capable of making or break
ing the strike, opened committee ne
gotiations with the producers to be
continued tomorrow and completed
•'within a reasonably short time."
Working conditions and higher wage
scales for minor players formed the
crux of the discussion, in addition to
the guild's demand for a closed shop.
Six casualties resulted from a gang
invasion of the I. A. T. S. E. offices j
by 50 men wearing white armbands.
The I. A. T. S. E. Is not on strike.
It is affiliated with the American Fed
eration of Labor, however, like the
striking motion picture crafts.
Men Hurled Through Windows.
As scores of studio employes waited
in line to apply for membership in
the I. A T. S. E. the invading rioters
began battling. Skulls were cracked,
eyes blackened, bones broken Men
were hurled through windows and
down flights of stairs.
The riot occurred during the peak
traffic hour of the evening, hundreds
of motorists being witnesses In the
congestion, rioters escaped arrest by
running from the building and min
gling writh the crowds as police ar
rived.
The office was wrecked Doors and
windows were shattered by the first
serious violence of the strike.
Pickets’ Sign Banned.
Police forced strike sympathizers
parading in front of the Paramount
Studio to give up a sign reading:
"8tudio on strike; don't scab!" But i
no attempt was made to prevent motor ,
picketing.
Actresses and actors reached the i
studios with difficulty. Among those
on the sets were Jean Harlow, Marlene
Dietrich, Clark Gable, Bing Crosby,
Jack Benny, Barbara Stanwyck. John
Boles, Greta Garbo, Gary Cooper,
George Raft. Charles Boyer. Herbert
Marshall. Gilbert Roland. Dorothy
Lamour, Lew Ayres and Leslie Howard.
None of the stars had any comment
on the strike situation. Regardless of
their personal feelings in the demands
of the crafts for union recognition and
a closed union shop, they have main
tained discreet silence, pending official
action of the Screen Actors' Guild.
As the Guild Committee sat down
in closed conference last night with a
Producers' Committee, Robert Mont
gomery, president of the Guild, sub
mitted a rough draft of working con
ditions which the Guild believes the
producers should correct. There was
no consideration of contract players'
salaries. The only mention of money
concerned bit players and extras.
Casey, in commenting on the con- ^
ditions enumerated, said that "such
abuses, if they are abuses, most cer
tainly should be cleared."
Although the actors' demands were
not announced. Casey said they were
not. seeking separate agreements with
the 10 major studios. He believed
they would be satisfied with a blanket
agreement covering all studios.”
Ultimate outcome of the producers
actors' negotiations was held to be the
deciding factor in the strike. If the
actors supported the crafts movie pro
duction would be paralyzed, with
losses runing into the hundreds of
thousands of dollars daily.
After three hours of secret discus
sion, the conferees declared it prob
ably would be necessary to meet on
aeveral succeeding days before reach
ing any specific understanding.
"We shall proceed expeditiously and
we expect to complete our discussion
within a reasonably short time,” a
statement said. The meeting was set
for tomorrow.
SHOE PLANTS END STRIKE.
LEWISTON, Me., May 5 (VP)—A
42-day-old Lewiston-Auburn shoe
strike ended today in 3 of the 19 fac
tories involved.
Managements of the three com
panies, normally employing 700,
signed an agreement with the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization.
What effect, if any, the agreement
would have on negotiations between
the C. I. O. and other shop owners
could not be determined. Neither
faction would comment.
HOTEL PEACE SOUGHT.
SAN FRANCISCO. May 5 <4>).—
The powerful Central Labor Council
sought a means today to settle San
Francisco’s hotel strike, which execu
tives of the major hostelries esti
mated was costing them between
$35,000 and $40,000 daily.
John Shelley, president of the coun
cil, which backed demands of the
3,500 striking hotel workers, called a
special committee meeting for this
afternoon to see if a basis could be
found for ending the walkout. The
unions called the strike Saturday
when denied preferential hiring.
The 18 buildings involved were sur
rounded by pickets. Patrons re
maining were without the services
of chambermaids and bellhops.
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SURVEY PLANNED
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Trained Experts Hired by
Byrd as Part of Reor
ganization Plan.
An economy-efficiency survey of all
the personnel in the Government j
service is to be started immediately
by trained experts on personnel ques
tions who have made similar surveys
In private industry.
They are commissioned by Senator
Byrd. Democrat, of Virginia, chair- j
man of the special Senate Reorgani
zation Committee and a member of
the Joint Committee on Government
Organization. This work is under
taken with the new appropriation of
*15 000 made last week for the
"studies'’ that are being made by the
Byrd "Economy and Efficiency" Reor
ganization Committee.
These experts are going into every
establishment of the Government—
the old, long-established departments
as well as the so-called "independent"
establishments. They also are going
| into the scores of New Deal agencies
from which it is contemplated to blan
ket the employes into the civil service
by non-competitive examinations.
Advocates of Reduction.
It is emphasized daily that one of
the most important phases of any
Federal Government reorganization
: Plan is the personnel element. Some
persons have claimed wholesale reduc
j Hons in personnel can be made with
! tremendous savings and with in
| creased efficiency. Because the per
sonnel is composed of individual wrage
eamers, most of them with families
to support, and thousands of them
veterans in the service, this is a vital
problem for solution.
While definitely pledged to an
economy program. Senator Bryd is
i devoted to improving the efficiency as
well, and he proposes to be careful
that justice is assured for employes
while efforts are made materially to
reduee costs.
It is to get the basic facts through
an intensive study of the personnel
on their jobs—such a survey has never
before been made—that Senator Bryd
is engaging "outside" trained experts
to make this study and to report as
promptly as possible to his commit
tee. He considers the personnel ques
tion of prime and vital importance
in the entire economy and reorganiza
tion drive.
G. O. P. Charge Denied.
A Republican statement that ad
ministration leaders had abandoned
all but one feature of the Roosevelt
program for reorganizing the Govern
ment was challenged quickly today by
Democratic spokesmen.
The Republican, who is in close touch
with the situation, but did not wish
to be quoted by name, said the only
recommendation retained was for
transferring the functions of the
General Accounting Office.
Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South
Carolina, an administration lieutenant
and member of the congressional com
mittee studying the program, denied
the statement.
The Republican said other features
had been abandoned after powerful
opposition developed and presidential
experts testified it would take five years
to work out a realignment of agencies.
All testimony has been in closed com
mittee sessions.
BOILER INSPECTOR
FOR CITY NAMED
Greenlaw Resigns and Robert
S. Scott Is Selected Suc
cessor.
Price M. Greenlaw, District, boiler
inspector, who was put on a stated
salary basis after Congress had legis
lated out of existence his old fee job,
resigned today and the Commissioners
named Robert S. Scott, now in Dallas,
Tex., as his successor.
Scott Is boiler inspector with the
Columbia Casualty Co., with offices in
New York City, and was selected be
cause he stood at the head of the
eligible list for boiler Inspectors at the
Civil Service Commission, the Com
missioners said.
Greenlaw held the last fee job in
the District government. By edict of
Congress that job was abolished De
cember 4. For more than a month
the District was without a boiler In
spector while negotiations went for
ward as to what annual salary should
be paid for a boiler inspector as
signed to the District's new smoke con
trol division.
Greenlaw Anally accepted pay of
$3,200 a year, although h« protested
it was much less than he bad been
making.
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SWISS CONSIDER
Repent Distrust of Judiciary
in Face of Flood of
“Emergency’' Acts.
Aroused by an unprecedented pro
gram of "emergency” laws, Switzer
land, repenting a 60-year-old distrust
of the judiciary, is seriously consid
ering a move to give its high court a
measure of control over national leg
islation.
This, at least, is the impression
brought back by Mrs. Charlotte A.
Hankin, crusade fellow of the Ameri
can Association of University Women,
who has just returned to Washington
after a year’s study of the scope of
judicial review in Europe.
When the present Swiss judicial sys
tem was set up in 1874, Mrs. Hank.ij
said, close study had been given the
operation of the Supreme Court in
this country. Some of the decisions
of our court, particularly the Dred
Scott decision and the legal tender
cases, apparently convinced the fram
ers of the Swiss constitution that it
was unwise to give the courts power
to invalidate enactments of the na
tional government.
Can Review Cantons’ Laws.
Consequently the Federal Court
Switzerland's highest tribunal, was
given authority to review enactments
of the 22 cantons, somewhat anala
gous to our States, but no power to
pqss on national legislation.
The constitution, however, con
tained a provision that national laws,
with the exception of emergency
laws, could be subjected to approval
or disapproval by referendum. This
worked satisfactorily until recent
years, when the increasing number
of these emergency laws aroused wide
dissatisfaction. As a result a move
ment has been started to amend the
constitution to give the Federal Court
p>ower to decide whether a given
statute is in fact an emergency law.
Should this amendment pass, it was
pointed out, it would give the court
power to prevent the government
from violating the spirit of the Swiss
constitution by too freely invoking
the emergency law clause.
President Roosevelt's plan to en
large the Supreme Court by appoint
ment of six new members unless Jus
tices over 70 resign hfus aroused wide
interest in Europe. Mrs. Hankin de
clared. Sentiment for and against
the plan is divided along much the
same lines as in this country, she
said, but the majority of Europeans
seem to be with the President.
In Europe, she explained where the
multiplicity of political parties
makes enactment of any legislation
difficult, the average citizen cannot
comprehend a system of government
which would give the courts power
to undo hard-won legislative accom
plishments. She also pointed out
that the average age of European
justices is 65. when retirement in
most cases is mandatory.
Lifetime Tenure Disliked.
"I talked to any number of people."
Mrs. Hankin said, "who simply can't
understand why our own Justices
don't retire. The Idea of a lifetime
judgeship is abhorrent to them.”
Mrs. Hankin said she was particu
larly interested in the operation of
the judiciary in England and France.
There, while the courts have na
power to specifically invalidate an
act of the legislature, their powers
of interpretation are so broad that
they can. and in many cases have,
compelled the amendment of legis
lation.
In the course of her studies Mrs.
Hankin visited the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics. Poland. Hungary.
Czechoslovakia. Austria. Italy, Swit
zerland, France and Great Britain.
She already has submitted her
preliminary report to the Fellowship
Committee of the American Associa
tion of University Women and is now
organizing her material, preparing for
a series of lectures and ultimately a
work on a comparative study of her
subject.
With her husband, Gregory’ Han
kin. she has offices in the Woodward
Building.
PROMOTION MADE
Mark Lansburgh Named rs a Vice
President of Store.
Election of Mark Lansburgh as a vice
president of Lansburgh & Bro. was
announced today. Mr. Lansburgh
has served many years as secretary
of the corporation and as store man
ager. He will continue in his capac
ity as secretary.
Austin S. Donaldson, formerly asso
ciated with Macy's and later with
Gimbel's, has Joined T-ansburgh fz
Bro. as store manage; it was an
nounced. It was expla red oy the
company that it is enlarging the exec
utive staff to carry out a "progressive
store program."
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Seventy to Leave Spain.
PRAGUE. May 5 (/Pi.—Seventy
Spanish aristocrats who have rela
tives in Czechoslovakia and who have
had asylum in the Czechoslovakian
Embassy in Madrid have received per
mission to leave Spain, officials here
w’ere informed last night.
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
In recess.
Judiciary Committee studies Roose
velt court bill.
La Follette Committee continues in
quiry into Harlan County (Ky.) labor
troubles.
House:
Considers minor legislation.
Appropriations Subcommittee begin#
study of $1,500,000,000 relief bill.
Naval Committee considers legisla
tion for transfer of oil lands.
Agriculture Committee continue#
study of sugar quota legislation.
Interstate Commerce Committee con
■ siders railway signal system measure.
TOMORROW.
1 Senate:
Will take up a bill relating to dam
age connected with extermination of
the fruit fly in Florida.
Interstate Commerce Commutes
holds hearing on railroad financing,
2:30 p.m.
Judiciary Committee meets in ex
ecutive session on President's court
bill.
House:
Program uncertain.
Flood Control Committee consider#
pending flood control program, 10.30
a.m.
Subcommittee on Appropriations re
sumes hearings on relief supply bill.
10 a.ra.
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