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AIR FORCE IS SEEN
AT HALF STRENGTH
Could Defend Only One
Front, if Attacked on Two, i
Gen. Andrews Says.
85 the Associated Press.
MARCH FIELT. Calif.. May 22 —
The startling observation shat the
United States air force is so inade
quate it- could defend only one front
should two be attacked was made to
day by an Army expert in analyzing
the massive aerial war games on the
West Coast.
"If the United States were attacked
today on two different fronts, we
couldn't defend both of them,” said
Maj. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, com
mander of the General Headquarters
Air Force.
■'We'd have to make a choice.”
In emphasizing his point, he pointed
out that six of the nine air-force
groups in the Nation had to be skel
etonized completely in order to bring
the other three groups to war-time
strength for the maneuvers.
Sees Lack of Flyers.
' We lack flyers and flying machines,
not to mention a few more inland
bases and a good deal of equipment,"
he said.
Gen. Andrews regarded as ' unusual
and significant” that not one of the
2.925 men who participated in the j
games was injured. Only four ships ;
were 106t. “Taken within themselves.”
he said, "the exercises were highly
successful. We learned a lot.”
Specific results will go into a con
fidential report, on which he was
working today, with his staff.
A gas-attack demonstrated the “ter
rific handicap imposed on a ground- !
crew." he said, and a new radio mi
crophone, attached to the operator's
throat, was used successfully.
This type of microphone serves dur
ing high-altitude flying, when the
operator's face i& covered by an oxygen
mask. "They talk normally and the
sound is picked up just as well as it
Would be from the mouth."
Prepare for Homeward Journey.
While the officers conferred, units
brought from Selfrldge Field. Mich :
■Langley? Field. Va.; Mitchell Field.
Jf. Y., and Barksdale Field, La . pre
pared for the homeward journey.
During the three weeks’ maneuvers,
the planes bombed a life-sized city of
Los Angeles outlined on the desert.
Whether the Pacific Coast is ade
quately defended, Gen. Andrews de
clined to say.
"That wasn't our purpose." he ex
plained. "We wanted to test a full
atrengtn organization of the Na
tion's air forces. That is, we as
sembled three groups on a war-time
basis.
Concerning his observations on gas
attack, he commented:
‘ Of course, every nation promise*
not to use gas in time of war. All
th« work they do along this line, ac
cording to them, is for protection in
ease the other fellow goe* back on
his word.
"Well, that’s what were trying
to do."
MANN ACT SUSPECT
MUST FACE CHARGE
Edward Brinkley, Arrested Here,
Will Be Removed to
Baltimore.
Edward Brinkley, seized here yester
day in connection with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation's drive on vice
In Baltimore, was to be removed to
the Maryland city today under Mann
»ct charges.
Brinkley has been questioned at
length by F. B. I. agents, who have
Charged him with immoral transporta
tion from Washington to Baltimore
last August of Caroline St. John, an
important Government witness in the
White slave inquiry in Baltimore.
The St. John girl gave testimony
this week at a United States commis
sioner's hearing that led to the suspen
sion of two officers of the Baltimore
Police Department. She is from North
Carolina.
Brinkley will be the fifty-sixth per
son arraigned before United States
Commissioner James K. Cullen In
Baltimore in the Government's clean
up of white slave racketeering in
Maryland.
Government agents have found that
the vice traffic flourishes In Baltimore
during the racing season. The white
slave operations. It is declared, have
Widespread interstate ramifications.
FARLEY WILL DEDICATE
FOUR POST OFFICES
Leave* for Trip Which Will Take
Him a* Far West a*
Flagstaff, Ariz.
Postmaster General Farley left
Washington last night for a week’s
trip that will take him as far West as
Flagstaff, Ariz, Farley is to dedicate
four post offloes and he plans some
other stops in the course of the trip.
The post office dedications will be at
Flagstaff. Richmond, Mo.; Magnolia,
Ark., and Vicksburg, Miss. The,
Postmaster General is spending the
week end in New York and will get
away tomorrow night, going first to
Chicago. He also plans stops In
Louisiana. Texas and New Mexico.
Farley has been doing much of the
•pade work for the administration's
eourt reform program and observers
here took It for granted that he would
also take occasion on the trip to
■ound out sentiment on the court
plan in the section he will traverse.
HONOR PAID COPELAND
Senator Receives Nolan-Stirllng
Trophy for Service.
On the steps of the Customs House
in New York City Senator Copeland,
Democrat, of New York today Is be
ing awarded the Nolan-Stirllng trophy
as a highlight of the observance of
National Maritime day. The trophy is
awarded each year for outstanding
services in behalf of national defense
and the American merchant marine.
It was named in honor of Maj. Gen.
Dennis E. Nolan, U. S. A., former com
mander of the 2nd Corps Area, with
headquarters at Governors Island,
and Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, Jr„
U. S. N„ formerly In command of the
naval area of Greater New York.
Radio Sealers Given Sinner.
The Edgar Morris Sales Co. enter
tained at dinner at the Raleigh Hotel
last night 150 District, Maryland and
Virginia radio dealers, salesmen and
service men.
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
REVENGE.
FEW offices of any size are I
without an office wag, who
specializes In practical Jokes on
hls fellow workers or finds hls
chief delight In telling funny stories
on them. We know of one concern
In town where a Junior member of
the outfit plays this role, being tol
erated by hls colleagues because he
is young and full of high spirits and
all that.
They have, however, been taking a
quiet, sweet little vengeance of their
own for more than 12 months, pun
ishing him all unbeknownst to himself.
This lad is a great golf enthusiast,
and the senior workers around the
office have methodically loaded the
bottom of his golf bag with lead,
adding a bit more now and then so
that the increasing weight would not
be too perceptible.
When comes the day that the wag,
a moderately puny fellow, tries to
pick up his golf satchel and finds he
can't lift it at all, they expect to let
the secret out. Until then, he shall
go puffing around the links, wonder
ing how clubs that are so light in
the hand can be so heavy in repose.
OBSERVER.
A hopeful reporter recently fol
lowed Orville Wright, the pappy
of all flying, on an inspection of
the Army Air Corps’ ”Flying Fort
ress," that tremendous bat-winged
monster that is the pride of the
service.
The scribe waited and waited for
Mr. Wright to make some intensely
significant statement, a crack that
would go down in history.
Mr. Wright walked straight up
to the brutish bird, overgrown heir
of his own brain, and looked at it
carefully.
Then he said. "I see that they
used four different sorts of rivets in
this airplane."
TWILIGHT.
I" AN Alexandria garden belonging
to no one whose name we want to
make an issue, we spent yesterday
afternoon from 5 to 7, talking about
nothing more consequential than the
fact that an English daisy has a yel
low center and red leaves, that it will
last from one Saturday to the next
If cut and placed in water, that red
bachelor buttons cost 11.50 each in
some strange country (we didn’t
quite catch the name), that the boy
next door, who is planning to be mar
ried next month, has bought an old
house down the street and is doing
most of the remodeling with his own
strong hands.
The conversation was acoompanied
by low tinkles from full glasses, an
occasional burst of song from birds
charging about in the rose bushes.
Through it all, we tried to remem
ber the name of the man who wrote
a novel called ’’The Rivet in Grand
father’s Neck."
He was a Virginian, not over 6 feet
tall.
TOURIST.
VL,THEN he came back this week
from a trip abroad (won In a
contest for publicity agents who could
think up brilliant ways of making the
public believe certain motion pictures
are part of the Hay diet). Ray Bell
of the Loew’s organization was asked
if he'd been to a certain city in Italy.
Mr. Bell studied the matter a mo
ment, said, “Wait, I’ll see.” He dug
out a small book, started fanning the
pages.
“If I’ve been there, it’s in here.” he
explained. "Went to so many places
we had to make a list of them.”
* * * *
ADDENDA.
VJAY we take the liberty of inform
A ing cur readers (reader?) that
the item at the bottom of a certain
Wayside column this week wasn't our
own idea.
It read: “The government of Brazil
is encouraging the establishment of
new industries.”
We knew that all along, and
wouldn't have said a word about it,
except that the column ran a trifle
short on type, and a printer thought
you ought to know. Very original,
these Brazilians.
CHORINES.
In the Sunday school of a Meth
odist church on Massachusetts ave
nue last week, the boys and girls
were singing a hymn when an
elderly gentleman marched down
the aisle, his frock coat bulging
gently in the breeze, and deposited
a cage of canaries on either side of
him as he sat down.
The canaries promptly joined in
the chorus. The singers turned on
a bit more volume to drown out the
--- ^ -
biros. The birds turned on an
extra chirp to drown out the
hymnists.
Result: The Sunday school class
went to town on its hymns at it
never had before.
* * * *
ITEM.
TN DESPERATION we searched a
basketful of perfectly good Wayside
stories seeking one to top off this col
umn. They were line, but none
seemed to suit the occasion (what
ever it is). At last we turned to that
old trusty of all stuck columnists—
the city telephone book.
Opened it at random, glanced down
the page, found the K's, promptly
discovered:
“The Kum In Market.**
Satisfied?
Rubber Wages Restored.
Wages of Indian laborers an rubber
plantations of British Malaya have
been restored to- pre-depresskm fig
urea
BRIBERY URGED
IN BONDING CASE
Arrest to Be Followed by
Quiz of Prince Georges
Probe Witnesses.
While Maryland authorities with
held action pending further delibera
tion today, local police were preparing
to question some 30 Washington wit
nesses in the Prince Georges County,
Md., bonding investigation to deter
mine whether attempts have been
made to "buy off” their testimony.
A two-week continuance was granted
in Police Court this morning to
Harry McH. Braxton, 28. colored.
Lakeland, Md.. charged with bribery
after he was trapped In the apart
ment of a witness here Thursday night.
Following a conference with Mary
land officials here yesterday, Assistant
District Attorney David Hart said
he would present the case to the
local grand jury.
Aik Aid ai MaJ. Brown.
Assignment of detectives to question
other witnesses, expected to appear at
the trial of seven former county police
men, a bondsmen and a Justice of the
peace in Upper Marlboro on June 7,
was promised by MaJ. Ernest W.
Brown, police superintendent, late yes
terday.
Acting on complaints from "at least
five witnesses,” Walter Newrath, at
torney for the Keystone Automobile
Club, which sponsored the police
bonding inquiry, and George Keneipp,
club manager, requested assistance
from Brown after yesterday’s confer
ence with Hart.
Braxton was arrested in the apart
ment of Charles Hamilton, 32, colored,
1433 T street, one of the Washington
motorists who told the county grand
jury he had been "victimized" through
alleged police-bonding collusion in the
county. The prisoner, according to
Detective Sergt. Jacob Wolf, was ap
prehended shortly after he had offered
Hamilton *35 not to appear against
one of the indicted ex-policemen at
the forthcoming trial.
Secreted in Apartment.
Wolf. Newrath and Attorney Louis
Lebowitz of Mount Rainier, who
started the county probe into alleged
law enforcement irregularities, had
been secreted in Hamilton's apart
ment on a tip from the witness that
Braxton was scheduled to appear.
At yesterday’s conference with Hart,
Wolf gave the assistant District at
torney a written statement by Brax
ton implicating one of the former
Prince Georges policemen as the man
who asked him to offer Hamilton
the $35.
Also at the conference were Alan
Bowie. State's attorney for the county,
and Ogle Marbury. special prosecutor.
They declared they had not deter
mined what action to take, but Indi
cated that the alleged bribery evi
dence would be introduced at the
trial of the men charged with con
spiracy to obstruct Justice.
Bowie also said that the evidence
would be presented to the county
grand jury. A special session of the
panel may be called to consider the
evidence on June 7. it was learned
authoritatively yesterday, but if the
group is not recalled, the case will be
presented to the regular Jury next
October.
A colored woman. Myrtle Lewis. 25,
of North Brentwood. Md., was appre
hended early yesterday when she ap
peared at police headquarters in
search of Braxton. She was released
as a United States witness In the
custody of a United States marshal.
-m— . .
224 PAROLES GRANTED
BY BOARD SINCE JULY
La Roe Says Special Attention Is
Given to Youthful Pris
oners in Lorton.
Wilbur La Roe, jr.. chairman of the
District Parole Board, told the Men's
Club of New York Avenue Presby
terian Church last night that the
board has considered 546 requests for
parole since last July and granted 224
of them.
La Roe explained that the board
pays special attention to younger pris
oners. There are about 400 youths
now In Lorton Reformatory, some of
whom are "mere boys and first offend
ers,” he said.
"To give these fellows a new start
in life is constructive work,” La Roe
declared, "but the experienced burg
lars and stick-up men had better re
main behind the bars.
"The most serious impediment to
successful parole administration in
the District is the mixing of first
offenders with criminals at Lorton
Reformatory. It is a disgrace that we
do not have a separate reformatory
for boys between 16 and 21—the most
dangerous age from a crime view
point.”
WARREN IS CHOSEN
Will Be Speaker Pro Tsmport ki
Absence of Bankhead.
The House yesterday chose Repre
sentative Warren of North Carolina
to be its Speaker pro tempore during
the absence of Speaker Bankhead.
Bankhead took a leave to go to
Alabama for a rest. While in his
home State, the Speaker will deliver
the commencement address at the
graduating exercises of the University
of Alabama. He will be away a week
or 10 days.
LIVE WIRE KILLS GIRL
Head Contacts Current as She
Walks on Freight Cars.
Bums received when she came in
contact with a live wire, as she walked
on the top of a line of freight cars
on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks
near Twelfth and D streets southwest,
proved fatal last night to Margaret
Riley, 14, colored, 27 Virginia avenue
southwest.
J. D. K, Summers, 2418 Blair road,
told police he saw the girl crawling
along the top of a car and that she
was shocked when she stood up and
her head touched the electric wire.
GET FILM AWARDS
Z uk or, De Mill* and Spencer
Tracy Among Diploma Winners.
LOS ANGELES. May 22 UP).—
Adolph Zukor and Cecil B. De Mille,
Aim producers; Luise Rainer, Spencer
Tracy and Lionel Barrymore, players;
Boris Morros, musician; Frances Afar*
ion, film writer, and Slavko Vork&pich,
technician, prized diplomas of achieve*
ment today, awarded them by the
American Institute of Cinema tog*
raphjr. JaMlMHB
a.
DRUG RING ENDED,
NEMESIS IS SI T
Woman Credited With
Smashing Nevada Group
Chooses Mystery Role.
By the Associated Press.
RENO, Nevada. May 22—The
pretty young woman whose daring de
tective work was credited by officers
with uncovering a narcotics ring chose
the role today of a mystery figure in
the amazing case.
An early morning raid yesterday in
Reno’s Chinese quarter landed Chris
Hansen, 58, Federal narcotics agent;
A. F. McAvoy, 38, former internal rev
enue worker, and seven Chinese in jail
on various narcotics charges.
Sheriff's deputies declared the raid
resulted largely from evidence supplied
by the young woman, who said sne Is
Joyce McAllister, 27, former Santa
Barbara, Calif., State CbUege student.
But she declined further Information
about her identity or background.
Once Served Sentence.
Sheriff Ray Root said she served a
jail sentence last Winter after pleading
guilty to passing a worthless check
here, gaining release April 11 on "good
behavior" credits.
Officers generally answered reports
that she might have gained knowledge
of the alleged narcotics ring in jail by
denying she was “planted" there. They
said they knew nothing of her previous
activities.
While United States District Attor
ney E. P. Carville and Washoe County
District Attorney E. S. Brown ques
tioned those under arrest, the young
woman said she had received a tele
phone call from her mother in Santa
Barbara. She Identified the parent
only as "Mrs. Rose."
Chinese Questioned.
It was learned authoritatively that
three of the Chinese, all of whom face
charges of possession and sale of nar
cotics, were questioned concerning
whether they had paid any “protec- ,
tion" money to local law enforcement
agencies, but they implicated no one.
Hansen and McAvoy, who is widely
known here and recently oad been a
W. P. A. photographer, are being held
for action of the Federal grand Jury
Tuesday.
United States Attorney Carville said
he would seek indictments charging
them with conspiracy to violate the
Federal narcotics laws.
In Washington. Federal Narcotics
Bureau spokesmen said Hansen,
transferred here last November from
Los Angeles, was not in actual parti
cipant in any narcotics ring, but was
accused of having guilty knowledge of
illicit actiivties.
VOTE FRAUD TRIALS
CONVICT FOUR MORE
Score Raised to 36, With No
Acquittals in Kansas City
Probe.
Bj ih« Assoc itted Pm*.
KANSA8 CITY, May 22 —A Federal
Court jury added lour more names
yesterday to the 32 already convicted
of conspiring to defraud voters in the
November 3 election here.
The jury deliberated only 76 min
utes in the seventh trial since Federal
officials last December began investi
gating wholesale vote thefts here.
The convictions brought the box
score to:
One hundred and twenty-six per
sons indicted.
Thirty-six convicted, eight pleading
no defense and three awaiting retrials
because of a Jury disagreement of the
47 tried.
One guilty plea.
No acquittals.
Eighty-three await trial, eight of
them beginning Monday.
Those convicted today are Robert
Strohm, 40, Democratic precinct cap
tain, member of the T. j. Pendergast
organization and a county employe;
Gene Riley, 29, Democratic election
Judge; Thomas Audley, 51, Democratic
inside challenger, City Water Depart
ment employe, and Mrs. Irene Ervin,
31, Republican clerk.
Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves said
he would sentence the four next Fri
day. The maximum penalty is 20
years In prison and (10,000 fine.
BLAZE SWEEPS FLOOR
OF FLORIST CONCERN
Fire, Originating in Bales of
Dried Moss, Damages Black
istone Establishment.
Fire, the cause of which is un
known, swept through the basement
of the Blackistone, Inc., florist estab
lishment at 1407 H street late yester
day. filling the building with smoke
and delaying traffic for 30 minutes.
The blaze originated in 20 bales of
dried spagnum moss in the basement.
Most of the stock of flowers was
ruined by smoke. Decorating equip
ment in the basement was badly
damaged. The amount of loss will
not be determined until an inventory
is completed, the management said.
Roosevelt Given
Voice Record of
Famed Theodore
Copy of Original Wax
Cylinder Delivered
by New Yorker.
President Roosevelt today became
the proud possessor of a phonograph
reoord reproducing an address by
former President Theodore Roosevelt
delivered nearly 25 years ago.
This reoord, electrically transcribed
from the only existing original record,
which Is believed to be the only
authentic reproduction of the actual
voice of the famous "T. R.” was
brought to the White House yesterday
by Robert Vincent of New York, at
whose request the former President dic
tated the address on a wax cylinder
record In 1913.
Vincent was only 12 and the leader
of the Boys’ Progressive League at
the time. According to Vincent, he
asked the former President to deliver
an address in person to the Boys'
League, but the hero of San Juan Hill
oould not appear In person, but offered
to dictate the address on a phono
graph record to be read at the gath
ering.
President Roosevelt will add this
record affording ap oral presentation
of the ideals and ideas of the **T. k”
era, to his collection of historical
mementos.
Girl Traps U. S. Agent in Dope Drive
Left: Joyce McAllister. 27, attractive former Santa Barbara (Calif.) State College student, who
was credited by officers with laying the groundwork for a narcotics raid in Reno, Nev., which
led to the arrest of a Federal narcotics agent and eight others.
Right: Chris Hansen, 58. the narcotics agent taken in the raid, as he was fingerprinted by
the Reno police, lifiss McAllister gave evidence of the “shocking” conditions she saw in Reno
and co-operated with agents in making purchases of opium from the suspects.
__—Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos.
ASSAILED BY BOLT
Says Administration Con
ducted “Sniping” Drive to
Put Plan Over.
B> the A»socl»ted Press.
PRINCETON. N. J. May 22 —
United States Senator Rush D. Holt.
Democrat, of West Virginia, last night
charged the administration with con
ducting a “sniping, snooping cam
paign to put across" President Roose
velt's Supreme Court proposals.
Holt and Senator Warren R. Austin.
Republican, of Vermont spoke against
the plan in a debate with Brien Mc
Mahon. Assistant Attorney General of
the United States, at the annual ban
quet of Princeton University's debating
clubs.
Asserting the plan was "dead," Holt
termed McMahon's arguments In its
behalf “a funeral oration.''
A group of lawyers "who never
earned a dollar in their lives until they
got on the Government's pay roll"
drafted the measure, the young Sen
ator declared.
McMahon said the plan should pass
in order that the Constitution might
assume "the form of a living, ani
mated soulful organism, alive and
responsive to the needs, hopes, and
aspirations as well as to the tribula
tions of 130.000.000 of our people.”
Senator Austin said that preserva
tion of the independence of the three
branches of Government eras "more
important than the putting through
of an Immediate economic program."
PLAY GAME FAIR,
O’NEILL ADVISES
Cleveland Manager and Ben Chap*
man Honor Gueits at Y. M.
C. A. Banquet.
Steve O'Neill, manager of the Cleve
land base ball team, and Ben Chap
man. outAelder for the Nationals, were
guests of honor last night at the
annual Junior athletics awards banquet
of the Young Men's Christian Associa
tion. Approximately 300 awards were
presented by Birch E. Bayh, director
of health and physical education in
the District public schools.
"Play the game fair and be a good
loser as well as a good winner,” O’Neill
counseled the young athletes. He in
formed the group he expects the sore
arm of Bob Feller, young strike-out
wisard, to be all right soon, and that
he thought "a few hot days” would
help to get the arm into condition.
Chapman advised the group to re
member instructions and advice given
them by James C. Ingram, until re
cently boys work director af the "Y”
here. Chapman, was in a camp in
the South years ago where Ingram was
director.
The program also included an ac
oordion solo by R. s. W. Walker,
presentation of cups to be put on dis
play in the boys’ department at the
“Y,” a motion picture and invocation
by Rev. H. V. Porter, pastor of West
minster Presbyterian Church. George
Kennedy, member of the Boys’ Work
Committee, was toastmaster.
PARADE THREE MILES
TO CHEER STRIKERS
Employes of Lock Company Are
Headed by C. I. 0. Leaden
and Drum Corps.
By the Associated Press.
STAMFORD, Conn., May 22 —
Twenty-five hundred employes of ths
Yale ft Towne Manufacturing Co.
here, beaded by C. I. O. organizers
and a fife and drum corps, marched
3 miles late yesterday to the plant
of the Norma-HoSman Bearing Corp.
where a strike was called last week.
The demonstration began when the
Yale ft Towne factory shift came oil
duty at 5 p.m.
The paraders marched through the
center of the city, and then out to
the Glenbrook plant of the bearing
manufacturers. There they cheered
C. L O. pickets on duty before the
plant, and after a few impromptu
speeches pledging support to the
strikers dispersed quietly,
t A force of 35 State troopers and 15
local policemen were on duty at the
plant, but there was no disorders.
Marine Band Trip
To Encampment of
1898 Vets Barred
House Naval Group Also
Prevents A ppearance
at V. F. W. Session.
By the Aesociated Pres*.
Members who think the Marine
Band has been traveling enough said
today the House Naval Committee
had shelved a bill to send the musi
cians to a Spanish War Veterans'
encampment at Columbus in August.
The committee also scuttled another
measure which would have let the
band appear at a Veterans of Foreign
Wars meeting at Buffalo, starting
August 29.
Representative Maas. Republican,
of Minnesota remarked that the band
had been sent on a month's tour of
Texas last year and probably would
be ordered to a Confederate reunion
at Vicksburg. Miss., this year.
Chairman Vinson suggested it might
be a good idea, for economy reasons,
to keep the band in Washington for
a while.
Office Will Neither Deny or
Confirm Reported Ad
vice to Consuls.
Bt th* Annociated Pr
MANILA, May 22 —The office of:
Paul V. McNutt, new Philippine high !
commissioner, would neither confirm !
nor deny today report* that he had '
advised foreign consus to give his office
precedence over the Philippine Presi
dent in public toast*.
Report* were published without con
firmation yesterday in the American
owned Manila Bulletin, which also de
clared it was reliably reported the
commonwealth cabinet privately had
decided officials would remain away
from gatherings where any such toasts
might be occasioned.
Several foreign consuls denied re
ceiving any *uch advice from McNutt,
who was not available for comment.
The German consul denied he had
made any expression whatsoever on a
letter which Wayne Coy. McNutt's
chief representative, sent to all foreign
consuls instructing them to route for
eign relation matters through the
commissioner's office.
Previously, it had been reported the
German consul planned to send all
auch matters to Malacanan Palace,
residence of the President.
Some observer* expressed belief the
entire matter might be the outgrowth
of a campaign by the Philippine
owned Herald to force a clear deflinl
tton of the high commissioner’s powers.
In Washington, State Department
officials pointed cut that under the
Philippine independence act, the
United States is to conduct foreign
relations during the transition period
to complete freedom.
U. S. TO BUY THREE SHIPS
$18,000,000 Contract Goes to
Bethlehem Firm.
Three modern fireproof steamers,
each costing >4,040,000, will be con
tracted for with the Bethlehem Ship
building Corp. by the Government
owned Panama Railroad Oo , Secre
tary of War Woodring announced yes
terday.
The new vessels will replace the
existing four ships operating between
United States ports and those in the
Canal Zone. Each of the new craft
will be 486 feet long, of 6.000 tons dead
weight, have a normal speed of 16%
knots and provide 72 state rooms for
passengers. The Commerce and Navy
Departments have approved plans and
specifications for the new ships.
MONDAY DISTRICT DAY
Monday is to be District day in the
House. Bight relatively minor meas
ures are scheduled for consideration.
They are the Dr. Pemberton license,
amending the marriage law, regulat
ing the sale of potatoes, regulating the
sale of real estate, amending the heal
ing arts act, underslrable industries,
regulating the sale of cosmetics and
barber trade regulations.
A
HOUSE UNIT WON
TO FLORIDA CANAL
Approves Proposal Author
izing Completion—Easy
Victory Reported.
By the Associated Press.
The House Rivers and Harbors
Committee approved yesterday a pro
posal to authorize completion of the
Florida Ship Canal.
The vote was taken in a closed ses
sion, but Representative Green of
Florida, author of the canal bill, said
the proposal received a majority of
more than two to one.
The committee separated the canal
from its omnibus authorization bill,
which it sent to the House with
unanimous approval. The omnibus
measure contained 119 waterway de
velopments estimated to cost *31 -
720.300.
Maj. Gen. Edward M. Markham,
chief of Army engineers, has reported
to Congress the Government would
be justified in spending *197.921.000
for the Florida waterway.
Green's bill provided authorization
for the undertaking under specifica
tions in Markham's report. Neither
the ranal bill nor the omnibus measure
carries an appropriation.
Some committee members said the
favorable canal vote did not mean
that the project would be considered
by the House at this session. One
high-ranking Democrat on the com
mittee described the canal as “a meri
torious project.” but said it was likelv
the bill would be shelved until next
years, perhaps longer.
Chairman Mansfield said the com
mittee authorized him to call up the
omnibus bill for a House vote at his
first opportunity, but there was no
such instruction on the canal.
Representative Peterson of Florida,
an outspoken opponent of the water
way, termed the vote "only a courtesy”
to Green, a member of the committee.
Peterson said he had learned that six
members voted for approval of the
bill with the reservation that they
would be allowed to oppose it on the
House floor.
PATIENTS GIVEN PICNIC
Patients at the Tuberculosis Hospi
tal, Fourteenth and Upshur streets,
were treated to an informal picnic
on the hospital grounds yesterday
by W. P. A. teachers conducting classes
there under the direction of the Re
habilitation Service of the Tubercu
losis Association.
Miss Hilda Reinhardt served as
official hostess, assisted by Mrs. Hazel
Taylor. Mrs. Emma Routt, Miss Eliza
beth Kerr, Miss Charlotte Paters,
Oscar Outritt. Lucius Bettinger and
Dr. Roy Geeting. The patients were
under supervision of Dr. Alexander
Leonardo of the hospital staff and
Mrs. Agnes H. Stewart, director of
occupational therapy. Miss Emma
Thornwali hospital dietician, was in
charge of refreshments.
Shine Boy Refuses
Justice M’Reynolds
Offer to Face Lion
Circus Visit Enjoyed on
One Dollar Instead
of Five; Yes, Sir.
By th« A mock ted Pro*.
A smiling colored bootblack told to
day of having “a swell time” at the
circus through the generosity of
James C. McReynolds. 75-year-old
associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
McReynolds was getting a haircut
in the Supreme Court barber shop
when he noticed a glum expression on
the face of John G. Warner, the shoe
shine boy.
“What's the matter, son?” the Jus
tice inquired.
“Oh, he’s worried because he doesn't
know whether he'll get enough dimes
today to go to the circus,” the barber
explained.
The Justice reached into his pocket
and gave the boy a dollar bill.
“If you’ll get In the lion’s cage and
look the lion straight in the eye, I’ll
give you $5 more,” McReynolds said.
Today the bootblack recounted his
experiences.
“<r saw the trapeze act, the elephants,
the lions and everything,’* be said.
"But I didn't go into the lion's cage,
no sir.”
WORK IS LAUNCHED
ON OIO STEEL UNIT
Irvin Starts $45,000,000
Pennsylvania Project
Named for Him.
By Ui« Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, May 22 —William A.
Irvin, president of the United States
8teel Corp., dug into bleak Camden
Hill with a shiny, stainless steel spade
today and launched work on the vast
$45,000,000 works the Carnegie-Steel
Corp. named in his honor.
On the 600-acre tract along the Mo
nongahela River a few miles from
Pittsburgh will rise strip, sheet and
tin plate plants capable of producing
600,000 tons of finished steel annually.
To an audience consisting of his
wife; President B F. Fairless of the
Carnegie Illinois Corp. the industry's
leaders and residents of nearby towns,^
Irvin said:
"It is appropriate that in the Mn»
nongahela Valley, where our organiza
tion has worked out so many of its
most notable developments, the scene
should be laid for the turning of the
first earth in preparation for new con
struction."
Recalls Organization's Start.
Recalling that Andrew Carnegie
started his great organization with a
$9,000 furnace, he said:
"Within a short time you will see
erected on these premises the latest
version of a steel plant of its kind,
multiplying Andrew Carnegie s orig
inal investment by 7,000 times and
incorporating improvements of which
he never even dreamed.
"At capacity,” he said, Irvin works
will provide employment for approxi
mately 4,000 men. This will mean an
annual production of 600,000 tons of
finished steel. It will mean a tre
mendous pay roll and a tremendous
expenditure, which will provide bene
fits for the people whose future, ];k«
ours, is bound closely to the Monon
gahela Valley.
Hopes for "Happy Relations.”
“* ‘ * Permit me to express in
deep sincerity the hope that, tne happy
relations among the men. the manage
ment and the job which has been ours
for so many years in this valley may
continue long Into the future "
Pairless said the group of buildings
housing the plant would be 4.200 feet
in length and 1.250 feet in width. The
chief units will be an 80-inch con
tinuous hot strip mill, an 84-inch
three-strand tandem cold reduced sheet *
mill, a 42-inch five-strand tandem
cold reduced tin mill and supple
mental annealing furnaces, pickling
and tinning departments.
‘RENT STRIKE’ CASE
MIGHT GO TO JURY
TJ. A. W. Official Say* Garnish
ment Suits Probably Would
Follow Refusal to Pay.
Er the Associated Press.
PONTIAC. Mich., May 22.—Justice
Court juries may be called upon to
decide what are "fair" rental rates
if the United Automobile Worker* of
America carries out its plan for
large acale “rent strikes" unless ad
justments are made by June 1.
A spokesman for the U. A. W. A.
Committee, which announced yes
terday it had notified 3.000 landlords
of its "program for rent reductions."
said he expected landlords to Insti
tute garnishment suits when—and
if—their tenants refuse to pay rent.
"That will take the cases into
court and juries will be called upon
to decide whether the charges are
justified,” he said.
There was no outward indication
! of organized plans by property
owners to combat the U. A. W. A.
' "program ” *
Although the union committee
fixed 1 per cent of the assessed
valuation of a property as a "fair
rental,” a spokesman said it was
willing to add $1,000 to the assessed
valuation of a well improved property
for the purpose of arriving at a
"fair rate.” Thus, the committee's
‘‘fair rate” for a property assessed
at $3,000 would be $40 a month.
Both sides are agreed a housing
shortage exists in Pontiac Between
1920 and 1930. Pontiac's population
1 increased from 34.000 to 64.000, due
to industrial expansion There has
been virtually no home building for
rental purposes since the depression
began, but the city's population now
is believed to be greater than in 1930.
U. S. VISAS TO BE ASKED
FOR REFUGEE CHILDREN ,
500 From Bilbao Reported Appli
cants, Though Quota for
Spain Only 250.
By the Associated Press.
Gardner Jackson. Washington rep
resentative of the American Board of
Guardians for Basque Refugee Chil
dren, announced today the organi
zation would apply immediately for.
visas permitting evacuation to the!
United States of 500 refugee children
from besieged Bilbao. Spain.
The State Department said the
matter had not been brought to its
attention. Officials explained, how
ever, that the American consul to'
whom the applications are made haa
the responsibility of determining
whether applicants are eligible for
admission to this country.
The United States immigration law
limits Spanish immigrants to 250 an
nually, a quota which now is filled..
Visas sometimes are issued, at the
discretion of consuls, for temporary ,
visits to this country of persons desig
nated as tourists, students, business
men and others.
Jackson said his organization
planned to ask Secretary Hull for a
statement of policy on the question
of giving American sanctuary to the
children.
URUGUAYAN ACCUSED
4
Legation Secretary Faces Charge
in Arms Buying.
MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay, May 22
(4*).—The government asked the Sen
ate today to take action against
Raul Benavidez, secretary of the Uru
guayan Legation in Paris, on charges
of having purchased 25,000,000 car
tridges and 200 tons of powder for
the Spanish government.
The government charged Benavides
made the purchases In Norway, as if
for his own government, and profited
substantially. *
Electricity output in Britain ha*
increased 321,000,000 units in tha last
U months.