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Evening star., 1938-01-22
ROOSEVELT ADDS
Z REAR ADM|RALS
Rossiter and Smith Are Ap-
proved on Advice of
Naval Corps Board.

President Roosevelt has approved
recommendation of Acting Admiral
Perceval Sherer Rossiter and Capt.
Harold Wellington Smith by the Navy
Medical Corps Selection Board for the
permanent rank of rear admiral the
Navy Department announced today.
Admiral Rossiter had the permanent
rank of captain and was a temporary
rear admiral by reason of his being
surgeon general Of the Navy. Capt.
Smith has been in command of the
Naval Medical School here since 1894.
Admiral Rossiter was born In
Sheperdstown, w. Va, in 1874 and
received his medical degree from the
University of Maryland in 1895. He
served with the United States Army
during the Spanish American War and
was appointed an assistant surgeon in
the Navy from Maryland in 1903 He
is the sixth surgeon general of the
Navy to come from Maryland.
During the World War, he served
first as senior medical officer at the
naval training station. Yerba Buena
Island. San Francisco Bay, and later
on the staff of the commander OF the
Naval Transport Service.
He was appointed surgeon-general
in March. 1888. and was re-appointed
in March. 1887, because of his IA
miliarity with the new naval hospital
project. The precedent not to re-
appoint bureau chiefs in the Navy was
waived, as he is needed to direct in
itial stages Of the building of the
new institution, naval officials said
today. He will not be continued in
Office after he reaches the statutory
retirement age on November 80, 1898,
they said.
Capt. Smith was born in Boston,
May 80, 1873, and graduated from
Harvard Medical College in 1901 He
was appointed an assistant surgeon
in the Navy Medical Corp in 1904 and
was selected captain in 1925.
He has seen service in Washington
three times, from 1921 to 1923, in
charge of the Division of Planning
and Publications. Bureau Of Medicine
& Surgery. and since 1884 as COM
manding oflcer of the Naval Medical
School.
During the World War. Capt. Smith
was senior medical officer aboard the
hospital ship U. S. S. Mercy.
Evening star., 1938-01-22

By the Associated Press.
KINGSTON. Jamaica, Jan. 22.-
Advices received here yesterday an
nounced the death of Prof. William
Henry Pickering, 80, Harvard Univer-
sity astronomer and author of pu-
merous astronomical works, at Mande-
vile, Jamaica, last Sunday. His fu-
neral was held Monday.
Prof. Pickering, graduate OF
Massachusetts, Institute of Technology,
established an astronomical station for
the Harvard Observatory at Mande-
vile in 1900.
He re-established it in 1911 and
converted it into private observatory
in 1925.
Upon becoming connected with the
Harvard Observatory soon after his
graduation from M. I. T. in 1879,
Prof. Pickering led number OF ex-
petitions to observe eclipses and
others to make observations of the
moon.
Evening star., 1938-01-22
Unemployment
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come who ordinarily never use new
houses. He listed eight specific argu-
ments why We should not expect specu-
lative housing and real estate booms
as in the past.
Saying that industrial expansion is
most essential to more home building,
MIR. Holden named the electric power
industry as best source of potential
expansion.
Il am not competent to pass on
the merits of the matters TODAY in
dispute between the privately-owned
utilities and the Federal administra-
tion, but I am convinced that the
country needs more and cheaper elec-
tricity and, above all else, it needs an
industrial expansion program" Mr..
Holden added.
Rental Housing Field Best.
The building statistician testified
that rental housing seems the best
field for undermining home building to
a point of becoming mass production
industry.
Commenting on Government actiy.
tiles in encouraging housing, Mr.. Hol.
den cautioned:
1T has not yet put these agencies
together into a well co-ordinated sys-
tenn and worked out the comprehensive
national plan for long-term credits
that will reduce our interest rates low
enough to provide the mass market
which is essential for construction in
dustry progress and for raising the
housing standards of the American
people.
Il am convinced that low rates for
electric power and low rates for long.
term money will do more toward reali-
zation of enlarged national income and
the more abundant life than any other
fundamental things I can name to you
today.
'Os see it. there is no crisis at this
time in the construction industry, no
emergency in the housing program.
AS for this current year, / do not
anticipate any very considerable gains
in construction volume.
Evening star., 1938-01-22

Andrew r. Bird, jr., son of the Rev.
and Mrs. A. r. Bird Of the Church Of
the Pilgrims, has the distinction Of
winning . fellowship named for his
grandfather, the late DR.. Walter D.
Moore, at Union Theological Seminary,
Richmond. Va.
Young Bird, a grandnephew by sew
eral generations of George Washing
ton, Is thus entitled to . year Of study
abroad, probably at the University Of
Edinburgh, Scotland.
The fellowship is one OF the semi
nary's highest scholastic honors. DR..
Moore was one-time president Of the
institution.
MIR. Bird was graduated from West
ern' High School in 1925 and later
attended Davidson College. After five
years of work in an uncle's bank, he
entered the seminary in 1885. Shortly
afterward he was awarded . Latta
scholarship for outstanding scholar
ship.
Evening star., 1938-01-22
.bURLEW QU|zzED
ON CLERKS
Refuses to Accept Respon.
sjbility for Retention of
Man in Question,

Ebert K Burlew, whose nomination
as First Assistant Secretary of the
Interior Is being considered by the
Senate Public Lands Committee. told
the committee today he would not
accept responsibility for retention in
the National Park Service OF q Yellow
stone National Park disbursing clerk
whose accounts had been found to be
$795 short.
1t was brought out at the hearing
that the clerk was transferred, without
Mr.. Burlew's knowledge, to the Wash.
ington office of the Park Service, where
he signed five Of the vouchers involved
in the $4,000 Stitely fraudulent pay
roll case
Mr.. Burlew said that while he op-
posed any move to promote the clerk,
and, as matter of fact, inquired of
the Park Service as to why the man
should not be dismissed, investigators
reported they were unable to show the
clerk was guilty of deliberate fraud
IN either the Yellowstone shortage or
in connection with the later Stitely
defalcations.
Pittman Cites Records.
Senator Pittman. Democrat, Of Ne.
vada declared, however, that the rec.
ORD OF the case. in his opinion. shows
conclusively the clerk sis either to-
tally incompetent or was guilty of
withholding funds"
Mr. BurleW said emphatically that
ne must refuse to accept responsible
lty'' for the retention in the service
OF the involved employe and pointed
out that as soon as he discovered the
clerk had been placed in a position
TO certify pay roll vouchers in Wash
lngton he Immediately ordered him
removed from that post.
I have been a stopgap all along In
this case" Mr.. Burlew told the com.
mittee. There was no reason. how.
ever, to ruin the man in view OF the
TACT that the investigators. after a
three-month inquiry, were unable to
pin any guilt on him. We don't try
70 ruin people in our department., and
refuse to be party to it."
Absolved in StiteIy Case.
The witness said investigators had
checked thoroughly to determine If the
clerk was In any way culpable in the
Stitely matter and that they had found
MIN IN no way responsible.
Senator Pittman disclosed that the
clerk, on being held adminstratiyelv
responsible for the s795 shortage in
his accounts, paid the Government
that amount in reimbursement of the
loss. Some time later, about Novem.
Der. 1896, the Park Service trans
ferred the clerk to Washington and
made him acting chief of the Auditing
Section.
When I found out, about six
months later" Mr.. Burlew testified.
that this man had been brought
here, I called Mr.. Cammerer and told
him what thought of it. disap-
proved his occupying such q re-
sponsible Office"
Senator Pittman criticized Mr.. Bur-
lew for even permitting the clerk to
remain in the service, and, in a live
ly exchange with the witness, COM
mented that Mr.. Burlew was i'm
peaching his own testimony. Senator
O'Mahoney, Democrat, of Wyoming
promptly protested to Senator Pitt
man against this remark and said:
Lets be fair about this. He hasn't
impeached himself at all. I think he
is demonstrating to an extraordinary
degree his fitness for the rositio,, IN
which he has been nominated"
Evening star., 1938-01-22

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Western Petroleum Refiners Associa-
tion.
Edward B. Reeser. Tulsa, Okla,
president, Barnsdall Refining Co.
H. E. Brandt, New York, vice presi-
dent. Cities Service Export Oil CO.
(former subsidiary of Cities Service
Coz.
Harry D. Frueauff, Tulsa, vice presi-
dent, Cities Service Export Oil Co.
ialso vice president, Empire Oil & Re-
f1nlng Coz.
O. ]. Tuttle, Tulsa, Okla, tank car
sales manager, Empire Oil & Refining
90.
Dan Moran, Ponca City, Okla,
president, Continental Oil Co.
. Harry ]. Kennedy. Ponca City, vice
president, Continental Oil Co.
Robert w. Mcdowell, Tulsa, Okla,
vice president in charge of sales, Mid
Continent Petroleum Corp.
Henry NJ Dawes, Chicago, presi-
dent, Pure Oil Co.
c. B. Watson, Chicago, vice presi-
dent, Pure Oil Co.
r. H. McGelroy, jr, Chicago, tank
car sales manager, Pure Oil Co.
w. G. Skelly, Tulsa, Okla, presi-
dent, Skelly Oil Co.
Edward j. Bullock, Chicago, vice
rvesident in charge of purchasing,
Standard Oil Co. of Indiana.
Edward L. Shea, New York, presi-
dent, Tide Water Associated Oil Co.
,(the company has been acuuitted).
Noel Robinson, New York, vice pres
ident, Tide Water Associated Oil Co.
j. w. Warner, Tulsa, Okla, Tide
Water Associated Co.
c. E. Arnott. New York, vice presi-
dent, Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.
H, T. Ashton, St. Louis manager,
Lubrite division, Socony- Vacuum OH
Co.
, c. L. Jones, New York, vice presi-
dent, Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.
Bryan S. Reid, Chicago, general
manager, Chicago division, Socony-
Vacuum Oil Co.
A. G. Mcguire, Milwaukee, chairman
of the board, Wadhams Oil Co. (sub-
diary of Socony-Vacuum).
j. w. Carnes, New York, vice presi-
cent. Sinclair Refining Co.
Frank Phillips, Bartlesville, Okla,
president Phillips Petroleum Co.
A. M. Hughes, Bartlesville, Okla,
sales manager, Phillips Petroleum Co.
Alexander Fraser, st. Louis, presi-
dent Shell Petroleum Co.
P. E. Lakin, st. Louis, general man
ager of sales, Shell Petroleum Corp.
Evening star., 1938-01-22
Furuseth
(Continued From First Page.

official the "old Viking" had fought
Communism. Recently he faced re-
bellion from the irlsurgent younger
leaders in the union, but he was re-
elected to the presidency of the
union-which he had headed since
1892.
Commenting ON Mr.. Furuseth's
death, Secretary Perkins said:
He was one Of the outstanding
labor leaders In the United States.
During his long and useful career he
was invaluable for his service in i'm
proving working conditions of the
men who 60 to sea-"
The Seamen's Union announced that
Mr.. Furuseth's body will lie in state In
the Labor Department auditorium
from noon to 3 pm. tomorrow.
Senator La Toilette will deliver q
eulogy at funeral services Monday at
2 pm. at Lees undertaking establish
ment, Fourth street and Massachusetts,
avenue NE.
The remains will be cremated and
the ashes strewn in the middle of the
Atlantic. in accordance with the last
wishes Of the "Old Wiring"
Evening star., 1938-01-22
SUNDAY UNION SERVICE

FAIRFAX, Va, Jan. ~ (speciaD -
The nth Sunday union service Of
Southern Methodist Episcopal churches
IN Fairfax circuit will be held at Fair
fax Church Sunday morning at 11:15
o'clock. it has been announced by the
Rev. n. Carter Maxwell, pastor. spe.
cial music will be provided by the
vested choir Of Andrew Chapel Church
and the pastor will speak on the sub
1ect The Adventure of Living in
Crete"
Evening star., 1938-01-22
JEWS FOES PLAN
WORLD CONGRESS
Rumanian Cabinet Minister
Intends to Invite United
States.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
JeUs, being derived OF mann
rights OF citizens in Run,anid, are
? considering mass removal to more
hospttdble regions OF ,Dorld. Plans
advanced earlier this weex for er-
odus OF Jews to Merico, Brazil,
Palestine and other countries uith
no population problem. Foreign
consnls in Bucharest approached,
out efforts complicated by refusal
OF Rumania to permit departing
Jews to take their capital with
them.
BY the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, Jan. 22.-Prof. Alex
ander Cuza, 82-year-old minister
Without portfolio in the Nationalist
government, today started prepara-
tlons for world anti-semitic congress.
The energetic, white -whiskered min
lister who said he had been fighting
Jews for more than half a century,"
has been one of the leading figures in
the anti-semitic program of Premier
OctaVlan Goga.
Jewish Leaders Meet.
As CuZa disclosed his plans. up-
wards OF 1000 Jewish leaders from
all parts of Rumania gathered to de-
bate an appeal to Britain for refuge
in Palestine.
"A special hearty invitation to par
ticipate in such congress will be
extended the United States where. ac-
cording to my informatiin, the Jew
kh problem is becoming acute" Cuza
said.
Police were in readiness to prevent
disorders in the capital, become a
hotbed Of anu-Semitic fervor with
advent of the new government Of
nationalist Octavian Goga.
Program is Uncertain.
1t was uncertain what would be the
exact program of the three-day as
sembly- of the Rumanian Union of
Iionists, but there was general belief
It would include a petition to the
British government for extraordinary
privileges for Jews seeking to enter
Palestine. Britain governs the Holy
Land under League of Nations man
Gate.
Little likelihood that migration
nnally would solve Jewish problems
<Was foreseen by Theodor Fischer,
Jewish lawyer and president of the
Jewish parties of Rumania.
Our hope is to revive tolerance
here" he said.
Meanwhile, an International de-
velopnlent was attributed to the anti
Semitic and nationalist policies of
Goga's regime. M. w. Ostrowski, So
Wet Minister, took formal leave of
King Carol yesterday and disclosed he
would have no successor.
Evening star., 1938-01-22
Business
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than at the beginning because of an
apparent effort of many manufac-
turers to spread the work now avail
able
Another symptom was said to be the
steadiness and occasional increases in
some raw material prices. The whole
sale commodity price index is now
higher than it was month ago.
Belated figures showed retail trade
in December held up to 1886 levels.
These views of men on whom the
President relies for advice about busi-
ness prospects brought speculation that
the Chief Executive has in mind
principally long-range problems rather
than the immediate economic situa-
ton in his conferences with business,
labor and agriculture representatives.
Roosevelt Launches Experiment.
In asking the automobile industry
yesterday to work out program for
regularizing production and sales. Mr..
Roosevelt began an experiment which
he has indicated he hopes to extend
to busines; generally and not merely
as temporary" measure.
At the suggestion of the Chief Ex-
ecutive, leading figures in the motor
industry undertook to eliminate by
agreements bad practices in produc-
ton and distribution.
They sought particularly to find
coroo NOV fo orA u,ho% fho Drae;Io~<
called high pressure" selling of auto
mobiles on an installment basis. Con-
ferring with them were executives of
the big automobile finance companies.
Those who met with the President
yesterday were Edsel Ford, president
of the Ford Motor Co.; William S.
Knudsen president Of General Motors
Corp; K. T. Keller, president, and
B. E. Hutchinson, vice president of
the Chrysler Corp, and Alvan
Macauley, president of the Packard
Motor Car Co.
The President had indicated his
general idea at press conference lust
before he met the motor executives.
He said he was trying to work out 4
plan for business men to get together
among themselves to solve their prob
lens. without new legislation.
Three specific complaints were said
by those present to have been made bv
the Chief Executive in his conference
with the motor company heads.
Long Term Credit Hit.
He criticized selling cars on long
term credit arrangements, installment
sales in which buyers obligated them
selves for large percentages of their
incomes and the practice of finance
companies seeking deficiency judg-
ments against car owners whose auto
mobiles had been seized for non-pay.
ment.
The Chief Executive also expressed
a hope that the automobile chieftains
could find some way to level out pro-
duction.
Mr.. Macauley, president of the Auto
mobile Manufacturers Association and
spokesman for the group, said the
manufacturers were 'in hearty agree
ment" with Mr.. Roosevelt's principles
on installment selling.
He said he and others would attempt
to formulate . program and report to
the President at q later date.
The Presidents next business con-
ferences are to bring several small"
business men to the White House next
week. Mr.. Roosevelt said they would
be picked at random from the senders
Of hundreds OF letters he has received.
Evening star., 1938-01-22
TARIFF CUT ORDERED
BY REGIME IN PEIPING
Reductions Are Decreed Equal to
All ostly In
dustrial Products.

BY the Associated Press.
PEIPING. Jan. 22-The provisional
Chinese government set up here with
japanese backing today announced
tariff reductions on certain commodi-
ties.
The reductions were represented as
equal to all nations and therefore
not discriminatory.
Imports on which tariffs were re-
duced included cotton piece goods,
wooden goods. rayon, aluminium ware,
agricultural machinery, fish, sea food,
grains Cncluding wheat, flour and
rice), sugar, gasoline, some chemicals.
all vaccines, paper, wood. chinaware,
cement. fertilizers, bicycles, rickshas
and rubber.
Industrial and mining machinery
and seeds for planting were tempo
rarily exempt from import duties.
Evening star., 1938-01-22

tSSc SsteN~BV VLAUAyUCGUC Uu6
seised while motoring With his sec
retdry. Peter Anders was arrested
at Los Angeles race track Jan-
uary II.
b. the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL, Jan. ga speedy re-
moval to Chicago. quick trial and
death in the electric chair for the kid
nap-slaying Of Charles S. Ross was
the program marked out today for
Peter Anders, the one-time lumberjack
who hoped to execute the perfect
crime"
Anders was held under heavy guard
at the Offices of the Federal Bureau
OF Investigation after an eventful
week In which he helped unfold the
details of kidnapings, slayings and
bank robberies.
The staying victims were Mr.. Ross,
the abducted Chicago manufacturer,
and James Atwood Gray, Anders' as
sociate In crime. Federal agents
forged one Of the important links in
the chain of evidence aginst Anders
when the bodies were recovered from
q cave in the Northern Wisconsin
woods.
J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the F. B.
l., said Anders would face kidnap-
murder charges under the Lindbergh
kidnapping law He did not indicate
when the prisoner would be taken
to Chicago.
characterized IS Dangerous"
Mr.. Hoover characterized the former
logger as "the most dangerous man
We ever met up with" And this de-
spite vain effort to locate Anders in
the Nations police records.
Anders was formally named as the
slayer Of Mr.. Ross and Gray by q
Spooner, Wis, coroners jury last night.
The verdict was rendered after two
Federal agents testified the bodies were
found in cave near Spooner. An
examination of Ross body disclosed
fractured skull. Gray had been
slain with shotgun during a quarrel
over the ransom loot
Mr.. Hoover said the 'stolid and
nonchalant" Anders showed no re-
morse when he saw the bodies.
There were newspapers, tin cans,
scraps Of food and a jar of chest salve
lying about. The dugout was level
with the ground and we probably
wouldn't have found it If we had
searched for months"
Prisoner Revealed Cache.
The prisoner himself led Federal
agents to the secluded Minnesota
dugout and the Wisconsin cave. Near
the hideout he uncovered $4,000 Of
the S50,000 ransom money, cached in
a typewriter case. He had taken the
$4,000 balance, which was originally
intended to be Gray's share, when he
left the vicinity last October.
At Spokane, Wash. two of Anders'
friends, John Stacy and Will Hagen,
garagemen, said Anders had used
Spokane as his base of operations for
more than year.
Anders was said to have met Gray
in Chicago two years ago. Grays
body will be sent to Providence, KY,
home Of sister. That of Mr.. Ross
was to be sent today to Chicago.
Evening star., 1938-01-22
C0NC0RDAT ATTACKED
BY YUG0SLAV CROWDS
Police Withdrawn From BELGRADE
Streets to Avoid Clashes -
With Demonstrators.
By the Associated Press.

BS the Associated Press.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Jan. a.
This city resounded today to shouted
attacks on the government during 4
four-hour demonstration against the
concordat with the Vatican. Police
were withdrawn from the streets TO
avoid clashes with the demonstrators.
There were cries Of Down with the
government" THE administration
must CO." Long live freedom" and
Down with the concordat." Hum
dreds Of Yugoslav orthodox priests
held q requiem for the Patriarch Mar
vana. who headed opposition to the
concordat until his death.
Evening star., 1938-01-22
Il. Y. A.
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NObISAlACO 1olu ~ 81 1dkCJ
troll the people by spurious injunc-
tions"
The utilities sought an order hating
the entire power program.
However, District Judge John ].
Gore OF Tennessee. who issued a tenn
porary injunction against the T. v. A.
IN the same suit In 1886. concurred with
Judge Allen and District Judge John
D. Martin to make yesterdays deci-
sion unanimous. Judge Cores injunc-
ton was dissolved last year by a Circuit
Court and the Chattanooga hearing
followed.
Gov. Gordon Browning of Tennes-
see proposed a plan last night where
by the State would "join hands' with
T. " A. toward the acquisition of pri-
vately-owned utility properties by the
Federal agency and subdivisions of the
State.
Browning said this was to give to
the people Of Tennessee T. v. A. power
without the necessity Of endless litiga-
tion.' His proposal followed the last
resort" suggestion advanced recently
by Wendell Willkie, president of Com
monwealth & Southern Corp, which
owns several operating companies in
the same territory as T. v. A.
Wlllkie proposed that the Govern
ment buy out his companies facilities
completely. Lilienthal has opposed
this, asserting that only such proper
ties as were needed should be pur-
chased.
The T. V. A. which has spent more
than $l50,O00.00O in developing the
program it started in 1898, estimates
the total cost of the completed UNDER
taking at $475.o00.000
Absolved Of Coercion.
In its lo.000-word decision the
court held that the Federal agency
mad not conspired to destroy the util-
lties, to compete illegally with them
or 10 coerce the power companies to
sell their facilities at distress fig.
ures.
The judges decided there was no
conspiracy between the authority and
z. w. a. 10 nnance municipal pur-
cnases OF distribution systems to sell
!. V. A. power at such low rates that
the private companies would be forced
out OF business. No coercion of mu-
inequalities to purchase Authority
power was found.
The authoritys contention that its
primary function was flood control
ana navigation, with power produc-
tlon only incidental, was upheld. The
court also found that the Authority
was complying with its creative stat
utes, and that the act constitutes no
interference with State rights.
substantial future damages will be
mnlcted on the utilities by T. v. A:
rates, the court said, but added that
these will be damages in the absence
OF legal injury" and constituted no
grounds for the requested injunc-
ton.
CASE CAN GET EARIv ArrvoN
Evening star., 1938-01-22
Woman Has Smallest Dog.

Nine. Wenner- -Gren, wife of A. L.
Wenner-Gren, the industrial million
aire of Sweden, claims to have the
smallest dog in the world. She re-
Gently displayed it in Stockholm The
pet is Mexican dog, only Z inches
long, and one of the seven CANNES Of
tho kind alive.