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SAFETY AWARDS
GIVEN 62 DRIVERS
tv. -
Two Star Employes Re
warded for 7-Year Rec
» ords and Four for 5.
Sixty-two automobile drivers for
The Star, who covered 1,214,474 miles
without accident during the past 12
months, yesterday received awards
apd certificates at a meeting under the
auspices of The Star and the Na
tional Safety Council, held in The
Star Building.
.. Two drivers received seven-year
awards and four received gold watches
for driving five years without acci
dent. James William Thompson, one
Of the two with perfect seven-year
records, has covered a total of 259,094
Stiles without mishap during his serv
ice with The Star, of which 42,391
miles were driven during the safety
year ending April 30.
' The other seven-year award was
ftiade to Melba Markham Fuchs of
The Star Medical Clinic, who has
driven a total of 58,250 miles without
Occident; 8.250 miles during the past
year. She is the only woman driver
in the United States who has received
K seven-year award of the National
8afety Council.
Four Receive Watches.
The gold watch awards lor five
years of perfect driving were pre
sented to J. R. Thompson, Robert F.
ferkins. Harry R. Bort and A. C.
Chinn. These four have driven a total
W 295.074 miles without accident, of
Which 57,574 miles were covered dur
ing the past year.
.. Although 62 Star drivers had per
fect records during the past year, seven
were ineligible for official awards be
cause their their service did not cover
the full year. These seven, however,
received certificates. The 55 who re
ceived official awards drove a total of
I. 181,593 miles during the past year,
and all received safety medals.
The presentations were made by
Fleming Newbold. business manager of
The Star, and congratulatory addresses
were made by Frank B. Noyes, presi
dent of The Evening Star Newspaper
Co., and Samuel H, Kauilmann, as
sistant business manager.
Mechanical Faults Few.
The safety records on which the
awards were based show relatively few
of the accidents in which Star trucks
and cars were involved were due to
mechanical failures. Since The Star
Joined the National Safety Council
seven years ago, its fleet has traveled
more than 10.000.000 miles, and only
one report in all that time discloses a
mechanical failure as the cause of an
accident. In recognition of this excel
lent maintenance record, an engraved
plaque was presented to the staff of
The Star garage.
Four-year medals and certificates
were presented to R. M. Pobst, Charles
L. Perrygo, Davie Quarles, Irwin
Pridgeon and Alfred Lyons.
Three-year awards were received by
M. P. Beard. Benjamin A. Burroughs,
George C. Hesterberg, C. G. Thomas,
Karl Krebs and John C. Mueller.
Two-year awards were w'on bv J. V.
Padgett, J. M. Carey. C. A. Thomp
son, O. V. Staats, Walter Tucker, J. A.
Hawkins, R. L. Adams. P. W. Briscoe,
J. M. Richards, D. N. Nicklason, F.
Routt and C. B. Apperson.
Medals Are Presented.
Those awarded medals for accident
free driving during the past year are
E. J. De Vore. E. Hurst, C. C, Oates,
M. A. Grimm, L. H. Poland, L. L.
Thompson, P. Herrmann, W. A. White,
Roy Gray. W. T. Roache, Harry Wil
son. L. R. Hutchinson, W. J. Furmage,
L. B. Ford, M. L. Deloatch, J. Spriggs,
A, A. Allen, E. Thompson, J. Ander
son, Walter Henneman, James Lucas,
A. S. Kinsey, C. A. McKennev, jr.;
J. O. Farrell, Ted Crown and F. C.
Wilkinson.
Paul Chase and Gordon Brown re
ceived certificates for 11 months each
of driving without accidents and
letters ef recognition were given the
following five drivers, who established
'‘no-accident" records during shorter
periods of driving during the past
year: T. J. White, W. L. Brocken
borough, E. L. Fox, T. W. Savoy and
George Hurd.
The total of 55 drivers who qualified
for official awards during the past
year is the largest number with per
fect records in a single year since the
system of safety awards was estab
lished. Their total mileage during
the year also was the largest in the
seven years.
Although other Star drivers, by
reason of minor accidents, failed to
qualify for medals, those who were
involved in mishaps due to circum
stances beyond their control were
given certificates for careful driving.
Such drivers who received ratings
of “excellent" are W. E. Thompson,
W. D, Grogan, C. G. Lucas, H. C.
West, B. F. Lewis and J. Donohue,
lutings of “very good" were awarded
1» G. H. Ogden, E. H. West, R. Routt,
45 P. Adams, Carl Bean, V. S. Free,
a A. Nace, Walter Whichard and H.
Is Patten, and awards of “good” to
j; H. Smith and W. W. Miller.
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Japan's Emperor Honors Britain’s.
fLONDON, May 19 {&).—King George
■VI was given the order of the chrysan
themum today at the command of
Jjjmperor Hirohito of Japan.
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' ^Congress in Brief
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TODAY.
Sinate:
f -^Debates extension of soil conserva
tion act.
’Commerce Committee resumes hear
ings an safety-at-sea legislation.
House:
"Considers Interior Department ap
propriation bill.
Naval Affairs Committee studies
proposed accommodations for Atlantic
tJoast naval air base.
"Interstate Commerce Committee
considers railroad retirement bill.
’ Labor Subcommittee continues hear
ings on Ellenbogen textile bill.
' £ TOMORROW.
■Senate:
* '^Program uncertain.
"Privileges and Elections Committee
•itfets on bill relating to the corrupt
•pjfjmtices act, 10 a.m.
5 -Interstate Commerce Subcommittee
-hCjds hearing on railroad pension bill,
£•*30 a.m.
-district Appropriations Subcommit
holds final hearings on local sup
.ply bill, 10 a m.
H&se:
•Considers emergency relief appro
priation bill.
immigration and Naturalization
Committee considers Starnes bill,
TOO a m.
|Library Committee considers mis
cellaneous bills, 10 a.m.
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Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
PENITENT.
CONTRITE because he heard a
traffic warrant had been is
sued against him for failure
to post collateral on a parking
ticket, an upright young man of this
city went dutifully to the Traffic Bu
reau and offered penance, total $5.
The bureau clerk looked up his
name, made a significant gesture to
another policeman and the penitent
lad found himself hauled behind the
rail.
"We've been looking for you for a
long time,” said the clerk in ominous
tones. "There are seven warrants
out for you. Leave $35 here or off to
jail with you.”
His protests availing nought, the
young man finally sent out calls for
help, mustered the necessary ball,
went on his way vowing (a) never to
be so conscientious again and (b)
never again to lend his automobile to
a friend who had been using it quite
regularly of late.
* * * *
PROGRESS.
The houses out on Rhode Island
avenue that used to advertise
tourists’ accommodations by dis
play of neat white signs, lettered
with black paint, are in the cate
gory of big business now.
They’ve torn down the old-fash
ioned boards, put in neon signs
that blazon their red messages
through the night.
* * * *
CONTACT.
AN ABSENT-MINDED driver pulled
out from the curb at Thirteenth
street and New York avenue yester
day. There was a screech of brakes, a
crash. "Whereinelldyathinkyaregoin'?”
roared the driver of a car that was hit.
"You'll pay for——oh, hello, Howard.
How are ya? Yeah, I know it wasn’t
your fault. Your car hurt? O. K.
Mine’s not bad either. So long.”
* * * *
TANGLE.
T3ECAUSE of the traffic congestion
of H street during rush hours,
parking on the north side is banned in
the late afternoon. One of our friends
was inching along in a particularly
bad jam on that street the other day,
wondering why the "No Parking”
signs hadn’t solved the matter of
crowded streets.
He found his answer about the
middle of the block, where a police
derrick was trying to swing around
in the middle of the street, occasionally
backing into a sign post bearing the
words “No U Turn.”
After much intricate twisting and
turning, with directions by a foot
patrolman, the truck made its turn,
rolled off down the street dragging a
small, reluctant sedan out of the for
bidden zone.
* * * *
ORPHAN.
CPEAKING of traffic snarls, as we
often do (our nightmares about
Sunday motorists never wear off until
the following Friday), that trans
planted robin family down on Consti
tution avenue caused a terrific jam
the other day. Trouble was started by
one of the younger members, a half
baked fledging that peeked over tne
side of the nest, probably looking for
a worm that had stayed out all night,
and promptly fell on its head (the
robin's, not the worm's).
A passer-by witnessed this catastro
phe, picked up the bird and tossed it
in the air, thinking it would flutter
back to the nest. Instead the little
minx made a bee line for the De
partment of Labor across the street,
fell short of the mark and landed in
a truck that was waiting for a traffic
light to change.
The driver, unaware he had picked
up a stowaway, was about to move on
when various bystanders plunged Into
the street and waved for him to stop.
He was agreeable enough when the
situation was explained, waited lor
some one to capture the bird. That
accomplished, about half a dozen
people walked over to attend the cere
mony of returning robin to his family
tree.
The senior robins took over there,
saying we know not what. It sounded
like a long chorus of “Yah. Yah.
Smarty pants.” but maybe robins
never say things like that. They
would, if they knew the meaning of
that long, black line of cars strung
out behind the truck driver, honking
like mad.
* * * *
REWARD.
Always first with the bizarre in
news, our own favorite newspaper
reported last week that the Engi
neers’ Club at a certain local uni
versity was going to award a
"Plague” to an outstanding grad
uate in the class of 1937.
O. K., if they feel that way about
tt, but we hope he keeps it to him
self.
* * * *
SHOWER.
Q ROWING gray with the years and
almost unable to remember the
days when we drove stolen milk
wagons around New Have » and
believed all campus policemen should!
be hanged, drawn and quartered, we
no longer approve of collegiate antics.
Visiting high school students who
swipe hotel towels by the dozen and
stuff soap in keyholes are almost as
much of a pain to our doddering
sense of humor as they are to the
management.
We do like, however, the incident
of the sportive visitors who filled a
paper bag with water and dropped It
out of a tenth-story hotel window. I
The bag landed plop on the head of!
a lady walking below, and she
fainted.
When she came to, she held no
malice whatsoever against any one.
Just before the blow fell, she had
been on her way to the drug store,
and when she regained consciousness
she believed she had been caught in
a shower while completing the errand.
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COURT BILL FOES
MAP FLOOR FIGHT
Predict Logan Compromise
Will Prove New Battle
ground.
BACKGROUND—
President Roosevelt's bill to add a
maximum of six new justices to
Supreme Court unless incumbents
over 70 retire has proved the most
unpopular of all his recommended
enactments. With the rants of his
own party hopelessly split, the bill
was bombarded in open hearings
before Senate Judiciary Committee
and finally met with adverse 10-to
S vote in executive session of com
mittee.
By the Associated Press.
Victorious Senate foes of the Roose
velt court bill turned away from in
dications of administration comprom
ise today in pursuit of a triumph on
the Senate floor as decisive as the
adverse vote in the Judiciary Com
mittee.
Opposition leaders said the measure
was dead. They forecast the com
promise advanced unsuccessfully in
the committee by Senator Logan,
Democrat, of Kentucky would prove
the new fighting ground.
Logan, a supporter of the President,
suggested that one additional justice
be appointed each year if any mem
bers of the Supreme Court served past
75. The number would drop back to
nine when the older Justices retired.
The Roosevelt bill would permit an
increase up to a membership of 15 if
justices over 70'i did not withdraw.
The court would remain permanently
at the number to which it was raised.
Logan Claims Support.
No one qualified to speak for the
administration had conceded that the
battle for the President’s bill had been
dropped, but Logan said his com
promise was favored by Senator Rob
inson of Arkansas, the Democratic
leader.
This quickly led to speculation
whether Robinson was backtracking
from the “no compromise’’ edict he
uttered on the White House steps after
President Roosevelt’s return last week,
or was trying to negotiate a com
promise without committing the Chief
Executive.
Opposition leaders and many others
were convinced the latter theory was
correct. Robinson kept away from the
Capitol yesterday after the committee
voted 10 to 8 acainst the bill.
Interest Is Divided.
Congressional interest in the judi
ciary situation was divided almost
equally between speculation over the
administration's position and candi
dates for the vacancy on the Supreme
Court created by the retirement of
Justice Van Devanter.
Mr. Roosevelt told his press con
ference he had not yet considered a
successor. Asked if the retirement
would affect the court bill, he said
there was no news on that point.
Van Devanter's retirement increased
the belief of many congressmen, how
ever, that the administration would
be willing to modify the court bill. It
broke up the solid minority of four
justices that has so often opposed New
Deal measures and against which
friends of the bill have leveled their
heaviest fire.
Minority Report Unseen.
Indications that the administration
supporters on the Judiciary Commit
tee would submit no minority report
upholding the measure increased the
compromise talk.
Chairman Ashurst hinted he would
not make such a report. He said he
would not lead the fight on the floor
because he had been "dispossessed.”
A subcommittee of three members
of the committee majority set to work
drafting the adverse report. Senators
King, Democrat, of Utah; McCarran,
Democrat, of Nevada, and O’Mahoney,
Democrat, of Wyoming, formed the
group.
They said they probably would be
ready to report within about a week,
which w'ould start the Senate debate
about June 1. No one would forecast
how long that debate might last.
GOV. NICE TO HAVE
RIGHT EYE REMOVED
Operation Necessitated by Fall in
1934—Recuperative Rest
Also Ordered.
By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, May 19.—Gov. Harry
W. Nice announced late yesterday, at
the completion of three hours' contin
uous work signing legislative bills,
that physicians have ordered him to
undergo an operation and take an
extended recuperative rest.
Injuries to his right eye, suffered in
a fall shortly before his election in
1934, have made it necessary to re
move the organ, the Governor dis
closed.
He said he will wind up pressing
duties here about May 26 and expects
to enter a New York hospital about
June 1.
The operation will keep him in the
hospital about two weeks, his physi
cians informed him, and another
three weeks will be required before an
artificial eye can be Inserted. There
after, the Governor said, he plans a
recuperative rest of between four and
six weeks. He said he expects to take
a motor trip or a cruise.
SORORITY UNIT’S WORK
FOR CHARITY PRAISED
[Group Supplies Glasses to Chil
dren Who Cannot Buy
Them.
Mrs. Charles Goldsmith. Washing
ton charity worker, last night applaud
ed members of the Washington Alum
nae Club of Phi Sigma Sigma Soror
ity on their work in furnishings med
ical supplies for needy school chil
dren. She spoke at a monthly meet
ing of the sorority at the home of Miss
Beatrice Oxenburg, 4325 Seventeenth
street.
The sorority has established a trust
fund to supply eyeglasses to children
whose parents are unable now to ob
tain money for this purpose from the
Community Chest or other agencies.
The fund is dedicated to the memory
of Flora A. Zukor.
Mrs. Philip Dietz was re-elected
archon of the organiation. Mias
Martha Benenson was named vice
archon; Mrs. Sidney Kolker, scribe,
and Mias Mrytls Kaminsky, scribe,
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All Amorebieta’s Civilian Men Taken in Evacuation
Hundreds of children have been moved from Bilbao, scene
of terrific slaughter. One of the latest contingents of child refu
gees is shown as boys and girls, not yet in their teens, landed at
Pauillac, France. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
ay me *ssoci»tea press.
AMOREBIETTA, on the Bilbao Front,
May 19.—From 500 women and chil
dren left by retreating Basque and
Asturian troops, Insurgent officers to
day gleaned tales of terror that cli
maxed a stubborn defense of Amore
bleta against Gen. Emilio Mola's in
surgents.
The refugees, who fled to Mola's
encircling lines in search of food and
sanctuary, babbled versions of the
war madness that gripped the once
peaceful town of 5,000 inhabitants as
the Basque forces made their last
stand.
The women and children said the
retreating soldiers took all the civilian
men of Amorebieta with them in their
retreat to Bilbao's last line of defense.
Bilbao Is only 9 miles away to the west
and slightly north.
The refugees said militiamen
splashed gasoline on the “better
houses’’ and then set them afire with
hand grenades.
"Some families were trapped in the
burning houses,” one woman said.
"Many just perished unless they
managed to escape.”
Insurgent troops said they heard
"terrible cries” from the village Mon
day night.
The insurgents believed dynamite
explosions which shook the town after
the Basque evacuation had been in
tended for them—on the theory that
Mola’s men would occupy it immedi
ately. The Insurgents, however,
waited until long after the Basques
had fled before moving in.
Refugees Plod in Rain.
While the insurgents camped in
a vast "horseshoe” about the war
seared town, the refugees plodded
through the rain over rugged moun
tain terrain to seek aid from the be
siegers. One woman had a baby at
ner breast. Many were in rags and
wore crude wrappings on their feet.
"We were a month without bread
and with little water,” said one
tearful refugee. "For a fortnight we j
have had almost no food. The reds
tried to evacuate everybody, but many
of us refused to leave.
“Sunday we were locked in the
church by militiamen who pointed
pistols at us while they forced us
inside. With pistols against our
chests the militiamen tried to take
our younger children, saying they
would be sent to Russia. Some gave
up their children, but most of us
clung to ours, saying we would rather
be shot."
Freed From Church by Carlists,
The women and children locked in
the church were freed by a squad of
Carlists, who entered Amorebieta yes
terday morning and broke open the
doors.
Rescuers and rescued alike fled
through machine gun fire from
Basque snipers who held a hill on the
Bilbao side of Amorebieta. A Basque
tank had remained on duty in Amore
bieta until yesterday morning and
then fled with the last handful of
Basques from the smoking, partly
ruined town.
The insurgents found shelter in
what were once Basque dugouts be
fore continuing the thrust toward
Bilbao. Soldiers not on the firing
line yesterday huddled in them away
from the rain and the Basques’ ma
chine gun and rifle fire.
3 Lines of Trenches Taken.
■ The dugouts were crude affairs
topped with corrugated iron and
camouflaged by the branches of pine
trees. To reach them, the insurgents
had driven the Basques out of three
lines of trenches, one a few yards
behind the other, with barbed-wire
entanglements 25 feet thick in front.
Many of the trees bore the scars
of machine gun fire. Some had even
been sheared off.
Asturian "dinamiteros" had left
many of their grenades on the battle
field. These, their favorite weapon,
were egg-shaped mechanisms with i
two sticks of dynamite wired to each, j
CATAPULT HELD
Method May Be Adopted for
Use With Giant New
Planes.
BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTOX,
Aviation Editor of The Star.
LANGLEY FIELD, Va., May 19.—
Aviation leaders are considering the
catapulting of the giant new airliners
of the Immediate future as the only
alternative to a tremendously costly
enlargement of airports along the
main airlines.
Problems of shooting into the air
huge airplanes of up to 60,000 pounds
in weight—three times the size of the
largest landplanes now in operation—
are being worked out under the leader
ship of Federal scientists of the Na
tional Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics at its Langley Field
laboratories.
inis was one oi scores oi outstand
ing research developments being out
lined here before the Nation's air
leaders, summoned to confer with the
N. A. C. A. on research work now in
progress and needed in the coming
months. The first of two parties of
aviation leaders visited Langley Field
yesterday and a second group will
visit here tomorrow, most of them
leaving Washington by steamboat this
evening, A majority of yesterday's
visitors returned to Washington today.
Catapulting is believed the only so
lution to problems resulting from in
creasing si* and wing loading of
transport planes, which demand larger
and larger airports. Many commer
cial airports already are taxed to the
limit by the take-off distance required
for present airliners. Washington
Airport, the National Capital's only
air terminal, is regarded as an out
standing example of an important air
port at which the Umit in airplane si*
has been reached.
“With definite trends toward larger
air transports, with higher wing load
ings, and corresponding increase in
take-off distance, the problem has
reached a critical stage,’’ it was ex
plained by Dr. George W. Lewis, re
search director for the N. A. C. A.
Through the use of a type of cata
pult now being considered by the N.
A. C. A., the take-off of the largest
transports now in immediate prospect
would be held within 1,150 feet with
out danger or discomfort to passengers,
it was said. For a 60,000-pound air
plane of a type now actually under
construction on the West Coast the
catapult must provide a thrust of
15,000 pounds. It is believed this can
be obtained through use of a catapult
powered by a giant motor-driven fly
wheel buried in a pit below the sur
face of the airport and free to turn
into the wind.
The layman who asks the pilot of a
giant flying boat in the near future
just how he manages to get the great
ship off the water or land it may
receive the reply: “It’s done by mir
rors.” That won’t be spoofing. The
N. A. C. A. has developed an indicator
composed of mirrors which reflect the
horiaon on a glass graduated In de
grees. The device prevents the danger
of nosing over or bouncing as a result
of improper landing angles and per
mits great Improvement of take-off
technique.
Another of the important research
projects is intended to increase the
efficiency of airplane propellers. It
was pointed out that an increase of
only 1 per cent In propeller efficiency
would result In added pay load and
decreased fuel consumption sufficient
to pay off the cost of an airplane
within its lifetime.
Miami U. Physicist Dies.
OXFORD, Ohio. May IB OP).—Dr.
Joseph A. Culler, 78, professor emeri
tus in physics at Miami University
and nationally known for his re
searches in radium and radio, died
yesterday in a hospital after ilineas
of a week. Dr. Culler is listed in
Who’s Who as the author of eight
text books in physics for high school
and college use.
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Justice M’Reynolds
Will Become Dean
Of Supreme Court
By th* Associated Press.
Justice James Clark McReynolds.
who pleaded recently for "good
sportsmanship" by those who loae in
court, will become dean of the Su
preme Court when Justice Van
Devanter retires next month.
McReynolds, a bachelor, was Presi
dent Wilson’s Attorney General when
appointed to the court in 1914.
Outranking him in age is Justice
Brandeis, 80, who was appointed by
President Wilson in 1916. Chief
Justice Hughes and Justice Suther
land, like McReynolds, are 75.
Voting against one of the first New
Deal laws to come before the high
court, McReynolds declared: ‘"The
Constitution la gone!” He has written
more opinions holding laws unconsti
tutional than any other man who ever
sat on the Supreme bench.
rAHIVl lUBtHUMt
Retiring Jurist to Pass His
Remaining Days on Place
Near Ellicott City.
The rolling hills of his 788-tcre
farm in nearby Maryland beckoned
today to Justice Van Devanter, who
will conclude 26 years of service on the
Supreme Court when he retires Tues
day, June 2.
Never losing his attachment for the
quiet life of the farm, the 78-year-old
jurist told reporters yesterday he in
tends to pass his remaining days on
the estate he purchased recently near
Ellicott City.
Quietly smoking his pipe. Justice
Van Devanter received newspaper men
in his book-lined study shortly after
announcing his intention to retire in
a brief letter to the President.
Canadian Trip Planned.
He will spend most of his time living
the leisurely life of a gentleman farm
er, he explained, but may make a trip
this Summer to the Seigniory Club,
a gathering place for sportsmen In
Canada, where he can indulge his
fondness for golf, hunting and fish
ing.
Justice Van Devanter wanted to
resign from the bench in 1929. when
he reached the age of 70, but Chief
Justice Taft persuaded him to remain
and give the court the benefit of his
profound knowledge of procedure and
the law of public lands and water
rights.
After Taft resigned, other members
of the court induced Van Devanter to
remain. It was said that Justice
Brandeis, whose views of constitu
tional law differ in many respects
from Van Devanter’s, took the lead In
persuading him to stay on the bench.
Will Get Full Pay.
Incidentally, Brandeis was one of
the three justices who did not issue
statements yesterday expressing re
gret at his retirement. Hie others
were Cardoso and Roberts, the latter
being out of the city.
Justice Van Devanter will retire
under the new law which assures that
his salary of $20,000 a year will con
tinue.
The previous law provided for the
same salary when a justice resigned,
but Congress could have reduced it.
The salary of Justice Holmes was so
reduced after he resigned in 1932 at
the age of 91.
U. S. TO BUY FISH
3,000,000 Pounds to Be Distrib
uted aa Aid to Industry.
Pedersl officials announced today
they would purchase about 3,000,000
more pounds of fish. To date the
Federal Surplus Commodities Corp.
has bought 6,400,000 pounds In an
effort to relieve the fishing industry
of an oversupply. *
The fish Is distributed to States for
the use of unemployed in arses where
fish consumption Islow,
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Montgomery Board to Meet
Twice Weekly Until Levy
Is Signed.
BV i StaS Correspondent ot The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md., May 19—The
new budget and roads will be taken
up by the county commissioners at a
special board meeting here tomorrow
at 9 a m. The board is expected to
meet twice a week until the new levy
Is set next month.
Commissioners were reluctant to
discuss the budget In advance and to
forecast whether It would be higher
or lower than that of the current year.
Some of the department heads are
known to be asking an increase, but
,/hether such requests would be cut
or increased revenue would be suffi
cient to permit them could not be
ascertained.
Revenue from liquor taxes, for ex
ample, were estimated at $50,000 for
the current year, but are expected to
reach almost double that figure. Other
revenues may increase over estimates
made last year, but hardly in as great
proportion.
With the “overdraft” for county
road construction and maintenance
of approximately $192,000 wiped out
by the bill introduced In the Legisla
ture by Senator Steelman Prescott and
signed yesterday by Gov. Harry W.
Nice, the commissioners are planning
to resume work on county roads In the
near future.
commissioner Richard H. Lansdale,
Sandy Spring, announced yesterday he
favored securing an opinion from the
attorney general on whether the
county could direct its own expendi
tures, and to request such permission
from the State Roads Commission.
Lansdale estimated that the 1]4
cents the county is entitled to as its
share of the State gasoline tax would
bring In about $135,000 this year, and
that about $15,000 remains unex
pended from the previous year, a total
of $140,000. Estimating maintenance
costs at $60,000, slightly more than
was spent last year, would leave about
$80,000 for new construction and debt
retirement, he pointed out.
NATIONAL JEWISH HOME
IS LAUDED BY SENATOR
The National Jewish Home for
Children at Denver, Colo., was de
scribed as “one of the most worthy
social service projects in the United
States" by Senator Johnson of Colo
rado in an address yesterday at the
first annual donors' luncheon of the
home’s Washington chapter. The
luncheon was hHd at the Mayflower
Hotel, with approximately 300 prom
inent Jewish women in attendance.
Mrs. Albert Jacobson, president of
the Washington chapter, presided.
Mrs. Harry Brandt was chairman of
the Luncheon Committee.
Mrs. Charles Goldsmith was pre
sented by the chapter with a check
for $300 to be devoted to equipment
of Central Camp, fresh air refuge
for underprivileged children at Chop
awamslc, Va.
STATES’ 100-YEAR .0AN
STILL ON BOOKS OF U.S.
Sy the Associated Press.
Officials reported yesterday the
Treasury still was carrying on its
books a 100-year-old loan to 28 8tates.
They added there was not much hope
It ever would be collected.
The loan, totaling 828,101,644, was
advanced to the States in Andrew
Jackson’s administration on the plea
of Daniel Webster and others. Web
ster’s group said a $42,468,859 sur
plus In the Treasury was keeping too
much money out of circulation.
They contended part of It should
be deposited with the 8(ates bo ‘it
could flow out through channels of
commerce and industry.
Treasury officials said no effort ever
has been made to collect the money
They added it would be carried bn
Treasury ledgers as an “asset" until
Obngrass officially relieved the States
eg liability.
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TOSEEINJiEDSl
Widow, Accused of Slaying
Other Child, Collapses
From Nerve Strain.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 19.—Sobbing
violently. Mrs. Helen Tiernan. 28
year-old widow, accused of the "babes
in the wood" torch-axe murder of her
daughter Helen, 7, collapsed in the
Riverhead Jail today.
Dr. Albert E. Payne, prison physi
cian, administered a restorative. He
said her pulse was "extremely rapid"
and that she showed signs of "deep
emotional exhaustion.'*
Restored to consciousness, the blond
alleged slayer doted fitfully on her
jail cell cot.
Earlier, a prison attendant said,
Mrs. Tiernan begged for information
on the condition of her son Jimmy,
j aged 5, whom she also assertediy
| sought to kill last Saturday during
i a picnic outing in the woods of
Brookhaven, Long Island.
"How is Jimmy?" she cried, ac
cording to the attendant. "I hope he's
better. I hope he is taken In by some
: good family."
rirsi Accuses >»eflheart.
Police said the woman had confessed
that she attempted to "get rid of the
children’’ so she would have more
room in her shabby West Side apart
ment in which to entertain her sweet
heart, George Christodulus, 29-year
old Greek restaurant worker.
In one of her three alleged confes
sions, police said, Mrs. Tiernan ac
cused Christodulus of helping her in
the crime, charging that he struck
both of the small victims with an ax
and that she then cut their throats.
Later, in her third statement, she
cleared Christodulus of any connection
with the slaying.
Jail attendants said Mrs. Tiernan
appeared in a "complete daze" today,
displaying emotion only once, when
tears filled her eyes as she was being
photographed and fingerprinted.
At breakfast, an attendant said, she
“ate mechanically, with staring eyes."
as she consumed five slices of bread,
cereal with milk and coffee.
Begs to See Son.
District Attorney L. Barron Hill said
the widowed mother begged for per
mission to see her son Jimmy, now re
covering from a slash In the neck al
legedly inflicted by her own hands.
Despite Mrs. Tieman's later denial
that he participated in the killing,
Christodulus was arraigned before
County Judge Richard W. Hawkins to
day and held as a material witness
after Assistant District Attorney
Joseph S. Arata had asked that bail
be set at $50,000.
District Attorney Hill said Mrs.
Tiernan, in asking that she be al
lowed to see her wounded son Jimmy,
told him she was ashamed to face
the child.
"She asked if she could just peek
in at the door when he was asleep,”
Hill said.
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COURT PLAN FOUGHT
BY COLONIAL DAMES
Protest Sent to Roosevelt and
Chairmen of House and Sen
ate Committees.
By the Associated Press.
The Board of Managers of the
Colonial Dames of America protested
to President Roosevelt yesterday
against his effort to reorganize the
Supreme Court.
In a telegram to the President, it
said:
"The parent society of the Colonial
Dames of America, the first woman's
patriotic society in the United States,
strongly protests against the proposal
to change the Supreme Court.”
Letters and telegrams against the
Roosevelt court bill were sent also to
the chairmen of the House and Senate
Judiciary Committee and to in
dividual members of Congress.
.ONDON AND PARIS
MAY BACK AUSTRIA
<eeping of Status Quo fop
Peace Aim—France, Rus
sia Renew Aid Pact.
BACKGROUND—
Chief, perhaps, among the wor
ries of European treaty makers is
the independence of Austria. So
long, feel England and France, as
Germany is prevented from uniting
with its old ally, a balance of power
in Central Europe can be preserved.
Thoughts of a combined Germany
and Austria, however, send war-fear
shivers up the back of the rest of
Europe.
By the Associated Press. %
PARIS. May 19.—Diplomatic quar- *'
ters reported today that France and
England were considering a joint dec
laration to safeguard the independent#
of Austria and maintain the statua
quo in Central Europe. f*
The report came simultaneously
with a renewed proclamation of
Franco-Russian loyalty to their mu
tual assistance pact policy of collab
orating for peace.
Diplomatic quarters considered the
developments to be directed at any
German ambitions in Central Europe
or objections of the Reich to the
Soviet pact as a bar to a new Locarno
treaty to guarantee the peace of West
ern Europe.
The Franco-Russian declaration was
contained in a communique issued
late yesterday after a conference
among Premier Leon Blum, Foreign
Minister Yvon Delbos and Russian
Commissar of Foreign Affairs Maxim
Litvlnoff.
Maintenance of Peace Aim.
The common goal of the two na
tions, the communique declared, was
“the maintenance of an organization
for indivisible peace in collective se
curity.”
Diplomats considered the expression
to mean that FYance considered a
positive accord with Russia was pref
erable to a nebulous offer of a security
agreement with Germany.
Delbos informed the Council of
Ministers today that his recent talks
with Russian and British statesmen
brought assurances them nations
would co-operate closely with France
to maintain the present political line
up in Europe.
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CRUISER HITS BAR, •
FIVE ARE RESCUED
Capital and Nearby Residents
Marooned Six Hours on Sand
Near Alexandria.
Marooned for about fix hours after
a cabin cruiser went aground on a
sandbar near Alexandria, five persons
from Washington and nearby were
aided in leaving the stranded craft
today by harbor police.
They were George Le Dane, 3500
Fourteenth street, the owner; Mr.
and Mrs. George A. King, 1930 K
street, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Scott
of Hyattsville. Md.
The cruiser struck the sandbar
about 3:30 a m.
Harbor police, notified shortly after \
9 am. by an employe at the wharf,
dispatched a launch to the scene
Pvts. R. c Ault and Frank White,
w'ho manned the police boat, said
they found King in a rowboat with
an unidentified youth, apparently try
ing to reach shore. The policemen
brought King to Washington where
he obtained another launch, and both
boats returned to the stranded cruiser.
DEPARTMENTS CLOSED
Union Men Refuse to Work in
Studebaker Plants. 4
SOUTH BEND. Ind . May 19 <JPi.—
j Most departments of the Studebaker
| Corp.. automobile manufacturers, were
closed today when several thousand
union workers refused to work. Pres- »
ence of non-union employes was re
ported the cause.
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Hagerstown
Entries for Tomorrow.
HAGERSTOWN. May 19.—Clear and fast.
FIRST RACE—Purse. MOO; 3 and 4
; year olds: about 6*2 furlongs.
' Miss Adeline (Garrettt __ lot)
Flap Raising 'Shanks* _ _.. II"
Mabel Star 'Holland* _. _115
Sea Dove (Machado)___11"
(Gold Token 'Palumbo* .. . 11"
(The Swagman 'Wisner* _ 315
, Subdale (Booker* _ 119
! Gemwick 'Snydrr' .._] "5
i La Marquise 'Coffman* .._ 11"
Au Folly (Laurin) _li"
Sun Belle 'Obert* _... . l<>:.
Top Shell 'Snyder) __ 114 1
Lady Nymph 'Sherry* _ 114
Reigh letrarch 'Holland) 115
SECOND RACE—Purse S400; 3-year
olds and up; claiming; about 8*2 furlongs
(all entered to be claimed for 5500).
Stepee 'Garrett* __ 109
Lady Cirek 'Root)___ __ l"5
Anjoe 'Booker* _ . .... . i I •
Red Label (Palumbo) i"'
Miss Patches (Verbus) |o5
Miss Symphony 'Garrett) _]i»5
Barblzon (Lauch* _ __ l i <)
Marge 'Leonard* _ 1".'.
Spear (Sherry* J"5
| Big Dipper 'Obert) _ 1**5
Lucky Turn 'De Mayo* __11"
I Prince Khayyam 'Snyder) _ 11"
i Jack Low (Palumbo) _.... n»»
Huppy 'Grady* __ lio
THIRD RACE—Purse $40"; 2-year-old
maidens, claiming about 6 furlongs.
Hydrangea (Snyder* _ log
a8chley Nurse 'Lauch* __ 1<»k
Shorts tMachado* ..._ 115
Madam Walter 'Palumbo) _ 112 *
bScout Rose (Holland* _ 112
bLucre Lude (Holland).._115
aSchley Buck (Lauch).- _111
Incendiary (Shanks* __ 115
aMrs. A. S. Bowman and G. G. Wall, jr.
entry.
bMiss B. Faulconer entry.
FOURTH RACE—Purse. $400; 3-year
olds and up: claiming, about furlongs.
Small Change 'Palumbo*_ ir;
Heather Lassie (Garrett) _1"4
Benedict T (Shanks) _low
•Ellen Lane iLauch * _ 102
Ado (Coffman* 100
Hurdy Gurdy (Cusimano) in;
Helen Bab (Root*__no
Roquepine (Garrett) _ 104
FIFTH RACE—Hagerstown Handicap
purse. 9500; 3-year-olds and up; about 5
furlongs.
Prince Turley (Shanks* _111
Bcudder (Palumbo) ...._hr
High Hedge (Obert) _101
Kyoto (Snyder* __..... loo
Miss Epe (Garrett) _\OH
Timber Lady (Garrett) ____104
SIXTH RACE—Purse. 9400; 3-year-olds
and up; about tf*2 furlongs.
Wise Money (Holland*_115 t
Gay Lass (Lauch* _ 105
xSoupcon (Cubitt) _ 105
Au Foin (Snyder* __ no
Warned Off (Coffman) .._ no
Holland (Shanks* _. no
Bright Girl 'Cusimano) _ _ 105
Mint Bud (Palumbo* _ _—. 105
Cornwallis (Laurin* _ no
June G (Snyder* _ io:>
Carnival (Machado) _ lio
Lilteen (Polk* ]"5
Hope <De Mayo) _. |j)|
Monroe (Sherry) . __ 110
SEVENTH RACE—Purse 9400; 3-year
olds and up; claiming; 1 i'« miles.
Little Brother 'Holland) ___113
Try King (Wisner) 113
Sambo Jones «McKinsey> 113
xSiempre (Cubitt) log
Queen Nadi 'Lauch) _ log
Bandersnateh (Machado)___103
Porphyry (Shanks) _.... 113
Flageolet (Palumbo) _... 105 .
Redivivus (Hatton) _ 113
Snow Cost (Shanks) ••- 113
Contrite (Laurin) - .... 102
Dark Suplnet (Grady) . 108
1 ^Apprentice allowance Mtesdl
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