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Evening star., 1937-03-01
SOCIAL SECURITY
STUDIES H|NTED
House Ways and Means
Committee May Explore
Broader Program.
BY the Associated Press.

6y thc AoSOCldteu EIcsS.
House Ways and Means Committee
members limited yesterday they might
explore the question Of whether So
cial security benefits should be
broadened and the system Of financ-
ing revised.
Chairman Doughton, Democrat, of
North Carolina said the committee
would consider any suggestions for
altering the social security act from
the Social Security Board as well as
those from other sources that would
bear looking into.
That would open the way for con-
sideration of proposals from outside
the board, for bringing farm, domestic
and other employees within range Of
the benefits from which they now
are excluded.
It also would permit the committee
to discuss the subject of whether the
whole program should be put on a
pay-as-you-go basis. An old-age
pension reserve fund, to be built to
SAT 7,000, ,000, 900 by 1880 from taxes on
employers and employees, now exists.
Before taking any action, Doughton
said, committee members would talk
soon with the Social Security Board
ito see what suggestions they have" "
The huge reserve fund has been
criticized on grounds it might be
diverted to paying general govern
mental expenses or applied to the
public debt.
Suggestions have been advanced
for granting larger old-age pensions
to those becoming eligible for them
in the earlier years Of the social Sc
curity plans operations. and for start
ing pension payments in 1899 instead
Of 1912.
Some criticism also has been lev
eled at boosting the old-age pension
taxes from / per cent this year to 8
per cent by 1949. Some Congress
men want to retain the / per cent
tax for or 10 years, or as long
thereafter as Congress found it suf-
f1cient to finance the benefits.
On the other hand, there Is .
large number of Congress members
who contend the present system
should be tried out for Q time and
major amendments to the act de-
ferred until actual experience has
demonstrated need for them.
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Judges Daughter Dies.

WINTER PARK, Fla, March ! @.-
Mrs. Grace Holt Reed, widow of Ralph
D. Reed of Manchester. N. H., and
sister of DR.. Hamilton Holt, president
Of Rollins College, died in Orlando
Hospital today.
The daughter of Federal Judge
George c. Holt, Mrs. Reed was born
in Brooklyn. NJ Y, and spent most
Of her married life n New Hahpshire.
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Of jewelry after the glass had been
smashed with brick.
Ira Hilton, of 9l3 H street, reported
he was walking on Tenth street be-
tween F and G streets when two men
grabbed him from behind, took OF
his shoes and robbed him Of a. Hill
ton previously had placed the money
in shoe. He told officers he suspected
two men whom he had met a short
time before.
Evening star., 1937-03-01
"Good Friend" Burglar.

VIENNA, March l @.-Several
Viennese were pleased or perplexed
recently to receive theater tickets by
mail with accompanying note reading.
with compliments of good friend" !"
Recipients who used their tickets
learned more about the good friend"
when they returned from the show
s,.,1.sa to find their h9r's had been bur-
Evening star., 1937-03-01
GAS TAX DIVERSION
OPPOSED BY 10000
Keystone Automobile Club Peti-
ton to Be Presented to COM
missioner Hazen.

A petition bearing the names Of TO-
900 persons protesting the proposed
diversion of gasoline taxes will be pre-
sented to Commissioner Hazen Thurs
day noon by George E. Keneipp, man
ager of Keystone Automobile Club.
Under existing law money collected
from gasoline taxes can be used only
for the improvement of construction
of bridges and streets. The House Sub
committee on Appropriations is con-
sidering the change of the law in con-
nection with the 1888 District supply
hill
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Suffrage to Be Discussed.

District suffrage will be discussed
at a meeting of the Columbia Heights
Citizens Association tomorrow night
at pm. in the Fourth Presbyterian
Church. Thideenth and Fairmont
streets.
Evening star., 1937-03-01

Dogs of far prouder lineage literally hundreds of the
sought the role Patsy in Sorm OUer Patsy Theater Guild
play opening tonight at the National Colonel the part
because he is naturalborn character actor of your
matinee idol types He shoDn here O Claudia Morgan star
Of the pau in the special dressing room created for h at the
National -' Z STAR Staf Photo
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This is the first OF q series of
articles analyzing proposals to re-
Hepe District traffic congestion as
they were suggested by subcom-
mittee of the House District Conn
mittee at the last session OF Con-
0ress and recently analysed for
costs by Capt. H. c. Whitehurst,
director OF highD1yS.
Evening star., 1937-03-01
BY DON s. WARREN.

rector of highways, would invoke q
modern principle Of traffic engineering
not extensively employed here in the
past.
Service roadways would be devel-
oped on either side Of the present
roadway. separated from it by islands
of lawn which would permit retention
Of existing trees.
Adoption Of such a plan, Capt.
Whitehu-st said today. may lead to
development of q guiding principle
which may accomplish exceptional
relief to traffic in the District.
Washington is unusually fortunate
in owning many streets of such width
as will permit of widening without
acquisition Of additional land" he said
il a report to the Commissioners.
THE acquisition Of additional land.
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Following are some Of the sugges-
tions:
He might transfer the Police De-
partment to the War Department
and place the District under martial
law, or the traffic control might be
placed in the Marine Corps; much
of the administration might even be
given to the Office Of Indian Affairs,
making the residents of the Capital
City wards of the Nation. All audit
ing and accounting work might be
shifted to the proposed new Bureau
Of Finance in the Treasury Depart,
Ment; also, the municipal architects
Evening star., 1937-07-12
TAXI INSURANCE
VOTED BY HOUSE
Measure Designed to Regu.
late Realty Brokers and
Statesmen Also Passed.

The House rapidly passed today two
of the District bills on its calendar,
one requiring taxicabs and other pub
lie vehicles for hire to carry liability
insurance, and the other designed to
regulate and control real estate
brokers and statesmen.
The compulsory insurance bill for
diction by Representative Schultz,
Democrat, Of Indiana that it would
result in at least a l0-cent increase in
existing zone rates. He told the House
the insurance would cost taxi operators
At least 1925 year per cab-a fee
that would ruin them financially with
out rate increase sufficient to cover
the premiums on the policies.
The vote on the insurance bill was
II to 21. Before its approval, however,
the House adopted an amendment Of
fered by Schultz which would permit
cab organizations. to file $4,000
cash bona with the Public Utilities
Commission in lieu of an insurance
policy. The bond would have to be
maintained at that figure at all times
The bill to license and regulate real
estate brokers and statesmen was passed
without debate and sent to the Senate
The House also will consider later
bill authorizing the Public Utilities
Commission to reduce the number of
taxicabs in operation. and measure
providing for control and regula ton
OF BARRIERS.
Real estate brokers and statesmen
will be controlled under the real es-
tate bill through commission to be
created by the Commissioners. The
commission would license the real es-
tate dealers after passing on their
qualifications to engage in the busi-
ness.
During discussion of the taxicab
bill, Schultz declared the average
District taxi driver is very fortu-
nate" if his net income averages $40
a week. and he doubted if l0-cent
raise in the zone rate would permit
them to carry the expensive insur-
ance.
Evening star., 1937-07-12
Soviet Trio approaches Pole
On Hop From Mosco,v to u. S.;
Snolcstorm Reported in Path
Giant Plane, With Gronof at Controls
FOllO,cs Route BIa5ed Last Month.
San Francisco Probable Destination.

North Pole. It was not expected to
reach the Pole until about "a hours
| after the take-off, which was at 1922
am. 1922 pm. Sunday, Eastern stand
ard time).
Seeking a distance record in the Sec
ond Soviet attempt to span the roof
of the world by air. the plane has yet
to overcome a polar snowstorm and
vast waste Of polar ice.
Brief radio reports reported all we'll
aboard the plane and indicated she
was making excellent speed on the
first stages Of the flight to the United
States.
The Soviet air ace, Mikhail Grom-
of, reported he and his two COM
panions passed the latitude of Arch
angel at $40 am. (2:10 am, Eastern
standard time) and left the continent
of Europe behind at noon Is am,
Eastern standard time).
Except for small islands, the flyers
! tSee FLIGHT, Page A-3)
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MAN AND 6.MONTH-OLD
ARE LATEST FATALITIES
Body of l3-Year.0ld Boy of Ian.
ham, Nd, Is Recovered From
River at Southhaven, Md.
Temperatures

Two more deaths here this morning
increased the toll of the six-day heat
wave in and near Washington to
seven, as forecasters predicted little
relief from the rapidly climbing tenn
perature The heat already has cost
more than 335 lives throughout the
country.
The Weather Bureaus latest fore
cast predicted thundershowers tonight
and tomorrow, with little change in
temperature,
A man tentatively identified as The
odore Cotton, As, Laurel Springs, N.
j., collapsed shortly after 10 am as
he crossed the intersection of Third
and Gallatin streets. Less than an
hour later he died in the Office of DR..
S. P. Portion, 300 Hamilton street.
Baby Dies in Crib.
Six-month-old Emily M. Waites,
colored. died in her crib In her home
at 9l2 T street.
At Southhaven, Md, the body Of
Charles Rifenbarr, l3, Lanham Md,
was recovered from South River, where
he had gone swimming Saturday dur
ing picnic arranged by the White
field NJ E. Church.
The names OF two other Washing
tonians had been added to the heat s
fatality list overnight. They were
Jesse w. Chism, %, lame taxicab
driver. ll1s Tenth street southeast.
and Philip Marshall, 50, OF 226s Ca
thedral avenue. interior decorator
employed by the Government. Both
men were drowning victims.
Hospitals gave first aid during the
past "a hours to seven persons who
were overcome by the uncompromis-
ing rays OF the sun, which shot the
thermometers up to SO degrees yes
terday. Dozens OF other men and
women were accorded first aid at
home by hospital ambulance ply
sicians.
Temperature Higher in Six Cities.
Only six cities saw the temperature
60 higher than the Capitals SO yes
terday-Atlanta, "a: Birmingham,
"a; Meridian Miss. 96; Minneapolis,
96: Norfolk. 96; Richmond. "a. The
coolest city in the United States was
San Francisco, which registered a
high of 81 degrees.
Forecasters said the current heat
wave was following a path similar
to that of the 1885 siege which lasted
eight days.
Throughout the country. people
focked to beaches. parks and coun-
try retreats over the week end. Thou
sands fed from here to the Chesa-
peake and the ocean. Coast Guards
estimated at least 100000 played along
Chicago's lake-front beaches yester-
day to escape the 93-degree heat.
Chism, for whom Coroner A. Ma
gruder Macdonald issued certificate
OF accidental drowning, was canoeing
(See WEATHER, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-07-12
Further Search for Flyers
Awaits Lexin gton's Arriual

July 2, presumably within short dis
lance of Howland Island, their goal
on a 2,570-mile flight from New
Guinea.
Arrival at the land-dot would have
been the climax of Miss Earhart's
"for fun" flight around the world.
Admiral Murfin said the Lexington,
running far below its top speed, had
been assigned to mop up" areas al
ready scanned by planes from the
battleship Colorado, and to search
other likely regions along the Equator.
He said it was possible planes would
60 to the Gilbert Islands, nearly 800
miles west of Rowland, although other
searchers held it almost impossible the
Earhart plane might have come down
that far away.
Admiral Murfin said the Colorado,
whose three planes have made daily
flights over the equatorial sea. would
head for Pearl Harbor 1,500 miles
away, after refueling three destroyers
today which were preceding the Lex
ington.
Evening star., 1937-07-12
By the Associated Press.

HONOLULU, July 12.-The vast
mid-Pacific hunt for Amelia Ear
hart, missing flyer, believed dead by
some naval authorities, was called oil
today in the isolated Phoenix Islands
sector and searchers awaited arriva!
of an aircraft carrier to open last
resort efforts.
The carrier Lexington, steaming
southwark from here, was expected
to reach the search area and launch
her brood Of 63 planes by Tuesday
morning.
Rear Admiral Orin G. Murfin, 14th
Naval District commandant, an
nounced the Navy had completed
its fruitless search of the Phoenix
Islands, more than 200 miles below the
Equator and far south of the course
Miss Earhart and her navigator had
plotted in seeking bleak Rowland
Island.
The aviatrix and her navigator,
Frederick ]. NoQnan. disappeared
Evening star., 1937-07-12
SLAYER of Girl
IsPut to Death
In Pennsylvania
Alexander Meyer, 20,
Goes to Chair
Calmly.
BY the Associated Press.

BELLEFONTE, Pa, July l2-Alex-
ander Meyer, 20, son of a well-to-do
retired coal operator, died in the elec-
trio chair at Rockview Penitentiary
this morning for the Staying of 16-
year-old Helen Meyer, a high school
girl.
White-faced but outWardly calm.
Meyer was led from his death cell and
placed in the chair at 1921 am
'E. S. t.. He was pronounced dead
minutes later.
The young slayer died as he recited
the 23d Psalm, repeating it after Rev.
c. F. Lauer, the prison chaplain.
They had reached "amen" when the
switch was pulled that sent 1000
volts through his body.
Meyer, who was on parole from
Huntingdon Reformatory for another
sex crime, pleaded guilty to the slay-
ing of the little high school girl.
Helen Meyer disappeared on Feb
ruary II on her way home from
school. Meyer, arrested few days
later, said in g. statement that he
deliberately ran her down with a
truck Then he attacked her and
tossed her body down an abandoned
we'll.
Evening star., 1937-07-12
HOSPITAL TRANSFER
DECREE is SIGNED
Justice Cox's Action Authorizes
Trustees to Sell Friendship
Meeting House.

Justice Joseph w. Cox signed a
decree today authorizing trustees of
the Friends Meeting House, 1911 I
street. to sell the property to a doc
tors corporation planning construc-
ton of million-dol hospital to
connect with the two medical build
ings on the Eighteenth and Ninteenth
street corners of I street.
His decree, removing doubt as to
whether the trustees had power to
transfer title of the historic old meet
ing house, cleared up the last legal
problem in proceedings preliminary to
building the hospital. Construction is
expected to start in October.
DR.. Charles Stanley White is presi-
dent of Doctors Hospital, Inc, formed
by group of medical men owning and
operating the Columbia and Washing
ton medical buildings to build and
operate the hospital as part of q
modern medical center.
Evening star., 1937-07-12
0'MAH0NEY FIRES
. ON 'STEAMR0LLER'
FOR COURT BILL
Charges Proponents Of
Measure Have No Idea
What 1t Is About.
ATTACKS ROBINSON
FOR CURBING DEBATE
Judiciary Committee May Report
Constitutional Amendment
on Tribunal.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Presidential suggestion to in.
crease Supreme Court to Is mem.
bers and force retirement of JUS
tees at 20 precipitnted bitter fght
among Democratic Senators. Alter
months OF consideration, Judiciary
Committee reported adversely on
proposal
Administration then supported
compromise bill uhlch Uould ullow
appointment OF one neU justice
each year IL any justice reaching
age Of IS tailed to retire. Foes Of
both plans hare urged corstitu-
t'ondl amendment as means OF re-
Utstng court.
Evening star., 1937-07-12
BY G.. GOULD LINCOLN.

Battle over the court bill was re-
sumed in the Senate today with a
blistering attack by Senator OMa-
honey, Democrat of Wyoming. on the
administration leaders, whom he
charged with steam-roller tactics.
At the same time. O'Mahoney de-
clared proponents of the bill had
made no arguments on the floor of the
Senate in its support He said he
did not believe supporters of the com.
promise bill knew what was in it. in
cludlng Majority Leader Robinson, who
offered it.
1t is the most revolutionary measure
ever brought into the Senate" OMa-
honey said. He added that he in
tended during the course of his re-
marks to prove that proponents of the
compromise did not know its contents.
In running crossfire between
OMahoney, Robinson and Senator
Barkley, Democrat, of Kentucky,
O'Mahoney demonstrated that op.
ponents of the bill! did not intend to
let the Administration clamp down on
the debate and at the same time have
opportunity to put through necessary
legislation in their own good time.
Barkley Questions O'Ma honey.
Barkley at one point asked OMa-
honey if he would agree to fixing
September II for vote on the
compromise court bill
OMahoney retorted that he would
10
the Senate rules were invoked to pre-
vent full and free debate.
Earlier, O'Mahoney had severely
criticized Senator Robinson for invok.
ing Senate rules to limit debate.
The Senator from Arkansas when
he laid down this compromise bill,
gave notice that he would not give us
a chance to discuss this measure
fully" the Wyoming Senator said.
He brought up. and the President
pro tempore in the chair agreed to
invoke, rule which permits a Sen
ator to speak only twice in the same
day on the subject.
Under their contention. however. a
day is not calendar day, but leg
lslative day. A legislative day in the
Senate may extend for one month, or
two months, or three months"
A constitutional amendment fixing
the number of justices and providing
for compulsory retirement at IS may
be favorably reported by the Senate
Judiciary Committee. it was indicated
following a meeting of the committee
at which an amendment proposed by
Senator Andrews, Democrat, of Flori-
da discussed.
The amendment, If recommended
by the committee. probably will be
used by Senators opposed to the court
bill and the compromise substitute in
an effort to head off that legislation.
Senator Andrews appeared before
the Judiciary Committee and dis
cuSsed his proposal. Under it the
Supreme Court would consist of
chief justice and an associate justice
from each of the judicial circuits.
There are 10 judicial circuits. Thus,
if the amendment were adopted, the
court would be increased to II, gain
of 2 additional justices.
Comment of Van Nuys.
Senator Van Nuys, Democrat. Of
Indiana an opponent of the Presi-
dents court reorganization bill and
member of the Judiciary Committee.
said on leaving the meeting
Il believe that a constitutional
amendment will be recommended by
the committee. I am opposed to a
proposal which would leave the size
of the court to be fixed by the number
Of judicial circuits that Congress may
create. However. constitutional
amendment providing for a Supreme
Evening star., 1937-07-12
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
: PE1PING, July 12.-Reliable Chinese
sources said today the newest out
break Of fighting between Chinese and
Japanese troops had been halted by
an armistice concluded by local au.
thorities.
japanese troops were reported with
drawing from their positions in the
western suburbs of this former capital
of ancient China to their base at
Fengtai, southwest of the city.
Chinese sources reported heavy
losses in the fighting last night for
three villages on the Yungting River,
10 miles west of Peiping. Tanks and
artillery were said to have been
brought into the action, described as
furious"
The firing could be heard clearly in
Peiping. The heavy throb of cannon
fire and the sharp crack of rifles came
from the vicinity of Wanpinghsien,
the walled village near Marco Polo
Bridge.
Tanks Near Golf Course.
The feaVlest lighting at Wanpingh-
sien was thought to have ended before
2 am, although the engagement be-
- came general at other points just be-
fore dawn. Tanks brought up by the
japanese from Fengtai were under
stood to have been operating in the
neighborhood of the international golf
course where, according to japanese
reports, the Chinese troops were en-
trerched.
The fighting last night broke out
Just an hour after Chinese officials
had announced a settlement had been
reached. They indicated full Japan
ese demands had not been accepted
for complete withdrawal of Chinese
troops from the area and reparation
for what japanese charged was an
unWarranted attack on their troops
Peiping was quiet at daylight, al
though the local garrison of Chinese
troops had spent the night barricading
street corners and throwing up sand
bag Notifications. Barricades we're
erected in front of the Rockefeller
Peiping Union Medical College, which,
In the 1888 clash between Japan and
China, gave valuable medical aid to
the Chinese.
Japanese civilians armed with clubs
c.. ~YIyNYA
Evening star., 1937-07-12
PRESIDENT VET0ES
BILL TO EXTEND
Low LOAN RATES
Federal Land Bank ConCes.
sion Hit as Unneeded.
Cites Budget Efforts.
BACKGROUND


Cor. Myers OF the Farm Credit
Administration asked the House
Committee on Agriculture not to
ertend the 3.5 per cent Land Bank
Loan on the ground it 1Dds drain
on the Treasury. promoted land
speculation and Wds unnecessary,
because farmers uere prosperous
enough to pay the old rate OF from
4 to per cent. Committee passed
oil Anyway, proriding for 4 per
cent base beginning nert year, 3.5
per cent from noD until then. A
ueto ,pas expected.
President Roosevelt today vetoed q
bill to extend for two years low in
terest rates on Federal Land Bank
loans.
In a message to the House he said
the veto was based on general lower
ing of farm mortgage interest rates
improved ability Of farmers to pay
interest and on the administration
policy of trying to balnace the budget
during the present fiscal year.
The bill also would broaden the
field of loans on which interest re-
ductions were granted by including a
per cent rate on land bank COM
missioner loans, which now are per
cent.
Pushing Balanced Budget.
Anent the budget he said:
The passage of this bill was not
contemplated in the preparation OF
the budget for the fiscal year 1898.
AS the Congress is we'll aware, I am
definitely seeking the balancing of
the budget. To this end, I have
called upon the heads of all govern
ment departments, establishments and
agencies to set up reserves of not less
than 10 per cent of all funds available
for the fiscal year 1898, except such
funds as are not susceptible to such
treatment. Approval by me of the
bill under consideration, involving as
it does an additional draft upon the
Treasury in excess of s30,0O0.00O dur
ing the fiscal year 1888, would be
totally inconsistent with my purpose
to bring about balancing of the
budget for that year"
The President sent his veto mes
sage along on return from a week enc
trip on the Potomac during which he
announced he had completed the
reading of the four reports he had
taken away with him and also hac
completed the dictation of the letter
dealing with the administrators i'm.
mediate agriculture program which
he will send probably today or to.
morrow to the chairmen respectively
Of the Senate and House Agriculture
Committees. This will deal principally
with pending legislation providing fol
farm tenancy and an ever norma
granary.
The President also completed on his
trip the writing of synopsis and
statement to be made public simul-
taneously on July 18 with the report
Evening star., 1937-07-12
FIGHTS U. S. STRIKES

Measure Would Hit Government
Efforts of c. I. O..
Representative Hoffman, Republi-
can, Of Michigan offered legislation
today to make it unlawful for any
person to call. encourage or partici-
pate in strike against the Federal
Government
The Representative said the meas
ure was aimed at efforts Of the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization to
organize Federal workers in the new
United Federal Workers of America.