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Evening star., 1935-06-16
FLOOD DEATHS REACH
13 IN TEXAS STORM
Winds Add to Havoc in Sentral
and Southwestern Parts
of State.
sy the Associated Press,

0y bIb ASSONAatco EAOscs
AUSTIN, Tex, June l5.-Roaring
winds joined food waters tonight in q
devastating attack on Central and
Southwest Texas, which left at least
l3 persons dead and scores missing.
Losses to crops and property forged
into the millions of dollars.
As cloudbursts fed the floods. q
twisting wind dipped into a small
community near Kaufman, splintered
a farmhouse and killed Elmer Burns,
48. Three other occupants reached q
storm cellar before the wind struck.
Houses and bridges were washed
away in the racing streams. Five
persons were dead at Del Rio. A. ].
Mitchell, farmer near Italy, was
drowned with his wife and their two
small children. Two were drowned
at Kennedy and one at Victoria.
Laredo reported train service para
lyzed.
Three special trains of Rotarians
from the United States bound for the
international convention at Mexico,
D. F., were held at Laredo, while two
more were held at Nuevo Laredo,
across the Rio Grande. Each train
carried from l40 to $50 delegates.
Among those marooned at Laredo
was Ambassador Josephus Daniels, re-
turning from Washington. He ar
rived here on q regular train.
Evening star., 1935-06-16
CONSERVATION LAUDED
IN COLLEGE TROUBLE
Rensselaer, Polytechnic Acting
President Addresses Alumni
as Hicks Leaves.
Nv the Associated Press.

Nv the Associated Press.
TROY, N. Y, June 15.-As Gran
Vile Hicks, ousted English teacher,
left the campus today with warning
that Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute
has not heard the last Of his case.
Acting President Edwin s. jarrett
said: eff we are condemned as the
last refuge of conservatism let us
glory in it."
Jarrett was addressing alumni
about the same time that Hicks, an
assistant professor with liberal po-
litical views, took his departure.
an my opinion" Jarrett declared.
"as the years pass time will vfndicste
us Just as surely as the past has
approved Of u.s."
The alumni. at their annual meet
ing prior to the 1888 commencement,
adopted q resolution upholding the
acting presidents action.
Hicks contract was terminated sew
eral weeks ago because Of what jar
rett said was a need for retrenchment,
but the English teacher charged the
action was prompted by "jingoistic
Red hysteria."
Evening star., 1935-06-16
EDWIN ?. MORROW,
EX-GOVERNOR, DIES
Was Nationally Prominent
in &c. 0.P. CircIes-Daugh-
ter Lives Here.
By the Associated Press.


FRANKFORT, KY, June 15-Ed-
win P. Morrow, former Governor of
Kentucky and nationally prominent
in Republican politics. died unex-
pectedly of heart attack here today,
He was So years old.
'Howdy Ed" to Kentuckians, who
delighted in his silvery- -tongued ora
tory, he was one of the bluegrass
States most colorful political fig
ures.
Morrow. who was Governor from
1919 to 1928, was stricken at the
home of q cousin, Mrs. John G. South
after returning this afternoon from
a mass meeting Of Franklin County
Republicans.
Complaining Of q tired feeling, he
had lain down and death came to
him as he slept. Morrow and his
wife, Mrs. Catherine w. Morrow
whose home was at Somerset, KY, had
been residing at the South home since
last Winter and were preparing to
move to Lexington, where he planned
to set up law office.
After leaving the governorship,
Morrow became a member of the Fed
eral Railway Labor Board and later
Of the Railroad Mediation Board.
In addition to his wife, he is sur
vived by q son, Charles Robert Nor
row of Chicago: a daughter, Mrs.
Joseph Horgan of Washington, D. c.:
q twin brother. Col. Charles H. Nor
row of the United States Army. Fort
Niagara, N. Y; three other brothers,
Tom, Sam and Boyd Morrow of Som
erset. and a sister, Mrs. Gale Port
wood of Texas.
Evening star., 1935-06-16
LAST INSULL CASES
CLOSED BY COURT
Federal Judge Says Order Clears
Ledger" for Utility Ex-
Magnates.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June l5.-A formal
"finis" was written at the end of the
long insult court record today.
United States District Attorney
Igoe appeared before Federal Judge
John C. Knox and moved to quash
the last of the cases involving the
former utility barons-the bankruptcy
law violation case against Martin
insult. Entering the order, the jurist
remarked:
well, I guess that clears the
ledger"
Judge Knox departed for his New
York home shortly afterward.
One Of his final acts was the order
ing of directed verdicts of acquittal
yesterday in the trial of Samuel In
sull, Samuel insult, jr, and Harold
L, Stuart. investment banker, on
charges of transferring assets of Cor
poration Securities Co. IN anticipa-
ton of bankruptcy.
Evening star., 1935-06-16
ENGLAND ENTERS
NEW ARMS RACE
Surprise Order Calls for 8
BattaIionS for Anti.
Aircraft Defense.
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
LONDON. June 15.-Great Britain
today stood with all other leading
European nations In approving the
building up of national defenses as
an integral part Of any European
peace system.
The new national governments de-
clared policy of mo pacts without
parity" was emphasized by the war
office's surprise order for the immedi-
ate creation of eight battalions for
anti-aircraft defense.
Britain'S new stand on armaments
leaves only the smaller nations at
Geneva still maintaining the thesis
that disarmament must 60 with secur-
ity. They have insistently reproached
the larger powers for abandoning
treaty pledges.
No voice has been raised in Ger
many, Italy or Russia against military
expansion measures, while the recent
financial crisis in France failed to
bring any effective. criticism of the
policy of spending about one-fourth
Of the budget on national defense.
Similarly. England's Socialists found
their opposition to the recent trebling
of an air defense force carried no
weight.
Anglo-German naval talks. which
It is hoped will lead at least TO q
European naval agreement, enter their
final phase Monday, with agreement
already reached on the principle Of
granting Germany feet IS per cent
Of Britain's under-age tonnage.
This would make Germany the
worlds fifth naval power, closely press
ing France for fourth place.
Evening star., 1935-06-16
PRESIDENT LIMITS
WORK-A|D FUNDS
AS Per Cent Will Be- Given
on State and City P. w.
A. Projects.
ny the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
Faced with the unharmonious ne
cessities of speed and the selection OF
low-cost projects, President Roosevelt
is reported authoritatively to have
limited work-relief contributions on
State and municipal p. w. A. pro-
jects to a As per cent donation.
The remaining IS per cent; 1t was
asserted in an informed quarter, must
come from private financing-or, pos
sibly, from the p W. A. revolving
fund, which can be used for loans
only.
The Presidents decision, which
with other policies, means that prob
ably $4,000 900, 900 of the works pro-
gram will be carried out by Harry L.
Hopkins Works Progress Administra-
ton, conceded with the second BIRTH
day of the Public Works Administra-
ton.
Secretary Ickes, claiming the old
p. W. A. program had been "respon-
sible in no small measure" for i'm
proved business conditions, said P. w
A. had checked the downward trend
of construction activities in 1884. OF
the initial $1,000, 100000 appropria-
ton s2,525 900 900 has been spent and
the remainder is obligated. he added
Economists, viewing the results OF
the P. w. A. program" he said in a
birthday statement, report that busi-
ness has felt this stimulus. The in
dustrial pulse has qmckened and op-
portunity for private employment has
widened."
Meanwhile, Hopkins assistants IN
sisted that although the works
progress program is to be organized or
lines similar to the old Civil Works
Administration. larger funds for ma
terials will make possible more useful
projects.
-They said wages would average
about the same as under c. w. A.
where average cost was $3.50, tnclud
Ing materials, on the basis of year
employment. Thus far no p. w. A
projects, including $249 10000 fol
the housing division and 81 $40, 900 II
non-Federal allotments, have beer
approved by the President, although
they were recommended by the Allot-
rnents Committee a month ago. Re.
auctions in both types were considered
probable.
Projects Are Questioned.
Mr.. Roosevelt was reported to bt
awaiting evidence that they could b'
completed within a year, and to bt
questioning as well the desirability
Of some of the 1920, ,0o0, 900 of prof.
ects he has already approved. They
average $4,000 per Job, well over thu
Sl,140 average set for payments u
labor and for materials for each mar
given work on a project. Projects
Sihich have high material costs thu
have been threatened.
. Further notifications in the pro.
Gram, IT was reported in one in
formed quarter, likely will follow Hop.
kins' conference with State work,
progress administrators tomorrow.
Evening star., 1935-06-16
REDUCED UTILITY
| PROGRAM SOUGHT
Congressional chiefs to Ask
Roosevelt to Take Less
Than Abolition.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associeteo fresss
New information raising fresh doubt
OF their ability to jam through q bill
abolishing unnecessary" utility hold
ing companies yesterday prompted q
decision by. congressional chiefs to
ask President Roosevelt II he would
be satisfied with something less than
abolition.
As they reached that determination,
both House and Senate were forego-
ing their usual Saturday recess to
speed other must" measures on the
Presidents program. The Senate
worked its way through 3 batch of
minor amendments to the social Sc
curity bill. the House was rushing
through miscellaneous measures to
make room for the nuisance tax extern
sion and A. A. A. amendment meas
ures tomorrow.
Sentiment Closely Divided.
The new information was a closely
guarded survey Of sentiment in the
House on abolition OF utility holding
companies. It was learned authorita-
lively, however, that the poll showed
sentiment so closely divided as to
presage q stiff battle when the issue
Is brought to the floor.
Since the Senate by only a one
vote margin-45 to 44-defeated an
amendment to regulate instead OF
abolish holding companies, there were
clear indications that the President
himself would be asked what he pre-
ferred.
Some on Capitol Hill read an init
nation OF what the President would
reply in remarks made yesterday by
Chairman Rayburn OF the House In
terstate Commerce Committee after
q talk with the President. He pre-
dicted some sort OF bill regulating
holding companies would be enacted
this session.
Some folks on Capitol Hill termed
1t significant that Rayburn said
regulation" and not abolition"
After that conference Rayburn
went back to another subcommittee
session. asserting the utilities bill
would be put before his full commit
tee tomorrow and be ready for House
action next week.
Forecasts were that whatever the
committee did there would be clear
cut House vote on the question OF
abolition VS.. regulation.
". A. Plans Discussed.
Coincidentally. plans were discussed
to put through bill broadening the
powers of the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority. That also has passed the
Senate, but was tabled by the House
Military Affairs Committee and all
efforts to get it of the table have
failed.
There were two suggestions: First.
that the Senate add the T. v. A. to
some other major bill and send it TO
the House again: second. that Chair
man McSwain. Democrat, Of South
Carolina. introduce new bill and
see what he could accomplish by
agreeing to let the controller general
have audit control over expenditures
by the T. v. A.
The way, meanwhile. was being
smoothed for other must" bills. A
survey of the House showed the Wag-
ner labor disputes bill. already passed
by the Senate. would get substantial
ma jority.
Evening star., 1935-06-16

1t would be incorrect to say that all
highway accidents are caused ny the
reckless acts Of motorists. Not in
frequently one finds . pedestrian or
cyclist who "dares you to hit him." or
takes foolish chances on the erroneous
theory that the responsibility is all
with the motoriSt and that he is fully
aware of this obligation to drive care
fully.
Such folks can be Just as stub
born. thoughtlesS, or careless as the
motorist. It all depends on the per-
son. of course. Safety on our high
ways is q cooperative effort in which
all users Of the road share.
The use Of the highway Is q priv
ilege conferred by cities and States on
the theory that those who would enjoy
1t will show good sportsmanship and
observe essential safety precautions.
It may take two people to make Q
quarrel, but often Just one can cause
an accident. A high degree Of alert
ness and g spirit Of fair play must be
observed at all times By motorists and
gthsss alike. .
Evening star., 1935-06-16
COLON MBIAN ENVOY
TO SEE BOND GROUP
Committee Will Discuss Debt
Problem With Minister
to U. S.

BY the ASSOCIATED PreSS..
NEW YORK, June IS P.-The
executive committee of the Colombian
Bondholders Committee announced
today It will soon discuss the ex-
ternal debt problem of Colombia with
the Colombian Minister to the
United States.
1t was disclosed that representa-
tive Of the committee has discussed
the situation with the president Of
the republic.
Talks with the Colombian Minister,
who has been designated by his gov
ernment as official representative.
will cover the national and nationally
guaranteed bonds. including the
bonds of the Agricultural Mortgage
Bank.
Any agreement that may be
reached by the committee with the
Minister will be submitted to bond
holders for approval.
Evening star., 1935-06-16
FLAMES INJURE 100
.: AT WEDDING PARTY
Man Fatally Burned While Car.
: rying Children From Five
: Story Building.
the Associated Press

4y Jhe ASSOclaJeo PreSS.
: NEW YORK, June 15-Trapped in
9 flaming building. one man was
burned fatally tonight, and at least
100 other members of a gay wedding
party were burned or injured, many
seriously.
! Firemen were unable to say whether
anybody failed to get out of the build
ing, a five-story structure known as
the Mansion on the Lower East Side.
Among those taken to hospitals in
serious condition were the bride-to-
be, Pearl Sokolower, 81. and her
brother David. The bridegroom, Louis
Shein, 26, was slightly burned.
= Screams of the terrified guests first
drew attention Of radio patrolmen and
pedestrians to the victims desperate
plight. 1t was estimated $50 person,
we're In the building.
= Police said the dead man was iden.
tified as Paul Stricken, 23. of Brook
En. He lost his life after he had
made several trips in and out of the
burning building carrying children te
safety.
g Many members Of the party became
panic stricken and hung out the win
dows. Others jumped or fell to the
sidewalk.
Evening star., 1935-06-16
Schunann-Heir,k, on Birthday,
Sings at Namesake's Wedding

Rev. Willis L. Goldsmith performed
the ceremony. The bride wore white
satin gown with full-Iength train
and carried a bouquet of gardenias
and lilies Of the valley. Her sister,
Miss Zelda Schumann- -Heink, was
maid of honor.
The bride was given away by her
stepfather, II. Irving Vsrnier of this
city. Ensign Arnold r. Schade, United
States Navy, was best man, and six
other young oficers 10 white dress
uniform acted 80 ushers and formed
an arch OF crossed swords for the
bridal party to pass under when they
left tia ei1ilrch.
Evening star., 1935-06-16
HOOVER PROPOSES
: NEW TRUCK ROUTE
VisuaGzes North.and-South High.
way Through Western
National Parks.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OGDEN, Utah, June 15.-Former
President Herbert Hoover. still an en-
gineer, suggested an engineering prof.
ect which would revolutioniZe motor
travel to Western national parks, as
he paused in Ogden today with his
son Allan, en- route from New York
City to his home in California.
He yisualized q broad North and
South truck highway, from Glacier
National Park, near the Canadian bor-
der in Montana. through Yellowstone
Park. into Utah and through Bryce
and Zion National Parks and extend
ing to Grand Canyon of the Colorado
IN Arizona.
TT would be a sort of national park
belt line and one of the greatest roads
In the West" he said.
Evening star., 1935-06-16
Army Planes to Stage "War''
In Mock Defense of San Diego

Henry M. Arnold. In command. was
planned primarily to test the ef-
ficiency Of two service squadrons, the
18th Of Rockwell Field and 64th OF
March Feld-whose job 1t would be
to feed and lodge officers and men in
time OF war, and keep ships in con-
dition.
No fights are planned from the
concentration airports Tuesday, but
Wednesday morning the group will
divide. the enemy Stimulating an
attack on San Diego and the defend
ing group trying to drive them out.
Approximately so planes will par
ticipate.
Twenty airplanes win stage q
massed concentration over San Diego
ThwsdsE and ianA % noekEall Y.ald
Evening star., 1935-06-16
WEATHER MAN DENIES
CUTTING CRASH BLAME
No Evidence of Appreciable In
accuracy in Forecasts, Bureau
Chief Says in Roper Reply.

By the Associated Press.
Denial Of liability of the United
States Weather Bureau in the crash
of T. w. A. air liner near Atlanta,
Mo, May 6, was made in a formal
statement yesterday by w. r. Gregg,
chief of the bureau.
Senator Bronson Cutting of New
Mexico and four others we're killed
in the crash. Friday Secretary of
Commerce Roper, in a formal report,
said ''contributory causes undoubtedly
were inaccurate weather forecasts"
from both the Weather Bureau and
company meteorologists. T. w. A. Of
f1cials blamed the crash on inac-
curate weather forecasts.
Gregg said, bureau reports have
been carefully checked, and there Is
no evidence of any appreciable mac
curacy in them"
Evening star., 1935-06-16
PEACE PROPOSALS DRAFTED.

TOLEDO. Ohio, June Is OP.-Ofi-
cials of the Electrical Workers Union
at the Toledo Edison Co. framed q
new set of proposals tonight as q
basis for negotiations to end their
strike.
Working against the threat OF a
general walkout in Toledo, Edward r.
McGrady, Assistant Secretary of
Labor, late today telephoned e. D.
Bieretz, international president of the
Electrical Workers Union, suggesting
he fly here to take part in negotia-
tions.
A short while later Oliver S. Myers,
business agent of the local union,
called q committee into session to
discuss a set of conditions understood
to have been outlined or suggested by
Bieretz.
Although 1t appeared a basis for
settlement might be reached tonight.
McGrady adjourned general confer
ence of Interested parties, scheduling
a later meeting to receive Myers plan,
which would be subject 20 ratification
by the electrical union membership.
Evening star., 1935-06-16
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MARCH FIELD. RIVERSIDE. Califr
June 15-The entire first wing oi
Uncle Sans new general headquar-
ters air force will be concentrated
here for spectacular tactical test
beginning Tuesday.
Final preparations were made today
New airway methods will be tried out
in the three-day maneuvers.
The enemy" theoretically will. have
concentrated a ground force Just be-
low the Mexican border and estab-
lished a powerful bombardment avia-
ton base in lower California near the
Gulf.
All available tactical ships Of the
s7-plane first wing will take Part.
Ths enncentration. said Hria. oen
Evening star., 1935-06-16
7. v. A. TO FIGHT POWER
RULING IN U. S. COURT
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
ATLANTA, June 15.-The case in
which the Tennessee Valley Authority
seeks to overthrow a decree voiding
its contract to take control Of certain
Alabama Power Co. transmission lines
viii be placed before the Fifth United
States Circuit Court of Appeals Mon
Gay.
The case has attracted national at
tention because Of recent ruling by
Judge william I. Grubb Of Atlanta
that the T. v. A. had no right to
engage in such transactions as it had
proposed in the contract with the
power company.
Evening star., 1935-06-16
FIRST THREADS DRAWN
FOR OAKLAND BAY SPAN
Wheel Slips as Governor Leaves
Platform, But Cranes Quickly
Replace It.

SAN FRANCISCO, June IS P).-
Two threads of cold-drawn steel, each
about the thickness of q lead pencil.
were stretched from a great spinning
wheel here today to form the first
permanent suspension link Of the
s75, 5,0O0, 900 San Francisco-O Oakland
Bay Bridge.
These and thousands Of other steel
threads will be drawn together to make
the huge cables from which two-mile-
long suspension spans will be swung
between San Francisco and Yerba
Buena Island.
Gov. Frank r. Merriam and an
official party had just left the anchor
age platform when wheel carrying
the first wire thread slipped and
dangled in midair. Cranes quickly
set the wheel back into position.
Evening star., 1935-06-16
SUEZ HELD KEY
|. TO AFRICAN PEACE
Observers Believe Problem
to Ethiopia Is to Be Left
to Britain.
BY Radio to The Star.

BY Radio to The Star.
GENEVA, June l5.-The effort Of
the League Of Nations to keep the
peace between Italy and Ethiopia will
be won or lost, not at Lake Geneva.
but in the Suez Canal. observers here
believe. The resolutions for peace,
passed by the League Council on
May IS, were q formula determining
nothing in themselves. it is felt. and
the problem of restraining Italian i'm
perialism from war is to be left to
Great Britain.
While Benito Mussolini continues
to dispatch troops. attacks Great Brit
ain in q press campaign, insists that
the League keep its hands OFF and
ridicules the appeal Of Prime Minis
ter Stanley Baldwin to respect world
opinion, ordinary diplomatic pressure
will be inadequate. British earnest
ness as a champion of the league sys-
TEN consequently will be demon
strated. it Is argued. II and when the
British close the canal by which Mus
soiini gets troops and supplies to the
war" zone.
Not Unfrfendly Act.
Under the league system this step
is not an unfriendly act by Great
Britain. Article Xxx OF the covenant
Of the league says that league mem
bers agree that II any member shall,
before coming member Of the league,
have undertaken any obligation incon-
sistent with the terms Of this COW
enant. 1t shall be the duty of such
member to take immediate steps to
procure its release from such obliga-
tions"
This would enable the council, in
the event of hostilities. to propose
that Great Britain suspend the agree
ment Of 1886. whereby the canal is
kept open to all countries not at war
Claim No Alternative.
There Is no alternative to this de-
cision. according to League opinion
unless Great Britain and the League
resign themselves, as Mussolini sug-
gests. to the idea that where Africa Is
concerned rules of international con-
Duct are OF.
But to resign themselves" is nc
defense Of Ethiopia, and the British
foreign office feels that "a strong
League" can save the British from en-
tering an alliance system by enabling
her to cast her weight at the council
table in the eleventh. hour. This
community of interests Of national
government politicians and permanent
officials at the foreign once is par
alleled further by the fact that in
the Ethiopian question British inter-
ests lie along the path of morality, -
since Lake Tsana, which serves as a
reservoir for the Blue Nile, gives
Great Britain q vital interest In the
country.
(copyright. la35J
Evening star., 1935-06-16
NFANTILE PARALYSIS
. SETS MARK IN STATE
634 North Carolina Cases In
: 1885 Exceed ANY Year
to Date.
az the Associa ted Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
= RALEIGH, N. c., June 15.-Center-
ing in the Eastern part Of the State
but slowly showing UP in an increas-
ing number of Piedmont and Western
Gounties, infantile paralysis Is occur
ring in North Carolina with greater
frequency this year than has ever
before been recorded.
Nine new cases were listed today
H give a total of 1874 in exactly five
and one-half months and exceed by
one case the previous high total for
any calendar year since the disease
Became reportable in 1917.
Eighty-five per cent Of the cases
reported through Thursday occurred
In children under 10 years Of age,
health department. statistics shcwed.