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Evening star., 1937-07-19

BY the Associated Press
ABOARD SPECIAL CONGRESS
SIONAL TRAIN, July l9.-Opponents
of President Roosevelt's court bill an
nounced today they would seek SEN
ate vote on that bitterly fought issue
early this week
Senator Burke, Democrat, of Ne
braska, leader of the opposition, said
a motion to send the Supreme Court
reorganization measure back to CON-
mittee for further study probably
would be made tomorrow, and added:
I'VE are confident we can carry the
motion by comfortable margin"
His announcement was virtually the
nrst public statement on the court
controversy made by any member of
the congressional delegation which ac-
companied the body of Senator Rob-
lnson, Democrat. of Arkansas to his
Little Rock home for burial.
Struggle Seen Nearing End.
Ending the political truce declared
Immediately after the Senate Demo-
cratic leaders death last Wednesday,
Burke's statement indicated the five
month struggle over the judiciary leg
Sla ton was nearing its end.
II the motion to recommit the bill
is carried, it would effectually bury the
measure for the rest of this session.
Its defeat, many Senators agreed,
might bring speedy collapse of the
opposition, which expects to muster
its greatest strength on the recon-
initial motion.
Burke's challenge was quickly ac-
cepted by Senator Minton, Democrat,
OF Indiana. one of the court bills
(See COIIRT Paua 49,
Evening star., 1937-07-19
POLAR PLANE READIED
Mattern's Craft Checked for Mos.
COW Flirht.

KANSAS CITY, July 10 lP).-Jim-
mie Mattern left his plane at a COM
mercial airline shop here today to be
checked in preparation for his pro-
posed nonstop North Pole flight to
Russia.
He few in last night from Los An
geles. He said Reg Robbins, who
once set an endurance flight record
at st. Louis. would pilot the plane
from which he plans to take fuel over
Alaska.
Evening star., 1937-07-19
Strike Hits Towns Food.

DARWIN, Australia, July 10 (P.-
A strike Of water front workers for bet
ter working conditions brought . crit
ical food shostaga. 10 Darwin today.
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Divine Restaurant Picketed.

DIVINE Restaurant Picketed.
SANTA CRUZ, Calf, July 10 (P,
walters and cooks pick
eted the Father Divine Restaurant
here with unfair to organized labor"
Signs today. The restaurant is the
local heaven"
Evening star., 1937-07-19

Local construction contractors and
organized building workers Joined to-
day in charging violation of the
Bacon-Davis public contract law BY
certain contractors as the real cause
of strikes which have tied up construc-
ton on s850,000 in District school
projects and threaten similar effect
on all Federal construction work here.
The charge was made at an open
meeting Of about IS representatives Of
contractors and local construction
workers unions with Engineer Com.
missioner Dan I. Sultan at the Dis.
trict Building today.
AS a possible means of settling this
and subsequent local labor disputes.
Commissioner Sultan tentatively pro-
posed formation of a District Labor
Relations Board to serve as a media
ton agency. Today's conferees took
the suggestion under advisement.
Although the meeting was called
primarily to iron out the strike trou-
bles now blocking progress on the
District school jobs, the beginning Of
a strike by union painters on two
Federal projects on the identical issue
involved in the District crisis ties both
situations closely together.
Nom Union Men 1T Work.
In all cases, non-union Workmen
have been put on the disputed job,
although a claim is being made that
prevailing wage rates. ordinarily union
rates, are being paid for all work
At today's meeting warning was
issued by labor spokesmen that the
District tie-up would be extended to
all District construction work If no
settlement is reached, and similar ex-
tension of the strike call is being
planned for all Federal projects.
Most effective complaint against
local building conditions was made
by Charles H. Tompkins, president Of
the Master Builders Association, an
organization of employers. in blunt
accusation that the Bacon-Davis law
is being evaded.
I'VE have figured on a number OF
jobs recently allowing for no profits
at all, and We can't win the bids" he
said. I'VE know there is discrirni-
nation somewhere. We know We can
buy materials as cheap, and often
cheaper, than non-union contra ctors.
We can explain the situation in only
one way.
Has No Means Of Proof.
The non-union contractors are not
employing as high-priced labor as We
are compelled to. Most Of our mem
bers have biven up bidding on mu-
nicipal jobs and this is eliminating
competition. We have no means of
proving this discrimina ton, but we
hear it every day from contractors
and workmen on the job. and II it
exists there is a definite violation Of
the law"
According to John Locfer, chairman
of the Washington Building Trades
Council and principal spokesman to-
day for the unions, the chief evasion
device consists of placing laborers at
jobs which should be done by skilled
Vorkmen and paying the labcrers pre-
vailing wages for that classification.
but not the wage prevailing for the
skilled work which they are required
to do
For instance, he said, the offending
contractors are paying laborers so
cents per hour to point up brickwork
for which the union scale is SITS.
I'VE will not accept the open shop
(see STRIKES, Page A-4)
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Foes Confident
Measure Can
Be Buried.
PLAN MOTION
TO RECOMMIT
Ballot Early This
Week Will Be
Sought.

BACKGROUND
Presidents proposal to reorganize
Federal judiciary precipitated bit
ter controversy Uithin Democratic
party ranks. Leadership finally
threD support to compromise meas
nre and debate began this month in
Senate.
Sudden death OF Senator Robin
son last meek introduced neU CON-
plications as majority Das forced
to agree on ,1e,D floor leader. Hopes
OF some that court bill might be
put aside for session Uere dashed
by Presidents letter saying he still
,0dnted action this year.
Evening star., 1937-07-19
FINANCIAL.

FINANCIAL.
Bonds are quiet (table)
Rise in steel orders FORE
cast.
Trade sentiment better.
D. c. phone total climbs.
Stocks improve (table).
Curb list higher (table).
MISCELLANY.
Young Washington.
Shipping News.
Winning Contract.
Dorothy Dix.
Betsy Caswell.
Natures Children.
Crossword Puzzle.
Bedtime Stories.
IAttef.out. 4
Evening star., 1937-07-19
Summary of Today's Star

3 dead, 19 hurt In traffic In D. c. and
nearby. PAGE B-1
Son, IA, rescues father after boat
sinks in Herring Bay. Page b.
Evening star., 1937-07-19
FLYERS ON INSPECTION
Russians Look Over Plane Fac
tories-To Come East.

LOS ANGELES, July 10 (P.-The
Russian Moscow-to-Cal flyers
inspected airplane factories today.
They expect to 60 to San Francisco
tomorrow, returning here Thursday
to board a transport plane for New
York
Evening star., 1937-07-19
BULLETIN.

Commissioner Dan I. Sultan this
afternoon issued stop order. ord
ering non-union contractors to
cease work on three school build
lngs After the order was issued
union officials promised that the
strike against the Eastern High
School and Alice Deal High School
projects had ended and work would
be resumed tomorrow morning.
Evening star., 1937-07-19
BUILDING T|E-UP
|. AT SCHOOLS LAID |.
T0BREACH0FL LAW
Certain Contractors Violate
BaCon.Davis Act, Con- |
ference Told.
D. c. MEDIATION UNIT
PROPOSED BY SULTAN
Union Painters Walk Out on Fed.
eral Jobs-General Delay !
Threatened.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Through arrangement betueen
local contractors and building un-
ions, most public Jobs are done by
union labor. A teW firms, hoUeUer,
usually from out OF toWn. haze de-
cltned to enter into such arrange
ment and hare placed non-unton
men on jobs
With same controversy ersting
in convection Uith both District
and Federal construction, unions
noD are inclined to force shop-
dotCn,
Evening star., 1937-07-19
WEATHER.


Increasing cloudiness tonight. probably
followed by showers tomorrow; not much
change in temperature; gentle winds,
mostly northeast and east. Temperatures
today-Highest, 83, at 2 pm; lowest,
64, at $50 am. Full report on page AS.
Evening star., 1937-07-19

(See COURT, Page A-4.)
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(See KUHN, Page A-3.)
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(See CHINA, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1937-07-19
Governor Hits
New Deal for
First Time.
PERIL FEARED
In PRECEDENT
President Already
Knows His Views.
Senator Told.

BACKGROUND
Coz. Herbert H. Lehman OF Ne,D
York, Who gave up So 900, ,O00-a-
year banking job to enter public
life in 1928, has been responsible
for enactment OF many social and
economic reforms since becoming
Gouernor. Scores OF measures
haze been enacted to alleviate dis
tress OF unemployed, bank deposit
tors, real estate investors. home
ouners and tarmers-most OF them
co-ordindting State efforts NTH
plans initiated BY Federal Gor-
ernr1ent.
Only this year, Lehman sue
ceeded in haring the politically
diuided Legislature complete dp-
proDdl OF a social security program,
patterned after the Federal ugenda.
The daily independent., 1937-08-05
Club Quarters
Are Being
Improved
Work Nears Compile
tion; Formal Opening
Will Be Held

Not since it was opened as a
Y. M. C. A., some thirty years
ago has the space now used by
the Elizabeth City Boys Club
looked as good as it will look
when improvements now nearing
completion are completed.
The walls and ceiling have
been painted a buff color, the
woodwork has been painted
black, and the floors are being
painted a light oak. incidentally,
this is, so far as is known, the
first time these floors have ever
been painted. The painting, which
will be completed today or to-
morrow, has greatly enhanced
the appearance of :he Clubs
quarters, as well as making the
rooms brighter.
The WPA sewing room Is now
engaged in making curtains ana
draperies for the windows, and
when these are put up the place
will look better than it has look
ed in many years.
AS soon as the improvements
are completed, the board of di-
rectors will ses a date for a form
al opening and open house which
will give the public an opportun-
ity to inspect the building.
The daily independent., 1937-08-05
Sugar Bill Is
Facing Veto
By President
Warns That Such Action Is
Planned Unless Discrim.
ination Is Eliminated

Washington, Aug. 4. -(UP)-
President Roosevelt tonight in
formed house sugar bloc leaders
that he would veto proposed sugar
marketing legislation if it retain
ed present restrictions on Hawai-
ian and Puerto Rican refining OPP
erations, the United Press learned.
House debate on the bill, which
has been stalemated for five
months during a bitter controver-
sy between certain cabinet men,
bers and congressional sugar bloc
leaders, is scheduled to open to-
morrow.
The way was cleared for a
showdown" fight on the floor to-
day when the house rules commit
tee withdrew from its previous po-
sition and granted rule to bring
the bill out for debate.
Plans of sugar bloc leaders to
rush the bill through the house by
Friday in its present form were
"stymied" by the presidents deci-
sion.
1t was reported authoritatively
that the president telephoned
Chairman Marvin Jones, D., Tex.
of the house agriculture committee
that he considered the present
draft discriminatory against Am
erican citizens in the island pos
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-08-05
Amended Wages-Hours Bill
Is Approved By Committee
Of House; Vote Nert Week
Democrats Plan Another
Meeting To Heal Wounds
Dinner In Honor of Newly.
Elected Leader Is
Occasion

Washington, Aug. 4.-U.R)-
President Roosevelt and the SEN
ate Democrats whose bitter bat
lie over supreme court reorgani-
Zation and New Deal spending
has created the major political
development of the current con-
gressional session, will dine to-
gether next Tuesday night in a
new harmony attempt.
Plans for the dinner-at a
downtown hotel in honor Of The
new Majority Leader, Sen. Alben
w. Barkley, D., Ky.-Were reveal
ed late today.
Vice president John N. Garner,
who has been busy ever since his
return from vacation in attempt
ing to restore unity in the badly
split majority party, will preside.
Among hose who will sit with
him at the table of honor will be
Mr.. Roosevelt, Barkley, Sen. Pat
Harrison, D., Miss, whom Bark
ley defeated by one vote for the
leadership, and Sen. Burton K.
Wheeler, D., Mont, who led the
relentless fight against supreme
The daily independent., 1937-08-05
G. G.. Day Was
The Best
So Far
Day Packed With Ac.
ton; Commandant Is
Principal Speaker

Manteo, Aug. 4. - The OBJ
servance today of the 147th an
niversary of the founding of the
United States Coast Guard Ser
vice proved to be the biggest and
most colorful day of the Roam
oke Colony celebration to date.
The day was packed with ac-
ton from morning to night, and
the various events on the program
were witnessed by perhaps the
largest crowd yet to attend the
celebration on any one day this
summer.
Rear Admiral R. R. Waesche
Commandant of the Coast Guard
Service, spoke in the amphithea-
tire at HOO o'clock this morning
before a crowd of from 1000 to
200 persons. His speech, in which
he recognized the significance OF
Fort Raleigh and then outlined
the history of the Coast Guard
service, was heard with rapt at
tention by the large crowd, which
included several hundred Coast
Guardsmen from the Fourth
Sixth and Seventh Districts.
Following the commandments
speech, j. G. Brown, of Weeks
vile, was called upon to read his
poem on The Coast Guard, y
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-08-05
OUtLuW Is Seeking
Homes for TUO
Children

Two Of the children who were
oc'G2 kept in the Children's
Hone az NiXOnton at the lime of
.. ".nsln" on August ! have not
20. oucn placed in homes, it was
Ia1"d yesterday from County
"..,sro Agent A. H. Outlaw.
I"ac children. small boy
a." l2-year-old girl, are being
1"p. az the county home for the
.Ih. being. but Mr.. Outlaw is
'"@nUs TO place them in a pri-
''.' -2mc Or homes.
IL" children will be eligible for
%. Social Security's aid to de-
pendent children if some near re-
'... Will assume responsibility
~. ..."m Mr.. Outlaw said. Eligi-
'' ."atlves are me. hers, fathers,
.a-5mptherS. grandfatherS, un-
~. a,nts brothers and sisters.
'-e mere fact that a person is a
"-a, relative. however, does not
,"''. nat they will be permitted
.aEe one of The children, Mr..
O-...| said. The children will be
-.a..G only in the homes Of in
3" 'lta.S Of good character.
The daily independent., 1937-08-05
|ZiOnists Hear
Arguments On
Division Plan
Both Sides of the Palestine
Partition Presented
TO Congress
By HAROLD ETTLINGER
United Press Staff Correspondent

Zurich, Switzerland. Aug. A.
-2-3c2vded Rabbis from Polish
ana Rumanian GhettOS, young
pioneers from the Palestine farm
lands and Jewish leaders from
A0g.o-SaXOn countries joined to-
'cav n ,Umultuous ovation of DR..
Chain Weizmann's plea for a
JeU.>- sOvereign state as he op-
.e0ed political debate before the
2Jta Zionist congress.
Dr. Wcizmann. president of the
world Zionist organization, assert
lea ,la. the British plan for par
.U.!0U Ot Palestine-under which
"a jewish state and an Arabic
state WOULD be separated by a
British corridor-is unacceptable
las !. stands but with modifica-
Hons may be 20 Jewish advantage.
The vital question for us" he
.@>@,ed is are we to remain a
minority in Palestine as a whole
.oE become a compact community
1 Par. Of it?
I see the possibility Of the
e,tJi.ao Of a state of 100000
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-08-05
Fourteen Hurt In Wreck
On !. S. II Yesterday
Car, Truck Collide;
Drivers Charged With
Reckless Driving

Malcolm A Glass of San Fran
cisco, California, and Caleb
c'Hickey'D Gilden of Elizabeth
City are scheduled 20 face trial
here this morning on charges OF
reckless driving arising out Of an
automobile-truck collision at
Morgan's Corner on U. S. II late
yesterday afternoon.
The wreck occurred at approx
mately 4:55 o'clock in front Of j.
Alton Spences service station
when Glass Buick, headed north
smashed broadside into a truck
load of WPA workers from Eliza
be,h City who had just come a
round the curve from South Mills.
The truck had just come OFF
the curve and was headed for the
right hand side Of the highway
when the Buick, travelling at a
rapid rate Of speed, ran under 1t
and upset it in the ditch.
Caleb Gilden was driving the
'.ruck and Walter S. Swain of
West Fearing St., was in the cab
with him. On the rear of the truck
were II WPA carpenters and la
borers who had been working on
a sanitary project at the South
Mills High School. They were:
Garland O'Neal, John Gaskins,
Marcus Burch, Patrick Ward,
John Thompson, Ralph Cohoon
and Edward Richardson, all
white, and Edward Cooper, Sey-
more FELTON,, Roland Sykes and
William Stepney, colored.
Every man on the truck was
injured, with Gilden and O'Neal
receiving the worst injuries. None
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-08-05
King Grants Permission Fo'
Lighting Beacon
Lighthouse Commits
sioner Says Wright
Memorial Light May
Be Turned On

The beacon on The top Of the
Wright Memorial may be lighted
at any time, provided the east
,;ide of the beacon is shielded, ac-
cording to a letter from H. D,
King, Commissioner of Light
houses, to Congressman Lindsay
c. Warren.
Mr.. Kings letter, a copy of
which was sent to this newspaper
as follows:
Il read the newspaper clipping
forwarded with your letter OF
July %. from which it appears
that there is some misinforma-
ton as to the status Of the re-
quest for authority to exhibit
this beacon during the Roanoke
Island Celebration.
"The mater was first taken up
officially by the Director of the
National Park Service in letter OF
June 10Th in which he advised
that he had received a request
from the Roanoke Island Histori-
cal Association for permission to
light the beacon on the top of the
Wright Memorial during the per-
iod of the Anniversary Celebra-
ton beginning on July 4th and
terminating on September 9Th.
The Director stated that II was
proposed to shield the east side
of the beacon so that the three
way revolving beacon would be
seen from the Roanoke Island
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-08-05

Washington, Aug. 4. -tU.H-
The number of infantile paralysis
cases reported to the U. S. Pub
lie Health Service during the past
week were more than three times
the nine-year weekly average, Of
ficials said tonight.
For the week ending July 81, re-
ports from &c states showed $50
new cases of the disease. The nine
year median for the comparable
week is 1T cases.
Public health service officials
said the present outbreak had not
yet reached the proportions of the
1881 and 1885 epidemics but that
the peak will not be reached for
at least a month.
Except for 1881 and 1885 the
July 81 report was the highest for
that period during the 10 years
the health service has kept rec
ords.
Doctors said the current out
break apparently started in Tex
as and was moving northeastward
up the Mississippi and Ohio val
leys. One physician who has stud
led the trends of infantile paraly-
sis. said that increasing numbers
of new cases may be expected in
The daily independent., 1937-08-05
Spaniards
Fighting
For Road
Highway Is Link Be.
tween Valencia
and Madrid

daye, -rano0-SpaniSh
Frontier, Aug. 4.-(U,P)-The bat
tie for the Cuenca highway, which
gives Madrid vial contact with
the seat of the government at
Valencia, ragged f1ercer today
One National column was re-
ported to have made progress
along the Teruel-Cuenca high
way, which several Nationalist
battaiions, concentrated in the
Bezas region, attempted to cut.
At first they were successful, but
subsequently were repulsed, ac-
cording to government reports.
To Libcrate Troops
The objective of the govern
ment action was to liberate sew
eral contingents of Loyalis5
troops encircled in the Sierra
Carbonera area.
This started a three-hour bat
VIC III WlllSll lllC iOy dlloG IlOOPo
at first gained the upper hand
but gradually the superiority of
The Nationalist artillery and posi-
tions forced the LoyaliSts to re-
treat to the other side of the
highway.
In several instances the gov
ernment troops attempted to
make use of their aviation, but
visibility was poor during the
morning.
Planes Effective
Nevertheless the government
reported that its planes had
found the location Of several
Nationalist batteries to the sorSh-
west of Valdecuenca and Destroy
ed several of them.
In the vicinity of the village of
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-08-05
Like the Senate Bill
But With Green's
Safeguards
A Five-Man Board
Adoption of Less Drastic
Measure Victory for
SOutherners

Washington, Aug. 4.-U.D- A
compromise wages-and-hours bill
embracing the less drastic provi-
sions of the measure passed by the
senate but carrying three union
safeguards demanded by the Am
erican Federation of Labor was
reported favorably today by the
house labor committee. The vote
was II to 2.
Leaders indicated they would
ask for a rule for floor procedure
which would assure final vote
on the measure late next week.
Afterward, however, it will go to
a series of conferences for adjust
ment of differences between the
two houses. In these meetings a
dozen or more senators and rep
resentatives- the third house of
congress- will write the rules un-
der which large segment Of in
dustry must live in the future.
A Southern Victory
The decision of the labor COM
mittee to accept the more moder-
ate senate bill was victory for a
fighting bloc of southern Demo-
Gratis who want no wage-and-hour
bill at all, and the house leaders
who moved craftily to carry out
President Roosevelt's wishes with
out widening the breach in the
party caused by the vitriolic SUI
preme court reorganization fight.
AS passed by the senate, the bill
sets up a five-man administrative
board which is forbidden from fix
ing minimum wages above 40 cents
an hour and from fixing maxi
mum hours below 40 hours week.
Otherwise there are virtually no
curbs on the most extensive au-
Continued on Fage Three
The daily independent., 1937-08-05
Japanese Forming A NeV
North China Government
Bomb Way Along the
Railway Wrecking
Troop Trains

Ticntsin. Thursday, Aug. S.
U.P-Japanese airplanes blazed a
path of death along the Peiping-
Suiyuan railway today while the
INipponese high command in Tient-
sin and Peiping strove desperately
10 form an independent pro-
Japanese government for North
China.
Great, three-engined japanese
bomberS roared over the Chinese
Icentral governments 89th division,
which was entrenched astride the
Sha river and the railway Is miles
northwest of Peiping. and dropped
scores of bombs.
Follow the Railway
Thc planes then followed the
railway northwest and again
bombed the Nankou pass and sta
tiCns between the pass and Kali
gan.
The Japanese asserted that sew
cral Chinese troop trains were
wrecked.
Military headquarters mere said
that five separate troop trains,
carrying the Chinese 194th divis-
ion. were bombed in Chahar prov
ince to the south of Kalgan with
heavy losses to the enemy"
Another ping squadron
routed bands of the Chinese 29th
division. which originally was sta
toned in and around Peiping, and
remnants Of the Tungchow peace
pre-ervation corps which rebelled
against the Japanese and slaugh-
ter-d hundreds Of japanese SOL
diers and civilians in the former
pro-JapaneSe East-Hopei auto
nonouS republic headed by Gen.
Yin Ju-keng.
Japanese land forces also left
Peiping and advanced up the
railway to confront the 89th di-
vision which is composed of vet
eran Chinese troops commanded
by Gen. Tang en-po.
Impress the POpulace
In the meantime, throughout
the conquered areas the japanese
moved rapidly to impress the per-
manence of their occupation on
Continued on Page Three
The daily independent., 1937-08-05
Scotland COunty's
BOOtIeggers Fight
Back at Officers

Laurinburg. Aug. 4.-(U.P)-
Scotland county authorities to-
day repaired badly damaged
automobile and expressed the
opinion bootleggers have learned
the art of retaliation.
When officers returned from
destroying four stills near this
town ye4 erday they found their
car had been tampered with and
several parts carried away.
One of the policemen had to
hitchhike into town on wagon
to secure help for the decommls-
stoned automobile.