Evening Star Newspaper, July 10, 1935, Page 2

PRESIDENT'S NOTE SEEN AS BLUNDER Effort to Push Through Doubtful Guffey Bill Irri- tates Senators. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Talk of President Roosevelt's amaz- ing letter to Representative Hill of the House Ways and Means Commit- tee has reached the point where mem- bers of Congress are beginning to com- pare it with the fatal blunder made by President Wilson in his letter ap- pealing for a Democratic Congress in 1918. But, as pointed out by various Sen- ators who were discussing it, the dif- ference is that Mr. Wilson merely made a political or tactical error in judgment, whereas Mr. Roosevelt has enunciated a principle of government entirely at variance with the historic conception of presidential or congres- sional duty toward the Constitution. Here is the sentence that probably will be quoted again and again, and for which as yet no defense has ap- peared from any administration spokesmen in Congress: “I hope your committee will not permit doubts as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the sug- gested legislation.” Creates Power Wedge. This is tantamount to saying that it doesn't matter whether a bill is plainly constitutional, it should be passed anyhow. If this philosophy were followed there would be an end to the Constitution aliogether. For if Congress were to fgnore Supreme Court decisions and pass laws in con- flict with the Constitution, it might | conceivably feel it also had the power to suspend certain articles of the Con- stitution. Congress could, if it chose, refuse to appropriate money to carry on the judicial branch of the Govern- ment. The President has offered since last Saturday no explanation of his letter to Hill, but the criticism on Capitol Hill is mounting. The resolution in- troduced by Senator Byrd of Virginia 1s found to accentuate the issue. Byrd calls on the Attorney General to render an opinion in writing on the Guffey bill, which was the subject of Mr. | Roosevelt's letter to Hill. Byrd just wants to know what the President’s | principal legal adviser thinks about the bill. Of course, the Attorney Gen- eral is not required to make an answer, but it would be embarrassing 1f no opinion were rendered, especially since it is known around Capitol Hill that an opinion has been written at | the Department of Justice which | holds the bill to be plainly unconsti- tutional. Political Move Suspected. ‘What Mr. Roosevelt will do about it f the Senate passes the resolution fis | a matter of wide conjecture. To send to the Senate an opinion which shows the Guffey bill unconstitutional only makes more serious the Presi- dent's request that constitutionality be disregarded and the bill passed. The effort to pile upon the Supreme Court responsibility for saying “no™” to a powerful labor union which is dictating the passage of the Guffey bill is commented upon generally here as a political move designed to strengthen Mr. Roosevelt's position with the labor vote in 1936. For even if the court tabooed the law, Mr. Roosevelt would get credit from the labor unions for having' tried to get | the measure through. Then there is the strategy of try- ing to get enough groups of voters antagonistic to the Supreme Court so that a constitutional amendment will be more easily adopted. The text of the administration proposal for a con- | stitutional amendment will probably be written by the brain trusters, many | of whom insist Mr. Roosevelt should * carry this issue to the country. “Nazi Amendment.” Already the proposed amendment is being called “the Nazi amendment” because it aims to centralize in the Government complete control over production as well as distribution, and agriculture as well as manufacturing. Just as is the case in Nazi Germany under Fascism. Efforts no doubt will be made to broaden the scope of the amendment 50 as to provide for the recall. some- what after the manner of ministerial government in Europe. Members of Congress are divided as to whether a constitutional amendment should be made the issue in 1936, but Mr. Roose- velt’s outspoken defiance of the Su- preme Court’s precedents in his letter to Representative Hill has come to be accepted as the inevitable forerunner of a fight anyway on the broad issue of constitutionalism in the 1936 cam- paign. (Copyright. 1935.) ALABAMA MINES FORM SALES AGENCY New Unit Will Seek to Prevent Marketing and Labor Prac- tice Abuses. By the Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 10.—Pro- ducers of commercial coal in the Ala- bama bituminous fields yesterday had organized Alabama Coals, Inc., to op- erate as a sales agency. The organization's papers of incor- poration named Herbert S. Salmon, memb-r of an engineering firm, as presic 1t and N. E. Cross as secretary. The new agency will act as selling agent for approximately 80 per cent of the commercial operators in the Alab: 2 fields. Directors said it was hope: that the remaining producers wou. affiliate. D' ctors said the formatior of the org: uzation was an effort to “save the industry” in this section and pro- vide an educational and co-operative organization to meet changing mar- keting and producing conditions. The directors described one objec- tive was to prevent the exploitation of labor by producers who might cut prices and sell coal below production costs. SIBLEY GIRL TRACED Antioch Official Says She Took New York Bus at Springfield. YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio, July 10 ¢#).—Basil H. Pillard, assistant dean at Antioch College, said yesterday he was informed pretty Ann Sibley, 21- year-old co-ed who disappeared July 3. boarded a bus for New York City at Springfleld, Ohio, after missing one for Chicago, her home. What’s What Behind News In Capital Morgenthau Given Aid In Keeping Silence At Hearing. BY PAUL MALLON. TRANGER things may have happened in Washington than those now happening on the wealth-tax plan, but if so no one can now remember when. It may be the heat and then again it may be the stupidity. The latest chapter in this serio- comic mystery story hinges on the appearance of Treasury Secretary Mor- genthau before the House Ways and Means Committee. He was supposed to offer the new plan, but when asked about it he apparently had never heard of it. He declined to say how much additional revenue the Treasury wanted, if any. He refused to hint at what rates he expected. All he knew about taxes was what he read in the President’s message. This left the poor old Republic- ans flabbeargasted. No one ever tells them what is going on inside. They tried to ask questions, but the Democrats leaped at them with charges that they were trying to oppose tares on the wealthy. This led to political debates which placed the meeting on a level with the average meeting of a small town council. Mr. Morgenthau stood on one foot or the other, saying nothing. It looked almost as if the Demo- cratic committee members had entered into & conspiracy to protect Mr. Mor- genthau against saying anything. That is exactly what happened. TALLRIGHT IF YOU INSIST The inside story dates back to a conference at the White House a few days earlier (July 4). committeemen (Doughton, Hill, Cu len, Cooper) filed into the Presiden study on that occasion with perplexed brows. They tried to be deferential, but hinted broadly that the President’s | wealth-tax idea was somewhat “ridicu- lous.” In fact, they are supposed to have used that exact word, but in & less offensive way. something to the effect that the idea placed them in a “ridiculous” position. Their contention was that the rates suggested by Senator Harri- son for the administration wonld raise only $134,000.000 (not $340.- 000,000, as Harrison contended, or $110,000,000, as some of the House members have estimated). They did* not object to breaking up big fortunes or confiscating big in- comes. But they believed a more logical revenue excuse for such a step should be devised. They knew that the only place to raise more revenue was in the lower class of tazpayers, the middle-men, the suc- cessful business erecutives, doctors, lawyers, the people who receive good salaries, Therefore they demanded an exten- sion of President Roosevelt's plan to include these. Wanted to Split Fortunes. It is said the President was cool to this suggestion. As they under- stood it, what he wanted was to break up the big fortunes, to start taxing bigness among corporations. Ap- parently he did not have revenue in mind at all, and did not care par- ticularly about it. Neither did he care about soaking the successful more heavily. His position was the same as in his message. But the Congressmen insisted there had to be more than social reform in the new taxr program. For once they won an argument with the President. At least they now think they won it. All they base their conclusions on is the fact that the President half- raised both hands to a level of his shoulders and shrugged as if to say: “All right, if you insist,” but he ac- tually said nothing. The only thing he insisted on was that Congress do nothing to the bill to destroy the popular belief that it is an adminis- tration measure. Mr. Morgenthau's recalcitrance as a witness fits into this picture right here: He was present at the confer- ence and naturally shared the presi- dential viewpoint rather than the congressional viewpoint. He went even further and declined outright to appear before the Ways and Means Committee. His reluctance is easily under- standable because the committee was taking the matter out of White House and Treasury hands. In view of this situation, he pointed out he could not say any- thing. if he did testify. Committee members would not stand for that. They said it was the custom for the Treasury Secretary to appear. He must appear. They promised to fend off any embarrassing questions if he would just come up and offer a few vague observations. That is what happened. Thus endeth the second chapter. Chapter Three Next. Chapter three probably will be writ- ten when the Congressmen get them- selves into such a mess trying to write their own tax bill that they give it up for the time being. The light which has been burn- ing late at night in President Roosevelt’s bed room lately is sup- posed to suggest that he is pray- ing for such a way out. The mat- ter has slipped from his grasp, what with Huey Long tugging in one direction, Senator La Follette in another, and the conservative Dem- ocrats sitting on their haunches, whittling and cussing to them- selves. For the writing of this chapter, it is understood that Dizzy and Dafly will be borrowed from the St. Louis base ball team. No one else could do it just yet. (Copyright. 1935.) Miss Sibley, a former Smith College student, had about $15 when she dropped from sight, Pillard said. He added he believed she would disclose her whereabouts when her funds were exhausted, and that he had notified the Bureau of Missing Persons in New Xark, X A -—— Punished for False Mark. For putting the mark “Made in England,” on cheap German cloth, Pasquale Arabia, an Italian, has been sentenced in Berlin to five months’ imprisonment, 4 The Democratic | THE EVENING CUMMINGS URGES GOLD RESOLUTION Action Barring Suits Nec- essary for International Agreement, He Says. By the Associated Press. Attorney General Cummings told the House Banking Committee today that unless a resolution were passed barring damage suits against the Gov- ernment to collect losses arising from dollar ‘devaluation, an “international agreement to establish a gold stand- ard would be almost impossible.” Currency stabilization has been speculated on quite a bit recently. Secretary Morgenthau said in a radio speech a few weeks ago this Govern- ment would not stand in the way of any agreement which did not injure the United States. “A free gold market also would be almost impossible,” Cummings said. Restoration Question. He gave no indication whatsoever, though, that the administration is considering any attempt at present to restore the gold standard. Cummings testified as the commit- tee opened hearings on a resolution to bar gold clauge suits strongly sup- ported by administration, | Cummings told the committee that | the Government has a constitutional | right to forbid damage suits arising | from devaluation, The Supreme Court held in the celebrated gold clause cases that no one had shown damages caused by devaluation. Would Plug Gap. The court, however, indicated hold- ers of Government securities contain- ing a gold payment clause still might file suits in an effort to show damages. The measure is designed to plug this gap in the administration’s monetary | policy. Cummings contended the resolution | was just and would end uncertainties. He told the committee “there can be | | no doubt” of its constitutionality. | He quoted from a message in which | the President told Congress there is “no constitutional or inherent right to sue the Government.” 7,000,000,000 Potential Loss. The Attorney General said that $10.136.570.340 in gold-clause Govern- | | ment securities were outstanding and that the Government faced a poten- | tial loss of $7.000.000.000 if gold- | clause suits were permitted and dam- ages were shown. Representative Cavicchia, Repub- | lican. of New Jersey asked whether | | foreigners who bought United States | bonds, “believing the word of our Government was as good as gold, would have any redress” under thxsi act. | “The answer is no” Cummings said. | The Representative asked whether | foreigners might carry a case to the International Court at The Hague. Cummings said possibly they might but that he had “no doubt as to the | result.” “Could we sue foreign countries at The Hague for the $10,000,000.000 they owe us?” asked Representative Cross, | Democrat, of Texas. “No,” Cummings responded. Representative Gifford, Republican, of Msasachusetts, wanted to know “how about our contractural relations with Panama?” Treaty Arrangements. “That's not at point, either,” Cum- mings said, “because that was a treaty arrangement.” He added that the Panama question was under negotiation. He asked to be excused from further discussion of the question as it was a “State De- partment matter.” | Representative Hollister, Republican, of Ohio, after speaking several times of “repudiation,” was told by the Attorney General: “I don't feel repudiation is the | proper word for action of the Gov- ernment in exercising a solemn right.” ALCOHOLIC KISSES HELD NO LOVE THEFT PROOF Court Ousts Wife's $100,000 Suit Against Woman of 41 After Hearing Testimony. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 10.—Kissing be- tween drinks is not proof of love theft, Superior Judge James J. Kelly ruled yesterday. Tae judge threw out the $100.000 heart balm suit of Mrs. Naomi F. Bullock, 51, against Miss Margaret Gilbault, 45, after a former employe of Builock testified regarding the kisses. “A few kisses between drinks do! not necessarily mean the.stealing of | | affections,” Judge Kelly said. i It was the first heart balm suit | brought to trial in Illinois since the State Legislature outlawed them. The action was filed before the law was passed. VETERANS PLAN TRIP McGrath to Head Delegation At- tending A. E. F. Reunion. William H. McGrath, assistant cor- poration counsel of the District, will head a delegation of Washington vet- erans who will go to Baltimore to- morrow for the annual reunion and convention of the 3d Division, A.E.F., which will meet at the Southern Hotel from Thursday to Sunday. Maj. Gen. Robert E. Callan, com- manding the 3d Corps Area, is the honorary chairman of the convention and Col. Edmund L. Daley, Corps of Engineers, is president of the con- vention. Decides whether to insist on man- datory abolition of certain utility holding companies. Audit Committee considers $150,- 000 investigation of lobbying. House. Works toward final vote on T. V. A. amendments. Rules Committee investigates lob- bying on utilities. TOMORROW. Senate: Will debate A. A. A. amendments ‘Territorles Committee, hearings on Virgin Islands investigation. House. : Considers special rules and miscel- lansous bilis STAR, WASHINGTON, FIVE ARE LANDED INRESCUE AT SEA American Among Treasure Hunters in Cuba After Nine Days Adrift. By the Associated Press. BATABANO, Cuba, July 10.—Four Canadians and one American were towed into this South Coast sponge fishing village aboard their small ketch Casarco yesterday, seasick and near exhaustion after drifting helplessly nine days in the open sea in futile search of buried treasure. Visibly worn from their long battle with the elements, the five were pick- ed up the day before yesterday off Cape Corrientes by the Cuban gun- boat Santa Clara, towed to the Isle of Pines and thence brought here. Search for Treasure. ‘The 50-foot ketch, skippered by M. C. Rice of Toronto, sailed out of Havana Harbor, June 28, bound for an unannounced point in the Pacific Ocean, where Rice hoped to dig up buried treasure. With Rice were Elbert James of Daytona Beach, Fla; Mrs. Rice and her sons, Harry, 12, and Derek, 14. James was employed as crew man at Miami. The purpose of the cruise was not revealed to him. The night after the Casarco left Havana, engine trouble developed. Drifting off Cuba, the Casarco began to leak, and those aboard were com- pelled to bail until they were picked up by the Santa Clara. Buffeted by Storm. Throughout the nine days they were buffeted by tropical storms and seasickness laid Mrs. Rice low. The origin of Rice's treasure hunt paralleled that of Robert Louis Stev- enson's “Treasure Island.” In Toronto, he said, h¢ repaired a clock for a woman who paid him by giving him a watch. When he’ re- paired the watch he found a small picture inside the case. On the back of it was placed a map showing the location of hidden treasure buried somewhere along the coast of some country bordering the Pacific Ocean. The map gave longitude and latitude and other details, including the amount buried, Rice said. SHIPPED FOR PLEASURE. James Says Treasure Hunt Was Re- vealed After Start. BY ELBERT JAMES. BATABANO, Cuba, July 10 (#— At last we are back on land after almost two weeks of hectic battling on rough seas, and I am not particularly interested in other treasure hunts. 1 shipped aboard the Casarco at Miami for a cruise with the Rices (M. C. Rice of Toronto, skipper of the ketch, his wife and their two sons). Later he revealed he was seeking treasure and told me some of his | plans. After leaving Havana our mtor quit and we went adrift. The first trouble was with the starter and I was able to get it started again. However, things got worse. Water got into the crank- | case and finally the valves jammed up on us. Every time we hoisted the sails the tautness of them would strain the keel and we sprang a leak. The next day we started bailing, and we bailed constantly thereafter. We are still bailing here in port to keep from sinking at the dock. Motor Becomes Hopeless. ©On July 5 we had no hope of fixing the motor, and no place to make | 1and. and we decided to call the Coast Guard by radio. Capt. Rice acted as operator and got WHGW, amateur station at Palm Beach, Fla. We were able to use only the jigger and jib sails because the strain caused leaks. On the night of July 5 we burned flares all night, and the same July 6. The night of July 6 a heavy squall caught us and we shipped more water. There were no signs of the Coast Guard and we rode out the squall with the jigger sail, radiocasting our new position to Cuban boats seek- ing us. On the night of July 6 we signaled with flares in Morse code to the freighter Lychfjord, which came close to see if we wers endangered. We told them we were not in immediate danger and they left, promising to relay our position to Key West. On July 7, Cuban radio amateur CM2, at Havana, told us the Santa Clara was coming up the coast seek- ing us, which revived our hopes. At 6 p.m. on July 8 we sighted the Santa | Clara. Our hopes sank when she passed us, and we frantically signaled by firing a revolver and using sun re- flectors. The Santa Clara turned about and came to us and put a line on us. Mrs. Rice was seasick and sunsick all the time. Taken to Isle of Pines. ‘The commander of the Santa Clara first decided to tow us to Coloma, but later decided to take up the Nueva Ge- rona, Isle of Pines. We reached Nueva Gerona at 1:35 p.m., July 8, and Mrs. Rice and the two boys boarded the Santa Clara for the voyage to Bata- bano. We took on two Cuban sailors and a Cuban pilot and started to work our way under sail through the treacherous channels near Nueva Ge- rona. The Santa Clara planned to pick us up again after we negotiated the shallow channel However, we went aground and the Santa Clara found us at 4 pm. and pulled us off the reef and towed us to Batabapo, where we arrived today. It was a rough experience, with constantly heavy seas and terrific winds. Seas had smashed the engine room hatch, broken the guard rail and done other damages. One night while I was off duty, asleep, I heard break- ers on the coast and jumped from the bunk and found we were less than 100 yards from being wrecked on a deserted coast. We had plenty of food, but our water was nearly gone when the Santa Clara reached us. Our present plans are uncertain. 4-H Club Names Officers. TAKOMA PARK, Md.. July 10 (Spe- cial).—The Takoma Park 4-H Garden Club, which has & membership of 15 girls, has elected Jean Boyer, presi- dent; Majory Hensley, vice president, and Patsy Richards, secretary, it was announced at the office of the county home demonstration agent. Man Wed Third Time at 97. GAINESVILLE, Tex., July 10 (®).— Robert P. Cummins, 97, married for the third time here yesterday. His bride is the former Mrs. Margaret Lemons, 63. He was divorced from his first wife, Mrs. Ollie Cummins, who is still liv- ing. EHis second wite died, L} D. (., WEDNESDAY, Lady Astor Chats With Scottish Youngsters Langhorne sisters of Virginia. JULY 10, 19 Lady Astor, member of the British Parliament. on a recent visit to the Cameron House Nursing School in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she stopped to chat with & few of the youngsters. COPELANDFAVOR BR0AD 0B BIL {D. C. Unemployment Insur- ance Along National Lines Urged. BY J. A. O'LEARY. A desire to work out the District | | unemployment insurance bill along the | general lines of the national social | security program was expressed today by Senator Copeland. Democrat, of New York. chairman of a special Sen- | | ate subcommittee on the local security | bills. i He also indicated a belief that the laws enacted by the States should be considered in fixing the standards of | the District law as he prepared to go | | into conference during the day with Representative - Ellenbogen, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, who sponsored the | | unemployment bill in the House. The | conference also will be attended by | | some of the social security experts with whom Chairman King of the Senate | District Committee conferred last | week. | At the same time, conferees on the | national social security bill are in ses- | | sion again this afternoon, striving to| ’:d)ust their remaining differences, chief of which is the Clark amend-| ment of the Senate bill to private re- | tirement plans in industry by exempt- | ing them from the Federal contribu-| tory old-age insurance system if they equal or exceed the Government plan. National Measure. Some of the changes the Commis- | sioners and local organizations are urging in the Ellenbogen local unem- | | ployment bill are based on Senate amendments to the national bill, so that a final agreement on the national measure will open the way for definite developments on the local bill. Included in this class is the La Follette national arendment, which, if sustained in conference, would en- able States and the District to re- duce the pay roll tax as a credit to those employers who stabilize employ- ment. The La Follette amenament also would enable a State to adopt the separate-company-reserve pian if they prefer that to the pooling of all employer ‘axes. TUnder that sys- tem an employer cou'G discontinue tax payments durinz any perind in which he had an acequate reserve in his own account. Tre local bill is based on the pooling of funds but| even under that svsick provision could | be made for !owering the tax when | employment is stalilized, if pending amendments are r.dcpted. Features of the Bill. ‘The chief features of the Ellenbogen bill, which go beyond the standards of the national bill and the trend of State laws, are: Imposing the 3 per cent pay roll tax at the start instead of in gradual steps; allowing 26 weeks of benefit payments instead of 16, which would make it necessary for the District government to raise about $1,500,000 a year in new municipal revenue to augment the pay roll tax; starting benefit payments one year after the law passes instead of two. Modification of these and other fea- tures has been asked for by the Com- missioners and local organizations. Chairman King has decided to support | the Commissioners’ amendments when | the bill is ready to be reported. | Working with Senator Copeland on the special subcommittee is Senator 1 would make Presents to Schools 3 Out of State Taxed | | In Missouri Ruling By the Associated Press. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., July 10.—Holding that bequests made to educational institutions outside | | Missouri are taxable, the State | | Supreme Court today ruled that | | trustees for the Frank L. Hall estate in Kansas City should pay the State an inheritance tax of $282,094. Hall, who died May 18, 1929, left the bulk of his estate to be held in trust with the net income | | to be paid annually to Depauw | | University at Greencastle, Ind. ANTI-LYNCH LAW INDORSED BY G.0.P. Immediate Cash Payment| of Bonus on Cleveland Platform. By the Assoelated Press. CLEVELAND, July 10.—Repub- licans from six States ended their regional crusaders’ conference yester- day with an appeal for a “Federal anti-lynching law to conform to the ! Constitution.” | The anti-lynching issue came up after the Resolutions Committee re- jected it. Councilman John E. Hub- bard of Cleveland introduced it. W. G. McDowell of Detroit objected to the resolution and said its adoption the conference “the laughing stock of the country” and would “make monkeys” out of the delegates. “There is no object,” said Thomas J. Barrett of West Virginia, “in adopt- ing a resolution that flies in the face | of the Constitution. We have been | condemning the Democratic admin- | istration for passing laws which on their face are flagrantly unconstitu- | tional. Do we now want to follow the | same procedure?” ‘The resolution finally was brought to a vote and passed. The conference also passed & reso- lution calling for “the immediate cash payment of World War veterans’ com- | pensation certificates.” Other planks in the conference | platform: A balanced budget, stabili- zation of currency, protective tariff, enforcement of anti-trust laws, a per- manent agricultural plan, abolishment | of child labor and old-age pensions. FISHERMAN .GETS HAWK Bird With 5-Foot Wing Spread Is Caught Off Cape Charles. RICHMOND, Va, July 10 (#).— Emil Zeller of Richmond thinks he has a claim to whatever fish prizes | are awarded this year. Trolling in Chesapeake Bay for channel bass off Cape Charles, Zeller saw a huge fishhawk circle over his bait, drop into the water and grasp it in his claws. The hook stuck | through the hawk's foot and Zeller | | patronage and placing city taxes un- | his fight to keep his organization in- hauled the bird in. | The bird, which had a 5-foot wing spread, will be mounted. | Lady Astor is one of the famous —Wide World Photo. WALMSLEY OPENS FIGHT TO FINISH Will Not Surrender to Long, Says Mayor—Two May Go Over. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, July 10.—Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley, political an- tagonist of Senator Huey P. Long, opened a fight to prevent his own fac- tion from surrendering to the power- | ful State organization of the Louisiana “dictator.” Mayor Walmsley's New Orleans or- ganization, the “old regulars.” has been engaged in a bitter struggle with the Long group for control of the city for many months. Heavy inroads on the “old regulars” powers have been made recently by drastic legislation jammed through | the General Assembly by Senator | Long, including measures stripping the municipal authorities of their der State control. Reports of dissension in the Walm- sley faction have persisted for weeks, but the first open break occurred early today when two of the mayor's four | city commissioners announced they would no longer oppose Long. A. Miles Pratt, commissioner of finance, and Joseph P. Skelly, commis- sioner of public property, broke with the “old regulars” and purportedly were leading a movement to swing the entire Walmsley organization over to | Long. Decision Made Public. Pratt and Skelly made public their | decision to quit Walmsley shortly be- fore “old regular” chieftains went into caucus to consider a future course. Mayor Walmsley planned to carry tact before the caucus. Walmsley issued a formal statement declaring he “would not quit” under any circumstances, and that he, too, wanted peace, “but not at any price.” Public Utilities Commissioner Fred A. Earhart and Public Safety Com- missioner Frank R. Gomilia did not sign the “surrender” statement. In the last special session, concluded Monday, Long obtained control of vir- tually every remaining city function. The legislation and court litigation instigated by Long, tied up city finances and all city workers !xcepv.' policemen and firemen are now being | paid by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. FAIRBANKS I.:‘LYING- EAST| Will Rejoin Lady Ashley After Business Meetings. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 10 (#)— Douglas Fairbanks, sr., planned to leave here by aid today for New York and an early reunion with Lady Sylvia Ashley. Accompanied by five motion picture associates—one of whom may be his ex-wife, Mary Pickford—Fairbanks was to attend to business in the East and board the liner Empress of Brit- ain for England. Lady Ashley now en route to Que- bec, from Vancouver, British Colum- bia, where she stayed last week while the actor came here, has also ar- ranged to sail aboard the Empress of Britain. Capper of Kansas, ranking minority member of the District Committee. The local old-age and blind pension bills are virtually ready to be reported, except for a decision as to whether to insert a provision relating to the obli- gation of relatives to contribute to the support of blind persons if they are financially able. HUNT WOMAN IN SWAMPS Volunteers Seek Matron, 81, Lost Since Friday Night. WEST PALM BEACH, July 10 (®. | —Sheriff W. H. Lawrence today called for volunteers to search through the edge of the Everglades for Mis. F. H. Evarts, 81, who has been lost since Friday night, when her brother, F. H. Chesebro, 85, left her to get help in | freeing their stalled car. Chesebro himself was rescued late yesterday after he wandered for four days and nights through swamplands. When officers located the car in which Chesebro had lefi his sister, they found a note reading: “Will walk back to the road where we turned in. I can't stand these mosquitoes another aight,” Mayor Counsels Fearing Bad Women’s Invasion By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 10.—The plaint of “heartbroken mothers” who worry about the “bad women” their police- men husbands might meet in the course of night duty has brought out the philosophical side of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's official nature. “If a man is good, decent and clean, he will continue to be so re- gardless of the work he is assigned to,” assured the mayor in a sort of advice-to-the-lovelorn homily printed in “Spring 3100.” the police magazine. The complaint the mayor received said: “I am & young mother and know | lots of mothers in the same position as I am. Our husbands are young men, plainclothes policemen and are mixed in with all kinds of bad women and are never at home at night. “I ask you to change all young married men out of these jobs.” ‘The letter Went on to suggest older [ 4 b | half hour or so of patience and un- Police Wives, policemen for the kind of work that worries “heartbroken mothers.” The mayor urged that a policeman’s wife do her share toward making a policeman’s lot easier. “Avoid nagging, make allowance for many little irritations,” the mayor advised. “Sometimes your husband will come home tired or disappointed. v “Invariably a few moments, or a derstanding will restore his mental state, then the cheer and comforts of home will brace him and send him off the next day hopeful, confident and happy.” All the advice was not to the wife. The mayor added that a good hus- 1V AFNDBED N CUTING CRASH Airline Given 30 Days to Seek Easements on Sever Counts. Fines totaling $3,500 today were imposed upon Transcontinental and Western Air by the Department of Commerce for alleged violations of seven Federal regulations in connec- tion with the crash last month which killed Senator Cutting of New Mexico and four others, according to an an- nouncement by Secretary of Commerce Roper. The airline was given 30 days in which to file application for mitiga- tion or remission of the penalties im- posed, Secretary Roper announced. Onme of the seven violations in which fines were imposed involved a flight by another airplane of the line through the same storm which resulted in the Cutting crash. $500 on Each Count. The violations, for each of Which a $500 penalty was imposed, were: Failure to order the pilot of the wrecked plane to the ground while safe flying weather prevailed and while two-way radio communication still could be maintained. Failure to carrv a.a dequate simount of reserve fuel. Failure of the pilit to take the re- quired semi-annual physical examina- tion in February, 1435 Authorizing Lie airplane to make a landing at Kaaszs City when the ceiling and visibility were below the minimum required. No Rating Charged. Permitting Kenneth Greeson to act as co-pilot of the wrecked plane on a schedule involving more than eight hours of flying when he held no scheduled air iansport rating. Failure to macge application for transfer of Chief Pilot Bolton from the Eastern to tne Western division prior to the flight. Permitting J. §. Graves to land down through thick weather at Kansas City in a sister ship of the wrecked plane when ceiling and visi- bility were below the autrorized mini- mum. A Senate investigation of the crash now is getting under way. T.V. A. VOTE STIRS HARD FIGHT TODAY Supporters and Opponents Claim Edge in Compromise Struggle. By the Associated Press A close. hard fight was in prosper today as the House arrived at the vot- | ing stage on amendments to the Ten- nessee Valley Authority act.. Both supporters and opponents of the T. V. A. claimed the edge. The struggle centered around efforts to liberalize the compromise bill ap- proved by the House Military Com- mittee. President Roosevelt wants certain sections eliminated A provision forbidding T. V. A. to sell electric power or chemicals below cost after July 1, 1937, written in by the Military Committee, was the firs® bone of contention. The Roosevelt men sought to strike it out. Three Changes Planned. ‘Whether successful in this move or not. Representative Hill. Democrat, of Alabama, leading the drive to bring the legislation in line with the Presi- dent’s desire, next intended to propose at least three important amendments which, T. V. A. men contended, would strengthen the agency in carrying out its power “yardstick” program. One would eliminate a section of the committee’s bill preventing the authority from building power trans- mission lines substantially duplicating existing private facilities Another would strike out a clause subjecting T. V. A. expenditures to the complete control of the controller general, while a third would give T. V. A. co-ordinated control over the entire Tennessee River system so that no tributary could be managed inde- pendently. A main purpose of the whole bill is to give the authority express au- thority to sell its surplus power, a right which at least one Federal judge has said it does not possess. Six Hours Debate. The House wound up six hours of debate late yesterday, with Chairman McSwain, Democrat, of South Caro- lina of the Military Committee say- ing he still was strongly for the com- mittee’s compromise measure. Representative Maverick, Democrat, of Texas said that without the changes sought by the administration the bill might as well be killed and the $100.- 000,000 invested in the authority al- lowed to “wash down the river.” From Jpponents came charges that the legis- lation was “frivolous, false, flimsy and fraudulent and unwise, unsound and unconstitutional.” It has been passed by the Senate. EDITOR TYPES OBITUARY DATA AND KILLS SELF Richard Earl Walker, Associate Executive of Chattanooga Times, Was in Failing Health. By the Associated Press. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 10.— Writing that he was “no longer uble to work,” Richard Earl Walker, 59- vear-old associate editor of the Chat- tanooga Times, typed out data for his obituary and shot himself to death in the newspaper office. Walker's body was found slumped at his desk yesterday, a bullet weund in the right temple. In his type- writer was the obituary note ad- dressed to “Whom it may concern.” “I have been in failing health for two and a half years,” it said. “I am going because I am no longer able to work.” A pistol right hand. FRANCE HAS AIRMAIL PARIS, July 10 (4#9—Francex first domestic airmail scrvice was ipsugu- rated officially today, with four pianes scheduled to start from Le Bourget, the metropolitaa sirport. The new airmail system was de- signed to make daily postal deliveries between Paris and the most distant provincial cities. Sponsored by Georges Mande), for- was found in Walker's band and father can always arrange time to spend with his family and “he will not complain or even discuss the sordid things he sees while on duty.” [ r mer minister of communications, the network radiating trcm the capital included Le Havre, Lille, Strashourg, ‘Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nanics, Marseille and Cannes,