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C. 1.0. Shifts Stand,
Demands Changes
In Labor Act
Seeks to Prevent
'Carving Up' of Industrial
Union Groups
ll the Associated Press.
The Congress of Industrial Organ
izations demanded today a change
In the National Labor Relations Act
to prevent the “carving up” of in
dustrial union groups.
Abandoning its previous stand
against changing the Wagner Act, a
C. I. O. committee headed by John
L. Lewis called for new legislation
on the ground that the Labor Board
“in an attempt to appease the re
actionary interests, including the
leaders of the American Federation
of Labor, has issued decisions which
have threatened the existence of the
industrial unions of the C. I. O.
The C. I. O. asked for three
Amendments to the law:
*. To prevent attempts of the
board “to carve out craft units
within industrial union organiza
tion.”
2. To provide criminal penalties
for employers convicted of violating
the law.
3. To forbid Government contracts
with employers who have violated
the labor relations law.
A C. I. O. leader said his organ
ization earlier had believed some
administrative changes in the law
W’ere needed, but had opposed all
amendments to prevent "emascula
tion” of the law. Criticisms of the
law then had come from the A. F.
of L. and from various industrial
groups.
(Congress probably will take no ac
tion on amendments until the House
committee completes its hearings,
wjiich will adjourn for the holidays
tomorrow, to be resumed after
Congress convene* on January- 3.
fJr. Lewis’ Legislative Committee
of> the C. I. O.. discussing broader
questions of national policy, declared
energy of our Government repre
sentatives during the past few
months have been devoted almost
exclusively to international affairs
at the expense of the interests and
needs of the American people at
home.”
Unemployment, the committee
said, is “with us today with the
same intensity as a few years ago.”
Estimating the employable persons
without jobs in private industry at
0.500,000, it recommended that Pres
ident Roosevelt immediately “com
mandeer” leaders of Government,
Industry, labor and agriculture to
formulate concrete plans to solve
“America's problem No. 1.”
Until a solution is found, it added,
Congress must provide a public
works program to furnish 3,000,000
jobs.
Other recommendations of the
ttpion's Legislative Committee were:
."Drastic revision of taxation as
Trfost essential to the stabilization
of our economy.” This revision
should follow two basic principles:
“Reduction of the present tax bur
den on consumer groups and wage
earners” ajnd “tapping large con
centrations of income and savings.”
Wants U. S. Kept Out of War.
Keeping the United States out of
war, with Congress being called on
“pot to permit any policy to be
adopted which may in any way lead
toward the involvement of the
Ignited States in foreign war.”
Protection of civil liberties and
workers' rights through passage of
tje La Follette oppressive labor
practices bill.
Extension of the benefits of the
Fjir Labor Standards Act “to the
nrillions of workers who are deprived
of its protection after the act has
h*d a chance to operate.”
^Expansion. simplification and lib
efclization of Social Security “to
protect the American people through
tile inevitable hazards of modem
irfcustrial life and increase the na
tional consumer income,” with $60
at 60 years of age the goal.
A national health program to pro
vide medical service for all groups
of the population.
Construction of “an immediate
minimum of 1.000.000 houses per
year, 300.000 of which should be
built by the Government, the re
mainder to come from Government
stimulated private construction.
More Blood Sought
For Stricken Girl, 4
More blood donors were sought
today for 4-year-old Agnes Willett
of La Plata, Md.. who remained in
fi rrHioo 1 mnrfitinn of Dvn., i .-4 —
Hospital after two transfusions over
tl* week end.
A radio appeal for volunteers
bifaught a quick response yesterday
the child improved under the
transfusions.
Jfhe girl suffered internal
hemorrhages, caused by a disease
welch has not been diagnosed. She
is;the daughter of Aubrey Willett,
a oarmer.
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Motorists Commended
Richmond, va„ Dec. is op).—
Virginia motorists have been corn
minded by Col. M. S. Battle, director
of^the division of motor vehicles,
foi* "general improvement" in the
safety habit of dimming lights when
mrtting oncoming automobiles at
night. Statistics, he reported, showed
62itper cent of fatal highway ac
cidents occurred at night, as com
pared with 68 per cent last year.
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Thetus Willrette Sims,
Former Member of
House, Dies at 87
Tennessee Democrat
Served in Congress
From 1897 to 1921
Thetus Willrette Sims, 87, who
represented the eighth district of
Tennessee • in the House of Repre
sentatives from 1897 to 1921, died
last night at his
home, the West
moreland Apart
ments. 2122 Cali
fornia street
been in declin
N.W. He had
ing health sev
eral years.
Mr. Sims, one
time chairman
of the Inter
state Commerce
and Foreign
Affairs Commit
tees of the
House, and be
fore that chair
! man of the House District Commit
tee. had been in Washington since
1930. Failing to be re-elected to
Congress in 1920, he had practiced
law after that in Lexington, Term.,
i until poor health necessitated his
: retirement the year he came to this
city.
He was born in Wayne County.
Tenn., April 25. 1852 and 10 years
later moved with his family to Sa
vannah, Tenn. After attending Sa
vannah College, he was graduated
in law from Cumberland University
at Lebanon, Tenn., in 1876. Admit
ted to the bar the same year, he
began practicing in Linden, Tenn.
Elected to 55th Congress.
From 1882 to 1884 Mr. Sims was
superintendent of public instruc
tion for Perry County, Tenn. His
election to the 55th Congress as a
Democrat followed service as a pres
idential elector on the Democratic
ticket of Cleveland and Stevenson
in 1892.
Mr. Sims was married December
j 26. 1867, to Nancy Kittrell of Co
j lumbus, Tenn, who survives him.
Also surviving are five daughters,
Mrs. W. L. Beale, Mrs. T. Sims
! Joyner and Mrs. Enid Sims Snow,
all of Washington; Mrs. Louis
; Brownlow of Chicago. Ill, and Mrs.
E. G. Riddick of Memphis. Tenn.;
two sons, Paul Sims of New York
and E. K. Sims of Indianola. Miss
Private Funeral Services.
Private funeral services will be
held tomorrow afternoon at the
Beale residence. 2324 Tracy place
N.W, with burial in Rock Creek
Cemetery.
Pour men who represented Ten
nessee in the House with Mr. Sims
are among the honorary pallbearers.
They are Secretary of State Cordell
Hull, Judge Finis J. Garrett of the
Court of Customs and Patent Ap
peals. Judge Ewin L. Davis of the
Federal Trade Commission and Sen
ator Kenneth McKellar. Others to
serve in the same capacity are Robert
W. Woolley, lawyer; Maj. Oliver P.
■Newmajir former District Commis
sioner,'if illiam V. Barry; editor of
the Lexington <Ky.> Progtess; House
Majority Leader Sam Rayburn of
Texas, and Maj. Rex Beasley, U. S. A.
Arliiflffort Rifefc Tomorrow
For Maj. F. 6. Bonham
Funeral services for Maj. Francis
G. Bonham. 47, U. S. A, who was
found shot to death Saturday near
Fort Benning. Ga„ will be held at
2 p.m. tomorrow’ at Fort Myer
Chapel, w’ith burial in Arlington
National Cemetery, the War Depart
ment announced today.
Maj. Bonham had been stationed
at Fort Benning in command of the
new 4th Anti-tank Battalion since
June. He had previously served
four years as an instructor* at the
Army War College here.
Born at Liberty Mills. Va, he was
graduated from West Point in 1917.
He leaves his wife. Mrs. Louise Bon
ham; two sons. J. B. and F. H. Bon
ham, both West Point cadets, and
his mother. Mrs. Marie G. Bonham
of Gordonsville, Va.
Honorary pallbearers will be Maj.
George Van W. Pope, infantry; Lt.
Col. Philip S. Wood, infantry; Maj.
Wilbur S. Elliot, Quartermaster
Corps;' Maj. Matthew B. Ridgeway,
infantry; Maj. Stephen H. Sherrill,
Signal Corps; Lt. Col. William H. H.
Morris, jr„ infantry; Maj. Willis E
Teale, Corps of Engineers, and Maj.
J. Lawton Collins, infantry.
Patrick L. Collins, 53,
Federal Employe, Dies
Patrick L. Collins, 53, adjudicator
with the Railroad Retirement Board,
died yesterday at his home, 322
Taylor street N.W.
A native of Oswego, N. Y., Mr,
: Taylor made his home here for 27
| years. He had been w’ith the Rail
! road Retirement Board since 1937,
previously working for the Govern- j
ment in various clerical capacities.
He was a member of the Holy
Name Society of St. Gabriel’s Catho
dic Church.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Lillian Collins; three sons. Richard,
William and Donald Collins; two
daughters. Patricia and Jean Col
lins; three brothers, Timothy,
James and William Collins; three
sisters, Mrs. Mary Pemberton, Eliza
beth and Jane Collins.
Funeral services will be held at
9 a.m. tomorrow at St. Gabriel’s
Church. Burial will be in Holy
Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Pageant to Be Given
By Gordon Students
A holiday pageant entitled "Christ
mas in Many Lands” will be given
by students of the Gordon Junior
High School in the school, Thirty
fifth and T street N.W., Wednesday
at 8 pm.
Miss Mary Minge Wilkins, music
teacher, wrote and directed the play,
a pageant of ancient and modern
Christmas music.
The cast includes Julian Schutz,
Jame McKenzie, Glendora Beman,
Edna Hughes, Norman Tucker,
George Graves, Lois Ann Todd, Wil
liam Bonini, Billy Jones, Robert
Young, Howard Surface, Blanchard
Shattuck, Bill Temple and Rixene
Nichols.
Both the boys’and girls' glee clubs
and choirs will take part in the
presentation. There is ho admission
charge.
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MONTEVIDEO.—GRAF SPEE FLIES BATTLE FLAG ON WAY TO SELF
DESTRUCTION—The Admiral Graf Spee, her red Nazi battle flag snapping in
the breeze, is shown moving on the sunset-painted water of the Rio de la Plata
toward the allied men o’ war which drove her from the sea last Wednesday.
When she crossed the three-mile limit she was scuttled by her crew by order
of Adolf Hitler, who preferred this end to either a sea battle against heavy
odds or surrender. Photo sent to New York by radio.
—A. P. Wirephoto.
Roosevelt Facing
Protests on Wallace
Control of F. C. A.
Co-operative Council and
Gannett Object to
Proposed Transfer
B\ the Associated Pr
When President Roosevelt gets
back to Washington after a week
end at his Hyde Park (N. Y.i home, j
he will find a new controversy on j
his hands—the proposal to give Sec- j
retary of Agriculture Wallace com- j
plete control of the Farm Credit
Administration.
Protests against the transfer
came from two sources. E. T. Ben
son, secretary of the National Co
operative Council, said yesterday
that his group and other farm or- :
ganizations would appeal to Con
gress to override any order giving
the Secretary Control. If necessary,
he added, farm groups were pre
pared to carry the issue to the voters
in the 1940 election.
At the same time Frank Gannett,
Rochester »N. Y.) publisher and a
dirk-horse candidate for the Re
publican presidential nomination,
telegraphed President Roosevelt that
the transfer fould "impair the flnan
cipUpi'W’IX” of the loan Agency,
walbac -Dissatisfied With Politics.
Borfte officials of the Department'
of Agriculture have predicted that
control of the F. C. A. would be
transferred to Mr. Wallace after
President Roosevelt returns.
Authoritative sources say Secre
tary Wallace has insisted that he be |
given authority to direct the credit
agency because of his dissatisfaction
with present policies. These sources
add that if the transfer is made it
will involve the resignation of the
F. C. A. governor. F. F. Hill, and his
replacement by Dr. A. G. Black,
chief of the Agriculture Depart
ment's division of marketing and
regulatory work.
Grange Wants Independent Status.
Those opposing Wallace control
declare F. C. A. loan facilities would
be used on "unsound loans” to farm
ers lacking in credit requirements
now' necessary, and that it would
become involved in partisan and
departmental politics.
vvnue ivir. wanace nas made no
public comment on the controversy,
associates contended the F. C. A.
was following “hard-boiled” policies
in foreclosing on farmer borrowers
and had showed an unwillingness
to co-operate with the department
in retiring from cultivation sub
marginal farms acquired under fore
closures.
The National Grange also is on
record as favoring independent
status for the F. C. A.
Everybody's Song Book
Includes Carols
Christmas carols and hymns
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Christmas Day,” “O, Little
Town of Bethlehem,” “It Came
Upon the Midnight Clear”
and numerous others. These
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Graf Spee's Destruction in Line
With German Naval Tradition
Commander, With Odds Against Him,
Decided Against Forlorn Hope Fight
By MAJ. GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT.
An epic of the sea came to a dramatic close in the estuary of the
La Plata River last evening. The German pocket battleship Admiral
Graf Spee was blown up and scuttled by her cre4/ rather than go out to
face certain destruction at the hands of the Anglo-French squadron lying
off the port or being ingloriouslv interned by the Uruguyan authorities.
The first question the world will ask—the first the German people
will 9dlr ic Ti'hvO WViv HiH ----——_
Graf Spee go out and die fighting?
The traditions of the American
Navy are particularly exacting upon
a commander placed as Capt. Langs
dorff was. They demand that no
officer shall surrender or destroy
his ship while he retains the capa
bility of doing any damage, how
ever, slight, to the enemy. The
British blockading force consisted
of the heavy cruiser Cumberland,
one of the 10,000-ton “treaty cruis
ers' born of the Washington Con
ference, a big flush-deck ship armed
with eight 8-inch guns, but almost
devoid of armor, and the 6-inch
gun cruisers Achilles and Ajax.
Might Have Had Chance.
Had these been the only ships the
Graf Spee had to face, she might
have had a chance to get away;
though, without her airplanes and
with her fire-control system injured
by British shell fire, that chance
would not have been a bright one.
However, she would have been fair
ly certain to take at least one Brit
ish cruiser with her; very likely the
"tin clad” Cumberland, an excel
lent target which a single 11-inch
salvo from the Spee should have
put out of action if not destroyed.
All reports from Montevideo, how
ever, say that a fourth ship had
joined the blockading force, this is
most often asserted to be the French
battleship Dunkerque, built and de
signed as a reply to the German
pocket battleships. The Dunkerque
and her sister, the Strasbourg, each
carry eight 13-inch guns, all for
ward in two four-gun turrets so
that all are available for chasing
purposes. Not only in gun powder,
but in armor and in speed they are
heavily superior to the pocket bat
tleships.
The Graf Spee would have had
little chance, indeed, with the
Dunkerque; even if she had evaded
the French ship in the darkness of
the falling night, with the first
light of dawn the French airplanes
would have been up and on the
search, and the superior speed of
the French ship would have quickly
brought her within range of the
French Need Prestige.
Right here is a most interesting
point, indicating the very close con
nection in the German mind be
tween the political and military ob
jectives in war. It has been the
German policy to maintain that
Germany has no quarrel with
France, that her enemy is England,
that France is being made the tool
of British rancor and British am
bition. But if a French battleship
sank a German battleship, this pre
tense would hardly be tenable.
Moreover the moral effect in
France would be tremendous. The
French Navy has long been in need
of a gain in prestige. It did not
have much chance to find glory in
the last war. It is a most efficient
organization, with an officer per
sonnel ranking very high in profes
sional qualities. Give it such a boost
as the sinking of the Graf Spee by
the Dunkerque might provide, and
considering the effect on the French
temperament, there might well have
been German fat in the fire—which
Herr Hitler would have preferred to
have remain in the frying pan. It
is reported that the Spee was de
stroyed on Hitler’s personal order.
One may draw one's own conclu
sions.
Mathematical Chances.
But there are other considerations
to be taken into account. The Graf
Spee embodied the most recent ac
complishments in German naval de
sign. Her welded hull, her fire-con
trol system, her Diesel engines are
all matters of great interest to non
German constructors. She might
well have been rendered helpless
by allied fire and forced to surrend
er; in which case, these German
ideas would have been available for
close study, and perhaps profit, by
the British and French.
One other point here to be con
sidered is the German tendency to
reduce any military operation to a
mathematical calculation of chances.
This may on occasion produce an
excellent plan, but it certainly is not
a habit of mind which induces that
taking of risks which sometimes
turns out so brilliantly in war.
Calculating the chances, the Spee
K
had little hope of getting away;
hence, she is destroyed, the lives of
her crew saved. But a different
point of view might have sent her
out to do what damage she could
and even—it is not impossible—to
an escape, which would have been
a tremendous victory for German
arms and German prestige. Genius
in war is. after all. founded on a
willingness to assume the respon
sibility for taking risks. The for
lorn hope has. time and again, pro
duced magnificent results. But for
lorn hopes are not in the German
tradition.
No Assurance of Neutrality.
As to Internment, the Germans
can hardly have forgotten that in
| the last World War. a number of
; South American nations eventually
I became belligerents on the side of
the allies. There is no such guar
antee that Uruguay would not have
done so in this war. In such a case,
the Graf Spee would have fallen
intact into allied hands, and per
: haps have been used against Ger
many; certainly there would have
been every opportunity for her to be
i closely studied by allied naval offl
■ cers.
i It is difficult to assess the effect
j of the Spee's destruction on Ger
1 man naval prestige. This prestige
was. up to the moment of the fight
off Uruguay, very high. The Ger
man Navy’s offensive spirit and
efficient operations, compared with
the customary initial ’’muddling'’ of
the British, was having considerable
effect, not only in neutral countries,
but in Germany and Britain. In
Germany, no doubt, the act of the
captain of the Spee in destroying
his ship will be portrayed as an
heroic gesture in the finest tradition
of the German Navy; in Britain,
her destruction as an indirect re
sult, at all events, of the skillful
and determined action of a British
squadron of inferior ships, will be
much needed lift for British morale
and for British confidence in their
navy
Sea Lanes Remain Open.
In a small way, the results of this
action may be compared to those of
the battle of Jutland. When all is
said and done, the objective of all
naval operations is the control ol
sea communications, involving the
ability to conserve them for one’s
own use—whether military or com
mercial—and to deny them to an
enemy. The toll of ships lost at
Jutland showed a heavy advantage
for the Germans; but the conditions
that prevailed before the battle, ol
complete allied domination of the
sea lanes of the world, endured after
the battle; the German navy had
not broken the grip of the British
blockade, had not interfered with
British control of the world’s sea
communications. It had no other
reason for fighting, or for existence
Today, the Germans will doubtless
point out the damage they did tc
the Exeter, which probably will be
in dockyard hands for many a long
month; they will count the list ol
dead and wounded; they will say
they gave as good as they got. But
the purpose of the British navy is
to maintain British dominance ol
far-flung lines of communications;
that of the German navy to inter
rupt British use of such communica
tions. So considered, the loss of
the Exeter for some months during
repairs matters little against the
destruction of the Spee. The Spee
will raid no more; the Exeter will
be replaced by some other British
cruiser, and from the estuary of
the Rio de la Plata Argentine beel
and wheat will continue to flow
across the Atlantic to the hungry
ports of Britain.
Of such prosaic stuff is made the
naval victories of today—the vic
tories that really matter.
(Copyright. New York Tribune, Inc.)
Blackfriars Guild
To Open Yule Drive
The Blackfriars Guild will open a
drive for goods to be given to needy
families at Christmas at 8 o’clock
tonight at the Guild Hall, 2115 Fif
teenth street N.W.
Norbert Waldron, president of the
guild, will give an informal talk, to
be followed by singing of carols and
presentation of a skit by Marlon
and Howard Brady, Frances Mohan
and Robert Merkle.
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5 Burned to Death
At School for Feeble
Minded Children
Reconditioned Born
Used as Dormitory
Destroyed in Georgia
By the Associated Press
AUGUSTA. Ga„ Dec. 18.—Five
youths were burned to death when
fire swept a reconditioned barn used
as a dormitory at the Georgia State
School for Feeble Minded Children
near Gracewood, a few miles from
Augusta, early today.
Dr. E. H. Schwall, superintendent
of the school, said the dead were:
Floyd Lyttle. 15, of Savannah.
Hoyt Cook, 15, of Atlanta.
William Youmans, 22, of Val
dosta.
Curtis Sargeant, 17, of Gaines
ville, Ga.
Curwood Creech, age unknown, of
Augusta.
| Injured critically U’ere Nathaniel
i Peters of Decatur and William Mc
' Michael, address unobtainable. Bod
ies of four of the dead were recov
| ered.
Dr. Schwall said the fire started
in a linen room on the first floor of;
| the dormitory, which is also used as '
] the school's laundry. There were
| 24 boys in the dormitory, he said,
and several escaped by sliding down
j outside piping while others jumped
to safety. The flames were discov
ered about 1:30 a.m.
Julian T. Moody, an ambulance
driver, said one of those who escaped
j was badly burned on the hands
while sliding down an iron pipe.
“He was wearing nightclothes
belonging to Dr. Schwall when I
saw him." Mr. Moody said. “His own
clothes were burned off.’’
The fire was not in the main
building of the school, which has
about 300 inmates. Boys quartered
in the burned dormitory worked on
a 300-acre farm and dairy operated
in connection with the school.
Claim Against Nolan
Firm Again Denied
Paul B. Cromelin. trustee In
bankruptcy of the Nolan Motor Co.,
Inc., won in the United States Court
of Appeals today when that tribunal
affirmed a denial of a claim brought
forward by the Universal Dealers
Co.
On November 21, 1936. an invol
untary petition in bankruptcy was
filed against the Nolan Motor Co.
It was adjudged bankrupt on No
vember 23 of that year. Subse
quently its assets were sold by the
trustee and then the Universal
Dealers Co. filed a petition to im
press a lien in its favor upon the
fund realized by the trustee. The
referee denied this petition and the
lower court affirmed it.
Representing Mr. Cromelin was
Attorney Francis C. Brooke. The
case was heard before Chief Justice
D. Lawrence Groner and Associate
Justices Harold M. Stephens and
Justin Miller.
Two Die in Chair
For Killing Watchman
By the Associated Press.
BELLEFONTE, Pa., Dec. 18.—
Without uttering a word, two young
Philadelphia Negroes died in Penn
sylvania’s electric chair early today
for killing a watchman with a cus
pidor during an attempted robbery.
As they walked the “last mile,”
James Fuller. 25, and Fletcher Le
grand, 22. both turned down the re
quest of the Rev. C. F. Lauer, Rock
view Penitentiary chaplain, that
they repeat the Twenty-third Psalm
after him.
Fuller and Legrand, one-time
bootblacks, had pleaded guilty to
slaying John Hey worth. 70, watch
man In a Philadelphia store.
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Puzzle Contest Leads
Police to Mother of
Dismembered Baby
Confession Is Reported
As Woman Is Held on
Murder Charge
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 18.—A
newspaper puzzle contest returned
a murder charge instead of a prize
award today for a 35-year-old
mother, who Detective Capt. James
Ryan said, confessed suffocating her
20-month-old son. sawing up his
body and hiding the torso, wrap
ped in the newspaper, near a ceme
tery.
Capt. Ryan quoted the woman,
Mrs. Tillie Irelan. as saying she
smothered the baby last Wednes
day night with a blanket and pil
low. For two days the body lay
hidden in a closet of her room at
a boarding house. Saturday she
bought a saw, dismembered the boy
and carried the torso to the ceme
tery, a block away.
She told police she had been sep
arated from her husband for eight
years. Unable to obtain steady work
as a children’s governess, she said
she decided she could not raise the
boy. Capt. Ryan also quoted her
as saying the boy interfered with
her work and kept her from attend
ing parties.
Mrs. Irelan's appearance before
Coroner Charles H. Hersch last night
followed only 24 hours after a mo
torist, attracted by a bundle in a
street gutter, found the torso. De
tectives later found the missing head,
arms and legs packed neatly in a
small suitcase in the rooming house
closet, awaiting disposal.
Pencil impressions of a name and
address, written under a picture puz
zle in the newspaper covering the
torso, led detectives to the woman.
All except the words '‘Tillie’’ and
‘T750’’ were obliterated.
After scientific efforts to bring out
the unreadable parts failed, detec
tives made a house-to-house check
of all homes bearing the number
“1750,” until they located Mrs. Ire
lan.
Taken to police headquarters for
questioning, Capt. Ryan said she
said, “Well, I guess I might as well
tell you all about it. I did it. That's
my baby.”
Weather Report
(Furnished by the United States Weather Bureau.)
District of Columbia—Increasing cloudiness, slightly warmer tonight
with minimum temperature about 42 degrees; tomorrow cloudy fol
lowed by occasional light rains; gentle to moderate south and southwest
winds.
Maryland and Virginia—Increasing cloudiness followed by light rain
tomorrow and in extreme west portions late tonight; not much change in
temperature.
West Virginia—Increasing cloudiness followed by light rain beginning
late tonight or tomorrow1; warmer tonight and in east portion tomorrow .
IVomthrr Condition* Last 21 Hours. 4
The disturbance that was over Lake
Ontario Sunday morning has advanced rap
idly eastward with a trough extending
southward about 400 miles east of Nan
tucket Mass Another disturbance has
moved southeastward to Western Iowa..
Sioux City. 10U4.7 millibars (29.(W inchesi.
whence it will move eastward. A secondary
center is over Kansas. Dodge City. 1004 4
millibars (29.fid Inchesi High Dressure
prevails over the east Gulf States. Macon.
Ga . 1020 .3 millibars (30.13 inches), with
a wedge extending northeastward to Mary
land. Pressure is also high over the north
ern Plateau. Raker. Greg . 1028 4 millibars
(30.37 inches' During the last 24 hours
rains have occurred in the northern
Plateau, the northern Rocky Mountain
region, and North Dakota, and light rains
and snows in Northerh New York and
Northern New England Temneratures
have fallen >n the upper Ohio Valley, the
southern Appalachian region, and the
northern Plateau and northern Rocky
Mountain regions.
Report for Last 1H Hours.
Temperature Barometer
Saturday— Degrees. Inches.
4 p.m. - 4(1 29.95
8 p m. - 45 29.92
Midnight _ 46 29.91
Sunday—
4 a.m. _ 44 29 85
8 a.m. _ 45 29 80
Noon _ 49 29.75
2 p.m. _ 69 29.71
4 p.m. _ 64 29.74
8 p m. _ 54 29.88
12 midnight_ 44 29.94
Today—
4 a.m. _ 39 29.98
8 a.m. _ 36 30.07
Noon _ 56 30.07
Record for Last 24 Houri.
(Prom noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest. 64. at 4 p.m. yesterday. Year
ago 42.
Lowest. 36, at 7 a.m. today. Year
ago. 37.
Record Temperature This Year.
Highest. 100 on September 8.
Lowest. 17. on February 23.
Bumld.lt? for Last 24 Bonn.
(Prom noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest. 90 per cent, at 6 a.m. today.
Lowest. 31 per cent, at 6 p.m. yesterday.
Riser Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Perry: Potomac clear at Great
Palls today.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic 8urvey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High _12.46 a.m. 1:38 a.m.
Low _7:41 a.m. 8:31 a.m.
High_1:18 p.m. 2:13 p.m.
Low _8:12 p.m. 9:11p.m.
The Sun and Moan.
Rises. Sets.
Sun. today-7:21 4:47
Sun. tomorrow_ 7:22 4:48
Moon, today_11:56 a.m. '_
Automobile lights must be turned on
ooe-half hour after sunset.
4
Precipitation.
Monthly Dreripitation in inches In the
Capital (current month to date):
Month. 1939. Average. Record.
January _3.41 3.55 7.83 '37
February -5.71 3.27 6.84 '84
March- 2 89 3 75 8.84 '91
April - 3.78 3.27 9 13 '89
May_•_ 41 3.70 10.69 ’80
June _ 4.45 4 13 10.94 '00
July _2.01 4.71 10.63 ’86
August _ 3.22 4.01 14 41 ’28
September_ 6 90 3.24 17 45 '34
October_ 4.06 2.84 8.81 ’37
November _ 1.40 2.37 8 69 '89
December _ 1.02 3.30 7.53 *01
Weather in Various Cities.
Temp R«m
Barom. High.Low. lall. Weather.
Abilene __ 29.83 76 53 Cloudy
Albany 29.91 41 38 0.10 Rain
Atlanta 30.12 67 40 _ Clear
Atl. City 30.06 53 40 _ Cloudv
Baltimore 30,06 57 38 _ Cloudy
B mingham 30.12 65 41 Foggy
Bismarck 29.83 48 38 0.07 Ram
Boston 29.80 46 40 _ Cloudy
Buffalo 30.03 42 37 _ Cloudy
Charleston 30.12 68 49 _ Clear
Chicago 29.83 54 40 _ Cloudy
Cincinnati 30 00 61 30 _ Clear
Cleveland 29.97 46 34 _ Cloudy
Columbia 36 12 71 37 _ Foggv
Denver _ 29.97 71 33 Cloudy
Detroit . 29 94 44 38 0.08 Cloudy
El Paso 29.94 65 33 _ _ Clear
Galveston. 30.00 72 60 Cloudy
Helena 30.27 42 34 0.08 Clear
Huron 20.83 53 28 _ Cloudy
Ind'apolis 29 94 58 35 _ Cloudy
Jacknvllle 30.12 74 60 _ Clear
Kans. City 29.74 72 49 _ Clear
L. Angeles 29.97 77 49 _ Clear
Louisville. 30.00 81 41 _ Ram
Miami 30.09 79 71 _ Cloudy
Mpls.-St. P. 29.77 53 36 _ Clear
N Orleans 30 09 70 52 _ Foggy
New York 29 97 51 40 _ _ Cloudy
Norfolk 30.09 63 45 __ Cloudy
Okla City 29.80 74 45 _ Clear
Omaha 29 68 68 38 _ _ Clear
Philaphla 30.06 55 43 _ Cloudy
Phoenix 29 94 77 42 _ Clear
Pittsburgh 30.06 50 37 Cloudy
P tland.Me. 29.77 36 34 0.01 Cloudy
P’land Ore. 30.21 53 41 0.01 Cloudy
Raleigh 30 09 68 44 _ Cloudy
St. Louis 29 88 64 40 __ Clear
S. Lake C. 30.27 58 26 . clear
8 An'onlo 30.00 70 50 Cloudv
San Diego 29.04 68 50 _ Clear
S Fran sco 30.21 83 51 _ Clear
Seattle _ 30.24 52 38 Cloudy
Spokane 30.38 46 31 0.01 Clear
Tampa 30.12 73 55 Clear
WASH. DC. 30,06 64 35 Clear
Fnrelgn Stations.
(7 a m.. Greenwich time, today.)
_ . „ Temperature. Weather.
Horta (Fayal). Azores 80 Rain
(Current obaervattoni.
San Juan. Puerto Rico 74 Cloudy
Havana. Cuba _ 87 Cloudy
Colon, Canal Zone_ 76 Cloud*
fc
Increase in Prices
Looms at Federal
Lunchrooms
Higher Operating Costs
Will Force Step,
Trustees Believe
The 35,000 Government employes
who eat daily in cafeterias and
lunchrooms operated by the Welfare
and Recreational Association may
have to add a few cents to the
lunch item on their budgets.
A sharp increase in operating
costs, occasioned by higher labor
expenses under the recently ap
proved union contract, was noted
yesterday by the association Board
of Trustees, and an announcement
followed that part of the increase
may have to be absorbed by the
consumers.
Capt. F. W. Hoover, superintend
ent and general manager of the as
sociation, pointed out today that on
the basis of the first month of oper
ation under the new contract with
Cafeteria Workers' Union of the
Congress of Industrial Organiza
tions the annual increase in ex
penditures would amount to $28,000,
several thousand dollars higher than
the negotiation estimates.
At the same time, a necessary
change in milk contracts raised
operating costs even higher, Capt.
Hoover stated.
“We already were operating under
a narrow margin of profit,” he com
mented, “and this increase prob
ably will put us in the red.”
The board decided to make no
changes for at least two more
months. If an increase in con
sumer prices becomes necessary
later, Capt. Hoover said, adjust
ments of a few cents in some food
items probably will cover it.
Maryland Father Shoots
Son and Kills Self
By the Associated Press.
RIDGELY. Md., Dec. 18.—An in
quest was ruled unnecessary today
after investigation into the death of
Calvin Anderson, 59. who, State Po
liceman Paul J. Randall said, shot
himself after opening fire on his
son Chester, 30.
His son was reported in fair con
dition at Emergency Hospital. Eas
ton. where he is being treated for
wounds in the back and arm.
Mr. Randall said Mrs. Anderson
told him her husband suffered spells
of nervous disorder. He shot his son
without warning, she said, as he was
putting wood into the kitchen stove.
As the family took Chester to a
car to drive him to a hospital, the
father pulled two shells from his
pocket and “while we were out of
the house shot himself in the head.’’
Randall quoted Mrs. Anderson as
saying.
Chester recently rented the farm
from his father and was to take It
over January J. He had been work
ing on the John J. Raskob estate
at Pioneer Point, near Centreville.
Boy and Girl found Dead
In Tourist Camp Cabin
By the Associated Press.
WAYNESBORO. Va.. Dec. 18.—A
boy and a girl of high school age
were found dead last night in a
tourist camp cabin.
Augusta County Sheriff G. M.
Gilkeson said he believed they had
been asphyxiated by a gas heater in
the small room.
The sheriff said the boy was Mar
vin S. Craun. 17, of the Parkersburg
pike, Staunton. His young blond
companion was Ida Bell Muterspaw,
16, of Staunton. Dr. C. P. Obens
ehain. coroner said.
Harry Marcus, operator of the
camp. Stoney Springs, on route 250.
about halfway between Waynesboro
and Staunton, said Craun and the
girl engaged a cabin at 12:30 o'clock
Saturday night and asked to be
called at 6 p.m. Sunday. When he
went to call them at 6:25 o'clock
last night he detected the odor of
gas and broke the door.
The coroner issued a certificate
of accidental death by carbon
monoxide poisoning.