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MAYOR APPEALS TO PRESIDENT
AS MARTIAL LAW IS DECLARED
BY GOV. EARLE IN JOHNSTOWN
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Warns Roosevelt Continuance
of C. I. 0. “Can Only Mean
Bloodshed in Our Streets.’’
GOVERNOR ACTS AFTER GRACE
REFUSES SHUT-DOWN REQUEST
40,000 Union Miners Marching on City
for Mass Meeting Tomorrow—Media
tion Board Gathers in Cleveland.
BACKGROUND—
Demand for collective bargaining contracts with four independent
tieel producers. Republic. Youngstown and Inland, has been met with
stubborn resistance and strike called on May 25 has forced approximately
100,(WO men to be idle. Violence has flared with nine dead and hundreds
injured. Secretary Perkins has named three-man mediation board and
asked that status quo be maintained.
Ry thf Press.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., June 19.—Gov. George H. Earle de
clared martial law in strike-embattled Johnstown today
after Eugene Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel, refused
to heed the Governor’s appeal to close the big Cambria Steel
Works “to preserve peace and avoid bloodshed.”
The State Executive said troops would be sent into Johns
town when needed and asked Mayor Daniel J. Shields of
Johnstown to place city police at the disposal of State
officers.
rtii en _ . .
.me ueiy mayor nauy reiusea.
“If they take the police away from me, it will have to be
by force,” he said.
Gov. Earle said his order meant immediate closing of
the Cambria Works, “as soon as Col. Janeway gets there.”
(Col. Augustine S. Janeway was named as the Governor’s
personal representative in the strike-torn city.)
Workers in the huge plant will be evacuated, Earle said.
“If they remained there it might mean a terrible massacre,
and I’m not going to take a chance,” he said.
Margiotti Rushes To Scene.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti
hastened to Johnstown saying that if he finds the trouble
zone at the strike-bound Cambria Mills under control he
will advise Gov. Earle to withdraw the order for martial law.
Gov Earle’s action coincided with a report that 40,000
miners would march on Johnstown tomorrow to encourage
the steel strikers in the 24-day-old clash between John L.
Lewis’ C. I. O. and four independent steel companies—Re
public, Bethlehem, Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet &
Tube Co., over refusal of the latter to sign labor contracts.
Th^ rnnirtlv Hazlronlmv In a U<Ua. iiLaIii. — a
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was emphasized in a new telegraphic appeal to President Roosevelt
by Mayor Daniel J. Shields of Johnstown.
Can Only Mean “Bloodshed.”
The Mayor warned President Roosevelt that the crisis has
reached to a point where continuance of the C. I. O. in Johnstown
"can only mean bloodshed in our streets.”
He said that “rule or ruin, control or murder, is the policy of
the C. I. O.” and he besought the Nation’s Chief Executive:
“Are you going to fail me by allowing this reign of terror to 1
continue?”
The three drastic moves—martial law, the threat of 40,000
miners marching on Johnstown, and Mayor Shields’ dramatic
appeal to the President—developed as the newly appointed Federal
Steel Mediation Board, headed by Charles P. Taft, 2d, assembled
In Cleveland to open a facts-flnding investigation into the steel
Strikes now raging in seven States.
Taft said the board has no plans “just now” to subpoena wit
nesses, although it was indicated that once the probe gets under
Way, Taft will seek to bring the major principals together in an
attempt to settle the chief point at issue—the question of signed
labor contracts between steel and C. I. O.
v*ui. uni ic obiu iic « no urciy uio*
appointed In Grace’s refusal to shut
down the Cambria works of Bethle
hem Steel.
"With the plant open,” the Gover
nor declared, "the assemblage of
miners and strike sympathizers would
constitute a powder magazine which
would menace the community.
"I regret that President Grace has
failed to accede to my request to
relieve this dangerous situation, and
therefore I am declaring martial law.”
Mayor Shield’s telegraphic appeal
to President Roosevelt—his second
request for presidential intervention
hi the dispute—follows:
"Ninety per cent of my citizens
are opposed to the C. I. O. Its con
tinuance in our community can only
mean blood in our streets. Person
ally I am firmly convinced that it is
a Russian red organization gaining
prestige by use of your name.
"Numerous non-citizens are found
tn the picket lines. Rule or ruin,
(See STRIKE, Page A-9.)
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CAR HITS STEAMROLLER,
BADLY INJURING THREE
Two Persons May Die After Odd
Traffic Accident in Hagers
town.
■? tap Associated Prpis.
HAGERSTOWN, Md., Juno, 19 —
Three persons were injured, two per
haps fatally, when their sedan car
crashed into a city-owned steamroller
at a street intersection here this
morning.
Thomas G. Smeadley. 38, and Ralph
Riley, 28. suffered the severest in
juries. Smeadley has a fractured
skull and is unconscious. It is be
lieved Riley’s neck is broken. Charles
Murphy, said to have been driver of
the machine, escaped with minor in
juries.
The ear crashed head-on into the
poller, the Impact moving it seven
feet. The injured are in the Wash
ington County Hospital
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C. I. 0. Victory Indicated.
SEATTLE, Wash., June 18 (/Pi -
Maritime Union officials said here to
day first returns from balloting by
Pacific Coast workers showed a trend
in favor of affiliation with the Com
mittee for Industrial Organisation.
i
GOV. EARLE
of Pennsylvania.
MAYOR SHIELDS
of Johnstown.
SUCCUMBS AT II
Creator of Immortal “Peter
Pan” Is Victim of
Pneumonia.
Ev the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 19.—Sir James M.
Barrie, creator of the immortal “Peter
Pan,” died today. He was 77 years old.
The British playwright and novel
ist. who gave to the world the piquant
story of the little boy who wouldn't
grow up, was taken to a London nurs
ing home on June 11, suffering
bronchial pneumonia. He had been ill
a long time.
Death was announced at 1:57 p.m.
(7:57 a.m. Eastern standard time).
Early this morning, Peter Davies,
who as a little boy inspired Barrie to
write the story of Peter Pan and his
"Never-Never-Never Land,” reached
the dying's author's bedside.
At that time the doctors were an
nouncing that Sir James' life was
“slowly ebbing away.”
Shortly before 8 a.m., Sir James be
came unconscious. But Davies stayed
until the end.
That, it was learned, was at just 10
minutes to 2. (7:50 a.m. Eastern
standard time.)
Funeral Arrangements.
Funeral services will be held in
Barrie's native Scottish village, Kir
riemuir, the town he gave lasting
fame as the setting for “A Window in
Thrums.”
Burial, it was believed, will be In
the Kirriemuir Cemetery beside his
father and mother.
George Bernard Shaw received word
of his friend's death with character
istic Shavian philosophy.
"Barrie had a good long life,” he
said. "He said everything he wanted
(See BARRIE, Page A-8.)
BILBAO CAPTURED.
FRANCO ASSERTS:
REBELS REiOICING
Taken “Without Resist
ance,” Says Headquarters
of Insurgent Chief.
background—
Bilbao, capital of heavily indus
trialized Basque provinces of Spain,
has been center of siege by Spanish
Fascists during last two months.
Legions of Gen. Francisco Franco
have steadily tightened their ring
around the city, undeterred by
death in plane accident of Franco’s
Northern commander, Gen. Emilio
Mola.
Rebels centering efforts on north
vf/i/iia iw ui run. iTiauBiriui
strength of Leftist government and
to free armed forces for renewed
assault upon Valencia-Madrid re
gime.
by the Assocltted Press.
HENDAYE, JYanco-Spantsh Fron
tier, June 19.—The headquarters of
Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco
Franco announced late today that the
insurgent armies had entered the
Basque Capital of Bilbao at 2:S0 pm.
<8:30 am. Eastern standard timet,
‘‘without resistance."
The announcement, expected almost
hourly during the last week of climactic
and furious siege, was flashed by
Insurgent radio stations through
Franco s territory. Church bells rang
in the other towns held by the in
surgents.
There was, however, no immediate
confirmation from Basque government
sources.
Never Captured in 700 Years.
Bilbao is the Pittsburgh of Spain,
the center at the autonomous Basque
country along the Biscay Bay, which
is vital to any military cause because
of its mineral lands and heavy indus
tries. It has been under direct insur
gent siege for almost three months.
In its 700 years of history it never
before had succumbed to attack.
(The Franco announcement also
was made by the official news
agency in Berlin, which aides with
the insurgents in the Spanish civil
Bar.)
j The entrance of the iraurgent col
i umns also was announced to news
paper men on the Franco-Spanish
border by the Franco headquarters
at Irun, which was taken by the in
surgents early in the 11-month war.
3OM0« Still in City.
I-ast reports from the Bilbao scene
indicated 300,000 men, women and
children were in the city, many in
urgent need of food and water. The
Basque autonomous government had
moved to a small town to the west.
Trucios. It still holds Santander, 45
miles west of Bilbao. The Basques are
allied with the Central Spanish gov
ernment. which still holds Madrid, In
Central Spain, Its permanent capital;
Valencia, its temporary capital on the
eastern coast, and autonomous Cata
lonia, in Northeastern Spain.
In the last week of the insurgent
drive on Bilbao, on the northwest
ledge of Spain, both Spanish and
Italian troops had completely en
circled the city under the cover of
terrific aerial and artillery assaults.
All escape, save under fire, was cut
off for Bilboans.
Before the insurgent headquarters
announced the capture border dis
patches had disclosed the entrance
into the streets of Bilbao of armored
scout cars. Other Insurgent dispatches
said the encircling movement was
complete and that insurgent advance
patrols were working into the heart
of the city.
Two armored scout cars from the
besieging insurgent armies already
(See SPAIN, Page A-9.)
2 “TICKET” CHARGES
MAY BE DROPPED
Welliver Aiki Count* Against
Winfield Be Abandoned Due to
Insufficient Evidence.
Edward M. Wellivw, awlaUnt corpo
ration couneel, today recommended to
Corporation Counsel El wood Set that
two of the principal charges on which
Policeman Welford E. Winfield is be
ing tried for “ticket-fixing,” be drop
ped for insufficient evidence.
The charges, which Welliver told
his chief have collapsed as a result of
testimony at the trial, are first, that
Winfield fixed traffic tickets without
authority of his superiors, and second,
that he removed traffic records to his
home without authority.
Welliver advised Seal that Inspec
tor Benjamin Lamb had testified he
authorised Winfield to make ticket
adjustment*, and that Lieut. Walter
H. Thomas testified he authorised
Winfield to take certain records home
for study.
Welliver said he wished to study
the only remaining charge—that Win
field Issued courtesy cards without au
thority. He indicated to Seal that the
prosecution’s case on this charge is
not strong. The trial probably will
proceed, however, with a view to taking
testimony on the third charge. If
the testimony is in Winfield's favor,
Welliver will move for dismissal of
the case.
Disturbed by the Trial Board de
velopments, Seal announced he would
recommend that no policemen be
brought to trial in the future until
the charges have been submitted to
his office for examination and ap
proval.
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(say we DIDN'T /
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__THE *‘1 TOLD YOU SOS!”
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Senate Committee May
Grant Plea Allowing Res
idents’ Viewpoint.
BACKGROUND—
For two months battle over how '
to increase District revenue by
tf.000,009 has raged in civic associ
ations, the Commissioners’ offices
and in Congress. The sale tax was
discarded for the income tax and
the income tax was put aside for a
higher realty tax. Finally the
House passed the bill yesterday.
BY 1. A. O’LEARY.
Faced by a variety of House-approved
new taxes that may raise more than
is needed to balance the city's budget,
local residents probably will be given
a bearing on the Measure before th«
Senate District Committee arts.
Within a few hours after the bill
had passed the House, following two
days of adding and taking away, re
n 11act.t fnr hasrintra ViaH Kaf»iin to Mash
the office of Chairman King of the
Senate committee. The chairman,
recovering from an Illness, la expected
back at the Capitol early in the weec,
if not today, to begin studying the
problem.
In this connection. Representative
Kennedy, Democrat, of Maryland, head
of the subcommittee that drafted the
bill, late yesterday offered to have
several members of his group go be
fore the Senate committee to explain
the details of the measure as it stands,
as a means of expediting its consider
ation. Kennedy made the suggestion
to Senator Copeland, Democrat, of
New York, a member of the District
Committee, in the absence of Chair
man King.
Haten Orders Revenue Study.
District Commissioner Hazen mean
while instructed Corporation Counsel
El wood Seal and Auditor Daniel J
Donovan to study the District tax bill
as passed by the House with a view to
estimating how much revenue it will
raise.
Hazen said the Commissioners want
to know how much money the pro
posed taxes would bring in before
District officials go before Senate
committees in connection with Senate
consideration of the measure.
Seal and Donovan were asked to
facilitate the study and prepare a
report for the Commissioners at an
early date.
Hazen declined to comment re
garding the proposed chain store tax
(See D. C. TAXES, Page A-9.)
---•--—
BUDGE WINS TITLE,
SWAMPING AUSTIN
America'* Sensational Play Indi
cates Easy Triumph at
Wimbledon.
Br the Auoclsted Pres*.
LONDON/ June 19.—Don Budge,
America's top-ranking tennis star
crushed Henry Wilfred (Bunny)
Austin, British Davis Cup ace, fl—1,
6—2, in the final round of the Queens
Club tournament today.
Budge's one-sided triumph not only
enabled him to retain the title he won
a year ago, but also established him
more firmly than ever as favorite for
the all-England championship, start
ing at Wimbledon on Monday.
The red-headed Californian, in top
form, completely outclassed Austin
whn wnn nnlv flvo nnintn in iha
six games of the opening set. After
losing the opening game. Budge won
the next six in a row for the set and
continued his streak through the first
two games of the second set before
the Briton could win another game
Budge finished the tournament with
the remarkable record of having lost
only six games in 12 sets. _
The crowd of 2,00* sat almost silent
in amasement as he made Austin look
like a second-rater. Twice Austin fell
in going after thundering drives and
lay on the grass, shaking his head in
despair. The Briton never succeeded
in handling Budge’s terrific flrst serv
ice and was equally helpless against
the American's frequent drop-shots.
Jadwlga Jedresejowska, sensational
Polish girl, handed Kay Stammers of
England a neat 6—3, 6—0 drubbing
in the finals of the women's division.
Mias Stammers was far from top form.
She missed easy volleys and frequently
double-faulted.
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Graf Completes
Her Last Flight;
W ill Be Junked
Mastery of Air Lanes
Demonstrated in
590 Trips.
Bs th# Associated Press.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany,
June 19.—The Graf Zeppelin, sister
ship of the ill-fated Hlndenburg, has
made her last flight.
After eight years of continuous serv
ice, she flew to the hangar at Prank
fort last night to be deflated. She
is not suited for helium, the gas which
the government plans to use in dirig
ibles in the future.
(After the destruction of the Hin
denburg at Iakehurst., N. J., the
German government decided to dis
continue use of hydrogen gas in dirig
ibles if helium ran be obtained from
| the United States, which has a virtual
; monopoly on that non-inflammable
I 8**->
The Graf had made 590 flights since
j being plaoed in operation in 192*. in
j eluding 143 transocean Journeys,
mostly over the South Atlantic.
The big ship will be open for in
spection by visitors at Frankfort for a
j time and then she will be junked.
RANGOON MED
BY MISS EARHART
Monsoon Buffets Plane Dur
ing Flight—Bangkok
Next Objective.
BACKGROUND—
Amelia Earhart began second at
tempt to fly around the world on
June 1 when she hopped from
Miami to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
First effort of the noted aviatrix
ended in failure when her plane
cracked up in attempting to take
off from Honolulu air field.
Bi the Associated Press.
RANGOON. Burma. Junp 19 —
Amelia Earhart reached Rangoon to
day after a 300-mile flight from
Akyab on her leisurely globe-circling
journey.
She landed her monoplane at 6:35
a.m. Greenwich time (1:35 a.m. E.
S. T.) after a trip of 2 hours 53
minute*.
Her next destination was Bangkok.
Siam, nearly 400 miles southeast of
Rangoon.
She and her navigator. Capt. Fred
Noonan, made two unsuccessful starts
from Akyab in bad weather before
they finally completed the hop.
Even on the successful trip they
fought a terrific battle with the ele
ments.
Miss Earhart said they flew through
blinding rain over the Burmese hills.
She described the flight as the worst
experience of their journey thus far.
Much of the flight was made
through a monsoon.
After a perfect landing at Mingala
don Airport here, the tousle-halred
American woman said:
"It was mostly blind flying at a
high altitude. I followed the course
that brought me to Rangoon via
Bassein (.about 100 miles west of
Rangoon). I’ve been In monsoon
weather like Burma’s before, so It
wasn't much of an experience for me.”
REPUBLIC WORKER
TELLS OF BEAM
Fired On, Hit and Smeared
With Grease by Pickets,
Worker Testifies.
BACKGROUND—
On the principle that, "the mails
must go through," President Cleve
land once lent Federal aid to
breaking a railroad strike. Charges
that the Post Office Department
had changed this tune in the steel
strike areas of Warren and Niles,
Ohio, led the Senate Post Office
Committee to vote for a probe of
mail deliveries in strike areas.
An attorney for the strike-bound
Republic Steel Corp. plants told
the committee postal authorities
refused to deliver food to the struck
plants.
DUUUEi 1 I m.
The C. I. O. asked the Treasury
today to investigate what it claimed
was failure of the Republic Steel
Corp. and the Youngstown Sheet &
Tube Co. to register their firearms,
in accordance with the national
firearms act.
By thf Associated Press.
A Republic Steel plant employe
from Warren, Ohio, testified before
a Senate committee today that he
was fired on and subsequently beaten
by union pickets when he attempted
to go to work at Niles, Ohio.
James E. Musgrove told the Senate
Post Office Committee strikers took his
clothing from him, smeared him with
grease, threatened to hang him to a
tree and marched him through the
streets of Niles.
Musgrove, a short, squarely-built
hearth worker, said that when the
strike was called he was unable tc
go to work in the Warren plant be
cause of pickets at the gate, armed
with ball bats.
He and a group of other workmer
then attempted, he said, to gain en
trance to the plant at Niles by golns
through a swamp at night. .
Says Pickets Halted Them.
As they neared the plant, he said
pickets halted them, turned flash
lights on them and started shooting
Musgrove and his companions fled.
Musgrove said he hid In a ditch foi
some time and later started for home
As he left the woods near the plant
he continued, he walked into a group
of pickets.
The pickets, he said, tied his hand)
behind him and told him they were
going to hang him, but only beat him
took his clothing and smeared him
with grease.
Letter Exhibited.
Prom Senator Bridges, Republican
of Newhampshire, the committee re
ceived & letter in which pasta 1 official)
at Youngstown, Ohio, said they were
not delivering "unusual mail" tc
strikebound Republic plants because
"we cannot get p>ast the picket line)
with mall of this kind.”
Bridges declared the letter contra
dicted statements by administrator
witnesses.
W. W. Howes, Assistant Postmaster
General, told the committee last week
that the department had approved
refusal to deliver packages of food
and clothing to the factories because
such service was "abnormal.”
The letter displayed by Bridges was
(See MAIL, Page A-9.)
SOVIET AVIATORS
PASS HALFWAY
MARK ON PLIGHT
TO 0. S. VIA POLE
500 Miles South of Top of
World, With “Everything
All Right,” Three Flyers
Say by Radio.
HARDEST PART OF TRIP
BEHIND DARING HEROES
Dangers of Being Forced Down
by Ice on Wings Lessening ai
Moscow-to-San Francisco Non*
Stop Plane Turns Southward.
Encounter Cold Weather.
BACKGROUND—
Tht Polar flight of three Rus
sians is primarily an exploration
trip, but back: of it is the possibil
ity of establishing a commercial
air route between the Soviet and.
the United States via the North
Pole. Two years ago the Russian
ace, Sigismund Levaneflsky. at
tempted the flight, but was forced
back by engine trouble before
reaching the Pole. The present
trip follov:s a Soviet exploration
at the Pole itself, in which efforts
are being made to set up a perma
nent base.
Ey thr Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 19 —Three
daring Russian airmen soared over the
top of the world today and headed
southward on a 6.000-mile non-stop
flight pioneering a new trans-polar air
route fram Moscow to San rrancisco
Bay.
They flew over uncharted wastes as
radio reports indicated they rrossed the.
halfway mark and completed the most
difficult part of their flight, not only
the longest but one of the most haz
ardous ever attempted by man.
The Russian consulate at San Fran
cisco said they passed over the North
Pole, or close to it (consulate officials
were not sure), at 12:10 a m. Eastern
standard time, today. At 5:30 am.
<E. S. T.) the flyers reported they
were 500 miles this side of the Pole.
At 3 20 a m. (E. S. T ) they had re
ported they were about 320 miles and
"everything all right.”
This put them at about the half
way mark and nearing the outer
j edge of the magnetic jungle, where
the compass, key navigation instru
ment, pointed at almost everything
but the North Pole.
Due In U. S. Tomorrow.
If they continued to hold their
single motor at the same speed, which
averaged slightly less than 85 mile*
an hour for the first stages of the
flight, they would bring their mono
plane down on the Oakland Airport,
across San Francisco Bay, at about
1 p.m. Sunday (4 p m. Eastern stand
ard time) after nearly three day*
in the air.
Although the flight is non-stop, H
was announced officially in Moscow
that the flyers will land before they
reach their goal if any complications
should develop.
As they flew' steadily southward
under the Northland sun which never
sets in the Summertime, the dangers
of being forced down from ice form
ing on the wings steadily lessened.
They reported last night, as they
entered the sub-zero Arctic atmos
phere, ire was beginning to form on
the long, slender wings of the mono
plane.
vn»ur m oncxicc, i;nar«
acteristic of the flight not, announced
by Soviet officials in Moscow until
24 hours after it started Thursday.
The silence resulted from a combi
nation of rigid Russian censorship
and the difficulties of radio communi
cation in the Par North.
Ahead of the “three heroes of the
Soviet Union" lay “extremely difficult
weather conditions," and beneath
j them a vast area that no white man
has even explored by land or sea
] (which ever it is> or by air. At the
Soviet polar ramp, mists reduced visi
bility to a mile. The temperature was
just below freezing.
Precedes Regular Service.
The flight, preliminary to establish
ment of a contemplated Moscow-San
Francisco air service via the North
Pole, would surpass any previous non
stop flight. The greatest distance ever
flown was 5.637 miles between New
York and Syria. The Frenchmen Paul
Codas and Maurice Rossi made that
record in 1935.
The trio, pilot Valeri Pavlovitch
Chkalov, 33; Co-pilot Georgi Phillipo
vitch Baidukov, 30, and Navigator
Alexander Vassilievitch Beliakov, 40,
reported to Moscow the big, single
motored plane was working well, but
(See FLIGHT, PageA-3.)
FATHER DIVINE CLAN
AMBUSHED BY FOES
Six Hurt in Fight Blamed on Ill
Feeling Between Disciples
and Puerto Bicans.
Br the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 19.—Six men
were Injured today in a Harlem street
fight that police attributed to ill
feeling between followers of Father
Divine, colored evangelist, and Puerto
Rican residents of the district.
Four of the injured were identified
as disciples of the bald little exponent
of the "peace, it's wonderful" doctrine.
As police reconstructed the story,
about a dozen of the disciples and
their bodyguards left a meeting at, the
One Hundred and Fifteenth street
“heaven" shortly after midnight to
yalk home. A few blocks away they
were pelted with refuse, tin cans,
bottles and stones heaved from a roof
top. Then a score of Puerto Rican*
boiled out of nearby doorways and
attacked them.
9
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Security Unit Faces Shake-Up
In Independent Office Bill O. K.
A shake-up in the personnel of the
Social Security Board was in prospect
today as the result of passage of the
Independent offices appropriation bill
yesterday, carrying a provision under
which all board positions paying
19,000 a year or more are to be
filled by appointment of the Presi
dent and confirmation by the Senate.
A check showed there are 45 ex
perts and 17 attorneys who will be
affected. Some are in the Washing
ton office, but the majority, it was
explained, are in the field. There is,
of course, no prohibition against
President Roosevelt nominating the
Incumbents, but, in view of the atti
tude of the Senate Appropriations
Committee in jamming through this
provision and two other punitive
item* directed against the board,
such action is not considered likely.
As the bill went through, it also
cut the salary of Frank Bane, exec
utive director, from $9,500 to $9,000,
and provided further that no salary
above the classification act scale
should be paid In the board. This
top—of $9,000—will not affect any
regular employe of the board, it was
said, but it will prevent the board
from making any casual employment
—such as often is done by agencies
iq bringing in outside experts for a
particular task—In excess of $25
daily.
By an odd twist, patronage which
the Senate gains under the measure
actually will be controlled by the Civil
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Summary of Today’s Star
Pa*e.
Amusement* C-1B
Art .B-l
Books ..B-l
Church
news _B-4-5
Comics ..C-14-15
Editorial* _A-B
Financial ...A-lt
Lost & Found C-9
Pate.
Music .B-I
Obituary _A-l
Radio .B-«
Real
estate..C 1 U t
Short Story.C-l*
Society _B-7
Sports_A-19-11
Woman's Pg .B-*
FOREIGN.
Soviet aviators pass halfway mark on
flight. Page A-l
Bilbao captured, Franco asserts; rebels
rejoice. Page A-l
Amelia Earhart battles monsoon to
reach Rangoon. Page A-l
Sir James Barrie, creator of “Peter
Pan,” dies. Page A-l
NATIONAL.
Security Board ahake-up may follow
passage of bill. Page A-l
Steel worker tells Senate group of
beating by pickets. Page A-l
House group pushes administration
farm bill. Page A-3
Greater tax on income sent abroad
suggested by Treasury. Page A-*
Economy bloc seeks support for greater
local relief share. Page A-l
Minor industrialist slump predicted
by economists. Page A-l
WASHINGTON AND NEARBY.
Senate hearings likely on D. C. tax
bill. Page A-l
Husband suicide, news kept from in
jured wife. Page A-l
Beaten boy and mother spend night
in hospital. PageA-14
Planning Commission approves D. C.
art development. Pace A-14
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Bus deficits held handicap to Capital
Transit Co. Page A-14
Jamboree plans include "chow” with
Federal officials. Page A-14
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-l
This and That. Page A-l
Stars, Men and Atoms. Pagf A-l
Answers to Questions. Page A-l
David Lawrence. Page A-"
H. R. Baukhage. Page A-l
Mark Sullivan. Page A-l
Jay Franklin. . Page A-l
Lemuel F. Parton. Page A-l
•PORTS.
Simmons, “beaned" by Hildebrand, tc
be out three weeks. Page A-11
Dempsey predicts catch-as-catch-car
+title fight. Page A-H
Sentiment of experts swinging toward
Joe Louis. Page A-11
One-round win prediction of colored
*»y. Page A-11
Braddock’s plan of battle kept s
mystery. Page a-11
No system yet devised capable of beat
ing races. Page A-11
Defeat seen for unacclimated U. 8
Ryder Cup team. Page A-11
MISCELLANY.
Traffic Convictions. Page A-4
Vital Statistics. Page A-l
Shipping News. Page A-I
Young Washington. Page B-l
Dorothy Dix. Page B-l
Betsy Caswell. Page B-l
Nature’s Children. Page C-14
Cross-word Puttie. Page C-14
Bedtime Story, Page C-1S
Letter-Out. Page C-ll