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Conscription
Approved by
Senate Group
42 Million Men Would
Be Registered; To Go
To Floor Next Week
The Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee gave its approval today to
comprehensive compulsory military
training calling for registration of
42.000. 000 men between 18 and 64.
Chairman Sheppard said the com
mittee expected to work out all de
tails of the training legislation to
morrow and have the bill ready for
Senate action next week.
War Department spokesmen said
the system contemplated actual mili
tary training to be limited to about
1.500.000 men between 21 and 30
during the first year, selected from
a group estimated to number 11,
600.000.
Senator Vandenberg, Republican,
of Michigan questioned the neces
Michigan, who questioned the neces
sity of peacetime conscription to
fill the expanding ranks of the Na
tion's armed forces.
President Roosevelt and the Army
high command have indorsed selec
tive service as an essential element
in the defense drive, but Senator
Vandenberg told reporters he was
,not convinced that “our ordinary
reliance on volunteers" would fail
to supply the necessary manpower.
Senator Vandenberg also indicated
he did not see eye-to-eye with War
Department proposals for mobilizing
the National Guard's 235.000 men
If conscription is voted.
Cruel Dislocation Seen.
Mobilizing the Guard for a year's
training, said Senator Vandenberg,
might cause a "very cruel disloca
tion" in the homes of many Guards
men who did n6t expect “whole
time service” with the regular land
forces during peacetime.
However, two members of the
Military Affairs Committee. Senators
Gurney, Republican, of South Da
kota, and Minton, Democrat, of In
diana, announced that they would
vote compulsory service. Senator
Minton, Democratic whip, an
nounced:
“I'm for it if .the War Depart
ment says it's necessary.”
Senator Vandenberg said: “There
are many alternatives in voluntary
training and enlistment which should
be exhausted before we put America
on a peacetime conscript basis.”
Senator Offers Letter.
He offered a letter" from the
Army’s recruiting service stating j
that the full strength of 375,000 I
regular troops, for which Congress
had voted funds, could be reached ■
within five months by voluntary ,
enlistments.
The committee has heard contra
dictory testimony from Army offi
cials, who said that the man power
needs cannot be met without com
pulsory service.
T. V. A. Defense Measure
Given Right of Way
By the Associated Press.
The House Rules Committee
granted legislative right of way to
day for a $25,000,000 appropriation
bill to expand the power output of
the Tennessee Valley Authority for
production of aluminum for new
airplanes.
House leaders tentatively planned
to call up the measure, with three
hours of general debate, early next
Week.
The money would be used to start
a three-vear program to cost $65.
800.000 and was urgently requested
by members of President Roosevelt's
Advisory Defense Commission.
Chairman Woodrum of the Appro
priations Deficiency Subcommittee
told the Rules Committee he pro
posed to offer an amendment to the
bill, urged by Commonwealth &
Southern Corp.. which would require
the Defense Commission to approve
the extent and location of new
transmission lines to carry the new
power.
Gano Dunn, former Common
wealth & Southern engineer and
now a vigorous advocate of the T.
V. A. expansion, solely for national
defense, told the Rules Committee
Commonwealth “saw this was a
bona fide project and said that it
was all right with them except that
they would like to see a limitation
on the growth of the T. V. A.”
12 More Munitions Plants
To Be Built in Canada
By the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, July 23.—Plans for
Immediate construction of 12 addi
tional munitions plants to cost
$19,000,000 brought Canada's proj
ected development of her rapidly
expanding arms industry to a new
high today.
Only last week plans were an
nounced for an $11,000,000 plant to
manufacture chemicals for explo
sives.
All told. Munitions Minister C. D.
Howe said last night, plant expan
sion under way or completed in
Canada, financed in whole or in
part by the government, totals
$80,000,000.
Gov. Rivers' Son Loses
License After Crash
By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, July 23.—Safety Com
missioner Lon Sullivan said today
the driver’s license of E. D. Rivers, jr„
son of Georgia’s Governor, had been
suspended for six months because of
his conviction on charges of driving
while intoxicated and leaving the
scene of an accident.
The charges were made against
the 25-year-old chairman of the
State Industrial Board after a colli
sion between his automobile and
J^nother at Clayton last Saturday
-Jo one was Injured. jj
Reports of Soviet Air Base
Mile From U. S. Isle Confirmed
Coast Guards Get Definite Data;
Eskimos Barred From Island
By the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, July 23.—Reports that
a Russian air base is being devel
oped on Soviet-owned Big Diomede
Island, in the Bering Sea, only a
mile from American-owned Little
Diomede Island, were confirmed by
the United States Coast Guard cut
ter Perseus on a visit to the Par
North.
This was learned when the cutter
arrived here en route to its base at
San Diego.
Only 10 days ago officers of the
cutter talked to the four whites and
leaders of the native population of
Little Diomede, learning definitely
of the presence of a small detach
ment of Russian soldiers and con
struction of a large airplane hangar
and Held on the Soviet island.
The American Eskimos, who for
merly paddled across the channel
separating the two islands to trade
ivory, now are barred from the Rus
sian island, it was learned.
With the aid of binoculars those
on the American island have been
able to follow activity on Big Dio
mede.
The Eskimos said a detachment
of Russian soldiers, probably about
20, has been stationed on the is
land for some time. Before they
were barred from Big Diomede the
Eskimos saw several Russian sub
marines berthed along the rock
shore, officers of the Perseus were
informed.
'Die Cast,'Nazis Reply
To Britain's Rebuff
On Axis Peace
Air Raids Intensified
As Berlin Warns War
Is On in Earnest
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July 23.—Widespread
raids on British harbors and air
ports were reported by the high
command today as Nazis declared
the war against Britain is on in
earnest.
"The dice are cast,” authorized
sources said, concluding that Britain
definitely had spurned Adolf Hitler’s
olive branch.
They accepted as Britain's final
answer to the Fuehrer's Reichstag
speech the British air raids on Ger
many and British Foreign Secretary
Lord Halifax’ “fight-on" declaration
yesterday.
Authorized sources intimated that,
as today's high command leport in
dicated, Germany is going after
England on a sort of stagger sys
tem-increasing its air and naval
activity day-by-day until it is
capped some day in a general
offensive accompanied by a whole
sale landing of troops.
“Especially attacked" in overnight
air raids across England and Scot
land, the communique said, “were
the ports of Pembroke, with its oil
stores, Chatham, Sheemess, Edin
burgh and Aberdeen as well as air
ports in the vicinity of Portsmouth
and Bristol Channel.”
Merchant Ships Sunk.
It reported also three merchant
ships were damaged by bomb hits
off the English coast and 18,000
tons of British shipping sunk by a
submarine raiding ‘‘a strongly pro
tected convoy.”
Answering Lord Halifax, whose
speech was derided as “a sermon
of a priest,” Nazi sources said Hit
ler did not threaten, but merely
presented the situtaion as it is.
“If Halifax thinks he can rely on
the utterances of certain statesmen
on other continents and thinks it
is a matter of political wisdom for
him to do so, only history will show
who is right,” one authorized com
mentator observed.
“What is now to follow is beyond
any exchange of notes or words.”
Behind Lord Halifax, who "waved
his Bible,” stands a government
which will lead the English people
to decidedly other than Heavenly
pastures, German sources asserted.
Raids Seen Answer.
Britain, they said, apparently
wanted to win the war with praying
and leave it to other nations to do
the fighting. Germany, they added,
already has shown what she can
do with both fighting and praying
nations.
(The emphasis on Lord Hali
fax’ speech as a "sermon” pre
sumably answered his frequent
references yesterday to “the
Christian message” and “God's
help.”)
DNB, official German news
agency, stressed British air raids as
Britain’s conclusive reply to Hitler,
saying they "show that Churchill
wants to demonstrate to the Ger
man people what he regards as a
proper answer.”
DNB said that since Hitler made
his “generous offer” last Friday,
civilians were reported killed by
British bombs in Bremen, Hamburg,
Wismar and Schwerin and other
attacks had been aimed at Kassel,
Hanover, Pinneberg, Paderbom, Ha
gen and Bochum.
The news agency declared that
although visibility was good and
the raiders dropped flares to aid
they view, their bombs struck resi
dential districts. Damage was de
scribed as “slight.”
Australia's Empire Force
At 80,000, Recruiting Halts
By the Associated Press.
MELBOURNE, Australia, July 23.
—Defense Minister G. A. Street an
nounced today temporary suspen
sion of recruiting for the Australian
Imperial Force because the initial
objective of 80,000 had been reached.
Another factor, it was stated, was
the need for building a home de
fense force of 250,000 men.
Harvey, Boxer, Wins
Commission in R. A. F.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 23.—Len Harvey,
British and empire heavyweight
boxing champion, was commis
sioned today as a pilot officer in
the Royal Air Force. He joined the
R. A. F. at the start of the war as
a sergeant.
Jack Petersen, who lost the Brit
ish heavyweight title to Harvey in
1933, won back his laurels In 1934
and retired from the ring in 1937,
is a lieutenant in a Welsh regi
kment.
Britain's Income Tax
Boosted to 42i Pet.
To Meet War Budget
Churchill Ignores Hitler
Peace Offer Already
Rejected by Halifax
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 23.—Great Brit
ain’s leadership increased the na
tion’s income tax today to an un
precedented rate of 42'i per cent
to help meet an emergency war
budget equaling $13,868,000,000.
That same leadership refrained,
however, from further official notice
of Adolf Hitler's peace bid and
took every step in its power to fight
to the last.
Perhaps the most startling thing
about the staggering income tax is
that it is to be deducted arbitrarily
from the wages of England's men
and women.
This is possible under the govern
ment's dictatorial powers over all
Britons and all they possess.
No Comment on Hitler Appeal.
The emergency budget, presented
to the House of Commons by Chan
cellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley
Wood, called for other drastic taxes
and announced the government’s in
tention of further restricting home
consumption of ’’a wide range of
goods."
The income tax was increased a
full shilling in the pound sterling
to a total of 8 shillings, 6 pence.
This compares with the post-World
War rate, from 1918 to 1922, of 6
shillings, or 30 per cent.
Winston Churchill, answering a
few questions of members before
Sir Kingsley went to the dispatch
box, said nothing whatsoever about
Hitler’s so-called “appeal to rea
son,” made last Friday in his Reichs
tag speech.
Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax
already had given Hitler his answer
in his broadcast—that Britain “will
never accept this new world of Hit
ler s * * * will not stop fighting
until freedom for ourselves and
others is secure.”
Sir Kingsley also increased the
taxes on beer, tobacco, wine and
entertainment. He said direct war
expenses alone would be the equiv
alent of $11,200,000,000, that the cur
rent rate of expenditure was some
$228,000,000 weekly.
He withdrew for revision a pro
posed sales tax. He foreshadowed
a new sort of “purchase tax" under
which “luxuries”—including cos
metics and furniture—will be taxed
one-third of their wholesale value,
or 24 per cent on retail prices.
Evades Retaliation Query.
This tax will be cut to half or 12
per cent on personal and household
goods requiring frequent replace
ment, such as clothing and shoes.
With German air railis extending
again the length \of Britain and
across it, in force, to Wales, Prime
Minister Churchill refused, in the
interests of military strategy, to
tell Commons whether the Royal
Air Force would bomb Berlin and
Rome if London were bombarded.
The Prime Minister also toned
down Britain's “hush, hush” move
ment, promised to review sentences
imposed for careless talk and used
Grover Cleveland's famous phrase,
“innocuous desuetude,” to describe
a movement to establish a “silent
column” in Britain.
Lord Halifax’s answer to Hitler
was bluntly worded rejection.
“We realize the struggle may cost
(See LONDONTPage A-4.)
Mandate Plan
Offered by U. S.
Af Havana
Bolivia to Propose
Defense Railroad
Linking Coasts
By the Associated Press.
HAVANA, July 23.—The United
States’ delegation placed before the
Pan-American Conference today a
project designed to set up machinery
immediately for an intee-American
mandate over European possessions
in this hemisphere.
The mandate woAld become ef
fective in case such possessions were
menaced with a change of sov
ereignty.
The United States’ project was
submitted in ‘the firm of a proposed
convention to bind the 21 American
countries into a joint trusteeship of
the various European colonies in
this hemisphere.
A separate resolution called for
the establishment of a committee
to take over any possessions which
might be menaced prior to ratifica
tion of the joint trusteeship by the
convention.
A project for building a great
trans-continental railway through
the steaming jungles and moun
tains of South America as a de
fense measure was expected to be
presented to the conference late to
day or tomorrow under the spon
sorship of Bolivia.
Meets Keen Interest.
This project met with keen Inter
est in conference halls. Some dele
gates believed the plan to link the
Atlantic with the Pacific in Lower
South America would be almost
as good as “another Panama Ca
nal" for defense purposes.
Bolivia’s plan, which has not yet
been made public in detail, would
establish a right-of-way westward
from the port of Santos in Brazil to
Arica in Chile, crossing through Bo
livia.
If the project is considered feas
ible. it is likely to gain support from
most of the West Coast countries,
all of which are eager to see an
open path from the Atlantic to the
Pacific for trade as well as defense
reasons.
If such a railway were estab
lished, it could be used for the
transportation of troops from west
coast to east coast points without
moving them through the Panama
Canal or around the Horn through
the Straits of Magellan.
Hull Heads Peace Group.
These and other questions in
volving Pan-American defense were
considered after Secretary of State
Hull was elected president of the
all-important Peace Preservation
Commission at the conference.
Besides the Peace commission,
the Neutrality and Economic Com
missions began deliberations.
Leopold Melo of Argentina, who
has cautioned the conference
against actions based on ‘‘conjec
tural hypothesis,” was elected presi
dent of the Neutrality Commission
and Eduardo Suarez, Mexican Fi
nance Minister, was named chair
man of the Economics Commission.
A Co-ordination Commission
which will be responsible for such
details as translating resolutions,
went to work long before the three
main commissions convened.
A. A. Berle, jr., a United States
delegate, attended sessions of the
Neutrality and Economics Commis
sions as an observer.
Argentina Hesitant.
Already apparent was Argentina’s
hesitating attitude toward broad
commitments which might affect her
future trade relations with Europe
and which she feared might result
in losses which would not be offset
on concrete economic benefits from
the United States or other American
republics.
Delegates of other nations, how
ever, generally supported Secretary
Hull's version of dangers besetting
the New World because of aggressive
military and economic methods on
other continents.
Mr. Hull, seemingly .undiscouraged
by the Argentine position similar to
that at the Lima Conference in
1938, moved ahead with drafting of
resolutions embodying his Govern
ment's proposals.
He clearly was receptive to
modifications to incorporate the
views of other governments.
Summary of Today's Star
Page. Page.
Amusements, Obituary... A-6
A-10 Radio _B-14
Comics B-14-15 Serial Story B-10
Editorials - A-8 Sports ..A-12-13
Finance .. A-15 Society -B-3
Lost, found B-10 Woman's Page,
B-5
Foreign
Hull heads peace commission at Ha
vana parley. Page A-l
Britain boosts income tax to 42 ti
per cent. Page A-l
“Die cast,” Nazi reply to British re
buff. Page A-l
Argentines aloof as Havana program
draft begins. Page A-l
Resettlement pf refugees seen con
tinuing problem. Page A-4
Economic defense program outlined
by Hull. Page A-5
Bahamas believe Windsor will unify
Indies as dominion. PageB-16
National.
Welles denounces absorption of Bal
tic republics by Russia. Page A-l
Willkie off on two-day swing through
Wyoming and Utah. Page A-l
Anti-third-term Democrats in Con
u gress hint revolt. Page A-3
Shortage of skilled labor for naval
construction feared. Page A-4
Roosevelt continues talks with Am
bassador Bullitt. Page A-5
Washington and Vicinity
Randolph to urge early ac^on on
1 D. C. representation. P^ge A-l
Shoe shine parlors partially exempt
from “blue laws.” Page A-l
Ray L. Huff reappointed District
penal director. Page B-l
Plans advanced for distribution of
5-cent milk to needy. Page B-l
More money and personnel held D.
C. welfare need. Page B-l
Editorial and Comment
This and That. Page A-8
Answers to Questions. Page A-8
Letters to The Star. Page A-8
David Lawrence. Page A-9
Alsop and Kintner. Page A-9
G. Gould Lincoln. Page A-9
Jay Franklin. Page A-9
Constantine Brown. Page A-9
Sports
Dodgers open crucial series against
champion Reds. Page A-12
$200,000 spent rebuilding Bucs soon
may pay dividends. Page A-12
Stretch schedule favors Washing
ton's gridiron Redskins. Page A-13
Ab Jenkins smashes flock of auto
speed records. Page A-13
D. C. golfers far off form in Muny
tourney at Detroit. Page A-14
Miscellany
Vital Statistics. Page B-2
Service Orders. Page B-7
City News in Brief. « Page B-10
Letter-Out. Page B-14
Winning Contract. Page B-14
Uncle Ray’s Comer. Page B-15
Crossword Puzzle. Page B-15
| Nature’s Children. J*5ge B-16
The Traveling Salesman
Welles Denounces
Russia's Absorption
Of Baltic Republics
U. S. Will Continue Its
Recognition of Envoys;
Chile's Stand Praised
By BLAIR BOLLES.
Acting Secretary of State Sum
ner Welles today condemned In vig
orous language the “aevious prac
tices” leading to the disappearance
of Estonia. Lithuania and Latvia
into the Russian Union and ap
plauded Chile's firmness in her re
ply to the Spanish notice that
Madrid was severing diplomatic re
lations with Chile.
The United States, Mr. Welles
said, will continue to recognize the
three Baltic diplomatic represent
atives in this country as the Min
isters of sovereign republics now
under duress.
Mr. Welles did not once mention
the U. S. S. R. directly.
Directed to Havana Delegates.
The Welles pronouncement, made
in two installments at his press
conference, was directed to the
Latin American delegates at the
Havana Conference. When he was
talking about Chile's relations with
Spain, he said:
"I think that I can add that any
attempt on the part of any foreign
government to interfere by direc
tion or indirection in the domestic
concern of any American republic
will be unanimously resented by all
of the American peoples."
The Baltic statement carried, in
effect, the same message. It was
made in reply to a question put to
him at his press conference yester
day regarding the American atti
tude toward the Baltic change.
“During these past few days,” Mr.
Welles said, “the devious processes
whereunder the political independ
ence and territorial integrity of the
three small Baltic republics—Es
tonia, Latvia, Lithuania—were to be
deliberately annihilated by one of
their more powerful neighbors, have
been drawing to their conclusion.
U-. S. Sympathetic to Republics.
“From the day when the peoples
of these republics first gained their
independent and democratic form
of government the people of the
United States have watched their
admirable progress in self-govern
ment with deep and sympathetic
interest ,
“The policy of this Government is
universally known. The people of
the United States are opposed to
(See WELLES, Page A-3.)
Jenkins Sets 21 Records,
Ends 24-Hour Grind
By the Associated Press.
BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS,
Utah, July 23.—Ab Jenkins braked
his Mormon Meteor to a stop here
today, leaving behind on the deeply
rutted tracks of three saline race
courses the shattered remnants of
21 world speed records.
The Salt Lake City Mayor flashed
across the finish line of his 24-hour
speed grind at 6:30 o'clock this
morning (mountain time) to com
plete his conquest of all the world
land speed records from 50 kilo
meters to 3,000 miles, and from 1
hour to 24—most of them his own.
His average for the 24-hour
grind, during which he was occa
sionally relieved at the wheel of the
Mormon Meteor, was 161.18 miles
per hour, nearly four miles faster
than the world standard he set up
last year of 15757 miles per hour.
During those 24 gruelling hours
he flashed around the 12% and 11
mile tracks at speeds reaching 183
to 185 miles per hour.
Six hours after the start he
switched to the 11-mile course and
turned it once at a speed of 189
miles per hour—the fastest lap
ever made on a circular course.
Through part of the day and
throughout the night Cliff Bergere
of Los Angeles, relief driver, took
turns behind the wheel between pit
stops and pushed the throttle to
the limit while Jenkins rested
briefly. *
(Earlier story on PagVjA-13.)
3£00,000 Democrats
To Vote for Willkie,
Al Smith Quoted
B? the Associated Press.
MILLBURN, N. J„ July 23 —
Robert Johnson, manager of the
Wlllkle-for-President headquar
ters In New York, told the New
Jersey unit last night that
Alfred E. Smith, Democratic
candidate for President in 1928
and present anti-New Dealer,
told him before the Republican
convention last month:
“This Willkie movement is not
a campaign; it is a crusade. If
Willkie is nominated you can
count on 3,500,000 Democratic
votes in the general election.”
Rain Due to Break
Heat Wave; Victim
Of Prostration Dies
'Not Quite So Warm
Tonight'; More Than 50
Overcome Yesterday
Some relief from the intense heat,
responsible for the death of one
Washingtonian last night and the
exhaustion of at Ipast 50 others, was
in store for the District today, with
the likelihood of thundershowers this
afternoon.
The Weather Bureau, with its
first optimistic prediction in several
days—"Not quite so warm tonight”—
said fair weather is expected to fol
low local showers. Continued warm
weather is forecast for tomorrow and
Thursday.
After a high of 96 shdrtly after
3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, the
mercury dropped gradually during
the night to a low of 76 at 5
o’clock this morning. The reading
at 1 o’clock this afternoon was 90,
as compared with 93 at the same
time yesterday.
The temperature dropped to 80 at
2 o’clock after clouds obscured the
sun, but later began rising slowly.
Man, 69, Killed by Heat.
The death was that of John F.
Barry, 69-year-old Spanish War
veteran and retired Government
employe, who died of heat prostra
tion shortly before midnight at the
home of his sister, Mrs. Ella Cun
ningham, at 3609 Tenth street N.W.
Mr. Barry, who was in excellent
health until he was overcome, ac
cording to Mrs. Cunningham, served
with the Navy aboard the New
Orleans and the York from 1898 to
1905 and fought in the Cuban cam
(See WEATHER, Page A^37)
Willkie Says U. S.
Has No Such Thing as
'Indispensable Man'
Dewey's Former Press
Representative Joins
Nominee's Staff
BULLETIN.
CHEYENNE, Wyo.. July 23 <JP).
—Wendell L. Willkie, on a two
day swing through Northern
Colorado, Wyoming and Utah,
asserted today the United States
would be "going down the same
road as the totalitarian states"
if the people follow "the Kelly
Nash machine and the remnants
of the Pendergast machine and
the Guffeys."
By the Associated Press.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 23 —
Wendell L. Willkie, starting a two
day swing through Northern Colo
rado, Wyoming and Utah, said to
day "in this country there is no
such thing as the indispensable
man.”
Mr. Willkie made his remark to
a crowd at Brighton. Colo. He
spoke from the rear platform of a
train taking him to Cheyenne to
attend the Frontier Days rodeo.
The Republican presidential nom
iness asserted “I know' it was a
series of circumstances" that caused
him to be nominated for President.
"I know that there are thousands
of men qualified for any position,
public or private," he continued.
"There are many, many men who
are qualified. In this country there
is no such thing as the indispensable
man.
"The every essence of democracy
is that it develops the initiative and
the energies of men.”
Recalls Job in Puerto Rico.
Mr. Willkie. remarking that
Brighton is in Colorado's sugar beet
country, recalled he had worked as
a sugar chemist in Puerto Rico 27
years ago. Thirty years ago. he said,
he was employed on a sugar beet
farm near Fort Collins, Colo.
At a press conference on his pri
vate car Mr. Willkie announced
Raymond I. Buell of Fortune Maga
zine would work with Russell Dav
enport, a former Fortune editor, in
his behalf. Mr. Davenport was one
of the first to work for Mr. Willkie's
nomination.
Mr. Willkie announced also that
Lem Jones of Davenport. Iowa, for
mer press representative for Thomas
E. Dewey, would serve as his press
representative.
“If you send me to Washington
I’ll, go as your uncontrolled repre
( See WILLKIE,-Page A^3.)
Shoe Shine Parlors May Operate
Before Alexandria Church Time
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va„ July 23.—
Church-goers of Alexandria should
have their shoes shined before at
tending services and therefore Vir
ginia’s Sunday blue laws do not ap
ply to shoe shining parlors until
church services have begun.
So ruled Judge James R. Duncan
in Police Court here this morning
in the cases of two of nine mer
chants who last Sunday were sum
moned to appear in court on charges
of violating State Sunday blue laws.
Thus, according to Judge Dun
can’s interpretation, Guf Kutrotsas
of the 400 block of King street, and
other operators of shoe-shining es
tablishments in Alexandria may
offer their services “for « few hours
in the morning until church serv
ices have convened.” The ruling
applies to D. E. Vozolas, 700 block
of King street, also summoned to
appear in court this morning.
In the first test cases in Police
Court Judge Duncan also held that
washing automobiles on Sunday is
related to and incidental to- the
operation of cars as well as to the
operation of filling stations on- the
Sabbath and therefore dismissed
cases against two operators of gas
stations and an operator of an “auto
laundry.”
They are S. Guy Duncan, oper
ator of a service |ntion at Henry
and Cameron streets; D. D. Squires
of the 700 block of North Washing
ton street and James Wormley,
operator of the auto laundry in the
800 block of Gibbon street.
Cases which were continued until
Saturday were those of C. A. Harris,
drug store executive; Mrs. Ida Gold
berg, delicatessen operator in the
1600 block of Mount Vernon ave
nue, and George A. Emmart, drug
store, of the 3900 block of Mount
Vernon avenue. Charges against
T. R. Brown, bakery, also of the
3900 block of Mount Vernon ave
nue, were dismissed.
Under the State law, establish
ments considered as “community ne
cessities” are exempt from the pro
visions of the law. This also ap
plies to filling stations.
Last week Inspector Thornton J.
Goods of the State Labor Depart
ment warned that church organiza
tions and private citizens had made
complaints and said that the law
would be enforced if upheld in the
first test cases in Police Court. In re
cent years the law has not been
enforced here.
A week ago eight merchants were
summoned to appear in court on
charges of violating the law and two
were found guilty. Decision on the
other cases was reserved until
July 30. I
D.C. Vote Action
Chances Gain,
Bankhead Says
Randolph Plans
Move to Get Issue
Before House
BULLETIN.
Chairman Sumners announced
this afternoon that he would
call the House Judiciary Com
mittee into session Thursday in
an attempt to get approval of a
resolution authorizing a consti
tutional amendment granting
national representation to the
District of Columbia. The meet
ing, he said, would depend on
whether he could locate enough
committee members in the city.
Speaker Bankhead said today the
“likelihood” that the present ses
sion of Congress will consider suf
frage for the District has increased,
as Chairman Randolph of the House
District Committee planned an ap
peal for action.
Speaker Bankhead pointed out
that the House cannot- act until the
House Judiciary Committee reports
out one of three pending resolu
tions providing for national repre
sentation. However, Mr. Randolph
planned to take his appeal to this
committee and expressed the belief
the resolution will be given sympa
thetic consideration if reported fa
vorably.
The renewed agitation for enfran
chising District residents followed
a demonstration given Representa
tive Randolph in the House yester
day at the conclusion of a 15-min
ute plea for congressional action.
Better Chance for Suffrage Seen.
Mr. Bankhead said he is not fa
miliar with the various plans for
granting voting privileges to the
District since he has not had time
to study them. He expressed the
opinion, however, that local suffrage
might have a better chance for early
approval than national representa
tion, which would require a con
stitutional amendment.
Mr. Randolph wras highly pleased
with the applause given him yes
terday.
“The demonstration marked the
best feeling for local suffrage ever
exhibited in the House.” he de
dared. “I was particularly pleased
i that no antipathy was shown.”
Republicans Also Applaud.
Mr. Randolph also was elated be
cause the applause came from the
Republican side of the House cham
ber as well as the Democratic side.
He said he anticipated Democratic
support In view of the action of the
Democratic convention last week in
writing into the party platform a
plank favoring suffrage for the Dis
trict.
It has been Mr. Randolph’s desire
to keep partisan politics out of the
fight for voting privileges for the
District. The issue, he contends, is
important to both political parties,
even though the Republican con
vention failed to include a local
suffrage plank in its 1940 platform.
A remark by Representative Rees,
Republican, of Kansas, that House
Republicans in “great numbers”
would support a suffrage plan for
the District was particularly pleas
ing to Mr. Randolph. He likewise
was elated over a suggestion by Mr.
Rees that the Judiciary Committee
without further delay, act favorably
on the national representation res
olution so the House can vote on it
at the present session of Congress.
Since the national representation
resolution was sponsored in the
House by Representative Sumners,
Democrat, of Texas, chairman of
the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Ran
dolph is hopeful he will take the
leadership in urging early action on
it by his own committee..
Mr. Sumners introduced the reso
lution April 4, 1939. It reads:
“Resolved by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con
gress assembled (two thirds of each
house concurring therein), that the
following amendment to the Con
stitution of the United States be
(See RANDOLPH. Page A-3.)
Citizenship Refused
Those on Relief Rolls
By the Associated Press.
ROCHESTER, N. Y.. July 23.—
A State Supreme Court justice re
fused citizenship today to all ap
plicants on public relief rolls until
they obtain employment.
"There are plenty of jobs opening
up in industry now and I am going
to continue your case until you get
a job,” Justice Nathan D. Lapham
told each applicant who is on relief.
Bulletin
BROOKLYN. July 23 (/Pi.—
Pete Coscarart, Brooklyn second
baseman, and Linus Frey, Cin
cinnati second sacker, were ban
ished from the game and Gene
Thompson, Cincinnati hurler,
was forced out with injuries in
a fight during the eighth inning
of the first game between the
Dodgers and Reds at Ebbetts
Field today.
Major League Games
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
At Brooklyn—First Game—
Cincinnati .. 100 010 010—
Brooklyn .. 002 010 000—
Batter ie*—Thompson. Been and Lom
bardi: Wyatt and Phelp*.
At Boston—
Chicago-310 0 —
Boston_100 —
Battcrie*—Baffeniberter and Todd; S :1
lican. Jayrry and Mail.
At Philadelphia—
St. Louis . . 101 -
Philadelphia 002 —
Battcrie*—McGee and Owont Blanton
and Atwood.
Pittsburgh a^iew York—Night.