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f CONGRESS CLOSES N BITER FGHT House Capitulates tb Pass Yome Loan Bill With Ex- panded Currency. (Continued From First Page) seeing in it release from a deadlock, and probable adjournment with little fur- ther delay. The break followed a statement by Representative Snell, the Republican leader, that he preferred to vote for the rider to having the home loan bill killed. On previous votes Snell has cast his strength against the Senate amend- ment. ‘The motion to accept the Senate’s clause was made by Chairman Steagall of the House Banking Committee, who sald, “it is obvious the House wants to end a controversy which in its closing hours presents a picture not_attractive to_the people of the United States.” Under the disputed amendment na- tional banks would have the right to issue currency against United States }londs paying 3% per cent interest or ess. The home loan bill proper provides for a system of eight to a dozen banks which are to take home mortgages and lcans from building and loan associa- tions, insurance companies and others dealing in real estate paper so as to relieve the pressure upon these com- panies and relax their demands upon home owners. with the expectation that eventually this would make available capital for loans to finance new con- struction. Completes Hoover Program. This Federal banking em was the last of President Hoover’s major recom- mendations to Congress. On the previous votes the House had rejected, 221 to 89 and 156 to 102, the Glass provision for expanding national bank currency. The Senate had voted, 44 to 20 and 35 to 29, to insist on this provision. Representative McFadden, Republican, of Pennsylvania, was the principal speaker in opposition. He said the Glass amendment would “disrupt na- tional banks throughout the United States,” and that the House had been “visited by a lobbyist from the White House who informed the leaders that if the House yields there was “no chance,” the President would not sign the bill. Walter Newton. one of the Presi- dent’s secretaries, had been on the floor frequently during the evening. Replying to McFadden, Snell said he had been “unfair to his former c leaguc, Mr. Newton.” He denied that Mr. Hoover had instructed the Repub- licans to yield The Borah-Glass rider. which would permit the banks to issue a maximum of $1,108,000,000 of additional national bank notes against Government bonds held by the banks, but not now avail- able for such purpose, also had been attacked in the House by Representa- tives Stevenson of South Carolina and ‘Goldsborough of Maryland as unsound and a “fake,” which would be of no real benefit. Pleased in Senate. There was a flurry of pleased excite- ment in the Senate chamber as word came over that the House had receded and broken the deadlock. Senators were pleased not only that the bill was saved, but that the session was nearing an end which had been threatened by the conflict. Senators Borah and Glass, sponsors of the cur- rency measure, were surrounded by their congratulatory colleagues. Immediately after the House had agreed to the Borah-Glass rider. Rep- resentative Taylor of Colorado offered on the,part of the Appropriations Com- mittee the bill carrying $300,000 for the use of the newly created Home Loan Bank Board during the fiscal year. Ob- Jection to immediate consideration was Taised Representative O'Connor of New York, and Taylor moved to sus- pend the rules and pass the resolution. O'Connor. angered, sought to make a point of order against the motion, but was _overruled by Representative Mc- Duffie of Alabama, the presiding officer. O'Connor was incensed because Speaker Garner had passed him over in ap- pointing a presiding officer for the House in Garner's absence. As ranking Democratic member of the Rules Com- mittee, O'Connor was in line for such selection. After a wrangle the House passed the appropriation for the Home Loan Bank Board without a record vote. Couzens’ Move Fails. ‘When the $300,000 bill came to the Senate, Couzens let it be known he would object to unanimous consent to take it up for immediate action. Under the rules of the Senate. his objectior would have forced consideration of the bill over to another day. In order to circumvent this, Chair- man Jones of the Appropriations Com- mittee called up a House bill on the calendar for closing part of Virginia avenue southeast, in Washington. He moved to strike out all after the enact- ing clause and inserted the home loan bank appropriation, but cut it down to $250.000. Incensed by this strategy. Couzens not the Senator from Indiana indulged in this trick to pass this bill tonight.” Vice President Curtis warned Senator Couzens that he must keep within the rules of the Senate, which do not per- mit a Senator to charge a colleague with improper motives. Answers “Trick” Charge. Couzens demanded that the Vi President interpret for him the word “trick.” The Vice President repiied that it was not his business to do s> and that Couzens would have to kesp within the rules cr sit down. When he obtained the floor, Watson said he was perfectly willing to lcave to the people of Indiana, where he nad been in public life for 45 years, the question of his re-election. He added that the people of his State knew his methods. “Why charge me with something sinister?” asked Watson. He admicted he had been opposed to the home loan bank bill when it was first presented, but said he had been won over to it by the arguments in its favor. “I do nct believe in villification of my colleagues, nor do I use such meth- ods,” was the parting shot of the Indi- ana Senator. Meeting at 10 am. yesterday, the Senate and House settled down to the job of putting the final legislative touches on the two remaining impor- tant pieces of legislation, the relief bill and the home loan bank bill. It was obvious the Senate intended to yield to the House on its Garner publicity amendment, since the Presi- dent had let it be known that he did not intend to veto the bill a second time because of the present inclusion cf that amendment. Besieged by Bankers. However, Senators had been be- | sieged by bankers all over the coun- try urging them to stand out against this publicity clause, which the bankers | said would make it very difficult for the banks needing money to avail them- selves of the benefits of th> relief bill, nce the publication of such loans ight create panic among their de- positors. Finally the Senators argued them- selves into the belief that there need be no publicity of the loans made by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation during the recess of Congress, since the Garner amendment calls only for monthly reports to the Senate and House and the President, and that if the House and Senate are not in ses- sion, there would be no publication of the ‘loans. The reports, it was urged by Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, and Senator Glass of Virginia, would go to the clerk of the House and the secre- tary of the Senate, but would not be made public by those officials until authorized so to do by one or both houses of Congress. Senator Bingham, Republican of Connecticut, questioned Wwhether any such interpretation would be placed on the legislation by the House and Speaker Garner. He pointed out that cbviously the Garner amendment had been inserted in the bill for the pur- pose of making these loans public and urged that Speaker Garner might order them made public by the clerk of the House. Sent to President. In the end, however, the Senate voted to adopt the conference report on the relief bill without the formality of a roll call, and the bill was sent to the President, the House already having taken final action on the measure. Over the home loan bank bill, on the other hand, the struggle continued throughout the day. First, by a vote of 44 to 20 the Senate insisted upon standing by the Borah-Glass currency expansion amendment, although Sen- ator Watson warned that such action would lead to the death of the bill. ‘The House replied, by a vote of 221 to 89, declining to accept the Borah-Glass amendment. Senator Borah, Senator Glass and Senator Norris of Nebraska declared they would prefer to see the home loan bank bill die rather than have it pass without the inflation amendment. An- other vote in the Senate showed that body still standing by the amendment, 35 _to 29. Back the home loan bill went to the House. That body immediately voted Glass amendment, this time by a vote of 156 to 102. This put the issue squarely up to the Senate again. There was Republican talk in the Senate of carry- ing the fight over to Monday, although the Democratic leadership insisted that such a course would be futile. Idles Through Day. ‘The House had idled through the day, acting only on the home loan bank bill and waiting for the Senate to conclude its labors. Recess after recess was taken by the House, the members being called back into session by clanging bells when it came time to vote again on the home loan bill conference report. It was 7 p.m. when the Senate inter- rupted its debate on the Glass resolu- tion repealing the eighteenth amend- ment to take a third vote on the home loan bank bill conference report. En- couraged by the fact that the House had rejected the Borah amendment by a smaller majority on its_last vote, the supporters of the Borah amendment in the Senate stuck to their and the Senate by a vote of 36 to | 26 insisted on its amendment and sent | the bill back to the House with a re- quest for a conference. This was followed several hours later by_the break in the House. Just before the Senate adjourned Sen- i ator Howell of Nebraska sought to amend the bill carrying appropriations for the home loan bank measure by add- ing a farm aid bill. In the end. how- then launched hic attack on Senator InE & Ierm sid PUL 8 the,eng: POL ‘Watson because of the “trick” which had been played. Senator Watson accused the Michi- ban Senator of seeking to delay this legislation and Couzens, white with anger, retorted that he did not intend to be chastised by+Senator Watson. “The Democrats in Indiana will take care of you in November,” Senator Couzens shouted at the majority lead- er. He sald there had been no leader- ship on the Republican side of the | chamber. “The methods of the Senator from Indiana are well known to the coun- try, to his colleagues and to the voters of Indiana,” continued Senator Cou- zens. “The Senator from Indiana was himself opposed to this home loan bank bill. I would not have arisen had SPECIAL NOTICES. 2 )NERY—200 SHEETS AND one_dollar. 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The difference is $857,353,618.94, to which he added $150,000,000, the estl mated savings from the economy bill calling for furloughs and reductions in pay to Government employes. SEX EQUALITY URGED ‘World Women’s Group Favors Par- ity of Constitutional Rights. PARIS, July 16 (#).— The board meeting of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, at its closing session today, went'on record as favoring equal constitutional and civil rights for women. Jack D. Goldsmith Co. SIGN MAKERS, 924 D ST. N.W. PHONE STERLING 9510 (Too_late for phone book.) A ‘GOLDSMT ‘WM. F. LEWIS, Y M. ZILE. Action on a resolution recommending economic sanctions against aggressors in war was postponed until the next meeting, which will be held in Chicago in July, 1933, a second time not to accept the Borah- | saiq Finance Corporation, with wide powers | THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. (. JULY 17. 193 2—PART ONE. SENATE ADVANCES | GLASS REPEALBILL Nearly Two-Thirds Majority Agrees to Consider State Control. ___ (Continued From First Page) hibit the sale of ' ior at restaurants and hotels. Bingham proposed that a resolution for flat repeal bc substituted for.the Glass amendment. | ~ Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Mary- land, also for repeal, opposed the Glass proposition on the ground that it would |place a police regulation in the Con- | stitution—in reference to the gection allowing for Federal control to outlaw the saloon. Senator Norris, Republican. of Ne- braska, sought to have the Glass and Bingham resolutions referred to the Judiciary Committee, which he heads, saying he was “very much grieved at this development of radicalism” in the Senate. He meant the Senate taking up resolutions that had not been before committees. “In all the reforms that you Demo- crats like to talk about that occurre during the reign of Woodrow Wilson,” Norris continued, “can 2 Democrat here point to a single one of them that was carried out by unanimous consent?” Norris Flays “Radicals.” “I never dreamed I'd live to see the time when my country, particularly the Senate, was going over to the control of the radicals,” he added. In submitting his motion, Norris an- nounced he was “pleading for conserva- tive action,” and that he hoped “that what has been going on in Russia has not affected this Senate.” Bingham's repeal resolution would re- quire ratification by State conventions cnosen by the people. He pointed out tnat Glass made no provision for the selection of convention delegates, and swid it thus did not carry out the pro- visions of the party platforms. Glass vigorously criticized Bingham, accusing him of seeking to make politi- cal capital of the prohibition situation. He called attention to the minority platform report, which Bingham spon- sored at the Republican convention, asserting it called for the abolition of the saloon and protection of the States. Then recalling Bingham'’s objections to certain features of his Tesolution, the Virginian said “the Senator has ripped off his own disguise and does not want to protect the States.” Explaining his action in drafting the resolution, Glass said he had simply proposed that the States settle the question. “That doesn’t bind me or any Sena- tor who votes for it to vote for re- peal.” he sald. “I intend to use every effort of persuasion and argument to have the State of Virginia oppose re- peal. Cites Dry Record. “I have been a lifelong dry, so to speak. I don’t know the taste of in- toxicating liquor. But I have never been a zealot. “It was the excesses of the liquor traffic that brought on Federal prohibi- tion and more recently it has been ex- cesses of clerical fanatics that has cre- ated the present terrific reaction against prohibition.” Bishop James Cannon, jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, a political foe of Glass, was in the gallery listening to_the debate. Senator Walsh, Democrat, Massa- chusetts, sald the “best way and most satisfactory way of restoring State rights would be by the submission of a flat repeal resolution.” “I fear, however, that there is great possibility of & division of sentiment among those urging a change in the prohibition laws which will long post- pone action unless we get together,” he “The saloon caused prohibition. The speakeasy caused the present agitation— | the inability of the Government to en- { force the prohibition laws. “In my humble judgment it is abso- lutely out of the question to consider getting favorable action for repeal un- less there is a method of preventing the saloon’s return.” Borah Doubts Value. Senator Borah, Republican of Idaho, asked 1f it would be possible to prevent return of the saloon once liquor was legalized. “The reason for advocating repeal that is stronger than any cther,” Borzh said, “is that the National Government is unable to enforce the liquor laws. If we go a step further and legalize the sale, it will be practically impossible for the National Government to say it can not be drunk at a certain place.” Glass denied that he was legalizing liquor. “I propose to allow the State to legal- | ize the sale, but to forbid them to legal- ize saloons,” he said. Borah said he agreed with the ob- jective of the Virginian, but after two years of study was convinced it could not_be achieved. “Would ycu leave conditions as they are and make no effort to improve them?” Glass asked. “No,” Borah rplied. “but when we find it impossible to control the method of selling liquor when it is illegal, we will find it impossible when States make it legal.” Glass suggested that under his pro- pesal, those places allowed to sell liquor would help to enforce the laws against the selling of it unlawfully. Appeal to Candidates. With the ending yesterday of the conference of national prohibition or- ganizations to determine their strategy in the coming political campaign, the Methodist Board of Temperance, Pro- hibition and Public Morals called upon candidates for Congress and the State Legislatures to repudiate the national prohibition planks of the Republican and Democratic parties and run on their own platforms. In a statement in its Clipsheet ad- dressed to drys throughout the country, the Methodist board urges its sympa- thizers to “vote for candidates for Con- gress who believe in the prohibition amendment and will sustain it in all needed legislation.” The board sug- gests that the dry candidates take & leaf out of the book of Alfred E. Smith, Democratic presidential nominee in 1928. whom the drys charge with bolt- ing his party platform at that time. The Methodist board, without ex- pressing a preference as to presidential candidates, also propounded three ques- tions to be directed at the nominees, none of which concerns their personal opinion on prohibition, but deals only with their willingness to enforce the law. The questions follow 'Will you enforce the law?” “Will you appoint honest, courageous men to administer the law?” “Will you name judges and other ap- pointees” in_whom' the people will be Jjustified in having faith?” Follows Same Course. In taking this position with respect to congressional and presidential can- didates, the Methodist board promptly seeks to put nto effect among its con- stituents a line of action recommended Bigger and letter Funerals At Half the Usual Cost Are Dome by CHAMBERS Largest in the City A Whole Funeral for as tow 50 " $65 | Phone or write your Address. We will send you o beautiful catalogue of How We Do It. Garner Leaves for Home PEAKER JOHN N. GARNER and Mrs. Garner as they appeared at the Seventh street southwest station of the R. F. & P. to board a C. & O. ; train at 6 o'clock last night. —Assoclated Press Photo. Congress Makes History Seven Months’ Session Sets Unparalleled Record of Peacetime Legislative Achievement—Troubled Times Dictate Policies in Effort to Establish Security. By the Associated Press. The Seventy-second Congre:s, reach- ing the end of its seven-month long session, yesterday rounded out an un- paralleled record of peace-time legisla- tive achievement. From its start last December troubled times directed the congressional course, | and with but two important exceptions, they dictated every major act written into the statutes. A giant emergency program for relief, national and inter- national, to meet exigencies of world economic disturbance likened to war, was the session’s chief contribution to history. In the main the program thus wrought was a bi-partisan one advanced by the President, Herbert Hoover. Ii was enacted by coalition effort which confounded forecasters who had seen /in the even political balance of both House and Senate between Republicans and Democrats nothing but promise of chaos. The non-partisanship displayed did not until late in the session give way on any great scale to political action and even this was not in the end allowed to block the reccnstructive achievement. Budget Balance Sought. The Congress cpened wide the na- tional purse to relieve industrial, finan- cial, agricultural and human distress. | Simultaneously it reduced eppropria- tions in an amount estimated by fits leaders at in excess of $1,000,000,000 from the year before, roughly one-fifth of that total. Scored indelibly in the record of the session were the budget-balancing en- deavors that reached out to gather more than a billion dollars in new taxes and which cut, the while, this huge slice off the Government's cost. Throughout, Congress was troubled by proposals for abandoning the fa- | miliar road of financial practice in favor of currency expal n_or infla. tion on a billionaire scale. These cli- maxea in the appearance at the Capi- tol door of 20,000 veterans of the| World War, clamoring for an immedi- ate payment of $2,40),000,000, the yet unpaid and not due balances of the compensation certificates given them 10F military service. Senate Crushes Bonus. Though the bonus seekers clung on to the final day, though their propcsal swept through the House on over- whelming_vote, it was crushed by the Senate. In some such manner each of the less conservative plans was dropped by _the wayside. . | The demand for relaxation or repeal of prohibition, risen to new heights, | dogged the Congress' steps. Liquor | proposals of wide diversity came up time and again, but though their sponsors showed gains, not one of their 2y house. Th measures passed either | yesterday by the National Prohibition | Board of Strategy, which refused to in- | dorse any presidential candidate and | merely cited the record of each, laying | the principal stress on fights within the congressional_districts to maintain suf- ficient strength at the Capitol to defeat repeal or modification of the eighteenth amendment, While the Methodist board was di- recting this message to its friends, the Anti-Saloon League of America dis-| patched to its State superintendents copies of yesterday's pronouncement by | the national dry board of strategy. With respect to the guotations given to show the records of the two major presiden- tial candidates on prohibition the Anti- Saloon League told its State groups in effect, “these are the facts,” and left its individual supporters to formulate their own stand in the election. That a dry sword is still hanging over the heads of the presidential candidates was indicated by Dr. F. Scott McBride, national superintendent of the Antl-Sa- loon League, who disclosed that Fri- day’s decision by the board of strategy did not shut the door to concerted ac- tion later. In the first week of Septem- ber, he said, the Executive Committee of the league will meet to consider all pertinent matters including the presi- dential campaign. Declarations and ac- tions by the candidates in the interval may determine new action by the dry groups. President Hoover's address ac- cepting the Republican renomination will be particularly watched in this con- nection. “The campaign is young yet,” Dr. Mc- Bride said. “What We have done so far is only to state what are the facts.” Dr. McBride msl.ste'gs that du&w drreypqm of ional disputes among the groups {'l-ncent had been general unity of opin- Shorthand Speech, Reads Like PRINT Typing, Business Letter Writ- ing, Secretarial Practice. Gregg Shorthand. Quick Review. Posi- tion Guaranteed. Start Monday. BOYD SCHOOL | rejected. 1333 F "Nat. 2340 | legislators took the liguor issue home with them, expecting it to be fought out largely in November's elections. The co-operative spirit which bound a Democratic House and Republican Senate in remarkable unity began with the f\reign debt moratorium, approved soon after John N. Garner of Texas was_elected first Democratic Speaker of the House in a dozen years. It swept_through the gigantic Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation and & $1,- 118,000,000 tax bill. Reliet Develops Split. Looming huge in the session’s output was the $2,122,000,000 relief bill com- pleted just before the final gavel rap. Over this new law developed an open break between Garner, Democratic vice presidential nominee, and Hoover, Re- | publican presidential nominee, hinging | on icans to individuals by the Recon- struction Corporation. President vetoed individua! loans, but agreed to accept full publicity for all the corpora- | tion’s advances, placing responsibility on | Congress and upon the Democratic | leaders. ‘The break framed an issue for the political campaign. Little time was wasted in sending to | President Hoover the debt moratorium announced by the Chief Hkecutive six months previously. It cut off $267,000,- 000 of foreign payments for a year,and Congress coupled with it an announce- ment there should be no further mora- toriums or revisions. R. F. C. Scope Widened. Next was set up the huge Recon- struction Corporation. With $2,000,- 000,000 at its command, this Govern- | ment agency was directed to fill, within | limits, the credit needs of banks, rail- roads and agriculture. the final relief bill this agency was given an incrcase in funds to $3,800,- 000,000, including a provision for ad- | vances to States needing aid to stem | human distress. | The Government also gave help by releasing 85,000,000 bushels of wheat and 500,000 bales of cotton from Farm Board stores to the Red Cross for dis- | tribution to the unemployed. Early in the session, Congress voted $100,000,000 to strengthen the Federal farm loan banks. Somewhat later it came to the aid of a Federal reserve | system burdened by foreign gold de- mands, and in the Glass-Steagall emer- gency act it released new reserves. The budget-balancing program brought from the Ways and Means Com- mittee a billion-doller Tevenue bill. JIt was rewritten on the House floor after a bitter struggle which eliminated a general manufacturers’ sales tax. Federal Salaries Cut. n the Senate, too, the sales tax was Income taxes were boosted higher and additional revenue was sought in other directions as the Treas- ury deficit mounted toward the $3,000,- 000,00 mark. Following the tax law to the White House was a national economy measure that reduced Government salaries and other outlays, cutting over $150,000,000 from Federal expenses. Appropriations, too, felt the economy pressure, and the regular annual supply bills were slashed far below the current year's allowance. Outside the emergency program Con- gress disposed of two legislative gray- beards. A constitutional amendment to abolish the lame-duck session of Con- gress was submitted to the States. Leg- islation to prohibit Federal injunctions in labor disputes became law. - Both Houses passed a Democratic tariff bill to restore the flexible adjusting powers to Congress, but it died on an Executive veto. This measure was tac- itly admitted to have been designed as a ballot box issue. The House voted overwhelmingly for Philippine inde- pendence, but the Senate falled to act. Mortality Rate High. Likewise Muscle Shoals_legislation, another familiar stand-by, failed to get through. The House also adopted a bank guaranty bill which the Sen- ate did not reach. Some members of Congress felt a result of changing voters’ sentiment on Questions of public _interest. About WRECKING Post Office Garage At 1st and G Sts. N.E. ‘sheathing, ete. E in Plpe %, lnch to 6 nch. black Wall-type radiation for Hot Water and Steam, olumns. Steel sash with lintels, face and common brick, garage d buil russes for barni garages. ventilatin plete with wall coping. Salesmen on Pri HARRIS WRECKING CO., Office 1st & N Sts. S.E. Linc. 4093 CONERES GROPS | WL PUSHPROBES Inquiries to Be Made Into More Than Dozen Subjects in Adjournment. By the Associated Press. Despite adjournment Congress will continue a wide varlety of activities of | investigatory nature pending its next assemblage. Both Senate and House regular and special committees will press | inquiries into a dozen or mcre different subjects. On the Senate side a subcommittee of the Foreign Relations Committee, under authority of the Borah resolution adopted yesterday, will investigate the St. Lawrence waterway and pov..: treaty. It is possible that . Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, Democratic nominee for President, and a critic of the manner in which the pact has been negotiated without prior agreement be- tween the Federal Government and New | York State, may be invited to be a wit-! ness. Stimson Welcomes Probe. Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State, welcomed instead of viewing with sus picion the proposed inquiry into the | treaty. He said that Senator Borah had | spoken beforehand with the department about the investigation. Mr. Stimson declared the inquiry wculd present a good opportunity to bring out sentiment in respect to the waterway and would afford a chance for all parties to have a hearing. It was up to the committee to decide whether open hearings should be held, he added. The Senate Banking and Currency Committee also has authority to con- tinue its inquiry into the New York Stock Exchange activities, but no hear- ings are forecast during the Summer, although investigators for the commit- tee may continue to work. The com- mittee will be clothed with recently added authority to look into tax returns s0 far as Stock Exchange activities may be connected with them. Another Senate committee under the Couzens resolution will scrutinize the loans of the Reconstruction Corpora- tion. The Farm Board. its policies and loans, will be the subject of still an= other inquiry. Will Probe Campaign Funds. ‘The House as well as the Senate will have a campaign fund investigating | committee. The two chambers wiil also be represented in a joint committee t investigate the Veterans' Administraticn to determine where further economies in benefits to veterans may be effected. ‘This inquiry is an outgrowth of the re- fusal of Congress to make substantial reductions at present in the appropria- tions for the Veterans' Administration despite recommendations of the special economy committees. Another House investigation con- | ducted by the so-called Shannon Com- mittee will continue an inquiry into Government competition with private | business. The House Interstate Com- ' ! merce Committee will continue an in- | vestigation of utility holding compan. Post office leases will be the subject of delving by the House Post Office Ccm- | mittee. A subcommittee of the House | | Ways and Means Committee will study | the question of double taxation. 24 IN MOB PROTESTING EVICTIONS ARE JAILED {Two Chicago Officers Are Hurt in| Routing Crowd at De Priest's | Office. | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 16.— Twenty-four persons were arrested this afternoon and two colored policemen were injured as 50 officers dispersed a mob that gathered in front of Representative Os- | car De Priest's real estate office on the | South Side to protest reputed evictions | by his company because of failure to | pay rent. | About 1,000 colored persons were in the mob. Among those arrested were | five white women and a 14-year-old col- ored girl. Police said the demonstration | was staged by the Unemployment Coun- | cil of the Young Communists’ League | of America. De Priest, a colored Rep- resentative, was in Washington. 50 House members and a couple of Senators file out of the legislative ranks, defeated in primaries. Others were considerably worried over remaining | preliminary as well as final votes. Most of them worked hard. Dr. George Calver, House physician, blamed several deaths on overwork and pleaded| with members to slow down. The end of the Seventy-second Congress_itself doesn’t come until March 4, 1933, but the mortality rate among the 435 Rep- Tesentatives and 96 Senators already approaches & record. Those who do continue to serve, though, will draw 10 per cent less pay, a cut they voted for themselves in”the economy campaign. President Hoover, whose salary could mot be re- duced by Congress, just Friday an- nounced he would retarn $15.000 of his $75,000 to the Treasury. He ruled that cabinet members should take 15 per cent less, along with the Speaker jand_Vice President CO]\TINENTAI: Breakfast Delivered (early in the morning, without awakening you) at your Door, 08, 2 fresh baked rolls. | i ar, whole orange or jam | Continental Breakfast Service Co., Inc. Telephone Columbia 0361 Before 10 o'clock at night Service Now Available at Y A B Announcing the Association of N. D.(si") Hawkins (Formerly President of . Soter Cu) Tavhina-Nash With the Sales Division of Packard Washington Motor Car Company * Belated Members In House Cafe Get Only Ham and Eggs By the Assoctated Press. For dinner last night, members of the House, which had been alternately meeting and recessing all afternoon, had ham and eggs during one of the recesses. That was the extent of the House restaurant larder, and the irstead of taking orders, 8! The reason was that in antici- pation of adjournment the House restaurant had cut its food stock to the minimum. and the time was Saturday night. GARNER BEATS HOUSE TO BREAK FOR HOME; EN ROUTE TO UVALDE (Continued From First Page) he wished the Speaker well “whether he is elected Vice President or not.” Walter Newton, one of President Hoover's secretaries, was on the floor, a privilege due to his being a former Representative. “Have a nice Summer, Jack,” he sang cut, “because youre going to have a tough Fall.” “The election is already over,” laughed the Speaker, “what I hate is to quit this body &nd go somewhere else.” ‘When he returns in December he will still be Speaker, but he will also be either Vice President-elect or a defeated | candidate. | He left on the “George Washington,” | with the first stop scheduled at St Louis this afterncon. Will Hunt and Fish. At Uvalde, Tex, his hcme, Garner hopes to find fn hunting and fishing— | away from everybody—rest and solace from the Winter's grind and new strength for the hard campaign ahead of him this Summer and Fall He does not plan any speaking en- gagements on the way home. He said he would spend at least two weeks on his vacation. Although he had no permanent cam- paign speaking dates, he said, whatever was worked cut with the committee he would do. The Speaker has not de- cided definitely on a California trip. Heads Bond Fraternity. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, July 16 ().—J. B. Vandaworker of Indianapolis was elected grand president of Kappa Kappa Psi, national honorary band fraternity, at the closing session of the ifth annual convention here today Sol HERZOG, Inc. we're telling the world A3 | JUDGE PLACES LIFE BEFORE LEGALITIES Releases Man From Jail for Fail- ure to Pay Breach of Prom: Judgment. By the Associuted Press NEW YORK, July 16.—Waen = human lLfe is at stake, Justice Williym Collins ruled today, a court should not “strain at legal niceties.” % S0 he released Samuel Aron of Fort Worth, Tex., from the county jail, where the 72-year-old man had spent 123 days for failure to pay a $7,000 breach of promise judgment. 4ron petitioned for his freedom on the ground he had no money, and was likely to die in his cell He set forth, when he appeared him- self in court yesterday, that he had lost the sight of one eye and was suffer- ing from stomach ulcers, lung and heart trouble and insomnia. “I am not willing to hold that the court has power to incarcerate a judg- ment-debtor, but no power to release him,” said Justice Collins in his ruling. In any event, I am unwilling to strain at legal niceties when a human life is at stake. To continue the defendant’s confinement would serve no good purpese. The law is not so vindictive.” Miss Ethel Wintner, who charged Aron had broken a promise to wed her, came to New York for medical tr ment and she had him imprisoned. Pastor Accepts Call. SYRACUSE. N. Y., July 16 (%) —Rev. Norman V. Peale, D. D, today an- nounced he had accepted a call from Marble Collegiate Reformed Church, New York City, in preference to one tendered by the First Methodist Episco- pal Church of Los Angeles, Calif, the lasgest church in his present denomin: tion. He has been a pastor here five years. BROWNING S BAINES ~ Qrienta Qoftre /710l FINE —— ORIGINATORS OF THE BUDGET BUYING PLAN IN WASHINGTON that this is some JUL ... and we're not wast- ing a lot of words . . . these prices speak for themselves. that sold up to $30 Up to $40 JULY CLEAN PRICE Special Group of 26 SUITS HIRTS Were $1 White or Fancy PAJAMAS JULY CLEAN-UP PRICE. .. Tropical Worsted Suits. . .. That Were $2, $2.50 and $3 200i | JULY CLEAN-UP PRICE Faultless, No-Belt; $ll Fancy or Plai Shirts & Shorts 7 35¢ Sleeveless Sweaters HOSE JULY CLEAN-UP PRICE 29c CLEAN SALE SUITS $17.95 SUITS $9°7-9 $13-% 35 g for $4 55¢ Up to $55 JULY CLEAN-UP PRICE. .. Reduced to July Up Price for Two $1 MANHATTAN SHIRTS 25% to 33 3%, Off Three for Three for s1 $ 1 .35 Four for $1 SoL HERz20G - F Street at Q8 A