Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1935, Page 2

© A—2 %% FOODORUG LAV HBLSES FEARED Mead Measure Declared Preferable to Cope- land Bill. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The issue raised by the debate over the food and drug bill pending in the Senate is not whether misbranding in food and drug labeling or misrepre- sentation in advertisements shall be prohibited by Federal law. | That was the question whean the | | What’s What Behind News In Capital Opposition Amendments Blow in and N. R. A. Bill Comes From Nowhere. T BY PAUL MALLON. HE way legislation has been blowing down out of the skies these days is amazing. Con- gressmen already are discuss- ing the necessity of operating | | hereafter with their windows shut. For instance, the relief conferees | | were meeting secretly as usual in a | | ings, made public today, showing the agitation for a new food and drug| Capitol room the other day. They | law started a year ago. Today the |glanced at their big relief bill suq-; controversy has narrowed to the kind | denly and found that two new anti- | of law that shall be enacted; that is, | Administration amendments had not | how enforcement shall be attained only blown in from nowhere, but had | THE EVENING $8,300,000 The Senate subcommittee’s action in raising the Federal share of next year's Distriet appropriation bill from $5,700,000 to $8,300,000 is strongly supported by testimony in the hear- high percentage of tax-exempt Fed- eral property in Washington, the un- usual amount of park area and the fact that local residents already are bearing a fair tax burden in compari- son to other cities. In support of Washington's conten- tion that it is adequately taxed, the hearings contain a complete set of tables of the tax data of this and Testimony Strongly Supports Subcommittee Weighed High Percent- age of Tax Free Property; High Park Area and Fair Share of Taxes. without demoralizing a large bualness‘ and throwing it into confusicua. The reason for this fear is that the bill sponsored by Senator Copeland of actually glued themselves to the bill. One was a tricky amendment re- quiring the New Dealers to spend some of the work-relief money for New York at the request of Under- | work relief, and not for expenmer,u secretary Tugwell of the Department | in building and buying public power | of Agriculture has in it several fea- | Plants, subsistence homesteads and tures which are so plainly unconsti- | Such things. The second one re- tutional and at variance with the |Quired the Senate to confirm Prm-‘ decision of the Supreme Court of the | dent Roosevelt's appointees to the United States on the matter of dele- | major relief jobs gating power that the whole Senate Find Only Faulty Memories. bill, if it becomes law, is bound to be 4 | thrown into the courts. The New Dealers (meaning mainly | Mr. Ickes) got excited when they | : Mead Bill Is Clear. found Congressmen trying to alter | ‘The bill. on the other hand. intro- | their legislation that way, and in- @uced in the House by Representative | vestigated the mysterious source of Mead of New York, seeks to attain |the two proposals. the same objectives as that of Senator | All they found was that the 10 men Copeland's measure, but insists that|in the room, five Senators and five fhe matters to be prohibited shall be | Representatives, had faulty memories. | specified and enumerated and that | The Representatives implied that the | the Federal Trade Commission, which | Senators did it, and the Senators already has had considerable experi- blamed it on the House members. ence with trade practices, shall be given jurisdiction over the enforce- | ment of advertising regulations. | Various issues are wrapped up in the pending bills, but many of the| differences of opinion have been ironed out to such an extent that| Bearly all the interests affected—the advertising associations, the food in-| Qustries and the leading proprietary | Committee endeavored to provide for other cities, submitted by Edward P. Colladay, on behalf of the Citizens Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations Between the United States and the District of Columbia. These tables were supplemented by other statistics submitted by District officials. At one point in the hesrings, Sena- tor Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, chairman, made this observation: | “We want to give the District the | proper amount of money to operate the city, for its different institutions and facilities; so, when I find here that you asked for $42.000.000, and | the budget approved $40.000.000 and | the House cut that down to $39.- | 000,000. it would seem to indicate that | the House bill is $3,000,000 short of what the city needs.” Recognized Inadequacy. | | The bill as reported tc the Senate today shows how the Appropriations those needs. and, recognizing the in adequacy of the present Federal ob- ligation of $5.700,000, has raised the | lump sum by $2,600,000 to meet these | added necessities of the Capital City. The hearings also are replete with | discussion of the proposel of” Chair- | man Thomas and other Senators that Washington change to the low assess- ment and high rate method of taxa- STAR, WASHINGTON, Recommended local residents, although the Federal Government is a large consumer of water, Revenue Payments Cited. Colladay precented another analysis showing that for the fiscal wear 1934 the District paid the Pederal Gov- ernment $10,942,662 in internal rev- enue, exceeding that paid by any one of 24 States. It also showed the amount paid by the District in this way exceeded the aggregate of such taxes paid by nine States. Colladay pointed out that these nine States have a representation in the two branches of Congress of 42 members. Although reafirming its adherence to the principle that the Federal share should be a fixed percentage, as called for in the unrepealed sub- stantive law of 1922, that laid down the 60-40 ratio, the Citizens’ Com- mittee joined with the Commissioners in recommending the 10-year average figure of $8,317.500 as the Federa! payment if the lump-sum practice is to be followed. Hazen Makes Strong Plea. The discussion of fiscal relations was brought to a close with a strong plea from Commissioner Haszen, who declared: “There is just one other word, Sen- ator, that Mr. Colladay spoke of—the exempt property is 40 per cent. Some years ago that was less. Now, we will | assume that that percentage is go- ing to increase from time to time. Suppose it got to be 80 per cent, as an xtravagan! statement, then how in | he world can the few people in| Washington support the District of | Columbia if they only had 20 per cent [ of the District? We only have 60 per cent now. Some years ago we had 70 per cent. Now, it is constantly in- | creasing, so that the time will come | when it will be impossible for our citi- | zens to support this Federal city., It! cannot be done, Senator. D.. €., TAX EVASION DATA DENIED BY MELLON “I Don’t Think | Ever Saw” Memorandum, Says Financier. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURG, April 3.—Taking up his question-and-answer fencing mateh with the Government again to- day, Andrew W. Mellon put himself on record with the positive statement he never while Secretary of the Treas- ury sought information on how tax payments could legally be avoided. The 80-year-old millionaire, pro- testing & $3,089,000 additional assess- ment on his 1931 income, began his third day of cross-examination ap- parently no more fatigued than when he took the stand. The tax information matter came up 8s Robert H. Jackson, counsel for the Internal Revenue Bureau, pro- duced a two-page memorandum signed by David H. Blair, former tax commis- sioner, which purported to answer a request from Mellon on what legal methods could be taken to avoid taxes. Admits Sale to Create Loss. “I have not the least knowledge of this,” the financier told Jackson. “Not that I might not have asked for such information if there had been the oc- casion, but I don’t think I ever saw it before.” Jackson then asked if Mellon had not in 1931 sold stock (in the Pitts- burgh Coal Co.) in order to create a tax loss. He received an affirmative answer. “That is one of the means offered in this memorandum,” said the Gov- | ernment attorney. | An objection by Frank J. Hogan, Mellon’s attorney, to this questioning was upheld and Jackson then had the | | | | | Blair letter offered as evidence. Business Life Reviewed. The long hours of interrogation by Jackson led the elderly financier WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1935. Secretary Roper Dons Fez PICTURES BOUGHT BY THE CORCORAN Art Gallery Purchases Five From Current Biennial Exhibit. The trustees of the Corcoran Gal- iery of Art today announced the pur- chase of five pictures in the current fourteenth biennial exhibition. These canvases, it was specified, will be added to the institution's permanent collec- tion. Pirst on the list of compositions thus honored is a poetical representation | of “St. Francis” the good patron of ckildren, helpless animals and birds. Secretary of Commerce Roper (center) wearing the red fez of member- ship in Almas Temple, which yesterday made him a Shriner, is shown shaking hands with Dana S. Williams (left), imperial potentate of the Shrine for North America, as Robert P. Smith (right), potentate of Almas ‘Temple and director general of the forthcoming Shrine convention here in June, smiles his approval. —Star Staff Photo. 62 ARE INITIATED $13,001.75 to the imperial potentate by Smith to be transmitted to the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Chil- | dren at Philadelphia. This bequest was the gift of the late John Ben- | jamin Flick and will be augmented by | considerable additional sum when his estate is finally settled. The ritualistic work was put on with | the following cast from Almas Tem- ple: Potentate, Robert P. Smith; chief BY ALMAS TEMPLE Mystic Shrine Ceremony In- gt M D mgh e a4 ducts Secretary Roper Be- | 3iiecsuriey D witie. s cere: fore Imperial Potentate. monial master, Karl E. Jarrell; second ceremonial master, Earl W. Shinn; marshal, Howard W. Foley; captain of the guard, Needham Turnage; first alchemist, William P. Amos; second It is the work of John R. Conner. | Bryn Athyn, Pa. and has been much admired by throngs of visitors to the exhibition “Provincetown Wharf.” ‘The second picture is “Province- town Wharf,” a cross-section of the life of the fisher folk of that town by Ross Moffett. The third is “Choir Practice,” a group of children as- sembled about an organ which their mother is playing, by Lauren Ford. Fourth and fifth, respectively, are “Still Life: Rubber Plant,” a curious but harmonious treatment of common themes, by John E. Thompson, and “Torso,” a striking and colorful study of the human form, by Richard E. Miller. The trustees also reported the sale of “Inner Harbor.” by Jonas Lie, to Miss Nell Kirby, New York Official count of visitors since the opening of the show March 23, it was said. approximated 20,000; and crowds of Washington residents d out-of- town guests are continuing to appear at the gallery, Widespread Approval. The exhibition, meanwhile, is en- joying widespread and generous ap- proval at the hands of professional critics. Edward Alden Jewell, writing in the New Yark Times, sums up the medicine manufacturers—agree that 4ny false labels or advertising which are deleterious to public health should be sternly dealt with. It is interesting to note that on all sides there is a feeling that the Wiley food and drug law of 1906 should be vevised. Hence, there is general agreement with the aims and pur- poses outlined in President Roosevelt's ) An invisible spy-ghost who appar- | ently blew into the conference room | along with the two amendments, has a private solution of this congressional mystery. He thinks he distinctly saw tion followed in most other cities, 50 that its tax burden will no longer be misunderstood by members of Congress and others. District officials and civic groups agreed this should be done, but a lied for the two amend- | Separate bill will have to be introduced, Tents by hone other than those two | changing the present law of 1922, Democratic Senators who have spread | Which requires property here to be | so much glue in the path of certain assessed at no less than true value, Lose in Two Ways. | “And another thing, when the Ped- | | eral Government takes over this prop- | | erty most of our people move into | | Maryland or Virginia. They cannot assessed. We lose that assessment | entirely. They do not reinvest in the | District, so we lose it in two ways— we lose the Pederal contribution, we through 30 years of his business life | In the presence of the imperial po- and much of it concerning the gifts | teI to his children, Paul Mellon and Ailsa | Williams of Lewiston, Me., and a dis- Bruce, which led to formation of the | !!nguished group of congressional two family holding companies, Co- and Masonic leaders, 62 candidates alesced and Ascalot crossed the “burning sands” to be- Through it all Mellon insisted that | COme members of the Ancient Arabic when he went to Washington in 1921 | Order Nobies of the Mystic Shrine at he divorced himself from business in- | 8 special ceremonial at the Mayflower terests, just the same “as if I h-diH”m last night, tentate for North America, Dana 8. | alchemist, Harry Gardner, and orator, | general verdict in the statement that Rev. John C. Palmer. Harry S. Evans | the Corcoran biennial displays “de- acted as master of ceremonies, Ernest | SeTVes to be called the most thorough- W. Snoots, director of stunts and Guy 2’“‘;8?:"?"“:‘"" group _;:0‘(“;‘“?5 of vt art we have. * * * The Corcol O o manaer | has won the confidence of Amerl:‘:rr‘l Digniatries Recognized. | painters, and this is a matter of prime Dignitaries from several branches importance. of the Masonic fraternity were accord- | “The present biennial, which will ed recognition by Potentate Smith and continue through May 5. is the message. Bureaucratic Control Feared. What. then, is the crux of | extreme phases of the New Deal. | | Senators Carter Glass and Royal | the | Copeland. Sees Highest Tax. Chairman Thomas made this ment on Washington's tax burdens: lose that taxation, and we lose them: COm- | time. | so we are constantly losing all the | | Wwhole objection to certain parts of the Copeland bill? cratic control and issuance of formal regulations by committees that do not have legal responsibility for their acts will be substituted by the Copeland bill for the systematic and well-guard- ed clauses of the Mead bill that insure fair procedure to all affected com- Panies and individuals. Advertising _involves much contro- versy in itself. The Supreme Court has held that “puffing.” or putting one’s best foot forward in an adver- tisement, is legitimate. It might be difficult to prove explicitly. for in- stance, such a slogan as “When bet- ter cars are built, Buick will build them.” or the force of such a claim as “Join the Navy and see the world,” which is on all the recruiting posters. Yet so rigid is the method of dealing with such statements as embodied in the Senate bill that all advertising and labeling may possibly be subjected to ‘such harassment as to prevent it altogether, except on an intrastate basis. All sorts of circumventions such as are now being compelled in order to market securities may be the conse- quence of a measure with respect to food and drug advertising. which gives a bureaucrat such vast powers that legitimate industry will hesitate to spend weeks and weeks in Washing- ton getting approval of the words and drawings ordinarily used to market the products. Drug Peddling Is Threat. “The selling of patent medicines from | door to door on a Nation-wide scale, | It is that bureau- | This may be disputed. because several proposals were made amd | voted on before the final compro- mise was reached. The votes taken by conference committees always are considered deep secrets, but the same spy-ghost reports that the two deciding votes were obviously those of the fiery Virginian and the subtle New Yorker. All 10 conferees ultimately ap- proved the changes, thus obscuring the accomplishments of the two glue Believe Amendments Good. It will be denied. but it is true that the Democratic leaders in Congress privately believed the amendments were fairly good ones. At heart they have little sympathy with or hope for subsistence homesteads, slums clea: ance and non-Federal P. W. A. projects. A few of them also oppose the buying and building of public power plants. They were required to keep their own judgment to them- selves because the White House de- manded it. The relief window-blowing feat is almost surpassed by the mystery of the new administration N. R. A. bill. The official story nmow is that Senator Pat Harrison was walking past an open window of his Fi- nance Committee, when he felt some one slip something into his pocket. He reached for it, and found an N. R. A. bill. which, strangely enough, was just the one the administration wanted. The purpose of the story is to main- | | “It is my contention, from what | study I have made, that the citizens | | of Washington pay a higher tax than | any other city that I know of, al-| though it is the loweSt rate that I know of.” ‘ “It is the lowest rate because, as You stated a moment ago. it is based | on full value,” observed District Au-| ! ditor Donovan. Senator Thomas just previously had | explained why he believes the high | sons who look only at the low rate | | applied to these high assessments. | | Describing Congress as the “board of | | directors” for the District, Senator | | Thomas said when the members of | the “board” come here they are bus; | with their home sffairs and they hear | some one make a speech that the tax | rate in Washington is 1l per cent ($1.50 per $100 of assessment). They | remember the higher tax rates used | at home without taking into account | assessments lp-l the actual full value | plied to the Washington rate, Senators believe. “It would not cost any citizen more money to pay his taxes. if he paid 2 per cent on $100 than 1 per cent on $200,” said Senator Thomas, in advo- | cating a higher rate and lower assess. | ment here. | Cities Compared. | ‘The hearings reveal a recent study | | by District officials, showing that in | 18 cities the average ratio of actual assessment to full value at 51 per cent, | whereas Washington's assessment is | Senator Tydings—If we went on a thousand years, probably the whole District of Columbia would be occu- | pied by Federal buildings. That is| your argument? H Commissioner Hazen—Yes; that is my argument. It would merely in- crease and increase; so, then, what are you going to do? You have got to do it all, then. “But I think another matter is this: I think every Senator and every | Congressman here wants to see this ‘Well. you cannot expect the few peo- ple living here to make it the most beautiful city in the worla.” BLANTON ASSAILS D. C. NEWSPAPERS Texan Charges Persecution | and “Plot” on His Com- mittee Position. Denouncing what he alleges was a plot against him by Washington news- papers to cause his dismissal from the subcommittee handling the District | appropriation bill, Representative | credit. in- which less information would be tain the fiction that Congress is orig- available than is now given in public | inating the new N. R. A. legislation. | advertisements, may, it is claimed, be Co-ordinator Richberg is being quoted | the result of the Copeland bill if writ- | as saying that he furnished recom- | ten into law in its present form. To- ' mendations, but that the actual wnrk} day. for instance, the securities law is of drafting the bill was performed by} so full of red tape and dangers of the Senate's legislative drafting | damage suits that financial advertising = service. | of issues with comprehensive informa- This is merely a diplomatic evasion tien in them has virtually disappeared of the fact that the bill is essentially from use and the public is merely told | the Richberg-Whiteside bill. | virtually 100 per cent of true value. | Blanton, Democrat, of Texas a % Colladay presented other tables to show how high Washington’s assess- ment and tax burdens are when com- | pared with other cities on a per capita basis. | Senator Tvdings of Maryland | pointed out that Washington is a “home city,” while other cities used in the comparisons have manufac-| turing plants. The Senator added: “So | that an issue has been filed with the | Securities and Exchange Commission. | What the salesmen tell the pros-| pects, however, nobody knows. Also, | there is no certainty now that the is- | sues floated are really good invest- ments just because the Federal Se- curities Commission has registered them. Combination Bill Sought. So it may be with respect to drugs. | The advertisements may contain the name of the manufacturer and pos- gibly some bricf reference to the pur- it. A provision proposing a fine of unusually high ratio of parks to pop- pose of the medicine, but the salesmen will tell the public whatever they choose. The opponents of the Copeland bill | and maximum hours as 40 hours a | collected by the Bureau of Efficiency are hoping that some of its provisions | will be combined with the Mead bill | and a workable law made out of the two. * One of the difficulties in the situa- tion is that the drive for a new food end drug bill has been carried on by Dr. Tugwell and his associates with a #eries of sensational exhibits showing the effects of harmful use of medi- cines. The reputable manufacturers, however, insist that the so-called | “Chamber of Horrors,” which is the pame given to the exhibit that was gent throughout the country by the | bureaucrats here, would hardly include one-tenth of 1 per cent of the total velume of products soid and that cer- tainly none of the leading manufac- turers are making any of the products attacked. (Copyright. 1035.) POLICEMAN IS VICTIM OF PANHANDLER’S BLOW Alec Friedberg Receives Severe Head Injury After Refusing Nickel Request. Refusing a request for a nickel by two men last night, Policeman Alec Friedberg, tenth precinct, off duty on sick leave, received a severe head in- jury when struck with a bottle by one of the panhandlers. Friedberg, though knocked' to the ground by the blow, pursued the men to PFourteenth and Irving streets, where Sergt. George Hellmuth arrested | 8 man who identified himself as Theo- dore T. Allen, 27, first block of Eighth street southeast. He was booked for | investigation. ‘The assault occurred at Irving street and Hiatt place, several blocks from the officer’s home, at 1370 Oak street. | Priedberg was first taken to Garfield | Mr. o, ‘ 5 ( A few minor changes were made in | the first confidential Rigchberg-White- | side draft, before Harrison introduced | $1,000 a day against code violators was eliminated. A section defining| minimum hours as 30 hours a week | week was changed. The figures were stricken out and the space left bllnk.‘ Also, in the original private dnn,‘ lumber was mentioned, along with coal. oil and gas, as a natural re-| source, although only coal, oil and gas appear in the Harrison draft. An entirely new provision was wm-‘ ten in providing that small industries | mploying fewer than (number is/ blank), shall be included in a general | code. White House callers are urged to use extreme caution in approaching Secretary Early hereafter. He has a pistol in his desk which appears | to be a yard long, and is actually about 15 inches long. It is a gun once used by “Billy the Kid” and presented to Early by a Tezas so- ciety. | No one around here puts muchi‘ stock in Huey Long’s assertion that| Roosevelt threatened to form a| | third party if he failed to get the| | 1932 Democratic nomination. The| | story has an unauthentic sound, in | view of the fact Mr. Roosevelt was so | completely in control of the pre-con- vention Democratic situation that he did not need to think about third parties. ‘The White House has a private rule now never to comment publicly or privately on anything said by Huey. (Copyright. 1935.) ALUMNI TO DINE The Washington section of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alum- ni Asociation will hold a dinner meet- ing this evening at 7 o'clock at the National Press Club. ‘The speakers will be Herbert Taylor, secretary of the National Association Iol ‘Worcester Tech Alumni, and Her- bert N. Eaton and G. T. Tucker of the Washington alumni. John A. Remon, general manager of the c‘:¢4 o S5/ able real estate, he sald, is $1,135- that your contract is even greater than | the column itself shows.” | Colladay also brought out that be- | cause this is the Capital of the Na- tion, tax-exempt property here amounts to 39 per cent of the real estate. The total assessment of tax- 000,000. The total of exempt property is $711,000,000. Of the total exempt area, $556,000,000 is Government property. Large Park Area, | To show that Washington has an ulation, thereby reducing the taxable area, the citizens’ spokesmen brought | down to date the data on this subject | in 1930. The hearings contain this summary on parks: Bringing the information down to March 30, 1935. we find that the esti- mated population of the District of Columbia is 500,000; that the total land area in the District of Columbia is 39680 acres; and that the park area in the District of Columbia is 5,552 acres. or 1 acre to each 111 of the population. At this time approxi- mately one-seventh of the entire land area in the District of Columbia is-| made of up park area.” | Serator Tydings suggested that dats be submitted showing also the ts the Government occupies ex- clusively and the various services the Pederal Government gets from the municipality, such as fire and police protection and water supply. The entire water system is maintained directly out of the rates paid by | from clippings about a “meeting of a | & question of personal privilege in the House today. | In stating his grounds for personal privilege, Blanton displayed newspa- per clippings and described the head- lines as “box-car headlines.” He read some of the headlines. He also showed | several clippings which, he said, were offensive because his picture was printed petween police officials. Chairman O'Connor of the Rules Committee, interrupted in an effort to hasten procedure, hinting that the speaker seemed to have proved his personal privilege by having his pic- ture taken with “cops. Blanton replied that he wished to show “persecutica” of him had con- tinued for three weeks in a concen- trated effort by the five Washington newspapers. He quoted editorials and displayed cartoons which have ap- peared in local newspapers and read so-called citizens’ association to oust me at which it was declared that ‘Mr. | Blanten is totally unfit to command | the confidence of the people’” He | also displayed clippings about a pro- posed mass meeting to “ask for Mr. Blanton's ouster at once.” Referring next to a ne | headline which told of his mmp-: tempts to place constituents in Dis- trict jobs, Blanton declared: “I have been a member of this House for 18 years and I placed but one man in the employ of the Dis- trict government, just one man out )onl Illl the thousands of jobs available ret™ Completing the hasty reading of headline clippings, Blanton said: “I have asked for this privilege so I may tell these Washington newspapers tmmen thing about what I think of em.” Cotton Acreage Raised. The Belgian Congo plans to raise sufficient cotton to supply all its needs. $ at The Evening Star Business Office, or i It explains the permanent departments of the Federal Government and the Alphabet Bureaus of the New Deal. Every American should read it. Order today. ] | street . This Worth-While BOOK ) | By the Associated Press Hospital, where he received first aid. | Ch ke and Potomac Telephone Labepr1 he went to Emergency Hospital | Co., is president of the Washington for additional treatment. association. A died and left everything." | “To whom?"” Jackson asked “To whom I should, my children, was the reply. | Mellon also told his interrogator that the employment of D. D. Shep- | ard. an attorney associated with the | Revenue Bureau, had nothing to do with tax affairs, that he simply had wanted a young. dependable man for a position with him. “Good Will” Started Career. Good will was the only capital with which he began his banking career, the financier said. He readily recalled giving his| brother, the late R. B. Mellon. a one- | half interest in the banking business of T. Mellon & Sons. which had been | turned over to him by his father in 1885. “Can you give me the approximate worth of T. Mellon & Sons at that | time?” asked Jackson. Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper. who headed the class. had re- ceived the red fez of the order at his cffice at noon in ceremonies attended by the imperial potentate and Wash- ington Shrine officials. Mr. Williams, who has been ac- companied by Mrs. Williams on his Nation-wide tour of official visitation to the temples of North America, left this morning for Philadelphia. Convention Plans Made. Beginning at noon yesterday at Secretary Roper's office, the Shrine festivities continued during the after- noon at Almas Temple with a busi- ness session. Several conferences were held during the day between Imperial Potentate Williams, Robert P. Smith, potentate of Almas Temple and director general of the forthcom- ing Shrine convention, and Leonard P. Steuart of this city, deputy impe- | rial potentate, who will become po- "It was a banking business—the |(entalein June. == o ihe|and jewels wers given to Bast Poten: | BY the Astociated Press. My father had received de- posits and loaned money. and the business grew and he didn't put in any specific capital. It never was carried on the books™ said Mellon. | “So that what Thomas Mellon gave you was good will and the name of a going concern that had no capital?” | asked Jackson. “Yes, and I gave my brother a half | | interest of that going business.” ——e SENATE LABOR GROUP ENDS WAGNER HEARINGS | Railroad Mediation Board Chair- | man Last Witness to Tes- tify on Bill. | The Senate Labor Committee yester- day closed hearings on the Wagner labor disputes bill. | Dr. William Leiserson, chairman of the Railroad Mediation Board. who was the last witness, told the commit- | tee an employer has no more right to' | interfere with his employes’ selection of a labor union than the employes have to interfere with the employer's selection of a personnel director. Experts Plan Futu by Litt N N By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 3—The whisper was going the rounds today that a platinum blcod frog 4-year-old Betty Jean Goldsmith brought to the aston- ished eyes of science mpy become a mother_this 3 Dr. G. Kingley Noble, head of the department of experimental biology at the American Museum of Natural by mail, postpaid {orthcoming imperial convention and |ltams for the elaborate plans ad- hordes expected here from all parts | of the country from June 9 to 15. Prom Almas Temple, at 1315 K street, late yesterday afternoon a col- orful and picturesque procession of all uniformed bodies of the temple escort- ed the imperial officers and local lead- ers to the Mayflower for the cere- monies there. The escort included the Almas Temple Band. under leadership of Prederick Wilken; the Drum Corps, under Francis J. Paul: the Arab Patrol, in command of Capt. Jesse E. Porter. and the Legion of Honor. under Capt. Clyde N. Strange. officials here were praised by Mr. Wil- | vanced for the entertainment of the welcomed with oriental formalism as follows: Robert S. Regar, grand mas- ter of the Grand Lodge, F. A. A. M., of the District of Columbia; Otto B. Roepke, | Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Ma- sons of the District; John H. Cowles, grand commander, Scottish Rite of | Preemasonry, Southern jurisdiction, | and Ellwood P. Morey, deputy of the Scottish Rite for the District. The following past potentates of Al- mas Temple were present and officially welcomed: Harry Standiford, William P. Gude, Carter B. Keene, James T. | Gibbs, William S. Quinter, L. Whiting Estes, Leonard P. Steuart, Charles D. Shackeiford, Amos A. Pries, George B. McGinty, Edwin C. Dutton, James C. Hoyle, Robert S. Regar, Edward D. Anderson, Warren W. Grimes and | William C. Miller. | A handsome silver set was presented | on behalf of the temple to the im- | perial potentate and Mrs. Williams, | tates Anderson, Grimes and Miller. Members of Class. The members of the class were |Conrad A. Alberding, Wallace . { Badger, Stephen T. Baldwin, John J. | Barnes, jr.; Harry G. Bauer, Henry | J. Beahm, James R. Beaubiah, Wil- | lam H. T. Belt, Melvin B. Blake, { Hugh H. Boyer, Samuel R. Boyer, | Ernest W. Brown, Rufus C. Brown, James P. Burns, Ernest G. Chewning, Orlay B. Cidwell, Claude A. Cook, Forrester A. Coulter, John Harrison Davis, Shell C. Davis, sr.. William I. Denning, Leon S. Dixon, Earle L. | Dodson, Robert B. Doing, Charles B. Eaton, Harry O. Gathers, John T. German. Ernest C. Gibson, Herbert S. Goodrich, George J. Gray, Wil-| grand high priest of the {liam T. Griffin, William T. Hale,| Novelty Introduced. Harvey H. Handley, Henry F. Hill,| largest thus far held, and (if scarcely for that reason) seems also the best. A rapid reconnoitering survey induces | in the visitor a mood of exhilaration, of frank enthusiasm and pride. Any country capable of turning out a dis- play of contemporary art such as this, you decide, cannot be on the wrong track. It is a stimulating show— varied, resourceful, alive.” MILD GAG PLANNED " FOR SECURITY BILL Byrns Says Modified Rule Is Dis- | cussed to Put Measure ’ Through. Democratic leaders indicated today that only a “modified gag rule.” if any, would be sought to put the social “secunty bill through the House next | week. | At his press conference Speaker | Byrns said a “modified gag rule is under discussion.” | Asked what might | “modified gag rule, constitute e he said that would be one which would permit the offering on the floor only of amend- ments approved by the Ways and Means Committee. He conceded. how- ever. that it would be difficult for | members to get that committee to offer | any amendments | _ At the same time Representative | Boland of Pennsylvania, Democratic whip, who has started a survey to determine the possibility of putting | the bill through under a gag. re- | jr.; Nath | ; " A novelty was_introduced into the Jonnson. R:a‘:ihn‘::mv?‘;'enrfig,m&a:é!:‘_"“d that “I dont think theyl festivities when for the first time in W, Kreis, Leonard D. Lohr, George v!e s ;g | I 3 the history of the temple the women w. Luckett, Morton E. Mack, John would advise against it,” he said. Were entertained while members of |E_ McClufe, Orville E . Megby SESE ey the temple were putting on their in- | Thomas B. Mitchell, Prancis K. Moh- itiation ceremonies. Mrs. Williams | ler, Clarence H. Moulton, Jack Mur- and Mrs. Smith headed a receiving | sell, Preston E. Peterson, Theodore K. line for the women in the Italian gar- Reily, John P. Rice, Warren S. Rinker. den of the hotel. Afterward there was Daniel C. Roper, Charles P. Ruby, Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. a musical and vaudeville program. A feature of the official ceremony re of Freak Found le Girl. albino probably will lay eggs a little later and added that Mendel's law of heredity makes it unlikely that albino offsprings will appear until after the first generation. While the frog was learning some- thing of the trials of celebrity—what with the news cameramen and news- reels and reporters and all—H. Stuart Goldsmith, an assistant bank suditor who lives at Hillsdale, N. J., claimed for her daughter Betty Jean credit Howard H. Rutan, CI Melvin Sharpe, Arch harles Scott, C. ibald C. Stark, ! was the presentation of & check for Verner L. Smith, Herbert M. Taylor, | Blond Frog Astounds Scienc | Alexander Ueland, Garland W. Wolfe and Jesse H. Wood. Nineteen members were received | into the Temple through affiliation, as follows: A. Kenneth Armstrong, | Paul R. Boesch, Hugh Brewster, Har- | vey C. Danner, E. Herman Erickson, | Arthur G. Fessenden. Harry M. Forker, ;Wmlrd H. Hawley. Evan Jones, Gar- field I. Kass, Joseph E. Lewis, Wallace | C. Magathan, Mark Mitchell, Miles E. | Myers, Harry B. Plankinton, William | H. Power, Everett R. Rust, Eugene W. | Satterwhite and Herbert E. Stevens. | The Reception Committee, through | its chairman, George E. Harris, co- operated with the potentate’s aide, John Q. Slye, in welcoming the many distinguished visitors. The Entertain- ment Committee was headed by Ernest C. Guy and the medical board was represented by Dr. Charles Stanley White, Dr. Henry W. Jaeger and Dr. J. Ward Mankin, Congress in Brief ‘TODAY. Senate. ‘Takes up food and drug bill. Munitions Committee opens investi- | gation of Bath Iron Works shipbuild- ing activities. | House. Takes up McSwain bill to stop war- | time profiteering. Labor Committee hears Secretary | Perkins on Wagner-Connery labor disputes bill. YESTERDAY. Senate. Adopted scores of amendments to Copeland food-drug bill. Finance Committee critieism of N. R. A. Munitions Committee published “war profits” bill. House. Passed private bills. ‘Ways and Means Committee ap- proved economic security bill. Agriculture Committee agreed to recall approval of proposed A. A. A. amendments and consider more sug- gested changes. TOMORROW. heard more | House Probably will take up legislation to take profits out of war. Banking Committee, 10:30 a.m., ex- ecutive session, banking bill 130 NEW A. F. G. E. LODGES ARE CHARTERED IN DRIVE Federation Now Comprises 183 Groups—Campaign Will Close April 20. ‘The American Federation of Gov- ernment Employes has chartered 30 | new lodges in its membership drive, which began November 16 last, it was announced today. The total number of groups in the federation, it was said, is 183. ‘The drive will close April 20, follow- | ing the first pay day under the full }sule. which became effective April 1. | Three of the new lodges were re- ported locally — National ‘Praining | School, Agricultural Adjustment Ad- | ministration and Federal Housing Ad- ministration. | Plans Talk on “‘Smoky” Park. Thomas Alexander, who spent a number of years in the Great Smoky | Mountains National Park, will speak tomorrow evening in the Commerce Department auditorium about that future national playground. ARTOONS y Berryman e The affairs of the world illus- trated in his in- imitable man- for discoverhig the frog while the| Interstate and Foreign Commerce family was vacationing last August in | Committee. 10 a.m. utility holding Bt. Lawrence County, N. Y. company bill. t t