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Evening star., 1938-03-15
FIREmEN ASK RIGHT
TOJ0INA. FL. GROUP
Amendment of Code to Permit
Afiiliation With Unit Urged
by Association.

Amendment Of the District code to
permit afflliation of the Firemen's As
sociation with the International Asso-
citation Of Fireighters was requested
at q meeting of the organization last
night at Pythian Temple
District laws now forbid either police
or firemen to join any labor organiza-
ton which permits strikes to enforce
its demands, or to be a member of any
organization which is affiliated with
another group which employs strikes.
The International Association of
Firef1ghters is an affiliate of the
American Federation of Labor, but
the associations own constitution for
bids strikes. oficials of the group ex-
planned. Both officers and men Of the
District Fire Department are members
Of the local association.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
PUBLIC AID ASKED
IN NUMBERS WAR
Program to Curb D. C. Crime
to Be Given Trade Board
Tonight.

Designed to help decrease crime in
washington, program of several
points will be presented for approval
tonight to the Washington Board Of
Trade by its Public Order Committee.
This was disclosed at a meeting Of
the committee yesterday, presided over
by Chairman Odell S. Smith at the
| Raleigh Hotel. David A. Pine, new
United States Attorney, the principal
speaker, outlined policies OF his office
and called for continued agitation Of
the crime question to keep the public
crime conscious"
Three principal needs for the city
were outlined by Chairman Smith:
That public opinion should be
aroused and crystalized against the
insidious numbers game
Legislation Demanded.
THAT the numbers game bill now
before Congress. or some other more
workable bill in place of same, be
enacted clothing the police with
greater power to cope with this form
Of gambling.
THE enactment Of vagrancy law
which will make Washington a most
undesirable place for the vicious and
the criminally inclined"
The resolution to be recommended
by the committee was officially ap-
proved by the committee last month
1t takes up the question of dangerous
criminals charged with serious crimes
and long at liberty on apparently in
adequate bonds"
The resolution recommends officials
to require amply sufficient bonds" to
speed cases to final disposition, to
guard against leniencies of proba ton
or suspended sentences in any but cases
clearly meriting them and to assure
that, in cases where probation viola
tors or persons under suspended
sentence are arrested for a separate
of1ense, such persons will be charged
with such separate offense, and prose-
cuted therefor, in addition to having
their probation revoked or previously
suspended sentences imposed, where
the gravity of the defendants inter-
vening record or, of the instance Of
fense is such that this course appears
proper
Mr.. Pine said one difficulty about
the numbers racket was the lack of
public support. Officials should be
given an opportunity to curb the num-
bers game, he declared, asking that
the public do not talk down" the ef-
forts of officials trying to do their
duty
Expressing belief progress" was
being made, the United States attorney
pointed to so convictions, of whom 20
have gone to jail, with Is on pro-
baton and the rest awaiting SEN
tence. Probation or fines mean little
or nothing to these violators. he said
Jail was penalty which should have
its effect.
The numbers racket" he character
lied as dangerous" because of the
fact that the operators are prey" Of
hijackers, robbers and home break
ers'
Speedy trials also should help to
impress law violators, he said.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
REz0N|NC BARRED
|NSL|G0PARKWAY
Fusionists Also Replace
Eaton, Building Official,
With Paul Imirie,
B. a Stan Correspondent of The Star.

ROCKVILLE, Md, March 15.-Fu.
sionists on the Montgomery County
Board Of Commissioners today denied
the Sligo Parkway rezoning applica.
tion and replaced j. S. Eaton, assistan,
county building inspector, with Pau
1mirie. Bethesda building contractor.
The commissioners two weeks agc
rescined action in rezoning a 2O-acre
tract on Sligo Parkway between
Huston and Montgomery avenues
from residential A to residential C
which permits apartment house con-
struction, after Commissioner Charlie;
E. King resigned and was replaced by
Clay Plummer
The matter laid on the table unit
this morning, when Commissions,
Paul E. Coughlin moved to deny the
application. made by E. Brooke Lee
as agent for the Sligo Park properties
Mr.. Coughlin, Republican Fusionist
was supported by Commissioners
Frank H. Karn. board president. an
other Republican Fusionist, and Mr.
Plummer, an anti-organization Demo-
cratic Fusionist.
Lansdale Opposes Act.
Commissioner Richard H. Lansdale,
organization Democrat, who favored
the rezoning when first proposed last
month, bore the brunt of the Fusion
offense, as Commissioner Robert D.
Hagner was absent, due to illness
Mr.. Lansdale voted against denying
the application, stating that the
boards previous action in granting it
had given the property an additional
value, which he believed the board
had no right to take away.
F. Bernard Welsh, board counsel,
stated that in his opinion the board
had a right to change its decision as
long as the Sligo properties had rot
yet started construction work or SUI
fered any damages. Mr.. Plummer, in
supporting Mr. Coughlin's motion,
stated he did so only after thorough
consideration and after talking with
residents of the vicinity.
The motion to terminate the serv-
ices of Mr.. Eaton came from Mr..
Plummer and was supported by the
other two Fusionists. Mr. Eaton was
formerly considered a Fusion adherent.
His nomination last November to sue
ceed E. j. Gray, who resigned a
month before, was moved by former
Commissioner King, however, and sec
onded by Mr.. Hagner. Fusion board
members said they believed he was
leaning toward the organization Dem
ocrat Zine"
The appointment OF Mr.. Imirie came
as a mild surprise. however. as he
is member of the Young Democratic
Club in Bethesda, organization Demo-
cratic group, and the son of John
1mirie, who ran for the House of
Delegates in 1884 on the organizat ton
Democratic ticket,
Evening star., 1938-03-15
SnO,v-RenOuuI
Parking Bans
Are NO,U Lifted

The Districts snow-removal parking
ban-a superfluous regulation as far
as the winter of 1878 A. d. was
concerned-expired at 8 am. today.
Perhaps the weather man miscon-
strued the law as a prohibition against
snow, rather than parking. At any
rate. there was not enough snow to
bring the plows out Of their sheds a
single time
I'VE we're right on edge several
times, ready to call extra men to
work." said William xanten, super
visor of city refuse, today, but there
wasn't enough snow to shovel"
Once in January Mr.. Xanten's
workers thought conditions were bad
enough to apply sand to the city's
main thoroughfares, out the snow
plows were totally unemployed.
The ban, which prohibited parking
between am. and 8 am. on about
55 miles Of District streets. had been
in effect since December IS.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
POLICEMAN SUSPENDED
UNDER ORDERS BY ICKES
Secretary and Aides Will Make
Own Investigation of Ticket
Fixing Case.

Secretary Ickes. it was learned to-
day, has suspended Onicer Emmett
Saar Of the Park Police, who was
recently before a Police Trial Board
of the National Park Service, on
charges Of Irregularities in allegedly
fixing" trafhc ticket on his own
responsibility. The cabinet of1icer
and his aides desire to investigate
fully the written record of the case
before the trial board, which indicated
the policeman was not guilty as
chaged and also to make their own
investigations of various aspects Of
the case.
The policeman, who has had 4
continuously good record on the force,
officials said, also was accused Of COL
fusion with a colored lawyer in Trafnc
Court in conjunction with the case.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
Congress in Brief
TODAY,

4o0A1.
Naval-House continues to debate
expansion program.
Government reorganization-Sena
votes on civil service provisions.
Taxes-Senate Finance Committee
questions Treasury experts.
Monopoly-Senate committee con-
tinues hearings on corporation icens-
ing bill.
Unemployment - Special Senate
committee seeks estimates on costs
Banking-House committee holds
hearing on bill FOR Government owner
ship Of Federal Reserve Banks.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Probably will debate Wheeler amend
ment to reorganization bill.
District of Columbia Subcommittee
meets at 1890 am. on bill to require
liens against automobiles to be record
ed at the Motor Vehicle Department.
Judiciary Subcommittee resumes
hearings at 10:30 am. on OMahoney-
Borah licensing bill.
House:
Continues debate on Navy expansion
bill.
Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Committee considers ship radio bill,
10:30 am.
Patents Committee continues con-
sideration Of trade marks bill. 1915
am.
immigration Comittee considers pri-
vate bills, 1880 am.
Subcommittee of Labor COMMITTEES
continues consideration Of wage and
hour bill, 1890 am.
Subcommittee Of Appropriations
Committee continues hearings on War
Department supply bill (non-militAry),
10 am. 80 , D.. "t =. 80. =
District Committee considers racing
bill, 1890 an.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
HIT BY LEGISLATOR
James L. Quinn Criticizes Lax
Methods in Talk in Behalf
of Barbers' Bill.

Speaking on behalf Of q local bar
bers' licensing bill, Representative
James L. Quinn. Democrat. of Penn
sylvania told Washington BARRIERS last
night that lax methods by the Health
Department and improper sanitary in
spection in the past were responsible
for the high death rate in the Dis
trict.
The licensing bill, to be considered
by the Senate this week, aims at the
improvement OF business and the pro-
lection OF the health of every one
engaged in the business, As we'll a.
the clients, Mr.. Quinn said. The bill
already has been passed by the House
and will be the first BARRIERS licensing
act in the District. If accepted.
Mr.. J. w. Weibel, vice president of
the Journeymen Barbers' International
Union Of America, also spoke at the
meeting, which was held, at Typo
graphical Temple, 423 G street NV.
Fred Winstead, president of the local
union, presided.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
CURTAIL EXPENSES
IN FOREIGN POSTS
q. S. Cancels $50, 900 Contract for
Work on Diplomatic Building
in Vienna.

Chairman McReynolds Of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee disclosed
today that the Government Is cur
failing expenditures on its diplomatic
buildings in Vienna and Shanghai.
Mr.. McReynolds said $4,000 con-
tract for improving the residence Of
the American Minister in the Aus
trian capital had been Cancelled yes
terday.
The committee approved today a
bill to cancel the remainder OF a
$750,000 sum allocated to construc-
ton Of Government ofiices in Shang-
hal and authorized its expenditure in
Havana, Lima, Panama and Rio De
Janeiro.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
BUSINESS MEN ELECT

The following officers of the Park
view Business Mems Association were
elected at its meeting last night in
the Georgia avenue branch Of the City
Bank. 1908 Georgia avenue NV:
Max Schwartz, president; N. Nickols,
f1rst vice president; Jack Zoltow, Sec
ond vice president; Theodore Lob
meyer, treasurer; William Cohen
financial secretary, and c. Ford, Sec
retary.
Evening star., 1938-03-15

Inc disturbance that was central over
Colorado Monday morning has moved slow
ly eastward to Kansas with increased in
tensity. Wichita 29o4 inches and pressure
remains low from Alaska southeastward to
Montana and North Dakota, Cordova. Alas
q. $3.50 inches and Fort Smith. district
of Mackenzie, 1926 inches. The north
ing northeast Of Newfoundland. Belle Isle
1923 inches, and a broad trough extends
thence southwark to latitude 40 degrees
and from there weSt-southwestward to
North Carolina. Raleigh. 5000 inches.
These disturbances have been attended by
rain in the Rocky Mountain and Northern
Plateau regions the North Pacific States.
the Plains States. the Ohio. the Missouri
and Middle Mississippi Valleys. the Appala-
chan REGION. the Middle Atlantic States
Southern New York and Southern New Eng
land. An are of high pressure is moving
slowly ast-SOutheastward over the Lake
region. the Middle Atlantic and North
American States. and Quebec. San Maur,
Quebec 3O.4S inches. and pressure re-
mains high over California and Nevada.
Fresno' Calf. 1920 inches. and from
Florida eastward over the ocean, s. s.
ture has fallen in. the Ohio Valley. the
Middle Atlantic and North Atlantic States
and the Rocky Mountain region. while it
has risen in the Lower Missouri and Upper
Mississippi Valleys and in the Northern
Lake region. The weather continues un-
seasonally warm throughout the Southern
States.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear at
Harpers Ferry. Potomac clear at Great
Evening star., 1938-03-15
Engineer to Speak.

BLADENSBURG. Md. March Is
(SpeciaD.-Harry R. Hall. chief en-
gineer of the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission, will address the
Greater Bladensburg District Citizens
Association here tomorrow night at
8 o'clock.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
STRIKE AT LOS ANGELES
THREATENS TO SPREAD
Action Will Be Taken to Stop
Vessels Diverted to Other
Ports, Union Says.
~ the Asaoeiatad press

~ the Associated presS.
/ SAN PEDRO. Calf, March Is
Los Angeles Harbor,s newest labor
dispute. throwing 5000 longshoremen
out Of work, threatened today to af-
feet all Pacific Coast shipping.
Longshoremen received q pledge OF
support from the San Pedro Council
Of the Maritime Federation Of the
Pacific. sn e..
II operators divert San Pedro bound
vessels to other West Coast ports. q
spokesman for the federated union
said, action will be taken to stop
Evening star., 1938-03-15
ORCHESTRA SOLOIST
Senator Vandenberg's Daurhter
to Play Here Tonight.

Miss Elizabeth Vandenberg, daughter
Of Senator Vandenberg Of Michigan,
will be guest soloist with the Wash
ington Civic Orchestra at its concert
tonight at Centrsl High School under
the direction Of Esurt Hetzel.
Miss Vandenberg will play Bee
thoven's Concerto dn G Minor" She
has also appeared with the Rockford
Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Rap
ids Symphony Orchestra and the
Radio Symphony Orchestra led By
Frank 1laek
Evening star., 1938-03-15
ITALIAN A|RPLANES|
RAv|SH OLD SPAIN
LoyaIists Describe Havoc
in Land Once Part of
Roman Empire.

he said ponld end the Spanish
cival conflict. The campaign Il
noD underway NTH the aid of
italian troops and the insurgents
are attempting to drive a ,oedpe be-
t,Ceen Catalonia and the remainder
OF Loyaltst territory.
BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, March l5.-Ancient Spain
is being devastated. = government
communique said today. by = goth
century Italian Army.
Describing the Spanish insurgent
march eastward toward the Mediter-
ranean, the government itself told of
artillery and motorized columns and
bombing planes sweeping through the
ancient land that once vas part of
the Roman empire.
Italian troops and German and
italian planes took part in the insur-
gent capture yesterday of Alcupiz, in
Eastern Spain, IS miles from the
Mediterranean. the government de-
clared.
While the troops struck directly
against the city. the government re-
lated. the planes spread death and
confusion over a dozen coastal towns
Almost hourly the planes swung
along the main Barcelona to Valencia
highway. now the most dangerous
250-mile stretch for government con-
voys.
No car along the heavily congested
road within the last three days es-
capped ,ttack. and motorists frequent
ly deserted their cars and jumped into
roadside bitches until danger was
past.
Civilians found one refuge in Tara
gona, outside Barcelona, in ancient
Roman caves which still form . part
Of the picturesque ports architecture
and the foundation for more modern
structures
Reus Tortosa suffered particularly
heavy damages from the aerial raid
ers. who today directed their efforts
to protecting the infantry advance
from Alcaniz. designed to cut gov
ernment Spain in two and isolate
Catalona from the remainder Of sov-
ernment territory
Should this advance be unchecked
rs it enters dif1cult mountain ranges
east Of Alcaniz. the insurgents would
carry their front line into Catalonia.
which hitherto has been untouched
by the war except for aerial raids over
many OF its busy industrial cities.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
THE WEATHER REPORT

District OF with slowly rising
Maryland-Ran
VHginia-Rain tonight
row and in north and ong
West VrginiaRan
Evening star., 1938-03-15

Record for Last - Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest. so. at 1890 pm. yesterday.
Year ago 35.
Lowest. 81 at z am. today. Year
ago, %.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, II. on February 18.
Lowest 1s. on Jsnuary 2s.
Humidity for Last - Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon todayO
Highest. 93 per cent, at 3 am. yester-
Lowest. So per cent. at moor today.
TidA TahlAs
Evening star., 1938-03-15
River Report.

Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers {
Harpers Ferry: Potomac clear at
Falls today.
Report for Last r. Hours.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
RAILROAD PARLEy
IS SLATED TODAY
President and Leaders to
Meet at White House
to Study Problems.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
President Roosevelt told the In
terstdte Commerce Commission last
December it wos up to the commits
sion to deuise remedy for Ill
health of the railroads. The CLIO.
has not proposed any long-ranoe
program. Out OF the White House
meeting is expected to come some
plan tor reorganization and con-
soliddtion.
Evening star., 1938-03-15

Furnished BY United States Coast and
GeOdetic Suryey)
Evening star., 1938-03-15
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inc
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-28
Striking Electric Railway
Workers Defeat Pay Cut

Chicago (ILNS).-M Members of Di-
vision No. 900 of the Amalgamated
Association of Street, Electric Rail
way and Motor Coach Employees of
America, employees of the Chicago,
North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad
an electric line, have approved terms
of a contract which calls for cancel
lation of a Is per cent wage reduc-
tion which precipitated strike, !"
termed by labor leaders lockout be-
cause of the management's fiat re-
fusal, at first, to negotiate with the
union.
The pact provides that the scale of
wages in effect August Is shall be paid
for 90 days An amount up to 20 per
cent of the scale may be paid in re-
ceiver's certificates for the first so
days and for the last 80 days an
amount up to 15 per cent may be paid.
Employees whose rate is so cents an
hour or less are to receive full wages
in cash.
Matters are to be turned over to a
board of arbitration and, after the
90-day period, if no other agreement
is reached, the present contract is to
be continued.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-28
Secretary of Labor
Addresses @. r. c. Meet

Columbus, O. (OLNS). Secretary
of Labor Frances Perkins addressed
the international convention of the Or
der of Railway Conductors here last
Saturday, the second day of the three
day annual meeting.
More than 1,500 delegates were
seated in Memorial Hall as the con-
vention opened Friday. It marked the
first time in the history of the organ
ization that the auxiliary met in joint
convention. The conductors organ
ization was formed 70 years ago and
the auxiliary SO years ago.
George M. Harrison, spokesman for
the railroad brotherhoods and presi-
dent of the Brotherhood Of Railway
Clerks, also addressed the convention.
j. A. Phillips, Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
president of the conductors, was un-
able to attend the convention due to
hearings being held in Washington by
the fact-fnding board studying the
wage cut dispute between the railroad
brotherhoods and the operators.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-28
A. F. of L. Forms Eighteen
Aluminium Workers Unions;
Raids Of C.. |. O. Thwarted

BY A. f. of l.. Weekly News Service
Houston, Textile establishment
of 18 unions of aluminium workers by
the American Federation of Labor de-
spite the raiding policy applied to this
industry by John l.. Lewis secessionist
Committee for Industrial Organization
was reported by the federation's Ex-
ecutive Council to the annual conven-
ton of the A. F. of L. here.
eve have carried forward our work
of organization among those employed
in the aluminium manufacturing indus
try with renewed vigor during the past
year." the report declared. I'm this
particular field, however, the secession,
dual movement has carried on raid
ing policy We met this challenge in
a firm and uncompromising way.
"There are 18 federal labor unions
of aluminium workers chartered by and
affiliated with the American Fedora
tion of Labor. Wage scales have been
negotiated between these aluminium
workers and their employers.
1T is our purpose to continue our
organizing campaign in a firm and de-
termined way among those employed
in the aluminium manufacturing in
dustry"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-28
GooD-As FAR AS 1T GOES

Secretary Wallace proposes to dump
our surplus food crops at home instead
of abroad, to grind the wheat and pre-
serve the fruits and vegetables which
would otherwise break the market, and
use them in relief work or sell them at
loss to low-income workers not on
relief.
1t is frst-class proposals far
as it goes. No memory is more mad
dening than that of 1882, when wheat
and corn rotted in the fields and hogs
actually were slaughtered to rot while
tens of millions of people did not get
enough to eat. Wallace's plan would
avert that but what would he do with
the cotton?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-28
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

by the more representative name of
Communism Kautsky lived and
fought through those first and form
ative years, only later to see the fur
ther eclipse of the Democratic
powers, which had been as a rising
sun in Germany and Austria in pre-
war days, not only by the tremendous
power of the Communists but also by
the Hitler -Nazi party, first in Ger
many, and then in his own country.
Widespread unrest among German
workers, whose conditions grow daily
worse under the oppressive regime of
Adolf Hitler and his associates, is re-
ported in the Information Service of
the German Trade Unions, published
by the international Federation OF
Trade Unions.
Considerable sections of the popu-
lace which prior to 1888 were pro-
Nazi, are now completely disillusioned
and share with their fellow workers
deep hatred of the regime.
All kinds of privileges were prom
ised them by Hitler before his acces-
sion to power. None of those prom.
ises has been fulfilled.
Conditions are reported particularly
bad in Western Germany, where
masses of workers have been virtually
pressed into the task of building for
tifcations.
The lengthening of hours is uni
versal and is part of general "speed
ing-up" which has resulted in whole
sale exploitation of the workers.
working week of from 60 to 96 hours
is now the rule rather than the ex
ception.
Even 100 per cent Nazis are de
pressed by the bad conditions which
prevail, and by the dread that Hitle
is leading Germany into war o
aggression.