Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1935, Page 11

K INSIGHT INTO LIFE OF HOOVER GIVEN Pen Women’s League Hears Address by Theodore G. Joslin. o | An insight into the life of former President Hoover as seen by his for- mer secretary, Theodore G. Joslin and narrative sketches of some of America’s outstanding women writers | were given yesterday at the semi-! annual celebrity breakfast of the Na- tional League of American Pen Wom- | en in the Willard Hotel. | Mrs. Victoria Faber Stevenson, na-| tional president of the league, pre-| sided at the breakfast and lmro-! duced nearly a dozen hopor guests ‘who gave unusual five-minute sketches of themselves and their work. Editor Among Guests. | Among the honor guests who de- | livered short addresses were Alfred | S. Dashiell, managing editor of Scrib- ner's Magazine, who spoke on the contemporary short story; Mrs. Joseph W. Byrns, wife of the Speaker of the House; Baroness Violet Beatrice Wen- ner, who told of portrait painting in America; Mrs. Larz Anderson, speak- ing on travel writing and writing for | children’s books; Mrs. Grace Living- ! ston Hill, who told of writing some | 50 novels, and Drew Pearson and Con- stantine Brown, speaking on their re- cently published book, “The Amer- ican Diplomatic Game,” and a short talk by Harold D. Eberlein. Other guests of honor included Mrs. Victor Kauffmann, Mrs. Eugene Meyer and Richard R. Ross. During the breakfast announce- ment was made by Mrs. E. Richard Gasch that the mid-administration congress of the league will be held in Miami, Fla, from March 30 to April 5. The Miami Pen Women have arranged for the congress to be held in the Miami-Biltmore Hotel and reservations are being made for other women'’s organizations interested in attending the sessions. Decorations by Chapters. Decorations for the affair were sent by chapters of St. Petersburg and Miami by Mrs. Mary Lucile Rowe, Mrs. Winifred O. Long and Mrs. May Cornell Stoiber. Costumes of pages including Miss Eleanor Chambers, Miss Dorothy Gould Fowler and Miss Irma Lee Johnson were designed by Miss Cham- bers and carried out the emblem scheme of the Pen Women'’s League. Mrs. Embert A. Le Lacheur was chairman of the Committee on Decorations. ———— NEW DEAL SEEKS WAY TO CURB POWER OF CONTROLLER 4Cofinkinuegf‘r m First Page.) day to prohibit promotions of emer- gency workers in the War Department. | One of Several Rebuffs. ‘This ruling of the controller gen- | eral followed a succession of inci- dents in which one after another of the New Deal agencies have been turned back by McCarl's insistence on being shown what authority under the law they had for their projects. Harold L. Ickes, public works admin- Istrator; Rexford G. Tugwell, Under- secretary of Agriculture, and Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Emergency Relief Administrator, are among the spon- sors of projects that have come to grief at the hands of the lonely offi- | cial who is unconnected with the ad- ministration, and yet auditor of its expenditures. | The scheme for a $100,000.000 Fed- | eral slum clearance corporation to be formed under Delaware laws was | abandoned because of McCarl's re-| fusal to stand for it. The President’s plan to put $15,000,000 of drought relief money into his shelter belt proj- ect of tree planting on the Western plains was reduced to $1,000,000 by his objection. The movement to make the Virgin Islands a “guinea pig” for New Deal experimentation was another to feel the force of the controller general's insistence on the letter of the law. Assured of 15-Year Term. Attorney General Cummings has been repeatedly reversed by this unique officer of the Government who was set apart by Congress with an assured 15-year term and no chance for reappointment and with the statu- tory injunction that he was to be| “thoroughly independent of the ex-, ecutive departments,” and “without | direction from any other officer,” his duties were to see to it that congre: sional appropriations were spent as in- tended. His difference with New Deal- ers has resulted largely from his un- willingness to give the appropriation | laws as broad an interpretation of the legislative intent as many administra- tion leaders think would be war- ranted. It is understood that the present discussions in the administration are concerned more with circumventing the powers of the controller general than with removing him, especially since he goes out of office autd-| matically on July 1, 1936. However, the particular memorandum under discussion now in high quarters ad- dressed {tself to the removability of the controller general. It was said | that the tendency to circumvent him rather than supplant him has the | support of certain leaders who, .al- | though obviously put out with McCarl | when he nullified some of their proj- | ects, have concluded the fault is more with the “system” than with the | individual. Issue Up to Congress. Some nf these leaders are disposed to concede on reconsideration that McCarl did nothing more than his duty under his responsibility to Congress and could be reversed at any time by direct appeal to Congress, if any offi- cial cared to raise the issue. ‘To prepare for a possible head-on collision with McCarl the adminis- tration had Government legal experts make a detailed study of the exact extent of the powers and authority of his office. It has long been the general belief among officials that the controller general is not subject to removal by executive order. The statute creating his office provides that appointment shall be for a period of 15 years, the incumbent not eligible for a second term, and removable only by a joint resolution by Congress or by impeach- ment proceedings. McCarl, the first to hold the office, was appointed by President Harding in 1921. He was secretary of the House Republican Campaign Com- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Labor Leader Raps Richberg I.ABUR'NEW I][AI. John L. Lewis (right), president of the United Mine Workers of America, who yesterday denounced Donald R. Richberg, executive director of the National Emergency Council, as “a traitor to labor, at whose breast he was suckled.” The epithet was hurled at a Senate subcommittee hearing on the Black 30-hour week bill. E. F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor, is shown on the left at the hearing. general that the President has the power to oust him. This contention is predicated on a decision of the Supreme Court in 1925 in the famed Meyer postmaster- ship case. The case involved a Pacific Coast postmaster who was ousted by Presi- | dent Coolidge and sought to compel the Government to pay him his salary for the remainder of his term on the ground that as his appointment, had been approved by the Senate he could not be removed without the consent of that body. ‘The Supreme Court rejected Meyer’s claim, holding that under the powers given the President in article 2 of the Constitution, he can dismiss any Government official who holds his job by virtue of presidential appointment. New Deal Checkmated. With the Supreme Court insisting that there be no sweeping delegation of powers to the President without adequate guide posts to show the legislative intent and McCarl insist- ing that these guide posts be observed to the letter of the law, an official pointed out last night that the New | —aA. P. Photo. Deal, with all its latitude, has been checkmated on both sides. In some respects, it was explained, the power of the controller general is as effective a quasi-judicial office as that of the Supreme Court. The Presi- dent is powerless to reverse or over- rule him. Edwin Denby, when Secre- | tary of the Navy, found that no de- | partmental head could reverse him. | It has been suggested that the ad- ministration, in resisting restrictions on the $4,000,000,000 presidential work- relief fund, has been concerned as much about the controller general as with Congress. Since the controller general, like the Court of Claims, for instance, is the agent of Congress, the administration wants to leave no room for doubt about the President’s latitude in spending the fund in his huge re- employment campaign, which involves the creation of 3,500,000 jobs by the Government itself, $60,000,000 for Farmers. A federal plan for rural habilitation to provide $60,000,000 to states, which, in turn, will advance loans to farmers | to pay their creditors, is projected in Australia. FACE POWDER i 69 FOR A LIMITED TIME 3 shades available in four. famous Coty odeurs L’AIMANT . L'ORIGAN - EMERAUDE and “PARIS” better to serve 1 2 3 (Full-size Box) (Generous Bottle) ALL 3 FOR THE PRICE mittee. Before that he was secretary to Senator Norris, Republican, of Nebraska. Ouster Held Possible. In their memorandum the legal au- thorities declared that notwithstand- ing the statutory provisions ing the removability of the con! er OF THE POWDER ALONE! 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It was made in connection with the adoption of a program of five | points in opposition to the tobacco | | industry’s code now before the Presi- dent, covering cigarettes, smoking to- bacco, chewing tobacco and products other than cigars. It was presented by I. M. Ornburn, speaking for Allied Trades Tobacco | Council, who demanded an end of the influence of Williams in tobacco | code affairs as long as he is a mem- ber of the N. R. A. Board. The Executive Council of the A. F. of L. will be in session here all this week. Indications are that it will strike at the administration in no uncertain terms for the reason that organized labor chiefs have for months been getting increasingly sus- picious that the White House was in- Phone OPLE! “ALL OVER TOWN” —the better to serve Yo 907 Unbroken Salted Cashew Nuts Cellophane-Wrapped wih 3o, Coupon Peoples Drug Stores 25¢ Munez-Waurth v Gitrate of Magnesia leo] With = Coupon. ... 12¢ = peoples Drug Stores 3ic Munez-Wurth Epsom Salt, 5 pounds With g 21‘ Coupon Peoples Drug Stores 790 Manicure Scissors With Coupon. ... 57‘ Peoples Drug Stores 25¢ M. Stein Lemonize: SHAMPOO—Discontinued With l o c Coupon: ... Peoples Drug Stores $1.00 BiSoDol Antacid Powder With 67‘ Coupon. ... Peoples Drug Stores COUPON % SPECIAL $1.00 CHEMM 5 Food Beverage—Pound :fE‘ ¥ With Cosponssoo DAE Peoples Drug Stores 10c Peoples Senna Leaves, | ounce With s ¢ Coupon...... rmnh’-omu Stores “COUPON % SPECIAL Coupon. ... 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Johnson rather than Richberg. “I saw Mr. Richberg—springing from the loins of labor as he did— recommending to the President the “ymposition’ of & code on labor in the automobile industry for the continu- ance of the 48-hour week,” sald Lewis. “I think Mr. Richberg is not only recreant to his obligation as a public servant, but I think he was a traitor to organized labor when he made that recommendation—a traitor to labor that nurtured him and at whose breast he was suckled. “For Mr. Richberg, who knows these things of which I speak, I ex- press my personal contempt. Organ- ized labor thinks of his actions within the last few days as reprehensible and dishonorable.” Long Week “Indefensible.” Lewis pronounced the 48-hour week “uneconomical and indefensible.” He said General Motors and the Du Pont family are not entitled to it when they “turn their workers out on the street.” Previously, he assailed the idea of & manufacturer seeking exemption from hour limitations in various codes. After his sudden blast against Richberg, Lewis did not pursue the FEBRUARY 3, 1935—PART ONE. subject further. He turned to the discussion of the 30-hour measure. After the hearing was over a group of his aides crowded about him and com- mended him. The outburst of Lewis against Richberg recalled the historic break between the head of the National Emergency Council and Gen. John- son. The latter 1s understood to be bitter against Richberg and to feel he undermined him as the N, R. A. Interesting as was the break be- tween Johnson and Richberg, the po- litical possibilities of the break be- tween oOrganized labor and the ad- ministration are looked on as far., greater. % Not only is Richberg under fierce assault from the direction of labor, but Dr. Leo Wolman, chairman of both the N. R. A. Labor Advisory Board and the Automobile Labor Board, has also incurred the wrath of the A. F. of L. Board Members Split. As Lewis hit at Richberg in the Senate committee hearing, it was dis- closed that recovery board members were sharply divided on the work week of the new automobile code. Five of the board want the 48-hour week cur- Llnue«L while two take the opposite view. While reports of differences in the N. R. A, went the rounds, the admin- istration decided to maXke public early this week, probably Tuesday, the spe- cial report on labor conditions in the automobile industry made by Leon | Hendgrson and Isadore Lubin for the ! N. R. A, Bombardment of Richberg by Lewis and by the A. F. of L called attention to the fact that Richberg came to national prominence as council for the railroad brotherhoods. He was made counsel in the N.R. A. After Johnson retired, or was forced out, the Presi- dent made Richberg his legislative co- ordinator and executive director of the National Emergency Council. In this position, Richberg this week recommended to the President exten- sion of the automobile code over pro- sition of a majority of the National Industrial Recovery Board. Richberg at the outset of N. R. A. ‘was considered the leading spokesman for labor. Since he has been made executive director of the National Emergency Council he has been frequently re- ferred to as the “assistant pregident.” Under the circumstances, the virulent outburst of criticism from labor quar- ters is assessed here as an attack not alone on him, but on the administra- tion itself. o2 P.W. A. FUNDS BUILD NEW COAST CUTTERS Sea Paths Provided by Guard. By the Associated Press. A stronger life-saving patrol for the dangerous sea paths that have claimed many lives in major disasters during the-last few months is now provided by the Coast Guard with public works funds. 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