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LIMIT INJUNCTIONS
BT LOWER COURTS
Predicts New Bill Will In
clude Clause Barring Ac
tion by Single Judge.
HOUSE MEMBERS ACT
TO RESTRICT POWERS
Dies Says 80 Per Cent Favor Ac
tion by Congress on Deci
sions of Tribunal.
BACKGROUND—
Democratic party has been split,
for past six months over proposal
of President to reorganize Federal
judiciary. After death of Majority
Leader Robinson, administtation
Quickly agreed to compromise
whereby Senate Judiciary Commit
tee is under instructions to bring
out bill for reorganizing lower
courts, but not tampering with
membership or powers of Supreme
Court.
By the Associated Press.
Senator Connally, Democrat, of
Texas, announced today he would try
to write into the skeleton Judiciary
reorganization bill a provision to re
strict issuance of injunctions by
lower court judges.
In a formal statement, Connally
predicted the new measure agreed
upon by Senate leaders in place of
the President's court bill, would in
clude a clause “prohibiting the issu
ance of injunctions restraining the
enforcement of acts of Congress on
the ground of their unconstitutionality
by a single judge of the Federal In
ferior Court.”
His statement coincided with re
newed proposals from some House
members for limiting the Supreme
Court's power to invalidate laws de
spite a Senate agreement to take no
action involving the Supreme Court.
80 Per Cent for Plan.
Representative Dies, Democrat, of
Texas, said 80 per cent of the House
membership favored a constitutional
amendment to let Congress pass on
decisions overturning legislation. A
two-thirds vote would be required to
reinstate auch laws.
Connally said “there is no reason
In permitting a single district judge
to issue an Injunction staying an act
of Congress.” adding:
"It is entirely sound to require a
three-judge court in such a case. I
am very much interested in this
provision, and shall urge it before
the judiciary committee.”
The Texan said the new bill, now
being drafted by a judiciary sub- I
committee, also would “provide direct
appeal to the Supreme Court in cases
involving the constitutionality of an
Connally added that the President’s
bill “is dead so far as it relates to the
Supreme Court, and asserted:
‘The defeat of the bill directed at j
the independence of the Supreme
Court was a great triumph for con
stitutional government and the main
tenance of personal guarantees to the
citizen now protected by the Con
stitution and the independence of the
Supreme Court.’’
Better Has Plan.
Representative Belter, Democrat, of
New York carried Dies' proposal a step
further by recommending that the peo
ple pass indirectly on Supreme Court '
decisions overturning legislation. He
would stipulate that Congress could
decision until an election had inter
vened.
“In that way.” he said, "each candi
date for Congress would have to com
mit himself publicly for or against
the court’s veto."
Some of Dies' supporters said they
were prepared to bring up his amend
ment at this session. Other legislators
pointed out, however, that the ad
ministration had agreed with court
bill foes not to mention the Supreme
Court in any measure enacted.
Dies Calls on Roosevelt.
Dies called on President Roosevelt
yesterday, but did not say whether
hi* proposal was discussed. Interested
Congressmen said they understood it
was acceptable to the Chief Executive.
Beiter specified he would not intro
duce his expanded amendment until
next year.
Eight members of the Senate Judici
ary Committee, meanwhile, were draft
ing a skeleton bill to speed up the
lower Federal Courts. Senator McCar
ran. Democrat, of Nevada, expre.ssed
the belief it would reach the Senate
late next week.
The new bill, agreed on just before
the Senate voted to discard the broad
administration measure, will permit
appeals of constitutional cases to be
(See COURT, Page A-9 ;
PHILADELPHIA POLICE
HOLD 18 AFTER CLASH
Assault and Battery Charges Are
Filed—Trouble Laid to Milk
Firm Strike.
Sr th« A**oci»ted Press.
PHILADELPHIA, July 24— Eigh
teen men were arrested today on
charges of assault and battery and
malicious mischief in what police said
were clashes between strikers and non
striking employes of the Supplee-Wills
Jones Milk Co.
Four drivers making deliveries were
taken from wagons and beaten by
men they said wrecked their trucks
They were treated at hospitals.
In most cases, police said, the
drivers were approached by men who
told them it ' would be a better idea
to go back before you get messed up.”
The strike was called yesterday by
the Bakery and Milk Drivers Union,
an American Federation of Labor
affiliate.
F. A. Wills, president of the com
pany, said he would attempt to ar
range a conference today between rep
reeentativea of the company and
union.
1 I
Budge Survives Marathon Set,
Beats Hare After Parker Bows
Californian Finally W'im
Opener, 15-13—Austin
Scores in Three Sets.
By the Associated Press.
WIMBLEDON, England, July 24 —
Surviving a marathon 28-game first
set, America's sorrel-topped tennis
ace, Don Budge, crushed Charles
Edgar Hare. 22-vear-old Englishman
15—13, 6—1, 6—2, and gave the
United States an even break with
matches of the Davis Cup challenge
round today.
Budge’s triumph came after Henry
Wilfred t Bunny) Austin. British styl
ist, had trounced Frankie Parker ol
Milwaukee, 6—3, 6—2, 7—5.
Hare, the 22-year-old newcomer to
cup competition, furnished all the fire
works in the first day's competition.
Cast in the role of a sacrifice to
Budge's vaunted tennis powers, the
left-handed youngster fought the
American ace tooth and nail in the
first set as the small crowd looked on
in amazement.
He broke through the red-head In
the third game but Budge came back
to smear Hare's service in the sixth
game to stay level. Again in the ninth
Hare broke through for a 5-4 lead, but
Budge came back to take the tenth.
Thereafter the next 17 games in a row
went to service and Budge thus held a
14-13 lead as Hare served in the
twenty-eighth game.
The Briton promptly pounded out a
40-15 lead, but served two double-faults
feUL- ^_1
BUNNY AUSTIN.
—A. P. Photo.
in a rnw to allow the American to
deuce the game. A few minutes later,
the exhausted Hare served another
double fault for the decisive game and
the set.
After that Budge, regaining full
control of his game, smashed through
the youngster at will. He won the
second set in 14 minutes, giving Hare
only five points in the first five games
and only 11 points all told.
The third set followed exactly simi
lar lines although Hare summoned up
enough resistance to snare two games.
3.000 NEW TROOPS
War Tension Eases Despite
Arrival of Reinforce
ments in China.
BACKGROUND—
Japan has exerted economic pres
sure in Northern China provinces
of Hopei and Chahar. Chinese
have accused foreign power of at
tempting to seize control of area
in manner similar to way Man
churia was taken. Strained rela
tions have been near breaking
point by “incidents," latest of which
was clash of Japanese and Chinese
soldiers on July 7. Since them
skirmishes have been frequent.
Tokio has reported the provinces
are willing to sign a peace pact
but the Central Chinese govern
ment at Nanking says it will not
recognize any such local agreement.
By the Associated Press.
TIENTSIN. July 24 —War tension
in North China apparently eased
today, though the influx of Japanese
war supplies continued and seasoned
observers pointed to danger spots
where friction might renew the war
like dispute between Chinese and Jap
anese military forces.
The Chinese withdrawal of the 37th
Division from the Peiping area met
Japan’s first condition for settling
the trouble.
Transportation and other activities
in the Hopei-Chahar district ap
proached normal for the first time
since the tension arose.
A Japanese Army officer at Tangku.
Tientsin’s seaport, declared, however,
that "This w'ar is not yet over by any
means.”
Two Japanese merchantmen were
anrhored at Tangku unloading light
tanks and munitions on the crowded
docks that have become a vital part
of Japan's system for bringing men
and war supplies into China by sea.
Add to Reinforcements.
Three transports were expected to
dock tomorrow, bringing more than
3.000 soldiers to add to the 9.000
reinforcements poured into the Hopei
Chahar region in the past two weeks.
Japanese attempted unsuccessfully
to halt the unloading of a German
vessel bringing rifles, munitions and
machines destined for the Chinese
Army.
On the south side of the river fac
ing this hive of Japanese activity
more than 5,000 Chinese troops were
quartered.
Observers believed the situation
south of Peiping was still filled with
danger on a front paralleling the
Peiping-Hankow Railway, with Jap
anese and Chinese troops still rela
tively close together. By mutual
agreement railway traffic was permit
ted to resume in this no-man's land.
The Tokio version of the North
China truce included a provision for
joint Chmese-Japanese action against
Communists considered here the mast
important part of the agreement since
it would give the Japanese army a
free hand in chasing down anything it
labelled communism.
Provisions of Part.
The Japanese said Nanking had ac
cepted the pact, but Nanking dis
patrhes denied the central government
had either seen or approved the agree
ment.
The Japanese version said it pro
vided .
1. Elimination of persons ‘ imped
ing'' Smo-Japane.se relations.
2. Complete suppression of Com
munists.
3 Stricter control of anti-Japanese
organizations and education.
4. Evacuation of the 37th Division.
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VESSEL IS SEIZED
Russian Troops Said to Have
Taken Manchukuoan Craft.
HARBIN, Manchukuo, July 24
—A Manchukuo sailing vessel was
fired upon and seized by Russian
troops along the Amur River south ot
Heilio on July 18, Japanese dispatches
said today.
Heiho is opposite Blagovestchensk
Siberia, and is about 75 miles north
west of the Amur River Islands, w'here
one Soviet gunboat was sunk and
another beached in a dash with Jap
anese troops on June 30. Both Russls
and Manchukuo claim the Amui
Islands.
4
TEN STORES SOOT
Large Retail Institutions
Closed by Walkout of
Clerks’ Union.
By (he Associated Press.
TACOMA. Wash.. July 24—Ten of
this city's largest retail stores were
closed today by a strike of the clerks'
union, an American Federation of
Labor affiliate. No department stores
of importance were left open.
Spreading rapidly from one store
which failed to open yesterday the
walkout resulted in the other nine
institutions' locking their doors ap
parently in preparation for indefinite
closure.
More than 700 persons were thrown
out of work. Rumors that groceries
and other retail institutions soon
would be affected could not be con
firmed.
No Statements Issued.
Silence surrounded the strike causes,
with both store owners and union
heads pledged to make no statements.
M. J. Muckev, director of the
Tacoma Industrial Conference Board,
was the only official involved who
would speak. He refused to hazard
a guess as to the strike's duration.
He said chain institutions removed
much of their seasonal merchandise
to other outlets Friday in expectation
of several weeks' inactivity here. All
stores refused delivery of perishables
Friday and attempted to clear their
floors of merchandise which might
spoil before they reopened.
Picketing Peaceful.
Picketing was peaceful, with only
a few members assigned to each store.
Muckey said the companies would
make no attempt to reopen until the
controversy is ended.
The strike has been rumored here
since a working agreement expired
■ last June. That agreement provided
a minimum was of $14 for women and
I $20 for the men working a 48-hour
week. Negotiations since that time
j have been conducted with the Tacit
agreement, any increases awarded
would be retroactive to the June date.
Stores closed were Rhores Bros., the
! Peoples, Fishers, Sears-Roebuck, the
Metropolitan. Montgomery Ward.
' Kress, J. C. Penney and two units of
1 the F. W. Woolworth Co.
1 Seattle fur workers began a strike
today which may close every fur
store in the city and precipitate a
show’down between C. I. O. and A. F.
of L. affiliate, said they were near an
! agreement when A. F. of L. officials
j served notice they would boycott the
I shops if they signed.
The union leader said A. F. of L.
pickets appeared at three fur shops
| yesterday. The C. I. O. listed 33
| shops on its picket program for
today.
I
STRIKERS CLAMP
EMBARGO ON MEAT
IN BUFFALO TIE-OP
Joint C. I. 0. and A. F. L.
Action Menaces City’s
Whole Food Supply.
WALKOUT WILL TEST
STATE’S LABOR ACT
Workers Seeking Shorter Hours
$25 Weekly Wage and
Closed Shop.
By the Associated Press.
BUFFALO. N. Y., July 24 —The In
ternational Longshoremen's Associa
tion clamped a meat, embargo on
Buffalo today as Dr. John P. Boland.
State Labor Board chairman, called
quick conferences in an attempt to
settle the four-day strike of 2,000 food
handlers.
Stewards of the Longshoremen's As
sociation announced they would allow
no more meat shipments unloaded in
Buffalo after wholesale grocery truck
drivers and butchers extended their
strike to a fourth meat packing firm.
Union leaders called a walkout and
started a picket line going at Swift &
Co.'s plant after Sam Licata, business
agent of the United Teamsters’ Union,
charged the company's trucks were
hauling butter and eggs for whole
sale grocers shutdown by the truck
drivers’ strike.
Dr. Boland, whose move into the
strike was the first use of New York
State's new Labor Board set up under
a “little Wagner act,” announced the
grocery wholesalers and union leaders
had agreed to meet with him for an
initial mediation conference.
Closed Shop Is Issue.
After a meeting writh employers
this morning he said:
“The crux of the matter appears to
be the closed shop issue.’’
Dr. Boland, a former Buffalo Cath
olic priest and chairman of the Na
tional Labor Relation Board's regional
office here, said he had been sent
here as a specially-commissioned
mediator of the State Mediation Board
because he was familiar with the local
situation.
aw aiK-at, wm-a wao uvriiuiuru niiu
burned slightly in the first violence of
the strike.
Bitter rivals on the Nation's labor
front, the American Federation of
Labor and the Committee for In
dustrial Organization have pooled
their efforts here to tie up 42 whole
sale butter and egg markets as well
as the four meat [jacking plants.
C I. O. pickets paraded before
wholesale creameries and warehouses
where truck drivers affiliated with the
A. F. of L.'s teamsters union struck
for higher w-ages, shorter hours and a
preferential closed shop.
State Help Asked.
In turn, truckers ordered their i
union members not to deliver at pack- 1
ing plants where C. I. O. workers j
asked union recognition.
A merchants’ committee headed by
Raymond Wattles pleaded with Gov. i
Herbert H. Lehman yesterday to inter
vene "in the interests of justice and
the solution of a very serious situa
tion.”
Only a thin trickle of trticks made
their way out of strike-bound ware
houses under police guard.
Howard F. Toy, A. F. of L. or
ganizer, said the teamsters walked out
because wholesalers failed to meet
demands for a $25-a-week minimum
wage, a 44-hour week and a closed
shop.
Food Shortage Seen.
Meanwhile poultry and dairy prod
ucts, flour, sugar and canned goods
ran low- on store shelves: retail grocers
estimated that by Monday there would
be a serious shortage.
Strilfcing C. I. O. meat packers shut
dow-n the Danahy, Dold and Hygrade
plants, charging the employers vio
lated the Wagner act by refusing to
hold a collective bargaining agent
election.
Hugh Thompson, regional director
for the Lewis forces, put the number
of men out at between 1.200 and
1,500. Executives at the struck plants
said only about 500 had walked out.
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Japanese Destroyer Launched.
OSAKA. Japan, July 24 (/P).—A
new 1,300-ton Japanese destroyer, the
Yamagumo, or "Cloud on the Moun
tain,” was launched here today.
Summary of Today’s Star
Page Page.
Art- B-3 Obituary_A-8
Books B-2 Radio * _ A-7
Church News. Real Estate,
B-4-5 C-l-fi
Comics . -B-6-7 Serial Story. A-4
Drama _C-12 Short Story.. B-5
Editorials .. A-fi ; Society .. A-8
Finance _A-10 Sports _. A-12-I3
Lost & Found C-7 Woman's Pg. B-8
Music _ B-3
FOREIGN.
j England takes 1-0 lead in Davis Cup
tennis. Page A-l
NATIONAL.
Connally would restrict injunctions by
lower courts. Page A-l
Ten large retail stores in Tacoma are
closed. Page A-l
Buffalo strike to test New York's labor
act. Page A-l
Conflict over Wagner act may delay
adjournment. Page A-2
C I. O. unit assails Government pol
icies during steel strikes. Page A-3
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
D. C. tax bill likely to be sent to con
ference by House. Page A-l
Meeting arranged between opposing
groups in painters’ strike. Page A-l
Dawn burglar terrorizes Hyattsville,
rifle* trousers. Page A-l
Seven victims of blazing automobile to
occupy single grave. Page A-l
S. E. C. Union hits drive to lower ex
penditures. Page A-14
A. F. G. E. head assails reorganization
legislation. Page A-14
4
House bill would control narcotics In
District, of Columbia. Page A-14
Citizens group launches drive for Dis
trict suffrage. Page A-14
Electricity rate rut here in January
forecast by Eigen. Page A-14
Bill would aid expansion of Wash
ington Airport. Page A-14
SPORTS.
Puny hitting marks long slump of
Nationals. Page A-12
Third-base play declines due to lively
ball. PageA-12
District looms strong in Mid-Atlantic
open golf. Page A-13
Hefty recruits brighten Illinois’ grid
prospects. Page A-13
EDITORIAL AND COMMENT.
Editorials. Page A-6
This and That. Page A-6
Stars, Men and Atoms. Page A-6
Answers and Questions. Page A-6
David Lawrence. Page A-7
H. R. Bukhage. Page A-7
Mark Sullivan. Page A-7
Jay Franklin. Page A-7
Lemuel F. Parton. Page A-7
MISCELLANY.
Young Washington. Page A-4
Nature’s Children. Page B-6
Cross-word Puzzle. Page B-6
Bedtime Story. Page B-7
Dorothy Dix. Page B-8
Betsy Caswell. Page B-8
Letter-Out. Page B-7
Traffic Convictions. Page C-7
Vital Statistic*. Pag* C-7
Seme* Orders. Paf* C-7
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A
rmm mu.
Labor Department to Bring
Union and Contractors
Together Tuesday.
BACKGROUND
TWO building labor controversies
have broken out in Capital during
past 10 dags as construction unions
fought open-shop contractors on
both District and Federal jobs.
District dispute seems settled,
with tied-up work scheduled for
resumption on Monday. Federal
controversy, carried on by painters'
union, is still under negotiation.
Officials of the conciliation service
of the Labor Department today rolled
up their sleeves and prepared to bring
contractors and union spokesmen to
gether for face-to-face negotiations
aimed at settlement of the painters'
strike against Federal projects here let
through the Procurement Division of
the Treasury Department.
First such direct engagement be
tween the parties involved in the con
troversy was tentatively scheduled for
next Tuesday as Howard T. Colvin,
conciliation officer, requested William
Wilson of the Atlanta firm of William
Wilson & Sons to come here for con
ferences on that day.
The Wilson firm, holding contracts
for painting and plastering jobs at
the City Post Office and the Internal
Revenue Building, is charged by the
local painters’ union with refusing to
hire union men at prevailing union
wage and hour standards.
To Stoy Off Work.
In connection with the latter charge,
Colvin is expected to refer the con
tractor to the recent ruling by Sec
retary of Labor Perkins that all
classifications of construction work
must be paid for at a predetermined
rate, regardless of the type of workmen
put on the Job. In other words, labor
ers assigned to do skilled work must
be paid skilled workmen's wages rath
er than laborers' wages as alleged
against some of the open shop firms.
The ruling by the Secretary was
given in connection with public con
tracts let by the District government
and was instrumental In settling a
controversy which had tied up work
on three local school Jobs.
Pending Tuesday’s conference, the
painters, supported by the glaziers'
local, will remain off work on Pro
curement Division projects here. They
have returned to jobs on private proj
ects and public contracts not handled
by the division after a 24-hour city
wide strike earlier tills week.
Probe Under Way.
Insistent throughout that the con
troversy was between the union and
the contractors, officials of the Pro
curement Division are not expected to
take part in next week's negotiations.
Colvin said he hopes to effect a
settlement with the Wilson firm first
and then take up the same dispute as
it Involves the New York City firm of
Coones <fe Raptis. which also holds a
contract for work at the City Post
Office.
On another front, the charge of
discrimination against union painters
is being investigated by the regional
office of the National Ijabor Relations
Board. The Inquiry was requested by
Bryce P. Holcombe, business agent of
the painters' union, and Harry S.
Wender, union attorney.
FREIGHT WRECKED
Freight House Damaged When 15
Cars Leave Track.
AMSTERDAM. N. Y.. July 24 (#).—
The New York Central freight house
here was wrecked early today when
15 cars of an eastbound freight train
on the company's main line were de
railed. No one was injured.
Railroad officials said the accident
apparently was caused when the truck
on a coal-laden gondola broke.
Traffic on four tracks was tied up
for nearly six hours.
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Gen. Drum Reviews 20,000.
HONOLULU, July 24 t/P).—Twenty
thousand soldiers paraded in final re
view yesterday before Maj. Gen. Hugh
A. Drum. Hawaiian department com
mander. who is leaving July 30 to as
sume command of the 6th Corps Area,
with headquarters in Washington.
4
President Justo
To Be Visitor
At White House
Argentine Leader to
Call on Roosevelt
This Fall.
AUGUSTIN P. JUSTO.
President Justo of Argentina and
his secretary of state, Saavedro Lamas,
will come to the United States this
Fall, soon after the Argentine presi
dential elections are over.
President Roosevelt extended an in
vitation to both statesmen last Novem
ber when he visited Argentina during
the Buenos Aires conference and
President Justo tentatively accepted.
No definite date has been fixed yet,
but it is understood that the President
and the foreign secretary of Argentina
will be here some time in October.
The two statesmen will travel on
an Argentine cruiser and are under
stood to be planning to go from here
to Italy to visit the King of Italy and
Benito Mussolini. President Justo is
not a candidate for re-election and
will become a private citizen next
year when he surrenders the office to
the man elected in October.
HIGH TEMPERATURE
FORECAST FOR CAPITAL
Continued high temperatures were
in prospect today as the Weather
Bureau saw nothing in the way of
definite relief from the heat over the
week end. The only hope of a tem
porary respite was in the possibility
of a thundershower tomorrow after
noon.
Otherwise the forecast called for
clear skies this afternoon, tonight and
tomorrow, with little change in tem
perature.
After falling to 68 at 6 a m. today,
the mercury climbed rapidly, reaching
83 at 9 45 o'clock, two degrees higher
than for the same time yesterday. The
"high" yesterday was 89, registered
at 2:50 pm.
DU LAK
Hyattsville Terrorized by
Daily Robberies—Brook
hart Among Victims.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Md., July 24 —
Hyattsville is in arms, awaiting the
next call of a “dawn burglar” who
has been terrorizing the city lor nearly
three weeks, during which he has
robbed at least one home every night.
His latest call was at the home of
C. Hodges Carr, Hyattsville merchant,
living on Owens avenue, at 5:45 a m.
today. Carr, who had brought his
shotgun home from his store in ex
pectation of the visit, was prevented
from shooting at the man by his
wife. %
The fact that in each instance of
housebreaking the trousers of the male
members of the household have been
carried into the hall, rifled and left
there led police to believe one man
has perpetrated all of them. They
also expressed the belief that he has
an accomplice who acts as lookout.
Police Alert.
City and Prince Georges policemen
are patroling the town nightly. All
the robberies have been between 3
o’clock and dawn, after the city lights
have been turned off, and city officials
are taking steps to have all-night
lighting, authorized some time ago,
installed within the next few nights!
Another robbery reported was that
! at the home of Carl Harrison, 59 Shep
herd street, which was entered at dawn
yesterday. The thief took *15 belong
ing to Mrs. Harrison, in a desk on the
first floor.
A few nights ago the home of
Ernest O. Cooke, Government Printing
Office proof reader, at 17 Locust
avenue, was entered. About *10 was
taken from Cooke’s trousers and about
$6 from the pocketbook of his daugh
ter, Miss Edith Cooke. The trousers
of Cooke's son-in-law, Thomas Wil
liams. also were rifled, but he had his
cash eleswhere.
nrookhart Robbed.
Another recent robbery was that
at the home of former Senator and
Mrs. Smith W. Brookhart, Ralston
avenue, and the Maupin Apartment
on the opposite aide of the same street
a few doors below was entered the
same night. Considerable money
was taken from Senator Brookhart's
trousers and a sum also was taken
j from a bowl in another part of the
i house. At the Maupin Apartment
; about $15 was taken.
The home of former City Council
man Howard A. Harrison on Guy
avenue was another recently burglar
ized.
Actress to Marry Earl.
IXDNDON, July 24 (yf*).-—Notice was
filed today of the forthcoming marriage
of the Earl of Jersey and Virginia
Cherrill, former wife of Cary Grant,
American screen star. No date was set.
__ THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW.
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Seven Victims of Blazing Car
To Be Buried in Single Grave
B.v a Stan Corrpspondpnt of The Star.
LAUREL, Md., July 24.—A blessed
candle burning in their parlor was
the sole material reminder in the !
farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Lammers today that sudden death had
shattered the quiet happiness of their
lives.
The candle symbolized the simple
creed of the elderly couple in ever
lasting life for the seven young mem
bers of their family whose mortal lives
were snufTed out in a few minutes
of blazing automobile wreckage early
yesterday.
With this faith to bolster them.
Mr. and Mrs. Lammers accepted with
quiet dignity the will of their Maker
in causing death to enter their home.
It was the first time in their more
than 40 years of married life that
one of their 13 children had been lost.
“There’s no use of fighting against
it," Mrs. Lammers said. “We can’t
even realize what it means yet.”
The seven victims of the tragic
automobile accident on the Crain
Highway yesterday will be buried in
one vault and in onp grave at the St.
Mary's Church cemetery in Laurel
tomorrow afternoon. Six of the bodies
wera little more than bone and ashca.
i
Three of the dead were rhildren of
the Henry Lammers. These were
Bernard Lammers, 21, and his two
sisters. Pauline, 29, and Mildred. 19.
The others were Anna May Lammers,
13, a niece of the other children;
Frances Haker, 17, a cousin, and
Francis Baldwin, 14, and David Man
tling, 7, their nephews.
The young persons were on their
way home from a carnival at Glen
Burnie, Md., when they apparently
missed the road and stopped to turn
their automobile around. A truck
Iriven by B. M. King, who said he was
Blinded by the lights of another car,
crashed into the rear of their machine
tnd turned it over.
The Lammers car immediately burst
into flames. David Manning was the
only one pulled from the wreckage
alive, and he died in a hospital later.
David's mother, Mrs. Albert Man
ning, a daughter of the Lammers,
said:
"They wanted to bury David «*p
arately, but he waa happy with thw
Bther children and I know he would
want to stay with them."
So David's little body will go into
(4m VICTIMS. Pag* A-37
A
D. C. INCOME TAX
DEATH PREDICTED
WHEN HOUSE ACTS
Heavy Land Levy Also Is
Seen Doomed in Confer
ence Next Week.
AGREEMENT EXPECTED
ON BORROWING CLAUSE
Senate Votes to Reduce Proposed
Inheritance and Estate
Payments Here.
BACKGROUND—
Pending District deficit brought
Congress to decision to impose new
taxes on local residents rather than
increase Federal contribution to
Nation's Capital.
Individual income, sales, busi
ness privilege and real estate levies
have been favored at mrious times.
House and Senate have approved
widely divergent bills with differ
ences now left to conferees.
BY J. A. O’LEARY.
The District tax bill is headed to
ward conference today with indica
tions the House will refuse to accept
the income tax and heavy land levy
approved by the Senate when it passed
the ever-changing revenue measure
late yesterday.
Assuming that the House will send
the bill to conference when it meet*
Monday, managers for the two
branches of Congress will get to
gether next week in an effort to sal
vage from the House and Senat*
measures a compromise tax schedule
that would meet the city's impending
$7,000,000 deficit.
They are expected to agree also on
a borrowing clause adopted by the
Senate, to enable the Treasury to ad
vance operating expenses to the Dis
trict until local revenues are collected,
thereby preventing payless paydays for
District employes.
Representative Kennedy. Democrat,
of Maryland, who drafted the original
tax measure, predicted last night that
the House would remain firm in it*
opposition to the income tax, which
went back in the bill yesterday when
a barrage of senatorial opposition
forced elimination of the 2 per cent
luxury sales tax.
nn*i Dili v onutin.l.
When the final vote was taken In
the Senate here is what the bill con
tained:
Income tax with rates graduated
from 1 per cent on net income up to
*2.000, increasing gradually to a max
imum of 5 per cent on the amount of
net income above *50,000. Estimated
net yield, *2,200.000.
A rate of *2.50 per hundred on the
value of all taxable land in the Dis
trict and continuation of the $1.50
rate on buildings. The boost on land
is estimated to raise *4,800,000.
The inheritance and estate taxes,
with the House rates reduced. Yield.
*800.000.
Revision of the personal tax collec
tion machinery, estimated to increase
collections on intangible property by
*500,000.
The weight tax on motor vehicles,
ranging from *5 to *12 on pleasure
cars, and from *15 to *150 on trucks,
estimated to yield *1,500,000.
The Thomas amendment authoris
ing, but not compelling, the Com
missioners to install automobile park
ing meters on congested streets, yield
depending on number of meters In
use.
During the debate Senators were
under the impression the income tax
proposal would raise *5,000,000, and
this estimate repeatedly was used in
support of the motion. District offi
cials explained last night, however,
that intangible personal property tax
payments under existing law would
be deductible, and these amount to
*2,800,000, leaving the yield from tha
income tax *2,200,000.
The bill as it stands would requira
District residents to pay nearly *10,
000 000 more in taxes a year. The
*1.500.000 from the motor vehicla
weight tax goes into the special high
way maintenance fund, which now
consists only of the gasoline tax. This,
however, still leaves more than *8,
000,000 of estimated new revenue for
the general fund, in which the deficit
exists. Even if the Budget Bureau
and Congress approve a pending esti
mate of *389.000 as the District's
share of rebullding the Washington
(See TAX BILL, Page A-37)
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miners nescued
After 4 Hours
In Coal Cave-In
‘Knew From the Start
We'd Be Saved,' Say
Pottsville Men.
By the Associated Press.
POTTSVILLE, Pa . July 24.—Pour
anthracite miners who, spent four
hours in a pitch-black pocket 400 feet
from the surface of a makeshift coal
hole at nearby Llewellyn told their
friends today "we knew from the
start we'd be saved.’’
Arthur Artz, 26, greeted by his 50
year-old mother, Mrs. Verna Artz,
when he reached the surface last night,
embraced her excitedly, but assured
bystanders and the crew of some 50
rescue workers who dug through a 40
ton cave-in to reach him that “I
didn't feel uneasy at all.”
His companions, A1 Acaley, 40; Al
bert Wise, 24, and Ralph Leininger. 45,
were equally good-natured after their
adventure, spurning medical attention
and insisting they were "all right.”
The rescue crew dug an opening
Uarough a roof rollapae that trapped
tV men within the shaft. They said
th«|' had plenty of room to move
aro and suffered none from the
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