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COURT BILL FOES"
Some Opponents Will Yield
if Logan Measure Is
Modified.
BACKGROUND—
President Roosevelt's original Su
preme Court bi11. which, would
have permitted immediate appoint
ment of additional justices for all
present members over 70. was
given adverse report by Senate Ju
diciary Committee, 10 to *. The
substitute proposal limits appoint
ments to one a year and raises the
age limit to 75.
Some leading opponents of Presi
dent Roosevelt's court reorganization
plan suggested a last-minute com
promise yesterday, in hopes of avoid
ing a prolonged and bitter struggle
which they feared might split the
Party.
Debate opens in the Senate Tuesday.
Pome of the opponents indicated that
when it does they will accept the
Logan bill "with one important mod
ification.”
The Logan measure was introduced
Friday with the approval of Majority
Leader Robinson and the White House.
It permits appointment of one ad
ditional justice each year to supple
ment members who remain on the
bench after reaching 75.
Want Present Court Exempted.
Some foes of court reorganization
said privately they would agree to
such legislation—if it were not ap
plied to the present members of the
court.
There was no immediate indication
that either administration leaders or
even all of the opponents would agree
to this.
New Deal chieftains insisted they
could push the Logan bill through
the Senate by a comfortable majority
if it were permitted to come to a
vote.
Sfi Senators for Measure.
Thirty-six Senators already are
committed to the measure. • One
hitherto uncommitted—Senator Mur
ray, Democrat, of Montana—said he
beheved the Logan measure was
'probably the best compromise that
can be worked out.'’ Senator Logan,
Democrat, of Kentucky argued that
in a showdown the administration
could muster 54 votes.
Nevertheless, the threat of some
enemies of the court plan to filibuster
indefinitely to prevent a vote on any
legislation which would "pack the
court” still stood.
In the face of this, the more con
ciliatory opposition leaders appeared
confident that both sides eventually
could be persuaded to accept their
modification of the Logan bill.
Advocates of such a compromise
felt that a filibuster might engender
bitterness which would disrupt the
Democratic party for years to come,
but said they would reluctantly aid
one as a last resort.
Logan Outlines Plans.
Explaining that he had been asked
to “manage” the new court compro
mise bill on the Senate floor, Sena
tor Logan continued:
"It would bp my guess that the
original bill will be called up next
Tuesday by unanimous consent, and
then we will offer our amendment (the
new’ bill) as a substitute, and as I
see it, it makes little difference
whether that is adopted at once or
continued as a matter of debate. The
Issue would be the same in the end.
“The discussion could be legitimate
for about *wo weeks and after that
I would call it a filibuster. If I man
age the bill, I would then Insist upon
continuous sessions, day and night,
until we come to a vote on the bill.
We are prepared to sit right through
until January.
“I think that behind all of this is
a, desire of the conservative Demo
crats to break the influence of the
President so he will be unable to
name his successor. They think they
can do it by defeating the court plan.
There Is no question about It in my
mind.’’
INDIVIDUALS’ TAXES
NOW TOP U. S. LIST
Corporation* Drop Into Second
Place. Despite Increase in
Their Payments.
*7 th« Associated Press.
The Treasury disclosed yesterday
that individual taxpayers displaced
corporations as the biggest income
taxpayers in the 1937 fiscal year.
This was interpreted by some as
Indicative of the effects of the un
distributed profits tax which forced
many corporations to pay larger divi
dends.
A preliminary Internal Revenue Bu
reau analysis of receipts for the 12
months which ended June 30 showed
corporations paid *893,955.576 in in
come taxes, compared with *610,014,
432 in the previous year, while in
dividuals paid *996.361.289 last year,
compared with *589,566.280 in the
preceding 12 months.
The report also disclosed *259,064,
173 of the approximately *2.150,000,
000 Income tax collections last year
was on back taxes. Collections on
delinquent, accounts in the previous
year were *213,557,591.
Chamber Too Cool,
Members of House
Now Are Reporting
History May Be Made
Should ‘Frigidity’ Cause
Early Adjournment.
■t the Associated Press.
Hot weather often used to hasten
adjournment of Congress, but this
year the cold might do it.
' House members are complaining
more and more that their air-condi
- tinned chamber is too frigid.
Many of them refer to it as the
• “ice box” and spend as much time
as possible in the warmer lobbies
and cloak rooms.
Representative Taber. Republican,
of New York remarked tha,t the
House became increasingly uncom
fortable for members after they got
all warmed up making speeches, and
many of them were afraid of catching
cold.
The committee room In which the
tax hearing has been held was so
cool the other day that Representa
tive Crowther. Republican, of New
York sat through the hearing with
his coat collar turned up.
*
Readers' Guide
and
News Summary
The Sunday Star, July 4, 19S7.
PART ONE.
Main News Section.
FOREIGN.
British leaden warn nations to respect
Spain's territory. Page A-l
Church is target of campaign by
Soviet Union. Page A-t
De Valera seems assured of majority
In Dali. Page A-l
NATIONAL
Snow turns back plane going to hunt
Ear hart. Page A-l
Amelia's husband holds out hope, com
forts navigator's wife. Page A-l
Flight intended as Mis* Earhart's final
aerial adventure. Page A-l
Poes of court bill suggest last-minute
compromise. Page A-2
Three killed as private plane crashes
and burns. Page A-l
Plugging of tax "loopholes” may meet
little opposition. Page A-7
Roosevelt to speak at church fair to
morrow. Page A-7
STRIKE SITUATION.
Sit-down strikes "unsuited" to U. 8,
Secretary Perkins says. Page A-l
Roosevelt scans C. I. O. growth in Fed
eral ranks. Page A-l
Dynamite hurled at train leaving
Cambria plant. Page A-l
Inland walks out of labor hearing In
dispute. Page A-4
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Prominent Richmonder killed at ahow
place estate. Page A-l
Greenbelt landscaping costs double
that of water system. Page A-l
Senate may give right of way to re
vised D. C. tax bill. Page A-7
Sunrise-to-sunset Fourth celebration
set at Takoma. Page A-S
Institute of Public Affairs opens at
U. of V. today. Page A-9
Bids for Carderock, Md.. testing basin
due July 21. PageA-10
Shake-up reports keep police on edge
after indictments. PageA-lg
Police Court rider found in D. C. ap
propriation act. PageA-lg
Shot received in resisting robber fatal
to grocer. PageA-lg
No progress made in inquiry into death
of cab driver. PageA-lg
Esperanto convention closes with elec
tion of officers. Page A-lg
Washington ready for biggest Fourth
in history. PageA-lg
SPORTS. *
Pop-bottle attack on Powell marks
Nats' less to Yanks. Page A-12
Budge completes clean sweep in net
piay at Wimbledon. Page A-12
Welsh defends D. C. net title against
Lynch today. Page a-13
Tolmich is double A. A. U. hurdle win
ner. defeating Towns. Page A-14
Three Pan-Americans will compete in
Takoma 10-mile run. Page A-14
Sea Scouts staging novel regatta at
jamboree tomorrow. Page A-15
Holiday contests will draw throngs of
golfers to links. PageA-18
Opportunity again knocks for Tow.
with Brescia as foe. Page A-18
Esposa and Jay Jay annex big races at
Delaware, Empire City. Page A-17
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
Obituary. Page A-18
Traffic convictions. Page A-18
Shipping news. Page A-18
Service orders. PageA-18
Vital statistics. Page A-l*
Stamps Page A-l 1
Cross-word puzzle. Page A-11
Educational. Page A-ll
PART TWO.
Editorial, Finance.
Editorial articles. Pages 0-1-3
Editorials and comment. Page D-2
Military and veterans'
news. Page D-S
Women's clubs. Page 0-4
Parent-teacher activities. Page D-5
Resorts. Page 0-8
Financial news. Pages D-7-1#
Stock table. Page D-8
Bond table. Page D-»
Curb table. Page D-l#
PART THREE.
Society, Classified.
Society news Pages E-l-8
Well-known folk. Page E-4
Barbara Bell pattern. Page E-6
Civic news. Page E-S
Lost and found. Page E-6
Classified advertising. Pages E-S-12
PART FOUR. .
Feature Section.
News features. Pages F-l-4
John Clagett Proctor. PageF-2
Radio programs. PageF-3
Amusements. PageF-S
Dick Mansfield. Page F-*
Automobiles. Page F-S
Children's page. PageF-7
FEDERAL BAR HOST
TO TWO SENATORS
Lundeen and McCarran to Be
Gneits on Moonlight
Cruise.
Senator and Mr*. Ernest Lundeen
and Senator and Mrs. Pat McCarran
will be guests of honor at the Federal
Bar Association's annual' moonlight
cruise down the Potomac on the S. S.
City of Washington next Friday night.
Several heads of legal departments
in the Government, service are among
members of the association who al
ready have made reservations for the
cruise, according to William N. Mor
rell, chairman of the Social Com
mittee.
Horace Russell, general counsel of
the Federal Home Loan Bank Board
and its agencies, is president of the
association.
Tickets for the cruise are* being
sold under the supervision of David S.
Davison of the Civil Service Com
mission.
KING AND FAMILY
TO VISIT SCOTLAND
Will Drive Through Edinburgh
in State as Part of Coro
nation Program.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. July 3.—King George VL
Queen Elizabeth and their two daugh
ters will leave London tomorrow night
on a state visit to Scotland.
Their majesties will drive through
Edinburgh Monday morning.
Thousands jammed Edinburgh to
night watching a rehearsal tor the
welcome and a procession nearly a
mile long.
It will be a triumphal return for
the Scottish-born lass who became
Queen of England through marriage
to the then Duke of York before the
abdication of his brother, Edward
VIII. The visit is part of the coro
nation program.
f
Boardwalk Flames Cause $600,000 Loss at Rockaway Beach
Two persons were slightly injured and boardivalk con
cession property valued at $600,000 was destroyed in a blaze
at Rockaway Beach, N. Y., yesterday. Flames and smoke at
tracted a 300.000 holiday crowd.—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
DE VALERA NEAR
Seems Assured Also That
New Constitution Will
Be Approved.
By the Associated Press.
DUBLIN. July 4 (Sunday!.—With
41 seats yet to be filled, President
Eamon de Valera early today needed
to win only 20 to gain an absolute j
parliamentary majority in the Free
State's election.
He also appeared to be winning his :
fight for a new constitution which i
would cut his country's ties w'ith Great
Britain. At 2:30 a m., 322,919 votes !
had been reported in favor of the
new' charter and 264,688 against it. i
De Valera's Fianna Fail party had
won 50 of the 138 seats in the Dail '
iParliament), former President Wil
liam T. Cosgrave's party 30, Labor 10
and Independents 7.
All cabinet ministers were re-elected '
to the Dail.
Latest returns in the plebiscite on i
the constitution, however, showed 197,- j
198 in favor and 156.143 against.
Wicklaw constituency voted against
the proposed new constitution, as did
one Dublirf and two Sligo constituen
cies, while the vote in severals others
was close. President de Valera had ex
pressed confidence the charter would
receive almost unanimous acceptance.
Opposition to it. came chiefly from
women voters who. political observers
said, objected to what they regarded
an attempt to destroy equal rights
of citizenship with men.
All of De Valera's ministers except
two topped the poll in their con
stituencies. Sean Lemass, minister
for industry and economy, was vic
torious in South Dublin, polling 16.000
votes.
The last seat in Kilkenny went to
Thomas Derrig, minister for educa
tion. Desmond Fitzgerald, Fine Gael
party man and former minister for
external affairs, was re-elected also.
—-•
SEARCH RENEWED
FOR MRS. PARSONS
“Definite Suspects in Mind.'' Offi
cial Says, as G-Men Pay
Mystery Visit.
Bv the Associated Pres*.
STONY BROOK, N. Y.. July 3 —
The search for Mrs. Alice McDonnell
Parsons today drew the heads of both
Federal and Suffolk County Investi
gators back to the country home from
which the Long Island heiress disap
peared 25 days ago.
District Attorney L. Barron Hill said
he planned to visit the Parsons home
Monday or Tuesday. It was learned
that Earl J. Connelley. directing the
work of Federal agents In the case,
also would be present.
The exact purpose of their visit was
not disclosed. Since Federal and
State officials abandoned headquarters
In Stony Brook, two Federal men have
remained at the Parsons home, one of
them in charge of a short-wave radio.
Representatives of the district attor
ney's office said they had “several
definite suspects In mind,” but de
clined today to reveal their where
abouts.
HULL REAFFIRMS
U. S. TRADE POLICY
Tells International C. of C.
Head of Readiness to
Co-operate.
1st the Associated Press.
Secretary Hull reaffirmed yesterday
that the United States is ready to co
operate with other nations to improve
international commerce—but without
foreign political entanglements.
Hull sent a message to Thomas J.
Watson, newly elected president of
the International Chamber of Com
merce. in session In Berlin.
"The United States has most ex
tensive and varied interests In other
lands and these offer a broad basis
of co-operation without undertaking
political relationships contrary to the
American tradition,” the Secretary
said.
"The people of the United States
further have always demonstrated a
live Interest in the affairs of the mind
and spirit of other countries and a
disposition to share with them the
fruits of advancement everywhere.
“Today this disposition Is touched
with concern and fear, but the Amer
ican people, as well as the American
business Interests, would wish to
strive to bring about conciliation be
tween peoples."
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German Helicopter Sets Record
Rises 8,123 Feet, Hits 77 m.p.h.
BREMEN, Germany, July 3.—
Heinrich Focke, German aircraft de
signer, announced tonight a new heli
copter built by him had attained an
altitude of 2.500 meter* (about 8.123
feet), far exceeding the world record.
Maurice Claisse of France holds the
recognized record of 158 meters (about
514 feet), made at Villacoublay,
France, December 14. 1935.
Focke said the ship remained aloft
for 1 hour 20 minutes and 49.89
seconds.
He said it averaged 122.5 kilometers
(about 77 miles i an hour over a 20
kilometer (12 S-milei distance, and
maae a circular night of 80 S kilo
meter* (about 50 mile*i.
Foeke la the originator of nearly
40 types of aircraft. The new ma
chine carries two horiaontal three
blade screws, instead of wings, geared
to a 160-horsepower motor In the
fuselage.
It can hover over a point and can
land with it* motor cut off.
Foeke applied to the Interna
tional Aeronautical Federation for
recognition of his claim.
(The helicopter s horizontal blades
are powered so that the machine takes
pff vertically Instead of making a run
along the ground as do the auto gyro !
and the airplane.)
ME LOSE LIVES
Fourth Passenger Burned
as Manufacturer's Private
Craft Crashes.
Ft the Associated Press.
ONEONTA, N. Y„ July 3 —Three
persons were killed and another
severely burned today in the crash
of an airplane at a private landing
field near Morris, 12 miles from here.
The dead:
Herricks H. Linn. 60. founder of
the Linn Manufacturing Co , trailer
manufacturers, and owner of the four
passenger cabin monoplane
Capt. George Stead. 43. of Norwich.
N. Y.. Army Air Corps Reserve fiver
and pilot of the plane
Mrs. Dorothea Hansen, 30. of En
dieott, N. Y.
Arthur Hansen. 34. husband of the
dead woman, escaped with burns. He
was taken to Bassett Hospital, Coop
erstown.
Linn had started a business trip to
Syracuse, and the Hansens, who had
been visiting her father, Charles G.
Stone, superintendent in the Linn fac
tory, had gone along for the ride.
Eye-witnesses said the planes mo
tor stalled shortly after the take-off,
and that the pilot swung the ship
about and started to nose it down.
When the motor started again and the
plane resumed its course, the machine
hit a tree at the edge of a clearing and
plunged to earth In flames.
TOWNSEND HIT FOR
‘DESERTING’ PLAN
Name Dropped Because It Was
“Synonym for Politics,”
O'Connell Says.
Fy the Assc ciated Press.
Representative O'Connell. Democrat,
of Montana, youngest member of the
House, accused Dr. Francis E. Town
send yesterday of “deserting” his old
age pensions legislation “for a host
of other issues.”
In response to what he called at
tempts of “political shysters" to cre
ate the impression Townsend had
been deserted by “traitors" in Con
gress. the Montanan said in a state
ment:
“They are doing this at the ex
pense of the old folks whom Dr.
Townsend has already gotten Into a
defense fund complex.”
O'Connell said when Townsend's
name was dropped from the new pen
sion measure introduced this year, it
was done “because the name was
synonymous with partisan politics and
political irresponsibility upon the part
of Dr. Townsend.”
O'Connell said the Steering Com
mittee of 40 members, “made up of
Farmer - Laborites, Republicans and
Democrats," believed the bill "bigger
than any individual” and they chose
to support it.
YOUTH AGAIN CONVICTED
OF KILLING SWEETHEART
By the Associated Press.
VINCENNES. Ind., July 3—Husky
Ward Davis, 32, one-time Petersburg
High School athletic idol, this after
noon was convicted, for the third time,
of slaying his pretty 17-year-old
sweetheart, Annavieve France.
A Pike County Jury held Davis
guilty of voluntary manslaughter
after deliberating since 9:56 pun. last
night.
Judge Dale Eby sentenced him to
2 to 21 years in Indiana State Prison.
Twice before Davis was convicted
and sentenced to life, but won new
trials.
Mrs. John Boettiger
Took Off Shoes at
Wedding Reception
B* the Associated Preatt.
BOISE. Idaho, July 3—The
President's daughter removed her
shoes during the long reception
after the Du Pont-Roosevelt
wedding, but her long gown hid
her feet.
"I stood in the reception line
four and one-half hours." said
Mrs. John Boettiger today as she
stopped here with her husband.
"Naturally I got tired. So I
took off my shoes. But my gown
was long and I think only one
reporter noticed It.”
The incident occurred Wednes
day after the wedding of Mrs.
Boettiger'* brother. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, jr., to Miss Ethel du
Pont,.
INTER-UNION STRIKE
MAY CLOSE PAPER
Teamsters Refuse to Move Edi
tions Because Circulation
Men Join Guild.
By the Associated Preas.
SEATTLE, July 3.—A news service !
I started moving equipment from the ;
; Seattle Star plant late today after J
SO Star employes, members of the
American Newspaper Guild, struck in 1
a jurisdictional dispute between the \
Guild and the Teamsters' Union.
Ouild officers said they had advised
the agency they could not guarantee ]
safe passage through picket lines. The !
Star published all editions today de- |
spite the walkout and a picket line of:
about 50 persons. It used a skeleton
news staff of non-Gulld members and
the three printers who were in the
building when the picket line was
formed. The strike occurred during
the printers' lunch period.
Although only 19 circulation em
ployes were Involved in the original
dispute, the Star management said
the strike would involve 220 full
time employes If the walkout closes
the plant Monday. Monday's picket
line was ordered to report at « a m.,
and printers said they would not pass
through it.
The dispute started yesterday when
teamsters refused to move papers and
the Star misaed two editions because
circulation employes belonged to the
Guild. The teamsters demanded that
the circulation worker* join a team
sters affiliate, the Newspaper Drivers
and Helpers’ Union.
Clergymen in League With
Fascism, Say Official
Newspapers.
By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, July 3 —The Soviet
Union's drive against enemies of the
state today turned strongly against
the church, Protestant, Catholic and
Russian Orthodox alike.
Official newspaper* published warn
ings that churches were in league
with fascism and capitalism, prepar
ing imperialist wars and masking
spies and wreckers under clerical garb.
They declared many persons recently
"liquidated"—which usually means ex
ecuted—had church affiliations and
disclosed others had been "con
demned."
Churchmen were declared to have
figured in spy plots for Germany.
Japan. Poland and Estonia, and to
have operated in the Far Bast as
well as near the union's western
frontiers.
The newspaper Pacific Star, pub
lished in Khabarovsk, Siberia, said
a Lutheran minister and two Ortho
dox priests were among several ar
rested and "condemned” at Vladivo
stok.
131 Executions Recently.
Pacific Star recently disclosed there
had been 131 executions of alleged
spies and wreckers in the Russian
Far East in recent months. The
"condemned" clergymen, It said, had
been spies who. "concealed behind
priests’ robes." actively prepared piot*
against officials of the state and the
Communist party.
It declared numerous members of
religious congregations had been ar
rested at Vladivostok as "a bunch of
hostile elements—bitter enemies of
the people hiding behind a religious
screen.”
Leonid Zakovsky. chief of secret
police in the Leningrad area, who
yesterday disclosed the arrests of at
least 130 alleged spies and •'liquida
tion" of at least 70, asserted many of
these were priests, former monks or
relatives of churchmen.
188 Executed In Year.
Previous to Zakovsky's disclosures
of fresh "liquidations" there had been
188 recorded instances of political
executions in the Soviet Union since
last Summer.
The newspaper Gudok declared that
"the world clergy is trying to stretch
its paws over the U. S. S. R. • • •
It is known there are institutions
training preachers to be sent to Rus
sia. Of course, under the guise of
being preachers, they are spies and
diversionists also.”
“FAKE ACCIDENT” DEATH
LAID TO RESTAURATEUR
By the Associated Press.
DULUTH, Minn., July 3—County
Attorney Thomas J. Naylor said today
he would charge Charles Shidler, 49,
restaurant operator, with first-degree
murder in connection with the death
of his wife.
She was found dead near their car
after what Police Sergt. Ralph Fiskett
described as a "fake" automobile acci
dent. Shidler himself called police
early today to report his wife had
been hurt in an accident.
Fiskett said he found a blood
stained monkey wrench under the
front seat of the car. Shidler is held
in jail.
Roper to Speak in Forum
SECRETARY WILL DISCUSS LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS.
ECRETARY OF COMMERCE
DANIEL C. ROPER will discuss
“Industry and Labor, Their
Mutual Problems,” in the Na
tional Radio Forum tomorrow at 9:30
p.m.
The National Radio Forum is ar
ranged by The Washington Star and
broadcast over the network of the
National Broadcasting Co.
Secretary Ropers official position
keeps him closely in touch with in
dustry, business and labor throughout
the country.
He believes that problems of workers
and managers are mutual and can be
solved by improved co-operation and
better understanding on the part of
business, industry and labor.
The cabinet officer is expected to
make constructive suggestions for a
long-range program.
Go Days Without Water.
In Central Australia, where water
is always scarce, a tribe of men who
can go for many days without drink
ing anything has been found.
SECRETARY ROPER.
9.
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things. f
MUST.
ITH the school term ended
only a short time, and with
youngsters the land over
trying to forget grammar
drills until Fall, there comes the
suggestion that English be abandoned
in favor of Apache.
There's considerable merit to the
proposal, too. The office of Indian
Affairs has just discovered that the
language of these Arizona Indians,
rich and expressive as it is, has no
words for “must’' or “shall.” It is
Impossible to order any one to do
anything.
Boy, what the switch to Apache
would do to city editors and top
sergeants.
The nearest an Apache can come
to "must” is “aganhnehgoh hnagoza.”
That is not a typographical error
(and even if it were it probably
wouldn't make a whole lot of differ
ence). It means “so to do you are
given room.” The Apache doesn't
even add anything equivalent to
“or else.”
The idea is that the Apache phi
losophy has no concept of any outside
force, least of all another human
being, compelling any one to do any
thing. Man is free—and a free man
does that which he sees it is good
to do,
a * * a
OH, WELL.
gUT maybe the shift to the Apache
tongue wouldn't help matters
after all. From the same source
we learn that “must” meant, in
Anglo-Saxon and Old German, Just
about the same thing as "aganhneh
goh hnagoza.” Seems our barbarian
ancestors were Just as advanced as
the Apaches; Roman militarism
brought things down to the “must''
level.
* * * *
AFTERMATH.
No. it is not a Dietrich contest.
If you should happen to come
across a pair of Representatives or
a pair of Senators down on Capitol
Hill pulling up trouser legs, they
are not arguing about the sym
metry of their respective shinbones.
They are comparing pites.
*
It's all the aftermath of that
island visit with President Roose
velt. Some of the boys blame it
on "chiggers.” and others claim
black flies did the dirty work.
Whatever it was, a lot of the law
makers still are saying things they
would not want printed in the Con
gressional Record to impress the
folks back home.
* * * *
EXPANSION.
lyjAYBE this comer was a little
hasty in advising that some one
go around and tell Mr. Roosevelt he
is Mayor of Los Angeles. That sign
reading "City Limits—City of Los An
geles” is not planted at Seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue as
firmly as was believed.
The Boy Scout who brought it here
has been ferreted out by Robert L.
Hanson and he says the sign is on
the way to Holland. Washington
isn't a suburb of Los Angeles; it's
practically in the downtown business
section. There's another Los Angeles
City limit sign at Nome, Alaska, and
one in Honolulu.
Probably makes Mr. Roosevelt just
a ward boss or something like that.
* * * *
LEFT-RIGHT.
"YOU may have noticed that those
arrows at. Thirteenth and F. de
signed to keep people in line like nice
little pedestrians, have been repainted.
When first put down several days
back, the guiding marks at three of
the four cross-walks at the intersec
tion were left-handed, tried to make
everybody go British and keep to the
left. Now the first arrows have been
rubbed out and new ones painted
in, this time in the good, old United
States keep-to-the-right tradition.
Don't know it it was a mistake in
the first place or if some psychologist
was experimenting to see if people
would really follow the darned things.
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CLARIFICATION.
There's going to be no confusion
in the air to color the evidence
down at that investigation before
the Senate Civil Liberties Commit
tee if Senator La Follette has his
way. Just before the showing Fri
day of the newsreels taken of the
Chicago strike riot the announce
ment was made:
“The chairman requests every one
to refrain from smoking, in order
that the atmosphere may be kept as
clear as possible."
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BOX (CAR i LUNCH
OINCE most of the principals have
gone away for the Summer land
we hope they find it), it probably is
safe to tell the story of the picnic
organized and directed by Mary
Cootes. The picnickers planned to
meet at a Potomac River boat house
and rent canoes, but when they got
there the boat house was bare. There
just wasn't a canoe, rowboat, skiff
or even a raft to be had.
Just as every one managed to develop
a "What'll ws do next” expression, a
thunderstorm blew up and solved the
problem. A string of empty freight
cars stood on a nearby siding and
into the first one open went the pic
nic, sandwiches, pickles, eggs, ants
and all.
Much fun whooping and eating
and shouting and singing as the rain
beat down, until a man arrived from
one of those little house boats on
the river's edge. Told them it was
a residential neighborhood and if
they didn't be quiet he'd have the
law on 'em, b’gosh.
That Part of Work Took
Twice as Much Money as
the Water System.
BY WILL F. KENNEDY.
In the Greenbeit resettlement proj
ect, to provide rural homes for work
er* in Washington, more than twice
a* much was *pent for landscaping **
for a water supply *ystem, and almost
as much was spent for a sewerage
system.
The figures, official as of May 15
and made public yesterday, are: For
landscaping. *456,603.50: water supply,
*223,884 77. and sewerage, *536.262 31.
"Land preparation ’ -cost *198.850 17
and streets and road-s. *238.276.89.
Out of a total of *10,446,085.44 for
J land improvement and construction.
*207,838 91 was for a business center
and >238.867.09 for a community cen
ter. The overhead expenses of the
Washington office charged against the
project, some time* called Tugwell
town. up to May 15 totaled *116.013.72.
With the expectation of having a
meeting of his Senate Reorganization
Committee during the coming week,
Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia
is having an extensive survey made
of several homestead projects, with a
breakdown of costs from official fig
uures.
"Wanton Waste."
His interest and activity was
spurred by the necessity of providing
homes for the quatters and other
cabin dwellers, ousted from the Shen
andoah National Park. The net result,
he said, was that he discovered
"wanton waste and shocking extrava
gance" in the housing projects. He
hopes to have many millions of dollars
salvaged by stopping further expendi
tures.
The Government figures show that
in the Tugwelltown project each unit
has about 15 acres, while the project
for those ejected from Shenandoah
Park, who are supposed to earn their
living by farming, approximately th«
same acreage Is provided.
Those who move into Tugwelltown
are to be given homes that actually
cc*t the Government more than
*16,000, while those in the New Jer
sey project at Hightstown are to
have homes that cost the taxpayers of
the whole country more than *20.000
in addition to being provided with a
garment factory and a plant for pro
ducing cement slabs for the build
ing industry.
Coet (10.000 in Virginia.
In the housing project for colored
people at Newport News, in an in
dustrial' workers' community, each
home casts nearly *10.000 In these
homes for colored industrial work
ers about 33 per cent more Is being
spent on home furnishings than m
the Greenbeit project for white peo
ple employed in the Capital City
The average cost per acre for land
in the Greenbeit project is *90 72.
while in the other urban area in New
Jersey it is *66 89. and in the more
rural section outside Newport News it
is *128 69.
Senator Byrd is having studies
made of the costs of these and other
homestead and housing projects, which
are supposed to be amortized on a
rental basis, to see if it will be pos
sible for Industrial workers or small
farmers can pay for such elaborate
and ca«tly homes or if the Government
—really the taxpayers—will be left
holding an empty bag.
ALFONSO, EX-WIFE
MEET ACCIDENTALLY
Brought Together by Birth of
Son to Daughter—Far From
Reconciliation.
Br th* Associated Presa.
ROME, July 3.—Close associates of
the former King and Queen of Spam
said tonight that although the couple
met yesterday at the crib of a new
grandson they still were far from a
reconciliation.
Ex-King Alfonso XIII and the con
sort from whom he has been sepi
arated since shortly after loss of his
throne in 1931. Queen Victoria, met
at the birth of a son to their eldest
daughter, Princess Torlonia.
Friends said, however, it was only
a “polite accident " The former Queen
lingered to cuddle the child, whlla
Alfonso came in before he was ex
pected. They were "humanly cordial”
to each other, an intimate asserted,
“but that is far from a reconcllation ”
Queen Victoria still lives at Tor
lonia Palace here. Alfonso lives at
the Grand Hotel. They avoid each
other where politely possible.
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PASTOR IS APPOINTED
CHEST SPEAKER OFFICER
Dr. J. W. Rustin, Former Civic
Leader of Norfolk, Is Vice
Chairman of Unit.
Dr. John W. Rustin, pastor of the
Mount Vernon Place Methodist
Church South, yesterday accepted the
vice chairmanship of the Community
Chest Speakers’ Unit, for the tenth
anniversary campaign, completing
plans for organization of that depart
ment.
Dr. Rustin came to Washington
last Fall from Norfolk, Va . where he
made a notable record as a civic
leader. He was president of th#
Kiwanis Club as well as one of th#
principal figures in Community Chest
work, serving the latter organization
as chairman of the campaign driv#
last year. He was a member of th#
Board of Trustees of the community
fund for four years, a member of th#
Budget Committee for three years
and a member of the social servic#
planning department for three years.
Dr. Rustin also was appointed by th#
city manager to a position on the
F. E. R. A. Advisory Committee for
two years and on its Administrative
Committee for two years.
MEXICO TO CLOSE BARS,
GOES TO POLLS TODAY,
By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, July 3—Troops
were held ready today and bar
keepers prepared to suspend sale of
intoxicants tomorrow, when Mexico
will go to the polls to elect a new
Congress.
Leaders of the National Revolution
ary, or Government, party predict
ed they would remain in power and
national policies would not be af
fected .
The party had candidates for all the
»173 seats to be filled, chosen in pri
maries and plebiscites, considered in
most cases equivalent to election, Th#
new Congress convenes September 1.
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