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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-13
Agriculture Takes
House Spotlight

International News Service
Agriculture took the spotlight
in the House today as members
pondered President Roosevelt's
demand for a long-range "all-
weather" farm program, a vetoed
farm.loan bill and the Administra-
tons farm tenancy legislation.
Widespread approval greeted
the Presidents three-point pre-
posa1 for a permanent farm act,
but sharp conflict between organ.
lied agriculture, Secretary Of Agri.
culture Wallace ana members OF
Congress over methods Of achiev-
ing the program broke out anew.
The President, in a letter to
Chairman Jones, of the House Ag-
riculture Committee, proposed the
permanent program embrace soil
conservation, an ever-normal gran
airy, and protection of farm prices
and farm income"
Jones said a conference report
on the farm tenancy bill would be
submitted to the House.
Representative Hope Of Kansas,
ranking Republican on the agri'
culture committee, said there are
four or five bills pending in Con.
gress right now that would meet
the three requirements" laid down
by the President in his letter to
Jones.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-13
RACKET CASE IS PUSHED

ton which resulted in the hand
ing down of more than 80 indict-
mentS against the nine men.
so Witnesses Called
States Attorney Bowie has
marShalled more than so wit
nesses, to appear at the trials to
testify against the police, most
Of whom claim they were vic
tins of the bonding and ticket
fixing racket. Bowie will be
assisted by Special Prosecutor
Ogle Marbury.
The defense boasts an imposing
array of attorneys, headed by Lans-
dale G. SaSscer, president Of the
Maryland State Senate. He will
defend Elmer Humphrey, bonds
man, of Suitland, Md, who is fac
ing IL charges Of conspiracy to OBJ
struct justice. T. Van Clagget, IT,,
of Upper Marlboro, is defending
Warren Peake, one Of the indicted
policemen. Herbert Moffat, for.
mer justice Of the peace, and the
other six policemen are being de-
Tended by Attorneys Frank Hall
and George Burroughs, of Upper
Marlboro. Moffat, in addition to
the conspiracy charges, also is &C.
cused of malfeaSance in office.
One of the policemen, Howard
Slater, is absent from the trials
because of illness. His counsel
asked that he be tried with the
rest of the men on the blanket in
dictment, but that he retain the
right to move for a severance
should his physical condition pre-
vent his defense later.
| Associate Judges Joseph c. Mat
tingly and William Loker will hear
the cases, Chief Judge Walter ].
Mitchell being absent because Of
illness.
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Continued from Page II
81 Of the 80 challenges at his dis
poSal. The defense used only 80
of their 100 challenges. The bench
dismissed about a dozen persons
after they had said they had
formed an opinion on the case.
More Persons Called
After exhauSting the regular
panel Of 4S men, the court or
dered Sheriff J. Guy Bell to call
more prospective jurors from their
homes and off the streets.
The jurors selected yesterday
clude William McQueeney
Takoma Park, a decorator;
George E. Simmons, Clinton, a
former Waterman at Greenbelt;
Jerry Bond, colored, ForeStville,
a farmer; Sidney Ripple, West
wood, a salesman; Frank Tippett,
Cheltenham, a farmer; George
Wyville. Upper Marlboro. a
garage owner; James L. Loring,
Capitol Heights; Daniel R.
Thorne, Clinton, a mechanic
Irving Main, Capitol Heights, a
merchant, and Ben F. Duvall
of Upper Marlboro.
The keystone Automobile Club
of Washington last fall instigated
the investigation into the alleged
bonding racket" at the Hyatts
vile Substation and brought
about the grand jury investiga
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-13
COUNTY FIGHTS
F0RA|RP0RT

ARLINGTON, Va, July 13.-Di-
rectors Of the Arlington County
Chamber of Commerce last night
voted to help retain the Washing
ton Airport in Arlington County,
by asking the County Board at its
meeting tomorrow to withdraw its
objection to removal of the Mill
tary Road running through the
airport.
Removal of the road advocated
by Samuel j. Solomon, vice presi.
dent and manager Of Washing
ton Airport, will be pushed by
the chamber with a view to hav-
ing pilots withdraw their objec-
lions to the present airport site.
Solomon said removal of the road
will permit permanent improve
ments and enlargement Of the
airport.
The chamber officials have been
given to understand that the Fed
eral Government is willing to close
the road through the airport If
the County Board withdraws its
objection.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-13
Coz. Murphy Bans
Detroit Milk Strike

Frank Murphy who forced peaceful settlement of the
spreading strike Of C. O. union the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-13
NLRB Hears Charges
Of Ford Violations

DETROIT, July 10 Q.N.SJ.
The National Labor Relations
Board today was to hear witnesses
in support of charges the Ford
Motor Company violated the Wag-
ner act by discharging workers for
union activity.
Thirty-eight witnesses allegedly
fired for joining the c. I. O.'s
United Automobile Workers Union
were ready to testify.
Yesterday the NLRB heard the
last of testimony concerning the
riot at the gates of the Ford plant
in Dearborn May 26. Witnesses
said Ford service department men
precipitated the riot at a signal
from a man identified as Richter. "
The unioniStS were beaten when
they attempted to distribute
U. A. w. literature to Ford work.
ers at a change of shift.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-13
Youngstown Opens
Indiana Steel Plant

CHICAGO, July 10 G.N.S0.
One thousand employees entered
the Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Company'S plant at Indiana Har-
Dor today and resumed work, end
ing a Seven-weekS-old strike.
It was expected that another
thousand or two would report
later in the day, but plant Off
Gals said it would be several days
before the company would be run
ming at full capacity with all 1000
regular workers back.
AS the men returned to work
they passed big placards placed by
the company on its grounds, stat
ing that the s. w. o. C. and the
C. I. o. had nothing whatever to
do with the plants reopening.
Despite withdrawal Of picket
lines, a victory statement by the
s. w. o. C. and a company an
nouncement that no diScrimina-
ton against strikers would be
made, tension remained in the air
because Of:
Bitter controversy as to
whether the company had made
an agreement with S. w. o. C.
thOrugh Governor M. Clifford
Townsend.
Rivalry between the s. W. o.
C. and the Association Of Steel
plOyes, an Independent
union, which allegedly resulted
in one case of violence and
three arrests last night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-13

p1GCGo WC4C 4AOVSN 3ASSS WAN S'S"
Deal mosaic.
The President overnight advised
the country that:
Farmers no longer are en-
titled to extremely low interest
rates on Federal land-bank
loans.
Farmers and consumers alike
should be protected on the other
hand against drought and crop
instability by Congressional adOp-
ton Of the biblical "ever-nOrmal
granary" idea.
The Administration definitely
(iS) seeking the balancing" Of
the 1888 budget.
FOLLOW GOLDEN RULE
Corporations and business en-
terprises must follow the golden
rule more closely elm their rela-
ton to the body polite"
An experiment will be under.
taken in Massachusetts by James
Roosevelt, his son and secretary,
to see If concerted civic action
can absorb thousands Of relief
rollers enfOrcedly dropped from
WPA rolls because of budget
necessity.
A veto message denied the farm.
ers another year Of 3h per cent
interest rates and a second year
at 4 per cent. The President said
farm prices had increased more
than 100 per cent since 1932-33
and the farmers were now able
to pay normal rates.
Like Granary Idea
The ceremonial granary'' idea,
long sponsored by Secretary OF
Agriculture Wallace, was seconded
by Mr.. Roosevelt in letters to Sen
ate and House agriculture chair
men.
Reiteration Of his determine
ton to balance this years budget
was confined in the farm interest
rate veto message. The president
rebelled against spending $3i, TOO,
600 this year and $21, 200, 900 next
year in the form Of gifts to in
dividual borrowers"
International News Service
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-13
TODAY IN
CONGRESS
SENATE

SENATE
Met at noon.
Resumed court bill debate.
Education and Labor Commit
tee considered Wagner housing
bill.
HOUSE
Met at noon.
Considered omnibus claims bill.
Banking and Currency Commit
tee considered Goldsborough
monetary bill.
Interstate Commerce Commit
tee considered amendments to the
securities act.
Agriculture Committee consid'
cred farm credit bill.
Labor Committee continued
wage-hour bill.
Joint committee continued tax
evasion study.
Insular Affairs Committee con
Sidered Puerto Rican and Philip
pine bills.
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NOR lately asserted:
mo group viii be allowed to
shut off the city's milk, thus en-
dangering the lives Of children
and the health of the populace."
The governor said he had not
been asked to intervene by either
side. and indicated he would not
enter the lawest labor controversy
IN the nations fourth largest city
unless asked, or in event Of the
threatened general strike.
Governor Murphy did not indi-
cate what action he would take
it unionistS call a citywide strike
t oenforce their demands for a
closed shop and the checkoff sys-
TEN
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-13
LAST HUNT ON
FOR EARHART
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planes today will be postponed
only if the weather gets worse,
officials said.
Most of the Lexington's 800
airmen fear no trace of Miss Ear
hart's plane, forced down near
Rowland Island on a 2,570-mile
trip from Lac. New Guinea, will
be found.
After the initial $4,000 square
miles surrounding Rowland has
been secured the search will broad
en- to an area of 100000 square
miles. Then, if no trace of the
lost filters is found the hunt will
be abandoned.
Three catapault planes of the
U. S. S. Colorado have scanned
the Phoenix Islands, a little group
of sand specks $50 miles due south
of Rowland. This search was un-
availing.
The Colorado, after refueling
the deStroyers Drayton, Lamson
and Cushing, proceeded to its base
at Pearl Harbor today. The
three destroyers assumed pc
sitions to safeguard the Licking
tons airmen during the search.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-13
Rumors of Earhart's
Rescue Stir Tokyo

TOKYO, July 10 Q.N.S0.
Vague and unconfirmed rumors
that Amelia Earhart and Fred
Noonan have been rescued by a
japanese fishing boat without a
radio, and therefore unable to
make any report, found no veri-
fication here today, but plunged
Tokyo into fever of excitement.
The Navy Department had no
official word of any such rescue.
but was striving to ascertain the
position of the fishing boat ru.
mored to have effected the rescue.
Tokyo newspapers had a virtual
field day. Stories specializing about
the rumorS were given tremen-
dous play. competing with deveI-
opments in North China for the
most prominent display.
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ROOSEVELT SON
DENIES EVASION

Continued from Page u
connection directly or indirectly
with any foreign holding com.
pany."
QUIZZED ON BUSINESS
Representative Treadway tR.) of
Massachusetts,, questioned Roose-
welt on his insurance brokerage
business in Boston. He said he
had headed the firm Of Roosevelt
g. Sargent. Treadway asked:
"YOu were successful in sen.
ing insurance to many cor.
pOratlOns?"
Eyes"
Treadway asked Roosevelt to
name some Of the corporations
to whom he sold insurance.
|, II object" interpOsed Rep
resentative Vinson 3D. Of
Kentucky.
Treadway emanded that
Young Roosevelt, who went into
business in 1880. submit his in.
come tax returns for the last
five years.
II move that the request be
held in allegiance and conSid.
cred In executive session." In
terposed Representative Cooper
3D. Of Tennessee.
CALLS HIM DUMB"
Treadway objected, and Vim.
son, declaring that Treadway's
proposal was out Of order, called
him dumb" -
Young Roosevelt said that he
would gladly submit his tax re.
turns.
During the row, the lanky
Roosevelt stood nonchalantly at
the witness stand with his hands
in his pockets.
When order was resumed.
Treadway again asked Young
Roosevelt to name the persons
with whom he was in business
in Boston.
81 object" Vinson barked
again.
els the objection sustained?"
TreadaWay asked Chairman
DOughtOn.
at isl ....-s. T..
ri felt sure 1t would be-"
Treadaway remarked sarcastf-
Cally.
Senator La Toilette CP.) Of Wis.
consin said he understood RooSe.
welt had no objection to submit
ting his tax returns or answering
Treadway's questions concerning
his insurance clients.
"NO objection whatever" re-
piled the son of the President.
Chairman Doughton then eX.
cused him from the witness stand.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-13
Guardsmen Maintain
Peace at MassiIlon

MASsIILON, Ohio, July 10
GN.S0.-Nonunion workers went
to and from their jobs in the Re
public Steel Corporation plant here
without interference from c. I. o.
pickets today as National Guards
men looked on.
Picket lines were dissolved and
gatherings Of either c. I. o. men
or nonunionists forbidden follow
ing Sunday nights clash between
police and union SympathizerS
fatal to two persons.
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Evening star., 1937-09-26
by j. EDGAR Hoover
Director Of tie Federal Bveeov of Investigation

The sex 6end is progressive crimi-
nal. He often begins with annoyances.
He progresses to the sending of obscene
letters, or exhibitionism. One finds him
annoying" children, or following
women. For all these things, he often
is merely fined, or given 'orders to
leave town." or punished by short Jail
Evening star., 1937-09-26

sentences - none of which deters him
in the slightest degree from other and
more serious offenses. And every sex
criminal is potential murderer.
Therefore, it would seem that the
problem Of the sex criminal is being
mishandled - that the general apathy
of the public toward all criminal mat
tiers has resulted in condition whereby
such potential murderers are merely
slapped on the wrist.
If this is so, there is urgent need for
new approach to the problem, and
one which will deal with it specifically,
More than law enforcement is con-
cerned. 1t is problem for investiga-
ton, deeply applied study and careful
approach preceding the making of laws
designed specifically for the handling of
a type of offender different from the
general run.
This study should be directed from
all sides. 1t should be determined, for
instance, to what extent the recently
widespread use of marijuana, or Amer
lean hashish, has been responsible for
the sex crime. The history of every Of
fender should be delved into deeply
and reports made upon this angle.
1t is only in late years that marijuana
has swept across the country and, in
deed, much less would be known about
it today had not the Federal Bureau of
Narcotics, working under its Com
missioner, H. J. Anslinger, been quick
to recognize its dangers, to obtain
scientific opinions regarding its effects
upon the human system, and work for
Federal legislation looking toward its
control. A bill giving the Federal
Narcotics Bureau real power in mari
juana suppression has recently passed
(Continvsd on pogo 13)
Evening star., 1937-09-26

mitted numerous murders recently in
all parts of America. An examination
of the past of these persons often will
reveal that they have been repeatedly
dealt with as petty offenders when, in
truth, their every action was blazing
signpost pointing to future of torture,
rape, mutilation and murder.
Evening star., 1937-09-26

-HE sex 6end, most loathsome of
all the vast army of crime, has
become a sinister threat to the
safety of American childhood
and womanhood.
From one end of the United States
to the other, women and little girls
have been murdered by this beast. No
parent can feel secure that his children
are safe from attack. The sex 6end may
strike anywhere, at any time. In one
large eastern city alone, an arrest for
sex crime is made every six hours, on
the average, night and day.
Let US look at the sex criminal for
what he really is. He isn't some fabled
monster; he isn't some demon, born
full-blown, that suddenly descends
upon women and little girls; he isn't
a product of our modern age" he
is a definite and serious result of
apathy and indifference in the ham
ding of out-of-the-ordinary offenders.
There is definite need for greater
understanding of what lies behind a
crime. In other words, an offense does
not end with the mere commission oft.
More and more attention should be
given to the past history of the GRIM
inal. The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton inquiries into every phase of an
offenders past history, and, as re-
suit, we have learned volumes as to
what part parental indifference, parole
abuses, political protection and other
factors have played in turning an ordi-
nary offender into dangerous, preda-
tory animal, preying upon society
because he has been taught he can get
away with it.
Much the same story can be found
in the history of almost any of our sex
fiends, Of the type who have COM
copy1he. 1887. Uaitsd Nswspspsss MaGasias Corposa
Evening star., 1937-09-26
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Evening star., 1937-04-27
Spelling Bee Passes.

One by one the dear traditions of the
past are falling like leaves from a weary
Autumn-tinted tree. The latest to be
started toward oblivion is the old time
spelling bee, which, according to Federal
Commissioner of Education John w.
Studebaker, really was all mistake" :"
A modern child-Heaven help the poor
youngster!-may study orthography un-
der improved conditions. Indeed, it is
suggested that he will get along faster,
even if he isn't taught his A B C's until
the third or fourth grade" And speed,
everybody concurs, is so attractive a
fetish that it would be treason to chal-
lenge it. Toddlers, like their pathetic
elders, must be hurried along in panic
haste regardless of consequences. THE
race is to the swift" as never before.
What boots it then If m institution USE
full to earlier generations is blasted
aside? Let it go; there is a quicker
method than alphabet drills! "Now-
adays pupils learn to recognize words
as objects" The Chinese made a similar
discovery four or five milleniums ago.
But Dr.. Studebaker Is far too much
Evening star., 1937-04-27

the talents and the labors by which they
were won. In every department of con-
temporary life his influence was con-
structively manifest through more than
half century. His campaign for the
unif1cation Of the Methodist churches
is but single instance of the bridge
building genius for which he was and
will remain famous. But he likewise
will be gratefully remembered for his help
to education, his opposition to the liquor
traffic, his final participation in the de-
Tense of che fundamental institutions of
his country.
Bishop Mcdowell died as he would
have wished-seventy- mine years of age,
but still active in the cause of his
Saviour and the practical Christian
idealism which was attested on the cross.
The city in which he made his home
will miss its great Wesleyan leader, but
it never will quite let him go, never
really part with him. He belongs to the
Nation and its Capital forever.
Evening star., 1937-04-27

Whatever may have been the plans
OF Major LEnfant for the District of
Columbia, the fact remains that he had
cavalry and infantry in mind and had
no prescience of a mob that might be
able to get hold Of a few bootleg air.
ships. In the emergencies which his
imagination, perhaps overwrought, con-
templated, there was no suggestion OF
the influence which Greek temple in
honor OF Jefferson might have in calming
a populace momentarily aroused in
turbulent fancy.
Evening star., 1937-04-27
DOllar.a-Citizen Plan
To Balance the Budget

To the Editor OF The Star:
At this time, when we hear SO much
discussion in regard to balancing the
budget, and we, as Americans. would
like to have feeling of security and
peace of mind concerning national
affairs and the safety of the country
now and in the years ahead for the COM
ing generation I would like to propose
suggestion. inspired by thought that
came to me in the quiet of the night.
1t is this Every American should give
one dollar year until the budget is
balanced. 1t would not be much of
tax on any one and very easy and sure
way of raising over billion year 1t
would definitely give our wonderful
America q more secure foundation, and
we, as true Americans, are individually
responsible for the welfare of our coun-
try. Certainly it would bring about
feeling of goodwill and a united pa
triotism which is needed today, of all
working together personally toward one
goal-for the good of our nation.
BESSIE POWELL DUNLOP.