Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1935, Page 2

RAIL PAY BOOSTED SHOCO00D YEARLY b Pct. Wage Increase Goes Into Effect Today—Cut to Be Sought. By the Assoclated Press. The beginning of April brought a bit of cheer today to the men who work for the railroads. A 5 per cent pay boost for the employes—950,000 of them—went into effect. The total rise is estimated at $80,000,000 a year. The boost, which results from an agreement growing out of a 1932 cut in pay, comes two days after the roads received permission from the Inter- state Commerce Commission to place emergency charges on many kinds of freight, expected to raise $85,000,000 & year. Permanent Boosts Refused. In granting this permission Satur- day, the I C. C. refused, however, to allow permanent general increases de- signed to raise $170,000,000 a year. Calling general freight advances an *inadequate and dangerous” method of meeting problems, the commission turned instead to the temporary method of emergency charges. Though granting the wage rise in -accordance with agreement, the roads -~ will soon seek a cut. W. F. Thiehoff, -general manager of the Chicago, Bur- lington and Quincy Railroad and .chairman of the Managers’ Commit- Jtee, has announced that shortly after May 1 the managers will notify the railroad brotherhoods of intention to seek the cut. ‘Will Revert to Old Situation. Thus the wage situation will be thrown back into the controversial stage it was in a year ago when, after a three-week deadlock which even President Roosevelt could not budge, the brotherhood chiefs and managers mgreed on a gradual restoration of a 10 per cent deduction negotiated in | 1932. The entire cut was restored today, the men getting one-fourth back last July 1 and one-fourth Janu- ary 1. The new wage negotiations, how- ever, probably will differ from the old. The old agreement did not change the basic wage. It merely was a de- duction from pay checks. The new proposal will be for a cut in basic ‘wages. $300,000,000 POWER EXPANSION URGED Critical Shortage Forecast Study by Federal Com- mission. in By the Assoclated Press. Early construction of new electric generating plants costing at least $300,000,000 was advocated by the Power Commission in a survey pub- lished today. It said the plants were needed to prevent a “critical” power shortage. Concluding & study made“at the direction of President Roosevelt, the commission expressed no preference between private and public power de- velopments. But it declared new plants and transmission lines should be planned carefully under Federal supervision. ¢ “The critical shortage of existing generating capacity most seriously affects the great industrial districts of the East and Middle West,” the commission reportea. “It would, therefore, be disastrous in case the United States should be- come involved in war. The situation might be even more acute than that which existed during the World War when, in many districts, electric serv- ice had to be denied to domestic and commercial customers and non-es- sential industries to meet war needs.” “Government plants provided for or under construction will meet these shortages in certain limited areas,” it said. “Only one major private power development and one major munici- pal plant are now under construc- tion.” ‘The commission reported the use of electricity for domestic purposes . and in some branches of industry had grown so during the depression that the demand for power, in time of nor- mal industrial activity, will require the output of 50 large generating sta- .tions in addition to the supply that existed in 1929. “The only regions in which sub- stantial surpluses of capacity now ‘exist to meet normal demand are Florida, parts of Michigan and Illi- nois, an area along the lower Mis- &lssippi, parts of Texas and North Da- kota, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico, Min- nesota, Montana, Washington and Oregon,” it was reported. —_——— OLYMPIA HEARING SET ‘The House Naval Affairs Committee today postponed until tomorrow the hearing on the Cochran bill proposing to bring Dewey's flagship, the Olympia, to Washington as a permanent me- morial to Spanish War veterans. This hearing is expected to result in a favorable report. The Naval Affairs Committee will also consider tomor- row the bill amending the Naval Re- serve and Marine Corps Reserve acts | of 1925, Congress in Brief By the Associated Press. TODAY. Senate: ‘Takes up food and drug bill. Finance Committee hears Harry A. Babcock of Federal Trade Commis- sion staff on N. R. A. Labor Committee hears James A. Emery on Wagner labor relations bill. House: Works on miscellaneous legislation. Leaders hold conference on work- relief bill tangle. m floor—Probably food and drug bill or work-relief conference re- rt. wmnnm:e Committee, continued hear- ings on N. R. A. Education and Labor Committee, further hearings on Wagner labor dis- putes bill. House: Committee o? Foreign Affairs, 10:30 am., to consider legislation relating to the International Technical Com- mittee of the aerial legal experts, and private bills. Naval Affairs Committee—Hearing What’s What Behind News In Capital George’s Attack on Wal- lace Indicates Discon- tent of Southerners. By PAUL MALLON. HE Southern branch of the Democratic family in Congress is again showing signs of what the divorce lawyers politely call incompatibility. . The speech in the Senate the other day by Senator George of Georgia was only a symptom of an incipient dis- satisfaction which may go beyond the bounds of the flurry last year led by Senator Byrd. The deep significance of the George speech was apparent to all those who heard it. A dozen Demo- cratic Senators (including Byrd) were grouped closely about him, silently indicating approval of every word while he suggested tkhat a member of his own party govern= ment (Agriculture Secretary Wal- lace) was unfit to hold office. No administration spokesman arose to defend Wallace or to contest the suggestion. ‘The unacceptable low price of cot- ton and the shrinkage of the export market are the two roots of the trou- ble. No one expects Wallace to be forced out of the cabinet or anything like that, but unless he straightens out the cotton situation he is going to have a rough time from now. on. ‘The holding companies are getting along unexpectedly well in their in- side and outside resistance against the holding company bill. They have suc- ceeded in delaying the measure some- | what in the House and will do the |same in the Senate. Their hopes of | forcing the bill up against the end of | the congressional session, and thus cornering it, are high; at least that is the basis of their present strategy. It probably will not succeed. Presi- dent Roosevelt will renew pressure for the bill as soon as he returns, Incidentally, their wrath against Mr. Roosevelt is increasingly bitter. There is open talk here that they will burn their last kilowatt to see that vengeance Is wrought at the polls next year. They may not be responsible, as a group, for such talk, but it exists and is accredited in the choicest of political circles. Finance Method. The head of a large company thought that the stock of his company was going up a few years ago. His brokerage house in New York thought 50 too, and started buying. It accumy- lated quite a bundle of it at around 79. The purpose was to sell when went up to about 92, but, as usual, it went the other way. [ The smart inside buying continued Jor a while as the stock went down,® but after it got to 20 the buyers began to wonder. After all, there is a limit to confidence, even inside confidence. The brokerage house called on the head of the company to take over the stock and absord the rap. The company did. An R. F. C. examiner ran across the situation not long ago during the course of an investigation of the com- pany’s finance. A dispute then de- veloped as to who was responsible for such wise inside buying which cost the company treasury so much money. The head of the company asserted that the board of directors had au- thorized absorption of the loss by the company. But the examiner declared he polled the board and found only one member who knew anything about the transaction. Story of Wheeler Probe. This story is what is behind the Wheeler resolution calling for an in- vestigation of railroad financing. At least it is the story as pieced together privately by those planning the in- quiry. It may be proved or disproved in some particulars when the inquiry starts and the time comes for men- tioning names. For the present the recital of it on the inside has furnished mysterious impetus, which is causing the Senate to move toward a formal investiga- tion. You will hear the story again, pos- sibly within a few weeks, with names and correct figures (those used above have been disguised for obvious rea- sons). \ Baruch Steals Show. It has been more or less an open secret that Mr. Bernard Baruch was slated for an uneasy time before the Senate munitions investigators. From them, weeks ago, came the published stories that Baruch’s war-time income tax returns had been destroyed in the Treasury. before they had a chance to open up on him, he submitted personal records of his tax payments. Then when they expected him to indorse cautious Fed- eral legislation restricting munitions makers, he indorsed a program as radical as any of the investigators ever thought of. The result was Baruch ran away with the show. Gas Masks for All ‘The invisible channels of diplomacy report that the British recently ship- ped 200,000 gas masks to Malta for the use of the inhabitants of that British isle in the Mediterranean. The population numbers only 250,000, so Britain practically provided a gas mask for every one. The Labor Department is mot waiting for Congress to pass the social security legislation. It already has sent out to legislatures the draft of model laws. Three States already have adopted the unem- insurance model (Mon- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1835. SENATE CONSIDERS Spring at the White House NEW N R A BILL ADROITLY PHRASED Clever Devices Used in Ef- fort to Avoid Adverse Court Ruling. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The new bill to extend the N. R. A. for two years is the most cleverly drawn piece of legislation under the New Deal. It embodies all the ideas of Donald Richberg and all the devices that the young lawyers of the administration could ‘put together in the hope of preventing the Supreme Court from declaring the proposal unconstitu- tional. Senator Harrison, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has in- troduced the measure at the request of the administration and the veteran Senator Borah of Idaho has charac- terized it as the most incoherent bill he has examined in many a long year, Court Rulings Heeded. Actually the bill takes into account what the Federal Courts have been saying lately in their numerous de- cisions holding invalid various provi- sions of the national industrial re- covery act, and it is particularly noticeable that those who have drafted the new bill read carefully and meticulously what the Supreme Court of the United States had to say in the “hot oil” cases on January 7 last about delegation of congressional power to the executive branch of the Government. The layman may regard the changes in the new bill as technical in the sense that they ccatain a lot of the same words that were in the law before. But a closer examination will reveal that the words are not in the same places and that a genuine effort has been made to provide “standards” of action upon which the President or his agents may issue their “findings,” the absence of which was one of the things pointed out by the 8 to 1 decision of the Supreme Court in the oil cases. Standards Listed Carefully, The careful enumeration of these standards includes the statement that the President may prescribe codes when he finds that “such action is necessary and proper in the public interest,” and that such action, name- | | any natural resource.” ly, the imposition of codes, does the following things: “1. Establishes rules of fair com- petition. “2. Promotes or maintains co-oper- ative organization and action of trade and industrial groups. “3. Induces or maintains co-opera- tive relations between, or co-operative | activities of, labor and management. “4. Promotes or maintains fair com- petition. “5. Prevents or eliminates competi- tive practices which are unfair or de- structive of fair competition, or re- strains upon trade which tend to diminish the amount thereof contrary to the public interest. “6. Promotes the fullest effective utilization of the productive and dis- tributive capacities of trade and in- dustry, Purchasing Power Cited. “7. Prevents or eliminates restric- tions upon produetion except those hereinafter expressly sanctioned. “8. Promotes or maintains increased purchasing power and increased con- sumption of industrial and agricul- tural products. “9. Reduces or relieves unemploy- ment or regularizes employment. “10. Establishes proper minimum wages and maximum hours of labor. “11. Improves the standards and conditions of labor. “12. Promotes the rehabilitation of industry. “13. Conserves natural resources and prevents production or competi- tion wasteful of such resources and injuries to commerce therein. “14. Removes unreasonable burdens | upon, or protects the reasonable flow of, interstate or foreign commerce.” Now, obviously, the foregoing standards cover every possible con- tingency, but the mere cataloguing of them in a statute doesn’t mean that Congress either possesses power over all of them or, if it does have the power originally, that it can dele- gate the task of execution of such broad policies to the executive agen- cles of the Government. Commerce Paragraphs Clouded. The paragraphs which attempt to define commerce are not so clear, though they are adroitly phrased. Thus the bill says no trade or indus- try or subdivision thereof is “eligible for a code” unless the character of volume of its employment or sales or shipment or use of goods shipped in interstate or foreign commerce is such as to affect the “instrumentalities of interstate or foreign commerce” or to affect “the movement of goods or services in interstate or foreign com- merce.” There is some added language that the President “by reason of other con- ditions” which he may find to exist, but which are not specified, may sum- marily include businesses and indus- try within his code-making powers if they “so substantially affect” inter- state or foreign commerce that “the establishment of standards of fair competition in such trade or industry or subdivision thereof is necessary and proper for the protection or regulation of interstate or foreign commerce.” Distinction in Codes. Hence, while the New Deal lawyers may think they have disposed of the problem of delegating congressional power, they have not clearly defined what is or is not interstate commerce, though this is something which, ac- cording to recent decisions, the courts say is a matter on which Congress has no right to do any defining or enumerating anyway but is reserved to the judiciary. The new bill draws a distinction between voluntary and “limited” codes, In the latter the President may impose a code prohibiting certain specific things stated in the p: law itself. These include prohibition of child labor and of “any unfair busi- ness practice which is generaily recog- nized as being dishonest, fraudulent, or othervhe“ul;lnlr" as well as “such provisions e finds necessary prevent unfair or oppressive oond'l? hens to lay more eggs and the cows to give more milk (the chiselers). ‘The name of Coordinator Richberg is among those posted for non-payment of dues on the wall of the Washington 14| Burlesque Diva OPERA STARS POKE FUN AT THEMSELVES. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Grand opera was given a royal kidding last night at the Metro- politan Opera House during “sure prise” party for Giullo Gatti- Casassa, retiring director. Here are Lily Pons and Lauritz Melchior in an acrobatic number that brought down the very fashionable house. tions of employment or the waste of ‘The penalty for a violation of a code is a fine. as in the present law, but this time there is a statutory provision about insignias and em- blems, which presumably means the Blue Eagle, and the Government is expressly permitted to carry on a “boycott”—a term not used in the proposed bill but clearly outlined as having that purpose in so far as the | consuming public is concerned, as | well as with respect to Government contracts and purchases. Courts May Require Proof. The proposal is for two years' du- ration and is supposed to be consti- tutionally possible as an emergency statute. But the probabilities are that the courts will require proof that | the actions taken by executive agen- cies are constitutional in the sense that they are not arbitrary or capri- clous and do not take away private property by destroying or injuring businesses or the operations of indi- viduals. There are plenty of other new pro- visions, especially for damage suits to be permitted for employes for wages not paid according to the codes, 2nd the costs of these suits are not | to be paid by the petitioner “at any stage of the proceedings.” If the pe- titioner prevails, “he shall be allowed | | reasonable attorneys’ fees to be taxed and collected as part of the costs of the suit.” From all of which the reader has probably inferred by this time that |if this bill passes the lawyers of America will have plenty of work to do for years to come. (Copyright. 1935.) MERCER CLUB TO MEET Dr. Rufus W. Weaver to Address Alumni Tomorrow. ‘Washington alumni of Mercer Uni- versity, Macon, Ga., will hold a dinner at the University Club at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow. Dr. Rufus W. Weaver, pastor of the First Baptist Church and a former president of Mercer, will speak. A. V. Howell is secretary of the alumni, who have recently formed a club here. Iowans to Hear Hopkins. Harry Hopkins, Federal emergency relief administrator, will be the guest speaker at a reception and dance of the Iowa State Society Thursday at 8:45 o'clock at the Willard Hotel. FOOD-DRUGS BILL Action Deferred With Day Devoted to Explanation by Copeland. The Senate today took up the Cope- land bill to revise and broaden the scope of the food and drug act, but with an understanding that nc definite action would be taken today. Senator Clark, Democrat of Missouri, at first urged Copeland not to call the bill up until tomorrow because of the absence of Senator Bailey, Democrat of North Carolina, one of the chief op- ponents of some features of the bill. Senator Vandenl,'rg, Republican of Michigan, also suggested waiting until tomorrow because insufficient notice had been given to enable Senators to proceed today. Vandenberg praised Copeland for the close study he has given the bill for over two years. Van- denberg sald he was in favor of the general proposition, but that there are numerous technical problems remain- ing to be considered before the meas- ure is acted on. After a discussion in which Majority Leader Robinson of Arkansas and Minority Leader Mc- Nary of Oregon took part, it was de- cided to confine today’s program to an explanation of the bill by Senator Copeland. " One of the controversial features of the bill is whether control over adver- tising should be in the food and drug administration of the Federal Trade Commission. SHRINE CONVENTION T0 FEATURE BANDS 1,000 Musicians Will Take Part in Concerts—Many Events to Be Broadcast. One of the outstanding musical features of the Shrine convention here in June will be massed bands, with 1,000 or more musicians, led by Fred- erick Wilken of the Almas Temple Band. The plans are being worked out by Raymond Florance, chairman of the Band and Band Concert Com- mittee. On the committee with Florance are George E. Harris, vice chairman; Frederick Wilken, Louls 8. Yassell, George A. Fischer, Diller B. Groff, Charles M. Boteler, George C. Scheuch, | Fenton G. Cramer and Meyer Gold- | man. From the time the convention opens June 9 until the farewells are said the following Friday night there will be “music in the air” almost continuous- ly. Concerts are being scheduled for different sections at which music will be supplied by some of the many visit- ing bands. Almas Temple Band will be held in reserve to fill unexpected engagements. Under the direction of the Tele- | phone, Telegraph and Radio Commit- tee, of which Edward F. Colladay is chairman, arrangements are being made to broadcast many of the events. s TONG WAR FEARED SAN FRANCISCO, April 1 (P).— San Francisco's Chinatown was closely guarded by police today to“ prevent possible tong warfare, and three Chinese were held following the killing of Harry Chan, 27. Chan, member of the Bing Kong | Tong, was shot down in a Chinatown | street yesterday and before he died | was alleged to have named Jue Yen and Ah Jung, Suey Sing Tong mem- bers, as two of his three attackers. Jue Yen was arrested here, but denied being involved in the shoot- ing. Bing Chang, alias June Bing, 65, Stockton, and Jung Kai, 28, were arrested for questioning at Van Nuys. They denied complicity. Spelling Bee Planned. If you are puzzied as to the choice of “able” or “ible” spelling at the end of a word, E. C. Helm, president of the Capital City Spelling Club, invites you to the next meeting of the club Wed- nesday night at Mount Pleasant Library. A list of all the words ending in “ible” has been prepared, Helm ex- plains, and a copy will be given to each person at the meeting. -~ Greek Officials Resign. ATHENS, April 1 (#)—Two mem- bers of Premier Tsaldaris’ recently reorganized cabinet, Finance Minis- ter Pesmazoglou and Undersecretary of State Sayas, resigned last night. No explanations were offered. Bat Wing Jumper Killed Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Floyd Davis, 22, making his first attempt to emulate Clem Sohn, the “human bat parachute jumper,” fell 6,000 feet to his death at Flint, Mich., yesterday. His chute fouled in the wings, shown attached to his back. Photo made just before take-of. Rare Trees and Shrubbery Bursting Into Blossom in Mansion Grounds. BY JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG. EW people realize that in the heart of the National Capital | there is a veritable forest of | trees. | It is doubtful if even the | oldest residents of this city who have viewed the White House grounds many times, have any idea of the number and variety of trees within the grounds surrounding the Presi- | dent’s mansion. Actually, there are in the 18 acres of White House front and rear lawns, | 345 trees, of 91 different species, some | |of them very rare and some from | distant lands. | One of the most famous, and beau- | tiful, of the White House trees is the | towering American elm on a mound | Just southeast of the rear portico of | the White House, which was planted more than 100 years ago by Presi- | |dent John Quincy Adams. ‘There | (are numerous other elms in the grounds, but none with the grace | and beauty of this one. Andrew Jackson's Magnolias. There are two huge magnolia trees | very close to the rear portico, which | were planted by President Andrew | | Jackson in the 1830s. These are of | the grandifiora type and in the Spring | | have a sweet-smelling white flower. | | These trees are budding now and in | a few days, should the mild weather | continue, will be blooming in their | full glory. On the mound not far from thel bandstand in the south grounds is a stately American oak planted in 1899 by William McKinley, which, next to the Adams elm, is looked upon as one of the finest specimens of | shade trees in these grounds. The supposition is that practically every President, while occupying the White House, planted one or more trees, but, unfortunately, the records are not complete. | | Lincoln planted two elms along the | | roadway leading to the north portico | |and Benjamin Harrison planted an | | oak, Woodrow Wilson an elm and | Gen. Grant. a horse-chestnut along the same roadway. All of these are | hale and hearty today. | | Although Theodore Roosevelt was | renowned as a lover and student of | nature and an authority on trees it does not appear in the incomplete records of the White House that he | planted a tree. Rutherford B. Hayes, | in 1878, planted an elm in the front | grounds; Grover Cleveland is credited | with having planted two maples of the | sugar variety in the rear grounds: McKinley, a pin oak nearby; Warren G. Harding, a European beech; Benja- min Harrison, a sweet gum, and Cal- vin Coolidge, one of the few birches. | The Hoover Trees. According to these records, Herbert Hoover is credited with having planted more trees than any other President. His contributions were two white oaks, an American elm and a cedar. This cedar, although of the common variety | { | because it came from the river farm of the Washington family near Fred- ericksburg, Va. at the west gate leading to the en- trance of the executive office which attracts the most attention. It 1s an acacia. While this tree is known to be nearly a hundred years old, there | is nothing in tne records of the White House dealing with it or revealing by whom it was planted. When this tree is in full bloom it is a think of real beauty. Peculiarly enough its flowers draw humming birds and butterflies in large numbers. Another tree, when in full bloom, which is always the object of admira- tion, is the flowering Japanese mag- nolia near the entrance gate to the grounds on Pennsylvania avenue, This tree is at present bursting in bloom and in a few days will be at its best. Another popular tree is the Japanese weeping cherry in the south grounds, Among some of the trees unusual to these parts are two Irish yew trees in the south grounds and three En- so well known in the Virginia and | ¢3°1n Maryland section, is doubly historic | hivition the mint was used only for | Among the rare trees there is one | office, but thus far it contains only some cactus and English ivy and sev- eral small magnolias. Near the south side of the White House, just east of the rear portico, there is an old-fashioned garden in which is grown possibly every flower | known to the American garden. While !somewhat obscured, this old garden | ! would make any amateur gardener | envious to look upon it. History is | lacking regarding the starting of this | | attractive plot, but it is known to| | date far back. | " There was such a garden in the | same spot during Lincoln’s time. | Naturally its general make-up is| changed from time to time. This| | garden is generally the pet and joy |of every presidential wife. Mrs. | Roosevelt is devoted to it. Mrs. Hoover !nnd Mrs. Coolidge are known to have given it more time and attention than any other part of the grounds. The Rose Garden. ‘There is & rose garden bordered with & privet hedge in which there are | more than 500 rose bushes and con- | taining more than 25 varieties of the rose. This garden, also a rnvorh,el spot, is just south of the west terrace | leading to the executive office, and | may be seen through the windows of | the private office of the President. | Skirting the north side of this garden is a row of rose trees, there being more than 30 of them, which, when | all in full bloom, adds greatly to the | general beauty of the grounds. Along this row runs the walkway used by the Presidents in their walks to and from the executive office. ‘Warren Harding seldom failed to | pause while walking along this row to admire the roses and sometimes to pick one for the lapel of his coat. ‘The roses grown in the White House | grounds are seldom picked. They are not vsed for the White House bou- quets or table decorations. The flowers for those purposes come from | the White House green houses located near the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The Famous Mint Bed. Unquestionably nothing that has grown in the White House grounds received more pubiicity and aroused more interest than the famous mint bed planted by Theodore Roosevelt. It is understood that Senator Ben | Tillman of South Carolina, long since dead, suggested the idea and pre- sented the “big stick” President with the mint plants, with which to start his bed. Roosevelt personally picked the site of the bed, adjacent to the | east side of the executive office, and not far removed from the famous tennis court where he met daily with the members of his so-called tennis cabinet. This bed soon made the mint julep |the popular beverage of the tennis | cabinet. With the coming of pro- | flavoring in cooking. Now, with the |repeal ot prohibition the bed has disappeared. It had to give way to the expansion of the executive office last Summer. Some one with foresight and a genuine sentiment saw to it that suf- ficient plants of the bed were saved to be used as the nucleus of a new bed sometime in the future. These sur- viving plants of T. R’s mint bed are now in beds in the green house. No doubt, they will sometime soon find another home in the White House grounds. One of the treasures of the White House grounds is the ancient honey- suckle vine, which for so many years, no one knows just how many, has climbed along the railings of the stairways leading from the south porch to the rear grounds. Persons expert in such things credit this vine with being at least a hundred years old. There are also some clematis and Jasmine, noted for their fragrance. In addition there are about 2,000 pansy plants, an equal number of glish yews, one English holly, four witch-hazel, two giant sequoias, trans- planted from the famous redwood country of California, and four fern- leaf beeches. The maple, of all the White House trees, leads in numbers, there being 37 of them. There are 35 American elms and 8 English elms, 35 oaks, 27 horse- chestnuts, 16 Japanese flowering grounds he would first of all say that they were made up of trees and lawns. This is virtually true, because tenths of the ground space is over for this purpose, leaving one-tenth for shrubs and flowers and tulips and about half as many nar- cissuses and about 5,000 crocus, hun- dreds of iris and jonquils. Of course, there are numbers of shrubbery plants, including lilac, forsythia, crepe myrtle, mock orange, snowballs, spirea and althea. There are a head gardener and two assistants and a force of 10 employed to take care of these grounds. I rea LONG, COUGHLIN APPEALS WATCHED Senator Charges Roosevelt Threatened to Form Third Party. By the Associated Press. The Capital noted with interest today that both Sensztor Long and Father Charles E. Coughlin are now engaged in an intensified effort to build up their organizations. Political observers with eyes on 1936 did not overlook the fact that Sena- tor Long, in a iadio speech last night, devoted much of his time to an ap- peal for support for his share-the- wealth clubs—though he got in a few :;npu at the Roosevelt administra- jon. Nor was Father Coughlin't an- nouncement ¢f a new set-up fot his National Union for Social Justice lost upon them. He disclosed that the membership would be concentrated into State organizations, which would have Nation-wide radio meetings. Roosevelt Criticized. With speculation about a third party movement forming the theme of much political discussion, the Louisiana Senator brought the sub- Ject up last night. He said President Roosevelt himself once had a third party in mind. “When Roosevelt was making all his promises before his nomination in Chicago and 1t looked like we would not be able to hold the thing tn line, he phoned to us that he would run as a third party candidate if he failed to secure the nomination,” Long said. “Now the Roosevelt brigade,” Long declared, “is sounding out the cry that they very much fear & third party in the United States.” The Senator asserted that after the bank holiday, some good banks were closed and others were opened. “Low- down politics,” he said, “were used in opening the banks.” Attacks New Deal. Combining 2n appeal for his share- the-wealth program with an gttack on New Deal measures, Long said “They have posted laws and rules, books and codes over us to make our musery worse; they have hounded us with inspectors, clerks, regulators and bureaucrats to tantalize us in our distress; they browbeat the sick while they go through the death battle. Previously he had said: “There is food to eat and clothes to wear and houses to live in;” they are all owned by the rich. The poor people cannot pay for any of them and the rich, who can pay for them, cannot consume all of our abundance. 8o our goods rot, our houses fall and yet our people perish because they are deprived of them.” N. R. A. Called “Blue Buzzard.” Quoting the Bible, the declaration of independence, Theodore Roosevelt and others to reinforce his plea for share-the-wealth, Long also took an- other fling at N. R. A, which he called a “blue buzzard” given the country by “a prince charming ad- ministration.” “A Greek shoe shine stand on our street had to hire a lawyer to read the code every day,” he said. “A Pittsburgh machine shop had to close up and throw eight men, drawing good wages, on the streets. And so it went everywhere. “But when N. R. A. reached the Supreme Court, when we would be told whether it was constitutional or not (and it has been declared uncon- | stitutional by any number of Fed- eral and State courts), Mr. Roosevelt's administration appears before the Su- preme Court and withdraws the ap- peal so that court will not pass on it.” —_— DATE OF PONY EXPRESS WILL BE CELEBRATED Nation’s Schools Will Observe 75th Anniversary of Begine ning of Service. Celebration this year throughout the Nation's schools of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the inauguration of the old pony express is announced in the current issue of the Journal of the National Education Association. Many of these celebrations will be held in April, since it was on the 3d of that month in 1860 that horsemen first carried the mail between St. Joseph, Mo, and Sacramento, Calif,, beginning the service. | The pony service will be re-enacted at the silver jamboree of the Bov Scouts in August, under the sponsor- ship of the Oregron Trail Memorial Association. JAILED FOR CRUELTY Arraigned before Judge Ralph Given in Police Court today, George Hawk- ins, colored, 100 Sixth street south- west, was convicted of cruelty to ani- mals and as an unlicensed huckster. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $25 or serve 15 days on the first charge and $10 or 10 days on the second charge. He went to jail Hawkins was arrested Saturday by Policeman W. B. Kuhns, seventh pre- cinct, who said the man's horse was too old and too undernourished to draw an empty wagon, much less a loaded one. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Army Band, in the suditorium, the evening at 6 o’'clock; Thomas F. Darcy, conductor. 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