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Chest Victory Needs
$250,000 at Each
Report Meeting
Workers Exhorted to
Intensify Solicitation
Over Week End
With a week end to swell their
pledge lists. Community Chest vol
unteer solicitors set out today to
bring in an average of $250,000 to
each of the three remaining report
meetings before the close of the
campaign Wednesday.
Although there was to be no report
meeting today, Chest leaders antici
pated renewed efforts on the part of
the workers after the appeal made
by Herbert L. Willett, jr„ Chest di
rector, at the meeting yesterday.
In order to go over the top the
volunteers still have to raise $751.
699. The total to date is $1,375,400.90,
or 64.66 per cent of the quota of
$2,127,000.
Last year, Mr. Willett pointed out,
the Chest raised 89 per cent of its
goal. This might be good scholas
tically, he added, but it’s not a pass
ing grade when human lives are at
stdkc.
‘TOO Per Cent or Over.”
"If we're going to pass in this
campaign,” he told the volunteers,
"we've got to make 100 per cent of
our goal or over.”
He urged the workers to apply the
campaign slogan to themselves, not
to take a hand-out but a hand-up,
or increase in the amount pledged
in other years.
This year, it was pointed out, the
average gift, exclusive of special
assignment pledges, is $8.50, as com
pared to $7.92 last year. However,
the number of pledges last year was
larger. Mr. Willett reminded the
workers to keep the amount of the
gifts up, but try to get more pledges
to reach the goal.
The Junior Board of Commerce
was represented by a number of
members at the meeting. They came
to hear the board's vice president.
Minor Hudson, who is also chairman
of a Chest section in the drive, re
port for the Metropolitan Unit.
Mr. Hudson, prefacing his report
with the announcement that other
members of the board were busy
soliciting and could not attend the
meeting, outlined the board's work
during the campaign.
Dwight E. Hahn. \yho turned in
more pledges yesterday than any
other member of the board, receiv
ed the daily gift of flowers. The pres
eneation was made by Mr. Hudson.
68 Per Cent for Unit.
The board vice-president reported
that the Metropolitan Unit had
raised 68 per cent of its quota, or
$138,307.48 from 8.020 pledges.
Members of the unit who were
mentioned for their good work dur
ing the campaign were Dr. Maurice
J. Kossow, who solicits business
houses along the water front in the
Southwest area: Mrs. Bessie Parrish
and Miss Carolyn Matthews, who,
it was said, have difficult territories
In the Southwest area; Mrs. Henry
Sokol, who takes four buses daily
to cover her territory; Mrs. Talbert
M. Brewer, Mrs. Joseph Himes, Mrs.
Harold N. Marsh and Mrs. Marion
Joss.
The youngest solicitor in the cam
paign, Keith Gossman, 15, who be
longs to the Boys' Club volunteer
team In the Southeast area of the
Metropolitan Unit, reported 250 per
cent of the individual quota as
signed to him.
Newbold Noyes, associate editor
of The Star and a chairman in the
Special Assignments Unit, reported
that his unit had reached 75.07 per
cent of its quota, having collected
$436,539 from 511 contributors.
Cites 2 Specific Increases.
William J. Flather, jr„ campaign
chairman, adding a few words about
the unit's work, said that an anony
mous donor who always gave $10,000
had increased his gift to $12,000 and
that another donor who custom
arily gave $100 had pledged $2,000
this year. Mr. Flather explained
that the second case was due sim
ply to a lack of understanding pre
viously as to the work of the Chest.
Large gifts reported at the meet
ing included those from Mrs. Henry
Alvah Strong, $5,000; L. Corrin
Strong, $3,500, and William Hahn
and Co., $1,500.
The report for the Group Solici
tation Unit was made by Herbert
J. Rich, an area chairman in the
unit. Mr. Rich announced the unit
had raised $252,410.80 from 25,932
contributors, or 53.71 per cent of its
quota.
Firms and organizations over the
100 per cent mark reported at the
meeting include Maurice J. Colbert
& Co., Cleve's Cafeteria, Joseph
Gawler’s Sons, Inc.; Washington Pe
troleum Products, Inc.; National
Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Associa
tion; Investment Building, National
Aeronautic Association, Packard
Washington Motor Car Co., James
H. Small & Sons, Inc.; Wilkins
Rogers Milling Co., J. E. Dyer & Co.,
Dome Oil Co., H. G. Smyth, Shan
non & Luchs, the staff of the Epis
copal Home for Children and the
Sidwell Friends School.
Government ijmt bb ret.
Miss Mae A. Schnurr, vice chair
man of soliciting in the Department
of tlie Interior, reported for the
Governmental Unit. The total an
nounced was $525,912.15, or 66.10 per
cent of the unit’s quota. Tins
amount represented 76,728 pledges.
The Bureau of Engraving and
Printing’s Plate Printing Division,
with 1.792 employes, and the Engi
neering Division, with 170 employes,
were announced as having achieved
10 Oper cent of their goal with every
employe a contributor.
Thirty-eight other Government
divisions and departments among
the 100 per centers include Chem
istry and Soils, Agriculture Depart
ment. captained by H. A. Donovan,
101.90 per cent; Federal Crop Insur
ance Corp., Agriculture Department,
Helen A. Bonorden, 104.63 per cent;
Civil Aeronautics Authority, Paul
J. Frizzell, 110.47 per cent; Au
thority, Civil Aeronautics Authority,
C. M. Estep, 118.18 per cent; Eco
nomic Regulation, Civil Aeronautics
Authority, M. B. Haley, 123.79 per
cent; Lighthouses, Commerce De
partment, R. L. Hankinson, 100 per
cent; Commodity Credit Corp., Guy
G. Chase, 100.16 per cent; Electric
Home and Farm Authority, Carl T.
Rose. 104.37 per cent; Legal Farm
Credit Administration, J. A. Jordan,
100.09 per cent; Revolving Fund,
Farm Credit Administration, F. C.
Bassen, 120.44 per cent; Finance,
Public Works Administration, W. C.
Denny, 153.35 per cent; Legal, Fed
eral Power Commission, William C.
Koplovitz, 131.92 per cent; Reclama
tion, Interior Department, Mae A.
Schnurr, 100.38 per cent; Inspection
and Survey, Navy Department, Mrs.
A. V. Ziegler, 101.14 per cent; U. S.
^arine Corps, Maj. J. W. Knighton,
WORKING FOR CHEST.—Minor Hudson, chairman of
the Junior Board of Commerce section of the Community
Chest, shown with Lyle O’Rourke, president of the Junior
Board, at the report meeting of the Chest at the Willard
Hotel yesterday.
Mrs. Wilma Flood, who has directed and
broadcast several dramatizations of the
work of Chest agencies, appeared pleased
at the results of unit reports at the
luncheon meeting. —Star Staff Photo.
101.60 per cent; Purchasing Agent,
Post Office Department, Harrison
Parkman, 103.70 per cent; Legal,
Procurement Division, James D.
Head. 103.42 per cent; Loans and
Currency, Public Debt Service, John
T. Skinner, 102.13 per cent; Special
Assistant’s Division, Secretary’s
Office, Treasury Department, Mrs.
F. Louise Root, 102.17 per cent;
General Accounts, Office of the
Treasurer of the United States,
L. V. Moore, 117.39 per cent; Asso
ciate Member Group, Board of Vet
erans’ Appeals, Mrs. C. L. Stewart,
100.21 per cent; Medical and Domi
ciliary Care, Construction and Sup
ply, Veterans' Administration, Lt.
Col. T. J. Frailey, 101.68 per cent;
Chief of Engineers, War Depart
ment, Mrs. H. F. Bryant, 103.36 per
cent; Secretary of War, War De
partment, L. Frank Nye, 101.61 per
cent; Inquiry, Washington, D. C.,
Post Office, W. C. Gilbert. 102.65 per
cent: Postal Cashier, Washington.
D. C„ Post Office, John W. Quick,
106.76 per cent; White House, Frank
K. Sanderson, 105.99 per cent:
Northeastern Branch, Public Library,
Iva Irene Swift, 166.30 per cent;
Abbot Vocational School, W. F.
Smith. 105.92 per cent; Cardoza High
School, R. N. Mattingly, 127.69 per
cent; Home Economics 1-9, Public
Schools. Mrs. O. D. Rush. 132.81 per
cent; Jefferson Junior High School,
H. S. Smith, 115 per cent; Music
10-13. Public Schools. A. H. John
son. 111.36 per cent; Western High
School, Dr. E. S. Newton, 108.56
per cent; Wilson Teachers’ College,
Dr. E. C. Higbie. 112.58 per cent;
Woodrow Wilson High School. N. J.
Nelson. 112.12 per cent; District Jail.
Thomas M. Rives, 102.86 per cent;
Industrial Home School, Earl W.
Cassie, 100.32 per cent.
Guests at the speakers table, In
addition to Chest officials and those
'reporting for units, included Mrs.
Wilma Flood, who has directed and
broadcast several radio dramatiza
tions of the work of Chest agencies;
A. F. E. Horn, president of the Ro
tary Club and a member of the Chest
Budget Committee; Edward S. Par
doe, president of the Kiwanis Club
of Washington and an area chair
man in the Metropolitan Unit, and
the Rev. Oscar F. Blackwelder, pas
tor of the Lutheran Church of the
Reformation, who offered the invo
cation.
Georgetown Fraternity
To Hold Initiation
Mu Chapter of Delta Sigma Pi,
international fraternity, at the
Georgetown University School of
Foreign Service, was to receive 10
new members this morning at its
34th semi-annual initiation at the
chapter house, 1561 Thirty-fifth
street N.W.
The entire membership planned
to attend the Georgetown-Maryland
football game at College Park in
the afternoon.
Initiates will be introduced to the
headmaster of Mu Chapter, Gerald
F. Stack, at a dinner tonight at
the Mayflower Hotel. Initiates are
Rolf William of Norfolk, Va.; George
Jennings of New Haven, Conn.;
Chris Hanson of Beach, Wash.;
Robert Byrne of Rehoboth Church,
Va.; Warren Holmes of Chicago;
Thomas McKinley of Queens Vil
lage, N. Y„ and Ivan Hasslocher,
Paul Williams, John Horbett and
Francis Strizzi of Washington.
City News in Brief
TODAY.
Dance, Group 838, Polish National
Alliance and Polish Club of Wash
ington, Stansbury Hall, 5832 Georgia
avenue N.W., 9 p.m.
Dance, National Council of Jewish
Juniors, Raleigh Hotel, 9 p.m.
Smoker, Alpha Chi Sigma Fra
ternity, Hamilton Hotel, 8 p.m.
Dance, Stephen McGroarty Post,
No. 27, American Legion, La Fayette
Hotel, 10 pm.
Dinner-dance, Theta Alpha So
rority, Mayflower Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Dinner-dance, Variety Club, Wil
lard Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Dance, Coal Commission, Roger
Smith Hotel, 9 pm.
Dance, Xi Psi Phi Fraternity,
Wardman Park Hotel, 10 pm.
Supper-meeting, Junior Board of
Commerce, Carlton Hotel, 8 p.m.
Dinner, Georgetown Law School,
Carlton Hotel, 7 pm.
Meeting, Philosophical Society of
Washington, Cosmos Club, 8:15 pm.
Dance, Government Printing Of
fice Post, No. 33, Annapolis Hotel, 9
pm.
Dance, Phi Epsilon Alpha, Hay
Adams House, 10 pm.
Banquet, Delta Sigma Pi Soror
ity, Mayflower Hotel, 6:30 pm.
Dinner, strayer College, Roose
velt Hotel, 7 pm.
Dinner-dance, Reciprocity Club
of America, Congressional Country
Club, 8:30 pm.
TOMORROW.
Meeting, Baltic-American Society,
International Student House, 1708'
New Hampshire avenue N.W., 2:45
pm.
Tea, League of American Pen Wo
men, Grafton Hotel, 4 to 6 pm.
Supper-meeting, Alumni Associa
tion, Wilson Teachers’ College, Ad
miral Club, 6:30 pm.
Meeting, League For Larger Life,
1414 Sixteenth street ta.w., 7:30 pm.
Meeting, Town Hall,
Hotel, 8 pm. ~
15,000 Italian Jews
Lose Government
And Private Jobs
Race Also to Be Barred
From Participating
In Repatriation
B> the Associated Presi.
ROME, Nov. 19.—Fifteen thou
sand Jews were said by usually re
liable sources today to have been
dropped from government and pri
vate jobs in the past four days.
The action was in compliance
with the sweeping cabinet decree of
November 10 excluding Jews from
government positions, restricting
their business and professions and
forbidding their marriage to Ital
ian Aryans.
3,500 Dismissed in Rome.
Twenty-five hundred of those dis
missed were in Rome, it was stated.
The same sources said Jews would
be barred from participation in
Italy’s repatriation project under
which more than half a million
Italians living abroad are expected
to be returned to the homeland.
They expressed the belief that
many jobs now held by Jews in
Italy would be given to the re
patriates. A commission was cre
ated last Thursday to carry out the
project.
Meanwhile, political circles heard
that Father Pietro Tacchi-Venturi,
rector of Rome's Church of Jesus
and noted peacemaker between the
Fascist government and the Vatican,
was at work seeking a solution of
the marriage law dispute.
Marriage Rules Protested.
Pope Pius protested against the
marriage restrictions on the ground
they were in violation of the con
cordat between the church and
Italy.
Father Tacchi-Venturi was inter
vened on various occasions as con
fidential go-between for both Pope
Pius and Premier Mussolini. His
lattest triumph was the agreement
reached last August between the
Fascist party and Italy’s Catholic
action, smoothing over differences
which threatened the country with
serious political discord.
Store Owner Loses $100
To Neatly-Dressed Bandit
A neatly dressed bandit with a
muffler covering the lower part of
his face last night held up and
robbed Louis Bradley, proprietor of
a drug store at 703 Maryland ave
nue NL
Mr. Bradley told police the bandit,
about 25 years old and wearing a
gray suit and hat, entered the store
about 10 o’clock, produced a blue
steel revolver nad forced the pro
prietor to turn over $100.
Breaking a show window at the
Phillips jewelry store, 1423 H street
N.W., thieves last night escaped
with watches, bracelets and other
articles valued at $119.
Mrs. Esther Rosenberg told police
the door of her apartment at 2520
L street N.W. was “jimmied” and
clothing, jewelry, a radio and other
property valued at $140 was stolen.
Press Club to Elect
Officers Dec. 17
Members of the National Press
Club will go to the polls in their
clubrooms on Saturday, December
17, to elect a president and other
officers for the next year.
Felix T. Cotten, secretary, an
nounced nominating petitions for
office must be submitted in writing
to him or posted bn the club bulle
tin board. Nominations will close
at 10 a.m. Saturday, December 10,
a week before the election.
Harold Braman is now president
of the club. Officers to be named,
in addition to a new president, in
clude a vice president, secretary,
treasurer, fiancial secretary, two
members of the Board of Governors
for full terms of three years each
and one member of the board for
a two-year unexpired term.
Salesman Is Arrested
In Stock Sale Case
Charles Otis Davenport, 60, of
1332 I street N.W., one of 11 sales
men indicted in connection with the
allegedly fraudulent sale of $300,000
in stock of the Suwanee Life Insur
ance Co, Jacksonville, Fa, was* ar
rested here yesterday and held for
investigation.
The arrest was made by metro
politan police, accompanied by a
special agent of the Security and
Exchange Commission.
A statement issued by the com
mission November 4 said indict
ments were returned in the United
States District Court at Orlando,
Fla, October 26 charging Davenport
and the others with conspiracy to
violate the mall-fraud statute and
section 17 of the Securities Act of
1933.
An S. E. C. official said about
$300,000 of the insurance company
stock had been sold in Southern
States. “
Pennsylvania A. F. L.
Chiefs Defy Green
On Resignations
Power to Expel for
Political Line-up
Questioned
B> the Associated Pres*.
PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 19—The
president and secretary of the Penn
sylvania State Federation of Labor
stood firm today in their announced
refusal to resign as requested by
National A. F. of L. President Wil
liam Green.
Mr. Green, in a letter requesting
the resignations, told State Pres
ident William McDevitt and Secre
tary David Williams they had "op
posed the political policies of the
A. F. of L. in the campaign” and
had been "repudiated” by the
voters in the November 8 election.
Mr. McDevitt expressed "sur
prise” at Mr. Green's request and
declared:
"It is without precedent in the
history of American labor that the
officers of a central body be called
on to resign because they supported
losing candidates in an election.”
Mr. McDevitt said that "inasmuch
as we followed the instructions of
the Executive Committee” Mr.
Green's letter would be referred to
that group when it meets at Harris
burg December 1 and 2.
Mr. McDevitt questioned Mr.
Green's power to expel the State
officers, but added:
“If it is the wish of the Pennsyl
vania A. F. of L. members that we
get out, we’ll resign without a mur
mur.”
In the general election campaign,
Mr. Green indorsed the veteran
Republican Senator, James J. Davis.
The State A. F. of L. leadership
supported Senator Davis' opponent,
Gov. George H. Earle, who was de
feated.
Women Voters List Two
Legislative Objectives
The National Board of the League
of Women Voters decided yesterday
to center its attention at the coming
session of Congress on promoting
leegislation relating to certain as
pects of foreign policy and on civil
service amendments.
The league plans to work for a
revision of the neutrality laws that
would provide for embargoes on es
sential war materials and to pro
vide for the application of the em
bargoes only against those^ countries
which violate treaties against us,
protection of the Hull reciprocal
trade agreement program and sup
port of whatever treaties result from
the Lima Pan-American Conference
so long as they come within the
scope of the league program.
In domestic policy the league
plans to work for an extension of
the merit system in civil service,
reorganization of the civil service
administration and larger appro
priations for its increased work as
the result of recent executive orders
and an amendment to the Social
Security Act to enable the Social
Security Board to require the se
lection of State personnel on a
merit basis.
Miss Marguerite M. Wells, presi
dent of the league, predicted that
the coming Congress would have a
more sympathetic attitude toward
the merit system measures than the
last.
Red Cross Broadcast
Is Nation-Wide
As a part of the American Red Cross
membership drive, Douglas Griese
mer, roll call director of the organi
zation, speaking over station WMAL
Washington, was to participate in
a Nation-wide broadcast from noon
to 12:30 p.m. today over the National
Broadcasting company’s red net
work.
One of the four Red Cross leaders
who will speak on the program, Mr.
Griesemer will be heard along with
A. L. Schafer, Pacific branch man
ager of the Red Cross talking from
San Francisco: James T. Nicholson,
Chicago branch manager, speaking
from that city and Esther Gaylor,
the girl pictured on the Red Cross
poster who will speak from New
York.
Deans of Women Meet
At Cathedral School
The annual meeting of the re
gional association of deans of women
and advisers of girls began today at
9:30 a.m. at the National Cathedral
School for Girls.
The association included deans of
private and public schools Junior
colleges and universities from Mary
land, Delaware, Virginia and the
District.
At this morning’s session the group
was scheduled to hear Howard M.
Bell, of the American Youth Com
mission of the American Council on
Education. At a luncheon at 1 pm.
Sir Willmott Lewis, Washington cor
respondent of the London Times,
was to be the speaker.
T.V.A. Probers Refuse
Willkie Proffer of
Tax Return Data
Counsel Says Power to
Search Will Not Invade
Private Rights
B> tl»-Auoclited Ptim.
Francis Biddle, counsel, disclosed
t#day that the T. V. A. Investigating
Committee had declined an offer
from Wendell Willkie, utilities ex
ecutive, to open his personal income
tax returns and bank accounts to
committee inspection.
Mr. Biddle told reporters that Mr.
Willkie had suggested that com
mittee representatives examine these
records in their inquiry into the
proposed sale of the electrical de
partment of the Tennessee Electric
Power Co. to the T. V. A. and munic
ipalities.
“The committee representatives
told Mr. Willkie ‘certainly not, we
do not wish to go into your private
affairs,’ ” Mr. Biddle said.
Illustrative of Attitude.
The counsel said this illustrated
the attitude the committee had
adopted in exercising its authority
under a presidential order to ex
amine any income tax returns it
chooses. Two Republican commit
tee members criticized this order
vigorously yesterday, contending
that it established a “dangerous
precedent” which might lead to
invasion of private rights.
rnomas p. cooper, dean of agri
culture at the University of Ken
tucky, told the committee today that
T. V. A. fertilizer experiments had
benefited farmers throughout the
Nation.
Prof. Cooper described what he
called close co-operation between
T. V. A. and land-grant colleges in
seven Southern States, Alabama,
Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi,
North Carolina, Tennessee and
Virginia.
Prof. Cooper is chairman of a co
ordinating committee representing
these agricultural colleges, T. V. A.
and Federal agricultural agencies.
He said T. V. A. experiments on pro
duction of triple superphosphate
were vital to fertility of farm lands
both in the T. V. A. area and else
where.
Representatives Wolverton, Re
publican, of New Jersey, and Jen
kins, Republican, of Ohio, said they
believed their protests to the com
mittee had ‘‘scotched" any possible
attempt to inquire into income tax
returns of persons opposing the T.
V. A. project.
Representatives Jenkins and Wol
verton termed the executive order
an "unwarranted step" and "a dan
gerous precedent" involving rights
of citizens.
This brought an emphatic protest
from Senator Donahey, Democrat,
of Ohio, chairman of the group.
Senator Donahey Approves.
‘‘I approved of it,” Senator Don
ahey said, his face reddening. ‘‘I
think it is perfectly proper that
these utilities be brought in here
and made to show anything this
committee wants them to show.”
"And that goes for the T. V. A.,
too.” he added.
Mr. Biddle insisted that there
never had been any intention to pry
into the returns of individuals. He
said the only information sought was
the allowances for depreciation the
Tennessee company claimed in its
tax return. This will be used, he
said, to check against depreciation
figures given by Mr. Willkie when
he takes the stand next week.
The committee recalled C. W.
Kellogg, president of the Electric
Institute, to the stand today for
questioning about his contention
that the T. V. A. does not furnish
a true "yardstick” of power costs.
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Arlington Rites Held
For Lt. Comstock
Funeral services with full mili
tary honors were held today in
Arlington National Cemetery for Lt.
Donald R. Comstock, U. S. N., re
tired, who died at the age of 59
Tuesday in Penn Yan, N. Y.
Lt. Comdr. E. D. Davis, Navy
chaplain, officiated, and honorary
pallbears included Lts. M. H. Bailey,
J. H. Armstrong, F. C. Camp, J. J.
Crane, M. L. McCullough and L. B.
Blaylock.
Lt. Comstock was born in 1889 at
Pine Grove, N. Y., and enrolled in
the Naval Reserves in 1918 as an
ensign and the following year was
given the same rank in the Regular
Navy. He was commissioned a
lieutenant in 1925 and was retired
in 1934 for physical disability. He
is survived by his widow. Mrs. Jane
M. Comstock, Bellona, N. Y.
Fight Gas Price Law
Two companies have questioned
the constitutionality of a new act
authorizing the Power Commission
to regulate the transportation and
sale of natural gas in interstate
commerce. The challenge was made
by the Natural Gas Pipe Line Co. of
America and the Texoma Natural
Gas Co. in an answer to a petition
of the Illinois Commerce Commis
sion for a cut in rates charged by
the companies. They denied the
commission had jurisdiction to
change or set aside any price at
which Natural Gas Pipe Line sold
gas. Such action, they said, would
violate the fifth amendment to the
Constitution.
Philosophical Society
Prof. J. W. Beams of the Univer
sity of Virginia will discuss “Some
Applications of High Rotational
Speeds” at a meeting of Philosophi
cal Society of Washington at 8
o'clock tonight at the Cosmos Club
auditorium.
Whitehurst on Radio
“Murder by the Mile” was the
subject of a radio talk this morning
over WJSV by H. C. Whitehurst,
District highway director, who dis
cussed needs of road construction to
reduce fatalities. He outlined haz
ards which should be eliminated
through improved highway building.
The national broadcast, sponsored
by the American Road Builders’
Association, was directed at reducing
traffic fatalities.
Alumni to Hear Game
Alumni of Stanford University and
the University of California will
meet at 2400 Sixteenth street N.W.
today at 4 pm. to hear the broadcast
of the football game between the
institutions. A buffet supper will
follow. A
TALLULA, ILL.—CHILD BRIDE—When 14-year-old Velma Rob
inson (inset) married Jones S. Greene, 63, she lived with her
parents and eight brothers and sisters in the weather-worn ten
ant farmhouse in the upper photo. Below is the house on a farm
near Tallula, which, according to the girl’s father, Edgar Robin
son, Greene promised to give her after marriage. The girl was to
get the house and half interest in the 600-acre farm, Robinson
said. The child bride and her husband are being detained in Los
Angeles. —A. P. Wirephotos.
Justices Consider
Appeal for Decision
On 'Sit-Downs'
Right to Discharge
Participants
Is Issue
B» the Associated Pres*.
The Supreme Court considered
today whether to review litigation
to test the right of an employer to
discharge workmen who participate
in a sit-down strike.
This question, directly affecting
the Pansteel Metallurgical Corp. of
North Chicago, was before the jus
tices at their regular Saturday con
ference. An announcement is ex
pected Monday.
The National Labor Relations
Board appealed to the high tribunal
from a decision by the Federal Cir
cuit Court at Chicago that the strik
ers could be dismissed.
The board contended that the sit
down strike resulted from refusal
of the corporation to bargain col
lectively with representatives of the i
Amalgamated Association of Iron,!
Steel and Tin Workers of America, i
Because of this, the board said, j
the men continued to be employes
under the provisions of the National
Labor Relations Act and could not
be discharged.
It contended that the board had
the power to order reinstatement j
of the employes “because of Fan- j
steel s unfair labor practices” and;
"despite any act of violence.”
In reply, Fansteel said that ap- ;
proximately 100 union men had.
seized two key buildings in 1937 i
Replevin Case
Settled After
Long Battle
By the Associated Press.
OMAHA, Nebr., Nov. 19.—Two
years and one month ago, during
a deposition on an automobile re
plevin action, Notary Public David
Brown asked Attorney William A.
Ehlers two questions.
When Mr. Ehlers refused to an
swer because it ‘‘would violate my
oath as an attorney,” Mr. Brown
ordered him jailed for contempt.
Free on bond, Mr. Ehlers appealed
to the District Court and lost.
He appealed successively to the
Nebraska Supreme Court, Federal
District Court, United States Circuit
Court and the Supreme Court of
the United States. In each he lost.
Yesterday Mr. Brown and Mr.
Ehlers faced each other again for
a repetition of the questions.
"Do you know where the car is?”
asked the notary.
"I think I do."
"Do you have the car in your
possession?”
“No," said Mr. Ehlers.
The notary said he was satisfied,
sent a release order to the sheriff
"without notice or warning" and
had held them nine days until j
driven out by police.
"Neither the seizure nor the de- j
struction of property can be de- j
fended as legitimate union activity,” j
the corporation said. “The judicial
condemnation of the sit-down strike
has been universal; its illegality
cannot be doubted. Certainly it
constitutes more than ample cause
for the discharge of the partici
pants.”
Drivers Win Praise
As Nation's Traffic
Deaths Decline
Deserve Credit for Part
In 20 Pet. Drop,
Says A. A. A.
By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Nov. 19.—America's
motorists received a bouquet today
from the American Automobile As
sociation for their part in reducing
the Nation’s traffic fatalities.
In his report to the 36th annual
A. A. A. convention, Maj. Roy F.
Britton of St. Louis, chairman of th®
association’s Traffic Safety Com
mission, said:
“While the drop of 20 per cent
in traffic fatalities this year, com
pared with the number a year ago,
is attributable to many advances,
it is apparent that motorists them
selves did much to bring about im
provement.
“Individual care has always been
and always will be the basis of
traffic safety. Thus the country's
motoring millions, if they are to be
blamed when traffic deaths increase,
justly deserve credit when the num
ber is reduced.”
Maj. Britton listed as other
contributing traffic safety fac
tors greater public co-operation,
strengthening of law enforcement,
co-operation of press anil radio and
the spread of safety edtication in
the school systems.
“No phase of the traffic safety
movement has advanced more rap
idly than the educational program,”
said Maj. Britton, pointing out that
a third of the Nation's high schools
offer safety education.
Capt. C. J. Scavarda of the Michi
gan State police indorsed flexible
speed laws that will "let the motorist
decide for himself how fast he ought
to drive.”
Rear Admiral Percy W. Foot#,
Pennsylvania motor police commis
sioner, disagreed, contending that
“without fixed limits, policemen and
motorists would engage in unend
ing arguments making for ineffective
control.”
Both agreed the basic need In
traffic safety is driver training.
The association's Touring Board
denounced fee-splitting officers who,
it charged, raise revenue by fining
strange motorists.
“At a time when States are spend
ing millions of dollars for tourist
promotion,” the committee said, “it
is particularly important that defi
nite steps be taken to curb this
form of highway hold-up."
——-•-—
De Medina Temporarily
In Charge of Legation
Don Raul Diez de Medina, first
secretary of the Legation of Bolivia,
has been named Charge d'Aflaires
during the absence of Dr. Don Luis
Fernando Guachalla. who will leave
shortly to attend the Pan American
conference at Lima, Peru.
This was learned at the Legation
yesterday, simultaneously with re
ceipt of news that Senor de Medina
has been promoted to the rank of
Counselor.
A former writer and lecturer in
this country, he is well known in
Washington under his literary name,
Gaston Nerval, which he used when
he was a contributor to The Star on
Latin American themes.
Senor de Medina's books include
a study of the history of the Mon
roe Doctrine, published by the Mac
Millan Co. in 1934.
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