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r. Eliot Middleton. past president,
Washington Real Estate Board: All
recent observations of the Washing
ton realty business indicate q most
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most sacred Of family possessions
Q home.
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Of Bethesda. turn left on Georgetown I'd.
about blocks to Maple Ridge Road then
turn left out blocks to No SOB.
EDW. BOWERS
2I45 CALIFORNIA ST. NV.
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a II RS. JAMES T. ALLEN, wife
M of Capt. Allen, U. S. A.. en-
wv tertained at luncheon and
l 4 bridge Friday at the Army
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4: =: i : r.: :; ;:;; r. C: G.: +: e.; Is
dance at the Officers, Club
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A. A. u. w. Will Give
Reception Tuesday
For Mrs. Roosevelt

MRS ROOSEVELT will be guest Of
AA honor Of the Washington branch
Of the American Association of Uni
versity Women at reception at the
club house Tuesday afternoon from
S to 8 o'clock. Invitations are limited
to members Of the club. Mrs. Roose-
velt will receive with Mrs. Richard
Hogue, president Mrs. Leslie Whit
ten, chairman of the Hospitality Com
mittee, will present the guests who
will be welcomed also by Mrs. Albert
L. BarroWs, vice president of the
Washington branch; DR.. Katherine
McHale, general director Of the Ma
tional Association; and Mrs. James
K McClintock, controller Of the
National Association. Receiving for
the universities will be Mrs Cloyd
H. Marvin, Mrs. Joseph M. M. Gray
Mrs. Harold G. Moulton and Miss
Elizabeth Peet
General arrangements are In charge
of Miss Anna Pearl Cooper, assisted
by Mrs. Clyde M. Hadley, Mrs. Robert
Olesen, Mrs. Thomas D. Lewis, Mrs
Earl A. Trager, Mrs. Alfred H. Brooks
Miss Virginia Kinnard, Miss Maxine
Girts, Miss Elsie Green, Mrs. Noble
Boaz, Mrs. A. B. Gunnarson and Mrs
Joseph T. Owens.
The tea tables will be in charge OF
Mrs. Horace Torbert, Mrs William C
Van Week and Mrs. Frank Smith
Presiding at the tea tables will be
Mrs. Frank w. Ballou, Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle, Mrs. Karl Fenning
Mrs. John j. O'Connor, Mrs. Davic
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Army-Navy Club Lunch
Mrs. James T. Allen of Takoma Park Is
Hostess to Visitor.
Hostess to Visitor.

recently moved here from Philadel-
phia. Mrs. Leyshon is occupying the
former residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Runacre, who have moved to
Philadelphia.
Guests at the party were Mrs. w.
w. Bailey, Mrs. Howard Thomas, Mrs.
B. H. J. Halstrick, Mrs. Arthur Pah-
ren, Mrs. Edward Rimbach and Mrs.
Emmett Dye.
Mrs. Ernst R. Sphinx entertained at
luncheon Friday in honor of Miss
Ruth Whittier of Nutley, N. j.. who
has been the house guest of her cousin,
Mr. Walter W. SWEET, and Mrs. SWEET
for the week.
Other guests were Mrs. James Burch
of Chevy Chase, Mrs. A. G. Stone,
Mrs. SWEET, Mrs. Frank English, Mrs.
Edmund L. Green, Mrs. David Gates
of Takoma Park and Mrs. Irwin l..
Clark Of Sligo Park Hills, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs Walter P Harman
were hosts at covered-dish dinner
party for "a, Wednesday night.
Mrs. H. H. Hubert entertained at
luncheon Wednesday, having as
guests Mrs Alfred D. Stedman, Mrs.
Fred S. Wilson, Mrs. Charles R. Mills,
Mrs. J. B. Allen, Mrs. Vance McNary,
Mrs. Frank Hayes, Mrs. R. A. Ramsay,
Mrs. A. G. Mihell, Miss Agnes Carle-
ton and Mrs. M. A. Himmelwright.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Hoover with
their children, jeanne, Richard and
Conrad Hoover. will move April II
from their residence on Valley View
avenue to Erie, Pa, where Mr.. Hoover
has been transferred by the Social
Securities Board
Mrs. Nellie Harrison has visiting
her for an indefinite time her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Alfred Hood and small young
sons, Alfred Hood and Robert Hood,
of Warren, Ohio.
Mrs. Grace Van Allen entertained
at luncheon and bridge for eight
Monday.
Mrs. Theodore Serrill was hostess at
bridge Monday night, having IL
guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Macy, who
have been making their home with
Mrs. Horace Whittacker, wife Of the
late DR.. Whitaker, are building q
home in Chevy Chase, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Carless Morris
are in New York over this week end
and have with them Mrs. Morris
sister, Mrs. Maude M. Bonnyman of
Roosevelt, N. Y, who has been their
house guest for some time. Mr.. Nor
ris has accepted position with the
Bell laboratories in New York, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris plan to move In
the vicinity of New York City this
month.
Mrs. Arthur O. Tool will entertain
at a bridge Tuesday night.
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Dance at Quantico
Many Dinner Parties Precede Officers
Club Event Last Evening.

The wedding took place at Holy
Trinity Chapel,
From Collington Capt. and Mrs.
Waterman went to Annapolis, to spend
this week end with Mrs. Waterman's
mother, Mrs. Robert Lee Duvall, at
her home, Moss Haven.
Mrs. William P. Kelly has returned
to Quantico from Edgemoor. Md,
where she has been visiting her
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. H. Littlehales, while Capt.
Kelly was with the Fleet Marine Force
on the West Coast.
Capt. and Mrs. Ralph w. Culpepper
and their children, Miss Louise Cul-
pepper and Mr., Ted Culpepper, left
Quantico today for Norfolk, Va, where
they will sail Tuesday aboard the U.
S. S. Chaumont for their new duty at
Guam.
Mrs. Monroe S. Swanson and her
son, knute Swanson, have returned to
the post from San Diego, Calf, where
they visited for three months while
Capt. Swanson was on the West Coast
uldlleufclS.
Capt. and Mrs. Frank Wirsig spent
last week end in Annapolis, Nd, as
the guests of Mrs. Wirsig's parents,
Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Ridgely
Mrs. Jaime Sabater and her chill
dren Myrna and Jaime, jr., have
returned to Quantico from Puerto
Rico, where they visited Mrs. Sabater's S
father, Mr.. J. Monages, while Capt.
Sabater was on the West Coast.
Capt. and Mrs. Archie O'Neil had
as their guests Sunday Miss Gladys
Magann of Washington, D. c., and
Mr.. Jerry Stout of Erie, Pa.
Mrs. William F. Brown is visiting
for week in Portsmouth and Nor
folk, Va.
Mrs. Carl W. Nelson and her guest,
Miss Marguerite Williams of Airing
ton, Greg, left Thursday for a month
visit in Paris Island, S. G.
Miss Violet Van Ness of Pasadena,
Calf, arrived at the post Thursday
to visit her brother and sister, -in-law,
Lieut. and Mrs. Peter Van Ness.
Comdr. and Mrs. Herbert K. Fem
of Annapolis, Md, and Mrs. Florence
Medlicott of San Diego, Calf, were
the guests for dinner Tuesday of
Lieut.. and Mrs. Harold Bauer.
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Tea Thursday Fetes
Mrs. Roberta Lawson

Mrs. Roberta Campbell lawson
president of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs, will be the guest
in whose honor members of the
Arlington Woman's Club will enter
tain at tea Thursday afternoon from
3 until 6 o'clock.
The delightful affair, of more than
usual interest to clubWomen of North
ern Virginia, will take place at the
home of Mrs. Frank G. Campbell at
1915 South Arlington Ridge road,
Arlington, and will be attended by
many prominent clubWomen from
Alexandria, Herndon, Falls Church
and all sections of the county.
Receiving with Mrs. Campbell and
Mrs. Lawson, the honor guest, will ne
Mrs. H. w, Petty, president of the
Arlington Woman's Club, and Miss
Josephine Doggett, director Of research
and club service
Mrs. E. c. Butterfield and Mrs.
Thomas j. De Lashmutt will preside
at the tea table and during the after
noon Mrs. B. D. Shreve of Cherry
dale, soloist at the National City
Christian Church in Washington, will
give a group Of songs, accompanied
by Mrs. Truman Burchard.
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Mrs. Coolidge
To Return TODAY

Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge,
patroness Of music and founder of
the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge audi
torium in the Library of Congress in
Washington, will return to her local
residence, at 2400 Sixteenth street, to-
day and will be in Washington until
April II. Mrs. Coolidge has been In
California much of the Winter.
One of the always popular music
festivals, which brings leading emusi-
clans, critics and prominent patrons
of music from all over the world to
Washington, will be presented in the
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge auditorium
of the Library of Congress April 8,
10 and IL. Especially outstanding in
the programs and artists to be pres
ented during this Spring festival will
be harpsichord program, an all
Hindemuth program, and final pro-
gram Sunday evening, April IL, when
Carlos Chavez will conduct a chamber
music orchestra. The distinguished
hutist, George Barrere, also will have
charge Of one program and the Cool
idge Quartet will have one.
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L. Wing, Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, Mrs.
Lyman B. Swormstedt, Mrs. William
Lee Corbin, Mrs. Arthur H. Vanden-
burg. Mrs. Paul E. Howe, Mrs. Howard
B, Nichols, Mrs. Robert j. McFall,
Miss Mary Louise Brown, Mrs. Law
renee Radford, Miss Bertha Nienburg,
Miss BERTHE Backus, Mrs. Frank C.
Brown, Mrs. Thomas A. Groover, DR..
Sara Branham, Mrs. w. L. Fulton,
Mrs. w. S. Woytinsky. Mrs. Thomas
w. Heitz and Mrs. Karl D. LooS.
Assisting in the dining room will be
Miss Loretta Cunningham Mrs. Mar
shall Harris, Mrs. Joseph Howorth,
Mrs. w, H. Mckinney, Miss Gather
inc Murray, Mrs. Lee / Parks, Miss
Jeanette Rudellat and Mrs Roland
D. Severy.
Among former presidents of the
club who will welcome guests in the
dining room will be Miss Sybil Baker,
Mrs. Harris T. Baldwin, Mrs. Basil
NJ Manly, Miss Ellen Vinton, DR..
Louise Taylor-Jones, Miss Elizabeth
Leech, Miss Margaret Merrill Mrs.
Robert Lincoln O'Brien, Mrs. Eliza
beth Boynton Covell and Mrs. William
| D. Searle.
A musical program will be given
IN the lounge during the reception.
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Nine. Cantacuzene
Speaks to Society

Nine. Cantacuzene was hostess Fri
day afternoon at the Sulgrave Club
In honor of the members of the Dis
trict of Columbia Chapter of the
Daughters of Founders and Patriots
of America, of which she is national
councillor. Preceding the tea Mrs
Thaddeus M Jones, national presi-
dent, spoke and read a letter ITS
years old, written from Nantucket,
Mass, at the time tea was first
brought to America.
Elections for councillors and regis
trar took place. Mrs. Augustine
Lonergan, Mrs. William Golf Sears
and Mrs. Bertha M. Robertson were
chosen for chapter councillors and
Mrs. M. E. Woodward reelected reg
istrar
Among those present were the ma
tional corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Llewellyn Edwards; the State presi-
dent, Mrs. Gaius NJ Brumbaugh, and
the vice president, Mrs. John H.
Freiot, with other officers, Mrs. Will
liam B. Bell, Mrs. S. B. Woodbridge,
Mrs. Roger Williams, Mrs. Acheson F.
Hassan and Mrs M. E. Woodward.
Also attending were Mrs. Frank w.
Maxim and her daughter, Mrs Tweedy
of England, Mrs George Madden
Grimes and her guest, Mrs. w. S.
Rumbaugh; Miss Sophie Casey, Mrs.
William Golf Sears, Miss May Hus-
ted, Mrs Redwood Vandegrift, Mrs.
David H. Moore, Mrs. Otis Crane, Miss
Kate M Jaquette, Mrs. Jessie Porter
Wood, Mrs Sol Lansburgh, Mrs. Sam
uel Meeks, Mrs. Grattan Kernans,
Mrs. Edison L. Whitney, Miss Eunice
Whitney. Mrs. Bertha M. Robertson,
Mrs. Fred S. Ward. Mrs. Virginia
Emerson, Mrs. E. Helen Temple and
Mrs. Ralph A. Gilchrist, guest Of Mrs.
Woodward.
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Benefit Tomorrow
For the St. Charles
Scholarship Fund

THE Washington Lay Alumni Asso-
citation Of ST. Charles College at
Catonsville, Nd will give its third
annual card and bingo party tomor-
row for the benefit of the scholarship
fund at the college. Mr.. Andrew I.
Hickey is president of the local as
sociation, and the other officers are
DR. William T. McClocky, Mr.. Thomas
L. Calder and Prof Andrew Simon
petri, vice presidents; Mr.. Francis B.
McGivern, secretary: Mr. Cyril Nc
Donald, treasurer; Mr. John Who'll
han, historian; Mr. Andrew j. Sheri-
dan, corresponding secretary, and Mr..
James F. Bailey. sergeant at arms.
The long list of patrons and
patronesses include Senator David I.
Walsh. Representative Michael j..
Stack, Judge Ellen K. Raedy of the
Municipal Court; the chairman OF
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp,
Mr.. Leo T. Crowley; the Most Rev.
John M. Mcnamara, Auxiliary Bishop
of Baltimore; the Most Rev. Peter l..
Ireton, coadjutor Bishop of Rich
mond; the Presidents naval aide, Capt.
| Paul H. Bastedo, and Mrs Bastedo; the
counselor for immigration for the
Italian Embassy and Signora Bonar-
deli, Princess Margaret Boncompagni,
Dr. and Mrs. Philip A. Caulfield. Mrs.
j. DUNCAN, Mr.. Harry K. Hickey, Mr..
and Mrs Francis x. jain, Mr.. and
Mrs. James F. Kehoe, DR.. and Mrs.
Thomas J. Kennedy, Mrs. P. J. Nee,
former Assistant Secretary of State
and Mrs. John Callan O'Laughlin,
former District Attorney and Mrs. Leo
A. Rover, Mrs. James T. Ryan, Mrs. B.
F. Saul, the Misses Saul, Princess
Margaret Boncompagni, Mrs. Joseph
P Tumulty, Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald L..
Whelan, Mr.. and Mrs George r..
White and Mr.. and Mrs. Francis
| voto
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4 4 bridge Friday at the Army
Navy Country Club in honor of Miss
Maude Deskyne Of Wilmington, Del,
who is spending the week end with
Capt. and Mrs. Allen.
The guests were Mrs. Howard
Jackson, Mrs. Frank Nickols. Mrs.
Wilbur Barnes, Mrs. Charles E. Ack-
erman, jr.; Mrs. L. H. Weiss, Mrs.
Wallace Magathan, Mrs. G. Albert
Byron Davis, Mrs. Chester R. Bren-
neman, Miss Marion Scott, Mrs. Rob-
ert Cohen, Mrs Fred Hunter, Mrs.
Howard Barss, Mrs. George Cook, Mrs.
Andic Pratt, Mrs. B. N. Brouner Of
Takoma Park, Mrs. Roy Bitzing, Mrs.
Charles Sengstack, sr.; Mrs. Charles
Sengstack, jr.: Mrs. Lee Turner, Mrs.
Stacy Gorrell. Mrs. Charles Gran
field and Mrs A. w. Gleason of
Washington.
at bridge breakfasts Tuesday and
Wednesday, having II guests at each
party. The hostess carried out the
Easter theme for decorations with
followed Easter eggs in pastel shades
filled with water and tiny bouton-
nieres of fresh Spring flowers as SOU
venirs.
Mrs. Homer A. A. Smith gave a
luncheon and bridge for her daugh-
ter. Mrs. David Haas, Tuesday in
celebration of her birthday anniver-
sary The guests were Mrs. Robert
Brown of Sligo Park Hills, Md; Mrs.
Frank Anderson, Mrs Arthur JOS
eph, Mrs H. ]. Halstrick, Miss Eli
nor Seal of Takoma Park, Mrs.
Charles Paine, Miss Blanche Pearson,
Mrs. Henry P Evans OF Washington
and Miss Elizabeth Ramey of Alex
andria.
Miss Virginia Ladd, daughter Of
Mrs. Edwin F. Ladd, was given a sur
prise party Tuesday night by group
of friends at her home. Red roses
and baskets of Spring flowers formed
the decorations.
The guests we're Mrs. Ladd, Miss
Elizabeth Ladd, Miss Ladds sister;
Mrs. Roy Yates, Mrs. Arthur Terrill,
Miss Alice Terrill, Mrs. Willing Hop
per, Mrs. Ellsworth w. Quinter, Mrs
Edward Morcock, jr; Miss Marion
Quinter, Mrs. Alfred zirwes, Mrs. Ed
ward Eastep, Mrs. John O'Neill, Mrs,
Jack Vogel, Mrs. R. A. Gills, Miss
Helen McNary, Miss Eleanor Dodd
Mrs G. w. Rouse, Miss Dorothy
Prichard and Miss Margaret Hutchin-
son.
Mrs. Harry P. Dodge entertained at
a bridge Thursday night in compli-
| ment to Mrs. William c. Leyshon, who
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Miss Dorothy V. Crump,
1Dhose parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James E. Crump OF Frostburg,
Nd, announce her engage
nent to Mr.. Isaac 3. Godd,
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. John A.
Goad OF HillsUilze, Va. The
Uedding will take place early
in May. Brooks Photo.
Center: Miss Barbara Ray
Jenkins, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ray Thompson Jenkins
OF Bethesda, Nd, Who an
nounce her engagement to Mr..
Lloyd Ed10ard Burroughs, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. Tdleterro
Burroughs OF Washington.
The Wedding ,Oill take place in
June.
Evening star., 1937-09-13
M0DERNIZATl0N WORK
AT STORE COMPLETED

Visitors to Lansburgh's tomorrow
will be invited by store executives to
inspect special exhibits marking the
completion of an expansion and mod
ernization program on the main floor,
it was announced today.
The floor plan, width Of the aisles
and decorations have been converted
on the basis of research aiming at
the most effective possible merchan-
dising scheme, Ralph Goldsmith, gen.
eral manager of the store, said.
The entire first floor has been
equipped with streamlined showcases,
simple in design but presenting a
striking front to the observer. The
mems shops have been entirely re-
built.
Numerous special exhibits will be
c- display in the various departments
during the week.
Evening star., 1937-09-13
Miss america of 1887 SDl,rns
Contracts and Officials Vail
BY the Associated Press.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., September
ia soft-spoken, blue-eyed school,
girl reigned as Americas No. beauty
queen today-much to the embar-
rassment of steel pier full of city
oflcials and beauty contest sponsors.
And while the officials, frustrated
and weary, declared "she can't do
this to U.s." Miss Bette Cooper. IT.
year-old Miss Bertrand Island of
Hackettstown and Miss America Of
1887 went right on doing it.
1T" being a complete and whole
hearted snubbing of the fruits of her
victory: A six-week vaudeville con-
tract, a $4OO offer for five days on
the steel pier and a flying trip to
Hollywood for a screen test included.
Back to School"
"No movies, radio or vaudeville for
mel" she said today I'm going to
stay in bed and get rid of this cold
and then back to school for me-"
A streamlined youngster of S
feet s inches and 100 well-placed
pounds, Miss Cooper is strictly an
amateur beauty with no ulterior de-
signs. She skipped from Americas
playground yesterday few hours
after her crowning. leaving behind a
bewildered group of sponsors, officials
and contract-padded dignitaries.
Mayor c. D. White, all the city
commissioners, George Tyson, pag-
cant director; Edward Curtis, chair
man of the Judges Committee, and
sundry others met. in rapid, i'm
promptu conferences.
Confer and Confer.
They conferred and conferred, but
the answer still came out the same
Miss America of 1887 was gone and
what's more she wasn't coming back.
Very peculiar" they muttered, lift
ing eyebrows.
Meanwhile, tired but serene, Miss
Cooper arrived at her Hackettstown
home with a fustered escort of three
young men and reiterated that as
far as she was concerned the Atlantic
City beauty contest had passed into
the limbo of swell but forgotten
things.
She admitted she had gotten one
thing from the affair and this was
blossoming acquaintance with Lewis
Off, one of the rescuing trio and son
of an Atlantic City hotel man and
city commissioner.
Her father, lie Brun Cooper State
Evening star., 1937-09-13
THEATER BLASTS
HURT 90 OPERSONS
Stencil Bomb Explosions in
New York Cause PaniCS.
Labor Row Blamed.
~ +be Arror;ot.d pr.Ss

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. September l3.-Stench
bombs exploding simultaneously in =
score of upper Manhattan and Bronx
motion picture theaters last night in
jured more than so persons and
caused panics among the Sunday
night audiences
Police reserves and ambulances
we're hurried to the theaters while
members of the police bomb squad
started an immediate investigation
into the wave Of explosions.
Only one OF the injured required
hospital attention. The others were
treated by physicians, most of them
lacerations of the feet and legs caused
by the explosions, or for chemical
burns.
Samuel D. Cocalis, head of the
firm which operates the theaters as
units of chain, said, from his Deal,
N. j., home, that he believed labor
difficulties were responsible for the
bombings.
He said his operators were members
OF the Empire State Union, an inde-
pendent organization. and that he had
contracts with them for the last 10
years.
Cocalis said officials of another
motion picture operators union had
been trying to get a contract for his
theaters.
Special police guards were ordered
for all theaters of the chain, and po-
lice headquarters ordered reserves into
the Times Square district to be on
the lookout for similar trouble there.
Pickets were marching in front of
several Of the theaters last night, po-
lice reported. as result OF dispute
over employment of operators.
or those injured, only Isadore
Ehrlich, is, was taken to a hospital.
A fragment of glass from one Of the
bombs was removed from his foot
Evening star., 1937-09-13
HEAVY DEW Is BLAMED
FOR CRASH OF BOMBER
None OF Army Men Hurt as Huge
Plane Goes Into Skid After
Landing.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, September 13-An
unusually heavy dew which rendered
innective the brakes of huge Army
Blob Martin bomber was given YES
terday as the reason for the damaging
Of the plane in landing yesterday dur
Ing the 20th Squadron's training pc
nod at the State military reservation.
Virginia Beach.
None Of the crew Of -four was hurt.
Lieut.. Col. Robert Olds, commander
Of the I'd Bombardment Group, said
1t Langley Field. from which the
damaged plane came.
Lieut.. Ongacre, the pilot, was COM
ing into the landing field normally,
but the dew apparently rendered IN
effective his brakes. The plane rolled
without brakes for a distance. and
then the brakes suddenly and force
fully took hold, causing the bomber
TO skid.
Col. Olds said the plane skidded
about so feet, then went over a foot
high embankment at road. The
Anding gear collapsed under the
plane, and the left wing, which struck
the concrete foundation of an old
structure. was badly damaged.
Evening star., 1937-09-13
N. |. R. B. WILL RESUME
HEARING IN CUMBERLAND
Attorneys for Republic Steel Will
Examine Own Witnesses as
Testimony Opens Today.

By the Associated Press
CUMBERLAND, Md, September 13.
Testimony will be resumed today
before the National Labor Relations
Board here in the petition filed by
c. l. O. tinworkers at the N. g. G.
Taylor tinplate mill for certification
as sole representative of employees for
bargaining collectively with the en-
ployer.
Indications from comments Of
attaches of the board and counsel in
volved in the case were that the hear
ing probably will last the remainder
of the week. Attempts to arrive at a
compromise for dismissal of the pro-
ceedings failed last Friday.
1t is expected that attorneys for the
Republic Steel Co., owner of the Tay-
lor mill, will examine their own witt
ness this week regarding the names
on 334 cards the union counsel sub.
mitted as exhibits The union stated
the cards represented union member
ship APPLICATIONS from tin mill workers.
Evening star., 1937-09-13
LEFT WING PURGE
OF j. A. ". BEGUN
organizers and Employees
Dismissed Pending Pass
ing on Credentials.
~ the Associated Press.


DETROIT, September ,l3. - The
newly elected General Executive Boarc
OF the United Automobile Workers Of
America meets today to pass on the
credentials of organizers and reports
persisted that left wing purge was
ct hand
President Homer Martin said before
the meeting:
The U. A. w. is going to be an
American organization and if some of
the people don't like it they can go
back to Russia. AS long as am presi-
dent am going to dictate the inter-
national policies"
Today's Executive Board meeting is
The first since the recent international
convention at Milwaukee in which
Martin was reelected. He controls
the Executive Board.
Employment Terminated.
Organizers and Office employees here
have received notice that their employ
ment has terminated, to be resumed
only II the board renews their Gre
dentials.
Asked directly If any organizers were
70 be dropped because of communistic
kanings, Martin said you'll see."
Saturday at a closed meeting of
shop stewards in Flint, Mich, hot
spot IN last Winters General Motors
strike, Martin clashed with Robert
Travis, member of the unions five
man Flint board, the president charg-
Ing funds had been squandered there.
Travis replied to Martin:
If any individual disagrees with
the president he is branded a Com
munist by the president"
Martin said he was convinced money
nao been handled honestly, but was
misspent.
Result of Audit.
An audit of the Flint locals finances
was presented by w. U. Ayling, auditor
Tor the International. Although union
omcials declined to discuss the fig
ures 1T was reported urlofficially the
audit showed sl9s,8Ol collected be-
tween November /. 1855, and August
!, 1887, and $f79,00O spent.
Travis was reported as having said
the money was invested over a wears
period and returned to the workers
Z dividend of $250,0O0 a week in the
form OF higher wages"
Reports have persisted that Travis
WAS 70 be ousted at today's meeting,
Evening star., 1937-09-13

Highway Department engineer, sum-
med it up this way:
ut was too strenuous for Bette.
Her mother and feel she's too young
for all that fuss. And besides she has
a cold and needs a rest
The explanation, relayed to officials
at the height of their "this-can't-be-
true" discussion, was received in
hushed silence.