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Evening star., 1937-03-17
WH|TEMAN GUEST
Of FUND WORKERS
Symphony Drive Solicitors
Have Noted Leader at
Report Luncheon.

Paul Whiteman was to be the guest
Of the National Symphony Orchestra
campaign workers today a. their third
report luncheon, scheduled for noon
at the Raleigh Hotel.
The celebrated orchestra leader,
who tonight will merge his own musi-
clans with the National Symphony
in program of contemporary Amer
lean music, joined forces yesterday
with the volunteer workers, who are
seeking a $4,000 sustaining fund for
the symphony.
He declared the symphony. which
was established here six years ago,
should be continued as a permanent
institution through whole hearted
public support.
Between 300 and 400 workers we're
expected at today's luncheon. Cam
paign leaders also expected the
| drives largest financial report to be
| turned in.
The campaign total last night stood
at nearly $4,000, although soliciting
Is just getting under way.
The standings of the various COM
mittees were AS follows: Special gifts,
$25,450; Army, s39552; Navy, S3l2;
associations, 32,055; women's business
division. $2,320; mems business di-
vision, $500: civic. sl.32450: subur-
ban, S170: Government, 500, and
Junior League, S93.
The special gifts unit, headed by
Thomas P. Morgan. jr., met yesterday
at the home OF Mrs. George Hewitt
Myers, 20l0 8 street, to lay plans for
completing the drive to their 500, 900
quota.
Evening star., 1937-03-17

the committee stated, I'VE cannot de-
pend upon charity for the successful
and safe operation of air transporta- =
ton. Ultimately, airmail carrier Of
f1cers and employees will be either those
who cannot obtain more profitable en-
ployment elsewhere or those who are
not worthy of better-paid positions.
We cannot depend upon such persons
to upbuild our scheduled air transport
industry"
Copelands committee charged that
the Government itself has been re-
sponsible for part of the operating
losses suffered by contract airmail
companies, because it has ordered
changes in equipment without COM
pcnsatins the mail contractors for rad.
ical changes in their contractual re-
lations."
Until the air transport business can
be placed upon profitable basis" /,
was pointed out, "the situation in thia
industry will remain unhealthy"
The committee also recommended
legislative action permitting the Gov
ernment employees to travel by air.
Our regulations in the matter OF
air travel are still in the horse and
buggy days" the committee COM
mented.
The committee pointed out that it,
report is based on more than &C
months of work. In its first report
made public last year. 1t demanded Z
shake-up in the Bureau Of Air Com.
merca,
Evening star., 1937-03-17
POLICE MERIT BILL
IS SIGNED BY NICE
County Due to Act at Once on
Measure Reorganizing Prince
Georges Force.
By sts1 Correspondent OF The Star.

By staf Correspondent OF The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, March lT.-Gov.
Harry w. Nice signed the bill to re-
organize the Prince Georges County
Police Department and place that
force under merit system of en-
ployment at 1905 pm. today. The
measure Immediately became law
under an emergency feature.
1t is expected the Prince Georges
County commissioners will meet this
afternoon to appoint temporary force
to serve until they can conduct COM
petltlve examinations and form q
permanent department. The commits
sioners have six months to carry out
this task under the new law.
The bill, which is an outgrowth Of
the sensational probe made last Fall
into allegations that county police Uers
in collision with bondsmen and mag
istrates in traffic bond racket" pro-
vides for an increase of four men over
the present force.
1t broadens the powers Of the police
chief in the administration of his de-
partment and places the county COM
missioners in direct supervision over
the entire force by converting them
into board of police commissioners.
Evening star., 1937-03-17
Aviation
Continued From First Page }

ties, the other with flight activities, un-
der division chiefs responsible directly
to the director of air commerce or
to the Assistant Secretary If that post
Is revived.
Creation OF bureau of Federal air.
ways in the Commerce Department
also was suggested.
All research work should be trans
terred from the Bureau of Air Com
merce to the National Advisory Com
mittee for Aeronautics, the proposed
S63i 900 being recommended to pro-
vide for this additional work. The
Sl,500,000 would be used separately
ito provide the incentive for the de-
velopment of engines in private shops.
1t would be directed especially toward
development OF high-powered engines,
the committee holding that ngines of
5000 to 1000 horsepower are "desir-
able and necessary"
More aeronautical inspectors are
needed at once, the committee re-
ported, stating that the Government
should have maintenance inspector
at each air terminal, two inspectors
on each major airline and one on
each small airline All inspectors
should be appointed under the merit
system and freed entirely from politi-
cal influence, the committee said.
The present Commerce Department
inspection system is "Woefully under
manned as regards private flying"
the committee reported. The so air
line inspectors now employed are re-
quired to inspect more than 1880
persons and airplanes each year, it
was pointed out.
Burden Held Excessive.
In other words" the committee
said, each inspector has TO inspect
per year over 300 human beings and
airplanes, scattered from one end Of
the country to the other. This is
more than any man can do properly"
1t was charged that because OF lack
OF inspectors, inspections formerly
made each six months are now made
only once a year, and that lack Of
inspection was responsible for some
Of the deaths in private flying acci-
dents.
In justification Of the s50,0O0 re-
quest for study OF pilot fatigue, the
committee pointed out that "a great
majority Of the accidents now taking
place IN scheduled air transportation
are being blamed on the human ele-
ment, particularly on the pilot. Your
committee considers the matter OF
pilot fatigue 50 fundamental and so
necessary of accurate scientific deter
mination that we believe immediate
action should be taken
| For the Weather Bureau, the COM
mittee not only recommended an ad-
| ditlonal appropriation OF at least
1884, 900 year, but also urged that
Congress restore reductions in appro-
pria tons which have been made in re-
cent years. The committee reported
"a need for increased appropriations
for aerology, which, within few
years, may involve appropriations for
this service possible three TO five
| times their present size"
The committee also demanded that
SoAls1Soo iSlilSFS ChAoblllS ~ Al llilu I'd
| tions on the amount Of pay which ali
transport executives may receive from
companies holding Federal airmail
! contracts. A maximum Of Sl7,500 now
Is specified.
Cannot Depend on Charity.
While good men may now be serv-
ing the airlines because Of their love
| OF aeronautics or as a patriotic duty.
Evening star., 1937-03-17
NEUTRALITY BILL
HELD 'PRO-FASC|ST'
Farmer-l aborite AssaiIs
Measure as House De-
bate Continues.
By the Associated Press.

Representative Bernard, Farmer-La
Dor, OF Minnesota, the only member O.
Congress to vote against forbiddina
arms shipments to Spain, charged
yesterday that the McReynolds perma.
.nent neutrality bill is ''pro-Fascist."
= Plunging into House debate over the
measure, the freshman CONGRESSMAN
said both it ana the Senate e-approved
Plttman bill would encourage Fascist
invasion Of peaceful countries.
BY banning arms exports to coun-
tries recognized by this Government
70 be at war, he said, they would deny
arms to Spanish Loyalists, but leave
Italy and Germany free to purchase
tuppnes to use against the Spaniards.
although those countries have not de-
tlared war on the Spanish govern
nent, Bernard said it has been estab-
g1shed that their armed forces actually
have invaded Spanish territory.
: Both bills he shouted, lump to-
5Eether the robber and the robbed, the
murderer and the murdered"
But even more than the Pittman
bill, Bernard said, the McReynolds
proposal invites Fascist aggression
against peaceful countries.
!" Under so-called neutrality leeisla-
,tion," he went on, Hitler, Mussolini
~snd their gangster accomplices in
Lisbon and Toxic are free to purchase
nj the supplies thev need
'At the same time, they are given
vthe assurance that the American Gov
@ernment will place an absolute arms
boycott and possibly general boycott
against any country which the Rome
Berlln-Toklo Fascist international
should decide to invade"
sBernard's speech was delivered
amidst sharp dispute over the broad
discretion which the McReynolds bill
would give the President concerning
exports of war materials to belliger-
ents
Proponents of the measure, led by
Representative Johnson, Democrat, of
Texas and Representative Shanley,
Democrat, of Connecticut. argued it
was essential to give the President
such discretion
Mandatory provisions would place
unnecessary hardships on American
trade, they said.
Evening star., 1937-03-17

workers voluntarily retiring at IS, OF
at the end OF 80 years service.
The taxes on workers and on rail-
roads would increase as the system
continues, under the following
schedule:
Two and one half per cent for 1897
1898 and 1899.
Two and three quarters per cent fol
1910, l94l and 1912.
Three per cent for l943, 1914 and
1945.
Three and one quarter per cent TO,
l946. l947 and l948.
Three and one half per cent after
December 81. l948.
Conferences leading to the agree.
ment followed a plea for an agree.
ment made by President Roosevelt
last Fall
Court Challenge Unlikely.
Harrison said that, since the new
plan presents an agreement, there i,
little likelihood of a court challenge
of its constitutionality.
Action by Congress will be necessary
to put the system into effect. The an.
nouncement said the present railroad
retirement act would have to b<
amended and the new tax substituted
for the present one.
Harrison and Pelley emphasized
that the agreement provides for vol
untary retirement at IS at the elec
ton OF the employe.
Evening star., 1937-03-17
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

TODAY.
Senate:
Considers Treasury-Post once ap-
preparation bill,
La Toilette committee resumes civil
liberties investigation.
Judiciary Committee hears witnesses
for Presidents court bill
House:
Takes up minor bills
Agriculture Committee continues
study Of farm tenancy and sugar legis.
lation.
Rivers and Harbors Committee re-
sumes hearing on stream pollution
bills.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
May not be in session IL Treasury
Post Once supply bill passes today.
Judiciary Committee will continue
hearings on Presidents court bill.
House:
Resumes consideration Of neutrality
bill.
Interstate Commerce Committee
meets 10 am.
Appropriations Subcommittee In
charge of War and Agriculture De.
partments appropriations bill resumes
hearing 10 am.
Evening star., 1937-03-17
Skipper Arrires
To Relate HOr
Pair Vanished
Man and Woman Not
on Ship hen He
AmOke, He Says.
BIZ the Associated Press


BRIDGETOWN. Barbados. March
17,--Erich Hammer, 27-year-old Ger
man student, related today how he
sailed his 30-foot yacht for TWO weeks
practically without food or sleep after
his two companions. Raymond Car
tier, 40, and Miss Octave Lenglee,
80, both Swiss, mysteriously dlsap-
peared on the voyage from the Canary
Islands
The Swiss couple wanted TO take
8 South Sea voyage, Hammer said, so
he took them along when ne left
Las Palnlas February l8. The only
other occupants Of the yacht we're a
dog and bird.
On the night Of March 3, Hammer
related, the woman was resting IN a
hammock on deck and Cartier was
on watch while he slept. Cartier did
not rouse the German student for
his turn at the watch, and when Han
ner awoke at l am. the other two
were missing he said.
Hammer said he turned the boat
around and searched a wide area In
vain. Then he sailed on alone to
Bridcetown.
Evening star., 1937-03-17

favorite Bible story in their own
words. There are two divisions-the
junior, for children 9 to 10 years old
and the senior, from IA to II. First
and second prizes for boys In each
division are vacations OF two weeks
and one week, respectively, at Camp
Let's, near Annapolis. Md.
In the girls senior division the first
prize winner and girl companion of
her own choosing will 60 to the young
peoples conference at Western Mary
land College, Westminster. The Sec
ond-prize winner also will attend the
conference. The first 1riZe in the
junior division IS week at Kamp
Kahlert. on West River near Annap-
oils, and the second prize Bible or
other book Of the winners selection.
Evening star., 1937-03-17

Fourth, 1t makes us the ally of
Great Britain in the Atlantic and OF
japan in the Pacific No other ma
ton than Great Britain could buy
with safety and convoy ships across
the Atlantic, and no other nation
than Japan could do the like in the
Pacific"
Both Johnson and Fish quote John
Bassett Moore, an authority on inter-
national law, as follows on the point
OF ceding to the President the power
to declare war:
mo one who wished unlimited power
to make war could ask more than
the authority, in his own discretion,
to impose and revoke and to modify
and adjust embargoes upon our for
eign commerce. To commit to
the Executive the power in his dis
cretion to adopt and prosecute meas
ures that naturally lead to war is
virtually TO transfer to him the power
to make war so that the formal decla-
ration by Con. ress OF the existence
OF a state Of war would become an
essentially perfunctory act"
Scores International Law.
All the invoking of international
law and the sacredness of freedom OF
the seas are brushed roughly aside,
however, by dynamic Senator Bone,
Democrat, Of Washington in the fol-
lowing remark
why spend precious hours splitting
hairs like a lot of sophists of the
Middle Ages over things that have no
existence except In the imagination
OF some law shark? Everybody knows
that international law did not amount
to damn in the last war.
i want some one here to name a
belligerent nation In the World War
that respected international law. I
wish we would just quit being learned
Thebans for once and be realistic and
admit what We all know. and that is
that people do not care anything
about international law when their
boys are dying on battlefelds.
I think the greatest piece OF opera
bouf1e, the greatest and most arrant
lake and fraud on this earth, is the
fake and fraud that We conjure up
when We talk about our profits in
trade and our sacred rights therein.
Those OF US in this chamber may
live long enough to see our civiliza-
ton liquidated by forces of disorder
ana destruction If another great war
comes and We are q part OF 1t.
In such a crash we Of America
would be legitimate prey -. When
there Is an economical collapse we
all know what happens to a civiliza-
ton. All in the world we have to do
to invite that collapse and make it
inevitable is to spend billions of dol
lars more in another war to assert
our right to trade In the wake of
that trade will come a new army
OF dead, a new army of insane. a
new army Of sick and crippled, a new
debt that will crush us so we can
never rise again"
Evening star., 1937-03-17
BY JOHN C. HENRY,

The writing of permanent neu-
trality bill to preserve the peace Of
America is both difncult and COM
plicated problem that requires the
wisdom Of Solomon and the foresight
OF George Washington" Representa-
tive Hamilton Fish, New York Repub-
lican, reported to the House in dissent
ing from the form Of the McReynolds
bill now before that body.
Yet with a haste that foredoomed
application Of either Of the principles
declared 80 necessary, Congress is
about to commit the United States to
an experimental policy Of perpetual
ing peace for ourselves through en-
forced protection Of lives and prop
erty OF our nationals and the war
time regulation Of our trade.
That the experiment will be at
tempted seems certain with the Senate
having already approved the so-called
Pittman bill and the House expected
to approve the McReynolds measure.
Between the two the major difference
Is the degree of presidential discretion
allowed in the cash-and-carry section
OF the bill now before the House.
Permits Raw Materials Embarra.
Contained in both bills, this sec
ton authorizes the President to place
raw materials on an embargo list to
the extent OF prohibiting their trans
portation In American vessels and to
require full transfer Of title OF such
articles to take place before they may
be exported from this country.
Senator johnson, veteran California
Republican, made the following COM
ment on this section during debate in
the Senate:
There Is simple and straight
forward course that this Nation may
take. We can re-enact the existing
law relating alone to arms, munitions
and implements Of warfare and per-
nit our people to trade as usual. They
would be subject. of course, to the
rules OF international law, to search
and seizure by belliserents and to
the perils OF blockade. Those would
be the risks they must take il they
desire to trade, and the risks would
be no greater under those conditions
than under 4 measure like that which
Is before us.
THE joint resolution IS An attempt,
by . policy Of scuttle and nun, to
take the profits out OF war and shirk
the responsibility.
We take the profits and then hug
ourselves because somebody else has
to take the risk 1t will not keep us
out OF war, because it will arouse the
bitterest kind of resentment on the
part of all belligerents except the one
strong enough to obtain our raw ma
terials, and that resentment will be
biding its time
Discretion to Declare War.
The discretion given to the Presi-
dent is in the last analysis 4 dis
cretion TO declare war.
Evening star., 1937-03-17
new NAZI PROTEST
ON LA GUARDIA SEEN
Speculation Aroused as Luther
Makes Appointment With
Hull.
Hy the Associated Press.

9y the Associated Press,
Responsible persons said today Ger
man Ambassador Hans Luther intend
ed to lodge new representations with
the American Government over refer
ences made to Adolf Hitler by Mayor
La Guardia Of New York.
The Ambassador made an appoint
ment to confer with Secretary Hull
this afternoon.
A previous protest that La Guardis's
remarks were insulting drew from the
State Department an apology, accom-
panied by an explanation that the
Government had no control over the
remarks Of the New York Mayor.
1t Vas understood the rernan envoy
had been instructed by his government
to complain against the New York
Mayors speech at an anti-Nazi mass
meeting in Madison Square Garden
March IS. He was reported to have
referred to the German chancellor as
"a man without honor"
Evening star., 1937-03-17
ANNUAL PUBLIC SEDER
AT J. c. c. THIS FRIDAY

The Jewish Community Center and
Washington Post, No. So, Of the Jew
ish War Veterans will hold their an
nual public Seder at the center. Six
teenth and @ streets, Friday at pm.
Abe Shefferman will officiate at
the ceremonies, and the disabled vet
Grams receiving treatment In the vari-
Gus local hospitals will be guests OF
the post,
Maurice BHgyer, director of the
center. IA chairman OF the COMMITTEES
representing the center, and Joseph
Barr u representing the post.
Evening star., 1937-03-17
britain MOURNS
FOR CHAMBERLAIN
Public Services of Dean OF
Conservatives Praised
by Lloyd George.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 17.-British states
men Joined in euiogv of Sir Austen
Chamberlain. father" of the Locarno
treaty, today in recounting his As
years OF public service which ended
last night in death.
The 73-year-old dean OF conservative
elder statesmen In the House OF Com
mons succumbed to heart attack n
his West End home.
Funeral services for Sir Austen WI!
be held al St. Margaret,S Church IN
Westminster on Friday afternoon at
1890 O'Clock, London time G:30 am.
E. S. T).
The body will be cremated. Tie
place OF burial has not been deeided.
King George VI will send his con-
dolences to the widow.
He had been chancellor Of the ey-
chequer twice, secretary OF state for
foreign affairs, secretary of state for
India and member Of the wartime
cabinet Of David Llodv George.
OF the British leaders only LLOYD
George could point to longer life
devoted to Great Britain, and he
bowed his white head in sorrow ut
the death of his colleague and said:
Sir Austen was one of the mos
upright and straightforward men 1
have met during the whole of my life"
Sir Austen's career was described
as brilliant-briliant in the English
old school tradition that was out
wardly symbolized by monocle. top nat
and morning clothes, his customary
attire
In Commons he never failed to raise
his hat when referred to IN debate,
and would stare owly-eyed at some
member whose remark might have
brought parliamentary ofrense.
Son of Empire Builder"
He was the elder son Of the distin-
guished statesman, Joseph Chamber
lain, and a half brother of Neville
Chamberlain, present chancellor Of
the exchequer. His father trained him
to become a public servant. The ia
nous William Gladstone said of the
sons maiden speech in Commons: 1T
must have gladdened his fathers
heart"
There was flood of press tribute.
Sir Austen won a position In British
political life almost as great as that
Of his distinguished father, 'the en-
pire builder"
One characteristic that marked his
public life was the value he placed
on party and country ties above per-
sonal ambitions "a characteristic
which twice lost for him the posA-
bility OF being prime minister.
Brought Pact Into Being.
Sir Austen's great year was 1925.
| As foreign secretary, he went abroad
and reconciled Germany and France
and brought into being the Locarno
treaty, now defunct.
| Aristride BRAND, French foreign
secretary, and DR.. Gustav Stresenann,
German leader, eyed the Englishman
with his monocle and his fawless
manner suspiciously
BRAND complimented him on his
French accent. but the German wa.
reported to have said behind his back:
| Hes gentleman. He means well.
Europe has suffered for so years from
well-meaning gentlemen.
Yet 1t was Chamberlain who
brought back the Locarno treaty. Hs
obtained the adulation Of the world.
! He was given a share in the 1928
Nobel peace prize. as a result, with
Charles G. Dawes, vice president Of
the United States. King George v
bestowed on him knighthood in the
| Order of the Garter.
Evening star., 1937-03-17

Howard College, at Birmingham, Ala !:
Vanderbilt University and obtained
his B. A. from the Y. M. C. A. Grad
uate School at Nashville, Tenn. He Is
= member Of Theta Kappa Nu Ma
tional Social Fraternity
He became affiliated with the Wash
ington "Y" nine years ago. coming
here from Birmingham, where he d.
rected boys work for six years and
had supervision Of the boys Summer
camp.
While here he had charge of Camp
Let's, the boys Summer camp near
Annapolis He will direct two similar
camps in Virginia.
Evening star., 1937-03-17
CHANGE IS FAVORED
IN SEAMEN'S LAW
Senate Group Votes to Permit De-
posit Of Discharge Books
With Department.
ey the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Fress.
The Senate Commerce COMMITTEES
voted today for elimination OF a stat
utory requirement that seamen carry
continuous discharge books with them
The change, already approved BY
the House, would permit the seamen
TO deposit the books with the Com
merce Department.
Strikes threatened when the re-
Guirement became effective this year
Some searen claimed the books would
be used to blacklist them.
The committee also approved a bill
by Chairman Copeland, Democrat, OF
New York, to tighten maritime radio
requirements.
Evening star., 1937-03-17

"Y" staff, in
charge OF boys
work.
He Is due to re-
port at the Rich
mond headquar-
tiers April Is. In
his new position
he will cooper
ate with the va.
rious associations
and more than
700 high schools
in the State.
A graduate OF
Alabama second
ary schools, In
z ra m attended
Evening star., 1937-03-17
Air History in Films.

Motion pictures covering the his
tory Of aviation will be shown at a
dinner meeting Of the Warrington
Air Derby Association at pm. Fri
day in the third-noor dining room Of
sidney's Cafe. formerly Shol1s. 1919
q street.
Evening star., 1937-03-17
JAMBOREE APRIL 6

The annual jamboree Of the Wash
tngton Advertising Club will be held
at the shoreham Hotel April at 8
pm. Charles j. Columbus, secretary
Of the club, announced today.
The party will be limited to 500,
and reservations Will be made IN the
order in which they arrive.