Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1935, Page 4

T.V. A CRITICS GET CONTROL OF BILL Concessions Granted to - Break House Impasse on Measure. %y the Associated Press. Moving to smash a month's dead- lock and bring some form of a T. V. A. bill to a vote, House leaders, it was disclosed today, have agreed to permit the group that writes the final draft of the administration measure to be dominated by T. V. A. critics. ! Chairman McSwain of the Military Affairs Committee said the agree- ment was another of the sweeping | concessions granted in an effort to | break the existing impasse. | The Senate has passed a T. V. A.| bill approved by the White House. When the House has acted on its| Shapromise &e two measures will be | sft 1o conrerenee for an adjustment of differences with a Senate delega- tion. Here are the Representatives designated to go to that conference, which puts the legislation in its final | form: McSwain, Hill, Democrats, of Ala-| rama; Montet, Democrat, of Louisi- ana: Plumley, Republican, of Ver- mont, and McLean, Republican, of New Jersey. The last three were among com- mittee T. V. A. foes who succeeded tn tabling by a 13-to-12 vote the! Senate T. V. A. bill. | Later the committee, by another 13-to-12 vote, approved a drastically altered compromise bill, which has met blunt White House criticism. Gets Right of Way. ‘The Rules Committee has given the T. V. A. measure right of way on the floor after action on the pend- tng utilities bill. Administration leaders were plan- aing a floor fight to restore language more acceptable to the President, but sbe outcome was doubtful. Military Committee oppcnents of T. I, A. were reported to have forced the agreement on conferees because | ey believed the Senate Conference! Committee might succeed in liberaliz- ing the legislation. It requires a ma- jority on each Conference Copimittee | to approve any conference action. McSwain said the only way in which a preponderance of conferees friendly to the T. V. A. project could be named now was by discarding the pact “bv all interested parties.” But he said he | &aw no prospects for such a change. To Foliow Precedent. Tt will be up to McSwain to suggest the conferees to Speaker Byrns. Questioned about the agreement, Byrns said: ‘It is an unbroken rule that the Speaker appoints the conferees sug- gested to him by the chairman of the committee that reports a bill.” Byrns added. however, that a ma- Jority of the House can instruct the conferees as to what amendments must be insisted upon. These are major points in the com- promise bill to which President Roose- velt was reported opposed. Retention of the present $50,000,000 | limit on T. V. A. bond issues, a pro- vision forbidding T. V. A. to sell power | and agricultural chemicals below costs | of production after January 1, 1937, another barring T. V. A. construction of power lines substantially parallel | to existing lines, and a requirement that T. V. A. be placed under the strict accounting procedure of the ! General Accounting Office. ARMS LAW IN EFFECT OLYMPIA, Wash, July 1 (®).—| Washington State’s new “short fire-| arms” act with drastic provisions | designed to keep pistols out of the! hands and pockets of criminals went into effect today. The new law sets up strict licensing provisions governing the sale and possession of “any firearm with ni barrel less than 12 inches in length.” | Peace officers, military authorities and members of shooting clubs are ex- cepted. | «+ . neat . . . fitting o « « distinctive THE EVENING Gloom in Judiciary Square _Pigeons and Squirrels Lose a Pal. “Uncle Bill,” Nearly Blind. BY M. D. LAMBORNE, JR. HE squirrels in Judiciary Square are chattering in lower tones; the pigeons strutting a little less proudly. If you under- stood their conversation, you would | have heard: “Uncle Bill—gone—too bad—blind.” Uncle Bill is gone, it's too bad, and STAR, WASHINGTON, D. TOUNGDENOERATS FLECT FEANENAN Maryland State Organiza- tion Nears Completion of Set-Up. | By the Associated Press. | BALTIMORE, July 1.—Organiza- tion of Young Democratic Clubs in Maryland, affiliated with the Young Democratic Clubs of America, neared completion today with the opening of permanent headquarters here. Paul E. Welsh of Baltimore, execu- | tive secretary of the State-wide or- | office. Results of balloting several weeks 8go, kept secret until yesterday, gave the presidency of the group to Law- | rence B. Fenneman, assistant city solicitor of Baltimore. Other officers are Harry Korrell, Catonsville, vice president, and R. Kent Mullikin of Laurel, treasurer. Executives nhmed were: Hugh A. Meade, Baitimore, director | of organization, and Warren Tydings, | Davidsonville, director of college or- | ganizations. | Vice presidents in charge of districts are: First district, Carl H. Monsees, | Salisbury, and Thomas E. Kane, | Perryville. Second district, J. Trueman Cash, Westminster, and J. Wilbur Cronin, Bel Air. Baltimore city, Meade, Harry J. Green, Carroll Bryan, Charles E. | Moylan, E. Stuart Windsor, jr., snd Howell King. | Fifth district, Robert Forrest, Oxon Hill, and J. Wilbur Dulin, Annapolis. | Sixth district, Mrs. C. H. Wilson, | Cumberland, and Robert Glaasie, | Chevy Chase. £ SR Chinese Tracks Reduced. Tracks of the former Chinese East- | ern Rallway in Manchuria are being reduced to standard gauge. 487/A 7, ganization, is in charge of the new | | standing between all present. | when Uncle Bill's eyes started to go he's nearly blind. That's why he! entered the Episcopal Eyve, Ear and | Throat Hospital to have some of the city's specialists see what they c.ni do to restore eyesight which has been failing for more than a year. “Uncle Bill,” William E. Thomas by I name, is crowding 80 now, and for the past 10 years his principal avoca=- tion has been feeding the pigeons and squirrels in Judiciary Square and a few other gathering places. Genera- tions of pigeons and squirrels have come and gone during those years, but if they lived in Judiciary Square, they knew Uncle Bill; their parents told them of the kindly gentleman with white hair and smoked glasses who was their friend, and they passed the information along to younger genera- tions. ‘When Uncle Bill showed up with his bag of feed they gathered at his feet, some of the pigeons perched on his shoulders, the squirrels sat up. They talked in their languages and Uncle Bill talked in his, but there seemed to be complete under- And bad they were sorry but they moved ;l little closer so he still could dis- | tinguish some of his favorites. Last week he told them he wouldn't be back for a while, maybe a few days, maybe months. Maybe he won't be back at all, but he didn't tell them that. And so the squirrels and pigeons in Judiciary Square are not as gay | as usual, they are missing Uncle Bill. 26,000 Return to England. More than 26.000 women returned to England in search of work in the last year. Store Hours Saturday 9:15 to 1 p.m. 14th & G STS. For the Hot Days —OQver the 4th and T hereafter. Suits Shantung Silk 2 PIECES $22.50 Two-Piece Seersuckers Linens st Palm Beaches .... Cascade Cloth . ... Tropical Worsteds Coronado Cloth . Silk Poplins . .. .. S e e Sport Coats $16.50 L4 BEACH ROBES from.... Mesh Sport Shirts BATHING SUITS fro SIDNEY WEST, ne. EUGENE C. 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NEW YORK, July 1 UP—Eugene | | Court Ab-nmmu. told police a col- FOUR ROBBED IN D. C. ored taxicab driver, whom he had BY WEEK END BANDITS hired to drive him home, robbed him | of his watch and $1 after striking him { with his fist and driving him from the cab. Pens and Taxicab Listed as Other hold-up victims were John Payne, 2419 K street, who told police Loot 1% Meparts, he was robbed of $28, 8 watch and two Four men were robbed of $55 in fountain pens by three colored men cash, two watches and fountain pens who held him up at New Jersey ave- $55, Two Watches, Fountain debate on the utilities bill today 1o | Kats, 59, newspaper and advertising | in hold-ups here over the week end.!nue and N street, and George E. Frey, untangle a Congressional Record error that stirred the ire of a Massachusetts Republican and an Ohio Democrat. 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