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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1935. “PINSLIP” LAW | A¢ whse House | | INDON DISCUSSES "A—4 s Tj S. SEEKS SPEED | Truck Plunges Down Shaft WoOoDWARD & 0™ U™F anp G StreeTs PHILIPPINES HEAD CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT. Lotnrop - IN COURT TESTS ppeal in Lumber Case May : Settle Weirton Con- : troversy. By the Associated Press. * More than 500 tests of New Deal legislation were reported today to be Zpending in the Federal courts of the sgountry. ; & Department of Justice officials, “promising to take all disputed statutes “to the Supreme Court speedily “to #find out what the law is,” said 258 of "the pending cases involve the National #Industrial Recovery Act. The nub of contention in many of “these is at constitutes interstate icommerce?” Contending that manu- | #facturing plants and business estab- ishments are “the wells of com- “merce,” the Government has sought ito regulate them under its constitu- Ztional power to control commerce be- tween the States. . New Deal Loses. 3 Two recent decisions on this point “have gone against the administration. A Federal judge at Wilmington, Del., ruled that the collective bargaining “clause of the recovery act was uncon- “stitutional as applied to the Weirton ISteel Co. He said the Constitution “gave Congress no right to regulate ‘manufacture. On_ the same day & “Federal judge at Louisville, taking & ‘similar view, granted an injunction #against enforcement of a coal code. ¢ Attorney General Cummings looks Zfor the questions involved in both of athese N. R. A. set-backs to be settled by another case already pending in ~the Supreme Court. This is the Gov- “ernment’s appeal from the decision of ithe Federal Court at Birmingham, “Ala. thatthe N.I R.A.and a lumber *code established under it were un- {constitutional. Cummings hopes the *Wilmington and Louisville cases may Sbe combined with the Birmingham *litigation, which is to be argued be- “fore the Supreme Court next month. = Three other matters of importance “to the Roosevelt administration are =docketed for consideration by the Tjustices next month. 2 Slum Work Involved. ' The first of these is & “slum clear- Zance” action started at Louisville. The Federal court there held that the *Government did not have the right to “condemn four city blocks for which 7$1,628,000 in P. W. A. funds had been | -made available. ~ Attorneys have asked the court for «a ruling Monday in this case. The “fate of 50 similar projects in 30 dif- ~ferent cities may be affected by the .decision. The precedent established smight determine the extent of slum Jclearance work to be attempted in the President’s proposed $4,000,000,000 “work relief program. ' Thousands of railroad workers are watching for a decision March 13 in ~another case before the high court. It is expected to decide the legality to the basement. EMPLOYES SEEK FIGURES ON RENT Questionnaire Tests Emer- | gency on Question of Cre- ating Commission. The National Federation of Federal Employes has begun circulation of a questionnaire through the Government to learn the housing problems of the employes and determine if an “emer- gency” exists to justify creation of a | Rent Commission, as proposed in the Here is what happened when a two-ton truck backed through the elevator shaft doors of a New York City garage and plunged three floors ‘William Burgess, 40, & colored truck driver's helper, was seriously injured. Police and fire department squads had to work 15 minutes before they could extricate Burgess from the wreckage. —A. P. Photo. AUTO DRIVER HELD INWOMAN'S DEATH Brakes Tested by Father When Car Is Taken to CALLED SNOOPER Used to Obtain Tax Infor- mation of No Use, Says McCormack. By the Associated Press. As Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee drafted a bill to repeal the income tax publicity law, another influential member of that committee today termed the present law just a “snoop- ing proposition.” Representative McCormack, Demo- crat, of Massachusetts, reminded in a statement that publicity on tax returns was directed by Congress in 1861, re- pealed in 1862, re-instituted in 1909, repealed in 1910, invoked again in 1924 and again repealed in 1925. “Instead of accomplishing any good,” he said, “it was used to obtain information which served no public good, and which resulted in injury in some form ta the taxpayer. There is nothing progressive in such legisla- tion.” Bill to Be Presented. Doughton’s bill is scheduled to be presented to the House by next ‘Thursday. A subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee agreed unanimously yesterday to repeal the “pink slip” re- quirement. By repealing the pink slip require- ment, the House leaders would restore the provisions ef the 1926 law under which the President was [‘authorized” to make income tax returns public under rules and regulations promul- gated under him. The returns were not made public under that law in the past. Inspection Permitted. That 1926 law, however, permits congressional committees, the Joint Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, State tax officials, Federal agents and stockholders of corporations to inspect tax returns. House leaders said they felt sure the House would vote to repeal the pink slip requirement. 'KENNAMER LAWYER ASKS FOR NEW TRIAL :25-Year Sentence Termed “Cruel | and Unusual Punishment” ir Defense Plea. MORGAN ART SALE Little Speculation, However, on Financier as Future Resident. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, March 2.—Much interest was evident today in coming sales of | art treasures of J. P. Morgan in Lon-! don, but there was little speculation | as to whether he would desert Wall Street for the life of an English country gentleman. Announcement that his miniatures would be sent here for suction caused dealers to foresee the possibility that | other works of art also would come to | London as the financier proceed.s| with partial liquidation of his estate.| England’s tastes, concentratgd wealth and nearness to continental center provided & good market for such objects. | Two Homes in England. I Should Morgan come here to live,| he would have house-hunting to do. For many years he has maintained both a London town house and a| country home. He is a well-known figure at Watford, Hertfordshire, site of his country estate maintained in the fashion of any English landed baron. There are many farm agents, gamekeepers and servants. PFine blooded stock is but one of the features of the estate. Hogs have been entered & number of times in the neighboring shows, which corre- spond the American country fairs. 4 The financier, a keen sportsman, | on his last visit to the Pritish Isles spent most of his time grouse shoot- ing in Scotland. One of the leading dealers in minia- tures in Bond street speaking of the projected sale of the famous Morgan | collection, said: | the islands. —A. P. Photo. “Much interest has been aroused | = not only among the trade but also| by the general public by reports that | TREE PERSONAL'T'ES Morgan is selling part of his valu—z REVEALED BY ‘CENSUS' 15 it i oo 1% | ;k;:ml::'gmg world market for these | FRANK MURPHY, Governor General of the Philip- pines, shown as he arrived at the ‘White House to confer with Presi- dent Roosevelt on conditions in Inspection and Tagging in Chi- cago Suburb to Safeguard Announced in New York. ‘ Growth. J. P. Morgan’s plan to auction his | By Czr}:}ellés;-égtc;‘l’re;z T i collection of miniatures in London , March 2.—Trees on pub- | New k of- lic property in suburban Lake Pores!t:u .nno:nced :;ohu Y:)r ¢ are achieving personalities of their | fices Tuesday. About 900 miniatures, | own. | among them some of the best extant, | A “census” of the 12,000 trees on|gre jnvolved. The collection has been | public ground is being taken, Mayor | appraised at $600,000, but art dealers Francis E. Manierre disclosed today, gaiq it was impossible to estimate | ‘of the railroad pension act. Although | bill of Representative Ellenbogen, Dem- | Morgue for Inspection. By the Associzted Press. Leroy E. Bornman, 22, of Seneca, PAWNEE, Okla., March 2—Phil| Md., was held for the grand jury yes- | K’enn;mer's 25-year ;entence for man- terday by a coroner’s jury inquiring | Slaughter was termed “cruel and un- | usual punishment” in a supplemental into the death of Miss S. Edith Stev- | motion for new trial filed hgge yes?e:- enson, 64, fatally injured Wednesday | day by J. A. McCollum, local counsel night when struck by an automobile | forLtgsusaycr of John Gorrell in Tulsa as! 3 health For two months City Forester Alex Pirie and a crew of men have been putting identification tags on the trees in streets and public parks, noting the health of each as the tagging is done. A card for each is kept on file, with notations. Thus far 7,000 trees have been ex- amined, and the plan has resulted in with the object of safeguarding their | gpa¢ they would bring on the open | market. | Already this year Morgan had sold | six paintings for $1,500,000 and had ! placed on the market two estates, one | | of which he bought a few years ago | for about $600,000. He announced when he sold the pictures that he de- sired to place his estate in a more liquid condition. this was not a New Deal measure, it “may provide a precedent for the ad- +ministration's social security legis- »lation. ¢ Another case in the Supreme Court }is & test of the retail motor code in- itiated by a New York auto corpo- ration. The expiration date of the N. L R. A. is June 16. By that time the high court may decide its legality. Regardless of the decision Congress #may be able to shape new laws that swill conform, administration leaders contend. —_ TEN THOUSAND SLAIN :Cockroach Drive to Be Topped Off " With Band Concert. CHAMPAIGN, IIl, March 2 (#).—! In some cities they have drives for this and the other thing, but in the +twin cities of Champaign and Urpana, *the good citizens strike out after the cockroaches. The second annual drive to rid the city of the pests was under way today. with an estimate of 10,000 roaches sslain 4 Those in charge said they would top off the drive with special ceremonies sand a band concert. - »* CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Bingo bazaar, Kermess Club of the "Knights of Columbus, Tenth and K wbtreets, 8:15 p.m. 5 Banquet and dance, Sergt. Jasper 1?0 t, No. 13, American Legion, Broad- Jmoor Hotel. .. Dance, Duke University Alumni As- sociation of Washington, Shoreham “Hotel, 9 p.m. " Dance, Washington chapter of the National Catholic University Alumni =Association, university library. ocrat, of Pennsylvania. | The form to be filled out asks the | sort of property rented and the amount of rent, the nature of services that go with the rental, whether the property occupied is “inferior because of your inability to pay for a better class,” if rents here are causing the employe ! to live outside the Capital and the| amount of salary employes receive. A letter from John W. Ginder, presi- dent of the District Federation of Fed- eral Employe$’ Unions, accompanying | the questionnaire, says “there is no| doubt in our minds that an emergency exists.” It quotes the Public Utilities Com- mission as telling the Senate that rents here are “20 per cent above the average for the entire country” and as predicting that restoration of Govern- ment pay will send them higher. — ANSWER TO KENT APPEAL IS FILED| Botetourt Prosecutor Replies to Convicted Slayer's Writ of Error. By the Assoclated Press. RICHMOND, Va., March 2—An an- swer from Philip Kohen, Botetourt County Commonwealth’s attorney, to a petition for a writ of error for Maj. Robert C. Kent, jr., convicted of kid- naping Mrs. Mary J. Hastings, was filed with the Supreme Court of Ap- peals yesterday. Maj. Kent is now in the State peni- tentiary under a 13-year sentence. The evidence in the case was to the effect that Kent and Mrs. Hastings, a Blue Ridge Springs hotel operator, traveled by automobile to Washington, and sev- eral days later Mrs. Hastings' body was found near Stroudsburg, Pa. —_— . Reception and dance, Texas State :Society, Mayflower Hotel, 9 pm. « Reception, Camp Fire Girls, May- Hlower Hotel, 3 p.m. . Dinner, Lawyers' Club, Mayflower SHotel, 6:30 p.m. « Annual alumni dinner, Washing- #ton Society of Massachusetts Insti- #tute of Technology, Congressional «Country Club, 7:30 p.m. : Dance and card party, Federal ‘“Chapter, No. 38, O. E. S, Hamilton “*Hotel, 10 p.m. - - ~ Bingo party, benefit Washington Louncil, No. 3, Sons and Daughters Jof Liberty, 655 Columbia road, 78:30 pm. 4 — # Dance, Dominican Club, St. Domi- Anic’s Auditorium, Sixth and F streets gouthwest, 8 pm. # Card party and dance, benefit Mount E flemnt Chapter, O. E. S, Bethesda ‘omen’s Club, Georgetown and So- Doma roads, 9 pm. £ Dinner dance, Swedish Soclety, Wil- lard Hotel, 8 p.m. * Ladies’ night dinner and dance, Al- #antara Caravan, No. 12, Order of fA\lhambra, Willard Hotel, 7:30 p.m. "% Dance, Phi Chi Fraternity, Shore- $am Hotel, 9 pm. . Address by Maj. Calvin I. Kephart “Racial Origins in the United tates” before National Genealogical Bociety, ¥. W. C. A, 8:15 pm. ¥ Card party, Business and Profes- fional Women'’s Club, Dodge Hotel, 8 pm. % Dance and card party, Gavel. Chap- r, No. 29, O. E. S., Kennedy-Warren partments, 9 p.m. . TOMORROW. % Dance, Gamma Sigma Phi Fra- ternity, Arlington Hotel. < Dinner dance, Theta Sigma Phi Praternity, Hamilton Hotel, 7 pm = Symposium on “Thoughts That ml" by Civic National Forum, St. 's Baptist Church, 1418 Q street, 2. ) WIFE IN POLICE HUNT SUES MANUFACTURER Mrs. Frances Skinner Charges Cruelty in Divorce Action at Council Bluffs. By the Associated Press. COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, March 2.—Mrs. Frances Skinner, 38, wife of Lloyd Skinner, president of an Omaha | operated by Bornman at Wisconsin avenue and Macomb street. During the inquest Coroner A. Magruder MacDonaid ordered the car driven by Bornman brought to the morgue from No. 8 police station for | inspection after it had been testified the machine had bad brakes and a windshield hard to see through. Father Makes Test. After police reported the foot brakes stopped the car in 55 feet instead of 40 required by law, Charles L. Born- man, father of the young man, re- quested another brake test—while the jury was closeted discussing evidence previously presented. Another brake test was made with the parent driving, on a street near the morgue and in the second test, the coroner’s jury was told, the foot brakes succeeded in stopping the car only after it had gone between 17. and 200 feet. The inquiry was reopened for this additional evidence and the father took the stand to tell how he himself had repaired the car and was sur- prised to find the brakes in such bad condition. The windshield also was reported blurred, Recent Arrival Here. Miss Stevenson had come to Wash- ington a short time ago from Wood- stock, N. Y., after being ordered by a physician to seek a warmer climate. She was living here at the Alban Towers Apartments. In another traffic inquest, the coro- ner’s jury held accidental the death of James M. Dodson, 40, colored, of the 1700 block of Nineteenth street, struck by a street car at Fourteenth and Euclid streets on February 23. The verdict exonerated Motorman Ar- thur G. Byrom, 28, of 642 Keefer place, who was operating the car. NEW KATHLEEN NORRIS Stork Visits Home of Son of Two American Authors. SAN FRANCISCO, March 2 (#)— The Norrises, Charles G. and Kath- leen, American authors, became grandparents yesterday. An eight- pound daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Norris. The child will be named Kathleen. The father is a graduate medical student at Stanford University and the mother is the former Alice Mc- Creery, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Wil- liam Barker McCreery of Tacoma, manufacturing company, has filed Wash. suit for divorce, charging “cruelty and inhuman treatment.” Mrs. Skinner was the object of a police search in four States last week when she failed to arrive at the home of her mother in Kansas City, Kans., after leaving her home by automobile. Three days later she appeared, explaining she had stopped to visit friends in Chi- cago on the way. The Skinners were married in Illinois & year ago. She is his fourth wife. —_— HAYS OFFERS SERVICES Civil Liberties Attorney to De- fend Arkansas College. MENA, Ark., Mgrch 2 (P).—Luclen Koch, head of the Commonwealth Labor College, near here, which is under legislative fire for alleged com- munistic activities, said last night that Arthur Garfield Hays, attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, New York City, had volun- teered to defend the school “against any move made by the Arkansas Leg- islature.” A legislative committee appointed to investigate the college is expected to make a report of its findings to the Assembly early next week. EDUCATIONAL. 50 S, IR School, L. Adolph Richards, M. Prin.. 629 i2th st. n.w. Phone STATISTICAL CLERK. B AP iR M |2 " Afiolps Richards, M " lolpl ards. M. . MBt. 639 IVE COURSE. tory School. L. 8., Prin., 529 12th st. p. ] “To punish this mentally i1l 19-year- old boy by imprisoning him for 25 years in a State penitentiary is a re- | version to the Dark Ages,” McCollum's petition read. | It cited the testimony of two defense | psychiatrists and of several laymen, on | which a plea of insanity was based | during the trial. A hearing on the motion was asked March 9, but Judge Thurman Hurst, who presided at the trial, did not con- | firm this date fimmediately. In event the motion is denied, Mc- Collum petitioned for a reduction to the minimum sentence of four years | for first-degree manslaughter. GEN. HARBORD SEES RECOVERY ‘EVERYWHERE’ Boost Still Needed in Durable Goods Industry, Says R. C. A, Board Chairman. By the Associated Press. PHOENIX, Ariz, March 2.—Gen. | James G. Harbord, chairman of the board of the Radio Corp. of America, ssid yesterday that signs of business recovery were noted everywhere on his | transcontinental trip to Phoenix. Economic improvement is evident in the East, but real recovery is waiting a needed boost in the durable goods in- dustry, Gen. Harbord said. Gen. and Mrs. Harbord will remain in Phoenix a month. He said he hoped to visit with Gen. John J. Pershing, Wintering in Tucson, and Gen. Charles Dawes, who is expected here in a few days. e 18-YEAR-OLD DUCK DIES| JERSEYVILLE, Ill, March 2 (#)— Jett O. Sunderland’s duck has stopped quacking, but not until some kind of a record was established. Dr. Jett O. Sunderland, sr., gave the duck, & cross between a mallard and Indian Runner, to Jett, jr, 18 years ago, and the bird survived until a few days ago. _— Ice Kills Pedestrian. NEW YORK, March 2 (#).—A 15- pound chunk of ice fell from Manhat- tan Bridge yesterday and killed Henry Wigger, 34, who was walking in South street. His skull was crushed by the impact of the ice, which dropped an estimated 110 feet. ADVERTISENENT ( ReCEIVED HERE Fealy’s Drug Store—11th & Pa. Ave. S.E. 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