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Evening star., 1937-03-20

big dark eyes, and 1.-THE, graceful
figure.
She was thinking of these things
as she left her apartment and start
ed down Fourteenth street. Che
walked with head down, feeling de-
pressed and oblivious of the things
around her. She reached the corner
and stepped into the street before she
thought Of the danger. 1t was nearly
too late. She heard the screech of
brakes and leaped back toward the
walk, falling heavily on the hard
cement. She felt sharp tremor OF
pain and little cry escaped her as
young DR.. Marks, the driver Of the
car, stepped to her side.
Hurt bad?" he asked, starting to
help her to her feet Then he no
ticed her arm twisted strangely be-
meath her and with few deft move
ments Strengthened it across in front
of her.
THAT arm is broken" he said as
he helped her into his car. I'm On
my way to the hospital now to per-
form an operation, but we'll set that
first"
They pulled up before the big stone
building and DR.. Marks lifted Made
leine out of the car and carried her
up the steps. A nurse opened the
door, and, supressing her curiosity
and surprise, followed the doctors
instructions and brought up wheel
chair and conducted the patient to
the operating room. Suddenly DR..
Marks turned to his assistant and
told him to set the arm and. looking
very troubled, he hurried to the con-
sultation room.
Two interns were sitting there talk
ing and smoking when the door opened.
4 X X *
HAVE you heard anything about
the boy, doctor?" one of them
asked as DR.. Marks entered the room.
mot word" he answered with de-
spair in his voice. He was frowning
and evidently thinking very earnestly.
"Dr. Judson," he said suddenly.
turning to one of the young men.
Il wonder if you would do me a great
favor? Come into my office for a
moment"
The young man stepped inside and
closed the door.
At 2 o'clock that afternoon DR..
Marks. having taken care OF all his
patients, was waiting for q cab in
front of the hospital. He appeared
to be deep in thought and having
stood there for some time he sud-
denly. without appearing to look o.,
stepped down from the curb and into
the path of an approaching car. One
OF the nurses saw the accident from
an upstairs window OF the hospital
and reported that the doctor seemed
to receive a terrific impact from the
machine; that the walking stick in
his hand snapped like q match stick
at the same time that he was thrown
to the ground; that the car sped away
from the scene.
She had screamed at the sight and
interns Immediately rushed out and
brought the limp form into the emer-
gency ward. DR.. Judson pronounced
him dead q few minutes later, an
ordeal which the young man seemed
scarcely able to endure. The two
men had been the closest OF friends.
THAT night the newspapers car
ried front-page stories OF the
tragedy; especially dramatic because
Of the fact that his adopted son was
at present the victim Of mysterious
kidnap plot. The doctor, according
to the papers, had been trying up
Evening star., 1937-03-20
Mrs. Hull to Be HOnOred
By Nine. Troyanovsky
Observation-Disclosures
Attorney General and Mrs. Cummings to
Entertain Tonight to Be
Hosts at Dinners.

hfRs coRDEIL HULL wife Secretary State,
V the guest in whose honor Troyanovsky, wife
Ambassador of the Union Republics
issued invitations to luncheon Wednesday, April 21 in the
Embassy
The Attorney General and Cummings will enter
tain at dinner this evening in their home, Ruthven
Chief Justice Mrs Charles Hughes be the
guests in whose honor the Minister of Norway and Nine Munhe
de Morgenstierne will entertain at dinner this evening
The United States Ambassador to France Mr. William Butt
is staying at the Carlton Hotel He arrived in Washington yester
day. spending time with President Roosevelt Warm
Springs Ga
The Chinese Ambassador and Nine SEE entertained at lunch
today ranking the Spanish Ambassador
and Sonora de los Rios.
The Polish Ambassador Count jerry Potock
yesterday for short stay and expected join Countess Potocka
in Charlottesville Va. to spend tomorrow.
Minister Nine entertained luncheon
today in the legation on Kalorama Circle.
The Minister of the Irish Free State Mr. Michael MacWhe
will return today from Memphis Tenn where he went for ST
Patrck's day celebration.
The Canadian Minister and Lady Marler will entertain at
dinner this followed musicale when the Hart House
String Montreal which will London for the
ton, will play.
Murray Montana the Wardman
Hotel for the remainder of the congressional
Representative Ralph entertain at
evening Mrs Hanna of Cleveland who
visiting Thad The dinner given also
Mr.. Sterling Morton
Harry the former Miss Westwood Byrd who has
visiting Senator and Mrs Harry Flood Byrd in their apart
shoreham few returned yesterday to
Berryvlle Her brothers, Richard Beverly
spending with their parents the hotel They
students in the Episcopal School in Alexandria, Va.
Evening star., 1937-03-20
Latvians Hosts.

The Latvian Minister and Nine.
Bilmanis will entertain at dinner this
evening. Last evening the Minister
and Nine Bilmanis were hosts at
dinner, entertaining in the legation.
Evening star., 1937-03-20
c. |. COOKE SERVICES
ARE HELD IN CHURCH
Private Burial Is Planned for
State Departments Arbiter
of Precedence.

Funeral services for Charles Lee
Cooke, u, the State Departments ar
bitter of precedence, who died Thurs
day in Naval Hospital, are being held
this afternoon in Calvary Baptist
Church, instead of at v. L. Speare's
funeral home, as at first planned The
change was decided on yesterday
afternoon.
Rev. DR.. William S. Abernethy,
pastor Of Calvary Church, is officiating
at the services. Burial will be pri-
vate, in Loudon Park Cemetery, Balti-
more.
For many years, Mr. Cooke had been
Evening star., 1937-03-20
Lectures Planned.

Mrs. George Ferdinand Becker. 1416
Thirty-third street, has loaned her
drawing room for two free lectures to
be given on Monday and Tuesday
evenings by Miss Anna Maud Hallam,
at 8 O'Clock.
Evening star., 1937-03-20

FRS. JAMES A. SCHROEDER,
M jr., and Miss Mary Eastlack
VI entertained yesterday at a
4 Il luncheon and miscellaneous
Evening star., 1937-03-20

Mrs. Merhle Haines of Gaithersburg
was hostess at dessert party, fol-
lowed by contract bridge, yesterday
afternoon. The guests included Mrs.
james T. Cashell of Lay Hill, Mrs.
Evening star., 1937-02-15
EXG-MEN SUPPLY
c. M. LABOR DATA
Former U. S. Agents Sup
planted Pinkerton Men,
Senate Probers Told.
BY John C. HENRY.

Three former Government agents
have supplanted private detective
agencies in supplying labor relations"
information to the General Motors
Corp, the La Toilette Civil Liberties
Committee was told today by H. W.
Anderson, labor relations chief for
the corporation.
The former Federal officers are
William Larson and James Cunning
ham, one time Federal Bureau of In
vestlgation agents. and John Pierce,
previously of the United States mar
shals Office in Detroit.
Discontinuance of Pinkerton and
other private detective services was
ordered by Anderson. he said. after
conferences with John Thomas Smith,
General Motors counsel and Donald
son Brown. finance officer of the cor
poration. The new system does not
call for "undercover" work, Anderson
explained.
The discontinuance, effective last
January 81, was directly a result of
the present investigation, Anderson
said. although he explained, he al
ways had felt such espionage to be
bad practice" Brown and Smith
agreed on this point, he added.
Initial engagement of the Pinker-
ton service, it was testified by Hale,
came with the beginning of an Or
ganization drive by the United Auto
mobile Workers. chartered by the
American Federation of Labor. 1t was
the U. A. w. that conducted the recent
General Motors strike
This testimony was offered after
the committee, delving more deeply
into the labor espionage policies of
General Motors, had disclosed that
the corporation bought such service
from Is different detective agencies
or individuals from January /, 1884, to
July 81, 1886.
Payments for these services, in some
cases made to General Motors officials,
and later Endorsed over to the detec-
tive concerns, totaled $839,7 ,764 in the
period studied.
Three General Motors officials, who
are or have been in charge of labor
relations" work for the concern, were
on the stand at the time. Anderson
was called first, and Louis T. Seaton,
(See LABOR, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-02-15
Alaska Family Refuses to Flee
As Great Glacier Nears Home

object of interest to the family before
it began its movement two weeks ago,
Mrs. Revell said. It was considered a
dying" glacier then and its face had
receded for centuries, as evidenced oy
rocks and earth in its moraine.
"Oh, yes. the face was SO sloping
we could step up it," Mrs. Revell said.
"But the ice has broken of now until
the face is 800 feet straight up and
there are pinnacles 500 feet high.
Where the face was mile wide
last Fall, it's two miles wide now"
Her husband said we're all ready
to move out if anything should speed
up the glacier, but we're not IN any
dread of it."
Contrasting with the ice-age drama
being enacted, airplanes carrying
scientists and sightseers alighted on
the ice of Big Delta River.
Among the scientists who flew to
the scene were DR.. Erwin H. Bramhall,
who was with Byrd's second expedi-
ton to the Antarctic; F. g. Rainey,
head of the Department of Anthro-
pology, and Dean James H. Hance,
dean of the School Of Mines and acting
president of the University Of Alaska.
Evening star., 1937-02-15
Two-point Agreement Seen.
(See EDWARD, Page A-8.)

John w. Mills, SO. spent is minutes
this morning in the cold Potomac
River, trapped in the black dark be-
meath a concrete pier with only 6
inches of air between the rising water
level and the pier ceiling. After his
rescue he was taken to Emergency
Hospital, where his condition was
found not serious.
Mills, q 250-pound engineer for the
Smoot Sand & Gravel Co., stumbled
from the firms pier at the foot Of
Thirty-first street, Georgetown, shortly
after 8 am. and disappeared from
the sight of the Mortified Edward s.
Herman, a fellow worker.
Herman was atop gravel screen No.
8. 80 feet above the pier level, when
Mills went overheard. He hurried to
the pier ready for desperate search
for his colleague, when from beneath
the pier he heard a muff1ed voice:
Get me out; get me out"
The engineer, father of a 3-year-old
girl, had tripped over a block-and-
tackle rope on the edge of the pier as
he carried bucket of coal to travel
ing forge and made an involuntary
sideway dive into feet Of water
between the pier and gravel barge
tied to it.
He went far beneath the surface
and when he came to the top he had
travelled about 10 feet under the pier,
leaving him ignorant of which direc-
ton would lead him back to safety.
The construction Of the pier-solid
Evening star., 1937-02-15
Man, So. Rescued From, Riuer
after Being Lost Under Pier

concrete walls resting on log sill a
few feet above the bottom-shut out
all light.
Herman, August PrZybilla and T..
G. Herbert, general superintendent Of
the gravel plant, apprehensive lest he
become exhausted and drown, pried
open trapdoor in the pier and shone
a flashlight toward Mills, 10 feet away.
They heard him cry:
Hurry up, I can't last 1t much
longer"
The dim light gave Mills an idea Of
his whereabouts and Of the direction
to safety.
Swim out the same way you came
in" called Herbert. The trap was too
small to admit the huge form Of Mills.
Mills hesitated. To follow Herbert's
instructions meant dive into the
dark to get under the log sill Of the
pier and meant that he had to come
up flush with the front Of the pier
to prevent his being trapped under
the gravel barge.
After frequent exhortations. how
ever, Mills took the chance. Herbert,
Herman, Przybilla and others were
standing on the pier edge awaiting
his appearance. and a minute after
his head bobbed up between barge
and pier the men had swung him to
safety.
The fire rescue squad hastened him
to Emergency Hospital, where he was
treated for exposure. Mills lives with
his wife and daughter at 1908 Twenty
fourth street,
Evening star., 1937-02-15
FREAK STORM SENDS
TEMPERATURE TO29
Lightning and Thunder Occur as
Snow Falls-Rain Due
Late Tonight.

A freak storm-with lightning and
thunder occurring while it was snow
ing-drove the mercury below freezing
early today.
Although Winter thunderstorms are
not phenomenal, it is unusual, the
Weather Bureau says, to have light
ming and thunder while snow is
falling.
The temperature dropped to 29 de-
grees at 12:45 am, about an hour
after the storm, during which the
wind reached a velocity of 80 miles
an hour and about a quarter of an
inch of snow fell.
This afternoon, according to the
forecaster, will be slightly cloudy, with
rain expected late tonight or tomor-
row. It will be somewhat warmer
tonight, with a minimum of about
80 degrees.
Tomorrow is due to be colder in the
late afternoon or night, with moderate
southwest winds shifting to west.
Evening star., 1937-02-15
Summary of Today's Star
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.

WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
McCarran amends pay bill after White
House visit. Page Al
Mrs. Roosevelt's correspondents against
social legislation. Page Al
House subcommittee plans exhaustive
fiscal relations study. Page Al
Man rescued after being trapped in
water under pier. Page Al
Dutch submarine OILS arrives here
for weeks visit. Page Az
G. w. professor believed to have iso-
lated leprosy germ. Page Al
Airways traffic control system in effect
at airport here. Page B-I
Four seriously hurt in week end traf-
f1c crashes. Page B-1
Marjorie Smith, missing over week,
found in drug store. Page B-1
Family of eight homeless and destitute
after fire. Page B-I
NATIONAL.
Three former U. S. agents named as
labor" informants. Page Al
President talks with Senators on courts
proposal. Page Al
Bill forecasts New York-London air.
mail service. Page Al
Hayashi meets opposition of jap
anese parties. Page Az
General strike of Reading, Pa, hosiery
workers looms. Page AS
Farnsworth spy trial will open to-
day. Page AS
Evening star., 1937-02-15
By the Associated Press.


FAIRBANKS, Alaska, February Is.
"A courageous Alaskan woman whose
roadside inn home lies squarely in
the path of runaway Black Rapids
Glacier refused to be frightened to-
day by the approach Of the thunder
ing ice mass
Housework went on as usual for
Mrs. H e. Revel1 in Black Rapids
Roadhouse as the glacier, less than q
mile away, continued its advance.
I'm not afraid" she said, pausing
from her duties as hostess to scien-
lists and excursionists.
"The glaciers not moving fast
now. It does make a lot Of noise and
sometimes shakes the house, but that
doesn't keep us from sleeping"
Mrs. Revell's husband and her son
Harry share her determination not
to abandon the inn until the last
minute-all their possessions are
packed for flight, however.
Probably it will break up when It
comes to the Big Delta River. We're
across the river from it."
The 3o-mile long glacier, 125 miles
south Of here last year was merelH an
Evening star., 1937-02-15
TWO CHILDREN HIT
BY TRAIN HERE
Girl, 12, and Boy, z, Seriously
Injured While En- Route to
DeanWood School.

Two colored children were seriously
injured this morning when they were
struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad
freight train in the 1900 block of
Kenilworth avenue northeast while
en- route to the Deanwood School.
At Casualty Hospital Eloise owen,
II, of 1920 Douglas street northeast,
was said to be suffering from multiple
body injuries and JoSephuS Thomas,
7, of 4400 w street northeast suffered
head injuries.
Police were told two members Of the
School Boy Patrol-Clinton Luckett
and Kenneth Robinson-were on duty
along the freight line at the time, but
were unable to avert the accident.
The children were said to have
halted in crossing the track to await
the passing of northbound train and
failed to see another train approach
ing from the opposite direction.
They stepped off the track in time
to avoid being hit head-on, but were
sideswiped by one of the freight cars
and thrown 80 feet.
Mrs. B. B. Brown, principal of the
Deanwood School, Whittingham and
Lane streets northeast, came to the
scene Immediately. She told police
men that pupils living in the Kenil-
worth section are forced to cross the
freight tracks in order to get to the
school. The only underpass along the
line in this section is located at Dean
avenue, some distance away from the
scene Of today's accident.
Evening star., 1937-02-15
Mrs. Roosevelt
Holds Letters
Sho,o Prejudice
Court PIar, Foes Fear
O,cn Losses, She
BeIieres.

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt hazarded
a guess today that the majority of
people who write to her in violent
opposition to proposed changes in the
Supreme Court are against all forms
Of social legislation.
Judging from the context of the
letters she is receiving, the President S
wife said at a press conference today,
most of her correspondents who de-
noCnce the Judiciary proposal now
before Congress have something ma
terial that they are afraid of losing.
Her mail discussing the issue is
about evenly divided for and against
the changes, Mrs. Roosevelt said, but
added that letters of opposition nearly
all reflect prejudiced point of view.
The Presidents wife expressed the
belief that it is advisable that every
aspect of the proposed legislation
(see MRS. ROOSEVELT, page A-2,)
Evening star., 1937-02-15
Transatlantic Air Mail Service
Provided in $75O,OOO Request
Treasury-Post Office Bill, Totallng ST.
5OO,955, Isl, Would Prouide 4 Ne,U
YOrk.LOndOnRO Trips Weekly

Treasury and $782 ,469,361 for the
Post Office Department.
Four round trips a week between
New York and London are planned in
the Inauguration of transatlantic
airmail, passenger and express service,
beginning about November /. This
comes just 100 years after Charles
A. Lindbergh's flight to Paris in 1927.
Representative Ludlow, Democrat, OF
Indiana, who is in charge of the bill
carrying this appropriation, as presi-
dent of the National Press Club in 1927
introduced Lindbergh to the cheering
crowds who hailed him in the Capital
on his return from Paris.
Development of the transatlantic
air projects climaxes series of inter-
national conferences during the last
year. A number of groups from for
eign countries came here to discuss
the matter with Government officials,
including Second Assistant Postmaster
General Harllee Branch, Assistant
Secretary of State R. Walton Moore
and representatives of the Commerce,
War and Navy Departments.
Representatives of Great Britain,
(See AIRMAIL, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1937-02-15
'CARRAN ALTERS
RATING FEATURES
OF PAY RAISE BILL
Amendments Follow Visit of
Nevada Democrat to
White House.
ROOSEVELT TALK LINK
TO MEASURE is DENIED
Senator Retains Intention to End
Present Uniform Efficiency
Classifying System.

Following another visit to the
White House today. Senator Nc
Carran, Democrat. of Nevada intro
duced series of amendments to the
promotion and efficiency rating fea-
lures of his Government pay bill,
without disturbing the basic object
of increasing salaries that do not ex-
ceed $500 a year.
The original bill would have
abolished the mandatory uniform
system Of efficiency rating now re-
quired by the classification act and
substitute flexible rule under which
the Civil Service Commission could
have determined to what extent it is
practical to keep efficiency rating
records. The amendments offered to-
day clarity the question of how to
determine efficiency of employees for
purposes Of pay adjustment.
McCarran made it clear his talk
with President Roosevelt had nothing
to do with the amendments.
The Senator still proposes to abol-
ish the present uniform efficiency rat
ing system. If his bill becomes law,
efficiency rating records could be estab-
lished where the work is fairly meas
urable on quantity and quality basis"
after consultation between the depart
ment heads and the Civil Service
Commission.
Limited to Measurable Work.
They will be limited, however, to
work that is readily measurable and
not dependent on the opinion of a
rating officer. the point which has
heretofore caused so much justifiable
complaint of employees affected" Nc
Carran explained.
If the commission decided to re-
quire system for keeping track of
the quantity and quality of the work
OF groups of employees for the purpose
of fixing compensation. todays amend
ments make it mandatory that the
pay of employees so rated be adjusted
semi-annually in accordance with his
work record.
Where the commission deems It not
practical to maintain service records
for a given class or to make such rec
ords the sole basis for determining
the salary rate. the amended bill
makes it mandatory to raise such en-
ployes one salary step within the
grade at the end of each year until
(Cee paw pooa AAl
Evening star., 1937-02-15
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

An initial appropriation OF $75O.00O
for establishing during the forthcom-
ing year transatlantic airmail serv-
ice on regular schedules between New
York and London is the highlight
of the Treasury-Post Office appropri-
alton bill reported to the House today
The bill, the second regular supply
measure of the session, is to be taken
up for discussion in the House tomor-
row.
The grand total Of the measure Is
955,151, which is $l5.041 OCT
below the budget estimates. This is
an increase of 1924, 4,900,149 over the
appropriation for the 1887 fiscal year,
but this years bill contains the second
increment to the old-age pensions re-
serve account-S5O0,0 ,000, 900, an actu-
arial item over which the Appropria-
tions Committee has no control.
This is nearly double last years
increment, so that aside from building
up this social security reserve, the bill
reported today really provides for
500 ,851 less than the two departments
were granted in the 1887 measure.
The bill carries s718.485, 100 for the
Evening star., 1937-02-15
GIRL, 5, AND MOTHER
Die AS HOME BURNS
Father and Son Badly Injured,
Baby Saved, in Blaze Near
Winchester.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
WINCHESTER, Va, February Is
Mrs. James Rexrode, %. and her s.
year-old daughter, Lille Mae, were
burned to death in a fire which trapped
them in their four-room dwelling 5
miles north Of here early today. Her
husband and q small son were seri-
ously burned.
Awakening to find her farm home
near Jordan Springs in flames, Mrs.
Rexrode picked up her small daughter
and ran for the stairway. 1t collapsed
beneath them.
Her 30-year-old husband escaped
through q second-story window with
his e-year-old son, Vernon, and 16-
month-old, daughter, Lois Faye. in his
arms. Flames severely burned the
farmer and his small son as they made
their way to safety.
The baby escaped without injury, it
was reported here.
Rexrode and his son, Vernon, were
brought to q hospital here, where at
tendants said they had q fair" chance
- recove-