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Evening star., 1940-02-05

H. A. program, is of tremendous i'm
portance to the building industry.
The current authorized program, he
said, will use about s280,O00000 in
building materials and distribute
approximately S225 100000 in wages.
These millions of dollars will flow
through every artery of commercial,
professional and industrial enter
prise in the country" he assured.
When the present program is COM
pleted, he explained, more than
100000 persons in low-income fami-
lies will nave moved into 100000
decent homes
This migration from slums and
substandard homes, the administra-
tor pointed out. will be reflected
in reduced municipal expenditures
for fire and police protection. les
sened costs for juvenile delinquency
and even health service
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Congress in Brief

SeHdtS.
In recess.
House:
Considers minor bills.
Rules Committee considers reso-
luton to expunge record OF HOOK
attack on Representative Dies.
OH Committee hears Governors Of
oil compact States.
Smith committee hears Labor
Board members.
Naval Committee hears peace Or
ganizations on fleet expansion.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
May consider independent offices
appropriation bill.
Commerce Committee considers
rivers and harbors bill, 10 am.
Judiciary Committee considers
miscellaneous bill, 10:30 am.
Naval Affairs Committee considers
marine, election and promotion bill,
10:30 am.
Subcommittee of Judiciary Com
mittee holds hearing on anti-lynch-
ing bill, 10:30 am.
Education and Labor Committee
meets with John l.. Lewis as wit
ness, 10 am.
House:
Begins consideration of State, JUS
tice and Commerce appropriation
bill.
Naval Affairs Committee continues
consideration of fleet expansion pro-
gram, 10 am.
Smith committee continues inves-
tigation of National Labor Relations
Board, 10 am.
Evening star., 1940-02-05

Their quest for a license and
minister, difficult on Sunday,
touched a large proportion of the
marrying centers in this section of
the East, including Rockville, Md;
Elkton, Md; Fredericksburg, Va;
Warrenton, Va, and Washing
ton, Va.
1t continued without pause until
7:30 o'clock last night, when the
couple obtained license to marry
from "a party in Washington, Va,
who was recommended by a second
party who was suggested by a party
in Warrenton.' They were married
in Washington, Va. by the Rev. J.
A. st. Clair, Baptist pastor.
Meanwhile, the girls grand
mother, Mrs. Matthew Schilz, was
driven to bed by worry over her
wards disappearance, and Mr..
Schilz had set District and Mary
land police searching for her.
Blessing of all relatives has now
been gained, Mr.. and Mrs. Key an
nounce. They have temporarily re-
turned to the Hamilton Hotel, but
are spending today looking for a
small, furnished fiat, centrally To-
Gated.
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Boby Born in Elevator

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. R.-1t
wasn't an emergency, a hospital at
tendant decided, when Charles Ed
dams called and frantically asked
for an ambulance for his expectant
wife. Instead, the attendant sent
q police squad car.
The police, however, found plenty
of emergency. They just made the
hospital and were rushing Mrs.
Eddans upstairs in an elevator when
she gave birth to a boy.
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Satisfaction Value
Lacking in Building,
Straus Declares
1900, 900 Dwelling Units
Needed by Nation in
Next 10 Years, He Says

Administrator Nathan Straus of
the United States Housing Author
ity, attributed the sickness Of the
home building industry today to its
failure to afford the consumer the
same degree Of satisfaction value"
for his dollar that automobile and
radio manufacturers are able to
offer.
The home building industry has
been sick for so long" he told
the Washington Building Congress
luncheon session at the National
Press Club that the country needs
at least 100000 dwelling units IN
the next 10 years to correct an
existing and expected shortage of
homes that are serviceable by any
standard .
Despite the fact that the industry
apparently is building new homes
only for people in the top third
of the income group" Mr.. Strau.
said a new day is drawing for 1t
because Of the apparent indications
that the industry is now beginning
to take "a new and healthy interest
in the middle income housing mar
ket." Within the next five years,
he predicted, Il confidently expect
to see private enterprise building
decent, sanitary homes for families
with annual incomes as low as
l,500 in the South and as low as
En0 fIoo NnrtI
Country Has Materials.
The unhealthy condition of the
home building industry exists, he
claimed, despite the fact that two
thirds Of the people in this country
are economically competent enough
to buy decent sanitary housing and
the country has the raw materials
and the skilled technicians at hand
to build the homes.
What then is the answer?" he
asked. "The home building indus
try is not getting its proper share
of the consumers dollar.
"The satisfaction value of decent,
sanitary, modern dwellings cannot
compete with the satisfaction value
of automobiles, radios, and the like.
Witness the fact-the comparatively
few homes built by private enter
prise during the last 10 years have
been built for people in the top
third of our income groups. Those
in the middle income groups are ap-
parently satisfied with the hand
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Plane
Trip Ends in Death
OF Five in Swamp
Pilot, Lost in Fog, Fails
In Attempt to Talk
Way Into New Orleans
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HAMMOND, La, Feb. 5.-An air.
plane honeymoon trip ended in
death last night for a newly married
couple and three other persons fly
ing from Denver to New Orleans
for the gay Mardi Gras celebration.
The five-passenger cabin biplane
crashed in wooded, swampy country
In thick fog miles east of here
after the pilot had tried desperately
to talk" his way into the New
Orleans Airport, so miles away air.
line.
Don T. Craig, 80, of Denver, was
the pilot The passengers, prom
inent residents of Colorado, were
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Zimmerhackel,
bridegroom and bride of day; Mrs.
Elizabeth McSweeney Powell, owner
OF the plane and cousin of Mr..
Zimmerhackel, and Michael Creede
Hlnderlider, jr., %, son of the Colo
RADIO State engineer.
Mr.. Zimmerhacke1, Sc, Denver
attorney and business man, once
was a candidate for the Republican
nomination for United States SEN
ator from Colorado His bride. 43.
was the divorced wife of Erl Ellis,
Denver attorney.
Shrouded by Fog.
The plane left Denver Yesterday
morning. The party had made brief
stops at Woodward, Okla, and Fort
Worth, Tex, before Pilot Craig.
shrouded by fog, attempted to set
the plane down.
j. B. Waldropp, a Slidell Ua)
salesman, said he saw the biplane
level of toward the ground and hit
treetops which stripped its wings.
The motor fell out and the passen.
gers were strewn over the ground"
He and w. F. Wilson, manager of
the State Experiment Station near
here, said the plane burst into flames
after striking the trees and ploved
on for another IT'S yards before
crashing. When they reached it, all
parts were burning and the gasoline
had set the trees and underbrush
afire.
The airways communications oper.
ator at New Orleans Airport said:
We were talking with him (Mr,
Craig for more than an hour. He
evidently didn't know where he was,
he told us the weather was getting
worse, and that he was getting tired
and was going to set it down."
Son Had Packed Bag.
Baby clothes strewn with the
Wreckage brought the explanation
from Denver that Mr.. Craig's q
year-old son Tommy, had packed
some OF his clothing in his fathers
bag in expectation of making the
"trip.
Mr.. Craig planned to leave the
party at New Orleans and return
tc Denver. The four passengers,
after enjoying the merrymaking of
Mardi Gras, were to have taken a
cruise ship for Cuba and Miami.
Mr.. Craig, who formerly operated
airports at Durango, Colo, and
Grand Junction, Colo, in addition
to his son is survived by his wife.
Mrs Powell was socially prominent
in Denver. Her divorced husband,
Frederick, is Denver investment
broker. She also is survived by two
daughters, Elizabeth, II, and Kath-
crime, 7.
Mr.. Zimmerhackel is survived by
two daughters and a son. Mrs. Jane
Flndelsen of Casper, Wyo., and
Sally and Harry of Denver.
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Harvard Youth Saved
From Snowy Peak
May Recover
Condition Of Sophomore,
Lost for 28 Hours, Is
Described as Fair
By the Associated Press.

6y the ASSOCldtSu EICSo
LITTLETON, N. H., Feb. 5.-Res-
cued after being lost 90 hours on
blizzard-swept slopes of lofty Mount
Washington, Webster N. Jones, jr.,
19, Harvard sophomore. and son of
Carnegie Techs director of engi-
neering, was given good chance"
today of recovering from the ordeal
Physicians said that although it
would be several days before the
effects of his experience could be
determined fully, he was in no i'm
mediate danger and his condition
was fair A preliminary eXamina-
ton showed that his toes were seri-
ously frost-bitten and that he was
suffering from shock and exposure.
His father, DR.. w. N. Jones,
Joined him in Littleton hospital
after speeding by plane and auto
mobile from Pittsburgh, Pa.
Companion Also Treated.
Meanwhile, Karl J. Sax, 20, of
Boston, Harvard senior and young
Jones companion on the attempted
SlllllD Vi WIG oCStAOll lllsllCSI pCdh,
was under treatment at a Harvard
infirmary in Cambridge, Mass
There was possibility, physicians
said, that he might lose several
frost-bitten fingers.
It was Sax who stumbled out of
the snow-covered mountains Sat-
lrday to spread the alarm of Jones
plight. The youths had been
trapped and separated in the blind
ing storm as temperatures tumbled
below zero.
Jones was found yesterday, wrap
ped in blankets and half buried
in snow, by two members of band
of snowshoe-equipped mountain
rangers, highway patrolmen and Ci-
william Conservation Corps boys. They
were forced to give up the hunt
once because of intense cold and
a 9O-mile- -an-hour gale.
A ski trail led to the spot where
he was huddled only a few feet off
Crawford Notch trail and not far
from where Jones and his COM
panion made camp Friday night.
Stretcher Made of Tree Limbs.
A shout brought a nearby search
Ing party. A crude stretcher was
made of tree limbs and the youth
was placed on it.
A mile down the trail, which was
covered with SO inches of snow, the
young man was transferred to a
stretcher brought by another group
of rescuers. Another mile further on
Jones was transferred to a tobog-
gan.
The youth explained, through
swollen. frost-bitten lips, that when
he realized he was lost he pinned
himself in blankets he carried in
a pack, and pulled woolen toque
over his head, neck and cheeks. He
removed his ski boots because it
felt more comfortable" without
them.
Rescuers carried him down a S.
mile treacherous trial on an impro-
vised stretcher and toboggan be-
fore he was transported to the hos
pital.
Evening star., 1940-02-05

The minor disturbance that was over
eastward to Southern Michigan. Grand
Rapids: 1013.5 millibars 1892 inches),
while the disturbance that was over Wyom-
ing has moved southeastward to Texas
with increasing intensity. Lubbock. 10O4.7
millibars (29.6 inches; and warm front
extends thence eastward to extreme South
ern Georgia. Pressure continues low over
Southern Alaska. Dutch Harbor 1920
millibars (29. so. inches) and it is rela-
Dickinson. 1929 mllibars t2991 inches).
High pressure prevails over the greater
Atlantic ocean, Winnemucca New: 1O25.4
millbars (30.2s inches: a vessel, about
509 miles east Of the south Florida coast
City, Iowa and Burlnston, Vt. 1915
millibars t30.05 inches). Precipitation has
occurred over nearly all sections, except
portions of the Atlantic States. The tenn
Premature has risen almost generally east
of the Rocky Mountains. except in Iowa
and portions Of the adjacent States where
the weather has become colder.
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Wagner Act Provokes
Wrang|e Among Six
On Forum Of Air
Arguments Sturt
Before Broadcast, Go On
Far, Far Into Night

Disagreement over the wagner
Labor Act last night stirred sharp
debate among six participants OF
the American Forum of the Air,
with their arguments beginning be-
fore a scheduled radio discussion
program and continuing long after
the broadcast had concluded.
Most vigorous dispute of the eve
ming arose between Senator Min
ton, Democrat, of Indiana, admini-
stration supporter, and Representa-
tive Hoffman, Republican, Of Michi-
gan. Both advocated amendment
of the Labor Act, but for different
reasons.
Senator Minton said the act
should be amended to relieve the
board of the responsibility in set
tling bargaining unit disputes be-
tween A. F. of L. and c. I. o. unions.
"Opponents of the law" he as
sert. "are inspired by the fact that
the law has worked"
Law Called Unfair.
Mr.. Hoffman charged the law is
unfair and unjust, and should be
amended to prevent at least some
of the miscarriages of justice which
have left financial ruin and indus
trial strife in the wake of the en-
forcement of this law. 1t must
be amended to protect the employer
as we'll as the employe."
G. I. o. Counsel Lee Pressman
and Representative Wood, Demo-
crat, of Missouri clashed on the
National Labor Relations Boards
handling of the West Coast long
shoremen's jurisdictional contro-
versy. Mr.. Wood contended the
board "dictatorially" gave the G. I. o.
complete jurisdiction by fixing the
entire Pacific Coast as single bar
gaining unit. Mr.. Pressman re-
torted that employees chose their
own bargaining unit on the West
Coast and criticized the board for
not following it's own rules In other
cases in which A. F. of L. unions
won.
Others joining in the evening
controversy, presided over on the
air by Theodore Crank, Washing
ton attorney and founder of the
program, were Representative RAM
speck, Democrat, of Georgia and
Charles F'ahy, Labor Board counsel.
Amendment Need Denied.
Mr.. Ramspeck declared House
hearings have demonstrated that
the Wagner Act needs amending,
but Mr.. Fahy replied that, although
there had been "overzealous" early
activities, the board on the whole
has done a good job.
The broadcast from the Interior
Department studio was transmitted
over facilities Of VOL.
In support of the act, Senator
Minton declared that in 1898, the
first year after the legislation was
held constitutional, strikes were AZ
per cent less than in 1887. To-day
he added, workers are not using the
strike weapon; instead they are
going to the board for redress. They
are living under contracts. That is
what the act is for. That is what it
has achieved"
Equality Held No Goal.
Mr.. Hoffman charged that the
Wagner Act was devised to advance
the fortunes Of one group-the en-
ployes." He said that equality
before and under the Wagner Law
was not in the minds of those who
conceived and drafted It,"
In return, Senator Minton claimed
that the "act is a democratic act
and more than a million workers
have cast valid ballots In elections
conducted by the board" The 1ndt-
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Windsor Wedding Pastor
Seeks U. S. Citizenship
BY the Associated Press

by NIIe FSSUCIdleU PfeSS.
LOS ANGELES, Feb 5.-The
Rev. Robert A. Jardine, "exiled"
from the Church of England because
he ofticiated at the wedding of the
Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis
Simpson, plans to become an Ameri-
can citizen.
CAS- soon as my birth certificate
and other necessary documents can
be obtained from England" he said,
Il intend to apply for my first
papers"
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Delayed Diploma

SHENANDOAH, Iowa, Feb. S (P.-
John Grafton is going to graduate
from Shenandoah High School 18
years after he attended his first
class. He started working while
in high school, then married and
dropped out. Now he has taken
extra work to complete the two
credits he needed.
Evening star., 1940-02-05

ana Senator then outlined the rec
ord Of the Labor Board and its VIC
tories before. the Supreme Court.
On the other hand. Representa-
tive Hoffman asserted that the act
made many lawful acts of en-
ployers unlawful and designated
those acts as unfair labor practices
and placed it within the power of an
administration board to inf1ict upon
employers penalties for the commits
sion of those acts"
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Report
Furnished BY the


District of Columba-Cloudy
much
light variable winds increasing
~
Marylandsnow in portion tonight tomo
row. not much change temperature
VrgniaRain in southeast and rain
tonight
tonight.
West vgna-Snow south portion
tonight and portion
tonieh f-
Evening star., 1940-02-05

With bit Of tap ballet and acrobac dancing to supple
their tumbng routine the wegand sisters have been
programs hospitals orphans homes
lodge benefits the like several years. They
perform in sister act contest at the New
York Worlds Fair Besides Baby Meredith in the human hurdle
performance Friendship House. ueft to
right Louise, IS; Lois IA; Ramona II; Barbara g. Joan T.
and Marge s. Star STAFF Photo.
Evening star., 1940-02-05

TUMBLNG SISTERS NOW ARE EIGHTThe acrobatc Wiegand
girls their Seventeenth street Sc
into veable circus have their former sevensster act
augmented with the baby of the family Meredith taking her
place here at the right end of the line while Maryn 49, sails
through the air cartwhee dive The Wiegand sisters
started studying dancing shortly after they moved Washing
City, with their father and mother Mr. and
Mrs Raymond Wegand 1885, and their tepshorean efforts
soon led to tumhlng.
Evening star., 1940-02-05
Report for Last "a Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today
Highest. As. pm. yesterday. Year
$50 40.
20. "a.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 55, on January IA.
Lowest, z. on January 20.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon todayJ
Highest. "a per cent. at am. today.
Lowest. 81 per cent, at pm. yester-
day.
Tide Tables.
Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Today. Tomorrow
High 5:4S am. 6:36 am.
Low 1915 am. 106 am.
High 6:16p.m. 7:01 pm.
Low - 1895 pm. 1925 p.m
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun, today - 7:12 5:32
Sun. tomorrow 7:11 5:34
Moon, today sos am. 3:25 pm.
Automobile light must be turned on one
half hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1940-02-05

Adjust your speed to trafac and
weather conditions.
Evening star., 1940-02-05
RiYer Rennrf.

River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
Falls.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation In inches In the
Capital tcurrent month to date):
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-12
State Farm Census Gives
Some Interesting Figures

crops as compared with 1898, are:
tcnthS of one per cent 10 2,450,950
acres.
Cotton acreage was cut Is percent,
totaling 1880 acres.
Tobacco acreage was Increased y
percent 10 775.730 acres. (ThiS big in
crease was due 10 the fact that 1899
had no acreage control, as did 1898.
The lhrce-year control plan recent
ly voted will greatly reduce tobacco
acreage for l94l, ~ and '43.)
Wheat acreage was decreased eight
percent TO 434,370 acres.
Oats acreage came down five per-
cent to 292 $40 acres.
Rye suffered only one per cent de-
crease TO 92.l00 acres.
Peanuts were planted on 254, ITO
acres, live percent raise.
LeSpcdcZa acreage for all purposes
went up 20 percent for a total Of
$50. AGO acres.
Irish potatoes were uppcd three
percent for 81 400 acres.
Minor increases in general hay
crops were reported.
Cleared pasture lands totaled l.
100000 acres. an increase Of nine per
cent over the previous year, and in
dcating increasing interest in live
stock.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-12
Plenty of Seats
AtDuke-T ar Heel
Football Classic

Chapel Hill, Aug. 12.-The word
went out several days ago that all
seats in the concrete stands for the
Carolna-Duke game had been sold.
It was also stated at the time that
plenty OF seats were available in the
temporary stands.
But, Just as it often happens in
such cases, by the time the printed
report was circulated for day or
two it became so garbled that the
impression left with many persons
was that no seats Of any sort were
available.
And so-athletic officials and al
most everybody else connected with
the University are now being be-
sieged with kilograms and letters i'm
ploring them to try to find them
tickets some place.
Truth is there are plenty of good
seats left in the temporary stands.
The concrete stands hold $4,000, and
they were all gone more than ten
days ago. But the temporary stands,
as set up at present, will seat COM
fortably approximately $4,000 more,
and there are plenty Of these tenn
porary seats left.
There will be about 5000 of these
temporary seats at either end of the
playing field, just back Of the goal
posts, making a total Of 5000 for
these locations. There will be an
other 5000 on either side of the sta
dunn above the concrete stands,
making another 5000. And another
$500 will be set up in front OF the
playing field, just in front of the
concrete stands. That makes a grand
total of $4,000.
Several more thousand may be ad-
ded if Carolina and Duke athletic
officials can get together on plan
whereby steel stands, that go much
higher up than the wooden bleachers,
would be purchased jointly by the
two institutions for use by both IN
the future.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-12
Prompt Picking Of Cotton
Means More Money For Crop

dust and other foreign matter that's
blown into the bollS while they are
waiting TO be picked. the specialist
says.
Shanklin also warned against pick
ing cotton while il is heavy with dew
or rain. After hard rain or a
heavy dew. it isn't 4 good plan 10
pick any cotton before about 8 or
10 o'clock in the morning. That gives
the sun chance 10 dry the cotton"
he asserted.
Another hint 10 growers was given
by the extension man as follows:
wise farmers mix their seed cot
ton before bauling it To the gin. That's
so the early morning cotton and the
cotton that is picked later in the day
will be thoroughly mixed. Mixing
makes the seed cotton uniform
through the entire load. and uniform
seed cotton is needed to turn ont a
ginned bale that will be uniform
from top to bottom.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1940-08-12
BY LYNN N.ISBET

Raleigh, Aug. lz.-North Carolina
last year had one milk COW for each
IS acres Of farm lands. and one hen
for each three and a half acres.
While total crop acreage decreased
from the 1888 level, there was an
increase in acreage planted to all
crops listed except cotton, wheat,
oats and rye.
These figures are taken from the
report made public today of A. +.
GarriS, supervisor Of the State Farm
Census for the department OF agri-
culture.
There were 288, $40 farms in the
state in 1889, just forty more that
the preceding year. These farms COM
prised 22,O68,770 acres, including
pasture, woodlands and waste land.
Planted TO some kind Of crop were
6,663,l9O acres, decrease Of APP
proximately seven percent from
1888.
Farm population jumped four per-
cent for the year, a much faster m
crease than that noted for towns and
cities in the same period, for d total
of l,536,22O. This compares with l.
48O, $40 for 1888, and is approximate
ly one-haf the states entire popu-
lation.
Cows of milking age, as of Janu-
airy /, 1910, numbered 30O,520. This
was Just little more than an aver
age of one COW per farm, and an
increase of eight percent for the year.
For cultivated land it represents d
cow for % acres, and for all farm
lands one for each 73 acres.
Th0 number of hens Of laying age
jumped 81 per cent to 6,365, 400
Just a little less than one hen per
crop acre, and about one for every
three and a half acres Of total farm
lands.
Further facts disclosed by the
1910 farm census, based on 1889