Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1935, Page 2

MCARRAN PLAN AGAIN DEFEATED Work-Relief Reported Back to Senate With Re- visions. (Continued From First Page.) 1t when it was referred back to com- mittee, except for the Glass amend- ment breaking down the $:£,000,000,- 000 appropriation into various classi- fications and projects. Senator Glass described the amend- ment and its purposes as follows: “The proposed amendment dis- tributes the $4,000,000,000 according | to eight general purposes and classes of projects. Inasmuch as it is im- possible to list separately all of the individual projects necessary to util- ize the divergent skills and occupa- tional background of the workers now on the relief rolls, these classes are meant to be only indicative of the activities to be performed under each heading. “It is not intended that the projects be restricted to those specifically mentioned in each class. The an- nounced purpose of this joint reso- lution is to give employment to the workers on the relief rolls, and this purpose must be kept paramount. In order to assure that this primary pur- pose is attained the President is au- thorized to use not to exceed 20 per cent of the total appropriation, to increase the amounts stated for any of the classes, if delays occur which prevent the prompt provision of ém- ployment under any of the classes listed. Plan Gradual Tapering Off. “Part of this appropriation is to be used for gradually tapering off the relief activities of the Federal Gov- ernment. The amount necessary for this purpose can be furnished by the classes of work projects as listed. Inasmuch as this cannot be antici- pated with any degree of exactness in advance, the President is therefore authorized to use as much of this appropriation as is necessary for con- tinuing relief as authorized under the Federal emergency relief act of 1933 as amended. “fhe amendment reported by the committee is wholly in accord with the principles for caring for the needy unemployed, as stated by the Presi- dent in his message of January 4. “The broad categories laid down allow a large variety of individual projects, and as often stated by the President, the need for latitude in the transfer of funds to meet project con- ditions as they develop, is adequately provided for.” ‘Under the terms of the Glass amend- ment, the President has at his dis- posal a resilient fund of $800,000,000 to be transferred to any category of work he deems wise. Copeland Plan Defeated. Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, offered amendment to limit this by allowing the President to transfer only 20 per cent of the amoynt assigned to any category of pmb‘c’h. This was defeated. The so-called Tydings amendment which would have provided that none of the money carried in the bill should be used to feed workers on strike was eliminated from the bill. Senator Tydings, however, retained the right to offer the amendment from the | floor. The committee added an amend- ment to the bill providing that on all building construction work and other projects undertaken, all mechanical sanitary work, which is covered by health laws, shall be let separately and awarded to the lowest contract bidder. This amendment was in| answer to a demand made on the | committee that such work be done by skilled labor. —_— WEIRTON DISCHARGE HEARING IS ORDERE Steel Labor Board Slates Com- plaint by Mel Moore, For- mer Employe. By the Assoclated Press, The Steel Labor Board stepped into the prolonged Weirton Steel Co. labor dispute today with an order for a hearing on a complaint by Mel Moore, a former employe at the Weirton, W. Va,, plant, that he was discharged for “activities in behalf of organized labor.” The board will hold the hearing here March 18. Only last week, a Federal court in Wilmington, Del., held that the Weir- ton Co. had not interfered with its employes’ self-organization rights, and dismissed the Government's petition for an injunction to prevent the al- leged interference. Moore did not mention the Amalga- mated Association of Iron, Steel and ‘Tin Workers in his complaint. That H union, the American Federation of Labor unit in the steel industry, re- cently was split by a “rank and file” movement. So far, the board has not acted on the Amalgamated’s petition for an election at Weirton. 2 Whether the Weirton lodge of the union was in the good graces of Mike Tighe, union president, was not known among labor men here. JERSEY SENATE PASSES ANTI-NAZI LEGISLATION By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J., March 5.—A bill designed to combat what its sponsor described as “Nazi propaganda” was passed in the New Jersey Assembly last night with one dissenting vote. John J. Rafferty, leader of the Democratic minority, said azi propagandists” were spreading “per- nicious doctrines” in certain sections of North Jersey. ‘The bill does not mention any group by name, but would make persons making attacks upon specific religious groups and upon the Amer- ican Government subject to imprison- ment from 90 days to three years and fines of $200 to $5,000 or both. Lenten Service Under the Auspices of the Washington Federation of Churches Epiphany Episcopal Church Tomorrow at 4:45 pm. Preacher: Dr. Z. B. Phillips. The public is invited. What’s What Behind News In Capital Roosevelt Has Plenty o Clubs if He Chooses to Use Them. By PAUL MALLON, RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has more congressional persuaders hidden in mind than Congress ever saw before. If he should let down his arms today, big sticks would fall out hy the cord. For instance, the mayor of a large city called a White House adviser on the long-distance telephone the other day and :said substantially this: “Say, if the President needs any help in his relief row with the Senate, just let me know. I can organize a march of mayors from every impor- tant city in this country that will make the last bonus army look like a corporal's guurd. They are wiring me about it now. Just give me 24 hours.” ‘The mayor was advised to hold any such movement in check, that prob- ably too many people have mixed in the situation already. Nevertheless, the offer is a fairly THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, y s w IALYCE MHENRY'S (IOHNSON SCORES STRENGTH GROWS £ Girl Whose Stomach Was Inverted Has Not Yet Won Fight. BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, Associated Press Sclence Editor. FALL RIVER, Mass, March 5.— The fighting spark of life in Alyce Jane McHenry was a little stronger this forenoon, nearly 24 hours after her operation for an upside-down stomach. The outcome was officially given at the Truesdale Hospital as in doubt, but with no complications yet appearing and a “fair chance” for the brave youngster. Intense pain keeping her from sleeping until after 2 a.m. ,Her pain was mainly the usual after-affects of a major operation, but worse than the average. It was planned to give her a blood transfusion this forenoon, not as an emergency measure, but because she is anemic from a long enforced diet of scanty food and little water. But the transfusion was called off when examination indicated that continued good hint that Mr. Roosevelt is e o e ot heavily armed as a Huey Long body- Something of the same influence already has asserted itself. Governors of certain States are reported to have grown restless about the delay in re- lief funds. Some of them have been wiring and telephoning in here, not only to White House advisers, but to their Senators and Representatives. Governors and mayors do not care much about academic arguments over the payment of regular wages for re- lief work. What they want is the money. Why Compromise Failed. It may now be lenied, but the White | House was ready to accept a com- promise immediately after Mr. Roose- velt returned from Hyde Park, and suddenly changed its mind. Certain advisers are supposed to have persuad- ed the President that any surrender would weaken his congressional pres- tige and encourage later insurrections. This is why the Robinson compro- mise failed so mysteriously over the last week end, The compromise was actually worked out by Senator Wagner, although he remained in the background. eral it gave the President discretion about paying a prevailing union wage. The trouble with it was that it could keep Mr. Roosevelt on the wage spot all the time. He would have to spend most of his time settling wage disputes in different localities, Lots of Dirt in N. R. A. There is plenty of dirt inside the N. R. A. if the senatorial investiga- tors choose to dish it. No other Gov- ernment agency (even the A. A. A) has so many people in its employ who are dissatisfied with its administra- tion, law and command. This is one of the reasons why N. R. A.-ers have been running around in circles since the Senate authorized an inquiry. No one knows who is going to tell on whom, and how much. . As an instance of the inside N. R. A. evidence available, Ruth Ayers of the Consumers Advisory Board (N. R. A) filed a report January 9 which is a strong indictment of codes con- taining provisions contrary to court consent decrees in anti-trust cases. She cites chapter and verse on & number of cases tending to show how N. R. A. has promoted monopoly. For the information of Senators, the document is entitled Price Control and Code Polic: “No Comment” Creates Difficulty. There is fnner evidence that the President is having difficulty keeping up with his new policy of not com- menting on legislation pending in Congress. In that connection it was just ex- actly a year ago that a congressional committee chairman arose and an- nounced: “The President just called me by telephone a moment ago and said he hoped the — bill could be passed.” You may rest assured that tele- phone lines from the White House to Congress are still working, and work- ing overtime. The only difference is that no congressional leader will again make the mistake of getting u and blurting it out. g D (AoTO Don’t sit up nights waiting for the automobile strike. , Privately, labor- ites admit that no one, including the A. F. of L., knows how many members the federation has in autos. Recent elections indicated it did not have enough to stop work on two fenders. A. F. L-ers decline to regard these figures as significant, because of their belief that the elections were im- propetly conducted. A more important consideration is money. If a strike call were success- ful, it would call for feeding, maybe housing, from 15,000 to 25,000, which is more than the A. F. of L. treasury could stand right now. What seems to be behind the move is an effort to expose labor’s lack of confidence in the Auto Labor Board, and drum up pressure on Con- gress for the new Wagner bill. The European Way. The way European diplomats kill our emissaries with kindness is illus- trated by the personal experiences of Commissioner of Labor Statistics Lubin, who recently attended the international labor meeting at Ge- neva. He was wined and dined so much he had to take to skiing to protect his waistline. Each day there was a Juncheon and a dinner in his honor. Wherever he went his picture was snapped. When he tried to get one he always found the supply out, and finally was told, “You see, all the delegates want pictures of the Amer- ican delegate.” After he spoke on the 40-hour week, & prominent European diplomat ap- proached him, saying: “That was a splendid speech. I did not agree with a word you said, but your ideas were very impressive.” Lubin managed to escape before he became inert, but some have not. (Mrfll‘t 10852 In gen- | there collapsed under the pressure. | ting up the major battle, was best for the present. Asks for Milk. She called for milk this morning which was considered a good sign. She also for the first time since the operation retained the water she was allowed to sip. The taking of water and milk and other liquids in small quantities is one of the early awaited signs that the digestive organs which were moved out of her chest yesterday and placed where they belong, are going to func- tion and pull her through. One complication closely watched is the possibility of pleurisy, an un- avoidable risk when an operation dis- turbs so much of the delicate mem- brane lining of the chest cavity. The hospital physician says it is likely to be several days before all the uncertainties are cleared up. Her mother was with her and those { who saw Mrs. McHenry in the corri- dors of the hospital said she looked happier than at any time previously since the operation. Watchers Cheer Girl. ‘Whispers were repeatedly heard in the operating room, as the chief surgeon performed his delicate tasks. “Bully!” was one spoken fervently. “That's splendid!” was another. All were heartfelt cheers fo. the chief surgeon as one after another knotty mix-up or vital organs un- tangled under his swiftly moving fingers. Virtually all Alyce's digestive organs were up in her chest where her left lung should be. The lung, too, was Stomach, intestines, large and small, spleen and appendix were in the chest. It was the appendix that forced a i change in plans of the operation after her chest was opened. Dr. Philemon E. Truesdale, chief surgeon in the operation, had expected to let the organs move slowly and gently down from the chest to the almost empty abdomen. May Adjust Itself. They were born in the wrong place. There might not be room enough for them in the abdomen, but if the change could be made slowly the ab- domen would adjust. The appendix, however, was up near her heart level instead of down near her right hip bone. To save her life, the whole change had to be made in a single operation. Dr. Truesdale had to free adhesions, tissues, which fastened the misplaced organs to chest wall, and even to her heart covering. As each difficult step was made without a slip, the barely breathed cheers ran through the operating room. The famous upside-down stomach itself was one of the first to get started down. It was tight up under Alyce’s left shoulder. One of the last and most difficult feats was to sew up the diaphragm, in which Dr. Truesdale had made an opening 5 inches long and 3 across in order to let the lost digestive organs pass down from the chest cavity. The diaphragm is dome shaped. Sewing up the cut was like trying to sew the staves onto the head of a bar- rel. Although the operation cost Alyce four ribs, the medical observers said there would be little or no “cosmetic™ effects to mar her shapely develop- ment. | Your Income Tax I Checking Delinquents. The Bureau of Internal Revenue has at its command many sources for checking up delinquent taxpayers. One of these is the “Information at source” provision of the revenue act, under which persons, “in whatever capacity acting,” are required to re- port to the commissioner of internal revenue at Washington, D. C.. pay- ments to another in any calendar year of $1,000 or more if the recipient of such payment is single. If the recipi- ent is married reports need not be made unless the payments aggregate $2,500 or more. If the marital status of the payee is unknown to the payor the payee is considered a single per- son for the purpose of filing an in- formation return Fixed and determinable income in- cludes wages, salaries, royalties, pre- miums, rent, interest, etc. . A separate return of information for each em- ploye is required of employers. The requirements are not limited to peri- odical payments, but a single pay- ment must be reported. Corporations are required to make a separate re- port of dividends or distributions for each individual, fiduciary or partner- ship holder who was paid $300 or more during the calendar year. It should be observed that the amount to be reported is the gross amount of the dividend without taking into con- sideration the amount of the excise tax of 5 per cent which was deducted at the source under section 213 of the national industrial recovery act. All persons or organizations acting at any time during the year 1934 as broker or other agent in stock, bond or commodity transactions (including banks which handle clearing orders for depositors or custodian accounts) are required to file returns of infor- mation on form 1100 with respect to all customers, depositors or accounts for whom or which business was transacted during the year. A sepa- rate form 1100 must be prepared for each customer, depositor or account for whom or which business was transacted during the year and must show the name and address and other information provided for in the form. Information returns are carefully checked with individual returns of PRIEST AND LONG Former N. R. A. Chief Says Pair Preach Revolution, Not Reform. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, March 5.—Denounce- ing Senator Huey P. Long and Rev. Charles E. Coughlin as “Pied Pipers’ preaching revolution, Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson holds out to the Nation two choices: 1. A return to the “solidarity and enthusiasm” which backed President Roosevelt in 1933, or 2. Dictatorship and chaos. ‘The former N. R. A. administrator lashed at Long and Father Coughlin —“plausible punchinello” and “politi- cal padre,” ne called them—at & din- ner in his honor last night. “Whether consclously or not,” he said, “these two men are raging up and down this land, preaching not construction but destruction, not re. form but revolution, not peace but a sword.” Long Flares Back. Johnson said he expected them to hit back, and Long did it promptly. “Those wreckers from Wall Street, shouted the Senator in Washington, “ruined Woodrow Wilson, . Herbert Hoover and President Roosevelt. I'll cover Johnson's case from hell to| breakfast in & speech Thursday | night " ! Johnson, he said, was “just a screw- driver” in the hands of Bernard M. Baruch, whom he described as “king. fish of the lodge under Hoover, too. Turning to the Roosevelt admin- istration, the Louisianan asserted: “The farmer today is getting only about half what he got in 1929, under Hoover. Johnson helped do that. Cites Unemployment. “Unemployment has risen to over 20,000,000. No one except President Roosevelt had as much to do with that as Baruch and Johnson. “The national debt has gone up to $28,500,000,000. We can thank Baruch and Johnson for doing all they could on that. Private debts, added to that, amount to $252,000,000,000. Nobody has had half as much to do with that as Baruch and Johnson.” Johnson called the Louisiana Sena- nd Michigan priest leaders of 'motional fringe,” and adding that “any desperate person is a can- didate to join 1t,” warned that 80,000,- 000 depression victims are “ready to strike back at disaster in any way that is shown them “You can laugh Father Cough- lin,” declared the general. “You can snort at Huey Long, but this country was never under a greater menace than from the break-up of spontane- ous popular co-operation that is being engineered by this pair.” Taking note of the anniversary date, Johnson lauded President Roosevelt's achievements during his first two years in office. Now, he said, vital support is being undermined on the “lunatic fringes” by the Senator and priest on one extreme and the “Old Guard” on the other. “Any fool knows,” said Johnson, “that you can't clear the wreckage of 12 years’ madness in two years’ time. “But the push is gone. The drive is stopped. Many of these benefits have faded. The plan seems to be in the gravest danger of frustration. ‘Warring Groups Spring Up. “The reason for this is not hard to find. The ‘spontaneous co-operation of a free people’ * * * has been broken up into selfish, warring groups by the deliberate designs of business and political guerillas. “If we can't restore something of the solidarity and enthusiasm of 1933 | among our whole people, and do it quickly, we are in for trouble of the most serious sort—for if a chaos of inflation and worse follows a frustra- tion of these plans, nothing we can hope to co will keep a dictator out of ‘Washington, and that chaos is immi- nengly threatened.” Johnson said the Old Guard had become a “lunatic fringe” because it held “the next election is in the bag— Huey Long and Father Coughlin are going to give it to us.” That. he said. is the prize example of “playing volley ball with dynamite bombs.” Explains Silver “Lie.” Returning to Father Coughlin, the general said: “I was for him at the beginning heart and soul, and had been told as a Canadian citizen he was a mem- ber of the Basilian order and vowed to poverty. When I heard a year ago that his private corporation. the Radio League of the Little Flower, was interested in the silver of which he was preaching monetization, I gave the lie to that statement. When the official list was published by the Treasury Department, I saw that I had been wrong. “From the day of the publication of that list, the good father has be- come the bitter enemy of President Roosevelt's administration.” He said the priest’s plan to “make money out of nothing would make it worth nothing.” Mail Suspect Under Bond. NEW YORK, March 5 (#).—Louls Wolfe, under Federal indictment in Chicago for possessing Government and industrial bonds allegedly stolen from the mails, was held in $5.000 bail yesterday for a hearing next week, e BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra in Stanley Hall this evening at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant leader. March, “Occidental”........... Sousa Overture, “Man Lives But Once,” ‘Wagner Spanish dances, “Nos. I and IIL” Moszkowsky Excerpts from “The Desert Song,” Roml| Characteristic, “Voodoo” Waltz suite, “Confidences,’ Finale, “National Fencibles' “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Navy Band Orchestra this evening at 8 o'clock in the Navy Yard sail loft. Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; Alexander Morris, as- sistant leader. “Marche Heroique™ Overture, “The Magic Flute” “Ballet Sylvia”...... “Valse Lente.” “Pizzicato Polka.” “March and Procession of Bacchus.” March, “Triumphal Creole” .. Kriens Selections, “Andrea Chenier,” Giordano “Tarantelle” ...... Saint-Saens. For flute and clarinet. Barcarolle, “Venitienne” Spanish sulte, “La Fete de Seville,” D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1935. Flays Long and Coughlin Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. “Chaos and dictatorships threaten unless we restore the solidarity and enthusiasm of 1933,” Gen. Hugh Johnson, former N. R. A. head, said in his speech at New York last night. He characterized Senator Huey Long and Father Coughlin as “two pled pipers” organizing “lunatic fringes.” White House Secret Service Chief Besieged for Memoirs Jervis, Going to Cadlifornia on Duty, Knew Threats to Presidents and Enjoyed Confidences. Richard Jervis, who has just retired as chief of the White House secret service after guarding Presidents for 26 years to take charge of a fleld of- ice of the United States Secret Service. is now being besieged with offers to write his experiences. ‘These offers are coming from pub- lishers of books and magazines, as well as newspaper syndicates and mo- | tion picture scenario departments, all of whom seem to realize that this suave, keen-eyed, gray-haired operative has a story that would be a real thril- ler. Few people know how many attempts | have been made to take the life of & President or to destroy the White House. These have been frustrated by the Secret Service and have never been made public. Seldom a day passes without a letter being received at the White House threatening the life of the President or some member of his household. These too, are kept secret. Invariably these threats are from cranks or crazed people and are handled accordingly. From his long service at the White House, Jervis knows about all of them. May Write for History. Jervis was reluctant today to dis- cuss the subject. He did say, how- ever, that he has no intention of doing any writing as long as he re- mains in the service. he has retired he might consider recording his observation. and ex- periences more as a matter of history than for any other reason. Jervis was a dapper youngster of 20 when he joined the White House detail a few months before William Howard Taft became President. Five years later he became chief of the White House detail when Joseph Murphy was promoted to be assistant chief of the entire service. During his long experience at the White House Jervis has traveled many thousands of miles with Presidents and has talked and walked with them on unusually interesting occasions, He played golf with Presidents Taft, Wil- son and Harding. He accompanied the latter on his ill-fated trip to Alaska the Summer of 1923 and was in the hallway just outside Mr. Harding’s door in the San Francisco hotel when he heard the screams of Mrs. Harding when the President died. He toured the country with President Taft and accompanied President Wilson on his two journeys to the Paris Peace Con- ference: he went with Calvin Coolidge during most of his fishing expeditions and was beside him in the little room at Walter Reed Hospital when word was brought to him that his son had died. He accompanied President Hoo- ver on his cruise to the West Indies and other journeys, including the ex- tended trip he made during the cam- paign of 1932. Went on Island Trips, Last Summer he accompanied President Roosevelt cn his voyage to the West Indies and across the Pacific Ocean to Hawail. While in Paris with Woodrow Wilson he was his frequent companion during walks about the streets. He also slept in Buckingham Palace when President ‘Wilson visited there, and he was present at several meetings of Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau of France Orlando, known as the “Big Four” of the peace conference. Jervis' journeys with Presidents included many trips aboard the presidential yacht May- flower. In appearance Jervis _suggests nothing of an officer of the law. Now that his hair has turned a silvery white, and his once athletic frame is a trifie portly, he looks more like & Possibly, after | | banker or successful business execu- | tive. He is noted for being close- mouthed regarding White House | activities, and has the reputation of being capable of making himself en- tertaining for hours in a group with- out once making the slightest mention of the White Hcuse or the President. Jervis is a native of California and it has been his ambition since he reached the age of giving some thought of what he would do when he retired, to live in his native State. Now that he has been permitted to retire from the White House command | he will be able to realize his ambition, | but before retiring he will manage the | secret service office probably in San | Diego. — 0. ASKEDTOTAKE QVER OHIO" RELIEF {Gov. Davey Opposes New Tax Burdens for State Aid. By the Assoclated Press. | COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 5.—Gov. | Davey, n a letter to Federal Relief | Administrator Hopkins, today sug- | gested the Federal Government “take | over completely the administration of relief in Ohio.” He said he believed the interests of all concerned thus would be served best. He pointed out that Ohio is re- quired to furnish $2,000,000 a month for relief against £8,000,000 supplied by the Federal Government, on that basis, he said, the State would pay $24.000,000 & year. State and local funds in sight. Davey said, total $9,000,000, which would leave a deficit of $15,000,000. “Unless we can save this amount of money in various ways it means that we must Jevy that much in new taxes. The people of Ohio are already groaning vinder a multiplicity of taxes which face them at every turn the latest of waich 1s the sales tax, which was passed at the end of the last ad- ministration. “The present reliet set-up in Ohio is very wasteful and inefficlent I cannot, :n good conscience, ask the Legislature to force on the people of Ohio an additional tax burden as long as they xnow that there is so much waste in the present relief pro- gram, and we might as well face the facts squarely that the taxpayers of Ohio are full aware of this waste.” _ SISTER JULIA ILL Former President of Trinity Col- lege Stricken on Trip. SANTA CLARA, Calif, March § (UP) —Sister Julia, provincial superior of the Sisters of Notre Dame in Cali- fornia since 1921, and formerly presi- dent of Trinity College, Washington, D. C., was reported seriously ill at Notre Dame Convent here yesterday. Sister Julia became il while en route to Watsonville to inspect the Notre Dame Convent there. The Evening Star Offers Its Readers This Worth-While BOOK. Price $1 at The Evening Star Business Office, or by mail, postpaid It explains the permanent departments of the Federal Government and the Alphabet Bureaus of the New Deal. Every American should read it. Order today. : _— "m. NEW DEAL ‘FEUDS" AFFECT IDEALISTS Younfier Officials Look to Leading Personalities for Cues on Trends. This is the third of a series of fve articles in which the inside story of the recent “purging” in the A. A. A. is told by the deposed senior assistant to the consumers’ counsel, preseniing the viewpoint of the “young New Dealers.” BY GARDNER JACKSON. The ups and downs of the emotional drive behind the New Deal are as noticeable to one working on the in- side as are the changes in the weather. The hundreds of young people, new to Government, who accepted the President’s challenge in his inaugural at its face value, follow every word and action not only of their own im- mediate superiors but of every promi- nent official in the New Deal. As these words and actions seem to be- token a genuine step in the direction of alleviating the plight of the for- gotten men—the mass of the unem- ployed and of the middle class—they redouble their pace. When the con- trary evidence appears they grouch and wonder whether they ought to stick on the job, even as a meal ticket. “Has Harry Hopkins sold out?” Many of the Federal Emergency Re- lief Administration workers ask one another if he shifts his policy a bit. They asked the question frequently when the dynamic, straight-forward young relief administrator abandoned his Civil Works Administration policy of paying “the prevailing wage” on relief work after conducting a long and bitter struggle to maintain it. They did not like the way political expediency operated in such States as Tennessee and New Mexico, for ex- ample, to replace efficient, disinter- ested relief administrators with poli- | tical appointees. Loyalty to Hopkins. But, by and large, the Harry Hop- kins crowd in F. E. R. A is still willing to give him a loyalty and de- Ivomn which are scarcely equa]eq by any other organization in Washing- ton. Sometimes these workers are disposed to wonder whether ambition for place and power is making him “pull his punches.” They talk much of this possibility and of the way it has got hold of dozens of lesser men in the administration. They discuss episodes which seemed to indicate Mr. Hopkins was jealous of Secretary Ickes or Secretary Perkins or some other official. All of such discussions usually end with the conclusion that Harry Hop- kins, the idealistic man of action, can do nothing more than he is doing. “He's about the only one of our crowd Jeft that’s close to the President,” is the way they put it. “He's got to watch his step, so that when the time comes he can influence F. D. in the right direction.” Frances Perkins' advent into the cabinet caused a multitude of young i people to feel that the New Deal really 'was & new deal and brought them into Government service for the first time. But today she is regarded with far more skepticism by many young New Dealers than is Mr. Hopkins. “She’s nothing but a glorified so- cial worker,” some of them say. “She has no basic economic philosophy, she has no broad, fundamental labor pro- gram and consequently is unable or unwilling to give labor leadership.” Labor Board Troubles. More particularly, many young bled by Miss Perkins' jealousy of the | National Labor Relations Board, by her insistence on trying to keep it under her thumb, so that it cannot develop the independence and ef- fectiveness visioned for it in the Wag- ner bill. Much of the disgruntled feeling about Miss Perkins springs from her taccessibility, from the tac- tics of her “watchdog” secretary, Miss Kay, and from the self-confident. | brusque manner of one of her closest | counselors, Charles Wyzanski, the so- | licitor of the Department of Labor. All through these two years of the New Deal there have been intense |rivalries and struggles for power which have not gone on without ef- fect upon the young New Dealers. The tugging and hauling between Secretary of Commerce Roper and Gen. Johnson for dominance in the jearly days of the National Recovery | Administration was one of the first. | And it is interesting to find at this stage in the New Deal that one of the developments which gives the young New Dealers most alarm is the emergence of the honey-uoiced Mr. Roper into greater prominence and authority. The rivalry between Secretary Ickes and Administrator Moffett of the Federal Housing Administration was one which caused the young New Dealers most merriment. And, in- 1 cidentally, the Housing Administra- tion is the last place the young idealists would go to look for a job. Those who have worked with Mr. Moffett and have been transferred elsewhere tell astounding tales of the unscientific nature of many of the proposals taken seriously by the Hous- ing Administration. Mr. Moffett him- self, they say, is wont to inform his young assistants that the contacts they make while working with him will prove of more value to them than a college education and will en- able them to go out into well-paid positions when the New Deal ends. Ickes “Dependable.” Secretary Ickes, with his vast re- sponsibilities in .is own department and in the Public Works Administra- tion, and seeming ever eager to reach out for more responsibilities wherever he can find them, has run afoul of | Secretary Wallace and Undersecretary Tugwell over the Forestry Service and land policy in general. There is con- siderable jealousy and irritation among the Soil Erosion Service in the Interior Department, the Bureau of Agricultural Engineering in the Agricultural Department, the Forestry Service and the National Parks Serv- ice, and Secretary Ickes would like to consolidate the whole business un- der him. . Despite this yearning for more and more flelds to conquer, and although he has kept in the Interior Depart- ment many from the old regime, it is fair to say that Mr, Ickes is re- garded by the New Dealers as the most dependable member of the cabi- net. Over and over again his friends in the New Deal have said, while commiserating over the “purge” at the Agricultural Adjustment Admin- istration: “Ickes never would have in contrast to Secretary Wallace's procedure. One aspect of the New Deal ex- ce which strikes all young New Dealers is the intense suspiclon—if not hostility—with Which they are viewed by the personnel of the old |hopefuls in the New Deal are trou- | D. C. CRIME PROBE TURNS 70 POLICE House Committee Plans to Return to Court and U. S. Attorney Later. The’ Special Crime Investigation Committee of the House decided today to concentrate its attention on the Police Department for the next seve eral weeks before returning to the United States attorney’s office and Police Court. After inquiring into Police Trial Board actions of the last two years, the committee plans to call captains of the various police precincts to dis- cuss disciplinary as well as law en- forcement problems. Lays Basis for Probe. John R. Fitzpatrick, committee counsel, already has held a series of private conferences with some of the captains, laying the foundation for the precinct investigation. Inspector Willlam G. Stott, chair- man of the Police Trial Board, is to lead the procession of Police Depart- ment witnesses. Twice he has been called before the committee, only to be told to return later. i The committee, however, is deter- | mined to hear Stott this afternoon when the hearings are resumed at 1:30 o'clock in the House District Committee room. He will be ques- tioned about Police Trial Board proce- dure and particularly the cases in- ! volving mandatory dismissals which were set aside by the District Com- missioners, Recall Decision Awaited. A decision as to whether United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett should be recalled is expected to be reached before the end of the week. Four of the eight members of the committee want him recalled as soon as practicable. Several are anxious to question him further about delays in the prosecu= tion of certain cases and the others want him to amplify his recent state- ment to the press that gamblers are responsible for the attempts to dis- credit his office, “PINK SLIP” REPEAL BILL IS INTRODUCED Doughton Sponsors Measure to Lift Publicity on Tax—=zob- inson Not Opposed. By the Associated Press. A bill to repeal the “pink slip” pub- licity feature of the income tax law was introduced yesterday by the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Representative Doughton, Democrat, of North Caro- | lina. Doughton took only 20 words to frame for congressional action the | answer to protests which have jammed congressional mail bags of late. The bill merely proposed an amendment to the law to read: “That section 55 (b) of the revenue act of 1934 relating to the filing and making i public certain income statements is repealed.” Proponents of repeal of the public- ity measure found some encourage- ment in a remark by the Senate Dem- ocratic leader, Robinson of Arkansas. Asked his view, he said: “I would have no objection to re- peal, but T am not championing it.” - BARRYMORE IMPROVED Doctor Says He Sent Him to Hos- pital as Precaution. NEW YORK, March 8§ (#).—John Barrymore, stage and screen star, who is ill with bronchitis and influenza in the New York hospital, was reported much improved last night. “He is perfectly all right,” Dr. Kenneth Taylor, his physician, said. “I simply sent him to the hospital because I thought he would be better off there than elsewhere. There is nothing to be alarmed about. He will be out again as well as ever in an- other week.” Congress in Brief By the Associated Press. TODAY. Senate. Appropriations Committee may con- sider $4,880,000,000 work and relief bill. Continues debate on confirmation of John H. Russell as major general of Marines. | Agricultural subcommittee considers Bankhead farm-tenancy bill. Finance Committee pursues N.R. A. investigation. Post Office Committee studies pro- posed Farley investigation. House. Ways and Means Committee cone tinues bonus hearings. Banking Committee questions Re- serve Board governor on new banking bill. Interstate Commerce Committee re- sumes work on utilities holding com- pany legislation. YESTERDAY. Senate. Debated confirmation of John H. Russell. Heard President’s ship-subsidy mes- sage. Heard assertions and denials that Postmaster General Farley’s resigna- tion had been “arranged.” Received Secretary Ickes' asked by Senator Long. House. Rejected bill to give members $1,060 a year more for clerk hire. Approved Senate bill for telephone= telegraph investigation by Communi= cations Commission. Ways and Means Committee opened bonus hearings. Banking Committee heard Marriner Eccles, Reserve Board governar, advo- cate new banking law. Rules Committee received denial of graft in H. O. L.,C. from Chairman John H. Fahey. - report departments There are numerous exceptions, as I found, but in gene eral the old-line bureau chiefs look askance at the emergency agencies and their antics. Typical is the at- titude of Chief Warburton of the extension service, Department of Ag- riculture, who has “viewed with alarm” the development of other field rvices in the A. A. A. Some of the New Dealers in the A. A. A. believe its program was seriously handicapped when the County Control Commit- tees were entrusted to the county agents in the extension service. rlcomlg::'nlnw. hfl North 5-1«-