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JNSIN GALLED TOADNEWNR A Brings Roosevelt Tentative Bill for Suspension of Anti-Trust Law. Canton Rioters Burn Truck THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Soft Coal Menace Grows as NION HEADS MAP STRIKE OF 450,000 New Legislation Is Sought. Officials Fearful for Market- "D.”C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1935. AAANEXTONLIST FACING COURTTEST| #re Bored by Society, Woman to Finance Insect Expedition Hollywood Cameraman to Take Photos Dutch New Guinea. in ing Pacts After Ruling onN.R. A, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 29.—Miss Leona Jay, the “personable young woman | PRESS T0 RETAIN (Continued From First Page.) tinuance of the oil code and to ask legislation permitting voluntary agree- ments within the industry. Four members of the House—Repre- erntatives Marcantonio, Republican, of New York; Schneider, Progressive, of Wisconsin; Lunden, Farmer-Labor, Minnesota, and Amlie, Progressive, Wisconsin—in & joint statement yccommended a constitutional conven- tion to change the Constitution. In another statement, Representa- | tive Hildebrandt, Democrat, of South Dakota remarked, “Every reactionary in the United States * * * welcomed gleefully the decision of the Supreme Court declaring the N. R. A. and the ¥Frazier-Lemke laws unconstitutional.” | | Attacks Supreme Court. He asked whether the Supreme Court—"an academic body. unreach- beat them and then set fire to the During a strike riot at the Berger Manufacturing Co., Canton, Ohio, pickets and strike sympathizers seized the occupants of the above truck, By the Associated Press. A strike which United Mine Work- ers said would paralyze the soft coal fields and involve 450,000 workers was ' | charted by the union leaders today. | | Meanwhile, managaing heads of the | $11.000.000,000 industry strove to whip avert the walkout and substitute for their defunct N. R. A. code | Collapse of the Appalachian coal | wage conference late yesterday was the signal which threw the union’s strike machinery into gear. President | John L. Lewis summoned his aides for | a meeting to begin preparations for | the strike on June 17. Existing wage | | and hour contracts expire the previous | day. " Although expressing willingness to {resume the wage negotiations if any {assurance of progress was forthcom- |ing, Lewis rejected overtures of some | operators to sign separate agreements as “utterly futile.” car. The truck was used to convey By the Associated Press. The A. A. A. may be the next of | the New Deal's gigantic agencies to | o pass in review before the Supreme Court—though not before next Fall at the earliest. A. A. A. officials today showed some ments and licenses, with 50 cases in- volvoing the farm program pending | in lower courts. While none in authority would comment, the N. R. A. ruling and speculation on its eflects on the A. A A. was the topic of much glum discussion at the Department of Agri- culture, Meanwhile, administration leaders have withdrawn the proposed A. A. A. amendments from the Senate floor to a committee to revise them and at- tempt to meet constitutional princis ples laid down by the high court. Provisions to Be Changed | weary of social hokum.” who in a | newspaper advertisement sought to nance a hunting or scientific ex- | | pedition, has found some one with | an idea, she disclosed yesterday. | Sheis goind searching for insects | ers of Dutch New Guinea. | Charles Miller, who described him- ! | selt as a Hollywood camera man with | scientific leanings, provided Miss Jay with her idea. He was born in Java, he said, and his father. a Dutch Army officer, opened the first post in Dutch New Guinea. Miller will wield the camera, “Afraid? Of course not, but T may | be awfully glad to get back,” said Miss Jay, an attractive, dark-haired young woman. | She admitted having no_previous ’lmrresr in insects, “but I've read 50 much about their destructiveness | CODE TO JUNE 16 Publishers’ Committee Sees | Obligation to Continue. Wagner Bill Cited. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 29.—A policy of continuing the provisions of the daily newspaper code until its expiration on June 16 was indicated today as the publishers’ Code Committee an- nounced plans for a prompt liquida- regulatory legislation into shape to|concern over existing marketing agree- | With & camera among the head hunt- | tion of the code authority at that time. The Code Committee in a state- ment yesterday said that, regardless of the Supreme Court's N. R. A. de- cision and Donald Richberg’s an- nouncement that code enforcement would cease immediately, the code for the daily newspaper publishing busi- ness, “by reason of the limitation on its life included in article eight, expires automatically on June 16, 1935.” Howard Davis, chairman of Code Committee and of the daily newspaper code authority, said that newspapers in adopting the code had entered into a contract with the President for a period ending June 16. the | disputes bill and the Black-Connery 30-hour week bill and said: “Publishers are thesefore confronted by problems relatively as troublesome as those created by the enactment of the recovery law in 1933, Meanwhile they should keep these facts in mind: “The daily newspaper code expires June 16 next. After that date pube lishers will have no right to display the Blue Eagle. The functions of the Newspaper Industrial Board also will cease. “The affairs of the Code Authority will be liquidated promptly. Any fu- ture action in code matters will de- pend upon further congressional ac- tion.” Guild to Fight Wage Cuts, The New York Newspaper Guild an- nounced it would oppose any move to reduce editorial salaries and increase working hours because of the Supreme Court’s decision. The Supreme Court's decision was Failed by Dean Carl Ackerman of the Columbia School of Journalism, as having “vindicated” the Nation's rewspapers and its educational insti- tutions. Col. Robert R. McCormick, chair- man of the Freedom of the Press Committee of the American Newspa- per Publishers’ Association, said that the decision does not affect the news- paper publishers because “their only concern has been to preserve the free- dom of the press and they did so un- der the code. “The entire publishing and printing tusiness, however, is interested in the statement that all advertising is intra- state commerce. This statement in- validates all the legislation and orders workers from inside the plant. Pickets said the occupants of the truck eble by the people, appointed for life, | o —A. P. Photo. Chairman Smith of the Senate and the millions the Government | &nd largely schooled in an atmosphere of wealth and exclusiveness"—shall “succeed in throttling such legislation practically every time it is passed?” | He urged a constitutional amend- | ment forbidding the court to hold | laws unconstitutional and allowing | steps “to assure every able-bodied, full-grown citizen engaged in useful lzbor of the comforts of life.” This suggestion of a constitutional change was getting more considera- tion as the hours passed by. There were indications that appeals for vol untary maintenance of code standard were not bearing full fruit, Assurances Cheer New Deal. ‘The administration took satisfac- tion today from reports of widespread assurance to workers that N. R. A. cnde wage and hour standards would now be disturbed, as it con- tinued to cast about for ways to recover from the blow dealt by the Eupreme Court. | Still publicly silent. President Roose- | velt renewed conferences with his key lieutenants. No agreement apparently in sight, but two sugges- tions stood out: | 1. To rely on voluntary code ob- | gervance at least as a stop-gap: and 2. Serious consideration of pushing & constitutional amendment to endow the Federal Government with power to regulate hours and wages in in- éustry regardless of State lines. | Action today was definitely out. Newsmen were told the President would not discuss N. R. A, at his 4 pm. press conference Tt also was indicated quite clearly he does not intend to go on the air about the problem not was Statement May Come This Week. All signs pointed toward a presi- dential statement late in the week, after he has completed the survey of the full effect of the Supreme Court decision. In response to inquiries, Stephen Farly, a secretary to the President, eald an inspection of 700 letters and | messages received overnight showed a | ratin of 9 to 1 in appeals for a new N. R. A. The President had not | geen the letters at the time. Iy added that most of the re- ou or a renewal of N. R. A. came from business men who were aaserting “chizelers are coming in and wage and hour standards are being broken down.” | fired into a crowd of about 300 bystanders. Urges Guffey Coal Bill. SENATE T0 DEBAT UTLITY MEASURE iMotion to Take Up Wheeler Bill Is Passed Without Record Vote. By the Associated Press, With several members protesting. the Senate voted today to take up the Wheeler bill to abolish unnecessary public utlity holding companies. It is one of the pieces of legislation President Roosevelt wants passed. The motion was adopted without & record vote after two Republican Sen- ators, Hastings of Deleware and White of Maine, and Dieterich of Il- linois, & Democrat. pleaded that it be returned to committee for study “in light of the Supreme Court decisions.” “In view of the fact that this biil means the end of private ownership in the utility field.” Dicterich said, “it should be given careful consideration.” He offered a handful of amend- ments which would strike from the bill all of its provisions for abolish- ing public utility holding companies. and leave the measure with merely regulatory powers by which he con- tended “‘unnecessary complexities” in the utility structure might be removed. Senator White added his own con- viction that the Senate is “making a grave mistake in proceeding at this time." “I doubt,” he said, “if any Senator has given due consideration to the impact, upon this legislation of the Supreme Court decisions.” FOUND DEAD ON SHIP NORFOLK, Va., May 20 (#).—Ma} Frederick de Figaniere, 62-vear-old banker of Brooklyn, N, Y., was found dead in his stateroom when the steamer Arcadia arrived here from New York today. He was believed to been dead several hours when found. Textile Information Sought. | Spokesmen for various industri | continued to gather to face the situa-| tion. On textiles, the responsible com- | mittee—comprising prominent manu- facturers from both North and South | and including most of the leaders who‘ drafted the original cotton codn—‘ #ought, first, to ascertain from their | legal advisers just what, if anything. of value remained of N. R. A, and gecond, ways and means of preserv- ing some of the benefits enjoyed under | which they contend affects interstate commerce. Amendment Idea Gains, The idea of an amendment was gaining headway among New Dealers on Capitol Hill as members of Congress became more firmly convinced, as they reread the court's historic decision, that they were blocked from enacting | legislation on hours and wages. He told the operators none of them could “press a button and turn off or Agriculture Comiitee said provisions for licensing handlers and profes- sors would be trimmed to comply with the court'’s commerce clause intér- spends trying to get rid of them, I/ thought if we brought back pictures scientists might be able to work some- [ thing out that would be of benefit to the code. A flat prediction came from Senator .Some Southern members appeared | Byrnes, Democrat. of South Carolina less enthusiastic over the success of close friend of President Roosevelt possible voluntary action to maintain | that Congress would submit & constitu- code wages and hours. One spokes- | tional amendment at this session of man for this group said he feared | Congress if it found no other way to etrikes in that section, &s he believed | regulate conditions of employment. ettempts would be made to lengthen | “If this Congress can't find a way hours and lower wages. | to regulate hours and wages by law, it A new worry, hovering in the back- | will do so by a constitutional amend- ground for some weeks, came to the ment,” Byrnes told the Associated fore to beset the administration as the | Press. United Mine Workers predicted that The South Carolina leader asserted the national bituminous coal strike the ' that if Congress submitted an amend- union is planning for June 17 would ment, it would be ratified speedily by affect 450,000 workers. Negotiations the necessary 36 States. for a new wage contract collapsed yes- No Hi Is S terday. Observers believed the White | & TRy s ISoch. Some administration leaders felt House might step into the situation before the deadline. | there was no hurry about studying the With the New Deal's proposed A. A.| Amendment proposal and that the A. amendment, back in a Senate com- | Vital thing now was ngeeting the mittee for overhauling, some officials | Immediate situation. expressed anxiety that the Supreme| Among President Roosevelt'’s con- Court's attitude as expressed in the | Bressional callers vesterday were Chair- N. R. A. decision may bode ill for man Harrison of the Senate Finance the gigantic farm agency, which has | Committee and Chairman Doughton yet to take its turn before the high of the House Ways and Means Com- \COSTIGAN REVIVES | PLAN FOR NEW DEAL 22ND AMENDMENT | : ‘ ! (Continued From First Page) | power to regulote hours and conditions of labor and to establish minimum wages in any employment and to regulate production. industry, business, trade. and commerce te prevent unfair | methods and practices therein. | “Section 2. The due-process-of-law clauses of the fifth and fourteenth amendments shall be construed to impose no limitation upon legislation by the Congress or by the several States with respect to any of the subjects referred to in section 1, ex- cept as to the methods or procedure | for the enforcement of such legisla- tion “Section 3. Nothing in this article shall be construed to impair the regu- latory power of the several States with respect to any of the subjects referred to in section 1, except to the extent that the exercise of such powers by a State is in conflict with legislation enacted by the Congress pursuant to this article.” Dormant Five Months, | The proposed amendment was of- fered by Senator Costigan on the first | day of the present session of Congress. Apparently the Colorado Senator f{ore- saw what might happen to the N. R. A and other New Deal measures when tested before the Supreme Court. Ad- ministration leaders, however, were not inclined to take seriously enough the question of the constiutionality of the New Deal measures. So the Costi- | gan resolution has lain dormant for the last five months. Senator Costigan said of his pro-| posed amendment | “The purpose of the amendment is important, The economic crisis which begar in this country in 1929 has resulted in much legislation enacted on an emergency basis. As condi- | tions now are, it is conceivable that sharp differences of opinion may de- velop at any time between ine dif- | ferent branches--legislative, executive and judicial—f the Government over | the question of fact as to whether | have suffered a heart attack and had | the emergency. in view of the legis- | lation, has termmated i Seeks Permanent Foundation. l “It is fair to say that legislation | vught, not, for constitutional reasons, | be required to rest on so uncertain and shifting & foundation. Further- more, if our experience should teach us that some legislation, which has been tested and tried in emergencies, is likely to prove so worthwhile that its permanent enactment will be clears Iy in the public interest, and ought not to depend on years of struggle for a constitutional amendment if the need for action arises.” Senator Costigan said that changing economic conditions in this country had practiclly obliterated State lines. It was nccessary, therefore, to deal with economic problems in a national way and the recent decisions of the | Supreme Court in the N. R. A. case, he | | said, left no doubt that an amendment to the Constitution is necessary it these problems were to be dealt with | nationally. ' Breath TAINTED? | would seek to regulate and stabilize | a preliminary examination for a final turn on the United Mine Workers, and urged enactment of the Guffey coal bill as “an answer to it all and a safe haven of refuge for the in- dustry.” This embodies a code and the industry. 1 A short time after Lewis’ statement, however, the wage conference broke up. The adjournment vote was 44 to 9. the opposition coming from a group of operators who have opposed enact- | ment of the Guffey bill. Uncertainty regarding the legisla- | tive situation and N. R. A.s collapse were the reasons ascribed for abane donment of the parleys, but the oper~ ators have been adamant for weeks in their refusal to comply with the union’s demand for a 30-hour week and a 10 per cent wage increase. Miners Want Agrement, | “Every miner wants a new agree- ment.” Lewis asserted. *“All that a miner has is his pay check. Failure to make a contract will mean that he no longer would have that income.” Aside from the wage conference, the operators’ Legisiative Committee was struggling to redraft the Guffey bill in conformity with the operators’ ideas and the Supreme Court decision which wrecked N. R. A’s code structure, The committee previously had stricken from the bill provisions for creation of a national coal reserve and production allocation. Henry Warrum. general counsel for the United Mine Workers #nd one of the original authors of the measure told reporters the bill, as reported to the Senate, needed no alteration be- cause of the Supreme Court ruling, OTTAWA TRADE MISSION COMING TO WASHINGTON By the Assnciated Press, | TORONTO, May 29.—A mission from the Dominion government will leave Ottawa shortly to confer with United States Government officials in Washington on a reciprocal tariff treaty, the Mali and Empire said to- day in a dicpatch from its Ottawa correspondent. Canadian-United States trade reci- procity negotiations were said to be entering their final phase, | It is expected that members of the cabinet will go to Washington after| conference with President Roosevelt and his trade advisers. | Race Bet Bill Passed. MONTGOMERY, Ala, May 29| (). —The House vesterday passed a bill to legalize horse racing with pari- mutuel betting in the State. | | of $100,000,000 in customs recipts to | pretation. He aiso said he would the civilized world.” try to have eliminated a second dele- | The photographs, for which both gating authority (o set up tariff or a motion picture camera and a micro- quota barriers against imports inter- | scope will be used, will be donated fering with the A. A. A. purposes. to museums and colleges, she said Never wholly in accord with the broad authority the amendments sought to put 'n the hands of the Secretary of Agriculture, Smith never- theless said the revised measure on which work will start today prob- ably will be reporied out within two | weeks Present provisions to be retained, Smith said, probaply will include the | “ever-normal granary” section per- mitting the Government to take up surplus products in fruitful yea:s and turn them back to farmers in lean | years, and the section proposire use | aid in financing marketing of sur- | plus products and retiring marginal lands Extension of Pacts. The existing 37 marketing agree- ments and 75 licenses of the A. A. A. cover production and distribution of | milk in 44 cities, affect citrus fruit growers in Florida and California, gum turpentine and resin processors, and vegetable farmers. Terms of the licenses vary, but all established min- | imum prices to be paid to producers Of the 50 cases of litigation, some are suits contesting the validity of an agreement or program, and others were instituted by the A. A. A. to enforce orders or licenses, Lower court decisions have gone against the A. A. A. in 13 cases. A test suit involving the Bankhead cot- ton control act has already reached the Supreme Court. It will not be argued before next Fall 'H\p character of 2 company is stnped by the service it « renders. ® QUALITY NEWSPAPER En6RAVING Lonce 1177 MAURICE JOYCE ENGRAVING (O. ¢ EVENING STAR BUILDING - -- WASHINGTON - D, C. they have been in tribunal. Meanwhile, there were some indi- eations that the Treasury may seek full control over the liquor traffic in the aftermath of the decision which demolished the Federal Alcohol Con- trol Administration’s code structure. President Roosevelt conferred yes- terday with congressional advisers and with President Willlam Green of the American Federation of Labor and President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers. Green said he felt “there is hope." The word was passed, though un- eonfirmed, that the labor unions might ewing their strengthr behind a drive for the new constitutional amendment. Such a campaign, observers believed. would be virtually certain to mean a titanic struggle between forces opposed to central reguiation and those who would give the Federal Government more power over intrastate industry, fireproof plant. Let s member offer recommendations on your rug Call Adams 5600 and ask for Branch 20 FeperaL STorace CoMPaNy 3707 FLORIDA AVENUE E. K. MORRIS, PRESIDENT mittee, both in charge of N. R. A. | legislation. Harrison earlier had con- | fered with leading administration legal | advisers. 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Custom Tailors KASSAN-STEIN| INC 3 510 ELEVENTH Sr. N.W. Obligation Cited. He said it had been the policy of the code authority “to see that every obligation thus assumed was scrupu- lously observed by the publishers” and said he felt there should be no change in the policy. - The Code Committee’s statement re- ferred to the pending Wagner labor CAN recent months. in restraint of advertising.” e o e Veteran Railroader Dies. PORT HURON, Mich., May 29 (#).— Martin Charles Carey, 68, veteran railroad man, died here yesterday. He was vice president of the Order of Railway Conductors from 1913 to UTILITY STOCKS COME BACK? DO not be deceived by defenders of the Wheeler-Rayburn utility bill who try discourage protests from investors by saying that the value of utility stocks cannot come back. Utility stocks can come back. They did come back—uvigorously—a dozen years ago. The average prices of 9 gas and electric holding company stocks were approximately at the same level in the years from 1918 to 1921 as Yet by 1926—hbefore the boom | period—these stocks had climbed to a point four times as high as they were previously, They have failed to enjoy any of the recovery made by stocks of other industries during the last two yvears because of the attacks from which utilities have suffered. Utilities are taxed excessively. Their rates are being forced down. The Government is building huge competitive power projects, and is encouraging municipalities to build their own electric plants. INVESTORS FACE COMPLETE RUIN The damage to utility investments which has resulted would be com- pleted by the passage of the Wheeler-Rayburn utility bill. This bill proposes to abolish utility holding companies. and to place about 917 of local electric companies under stifling political control. Mil- lions of owners of utility securities would lose any chance of enjoy- ing a rise in the prices of their securities. More than 300,000 in- vestors in the Associated System alone would he affected. Utility securities have a chance of recovering much of their former Yyear program. & » INSIST THE BILL BE KILLED Investors who want to protect their stocks and bonds, customers who want to protect their service, and tax-payers who want less govern- ment in business and lower taxes, should write immediately to their Senators and Representatives and insist that the Wheeler-Rayburn utility bill be killed. value if the Wheeler-Rayburn bill or similar legislation is killed. In 1934 electric customers numbered 24,566,000, a new high figure, and the use per domestic customer exceeded any level of the past. trical World estimates that if encouraged, instead of crippled, the public utilities can create new bus- iness of $16,500,000,000 in a two- The gas industry, whose 2,000 companies serve 8,000 communities, also has remarkable opportunities for growth, especi- ally in the use of gas for house heating and industrial purposes. Investors can share in the devel- opment of these strong industries if they are not hopelessly crippled by the Wheeler-Rayburn bill. Elec- A Coal Miner Writes To His Senator Dear Sir: For vour information I have been work- ing in the coal mines for a period of 51 years and, as you no doubt a wages have been plenty low d greater part of that time. Passing through many difficulties finan- cially, I still managed to save a few dollars which I invested in public utility holding company securities. Now I feel that if this legislation passes, I and many others are going to suffer a loss which 7 am unable to take. Therefore, I appeal to you as our Sen- ator to exercise vour rights to protest this bill and £o0 protect many small investors like myself who struggled to provide for old age protection. I remain, Yours very truly, Minersville, Pa. (This letter was written by ome of thy 300,000 investors in the Associated System.| ASSOCIATED GAS 8 ELECTRIC SYSTEM .