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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt's closest Senate
advisers were urging him today to
withdraw his court reorganization bill
or restrict 1t to two additional JUS
tees.
They argued that the original bill
no longer is needed, because the court
Is constituting the Constitution more
broadly and because Justice Van De-
vanter's retirement IS approaching.
ME-. Roosevelt still gave no public
indication that he would yield. Many
Senator'S predicted he would stand
firm until the Supreme Court decides
the constitutionality Of the social Sc
curity law.
There were indications, however, of
private negotiations for compromise.
Administration leaders in the Senate
certainly were talking it.
The President himself called Sen
ator Nye, Republican, OF North Da-
kota to the White House yesterday for
conference, which Nye would not
discuss afterward.
Compromise Reported.
The North Dakotan, one of the last
Republican Senators to declare against
The Roosevelt bill, frequently has criti-
c1zed the Supreme Court. He long
has been associated with Senators
Norris. Independent, of Nebraska and
La Toilette, Progressive. of Wisconsin.
both of whom are supporting the court
bill
Word was passed around in the
Senate that the President discussed
with Nye compromise on two, in
stead Of six, new Supreme Court JUS
tices. Nye would neither confirm nor
deny the report.
Senator Frazier, Republican. of
North Dakota also was understood to
have received a White House invita-
ton.
Court bill opponents said the admin
(See JUDICIARY, Page A-30
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
PARK BOARD T0H|T
SLAUGHTER HOUSE
Planning Body to Send Dele
cation to Testify Against
Project.
BACKGROUND

BACh GROUND-
Protest against plans of meat
packing firm to locate neD slaugh-
ter house in Bennine section of
Capital arose last Fail upon request
for building permit.
Rejected at time, permit finally
,cds granted this Spring after COM
pdny REVISED Intentions.
King-Norton bill to regulate nui-
sdnce industries is subject OF hear
inos, Senate, NTH food OF uspport
coming from citizens groups House
District Committee yesterday poted
to report bill tdporably.
Voicing determined opposition u
slaughter houses and other objection
able industries here, the National Cap
ital Park and Planning Commissio,
decided today to send special dele
CATION to appear this afternoon befor'
the Senate subcommittee considerin,
the King bill to ban nuisance indus
tries in Washington. The groul
planned to advocate speedy passag
Of the bill.
Today's action was the first forma
expression from the commission OF
the slaughter house subject, although
its chairman, Frederic A. Delano. al
ready had denounced the project IL
q statement several days ago
Meanwhile, a vote on the nuisanc,
bill drew near as Chairman McCarrar
Of the subcommittee felt hopeful o
closing the lengthy public hearing lat.
today.
Proponents to Appear.
Encouraged by the prospect that tn
companion Norton bill might be callet
up for action in the House Monday OF
the District day calendar, proponent
Of the legislation were scheduled t.
be heard before the Senate group thi
afternoon.
In recording its opposition to slaugh
ter houses the Planning Commission
pointed out that the whole operation
proposed by the Adolf Gobel Co.
which wants to erect slaughter
(See ABATTOIR. Page A-16l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
1900 STEEL MEN
VOTE PEACEFULLY
ON LEWIS UNION
More Than One Third of Bal.
lot Cast in Jones &
Laughlin Plants.
JIBES ARE EXCHANGED
AS WORKERS MINGLE
Warrants Issued Against Seven
Republic Employees, Charging
Interference"
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Opposition OF the big fue" in
dependent steel concerns to union
organization OF workers brought
strike in Jones & Langhlin Corp.
plants last Deek For 36 hours
pickets surrounded them, then the
corporation agreed to election to
determine bargaining agent.
Philip Murray, chairman of Or
gonizing Committee, predicted pic
tory for c. /. O. affiliate yesterday,
1Dhile rival unions made like claims.
By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. May 20.-Peaceful
balloting in the Nations largest Gov
ernment-supervised industrial election
decided today whether the 1000 Jones
g. Laughlin Steel Corp. workers would
be represented exclusively by the John
L. Lewis union forces.
More than third Of the vote was
cast in the first six hours of the cleo
ton at plants in Pittsburgh and
Aliquippa. Pa.
Mill men, who have opposed one
another since the Steel Workers Or
ganizing Committee began its union
drive last June, mingled good natured-
ly as they cast their ballots under
supervision of the National Labor Re-
lations Board
They left the polling booths in the
mills to return to their Jobs before the
white-bot furnaces to await results Of
the election, which will be announced
tomorrow.
The lines Of voters resembled a
typical mill town election group
Negroes mingled with strong, grimy-
faced white men. The men talked in
the languages Of many foreign coun-
tries as they waited for their ballots.
Instructions in Three Languages.
Even the election instructions were
printed in three languages, English
Italian and Slavish.
While quiet prevailed throughout
the mill districts, the steel workers
Organizing Committee announced war
rants had been issued against seven
employees OF the Republic Steel Corp
whom Chairman Philip Murray charg-
ed with attempting to interfere" with
the election.
Justice of the Peace John Lynch
Of Beaver Falls, Pa, said he issued
the warrants.
Lynch said the warrants charged
conspiracy to commit assault and
carrying concealed weapons without a
permit and were issued against these
men:
j. S. Williams. Cleveland; Edward
Todd and John Keiffer, both of Buff
falo; Fred Rhodes, Joseph Gilroy
Canton, Ohio; Willard Hannah, War
rem, Ohio, and Charles Fette, Youngs-
town, Ohio.
Republic stated yesterday it had
sent men to Aliquippa to observe, but
denied there was any plan to interfere
with the election
Ernest c. Dunbar, acting regional
(See STRIKE, Page A-3.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
III Mother of Russ C0l1.n,bo
Still Unaware Son Is Dead

he picked it up, absent-mindedly, and
was toying with it.
Suddenly, there WAS an explosion.
A steel ball struck the desk, ricocheted,
and buried itself in the singers FORE
head. He lived only few hours.
Long months passed, and his
mother gained slowly. One of her
first wishes was to see "Ruggiero."
They told her Russ had been called
to England for motion picture work.
All her visitors were initiated care
fully into the "merciful lie." Hospital
attendants censored" the newspapers
she read. Finally she was able to go
home
Huge bouquets came daily to her.
Each box bore the card from Carole
and Russ" At the time Of his death,
the singer and Carole Lombard, the
screen star, were constant compan-
ions. The actress frequently visited
her and they exchanged information
about Russ, things he wrote" in his
letters"
''They haven't told her." DR.. Blod-
sett said today. she still thinks Russ
Is in England. She's happy, and It's
better that way"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
By the Associated Press.

HOLLYWOOD, May 20. - Nearly
three years have gone since Russ Co.
Jumbo, Hollywood singer, was killed
accidentally with a Civil War pistol.
His mother. Mrs. Julia Columbo, still
knows nothing Of the tragedy.
For her sake the "merciful lie" that
he is alive and well has been per-
petuated by his brothers, sisters and
the people who were his friends. They
may never tell her.
She is.old and in poor health.
Late in September, 1884, she sui.
fered a stroke. Her physician, DR..
H. H. Blodgett, saved her life. The
attack left her with a serious heart
condition, he said, and impaired her
eyesight.
On the third day Of her illness, her
son started toward the Santa Monica
Hospital, where she was lying. He
stopped, en- route, to see his friend,
Lansing Brown. They were facing
each other on oppodte sides Of .
heavy oaken desk In Browns study.
An old Civil War pistol, an ornament,
lay On top Of the dsak. Brown said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
SENATE APPROVES
RED RIDER REPORT
House Consideration of Re.
peal Resolution Due
Next Week.

The Senate approved without debate
today the conference report to repeal
the red rider, with the stipulation
that this action is not to be construed
as permitting advocacy of communism
The report now goes to the House for
consideration, but may not be taken
up there until next week.
The rider has been a source Of con-
troversy ever since it was attached
to the District appropriation act two
years ago in the form of a restriction
providing that no salary could be paid
to any school employe who taught or
advocated communism. The controller
generals Office held that to comply
with the rider, teachers must sign a
statement each pay day that they had
not violated the rule.
An oral agreement to remove It
from the statute books, with the stipu-
lation that this step does not imply
approval OF communism, was reached
by the conferees last week. A con-
ference report embodying the agree
ment was drawn up yesterday by Rep
resentative Kennedy. Democrat, Of
Maryland, and signed by the con-
ferees.
The House originally voted to mod
lily the rider instead of repeating it.
The modification would have elimi-
mated the ban on teaching and re-
moved the controllers requirement
for payday statements, while retain
ing the restriction on advocacy. The
Senate twice voted for outright re-
peal
Representative Mccormack, Demo-
crat, Of Massa chusetts, who sponsored
the modification plan, examined the
conference report yesterday and it is
understood to be acceptable to him.
Chairman Norton of the House Dis
trict Committee complimented Repre-
sentative Kennedy on the conference
agreement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20

yacht Atlantic, while the English
yacht awaited inspection by customs,
health and immigration authorities.
Until passed by those officials, no one
was permitted aboard Viva, which
remained anchored in the stream.
A signalman on the Viva advised a
55-mile gale was blowing When the
tow line parted. His signals were in
terpreted to mean Endeavour I con-
tinued under her jury keith rig toward
home"
Whether that meant back to Cos
port, England, or on to Newport was
not clear, but local .'achtsmen believe
she was continuing to the scene of the
approaching international sailing con-
test.
Endeavour I was defeated by RAIN
bow, sailed by Harold S. Vanderbilt,
(See ENDEAVOUR, Page A-9)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
2 KILLED AS TRUCK
C0LLIDES WITH TRAIN
Marine and Civilian Victims OF
Crash at Quantico
Crossing.
6y the Associated Press.

FREDERICKSBURG. Va, MAY 90
Two men. Marine and a civilian,
were instantly killed about 9:15 o'clock
this morning, when a Marine Corps
truck on which they were riding
crashed into a northbound r. F. e.
r. r. passenger train at a grad.
crossing in Quantico
The dead were identified as Pvt.
Willie E. Duke. Marine Corps, and
Willie Stribling, about 40, of Stat
ford County.
An unidentified colored man leaped
from the truck before the collision
occurred and was unhurt.
The locomotive was nearly knocked
from the tracks by the impact, rail.
road authorities said. The train was
delayed an hour and half, but there
was no traffic tie-up as northbound
trains were routed over southbound
tracks.
The only apparent explanation for
the crash was the failure of the trucks
brakes to hold on an incline ap-
preaching the railway crossing. A
Marine sentry is on duty as hagman
at the crossing day and night.
Inquiries were launched by Marine
Corps and R. F. & P. authorities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
"Husbund" Dies
Before Couple
Can See Pastor
BY the Associated Press


RICHMOND, Va, May 20-Dr.
w. A. Picker. State registrar of vital
statistics, said today he received the
following letter from a Southwest
Virginia matror after noting that his
records showed no minister's sigma
ture on the marriage license:
Dear Sir,
Il received your letter which you
wrote Charles, asking about the mar
rage license. I tell you sir We did
not see no minister when We got the
papers at the court we both thought
that was all you had to do to get
married we never was married before
e. We did not no about it. an
sending the papers I have you car
look them over if you need them keer
them If not send them back &. sir
I tell you my man Charles is deac
got killed April 2, 1887 last month
sure was bad. But I won't forget
about the minister again."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
SUPPLY BILL DELAY
is ASKED PENDING
D. c. TAX PROGRAM
Thomas Says Enactment
Should Await Adoption
of Revenue Plans,
DR.. BALL0U APPEARS
BEFORE SENATE BODY
He and Other School Officials Are
Called to Discuss House Ap-
preparation Slash.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
racing deficit OF nearly sS,0OO,-
600 in District finances, Commits
s1oners and members of Congress
have been 1Oorking for several weeks
on more than score OF tar pro-
poSals
House subcommittee is n,akino
surrey OF complete District tar
structure, NTH fire point program
OF Commissioners before it for
consideration. On Senate side. sub.
committee is studying reuenue Dos
s,hlittes along NTH 1888 District
appropriation bill.
AS District officials prepared to sub.
NIT their 100000 of new local taxes
to congressional committees by the
nrst OF next week, Chairman Thomas
OF the Senate subcommittee handling
the 1888 District supply bill today de-
clared 1t would be unWise to carry tina
appropriation bill to final enactment
until the method of raising the re.
qulred revenue is agreed upon.
He indicated, after the third day Of
hearings on the supply bill, that it is
lmmaterial to him which committee
works out the tax program, but that
ne believes it would be illogical to
pass the appropriations without know.
ing where the money is to come from
to make the budget balance.
Meanwhile, the Senate subcommit.
tee devoted todays session to hearing
DR.. Frank w. Ballou and other school
offlc1aS explain school items that
were approved by the Budget Bureau
but reduced in the House.
School Fund Figures.
1t is understood subcommittee mem.
oers asked school officials to get fig.
ures showing how the percentage Of
the District budget earmarked for
schools compares with the propor-
ton OF the total budget allotted for
schools in other cities.
The request is reported to have
followed testimony to the effect that
the District should devote a larger
percentage of its total annual ex.
penditure to schools.
one subcommittee member Is UNDER
stood to take the view, however, that
the amount should be based on the
local requirements for schools, rather
than on certain percentage of the
total. Subcommittee members are re-
ported to have asked officials If thew
took the Districts revenue situation
lhto consideration in preparing tho
school estimates, and received an af-
flrmative answer.
House Cut S551,285.
AS 1t came from the House the bill
carried a total for all school PURPOSES
OF sl2,7ol ,6So. cut of $751; ,285 be-
low the Budget Bureau recommended
ton. For buildings and grounds the
House reduced the budget estimate
from s2,165,0 to s1,683,OO0. Since
the bill passed the House the Budget
Bureau has recommended to the
Senate an additional sl5O,0OO to meet
rise in the cost of construction on
five school buildings since the prof.
ects were authorized.
Inc Senate group also took testi.
mony regarding the effect of House
rider to restrict the amount of cleri.
cal work school teachers may per.
form.
1t is expected the Commissioners
Will have their tax bills ready before
(See TAXES, Page A-40
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
a ARE EXECUTED
AS SP|ESBY SOVIET
Condemned Declared AGENTS
of Japanese in Far East
Sabotage.
By the Associated Press.

MOSCOW, May 20.-The Soviet
government was disclosed today to
have carried out the greatest mass
execution Of spies in three years,
shooting 43 men and one woman con-
victed of espionage and sabotage plots,
allegedly under the orders of the
japanese secret service"
The spies were lined up before fir
ing squads at Svobodny in the Far
East on May 9.
The executions were the first Of
their type to be carried out since
Joseph Stain, secretary-general of
the Communist party, last March
called for greater vigilance to wipe
out spying and sabotage, and declared
"the enemy must be exterminated
mercilessly"
The shootings took place shortly
after the conclusion of the trial of the
A before a military collegium of the
supreme court.
Communique Published.
A communique published in the
newspaper Pacific Star at Khabarovsk,
on the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. bor-
der, $50 miles north of Vladivostok,
said:
"a military collegium of the Su-
preme Court of the U. S. S. R. has
examined the case of a group of Trot-
Zkyist espionage diversionists which
acted under the leadership and &C
cording to the orders of the Japanese
Secret Service in organizing railroad
wrecks in the Far East"
The communique added that the 43
men and one woman had been con-
demned to death and "the sentence
has been carried out"
Thousands Under Arrest.
Thousands of other oppositionists to
the Soviet Russian government poll
cies are known to be under arrest.
The Far Eastern executions came
upon the heels Of repeated daily warn
| ings in the entire Soviet press to citi-
zens against what was termed the
espionage tactics of Japan and Ger
many.
The government also has expelled
numerous foreigners from the Soviet
Far East on suspicion Of either espion-
age or sabotage activities for the Japa-
nese.
All of those executed were Russians.
The woman shot was Da Panova
Shargoroskaya.
| Others Executed.
| The government executed about 100
persons three years ago after the
assassination OF Sergei M. Kiron, chief
aide to Stain, at Leningrad on Janu-
airy IL, 1894.
| (Thirteen persons convicted Of plot
ting against the Soviet government
were executed February l after trea-
son trials the previous month in
Moscow.
In those trials the name of "Mr
H." figured prominently in testi-
mony as an alleged plotter against
the Soviet Union. Mr.. H." later was
identified as a Japanese Embassy At
tache, S. Hiroshima, recently trans
ferred to Warsaw The Soviet gov
eminent requested his Withdrawal
from Moscow. 4Ehree Of Is defend
ants in, the treason trials said he
had suggested plans to wreck the
Soviet railway system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
bulletin

Proposed legislation for the re-
tirement Of Government employees
at 60 years Of age after 80 years
service and 81 after Is years serv-
ice was virtually agreed upon today
at a conference between President
Roosevelt and the Civil Service
Commission.
Under the compulsory plan in
effect now retirement ages of Diff
ferent classifications are 81, IS and
10. While the new plan was de-
scribed As optional, the option rests
with the Government - well IS thu
0mnloro.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
Energetic" Protest.

BERLIN, May 20 Energetic"
representations to the United States
Government by DR.. Hans H. DECK
hoff, the German Ambassador to
Washington, were disclosed today as
Nazi Germany's newest reaction to an
anti-Hitler speech by George, Cardi-
nal Mundelein of Chicago.
An official communique issued BY
the German News Agency, D. N. B..
said:
THE German Embassy at Wash
ington made energetic representations
in the State Department on account
OF the silly and tactless insults to the
Fuehrer and Reichsfuehrer by Chi
cago Cardinal Mundelein."
The controlled German press ban
ner-lined the action as energetic
German protest in U. S. A."
These were in turn followed bv
Berlin representations by the United
States Ambassador against Nazi press
attacks on American citizens and in
situations.
Cardinal Mundelein on Tuesday said
In q diocesan speech at Chicago that
tbs German trials OF priests and lay
brothers on immortality charges con.
stituted propaganda worse than the
atrocity tales Of the World War. He
termed Propaganda Minister Paul 10.
seph Goebbel crooked" and said OF
Hitler that he was IAN Austrian paper.
hanger, and poor one at that"
The German press immediatel,
burst into protest, asking if the HOLY
See would permit such a speech Al
Vatican City prelates said the cardi.
nal had right to speak his own MIND
and that the Holy See would not in.
terfere.
Neither Hitler nor Konstantin vor
Neurath, Reich foreign minister, wert
in Berlin today, and spokesman sale
he believed there were no specific
orders for the protest.
"Dieckhof1," said this spokesman
Knows his business"
BY this, he explained the Dieckhof
protest had been or would be made OF
general, rather than specific, direc'
lions to the Ambassador.
Press protests, started by Goebbels
Der Angriff, were taken up by virtual,
(See HITLER, Page A-9.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
DELBOS TO SEE ICELAND

PARIS, May 20 LP.-Foreign Min
lister Yvon Delbos left for Brussels
today for discussions with Premier
Paul Van iceland and other Belgian
leaders on the European situation.
Delbos conferred earlier this week
with Russian Foreign Commissar
Maxim Litvinof and DR.. Guido
Schmidt, Austrian undersecretary for
foreign affairs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
WORKER FATALLY HURT
IN BLAST OF OIL DRUM
Another Slightly Injured When
Head of Tank Blows Out
in Test
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWTN, Md, May 90
Harry J. w. Renner of Hagerstown,
father of nine children was fatally
injured this morning when the head of
an oil drum blew out while being
tested in the yards of the New York
Central Iron Works here.
One other worker was slightly in,
jured. An investigation Is being made
to ascertain the cause of the explo-
sion. Renner died shortly after reach
ing the Washington County Hospital,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
NEWPORT, R. l., May 20 a.
Capt. Wallace Grint of the Viva
said today the crew of the En-
deavour had reported all we'll" and
were proceeding to the United
States.
By the Associated Press.
n NEWPORT, R. l., May 2O-The
M yacht Viva. which had been
" conveying T. O. NJ Sopwith's
L Endeavour I, one of his two
prospective challengers for the Amer
ica's Cup, arrived at Newport alone
today and reported the big sloop had
parted her tow line In gale 900 miles
of Newport and was somewhere out in
the Atlantic.
Meager details were signaled by the
Viva to Gerard B. Larnberts schooner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
DIZZY DEAN FINED

NEW YORK, May 20 R.-Dxxy
Dean and Jimmy Ripple each were
fined $50 by Ford Prick, president
Of the National League today, for their
tight In the st. Louis New
York Giants game Ut st. Louis yester-
day.