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Evening star., 1938-04-05
KUHN CUP TO CO
TOLUKEL. WILSON
Posthumous Award for
Service to Bethesda
Planned Nav 2.

The Oliver Owen Kuhn memorial
cup for outstanding civic service will
be awarded posthumously to the late
Luke I. Wilson. flnancier, the Bethesda
Chamber of Commerce decided last
night.
In addition to making the selection
of Mr.. Wilson. the Chamber passed
an emergency resolution opposing
President Roosevelts reorganization
bill and elected new officers.
The Kuhn cup is offered by the
Chamber to perpetuate the memory Of
the late managing editor Of The Star,
who long was prominent as a Mont
gomery County civic leader. 1t is to
be awarded each year to the person
making the most outstanding con-
tribution toward the permanent i'm
provement of the Bethesda area as an
outstanding suburban development"
Mr.. Wilson was selected for the
honor because of his donation of q
tract of land on his Rockville pike es-
tate for the erection of a group of
research buildings by the National In
stitute of Health.
Banquet May 2.
Surg. Gen. Thomas Parran will be
invited to the chambers banquet at
Kenwood Country Club en- May when
the cup will be presented to Mr.. Will
sons son.
The chambers resolution asking
Maryland members of Congress to op-
pose the reorganization bill said the
trade body believes it would be "detri-
mental to business locally and through
out the country and bring doubt and
uncertainty with respect to the status
OF employment of many of our citi-
zens." The measure was presented
by Burrell H. Marsh, jr.
John A. Overholt was elected presi-
dent of the Chamber. Other officers
chosen were Mr.. Marsh, first vice
president; Ralph B. Sadler, second
vice president and executive secretary;
S. Walter Bogley, treasurer; S. G.
Hamilton, first assistant secretary, and
Harry Wolfe, second assistant secre-
tary. Directors chosen were w. H.
Whittlesey, H. L. Golladay. E. H.
Bogley, G. Wady Imirie, DR.. Wash
ington Waters, Walter E. Perry,
Samuel E. Stonebreaker. j. Henry
Hiser and Jack Allen.
Three Aims Outlined.
In his speech of acceptance Mr..
Overholt said he would endeavor 10
build up the commercial activities of
the Chamber without impairing its
civic activities. He outlined three
specific aims:
l. Establishment of credit bureau,
perhaps as branch of one of the
District of Columbia agencies, to make
it easier for local business men to get
credit information.
2. To have directory compiled for
the Bethesda area.
8. Establishment of an employment
exchange which would help assure
employment of the proper kind of
personnel in Bethesda business houses.
The new president also said he
later would recommend the creation
of a new standing committee-on
commercial Service-which would CO.
operate with business men in their
undertakings.
Harold Brooks. executive vice presi-
dent Of the Potomac Electric Power
Co., explained the difference between
residential and industrial rates. Illus
trated health talks were given by DR..
v. L. Ellicott, county health officer,
and DR.. John g. Bell.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
Fireman Arerts
Gas Peril in
Locked BuiIding

A dentists frantic efforts to enter
the locked building where he had
forgotten to turn off the gas heater
on vulcanizing machine were brought
to triumphant conclusion last night
when the Fire Department came to his
rescue.
The dentist, Benjamin F. Lloyd,
27l9 Thirteenth street NV, left his
emergency dental laboratory on the
sixth floor of the Westory Building
sos Fourteenth street NV, and forgot
all about the gas heater until 10 pm
when he suddenly remembered the
heater was on and might blow up at
any moment.
For three hours, he made futile at
tempts to get into the building He
couldn't get the janitor or any build
ing officials, but he could get the
Fire Department. A fireman climbed
ladder to the sixth floor window
turned off the gas and sent the re-
lieved dentist home to bed.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
Felix Morley Is Appointed
Trustee of Public Library
Editor Named to Succeed
e. Il. Aspin,Uall, Who
Resigned IL, Fall.

Felix Morley, editor of the WASH
lngton Post, today vas appointed by
the Commissioners as a member of
the Board of Trustees of the Free
Public Library to succeed Clarence A.
Aspinwall, who resigned last No.
vember.
The appointment was recommended
to the Board of Commissioners by
Commissioner George E. Allen. He
will serve for term of six years.
Born in Haverford, Pa, in 1894, Mr..
Morley attended Haverford College,
where he took his A. B. degree in
1915.
He Immediately entered the World
War abroad by enlisting with British
ambulance corps in Flanders, but re-
turned in 1916 to 60 to work as a
reporter for the Philadelphia Public
Ledger. The following year he came
to Washington with the Washington
Bureau of the United Press and that
same year went into special service at
lhe Department of Labor until 1918.
In 1919 Mr.. Morley went with the
washington Bureau of the Philadel-
phla North American and that same
year went abroad to further his studies
at Oxford University as a Rhodes
scholar, taking his A. B. in 1921.
AS Hutchinson Research fellow he
then went to the London School of
economic and Political Science, but
returned to America in 1922 as a
member of the editorial staff of the
Baltimore Sun.
During the next seven years Mr..
Morley was correspondent in the
Far East and at Geneva, Switzerland,
and lecturer at st. Johns College at
Annapolis.
Evening star., 1938-04-05

In 1929 he became director of the
Geneva Office of the League of Ma
tions Association of the United States,
but two years later joined the staff of
the Brookings Institution in Washing
ton. In December, 1888. he joined the
Washington Post, where he has been
ever since In 1886 he won the Pulitzer
prize for distinguished editorial
writing
Mr.. Morley is a member Of Phi Beta
Kappa. fellow of the Royal Economic
Society in Britain and also belongs to
the American Society of Newspaper
Editors. He is member of the Cosmos
Club and the Press Club.
AS an author. Mr. Morley is known
for his work on Unemployment Re-
lief in Great Britain published in
1924, and his essay on "Our Far East
ern Assignment in 1926, which won
the Hart, Schaffner e. Marx prize.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
FIRE ON KUHN FARM
DESTROYS BUILDINGS
Tobacco Barn, Stable and Corn
House Burned on Place in
Leonardtown Area.
Hpecial Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star,
LEONARDTOWN, Md. April S.
Fire of undetermined origin last night
destroyed tobacco barn, a stable and
corn house on the farm of Mrs.
Oliver Owen Kuhn of Washington, 9
miles below here.
Large quantities of tobacco, corn.
hay and farm equipment were de-
stroyed. Leonardtown firemen worked
all night to prevent the blaze from
spreading to the house, which was
unoccupied.
Although a quantity of coal oil ex-
ploded, no firemen were hurt
Clarence Bell, 50, caretaker on the
farm estimated the damage at $40 900
Mr. Beall suffered burns about the
mead and arms when hit by a falling
ra1ter as he and his son Paul, q. tried
10 pull wagon out of the burning
barn. They had previously freed 10
horses and IL cows.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
Congress in Brief
TODAY.


Nomination-Senate votes at 1915
pm. on nomination of E. K. Burlew
to be Assistant Secretary of Interior.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS considers In
terror Department supply bill.
Relief - Senate committee hears
Harry Hopkins, w. P. A. administrator.
Navy-Admiral Leahy continues Sc
cret testimony on expansion program
before Senate committee.
Taxes-Senate Finance Committee
meets to report revised bill.
Miscellaneous - House considers
minor bills.
Flood control-House committee
hears New England proponents Of con-
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Probably will take up tax measure.
House:
Continues debate on Government
reorganization bill.
Post Office Subcommittee considers
bill affecting custodial employees in the
postal service, 10 am.
District Committee continues con-
sideration of 1889 revenue bill, 1890
an.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
NEW RESERVEUN|T
|SPLANNED|N BILL
Supply Measure Reported,
Provides for Force of
Ex-EnIisted Men.
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

Provision for beginning the building
up OF new Army reserve force of
$4,000 former enlisted men was made
by the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee late yesterday in reporting out
a s489,00O,0O War Department sup
ply bill, which also included about
$23 100000 additional for seacoast and
anti-aircraft defense.
At the same time the committee
reported out a s13l 100000 Interior
Department supply bill for the COM
ing year, which represented an in
crease Of about s6,O0O0OO over the
House total. The Senate total on
the War Department measure is about
$42 100000 above House figures for
various purposes.
Four Institutions Funds.
No changes were made by the Sen.
ate committee in the House allotments
for four institutions In Washington,
namely, ST. Elizabeth's Hospital, How
ard University, Freedmen's Hospital
and the Columbia Institution for the
Deaf.
The Senate committee, however,
raised from s4,O0OO0O to $4,000, 600
the House item for continuing work
on the Blue Ridge and NaAchez Trace
ParkWays, which will form a connect
ing link between the Shenandoah and
Great Smoky Mountain National
Parks.
With Senator Hayden, Democrat, Of
Arizona in charge of it, the Interior
bill will be taken up in the Senate
this afternoon and may be followed
by consideration of the War Depart
ment measure. The Army bill will
be in charge Of Senator Copeland,
Democrat, of New York.
Approved by Committee.
The new enlisted reserve plan was
approved recently by the Military At
fairs Committee, Of which Senator
Sheppard, Democrat, of Texas is chair
man. Briefly. it proposes to offer men
who are leaving the Army and return
ing to civilian positions an oppor-
tunity to enroll in this reserve If they
are not more than 36 years of age
They would receive a nominal allow
ance of s24 year.
On the theory that fewer than
$4,000 men would be enrolled annu-
ally, the cost for the first year would
be about $450,00o, and the full reserve
strength of $4,000 would not be reached
for four years. In case Of emergency
this reserve force Of men with previ-
GUS training would augment the pres
ent standing Army of 1855 900 men.
$500,000 for Camp Sites.
The Senate committee also added
s500,000 to the Army bill for National
Guard camp sites.
The local items in the Interior bill
which the Senate group did not
change were st. Elizabeths Hospital,
sl,762 500, including s58o,o00 for new
construction; Howard University, SAL
aries and general expenses, $4,000:
Freedmen's Hospital, salaries and ex-
penses, $4,000 and Columbia Insti-
tuition for the Deaf, $150,950.
The Senate committee added $780,
600 to the personnel item for the
Bituminous Coal Commission, S2,50o.-
900 for several reclamation projects.
s366,980 for miscellaneous Indian
Bureau items and smaller increases
in other bureaus of the department.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
OHIO STUDENTS ARRIVE
Physics Group From Case School
to Visit Places of Interest Here.

-Four physics students from Case
School of Applied Science, Cleveland,
led by Prof. John G. Albright, ar
rived in Washington today to visit
places of scientific importance In con-
nection with their studies.
The group, which will be here five
days, has made arrangements to visit
the Bureau Of Standards, the Carne-
gle Institute Of Terrestrial Magnetism
and other institutions.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
BY ,te Associated Press.

L
Administration business advisers
! gave serious consideration today to
proposals to relax restrictions on Fed
eral loans to railroads in receivership
One representative said such loans
would supplement financial aid al
ready being extended to railroads not
in receivership.
They would fit into whatever pro-
gram Mr.. Roosevelt may advocate for
restoring distressed roads to profitable
operations. He is expected to send a
message on the railroad situation to
Congress in the next day or So
Many informed persons believed the
administration was depending heavily
on revival of the carriers to aid general
business recovery.
A more direct attack on the reces-
sion as far as the average business
man was concerned, however, was
foreshadowed by House passage of the
Senate bill to give the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. almost unlimited dis
cretion in making loans to aid COM
mercial and industrial enterprises.
The bill also carried authority for
loans to municipalities and other
political subdivisions for self-liquidat-
ing public works, opening the way for
a renewed outflow of Federal millions
into the channels of trade.
Senate approval of single House
amendment will send the r. F. c. bill
to the White House for President
Roosevelts signature. That amend
ment eliminated provision that
loans to railroads must be approved by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
Administration officials said the re-
qulrement was not needed because it
was already part of the law under
which the R. F. c. operates. In effect,
the I. G. c. now must certify that the
line receiving loan can be expected,
on the basis of present and future
earnings, to meet its fixed charges.
Administration advisers contemplate
proposing that Congress relax this re-
strlction so the R. F. C. may have
freer hand in approving loans, espe-
clally to roads in receivership.
Such loans, one informant said,
would be made only to roads having
sound financial prospects. Those
"hopelessly in the hole" would be un-
able to obtain aid, In many cases the
latter then would have to merge with
more profitable lines.
The Presidents message on railroads
was to accompany special I. C. c,
report which was the subject of a
conference yesterday between Mr..
Roosevelt and representatives of rail-
road labor and management.
One proposal suggested at the meet
Ing. authoritative persons said, was
that the Government guarantee the
railroads fair and profitable level of
earnings so they could maintain wages
and employment and get needed new
equipment.
Some of the labor spokesmen told
the President that the increase in busi-
ness which could be expected from
resumption of railroad spending prob
ably would pull earnings up far enough
to make guaranty payments unneces-
sary.
They estimated that in any case
the cost to the Government would not
exceed $500. 100000 a year.
Omcial concern over the railroad
situation, coupled with the emergency
speed with which the r. F. c. lending
ing bill has been showed through Con-
gress, was regarded by many persons
as evidence that the administration
does not intend to wait for business
to pull itself out of the recession.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
FOUR ARE HUNTED
|NDOUBLE MURDER
Two Men and Two Women
Believed Involved in
Torture Sayings.
e. the Associated Press.

ks tne Associated treSS.
Ell PASO, Tex, April 5.-A hint
that the torture murders Of a Cali.
fornia society matron and her daugh.
ter on Texas mesquite plains was the
outgrowth of a robbery plotted here
came today from Sheriff Chris Fo1
as officers searched for, two men and
two women suspects.
The victims, Mrs. Weston G. Frome
49, and her 23-year-old daughter
Nancy, were found mutilated and
dubbed to death near Van Horn
Tex, Sunday
Ell Paso officers entered the investi-
cation, Sheriff Fox said, since there
is some feeling certain events leading
up to the deaths of Mrs. Frome and
Nancy originated in this city,
Sheriff Fox did not elaborate.
Believe Four Involved.
Piecing together random bits OF
information, authorities advanced q
theory that four persons were involved
in the crime.
Search for the two men and two
women followed reports by E M. Wells,
division highway engineer at Pecos
that he had seen the Frome car near
Balmorhea, with two women in it.
Later two soldiers near Balmorhea
saw the Frome machine with two
men in it.
Mr.. Wells told Sheriff Albert An
derson of Van Horn that closely fol-
lowing the Frome car was a large
dark coupe containing two men. The
soldiers reported they also had seen
coupe. answering the same descrip-
ton given by Wells, with two women
in it, one a decided blonde.
Officers said neither Mrs. Frome
nor Nancy answered the description
of the women seen in the car by Mr.
Wells and the soldiers.
Believe Robbery Motive.
District Attorney Roy D. Jackson
of Ell Paso and Sheriff Anderson held
to the belief the murders were COM
mitted for money.
Sheriff Anderson said the girls gold
bracelet and the mothers diamond
ring still were missing. Mrs. Frome's
wedding ring and diamond studded
white gold wrist watch were found on
her body. Nancy still wore a diamond
ring and necklace from which Z
watch had been torn.
Roy ChitWood, district attorneys in.
vestigator at Ell Paso, said DR.. w. w
Waite's autopsy report showed con.
clusively the two women had not beer
ravished.
Both Were Shot.
Their nearly nude bodies were founc
on the desert covered with a light
blanket. Each woman had been shot
with different caliber bullet, behinc
| the ear.
Officers renewed search for a mar
described as drug addict and ex.
convict from Los Angeles, where he
was wanted in connection with a rob.
bery-murder.
Meanwhile, w. G. Frome was taking
the bodies of his wife and daughter
by train to Berkeley for funeral serv.
ices Thursday.
A young man was detained ane
questioned at Alamogordo, N. Mex.
but there were no apparent develop.
ments of importance.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
c. M. FYFE SPEAKER

Charles NJ Fyfe, managing director
of the Boys Club of Washington, was
to be the principal speaker today at
the luncheon meeting Of the Federal
Community Chest Forum at Childs
Restaurant, 1923 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV.
Mr.. Fyfe was to discuss boys club
activities and answer questions con-
cerning the organization at the con-
clusion of his address.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
ELLENDER TO HEAD
CIVIL SERVICE QUIZ
Logan, Johnson, Lundeen and
Austin Named on Group to
Probe Favoritism

vice President Garner today ap-
pointed Senator Ellender, Democrat,
OF Louisiana as chairman of the spe-
clal committee to investigate COM
plants Of discrimination or favoritism
IN the Civil Service.
Other members named on the COM
mittee are Senators Logan, Democrat,
OF Kentucky; Johnson, Democrat, Of
Colorado; Austin, Republican, of YER
mont, and Lundeen, Farmer-Laborite,
Of Minnesota.
Chairman Ellender will fix a date
soon for the organization meeting of
the committee, at which procedure
will be mapped out for conducting
the inquiry.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
PROSPECTORS PAVE WAY

APIA, Western Samoa UP.-Using
air routes mapped by gold prospectors,
missionaries are carrying on work
among the natives of interior New
Guinea, says the Rev. A. G. Stewart,
Seventh-Day Adventist mission execu-
tive.
Miners landing fields have been
used as a base, he reports, but the
missionaries in one place have pushed
$50 miles farther into native territory.
The Seventh-Day Adventists have
about 1900 adherents in the South
Seas.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
THE WEATHER REPORT

District OF CollmbaPy
degrees tonight tomorrow cloudy
moderate winds, ' '0
Marynd-Pary cloudy tonight mostly cloudy; probably
rain at night; continued ~ r'
vrsm-Mosy cloudy probably southwest por-
ton tonight continued 0' rO'
West rain m. uch
Evening star., 1938-04-05
PUTNAM NOMINATED
MARINE PAYMASTER
President Sends Senate Name of
Choice to Succeed Brig. Gen.
Reisinger.

Bv the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt sent to the
Senate today the nomination OF Col.
Russell B, Putnam to be paymaster
OF the Marine Corps with the rank of
brigadier general.
He was named to succeed Brig. Gen.
H. c. Reisinger, whose retirement,
May l. for physical disability has been
approved by the President.
Mr.. Roosevelt also sent to the Senate
the nomination of Spruille Braden of
New York to be Minister to Colombia
Mr.. Braden has been serving as chair
man of the American delegation at
the Chaco Peace Conference which
has been in Buenos Aires endeavorins
to settle the territorial dispute between
Paraguay and Bolivia.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
BOY, 13, MISSING

A 13-year-old Rosslyn (Va.) boy,
who was taken to school by his father
yesterday morning, was reported miss
ing to police when it was learned he
had not attended his classes.
The missing boy. George Edward
Wolfe. is a seventh-grade student at
Abbott Vocational School, Accord
ing to his father, Earl Wolfe, he had
only 40 cents at the time he disap-
peared.
The boy had just returned from
Smithfield, Pa, where he had been Wis
iting his grandmother.
Evening star., 1938-04-05

mana's delegates at the exercises at
tending the coronation of George VI
as King of England.
Mr.. 1rimescu was World War
flyer. After the war he was sent TO
the United States As representative
OF the Bank Chrissoveloni, one of the
leading financial institutions in
Bucharest, the Rumanian capital He
took his Columbia degree in 1920 and
remained until 1928 as manager of the
New York agency of the bank.
From 1929 to 1882 he was vice presi.
dent of Bertron Griscom & Co., and
he worked closely with FLOYD Odlum
then of the Electric Bond g. Share Co..
now president of the Atlas Corp.
In 1882 he returned to Rumania and
was made first undersecretary of state
Tor air, with the job of reorganizinp
the national air corps. In May, 1885.
ne became manager of the greatest in
oustrlal enterprise in Rumania. the
Reslta Iron & Stee, Works, employing
about 5000 persons.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
INTERNATIONAL BOARD
CONSIDERS WATERWAYS
y. S.-Canadian Commission Here
Tor semi-Annual Conference
and Luncheon.

various Canadian United States
waterways problems made up the
agenda of the International Joint
commission today, when the three
canadian members of the commission
met with the three United States
members in the commissions rooms
at the Justice Department. 1t was
the groups semi-annual meeting.
commissioner John H. Bartlett was
10 give a luncheon for the Canadian
members at l pm. at the National
Fress Club. The Canadians are
Charles Stewart, Sir William H. Hearst
and George w. Kyle.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
WORKERS SIT DOWN
FOR new CONTRACT
U. A. W. Union Calls Strike at
Bonalite Plant of Swedish
Crucible Steel Co.
b. the Associated Press

b. the Associated Press
DETROIT, April 5.-Sit-down strik-
ers OF the c. I. O.-sffiliated United Au-
tomobile Workers held the Bonalite di-
vision of the Swedish Crucible Steel
Co. in suburban Hamtramck today
demanding a new working agreement.
The plant employs about 1875 per-
sons. Union and company officials
said the strike was called after union
contract was not renewed.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
PRESIDENT APPROVES
MARYLAND u. GRANT
W. P. A. Will Allot 1851 ,OO2 for
New Buildings If Controller
Releases Funds.

The Works Progress Administration
disclosed today President Roosevelt
had approved s5sl,oo grant to the
University of Maryland for additional
buildings.
The project is subject to final ap-
proval by the controller general II
he agrees to the expenditures, funds
will be placed at the disposal of the
Maryland State administrator for use
at his discretion.
w. P. A. officials said they under
stood the grant would be used for re-
modelling as we'll as for new construc-
ton at the university.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
RUMAN|AN ENVOY
IS DUE SATURDAY
Radu lrimescu to Become
Minister, Succeeding
Carlos Davi|a.

Radu Irimescu, Balkan big busi-
ness man, who has civil engineering
degree from Columbia University, New
York City, will arrive here Saturday
to assume his duties as Rumanian
Minister to the United States, succeed
Evening star., 1938-04-05
$50, 1000, 600. PROJECT
La Guardia Announces Privately
Financed Arrangement,

G1HuHSc0 xA1 dH6 c1uEuC.
NEW YORK, April R.-Mayor
La Guardia yesterday disclosed plans
for a $50,0oo,000 privately financed
housing project, which he expected to
provide work for three years.
The project, which the mayor de-
clared had passed the idea stage was
reported to have the backing Of John
d. Rockefeller. sponsor of Rockefeller
Center, who talked with the mayor last
December.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
HITLER TOURS REICH
Leaves for Innsbruck in Campaign
for Plebiscite April 10,

KLAGENFURT, Austria, April 5
R.-Reichsfuehrer Hitler left here
by special train today for Innsbruck
where he was due at pm. moon,
E. S. T.). A crowd of $4,000 lined
the streets when he left. He is tour
ing greater Germany to campaign for
the plebiscite. April 10. to ratify the
Absorption Of Austria.