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stration of w. p. A., discussed posi-
BILE changes in the relief setup and
his nomination to be Secretary Of
Commerce.
Mayor La Guardia-Urged that
Congress provide ample relief funds.
Representative Rayburn-Talked
politics and methods of solidifying
divergent Democratic factions in the
next session.
There was a general hubbub in
Capitol corridors today as new men,
bers of the House and Senate moved
into their Offices and old ones sought
the preferred quarters.
The returning legislators expressed
wide differences Of opinion regard
ing prospective issues.
Some forecast a short "do moth
ing" session and others contended
controversial questions might keep
them here until midsummer.
Gillette Sees Correcting"
Senator Gillette, Democrat, OF
Iowa predicted the Democratic ma
jority would concentrate on per-
fecting New Deal legislation rather
than extending into new fields.
Senator Gillette. one of the Demo-
Gratis who survived the so-called
administration purge" told report
ers I'VE can best use our time amend
ing and correcting" He said many
other members had adopted this
view toward such major issues as
relief, social security, labor and neu-
trality legislation.
Some legislators predicted Presi-
dent Roosevelt's message to Con-
gress, which will be delivered next
Wednesday, would deal largely with
foreign affairs and farm problems.
s75o,ooo, 900 Farm Aid.
Discussing the farm situation,
Senator Russell, Democrat, Of
Georgia told reporters not less than
$750, 900 900 should be made available
for benefits next year. Approx
mately that sum was provided for
this year.
While neither Mr.. Garner nor Sec
retary Wallace would discuss their
talk, Senators reported the Vice
President has suggested that Federal
outlays to farmers be curtailed along
with other expenditures and that he
has expressed interest in the domes-
tic allotment plan. In general, this
plan proposes guaranteed price for
that portion of farm production con-
sumed domestically.
Secretary Wallace has urged the
imposition of processing taxes to
finance part of the farm program,
but Senator Barkley, who professed
to know nothing of the discussions
between the Vice President and the
cabinet member, said he favored
such taxes "only as last resort"
Defense High on Agenda.
The defense program remained
high on the list of subjects OF pre-
session discussion. The American
Federation of Labor urged yesterday
that jobs should be created in in
dustries producing goods needed by
the people rather than munitions.
except for the munitions needed for
national defense"
In its monthly business survey 1t
also discussed a proposed national
planning board to lessen depression
periods and said such planning
should be directed toward higher
living standards instead of military
preparations.
The Republican National Com
mittee headquarters announced that
16 House members would be heard
In a broadcast at 4:30 pm. today
and three new Senators would speak
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Cummings
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Innings said he believed that the new
dgeships were amply justified"
Docket Officer Urged.
The Attorney General also pro-
posed that:
A permanent administrative off,
Ger be appointed by the Supreme
Court to supervise the Federal
docket and perform administrative
functions now vested in the Justice
Department.
The Supreme Court draft new
rules of procedure for criminal cases
tried in Federal courts.
Federal probation officers be ap-
pointed henceforth by the Attorney
General instead of by District
Courts.
The Federal firearms law be ex-
panded to require registration of
pistols and revolvers.
An act be passed permitting the
United States to be sued for prop
erty or personal damages resulting
from Government employees negli-
gence.
W. S. commissioners be allowed to
try petty offenses committed on Fed
efal reservations.
Procedural Changes.
The Attorney General also sug-
kested several technical, procedural
changes for criminal trials. He rec
commended that defendants be per-
mitted to waive indictment by grand
Jury; that prosecutors be permitted
to comment on defendants failure
to testify; that defendants be re-
quired to give advance notice Of their
intention to offer an alibi defense,
and that the Government be per-
mitted to appeal from any court
order sustaining demurrer.
Briefly touching on antitrust mat
ters, he urged appropriation of addi-
tional funds for enforcement. Pros
ecution Of any major antitrust case,
he estimated, costs the Government
approximately 100000.
MIR. Cummings also asked addi-
honal appropriations for the G-men.
He proposed that a special fund set
aside by Congress last June Is for
special needs of the Bureau of In
Eestigation be made permanent.
Arnold Il Left Trust Job.
The Attorney General left to
Thurman w. Arnold, former Yale
professor, who replaced Solicitor
General jackson as chief of the ad-
ministration's trust = busters last
March 81, the task of outlining the
departments policy toward mo.
nopolies. Mr.. Arnold used Is pages
IN the body of the report to discuss
ataM-trust matters and added 159-
page appendix"
Present antitrust laws do not
offer "a complete solution" he said
and the only alternative, If industry
fails to solve the problem of efficient
use Of modern industrial machinery
and organization, is centralized con-
troll. Neither in big or little in
dustry, he added, have the anti
trust laws prevented the arbitrary
b>-1ure and use of economic power
In private hands without public re-
s0onsibility."
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Three Die in Auto Mishup

MELBOURNE, Fla, Dec. 81 lP.-
Three women died and two other
persons were injured when their au-
tomobile plunged into a water-filled
ditch miles west of here last night
The dead, all of Orlando, included
Sister Augusta, mother superior of
st. Joseph's Convent; Sister Bert
man and Sister Mercedes.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Safest City Title
To Be Conferred
On Providence
Figures Show Only
Is Persons Killed
By Automobiles

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Dec. 81
.N.A.NA).-Providence is on the
eve of being proclaimed the safest
city in the United States-an honor
1t set out to win year ago when it
launched a determined campaign
to save lives on its highways.
The figures show that only 10
persons have been killed by auto
mobiles this year in this city of
more than 250,000 population, while
injuries have been reduced by more
than SO per cent. A year ago the
death toll for Providence was Al
and the number of injured totaled
more than 1900.
It was this record Of 1887, the
worst in the city's history, which
Jet off the spark that aroused public
interest in safety campaign.
George I. Miner, chairman of the
Governors Conference on Street
and Highway Safety. which acts in
an advisory capacity on safety
measures, conferred with the Provi-
dence police on a plan to halt high
way slaughter. Then came an edict
to motorists to cut their speed down
to Is miles an hour in the city.
Police set out to enforce that order.
Providence was the first city in the
Nation to set maximum speed
limit Of Is miles an hour-a move
(which has since been adopted by
scores of other cities. Investigation
OF accidents resulting in death re-
vealed that speed was usually the
contributing cause.
Police enlisted the aid of civic,
religious and fraternal organizations
In campaign to make Providence
safety conscious" An accident
Prevention Bureau was set up with
In the Police Department and re-
sponsibility for enforcing the rules
of the campaign was placed in the
hands of Supt. of Police John j.
Parker.
Hundreds Prosecuted.
Thousands of motorists were
halted in the first few weeks of the
drive; hundreds were prosecuted in
the courts and other hundreds Or
dered to appear for Lectures" at the
precinct stations. Motorists soon
learned that the police meant busi-
ness.
AT the outset of the drive there
We're complaints that the speed limit
was too low and the slowing up of
cars would create traffic hazard in
the congested business area. AS the
campaign progressed, however, and
the figures from day to day and week
to week showed sharp reductions in
accidents and deaths, the motoring
public swung into line with the po-
lice. Now fewer than per cent of
the automobile operators are classi-
fled by police as failing to cooperate.
: For nearly four months Providence
enjoyed holiday from DEATH as
the city set world record of Ill
consecutive days without an auto
mobile fatality on its highways. Be-
ginning on February and continu-
ing until May 20, not death was
recorded in motor vehicle accident.
A f1agpole was erected downtown
In June and at public ceremonies a
white flag was hoisted to the top of
the mast to focus public attention on
.Sefety. The white flag signified that
Vhe city had passed another day
without motor vehicle fatality.
On days when highway death oc-
ours; black flag is raised.
(Copyright 1888 BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Goetono MeroIu Wins
Final Divorce Decree
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 81
Gaetano Merola, Maestro of the San
Francisco Opera Co., obtained final
decree of divorce yesterday from
Rosa Merola on the charge, with
others, that her pet Pomeranian
came first, he second"
Other charges of cruelty stated
Mrs. Merola searched his pockets
after he went to bed and ordered
him around.
The Merolas were married In 1907
and separated in 1929.
Evening star., 1938-12-31
Something to Dream About

HARRISBURG, Pa, Dec. 81 [P.-
City Solicitor Paul G. Smith re-
ceived, too late to deposit in the bank,
a check covering money provided by
a city water improvement bond is
sue. Mr.. Smith took it home and
cached it under his pillow for the
night. The amount: $l,6O9,84O. 49,
Evening star., 1938-12-31

over the radio at 9 pm. The COM
mittee has arranged other broad
casts for its congressional leaders
next week.
Evening star., 1938-06-23
Mdx's Defeat Stuns Germany:
Fighters Actress Wife Weeps

The title had to remain in America.
That was the purpose of all the ma
neuvers against the German ..
And, therefore, Schmeling was not
allowed to climb into the ring until
the time when there was a chance
that Schmeling, two years older, no
longer was too great a danger I" =
1T was not, his opponent who was
TOO much for him. but artificially
erected, unfair barriers that wrenched
victory away"
The article concluded with a tribute
to the black-browed Uhlan as an
athlete whose sportsmanship and
hardness would set a high ideal for
Germany's youth.
No National Disaster"
TITS bitter but not a national dis
aster," said Der Angriff, Propaganda
Minister Joseph Paul Goebbel's news
paper.
Ihere is just as little ground today
as Yesterday for Germany to make
the fight racial or political question
as the other side did.
For two years Max Schmeling was
cheated of the right which he no
longer could take advantage of last
night. 1t is the privilege and strength
OF youth that it overruns age with its
strength"
Lokal Anzeiger, comfortingly assur-
ing schmeling that in losing he suf-
Tered the fate of "the greatest fighters
ana boxers in history" added:
The fight should be fought only
once, and to quibble over the results
-. would be neither wise nor sports
manlike."
The paper went on that Schmeling
was IN good physical condition for the
hight, but that was not enough to
stand off the onslaught of Louis al
most 10 years younger"
The fighters wife secluded herself in
ner Berlin home all day, as flowers and
kilograms poured in from friends
The maid said it was possible there
was bouquet or message from Reichs-
fuehrer Hitler, because he usually sent
such a remembrance in the past.
There was no indication Of the
Fuehrer's reaction to Schmeling's de-
feat, although it was said he followed
the brief dght elossly.
Evening star., 1938-06-23
Bandit Jailed after Tl,un,birg
Ride With Officer and Victim,

the second automobile started he
jumped back in.the one with fiat tires
and slowly made his way over q back
road.
Thinking, apparently. that he had
done good job in cooling" his TRAIL
the youth abandoned his car and
started to double back" Along came
machine and up went the bandits
thumb.
The car contained Town Sergt
George Bell and Mr.. Hough. The gas
station attendant recognized the youth
Immediately, police said. and he was
allowed to get in. The destination
was Leesburg-and the jail.
Sheriff E. S. Adrain of Loudoun
County said the youth would be ques-
toned in connection with recent hold
ups Of persons who had given hitch
mixers rides. The car used by the
bandit Is believed to have been taken
from Falls Church motorist.
Evening star., 1938-06-23
Jim CROW COUNT
CONvICTS WOMAN
Washington Resident Is Found
Guilty Of Refusing to Comply
With Virginia Law.
B; Staff Correspondent of The Star,

B; STAFF Correspondent of The Star
ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, Va, June 23-Mrs. Christine
Bryson. colored. of Washington. was
found guilty in Police Court here to-
day OF violating the Jim Grow" laws
providing for segregation of white and
colored passengers on common car
rlers. AfterWard members of the East
Arlington Citizens Association. a
colored organization. announced that
they would hold meeting to plan
an appeal.
The woman. who lives at 1929 Bell
street NE, was arrested on a warrant
charging her with refusing to ride
in the portion of a common carrier
provided for the colored race" 1t was
charged she had refused to move to
the rear seats of an Arlington-Fairfax
Auto-RailWay bus when told to do so
by ]. E. Spates. operator of the vehicle
She pleaded not guilty. but was
found guilty by Judge B. NJ Hedrick
after he had heard the testimony of
Mr.. Spates and of Charles A. Spates,
passenger in the bus at the time of
the accident. She was fined s5 and
COSTS
No appeal was noted in court, but
later w. r. Fleet, George Anderson
and George Vollin, all colored resi-
dents of the 700 block of South Lynn
street, Arlington, said they planned
to ask for special meeting of the
East Arlington Citizens group to ar
range for employment of an attorney
to file an appeal to the Circuit Court.
The law allows 10 days in which to
note an appeal
Evening star., 1938-06-23

Picture, if you can, the embarrass-
ment Of q young bandit who tried to
hitch-hike q ride after a hold-up in
nearby Virginia early today-only to
discover the persons he sought lift
from were policeman and the man
he had just held up. He got the
ride-to jail.
About o'clock, said James N.
Hough, attendant at the East End
filling station. Purcellville, the bandit,
later identified as 17-year-old
Vienna (Va.) youth, drove up, pro-
duced a revolver and made him turn
over about $40
Down the road a bit the bandit
stopped near a parked car in which a
man and woman were seated. To
avoid having his own car, said to have
been stolen, used in pursuit, he shot
holes in three Of the tires and then
made the couple get out Of their ma
chine. When he found he couldn't get
Evening star., 1938-06-23
STOCKS SWEPT UP
81 TO S. A SHARE
Ticker Behind Six Minutes
at Height Of Rally.
Shorts Cover.
Ey the Associated Press.

ky the ASSoclated freSS.
NEW YORK, June 23.-The bulls
had everything their own way again
today in the stock market, as prices
of leading issues advanced 81 to IS
share in the fourth consecutive day
Of IBID 'em up" optimism.
The demand for stocks was so heavy
that at one time, at the height of the
midday rally, the ticker tape was
six minutes behind
Shortly before the noon hour, the
rally started, after = slight decline in
early trading caused by cashing of
profits made the first three days of
the week. Once this was out of the
way, the upturn was touched off anew.
There was heavy demand for stocks
by those who were short" of the
market
Rails Prominent.
The tape at once went behind as
traders bid up the prices, particularly,
OF railroad stocks. motors, heavy in
dustrials, metals, chemicals and favor
ed specialties.
Three days Of reports of better busi-
ness outlook, an estimate of increased
carloadings for the week and another
increase in the price of lead and ad-
vances in rubber, copper and hide
futures, contributed to the more op-
timistic attitude Of traders.
Prominent in the advance were
Santa Fe, Union Pacific. Southern
Pacific, United States Steel, Chrysler,
American Telephone, International
Nickel. Du Pont, Allied Chemical g.
Dye, Union Carbide, Eastman Kodak
Johns Manville, General Motors.
Sears-Roebuck and Kennecott Cop
per.
Flash" System Used.
The exchange, last November. es-
tablished flash" system of quota
tions on its ticker to give an up-to-
the-minute report Of prices when the
tape fell more than five minutes be-
hind-but not until today was the
system used.
The four days of advance this week
have been one of the most active and
rapid rises in the market in several
years-carrying the Associated Press
average of 60 stocks up considerably
more than 10 per cent during the
week.
Evening star., 1938-06-23
SENATOR DAVIS HITS
RELIEF PANDERING'
Tells G. A. R. National Unity
Must Be Preserved as in
Civil War Days.

by tne Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Pa, June 23-The
72d annual convention of the Penn
sylvania G. A. r. broke camp today,
after hearing United States Senator
James j. Davis declare that national
unity must be preserved today as in
Civil War days"
Pennsylvania Republican Senator.
up for reelection in November, told
18 attending survivors of the Civil
War and affiliated organizations at
last nights campfire ceremony:
We have degenerated to the polit-
ical pandering of relief as was done in
the days of imperial Rome"
The Senator termed the national
administration "the most partisan
have ever known" and charged it
with using relief funds lin a wicked
exchange of votes for bread"
The veterans selected Bethlehem
for next years encampment and chose
c. H. William Ruhe, SO, of Pittsburgh,
State commander.
Evening star., 1938-06-23
F. c. c. WILL STUDY
RADIO IN POLITICS
Regulation Would Guide
Stations as to Time
Distribution.
By WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY.

Regulation of the distribution OF
radio time for political candidates will
be studied by the Federal Communica-
tions Commission, it was learned TO-
day
Chairman Frank r. McNinch said
he would lay the matter before the full
commission within few days, with
view to PRONUNCIATION Of rules as
guide to stations during the approach
ing campaign.
Although the Communications Act
provides that the commission shall
make such regulations, Chairman Nc
Ninch said the group had never taken
any action. The question is one of
the most delicate to confront the regu-
latory body.
1t was pointed out that the regula-
tions will require considerable study
and careful wording, as no matter
what line is drawn for the broadcast
ing stations to guide themselves. po-
litical repercussions are inescapable.
No Rules Yet Drafted.
No even any tentative rules have
been drawn up, but suggestion has
been made that the commission might
find it necessary to draw rules which
would assure all candidates desiring to
buy time an opportunity to get the
space.
A case was cited where a station
had offered time to a candidate, and
he had refused to take advantage of
the offer Subsequently. an opponent
entered the field and bought all of the
available time on the particular sta
ton. The first man complained Of
his inability to get time, whereupon
the station showed he had been offered
air space and declined. The candidate
countered by saying that at the time
the space was offered he did not have
any opposition.
1t is such cases that will require
careful study. Stations. it was pointed
out, have time to sell, and If they
cannot sell it to one person they must
oSlA w ooAiCAo ~ tAlSy dIC W ouAS4SC.
The question has been raised as to
whether station must keep political
time available, to be used whenever
candidate desires it to serve his own
ends, without any consideration of the
operation of the station as a business
concern
Equal Opportunity Required.
The statute says that if any Ii
censee permits legally qualified
candidate for public Office" to use his
station, he must afford equal oppor-
tunities to all other such candidates.
There also is proviso that the
licensee shall have no power of Gen.
sorship over the material broadcast.
However, the regulation permits
station owners to slide out Of the
political troubles, If desired, for the
statute further says that no obligation
is imposed upon him to allow the use
of his station by any candidate.
1t is probable that regulations may
be forthcoming in time to guide sta
tions on this matter before the air
speech campaign gets we'll under way
Evening star., 1938-06-23

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June 23.-Germany took
the news hard today that Joe Louis
fists had blasted Max Schmeling's s
comeback hopes in a little more than
two minutes.
Thousands of heavy-lidded Ger
mans went to bed after am, after
sitting up to hear a ringside radio
broadcast of the heavyweight cham
pionship fight that left them thun-
derstruck and unbeheving.
Those who did not sit up scarcely
believed what they say in the news
papers.
Wasn't it frightful, and in two
minutes?" the telephone operator
asked, putting through a call to
London.
She summed up Germanys reaction
in a nutshell.
Amy Ondra, movie actress-wife of
"Unser Make" broke into tears when
her secretary told her OF the first
round knockout.
She had been allowed to sleep while
maid waited up to hear the result.
Schmeling's friends said their only
comment was to echo what the Ger
man announcer said at the end of
his broadcast from New York:
I'VE sympathize with you, Max,
although you lost as a fair sportsman.
I'VE will show you on your return
that reports in foreign papers that
you would be thrown into Jail if you
lost are untrue"
The newspaper Zwoelf Uhr-Blatt
charged certain American business
men" should be blamed for Schme-
ling's defeat. 1t said they "hindered
the fight to the point where . only
miracle would enable Schmeling to
win"
Three opponents who stepped into
the ring against him this time" were
too much for Schmeling, conqueror
of Joe Louis in IL rounds two years
ago, the paper explained.
They were Louis, age and the
legend that they never come back"
Referring to the two years in which
a title chance was denied the German
former champion, the Newspaper COM
mented: