Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1935, Page 2

UTILITY LOBBYING 1S DECLARED LEGAL Held Legitimate Exercise of Right of Petition to Protect Selves. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. With committees of both Houses of Congress intent on finding out who “lobbled” for or against the utility holding company bill, it becomes per- tinent to know exactly what is meant by lobbying. To some people, “lobbying” is synonymous with “bribery” or influ- encing votes by offering some form of compensation. To others—particularly those head- line-seekers in Congress who want to make & sensation irrespective of whether the facts justify it—Ilobbying is never the exercise of the constitu- tional “right of petition” when it is done by any interest or group which happens to feel a responsibility to protect its investors against the con- fiscation of their property. Legitimate to “Fair-Minded.” To most disinterested and fair- minded observers, “lobbying” is an effort to persuade by legitimate means those legislators who are willing to listen to an argument from persons | interested in the passage or defeat of pending legislation. | Tt is important to know what the | taxpayers' money is going to be | spent, for in the current investigations | because nearly $100,000 has been | appropriated to find out what ought | not cost more than $5,000 to $10,000 | to learn, and that sum mostly for the making of a stenographic record of | testimony. | Already we know from the witnesses | that the utilities spent about $300,000 in direct expenses, and that a sum of about $700,000 more is estimated to have been spent in the time and| traveling expenses of utility executives | who came from almost every State in | the Union to attempt to persuade | members from their districts that the “death sentence” ought not to be executed. Improper Lobbying. | Was any of this money spent to| bribe members of Congress, or were | any promises made of campaign con- tributions? This would be improper | lobbying and should be exposed. *. Did anybody in the executive branch | of the Government offer any Federal appointments, such as judgeships, to ‘members of Congress if they voted for the “‘death sentence”? What public works projects or appropriations from the $4.000.000,000 fund or any other fund were promised to members of Congress, or what threats to withhold appropriations from their States were | made if they didn't vote with the ad- ministration? | These are the pertinent queries which the public is anxious to know and which, if probed to the bottom, | would make any lobby investigation worth while, Searchlight on Administration. But this means turning the search- light on the administration itself and the lobbyists it sent to the Capitol, and, of course, members of Congress consider conversation about appoint- ments to be privileged and private, so the chances of knowing what methods the administration used to influence legislation are very slim indeed. As for the utilities. it is doubtful 1f | any of their lobbyists were stupid enough or so unskilled in the art of improper lobbying to offer campaign | contributi or direct bribes, and, if this is ch , 1t will take confirma- | tion from the members of Congress to make it convincing. ‘What, then, will the lobby inquiry do? It will attempt to show that all | the utility men are rascals, that they had no right to spend any money to defend their industry and that, be- cause the utllity men are supposed to be terrible ogres of finance and ma- nipulation, the “death sentence,” which is in conference between both houses, should be adopted. - This is a lobby in itself. While the days of mud-slinging may not be over, there is no doubt that public opinion is just | 8s Interested in a fair deal for any | affected industry as it is for any Con- gressman whose name is mentioned | in the inquiry. $12,000,000,000 Industry at Stake, To spend money in printing and mailing and traveling expenses, in legal advice, in publicity counsel and in the preparation of economic and legal data is a legitimate transaction for any industry. If the utilities did spend $1,000,000, they spent a small fraction of what they have at stake— & $12,000,000,000 industry—and they spent only their own stockholders’ money, Any charge that a million dollars would have meant a consid- erable reduction in electric light costs is absurd, because the total electric | light bill of the residences and homes of the American people is only about $650,000,000 a year and there are perhaps 30,000,000 homes, so the imaginary reduction mathematically figures out to a little more than 3 cents a year per home. Actually, however, Congress isn't really interested in reducing electric light rates, but in increasing them. ‘The burden it is about to put on elec- tric light operating companies means increased expenses, The ultimate alternative is public ownership, where the costs do not go down but merely are transferred by bookkeeping to the general budgets of the cities and towns, and, therefore, are borne by the taxpayers generally. Thus, in the T. V. A, it is frankly admitted that the Government will sell to the people in the Tennessee Valley electricity below cost while the taxpayers from Maine to Oregon will foot the bill. The “lobby” inquiry is just another smoke screen to divert public atten- tion from the enormous expenditures of Government and the threat to the purchasing power of the working man's dollar. (Copyrirht. 1035.) o CARMELITE COMMUNITY PLANS RITES TOMORROW &olemn High Mass and Special Feast Day Exercises to Be Held at 10 A.M, Solemn high mass with special feast day exercises will- be conducted in honor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in the chapel of the Carmelite Monas- tery, 150 Rhode Island avenue north- east, at 10 a.m. tomorrow. A noted preacher will deliver a ser- mon on “The Queen of Carmel” and the entire Carmelite community, as- sisted by pastors of Washington par- ishes, will take part in the services. It is the patronal feast of the Car- melite order. Catholics throughout the city will visit the Carmelite chapel during the day and evening in order to gain a special indulgence granted by Pope Pius in honor of the Carmelite order. | | gently, overboard. | a great help he has been; how sad | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Labor to UseCaution in Demands Under New Law’s Limitations Industry’s Attitude on Strictest Appli- cation, in View of Supreme Court Rulings, Prompts Decree of “Don’ts.” This is the second of two articles’ discussing some of the questions raised by recent emactment of the laber relations law, BY JOHN C. HENRY. Although they were quick to hail the new labor relations law (known before enactment as the Wagner bill) as “labor’s Magna Charta,” organized labor has made no bones about ad- mitting some of the limitations of the act as established by the Constitu- tion and imposed by recent Supreme Court interpretations. Cognizant of the circumstance that industry will fight for the strictest application of these limitations, and even for complete elimination of the law, if possible, the American Federa- tion of Labor, therefore, has called upon {its members to proceed most carefully in invoking the law’s pro- tection. “It is the purpose of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor to defend this act, to insist that it be respected, obeyed and applied and to supply the best legal talent available in defend- ing it against such attacks as may be made upon it,” William Green, presi- dent of the A, F. of L., declared today. Limit of Application, “We must always remember that the scope of the act is limited. It b at’s at . Behind News . In Capital President Admires Ickes Despite Occasion for Another Reprimand. BY PAUL MALLON. HAT Presidenrt Roosevelt told Mr. Ickes at lunch the other day will remain for- ever a secret between them. Mr. Ickes cannot be expected to tell. Mr. Roosevelt has too much regard for the feelings of the bad boy of his official family. As a matter of fact, no word from either was necessary. The look on Mr. Ickes' face spoke for them. It was 5o obvious that all present agreed the cabinet mischief maker had been taken on another trip to the woodshed for a corrective lesson. The trouble he got into by try- ing to muss up the Senate Virgin Islands investigation seems to be generally regarded as suficient cause for as much paddling as Mr. Roosevelt thought necessary to administer, Resignation Doubted. This semi-public action has en- couraged hasty rumors that the| President and his Interior Secretary are about to part company. In fact, facetious insiders already are specu- lating about the letter which the President will send to Ickes accept- ing his resignation. They say it will come from what is now known as “the-kiss-of-death” form letter file. It was from this file that Presldent‘ Roosevelt lifted the letters he sent | to Gen. Johnson and others who have | slipped on the deck of the ship of state and have fallen, or been pushed It will start out, “Dear Friend Harold”: will say what the President is that he must go, and | conclude with the hope that the | President will be able to use him | again some time. Those who have been lighting the | President’s cigarettes lately do not believe this letter will ever be written. They have noted that Ickes enjoys | an apparent understanding with the | President such as is not shared by any other official. | | | NOW LISTEN ALL RICNT, | FRANKLIN ¢ RO AMEM Mr. Ickes is the only cabineteer who Bas talked back to the President. In private Mr. Roosevelt has taken more from him than from any other of- | ficial. All the White House gang knows this. The reason is that Mr. Roose- velt admires Mr. Ickes' courage as a fighter and his honesty. The fact that Mr. Ickes is generally fighting a jriend of the President and usually is on the wrong side of the question does not change the situation—at least it has not so far. , President Roosevelt knows that his Interior Secretary will always insist on sticking his neck out at all the world, that he will usually get punched | in the nose, but he likes his bad boy Just the same. So far, Mr. Ickes has been on the mat with Messrs. Hopkins, Wallace, Farley, Hurja, Moffett and most of | the Senators and Representatives. | While he has not yet won a fight, | his hope never diminishes. Friends Pushing Ickes. ‘What makes Mr. Ickes unpopular among many New Dealers is the sus- picion they have that he has presi- dential aspirations. This may not be true, as far as he, personally, is concerned, but certainly it may be said without fear of contradition that | his friends have presidential aspira- tions for him. Also the publicity emanating from his department is not entirely im- personal. It keeps him in the public eye more than his department. He also goes about the country making speeches on subjects somewhat remote from the Interior Department or 04 ROSSO/ K\ State Secretary Hull called in Italian Ambassador Rosso on Ethiopia because the peace societies squawked long and loud over Hull's note to the Ethiopian Emperor. They sald he was condoning Italian agression and he had to do a little something to quiet them. This does mot mean that Mr. Hull intends to play peacemaker in that affair. Personally he has the same jfeeling that a lot of other Americans share regarding the im= practicability of playing peace= maker to the world. Holt, Lewis Heed Michaelson. It may have appeared that Senator Holt and Representative Lewis threw down the advice of Democratic Pub- licity Man Charles Michaelson by appearing at the University of Vir- ginia Institute of Public Affairs. The fact is they followed it. They failed to appear at the spots designated for them on the program with American Liberty League speakers. Instead they walted a few days until the league speakers had gone and then they appeared with their own hurrahs for the New Deal. Mr. Roosevelt is going out to an- swer these rumors about his health in the same way he did during his second campaign for Governor in New York State. At that time whis- pers were being spread that he should not be re-elected because the strain would kill him. He hopped into an automobile and made a three weeks’ tour of the State. The trip was so strenuous that his retinue was fagged after the first week. News men were worn out trying to keep up with him. Near the end they began writing stories about his superior physical That is ezactly the way his forthcoming presidential trip is being planned. The season for hot-weather stories now is on in full blast. The latest myth to gain national ecirculation by word of mouth is that President Roosevelt made an inside deal with the Supreme Court to have the N. R. A. held unconstitutional so that he could get out of it. Any one who knows anything at all {; employers will not obey it. does not apply to all industry and labor, but is effective only when the violation of the legal right of inde- pendent self-organization would tend to burden or obstruct interstate com- | merce. This is why representatives of labor must take care to be abso- lutely sure of their ground when they submit a case to the National Labor Relations Board.” A further showing of the federa- tion’s intent to proceed with caution in creating any opportunity for a court test on the law is given in a/ creed of “don'ts” which Mr. Green has | pronounced for labor. They follow: | *“Don't file charges unless the union has made an honest effort to get satisfaction from the employer | through direct negotiations and met with no success. | “Don't flle charges unless every other means of peaceful adjustment of the controversy, including media- | tion, has been exhausted. | “Don’t file charges unless your charges specifically refer to the unfair labor practices listed in the act. For | | example, violation of a union contract by an employer is not a case for the board, it is a case for the courts. | Necessity of Facts. “Don’t file charges unless you are absolutely sure you have the facts suf- ficlent to substantiate your charges and that you can produce witnesses able and willing to testify to those | facts. | “Don’t file charges if the employer is engaged in a purely local business and the case in no way affects inter- state commerce.” In contrast to this caution on the labor side may be seen the confident deflance of industry, based upon jts belief that the act simply will not stand up under court fire. Business | Week, a publication serving as spokes- man for industry, makes the follow- | ing editorial comment: | “Convinced that the act is an un- | | lawful meddling with production, and | with commerce within the States, | “Business believes that there is no | logic in the cumbersome and limping declaring of policy with which Sena- tor Wagner and his assoclates have prefaced the act, in the hope of get- | ting around the Supreme Court's defi- nitions of what constitutes intrastate commerce and nothing else. The declaration asserts that the refusal of employers to accept collective bar- gaining leads to ‘strikes and other forms of industrial strife or unrest, which have the intent or the neces- | sary effect of burdening or obstruct- ing commerce, between the States. “But what is it that has this neces- sary effect? It's the ‘strikes and other forms of industrial strife or unrest.’ In going beyond the strikes to the conditions that precede them, Congress would deal with remote ac- tions that have neither the intent nor | the necessary effect which must be proved to the satisfaction of the Su- preme Court.” Manufacturers’ Viewpoint. Confining himself more closely to | legal grounds as established by the United States Supreme Court in the Schechter case, James A. Emery, coun- sel for the National Association of Manufacturers, declares: “The Wagner bill rests upon the proposition that the Federal Govern- ment may control local labor disputes because they are alleged to ‘affect’ or threaten to affect commerce. This attempt is made by express definition in the bill. The Schechter opinion distinctly rejects and condemns re- lation of such’ transactions to com- merce and denies any oontrol under the commerce power over employment relations wholly local in character. “Pinally, the Schechter case makes it clear that while Congress may not delegate the power to make a law, it may make a law to delegate the power to find some fact or circumstance upon which the previously established standard, intelligibly made by Con- gress, is applied and becomes effective. ‘Thus, ‘unfair methods of competition,” as they are ascertained by admin- istrative authority under an intelli- gible standard may be discovered and denounced and the different indus- tries of the country may assist the President, under a proper delegation of suthority, in ascertaining what they are, because of their special knowledge of the facts, and an honor- able code of competition may thus be voluntarily established and enforced. But the arbitrary bureaucratic method of discretionary control, without standards, is denounced and con- demned.” s U. S, Attitude Important. ‘With these viewpoints of the two primary opposing forces thus estab- lished, the attitude of the Govern- ment as the third party bound to be drawn into any controversy will be an important factor. Listing indus- tries in five general classifications in which he believes the law could be applied with a decreasing degree of validity, one administration spokes- man who has followed closely the en- actment of the law gives some indi- cation of the Government’s feeling about it. His classifications, in the first of which he believes the law about government knows it is impos- sible for the President or any one elsg to make a deal with the Supreme Court. Mr. Roosevelt has one friend in' the court, Justice Brandies, but (Consright, 1985, by Paul Mallen.) could be applied without conflict with the Constitution, follow: 1. Industries conceded by all hands to be engaged in interstate com- merce; for example, railroads, ship- ping, telephones and telegraph. 2. Production industries with re- spect to which different steps of proc- essing go on in different States. The manufacture and assembly of auto- mobiles often is accomplished in dif- ferent States. Another example is the vertical trust where a steel com- pany, for instance, owns mines, smelters, factories and distributing plants, 3. Production industries like mining and manufacturing which produce goods for an interstate market. The decisions of the Supreme Court with regard to such industries are con- flicting. The Sherman act has been applied to some industries of this sort, but in the Weirton case the District Court at Delaware took the view that if the processing itself all occurred within one State the commerce clause would not cover it. Non-chain news- papers which utilize news -services and have some circulation outside the State, although the employes are all in one State, furnish another instance of this classification of border-line cases. Effect “Too Remote.” 4. Industries like wholesale gro- ceries, poultry processors, department stores, etc., which sell all their goods within one State although sometimes in a market into which dealers in other States are also selling, thus af- fecting interstate prices. Although there were hints in some earlier de- cisions of the court that this affected interstate commerec, the Supreme Court in the Schechter case took the view that the effect was too remote. There seems little doubt that the court in its present temper would re- fuse to concede the National Labor Relations Board jurisdiction over such industries. 5. Industries unconnected with in- terstate goods or interstate prices: for example, hotels, barber shops, boot- blacks, taxicabs and other service in- dustries. It is conceded by all hands that the new law would not afford pro- tection to these industries. In these pronouncements from three sides are contained most of the ele- ments of attack and defense upon which will be built the inevitable liti- gation over this newest attempt to regulate by law the relations of em- ployer and employe. PRESIDENT BACK FROM TRIP ON'BAY Week End Outing Not De- clared to Have Political Significance. With a slightly deeper tan on his face, giving every evidence of having enjoyed the week end party on Jef- ferson Island in Chesapeake Bay with a large number of Democratic lead- ers, President Roosevelt was back at his desk today, faced by a heayy business schedule. ‘The White House, as well as others who attended the island outing, con- tinued to insist the week end gath- ering had no political significance and that it was merely an outing. Associates of the President sald politics was not discussed. Declared “Love Feast.” Whether or not this outing served as the setting for a Democratic pow- wow or an informal strategy meet- ing, however, it cannot help but be looked upon by many as a “love feast,” if for no other reason than it brought together in friendly relations Sen- ator Tydings of Maryland and Sec- retary of Interior Ickes, who a few days ago were exchanging verbal brickbats. The President returned to the ‘White House about dark last night, accompanied by Vice President Garmner and Postmaster General Farley, having made the journey from Jefferson Island to Annapolis, Md., aboard the presidential yacht Sequoia. Farley Ready for Trip. Mr. Roosevelt evidently did not have time, either during the stay at Jefferson Island or in the journey back to Washington, to conclude his talk with Farley, who is leaving Washington tonight for a trip to the Pacific Coast and a visit to the Ha- waiian Islands, because he has ar- ranged for another long conference with the political member of the cab- inet this afternoon, which will be carried on during the serving of luncheon in the President's office and afterward. As he closed his desk, Farley still insisted his trip is “strictly a vaca- tion.” Mrs. Farley and Ambrose ©O'Connell, his executive assistant, are going with him, Business Congress Opens. LONDON, July 15 (#).—Two thou- sand delegates from 40 nations con- gregated today for the Sixth Interna- tional Congress of Scientific Manage- ment, claiming & record for size of a business congress and for procedure— no speeches and no resolutions. Among the delegates are 59 Ameri- cans, Trolley Busses to Be Used. Trolley busses will supplant street cars in Johannesburg, South Africa. a cusses liquor-control bill. TOMORROW. House: Considers private ecalendar. Public Health Subcommittee of the District Committee meets in executive session at 10:30 a.m. to consider mis- cellaneous bills, N D. C, MONDAY, ‘THIRD HOUSE' DUE T0 ADIUST: BILLS Conferences May Settle Se- curity Holding Company and T. V. A. Disputes. By the Associated Press. ‘The “third house” of Congrrss must make, within the next few weeks, several desisions of far-reaching im- portance. Much of the Roosevelt administra- tion legislative program is now being considered in a series of conferences which, taken collectively, are some- times called the “third house.” If the Senate and House, in pass- ing a piece of legislation, disagree on provisions it should contain, the two differing bills often are sent to a con- ference between chosen Senators and Representatives. They attempt to compose the differences. Not in a long time have so many important bills been in conference or headed for conference as now. One is the social security bill—and the be- lief is expressed that even the ron- ferees may not be able to agree on this one. Some legislators say the President may be asked to intervene in the dispute. Involves Exemptions. It revolves around the question whether concerns and employes cov- ered by private pension plans of ap- proved standard shall be exempt from taxes the vast security program will levy to support contributory old-age pensions, Senator Clark, Democrat, of Mis- souri, succeeded in amending the ad- ministration’s bill to provide for such exemption. The bill as it passed the House contains no such exemption. Another major dispute in confer- ence is over the utilities bill. The Senate bill provides for compulsory abolition of “unnecessary” utility hold- ing companies in seven years. The House bill gives the Securities Com- mission discretionary authority in the | matter. T. V. A. Bill in Dispute. The amendments to the Tennessee Valley Authority act also are in con- ference, with Senators friendly to T. V. A. seeking to make changes in the bill as it passed the House. Senator | Norris, Republican, of Nebraska wants to alter a provision requiring T. V. A. to turn all cash over to the Treasury at the end of each fiscal year. Norris would empower T. V. A. to keep cer- tain working cash. Other measures which are expected to be in the hands of conferees soon are the A. A. A. amendments and the omnibus banking bill. Airport (Continued From Pint Page) | Committee were prepared to take emergency action. After the conference today Chair- man McSwain sald that just as soon as an agreement is reached on the proper language to carry out the pro- posals which were accepted at the conference today, that the bill can be passed by unanimous consent in the House and that a special rule will not be necessary. | Representative Smith said the mili- tary authorities have stated they have no longer any need for Military roed and desire to he relieved of respon- sibility. On the other hand, Depart- ment of Agriculture officials have stated that the road is very necessary as a most immediate approach to the Arlington Experimental Farm. He pointed out also that more than 1.000 motorists use this road to one airplane intermittently passing over it._ It is very unusual, at least, he said, for | an airport to squat near a highway and then take steps to have that | highway closed. The real menace, according to Smith, is not to vehicular | traffic along Military road and the endangering of human lives, but Route 1, which is the main highway to Alex- andria, Fredericksburg and Richmond. McSwain to Go to Committee. | Board, Chairman McSwain of the House Military Affairs Committee said today this action left him with no alternative but to go to the House Rules Committee for & special rule for consideration of his resolution to close Military road. “I had hoped to have the resolu- tion passed under unanimous consent as an emergency measure,” McSwain sald. “The action of the board un- doubtedly will prevent passage of the bill in this simple, expeditious manner.” McSwain said he had not had any official word of the board’s action, but that he expected to confer with Representative Smith on the matter. ‘The Military Affairs Committee chairman said that he will go before the Rules Committee with his request for a special rule as soon as a meet- ing can be arranged for the purpose. If the Rules Committee acts favorably on his request the Military road meas- ure will be called up out of order and considered under a suspension of the rules. Debate will be limited, amend- ments prohibited, and the bill pressed to a vote. A two-thirds vote will be required for passage under this pro- cedure rather than a mere majority, as is the case with bills called up in regular order. Result: Sigrid One By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 15.—The dra- matic ardor of an unnamed tenor has cost Sigrid Onegin, the Swedish con- tralto, & tour of this country next ‘Winter. Mme. Onegin sang the title role in “Carmen” recently in Mannheim, Germany, according to word received today by her manager, Charles L. ‘Wagner. 5 just as gay as usual in Things were ji n s stage (according to Dr. Pritz Pen- zoldi, her husband) and mauled her hospital. Besides being choked and bruised, Informed unofficially of the action! | S8aturday of the Arlington County | Unable to Tour United S s0 badly she spent five days in a/ JULY 15 Shrinks 10-Inches Copyright, A. Hans Nelson, left, of Minneapolis has shrunk 10'; inches in height in the last five years, due to a stral robbed his bones of calcium. He Wickman, hospital interne, who is before he began shrinking. An operation to relieve the man's plight is to be performed today. Nelson is 52, Hundreds at Calhoun Funeral As Fund for Family Increases Tribute Paid Colored La- borer Who Lost Life in Rescue Effort. Widow and Three Chil- dren Assured Aid for Indefinite Period. Their chief provider laid to rest | with services befitting a hero, the family of Sterling Calhoun, colored | laborer who died with two drowning | white children he sought to rescue, was taken in care by a beneficent | city today. sympathy by paper offices and civic organizations sufficient funds to provide for the needs of Calhoun’s widow and three young children for an period. Future Aid Assured. are gone, there undoubtedly will be aid from other sources, probably from the mothers’ pension fund or the Public Assistance Division of the Board of Public Welfare. In fact, had the generosity of the public not been manifested in the voluntary offerings, the Board of Public Welfare would have seen to it that the family did not suffer, officials said. Approximately $800 has been con- tributed for the family, $160 of which went for funeral expenses. The Star has received a total of $508.15, which will be turned over to the Salvation Army for administration. Maj. James | Asher, head of the army, has agreed | to assume the responsibility of ex- pending the fund to the best advan- tage of the stricken family. He will make an accounting later to The Star for the information of contributors. Maj. Asher said today every cent do- nated will go to the family—none will be used for administrative expenses, as the Salvation Army gladly tenders its services free in a case of this kind. Over the week end $122.44 was re- ceived by The Star. The Daily News | has received a total of $291.43. The News’ fund will be administered by a committee of the Southwest Civic As- sociation. It is planned to have a conference of Salvation Army and Civic Association representatives to work out a relief program that will not involve duplication of effort. Hundreds at Funeral. Hundreds of men, women and children, including white persons, jammed into the Priendship Baptist Church yesterday afternoon for the funeral services over Calhoun's body. Elder Guy Wills, pastor of Calhoun’s little mission church, the Bethlehem Church of God, officiated. Elder Wills took as his text the | Don Jose Gets Too Rough gin Is Injured and tates. — An outburst of appreciation and | citizenry not too busy k V. nor too self-centered to reward even ) an humble hero has brought into news- | indefinite | ‘When these emergency relief funds | M P, Wirephoto. nge malady that is believed to have is shown standing beside Theodore 5 feet 10'; inches, Nelson's height 00 J0BS CREATED INRESETTLEMENT Work Here Is Distributed Between 4 Divisions of Administration. By the Associated Press Almost 500 jobs have been created in Washington through establishment of the Rural Resettlement Adminis- tration, it was learned today. This New Deal planing agency, under Rexford Guy Tugwell, has a total of 6,090 employes on its pay roll to facilitate spending the $91,000.000 allotted the agency by President Roose- velt and divided by Tugwell among 11 regions Saturday. Four Divisions Created. ‘The four divisions of the Resettle- ment Administration and the number of employes in each: Management division—91 in Wash- ington, 57 in fleld; total, 148. Rural resettlement—95 in Wash- ington, 3,000 in fleld: total, 3,095. Suburban resettlement — 147 Washington and field. Land utilization—200 in Washing- ton, 2,500 in field: total, 2,700 No figures could be obtained show- ing the total of salaries paid these employes. Employes in the management divi- sion, an official said, now are en- gaged in managing finished units taken over by the Resettlement Ad- ministration from the F. E. R. A. and from the now defunct Subsistence Homesteads Corp. This division also will be charged with responsibility for management of all colonies developed by the new administration. A large number of the employes of the rural resettlement division were said to have been taken over from the former rural rehabilitation division of the F. E. R. A. This division was said to be making new loans to farm families and supervising the use of loans and grants made by the F. E, R. A. before the merger. Has Engineering Staff. ‘The suburban resettlement di officials said, has an engineering working out of Washington, making surveys to locate new suburban com- munity sites. It will seek to develop modern low-cost housing communities in suburban areas adjacent to indus- in New Contributors to Calhoun Fund Willlam M. Rout Anonymous L. $1.00 5.00 = 1600 1044 | 5.00 1.00 5.00 10.00 1.00 3100 10200 5.00 | D. Lo 6.00 1.00 10.00 ML B_ = George A King_ = Vermont Avenue Baptist Church trial centers, The bulk ef the 2700 emploves of the land utilization division were said to have been absorbed from the old land planning and purchasing sec- tions of the A. A. A. and F. E. R. A This new division, officials said, now | holds options on 10,000.000 acres of land, and has accepted options on 3,500,000 acres. Furthermore, the land utilization division was said to be conducting surveys in 250 localities to determine whether lands shall be bought. TONIGHT'S ECLIPSE T0 BE OUTSTANDING Shadow of Earth to Plunge Moon Into Darkness at 10:12 P.M., Hattie M. Strong Mrs. W. E. Mickey_ Anonymous ‘Anonymous L. H.D. L 2.00 | B S5t 1.00 s A 100 James Reese Europe Posi No 5 5.00 (American Legion) Sas S 100 1.00 . Hugh Thom.pson Previously acknowledged familiar scripture quotation: “For greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his fel- low man.” He declared that Cal- houn’s sacrifice has resulted in better understanding between races. “God wants His people—all His people,” the elder said, “to get to- | gether like they are here this after- | noon. That's why he called Brother | Sterling. God knew that the broth- er’s act would help to bring His peo- ple closer together.” | Elder A. C. Jones of Buffalo, N, Y., | and Elder Louis Gutman of this city | also eulogized Calhoun, Rev. R. H. | Kelly and Rev. B, H. Whiting as- | sisted in the services. Interment was in Lincoln Memorial Cemetery. 'PHILLIPS IS NAMED U. S. ENVOY TO CHILE A. 7. Biddle, Jr., Nominated by President to Become Minis- ter to Norway. Hoffman Nhillipe of New York, at | present United States Minister to Norway, today was nominated by President Roosevelt to be Ambassador to Chile, to succeed Hal H. Sevier. ‘To fill Phillips' post, the President at the same time nominated Anthony J. Biddle, jr., of Pennsylvania to be Minister to Norway. The President also sent the Senate the nomination of Cornelia Van En- gert of.California to be consul general. FARLEY OFF FOR HAWAII; JUST VACATION, HE SAYS Postmaster General Cancels Stop at Elks’ Convention, Goes Straight to San Diego. By the Associated Press, 8till insistent his trip to the West Coast and Hawaiian Islands is “strict- ly a vacation,” Postmaster General Farley closed his desk and packeg up to start the journey today. Mrs. Fraley and Ambrose O'Connell, ! :ll executive assistant, are going with | im. Leaving by rail before noon, Farley will make no stops between Washing- ton and San Diego other than to change trains at Chicago, associates said. A stopover at Columbus, Ohio, to visit the Elks’ National Convention ‘was reported canceled. Farley plans to spend at least one day at the Pacific-S8an Diego Exposi- tion, . sailing thereafter for Hawalil. The length of his visit, one aide said, would depend on “how well he likes the islands,” but his tentative schedule calls for returning to the mainland about August 13. He is expected back in the Capital by August 18 or 20, Power Plants Erected. 1.00 | Reach Totality at 11:09. By the Associated Press Astronomers Ceclare tonight's )| eclipse of the moon ic one of 1833's outstanding astronomical events. They are interested particularly be- | cause the phenomeron enables th to make a careful check of instru- | ments and of prev.ous calculations. | Two scientists attached to the United | States Naval Observatory will use & | 26-inch telescope to make tests. Simi- 0| lar ones will he mace elsewhere in the country, and phctographs faken < 1% | if climatic conditiors permit. An interesting feature of the eclipse | is that as the earln passes bstween | the sun and moon, engulfing the lat- | ter in darkness, the temperature on | the moon's suriace crops from 250 degrees above zero to 132 degrees be- low, a tumble of neurly 400 Jegrees. The reason is that the moon has no | surrounding atmospheve to stavilize its surface temperature, The shadow will beg'n to cross the moon at 10:12 pm.. and the eclipse | will reach totality av 11:09. DISTRICT JUDGESHIP IS SHUNNED BY LANE Former Maryland Attorney Gen- eral Wires Tydings and Rad- cliffe He Could Not Accept. Special Dispatch to The Star, HAGERSTOWN, Md., Julr 15— Former Attorney General William Preston Lane of Marvlard today wired Senators Millard Tydirgs and Georze R. Radcliffe *hat h= could not ac- cept the appointment of judge oi the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Mr. Lane said he nad received an in- quiry from members of the Dustrict Bar Association as to his attitude and indicating a cesire to indorse him. Existing citcumstances, he said, prevented him from accepting such an appointment now, sithough ke ap- preciated the high honor. Officers of the bar associatin said the organization had not approached Lane to determine his availability for the vacancy on the appellate oench. | It was pointed oat, however, that | individual members acting on their | own responsibilitv m:y have queried | the former Maryland attorney general. George C. Gertiran, secretarv of the bar association, said tte directors of the association will meet tomorrow to tabulate returns from a poll of the members conducted to secure their recommendations for a succes- sor to Justice Hitz. It was revorted approximately half of the returns re- ceived recommend the appointment of Associate Justice Jennings Bailey of the District Supreme Court. JULY WHEAT SOARS ON RUST REPORTS Jump of Full 5-Cent Limit to 8814 at Kansas City Also Laid to Cash Demand. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, July 15.—July wheat futures jumped the full 5-cent limit allowed for a day soon after trading began in Kansas City today. The price reached 834 cents a bushel. Harold A. Merrill, president o1 the Kansas City Boart of Trade, at- tributed the sudden price rise io rust reports, a better demand for cash Six new electric power plants are started or planned in Manchuris. A wheat and disappointing yield reports from Nebrasks.