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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
BY DON S. WARREN.

Reconstruction of the entire finan-
clal structure of the Washington Gas
Light Co., involving a S13,5O00OO bond
and stock deal, was proposed TODAY
by company officials in petitions filed
with the Public Utilities Commission.
Attached to the financial program
and made a part of it, was a proposal
for the purchase by the Washington
Co. OF the HyattSVille and Alexandria
gas companies. All three of the COM
panleS now are controlled by the
washington & Suburban Cos. a COM
mon-laW trust representing the Chase
Bank and associated financial inter-
eSts.
The Washington Co. proposes to paw
lump sum for the two suburban con-
Germs OF Sl250,000, or just s125 900
less than the price which the commits
sion rejected last October as being
too high.
The purchase price for the suburban
concerns would be paid either in pro-
posed preferred stock which the Wash
lngton Co. would issue, or in cash from
the proceeds of the sale of such stock
to the public
Brief Summary of et-Up.
Stated briefly, the financial reor-
ganlzatlon is proposed in this fashion:
/. Long-term bond issues now out
stand, TO the amount of s11,44o. 900,
would be refinanced with a new issue
OF $10,000.000 of refunding bonds, at
lower interest rate.
2. There would be an issue of Al.
per cent preferred stock, to the extent
OF about sl,500000, on which there
would be cumulative dividends at the
rate of $3.50 per year.
3. There would be an additional
issue of the proposed preferred stock,
amounting to 100000, to be used to
pay off outstanding bank loans and to
REIMBURSE the company for its expendi-
lures for construction and new prop
erty extensions.
4. The present outstanding common
stock there now is no preferred stock
would be split at the rate of three for
one, so that when this program was
conSummated there would be 100000
shares in the Washington company. in
stead OF the present 10000.
D. Permission also is asked for the
Issuance Of additional common stock
which would be offered as substitute
for the proposed preferred stock, which
would be issued at the outset of the
financial reorganization. If this were
done before the present common was
split three to one, there would be 35,-
600 shares of this issue, or if done
after the stock split there would be
los 900.
The plan is to give full voting
rights to the preferred issue.
Commission Is Silent,
Members Of the commission had no
statement on the proposals for the
time being, wishing first to study the
details. 1t appears likely a public
hearing will be called at least on that
part of the program dealing with the
proposed purchase from the trust OF
the two suburban concerns. 1t is said
the law does not make a public hear
ing mandatory on the stock and bond
issues, but one could be held if the
commission deems it in public interest
An answer to this question was de-
ferred.
The present plan is related to, but
would be precedent to, the proposal
of the trust owning the Washington
(See GAS LIGHT, Page A-3)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
LOAN INSTALlMENT
is 0VERSUBSCRIBED
Bids Threefold Sufficient to Fund
Current 0ffering-Lists
Closed at Once.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, March 12.-The Office OF
Premier Leon Blum announced TODAY
the first installment of the defense
loan - 5,0OO,00O,oOO francs (about
$c25 ,000,000) - had been oversub-
scribed.
Subscription lists we're immediately
closed. There were reports the loan
had been oversubscribed three times,
but official figures were not immedi-
ately available.
Todays subscription represents ap-
proximately half of the total loan of
10,500,000,000 francs (s479,85O ,OOO)
approved by Parliament.
Information available indicated
there had been no subscription by
American banks. 1t was understood
that the long-term nature of the pro-
posed loan did not attract them.
Financial ources reported London
banks were taking up half of the in
stallment and French banks were re-
ceiving many orders in view of the
high interest offered-l2 per cent.
Ofhcials hoped to issue the second
installment later in the year at terms
more favorable to the government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12

mine sent word this afternoon they
had located II others.
by the Associated Press.
LOGAN w. Va, March 12.-Rescue
workers in the Macbeth mine flashed
word to the mouth today they had
reached "a cluster of bodies"
Send in all the available stretchers
and about 20 men, we can't bring
them out" Garland Skaggs. mine en-
gineer, said the rescuers asked.
Three bodies already had been found
and Is miners were missing in the
explosion wrecked mine.
At 1870 am. Skaggs said one
unidentified body had been brought to
the drift mouth to be hoisted to the
surface.
A squad of II relief workers entered
the mine, carrying water needed to
settle dust, and stretchers.
A grimy rescue worker who came to
the surface with the body of Floyd
Fields, 30-year-old section boss, re-
ported to the crowd of anxious watch
ers at the pit mouth:
If We do not run into any more
big falls. We may reach the place
where the others are in about three
hours.
The roof is falling badly, but the
going has been easier since early
morning. We think We are about
1900 feet from the explosion area
now after having Travelled 1000 feet"
The blast in the mine operated by
the Hutchinson Coal Co., 8 miles over
a rugged road east of Logan, occurred
shortly after o'clock last night.
The bodies of Joe Fry, motorman
and Troy Mccoy, his brakeman, were
discovered before midnight.
Then began the task Of cutting
through piled debris and lodging fall
ing roofs to the center of the ex-
plosion area. Mine inspectors said
the explosion was localized in Sec
ton about mile and a half from
the foot of the 640-foot slope which
runs down from the mine mouth.
Both Fry and Mccoy had been
hurled a hundred feet from the motor
on which they were riding. They had
been en- route to the center of the
mine with string of empty cars.
Fields body, found hundreds of feet
farther in, was badly burned and ap-
parently he was killed by the force of
the explosion.
What the crews, led by Inspectors j.
B. Hansford and R. w. Waldron,
would find on reaching the others
they could not say, but they feared
the actual explosion had killed
them all
The list of missing follows:
August Tusek, 40, coal loader, single;
Jack Tusek, 80, coal loader, married.
three children; Mike CHINO, a., coal
loader, married; Leonard Forbes, 80,
loader, married, two children; Hubert
Fleming, 81, motorman, single; Fred
McCroskey, colored, coal loader, single;
George Mccormick, 81, brakeman,
married, one child; Earl Gearhart, %,
machine man, married; James Wiley,
80, machine man, married, one child;
r. B. Kimball, "a, trackman, married,
six children, and brother-in-law of
Tom Tiller, killed in the same mine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
Mother Asks Borah
To Get Son Place
On Supreme Court
81 the Associated Press.

~ tiie hooOCldleQ FIeSS.
One ambitious mother already
is trying to get her son appointed
to the Supreme Court under
President Roosevelt's proposal for
injecting new blood" into the
judiciary.
To help her, she chose Senator
Borah, Republican, of Idaho, one
of the leading opponents OF the
bill.
The woman walked into Borah's
Office a day or two ago and
stated frankly what she wanted.
Miss Cora Rubin, the Senator's
secretary, told her Senator Borah
had no influence with the Demo-
cratic administration in obtain
ing appointments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
STRIKE DEADLOCK
STILL CONTINUES
Unions Battling to Retain
Gains as U. A. w. A..
Presses Demands.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
The strike in General Motors
Corp. plants led the Udy for pres
ent widespread labor troubles re-
uolUtng about automobile industry.
G. NJ. is about to reach agreement
NTH employees. although Chrysler,
Hudson, REQ and other automobile
concerns still are crippled BY dis
agreements. The strikes hare been
intensified by the fight OF John L.
LeUis' c. I. O. NTH the A. F. of L.
for domination of labor, Which bat
tie has been extended into the steel,
fertile and other fields in organiza-
ton attempts.
BY the Associated Press.
Leaders of two major groups affiliated
with the John L. Lewis Committee for
Industrial Organization mapped plans
today for consolidating unionization
gains.
The Steel Workers Organizing Com
mittee gathered at Pittsburgh at the
call of its director, Philip Murray
The latter said the group will plan
future strategy as we'll as review recent
developments, notably its recognition
by the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp
Homer Martin, president of the
United Automobile Workers of America
called a meeting of the Nationa
Executive Board at Cleveland Monday
and Tuesday. He claimed the unions
membership would reach 100000 by
the end of the month.
Fail to Reach Agreement.
Meanwhile, the strike stalemate be-
tween the u A. w. A. and three Michi.
gan automobile manufacturers per.
sisted, keeping more than 10000
workers idle.
The unions demand for recognition
as sole bargaining agency for all EN-.
ployes was the cause Of the disputes
that kept $4,000 Chrysler Corp. EN-.
ployes and 10000 Hudson Motor Cal
Co. workers idle at Detroit and 2,20(
REQ Motor Car Co. workers idle al
Lansing, Mich
officials OF the Los Angeles Chryslel
plant announced it would be cloSec
indefinitely because of a shortage Of
materials, keeping LOO workers idle
in the Hudson dispute and little Of
no progress was being made towarc
(See LABOR. Page A-4.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

b1 u. DOULD LlNCOLN.
While Judge John P Devaney of
Minnesota was appearing in support
of President RooSevelt's court bill
before the Senate Judiciary Committee
today, Senator Holt of West Virginia,
a Democrat, issued statement charg-
drive the Supreme Court proposal
through Congress"
1T is very interesting to note that
patronage has been very slow in being
doled out since the Presidents judicial
reorganization plan was submitted"
Holt said
1T is being held up until the boys
get right
For ID months I was not consulted
about even janitor in the Govern
ment service, but since the judicial
reorganization proposal was submitted
have been approached by high
Government official for a recommen-
dalton for an important Federal posi-
ton.
Retains His Opinion"
"They have their position; I have
my opinion"
The West Virginia Senator, who long
has been at odds with the administra-
ton, said he also had evidence that
Federal officials in the field have ap-
preached members of the Legislature
in behalf Of memorial for the Presi-
dents plan. He charged that Post
master General Farley had indicated
favors would be granted to those who
went along with the President.
Il think it will be worth while for
the people to watch the patronage
distribution during this court fight"
Judge Devaney, former Chief Justice
of the Minnesota Supreme Court and
now president of the new National
Lawyers Guild, not only upheld the
Presidents court bill, but criticized the
proposed constitutional amendment
offered by Senator O'Mahoney, Demo-
crat, of Wyoming. This would limit
the Supreme Court in declaring an act
OF Congress or of State Legislature
unconstitutional, making a two-thirds
vote necessary in the court for invali-
dalton.
That" said Judge Devaney, would
put completely within the control of
a minority of three judges the power
to prevent the court from declaring an
act nconstitutional-that is the
power of life and death over the civil
and religious liberties we have so ira
dltlonally priced. To place this power
into the hands of a minority of the
court cannot be fitted into any ra-
tlonal system of judicial review"
Adjourns Until Monday.
When the Senate committee COM
pleted its questioning of Judge De-
vaney, it adjourned until 1920 am.
Monday. At that time opponents of
the Presidents bill will have an OBJ
portunity to be heard. Senator Wheel
er of Montana, liberal Democrat. will
be the first to take the stand in op-
position to the bill
Judge Devaney, who resigned two
weeks ago from the State court. was
originally appointed to the bench by
the late Gov. Floyd B. Olson and
(see JUDICIARY, Page A-2.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
FREIGHT CAR RAMS CAFE

PEABODY, Mass. March II R.-
Martin Ward was injured by freight
car in a cafe here today.
Ward, a janitor in the establishment,
suffered injuries about the arms when
the freight car, after jumping the rails
in the business district, crashed through
window and came to rest with is
front section at the restaurant bar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
Tour Battle Reopens as Lewis
Takes Another Historic Home

Several weeks ago Mrs. Holland
threw down the gage by declaring she
would not Snow her pretentious home
unless the historic house occupied by
the organizer Of the Committee for
Industrial Organization was taken of
the list. Antique fanciers in a city OF
relics sacred to the memory of George
Washington and the Lee family were
thrown into a other. After numerous
conferences over tea cups, the showing
(see TOUR. PAGE A-3O
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
By the Associated Press.


MIAMI, Fla, March 12.-Police,
armed with trespass warrants, broke
Shutdown of some so Daily News
printers early today, but the status Of
their strike against the afternoon
newspaper remained in doubt after
they left the building.
The News arranged to publish its
first edition today by engraving type
written copy.
A spokesman for the . men, all
members of the International Typo
graphical Union, said the strike was
started at $50 last night because of
the breakdown Of negotiations with
the News for contract to replace
one that expired last September.
Hal Leyshon, editor, and Ross
Reeder, secretary treasurer Of the
News, said, however, that the paper
had valid working agreement with
the union and the strike was illegal
under union rules. Reeder said he
had communicated with Charles p.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12

Cold weather will continue in the
District for at least ~ hours, accord
ing to the forecast OF the Weather
Bureau today.
From low Of 80 degrees at 3 am,
the mercury moved slowly upward to
IS at 10 am. Tonight's low tempera-
ture, it was predicted, will be "a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
j. s. WRITER TOLD
TO QUIT GERMANY
Correspondent for Jewish
Telegraph Agency Cited.
Oodd Files Protests.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Ne,D York's Mayor La Guardia on
March 3 suggested to group OF
Je1Oish 1Domen the Ne1u York World
Fair in 1889 should place a figure
OF that bro1Cn- shirted fanatic Who
is menacing the peace OF the 1Corld"
in hall of horrors" He was
speaking OF Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
The State Department expressed
its regret that such statement
should haze been made after
formal protest from the Third
Reich.
Ry tie Associated Press
BERLIN, March l2-United States
Ambassador William E. Dodd visited
the German foreign Office today to
call attention" to German press at
tacks on United States citizens and
conditions Just as it became known
that Boris E. r. Smolar, correspondent
for the Jewish Telegraph Agency, had
been ordered by the police to leave
the country.
Smolar, however, said L do not be-
lieve my expulsion has anything to
do with the La Guardia incident"
subject of the Ambassadors repre-
sensations.
Ambassador Dodd was accompanied
to see Baron Konstantin Won Neurath,
the German foreign minister, by Frank
Lee, first secretary of the embassy
They acted upon instructions from
Washington to make verbal represent
tatlons concerning the German press
comment which followed upon New
York Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia' &
recent antl-Hitler speech.
Smolar, naturalized American. re-
celved a letter from the police presi-
dent lnstructing him to leave Germany
within three days because your con-
tlnued stay in Germany is inimical to
the interests of the German state"
Visits U. S. Consulate.
The letter was delivered bv GEES
tapo (secret police official. In the
absence of his wife, Smolar also had
to sign receipt for an expulsion order
(See PROTEST. Page A-3.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
GAS LIGHT FUNDING
PLAN CALLS FOR
$13,500,OOO DEAL
Stock and Bond Proposal
Includes Purchasing Two
Suburban Systems.
LOWER INTEREST RATE
SOUGHT ON SECURITIES
$40, 100000 Issue Would Replace
$1l, 100000 Now Outstanding
on Washington Firm.
BACKGROUND

BACK
Control OF the Washington Gas
Light Co. By interests foreign to
Washington has been the subject
OF controversy and Investigation for
some gears. Officials OF the parent
trust last Summer announced then
planned to sell all their holdings.
Immediately the Washington COM
pdny proposed to buy the Hyatts-
nile and Alexandria companies, also
controlled By the same trust.
The Washington companys cap
ttal structure has been overloaded
Nth bonds. Last session Congress
enacted q measure to permit the
washington company to issue addi-
ttondl stock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
4 KILLED IN PLANE

Crew OF German Mail Craft and
Passenger Die.
BERLIN, March II (P).-The crew
Of three of German mail plane and
an officer of the Lufthansa German
National Airways) Line riding as a
passenger were killed today in a
crash in West Africa.
The plane, on a flight from Las
Palmas, Canary Islands, to Bathurst,
West Africa, fell into the Gambia
River.
The pilot was believed to have
missed the customary landing place
because of a dense fog.
Half the mail was said to have been
salvaged from the wrecked airplane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
BY Stan Correspondent u The Star

~ 5t0U correspondent u The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, March H.
John L. Lewis, beetle proved and bel
ligerent, this week turned the tables,
temporarily, on Mrs. Bernice Flemming
Holland, petite, gracious and belliger-
ent, in Alexandrias now famous Battle
Of Tours
Charles Martel and the SaracenS
have little III common with the modern
version Of the seige, however. The up
to-date struggle Is over who shall show
his or her home, to whom, and when.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
(See NINE, Page A-6.)
Paperhangers Curbed.

BERLIN, March IL R.-Col. Gen.
Wilhelm Hermann Goering signed an
order today forbidding paperhangers
from making their traditional paste
from flour of wheat, rye, maize or po-
tatoeS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12

I
SUPREME COURT ISSUE.
w.. l. ,,s;rc
pressure
MOTIFS urges iui '''"' io ~ On :,
remeoles. aeo
American Bar Associa'ioii ,n'e 'ou'
plah'
.Dop c,ry,arroN
c...,,.o s.od,oo,- ooyy4inrer with ,,nions
hatt,;nn nv leodershin page Al
Hr;an,i ro1,cs o,,st strik;no newsnaner
A'', s";r+ars ~ pape Il
, ~ n.+ ,au demend 1T
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
CLUSTER Of DEAD
FOUND IN MINE
Explosion Victims May Total
Is, With Three Bodies
Taken Out Earlier.
BULLETIN.

LOGAN, w. Va, March u up.
Weary rescuers who had brought
five bodies to the surface from
the explosion-shattered Macbeth
mine sent word this afternoon they
had located II others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
Sees Pressure
on Boys to
Get Right
CHANGE URGED
BYCUILDHEAD
Devaney Supports
Proposal of
President.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
President Rooseuelt'S proposal for
reUamping the Supreme Court re-
suited in numerous breaks in Sem
ate Democratic majority. Cloak
room gossip then developed to et-
feet that administration ,Uould need
to erert personal influence NTH
raDering members to insure against
defeat OF plan.
Among te1D Democratic Senator'S
trho hare been recdlcitrant in past
is West Virgtnia's young Holt, uho
successfully killed administration
supported Guttey coal bill last ses-
sion By a closing night tilibuSter.
Following this, Holt fought his COL
league, Neeley, bitterly in West Vir-
oinia elections OF last Fall
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
JURY TO RECEIVE
RHODES CASE SOON
Vigorous AcquittaI Plea
Made in Trial of Fidelity
EX-President.
BULLETIN.

The forgery case against Fred B.
Rhodes, former head of the Fidelity
Building & Loan Association,
went to the jury at 2:45 pm. today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
Summary of Todoy's Star

Allen and Capper advocate survey Of
subway feasibility. Page B-1
New principals announced in two ele-
mentary schools. Page B.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12

(See NORRIS, Page A-2.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12

(See JUDICIARY, Page Az. }
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
WEATHER.

Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow;
little change in temperature; lowest to-
night about IS degrees; gentle, variable
winds. Temperatures-High 80, at
noon today; lowest, 30, at 3 am. today.
Full report on page A-9.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
COLD TO CONTINUE

(See RHODES. Page A-2.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12

The only evening paper
in Washington with the
Associated Press News
and Wirephoto Services.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12

(See GAS LIGHT, Page A-3)
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-09-16


under and by virtue of an Order
Of Sale issued out of and under
the seal OF the Superior Court of
the State of Washington, in and
for said County, on the 23rd day
of August 1887, upon a Judgment
rendered In said Court. On the 10th
day of August 1897. In favor of
Sun Life Assurance Company of.
Canada, a corporation, and again.t
Nell Proulx, Mary Emily Proulx.
Joseph Arthur Proulx, and Francis
Wilfred Proulx, for the sum of
Twelve Thousand One Hundred
Twenty-Five and 23-1OO dollars,
with interest thereon from January
LIST, 1887 at so per annum, togeth-
Ell with Four Hundred and no-100
Dollars attorneys fees Twenty-Five
and 10-10O Dollars costs, increased
costs and with interest at eight
per cent per annum from date
specified by decree. and to me
directed and delivered, command
ing me to sell the following de-
scribed prosperity to satisfy said
judgment, to-wit:
The Northeast Quarter one Il }
of Section Eleven CID and the
Southeast Quarter of the South
east Quarter Use n seq of
Section Two (2), all In Town
ship Twenty-seven (2D North
Of Range Thirty (3OD East of
the Willamette Meridian, sttuat-
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-09-16
NAME ASSISTANT MANAGER

appointment of Nelson F. Bowe
formerly OF Buffalo, N. Y, as as
slstant manager of the Seattle
branch of the Ford Motor Company
was announced last week by H. H.
Wilcox, branch manager. Bowe sue
ceeds Merrill Kendall, who resigned
recently Il, )bcOme interested in a
Ford leadership in Eugene, Oregon.
Bowe. who has been with the
Ford organization for the past 16
years, has sspent most of that time
in branch operations, coming up
the ranks to the position
he now holds.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-09-16
Kidneys Must
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