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Senate Committee of Inter
state Body Would Inves
tigate Fees.
By the Associated Press.
A Senate committee proposed today
an Inquiry into the ‘‘cut-back" fee,
which it said railway officials charge
(or throwing business to coal com
panies and other supply firms.
Agents of the Railway Finance In
vestigating Committee described this
fee as similar to the money which an
unscrupulous politician might demand
for assigning new roads, school houses
or other public projects to a favored
contractor.
Chairman Wheeler said the inquiry
might be made either by his com
mittee or by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Wheeler, who has criticized a plan
to reorganize the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois Railroad because it would
perpetuate control by the Van Swer
ingen interests, offered evidence yes
terday to show Chairman Jesse H.
Jones of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation favored leaving the debt
burdened line inside the Van Swer
lngen rail empire.
He quoted from a memorandum
written by the late O. P. Van Swer
ingen, once dominant in the 23.000
mile rail system:
"Mr. Jones told the Bondholders’
Committee that he didn’t like their
plan * * * and wanted to know if they
were trying to unseat the management,
saying ‘You can’t do that.’”
The R. F. C. was interested in the
reorganization because of Government
loans made to the railroad during the
depression.
Carrol Shanks, head of a Bondhold
ers' Protective Committee, told inves
tigators yesterday that ‘‘I realized I
would have a hell of a time coming
to an agreement with Jones" on a re
organization if the bondholders op
posed Van Sweringen domination.
"Then the thing that really con
vinced you to accept this plan was the
fact that you were told down at the
R. F. C. that you better come to terms
with the Van Sweringens. and let them
control it?” inquired Senator Wheeler.
"You were practically told by Jones to
leave the Van Sweringens in there?”
"I so interpreted It,” Shanks re
plied.
Wheeler had charged earlier that
the Van Sweringens gained control of
the Illinois line secretly and illegally
In defiance of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, and that the road
had then obtained an R. F. C. loan
through "subterfuge, or fraud.”
He counseled Shanks:
“If you are going to let the Van
Sweringen interests keep control, you
better watch your shirt, or they will
take it away from you.”
"I’m inclined to agree with you.”
the youthful, sun-tanned witness re
plied with a smile.
He sharply criticized section 77 of
the bankruptcy act, enacted during the
depression to facilitate corporate re
organizations, on the ground that "it
is made to order to promote holding
company control."
ENGINEER GRADUATES
IN GREAT DEMAND
G. W. and Maryland T7. Schools
Among» 80 in Survey by
Insurance Bureau.
Graduates of the Engineering
6chools of George Washington and
Maryland Universities are in great
demand, a survey by the Family
Economics Bureau of the Northwest
ern National Life Insurance Co. of
Minneapolis, revealed yesterday.
The survey, a summary of com
ments received from many personnel
administrators and directors of place
ment bureaus, declared that the
George Washington school would not
be able to fill all the calls for em
ployment this year. For the Uni
versity of Maryland engineers the de
mand was three times what it was
last year, with salaries running 20
to 25 per cent higher. The heavy
demand is in the field of engineering
construction.
Results were tabulated for aboift
80 colleges and universities all over
the country where there are schools
of engineering or business or both.
All showed much the same demand i
for services.
Eckener at Hearing
Without a word, Dr. Hugo Eckener, old master of Zeppelin
builders, looked over the fire-blackened wreckage of the Hin
denburg at Lakehurst yesterday. Then he conferred (above)
with the United States Commerce Department investigating
board. Dr. L. Duerr, member of the German investigating
commission, is looking up to him. “It is impossible,” Eckener
said, “for me to give any ideas regarding the disaster now.”
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
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Restaurants Expected to Get
Two Billion Trade This Year
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 15.—The National
Restaurant Association predicted to
day the Nation's "dining out" checks
may aggregate two billion dollars this
year, the largest bill for restaurant
patronage since 1929.
This would be a 20 per cent increase
in the “take” of restaurateurs, com
pared with the 1936 sales volume, it
was said.
R. D. Clark, president, said "Depart
ment of Commerce figures covering \
retail establishments reveal a steady
gain, month by month, among restau
rants, with few interruptions to the
upswing. We seem to be headed for
the high 1929 level this year.”
The volume in the peak year eight
years ago was approximately $2,124,
000,000.
The rising tide of business recovery
thus will be reflected upon an un
usually sensitive and accurate barom
eter, the association said, recording in
particular the extent of personal pros
perity. While the restaurant business
depends upon the national appetite,
it also is affected by the volume of
travel, of entertainment and of con
vention attendance among other
things.
Even though restaurant men can
thank business recovery for their ris
ing turnover, the association said, they
have not been asleep in the task of
promoting their own individual wel
fare.
Commenting on the rising cost of
foodstuffs, Clark declared that restau
rants were doing more than their part
in keeping prices down and he attrib
uted their record in this direction to
adoption of more scientific equipment
and improved methods of food prep
aration.
DR. M’INTYRE MASTER
OF ALUMNI BANQUET
Georgetown Dental Grads Will
Attend Event Tonight in
Washington Hotel.
Dr. John Robert McIntyre was an
nounced as toastmaster for the sec
ond annual Georgetown Dental Alum
ni Association banquet, which will be
attended tonight at the Washington
Hotel by officials of the university
and about 200
professional men.
Dr. McIntyre
graduated from
the Georgetown
Preparatory
School, the col
lege and Dental
School and for a
number of years
has been on the
dental faculty. He
is a captain in
Dental Corps of
the District Na
tional Guard, a
member of Omi
cron Kappa Upsi
Dr. McIntyre.
Ion Honorary Dental Fraternity and
| holds a deputyship In Delta Sigma
Delta Fraternity. i
In addition to Very Rev. Arthur A.
O'Leary, S. J.. president of George
town, and officials of the Dental
School, guests will include Dr. C Wil
lard Camalier, president-elect of the
American Dental Association; Dr. G.
Albert Smith, president of the District'
of Columbia Dental Association.
William E. Leahy, law graduate of
1912, who is active in Georgetown af
fairs, and Dr. J. P. Burke, president
elect of the dental alumni, will be the
principal speakers.
EDUCATORS TO MEET
“War Against Crime” Is Topic of
Speaker.
The Education Association of the
District will hold its annual luncheon
at the Raleigh Hotel Saturday noon,
with Hugh H. Clegg, assistant direc
tor of the Federal Bureau of Investi
gation, as principal speaker. His
subject will be “The War Against
Crime and Its Importance for Educa
tion." Miss Frances GuteliuA, mu
sician, also will be on the program.
Reservations for the dinner are be
ing handled by Thomas Holmes,
Eastern High School.
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HIN BU
INCREASED TO 36
Otto Ernst, Broker, Dies in
Hospital—Nazi Board
Joins Inquiry.
BACKGROUND—
Dirigible Hindenburg fell in flames
May 6 near mooring mast at Lake
hurst, N. J„ costing lives of 36.
The luxurious airship, filled with
inflammable hydrogen gas, became
a smouldering mass of metal short
moments after the first burst of
fire was noted.
By the Associated Press.
LAKEWOOD, N. J„ May 15 —Otto
C. Ernst, 78, Hamburg cotton broker,
who was injured in the destruction of
the airship Hindenburg, died today at
Paul Kimball Hospital. This brought
the number of disaster dead to 36.
Ernst, who failed to rally from a
blood transfusion yesterday, died at
9:40 a m. (E. S.T.). His wife, 63, also
injured in the disaster, is in the hos
pital, where her condition was de
scribed as good.
NAZIS JOIN PROBE.
LAKEHURST, N. J., May 15 OF).—
Entrance of the official German In
vestigating Board into the Hlnden
burg inquiry directed emphasis today
toward witnesses’ estimates of the
time element in* the giant Zepplin's
movements in the final minutes of the
disaster.
Dr. Hugo Eckener, veteran airship
authority, sought survivors’ opinions
on the Interval between dropping of
the ground rope and the fatal lift
ing of the bow as he took an active
part in the afternoon hearing yes
terday.
In addition to queries on landing
operations, the chief of the Zep
pelin company asked that questions
and answers dealing with the esti
mated period between the outbreak
of fire and the crash to the ground
be repeated. Dr. Eckener appeared
at the hearing after a morn mg in
spection of the remains of the once
majestic Hindenburg, whose burning
at the Naval Air Station May 6, took
a toll of 35 lives.
Whether odor was. noticed at the
explosion, where freight was located,
where smoking was permitted, whether
welding equipment was carried and
whether visitors had been in the air
ship before It sailed from Germany
were among other questions posed.
These latter queries, members of
the United States Department of Com
merce Investigating Board indicated,
however, were not suggested by the
visiting German Board of Inquiry.
Son 6Dead Right5
About Dictator9
Says John Dodd
By the Associated Press.
FUQUAY SPRINGS, N. C , May
15.—John Daniel Dodd said today he
was confident his son. Ambassador
William E. Dodd, was "dead right” in
his allegation that a billionaire was
ready to set up a Fascist dictatorship
in the United States.
"Will knows everything,” the 89
year-old man said. "You can bet your
last dollar that whenever Will says
anything he knows what he is talking
about.
"And, furthermore,” he added, "you
might as well try to move the sun as
try to make Will tell anything that
he’s not a-mind to tell. He's nearly
as stubborn as I am in that respect,
if not as much so. Will won't tell the
name of that rich man unless he
wants to.”
The statements of the United States
Ambassador to Germany were made
in a letter to several Senators urging
support of the Roosevelt court reor
ganization plan lest a Fascist dicta
torship spread to this country.
Senator Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota has Introduced a resolution
directing the State Department to ob
tain the billionaire’s name from the
Ambassador.
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Mrs. Roosevelt Greeted by Girl Scouts
Members of the guard of honor saluting Mrs. Roosevelt as she arrived at the Girl Scouts’ Little
House this morning. —Underwood Photo.
Mrs. Roosevelt Plants Tree
At Girl Scouts’ Little House
Holding a shovel in her gloved hands
and placing her foot lightly against
It, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt today
went through the motions of planting
a tree in the Memory Garden of the
National Girl Scout Little Hou*se at
1750 New York avenue—a ceremony
held in connection with Girl Scout
participation in the Better Homes in
America Campaign.
The tree—a camelia japonica bush
—will hold a two-fold memory for the
Scouts, for it was brought to Wash
ington from Savannah, Ga. the home
of Mrs. Juliette Low', who founded the
Girl Scout movement In the United
States.
"I am glad to participate with the
Girl Scouts in this practical demon
stration of Better Homes Week be
cause I believe that every woman
should have home economics training
and that landscaping is an important
factor in the charm of the home.”
Mrs. Roosevelt remarked to the group
of selected Girl Scouts and officials
who crowded into the little garden.
Earlier. Mrs. Roosevelt inspected the
Little House and praised a scale
model of the Savannah Little House
where the first Girl Scout troops held
their meeting. This model, it was J
explained, had been prepared for the
celebration in April of the silver an
niversary of the Scout movement. In
the recreation room she also exam
ined an example of weaving demon
strated by Dorothy Kopsch of Troop
79.
The reading of a poem by Betty
Lee Plummer of Troop 79 also was a
feature of the program.
A guard of honor of 25 Girl Scouts
POLISH RIOTS RENEWED
AFTER FIFTY CASUALTIES
Bt the Associated Press.
WARSAW, May 15 —New anti
Semitic riots broke out today in Gra
bow, Lodz Province, despite police
precautions against a nationwide
spread of the violence that raged
through four Polish cities yesterday.
A mob gathered in Grabow after a
knifing affray in which a gentile
owner of a market stand was wounded
by a Jewish shopkeeper.
The enraged mob beat all the Jews
it could find and smashed 250 win
dows in Jewish homes before the
tumult subsided. Frightened Jews
barricaded themselves in their houses.
Anti-Semitic outbursts yesterday in
three other towns were suppressed by
police re-enforcements.
who have won their “citizenship”
badges greeted Mrs. Roosevelt. The
committee of officials acting as
hostesses included Mrs. Henry H.
Flather, Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke,
Mrs. B. F. Cheatham and Mrs. Anson
Phelps Stokes. Mrs. Royal S. Cope
land, wife of the New York Senator,
also was a guest.
The tree planted by Mrs. Roosevelt
was the third to be placed in the
garden. Mrs. Herbert Hoover planted
a red bud tree several years ago and
Mrs. Ray Lyman Wilbur, wife of the
former Secretary of the Interior, a
crab apple.
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FAVOR DAYLIGHT TIME
Government Employes' Group In
dorses Proposal.
The proposal to adopt daylight
saving for the District was indorsed
last night by the District Depart
ment, American Federation of Gov
ernment Employes
The department refused to seat as
a delegate from State Department
Lodge 71 Ernest R. Perkins, who was
said to have expressed himself favor
ably toward the Civil Liberties Union.
■ The Credentials Committee recom
| mended the seat be denied and on a
vote this carried, 60-42.
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Declared to be the world's largest
foot bell crowd, 150,000 fans saw
Scotland defeat England at Glas
gow, Scotland.
BRIGHTWOOD ASKS
MEMORIAL SPEED
Completion of Fort Steveni Monu
ment Sought for Anni
versary Fete.
Completion of the grounds and
monument In time for the celebra
I tion of the 72nd anniversary of the
I Battle of Fort Stevens was urged last
night at a meeting of the Brightwood
Citizens’ Association in the Paul
Junior High School.
The association was advised by
C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of
National Capital Parks, that work on
the Fort Stevens project had been
temporarily delayed because the C.
C. C. enrolles have been busy con
structing quarters for the Boy Scout
Jamboree here next month. They
will be returned to Fort Stevens soon,
he said.
John Clagett Proctor announced
that Memorial day services will be
held at Battle Oround National Ceme
tery, Brightwood, Monday, May 31,
at 3 p.m.
The association voted to request
District authorities to make Thirteenth
street, from Spring road to Colorado
avenue, a one-way thoroughfare dur
ing the morning and evening rush
hours. This would complete the
boulevard for one-way traffic from
Colorado avenue to Thirteenth street
and Massachusetts avenue.
Traffic lights at Piney Branch road
and Georgia avenue, at Georgia avenue
and Rittenhouse street and Military
road. Concord and Georgia avenues
are needed, the citizens decided, and
efforts will be made to obtain them.
At the suggestion of William McK.
I Clayton, the association voted its ap
preciation for services of Henry M.
Gilligan, for many years an active
I member and a vice president of the
Board of Education.
President Charles W. Ray extended
an invitation to the association to
hold the June meeting at his country
estate at Sandy Spring, Md.
DEMOCRATS TO MEET
The Michigan Washington Demo
cratic Club will meet at 9 p.m. tomor
row in the New Colonial Hotel, Fif
teenth and M streets, to discuss plans
■ for future programs of the club
John Luecke of Escanaba will be
guest speaker and all Michiganders
are invited to attend.