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Evening star., 1938-01-26
Presidents Son
Will Take Part
In Var Games

James Roosevelt, eldest son of the
President who was appointed a lieu
tenant colonel in the Marine Corps
Reserve while accompanying his father
to South America last year, is to have
his first experience with troops in
active service
Col. Roosevelt has received his orders
to report for duty with the Marine
Fleet Force at Guantanamo, Cuba,
February 20, to take part in the Navy
and Marine Corps spring war games
and maneuvers. According to the
Marine headquarters, young Roosevelt
will be attached to the landing forces
and will be drilled in shore protection
and also will be assigned to exercises
incident to guarding the Panama
Canal
The spring maneuvers are scheduled
to last six weeks. but Col. Roosevelt
will be in the service only two weeks
So as to not be away from his White
House duties longer than necessary he
will fly to Guantanamo in a Marine
plane with Col. Joseph Pagan, COM
mandant at the Marine Barracks here
Evening star., 1938-01-26
REALTY LICENSING
LAW IS ATTACKED
Small Owner Must Pay Same Fees
as Big Concerns. Citizens
Are Told.

Edgar M. Peterson Of the recently
formed Realty Owners and Dealers
Association declared at a meeting OF
the Logan-Thomas Circle Citizens
Association last night that the real
estate licensing law setting up a Real
Estate Commission for the District
was passed with "monopolistic in
tention." The law went into effect
last November %
The law, Mr.. Peterson explained,
requires that an owner seeking to hire
an individual as resident manager of
a rooming house must pay as large
and as many fees for a license and
bonding as any large apartment in
the District. This is AS preposterous
as charging the small department
store owner for a license, as much as
the large downtown department store
owner the speaker declared
In offering 2 proposal to change
the present law. Mr. Peterson declared 3:
The most prolific items necessary to
prevent fraud and monopalistic prac-
tices were omitted from the original
bill" The owner should pay the bond
and license fee. Mr.. Peterson stated
in his proposal, but not the same as
q large real estate owner. thus avoid
ing creation of the monopoly of big
business in real estate
The body voted to back Mr.. Peterson
in his attempt to obtain hearing on
the issue with the Legislative Com
mittees of both Houses Of Congress
Mrs. Ella NJ Thompson. president
OF the association, offered resolution
sanctioning the proposed construction
of Massachusetts, avenue underpass
at Thomas Circle. The group agreed
that an underpass at this section
would speed traffic. but opposed any
change in the circle itself.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
PRISONERS FORCED
TO SLEEP ON FLOOR
supt. Rives Reveals Jail Popu.
lation IL Per Cent Greater
Than Year AGO.

Because OF serious overcroWdng at
the District Jail during the last month
between 80 and l09 prisoners were
forced to sleep on the floors on vari-
Gus days, Supt. Thomas NJ Rives re-
ported yesterday to the Board of
Public Welfare.
During the last six months. he
said, the jail population was more
than IL per cent greater than in
the same period Of the previous year.
The average daily population in De-
cember was SOC, AS compared with
500 in the year previous.
Commitments u the Jail IN the
last six months, re added, we're 4
per cent create: than in the same
period OF the previous year. The
great increase in population, he said,
was due to inability to move the
prisoners.
1T is hoped that marked reduc-
ton in the population in the jail may
be effected in the near future through
clearing up o. certain cases in court
which have been delayed for variety
OF reasons" he said.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
LEGION MAPS DRIVE
TO OBTAIN JOBS
Three National Officers to Address
Closing Session Of Confer
ence Here Today,

Tnree national officers of the Amer
lean Legion and stlliated groups were
scheduled to-day II address the closing
session of ts'o-day meeting of Legion
leaders devoted tn ways and means OF
obtaining work Tor unemployed vet
Grams, especially those over 40.
The officials are National Legion
Comdr. Daniel j. Doherty, Mrs. NAL
colm Douglas, national president OF
the Legion Auxiliary, and Ferdinand
G. Fraser, grand chef de chemin de fer
OF the Forty and Eight. Jack Corlwey
chairman of the National Employment
Committee OF the Legion. Is presiding
over ths sessions at the Hamilton
Hotel.
The Legion plans a Nation wide
survey to determine veteran unem-
ployment and to list those available for
work. The survey will be conducted
by QUESTIONABLE. The Legions efforts
will be co-ordinated with those of the
United States Employment Service.
Speakers on yesterdays program
were Gen. Frank 7. Hines, head of the
Veterans Bureau; w. Frank Persons,
director of the United States Employ
ment Service: Gen. James A. Drain.
Social Security Board: Millard w.
Rice. legislative representative. Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars; Mahlon Ward,
national employment chairman, Dis
abled American Veterans; John
Thomas Taylor. director of legislation,
American Legion; Walter J. Kress.
chairman of the Legion's National Re-
Mobilization Committee; DR.. Raymond
A. Pearson, co-ordinator of the Farm
Security Administration. and Bert L.
Halligan, national field service d.
rector of the Legion.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
BARkLEY DEMANDS
new SENATE RULES
Majority Leader Seeks Revisions
to End Time-Killing Debate
and Contradictions.

By the Associated Press.
A demand by Majority Leader Bark
ley for revision of Senate rules to elm
inate time killing debate stirred con-
troversy among legislators today.
Senator Barkley told the Senate last
night its rules of debate were an
archaic conglomeration of CONTRA
dictory decisions.
Interrupting the filibuste. against
the anti-lynching bill, Senator Bark
ley said Senate debate can be curtaiied
only by unanimous consent or two
thirds vote. The House, he added, can
limit debate by a majority vote.
Chairman Nicely of the Rules Com
mittee said the group would be will
ing to consider revamping the rules,
but predicted the Senate would not
agree to curtailing its time-honored
custom of free debate.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
D. c. bUS|NESSTAX
SCALING STUDIED
Graduated Levy for Flat
Rate Considered by House
Group.

Substitution of graduated scale for
the present fiat rate carried in the
business privilege tax-if this measure
is to be continued another years. be-
ing favorably considered by the fiscal
affairs subcommittee of the House
District Committee, Chairman Nichols
announced today
While the proposed reduction in the
District appropriation bill has shaved
down the need for additional revenues
next year. Mr.. Nichols revealed his
subcommittee is proceeding with plans
to draft a tentative three-fold new
revenue act.
The subcommittee voted last week to
propose continuation of the business
privilege tax and the s175 realty tax
rate and adoption of an income tax,
Mr.. Nichols said this program could
be justified and trimmed down to be
in accord with the revenue need after
action has been taken on the supply
bill
I'VE don't propose to raise any more
money than is needed" he said.
One Of the principal objections to
the business privilege levy has been
that it applies unequally on different
taxpayers because of the difference
In their types of business.
Mr.. Nichols revealed his subcon-
mittee is considering refinement
OF the law, under which the tax
rate for a person whose spread"
between buying and selling costs
OF commodities is less than 3 Der
cent be reduced to one-tenth of
per cent. The present fiat rate is
tWo-flfths Of l per cent.
He said that If the spread vas
between 3 and 6 per cent the stIg-
gestion is to reduce the rate to two
tenths OF per cent; if the sprea d
Is from 6 to 8 per cent, to make
the rate three-tenths of / per cent
and that If the spread Is above 9 Der
cent, to make the rate four-tenths OF
l per cent-the present rate.
Mr.. Nichols said he hoped his erouo
would complete the drafting of the
tentative revenue plan by the end
OF this week and be ready to call
for public hearings next week.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
BOMBING SUSPECT
ORDERED ARRESTED
District Attorney Plans to Ask
$4,000 Bond for Detec-
tive Captain.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. Jan. 26-Arrest of
Police Detective Capt. Earle Kynette
for the bombing of Harry Raymond,
private investigator. was ordered to-
day. Capt. Kynette's attorney. John
Oliver, said the officer would sur
render when the complaint was filed
and warrant issued.
District Attorney Buron Fits said
he believed he had definite evidence
linking Capt Kynette with the bomb
ing and would ask s50,00O bond
Mr.. Raymond was critically injured
Jan. IA when bomb, attached to
his automobile engine. exploded as
he stepped on the starter He was
engaged by a politico-civic group to
investigate alleged corruption in the
city government.
Mr.. Fits. in announcing the arrest
order. charged his investigation OF
police connections had been i'm
peded and hampered at every turn ~
He pointed out that his request that
Capt. Kynette and other officers of
the police intelligence unit be sus-
pended. pending grand jury investi-
CATION OF the Raymond case. had been
rejected by Police Chief James E.
DAVIS.
Mr.. Raymond, still in hospital,
conferred with Mr.. Fits before the
district attorney ordered Kynette ar
rested.
Gov. Frank F. Merriam. arriving
from Sacramento. said he would not
take hand in the bombing investi-
CATION.
Mayor Frank Shaw appointed a
committee of inquiry, comprising
seven men and women prominent
in civic life, to determine whether a
public trust had been violated.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
TRY
SCHEDULED TODAY
Passenger AirIiner Lost in
Fog Recently to Take
Part in Event.

To demonstrate his faith in aviation
after wandering six and one half
hours Monday night in fog blinded
airliner, Philip King, employe of the
Maritime Commission, will take part In
the first attempted blind landing flight
by an airliner operating on regular
schedule today.
The night, climax of nine years OF
development work by a group Of for
mer Bureau of Standards scientist
Will be made by a twin-engined Penn
sylvania-Central Airlines plane at
Pittsburgh.
The airliner was to take of from
Washington Airport at pm. on q
simulated "all instrument" flight to
Pittsburgh. followed by 4 simulated
instrument landing there
Among the passengers, in addition
to Mr.. King. are to be G. Hall
Roosevelt, brother of Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt: William E. jackson,
chief Of the radio development section
Bureau of Air Commerce: Harry Dia-
mond. radio section. Bureau of Stand
ards, and others connected with the
development Of the instrument land
ing system.
Faith in Aviation Seconded.
Mr.. Kings faith in aviation is sec
onded by the other passenger on the
lost airliner-C. c. Bane. manager of
a Washington shoe store. who lives
in Bethesda. Md. The passengers were
landed in Hartford. Conn, at 3 am.
yesterday and returned here Yesterday
afternoon.
Mr.. Bane explained that he has q
son in the Army Air Corps Training
School in Texas and decided to use
airplanes on his business trips when
the young Bane complained his father
was not sufficiently "air-minded." 1t
was the elder Bane's first but not his
last trip aloft, he said.
The test flight will inaugurate a period
of pilot training in instrument land
ing under scheduled airline operating
conditions. This will mark the first
application of instrument landing
outside the stage OF demonstration
and experiment in air transport his
tory, it was announced.
The system. known as air track" ;"
is an improvement of an instrument
landing system originally developed
by the Bureau of Standards.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
EMPLOYERS REFUSE
DOCK LAB0R'S PLEA
Deny c. I. 0. Leaders Move fol-
Fve.Hour Recess to Permit
Men to Hear Bridges.
By the Associated Press


SAN PEDRO, Calf, Jan. 2e.-1os
Angeles Harbor employers today re.
fused sanction to c. I. o. leaders
to stop work for Ave hours FRIDAY
so 5000 maritime workers may hear
Harry Bridges. Pacific Coast c. O.
director, address a mass meeting.
Rejecting a plea of international
Iongshoremen's and Warehousemen's
Union oficials to support them in
their jurisdictional dispute with the
A. F. OF LIS International Longshore-
mems Association. the employers
warned that stop-work order FRIDAY
would violate an agreement that
halted the costly 1886 maritime strike
on the Pacific Coast.
Mr.. Bridges is scheduled to address
the workers and ask them to Quit
loading and unloading ships here
until the National Labor Relations
Board certifles the I. L. w. U. as
the collective bargaining agent for all
local longshoremen or calls an cleo
ton. which. he claims. would be tanta-
mount to certifying the I. L. w. U.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
PRODIGY. 10 YEARS OLD,
READY FOR HIGH SCHOOL
Chester (Pa.) Youth Figures He'd
Have Done Better if They Hadn't
Held Him Back.

By he Associated Press.
CHESTER Pa. Jan. 26-Charles
Herman Fritz, ready to enter high
school next week at 10 years of age
figured today he might have done q
lot better if they" hadn't held him
back
Because school authorities decided q
progidy needed brakes. Charles spen,
three whole years dawdling through
the primary course in which ordinary
children remain for eight years
Charles finished the first five grades
in seven months. Then school au.
thorities clamped down.
The l80-pound boy smiled
They needn't have worried" he
said. Il get along fine with other
boys
Il just talk slang to them and they
think I'm all right At rst I talked
correctly-the way they do in books
but had to stop that
Evening star., 1938-01-26
BASIS
CALLED TWOF0[D
Former Ambassador Gerard
Warns of PeriIs to
j. S,

Survival of democracy in the United
States depends on the provision of ma
tional security and maintenance of in
dividual liberty simultaneously. James
W. Gerard, former Ambassador to
Germany. asserted last night at the
opening mass meeting of the Women's
Conference on National Defense for
an Enduring America at the May
flower Hotel.
I'VE have in this country" Mr..
Gerard said, "a system and a tradi-
ton based on two centuries of further
ing an ideal. the ideal of a society
which recognizes that at the base of
any economic, social or political struc-
ture like ours there must be the in
dividual, that this individual must
possess those individual rights, lib
critics and the individual freedom,
upon which our whole system rests"
He then cited the problem facing
this country in upholding that indi-
Idual liberty and at the same time
building a powerful machine of ma
tional defense.
The former envoy assailed dictator
ships and declared: eff you look at
a map of the world today you will see
how completely in many countries the
liberty of the individual has been sur
rendered to the state"
He said ideas in conflict with the
democratic form of government have
become, because of the increasingly
widespread web Of communications,
"as potent as great invading armies" !"
The mass meeting last night fol-
lowed a pilgrimage by the conference
delegates to the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier, where presidents of the 40
women's organizations participating in
the three-day conference laid wreaths.
Mrs. Gladys Mooney. chairman of the
conference, spoke a tribute.
Another speaker last night was
Scott P. Squyres. commander in chief
Of the Veterans Of Foreign Wars.
He declared his organization is sup
porting program to keep America
out of var. and that it believes the
safeguarding of American lives is
more important than the protection Of
the American dollar"
Evening star., 1938-01-26
LOYALIST PLANES RAID
KILLS IL IN VALLADOLID
Insurgents Report Between 60
and 70 Bombs Dropped With
Damage to Orphanage.

By the Associated Press
SALAMANCA, Spain. Jan. %
Twelve persons were killed and forty
wounded today in a government air
raid on insurgent- Valladolid.
Insurgent authorities said most OF
the so to 70 bombs dropped fell on an
orphanage. causing several deaths and
great damage. They said most of the
victims were women and children.
HENDAYE. France. Jan. Is (P,.-
Spanish government and insurgent in
fantry fought at close quarters in re-
newed hostilities today in the Teruel
sector of the civil war, 100 miles east
of Madrid.
Forty-one were killed and seventy
seven wounded in an insurgent raid
on Barcelona, the government reported
Four were killed during an insurgent
air raid on Badalona, II miles north
of Barcelona.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
WOODEN AIR BOMBER
IS GIVEN TEST FLIGHTS
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26.-Cn-
structed almost entirely Of wood-a
sharp departure from current all-metal
aeronautical trends swift, two
engined transport bombing plane has
been given successful test flights, it
was announced today.
Vance Breese. a ranking test pilot
and vice president of the company
which produced the plane, said it Il
4s feet from wing tip to wing tip and
measures 80 feet over all.
Only its engine nacelles, housing
two 300 horsepower motors, its re-
tractible landing gear fittings, and
minor equipment are metal.
Chief Engineer Art Mankey of the
construction company predicted top
speed OF 206 miles and cruising speed
of 185 miles an hour. The plane will
cost about $685. 900. compared to $780,
900 for metal planes the same size.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
HOLT SEES CONFUSION
IN OFFICIAL. ACTIONS
Sy the Associated Press

4y the Associated Press.
Senator Holt, Democrat, of West
Virginia, analyzing conditions which
he said showed something was wrong
in the United States today" declared
last night that removal of confusion
over official actions would put Amer
ica back to work"
Senator Holt said in radio speech
that many of the economic policies of
the administration were breaking down
and theories that have tried to sub
etitute statutory law for economic law
have failed"
He charged that because theories
have not proven their value admins
tration spokesmen were looking
"everywhere to find scapegoat."
Evening star., 1938-01-26
SLAYING CASE UP

NORRISTOWN. Pa, Jan. rs tP,.-
District Attorney Frederick B. Smile
said that the Montgomery County
grand jury convening today would con-
slider the case Of Wendell Forrest
Bowers, 10. charged with the murder
Of Mrs. Wilma V. Carpenter.
The widow was found shot to death
in her Camp Hill home DecembeT 13
Bowers was arrested in Louisville Ky.
later.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
u. S. MARSHAL HOLDS
ALBERT MARINELLI
Tammany Leader and Former
County Clerk Surrenders-Ac-
cused of Harboring Fugitive.


NEW YORK. Jan. 26.-Albert j..
Marinelli. a Tammany leader and
former New York County clerk. sur
rendered today to the United States
marshal on a charge of harboring a
fugitive
He walked into the marshals Office.
introduced himself to a deputy, and
was taken into custody.
Arraigned before a Federal Judge
Marinelli was placed under $500 bail
and trial was set for March 2.
Marinellt resigned December 3, in
the midst of an effort to have him re-
moved from Office.
In the municipal campaign last fall
Thomas E. Dewey. then special rack
cts prosecutor and candidate for dis
trict attorney. charged Marinelli was
a political ally OF racketeers and GRIM
inals.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
OIL TALKS CONFIRMED

MANILA. Jan. rs lP.-President
Manuel Quezon confirmed reports
today that the commonwealth gov
ernment was discussing contract
with the Standard Vacuum CO. for
development of oil resources in the
Philippines.
Quezon said an administration bill
covering the contract would soon be
presented to the National Assembly.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
Perfect Safety Record.

NEW HAVEN CONN, Jan. rs LP.-
The New York, New Haven 81 Hart
ford Railroad reported today that in
1887 no passenger was killed from any
cause and. that December 81 last closed
q six-year period without a passenger
fatality In train accident, although
200, 900, 900 persons were carried.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
Mexican, TO,un
To- Join u. S. IL,
Birthday Balls
b. the Associated Press.

b Inc Assoclated Press.
Aqua PRIETA, Sonora, Mexico
Jan. 26.-This little Mexican towr
just across the border will give an in.
ternational tinge to celebration O.
President Roosevelt's birthday.
As in several thousand United States
cities and towns, a dance will be hele
here Saturday night to raise funds te
combat infantile paralysis.
The ticket sale has extended as fal
into the interior Of Sonora as Cananea
Proceeds will be turned over to tn,
Douglas, Ariz, committee.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
C0NSULATES TO CLOSE
Russia and Turkey to Shut Three
in Each Others Territory.

in Each Others Territory.
ANKARA. Turkey, Jan. rs P)-
Soviet Russia will close three of her
consulates in Turkey and this countrv
will close the same number in Rus
sia. it was learned yesterday.
AS the result of Turco-Russian talks,
the two countries decided to main
tain only one consulate each-at
stanbul and Batum The Turkish
consulate at Leningrad and the Rus
sian consulate at Ankara are among
those to be closed.
Turkish officials said the move had
no special significance.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
KING GEORGE FLIES

Flight to Cranwell Airdrome Sec
ond Hop as Monarch.
LONDON, Jan. 26 tP,.-KinR
George, making his second flight as
Monarch. today flew to Cranwell Air
drome where he served the Royal Air
force during the latter part of the
World War.
The plane was piloted by Comdr
E. Fielden and took 30 minutes for
the trip from Bircham Newton, neal
Sandringham.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
REACH LOUISVILLE

Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Moreen-
thau to Attend Farm Sessions.
LEXINGTON. KY, Jan. rs P).-
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. accom-
panied by Mrs. Henry Morgenthau.
wife of the Secretary of the Treas
ury. arrived this morning from WASH
ineton. Both will be guests of honor
at the annual Kentucky Farm and
Home Convention. in session here.
Mrs. Roosevelt will speak to conven-
ton delegates during the day and at
public meeting tonight.
Evening star., 1938-01-26
LIBRARIAN APPOINTED
TO POST IN ST. MARYS

MRS. Mary Osborn Odel1. Who
Served at Towson Normal, Takes
Over Duties at Hollywood.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, Jan. 2s-
Mrs. Mary Osborn Odell of Towson.
Md, former librarian of the Mary
land State Normal School, has been
named as librarian of the rev library
project in st. Marys County sponsored
by TIE Maryland Public Library Ad-
viscrv Commission in cooperation
with the country recreation program
Ars. OieIl is nov in the county ar
ranging books at the newly opened
public library at Hollyw ood
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-20
Drunken DriDerFin
Deprived OF License
Judge Edward Mascolo Punished Joseph Pecka in
Court Today-Didn't Seem to Profit By
y Leniency Shown Him Before

Judge Edward Mascolo In city
court this morning not only fined
an alleged drunken driver 500 and
costs but placed on record a rec
ommendation that the accused be
forbidden 10 have an operators IL
cense In the future. The defendant
was Joseph Pecka, 20, OF Long Hill
road, who was arrested Aug. 20 on
the Wolcott road.
witnesses Against Him
Testimony was offered in trafflc
court yesterday that pecka was UNI
der the influence Of liquor. Wit
nesses included State Trooper James
Conlon, Sergt Charles McWeeney
and Motor Patrolmen John Murphy
and Raymond Grady. The case was
continued till this morning TO allow
the defense to secure additional
witnesses. There Is no question In
mind about the guilt OF this young
man." said Judge Mascolo. 1.-THE
state trooper took pains to observe
him carefully, and attempted TO
take tests but Pecka refused"
Arrested Before
Informed that Pecka had been ar
rested several times In the past for
violations Of the motor vehicle laws,
Judge Mascolo said: "This young
man hasn't seemed to profit by the
leniency shown him In the past. /
impose a fine OF 500 and costs, and
recommend to the commissioner Of
motor vehicles that he not be given
q license In the future" Pecka, who
claimed he had had only two glasses
of beer prior TO his arrest, will en-
ter an appeal to the court Of COM
mon pleas.