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Evening star., 1939-03-02
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

Senate:
Continues debate on Army expan-
sion bill. Noon.
Secretary Morgenthau testifles on
bill to extend emergency financial
powers. 1890 am.
Social security officials testify be-
fore Byrnes committee on perma-
nent unemployment relief program.
1890 am.
Building and loan association
spokesmen testify before Banking
Subcommittee on proposal to ex-
pand Federal housing program.
2:30 pm.
House:
Starts debate on $499, ,00O, 900 Army
appropriation bill. Noon.
Government Reorganization Com
mittee starts hearings on new legis-
lation. 1870 pm.
Ways and Means Committee con-
tinues social security expansion
hearings. 10 am.
Interstate Commerce Committee
studies bills to eliminate freight rate
di1erentials. 10 am.
Military Affairs Committee con-
tinues hearings on bills to permit
purchase of reserve war materials.
10 am.
Agriculture Committee hears pro-
ponents Of cost-of-production farm
bills. 10 am.
Rivers and Harbors Committee
continues Florida ship canal hear
ings. 10:30 am.
Judiciary Committee begins hear
ings on revamping Federal court
supervision. 1890 am.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Continues debate on national de-
fense bill, 1890 Am.
Territories Committee considers
new Philippine bill, 1890 am.
Interstate Commerce Subcommit-
tee continues hearings on freight
rate bill, 1880 pm.
Education and Labor Subcomnait-
tee meets, 10 am.
Unemployment Committee con-
tinues hearings on social security
changes, 1890 am.
Monopoly Committee continues
hearings. 10 am.
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Percy Crosby's Wife
Files Divorce Suit
Py STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

FAIRFAX, Va, March 2.-Percy
L. Crosby, cartoonist and wealthy
Virginia landowner, will appear in
Circuit Court here March 20 to an
swer a notice of suit for divorce
filed by his wife, Mrs Agnes Dale
Crosby, Tuesday.
The noted artist was served with
the summons at the gate of his es-
tate at Langley, Va, by Deputy
Sheriff Henry P. Magarity of Fair
fax County yesterday as he returned
from trip to Florida. Mrs. Crosby
had left home short time before,
the officer said.
In a petition filed with the suit,
Mrs. Crosby asked the court to re-
strain the artist from molesting
either herself or their four children
She said in the petition that she will
ask for allowance of suit money, ali
mony and an allowance for the
maintenance and education of the
children.
The bill of complaint will be filed
later, it was announced by Attorney
Charles Pickett.
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Booth Schedule

The special music apprecia-
ton campaign booth in tho
lobby of The Star Building is
open from 8 am. to 6 pm. each
week day for distribution of the
sets of recordings of Schubert's
Unfinished Symphony" and
the electric record players. The
booth will be closed all day
Sunday.
Evening star., 1939-03-02

II know, but what kind OF record
and what's it for?
ITS Just an ordinary record for
testing your set when I get 1t hooked
up"
ished symphony with which to test
it. I bought it from The Star along
with the player" :.
The workman sighed, scratched
his head with a screwdriver and
said:
"That's just what I was afraid of.
That's why I brought my own record.
All day long I've been hooking up
these things and all day long I've
been listening to what? To
schubert's Unfinished symphony
No. g in B Minor Now I'd Like to
hear The Umbrella Man."
Evening star., 1939-03-02
East Capitol Auditorium Site
Favored by Two Leaders .
And Another, in Area Of New Hampshire and
Georgia Avenues Extended, Is Urged

This is the 10Th of a series of
articles dealing ,Dtth the audi
torium- stadium problem ro,D
pending in Congress. Further
discussion ,uill tolloW, and the
opinions of readers are inpited.
Two prominent Washington busi-
ness and civic leaders today joined
in the movement for Construction
of the proposed auditorium on a site
at the east end of East Capitol
street, adjoining the Anacostia Park,
in preference to the downtown site
in the Municipal Center.
1T is my opinion that a site
away from the congested downtown
area of the city would be best for
the proposed public auditorium" !"
Clarence A. Aspinwall, president Of
the Security Storage Co.. said.
Mr.. Aspinwau explained that
although he has not familiarized
himself with details of the East
Capitol street location, it would
appear to him, from his knowledge
of the general situation, Ito be
much preferable to a location on
Constitution avenue"
Preston Of Same Opinion.
Prom my point of view, the best
place for this auditorium is that
area east of the Eastern High
School," declared Ord Preston, presi-
dent of the Union Trust Co. and
former president of the Washington
Gas Light Co.
The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission has acquired
and set aside for the proposed local
armory-sports center site south
of East Capitol street and between
Nineteenth street and the Anacostia
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Weather Report

District Of CoumbaSome probability afternoon
mostly colder
fair with rising becoming
souherly
MARYLAND cloudy and colder;
tonight generally with
Virginia cloudy and slightly colder with
this afternoon and in southeast
fair with slowly rising temperature.
West VnsnaFar, tonight
tomorrow increasing cloudness
Evening star., 1939-03-02
II Million iva. Item
Restored as House
Reverses Stand
Funds for GiIbertsviIIe,
Watts Bor Dams, Study
Of New Site Provided

The Tennessee Valley Authority
was free today to carry on it's plans
for extension of the flood control
and power program as the House
and Senate stood in agreement on
an appropriation of sV,2o6,ooo for
immediate use in dam construction
work.
The House previously had refused
the appropriation, but yesterday
reversed itself to concur with the
Senate on that particular item.
Cries of surrender" punctuated
the debate just before the House
agreed, 1874 to ITS, to accept Sen
ate amendments restoring the item
to the $1898.OOOGO independent
offices appropriation bill. T. v. A.
requested the money to continue
work on the Gilbertsville (KyD
Dam, to start construction on the
Watts Bar Dam on the Tennessee
River and to investigate a proposed
dam site at Coulter Shoals in Ten
nessee.
Must o. to Senate.
The House vote removed the most
serious obstacle to final passage of
the huge supply bill. 1t must go
back to the Senate, however, be-
cause the House refused to accept
a Senate amendment denying re-en-
listment gratuities to enlisted men
in the armed forces and the Coast
and Geodetic Survey
Voting to restore the T. v. A.
funds were 174 Democrats, Repub-
licans, 2 Progressives, / Farmer-La-
borite and l -Laborite.
Thirty three Democrats Joined 142
Republicans in opposition.
Representative Woodruff Demo-
crat, of Virginia, in charge of the
bill on the floor, urged the House
to accept the Senate amendments,
asserting:
ITS not a question now of Wheth-
er you agree or disagree with the
T. v. A. program. That was settled
long ago. It's question of whether
it is the part of wisdom to throw
away s5,000,000 that already has
been spent"
Project Called Destructive.
The Virginian assured the House
there was mot dollar in the bill
for power development at Gilberts-
vile.
Critics of the Gilbertsvlle project.
however,. contended that unless it
were halted 80 we can have an
other look at T. v. A. the House
would be "inferentially commit
ting the Government to an aux
iliary program that would cost up
ward of 1892 100000.
Representative Dirksen, Repub-
lican. Of Illinois asserted the. T. v. A.
intended to expand its dam con-
struetion program to point where
it would extend into Illinois.
Representative May, Democrat, of
Kentucky, a bitter foe of the T. v. A.,
said he opposed the Gilbertsville
project because. of its destructive
| ness" 4Ie declared it would in
undate homes. roads. bridges ant
Cther facilities over an area Of 185
square miles. .
Representative Pearson, Demo-
crat, Of Tennessee urged his COL
leagues to ."ra9se eleir sights. for
get. sectionalism and vote for the
| funds to prevent the Government
from throwing away our invest
ment" in the T. v. A.
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Radio Man, Tired of Schubert,
Carries His Own Record

A music-loving member of the
Washington staff of the Associated
Press, attracted by The Stars music
appreciation offer. bought one of
the electric record playing instru-
ments and a set of the record
ings of Schubert's Unfinished
Symphony"
Tucking the package under his
arm the newspaperman hurried
home. Then he called a radio serv-
ice man to hook up the player to
his radio. When the radio man
arrived the reporter noticed he was
carrying not only his tool kit but
something else that looked suspi-
ciously like a record.
What have you got there?" in
quired the reporter, genially.
"A record" replied the repair man.
Evening star., 1939-03-02

The disturbance that was central over
Southwestern Quebec Wednesday morning
has continued to move northeastward and
Is .centered this morning of the coast of
Labrador. Belle Isle, Newfoundland. 2SSS
inches. Another disturbance is moving
rapidly east t-southeastward over the West
ern eern Canadian Provinces, Mlnnedosa.
nI mains low over British Columbia and
s9;!O inches minor disturbance is
Apalaehicoia. ao.o4 inches with a troush ugh
Of Cape Hatteras. where another wave has
developed. Hatteras. 3O.lO inches. Pressure
Is high over the greater part of the United
States. Ontario and Southwestern Quebec
and from Northern Alaska southeastward
to Northern Alberta. Norman. District of
Mackenzie. 1880 inches; Toledo, Ohio,
30. A. inches. and Eureka. Calf. 1925
inches. and pressure is also high from the
Bahamas eastward over the ocean. S. s.
Caraibe. about 700 miles east-southeast Of
Bermuda. 1920 inches. Precipitation has
States. the Southern .Appalachian region.
the lower Lake regioh. the North Pacific
States and the Northern Plateau region
The weather has become colder in the
Eastern and Southern States. while the
temperature has risen from the Pacific
coast eastward to the Upper Mississippi
Valley and Western Lake Superior.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers very
muddy at Harpers Ferry: Potomac muddy
at Great Falls today.
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Mrs. Holmes Honored

ROCKVILLE, Md, March 2 (Spe-
ciaD At a meeting of the super
visors Of elections for Montgomery
County here yesterday resolutions
on the death of Mrs. Clara c.
Holmes, chairman of the board,
were adopted, and the clerk was
directed to send copy to the fam
lily. Mrs. Holmes was member
and chairman of the board for
nearly four years.
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Widow Gets Estote

ROCKVILLE. Md, March 2 (Spe-
ciaD Under the will of Joseph
Howard Ward of Rockville, which
has been admitted to probate in the
Orphans Court here, his widow,
Mrs. Louise B. Ward, receives the
entire estate for life and is named
executrix. Mr.. Ward was a retired
member of the District of Columbia
Fire Department..
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Firm Discharges 24O
For Participating
In Sit-Down Strike
Mass Dismissal Is
Believed First Under
Court Ruling
BY the Associated Press.

NEWARK, N. j., March 2-The
wholesale discharge of 240 workers
who participated in a two-day sit
down strike at the j. E. Mergott
Co. was effected today, company
spokesman said, under recent
United States Supreme Court ruling
which declared an employer could
not be forced to reinstate persons
discharged for sitdown striking.
Emanuel P. Scheck. the spokes-
man and counsel for the company
said he believed the mass discharge,
officially announced this morning,
was the first under the court ruling.
Meanwhile, Samuel l.. Rothbard,
attorney for the C. I. o. in New Jer.
sey announced that I'VE are not 60
ing to pay any attention to the let
ters (of dismissaD. This is a strike
and we are going to win it."
Dismissals Protested.
The strikers, members of the Steel
Workers Organizing Committee &C.
I. o., took over the plant last
Thursday in protest OF what Mr..
Scheck termed dismissal of 10 wom-
an workers the company charged
had "wilfully and deliberately en-
barked on a showdown campaign"
Mr.. Scheck said the sit-downers
started their strike at I'M on Feb
ruary % and left the plant at noon
the next day. when they started
picketing and other strike activities.
The plant has continued in opera
ton with between $50 and 300 en-
ployes at work." he said.
Some of those who joined the
sit -doWners out of fear and intimi-
dation were permitted to return to
work on Saturday" Mr.. Scheck said
II estimate that the company took
back about 20 of those who had not
continued to work with approx
mately $50 to 300 others who con-
tinued to work when the strike
started.
Most of the workers discharged
were not skilled tradesmen. The
majority of the skilled tradesmer
are employed in the tool rooms anc
machine shops which have not beer
affected by the STRIKE" said Mr.
Scheck.
Mr.. Scheck said the plant, manu-.
featuring metal novelties, employed
about 600 persons. He said con.
tract with the C. I. o. Union expired
February l and the company re-
fused to renew it until a vote hac
been taken to determine if the unior
still represented a majority of the
workers.
Prepared Before Decision.
Mr.. Scheck said today that the
notices of dismissal had been pre-.
pared the day after the strike was
called in anticipation of ruling by
the Supreme Court, but had beer
withheld until the courts decision
was announced Monday by CHIEF
Justice Hughes in Washington.
The Supreme Court, ruling on 8
Chicago case in which the N. L. r
B. attempted to force a metallurgi.
cal company to reinstate worker.
discharged after sit-down, de.
clared the board had no right tt
compel such reinstatements and hae
exceeded its authority in attempt.
ing to do so.
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Credentials Missino

CLINTON, Iowa L9.-A baffled
bridegroom -to-be, Vincent C. Corr
ney, Galesburg, ILL.,, appealed to po-
lice after he lost his wedding Ii
cense. Gorzney and his wife-to-be,
Dorothy Fletcher, Morrison, ILL.,, re-
turned to their respective homes
unmarried but hoping the missing
paper would turn up soon.
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Leaders of Service Band,
Loud Music Appreciation
Assistants Also Indorse Campaign
Being Conducted by The Star

Leaders and assistant leaders of
four of the country's most famous
concert bands-the United States
Army, Navy, Marine and Soldiers
Home Bands-enthusiast in
dorsed The Stars music appreciation
campaign today as one of the finest
programs ever launched in Wash
ington in behalf of music.
Something like this should have
been done long ago." 1t. Charles
Benter, conductor of the Navy Band,
declared in praising The Stars plan,
under which recordings of 10 of the
greatest masterpieces in symphonic
literature are being made available
to the public.
"The campaign offers an excellent
opportunity to every one to greatly
increase their enjoyment of music.
All the musicians in the Navy Band
have been talking about the plan
and they think it's marvellous"
Too Good to Miss.
Charles Brendler, second leader
of this noted band, said his library
of recordings includes most of the
symphonic works being made avail
able in The Stars program.
But if I didn't already have
them" he added, Il would have been
one of the first to jump at the op-
portunity made possible by The
Stars campaign. It's too good for
any music lover to miss"
Capt. Thomas F.. Darcy, conduc-
tor of the Army Band. also gave his
unqualified Endorsement and, at the
same time. suggested that the service
bands might work out plan under
which they would play some of the
symphonic works included in The
Stars offer on their regular con-
certs as the campaign progresses.
And to start the ball rolling Capt
Darcy Immediately scheduled the
first movement of Franz Schubert's
beloved unfinished" symphony
the first masterpiece being made
available in the music appreciation
program-for the Army Bands con-
cert next Tuesday at 3:15 pm. over
Station WMAL.
Approves Unusual Offer.
II highly approve of The Stars
unusual OFFER" Capt. Darcy de-
clared. More and more the finer
concert bands are playing music of
q symphonic character, and people
not familiar with this type Of music
are becoming more so through hear
ing the service bands"
William F. Santelmann. concert
master and second leader of the
Marine Band, who has been direct
ing the concerts of this famed
band in the absence of4Capt. Tay-
lor Branson, now on leave, declared
he strongly indorses the campaign
because he believes it offers a Won
derful opportunity to the average
Washington home to enjoy the mu-
sical classics.
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Census Questions Sought

Secretary of Commerce Hopkins
today invited more than 100 leaders
Of business, labor and education to
help select the questions to be asked
In the 1910 census.
Evening star., 1939-03-02
BACKGROUND

Colombia shipped 4,2O0O00 bags
Of coffee to other countries last year.
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in tho
CAPITAL (current month to datel:
Evening star., 1939-11-24
Author of Best Seller Thinks
Is Is His Lucky Number
The Country Lawyer
Is Based on Life of
Portridge's Father

The next time you begin to Won
der about the jinx of "13" remember
Bellany Partridge, author of best
selling "The Country Lawyer"
The book, he said today at the
National Press CLUB, is his 18th.
1t is about his father, Samuel S.
Partridge, whose Civil War regiment
was the 18th Volunteer Infantry
from New York and whose Office was
located at 13 Church street in
Phelps, N. Y.
There were eight children in his
family, Mr.. Partridge added, and,
there were frequently 13 at the
dinner table
The slender authors life included
10 years of legal practice with his
father, then newspaper and maga-
zine writing, bookselling, and book
writing His beSt-seller grew out
OF a collection of annecdotes his
father was keeping at the time of
his death. Mr.. Partridge said.
Nor is he without honor in his
native town. The Phelps Rotary
Club has changed its sign at the
town outskirts from You Are Now
Entering Phelps, Home of the Larg-
est Sauerkraut Factory in the
World" to You Are Now Entering
Phelps, Home of the Country
Lawyer"
Descended from a long line of
lawyers, two of whom sat on the
New York State Court of Appeals,
Mr.. Partridge said his family nipped
Evening star., 1939-11-24

at the New York Hospital yester-
day after months illness.
He was born in Vienna, and after
conducting in Bohemia, came to the
United States in 1915.
After the last opera season he
was stricken with severe arthritis
and heart complications.
He is survived by his widow, the
former Ada Perutz of Prague; Q
son and daughter.
Evening star., 1939-11-24
New York Symphony
Leader Gives Thanks
For Free Country
BorbiroIIi Expresses
Gratitude Before
Pittsburgh Audience
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 24-"It
seems to me that tonight's concert
should be considered kind of serv-
ice of gratitude for the privilege of
making music in a world that sorely
needs it," John Barbirolli declared
before beginning the concert of his
New York Philharmonic-S Symphony
before more than $500 Pittsburghers
in Syria Mosque.
"And we might we'll be grateful
also that there remains this great
country where the fine arts are free,
and men may paint or make music
with no reference to obscure blood
trends or the fanatical whims of a
tyrannical master
enthusiastically Received.
Last nights concert was fourth
in the IA to be played on successive
nights by Americas oldest orches-
ira on the first long tour it has made
in this country since 1929. And the
music was received with unbounded
enthusiasm by capacity house, in
spite of two tragic circumstances
affecting the players and the thou
sands who listened.
One was the news of Artur Bo-
danskys death yesterday in New
York, a death that cost many of the
orchestra's men friend and collab-
orator and Barbirolli a valued col
league.
Tho o+ber v,oc fro in adjoining
East Liberty, which injured l3
firemen and gave many in the au-
dience a Thanksgiving of tense
hours.
chestnut Tree" Feature.
An all-day train ride and the Gus
tomary Thanksgiving food had not
dulled the edge of the orchestra S
playing, and as in other cities Wis
tied there was particular applause
for conductor and men after Jaro-
mir Weinberger's Chestnut Tree"
variations and fugue and the
Fourth Brahms Symphony" the
last of which produced an ovation
which held the audience many min
utes in the hall after the close OF
the concert.
The concert was followed by a re-
ception at the Goth Century Club by
the Pittsburgh Orchestra Associa-
ton. 1t was sponsored by May
Beagle, one of the best known con-
cert manager of America, and long
the mainstay of Pittsburgh musical
life.
Evening star., 1939-11-24
American Hierarchy
Lauds Peace Efforts
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The American hierarchy of the
Catholic Church has expressed its
gratitude to both Pope Plus XII and
the Government of the United States
for efforts to bring peace in Europe.
In a statement prepared by the
hierarchy at the close of its an
nual meeting, the archbishops and
bishops also asked for calm de-
liberation" in this country.
1--WE beg our people neither to
be carried away by Incorporate
emotion, nor to become victims of
hate-mongers who set loose the
evils of cupidity, anger, envy and
revenge" the statement said.
THE first line of Ge1ense against
the involvment of our Nation in the
misery of war is aloofness from
emotional entanglements."
Evening star., 1939-11-24

ment agreements for spring plant
ing and county zoning on main
throughfares to eliminate billboard
advertising in certain zones.
The associated clabs include the
Garden Club of Virginia, the Vir-
ginla Federation OF Home Demon
stration Clubs. the Virginia Fedora
ton Of Women's Clubs, the Virginia
Federation of Garden Clubs and the
Virginia Council for the Protection
Of Roadside Beauty.
Evening star., 1939-11-24

If you have work to do, morning headache
calls especially for fast relief. And the sooner
it's relieved the better for you. Your own
doctor will tell you this.
That's why we emphasize, repeatedly, the
speed with which genuine Bayer Aspirin starts
to work-starts to relieve headache
pain. To get it, all you do the instant w
pain starts, is take Bayer Tablets with X
full glass of water. Relief usually be- h
gins in remarkably short time. i n;
And since genuine Bayer Aspirin Il
now costs only 1c a tablet, two or .
three cents worth relieves most head v
aches. So anyone really interested in I
Evening star., 1939-11-24

fast relief can now afford it at this low price.
But be sure when you buy, to get fast
acting Bayer Aspirin. Get it by asking for it
by its full name Bayer Aspirin . Never
ask for aspirin" alone when you want the
real Bayer article.
Evening star., 1939-11-24

ginia for Roadside Development
have launched a dual program for
eliminating unsightly roadsides and
enhancing the natural attractions
Of the Old Dominion.
The program calls for roadside
planting, Identification of school
grounds, promoting cleanup drives,
encouraging better and cleaner fill
ing stations and places of business
along the roads, highway safety ard
the regulation of outdoor advertis-
ing.
Women Back Program.
Perhaps that is a large order
for an organization to undertake, F."
said Mrs. D. c. Sands Of Middle
burg, president Of the clubs, 'but
with 10000 Virginia women strong
ly backing such a program it is
believed that progress along these
Evening star., 1939-11-24
Bodonzky, Conductor
At Metropolitan, Dies

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-Arthur
Bodanzky, 81, conductor of the Met
ropolitan Opera Co. since 1915, died
Evening star., 1939-11-24
|C|ubs in Virginia
Launch Drive 10
beautify Roads
10000 Women Back
Program to Attract
More Tourist Trade

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va, Nov. s24.-Hop-
ing to make Virginia more attrac-
tive for tourist traf1ic, members
OF the Associated Clubs of vir-
Evening star., 1939-11-24

in the bud a plan he had of working
for the New York Sun and by ma
jority rule" entered him on a career
of law, which he abandoned to write.