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Evening star., 1938-07-20
STEEL PAY SCALE
D|SCUSS|ON0PENS
Labor Department Farley
Seeks to Set Rate for u. S.
Contract Jobs.
BY the Associated Press.

oS tIlc AsSOtldleo Elesss
Representatives of steel labor and
management. leading up to the broad
question of pay scales In the entire
industry. discussed with each other
today the minimum wage rates which
must be paid on Government steel
contracts.
Today's conference was at the Labor
Department, which is required by the
Walsh -Healey Act to determine mini
mum wages employers must pay in
turning out Government contracts in
excess Of $4,000.
Next will come a public hearing.
July rs, at which the department will
formally determine the prevailing
minimum wage rates In the industry.
The hearing was requested by Philip
Murray, chairman of the C. 1. O.'s
Steel Workers Organizing Committee.
The industry ordinarily employs about
100000 workers and whatever mini
mum is determined at the public hear
ing possibly may become the minimum
rate for the entire industry.
A large portion Of steel already is
operating under wage contracts with
the c. I. O. steel union.
Lee Pressman, c. l. o. counsel, said
recently the determination of the pre-
vailing wage rate on Government con-
tracts will force some of the big non
union steel industries to raise their
scales.
Mr. Pressman also said it would pre-
vent non-union plants from under
bidding unionized plants on Govern
ment contracts.
AS soon as the minimum wage rates
are determined for steel. he added
the C. l. o. would ask for a similar
determination for the shipbuilding in
dustry.
Evening star., 1938-07-20
Star Aids Camps
Funds Being Collected
For Good Will and
Pleasant.

Camps Good Will and Pleasant. OPP
Grated by the Family Service Associa-
ton will close in the middle Of the
season unless $500 is raised imme-
diately.
Because of this extraordinary situa-
ton, The Star has offered to cooperate
in an effort to help meet the crisis.
Ten dollars will keep one youngster
in camp for two weeks. The Star
will be pleased to receive and acknoWl-
edge contributions to the fund to keep
the two summer camps open. Mail
your contributions to The Star or bring
them to The Star cashier.
The following contributions have
been received at The Star:
Evening star., 1938-07-20


A disturbance OF considerable intensity
10 centered this mornins over eastern HUG.
son Bay, Port Harrison, Quebec, 2a4H
inches and a broad trough extends thence
southwark to the st: Lagrenee Valley and and
from there southwestward to Texas, Father
Point, Quebec. % so inches. and Del Rio,
Tex. 29.SS inches. Pressure is high over
the western Atlantic Ocean Newfound.
land and the South Atlantic and east Gull
States. and from southern and central
Alaska, east-southeastward to the Plains
States and the northern Lake region,
Ketchikan. Alaska. 3O.34 inches, st.
Georges. Bermuda. 302S inches. Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich. 30.16 inches. Showers have
occurred quite generally in the Atlantic
and Cult States. Tennessee. Kentucky and
southern West Virginia, and in portions of
the Rocky Mountain region. the Plains
States, the Lake region and the extreme
upper Mississippi Valley. The heaviest
rainfall reported was 34S inches at Vicks
burg, Miss. The temperature has fallen
from Nebraska and Iowa northeastward to
the northern Lake region and in portions
of the northern Rocky Mountain region.
Elsewhere 1t has not changed materially.
Rsnort far uaurs
Evening star., 1938-07-20
Trailer Regulations Urged.

CLEVELAND. July 20 (P.-The Ma
tional Conference OF Commissioners on
Uniform State Laws, meeting here as
prelude to the American Bar Asso-
citation Convention. today urged strin-
gent regulations for the Nations $780,
600 house trailers. Uniform taxation,
sanitation laws and construction re-
quirements were advocated for the
modern covered wagons.
Evening star., 1938-07-20
THREE DIE IN CRASH
OF PLANE IN NEW YORK
Sportsman Pilot and Two Women
Are Victims of Accident
at Fort Plain.

By the Associated Press.
FORT PLAIN, N. Y. July 20.-Two
women and man were killed today
in the crash of a biplane In q field
near Fort Plain.
The victims we're: Everett Sanders,
"a. Fort Plain farmer and sportsman
pilot, owner Of the plane; Mrs. Theresa
Hendershott and Mrs. Allen Shelley,
both in their early 2os, residents
Of Fort Plain.
Mrs. Hendershott's husband said
Sanders and the two women took
of at am. from Sanders private
flying feel for an early morning
flight. HAbelieved the plane crashed
because of q heavy fog.
Evening star., 1938-07-20
DOCTORS DISCUSS G. H. A.
Montg omery Group Fails to Take
Action on Hospital.

The Montgomery County Medical
Society took no action at its meeting
last night regarding the application
of the Group Health Association for
q permit to build hospital in the
Chevy Chase (Md) area.
The question was discussed for about
half an hour, but 1t was decided to
take no stand at present. A hearing
on the application has been set for
next Monday by the Board of County
Commissioners. 1t is not expected
that the society would be represented
at the hearing.
Evening star., 1938-07-20
DR.. Beachley Is Speaker.

DR.. Ralph G.. Beachley. Arlington
County health officer, addressed the
Arlington Lions Club at its weekly
luncheon meeting yesterday at the
Washington Golf and Country Club.
Evening star., 1938-07-20
MAY ATTEND CAMP
W.P.A. Workers May Accompany
National Guard Units.

w. P. A. workers will be allowed to
attend National Guard encampments
for two weeks this summer.
They will not receive pay while
away, but on their return will be per-
mitted to work extra time to make up
the lost wages.
Evening star., 1938-07-20
Speedy Contests.

Forty-five events, some with six
heats, were run off in two and one
half hours in school meet in London
which had 500 boy and girl entries.
Evening star., 1938-07-20
WEATHER REPORT

of
not in gentle winds mostly southwest
probably tomorrow morning not mucn
and probably thuhoersohs ana w.
morro
tonight tomorrow generally
central portions slightly
rhvestp norton
Evening star., 1938-07-20
The Sun and Moon,

The Sun and Moon.
Rises. sets.
Sun. today 4 os 30
Sun. tomorrow ~ 459 Ii2p
Moon today - 3s . m. IL: :5O m.
Automobile lights must be turned on one
half hour after sunset.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers muddy
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac muddy at Great
Falls fOday
Evening star., 1938-07-20

Record for Last "a Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest. IS. at s pm. yesterday. Year
ago. -.
Lowest, 73, at am. today. Year
ago, 66.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest 96 on July IL.
Lowest. 49, on January %.
Humidity for Last FL Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today
Highest. a6 per cent. at 1 30 a M today.
Lowest, 81 per cent, at $50 pm. yes
terday.
Tide Tables.
Furnished by United States Coast and
GPodetic Sllryey)
Evening star., 1938-07-20

Tatto6ng Of . girl was televised
from London recently.
Evening star., 1938-07-20
QUEEN MARIE SERVICE

Special Rites to Be Held Monday
In Washington Cathedral.
Rumanian Minister Radu Irimescu
today announced . special service in
memory Of her late majesty Queen
Marie Monday at 4 pm. in the Beth
lehem Chapel of the Washington
Cathedral. The DNwager Queen died
yesterday Of rare liver ailment ut
the Royal Palace 1t Sinaia. :
Evening star., 1938-07-20

SSEf.ol
The following contributions have
been made direct through the Family
Service Association:
Contributions from F.. s. A.
Board members to date $11O. 90
Mr. and Mrs CharIas Hold
Evening star., 1938-07-20
Precipitation

Sanifal lcurrAnf To datal
Evening star., 1938-12-27
Chance Brings Capture
Of 7 Omaha Fugitives
BY the Associated Press.

=
OMAHA, Nebr., Dec. 27.-Two
prisoners who escaped from the
Douglas County Jail Christmas Day
were captured near Gretna, Nebr.,
last night-one by a radio an
nouncer and the other by two news
paper reporters. They were Marion
Brown, who previously escaped from
the Missouri State Prison, and Fred
j. Roberts, who was being held for
an Omaha robbery.
Roberts, wounded in the knee, was
the first to be captured. Foster
May, Omaha radio announcer, was
resonsible for the capture. He en-
tered small building on the John
Cockrill homestead to set up a
broadcasting unit and found a man
lying on an old couch. Mr.. May
asked him if he knew anything
about the escaped prisoners and
the man replied, I'm one of them"
Brown surrendered to George Sed-
lacek and Ernie Jones, reporters for
the Omaha World Herald, who were
at the Cockrill home, when they
heard a loud knock at a window.
They went to a door and Brown,
nearly frozen, stumbled up, asking
if he could get warm. He came in
and the reporters seized him.
Meanwhile, farmers, police and
deputy sheriffs searched fields for
Paul Romanos. Federal prisoner,
and Phil Erwin, held for a robbery
Evening star., 1938-12-27

rural kerosene lamp an enthusiastic
farewell.
Congress tossed an extra 100000
900 into rural electrifcation before
adjourning. Already $85 900, 900 has
been allotted in order of rural con-
centration viz: Ohio, Indiana, Iowa,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan,
with special emphasis now or light
ing sections of Georgia, Texas, Mis-
sissippi. ALLEGATIONS to States and
Territories, in proportion to their
high line service can receive no moro
than 10 per cent of the total appro-
priation.
1t is technical and responsible
job. And John Carmody, a big, be-
spectacled man with a big voice, and
jutting jaw. PAGES his Office floor,
thumbs In vest, driving home tech
nical points with many an unfurled
chart. His first acquisitions for
money required 1875 checks, now re-
duced one-half through advanced
job analysis methods. Every week
Mr.. Carmody knows how many holes
are dug, poles erected, miles of wire
strung, member users connected.
The Government responsibility is
116, 1000 miles of line. Mr.. Carmody
Is interested in protecting that in
vestment, backed by the integrity Of
the United States farmers. He is
interested in giving them a sound
physical property" To that end
certain legal, engineering, organiza-
ton, auditing and maintenance as
sistances are maintained. One day
these little average size 250-mile
jerkwater electric lines will main
tain themselves. Meantime, terrain,
feasibility and amortization pay
out" is carefully scrutinized. Elec-
trio users begin to amortize their
Government loan when they pay
their first electric light bill. Some
pay a year in advance to be sure of
service. Others move their homes
to light zones if light cannot come
to them. Mr.. Carmody is effec-
lively arresting human erosion from
farms to cities.
Appropriately enough the old Car
mody farm, where John Carmody
was born, has now been electrified.
1t Is located in Bradford County,
Pa, noted for its "buckwheat, butter,
bees and boys" Mr.. Carmody began
life as grocery clerk, spent is years
in the steel industry, 10 in the gar
ment, three as vice president Of a
West Virginia Coal Co. and eight as
editor Of Coal Age and other publi-
cations. Government-wise, he work.
ed for the Wagner Labor Board of
N. r. A. days, was a member Of the
N. L. r. B. in 1885, and entered
rural electrification in 1886.
Evening star., 1938-12-27
Youth Facing Nozi Trial
Returns U. S. Gift
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27.-
Herchel Gryszpan, Jewish youth
awaiting trial in Paris for killing a
German Embassy attache, whose
death brought an assessment by the
Nazl government of $400, 900 900 fine
on Germany's Jews, says he wants
no contributions toward his defense.
He returned a contribution, the
amount of which was undisclosed,
to DR.. George Herzog, San Francisco
physician and wartime colonel, with
the wish that money be given in
stead to "the 1900 innocent Jews
robbed and exiled and suffering
from cold and hunger on the Polish
border"
A letter from the youth said:
Many, many thanks for the
money which you sent. But can
not take it as I have done nothing
to deserve it. If you want something
to do which I want done very much,
I ask you to take the money and
give 1t to the 1900 innocent Jews
robbed and exiled and suffering from
hunger on the Polish Aborder."
Evening star., 1938-12-27
Jews Thank japan
For Munchukuo Haven
By the Associated Press.

PEIP1NG, Dec. T.-Dispatches
from offlcial Japanese sources in
Harbin, Manchukuo, reported con-
ference Of Jewish residents yester-
day expressed gratitude to Japan
and Manchukuo for opening the
latter as haven for world Jewry.
Although no official announcement
Of such action by Manchukuo has
been made, it has been reported
unoff1cially that the Japanese-domi-
mated state would admit Jewish
refugees.
The Harbin reports said DR.. Abram
Kaufman presided at the meeting
which declared q resolve to be-
come loyal Manchukuo subjects en-
joying racial equality according to
the state law and to do our part
to cooperate with Japan's and
Manchukuo's efforts to establish
new order in the Far East"
Evening star., 1938-12-27

report problems country and the
and Senators will debate and legate many
The only missing element will be knee breches
and white wigs For the rest 1t will be old
So much for the pictorial The po-
cal aspects much If follows his
charted Of masqueading he
will have passed the buck Congress pretty effectively Sup
pose Tor example, ne in Of his 100000
families Will starve Federal relief appro-
praons by February Then that declines
10 make funds available for relief
stlttlon which
to explain to the country exactly happened.
suppose again that Congress-
ne OF gentlemen who know exactly what they
Dill providing for biondolar private utilities
There nothing in the Constitution says President
must not veto any bill which before
IN snort the really thinks
desirable and informal
laVe branches OF Government position
show the incapacy many important
1t is doubtful whether
know enough about their legislative
1ntegbe BILL The dreadful bills piled hopper
ne opening OF every session evidence Of why
and Coodges Congress let the lobbyists why
under the New Deal Congress has willing accept friendly
services of administration specialists.
AS matters stand,
position having returns of 1888
Those who know him do not doubt that
and that he expects Congress
Evening star., 1938-12-27
Arrow Murksmon
Kills Wild Bour
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dec. GA
member Of the Peabody College
faculty claimed the honor yesterday
Of being the first man to kill a wild
boar in Cherokee National Forest
with an arrow-driven by So
pound bow.
DR.. Harlan Metcaf, one of three
members Of the Nashville Archery
Club on a bow and arrow hunting
trip, telegraphed that he killed q
120-pound boar early in the day.
A guide accompanying DR.. Metcali
and his fellow huntsmen, Ed and
Tom McNish, is the only member OF
the party with q f1rearm. He is
carrying pistol to be used only in
an emergency.
Evening star., 1938-12-27

vast rural popu-
lation west Of
the Alleganies,
and east Of the
Rockies.
Since q total
eclipse at incep-
ton In 1888,
light Is now car
ried on 10000
miles Of new
rural electric
lines. And for
two years John
G a r m o d y has
been the genie
Of the new lamp,
l. III
Evening star., 1938-12-27
Townsend Flies East

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27 R).-Dr
Francis E. Townsend, old-age pen
sion advocate, left by airliner for
New York last night to confer with
Representative Ralph o. Brewster
of Maine, elected to Congress with
Townsend plan support.
"We are enlarging our organiza-
ton and breaking it into smaller
units" DR.. Townsend said. 1--WE are
going to organize a Townsend club
in every precinct of every CITY,"
Evening star., 1938-12-27

the resultant rumors just what might be expected
The story of Murphy illustrative
There's doubt that the President least considered
the high BENCH for the assistant Attorney
Keenan, instructed to take poll Senate confirmation
showed most unfavoable results Since then Murphy
talked for the Attorney Generalsp
would to break
Robert H. Jackson and for the Secretaryhp Labor
Miss Frances Perkins would have to be dismissed
current in high New Deal circles that Murphy
RooseveltS former
All you do your choice.
North Amec Newspap
Evening star., 1938-12-27

tail Government expenditures. Mr..
Eccles in his letter was replying to
a speech made in Boston by Sena-
tor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia,
who has been a constant advocate
of retrenchment.
The fact that the public debt is
reaching $4,000, 900, 900; that Gov
ernment deficits continue to persist,
year after year, with billion dol
lars as a really small deficit, does
not terrify Mr.. Eccles-nor presum-
ably the rest of the New Deal
administration. What would be
terrifying, according to Mr.. Eccles,
would be policy of curtailment of
Government spending.
1t has been pretty clear that if
1t were not for huge Government
spending, the New Deal administra-
ton would have been vastly unpop-
ular long time ago. Undoubtedly
1t was necessary to spend a huge
sum for relief of one kind or an
other. The subsidies paid the
farmers have helped to keep the
agricultural areas of the country in
line for the New Deal.
One thing that has puzzled New
Dealers is the fact that while they
have put billions of dollars into cir
culation, both for relief and for
pump p-priming," the New Deal has
continued to be unpopular with a
very large number of businessmen.
The New Dealers say that they have
made it possible for businessmen
to make more and more money.
They were astounded when the de-
preston set in again in 1887. Mr..
Eccless says now that this new de-
preston was due to the fact that
the Federal Government cut its
spending programs in 1887.
Reasons for Unpopularity.
Two reasons for the unpopularity
Of the New Dealers with business
men stand out. One is the fear of
what the Federal Government may
do in further efforts to control busi-
ness. The other is found in the
realization Of businessmen that the
huge debts of the Government must
be paid sooner or later, and that
they have already felt the sting of
the highest taxes in peace times
and fear that the taxes will be still
heavier.
For number of years the New
Deal administration has been urged
to do something to restore business
confidence, to restore the conf
dence of the investing public of
America. So far nothing whatever
has been done along that line. The
President offered business breath
ing spell" at one time. But there
after he urged still further laws
affecting industry and business.
Recently the President received
the resignation of Daniel C. Roper
as Secretary of Commerce. He
might have done a good deal to
restore confidence of business had
he picked man familiar with the
problems of business and, by that
appointment. expressed a willing
ness to receive advice from such a
man. Instead he appointed as
Secretary of Commerce Harry L.
Hopkins, whose chief claim to fame
has been his administration of the
w. P. A. AS w. P. A. administrator
Secretary Hopkins expended billions
Of dollars, all of which eventually
must come out of the taxpayers.
Already a good part of these bill
lions has been taken in taxes from
business.
Strong Pump Printing" Defense.
Now comes Mr.. Eccles with a
strong defense of the "pump-p -prim-
ing" methods of the New Dealers.
1t is quite apparent that it would
Evening star., 1938-12-27
Soviet and Finland
Define Their Border
BY the Associated Press.


MOSCOW, Dec. 27-The ratifica-
ton of an agreement precisely de-
f1ning the Soviet Russian-F Finnish
border was announced last night
over the Soviet radio.
The act was mainly of technical
significance, although some foreign
observers pointed out it showed the
desire of both sides to preserve nor
NAL relations.
The agreement was reached last
April when representatives Of both
countries exchanged documents and
about 100 maps to settle doubtful
points along the far-flung frontier
which extends more than TOO miles,
mostly through wilderness or sparse
ly-inhabited territory.
Evening star., 1938-12-27

who Is or is not
in the portfolios
so far as the ex-
ternal world is
concerned.
Actually, the
President is the
dominating in
fuence in the
a admins tration
and 1t is about
as important a
matter as If the
general manager
of a company
" ere choosing
the head of q
division or 6e.
Evening star., 1938-12-27

Of approach has been changed.
The President is playing his
cards close to his chest and since
the opposition has the ball he
is going to let the other quar-
terback call the signals to mix
metaphors rather badly.
The way the play is ex-
pected to develop is for the Pres
ident's messages to outline ma
tional problems and to submit
suggested remedies, but without
Evening star., 1938-12-27

Dy mariner 5.
Eccles, chairman
of the Federal
Reserve Board,
that the New
Dealers still be-
lieve firmly in
pump = prim-
ing" They be-
lieve that it is
better to con-
tinue pouring
out hundreds of
millions or even
billions of dol
lars throu 6 h
Federal spend
Evening star., 1938-12-27


emanates from the Offices of where the schwelen
bach candidacy has been welcomed strange tale
told there how friendly in Senator
Schweenbachs Office when the telephoned 1t
that the President nduged little trancontental kidding Some
how other the Schwenbach duged the fact that he
had been offered the tn the eavesdrop-
business hastened the great to his c. l. O.
friends
The tale Of the which take leave choose
Your inclined to it, although there
certain circumstances which give OF possibility For
example the outgoing Attorney General Homer Cummings
to be the only the President really consulting the
Supreme Court appointment.
Mr. Cummings suffers from serious of country cuteness
In the matter of appointments he has OF laying down rigid
specifications For Supreme Court justices his specifications that
they must be aggressive New Dealers must from the right part
of Pumping fits his specifications And the
Washington happens them exactly unless
should courtesy make confirmation
difficult
candidacy gauged
by the Schweenbach hackers,
TugWe and Tugwe scarcely needs introduction
shrewd fellow combines the duties Of
general counsel of the l.
backing compliment They have made
their opinion Supreme otmoded insitu
ton which discreded the exped
ent of naming dscreditable justices.
the President Senator Schwlenbach
For that matter being fairly unpredctab fellow
citizen the United States from Dr. Townsend Morgan
besides the candidates commonly mentioned
Judge Joseph c. Hutcheson the Federal Circuit New
Orleans and Dean Wiley Ruedge r of the University of Iowa
Evening star., 1938-12-27

recommendation AS Congress founders ensuing legislative
the President will keep ping
gresonal leaders, of their voon
the old informal system of conferences
specialists and the OF the Legislature OF
this Congress capable
strike and doing nothing amid the pauds of those that
eft from chaos Then will be the countys speak,
Evening star., 1938-12-27

HE opinions OF the rtters page o1on
nSsesssa,y S TIE Stars Such opinions are presented q
readers although such opinions contradictory among
themsetues and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1938-12-27

the sublime spectacle will be
given to the country Of a Legis-
lature which enacts laws with
out the benefit Of the advice and
guidance Of those who are ex-
pected to enforce and admins
ter the laws. It's pretty as a
picture postcard of a robin in the
snow outside a lighted cottage
window. No one will be able to
say that this Congress accepts
dtctati0n. The White Hoi1se mill
Evening star., 1938-12-27
An American
You Should
Know
r. {. A. Administrator
Has Responsible
And Technical Job
BY DELLA PYNCHON.

The Rural Electrification Admin.
istration and John Carmody, its
administrator, have energized every
State in the Union, especially that
Evening star., 1938-12-27
Writer Feels
CubinetPosts
Matter Little
President Is Termed
Dominating Figure
In Administration
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

Judging by the discussion and
comment on the filling of vacancies
in the Presidents cabinet it might
be assumed that it really matters
Evening star., 1938-12-27
We, the People
President Expected to 'Poss the Buck
To Congress on Legislation
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

Accepting the elections Of 1898 mandate" against rubber
stamp President
that members Of the executive be
available for bill drafting purposes
To begin WITH expected to roll its own
legislation Thus the constitutional balance
Evening star., 1938-12-27
Curb Extended

Prohibitions against the establish
ment of new retail outlets and service
enterprises are being extended by
the Netherlands government.