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HESS SET UP
More Contingents Expected
Today—Plan to Stage
Parade Tuesday.
A Jobless army of more than 700
camped quietly along the Potomac last
night, awaiting triple reinforcements
•xpected today in their campaign to
Impress the country with the necessity
for W. P. A. expansion rather than
curtailment.
Leaders of the “job march” and
police were agreed that the army will
reach a peak enrollment of about
3.500 tonight, after the arrival of
contingents now en route.
When rain appeared imminent
around midnight, several hundred of
those who were unable to find shelter
in tents set up in the park marched
to the Washington Auditorium, where
they were allowed to spend the night.
A persistent rumor that the demon
strators are planning a huge "sit
down” demonstration tomorrow, either
at W. P. A. headquarters or about
the White House, was denied last night
by leaders of the army.
The jobless men obtained a permit
from Metropolitan and park police
yesterday for a parade to get under
way at 11 a.m. Tuesday. The route
of the march has not been settled as
yet. although it probably will lie along
Constitution avenue.
Claims Partial Victory.
David Lasscer, president of the
Workers Alliance, which is sponsor
ing the march, declared the dem
onstrators won at least a partial vic
tory yesterday when W. P. A. Ad
ministrator Harry L. Hopkins sent a
letter to the Senate saying Job rolls
would not be reduced further before
the end of next Winter "except for
cause.”
Ttirough an arrangement with the
National Capital Parks office, the
demonstrators yesterday shifted their
camping site from the Monument
Grounds to an unused golf course in
West Potomac Park where sanitary
facilities were made available.
This move followed a conference
between leaders of the demonstration,
parks officials and District and Fed
eral health officers. The move was
prompted by unsanitary conditions and
the possibility of an epidemic on the
Monument grounds.
The marchers were given a permit
to camp in the park until Wednesday
Lasser, however, said the decision as
to whether the camp would be evacu
ated at that time remains with the
marchers themselves.
L&sscer told reporters last night
that Senator Schwellenbach, Demo
crat, of Washington, co-author of
the Sehwellenbach-Allen resolution
providing that no person be taken ofl
the relief rolls unless he has private
i employment, had agreed to address
a mass meeting of demonstrators to
morrow night on the Monument
Grounds.
bach yesterday, Hopkins said that nc
more dismissals would be made “ex
cept for cause" and that persons quit
ting relief rolls for temporary out
side jobs would be furloughed and
| guaranteed reinstatement. Lessee i
and his group are demanding tha1
i the W. P. A. reinstate those already
cut from the rolls, in addition tc
stopping lay-offs.
While details of the parade Tuesday
were not announced, it was thought
the marchers would move along Con
stitution avenue to the Capitol
Grounds.
Lasscer said the parade would be
held although Congress has adjourned.
Guards Strengthened.
Police guards were strengthened at
the Capital yesterday when about 75
demonstrators went there to demand
In vain that the Schwellenbach-Allen
resolution be passed before adjourn
ment.
In Police Court yesterday, seven
marchers were convicted and fined (5
each by Judge Edward M. Curran fol
lowing their arrest Friday for distribut
ing handbills in front o' the Label
Department.
Those fined were Martha Taylor, 22;
Mary Bran, 27; Ruth Mason, 30; Ann
Horwitz, 24; Elsie O'Neal. 32; Paa
quella Piscltilli, 44, and Jack Brown
44.
Attorney Sol M. Alpher of the Ameri
can Civil Liberties League represented
the marchers and the case was prose
cuted by Oliver Gasch of the corpora
tion counsel s office.
On the whole, the demonstrators
have proved orderly.
They have set up their own camp
system of discipline. While large extra
details of police will be on hand for
the parade, no disorder is expected.
Extra police reserves have been or
duty in downtown precincts as a pre
cautionary measure while the marchers
were in the city, however.
Workers in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, August 21 (£>).—
One hundred automobiles and nearly a
score of trucks and chartered bus«
brought 1,000 Works Progress Adminis
tration workers to Philadelphia tonight
In their march on Washington.
The marchers, from New England
New York, New Jersey and North
! eastern Pennsylvania, were joined ir
Reybum Plaza by another contingent
! formed in Philadelphia and expectec
! to reach Washington tomorrow.
Some of the trucks from New Eng
land bore replicas of the Colonia
rattlesnake flag with the printed warn
ing, "Don’t tread on me.”
GENERAL STRIKE PLAN
IS CHARGED TO C. I. 0
Lewis Group Plans to Bring Port
and Southern Industry “to
Knees,’’ Cox Says.
| By the Associated Pres*.
Committee for Industrial Organlza
tion leaders intend to bring Southen
Industries and Henry Ford “to thei
knees” with a general strike. Rep
reaentative Cox, Democrat, of Geor
gla charged yesterday.
He told reporters he has authenti
Information that the C. I. O., whicl
John L. Lewis heads, is “smartlm
under its failure to win the little steel
strikes and is determined to teach thi
Nation a lesson.”
A widespread campaign of Industrie
disorder designed to terminate in th
general strike is planned after th
adjournment of Congress, Cox de
dared.
He replied sharply to C. I. C
criticism of the House Rules Com
mittee, of which he is a member, fo
blocking the admlnlstration’6 wag
and hour bill. The Oeorgian declare
H la the duty of that committee “t
prevent precipitate legislation o:
measures so fundamental in their na
ture as to require careful delibera
tion."
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Film Idol Mobbed by Women Admirers
Robert Taylor was literally mobbed by hundreds of autograph-hunting girls as he sailed
from New York on the Berengaria yesterday. Surrounded by press agents and guarded by
police, he was safely placed, aboard ship. Later, police dragged two girls from under the bed
in his cabin._ —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
EXPERTS TO TALK
ON MEDICAL WS’
_
Nationally Recognized Au
thorities to Feature Pro
gram at Georgetown U.
Special lectures on recent advances
In medical and surgical practice by a
number of nationally recognized
authorities will feature a week's pro
gram, beginning September 13, which
the Georgetown University School of
Medicine Is arranging for local and
out-of-town alumni.
In announcing the preliminary ar
rangements for the second annual
I extension course, Dr. Wallace M
! Yater, professor of medicine, said
j yesterday it had been decided to
■ broaden the general scope by inviting
at least 11 guest lecturers to address
the general sessions. More than 200
physicians attended last year s ses
sions, and it was expected that the
attendance this season would be even
greater.
In addition to lectures by members
of the Georgetown medical faculty.
Dr. Yater said arrangements have
been made for numerous medical and
surgical clinics at various hospitals
In the city which are co-operating.
Of special Interest will be the identi
cal films shown at the recent clinical
congress of the American College of
Surgeons.
Ad ranees to Be Discussed.
Some of the notable advances
j which have attracted widespread at
j tention In the field of medicine and
surgery will be discussed by such
prominent men as Dr. Irvine H. Page
of the Rockefeller Institute of New
York. Dr. Sanford M. Rosenthal of
the National Institute of Health, Dr.
Irving S. Wright of the New York
Post-Graduate Hospital, Dr. Maurice
C. PincofTs. professor of medicine,
University of Maryland; Dr. Lewis M.
Hurxthal of the Lahey Clinic, Boston,
and Dr. Emil Novak, associate pro
fessor of obstetrics, University of
Maryland.
Mentioning only a few of the spe
cial subjects, Dr. Yater said the
course will deal with the use of
prontylin and prontosil for various in
fections; the use of new preparations
for exhaustion, heart disease, chronic
uloers and other common complaints.
Special attention also will be given
to the various methods of treating
gonorrhea and syphilis. Dr Thomas
Parran, jr., surgeon general of the
United States Health Service, who
focused nation-wide attention on
those scourges, is a graduate of the
| Georgetown Medical School.
Entertainment Listed.
Rev. David V. McCauley, 8. J„
regent and dean of the medical school,
will welcome the attending alumni at
the opening session on September 13.
There will be entertainment events,
including a golf tournament Septem
ber 16 on the links of the Georgetown
Preparatory School and a banquet
the closing night of the sessions,
September 17.
In co-operation with the George
town authorities, clinics and sessions
will be held during the week at
Children’s, Galllnger, Providence and
Episcopal Hospitals. There will also
be special sessions at Georgetown
Hospital.
In addition to Dr. Yater and Father
McCauley, the executive committee
arranging for the extension course
consists of Dr. John D. Hlrd, Dr.
George Tully Vaughan, Dr. James A.
Cahill, jr.. Dr. Fred O. Coe, Dr.
Reginald A. Cutting, Dr. Vincent J.
Dardinski, Dr. D. Percy Hlckllng, Dr.
Theodore Koppanyi, Dr. Leon A. Mar
tel, Dr. Henry S. Milone, Dr. Mario
Mollari, Dr. Joseph J. Mundell, D,\
Joseph S. Wall and Dr. Eugene R.
Whitmore.
Japan's Star
MOVIE ACTRESS WANTS TO
LEARN U. S. TECHNIQUE.
MISS RANKO SAWA,
Leading motion picture ac
tress of the Land of the
Rising Sun. is shown as she
arrived in San Francisco from
Japan. She is on the way to
Hollywood to study American
motion picture acting tech
nique, admitting shyly that
her favorites are Clark Gable
and William Powell.
—Wide World Photo.
MARINE RESERVES
District Unit Finishes Most
Arduous Shooting Week
on Record.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
QUANTICO, Va., August 21—Com
pleting their record firing at 3:30 p.m.
today, the 5th Battalion, Fleet Marine
Corps Reserve of Washington, finished
the most arduous shooting week ever
attempted by a Reserve battalion at
this post.
The Reservists turned out at 4 a.m.
reveille and began firing at 6, shoot
ing straight through without inter
ruption for meals or anything else.
Despite the heat and long hours on
the range there was only one case of
heat exhaustion among the 500 men
here, and this w- minor. Lieut.
Comdr. Don S. Knowlton, the bat
talion surgeon, pronounced the health
record "truly remarkable."
The schedule next week will be less
arduous and more diversified, involv
ing combat maneuvers, competitive
drills and intercompany athletic
events. There also is to be a soft ball
game between the Regulars and the
Reservists. The latter have already
defeated the Regulars at base ball and
last night the Reserve boxers, May
nard Daniels and Baby Menendez beat
the post’s two best boxers, Lindsay
and Murphy.
Maj. Harvey L. Miller, command
ing the 5th Battalion, and First Lieut.
Justice M. Chambers, commanding
Company C, received from the major
general commandant of the Marine
Corps certificates of graduation from
the Junior course of the Marine Corps
Schools.
Capt. John M. Augustine, command
ing Company A, also is a graduate of
that course.
WALLACE URGES
FARM-LABOR UNION
Solidarity of Two Groups Is
Hoped for as a Way to
Economic Justice.
Bz the A&aocUted Press.
INDIANAPOLIS. August 21 —Henry
A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture,
speaking before the Young Democratic
Clubs' national convention here, ex
pressed hope today for “a future
solidarity of agriculture and labor” as
a means of reaching the New Deals
goal of “economic justice” in America.
The New Deal agricultural head
urged delegates “to go forward: fight
for a program of economic justice, but
let us do it with a happy and joyous
spirit.”
"We are concerned with justice to
the farmers, justice to the laboring
man, justice to the small business
man and justice to those professional
men whose prosperity depends on these
three,” he said.
“President Roosevelt,” Wallace
added, “has emphasized justice to
that one-half of those at the bottom
of the economic pile."
"We are looking forward to an era
of security which we have never had
in the United ‘States before,” he said.
Maner Is Elected.
Pitt Tyson Maner of Montgomery,
Ala., won a unanimous vote as presi
dent of the Young Democratic Clubs
in an afternoon session delayed by a
deadlocked meeting of the organiza
tion's National Committee called to
consider “vote buying" charges.
John P. Neff of Staunton. Va„ chal
lenged the New Jersey delegates, the
charges were made after Eugene Mose
ley of Louisvill. Ky, challenged a
$3,700 item in the party's contribu
! tions. Delegate* are determined In
part by contributions to the cam
j paign fund.
Checks totaling that amount had
been drawn on a bank at Cullman,
Ala. They were distributed, Neff
charged, to New Hampshire, Pennsyl
vania and New Jersey.
C. R. Rainey of Alabama, one of
Maner's campaign managers, said
the money actually had been re
ceived from club* In the three States
The committee, by a vote of 37 to 32,
voted to accept the Rainey version.
Other Officer* Named.
Other national officers chosen were:
Mrs. Ocie Heady of Oklahoma City,
Okla., vice president; Paul Williams
of Columbia, Mo., secretary, and Judge
John M. Bailey of Hartford, Conn.,
treasurer.
Delegates selected Pittsburgh, Pa., as
1939 convention city on the second
ballot. Richmond, Va., and Seattle,
Wash , were leading contenders for
the host city also.
Maner, secretary to Gov. Bibb
Graves of Alabama, pledged support
to the New Deal and paid tribute to
his friends in a statement issued after
his election.
Delegates paid a silent standing trib
ute to the late United States Sen
ator Joseph T. Robinson and adopted
a resolution lamenting his death.
JUDGMENT AT FAULT
Keystone Automobile Club Re
ports Result of Safety Testa.
Tests administered by the safety
test trailer of the Keystone Automo
bile Club reveal a large number ol
motorist* have poor judgment of dis
tance, Edward P. Curran, safety di
rector of the club, said yesterday.
Many accidents wrongly attributed
to recklessness can be explained by
this physical handicap, Curran said
H. added that examinations given by
the touring trailer have not been suffi
ciently numerous to arrive at precise
conclusions.
FI ROOSEVELT
Remains in Quiet of Air
Cooled Office as Congress
Ends Session.
Br the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt sat in the
quiet of his air-conditioned office yes
terday disposing of eleventh-hour con
gressional business in a manner that
oontrasted with the hustling adjourn
ment days of his predecessors.
Unlike Wilson. Harding, Coolidge
and Hoover, he did not rush to the
Capitol to sign or reject bills before
the final gavel.
With the mercury hovering close to
100 outside, he remained in an office
more than 20 degrees cooler, and I
worked in what aides termed a “rou
tine way.” It was Just another day,
they explained.
Until the last year of Herbert Hoo
ver's term, w'hen the Supreme Court
ruled the Chief Executive had 10 days
to act on bills after an adjournment
of a Congress, Presidents would go
to a private room off the Senate
chamber to dispatch last-minute busi- i
ness.
They took their cabinets with them
to advise whether this or that bill j
should be signed or vetoed.
But in view of the court ruling i
President Roosevelt will take his time
this year, as he did the last four, and
act on bills after they have been
referred In the routine way to Inter
ested members of his official family.
The President did sign a group of
secondary bills yesterday. He also
announced hts seventeenth veto of the
session, sending back to Congress
without his approval a measure au
thorizing <500,000 for a memorial to
Will Rogers.
TAXI GROUP TO START
INSURANCE BILL DRAFT
Provision for Limiting Number
of Drivers to Be Included
in Measure.
Drafting of a bill compelling lia
bility insurance for District taxicabs,
which they helped to defeat in this
session of Congress, will be started
Wednesday by the Industrial Brother
hood of Taxi Drivers, E. Erwin Dollar,
president, said last night.
The new bill also will contain pro
vision for limiting the number of cab
drivers. It was when this companion
measure was killed in the House that
the brotherhood began to oppose the
compulsory insurance scheme, claim
ing that with an unrestricted num
ber of cabs cruising the streets in
surance would be too expensive.
"We will try to draw up a bill which
will satisfy all cab associations, citi
zens’ associations and the Public
Utilities Commission,” Dollar said.
MILLER IS CONFIRMED
FOR DISTRICT BENCH
Former Aide to Attorney General
Will Succeed Justice Van
Oradel.
In the closing hours of the session
yesterday, the Senate confirmed Justin
Miller of North Carolina to be an
Associate Justice of the United 6tates
Court of Appeals for the District.
Action was taken by unanimous con
sent after the favorable report of the
Judiciary Committee was filled by Sen
ator Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska.
Miller Is a former special assistant
to the Attorney General, and also has
been a member of the Board of Tax
Appeals. He fills the vacancy caused
by the death of Justice Van Orsdel.
CAVE IS POPULAR
Records Broken Since Mummy
Has Been Fat on Display.
All travel records st Mammoth Cave,
Ky., have been broken this year, the
National Park Service announced yes
terday, since the cavern’s pre-Colum
bian Indian mummy has been on dis
play in his new moisture proof case.
One day recently there were 2.363
paid admissions to the cave, now the
center of Mammoth Cave National
Park.
Archeologists and paleontologists re
gard the mummy as one of the most
interesting prehistoric finds east of
the Mississippi.
CONGRESS FAILURES
LAID TO COURT BILL
Burke Also Says Lewis Betarded
Labor's Cause and Hits
at N. L. E. B.
Standing up against both President
Roosevelt and John L. Lewis, Senator
Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska told a
radio audience yesterday that the
Supreme Court bill was responsible
for failure of congressional labor and
farm action this session, and that
Lewis had retarded iabor's cause
The Nebraskan, a chief foe of the
court bill, declared that "Lewis split
the ranks of labor wide open ” He
added: "I have no patience with a
leader who proposes to rule or ruin
the labor movement in America. The
sit-down strike, which amounted to
a confiscation of property, hurt the
labor cause. Labor needs public sup
port and it will never get it by fol
lowing the dictates of Lewis along the
lines which he set down during recent
months."
Speaking on a program of the Na
tional Grange, Senator Burke declared
the National Labor Relations Board
was "a failure” because it had become
partisan and prejudiced. If has lost
confidence." he said, "because it has
stepped out of the role it was in
tended to occupy, as an impartial arbi
ter, and has taken sides. No ot’per
conclusion can be reached than tpa
this Government agency has run
amuck, and has rendered a disservice
to the cause of labor which it will taks
a long time to overcome.”
; Airport
(Continued From Page B-l.)
“that the Planning Commission will
withhold approval when it so ob
viously is the will of Congress that
’ the lagoon area be filled in. I don’t
1 believe they would want to take the
: responsibility for allowing a d anger -
■ ous condition to continue, or hamper
■ air transportation in any way.”
As finally approved, the Copeland
' May bill requires advance payment of
J a $25,000 rental for use of Military
; road for 25 years, the money to go to
Arlington County for construction of
5 a substitute road around the airport.
The experimental farm and lagoon
areas would be leased for not more
; than 50 years at a nominal rental of
' $1 a year.
5,000-Foet Banway.
>. Airport officials had insisted that
- they be given outright title to the por
r tlon of Military road involved for the
e $25,000 payment, but Solomon said he
1 did not anticipate any serious diffl
3 euity in securing agreement of the air
i port corporation directors to the lease
■ provision.
As soon as the final details of
acquiring the property are worked out,
A
Military road will be barricaded at
both sides of the airport, Solomon
said. Then It will be filled in where
necessary to raise the roadbed to the
level of the airport, so as to make a
continuous landing field,
The road is now two feet below the
field level where It is crossed by the
north-south runway, he said. The 100
foot paved section of the runway has
been made level with the road, but
the usual 200-foot graveled strips be
side the paved section are missing at
the crossing. Work of eliminating this
"bottleneck” for pilots landing or tak
ing off on the runway should be com
pleted within a month, Solomon said.
He added that air transport pilots
and Commerce Department officials
will be called Into conference for ad
vice regarding exact location of pro
posed new runways. One of the new
runways would extend for about 5,000
feet, from somewherr near the airport
administration building, across the
portion of the experimental farm to
be leased. Running northwest-south
east, it would bisect the present long
runway at about a 45-degree angle.
Lagos* Filling Vital.
One or more other runways would
be built In a general east-west direc
tion, tbs eastern ends extending into
the lagoon area It Is proposed to fill
m
in. This area is necessary to make
them of usuable length, about 3.000
feet.
"Filling in the lagoon area is the
most important single item,” Solomon
said, “as this would provide the crose
runways, the lack of which pilots have
complained about.” The cross run
ways are necessary at times to avoid
the danger of landing or taking ofl
across the wind.
In connection with the modernisa
tion program, Solomon added, effort!
will be made to remove every type ol
obstruction from within the landinf
field limits. Present hangers. Includ
ing the blimp hangar near the north
end of the north-south runway, would
be torn down and rebuilt outside th!
field boundaries, he said.
Although the military road hasardi
can be eliminated within a month, II
would require probably two years U
complete the entire Improvement pro
gram, Solomon said.
The airport manager reported i
humorous climax to his four years ol
working for legislation to make thii
program possible. “I was sitting lr
the House gallery to watch the fina!
action on the Copeland-May Mil Fri
day night,” he said, “but they paved
it so swiftly that I didn’t even know
they had considered it until X read the
newspapers Saturday.”
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