Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1935, Page 2

COURT MAY DECIDE COTTON TAX FIGHT Recent Tobacco Decision Has Bearing on Other Price Tactics. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The confiict bstween President Roosevelt and various Senators as to the removal of the processing tax on cotton may be solved some day by another branch of the Government— the judiciary. Judge Dawson's recent decision at Louisville, in which he declares un- constitutional the Kerr-Smith law fer the control of the tobacco crop, has a bearing not only on tobacco but on the Bankhead cotton control law and an indirect relationship, too, to the whole processing tax question as well as the proposed pay roll taxes em- bodied in the social security legisla- tion now before the House. It embraces, in other words, one of the most important points now at {ssue, namely whether the Federal | Government, under the guise of a| tax, can impose a penalty that con- trols or prevents production and whether the Federal Government, | also under the guise of a tax, can really donate a subsidy to a special class out of the so-called processing tax funds. Property Confiscation Seen. The legal argument against it is that such a tax takes property from one class of citizens for the direct benefit of another class. contrary to the tenth amendment of the Consti- tution. The Supreme Court of the United States, in the famous child labor | cases, held unconstitutional an act of Congress which aimed to put a! tax on goods manufactured by child | labor and moving in interstate com- merce. The court held that the pur- pose was not to raise revenue but by subterfuge to prevent child labor and that, no matter how beneficial the | What’s What Behind News In Capital Social Security Squeeze Suppresses . Rebellion Against Measure. BY PAUL MALLON. HE Roosevelt social security program is supposed to be cruising serenely through Con- gress. The House leaders have managed to create the im- pression that they did not even need a gag rule to keep their sailors from scuttling the ship this time. Below deck, you will find the sit- uation is not quite like that. The unhappy fact is that President Roosevelt nearly had a mutiny on his hands. The reason no gag rule was attempted was simply that the leaders did not have the votes to do it. The situation in the fo'castle de- veloped this way: ‘The bill was handled by the House | Ways and Means Committee. This committee is composed largely of conservative Democrats, many of them Southerners. Nearly all of them favor the gen- eral principle of old-age pensions and unemployment insurance. No politician dares to do anything else openly these days. Yet it is a fact that mo more than 2 of the 18 Democrats on that committee were wholeheartedly for this particular bill. The recalcitrant 16 will have to deny it now, but every insider knows it to have been a fact. In view of this situation, some of | the House leaders quietly worked out | Smith will officiate. a plan. They thought Mr. Roosevelt might be satisfied if he succeeded in BEALE R, HOWAR RTES TOMORROW Funeral to Be Held at St. Thomas’ P. E. Church at 2 0’Clock. Funeral services for Beale Richard- | son Howard, vice president of The Evening Star Newspaper Co., who died | | saturday night at Emergency Hospital, | will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. at St. | | Thomas' P. E. Church, Eighteenth and ! Church streets. Rev. Dr. C. Ernest Interment ]alor‘ | will be in the cemetery of St. James' | |P. E. Church, My Lady's Manor, purpose, such a use of the taxing |geitine‘some progress on the bill at | Baltimore, Md. power was unconstitutional. | 1f the Supreme Court felt that way | this session. The plan called for the House to fiddle around and pass | Honorary pallbearers will be Frank B. Noyes, Theodore W. Noyes, New- | about anything so humane as the pre- | tpe i) 1 late for the Senate to act | bold Noyes, Crosby N. Boyd, Victor vention of child labor—and the recent | g\ ;¢ session. It may not have been | Kauffmann, R. M. Kauffmann and effort to get a Federal constitutional it un 1o Mr. Roosevelt directly. But | S. H. Kauffmann, all directors of The amendment to prohibit child labor | it was certainly suggested to him dip- Jsmr company; Henry G. Hanford, was a direct result of that decision—|)omatically by his House lieutenants |and Gen. Harry Warfield, Frank R then it would seem to be necessary | to get a constitutional amendment to sanction processing taxes or penalty upon his return from Florida. His answer was that he wanted the House to act at once, and that he | Kent and James A. Burgess, all of | Baltimore. | Mr. Howard, a native of Maryland, taxes such as are involved in the|galso would insist upon Senate action| Was a resident of this city for more sgricultural adjustment act. | Pay Roll Tax Included. The problem extends also to the pay roll tax so essential to the work- ings of the unemployment insurance plan. The collecting of money from | a manufacturer and the disbursement | of the same funds to employes are | not in accordance with the precedents | of the Supreme Court in describing | proper use of the taxing power. | Some idea of the extremes to which | the use of this power might go, if the processing tax idea or the proposed | pay roll tax were held constitutional, | may be gained from the introduction recently of a bill by Representative | John Hoeppel of California providing A tax on all machinery according to the number of workers displaced by | the individual machine. | Mr. Hoeppel calls this a “technotax” | end blames the present economic plight of the country on the use of { machinery which results in over- production and unemployment. Purpose to Be Real Crux. The California Representative 1s Just as logical as are the defenders of a processing tax on articles of manufacture. A long line of decisions | of the courts, however, uniformly in- dicates that. when the processing taxes and the pay roll taxes or the penalty | taxes are up for judicial determina- tion, the controlling issue will be what 15 their real purpose. Judge Dawson, for instance, declared the tobacco tax | unconstitutional because its purpose was to regulate the crop. The Department of Agriculture | makes no secret of the fact that the | purpose of the processing tax and ! the object of the cotton-control and other crop-control laws are to regu- late farm prices. There is no power | in the Federal Constitution, explicit | or implied, by which prices can be fixed and, even if this were to be/ derived from the power to regulate| commerce or from the so-called com- merce clause, as it affects articles | at this session. This is the only reason why the bill now is being pushed along. The skipper insists on it. Squeeze Halts Rebellion. You may wonder why the doubtful Democratic members of Congress do not rebel. If so. you do not know much about politics. With Huey Long and Dr. Townsend making themselves more or less pop- ular solely by promising to give away money, most every member in his right mind would consider it political suicide to vote against any social security program. What has happened inside the Re- publican camp on this same bill is proof enough of that. Twice the Re- publican House members have been called into conference to adopt a| party plan of opposition to the bill. Twice they have failed to adopt any agreement for co-ordinated opposi- tion. Many Republicans will vote against the bill, but the wise old heads do | not want to put the party on record. no matter how many doubts they may have about the plan. The truth is Mr. Roosevelt has Congress in what is popularly known as “the squeeze.” Unless he relents the bill certainly will become a law at this session. And there is little chance that he will relent, despite stories now current in the Senmate cloak rooms, con- Bying that erromeous impression. There are good reasons to suspect Mr. Roosevelt himself is not very strong for the machinery of the bill, but wants it passed so that the prin- ciple will be adopted. Then changes can be made later. At any rate, the New Dealers who testified before the House committee seemed to be less proud than usual of their handiwork. Two Justice De- partment lawyers were the most fa- vorable witnesses. They confined their testimony to suggestions for get- ting around constitutional objections. than 50 years. He resided at 2829 ‘Woodland drive. Surviving him are his widow, three children, Mrs. Harry K. Hickey, Mrs John T. Remey and George Adams Howard: three grandchildren, and a niece, Miss Kathryn Gwynn. | FLORIDA PROJECT 10 BE TAKEN UP. President Confers With| Delegation on Canal Un- der P. W. A. Program, One of the first of the major projects under the expanded public works pro- gram that will be taken up by Presi- dent Roosevelt and his allotment ad- | visers will be the proposed building {of a free-to-all canal across Florida connecting the Atlantic with the Gulf of Mexico by a channel deep enough to accommodate large vessels. Assurance of this early action was ixiven by the President today to the ‘Flonm delegaiion headed by Sena- | tors Fletcher and Trammell. | According to the Floridians, this project will cost about $125.000,000 | and give employment to 25000 men | for several years. Moreover, it was | pointed out to the President that | |all of the preliminary surveys and | calculations have been made and | that work could be started at once. The plan is to build a canal with a channel 30 feet deep and the estimate of the advocates of this project is | that when built it will be traveled over by more vessels than at present It If It Rains... These Three Little Words Rule Life in Dust Bowl of U. S. Editor's note: This is the first of three stories surveying the situation in the dust sector of the Southwest—large in itself; but small in terms of the whole—which has been swept by a series of spec- tacular dust storms. Iney are | written by Robert Geiger, Assoct- | ated Press staff writer, who trav- | eled through the greater part of the “dust bowl” ~ The story he Jound comingles damage and jorti- tude reminiscent of the pioneers. In fact, many of the farmers he talked with were pioncers. Thou- sands of acres have been hit hard. but over many other thousands the dust clouds caused only annoyance —and more Spring house-cleaning. Damage to wheat prooaoly Tuns into millions, but what part is due to wind erosion and what to drought 15 beyond separation or calculation. BY ROBERT GEIGER. Associated Press Staff Writer. GUYMON, Okla., April 15.—Three little words—achingly familiar on a Western farmer's tongue—rule life ! today in the dust bowl of the conti- nent— If it rains. . Ask any farmer, any merchant, any banker what the outlook is. and you hear them—if it rains. . . If it rains . | The other type starts with a blast. | :nnd a huge black cloud approaching | across the plains at tremendous speed. | It strikes all at once along a well- | defined front. It carries sand and on hands and face feels like the blast U.S. DUST RELIEF PROGRAM PUSHED A. A. A., Meanwhile, Denies McCarl Definitely Banned Payments. By the Associated Press. While Controller General McCarl wrote & question mark on A. A. A. plans to pay farmers for a crop-re- striction program which has been abandoned for this year, seven Gov- ernment agencles indicated today they were linking their efforts to com- bat dust-storm damage. It was the damage from dust and drought storms which prompted the Agricultural Adjustment, Administra- tion to lift restrictions on Spring wheat plantings. Declaring they wanted to avoid shortages, officials said the fermers would be paid for the abandoned reductions if they promised to curtail acreage next year. McCarl has asked for more infor- mation on this proposal, but A. A. A men denied he had ruled definitely that such payments could not be made. They indicated an expectation that the payment program could be carried through. though with per- | haps some changes in the arrange- ments. i Upper left: Close-ups of masks worn by Boise City, Okla., resi- dents to protect them during the dust storms in the West. Upper right: Sixteen-foot apple trees on a farm in Oklahoma al- most buried in the sand. Behind the high hill of sand can be scen the farm house, almost hidden from view by the banks of dust. Lower: A ridge of sand as high as the barns on a Western Okla- homa farm. A second dust storm hit this sector just as it was dig- | ging out from under a previous | one. —Wide World Photos. | Agencies Seek Data. The seven agencies whose officials indicated they were organizing their total knowledge and facilities for the dust relief emergency are: The A. A. A, Farm Credit Admin- istration, Emergency Relief Adminis- tration, Soil Erosion Service, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Bureau of Plant Industry and Bureau of Agri- cultural Engineering The eflorts, officials said, will in- clude shipping feed. food and water into the stricken areas of Texas, Okla- homa, New Mexico, Kansas and Colo- rado, starting work-relief projects on roads, private lands and the public domain, plgnting of fast-growing and INQUEST 1S HELD | “listing” operations. This latter work Ear|e T. LeWiS of Internal | is an attempt to prevent soil blowing | ;wny py making alternate ridges and Revenue Bureau Dies. | """ Suspect Jailed. May Acquire Land. Meanwhile other officials of th-~ same bureaus were beginning to map | cut permanent plans designed. they said. to prevent a recurrence of dust An inquest was being held today at | storms in dry periods. the District Morgue into the traffic Primary among these was & pro- | » | gram with the declared aim of perma- | death yesterday of Earle T. Lewis, 44, | nent)y acquiring, through the A. A. | of 5315 Thirteenth street, fatally in- | A. and Relief Administration, 15.- jured when struck on Naylor road ' 000.000 acres of land before July 1 northeast by an automobile, whose | Such land will be retired from farm NP g | production to the public domain for | alleged driver was captured 300 yards | pjanting to cover crops and forests from the scene of the accident by a and for use as recreation and wild of a chafl from a threshing machine. When at its height, bright lights in towns are invisible across the street visibility is zero and. within buildings, lights must be turned on as at night. Motorists continuously crawl along at 5 and 10 miles an hour, unable to peer ahead for more than 10 or 15 feet Busses are stopped—sometimes trains. The fine siit penetrates motor blocks and, if motorists are unwary, grinds out bearings. | Drifts Along Highways. ‘These are the storms which leave drifts of dust along the highways and | fences—sometimes dust drfits up to the eaves of farm buildings. | It can't be kept out of a house. and dishes have to be washed—not three times, but six times, daily—before and after every meal, ' Housewives don't like them, of course, but the dust belt grins and bears it. former Maryland prohibition agent | Lewis, an income tax conferee for the Internal Revenue Bureau, was struck as he stood near the machine | of a motorist to thank the latter for aid in getting the Lewis car out of a mud hole. He was pronounced dead 45 minutes later in Providence Hos- | pital, where he was taken in his own automobile. Glenn W. Fasnacht. 20, of the 600 block of Eighth street northeast, was captured by Joseph R. Brewer of Wal- dorf, Md. the former prohibition agent, who was a witness of the acci- dent. Brewer put Fasnacht in his | machine and started for No. 11 station | house. En route, Brewer said. Fas-| nacht jumped out. but was again cap- tured after a chase on foot. Two Other Youths Freed. Fasnacht was locked up at the sta- life areas. The land is classed as submarginal by Government experts since it is in a region of small an- nual rainfall Meanwhile the Bureau of Plant In- dustry was at work sorting out from 1,800 varieties of plants, brought back from Siberia and Mcngolia by a Department of Agriculture expedition last year, those species adaptable to the hot, dry conditions of the drough* area. WIVES TO ATTEND FOOD PRICE PROBE Detroit Schedules Inquiry by Grand Jury Into Rising Costs. " | . . some farmers will | Merchants do business as usual, ! unless the storm gets too severe. Then they hunt a fourth hand at bridge, lock the front door and retire to the back room to play it out. It gets into your clothes, literally in your hair, and sometimes it seems in get a wheat crop. If it rains . . . fresh row crops may YOur very soul. Certainly it gets under the skin. flourish. If it rains . . . pasture and range for live stock may be restored. If it rains . . . fields quickly listed into wind-resisting clods may stop the dust. If it rains . . . it always has! The next three weeks will tell the story. Black and saffron clouds of dust, spectacular, menacing. intensely irri- tating to man and beast alike, choking. blowing out tender crops and lasting without mercy for days, have darkened evervthing but hope and a sense of numor in the dust sector of the South- | west. ! But, despite the hardship and a generally unencouraging prospect, not a single one of more than a hundred farmers interviewed by your corre: Take Charles Hitch, an rancher-farmer, living south of Guy- mon, who came here in 1886, “For the first time since I have been on Coldwater Creek—and I was the first settler—we are thinking of shipping cattle to greener pastures,” he said. Drought Worse This Year. tion house pending his appearance at the inquest. Two youths police say were with Fasnacht were temporarily | BY the Associated Press detained, but released upon order of | _DETROIT. April 15 —Housewives o! Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald to | Detroit will desert their dishwashing appear at the inquest as witnesses. llnd dusting Thursday to attend = | With Lewis at the time of the acci- grand jury investigation into the ris- |dent were his wife, their daughter Phyllis, 26, and Mrs. Lewis’ niece, Miss ing price of bread. milk, meat anc other items in the household budget Earle T. Lewis (above), killed by an automobile reported driven by Glenn W. Fasnacht (below). Fas- nacht photographed at inquest to- in interstate commerce. there is no| go through the Panama Canal. | justification for the contention that | the taxing power can be applied to accomplish it. The general basis of the present legislation is that Congress has the right to provide taxes for the general welfare and that Congress can be the judge of what is the general welfare. The difficulty with this is that many Gecisions of the Supreme Court have limited the power of Congress to use the taxing power at will to achieve worthy objectives. Processing Like Excise Tax. The processing tax is just like an excise tax when it is collected, but the parallel ends there. Excise taxes | g0 into the general fund and every! appropriation is presumably for the general welfare. | essing taxes, however—and it would | be the same with respect to pay roll | | Constitutionality Doubted. Those who are now championing the measure in the House do not attempt to make much of a secret of the oubtful constitutionality of some features. less open doubts about the advisabil- ity of creating such a stupendous Federal fund ($32,000,000,000 by 1970) for the administration of the measure. This is more than enough money to pay off the National Gov- ernment debt, which is now so big | that some financial men are howling that it will ruin the country. In the case of proc- | || taxes—the disbursement is for the |’ benefit of a specially selected group. (Coprrisht. 1935.) Congress in Brief B the Associated Press. TODAY. Senate. Meets with three measures ready for debate—motor bus regulation. Bank- head bill to create a farm loan cor- poration and the A. A. A. amendments. Munitions Committee receives Ber- nard M. Baruch statement assailing John T. Flynn plan to restrict profits | to 3 per cent in war. | House. Debates social security bill (noon). Interstate Commerce Committee concludes hearing on holding company regulation. - TOMORROW., House, Continues general debate on social security bill. Public Health Subcommittee of the District Committee resumes hearings on smoke control bills, 10:30 a.m. ‘Tomorrow. Fenate. On the floor: Probably will debate motor bus and truck control bill. Interstate Commerce Committee, beginning hearings on regulation of holding companies. Commerce Committee, bill to regu- late comerce and firearms, 10:30 a.m. Judiciary subcommittee, hearings on Benator Black's lobby control bill, 11 am, Naval Affairs Committee, routine business, 10:30 a.m. | and The members of Congress know in their own minds that this money will come out of the workers' pay en- velopes. Most of it is supposed to come from a tax on employers, but there are only two places for an em- ployer to get the money to pay the tax: (1) From cutting his pay roll costs, (2) from charging increased prices. It is not hard to guess which method the employer will favor. Straight on Moley. To keep the record straight. it should be pointed out that Mr. Roase- velt's adviser, Prof. Moley, had noth- | ing to do with the preparation of that freed blue book. The indorsements carried in the front of the book were from editorials Moley wrote in his magazine. The use of them was not authorized. Moley is supposed to be interesed in the deferred market idea, but not necessarily in the freed pro- gram as a whole (particularly amendment of the securities act). There is nothing in the story going around that Al Smith and Hoover are planning anything political. Their recent activities may be attributed solely to the fact that they are em- ployed by the same insurance com- pany, at least partially, for the pur- poses of advertising. Any one who knows those two men will realize how difficult it is for them to shake hands, even to advertise their company in the papers. ‘The Roosevelt slogan for next year They also have more or| Finance Committee, further hear- | has already been coined by an attache ings on N. R. A. | Munitions Committee, continuing | hearings, I at Democratic headquarters. It is “Save the Country from mluum."l (Copyright. 1935.) ¢ was said that this canal would cut off | about 2!, days from the present round trip vovage between New York and New Orleans. | Senator Fletcher, who acted as spokesman for the delegation, said afterward that President Roosevelt ex- | pressed himself as being in full sym- pathy with the proposal, but was not | familiar with the proposition, but be-! fore reaching a conclusion wished to | confer with engineers and with those who will assist him in making allott- ments under the new work relief set-up. DOHERTY TERMED HOTEL FINANCIER AT HOUSE HEARING (Continued From First Page.) acts be referred to the district at- torney, but Ingalls informed him the statute of limitations has run against any prosecution. Ingalls testified he thought the in- come bonds, which pay interest only when it is earned, were desirable as 2 means of refinancing the Wardman properties. He said this type of bond issue is good insurance against an- other reorganization and protects the bond holders fully if the properties are honestly operated. Ingalls criticized the action of the Wardman receivers, Thomas Carson, Julius I. Peyser and Joseph Tumulty, the latter two being lawyers, for en- gaging counsel, who were paid $25,000 for their services. The committee has expressed the belief that a lawyer, when named as & receiver with a business man, should act as’his own attorney, thereby saving money for the bondholders. He commended District Supreme Court Justice F. Dickinson Letts for | giving the minority Wardman bond- holders, representing 2 per cent of the total, an opportunity to accept a cash payment of 28 cents on the dol- Iar after the sale of the properties, or the right to come in with the 98 per cent majority and take the income ‘bonds. “That was unusual, and, I think, very fair,” Ingalls declared. He said he believes Halsey-Stuart Co., one of the banking houses which floated the bonds, started out in “their usual manner” to control the reorgan- ization, with pu of eventually owning the properties if they should be worth anything, but “lost their grip” when Leonard L. Stanley, an official of the company, was indicted. 1\ War Brought Plow to Area. The Southwest is big and the dust area is only a small chunk of it. Roughly, it takes in the western third | of Kansas. Southeastern Colorado, the Oklahoma Panhandle, the north- ern two-thirds of the Texas Panhan- | dle and Northeastern New Mexico. | It always has been a region of | demands, sent the plow into the sodl and turned this into wheat country. Before then it was range land., and | the crop was native buffalo grass, | which held the soil firm against in- sistent winds. The last three years have been years of droughts, with this Spring’s field-eroding dust storms their stifiing climax. But dust storms are nothing new in the Southwest. Forty years ago—decades before the whaet farm- ers came with their combines+a dust storm of such violence swept Western Kansas that it stopped trains, just as they were stopped last week. “This is & tough. hardy country,” its farmers say. “It will come back overnight.” “Dusters” approach country in two ways. Sometimes they start when a gigan- tic yellow-and-red cloud floats across the country, high in the air, blotting out the sun. The wind is gentle, velocity very slowly. storm carries a fine, powdery silt that seems soft and hazy—until you start breathing in it. the prairie growing in “Recent dust storms are not much | das more severe than others in former | years,” Hitch said, “but the drought is worse. | “My ranges have supported as many as 10,000 head, but I have only 800 - head now and they cannot find suf- | ficient feed. We have to feed them | cottonseed cake. “But cattle prices are on the up- | I get a wheat crop if rain comes. If there is no rain we wmi have to start shipping ca%tle in a few weeks.” A. L. Thoreson lives over the line Neilson, in Letter to Senator This type of | in Texas and is & big wheat pro- | ducer. He raised 90,000 bushels in 1931, got only 25 cents a bushel for it. The best he can hoe for, he | thinks, is & half crop. | “But we are not suffering acutely,” | he added. “The Government is pay- ing better than a dollar an acre to |us in wheat - benefit payments and, in addition, we can sell what wheat | we raise. That will keep the farmers going. The Federal wheat program |is 0. K, and if it wasn't for that | the farmers would be in an awful hole. They can hold on indefinitely with wheat payments.” And then there is I. R. Bryan, farmer northwest of Guymon, who could have left 10 yéars ago, after 30 years of farming in the Pan- handle, “with $35.000 in my pockets.” “I made it in row crops and lost it in wheat. “I could have left here wealthy and I'll be damned if I am going | to walk out of here broke now.” The Euening Htar THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT TO-DAY Frederic J. Haskin Offers Its Readers This Worth-While BOOK It explains the permanent departments of the Federal Government and the Alphabet Bureaus of the New Deal. Every American should read it. e Order FOrm — e I Name «.coiiviieeinnnennnnnnnanee Price $1 . at The Evening Star {Sbeet S R LA Order today. King, Quotes Star Editorial. Assistant Corporation Counsel George D. Neilson, assigned to Police Court, today wrote Senator King, chairman of the Senate District Com- mittee, calling his attention to an edi- torial in The Star of last Thursdey advocating 10-to-2 verdicts in crim- inal cases other than murder. In his letter, Neilson pointed par- ticularly to a quotation in the edi- torial referring to New York as one of the leading and progressive juris- dictions of the country which has moved to edopt such an arrangement and states that logic clearly supports the assertion that “a mistrial, through failure of one juror to agree, is a grievous waste of time and unmis- takably an encouragement to the criminal-minded.” The assistant corporation counsel declares in his letter that the “10- to-2 verdict” would not be an undue hardship on the accused, since he stands to benefit just as the prosecu- tion does. The chances of his re- ceiving a speedy trial would be greatly improved and “when 10 citizens can say, under oath, that they have an abiding conviction of the defendant’s guilt, or his innocence, the decision is so overwhelming that it should be taken as conclusive. In other words, two persons should not be in a posi- tion to thwart the judgment of 10 fellow citizens whose motives, integ- rity, and sense of duty are at least equally as high as those of the minority.” Neflson refers in his letter to a recent case of @ man tried for driving under the influence of Mquor where the jury “hung” by a vote of 10 to 2. While the defendant in this case admitted consuming liquor during the day and a doctor, an ambulance | Business Office, or by mail, postpaid driver and a police officer each testi- | Helen Poff, 23, all of the Thirteenth Housewives' complaints have swelled | street address. He also leaves another | o a city-wide clamor over a cent-a daughter, Miss Margaret Lewis, 17. quart jump in milk and a two-cen! ! Lewis for many years was one of ( jump in bread. with other commodi- Washington's leading bowlers and ties moving skyward in proportion. years ago was a member of the fa-| Prosecutor Duncan McCrea, in pe- | mous Royals. More recently he had | titioning for the grand jury session aided in organizing teams in the In- exXpressed his belief that the increased ternal Revenue League. | prices are a result of price-fixing con | | spiracies and combinations in viola | Others Are Injured. | tion of the State anti-trust laws. | In another accident last night the Judge H. S. Sweeney recognized the driver of an automobile failed to|housewives' interest and announcec |make known his identity after his that the one-man grand jury will br | car had struck and injured Miss Al- | as “open as possible.” He himself wil' freda Lundin, 51, of 658 Maryland | conduct the investigation. avenue northeast, near the Academy| The cent-a-quart increase in the Theater. She was treated at Casualty | Price of milk will be the first topic of Hospital for an arm fracture, brain inquiry. Bread will be next concussion and cuts on the face. | .. "Other situations,” McCrea said. The driver is said to have stopped, | “Will be inquired into.” Officiais offered to put Miss Lundin in a car, Pointed out that the language of the |and then left the scene. | petition was broad enough to covei Others injured in traffic accidents &N investigation of the price of meat |in the past 24 hours were: | gasoline or any other commodity dis- | ers banded together in | Lillian White, 50, of Hyattsville, Md., | tributed by dea | who received head injuries when struck | ® trade organization. s by an automobile in the 600 block | McCrea told the court he attributed yet ready to give a definite answer. | ¢ | grade and I not discouraged. We parse rainfall. The World War, with | grade and I am g | He said Mr. Roosevelt was thoroughly | jts high wheat prices and urgent even wil of Minnesota avenue northeast and |the increase in the milk price to an returned home after being treated 8lleged conspiracy on the part of the at Casualty Hospital, and Julian B, | Metropolitan Detroit Milk Dealers' As- Wilkerson, 26, of Chevy Chase, Md., | 3ociation and the Michigan Milk Bottle who was treated at Mount Alto Hos- | EXchange. pital for cuts on the face received | when his machine struck a taxicab|NOW under bond awaiting trial or in front of the hospital. Later he|charges of violating the anti-trust was booked by police of No. 7 pre- | 18%S which McCren filed several weeks cinct on a charge of reckless driving | 380 When he opened his drive. 60 xeleanedBion' collaterslt Meanwhile McCrea has served notice 2 | on the Michigan Bakers' Association | that prosecutions are on the way un- ‘REICH AND RUSSIANS‘IKS the price of bread returns to 10 | | cemis. Some of the bakeries havc | | already reduced to that level. | BID TO NAVAL TALKS | ot Srocecutor Rovert. pereto reported that one concern which re- duced its bread price to the 10-cent | British Reported to Have Ar- ranged Bilateral Parleys | level found itself a target for a boycott Soon. The directors of the association arc | demand in the Retail Grocers' Trade Journal and that 1,000 stores dropped the product. Associated Press Poreign Staff. LONDON, April 15.—Naval quarters heard today that Germany and Russia have been invited to participate in | bilateral technical naval conversations | here in the near future. | This move, it was said, would enable Great Britain to ascertain the techni- cal programs and aims of the two countries. ‘The report was heard simultaneously with the return from the Stresa -con- ference of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, who looked tired but happy over the outcome of the con- versations with French and Italian leaders. It was said the invitations to Ger- many and Russia were extended be- fore the meeting at Stresa, but that the move was discussed with the French and Italians during the con- ference and met with their approval. Such conversations would be a pre- lude to the general naval conference, which may be held later this year. THIS AND THAT By Charles E. Tracewell Observations on Nature —human and otherwise. See Editorial Page jury to take into consideration what Neiison described as “overwhelming evidence of the defendant’s guilt.” Such a situation, Neilson declared, is one of the reasons why more is not | fled that the defendant was drunk.| done to break up drunken driving and he must be tried again because of the | spare the lives of the innocent and refusal of the two members of the| helpless victims. A &