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YX4 ¥ SIBN MOBLZNG NH FORTAXFRAT Committee of Americans Will Campaign for Sales Levy and Economies. BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July (.—Charles H. Babin, jr.. wealthy New York broker, confirmed reports tonight that he was forming an organization of wealthy persons to campaign for a Federal sales tax and governmental economies and against higher income and present | “nuisance” taxes. The organization will be known as| the Committee of Americans. It hopes| to present a petition of 1,000,000 names | td the President and Congress urging | the budget be balanced by methods| advocated by the group, Sabin said. Admitting that some of the wealthiest | persons in the country were represent- ed on the committee, Sabin denied however, that its program included a | “wealth lobby against President Roosevelt's tax measures. | “We are not going to lobby for or against anything and it is entirely ‘wrong to call the committee a lobl he said. “Our primary interest is to agitate in favor of a Federal sales tax—that, and the abolition of the nuisance taxes. We have no other| axes to grind.” ¥Ra1;l;i n (Continued From First Page.) ‘ Maverick and Representative Hill, Democrat, of Alabama, and Repre- | sentative Thomason. Democrat, of | Texas, worked most of the day with | Director David E. Lilienthal of the | T. V. A. on the language of amend- | ments this group in the Military Af- | fairs Committee will ofter to the com- promise measure of a committee ma- | Jority. Three floors below Chairman Sa- VDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, “Mr. and Mrs. America,” the li being carried by Japanese high school students into the Imperial respects to the Emperor and Empress. fe-sized dolls presented to Japan by Mayor La Guardia as good will tokens, Palace at Toklo, where they paid their —Wide World Photo. Congress __ (Continued From First Page.) Hawthorne of New Yok City. chair- man of the Committee Ageinst the Guffey Coal Bill, said that ""hfl¢> the matter of constitutionality was being passed upon, irreparable dam- | age would be done to our business.” | Enactment of the biil, Hawthorne | contended. would not ¢nly not pre- vent a mine strike—chrice suspended | over the head of Congress—but ac- | tually would make it increasingly dif- | ficult to negotiate a new wage - scale | contract. | Roosevelt’s Letter on Coal Informs Representative Hill He Hopes Doubts as to Constitutionality Will Not Block Guffey Bill. its distribution ir the flow of inter- President Roos>velt's letter, sent yesterday to Representative Samuel B. Hill, chairman of the subcommittee before which the Gufiey bill is pend- ing, follows My dear Mr. Hill: Your subcommittee of the Ways state commerce, i an intrastate transaction, the constitutionality of the provisions based on the com- merce clause of tne Constitution depends upon the final conclusion as to whether p.oduction condi- D. C, JULY 7, 1935—PART ONE. GANDIDATES BEGIN TOE-T0-T0E FIGHT Arlington Primary Cam- paign Quickens as Last Month Is Entered. BY ANGUS GREEN, Staft Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va,, July 6.—The halfway mark in the Democratic primary campaign has been reached and after a quiet and listless beginning it appears now that events of the week will change con- siderably the tempo of the campaign, and serious down-to-business fighting will be the order from now until Au- gust 6. | Lending credence to this view is the fact that twice during the week candidates spoke to full houses, & wide contrast to the many pravious meetings when only & handful of voters were present. And keeping pace with attendance records is the vehemence with which candidates have attacked their oppo. nents. They have, 50 to speak, take the gloves off and gone right after each other. Sheriff Fight Hot. Outstanding in this respect are Sheriff Howard B. Fields and H. J Odenthal, his opponent. Odenthal has selected the grounds and laid the gage of battle. He has walked over to the sheriff’s corner and boxed. feinted and slugged. Fields has fought back, using all the tactics of a skillful political fighter. Odenthal has challenged Fields' manner of administrating the Police Department; he has hurled the charge that Fields is lax in law enforcement, particularly in respect to the burning dumps, slot machines and off-sale beer establishment, and he has charged Fields with using the Police Department to create a “political Nye at Third i with Prof. Robert M. Lovett of Chica; Liberals Call fo : Of New Part Until Conven dynasty.” To all these charges come back fighting. He admits the police are in politics; he denies lax | law enforcement and proclaims his! Fields has By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. July 6 —Formal demand ! | for the creation of a new national | political party, which would launch its | first campaign in 1936, was voted today Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Senator Gerald P. Nye, Republican, of North Dakota (right) shown unscheduled talk yesterday before meeting of third party proponents. yin’36 Campaign' “dmerican Commonwealth Political Federation” Name of Organization NEETNVG PLANED ON RAL CRISSING Montgomery G. 0. P. Group to Hasten Elimination of Rockville Menace. | By a Staff Correspondent of The star. | ROCKVILLE, Md. July 6.—Steps to expedite elimination of the dan- gerous Rockville grade crossing, de- layed by conflicting opinions as to the manner in which it should be ac- complished, will be taken shortly by the Republican State Central Com- mittee for Montgomery County. It was said today a mass meeting is to be called soon to determine public sentiment regarding the four plans which have been advanced for dis-. posing of the crossing where 14 Wil- Party Meet llamsport, Md.. children lost their |lives in a bus-train crash three months ago State Body Ready. H. L. Smith, chief engineer for the State Roads Commission, declared the commission stands ready to proceed | with the work as soon as the State's new $4.000.000 highway allocation is received from the P. W. A, but added that the road body must first deter- mine which proposal is most favored | by Rockville citizens The State Roads Commission has offered three plans, two of which call for overpasses a short distance east of the fatal crossing and the third pro- viding for an underpass west of the crash scene, while O. W. Anderson of the Rockville Chamber of Commerce has proposed that the railroad tracks be depressed and a bridge built to span them. One Plan Favored. Each of the suggestions has met | with favor in some quarters, and the | mass meeting will be called by the State Central Committee to discuss the plans and attempt to bring the conflicting views together. Of the four proposals, Anderson’s plan is the only one which would not entail the purchase of rights of way, | | | g0 just before the Senator made an r Launching tion Is Held. 8. Free speech, free press and right of free assembly. 9. Immediate payment of the sol- diers’ bonus. 10. Immedfate public ownership and bath, Democrat, of Illinois called in| Two controversial subjects are due Police Department to be the best in | by the “third party” advocates' rally. | operation of public resources. utilities, gn4 by virtue of this fact, it s the and Means has peucing before it tions directly affect promote or the House Steering Committee to lay plans of sirategy for marshaling Dem- ecratic votes behind the President's wishes. Opponents See Close Vote. | Wheeler's prediction of confidence | for administration support in the| Senate’s utility bill vote came up | 8gainst sssertions from the opposi- | tion camp that the vote would be *close.” ! Wheele: said an agreement had | been reached with Senator Dieterich, Democrat, of Illinois, to stave off the vote on the question until Tuesday, | when it was expected all Senators would have returned {rom the Fourth of July holiday. Senator Dieterich, who lost by one vote a move to delete “death sen- tence” when the bill passed the Sen- ate, has announced ne wili move to- morrow for the Senate to concur at once in the bill as it pacsed the House ForecBting defaet of the motion, | ‘Wheeler said he would follow with a proposal to have the measure sent to conference. There, ne caid, he is cer- tain he car have the “death sentence” | 1einstated in the bill. Thereafter. he said, the Senate and House would concur in the revised | measure or he would “go to the coun- | try” to fight at the polls the con- gressional foes of the legislation. Sabath, before he entered the Steer- | ing Committee meeting, insisted a! check of the Steering Committee showed there was nothing bordering on “revolt” among House Democrats. | He blamed the House uilities vote en- | tirely to “these smooth, trained lobby- | ists of the vested interests.” He like- | wise was confident the T. V. A. and | other legislation would go through Jn the form Mr. Roosevelt wanted. | “Political Trick.” Sabath denounced as a “Republican Political trick” the charges by Rep- resentative Brewster of Maine that| ‘his district’s Passamaquoddy public works project had been threatened by Thomas Corcoran, Reconstruction Corp. attorney, who helped draft the | original utilities measure, if he didn't | ~ote for the “death sentence.” It was that charge that set off %he House inquiry into lobbying. both Zor and against, the utility bill. Rankin in his formal statement | ‘said the Senate inquiry was “‘our only ‘hope to get a thorough investigation” ‘and predicted the Rules Committee 4nquiry “will probably be an idle ges- Rure, to say the least of it.” He took Chairman O’Connor, Demo- | «crat, of New York of the Rules Com- imittee, and Chairman Rayburn, Dem focrat, of Texas of the Interstate Com- | merce Committee, to task, declaring if they “had stood by the adminis- ration in this fight” the Senate bill would have won. Rayburn was for | $he “death sentence” throughout, but woted for final passage of the House; bill as his committee had brought it sut % Rankin charged the House investi- | $ation resolution was “sponsored by | men who voted against the adminis- fration and with the power inter- ests.” and that the investigation “is o be presided over by Mr. John J. ©'Connor of New York, who voted the same way.” “To have Mr. O'Connor head a eommittee to investigate this power rust lobby reminds me of the old | oman who caught a mole in her garden.” he said. “She was so exas- Derated at the little creature for at- Sng her vegetables that she took him ¥ight to the scene of his depredations pnd cruelly buried him alive. F4 Wire-Tapping Charge. ¢ “Even if Mr. O'Connor were in- Blined to make a thorough investiga- #ion, he has not the power to sum- Eons witnesses and make them ap- ar, nor has he the power to compel 'm to testify under oath. % “We friends of the administration a;-. this proposition are depending on e Senate investigation,” Rankin f#dded. “My opinion is that it will uncover a saturnalia of corruption £hat will rock this Capital and shock the American people from coast to ®oast. These lobbyists went to an ex- nt of racketeering never known be- e in the history of this Govern- fnent. Somebody tapped telephone wires of members of Congress—I £now, because they tapped mine for feveral days” * The supposition was that Brewster, §ut of town but scheduled to arrive B:Ck by airplane 15 minu’ s before e Rules Committee meets tomor- w to open its investigation, wowid the first witness called, with Rep- $esentative Moran, Democrat, of Maine, who gave a milder version of £he Corcoran conversation than Brew- r charged on the floor. It is ex- cted Corcoran and Benjamin Co- en, P. W. A. attorney and coauthor of the Wheeler-Rayburn bill, also will Pe heard. Paper Industry Aided. ‘The Chinese government is trying to evelop a domestic paper industry. e | man Samuel B. Hill of the Tax Sub- | of Mississippi of the Senate Finance to come up for consideration in Con- gress tomorrow. The Senate has a decision to make on the House amend- ment to the public utility holding com- pany bill which knocked out the “death sentence” clause. The House is expected to begin work on the ad- ministration’s T. V. A. bill, extending the operation and the powers of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The House Military Affairs Committee has reported the bill out in a shape that does not please the New Dealers at all. It cuts down the proposed T. V. A. powers materially. Democratic lead- ers in the House are by no means cer- tain that the bill can be amended in that body as the President and his advisers would have it amended. If the bill passes in the form in which it | was reported to the House, it will he a second and successive blow to the | administration delivered in the House It was learned yesterday that four | of the Democratic Senators who would | vote with the President in the fight | over the “death sentence” clause in | the holding company bill were absent. | If they are not back tomorrow, the administration leaders may put off the | test on that measure. | Sentiment for Tax Delay. The Senate has in the offing the A. A. A. bill and the administration banking bill. Despite the crowded program in both houses, the leaders are confident that it would be possible to wind up the present session in an- other two weeks, if the tax bill were | laid aside until next November. There | is great sentiment among members of | Congress for that course. While | Senator La Follette of Wisconsin and some of the other Progressives in the | Upper House have been insistent that tax legislation should be put through now, it may be possible, it was said last night, to persuade them that no gain will be made by forcing this legis- | lation now; that it will be just as effective if it were put through in the Winter. N SUM DISPUTE. Hill Finds Opposition to 350 and 500 Million Suggestion. | By the Associated Press ! There was noticeable yesterday a wide difference of opinion among | House Ways and Means Committee- men over what the wealth distribu- tion tax bill should contain. Chair- | committee said he thought the meas- ure should raise $350,000,000 to $500,- 000,000 annually. | Another leading Democratic com- | mitteeman, who talked privately be- | cause he did not want to start a| “fus” with Hill, remarked he thought" 2 bill raising $200,000,000 would be sufficient. | Hill said, however, that it would | be difficult to raise $340,000,000 a year | even by increasing taxes on all in- | comes over $100,000 and putting new | levies on all inheritances above $50.- 000. Chairman Harrison, Democrat, | Committee had calculated that $340,- 000.000 would be raised by taxing only incomes above $1.000,000. inheritances H. R. 8479, “A bill tc stabilize the bituminous coal rining industry and promote its interstate com- merce,” etc.. and I understand that questions of the constitutionality of some of its provisions have arisen in the subcommittee This industry, iom the stand- point of the opcrators and the miners, has hsd many years of difficulty. The product is a great natural resource entitled to the consideration of Ciugress both as to the conditions under which it is produced and disiributed and as to the measures waich may be taken for its conservetion. The deposits a.e limited to a few States, the consumption is Natio wide Competition and over-ex- pansion have brought destructive price reductions, which have in- evitably reacted upon labor stand- ards with a resulting dislocation, restriction and bstruction of in- terstate commerce 8v.a a recuriing danger of industr:al strife. Circumstances such as these pre- sent the stronges possible illustra- tion of how rconditions of produc- tion directly affect commerce among the States. Admitting tha’ mining coal, con- sidered separaielv and apart from obstruct interstate commerce in the commodity. Manifestly, no one is in & posi- tion to give ass'rance that the proposed act w.li withstand con- stitutional tests, for tne simple fact that you can ~et rot ten but a | thousand differing legal opinions on the subject. Bul the situation is so urgent and ike kenefits ot the legislation so evident that all doubts should be resolved in tavor of the bill, leaving to the courts, | in an orderly faskion. the ultimate question of consututionality. A decision oy the Supreme Court relative to ‘his mcasure would be helpful as indicating, with increas- ing clarity, the constiutional limits within which this Government must operate. The proposed bill has been care- fully drafted by cup'cvers ani em- ployes working cu-operatively. An opportunity should be given tc the industry to allempt tc work out some of its major problems. 1 hope | your committee wil. not permit | doubts as to constitutionality, | however reasonable. to block the suggested legislation. Very sincere'v yours, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. | against $212,000,000 returns last yur' from estate and gift taxes. There, however the social problem entered again. British death duties re levied on net estates of only $5,000 and the maximum is 50 Strategy T | | recovery. oo ICon}lnucd _Prom First Page)) Although some of them | Hosmer. the coumtry. Strong language, not overstepping parliamentary bounda- ries, however, is the practice, now that charges are flying thick nad fast. Second to the Flelds-Odenthal fight is that of Commonwealth’s Attorney Lawrence W. Douglas and Emery N. John Paul Jones, a third candidate for that office, has so far declined to get into the argument with one exception. Stands on Record. Douglas has invited the voters to g0 to the court house and examine his record. which he says is his plat- form for re-election. Hosmer counters with the statement that the people have not the time or experience to ascertain what the record is, and he thereupon reads it from the platform. Douglas and Hosmer clashed at the | | meeting of the Organized Women's Voters, with Douglas defending his | record in regard to employing outside counsel and in regard to criminal prosecutions. Jones jumped into this fray with an attack on the settlement of the Duncan bond case, in which Douglas accepted a fee of $750. Douglas replied the court awarded him the fee. Jones is fighting what he calls “propaganda” being spread around the county to the effect that he is in | the race to “split the vote” because he “has only been in the county a vear and does not expect to win.” In his speeches Jones is denying this. Harry A. PFellows Charles T. Jesse are having a fight also. It has not yet reached the and Treasurer | pe; cent on incomes of 2,000,000 pounds, about $10,000,000. have backed reforms at this session The American estate tax exempts ©f Congress which may be regarded by | all estates under $50,000 and rises to OtPers as detrimental to recovery. they | & maximum of 60 per cent. have postponed indefinitely some of | Big versus Little. | their other pet projects and generally | Thus, as one expert put it: | appear to have acquiesced in the strat- | “The British get it from the little ©8Y Which would bring major legisla- | fellow. We try to get most of it from | ton to an end at this session and | the big ones.” Fears were expressed, too, by one man advising the tax drafters that too stiff rates would possibly have | permit concentration on the adminis- | tration of existing laws from then | until after the 1936 election. | The readiness of some of the liberal | heated stage of the sheriff’s and | commonwealth's attorney fights, but observers believe that it may in the next four weeks. The same answer applies to the four-cornered fight for the nomination for county clerk. Another fight which political leaders are not overlooking, but which voters may have, according to best opinion available. is that for the control ot the Democratic Executive Committee. County Chairman Charles R. Fen- the effect of driving big fortunes out | supporters of the President to contem- of the country. plate a period of comparative quiet “When some of our ancestors came ‘ may result in part from their suspicion over here from England to get away | that the Supreme Court will provoke from big taxes, they were praised.” | another period of active reform by he said. “We praise them now. But | ruling out some of the important New it a millionaire, threatened with 80 Deal laws. per cent of his income being taken| Prior to the Schechter decision on SYMPHONY TO BEGIN CONCERT REHEARSALS Barge Almost Completed for Or- chestra and Will Be Given Tryout Friday. Rehearsals for the Summer con- | wick's leadership is being contested in | his own home precinct. Twenty-two "commlueemen are to be elected and they will select from their ranks the county chairman. This fight is being watched with keen interest because of the effect it will have on the organization in re- gard to State and Federal patrona and party policy. WOMAN’S WORK LAW VIOLATIONS COST $320 Eighteen Cases Handled in Quar-| ter Year—$260 of Amount Forfeited by Employers. District employers paid fines and forfeited collateral amounting to $320 during the second quarter of this year for violations of the eight-hour law for woman employves, Health Officer Ruhland was informed yesterday. J. Frank Butts, chief sanitary in-| spector, reported that during April over $300,000, gifts and corporation incomes. cert series by the National Symphony | Orchestra, to be held on a barge an- | away, were to leave this country now, | the N. R. A., the Supreme Court did we would criticize him.” not loom up as a great factor of un- | There were some reports to the ef- certainty—and it was many months | fect that before the bill was finally | prior to that decision that the admin- drafted at the conclusion of the hear- | istration adopted the plan of tryin ings the President would be asked|to push through wll major legislation | again to state a specific amount of | at the present session of Congress. re;/fnue which he would like to see Farmers Big Factor. Taised. l Very little, if any, hope lingers in New Deal circles that Mr. Roosevelt | will be able to command substantial | | support from business and finance in ! the 1936 campaign. Only a few of his | advisers thought at any time that he | | could convert the “right” to the New | | Deal. His efforts to strike & “truce” | with the bankers and with such busi- | ness groups as the United States | Chamber of Commerce were attribut- | able, not to the hope of winning po- | | litical support, but to his desire to| expedite the general movement to-|MaV and Jure the health office re- ward recovery. In the speeches project- | €red 15 cases of violation of the |law to the corporation counsel for Morgenthau Range Wide. Secretary Morgenthau told Har- rison’s committee that the Treasury | bad in mind a tax program along those lines which could bring in $300,000,000 to $600.000,000 annua}y. “So far,” Hill said yesterday, “I haven't heard of any such plan, and | 1 don't believe the Treasury has any definite plan. Those $300,000,000 and $340,000,000 and $600,000.000 figures were held out to the country as to what could be done, and I don't see | how we can stop at a small figure. “But the money just isn’t there un- less we cut more deeply into the mid- dle brackets.” ‘What complicated the situation for Ways and Means Committee bill drafters was the absence of any spe- cific goal at which to shoot. Neither the President nor the Treasury would tell the committeemen that any particular amount of money was necessary. Interpretations Differ. The instruction was simply that the President hoped Congress would enact taxes within the limits laid down by his message. In that mes- sage he dwelt at length upon the social and economic effects of big fortunes, and only briefly on specific tax rates. Some interpreted that as meaning he felt the social questions were more important; the revenue an- | gles secondary. But there was not even agreement on that. ‘There was, too, considerable taik about the British tax rates as com- pared with those in the United States. Representative Lewis, Demo- crat, Maryland, figured that applica- tion of British taxes in this country would bring in $850,800,000 a year chored in the Potomac River near the Arlington Memorial Bridge, will begin Tuesday morning in the De- partment of Commerce auditorium, C. C. Cappel, business manager of the orchestra, announced yesterday. Meanwhile, Frank T. Gartside, act- ing superintendent of National Capi- tal parks, made known that the barge itself is almost completed and will be given a try-out Friday. It is being constructed with relief labor as a project of the Works Progress Administration, | mistrust among his popular following. | ed for late Summer and early Fall, | Mr. Roosevelt will again have to de- cide how far he can go toward re- assuring business without arousing His choice may be eased somewhat by reports from the principal farm- | ing areas of lessened political tension | and of a high degree of preoccupa- tion with spending improved incomes. At the same time, liberals in the administration and in Congress point out that the agrarian sections are es- sentially “anti-Wall Street” and that | this spirit may be kept alive by three | congressional investigations: Of the | public utility lobby, of railroad financ- The concerts will begin July 14, although they were threatened for several weeks by a dispute between the orchestra managemnt and the local Musicians’ Protective Union. Dr. Hans Kindler is the director, and several prominent guest conductors have been invited to weild the baton for some of the programs. Cappel said ticket sales for the series, both in the singles and season class, have met with a brisk demand. L FALLS WHILE ASLEEP Man Landing Under Bridge Is Charged With Intoxication. Patrick Bagste, colored, 24, 101 F street, “can take it.” Yesterday during the afternoon heat Bagste went to sleep on the side of a bridge leading from Fiftieth street into Suburban Gardens. He fell from the bridge into a 14-foot gully. Police pulled him out, looked him over, and then locked him up at the Eleventh precinct on a charge of intoxication. Apparently he was un- ing, and of munitions. They look upon | these investigations as potential means | of keeping the large financial inter- ests on the defensive and of preserv- | ing a political alignment favorable to | the liberal cause. (Copyright. New York Herald Tribune. 1936.) BULLET WOUNDS FATAL | Colored Man Shot Friday After Altercation Dies. Shot four t‘mes during an alterca- tion Priday night in the first block of G street, James Nicholson, 22, col- oroed, 46 F street, died last night at Casualty Hospital. Police are holding Andrew Chambers, 32, colored, 30 G street, whom. they claim, shot Nich- olson afte- the latter threw a brick through Chaiabers’ bed room window. Palestine Farmers Prosper. injured and was unaware of his fall until told about ¢ Farmers of Palestine are enjoying Pprosperity u* year. prosecution. Three other cases were pending at the opening of the quarter. In 12 of the cases there were for- feitures totaling $260 and in three cases fines totaling $60 were imposed. One case was nolle prossed and per- sonal bond was taken in another case, leaving one case pending. There were 94 cases of violation of sanitary regulations in the quarter Pifty-four wer= nolle prossed, a fine of $25 in one case and four others were dismissed. — Kiev Orchestra Formed. An 86-plece orchestra is being or- ganized in Kiev, Ukrainia, American Radiator Hot-Water Heating System 28 COMPLETELY INSTALLED IN SIX ROOMS Written Guarantee NO MONEY Free Estimates Day or Night Price includes 1 6 Radiators. ROYAL HEATING CO. 907 T5th NW. ~ Na Night agd Sunday. ADams 8520 | Quickly settling a controversy which | had tied up their morning session, the | conference of “liberals” decided thefr temporary organization, to act until a | convention can be held. should be | | titled: “The American Commonwealth | Political Federation.” That out of the way, they adopted | their Organizing Committee’'s recom- | mendation that they go on record “as | favoring a new national political party, | based on the principle of production | for use.” H Convention Authorized. An Executive Committee to be elected here was directed to call a national convention in time to get the proposed party in the running for 1936. Delegates indicated the convention would likely be held in October. Without much debate, six other rec- ommendations detailing the officers. | their duties and the general structure of the new federation, were approved by the shirt-sleeved delegates. Officers of the federation will in- clude a chairman. vice chairman, sec- retary and treasurer Its National Committee will be com- ' posed of two delegates ‘“elected at | clearly representative State conven- | tions. called by the National Execu- | | tive Committee.” The Executive Committee, another pproved recommendation declared, | will be composed of “the national offi- | cers and seven additional members elected at this convention.” Aim at New Party. | Intentions of the conference to de- | velop a new party on a national scale | were emphasized in the eighth and | ninth articles of the recommendations. They directed the Executive Com- mittee to organize the States into | “properly functioning units of the American Commonwealth Federation™ | and precinct units. With the tenth recommendation another argument developed. The majority report urged: “This conference affirm its belief in the democratic process and the achieve- ment of its ends through peaceful means. Members and groups shall be admitted to this federation which sup- port this principle.” Chairman Paul H. Douglas, Uni- versity of Chicago political economist. told the delegates this was strong enough to keep out Communists after the article had been approved. New Order Held Necessary. ‘Their declaration of principles was | preceded by a preamble which asserted | “production has been revolutionized but distribution is still conducted ac- cording to ancient tradition. A new economic order is necessary.” Points of the “platform” were: 1. Unlimited production for use of the employed. 2. High wages to all who work and | the union scale for the unemployed as opposed to the dole. | 3. Complete economic security for all. 4. Every worker shall be protected | in_ joining the union of his choice. 5. Government regulation of the marketing of farm commodities to in- | sure for producers not less than the | cost of production for that portion of crops "consumed within this country; | Government refinancing of farm in- | debtedness at 1'; per cent interest and 14 per cent of the principal pay- inble annually; a ban on importation | of farm products in competition with | products raised in the United States. | 6. Moratorium legislation for farm and city real property owners. | Heavy Tax Program. 7. Heavy taxation, effectively ad- ministered, on large incomes, gifts, in- heritances, corporate surpluses and including income from all public bonds to finance Government serv- ices and the security program. | | te Salesmen If you are an experienced and able new-house sales- man and a “square-shooter,” and wish to make immediate commissions on the most salable new houses in Wash- ington, here is your chance. If you have the spirit of service and are willing to work hard. come in and talk it over. (No floaters, loafers or sharp-shooters need ap- ply—we employ high-grade men only.) Robert E. Heater The Toledo Guaranty Corp. Real Estate Division 102 Woodward Building | | and to arrange for city, county, ward | mines, munition plants and basic in- dustries. 11. Unified Federal ownership and operation of the banking system 12. Strengthening of international agencies for peace. 13. A constitutional amendment de- claring that Congress shall have the power to make all laws necessary to provide for the general welfare, only one which could be financed en- tirely with Federal funds. since P. W. A. regulations prohibit the use of Federal moneys for rights of way. Highway officials intimated at & re- cent hearing in Baltimore that they approved of Anderson’s plan and that it might be selected if the cost is not | prohubitive. | — 'SHIP GOES TO AID MATANUSKA COLONY |New York Rayon Manufacturer and Wife in Party Sailing For Alaska. By the Associated Press SEATTLE. July 6—Even its two- bed sickbay turned into a guest cabin the Coast Guard cutter Shoshone of Oakland, Calif., sailed for Seward Alaska, today with a Federal Relief Administration mission under instruc- tions to put the Matanuska farm col- . ony in running order Heading the party was S. R. Fuller jr, New York City rayon manufac turer, accompanied by his wife. Mr and Mrs. Fuller cancelled a Europear trip to make the Matanuska voyage Fuller was a wartime naval com mander. Others include Comdr. R. G. Davi: U. 8. N, Medical Corps; Dr. J. R Murdock, United States Public Health Service; Daniel McGrath, Uniteo States Department of Justice, specia) Assistant Attorney General;, H. B Homman, sanitary engineer, United States Public Health Service; A. M Goodman, agricultural engineer: Davis Williams, supervising architect, and H. W. Scott, secretary to the mission. The Shoshone may take the outside and rougher passage and attempt to set a speed record to Seward, it was said as the Shoshone’s skipper, Comdr G. T. Pinlay, gave orders for making ready for sea. SINCLAIR OFPOSED. Believes Democratic Party Medium of Action. PORTLAND, Oreg., July 6 () .— Despite their adoption of his produc- tion-for-use principle, Upton Sinclair today voiced disapproval of the deci- sion in Chicago by independent polit- ical leaders to form a third party. Ernest Briges, Sinclair's manager quoted the former Socialist as saying “Only through the Democratic party can such a plan be carried to fruition. I believe an attempt to establish a third party, even when it is based on the production-for-use program, is a step in the wrong direction. I will not support it.” | The former Socialist was here en route to Washington, D. C., to further his own movement to convert Presi- dent Roosevelt to the production-for- use theory and incorporate it in the Democratic platform in 1936. CONVENTION OPENS TOMORROW. | i Proper Third Party Advocates May Name Long in Omaha. OMAHA, Nebr., July 6 (#).—A na- tional convention of “third party” advocates which may nominate Sena- tor Huey Long for President opens here Monday. Called by Roy M. Harrop. Council Bluffs, Towa, attorney and chairman of the Farmer-Labor Party National Commyjttee, it will be attended, he said, by members of his party, the Liberty Party and Technocrats Harrop said he hoped his projectea “third party” would base its platform on a plank calling for redistribution of wealth. A Kentucky delegate to the gathering pianned to offer the name of the Senator from Louisiana as a presidential candidate, Harrop added. He said the gathering might nominate him. 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