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The Washington times., 1937-07-22
TheWeother

District Of Columbia-Fair to-
day and tomorrow: slightly
warmer tomorrow: light variable
winds, becoming gentle south or
southwest tomorrow.
Maryland and Virginia-Fair
tonight and tomorrow; slightly
warmer tomorrow.
Tide Table
Low tides today at 1884 .. m.
and 2:1O p. m.
High tides today at 1908 q. m.
and 1923 p. m.
Low tides tomorrow at ais Q.
m. and ESQ p. m.
High tides tomorrow at 7:43 0.
m, and sos p. m.
Sun and Moon
The sun rose today at 5 a. m.
and sets at 1928 p. m.
The sun rises tomorrow at 5
q. m. and sets at 1928 p. m.
The moon rises today at 6::32 Q.
m. and sets at 3::34 q. m.
The moon rises tomorrow at
7:05 a. m. and sets at 4:36 q. m.
Yesterday Today
4 p. n1..... 70 4 q. me-. 66
8 p. M. 70 8 q. m..... 10
IL midnight. "a IL noon %. 80
Departures
Accumulated excess Of tenn
perature since January !, 1887,
plus 512.
Excess Of temperature since
July /, 1887, plus IL.
Accumulated excess Of precipi-
tation since January /, 1887, plus
$3.50.
Deficiency of precipitation since
July !, 1887, minus OBS.
TEMPERATURES
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SUFFERED SIX
YEARS WITH
CONSTIPATION ~

''For six years I suffered with
constipation, and I decided to try
ALL-BRAN. / have been eating it
once a day for about four years,
and it has certainly done the work."
Mrs. Herman Futrell, 905 W.
Oak Ave-, JOnesboros Ark .~--
Tests prove that Kellogg's ALI
BRAN is safe and effective for corr
recting common constipation. 90
Within the body, ALL-BRAN abb
serbs twice its weight in WATER
and gently exercises and cleanses
the intestines. It also furnishes
vitamin B to tone the intestines,
and iron for the blood.
Just eat two tablespoonful daily,
either as a cereal with milk or
cream, or in cooked dishes. Three
times daily in severe cases. You'll
find this food far better than habit
forming pills and drugs. ALI-BRAN
is sold by all grocers. Made by
Kellogg in Battle Greek.
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GIRL, 1S,
FEARED SLAIN

ELKTON, Nd, July % I.N.s).
Citizens, authorities and Boy
Scouts today joined in a search
for Janet WohlSen, 10, Of LancaS-
ter, who disappeared late yesterday
after leaving her uncle'S summer
cottage at Red Point, near here,
to fish and swim in Northeast
River.
Although the girl Is believed to
have drowned, an element Of mys-
terry was injected into her dis
appearance by residents Of Red
Point, who fear she may have met
with foul play at the hands Of
eight men aboard a Sailboat.
The mystery craft was found
docked today at nearby Havre de
Grace in Chesapeake Bay with no
one aboard.
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Reading IssuesBan
On Noisy Weddings

READING, Pa. G.N.SO-The
nationwide campaign to still the
clamor Of American cities goes on
apace!
Reading contributes the latest
ban on noise-that against noisy
wedding serenadeS. No longer may
automobiles filled with wedding
parties wend their raucous and
gathering way through the city's
streets.
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English On Island

Nearly 200 school teachers from
continental United States are in
Puerto Rico, helping teach the
English language to school chill
dren there, according to the
Puerto Rican trade council. Span
ish was the traditional language
of the island for 400 years before
it became q part Of the United
States in 1898.
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ADVERTIsEM EMIT
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GIRL IN PLUNGE
MAY SURVIVE

After placing her two charges
in their cribs, a 16-year-old maid
slashed her wrist with a butcher
knife, police report, and then
plunged three floors from the
Alban Towers Apartments, 3700
Massachusetts Ave. N. w., yester-
day afternoon
The maid, Rose Bridger, was
employed in the home of j. c..
Baube, correspondent for HavaS
News Agency here. Baube brought
the girl here from England to care
for his two children two years ago.
Emergency Hospital attendants
today said she was in a critical
condition, but rested we'll during
the night and has a chance to re-
cover. She broke a leg and an
arm and may have internal in
juries.
Baube gave a blood for trans
fusion.
Torn remnants of note written
in Spanish were found in the
apartment by police and sent to
the State Department for tranSla-
tion.
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$4,000 COST
OF HUSBAND

Mrs. Vita Russo, 1880 Gale st.
N. W.. must pay $4,000 for her
husband, John Russo, United
States District Court ruled today.
That is, the jury ruled that,
since Mrs. Rose Russo. Of 1913
Thirty-fifth Pl. N. W., had been
married to John Russo for 18
years before Mrs. Vita Russo met
and married him, Mrs. Rose Russo
should have something to show for
her marriage.
Through attorneys, I. H. Mlno-
vitz and M. Phillip Katz, Mrs. Rose
Russo had brought her suit charg-
ing alienation of affections. She
said that she had married John
Russo in New York on october 10,
1917. and that they had lived hap
PLY until the other woman came
on the scene.
The defendant practiCed cher
wileS, Establishments, influences
and attentions" on the plaintiffs
husband so successfully. according
to the declaration, that a Separa-
ton finally occurred and on jan
uary 10 last. Chief Justice Wheat
gave Mrs. Rose Russo a decree Of
absolute divorce.
She won a default Judgment Sev.
eral days ago. and today the Jury
reported to Justice Joseph w. Cox
that her damages had been fixed
at $4,000.
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Weather SeerS BaIk
At Easter Forecast

Washington's Easter Sunday
promenaders won't know until
Thursday whether they'll have sun
shine or rain for the Sunday trek
down Connecticut Avenue, weather
foreCasterS said today.
Explaining that weather condi-
tions this month have been very
complicated" and predictions "un-
certain" for more than a day in
advance, bureau officials refused
to speculate on Sundays condi-
tionS.
Rain is expected late tomorrow
or Wednesday and again Saturday.
The meteorologistS said:
1T would be no use saying at
this time whether it will rain
Sunday or not. We might be
able to forecast Sundays weather
by Thursday, but, on the other
hand, il some of the complicated
conditions prevailing this month
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SHAW BARES
EXPLOSION
DETAILS
Change From "Dry"
Fuel Saved Bill, Mill
tary Court Informed

LONDON Tex, March %
Q.N.SO.-W. c. Shaw, superinten-
dent of the New London Consoli-
dated School, today took the wit
ness stand before the military
court of inquiry investigating the
nations worst school disaster here
and told his story Of the explosion
that killed ass children.
Shaw admitted he was one of
those responsible for the tapping
of a wet gas line of the Parade
Oil Company for fuel for the
schools heating plant without the
permission of the pipeline COM
pany. He also said he had been
warned against the change from
dry" or treated gas last January.
Partly Responsible"
Shaw, who was in the building
at the time of the blast, suffered
minor injuries. His son was killed.
He stated:
II was partly responsible for
the laying of the pipeline. No
one made an agreement with
the Parade people.
I'VE had a discussion on the
subject but they parade Com
pany Officials) told me that if
the connection were made it
might be cut off at any time.
They said they could not give
us a permit, but at the same
time they did not tell us not
to do it,"
Previous testimony had estab-
lished that it was a common prac-
tice in oil fields for individuals
to tap a pipeline carrying gas from
wells without permission. The gas
has no value to oil companies after
the oil has been extracted, most
of it being burned through gas
torches that flare high in the air
over the oil fields.
No Bill Since Change
Interrogators drew from the su-
perintendent that the schools gas
bill had amounted to $3.50 when
it was served dry gas by the United
Gas Company. Since last January,
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
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Earhdrt Returning
Aboard MatsOn Ship

HONOLULU, T. H. March %
G.N.S0 Amelia Earhart was en-
route back to the mainland today
aboard the Matson liner Malolo
while her 'round-the-world plane
lay wrecked at Luke Field.
Miss Earhart decided to return
to the mainland following a sur
vey of her damaged 100000 plane.
1t will require some time be-
fore the plane, smashed in an
attempted take-off for Howland
Island Saturday, is reconditioned,
and even then Miss Earhart may
not be able to use it on her world
venture.
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EFFICIENCY
HIGH Now,
HUGHES
SAYS
Brandeis Joins With
Van DeVanter to
Oppose Change
BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
International News Service

Any increase in the number Of
justices would impair the eff
cheney" of the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice Charles Evans
Hughes declared today in a con.
demnation of President RooSe-
velts proposed injection of new
blood" into that high tribunal.
Hughes opposition was revealed
by Senator Burton K. Wheeler
CD, of Montana, during an at
tack on the presidential plan be-
fore the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee. Hughes made his position
known in a letter to Wheeler,
which the latter read into the rec
ord of the hearings.
Hughes said Associate Justices
Willis Van DeVanter and Louis D.
Brandeis concurred in condemning
the presidential plan.
Age Limit Ignored
Nowhere in the chief Justices
1,600-word letter did he make any
mention of the age-limit of 10
which was proposed by Mr.. RooSe-
velt. Chief Justice Hughes is rs.
The Chief Justice declared the
court was fully abreast of its
work" He cited how only a few
cases remained on the docket at
the close of each term during the
past six years.
Then striking at the heart Of
the presidential plan he declared:
Increase in the number Of
justices of the Supreme Court,
apart from any question Of
policy, which / do not discuss,
would not promote the efficiency
of the court. 1t is believed that
it would impair that efficiency
so long as the court acts as a
unit"
Hughes condemned the suggeS-
tion advanced by some Admins
tration witnesses last week for
15-judge court to divide into sec
tionS in hearing cases.
Division ImpracticabIe
He called such a plan 'impracti-
cable" He said
"A large proportion of the
cases we hear are important and
a decision by part of the court
| would be unsatisfactory.
II may also call attention to
the provision of Article 3, Sec
Continued on Page 13, Col. II
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NEW SET-UP
PLAN FOR
DC. BANK
Board to Control
Fidelity Loan
Successor

A new board of directors will
control the destinies of the Fed
eral Savings and Loan Associa-
ton of Washington. successor to
the Fidelity Savings and Loan AS
sociation, which failed last July.
Shareholders are entitled to one
directorial vote for each 500 unit
of investment, but the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board, under
which the new organization will
operate. is privileged to pass upon
all candidates.
Change Desired
II was learned today from Gov
ernment sources that change OF
management is desired.
Meanwhile reorganization plans,
under which depositors will re-
ceive IS per cent of their invest.
ment, are speeding along under
the watchful eyes of Receiver
James H. Nolan and John w.
Ballard, chief examiner of the
board. Before shareholders re-
ceive their money it will be nee
essary to contact 5000 depositors
of the defunct association who
have not as yet filed claims.
From that point it is merely a
question of detailed routine work
until the money will be paid.
Assets Nearly Five Million
Ballard today announced that
on December 81, 1886, the gross
assets of the organization we're
$4,7O0,00O. His staff is now en-
gagged in the task of bringing the
report up to date. He estimates
that this can be done within
three weeks.
Nolan said that he believes all
money will be in the hands of its
owners within so days.
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arise in the meantime we may
not be able to forecast Sun
days weather until as late as
Saturday."
A forerunner of the thousands
of tourists who annually make the
Washington pilgrimage was in the
Capital to greet the first day of
spring. Park and Metropolitan
police were well occupied with traf
fic jams throughout the afternoon
as crowds jammed parks and city
streets.
With the first forsythia already
blooming and officials promising
cherry blossom prediction with
in a week, throngs of cars toured
Rock Creek Park and the Speed
way.
Hotels report solid booking
through next week and railroads
are preparing to make provisions
for their thousands of annual
spring tourists.
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By JAMES L. KILGALLEN

By JAMES L. K1LGALLEN
DETROIT, March % G.N.S0
Tension almost reached the break
ing point in strike-torn Detroit to-
day, with the threat of a general
strike of automobile workers hang
ing in the balance. Developments
up, to noon were:
/. The police resumed their
sit-down raids in spite of the
ultimatum Of the United Auto
mobile Workers. union that If
they didn't stop a general strike
would be called.
2. Detroit's city council and po.
lice turned down a union request
for a permit to stage a big labor
''proteSt" rally in Cadillac Square
tomorrow evening.
3. Union leaders countered by
declaring they would stage the
mass meeting anyway.
4. Homer Martin, head of the
U. A. W., wrote Governor Frank
Murphy defending Sit-down
strikes and appealing for "a
square deal" for the workers.
Two New Raids
Two more sit-down raids were
made by the police this morning
They first evicted Is printers from
the Thomas P. Henry Company
and then swooped down on a vel
fare office, where a sit-down had
been in progress, and escorted 19
persons, including five women and
four children, from the premises
Both Sit-downs had been in prog
reSS for 10 days.
While city police seemed to be
moving against the sit-doWners
Systematically. no effort was be-
ing made by the sheriff'S office to
comply with a court order and ar
rest the 5000 sit-doWnerS holding
eight ChrySler plants.
Court Approves Move
Eviction of the printers had the
approval of Circuit Judge Homer
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. u
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Police Grill Woman
Who Shot ChamIDrWl

PARIS, March % QN.S.) Nine.
Magda de Fontagne, French act
reSs-journalist, who shot Count
Charles de Chambrun because he
allegedly came between her and
love for Premier MuSSolini of
Italy, was taken to a magistrates
office in the Palais de Justice for
questioning this afternoon.
Wearing no hat and her auburn
hair wet with rain, Nine. de Fon-
tagne was calm and unconcerned
as she passed through the doors
of the palais with her lawyer.
Count Rene de Chambrun, a
lawyer, may be summoned back
from a sea voyage on the Queen
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Even Jail Birds Snub
Meanest' SWindIer
Of Money for Sick

CHICAGO, March % GN.S).
William Hewitt. 26, was ignored
by his jailmates today.
Ordinary pickpocketS and purse
snatchers refused even to speak to
the man who was identified by 49,
year-old Robert Cahlman as the
one who tricked him out Of SIPS
given him by his ailing mother to
purchase medicine.
Hewitt confessed sWindling a
dozen other 'teen-age boys Of
amounts ranging from SOC to ST..
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Area Combed
For AssaiIant Of Girl

CHICAGO. March % G.N.S).
Police secured Chicago's south
west side today for masked
murderer" described as a young
and slight man. apparently Of
good education, who kidnapped and
attacked Miss Ann Weiner yester-
day. He was believed to be the
same youth who murdered Mrs.
Mary Irwin, wife of a policeman,
the night of March II.
Miss Weiner was reported in a
critical condition today.
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Mary, docking at New York today,
to advise his uncle whether he
should prosecute the divorcee for
wounding him.
Count Rene, son of the former
Clara Longworth, and his wife,
Jose Laval, daughter of former
Premier Pierre Laval, had planned
to stay in America for a month.
So far, Count Charles has
lodged no charge against Nine. de
Fontagne.
A spokesman said:
"The important thing Is that
Count Charles is not seriously
wounded and will recover rap
idly"
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Finds
Rebel Gas Shells

M A D + I'D, March %.
American Author Ernest Heming-
way visited conquered territory
near Brihuega today and saw three
unexploded rebel shells which he
said contained mustard gas. He
identified them by markings and
. colored clips.
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POPE WARNED
BY GERMANY.
BY PIERRE ]. HUSS

BERLIN. March % G.N.SD-
Angered by an unexpected papal
encyclical which sounded a call
to arms for Catholic priests, Ger
many today served indirect warn
ing on Pope Plus that the Vatican
Continued on Page 4, Col. p
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7 New Workers Die
In Auto-Waqon Crash

NEW YORK, March % G.N.S9 =.
John j. Ballweg, "a. and Cyril
Baldwin, 81, were killed today
when the automobile in which
they were riding collided with a
horse-drawn milk wagon.
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POLICE PUSH
S|T-D0WN
RAIDS
Martin Warns Union
To Be Ready for
General Strike

DETROIT, March % (I.N.S.).
City officials today refused to
grant the United Automobile
Workers Union a permit to
stage a rally here tomorrow
night.
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WASHINGTON FORECAST

Fair tonight; tomorrow cloudy, probably
rain tomorrow night; not much change in
temperature; lowest tonight about 40; gentle,
shifting winds becoming easterly; highest
temperature last "a hours, SO; lowest SO.
weather Details on Page 16)
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Entered as Second Glass Matter at
Post Office at Washington, D. c.
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ongterm investments and the capitalization of future
ngs AS long this is true building and the capital goods
industries are bound to be limited and hampered
1t true that hopes greater the onesdd of
the Wagner act and the bias of the Labor Board revealed
Congress be awakening to the need of demanding
sponsbty both sides in labor Cor labor bar
GAIN Developments to be driving gradually but in
evaby toward gold standard of value Further dictaorial
probably not going to be given to he Executive
But as yet Government '24-hour basis" which
that politics predomnaes and that errac moves
may regardless of economic law 1t constant
danger of costly delays and mistakes Only through experience
do people learn that sit-down strikes are bad.
Thus everything has to be tried least once At
therefore, that further moderate letdown industry
to be expected but that renewed gains likely the fall
incidentally this be what the stock market is saying
Despite seasonal sackenng and slowing up for repairs and
labor holidays enough independent plants reopened last
week to the total activity Untitled for steel are
still considerable and there sufficient business to keen
them from running off before fall significant
in the steel scrap market has appeared
The automobile industry appears its seasonal peak
Production gained last week. and above year ago. With
100000 produced the first half of 1887 the ouput
IL 1885, But the usual seasonal de-
cline must now be
Cotton textile production being gradually readusted to-
the declining volume of untitled orders as new buvng
tate pending certain estimates to Forthcoming
crop cotton. Lumber orders continue to run behind
Shipments and production exceeds shipments.
But commodity prices averaged higher again for the Sec
ond week. the gains including hides lard silk tin raw sugar
cocoa and flour Probably the notable point was
the rise in the price of steel scrap.
AT the the outstanding facts aside from orr labor
problem that both the French financial crisis and war
clouds in the Far East and without
new difficulties for In fact the French action likely
to the Administrations sterilization troubles bv shut
ting off gold exports from France
Clearly the forces of law and order gained little Ground
last week, and business sentiment improved.
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GAINS IN | FAD
ON!RREGULAR
STOCK LIST
By LESLIE GOULD

NEW YORK. July Z u.N.S0.
Profit taking brought some irreg-
ularity to the stock market today
but plus signs we're slightly in the
majority.
Generally higher prices prevailed
in the rails, utilities, amuSements,
motors, and aviationS. Gains Of
more than a point were Melted by
Atchison, New York Central, and
Union Pacific while Southern Pa
eific gained almost 2.
Bethlehem dropped more than
point at the start and U. S. Steel
q fraction, but the former recov-
cred the better part of its loss.
Individual lures included
Loew's, up almost 2 points; U. S.
Smelling, better than a point, and
Libbey. Owens. Ford about as much,
North American gained a point in
the utilities.
Commodities, for the most part,
again were in fair demand. Grains
were fractionally improv in
American and Canadian pits, with
rye gaining more than a cent at
Chicago. Cotton climbed better
than 80 cents a bale, while minor
staples we're generally firm.
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CAPITAL BANK
DEP0S|TSDR0P

Aggregate deposits in the %
Washington banks dropped ap-
proximately 80 million dollars in
the past three months, according
to reports which will be made in
response to a call for statement
of condition as of June 80, issued
yesterday by Comptroller of the
Currency j. F. T. O'Connor.
Local bankers view the drop in
deposits with complacency, how
ever, and ascribe it largely to with
drawalS by outside banks to meet
larger Federal Reserve require
mentS as we'll as to the usual with
drawals made in connection with
filing District of Columbia per-
sonal tax returns.
Deposits in local banks to be
reported to the Treasury as of the
last day of June are as follows:
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CARRIER
DISCOVERED

Carefully checking the histories
of nine recent cases of typhoid
fever, District and Prince Georges
county (Md) health authorities
averted a possible outbreak of the
disease, here by discovery Of a
carrier of the disease, who was
working as a cook in a nearby
Maryland roadhouSe.
Nine persons, six under treat
ment in Washington hospitals,
and three in Maryland institu-
tons, contracted the disease from
the carrier, DR.. James G. Cum
ming, in charge of the COM
municable disease division Of the
local health office said.
Working with DR.. A. B. Hooton,
Of University Park, Md, health
officer of Prince Georges county,
DR.. Cumming, said the nine vic
Tins of the disease were stricken
with the fever during the past
two weeks. Last Friday, he said,
careful checks Of the histories of
the cases were made, and in each
one, it was found the victim re-
Gently had visited the nearby road
house.
The health authorities went to
the roadhouse and examined all
the employees. They found the
cook was a carrier of the disease.
He had at one time suffered the
fever and, although cured, still
carried the infectious germs.
Health authorities said the
cook, who apparently was passing
on the germs through the hand
ling of food, has agreed to quit his
Job and to undergo treatments, by
which he will be made noninfec-
tious.
The physicians reported that
the nine persons afflicted by the
fever are on the road to recovery.
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SEC EXEMPTS
GAS ISSUES

An order just issued by the Sc
curities and Exchange Commission
exempts from provisions Of the
holding company act certain trans
actions by the Washington Gas
Light Company, it was learned
yesterday.
Included in the exemptions are
issue and sale of 10000 shares
Of $3.50 no-par cumulative con-
vertible preferred stock the major
portion Of which has been sold
or is now in process of being sold,
according to officials of the COM
pany yesterday.
Issue Of and delivery Of war
rants to subscribe to 3,201 shares
Of $3.50 no-par cumulative con-
vertible preferred stock.
Issue and exchange of 800, 900
shares of no-par common stock for
the existing 10000 shares of $40
par capital stock.
And the issue and exchange
from time to time of such num-
Der Of shares, not exceeding 6O,-
600, of no-par common stock as
may be required when and as
such holders of preferred stock
may elect to exercise conversion
rights.