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Evening star., 1938-03-26

wSehy Weatner OUTLOOK 1or the period
:, North and Middle Atlantic States
Showers besinning Monday night or Tues
day. ending Wednesday, and showers again
s1 at end OF week: Colder Sunday night.
colder Wednesday or Wednesday night and
warmer Friday.
Ohio Valley and Tennessee-Shower
flrst part of week and again about Fri
day; Slowly rising temperature Monday.
colder middle of week warmer by Fri
day and colder Saturday.
Northeastern Kansas Friday morning is
now moving east-northeastward over the
upper Ohio Valley and the lower Lake
region, Parry Sound. Ontario, 90 "a inches,
and a trough extends from West Virginia
Flagstaff. Ariz, 1852 inches. Another
disturbance is central about 800 miles
Ssrd sonh G Se snd
still another. which is of wide extent. is
moving eastward over Northwestern North
America. Mayo. Yukon: 29.1s inches.
ram in the Lake region; the Ohio and upper
States, and the southern Plains States. and
BY snow and rain in portions OF the Rocky
high from the the north Paeifie Coast eastward
to the Plains States and the upper Missis-
sippi Valley. and thence northeastward to
Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait, Portland.
Hudson Strait. 304S inches. and Valentine.
Nebr., 3O44 inches. High pressure pre-
walls also from Eastern Quebec southwark
to the Bahamas. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia,
'il nthe Easter nand southeastern states
region southwestward to Northern Texas
and Eastern New Mexico.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
JOSEPH A. STRANLEY, ,65,
RETIRED OFFICER, DIES

Joseph A. stranley, IS, of 92s Ham
ilton street NV, retired policeman
and Spanish War veteran.
died yesterday in Walter Reed Hos
pital after long illness.
A native of Baltimore, Mr.. Stranley
as a young man was a well-known
tenor singer and travelled the old Keith
theater circuit as a member of the
Primrose Quartet. He served on the
police force here for about % years,
retiring about six years ago.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. jean
nette Stranley; two sons, o. R. and
j. H. Stranley; three daughters, Mrs
N. c. Wood, Mrs. j. j. Clatterbuck
and Mrs. M. I. Harding; a brother
Charles H. Stranley; a sister, Mrs.
Amelia Sweeney, and five grandchil-
dren.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
NEW LABOR BILL
MAY IGNORE PAY
Plan Being Drafted May
Deal Only With Hours.
c. |. GA. F. l. Agree.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Informed House members said today
that new labor legislation being
drafted by House Labor Subcommit-
tee may be restricted to regulation Of
hours, leaving the question Of mini
mum wages to later Congress.
William Green, A. F. of L. president,
told the subcommittee yesterday his
organization would be willing to "go
along" on bill establishing an initial
minimum wage as low as 80 cents an
hour II mandatory annual increases
were provided to bring the minimum
up to 40 cents.
Until recently, the Federation had
held out for measure which would
impose a universal minimum wage of
40 cents an hour and work week of
40 hours on all interstate commerce.
The Federation's new proposal was
regarded as a substantial concession,
but House members expressed doubt it
would be acceptable to the Rules Com
mittee which blocked wage-hour leg
islation for months last year.
Confer With Both.
The subcommittee discussed the
whole wage-hour situation with both
Mr.. Green and John l.. Lewis, c. I. o.
chief, at separate, informal confer
ences this week
They were asked for opinions as to
legislation which would deal only with
hours and both insisted the work
week in that case would have to be
much shorter than any being consid-
cred
There were indications that both
major factions would renew demands
for 30-hour week if Congress decides
to abandon minimum-wage legislation
this session.
Representative Ramspeck, Democrat,
of Georgia, chairman of the subcom-
mittee, said the group still was divided
on whether to make the proposed an
nual increases in the graduated mini
mum-wage mandatory or leave them
to the discretion of an administrative
board.
The C. I. O. and the A. F. of L. were
believed nearing agreement on wage
hour legislation after Mr.. Lewis and
Mr.. Green had outlined their posi-
tions.
In Agreement.
Mr.. Green said he thought the
major difference between the Fedora
ton and the C. I. o. was that the
latter had been willing to approve any
wage-hour measure even If it permitted
wages as low as 10 cents an hour.
Il think there's a clearer under
standing of the objectives Of these two
great labor groups all around" one
subcommittee member said, after the
meeting. The c. I. O. and the Fed
Grafton are not far apart in their
views"
Mr.. Lewis told the group yesterday
he favored the proposed graduated
minimum wage, but suggested the
initial figure should not be lower than
IS cents an hour. Both Mr.. Lewis
and Mr.. Green agreed that 20 cents,
figure suggested by some committee
members, was entirely too low"
The two union rivals also were in
agreement as to the question OF hours.
Both said the work week should not
be longer than 40 hours and agreed
that 30-hour week would do much to
reduce unemployment.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
MOVE Of F|REMEN
SCORED BY GROUP
Burroughs Citizens Opposed
to Repeal of Act Forbidding
Strike AffiIiation.

Efforts of the Firemen's Associa-
tlon to obtain repeal of District of
Columbia statute which forbids fire.
men to become affiliated with any
organization using strikes to enforce
demands were condemned in a reso-
luton last night by the Burroughs
Citizens Association. The action, which
aroused heated opposition among the
group, came after several appeals to
table the measure.
The draft. arranged at an EXecu-
tive Committee meeting headed by
President Paul E. Jameson earlier in
the week, stated that guardians of
public safety and property should not
desire the repeal of any law which
forbids in any manner strike meth
DDS" A. K Armstrong declared fire
men comparable to the Army or Navy
in their duties, saying that union
organization in firemen units are as
unplausible as such organization
among the war services"
These men, with the vitally re-
sponsible nature Of their work, should
not be allowed to place the public
at their mercy under conditions
caused by strikes" he added.
Frank Lee, a union member and
citizen Of the Burroughs group, ar
gued that the International Associa-
tion of Fire Fighters, of which the
Firemen's Association is an afiliate,
contains 'no-strike' clause and is
concerned primarily with securing
better working conditions, which is
a f1reman's right, through other meth
DDS"
Copies Of the resolution will be
sent to the District Commissioners
and the chairmen of the House and
Senate District Committees.
The association was urged by Mr..
Armstrong to cooperate with four
other Northeast civic groups to secure
Boys Club for the area to be spon-
sored by the Police Department inde-
pendently. Action was deferred.
John NJ Stockard Robert M. Fur
Miss and Fred Nehrlich were appointed
as delegates to the District Suffrage
Association.
A proposal for installment of trafic
lights at Montana and New York ave-
nues NE. will be presented before the
Northeast Conference Of Citizens As
sociations for indorsment.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
66 WAR PLANES. END
DRILLS IN MASS FLIGHT
Five Flying Fortresses Take Part
In Training Activity Over
Florida Cities.

By the Associated Press. F-.-
TAMPA, Fla. March 26.-Sixty-six
war planes flocked together over Flor
Ida yesterday in q mass flight to
climax two weeks Of training exer-
cises.
In the demonstration were five
flying fortresses" which recently made
. spectacular flight to South America
and an equally impressive swarm Of
new pea-shooter pursuit planes.
The two types have been friendly
enemies during the training activities,
but today they scared and wheeled
together In the sky for admiring thou
sands on the ground.
The planes drilled over Sarasota,
lakeland, Orlando, Daytona Beach
and Jacksonville.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
BOYS CLUB DRIVE
GETSS12,0)0IMORE
Bishop Freeman, Speaker
at Luncheon, Indorses
$4,000 Campaign.

Contributions totaling more than
$4,000 were reported by workers in
the $75, 200 fund drive for the Metro
politan Police Boys Club at luncheon
yesterday at the Willard Hotel.
The Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington, praised the
clubs efforts to improve conditions
among boys here and called for greater
concentration on local citizens to go
"over the top" by the end of the cam
paign, Saturday, April 9.
James E. Collif1ower, president of
the Boys Club, presided at the lunch
con and urged the workers to greater
efforts. Maj Ernest w. Brown, super
intendent of police and founder of the
club, said small group of police
officers under Inspector Edward j.
Kelly is aiding in the business district
canvass this week. Patrolmen will
conduct house to house canvass next
week
There is tremendous load that is
crushing down the youth of our coun-
try" Bishop Freeman said. But the
remedy for the situation is to prevent
crime. rather than to allow crime to
continue to pile up on the backs of our
boys and by that same token continue
to build jails and penal institutions.
To-day we face new method of
approach in medicine and surgery.
For example, today the proper thing
should be to pay the doctor to keep
us we'll and not wait until we must
60 to a hospital to be operated on.
If We adopt the principle of prevent
ing crime among our boys while they
are boys, We have gone a long way
toward eliminating further building
of penal institutions to accommodate
them when they have become grown
men.
Youth today will not be satisfied
with platitudes. Youth says to the
adult: What am I going to get out
Of life?' And we adults must have
the right answer. The work of the
Metropolitan Police Boys Club is Ger
tainly eloquent proof of the sound
Judgment of helping boys while they
are boys.
Other speakers included Joseph H.
Hines, former member of Congress,
and James A. Councillor, controller of
the Boys Club.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
FIRM IS EXPELLED
|NCORN SQUEEZE
Cargi|I Company and Three
Officers 0usted From
Grain Exchange.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 26-The Cargill
Grain Co. of Illinois and three of its
officers, convicted by the Chicago
Board of Trade directors of manipu-
lating corn prices, have been expelled
from membership on the Grain Ex-
change.
Kenneth S. Templeton. board pres
ident, who announced the directors
verdict last night, said the expulsion
order was final, and that it would
be effective after midnight Monday.
John H. Macmillan, jr., president
Of the Cargill firm; Edward ]. Grimes,
vice president and counsel, and Philip
c. Sayles, vice president in charge
OF Chicago operations. were the in
dividuals who lost their memberships.
Not Subject to Review.
Mr.. Templeton said the board has
sole jurisdiction over the discipline
of its members" and that its action
was not subject to review by any
other tribunal
Two committees Of the exchange
preferred charges against the firm
and officers after the squeeze" in
September corn last fall. The board
at that time halted trading prema-
turely and fixed settlement price of
$ll0l2 to end violent battle between
longs" and shorts" which caused
swift price changes.
The company contended the board
violated exchange rules by its action
last September. A complaint charging
the board with manipulating corn
prices during the squeeze" was
scheduled for hearing by the Com
modify Exchange Administration at
Washington April 18.
No Defense Made.
The Cargill interests made no de-
fense, asserting they could not expect
a fair trial from the exchange direc-
tors.
An exchange investigating commit
tee reported the firms market posi-
ton during September was almost
entirely speculative" 1t contended
Cargill interests held contracts calling
for delivery of about 5000, 900 bushels
OF corn in September, or about 80 per
cent of the total contracts.
At the same time, the committee
added, the firm was the largest holder
of cash corn, having purchased about
4,378,0o0 bushels during August and
September and jeopardizing shorts"
who could not find corn with which to
make delivery.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
GOVERNOR JOINS CADETS
TO VISIT CUBAN CAPITAL
President Bru Sends Gunboats to
Take Georgia Party on
Goodwill Tour.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, March 26.-Gov. E. D..
Rivers Of Georgia sailed aboard the
s. 8. Florida last night for Havana, to
accompany 200 Riverside Military
Academy cadets on q goodwill tour
Of the Cuban capital.
The cadets left yesterday aboard
the gunboats Cuba and Patria as
guests Of President Laredo Bru, who
will entertain the group at luncheon
in his palace Sunday.
Gov. Rivers watched q review Of
the cadets at their Hollywood, Fla,
winter quarters, then saw q race
named in his honor at the Tropical
Park track.
A party Of $50 academy officers and
their families accompanied the dov-
ernor on the 8. 8. Florida.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
BUCK SPEAKS TONIGHT

Representative Frank H. Buck of
California will make the principal
address tonight at a dinner marking
the 42d anniversary of the founding
Of the George Washington University
Chapter of Theta Delta Chi Fra
ternity at the University Club. The
Representative was national president
Of the fraternity from 1919 to 1928.
The dinner is in charge Of Ernest
F. Henry. local attorney and presi-
dent of the Washington graduate as
ISOLATION of the fraternity.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Coal Operator Convicted.

Samuel Karlinsky, operator of q
coal business in the 1900 block Of
Massachusetts, avenue Sc, was con-
victed by Jury in Police Court yes.
terday Of selling coal short weight.
He will be sentenced April 2.
Inspectors for the, Department Of
Weights and Measures said they Or
dered . ton Of coal, which was 400
pounds short. Judge Edward M. Cur
ran presided.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
J. W. WISE TO SPEAK

James Waterman Wise, son of the
famous rabbi, Stephen B. Wise, will
address the Modern Forum on "Who
Threatens Democracy?" at 3 pm.
tomorrow at the Washington Hotel.
Mr.. Wise is associate editor of the
Peoples Press and a member Of the
National Bureau of the American
League Against War and Fascism.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
SENATE ACTS TO SPUR
SHIPBUILDING BOOM
800, 100000 Loan Insurance
Measure Is Passed and Sent
to House.

BY the Associated Press.
Legislation designed to stimulate
q shipbuilding boom passed the Sen
ate and went to the House yesterday.
Under it, the Maritime Commission
would be empowered to insure $780,
100000 Of loans extended by banks
and other private agencies for ship
construction and reconditioning.
The Federal Government would
guarantee mortgages covering rs per
cent Of the cost of any such building
or repair project. The program is
similar to the one worked out for
home construction and embodied in
the Federal Housing Act.
The interest charged on the mort
cages could not be more than S per
cent. In addition, an insurance pre-
MUM of II Of l per cent per year
on the face value of the mortgages
would be provided.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
SWEDISH WOMAN FLYER
KILLED BY AUTO IN IRAQ
Accident Near Baghdad Is Fatal
to Baroness Eva Dickson Won
Blixen-Finecke.

BY the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, March 26-Baroness
Eva Dickson Won Blixen-Finecke. 80.
whose adventuresome aviation and
motoring exploits were well known in
the United States, is dead
Messages received here said she was
killed Thursday in an automobile ac-
cident near Baghdad, Iraq. while en-
route from Calcutta, India. to London.
During the Italo-Ethiopian War, she
crossed jungles and deserts driving
through Ethiopia to hunt big game
with her husband.
She came to the United States in
1896 to fly the Atlantic with Kurt
Bjorkvall, Swedish commercial flyer,
but, at the last minute, he refused to
take her along.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
SELECTION BOARD SETS
RECORD FOR ENDURANCE
Ends Fourth Week of STUDYING
Naval Lieutenants' Marks
for Promotions.

BY the Associated Press.
Naval officers stationed here said
today the current Selection Board
considering promotions for lieutenants
and ieutenants Uunior grade) had
broken all length of session records
for similar boards established under
present law.
The board convened here February
20, faced with the job of studying the
records of all eligibles and recon-
mending 100 lieutenants for promo
ton to lieutenant commander and 272
lieutenants Gunior grade) for pro-
ton to lieutenant. Its fourth week
Of continuous session expires today.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Congress in Brief

TODAY,
Taxes-Senate Finance Committee
considers tax bill.
Merchant marine-House Labor
Committee discusses proposed Mer-
chant Marine Act amendments.
Senate and Eouse In recess
Evening star., 1938-03-26
THE WEATHER REPORT

District OF CoumbaFar much change
tonight winds diminish
tonight. ~ ~
tonight ' 1 49, "e'' i~'"o"
Vgna-Fa tonight west portion onub and
in south " - WV l Ae"' o"N
West Vrgnia-Far tomorrow. colder tonight
Evening star., 1938-03-26
PROV; colder tonight.
Aeport for Last "a Hnurs

Record for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 81, 2:3O pm. yesterday. Year
ago, ~.
Lowest 43. 4 am. today Year sso rs.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, s4, on March %.
Lowest, 49, on January %.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 81 per cent, at $40 am. today.
Lowest, 2S per cent, at 4:30 pm yes
terdzy
Evening star., 1938-03-26
WILL PRESENT PLAY

Trinity School Production to Be
offered Two Days.
The Dramatic Society of Trinity
preparatory School, Leicester, Nd, will
present "Pontia, the Daughter of
P1late," at the school today and to-
morrow. Today's presentation will be
at pm. and tomorrow's at 3 pm.
Washington girls having leading
roles include Patricia Chagnon, Ann
Carr, Betty Hamlon, Lorraine Daley,
Mary Helen Bennett. Helen Connors
and Regina Goddard.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
TO SPEAK AT CHURCH
Layman at Cathedral to Discuss
Oxford Movement.

Oxford Movement.
Edwin M. Lewis, a layman on the
STAN OF the Washington Cathedral.
VIII discuss the Oxford Movement at
the evening service in the Methodist
Church OF Bethesda tomorrow. He
VIII explain the basic principles Of
the movement and their application to
individual lives and the world stu
alton. Masons of Bethesda Lodge have
been invited to the service.
AT the IL am. service the Rev.
Francis Irwin Cockreu will continue
his series of Lenten sermons on faith.
his subject being Saving Faith
What Can It Do?"
Evening star., 1938-03-26
WILL OPEN new NINE
Red Parrot Coal Co. Will Employ
500 at Premier.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, March 26
R.-John r. Sydnor, general superin-
tendent for the Red Parrot Coal Co.,
announced yesterday a new mine
which will give employment to about
500 men at Premier, Boone County,
would begin operations May Is.
He estimated the plant, for which
100000 for improvements was au-
thorized by the North American Coal
Corp. Of Cleveland, Ohio, parent COM
pany, would produce about 100000
tons annually.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
DR.. FOX TO PREACH
Evangelistic Services to q
Continued at Hvattsville.

VoH HI2AUcu dI I1yALLSV1IIe.
The Rev. DR.. Arthur Fox, who began
special evangelistic services at the
First Baptist Church, Hyattsville,
Wednesday, will preach at morning
and evening services in the church
tomorrow. His evangelistic meetings
Will continuS daily at 10 an. and 7:30
pm. through April g.. Hts son, raul
Fox, leads the singing at the services.
Evening star., 1938-03-26

Automobile lights must be turned on
one-han hour after sunset.
River Report.
Potomac River slightly cloudy and ehen.
andoah very muddy at Hsrpers Ferry; Po-
tomSc slightly muddy at Great Falls today.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Tide Tables.
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in Il
Capital (current month to date):
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-26
Isolation vs. Trade

Japanese chemists are experimenting with various cellulose sources in an effort to free the country from the necessity or importing wood pulp, greatly needed TOT Japanese rayon and paper industries. Experimenters are working with oroad- leaf trees, rice straw, bagasSe, reed, mul- berry bark and soybean husks.
 From Chile comes similar news. cellulose plant has been set up at val diyia. in southern Chile, where 5000 acres of forest have been purchased for explol- tation by up-to-date methods. The Chil- cans have been helped by German experts. Production on commercial scale IS ex- pected to start within year. AS soon as Chile's own requirements are met, cellu- lose is to be exported. Several south American countries, it IS said, nave already made inquiries about it.
 Here is chemical and industrial enter prise which may greatly benefit the coun- tries immediately concerned but which will not be welcome news to the countries from which the Japanese and Chlleans formerly procured their pulp and cellu- lose. Any country has right to make all the things it wants instead of buying some of them from foreign lands, but is the plan sensible in the long run? Any householder has right to stick to his well, his candles for lighting, his own land for the food he eats, his own sheep and his own skill for his clothes, but he pros pers more and has more of the neceSsarieS and comforts of life by following differ ent system.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-26
The Illustrations LnzV Postmaster General Farley's Departmental Book let Broke Congressional Ban on Law
 Against Portraying U. s.
Stamps in Full.
NEW YORK HERALD-TRIBUNE

It all began forty years ago when the Post Office and the Secret Service became disturbed at the sudden crop of two-cent counterfeit stamps that circulated almost any, where following the Columbian Ex- position in Chicago. Metropolitan newspapers had printed full pages of reproductions of the Columbian issues. Counterfeiting seemed to increase with these handsome Sum- day displays, which were excellent for circulation. The Post Office feared that until the source of the stamps was made carefully con- trolled-i. e., the engraving plates themselves-there would be no re- duction of counterfeit postage in circulation. So an illustrations law" was passed forbidding whole fac- similes of United States postage, and editors of "The Scott Stamp and Coin Catalogue" bible for many a young collector, weer forced to use their finest descriptive powers to persuade the philatelist to purchase postage which could not be H. lustrated in their catalogue.
 For many years the stamp people fought the law. Foreign-printed all buns and magazines freely used American postage in illustration, often in color. Though illegal, the