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' mOOO IN BONDS
Life Savings of Minneapolis
Man Were Going to Buy
a Home in Florida.
Stocks and bond* representing
nearly *20.000 serines, with which he
hoped to buy ■ home in Florida, were
■tolen from his automobile sometime
Thursday night, Samuel Taylor of
Minneapolis reported to police yester
day.
A rear window of the car was broken
while it was parked in the 1400 block
of Belmont street and bags contain
ing the papers, most of which were
not negotiable, and about $250 worth
Of clothing, were taken out.
Taylor said he and hi* wife had
(topped here to visit with relatives a
few days while on their way to Florida
after selling their home In Minnea
polis.
On* of the stolen bonds, valued at
§500. was found at Ninth and Q
streets yesterday, lying in the street.
It was turned over to police.
A daylight hold-up and two purse
anatrhlngs also were reported to police
>*esterday.
Dwight Floyd, colored, 748 Columbia
road, said a man armed with a revolver
held him up in the 1200 block of Sev
enth street at 2:30 p.m., forced him
Into an alley and robbed him of *28.
Half an hour later, three colored
hoys snatched a purse containing a
diamond ring and some small change
from Lulu Fowler, 139 Bates street,
a* she was walking along Third street
between N and O streets.
Mrs. Mary Lyon, 1450 Fairmont
rttreet, reported that a white youth
took her purse, containing only a
•mall amount of change, last night
M Fifteenth and V streets.
LUTHERANS PLEAD
FOR PEACE POLICY
Federation of Brotherhoods Finish
Two-Bay Convention Fearful
of War Entanglements.
•» the As seriated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, October 9—The
American Federation of Lutheran
Brotherhood.* concluded a two-dav
convention yesterday with a plea that
the Federal Oovprnment keep the
Nation rmt of entanglement.* that may
lead tn war.
It. took if.* stand in adoption of a
much-debated resolution affirming the
federation's riPvotion to peace.
"Tinder God.” the resolution stated,
**we believe that our Amprtcan ppnple
do not want, war, and we respectfully
but. earnestly petition our Govern
ment to avoid and prevent entangle
ment in such foreign affairs a* may
lead to war.
‘The federation urges upon its
members thpir full co-operation in the
adoption of measures designed to
cpeate the wifi to peace and to this
and tt recommends throughtful and
prayerful consideration of all sug
gested possible methods of minimizing
the Itkplihood of our country being
plunged into war.”
SEVEN LOSE LIVES
AT GRADE CROSSING
Cars Collide on Tracks. Train
Flows Into Wreckage—Four
Are Injured.
the Associated Pres*.
GARY, Ind , October 9.—A double
crash at a flasher-protected, multiple
grade crossing left sevpn person.* dead
and four Injured, one critically, here
todfl”.
Two automobiles collided first at the
Crossing in the southwest part of
the city, and a few seconds later a
Nickle Plate passenger train plowed in
to the wreckage, throwing the dead,
the iniured and parts of the cars in all
directions.
The accident occurred at the junc
tion of the two heavily-traveled
boulevards and the railroad. All of
those involved in the crash were Gary
resident.*.
The dead: Mrs. O. Edward Schoon.
86: Mrs. Irene Cass, 40. driver of one
car. her son. Robert Cass. 3; three
colored men. A. C. Weatherley, driver
Cf the other car; Perry Brown Spann
end Roy Prince, and a Mexican, Sam
Chappa.
Mrs. Cass’ 18-month-old daughter
/udith suffered a possible fractured
skull, and Methodist Hospital at
tache* held out little hope for the
child's life.
Three other Negroes in Weatherley'.*
ear were thrown clear as the train
•truck and miraculously escaped ser
ious injury.
STORE FIRE DAMAGE
HERE PUT AT $2,000
Blaze in Seventh Street Dry Goods
Establishment Starts in
Basement.
Fire started by an overheated fur
nace in the basement of a two-story dry
poods store at 1814 Seventh street
destroyed more than »2.ooo in a.ssorted
merchandise early today, according
to an estmate by the owner. Samuel
H. Blument.hal. Blumenthal, his wife,
Minnie, and 15-year-old son Max.
were asleep in an apartment on the
Second floor when awakened by dense
clouds of smoke.
Firemen from No. 7 Engine Com
pany said a pile of cut wood near the
furnace evidently became ignited from
the intense heat. Flames ate through
Into the first floor after damaging
crates of merchandise stored in the
basement.
Chopping a hole through the floor,
firemen put out the blaze in about
SO minutes.
SHIP COMMISSIONED
NEW YORK. October 0 t/Pt.—Uncle
Bam added another powerful destroyer
today to his rapidly growing Navy—
the 14,000,000, 1.500-ton Fanning.
The destroyer, last of four built by
the United Ship Yards at its Staten
Island plant, was commissioned yes
terday at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in
a brief ceremony.
The Fanning, second American
ttan-of-war to bear the name, was
named for Nathaniel Fanning, who
served with John Paul Jones in the
Revolutionary War. The vessel car
ries a crew of IBS men and § officers.
t
Uncle Sam’s Battle Line in West j Coast Maneuvers
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The big ships of the battle force, “power house” unit of the United States Navy, are shoum in column line during the maneuvers
off the Southern California coast that took in four days of concentrated scouting and battle drill to test the fleet's new organi
zation plan by which the destroyers are attached to the battle force. This picture, taken from the U. S S. California the flagship
shores the West Virginia. Colorado. Arizona, Pennsylvania and other battleships trailing in the California’s wake. The planes in
the foreground are part of the California's complement. _Copyright A P Wirephoto
NEGLECT IS LAID
Court-Martial Told Omaha’s
Navigator Should Have
Used Range Finder.
I the Ansoriixed Press.
NORFOLK. Va , October 9—Lieut.
Comdr. Edgar R. Winckler, U. S. N.,
navigator on the cruiser Omaha when
she grounded on a reef near Castle
! Island In July, yesterday heard Lieut.
Solomon Isquith, U. S. N„ judge ad
: vocate of the court-martial hearing
i charges against the officer, charge him
I with ‘ neglect of duty in that the
i defendant failed to determine his posi
! tion with a range finder."
Lieut. Isquith presented his argu
ment for the prosecution shortly after
the members of the court reconvened
yesterday afternoon.
‘‘A reading could have been taken
on the light (Castle Islandt prior to
the accident." was the contention of
the judge advocate as he continued
his arguments which ask for convic
tion of the defendant on ‘ grounds of
neglect of duty and stranding the
Omaha.”
"Searchlights were available and
were powerful enough to illuminate the
Castle Island light house had they
been used for such a purpose.” Lieut.
Isquith added in closing his brief
argument.
Comdr. Howard A. Hauser, U. S. N.,
r member of the counsel for the de
] fense. introduced as testimony yester
day morning a letter he received from
the Imperial light house superin
tendent at Nassau, showing that the
waters adjacent to the reef on which
the Omaha grounded "were the most
treacherous currents in the Bahamas,”
I and required the services of a native
pilot.
A verdict is expected today.
Monday morning Capt. Howard Mc
Clearv, U. S. N.. commanding officer
of the Omaha, will face court-martial
on a charge of "stranding the ship."
C. B. S. IS ACCUSED
OF LABOR VIOLATION
Chain and Cincinnati Station
Charged With Discharging
Writer for Union Activity.
By th# Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, October 9. — The
American Federation of Radio Artists
filed a complaint late yesterday with
the National Labor Relations Board
charging the Columbia Broadcasting
System and Station WKRC. Cincin
nati. with violation of the Wagner act
in the discharge of William Seymour,
a news writer, because of alleged
union activity.
Philip o. Phillips, regional director
for the N. L. R. B.. said that, to his
knowledge, it was the first case of its
kind to be filed against a radio chain.
8eymour, former Shakespearean
actor and once a student at Brown
University, Providence, R. I., wag dis
charged from Station WKRC last
September 30. the complaint alleges,
because of activity in behalf of the
union, already active in New York,
Chicago, San Francisco and Lo6 An
geles. He dropped his last name of
Eckert upon entering radio and stage
work.
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RUTH ROLAND’S WILL
CONTESTED BY FATHER
Charges Husband of Actress Dic
tated Document Giving Him
Bulk of $1,000,000.
By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, October 9.—The
will of Ruth Roland, star of silent
movie serials, disposing of her $1,000,
000 estate, was contested yesterday by
her father, John R. Roland, sr., who
was left $100.
He charged, in opposing probate of
the will dated August 18, 1937, that
Ben Bard, husband of the actress,
‘‘dictated and suggested the terms of
the document and it W'as not a free
and voluntary act.” Bard was left
the bulk of the estate.
Roland also charged his daughter,
who died two w’eeks ago, “was not of
sound and disposing mind.”
A
Precedent9 Not Etiquette5 Put
Miss Perkins at Etui o f Table
Meetings of the President'* cabinet
*re the Capital'* only big-time get
together* where the men seat a lone
lady in the moat inconspicuous seat.
But that's the way it was again yes
terday—Labor Secretary Prances Per
kins way down in the left-hand corner
of the shiny mahogany table. Prece
dent, not etiquette, put her there.
Etiquette, too, hardly stands a show
when the topics are such serious ones
as the Sino-Japanese War and the pos
sibility of a special Congress session.
Responsibility for Miss Perkins’
ranking must be divided between
George Washington and President
Roosevelt. Washington appointed the
first cabinet and Roosevelt the first
woman member.
The room — smaller than you'd
; imagine—Is a few steps across a nar
row hallway from the President's of
fice, not in the White House proper,
but in the executive office building
nearby.
Wall* are of white plaster. Heavy
red curtains drape gracefully about
four windows, and a fireplace that
doesn't light rises behind the Vice
President's chair.
Sessions are secret and they ordi
narily are held twice a week. No
stenographic records are kept of what's
said. Discussion generally is in
formal—a sort of exchange of opinions.
Three portraits — all Democrats —
look out from the pearly walls:
Woodrow Wilson from behind thr
Vice President's seat at the foot of
the table.
Andrew Jackson from behind Secre
taries Wallace and Swanson.
Thomas Jefferson over the shoulders
of Secretaries Woodring and Morgen
thau.
There'* just one thing wrong with
the room—stuffed fish.
Though mounted, it hasn’t been
raised to the wall. With its big eyes
turned ceillngward, it's sitting on a
small table looking a little sad.
POISONED PANCAKES
KILL TRIO IN WEST
Cook and Assistant Mistakenly
Use Insecticide—Dozen Are
Made 111.
By the Associated Press.
WINTERS, Calif.. October 9.—Pan
cakes made mistakenly with insecti
cide were blamed today for the deaths
of three Migrant tomato pickers and
the violent illness of a dozen others.
Sheriff's Deputy Clifford Garrison
said Jim Hines, cook at the J. R.
Griffin ranch, where the deaths oc
curred. told him he and an assistant
used the poison in the belief it was
flour. Hines was detained on an
open charge.
Thirty men sat down to breakfast
yesterday at the ranch. Fifteen ate
the pancakes. Three of the dozen
who continued to be ill today were
under treatment at Yolo County Hos
pital.
Hines said George Martin went to
the ranch tank house and returned
with a poison used for killing spiders.
Hines, Garrison said, debated with
his assistant, William Sherman,
wrhet.her the sack contained flour,
finally decided it did, and used it.
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NK5I IMLW BA I I LtSHIP
WAITS ON PLAN DETAILS
North Carolina Will Be Started
at New York Yard in Two
or Three Months.
Assistant Secretary Charles Edison
said yesterday at least two or three
months’ further work on plans wdll be
necessary before the keel of the first
of the Navy’s two battleships can be
laid.
The North Carolina will be started
first, at the New York Navy Yard, he
told reporters. The same plans will
then be used for the Washington, to
be built at Philadelphia. Construc
tion is expected to require more than
four years.
Edison conferred for the first time
with a five-man board which will ad
vise the Navy on construction of the
vessel.
“The design and construction of
these ships are of large importance to
the country in respect to national de
fense and public finance,” Edison said.
“They will be the first ships of their
class laid down in nearly 20 years
and when completed will constitute
vital elements in our first line of de
fense, the United States Fleet.”
D. C. WOMAN’S KIN DIES
Maj. Carpenter - Holland - Griffith
Succumba in Wales.
Word has been received here by
Mrs. Leo Kasehagen, 1353 Jefferson
street, of the death’of her brother
in-law, Maj. Frederick Carpenter
Holland-Griffith, 86-year-old veteran
of the Connaught Rangers, at his
estate at Carreglwyd Anglesey, Wales.
He died October 5 of a heart attack.
His wife was the former Rosemund
Higginbotham of Montvale, Va., Mrs.
Kasehagen's sister. At the time of
his death, the retired officer was pre
paring to go. to his Winter estate, Bid
denham Close, at Bedford, England.
i
Owner's Plea
To Chrysler
Gets a New Cor
IS ens Photographer
ISahs Magnate After
White House Talk.
Maurice Lanigan, White House pho
tographer for a news service, who has
been having trouble with the clutch
on his automobile, sat in a barber
chair this morning and reflected hap
piness at his meeting with Walter P.
Chrysler.
The automobile manufacturer had
called on President Roosevelt yester
day and later bustled past reporters
after the conference with the re
mark:
“Nothing to say, absolutely nothing
to say.”
The reporters took him at his word,
but outside the White House door
waited the more intrepid Lanigan,
who had been bursting for months to
say to Chrysler:
“I haven't had much luck with my
De Soto. I can't make it work. I'Ve
been having an awful time.”
So Lanigan stepped right up and
made his speech. Chrysler stopped
and listened. He then turned to R.
Walter Evans, Washington De Soto
distributor, who had been waiting for
Chrysler to complete his talk with the
President.
"Mr. Evans, take down this man's
name and see that he gets fixed up.
And don’t forget it.”
Evans handed Lanigan his card
with instructions to come around to
his show rooms at 1021 Fourteenth
street and get a new car. Lanigan has
had his sedan for six months.
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Will Mark Anniversary.
The 26th anniversary of the Ral
eigh Haberdasher will be celebrated
with a dance starting at 9 o'clock to
night in the Washington Hotel. Hie
entire roof, with the ball room and
dining room, has been taken over for
the event. A supper will be served.
. i
Duck Hunting
Season Opens
In 18 States
By the Associated Press.
Gunfire echoing through cool morn
ing air signified today the opening of
the 1937 duck hunting season In 18
States.
Sportsmen in the Northern zone took
first crack at the migrant wild fowl,
while those In the Central and South
ern zones will have their shooting in
nings later this Fall.
States in which snooting became
legal at 7 a.m. were Colorado, Iowa,
Kansas. Maine, Massachusetts, Michi
gan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska,
New Hampshire, New York (except
Long Island), North Dakota, Ohio,
Oklahoma, South Dakota, Vermont,
Wisconsin and Wyoming. Hunters in
this territory may shoot until No
vember 7.
The season in the intermediate or
Central zone is November 1 to 30 and
in the Southern zone November 37
to December 36.
Engineer at Naval Base
Says Designers Have
Neglected This Phase.
By the Associated Press.
I<OS ANGELES, October 3—The
national aircraft production meeting
heard today that maintenance and
overhaul of naval aircraft are prob
lems "too frequently neglected by the
aircraft builders," making it "difficult
to design repair* with assurance of
their effectiveness."
F. G. Arnold, aeronautical engi
neer. U. S, Naval Air Station, San
Diego, Calif., told the meeting here
that naval overhaul organizations are
not provided with stress data on planes
they are required to service.
"The overhaul phase is an operation
with which the designer is generally
unfamiliar." he added.
"Due to this lack of data it is dif
ficult to design repairs or reinforce
ments with any degree of assurance of
their effectiveness."
Arnold described corrosion as "the
greatest of all bugbears to thp over
haul agency.” This is especially true
of seacraft because of exposure to salt
water, he pointed out. He blamed poor
hpat treatment of plane parts in the
factory for one type of corrosion and
said "this may be serious as it may
progress within the metal with nc
outward visual sign whatsoever."
"An almost invisible pimple." Arnold
explained, "may be observed on the
surface of the metal and. if probed
into, will be found to be a shell cov
ering the products of corroson which
have been known to extend under
the surface for an inch or more.
“Thus a structural pert, poorly
heat treated, may deteriorate beyond
safe limits before he fault is sus
pected.” .
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RECKORD OR LEWIS SEEN
AS SENATE CANDIDATES
Bj the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, October 9.—The Eve
ning Sun says either Representative
David J. Lewis of Western Maryland
or Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord
commander of the Maryland National
Guard, may seek the 1938 Democratic
senatorial nomination on a primary
ticket with Herbert R. O'Conor foi
Governor.
The paper said “a spokesman foi
the O’Conor camp” said only these
two have been considered as a run
ning mate for O’Conor, now attorney
general. It added that neither had
been approached about the candidacy
DAVIDSON MURDER
CASE BREAK SEEN
Virginia State Police Expect
Early Solution of
Mystery.
Virginia State police today expected
an early solution to the mysterious
murder of Elmer J. Davidson, 52-year
old research expert for the United
States Chamber of Commerce, whose
body was found early Monday beside
a little-used road in Stafford County,
Va.
Sergt. E. J. McDermott said he ex
pected a "break at any moment” with
out revealing his reasons for this be
lief. Names of service men found in
Davidson's notes have given investi
gators clues to the murdered man's
associates after office hours.
Pennsylvania State police are aiding
the search for a Pennsylvania motorist
who picked up the supposed murderer
near Triangle, Va.. Sunday night after
the latter drove Davidson’s expensive
roadster into a ditch on the Richmond
highway.
State Policeman Maury O. Sneed
of Stafford. Va., today continued his
search for the murder weapons he be
lieves were hidden or thrown away in
the woods adjoining the Widewater
road beside which the body was found.
Davidson had been stabbed under
ihe heart and shot through the head.
Sneed is convinced the murderer dis
posed of the knife and gun before
driving Davidson's car onto the Rich
mond Highway. s
Davidson, a bachelor, had been
accustomed to taking long rides at
night in his roadster. Qn the night of
his death he was believed to have1
picked up a hitch-hiker or some
casual acquaintance, perhaps in Wash
ington. He was alone when he left
his home at 555 Randolph street.
MORRIS DOW DIES
OF HEART ATTACK
Ketired Accounting Office Employe
Won Distinguished Service
Medal.
Special ni»D»ieh to The Star,
j SILVER SPRING, Md.. October 9.—
Morris Erskin Dow, 5B. an accountant
w’ith the General Accounting Office
for many years, died yesterday at his
home at 8 Kingsbury drive of a heart
attack. He had retired from his posi
tion September 1 because of failing
health.
A native of Washington. Mr. Dow
was the son of the late Jesse Erskin
Dow and Clarinrla Coppinger Dow.
At the time of his birth his father
was employed in the offire of the Sec
retary of Navy. His grandfather. Wil
! bam Coppinger, was consul general
to Liberia and secretary-treasurer of
the American Colonization Society.
Mr. Dow attended Maryland Uni
versity and later served with the Na
lional Guard on the Mexican bordpr.
A World War veteran, he was with
i the Rainbow Division in Prance for
almost two years and was wounded
i in action at Chateau Thierry. He was
I awarded the Order of the Purple
Heart and Distinguished Service
Medal for his war duty.
At the close of the war he mar
ried Miss Agnes L. Thompson of
Washington and entered the General
Accounting Office. He and his wife
i lived in Washington until a year ago, !
when they purchased the house on
Kingsbury drive. His widow is his
only survivor.
Funeral services will be held at his
late home on Tuesday afternoon. In
terment with full military honors will
be at Arlington National Cemetery.
LIVE STOCK BLUE BLOODS
IN COLUMBUS EXHIBIT
! Million Dollars' Worth of Ani
j mals Ready to Be Judged by
Collegiate Teams.
By the Associated Prrss.
COLUMBUS. Ohio, October 9.—
Curried, combed and marcelled, blue
bloods of the animal kingdom went
on exhibition here today wdth the
opening of the eight-day National
Dairy Show.
Lloyd Burlingham, secretary of the
National Dairy Association, estimated
that a milhon dollars' worth of lire
stock was on exhibit at 8 a.m. when
teams from 22 States and 1 Canadian
province competed in an international
intercollegiate cattle judging contest.
Also on today's program was the
grading of exhibits entered by 37
State prize 4-H club teams. Results
of both competitions will be an
nounced Monday night.
Formal judging of dairy cattle and
Percheron horses will atart Monday.
Approximately 1.000 cattle and 300
horses will vie lor *20.500 in prize
money. An additional *1,700 has been
posted for horse pulling contest*.
Kidnaped
AMERICAN PRIEST HELD IN
MANCHUKUO.
The Rev. Gerard A. Don
ovan, a former resident of
Pittsburgh and a member of
the Maryknoll Mission, who
was kidnaped from the sac
risty of the Roman Catholic
Church at North Fushun,
Manchukuo, the night of Oc
tober 5 by bandits who de
manded $50,000 ransom for
his release.
_—Wide World Photo.
SOUTH GETS HALF
OF TENANCY FUNDS
$4,381,107 of $9,500,000 Total
for First Year Allotted in States
Below Mason-Dixon Line.
By the Associated Press.
Southern States received slightly
less than half of $9,500,000 allotted by
Secretary Wallace today for Govern
ment loans in the first year of the
Government's farm tenancy program.
Ten Southern States received
$i,TB1.107 of the total. Congress ap
propriated $10,000,000 for the first
year, but officials said that about
$.WO.OOO would be needed for admin
istrative expenses.
The loans are designed to enable
farm tenants, laborers and share
croppers to become farm owners.
Tenant purchase activities will ' be
directed by Paul V. Maris of Cor
vallis. Oreg . formerly a regional di
rector for the discontinued Resettle
ment Administration.
Allocation of funds by States In
cluded $213 907 for Virginia. Farm
security officials said Secretary Wal
lace would determine the counties
within the States where loans will be
made after recommendations from
State committees.
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SNITE WILL GO SOUTH
IN MECHANICAL ‘LUNG’
Paralysis Victim Will Spend Fall
and Winter in Florida—New
Respirator Used.
Bt the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 9.—Prepara
tions were completed today for the
removal of Frederick B. SnPc. jr.,
infantile paralysis victim, to Miami.
Fla., where he will spend the Fall
and Winter in his new mechanical
"lung."
The new artificial respirator, con
structed of aluminum and rubber,
permits greater freedom of his legs
and arms. It supplanted a heavy
iron one in which young Snite had
been inclosed from the nerk down
since he was stricken in Peiping,
China, 18 months ago.
His trip South, to start next week,
will take him from the hospital for
the first time since he returned from
China last June. Snite's father. h°ad
of a loan company, said the family
home in Miami had been fitted with
special equipment In preparation for
any emergency.
HAWAII GREETS PARTY
Spending $30,000 in New Plea for
Statehood.
HONOLULU. October 9 </Pl —
Hawaii will pay $30,000 for its second
attempt to convince a congressional
party it is entitled to statehood.
A party of SO, including 8 Senators
and 13 Representatives, is here to in
vestigate island conditions.
Civic leaders privately admit they
expect only a negligible amount of
new information to be added to the
voluminous data collected during public
hearings here two years ago by a con
gressional committee.
However, the visitors will be shown
every major island and all phases of
the Territory's life.
Some observers believe the major
bar to statehood lies in Hawaii's
strategic importance as a military
base.
Naming of Advisory Board
Not to Interfere With
Construction.
Appointment of a special advisory
board, comprising noted marine archi
tects and engineers, will not delay
construction of the two new battle
ships, North Carolina and Washing
ton, Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Charles Edison declared yesterday.
Building of the vessels skill proceed
according to schedule, he said, al
though he revealed it may require
more than four years.
The Navy is attempting to find
some way to compensate the board
members, at least by giving them
expenses, Edison said. It will be at
least two or three months before th#
keels are laid, he explained.
The New York Navy Yard is mak
ing detailed plans for the two vessels,
and one set of plans will be given
later to the Philadelphia Navy Yard,
where one of the ahips will be built.
The North Carolina will be con
structed at the New York yard, while
the Philadelphia yard will build the
Washington. Each of the vessels,
fully equipped, will cost around $60,
000,000.
To Inspect Details.
The consulting board will be ask»d
to look over general plans that al
ready have been made and to in
spect details as they develop in con
struction. Justifying the naming of
the board, which is patterned after
the Naval Consulting Board set up
during the World War and presided
over by the Assistant Secretary#
father, Thomas A. Edison, the in
ventor, Secretary Swanson's assistant
said the Navy felt the weight of re
sponsibility in building the new bat
tleships, the first constructed by the
American Government in nearly 20
years.
Edison likened the naming of the
board to the case of a surgeon call
ing In consultant# before undertak
ing a difficult operation. He said the
Navy wanted these pminent outsiders
“to reinforce our judgment and knowl
edge with the experts.’’
Edison's pronouncement came af’er
the board had held its organization
session at his office at the Navy De
partment. The board will meet peri
odically as its duties require, officials
said.
Of Ijirge Importance.
“The design and construction of
these ships are of large importance
to the country in respect to national
defense and public finance. Thev
will be the first ships of their class
laid down in nearly 20 years and
when completed will constitute vital
element# in our first line of defense,
the United States Fleet,” Edison said.
Members of the board are John F
Metten, president of the New York
Shipbuilding Corp.: Joseph W. Pow
ell, president of United Dry Docks,
Inc.: W. F. Gibbs, president of Gibbs
<fe Cox. Inc., of New York City;
Prof. William Hovgaard, professor
emiritus of naval construction, Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, Mas*, and Admiral Jo
seph Strauss, U. S. N, retired, who
lives here at 2208 Massachusetts ave
nue, ordnance expert.
BIG DROP IN STOCKS
ASSAILED BY JONES
R- F. C. Head Says There Seems
No Good Reason for Going
So Far.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. October 9—Holding
the Nation seldom has b«en more
prosperous. Jesse H. Jones, chairman
S of the Reconstruction Finance Corp ,
i said last night “there seems no food
reason’’ for the decline in the stork
| market to have gone as far as It has
“We have not, caught up with six
years of neglected construction.” he
said in a speech prepared for delivery
at the annual banquet of the Na
tional Association of Supervisors of
State Banks.
“There is no shortage of buying
power. Yet during the last, few
weeks we have been witnessing a
continually falling securities market.
“Ask a doacn men for an explana
tion of this falling market, and you
are apt to get as many different an
swers. but they will all inelude ‘fear ’
Fears that run all the way from the
national administration to the boll
weevil.
“There are, of course, many con
tributing reasons, but are they suffi
cient to warrant so much pessimism?
I do not believe so. The market
might have been too high. But there
seems no reason for it going as low
as it has."
National income, he said, “is still
definitely on the increase. Such
economic factors as may be tempo
rarily out of line, due to new- laws
and new conditions, will be adjusted."
GROUP OF 81 GERMANS >
VISITS U. S. BUILDINGS
Ambassador Dieckhoff Entertain*
Architects, Engineer* and
Builders Today.
Eighty-one German architects, en
gineers and builders, on a two-day
visit to Washington, inspected a num
ber of Government buildings today.
The group started at the new Zoo
buildings and then visited the Gov
ernment Printing Office annex, where
lunch was served. Other buildings were
inspected during the afternoon.
A reception at the home of Am
bassador Dieckhoff, 2929 Massachu
setts avenue, was set for 5 p m. Offi
cials of the Treasury Department’s
procurement division and of other
Federal agencies and local business
leaders acted as guides for the visitors.
—— . ■ m —
HITZELBERGER CLAIMS
NEW EVIDENCE FOUND
By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. October 9.—Edward
L. Hitzelberger, police lieutenant, con
victed of malfeasance, has asked a
new trial.
His appeal to the supreme bench
automatically stayed his sentence and
he gave bond pending action.
Hitzelberger's motion claimed new
evidence had bpen discovered and
charged errors by the court and in
sufficient evidence at his trial.
A jury convirted him on three
eounts of an indictment for mal
feasance.
* a
Five Injured in Illinois Train Wreck
Five persons—four passengers and a porter—were injured seriously enough to require hospital
attention when seven cars of a Pennsylvania passenger train were derailed near Vandalia, 111.,
yesterday. The three rear cars fell against a concrete retaining wall.
—Copyright, A. J^Wirephoto.