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Evening star., 1938-01-12
MORGENTHAU SEES
ELLIOTT AS HECKLER
officer Who Asks Safe Auditing
System Swapping at Heels
Secretary Asserts.

Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau
was on record today with a defense
against charges that he had failed to
ing Office in setting up an auditing
system throughout the Government 10
throw safeguards around expenditure
of hundreds of millions OF dollars.
The accusation was made in the an
nual report Of Acting Controller Gen.
eral Elliott. Secretary Morgenthau,
in a l5-paee letter yesterday to Chair
man Cochran of the House Committee
on Expenditures, described Il as mere
ly an incident in a continuing effort
of the General Accounting Office TO
assume duties not lntrusted to it by
law and to assert authority neither
expressly granted by law nor properly
deductible by implication from the
law"
The Treasury head also told Repre-
sentative Cochran the Controller
General appears to have taken too lit
orally the press reference to his posi-
ton as that of the watchdog of the
Treasury and in seeking TO realize that
flguratlve description to have con-
ce!yed his function to be that of snap
ping at the heels of the administrative
officers Of the Government, and un-
dertaking to hamper them in the faith
full performance of their duties rather
than cooperating with them to rem
der more efficient service"
Evening star., 1938-01-12
S20,O00,000 PROFIT
ON STOCK REPORTED
Sales by F. E. Taplin and Asso.
ciates to Pennroad Corp.
Studied.
By the Associated Press.

q! the Associated Press.
Senate investigators estimated to-
day that Frank E. Taplin of Cleveland
and associates made a profit in excess
of s200O0.oO0 on the sale of Pitts
burgh d West Virginia Railway stock
to Pennroad Corp. in 1929.
Mr.. Taplin. president of the railway
company. told the Senate Railroad FL
nance Committee the syndicate which
he headed made S129O9, ,O3O on a block
of 109,789 shares of the company's
stock.
He and his family. he said. sold an
additional block of $1,000 shares at an
average profit which he estimated was
$40 a share.
Mr.. Taplin said there was no way
to figure the profit of all of his indi-
vldual associates on other sales to
Pennroad. He agreed to supply the
committee with some exact data from
income tax returns Of members of his
family.
Pennroad, committee records showed,
bought more than 5000 shares of the
stock for about s4O.0OO,OOO, giving the
holding company an interest of over
IS per cent in the line.
Committee records showed that the
cost Of the stock to Pennroad, includ-
ing interest on loans made to finance
the purchase. averaged S22626 a share.
S, H. Ogden, Pennroad treasurer,
said the stock was now selling on the
market at between SIG and SIT a
share.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
JUDGE REVOKES BAIL
SENDS PISANI TO JAIL

Lawrence F. Pisani, who was ar
rested last Thursday in gambling
raid in the 1400 block of street NV
was committed to Jail yesterday by JUS
tice Jesse c. Adkins of District Court
who revoked his bail, posted following
a gambling conviction in another
case.
Pisani was one Of the co-defcndants
Of the late Carroll p. (Nubby) Muck
OILS. who committed suicide in his
apartment Saturday night. Nuckols
also was to have been committed be-
cause Of his arrest last Thursday.
Assistant United States Attorney
Samuel F. Beach argued that the re-
lease of the two on bail pending their
appeal pre-supposed good conduct and
that they had violated this condition.
Mr.. Beach said he would present
evidence obtained in Thursdays raid
to the grand jury Nuckols was
arrested along with Pisani at the al
legged gambling establishment.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
HOUSE TO WRITE
NEW WAGE BILL
Chairman Norton Announces
Decision, but Divu|ges
No Details.
By t..,e Associated Press.

By t.te Associated Press
The House Labor Committee de-
cided today to draft new Wage-hour
bill to carry out President Roosevelt s
demand for legislation at this session.
Chairman Norton announced the
decision after more than an hours
discussion of the problems presented
by the action of the House in shelving,
at the recent special session, the labor
standards bill originally recommended
by the committee
Mrs. Norton said no details of the
proposed new measure were discussed,
but asserted the committee seemed still
In favor Of flexible legislation rather
than the more rigid type proposed by
the American Federation of Labor.
The latter would have imposed uniform
minimum wages of 40 cents an hour
and maximum work week OF 40
hours.
The question of whether TO reopen
public hearings on the question pro-
voked a furry Of opposition.
There was some sentiment expressed,
members of the committee said, for
dropping the legislat ation entirely, but
Chairman Norton said this was very
slight.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
TUBERCULAR VICTIM
Hailed INTO COURT
Year.0ld Father Wins Contin-
uance on Charge He Re-
fused Treatment.

A 73-year-old father, tuberculosis
victim, accused BY the Health De-
partment of endangering the health
of his family by refusing treatment,
was granted continuance Of a day
when he appeared in Police Court to-
day.
Solomon Bell. 124l w street NV,
was charged in warrant with failing
to take precautions against spread of
the disease According to health au-
thorities. he has insisted on using the
same table utensils as do, his 30-year-
Old wife and four children, who range
in age from months to 9 years.
Judge Walter j. Casey granted a
continuance until 10 m. tomorrow on
Mr.. Bells plea that his presence was
needed at home today.
The case was seen as test of a
statute passed in 1912. under which
action could be obtained to force a
person to submit to treatment of a
highly communicable disease.
Evening star., 1938-01-12

bald, head of the Baltimore immigra-
ton Office.
The conference was getting nowhere
fast when Mr.. Glass interrupted inn
patiently. We'll, Well get married
right now"
Across the street to the Court House
went Mr.. Glass. The nearest church
was two blocks away. Carrying bou-
quet furnished by a woman clerk in
the Marriage License Bureau, the Ger
man fraulein became Mrs. Glass.
1T all happened so quickly" the
bride said today in her Washington
apartment. MY wedding dress was in
my suit case, and so I had to get mar
ried in the dress was wearing"
That would have bothered most
brides, but not the former fraulein.
Perhaps she realized that in her blue
travelling dress. with its youthful white
collar, she looked just as much a bride
as If she were wearing the elaborate
gown she bad planned for the occa-
sion.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
OFFICIALS OF PIT. A.
BROADCAST TODAY
Executive Committee Members to
Be Featured in Talks on
Citizenship,

Members of the Executive Commit
tee Of the National Congress of Par
ents and Teachers are to be featured
In radio broadcast on citizenship
at 4.30 pm. today over the National
Broadcasting Co. network.
Principal participants are to be DR..
Thomas Gosline. DR.. Mitchell Dreese
of George Washington University;
Mrs, J. K. Pettengill. national presi-
dent, and the Rev. Dr. Howard Stone
Anderson. pastor of First Congrega-
tional Church.
The broadcast follows meeting of
the Executive Committee this morning
at the Washington Hotel.
Yesterday the Advisory Committee
on Traffic Safety of the congress was
told by Dr.. William NJ Robinson, rural
service chairman, that the city driver
fails to drive with care and act swift
ly when driving on country roads be-
cause he Is accustomed to being di-
rected by traffic lights and police
men.
DR.. Robinson also urged support Of
the campaign for uniform traffic laws
pointing out that there are still nine
States not requiring a drivers license.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
Wed after T,v0 Hours IL, u. s..
Bride Plans to Go Sh0ppiin o

Mrs. Robert L. Glass of Washington.
who was Fraulein Lima Hellig of Ber-
lin, Germany, until two hours after
her arrival in the United States, today
will go on her first shopping expedition
in America.
She arrived in Baltimore shortly
after noon yesterday on the steamer
City of Newport News. She was met
at the dock by Mr.. Glass, Patent Of
flee division chief, who lives at 4l02
Fifth street NV.
The couple had met in Berlin six
years ago and kept up correspondence
ever since Full of plans for their
coming nuptials in Washington, Mr.
Glass and his bride-to-be were pre-
pared to leave the dock and Balti-
more far behind
But immigration officials thought
differently. They talked about quotas
and weren't at all sure about ad-
mitting the betrothed fraulein. Fiance,
fiancee and 1rhnlisration ofhcials ad-
journed to dIe ott1ces Of J. r. Archi-
Evening star., 1938-01-12
NOT T0PR0SECUTE
|NCONTEMPT CASE
Civil Liberties Committee
Decides Against Action
After AcquittaIs.

Alter two unsuccessful attempts to
OBTAIN contempt convictions against
officials Of the Railway Audit a. In.
spection Co. the Senate Civil Liber-
ties Committee, which vainly sub
poenaed records of the firm in Au-
gust, 1885, has decided to drop all
further prosecution for the alleged
contumacy.
John j. Abt, counsel for the COM
mlttee, revealed today it vas con-
sidered useless to try the four in.
dictments as yet undsposed Of. Ac-
cordingly Champion Harris. special
prosecutor in the case, authorized that
they be nolIe pressed.
District Court juries acquitted L.
Douglas Rice of Philadelphia, general
manager OF the concern, and w.
Boone Groves of Pittsburgh. its vice
president. The indictments which
we're nolle pressed charged w. w.
Groves, Cambridge. Md, president;
j. E. Blair. Pittsburgh. secretary
treasurer; Robert S. Judge, New York,
a director, and J. C. Boyer, Pitts
burgh.
All six had been summoned to ap-
pear, With the concerns records, be-
fore the Senate committee on August
Il, 1886. Instead Mr.. Rice filed suit
against the others on that day to
restrain them from complying with
the subpoena
The injunction suit never has been
disposed of. since al the time the
Railway Audit officials failed to at
tend the committee hearing, the Sen-
ate group decided to make no further
effort to compel their appearance but
to procure their criminal prosecution
for contempt. BY agreement the
suit was allowed to remain in status
quo.
Mr.. Abt said he did not expect to
take any action to obtain its dis
missal unless the committee should
resume its investigation and REQUIRE
the testimony of the Railway Audi.
officers.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
ASSOCIATION OPPOSES
UNDERPASS AT CIRCLE

The Connecticut Avenue Business
Mems Association was on record to-
day with a two-thirds majority of its
membership opposed to construction of
an underpass at Dupont Circle.
Results of mail ballot were an
nounced to the group at last nights
meeting at the Mayf1ower Hotel by
B. Houston McCeney, president. Mr..
McCeney will name a committee to
fight the proposed underpass before
congressional committees.
Several other organizations favor
the underpass, including the Board
of Trade, Dupont Circle Citizens As
sociation, Keystone Automobile Club
and Dupont Circle Doctors Associa-
ton.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
N STREET MAIN
PLANS REVIEWED
$200,000 Project Outlined
to Appropriations Unit
on Supply Bill.

Plans of the Water Department to
install large cross-toWn main in NJ
street from Eleventh street NV. to
Fourth street NE. at a cost of $780,
600 were reviewed today by the House
Appropriations Subcommittee in
charge of the 1899 District supply
bill.
The subcommittee also examined
budget estimates of the Police. Juve-
nile and Municipal Courts and the
National Capital Parks.
Virtually the entire time of the
subcommittee yesterday afternoon was
devoted to consideration of the plans
OF Capt. Herbert c. Whitehurst. d.
rector of highways, for improving
traffic conditions.
Attention centered on plans for
constructing an underpass beneath
Dupont Circle and a grade separat-
ton bridge over the intersection of
K street NV. and the Rock Creek
and Potomac drive The Commits.
sloners sought S320000 for the latter
project, but the Budget Bureau turned
1t down
There also was a brief discussion
OF Budget Bureau proposal to trans
fer S76500O from the gasoline tax
revenues to the general fund to paw
the 1889 street lighting bill Chair
man Collins Of the subcommittee al
ready has indicated he approved the
SHIFT and expressed the opinion it
would not constitute diversion of the
gasoline tax fund, because street
lighting is an essential part of high
way safety.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
Congress in Brief

TO-DAY.
Anti-lynching - Senate opponents
continue speeches.
Unemployment - Senate committee
hears railroad representatives.
Wage e-hour-HouSe Labor Commit.
tee discusses new legislation.
Farm-Conferees discuss corn Sec
ton of crop-control bill.
House considers miscellaneous Sec
ondary bills
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Further debate on anti-lynching
bill
Public Lands Committee resumes
hearing on nomination Of E. K. Burlew
to be Assistant Secretary Of the In
terror.
Unemployment Committee will con-
tinue hearings. 10 am.
Military Affairs Committee holds
regular meeting. ii am.
House:
Begins debate on Treasury-Post
ONCE appropriation bill.
Public Utilities Subcommittee of
District Committee begins investiga-
ton Of Capital Transit Co. 10 am.
subcommittee Of Appropriations
Committee eonttnue hearings on Dis
trict and Juss - supply bills. 10 an.
Evening star., 1938-01-12

Inc disturbance that was over the plains
states and the Upper Mississippi Valley
IueSoaY morning is now mokinc east
northeastvard, over the lake reelon, and
TO the East Gulf coast and pressure re-
mains relatively low over the Western
inches. and S. S Aewistar. Stls "i9e, near Vera
Cruz, Mexico. l9.A inches disturbance
OF VIDE extent and marked intensity is
approaching the British Columbia and
2S so inches. and Lanssra Island British
Columbia, zoos inches. These disturb
anccs have been attended by precipitation
in the North Pacific States and over most
sections east of the Rocky Mountains. ex-
cept the Southern plains States, the West
Gulf States and New England. Pressure
continues abnormally low over, the Green
$50 inches and broad trough extends
thence southWestWard to the vicinity Of
Bermuda S S Cathlamet. 2as3 inches
An area OF nigh pressure is moving south
eastward over the Rocky Mountain region
and the plains States, Akron. Colo 30.44
inches and pressure continues high from
Northern Alaska southeastward to Sas-
3o.4s inches. and from western Quebec
southward over the, Atlantic States, San
Maur, Quebec, 1920 inches The tenn.
perature has risen in the lake region and
portions of the Southern States, while
colder weather has overspread the Rocky
Mountain region. the plains States and
the Missouri Valley.
River Report
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry Potomac slightly muddy
at Great Falls today.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
ANTI-DISCHARGE BOOKS
LAW DECLARED VIOLATED
Radio Telegraphers' President
Charges R. c. A. Subsidiary
Continues Practice.

BY the Associated Press,
Mervyn Rathborne. president of the
American Radio Telegraphers' Asso-
clatlon, charged before the House
Merchant Marine Committee yester-
day that subsidiary OF Radio Cor
poration Of America was violating a
law against private continuous dis
Charge books
Mr. Rathborne alleged the discharge
books, which show every dismissal of
each employe. amounted to black
lists. He said their use by private
companies was outlawed about nine
months ago, and they may now be
required only by the Government.
Mr. Rathborne said the Radio Ma
rine Corp. OF America, an R. c. A.
affiliate, still demands that members
OF his union carry books. He said
he had asked Lamar Hardy, United
States attorney at New York, to act
against the company. but Nj. Hardy
had not done so. He also presented
the case, he said to district attorneys
in some other cities. including San
Francisco, without results.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
MEETING Will MARK
CIVIL SERVICE ACT
A. F, 6. E, Sponsors Gathering
Next Tuesday. Noting
Anniversary.

A mass meeting in the interest O.
civil service will be held in the Gov
eminent auditorium at 8 pm. Tues
day under the auspices of the Ameri-
can Federation of Government En-
ployes as part of national program
which the organiza ton is sponsoring
to marx the 55th anniversary of the
passage Of the Civil Service Act.
Speakers will include Senator Bu.
low. Democrat, of South Dakota and
Representative Ramspeck, Democrat.
of Georgia, chairmen of the Senate
and House Civil Service Committees.
respectively: members of the Civil
Service Commission, President Harry
B. Mitchell and Commissioners Lucille
Foster McMlllln and Samuel H. Ord
way, Jr, Gilbert E. Hyatt of the Ma
tional Federation of Post Office Clerks,
and others.
A program by Marine Band or
chestra at 7:30 o'clock will preceds
the meeting.
Mr.. Mitchell will speak over WJSV
at l0:45 the same night.
A number of other events are sched-
uled for the week
Evening star., 1938-01-12
D. c. AIRPORT BILL
PASSAGE IS SEEN
Nichols Indicates Roosevelt
Wants Problem Settled
Soon as Possible.

Congress is expected to enact the
necessary legislation at the present
session to provide Washington with a
modern airport.
This was the impression given by
Representative Nichols, Democrat. of
Oklahoma. member of the District
Committee, following talk with
President Roosevelt at the White
House today Mr.. Nichols indicated
the President is anxious for the matter
to be settled as soon as possible.
The Oklahoma Representative was
secretary to the commission which
last year recommended the Camp
Springs Md site. He is Of the opin-
ion now that. because Of the strong
opposition to this site on the part of
the Navy Department, it can be ellmi-
mated from further consideration.
He feels. also, that, inasmuch as
President Roosevelt vetoed bill at
the last regular session providing for
enlargement of the present Washing
ton Airport. that site also might be
eliminated.
Other Sites May BE Studied.
Mr.. Nichols indicated that while the
proposed Gravelly Point site, which
has been favored by the President.
now stands at the top Of the list of
sites under consideration, there is a
possibility other desirable sites may
be considered before any definite
action is taken.
Besides having the Endorsement Of
President Roosevelt, an airport on the
Gravellv Point site was provided for
in bill which passed the Senate at
the last regular session and now is in
the House Military Affairs Committee.
Immediate construction by the Fed
eral Government of suitable airport
for washington was advocated in a
resolution adopted yesterday by the
Conference in Cleveland, according
to the Associated Press,
"Extende dWrangIing.
The conference. composed of more
than a score of the largest national
aeronautical organiza tions and Fed
eral aviation agencies. adopted the
resolution after extended wrangling,"
according 10 the dispatch.
In its resolution, the conference
said The Federal Government should
undertake without further delay to
provide suitable airport at the
National Capital"
John F. Victory, secretary to the
National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics. led a fight for more
precise recommendation
Let's be more specific" Mr. Victory
urged. II want to offer an amend
ment that Washington Airport have
four runwsys In cardinal directions,
clear approache be capable of un-
limited expansion, be as close to down.
town section as feasible and, If pos
sible, have seaplane facilities"
His proposed amendment was OBJ
dected to by Jack Berry, manager Of
the huge Cleveland Airport, on the
ground 1t was ambiguous"
Evening star., 1938-01-12
Half Propeller
Is Found to Be
Better ThunOne
By the Associated Press.

How in the heck does the darn
thing work." exclaim Army air engi-
neers. studying experiments to show
that half a propeller is better than
q whole one
Imagine an ordinary tWo-bladed
propeller with one blade broken off
That the one blade whirline around
gives better thrust and speed than
the propeller did before.
That's what some aeronautics en-
eineers say may revolutionize air pro-
pulsion. The half propeller has flown
planes Engineers claim it gives Is
per cent greater thrust than ordinary
propellers.
1t consists Of hub, one blade and
opposite it a small but heavy stub to
counterbalance it.
Engineers explain that the one blade
cuts through more even flow of
air than the two blades, the one of
which disturbs the air for the other,
Evening star., 1938-01-12
TRUCK CRASH TIES UP
100 CARS ON BOULEVARD
Two Machines Overturn on Ice
Coated Elkridge Hill, Delay
ing Traffic Hour.

BY tht Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Jan. IA huge
trailer truck skidded and overturned
on ice-sheeted Washington boulevard
at Elkridge today, starting a traffic
tie-up that involved more than 100
machines.
Two trucks overturned on the Elk
ridge hill and several others skidded
off the road
Traffic was halted for more than
an hour
Leo w. Jones. Roanoke, Va, driver
Of one of the trucks, was cut on the
wrist and Rees Roitnolt, his helper,
from Roanoke. Va, was cut on the
forehead.
Intermittent light rains and slighter
warmer temperatures were forecast,
with return to freezing weather to-
morrow night.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
DROUGHT CONDITIONS
SEEN BY OFFICIALS
Moisture Same as in Months Pre-.
ceding 1884 and 1886 Sea-
sons. Is Report.

By the Associated Press.
The Weather Bureau reported TODAY
that moisture conditions parallelne
those in the months preceding the
devastating droughts of 1884 and 1885
existed In wide belt of the Middle
West.
Thebelt, the bureau said, reached
from the southern great plains north
ward to the Canadian border and in
cluded parts of Montana. Colorado
Iowa. Missouri. Kansas, Nebraska. the
Dakotas, Oklahoma, New Mexico,
Arizona, Nevada, Minnesota. Wiscon-
sin and parts Of Illinois.
The Weather Bureau report fol-
lowed a statement of Secretary WAL
lace before the Senate Unemployment
Committee that IAN increasingly seri-
Gus drought condition" was develop
ing again in the great plains.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
WALTONS TO ELECT

The Washington chapter of the
1zaak Walton League Will meet In the
Queen Elizabeth room Of the Raleigh
Hotel at 8 o'clock tonight to select Of
f1cers for the coming year.
DR.. M. Darcy Magee, who has been
president Of the chapter for 10 years
and also is national vice president, an
nounced that he will not be a candi-
date for reelection as head of the
Washington organization.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
Ne,U Year Day
OF u. S. Chinese
ToLackGayety
Fasting Scheduled In.
stead of Feasts and
Fireworks.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. Jan. 12.-American
Chinese, mourning the invasion Of
their homeland by the Japanese, will
observe Chinese New Year Day jan
uary 81, with fasting instead Of the
usual fireworks.
The money they usually spend on
feasting and noisy celebration will be
sent to China for food, clothing and
medical supplies.
Police Capt. Eddie Chitwood said
today Chinese leaders here who had
disclosed these plans to him said they
would observe their Nsual custom Of
paying all debts On 3few Year Day.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
THE WEATHER REPORT

Drict
lowest
afternoon ana gentle
northwest late ~ ~
row generally iaH except furr portion;
tomorrow afternoon
Vrgna-ntemittent light slightly tonight tor
generally
tomofro" night and in the interior
west VHglnaSnoW rrles
tonight
pori