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FUROPES PEATE HOPESLESSENIG Many Hidden Motives Fig- ure in Conditions Threat- ening Disintegration. BY A. G. GARDINER. LONDON, July 6.—When the new foreign minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, rose to make his first statement in the House of Commons, it was ex- pected that he would have something to say on the vast thing that is hap- Found Guilty GIRL SLAYER TO DIE IN CHAIR. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. pening in the Far East. But. like the | preacher in the story, he “looked the question straight in the face—and passed on.* | ‘The fact illustrates the paralysis of Europe in the presence of the greatest emergency in history. That paralysis 15 due to a disintegration that grows | _steadlly more ominous. No sooner does England, in her role of honest broker, make a gesture of peace and #ccommodation in one direction. than alarms and suspicions are aroused in another. Even the Prince of Wales' innocent suggestion that the ex-service men of England should fraternize with the ex- service men of Germany is not wel- comed on the other side of the Chan- nel. and the attempt to settle a naval ratio as between Britain and Germany is the subject of criticism in the French press. But much the most serious imme- diate feature of European disintegra- tion is the case of Italy. Signor Mus- | solini has never been a cordial friend | of the League of Nations or of Euro- pean reconciliation. but hitherto his | habit of rattling the sabre and talk- | ing “big” has been attributed to his instinct for melodramatic appeals to his pecple. It was felt that his bark was worse than his bite, and that, | having blown off steam. his actions | would be more sensible than his words seemed to promise. But this flattering | view is no longer tenable in the pres- ence of the African adventure on which he seems determined to embark his unhappy country and of the con- temptuous attitude he adopts in re- gard to the League, its intervention in the quarrel and the powers with which he has been associated and | Wwhich now seek to restrain him. Baldwin Remarks Effective. Premier Baldwin's reasonable re- | marks about the absence of any “pub- He opinion” in countries under a dic- tatorship have stung Mussolini to an attack of unusual violence on this country and his feeling toward the League has been exhibited in his truc- ulent indorsement of the withdrawal of Japan and Germany from that in- stitution. It was assumed here after the May <onference that Mussolini contem- piated a face-saving retirement from Lhe Abyssinian adventure, but every- thing that has happened since seems to discount that, and opinion both here and in Italy takes the most ap- prehensive view of his intentions. All recent visitors to Italy agree that there is no popular emotion behind the enterprize and that the public is as much perplexed as the outside World as to what is in Mussolini's | ¥nind. The most general impression is that he is drifting into a desperate | FRANK A. FLYN Just after he convicted by a Long Island jury of the first de- gree murder in the slaying of Margo Parlato, 6, whom he drowned in a bath tub. His conviction car- ries a mandatory death sentence. BANKS GAINSEEN IN SILVER POLICY Senators Ask Stabilization. | Thomas Says Profit Made With Advance Facts. By the Associated Press, Contending banks were using the Treasury's silver-buying machinery for their own profit, Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, sald yaster- day that President Roosevelt will be served immediately with a request backed by 40 Senators for early sta- bilization of gold and silver The 40 Senators, including members from all but about a dozen States, ap- pended their names to a letter ad- dressed by Thomas to the President requesting adherence to the monetary licy adopted by the last Congr poli Under terms of that. this Government | was pledged to continue, buying si'ver until either one quarter of the Nation's monelary metal was silver or until the price of that metal had reached $1.29 an ounce. Previous Knowledge Alleged. Commenting on the recent drop in the price of silver from a high of 81 cents to about 69 cents, Thomas con- tended the banks, with forehanded knowledge of when the Treasury was to buy or sell silver, profit either on the upturn or the drop. The Oklahoman emphasized he did not accuse either Secretary Morgen- | thau or the banks with “duplicity,” but insisted “banks will be banks” when an opportunity for profit is THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. JULY GEN. HEINTZELMAN CLAIMED BY DEATH Tth Corps Area Commander Had Distinguished Army Career. By the Associated Prass. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., July 6.—Maj. Gen. Stuart D. Heintzelman, 59, of Omaha. Nebr., commander of the 7th Corps Area, United States Army, died at the Army and Navy General Hos- pital here tonight. Physicians said earlier today they held no hope for his recovery. Gen. Heintzelman was brought here by plane from Omaha early in June. He had been confined to the hospital since that time with complications which set in following a gall bladder operation. In Army 36 Years. Gen. Heintzelman followed a family tradition in giving 36 years of his life to distinguished military service. A son and a grandson of Army men, he was born in New York City, Novem- | ber 19, 1876, prepared himself for his career at West Point and ended that career wearing coveted decorations of his own country and the World War allies. Pollowing his graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1899, he graduated with honors from the Infantry and Cavalry 8chool in 1905, from the Army Stafl College in 1906 and from the Army War College Heads Sorority CAPITAL GIRL ELECTED BY NATIONAL BODY. MISS MILDRED PARKER Of Alpha Chapter, Lambda Chi, this city, was elected national president of Lambda Chi at the annual convention of the sorority beld recently in Binghamton. N. Y. BN U. . DEMANDS AID | | | | were able to | 1 fTered. £ gamble as a way of escape from a | " hopeless internal situation. o | ‘Thomas said if purchasing is pressed At sitoetion il sibtectiotianl the $1.29 price would be reached .lunx i BaSieton i i | before the United States had reached acute analysis arlo Rosselli in | i prescrined quota of $3,000,000,000 the Manchester Guardian. The state. | of monetary silver he says, has never been verful: | 80 PEwNEEE. | Any Price Held Possible. but Ttalian society has never been so| |, weak. Italy has entered the vicious| ' The United States is able to fix circle which characterizes all dicta- | the Pprice of silver at any point de- torships in decadence: The greater sirable,” Thomas said in an inter- the material power and coercion, the | V1€W- i greater the collapse of society and | Thus armed with control of the the greater the need of coercion. Pas- | silver price and with a large voice in sivism, indifference, resigned despair | determining the price of gold, Thomas are manifest all through society, youth | Said. the United States should enter included. | an international conference for sta- bilization of gold and silver in a bi- Co-operative State Myth. metallic currency system. The corporative state, with which | He made no suggestion of a time ! INFLOOD CONTROL {Start of Bladensburg Proj- | ect Depends on Local Co-operation. BY GEORGE PORTER Btafl Correspondent of The Siar. BLADENSBURG, Md., July 6—The | fate of Bladensburg’s long-sought flood | control project today rested in the hands of Maryland authorities. | Pederal officials have informed State leaders that a local agency must as- | sume responsibility for several phases [ of the work, including maintenance | after it Is completed. With that in mind, John S. White, chairman of the Flood Control Com- hili . China, | Mittee of the Prince Georges County {1« He: beld athe Fhilippibe; - Cina Pederation of Citizens’ Associations, | | Mexican border and victory campaign | | N c 's Dis | expects to call on the State Roads badges and his country's Distinguished | SXPecs 1o Cil 07 TIC s his World War | | ‘i‘,':":: :::: ':‘:’:ded"mm the Croix | ers and the Maryland-National Capi- de Guerre with palm and made him a | Al Park and Planning Commission commander of the Legion of Honor. | during the coming week. | Italy designated him a commander of Project Favored. | the Order of the Crown. He will attempt to learn which of | | Ce—n them is willing and has the legal au- thority to co-operate along the lines THIRD BOAT SENT | reiee bt e T0 KETCH'S RESCUE maintenance guarantee, but also the | | Gold Treasurer Hunter Til, Wife procurement of all necessary rights of way and protection of the Federal and 2 Children on Leak- ing Craft. Government from damage suits. Officials of the United States Army By the Associated Press. with favor. After a conference with | HAVANA., July 6.—The Navy today | them. White conceded that the under | dispatched another small boat to join | taking eould not be classified entirel; | two gunboats in the search for the| s & Federal project because it was | | .| on a navigable stream, inasmuch as | g&"&:m@;‘: .fir‘mfl Xt nl,m.h:,, | its objective is to control floods rather | 100 miles south of the western tip than improve navigation. of Cuba. | Some years ago the Army Engineers | Aboard the helpless vessel are the made a survey here and evolved two owner, M. C. Rice, Toronto, Canada: | plans for flood controi. One of them, | his wife, seriously ill, and three | designated plan B, had the indorse- others. ment of the Citizens' Federation | In Toronto, a sister-in-law of Rice| when, through ‘White, they filed their | | said he sailed in the Casarco in quest application for $200,000 for fiood con- | of & $50,000 treasure of gold bullion | trol with the National Emergency Council last month. The application | and coins. Rice, & jobless radio re-| pair expert, wac inspired to the treas- | has been referred to the Engineers office, which will make a resurvey | | ure hunt by an old map he found in a pocket watch in 1033. He obtained| :{::- beginning work, according to le. funds from England to finance the cruise. | in 1920, after he had seen service in many campagins. Princeton conferred an honorary M. A. on him in 1917. He was married in 1910 to Miss Rubey Bowling of Columbia, Mo. Served in France. Leaving military fnstruction work at Princeton in 1917, he arrived in Prance in July of that year to serve with the operations section of the American Army until the following | year, becoming chief of staff of the second Army until its mobilization in | April, 1919. He returned to the United States in July, 1919, o direct the Army War College and later to become assistant | | chief of staff, 1921-24. Prior to his | appointment as head of the Seventh Corps Area he was commandant of | the General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Engineers’ office, in advising White of these requirements, indicated they looked upon the flood control project Would Combine Plans. “Mussolini attempted to galvanize the | * masses and especially the youth of the country, has becogne a myth. The trade unions have not obtained “en- . trance” to the factories, The dis- for calling such a conference, but de- clared the United States should lead out by foreing the price of silver and gold to be determined on the basis of the relative production of the two The passengers, in addition to Mr. and Mrs. Rice are their two chil- dren and an American, Albert Jones. In view of the limitations surround- ing expenditure of Federal funds on the project and the needed co-oper- ation of Maryland authorities, White said the citizens would seek to have | 7 tribution of wealth has not under- < gone any substantial change, except »that everybody is poorer. The bour- » geoisie is more and more disturbed Z by and tired of the bureaucratic in- »vasion. Youth, denied its corporative . Tevolution, is disillusioned, has lost confidence in Mussolini and sees in _ him the obstacle to that revolution. <~ Add to all this the financial catas- trophe into which the country is help- metals. This, he said, would be at 16 to 1 or less. | THOUSANDS HOMELESS IN FLOOD ON YANGTZE Great River Continues to Rise as Hankow Appears to Be CHAIN STORE TAX OUSTED BY COURT New Mexico Organizations Win Appeal on Protest of Discrimination. By the Associated Press. the floods controlled through & combi- nation of plan B with plan A. ‘The consolidated plan would elimi- nate projected work in Edmonston and East Hyattsville, where it would be necessary to secure rights of way from private property owners. It would start the flood control work at the intersection of the Northwest and Northeast Branches back of the Bla- densburg jail and involve dredging and lessly sinking. As long as there were ~reserves of wealth, things did not go Amadly. But the reserves are gone and | _Hascism bleeds the country white with | “ttemendous expenditures for appear- | ances and war, corrupts it with m “ropolies. interventions, political prize: -‘} d preferences. Exports decrease contjnuously, the pressure of taxes is “\nbearable, the standard of living of ~all classes is worsening. =3 “These,” says Signor Rosselli, “are “sbme of the hidden motives which Tave decided Mussolini to throw him- self into the colonial adventure, “sgainst all reason. The Abyssinian ~expedition is not merely a diversion; At 15 a supreme attempt to bresk 2through the inertia of the country, to =ty to give to the dictatorship and to +the Duce a justification, a goal, a s®yeal success. At the same time it «Serves to impose on the country an «1ton discipline, closing the mouth of +Youth and getting rid of dangerous #8bcial and political elements, which » =€ sent to Africa.” g * 1t is & dark picture, and it is con- sfirmed by all the first-hand informa- «ton which comes to me from Italy. | 2 Fhe shadow which it casts ever the | ‘)Andscnpe is not confined to Italy, but .arkeu the whole European problem, g¥or it threatens another and perhaps ’t fatal blow to the League and the ~hopes of a reconciled Europe. %a (Copyright. 1935.) —_— “GIRL HURT IN PLUNGE - SUES ARIZONA OFFICIAL “§49,412 Asked From Attorney General Sullivan, Accused by Stenographer. % By the Associated Press. PHOENIX, Ariz., July 6 —Accusing ~Btate’s Attorney General John L. Sul- “livan of tossing her from a fourth. ~floor hotel window the night of his last November election vietory, Lucille Bell, Phoenix stenograpner sued him +for $49,41250 damages today. She £ eaid,she was permanently injured. % Police records show Miss Bell fell ~from the window about 2:30 am. An “awning over a lower floor window “Proke her fall. % “I wasnt’ there,” Sullivan said to- _day from Prescott when informed of ~the suit. “I was at the Ameriea n and 1 have witnesses to prove | | Besieged City. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAL Sunday, July 7— Flood waters raced through the vast valley of the Yangtse River today. From many points came reports of thousands driven from their homes and of immense property damage. Heavy rains continued. The great stream, from Hankow upward, con- tinued to rise at a menacing rate. Chungking, Wanhsien, Ichang and Shasi reported rains verging on cloud- bursts. The river flowed from one to three miles wide in various sections between Ichang and Hankow. Prom Hankew westward the dikes were generally holding, although scat- tered breaks permitted large inland areas to be flooded. Below Hankow the most serious situation appeared to be at Kiukiang, where most of the city was submerged, causing a heavy exodus of the populace southward. Hankow took on the appearance of a besieged city, with flood waters cov- ering 43 square miles eneircling it. FRANCE REDUCES—ARMY T0 NORMAL OF 600,000 Added Mobilization of October Released With Easing of Crisis With Reich. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 8.—France reduced her army today to its normal strength of 600,000 troops by releasing about 100,000 conscripts. Hail of those re- turned to civiliaa lifc were of the yearly class, the other half mobilised last October. Ail had served three months beyond their obligatory time. France extended e year's cympul- sory military service when he: mili- tary leaders became ureasy over the German rearmament. The atanding strength of £10,000 | troops is said by Frarce to equal the strength of the Gierman army plus Hitler's militarized police. Killed in Auto Accident. HUNTSVILLE, Ala., July 6 (A).— Mrs. Birdie L Walker, 25, wife of B. R. Walker Dearborn, Mich., was instantly killed and her brother, Otey League, was critically injured today when the automobile in which they were riding turned over on the Pulazki Highway. SANTA PE, N. Mex.. July 6—New Mexico today was without its occupa- | tional or so-called “chain store tax.” | The much-publicized chain store | act smashed into the rocks of uncon- | stitutionality, with the State Bupreme Court ruling Priday in favor of four large store operators who had sued to enjoin the operation of the tax on the ground of unfairness and inequality. Originally enacted by the 1933 As- sembly, the first chain store tax was attacked by a referendum. The special Assembly of 1934, acting before the referendum vote occurred, repealed the original measure and passed another. The second act im- mediately was thrown into court, with District Judge M. A. Otero, jr., of | Banta Pe holding it unconstitutional because it penalized certain concerns for doing large amounts of business, ‘The Supreme Court upheld him. ISLANDERS PROTEST 20,000 Puerto Ricans Demand Permanent Reconstruction. BAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, July 6 (#). —More than 20,000 Puerto Ricans from every town on the fsland parad- | ed through the streets today demand- ing that the insular Legislature enact laws to prepare the island for per- manent reconstruction. The crowd was cheerful, despite its threatening banners, and no disorders occurred. Their placards, mounted with small American flags, demanded immediate action, and added that the patience of the people was exhausted. Gov. Blanton Winship failed to ap- pear as the singing and cheering crowd passed the Governors' palace, —— AUTO RACER KILLED Crashes Head-On Into Machine Which Threw Driver. WASHINGTON, Pa., July 6 (@ — Robert Bell, young racing driver from Etna, Pa, was killed tonight in a head-on collision at the Arden Downs Automobile Speedway. Bell's car crashed into another, ariven by Andy Anesetti of Meadow- land, Pa. Anesetti's machine had skidded completely around at a turn, throwing him clear of the crash. ‘The accident occurred during a 20- mile race, which was won by Speed Waaco of Marting Ferry, Oblo, s levee construction from there to the Anacostia River, inside the District of Columbia. Maintenance work, which some Btate or county agency would be called upon to handle, would involve very little money, White believes. It would consist, he says, chiefly of inspection of the levees to see that they are kept in perfect condition, and painting of | flood gates. | White's Flood Control Committee will meet Tuesday night to consider how the Citizens’' Federation can help | push the project. It has been sug- gested the citizens use their influence to persuade property owners to co- operate in the flood control work, through donation of necessary rights of way or otherwise, in the interest of the development of their community. | — Johnson Lists $19,500,000 Work. NEW YORK, July 6 (#).—Gen, Hugh 8. Johnson, works progress ad- ministrator for New York City, an- nounced July work allotments today totaling $19,500,000 in the drive which he says will reduce New York's unem- ployment rolls by 60,000. [ PROGRAM DEBATED), Policy Defended and Hit as “Mere Concession to Poverty.” By the Associated Press. UNIVERSITY, Va, July 6—The closing conference on “Economic Se- curity” this afternoon heard the Roosevelt administration’s security program contrasted as a “significant beginning” and a “mere concession to poverty” by a Government spokesman and & university economist, respéc- tively, appearing at the Public Affairs Institute at the University of Virginia. Dr. Joseph Harris or Washington, assistant director of the President’s Committee on Social Security, praised the administration plan, which he said “marks a tremendously signifi- cant beginning in the field of social insurance and also the recognition of a permanent Pederal responsibility for public welfare.” But Prof. Broadus Mitchell of Johns Hopkins University told the same audience “What we need is not mere concession to poverty, but construc- tion for plenty.” He charged Presi- dent Roosevelt and his administration were lost in trying to “stand on two stools of business relief and social re- form” and, instead, falling between them. Program for Church. At the same hour, Rev. R. A. Mc- Gowan, assistant director of the De- partment of Social Action in the Na- tional Catholic Welfare Conference, was urging that the church work for social security in industrial life. His proposal was heard by the round ta- ble on “The Church in & Changing | World.” Political leaders today should take 8 lesson from Washington, Hamilton and others of the Federalist persua- sion, Prof. Mitchell declared. ‘“These men refused to trifie with an alarming situation by mere patching of the ar- ticles of confederation. It was imper- ative, they declared, to throw political sovereignty to the Central Govern- ment, or we should have won the Rev- olution only to lose our liberty. “These men insisted, in word and deed, upon & radical cure for a radi- cal disease. Now I think the task of statesmen in America today is to acknowledge that the central govern- ment must exercise sovereignty, as economic responsibility has, in fact, been thrust upon it. “The claims of the worker-consum- ers come forward slowly but surely. | They have watched experimentation with patience, enormously impressed with the re- sults. Still tolerant, however, they more and more are inclined to say to the President, tinker if you must. but while you do remove our mental and bodily anguish—if not by jobs, then by adequate Government guar- antees.” Southern States were accused by the speaker as having contributed almost nothing to the support of their huge relief populations. And he added that “Thomas Jefferson’s in- sistence upon local autonomy has been humbled by developments which have generalized and standardized our eco- nomic life.” Economic stability is, he said in conclusion, the next necessary step. This requires a planned economy which cannot, he argued, be achieved | | without social ownership and social control of the great means of pro- duction. Its purpose will be produc- tion for use, not for profit—or, if you | will, its purpose must be production for social profit Prof. Mitchell's indictment of the sdministration plan was answered in part by Dr. Harris, who pointed out that the President’s program had been equally criticized by those who think it goes too far and those who be- lieve it does not provide sufficient security; by those who hold it pro- vides too much centralization in ‘Washington and those who contend it leaves too much to the States “All this indicates,” he continued, “that the program is a practicable one, and one that can be started now.” Reasons why the church seeks eco- nomic security for its people were giten by Dr. MeGowan before the conference on “The Church in the Changing World.” He said, “One rea- son is that when they are not secure they have to think so much about how to become secure that they have neither time nor inclination to care | enough for the spiritual needs of their | lfe.” ILLINOIS PAIR PLAN NEW ENDURANCE TRY Ringel and Frederich to Start Attempt at Month in Air July 21. By the Associated Press. PEQRIA. Ill, July 6—Two Peoria aviators, Ken Ringel, 20, and Ellis Frederich, 31, announced today plans | sioners, and yesterday he conferred | to start about July 31 an attempt to | briefly with Senator Capper, Republi- Teturn the official world endurance | can, of Kansas. a member of the sub- flying record to Illinois by breaking the 27-day mark set last Monday by the Key brothers of Meridian, Miss. Flying a six-place (Stinson) mono- plane of the type used by the Hunter brothers, whose world mark stood un- | til the flying Key boys went up in the O Miss at Meridian, the Peoria pilots have set their goal above Mount Hawley Airport at a full month. Ringel, whose flying log shows more than 7.200 hours in the air, will act as chief pilot. Frederich, former Bradley foot ball player, also & licensed pilot, will act as technical adviser and radio operator. Farm Bill to Be Forum Topic ENATOR JOHN H. BANKHEAD of Alabama will discuss the new | A. A, A bill in the National | Radio Forum Thursday st 10.30 pm. The National Radio Forum is arranged by The Washington Star and brosdcast over the network of the National Broadcasting Co. | Thia new farm bill is one of the ad- ministration's “must” bills for the present session. The measure started out as an amendment to the present agricultural adjustment act. It has become more than that, for much of the existing law is rewritten in the bill so as to make it certain that the| law will be constitutional in the u.n;i of the Supreme Court’s decision in the N. R. A. case. Senator Bankhead is & member of the Committee on Agriculture. He is the author of the Bankhead cotion control act and a atrong defender of the A, A. A. The bill is to come | 1935—PART ONE. Congress Held Dictator Often | SIGIA SECUR"Y | ngRe jecting Rulings of Courts 'yranny Seen in | Refusal to Allow Appropriations for Judgments Or- dered by Court of Claims. ‘To the Editor of The Star: A few days ago Mr. Lawrence de- voted his eoluran to a discussion of & Roosevelt dictatorship he sees form- ing, the evidence of which he finds in “the insistent demand by the execu- tive branch of the Government that | the legislative branch, which it domi- direct assault on the judiciary.” He writes in the light of the administra- tion’s proposals to deprive American | | | | citizens of their rght to mantain suits (1) for the recovery of damages upon | the Government’s repudiation of inter- est or principsl on Government bonds | and (2) for the recovery of the proc- essing taxes. The central idea is that the Presi- dent is coercing Congress into repeal- ing the citizen's right to sue the Gov- | ernment for damage growing out of | unlawful acts by Government agen- | cies. That the Government cannot be sued without the consent of Congress | is a sound legal proposition that does not tell the whole story. One of the charges leveled by our Declaration of Independence at the British King was that “he has obstructed the adminis- tration by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiclary powers.” Justice Desired in 1376, | i ment is not & mere matter of favor, as “it is as rauch the duty of the Government as of individuals to fulfil! its obligations.” Neo Power to Compel Congress, This is all well and good. In pri- vate litigation final judgments ‘are satisfied by means of appropriate ment debtor’s property and sometimes his person. But none such can lie| against the Government and its prop- FUNDS REQUESTED FOR CANT N Census Bureau Plans to Compile Data to Aid Pension Work. Preparing to compile the world's largest directory of names, an alphe- betical index, by geographic units and families, of all the 75994575 indi- viduals in the United States returned in the census of 1900, the Bureau of the Census yesterday applied for a | nates and controls, shall join it in & |y, qieia] writs issued against the judg- SPecial aliotment of work-relief funds The data te be compiled would comprise an authentic record for use in connection with State old-age pen- sion laws now in effect and Federal {erty. Of course, it is the constitutional | 2 | bligation of Congress to pay the judg- | ©/d-age pension legislation now be- | ments rendere¢ sgainst the Govern- | [0ré Congress. Headquarters for this ment b’ its own courts, but there is | special census is prom“‘d to be estab- Louls, and $1,804.948 was | ment. | no judicial power to compel Congress | lisbed at St. to perform its constitutional duty. At present the thought seems upper- most that, except for executive dom- ination, Congress would not deny our | citizens he right to sue the Govern- As a matter of fact, Congress frequently, on its own initiative, arbi- | trarily and illegally refuses to make appropriations for the payment of final judgmentz against the Govern- | ment rendered in cases by courts of | competent jurisdiction conferred for | the purpose by the laws of Congress. | It is but sticking in the bark to criti- cize Congress for refusing to subject | requested of the Division of Applica- tions and Information. Need Declared Imperative. The need for information concern- ing the ages of individuals eligible for pensions is imperative, the bureau stated, due tc the demands being made for infcrmation from every sec- tion. The work has doubled in the past two years and if the trend con- tinues, the census schedules soon will be worn out as a result of constant handling. It is estimated the economic se- curity act would result in the Census | the Governmert to suit when it fre- and have not been | The preamble of the Constitution | recites that one cf the prime purposes of establishing our Government was to “establish justice.” The Constitu- tion expressly forbids the Government to deprive a citizen of his ilfe, liberty or property without due process of law and otherwise assumes 10 protect bhim in his fundamental rights. It would seem that any steps taken by | ny branch of our Government toward denying to & citizen justice under law is an act tending to seli-destruction. For years Congress itself undertook to legislate damages to an injured cit- | izen. In 1861 President Lincoln rec- ommended the establishment of a Court of Claims as a court in & strict- | ly legal sense, saying: | “It is as much the duty of govern- | | ment to render prompt justice against | itself in favor of its cilzens as it is to administer the same between pri- vate individuals. The investigation and adjudcation of claims in their na- ture belong to the judicial depart- meat.” Secretarial Powers Rejected. In 1863, Congress undertcok Lo con- | fer judicial power upon :the court, | empoyering it to render final judg- ment with right of appeal to the Supreme Cour:. but the same act also | provided that the judgments were not to be paid by the Treasury until Con- | gress had made an appropriation | therefor “estimated for by the Sec- retary of the Treasury”” The Su- preme Court held that the section giving to the Secretary of the Treasury implied authority to review the judg- | ments of the court destroyed the | judicial power attempted to be con- | ferred. | In 1866, Congress repealed this in- | consistent section. From then till | now the Supieme Court has always | beld (1) that the Court of Claims ex- ! ercises judicial power and has all the functions of & court, (2) that it is be- | yond the power of Congress to pre- | scribe rules of decision in cases pend- | ing befors it, (3) that its judgments are binding upon the Government. | (4) that the right to sue the Govern- | | hostile to the claimant, quently airogates to itself the arbi- trary power to refuse to pay judg- ments rendered in cases in which it has subjected the Government to suit. Several Appropriations Rejected. Within the past three or four years Congress has refused to make appro- priations to satisfy such final judg- ments in several cases known to me, with no better reason than the state- ment of some member of the Ap- propriations Committee that the Judgment was wrong. In one case in which I happened to be counsel for the claimant (Dal- ton vs. United States, K-317) judg- ment for $12,000 for services was rendered by the Court of Claims on January 12, 1931. The decision could not have been otherwise; it was in line with all the precedents: the Attorney General, accepting it as the law, took no appeal; and the President certi- fied the judgment to Congress for pay- ment. A member of the House Ap- propriations Committee, personally abused the claimant and accused the court of being in collusion with dishonest claimants and helping them “to get their hands into the Treasury.” It is time,” he said amidst applause, “we called a halt on this court by revers- ing some of its decisions.” See Con- gressional Record, January 4 and § 1932, pages 1240, 1330, 1331. Thus were both houses content to discharge their constitutional obligations. This and other judgments still remain unpaid. Such dictatorship is imposed, not by the Chief Executive, but at the will of Congress itself. To the suffering citizen it can make lit- tle difference in which branch die- tatorship or tyranny is encountered. Whether found in one or another it Bureau being called upon to furnish evidence of age for at least 350000 individuals and perhaps as many as 500000 applicants for old-age pen- | sions during the first year of opera- | tion. There probably will be 100.000 additional requests for each of the next five or ten years. It would be | impossible for the bureau to conduct this huge volume of searches from the original schedules, it was said and the attempt to do so would quickly destrov them. | System Would Reduce Cost. ‘The 1,9C) schedules, it was said are clearly the most desirable to have indexed. sinc~ they alone give the month and year of birth, as well ms age. The Census Bureau wants the information indexed alphabetically by families to facilitate searches. By the use of such a card index | system the cost per search would be reduced io approximately $1, as against $3, the actual cost Lo the bureau at present. The Co-orainating Committee of | the Central Staustical Board stated that the prolect satisfactorily meets the scientific ana administrative re- quirements of acceptable statistical survey and research praetice. STREET CAR STRIKE ORDERED CONTINUED Employes in Omaha and Council | Bluffs Act as Arbitration | Fails. By the Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. July 6—A vote to continue the strike which took three is equally destructive of constitutional lives and injured nearly 80 persons government, only the more centainly | was approved tonight by organized 50 if two branches combine. It|employes of the Omaha and Council seems it ought to be patent to every Bluffs Street Railwavs following an thoughtful citizen that, in our land, arbitration board hearing we must have either a government of The vote, following a ruling bv law or a government by tyranny: |John J. Ledwith. neutral board chair- there is no stop between. | man, that only questions in which SAMUEL T. ANSELL. | both sides had agreed to arbitrate CONFEREES SEEK SECURITY ACGORD | | would be considered. was announced | by union officials as 238 to 4 ! The Arbitration Board. set up un- | der martial law, which was invoked when local authorities failed to halt | spreading violence, adjourned today | without making a formal award. | J. A. C. Kennedy, street car com- {pany attorney, insisted that only | points which the company agreed to |Next Meeting Is Tomorrow. !Call for Cleveland Bids Re- D. C. Job Insurance news Dissension Among arbitrate could go to an award, while | Edward McMorrow, international of- ficial of the carmen’s union, said all 69 points in dispute should be sub- mitted to the board. Study Urged. Senate and House conferees will strive to reach final agreement this | | week on their differencs in the na- tional social security bill, with the next meeting set for tomorrow evening. Meanwhile, Chairman King of the ' | District Committee said he has asked the legisiative drafting experts Lo go GOLFER SAVES CASH, SHOT BY BANDIT Doctor Wounded by Thug, Peeved When Wallet Is Tossed Chiefs. By the Associated Press. Dissension among work relief chif- taine was renewed yesterday in con- tentions of P. W. A. officials that Harry L. Hopkins' labor regulations would threaten damage to Secretary Ickes' low cost housing program and possibly court labor troubles. over the District unemployment in-| The occasion was on invitation for surance bill as it came from tne bids on the $3,084.000 Cuthwaite de- House, with & View to revising it along | velopment at Cleveland, the first to ! the lines urged by the Commissioners | be built urder Hopkins' rules. Bids and Jocal organizations to avoid Hlac- | ing on the District a more drastic system than is contemplated by the national bill and the general trend of | State laws. | Senator King made known Fridi that he had decided to urge revision of the unemployment bill, substan-| tially as proposed by the Commis- committee which held hearings re- | cently. Senator Copeland of New | York, who headed the subcommittee, will return to the city tomorrow. | Senator King expects to have the | revised bill ready for consideration by his colleagues during the week. The changes the Commissioners asked for and which Senator King will urge include: Control by a lacal rather than a Federal board: apply- ing the pay-roll tax gradually, as in the national bill, instead of starting off at 3 per cent the first year; elimination of the District Govern ment tax, estimated at $1.500,000 2 year: provision for 16 instead of 20 weeks of benefit payments, and & sys- tem of crediting employers through & reduction in tax when they stabilize employment. A, DEFICIT OF $247,912,000 ACCUMULATED IN 3 DAYS By the Associsted Press. Starting off a new fiscal year, Treasury operations for three days ac- cumulated a defic:t of $247,912.000. Its revenues azpregated $39,770,000, | general expenditures tctaled $172,247,- 000 and emergency expenditures $115,- 435,000. The largest item of outgo was Ju]y‘ 1 payments of $100,000,000 into the | adjusted service certificate fund, from which veterans ars Lermitted to bor- ToW Up to one-half of the bonus voted | them by Congress. Dancer Seeks Divoroe. HOLLYWOOQD, July 6 (#.—A di- voree complaint was drawn today for Mrs, Dorothy Ceballos against Larry Ceballos, New York and Hollywood dance. director, Attorney Miltan M. Golden said. She charged extreme before the Senate &t an. esrly date.| SENATOR JOHN H. BANKHEAD, cuelty, They wers marrisd in 193¢, ’ » 2 | uons particularly to the bid require- ment that 90 per cent of those em- ployed be taken from relief rolls. This type of labor, they contended, will be less efficient and result in | higher bids that will force a boost in | rents. They also predicted labor | troubles would result from the fact that building trades members who have stayed off relief will not be eli- gible for jobs. Wages prevailing in | Celeveland will be paid on the project. | Amid widespread labor criticisms of | the $19 to $94 a month wage scale fixed by Hopkins on projects to be | carried out by his works progress ad- | ministration, Secretary Perkins re- cently assured building trades leaders that the schedule would not apply to projects carried out under contract P. W. A. officials said, however, that the 90 per cent relief percentage ap- parently had been overlooked in these discussions. Funds for the Cleveland project come from the old P. W. A, but as one of the first to be carried out under new contract regulations, it was noted the Government will supply cement and lighting fixtures, to be forwarded the contractor as required. Although materials have been bought by the Government for some rivers and harbors projects, P. W. A. contrac- tars heretofore had included that ex- pense in their bids. Rear Admiral C. J. Peoples, Treas- ury procurement officer, is sending out purchasing agenits to co-operate with State work progress administra- tors in obtaining materials. KELLOGG QUITS HOSPITAL | Former Secretary of State Better After Minor Operation. ROCHESTER, Minn,, July 6 (#).— Frank B. Kellogg of 8t. Paul, former Becretary of State, left the hospital today after undergoing a minor op- eration last Monday. The operation was necessitated by recurrence of an in Hold-Up. By the Associated Press. RIDGEWOOD, N. J, July €-— Three masked gunmen robbed five golfers on the eighth tee of the ex- clusive Ridgewood Country Club tn- day, shooting one of their victims after he had tossed his wallet intn a clump of bushes instead of handing it over. The trio fled in & car with $200 and an undetermined amount of jewelry and checks. Dr. Charles G. Prather of Westwood, N. J., was the man wounded. He was shot in the thigh Besides Dr. Prather, the victims were H. H. Hollister, associated with & Wall Street brokerage concern Howard A. Smith, vice president of the American Express Co.; Charles Puckette of the business staff of the New York Times, and Dr. William B. Rawls, head surgeon o: the Polyelinic Hospital in New York City. Dr. Prather was taken to the Holy Name Hospital at Teaneck, N. J. MEDICINE EXPLODES IN DRUG STORE FIRE Hundreds of Bottles Are Smashed in Blaze at Randolph Pharmacy. Hundreds of bottles of drugs and other medical supplies were amashed when fire of undetermined origin broke out shortly before last midnight in the prescription department of the Randolph Pharmacy, at 3901 Four- teenth street Many of the drugs were costly, and estimates of the loss were high, al- though no great damage was done to the one-story building outside of the prescription room and plate glass windows Moe Jacobs, proprietor, said every- thing was in orcer at 11 o'clock, when he closed, but a little later Mrs. Helen Hanigan of 1343 Randolph street saw 4 blaze in the window and sounded the elarm. Dozens of the bottles of medi- cine exploded from the heat. | will be opened on August 12, with one | year allowed for construétion of the 885-family project. | Ickes, who recently formally denied any aifferences with Hopkins. declined comment. But his aides raised objec- Fire Loss at $500,000. Fire recently caused $500,000 dam- age to the secretarist building of the old allment. He plans to remsin here about & week longer, |3 Central Provinces Government at Nag- e /