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Evening star., 1939-01-13
Murphy Promises
Inside Story Today
On Sit-Down Strikes
Hearing Is Scheduled
At z P.M.-Hopkins
Questioning Continues
BY JOHN C, HENRY.

Attorney General Frank Murphy,
stung by persistent attacks at his
record as Governor Of Michigan, has
promised the real inside story" Of
the automobile sit-down strikes be-
fore Senate Judiciary Subcommit-
tee at the Capitol this afternoon.
With his nomination to the top
spot in the Department of Justice
already approved by the subcom-
mittee, Mr.. Murphy yesterday asked
and received permission to appear
at public hearing and tell what
he did and why he did it during
the days when the automobile in
dustry was strike-bound and close
to complete paralysis. The hearing
is scheduled for 2 o'clock.
Mr.. Murphy's personal appear
ance is the third in a series of
feature billings of New Deal ap-
pointees. Secretary of Commerce
Hopkins continued today before the
Senate Commerce Committee, while
Prof. Felix Frankfurter, appointee
to the Supreme Court. made a
dramatic bow to the public before
another Senate Judiciary Subcom-
mittee yesterday.
Impresses Committee.
Overcoming an early nervousness,
the Harvard professor impressed the
committee, as well as packed hear
ing room, to the point of a unani-
nous approval Of his appointment in
q brief executive session following
the hearing.
In brief, the court appointee made
clear that he has deep and
abiding faith in the Constitution
and the American form of govern
ment, that he not only is not and
never has been a Communist, but
further that he disapproves of Com
munism as philosophy of life or of
government.
AS the ultimate test of his fitness
for place on the supreme bench,
he offered the committee the full
and well-known record of his career
as lawyer, scholar and public official.
Mr.. Murphy's appearance today
arose particularly out of criticism of
his failure to have police and Ma
tional Guard evict sitdown strikers
from General Motors plants after an
eviction order had been issued by a
Circuit Court judge.
Pointing out that public confidence
in the Department of Justice and his
chief is of greater importance than
anything else, Mr.. Murphy disclosed
yesterday his desire to make public
explanation OF his conduct at the
strike time.
Tn no instance has the real inside
story been told" Mr. Murphy said to
reporters. "The only one who could
tell 1t is myself. I never wanted to
impair my position as mediator. 1t
was necessary for some one there in
Michigan to be in a position to keep
the confidence of each side"
1t was reported reliably that sew
eral Republican Senators had de-
cided to vote against confirming Mr..
Murphy's nomination unless he
testified.
Evening star., 1939-01-13

North Woodside-Montgomery Hills
Citizens Association, delegate to the
Montgomery Couny Civic Fedora
ton, delegate to the Eastern SUBJ
urban Area Central Committee, vice
president and president of the Silver
Spring Lions Club and still holds the
presidency of that organization.
He helped organize the Young
Mems Democratic Club of Silver
Spring and has been its secretary
vice president and president. When
the United Democratic Organization
undertook political census of Silver
Spring last summer he was en-
trusted with it.
Mr.. Gill is director in the Sub
urban National Bank of Silver Spring
and Takoma Park, a member of the
Silver Spring Business Mems Asso-
citation, the Manor Country Club
the bars of the United States
Supreme Court and the United
States District Courts and Courts
of Appeals for both Maryland and
the District of Columbia.
Mr.. Gill, who lives in Woodside
with his wife and two children, has
been member of the law firm of
Duckett and Duckett in Washington
since graduating from National Uni
verslty. He also maintains his own
office in Silver Spring.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Weather Report

District OF ColumbaModera probably changing
hs afternoon or tonight clearing morning.
temperature tonight and tomorrow; tonight
aout increasing eastery winds shifting
m to heavy probably changing late
or tonght clearing
Hght
and in east portion tomorrow. 20 f.0 'AeA'
Vrglnla-Rain
generally
west portion slowly rising tonight and east norton
~ " >o p"A''oi W.
West Vgna-SnoW or rain this afternoon
temperature. r-' -A0' A'"o1i .1"iee III
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Dr.. Walton HumiIton
ToAddress Forum

DR.. Walton H. Hamilton, Special
Assistant to the Attorney General,
will be the principal speaker at a
meeting held under auspices of the
Modern Forum at the Friends
Meeting House Sunday at 8 pm.
DR.. Hamilton, who will talk on
monopoly, will be followed by a
panel discussion In which the par
ticipants will be w. H. S. Stevens,
Interstate Commerce Commission
economist; E. G. Nourse, Brookings
Institution, and Edwin s. Smith,
National Labor Relations Board.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Montgomery Pushes
Gaming Drive Despite
Reverse in Court
New Trial Ordered in
Wire-Toppine Cose
In Tokomu Park

Law enforcement in Montgomery
County will not be relaxed despite
the decision of the Maryland Court
of Appeals yesterday ordering a
new trial in overlapping case,
States Attorney Ben G. wilkinson,
jr.. said today.
The Court Of Appeals reversed
the conviction of Joseph j. Rowan
and Mrs. Eleanor E. Rowan on
charges of operating and MAIN
tanning a handbook establishment
in Takoma Park, Md, in which
evidence obtained by tapping the
telephone wires to the Rowan home
was introduced.
The court ordered a new trial on
the grounds that the voices heard
over the wires by the police had
not been positively identified as
those of the defendants, according
to the Associated Press. Evidence
showed that the telephones listed
to the home were regularly an
swered. but Mrs. Rowan claimed
she did not know the telephones
had been installed.
Mr.. Wilkinson said he did not
care to comment on the case until
he had found an opportunity to
study the decision, but that efforts
to keep the county free of book
makers and gamblers would not be
relaxed. The court decision inferred
that wire-tapping evidence might
be admissible provided the speaker
was properly identified, the As
sociated Press reported.
Meanwhile, in Prince Georges
County, States Attorney H. Win
ship Wheatley, jr., expressed ap-
proval of the proposed tri-State
conference on gambling called by
District Commissioner Melvin c.
Hazen for February IS at which
police, judicial and traffic officials
from Maryland and Virginia would
be invited to discuss problems OF
enforcement arising out OF State
and Federal jurisdiction.
Mr.. Wheatley said he had not
received an invitation to the con-
ference, but that if and when in
vited he most certainly would ac-
cept."
Evening star., 1939-01-13
33 Robberies Reported
In 24-Hour Period

twenty-five petty larceny cases
and II housebreakings, including
the burglary of the third Sanitary
Grocery Store in as many days, were
reported to police during the last
"a hours. Total loot amounted to
more than $1,4OO.
Thieves jimmied the rear door
of the grocery in the 1900 block of
Wisconsin avenue NV. and made
off with merchandise worth ap-
proximately SITS, according to
Houston H. Swink, manager. Store
clerks said a small floor safe had
been tampered with but apparently
the burglars had not gone to ex-
tremes in their effort to open it.
Police do not believe the robbery
was the work of a gang of safe
robbers who have been operating
successfully in the District during
the past three weeks.
Jewelry, clothing, a radio and
other household articles, valued at
$3.50, were taken by thieves who ran
sacked the apartment of Frank
P. Hackl, 1447 Chaplin street NV.
Mr.. Hackl said the front door had
been jimmied.
Edna Gray, 407 Hobart place NV,
reported 500 worth of jewelry was
taken by some one who smashed the
glass in the front door of her home
Theft of jewelry and clothing, valued
at $242, was reported by Frederick
Etturaro1I d et~
Sol HurWitz, manager of a liquor
store in the 5000 block of Mount
Pleasant street NV. told police a
plate glass show window of his shop
was smashed and $50 worth of
whisky was missing from the dis
play.
Total loot in the petty larceny
cases amounted to $35590 Six auto
mobiles also were stolen.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
BY JACK ALLEN.

An ambition born in James w.
Gill when he was 13 and a telegraph
messenger on Capitol Hill was par
TALLY realized with his election as a
Montgomery County member Of the
House of Delegates.
Senators and Representatives with
whom he was thrown into daily con-
tact by his work were his idols then
just as many youngsters look upon
diamond and gridiron stars as their
heroes-and he resolved that some
day he, too, would be legislator.
His real goal, of course, was Con-
gress, itself, still long Jump from
the Maryland Assembly, but he has
become a full-fledged legislator and
is helping to write the laws Of his
State, the same as his boyhood idols
wrote the Nations laws.
1t is highly possible the young
delegate-hes 33-may still attain
his original objective, for he has
proven time and again that he
possesses the determination to ac-
COlllJl1Sl1 CliS CAAlll6o A1C oCto OuL
to do.
He obtained his elementary school
education in Shreveport and Wash
ington public schools, his first year
of high school work in the Y. M. c. A.
school and the remainder Of his high
school course at Eastern, where he
finished his sophomore, junior and
senior class work in two years time.
His degree in law was given him by
the National University in 1928.
The determination he displayed
in obtaining an education marked
his work in civic and political circles
after he moved to Montgomery
County in 1888, and it was not long
before he earned place in public
life as leader in both fields.
Mr. Gill was elected president of
the Woodside School Parent-Teach-
er Association and served for three
years. At various times he was
vice president and president of the
Evening star., 1939-01-13

The southern disturbance has moved
northeastward to Tennessee and Kentucky
W With Increasing intensity. Smiths. Grove.
Ky. 29.5s inches. Another disturbance is
moving southeastward over Alberta Ed
monton. 1854 inches, and a minor dis
turbance is moving southeastward over
Southern Manitoba. Winnipeg. 29.s4 inches.
Pressure remains abnormally low from the
Canadian Maritime Provinces eastward and
SMahsa sSouthhsast%ard tS over the ocean Harrington
but rising over Southern Alaska Kodiah.
29.b2 inches. High pressure prevails from
the Pacific Coast eastward to Colorado
and aTU Wyoming: and from extreme Northern
son Bay. and from Ontario southeastward
TO the vicinity of Puerto Rico, Medford.
Sf q Mackenze; 30:32 inches, and osweso
CURED over most sections east Of the Rocky
Mounts Mountains except the, North Atlantic
Ksentueky sia1nny. Tennessee and the Gulf States:
e nchee hsp0Ftnf TRe the s1sassss
has. has fallen in the Atlantic States, the
portions of the Gulf States. while it has
risen from Manitoba southeastward to
Evening star., 1939-01-13
CoIored Man Admits
Purse-Snutchina

A 32-year-old colored man, who,
police said. has been identified as
having snatched pocketbooks from
seven women in the last month,
pleaded guilty to one of the charges
at his arraignment in Police Court
today.
Judge Walter J. Casey ordered the
defendant, Joseph Thomas Jones 81
the 100 block of Swami street NV,
held for grand jury action under S.
600 bond.
Jones was arraigned on a charge
OF snatching the purse of Mrs. Allie
Young, 2116 Kalorama road NV,
on December 26 at New Hampshire
and Vermont avenues NV. Police
said evidence in the six other robbery
cases would be laid before the grand
jury. He netted total of about $50
IN the snatchings, officers reported.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Walter n. Droste Named
To Farm Credit Post

Walter H. Droste OF st. Louis has
been named assistant to the deputy
governor and acting executive ON
Ger of the Farm Credit Administra-
ton, 1t was announced yesterday
by F. F. Hill, governor.
Mr.. Droste, since 1888 controller
for the administration in st. Louis,
started as cashier of the Federal
Land Bank in st. Louis in 1921, later
becoming auditor and then con-
troller.
He served for a brief period In
Washington in 1887, but returned
to the st. Louis post from here. He
was educated at Washington Uni
versity in st. Louis,
Evening star., 1939-01-13
New Army Uniform
Show Tomorrow
By the Associated Press,

~ eAae <AoeoCAoGcO 1Ic66s
The War Department will hold It's
nrst group style show" of the new
Army slate-blue uniform tomorrow
The exhibition of the uniform will
be at 10 am. at Fort Meade, Nd, by
Company E of the 34th Infantry
This is the first company equipped
with the new uniform.
Movie and camera men will take
pictures of the slightly more than
100 men OF the company going
through drill formations. Photos
have been taken of smaller groups
at Fort Sheridan, ILL.,, wearing the
new uniform, but these will be the
flrst views of a whole company in
the new garb.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
BerIe to Take Leave
ToTeuch at Columbia
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Adolf A. Berle, jr., last survivor Of
the original brain trust" will take
four month leave Of absence be-
ginning in February in order to
teach at Columbia University.
He has been trying for months to
get respite from his job as Assist
ance Secretary of State. Last Au-
gust he resigned with the intention
of teaching economies at Columbia,
but President Roosevelt deferred
accepting the resignation 80 MIR.
Berle would be on duty at the State
Department during the European
crisis.
When the crisis abated, the Presi-
dent, instead of accepting the resig-
nation, named Mr.. Berle to be Sec
retary Hull's right-hand man at the
Lima Pan-American Conference.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Six Make Honor Roll

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, Jan. 13
The honor roll for the fall quarter
at Mary Washington College re-
leased by Mrs. Mamie Mae Williams,
registrar, includes Elizabeth Dinges,
Arlington; Meliscent Graeff, Arling-
ton; Margaret Jones, Alexandra; !;
Polly Stephenson, Alexandra; Joan
Tolar. Arlington, and Frances Cox,
Washington.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Congress in Brief
TO-DAY.
Senate:
In recess.

Senate:
In recess.
Commerce Committee questions
Harry L. Hopkins about w. p. A. adj
ministration, 10 am.
Finance Committee hears Secre-
tary Hull on Cuban sugar agree
ment, 10:30 am.
Attorney General Murphy testifles
on sit-down strikes before judiciary
Subcommittee, pm.
House:
Continues debate on $725, 900 900
relief bill, II am.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
VIII not meet.
House:
Not expected to meet.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Jan. 13.-The German
government announced today that
Hungary had adhered to the anti
Comintern pact, the principal writ
ten agreement joining the authori-
tartan governments Of Germany,
Italy and Japan.
An official announcement said
that Count Stephen Csaky, Hun
garian foreign minister, had ac-
cepted the invitation of the Ger
man, Italian and Japanese Minis
ters to Budapest to join their COM
mon fight against the Communist
international, which has headquar-
ters in Moscow.
The Ministers called on Count
Csaky this afternoon to inform him
their governments had taken notice
OF Hungary's readiness to partici-
pate in the pact and had empowered
them to submit invitations.
Csaky replied that his govern
ment, with the approval Of Regent
Nicholas Horthy, had decided to
join and Herewith accepted.
Count Csaky, who is scheduled to
leave Budapest Monday for q two
day state visit to Berlin, announced
Hungary's intentions last night at
a dinner Of the government party
of National unitv in the T1unrarian
capital.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Building Appeal Renewed

Mrs. Madsline Savage, whose ap-
peal for permission to complete con-
struction of two-story rear addi-
ton to her dwelling at 14O2 Massa-
chusetts avenue Sc, was turned
down month ago by the Beard of
Zoning Adjustment, today applied to
the building inspectors Office for
permission to rebuild the addition.
The addition was approximately 90
per cent completed when the Zoning
Adjustment Board denied the ap-
peal.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Associated Gas
Accused Of False
statements
S. E. c. Holds Property
Account Overstuted
By $l70, 600, 900
BY the Associated Press.


The Securities and Exchange
Commission today accused Associat-
ed Gas & Electric Co. of setting up
its records In a way which resulted
in an overstatement of its property
account in 1894 by about $l70,0 900 900
The company, which has gross
assets OF more than ST 900 900,
was charged by the commission with
making false and misleading state
ments with respect to material
facts"
1t has subsidiary properties in
New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia,
New Jersey, Florida and Georgia.
The commission ordered a hear
ing to be held in Washington Feb
ruary IA to determine whether
shares Of the company should be de-
listed.
Stocks of the company are traded
on the Boston Stock Exchange, the
Los Angeles Stock Exchange and the
New York Curb.
The S. E. C. also charged the
company with handling its accounts
IN way which resulted in overstate-
ment OF consolidated earned surplus
by about $135 100000 in 1884.
In the same year, the commission
charged, the company set up it's &C.
counts in a way which resulted in
undertaking a 1884 loss by about
$4,000, 900.
Long at Odds.
Associated Gas e. Electric and
various Government agencies have
long been at odds. The company
was one of the leading opponents
OF the Public Utility Holding Com
pany Act Of 1895.
Evidence submitted to the Senate
committee investigating utilities in
dicated the company had spent
$1,50O,OO0 fighting the regulatory
legislation.
Howard G. Hopson, credited in
both Government and Wall Street
circles with controlling the vast
utility empire, was vigorous op-
ponent of some forms of Federal reg
ulation.
In 1885 when subpoenaed to ap-
pear before the Senate committee
Mr.. Hopson could not be located.
Late in 1898, when he appeared at
an s. E. G. hearing, he refused fatty
to testify on many points. He said
he had retired as an officer of the
company and had been retained as
Its counsel. AS lawyer, he said, he
could not divulge various matters
which he had learned in confidence.
The charges relative to 1894 per-
talned to a registration statement
nled with the commission.
Says Facts Left Out,
The commission said also the COM
pany had failed to disclose its rela-
tionship to persons controlling it.
"or to state material facts peril
nent to the possible existence of ef-
fective control"
The company, 1t was charged, also
failed to state required informa-
ton on the aggregate remuneration
paid to certain service companies
and others. Another charge was
the company neglected to name the
persons other than directors, off,
GERS or employees whose aggregate
remuneration was more than $40, 900
in 1894.
In addition to misstatements
found in the registration state
ment for 1884, the commission said,
the handling Of accounts was mis-
leading In the annual reports for
935, 1895 and 1887.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Federal Reserve Board
Adopts New Report
Nv the ASRnciAfaA Pre-,

~ the Associated Press.
The Federal Reserve Board an.
nounced today the adoption by Fed.
eral and State agencies of a simpn-
Ned, uniform report form to be used
by banks in publishing periodic con-
dition reports.
The bulletin said the uniform
form will benefit particularly State
banks, which must file reports with
two or more State and Federal
agencies which formerly required
widely varying information.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Water System Is Topic

A. T. Lundberg, engineer of the
Arlington County Water Depart
ment. will address a meeting Of the
Fort Myer (Va) Citizens Association
at o'clock tonight In the Woodrow
Wilson School on the operation Of
the Water Department in the Dis
trict and rates in Arlington County.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Brundeis Improved

The condition of Supreme Court
Justice Louis D. Brandeis, con-
valescing from an attack Of the
grippe, was reported today to be
entirely satisfactos7."
Evening star., 1939-01-13
James w. ellis Political Life
Bequn With an Ambition at Is
Montgomery Delegate
Got the Bug While
Working at Capitol

This Is one of a series of
sketches on ne1Dly elected Off,
ct0ls OF nearby Maryland and
Virginia.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Hungary Accepts
Invitation 10 Join
Anti-Red Pact
Bid to Join Front Is
Extended by Three
Powers ENJOYS
BACKGROUND

bAChGROUNO@
Hungary came under spell OF
Rome-Berlin dris last summer
and 1Dhen Germany dismembered
Csecho-SloDakid Hungary came
in for her share, although settle
n,ent 1Uas not for month after the
Munich pact. Hungary got about
5000 square miles OF former
Slopak territory. and has been
engaged in frequent border tric-
ton 1oith Czech forces in recent
1Deeks.
Evening star., 1939-01-13
ort for Last "a Hours.
Record for Last "a Hours

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today)
ago. 80.
Lowest, 20. noon. today. Year ago, 80.
Record Temperature This Year.
iighest. SO. on January 10.
Lowest, %, on January 49,
Humidity for Last "A Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today)
HIGHEST, 9S per cent, at am. today.
Lowest, 81 per cent. at 4:15 pm. yes
terday.
The Sun and Moon,
Rises, Sets
Sun. today ----- 7:26 5:07
Sun. tomorrow - 7:26 sos
Moon, today ---- 1:16 am 1905 pm.
Automobile lights must be turned on one
Evening star., 1939-01-13
KiHer Rennrf

River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
az AZ iHarpers Ferry; Potomac muddy at Great
Evening star., 1939-01-13
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital lcurrent month to datel:

Automobile lights must be turned on one.
half hour after sunset
Preclpit alton
Evening star., 1939-01-13

Tide Tables.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-02

Cecco, violinist, Mrs. Homer Arch ambault. soprano. Miss Mary Rice pianist, and Mrs. Lucien Derouin accompanist.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-02
SCHOLARSHIPS AT
 ST. ELIZABETH'S
N. J. College Announces Almost $4,00O Awards
 For September l939

Three thousand eight hundred dollars in scholarships will be award ed to freshmen from September 1889, according to an announce ment published by the committee on scholarships at the College of Saint Elizabeth, Convent, New Jersey.
 The Alumnae Scholarship, an an- nual grant of five hundred dollars. will be divided so that there will be two incumbents-resident stu dents-who will receive two hun- dred fifty dollars each annually.
 One of the James Shevlin Me- morial scholarships, an annual grant of two hundred fifty dollars, is to be awarded to either a resi- dent or day student. Two other scholarships of one hundred dollars each annually were also listed.
 All of these will be awarded on merit of competitive examinations to be given by the College Entrance Examination Board, Saturday, April Is. Applicants for these scholar ships should apply to the Dean Of the college not later than March 15 They will then be notified in what centers the examinations are to be held.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-02
BOARD TO STUDY FINANCIAL PLAN
Upson's Bill in Legislature Under Consideration
 of Commissioners

Financial matters dating back to 1897 and brought up to the present by Republican Town Chairman J. Warren Upson through bill now pending in the General Assembly, will occupy the attention of the board of finance at its meeting at 4 o'clock today.
 There is the proposition that the city look into the matter of calling about $70,000 of balance of Gen. ter school district bonds, issued in 1897. A bill sponsored by MT. Up- son would provide refunding of the issue at a rate of interest lower than the current charge of 4 per cent.
 In order to consxmmate this change, however, tle city must make an appropriation of at least several hundred dollars to provide payment for investigator of the matter, per the arrangements of Controller Sherwood L. Rowland, who is said to have some plan to apportion such service, provided the city pays for it. The controller is making partial elaboration of the plan at todays meeting. ..
 What the saving to the city will be has yet to be figured, inasmuch as the cost of determining by legal method the preparations essential before the bill is read in the Gen. eral Assembly has yet to be shown.