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Evening star., 1936-06-20
DAKOTA FARMERS
SEEK i. S. FUNDS
Gov. Wexford to Fly to Capt.
tai With Ideas on
Drought Relief.
By tie Associated Press.

BISMARCK, N. OAK, June 20-
Drought-harassed farmers assembled
in county mass meetings throughout
North Dakota today to discuss means
Of relieving their plight.
Gov. Walter Wexford shaped a re-
guest for advice on how to surmount
the problem of withered crops for a
radio broadcast to the gathering from
Fargo.
He planned to compile their Sug-
gestions, fly to a Washington confer
ence with President Roosevelt and
seek Federal funds for sustenance for
the farmer and feed for their live
stock.
The National Capital was already
apprised of the seriousness of the
situation. The Federal Crop Report
ing Board termed conditions "criti-
CAL" especially in the western
stretches of North and South Da-
kota and Eastern Montana. The
board found the Spring wheat crop
on June / was only $50 per cent of
normal. The parched prairies, it
added, must have rain"
But meteorologistS forecast only
confined fair weather. although they
predicted relief from the intense heat
that has scared Western plains Tenn
peratureS rose to l08 yesterday at
Kansas City and Concordia. Kans.;
LOT at Shenandoah, Iowa. and 104 at
Bartlesville. Okla. Seasonal highs
we're recorded at many other points.
Concurrently, wheat prices lifted to
seasonal peaks as traders termed
drought news sensational.
Quotations at Kansas City and
Minneapolis advanced the full scent
limit. They moved up 424 cents at
Chicago as traders saw the possibility
of a subnormal wheat harvest for the
nth consecutive season.
Meanwhile, rains measuring | 10
4 inches ended a To-day drought in
the Southeast. But it was too late
to save millions of dollars in shriveled
crops.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
FRANCE SHUNS 0LYMPICS

PARIS, June 20 CP.-French ath-
letes will participate in the Olympic
games in Berlin in August, officials
said yesterday. but the government will
abstain from Official participation"
Lack of official character of the Tri-
color's participation apparently means
the government will not be repre-
sented in the ceremonies at Berlin.
A bill for an appropriation to
finance the team will be introduced
soon in Parliament.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
APARTMENT RUINS
YIELD FOUR DEAD
Seven Other Bodies Sought
in Debris of Collapsed
Bronx Building.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 20.-Four bodies
we're recovered today from the wreck
age of a collapsed Bronx apartment
house, bringing to five the known
dead, as police and fire rescue squads,
with picks and shovels. searched for
seven others believed buried in the
debris.
The bodies of three workmen we're
uncovered as another portion of the
second floor collapsed this morning.
More than score of workmen we're
working in the unfinished seven-story
structure when the center wing fell
in yesterday afternoon. piling wreck
age from the basement to the third
floor.
Twelve men were injured as the in
terror of the building collapsed.
Searchers Delayed.
Search for victims was delayed by a
slide of debris early today. importing
| f1remen and policemen. The search
ers, however, escaped without injury.
Walls of the new building we're
pulled down to make it safer for the
searchers to hunt for bodies.
Different versions as to how the
crash occurred came from the work.
men
Several who had been collecting
their pay on the roof at the time said
they believed the roof fell inward
when lower floors collapsed, leaving
the roof unsupported. Others thought
the roof fell and carried the lower
floors down with it.
Assistant District Attorney Andrew
C. Mccarthy of the Bronx announced
that he had subpoenaed building plans
and insurance records of the 36 SUBJ
contractors who were working on the
center wing.
Many Are interviewed.
Mccarthy interviewed Louis Stein.
berg, described as the builder; his son,
Max; IA men who we're at work on the
building and eight of the injured
workmen.
He indicated an arrest would be
made if his investigation disclosed any
evidence of criminal negligence.
Other investigations Of the crash were
started by the police, fire, labor and
building departments.
DR.. Joseph Bandes 81, an inferno,
said the debris was so tangled that
it was almost impossible to determine
on what floors the bodies lay.
Il saw mans arm protruding from
one corner" he said, after surveying
the wreckage. There was a Sheave
Of wood sticking through the middle
OF his forearm. Crawling closer,
finally found his head. 1t was pushed
backwards"
DR.. BandeS described going TO an
other spot where he pronounced Q
second man dead.
Third Body Discovered.
On a slightly higher level, which
he said seemed to be the third floor,
the young doctor found a third man
whom he pronounced dead.
A policeman and two firemen were
injured during the rescue work.
Mayor Fiorelli H La Guardia was
in a group of 10000 persons who
watched the rescue work by firemen,
policemen, ambulance surgeons and
priests.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
CONvICTS TO FACE
TRIAL FOR MURDER
BY the Associated Press.


RICHMOND. Va, June 20.-Judge
Julien Gum of the Richmond Circuit
Court yesterday ordered special grand
jury to consider charges of murder
against eight convicts whose attempt
to break from the Virginia prison
| Tuesday resulted in the death of a
! guard.
The court scheduled the inquiry for
June 20 after Commonwealth's Attor.
ney T. Gray Haddon had requested it..
The prosecutor said his plea for in
dictment of the convicts on murder
charges was based on his belief that
those who seized Powhatan Bass, the
guard who was slain by a fellow
guards bullets in the abortive break,
were as guilty OF murder as If they
had fired the machine gun which killed
him.
The theory is that if a man puts
another mans life In jeopardy he Is
just as guilty of murder, and If found
guilty the State provides only one
penalty-death in the electric chair"
Evening star., 1936-06-20
IL. S. POLO TEAM
WINS CUP AGAIN
British ChalIengers Are De.
feated in SIoW-Moving
Match.
By the Associated Press.

HURLINGHAM CLUB, LONDON
June 20.-America retained the Inter-
national Polo Cup against England
challenge today, winning the second
and deciding match, 8 to 6. The cup
defenders won the first match, 10 to 8
played 10 days ago.
Today's victory was Americas tenth
straight match triumph and fourth
consecutive successful defense of the
cup since 1921. when Louis Stoddard.
Tommy Hitchcock, jr.; Watson Webb
and Devereux Millburn lifted it from
England on this same birmingham
turf
A crowd of approximately $4,000
gave the four white-shirted Amer
icans-Eric Pedley, Michael PhippS,
Stewart Iglehart and Winston Guest
a big hand as they marched up to the
royal box to receive the cup pre-
sented by the Dutchess of Gloucester.
The cup was accepted by Guest, cap
tain of the team.
Spectators Disappointed.
The Americans clinching triumph
was a disappointment to the specta-
tors, but they took it good naturedy.
The British we're slightly favored to
win this match and send the issue TO
a third game.
The field was slow and soupy from
heavy overnight rain despite a warm
afternoon sun, and handicapped the
swift, sharp wheeling American ponies.
Experts figured it would throw of and
perhaps retard the characteristic
mercurial pace of the Americans.
With Pedley. the big Californian,
setting the scoring pace with three
goals. just as he did in the opening
match, June 10. when he equaled his
cup record Of nine goals. the Ameri-
cans, due to ver-anxiousness and
hurrying their shots, missed plenty Of
chances to win by lop-sided margin.
However. the sterling defensive ex-
hibitions by Gerald Balding, English
No. 2, and Capt. H. P. Guinness, the
losers back, had something to do with
the size of the Americans winning
margin. Time and again they either
rode off rivals on goalward drives or
out-galloped them to prevent scores.
ALI in Scoring.
All the Americans participated in
the scoring. Guest, who showed a
splendid recovery of form after his
somewhat disappointing showing in
the first match, and Iglehart scored
two each. and Phipps ouce.
H. Hesketh Hughes. England's No.
l, Tailed three times. Balding twice
and Guinness once
After the players retired to the
dressing room the big silver cup was
filled with champagne by the jubilant
Bobby Strawbridge, jr., chairman of
the United States Polo Association,
and passed around to the players of
both teams.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
BILL IS DEFEATED
ON CIVIL SERVICE
Effort to Remove PoStmas-
terS From Patronage List
Loses in Senate.

President Roosevelt and others who
would place all first, second and third
class postmasters under civil service
resigned themselves today to the fact
that such a plan can not become law
at least until another Congress meets.
Administrations legisla-
tion to remove all postmasters from
patronage rolls was defeated in the
House yesterday by a narrow vote In
which party lines we're split.
Brought up after the Republican
convention at Cleveland last week
adopted a merit system plank, the bill
by Chairman Ramspeck Of the Civil
Service Committee would have
brought first. second and third-claSs
postmasters under civil service.
Fourth-class postmasters ee now
chosen by civil service examination.
Taken up under suspension of the
rules requiring a two-thirds vote for
passage. the Civil Service bill re-
ceived 204 votes to 112 against it.
Thus, while a ma ajority-including 46
Republicans and 152 Democrats
voted for the measure, the 81 Repub-
licanS and So Democrats voting in op-
position were enough to block pas
sage to the Senate.
The House action came while the
Senate was listening to Senator Met
calf, Republican of Rhode Island, de-
:lare Postmaster General Farley should
be held responsible for letters recently
sent out, bearing a rubber stamp fac
sinile of his signature and urging
postmasters to aid in raising funds
for the Democratic presidential cam
paign.
This precipitated a reply by Sen
stor Robinson, Democratic leader, that
Farley had explained he had not
signed the letters. Robinson placed
Farleys statement in the Congress
kinnal Record
Evening star., 1936-06-20
TRAWLER CAPTURED
AFTER FIGHT AT SEA
Vessel Taken by British Craft
Believed Manned by Run.
away Crew.

e. the Associated Press.
GEORGETOWN, British Guiana,
June 2o.-The government S. S.
Pomeron yesterday forcibly captured q
vessel believed to be the runaway
British trawler Girl Pat.
The vessel taken had been hover
ing outside the Smile limit for sew
eral days.
Excitement ran high on shore, for
officials said the mysterious boats
crew had threatened to fire on a po-
lice boat off the Demerara River
mouth.
Police officials reported the craft
answered the description of the Girl
Pat, whose crew ran away with her
from Grimsby, England, early in
April, presumably on a search for
pirate treasure.
The captured craft was without
fuel, but the crew fought off the gov
ernment ships efforts to capture her
for two and one-hsf hours, ma
neuvering by sail.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
Congress
Continued From First Page.)

won final House approval, 221 to 90,
Of the bill designed to raise $780,
100000 through major changes in
corporation taxes and other levies.
Spurred by leaders anxiety to wind
up the session before the Democratic
convention in Philadelphia next week,
the House stayed in session until late
last night, while tie Senate debated
and wrangled on into the early hours.
A furious verbal conflict preceded
the vote by which the House finally
approved the compromise tax bill.
which includes a graduated tax OF
from to IS per cent on net cor
porate income, plus a Surtax from
to 81 per cent on earnings which
are not distributed to stockholders.
Representative Treadway, Repub-
ican, of Massachusetts, shouted that
Treasury experts wrote the report of
Senate House Conference Commit
tee which drafted the compromise,
and that the House committee mem
bers did not know what was in the
report. He called the measure "the
most indefensible thing ever to come
before this Congress"
Opponents ASSaiIed.
Chairman Doughton of the Ways
and Means Committee replied: There
are three classes of people opposing
the bill. The first class are those who
know nothing about it; the second
those who speak for fortified privi-
lege, and third those who play poll
tics with this sort of legislation and
will not bear their just burden Of the
Governments expenses"
The roll call showed 211 Democrats.
Republicans, Farmer-Laborites and
3 Progressives favoring the bill. OPP
posed were rs Republicans and %
Democrats. Quickly the bill went to
the Senate.
Earlier, Senator Vandenberg, Re
publican of Michigan, had denounced
the bill from the floor on the ground
'it is at war with the public welfare
and will fall like a plague on many of
its victims"
Senators Walsh, Democrat of Mas
sachuSetts and George, Democrat Of
Georgia, members of the Senate
House Conference Committee, assailed
the bill in q minority report, saying
it would violate every dictate of pru-
dence."
The Chamber Of Commerce of the
United States chimed in with formal
statement saying the measure would
"penalize prudent management" of
corporations and would retard and
discourage unemployment"
Evening star., 1936-06-20
GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE
CRITICIZES EDEN'S VIEW
Official Journal Takes Exception
to Demand for Clear Reply
on QUESTIONABLE.
Ry the Associated Press.


BERLIN, June 20.-The Oiplo-
matische KorreSpondenz moutnpIcce
of the German foreign Office, took
Great Britain's foreign secretary to
task last night.
The newspaper criticized Anthony
Eden for what it said was his acCion
in applying a different standard to
Germany than that which he reserved
for his own country.
1T does not seem fair to demand
of some one that he be perfectly
clear about solutions demanded for
the future if the other side intends
to reserve freedom of Judgment and
action for itself" the organ added.
Eden, in his speech, urged a
frank and reasSuring response" to
Britain's Locarno QUESTIONABLE,
which, in effect, asked Germany to
signify if she recognized and intended
to respect the existing territorial and
political status Of Europe.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
Congress in Brief

TODAY.
Senate:
Debates conference report on reve-
nue bill.
House:
Meets at 1880 am. on miscellane-
Gus legislation.
Rules Committee meets on ship
subsidy bill.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
D. C. SUNDAY SCHOOL
GROUPS IN SESSION
Two Units Meeting at Westmin-
ster in Cooperation With
Y. NJ. C A.
Bv the Associated Press.

Bv the Associated Press
WESTMINSTER, Md, June 90
Two Sunday school association groups
from Washington moved today to
business sessions of their week end
conference here.
The Administrative Officers and
Teachers Conference and the Young
Peoples Conference of the District
of Columbia Sunday School AsSocia-
ton met in cooperation with the
Y. M. c. A. religious work department
About ITS delegates were present
when the conference got under way
last night. The principal speaker of
the evening was the Rev. DR.. Thomas
G. SpeerS, pastor of Brown Memorial
Presbyterian Church. Baltimore.
Evening star., 1936-06-20

Revived at the hospital, Port in
sisted he was all right and said he
wanted to go home. He died, however,
while preparations were being made
TO take him home.
An autopsy will be performed to
fix the cause of death.
Police believe Port was injured when
he fell from the car, but they are
investigating the possibility that he
may have been struck by an auto
mobile as he alighted from the car.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Cloudy to-
night, showers and cooler tomorrow
moderate southwest, shifting to fresh
northerly winds tomorrow.
Maryland and Virginia-Cloudy to-
night; tomorrow showers and cooler.
West Virginia-MosLly cloudy to-
night and tomorrow. probably showers
in east portion; cooler tomorrow.
River Report.
Potomac River muddy and Shenan-
doah clear today.
Report for Last 2i Hours.
Evening star., 1936-06-20

last night. shortly
fter he was
found in the TOO
block of Georgia
avenue. beside a
Capital Ira n sit
Co. work car, on
which he h a d
been working.
Port, who lived
at 645 K street
mort Invest, was
taken TO the hos
pital by a soldier
after he was
found uncon-
scious by a pass
erby. He had a
Evening star., 1936-06-20

Baldwin. Those two flaming advocates of puni-
tive action against Italy st last admit that the Jig
is up and that that particular snarl of menforce-
able treaty obligations is about to be tossed into
the waste-paper basket along with the other
ravelings OF European diplomacy.
The United States is often criticized for the
uncertainty of its foreign policy especially for
the provision in our Constitution that gives the
Senate power to block a President who would
drag us into the quarrels of other Nations.
There Is no uncertainty, however about where
the Republican party stands on foreign en-
tanglements The Cleveland platform declares
MIR inning Iear1ie nf ticns TIA
Evening star., 1936-06-20
TWO KILLED IN SPAIN
Political Clashes Mark Clearing

Up of Labor Strife.
MADRID, June 20 tP).-Spain's la
Dor situation gradually neared normal
today while political clashes claimed
two lives.
A Rightist farmer at Vslladolid was
killed, two women we're wounded by
stray bullets in short gun battle on
the streets and Fascist killed a Com
munist and wounded a Socialist in
Albacete.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
jim BROWNING DIES
Pulmonary Embolism Fatal to
Former Wrestling Champ.

ROCHESTER, Mimi, June 20 LP-
Pulmonary embolism caused the death
here late yesterday of Jim Browning,
former heavyweight wrestling cham
pion.
Browning had been in a Mayo Clinic
hospital for about 10 days. He came
here for examination and submitted
to an exploratory operation in con-
nection with an abdominal ailment.
His condition was favorable until early
Wednesday, when complications set In.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
DEATH OF LABORER
PROBED BY POLICE
Joseph Port, Found Lying in
Street by Work Car, Dies
in Hospital.

4 police investigation was under
way today to determine the cause
of the death of Joseph A. Port, So,
who died in Walter Reed Hospital
Evening star., 1936-06-20

QUESTION.

A LITTLE episode enacted at the
corner of Military road and Forty
first street illustrates the vicissitudes
of a taxi drivers life.
The principal actor was an elderly
woman with an umbrella and a shop
ping bag impatiently awaiting a bus.
She waved her umbrella at several
passing motorists, but not aware she
wanted to inquire about the bus in
stead Of ride, they kept right on
their way.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
CHARGE.

CHARGE.
The tDon1dr in charge of the
cash register at the Grace Church
dinner in SilUer Spring fought
losing fight NTH the problem OF
change the other night.
Starting the eUening NTH tUo
fire ~ dollar bills, she recognized
the immediate necessity for getting
some ones. She conlbed the cro,Dd
for change and finally managed to
find man tDEo gaUe her fire ones
for one of the fpes.
Things looked bit happier,
then, but only for q minute. As
fate pould hare it. the first person
serued and the first to pay ,Das
the man Dho had changed the
first bill. He got his ones back
and she got her fUe and the lGdys
problem lDds set to be SoIued all
oUer again.
FAMILY CAR.
THE Sixth Precinct policeman was
somewhat surprised when a car,
driven by determined looking woman,
pulled up at stop sign and disclosed
a man hanging on the rear bumper.
Sorry. you can't ride there. What's
the matter with the inside?" the offi-
Ger said, waving to the seats where the
woman was the sole occupant.
That's my wife, and she won't let
me in there" was the unexpected re-
ply. "She treats me awful"
well, she'll either have to let you
in or you must get off," the policeman
Apparently, the "law" awed the
lady, for the gentleman made the
grade-temporarily, at least.
WITNESS.
IF YOU ever have wondered Just
what shade is that horse of an
other color" you've heard about all
your life, it's red.
Our Police Court operative says 50,
and he ought to know because he was
there when Paul MCGEE, bailiff, took
the stand as character witness. NC
Gee has pointed out the chair to lot
of other witnesses in his time, but he
never has occupied it.
There was a wicked gleam in the
eyes of his fellow court attaches as
MCGEE took his seat. It grew in wick
edness as MCGEE sat there for fully
Is minutes, reddening, squirming and
perspiring under a barrage Of ques-
tions which covered more ground than
probably any other character witness
has been asked since the Inquisition.
They finally let him up, however.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
The National Scene
BY ALICE LONGWORTH

THERE has been complete about-face thai
decision Of the British cabinet to scrap sanctions
hardly creditable it originates Mr. Eden an,
Evening star., 1936-06-20

League Court In language which needs tnterpreta
another plank the New Dealers will have to match or
Of explaining
(Copyright 1867
Evening star., 1936-06-20

She had better results with a taxi
driver who responded to her waving
umbrella by jamming on the brakes,
backing up half block and gallantly
swinging open the cab door. When
she ignored the invitation to enter the
cab and asked him if he had seen the
bus down the street, he was so pro-
voked that the lady's feelings were
spared when his reply was drowned
in the shifting of gears and the roar
of the engine as the taxi started away
even more abruptly than it had
stopped.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
BATH.
is a story without point.
But. it may prove something
or another.
BATH.

BATH.
@HIS is a story without point.
But, it may prove something
or another.
Il It's about a great big police
man with great big heart and small
8-year-old boy who was very, very
warm.
The other afternoon when the ther-
mometer was climbing skyward. when
the crowds of people going in and out
of the Union Station we're willing. our
hero, the youngster, eyed the cooling,
cooling waters of the great fountain in
Union Station Plaza with longing.
Glancing one direction and then the
other he sidled slowly toward the cold,
clear, gushing waters. He scanned the
entire plaza and deemed the situation
well in hand" OF came his overalls
and into the fountain bowl ne plunged,
sans clothes of any character.
Auto horns footed, street cars came
to stop, adults halted their steps and
looking toward the fountain, chuckled,
A few taxi drivers let out whoops of
admiration. Diving, plunging, splash
ing, the youngster was having swell
time
But all delights must end.
The blue-clad form of the big police
man appeared over the horizon. The
kid took one souint, out of the fountain
he leaped, and, naked as the day he
was born, his little body wet and spark
ling, ne grabbed his overalls and few
for the inner receSses of the station.
The crowd roared its delight. The
policeman, kindly smile on his face
followed the boy but very. very slowly.
One suspected he knew about hot days
and little boys and didn't have much
truck" with the idea that law should
interfere with the happy, care-free
nonchalance Of youth. But on he
went, still very slowly. A huge pillar
came to the rescue of the kid. He found
a bare second and in that time the
overalls we're back on his spare little
body. AS his feet beat a merry tattoo
or hot pavements in his attempt to
get away from there, the crowd sent
up a cheer.
X
CREDIT
Secretary IckeS' press confer
erce t0ds the scene OF discus
sion OF all the tearing up OF La
tdyette Park. the place lohere grass
seed is planted one day and sod
laid on top of it the neIt.
"Mr. Secretary" said one of the
reporters, "the sign at lafayette
Park now says W. P. A. project
Didn't your P. W. A. do the same
tDork last yedr?"
Mr.. Secretary iDdSnt sure He
guessed that maybe the W. P. A.
DGS Just doing the demolition"
part OF the job.
Evening star., 1936-06-20
Report for Last 81 Hours.

Record for Last 81 Hours.
prom noon Yesterday TO noon today
Highest, ST, at $50 pm. yesterday.
Lowest, 66, at 4 am. today.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 96. on June 3.
Lowest, 0. on January 23.
Humidity for Last 81 Hours.
Prom noon yesterday TO noon today
Highest, SO per cent. at 2:15 am. to-
day.
Lowest, 81 per cent. At 2:IO pm. yes
terdsy.
Tide Tables.
Furnished by United States Coast and
GeOdefic Survey
Evening star., 1936-06-20
"NOn1inatOr"

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1936-06-20

The Sun and Moon.