Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1935, Page 2

A2 ¥ NEW “PINK SLIP* . FORM DISCLOSED Crime Menace Possible Through Yellow File of Corporations. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. « When is a pink slip not a pink slip? The answer is: When it's a vellow slip. After all the fuss in the House of Representatives, which adopted a bill to repeal the “pink slip" revealing income tax returns, it turns out now that the kidnapers and the black- mailers and the snoopers will not be _disappointed. Another list almost as ood for their purposes is to be fur- nished by the Secretary of the Treas- ury in an annual report required by a different section of the revenue act of 1934 than that which provided for .the “pink slip.” The repeal voted by the House and now pending in the Senate in practical effect merely exempts from publicity the persons with incomes below $15,000 ‘and those above $15,000 who happen 40 get their income by clipping “Toupons or receiving dividends. Anybody who works for a corpora- | ~tion, either as an officer or as an « employe, and renders personal services 2will have his name and the amount paid him furnished to the public if » that amount is above $15.000. On Corporation Slip. Almost all of the persons with high 2incomes, apart. of course, from the “persons in the millionaire income = classification. will be found in the «salaried group which must be reported Tto Congress. Persons with salaries »ranging from $15,000 a year to $150.000 Sor thereabouts will discover their ~names on the “yellow slip” which ~every corporation has to file with the #income tax returns. The provision of “law untouched by the “pink slip” > repeal agitation is as follows: . “Under regulations prescribed by ~the commissioner with the approval of +the Secraiary, every corporation sutject Zto taxation under this title shall, in «its return, submit a list of the names #of all officers and employes of such weorporation and the respective amounts _Jpaid to them during the taxable year ~of the corporation by the corporation “&s salary, commissior.. bonus or other =compensation for personal services «fendered if the aggregate amount so @paid to the individual is in excess of - §15.000 ©° “The Secretary of the Treasury shall submit an annual report to Congress compiled {rom the returns made con- . taining thé names of. and amounts = paid to. cach such officer and employe «and name of the paying corporation. Gross Income Publicized. The unfairnes of the above provision printed on vellow slips, as contrasted with the “pink slip,’ is that the latter at least permitted a statement of de- ductions from gross income. The yellow slip merely states that a !man with a salary. for instance, of + 100,000 received such an amount. It doesn’t point out that probably about $30,000 of that sum went for Federal Sincome taxes. It doesn't take into ac- fcount the fact that some of that money went to pay State income taxes. It doesn’'t make note of the legitimate deductions for any purpose. The in- ference left is that a man with a $100,000 income actually had that amount to spend on himself or his i family. & It is true that the Secretary's re- Pport will be filed with Congress and * the House or Senate can make it pub- “lic. There is nothing requiring pub- licity, but nobody can ever remember a document of this kind which con- { tained salaries of corporation officers < that didn't get plenty of publicity. % The law doesn't require names and §addresses on the list, so maybe the « kidnapers will not recognize the names 2or find the home locality of the in- Zdividuals. But the opportunity for 4abuse is just as much present with a+ the vellow slip as with the pink slip. 4 Public sentiment. which has been | arising up lately against the pink slip, 4 would have expressed itself similarly | #on the yellow slip if its meaning had | 4been understood. (Copyright. 1935.) ' Congress in Brief By the Associated Press. TODAY. Senate. Debates $4.880,000.000 relief bill un- uder agreement to vote on wage! # amendments. | S Finance Committee hears William | =Green on question of drafting labor | 21n war time. | 2 Labor Committee continues study Sof Wagner labor relations bill, % House. Considers agriculture appropriation 11 sesseusasca anias h 1 bi 4 Interstate Commerce Committee 1 takes testimony on holding company 3 Jegislation. » -Agriculture Committee :farm mortgage legislation, Banking Committee conducts hear- ing on omnibus bank bill. Post Office Committee amending airmail legislation. Naval Committee discusses travel , expenses for retiring naval officers, YESTERDAY. considers ) H considers \ 1 H | Senate. . Defeated Long amendment to work- | 1 relief bill and agreed on time for vote | ! on prevailing wage amendment. | + _Finance Committec heard S. Clay ! Williams on N. R. A. Munitions Committee heard vet- erans’ spokesmen denounce war * profits. Labor Committee heard William Green indorse Wagner bill as means of averting strikes. House. Debated bill. Rules Committee agreed tentatively on rule for House consideration of rival bonus bills. Utilities executives opened fire on holding company measure before In- terstate Commerce Committee. Banking Committee continued hear- ing on omnibus bank bill. 12 Men Bear Body Of ‘Big Nick’ to Its Last Resting Place agriculture appropriation By the Associated Press. PROVIDENCE, R. I. March 15—The body of “Big Nick” Tartaglione, 619-pound former circus sideshow attraction, vaude- ville performer and cafe proprie- tor, was borne by 12 men to a grave in St. Francis -Cemetery yesterday. The casket was so large that it was necessary to remove & window in “Big Nick's” late home and lower the casket to the What’s What Behind News In Capital Pose of Not Comment- ing on Bills Abandoned by Roosevelt. I pending in Congress. His mes- sage on the holding company bill was comment as strong as any Congress ever has received. There will be more later on the Wagner labor bill and perhaps on N. R. A. and the bank bill. This is further evidence that the President is beginning to take hold. Harrison Bill Circulates. The touch of white protruding from Senator Pat Harrison's coat sleeve is not his cuff, but a skeleton draft of the administration’s N. R. A. reor- ganization bill. You may recall that the New Dealers have more or less seriously maintained the illusion that they would not offer a new N. R. A. bill. They may continue to maintain it | for diplomatic reasons, but the Harrison draft already has been in circulation privately among | Senators and labor leaders. | It was prepared under direction of Co-ordinator Richberg by Blackwell Smith, the big inside man at N. R. A Those why saw it a few days ago | noticed it contained only one im- portant change from the existing N. R. A. set-up. That change would make explicit the President’s right to impose a code. | There is another N. R. A. bill in | private circulation. It is 2 hot one, prepared by leftish New Dealers. They | submitted it to the A. F. of L. crowd BY PAUL MALLON. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has quietly abandoned his pose of not commenting on legislation - < e the other day, and thought they ob- | | tained a promise by labor to come out in favor of it later. This bill would shorten hours and | increase pay, adopting the 30-hour | week basically. but allowing broad | cxemptions. ~Also, it would adopt a strict majority rule on Section 7-A, give labor equal representation | on the code authority and continue | the present five-man administra- ‘, tive board. | The hottest feature is a provision | authorizing the President to appoint public trustees to take over and oper- |atz any business not joining Ni R. A. | This would mean that the Government | would, for instance, seize the Ford | plant and operate it. This bill does not have the ap- | proval of the White House, but the scheme behind it is to stir up the | progressives in the Senate and have | them gang the administration. | Represent 2 Viewpoints. These two bills do not tell what is going to happen to N. R. A. in the end. They merely represent the two | conflicting viewpoints around which | the congressional clash is being or- ganized ‘The most significant indication of how the fight may work out lies in the fact that Mr. Roosevelt is be- ginning to take hold of it. He let it drift until recently. He will have to make some compromise with the labor viewpoint, but he stands a good chence of preserving the general N. R. A. framework. There have been hints lately that he may buy labor off by championing the Wagner bill. Fight on White House Diet. The fanciest of all inner govern- mental disputes now is the one about Mrs. Roosevelt's diet. It seems that Agriculture Secretary Wallace’s Bureau of Home Economics has devised four model diets. Mrs. Roosevelt served a sample at the White House months ago, and the war started when grain interests found it recommended consumption of 200 pounds of grain a year, whereas Americans now are consuming an average of 240 pounds. The grain boys have been pulling Wallace's coat- tails ever since. Recently the meat packers dis- covered that two of the lower cost diets recommend consumption of more grain and less meat, and they have joined the melee. This does not hurt the grain fight because the two higher cost diets recommend more meat, less grain. Both factions have managed to keep excessively steamed up about the ridiculousness of an Agriculture Department urging less consumption of grain or Ieat, or both. A simple solution might be for Wallace to tell people how they can consume lots of both grain and meat on their present incomes. Ickes Retreat Sloppy. Mr. Ickes eased out of the Moses matter as gracefully as a hog tripping lightly out of a mud puddle. He slipped so often that even he had to laugh. There may be something deeper behind the sioppy retreat, but the Jact seems to indicate that Mr. Ickes (acting wholly for Mr. Roose- velt) merely got tired and quit trying to force the New York park commissioner out of his job. Mr. Ickes keeps such a terrorizing hand over his employes that all are afraid to talk. This is the reason why he was able to keep his retreat quiet for more than two weeks after it occurred. No better example of news suppression has occurred under the New Deal. La Guardia .Plays Ball. There is no question that Mayor La Guardia of New York is playing ball fully with the New Dealers in nearly anything they want to do. But the latest one he has tried to put over on them here is a little too much. Mr. La Guardia’s brain truster, A. A. Berle, jr., is supposed to have originated a scheme to create a municipal corporation with Fed- eral money and lend money through it to delinquent tazpayers, enabling them to pay their city tazes. It has been put before the R. F. C. several times and rejected. Re- cently it was advanced again by Mayor La Guardia. He has not heard.the R. F. C. answer yet, but it will again be “no’’ ground with ropes and pulleys. The reascns are two: (A) Fear that ) THE EVE NING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1935. 400 New Deal Cases Heading 5 NEw |_|BRAR|[S Engage.ment of Qanish Prince REVERSM_ UN B"_l_ And Princess Ingrid Announced For Supreme Plans of BY REX COLLIER. The New Deal recovery program has become entangled in a web of liti- gation so far flung and intricate that an army of Government lawyers is nursing a thumping, collective head- ache while it looks hopefully toward Court. Justice shows that approximately 400 cases involving New Deal legis- alphabetical agencies, are pending in Federal courts, from one end of the country to the other and extending through appelate channels direct to the highest court. At stake in some of the major cases are recovery revenues which will ag- gregate perhaps a billion dollars or more before the vital issues in contro- versy are decided by Chief Justice Hughes and his eight associates. More than that, there is involved in the litigation the very founda- tion of President Roosevelt's ambi- tiously-launched plans. To Replace Solicitor General. Faced with its mounting problem of litigation in which recovery agencies have become embroiled the adminis- tration is expected to facilitate ap- pointment of a successor to J. Craw- ford Biggs, whose resignation as solicitor general was announced yes- | terday at the White House. | Attorney General Cummings has | had under consideration several out- standing lawyers as nominees for the important post. Biggs' _resignation was not unexpected in official circles, | as he had indicated a desire to retire | to private life. | Stanley Reed, general counsel of the |R.F. C. and a special assistant to the | Attorney General, is reported to head the list of those under considera- tion. Reed and Cummings are close friends and it is known the Attorney | General regards Reed as one of the ablest lawyers in the Federal service. The solicitor general has the task of representing the Government in where a number of highly important “key" cases are due to be heard in the next few months. Cummings said he would send a nomination for the job to the White House “very soon,” but he declined to discuss whom he is considering for the honor He paid tribute to the work of Biggs. Alphabetical Units Attacked. The N. R. A, the A. A. A, the cotton control act, the tobacco act, the T. V. A, the silver purchase act | been contested in legal suits brought in Federal district courts and in the Court of Claims. The Government has won and lost in some of the lower court actions —and with each decision the disputes have moved another step upward to- ward the supreme bench. Attorney General Cummings has adopted the policy of appealing adverse decisions with a view to having the Supreme Court give the final word, and private contestants invariably have carried lon to appellate courts. | So far only two cases have been | passed on by the high court—those | involving the celebrated gold clause |and the “hot oil” industry in the Southwest. The attitude displayed by | the court in both of these cases has | not added to the peace of mind of the | Federal attorneys charged with de- | fending the administration measures. } Attorney General Cummings expressed | “gratification” over the gold decision —although it held unconstitutionl the repudiation of the gold payment clause in Government bonds—his gratification being due to the fact that the court, by a 5-to-4 vote, in- dicated the repudiation was warranted | by conditions and there was nothing those affected by it could do about it. Court Not So Kind on Oil. ‘The court was not so kind in the “hot oil” case. holding that section 9 (c) of the petroleum code, prohibit- ing transportation of oil in excess of State quotas was invalid because it delegated legislative authority to an administrative officer. By far the greatest number of court | cases now confronting the Govern- | ment arise from the ramifications of the national industrial recovery act and its labyrinth of codes. The latest compilation of the De- partment of Justice reveals 332 N.R. A. cases in the courts. The agricultural adjustment act cases are second in | number, with 46. All of these cases, | | with the exception of seven A. A. A. i cases involving tax complaints, are being handled by the anti-trust divi- sion of the Justice Department, headed by Assistant Attorney General Harold M. Stephens. The N. R. A. cases. according to an official of that division, raise, in gen- eral, five major issues, three of which involve constitutional questions: 1. Whether Congress lawfully em- powered the N. R. A. with authority to act—that is, whether legislative au- thority was delegated by Congress to an administrative branch of the Gov- ernment. tivity complained of is within the field of interstate commerce or a usurpation of intrastate functions of a State. Due Process of Law. 3. Whether the due process of law clause has been violated in adminis- act. The two other issues are, first. whether the regulation or activity in- and, second, whether the evidence of a violation of the statute is sufficient to warrant either the rendering of a decree in equity or a criminal penalty. The majority of the A. A. A. cases involve questions similar to those in the N. R. A. litigation. Two of the N. R. A. cases that have received Nation-wide publicity are the which attack the constitutionality of section 7 (a) of the N. R. A. act, which is designed to protect the right of employes to bargain collectively. In the Weirton case the Govern- ment recently received a severe jolt from the Federal District Court in Wilmington, which dismissed a suit the Government had filed against the Weirton Steel Corp. to prevent inter- ference by the company with the right of its employes to organize and bar- gain collectively. The court held: 1. That the company union con- stitutes adequate means for collective | bargaining under section 7(a) — claim which the Department of Jus- | tice had contested. | 2. That the company union was lawfully adopted without interference, restraint of coercion by the corpora- tion. 3. That the manufacturing opera- cities would abuse the privilege by borrowing too much, and (b) fear that Uncle Sam never could collect. (Copyright. 1935 ? that great untangler—the Supreme | A survey by the Department of | lation, and running the gamut of the | litigation before the Supreme Court. | | and the railroad retirement act have | 2. Whether the regulation or ac-| Weirton and Houde suits—both of || Court Decision Government Lawyers Worried by Threat to Foundations of Ambitious Roosevelt. tions of the corporation do not con- stitute “interstate commerce.” 4. That industrial relations between the corporation and its employes do | not affect interstate commerce, | 5. As applied to the corporation’s manufacturing operations and its in- dustrial relations, section 7(a) is un-| constitutional and void because it is| beyond the power of Congress to regu- late these operations and relations under the interstate commerce clause or any other delegation of authority in the Constitution. In a suit filed against the Houde Engineering Corp., the Government raised again the issue of the company union. This suit sought to compel the corporation to recognize commit- tees of the United Automobile Workers’ Federation Labor Union, No. 1839, as exclusive collective bargaining agent of its employes under section 7(a), and to restrain the corporation from bargaining collectively with a com- mittee representing the Houde Welfare and Athletic Association. The court has made no decision in this case. Criminal Case Pending. A criminal case instituted under the N. R. A. codes is pending before the Supreme Court. Known as the United States versus William Xlbert Belcher, the proceedings arose out of an in- dictment returned last August in the northern district of Alabama charging violations of the lumber code as it relates to minimum wages and maxi- mum hours of labor. The lower court | sustained the demurrer which attacked | | the indictment on the ground that | |the N. R. A. act is uncoapstitutional | because, first, it improperly delegates ! legislative powers; second, it imposes regulations without due process of law, and, third, it invades “States’ rights” by going outside the interstate commerce clause. Exceedingly important are issues raised in certain cases challenging the constitutionality of processing, floor stock and other taxes levied under the A. A. A, the Bankhead cotton | control act, the Kerr-Smitk tobacco | act and the silver purchase act. i The Government to date has col- | lected nearly three-quarters of a bil- lion of taxes under these acts, and by the time the cases are settled by, | the Supreme Court the total of reve- | nues undoubtedly will pass the 'billion | mark. The gravity of these tax cases | therefore is obvious. The Government must win them or suffer a blow of | inestimable consequences. The tax cases are being handled by the Justice | Department’s Tax Division. of which Assistant Attorney General Frank J. Wideman is the head. A. A. A. Tax Outlined. i The most important of the tax cases is the so-called Hoosac Mills | suit, attacking constitutionality of the | processing and floor stock taxes im- posed under the A. A. A. statute. The Federal District Court in Boston, pre- sided over by Judge Elisha Brewster, | upheld the Government in the first | round, but the case was appealed to the Circuit Court of Appeals and is headed for the Supreme Court. This is the first case raising as a | major issue the constitutionality of | the A A. A. taxes, and while it di- | rectly concerns less than $85000 in | levies which receivers for the Hoosac | Mills have refused to pay, it affects| indirectly all A. A. A. taxes so far | | collected by the Government. These revenues are the backbone of the administration's farm relief program. Six other cases touching on the same questions as those in the Hoosac | Mills case are pending. Three are in New England, one in Pennsylvania, one in New Jersey and one in Ala- bama. Regulatory Tax at Issue. Perhaps the most important of the | cotton act cases is Therrell vs. Fly, a suit brought to enjoin the collection of taxes on ginning of cotton under the Bankhead act. This will come fo trial next month in Mississippi. | The taxes are asasiled on the ground | | that their purpose is not raising of | | revenue, but regulation of an intra- | | state business, in violation of the Constitution. | _ The first case brought under the Kerr-Smith tobacco act. Penn Bros. vs. Glenn, was tried last week before Judge Dawson in Louisville, Ky. His | | decision has not been announced. The | “ctse of Motsinger vs. Robertson will | be heard next week in the District | Court at Greensboro, N. C. No date | has been set for the third case, Ghol- son vs. Wallace et al, in the middle | district of Tennessee, | | The one case questioning conxfl—{ | tutionality of the silver purchase act | is Hudson vs. United States, pending | | before the Court of Claims. The suit ! ! attacks the Federal tax imposed on | transfers of silver bullion under the | statute enacted last year. | | FOUNDER OF NEW YORK | DAILY NEWS KILLS SELF | William H. Field Was Owner of | Rutland (Vt.) Herald at Time of Death. By the Associated Press, | MENDON, vt. March 15—William | | H. Field, 58, owner of the Rutland, | Vt., Herald, shot himself at his home | here this morning, members of ht.s‘ | due to impending loss of eyesight. | | Mr. Field, a native of Rutland, was | | formerly second vice president and | | Tribune and in 1919 founded the New | | York Daily News. | For several years he had suffered | | from eye trouble and poor health. | He joined Frank A. Munsey in| newspaper enterprises and remnlncd‘ | with the Munsey Co. in New Yorki | until 1909. | School transferred to the Library by | within easy walking distance, SOUGHT FOR CITY Trustees File List With Commissioners in Bid for Works Funds. ‘The Board of Trustees of the Pub- lic Library have submitted to the Dis- trict Commissioners a list of five building projects, to be carried out or available sites, which may be undertaken for the Free Public Library under the proposed work re- lief program, and have prepared a list of additional projects to be sub- mitted should conditions Jjustify a more extensive program of construc- tion. The proposed Petworth branch libra- ry on a site available on the grounds of the Roosevelt High and MacFar- land Junior High Schools at Kansas avenue and Upshur street is given priority, followed in order by the Tenley branch to replace the present inadequate building, to be constructed on a site adjacent to the Janney the Board of Education and the Dis- | trict Commissioners; the Conduit | | road branch, another urgent replace- | ment, on a site at Ashby place and Conduit road to be transferred to the | Library by the National Park and | | Planning Commission; the Howard | branch on an available site on Fair- | mont_street between Georgia avenue | 2nd Sherman avenue, subject to allo- | cation by the District Commissioners to the Library trustees, and the South- western branch on available ground at Seventh and H streets, subject to allotment by the District Com- | missioners. Petworth Population Congested. The construction of the proposed Fetworth branch library has been repeatedly urged by the citizens of Petworth and the Library Board of Trustees. The Petworth section is one of the most congested areas in the city with a population between 45,000 and 50,000 and a school population | approximating 11,000 in the senior and junior high schools, eight ele- mentary public and parochial school; | and | four in outlying districts. The cost | of the branch is estimated at $140,000 | exclusive of furniture and eqiupment. The present Tenley sub-branch | lccated in the former police sta- tion on Wisconsin avenue at River road. has become entirely inadequte ' for its present use, the board says, and onh the opening of the new Woodrow Wilson Senior High School in the Autumn of 1935 it will be im- possible to accommodate the stu- dents who will flock to it for sup- plementary reading. At present there are eight public and parochial schools in the immediate vicinity. The esti- mated cost of replacement is $62.000. | and operating costs would not be | greatly increased by the removal The abandoned one-room school house, built in 1874, which houses the Conduit road sub-branch. is in a dilapidated condition and urgently in need of repairs estimated to cost over $1,700 The foundations are poor and sagging, the shingle roof needs to be replaced, the inside needs replastering and painting and the ex- | terior requires having the rotted | wood removed and burning, scraping | and painting. | Conditions are now so serious that | the building will have to be aban- | doned unless the costly repairs are| undertaken, which seems inadvisable in view of the fact that the library has outgrown the available space | and the building must sooner or later | be torn down as it is on the line of | Fort Drive. The branch is particularly needed in this section because the residents numbering between 4,000 and 5.000 are far removed from other library agencies and other cultural oppor- tunities. The cost of replacement is estimated at $25.000. Howard Center Important. | A heavily congested area having a population of 76,000 within a mile radius is much in need of the itbrery service which the Howard branch w give. In the near neighborhood are Miner Teachers' College, Howard Uni- | versity, Garnet-Patterson Junior High School. four elementary schools and the proposed Banneker Recreation Center. The estimated cost is $110,- 000. The section to be served by the ISQuthwest branch is cut off from the | use of the Central Library by distance and, for the children, by traffic haz- ards. A considerable portion of the population to be served is under- privileged, with no provision for car fare and with little apart from the activities of the Neighborhood House social settlement to ameliorate 'im- ited and in many cases undesirable conditions. A library station at Neighborhood House, open two hours a week, has been much used and demonstrates the use that will be made of the branch. It is estimaied that a building costing $70,000 will adequately serve. this community o over 23,000, with a heavy school | population in 16 public and parochial schools. [E— STATEMENT IN HOUSE DISCLAIMED BY BEAM Representative Carpenter, Instead of Illinoisan, One Who An- swered Fuller Attack. Representative Beam, Democrat, of Illinois, today vigorously denied a statement credited to him in“an As- tration of codes or other phases of the family said. They said his suicide was | soclated Press story appearing in The Star _yesterday, during a debate on the floor of the House following an attack by Representative Fuller on the volved is permitted under the statute, A business manager of the Chicago new House liberal bloc. Mr. Beam was quoted as replying to Fuller's statement, “You are going to find these renegades will lead you to ruin. If this be treason, make the most of it.” The Congressional Record shows that the statement was made by Rep- resentative Carpenter of Kansas. 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 Federsl Government and the Alphabet Bureaus of the New Deal. Every American should read it. Order today. | Neme ceveecscnsncocccccascpsncene Street cececeecsssscecencscnccecss 1 Long-Expected Betrothal Is Confirmed by Royal Families. Hailed as Love Match, It Also Satisfies Po- litical Circles. By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 15.— The “love match” engagement of Princess Ingrid, second daughter of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, | and Crown Prince Frederik of Den-; mark and Iceland, was officially an-| nounced today. The date for the wedding was not | immediately announced. Prince Frederik arrived from Copen- | hagen yesterday. Although rumors | were widespread that his engagement | was imminent, court cireles refused to confirm the reports “until the proper moment,” even requesting Swedish newspapers not to drop any hint of the romantic tidings. Outstanding in her charm and | beauty in a family noted for many beautiful princesses, the golden-haired Ingrid is 24 years old. She inherits from her grandfather, King Gustav, a keen love of sports. Brought up with four brothers, she always has been fond of tennis, motor- ing, dancing and riding. She often has been seen astride a white cob riding along Stockholm’s Strandvagen “Rotten Row.” Frederik, at 36, is tall and hand- some. He is great-nephew of the late Queen Alexandra and a second cousin | of the Prince of Wales. The Crown Prince had been en- |gaged in 1922 to Princess Olga of Greece, a sister of the Duchess of Kent, but the match was broken off after six months. The engagement is regarded in | political circles as of importance since the marriage will serve to bind the royal families of Sweden and Denmark even more closely. DANES WELCOME NEWS. | Copenhagen Plans Big Celebration | Tonight. COPENHAGEN, March 15 (#)—The engagement of Princess Ingrid of Sweden and Prince Frederik of Den- mark was announced in Denmark to- day at the same time as in Stockholm. The news was weicomed by the Danish public in general, which has been anxious to see its crown prince put an end to his bachelorhcod. Flags were unfurled on public and private buildings, while the Danish capital made plans for celebrating the betrothal tonight Ingrid and Frederik have known PLANISAPPROVED Trade Board Committee In- sists on Work Being | Done by District. { Compulsory mechanical inspection of automobiles was approved by the Traffic Committee of the Washington Board of Trade yesterday, but the members insisted the work be done by the District and not by private companies The committee met at luncheon at the Harrington Hotel to consider the inspection bill now pending before Congress. Fear of Racketeering. Private inspection of motor cars would open the way to racketeering, R. B. English, an automobile dealer, | asserted. He said private inspection companies could take advantage of the motorist. requiring installation of | new parts whether needed or not be- fore approving the condition of the car. | Public inspection could be done quickly and economically, William A. Van Duzer, director of vehicles and | traffic, told the committee. An extra fee of $1 in the purchase of license plates, he said, would supply sufficient revenue for two compulsory inspec- tions each year and extra checks if ;the motorist believed them necessary. $66,000 for Stations. He estimated the cost of three | inspection stations at $22,000 each, or a total of $66,000. Each would | be sufficiently large to have three | runways for the entrance and de- parture of cars. It was also pointed out that after the stations are once constructed their upkeep and main- tenance probably would permit a re- duction in the special fee to be at- tached to the ‘price of license plates. Wallace Robinson, committee chair- man, presided at the meeting. | HARRISON FUNERAL | PLANS AWAIT SON “De Lawd” of “The Green Pas- tures” Dies of Paralytic Stroke. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 15—The final curtain fell yesterday for Rich- ard Berry Harrison, 70-year-old colored actor whose portrayal of “De | Lawd” in “The Green Pastures” brought him into national prominence. Harrison died in Fifth Avenue Hos- pital from the effects of a paralytic stroke. He collapsed in his dressing room March 2 while preparing for his | 1,659th performance in the play, one of the most successful in American | theatrical history. | Harrison passed his earlier years as a bellboy in Detroit and other B@ld~ western cities. occupying a galiery seat in the theater as frequently as| his finances would permit. Then, at the age of 66, & chance encounter with Marc Connelly while the playwright was roaming Harlem in search of some one for the role of “De Lawd,” lifted him from an ob- scure post as a teacher of dramatics d elocution. “Punenl arrangements awaited the arrival from Chicago of his son, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, an orchestra| leader. . e Hearse Is Overturned. During a funeral m",o:ession at| Hornsey, Enj , the hearse over- turned on a hill, spilling the coffin and wreaths onto the road. 4 CESS INGRID. CROWN PRINCE FREDERICK. each other almost since their child- hood. The engagement. it is believed, was definitely settled when Ingrid returned from a tour of the Far East, at which time Frederik visited Stockholm. ROME, March 15 (#) —Twn more hildren of former King Alfonso of Spain are about to be married, it was reported today. Circles close to the royal family said Prince Juan. heir claimant to the vacant Spanish throne, is en- gaged to marry Princess Maria Mercedes of the house of Bourbon- sicilie. The newspaper Il Messagero, said the infanta Maria Christina, Alfonso’s cnly remaining unmarried daughter, soon would become engaged to an un- named prince of the old royal house of Licchtenstein. (A Paris dispatch quoted royalists as saving that the infanta was en- gaged to Prince Carl Emmanuel Von Tiechtenstein, son of Prince Johannes Von Liechtenstein.) AUTO INSPECTION P, W, A TOERECT 0000 DWELLINGS Ickes Answers Criticism of Breakdown in Low-Rent Projects. Recent criticism of the break-down of the Government's low-rent housing projects was met by Secretary of the Interior Ickes yesterday with a decla- ration that his Housing Division is about to start constructing approxi- mately 40.000 dwellings. This huge program, Ickes asserted, exceeds the number of new residential units erected by the private building industry in 364 principal towns and cities during each of the years 1932 and 1923 Slum clearance plans long dormant by reason of experimentation and un- avoidable obstacles. department offi- cials indicated. are to burst into ac- tivity of towns and metropolitan areas. This will mark the end. it was said, of ths delays that accounted for the com- pletion of only 124 dwellings after a vear and a half of effort and plan- ning. $25,000,000 Unimpounded. Ickes said that 3 scant $25,000.000 of the original $150,000,000 allotted for the housing program remained un- impounded for relief purposes. There will be no interference with the ex- ecution of the program on this score, he indicated. as Congress will reim- burse the Public Works Administration for every dollar given for relief. The slum-clearance program, rival- ing or possibly exceeding private industry this year, means employment for building workers, engineers and supervisors, architects and other affiliated craft. Producers of building materials will find huge | orders to supply the needs of the | Government projects. Col. Horatio B. Hackett said, in explaining that “mil- lions of man-hours for work, direct and indirect, will be provided by this single phase of the P. W. A. program.” Col. Hackett will direct the housing program. Approximately 40 huge projects are involved. The new living units will | afford good metropolitan housing for families of low income in place of insanitary, tax-consuming slums which are to be torn down in more than 30 cities. These will consist principally of apartments, akhough a few small houses and row houses have been included, depending on local need. A major part of ¢he year and a half in getting these projects to a point where ground may be broken was consumed in efforts to obtain clear, titles to the land. In most of the projects the point has been reached where the Government is ready to close deals with property owners, it was said. Catholic Politics Urged by Pope for “Common Good” By the Associated Press. VATICAN CITY, March 15— Pope Pius yesterday urged the Catholic Action Society, the Catholic layman's organization, to participate in “politics” when “it was a matter of the common good.” The pontiff declared, however, that the organization was to “stay out of ordinary politics and politi- cal parties.” He used the classi- cal word “polis” to express his admonition. The Pope made his statement to an audience of students in foreign Ecclesiastical College, in- cluding a nymber of Americans. this Spring in over a score | that of | LAIDTO PRESIDENT Utility Head Says Power Regulation Involves State Rights. By the Assoclated Press An assertion that pending legisla- tion to abolish utility holding com- | panies in five years “is of the very | type” which President Roosevelt at one time “condemned,” was made to- day to the House Interstate Commerce Committee by Preston S. Arkwright, president of the Georgia Power Co. “It is many times worse,” the wit- ness told a crowd of utilities and { governmentai officials | “It breaks down the authority of | the States, and it construes the in- | terstate commerce clause of the Cone | stitution so broadly that if the theory | behind this bill should prevail there |15 no business of any kind anywhere { which could not oe brought under ;’Frdcral regulation, control and man- | agement. Mail Use Cited. | “It even attempts to make the use of the mails the basis of a claim that | we are engaged in interstate com- | merce and, therefore, subject to Fed- eral regulation.” As president of an operating com- |pany, part of the Commonwealth & Southern System, Arkwright said: “The holding company is necessary to our continued existence. We and all other electric companies have a constant need for new capital, be- | cause there is a constant demand for | extension of our service to new com- munities and because the rates we are permitted to charge are so low they prevent us from building up any large reserves of cash, such as un- regulated businesses can do. | “The holding company provides a reservoir of capital from which we can draw for our needs. Warns Against Dynamite. | “Don't dynamite that reservoir by putting the holding companies out of business, unless you want to put us out of business, t0o.” The Wheeler-Rayburn bill was un- der consideration. In a recent mes- sage. President Roosevelt advocated abolition of the holding companies which could not demonstrate that continued operation was in the pub- lic interest. Arkwright quoted Mr. Roosevelt as ug in March. 1930. when he was Governor of New York. that “To bring about government by oligarchy masquerading as democracy, 1t is fundamentally essential that prac- tically all authority and control be centralized in our National Govern- ment.” - WORK RELIEF BIL VICTORY ASSURED ROOSEVELT FORCES (Continued Prom First Page.) otherwise, by funds appropriated by this joint resolution. as will in the dis- cretion of the President accomplish the purposes of this act and not affect adversely or otherwise tend to decrease the growing rates of wages paid for work of a similar nature “The Presideint may fix different | rates of wages for various types of work on any project. which rates need | not be uniform throughout the United States, provided, however, that when- ever permanent buildings for the use of any department of the Government of the United States or the District of Columbia are to be constructed by funds appropriated by this joint resolution for which rates of wages are now determined .n accordance with the provisions of any law of the United States or any code, the President shall fix the rate of wages in accordance with such laws and codes.” Quotes Wagner Speech. | Senator Cutting of New Mexico read to the Senate a statement made by Senator Wagner when the McCar= ran amendment was originally be- fore the Senate, in which Wagner said the payment of the so-called security wage on work-relief projects vould inevitably result in bringing down the wage scale in private in- dustry. Senator Glass of Virginia, Senator Long held the floor. asked ‘_Senamr ‘Wagner “on what authority | he makes the statement the Russell | emendment would vitiate the sub- | sistence wage." “I assume,” continued Senator | Glass, “that if the President of the | United States felt that, he would com- | municate with me, and he has not cone s0.” Senator Wagner replied that he was cnly expressing his own opinion that | under the Russell amendment sub- | stantially the prevailing wage would be paid. Long Joins Debate. Senator Long said: | “The Senator from New York is | cut of line with his old running mates | and out of line with his new running | mates, it appears. The Senator from | Wyoming, Mr. O'Mahoney, may give Eim some comfort.” Senator Long said the supporters of the McCarran amendment had started out for the promised land, hoping finally to reach it. He pic- tured the various steps in committee and in the Senate with regard to the McCarran amendment. “The story.” he said. “is almost like that of the lost tribe. The hand of the tempter is strong. We are all scared to ¢eath.” Senator Long complained that even if the Government paid the prevail- ing wage, it would be little enough. “The prevailing wage is only half a living wage,” he said, adding that when Moses led the Israelites out of the wilderness he landed in the prom- ised land with only two. “The Senator from Nevada, Mr McCarran, will land with at least two,” said Long, “because I know he’s got my votes as well as his own.” Robinson Backs Shifts. Democratic Leader Robinson at- tempted to ease the situation for those Senators who had switched their position on the McCarran amendment. “Every one realizes that when the vote was taken in the Senate on the McCarren amendment and subse- quently the bill was resubmitted, it was in the minds of all Senators that a provision would be worked out, if possible, that would relieve this legis- lation from the menace of a veto. It is quite easy when onc takes a posi- tion to say that one will never change, but those who take a contrary ppsi- tion are wrong.” The Arkansas Senator insisted, however, that it has become neces- sary, if a compromise was to be worked out, that there should be some change in position. 4 while