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Evening star., 1939-07-22
II Utilities Cited
By Power Commission
NJ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
The Federal Power Commission
said yesterday 81 public utility COM
panies had been given until August
is to show cause why court action
should not be taken against them
for failure to file original cost state
ments.
The companies named:
Carolina Aluminium Co., the Hart
ford Electric Light Co., the Kansas
Power & Light Co., New York
Power & Light Corp, Ohio Public
Service Co.. Commonwealth Edison
Co.. Kentucky Utilities Co., Mesilla
Valley Electric Co.. Missouri Power
d Light Co., Pennsylvania Edison
Co.. San Diego Consolidated Gas &
Electric Co., Southwestern Gas &
Electric Co., West Texas Utilities
Co., Brockton Edison Co., Iowa Elec-
trio Co., Pittsfeld Electric Co.,
United Electric Light Co., Ozark
Utilities Co., Illinois Northern
Utilities Co., Niagara, Lockport g.
Ontario Power Co.; Wisconsin Gas
& Electric Co.
Commission officials said that un-
der the Federal Power Act these
companies were required to file
original cost statements by January
!, 1889.
Their failure to do So authorities
added, probably was due to desire
on the part OF the companies for
more time in which to prepare their
data.
Continued failure on the part of a
company to file statement, officials
said, would result in the commission
going into the Federal courts for q
compliance order.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
Sonutorium Poisoning
Is Cleared Up

Food poisoning which afflicted
about 50 children and adults at
Glenn Dale tuberculosis Sanatorium
Thursday has been entirely cleared
up, according to DR.. Daniel Finu-
cane, assistant superintendent.
Chicken salad was suspected as
the cause of the disorders, but final
determination has not yet been
made. The trouble caused consid-
cradle discomfort to patients, but
was not considered dangerous.
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen, who
was asked yesterday by Senator Glass
of Virginia to disclose the person
responsible for an order placing 16
colored nurses at Glenn Dale, is out
of the city and is not expected to
return until Monday.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
transportation Bill
Vote Is Postponed
BY House Leaders
Some Predict Truce
With Senote Won't Be
Reached This Session
BY the Associated Press.

House leaders pushed the embat-
tied transportation bill into further
debate today, but decided to defer
final action until weekend absen-
tees returned to the Capital.
Foes of a provision to place cer-
tain water carriers under the juris-
diction of the Interstate Commerce
Commission announced they were
ready to oppose its enactment with
every possible parliamentary strate-
gem.
Its proponents contend this Is a
railroad bill said Representative
Warren, Democrat, OF North Caro-
lima, leader of steering committee
fighting the waterways sections, 80
we intend to test it with vital
amendments
The North Carolinian, declining to
forecast the outcome, was equally
reluctant to discuss the proposed
amendments. 1t was learned, how
ever, that Representative South,
Democrat, of Texas would try to
eliminate the entire section dealing
with water carriers.
Sell-Out Of Consumers Charged.
Some members held that it did
not matter much what changes tho
House made because the bill al.
ready had passed the Senate in
much different form and probably
would be entirely rewritten when tie
two branches sought compromise.
Some Informed legislators went so
FAR as to predict this would take
until next session.
The bill was denounced in the
House yesterday as an COURAGEOUS
sell-out' of consumers and Ship
pers, and praised as promising eff
cient transportation service for all
sections of the country
Representative Wadsworth. Re
| publican, of New York. one of the
two members of the House Inter-
state Commerce Committee op-
posing the legislation. said the
waterways sections sole purpose
was to freeze rates and prevent
competition" He added it was
placed in the bill only at the in
sistence of the railroads.
Umpire" Seen Necessary.
Chairman Lea. Democrat, of Cali
fornia Of the Interstate Commerce
Committee claimed enough votes to
retain the waterways section. He
told the House the measure would
provide a much-needed umpire"
for the transportation agency.
Representative Halleck, Repub-
lican, of Indiana. another commit
tee member, assured the House there
was no intention of gouging any
one and declared the contention
the bill inevitably would increase
water transporta ton rates was un-
| justified
f! Rail and motor carriers are now
subject to 7. c. C. regulation, but
at present the commission does not
have similar authority over water
carriers. The bill would give the
, commission authority to fix both
maximum and minimum rates for
rail and water common carriers
and to establish differentials be-
tween the two types.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
Radium Loans 10 36
Hospitals Approved

The National Cancer Institute has
approved loans Of radium valued at
$3.50, 1000 to SO hospitals in 20 States
and Hawaii
DR.. Thomas Parran. surgeon gen.
eral of the Public Health Service
and chairman of the National Ad-
visory Cancer Council. said the ra-
dium-weighing about 8l2 grams-is
being tested by the Bureau OF
Standards. and will be shipped in
special lead containers in the next
three or four weeks.
Among the hospitals sharing In
the loan are:
Los Angeles County Hospital
Calf: Bonfils Foundation Tuner
Clinic and st. Luke's Hospital, Den
yer. Colo: Sedgewick County Tu-
NOR Clinic. Wichita, Kans.: Norton
Memorial 1nfirmary, Louisville. KY );
the Johns Hopkins Hospital and
University Hospital, Baltimore.
University of Michigan Hospital
Ann Arbor; Missouri State Cancer
Commission Fulton HospitaD and
odi lldl " 1lCC ohlll dllNl NdllScl I1US-
pital, St. Louis, Mo-; Missouri State
Cancer Commission for use in new
State Hospital: Kansas City Mu-
nicipal Hospital, Kansas City, Mo;
University of Nebraska Hospital.
Omaha; Newark City Hospital and
Newark Beth Israel Hospital New
ark. N. J.
Misericordia Hospital, Philadel-
phia; Tumor Institute of the
Swedish Hospital, Seattle, Wash. !;
Queens Hospital, Honolulu.
The institute still has about 1900
milligrams of radium which it will
lend to approved hospitals. The
borrowing institutions, it is said. have
agreed to make no charge for its
use and to meet high standards re-
garding personnel administering ra-
dium treatments.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
Preacher Questioned
In Staying Of Wife
sy the Associated Pres

BY the Associated Press.
FLINT. Mich, July 22-The Rev.
James Wilson Lane. 6l-year -old
part-time preacher, charged with
killing his wife. was held today for
further examination in Justice
Court, after Mrs Helen Sherwood,
Al, whom he employed as house.
keeper, told on the witness stand of
having Illicit relations with the ac-
cused man.
Mrs. Lane, also 81. and partially
blind, was shot fatally in her home
here July 7. Mr.. Lane has main
tanned the shooting occurred acci-
dentally while he was trying to re-
move jammed cartridge from his
rife.
Mrs Sherwood testified that Mrs.
Lane knew of the relations between
Lane and herself. but she objected tG
an attempt to prove that she ano
Lane entered into an agreement tc
marry in the event of Mrs. Lanes
death.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
0tha D. Wearin Urged
For Head Of R. {. A.

Former Representative Otha D.
Wearin, Democrat, of Iowa, who
sought to unseat Senator Gillette in
one of the administrations purge
moves, is being urged for head of the
Rural Identification Administration
it has been disclosed.
Representative Rankin of Missis-
sippi said today Mr.. Wearin had
been indorsed by leaders of the
public power bloc in Congress to
succeed John NJ Carmody, recently
named Public Works administrator
Mr.. Rankin added that numerous
House members had signed a petit
ton urging the appointment, in
cluding Representative Jacobsen
Democratic member from Iowa. The
petition was addressed to Secretary
of Agriculture Wallace, to whose de-
partment the R. E. A. was trans.
ferred in the reorganization pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
Fair and Not So Cool
Forecast Tomorrow

Week lenders Of Washington, unite
and rejoice.
Pack your bags, load the family
into the automobile and set of for
the country.
For the weatherman says the rains
of the last 48 hours are over and
Sunday is expected to dawn bright
and fair
1t may not be quite so cool to-
morrow, the weatherman says, but
the mercury is not expected TO play
any tricks.
And so it stands: Cloudy this
afternoon; fair and not quite so cool
tonight. Sunday fair and warmer
with gentle variable winds becom-
ing southerly.'
During the last 48 hours 81 of
an inch of rain fell, according to the
weather seer, who says this is an
ample precipitation in any league.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
Republican Leader
Sees Danger in
Third-Term Issue
Trend to Dictatorship
Seen in Abandonment
Of Tradition

Walter E. Ernest of New York,
executive vice president of the
National Republican Club. in a
radio speech delivered here last
night, warned the country that
abandonment of the anti-third term
tradition might lead to dictatorship
in the United States
The reasons existing in the days
of Washington, Jefferson and Jack
son for limitation upon the length
of service of a President are now
multiplied many fold.' Mr.. Ernest
said. Changing conditions do not
dispel all similarities Our early
Presidents were fearful of a rever-
sion to monarchy.
Economic upheavals which have
arisen in the last decade, and un-
employment of millions of people,
have become a menace to us as well
as they have been to the leading
and heretofore styled democracies.
In the frantic search of some
European nations for solution of
their problems, their peoples ex-
hibited a willingness to sacrifice
liberties for false promises of Sc
curity. But those urging dictator
ships neither solved their problems
nor obtained security.
Finally. can it be truthfully said
that = there is, after eight years,
only one man fitted by experience
and service to become Chief Execu-
tive? Can it be said that in this
vast country there is nobody but
the present Chief Executive to take
over the reins of government?
If there is no one, then surely
we would be in a sorry plight, and
just as surely would we be headed
for totalitarianism-and deserved
ly SO"
Mr.. Ernest, in an interview before
his radio speech, said that he was
confident New York would be car
ried by the Republican candidate
for President next year, although he
made no prediction as to who that
candidate would be.
IF President Roosevelt is renom-
mated by the Democratic party,
would he be defeated in New York;"
Mr.. Ernest was asked
Undoubtedly replied Mr.. Ernest.
There is very strong anti-Ihird-
term sentiment among many groups
in New York City"
Mr.. Ernest has been mentioned as
a possible Republican gubernatorial
candidate in 1912, when New York
holds its next election for a chief
executive.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
Coming Case Continued
In Upper Marlboro

Es Stan Correspondent OF The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO Md. July
22-Judge Walter L. Green in Police
Court here yesterday continued for
week hearing on charges Of set
ting up and maintaining a gaming
table against two Prince Georges
County businessmen.
The charges grew out of the ef-
forts Of States Attorney H. Win
ship Wheatley. jr, to rid the county
of slot machines. several times de-
clared illegal by courts and legal
rulings. County Policemen Francis
Richards and Richard Earnshaw
confiscated seven machines and ar
rested A. r. Young. %. Of Cottage
City and Edward Roach, 43, Of the
Home Stretch Inn on the Marlboro
pike. The cases were continued on
the plea of Defense Attorney Charles
c. Marbury.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
Bill Providing
More Congress
CLERKS Asked

The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
lief bill on which Congress COM
pleted action in its own behalf last
night was on its ways to the White
House today.
The measure would provide an ad-
ditional clerk for each member OF
the House and Senate. Senators from
States with 100000 population or
more would be entitled to still an
other clerk. The House passed the
bill some time ago, and the Senate
approved it last night.
Senate Majority Leader Barkley
however. protested the action of a
joint House-Senate committee in
striking out a provision for a re-
search assistant for himself and one
for Minority Leader McNary. Vice
President Garner pointed out that
no extra aide was provided for him,
but this was done at his own request.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
More and More College Grads
Remain for Advanced Work
But Dr. GreenIeof Says Most Degree Holders
Bot High in Getting and Holding Jobs

Another answer has been supplied
by the United States once OF Edu-
cation to that old question. What
happens to college graduates after
they leave college?"
A large percentage of them go
back to college, some to their alma
matters, for graduate work in pro-
fessional and specialized fields.
Accurate figures on the number
of holders of bachelor degrees who
seek higher education are not avail
able, but DR.. Walter J. Greenleaf
director of the new Occupational
Information and Guidance Service
OF the Office of Education, cast some
new light on the subject in an in
tervieW today.
College graduates have been cited
widely as the victims of unemploy-
ment and adverse economic condi-
tions. but DR.. Greenleaf contends
an aggressive college man can find
some sort of a job if he tries hard
enough and do better job of even
an ordinary job than the man who
lacks college training.
Factors in Graduate Work.
DR.. Greenleaf cited three factors
in the increasing trend of students
to remain in school after four years
at college or university. They
are greater emphasis upon spe-
cialization in all fields. higher stand
ards in the professions and, to a
lesser extent, inability to find sat-
isfactory employment"
Take teachers, for example" he
said. I'm Washington State, the
District of Columbia, California and
Arizona you can't get job teach
ing until you have masters de-
gree, and you can't get certifi-
cate until year after graduation.
That requirement sends lot of
students back to college.
In other States teachers who
don't have a masters degree or
the equivalent in experience or edu-
cation are not employed, or they
have q hard time getting job.
The masters degree, therefore, is
distinct advantage
DR.. Greenleaf cited the fact that
professional societies and associa-
tions are gradually raising educa-
tional standards and requirements
for the practice Of certain profess
Evening star., 1939-07-22
| Park Employees
|GWe Finnun
Gift

c. Marshall Finnan, former super
intendent of National Capital Parks,
will have something by which to re-
member his days spent in the WASH
ington Office of the National Park
Service.
Park Service employees yesterday
presented Mr.. Finnan. who spent the
day in his Office winding up his af-
fairs. with a silver cigaret box
mounted with turquoise and agate
made by Southwestern Indians and a
signed testimonial conveying their
best wishes in his new job as super
intendent of Zion and Bryce Canyon
National Parks in Southern Utah.
In addition Mr.. Finnan received
other favors from individual en-
ployes of the Park Service plus two
fresh cherry pies from the cafeteria
supervisor in the new Interior Build
ing.
The box was purchased with
money subscribed by Park Service
personnel.
Mr.. Finnan went to New York on
business today but will be in town
the FIRST of the week to make . final
cleanup Of matters still outstanding.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
BY MORGAN Nj. BEATTY,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

Associated HIeSS StdH writer.
The w. P. A. strikes you've been
reading about, and the layof of 650,-
600 w. P. A. workers you soon will be
hearing about, mean that cautious
old Uncle San is trying-after six
years-to slap yardstick on the re-
lief problem.
Until July l of this year, it was
more nearly accurate to say that the
relief problem was taking Uncle
Sans measure.
It's this way:
In fear laden 1888, the Govern
ment acknowledged the responsible
ity of relieving distressed citizens.
The ideal solution was a job for
every citizen, either work in private
industry or work on a Federal
project.
But the idea, most agreed, would
have cost more money than all gov
ernmental units in the United States
could beg borrow or steal. So Gov
ernment compromised. The various
units-Federal. State, county. and
local-pooled their cash and dealt il
out with quick hand. The accent
was on relief-any kind of relief
not on the cost of it.
Adding to the confusion was the
discovery that you couldn't measure
distress. No known yardstick ex-
listed. Nor could you measure the
responsibilities of the various gov
ments. The lives of people wouldn t
fit readily into neat statistical pat
terms. Private industry wouldn't be
prosperous at the touch of button.
And money wouldn't just appear out
Of thin air.
So the Federal Government de-
cided to take the lead in making
guesses-guesses based on a few
Evening star., 1939-07-22

jigsaw had fewer blank spaces. The
President was ready to lop 1000 900
persons of his estimates of the aver
age number of relief workers that
should be cared for in fiscal 1910.
He was ready to have the w. P. A.
administrator recommend a monthly
wage basis for skilled w. P. A. work
ers. This formula simply means
more hours of work at about the
same old pay. Presumably it gives
workers less idle time and keeps
them from competing with outside
workers for odd jobs.
That formula affected the organ
lied fringe of W. P. A. workers. They
protested through organized labor on
the ground that the Government
was driving down per hour wage
scales. About 100000 struck. They
brought to the public's attention
their own dilemma, but they also
brought into the open the issue of
whether labor can bargain with tax
payers. They found out that hag-
Cling with Government is tough
going.
Now comes the formula of Con-
gress to prevent relief workers from
taking their jobs for granted. It's
now the law that $4,000 relief
workers whove been on the job for
18 months must be discharged by
September !. Three hundred thou
sand 60 in July, 350,000 in August
More protests and more headlines
will follow.
And there's still another hurdle
w. P. A. is going to put in simplified
wage scales. Pay will be based on
the cost of living-not on prevail
ing wage scales in the various sec
tions of the country. That will
mean more protests. more headlines
It's hard work whiting out a
yardstick for relief. Nothing ever
seems to come out even.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
Holy Name Society
To Go on Cruise

The Holy Name Society of the
Shrine Of the Sacred Heart will hold
moonlight cruise for the benefit of
the church on the S. S. City Of
Washington August 8. The boat will
leave the Seventh Street Wharf at
$3.50 pm.
The Committee on Arrangements
includes the Rev. John S. Spence,
spiritual director; John Eustace,
chairman. and Louis Seibold, Robert
Werner, George Mihm, John Herrity,
A. H. Kammerer, Norman Strub, A.
j. Bauer, Fred Boiseau, Gordon
Kroger, James Marcy, Thomas
O'Connell, Eugene Kinnally and Leo
Mcclure.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
America Not Indifferent,
Editor Suys in Poris
HI the Associated Press

b the Associated PresS.
PARIS, July oh. j. Haskell
editor of the Kansas City Star. in
an interview published by LIE Petit
Parisien. said yesterday Germany
would be wrong in assuming that
congressional postponement of the
neutrality issue represented Amer
lean indifference to the fate OF
European democracies.'
The newspaper sought out Mr.
Haskell, who is on a European tour
for his Interpretation of American
sentiment. particularly in the Mid
Western belt.
They (Americans) will not return
to fight in Europe" Mr.. Haskell
said. But this is not to say that
they have washed their hands OF
all that happens in Europe
Mr.. Haskell said he foresaw a
possible change in public opinion in
the United States on the matter OF
raising the arms embargo IF cir
cumstances change"
Evening star., 1939-07-22
Moor Seriously III
After Second Operation

j. Balch Moor, insurance super
intendent for the District, who is
suffering a severe abdominal com
plant, today was in GARFIELD Hos
pital, still in a serious condition
following an emergency operation
performed yesterday.
DR.. Fred f. Sanderson performed
the operation.
Mr.. Moor entered the hospital last
week and first operation was per-
formed last Saturday, the surgeon
said. The insurance superintendent
had been improving since the first
operation, but early yesterday morn
ing suddenly took a turn for the
worse. DR.. Sanderson said. and 1t
was decided to perform . second
operation. ...---
Evening star., 1939-07-22

! facts. and some experience. The
guesses crystallized into formulas.
First Formula in 1885.
The first formula was applied in
1885.
Statisticians, social workers, econ
omists, financial experts, expert
enced politicianS-almost everybody
who knew something about some
phase of relief took hand. They
guessed how much the Government
should borrow. how long the depres-
sion would last. (There were some
| bad guesses here) They guessed
what the Federal Government
share of the relief burden should be.
They guessed what was best for the
needy, what the public would want
and stand for.
The result was the work relief
program, represented in broad out
line by the w. P. A.
States and cities took one look at
their treasures and their bond issues
and decided they'd better not stretch
their credit much further. So they
handed out the meager dole. They're
still doing it. The people left out
by the Federal Government get
what cities and States will afford
While that went on for nearly
four years, experts were learning
more facts about unemployment and
the people who suffer from it.
L. II
curate with their estimates of the
unemployed. They figure the total
today is around II 100000 Only the
other day, they reported that $780,
900 of these jobless are members of
| families not utterly destitute That
means these 100000 do share the
income Of some close relative.
More Protests Will Come.
BY July l. therefore, the relief
Evening star., 1939-07-22
Three 0ne-Act Plays
Are Presented al T.. j.

Three one-act plays, written and
staged by students Of the graduate
department of speech and drama at
Catholic University and the Black
friars Guild. were presented last
night at the university's summer
theater in the gymnasium
Ralph Brown, the university's new
instructor of stagecraft from the
Pasadena (Calif) Playhouse, served
as technical director. He was as
sisted by E. Parker Dupler and
Charles Ford. Dan Holland. Pa
tricia King and Francis Mohan
were stage directors.
In the first production, an ar
rangement from Maxwell Anderson S
play, Mary of Scotland" Helen
Hickey and Mary Olive O'Connell
took the parts of Mary. Queen of
Scots, and Elizabeth. Queen of Eng
land, respectively. Their acting in
a dramatic consideration of how
different it might have been" won
high praise from the Rev. Gilbert
" Hartke. o. P, director of the
speech and drama department.
In Edgar Kloten's play, "Alban
and the Monk" Robert Merkle. as
Alban, a Roman soldier, is con-
verted to the Christian cause and
saves monk Orchard Boulger)
from execution. Other players were
Alfred Loritsch, Albert Sigufosse
and William Tobin
Lavender Glass by Doris Sher-
wood, told the story of newly rich
youth (Thomas Hanlon who at
tempted to purchase ancestors and
romance. Others in the cast were
Evelyne Keene Meade. Stephen A
Troden, Grace Mary Colliflower and
Gertrude Heagney.
Members of the stage crew for the
productions were Brothers Cooley
and Freiler, James Brady. Bernadine
McNeany. Bobbie Gaddis, Harry
Rauth and Julius STANCES.
Evening star., 1939-07-22
Boy Captures q Prize
In Doll Contest

A boy. Richard Keys, 5, of 340l N
street NV, won second prize yes
terday In the most unusual doll class
with his Indian chief in the annual
doll contest at Georgetown Play
ground.
Hundreds of dolls of different
shape. size and dress were entered
in the competition by children of
Georgetown. Marie Gavin, l3, of
1887 Thirty-third street NV. won
first prize in the most unusual doll
group. Patsy Davis, 9, of 34OS N
street NV. saw her doll win for
being the prettiest small one, and
Loretta Lorah, II, of 1886 @ street
NV. won first prize for having the
prettiest large doll.