NEW DEAL’S FOES
Seven Court Bill Opponents
Face Voters This Year
in Senate Fights.
B1 the Associated Press.
Administration efforts to rid Con
gress of unfriendly Democrats—no
matter what the outcome at the polls—
may unite the anti-Roosevelt forces In
the 1939 session even more closely.
Many of the Senate foes of the court
bill and other Presidential measures do
not come up for re-election this year.
They will serve as the nucleus of the
anti-administration group in the new
Congress.
These men already have demon
strated on two occasions that they
would aid Democratic colleagues who
face administration opposition in their
renomination campaigns.
Leaders of the group, such as Sen
ators Wheeler. Democrat, of Montana,
and Burke, Democrat, of Nebraska,
rallied quickly to the aid of Senator
Gillette, Democrat, of Iowa, when W.
P. A. Administrator Hopkins indorsed
his principal opponent.
Van Nuys Independent.
A few weeks earlier they had pledged
campaign assistance to Senator Van
Nuys, Democrat, of Indiana, another
court bill foe, who will run as an in
dependent because Indiana Demo
cratic chieftains decided to deny him
a place on their ticket.
Senator Wheeler, Senator Burke and
others of their associates interpreted
Senator Gillette's primary victory as
evidence that indirect administration
opposition would not necessarily turn
voters against Senators who fight
some White House measures.
Seven Democratic opponents of the
court bill, besides Senator Gillette, are
seeking renomination to the Senate
this year. Members of the anti-admin
istration bloc predicted a good chance
of success for a majority of them. ^
legislators who believe the party
split cannot be narrowed by any No
vember election developments adopted
this reasoning:
If most of the anti-administration
Senators win, they will feel even more
at Liberty to oppose the President'*
recommendations. If most of them
lose, their holdover associates will seek
to carry on the opposition more vigor
ously than ever.
Five to Run in Primaries.
Senator Gillette is the only one of
the Democratic court bill foes who has
been in a primary to date. The ques
tion of Senator Van Nuys’ renomina
tion will come up formally at the In
diana Democratic convention July Il
ls. Another of the group. Senator
Lonergan of Connecticut, will be up
for renomination in a convention in
September.
These five will run in primaries;
Clark of Missouri. August 2; Smith of
South Carolina, August 30; McCarran
of Nevada, September «; Tydings of
Maryland, September 12; George of
Georgia, September 14.
Senators Tydings. George and Smith
already have opposition which appears
to have administration backing.
Reports were current here that Post
master General Farley, who thus far
has rather frowned on the “party
purge” policy of some of Mr. Roose
velts advisers, might display a Aindly
attitude toward Representative David
J. Lewis of Maryland, who is out
against Senator Tydings, and to Dis
trict Attorney Lawrence Camp of At
lanta , who is opposing Senator George.
Neither Senator George nor Senator
Tydings would comment on the re
ports, except to say they would await
developments.
Johnston Opposes Smith.
Senator Smith's New Deal opponent
ts Gov. Olin D. Johnston of South
Carolina, who announced his can
didacy immediately after a visit with
President Roosevelt.
Senator Lonergan has no announced
opposition so far. Senator Clark has
four opponents, including Willis H.
Meredith, former speaker of the Mis
souri House, and Joseph T. Davis, St.
Louts attorney, who are New Deal sup
porters.
Senator McCarran is opposed by
candidates pledging support to the
President, but how strenuous a contest
he faces remains to be seen.
A movement to aid the re-election of
liberal Senators regardless of party
lines was seen by some informed per
sons in the indorsement by Senator
Norris, independent, of Nebraska of
Senator Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota. Senator Norris has been
closely allied with the President, but
he said he had not consulted adminis
tration officials before backing Senator
Nye.
The latter, opposed for renomination
by Gov. William Linger, previously
had been indorsed by Senator Bone,
Democrat, of Washington, who is as
strong a supporter of the President
as Senator Norris.
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WORLD WAR ORDER
. SELECTS OFFICERS
Hear Admiral Harry G. Hamlet It
Hamed Commander—Increase
in Activities Eeported.
Rear Admiral Harry G. Hamlet, re
tired, former commandant of the
Coast Guard, today was elected com
mander of the District of Columbia
Chapter, Military Order of the World
War.
The election was held at a luncheon
at the Mayflower Hotel, at which Brig.
Gen. Albert L. Cox, retiring command
er, reported Increase In membership,
finances and activities in the past
year.
Those elected to serve with Admiral
Hamlet Include: Lt. Col. Bynum K.
Cash, senior vice commander; Col.
Joseph C. Pagan, Lt. Ool. Hairy P.
Cunningham. Maj. Russell P. Free
man. Maj. James Alexander Lyon and
Oomdr. Homer N. Wallin, junior vice
commanders; Lt. L. Edwin Sunder
land, judge advocate; Maj. Oliver
Metserott, historian; Capt. George W.
Calver, U. S. N„ surgeon, and Capt.
Oliver James Hart, chaplain. Maj.
Edwin 8. Bettelheim, jr., was re
elected adjutant and treasurer for the
llth consecutive term.
The members of the chapter staff
are: U. Col. George W. Cocheu, Rear
Admiral Walter B. Woodson, CoL
Maurice B. Shearer, Lt. Comdr. Charles
W. Calraes, Col. John W. Oehmann,
Maj. Walter R. Meta. Lt. James Otis
Porter. Dr. Montgomery Blair, Brig.
Gen. Richard H. Jordan, Maj. Gen.
Peter C. Harris, Ool. Stanley K. Horn
beck, Col. Charles G. Mortimer, Lt.
Andrew Bdmiston. Lt. Oomdr. Walter
J. Peterson, Col. Scott W. Lucas, Capt.
Watson B. Miller , Capt. Thomas Kirby
and Cbl. George D. Leslie.
Vagrants Forced to Leave Alexandria
(Story on Page A-l.)
Several inmates of the Alexandria Jail, who were released today on condition that they
leave town, are pictured as they arrived at the city limits in a police van. —Star Staff Photo.
CAPT. CHILD DIES;
Former Head of Anacostia
Station Was Cited for
Naval Service.
Capt. Warren G. Child, U. S. N,
retired, pioneer naval aviator and
former commanding officer of Ana*
costia Naval Air Station, died Tuesday
in the Naval Hospital at San Diego,
Calif, the Navy Department an
nounced today.
Capt. Child, a native of Utah, where
he was born November 7, 1M3. began
his aviation career in April, 1915, as
one of the first group of student naval
aviators. He qualifled as a naval
aviator and seaplane pilot a year
later and also qualified as a free bal
| loon pilot and as a dirigible pilot
during the World War.
Capt. Child was a member of a
Special Aviation Board sent to Eng
land, France and Italy during the
summer of 1917 in connection with
the war development of American
aviation. During the war he also
served as commanding officer at the
Naval Air Station at Rockaway Beach,
Long Island, and with naval aviation
headquarters in Paris and at naval
headquarters in London.
He received official commendation
from the United States and British
Navies for his service as officer In
charge of the technical division of
the aviation section of Admiral Sims'
staff and for services in connection
with the Allied Naval Armistice Com
mission.
He served in a number of important
aviation posts ashore and with the
fleet following the war and was ap
pointed commanding officer at Ana
costia in June. 1931, serving here until
December, 1933. He was retired from
active duty last winter.
Appointed to the Naval Academy
from Utah in 1903, Capt. Child served
on duty with submarines until his
appointment as a student naval avi
ator.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Alice S. Child. Fontana, Calif, and
a son, Midshipman Daniel McGuire
Child.
SMITH OF VIRGINIA
CANDIDATE AGAIN
Representative Hakes Thrust at
Dodd, Hitting His ‘100 Per Cent
Hew Deal Platform.’
By the Associated Press.
Representative Howard W. Smith,
of the eighth Virginia district, formally
announced today his candidacy for re
election subject to the Democratic
primary, August 7. Mr. Smith had
previously qualified to enter the pri
mary.
In a statement Mr. Smith made his
first public reference to his opponent
for the Democratic nomination. Wil
liam E Dodd, jr., son of the former
Ambassador to Germany.
Mr. Smith has been unopposed since
1930. Mr. Dood announced his can
didacy on a "100 per cent New Deal”
platform.
"The young man who opposes me,
and who announced his candidacy im
mediately upon his return to this
country after a residence in Germany,”
Mr. Smith said, "offers no record of
public service; no knowledge of the
problems of our State; no legislative
experience, and no platform other than
a willingness to be 100 per cent sub
servient to the will of others. This
may be in accord with the German
system of government but will not, I
believe appeal to the people of Vir
ginia.”
YOUTHS FOUND GUILTY
IN ASSAULT ATTEMPT
APP«*1 Seen likely on Issue of
Jurisdiction Under Mew
Juvenile Court I<*w.
A verdict of guilty was returned by
a District Court jury today against
four youths, charged with attempted
criminal assault on a young woman
last October.
The case, prosecuted by Assistant
United 8tates Attorney John W.
Flhelly, had drawn considerable at
tention after a new law, signed last
week by President Roosevelt and giv
ing enlarged powers to the Juvenile
Court, resulted In halting the trial in
District Court because two id the de
fendants were under It at the time of
the crime.
Judge Pay Bentley of Juvenile Court
relinquished jurisdiction, however, and
the trial was resumed in District
Court. Some members of the legal
profession expressed belief today that
the case may be appealed to the Court
of Appeals on the theory that when
the Juvenile Court —rimnl jurisdic
tion the District Court relinquished
it. Accordingly, they held, when the
case was resumed in the higher court
the two younger defendants were
placed in double jeopardy.
Between 1900 and 1930 the Govern
ment printed some 60 special memo
rial and commemorative stamps, num
bering 6J60.000.000 stamps, for which
the public spent at our poet «*««
the large sum of I104JM.000.
Hitting Japan,
Harvard Leader
Quits Olympics
Could Not Send Tearn
to Such Country,
Says Bingham.
B> the Associated Press.
BOSTON, June 9.—William J. Bing
ham, Harvard athletic director, has
withdrawn from the 1940 Olympic
games in protest against the games
being held in Japan.
Mr. Bingham, who was chairman of
the 1936 United States Olympic track
and Held team at Berlin, announced
his action last night at a Y. M. C. A.
sports dinner.
“How can we ask the American
people in 1940 to support a team going
to a country standing for what Japan
represents today?" he salt. “I could
not ask the American people to sup
port the Japanese games nor could I
seek the support of my university,
“I deplore Hitler and all he repre
sents, but he was not in power- when
the 1936 Olympics were awarded to
Berlin. The situation in regard to the
choice of Japan was entirely different.
The International Olympic Committee
knew that Japan had already invaded
Manchuria when it awarded it the 1940
games."
D. C. BAR TO HOLD
MEMORIAL SERVICE
Honor to Be Paid 14 Members of
Association Who Died Since
January, 1937.
Fourteen members of the District
Bar Association who died since Jan
uary, 1837, wiU be honored by their
colleagues at a memorial service at
the Mayflower Hotel Tuesday evening.
The association’s secretary. Wilbur
L. Gray, announced today that the
next regular meeting of the associa
tion will be held Tuesday at 7.30
p.m. The first hour will be devoted
to the memorial service. E. Hilton
Jackson is chairman of the Memorial
Committee.
Members of the families of the de
ceased are invited to be present at
the exercises. There will be appro
priate music, and three - minute
speeches, laudatory of the lives of the
late attorneys, will be made.
The deceased members to be thus
honored are: James W. Byler, Henry
H. Glassie, for many ysara land expert
of the Department of Justice; H.
Stanley Hlnrichs, William J. Hu;#ies,
expert on constitutional law and au
thor, who served for many years in the
Department of Justice; Carter B.
Keene, Harry V. Keyser, J. Louis Krup
shaw. Cloud R. Marshall, William W.
Mi 11 an. who was for 30 yean the asso
ciation’s treasurer and president for a
term; John J. O’Brien, William A.
Rodenberg. William Warfield Ross,
Walter Schaffner and Fred a Wood is.
Bolitha J. Laws, the association’s
president, will preside at the meeting.
LEAFLET PASSERS
ACCUSE MARINE
Mistreatment of Woman at Navy
Yard Charged After Arrest
of C. L 0. Members.
A charge that a woman distributing
union leaflets at the Navy Yard was
“maltreated” by a marine at the gate
there was made in s statement today
following the arrest of nine members
of C. I. O. unions yesterday.
Eight men and a woman posted $10
collateral for appearance In Police
Court today.
Those arrested are members of the
Federation of Architects, Engineers,
Chemists and Technicians, and the
United Federal Workers of America.
Today’s statement, issued on behalf
of the unions, said that permission
had been sought to distribute the leaf
lets inside the yard, but that Rear
Admiral George Pettingill, comman
dant, explained that regulations did
not permit this. The outside distribu
tion then was decided upon.
Amplifying the charge against the
marine, the statement said he at
tempted to knock leaflets from the
woman’s hands.
•CONGRESS IN BRIEF
TODAY.
Relief—Joint committee seeks com
I promise on Senate and House relief
bills.
Wage-Hour—Southern Senators
consider fighting compromise on pay
minimum
Flood Control—Senate debates
$375,000,000 measure.
Politics—Senate committee consid
ers request for inquiry into politico
relief complaints.
T. V. A.—Joint investigating com
mittee completes staff.
Election—House debates election
contest between Representative Jenks.
Republican, of New Hampshire and
Alfonee Roy.
TOMORROW.
Miscellaneous business.
Considers conference reports.
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee considers Omaha-Council
Jersey City Authorities in
Conspiracy, injunction
Trial Is Told.
By the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. J.. June 9 —Counsel
for the C. I. O. and American Civil
Liberties Union charged in Federal
Court today that Saturday's egging
and howling down of Socialist Leader
Norman Thomas in a Newark park
was done "under the direction of the
authorities of Jersey City.” where
Frank Hague has been Mayor for a
quarter century.
C. I. O.-A. C. L. U. Counsel Spaulding
Fraser told Judge William Clark that
the attack on Thomas was "through
the Instrumentality” of William J.
Egan, assistant attorney genera 1 and
former Democratic Newark City Com
mission.
“There was a meeting of persons on
Saturday, June 4, in Egan's offlce for
the purpose of fomenting the attack
on Mr. Thomas," Mr. Fraser charged.
"Our purpose (in bringing in the
Thomas episode) Is to show continuing
proof of a conspiracy on the part of
Jersey City authorities. In which we
offered evidence in the O'Connell and
Thomas episodes.”
Refer* to O'Connell Ouster.
He referred to the fact that Rep
resentative Jerry O’Connell, Democrat,
of Montana was rushed by Hague
partisans when he tried to speak in
Jersey City after a permit was re
fused him and was escorted out of
the crowd by police, and that Mr.
Thomas charged he was “kidnaped
and deported” by police when he at
tempted to speak in the bailiwick of
Mayor Hague, vice chairman of the
National Democratic Committee.
One of the main allegations of the
C. X. O.-A. C. L .U. and other plaintiffs
seeking an injunction to restrain
Hague and fellow officials from inter
fering with their activities is that per
sons distasteful to Hague and his ad
ministration have been “deported’’ at
times and assaulted at others.
When John A. Matthews, special
counsel for the Jersey City defend
ants, objected to introducion of evi
dence attempting to link the defend
ants with the Thomas episode in New
ark. Judge Clark ruled it would have
to be kept for rebuttal—if allowed at
all.
Searching of Autos Defended.
Earlier today Public Salety Director
Daniel Casey testified that the Jersey
City police system of stopping and
searching “suspected” autos had ef
fected the capture of many criminals.
Mr. Casey said Hudson Cbunty
police captured live men In an auto
which contained a gun on Pulaski
Skyway. Kearny, February 6. He pro
duced the criminal records of the car
occupants and identified some as C.
I. O. workers.
He said one of the reasons he refused
a speaking permit to three Representa
tives and Morris L. Ernst, one of coun
sel for the plaintiffs, was a report In a
Jersey City newspaper in which Mr.
Ernst was quoted as referring to ma
chine guns in a speech before the Na
tional Lawers’ Guild at Washington.
One paragraph quoted Mr. Ibnst
as saying he hoped there would be
“no evidence of machine guns because
I know we would be playing into the
hands of Mayor Hague.”
Mayor Hague may be called to testi
fy tomorrow.
MEMORIAL PLANS
DRAW OPPOSITION
Senator King Say« He Will light
Jefferson Project if It Stands
as How Proposed.
Senate opposition to the $500,000
fund to start the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial on the revised Tidal Basin
plan began to develop today as an
appropriations subcommittee pre
pared to act on the $277,000,000 last
deficiency bill, to which the memorial
item was attached by. the House yes
terday.
Senator King, Democrat, of Utah
was the first to make known he would
oppose the memorial project as now
proposed If it remains in the bill as
reported. The Senate members of the
Memorial Commission have never been
enthusiastic for the Tidal Baain site,
but went along when a majority of the
commission decided on that location.
The Senate subcommittee also has
before it for decision the question of
allowing the Alley Dwelling Authority
additional funds to begin its part of
the enlarged slum-clearance program,
to be parried on in co-operation with
the United States Housing Authority
under the new alley dwelling bill now
awaiting final enactment.
NEW CONSUL GENERAL
O. D. N. Haggard Opes Trom Faria
to Mew York for British.
LONDON, June # (A*).—Godfrey D.
N. Haggard, British consul genttyd at
Paris, today was appointed consul
general at New York. He will succeed
Gerald Campbell, recently neiaM high
commissioner to Canada,
Haggard, M yean in the British con
sular service, was oonsul general at
Chicago from 1028 to 1222.
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CHANGES WEIGHED
IN U. $. PAY ACT
... ■ ■
Committee Receives Pleas
for Walsh-Healey Law
Amendments.
The House Rules Committee today
considered proposals for speedy action
by the House on amendments to the
Walsh-Healey Act, under which Gov
ernment contracts would be withheld
from employers failing to obey orders
of the National Labor Relations Board.
A vigorous minority in Congress is
opposing the measures on the ground
they are designed to “coerce” employ
ers Into "immediate and unquestioning
compliance” with rulings of the Labor
Board, which itself has condemned co
ercion by employers. It also is charged
that one of the amendments would up
hold the check-off system of collecting
union dues.
A major feature of the bill before
the House is the proposed extension of
provisions of the Walsh-Healey Act to
contracts for >3,000 or more of sup
plies, whereas the existing law op
erates only with respect to contracts of
>10,000 or more. A companion bill,
passed by the Senate this week, ex
tends the scope still further to include
subcontractors.
"Blacklist” Maintained.
Under the Walsh-Heaiey Act,
adopted In 1836, the Government
maintains a “blacklist” of bidders who
do not comply with a “fair wage scale”
laid down by the Secretary of Labor,
or who require employes to work more
than S hours a day and 40 hours a
week, or who employ girls under 18 or
boys under 18.
The amendments, indorsed by the
American ^federation of Labor and
the C. I. O., would bring within the
black-listing provisions all bidders for
Government contracts of 33,000 or
mote who are In defiance of the Na
tional Labor Relations Board and of
collective bargaining agreements with
employes.
Chairman Madden of the labor
Board testified that the legislation
"would make compliance with the
board's orders and decisions more
prompt and effective and 1ms expen
sive to the Government” and “would
extend the benefits of the act to em
ployes of all persons contracting with
the Government or receiving loans
or grants from the Government.”
Amendments Opposed.
In a minority report just submitted
to the House seven membert of the
House Judiciary Committee*strongly
opposed the amendments, arguing that
the Labor Board la not "infallible”
and that to penalise employers who
"dare to question" the board's rul
ings is to subject them to “double
Jeopardy.”
"That it (the board) has made
mistakes,” the minority said, “is evi
dent from the fact that application*
have been made by its representative*
in pending oases to reopen and re
view previous findings.”
MRS. SCULLY’S WILL
BEFORE D. C. COURT
Interpretation of Certain farts
of Document Concerning
Shares Is Asked.
“The $2,000,000 estate of tbs tote
Mrs. Enriqueta Angela Scully, who
formerly lived here at 1401 Sixteenth
street N.W., and who died in London
on February a 1932, was brought to
the attention Of District Court today
for legal construing Her sons, Thomas
A. Scully and Frederick Scully of Lin
coln, IU., executors and trustees under
Mrs. Scully’s will asked the court to
interpret certain provisions in the
document, which waa written in long
hand in a London solicitor’s office.
Mrs. Scully's granddaughters are
British subjects and; under the Will,
are permitted to enter into marriage
settlements with their prospective
husbands, if they choose. Only one
of the granddaughters Is now mar
ried. The court here is asked to con
strue certain portions of the will that
relate to payment of income and dis
tribution of tbe shares that are pay
able to several grandchildren.
Representing the executors and
trustee* is Attorney Robert F. Cogs
well. Mrs. Scully was a resident of
the District and the Government con
tended that, in contemplation of death,
she had made transfers of certain
property. Tbe estate at one time was
valued at $21,000,000. The Govern
ment filed a deficiency tax claim,
reaching more than $3,000,000, but in
subsequent litigation, the Government
was unsuccessful.
Under the will, Mrs. Scully set aside,
out of her residuary estate, 40,000
pounds English sterling to establish a
trust for four grandchildren. When
she made her will, in 1931, the pound
was worth about $5, but shortly before
she died. Great Britain went off the
gold standard and the value of the
pound was reduced to lew than $3.50.
While the grandchildren contended
the trust fund should be set up In an
amount equal to the rate of exchange
prevailing at the time tbe will was
made, the executors felt the value
should be as of the time Mrs. Scully
died. Tbe court decided it should be
valued at the rate of exchange prevail
ing when the estate was distributed,
under Probate Court orders, and it was
placed at about $197,000.
Judge Favors
Governors for
New Trolleys
Hu the traffic problem reached the
point where speedometers or govern
ors must be placed on street egors?
Judge Hobart Neegnan says “yes,"
as far as the new streahUined cars are
concerned. He would equip the weedy
trolleys with governors.
Attorney Dorsey K. Offutt favored
speedometers in his plea of nolle
contendere entered before Judge New
man today in behalf of James O. Ins
ley, 50, Capitol Transit Co. motorman,
who was arrested last Tuesday and
charged with speeding in his street
car along Fourteenth street N.W, at
33 miles an hour.
The defendant testified the new
cars will reach a speed of 38 to 40
miles an hour, though he has never
“let one out.”
Attorney Offut asked Judge Newman
to use his influence in having the Pub
lic Utilities Commission order speedom
eters placed on the new ears so that
motormen would have same idea how
fast they were operating their can.
Judge Newman countered with the
declaration: “If these new can keep
up the speed they have been traveling
they will have to he equipped with
gomroon.” He then took Sir. msley’s
Heads the Naval Retiring
Board and Two Other
Medical Units.
Appointment of Rear Admiral
Charles St. J. Butler, medical officer
in command of the Navy Medical Cen
ter here, as president of the Naval
Retiring Board, the Board of Medical
Examiners and the Naval Examining
Board for officers of the Medical
Corps, Navy Department, was an
nounced today by the Navy Depart
ment.
Admiral Butler will relieve Rear
Admiral John Benjamin Dennis,
Medical Corps, as president of the
three boards about July 1. Admiral
Dennis, a native of Wicomico County,
Md., will be retired from active duty
in the Navy on August 1, on reaching
the statutory retirement age of 64
yean. He is to go on leave before
the end of this month.
Capt. Smith Successor.
At the same time the Navy Depart
ment announced that Admiral Butler
will be succeeded by Capt. Harold
Wellington Smith, now commanding
officer of the Naval Medical School, a
part of the Medical Center. Capt.
Smith has been selected for promotion
to rear admiral on the retirement of
Admiral Dennis.
The new commander of the Medical
Center, is a native of Boston, where be
was born May 30, 1878. He was grad
uated from the Harvard Medical Col
lege In 1901 and appointed an assist
ant surgeon in the Navy in 1904. Dur
ing the World War he was senior
medical officer aboard the hospital
ship Mercy. He served a number of
details in Washington prior to his
appointment to his present post as
commander of the Medical School. He
makes his home in the Westchester.
Headed Naval Dispensary.
During the World War Admiral
Dennis was in charge of the Naval
Dispensary here. He was appointed
assistant to the chifcf of the Bureau
of Medicine and Surgery, Navy De
partment, in 1931, serving for two
years in that post.
Admiral Butler, who was born in
Bristol. Tenn.. March 1, 1875. was
graduated from the University of Vir
ginia in 1897. He is internationally
known as an authority on bacteriol
ogy and tropical diseases. He was in
structor In the subjects at the Medical
School here and" was an occasional
lecturer at George Washington Uni
versity. Admiral Butler commanded
the Naval Medical School here from
1931 to 1924 and again from 1927 to
1932. He is a member of many na
tional and international medical com
missions and is the author of books
and papers on tropical medicine, sea
sickness, social diseases and other
medical subjects. He has been in
command of the Medical Center here
since October l, 1936—
AMBULANCE CASE
WON BY CHAMBERS
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Judge Edward M. Cuftttn Rules
Undertaker'a Vehicle la Hot
One for Hire.
Upholding a contention by W. W.
Chambers, undertaker, that his am
bulance is not a "vehicle for hire,”
Judge Edward M. Curran in Police
Court today delivered an opinion to
the effect that "the defendant is ren
dering a service in connection with his
business and that an ambulance is not
a public vehicle for hire within the
proper meaning of the license tax
statute.”
Mr. Chambers was charged on April
15 with operating a public vehicle for
hire after a policeman “played sick”
to get a ride in one of Mr. Chambers'
ambulances from a house on Mew
Hampshire avenue to another address.
The policeman was carried on a
stretcher.
Since Mr. Chambers’ driver charged
$3 for the trip it was contended the
ambulance was a vehicle tom hire by
the public and should be licensed as
such.
At the time of his appearance in
court Mr. Chambers ignored his at
torney and presented his own case.
The matter was taken under advise
ment, and the decision given today.
In his opinion Judge Curran said, in
part; "An ambulance is a vehicle used
for the purpose of conveying the sick
and wounded; only one person can be
carried to a given place at one time; it
necessitates two employes traveling
with the ambulance and a change of
bed clothes is made on every new
trip.”
A license for a public vehicle for
hire costs *25, and this additional cost
would have been placed on every hos
pital ambulance in the city had Judge
Curran ruled otherwise.
WATER SUPPLY HALTED
WHEN MAIN BREAKS
Boiler Room of Powhatan Hotel
Blooded and Nearby Pavement
Is Washed Out.
Water service was disrupted for sev
eral blocks when a 13-inch water main
broke at Eighteenth street and Penn
sylvania avenue N.W. early today,
washing out a large section of the
pavement and sending a small flood of
escaping water into the boiler room
of the Powhatan Hotel.
Workmen of the District Water Di
vision worked busily to repair the dam
age, and officials expected service to
be restored fully this afternoon. Resi
dents along Eighteenth street from
Pennsylvania avenue to K street N.W.
were without water service until the
main was repaired.
The water supply of the Powhatan,
served by another main, was not af
fected by the break, but hotel employes
were put to work at pumps to prevent
serious flood, damage in the boiler
room until the water in the broken
main was cut off. The Fire Depart
ment aided in pumping out the water.
Officials said the break, which oc
curred about 1 a.m., apparently waa
the result of a weak spot that had de
veloped gradually in the castlron pipe.
Pension Cnt Exemption Asked.
Representative Maas, Republican, of
Minnesota today introduced a bill to
exempt resident inmates of the Sol
diers' Home in the District and the
j Naval Home in Philadelphia from pen
j sloe reductions prescribed by vet
! erans’ regulations.
4
May on Volcano
Fiery Outburst
Greets Quezon
Br the Associated Press.
LEGASPI. P. I., June 8.—Mayon
volcano rumbled a fiery welcome to
President Manuel Quezon when he
reached Legaspi today to direct relief
worker* aiding terrified Filipinos who
have been driven from their homes
by the seven-day eruption.
The mighty fire mountain was in
heavy eruption as the presidential
yacht came into Legaspi’s harbor, but
the Rev. Miguel Selga, volcanologist,
assured President Quezion there was
no danger to life at present.
Two heavy eruptions at 2 and 4:30
o’clock this afternoon caused great
fear among the refugees of the village*
of Salvacion, and again drove the
natives of Guinobatan to kneel in
the streets to pray the earth-shaking
eruptions would stop.
The 4:30 blast threw incandescent
rock in all directions, indicating the
top of the crater was wide open.
BIDDLE Will GET
. DEM
Counsel for T. V. A. Probers
to Receive Sum for Six
Months’ Work.
By the Associated Press.
The Congressional committee In
vestigating the Tennessee Valley Au
thority announced today that Francis
Biddle, committee counsel, would re
ceive $10,000 for six months' service.
Chairman Donahey said Mr. Biddle
would begin drawing a salary as soon
as he came to Washington from his
home in Philadelphia, probably within
a few days.
The committee discussed the names
of about 00 applicants for the Job of
chief engineer to the committee, but
reached no decision. Senator Donahey
said an effort would be made to arrive
at a choice tomorrow morning.
Mare Fuads Sought.
Senator Brown. Democrat, of New
Hampshire and Representative Mead,
Democrat, of New York, arranged to
introduce a concurrent resolution in
the House and Senate at once, to add
$100,000 to the $50,000 fund appro
priated to finance the inquiry.
Senator Donahey said the committee
probably would make no detailed plans
for the conduct of the Inquiry until
after Congress had adjourned and a
staff had been completed.
The counsel Is a member of an eld
family which Included the first na
tional Attorney General He became
secretary to the late Chief Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes after being
graduated with honors from Harvard
University in 1911. He supported
Theodore Roosevelt in the Bull Moose
movement in 1912.
Short Story Writer.
In addition to his legal writings.
Mr. Biddle has produced a novel,
some short stories and book reviews.
A letter of recommendation from
Judge Curtis Bok of Philadelphia won
favorable consideration for Mr. Biddle
at a meeting of the joint congres
sional committee yesterday and a list
of more than 60 other applicants was
quickly set aside.
Called by telephone shortly before
noon, he came to Washington by
plane and was interviewed by the
committee yesterday afternoon. Sen
ator Brown proposed Mr. Biddle’s ap
pointment and there was little opposi
tion from either Republicans or Demo
crats.
STRIKE THREATENED
Long Island Power Employes
Issue Ultimatum.
BAYSHORE, N. Y„ June 9 (JP>.—
Members of the International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers (A. P. of L)
voted, 727 to 71, last night to strike
tomorrow midnight against the Long
Island Lighting Co., serving nearly all
of Long Island outside New York City,
unless its contract demands are met
J. Russell Sprague, county executive
of Nassau, has notified the union’s
attorney, Roland A. Crowe, that “there
can be no interference with gas and
electricity within the county.” Mr.
Sprague said failure of light at several
hospitals might Jeopardize lives.
J
Nearly Half of Players Fail
to Crack 40 Going Out,
With Par 35.
By the Associated Pre*«.
DENVER. June 9.—Despite a glitl
tering setting and favorable playing
conditions, par proved highly elusive
to the vanguard of shot makers today
in the first round of the National Open
golf championship at Cherry Hills.
Only a handful of early starters in
the field of 180-odd competitors, seek
ing Ralph Guldahl’s crown in the first
title battle ever waged on the fringe of
the snow-capped Rockies, came within
shouting distance of perfect figure*.
Alex Watson, Yonkers, N. Y., profes
sional, and Johnny Lehman of Chi
cago, former Big Ten and Western'
amateur title holder, missed connec
tion with par’s outgoing 35 6y a single
stroke. Their 36’s contrasted with the
fact that nearly half the early morning
contingent failed to crack 40.
Unless the later-starting favorites
quickened the pace, it appeared that
the first-round wreckage would be ter
rific. The outward half of Cherry
Hills, though one stroke easier on
the card than the incoming nine, was ’
rated much tougher in actual competi
tion and hazards.
Alex Watson, after helping set the
early pace, was forced to withdraw
on the 12th hole because of illness.
The Yonkers, N. Y„ professional, who
was a casualty while fighting with
the British forces for four years in
the World War, was attacked by severe
pains in his back.
He played the 10th and 11th holes,
despite obvious distress, but virtually
collapsed before reaching the 12th -
green. An ambulance was called to
take him to the club house.
Scores for the first round:
(a) Indicates amateur.
(a) Ernest R. Nelson, Denver, Colo,
42—45—87.
Verl Stinchcomb, Maygville, Ky„
41—48—89.
BAKING STRIKE END
HOPED FOR TODAY
Department of Labor Aide Seeking
Settlemetn of Pittsburgh
Dispute.
B* the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. June 9—John A
Moffltt, conciliator for the United
State* Department of Labor, an- -
nounced he hoped to “have everything
settled” today to end an eight-day
strike of driven that ha* closed 35
major baking companies.
The 1,400 driver*, members of an A.
P. L. union, walked out when operators
rejected their demand* for a closed
shop, seniority rights and use of the
union label on wrapped products.
Wages are not an issue.
The bakeries normally supply several
hundred thousand families and 15,000
merchants, hotels and restaurants.
Peace negotiations between repre
sentatives of the A. F . L. Teamsters’
Union and 57 struck long distance
motor freight operators collapsed last
night and principals indicated there
was little possibility of their resump
tion in the near future.
A spokesman for the operators who
said no further meetings had been
scheduled declared, “We cant meet
their terms.”
The union demands an increase of 5
cents an hour.
SEATTLE, June 9 (/Pi.—Forty-five
Seattle bakeries, producing 95 per cent
of the city’s bread, were closed early
today by a strike. Bakers seek In
creases of $3 a week for day workers
and $1 for night men.
APPLY FOR LICENSE
NAHANT Mass., June 9 iJP).—Anne*
Lindsay Clark and John A. Roosevelt,
youngest son of the President, today
filled out their wedding license appli
cation and paid 93 to Clerk Leon M.
Delano at the town hall.
Dressed in a white-dotted blue sports
frock and a rough straw hat. Miss
Clark and young Roosevelt, in a gray
business suit and gray felt hat, blithe
ly chatted about baseball with photog
raphers on the town hall steps be
fore departing.
WEATHER REPORT
District of Columbia—Cloudy tonight; probably showers tomorrow; not
much change fn temperature; gentle winds, mostly southeast.
Maryland—Mostly cloudy tonight, followed by showers tomorrow; slightly
cooler on the coast.
Virginia—Cloudy, probably showers tomorrow and in west portion late
tonight; slightly warmer in west portion tonight.
West Virginia—Showers beginning late tonight or tomorrow; somewhat
warmer tonight.
Pressure continues low over Hudson
Strait and the northern portion of the
Province of Quebec. Resolution Island.
Hudson Strait. 29.30 inches. A disturb
ance of siieht intensity is centersd over
Kastern Nova Scotia. Sydney, 29.84 inches,
moving northeastward. A disturbance is
moving east-southeastward over the Plains
States and the Southern Rocky Mountain
resion. Bismarck. N. Dak.. 29.38 inches.
Pressure continues high east of Bermuda.
St. Georges. 30.28 inches, while a high
pressure" area is moving east-northeast
ward over the Middle Atlantic States and
the lower Lake region. Pittsburgh. Pa..
30.20 inches. Pressure is high along the
North Pacific Coast. Ketchikan. Alaska.
30.18 inches. During the last 24 hours
there have been showers over the Northern
Plains an dthe West Gulf States, and In
scattered areas over the Southeastern
Btates and the Middle and Southern Plains.
Temperatures have risen in the Upper
Mississippi Valley and portions of the
Middle and Northern Plains States.
Resort for Last 24 Hours.
Temperature. Barometer.
Yesterday— Degrees. inches.
4 P.m._ 78 29.92
8 p.m. _ 75 29.95
Midnight _- 68 30.03
Today—
14 a.m._ 66 30.07
8 a.m._ 71 30.18
Noon ___ 80 30.20
Record for Last 24 Hears.
(Prom noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 80. 5 p.m. yesterday. Year
ago. 87.
Lowest, 64. 5:15 a.m. today. Year
ago. 66.
Roeortl Temseratores This Year.
Highest, 93, on June 7.
Lowest. 18. on January 28.
Humidity for Last 24 Hoars.
(Prom noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 79 per cent, at 11:15 p.m. yes
terday.
Lowest. 29 per cent, at noon today.
Tide Tables.
(Purnlshed by United Btates Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High_ 5:17 a.m. 6:03 a.m.
Low _ _ 12:18 a.m.
Hicb ___._ 5:42 p.m. 6:29 p.m.
Low _■_12:08 p.m. 12:57 p.m.
Pnolsitatioa.
Monthly precipitation In Inches In the
Ohpltal (current month to date):
Month 1638k
January _
June —-_
July -
j6vember~~~II
1 December _____
f
Elver Repart.
Potomac River clear and Shenandoah
muddy at Harpers Ferry; Potomac clear
at Great Falls today.
The San and Mean.
_ . Rises. Set*.
Sun. today 4:42 7:32
3un. tomorrow_ 4:42 7:33
Moon, today_ 4:41p.m. 2:23 a.m.
Automobile light* must ha turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Weather In Various ClUea
Temp. Rain
Baro. High. Low. fall. Weather.
Abilene.... 2!).SO 02 64 1.60 Clear
Albany 30.12 76 48 Clear
Atlanta 30.04 82 64 0.10 Cloudy
Atlantic C 30.14 80 62 _ Cloudy
Baltimore 30.18 82 66 _ Cloudy
Bir’m'ham 30.04 8(T 70 Cloudy
Bismarck _ 29.38 78 58 0.02 Clear
Boston _ 30.08 68 56 0.02 Clear
Buffalo 30.16 62 54 Clear
Charleston 30.10 86 74 0.30 Cloudy
Chicago 30.08 74 58 _ Cloudy
Cincinnati 30.14 78 56 __ Cloudy
Cleveland- 30.18 70 56 Clear
Columbia. 30.10 86 66 0.20 Cloudy
Denver. 29.58 76 56 _ Clear
Detroit ... 30.16 72 48 Clear "
El Paso 29.68 94 70 Clear
Galveston- 29.96 86 76 0.06 Cloudy
Helena- 29.7C 68 40 _ Clear
Huron . 29.32 74 60 Clear
Indian’lis- 30.10 78 60 _ Cloudy
Jack’ville 30.10 92 74 Cloudy
Kansas C. 29.83 78 66 0.02 Cloudy
L. Angeles. 29.86 66 58 _ Cloudy
Louisville. 30.12 78 64 _ Cloudy
Miami . 30.10 86 78 -
Mpls -St. F. 29.82 74 58 ,
N. Orleans. 30.02 90 74 0 02 y
New York. 30.12 76 62
Okla. City 29.76 72 64 0.06 y
Omaha_ 29.76 76 62
Fhila_ 30.16 78 64 "
Phoenix . . 29.68 102 70
Pittsburgh 30.20 74 52
Port’d. Me. 30.06 64 54 0.0*
Port'd. Ore. 30.14 68 46
Raleigh 30.12 80 62 0.34
St. Louis . 29.98 80 64 0.08
S. Lake C. 29.68 86 52
S. Antonio 29.84 92 6» 0 02
g Diego 29.80 68 60 ... Cloudy
g. Fr Cisco 29.72 66 52 Sear
Seattle ._ 30.10 84 46 ___ Cloudy
»okane_- 29.86 60 44 __I cloudv
Tampa/— 30.10 90 72 ... CTesr
WASH.- 30.16 80 *4 _ Cloudy
FOREIGN 8TATIONS.
(7 a.m.. Greenwich time, today.)
. J Temperatura. Weather.
London England_ 56 Cloudy
Faria, France- 63 Cloudy
Vienna. Austria- 63 Cloudy
Berlin. Germany_ 70 Cloudy
Brest. France _ 57 Cloudy
Zurich. Swltserland_ 64 Cloudy
Stockholm. Sweden_ 70 Cloudy
Gibraltar. Spain__ 64 Clear
<Noon. Greenwich time, today.)
Rorta (Faya!). Asore* 74 Cloudy
(Current observations.)
8t. Georges. Bermuda.. 78 Cloudy
8in Juan. Puerto Rlaa . 78 Main
avana. Cuba_ 78 Clear
Colon. Canal Zone_ 76 Cloudy