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POLAR FLYERS SEE
[
Regular Commercial Air
Service Possible Soon,
Aviators Say.
Regular commercial air transport
service between the United States and
Russia Is possible and practicable
within two years, in the opinion of
Pilot Mikhail Gromov, commander of
the Soviet, plane which established a
world non-stop distance record be
tween Moscow and San Jacinto, Calif.
Gromov expressed the belief that
year-around service across the North
Pole is feasible with equipment now in
sight, “linking by the shortest route
two great neighbors,"
The airplane in which he made the
record flight with Co-pilot Andrei
Yumashev and Navigator Sergei Dan
ilin, he said, is five years old and.
with technical data already in hand,
supplemented by the experiences of
the two Russian polar flights, air
planes much better suited for the
work can be built.
In their first press conference since
their arrival In Washington by com
mercial airliner last Saturday, the
three aviators late yesterday at the
Soviet Embassy told, through Charge
d'Aflaires Constantine A. Oumanskv.
the story of their flight and their
news on its rpsutts
Optimistic Over Results.
Clad in spotless white, the trio re
laxed in easy chairs at the Embassy,
tired after a hot day of official cour
tesy calls and sight-seeing. Big.
husky, clean-cut men. all three, they
apoke frankly of their experiences and
expressed optimism over the results
of their trail blazing in the furthering
of air transportation of the immedi
ate future.
Their single-engined airplane, they
said, has a maximum range of nearly
8.700 miles, under the conditions of
storm and difficulty encountered in
Arctic flying, or a little more than
8.000 miles In normal operation. In
1934, they said, their polar airplane
made a flight of 7.707 miles around
a closed course and landed with fuel
for 372 miles still remaining in Its
tanks.
During their flight from Moscow to
Southern California, they explained,
they covered an artual ground dis
tance of 6,309.36 miles, not including
mileage flown in hunting for a clear
landing area. They could, they said,
have gone nearly 500 miles farther
south on their remaining fuel, but cut
the flight, short in order to land with
in the United States.
The great range of their airplane,
already obsolete in terms of military
development on standards adopted by
the United Slates and other air
potters, they attributed to the fact it
is single engined, has unusually large
span and has its performance charac
teristics all shaped toward range.
Favor Two-Engine Ships.
Future airplanes for polar transpor
tation, Gromov said, should have two
engines and higher speed than their
ship, which required 62 hours for the
trip. For pure long-range flying, how
ever, he admitted, a single-engined
ship would be preferable. Such an
airplane could be built, he believes,
which would nearly double the range
of the record breaker.
"Then you could fly from Moscow
across Canada, the United States,
Mexico and Central America into
South America." it was suggested.
"Why not?" he asked with a shrug.
A'ked whether hp and his fellow
crew members would rpcommend to
the Soviet government that such air
planes he built as a result of the flight
experience. Gromov replied that "the
W'hole spirit of our aviation is looking
ahead; we are always seeking greater
speed and longer range."
He said that in regular transpolar
service, service can be maintained
safely using a range between fueling
stops of about 5.000 miles. It would
not be necessary to establish fueling
bases on the Arctic ice, he said, though
he expressed a belief this could be done
If necessary.
As to their flight, he said, the only
dangers artually realized were at the
start, in taking off with their great
load of fuel, and in fighting around
four "cyclones" encountered en route,
one of them In California. They
landed at a time when all regular
transport airplanes were fog-bound
at California airports, Oumansky vol
unteered.
twmmafo mm ^aiiiorruans migitt.
not like this testimony as to th»ir
weather, Oumansky translated the
remark and Gromov replied hastily:
"But It always clears by noon.”
During their 62 hours in the air.
Danilin said, they had 52 hours of
continuous daylight.
Visit Langley Field.
Today the visitors were flown to
Langley Field. Va., to inspect the
Army's main East Coast air defense
base and the laboratories of the Na
tional Advisory Committee for Aero
nautics as the guests of officers of
the General Headquarters Air Force.
A reception in their honor will be
given at 9 o'clock tonight at the
Embassy by M. and Mme. Oumansky.
They will leave Washington tomor
row morning as passengers on a regu
lar Eastern Air Lines transport plane
for New York. The plane, however,
after completing its scheduled run at
Newark Airport, will continue to a new
airport at Queens to land them within
the metropolitan limits of New York.
They are to spend a week in New
York, making visits to airplane fac
tories and other points of aeronautical
Interest In New York and nearby
Etates.
Their plane has been dismantled
and will be shipped to New York,
where they will take charge of it dur
ing the trip by steamer to Paris.
Instead of flying the plane from
Paris to Moscow, as had been planned
originally, they probably will continue
by rail rather than undertake reas
sembly of the ship in France, they
said.
GORED D. C. EMPLOYE
IN SERIOUS CONDITION
Attacked by a bull, Harry Thomp
son, 32, a foreman at the District
Home for the Aged at Blue Plains, was
In a serious condition at Casualty
Hospital today from a fractured skull
and other injuries.
Thompson was gored by the animal
Sunday as he walked through Us
pen. Hearing his crias, his brother,
Jesse Thompson, rushed in with a
pitchfork and drove the bull away.
The foreman was picked up uncon
tcious. At the hospital it was found
he had a skull fracture, a crushed
Chest and several brol^n ribs.
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
ARCHITECT*
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, ac
cording to news that sneaks in
on us via the grapevine by
which news always is sneaking
in on us, finds time amidst hla other
duties to keep an eye on the buildings
the Government constructs here and
abroad.
When the President made his last
visit to Hyde Park he took a side trip
to Poughkeepsie, to give the begin
nings of the new post office there
a once-over-lightly. He did not like
ihe stone being used and what's more
he did not like the way it was being
applied.
The result was a trip to Pough
keepsie by the Supervising Architect
of the Treasury. He agreed with the
President and. as the work had just
been started, the stone work not liked
was ripped ofT and new specifications
worked out.
Mr. Roosevelt has ideas about the
construction of buildings in foreign
countries, too (according to 'hat same
grapevine!. He likes Jefiersoman ideas,
columns, porte cocheres and whatnot,
if the climate will permit their use.
The Dutch comes out when he con
siders the cold countries; he feels stone
houses in the Dutch Colonial style are
just the thing for Americans in lands
where the mercury is apt to drop to
50 below.
* * * *
SETTLED.
IssacGans has discovered, nearby
to Washington, what he feels is
the most fascinating estate name
of them all. Mr. Gans called on
tome friends at their country place
the other day, found over the en
trance the sign "Dunmovin."
Thought it had been borrowed
from the Indians who used to in
habit this part of the country, and
asked uhat the translation was.
‘ Well," replied the head of the
establishment, "we've moved so
darned many times it's become
tiresome. When ice moved here we
decided it would be the. last time.
IV p stay right here; that's what
the sign says and what it means."
* * * *
LESSON?
J^EMEMBER the case in the news
v journals a short while ago of the
fellow who checked out of a down
town hotel via the window, taking
! along the radio and neglecting to see
j the cashier before he left?
Well, a few days later at the same
hotel an overnight guest stopped at
j the desk to pay his bill, was told he
! could leave his suitcase in his room
' if he called for it before 6 o'clock.
| So he left it, decided aLso to pay his
bill later when he called to pick up
the luggage.
Later in the afternoon he returned,
sent a bell boy up after the beg and.
in a hurry so that friends in a. car
outside wouldn't be kept waiting, just
walked out. A week later he got a
bill for three days’ rent at the hotel.
Took them that long, it seems, to
discover he had left.
Apparently the fellow w'ho went out
the window did not teach them a
lesson.
* * * *
SUSPICION.
| QF COURSE it *11 goes back to a
tenet that has given “confidence
men" a certain peace of mind all
these years. The boys who make a
practice of tricking people out of
things and cash know full well that
others aren't going to be suspicious
of you until you give them good rea
son.
This chap just mentioned was com
pletely aboveboard in his dealings with
the hostelry. The other fellow might
have known that leaving a hotel by
way of the window, with the hotel's
radio under one arm, Is likely to
arouse a hint of suspicion, even in
Washington, where anything can hap
pen.
* * * *
TREED.
\|ARJORY HENDRICKS, sister of
Genevieve Hendricks, the in
terior decorator, is something of a
farmerette over in Montgomery Coun
ty. Among other things, she raises
pigs. The pigs give her a lot of trou
ble. They keep getting out of their
pen and running to the woods a mile
or two away. And when the pigs run
away Marjory has to go boar hunt
ing; and when she goes hunting the
porkers she wears a special oostume
for the occasion. We don’t know
why, but it's a fetching affair, con
sisting of brown overalls and a bright
red shirt. (She wears shoes, too,, if
anybody is ready to raise a question.)
Couple of days ago she was in the
midst of one of these searches when
she saw two large animals, with mean
looking hooked horns, lowering their
heads, leering at her. Having no
Spanish matador in her blood and
thinking of the red shirt, she dived for
the closest, tree. Safe among the
branches, she looked down to see a
field hand haw-hawing for all he was
worth.
“What's the matter, lady?" he
asked. She told him.
“Why, ma'am," was his cornful re
ply. 'them's caowg.’’
Marjory’s face was almost as red
as the shirt.
* * * *
. TYPO.
We know one on a local secre
tary. but we won't give her away.
Letter was dictated to her the
other day, wherein occurred the
phrase "five ton element." Epistle
brought instant response from the
recipient. He wanted to know what
his business had to do with a "five
ton elephant."
* * * *
STREET 8CKNS.
CHE was one of those large, capable
matrons, who like to take charge
of things; one of those fortunate*
never plagued by d^t on any sub
RANDALL H.HAGNER
DIES IN NEW YORK
Head of Real Estate Firm
Was Active in Civic
Affairs.
Randall* H. Hagner, member of an
old Capital family and long active in
the affairs of the city, died early last
night in Presbyterian Hospital, New
York. He was 57 years old.
Mr. Hagner, who headed the real
estate Arm which bears his name, was
•n route to join his family for the
Summer at Watch Hill, R. I„ when
stricken July 20.
At the hospital it was found that he
was suffering from bronchial pneu
monia. He was placed under an oxy
gen tent, but his condition rapidly
grew worse. His wife and two sons
were at his bedside when he died.
The body was brought to Washing
ton today. Funeral arrangements
were expected to be announced during
the day.
Mr. Hagner was born September 21,
1979, the son of Charles E. and Isa
bella Davis Hagner. The late Justice
Alex Hagner and Gen. Peter Hagner
were his great-uncles.
Founded Real Estate Firm.
In 1904, not long after he completed
his education in District public schools,
he and Alexander B. Brown, who died
last year, founded Randall H. Hagner
Ac Co. and built the business to one
of the largest In the local real estate
Aeld.
Hagner <fe Co. was largely responsi
ble for the transformation of Con
necticut avenue from a residential to
a commercial section, since the trans
actions for most of the stores on the
avenue were made through the Arm.
Among the principal sales Mr. Hag
ner negotiated were the Transporta
tion and Woodward Buildings.
The Hagner company engages in a
general real estate and insurance busi
ness and is mortgage loan corre
spondent for the New York Life Insur
ance Co. The company is located at
1321 Connecticut avenue.
Was Bank Director.
Mr. Hagn«r was a director of the
Riggs National Bank, to which posi
tion he was elected in January, 1922;
a member of the Washington Real
Estate Board, the Metropolitan and
Chevy Chase Clubs and of St. John's
Protestant Episcopal Church.
He is survived by a brother. Dr.
Francis R. Hagner, prominent Wash
ington surgeon; hi.- widow, Mrs. Mar
guerite Colton Hagner, formerly of
Illinois, and four children. Alexander
B. Hagner of Warrenton, born of Mr.
Hagner* first marriage to Anna Law
rence: Randall Hagner. jr.; Mar
guerite Colton and Lsabejla Louisa
Hagner, all of this city. The family 1
home is at 2339 S street.
TEACHER ENTERS
RACE IN ARKANSAS
Robert F. Water*. 48. High School
Superintendent, Church
Choir Leader.
Bt the Associated Preas.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 27.—A
mountaineer achool teacher-humorist
challenged today Gov. Carl E Bailey's
candidacy for the Senate neat left
vacant by the death of Joe T. Rob
inson.
While political leaders debated what
course to pursue in the face of the
Democratic nomination given Bailey
by the party’s State Committee. Robert
P. Waters, 48. announced he would
enter a special Senate election this l
Pall as an independent candidate. He
never before has sought an elective
public office.
The effect of his announcement on
other prospective independent candi
dates was not imqiediately apparent.
Mentioned for the race have been Mrs.
Ewilda Gertrude Robinson, widow of
the late Senator: Representative John
L. McClellan of Malvern and Attorney
C. A. Walls of Lonoke, a Robinson
kinsman. None made any statement.
Bailey, deferring selection of the
election date, which must be between
September 14 and November 12, also
declined comment.
Waters, superintendent of the Dan
ville High School, Yell County school
examiner and writer under the pen
name of "The Ambassador from Yell,”
made his announcement in a personal
letter to a Little Rock reporter and
confirmed his intentions in a state
ment today in which he said he could
not believe “that a majority of the
people approve of the committee nomi
nation of Gov. Bailey." He did not
announce a platform.
Waters is a native of Havana, small
community In the Ouachita Mountains
of Western Arkansas. A graduate of
the University of Arkansas, he re
turned to Havana to teach a rural
school and later moved to Oklahoma,
where for nine years he was a teacher
and county agent. He did graduate
work In English at the University of
Chicago and returned to Yell Colinty
to become county school superintend
ent.
He is an active member of the Bap
tist Church, teaches a Sunday school
class, belongs to the B. Y. P. U. and
leads the church choir.
EDITOR APOLOGIZES
Bad Photograph of Bead Soviet
Official Brings Explanation.
MOSCOW. July 27 UP).—'The editor
of the newspaper Soviet Art, in a
public apology for a bad photograph
of Felix Djherjinsky. former secret
police chief, that he published on the
eleventh anniversary of the official’s
death, explained today it waa not
“sabotage" but poor printing.
The newspaper live*tis had ac
cused the editor of "hostile" Journal
istic malpractice.
12 Die ai Train Hits Bus.
MEXICO CITY, July 26 (/Pi.—Twelve
persons, all Mexicans, were Killed and
22 were injured yesterday when a train
crashed into a bus near Tampico. The
dead included several men, four women
and a child.
ject. She was sight-seeing, with six
or seven other tourists in tow. At
Fourteenth and P streets she stopped,
peered across and saw the sign “Na
tional Press Building."
"There,” she explained to her
charges, "is press headquarters. That’s
where all the newspaper men come
and get the Washington news we all
- Realtor Dies
RANDALL H. HAGNER.
E
Veteran of Two Wars Had
Long Career in United
States Army.
Maj. Gen Samuel S. Sumner. 95.
U. S. A, retired, veteran of the Civil
and Spanish-American Wars, died yes
terday at his home in Brookline. Mass ,
it was announced by the War Depart
ment.
Gen. Sumner, a native of Carlisle.
Pa , was the son of Maj. Gen. Edwin V.
Sumner, whom he served as aide after
Joining the Cavalry in this city as a
second lieutenant in June, 1861.
His Civil War service also included
duty as aide to Gens. Wool. Burnside
and Parke. With his regiment, just
after the close of the war, he served as
escort to Gen. Grant here.
Several times he was raised in rank
for meritorious service at Antletam,
Fair Oaks, Vicksburg and Jackson,
Miss.
After the Civil War. he took part
in a number of campaigns against the
Indians, later, in the Spanish-Amer
ican War. he was awarded the Silver
Star Citation for service during the
Battle of San Juan.
He was military attache at the
American Embassy in London in 1900,
until ordered to command a brigade
in a China relief expedition. He after
ward saw service in the Philippines
and then as commander of the Depart
ment of Missouri, the Southwestern
Division and Pacific Division. Gen.
Sumner was a member of the Ex
amining Boards here in 1893. He was
retired in 1906.
Surviving are a niece. Mrs. C Her
bert Halcomb. Brookline, and a
nephew. Brig. Gen. John M. Carson,
retired, living in Connecticut,
TEMPERATURE LOWER
HERE BY 10 DEGREES
75 at 10 A.M. Compares With
85 at Sams Time Yesterday.
Two Were Prostrated.
Cooler weather was welcomed by the
District today after shower* yester
day afternoon broke up the heat wave
of the last few day*.
The temperature, rising to 90 de
gree* shortly before 2 p m. yesterday
and causing two prostrations in the
Washington area, dropped to 73 in the
wake of the rain. It was 67 at 5:30
this morning and had risen to 75 by
10 o'clock, 10 degrees cooler than at
the same hour yesterday.
Yesterday's heat victims were Dan
iel Gant, 33. of 3530 O street south
west, who collapsed at Nichols avenue
and Talburt. street southeast and was
taken to Casualty Hospital, and Ed
ward C. Clarke, 23, of New Kensing
ton, Pa., overcome near Fairfax, Va.,
and treated at Georgetown Hospital.
Both are reported in satisfactory con
dition today.
A return to warmer weather is ex
pected tomorrow.
FARLEY DOUBTS THIRD
PARTY IN 1940 POLLS
By the Associated Preaa.
LA CROSSE, Wi*., July 27.—Pont
master General James A. Farley told
interviewers here yesterday he did not
believe there would be a third party in
1940.
The Postmaster General stopped
here en route to Oconomowoc, Wis., to
dedicate a new $80,000 post office to
day. He had been touring Minnesota.
He said the Democratic party always
had been a liberal party and he be
lieved It fulfilled all the aims of the
proposed new party. He declined to
discuss the possibility of President
Roosevelt running for a third term.
I-1
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
Considers wage-hour bill.
Judiciary Committee considers court
procedure bill.
House:
Considers routine business and per
haps bill to provide six presidential
assistants.
Senate-House Committee discusses
plugging of tax loopholes.
Agriculture Con^nittee discusses
general farm program.
Labor Committee studies wage and
hour bill.
Rivers and Harbors Committee con
tinues hearings on regional power and
conservation authorities.
Naval Committee holds hearing on
bill to authorize construction of a
dirigible.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Probably will continue debate on
wage and hour legislation.
Indian Affairs Committee meets at
10:30 a.m. on miscellaneous matters.
Agriculture Subcommittee meets at
10:30 a.m. on bill relating to packers
and stock yards act.
Hnw :
Considers immigration and naturali
zation bills.
Banking and Currency Committee
considers monetary bill 10:30 am.
Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Committee begins hearings on Coast
Guard efficiency bill 10 a.m.
Immigration and Naturalization
Committee begins hearing, on mis
cellaneous bills 10:30 a.m.
District Subcommittee begins hear
ings on bill to establish five-day week
in Fire Detriment 10 am.
RULING ON W. P. A.
C. l. 0. Affiliate Hits Quota
Method in Request to
Cummings.
Charging the Works Progress Ad
ministration with unfair lallor deal
ings in its “arbitrary" method of dis
missing 500 employes of the adminis
trative staff here, the W. P. A, local of
the United Federal Workers has asked
the Attorney General for an interpre
tation of a provision in the relief
appropriation act making State quotas
a basis for lay-offs.
“The administration has made an
unnecessary and extreme interpreta
tion of the law,” it was charged in
a statement issued yesterday by the
union, which is affiliated with the
C. I. O.
The statement charged that in using
State apportionment as a factor in
selecting employes for dismissal, W.
P. A. officials based State quotas on
the number from each State employed
in W. P. A. alone instead of in the
entire apportioned Federal service,
“involving a complete concession to
political patronge.” It was on this
point the Attorney General's interpre
tation was asked. The W. P. A. is
not under civil service.
The union insists that seniority
should be the principal factor in de
termining dismissals.
■-»- . ... —
TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR
SUBSIDIES STUDIED
Maritime Commission Expected
to Report to President
Within 90 Days.
Granting of aubaidies for opera
tion of trans-Atlantic air transport
service is being studied by the Mari
time Commission, which la expected
to deliver 1U report to the President
within 90 days.
There now is a bill pending before
Congress which would prohibit awaid
lng of contracts for trans-Atlantic ;
airmail service, making subsidy pay- !
ments impossible. This measure would
permit the Post Office Department
to put mail aboard the best available
carrier on a poundage basis. It Is the
purpose of this bill to prevent the
establishment of a monopoly, feared
if a contract were awarded to a
single company.
The Maritime Commission study
was discussed with the President yes
terday at his first conference with the
Interdepartmental Committee on
Civil International Aviation, of which
Kennedy Is a member. At this con
ference Kennedy was authorised for
mally to go ahead with the aubsidy
studies. He revealed after the con
ference. however, that the Maritime
Commission already has made a good
start on these studies and will be
ready to report in the Fall, when Pan
American Airways and British Im
perial Airways are expected to begin
legular service across the Atlantic.
*-—-•---—
BANKER’S WIFE DIES
Mra. G. E. Rooaeveit Related to
President by Marriage.
NEW YORK, July 27 — Mra
Julia Addison Roosevelt, wife of
George Emlen Rooaeveit, who is a
second cousin of Mrs. Franklin D
Rooeevelt, died yeaterdav In Rooaeveit
Hospital. She was 4* and had been
111 for aeveral months.
She was a daughter of Rev. Charles
M. Addison, retired Stamford, Conn.,
Episropal Clergyman.
Her husband Is senior partner of
the banking firm of Roosevelt and
Son.
Action at the Circus
Ray Goodie, wire artist, with the Tom Mix Circus, which,
opened a three-day stay here yesterday, snapped in midair do
ing a back somersault on the wire. —Star Staff Photo.
«£•-—-—-- - ■ — !
OPENS 3-DAY STAY
Actor Stages Riding Ex- j
ploits That Won Him
Fame in Movies.
The Tom Mix Circus,—trick horses,
trained elephants, zebras. lions,
trapeze artists, sawdust and every
thing—opened yesterday at Twenty
fifth atreet northeast and Benning
road and is giving four more perform
ances, two each today and tomorrow,
starting, respectively, at 2 and 8 pm
The opening crowds, more than half
small boys, cheered Tom Mix as the :
aging but still aeile Westerner revived '
some of the riding exploits that won
him fame in the movies, such as ropmg
four galloping horses with one lasso.
Erma Ward duplicates the gymnas
tic daring that cost the life of Lillian
Leitzel, famous trapeze performer.
Erma, swinging from a high rope by
one arm. turns over 100 times. Frank
Shepherd does two and a half somer
saults under the tent roof and is
caught neatly by another performer—
a feat said to be unique.
There are the Hanneford 'amily,
bareback riders; Little Eva, the ele
phant that does everything, from
dancing to bowling: horses that rescue
Tom from the outlaws. There are
many other lively features during the
two and a half hours of each per
formance.
ARRANGEMENTS MADE |
FOR LOCAL PARKS TOURS
-
Dates for specially conducted tours |
through local parks were announced
today by C. Marshall Finnan, super- j
intcndent of National Capital Parks. |
Tomorrow a junior nature walk is
scheduled for 3:30 pm, starting at
Boulder Bridge in Rock Creek Park.
A campfire program is set for * pm.
Friday at Pierce Mill Picnic Grove,
when U. S. Lyons, associate astron
omer at the United States Naval
Observatory, will give a talk entitled
"The Heavens Above.’’
An all-day trip including a nature
walk in the Chopawamsic Recrea
tional Area has been set for Sunday.
Finnan said today. Swimming facili
ties will be offered by the Jewish Com
munity Center.
COMMITTEE 0. K.’$
— i
Nominations of 41 Experts
and Attorneys Approved
by Senate Group.
The Senate Appropriations Commit
tee today approved the nominations J
of 41 of the experts and attorneys of ■
the Social Security Board whose jobs j :
were jeopardized by an Independent |
Offices appropriation bill rider, which '
the committee becked No action
was taken today on 10 others, includ
ing three high-ranking officials.
The three were Frank Bane, execu
tive director: John J. Corson, assistant ■
executive director, and Le Roy Hodges, j
director of the Bureau of Old-Age'
Benefits. All three are from Virginia. :
The rider in question made subject
to nomination by the President and ,
confirmation by the Senate all posi- I ,
tions of expert and attorney at the 1 ,
board for which the pay is $5,000 or ! ,
more annually. Under it, none of
the incumbents could draw pay until I ,
this procedure had been complied '
with.
Favorable Report* Ordered.
The committee ordered favorable 1
reports on the following:
Jesse O. Irvin. Georgia: John R. (
Campbell, jr.. Massachusetts; Thomas ;
H Eliot, general counsel. Massachu
setts; Mary R. Wing. Ohio; Leonard' 1
J. Wilbert, Wisconsin; R. Gordon1
Wagenet, Connecticut; Curtis K.:
Lakeman. Connecticut; John F. |
Hardy, Massachusetts; Joseph L. Fay,
Massachusetts; Isadore F. Falk. Con
necticut; Merton L. Emerson. Massa
chusetts: Robert P. Bingham. New
Hampshire; Robert E. Huse, Massa
chusetts; Norman J. Ware. Connecti
cut; Thomas C Broadaway. Arkansas:
James Guy Pepper. Arkansas; Edward
B. Williams. Arkansas: Leonard J.
Calhoun, Mississippi; Edward J. Mc
Cormack, Tennessee: Jack B. Tale,
Tennessee: Sue S. White. Tennessee;
Elliott H. Moyer. Michigan; Thomas
C. Billig, Maryland: Goffrey May,
Maryland: William M. Galvin. Mary
land: A. Delafield Smith. New York; ■
Mary E. Austin. New York; A. Mel- '
vin Sims. New York; Mary Ross. New
York; Louis Resnirk. New York; Har
old P. Packer. New York; Rose J.
McHugh, Joseph E. McElvain, Jane
N. Hoev, S. Park Harman, Walter ■
Gellhorn. Thomas C. Blaisdell, Jr.. 1
and Paul E. Betzell, all of New York;
Merrill G. Murray, Minnesota; Ruth
O. Blakeslee. Pennsylvania and James
S. Douglas, Louisiana.
The following were listed as still
awaiting committee action: Alanson
W. Wtllcox and Thomas I. Emerson,
District of Columbia; William R. Wil
liamson. Connecticut; Helen R. Jeter,
California; Agnes Van Driel. Illinois;
Gladys A. Harrison, Minnesota; Ben
jamin S. Beecher. Wisconsin, and ‘
Bernice Lotwln, Wisconsin.
REDUCTION SOUGHT
ON “CANNED MUSIC”
Federation of Musician* Hold
Discussions With Radio
and Recording Firm*.
By the Associates Preaa.
NEW YORK, July 27.—American
Federation of Musicians' officials be
gan negotiations yesterday with radio
and recording Arms which they hope
will bring an agreement by Friday
for drastic restrictions on the use of
“canned music.”
Joseph N. Weber, president of the
federation, has threatened a Nation
wide strike against the making of
further recordings after August 14
unless the radio and recording Arms
come to terms. The federation, an
American Federation of Labor affili
ate. has 700 locals.
Although the big radio networks
have a general rule against using re
cordings except for special sound ef
fects, they are participating in the
discussions later in the week because
they are affiliated with small radio
stations which use recordings.
The musicians’ association objects
to unlimited use of recordings on the
grounds that its deprives musicians of
work.
FIVE, ADRIFT, RESCUED
HARBOR BEACH. Mich., July 27
(<?>.—A Coast Guard power lifeboat
reached Harbor Beach at 8:40 o’clock
this morning with five men who were
taken last midnight from the drifting
barge Michigan in Lake Huron. The
barge, with two more men aboard, was
approaching Harbor Beach in tow of
the tug Harrison.
The Oorst Guardsmen reported the
pulpwood cargo was last, as the barge
rolled all night long in storm winds
and high seas, but that the entire
crew was safe. j
AT HEALTH CAMP
Six More Stricken Children
Get Chance to Fight
for Life.
The number nf tubercular children
fighting their way beck to health at
the District Tuberculosis Association
camp on Bald Eagle Hill grew to 100
today as a result of contributions from
generous Washingtonian*
Receipts of *333 77 yesterday and
today raised the total donations so far
to *2.995 77, enabling six more chil
dren to enter the camp, with *50 77
left toward care of the 101st child.
It will cast only $60 to care for each
child during the remaining six weeks
of the camp period.
When the camp opened three weeks
ago today, the association had funds
to care for only 60 children. There
Is room at the camp for 125. News
paper descriptions of the plight of
those left behind because of the in
sufficient funds stimulated the flowr
af voluntary contributions, which
have given the 40 additional children
a chance for health
With camp facilities for 25 more
children, whose treatment ran be
financed only by additional contribu
tions, there are more than 200 youngs
ters on the waiting list. They are
suffering from tuberculosis in the
?arly stages, which ran almast cer
tainly be cured by the medical care,
nourishing food and rest waiting for
them at the health camp But un
less given this care and taken out of
lontact with the pulmonary rases of
uberculosts in their homes they hate
ittle chance, according to Mr. Ernest
R. Grant, managing director of th»
association.
One of the contributor* yesterday
ireated consideiaole excitement by
talking into the associations head
quarters at 1022 Eleventh street and
aying down a *100 bill. She refused
-o give her name; just asked that,
,he money be used for the benefit of
:he tubercular children.
Another donor sent a *7 check with
his explanation “Today would rm\ *
>een my mother's birthdav ar.d instead
>f taking flowers to her grate i an
jure she would prefer helping s'«ne
oungster."
SENATE APPROVES
TRAIN LIMIT BILL
Remains in Session Until After
Sundown and Sends Measure
to House.
Br the Associated Press.
A limit on the length of freight
trains, advocated by Senator McCar.
ran, Democrat, of Nevada, as a safety
measure, received approval of the
Senate yesterday.
The chamber remained in session
until after sundown to pa.ss McCar
ran's proposal and send it to the
House. There was no record vote
The Nevada Senator appealed for
support of his bill, which would l.mit
freight trains to 70 cars, on the
ground it would tend to preserve both
life and property.
Senator Bailey. Democrat, of North ,
Carolina, joined Senators White and
Hale. Maine. Republicans; Senator
Copeland. Democrat, of New York, and
Senator Dieterich. Democrat, of Illi
nois. in expressing opposition.
Bailey asserted enactment would
cost the railroads about nsnonn.nnn
a year. The public, he added, ulti
mately will pay the bill.
The only amendment adopted fived
the effect date of the bill as July
1. 1938.
HOOVER IS GIVEN -
GOLD BADGE, WATCH
He Also Gets & Sombrero, a Stack
of Telegrams on 20th Year
in Bureau.
J Edgar Hoover, director rf the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, today
is carrying a new gold badge
It was presented to him vesterdav hv
associates in the bureau, in observance
of the twentieth anniversary of his
appointment to the Department of
Justice.
He also was showing friend* an
engraved watch, a sombrero given hv
Tom Mix and a stack of letters apd
telegrams from admirers in all parts
of the Nation and from abroad
Among the letters was thus one from
Attorney General Homer Cummings:
"Dear Edgar—For 20 years you have
been a trusted member of the Depart
ment of Justice. It is a record of
distinguished public service, rendered
with real, fidelity and intelligence
"Yours has been a difficult task,
but you have discharged it in a man
ner that has won the confidence of
your associates and the high favor
of your countrymen. I cannot let the
anniversary pass without sending you
my affectionate greetings and my best
wishes for your continued success in
the days to come."
Many others prominent in publ «
life sent felicitations during the day.
VIGILANCE IS CALLED -
FREE PRESS PRICi.
Preservation of Independc
Papers Vital to IT. S.. Asserts
Clark Howell.
By th« Associate® Preas.
ATLANTA, July 27—Clark Howe!’,
publisher of the Constitution, declare",
here today that preservation of a fre.
pre.ss is the only certain way to fore
stall "the depredations of plutocracy
on one hand, of predatory poverty on
the other.’’
Howell was chief speaker on today's
program of the Atlanta Kiwanis Club.
James R. Gray, vice president and edi
tor of the Atlanta Journal, and Her
bert Porter, publisher of the Atlanta
Georgian and American, were special
guests. The club today paid tribute
to Atlanta's newspapers.
Howell said the Nation's newspaper*
are unfettered now but warned "the
price of freedom is eternal vigilance.'*
He cited forthright criticism of Pres
ident Roosevelt by widely read column
ists as evidence that American news
papers are filling without fear their
vital role of "censors" for the Gov
ernment.
The speaker cited as a "milestone in
our history," the Supreme Court's in
validation of a tax on newspaper au
vertismg which was passed by the—,
Louisiana Legislature of 1914 "at ilia
Instance of the late Senator Huey
Long.”
v
Workers’ Bargaining Demand
Catches U. A. W. /I. by Surprise
The office force of the United Automobile Workers of
America headquarters in Detroit turned the tables on their em
ployers yesterday by presenting union demands of their own.
Muriel Jenkins, chairman of the Negotiating Committee, is as
sisted by Vivian Fox, Thelma Goldman, Sylvia Lerman and
Ethel Polk in drawing up their demands.
_•—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, July 27.—Unionization
of 35 girl clerks and stenographers
employed at international headquar
ters of the United Automobile Work
ers of America puts George F. Addes
on the other side of the conference
table today.
Addee is secretary-treasurer of the
U. A. W. A. The girls served notice
on him yesterday that they, too, had
joined the Committee for Industrial
Organisation.
Their union is the United Office and
Professional Workers of America.
Along with notice that collective
bargaining was imminent right in the
U. A. W. A. office, the girls, with Miss
Muriel Jenkins as spokesman, sub
mitted a lengthy list of demands and
questions they regarded as ripe for
diseussi
Addes, after brief reflection, an
nounced that “we'll met their de
mands.” although he appeared to be
unfamiliar with them. He said he
hadn’t read the list carefully, but that
it would be discussed in detail at a
meeting with the U. A. W. A. on the
employers’ side of the table and the
girls on the other.
“Little unusual,” Addes observed
with a broad smile when the employes
first made known their intentions.
The girls desire a closed shop, 35
hour week, minimum weekly wage of
$35, time and a half for overtime,
arrangements for vacations, provision
for wage Increases in the future,
seniority rights, proper lighting an*
sanitation, payment of wages weekly,
two weeks’ notice of discharge or lay
| off and provision for discharge and
I lay-off ^mly for cause.