Husband of Doris Duke Talks
“Economics” With the
Chief Executive.
By the Associated Press.
James H. R. Cromwell, husband of
th# “richest girl in the world,” came
to Washington yesterday apparently
to give President Roosevelt his ideas
on how to cure present business ills.
Cromwell, whose wife is Doris Duke,
tobacco heiress, would say only that
he talked "economics” with the Chief
Executive.
Favors Reduced Taxes.
He is known, however, to have de
cided views on the way to improve
business. Among other things he fa
vors a reduction of taxes to create a
flow of capital into industry.
As for reports, current some days
ago, that he would be appointed Sen
ator from New Jersey to succeed the
retiring A. Harry Moore, Cromwell
indicated that he would be happy to
undertake the responsibility, but add
ed that "the trial balloon is still
floating in the 8ir.”
This conflicted with reports from
New Jersey which said that the bal
loon floated by New Jersey leaders
had been "sunk.” The Newark Sun
day Call said that Mayor Frank
Hague of Jersey City, the State Demo
cratic leader, put aside any idea of
Cromwell's appointment when it was
learned that Cromwell, an author and
economist, once wrote a book speak
ing up for “birth control and steriliza
tion. while rapping the American Le
gion and the Constitution.”
“Mayor Hague," the paper added,
“hopes that he will hear from Mr.
Cromwell soon and that the card will
have a Hawaii postmark.”
Edison May Be Named.
It was added that Charles Edison,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, is
now top man on the list of possible
appointees to the chair which Sen
ator Moore will vacate to take over the
governorship of New Jersey.
During his visit here yesterday
Cromwell made no comment on the
fact that his wife came into the
possession of another $10,000,000 to
$18,000,000 on her 25th birthday anni
versary yesterday.
BORINGS AREMADE
FOR FLOOD WALL
Construction in Rear of Muni
tions Building Depends
on Study.
Army engineers are sinking testing
pits and taking core borings to obtain
data on subsurface conditions which
are necessary for preparation of an
adequate design for the wall at the
rear of the Navy and Munitions Build
ings, as part of the $150,000 flood
control project, E. A. Schmidt, senior
engineer, reported yesterday.
The work will be done under direc
tion of Maj. Walter D. Luplow, Dis
trict engineer for the War Department
for the Washington area. Detailed
plans for the flood-control levee are
now being worked out, and the United
States Engineer Office plans to launch
the job as soon as practicable.
Surveys are about completed on all
the topographic features of the job,
Mr. Schmidt pointed out. Some waste
material from paving operation will
shortly be placed on the earth levee
west of the Munitions Building, he
said. Funds which will complete the
flood-control program here were allo
cated with the requirement that part
of the work be done with relief labor.
DE GRASSE MEMORIAL
PROPOSED FOR DISTRICT
Copeland Bill Proposes Expendi
ture of $50,000 to Honor French
Fleet Commander.
Erection of a memorial in Washing
ton to Comte de Grasse for the help
he gave the American colonists as
commander of the French fleet at the
mouth of Chesapeake Bay near the
close of the Revolutionary War, was
proposed in the Senate yesterday by
Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New
York.
Mr. Copeland's bill explains that
the naval work of De Grasse in Sep
tember, 1781, aided American land
forces in achieving success at York
town in October of that year. The
bill authorizes $50,000 for the me
morial, plans for which would be
passed on by the Fine Arts Commis
sion. The measure was referred to
the Library Committee for report.
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Farm—Senate begins debate; House
Committee may complete bill.
Wage-hour—House Rules Commit
lee meets to consider releasing bill.
Regional planning — House Rivers
and Harbors Committee begins hear
ings on Administration program.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Will continue debate on farm bill.
House:
May consider farm bill.
Ways and Means Committee resumes
consideration of tax revision program,
10 a.m.
Subcommittee of Appropriations
Committee continues hearings on
Treasury-Post Office supply bill, 10:30
am.
Tree Planting Honors Constitution
A holly tree given by the February graduating class at Central High School as a memorial
to the adoption of the United States Constitution, was planted today in the northwest corner of
the school stadium. Left to right are shown Principal L. G. Hoover, who accepted the tree for
the school; Frank Strickler, who made the presentation on behalf of the class; Representative
Sol Bloom of New York, principal speaker, and Zoe McCombs, who read the President’s proclama
tion on the constitutional celebration. The spade used was the same one used to break ground
for the present high school building. —Star Staff Photo.
COURT DISMISSES
SUIT TO TEST TAX
Holds Business Privilege
Plaintiff Not Engaged in
Interstate Commerce.
Avoiding expression of any opinion
as to the constitutionality of the Dis
trict's new business privilege and gross
receipts tax, a three-judge court late
yesterday dismissed on another ground
i the suit brought by Howard W. Berry,
advertising man, to invalidate the law.
By holding that Mr. Berry was not
engaged in interstate commerce, the
court found it unnecessary to decide
whether the tax places a burden on
interstate commerce in its application
to interstate businesses.
The principal argument of Mr.
Berry's attorneys. Richard L. Tedrow
and William Cogger, had been that
the law burdened commerce between
the States and hence was unconstitu
tional.
Interstate Claim Presented.
In their petition for an injunction
they stated that Mr. Berry “is engaged
in interstate commerce, in that among
the duties of his business and in pur
suance of orders of clients he finds
it necessary from time to time to con
tract for advertising pace in media
located outside the District of Colum
bia, to wit, in several States, pays for
the said space and forwards through
the United States mail the copy and
layouts to be published in the said
media."
This, the court decided, does not
constitute interstate commerce, basing
its opinion on the case of the Blumen
stock Bros. Advertising Agency vs.
Curtis Publishing Co., in which the
Supreme Court held a similar Chicago
advertising concern to be an Intrastate
business.
Carefully expressing its conclusion
in words that left little doubt of an
intention to restrict the force of the
decision to the particular case before
it, the court stated: “We think that
this decision (the Blumenstock case)
controls the instant case and that the
motion to dismiss should be sustained.”
Touch on One Argument.
Throughout the opinion, which was
written by Justice Jennings Bailey of
District Court, the court mentioned
only one argument by Berry's attor
neys, that the law was a burden on
interstate commerce which Congress
had no right to impose in purely
local legislation.
The case was argued about two
weeks ago before a court consisting of
Associate Justice D. Lawrence Groner
of the United States Court of Appeals
and Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat and
Associate Justice Bailey of the District
Court. Several weeks prior to that
hearing, Justice Bailey alone had
heard the case, but rendered no deci
sion because he felt it should have
been argued before a three-judge court
in conformity with the provision of
the new judiciary reform act con
cerning cases involving constitution
ality of Federal statutes.
On both occasions. Special Assistant
Corporation Counsel Jo V. Morgan
defended the validity of the law.
Informed of the court’s decision,
Mr. Cogger said the case would be
taken to the Supreme Court if any
grounds for an appeal could be found.
GHOST TO LOSE FORTUNE
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23 (^.—Ar
thur H. Hanks, who made a fortune
peddling flowers in the Los Angeles
financial district, left no will because
he believed he would return through
reincarnation and claim his life’s sav
ings.
He has been dead seven months now
and yesterday Judge Joseph P. Sproul
opened the way for relatives to divide
the flower peddler’s $100,000 estate.
Briton Tells of U. S. Volunteers
Surviving Shelling in Spain
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Four-Hour Attack One of
War’s Worst, Novelist,
Here, Says.
Bv W. H. SHIPPEN, Jr.
How several hundred American vol
unteers with the Spanish Loyalists
counted only one dead and four
wounded after one of the most terrific
air and artillery bombardments ever
endured was described here today by
Ralph Bates, British novelist and lec
turer.
Mr. Bates, a “political officer” with
the Loyalists and a volunteer propa
gandist for the government cause, is
touring the United States under the
auspices of the Friends of the Abraham
Lincoln Brigade, an organization of
Loyalist sympathizers, and the League
of American Writers. He will lecture
at 8:30 tonight in the Washington
Hotel.
The author said the troops which
withstood the strafing by Fascist
bombers and artillery were the Lin
coln and Washington Brigades, in
which are enrolled many of the some
2,200 volunteers from the United
States now fighting for the Madrid
government with the International
Brigade.
“The Americans were participating
in a campaign in the Guadarrania
Heights, about 40 miles west of Ma
drid, hoping to cut oil Franco's troops
occupying University City last July,"
Mr. Bates said in an interview at the
Hamilton Hotel this morning.
Shelled for 4 Hours.
“They had marched all night
through the mountains, down the bed
of a dry stream. Their objective was
a certain bridge marked on the Span
ish military map, but Spanish maps,
whatever can be said of Spanish cour
age. are apt to be inaccurate to say
the least. No such bridge existed.
“After daylight the troops were
spotted by one of Franco's airplanes.
Soon a heavy shelling began. The
Americans took shelter in a ditch.
They dug in as best they could—little
‘fox holes’ they called them, in the
sides of the gully.
“I was with another outfit some
distance away. For 4>2 hours Fran
co’s big guns shelled that unprepared
position. We counted the shells—
nine a minute. They fell with clock
like regularity and devilish precision.
“It was German artillery, I think.
I know the guns were manned by
Germans—the best marksmen in the
world.
“Then 90 planes attacked the posi
tion. At least 30 of them were Ger
man tri-motored bombers—big fellows
which could lug something like two
tons of bomb6 each.
Only Best Could Stand It.
“The planes turned loose their
cargo It sounded like the end of
the world. A vast cloud of dust and
smoke billowed over the position, wip
ing it from our sight.
“We thought the Americans were
done for. The squadron wheeled back
to its field for more explosives and
returned to repeat the show.
“I'm sure no troops were ever called
on to stand such a bombardment. You
can Imagine our surprise when at last
we saw the uniforms of the brigade
moving out of the gully after the
smoke cleared.
“The other volunteers who had wit
nessed the show from their trenches
forgot the machine guns and rifle fire
they were exposed to and leaped out
on the embankments to cheer. The
Americans told us later the worst of
Mr. Van Devanter
Leaves Question
Of His Title in Air
0 *
Says Call Him “Justice”
Or “Former Justice ”
It Doesn't Matter.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—'Willis Van
Devanter, who retired last May as a
Justice of the Supreme court, left the
question of his proper title as puzzling
as ever today.
Asked at a meeting celebrating the
206th anniversary of the Reformed
Church of New Utrecht last night
whether he should be addressed as
"justice” or "former Justice,” Mr. Van
Devanter replied, “It doesn’t matter.
Either one. But, of course, 7 am still a
Justice.”
He explained: "I merely retired from
active service. I retain all my Circuit
Court functions. Why, I have half as
many duties as I ever had before. Of
course, I didn't resign.”
A fellow speaker then suggested he
still could take a seat on the Supreme
Court bench.
“No, not that,” said Mr. Van De
vanter. “In any Federal court In the
country, but not in that. There are
only nine who can alt on the Supreme
Court,"
k
RALPH BATES.
.
their punishment was the noise and
vibrations. They fairly shrieked in
their skulls.
“None but self-picked volunteers of
the highest type could have come
through. The test of such bravery is
a soldier’s ability to keep his nerve
and not to rush screaming from his
cover.
“At the outset of the bombardment
the American commander, Martin
Hourihan, was shot through the hips.
Steve Nelson of Philadelphia, an an
thracite miner, took over. Hourihan
recovered after about two months in
the hospital, and now has another
command."
The visitor, who left Spain in Sep
tember and plans to return in Janu
ary, is convinced the Loyalists will
win unless the granting of belligerent
rights to Franco will mean open par
ticipation by the fleets and troops
of the Fascist powers.
Mr. Bates is the author of “The
Olive Field.” a best seller, which has
its setting in Spain, where the author
has lived for the last 11 years.
Since the civil war broke out he has
had little time for fiction. "I dashed
off one little book, 'The Rainbow Fish,'
in my spare time, but it was punctu
ated by bullets and interrupted by
bombings. Several times I used a
series of dashes to Indicate it was
essential for me to go elsewhere.”
CERTAINAIRMAIL
RATES TO BE CUT
Postage to Central and South
America and West Indies to
Be Reduced December 1.
By the Associated Press.
The Post Office Department an
nounced today general reductions,
averaging 32 per cent, in airmail post
age to Central and South America and
the West Indies. The reductions are
effective December 1.
The reductions, Postmaster General
Farley said, would bring the rates to
Latin America nearer to the level of
those fixed by other countries for in
ternational service. He expressed the
hope the cuts would stimulate the use
of the service.
All rates, based on half ounces, will
be reduced as follows;
Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina,
from 55 to 40 cents; Brazil and Chile,
from 50 to 40 cents; Bolivia, from 40 to
35 cents; Peru, from 40 to 30; Saba, St.
Euspapios and St. Martin, from 20 to
10 cents; Dutch West Indies—Curacao,
Aruba and Bonair—from 30 to 25
cents; Venezuela, from 30 to 25 cents;
Trinidad, Barbados. Windward Islands,
Martinique, Guadalupe, Leeward Is
lands, Panama, Canal Zone, Costa
Rica, from 20 to 15 cents, and Nica
ragua, El Salvador, Republic of Hon
duras, British Honduras, Guatemala,
from 15 to 12 cents.
The rates per half ounce on airmail
from Cuba, Mexico, Bahamas, Jamaica,
Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto
Rico and Virgin Islands will remain
10 cents.
GOVERNMENT OPPOSES
RELIEF FRAUD REVIEW
By the Associated Press.
The Government asked the Supreme
Court today to refuse to review the
conviction of 18 Kentuckians given
two-year Federal prison terms in H35
for using the malls to defraud. The
charge was made in connection with
distribution of relief funds.
The court may decide December 6
what it will do about a petition from
the Kentuckians for a review of the
case.
Among the convicted men were W.
L. Stumbo, county judge of Floyd
County and a member of the county
Emergency Relief Committee, and Ar
thur Carter, Mayor of Prestonburg,
also a member of the committee.
PHONESET-UPTOLD
C. & P. Employe Details In
stallation of Extensive
Network in Alleged Den.
An employe of the Chesapeake Si
Potomac Telephone Co. testified today
in the District Court gambling trial of
Nicholas (Nick the Greek) Floratos
and four others that the company In
stalled a private line from National
Telecast to Floratos’ fruit and cigar
store at 922 Ninth street N.W.
Existence of the extensive telephone
network of National Telecast, which
allegedly supplied most of Washing
ton’s bookmaking places with racing
information, was disclosed last Febru
ary when police and Federal agents
raided its headquarters In the Albee
Building.
Some 30 Indicted.
Abe Plisco, alias Jewboy Dietz, who
allegedly controled National Telecast,
later was indicted with some 30 others
on a charge of conspiracy to violate
the gaming law.
The testimony today by the tele
phone company employe, Josephus
Sands, was the first linking the Ninth
street establishment with National
Telecast. At the conclusion of
Sands’ testimony the jury was ex
cused and Defense Counsel Harry T.
Whelan asked Justice Jesse C. Ad
kins to quash the warrant authoriz
ing the raid at the Ninth street
establishment and to suppress the
evidence seised there. He contend
ed the warrant was issued under a
Federal statute which precluded its
use to obtain evidence supporting a
purely local offense.
Justice Adkins had not announced
his decision on Attorney Whelan’s
motion early this afternoon.
When the trial went into its sec
ond day this morning. Alton S. Brad
ford. a rookie policeman, was still on
the stand.
Pvt. Bradford, who became a mem
ber of the Metropolitan Police Force
last February 17, testified that the
gaming investigation was his first as
signment. Fresh out of the Army,
where he was a sergeant in the Air
Corps, he was not known about Wash
ington and had little difficulty gain
ing entrance to Floratos’ Ninth street
establishment, he declared.
Recounts Visits.
He told the jury of one woman and
11 men that he went to the place on
seven occasions from February 27 to
March 10 and made bets on horses.
Entering through a cigar store at
922 Ninth street N.W., he was taken
through a barred doorway into a rear
basement room next door at 924 Ninth
street, where there was a cashier's
booth, a loud speaker and racing
charts, he said.
Besides Floratos. the defendants are
Vincent A. Marino. Bernard Newyahr,
John A. Clements and Bennie B.
Traub.
Pvt. Bradford said Traub was at
the peephole in the door leading into
the room allegedly used for taking
bets. He said Marino marked up the
results on a board; that Clements was
in the cashier's cage, and that New
yahr was there only on March 10, the
day of the raid.
On that occasion, he said, a tip was
received that the place was about to
be raided and every one was told to
leave. It was only a short time later
that a raiding Tparty, led by Lieut,
i John E. FondahU of the first precinct,
smashed its way into the establish
ment to find the place deserted.
CHANCE RECOVERING
FROM CRASH INJURY
Physicians Feared for Life of
Former Washington City
Postmaster.
Merritt O. Chance, former Washing
ton postmaster and now supervisor of
the Board of Census, Department of
Commerce, today was reported improv
ing at Montgomery County Hospital
from injuries received in an automobile
accident two weeks ago,
Mr. Chance, who is 68 years old. was
hurt on November 9 when his car ran
off the road at Olney and struck the
guy wire of a pole. He was en route to
Washington from his home in Brooke
ville, Md., at the time.
Gordon Chance, his son. who also
was driving to the Capital, was directly
behind his father in another car and
took Mr. Chance to the institution at
Sandy Spring.
Hospital officials said Mr. Chance
suffered no broken bones, but still is
"mentally confused.” They declared
Mr. Chance, who lingered between life
and death on several occasions, now "is
improving steadily.”
His car was demolished in the acci
dent.
WILLIAM J. LEWIS, 82,
DAMASCUS MAN, DIES
Funeral Services Will Be Held
Tomorrow at 2 O'clock at
Woodfield Church.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
DAMASCUS, Md., Nov. 23.—Wil
liam J. Lewis, 82, well-known Da
mascus farmer, died at Montgomery
County General Hospital yesterday
after a long illness.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Ella S. Lewis; one son, Russell Lewis
of Miami; a granddaughter, Mrs. Wil*
bur Fairchild of Damascus, and a
sister, Miss Ida Lewis of Damascus.
Funeral servioes will be held at 2
o’clock tomorrow afternoon at the
Woodfield M. E. Church and inter
ment is to be in the Baptist Ceme
tery at Cedar Grove.
NEVILS WILL SPEAK
AT ITALIAN EMBASSY
The Very Rev. Coleman Nevils,
S. J., of New York, formerly presi
dent of Georgetown University, will
deliver an address at the Italian Em
bassy tonight at 9 o’clock on the
"Bimlllenium of the Birth of Augustus
Caesar.”
The anniversary meeting was ar
ranged jointly by the Archeological
Society of Washington and the Italy
America Society. The Ambassador of
Italy and Donna Matilde de Suvlch
will be hostsr
Dr. Nevils is pastor of St. Ignatius
Loyola Church in New York. He will
remain In Washington after the meet
ing for his annual retreat.
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Thursday at Panholzer Home
To Be True Thanksgiving Day
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Rosa Panholzer, 9, is shown “prettying up” preparatory to
leaving Gallinger Hospital, where she has been ill, for a Thanks
giving at her home, 515 M street S.W. —Star Staff Photo.
ROSA PANHOLZER really has
something to be thankful for
this Thanksgiving—her life.
Five weeks ago doctors at
Gallinger Hospital gave the little red
haired girl only "a bare chance of
living" after an operation for an
abscessed liver.
But Thursday—after many anxious
hours for her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Panholzer, the 9-year-old child
will leave the hospital for her home
at 515 M street S.W. She is well
again.
Rosa already has said "good-by” to
the doctors and nurses who helped her.
She needed to say no more, for the
smile that she gave and the light in
her laughing eyes were more reward
than any words could have been.
Mrs. Panholzer took her daughter
to the hospital on October 18. The girl
was ill, but the malady, rare in children
showed no early symptoms. Doctors
could discover no reason for Rosa's
high fever. After many hours of care
ful checking physicians discovered the
liver ailment six days later. They
operated.
The operation made her deathly ill
and doctors held little hope for Rosa's
recovery. The seriousness of her con
dition only made them work harder.
After four blood transfusions Rosa
began to show improvement. Today
she is cheerful and happy again.
Physicians explained that abscesses
of this type usually start with an
"outside” infection of some sort, such
as a boil. The lack of this customary
sign made the diagnosis unusually
difficult. The operation called for an
incision and drain. Rosa responded
nicely to the treatment.
After the holidays she will start to
school again.
Prisoner’s Joy
At Leaving Jail
Delays Liberty
Arouses Suspicion by
Taking Leg Iron
With Him.
By a S’.afI Correspondent ol The Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va . Nov. 23.—The
enthusiasm shown by Will Norman,
33. colored, of Washington. D. C., at
being dismissed from a Linden (Va.)
convict camp resulted in his recapture,
temporarily, at least, by local police
today.
Norman appeared at a local motor
company and asked to ij^ve a metal
shackle filed from his right ankle.
Attendants, their suspicions aroused,
called police, who went to the garage
and took Norman to police head
quarters.
There, however, a telephone call
revealed that he had been released
from the camp this morning after
serving two years for housebreaking
and larceny in Arlington County.
He told police he was so happy at
leaving the convict camp he forgot
to have guards remove the shackle.
Norman then was taken across the
street from police headquarters,
where an auto body works expert re
moved the metal band.
Norman lives "somewhere on Twen
ty-fifth street N.W.” in Washington.
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GIRL, 15, DECLARES
SUICIDE WAS WED
Loretta Harynek Reveals How
She Told Boy She Was
to Become Mother.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. Nov. 23—Wide-eyed
Loretta Harynek calmly told a cor
oner's jury yesterday she was the se
cret bride of Warren Sinclair Stan
ley, 17-year-old military academy
cadet who ended their tragic romance
by slaying himself.
The 15-year-old high school lass
testified the ringless wedding was per
formed November 3, 1936, by a "man
with a Bible" at some place she could
not recall.
She did not elaborate on a signed
statement previously given to police
recounting how she had falsely in
formed the youth she was to become
a mother “to make him feel haDpy.”
The Jurors returned a verdict of
“suicide while despondent over do
mestic trouble and while temporarily
insane.”
Young Stanley, student at the Mis
souri Military Academy in Mexico,
Mo., killed himself with a pistol
early Sunday after his car crashed
in suburban Berwyn at the finish of
a 12-mile pursuit by highway patrol
men. In his pocket was a note
pledging his undying love and indi
cating his concern over his erroneous
impression of the girl's condition.
Bolivian Cabinet Quits.
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Nov. 23 (/P).—The
Bolivian cabinet resigned last night
after the government of President
German Busch decreed elections
March 13 to choose a constituent as
sembly. Political circles said the
cabinet resigned to give Busch a free
hand in choosing collaborators for
the elections.
Hunter Sentenced
For Death of Friend
He Took for Game
By the Associated Press. •
WEST CHESTER, Pa., Nov.
23.—Michael Drabinsky, 35, of
Potts town, was sentenced to
Chester County Prison yesterday
for two years and assessed |500
damages for killing his “best
friend,” Russell Geist, 33, in a
hunting accident last Labor Day.
Mr. Drabinsky pleaded guilty
and said he shot Mr. Geist in
mistake for game. Lawrence
Geist, brother of the dead man,
asked Judge W. Butler to be
lenient.
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MEETING TO WEIGH
COAL MINE LAWS
American Mining Congress to
Consider Taxation and Gov
ernment Regulation.
Problems of the coal mining indus
try, particularly those raised by taxa
tion and Government regulation, will
be emphasized in discussions at the
40th annual meeting of the American
Mining Congress here December 1-3.
The general subject of revenue law
revision will be discussed by Repre
sentative Wesley E. Disney of Okla
homa at the annual luncheon of the
congress on Thursday, December 2.
The Coal Operators' Committees of
the congress will report findings of
their studies during the last year on
all phases of coal mining to the meet
ing. Of especial interest is expected
to be the findings of a survey to de
termine fundamental safety principles
for coal mining.
The Executive Tax Committee, the
Coal Operators' Committees and the
Board of Governors of the manufac
turers’ division of the mining congress
will meet at the same time. The man
ufacturers’ group will map plans for
the 15th annual coal mining conven
tion and exposition to be held at Cin
cinnati the week of May 2.
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PLAY ABSOLVED
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 23 (>P).—
City officials announced after a pri
vate preview to clergymen and police
in a hotel room yesterday that "To
bacco Road" could begin a two weeks
engagement here without police inter
ference.
The announcement was made after
a conference with Mayor Robert S.
Maestri. Some changes from the
original script were made.
GOV. DAVEY DEFIES:;
N. L1BJDC.I1
He Calls Labor Board “a
C. f. 0. Affiliate” in Reply
to Union’s Complaint.
By the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 23.—
Gov. Martin L. Davey, stormy petrel
of the ‘•little steel” strike in Ohio,
met today a complaint, filed with the
National Labor Relations Board, with
the statement that ‘‘even that C. I.
O. affiliate cannot invade the sov
ereign powers of the State of Ohio.”
The complaint was filed against
the chief executive by the United
Rubber Workers of America, affiliated
with the Committee for Industrial
Organization, ‘‘to make Gov. Davey
confine his activity in strike matters
to where there have been infractions
of the law,” Union Counsel Stanley
Denlinger said.
In an action that James P Miller,
regional director of the N. L. R B
Cleveland office, termed "unprece- ,
dented,” the union thus answered
Gov. Davey’s order Saturday to 2,000
National Guardsmen to "stand by” for
possible duty at the Akron factory of
the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
while a sit-down strike was in progress.
After terming the Labor Board a
”C. I. O. affiliate,” Davey said:
"If, to preserve law and order in
Ohio, is to violate any Federal statute,
it would be news to me. In any event
we choose to continue on the path
of duty and protect the liberties of
all our people. I still stand as a
greater friend of labor than those
who would beat them into submission
to the iron will of a few self-seeking '
dictators.”
Davey's statement was issued last
night, almost simultaneously with a
radio address by John Owens in
which the Ohio C. I. O. director de
clared the Governor “dines and wines
with steel barons and public utilities
magnates, in the vain hope that these
plutocrats can turn over enough money
to him to buy further political of
fice.”
Owens’ address was announced as
a reply to Gov. Davey’s November 9
address to the Ohio Society in New
York in which he defended his use
of troops in this year's steel strike.
Owens made no reference to
Davey's action in the Akron sit-down
of which the Governor said in his
statement “some of the C. I. O. lead
ers tried by every known device to
force the employes to vote for a strike”
(at a union meeting Sunday).
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COLD, RAINY WEATHER
SEEN FOR THANKSGIVING
--
I Tomorrow to Be Clear and Con
tinued Cold, With Minimum
of 28 Expected.
Cold and rainy weather for
Thanksgiving was predicted by the
Weather Bureau today.
In the immediate offing, however, is
clear skies and continued low tem
peratures. with a minimum of 28 ex
pected before tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow probably will be fair and
“slightly warmer,” the forecaster said
At 6 o’clock this morning the mer
cury dropped to 25, equaling the pre -
vious “low" record for the season set
Sunday. Yesterday’s “high” was 37
at 4 pm.
F. B. I. WILL RETURN
MUSICIAN TO CAPITAL
Harry Weiner. 29, itinerant musi
cian, will be returned here from
Honolulu by Federal Bureau of In
vestigation agents to answer an in
dictment charging him with making
false statements to the State Depart
ments in securing a passport for a
woman believed to be a Polish citi
zen, it was announced yesterday.
The F. B. I. said Weiner was ar
rested at a Honolulu dance hall,
where he was working as a musician,
last Friday, and that he admitted in
ducing his wife to pose as his sister
in order to secure an American pass
port. He was indicted here November 8.
THE WEATHER REPORT
District of Columbia—Fair and continued cold, with lowest temperature
about 28 degrees tonight; tomorrow fair and slightly warmer; Thursday rain;
light variable winds becoming easterly tomorrow.
Maryland—Fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tomorrow
Thursday rain.
Virginia—Fair, not quite so cold in south portion tonight; tomorrow fair
and slightly warmer in east and increasing cloudiness and warmer in west
portion; Thursday rain.
West Virginia—Fair, not quite so cold in south and west portions tonight;
tomorrow increasing cloudiness and warmer; Thursday rain or snow.
rT'h» PVtanth.a ..... r-._41_____
Alaska and the Northeastern Pacific Ocean
has remained practically stationary,
Kodiak. Alaska. 29.00 inches, but pressure
is falling rapidly over Western Canada
and the Northern Rocky Mountain region
and the Northern Plain States, and an
other center has developed over Alberta.
Medicine Hat. 29.66 inches. The north
eastern disturbance is centered this morn
ing over Southwestern Greenland. God
thaab. 29.26 inches. Pressure is relatively
low over the Southern Gulf of Mexico and
the Yucatan Channel. S. S. Tivives. 30.06
inches. Pressure is high almost generally
over the United States and over Ontario
®nd Manitoba. Columbus. Ohio. 30.74
inches, and Sioux Lookout. Ontario. 30.40
inches. Pressure is high also over the
l£>wer Mackenzie Valley and extreme
Northern Alaska. Barrow. Alaska, 30.16
Inches. Generally fair weather has pre
vailed, except for rain in the North Pacific
States, and rain and snow in Texas and
Western Louisiana. The temperature has
risen in the Plateau and Northern Rockv
Mountain regions and from the Dakotas
and Minnesota southeastward to Florida
but the weather is still unseasonally cold
the Southern Plains States. Texas,
and the upper Mississippi Valley eastward
to the Atlantic coast.
linr Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry; clear at Great Falls
today.
Report for Ull 94 Hoar*.
„ , , Temporature. Barometer.
Yesterday— Degrees. Inches.
4 p.m.- 37 30.50
8 p.m. -- 32 30.5.1
Midnight _ 29 30.58
Today—
4 a.m. _ 27 30.81
8 a.m._ 29 30.68
Noon_ 38 30.87
Record for Laot 24 Hour*.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest. 37. kt 4 p.m. yesterday. Year
ago. 46.
Lowest. 25. at 6 a.m. today. Year
ago. 36.
Record Temperature* This Year.
Highest. 97. on August 20.
Lowest. 19. on February 28.
Humidity fer laA 21 Hear,.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest. 72 per cent, at 3:30 a.m. today.
Lowest, 37 per cent, at 4 p.m. yesterday.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Oeoaetlc Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High_-_11:58 a.m. 0:22 a.m.
Low _ 6:25 a.m. 7:21a.m.
High_ l:O0P.m.
Low _ 8:44 p.m. 7:45 p.m.
The gaa tad Mean.
Rises. Sets.
Suae today _ 6:69 4:50
Bun, tomorrow_7:00 - 4:49
ldeon. today_10:52 p.m. 11:89 a.m.
Automobile lights mutt bo turned on
one-half hour after aunaet.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation In Inches la the
Capital (current month to date):
Month, 1937. Ave. Record.
January -7.8! 3.55 7.83 37
February- 3.33 3.27 6.84 '84
March- 1.50 3.75 8.84 '91
Anril-0.85 3.27 9.13 'SO
May - 4:02 3.70 10.69 '89
■{HP® -5 21 4 13 10.94 '00
■Ju]y - 3.67 4.71 10.63 '86
August - 6.67 4.01 14 41 "8
September_ 1.76 3 24 17 45 '34
October _8.81 2 84 8 81 '37
November- 3.09 2.37 8 69 '89
December - 3.32 7.59 'oi
Weather tn Various Cities.
.. Temp Raln
.. St*ti°ns_ Baro.H'h L'w. tall. Weath'r
Abilene, Tex 30.62 36 26 0 16 Cloudy
Albany. N. Y._ 30.52 34 24 ... Cloudy
Atlanta. Ga 30.66 40 22 _Clear
Atlantic City 30 60 38 26 _ Clear
Baltimore. Md._ 30.64 38 28 _Clear
Birmingham 30.62 42 26 Clear
Bismarck N D. 30.16 30 26 ~ Cloudy
Boston. Mass. . 30.44 32 22 _ _ Clear
Buffalo N. Y . 30.56 32 26 _Cloudy
Charleston. S.C. 30.62 44 30 _ Clear
Chicago. Ill ..30.66 32 18 . clear
Cincinnati. Ohio 30.72 38 18 _Clear
Cleveland Ohio 30.64 32 24 _Cloudy
Columbia. S. C. 30.68 44 26 _Clear
Denver Colo... 30.28 50 32 _Clear
Detroit Mich . 30.62 32 26 _Cloudy
El Paso. Tex. ..30.42 62 36 ... Clear
Galveston Tex.30.48 52 36 1.12 Ram
Helena. Mont.. 29.86 60 34 _Cloudy
Huron. S. Dak.. 30.32 32 22 _Cloudy
Indianapolis ..30.72 30 20_Clear
Jacksonville 30.60 48 36 _Clear
Kansas City Mo. 30.64 34 16 _Clear
Los Angeles. Cal. 30.10 78 52 _Cloudy
Louisville. Ky.-_ 30.72 36 22 _Clear
Miami. Fla. . 30.26 68 66 _Cloudy
Minneapolis ..30.42 28 24 ...Snow
New Orleans .. 30.50 48 42 _Cloudy
New York. N. Y. 30.56 36 26 ... Clear
Oklahoma City. 30.60 36 28 ... clear
Omaha Nebr... 30.52 32 26 _Clear
Philadelphia .. 30.62 36 28 ... Clear
Phoenix. Ariz 30.12 811 54 _Cloudy
Pittsburgh Pa. 30.68 30 22 Cloudy
Portland. Me... 30.42 32 22 _Clear "
Portland. Oreg. 29.88 54 48 1.10 Cloudy
Raleigh. N. C._ 39.66 42 22 Clear
Salt Lake City 36.12 64 34 _Cloudy
San Antonio 30.66 42 32 0.54 Cloudy
San Diego. Cal. 30.08 64 54 Cloudy
Ran Francisco. 30.10 R6 54 0.14 Rain
St. Louis. Mo.. 30.68 3'! 22 Clear
Seattle. Wash.. 29.82 54 50 0.60 Rain
Spokane. Wash. 29.92 44 40 0.46 Cloudy
Tampa. Fla 30.36 60 44 Clear
WASH.. D. C... 30.64 37 25 _Clear
FOREIGN.
(7 a m.. Greenwich time, today.)
Stations. Temperature. Weather.
London. England_ 46 Rain
Paris. France_ 43 Cloudy
Vienna. Austria_ 39 Foggy
Berlin. Germany_ 27 Cloudy
Breat. France _ 50 Rain
Stockholm. Sweden_ 36 Cloudy
Gibraltar Spain __ 61 Cloudy
(Noon. Greenwich time, today.'
Horta (Fayal), Azores. 54 Cloudy
(Current obaervatlonz.)
St. Georges. Bermuda.. 64 Cloud*
8an Juan. P. R._ 78 Cloud*
Havana. Cuba _ 72 Cloudy
Colon. Canal Zona 78 Cloudy
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