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RUBBER SITUATION TEST OF POWERS New Concept of Labor and Emergency Rights Seen in Court Appeals. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. 8o far as the general public is aware, there was last week a threat of a strike in the rubber industry. The Department of Labor under Sec- retary Perkins stepped in and both sides agreed to a truce, pending the outcome of the cases now in the Federal courts, which are to test the power of the National Labor Relations Board to order and supervise elections. Actually, the issues are even more far-reaching than thus outlined. They touch the whole question of whe Fed- eral Government's right to regulate employer and employe relations in every business or industry which may “affect” interstate commerce. The briefs, which have been flled in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the sixth circuit at Cin- cinnati by the B. F. Goodrich Co. and by the Department of Justice, re- spectively, are printed and a study of them will reveal the trend of the ar- gument being made. Quote Supreme Court. The contention of the Goodrich Co. is that the National Labor Rela- tions Board has no power over commerce within a State, that rubber manufacturing is no differeni from other kinds of manufacture which the | Supreme Court of the United States has held to be outside the power of Congress to regulate, and that no re- lationship has been proved between collective bargaining negotiation on the one hand and the movement of goods in interstate commerce on the | other, In support of this view the | Goodrich Co. lawyers quote the fol- | lowing from a Supreme Court opin- | fon: “What possible legal or logical con- nection is there between an employe's membership in a labor organization and the carrying on of interstate com- merce? Such a relation to a labor organization cannot have, in itself, and in the eye of the law, any bear- ing upon the commerce with which the employe is connected by his labor | and services * * * we hold that there | is no such connection between inter- | state commerce and membership in a | labor organization as to nuthorin‘ Congress to make it a crime against the United States for an agent of an interstate carrier to discharge an em- ploye because of such membership on | his part.” Products Defined. Also the Goodrich company quoted | from another Supreme Court opinion, | which stated that “if the possibility or indeed certainty of exportation of a product or article from a State de- termines it to be in interstate com- merce before the commencement of | its movement from the State, 1t would seem to follow that it is in such com- merce from the instant of its growth or production, and, in the case of | coals, as they lie in the ground.” The court added that the result “would be curious” because “it would nationalize all industries, it would na- tionalize and withdraw from State | jurisdiction and deliver to Federal commercial control the fruits of Cal- ifornia and the South, the shoes of Massachusetts and the woolen indus- tries of other States, at the very in- ception of their production or growth, that is, the fruits unpicked, the cot- ton and wheat ungathered, hides and flesh of cattle yetr on the hoof, wool yet unshorn and coal yet unmined, because they are in varying percent- ages destined for and surely to be exported to States other than those of their production. However, we need not proceed further in specula- tion and argument. Ingenuity and What’s What Behind News In Capital Ogden Mills Seen as Hoover Candidate for Next Year. Y Hoover on his highly pub- licized tour. This was not an oversight. If he came here he would not have many places to go. The fact is most of the Republican authorities here are irked every time they pick up a newspaper and find Mr. Hoover's name in it. They know he is not a presidential possibility and he knows it, but apparently no one else does. a3 You can mark it down in your little notebook that Mr. Hoover's candidate for the next Republican presidential nomination is Ogden Mills, the former Secretary of Treasury. You may also note that, while Mr. Mills is probably the most brilliant and capable man in the Republican party, he has no more chance of getting the nomination than you have, BY PAUL MALLON. OU may have moticed that Washington was not one of the places visited by Mr, Roosevelt Strength. ‘The smartest Republican authority from the Midwest says President Roosevelt would carry his section today. He thinks the President has | lost ground, but not enough. Incidentally his one-two-three pick for the Republican nomination is (1) Col. Frank Knoz, (2) Senator Vanderberg, (3) Gov. Landon of Kansas. e i e % wowpeeroL? Republican authorities here have been astounded at the amount of talk about Knox in the Middle West. He is weak in Washington, but that may be to his credit. Kansas Mistake. ‘The smartest Republican strategists privately consider the coming Kansas City meeting a mistake. It is always bad strategy for an opposition party to try to draw up | QIO GRISIS NEARS an affirmative list of principles. The | truth is that those who will meet in Kansas City are agreed on only one thing. namely, that they are against the New Deal. If you go beyond that into a list of particulars, you will find thers are as many different viewpoints among the proposed Kan- sas City delegates as there are dele- gates. The promoters of the meeting know this now. For that reason you need not expect much from the gathering, despite all the ballyhoo about it. Note—The Eastern wing of the party (Hilles, Rorabach, etc.) had no connection with the arrangement | for the meeting, regardless of stories now going around to the contrary. Harriman to Quit. Over at the United States Chamber of Commerce it is no secret that the president, Henry I. Harriman, is leav~ ing when his present term expires. An announcement will be made when the annual meeting 1= held here in May. This decision is at least par- tially based on an unwritten tradition of the chamber that no president will serve more than three terms. Har- riman is serving his third one-year term. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, “Let ’Er Blow!” Farmers Echo Words of Veteran of Panhandle, Refusing to Leave." Editor’s note: This is the second of three stories describing the sit- uation and the outlook in the dust-plagued sector of the South- west, the source of dust storms which have swept as far east as the Atlantic seaboard, and west to the Pacific Coast. BY ROBERT GEIGER, Associated Press Staft Writer. SPRINGFIELD, Colo., April 16—A man unfamiliar gith the high plains dry-farming region, birthplace of the black blizzard, might see only despair and desolation in wind-scoured fields and dust-drifted roads and farmyards. It does look pretty desperate, amd some families have given up hope and moved away. Not many. Dry- land farmers have been through dust storms before, and most of them echo the anonymous old timer, a veteran of the Panhandle, who sald: “It takes grit to live out here—let ‘er blow!” As a matter of record, they had storms a century ago much like those of 1935. Pastor Recalls Storm of 1830. Rev. Isaac McCoy, pioneer surveyor and missionary, reported one in West- ern Kansas in November, 1830, which cut visibility to 30 yards, made hoof | Ing: prints invisible and masks imperative. Again, in 1913, sand and dust drifted to the eaves of isolated farm buildings in one section, and in spots the region looked as it does today. With this background of experience and endurance, and the knowledge that, given water, they can get re. markable crops, the dry-landers are hard to discourage. ‘Traveling through the dust sector —through Southeastern Colorado, Southwestern Kansas, the west end of the Oklahoma Panhandle and the north tip of the Texas Panhandle— you see a region which now has the appearance of a vast desert, with miniature shifting dunes of sand. A rain might turn it green overnight, but that is how it looks now. There are spots where wheat fields still were green last week. Great Colony of Ant Hills. Many of the flelds that were planted to wheat last Fall give the illusion of a great colony of ants, with hills marking spots where tumble- weeds have caught and dust drifted around them, These little dunes are about a foot high. In other places the drifts are as high as fences, especially in corners. Snow fences that have held virtually no snow for four Winters are drifted to the tops with sand, and one can walk over them. Roads are blown clean of sand (sur- facing material) for miles at a stretcn, and in many parts of the region a powdery white siit covers the country- side. On the roads can be seen an oceas sional car, loaded with a farm family, usually with a truck following carry- ing household goods. Some are head- ed for Eastern Kansas or Missouri or Eastern Oklahoma, where rainfall has been normal, or to the Colorado mountain country. To Return When Rain Comes. Postmaster Herman Davis Springfield, Colo., says about a dozen families have moved away, but most of them made & temporary change of address, planning to return when rain comes. J. R. Peters of Boise City, Okla., said he would leave “immediately” if he had means. “If T leave I can’t get wheat and corn payments or relief, and that’s all that's keeping me alive,” he said. He hasn’t had a crop in four years. But E. H. Libbey, a neighbor, came out of Sunday's big dust storm smil- “They’ll have to carry me Out of this country feet first,” he said, grin- ning. “I won't leave voluntarily.” “However,” he added, “I'm going to move about 20 miles west, where the | dust ain’t so bad. I live farther down | that way now than the prairie dogs | will live, but I'm sticking it out.” Salty Sense of Humor. Edna Lynn, social service director of Texas County, Okla., one of the biggest wheat counties, says that many farmers who swear ¢hey will move away every time a dust storm strikes change their minds with the first sunny day. Her staff, working over the county, Eas reported almost 100 families leav- ing this section a week ago. Many of these families were land owners and will return when the dust subsides and rain comes. She does not expect the “renters” to come back. Withal, a salty sense of humor pre- vails. In Guymon, Okla., a farmer pur- chased a pair of rubber boots, slung them over his shoulder and started down the three blocks of Main street, | where farmers stood in gossiping | groups. The sight of the rubber boots | brought shouts of laughter. INPRISON STRIKE Warden to Make Another Appeal—Convicts Ask Speedier Paroles. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, crisis approached today in the strike of 1,000 convicts in the workshops of Ohio Penitentiary. As Warden James C. Woodward sought to ferret out the ringleaders, he prepared to make another appeal to the prisoners to take up their tools. What course the prison head would take should they refuse was a matter of conjecture. The prisoners, who constitute about | April 16.—A | BANK ROW DELAY ALLOWEDINHOUSE D. C., TUESDAY, SHIPBUILDING DEAL TOLD TO' SENATE Wall Street Operator Denies He “Double-Crossed” Banker in Purchase. By the Associated Press. Ben Smith, spectacular Wall Street operator, heard and denied today an accusation he had “double-crossed” 8. H. Vallance, a New York investment banker, in buying for himself control of the New York Shipbuilding Corp. The accusation was contained in a letter written by Vallance when he discovered Smith had bought control of the shipyards in association with E. L. Cord, noted automobile financier. Vallance had testified he was nego- tiating with Smith to buy the con- trolling stock from Chase Securities Corp., when he discovered the oper- ator had beught the stock “secretly” and sold half to Cord. But Smith had a different story. Negotiated With Prince. Recalling that Vallance was trying to buy the stock for F. H. Prince of Boston and Newport, Smith declared the buyer had insisted that as part of the program his friend, Joseph W. | | Powell, was to be president of the company. Powell is president of United Drydock Corp. “I told Prince I would not consider it with Powell,” the operator told the committee. % “Prince said he would not go in| without Powell.” Later, Smith said, he told Prince “if he still insisted on Powell we would drop the matter. It dropped there.” He said he bought the stock direct from Chase for himself, then sold half to Cord. Previously, Senator Vandenberg, Re- publican, of Michigan joined Chal man Nye of the committee in criti- cizing Bernard M. Baruch’s denuncia- tion of the committee’s pian for taking profits out of war. Vandenberg asserted that Baruch “runs away” when talk of taxing away all war profits is raised. He added: “God help capitalism if it won't de- fend a common national crisis without its pound of flesh. War {tself is the monster of real menace.” In a radio speech last night Nye ac- cused Baruch of “hedging.” (The full text of Nye's speech in the Na- tional Radio Forum will be found on page A-8.) Baruch Stands Firm. NEW YORK, April 16 (#).—Declar- ing he has “no desire to engage in controversy with Senator Nye or any- body else,” Bernard M. Baruch made a final summation today of his stand on taking the profits out of war. “Although I may differ with others as to methods,” sald the chairman of the War Industries Board in the World War, “my position for taking the profits out of war has not changea Rivalry Between F. D. I. C. and Controller to Come Up Later. By the Associated Press. | The House Banking Committee, some | members said today, has postponed to future sessions of Congress a final | decision in the rivalry between the | Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the controller of the currency. Officials in each of those offices have been seeking to consolidate their control over banks and bank exami- | nation. Both sides of the case were | presented to committeemen in the | | nope that Congress would settle it. | But because of pressure from other ONE MORE TRIAL FACED BY INSULL U. S. to Push Indictment Charg- ing. Transfer of Firm's Assets. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 16.—The Federal Government chose yesterday to make one last effort to punish Samuel In- sull and his colleagues for an | leged criminal transfer of the as-| sets of Corporation Securities Co. with foreknowledge of its collapse. Acquitted of charges of embezzle- ment and larceny and a gigantic mail fraud conspiracy, Insull and eight APRIL 16, 1935. Off for Speed Record Laura In LAURA INGALLS ABOARD HER PLANE. BULLETIN. ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex., April 16 (#—A monoplane, believed to be that of Laura Ingalls, was sighted over this city at 9.50 am. (mountain standard time), today. ‘The plane was traveling fast at about 5,000 feet, so high that it could not be definitely identified. LOS ANGELES, April 16 (#).— Laura Ingalls roared away from Union Air Terminal early today in her black “mystery” plane in an attempt to schatter Amelia Earhart’s transcon- tinental speed record. Hoping to span the Continent in 15 hours or less, the 120-pound aviatrix “gave the gun” to her new $40,000 low-wing monoplane as it began its 2,447-mile non-stop dash to Floyd Bennett Pield at New York. The time of her takeoff was 5:10 am. (8:10 am. Eastern standard time). She carried a thermos container of coffee, some buttermilk and sand- wiches. ‘e Weather M Good. Her projected route was via Albu- querque, N. Mex.; Kansas City, Cleve- land and New York. From here into the Middle West she had good weather | galls Seeks to Cross U. S. in 15 Hours or Less. —Wide World Photo. conditions, and beyond the skies were BEALE R. HOWARD . FUNERAL IS HELD Rites at St. Thomas’ P. E. Church for Star’s Vice President. Funeral services are being heid this afternoon at St. Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church for Beale Richard- son Howard, vice president of The Evening Star Co., who died Saturday at Emergency Hospital. Rev. Dr. C. Ernest Smith, rector of the church, is the officiating clergy- man. Interment will be in the ceme- tery of St. James’ Protestant Episcopal Church, My Lady’s Manor, Baltimore County, Md. Honorary pallbearers are Frank B. Noyes, Theodore W. Noyes, Newbold Noyes, Crosby N. Boyd, Victor Kauff- mann, R. M. Kauffmann, S. H. Kauffmann and Henry G. Hanford, all of The Star, and Gen. Harry War- field, Frank R. Kent and James A. Burgess, all of Baltimore County. Mr. Howard was a member of St. Thomas’ Church and formerly & ves- | tryman of St. James’ Church. He was a native of Maryland but had resided in Washington for more than half a century. He made nis bome at 2829 Woodland drive. A stockholder of The Star com- pany since 1899, Mr. Howard served as its secretary until 1927, when he became vice president. He is survived by his widow, the former Miss Grace Barclay Adams, of | this city; two daughters, Mrs. Harry K. Hickey and Mrs. John T. Remey: a son, George Adams Howard; three grandchildren and & niece, Miss Kathryn Gwynn NEW DEAL UTILITY PROGRAM ATTACKED | Head of Jersey Public Service Cor- poration Says Attitude Is Unfair. reported clearing. She will have tail| winds during the last leg, even at| moderate altitudes. A favorable strong | northwest wind was blowing eastward | from Indiana and Ohio at about 10,000 | | feet. | | Light snows at Cleveland and Co- | lumbus, Ohio, the Weather Bureau reported, possibly will have blown over before Miss Ingalls’ black mono- | plane reaches the Middle West. | Somewhat nervous and unusually taciturn, Miss Ingalls arrived at the | field 45 minutes before her departure and looked carefully over the plane. The record she seeks to break. set by Miss Earhart in August, 1932, is 17 | hours 7 minutes 30 seconds. Makes Easy Take-off. Clad in a leather windbreaker, she | made an easy take-ofl, circled her | streamlined ship over the fleld and | | disappeared rapidly into the east. The tiny brunette flyer's mother | | lives in Newark, N. J. Miss Ingalls’ monoplane, loaded with & near-capacity load of 575 gal- lons of gasoline, is capable of top speed of 225 miles an hour, cruising speed of 205 miles and sustained flight with its present gasoline supply of 3,600 miles. SOUTHERN MILLS BACK TAX FIGHT HARRIMAN FAVORS N.R A WITHLIMITS By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J, April 16.—The Roosevelt administration’s attack on the public utility industry was de- scribed yesterday by Thomas N. Mc- Carter, president of the Public Service Corp., as “unprovoked, vicious and un- fair.” McCarter voiced his criticism at the annual stockholders’ meeting, when a stockholder asked if he could explain the President’s attitude toward the industry. “The President has a feeling on this subject,” McCarter said. “What his motives are I do not know. I think he is opposed to big business. Perhaps the reason he attacked the electric industry is because, in the words of the bridge player, we were vulnerable. We were prosperous and there had been some scandal in connection with some companies, to which the indus- try in no way subscribes. I have had several talks with the President. Each time I left him I thought the whole matter was over, but I learned differ- ently later.” Another stockholder asked McCarter about the Wheeler-Rayburn bill to. abolish holding companies. “I don't set myself up as a prophet,” McCarter said, “but I believe the avalanche of opposition to the bjll has made a decided impression. If anything passed, I believe it will be in & very modified and softened form.” Congress in Brief -fourth ,240 fele la- | others, including his son, Samuel, jr., imagination have been exercised here- Journalistic Fight. oot the” contury.old peaiteniary, Administration offcias to push through ot tace it for b aleesd 1o e Ak tofore upon a like contention.” Condition Held Changed. The Department of Justice brief doesn't undertake to contradict the words of the Supreme Court, but does declare that things have changed since the principles were announced and that now labor relations and in- dustrial unrest have grown to such proportions as to cause a stagnation in interstate commerce whenever un- satisfactory labor conditions exist in an industry. The Government lawyers endeavor to trace the gradual way by which the courts came to approve Federal con- trol of employer and employe relations on the railroads and how the Supreme Court upheld the Adamson eight-hour law because a Nationwide transporta- tion strike was threatened. There never, of course, has been any doubt about the power of Congress to regu- late the business of transportation. The brief argues that the rubber in- dustry is & far-flung affair and that collective bargaining is conducive to industrial peace, whereas absence of it is ruinous to trade and commerce and that the Federal power to regulate commerce ‘“among the States” should be construed to mean commerce within one or more States. It is evident from an examination of both briefs that the Government attorneys are relying on & new eco- nomic concept of the importance of labor relations and also upon the as- sumption that all previous precedents and principles are eradicated or ren- dered obsolete because a national emergency has existed that brought forth the national industrial recovery act, Power Not Created. The Supreme Court of the United States only last year laid down the rule that “emergency does not create power” and that the Federal Govern- ment and the States were each power- ful only within their respective spheres. In a recent instance—the guide lamp case—the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in the second cir- cuit denied the power of the Na- tional Labor Relations Board to issue orders with respect to the conduct of employer and employe relations. The controversy therein, however, was not the conduct of an election but whether $he company was bound to accept the majority rule idea in its bargaining with employes. The Goodrich case raises a more basic question—did Congress have the power to pass a law delegating to a Federal board the right to order or supervise elections in plants in manufacture, and is the manufac- turing process of a nationally sold product, like tires, a part of interstate commerce or so substantially related to it as to come under Federal juris- diction? When the Circuit Court of Appeals renders its decision the case probably will be appealed to the Supreme Court, and, unless all the precedents are to be erased and the Federal Government is to be assumed to have complete control of all commerce and those en- gaged in it, whether inside or outside of a State, the outcome may probably be to clarify once again the funda- mental differences under the Federal Constitution between the rights of the several States and the rights of the Federal Government. (Copyright, 1935.) Two eminent journalists are to meet this week in the office of Cor- rington Gil: at F. E. R. A. and fight out their conflicting contentions about the New Deal. The contestants are Walter Lippman and Frank Kent. ‘The bout probably will last one round without a decision. Kent is arguing the whole New Deal is a bust and points to the F. E. R. A. relief figures as proof. Lippman says the relief figures are not a true indi- cation and there must be other ex- planations - of the increase in relief rolls, aside from increasing unemploy- ment. Lippman is right, as usual. The referee will be Gill. No sensible man would care to um- pire the Hopkins-Davey row. Ohio's Gov. Davey is technically accurate when he says that only one man has been indicted, and this indictment was based on a charge of plain graft- ing, not shaking down firms that sell to the Relief Administration, as F. E. R. A.-er Hopkins charged. On the other hand, the F.E.R. A. gang here insists the grand jury received affidavits showing com- plicity of State oficials in a shake- down racket, but the grand jury decided there was no law against this, It seems to be a case of much ex- citement and little action. The best authorities believe Hopkins probably Spoke out of turn, but they also have their fingers crossed about the Ohio Relief Administration. The F. E. R. A. crowd insists you have not heard the last of the for- gotten sensation, but you probably have. A confidential report drawn up by the State Department recommends the following course of action to keep us out of the next war: (A) An immediate embargo on munitions, (B) forbid American citizens to travel on any ship carrying munitions, (C) prohibit loans and credits to bel- ligerents, (D) bar armed vessels from our ports, (E) make it a crime for American citizens to enlist in bel- ligerent armies, (F) make it a penal offense for any one to sympathize publicly with any belligerent. These suggestions will be toned down plenty before the final draft is submitted to the President. Row Over Dam Name. The pending proposal to rename Pickwick Dam in the Tennessee Val- ley is causing considerable inner com- motion. There are some who want to call it “Quinn” Dam in honor of the late Representative. This is op- posed by Senator McKellar's friends, who wish it to be known as McKellar Dam. S. E. C.-er Kennedy has no idea of quitting any time sobn, despite stories current in Wall Street. The stories started when a newsman misinterpreted something Kennedy said in an interview, (Copyright, 1935.) emphasized that their rebellion was aimed at obtaining speedier action by the State Board of Paroles. “We're not sore at you’ they shouted as ‘Woodward spoke to them in the chapel. Encountering his first major prob- lem since he took charge of the peni- | tempts will be made to consolidate all | Federal Department of Justice would tentiary after the removal of Warden Preston E. Thomas January 26, Wood- ward expressed confidence that the men would return to work soon with- out causing trouble. Charles R. Sharp of the Board of Paroles, which, records show, has con- sidered 1,089 cases of prisoners an granted 262 releases in the last six months, said he did not see what the board had done to cause a strike. Of the cases considered, 827 were con- tinued to a future date, frequently several years hence. ‘The prisoners, begin work in the print shop, cotton mills. woolen mill and automobile 1i- cense plate shops yesterday morning, were marched to their cells. They have been served meals in their cells sirree then. The strike came within & week of | the fifth anniversary of the 1930 Easter Monday fire in which 320 pris- oners perished at the prison. It was the worst prison fire in American history. RADCLIFFE. TO SPEAK Maryland Senator to Be Heard by Engineers. Senator George L. Radcliffe of Maryland will address a meeting of the Washington Society of Engineers at the Cosmos Club tomorrow at 8 pm. For two years prior Lo his election to the Senate he was regional adviser of the Public Works Administration for the States from Maryland to Ken- tucky. Senator Radcliffe will speak on the new work relief act and im- portant legislation now pending be- fore Congress. A buffet supper will be served. Send for Your Copy Now o o e e Opder O = oo o o o ] ] at The Evening Star Business Office, or by mail, postpaid = after refusing to| NGME civvevesncnrssnsnrosnnences Street | the big omnibus banking bill, com- | | mitteemen said they had decided to {leave the issue unsolved in that | measure. i | Consolidation Planned. | | It was understood that future at- | |bank supervisory activities under | either the controller or the F. D. I. C. That, it was contended, would do away with some duplicating activities and | remove uncertainties, of which the | members say bankers complain. Before agreeing to pass the broader | issue to the future, however, the com- mittee approved a section in the bill which was explained as narrowing the authority of the controller of the cur- rency. Under present law the controller has authority to appoint receivers for national banks which fail. The omni- bus banking bill reiterates that author- ity, but adds that the receiver must be the F. D. I C. 0'Conror’s Work Praised. Even that issue is a touchy one. | Committeemen generally praise J. F. | T. OConnor, the controller, for his work in reopening and liquidating the assets of banks closed during the banking holiday. But present law requires the F. D. I. C. to keep in close touch with the financial status of each bank which has its deposits insured. The mem- bers say that when an insured bank does close, the F. D. I. C. should be in on the liquidation to preserve its claims and thus minimize claims on the dnsurance fund. The best way to do that, the com- mittee agreed, was to let the F. D. I. C. be the receiver. Featherbed Smothers Man. SPRINGFIELD, Colo., April 16 (#). —Louis Ahrens, 63, was found smoth- ered to death in a featherbed yester- day in a rooming house. W. C. moval of $2558,120 from the com- pany treasury before they will stand clear. | The State, believing conviction im- possible, had dropped its last indict- ment and it had been thought the abandon its prosecution, too, for the bankruptcy indictment had been gen- erally regarded as the weaker charge. But Attorney General Cummings at Washington concurred in the recom- | mendation of District Attorney Dwight | H. Green that he proceed with trial. The elderly chief defendant, told of the final hazard ahead, declined | to comment. | The indictment, returned by the‘ Federal grand jury in August, 1933, contained five counts. It alleged that Insull and his co-directors of Cor- poration Securities Co. declared $558,- 120 in dividends virtually on the eve of the filing of a bankruptcy petition against the company, and that more than $2,000,000 in cash and securities was removed from the Treasury to be pledged as collateral for loans from Chicago and New York banks. ————— Artificial Silk Inventor Dies. HOVE, Sussex, England, April 16 () —Charles Frederick Cross, 75, to whom women are partly indebted for artificial silk hosiery, died today. Cross, with a fellow chemist, E. J. Bevan, invented the cellulose process for spinning artificial silk more than 40 years ago. Post’s Nose Sore Wiping Moisture As Flight Ended Valve Admitted Oxygen Schweitzer, & night watchman, said Ahrens had been drinking, and ex- pressed belief he fell face downward on the bed. The Evening Btar Offers Its Readers The only complete and authoritative description of the Federsl Govern- ment now available. “There could be no better text book for the Ameri. can people.”—ALLEN T. TREADWAY, Congress- man from Massachusetts. - i sesestesstisisistssseniees State..... So Fast It Fogged Headpiece Glass. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, April 16.—A new reason for the ending of Wiley Post's third transcontinental stratosphere flight attempt at Lafayette, Ind., Sun- day was related by friends here today. ‘The famous Oklahoman’s nose was sore. Post was quoted as saying an auto- matic valve started pouring oxygen into his rubber suit faster than the release valve could carry it away. As a result the windshield in his alumi- num headpiece became fogged. In order to see, the pilot had to stretch out his neck and wipe the moisture off with his nose. Pinally aches crept into his nose and neck, and when a clutch on the supercharger was stripped he set his globe-girdling monoplane Winnie Mae down on the Purdue University Air- port fleld. 0 Post came to Indianapolis last night to meet officers of an Indiana National Guard observation squadron. Pre- sented after a Jaudatory five-minute introduction, the fiyer responded with I have anything to say.” He went back. to Lafayette to super- intend installation of new landing gear on the plane. He expects to fly to his Bartlesville, Okla., home tomorrow., .._.‘._--vi" Favor North’s War on Proc- essing Levy, but Defend Differential. By the Associated Press. . ATLANTA, April 16 —Southern tex- tile mill owners generally applaud the militant fight of the Northern mills against the cotton processing €ax, but they say poor judgment was used in lugging in the sectional wage differ- ential. “The New England men are doing good work in putting the fire under Roosevelt and Wallace, but they show poor judgment in fighting the South's differential,” said one prominent tex- tile owner who asked that his name not be used. “The minimum wage in the South is $12 per week and in New England $13 per week,” he said, “but the South generally furnishes mill houses and maintains these villages with all mod- ern conveniences, while in the North employes have to go out and rent houses which often are high priced.” Two Mills to Close. ‘T. M. Forbes, secretary of the Geor- gia Cotton Manufacturers’ Associa- tion, said today his office had been notified that two mills in Georgia already had been forced to close on account of market conditions and that another was preparing to close at the end of this week. “Apparently the only way in which the tax can be eliminated will be through legal action,” he said, “because | Mr. Wallace (Henry A. Wallace, Sec- retary of Agriculture) seems to have made up his mind that he is going to keep it regardless of whether it is right or wrong.” Referring to Wallace's speech here Saturday, Forbes said: “Mr. Wallace charged here that the textile manufacturers were short- sighted. It seems to me the adminis- tration is more than shortsighted through its unwillingness to correct a situation the facts of which have been shown very dangerous to the market.” To Formuilate Stand. The American Cotton Manufac- turers’ Association meets next week at Augusta, Ga., and at that time the official attitude of the group toward the cotton processing tax and other angles of the situation may be stated publicly. The organization includes all of the textile mills outsidé of New England. Cotton manufaciurers of the Caro- linas were reluctant to express opin- ions on the possibility of joining New England operators in a legal fight against the tax. Generally, how- ever, they were of the opinion the tax has been detrimental. to the in- dustry. . Fred M. Allen of Gastonia, sec- retary-treasurer of the Southern combed Yarn Spinners’ Association, said it was working with other as- sociations to place before the ad- ministration “the truly serious condi- tions brought about by the tx, cone ditions which are becoming more acute daily.” i Extension Restricted to In- terstate Commerce Asked of Senate Group. | By the Associated Press. | Extension of N. R. A. with modifi- | cations limiting its operation to in- !unuu commerce was recommended | to Congress today by the Chamber of | Commerce of the United States. Henry I Harriman, president o(‘ the chamber, told the Senate Finance | Committee his faith in the ‘“basic | principles” of N. R. A. was unchanged, | though too much had been attempted under the original act. | The scholarly-appearing business leader recommended a number of | changes in the law, including a limita- | tion on its scope to “business engaged lin or affecting interstate commerce.” | The chamber, Harriman said, fa- | vors the open shop. He added that | the right of employes to bargain col- lectively or individually exists with- out writing it into the law. Harriman said there was a division of opinion within* the chamber on grantng power to impose limited codes, | but he felt the President should have authority to impose codes regulating | child labor, maximum hours, mini- mum wages and collective bargaining. Says Too Much Attempted. Harriman recalled he had testified for the original recovery law, but he said too much had been expected of | that act and too much had been at- tempted under it. “We may admire the courage with which the act was administered,” Har- riman said, “but we cannot be sur- prised that it worked both good and | evil. | “The scope should have been defi- nitely limited to large industries that were truly interstate. | “Nevertheless, my faith in the basic principles of the law is unchanged, and I appear today on behalf of the chamber to urge its extension with certain specific changes.” Outlining the chamber’s proposals, Harriman recomended the act should be temporary, should be limited to business engaged in or affecting inter- state comerce and that the Govern- ment should have power to approve or disapprove codes submitted by in- dustry, but not to modify them or impose them. Production Controls Hit. All codes, he said, should cover child labor, hours, wages and col- lective bargaining. But Harriman contended price fixing and production controls should not be permitted ex- cept in rare instances where large surpluses accumulated. TODAY, Senate. Debates motor transportation bill. Judiciary opens hearing on Black lobbying bill. Munitions Committee examines Ben Smith, Wall Street operator. House. Debates economic security bill. Agriculture Committee opens hear- ing on measure to aid refinancing of small farm homes. YESTERDAY. Senate. Received administration ship-sub- sidy bill. Debated motor transportation bill. Banking Committee examined Mar- riner 8. Eccles, up for confirmation as Reserve Board chairman. House. Debated social security legislation. Interstate Commerce Committee concluded hearings on measure to reg- ulate holding companies. TOMORROW. Senate. On the floor: Probably will con- sider Bankhead farm tenants’ bills. Finance Committee hearing on N.R. A. Interstate Commerce Committee probably « will continue hearing on public utility holding companies. Munitions Committee continuing hearings. House. Continues debate on social security bill. Regular meeting of District Com- mittee, 10:30 a.m. MESCAL IKE BY S. L. HUNTLY Dr. Walton Hamilton, member of the Recovery Board, ridiculed en- forcement of the anti-trust laws and asserted N. R. A. could be “a very valuable addition to and supplement of the anti-trust acts.” He said in 40 years of the anti- trust laws before 1930 only 40 or 50 individuals had been sent to jail and less than $2,000,000 in fines collected despite the concentration of industry during that period, ) Meet ‘Pa’ Piffle one of the funniest men in the - funny papers See Section B, Page 16.- [}