Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1935, Page 3

— ST SEEKS T0 BAR JANK ASSESSMENT 100°, Levy on Continental Owners for Shares in Commercial Hit. enjoin Controller of the Currency J. F. T. O'Connor from col'setion of A 100 per cent Assess- ment against stockholders of the Continental Trust Co. on the organi- #ation’s 4.000 shares in the Commer- cial National Bank was filed in Dis- | Ruit tn trict Supreme Court yesterday. The plaintiffs at the same time | sought an injunction AgAinst an as sessment levied against Continental etockholders by Receiver John F. Moran on the basis of individual stock ownings in the trust company ‘The four Continental shareowners who, entered the suit protested favor- itism allegedly shown by O'Connor to Commercial depositors to the detri- ment of the Continental Trust Co., | which was bought out by the now | closed Commercial in January, 1930. Continental's purchase of the 4,000 ghares of Commercial stock the plaintiffs declare illegal as done without authority as an investment by officers of the trust company. nvalidation Is Asked. Plaintiffs in yesterday's suit de- mand invalidation of this stock purchase, which has resulted in the trust company's being listed as a Commercial Bank stockholder and liable to that extent for the debts of the Commercial National | O'Connor ordered the 100 per cent sessment against Continental stock- ers May 29, several months after | similar assessment was levied on | Commercial stock. The total amount which the controller seeks to collect from Commercial holders is $400.000. | In protesting the individual assess- | ment. the suit contends that when! the Commercial Bank bought out the | trust company, the latter had sufficient assets to pay all valid claims. This eliminated necessity for an assess- ment. plaintiffs state. The suit further states that the folvency of the trust company at the time of the sale precluded need for appomtment of a receiver and asks su tion of a court receiver d trial of the case to replate Moran. Money Paid Out Attacked. | Moran. according to the plaintiffs | has refused to bring s to recover monevs improperly paid out to satisfy invali ims. Chief among such claims, petitioners state, is a debt against the trust company originally listed on the bank's books as $2.600,- 000, but later scaled down by liquida- tion to $668.000. ) The “debt” corresponded to the| amount of deposits in the trust com- pany at the time of the sale. The revised sum included $200.000 in in- terest charges The bank's officials refused to cor- rect this error after it was brought to their attention by the protest of the trust company's directors, the suit states. laintiffs in this connection allege the trust company officers “colluded end conspired” with officers of the | bank to continue this wrongful con- | stuction of the contract by which the trust company’s assets were purchased eand to assess the interest charges in- stead of guarding the interests of the trust compan; Debt Illegitimate, Is Claim. The suit claims money borrowed by the trust company from four banks to purchase the last block of 800 of the 4,000 Commercial shares consti- tutes an illegitimate debt. since the lending banks knew the money was to be used in purchasing the stock. an allegedly illegal transaction It was asserted this money was bor- rowed at the direction of Wade H. Cooper, then president of both insti- tutions, now under indictment on a charge of misapplying funds of the Commercial Bank. Attorney Frank S. Nesbitt filed the guit on behalf of Leila S. Dunn, 2925 Glover driveway; Anne S. Callahan, 3301 University avenue; Agnes V.| Scott, 2400 Sixteenth street, and G. | T. Scott, 4912 Quebec street. O’Con- nor, Moran and Robert T. Baldwin, Commercial Bank receiver, are named defendants. 80-Year-0ld Climber's Feat. Mr. G. A. Solley, ex-mayor of Kirkenhead and ex-president of the ! Bcottish Mountaineering Club, who is aged 80. climbed the 2,500 feet to the mountaineering hut on Ben Nevis, Scotland, recently. He made his first climb to the summit, at 4,406 feet, 15 ago. BE RFESPONSIBLE FOR | d by any ll'nf{J than _myself Route 4 WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR debts contracted by anv one other than ( myself "ALEXANDER MOORE. 19 Itith st n.w . 1 WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR debts contracted for by other than | myself. PAUL L. CRISP, Collexe Park. 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Spectacular air view showing fleet of small craft escorting the French visitor up the Hudson in the shadow of New York’s skyscrapers. —Wide World Photo. N.R A NOTDEAD, JOHNSON AVERS Says Blue Eagle Can Fly Without Benefit of Con- | stitutional Change. Gen. Hugh Johnson today de- clared the N. R. A. Blue Eagle can fly high once more without benefit of | constitutional amendment. In a fast-spoken broadcasted speech at an advertising club luncheon the | first chief of the Recovery Admin- istration said of the Supreme Court’s decision “All we are faced with is the re- sult of errors in a statute written un- der stress. All we require for the fu- ture is American co-operation and common sense. “The court did not lay down in the | Schechter case any such monstrous doctrine as that agriculture, mining and manufacturing are removed from Federal control because they are not directly in interstate commerce. Criticizes Richberg. “The court could not and would not and will not intend to destroy the New Deal.” Johnson took Donald Richberg se- | verely to task for choosing the ‘sick | chicken” suit as the test case on which to gamble the future of N. R .A. | “It was the worst case that could | have been chosen to bring beforz the | court,” the red-faced general declared. ‘ He talked with rapid-fire speed, NEW ., & PLAN TOBE RUSHEDNOW President and Cabinet Agree on Emergency Legislative Program on Codes. (Continued From First Page.) standards set up by N. R. A. through interstate compacts. All New England States, New York. New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois were represented. Others were expected from South Carolina. Speaker Byrns. who talked over the legislative situation with the Presi- dent yesterday, declined to discuss it publicly further, other than to say his previous prediction that the House & 14-Year-Old, Good-Will Envoy | From Paris Feted by Boys’ Club would be ready to adjourn by June 15| was a “bad guess in the light of sub- sequent developments.” Representative O'Connor, Democrat of New York, chairman of the House Rules Committee, had served notice that he intended to determine the President’s attitude toward the Wag- ner bill before bringing it up on the House floor. He said today he had received “no direct word,” but understood the ‘President would approve it with “some changes.” O'Connor added he did not know what those changes were and Chairman Connery of the House Labor Committee said the same thing. But other sources explained their understanding was the two measures amended—setting up a board with never once looking at his audience, | Power of voluntary arbitration and | but keeping his eyes leveled on the | limiting collective bargaining guaran- | written speech, which he held in his | tee to interstate businesses — were left hand while he waved and shoox | his right in short, earnest gestures. Mechanics Alone Needed. “Pure mechanics” alone are neeced to remedy the court's action, he said, and launched into a long explanation of the definition of the constiutional phrase of ‘“commerce among the States.” | Johnson interpreted this to mean | activities in one State affecting the | welfare or industry of other States. But the wages and working hours of the bookkeeper of a Brooklyn poul- try firm do not fit this definition, said Johnson, and added: “The circumstances of this com- merce were so remoted from affecting interstate commerce that the court would have had to swallow hard to uphold the case.” The general entreated his radio “If the N. R. A. has helped you or its loss will hurt you, do not stay | silent: let Washington know you want it.” LABOR TO SET UP COMPLIANCE BOARD Central Union Committees to Deal With Firms “Chisel- ing"” on Pay. To set up a compliance board of their own, leaders of organized labor a system to maintain conditions pre. Committees to accomplish this were named by John Locher, president of the Central Labor Union. Clyde M. Mills was made chairman of the gen- eral committee, with W, C. Dow vice chairman. Business organizations who attempt “to chisel” will be dealt with by vari- ous working committees under the general committee of the Central La- bor Union, it was said. For instance, to cut wages and lengthen hours, pickets will be placed in front of that “offender.” Other members of the General Com- mittee are: Frank J. Coleman. C. F. Preller, Robert E. Lester, Charles E. Sands, John Donovan, John Locher, Fred 8. Walker, C. M. Maples, John P. Simp- son, Jessica Buck, Charles E. Mc- Closkey. Frank W. Lee, A. C. H‘N“u ohn Botts and John B, Colpoys. what the President had in mind. Connery asserted that since his committee already had approved the ‘Wagner bill, passed by the Senate. any changes would be made in amend- ments ofiered from the floor. Guffey-Snyder Bill. O'Connor, asked if the Guffey-Sny- der bill was on the “must” list, re- plied: “I don't know for sure, but I heard a lot of talk about it.” During hearings before the House Ways and Means Committee on N. R. A. extension, it had been suggested that if the N. R. A. died, the Wagner labor dispute and the Guffey coal bill would take care of the situation. Vice President Garner, wearing his broad tan sombrero, led the cabinet members into the White House for the special session suddenly called last night by Mr. Roosevelt. One by one, other cabinet members or their assistants followed, and the meeting in the new cabinet room of the remodeled White House executive office soon was under way. The President’s action in calling for the three sessions today apparently took many New Deal leaders by sur- prise. Some inclined to attach signifi- cance to the invitation to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to at- tend the afternoon parley. Use of the Government’s taxing power as a means of obtaining a measure of regulation of wages, hours and trade practices has been among the many suggestions for stop-gap action. There were indications that today's action would be regarded by many New Dealers as an “emergency” step de- signed to serve for a time while the country is weighing the question which President Roosevelt posed last week as one requiring a decision by the people. The question, he said, is whether the Federal Government or the 48 States should have power over social and economic pieblems which | . he regards as national in scope. ' Called to White House. Those invited to the afternoon ses- sion included Atiorney General Cum- mings, Solicitor General Reed, Sec- retary of Labor Perkins. Acting Sec- retary of Commerce Dickinson, Speak- er Byrns, Majority Leader Rubinson of the Senate, Cheirman Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, Sena- tor Wagner of New York, Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee, Chairman O’Con- nor of the House Rules Committee, Richberg and Charles West, liaison officer between the administration and Congress. The presence of O'Connor indi- cated to some a possibility that a special rule might be sought for prompt House actiom P: Left to right: Charles Justice, Washington Boys’ Club; Roger Echegut, 14-year-old Boys' Club ambassador from France; Alr Pilot Fred Jones and Peter Dudan, New York Boys' Club. —Star -Staff Photo. OGER ECHEGUT, the 14-|Normandie's passenger list, Flnc]uding year- o bass: | the wife of the President of France. el m;, i .,0[\ Charles M. Fyfe, director of the lo- good will” from France, Who | . \"Boucclub, ‘has appointed Charles | came over on the Normandie Justice, honor boy of the club, to act |as a guest of the line and a Paris | as host to young Echegut and a com- newspaper, was being entertained in panion, Peter Dudan, 15, who will re- | tur ¥ ith Echegut as a Wathington todas Hollowing Bis ‘ar | LD to France with € rival by airplane from New York. good-will representative of the Boys' ‘The Boys' Club of Washington ten- Club of New York. g Representatives of the various boys’ dered the young visitor a luncheon at | the Willard Hotel, and he later was clubs of Washington attended today's luncheon. The program for the young | to be received at the White House along with other notables from the | RABAUT IS INJURED AS TAXI OVERTURNS Representative Louis C. Rabaut, Democrat, of Michigan, suffered a sprained back, cuts and bruises today when a taxicab in which he was riding turned over three times in a collision with an automobile at Maryland ave- nue and C street southwest. Rabaut was treated at Naval Hos- | pital for the back injury, cuts on the forehead and left hand and a bruised hip, after which he left the hospital and announced he was going to his work at the Capitol. The taxicab in which he was riding was traveling east on Maryland ave- nue at the time of the collision. It was being driven by John C. Stone, 49, of the 800 block of Sixth street. The other automobile, traveling north on Sixth street, was being driven by Frank Carter, 64, of Vienna, Va. Raubaut, who is 47, lives in the | Shawmut Apartments, 2200 Nineteenth street. i Marketed by Washington’s - First Fuel 0il Distributor Turn your old trinkets,jewelry and watches into MONEY at A.Kahn Jnc. Arthur J. Sundlun, Pres. YEARS at 935 F STREET JUNE 4, 1935 NORMANDIE MADE READY FOR RETURN Mme. Lebrun Sees New York Sights Before Leaving for Washington. NEW ETHOPIN ATTACKSREPORTED Italy to Demand Satisfac- tion for Slaying of 30 Troops on Border. By the Associated Press. ROME. June 4.—Italy held a new By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 4—The record- breaking liner Normandie rested in|grievance against Ethiopia today—an the Hudson’s oily swell today amid | official charge that Ethiopians at- preparations for a return trip, while | tacked Italian native troops on the her No. 1 passenger, the wife of the | Eritrean border last Friday. killing 30. French President, got acquainted with | Official dispatches said the Italian America. | forces had been stationed in the vi- Provisioning of the Normandie’s cinity of Dancali to protect natives huge kitchens and restoring of paint| dwelling in the area. - scraped from her side when she Was| The Ethioplans were said to have warped in at the end of her maiden | gtolen several thousand head of eat- voyage yesterday occupied the crew. | tle before withdrawing from the fron- The sights on a first trip to the | tjer United States occupied chic, dark- haired Mme. Albert Lebrun. | “A fairy city,” Mme. Lebrun said of New York before leaving today for an official visit to Washington. ‘The official statement also charged | that 30 armed Ethiopians were re- pulsed with undetermined losses after an attempt to invade the Italian mili- tary zone near Gublei, in Italian So- Will Return Tomorrow. maliland. The Italian forces were She will return here tomorrow eve- | $8id to have suffered no casualties, ning and will board the Normandie | although the raiders fired on them for the return voyage Friday. | after being challenged. Like many another sightseer, Mme. Official circles said the incidents Lebrun—not long after her arrival did not necessarily mean that the war yesterday in Manhattan—was whisked | machine Italy has assembled in East 16 the 102d floor of the Empire State Africa would be sent into action Building, where former Gov. Alfred against King Haile Selassie’s tribes- E. Smith, in checked suit and lav- men. It was explained that the gov- ender shirt, showed her the wonders | ernment would first demand satisfac- below and afar. tion through diplomatic channels. She also had watched the looming Military circles also pointed out Jdine from the ship’s rail that Italy would not be ready to open 'And that is Brooklyn Bridge,” she hostilities, in any case, until the close said. Lower Manhattan's skyscrapers Of the rainy season next Fall. were “minarets” to her. The latest developments in the American gangsters? Some one Strained East African situation arose asked her if she was afraid. | as the Italian press was charging “Pas de tout,” she shrugged cheer- | Great Britain with aiding Ethiopia. PANAMAS Honored at Dinner. CLEANED—BLEACHED BLOCKED fully. whom she met in France, they must be indeed “delicieuses.” | 17 AT CATHEDRAL GNEN DPLOHAS ‘Bishop Freeman and Canon Stokes Participate at Girls’ Commencement. Seventeen members of the senior class at the National Cathedral School received diplomas at exercises this morning in the great choir of the Cathedral. The presentations were made by Right Rev. James E. Free- man, Bishop of Washington. Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, canon of the Cathedral, delivered the commence- | ment address. The graduates included Roberta Ay- ! lor, of Berryville, Va.; Margaret Box- ley of Roanoke, Va.: Dorothy Dovell of Culpeper. Va.. Rosa Laird, and Wilhelmina Laird of Wilmington, Del. | Margie Morton of Warrenton Va | Saliie Taylor of Watertown, N. Y. Mary Jane Tillotson N. Y., Florence Wright Chase, Anne Claude, Ruth Wynne Fulwon, lane, Patty Nichols, Louisa Gail Richardson and Wright, all of Washington. Francis B. . Assistant Secre- tary of State, delivered the address at the flag day exercises yesterday after- | noon as the school approached its thirty-fifth annual commencement The flag, which represents the highest honor to be attained by a member of the graduating class was awarded to Rosa Packard Laird, daughter of Mrs. Anne Macfar- Harriet Barlow, daughter of Mrs, Burt E. Barlow of Washington, was announced the winner of the Hyde prize, and the Helen Harker gift was awarded to Madeleine H. Wright, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. William John Wright of Washington. Miss Mabel B. Turner, principal of the school. announced the prize awards |and Miss Bertha A. 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