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A=2 s HOLDING [I[]MPANY; BILL IN' MUDDLE Protests From Inveétors . Bring Promise of Un- favorable Amendment. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Protests from innocent investors in all parts of the country—whose life savings might be wiped out if the proposed bill to destroy holding com- panies became law—have led to a mm of tactics on the part of the sponsors of the legislation. It now is being promised that the bill will be amened so that holding companies will not be forced out of existence by 1940, but that the | authority to impose the death sen- tence shali be lodged in a Federal | commission. This means that upen the whim | or arbitrary judgment of a few men in Washington, whose announced pur- pose is to destroy as many holding companies as possible in the electric light and power fleld, will depend | whether the investments of those who now own securities® will be worth something instead of nothing. Deflation, therefore, would continue | until lengthy inquiries and investiga- tions have been exhausted over a period of years. Not Regarded Concession. ‘What appears to be a concession, however, is really no such thing. The | original bill provided for discretion- ary power in a commission to de- termine what holding companies shall survive. The question was to be de- cided upon the basis of economic and geographical integration, terms suffi- ciently broad to kill off any holding company at any time. The investors in holding companies in the electric light and power indus- try—and there are millions of them among the widows and dependents in this country—will have far more chance of salvaging their savings thorugh the courts than they will through any Federal bureaucracy in ‘Washington. For the proposed legislation is plainly unconstitutional. There is no authority under precedents or pre- vicus decisions of the Supreme Court for the idea that holding companies | can be brought under interstate com- merce. Opinion of Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has held that | the transportation of electricity across State lines is interestate commerce, but that when the electrical energy or gas reaches a local company for distribution, the interstate commerce idea ends. Thus the only possibility of Federal regulation is in connection h the bringing of energy across | tate lines, and this is the task of operating companies. The holding company is really an ownership group and is no more sub- Ject to Federal regulation than are | two or more persons who decide to put their holdings in any operating company together under a single trust or management. The sponsors of the holding com- pany bill are relying on the inter- state commerce clause on the ground | that holding companies sell their se- curities in interstate commerce. But the holding companies have already consummated the sale of their se- curities and any new issues of se- curities are subject to the jurisdic- tion of the Securities and Exchange Commission anyway. Judging by the trend of decisions in the Federal courts lately, the hold- ing company bill wouldn't stand up against a suit on its constitutionality. But meanwhile securities are depressed and damage is done to those who do | not know whether to sell their rapidly- declining investments or to wait for a recovery based upon court decisions. Declared Depreciated. Some members of Congress who are somewhat out of tune with public opinion think that because holding companies in the electric light and power business have been the object of attack, the investors can be pun- ished. too. One member of Congress insists that the securities were not worth what was paid for them origi- nally. But neither were many other pieces of property, including land and buildings on which the Federal Gov- ernment is now lending money. If deflation is to be continued until | everything is reduced to the values to | be set by a group of Congressmen in ‘Washington, then the unemployment rolls will continue to increase and the revival of industry will be postponed | indefinitely. “I don’t want to hear any more about the widows and orphans,” is the remark attributed to a prominent member of Congress who has been receiving a flood of protests from in- vestors. And that, unfortunately, ap- pears to be the slogan of not a few persons in the New Deal. Some of them are not interested in widows and orphans or anybody else in distress so long as the public is willing to lend its money to pay Government deficits that really ought to be paid out of taxes collected from business and industry. But the experience of other countries teaches us that sometimes the public loses confidence in the bonds and cur- rencies issued by thgse who show no signs of creating the sound economic conditions out of which alone budgets are balanced and the unemployed given jobs. (Copyright. 1935.) D. C. INVENTOR CORRECTS STATEMENT ON RIGHTS Louis A. Gebhard Says He Enjoys All Commercial Privileges Connected With Work. In a recent article in The Evening Btar, on “Gift Patents Total 1,800,” the name of Louis A. Gebhard of Washington was mentioned as being one of the inventors in the class of “gift” patentees. In a communication from Mr. Geb- hard The Star is informed that this is not entirely true. The Star’s cor- respondence states that “Mr. Gebhard, in common with many other employes of the Navy Department, enjoys all the commercial rights in his inven- tions and is entitled thereto under the most rigid construction of the law.” The Evening Star is glad to call at- tention to this error in statement. E. R. A. CARRIES MAIL Jacksonville-Pensacola Service Begun by Florida Unit. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March 7 (#)—The Florida Emergency Relief Administration has’ started its own mail and express delivery service be< tween Jacksonville ‘and Pensacola. Mail and parcels were collected here for delivery‘to various #dminis- trative points en route across Western Florida. E. R: A. officials said the system would be extended to other parts of the State if it proves success- ful. The delivery is made by the zegular E..B. A..truck service. 2 What’s What '| Behind News | In Capital Johnson Attack on Long and Coughlin Answers New Deal Prayer. BY PAUL MALLON. HE radio job which Gen. John- son performed on Huey Long and Father Coughlin was dressed up like a one-man af- fair. Actually there were more hands in on it than will ever be dis- closed. The general tried to absolve the New Deal from any connection with it. Yet guests at the dinner noticed significantly that President Roose- \vclts good friend and adviser, Prof. Raymond Moley, sat nearby. Mr. Moley not only sat, but he made a few remarks before Johnson spoke, |and these remarks were in praise of Gen. Johnson. The truth of the matter is the New Dealers have been staying up nights lately praying for some one who could \:msvser the Long-Coughlin duet in its own raucous tone. Statesmen around | Washington have been too prissy or too sensible to get involved in a melee with either. They realize it means unlimited and unrestrained | vituperation and they concede at least Long's supremacy in that art. The Johnson speech was an answer | to these prayers. and it did not exactly come from above. There can be no question about Johnson accurately reflecting the un- { | spoken attitude of the New Dealch\ from the lowest to the highest. He | did not exaggerate their sentiments a | bit. This fact will be evident shortly |when other hidden guns are un- | masked. Johnson only fired the open- |ing shot. The last one may not be | heard until the presidential campaign ‘mxl year is over. Deplored as Spekesman, While agreeing with Johnson's con- | clusions, some of the men near the | top here did not believe he should | | have made the speech. Not for the reasons he cited, but because the gen- | |eral himself is vulnerable. They |thought his business and military | background would prevent his re- marks from striking home with the ! | Long and Coughlin followers whom | they want to reach. | For that reason it is felt the el-‘ fectiveness of Jjohnson's remarks may | not be as strategically effective out in | | the country as they were in Wumng- ton. Others who were on the nmac of Johnson's plans were members or of- | ficials of Father Coughlin's church. One member is supposed to have been Al Smith. Johnson himself implied as much. It is a political axiom in Wash- ington that Pather Coughlin numbers very few Catholic church offictals among his national followers. Long Hard te Answer, 2 One reason Huey is so hard to an- | swer is that he is wisely vague about his “share-the-wealth” plan and the figures which should go with it. The | only specific approach he has offered |is to seize all personal wealth of more | | than $10,000,000. The precise wealth of the country is | not known. Latest figures place it | | between $250,000,000,000 and $300,- 000,000,000. Impartial economists (not | New Dealers) calculate roughly that the share of this wealth held by peo- | ple with blocks of more than $10,000,- 000 each is about $25,000,000,000. But even this is not the proper pool which Huey wants to split up, because even he proposes to leave the wealthy 10,- | 000,000 boys something. So take $15,000,000,000 as a fair | round number of what he might split | up. It exists in the form of stocks and bonds largely. These could not be | divided as you split up a piece of pie. i The Government would have to take it | |and operate the factories, mines or | other industries it represents. The income from this certainly could | | average no more than 4 to 6 per cent, if that much. If it is 6 per cent the | amount of money which Huey would split up every year would be about | $900,000,000. This is about one-fifth of the wealth | President Roosevelt proposes to split up next year through relief expendi- | tures. Not Enough for AlL Fair economists who have tried to | figure out how Huey is going to get | his promised $5,000 for every family | are equally puzzled. There are 30,- | 000,000 families in this country. If you strain your imagination to the point where you can conceive that Huey can seize $25,000,000000 of wealth and split it up directly, the amount would be only about $800 per family. But Huey does not propose | to go that far. If you want a big stretch and con- sider the possibility that he might take all the wealth in the country and split it up, a fair estimate is that the split would amount to $8,333 per family. That would be really doing something, but it would require more magic than any of these political magicians have displayed so far. The very minute that the Govern- ment seized it, most of it would cease to have the market value it has today, or any market value. A confiscatory tax levy would create a national panic which would utterly destroy existing values. What you would get out of that would not be $8333 per family, but just what the Russians got. The graft possibilities would surpass those even in the State of Louilana today. Nothing New in Long. Serious students of share-the-wealth possibilities say Long’s vague general- | ities contain nothing new. They are substantially the same as campaign promises advanced by Hitler in Ger- many, Mussolini in Ttaly and Mac- Donald in Great Britain. Not one of these three has made good on his promise. The Communists are the only ones who accomplished a share- the-wealth program, and the main reason they succeeded was that they had no wealth to share, only poverty. * (Copyright. 1935.) Brief Letter Brings $340. A five-line letter of Oliver Gold- smngs was sold recently in London THE EVENING INNEW DEAL SEEN Social Program Suffers From Aimlessness, Jack- son Says. This is the last of five articles in which the inside story of the recent A. A. A, “purging” is told by the deposed senior assistant to the consumers’ counsel, presenting the viewpoint of the “Young New Dealers.” BY GARD! JACKSON. ‘The absence of a definite program, even sketched in broad outline, is an aspect of the New Deal quite widely admitted now by Young New Dealers and by some in high places. The extreme difficulty of mapping & course even in the most general terms which can encompass the complexity of changing factors is granted. The young idealists doubt whether any ground is being gained, and are afraid their direction may be opposite to that in which they hoped to go when they joined the New Deal team. Prophecies are widespread here that the President will soon call sig- nals for a run around left end, after having tried right end and the right side of the line for several months— especially since the Senate took what is interpreted as a dash toward the first vote on the “prevailing wage” amendment to the work-relief bill”| But such a play will not quiet the misgivings of many Young New Deal- ers. They want to see the plays sketched for some definite goal. The background of this play-by- play sort of planlessness, in an admin- istration which has constantly talked planning but in which there is a vast amount of overlapping of function and | working at cross purposes, is perhaps one explanation of the jitters which afflict some high New Deal officials. Further, it may help to explain why there is de\tlopml in the various New Deal departments a rigorous type of censorship. A story from one depart- ment may prove to be bad news for another, and vice versa. In fact, such | situations have not been infrequent. Press Release Mix-ups. One of the early press releases we issued from the consumers' counsel office in Agricultural Adjustment Ad- ministration is an example. After Washington department store heads | had testified that the processing tax was a negligible item in the increased prices of cotton goods, we suggested | that it was not within the province of | the A. A. A to investigate manufac- jturing spreads. That, we merely stated, was within the possible func- tions of the N. R. A. under the cotton textile code. It was not surprising that consumer activities were almost completely wet- blanketed at the N. R. A. from the beginning. especially so far as publicity went, and that, in the end. the same fate was visited upon the Consumers’ Counsel at thes A. A. A. And the public can scarcely expect much action from the Consumers’ Division, with its county consumer councils, under Donald R. Richberg at the National Emergency Council—unless consumers throughout the country set up a united howl about the rapidly rising cost of living. For the c: activities of the New Deal—a pleasant advertise- | | ment, mentioned by the President in | one of his messages to Congress and by Mrs. Roosevelt two or three times— are. after all, efforts primarily in be- half of the public interest and thereby step upon too many toes. Publication of the Consumers’ Guide at the A. A. A every two weeks has | meant bi-weekly struggles for Mary Taylor, the editor, with Alfred D. Stedman, former newspaper man, now assistant administrator of A. A. A. and director of the Division of Information. Some of his censorship has reached hilarious heights, as for example when he refused to allow Miss Taylor to publish in the Guide a statement by Mrs. Roosevelt favoring consumer grade-labeling and standards for can- ned goods Also, when he declined to permit publication in the Guide of | excerpts from Secretary Wallace's 1933 annual report concerning abuses in the milk industry and possible methods | of handling them. Wallace's Speech. Sometimes material published in press releases of an earlier day rises to haunt officials and illumines the whirligig kind of politics they pursue. Pointedly illustrating such material is the label, “distributors masquerading in overalls,” which Mr. Stedman had Secretary Wallace pin on Charles Holman and other heads of bargaining dairy co-operatives whom the A. A. A. | about a year ago accused of playing hand-in-glove with the distributors to cheat the consumer and the farmer, STAR, WASHINGTON, LACK OF PLANNING (DR. PETER GUILDAY GIVEN PAPAL TITLE Elevation to Urban Prelate to Pope Pius XI Is Marked With Colorful Rites. Dr. Peter Guilday, professor of American church history at Catholic University, was elevated to the rank of Urban Prelate to His Holiness, Pope Pilus XI, with the title of right rev- erend monsignor, at solemn high mass this morning in the Shrine of the Im- maculate Conception. Celebrated in the Dominican rite, the mass was sung by Rev. Dr. Gecrge B. Stratmeier, O. P, & member of the | university faculty. The exercise of investiture coincided with the annual university celebration of the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, Dominican doc- tor of the Church and patron of Catholic schools. Prominent figures in the field of historical research attended the serv- ices, which were presided over by the Most Rev. James H. Ryan, Bishop of Modra and rector of the university. Colorful Procession Seen. Just before the services began there was a formal jion on the uni- versity campus of all the faculties of the university, in colorful robes, and the students in academic courses. They marched from Caldwell Hall to the Shrine. Rt. Rev. Msgr. Patrick J. McCor- mick, professor of education at the university, read the papal brief be- stowing upon Dr. Guilday the mon- signoral purple. The sermon was preached by Rt. Rev. Msgr. George P. Johnson, vicar general of the dio- cese of Portland, Me. Deacon and subdeacon of the mass were, respectively, Rev. James J. Mc- Lerney, O. P., and Rev. R. G. Ferris, O. P. The remaining officers of the ritual were students from the Domin- ican House of Studies. Scientific Attainments Lauded. According to the papal brief from his eminence, E. Cardinal Pascelli, secretary of state in the Vatican City, Dr. Guildays’ investiture came as rec- ognition of his scientific attainmen! His works on history have won on an sides, it is said, high appreciation of his productive scholarship. Because of his work in connection with the restoration of Louvain Li- | brary, Dr. Guilday was decorated by the late King Albert of Belgium. CALIFORNIA BANKER FEARS MOVIE TAXES | Giannini Says Film Industry Will Be Driven From State if Bills Pass. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif, March 7.— Leaders of the motion picture industry were joined today by a powerful execu- tive of the banking world in their statements that California stands a chance of losing its biggest enterprise if the State tax burden is increased by the Legislature. Dr. A. H. Giannini, prominent bank | official, issued a statement warning that the film studios would be forced to move from the State if proposed tax legislation is passed. “The southern portion of our State,” said Dr. Giannini, “stands to lose its motion picture industry, a magnet which has attracted the eyes of the world, as well as its genius, its leaders in creative thought and its millions of dollars to California. “I know it to be a fact that Arizona, Texas, Florida, New Jersey, Connecti- cut and New York are making strong bids for this ripe plum, our State's leading industry.” Agitation over the matter was started several days ago in Miami, Fla., when Joseph M. Schenck, presi- dent of United Artists, proposed that Florida raise $10,000,000 by popular subscription to build studios for the film companies, to be paid back in rentals. —_— SHANK CALLS PRIEST Attorney in Arkansas Murder May Get Short Stay to See Wife. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 7 (#). —Mark H. Shank sought the consola- tion of a priest today, a day before he is to go to the electric chair for one of four picnic poison murders com- and whom they now call fine fellows. | mitted 18 months ago. In fact, the A. A. A. plans virtually to turn the entire dairy policy over to the “masqueraders.” Another such piece of material was the speech of Secretary Wallace at Madison, Wis., last year in which he cited the large profits made by milk distributors in various metropolitan cities throughout the depression, as revealed in governmental audits of their own figures. This speech fol- lowed the ousting of the dairy section chief, Clyde L. King, and institution of the revised milk policy. In ousting King, Administrator Chester C. Davis of the A. A. A. blamed Frederic C. Howe, consumers’' counsel, for that speech of Mr. Wallace. He said the A. A. A had not been able to nego- tiate with the distributors since. Ac- tually, Mr. Stedman wrote it. Reversal Difficulties. Some people may wonder whether Mr. Stedman has difficulty finding phrases to suit each reversal of policy, or any qualms about doing so. Or, for that matter, whether any of the other Government department press agents—of whom there is an un- precedented number—don't get dizzy turning out their floods of material, which they insist is not propaganda at all. but purely factual. The censorship also takes the form of suppression of many reports—such as the recent report of an investiga- tion conducted by an A. A. A. legal staff member into conditions among the share-croppers and tenant farm- ers of the South, as a result of the A.A A cotton reduction program, and the report of conditions among the Florida citrus workers following an investigation made last year by the A A A, N.R. A and Department of | Labor. An amusing and illuminating inei- dent of such suppression occurred when Mr. Howe sought to make public certain conclusions on milk distribu- tion and processing costs arrived at by Dr. Max Wasserman of the Uni- ummnmalmmyotoavmmt milk audits in many cities. Suppression Cases. The dairy section chief, Arthur H. Lauterbach, wrote Mr. Howe & mem. orandum stating that publication of mehdnl‘ml.nnnenlb was unthinkable because it would be dis- g, Only the possibility of a stay from Gov. J. Marion Futrell remained to save the former Akron, Ohio, attorney from an execution fixed for him by a Saline County, Ark., Circuit Court jury in December of 1933 for the poison slaying of Alvin Colley, an associate. Attorneys yesterday abandoned hope of saving Shank from death through further legal action. Gov. Futrell said “a short extension might be allowed if found necessary to permit Mrs. Shank to reach here from Akron to visit her husband.” turbing to the milk distributors. And Administrator Davis backed him up. The list of such evidences of sup- pression could be multiplied. It is obvious that in any administrative set-up the release of information must be centralized and must be done with a weather eye to all possible conse- quences. But a number of these in- cidents show an administration strangely fearful of offending this interest or that interest, after dedi- cating itself above all else to the cause of the forgotten man and not to the cause of special interests, whether packers or milk distributors. So the young New Dealers, disliking the reduction policy of the A. A. A— a policy which Secretary Wallace him- self has called an insane policy in an insane world—and disliking the scar- city philosophy underlying the N.R. A., look around for some source of reas- surance in a whirling New Deal. They tartion, and they rejoice that Harry Hopkins and his crew have actually furnished relie{ for a vast number of folk. who have become underdogs through no fault of their own. The President, they have heard, has told various New Dealers be will g0 in any direction for which they can drum up political suj 3 middle. D. €., THURSDAY, C. U. Professor Elevated to Monsignor Most Rev. James H. Ryan, rector of Catholic University, Guilday when the hmr was elevated to the rank of right reverend mon.nxnor MARCH 7, 1935 bestowing the invested rochet upon Dr LONG PICKS FOES FORDENUNGATION Gen. Johnson Heads List of Those Due for Attack in Senate Today. (Continued From First Page.) hhe proposed investigation for an | lt Inter was learned that, since Long ihad brought new charges that ! involve the Justice and Public Works | Departments and Reconstruction Fi- | nance Corporation, reports from these | agencies would be requested before action is taken. | Long's allegations were in response | to a request from the committee that | he furnish a list of witnesses and the | m!orrrauon he expected to have them | present. Farley has filed with the committee a categorical denial of the charges. | Long said he would call officers of ,concerns occupying the “private head- rters of James A. Parley” at 205 st Forty-second street 3 | City, and representatives of the James | Stewart Co., a contractor he said had been favored in the award of public works cantracts. Through witnesses from Farley's | headquarters, he said, he would prove ! that “more than 20-odd concerns there operating, including six holdinz | companies, have been organized * * * for practically the sole purpose of transacting and dealing in matters | with which the United States Gov- jernment 1s identified for the purpose of making private profit, a large part | of which inures to James A. Farley in violation of four criminal statutes of ! the United States.” Robert Moses, park commissioner of # | New York, who recently has engaged in controversy with Secretary Ickes. would be called, he said. to show that {firms in which he claims Farely is interested have profited on materials | sold to contractors on public works | He promised to call officers of Dris- Peter - S’ar Staff Photo. Unemployment Bill Would Ask $1,875,000 of Emplovyers Here Taxable Pay Rolls Plan Estimated at $62,500,000—D. C. Publishers Acouse Priest oti Under Ellenboge to Add $625,000 to $2,500,000 Fund. District employers would be required to contribute approximately $1.1 ITS - 000 a year to the fund for unemployment compensation proposed in the Ellenbogen measure, hearings out today. Under economic conditions now prevailing the total taxable pay | rolls of private employers in Washington are estimated at $62.500. To the direct tax the District would be required to add $625, 000 to bring a total of $2,500,000 for the fund. The Ellenbogen measure provides | that the compensation fund should be raised by a tax of 4 per cent upon total private pay rolls for concerns employing at least four persons. Of | this tax, 3 per cent is to be paid by the employers, while the remaining 1 per cent is to be contributed by the' District administration. Data for Committee. ‘These figures, only approximate, have been assembled for reference by the President's Committee on Eco- nomic Security, the agency which shaped the Ellenbogen bill as a model for States. Improvement of economic condi- tions, of course, would raise this tax yield as pay rolls increased. In the more prosperous circumstances of 1929, for instance, it was estimated that the gross yield would be about $4.400,000. For purposes of reference the com- mittee has estimated that 247,000 gainful workers were living within the District in 1933. Of this number 210,- 000 were believed employed and 37,000 unemployed. Since those now unem- ployed are ineligible for benefit under the pending measure, the first concern is with the 210,000. From this group, however, two other classes are sub- tracted—first, the Federal and District employes, who number at least 70,000; second, those working for an estab- lishment having less than four em- | ployes. From these figures it is esti- mated by the committee that the act eventually will cover about 100,000. If the act were immediately effective it would cover some 75,000, it is esti- mated. Although no exact figures on the number of employers coming within the scope of the act have been pre- pared, the committee believes that virtually all manufacturing establish- ments, about 50 per cent of the serv- ice industries and about 75 per cent | of the wholesale and retail establish- ments would be affected. Establishments Classified. From the 1933 census figures, there- fore, an approximation of taxable em- ployers may be made. This census listed 386 manufacturing establish- ments, 6,156 retail establishments, 2,370 service establishments and 575 wholesale establishments. In accord- ance with the percentages given above, at least 350 manufacturing employers, about 4,500 retail owners, 450 whole- sale owners and 1,200 service trade employers would bear the tax load. committee claims, and is willing to | assume part of the tax burden in this manner. Tt is because of this probability that the committee opposes employe con- tributions, feeling that the employe will pay indirectly through lowu" wages and higher prices for his con- | sumable purchases. ‘The Ellenbogen bill, designed as a model for State legislation, provides that contributions as described above would begin on January 6, 1936. One year later payments would begin on the following scale to those eligible: Forty per cent of the full time weekly wage of the unemployed person, an additional 10 per cent if he has a | dependent spouse and an additional 5 per cent for each other dependent | relative in the household. In no case, however, shall payments exceed $15 | per week or 65 per cent of the full time weekly wage. Average benefits would be about $10, it is estimated. Partially unemployed persons may re- | ceive benefits in addition to their wage, but the total must not exceed $1 more than the total benefit if | wholly unemployed. Eligible employes may receive bene- fits in the ratio of one-quarter week | of benefits to each full week of em- ployment during the 104 weeks pre- ceding the close of the employes’ most recent week of employment. Maxi- mum benefit -weeks for any year will be 26. As for eligibility of employes, the | following are barred: Those on Gov- ernment relief projects, those in pub- lic office, those employed by the Dis- trict on an annual salary basis and teachers in the public schools. Also, to be eligible a person must have had 35 weeks of employment within the 104 weeks just preceding his appli- cation for benefits, or 20 weeks within the 52 weeks just preceding. He shall register for work and must accept any “suitable” employment offered. Persons discharged or leaving jobs are ireligible for at least three weeks. Administered by a Federal Board, the act also calls for appointment of non-paid advisory councils and at- tempts to stabilize employment and encourage vocational training and other devices which will aid in level- ing off the unemployment load. —_— TORNADO HITS TOWN Business Area in Lincolnton, Ga.,| Shattered by Wind. LINCOLNTON, Ga., March 7 (#).— A tornado struck Lincointon late yes- terday, unroofing a number of business houses and residences and demolishing others. The tornado lashed the heart of the town, causing most of the damage in the business section. ‘While the damage property was high, there were no fatalities. The Evening Star Offers Its Readers This Worth-While BOOK It explains the permanent departments of the Federal Government and the Alphabet Bureaus of the New Deal. Every American should read it. Order today. at The Evening Star Business Office, or by mail, postpaid }awm ] PLAGARIH LAD - TOFR. COUGHLIN ; Uncredited Quotations From Copyrighted Book. on which are now under way, it was pointed | BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 7—The pub- | lishing house of Harcour, Brace & Co. sent Father Charles E. Coughlin | the following telegram today: your radio speech of March 3 contains | passages in our reeent copyrighted | Consequences of the New Deal ? Written by Labor Expert. ‘The booklet was written by Ben- jamin Stolberg. journalist and expert on labor affairs, and Warren Jay curity. In a statement accompanying the | publicising of the telegram, Harcourt, Brace & Co. said Father Coughlin | mentioned, on one occasion, the book- let in his talk. The publishing firm said the priest then proceeded to present the Stol- | berg-Vinton analysis of the cigarette industry without any credit to either the writers or the publication. The firm set parallels from the book and from the priest’s speech. | One follows: | “Pather Coughlin: | __*“‘The edministration continued the | Hoover policy of lending public cash | to private banks and when banks ran short of collateral the new adminis- | tration out-Hoovered Hoover in fur- | nishing them with additional $850,- | 000,000 through the purchase of these | banks’ preferred stock and capital | notes.’ "stolberg end Vinton, page 28: “‘The administration continued as & matter of course the Hoover policy of lending public cash to private banks. And when banks ran short of acceptable collateral, it out- | Hoovered Hoover in furnishing them with a further $850,000,000 through the purchase of their preferred stocks and capital notes.”” Another Example Cited, Another example follows: “Father Coughlin: “‘In 1776 Washington was faced with a clear-cut issue. He closed his mind definitely to one side of the question. * * ¢ In 1861 Abraham Lin- coln was confronted with the making of an irreconcilable choice.’ “Stolberg and Vinton, page 3: “‘In 1776 the leaders of the Amer- * * * 50 they closed their minds to one side of the question. * * * In 1861 Lincoln faced a more complex, but an equally irreconcilable, conflict.’ " The publishing firm said these ex- amples “are drawn from a score of parallel passages, many of which are longer and even more faitHful tran- scriptions, especially those dealing with statistical material put together by Stolberg and Vinton.” 8 KILLED IN BLAST IN UTAH OIL WELL) llny Others Are Injured by Premature Explosion at “Shooting.” By the Associated Press. ST. GEORGE, Utah, March 7.—A premature explosion at an ofl well claimed the lives of eight persons last night and injured at least a dozen others gathered to watch the spectacular “shooting” of the first well in this district. A deadly charge of nitroglycerin, dropped into the unfinished well, ex- ploded prematurely, ripped the der- rick from its moorings and hurled it onto the crowd which surrounded the well. The terrific blast rocked the countryside 5 miles south of here. Scores were thrown to the ground. Others were knocked down in the rush to escape the blinding sheet of flame which accompanied the blast. , Among the victims was Mr, and Mrs. George Alsop. Alsop was general manager of the Am'hnd 01! Corp. which was drilling the “Can you explain why almost half | unquoted and uncredited parallels to | publication entitled “The Economic Vinton. director of research for the | | American Association for Social Se- ! forth numerous | ican people faced a paramount issue . |coll & Co. and Severin & Co. to | show the eoncerns had reaped large profits through inside information. Saying some witnesses had been asked that they be called and placed | under oath before their names are | disclosed, Long referred to rtain West Virginia witnesses as “A” and . Other witnesses he promised to call were Richard M. Atkinson, former at- 'w'r.ey general of Tennessee, Wayne lliams, former United States at- ‘ torney for the State, and A. V. Mc- | Lane He said they would testify that “in aff of American National Bank in Nashville, one Paul N. Davis and his brother, Norman Davis, or- Long and Coughlin To Broadcast Reply To Johnson Attack Senator Huey P. Long of Louisi- ana and Rev. Charles E. Cough- lin, militant Detroit priest, are going on the air to reply to the recent speech of Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson. Senator Long will speak tonight 11:30 on WMAL and other N. B. C. stations. Father Cough- lin's address is scheduled for | [ Monday at 10:15 p.m. over the same network. “Our Blundering Government and Its Spokesman. Hugh John- | | son.” is Senator Long's topic. { | Father Coughlin has not an- | nounced the subject of his address. i |at | ganized many groups for flofl(m&‘le financing matters and concerns, in- i cluding one called the Amencan Na- tional Co.” He added they also would testify that the United States attorney was removed and “a special man sent at Farley's instance from Washington” on the eve of a grand jury proceeding against the bank for law violations. Long’s renewed attack on Robinson, although brief, had another large audience. Robinson Makes Explanation. Angered at Long's insertion of the law firm's advertisement in the Rec- jord, Robinson said he had retained a connection with the firm. but re- ceived no partnership fees except in cases in which he appeared. “As a matter of fact.” he added, ‘in the past 10 years my duties here have become so numerous and my public responsibilities so great I have not undertaken much private practice.” He added, however, he did not con- sider it improper for a legislator to lact as a corporation lawyer “if it does not interfere with his duties in a public capacity” and he would not have the Louisianan the only judge of whether his practice prejudiced or biased him. “I find my service in the Senate agreeable,” he said, “but if I have to continue to look at the Senator from Louisiana every day and hear him speak three or four times a dgy as I have in the past three or four ' weeks, I think it would be a godsend to me /it in some way I got’ eut %of the Senate.” Long also listed T. J. Pendergast, Kansas City Democratic boss, as a prospective witness. The Louisianan said he would testify in connection with charges that Farley used his influence in the Justice Department jto prevent prosecution of a gangster in the Missouri city. =5 Prayer Ring Brings $190. A ring in which was set what is said to be the smallest Lord's Prayer was sold recently in London for $190. Congress in Brief By the Associated Press. ‘TODAY. mu up Army appropriation bill Considers $4,880,000,000 relief bill Aariculture Committee studies A. A. A. amendments. K Finance Committee questions Donald R. Richberg in N. R. A. investigation. Appropriations Committee takes up Treasury and Post Office appropria- tion. Post Office Committee continues study of Senator Long's request for an investigation of Postmaster General Farley. House. Takes up home owners’ loan expan- sion bill. Ways and Means Committee meets to give Vinson bonus bill final ap- proval. Merchant Marine Committee re- sumes hearing on safety-at-sea bill. Banking Commltue considers omni- bus banking Axrlculum Commlttee discusses A, A. A. amendments. Interstate Commerce Committee conducts hearing on holding company control. Polt Office Committee studies afr mail legislation., -¢