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•Unstable, Senator Tru- : man Warns. #

B$ the Associated Press.

^Acting Chairman Truman of the

Senate Railroad Finance * Committee wwned a New York banking execu-

tive today that the Nation’s railroads heading toward Government oper-

A®on unless private financing becomes njpre stable.

,”We’re trying to find a way to keep tjjje railroads of th° coutnry in a stable condition and ip the hands of the operator and owners so the Govern- ment won’t have to step in and take charge of them,” Truman told Ben- jamin J. Buttenwieser, partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., New York bankers.

"And that’s what you’re heading for if you keep on having receivership After receivership,” the Missouri Sen- Ator added.

Buttenwieser was testifying concern- ing the 1917 reorganization of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which be- came a part of the Van Sweringen

• railroad system in 1930 and went into receivership in 1933.

Success Hinges on Earnings. Truman asked Buttenwiser whether

he believed the proposed Missouri Pa- cific reorganization would “last as long as the other one did.” Buttenwiser had testified that one of the partners of his firm was a member of the railroad's Bondholders’ Committee which has proposed a plan of reorgan- ization.

Replying to Truman’s question, But- tenwiser said success of the reorgan- ization proposal would depend partly on how well earnings fulfill expecta- tions.

Previously, an attorney for the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York had told the committee its published record contains “serious errors” and “biased captions” in testimony of company officials before the committee last winter.

Asks Corrections. James N. Rosenberg, counsel for the

New York banking house, obtained permission to read to the committee a tetter from William C. Potter, chair- man of Guaranty Trust. Potter as- serted the first volume of the com- mittee’s printed proceedings contained

• An exhibit in which there were "no fewer than 81 errors.” He asked that undistributed copies be corrected and that persons who had received copies

4 be notified of the "errors.”

THE WEATHER

District of Columbia—Fair and •lightly warmer, with lowest tempera- ture about 38 degrees tonight; tomor- row increasing cloudiness and warmer; showers tomorrow night; colder Sat- urday; moderate southerly winds.

Maryland and Virginia—Fair and slightly warmer tonight; tomorrow in- creasing cloudiness and warmer; showers tomorrow night and probably in extreme west portion tomorrow afternoon; colder in the interior Saturday.

West Virginia—Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight, followed by showers and warmer tomorrow; colder tomorrow night.

River Report. Potomac River very cloudy and

Shenandoah slightly muddy at Harpers Ferry; slightly muddy at Great Falls today.

Report (or Last ‘41 Honrs. Temperature. Barometer.

Testerday— Degrees. Inches. 4 p.m- 45 30.21 8 p.m- 41 30.28 Midnight_ 38 30.31

Today— 4 a.m_ _ 35 30.31

1 8 a.m_L_ 35 30.38 Noon _ 47 30.34

Record (or Last 21 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest. 46. 3 p.m. yesterday. Year

L Sgo. 78. " Lowest. 33, 6:15 a.m. today. Year

MO, 62. Record Temperatures This Year.

Highest. 97. on August 20* Lowest. 19. on February 28.

Humidity (or Last ‘41 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest. 91 per cent, at 7 a.m. Lowest, 38 per cent, at noon today.

Tide Tables. (Furnished by the United States Coast

and Geodetic Survey.) Today. Tomorrow.

High_ 8:27 a.m. 0:01 a.m. Low _ 3:13 a.m. 3:52 a.m. High_ 8:50 p.m. 9:24 p.m. Low_ 3:16 p.m. 3:53 p.m.

The Sun and Moon Rises. Sets.

tun. today _ 6:38 5:05 un. tomorrow_ 6:39 5:04

Moon, today_ 8:01 a.m. 6:57 p.m. Automobile lights must be turned on

one-hall hour after sunset. Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month. 1937. Average. Record. January _ 7.83 3.55 7.83 ‘37 February_ 3.33 3.27 6.84 ‘84 March_ 1.50 3.75 8.84 ill April_ 6.85 3.27 9.13 .89 May _ 4.02 3.7(1 10.69 ‘89 June_5.21 4.13 10.94 ‘00 July _ 3.67 4.71 10.63 '86 August _ 6.67 4.01 14.41 '28 September _1.76" 3.24 17.45 ‘34 October _ 8.81 2.84 8.81 37 November_ 2.37 8.69 '89 December_ 3.32 7.50 ‘01

Weather in Various Cities. Temp. Rain-

Stations. Baro. H'h.Low.fall.Weather Abilene, Tex... 30.18 ISH 50 Cloudy Albany. N, Y.__ 30.20 44 38 ... Cloudy Atlanta. Ga. ..30.30 60 32 _Clear Atlantic City 30.30 52 34 _Clear Baltimore, Md._ 30.30 50 34 _Clear Birmingham 30.34 02 32 _Clear Bismarck, N. D. 20.04 60 38 _Clear Boston. Mass. 30.18 48 34 _Clear

1 Buffalo. N Y. 30.24 38 34 _Clear Charleston. S.C. 30.30 08 44 _Clear Chicago. 111. 30.30 40 28 _Clear Cincinnati, Ohio 30.42 40 28 _Clear Cleveland, Ohio 30.30 40 32 _Cloudy Columbia, S. C. 30.38 00 38 _Clear Denver. Colo. 30.00 00 38 _Cloudy Detroit, Mich 30.30 44 28 ... Clear El Paso. Tex 30.08 72 54 _Clear Galveston, Tex. 30.20 72 04 _Clear Helena. Mont 30.32 50 38 _Cloudy Huron, 8. Dak. 30.02 50 32 _Clear Indianapolis ..30.40 44 28 _Clear Jacksonville_ 30.20 78 52 _Clear Kansas City_30.22 52 40 _Cloudy Los Angeles_30.08 04 58 _Cloudy Louisville. Ky_. 30.44 48 30 Clear Miami. Fla 30.04 80 00 0.01 Clear Mpls-St. Paul 20.04 44 30 _Clear New Orleans. La 30.30 72 50 _Clear New York, N. Y. 30.20 50 30 _Clear Oklahoma City. 30.22 00 48 _Rain Omaha. Nebr. 30.14 48 30 _Cloudy Philadelphia 30.22 48 34 _Clear Phoenix, Arlz 20.00 00 52 _Clear Pittsburgh, Pa. 30.30 38 20 Cloudy Portland, Me. 30.20 50 30 0.01 Clear Portland, Oreg. 30.00 58 48 _ Cloudy Raleigh. N. C.. 30.38 60 34 _Clear Salt Lake City. 30120 00 32 _Clear San Antonio 30.20 78 54 _Clear San Diego. Calif 30.00 00 00 _Cloudy San Francisco. 30.04 74 50 _Clear WASH.. D. C. 30.30 40 3.1 Clear

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Mrs. Roosevelt Gets Ticket to Ball i— —-1 ii 'in in in

Mrs. Roosevelt receives a ticket to the Armistice Day ball. In the photo, left to right, are Stephen Nichka. general chairman, Veterans of Foreign Wars Armistice Day ball; Dave Her- man, department commander, presenting ticket; Dr. Victor Cercell, ticket chairman, and Mrs.

Roosevelt.____—Star Staff Photo.

Tammany (Continued From First Page.)

victory, was shoved again to the fore by a telegram from the head of the organization pledging new allegiance to Mr. Roosevelt.

The labor party polled more than 200,000 votes for the President in the 1936 national election, and made cer-

tain La Guardia’s re-election by giving him some 450,000 votes in the munici- pal election.

Alex. Rose. State executive secretary of the party, informed the President that he "resented the interpretations by the reactionary elements in the Republican party that the people of the city have repudiated the New Deal. The American labor party is still its stanchest adherent.”

Particularly disturbed about the post-election situation was Tammany itself, which found in a full survey of election results that its position was

desperate. Lesser Offices Wiped Out.

The sweep of the fusion ticket saw lesser office holders of Tammany affili- ation wiped out as their leaders went down to defeat.

Besides the defeat of Jerimiah T. Mahoney for Mayor and of Harold W. Hastings for New York County district

attorney by Thomas E. Dewey, special rackets prosecutor, Tammany and its allies lost the controllership, presi- dency of the Council, a borough presi- dent, 10 assemblymen, 2 city court Judges, 7 municipal court judges and other offices.

Another significant after-campaign development was the resignation of Charles A. Schneider as assistant at- torney general of New York State. Schneider, a Tammany leader, was

attacked sharply during the campaign by Dewey.

Schneider, accused by Dewey of ac-

cepting fees from racketeers for de- fending a man charged with murder in a 1934 labor war, said in his resig- nation he did not want the State "sullied” by the "false” charges.

Yesterday Mayor La Guardia pre- dicted the "doom forever” of New York City machine government, adding:

“Pour years ago a non-partisan non-political government in New York City was a sort of experiment, but we have demonstrated that it is pos- sible and also desirable.”

First Two-in-a-Row Defeat. He was speaking of machine poli-

tics of Tammany Hall, defeated for the first time twice in a row by “reform candidates,” and which whs staggered by the blow dealt by voters

in spite of pleas for Mahoney by Post- master General James A. Farley, Gov. Herbert H. Lehman and other Demo- cratic leaders.

Today, all Tammany had to say was to echo Christopher Sullivan, its leader:

“We face the future cheerfully and look forward to glorious victories in 1938 and the years to come.

“The work of building and strength- ening the party begins today and prep- arations are under way already for perfecting the organization to bring it to a higher state of efficiency to assure success next year.”

PLAN SCHOLARSHIPS Harvard Business School Alumni

to Recommend Two. The Washington Club of Harvard

Business School Alumni will recom- mend candidates for two scholarships of $300 each to be awarded to stu- dents entering the business school January 31, officers of the local club announced today. r 1

Area (Continued Prom First Page.)

rett Park road to Wheaton road, thence northeastward along Wheaton road to old Bladensburg road, thence southeastward along old Bladensburg road to the Montgomery County- Prince Georges County line.

Other Districts. Prince George County: Chillum,

Riverdale, Hyattsville, Bladensburg, Seat Pleasant and Spaulding districts.

Virginia: Alexandria and Arlington County.

The commission ruling was a com-

promise between conflicting views ex-

pressed at the hearing on the zone issue.

The Board of Trade argued for a

radius of 20 to 25 miles from the zero

milestone, which would have taken in Gaithersburg, Olney, Laurel, Bowie and Marlboro. Md„ and Dranesville and Fairfax County, Va., explaining

that Washington merchants make free deliveries within that area.

The Capital Transit Co. had sought exemption for its bus operations to the limits in Maryland suggested by the Board of Trade and also as far south as Mount Vernon, Va.

The District of Columbia Trucking Association had argued that the com- mercial zone should not extend beyond the city limits of the District, saying that otherwise a no-man's land for regulation would be set up. The same

argument was advanced by the Cor- poration Commission of Virginia, which proposed Rosslyn as a limit.

The I. C. C. said that the Mary- land and Virginia points for w’hich the Board of Trade and the transit company argued "are not sufficiently adjacent to Washington to be con- sidered within the Washington com-

mercial zone.” The Census Bureau considers Rockville, Bowie and, part of Fairfax County as being in the Washington metropolitan area.

Green (Continued From First Page.)

hibited no friendliness to labor while she lived here.

“Immediately preceding this visit (to the United States),” the resolu- tion declared, “the Duke and the Duchess * * « visited Nazi Germany and * * * studied labor under the personal guidance of Dr. Ley (Dr. Robert Ley, leader of Germany’s labor front), the man who ordered and ruthlessly directed the destruction of all German free trade unions. * * *

“* * * The former King and his wife continued their study of labor prob- lems with Adolf Hitler, the world's most notorious foe of democracy. * * *

“(They) have announced that they will study labor in this country under the guidance of Charles Bedaux, whose vicious adaptation of the Taylor system, like the labor appeasement progrom of Germany, would apply the stretch-out system to labor in this country. » * *”

Of the former Baltimore debutante who married a member of a royal family, the document said she was

“one who while a resident here in no

way showed the slightest concern nor

sympathy for problems of labor or of the poor and needy."

Joseph P. McCurdy, president, in in- troducing the resolution laid particular stress on labor’s antipathy toward Bedaux, whom he termed an “arch enemy” of labor.

“This man, this Charles Bedaux, created more harm and havoc here in America with his speed-up and stretch- out system * * * than any other thing that has cropped out against the labor

movement in many years,” he said. It was not the first time that!

Bedeaux’s efficiency system has drawn the fire of labor’s- ire. Bedaux terms it the “B plan."

It uses as a basis what are termed “B units.” When Bedaux introduced it, he and his assistants watched a

normally productive worker and noted the time it took him to perform a par- ticular task.

If it took an hour, the normal speed for the operation was placed at 60 “B units”—60 minutes. Assuming the pay for the work was 60 cents an

hour, another worker who completed the same job in 40 “B units”—40 minutes—would save 20 units and would be paid 80 cents an hour.

However, a worker who took 80 minutes for" the job still would re- ceive the basic 60 cents per hour. On this ground Bedaux has asserted his system does not tend to “speed up” labor output. Labor, on the other hand, has charged the system exerts pressure to work for additional pay and results in a speed up.

Admr. Long Hurt On Head in Paris By Hotel Elevator

By the Associated Press.

PARIS. Nov. 4.—Rear Admiral Andrew T. Long, U. S. Navy, re- tired, was injured painfully today when struck on the head by a

descending elevator. Long was taken to the Ameri-

can Hospital, where attendants said his condition was not serious.

Mrs. Long said her husband had opened the door into the elevator shaft at their Paris hotel to determine whether the ele- vator was rising.

It was descending,

BLACK CHALLENGED IN COURT PETITION

Three Oil Companies Ask Justice Be Disqualified in Flea

for Beoonsideration. A new attack on the qualifications of

Associate Justice Black was made yesterday by three Florida oil com-

panies in a petition asking the Su- preme Court to reconsider its refusal to interfere with attempts by the Se- curities and Exchange Commission to subpoena telegrams which the con- cerns had sent and received.

The court was asked to disqualify Justice Black in the case on constitu- tional grounds and for the additional reason that he was chairman of the Senate Lobby Committee when that body seized telegrams of firms under investigation.

“Justice Black,” the petition con-

tended, “recorded himself as being definitely attitudinized in favor of the right of a Government agency to coerce private telegrams from a tele- graph company by the use of a blanket subpoena.”

The court last month refused to hear two attacks on the constitutionality of Justice Black’s appointment, asserting the petitioners did not have a suf- ficiently direct interest in the matter. Whether the court thinks the Florida concerns have such an interest may be announced Monday.

The petition was filed by the Ryan Florida Corp. of Tampa, Income Royal- ties Co. of St. Petersburg and Florida Tex Oil Co. of St. Petersburg.

JUDGE RULES PARENTAGE NOT ISSUE IN CUSTODY

Wife Meets Husband’s Habeas

Corpus Action by Asserting Boys Were Adopted.

By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Nov. 4.—A County

Court judgf ruled yesterday that the parentage of two boys, represented to their relatives and friends as twins, was not an issue in William S. Bales’ habeas corpus action to gain partial custody of the boys.

Bales’ former wife, Mrs. Elva May Bales Tortorice, challenged his right to them, denied they were twins and asserted they were not their children.

Presiding at the tenth suit for cus-

tody of the 8-year-old boys, Judge John H. Wilson said it makes no dif- ference whether the parents are “nat- ural” or “adopted.”

Mrs. Tortorice contended the chil- dren were brought to her as babies while she was in a maternity hospital and that they were represented to her husband’s three maiden sisters as her twins to “please them.”

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