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Evening star., 1936-10-05
new TERM MOPENED
|NSUPREME COURT
More New Deal Legislation
Up for Consideration by
Nine Justices.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A brief session devoid of ceremony
today started the Supreme Court on
a new eight-month term, which is
almost certain to see additional New
Deal legislation sustained or over
turned
To the accompaniment Of solemn
ly intoned "Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!" by
the court crier, the nine justices, re-
freshed by four-month vacation,
filed through three crimson -draped
doors into the marble -columned cham
Der to admit attorneys to practice be-
fore the court and to receive motions.
For the second successive year. the
customary open-day visit to the White
House to pay their respects was omit
ted by the justices because of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's absence from WASH
ington.
No important decisions are likely,
lawyers said, until November 9, six
days after the presidential election.
Massachusetts, Files Brief.
Shortly before the tribunal met,
Massachusetts filed a brief urging re-
consideration of the decision last June
l holding unconstitutional the New
York law establishing minimum wage
law for women.
The chamber was packed to capac-
ity. and long line Of persons waited
outside when the justices entered.
Those present included Solicitor
General Stanley Reed and Mrs Mabel
Walker Willebrandt, former Assistant
Attorney General in charge of prohibi-
ton enforcement. Contending the
law should meet changing economic
conditions" Massachusetts, asked the
court to reconsider its decision on the
New York minimum wage law
The court probably will announce
next Monday whether it will grant
a rehearing requested by New York
State. Reconsideration seldom is
granted.
In a brief filed as friend of the
court" Attorney General Paul A. De-
yer of Massachusetts, said that prob
ably no decision in recent years has
so affected the entire working popu-
lation of America and the millions
of their dependents by depriving them
of adequate protection in safeguard
ing their rights"
Factual Background Changed.
Referring to a Supreme Court de-
cision several years ago in which the
tribunal held unconstitutional SINH
lar law for the District, the attorney
general asked:
Even il it were sound when it was
rendered some IL years ago, is it still
to be considered sound when the fac
tual background is at present entirely
different from what it was IL years
ago?"
The severity Of protracted eco
nomic depression" he added, has
caused millions to lose employment
and has compelled them to look to the
Nation and to the State for the neces-
sites of life.
THE economic freedom Of the
masses was severely threatened and
further existence of society itself was
menaced. Millions of dollars of pub
lie funds were expended in relief of
the stricken people.
The labor market was glutted. jobs
Evening star., 1936-10-05

were scarce, and the employer, II he
desired, could dictate the terms of
employment. In no real sense was
there actual equality or even freedom
in bargaining between women beg
ging for work and those who might
hire them"
The justices will meet daily during
the rest of the week in their confer
ence room to study some $50 cases
that have been appealed from lower
courts and decide which of them they
will review. Their decision on most
of these matters probably will be an
nounced next Monday.
New Deal Laws Involved.
Recently enacted legislation in
volved in pending disputes includes
the Wagner labor relations act, the
revised Frazier-Lemke farm mort
gage moratorium law. the 1885 emer-
gency relief measure, furnishing
money for publicly owned hydroelec-
trio projects. and the public utilities
holding company law.
Evening star., 1936-10-05
Skull, One of Largest Kno'on,
Found IN AIeutian Collection

A skull with brain capacity Of zoos
cubic centimeters-one Of the two or
three largest ever known-has been
found by DR.. Ales Hrdlicka. curator of
physical anthropology Of the Smith
sonian Institution, in large collection
of skeleton material obtained this Sum-
mer on the Aleutian Islands, between
Alaska and Siberia.
Study Of the skull shows that its
owner had q normal brain, that he
died in middle age and that he was not
a man Of more than average stature
or strength. He was an Aleut and
probably lived several centuries before
Russian contacts with the Aleutian
chain.
The chances are that he must have
been, at least potentially, one Of the
''brainiest" men who ever lived on
earth.
The relationship between size Of
brain and intelligence Is obscure, but
psychologists believe there Is a positive
correlation between brain power and
the ratio Of brain size to stature. Some
Evening star., 1936-10-05
DEMOCRATIC CLUB
T0SUPP0RT c. 0.P.
Minnesota Move to Offset
"Cheap Trick" of
Fusionists.
~ the Associated Press.

ST. PAUL, October 5.-Formation
of a Democrats for Nelson" Martin
A. Nelson, Republican candidate for
Governor) Club was announced today
by Alric Anderson, St. Paul attorney,
in a statement denouncing Saturdays
withdrawal. of two Democratic candi-
dates In a fusion move as an attempt
to destroy the Democratic party"
In withdrawing, Patrick j. Delaney
and Fred A Curtis, Democratic NOM
inees for Senator and Governor, re-
spectively. announced they hoped to
combine Democratic and Farmer-La-
Dor forces behind President Roosevelt.
Curtis promised to campaign for
Elmer A. Benson, Farmer-Labor can
didate for Governor, Roosevelt sup
porter, but Delaney made no mention
of the Farmer-Labor candidate for
Senator, Ernest Lundeen.
Anderson two years ago was Demo-
cratic candidate for attorney general.
In q statement signed by him and
several others they called the retire
ment of Delaney and Curtis "the
cheapest political trick in the history
Of Minnesota politics"
The statement asserted the purpose
Of the move "can only be to destroy
the Democratic party and throw Min
nesota Democrats into a, national
Farmer-Labor party looking to the
election of Farmer-Laborite in l940.'
NEW DEAL DEFEAT URGED.
Evening star., 1936-10-05
SERVICE LAUNCHES
YEAR AT CATHOLIC U.
High Mass Celebrated at Ma
tional Shrine, With Sermon
bv Vice Rector.

High mass, celebrated by Right Rev.
Joseph M. Corrigan, rector, in the
National Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception yesterday, marked the
opening of the new academic year at
Catholic University.
Right Rev. Patrick j. Mccormick,
vice rector, preached the sermon
after a procession of clergy, faculty
and students.
Enrolment in all schools and de-
partments showed an increase over
last year, with the freshman class in
the College of Arts and Sciences al
most double that of year ago.
Four Washington students led their
respective classes in the procession.
John P. Stanley. 1927 Nevada avenue.
led the senior class in arts and SCI
ences; Paul r. McGrath of Massa-
chusetts, the juniors, and John M.
Doherty Of Illinois, the sophomores.
In the School of Engineering and
Architecture, the seniors we're led by
Charles D. johnson, 723 X street
northeast; the Juniors by Eugene c.
Draley. 1918 Kearney street north
east, and the sophomores by Lewis H.
Lanman, 1910 Farragut street.
Evening star., 1936-10-05

Of the greatest geniuses the world has
known have had the largest brains.
The average skull capacity Of the
human race Is about ,450 cubic cent?
meters for men and 1900 for women.
The difference does not indicate that
women are less intelligent than men,
since the ratio between brain size
and intelligence is about equal for the
two sexes. Since other bones are miss
ing, this ratio cannot be calculated
for the unknown Aleut.
The fact remains, however, that
he had nearly 40 per cent more
brains" than the average Of man
kind.
He stands near the head of an H.
lustrious company so far as skull size
is concerned. DR.. Hrdlicka cites these
known cases of big brains:
Turgeniev, the Russian poet, 2,030,
the largest human brain known to
science; Daniel Webster, close to 1000;
Bismark, 1865; the French poet, La
Fontaine, 1850; Beethoven, 1.750;
Kant, the German philosopher, l,740.
Evening star., 1936-10-05
U. S. WORKERS BACK
Retirement PLAN
Campaign for Liberalized Privi-
leges to Be Continued by
Industrial Employees.

Continuation of the campaign for
liberalized retirement privileges was
approved yesterday by the Retirement
Federation, composed of industrial
employees of the Government, at the
close Of two-day session at the
Hamilton Hotel
While the federation stands for
optional retirement after 80 years
service, irrespective of age, it was
realized that this is almost impos-
sible" now. because of the cost it
would entail, it was said by Robert H.
Alcorn, national representative here.
He said the federation would, how
ever, urge lower optional retirement,
which now may be taken by those
with 30-year service two years before
the compulsory retirement law Is eff
fective. This option is at the ages of
go, SO and SO. for the three retirement
classes.
The federation also favors widow
annuities.
The organization reelected its Of
f1cers. headed by Francis Black Of
New York, president.
Evening star., 1936-10-05
NEW DEAL DEFEAT URGED.

CHICAGO. October P).-Joseph
B. Ely, former Democratic Governor
of Massachusetts,. said today the best
thing that can happen to the Demo-
cratic party Is to have the New Deal
defeated"
Passing through Chicago to open a
series of five addresses under the aus
pices Of the National Jeffersonian
Democrats, Ely declared at a press
conference President Roosevelt;s re-
election would put the party ''out Of
business for quite a few years"
THE Ritchies, the Bakers, the
Smiths. the Reeds, the Colbys and
many others who built the party are
out" he said. Il think Mr.. Roosevelt,
in his acts, has been persuaded by
Mr.. Tugwell, Mr. Wallace and others
that these are the policies which will
save America.
That's where we disagree"
Ely asserted the present campaign
was "a campaign in opposition to the
Roosevelt policies" which he said in
his opinion have restricted the ex-
pansion Of industry"
Evening star., 1936-10-05
GRAF MAY GET new
LAKEHURST PERMIT
Navy Thanked Personally by DR..
Eckener for Use During
= Present Year.

The Navy next year may extend its
facilities at the Naval Air Station,
Lakehurst, N. j., for the use of the
German dirigible, Hindenburg, it ap-
peared today after DR.. Hugo Eckener.
builder of the craft, conferred here
with naval officials.
DR.. Eckener called on Admiral Will
liam H. Standley, chief of naval oper-
atoms; Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook,
chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics,
and Comdr. Garland Fulton, the
Navy's lighter -than-air expert, and
ofyicially thanked the Navy Depart
ment for its cooperation in per-
mitting the German firm to have the
Lakehurst facilities this flying season.
Continuation Of. the privilege next
year was taken under advisement by
the department.
October . Is the last scheduled
flight Of the Hindenburg this season,
pr. Eckener told the ofacfaqs.
Evening star., 1936-10-05
D. C.LEADS NATION
IN TELEPHONES
35.8 Instruments for Each
100 Residents Is High
est in Country.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The National Capital chalked up
yesterday new high in talk-the
largest number of telephone per capita
of any city in the world.
A tally of Office desks and home
telephones stands showed 35.8 instru-
ments for each 100 residents. San
Francisco was running second with
35.08 per 100.
The growing complexities of gov
ernmental machinery paced the in
creasing use of phones. Within the
last six years, nstallers of the instru-
ments estimated. there had been an
increase of 72 per cent in the number
of telephones used by the Govern
ment here. The increase has paralleled
almost exactly the rise in the num-
ber of Government employees in Wash
ington-from 68,510 on June 80, 1880,
to 117,103 on June 80, 1886, according
to Civil Service Commission fiugres.
As Many as in All Toxic.
The statistics are based on the
1885 figure of 1907 telephones and
a population estimated at $4,000
Today there are 207,059 telephones
in the City Of Observation-Disclosures as
many as in Greater Toxic, with a
population of 1868 900.
The Government alone places an
average of 10000 long distance calls
every month. In 1885 Government
agencies made 1O,563,22l local calls.
The average for the city is 10000, 900
local calls month.
The majority of interdepartmental
calls of the Government (there were
1886 1888 in 1935) are handled by a
single board, larger than those in
many small cities. There are 165 de-
partmental switchboards and Offices
not connected to their own depart
mental boards, but connected directly
with the interdepartmental exchange.
Departments Have Exchanges.
Some large departments have the
equivalent of small-city telephone sys-
TENS, using their own telephone di-
rectories, intradepartmental dial sys-
TENS and as many as % operators.
Connected with the Treasury De-
partment switchboards are approx
mately $500 telephone instruments.
An equal number serves Agriculture.
The Capitol switchboard links $500
telephones, there are 2,50O in the
Commerce Department., and the In
terror Department has 2,059.
The Capitals first telephone was in
stalled by the Army in 1877. Is
months after Alexander Bell had OBJ
tanned patent on his invention. 1t
connected the Office of the chief sig
nal officer with Fort Myer, Va
President Hayes carried 1t on in the
following year when he had a tele-
phone installed in q White House
office, connecting with one other goy-
ernmental agency. Not until Presi-
dent Hoover's day, however, did
telephone appear on a Presidents
desk.
Evening star., 1936-10-05
ADMISSION MADE
BY TIGER BOY
Disclosure Promised From
Youth Accused of Trying
to Kill Baby.
Nv fhe Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BELLINGHAM, Wash, October s.
Police Chief Ralph R. Reed promised
today a startling admission" from
q 7-year-old tiger" boy accused OF
trying to kill baby with an iron
bar.
CThe admission relates to an in
cident of a year ago, Chief Reed
said, but must be withheld until a
Juvenile Court hearing before Su-
perior Judge E. N. Hardin at pm.
Eastern standard time)
1T shows" the chief asserted, 1.-The
boy is a menace at large because of
his savage, homicidal tendencies
the same mental quirk that led him
to attack Roland Smith, % months,
with the bar
While the boy his name undis-
closed, fretted and wept angrily in
juvenile detention quarters, physi-
clans planned a delicate operation on
the Smith babys fractured skull.
Juvenile authorities planned to have
q psychiatrist examine the boy. Mrs.
Francis Axtell, juvenile officer, said
she would ask that he be confined
in an institution.
The boy seems still pleased that
ne almost killed Roland" Chief Reed
said. Hes belligerent toward us and
probably would carry out his threat
of punching our noses, if he could.
He cried. however. when his parents
were refused permission to see him
before the hearing, and he wants to
60 home The tears, as far as we
could learn from questioning him,
were caused by self-pity-that was
all"
The boys actions and his explana-
tion of his attack on the baby
wanted to knock his brains out"-in-
dicated the beating was carried out
deliberately, rather than in frenzy
Chief Reed said
He found Roland in an alley, took
him into the woodshed, slugged him
three times with the bar and left him
senseless," the chief declared. He
then went home and changed to his
play clothes. Coming back to the
shed, he found the baby still uncon-
scious and sauntered off, apparently
believing the baby dead
Later Roland recovered enough to
crawl into the alley where girl found
him and took him to his parents, Mr.
and Mrs Wayne Smith.
Evening star., 1936-10-05
HURT SEEKING FIGHT

Willie jackson, colored, 423 Temple
court southwest, yearned for q fight
but all he got when he jumped from
q second-story window in quest Of
one yesterday was bad knee and q
ride to the Casualty Hospital.
jackson, who was visiting in the
first block Of street southwest, heard
the sounds of merry alteration be-
low a window. and in his haste to
join the fray chose . leap from the
second floor as the shortest distance
between two points. His arrival CO.
incided with that Of police scout
car. At the same time the COM
batants fed, leaving the feld to JACK.
son and the officers.
Evening star., 1936-10-05
FORMER PRINTER DIES

Lloyd Maynard Patterson, former
linotype operator on The Star, who
died in California September 27, was
buried last Thursday in Forest Lawn
Memorial Cemetery, Glenwood, Calf,
according to word received here.
Mr.. Patterson's death came after
long illness. He had been living in
Los Angeles, Calf, with relatives
since last July.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs.
Mary Patterson of Los Angeles; two
brothers and two sisters.
MIR. Patterson was graduated from
high school at Danville, Va, and be-
gan as linotype operator in Phila-
delphia in 1912. He was Mason.
Evening star., 1936-10-05

Ey the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, October 5.-Robert
James, baptized in a laundry wash
tank Of the county Jail, said today,
I'm not afraid to die now" for the
rattlesnake-washtub murder Of his
seventh wife last year.
The marrying barber, under sem
tence of death, was one of four men
accused of murder for whom the tank
was an improvised baptismal font yes
terday.
James was convicted Of killing his
wife for her insurance, drowning her
in a bathtub after forcing her leg into
q box containing q live rattlesnake.
The reptile struck but James decided
the latter method of taking his wife's
life was too slow. witnesses said at his
trial.
Evening star., 1936-10-05
Baseball
Continued From First Page.)

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first pitch, bunted directly to Schu-
macher, who forced Selkirk at third
with throw to Jackson. Powell and
Lazzeri reached first and second, re-
spectively. on the play. Rufing hit
into double play, Bartell to White
head to Terry. No runs.
Yankees. 2; Giants, 3.
FIFTH INNING.
GIANTS-Moore hit the first pitch
to Gehrig. who threw to Ruffing for
the putout. Bartell and Ruf1ing du-
eled to a three-and-two count before
the pitcher swept across O curve ball
for third strike. Terry fouled to
Rolfe on the second pitch. No runs.
YANKEES-Schumacher's first pitch
to Crosetti was a called strike. He
fouled the next and watched the third
cut the heart of the plate for third
strike. On the first pitch Rolfe
dragged bunt past Schumacher and
beat Whitehead's quick throw for a
hit. Di Maggie didn't swing until
after going to three-and-two count
Then. after fouling one off. he missed
the third strike, and Rolfe. trying to
steal, was caught at second, Mancuso
to Whitehead. No runs.
Yankees, 2; Giants, 3.
SIXTH INNING.
GIANTS-Ott hit the first pitched
ball to left for a single. Ripple was
up to sacrifice, but Ruffing threw him
four straight balls. MancuSo sacri-
feed, after a strike and two balls
Ruf1ing to Lazerri, who covered first
Whitehead watched ball, then missed
the next two strikes. On the next
pitch he sent a slow roller to Crosetti
and when the Yank shortstop fum-
bled the ball OFT scored, Ripple took
third and Whitehead reached first.
jackson famed on four pitches. Schu-
macher, with the count of two and
two on him, went down swinging. One
run.
YANKEES-The first pitch to Geh-
rig was called strike and on the next
one he grounded to Whitehead and
was thrown out. Dickey went down
swinging after the count had reached
two and two. With two balls and q
strike on him, Selkirk singled to CEN
ter. Powell had a two-and-two count
on him and rolled slowly to Jackson
for a hit when the -baseman
threw high over Terry's head, Se1kirk
scored and Powell went all the way
to third. Schumacher threw a strike
and two balls to Lazzeri, who then
singled to right on the next pitch and
scored Powell with the tying run. Roy
Johnson batted for Ruffing and, after
the count had gone to two and two
ne struck out. swinging. Two runs.
Yankees, 4; Giants, 4.
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route from Asturias Province and
from Valencia.
Ceaseless fighting on all fronts of
the Madrid sector brought govern
ment assertions of successes.
A fierce offensive was launched on
Siguenza, northeastern terminus of
the Fascist line about Madrid, and
farther to the north in the Vitoria
sector. The government claimed stra-
getic positions we're retaken.
In the Guadarrama Mountains in
the northwest of Madrid a Fascist
attack was repulsed at Navalperal,
where insurgents have been trying
to break through the mountain passes,
the war ministry said
Conveys of food rolled into the
capital, indicating the government was
preparing for the critical phase of the
siege. Ration cards were issued to
conserve food in the face of a Short
age of meat, sugar, milk and pota-
toes in order that adequate supplies
would be assured for the 100000 men
the government said were under arms
In the Madrid area.
Evening star., 1936-10-05

you have in championing the true
American doctrine Of tolerance"
Others listed among the senders
Maurice Falk and Leon Falk, jr., Pitts
burgh manufacturers; Lewis L.
Strauss. New York banker; Seig Harz-
field, Kansas City; Harold Korn, New
York writer, and Harry Friedberg.
Kansas City, vice president Of the
Zionist organization.
Evening star., 1936-10-05
GETS U. S. FARM POST
DR.. Batter, Horticulturist, Leaves
West Virginia University. 4. |
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARTINSBURG, w. Va. October S.
DIR. Jack Batter, associate horticul-
turist at the University Farm at
Kearneysville, near here, for the past
18 months, has resigned to assume
similar duties with the United States
Department Of Agriculture. He will be
stationed at the Beltsville, Md, Gov
ernment experiment station.
No one has been named to f1ll the
vacancy at the University Farm, ac-
cording to DR.. Felix j. Schneiderhan.
superintendent.
Evening star., 1936-10-05
DIES OF HEART ATTACK
Max Smarr, Arlington Contrac-
tor, Is Stricken.

BY Stan Correspondent OF The star
LYON PARK, Va, October S.
Stricken with a heart attack. Max
Smarr. 48, Arlington County con-
tractor, died this morning at the home
Of Mrs. William H. Wright. 1924
Pershing drive, where he was visiting
police reported today.
Smarr died before the Clarendon
ambulance arrived to take him to a
hospital. He was pronounced dead
by DR.. W. c. Welburn, county coroner
He lived on North Cleveland street ir
Clarendon.
Evening star., 1936-10-05
GANN FUNERAL RITES
TOBE HELD TOMORROW
Burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery
Following Services Conducted by
Rev. James S. Montgomery.

Edward Everett Gam, husband Of
Dolly Curtis Gam. sister of the late
Vice President Curtis. will be buried
in Cedar Hill Cemetery tomorrow
after funeral services at IL am. at
the Gam home, 3508 Macomb street.
Rev. James Shera Montgomery,
House chaplain, will officiate at the
services In addition to a committee
previously announced by the Dis
trict Bar Association, pallbearers will
include Royal T. McKenna and John
Shock. Mr.. Cams brother, John
Gam, was to come here for the fu-
neral from his home in Ensley. Ala.
Mr. Gam died at his home Friday
while Mrs. Gam was on speaking
trip for the Republican party. She
returned here Saturday night.
Evening star., 1936-10-05
FOUND.

WRIST WATCH. lady's. on Chevy Chase
northbound bus. Sept. 10. Call Cleveland
0655. 6s
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Evening star., 1936-10-05
SPECIAL NOTICES.

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debts contracted by any one but myself
WILLIAM H. SCHAEFER. 53S Peabody
st. NV. u
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holders of the Equitable Cooperative
Building Association will be held at the
northwest. Wednesday November 4. 1895.
at $3.50 o'clock pm Amendment Of the
constitution of the association will be con-
stdcred. EDWARD L. McALEER.
Secretary.
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