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5, Philatelic Americans, Thomson
Community Center, 8 p.m.
Meeting, Botanical Society of
Washington, Cosmos Club, 8 p.m.
Meeting, Civil Aeronautics Au
thority, Raleigh Hotel, all day.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Lions Club, Mayflower
Hotel, 12:30 pm.
Luncheon, Rotary Club, Willard
Hotel, 12:30 pm.
Meeting, Ladies’ Auxiliary, An
cient Order of Hibernians, May
flower Hotel, 8 p.m.
Luncheon, Advertising Club,
Raleigh Hotel, 12:30 pm.
Meeting, Washington Philatelic
Society, Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm.
Divan meeting, Alcantara Cara
van, Order of the Alhambra, Wil
lard Hotel, 9 pm.
Meeting, Alpha Beta Phi fra
ternity, Raleigh Hotel, 9 pm.
Meeting, Civil Aeronautics Au
thority, Raleigh Hotel, all day.
Josephine Baker, American star of
the “Folies Bergere” in Paris, headed
a troupe of Folies girls who gave an
entertainment for royal air force
men at the front.
Saddlery and
Luggage
Repairing of Leather Goode
G. W. King, jr., SU 11th SL N.W.
Y. M. C. A. Starts Year
With 'Open House/
Entertaining 5,600
Athletic Events and
Music Featured;
'Bill' Werber Guest
The Central Young Men’* Chris
tian Association yesterday held its
annual New Year Day “open house”
program, playing host to 5,600
guests. In addition to athletic events
there was music and other enter
tainment.
In the boys’ building activities
began with an electric train race,
bi which John Edwards’ train won
among the large models, with "Abe”
Prishman's train second. Larry
Stillwell's train placed first among
the small models, with Albert Ro
jas’ second.
In the men's lobby W. B. Mon
dell, star at chess and checkers,
played all comers. His score in the
chess matches was five won, three
lost and four draws, while in the
checker games he won seven, lost
two and had six draws.
Shortly after noon, in the boys’
building, “Bill” Werber, third base
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ed the boys and discussed baseball.
He also autographed baseballs,
notebooks and pieces of paper. Maj.
Ernest W. Brown, superintendent
of police, also was present in the
boys’ building.
Concerts were given in the after
noon and evening. Among those
appearing in the afternoon were
Hugo Buonagurio, violinist; Maru
isia Kissel, Mary Mandrich, Anna
Quist, Justin Lawrie, vocalists; Lau
retta Bombara. Elsie Pedersen and
Mrs. Justin Lawrie, accompanists.
Featured in the evening concert
were Howard Milner and Miss Lynn
Allison, National Broadcasting Co.;
Miss Alice Hill and Walter T. Holt
of the Holt studios.
Southeastern University held its
annual reception and tea dance, at
which Mrs. James A. Bell, wife of
Dr. Bell, president of the university,
was hostess.
Mrs. Leonard W. De Gast was
chairman of a woman's committee
to serve refreshments, with Mrs.
Arthur C. Pearson serving as vice
chairman. The latter’s husband was
chairman of the general committee
for the day.
The annual New Year Day ball,
sponsored by the Y. M. C. A. Ath
letic Council, closed the day’s activi
ties.
Congress
^Continued From First Page.)
Republicans to demand that it be
overhauled or eliminated.
Senator Capper, Republican, of
Kansas, said he thought that Con
gress would continue the program
if the Senate were given the author
ity to ratify or reject trade agree
ments. The same view was ex
pressed by Senator Townsend.
In the field of labor, numerous de
mands are developing for revision of
•the Wagner Labor Act—especially
since both the American Federation
of Labor and the C. I. O. have sug
gested changes.
/user reading ms annual message
on the state of the Nation, about 2
pm. E. S. T., tomorrow, Mr. Roose
velt will send his budget estimates
to Congress Thursday. During the
latter part of the week, Senate
leaders hope to dispose of many
minor bills held over from the 1939
session.
Election Speculation.
In most conversations among re
turning Congressmen is speculation
regarding the presidential election.
The chief topic of interest is the
recent invitation to Republican
leaders to attend the Democrats’
Jackson Day dinner here next
Monday.
Two Republican Senators—Capper
and Townsend—termed the invita
tion “a gesture" which could not be
taken seriously.
"The man in the White House,’’
said Senator Townsend, "never
misses a trick.”
The session will provide a sound
ing board for a number of active
or potential presidential candidates
In both Houses. Close friends of
Vice President Garner, however,
predicted that he would be publicly
silent and privately active as a can
didate.
Garner Has No Comments.
Mr. Garner himself told reporters
he would have no comment on poli
tics, the weather or any other sub
ject they might mention He ar
rived from his Uvalde, Tex., home
yesterday after a series of hunting
expeditions.
The Vice President was said au
thoritatively to have been pleased
by a statement from Alfred E.
Smith that he was “all right” as a
presidential possibility.
Mr. Smith, speaking on his 66th
birthday anniversary, eliminated
himself from consideration on the
ground he was too old. But he did
not make this argument against
Mr. Garner, who is 71.
The Vice President is expected to
hold a series of conferences with
friends in the Senate and to work
behind the scenes for delegates to
the Democratic National Conven
tion. Well-advised sources said he
probably would have a private po
litical talk soon with Democratic
Chairman Farley.
Court
(Continued From First Page.)
that the Congress, as the result of
a deliberate choice of conflicting
policies, has excluded representa
tion certifications of the board from
the review by Federal Appelate
Courts authorized by the Wagner
Act" except where the employer
employe relationship is involved.
The original suit in this case was
instituted by the A. F. L., the In
ternational Longshoremen's Asso
ciation and the Pacific Coast Dis
trict local 38 of the I. L. A. against
the Labor Board. The I. L. A. had
for many years represented thou
sands of the longshore employes
on the West Coast, and then when
the row started with the C. I. O.
the latter asked the board to cer
tify its International Longshore
men’s and Warehousemen’s Union
as the exclusive bargaining- repre
sentative on the Pacific. After
a hearing the board did this in the
face of the contention of the A. F.
of L. that it had no power to pre
scribe a bargaining unit larger
than the employes of an individual
employer.
A. F. of L. Appeals.
About 200 Pacific Coast employers
then entered into an exclusive bar
BASEBALL STAR IS BESIEGED BY AUTOGRAPH SEEKERS—“Bill” Werber, star third baseman
Of the Cincinnati Reds of the National League, shown surrounded by boys yesterday at the Y. M.
C. A., who sought his signature on baseballs, in notebooks and mere slips of paper, after Mr. Wer
ber had talked to them and answered many questions relating to baseball during the New Year
“open house” program. • —Star Staff Photo.
gaining agreement with the C. I. O.,
granting its members preferential
employment status. The American
Federation of Labor then appealed to
the United States Court of Appeals
here as “a person aggrieved by a
final order of the board” in order to
obtain a determination of the power
of the board to prescribe the coast
wide bargaining unit.
Petitioning for review, the federa
tion said the certification was con
trary to the Labor Relations Act
because it took in more than one
employer: that although selected by
a majority of employes of a large
number of individual employers and
functioning as the bargaining agents
for thousands of longshoremen the
A. F. of L. was deprived of its rights
and that its membership was being
destroyed.
The board declared on the con
trary that the Court of Appeals
had no jurisdiction and the court
itself agreed with this definition, de
claring the board ruling was not
“final order” within the meaning of
the act.
“In analyzing the provisions of
the statute in order to ascertain its
true meaning, we attribute little
importance to the fact that the cer
tification does not itself command
action,” Justice Stone said. “Ad
Capitol A-Bustle Backstage
Before Curtain Tomorrow
500 Policemen Will Guard Opening
Of Momentous Congress Session
Like backstage activity before the
start of a theatrical production,
the bustle that precedes opening
of a session of Congress began this
morning.
Presidential candidates among the
players occupied the center of at
tention. Senator Taft, Republican,
of Ohio held a press conference.
Vice President Garner greeted the
newspaper writers in several groups.
Painters put on the final touches
around the hallways of the Capi
tol Building. Ladders were propped
against walls, janitors saw to it that
all the window's were properly
locked against winter winds.
Kenneth Romney, sergeant at
arms of the House of Representa
tives, and Chesley Jurney, sergeant
at arms of the Senate, were busy
with preparation for the police
guard that will surround the Capi
tol.
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to the floor of the House—and the
joint session will hear the presi
dential message.
All they’re waiting for now are
the tapping of two gavels, one by j
the Vice President and the other
by the Speaker of the House.
Cleveland Raises Funds
For 10 Weeks' Relief
By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Jan. 2.—This relief
plagued city of a million looked
ahead today to at least 10 weeks
without financial worry over its de
pendents.
A $1,000,000 appropriation by City
Council will take care of relief costs
until the middle of March. Half the
million will come from the State as
matching funds.
Roosevelt Names Wirtz
Interior Undersecretary
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt gave a recess
appointment today to Alvin J. Wirtz
of Austin, Tex., as Undersecretary of
the Interior.
The appointment is subject to Sen
ate confirmation.
The President acted shortly after
Stephen T. Early, one of his secre
taries, had disclosed that Mr. Wirtz's
nomination probably would be sub
mitted to the Senate early in the
new congressional session.
House Majority Leader Rayburn,
another Texan, arriving at the White
House for a conference of congres
sional Democratic leaders with the
President, told reporters the Wirtz
appointment was “perfectly agree
able to me."
Mr. Rayburn said Mr. Wirtz prob
ably could be considered a strong
New Dealer, but when reporters
asked about the political implica
tions of the appointment—whether
the selection of such a Texan could
be called a “slap" at Vice President
Garner—Mr. Rayburn said he could
not “conceive" of that being true.
Mr. Wirtz, 51, was general coun
sei oi uie Liower uoioraao raver
Authority, known as the “Texas
Little T. V. A.” Prom 1922 to 1930
he was a member of the Texas
Senate and once was its President.
Mr. Wirtz succeeds Harry Slat
tery, who resigned to become ad
ministrator of the Rural Electrifica
tion Administration.
Mr. Wirtz was attorney for Mayor
Maury Maverick of San Antonio in
his trial last month on a charge of
conspiring to pay the poll tax of an
other. Mr. Maverick was acquitted.
City News in Brief
TODAY.
Buffet supper. Women's National
Press Club, Willard Hotel, 6:30 p.m.
Meeting, District of Columbia
Chapter, Catholic Daughters of
America, Willard Hotel, 7:30 p.m.
Meeting, power engineers, Ra
leigh Hotel, 7:30 p.m.
Meeting, U Street Neighborhood
Council, Garnet-Patterson Com
munity Center, 7:30 p.m.
Meeting, dental hygienists, Wil
lard Hotel, 8 p.m.
Meeting, Emily Nelson Chapter,
D. A. R„ Willard Hotel, 8 p.m.
Meeting, Associates Club, Carl
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are not commands may for all prac
tical purposes determine rights as
effectively as the judgment of a
court and may be re-examined by
courts under particular statutes
providing for the review of ‘orders.'
We must look rather to the language
of the statute read in the light of its
purpose and legislative history to
ascertain whether ‘order' for which
the review in court is provided is
contrasted with forms of adminis
trative action differently described
as a purposeful means of excluding
them from the review proceedings.
“Here it is evident that the entire
structure of the act emphasizes for
purposes of review the distinction
between an ‘order’ of the board re
straining an unfair labor practice
and a certification in representa
tion proceedings. The one author
ized (by Section 10 of the act) may
be reviewed by the court on petition
of the board for enforcement of an
order, or the person aggrieved in
conformity to the procedure laid
down iin Section 10 of the act)
which says nothing of certification.
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9 of the act) is nowhere spoken
of as an order and no procedure
is prescribed for its review apart
from an order prohibiting an un
fair labor practice.”
Review Provisions Limited.
This statute on its face then, the
court continued, indicates a pur
pose to limit review provisions of
the act to orders of the board which
prohibits unfair labor practice, and
the court added that the legislative
history of the Labor Relations Act
confirms this purpose and con
struction.
Justice Stone also wrote the
opinion in the consumers power case
saying the findings there were con
troled by those in the longshore
case. In that case an election was
held in February, 1938, to determine
the collective bargaining unit and
the C. I. O. got 1,164 votes; the A.
F. of L., 1,072, while 506 employes
did not vote for either side and the
60 odd other ballots were thrown out
for other causes. The C. I. O. there
upon asked to be certified as the
bargaining agent, but the board re
jected this petition and ordered the
run-off, with only the C. I. O. unit
named on the ballot.
The International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers protesting this
action, went into the Sixth Circuit
Court of Appeals and had the order
stayed. The Court of Appeals said
“we think the order was illegal and
that the proposed election was un
fair in effect.” To this ruling the
Supreme Court said the direction
for an election is but a part of the
representation proceedings autho
rized by the act and is no more sub
ject to review “than is a certifica
tion which is the final step in such
a proceeding and which we have
just held Congress has excluded
from the review afforded by the act.
Falk Opinion.
In the Falk opinion the corpora
tion had been ordered by the Labor
Board to break up its company union
and to hold an election to determine
a collective bargaining agency. In
this election the board put only the
C. I. O. affiliate, the Amalgamated
Association of Iron Steel and Tin
Workers of North America, on the
ballot for certain classes of employes,
and this C. I. O. unit and the A. F
of L. International Union of Operat
ing Engineers on another ballot
where these two unions were making
rival claims. When the board went
into the Seventh Circuit of Appeals
to put its order in effect, the court
modified the board order to the
extent that the Falk independent
union was to have a place on the
ballot, but that the corporation
itself could not recognize the organ
ization until and unless it was
chosen by a majority vote of the
employes as their bargaining agency.
Said the board:
“An election in which the Inde
pendent appears upon the ballot
will not permit a free choice by
employes uninfluenced by the re
spondent (Falk).’’
From the surrounding circum
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When the curtain goes up at noon
tomorrow the greatest number of
uniformed and plain clothes police
men in history will be on hand.
Close to 500 minions of the law
will be present,'according to the
estimates. Maj. Brown is sending
150 men—mostly for outside duty.
Capt. William S. Orthman, chief of
the Capitol police, will spread 136
men through the grounds and build
ings.
Clocks were being wound, too.
Everything has to be on time. One
old clock had stopped at 20 minutes
to 4—one day after Congress closed.
It still showed that time this
morning, but it will be at 12 o'clock
when both houses convene tomor
row. And it will be on time at 2 pm.
when the President of the United
States arrives for his address.
The historians got busy and dis
covered that this session, inciden
tally, is the 178th in the history
of the Congress. That takes care of
every session ever held. There have
been 26 extra sessions of Congress.
South Trimble, clerk of the House,
was so busy this morning he could
not see half the persons who want
ed to see him—including the news
papermen.
Press Galleries Busy.
In the two press galleries the old
time superintendents—Bill Collins,
for the Senate, and Bill Donaldson,
for the House—had their staffs
"run ragged” getting ready for the
huge corps of correspondents ex
pected to “cover” what promises to
be an all-important session.
Joe Hanson, the old messenger In
the House press gallery, who has
handed out copy paper to the boys
these last 31 years, was weary at
noon from stacking paper,
Only quiet in all the building was
in the old, deserted Supreme Court
chambers—now a museum piece.
The Capitol guides, threading their
way between cleaners' buckets of
water and posts being strung with
red rope to block off the crowds,
tried to carry on their work, for
visitors were still permitted in the
Capitol. Harry Nash and Jimmy
Connell, who have been down there
on the Hill these many years, claim
they never saw such crowds on the
day before an opening.
As the order of procedure was
outlined today, the program tomor
row will be somewhat as follows:
The session will be called promptly
at 12 o’clock.
Prayer will be offered in both
chambers.
Then the call for a quorum.
A Senate committee will notify
the House that the Senate is in
session, awaiting the arrival of the
President of the United States.
When the Chief Executive appears
at the door of the Capitol the Sen
ate members will march, two abreast,
stances, Justice Black said, "the
board justifiably drew the inference
that this company-created union
could not emancipate itself from
habitual subservience to its creator
and that in order to insure employes
that complete freedom of choice
guaranteed (by the act) independ
ent must be completely disestab
lished and kept off the ballot.”.
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