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The Washington times., 1937-07-09
56TH FATALITY
IND.C. TRAFFIC

Investigation of the fifty-sixth
traffic death of the year was
started today by the coroner's
jur. with an inquest into the
death of Arthur j. Dunning, 81,
Of 30S Thirteenth st. S. E.
Dunning q Post office employee,
died yesterday at Casualty Hos
pital from injuries suffered when
he was struck by an automobile
at North Capitol Street and Mas
SachuseGtS Avenue
Tannar F. Slaughter, colored,
20, of Charlottesville, Va, driver
of the car that struck Dunning,
was summoned as a witness at the
inquest.
Four Women Injured
-Four young women suffered
cuts and bruises last night in the
collision of two automobiles at
First and N Streets Northwest.
The injured, all treated at Provi-
dence Hospital. were Blanche
Price, %, of 453 N st. S. W.;
Elizabeth Brown, %, of 100 M st.
S. E.; Mary Lewis, %, of 1912
Carrollburg st. S. w., and Doro-
thy Kelly, %, of 812 Tuckerman
st. N. w.
Ella j. Mulligan, 81. Of 2610 L
St. N. W., suffered fractures of
both arms last night when she was
struck by an automobile at Four.
tenth Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue Northwest. She was
treated at Emergency Hospital.
John Lopsie. A, of 202 D st.
N. w., suffered bruises when an
automobile in which he was riding
struck a light pole at Sixth Street
and Indiana Avenue Northwest.
He was treated at Casualty Hos
pital.
Hit-Run Driver Hunted
Police were searching for a hit
run driver, who seriously injured
two persons last night when his au-
tomobile struck their motorcycle
at Fifth Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue Southeast.
Bernard Eaton, %, of Clinton,
Md, driver of the motorcycle, was
taken to Gallinger Hospital suf-
fering a fractured skull.
His companion, Evelyn Greer,
%, Of Branch Road, Maryland,
was taken to Casualty Hospital
suffering a fractured leg.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
DEFICIENCY
BILL $4,000

Deficiency and supplemental
estimates for the District of Co
lumbia, totaling more than $50, 900
were transmitted to CUagress to-
day by President Roosevelt.
The largest item is $1,000 for
maintenance of st. Elizabeth's
Hospital. The second largest item
is $4,000 for repair of portions Of
the wall at the fish wharf.
To forestall possible future dam.
age, which may make a bridge
on the grounds Of the District
Training School unsafe for use, !"
$4,000 is requested for repairs.
Other items in the bill provide
$4,000 for repairs and improve
ments to the heating plant at the
Industrial Home School; 1890 "a
for judgments and $46.12 for pay
ment of claims.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
D. {. GETS new
AIR SERVICE

New and faster service connect
ing Washington with the South
west and the Pacific Coast will be
inaugurated by American Airlines,
Inc, next Sunday, it was an
nounced today.
The new service will provide
overnight passenger. mail and ex-
press service. Starting from Los
Angeles at 7::30 a. m, it gives a
daylight flight across California,
Arizona. New Mexico and Texas.
Planes will leave Fort Worth at
7:57 p. m: Dallas at 8:25 p. M;
Memphis at 1880 p. m. and Nash
vile at a. m, with arrival at
Washington Airport at 500 a. m.
After a Commute stop here the
flight will continue to New York,
with arrival there at tbs a. m.
There will be no change in the
Southbound schedule. with de-
parture from New York at 1920
p. m. and from Washington at
2:20 o. m.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
Arlington Names
7 New Special Police

ARLINGTON. Va. July 9.-Ap-
pointment Of Harry Hunt and
John Sanders as special Arlington
county police was announced TO-
day by Sheriff Howard B. Fields.
They bring the strength of the
county police force to Is men.
Hunt lives at 722 North Ken
more st. Sanders address is 1904
North Vance st. Both we're ap-
pointed by Judge Walter T. Nc
earthly of the circuit court for one
year.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
NOTICE GIVEN
T0UNI0NSB BY
PRESIDENT
Only Matter of Law
Involved, Says Chief
Executive
BY EARL GOODWIN

President Roosevelt made it
clear today that there can be no
such thing as collective bargaining
by Government employees with the
United States Government.
The President made his views
known in reply to this question:
"Mr. President, do you favor
Government employees joining
GOvernment-empIOye unions
with the hope of collective bar
gaining with the Government of
the United States?"
In giving completely negative
answer, the President went back
to his service as Assistant Secre-
tary Of the Navy at which time
ne changed some of the existing
practices concerning the fixing of
wages in Government Navy yards.
HIS experiences at that time led
MIN to conclusion which he still
maintains, that Government EN-.
ployeS have the right to lay before
the administrative officers of the
Government any complaint or any
information or any suggestion.
That they have the right to appear
either individually or in organized
groups; that they have the right
either as a majority or minority of
their shop or office; that in the
case OF the Government, employees
90 not have to choose majority
representatives.
Notice to Organizers
The Presidents statement TODAY
was taken as a distinct notice to
labor organizers who have re-
Gently been attempting to organ
ize a large government union to
be associated with John Lewis's
c. /. o.
The President made 1t clear to.
day that he was talking exclu-
sively about the relation of Gov
eminent employees to the admin
lStrative section Of the Govern
ment, ana he made it clea~ that
ne does not believe that the Gov
eminent makes contracts with
Government employees.
The pay of Government en-
ployes, he explained, is not O mat
ter Of bargaining, but a matter of
law, the amount and rate of pay
being fixed largely by congress
sional enactment.
No Right to Strike
The President was asked
whether or not Government EN-.
ployeS should or should not have
the right to strike against the
Government. He replied strongly
in the negative. He reminded his
questioners that this was covered
by Civil Service rules.
The President was also asked
whether or not Government en-
ployes in unions should attempt
to influence congressional action
and he replied that he believed
that such policy was also de-
MED to Government employees
through Civil Service rules pro-
hibiting political action by Gov
eminent clerks.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
Record of Convictions
In Traffic Court

Edward Schweiger, 613 Mary
land Ave. S. E., IS.
Paul c. Milan. Maryland. IS.
Charles T. Younger, Florida, IS.
Clarence E. Wright, $50 Lamont
st. N. w., IS.
Walter J. Jarock, no address
given, IS.
Samuel Rissy, Maryland, IS.
James M. Register, 1885 Spring
Rd. N. W., IS.
Theodore Parrico, 4012 Nine
tenth Pl. N. E.. IS.
Eugene E. Bielaski, no address
given. IS.
John Mercer, 1864 Redwood Ter
race N. W., IS.
Paul H. Daughtery, Maryland. S..
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
D. {. Woman is Found
Hanged in Bedroom

The body of Mrs. Sarah Pop
luder, SIS, of the 1900 block
Georgia Ave. N. w., was found
hanging from a transom in her
bedroom today.
An Emergency Hospital ambu.
lance was summoned and she was
pronounced dead. A certificate
of suicide was issued by Coroner
A. Magruder Macdonald. The
woman left no note.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
Orators to Compete

Winners from the District of
Columbia and nearby States will
compete in the regional oratorical
contest sponsored by the educa-
tional department Of the grand
lodge of the colored ElkS at the
Howard Theater Sunday at 3 p. m.
The winner Of this contest, a high
school student, will be eligible to
compete in the national contest
for a $1,000 scholarship. the event
to be held during the annual con-
vention of the ElkS in Cleveland,
Ohio, next month.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
SUPPORT GAINS
FOR PRIMARY
PROPOSALS
Legislators Reported
KeenIy Interested
In Measures

Support for the measure intro
duced in the House and Senate
setting UP citywide primaries for
the election of delegates to the
national political conventions is
increasing in the House and
Senate District Committees, it was
revealed today.
Sponsors of the measure who
have written the membership of
the two committees asking for
immediate action have received
replies which indicate that the
matter is one of keen interest to
these legislators.
Attorney John P. Mullen, who
has taken active charge of the
drive by local citizens to provide
a broader manner for nonvoting
District citizens to express their
political views in selecting their
delegates, has written to a number
of congressional members who
have expressed favorable interest
in the proposition.
Called 'FNOn-PartiSan"
The bill has been introduced
in the House by Representative
Jennings Randolph CD of West
Virginia, and in the Senate by
Senator Royal S. Copeland CD
of New York.
In his letter Mr.. Mullen de-
clared:
"The pending primary bill is
nOn-partisan. The bill if passed
would give to every adult who
does not vote elsewhere the right
to say by his ballot every four
years who he wants as q dele
gate to represent him at the
Democratic or Republican ma.
tiOnal convention and put an
end to the present diSgracefuI
system whereby q few local self.
styled party chieftains hand
pick delegates who NO more rep
resent the people of the District
of Columbia, to quote from a
news editorial, than a cat rep.
reSentS mouse
In answer to this letter Senator
William H. King CD of Utah.
chairman of the Senate District
Committee, replied:
"The measure referred to is
receiving my very best aatten-
tiOn."
BREWSTER IN ACCORD
Representative Ralph o. Brew
ster Cd of Maine, answered:
81 am very glad to have you
call my attention to the bill of
Congressman Randolph and /
can quite appreciate the force of
much of what you say"
Senator Robert r. Reynolds
CD, of North Carolina, wrote:
I'm reply, I want to assure
you that when this legislation
is presented to the Senate for
attention the same will be given
my most thorough and careful
consideration"
Representative James L. Quinn
Cd, of Pennsylvania, said:
"YOur note in reference to
primary law of the District of
Columbia received and 1 assure
you of my support of this meas.
ure, because it will enable more
Democrats to vote"
Representative virginia E.
Jenckes CD, of Indiana, replied:
II can assure you that will
be happy in lending support in
any bills that lend these advan-
tages to the District of COIum.
.bia."
Senator Arthur Capper (R.), of
Kansas, declared:
There is no question but the
District of Columbia is in need
of primary election law. am
glad to give it my support and
hope prompt action will be taken
at this session of Congress"
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
Second Offense Speeding

Second OffenSe Speeding
Claude H. Duncan, 507 Seward
So. S. E., $40.
First Offense Speeding
Dell I. Griffin, Maryland, $40.
Carl Haye, Maryland. IS.
John j. Jones, 1903 Sixth st.
N. W., IS.
William H. Scott, 1911 Naylor
Rd. S. E., IS.
Andrew Lewis, 1911 w st. N. W.,
IS.
Leonard H. Ebel, Indiana, IS.
Arthur H. Tyre, Maryland, IS.
Charles w. McClelland, Mary
land, IS.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
Democratic Group
Plans for Picnic

The annual picnic Of the Penn
sylvania State Colored Democratic
Club of Washington will be held on
July 81 at Sparrow's Beach. The
club is composed of voters tenn
porarily residing in the District.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09

Now am writing seriously.
What a beautiful piece of statuary
could be cast in the likeness Of
Amelia Earhart!
I remember cr the last time
7 saw her at a luncheon at the
National Geographic Society. She
was standing a little apart from
the crowd, with her back against
one of the columns of the entrance
hall.
She was so young and gentle
with big -wide-open eyes, quick
smile, soft voice. Intensely femi-
nine in spite of her short-cropped
hair, no makeup, and her slim
independence,
She was saying Shyly how
pleased she was at the honor the
Geographic had just given her.
And she was pleased.
A definitely charming girl,
. Amelia Earhart.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
League Against War
And FasCism 10 Picnic

Members of the local branch of
the American League Against War
and Fascism will hold a picnic from
l p. m. to 8 p. m. Sunday at Mil
ler's Cabin in Rock Creek Park.
Games and campfire singing will
be features.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-12
An Appropriate Time
By. T. Williams, Jr.

, gressional term to three years
would clear the way for another
major reform in the Federal struc.
ture that was proposed at the be
ginning of the Government and has
been discussed at various and sun.
dry times during the last one hum
dred and fifty years. This is the
limitation of the Executive to one
term of six years. In many Con-
crosses proposed Amendments to
the Constitution providing for
such a change have been intro
duced. None Of these has yet been
submitted by Congress to the
people.
Among the delegates to the
Philadelphia Convention Of 1887
which framed the Constitution
who favored a single term for the
President were Benjamin Franklin
of Pennsylvania, George Mason Of
Virginia. and Charles CoteSworth
Pinckney of South Carolina.
The fact that George Washing
ton was to be the first President
is believed to have been a powerful
factor in the unwillingness Of the
Convention to make the Executive
ineligible for reelection.
When the Southern States set
up the Confederate Government
seventy-five years after the Gov.
eminent of the Constitution was
established, they provided in the
Constitution of the Confederacy
that their President should hold
office for six years and not be eli.
gible for reelection.
SLX-YEAR TERM
Fifty years after the fall of the
Confederacy, in Convention at
Baltimore largely controlled by
delegates from the Southern
States, Woodrow Wilson of New
Jersey, a Southerner by birth,
was nominated for President on
a platform which pledged him
and his party to support an
Amendment to the Federal Con-
Stitution limiting the President to
a single term Of office.
The household of the nation
will begin on September II, 1887,
a truly national celebration Of the
one hundred and fiftieth anniver.
sary Of the adoption of the Con.
stitution.
Now would seem to be an ap-
propriate time to revive considerar
ton Of single Six-year term for
the Executive, q three-year term
for Representatives in Congress
and a reduction of the member
ship of the House to- a strength
that would help to restore the
vitality of it's legislative functions
and emancipate it from the grip
of spoilsmongers and other sap
pers of its independence and
prestige.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-12
Americas Air Advantage

WHATEVER the cause of the Hindenburg explo-
w sion-sparks static sabotage-one fact is clear:
IF the dirigible had been filled with HELlUM instead
of HYDROGEN, the disaster would not have occurred.
Heum is nonexplosive and noninflammabe. Hydro
gen. when mixed with air. is BOTH.
The Germans, as all admit have led the world in de-
signing drigbles and flying them. They have been far
more successful than Americans anybody else.
But because of our virtual monopoly of heium, they
have used hydrogen for their Zeppelinsand the Hin
denburg holocaust is the result.
Our own disasters with hghterthan- air ships have
been due to defective design structural weaknesses
in the craft to nexperence of personnel or to mis-
takes by the directing agencies in Washington.
They have NOT been due to helium.
Ever since developed in 1917 that gas has stood
the test
Thus America today has unique NATURAL ad-
vantage over all other nations in the of drigbes.
It has corner the only gas known to be safe for
aerial navigation.
The Hindenburg tragedy does NOT spell the end of
lighter hanair ships although it doubtless spells the
end of hydrogen in floating them.
It will lead to the perfectng of these Ships
vessels and airplanes and all other inventions known
to man have been perfected.
And it emphasizes the fact that our country thanks
to its helium resources, is in IDEAL POSITION to
perfect them.
With further engineering skill and further operating
experience take place SECOND TO NONE in
this field If WE CHOOSE.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-12
SELECTED SUBJECTS

Visitors to the Capitol and the
regular attaches are being treated
to something special this week as
they watch Margaret Bourke
White, eminent photographer, 90
her stuff on a series Of candid
shots of the Capitol in motion.
Several presidents have gone
with the wind with Miss Whites
appearance on the Hill. The
guards around the Senate Cham
Der were somewhat surprised when
vice President Garner posed for
seven photographs by Miss White
in the Senate Chamber,
The Senate was not in session
at the time, however, as strict
rules prohibit any camera shots
while this body is celebrating.
Special per mission has been
granted photographers to make
pictures while the House is in SeS-
sion but never in the Senate.
Large groups stopped in awe in
Statuary Hall to see her making
pictures of the crowds looking at
the statues and were amazed when
Miss White, from the vantage
point of the gallery, directed the
scene and chased undesirable
types away from their casual sur.
vey of the art work.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-12

wonder about my America. TnlS
complicated and confused modern
America which has drifted so far
and fast from the simple sanitieS
of my youth.
I am a confirmed and incurable
optimist. I am sure that we'll come
out, right side up, somehow. But
the immediate picture puzzles me
nagS me. These letters that
pile in daily, hundreds on my desk
bitter, bewildered, desperate
letters pleading and protest
ing =. are they right?
Here's one, for example, from
Guy DERRICK. A jolting letter that
you can't get out of your mind.
But is it true? And if it's true
what should we do about it?
OTHER ANGLES
It's about Relief. Guy DERRICK
is against relief. He believes
it is doing terrible things to
American Youth. Maybe it is.
But how about the things that
have happened in other countries
when there was no relief? How
about the Russian Revolution?
And before that, The Terror in
France? How about starving
China?
Guy DERRICK says that Relief
robS Youth of its backbone. I've
seen proof of that. So have you.
And yet
I drove across this country in
the first year of the Depression.
Before Relief started. I saw young
people, old people, little children,
walking, shuffling, crawling along
the highway, headed west an
endless, frantic file of hungry.
animals, driven witleSS by fear.
Old women, reaching out trem-
bling blue-veined hands. Young
women, within a few days or hours
of the birth pangs, sleeping in cul-
vertS struggling through Slog-
ging rain, slaShing sun.
Yes, perhaps Relief robs people
of their backbones. But does
agony like that create backboneS?
I can't believe it. But, still, there's
the ring of truth in much that
Guy DERRICK writes.
Ninety per cent of the young
people Of today are parasites.
Living-withOut wOrk-by At
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-12

taching themselves to stronger
bodies. Their creed is, Only
Saps Work
Conditions never offered q
tougher test of a nations moral
courage. Many mOdernS flop
under the test. Their ambition
as well as their self-reIiance is
missing. They haven't a par
ticIe of the backbone which
their Indian-fighting forefathers
had. And Relief is reSpOn-
Sible.
RELIEF is AS GREAT A
MENACE TO MODERN YOUTH
AS THE REDSKINS WERE TO
THEIR FATHERS.
"Relief has broken the moral
backbone of countless Ameri-
cans. When they get on Re-
lief they feel they've reached q
soft BERTRAND make no fur
Their effort to support them
selves. It's up to the Gov
eminent!
WHAT'S THE ANSWER
''MyseIf-I'm nearly blind.
can't do the manual labor
others do in factories or fields.
I've starved for days-nearly
frozen to death. But I'm hang
ing on, studying writing, and
I'm going to make the grade.
Belief, to me, is a disgrace
not to be tolerated. AS long as
a person has a spark Of Amer
lean Spunk in their makeup,
they'll go out and find a job
that the Government doesn't
finance. SOmething-anything
just so it's a job. Francis
Bacon said that man must
make his opportunity as well as
find it.
81 CAN'T IMAGINE ABRA-
HAM LINCOLN OR THEODORE
ROOSEVELT HANDICAPPED
AS THEY WERE APPLYING
FOR RELIEF. AND THANK
HEAVEN, WE'VE STILL GOT
SOME OF THEIR FIGHTING
BLOOD!
Guy DERRICK,
"Big Prairie, Ohio"
A strong and singing letter
But still I'm wondering E. I DOM
know. What's your answer?
wish you'd tell me.
(ThiS column welcomes and
requests comments. Letters
presenting personal problems
mag also be sent. All letters
1Diu be handled confdentidlly
and GnStDered promptly If
stamped, GdreSSed envelopes are
incIuded.)
Copyright. 1897. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-12

There are several major reforms
in the structure Of the Federal
Government the making of which
would raise the standard Of legis-
lation and greatly improve the
quality of administration. These
reforms would do more-they
would afford an inspiring example
to the several States of the Union
to put in order their own govern
mental households.
Beginning with the Congress,
many of the Members of the House
believe that the reduction of its
membership to approximately one
half the present number would
prove of large and permanent ben
eft to the people. The membership
of the House has stood since the
last apportionment at four hun
dred and thirty-five. Cutting this
in half would mean a House OF
approximately two hundred and
fifteen members.
Veterans of the House, speaking
from a knowledge Of long expert
ence, insist that this number
would be ample to discharge all
the legislative duties imposed by
the Constitution on Representa-
tives in Congress.
NATIONAL LEGISLATORS
There would be serious work for
each Member of the House to do.
He would have to concentrate on
legislation and leave Showmanship
to the lesser lights of the political
world if he were to make name
for himself in the House. He
would represent too large a con-
stituency to serve his people as
an errand boy doing chores for
them in the Executive Depart.
ments and Independent Agencies.
He could afford to become once
more a National Legislator and
turn his back on the ignominious
role of a hired fetch-and-carry for
the self-seeking minorities who
haraSs so many Members of Con.
greSs today.
. Once the membership Of the
House is reduced by so per cent,
a logical next step would be the
extension of the term Of a Rep
resentative in Congress from two
to three years. Ask almost any
Congressman and he will tell you
that before O new Congressman
has become acquainted with the
duties of his office he is compelled
to begin his campaign for re
nomination and reelection.
A three-year term would enable
a Member of Congress to function
as a legislator long enough fol
his constituents to judge his abil
ity in that field before being called
upon to determine his fitness fol
denomination and reelection.
Reduction of Congress by fifty
per cent and frightening the Con
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-12
What's in a Name?

DERSONS whose first just bit queer
haven't much chance in life as the Johns, Joes
Marys and Helens-if you'd believe a Midwestem
psychologist.
He insists, does Prof W. E. Walton, that parents who
don't make their chidren's first conform with
accepted style unwittingly handicap them
Well, Ulysses is pretty formidable first name and
yet it that Ulysses Simpson Grant not only was
the greatest force in winning the Civil War but twice
became President.
Then there's Woodrow-another unusual one-but
Woodrow Wilson struggled along with it and became
President too.
Professor Walton's thesis does to have its ex
cephons. And by the way, Prof, what does that W. E.
stand for!