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Evening star., 1939-05-16
n. |. R. B. Is Accused
OF Attempt 10 Make
Case for T.. |. 0.
Independent Workers
Spokesman Testifies
At Senate Hearing
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A spokesman for an independent
workers organization charged before
the Senate Labor Committee today
that National Labor Relations Board
representative had attempted to
make a case" for c. I. o. union in
Pennsylvania hosiery mill strike.
Fred Werner, president of the
Berkshire Employees Association of
Reading. Pa, asserted the board con-
Quoted an unfair and one-sided'
hearing in dispute growing out OF
a strike in the Berkshire Knitting
Mills in october, 1886.
Methods Assailed.
Indorsing changes in the Wagner
Act proposed by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. Mr.. Werner said
in statement placed in committee
records:
ut is my belief that the prin-
ciples of the Wagner Act have a
degree of merit and might serve to
bring industrial harmony, but the
methods in which this law has been
enforced have been little short of
outrageous, scandalous and inducive
to labor friction and strikes"
He charged that the board was
biased in favor of the American
Federation of Hosiery Workers, a
c. I. o. affiliate, in seeking dis
establishment of his organization.
Hoffman Asks Changes.
Meanwhile, on the other side of
the Capitol Representative Hoffman,
Republican, of Michigan asked the
House Labor Committee to write
into the Wagner Act Supreme Court
rulings in recent Labor Board de-
cisions.
First, he said, Congress should
put into the law the Courts de-
cision that workers engaging in sit
down strikes lose their status as
employees and need not be COM
pensated for time while they stay
away from their jobs.
Representative Hoffman also said
the law should contain the opinion
that when an employer and repre-
sentatives of his workers have ne
gotiated honestly without agree
ment, the requirements of collective
bargaining had been satisfied.
He also proposed that the N. L.
R. B. be prohibited from inf1icting
a punitive penalty on an employer
unless it is specifically provided for
in the law and that it be denied
the right to invalidate bona fide
contracts between an employer and
his workers.
Evening star., 1939-05-16
District National Guard
Parade Tonight on Mall

Officials and members of the Fed
Grafton of Citizens Associations,
Board of Trade and the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association
will be guests of the District Ma
tional Guard tonight when more
than 1900 Guard troops pass in
review on the Mall.
The review, marking the first an
niversary of the command of Brig.
Gen. Albert L. Cox, will be held
at 9 pm, with the Guardsmen pass
ing before their guests, who will
be seated in special reviewing
stand located between Fourth and
Sixth streets.
Following the demonstration
there will be an inspection of equip
ment on the drill field and then
reception at the armory.
Col. John w. Oehmann, COM
mander of the 121st Engineers, will
command the parade. His execu-
tive officer, 1t Col. Julian S. Oliff
heads the list of large number
of Guard officers and men who will
be presented with service bars. Col
Oliff will receive a 35-year- service
bar, and next in rank of seniority
honor will be one of his subordi-
mates, Master Sergt. John B. Coff
man, sr., sergeant major of the
engineers headquarters and Serv-
ice Company.
Evening star., 1939-05-16
Assistant Cashier
At Post Office Dies

Charles F. Knockey, 81, an assist
ant cashier at the City Post Office
where he had been employed fol
some 80 years, died Sunday in
Emergency Hospital after short
illness.
Mr.. Knockey, who lived at PALS
Thirty ninth place NV, was life
long resident Of this city. Funeral
services were scheduled to be held
at 2 pm. today in the William Reu-
ben Pumphrey funeral home, Be.
theSda, Md. Burial will be in Rock
Creek Cemetery.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Dorothy Henderson Knockey; q
daughter, Miss Catherine A
Knockey; six sisters, the Misses
Clara, Stella, Annie and Minnie
Knockey, Mrs. Katherine Burct
and Mrs. Irving Taylor, and 8
brother, William Knockey, all o1
this city.
Evening star., 1939-05-16
Capt. Moore Is Ordered
To Duty in Capital

Capt. Charles ]. Moore, U. S. N,
has Seen ordered detached from
duty on the staff of the commander,
Battle Force. where he is serving as
operations officer, and assigned to
duty next month in the Office of
naval operations, Navy Department.
Well known in Washington, where
he has had several tours of duty,
Capt. Moore married Miss Anna
Louise Kittelle of this city April IL,
1921.
Comdr. Thomas V. Cooper has
been ordered detached from the
Naval Examining Board here next
month and assigned to the Naval
War College, Newport, R. l., as a
student. Comdr. Francis G. Dene-
brink, formerly on duty at the Navy
Department as press relations off,
Ger, has been ordered relieved Of
duty at the Naval Academy, An
napolis, and assigned to the cruiser
Brooklyn as executive officer.
Evening star., 1939-05-16
Coast Guard Bills Go
To Senate From House
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
The House passed yesterday and
returned to the Senate with minor
amendments bills to increase the
commissioned personnel of the Coast
Guard and to liberalize Coast Guard
retirement laws.
1t also passed and sent to the
Senate for action a House bill to
establish a Coast Guard reserve
corps.
The first would increase the total
number of line officers by 154 and
two district commanders, give the
engineer in chief rank of rear ad-
miral while so serving and create
the Office of assistant commandant
with the rank of rear admiral.
The present authorized number
of line officers is 594, and the rec
commended increment would bring
the total to $50.
The bill to create a Coast Guard
reserve would create an organiza-
ton of motor boat and yacht own
ers, entirely voluntary in character,
who would receive no compensation
for personal services, but would au-
thorize the Coast Guard to make
use of their motor boats and yachts
when volunteered for such duty as
life saving and policing of regattas.
Evening star., 1939-05-16
Snite Expecting
No Miracle al
'Lourdes Shrine
Respirotor Transferred
From Trailer to Ship
In l6 Minutes
BY the Associated Press,

~
NEW YORK, May 16-The smil-
ing young man in the iron lung
sails tonight for France on a pill
grimage to the Shrine of Our Lady
Of Lourdes, where hundreds Of the
earth's afflicted throng annually in
the hope of miraculous recovery.
His father said, however, that 29-
year-old Fred B. Snite. jr., whose
home and prison for three years
has been an 800-pound mechanical
respirator, doesn't expect miracle ~
He wants to offer thanks for
Gods blessings and pray for the
strength to carry on" said the elder
Snite, Chicago financier.
His trip north has been the best
he has had since his illness, and he
is in excellent spirits"
Young Snite, who was stricken
with infantile paralysis in China in
1886, arrived last night by private
railroad car from Miami, Fla, on his
12,000-mile trip.
After being removed to his spe-
cially equipped trailer, he was es-
corted by police through the Times
Square belt en- route to the pier
of the French liner Normandie. He
glanced eagerly at his surroundings
reflected in an overhead mirror-his
window to the world.
Attendants took only 16 minutes
to transfer the bulky respirator from
the trailer to his suite aboard the
ship, which sails at midnight.
He will return here June 26 and
see the New York Worlds Fair be-
fore going on to Chicago.
Evening star., 1939-05-16
THE WASHINGTON G, TUESDAY, MAY 1e 1885,
Doctors Oppose |ndiscriminote
Tooth and onsi| Jerkinas'

infection cannot ,oe justified, the
Philadelphia physicians said.
Thousands of persons in the
United States have had all their
teeth extracted in the hope of get
ting relief from arthritis, rheuma-
tism or other conditions, DR.. Rel
mann declared. and still have it.
Also thousands of parents believe
that tonsil eXtractions are certain
insurance against the occurrence of
sore throats, colds and ear infec-
tions. Both groups are frequently
disillusioned.
Frequently tonsil and tooth in
fections disappear when a person
with general infection improves,
DR.. Reimann added, indicating that
the mouth and throat symptoms are
result, rather than cause, of such
conditions. He urged physicians to
do thorough diagnosis of such
cases instead of accepting the most
likely cause and to remember that
the complications of tooth and tonsil
operations may be serious.
Evening star., 1939-05-16
Justice Cordozo's Estate
Valued at S32o, 500
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 16.-Beniamin
N. Cardozo. late associate justice Of
the Supreme Court. left an estate
of $685. 500. it was shown today in
the filing of a transfer tax appraisal.
He died July 9. 1888.
Columbia University will receive
S180,622 as the residuary legatee.
Securities in the estate were
valued at S145,376, of which the
United States Treasury 27s per cent
certificates, due March Is, 1860,
were valued at Sl3l,703
Miss Kate A. Tracy of Washing
ton. D. c., Justice Cardozos house.
keeper for 40 years. was beueathed
$4,000 in grateful recognition of
her devoted service during many
years to my deceased sisters, Eliza
beth and Ellen, and since their
death to me-"
The will and Its codicil, hand
written in ink and totaling about
1000 words. was filed for probate
July % in Westchester County Sur
rogate's Court at White Plains.
Evening star., 1939-05-16
Committee Reports
Heard as P.-T. A,
Opens Sessions
Training for Democracy
To Be Topic Of Talk
By Dr.. Beotty

More than 500 members of the
District of Columbia Congress o.
Parents and Teachers assembled ir
the Departmental Auditorium or
Constitution avenue today in the
opening session of the Goth annua
convention.
Reports of committee activities
during the last year occupied the
first session, at which Mrs. G. D
Lowe, first vice president, presided.
DR.. Willard w. Beatty, supervisor
OF education in the United States
Office of Indian Affairs, was to speak
on Training for Democracy" the
theme of the convention, this after
noon. Also scheduled for this after
Moons program was recital by the
Mothersingers, and report from
the national convention in which
Mrs. Lowe was expected to tell of
the opposition furnished by the Dis
trict delegates to the decision to
move national headquarters from
the District of Columbia to Illinois.
Following registration this morn
Ing, there was professional march
into the auditorium led by Troop "a
of the Boy Scouts. DR.. Walter E.
Price, pastor of the Northminster
Presbyterian Church, gave the in
vocation, and reports followed dur
ing the business session.
Mrs. George P. BarSe, chairman
of the Nominating Committee, pre-
sented the following slate of officers
for the coming year: Mrs. c. D.
Lowe, president, to succeed Mrs.
Walter B. Fry; Mrs. P. c. Ellet, first
vice president; Mrs. j. Darlington
Denit, third vice president; Mrs
Evelyn Bright Buckley, fifth vice
president, and Mrs. w. N. Streeter,
seventh vice president.
Following the report given by Mrs.
Fry, the retiring president was pre-
sented with a silver tea service py
Mrs. George c. Cornwell, hospitality
chairman, on behalf of the congress
membership in appreciation of her
services during the last year.
A panel discussion on Guiding
Environment in a Democracy" will
tIlC lilOl ll14l6 oSSoIOII az Az OO
o'clock tomorrow.
Miss Myrtle Moore, seventh vice
president, will lead the discussion, in
which the participants will be Miss
Dorothy Davidson of the District
Girl Scouts, Mrs. Elizabeth Peoples
OF the Community Center, DR.. c. W.
Holmes, assistant superintendent of
schools; DR.. P. Paul Schearrer, rep
resenting the church; Mrs. Charles
H. Pierce, representing the home; E.
A. Drumm, Y. M. c. A, and Miss
Esther Dudley. speaking on adjust
ment possibilities. Music will be fur
nished by the Stuart Junior High
School Glee Club.
Honor roll certificates in PIT. A.
units will be awarded by Mrs George
A. Lingebach. Mrs M. B. Root will
award parent-teacher scrolls and
Mrs. Arthur C. Watkins will preside
at the installation of officers.
The convention will close with the
annual fellowship dinner, to be held
in the grand ballroom of the May
flower Hotel at 7 pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1939-05-16
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

senate:
Debates Florida Ship Canal bill.
Monopoly Committee hears Ed
ward Stettinius, United States Steel
chairman, in investment study. 10
am.
Appropriations S u b o m m t tee
nears vote on $7700O0,00O naval bill.
1890 am.
Labor Committee continues hear
ings on Wagner Act amendments.
10 am.
House:
Considers miscellaneous bills.
Labor Committee hears House
members on Wagner Act amend
ments. 10 am.
w. P. A. Investigating Commit
tee hears testimony on Ohio and
Louisiana projects. 10 am.
Ways and Means Committee con-
siders social security amendments.
10 am.
Foreign Affairs Committee re-
sumes study of neutrality legisla-
ton. 10:30 am.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Continues debate on Florida ship
canal.
Judiciary Subcommittee resumes
hearing on referendum resolution.
10 am.
Territories Committee meets on
| legislation relating to Philippines
and Alaska. II am.
Foreign Relations Committee meets
IN executive session on routine busi-
ness. 1890 am.
Monopoly Committee continues
hearings. 10 am.
Education and Labor Committee
continues hearing on Labor Act
amendments. 10 am.
Appropriations Subcommittee holds
further hearings on District supply
bill. 10 am.
House:
Considers miscellaneous bills.
Indian Affairs Committee con-
siders miscellaneous bills. 1920 am.
Subcommittee of District Commit
tee continues milk Investigation.
1880 am,
Evening star., 1939-05-16
Trade Body Will Hear
Safety Engineer

Samuel M. Lauderdale, safety
engineer of the Civilian Conserva-
ton Corps, will be the principal
speaker at the May membership
meeting of the Arlington (Va.)
Chamber of Commerce Monday, it
was announced today by Carol F.
Winchester, business manager.
Mr.. Lauderdale has been with the
c. c. c. since it's inception and is
the author of many safety regula-
tions for the agency. He is former
Arkansas State safety commissioner
The meeting will be at pm. in
the chambers offices, 3179 Wilson
boulevard.
The Retail Merchants Committee
of the chamber met yesterday, with
Chairman James E. Doyle presiding
A general discussion of fraudulent
solicitations was held. The COM
mittee has Endorsed trial period
for parking meters in the business
areas, but is awaiting a conference
with county government officials be-
fore 1t makes its final recommeda-
tions.
Evening star., 1939-05-16
Liquor Dealers
Back Sheppard Bill

A story in The Star yesterday re-
ported the visit of delegation of
local merchants to Representative
Sheppard, Democrat, of California
proposing to support bill he is
sponsoring which would direct an
investigation to determine the FEAST
bility of adopting municipal dispen-
saries to take over the retail pack.
age liquor business.
The story said the delegation rep
resented the Washington Restau-
rant Association. A representative
of the Restaurant Association today
said his group had authorized no
one to appear for them in such a
capacity, adding that the delega-
tion which appeared yesterday rep
resented the Washington Glass G
Liquor Dealers Association.
Evening star., 1939-05-16
Copt. Pinkus Heads
Reserve Officers Unit

Capt. Walter Pinkus was elected
president of the Engineers Chap
ter, Reserve Officers Association. at
a meeting held last night at the
Army and Navy Club.
1t. Leonard Wagner was chosen
vice president, and Col. Luther R.
Maddox and Capt. Daniel B. Lloyd
were elected to the Board of Di-
rectors. Following the election 1t.
Col. Emmanuel Lombard, military
attache with the French Embassy,
spoke on Mobilization and Compul-
sorry Service"
Evening star., 1939-05-16
Handwriting Expert
To Appear Against2
In Forgery Trial
W. P. A. Check for $21.20
Included in U.S..
Evidence

The Government drove ahead to-
day in District Court with it's mass
OF evidence in an effort to convict
Henry R. Milton and Carman G..
Quantrille on charge of forgery,
and promised that a handwriting
expert would appear to substantiate
its claim. A w. P. A. check for
$2l.20, given a worker, that found
its way into the safe of the Wash
ington Beef & Provision Co., lilo
E street S.W., on September II,
1887, is part of the evidence with
which the prosecutor hopes to jail
the pair
Mr.. Milton and Mr.. Quantrille
served eight months in Jail, after
being found guilty a year ago in
District Court on a charge of TAX
ing the safe, and were sentenced
each to from 3 to IS years. But
Charles Smith and Walter L. Gray
pleaded guilty to the housebreaking
and larceny job on which the others
were convicted. Smith and Gray on
February 10 were each sentenced to
from IS months to three years and
six months for this crime after they
had confessed.
Confession Testimony Used.
Testimony brought out in the
confession hearing, as a result of
which Mr.. Milton and Mr.. GUAM
trllle were given a new trial, which
Is still pending, is being utilized by
thu (rnUprr1 ;y,t Io
Representing the Government is
Assistant United States Attorney
John w. Jackson, while Mr.. Milton
Is represented by Attorney Martin
S. Villas. Attorneys Norman S.
Bowles, jr., and John H. Milton ap-
pear for Mr.. Quantrille.
The case began yesterday in Grim
1nal Court No. 2 before Justice
Jesse c. Adkins, who presided at the
housebreaking and larceny trial a
year ago at which the pair was
found guilty by jury. Justice Ad-
klns also heard the confession Of
Gray and Smith and granted the
present accused a new trial as well
as sentencing the others.
Shorthand Reporters Heard.
An all-male jury was chosen yes
terday afternoon, and a half dozen
witnesses took the stand, including
couple of court shorthand re-
porters who had taken down pre-
vious proceedings involving Mr.. Mil
ton and Mr.. Quantrille. In his
opening statement Mr.. Jackson told
the jury that Mr.. Milton on Sep
tember Is, 1887, shortly after the
safe was removed from the WASH
ington Beef & Provision Co. and
taken to a Virginia farm, where
it rested several months. got the
check. and the Endorsement. James
Conroy," the name of well-known
bondsman here, was later written on
1t. Mr.. Milton and Mr.. Quantrille
lived together, the prosecutor assert
ed, and the check was cashed by the
two defendants with the intention
of defrauding the United States.
A gasoline station attendant at
Thirteenth and L streets NV.
cashed the check, testimony showed.
Evening star., 1939-05-16
BY the Associated Press.

ST. LOUIS, May 16.--A warning
against disease treatments by tooth
and tonsil jerkers" was issued today
before the Goth annual meeting of
the American Medical Association.
The teeth and tonsils are not as
common a source as is believed of
infection causing rheumatism, arth-
ritis and similar diseases, DR.. Hobart
A. Reimann and DR.. w. Paul Havens
of Philadelphia declared.
The contribution of these tissues
to the cause of general infections is
no greater than that of other tissues
of the body, such as the lymph
glands, they declared.
Oftentimes their removal may re-
lieve an infectious condition if it
centers in an inflamed throat or a
pus pocket on tooth root, but many
supposedly infected teeth and tonsils
are not actually infected and the in
discriminate removal of them in the
vague hope of correcting the general
Evening star., 1939-05-16
Dollar Diplomacy
In Reorganization
Plan Hit by Dirksen
Legislator Attacks
Transfer Of Foreign
Commerce Service
By the Associated Press.

The pending transfer of the
Commerce Departments Foreign
Commerce Service to the State De-
partment was assailed yesterday by
Representative Dirksen, Republican.
of Illinois, who argued that it would
revive dollar diplomacy"
We've been 25 years building up
that arm of the Government" Rep
resentative Dirksen said in a House
speech, "and almost overnight all
that work is undone. Now there
will be an admixture of foreign
trade, of diplomacy, Of secrecy, of
mystification."
The shift is provided for in Presi-
dent Roosevelt's second reorganiza-
tion plan, which the Senate already
has approved, thus virtually assur-
ing that it will become effective
The Foreign Commerce Service is
to be merged with the State De-
partment's Foreign Service. but the
reorganization order provides that
trade data collected by the COM
bined service shall be forwarded to
the Commerce Secretary.
In lengthy discussion of the re-
organization order, Representative
Dirksen said that transferring the
functions of the Bituminous Coal
Commission to the Interior Depart
ment would merge and destroy the
independence Of the Consumers
Council" provided by the Coal Act,
although he said mo tears would
be shed" over abolition of the COM
mission.
Comparing himself to "Ishmael
shouting in the wilderness" he also
denounced continuance of the Ma
tional Emergency Council, which
would come under the White House,
and criticized the transfer of the
Lighthouse Bureau from the Com
merce Department to the Coast
Guard. However, he applauded
other features of the reorganization.
Evening star., 1939-05-16
Eruption Of KiIauea
Feared After Quake
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
HILO, T. H., May 16.-Scientists
watched Kilauea Volcano for posi-
BILE signs of eruption today after an
earthquake which caused minor
damage to some buildings here yes
terday.
The quake, described by seismolo-
gists as moderate to strong" dis
mantled instruments at Kilauea OBJ
servatory, caused cracks in several
Office buildings, loosened beam in a
newspaper plant and preclpitated a
large landslide in Kilauea's crater.
Kilauea, less than 30 miles from
Hilo on Hawaii Island and the
worlds largest active volcano, last
erupted in 1884 after sharp earth
quake. All previous eruptions, since
scientists began watching the era
ter, have been preceded by quakes.
Hugh Wesche, Hawaii National
Park geologist, explained today that
an earthquake would not necessarily
produce an eruption.
Evening star., 1939-05-16
Lafayette College Group
To Present Concert

A varied program, including both
classical and popular numbers, will
be presented at 8:l5 pm. today by
the Lafayette College Singers in a
concert at the Central Young Mems
Christian Association, 1885 G street
NV. In addition to numbers to be
sung by the entire group of some
so voices, both instrumental and
vocal solos will be featured.
The singers in. recent years have
sung in several States and over
Nationwide radio hookups. They
are directed by Prof. Thomas Ed
win Yerger, who has studied music
under famous musicians both in
this country and abroad. The con-
cert will be for the benefit Of Camp
Let's, the Y. M. G. A. boys camp
on the Rhode River, near Annap-
oils, Md.
Evening star., 1939-05-16

The disturbance that was over Manitoba
Monday morning has moved eastward to
James Bay and northwestern Quebec. Port
Harrison. 1880 inches, and a trough ex-
tends thence southwestward to western
Nebraska and from there northwestward to
Alaska, Great Falls, Mont. and Prince
George British Columbia. 30 6s inches, and
Minneapolis MINI. and ,Chadron Neor
2974 inches. Pressure is low over western
Texas. Alpine, 29.7O inches, and from the
Bahamas northeastward over the ocean to
latitude 43' N. and longtitude So W.
Charleston. 8. c.. 2a.77 inches. Pressure
remains relatively low over the Ohio VAL
lev and the lower lake region. Dayton. Ohio.
29.ss inches. Pressure is high from the
Coronation Gulf region -southeastward to
Manitoba and western Hudson Bay. and
from Georgia northeastward to. Newfound-
land and thence eastward and southeast
ward over the ocean. Newfoundland All
port. 30.44 inches, and Norway House
CURED on, rr, in portions Of the lake region, tnc
Florida, Minnesota and the southern Pia-
teau region. The weather continues un-
seasonably cool from the Mississippi va.
ley eastward to the Atlantic coast and IN
North Dakota. Manitoba and Saskatche-
wan.
Evening star., 1939-05-16
Federal Union to Elect
Officers Tomorrow

The District of Columbia Fedora
tion of Federal Employe Unions will
elect officers at meeting tomorrow
night at 8 O'Clock at headuarters,
710 Fourteenth street NV.
National officers of the National
Federation of Federal Employees will
conduct the installation and there
will be an entertainment program.
In too big hurry to play the game
with safety? The ambulance is
fast, too.