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director, retorted: I'VE feel that Re-
public Steel, not the c. I. O., Is about
to fold up and sign q contract"
In Chicago where police and pickets
maintained = peaceful vigilance, the
Citizens Rights Committee made ar
rangements for q mass meeting Tues
day night to demand an explanation
"of police action" In last Sundays
riot, which cost seven lives.
Republic renewed unnecessarily its
efforts to mail food into struck Ohio
plants 1T Warren and Niles by parcel
post. and charged that Niles post
ofnce oddcias were permitting 8. W.
o. G. picket leaders to inspect parcels
addressed to the plant.
The charge brought q denial and
explanation from Acting Postmaster
Bert Flaherty. He said one package
OF medicine, opened by him on au-
thority from the Republic plant, was
seen by two union pickets and . postal
inspector who happened to be cons
ferTtng In thf post once.
Evening star., 1937-06-05
Fits IS PROBING
ASSAULT CHARGE
Los Angeles Prosecutor
Seeks Statement From Man
Accused by Film Extra.
By the Associated Press.

By the ASSociAted Press.
Los Angeles, June 5.-District At
torney Buron Fits said today he was
seeking . statement from the man
accused by pretty Patricia Douglas,
2o-year-old film extra, of criminally
assaulting her during . party for
film sales executives after inducing
her to drink liquor.
Fits had . sworn statement from
another extra, Ginger Wyatt, 10, that
she was called to the studio with
more than 100 other girls, who were
given Spanish or cowgirl costumes,
and driven to q ranch In the belief
they were going on location for
picture.
A large barn was fitted out as
banquet room, Miss Wyatt said, the
girls were assigned to tables; but it
then developed each was expected to
be the partner of visiting motion
picture sales executive and entertain
him for the evening.
She said she refused to drink
liquor offered her and, with dificulty,
managed to escape from the barn
with well known actor, who had
volunteered to take her home.
Statements were being taken from
other girls.
Fits said Miss Douglas and her
attorney came to his ONCE q month
aso to complain Of the attack but
at that time said she could not
identify the man. Since then she
submitted an afidavit naming him.
The district attorney declared he
would continue to investigate "and if
the facts indicate q crime has been
committed and a satisfactory identi-
flcation Is made, We will prosecute. I"
We will not permit this ONCE" he
added. Ito be drawn into 4 civil
action for the recovery OF civil
damages"
Evening star., 1937-06-05
SHIPS FIRE QUELLED

MANILA, P. l.. June R.-Crew
members of the German freighter
Olivia after an all-night battle sue
ceeded in quelling flames in the YES
sells hold today.
The toll Of injured was raised to six
when two other crew members were
sent to . hospital suffering burns. One
was fatally burned and four seriously
burned In fighting the blA1e ut seA.
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HENRY K. HARMS DIES;
ACTIVE AS A MASON
Native of Indiana Served Here
for go Years A. Funeral
Directors Aide.

S"A0 - = NASA ~
Directors Aide.
Henry K. Harms, u, for the last
20 years assistant funeral director of
the S, H. Hines Co., died yesterday in
sibley Hospital. He had been i'll
about month.
Mr.. Harms. who lived at 2807 Four
teenth street, came here from In
diana. He was active in the Masonic
fraternity, being member of Half
way Lodge Of Masons at Redkey, Ind. :;
the Fort Wayne. Ind, Consistory Of
Scottish Rite Masons, and Almas
Temple Of the Shrine here
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Anna
Harms; q daughter, Miss Nellie Harms;
q son, James Harms, and two grand
sons, Henry K. Harms, I'd, and James
Harms, jr., all Of this city.
Funeral services will be held at 7
O'Clock tonight In Hines funeral home.
290l Fourteenth street. Rose Croix
services viii be conducted by the
Scottish Rite Masons Burial will be
in Ohio, near Toledo, beside Mr..
Harms parents.
Evening star., 1937-06-05
APPLICATION UPHELD
Eastern Airlines Wins Point In
Rerouting Issue.

Eastern Airlines has won the first
step Of q controversy with the Ma.
tional Airlines System over propo-
sails to reroute plane service through
Florida
Karl A. Crowley, solicitor for the
Post Once Department, yesterday
upheld the E. A. LIS application for
authority to include Orlando on its
Jacksonville Miami route, and re-
jected the National Systems petition
to extend its Jacksonville st. Peters,
burg run to Miami.
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MRS. LUCY E. PURD0N
BURIED IN ARLINGTON
Funeral Services Are Held Today
for Wife Of Retired Army
Captain.

Funeral services were held today
in the Fort Myer chapel for Mrs.
Lucy E. Purdon, 1923 Connecticut
avenue, wife Of Rupert L. Purdon,
retired Army captain. Burial was in
Arlington National Cemetery.
Mrs. Purdon was discovered dead
In the bathtub Of her apartment
Thursday by her husband. After
performing an autopsy, Coroner A.
Magruder Macdonald yesterday issued
certificate Of death from natural
causes. A chronic heart condition
was given as the direct cause Of DEATH
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Steel
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there he would have been too yellow
to try it,"
Don't carry any hostility to the
local (strutherO police" he urged.
They have caused us no trouble"
The next food car" he said, will
90 in only over our dead bodies"
Stevenson asked the strikers not to
attempt to molest the sheriff as he
left the Struthers police station, and
they agreed.
Other Sectors Quiet.
Meanwhile. quiet remained on other
sectors Of the Great Lakes area strike
front Is 8. w. o. c. leaders concerned
themselves with keeping picket lines
alert and strike or starve" blockade
intact while awaiting Gov. Martin L.
Davey's next move to bring the en-
battled forces - little closer together. J"
Philip Murray, Scottish-born chair
man Of the S. w. O. G. and chief
strategist Of John L. Lewis campaign
to win signed bargaining contracts, re-
turned to his Pittsburgh headquarters
after a peace conference tn Columbus
with Gov. Davey.
The result Of the conference was .
secret guarded closely by both Murray
and the Governor. There were indica-
tions, however, that the door to peace
was still ajar In the Governors remark
that naturally" his next move would
be to make another contract with the
heads Of the struck steel corporation in
Ohio. He had previously conferred with
Tom Girdler, Republic board chair
man, and J. c. Argetsinger, Sheet d
Tube vice president. Inland has no
Ohio plants.
Davey "Stin Hopeful"
Il am still hopeful" Davey said
after his two-and-a half hour meet
ing with the scholarly appearing g.
w. o. c. chieftain. Please don't ask
me any more questions"
Il had 4 satisfactory conference, u
was Murray's only statement.
The s. w. o. C.'s thanking move
| ment to tie up ore mine supplies OF
the struck corporations by unionizing
several thousand ore miners In North
ern Minnesota and Michigan was re-
garded As definitely under way.
Representative John T. Bernard,
Farmer-Labor, Of Minnesota, a one
time miner, was en- route to the ore
ranges to take charge OF the member
ship campaign among the miners
Bernard, = nrst-termer In Congress
formerly was An ofncer Of the Inter-
national Union Of Mine, Mil and
smelter Workers at Gilbert, MINI.
Two Republic ore mines on the Goge-
bic Range in the upper peninsula o1
Michigan were shut by strike effects q.
Eastern plants were unable to accept
shipments.
Clash Of Opinion.
In Buffalo there WAS 4 clash Of opin-
ion over effectiveness Of the strike
Speaking for Republic Steel, Martin
H. Stearns claimed men were going
back to work In the picketed plant
"and from Ill indications the G. I. O.
u about to fold"
Charles Payne. q. W. O. G. regional
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MORGAN DUE MONDAY
Returns From Abroad to Attend
Granddaughter's Wedding.

NEW YORK, June S LP.-J. P.
Morgan, the financier. whom illness
prevented him from attending the
coronation Of King George vi, will
arrive in New York Monday on the
Queen Mary.
On June % he will attend the
wedding Of his eldest granddaughter,
Louise Converse Morgan, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Junius S. Morgan, and
Raymond Skinner Clark Of New York
and Fishers Island The ceremony
will take place In the Episcopal
Church Of st. Johns of Lattingtown
at Locust Valley, Long Island.
Evening star., 1937-06-05

tinued, that new legislation is essen.
ttal.
Although not sharing the desire Of
the Massachusetts, legislator to make
the wage and hour bill cover this dam
ger, Senator Ellender, Democrat, Of
Louisiana, disclosed after yesterdays
session that he will introduce . pro-
tective tariff measure as q companion
bill II study discloses that American
products are to be placed ut disad.
vantage by enactment OF the wage
and hour law.
Meanwhile, the Senate and House
Labor Committees today continued
their hearings on the Black -Connery
bill, with r. c. Culdell, Texas manu-
facturer Of oil well equipment, sched.
uled to take the stand.
Lewis Slated TO Testify.
On Monday, John l.. Lewis, chair.
man Of the Committee for Industrial
Organization, Is tentatively scheduled
to testify.
Yesterday, the committees accepted
indorsement Of the measure from the
American Federation Of Labor and
the United States Department Of La
Dor.
Appearing at the afternoon ses.
sion, William Green, president of the
A. F. Of L., gave qualified approval
OF government regulation Of mini
mum wages for men in . special
class" namely those receiving under
81 200 yearly. The bill ~ now
drafted would apply only to persons
Of such limited income.
The Federation chieftain warned,
however, that any effort to establish
general wage standards for men
would be 'strenuously opposed" by
the Federation. +
Suggests ~ Cents An Hear.
He recommended . 40-cents-per.
hour minimum.
FAvoring q 80 to 40 hour work
week, Green declared that Federal
regulation of hours Is necessary Ito
assist industry in its efforts to at
tain economic stability" and to meet
the unemployment problem.
Throughout his testimony, 0l en-
emphasized that the law should be
drawn and administered In such way
as to encourage and not to supplant
collective bargaining" Government
regulation should be withdrawn, he
said, when collective bargaining Is
adequately covering the industrial
field.
Earlier, Secretary Perkins urged
approval Of the legislation, suggesting
. flexible work week Of 80 to 40 hours.
with minimum wages determined for
each industry.
Both Green and Miss Perkins op-
posed any differentials between wages
Of men and women in the same oc.
cupation.
Evening star., 1937-06-05
STATE TO GET S4,35s,sss.
Sum VIII Go to New York From
Rockefeller Estate.

Sum VIII Go to New York From
Rockefeller Estate.
ALBANY, N. Y, June S Np.-Taxes
OF approximately $4.350,O00 will ac-
crue to New York State from the
estate Of John D. Rockefeller, ST., If
the estates gross value Is $25, 900 900.
State tax department officials esti-
mated today.
The nonagenarian philanthropist
died In Ormond Beach, Fla, May 23,
and his will was filed in Westchester
County Surrogate Court today. The
Ivy Lee omces in New York estimated
its value at $25, ,000, 900.
There may be debts and liabilities
that would bring the gross value of
the estate down." department
spokesman said, but based on the
SIS 100000 figure, the tax would
amount to about s4,35o, ,000."
Evening star., 1937-06-05
THE WEATHER

District Of Columbia-Partly cloudy
with local thundershowers tonight and
tomorrow: not much change in tenn
perature; gentle south winds.
Maryland-Partly cloudy: probably
local thundershowers tonight and to-
northwest portion tonight.
Virginia-Local thundershowers to-
night and tomorrow; slightly warmer
in west portion tonight.
West Virginia-Local showers and
thundershowers tonight and tomor-
row; warmer In east portion tonight;
cooler In west portion tomorrow after
noon.
River Report.
Potomac River very muddy and
Shenandoah clear today.
Evening star., 1937-06-05
SCHOOL
GRADUATES IS
World Is Trying to Defeat
SurviVaI-of of-Fittest Law,
G. Gould Lincoln SAYS.

Thirteen graduates received diplomas
at commencement exercises closing
the fifty-f1fth year of the Sidwell
Friends School at the suburban audi
torium, 1901 Wisconsin avenue, last
night.
A diploma and the Minor Giles At
wood award for science were presented
posthumously to Robert Hooper. 18-
year-old accident victim Of . month
ago when bottle containing dry ice
exploded in his hands on q picnic
Young Hooper had planned to enter
Harvard in the Fall.
The world Is trying to get away
from the old law of the survival Of
the f1ttest, and the effort Is to give the
less 6t . chance, @. Gould Lincoln,
political writer for The Star, told the
graduates in making the commence
ment address.
You are entering . world In which
the Government has become q DOM
mating force" he said. Whether 1t
Will be q better world, I cannot say.
But that 1t will be different Is beyond
peradventure of . doubt"
The speaker was graduated from
Friends In 1898 and Is now 4 member
Of the Board of Trustees.
Consolidation Plans Announced.
Building plans to consolidate the
suburban and street schools at the
Wisconsin avenue site by next septem-
Der were announced by J. Austin
Stone, board president.
Music was provided by the olee
Club, directed BY Mrs. Maryaret Gill;
gan Harris, and after the exercises
the class received guests In the slnken
garden.
Other awards made included:
The Charles De saussre Mackay
Cup, gift Of the class Of 1895, to VIII
liam Brown Alexander, 5th.
The Harvard Club of Warrington
prize for the outstanding member Of
the junior class to Robert Bravo.
The Thomas w. Sidwell memorial
prize for the outstanding boy Of the
senior class to Oleg Alexander Troy
anovSky.
The Frances Haldeman sidvell
memorial prize for the outstanding
girl Of the senior class to Roberta
King.
Other Special Awards.
Special awards also were made Is
follows:
The Junior Varsity Club Cup for
the outstanding athlete and scholar
to James Morton Newmyer.
Certificates to the members of the
Quarterly Board: Troyanovsky, Miss
King, James Newmyer, William Alex
ander. Richard Paine, Tula Bunnas.
Roris Powell, Bravo, Martin Hiden.
Mary Louise Holbrook, Ethel Hut-
man. Hildegard Won Boetticher, Jose
phine Stephens, Corinna Reside
Carolyn Huddle.
Diplomas were awarded to the fol-
lowing:
Alexander; 9Th. ". B. King. Roberta
Hidcn Msrtin a ir NaIeI Sosnua l.
Evening star., 1937-06-05
New Museum 0nened.

County Armagh. Northern Ireland,
has opened a museum devoted solely
to historical and unusual relics of the
county.
Evening star., 1937-06-05

Latvia Is selling agricultural ma
chinery 1T special prices to farmers.
Evening star., 1937-06-05
FOREIGN.
& am. Greenwich time, today
Scouts Parents to Meet.

The frst meeting Of the Mothers
and Dads Unit of Boy Scout Troop No.
81 will be held on Friday at 3 pm. in
the Hamline M. L. Church, Sixteenth
and Allison streets.
Evening star., 1937-06-05
Uarn uf Uhattka.

JOHN. Mrs. T. /. Sat-
terwhite and family wish to thank their
many friends with gratitude for their
eomforting expressions Of sympathy.
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Rockefeller

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Wage-Hour

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1sDert fer Last "a Heurs.

Reesfd fer Last "a Hsurs.
(From noon yesterday to noon today
Highest. 80, at noon today. Year ago,
Lowest, 90. at $40 am. today. Year
ago, So.
Record TsnUeratures This Year
.HiKhest. o3. on April 49,
Lowest. 10 on February 2s
Humidity fer Last "a HsuYs.
CFrom noon yesterday to noon today
Highest. 80 per cent, At am today.
day.
Tide Tables.
rurnishsd ey United states Coast and
Evening star., 1937-06-05

THOMAS. MARGARET E. Entered into
eternal life on Saturday June s. 1887.
MARGARET Z. THOMAS of 100 Mary
land ave. ne. beloved wife of James w
Ryan funeral home 3I7 Pa ave. Sc
on Tuesday. June s at 10 an: thence
to the Chapel Of the Nativity l4th St
be held at 1890 am. Relatives and
friends invited. Interment Cedar Hill
Cemetery
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PFoSiDitation

Monthly precipitation in inches II
Capital (eurrent month to date):
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1Ae Su1 snd Meon.
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Enormous Crowds
Gather Sunday at
Blue Ridge Meet
Plans Made to Build $35OO.OO
Church There and Half of
Funds Subscribed

Hundreds of people from four
counties gathered at Blue Ridge last
Sunday to enjoy a day of good sing
ing and speaking. During the morn
ing various choirs sang and during
the afternoon Judge Johnson j
Hayes, Prof. T. E. Storey, and DR.
B. B. Dougherty delivered forcefu]
addresses at a meeting presided
over by Ira T. Johnston.
The plans for the meeting were in
charge of Miss Belva Galloway, OF
High Point, who is a native of the
Blue Ridge section and land own
er there.
Plans are on foot to build a
$35OOO0 church at Blue Ridge and
around half of the amount was sub
scribed at the Sunday meeting.
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Plan Big Field Day
for County Aug. Is
Outstanding Speakers Will Be
Present; Day Expected to
Initiate Annual Event
By TROY 1. JONES

Ashe County Dairymen's Associa-
ton, business and professional men
of West Jefferson, met at the offices
of the Kraft-Phoenix Cheese Com
pany Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock
for the purpose of planning field
day and general picnic August Is,
Was chosen a5 the dag and the event
will be held in the ball park
A committee of three will be Sc
lected to carry out an appropriate
program which will consist of typi-
cal field games, the winner of which
will be given prizes by the mer-
chants of the city. The event will
be opened at 10 o'clock by band
concert given by the local brass
band. At II o'clock the following
men will speak on subjects befitting
the occasion:
Kerr Scott, Commissioner of Ag-
riculture for North Carolina; DR..
Rommell of the T. v. A., Knoxville,
Tenn; R. Y. Winters, Director of
Experiment Station, West Raleigh,
N. G.
A large crowd is expected to at
tend. This is the beginning of what
is expected to be an annual event.
Complete program will follow in
next weeks issue of the Skyland
Post.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-12
West .JeffersOn's
Oddities

The American Legion band
practices here every Wednesday
and Saturday nights. Lieut.. B. D.
Barr is in charge and he is assist
ed by his dog, Brownie, in no
small way. The odd things is:
The dog seats himself on his
launches in the center of the cir
cular band group. When the band
begins to play, Brownie raises his
head and croons a soprano howl,
somewhat between that of wolf
and Rudy Vallee. This, he con-
tinues until member of the
band gets out of tune. Then he
lowers his head, walks over
slowly with a tough look) and
barks three or four times at the
one who went "sour." After the
member gets back in tune, the
dog goes back to his regular posi-
ton and resumes his soprano
howl.
Lieut.. Barr, Brownies master,
is not excepted. For last Saturday
he received a barking out"
Another oddity here is that
three ordinary house mice at
Bare-Little Co. are trained to
catch flies in the front office.
These three tame mice sit on
their hind legs, catch them with
their front paws, and eat them
like squirrel eating nut. How
these mice were trained or
whether they were trained at all
is unknown; but the above fact
is known. It is also true that one
can put his hand as close as three
inches from the mice without
their taking off.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-12
Revival to Begin Sunday

Plans are complete for
for the revival meeting that
will begin at the West Jeff
erson Baptist Church Sun
day, August Is. The pastor,
Rev. w. T. Wilmington,
will hold the services Sun
day until the arrival Mon
day of the minister who
will take charged The preach
er this year Rev. Mr.. Hayes,
pictured at the right of
Beckley, w. Va, who is a
brother of Judge Johnson
J. Hayes.
Services will begin at 10
o'clock in the morning and
eight o'clock in the evening.
The public is cordially
invited to attend.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-12
l66,294 Given He'll
in North Carolina
Food, Clothing and Household
Furnishings Valued at the
Sum of $1,494, 1928

A. E. Langston, director of COM
modify distribution for the State
Board of Charities and Public Wei
fare, reported this week that food
clothing and household furnishings
valued at 81, 494, 1928 were suppl
ed free to 166,294 persons, or SIS
percent of the States population
during the fiscal year which ended
June 80.
Burke county required no assist
ance, the report said, while Dare
with 1888 per cent of it's population
getting aid, received the greatest
amount.
Food distributed was valued al
$622,525.5O, clothing at $749,514.73
and household furnishings at 1922
693.5O.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-08-12
Congressman Want
to Knock Off Work
Ready to Leave Washington
Heat But Farm Problem
Looms Before Them

Pressure for adjournment and for
enactment of general farm legisla-
ton collided in Congress this week.
The result was an outburst of
sentiment to knock off work as
quickly as possible and come back
in cooler October days to work on
the farm problem.
Two score senators quickly put
signatures to petition advocating
this procedure. Like sentiment was
expressed by many individual rep
resentatives.
The nub of the farm situation was
the recent break in commodity
prices. Southern and western dele
cations joined to seek renewal of
the commodity loan program.
President Roosevelt made plain
his dislike of loan renewals unac-
companied by federal control of
the crops on which loans are made.
He said, in effect, that the govern
ment shouldn't undertake to hold
an unrestricted cotton crop to IL
cents-a-pound level.
The remedy, it appear, was en-
actment of general farm program.
There was little desire, however,
even by the most ardent advocates
of farm legislation to try to keep a
nerve-frayed and heat-worn Con-
gress in session long enough to
write a statute.
Have Urge to Adjourn
Two ballots this week indicated
something of the urge for adjourn
ment. They found 70 senators and
205 representatives voting. All those
in Washington did not vote, of
course, but the figures indicated the
desire to get rest legislatiing. Pos
sibly 100 congressman have left
Washington.
Before the farm legislation de-
mand mushroomed, the legislative
program previously agreed upon
was moving comparatively smooth
ly and leaders said they had every
hope of winding up the session by
late August.
Leaders expressed the opinion
that If farm legislation was shelved,
temporarily even, there could be
quick agreement on essentials in the
legislative program-wages and
hour, housing, court procedure, a
measure to plug tax loopholes.
Face Another Threat
But another possible threat to
speedy adjournment was the pros
pective nomination of a successor to