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Democrats Watching
Mississippi Run-Off
Primary Today
Gubernatorial Election
Regarded as Index to
Convention Sentiment
9s tht Auoetited Preti.
JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 29— Mis
sissippi Democrats voted today on
who shall be Governor for the next
four years—an outspoken pro-Roose
velt man or a candidate supported
by men who might oppose the Presi
dent at the 1940 Democratic national
convention.
Martin Sennett Conner was
backed by Senator Pat Harrison,
who has opposed some New Deal
theories, while Paul B. Johnson was
supported by Senator Theo G. Bilbo,
vociferous third - term advocate.
Senatorial influence would be felt in
the State’s delegation to the conven
tion.
Winner to Be Governor.
The primary victor will be the next
Governor, since Republican votes are
negligible in this State. This is a
run-off from a primary August 8.
Mr. Conner blocked the third-term
from becoming a clearcut campaign
issue, however, when he said he was
personally friendly to the President,
and denied that Johnson had presi
dential support. Mr. Conner is a
former Governor (1931-1934).
Mr. Johnson's platform has been
one “that will benefit the average
man and woman—that will bless all
the people." He served in Congress
from 1919 to 1923, where he once in
troduced a bill to prohibit women
from smoking in the District of Co
lumbia. He has been twice defeated
for Governor.
Phase in Senatorial Feud.
Today's election provides another
round in Mississippi's feud between
Senators Harrison and Bilbo, who
have been at odds since 1935. when
Senator Harrison repelled an at
tempt by Senator Bilbo to block
senatorial confirmation of a Harri
son-supported judge nominee who
had once jailed Bilbo for contempt.
Bilbo's revenge was to vote against
Harrison and prevent him getting
the Senate majority leadership in
1937.
Mr Johnson polled 103,099 votes
end Mr. Conner 79,305 in the first
primary. Conner hoped to get today
the bulk of the 125.086 votes which
went to five candidates eliminated
Jn the first race.
Mr. Johnson yesterday asserted his
majority would run above 50,000. Mr.
Conner confidently predicted victory.
Senator Harrison said he was con
vinced of Mr. Conner's election:
Senator Bilbo declared the only
question was the size of Mr. John
son’s majority.
Dr. Paul Dwight Isham,
Research Chemist, Dies
Dr. Paul Dwight Isham. 32, re
search chemist with the National
Canners Association, died yester
day in Portland. Me., of pneumonia.
Dr. Isham made his home at 5536
Weasling lane, Bethesda. Md.
Born in Hampden. Mass., he re
ceived his Ph. D. in science from
Massachusetts State College in 1935.
In 1936-37 he was a field worker
In Washington State with the De
partment of Agriculture, coming
here the following year.
His work with Canners Association
was devoted for the most part to '
study of nutrition and vitamins. At
the time of his death, he was doing
research work with sardines.
His wife. Mrs. Madelon Burbeck
Isham, and two sons. Allen. 4. and
John Paul, 15 months, survive.
Funeral services will be held to
morrow in East Long Meadow',
Mass., with burial there.
Woman, Held In Beating,
To Face Court Sept. 7
Police Court Judge Edward M.
Curran today called for a continu
ance until September 7 of the case
of Nellie Hams. 28. of the 400 block
of G street N.W., who was being
held by police on a charge of as
sault wbth a dangerous weapon.
J. J. Purcell, 50-year-old Mount
Rainier iMd.i carpenter, alleged to
have been beaten by the woman
early yesterday, was reported in a
critical condition at Casualty Hos
pital. Judge Curran set her bond
at *5.000 pending the outcome of
Purcell’s injuries.
Meanwhile police were seeking
three men in connection with the
near-fatal beating.
Officers from the 1st precinct
found Purcell unconscious on the
second floor of a house in the 400
block of G street N.W. when they
responded to a call that a man had
been injured,
Man Held for Grand Jury
On Attack Charge
Clyde Webster Sliger, 21, of Bar
oroft. Va„ was held for grand jury
action under $5,000 bond in Police
Court today on a charge of crimi
nally assaulting a 22-year-old wom
an on a parking lot in the 700 block
of 10th street N.W. Saturday night.
The young woman told Judge
Edward M. Curran that Sliger
§ulled her into a parked automobile,
he defendant pleaded innocent.
Navy Yard Cranes
Contract Awarded
The Navy Department today an
nounced the award of a $300,600
contract for electric traveling bridge
cranes to be installed at the Wash
ington Navy Yard and four other
yards.
The contract was awarded to the
Harnischfeger Corp. of Milwaukee,
Wis. The cranes also are to be In
stalled at the Navy Yards at Bos
ton, Mare Island. Calif., and Phila
delphia and Portsmouth, N. H.
War Fear Won't Affect
Geodosy Convention
Plans for the convention of the
International Association of Oeod
osy and Geophysics have not been
seriously affected by cancellation of
reservations by some of the foreign
delegates, Dr. John Fleming, secre
tary, announced yesterday.
"We are going right ahead with
preparations for the meeting," Dr.
Fleming declared, pointing out that
only a few of the delegates “said
they were not coming.” A prelimi
nary meeting of the convention will
be held Monday at Hotel Wash
ington. w
v.1
AWAITING WrORD FROM ABROAD—Mm e. Witold Wankowicz,
wife of the counselor of the Polish Embassy, is shown with her
lS^ear-old son Paul listening to a broadcast on the crisis in
Europe- —Star Staff Photo.
I
Manassas Stressed
Army Deficiencies,
Col. Allin Asserts
Facts Already Known *
Emphasized by Exercises,
He Points Out
By the Associal*d Press.
BALTIMORE. Aug. 29—Deficien
cies in personnel and equipment of
National Guardsmen and the Reg
ular Army "were emphasized” at
the Manassas maneuvers. Col.
George Allin, chief of staff in the
3d Corps Area, said yesterday.
"Before we went to Manassas we
fully realized there were deficien
cies in our military setup,” Col.
Allin declared, "deficiencies that are
not a matter of great immediate
concern in our national life and
deficiencies the remedy for which
would cost a great deal more money
than we are at present prepared to
expend.
"It must be admitted that these
deficiencies were emphasized. But
by being emphasized they were put
in a better light for study, and we
believe that maneuvers accom
plished a great deal of good."
More than 20,000 soldiers partici
pated in the mock warfare that was
a prelude to the gigantic maneuvers
at Plattsburg. N. Y. Lt. Gen. Hugh
A. Drum, 1st Army commander, ob
served last week that the maneu
vers showed the Army needed more
men, more officers, more equipment
and more training.
National Guardsmen, composing
the majority of troops used, “showed
up very well.” he said. “We were
impressed particularly with the
fine spirit with which they played
the game. • • • They proved eager
to learn.”
N. F. F. E. Delegates
To Start for Convention
Delegates start leaving today for
the biennial convention of the Na
tional Federation of Federal Em
ployes which opens in San Fran
cisco Monday.
The Washington party gets away
on the Capitol Limited at 5:45 p.m.
after being Joined here by delegates
from other Eastern cities.
A record attendance is predicted
for the convention, which will be
addressed at the opening session by
Gov. Olson of California and Mayor
Rossi of San Francisco.
Michigan Peach Queen
Leaves Basketful Here
Nancy Barber. 17, queen of Michi
gan's annual Peach Festival, left
Washington late yesterday after
noon for the New York World's Fair
after having presented a basket of
peaches for President Roosevelt to
his secretary, Brig. Oen. Edwin M.
Watson.
Miss Barber, who flew here from
Detroit with her mother Sunday, will
be given a reception at the New
York Fair.
Order of Alhambra
Prepares for Parley;
Supreme Scribe Here
Other Officers Arrive
Late Today and
Tomorrow
Supreme Scribe William F. Boyle ;
of the Order of the Alhambra was
to arrive in Washington today as the
General Committee for the order's
18th annual convention, to be held
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at
; the Willard Hotel, put final touches
! to the program.
1 The opening session of the con
vention will follow a mass at St.
Patrick's Church. All business ses
sions of the convention will be pre- ■
sided over by Supreme Comdr. John
M. Miller of Baltimore.
Mr. Boyle, whose home is Spring- i
field, Mass., was to open conven-1
j tion headquarters at the Willard.1
Other supreme officers were to ar
rive late today and tomorrow.
Registration of delegates and
members will commence tomorrow
under the direction of Walter I.
Plant, chairman of the Registra
tion Committee.
It was announced today that Com- 1
missioner Melvin C. Hazen would
greet the convention delegates at
their opening session Thursday,
August Heat Average
To Be About Normal
Although yesterday's temperature
was below the average for August,
the Weather Bureau declared that
because "it was unusually hot the
first part of the month, the month !
as a whole will probably average |
out about normal.” Until a few days !
ago, the average temperature for
this August was four degrees a day !
above normal.
The Weather Bureau predicted
occasional light rain this afternoon
and probably tonight, with Wednes
day generally fair and not much
change in temperature. Although
storm warnings have been posted
from the Virginia Capes to Boston
because of a disturbance off the
Middle Atlantic Coast, it Is not ex
pected to hit Washington.
Sheet Blamed for Death
Nine-month-old Alice Faye Wood
of 1395 Florida avenue N.E.. found
strangled to death in her crib
yesterday, apparently was choked
by a rubber sheet that was twisted
around her neck, according to police
reports. The infant died at Casulty
Hospital, where she was rushed
after she was discovered uncon
scious by her father, Norman Wood.
Turtle Catches Boat
AUGUSTA, Kans., August 39 (JP).—
Frank Wright and Leo Hiser were
fishing. A large snapping turtle
swam by the boat, and Wright
brought it into the boat by its tail.
The turtle had been hooked In the
leg and was angry. Before long it
had the boat itself.
Summary of Today's Star
P*8* , Page |
Amusements A-U Radio _ A-8 '
Comics B-14-15 Society ... B-S
Editorials ...A-8 Sports ..A-1S-14
Finance A-18 Woman's
Lost, Found.B-ll page_B-18
Obituary _.A-10
Foreign.
Money is useless against Reich ra
tioning system. Page A-l
France waits to see whether Hitler
will negotiate. Page A-l
Italians look to Mussolini for peace
move. Page A-8
Poles blame Germans for new series
of subversive acts. Page A-4
Soviet Parliament delays ratifica
tion of German pact. Page A-4
Russian aviation defending Chung
king battles Japanese. Page A-5
Japanese world flyers wait at
Nome. Page A-8
Notional.
Texas oil wells to be reopened Fri
day. Page A-S
Democrats watching results of Mis
sissippi primary today. Page A-8
Washington and Vicinity.
Labor conciliator shifts attention
to plumbers’ strike. Page B-l
Byzantine mass Ununc at Catholic
University. \ Page B-l
iditoriol and Commant
’hU and That. Page A-R
mswers to Question*. Page A-l
<*tter* to The Star. Page A-8
)avid Lawrence. Page A-8
ilsop and Klntner. Page A-9
i. Gould Lincoln. Page A-#
■emuel P. Parton. Page A-9
lonstantine Brown. Page A-9
port*.
lartnett, near 40, vying with rookie
stars of baseball. Page A-l*
*ilot killed as Delphine IX sinks in
speed test. Page A-12
tedskins defeat Coast All-Stars by
20-7 score. Page'A-1*
loach Layden confident All-Star*
will beat pro champs. Page A-l*
’ootball outlook rosy for revamped
Brooklyn Dodger*. Page A-l*
lowery eliminate* Plashman in Star
horseshoe tourney. Page A-14
fear-record entry makes amateur
golf tests hard. Page A-14
Miscellany
fature’s Children. Page B-4
Jity News in Brief. Page B-7
ledtime Story. ' page B-14
Jrossword Pussle. Page B-14
<etter-Out. Page B-14
(finning Contract. Page B-U
fncle Ray’s Corner. Page B-U
lerviee Orders, pk page B-14
'ltal Statistics. y Page B-14
Danzig and Corridor
Can't Be Yielded,
Says Diplomat's Wife
Mme. Wankowicz Calls
Them Her Nation's Head
And Throat
ir you cut off a man’* head, he
can’t live, laid Mme. Wankowie*
■Imply. Danaig and the Poliah cor
ridor are to Poland her head and
her throat.
Vividly blue-eyed and young
looking, though she’s a grandmoth
er, Mme. Wankowica is the wife
of Witold Wankowicz, counselor of
the Polish Embassy here.
Although as the wife of a diplo
mat she has lived much away from
Poland,- her home is full of re
minders of her native land and her
garden, despite its American blooms,
shows the Polish characteristic
making use of every conceivable bit
of land.
But she hasn’t so much time to
work in her garden these last few
days. She stays besifie her radio
or she goes to church.
‘‘We have to pray much for our
country’," she explained.
Try though she might, she can’t
keey away from the radio. In fact,
yesterday she boght a new one with
short wave apparatus so she can
keep in closer touch with the coun
try that holds many of her loved
ones, among them a daughter and
an infant grandchild.
Finds V. 8. Well Informed.
Afraid she might miss some turn
in the events that have overtaken
her country, she frequently tele
phones the Embassy where the
radio is on night and day and her
husband can tell her the latest news.
Mr. Wankowicz, whose duties
keep him long at the Embassy these
days, finds the American public very
well informed of the crisis via the
radio and the newspapers. ‘‘Of
course." he aaid. "a certain amount
of incorrect information trickles in
but the general trend is toward im
partiality. It’s a great help to us
here.”
Mme. Wankowicz is declining al
most all invitations to social func
tions. “I do not feel like going
about now,” she said sadly
She asked for the latest news
when she was being interviewed at
her home. 1609 Buchanan street
N.W., today. "How can one man.
one man upset the whole British
Empire?” she was asking when a
messenger boy came to deliver a
cable.
She smiled as she read it. “Good
news,” she said.
It was, perhaps, from her daugh-;
ters, homeward bound from a visit
in Antwerp. They had planned to'
stay longer in Europe, to brush up
on their French, but “this was not
the time.” \ j
Every Family Has One in Array.
Her oldest daughter, married less
than two years ago in Danzig, has
already lost her husband to the
army, Mme. Wankowicz fears.
“Every Polish family has a broth
er or a son in the army," Mme.
Wankowicz said. “I’m afraid my
son-in-law is already with them."
She emphasized that the women,
her own sisters among them, are
training for their part in the con
flict, if conflict comes.
“The attitude of the Polish
woman,” she said, "is the same as
that of the nation in general. She
is calm, determined and ready for
the supreme sacrifice.
“Although most of the women are
organized into units constituting a
comprehensive system of auxiliaries,
anyone who knows anything of Po
lish history knows that the women
will not hesitate to join their men
in actual combat.”
“We Can t Give Up.”
Her grandmother and another
kinswoman, the famous Emilia Plati,
girl soldier and patriot, were among
the women who served with the men
in other eras of Poland s battle-tom
history.
nci gmuamuuiei served as a 1
courier during the Polish insurrec- '
tion of 1883, carrying messages and
provisions through the forests to
the widely scattered insurgent
troops. She was courtmartialed and
condemned to exile in "deep” Russia.
Her grandfather, too, was exiled,
but to another part of Russia. It
was years before her two grand
parents met again.
Mme. Wankowics has a set of
delicately carved chessmen made
by her grandfather during his years
in exile.
Speaking with the fervor that
must have characterised her pa
triotic ancestors. Mme. Wankowics
declared, ‘‘We cannot give up. You
remember, Frederick the Great said
the man who controls Dansig and
the mouth of the Vistula River is
more the king of Poland than the
man at Warsaw. Poland needs its
outlet to the sea to live. We can
not yield.”
First Girl in 73 Years
A baby born to Mr. and Mrs. L.
G. Fountain of Stamford. England,
is the first girl to be born Into the
Fountain family for 73 years.
ELEVATION AT RARE MASS—A solemn moment in the rare Byzantine rite mass celebrated at
the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception this morning was the elevation of the host. The priest
who holds up the chalice is Desiderius Simkow of the Carpatho-Russian Church.
(Story on Page B-l.) —Star Staff Photo.
New Social Security Plan
Under Shadow of Big 'If
Pessimists Wonder Whether It Will
Work; Altmeyer Scouts Fears
The workings of the social
security law, as it has been ex
panded and revised by recent
amendments, ere inscribed here
in the third and last of a series
of articles.
By BLAIR MOODY.
There's no doubt at all that this
new social security scheme which
Congress has just written on the
law books will be great stuff for the
average wage earner—unless It ex
plodes in his face.
It will give him a new feeling
that he has firm backing, a fresh
personal interest in the success of
the profit system, an almost un
hoped-for sense of security and
peace of mind—unless it costs so
much that it costs him his job, or
folds up or blows up so that in the
long run he gets nothing.
Will the largest "insurance com
pany” in the world, backed by the
United States Treasury and the
Government's taxing power, col
lapse?
If it does. Uncle Sams financial
solvency, which means the eco
nomic foundation of the whole
country, will disintegrate at the
same time. That, it must be re
corded. it exactly what a lot of
Washington pessimists are worry
ing about. Are they wasting their
time?
Depends on C ongress.
That question, rooted, of course,
in the complex fiscal background of
the annuity-at-65 program, de
pends almost entirely on what Con
gress does.
The cost of the system will be
high. Its taxes may prove a defi
nite deterrent for business. On that
ground Congress this year balked a
pay roll tax rise from 2 per cent to 3.
Eventually the annuity schedule
calls for 8 per cent. It may prove
to be a levy so onerous that both
purchasing power and industrial
activity will be retarded, turnover,
profits and jobs decreased, so every
body loses.
But the major countries of Eu
rope, some of which are used as
glowing models by conservative
critics of current economic trends,
all have similar schemes. Some have
even higher taxes.
When that issue comes, what will
Congress do? So far, its job has
been a cinch. Flooded in a sea of
staggering statistics, it has voted
into existence a broad social scheme
conceived for the benefit of the pee
pul that was not calculated (putting
it mildly) to drive away votes.
Now Congress, of course, had to
enact some tax to get the scheme
going at all. This it set at 1 per cent
for the employer and 1 per cent for
the employe of covered wages (up to
$3,000 a year per employe). That’s
not very tough.
Dodges at Increase Issue.
Yet, when the first real test of
courage came, Congress shied away.
This was during the session Just
closed, when the entire basis of
figuring annuities was changed and
a complete new conception—“family
insurance”—set up.
The increased cost of this in the
next 15 years will be about $7,000,
000,000. But when it came to raising
pay roll taxes on the schedule laid
out when the first law was passed in
1835—from 3 to 3 per cent next
January 1—Congress, to the unani
mous huzzahs of business and lib
erals alike, “froze” the tax at 3 per
cent until 1842.
There is nothing wrong about that
—yet. The next tax schedule, if
carried out, will do the job. But
will it be carried out? If Congress
balked at a rise to 3 per oent, what
will it do when the time comes to
up it to 6? What will be the effect
on business then?
There s no need to ask what the
effect will be on the insurance
scheme. Pay roll taxes must go up
or the entire venture will fold up—
and 45,000,000 families will be
gvpped.
Together, employer and employe
! are to chip in the tidy sum of
$2,000,000,000 a year to keep Uncle
I Sam's Annuities, Inc., in business. In
some quarters there is grave doubt
that even that will be enough.
Those who say it won't promt to
two facts. The first is that, under
the old program calling for accumu
lation of a $47,000,000,000 ‘'reserve
fund,” interest earnings of this re
serve were to furnish the fund with
another $1,000,000,000 a year. The
I second is that vast new fields have
been entered in the new act. many
i annuities have been boasted, widows,
| orphans and parents have been in
| eluded, a complete and novel insur
ance system enacted.
Boosts Cost
In other words, the critics say,
the cast of the program has been
boosted by Congress, while its in
come was cut down. The old
program called for a peak expendi
ture of at least $3,000,000,000 a year.
The peak pay roll tax—at 6 p>er cent,
i as compared with the present 2—
‘ will be $2,000,000,000.
How about the other $1,000,000.
000? A new general tax to yield
! $1,000,000,000 a year for this purpose
alone in addition to pay roll taxes?
If you think that's passible, the
j critics say. you don't know Con
i gress. At that proint, they insist, the
i whole shebang falls in, the boys
who ve been coughing up pay roll
taxes for years find they've been
flim-flammed, and Uncle Sam makes
Ponzi look like a conservative, gilt
edged bond buyer.
These fears, says Arthur J. Alt
mever. chairman of the Social Se
curity Board, are groundless. Both
premises on which they are based,
he declares, are false.
The first mistaken notion. Mr.
Altmeyer asserts, is that because the
old reserve fund was to earn $1,000,
000.000 interest, that same amount
will be needed under the new plan.
What is missed there, he explains,
is that not only the reserve was
junked, but the need for high in
terest earnings also has been eliml
Peak Need Cut.
That’s because the reduction of
annuities in the later years of the
plan will cut also the peak amount
needed annually to finance it. The
new scheme, while junking the $47,
000.000.000 reserve idea, does pile up
a reserve of some $16,000,000,000 in
terest on that amount, he says, plus
the $2,000,000,000 approximate an
nual pay roll tax, and should amply
cover the peak cost.
The second error of critics, Mr.
Altmeyer declares, is in assuming
that, because some sectors of the
program have been expanded ai\d
liberalised, its total cost has been
increased.
As near as actuaries can calculate,
he asserts, that is not so. Basic
annuities in the late years of the
plan, as already pointed out. have
been substantially decreased. While
insurance benefits have been added
if a worker dies while his family is
in a situation where it could not be
expected to support Itself, Congress
has judiciously limited the annuities
drawn by widows.
From the time a widow's last child
reaches 18 until she reaches 85, she
receives no annuity at all, Mr. Alt
meyer points out. During the years
when she must devote herself to
raising her children and after she
reaches retirement age, she will
benefit. But, between those ages,
she must earn her own living or be
supported by her children.
A straight wldow's-pension-at-all
ages system would have been ex
orbitantly expensive, Mr. Altmeyer
declares. But the expanded plan's
costs are offset by other savings,
such as elimination of lump-sum in
surance payments to widows of 3>i
per cent of a man's total taxed eam
, mgs. which meant almost nothing
in the next 10 years, but sums as
high as $5,000 or $8,000 in later
! years.
Even the experts admit that the
enure system is a new economic
voyage—which must be sailed on an
uncharted sea.
Forecast Limited.
The economists and actuaries
think they know what will happen.
But they cannot be sure. And no
sign of their indecision could be
much plainer than the fact that, un
like four years ago, when they car
ried their figures past 1980, they have
now not even attempted to project
on paper exactly what may happen
after the next 15 years
The experts are confident.
If they are wrong, a proposition of
such size, even though greatly im
proved by leveling off the benefit
schedules and eliminating the fan
tastic $47,000,000,000 reserve, carries
the germs of national tragedy.
If they are right, social security as
now set up is certain to be known
as the greatest advance of a gen
eration.
It's still a gamble.
(RalMird hr Worth Amtrietn Newspaper
Allianr*. Tne >
Beer Permit Denied
On Zoning Grounds
The Montgomery County, Md„
Liquor Control Board vesterdav de
nied the application of Elisa Boose
for a Class D beer and light wine
license for Riverside Inn on Con
duit road on the ground that the
establishment is in a residential
zone
The inn was formerly known as
Sunset Hall.
Investigating the application, of
ficials of the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission said they found that Sun
set Hall is located on a lot in Glen
Echo Heights which is zoned resi
dential. instead of on a site about
100 feet south, which was zoned
commercial at the time the original
license was applied for. and which i
was expected to be the site of the
beer establishment.
England now has over 4.000,000 li
censed motorists.
PUT FINAL TOUCHES TO CONVENTION—Shown here Is general committee for the 18th annual
convention of the Order of Alhambra, to be held at the Willard Hotel Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. Seated (left to right), Francis A. McCann, secretary; John J. Carmody, grand com
mander; Alfred P. Neff, general chairman; James A. Sullivan, general vice chairman, and Jos
eph B. McCann. Standing (left to rlgltf), John B. Coyle, Robert F. Handley, sr.; Roy M. Perry,
Denis K. Lane, John O. Allen, Joseph M.J>cKenna and A. L. Oehmann. “ —Photo by Tenachart.
Texas Oil Wells
To Be Permitted
To Reopen Friday
Ruling Is 2-Day Extension
Of Closing Order; Other
States Due to Follow
By the Associated Press.
AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 39.—'Text*
led the way today toward a restora
tion of oil production in elx mid
continent States.
Chairman Lon A. Smith of the
Texas Railroad Commission an
nounced after a meeting of the In
terstate Compact Commission last
night Texas wells will be reopened
Friday morning. This constitutes a
two-day extension of the closing
ordered August 15 after several
major purchasers slashed oil prices
20 cents per barrel.
Other States which shut off pro
duction entirely or In part were
Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico,
Kansas and Arkansas. Representa
tives from those States at a meet
ing of the Interstate Oil Compact
Commission said their regulatory
bodies probably will meet bv Friday.
Chairman Reford Bond of the
Oklahoma Corporation Commission
agreed provisionally today to ex
tension of the State's oil field shut
down until 7 a m. Friday to keep in
line with Texas.
The 15-day closing order for
Oklahoma was scheduled to expire
Thursday.
Louisiana s 12-day oil production
shutdown, scheduled to end at 6 p m.
today, will be extended to 7 am.
Friday, Gov. Earl K. Long and Con
servation Commissioner Ernest S.
Clements announced.
The Railroad Commission, admin
istrator of Texas oil laws, disclosed
no reason for lifting this State's
shutdown, but a majority of oil
men testifying at the Railroad
Commission heanng opposed a
longer extension on grounds “it
would cause distress to many im
portant refiners.”
The commission did not say
whether it believed refiners will
restore prices generally.
T. E. Swigart of Houston, vice
president of the Shell Co., testified
that firm had restored the former
price level, effective September 1,
because “we considered that the
amount of oil taken off the market
by the current shutdown was so
large that restoration of prices was
necessary."
The 8hell Co. thus far was tha
only major to rescind its price re
duction.
Dr. Laura E. Blesell
Funeral Tomorrow
Dr. Laura E. Blesell. chiropractor
in Washington since 1918, died last
night at her home, 1320 Nineteenth
street N.W. A native of Ohio, she
studied at Ohio University before
coming to the District.
Dr. Blesell was a member of the
Women's City Club, the Womens
National Democratic League, the
National and local Chiropractors'
Associations and the International
Radioclast Research Society. She
also belonged to Marion Chapter
of the Order of the Eastern Star.
She is survived by her father,
Stephen Neihardt of Marion, Ohio.
Funeral services will be held to
morrow at 3 p m. at Chambers fu
neral home, 1400 Chapin street N.W.
Burial will be in Marion.
Col. Edwin A. Hickman
Funeral Today
Col. Edwin A. Hickman, 65. U. S.
A., retired, budget officer and secre
tary of the Board of Commissionera 4
at Soldiers’ Home, will be buried to
day in Arlington National Cemetery
with full military honors. Services
will be held at 2 p.m. in Fort Mver
Chapel.
Col. Hickman, who was retired
in 1937, at which time he was on
duty here with the general staff, died
Sunday while playing golf at Chevy
Chase Club. He collapsed on the
seventh green and was pronounced
dead of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Weather Report
. , . . <Jurm»hed by the Unite* States Weether Bureau )
District of Columbia—Mostly cloudy; occasionsl light rain this after
noon and probably tonight: tomorrow generally fair; not much change
in temperature; moderate northerly winds.
Maryland—Cloudy; occassional rain In east portion tonight; tomorrow
generally fair; slightly warmer in east portion.
Virginia—Mostly cloudy tonight; tomorrow fair with slightly warmsr
In east and central portions.
' . West Virginia—Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not much change
in temperature.
Tht di«turba.net off tht Middle Atlantic +________
"aId..wlth somewhat increaaed intensity,
and it was cantered this mornina about
HIO miles east of the Virginia Capes. Cape
Henry. Va.. 1.006.1 millibars fS».71 inches'.
Pressure is high over the Canadian Mari
t mt Provinces and Newfoundland. Grind
stone Island. Quebec. 1.022.4 mtllibars
<30.19 Inches) and over Central Valleys.
Davenport Iowa. 1.019.6 millibars i30.ll
inches». A disturbance is movint eart
ward over the Wastern portion of the
Province of Quebec, followed b> an exten
sive area of rising pressure over Western
Ontario and Hudson Bay. Churchill. Mani
toba. 1.024.. millibars i30.2rt inches'.
Pressure Is low over tne plains region and
Northern Alberta. McMurrar. Alberta.
994.6 millibars 179317 inchest while
greasure is rlalng qvar tha North Padflc
States. Spokane, Wash. 1.021.0 millibars
<30.16 inches!. During the last 24 hours
there have been rains in eastern portion
of tha Middle Atlantic States, and icat
<ered showers In the nortaero portion of
the lake region and the Middle and North
ern Rocky Mountain region. Temperature
chances have been slight.
Report far Last 21 Hears.
_ Temperature. Barometer
Yeeterday— Degress. Inches.
4 P.m. _ 76 29.96
8 p.m. _._ 71 29.96
Midnight _ 68 29 94
Today—
Ja.m. _ 66 29.90
a.m. _70 29.91
Noon _ 75 29.88
■•Mid far LMt 14 Heart.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest. 78. 1 p.m. ytsterday. Year
ago. 87.
Lowest. 66. 4 a.m. today. Year ato. 64.
Retard Taasporataro This Ysar.
Highest. 96. on August 9.
Lowest. 17. on February 23
■omldRy far Last 24 Issrs.
(Prom noon ytsterday to noon today.)
Miaheat. 85 per Mnt. at 1 a.m. today.
Lowest. 49 per eent. at L p.m. 7M
terday.
Tide Tablet.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Oeodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
Hifh___7:28 a.m. 8:05 a.m.
Low_._2:03 a.m. 2:46 a.m.
High_....._7:60 p.m. 8:26 p.m.
Low-_2:23 p.m. 3:02 p.m.
PrMlpItatioa.
Monthly precipitation In Inehet In the
Capital (oarrant month to dato):
The Ian and Mann.
a., a . Rises. Set*.
Sun. iodty - A 3.1 3 46
Sun. tomorrow_ 5;3,i 3 43
Moon, today- 8:22 p.m. 5:1? a m.
on^hllfht* mu,t ** ,urn»<> on
one-half hour after auniat.
River Repert.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers cloudy
at Harpers Perry; Potomac muddy at Great
Falla today.
Weather In Various Cltiea. ^
Abilene _
Albany 30.08
Atlanta 30.00
Atl. Ctly . "3 82
Baltimore 20 81
Birm (hem 30.03
Bismarck 20 87
Boston 30.03
Buffalo . 30.03
Charleston 30.00
Chicago 30.(18
Cincinnati 30.03
Cleveland 30 06
Columbia 30.00
Denver _ _ 28 84
Detroit 30 03
El Paso _ 28 81
Galveston 30.00
Helena 30.03
Huron 30.00
Indian'polis 3n.no
Jacksonville 30.03
Kans. City 30.03
L. Annies 28.80
Louisville 30.03
Miami 30.00
MpU.-St P. 30.03
N. Orleana 30.On
New York 28 84
Norfolk 28.77
8kla. City 30.00 Cloudy
maha 30 03 Cloudy
Phllad'phia 28 88 Riln
Phoenix . 28.82 cloudy
Pittsburgh 8O.00 Cloudy
P'tland. Me. 30.12 78 60 cloudy
2S 80 l.t8 &Sr
a. Antonio 30.03 M 64 _ Clear
pWBS 58:88 n 88
Hr-?: m s iss.
WASH,D C. 28.91 71 88 6.01 Rain
Paratia italleas.
(T a.m., Greenwich time, today.)
, ■ _ . Temperature. Weather,
London- England_Till Cloudy
Parle. Prance - 61 Sjoudy
Vienna. Austria_ 59 Cloudy
». SKK&i:::: & « -
Gibraltar. Spain . 68 Cloudy
__ (Noon, Oreenwteh time, todays
Herts (l^yal). Aaoras , 77 Cloudy
" A.)
Clear
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