Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1935, Page 1

ATHER. (U 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy and cooler tonight and tomor- row, with showers tonight, probably end- ing tomorrow morning: gentle shifting winds. Temperatures—Highest, 89, at 3:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 66, at 6:15 a.m. to- day. Full report on page A-9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 11,12,13 No. 33,265. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. RANSOM PAYMENT SEEN IN ACTIVITIES OF WEYERHAEUGER Father, Absent From Home, | Believed Closing Deal With Kidnapers. Millions of Francs Pour From French To Belgian Money By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, May 29.—Hundreds of millions of francs in gold are pouring in from France for ex- change into Belgian francs. The brokers in the Brussels exchange market have been un- able to satisfy the demand which has been enormous for the last 48 hours. On the French frontier resi- dents of the Tournai and Courtrai districts are eagerly ex- changing French for Belgian currency, fearing that the French money may be devalued, while Belgian frontier stores have benefited by the heavy buying. ARLINGTON DUMPS BANNED BY BOARD Warrants Promised Soon by Prosecutor—Sheriff Awaits Papers. “DEADLINE” IS TONIGHT; NEW LETTER ARRIVES Officers Stay Away From Lumber King's Reisdence to Allow Free Negotiations. (Wirephotos on Page A-3.) (Copvright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) TACOMA, Wash., May 29.—Tacoma grew tense today as the city m!mt- preted activity around the J. P. Wey- erhaeuser home as indicating the fam- ily would pay $200.000 ransom (fzr the return of 9-year-old George Weyer- Daeuser before the deadline tonight. after midnight, the house- hn‘l‘dm;;r;gn which the curly-haired County, Va., objects of strenuous pro- lumber heir was snatched last Friday | tests from citizens in Virginia and was awake and stirring again by dawn. | Washington, including high Govern- John Philip Weyerhaeuser, father of ‘The burning dumps in Arlington ah WASHINGTON, D.. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1935—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. f | ment officials, today were ordered to | FLANDIN CABINET TOPPLING IN FIGHT 0 DEFEND FRANG Chamber Committee Certain to Resist Demand for Dictator Power. DEVALUATION IS TERMED ALTERNATIVE MEASURE Government Head to Appear Be- fore Deputies Tomorrow in Personal Appeal. BULLETIN. Copyright. 1035, by the Associated Press, PARIS, May 29.—The Finance Committee of the Chamber of Deputies turned against Premier Pierre-Etienne Flandin today in his demand for dictatorial finan- cial powers over France and voted against his bill, 25 to 15, (Copyricht. 1035, by the Associated Press.) PARIS, May 29.—The position of the missing lad. was nowhere to be | geen and was believed to be with J. be abolished forthwith in a resolu- | Premier Pierre-Etiennc Flandin's cab- tion adopted by the County Board at | inet became increasingly precarious omb. uncle of the missing | & meeting in the court house. &T'::S E‘r‘;’\unned as probable cnn-? The order to enforce the existing tact man for negotiations with the | ordinance prohipmng ~dumps came kidnapers. Titcomb and & man be- | when the board’s special Ordinance lieved to be Weyerhaeuser left the | Committee reported in favor of re- Jumber family’s home last night and | taining and enforcing the existing law did not return. | against dumps. d Their departure a few hours after Commonwealth’s Attorney Lawrence the family received a registered letter | W. Douglas, absent from the meeting recalled that the kidnapers said in Wwhen, the resolution was adopted, the ransom note. “You will be noti- |stated upon questioning by newspaper | today as it became virtually certain | the Chamber of Deputies Finance | Committee would oppose his demands for dictatorial powers to defend the franc Voices were raised in violent dis- cussion when members of th> com- mittee conferred with the premier in | his office prior to today's Parlia- mentary session. | The conference was described as “emotional and sometimes dramatic.” fied where to go when the time comes.” | men that he “would enforce the law Mrs. Weyerhaeuser, grief-stricken mother of the boy, also left her home | for an hour last night in the Titcomb automobile. She may have gone to Titcomb’s suburban home at Ameri- can lake to visit her three other children. The trio—Ann, 13: Philip. 10, and Elizabeth. 2—were rushed to the seclusion of her brother’s home | ghortly after delivery of the note. Activity Significant. This unprecrdented activity on the eve of the deadline set for payment of ! the ransom was regarded as signifi- cant. If the §200.000 was not paid on time “harm” was threatened to George by the kidnaper “BEgoist.” de- scribed today by Dr. Harry R. Hoff- man. Chicago psvchiatrist. as “defi- nitely homicidal, if trapped.” | Indicative of the tenseness in this rimor-filled Puget Sound city was a|{ call that sent the police “flying squad- ron” to an abandoned house a mile south of the Weyerhaeuser mansion early today. They had received a report some one. perhaps the kidnap victim. was pounding on the walls in a desperate effort to escape. Eight officers forced their way into the building. followed | the sound of thudding blows to the third-story attic, where they found & loose window banging in the wind. It was just one of many night alarms. increasing as the hour for payment of the ransom drew nearer. The deadline for payment of the £200,000 is 6:35 o'clock tonight. Readiness of the parents to meet the demand was shown in their reply to abductors through the personal col- umns of a Seattle newspaper: “Wg¢ are ready. Percy Minnie.” Advertisement Appears. That brief ad—the signal directed by “Egoist, Egoist.” in his kidnap let- ter—appeared again today in the Seat- | tle Post-Intelligencer. There was no explanation from any source as to whether any actual con- tact had been made, or whether the kidnapers had given any sign the boy | was safe. The kidnapers had threat- | ened “harm” to the boy if police or | newspapers were even told of the ab- duction, or if the random demand was not met in detail. But the stir of activity last night atrongly indicated such contacts had | been made. Further signs of com- munication between the parents and | the abductors were seen in continued bizarre signals from the Weyerhaeuser porch—an open umbrella, a sheet, a sweater—and installation of a new telephone in the mansion with an unlisted number. | The departure of the boy's parents | from their home left the mansion tem- | porarily deserted by all except serv- | ants and George's grandmother, Mrs. Clara Walker, bedridden by a paralytic | stroke. She has not been informed | of the kidnaping. Earlier “G men.” the State patrol | and city detectives had deserted the vicinity of the Weyerhaeuser home to permith the abductors to make easy contact. They turned their attention to in- | vestigation of two possible lookout | posts used by the abductors and | diverse rumors as to the curly-haired boy’s whereabouts. The lookout spots which the gang may have used as it plotted the ab- duction were in two vacant houses. One afforded a view of the Weyer- haeuser home and the other of the spot where George was last seen. A recent fire in a vacant mansion back of the timber family’s home showed some one had been there within the last two weeks. A knot- hole in a boarded window afforded & view of the Weyerhaeuser back gar- den for a lookout who would be screened from view from the street. A stool, from which dust and cob- webs had been recently brushed, was found in another house in front of a window overlooking the street from | which the boy was snatched. CHINESE BANK CLOSES Acute Financial Situation Is Blamed on Silver Prices. SHANGHAI, May 29 (#).—As a re- sult of the acute financial situation in China, the Shanghai Tingsun Na- tive Bank, one of the largest Chinese- style banks, closed its doors today. The Tingsun bank is the third financial house to collapse during the past week, the others having been the American Oriental Bank and the Minghua Commercial Savings Bank. (Officials of the American Oriental Bank blamed their difficulties on the 1 if the board ordered it enforced.” Before making that statement, | Douglas said he was not an arresting | Flandin asserted France might be |official. but only a prosecutor. forced to devalue its currency un- Pressed for an answer as to when the | less he is granted the full powers he dumps should be closed, he said that demands, Members of the commit- he would issue warrants “soon.” tee said, however, a majoritv was SRl Rends e A | still adamant in its opposition to grant- |ing dictatorial powers “to this gov- Sherifft Howard B. Fleld declared | ernment.” g he would serve papers “immediately| Flandin was reiiably reported to after he received them from Commonwealth's attorney.” J. H. Houser, operator of the dump at Rosslyn, was present, but made no defense of his commercial dumping | The energetic premier. handicapped business. After the board's action 0V & slowly healing fracture of his Houser said he would close his dump- | arm, told a close tviend he would re- ing lots when ordered and would not Devaluation Feared. | powers to combat devaluation until his government. health officer. e Lloyd Schaffer, operator of the | dump at the Highway Bridge, was not | present and could not be reached for a statement. County Board Chairman B. M. Smith was absent and Christopher Garnett presided. The Ordinance Committee, composed of County Manager Roy S. Braden, Commonwealth’s Attorney Lawrence W. Douglas and County Health Officer P. M. Chichester, presented the rec- ommendation to the board when it convened at 9 a.m. o e i serted. however, that Flandin would Hauling May Be Regulated. | prefer to resign tonight rather than Based upon the overwhelming sen-| to fight out the wsue with the op- timent of citizens attending tk public | position in the Finance Committee hearing in the court house Monday!and the dominant radical Socialist night, the recommendations provided | group on the fioor of the Chamber for retention of the present ordinance f of Deputies. and an amendment for governing the! The radical Socialists instructed tvpes of vehicles which will be per-|their representatives on the Finance mitted to haul junk and debris over Committee to ask the premier today cogr::dye:o:fi gl | to divulge details of his plans for bal- faaner s amendinent, ¥ mg‘; 50 | ancing the budget and promoting eco- in carrying junk and debris to dump- | ing lots will be required to have uni. | " ' ¢!l °n Flandin at his home. form bodies equipped with tightly- of Deputies. Faces Chamber Tomorrow. He said he would face the cham- for support of his project to defend the franc. A vote against him, he | asserted, would be a vote for devalua- tion. for assistance in defending the franc against speculators to carry him through to victory. Some members of Psrliament as- Assurances on Pay Asked. the | be determined o fight for dictatorial | | he wins or goes down to defeat with | | fuse to be diverted from his pro- | apply for a permit from the county | gram by the hostility of the Cham- | ber tomorrow in a personal appeal | Government supp.orters counved on the premier's appeal to the uation | | fitting canvas covers so as to prevent any of the material from falling or being blown to the highways. In approving the amendment, it as pointed out, authorities in no way ill be delayed in the enforcement of the present ordinance. The purpose of the amendment. county’s obligation to provide for the dumping of trash collected from homes in the county. Board Receives Bids. The board received bids today for the collection of garbage, trash and ashes for the year beginning July 1. Specifications contain provisions for steel-bodied trucks with “fly-tight” covers. The dumping lot which the county | maintains for this purpose is located in an undeveloped area near Lyon Park. Citizens have not complained of this lot, as they have of those at the south end of Highway Bridge | across from the airport, and on Ceme- tery road between Memorial Bridge and Rosslyn. Another dump is situ- ated at Four Mile Run, partly in TWO BANDITS ROB BANK IN VIRGINIA Get $3,000 From Woman Em- ployes at Point of Ma- chine Gun. By the Associated Press. FORK UNION, Va.. May 29 —Us- ing a machine gun and a pistol, two youthful gunmen held up and robbed the Fluvanna County Bank here of between $2,500 and $3,000 in cur- rency and cash at 10:30 o'clock this morning. escaping in a small coupe. The two bandits held up the cash- ier and assistant cashier, collected cash and currency from the counter, rifled the vault and escaped. | White, were the only two persons in the bank when the men, described as about 30 years old, dashed in with “stick ‘em up.” ,” she said, “and one of the men—the one with the big, ugly ma- chine gun—stood at the door. “The other man came behind the counter and told us to put our hands down if we wanted to, but to stand still. He took all the cash and cur- rency in the counter drawer and then went into the vault, where he got all he could find—the total being about $3.000.” American Government’s silver-pur- ghasing policy.) 4 She said the bandits then walked ‘very calmly” to the door, - Arlington County and partly in Alex- | | andria City, | | The radical Socialists also sought to obtain a promise that the pay of offi- cial functionaries and the pensions of veterans would not be cut. Prospects that they would obtain | such assurance appeared slight. Louis Germain-Martin, the finance minister, | | however, was held to be based on the already has indicated that both vet- erans and functionaries must share | the burden of balancing the budget. | Flandin's friends said he was un- likely to make concessions since the | strongest opposition emanates from | the left wing majority in the Finance | Committee, which opposes as a matter |of principle the premier's demands that he war against devaluation by decree. . The specific measures which the government contemplates have been kept secret. Edouard Herriot, Radical Socialist leader and member of the cabinet, informed his followers that only Germain-Martin was acquainted with the projects. Herriot pleaded, however, for support of the govern- ment. Followers Oppose Plan. Some of his followers, however, were 50 bitterly opposed to the finance dic- tatorship plan that they urged the former premier to resign from his post as minister of state in the Flandin government. Thirty leading business men ap- pealed to the government to prevent devaluation, as the Bank of France began applying the new 6 per cent dis- count rate to check the steady drain on the gold reserve. The increase in the discount rate was the third in a week, successively elevating it from 21, to 3 to 4 to 6 per cent. The new figure was the highest since the late Raymond Poin- care employed similar ‘measures to “save the franc” in 1926, Readers’ Guide Page. Amusements .B-12 Changing World .........A-3 Comics J «....B-8 Cross-word Puzzle ..B-8 Editorials ..A-8 Finance A-12-13 Lost and Found .A-9 Paul Mallon . ....A-10 Women's Features ....4§B-6-7 ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION UTTIN' -ru?s 1:mwe TOGETHER s GOIN' To BE SOME PUZZLE CHIEF ! N e o Star 5588 SOUGHT FORNEARBY PISTS |War Department Applies for Work-Relief Funds for Local Jobs. | Formal requests for $6.366885 to provide construction at Army posts in | and near Washington were announced today by the Division of Applications and Information of the new works-re- lief set-up. The War Department applied for a total of $65.956.816 in work relief funds covering & program in 23 States. Ad- ditional applications by the Treasury sought funds to put professional and clerical workers at tasks examining income tax returns. Funds for posts in this vicinity in- clude $3.513.019 for new buildings and ical Center; $1.233,253 for new build- ings at Fort Humphreys: $1.570,613 for new buildings at the Army Quarter- master Depot, and $50.000 to defray extra expenses imposed on the Ad- ministrative Division of the War De- partment by the emergency relief act. $528,093.600 Already Approved. While still more applications poured in from Federal departments, munici- palities and the States, the Govern- ment sought to move nearer an actual | start of its program of substituting Jjobs for the dole. other improvements at the Army Med- | 'Mrs. Roosevelt Visits Mill Town} Inspects Homes With Party Spends Night at Residence of Rail ‘Agent in Virginia. By the Associated Press. GOSHEN, Va, May 29.—After spending the night as a guest in the home of a railway agent here, Mrs. ! Franklin D. Roosevelt took back to | Washington today another of the first- | hand impressions of workers' living | conditions for which she is noted. | Unheralded, she arrived yesterday with a party to inspect “model” mills and employes’ homes here and at Au- gusta Springs and Craigsville, in Au- gusta County. She addressed a small crowd at Craigsville and demon- |of the workers, whose homes are re- garded as above the average for mill villages in condition and appearance. Last night the President’s wife and her party staved at the home of J. B. Wood. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway agent here, HARRIS 15 SAVED FROMDEATH CHAIR Funds to begin $528.093.600 of proj- ! ects already approved by President Roosevelt were made available by an | Executive order signed last night. The largest item to win the President’s | final o. k. was $400,000.000 for high- | way construction and grade-crossing | elimination. More than a half-billion | dollars of other work already recom- | mendes. by the Works Allotment Ad- | visorv Committee remained to be | er.tive. | In the additional applications dis- | closed today the Treasury asked $14.- | 542,825 to employ jobless “white col- !lar” people in two tax-ferreting projects. Income Taxes Would Be Probed. One of these would be the exam- ination of 350,000 income tax returns which normal forces of the Internal Revenue Bureau were said to be un- able to handle. The other would be special investigation, in 20 met- ropolitan areas, of industries subject to certain excise taxes. The excise tax investigation was proposed to include furriers, manu- facturing jewelers, sporting goods manufacturers, makers of cosmetics and taxpayers subject to levies on admissions and dues. It was ex- plained that there are 208827 tax- payers in these classifications in met- | ropolitan areas which include New York, Buffalo, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. ington, apolis, Seattle. ‘Waterway Surveys Sought. An application filed by the Com- merce Department asked $7,038409 to carry on surveys and investigations under the Geodetic Survey. This would include surveying and charting the inland waterways along the At- lantic and Gulf coasts, surveys to complete the United States topographic map, surveys of tides and currents and magnetic and seismological in- vestigations for mariners, aviators and surveyors. The War Department requested $43,- 926,771 for Army base construction projects, and the Interior Department applied for $446,000 for highway work in Alaska. For clearing, grading, surfacing and building bridges along a 30-mile route in the Matanuska Valley. where the Government is set- tling a group of colonists from Min- nesota, $120,000 was requested. To carry out similar work on the road from Anchorage and Matanuska the department sought $326,000. ASHES TO BE SCATTERED Rear Admiral Cole Directs Dis- posal at Sea. VALLEJO, Calif., May 29 (#).—The ashes of Rear Admiral William Carey Cole will be scattered on the sea where he spent 46 years. Admiral Cole, who retired from the Navy in 1932, died yesterday at the Mare Island Navy Yard Hospital. He was 67. His widow Minnie, a daugh- ter, Mrs. Louise Chapin, Cleveland, Ohio, and two brothers survive. Relatives said his body would be cremated at Berkeley, Calif., and the ashes scattered on the sea from s naval vessel in accordance with his expressed wishes, - Boston, New Orleans, Milwaukee, Minne- Newark and Louis, Kansas City, Baltimore, Wash- | ‘Roosevelt Commutes Sen- tence of Man Convicted in Henry Killing. President Roosevelt today com- | nomic recovery. The delegates were . Pas.ed on formally by the Chief Ex- Muted to life imprisonment the death | | sentence given Charles Harris for the slaying of Milton (Milsie) Henry early | on the morning of April 21, 1932, Harris, whose real name is Bern- stein, was to have been electrocuted at the District Jail June 10. He had ! ‘been granted three stays of execution by the President pending a careful in- vestigation of his conviction by the | Justice Department's Federal Bureau | of Investigation. i mendation of Attorney General Cum- mings. Harris will be notified officially of the grant of clemency when he is | presented a formally-inscribed war- rant signed by the President. Cummings Is Silent. It was said at the Department of Justice that the mitigating circum- | stances which induced Cummings to | recommend leniency for Harris will not be divulged. Cummings ordered |an inquiry after the department had been flooded with requests from prom- inent citizens for a show of mercy. {for Harris. The prisoner, through Attorneys Nugent Dodds and Neil Burkinshaw, has insisted Henry was murdered by another man now dead. Henry was shot to death as he slowed his automobile behind a milk truck near his home. Another auto- mobile pulled along side and a man whom the Government later charged was Harris, jumped to the street and fired at Henry. Henry was known as & gambler and the shooting was said to have climaxed an underworld feud. Harris and Harry Davis were arrested and indicted for the killing, but Davis was shot to death by gangsters before his trial. Appealed to Supreme Court. Harris was convicted and sentenced October 7, 1933, to die in the electric chair. He appealed and the case was carried to the United States Supreme Court, which refused last October to review the conviction. The date for execution was set first for January 11 last, but, by order of the President, was stayed successively 60, 30 and 60 days to permit the Department of Jus- tice to continue its investigation. Harris has served time for previous crimes. On one occasion in Minne- sota Gov. Olsen announced his belief that Harris was wrongly convicted. Six Slain at African Mines. BULAWAYO, Southern Rhodesia, May 29 (#)—Six strikers were shot and killed today in a clash with police at the Roan Antelope copper mines. Three thousand natives, striking against an increase in the poll tax, wrecked the compound and offices. A regiment of Northern Rhodesia troops has been dispatched. Breckinridge Long Sails. NAPLES, May 29 (#).—Breckinridge Long, United States Ambassador to Italy, sailed today aboard the Comte di Savoia for New Yorkg' | President Roosevelt acted on recom- : U. . CREDIT POWER OPPOSED BY YOUNG Omnibus Banking Measure | Would Bar Recovery, He Testifies. LA L The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 130,141 Some Returns Not Yet Recelved TWO CENTS. () Means Associated Pre JOHNSON SUMMONED BYROOSEVELT TO AID IN N. R. A. BILL DRAFT Brings White House Tentative Measure for Suspension of Anti-Trust Law. PRICE WAR REPORTS OFFSET VOLUNTARY CODE SUPPORT Impression Grows That Constitutional Amendment Is Only Way to Remedy Situation. By the Assoclated Press. 4 The New Deal probed vainly today for means to meet the e)'n}rlagd.i‘nary problem presented by the Supreme Court blasting of N.R. A. Officials assayed conflicting reports about preservation of code wage and hour standards. Gratification over public announcements that many businesses would observe codes voluntarily was offset by private information of some moves to cut wages and lengthen hours. While refusing to speak for quotation, one key N. R. A. officer predicted a general code breakdown. » President Roosevelt, pursuin g his own studies silently, was First, a consensus believed to be waiting especially for two things: from both his administrative and legislative advisers on how to proceed, and, second, a crystallization of public opinion. “Interstate Commerce” Definition Sought, Perhaps surmounting both was an attempt to define “inter- state commerce” in the light of the broad decision that goods which affect interstate commerce only indirectly were not subject to Federal jurisdiction N There was a pronounced impression that, under the decision, it would be extremely difficult to embrace N. R. A. principles in any law, and so a constitutional amendment would be necessary if the | By the Associated Press. | control provisions of the omnibus banking bill because it “threatens to retard recovery.,” Owen D. Young, financier and industrialist. told a Sen- ate committee today nothing should be done or threatened that would | shatter “reviving business confidence.” the Patman bonus inflation bill and there was an “underlying demand for durable goods” which, if financing was forthcoming, would do more to revive business “quickly and in a ve large volume™ than anything else. Home Building Urged. “If we could build one or two mil- lion homes of $5.000 each.” he said, “it would do more than a $4.000.000.- | 000 appropriation toward reviving the durable goods industries and taking up the employment slack.” “What can be done to restore con- fidence of investors in the durable | Roods industries?” asked Senator Couzens. Republican, of Michigan. “The less we do and the less we | threaten to do the quicker confidence will be restored and the quicker we will have prosperity and a recovery.” “Do you think we ought to adjourn and go home?” Couzens asked. “I think that would be very good,” Young replied, smiling. “Have you felt that way since 1930?" asked Senator Byrnes, Demo- crat, of South Carolina. Credit Lies Unused. “No.” he replied. “We have sound banks with two and a quarter billions | of unused credit. or the basis for $25.000,000,000 of operating credit, and the only thing is to get business to use it. It will the moment it has enough confidence.” Asked by Senator McAdoo, Demo- crat, of California for his ideas on in- flation, the financier said: “My attitude toward inflation is that I'm apprehensive about it for the same reason I would be if a man who | had my trusted possessions began tak- ing morphine. Some may say he was strong and a little morphine might not hurt him, but I still would be ap- prehensive.” “Aren't we on an inflation basis now?"” McAdoo asked. | “If you mean we've had so much currency and credit in use, I say no. If you mean there is a base on which | to get it, I say yes. We are not m; danger because it can only be ex- panded as business uses it. That's the check.” Questioned on Optimism. To another question from Couzens as to whether durable goods indus- tries were optimistic, Young said it depended on whether reviving con- fidence is shattered again or continued and built up. Asked by Senator Byrnes if these industries would not be boosted if half of the $4,000,000,000 work-relief money went into materials, Young answered he did not believe that much would be used for that purpose, and even though it were it “would not have a tremendous effect on the durable goods market because it is such a e e R el onio b an KT GEalU 1n 2, Column 3.) 1,500 ACCOUNTING EMPLOYES NEEDED General Office Authorized to Add Workers to Care for Re- lief Spending. The General Accounting Office will add about 1,500 employes to care for the increased auditing work under the $4,880,000,000 work-relief act, it was made known today after a $6,000,000 allotment fr8m the fund was granted the Accounting Office. Clerks, typists and auditors will be among the classes employed, but noth- ing will be done in this line for the next 30 or 60 days, it was empha- sized, as additional space first must be acquired to house the new force. The empioyes will come both from civil service registers and outside civil service. - The Accounting Office now em- ploys about 2,700 Jpreons. pate in the discussions. He we plan of legislation. New Deal is not to alter its announced objectives. Hugh S. Johnson, who guided the Blue Eagle through fits heyday, was called to the White House from New York to partici- nt to work drafting a tentative 3 d This invitation brought back to the White House scene the man Opposing the Government credit o0 "gith United States Senator Robert ¥. Wagner, drafted the original national industrial recovery act. The decision to ask Johnson to return, it was learned, was made late yesterday and Johnson new legislation. at once set to work in preparing Tentative Outline Is Given. In one-well-informed quarter the new legislation was outlined Questioned by members of the bank- tentatively along this line: Congress could give authority to the ing subcommittee, he said business Federal Trade Commission to suspend provisions of the anti-trust strated a keen interest in the lives had been reassured by the defeat of act and allow industry and labor to voluntarily band together under codes of fair practice. Industries so operating could be given an insignia—the Blue Eagle or something corresponding to it—to show the public they were operating under voluntary c | Costigan Revives Plan for New Deal 22nd Amendment BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. An amendment to the Constitution. legalizing the New Deal, introduced in the Senate by Senator Costigan of Colorado. leaped into the limelight to- day as a possible solution of the pre- dicament in which the New Deal finds itself due to the Supreme Court N. R. A. decision | | proposing an amendment to the Con- | stitution was in the hands of a sub- committee of the Judiciary Commit- | tee, headed by Senator King of Utah. | The Colorado Senator added that he | planned to press for early considera- | tion and already has talked with a number of Senators in regard to it Members of the subcommittee. be- sides Senator King. are Logan of Kentucky, Burke of Nebraska. Norris of Nebraska and Hastings of Dela- ‘ware. In order to expedite ratification of the amendment. Senator Costigan suggested a conference of the Gov- ernors of the 48 States might be called. Such a conference could be held as soon as Congress has submitted the proposed amendment to the States. It the proposal is comes evident that public opinion is back of the New Deal and the better regulation of business and labor, Sen- ator Costigan believes ratification may be obtained within a year. He admitted speed was of the es- | sence if effective action is to be had. ' The Costigan amendment would em- power Congress to regwlate hours and conditions of labor and to establish minimum wages in any employment. It also would empower Congress to regulate production, industry, business, | trade and commerce to prevent unfair methods and practices therein. Text of Amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: “Section 1. The Congress shall have ~(Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) DISBARMENT URGED FOR TWO LAWYERS Ickes Complaint Is Backed in Tllinois by Board of Chi- cago Bar. isbarment of two Chicago lawyers, Lu[c,ius J. M. Malmin and C. W. Lar- son. on complaint of Secretary of In- terfor Ickes, was recommended today to the Supreme Court of Illinois by the Board of Managers and Commit- tee on Grievances of the Chicago Bar Association, acting as commissioners of the Supreme Court, it was an- nounced here. Secretary Ickes made the com- plaint last March 24, charging the two attorneys, after a series of con- ferences and correspondence, had at- tempted by threat to force his sup- port for the appointment of Malmin as Governor of the Virgin Islands. The threat, which Ickes termed “plackmail” at the time, related to a probate case which Ickes handled in 1929 before his elevation to a cabinet po;l'h' Probate Court of Cooke County and the Chicago Bar Association, which investigated, found no unpro- fessional conduct on the part of Ickes in handling this case. The two attorneys will have 10 days in which to file objections to the re- port. 1 Senator Costigan said his resolution * dramatized and it be- | odes. «» The voluntary factor would be con- stantly stressed under this tentative | outline and industry would more ap- proximate self-regulation—something biz business has been advocating for more than a decade. This proposal would also give widg authority to the Federal Trade Com- mission—or whatever body Congress delegated as the forum under which industry and labor came together—to protect the consuming public. Johnson was a frequent critic of some of the provisions of the N.I. R. A. He has for more than a decade studied the field of industrial regula- tion, mainly in collaboration with Bernard M. Baruch. Co-ordinated Provisions. While all of the provisions of the N. I. R. A. were not of his preparing, he co-ordinated practically all of the provisions into the final legislation. It is known that the White House regards him as one of the few men qualified to draft legislation in this field. Johnson was in New York yesterday for an address. When word was re- ceived from Washington that his services were desired in preparing any new legislation he left at once for the Capital. | It was emphasized that Johnson would engage only in aiding the draft- ing of new legislation and that he would not accept any administrative position. Donald R. Richberg. N. R. A. chief- | tain, still was holding conferences with many interested in the recovery | law, seeking ideas and suggestions. “Among those he arranged to see to- | day was Senator Wagner. Democrat, | of New York, author of the original | law. Still marking time until the effect of the N. R. A. decision is analyzed and a program decided. the House | today agreed to recess until Friday | and meet on that day for only a few | minutes. The only reason for the Friday meeting was the constitutional re- quirement that neither branch of Congress may recess more than three days without the consent of the other. A committee representing 47 otl trade associations called on the Presi- dent to report its request for cone “(Continued on Page 4, Column 1. STOCKS CONTINUE ON LOWER COURSE Rails and Utilities Attract Some Buying, but Industrials Decline Further. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. May 29.—Speculative | security and commodity markets con- tinued downgrade today, although at | a slower pace than yesterday. Uncertainties over the adjustments | to be made as result of the Supreme | Court’s blow to N. R. A. still dom- inated speculative sentiment. In- | vestors, however, showed no inclin | tion to sell bonds, and the bond mar- :{et generally maintained & steady one. i In shares, rails and utilities again | attracted some buying, with a few issues advancing as much as a dollar, but industrials were mostly lower, with numerous declines of 50 cents to more than $1 a share, In the Chicago staple markets grains were again steady, with wheat opening )2 cent a bushel lower to 1 of a cent higher. But in the New York futures markets cotton lost 1about 75 cents a bale and hides. silk. | rubber and sugar were a little lower. | Copper futures, however, stiffened a little, A