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A—2 = ENTIREA.ALA.PLAN BELIEVED DOOMED Court Verdict on Process Tax Centers Attention on Debentures. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The New Deal has just had an- other zetback in the courts—the overthrow of the “processing” tax by the Circuit Court of Appeals in Bos- ton. This decision was really no ;m' prise to anybody, not even the New Dealers themselves, who have been busy, ever since the Schechter case was decided in May, trying to re- write the A. A. A. so as to make the | taxes appear valid | But the amendments pending be- fore the Senate, which have already | passed the House, are as flagrantly unconstitutional as the original law, | and the new decision also applies in- cidentally to the Guffey” coal bill, which Mr. Roosevelt demanded of Congress recently should be passed irrespective of constitutionality. Congress alone can raise revenues | by taxation and the purpose of lhei taxes must be to support the Govern- ment as a whole. Aids Special Group. The processing taxes, however, have as their main purpose the control of agricultural production and they are expended as a subsidy to a special group; namely, the farmers. It may be, of course, that the New Deal plan for stabilizing agriculture is desired by the American people, but the Consti- tution does not provide for it. And the only way for the Executive to get such power is for the Constitu- | tion to be amended, in which case the American people of all classes, consumers as well as producers, will What’s What Behind News In Capital Dreams of Roosevelt Convention Defeat Still Persist. BY PAUL MALLON. IDS Gay - dreaming about politics continues. The latest vision conjured up by politicians around the electric | fans is that t Roosevelt may be defeated for renomination at the Democratic convention. This view seems to be widespread around the country. Apparently the wish of cer- tain Democratic Congressmen is the | father of the thought. | Every practical politician knows it ] is next to impossible to prevent re- | | nomination of a President. He con- | trols the party organization. The dream ends when you start considering who could be momi- nated in Mr. Roosevelt’s place, Senator Byrd? He would not consider it. Lew Douglas? He has no organized political follow- ing. Huey Lomg or Gov. Tal- madge? Their candidacies are 30 weak that evem they kmow they have mo chance. These mames just about exhaust the possibili- ties. The facts behind this situation | seem to be: Some of the conserva- tive and radical Democrats would |like to get rid of Mr. Roosevelt at| | the convention and are trial-balicon- ing the suggestion. They know his | | popularity would have to decrease to | | nothing before any formidable move- THE EvioanG ‘STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1935. Loses Adjournment F lght REPRESENTATIVE BRASWELL DEEN Of Georgia, whose resolution to adjourn Congress next Tuesday was tabled by the Ho se yesterday while Congressmen settled down to the task of enacting the President’'s entire program into statute this session —Underwood & Underwood Photo. FRIENDS T0 JOIN | [Kipling IN EDSON TRIBUTE Rev. Paul Sperry Plans to Return for Leader’s Fu- neral Tomorrow. Bereaved friends from out of the city were preparing to come here to- morrow to join with a legion of ad- mirers of John Joy Edson in s last tribute to the veneruble banker, phol- anthropist and philosopher, who died late Monday. ‘The 89-year-old civic leader will be laid to rest in Arlington Ngtional Cemetery after funeral “services to- morrow at 2 pm. in the Swedenbor- gian Church of the Holy City, Six- teenth and Corcoran streets. Rev. Paul Sperry is interrupting a vacation in Maine to return here and conduct the rites for his friend. The National Geographic Society will close its doors for a half day at noon tomorrow as a token of respect for Mr. Edson, who served as treasurer of the society for more than & thirdYy of a century. Nearly three dosen prominent citi- zens who knew Mr. Edson intimately during his long career of public and private service in the Capital will at- tend the services as honorary pall- bearers. Some of these men also were out of the city at the time of Mr. Ed- | son’s death, but are returning for the | funeral. | The honorary lbearers will be | Harry G. Meem. AWthur Peter, George | A. King, Carl B. Keterstein, Dr. Gil- | bert Grosvenor, Frank J. Stryker, | James A. Messer, John Saul, Harper Sibley, Willlam Butterworth, Harry A. Wheeler, Ralph P. Barnard, Fred- “rrk‘x V. Coville, Walter 8. Pratt, jr.: | william W. Willoughby, Dr. Charles E. Munroe, Col. E. D. Godfrey, Gen. Poem Honors King POET, IN 70th YEAR, PUBLISHES NEW WORK ON REVIEW OF FLEET. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 17.—A new poem, entitled “Review of the Fleet by the King,” was published yesterday by Rudyard Kipling, who is in his 70th year. ‘The poem follows: & After his Yealms and states were moved To bare their hearts to the King they loved, ‘Tendering themselves in homage and devotion, The tide-wave up the channel spoke To all those eager exultant folk: Hear now what man has given you by the ocean. *There was no thought of erb or crown ‘When the single wooden chest went down To the steeriag flat and the careless gunroom haled him ‘To learn by ancient and bitter use How nelther favor nor excuse Nor aught save his sheer self henceforth availed him. ‘There was no talk of birth or rank By the slung hammock or scrubbed plank In the steel-grated prisons where I cast him But niggard hours and a narrow space For rest—and the naked light on his face— While the ship's traffick flowed unceasing past him. ‘Thus I schooled him to go end come— ‘To speak at the word—at a sign be dumb. “To stand to his task, not seeking others to aid him. ‘To share in honor what praise might fall For the task accomplished and—ovar all “To swallow rebuke in silence, Thus I made him, 1 loosened every mood of the deep On him, a child and sick for sieep ‘Through the long watches that no time can measure When I drove him deafened and choked and blind At the wave tops, cut and spun by the wird, Lashing him face and eyes with my displeasure, 1 opened him all the guile of the seas— Their sullen swift-sprung treacheries To be fought or forestalled or dared or dismissed with laughter, 1 showed him worth by folly concealed And the flaw in the soul that a chance revealed (Lessons remembered—to bear fruit thereafter.) I dealt him power beneath his hand For trial and proof with his first command, Himself alone and no man to gainsay him, On him the end, the means and the word And the harsher judgment if he erred GLOSE HOUSE VOTE ON SECURITY SEEN Administration Chiefs Will Fight Clark Amendment on Pension Plan, By the Associated Press A close vote—possibly a hairline one —was predicted as legislators in charge of the soctal security bill moved todsy to oring the Ciark amendment before the House. This amendment, which was added by the Senate after the bill passed the House originaily, provides that companies and employes covered by private pension systems shall be ex- empt from taxes intended to support a Government old-age pension system. It was the only point on which Sen- ate and House conferees still were at odds when they finished their de- liberations on the bill yesterday. So the amendment had to go to the House for a vote. Administration leaders hoped it would be defeated there, and thus throw the controversy back into the Senate for reconsideration. It | was pased there originally by a 51-to- | 35 vote. Chairman Doughton of the House | Ways and Means Committee led the | ight. for rejection of the amendment by the House. He said it “certainiy interferes with the functioning of the whole bill, if it does not destroy it.” Woman May Get Post. Meanwhile the administration said authoritatively to believe that one of the three positions on the social security board that will administer the law should go to & woman. Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor is said to have been asked to present a list of qualified names to the Presi- dent. John A. Johnston, Allen C. Clark, decide whether they want the Treas- | And—outboard—ocean waiting to betray him. The private persion amendment ury levying a tax on consumers vot food products, the proceeds to be dis- bursed to farm producers while in- creasing the cost of living generally | to all consumers. As pointed out in these dispatches yesterday, before it was known that the Circuit Court of Appeals had handed down its decision at Boston, the processing taxes are really a levy on a group of people, poor people espe- cially, for the benefit of a farmer group who would be much better off if their Government enabled them to produce more and sell it at export in such a way that, if a subsidy were necessary, the cost would be borne by those people best able to beer it. The advocates of the so-called export | debenture plan as an alternative to the processing taxes are increasing, and it is probable that the processing taxes are in for some vigorous opposi- tion as the retail sellers of farm com- | modities find an increased resistance by the consumer to the higher prices. For there is no sound way to pay the processing tax except to tack most of it onto the constumer. Called 100-te-1 Shet. The amazng thing is that anybody in the New Deal law departments | should have thought the processing tax could ever be upheld. The state- ment of the constitutional principle given by the Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston is so clearly in line with Supreme Court opinions that it is a 100-to-1 shot the Boston decision will be upheld when the case comes up mext Autumn or Winter. Here is the essential point in the Circuit Court of Appeals decision, and it can be read with the Guffey coal bill in mind and its weird plan of tax- | ation for purposes of control: “The power of Congress to regulate | Interstate Commerce does mot suth- orize it to do go by taxing products either of agriculture or industry be- fore they enter interstate commerce, or otherwise to control their produc- tion merely because their production may indirectly affect interstate com- merce. “The issue is not, as the Govern- ment contended, whether Congress can appropriate funds for any [ r- pose deemed by Congress in further. ance of the ‘general welfare’ but whether Congress has any power to control or regulate matters left to the State anc lay a special tax for that purpose.” Unwarranted Delegation. Since Congress cannot delegate o a cabinet officer power that it does not originally possess, the processing tax has been rejected as an unwarranted delegation of power. But even if the power were resident in Congress to delegate the tax-making machinery, standards and limits would have to be set up to guard against arbitrary and capricious action by a Govern- ment department, and no such stand- ards were found by the court to exist inthe A. A A, The Supreme Court is making guite & point of this idea of “standaris”™ whereby Congress points out how the ‘preme Court in the “hot ofl” case in January, 1935, the weakness of the New Deal laws in this respect has are not i “If, in the opimion of the people, ment could even be started. The talk is being fostered mainly in an effort to influence his actions. Con- | servatives want to frighten him into going a little slower. Radicals vice | versa. A Representative from a Midwestern | State arose in a closed meeting of | the House Steering Committee a few | days ago and said: H A Representative’s Plaint. | “I have supported Mr. Roosevelt right along and have been called s/ | rubber stamp for so doing. The other ; day I went down to the White House and could not even get in to see him. I can’t get paironage. Now if I were a rebel he would pay some attention | to me. | “That is what I am going to be | from now on.” | In other words, there is no | sense in giving loyalty away when you can get paid for it. Thisisa further ezplanatio mof the recent congressional revolt. Strife Over Mortgage Bill. | More inside trouble has developed | | between the White House and the | | House ieaders over the revised | Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage act. | The Prazier-Lemke crowd had 210 | signatures on the petition to bring the bill up the other day. Co-author Lemke went down to the White House. | Later the President was quoted in | the cloak room as saying that any bill which had 200 supporters de- | served to be brought up for discus- sion at least. But the nominal leaders of the House are secretly against the bill, and mot without cause. They (including Speaker Byrns and Rules Chgirman O'Connor) do not see how the President could countenance such a bill after ve- toing the bonus on the grounds of inflation, because the Frazier- Lembke bill is far more so. Steiwer Boosted for "36. The bestirrings of a movement fa- voring unpretentious Senator Steiwer for the Republican presidential nomi- | nation 1s noticeable inside certain | national veterans’ organizations. His voting record makes him available. He was the first to cry dictatorship against the New Deal. He did #t in a Senate speech ten days after Presi- dent Roosevelt was inaugurated. | is not a candidate, which is precisely what all light and dark horses should say at this stage of the race. put the first real energy into resusci- tation work. Conseguently, the next financial statement will show up much better than the last ome. However, the Republicans are not having an easy time getting money. E ; i i : : I : -3 ; : i it i 2 3 §Ece §f § € ] I Ten Persons Are Injured as Veterans to Petition Con- Train Hits Truck Trailer in Upper Sandusky. By the Associated Press UPPER SANDUSKY, Ohio, July 17 —The Liberty Limited, crack train of the Pennsylvania Railroad, crashed into a truck trailer, then derailed here today, spreading destruction for three blocks and causing injuries to ten persons. The train sheared off the platform of a freight depot, splintered freight cars and snapped and bent rails before it stopped with the locomotive and | tender overturned. Three Critically Injured. Three persons were critically jured. They were: 1 D. Todd of Fort Wayne, fireman; badly scalded. Robert Williams of Cambridge. Ohio. driver of the truck: broken rib, lung puncture and cuts and bruises. R. W. Ritcha of Fort Wayne, fire- man: badly scalded. The engineer, who was pinned under the wreckage, and Fireman Ritcha were removed to a Fort Wayne hos- pital. Williams was taken to a Bucy- rus hospital. The accident occurred at the main street crossing as the limited sped westward. Williams had stopped to permit an eastern train to pass, wit- nesses said, and drove upon the tracks in the path of the limited. The locomotive struck the trailer and im- mediately left the tracks. None of Cars Overturn. While none of the Pullmans and day coaches overturned, they were leaning at a dangerous angle. Windows of houses 200 feet away were broken by rocks huried from the roadbed. The other injured were passengers. They received minor hurts. T. O. Dinklac of Fort Wayne, the conductor, suffered from shock. Railroad officials said they hoped to put one track back in use late today. in- Wi Escapes. Mrs. Ray Duke, 45, wife of Elis Duke of 505 Decatur street, escaped injury in the wreck at Upper San- dusky, Ohio, she telegraphed neigh- bors here this morning. Mrs. Duke left Washington yesterday to visit a sister in Chicago. Published reports earlier were to the effect that Mrs. Duke was among the slightly injured. 49 KILLED, 144 HURT IN FORMOSA QUAKE Third Fatal Temblor in Three Months Destroys 224 Build- ings on Island. By the Associated Press. TATHOKU, Formoea, July 17— Forty-nine persons were kilied and 144 injured, police estimated, in an earth- quake centering in Southern Shun- chiku Province today. Police reporfed the Japanese Em- pire's third fatal temblor in three months destroyed 22¢ buildings. As is, they suspecied that he wasline earthquake shook the same eres in which nearly 2,000 persons died April 21. Seismologists said today's temblor was one of a series of after- shocks te the April disaster. Telephone and telegraph lines were disrupted, quake, but did no damage. Lighter shocks were perceptible in Taichu and Tainan and ships at sea recorded tremors. PENNSY LIMITED ~ FISH SPURS BONUS DERAILED I GHID ARMY INTO ACTION gress on New Yorker’s Payment Plan. The John Marshall place “bonus army” today prepared to take the ad- vice of Representative Fish, Republi- can, of New York, and “read the riot act to Congress” in an effort to col- lect. The New Yorker. who has a bonus- payment plan of his own, last night climaxed a busy day in which he had | battled in the House with Represent- ative Patman, Democrat, of Texas, another bonus advocate, by addressing the veterans now holding forth around the Transient Bureau, and attacking both President Roosevelt and Patman. Fish wants the $2,000,000,000 bonus paid out of the $4,880,000,000 work- | relief fund. The President, he char- | acterized as “Veterans' Public Enemy No. 17: Patman, he said, is “No. 2.” The latter opposes Fish's plan. Assails Patman. “If it ad not been for Patman, the | bonus would have been paid long be- | fore this,” Fish said. “If your certifi- cates are not paid within a year, you'll | be getting only 10 cents on each dol- lar.” ‘The majority of the veterans cheered | Fish, others jeered. This evident dif- | ference of opinion produced several personal encounters and called for the | services of a “peace committee.” | Royal W. Robertson, leader of the | veterans. said he would send groups to Senate and House today with petitions | asking action on the Pish plan. Later, | this “army” plans to take to the road, | to exert pressure through the States. | Bitter Clash in House. The Patman-Fish clash in the House ‘was bitter. Patman opened hostilities by assailing Fish's bonus plan. Fish countered with the assertion that Democratic leaders were blocking = vote on his bill and referred to “snoop- ing” by Patman. Patman objected, and then Representative Ekwall, Re- publican, of Oregon, suggested the matter might be clarified by changing “snooper” to “stool pigeon.” Speaker Byrns entered the fray by declaring both terms violated House rules and on a 246-10-75 vote they were ex- punged from the record. After adjournment, Fish, in a formal statement, said taking part of his re- marks out of the record “is not the first time that freedom of speech has been throttied and curtailed by & de- | moralized and bewildered Democratic leadership in the House.” ITS OWN THIRD PARTY Clothing Workers’ Officer Scores Present Afiliations With “Rotten Politicians.” By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, July 17.—Three speakers before the convention of the American Federation of Hosiery Work- ers’ urged yesterday that labor take the lead in establishing a permanent third party in the United States. “I advise every labor man to cut off his afiliations with the rotien politicians,” Leo Kryczki, vioe presi- dent of the Amalgamated Clothing ‘Workers of America, said. “Help us organize and create our ewn party.” Laboring classes and farmers can form an “unbeatable combination” nationally, he said. president, and Emil Rleve, ‘Hoslery ‘Workers’ president, expressed similar YImOous - | Frances and Elizabeth_ views. Prederick W. McReynolds, Commis- sioner Melvin C. Hazen, Commissioner George E. Allen, Lieut. Col. Dan I &ultan, Alfred V. Lawson, Canon An- son Phelps Stokes, J. Eliot Wright, Appleton P. Clark, jr.. Theodore W Noyes, Walter S. Ufford, Robert V. Fleming, Karl W. £Corby, Justice Joseph W. Cox, George E. Hamilton, Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin and Harry C. Davis. Many messages of condolence snd floral offerings have been received by the family. The body lay at the fu- neral establishment of Almus R Speare, 1623 Connecticut avenue. Mr. Edson will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery near other soldiers of the Civil War with whom he fought as a Union volunteer. Calhoun Fund The Star fund for relief of the widow and three children of Sterling Cathoun, colored hero who drowned with two white children he sought o save, reached $72230 today. The fund will be turned over to the Salvation Army for judicious and effi- cient administration. The army will use none of the fund for administra- give its services free of obligation. Contributions not previously knowledged by The Star follow: Anon; . $1.29 Cash Cash . C.D M. . M. A M P K | George W. Rose. A Priend_ C. M. B. _ W. T. Rollins_ = Lodge No. 11, American Federa- tion of Government Employes A Priend Three Little Children. Cash Office, Interior Department.__ Today's total. Previously acknowledged. Star’s grand total__. M’BRAYNE ATTACK LAID TO OVERWORK Mother Says Former Aviator Suf- fered Nervous Breakdewn Before Arrest. * | By the Associated Press. Death Rate Increases. Kentucky's death rate increased from 10.8 per 1,000 population in 1933 to 113 in 1934 Nickel-in-Slot Parking Pla i i : i Strength in duty held him bound After his lieges in all his lands And his ships thundered service The tide wave ranging the plant On all our foreshores as it broke: VIEW ON LIABILITY | Potomac Savings Receiver Presses for Decision on Assessments. Norman R. Hamilton, receiver for the Potomac Savings Bank, today asked the Supreme Court to review the lower court decisions here holding that shareholders of this bank are not subject to double liability Chartered in Virginia, which carries no double Hability to authorize assess- ment of stockholders in case of failed banks, the Potomac Savings, which bas been closed since March, 1933. to- day was paying out an additional divi- dend of 12'; per cent at 1406 G street, | the office of the receiver. | This second dividend, which brings | total dividends paid out of this bank | up to 6214 per cent, was made possible without using any funds from stock assessment. Stockhoiders fought as- |sessment in court and won favorable | decision in District Supreme Court, | and in the United States Court of Ap- | peals for the District of Columbia, | which heid that since the bank was provided for no double liability, the shareholders were not subject to as- | sessment. Today the receiver appealed | to the Supreme Tribunal for & writ of | certiorari to review these decisions. Many persons called at the receiver office on G street today for their sec- ond dividend, but there were no crowds, principally due to the plan of the re- ceiver of asking depositors to call in | groups of 1,000 a day for eight days.| Depositors must present not only their | cards of notification, Mr. Hamilton emphasized. but also their conserva- | tor’s certificates. Several depositors | who called without their certificates today were unable as yet to get the checks which were ready for them. A new procedure will have to be worked out for those who hsve lost or de- stroyed their conservator’s certificates. | 'INSANE CRIMINAL HOLDS 3 PNSONER ‘Bank Teller, Wife and Girl, 17, Kept Under Gun—Captor Kills Self. Wherefore when he came o be crowned So that not power misled nor ease ensnared him ‘Who uad spared himself no more than his seas had spared him Had laid their hands between his hands “Know now what man I gave you—I, the ocean.” | of the party. | detion at the end of this year of the | ! number about 80,000 of refugees and and devotion spoke BANK ASKS COURT FOES OFLONG TALK OF BL0ODYREVLT Armed Conflict Regarded as Certain by Square Deal Association. By the Associated Press NEW ORLEANS, July 17.—Talk of bloodshed has cropped up again in Louisiana as a result of Senator Huey P. Long's moves to take charge of the local government of New Orleans. “The words came from the Square Deal Association, which was organized | just before a group of citizens took was only one of a series of bitter disputes which tne conferess had negotiated through a period of weeks | in almost daily sessiois. Among their more important deciions were that The Social Securicy Board should be an independent agency, and not under the Labor Department, as recom- mended by Secreiery Perkins. and that it, instead of the Children's Bureau, should administer the child welfare provisions. States which have constitutional obstacles in the way of matching Fed- eral old-age assistance grants of §15 a month may >vain the funds for two years withoui matching by set- ting up State admin.irations (o han- dle the distribution of the money Cheice Lo te States. States will e ao» to choose be- tween State-wide L09is and individ company rese: S In setting up the unemployment urance systems All employers of cight or more pe sons for 20 weeks out of a yes | must come under the unemplovment insurance tax program Federal pensions of $15 & mont} | to be maiched by e States, will offered to needy &lind Workers, in order to get pensions for which they have contributed dur- ing their emplovment, must retire at 65 years of age All of the controversies involved amendments addsd oy the Senawe, but up arms against Long's “dictatorship™ at Baton Rouge last January, only to be routed by the State militia. “We had expected to avoid biood- shed.” said Davis Haas State leader of the Square Dealers. “But the more I see of the way things are going, the more 1 am convinced that bloodshed is inevitable.” He said he expected trouble within 30 days. Walmsley Offered Aid. The Square Dealers in New Orleans | have offered Mayor T. Semmes ‘Waimsley their “physical support” in Long’s onslaughts. Oscar Whilden, New Orleans Square Deal leader, said it was because of the association that a plan to circulate petitions for Walmsley's removal by the Legislature were abandoned. “Companies” of Square Dealers have been formed in 48 parishes of the State, Whilden said. The Square Deal announcements were made public during organization of & new company here last night. Te Return te Washington. return to Washington today after a momentous two-week stay in Louis- iana. The Legisiature met in special session at his direction and enacted legisiation and formally surrendered to Long. but there wgye mutterings in the ranks GERMAN REFUGEEAID BY LEAGUE IS URGED High Cdmminioner for Nazi Vie- tims Asks Geneva Juris- diction. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 17.—James G. Mc- Donald, New York, high commissioner for refugees coming from Germany, reported to the governing body of the commission today that 80,500 persons, mainly Jews, have quit Germany un- der the Hitler regime. He and Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, chairman of the commission, suggest ed the situation required that the League of Nations step in to assume direct respansibility for the relief and rehabilitation of German refugees. “What bas been done and what re- mains o be dane.” McDonald report- ed, “make this an appropriate time to suggest a basis for the definite liqui- High Commission for Refugees from Germany and the transfer of its re- sponsibility to a mew organization di- rectly responsible to the League of | Nations. “It is estimated that of the total emigrants from Germany since Janu- ary, 1933, approximately 15000 are| still unplaced.” B | BLAST INJURES 20 Packing Plant in Oklahoma City | Scene of Explosion. OKLAROMA CITY, July 17 (®)— none except the Clark amenJment was regarded by administration lead- ers as involving funcamental points in the President’s jrogram. Repre- sentatives of the Hcuse refused to {budge on this prevision. contending it would “wreck” ihe old-age retire- ment pian. D. C. BILL WAITS. Eflenbogen Measure Held Up for Na- tienal Legislation, | Action by the Senate District Com- | mittee on the local social security chartered in Virginia and Virginia law | his effort to retain his office despite | program will be taken after the House and Senate have adopted the confer- ence report on the national social se- | curity bili, Chairman King said today. | King pointed out that several mem- bers of the District Committee are | busy following the progress of the bill | now before the Senate to amend the | A. A. A. law. It probably will be sev- eral days, therefore, before the Dis- trict Committee meets The two District bills dealing with old-age assistance and pensions for the blind have already been put in shape, except for one or two questions ‘With regard to the Ellenbogen unem- pioyment insurance bill, however, the | Senate Committee has before it for | decision a list of important changes, | urged by the Commissioners and local organizations. Senators King and Copeland, Democrats, have made » | study of these amendments and have | reached individual views on some of | the proposals. Formal action by the | entire committee remains to be taken | at the forthcoming meeting. PRESIDENTIAL PARDON ASKED FOR MRS. STEVE Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., City Heads Send Petition to Aid Kin of Dillinger Aide. By the Associated Press 17—The city commission sent 8 peti- tion to the White House yasterday asking a presidential pardon for Mrs Anna Campbell Steve, convicted in Pederal Court June 7 on a charge of harboring her brother, John Hamil- ton, and his companion, the late John | tures, asked that she be spared serv- ing a six-month jail sentence on the ground that she was a vietim-of cir- | cumstances. Mrs, Steve is a former | local president of the Parent-Teacher | Association. Loe PUBLIC DEBT 29 BILLION, TREASURY REVEALS Reaches New Peak in First Big Increase Since December, Report Shows. showed today that on Monday the figure was $20.177.796318, following