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REPUBLIC SENDS
pEYlHREATTO
f SUE OVER MAILS
Lawyer for Steel Firm Asks
| Official to Open
Service.
CLIENT LOATH TO USE
FORCE, HE WRITES HERE
Move Follows McKellar Promise
of Inquiry Into Alleged In
terference in Strike.
By thf Associated Press.
The Republic Steel Corp., assert
ing it was denied use of the mails
for sending food to its workers in
strike-besieged plants, advised Post
master General Farley today it would
take legal action unless the mails
were opened to it.
The corporation, through John S,
Brookes, jr., official and counsel, made
formal demand on Farley “to issue
orders to the post masters at Niles
and at Warren (Ohio), respectively,
to accept for delivery and deliver all
matter submitted for mailing to ad
dresses at the plants” of the com- '
P« nv at those places.
Brookes reiterated earlier Republic
charges that union representatives of
the strikers were permitted to ex
amine packages submitted for delivery
to the company plants.
He said it was understood that "only 1
those packages which met with the ap
proval of such representatives were
accepted or delivered."
Newspapers Held Refused.
"We are informed," he added, "that
daily newspapers have been refused :
Under similar circumstances."
Brookes wrote Farley frankly that
the company needed the use of the
mails in order to supply its picketed
workers wdth food and thus avoid the
possibility of violence which might
result should the company itself at
tempt to deliver the food through the
Usual "convenient channels.”
"Such is our emergency,” he wrote,
•that if your position and the sup
porting practice which you are quoted
as relying upon are founded in fear of
violence which may be committed upon
the facilities of your department or
your personnel, this corporation
stands ready to be deputized to func
tion for your department in ^making
deliveries of mail to its plants at
Niles and at Warren, Ohio, and will
place both means of transportation :
and personnel to man the same at ■
your disposal.”
The formal Republic demand was
disclosed shortly after Chairman Me- j
Kellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, of
the Senate Past Office Committee, j
said he had asked the Post Office
Department for a report on the al
leged interruptions of service in the
Strike area.
MrKellar Experts Report.
McKellar expected the report to
reach his committee Friday, when it
1* scheduled to take up a resqlution :
by Senator Bridges, Republican, of
New Hampshire calling for a Senate
Inquiry. The Tennessee Senator said
Assistant Postmaster General Howes
probably would appear before the
committee.
Brookes wrote Farley that his ex
planations of the reported condition
of mail service at Warren and Niles
Is “obviously unsatisfactory and unre
sponsive in view of the actual hap
penings.”
He quoted Farley as having wired
to Tom Girdler. Republic Steel chair
man. that normal mail service was
being continued at the two towns.
Brookes said of the workers in the
plants that they had to be kept where
they were “in order to secure to them
their right to continue on their jobs.”
"The convenience channels for the
regular transportation of food to them
wre closed to us by picket lines, unless
we are willing to match force with
force," he continued.
"Loath to Ust Force.”
"This w'e are loath to do unless all
other means fall.
"We are compelled, therefore, to
resort to every other method avail
nble to us for our purpose. We have
presumed * * * that the United States
mails would afford us the same facili
ties which are afforded generally
throughout the country.
"These have been denied and are
being denied to us through your action
(See MAIL, Page A-4.)
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EXPOSED TO DISEASE.
DOCTOR SOUGHT ON ROAD
Warning to Submit to Immediate
Examination Awaits Man
Going to Coast.
S; the Associated Press.
ROCHESTER, N. Y.. June 8 —
Feared to have been exposed unknow
ingly to a dread disease, a young
Rochester doctor was being hunted
along the automobile route to Los An
geles today in an attempt to warn him
to submit to immediate examination.
He is Dr. Harold A. Cohn, who is
driving to a new post in Los Angeles
County Hospital.
A radiologist at Strong Memorial
Hospital for the last year, Dr. Cohn
1* believed to have visited an ill
friend just before his departure for
the Pacific Coast last Tuesday. After
he left. It was discovered the friend
had spinal meningitis, which proved
fatal Friday night.
If Dr. Cohn has contracted the
disease a blood culture would re
veal it before other symptoms made
it apparent, and Immediate treatment
might forestall severe illness, doc
tors said.
Kills'Mother Accidentally.
LOVELAND, Calif., June 8 (/P).—
Mrs. George Parsons, 32, died last night
an hour after her 7-year-old son acci
dentally shot her while displaying a
-#2 rifle he had found. Coroner Wil-f*
liam Brooks said today.
Navy-Geographic Eclipse
Party Hopes for Clear Skies
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Scientists will be hunting the secrets of the sun today as the
longest total eclipse in 1,200 years—a maximum totality of 7
minutes—offers opportunity for observation. This chart shows
the limit of the eclipse. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
BULLETIN.
The United States Navy-National
Geographic Society expedition on
Canton Island, in mid-Pacfic, re
ported at 2 p.m. (E. S. T.t today
that, it had "absolutely perfect
weather" to view a total eclipse of
the sun.
Bj the Associated Press.
A JOINT United States Navy
National Geographic Society
expedition, poised on a mid
Pacific island to view the
longest total eclipse of the sun in 12
centuries, reported it was hopeful
skies would clear today in time for
a full view of the solar show.
A broadcast from Canton Island,
where the observers nervously
watched the sky, informed National
Geographic headquarters here a storm
with overcast skies was breaking up 1
The report came from the isolated
astronomers two hours before the
start of the eclipse.
Dr, F A. Mitchell, director of the
University of Virginia Observatory
and head of the joint party, radioed
that the encampment was "not wor- !
rying very much and we have great '
hopes.”
Some of the party of 15 scientists
'See ECLIPSE, Page A-3.j
i ~
IT.U’SVOTE
Asks Government to Ban
Alcohol Sale to Public
Vehicle Operators.
A plea to “the transportation au
thorities and governments of all
countries to prohibit the consumption
of alcoholic liquors by the drivers of
road vehicles, by the pilots of air
craft and by the operating personnel
of railroads and watercraft when on
duty and for 24 hours before going on
duty,-' was recommended today in the
report of the Resolutions Committee
and immediately adopted by delegates
to the sixteenth triennial convention
of the World's Woman's Christian
Temperance Union.
"In the interest of public safety,
we also ask them to prohibit the sale
or supply of alcoholic beverages at
airports, aboard aircraft, in filling
stations and on railroad trains,” the
report continued.
This resolution was seen as a direct
result of convention addresses by Maj.
Thomas Macleod. captain in the Brit
ish Royal Air Force during the World
War and a pioneer in England's air
service. He attacked bitterly the use
of alcohol by commercial pilots and
by operators of all other transport ve
hicles.
“Eradication” Seen Solution.
A second resolution, also adopted,
read: ‘The repeal of prohibition in
the United States and in Finland has
not solved the liquor problem in tho6e
countries, nor has so-called govern
ment control. Other methods sub
stituted instead of prohibition have
proven ineffective in lessening the
consumption of beverage alcohol.
“We declare our conviction that
eradication, not restriction, is the only
solution of the world-wide liquor prob
lem."
A third in the list of 10 resolutions
presented to thte convention this
morning for approval asked, in part,
that the League of Nations "make
further comprehensive Investigations
on the close relation of the use of
beverage alcohol and the iniquitous
traffic in women and children."
Under the heading “Drink and Na
tive Races," the committee stated, in
part, "this convention expresses its
concern that governments permit the
manufacture and importation of alco
holic liquor to native territories," and
Tsee w7C T. U., Page jA-#.)
COMMITTEE LAUDS
Benefits of Cross-State
Waterway Cited in
House Report.
B? the Associated Pres*.
The House Rivers and Harbors Com
mittee told Congress today the eco- i
nomic justification of the Florida ship
canal “is beyond question.”
; The committee report, written by
; Chairman Mansfield, strongly recom- j
mended completion of the cross-State ;
waterway and answered point by point I
' objections on which railroads and oth
ers based their opposition.
The committee voted two weeks ago
| to recommend completion of the canal,
on which work was interrupted after
Congress refused last year to appro
priate for the project, begun in 1935
with $5,400,000 of relief funds made
i available by President Roosevelt.
I The Republican minority filed an
opposition report, and dissenting Dem
ocratic members, headed by Repre
sentative Beiter. Democrat, of New
York, also registered their protest in
! a statement attached to the majority
report.
The majority discounted assertions
that the canal cut across Northern
Florida would drain off or pollute un
derground streams which furnish the
peninsula's fresh water supply.
“After a very careful consideration
of all the evidence submitted, both pro
and con,” the report stated, "your com
mittee concludes that the findings of
the chief of engineers in this matter
are correct and supported by ample
i data, evidence and authoritative opin
ion.
“It regards the assertions that ground
j water Supplies in Southern Florida will
j be adversely affected to be wholly be
! yond the realm of reason.”
Maj. Gen. Edward M. Markham,
chief of Army Engineers, had assured
Congress in his report that there woul^
be no appreciable damage to the un
derground reservoir. He recommended
(See CANAL, Page A-3.)
Bear Fleet Zoo, Is Caught.
PORTLAND, Oreg., June 8 (A3).—'The
fun was over for Jimmy, a 200-pound
black bear, today. Trapped in a wire
inclosed tennis court late last night he
was shot by police after escaping from
the soo, biting a pursuing policeman,
smashing windows and driving panic
stricken residents of the *oo area in
doors.
Report to Cummings Held Sure
To Win Jordon Commutation
BACKGROUND—
Mrs. Lizzie S. Javnes, cashier
of Garden T Shoppe, was shot in
robbery of establishment on April 3,
1931. Thomas Jordon was arretted,
but not indicted.
Four years later, from Mount
Vernon, N. Y., he wrote to United
States Attorney Garnett, asking if
he had been cleared of all suspicion.
Arrested again, he was convicted
and sentenced to electrocution. He
has been given six stays of execu
tion.
That Thomas Jordon will escape
electrocution for the murder of Mrs.
Lizzie S. Jaynes, cashier of the Gar
den T Shoppe, was a virtual certainty
today.
As Daniel M. Lyons, Federal par
don attorney, sent to Attorney Gen
eral Cummings a report containing
confidential recommendations in the
case, there were strong indications
that new evidence recently presented
in Jordon's behalf would save him
from the electric chair next Monday.
Department of Justice officials de
clined to discuss Lyons’ findings pend*
ing action by President Roosevelt.
Cummings planned to study the re
port this atfernoon preparatory to
making a formal report to the White
House.
Commutation of Jordon's death sen
tence to life imprisonment was ex
pected to result from Cummings'
study of the new evidence, which
tended to cast doubt on identifica
tion of Jordon as one of the slayers
of Mrs. Jaynes.
Cummings ordered Lyons to reopen
the department's study of the murder
case after a Star reporter discovered
a police “incidental” quoting Mrs.
Jaynes, Just before her death, as de
scribing her assailants as two men 6
feet tall. Jordon is 5 feet 6*4 inches.
The Incidental was not introduced in
Jordon’s defense »t Ills trial.
President Roosevelt, a few days
before discovery of the incidental,
refused to extend clemency to Jordon
and preparations for his electrocution
at the District Jail were begun. When
the new evidence was brought to light,
however, the execution date su post
poned in order to give Lyons aJqppor
tunlty to reconsider the ca£
BH OFFERS
THREE-POINT PLAN
IN SPANISH CRISIS
Would Extend Safety Zones
to Bring Italy and Reich
Back in Fold.
OBJECTIONS OF SPAIN
ARE NOT CONSIDERED
Prospect* for Agreement Not
Viewed With Optimism
in Prance.
BACKGROUND—
Bombing of Italian and German
cruisers, members of non-interven
tion patrol in Spain, brought re
taliation by Reich in shelling of
Almeria and withdrawel of both
nations from Non-Intervention
^pmmittee.
Great Britain, fearing breakdown
of effort and spread of war to Eu
rope, backed Fascist nations in pro
tests and has been seeking their
return to the committee.
BULLETIN.
MADRID, June 8 (fP).—Police
reported late today that they had
uncovered evidence that a German
spy and propaganda center existed
in Madrid before the start of the
Spanish civil war.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 8.—Great Britain
offered a three-point proposal- today
to induce Germany and Italy back
into the Non-Intervention Committee
and to safeguard Europe from the
chaos that might spread from a new
"incident" in the Spanish civil war.
Great Britain proposed:
1. Extension of safety nones for
neutral shipping and warships in the
neutrality fleet patroling Spain.
2. Assurances from both sides of the
Spanish conflict to abstain from prov
ocations, such as the recent Spanish
government aerial bombardment of
the pocket battleship Deutschland, a
neutrality patrol vessel, in Ibiaa Har
bor.
3. An arrangement, in the event the
first two measures fail to bring Italo
Oerman agreement, to bring the mat
ter up for consultation by all four
powers engaged in the patrol—Britain,
France, Germany and Italy—to con
sider necessary action.
The prospects for an agreement
were not viewed optimistically in Euro
pean chancelleries, but the situation
wa* not regarded as hopeless.
In the face of Relchsfuehrer Adolf
Hitler'* threat to resume liberty of
action in Spain in the event of
further "provocations," some French
quarters expressed the belief any ef
fort to w in Rome and Berlin back to j
collaboration was doomed to failure.
Others believed he might change his 1
stand.
They said Hitler was insistent that
Germany, confronted by another such
incident as the Deutschland bombing,
would consider herself free to take
whatever retaliation she deemed nec
essary. Well-informed quarters con
sidered this stand a threat to repeat
measures such as the shelling of Al
meria. Spanish seaport, by five of
the Reich's warships.
Another impediment, they declared,
was the stand of the Spanish central
government, which has refused to
grant zones of security In Spanish
territorial waters.
British diplomatic quarters never
theless, looked more hopefully for a
solution.
No Provisions for Spain.
The three-point plan made no al
lowance for the possibility that the
Spanish government might object. It
was proposed that, after a tentative
agreement among the four powers,
it be submitted for approval by the
Valencia and Insurgent Spanish
regimes, then returned to the Neu
trality Committee for final ratification.
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^OETTIN' ANYTH INGE I THEgy
THE CASTAWAYS.
TWOSCHOOLBOARO
VACANCIES FILLED
Charles D. Drayton, Attor
ney, and Col. West A. Ham
ilton Are Named.
<Picturet on Page A-4.)
The justices of the District Court
today announced the appointment to
the Board of Education of Charles D.
Drayton, well-known attorney, and
Col. West A. Hamilton, prominent in
colored civic and patriotic circles.
They succeed, respectively, George
M. Whitwell, who has served on the
board since 1931. and Dr. J. Hayden
Johnson, dean of the board,,who for
the last 21 years has taken part in its
deliberations.
Mrs. Marjgn Wade Doyle, president
of the board, was reappointed. 8he
is the wife of Dean Henry Grattan
Doyle of George Washington Uni
veraUy.
An three appointees will serve three
year terms, expiring June 30, 1940.
Drayton, who was graduated from
National University Law School in
1905, became a member of the District
Bar Association the following year.
President of Children's Hospital
and chairman of the Hospital Presi
dent’s Committee, he also has recently
been elected to head the newly-formed
hospital association. He was chair
man of the recent United Hospital
Appeal.
The new member bears a striking
resemblance to Abraham Lincoln, and,
in false whiskers, has taken many
prises at fancy dress social events for
his likeness to the Great Emancipator.
Shakespeare is one of his particular
hobbies and he has delivered lectures
to local groups on the subject.
A native of South Carolina, he lives
at 2425 Kalorama road and main
tains offices at 1001 Fifteenth street.
He is married, has a son and two
daughters, and is a member of Chevy
Chase Club.
Col. Hamilton lives at 413 T street
and has a printing office at 1353 U
street.
He is a colonel in the Reserve Corps,
a warden of St. Luke’s Protestant
Episcopal Church, vice president of
the Community Center Council, a for
mer trustee of the Community Chest,
a director of the Washington Welfare
Association, a member of the Execu
tive Committee of the Boy Scouts of
America and prominent in the Amer
ican Legion and Masons.
Summary of Today’s Star
Page.
Amusements C-ll
Comics_C-S-#
Editorials ...A-lt
Financial ...A-l"
Lost & Found A-3
Obituary_A-ll
Page.
Radio_C-S
Short Story_._B-7
Society_B-J
Sports_C-l-3
Woman’s Pg. _B-S
FOREIGN.
Amelia Earhart sets record in Atlantic I
crossing. Page A-I
Britain offers three-point plan in non
intervention crisis. Page A-I
Note points to kidnaping of London
society beauty. Page A-l
NATIONAL.
Funeral services for Jean Harlow to
be tomorrow. Page A-l
Senate bill to nationalise munitions
announced. Page A-l
Senate committee to probe alleged in
terference with mails. Page A-l
House to take up proposal for tax
evasion inquiry today. Page A-4
Black defends wage-hour bill in Radio
Forum. Page C-4
WASHINGTON AND NEARBY.
Keene knots not tied by expert, says
detective. Page A-l
Five-cent-per-zone increase in taxicab
rates here proposed. Page A-l
School Board appointments announced
by justices. Page A-l
Commutation for Jordon regarded as
near-certainty. Page A-l
Bill to create independent civil service
for D. C. Page A-l
Larger deficit seen- as Senate debates
D. C. bill. Page A-l
Changes authorized by District Zoning
Commission. Page A-4
Work to start tomorrow on Mellon
Art Gallery. Page B-l
Trailer laboratory to check perishable
foods. Page B-l
Fractional breach in A. F. G. E.
widens. Page B-l
Maj. Brown replies to Jiujfeee Asso
ciation findings. spege B-l
SPORTS.
Team honors lure for marathoners
here Saturday. Page C-l
Boys', juniors' net play here has na
tional angle. Page C-l
Navy rated big threat in coming
Poughkeepsie regatta. Page C-l
Purse for Preakness may be increased
to $100,000. Page C-2
Disappointing Griff pitchers being
tagged for,shipment. Page C-2
"Go West” proves unprofitable slogan
for Yankees. Page C-2
Automatic entry reward seen due ex
open champs. Page C-3
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-10
This and That. Page A-l$
Political Mill. Page A-l*
Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-l*
Answers to Questions. Page A-l*
David Lawrence. Page A-ll
H. R. Baukhage. Page A-ll
Mark Sullivan. Page A-ll
Jay Franklin. Page A-ll
Delia Pynchon. Page A-ll
FINANCIAL.
Bonds are narrow (table). PageA-17
Ward sales set record. Page A-17
D. C. postal receipts soar. Page A-18
Stocks irregular (table). PageA-lg
Curb list edges up (table). Page A-l*
General Motors sales sag. Page A-l*
MISCELLANY.
Shipping News. Page A-1S
Service Orders. Page A-ll
City News In Brief. Page A-ll
Vital Statistics. Page A-ll
Traffic Convictions. Page A-ll
Dorothy Dix. Page B-l
Betsy Caswell. Page B-S
Young Washington. Page B-12
Cross-word Pusale. Page C-S
Nature’s Children. Page C-S
Bedtime Story. 41 Page C-»
Letter-Out. ^ Page C-l
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Jean Harlow Predicted Death
When Stricken, Friend Recalls
Associate Tells of Star’s Premonition.
Estate Left by Actress Is Estimated
to Be $1,000,000.
E* the Associated Press.
I/OS ANGELES. June 8.—The body
of Jean Harlow, clad In white, her
favorite color, lay in a bronze coffin
today as a close associate recalled
that the blond film star voiced a
premonition of death when she was
stricken ill on May 38.
The strange fear of the actress. !
who amassed an estimated *1.000.000
in seven years of screen success, was
described by Violet Denoyer, friend
and make-up attendant for Miss
Harlow.
“Jean looked at me strangely one
morning—the same day she was taken
111,'' said Mias Denoyer.
" 'You know. Violet,' she told me, '
'1 have a feeling I'm going away
►from here and never coming back.' ” j
Ever since Christmas the 18-year- j
old actress had worn a huge star sap- !
phire ring on the third finger of her
right hand. It was a gift from Wil
liam Powell.
In death her hair was not the plati
num hue she made famous, it was
what she had described as a ‘'honey
blonde,” its natural color before she
entered the movies.
Miss Harlow was wearing the na
tural shade in her last Him when she
was stricken with her fatal illness of
uremic poisoning.
The body of the star who died at
the height of her career as did
Rudolph Valentino and Barbara
Lamarr was held at a mortuary for
her mother and Immediate relatives to
look upon a last time before a funeral
service tomorrow.
The glamorous actress’ mother, Mrs.
Jean Bello, was in a state of near
tSee HARLOW. Page a-37)
BILL 10 BE DRAWN
Commissioners Ask Draft
to Establish Independent
System for City.
BACKGROUND—
Federation of Citizens’ Associa
tion has led fight of organized citi
zens' groups for "District fobs for
District residents" for many years.
Particular objection has been
against appointment of "carpet
baggers" and out-of-town residents.
Besieged to appoint hundreds of
politicians’ friends when they took
office, Commissioners several times
have urged separate civil service
for municipal government.
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Creation of an independent civil
service system for the District govern
ment will be provided in a bill to be
drawn by Corporation Counsel Elwood
H. Seal, under directions Issued today
by the Commissioners.
The plan is to submit the proposal
to Congress (or possible action at this
session. The Commissioners, it was
said, are advised that Chairman King
of the Senate District Committee has
taken an interest in the proposal, and
they asked Seal to expedite preparation
of the measure.
The hope of the Commissioners for
a separate civil service system, inde
pendent of the Federal program, is
based on the repeated demands of or
ganised Washington civie groups that
District residents should have first call
for jobs in their municipal govern
ment.
Under the United States civil service
District residents would be subject to
the quota system for all the States. It i
is feared that such a system would |
force many District applicants to stand
aside while jobs were awarded to resi
dents of other States.
The District now has no civil service
status, except for policemen and fire
men, through arrangement with the
United States Civil ‘Service Commis
sion. and except that the school teach
ers have their own merit system.
While the details of the bill are
not yet known, Commissioner Hazen
indicated today it was his idea that
the policemen, firemen and school
teachers should be brought into the
proposed District civil service when
one is established.
The great body of municipal work
ers do not have civil service protec
tion. Since the Hoover administra
tion, however, an executive order has
provided that persons appointed to
fill District jobs shall be drawn from
the eligible lists of the United States
Civil Service Commission. This rule
is waived when the commission has
no eligiblea and when there are no
funds availale for holding of new
examinations. Department heads and
certain professional positions also are
exempt from the terms of the exec
utive order.
Commissioner Allen has suggested
that the bill be drawn to provide that
a person must have been a bona fide
resident of the District for three years
to become eligible 4nder the proposed
District civil servtp plan.
5-CENT-A-ZONE RISE
IN CAB RATE ASKED
Randolph Advises Boost at
Hearing on Bill to Limit
Number of Taxis.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.
An increase of 5 cents per sone in
District taxicab rates was advocated
today by Representative Randolph.
Democrat, of West Virginia during a
hearing before a special subcommittee
of the House District Committee on a
bill that would limit the number of
cabs In operation.
Randolph, chairman of the subcom
mittee, said he believed the 20-cent
sone fares are too low to permit drivers
to earn a decent livelihood.
Representative Nichols. Democrat,
of Oklahoma, who appeared as a wit
ness. supported the proposed increase,
pointing out an additional 5 cents per
zone would enable taxi operators to
carry liability insurance for public
protection.
Higher rates were suggested by
Randolph after boos and cries of
"baloney" greeted a statement by
Harry H. Bettleman of the Consoli
dated Cab Association that the con
scientious driver who works regularly
earns from <6 to $15 a day. Ran
dolph warned the taxi drivers who
jammed the committee room that
further demonstrations would result
in the room being •‘cleared.’’
"We must have order and deco
rum." he declared as he pounded the
gavel.
Eigen at Hearing.
Executives of the Public Utilities
Commission, which controls taxi fares,
were present when both Randolph and
Nichols advocated an increase, but
made no comment on the proposal.
Among them were Riley E. Eigen. '
chairman; Richmond B. Keech. vice
chairman, and James L. Martin, exec
utive secretary.
The commission members appeared
before the subcommittee to indorse
the bill, which would give them au
thority to reduoe gradually the num
ber of cabs. Keech told the sub
committee there are 4,757 cabs li
censed to operate in Washington, or
more than in operation in Chicago,
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh com
bined.
Eigen declared the proposed legis
lation is necessary for the "proper
regulation of the taxicab industry" in
the District.
"Some limitations are needed,” he
said, "both for the benefit of the
operators and to improve traffic con
ditions.”
Randolph also injected the subject
of financial responsibility for taxi
cabs into the hearing by declaring
Congress had been derelict in its duty
by having failed to enact legislation
for that purpose “years ago.”
Nichols questioned the necessity of
legislation to limit the number of cabs
on the ground that compulsory lia
bility Insurance automatically would
achieve that goal. He is chairman of
a subcommittee £f the House District
(Bee Si/Jk EM* A-J.)
MAS PREDICTS
NEW D. C. LEVIES
UP TO 9 MILLION
Capital May Have to Raise
That Amount, Senator
Warns in Debate.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
$46,600,000 SUPPLY BILL
Total Additional Taxes Needed
Here Estimated by That Body
as $7,500,000.
bulletin.
With only a few last-minute
changes, the Senate this afternoon
passed the 1938 District supply bill,
carrying approximately *46.600,000!
and sent it to conference.
BY J. A. O LEARY.
A prediction that the District mav
have to raise eight or nine million
dollars in new revenue for the coming
fiscal year was made today bv Senator
Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma as
the Senate began debate on the nu
merous changes in the 1938 District
appropriation bill.
As reported from committee late
yesterday, the measure called for ap
proximately $46,600,000. counting items
slated to be added on the floor. While
this total is estimated to call for
S7.500.000 in new taxes. Thomas said
whether the deficit goes above that,
figure will depend on the receipts from
existing sources of revenue.
Although the new taxes are to be
dealt with separately. Senator Borah.
Republican, of Idaho turned the dis
cussion to the revenue situation bv
asking Thomas about reports that a
sales tax is being considered.
Thomas explained the Appropria
tions Subcommittee, of which he is
chairman, has not considered the
sources for new' revenue, but that he
personally is opposed to the sales tax.
Hospital Change Asked.
Asked by Minority Leader McNaiv
to outline the Senate changes, Thomas
said the major one is to restore a pro
vision transferring public hospital'
from the Welfare Board to the Health
Department, which went out in thj
House on a point of order. The chair
man revealed the Senate committee is
favoring this change on the advice o'
Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New
1 York, a physician.
| Thomas also declared Representative
! Collins, Democrat, of Mississippi, in
charge of the bill in the House, wants
■ to see this transfer made.
Senator Norris, Independent, of Ne
braska asked for a further explanation
of the hospital change, and Thoms'
said It was thought the hospitals
should be under the agency dealing
primarily with health rather than the
general public welfare agency.
When it passed the House two
months ago W'ith a total of $45,116,584.
the bill called for $6,148,000 of new
revenue.
wnne tne Senate was preparing to
boost the outlay in the supply bill.
Chairman Kennedy of the special tax
subcommittee of the House yesterday
introduced in that body the omnibus
local tax bill which would add about
*7,000,000 to the city's general fund
from five sources and *1,500.000 to
the gas tax fund through a weight
tax on motor vehicles. The tax bills
were referred promptly to the House
District Committee, where they may
come up at the regular meeting to
morrow, or a special session Thurs
day.
Drops Proviso for Advances.
In a last-minute decision to spur
Congress on in the consideration of
the new tax bills, the Senate Appropri
ations Committee left out the author
ity sought by the Commisiaoners to ob
tain advances of funds from the Fed
eral Treasury early in the new fiscal
year.
Senator Thomas, who will guide the
supply bill through the Senate, made it
plain this borrowing provision was
omitted because of a belief that if it
existed the new tax bills might not
pass. City officials had told the Sen
ate group, however, that even if the
new tax measures pass promptly, the
city still might find itself in need of
the advances for the first few months
while the machinery for collection of
the new levies is being put in motion.
Realty Tax Hike Loom*.
Meanwhile, prospects that the Com
missioners will be forced to Increase
the real estate tax rate should Con
gress refuse to authorize them to ob
tain advances from the Treasury,
pending collection of the proposed
new tax levies, were seen today at
the District Building
District officials, however, appeared
not to be greatly perturbed, evidently
believing the authority for the ad
vances will be provided if the House
promptly passes the proposed new tax
program.
It appeared probable, however, that
even with approval of the new tax
“See D. C. BILLTPage A-5.)
FAIR AND WARMER
IS FORECAST HERE
JTo Relief in Sight From Heat
Wave Which Pros
trated Two.
Pair and warmer weather la fore
cast by the Weather Bureau for to
night and tomorrow, offering virtually
no hope for relief from the heat
wave that caused two prostrations yes
terday.
Prom 68 degrees at 4 a.m. today
the mercury climbed to 77 at 10 a.m.
Yesterday’s high was 88, at 2:45 p.m.
The heat victims were Betty Allen,
colored, 924 F street, taken to Gal
llnger Hospital from Nineteenth street
and Massachusetts avenue southeast,
and Bernard Weaver, 55, colored, 2018
Georgia avenue, W. P. A. worker,
overcome on a project at Mount
Olivet road and Montello avenue
northeast. His condition was de
scribed Casualty Hos
pital.