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BYRD ASKS DATA
ON HOMESTEADS
Requests Wallace Records
- to Fix Cost of Shenan
* doah Project.
BY WILL T. KENNEDY.
Senator Byrd. Democrat, of Virginia
is determined to have a showdown on
the actual costs of the Shenandoah
Homestead Projects, which he has
termed "appalling waste and extrava
gance.” He has called on Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace, who inherited
these projects from Dr. Rexford G.
Tugwell, administrator of the Re
settlement Administration, for the
record on seven specific items.
This demand was made by Byrd as
chairman of the Senate Reorganization
Committee, with authority to require
by subpoena or otherwise the desired
information. He explained in his letter
to Secretary Wallace that he felt com
pelled to act “because of the dis
crepancy between the *1,520,219 esti
mate presented to me by Dr. Tugwell,”
the estimate given through Budget
Director Bell by C. B. Baldwin, as
sistant resettlement administrator, on
May 21, and the estimate contained in
Secretary Wallace's letter to him on
May 26.
Senator Byrd is the loading advocate
In Congress for reorganization in the
interests of economy and efficiency and
is author of the original reorganization
resolution. He is sponsoring a series
of bills and resolutions for a co
ordinating program of legislation
which would show Just how it is
proposed to regroup, curtail, co
ordinate or abolish certain agencies,
With the estimated saving.
Work as Governor.
It was due to his efforts as Governor
rf Virginia that the Shenandoah Park
was established, and it was as a result
of a vacation period In the park area
last Summer that his attention was
called to the alleged waste in opera
tion of Shenandoah Homestead
Projects.
Tor more than a year he has been
protesting against it.
Senator Byrd explains that Dr. Tug
weli originally gave him the estimate
of $1,520,219. On May 21, Assistant
Administrator Baldwin, in an estimate
through the Budget Bureau, said that
In the Ida Valley tract, where the
subsistence homesteads are about
ready for occupancy, except for the
water system, the cost of the land
will be about $37,179 and the cost of
the development will be $101,422,
making an average cost of $6,929 per
Unit. The cost of the land in the
Washington tract, in Rappahannock
County, was estimated by Baldwin on
May 21 as $33,065, and the develop
ment cost was estimated at $121,704.
This is to care for 27 families and
the figures indicate an average per
Unit cost of $5,703.
Points to Discrepancies.
‘Tt is difficult for me to understand
why the assistant administrator, Mr.
Baldwin, gives an estimate on May
21, which is entirely at variance with
the figures given by you on May 26,”
Senator Byrd wrote to Secretary Wal
lace.
‘A very substantial part of the total
allocation can still be salvaged," he
added, in asking for the following
specific information under authority
of an act of Congress:
a) copies of all contracts and
agreement* of every kind that have
been entered into with respect to
these project*;
• 2 > Itemized statement of the cost
of completing each project;
13) An exact, itemized statement
of all expenditures separated as be
tween the seven projects;
'4) Complete statement of the over
head and administrative cost and a
list of those employes at Washington
end elsewhere and the salaries of all
who perform, or have performed, serv
ices on these projects;
)5) A list of the families, with ad
dresses, who have made agreements
to rent the houses, and copies of the
agreements;
(6) A statement of the rent to be
charged and the amount of principal
payment required.
(7) A statement of the number of
agreements, with tenants or prospec
tive tenants, which have been can
celed, and the reasons for each can
cellation.
Senator Byrd emphasizes that he is
“not opposing sound and practical re
lief to these worthy mountain fam'
lies," but that he does oppose this
“present scheme because it will not
be successful in giving the benefits ex
pected.” He said that last Summer he
was "appalled” to find that “Dr. Tug
well intended to expend $1,500,000 on
a resettlement program for about 250
mountain families by means of col
lective village farming, and that under
the proposals mountain people would
repay in part this amount to the
Federal Government in the form of
rentals.”
Says Project Changed.
His protest to Dr. Mitchell resulted,
Senator Byrd says, “in the changing
of the original fantastic project, known
as the C. B. I. Green project, as it was
proposed by Dr. Tugwell. It was
there proposed that 28 mountain
families would operate as a common
unit on a co-operative system similar
to those in Russia.
Dr. Mitchell recently advised Byrd
that the collective farming feature of
this project would be abandoned.
Secretary Wallace Informed him that
an order for electric refrigerators had
been countermanded.
Senator Byrd points out to Secre
tary Wallace that while he y* the
cost of the new units will not exceed
$3,755 each, "the itemized statement
of this cost doe* not include any ac
counting for the costly overhead which
ha* been largely responsible for the
extravagant expenditure* already
made."
NEWSBOYS DISCOVER
BODY OF WOMAN OF 58
Newsboys delivering morning papers
•arly yesterday found the body of
Mrs. Mary Matilda Conway, 58, a clerk
in the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing, lying in the doorway of her home,
928 Virginia avenue southwest.
The ooroner’s office issued a cer
tificate of death from heart attack.
Mrs. Conway apparently was stricken
as ahe returned home Saturday night
and had lain in the doorway all night.
Mrs. Conway, widow of a Spanish
American War veteran, is survived
by a brother, Charles A. Poole, who
nude his home with her, but who
was visiting in Baltimore when his
sister died.
The newsboys who found the body
were Melvin and John Saunders, 800
block of O street southwest.
W ashington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
SHANGRI-LA.
AYBE patience would be a
good theme for an opening
item today. At any rate
there is a woman out Chevy
Chase way who is being rewarded
every warm day now for a decade of
calm waiting while nature took its
course.
Ten years ago she moved into a new
home out there. It was to be a per
manent home, she figured, and just
the place to plant two trees that some
day would grow up and make grand
anchors for a hammock.
Today she knows she is right. She
planted the trees, elms. They grew,
just the right distance apart and pro
viding a leafy canopy against the
midday sun, the 4:30 sun and all
others.
Now every day she lies in the ham
mock and reads and pauses in her
reading only to think how kind na
ture is to those who don't try to goad
her.
* * * *
RESTRAINT.
Lieut. Thomas MacDonald of the
Army Air Corps and a friend of his
from Washington arc regarding
themselves as pretty extraordinary
fellows these days.
Lieut. MacDonald, now stationed
at Dayton, and the friend met in
New York the other night after
years and years of net meeting
each other anywhere—in Cleve
land, Washington, Montgomery,
Ala.: Shreveport or West Point.
The thing that made the meet
ing seem extraordinary was that
neither of them commented on
the smallness of a world that en
abled them to meet on a busy
street in its largest city.
^ T T ♦
TIMES CHANGE.
OTACCATO journalism, the kind
that saves time by resorting to
a words-between-dots technique, has
spoiled one of the favorite literary
criticisms of a man who called up
the other day.
The criticism in question was one
uttered by Edwin Muir, who said that
every dot in the technique of A. M. S.
Hutchison, the British novelist, re
minded him of a dog pausing to wag
its tail after having done a smart
trick.
That kind of writing seems justi
fied in this day of haste, our inform
ant said. It ought to be good news
to sports, night club, drama and other
department acribes.
* * # *
COCKER.
jDESEARCH which an operative of
the Wayside rails "exhaustive,”
presumably from habit and not be
cause it was exhaustive, has disclosed
that there are no Dachshunds at the
German Embassy.
Representing the new Germany is
a Cocker spaniel. It belongs to Frau
Thomsen.
* * * *
Becoming interested in embassy
dogs, our operative pursued the
subject further via that bureau in
the District Building where they
license bow-wows. At the Peruvian
Embassy there is a dog named
Toby. A. L. P. Mark-Wardlow,
British naval attache, has a wire
fox terrier. Philip Broad, secre
tary at the same place, has a Cairn
terrier called Andrew. His ex
cellency, Ambassador Lindsay, de
votes himself at odd intervals to
an English cocker answering to
the name of Jumbo.
The Polish Ambassador has sev
eral peridgreed specimens; Mr. J.
K. Uys of the Union of South
Africa calls his wire hair fox ter
rier Scraps. E. H. Dimitriu, finan
cial counselor of the Rumanian
Legation, and Juan Chevalier,
Charge d'Affaires from Panama,
have likewise purchased licenses.
4c * tit iic
CONDITIONED.
W. LATTIMORE, an inspector
for the Health Department, is
on* man in 10,000. He enjoys among
his friends a reputation as a man who
chews, but never expectorates. To
bacco, we mean. If you don’t think
that is hard, try It some time.
Even the snuff (beg your pardon)
snoose addicts, who had their day
in this column, cannot do that. When
we heard about it we became alarmed
for his health. There was no doctor
at hand, so we called for advice from
several medical students known to us.
Their unanimous verdict W’as that his
digestive tract is conditioned to to
bacco and that's all there is to it.
“I keep a bit of tobacco in my
mouth all day,” he said. "I can
drink water, but I don’t like to; it
dilutes the tobacco flavor.”
Yes, he was ill the first day he
ever tried it.
ATTORNEY GENERAL CUMMINGS
was subjected to some good
natured raillery at a recent press con
ference over his choice of location for
two large murals in his conference
room.
Seated at his desk, Cummings faces
the panel entitled “The Defeat of Jus
tice," but visitors sitting on the other
side of his desk face ‘The Triumph
of Justice." Newsmen commented on
Cummings’ choice to face the more
pessimistic of the two murals.
"Weil, to tell the truth," Cummings
chuckled, "I thought I could endure
it better than you." Privately he be
lieves the murals among the finest
in the Justice Department Building.
Aviation Co-ordination Sought.
Japan is discussing the establish
ment of a government organisation
to co-ordinate the development of
all phases of aviation.
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
In recess.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Considers private calendar.
Interstate Commerce Committee
considers railroad retirement bill,
10:30 a.m.
Joint Labor Committees of Senate
and House begin hearings on wage
hour bill, 10:30 a.m.
House:
Considers private calendar and re
sumes debate on emergency relief ap
propriation bill.
Tax Subcommittee ol District Com
mittee considers $6,000,000 tax pro
gram, 10:30 a.m.
Decisions Change Situation,
Says Senator Pope, Presi
dent’s Supporter.
Recent Supreme Court decisions
have removed the “impelling neces
sity’’ lor the President's court reorgan
ization bill, Senator Pope, Democrat,
of Idaho, a supporter of the measure,
said today.
Senator Pope announced this view
as preparations were completed for
the closing session of the tribunal to
morrow. No important rulings are
pending, but the justices will an
nounce their decisions in several rela
tively minor cases and act on several
applications for review of important
lower court rulings.
Tomorrow’s session wilt mark the
last time Associate Justice Van Devan
ter will sit on the high bench. A
stanch member of the court’s con
servative bloc, Justice Van Devanter
will retire Wednesday to live or his
recently-purchased estate near Elli
cott City, Md.
Discussing the court bill, which
would add a maximum of six new
justices to the tribunal unless mem
bers over 70 retire, Senator Pope
said:
‘ The main reason for the bill was
to have a court that would not ob
struct a constructive program for
dealing with the Nation's problems.”
Pointing to the court's decisions on
social security and the Wagner labor
act, he added:
"I have a feeling that since a ma
jority of the court has adopted a
constitutional view that u sensible
and liberal, the proposals of the
President are less necessary.”
Pope said he still believed the bill
was ' all right” and that probably the
line-up in the Senate was unchanged
by the recent decisions. In fact, he
contended that those parts of the bill
dealing with congestion in the courts
were still as desirable as ever.
Pope's statement, first of its kind by
an administration supporter, added to
the prevailing uncertainty as to the I
future of the controversial measure.
He is one of 33 Senators publicly com
mitted to the bill.
Report This Week.
Opposition Senators said they hoped
to be able to file the committee's un
favorable report on the measure in
the Senate this week, but there was
no word from administration leaders
as to subsequent precedure.
Chairman Ashurst of the Senate
Judiciary Committee said he assumed
the Senate would take up the measure
and settle the issue once for all, but
he did not claim to speak with au
thority.
Senator Robinson, Democratic leader,
has refused to comment on the sit
uation ever since the Supreme Court
upheld the social security act a week
ago today.
Some opposition Senators have said
the group of new legislative recom
mendations from the White House
indicated a desire to turn the spot
light away from the court bill with
a \iew to letting it die, but no con
firmation has come from administra
tion spokesmen.
Two of the newer proposals will
monopolize atttention at the Capitol
tomorrow. The President will send
to Congress a message calling atten
tion to loopholes in the tax laws and
asking for legislation to close them
up A hearing will begin on the
administration s far-reaching wage
and hour bill.
—___
BOOS MARK RIVAL
WEIRTON RALLIES
Workers of C. I. 0. and Security
League Groups Parade in Com
parative Peace.
By tne Associated Press.
WEIRTON, W. Va., May 31 —Only
a few scattered hisses and boos broke
the peace that accompanied rival ral
lies of the Committee for Industrial
Organization and Security League steel
workers yesterday near the smoke
belching mills of the Weirton Steel Co.
Set up to preserve the Weirton
Workers’ employe representation plan
during John L. Lewis' steel organiza
tion campaign, the Security League
paraded the length of the town's 3
mile Main street to a base ball park
without any disturbance whatever.
While George Sokolsky, labor writer,
was denouncing the Lewis movement
at the ball park rally, the C. I. O.
forces tooted through town in automo
biles to a soft-drink parlor, where
their rally was held.
A few league members booed while
the C. I. o. parade went by and
snatched a few flags from the auto
mobiles. There was no other dis
turbance. Claud Conway, chairman
of the Security League, said 9.000
marched in his parade. There was
no estimate of the number in the
C. I. O. line.
EARHART TAKE-OFF
SET FOR TOMORROW
Round-the-World Plane Given
Final Test at Miami—Puerto
Rico First Stop.
B* the Associated Press.
MIAMI. Fla., May 31.—Amelia Ear
hart yesterday tentatively scheduled
her take-off on a projected West-East
flight around the world for tomorrow.
"If weather conditions are favor
able, she probably will hop tomorrow
morning for San Juan, Puerto Rico,”
said her husband, George Palmer
Putnam.
Miss Earhart went aloft for more
than a hour for a final check-up on
the plane's radio and compass. It is
the same ship that crashed with her
at Honolulu to terminate her westward
globe-girdling attempt which began in
California.
A decision to reverse the original
route was announced by the famous
flyer Saturday night. She said
weather conditions in the Caribbean
and over Africa probably would be
more favorable now than in a few'
weeks and it seemed advisable to
cover that part of the trip first.
She mapped an equatorial route.
From San Juan she planned to fol
low the Pan-American Airways route
to Natal, Brazil, from where she will
cross the South Atlantic to Dakar,
Africa. She will attempt to follow
the Imperial Airways lane to Aus
tralia, thence aim for the tiny How
land Island and Hawaii, stepping
atones across the Pacific to the United
States. Miss Earhart set no time
schedule, declaring the "will not
rush.”
Senate and House Commit
tees Will Start Joint
Hearing.
The Senate and House Labor Com
mittees tomorrow start a joint hear
ing on the administration’s new wage
and hour bill.
Robert H. Jaclcson, Assistant Attor
ney General, who was a member of the
informal commission named by Presi
dent Roosevelt to draft the measure,
is scheduled to be the first witness.
He is expected to give his views on the
constitutionality of the legislation,
which is a modification of the out
lawed national recovery act, propos
ing to bar from interstate commerce
products of Industries which violate
minimum wage and maximum hour
regulations, employ child labor or ig
nore collective bargaining rights under
the Wagner labor relations act.
Opposition Evident.
Sponsored by Senator Black, Demo
crat, of Alabama and Representative
Connery, Democrat, of Massachusetts,
the measure appears to be in for rocky
going. Labor is cold toward it; in
dustry, which consistently has stood
for self-regulation, can be counted on
for opposition, and the New York
Herald-Tribune, in a Washington dis
patch, today said that a spokesman
for the National Grange declared
this oldest of the farm organizations
might also line up against the legis
lation.
According to this Grange' spokes
man, what the farming interests fear
most are the "political implications"
of Federal regulation of hours and
wages.
Once a Federal board is empowered
to control these working standards, it
is pointed out, "pressure groups" of
workers, particularly in campaign
years, would be able to force upward
revision of wages, and a corresponding
limitation on hours, thereby boosting
prices of things the farmer must buy.
There is the added fear, also, It was
said, that some move might be made
toward bringing farm labor under
Federal regulation.
Lnsatisfaclory to Labor.
The "minimum wage" feature of the
measure is unsatisfactory to the
American Federation of Labor, and
the Committee for Industrial Organ
ization ha* done no more than indorse
the "principal" of the legislation.
The hearings will give the various
groups an opportunity to air their
views as to the lines on which they
believe the legislation should be built.
William Green, president of the
A. F. of L ; John L, Lewis, head of the
C. I, O., and Dr. Claudius T Murch
ison, head of the Textile Institute,
are expected to be among the early
witnesses.
CORRUPT PRACTICES
ACT BEING STUDIED
Group of Senators Begins Draft
to Tighten Present
Law.
Er the Associated Press.
A group of Senators, with an eye
to 1938 and 1940 national elections,
began drafting today a tighter Fed
eral corrupt practices act.
Chairman Minton expressed hope
that the legislation would be ready
soon. It is supported by Senator
Lonergan, Democrat, of Connecticut,
head of a special Senate committee
which surveyed 1936 campaign ex
penditures.
The existing 1926 corrupt practice*
act was described as "only half a law”
by Dr. James K. Pollock. University
of Michigan political science professor,
who is aiding the subcommittee.
The new bill is based on a proposal
of Senator Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota to fix maximum limits for
outlays in behalf of presidential, vice
presidential and congressional candi
dates. and require more frequent and
simplified reports with wider pub
licity.
It would undertake to fix responsi
bility more definitely by requiring all
candidates to designate fiscal agents,
as in England, and would create a
standing joint congressional commit
tee on elections of 10 members.
Pollock, undertaking the actual re
drafting, was directed to provide for
a permanent Federal elections agency,
instead of the congressional body.
Oddity Tennii Played.
Novel tennis matches are being
played at Dunolly, Australia. Man
ager Lawson of the Wedderburn Hotel
was defeated when, using a racquet, he
met R. A. Hill, civil engineer, armed
with a mandolin. To get revenge he
wagered that Alfred Greenall, with
a frying pan, could beat Hill, wielding
a racquet. Lawson lost his-bet.
The Place.
By Lieut. Paul R. Jones.
O! Find me a place on the lop of the peak,
Away from the cares that be.
The Blessings of God the better to seek.
And His handiwork better to see.
O! Find me ft place on some grass-covered knoll.
To rest from the cares of lifo;
Where breeres whisper to my very soul
Of peace that counters ail strife.
O! Find me a place at the end of the road—
Away from the land of regret.
Where I may own a peaceful abode
To rest when the day’s sun is set.
O! Find me a place at the top of the climb.
When night shadows cross o'er the lea:
Where the breath of the pine, ’mid the peace then sublime.
Whispers benedictions o’er me.
O! Find me a place, just a sizable clod.
Where quiet and peace are supreme;
To be closer to nature and to nature’s God
And to rest in the bright starlight's gleam.
O! Find me a place in some high, open space
When the sunset of life’s drawing nigh—
That I may find at the end of the race
Peace, near the Maker, on high.
In IH.1t Lieut Paul R. Jones, a Washington World War
veteran, ncurubly til in a Denver hospital, wrote these
verses of ihe 'place on a gross-covered knoll" where tie
hoped to find everlasting peace. He found it in this
grave near the Tomb ot the Unknown Soldier tn Arlington.
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MIDDIES RECEIVE
June Week Visitors Also
Watch Color Dress Pa
rade Rehearsal.
By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, May 31.—Midshipmen
at the Naval Academy honored their
athletes and practiced for the presenta
tion of color* dress parade today, while
June week visitors watched the cere
monies and attended a band concert.
The presentation of athletic awards
in the Thompson Stadium was the
mam event of the day's program.
Members of all 6port squads of the
academy during the year receive their !
letters, medals or other honors at this
annual event.
Garden Party Tonight.
The rehearsal of the presentation of
colors dress parade was held on Wor
den Field. It was staged for the
benefit of motion picture and news- j
paper photographers who swarmed
about the field making shots as the
regiment went through maneuvers.
The spacious gardens at the home
of Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers, j
superintendent of the academy, have |
been decorated with vari-colored elec
tric lights and a fountain for the
garden party the Admiral and Mrs.
Sellers will give tonight for the gradu- j
ates and their guests.
Members of the second class of mid
shipmen prepared for their “ring
dance," when for the first time they
will be entitled tn wear their class
rings. The Academy ring is not
awarded until the junior has passed
his last examinations and is ready
to move into the senior class. The
second classmen and their girls will
pass under a huge ring during the
dance. Each girl will slip the ring
on the finger of her escort.
Chaplain Gives Challenge.
Members of the graduating class
met in the chapel yesterday to wor
ship together for the last time as mid
shipmen and hear a challenge to be
ready to “stand watch’’ in life.
Seated under stained glass windows
dedicated to naval heroes, the 325
graduating midshipmen heard Comdr.
William N. Thomas, U. S. N„ Academy
chaplain, assert in a baccalaureate
sermon “This is no day for weaklings
and lovers of ease. The fight of your
day will demand brains and strength
of spirit.”
Lincoln’* First Speech.
Lincoln's maiden effort on the
stump, interrupted by a fight in
which he threw a bully “12 feet
away ": “Fellow citizens. I presume
you all know who I am. I am humble
Abraham Lincoln. * * * My poli
tics are short and sweet, like the old
woman's dance.. * * * These are
my sentiments and political principles.
If elected I shall be thankful; if not,
it will be all the same."
■ - 11 e " I
Mama Objects to Photo
Scarlett, Rhett, Melanie and Ashley, have their picture
taken, although mama seems to disapprove. These quadruplet
lion cubs born in the Atlanta, Qa., Zoo were named for the
principal’8 in "Qone With the Wind." Lion quadruplets are
nearly as rare as human ones. —1 P. Photo.
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THE WEATHER
District of Columbia—Fair and
warmer tonight; tomorrow fair and
continued warm, followed by local
thundershowers late tomorrow after
noon or night; cooler tomorrow night
and Wednesday; gentle to moderate
southwest winds, shifting to north
west tomorrow night.
Maryland—Fair and slightly warm- j
er tonight; tomorrow fair and contm- :
ued warm, followed by local thunder- I
showers late tomorrow afternoon or
night; cooler tomorrow night or Wed
nesday.
Virginia—Fair and slightly warmer
tonight and tomorrow, followed by
local thundershowers in West and
North portions late tomorrow after
noon or night and in Southeast por
tion tomorrow night; cooler tomorrow
night and Wednesday.
West Virginia—Fair tonight, fol
lowed by showers and thunderstorms
and cooler tomorrow ; much cooler to
morrow night.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
clear today.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United S'stes Coast ar.d
Geodetic Suney i
,, , Today Tomorrow.
High - „ — 11 Siam. 12..;.; am.
Low — - « ‘id i m. 7 1 .'t a m.
High - -- ] 2 4* p m.
Low1 - _ . (1:51pm. 7 .U7 p.m.
The Sun and Moon.
_ . Rises. Sets.
Sun, today _ 4 45 7 "H
Sun. tomorrow 4 41 7 27
Moon today __ 11 4epm. in 24 a m.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to date;.
Month. 1037. Avge. Rpcord
January -7.63 3.65 7.63 '37
February- 3.33 3.27 A.64 '84
March _ 1.50 3.75 8 84 PI
April - A.85 3 77 P.13 *6P
Mav __ 3.2u 3.70 ]o.6P 8p
June__ 4 13 io 0 4 'no
July - 4.71 10.63 ’86
Aucust __ 4.01 14 4 1 ’78
September __ 3.74 17.45 *34
October __ 2 84 8 57 *85
Novemoer __ 7 37 8 «fi ’80
December _ __ 3 32 7.56 '01
Weather in Various Cities.
Tetr.p Ram
Station' Barn H h Low fa!’., Wrath’r
Abilene. Tex. 2P P6 pn on 0.07 Cloudy
Albany. N. Y. 3<t 07 S8 58 Clear
Atlanta Ga 36 ] 6 <17 70 _ Clear
Atlartic Ciry 3<> 08 7 6 67 Clear
Baltimore Md. 36.66 so no Clear
Birmingham 30.ua 04 74 Clear
Bismarck N D. 30 os 57 4« 1 51 Cloudy
Boston. Mass 70 04 84 67 Cloudy
Buffalo. N Y 30.06 so 67 Cl"ar
Charleston S.C. 30.14 80 68 _ _ Clear
Chicago 111. 70.08 8k 77 Cloudy
Cincinnati. Ohio 30.06 no 66 _ Cloudy
Cleveland. Ohio 30 06 7 6 64 Clear
Columbia 3 C. 30 16 88 66 Cl°ar
Denver Colo. 30.14 57 47 0.14 Rain
Detroit. Mich. .‘Pi 07 67’ 61 Cloudy
El Paso Tex 70.76 07 67 Clear
Galveston Tex. 30.00 87 78 Cloudy
Helena. Mont. 30.17 54 38 Cloudy
Huron. S. Dak. 70 08 87 54 0.30 Cloudy
Indianapolis 30.04 07 77 Clear
Jacksonville.Fla. 30.1 n 88 66 Clear
Kansas City Mo. 70.08 8'? 70 Clear
Los Angeles 70.88 67 56 0 <>8 Clear
Louisville Ky. 30.08 00 74 Clear
Miami Fla 30.00 84 77 Clouriv
Min ap-St. Paul 70.74 88 68 0.18 Cloudy
New Orleans 30.06 00 74 . Clear
New York. N Y. 30.07 87 66 Clepr
Oklahoma City 70 04 86 76 Rain
Omaha Nebr 20 08 84 56 0.86 Cloudy
Philadelphia 30.08 84 67 Clear
Phoenix. Ariz 70.78 88 66 Clear
Pittsburgh 36 10 86 66 Clear
Portland. Me 70.06 86 67 _Clear
Portland. Ore* 30.06 7 4 57 Clear
Raleigh N C 30 10 86 66 Clear
Salt Lake City 70 00 57 44 0 34 Cloudv
San Antonio 70.06 84 68 .6-.’ Cloudv
San Diego __ 70 88 67 58 _ Cloudy
San Francisco 70.84 76 57 Clear
St. Louis. Mo,, 30.07 07 74 _ Clear
Seattle. Wash 36.17 77 57 _ Clear
Spokane. Wash 36.06 77 44 _Clear
Tampa Fla 30.06 04 70 _Clear
WASHINGTON 30.07 85 64 ___ Clear
FOREIGN.
(7 a m.. Greenwich time, today.)
Temperature. Weather.
London England_ 58 Cloudy
Paris. France _- 63 Rain
Vienna. Austria__ 57 Clear
Berlin. Germany _ Cloudy
Zurich. Switzerland -_ 63 Cloudy
Stockholm Sweden 52 Cloudy
Gibraltar. Spain67 Cloudy
iNoon. Greenwich time today.)
Horta (FayalL Azores_68 Cloudy
St. Georges. Bermuda _ 76 Cloudy
8an Juan. Puerto Rico _ 82 Cloudy
Havana Cuba 76 Clear
Colon. Canal Zone •• 78 Cloudy
Monkey Catching Made Easy. .
CHICAGO.—Police were sent to
catch a traffic-dodging Simian which
finally perched in a South State street
book store. While colleagues searched
for the monkey's owner, Patrolman
Harry Mandell tried in vain to lure
the creature within reach. The owner
came, exhibited a banana and got the
monkey.
A banana, he instructed the offi
cers, saves time in catching monkeys.
D. C. BRIDGE TEAM WINS
Local Quartet Defend* Laurels as
Virginia Titlist.
Dr. E. B. Connelly, Leroy Thurtell,
Dr. A. J. Steinberg and Dr. M. Jacobs,
all of this city, successfully defended
their 1936 title as the open team bridge
champions of Virginia last night, ac
cording to an Associated Press dis
patch from Virginia Beach.
The victory, scored after keen com
petition, climaxed the second day’s
play in the fourth annual Cavalier
bridge tournament at Virginia Beach,
for the State championship.
Inventor*’ Output Drop*.
Patents granted to American In
ventors by Germany last year num
bered leas than half theee of 1113.
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j
DYNAMITE DEATHS
Wisconsin Man Used 40
Pounds in Wiping Out Fam
ily of 8, Police Told.
By the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 31.—Scott
Lowry, Waukesha County district at
torney, announced today that John
Waszak, 54, farmer, had confetsed
slaying his wife and eight children by
exploding 40 pounds of dynamite
April 18.
A coroner’s report had said the
blast was accidental, but the case was
reopened after Phyllis Waszak, 23. one
of the two survivors, was arrested on
another charge last Thursday.
Sheriff Edward Mitten of Mil
waukee County quoted her as saying
her father threatened, "I will wipe out
you and the whole damn family." fol
lowing a quarrel with his wife and
several members of the family.
Lie Test Breaks Him.
Authorities then questioned Waszak.
but failed to shake his story given at
the inquest, Lowry said. They did,
however, prevail upon him to subject
himself to a test by the lie detector.
Tests made at the Northwestern
University crime laboratory indicated
that he was lying when questioned
concerning the blast, Lowry stated,
and on his return to Waukesha he
was examined again.
Early Sunday morning he made a
verbal confession admitting his guilt
and Sunday afternoon he signed a
23-page confession, Lowry said.
To Charge Murder.
Lowry said Waszak admitted re
moving the 6-year-old dynamite from
a shed to the coal bin of his home
about a month before the explosion,
having decided on wiping out his fam
ily.
The day of the blast he became em
bittered because no one helped him
with the farm chores. Lowry said he
confessed, and after a short argument
he went to the cellar and fitted the
! dynamite with caps. He admitted.
Lowry declared, that he walked away
"slowly in hopes it might get him.
too," but he was 30 to 40 feet away
when the blast sounded.
Lowry said he would charge Waszak
with first-degree murder today.
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11 SAVED IN BOAT
CRASH IN MARYLAND
Coast Guardsmen Credited With
Saving Lives at Ocean
City.
Ev the Associated Press.
OCEAN CITY. Md.. May 31—Quick
work by Coast Guardsmen from the
Ocean City station was credited to
day with having saved the lives of
11 members of a yachting party which
came to grief in the pounding surf on
a jetty near here.
"If It hadn't been for the Coast
Guardsmen some of us would have
drowned," said Dr. Charles Law,
owner of the 32-foot boat which
crashed into the jetty yesterday after
her steering gear broke. Dr. and Mrs.
Law had been hosts to eight others
during a short cruise into the ocean
here. Their year-and-a-half-old son
also was aboard.
"The tiller rope broke as we were
heading into the inlet," Dr. Law said,
| “and we crashed into the north jetty,
bursting the bottom of the boat.
"She was leaking so fast I ordered
all to jump overboard, believing they
could make it ashore, as we were not
far out."
Dr. and Mrs. Law remained aboard
with their son.
Those who jumped were tossed
against sharp rocks by the waves.
The rocks were so slippery the swim
mers could not grasp them and only
the arrival of the Coast Guard surf
boat saved most of them.
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CENTRAL MEET GETS 33
MILWAUKEE. May 31 (/P).—Mar
quette University athletic officials
said today 33 schools had entered the
! central intercollegiate track and field
championships which will be held at
Marquette Stadium next Friday.
| Big Ten teams registered are Chi
cago, Uinois, Indiana, Iowa, Purdue,
Minnesota and Wisconsin. The I. C.
4-A is sending Pittsburgh, 1937
champion. Michigan State and Mar
quette also are listed among the con
testants.
Other major entries include Notre
Dame. Butler, Drake, Grinnell and
North Dakota.
London will have 1,000 trolley buses
working by January 1. 193*.
C. I.O.H ENTER
NON-UNION TRADES
- .
Lewis’ Men Also to Bid for
Workers “Not Cared For”
by Their Unions.
B' the Associated Press.
The Committee for Industrial Or
ganization headed by John L. Lewis
is going into every Industry which
has no labor organization or where ex
isting unions "are not taking care of
their members.”
This announcement was made yes
terday by John Brophy, C. I. O. di
rector, in answer to the new bid for
supremacy in the labor field by the
American Federation of Labor. He
said, however, that the C. I. O. had
no intention of seeking a foothold in
the building crafts or the railroad
brotherhoods.
Lewis and Brophy, renewing their
titanic struggle with William Green.
A. F. of L. president, over industrial
and craft unionism, maintained strict
silence on the five-State steel strike.
They said Philip Murray, chairman of
the Steel Workers' Organizing Com
mittee at Youngstown, Ohio, would
speak for them.
Brophy left C. I. O. headquarters
here Saturday for the Pacific North
west, where, he said, he would "in
vite” longshoremen and a wood-cut
ters’ federation to leave the A. F.
of L, banner and join the Lewis forces.
He will attend a maritime convention
in Portland next week.
'.'0.1)00 May Quit.
As Green prepared to create a new
department of maritime unions to
combat the Lewis movement. Harry
Bridges, West Coast president of the
International Longshoremen's Asso
ciation, predicted the 20.000 worker*
In his organization would quit the
federation If it continued to oppose
the C. I. O. and "progressive unionism.”
He and Brophy said they hoped %
new C. I. O. national maritime asso
ciation would develop which would en
list support from both East and West
Coast locals of the I. L. A.
Bridges pledged his union's support
to this movement.
Brophy smiled when he learned
Green had ordered expulsion of Chi
cago and New York A. F. of L. unions
affiliated with C. I. O.
A. F. L. Shifting Ground.
"That most certainly is not unex
pected.” he said. "It is only a tech
nical expulsion, because we have been
working toward different goals all
along.”
“This $35,000 war chest the A. F.
of L. has been talking about doesn’t
amount to anything.” he said, "be
cause we've found by experience that
amount would be inadequate. There's
nothing new In their announcement
about abandoning temporary craft
unions because they’ve been gradually
getting over to our industrial type of
unions for many months.”
The A. F. of L.. meeting in Cin
cinnati. decided to raise $35,000
monthly in the fight against Lewis.
C. I. O. Claims Edge.
C I. O. leaders expressed the
opinion, meanwhile, the Supreme
Court's decision validating the Wagner
labor act had sent the organization
"away winging” in the Nationwide
labor fight.
They claimed these advantages a*
both sides apparently settled down for
a long struggle:
1. The Wagner act makes it diffi
cult for A. F. of L. craft unions to
win workers' elections to determine a
collective bargaming agency.
2. C. I. O. has approximately the
same membership as its arch rival and
claims to be ready to move ahead
rapidly.
3. Federation locals have been
breaking away from the Green stand
. ard and have made overtures to the
Lewis faction.
TWO IN PLANE DIE
IN ALABAMA CRASH
Insurance Firm Executive and
Girl. 18, Killed as Craft
Falls in Montgomery.
fcr the Associated Press,
MONTGOMERY, Ala , May 31 —
Russell C. Luquire. Birmingham
burial insurance company executive,
and Miss Frances Williams, 19. of
Montgomery, were killed yesterday
when their airplane fell in downtown
Montgomery. Luquire was 31.
| The plane was rented at Montgom
ery Municipal Airport a short tim»
1 earlier, and Luquire was at the con
trols.
Witnesses said the plane was flying
low as it approached the spot where
it crashed, indicating Luquire was in
difficulty.
Screams of the woman, witnesses
said, were audible on the ground.
The airplane fell in a small cleared
space between two houses. Axes
were needed to chop the victims from
the wreckage, a twisted mass of
metal and wires.
Sarah Williams, sister of the 19
year-old girl who died in the accident,
was saved the same fate, she said,
"when we both wanted to go. but
Russell suggested one of us had bet
ter wait. I did.”
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MISSING AIRLINER
LETTERS ARE FOUND
Utah Villagers Gain Clue on Peak
to Plane Lost December 15
With 7 Aboard.
By the Associated Press.
ALPINE, Utah, May 31.—Weather
beaten letterg, found several days ago,
centered search for an airliner and
its seven occupants—missing since
December 15—upon this mountain vil
lage today.
The Associated Press was told on
good authority water stains had ob
literated the addresses on the letters
but the postmarks were definitely
those of mail carried by the lost craft.
Will Healy and Frank Bateman,
i Alpine residents, were credited with
making the discovery on a peak over
I shadowing the town.
The mail was taken to Salt Lake
City, where Postal Inspector M. E.
; Wenger admitted "we are working on
some definite clues, but I can't tell
you where or what they are.”
Healy and Bateman returned to
their Lone Peak base Saturday. Planes
circled the vicinity the same day.
Before resuming their search, the
men told friends of ‘encountering
snowdrifts 20 to 40 feet deep, clogging
vault-like canyons where the wreck
age might lie. Half a foot of anow
fell Ultra yeeterday.