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Evening star., 1938-10-21
BATTLES FORECAST
NNEXT CONGRESS.
Labor Act, Social Security,
Farm Problem, Neutrality
Seen Issues.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Members of Congress are certain to
have some free-for-all legislative bat
ties next session. regardless of the re-
suits of the November election.
At least half dozen issues, already
slated for consideration probably will
develop vigorous debate and much po-
litical maneuvering. On some ques-
tions party lines may be split deeply.
A major argument among several
divergent interests is expected to de-
velop over suggested revision Of the
Wagner Labor Act.
Conflicting suggestions are apt to
come from the administration. anti
administration legislators, business
spokesmen, the American Federation
Of Labor and the Committee for In
dustrial Organization.
Similarly. numerous proposals to
change the Social Security Act ar.
anticipated Administration lieuten-
ants probably will try to hold any re-
vision within limits approved by the
Social Security Board
Involved in the issue will be efforts
to set up new and more liberal old
age pension system. The $30-every-
Thursday plan suggested in California
has had its counterpart in other State
campaigns with some candidates max
ing higher old-age pensions a key
plank in their platforms.
President Roosevelt has opposed the
California proposal, and has advocated
instead an orderly revision Of the
Federal social security program.
The perennial farm problem will
hold an important place on the con-
gressional agenda, with several groups
battling over proposals for a new
program.
Critics have called the existing Crop
Control Act failure Secretary WAL
lace has suggested a new "two-price"
program, under which the Government
would buy up surpluses and sell 4
portion of them to needy persons at
below market prices.
Another long debated issue will be
revived in various proposals to revamp
the neutrality law. There have been
suggestions that it be modified to per-
NIT arms shipments to Spain. Interest
will center on what changes, II any,
the administration may suggest.
Along with neutrality. Congress will
decide how much should be spent
for armaments. This question now Is
under study by Government defense
authorities and the administration
probably will have definite program
ready for the next session.
Government reorganization-wanted
BY the administration and pigeonholed
in the House last session-will be re-
submitted by administration heuten-
ants Mr.. Roosevelt recently has con-
ferred with aides regarding a possible
new reorganization measure, but he
has reached no conclusions on details.
Other issues likely to arouse con-
eressional controversy are railroad re-
lief legislation, tax revision, including
the question Of eliminating exemptions
on Government securities; amend
ments to wage-hour law and monopoly
control.
Evening star., 1938-10-21
MRS. LONGWORTH GIVES
FIRST PLATFORM TALK
Il Believe in America Topic OF
Her Address at Akron on
Lecture Tour.

Lecture Tour.
2, the Associated Press.
AKRON, Ohio. Oct. 2l.-Mrs. Alice
Roosevelt Longworth Of Cincinnati and
washington made the first platform
speech Of her career last night.
Princess Alice" opened a lecture
course of the Women's City Club OF
Akron with an address on Il Believe
in America"
Il have been on scores and scores OF
platforms and have attended hum
dreds of flag-raising and cornerstone
LAYING ceremonies, but tonight I am
making my first public talk" she said.
Her talk did not touch on partisan
politics, but brought out that Govern
nnent" is being referred to more and
more in the United States in the old
world sense, as different from the
American word Administration"
We have popular government
based on democratic principles and
republican institutions" she said. Il
do not believe that we Americans have
the remotest desire to substitute rulers
for the individuals who are selected
to administer the laws made by the
representatives of the people"
On her lecture tour Mrs. Longworth
has engagements scheduled in Cleve-
land. Detroit, Syracuse, N. Y, Toledo,
Ohio. and Chicago.
The Washington times., 1938-03-03
D. C. SUFFRAGE
RALLY PUSHED

With $50 delegates already ap-
pointed and a number of local
organizations preparing to send
delegations, officials of the Dis
trict of Columbia Suffrage Asso.
ciation last night met to make
final plans for a citywide confer.
ence on local suffrage to be held
March 18.
Wilbur S. Finch, president OF
the association, referring to re
cent statement of President RooSe-
velt relative to a pending District
of Columbia suffrage bill, declared
"the first concrete step toward con
certed action will be a 100 pei
cent attendance at the March IL
conference.
Finch urged all organized groups
in the city to send delegates to the
conference, stating, present con
gressional trends are more favor
able than ever before.
Arthur Clarendon Smith il
chairman of the conference ar
rangements committee and re
quests for delegation credentials
should be sent to him. Campaign
headquarters for the local suffrage
drive have been set up in the
ANNAPOLIS Hotel.
The Washington times., 1938-03-03
Costly Error
DriUer in Police Car
Crash Fined $3.50

HYATTSVILLE, Md, March 8,
George H. Lloyd, 57-year-old Wash
ington taxi driver, who made the
mistake of colliding with a Prince
Georges county police car, was
fined $3.50 by Judge George B.
Merrick in Hyattsville police court
yesterday.
Lloyd pleaded not guilty to the
charges of reckless driving and
driving under the influence OF
liquor, and called a number OF
witnesses to testify to his reputa-
tion for sobriety. Judge Merrick
suspended sentence on the drunken
driving charge, which accounted
for 500 Of the total fine, on con-
dition that the defendant pay for
damages to both machines.
The accident occurred on Feb.
ruary 7, on Rhode Island Avenue
in HyattSville. The taxicab, con-
tanning two women and a man
as passengers, crashed into the
rear Of the police car, according
to testimony Of its occupants, Po-
liceman r. c. Sines. G. w. Gray
and Jailer George Wiseman. Gray,
Wiseman and one of the women
taxi passengers sustained minor
injuries.
The Washington times., 1938-03-03
Spats, Topper
Will Bedeck
Roosevelt

An international crisis will be
averted at the White House today
when the President buckles on a
pair Of spats.
For weeks l'affaire spatS has
furrowed the brows Of State De
partment officials and protocol
experts have awakened screaming
after nightmares in which they
saw the President, attired in an
ordinary business suit, receiving
Rene st. Quentin, new French
Ambassador.
The President, who recently re-
ceived the new Nicaraguan Minis
ter in business clothes, had limited
he would like to dispense with
high hats and Spats.
Diplomats told the President
that such things just couldn't be
done and hinted at grave interna.
tional complications which might
arise If this Nations Chief Execu,
tive went spatleSS.
So today the President will cal
for his spatS and top hat and all
will be peace in the world.
The Washington times., 1938-03-03
MANNEQU|N hit.
AS SOUVENIR"
in W|FE'S SUIT.

NEW YORK, March 8 G.N.SO.
A pretty blonde mannequin is no
fit souvenir for a married banker
to bring back from a jaunt to
London, Mrs. Ann Kirkpatrick
Hamilton protested in a separa-
tion action on file today in Su-
preme court.
When Sportsman-Financier Will
liam H. Hamilton returned from
England on their honeymoon trip
four years ago he brought with
them a battered 1919 model taxi
cab as a love memento.
But last spring he made the
same journey alone, his wife
charged, and picked up young
woman mannequin.
Mrs. Hamilton's plea for $40, 900
a year alimony and $4,000 coun-
sci fees will be heard by Justice
Shientag tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1938-03-03
"L" PILLAR MARKED
3 Men Hunted
In KidnGp Case

ELIZABETH, N. j., March 3
G.N.SO here today broad
cast an eight-State alarm for three
men believed to have kidnapped a
boy in a dark sedan.
Thomas Van Blarcon told police
as he was standing on street
corner last night the sedan, bear
ing a New York license plate, sped
by him and a sandy-haired boy
about IL shouted:
I'm Jackie: get the police!"
Blarcon said three men in the
car then hit the boy in the face
and pulled him away from the
window,
The Washington times., 1938-03-03
Santa Claus Does
His Belated Job

HARTFORD, Conn.,, March 3
Q.N.SD Santa Claus beat a
hasty retreat out of this city to-
day after returning to take care
of some unfinished business left
over from last Christmas.
It seems that several hundred
pieces of Yule mail had been dis
covered in the basement of a drug
store, used by the post office as a
sub-station. The drug store owner
told authorities the mail had been
misplaced during the Christmas
rush,
The Washington times., 1938-03-03
White House Cops
Win Pistol Shoot

The men who guard the Presi-
dent are good pistol shots. White
House police piStoleers won
match from the Metropolitan
Police, Lorton reformatory guards
and amateurs of the Washington
Pistol Club at the police range
last night.
The White House team scored
1882 out of 1,500. It is composed
of Capt. R. G. Ford, R. P. Hallion,
who was high with 283 out of
300; e. L. Warden, j. j. Cash and
H. w. Francis.
The Washington times., 1938-03-03
STORIES CLASH
ION KIDNAP NOTE
i'm Levine CASE

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y, March
2 Q.N.SO.-Reports and denials
of a new ransom note were the
most important developments to-
day in the search for 12year-old
Peter Levine, missing since Thurs
day.
Dear Dad: Please give these
men the money. have a bad
cold. Peter"
That was how the new ransom
note repeatedly read but neither
Ra Dbl Abraham Nowak or Evelyn
Arkin, his secretary, who were re-
ported to have turned it over to
G-men, would admit any knowl-
edge of it.
The report was that the rabbi
received a telephone call and was
told in a cultural, foreign accent,
where to look for the ransom note,
that he went to the spot with his
secretary and found the note in
a vacant lot next to the Syrla-
gogue.
His wife last night reported him
missing and police, struck by the
fact he had disappeared on the
same day as young Peter, notified
New Rochelle police, who sent out
the alarm.
AID is CHECKED
Police we're trying to find the
person who inserted an ad in a
New Rochelle paper which read:
Teacher would like transporta-
ton with party going to Bronx;
share expense" A newspaper box
number was the only address.
Police were interested in the ad
because New Rochelle is within
the 10-cent bus fare limit of the
Bronx and also because a location
in the Bronx was reported to have
been set by the ransom note
writer for delivery of the ransom,
believed to be 100000.
"L" PILLAR MARKED
In the Bronx, police claimed to
have found an elevated pillar bear
ing yellow crayon marks at the
spot where the kidnap ransom
note instructed that the ransom
be left. The note was supposed
to have indicated that a pillar
bearing a chalk mark marked the
spot.
Through all the confusion and
mystery attending the search,
Murray Levine, father of the miss
ing boy, was silent.
The Washington times., 1938-03-03

"Visiting the Boss" Another In a
Series of Awful WeekEnds. Sketches
in Full Color by the Brilliant Satirist
Fish, Famous for Her Shrewd ObserVa-
tiOns in Words and Pictures. See
Them In The American Weekly. with
SnndaY'a WaShingtOn Herald. Times.
The Washington times., 1938-03-03
Pens His Epitaph,
Dies Under Train

NEWARK, N. j., March 8
GN.SD.-"I sleep. Life is just a
joke"
Those seven little words,
scrawled on the border of news
paper found near his body, today
was the self-written epitaph of a
well-dresSed man found dead on
the railroad tracks here. Through
a card in his pocket he was iden-
titled tentatively as Thomas Rose,
of New Orleans.
The Washington times., 1938-03-03
WOULD ABANDON LINE

H. D. Pollard, receiver Of the
Central Of Georgia railroad, today
asked the ICC for authority to
abandon 40 miles Of line between
Meter and Brewton, Ca, Pollard
said this part of the Georgia
Central has been operating at q
loss for sometime.
The Washington times., 1938-03-03
UNION CAMPAIGN

PITTS RGH, March 3
G.N.SO.-Officials of the Steel
Workers organizing committee
met here today to map plans for
a unionization campaign in the
farm equipment industry. Sew
eral CIO contracts already have
been signed with farm equipment
firms.
The Washington times., 1938-03-03
ABSENTEE BALLOTS

Applications for absentee bal
lots for the Illinois primary on
April IL are being received at the
Democratic Absentee Voters Blu
reau, 1406 G st. N. W., where free
notary service and information
is available.
The Washington times., 1938-03-03

car.
He was 27-year-old Sayyid Said
Bin Taimur Bin Faisal, sultan OF
Muscat and Oman on the shores
of the Arabian Sea, and he re.
ceived the same homage this coun-
try would pay the King of England
If he visited Washington.
ARMY BAND PLAYS
As the Sultan walked toward
the presidential entrance Of the
station with Secretary of State
Hull, resplendent in top hat and
morning clothes towering at his
side, the 83-piece United States
Army Band struck up the stirring
national anthem of Muscat and
Oman. Then it played the Star
Spangled Banner.
Outside the station war.
strength troop of cavalry stood
at attention waiting to escort the
distinguished visitor at an Smile
an-hour trot up Pennsylvania Ave
nue. to the Willard Hotel.
The Sultan will have luncheon
at the Write House with President
Roosevelt and this evening will be
the guest of honor at a State din.
ner arranged by Secretary Hull at
the Carlton Hotel.
ON COMMITTEE
With Secretary Hull on the re.
ception committee were Gen
Malin Craig, chief of staff of the
U. S. Army; Admiral w. D. Leahy,
chief of naval operations; Mai
Gen. Thomas Holcomb, command
ant of the Marine Corps; Marvin
H. Mcintyre, secretary to the
President; Undersecretary of State
Sumner WelleS, Wallace Murray.
and Paul Alling, chief and assist.
ant chief, respectively, of the Di.
vision Of Near Eastern Affairs;
Brig. Gen. Dana T. Merrill, gen.
|eral of the Washington Provisional
Brigade; George T. Summerlin
chief of protocol; Capt. w. K. Kill
patrick, the Sultan's American
naval aide; Col. John A. Crane
his American military aide.
SAILORS IN GUARD
The Sultan arrived at Union
Station at 1880 a. M, but remained
on his car until the State Depart.
ment sent word it was ready to
receive him. A double line of
sailors was drawn up from the
train shed to the waiting diplo
matte cars.
When the Sultan alighted with
H. B. Brader, his aide.de-camp
and A. M. Zawawi, his secretary
the most colorful diplomatic
show the State Department has
put on since the Governor Gen
eral of Canada visited here several
months ago began to unfold be
fore approximately 1000 specta
tors.
MONARCH'S SALUTE
A 21-gun salute, accorded only
the President or a reigning mon
arch, will be fired at Fort Myel
tomorrow when the Sultan arrives
On the post to be guest of honor
at the Friday exhibition drill in
the Riding Hall.
The Sultan will be met at the
gates by quadron of the Third
Cavalry and escorted to the home
of the commanding officer, Col
Jonathan M. Wainwright, where
he will be entertained at luncheon
Among the guests will be the
British Ambassador and the AS
sistant Secretary of State, George
MeSSerSmith.
All -
The Washington times., 1938-03-03
Pomp and Splendor
Mark Greeting for
Sultan Visiting u. S.
Secretary Hull GreetS Eastern Ruler;
Army Band in Station Pageant

An the pomp and circumstance at the command OF the
United States Government displayed in Union Station
today when small dusky wearing blue, red and gold
turban and eyedazzng scimiter aghted from private
Evening star., 1938-04-10

News of the Phatec World Its Interest and the
Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings.

Cleveland on the 22c. In its present
form the complete list now Is: Nc.
Franklin; 1c, Washington; 1'c, Mar
tina Washington; &c, John Adams;
&c. Jefferson; 4c, Madison; 4L2c,
White House; SC. Monroe; &c, John
Quincy Adams; 7c, jackson; &c, Van
Buren,; &c, William Eenry Harrison;
10c. Tyler; lie, Polk; 12c, Taylor; l3c.
Fillmore: 14c, Pierce; 15c, Buchanan:
16c. Lincoln: TIC, johnson; 1sc,
Grant; l9c. Hayes; zoe, GARFIELD: 2lc.
Arthur: 22c, Cleveland: 24c, Benja-
min Harrison; Csc, Mckinley: soc,
Theodore Roosevelt; soc, Taft; 81.
Wilson; 81. Harding, and IS. Coolidge.
Further changes may be authorized
at any moment. The promoters Of
the series had five years to decide
what they wanted, but already have
changed their plans at least twice.
Plans now under consideration by
Post Offlce Department officials suggest
that no less than 40 new stamps will
be produced before December 3l-ap-
proximately one a week for the re-
mainder OF the calendar year.
Inc Delaware commemorative for
the tercentenary of Swedish settle
ment in America. says Thomas H.
Speer in Stamps Magazine, will be re-
leased at Wilmington June q.
President Roosevelt is making no
secret OF his disapproval Of the minia-
ture sheet mania. It may be taken for
Evening star., 1938-04-10
NEWS OF THE MOTORING WORLD
New Parking Restrictions Desirable
Boulevard Arteries Discussed-Maryland Problems.

especially applicable to Washington
with its many broad avenues. It might
relieve our great 4:30 downtown con-
gestion when all cars are crowding in
tersections to get away and out into
the open.
Well, unfortunately the opinion Of
many motorists, not necessarily the
majority, bat at least sizeable minor
ity, will go for naught, according to
officials Of the Traffic Department, who
frown on the suggestions.
They admit the system has worked
out in other cities, but state it would
not here. They state that it was
tried on Sixteenth street, and that 1t
caused the jamming up Of cross-town
traffic. Also, they point to the fact
that they don't want traffic speeded up
so fast. In other words, while they
want to relieve congestion and speed
the movement Of vehicles in any rea-
sonable way, they feel that it is not
desirable to encourage more than %
miles per hour in the city proper.
So there it is. One can still discuss
the matter and maybe at later date
ideas will change. Time only can tell.
Maryland had its difficulties too.
What seems to be a justltiabe COM
plant comes to hand, but its final So
luton must be based on the best in
terests of safety After all, that is the
primary purpose of this column. But
in fairness We find that at the monthly
meeting of the Baltimore Washington
Boulevard Association at Laurel last
week, it was bitterly complained that
last Sunday State traffic officers
shunted traffic returning from Wash
ington off the Baltimore washington
Boulevard at the Peace Monument to
the Crane highway and at Hyattsville
to Columbia pike while the food pro-
vided for the expected unusually heavy
business at the eating places along the
boulevard spoiled and that at the in
frequent hostelries on the Crane high
way and Columbia pike were soon ex-
hausted as no provision had been made
for such heavy traffic.
Complainers were in no mood for
oS4Hl'oi ic1iiS VI DdiiuSi anu liIc us
cussion almost led to fisticuffs as 1t
switched to pro and con debate on
the subject of limiting parking along
the boulevard at Laurel.
All agreed, however that instead
OF the State forces shunting traffic
of the main artery in order to avoid
congestion, the State should widen
and improve this boulevard to hold
the traffic, and if the vehemence and
heat displayed could be translated
into action there is no doubt that
the work of widening the boulevard
would soon start.
The objectives of this Baltimore
Washington Boulevard Association are
to have the shoulders of this boulevard
paved to make it a 60-foot highway,
to have the present pavement resur-
faced and have the road lighted with
modern lighting, probably like that
used just south of Richmond.
Well. this column also stands for
road widening and improving where
ever needed. The above association is
headed by w. E. Simpson, its presi-
dent.
Now for automotive trade news.
One finds the following for last weeks
manufacturing developments
Attaining its highest point since
January %, car and truck production
Evening star., 1938-04-10
Autornotive Briefs

Fifty sales executives of Shell Unior
Oil Corp. arrived in Washington last
week to attend school on petroleum
production and manufacture being
conducted here by DR.. G. P. Koch,
director, at the Congressional Coun-
try Club.
Included among the men selected
to go back to school," most Of them
in their late 30s and 40s, are six ex-
ecutives of the Shell head Office mar
keting staff. The rest Of the class
includes sales managers and area
managers from New Jersey. Pennsyl-
vania, Baltimore. Washington, Vir-
ginia and the Carolinas
All of the so men have moved into
the Congressional Country Club and
will stay there during the entire three
weeks period. Arrangements for the
accommodations of the visiting stu
dents were handled by D. Russell
Myers. Washington area manager,
who is one of the sales executives
attending the current session.
Among the variety of subjects In
cluded in the three weeks course s-e
the manufacture of petroleum and its
products, petroleum geology and pro-
duction, refining and practical indus
trial application of lubricants and
other petroleum products.
Evening star., 1938-04-10

rose sharply to 62,345 units the cur
rent week, an increase Of approxi-
mately 20 per cent over the previous
weeks total Of 52,753 units, according
to Automotive Daily News midweek
survey OF the industry.
The sharp increase for the current
week, ending April 9, is the first def
mite indication OF the long-awaited
spring upturn, according to the trade
newspaper, and is expected to continue
Tor some time, providing the retail
car demand continues the upward
trend noted In the past month. Field
stocks have been reduced, in most
cases, to a point necessitating in
creased factory operations.
Excluding the week ending January
%, when Ford was still supplying
dealer stocks after a slow new-model
start and thereby raising that weeks
output to around $4,000 units. the cur
rent weeks production would be the
highest in 1898.
For the most part, production was
speeded right down the line for the
current week, ending April 8. the most
notable gains being registered by Ford
Buick, Oldsmobile and Studebaker.
Ford, which had been having
breather for some time so as not to
overstock dealers, bumped operations
this week to around $4,000 units on
five days, contrasted with a revised
total of 5000 units last week and
$4,000 in the comparable period Of last
year. Coupled with Lincoln's esti-
mated 525 vehicles, the Ford group
total is placed at 15,525 units cur
rently.
Buick went on a five-day schedule
at its main plant in Flint this week
and plans to turn out about 5000
jobs, compared with 1857 last week
on three days Oldsmobile. which
worked only about one day last week,
increased operations to three days this
week, projecting 1900 assemblies, as
against only $40 last week. Combined
with Chevrolet's $4,000, Pontiac's
1850 and Cadillac-La Sales 500 es-
Inmates, the General Motors divisions
should account for 1850 units cur
rently, compared with 1851 last
week and 1896 last year.
Chrysler divisions, which worked an
extra day last week, figure to go along
on the same basis this week, with
l4,700 units carded for the week.
OF this total. Plymouth expects around
$500 jobs, Dodge about 5,400, Chrysler
1,500 and De Soto 1900.
With 1920 vehicles scheduled for
the current week, Studebaker's output
will about double the previous weeks
assemblies of 602. Hudson, continuing
its gradual advance. has 1925 Jobs
carded for the week, while Packard
maintains its 1,200-a-week pace to
lead the independent producers. WHY'S
takes fourth place among the inde-
pendents, with 300 cars projected, fol-
lowed by Nash's $50, Graham's 32S
and Bantam's $50. Graham. which
will get in only four days this week
plans to bump operations gradually.
The miscellaneous group. according to
A. D. N. estimates, figure to account
for 5,400 units this week.