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Evening star., 1938-08-01
%PERSONS HURT
: AS TRAINS CRASH
Vanderbilt Rams Mercury
When Wet Rails Skid 1t
Into Stopped Flyer.
Ey the Associated Press,

Ey the Associated Press.
TOLEDO, August IA crash Of
two New York Central luxury trains,
the Mercury and the Commodore Van.
derbilt, left SO injured persons In hos
pitfalls today and others with minor
hurts.
Three passengers were in serious
condition. Sixteen were taken to
Toledo hospitals, eight TO Port Clin-
ton and IA to Cleveland DR.. George
A. Poe OF Cleveland, aboard the Mer-
curry. said he treated about so persons
at the scene
The seriously injured were: George
Morris, 4S, New York; L. M. Osborne,
46, Evanston, III: Mrs. H. B. Hag-
gerty, As, Winnetka, III.
The Mercury, bound from Detroit
to- Cleveland, grazed an auto on q
crossing at Rocky Ridge, 30 miles
east of Toledo. The streamlined flyer
backed up but the auto drove on.
Skids on Wet Rails.
Two miles behind roared the VAN
derbilt. bound for New York. The
Mercury's brakeman ran down the
track tagging frantically. The Van.
derbilts engineer saw the block sig
mails set. He jammed on the brakes.
Slippery rails, wet with rain, ground
and slithered beneath the l4-car
speedster. 1t slowed down but slid
on and on.
In the shiny glass observation car
Of the Mercury were passengers Curl
ouSly gazing out or playing cards.
The headlight and streamlined hood
Of the Vanderbilt bore down upon
them. A porter shouted. An instant
Of pandemonium-then the crash.
The trains literally bounced, wit
nesses said. Glass flew everywhere
The observation car and a coach OF
the Mercury were knocked of the
rails. There were screams and hiss
ing steam.
Passengers were tossed about in
both trains. Many were cut BY glass
Some were burned by steam and hot
foods from the kitchen of the Mer-
cury's dining car.
Autoists Garry Injured.
Some jumped OH the observation
platform just before the crash.
DR.. Poe went to work on the VIC
tins. Autoists on the road crossing
| the New York Central tracks took
az many of the injured as they could
carry to Port Clinton and Toledo.
Dr.. Poe said None that saw were
seriously injured. I went right to
work. and was so busy binding people
up that 1 don't know everything that
happened"
A special train was made up at
Camp Perry, Ohio, and took passen-
gers to Cleveland. The second section
OF the Commodore Vanderbilt pro-
ceeded to New York.
The giass-inclosed rear of the obser-
vation car was shattered The front
of the VanderbiH's locomotive was
mashed and 4 cylinder was torn OF.
B. C. Gallon, engineer of the Van
derbilt. reported to his superiors here
that his train slowed down but slid on
slippery rails into the Mercury at
about 10 to Is miles an hour. The
wreck occurred about 7:05 pm. last
night.
Evening star., 1938-08-01
DROP GROUP POLICIES

NEW YORK, Aug. l (P).-Group
insurance carried on approximately
5000 of its employees was discontin-
ued today by the Delaware g. Hud-
son Railroad.
The company announced on July 5
its intention to drop the insurance,
partly because of its necessary con-
tributions to social security, railroad
retirement and New York State unem-
ployment funds.
Company officials said employees
had been insured on an average OF
$4,000 per person at cost. last year,
of between 100000 and 100000. 1t
was said that this payment. with
taxes on the company. had become
too ''burdensome."
Evening star., 1938-08-01
Adjournment Fails to Recosnise
Validity Of Order, Board Saws

Validity Of Order, Board Saws.
The Labor Relations Board ir
Washington ordered a 48-hour ad.
Journment today of its inquiry into
the Maytag Washing Machine Co
strike at Newton, Iowa.
After a brief meeting to consider
the situation created by Gov. Nelson
G. Kraschel's order closing the hear
ing under martial law. the board in
structed Madison Hill, the trial ex-
aminer, to take the adjournment
During the two-day lapse in hearings
the board will consider what action
to take regarding the Governors
order.
The boards action is in no sense
recognition Of the validity OF the
Governors order" the board stated
The statement issued by the board
said:
The National Labor Rela tons
Board has ordered its trial examiner,
Madison Hill, to adjourn its Maytag
hearing for 48 hours while it is
considering what action to take re-
garding an order of the Governor of
Iowa.
THE boards action is in no sense
recognition of the validity of the
Governors order"
Of1cials said it was unlikely the
board would make final decision
regarding the hearing before tomor-
row.
Evening star., 1938-08-01
SCHOONER GEN. GREELY
is RELEASED FROM ICE
MacGregor Arctic Expedition
Heads for Greenland and
Clearer Waters.

By CLIFFORD ]. MacGREGOR,
Commander, MacGresor Arctic Expedition.
BY wireless to The Star.
ABOARD SCHOONER GENERAL
A. w. GREELY, BAFTIN BAY, Aug.
l NAN.AD.-The schooner General
A. w. Greely, with the MacGregor Arc
tic Expedition aboard, was released
from the Baffin Bay ice pack yester-
day.
We are now heading for the Green
land coast. During the last 10 hours
we have encountered only a few large
icebergs and scattered foes We do not
expect to encounter much more ice. As
soon as we reach the Greenland coast
we will head south.
Copyright. 1888. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, me.)
Evening star., 1938-08-01
BOARD ADJOURNS
-. MAYTAG HEARING
N. l. R. B. Is Considering
Next Step After Governor
HaIts Probe.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Branding the National Labor Re-
lations Board hearing at Mautao
plant disturbing factor" in the
dispute, Io,Das Gop Nelson G.,
Kraschel ordered inquiry closed. He
Dorded the order to prevent re-
sumption OF hearing any,pheye
U1thin borders of State OF Io,pa.
Ry the Associated Press.
NEWTON, Iowa, Aug. Madison
Hill, trial examiner for the National
Labor Relations Board. adjourned the
N. L. r. B. hearing into the Maytag
strike controversy here for 4s hours
after brief meeting this morning.
His action followed an order by Gov.
Nelson G. Kraschel to National
Guardsmen enforcing martial law in
Newton to close the hearing.
Mr.. Hill did not say whether he or
the board would resist the Governors
order after the 48-hour recess.
Tells "Cockeyed World"
Informed In Des Moines that the
hearing had been adjourned until
10 am. Wednesday, Gov. Kraschel
declared:
You can tell the cockeyed world
that there will be no Labor Relations
Board hearing in the military district
Of Iowa"
He declined to make any further
comment on the situation.
An aide to Maj. Gen. Mathew A
Tlnley. In command of the National
Guard here, said that the adjourn
ment Of the hearing conformed tech
nically. with the Governors order,
as far as the troops were concerned.
III and when attempts are made to
reopen the hearing, that will be a
new situation" the aide said. We
are not anticipating any further
action"
Only attorneys for the Maytag Wash
ing Machine Co. and the striking
c. I. o. union were present at the
hearing this morning.
Mr.. Hill called the session to order
and declared continuance until 10 m.
Wednesday without reading the Gov
ernor's order to the group. The meet
ing promptly adjourned.
Guardsmen Stay Outside.
Iowa National Guardsmen were
seated outside the door of the meeting
room, but did not enter.
E. w, Ford, company attorney, de-
clared the company was in full ac-
cord with the Governors order closing
down the N. L. r. B. hearing into un-
fair labor practices brought by the
union against the company
Union representatives declared last
night they approved the Governors
action.
In Washington the board ordered
Mr.. Hin to take the course he followed
this morning while it considered what
further action should be taken.
National Guard officials would not
comment on what they might do
Wednesday II the hearing is called
again as scheduled
The, hearing opened July Is, on
Complaint Of the Maytag c. I. O.
Union that the company had followed
unfair labor practices 1t recessed
when the National Guard arrived, but
resumed July IS, by permission of
the military commission in charge of
affairs in the district under martial
law.
Mr.. Hill said the question had not
oeen raised before as to whether a
hearing being conducted by the board,
which is a Federal agency, could be
terminated by State authority in this
manner.
n. L. r. b. STUDIES MOVE.
Evening star., 1938-08-01
COURT UPH0LDS
EARLE Jury PROBE
Rules Legislature Cannot
Suspend Inquiry in
Pennsylvania.
(Story on Page A-1.)
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Gop. Earle OF Pennsylvania
hastily summoned State Legislature
to enact measures designed to pre-
pent grand jury from pressing
an investigation into affairs of his
administration bill uds passed
Saturday to take the inquiry from,
the Jury'S hands.
BY the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa. Aug l-Judg'
Paul N Schaeffer held today tn,
Pennsylvania Legislature could no
suspend a grand jury investigation
Of political graft and corruption
charges against Gov George H. Earle
and 13 others high in State Demo.
cratic ranks.
Legislation to permit the Genera
Assembly to take the projected inquiry
away from a grand jury and place il
in the hands of legislative CON-
mittee was passed Saturday and signed
by the Governor
Judge Schaeffer'S opinion today was
on a petition by District Attorney
Carl B, Shelley of Dauphin County
HarrisburgD. He is in charge of the
grand jury inquiry, based largely on
accuse tions growing out of Pennsyl-
vania's spring primary campaign.
Evidence Locked Up.
The judge, named by the Pennsyl-
vania Supreme Court to sit in the in
vestigation, also ordered Mr.. Shelley s
evidence locked up and prohibited all
persons subpoenaed to appear before
the grand jury from testifying before
legislative committee Under the new
legislation the committee was to be
named today.
The judge held the committee could
proceed separately.
Administration leaders did not COM
ment Immediately.
Mr.. Shelley termed unconstitutional
the entire program speeded through
the Pennsylvania Legislature last
week to take over the investigat ton
of the charges of blackmail, bribery
and conspiracy to defraud the Com
monwealth
Special Committee.
Under the program passed by the
Legislature the inquiry would be con-
Quoted by q special committee OF the
House. It would include five Demo-
Gratis and two Republicans. Attorney
General Guy X. Bard also was en-
powered to supersede Mr. Shelley in
the grand jury investigation. sched-
uled to start in = week and suspend
it until the House committee COM
pleted its inquiry.
Mr.. Shelley said the laws inter-
fered with the orderly administration
of the law usurped the jurisdiction
of the courts and provided for i'm
parchment in the House OF Repre-
sentatives, by trial, whereas trial
under the Constitution Is exclusively
the right of courts.
Evening star., 1938-08-01

eastern States and thence eastward to Ber-
muda. ST. Georses. 1922 inches. Pressure
is also high on the North Pacific Coast.
North Head. Wash. 80. II inches. and it is
relatively high from Eastern Iowa south
westward to the Texas Panhandle. st. Jo-
seph. Mo. 20 81 inches. A disturbance OF
slight intensity is moving northeastward
over txereme Southeastern Ontario To-
ronto 20 INCHES, and pressure is reIs-
lively low over Northern Minnesota. Moor
head 1910 inches Temperatures are
slightly above normal in the Middle Attain
tic States and over the Plains States. Dur
ing the last "a hours showers and thun-
derstormS have occurred over the Middle
Gulf States. Eastern Texas the Ohio, the
Lower Missouri and Mississippi Valleys the
Appalachian region and the Lake region.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers very
muddy at Harpers Ferry; Potomac muddy
at Great Falls today.
Report for Last "a Hsura.
Evening star., 1938-08-01
Picture Brings
.ComPDonation;
Fund Is $2,537

Struck by photograph in The
Star Of a disappointed little girl
crying because the Family Service
Association was unable to raise the
money to send her to Camp Good
viii. a generous citizen donated 81
today to the fund being raised by
The Star for the camp. This brings
the total donations to s2537.55.
With her gift the donor. who signed
the letter only by initials. *. M"
sent a poem testifying to the ap-
peal in the photograph:
This is scene that touches me,
1t hurts me to the core;
And so I'm sending in my mite
wish 1t could be more.
Il hope The Star, whose kindly deeds
Shine out through many years.
Will change these sobs to laughter
And wipe away these tears"
Other donations received today In
r1nIo.
Evening star., 1938-08-01

Record for Last - Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Hiehest. Q1. At . pm. yesterday; year
aGo, 81.
Lowest. rs. at am. today: year
ago, 81
Record Temperatures This Year.
Hshest. as. on July IL.
Lowest. 1s. on January 2s.
Humidity fer Last - Houfs.
From noon yesterday to noon today
Hiahest. "a per cent. At 4:l5 an
today.
Lowest ~ per cent, at 4:1O nm
The Sun and Neon. =
Rises. Sets.
Sun. today -- sos 7:20
Sun tomorrow - 500 7:2O
Moon. today ------ 11:25 Am. 1923 pm.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital Current month to date):
Evening star., 1938-08-01

sen of Norway with . leap Of % feet
ga inches. w. E. Breach of Eng
land was second at % feet inches
and A. Perina of the United States
third
Another British record fell when
J. Varszegi of Hungary threw the
javelin 237 feet 2a4 inches. No Amer
leans were entered in this event.
Evening star., 1938-08-01
Child Swallows Wheel.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug P.-
Robert Parker. after a two-houl
search. found where the missing cog.
wheel to the clock he was repairing
had gone. His 3-year-old daughter
Rachel, complained Of pain in stom.
ach. An X-ray showed she had swal-
lowed the wheel.
Evening star., 1938-08-01
Dictator Gomez Crafty.

The dictator has troubles undreamt
Of by the ordinary ruler Gomez, the
old dictator Of Venezuela, used to be
up at 5 in the morning to hear the
reports telegraphed him from all parts
OF the country on conditions-reports
read twice by two different people In
order TO avoid all risk Of deception.
Evening star., 1938-08-01
Nurses Restless on Pay.

Nurses of Ireland threaten to or
ganize and demand shorter hours
better pay, greater opportunity for
rest and recreation in off time, and
pensions after long service.
Evening star., 1938-08-01
WEATHER REPORT

Coumb-Parly
notmu cha in temp
Evening star., 1938-08-01

Japanese architects predict that the
level of Toxic will continue to sink
for several years.
Evening star., 1938-08-01
EXPERTS HOPEFUL
OF F|ND|NGPLANE
Point to Fact No Wreckage
Has Been Found in
Clipper Hunt.

BACKGROUND
Just before she p1nished Fri-
day on a flight from California to
Manila, the Ha,naii Clipper radioed
that all Das ,pell. No mord OF her
has been found since, despite an
intensiue search BY ships and
planes.
Evening star., 1938-08-01

n. L. r. b. STUDIES MOVE.
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
War Buying Booms
US. Trade to Best
Levels Since 1890
Exports Exceed Imports S25O,OOOOOO in
1887: 1888 Outlook DOIUnUGrd
By ERIC FRIEDHEIM

INS Demands for ammunition and other war materials
last wear expanded American foreign trade the highest level
since 1890 preliminary Commerce Department studies revealed
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
Thomas Cites
i. S. POwer

A stern warning to Japan and
other nations not to misinterpret
this country's stand on the Panay
bombing was voiced last night at
the meeting of the Conference on
the Cause and Cure Of War at the
Hotel washington by Senator
Elbert D. Thomas of Utah.
Pointing out that the manner
in which the Panay incident was
handled was not an indication of
fear or weakness, Senator Thomas
said:
IF the day ever comes when
force has to be resorted to, it
will be mustered in such might
that those who call our good be-
havior and self-restraint weak
ness and fear, may find them
selves crushed by a power they
had not dreamed Of"
The United States has two-fold
responsibility as a world power,
Senator Thomas said, to protect
American democracy and liberty
and to reflect democratic prin.
ciples in our relations with other
nations.
Formation of an international
planning body, free from political
obligations, to study world welfare
in the interest Of all nations, was
advocated at the meeting by Prof
James T. ShOtWell of Columbia
University.
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
HerO's WidOu;
Aid Urged

With Mrs. Richmond Pearson
Hobson, widow of the late admiral
OF Spanish war fame, in financial
difficulties, a move was started
here today to increase her pension
from $50 month to $1O0.
Admiral Hobson won interna-
tioinal fame when he sank the
Merrimac in Santiago Harbor in
an effort to bottle up the Spanish
fleet. He died last March, leaving
an estate of less than $4,000.
Representative Jarman CD OF
Alabama, who holds the seat in
Congress once occupied by Ad
miral Hobson, has introduced a
bill in the House to grant the pen
sion increase, and a similar bill
will be introduced in the Senate
Mrs. Hobson, who now lives ir
New York, admitted that the pen
sion is her only income, aside
from the small amount of capita
left by her husband, which il
rapidly dwindling.
After his retirement from thu
service, Admiral Hobson, who wa
awarded the Congressional Media
of Honor, toured the country advo
eating a number of cauSes-a biz
Navy, prohibition, and was {
leader in anti-narcotic work.
The Hobsons were married il
1905 and had three children. Mrs
Hobson now resides with he.
daughter and youngest son. Th'
oldest son is working on a cattl
ranch in British Columbia.
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
Boycotts Hit japan Trade

firms here revealed to Tnternation-
al News Service that virtually their
only business today is handling
cancellations" of orders.
Foreign bank branches here re-
ported an unprecedented and
widespread drop in export orders.
japanese financiers and busi-
ness men expressed fears the Ger
mans and British may recapture
the markets which they have lost
to Japan in recent years a re-
suit Of the boycott movement.
Nevertheless, leaders of all ia
pans political parties pledged
their support today to the govern
ment's program for conducting
the war until the Chang Kai-Shek
regime in China is exterminated
This program will be presented tC
the parliament when it recon
venes tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
HiLdG Y en-,
DR.. Yu Speak
For China

At about the same time last
night that pretty Miss Hilda Yen,
niece of the one-time Chinese min
lister to Washington, was explain
ing to interviewers in the Hotel
Washington how she thought it
would feel to fly a Chinese bomb
ing plane, DR.. Paul Yu Pin, Bishop
of Nanking, was predicting defeat
for Japan.
Miss Yen, here as delegate to a
peace conference and a student
of child welfare, is also in the
thick of an intensive military avia-
ton course at Roosevelt Field,
Long Island. She learned some
thing of flying in Italy.
DR.. Yu left Nanking last fall,
toured European countries. and
is now engaged in mastering Amer
lean support for the Chinese
cause. AS he speaks in the Man
DARN dialect, DR.. Sterling Pan,
of Catholic University, acted as
interpreter. China is financially
able to carry on two more years
of war, DR.. Yu said.
I've never flown a bomber"
Miss Yen told her queStioners,
"but by the time I get back to
China, I'll be ready to go up
with the pilots" )"
The Washington times., 1938-01-21

NEW YORK, Jan. 81 QNS0
President Roosevelt has no dicta'
torShip ambitions. Son and Sec
retary James Roosevelt spread that
on forum records today in defend
ing the Presidents plan for reor'
ganizing the executive branch CT
the Government.
Even if it is conceded that
everyone now in Washington is as
wise as Solomon and as pure as the
archangels, we have to legislaCe
with the thought that some day
another Huey Long may occupy
the White House." was the answer
of Representative Samuel Petten-
gill CD of Indiana, to the propo.
Sition to increase the Presidents
powers.
Young Roosevelt and Pettengill
dissected the reorganization plan
for a Town Hall audience last
night and came out about even on
the applause.
Admitting that II know some
people are seriously disturbed
about this plan," Roosevelt claimed
that it gives the President in
reality what the office always has
had in theory-genuine super
visory powers.
mo dictator in the world to-
day had any important part in
the constitutional, parliamentary
or democratic government which
he superseded" he asserted in
pointing out that America need
not fear possibility of the Presi-
dent turning dictator on the
basis of increased powers.
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
Boy, Facing Case,
Says Girl His Wife

NEW YORK, Jan. 81 G.N.SO.
Arraigned on a statutory charge
following his "elopement" with a
15-year-old girl, Harry Nicholson,
Is, insisted today he had married
the girl, Dorothy Rombey, Septem-
ber in Elkton, Md.
They returned to their reSpec-
tive homes here that night with
out telling their parents, he re-
lated, then four months later went
to Newburgh, N. Y, to live in a So
furnished room. Unable to find
work, Harry wrote his mother for
money, whereupon he was appre-
hended.
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
AIRPLANES JOIN
BIG ATTACK ON
TERUEL FRONT
8 Reported Shot Down
Over Salamanca

HENDAYE, Franco1Spanish Bor.
der, Jan. 81 I.N.S0.-Heavy fight.
ing ragged along the Teruel battle.
front in eastern Spain today as
the insurgents renewed their bid
to capture the strategic city.
Insurgents reports claimed the
rebel forces were gaining ground
and that nationalist airplaneS
were playing a major role in the
campaign.
400 PRISONERS TAKEN
Rebel authorities at Salamanca
issued communique stating their
troops had captured several loyal
iSt trenches in all-day fighting
and had inflicted severe losses on
the government forces, taking 400
prisoners.
Eight government planes were
shot down in fierce "dog fights"
over the city, the rebels claimed.
A government communique is
sued at Barcelona admitted the
loyalists had suffered losses on the
Teruel front, adding the rebels
were supported by great mass
of aircraft"
Two major air battles were
fought, according to this state
ment, with 100 planes participat
ing. Ten insurgent aircraft were
reported to have been shot down.
Meanwhile, possibility of a
strong British protest to the in
surgents was seen following the
killing of four British Seamen
and the wounding Of seven more
when their ship was attacked dur
ing a rebel air raid on Tarragona.
Three members of the crew Of
the ship, the British freighter
ThorpeneSs, were missing and be-
lieved dead. All the crew mem
bers involved were BritonS.
FRICTION WITH u. s.
At the same time, friction be-
tween the United States and the
Spanish rebel regime was brewing
following revelation that the Nan
tucket Chief, American tanker
chartered to the loyalists. had
been halted and escorted to
Palma, Majorca, by two rebel war
vessels.
Rebel warpIanes also attacked
Valencia, where previous air raid
had killed and injured hundreds
of civilians. Government planes
drove off the raiders after they
had killed six persons and caused
slight damage. Reported new
aerial assaults against Barcelona
were said to have been frustrated
by government planes.
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
TOTS'-GIRLS' OR BOYS' WARM
3.99 to 5.99 VALUES!

Tots & Girls: Two or three-piece
styles, plaid or stripe trimmed,
Upper or double-breasted models,
some lined throughout. Sizes 2
to 6 or Z to 16.
Boys and Youths: Lined ski
pants, Upper hoods. single or
double breasted, plain colors or
patterns, button or upper models,
sport backs, yoke backs, belted
backs. Sizes 3 to 16 in the lot.
The Washington times., 1938-01-21
Copyright. 1888, by International
News Service.)

TOKYO, Jan. 21.-Organized
boycotts against Japan for her
military campaign in China al
ready are proving highly effective
and are becoming a source of deep
concern to Nipponese business
men, an International News Serv-
ice canvas of the situation revealed
today.
Reports constantly are received
in Tokyo from London and Wash
ington regarding worldwide labor
drives to make the boycott and
other economic measures against
Japan effective with the aim Of
forcing a halt in her conquest Of
China.
So serious has the situation here
become that IA leading exporting