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JAPANESE ARMY GLOCKSCABINET

Refuses to Name War Min-

ister for New Ugaki Government.

By the Associated Press.

TOKIO. January 25—The efforts

of Gen. Kazushige Ugaki to form a

new cabinet and end Japan's grave | political situation were reported today to be blocked by army opposition.

The Japanese press declared the

army has refused to name a war min-

ister for the Ugaki government, auto-

matically creating a deadlock. Jap- anese law requires a general officer on the active list must hold that cab-

inet post. The 68-year-old former governor

general of Korea accepted his em-

peror's command to form a govern- ment after a dramatic midnight ride from his home at Nagaoka.

Once a peddler of vegetables. Ugaki is now regarded among the empire's most brilliant administrators. He al-

ways has been understood to be friend- ly toward the political parties whose

bitter attacks on the army brought the present crisis to a head.

Military leaders were reported to

have decided formation of a cabinet by Ugaki would fail to achieve the army program.

Ugaki, striving to avert failure, scheduled a meeting with Gen. Count Juichi Terauchi. minister of war in the resigned cabinet of Premier Koki Hirota. Terauchi led the militarist attack against the parliamentary parties in the heated Diet debate that

finally forced the downfall of the Hirota government.

Among the demands he was ex-

pected to make on Ugaki were:

1. Exclusion of party leaders from the cabinet.

2. Changes in the government struc- ture.

3. Creation of a strong new rightist party from the existing parties, there- by giving the government a majority in the Diet.

The four times minister of war was

expected to yield to the army’s wishes as much as possible, even, some sources

said, to the point of accepting all three demands.

The stock market, which declined sharply on Hirota's resignation, re-

covered appreciably. Considerable un-

easiness remained, however, over the army opposition.

FORMER D. C. MAN KILLED IN FLORIDA

Sumner A. Baker Dies as Automo- bile Strikes Truck Near

Fort Lauderdale. By the Associated Press.

FORT LAUDERDALE. Fla.. Janu- ary 25.—Sumner A. Baker, 26. dis- trict circulation manager of the Miami Daily News, was killed yesterday when the automobile he was driving col- lided with a beer truck near the city limits.

Two companions. Howard Linder and Ed Van Zandt. both of Miami, received minor injuries.

Baker, formerly employed by the 'Washington Post, is survived by his mother, Mrs. Alena Baker, assistant principal of a girls' high school at Baltimore.

Sumner A. Baker resigned his posi- tion on the Washington Post about four months ago and went to Miami to work after a brief period with the Long Island Daily Press, Jamaica, N. V. He worked on the Post two and a half years and previously was em- ployed by the Yonkers (N. Y.) Herald. Both Baker and Ed Van Zandt, who also worked for the Post, lived at the Logan Hotel.

Baker was bom in Chattanooga, Tenn., July 23, 1910, but spent most of his life in Baltimore. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at his mother's home there.

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500 REACH MAYFIELD

15,000 to 20,000 More Refugees From Paducah Expected.

MAYFIELD, Ky., January 25 OP).— Charles Wagner, a Red Cross official, said today 500 refugees from inun- dated Paducah had been brought to Mayfield for shelter and relief and that he expected a total of from 15,- 000 to 20,000 would be quartered here.

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Trials

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day by Earl Radek, former editor of Izvestia, who linked the famous Mdivani family with the alleged con-

spiracy to overthrow communism by helping Germany and Japan defeat Russia at war.

Known as “Mdivani Bloc.” Radek said the Tiflis bloc was

known as the Mdivani bloc, presum- ably because one of the Mdivanis headed it.

(The American chronology of the spectacular careers of Serge, David and Alexis Mdivani contains no ref- erence to a brother Bydy.

(Alexis, the former husband of Louise Astor Van Alen and Barbara Hutton, now Countess Haugwitz-Re- ventlow, was killed in a Spanish motor accident on August 1, 1935.

i Serge was killed on a Florida polo field on March 15, 1936, a month after he had married his former sister-in- law, Miss Van Alen. He previously was married to Pola Negri and Mary McCormic. David, who survives, is a

former husband of Mae Murray. A sister is Mrs. Jose Maria Sert, wife of the painter.)

L. Serebryakoff, another defendant, linked Mdivani to the sabotage plot, testifying in court the prisoner had come to Moscow to join the intrigue and help work out the details.

The former Georgian prince was

Jailed together with more than a score of henchmen on charges of plotting to separate Georgia—the home prov- ince of Joseph Stalin—from the Soviet Union.

Death Sentences Likely. Official sources said there was little

doubt Mdivani and the others would be tried soon and probably sentenced to death.

Mdivani wanted immediately to kill Laurentius Berla, a close friend of Stalin and a high Soviet official in Georgia, but was dissauded by pleas to wait until Stalin himself Was killed.

He also related Mdivani's alleged efforts to consolidate malcontents throughout Soviet Russia, including opponents of Communism In Armenia

Washington Wayside

Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events

and Things. ARTIST.

ADIES of the Petworth Baptist Church are hoping there will be added to the hog calling, rolling pin throwing, com husk-

ing and numerous other contests one

which will be a test of skill for hand

potato mashing. For years George W. Potter has offi-

ciated as official potato masher for the

church supper and has undoubtedly prepared tons of spuds for public con-

sumption. “There’s a reason” for when they appear on the table they are so light and fluffy and have such a taste appeal the ladies would never

think of delegating this duty to any one but Mr. Potter.

When the men of the congregation give their annual supper, which usually involves plenty of good food at a nom-

inal cost, he has the title of maitre d'hotel and supervises services and di- rects the activities of the "men folks” all clad in spotless white uniforms such as the professional chefs wear.

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HANGOUT. Supper was being brought up to

the 4-year-old. son of a friend of ours out in Bethesda who was going to dine in bed.

As the nurse brought up the tray of tasty victuals the youngster took one look and then rolled over in bed. groaning:

•'Take it away, take it away! I had too much eggnog yesterday and have a terrific hangout."

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FREE. G-men chuckle over this incident

reported here recently by a Justice Department agent at Salt Lake City. You've heard of it before, but this makes it official.

The G-man called on the sheriff of a Southern Utah county to ques- tion a prisoner confined in the county jail.

“You can’t see him right now," the sheriff said. "He’s out to dinner.”

"Out to dinner?” queried the puz- zled G-man. "What do you mean?"

“Oh,” said the sheriff. "He has a

key to the jail and lets himself out whenever he needs to go anywhere.”

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DOGS.

pSTERBELLE McHARG, who Is the ^ proud owner of some sort of a

pooch she picked up in Naples last Summer, apparently hasn't seen that little advertisement that was distrib- uted among dog lovers recently, announcing that two little girls would stop in and wash any dog for 35 cents.

Miss McHarg and a friend were

recently walking their dogs in the park when, all of a sudden, the lady in question got very excited when the Neapolitan animal started toward a

puddle of water. The friend inquired what the excitement was all about. Miss McHarg replied that she had just paid $3.50 to have the dog washed j and she really couldn't afford it so

soon again, and he just loves to get in any kind of mudhole. The friend, being rather surprised by this appar- ent extravagance, inquired further into the matter.

“Well,” replied Miss McHarg, “he doesn’t like to be washed very much, so I have to send him to the veteri- nary.” The two little girls should do a booming business if many people consider their dog's feelings before their pocketbook.

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TIMELY-

f)UR James Mitchell, jr.—his friends 7

really ought to know who does all that talking about them in this col- umn-turns out to have been a bit too timely with that piece about Mrs. Walter Chappell. She is the lady who has absolutely no qualms about mov-

ing. Remember? Well, right after the article ap-

peared, friends started telephoning Mrs. Chappell, asking if her services were available for the near future.

Mrs. Chappell, the first to aee the joke of it, thought it very funny the callers should have found her in bed, completely exhausted from the effects of her latest change in residences.

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PILLOW. Federal agents get a lot of laughs

from job hunters who offer peculiar reasons why they should be ap- pointed as special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but sometimes the laugh is on the G-men.

A special agent was assigned by J. Edgar Hoover to interview a

Congressman about an applicant’s qualifications for appointment. He reported back as follows:

“Applicant is one of the pillows of the fifth district on whom he could depend.”

and Azerbaijan in order to build a

strong center for the so-called “tlflis parallel.”

The plot to overthrow the Com- munist state in Russia was laid to Trotzky’s ambition to create ''pure Fascism" in the Soviet Union.

A former Washington correspondent for the newspaper Izvestia told the

Sunday court session he had full knowledge of the alleged terrorist plot against the Russian government.

The witness was Vladimir Romm, arrested after his return from Wash- ington last Summer.

Romm testified he carried five let- ters from Radek to Trotzky. discussed the situation in a dark alley near a

Paris park with Trotzky, and agreed to become the latter’s undercover in- formant while serving as Izvestia cor-

respondent in Washington—but was

unable to do so. (Trotzky, now in Mexico City, issued

a vigorous denial of the Moscow charges. He said he heard last night “for the first time” the name of Romm, and that his last contact with Radek was in 1938.)

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BIG FOrWONY’ Corporations Auxiliary Co.

Got $1,750,000 in Three Years, Inquiry Shows.

BY JOHN C. HENRY. Corporations Auxiliary Co., ‘‘pro-

moters of harmony and happiness In Industry,” received $1,750,019 from big business concerns from January 1, 1933, to November 1. 1936, evidence before the Senate Civil Liberties Committee showed today.

James H. Smith. $75,000 president of this and numerous subsidiary com-

panies, told the committee his enter- prises deal exclusively “with the human element.”

“If you were a manufacturer, Sena-

tor, I could sell It to you,” Smith said at one point.

In the list of 499 clients of Corpora- tions Auxiliary in 18 groups of indus- tries in 19 States were the following principal ones:

Chrysler Corp. (23 plants). General Motors Corp. and subsidiaries (13 plants), Electric Auto-Lite Co.. Kelsey Hayes Wheel Co.. Midland Steel Products Co., American Medicinal Spirits Co., Quaker Oats Co., Great Lakes Steel Co., Wheeling Steel Corp., International Shoe Co., Crane Co., Kelvinator Corp.. Mergenthaler Lino- type Co.. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., New York Edison, Postal Telegraph it

Cable, Radio Corp. of America, Under wood-Elliott-Fisher Co. and the Texas

Corp. Chrysler Corp. had from 61 to 78

operatives of Corporations Auxiliary in its plants from 1934 through 1936, records of the latter concern showed.

General Motors over the same period used 31 to 35 agents.

Justice Department Complaint. A verbal complaint against the labor

relations policies of the Department of Justice has been made to the commit- tee, Chief Investigator Robert Wohl- forth said today. However, no action is contemplated unless the charges are

filed formally in writing. In brief, the accusations were to the

effect the department has practiced intimidation of union organizers.

Smith, today's first witness, told the committee he is president of some half a dozen companies incorporated in various States under the name of Corporations Auxiliary. He said he also heads several amusement com-

panies, among them the Beehive and Kiddyland companies, and is a prac- ticing attorney.

The committee evinced considerable interest in occasional use by Smith and his associates of dummy letterheads for such non-existent companies as Atlantic Production Co. and Allied Pro- duction Co. These were used in em-

ploying individuals on certain occa- sions, Smith said.

The principal purpose of his com-

panies, Smith said, was to "maintain harmony in industry. We're interested only in having everybody working shoulder to shoulder with perfect harmony."

No Engineer* on SUIT. "I think we’ve been exceedingly

successful,” Smith answered when asked to what degree his services have

j ‘'promoted efficiency and harmony” in plants. “Our clients have had very

| few labor troubles.” Asked about company advertising

of a “consulting engineers" service, Smith admitted that no real engineers are on the staffs of his companies.

Turning to finances of the Smith enterprises. Chairman La Follette sub- mitted gross income figures for five operating companies showing totals of $284,847 in 1933, $489,181 in 1934 and $518,215 in 1935.

Smith said his own income was a salary of $15,000 yearly from each of the five companies, plus possible divi- dends. In 1935, though he said he collected only about $48,000. His general manager, Dan O. Ross, is listed for a salary of $12,500 yearly from each concern with “a little bonus i arrangement.”

Chrysler Paid Off Big. The Chrysler Motor Co. is the larg-

est of about 200 clients. Smith said, whereupon La Follette submitted for the record the invoices of payments by Chrysler to Smith companies.

In 1833, this payment was $61,627 and in 1934. it was $76,411, both to the corporation's auxiliary company. In 1935, the payment was divided to four Smith companies and totaled $72,611.

Among the latter was a payment of $19,447 to the law firm of Smith and Weber, although the witness said he could recall no legal service to Chrysler.

The Equitable Auditing Si Publish- ing Co. was listed for $16,910 in the 1935 total.

Smith finally said all these pay- ments were for services of the corpo- ration’s auxiliary company.

Clients Asked for Billing Method. “Why was Chrysler billed in this

way in 1935, but not previously?” “I guess because our clients asked

it,” Smith answered as La F*>llette angrily asked him to testify without reservation.

"Are you familiar with the securi- ties and exchange act which requires corporations to report such pay- ments?”

“I think I’ve read about it,” Smith admitted.

For the first 10 months of 1936 the payments amounted to $64,785.

Ross, a former Pinkerton operative, followed Smith to the stand. Also

emphasizing that he is a “human- element expert” rather than an en-

gineer, he assured the committee that the various branches of Corporations Auxiliary have done good work in promoting harmony and efficiency.

No Detective Agency, He Says.

Senator La Follette then read let- tens from regional officers of Corpo- rations Auxiliary to prospective clients, warning of the increasing dangers of labor organisation under laws enacted by a “leftist" Congress.

“I don’t like to call our business a detective agency," Ross said.

“But you follow all the methods,” Senator Thomas reminded him.

“Yes, because It is necessary. If you want to abolish it, then legislate that labor union meetings should be open to employers. I think employers need to know what's going on at labor meetings.”

“Do you think that employes should know what is going on at directors’ meetings?”

“Oh, yes.” Ross replied. “If I were an employer I would have an employe on the board.”

Blecked in Wisconsin.

Recalling Smith to the stand to ex- plain “educational" work for which Fisher Body Co. of Janesville, Wii was billed, Senator I* Follette drew from the witness the admission that Wisconsin law Mocks operation then

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END OF MARITIME

Eastern and Southern Work- ers to Continue Fight Against

Copeland Act. B» the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, January 25.—Termi- nation of the insurgent seamen's strike on the Atlantic and Oulf coasts, tentatively approved here Thursday, was ratified last night at a meeting participated in by striking seamen

here and by men In six other ports, who voted by telegraph.

The Joint Maritime Strike Council, composed of representatives of unions participating in the strike, announced cessation of the strike in view of the entry into the disputa of the National Labor Relations Board, had been ap-

proved by New Orleans, Pensacola, Fla.; Philadelphia and Jacksonville, Fla., while Mobile, Ala., and Prov-

idence, R. I., voted against termina- tion.

It also was announced that ap- proval of the move had been received from maritime labor leaders on the West Coast.

The meeting also adopted a resolu- tion to tontinue opposition to the Copeland safety at sea act and the sailors’ discharge book requirement feature of the bill.

The resolution called for sit-down strikes in all ports May 1 if the act is not suspended, and for votes on all shirs at sea on the question of hold- ing discharge book-burning cere-

monies. -- ■ ■ -• -- --

Strikes

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today before the entrances of the Fleetwood and Cadillac Motor Car Co. plants in Detroit and prevented office workers from entering. There was no disorder. Cadillac and Fleet- wood are two unit* which sit-down strikers evacuated a week ago when It appeared negotiations were about to begin with General Motors execu-

tives. Many to Be Put to Work.

William S. Knudsen, executive vice president of General Motors, said he hoped to be able to return 95,000. of the 125.000 idle employes to work, but made no announcement as to which plants would resume operations. The reopenings are scheduled to begin tomorrow.

It was made clear, though, the re-

openings would be confined to plants which have been shut because of j shortages of materials and that no

attempt would be made to operate any of the 17 where the union has called strikes. Altogether, nearly 50 plants have been closed or operated on a restricted basis because of the walk-outs.

Knudsen said the company planned to provide two days of employment each week for the workers returned to their jobs. This, he said, would add approximately *344,000 to the daily pay roll.

A statement read last night on the corporation’s weekly radio concert hour on a national network said:

"Whether one shall work—how one shall work—when one shall work— nas from the earliest days of our na-

tional existence been the acknowl- edged right of each one of us to decide for himself, with no man’s interfer- ence. * • •

"The only way to acquire security, independence and well-being is to earn

them. Men therefore possess the in- alienable right to earn • • * which is to say the alienable right to work.”

The Flint Alliance, organiezd to op- pose strike sentiment, distributed handbills announcing a mass meeting tomorrow afternoon. These broad- sides said the alliance has no "inten- tion of becoming a party to negotia- tions” between General Motors and the union.

The statement, signed by George E Boysen, organizer of the alliance and former mayor of Flint, said the group's only purpose was "to get men back

to * * • their jobs by lawful and or-

derly methods.” "Let bargaining begin after that is

done,” the statement concluded.

G. M. C. POSITION AWAITED.

Reply to Parley Invitation Will De-

termine Strike Peace.

B» the Associated Press.

Success of new Government efforts to negotiate the General Motors strike hinged today on the corporation's ac-

tion on Secretary Perkins’ request for

its officers to meet union leaders across

a conference table. If the bid is accepted, Alfred P.

Sloan, jr„ General Motors president, will meet Chairman John L. Lewis of the Committee for Industrial Organ- ization face to face on Wednesday for

the first time since the widespread auto strikes began.

LONG ILLNESS IS FATAL TO EDWARD V. PERKINS

Funeral for Retired Transit Com-

pany Shop Foreman Set for

Tomorrow.

Edward Vernon Perkins, 60, retired shop foreman of the Capital Transit Co., died Saturday night after a long illness at his home, 1614 D street northeast.

For many years Mr. Perkins was

foreman of the Brightwood shop of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. He continued on with the Capi- tal Transit Co. after the street rail- way merger and retired in January, 1935. His service with the companies covered about 30 years. He was a

member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.

Mr. Perkins is survived by his widow, Mrs. Emma Crawford Perkins; three

sons, Maurice Vernon Perkins, Alvin R. and Thornton W. Perkins; four sisters, Mrs. David R. Thomas. Mrs. Me Ills Cornish, Mrs. Sam Moss and Mrs. Reginald Trueman, and two

brothers, Harry and Randolph Perkins. He also leaves two grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2 pjn. tomorrow at his late residence. Rev. Dr. W. A. Haggerty of Rosedale M. E. Church will officiate. Burial will be at Columbia Gardens, Va.

now except under special devices rec-

ommended by a Wisconsin law firm. When Smith explained that much

of the “educational” work for Wis- consin clients has been carried out by correspondence, he said such corre-

spondence had been destroyed and was

instructed sharply by Senator La Fol- lette to produce additional Informa- tion on the scheme for evading the

The Cruise of the Bouncing Betsy The Darlings, After Much Debate, Buy Modern Trailer and

Plan Trip to Florida.

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“Some towns were not yet ready to open up the doors of hospitality _^—

Herewith begins a narrative of "The Cruise of the Bouncing Betsy," from the log of a trailer trip from Des Moines. Iowa, to Florida, in the middle of the Winter of 1936-7.

BY J. N. DARLING. FOREWORD.

The immediate excuse for taking such a journey was, with us. twofold: First, a case of chronic bronchitis, which wasn't going to be helped ma-

terially by the next three months of

coal, smoke, ice, sleet and aspirin tab-

lets: second, a somewhat fantastic j idea that if the whole pattern of

American life was to be completely altered by this new device of peram- bulating pent houses, it was up to us to acquire some advance informa- tion about it.

Most trailer trips, we conjecture, begin with a family argument long before either party to the controversy knows anything about a trailer or has ever stepped inside of one. Ours did.

Probably this trip would never have been taken (the above-stated reasons

notwithstanding) if a chance remark of mine had not been rudely pounced upon one morning when the coffee was bad and castigated as a crazy idea, wholly impractical and char- acteristic of my childish old age. I

had, by the way, merely ventured the suggestion—in an effort to brighten what seemed to be a gloomy day— that these modem trailers seemed to be heaven's answer to my prayers, or, at least, an attractive substitute. I had always dreamed of having enough money to own a young yacht and go sailing about over the Seven Seas unincumbered by care. "A trailer.” said I. "would not, of course, take us to strange ports where odd sea craft with orange-colored sails are mirrored in an amethyst sea. but it could take us anywhere we wanted to go on land without benefit of rail- road tickets, hotels or timetables. It must be something like having a pri- vate car and a pass on all the rail- roads.”

"Yes,” she said, "a private Pullman with me as Pullman car porter, dining car steward, cook and dishwasher, be- sides helping out as engineer and con- ductor,” If I had any idea she was

going to go gypsying around in one

of those things, camping on vacant lots adjoining the city dump, with a teakettle of hot water and the kitchen sink for a bath, and no privacy what-

ever, I was mistaken, that was all.

Course Confirmed by Ridicule.

Nothing so convinces you that your idea is sound as to have some one

equally ignorant of the subject ridi- cule it with a few well chosen blasts of sarcasm. Such an assault, no mat- j ter how trivial the original thought may have been, immediately makes it indelible and raises it to the estate of a major issue, which must be defended at all costs. However, this did not seem to be the morning to settle the matter. It is sufficient to note that the seed of controversy over the trailer had been sown, and from that day forth the arguments pro and con

grew and grew. We stumbled over its roots in the

most unexpected places, and its spread- ing branches cast deepening shadows over our whole family existence. I, representing the affirmative, produced testimonials, ground-floor plans of various types of trailers, maps of ex- cursion possibilities and even a trailer cook book, and pretty generally con-

tended that the trailer was the an-

swer to all the complications of civili- zation. The negative was equally re-

sourceful and clipped from the daily press stories of mass hold-ups of trail- ers along the highway: "Murder in Trailer Camp,” "Three Killed as Trail- er Leaves Road and Crashes Over Cliff,” and so on. Selections from Pat O’Brien’s clasjic on "Folding Bedouins” were read aloud, with bois- terous guffaws accompanying the clinching arguments against life in a trailer.

It is quite remarkable how much truth there turned out to be in most of the arguments both for and against the project. Yet we probably would not have had a trailer at all and the

controversy would have worn Itself out or been succeeded by another equally unimportant had it not been for a case of the “flu” which I brought home one clammy, mushy Winter day. The flu was followed by a return en- gagement of chronic bronchitis, which is always lurking in the offing to assault me whenever it can catch me off guard. Plaintive appeals of an "invalid” are always difficult to re-

sist for the same reason that cripples make a good living selling worthless lead pencils. Zt was a mean advaa-

A family argument at breakfast started the idea.

tage to take to win an argument on the subject of the trailer, but with the aid of a slogan, "Out of the Bron- chitis Belt by Christmas,” supported by many a subterfuge such as "we can't get along without a car when we get there so we’ll have to drive,” and “it wouldn’t do to take a chance with roadside hotels and clammy tourist camps in my ‘delicate state of health,”’ the trailer was finally or-

dered delivered at our door.

An All-Purpose Outfit.

It was an all-purpose, large-size trailer, with two handsome wicker deck chairs, a compact and efficient two-burner-and-oven gasoline stove for cooking and a charcoal heater for comfort, a folding double bed for-

ward, which served as a decorative davenport in the daytime: a lower and upper single-bed arrangement in a small rear compartment, wash bowl, kitchen sink: ice box. sanitary toilet, electric brakes which worked from the driver's seat and a telephone connect-

ing the driver with the occupants of the trailer. There were 54 cubbyholes, wardrobes, cabinets, drawers and niches ‘for every conceivable article you might choose to take along.

Electric lights in the trailer took their current from the motor batteries, windows opened and shut with devices

much more obedient to the wishes of the traveler than any yet installed for the convenience of railroad passen- gers. Screens on both doors and win- dows gave assurance of being able to cope with all condit- _>ns of weather and climate. All the things a good, experienced camper could think of have been incorporated into these third generation descendants of the covered wagon.

Whether or not the trailer becomes a general practice of the average American family will depend, from now on, not so much on the practi- cability of the trailer itself as upon the receptive attitude of the towns, inhabitants and land owners who con-

trol the use of the land along the lanes of tourist travel. Just now they are

not ready to throw open wide the doors of hospitality and let you park your caravan in their front yards or ob- struct city traffic by pul’ing up to the curb of their streets. Well-equipped trailer camps, with sewer, water and electric connections are almost non-

existent; ordinary tourist camps with cottages to let are definitely hostile and the modem trailer with its mani- fold conveniences is a good deal in the same situation as the ma who was

all dressed up and no place to go. Certainly to own a trailer does not

require an extravagant outlay, and the cost of meals and lodging after the trailer has been acquired is un-

believably low compared to even the most modest tourist accommodations.

The tax collector may catch up with the trailer. He hasn’t yet except on

the toll bridge, which seems to con-

template amortizing the entire cost of their bridges with the proceeds from the up to now unclassified vehicle, the trailer. Finicky ladies who require personal maids and a social secretary won't like them. But for men on a

fishing or hunting trip or for people who have a little of the resourceful- ness of their pioneer forefathers left to go on—oh boy! It’s a long way ahead of sleeping in a rope-spring bed with a corn-husk mattress or putting up your tent in the rain in water- soaked woods.

(Second article in series to be print- ed tomorrow.)

lOoprrlsM, 1937J

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ROOSEVELTTALKS l

Discusses Temper of British People Toward America

and Unemployment. President Roosevelt explored British

sentiment toward America yesterday, using as a medium the president of Great Britain's Board of Trade, Walter Runciman.

With Runciman as a week end guest, Mr. Roosevelt discussed in pure- ly informal manner such questions as the temper of the British people to- ward America, the general unemploy- ment situation in the two nations and whether persons now employed in Great Britain in the production of arms and ammunition could be turned to the production of more peaceful commodities.

President and Mrs. Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. Runciman and members of the President’s family motored in a

cold rain to Washington Cathedral late in the day for special devotional services. In doing so Mr. Roosevelt followed a tradition established on the first Sunday after inauguration day in 1933.

The President's pilgrimage had not been announced, but the church was crowded with worshipers who stood in silence as he made his way down the central aisle. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, bishop of Washington, wel- comed Mr. Roosevelt before taking his place at the end of the procession line.

No change was attempted in the sacred program arranged for Septua- gesima. The cathedral choir marched to its stalls after the golden cross

given several years ago by the de- throned Emperor of Ethiopia. With them were Rev. Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes and Rev. Dr. G. Freeland

Peter, cathedral canons; Rev. Dr. Howard S. Wilkinson, rector of St. Thomas’; Rev. Raymond L. Wolven, chaplain to the bishop, and other clergy.

Mr. Roosevelt listened closely as

Bishop Freeman argued that love ana

service are practical forces in the

world, necessary to civilization. Ha concluded with a plea for pragmatic Christian philosophy made manifest in industrial, racial, international and religious relations—”a consummation devoutly to be wished.”

The President, leaving the cathe-

dral, thanked the bishop for his sup- port’of the Red Cross flood relief cam-

paign. It had been announced that

the collection taken during the service

was pledged to that emergency pur-1 pose.

STORE WINS CUP

The B. Rich's Sons Shoe Store. 1001 P street, has been advised that it was

awarded a silver cup for entering the

best children’s advertisements, in cit- ies over 100,000,' in the newspaper ad- vertising contest conducted by the

National Shoe Fair. The advertisements of the local

store were prepared by the Henry J. Kaufman Advertising Agency, and carried in The Star last March 19, April 16 and May B.

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Representative Andrew Mon- tague Had Served in

House Since 1913. By the Associated Press.

RICHMOND. Va„ January 25.— Representative Andrew Jackson Montague. 74, Democratic member of Congress from the third Virginia dis- trict, died yesterday at his home, in Urbana, Middlesex County. He had been in poor health for some time.

Funeral services will be held at his home at 3 p.m. tomorrow. Burial will be in the old Christ Cemetery in Urbana.

The son of Judge Robert Latane Montague, presiding officer of the Vir- ginia Convention of Secession, Repre- sentative Montague was a former Gov- ernor of Virginia, He had served in Congress since April 5, 1913, and last Fall was re-elected for another term.

Other public positions he held in- cluded delegate to the third inter- national conference on maritime law at Brussels, president of the American Society for Judicial Settlement of In- ternational Disputes, president of the American Peace Society, president of the American group of the Interpar- liamentary Union and delegate to the Third Conference of American Repub- lics at Rio de Janeiro.

Member oi a tamuy mat traced its

history for 300 years in Middlesex and Lancaster Counties, Montague was

educated at William and Mary and Richmond College, where he graduated in 1882, after which he taught two years. He was graduated from the University of Virginia with the B. L. degree in 1885, and began the practice of law at Danville.

In 1893 he was appointed United States attorney for the western dis- trict of Virginia and served until 1898, when he became attorney gen- eral of Virginia, serving until 1902.

In the latter year, at the age of 38, Montague ran for Governor and de- feated Claude A. Swanson, later Gov- ernor, Senator and now Secretary of the Navy. The successful candidate made a reputation as an orator in a

heated campaign, in which he can-

vassed the State in a buggy. During his four-year term, he

awakened interest in the State school system and widened its scope, pressed for better roads and led the fight for a primary plan of election of United State Senators as against their elec- tion. as then, by the General As- sembly.

Democratic leaders agreed today that a special election will have to be called by Gov. Peery to fill the vacancy created by Representative Montague's death. -•-

WAR VETERAN DIES OF HEART DISEASE

Earle W. Dimmick. 48. Had Been Legion Rehabilitation Com-

mittee Employe. Earle W. Dimmick, 48. World War

veteran, who for a number of years has been engaged In work for the National Rehabilitation Committee of the American Legicn. died yesterday of heart disease at his home, 4449 Q street.

Mr. Dimmick was a captain of In- fantry. stationed at Camp lee. Va., during the war. He was well known by Legionnaires for his work among blinded during the war.

He was a member of Quentin Roosevelt Post. No. 11, American Le- gion. and the Forty and Eight or-

ganization of the Legion. He was a

pest master of OSiris Lodge of Ma- sons and past high priest of Mount Pleasant Chapter. Royal Arch Masons.

Mr. Dimmick. a native of Wiscon- sin, is survived by his widow. Mrs. Marie Dimmick: his father. James E. Dimmick. and brother. Rufus Dim- mick, both of Black River Falls. Wis.J a sister. Mrs. Edna Achtenberg, Rice

| Lake. Wis.. and a sister, through \ adoption. Mrs. Edith Utz of Washing- ; ton State. j Funeral services will be held at 2

p.m. tomorrow at the residence, with the Masons in charge. Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery.

MRS. NANNIE SHELTON TO BE BURIED TODAY

Washington Wom&n Was De-

scendant of Families Promi-

nent in U. S. History. Funeral services for Mrs. Nannie

Harris Shelton, 65, a descendant of

j families prominent in early American ! history, are being held this afternoon in Chambers’ branch chapel, 517 Eleventh street southeast. Burial will be in Glen wood Cemetery.

Mrs. Shelton, who died Saturday at her home, 920 C street southeast, was the widow of Thomas F. Shelton. Her father was the late Richard B. Grif- fin. an employe of the Capitol 50 years.

Her ancestry included Lieut. Fran- cis Ware of the Revolutionary Army and Sir John Hawkins. British admiral of the sixteenth century.

Congress in Brief TODAY.

Senate: In recess.

La Follette Committee continues labor espionage inquiry.

Judiciary Subcommittee considers O'Mahoney industrial licensing bill.

House: Considers crop production loan bill. Receives deficiency relief bill. Ways and Means Committee con-

tinues hearings on reciprocal trade treaty extension.

Appropriations Subcommittees study Navy and Treasury supply bills.

TOMORROW. Senate:

Will take up seed loan bill, if unani- mous consent can be obtained.

Civil Liberties Committee continue hearings.

Territories Committee meets at 11 a.m., to take up the nomination of Gov. Cramer to be Governor of the

Virgin Islands. Interstate Commerce Committee re-

sumes railroad Investigation at 10 a.m. House:

Plans to consider emergency relief bill.

Military Affairs Committee meet* 10 a.m.

Immigration Committee meet* 10:30 a.m.

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