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Evening star., 1937-01-03
L CONVENTIONS
BRING 5000 HERE
January Schedule Includes
National Women's Party
Session.

More than 5000 delegates are ex-
pected in Washington during JAN
uary for the II conventions scheduled
for the first month in 1887, Curtis
Hodges. director OF the Greater Ma
tional Capital Committee Of the WASH
ington Board of Trade, reports.
The conventions are:
National Women's Party. regional
conference, January 6-7. Washing
ton Hotel.
National Cooperative Council, jan
uary 7-9, at headquarters.
United States Naval Reserve Off,
GERS Association. January TO.
Maryland, District Of Columbia Life
Underwriters Association, January IL,
Willard Hotel.
Council of Church Boards of Edu-
cation, January l3, Mayfower Hotel.
Seaboard Zionist Region. council
meeting and youth conference. jan
uary IA, Washington Hotel.
Association Of American Colleges,
January 14-l5. Mayfower Hotel.
American Engineering Council, Jan.
uary l4-16, Mayflower Hotel.
American Association Of Railway
Advertising Agents, January 1916.
National Conference on Palestine,
January II (tentative).
Interstate Assembly, January 1928,
Mayflower Hotel.
National Public Housing Conference,
January 1924, Willard Hotel.
National Marine Engineers Bene-
f1cial Association Of the United States,
week Of January IS, Lee House.
American Federation Of Hosiery
Workers, January 1881, Washing
ton Hotel.
Independent Order Odd Fellows
Grand Lodge Of the District of Colum-
bia. January ~. Odd Fellows Temple.
Women's Patriotic Conference on
National Defense. January 1928, May
flower Hotel
American Legion Child Welfare Con-
ference. January 1890, Wardman
Park Hotel.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
EAST SLIGO VALLEY
CITIZENS TO MEET
Session Wednesday Will Consider
Montgomery County Legis-
lative Proposals.

B. q Staf Correspondent OF The Star.
SILVER SPRING, Md, January a.
Election of officers, discussion Of leg
islative proposals and an address by
]. Darby Bowman Of the Washing
ton Suburban Sanitary Commission
will feature the meeting Of the East
Sligo Valley Citizens Association, tc
be held here Wednesday.
Among the legislative matters to
be taken UP at the meeting, which is
Board Building, is the proposal to en-
act measure permitting an increase
In the salaries of Montgomery County
policemen and their civilian desk
clerks.
Refunding of county bonds matur-
ing during the next two years, the
possibility of establishing q CONNER
cial center in the area embraced by
the association, the school and legis-
lative programs Of the county commits
sioners and Liquor Control Board also
will be considered.
Bowman, secretary-treasurer Of the
Suburban Sanitary Commission, will
explain the functions of that organi-
zation and answer questions.
A president, two vice presidents, q
secretary and . treasurer are to be
chosen, along with q representative
ON the Executive Committee from
each Of the subdivisions lying within
the bounds Of the association.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
LABOR SECRETARY
ANDLEW|S CONFER
Miss Perkins Plans Talks
With More Officials of
General Motors.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Preparing to intervene in the Gen.
eral Motors strike, Secretary Perkins
conferred two hours yesterday with
John L. Lewis. chairman of the COM
mittee for industrial organization.
Later the Labor Department chief
told reporters she had not attempted
to settle the strike. but sought infor-
nation from the labor viewpoint
The United Automobile Workers
now conducting scattered strikes in
General Motors plants, belong to Lewis
committee.
Miss Perkins said she already had
talked with several General Motors
officials and hoped to talk to others
before I decide what to do"
Lewis told her. she said, that the
auto workers union had 100000 men,
bers in General Motors plants some
time ago and that considerable num-
bers had been added recently. He
said he was prepared to assist them. "
His membership figures checked with
information Labor Department con-
ciliators had gathered Ii. automobile
centers, the Secretary added.
Miss Perkins revealed she expected
some long-distance calls tomorrow re-
garding the Pacific Coast maritime
strike.
Beyond saying she was still hopeful
for an early settlement, she would not
discuss that situation.
Edward F. McGrady. Assistant Sec
retary. who has been on the coast and
is returning for q conference. was
held by bad flying weather in Omaha,
Nebr., she reported.
Evening star., 1937-01-03

totaling $47.s95. 900. not counting trust
accounts amounting to well over
$1,000 900. They cut about $40, ,000, 900
from the requests of their department
heads. Even 50. the proposed bill left
District finances far from balanced.
For this reason. the proposals
were divided into two sections,
one maintenance budget" amount
ing to s42,805 900, and the other
an improvement budget" represent
ing proposed capital improvements,
amounting to 5000 900.
Taking general fund" items alone,
and excluding those to be paid out of
gas and water special funds, it was
found that the existing tax revenues,
plus a Federal payment of no more
than $5,000.0O0, would leave a deficit
Of some $4,000 900, and this would be
boosted to more than $3,500,000 by
adding a deficit of some $500 900
expected to be developed by the end
of the present fiscal year.
When the proposed Capital i'm
provement items were added to this
calculation Of the general fund items
in the 1887 proposed appropriation,
it was figured the deficit would be
increased to more than $7,500,0 ,000
That is to say. this was calculated
while figuring theoretically that the
next years Federal payment would be
no more and no less than the present
sum Of $5,000,000
The budget for the District, as it Is
expected to come from the Budget
Bureau, therefore. appears headed for
extremely serious consideration and
debate in Congress, after the recon-
mendations of the President on the
Federal payment have been filed
there.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
SCENIC CROUTEBOD
STATES MEETING
Skyline. Shenandoah Asso'
citation Also Plans An
nuaI Banquet.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

LURAY, Va, January 2.-The Sky
line ne-Shenandoah Scenic Route Asso-
citation will hold its third annual
meeting early in January, w. A. Noon
tr, executive secretary, announced
here today. Mr.. Moon said the an
nual banquet would be held in Feb
ruary at the Mimslyn.
During the past year some $4,000
tourists have had their questions an
swered at the various information bu-
reaus scattered along the route, Moon
said In addition. Front Royal joined
the association. Bureaus we're opened
at all towns on the route, with the
headquarters office at Luray. and a
meeting was held with delegates from
towns north Of Front Royal
The association was established for
the purpose Of publicizing the Valley
route Of the East Side Highway. which
parallels the Skyline Drive, and OF
publicizing the Shenandoah National
Park and Skyline Drive.
j. r. Minis of Luray is chairman
Of the organization. At the meeting
in January further plans for expan-
sion will be considered and objectives
for the year set up.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
WARPROF|TEER|NG
CURB IS PLANNED
Revived Move in Congress
Promised Strong Com
mittee Support.
By the Associated Press.

oS Inc AssOClhlcQ EIces.
Amid congressional talk Of strength.
ened neutrality legislation. some men,
beH Of the House Military Affairs
Committee began reviving plans yes
terday to outlaw "profiteering" in
event of war.
Informed sources said Representa-
tive Hill, Democrat. Of Alabama, high
ranking member of the committee,
would introduce a bill to take the
profits out of strife. Strong commit
tee support was predicted.
A somewhat similar measure passed
the House in 1885, but after being
drastically revised by Senate commit
tees. failed to reach the statute books.
Mobilization of labor and capital in
wartime was advocated by Represen.
tative Wilcox, Democrat. of Florida.
a member of the committee. as one
Of the most practical" methods Of
making war unpopular.
IF industry knew its plants would
be taken over upon the outbreak Of
war and operated for the good of the
country" Wilcox said. you would find
the heat being turned on Congress
to prevent war being declared. Too
many people stand to profit from war
the way things are now"
Wilcox said he favored paying all
agricultural! and industrial workers
the same wages as soldiers He assert
ed this would eliminate the necessity
Of paying soldiers bonuses lust be-
cause shipyard workers earned s1s a
day while the men in the trenches got
only $50 month"
Predicting favorable committee
action to make war Improbable, an
other committee member, Repre-
sentative Faddis, Democrat. Of PENN
sylvania, criticised attempts to legis-
lative neutrality as likely to create
AN impossible situation"
Evening star., 1937-01-03
BAY ISLES READY
TO OBATTLEFREEzE
5000 Marooned Last Year
and Trooper Died Bear.
ing Aid on Ice. s
By the Associated Press.

~ hssoSiutSu EIcbss
CRISFIELD, Md, January 2.-If
the ice blockade of a year ago, cause
of one death and the marooning OF
5000 persons on two tiny Chesapeake
Bay islands. Is repeated this Winter,
the islanders are ready for it.
Every possible preparation-short of
building bridge or atunnel-has been
provided by Red Cross and civic lead
ers in Crisfield, with the cooperation
of island residents.
In February, 1896. Smith Island, in
Maryland, and Tangier Island, in
Virginia, both were isolated from the
mainland by q frozen barricade miles
in width and treacherous with hidden
air holes.
Ordinary lines Of communication
the daily mail boat from Crisfeld,
nearest mainland town, and the boats
Of watermen-were out of the ques-
ton. Food finally was flown to both
Tangier and Smith by plane and
landed on Tangier from Coast
Guard cutter.
A State trooper, Sergt. Wilbert v.
Hunter, froze to death when an ex-
pedition led by Maj. Enoch B. Carey,
State police superintendent, attempt-
ed to carry food supplies across the
ice from Crisfield.
This year, to quote j. Millard Tawes,
Red Cross chairman here, there is
no reason for any alarm over the
islands"
Two-way radio communication will
be set up on both islands, with a re-
ceiying base here: the islanders, in
Tawes' opinion, have laid aside re-
serve funds and stored up foodstuf1s
and fuel; an ajIplane Is available here
to fly food and fuel across the 12-mlle
route should 1t be needed; and, to cap
the Red Cross preparations, a special
nurse will leave Monday to begin q
three-month stay on Smith Island.
The nurse, Mrs. Emma Fox Clinton
Of Washington. will be sent with the
cooperation Of the National Red
Cross headquarters. Funds for her
work on the island will be obtained
through the Jane A. Delano Service
so-called in honor of the organizer of
the Red Cross Nursing Service.
Mrs. Clinton, a graduate of Harper
Hospital, Detroit. has worked with the
Red Cross in Delaware and in the
Midwest. On the island. she will do
general health work, visit families and
instruct them in health and SANTA
ton. and conduct classes in home
hygiene and care of the sick.
Full Medical Equipment.
She will be supplied with full nedi-
cal equipment should illness break out
and no physicians be available
I'VE also have the promises of Sena-
tors Tydings and Radcliffe" Tawes
said. that suitable ice boats will be
available in this section for keeping
the channels and harbors open so that
ordinary navigation can be mainta med
between the islands and Crisfield in
event Of a repetition Cf last Winters
ice condition"
Tawes took a leading part in the
attempts to ease hardship on both
islands last year Water men pointed
out that the Winter 20 far has been
an open" one and they have little
reason to expect last years Conditions
to be duplicated.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
MARKER PROPOSED
Fund Started to Buy Device for
Magruder Park.

HYATTSVILLE. Md, January a.
Bearing the name of former Mayor
". P. Magruder. marker will be
placed in the local recreational park
donated by him several years ago, ac-
cording to current plans.
As nucleus for the marker fund,
@. Hodges Carr. chairman of the
Finance Committee in charge of
Hyattsville's recent golden jubilee fete,
has submitted check for S51 80, rep
resenting money left from the cele-
bration fund. The Park Committee
Of the City Council has been asked to
get data on various types of markers.
The City Council is expected soon
10 consider formal acceptance of the
ofer Of Mr.. Magruder to donate a Ii
brary to the town.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
D|RKSEN LEARNS
BILL IS DROPPED
Told Sunday Drinking Meas.
ure Taken From List
by City Heads.

Representative Dirksen, Republican.
of Illinois, returned to washington
yesterday for the coming session Of
Congress, and appeared somewhat
surprised to learn the Commissioners
had decided to eliminate from their
legislative program his bill to liberal
tze the District liquor control act.
The bill. which failed to get out
of the District Committee at the
last session Of Congress, would ex-
tend the sale of liquor by the drink
in hotels, restaurants and night clubs,
from midnight Saturday to am.
Sunday, and permit its sale on Sum-
day from l pm. to IL midnight.
Such a storm of protest was raised
against the measure by dry and re-
form organizations at a public hear
ing conducted by the Commissioners
last Monday, they decided to remove
1t from their tentative program.
Dirksen, however. has not yet de-
cided whether to reintroduce the bill
in its present form. or to modify it
to remove some of the objections.
Before making any move, he plans
to make some inquiries on his own
behalf to learn whether opposition
to the bill is as general among the
wet element as it is among the drys.
At the hearing conducted by the
Commissioners, only one voice was
raised in favor of the bill That was
the voice Of a representative of a
downtown restaurant and night club
where liquor is sold by the drink.
Several times Dirksen has indicated
he might eliminate provision in the
bill permitting sale of liquor by the
drink on Sunday from pm. to mid
night. but has steadfastly held to the
belief the midnight deadline on Satur-
days should be extended to am. in
the interest Of temperance.
He has pointed out that Saturday
night is night of celebration in
Washington. and that party-goers do
not start out until late. and because
OF the IL midnight shutdown OF bars
they either drink too hurriedly or else
buy a bottle for consumption after
the deadline. Drinking. he feels,
would be more moderate If regulated
between IL midnight and am. Sum
day as 1t is on other days Of the
week
Evening star., 1937-01-03
MORGAN RIVES BROCK
DEAD IN CHEVY CHASE
u. S. Government Aide Once
Assistant to Former Sec.
retarv Work.
sy a Stan CORRESPONDENT Of Tne star.

BY stan Correspondent OF The Star.
CHEVY CHASE. Nd. January a.
Morgan Rives Brock, 81, an adjudi.
Gator at the Veterans Admministra.
ton and one-time assistant to former
Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work.
died at his home, 325 West Bradley
lane, here, after brief illness.
The son of William G. Brock. one OF
the early police superintendents of the
District of Columbia, Mr.. Brock en-
tered the Government service as
youth. He was long affiliated with the
Interior Department, the positions he
held there including that of personnel
officer.
He is survived by his widow. Mrs.
Magdalene L. Brock, and a daughter,
Mrs. May B. Colburn, of Washington.
Services will be held at his late resi-
dence Monday at pm. Interment
will follow at Alexandria, Va.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
PLANNERS SUBMIT
AVIATION REPORT
Flying Field in Hampton
Roads Area Held Major
Virginia Need.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. January 2.-The Vir.
ginia State Planning Board declared
today in q tentative report on avia-
ton in the State that the absence Of
facilities o: standard nature in the
Hampton Roads area was the major
factor needed to place Virginia in l:re
for consideration by transoceaaic
transport service.
when an examination Of the air.
way map for the eastern half of the
United States is made" the report
said, tire conclusion Is reached tat
the mos. serious existing deficiency
! in the airway ssytem of Virginia is
that following the failure Of the air.
lines to provide the 100000 people,
or % per cent Of the total urban pop
ulation in the State living within the
Hampton Roads area with access 20
convenient scheduled air service.
"The Hampton Roads port, as has
been pointed out. is the only port OF
any importance on the Atlantic Coast
which has no airway connections.
AhWay Proposed.
Another serious deficiency relating
to this same area is the failure 10
provide airport facilities for the use CT
overseas or over-water transport
planes.
1T would seem. therefore, that be-
fore the airway system in Virginia can
be considered as completed, it will be
necessary that the Norfolk Ports
mouth-Newport News area be equipped
with an airport which shall be COM
bination land and seaport"
The board also recommended that
an over-water airway from Boston or
Providence 10 Hampton Roads be
studied as a probable development Of
the use Of the modern overland and
amphibian transport planes.
New Route Proposed.
To supply the deficiency" of east
and west transport through the
southern half of the State, the board
recommended that a local airway
service from some Western terminal
point be routed through Charleston,
W. Va. to Roanoke, thence to Lynch
burg and Richmond and terminating
at Norfolk
The State planning board further
recommended that the local airway
service passing through the northern
portion of the State be detected so
as to pass through Winchester and
thence to Elkins, w. Va, and finally
to Charleston, w. Va.
The study also prompted the sug-
gestion that Danvllle be made a stop
on the local air route between Rich
mond and Greensboro. N. c.. and the
routing of Washington-Nashvi
planes from Washington to Char
lottesville to Roanoke instead Of from
Washington to Lynchburg to Roanoke
as at present. This would eliminate
the short hop between Lynchburg and
Roanoke
Establishment of airports at Char
lottesville and Norfolk and inaugura.
tion of service to Danville and Win.
chester would place 6S per cent Of the
population of the State within 25
miles OF regular air transport. the
board estimated.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
TIFFANY HEIRESS
EXPIRES IN MIAMI
Daughter of Late Charles L. Tif.
fanny Was Noted a. Philan-
thropist.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, January 2.-Mrs. Annie
o. Tiffany Mitchell, %, philanthro-
pist and daughter Of the late Charles
L. Tiffany, founder of the New York
jewelry house, died today.
Mrs. Mitchell was the widow of Al
fred Mitchell, whom she married In
1871. He died in Jamaica in 1911.
She was born November ~. 1874, in
New York, and was noted for her
gifts of parks and hospital donations
in New Haven, Hartford, New York
and Miami.
Mrs. Mitchell is survived by one
daughter, Mrs. Alfredo M. Bingham
OF New York. Another daughter
was the late Lady Jeans Of England,
wife of the astronomer, who died In
1884.
Also surviving are her brother, Bur-
nette Y. Tiffany of California; q sis
ter. Miss Louise Tiffany of Miami;
seven grandsons and one granddaugh-
ter. She established her home in
Miami about 20 yeays ago and has .
Summer home at NH London. Conn.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
CHEMISTS PROBING
new YEARS DEATH
Seek to Learn Whether Alcohol,
Paint or Natural Causes Was
Fatal to Man.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BARRE, Vt, January 7.-Investi-
gators turned tonight to the test tubes
of the State laboratory for an ex-
PLANTATION of the bizarre New Year eve
death OF 27-year-old Marvin Follans-
bee of West Lebanon, N. H.
Follansbee collapsed at the height Of
a roadhouse celebration. Companions
stripped the clothes from his body,
clipped his hair and striped him with
red and yellow paint. Then they
drove him to the home Of Otto simp-
son. where discovery Follansbee had
died halted the hilarity
Witnesses told of the party at an
inquest today before Judge William
Stone. but their testimony was kept
secret.
Meanwhile, State chemists at Bur-
lington sought to determine whether
Follansbee died Of natural causes, Of
alcoholism or because the paint closed
his pores. Dr.. c. F. Whitney said his
autopsy yesterday failed to answer
these questions, but added he found
no indication Of violence. Sheriff
Thomas G. Dearborn of Chelsea said it
would be a week or 10 days before
the report OF the chemical analysis
would be available.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
PETITION REQUESTS
GRADE CROSSING STAY
Rockville Business People and
Others Tell State Commission
of Need.
erecial Dispatch to The Star.

erecial Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md, January "A
large number of the business people
and other interested persons Of Rock
vile and vicinity have signed q petit
ton uring the Maryland State Roads
Commission not to close the Balti-
more & Ohio grade crossing here,
where IA Williamsport, Md, High
School students met their death in
April, 1885.
Although q modern bridge has Just
been constructed over the Baltimore
e. Ohio Railroad tracks several hum
dred yards to the south Of the grade
crossing, and will be thrown open to
traffic when the approaches are COM
pleted in the Spring, it is held that
closing OF the crossing would disas-
trously affect business interests and
property values of a large part Of
East Rockville and would subject the
residents Of the area to serious in
convenience.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
COUNTY TRADE BODY
CHOOSES COMMITTEES
Prince Georges Chamber of Com
merce to Hear Schools
Superintendent.

BY the Associated Press.
COLLEGE PARK, Md, January O.
Walter F. Mulligan of Berwyn, presi-
dent Of the Prince Georges County
Chamber of Commerce. today an
nounced appointment Of committees
for the coming year.
The chairmen are:
Roads and parks. A. H. Seiden-
spinner: civic affairs, Vincent C.
Tompkins. jr.; publicity. Edward A.
Fuller. jr.: legislative, 8. Marvin
Peach; education, E. F. Zalesak: pub
lie utilities. Ralph w. Powers; busi-
ness promotion, H. Clay Whiteford,
and membership, Morris E. Anglin.
Nicholas Orem. county superintend-
ent of schools, will address the cham
ber at a dinner meeting here Monday
night on school needs and proposed
building programs.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
FUTURE FARMERS MAKE
PLANS FOR CONVENTION
Committee Hopes to Arrange for
Summer Camp Through Con-
servation Commission.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, January q
Future farmers Of America will hold
their annual Virginia branch conven-
tion and rally at Blacksburg, June
14-17, according to D. j. Howard,
supervisor Of vocational agriculture in
Northern Virginia. who returned last
night from attending an F. F. A. Ex-
ecutive Committee meeting in Rich
mond. More than ESQ new members
have been admitted in the State the
past year, he reported.
The committee hopes to effect an
arrangement with the State Conserva-
and Development Commission by which
facilities may be rented for the an
nual F. F. A. camp of the Virginia
branch the coming Summer.
Howard said it was hoped at least
100 Virginians would attend the Ma
tional Convention at Kansas City next
October, when the tenth anniversary
Of the founding of the order will be
celebrated. The F. F. A. succeeded
the Future Farmers of Virginia. the
parent organization.
Evening star., 1937-01-03
Friend of Freud Dies.

NEW YORK, January P.-Dr.
Dorian Feigenbaum, 49. a psychiatrist,
died today at his home here. A friend
and pupil of DR.. Sigmund Freud, DR..
Feigenbaum was a specialist on par
anoia. He was a founder and editor
in chief Of the Psychoanalytic Quar-
terly. He was born in Lenberg,
Austria.