Bluefield Daily Telegraph from Bluefield, West Virginia • Page 1

Pictorial The Dally Telegraph hat recently eetabllehed an art department and Is prepared to do engraving and execute all klnda of pictorial and Illustrated printing and reporting. WEATHER WEST VIRGINIA! Fair, with slowly rising temperature Wednesday. Probably occasional rains Thursday. Volume XLIV. No.

33. Bluefield, W. Wednesday Morning, Feb. 17, Price, Five Cents 32 Senators, 16 State Districts Proposed In Bill Bill For First Increase In Upper State House In 36 Years Comes As Surprise MERCER, SUMMERS AND MONROE TO BE IN 10TH Each District Would Have An Average Of 108,000 Compared To 115,000 At Present; BiU WiU Follow Usual Course In Senate Calendar Charleston, W. Feb.

16. A proposal for a 32-member state senate, with the state divided into 16 senatorial districts instead of 15, came out of a senate committee today. The bill, which would increase the size of the seriate for the first time in 36 years, camp as something of a surprise in legislative circles; The redistrieting committee had taken a measure by Senator Pelter (D) of Logan, calling for 15 districts, and changed it to 16. The senate majority held a caucus on the bill early in the afternoon but decided to let it follow usual procedure on the calendar and and give the members time for study. Should the senate approve the measure, house approval, also would follow.

When the house reapportioned its membership In 1933 the senate did not even refer the bill to committee before passing it. Kanawha Separate Kanawha county would become a senatorial district in itself and most of the other larger counties would be joined with but one or two smaller counties to make a district. Only the present first i i Hoffman's Attack Spurs Union Drive Newark. N. Feb.

16. to unionize the thousands of workers in northern New Jersey industries speeded tonight under the impetus of Governor Harold G. Hoffman's sharp attack on the committee for industrial organization's strike methods. While new verbal guns were leveled by union leaders at the governor, immediate steps in the organization drive were formulated by C. I.

O. leaders. A mass meeting tonight of automotive workers of this area indicated the first moves would be made in this field. Sources close to Julius Emspak, organizer of the, north Jersey counsel for industrial organization, said of workers in the big oil reflnerlees at Bayway and Eayonne would also be among the first objectives. The governor called "sit-down" strikes unlawful and said he would use "the entire resources of the state" to protect private property here from being seized In such a way.

CDIIL OPERIlTOfiS, Volunteers In Race To JNlilN OPEN IGE Beat Deadline Set For FEBENCETOIlllY Spanish War Neutrality Twenty-Six European Nations Cement Plan To Wall Spain In; Non-intervention Group Approves Ban Effective Saturday John L. Lewis Will Present Demands Of Miners At First Session Of Parley London. Feb. 16. (JP) on LiniiD MLiccv uivc European nations cemented a oU-HUUn WttK, rAT Hmt far-flung plan to wall Spain in Wll I RF RY IIWIW world tonight while for- WILLBt5 bT UmW eign volunteers, most of them apparently from France and Italy, raced to beat a Saturday midnight Operators Have Asked In- deadline to the zone of war.

creased Work Week To 40 Sympathizers with both factions in the civil conflict hiu-ried against Hours With No Boost In time while the international non- -r lutervention committee in London Wages, Agreement Or Ex- approved a volunteer ban effective tension Must Be Before April at midnight Feb. 20 and a plan to completely blockade the Iberian peninsula by March 6. Only Portugal, ardent Insurgent supporter, declined to ratify the agreement approved by 26 nations drawing a "sanitary cordon" around the Spanish war. French and Italian sympathizers, with the Germans significantly missing, either hurried toward Spain or made plans to join the combat before the ban becomes effective. Germany gave no sign of sending further reinforcements, apparently believing Gen.

Francisco Franco's Insurgent troops will win without more assistance. French border reports said 1,400 French Lewis Says He Anticipates No Strikes, As Journal Brands Wild Guesswork As 'Merest Rot' Brooke and Hancock would remain the same. West Virginia's general redistrict- mg for th; state senate was in 1901 when the number of districts was increased from 13 to 15 and che membership from 24 to 30. Senators Fleming (D) of Pleasants, chairman of the committee, said each district would have an average of 108,000 population under the hill. The existing average is 115,000.

Both houses passed a few bills, the house had an argument of two, and adjourned until Thursday. Committees left tonight to attend the funeral of Delegate John Wever at Martinsburg tomorrow. The legislature will be in session Saturday. Flood Aid Approved The house approved finally and sent to Governor Holt the senate bill to allow the public assistance department to make special grants to certain counties. The bill set out that losses had been suffered in the January flood and some counties would be unable to meet relief requirements.

Speaker Kay Thomas said on the floor, however, the act was intended to aid Cabell; Brooke and Kanawha counties which had not levied their full 15 per cent for relief and were ineligible for aid under the public assistance law. Voters in the 1938 election will have at least one constitutional amendment before them. The senate approved finally submission of an amendment to remove double liability from stockholders in closed state banks. Stockholders in national banks soon will be free of the liability. Two senate bills were sent to che house, one to fix hours for operation of the state library In the capitol and the other to make it a crime to break into pipelines for the purpose of stealing gasoline or other products.

Egg Measure Passes The house sent the senate one measure, to require that grades of eggs be stamped on containers. It was the measure which brought on a serio-comice debate yesterday. During a debate on a bill to regulate cereal in sausage, a personal tiff broke out between Delegate Brotherton (D) of Kanawha, the author, and Delegate Taylor (D) of Fayette. Both mentioned the word "liar" but the matter later blew over. The house agreed to authorize the rules committee to set up a special calendar after March 1, with all bills on that calendar to be given preference.

Taylor ynseccessfuUy tried to get in an amendment which would have allowed the house by two-thirds vote to bring out any measure. -The delegates sent over to the senate a resolution by Delegate Swann (D) of Cabell to look into state elections. He proposed a committee of five delegates and five senators to study ways of reducing election costs and eliminating (Turn to Page Three) FIRE SWEEPS ASYLUM, BUT NO ONE INJURED Poughkeepsle, N. Feb. 16.

(JP) swept for three hours tonight through the upper floors of the main building of the Hudson River State hospital for the insane near here but was extinguished without Injury or loss of life among the more than 4,000 inmates. Dr. Ralph H. Folsom. superintendent, estltaatlng damage at $15,000, said he would launch an Immediate Investigation into the cause of the blaze which broke out In the women employes quarters on the floor.

He said the flames spread so rapidly it was necessary to evacuate about 250 patients from three wards. Folsom said the patients remained "very calm" that none were biurt. Washington, Feb. 16. United Mine Workers said tonight it was "fooUsh" to talk of a soft cpal strike April 1, the day after the present working agreement is scheduled to expire.

On the eve of negotiations with bituminous operators for a new wage and hour contract, the union's official journal said editorially: "No ope knows whether there will be a suspension of operations on the first of April or any other date. Only time can determine that question and all of this wild guesswork now being Indulged In is the merest rot." John L. Lewis, the miners' president, and leader of the Just-ended General Motors strike, added in a press conference: "I abhor strikes. We don't plan any strikes now or in the future. If these negotiations are unsuccessful and the working agreement is not renewed, our men simply will be out of jobs." Asked if a sit-down strike would be possible in a mine, he said: "I imagine that you could sit down in a one wanted to sit." In support of demands that the miners' work week be extended and hourly pay rates cut, the operators have contended that coal is not holding its own as industry recovers from the depression, and that mine costs will have to be held down if the coal industry is to survive.

Vote Down Hearings Legislative relief favored by many of the operators now is im- der consideration by the house ways and means committee. Committee members voted today against conducting public hearings on the Guffey-Vinson soft coal control bill. Chairman Doughton (D-NC) told reporters the committee might send the bill to the house floor tomorrow. Chairman Charles F. Hosford of the bituminous coal commission was questioned for several hours at today's committee session.

Hosford told newsmen the com(Turn to Page Three) New York, Feb. 16. Representatives of the United Mine Workers and Appalachian soft coal operators will meet here tomorrow in a collective bargaining conference to begin negotiations on a new contract to replace the present wages-and-hours agreement which expires March 31. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, will read to several hundred coal operators and mine union officials the miners' demands at the opening session.

A joint negotiating committee then will try to compose differences before the contract expires. Strike Possible If no agreement is reached by April 1 and the expiring agreement is not extended, the miners automatically strike. Miners will ask for a 30-hour week, instead of the present 35- hour week, and a pay increase of at least 15 percent. Operators already have demanded an increase in the work week to 40 hours with no rise in pay. About 400,000 miners will be affected by the far-reaching document, although it applies only to miners in the Appalachian fields, reaching from central Pennsylvania to northern Tennessee.

Those outside this area are affected because their pay will be based on the resulting agreement Many Sub-Committees In 1935 when the present contract was negotiated, the first conferences included 28 operators and 28 miners. Numerous sub-committees were appointed as the negotiations continued, until only one CONGRESS TO SAVE U-SiflRlrDREi' Sends Report Of Special Committee's Study On Farm Tenancy To Congress Carry Court Issue To U. S. On Radio volunteers had crossed the frontier in February, 650 departing from Perpignan for Barcelona, 300 crossing at Perthus and 450 passing througli Cerbere. Informed sources in Rome interpreted the indirect Italian admission that their troops were largely responsible for the capture of Malaga to mean there would be no cessation of ItaUan volunteers until the deadline.

At Toulouse. 500 Catalian Fascists gathered to Join the Insurgent troops at Irun, near the French border, and prepared for eventual service on the Madrid front. Tlie "hands-off" Spain committee, relegated the question of Portugal to the sub-committee that worked out plans for banning recruits and war supplies in the first place. A tight naval blockade of both Spanish and Portuguese ports, enforced by the major European powers effective March 6, mifeht induce Portugal to participate in the international action, the committee hoped, and permit the establishment of neutral observers on the Hlspano-Portuguese frontier. PROPOSALS MADE TO AID INDIVIDUALOWNERSHIP Easier Credit Suggested For Selected Tenants To Become Owners; President Sees Federal Program As 'Only Solution' For Problem TEST TOL TO CONFESS 'Ear-Witnesses' Tell Of Hearing Screams And Pleas From Bertillion Room Where Man Said To Have Been Beaten NTENSIF! PROBE OF flSSJlL STORY Wife Of Naval Officer Holds To Statement She Was Attacked In Honolulu; Massie Case Is Recalled Somerset, Feb.

16. witnesses" told a jury today screams of pain and pleas for mercy came from the Uniontown bertil- lon room before Frank C. Monaghan was carried out dead. Tliey added their to the state's contention the 64-year-old Uniontown hotel proprietor was beaten to death" in that room to make him confess stabbing a county detective. The jury, trying State Policeman operators already the death, heard testi- a PoUcemen answered Kf O'Nem I.

-Thuds'a curses were heard D. A. Morrow, Charles P. uwem. LiOR RY 8 and a man's voice cried, "don't do that.

I'm an old man." Harry Cochran, a former member of the state legislature, said he and Assemblyman Matt Welsh, of Connellsville, were in the courthouse. Describes Pleas He testified: heard a voice say, don't do Then I heard another voice say, 'Now listen, Monaghan, you have cut John Wall's (the detective) throat We are the state police. We are your friends. We want to save you from the electric chair. Why did you do this'?" George Sherbon, a circulation representative for a Pittsburgh newspaper, testified he saw Monaghan and that he "was under the influence of liquor." He said he recognized two of the Bill Will Be Introduced In House Of Delegates To Permit Sale Of Drinks At Hotels, Clubs And Railway Cars A.

Reed and Ezi-a Van Horn, representing the northern fields; and L. E. Woods, L. T. Putnam, P.

C. Thomas and M. L. Garvey, representing the southern. The miners have not said who will represent them.

Observers expect the imion committee will include Lewis, Philip Murray, vice I Old man- A. Bittner, southern West Virginia district president. JOHN BARRYMORE FILES BANKRUPTCY PETITION BEFORE FEDERAL COURT Los Angeles, Feb. 16. John Barrymore, noted actor, filed In federal court today a debtor's petition of bankruptcy under sec- tion 74 of the national bankruptcy Barrymore stated in the petition to Page Three) he was unable to meet his debts as r-mn they mature and desired to effect ID -YEAR OLD RALEIGH BOY GETS FIVE The clerk of the bankruptcy YEARS FOR STABBING court said the law under which 1 CHno run oiHDDinw Barrymore filed his petition per- BPPICIPV Va FPH IR mltted a debtor to go into bank- ruptcy and to offer sett ement on ig.ygar-old Carlos Allen of Doro- to-flve ycars in the peniten- iJin3 t9day for the fatal stabbing Barrymore's wife, Elaine Barrie.

Douglas, 43, mine electri- recently filed suit for divorce. clan, last September 17, Attaches of the bankruptcy court officials said they believed him explained that under the provisions the youngest person ever convicted of the law. if Barrymore plan for of homicide in Raleigh county, the adjustment of his debts is ac- Kllgore overruled a motion to set cepted, he does not go Into bank- aside the second degree murder ruptcy. verdict against the eighth grade her divorce action Mrs. Barry- student and also a motion by de- more asked $2525 a month tern- fense attorney J.

Q. Hutchinson to Honolulu, Feb. 16. today Intensified their investigation of the assault story told by Mrs. Bennett S.

Copping, 24, wife of a naval officer, as the young woman held to her original account of the incident despite the report of an examing physician that he found no evidence of criminal attack. The officers asked Mrs. Copping and her husband to appear again for questioning but remained uncommunicative about the course they were following. They said naval authorities were cooperating. Mrs.

Copping, born in the Philippines, reiterated an unidentified man grabbed her as she left her hotel cottage room about 5 a.m. yesterday, dragged her 75 feet across the lawn to a garage and attacked her. Altliough her complaint recalled the sensational Massie case which jolted Hawaii nearly seven years ago, police regarded the Copping Incident as a parallel in few if any respects. Police Chief William A. Gabrielson said Mrs.

Copping told of a drinking party the preceding day and night from.which her husband retired comparatively early. The officers interviewed Naval Lieutenants W. Johnson of the cruiser Louisville and W. R. Allen (Turn to Page Three) COAST GUARD CUTTER RESCUES PASSENGERS, CREW OF MOTORSHIP porary alimony.

send him to a reformatory. Charleston, W. Feb. 16. Delegate Doringer (D) of Marion announced today he will ask the house of delegates to permit the sale of liquor by the drink in hotel dining rooms open only to registered guests, in railroad dining cars and in private clubs in operation at least five years.

The state's repeal amendment adopted in 1934 specifically states that "any law authorizing the sale of such liquors shall forbid and penalize the consumption and the state thereof for consumption In a saloon or other public place." The Doringer bill would classify hotel dining rooms for guests only, clubs and dining cars as not within the definition of public places. He proposed that the liquor qpm- misslon ishould license the sale in the specified places, requiring a $500 annual fee from hotels, $250 from clubs and $25 from dining cars. For Ucenslng purposes a hotel would be defined as a place having at least 25 guest rooms and a dining room capable of accommodating at one time at least 25 persons. The commission would be authorized to set up regulations for sale by the drink and infractions would be punished. Doringer, who said his bill may go in Thursday, explained that a club would be defined as a non-profit organisation, "the advantages of which belong to all the members." SEARCHERS SEEK GIRL IN HEAVY SNOW STORM Coatesville, Feb.

16. Additional searchers worked in a heavy snow storm today in the hunt for Helen Moyer, 16, who disappeared last Thursday while walking from the Coatesville high school to her country home at Modena. Men and boys searched the countryside along the three-mile road from Coatesville to Modena, spurred by a reward of $1,000 offered by the Chester county commissioners and civic organizations In the girl's home town. Police questioned a Chester county farmer who owns a truck similar to one reported seen on the Modena road last Thursday, but released him several hours later. FUNDSlOR BLUESTONE RESERVOIR ARE SOUGHT Washington.

Feb. 16. M. M. Neely of West Virginia asked congress today to authorize a $2,000,000 appropriation for acquiring lands and rights-of-way necessary for completion of the Bluestone reservoir in New River at Hinton, W.

Va. A similar measure recently was offered in the house by Representative John Kee, Democrat, of Bluefield. Neely also has Introduced a bill to provide suitable quarters for the federal district court at Lewlsburg, W. in the proposed new federal building for that town. An additional story would be added to provide for the court.

RIFT OVER ONIO SIIO yjSETTLEO Guardsmen Express Belief Anderson Feud 'Far From Settled'; Martial Law May Be Continued Juneau, Alaska, Feb. 16. iff) The coast guard cutter Tallapoosa late today rescued seven pa-ssen- gers and most of the crew of the motorship Zapora, marooned at Angoon, Indian village on Admiralty Island, when the ship grounded and foundered in a snowstorm Sunday. Comdr. N.

G. Rickets, commanding the Tallapoosa, wirelessed that he was steaming here with party. Angoon is approximately 280 miles south of here. A wireless message late today said the motorship Estebeth had arrived at Sitka with 13 members of the Zapora's crew. The Sitka dispatch stated members of the crew told how passengers and crew got ashore safely in lifeboats after the Zapora struck and after several of the passengers were freed from their staterooms with axes when the doors jammed.

MIlNlTSTYEllRS FOR KILLINCILE Anderson, Feb. 16. National guard officers expressed belief tonight the automotive nn- lon-non union feud whicli resulted Saturday in the wounding of ten men was "far from settled." Colonel Albert H. Whitcomb. commanding officer, said lie would recommended to Governor M.

Clifford Townsend that mart'al law, ordered after Saturday's clash, be continued until more amicable relation between the factions had been established. Tlie governor said in Washington earlier today that he would withdraw the guardsmen tomorrow "if condition were right." The governor was on the way to Indianapolis tonight. Mayor Harry R. Baldwin requested National Guard assistance last week-end following the clash. More than 11,000 workers, union and non-union, went to and from their jobs today at the General Motor's two plants, Deico Remy and Guide Lamp, without disorder.

Tazewell Jury Recommends 2 Years In Prison For Conrad Murphy; Joe Howard Peery Second Trial Is Today Tazewell, Feb. Murphy was found guilty by a iwsf in Tazewell circuit court today on an Indictment charging him with the decapitation of a mule and sentence of two years in the state penitentiary was recommended. Other sentences meted out in the term include Winston Semones, one year on the charge of running away from the convict camp. Estll Mathena and Clarence Collins pleaded guilty to breaking and en- teilhg the store of M. Harvey at Boissevain and were given twelve months and $50 fine.

Ben Rlmmer and Elmer 'MuUins for breaking and entering Dixie Grocery Co. store at Rlchlands were given twelve months in jail and fined $50 and Aubrey Strouth, a companion, given two years. Strouth was also given one year and fined $50 for breaking and entering Red Ash Supply warehouse and Carl Hess (Tui-n to Page Three), Washington, Feb. 16. Roosevelt asked congress today to save the "American dream" of individual farm ownership.

Reporting tliat it is increasingly difficult for energetic young men to ascend the traditional ladder from hired man to tenant to independent owner, he proposed to bring federal millions to their assistance. "Obviously action by the states alone and Independently cannot cure the widespread evil," the president said In transmitting the report of his special committee on farm tenacy. "A nationwide program under federal leadership and with the assistance of states, counties communities and Individuals is the only solution. Most Americans believe that our form of government does not prohibit action on behalf of those who need help." Would Liberalize Credit His committee proposed: 1. Government purchase of good farm land for sale on liberal credit terms to selected tenants.

Pur- clia.sers would pass through a trial leasing period not to exceed five years, would have 40 years to complete payment, and could acquire title in 20 years if their finances permitted. 2. Federal and state purchase and retirement of about 100,000,000 acres of poor crop land, and assistance to families moving from it to better farms. This would be carried forward at the rate of 2,000,000 to 5,000,000 acres a year. 3.

"Modest loans" to prevent small farm owners from sliplpng into tenancy and to help tenants, croppers and farm laborers to increase their standards of living. The committee Said about 1,300,000 tenant and cropper families and members of other groups of "disadvantaged farm workers" needed such federal assistance. 4. A federal "windfall" tax to take a large percentage of profits from sales of land made within tliree years after its purchase. This was proposed as a means to discourage land booms and encourage families to stay on and develop one farm.

5. State legislation to improve the general leasing system and provide compensation to tenants fpr propMty improvements they make. Improved Living Conditions 6. Construction of operation of "decent places to live" for Itinerant farm laborers. 7.

Creation of a farm security administration. Under the secretary of agriculture, to direct the federal program. A farm security corporation handle legal transactions concerning purchase and sale of land, stock and equipment, and the making of loans. The report went to a congress considering various proposals to help tenans to farm ownership. Chairman Jones (D.

Tex.) of the house agriculture committee commented that the president's message was a good one. He expressed belief that recommendation of the special committee should be broadened. Jones pointed out his own committee had been conducting hearings for several weeks on a $500,000,000 tenant aid bill offered by himself and Senator Bankhcad (D. Ala.) In his special message submitting the tenant aid proposals. President Roosevelt urged prompt action, adding: the past ten years, the number of new tenants every year has been about 40,000.

the agriculture ladder, for these Americans, has become a treadmill. "At the same time, owners of family size farms have been slipping down. Thousands of farmers commonly considered owners are as insecure as tenants. The farm owner-operator's equity is, on the average, 42 per cent, and in some of our best farming sections Is as little as one-fifth More Federal Aid At a press conference later in the day, the president disclosed he would propose still further federal action to aid farmers. He said he would send a message to congress (Turn to Page Three) COpESSES SHAKING BABY TO DEATH BECAUSE HE WAS BITTEN Cooperstown, N.

Feb. 16. 27-year-old truck driver who authorities said confessed to shaking to death a 19-months old baby because "he bit me," was held tonight 'for grand jury action on a second degree murder cliarge. District Attorney Joseph Molinari of Otsego county, said the man, Clyde Pi-octor of Oneonta, waived examination on arraignment before Harold Carpenter, peace justice, Mollnari said Proctor signed a formal statement confessing to shaking the Infant son of Mrs. Thomas Hinckley "until Its head snapped." Proctor told him, Mollnari said, that he was alone in the Hinckley home with the baby and that the Infant started to cry so he picked him up to quiet him.

"The baby bit mo on the hand and I got mad," the district attorney auoted Proctor as saying, Oklahoma Farmers Battle Dust Storm Guyan, Feb. 16. Grizzled panhandle farmers, stung by two successive "black blizzards," dug In tonight for a finish fight as a vast red dust storm swept toward tlie Gulf of Mexico. Repeating their blowlands 'er blow, it takes grit to live farmers assembled their engines of listers, "chisel" plows and terracers to groove the siiift- ing top soil in liard ridges. The new "black blizzard," second of the season, struck the panhandle year's focal point of dusters that have been felt in parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas.

Visibility dropped to 59 from 125 feet here and to less than a block at Boise City and Texhoma. Wheat began to blow out. Mile high billows of reddlsli dust moved over Texas coastal and Rio Grande valley cities for the first time in two years. Van Nuys Speaks In Opposition, While M'Adoo And Thomas Urge Program SENATE GROUP APPROVES JUDGE RETIREMENT BILL Only Borah Dissents As Sub- Committee Takes Favorable Action On Sumners Measure; Congfressional Strategy Hinges On Quick Passage CONFEREES ONSETTLEOISSOES Questions Of Working Condi- ditions, Hours And Wages In GMC Plants Taken Up By Joint Conference Detroit. Feb.

16. United Automobile Workers of America prepared tonight for submission to General Motors officials the draft of a plan for arbitration boards to settle grievances of union employes in the corporation's automotive plants. Homer Martin, U. A. W.

A. president, after four hours of discussions marking the first day of conferences to negotiate questions of wages, hours and working conditions left unsettled in the General Motors strike peace agreement last week, said the union proposal will be presented tomorrow morning. Plan Tribunals "We have been laying plans to set up tribunals for the liandling of past, present and future grievances," the union head announced as the conferees left a fifth-floor office in the General Motors building late today. In the morning and afternoon conferences representatives of the corporation and the union engaged in what William S. Knusden, executive vice-president, described as "a general discussion or seniority rights and discrimination cases." The conferences will be resumed tomorrow.

While discussions progressed today General Motors units in a number of cities put production lines in motion for the first time in weeks, and additional thousands of idle employes resumed their jobs. The erstwhile strike "capital," Flint, returned nearer Its normal life, witli soldiers of three national guard battalions departing for their homes. Strike Ends Another strike, which tied up Detroit plants of the Nash-Kelvlna- tor corporation for two weeks, ended with the signing of an agreement for wage Increases and negotiations of other demands of the striking union, the Mechanics Educational Society of America. Tlie Kelvlnator agreement increased minimum hourly rates to (Turn to Page Three) YOR LL BE CO ES FIE Directors Authorize Solicitor To Put City Laws Into Order; Many New Laws And Amendments Have Been Passed The ordinances of the City Bluefield are to be codified. Need of a new ordinance code lias long been felt and after much deliberation city directors yester-, day authorized the city solicitor to precede with the work of codifying all ordinances.

It lias been several years since the ordinances have been codified and during that time many amand- ments have been made to some of the ordinances, some have been repealed and many new ones have, been enacted. Yesterday's session of the board was rather lengthhy but little business of any general Interest was transacted. A request made last week by W. J. Ramsey for use of the Mimici- pal auditorium for a period of several weeks for the purpose of holding a city-wide revival was rejected.

Petitions were filed with the city asking that Elm street and the alley leading off Elm street to Magnolia street be pyt in a passable condition. The petitions were referred to the city manager. A building permit was granted Margaret and Sam Neal to build a small residence on Cherry atreet cut-off to cost $300. The city labor payroll for the week ending February 10 in the sum of $314 aiid the firemen's semi-monthly payroll for the last half of January In the sum of were allowed. f.

(By The Associated Press) Washington, Feb. 16. Thrci Democratic divided on President Roosevelt's proposal to force new blood into the supreme court, took to the radio tonight in a continuing effort to win public support for their respective sides of the question. Senator George aUgned himself with tlie opposition, increasing the numlier of senators who have expressed themselves against the proposal to 30. Those who have spoken for it number 29.

Labor League to Aid Labor's non partisan league, formed to support President Roosevelt in the past campaign, said It would throw "ail its resources" Into the fight to empower Mr. Roosevelt to name six new justices to the supreme court. Major George L. Berry, president of the league, told reporters in the presence of Jolm L. Lewis, another league leader, that the league would bring every possible infiuence to bear.

It will hold a national convention in Washington soon, a series of sectional mass meetings and in the 1938 congressional campaigns "will not look kindly" on those who have disregarded the "importance of tlie issue," Berry said. Tonight's speakers were: Senator McAdoo who called for enactment of the president's program to speed up the work of the courts and "dismissed as unworthy of consideration" charges that the president was attempting to "pack" the supreme court in favor of new deal legislation. Senator Van Nuys who opposed the proposed enlargement of the supreme court, when its members serve beyond tlie age of seventy and said if "the checks and balances of our present form of government need readjustment, let the people say so but let it not be attempted by congress through tampering with the courts or tinkering with the constitution." "Oliffarchy" Senator Thomas who said that "If the courts take unto themselves the power of using judicial review to such an extent that the court becomes a legislative body, contrary to the constitution, and strikes down laws so commonly as it has been done in the last few months, then the will of the people of the country is overcome by a smaller group still, and we have an oligarchy." Parliamentary strategy for the present apparently hinged on the Sumners bill, introduced before the president announced his own court revamping ideas, but approved by the clilef executive In his court message. With only Senator Borah Ida.) dissenting, a senate judiciary sub-committee approved the Sumners measure today. It would permit the retirement of supreme court judges at seventy- years of age on full pay, with a proviso that they might be assigned to duty from time to time in lower courts where dockets were congested.

Borah told reporters he wanted the age limit set at 75 and the clause relating to subsequent duty in the lower courts eliminated. As the bill stands, he said, he is against it, but he would not say whether he would fight it on the senate floor. Predicts Approval Senator McCarran chairman of the sub-committee, said he would report the measure to the full committee on Monday. He predicted speedy approval there and action in the senate a few days later. Borah said that was "possible but hardly a probability." He disputed McCarran's prediction, first of all, that the committee would give its approval -so readily.

He obviously was counting on the development of much opposition to tlie whole presidential plan in the committee itself. There were reports that when and if the Sumners bill is brought before the senate, administration forces may adopt the strategy of seeking to have the whole Roosevelt program added to that legislation as an amendment. Strategy also centered upon the Sumners act in another way. In a number of Democratic quarters hope wss expressed that early sage of the measure might encourage retirement of some members of the supreme court and thereby lessen the present dispute. The day also brought forth a (Turn to Page Five) of RIDDLE OF WHY MAIL WAS NOT DELIVERED SOLVED New York, Feb.

16. problem of Sheepshead Bay's unde-" livered mail has been solved. Postal Inspector W. L. Swaiu declared.

day. with arrest of Mailman Henry M. Brlggs. Swain Bald Briggs had beaa throwing mall i incineratort rather than deliver it "beoaum my feet hurt.".