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A—2 %= COURTS, PRESTIGE HELD UNDER FIRE New Deal Aim Declared to Be to Discredit Al Nulli- fication Powers. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Efforts to breas dcwn the prestige of the Federal courts generally and | the Supreme Court cf the United | States in particuiar are part and | parcel of the New Des. defiance of N || What’s What Behind News In Capital‘ Johmot; Boondoggles Now and Inspires Some Sleeve-Laughing. - - BY PAUL MALLON. EW DEALERS in the higher altitudes here have tittered for weeks about the way they took 'Gen. Johnison in as works | | { the Constitution. Within the last 43 hours the deci- | sion of the judges in the Cireuit| Court of Appeals 1. Boston has been followed by ‘he iasicious comment | that two of the jucses who disap- | proved of the nrcrussing tax were Republicans and tbe dissenting jus- tice was a Democrat, This is a reflecuon on the ‘udges and press dispatones that make that point in connection with the Boston | decision are simply implying that po- Jitical considerasions kave something to do with judicial Cec'sions nowadays and that they must have been a fac- tor in the processing tix case. Other- wise, what would ke the point of | mentioning & judge’s pelitical affilia- | tion any more than Ele religion, or | his financial standing or any other | extraneous matter which might. in the eyes of the reader, cast doubts on the | integrity of the judees? If this fact of political affliation were of interest, it should have becn roted that the district judge wh> upheld th: New Deal was a Republican Attack Takes Other Forms. But the attack on the judiciary con- | tinues in other channels, too. New Dealers are beginning to- revive an | age old discussion of just how the Supreme Court has “usurped” the right to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional. The truth, of course, is that, literally speaking, there is no express or direct pro- vision in the Constitution which, in | s0 many words, says the Supreme | Court shall or shall not declare void | any acts of Congress. But there is no direct or express provision which | says the court shall consist of 9/ men or 29 and there is no express | provision which says there shall be marshals or clerks of court or that | restraining orders or injunctions | shall be issued. These are essential to judical powers. But Chief Justice John Marshall described the implied powers of the Constitution and pointed to the word- ing of the Constitution which says that the “judicial power™ shall extend to “all cases in law and equity aris- ing under this Constitution,” it was accepted by the generation of 1803, which Included men who helped to draft the original Constitution. There is another clause in the Con- stitution which says “the Constitution | and the laws of the United States made in pursuance thereof shall be the supreme law of the land.” It is this quotation which is usually cited as justifying the action of the Su- | preme Court in saying what is or is pot valid under the Constitution. Custom Preceded Constitution. Long before the Constitution was adopted, the State courts had ac- guired the habit of declaring acts of | Legislatures void. This was the cus-| tom, and it was taken for granted in the constitutional convention of 1787 that this custom would be followed. But if anybody doubts the right of the Supreme Court to interpret what laws are and what laws are not valid in accordance with the Constitution, there is only one question which need 10 be askec. It is this: If the Su- preme Court cannot declare acts of Congress to be void, who can? | Certainly, if the Supreme Court | does not have the power, therr all| sovereignty rests in a majority in Congress. Such a majority could | override the Constitution and change it at will. Thus a Republican ma Jjority in Congress could decide to re- move the President if he happened m‘ be a Democrat, or vice versa, and the whole system of a written Constitu- tion would be altered and the Con- gress would be supreme, If the people want that kind of Government, they can have it, but it may equally be argued that it means the end of a written Constitution, for there is nothing in the Constitution which vests in Congress the power to alier that document. When once the Censtitution is overridden by a na- tional legislature, the opportunities to ignore all its provisions are just as tempting to a majority as to doubt the precedents and cases that have been built up under a few provisions. State Courts Influenced. Certainly, the change also would have to run through our whole State &ystem, too, for, while it is not gen- erally realized, the truth is State Courts have a right to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional and have done so. Also, if the Federal Government sholishes the right of the Federal Judiciary to overrule acts of Congress not in accordance with the court’s conception of the Constitution, so also would the several State Supreme Courts in due time be divested of their present power to pass judgment ori the acts of State Legislatures. The péople of every State would then be subject to the whims of a temporary majority in a State Legislature and the dictatorship by powerful minarity groups under our bloc system would be supreme. Just why the New Dealers have tried over the radio and through the press to foster the impression that the Supreme Court does not have the power to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional, when for more than 130 years this has been the accepted | . principle of our jurisprudence, may seem to our traditional lawyers a poor_ piece of strategy in the face of accepted practice and custom. But the New Deal is bent on having its and the constitution made a scrap of paper to achieve “social objectives.” | selves that their adversaries are only | The whole new deal has taken its cue on this point from President Roosevelt's now famous appeal to the House Ways and Means Committee, | in which he said of the patently un- constitutional Guffey coal bill: “I hope the members of your com- mittee will not permit doubts, however reasonable, to block the suggested leg- islation.” Under Mr. Roosevelt’s leadership, the lesser members of the New Deal feel they have carte blanche to un- dermine the Supreme Court and the Federal judiciary and they have be- #un to do sc in earnest. (Copyright. 1835.) Reich Church Head Named. BERLIN, July 19 (#)~Hans Kerrl.. vice president of the Relichstag, yes- terday was officially appointed head of the department of church affairs, which hitherto has been under the jurisdiction of ministers of interior and education. Governmen! progress administrator for New Yorl It seems that after leaving N. R. A. the general got under the hide of Relief Boss Hopkins @f not also the President himself) by going around the country bellowing against the boondoggling in the Relief Adminis- tration. The boys on the inside say it was Mr. Hopkins who conceived the idea of shutting up his critic by absorbing | him. Mr. Hopkins went to the Presi- dent and urged that Johnson be re- called to the colors and put in charge of the world's largest boondoggling center, New York City. The general swallowed the bait and landed in New York to show those fellows up there how to ad- minister relief. Changes His Tune, It was not long until Johnson im- plied that perhaps some boondoggling WAS necessary. At any rate, he an- nounced that, as sorfle planning had already been mapped out, he would | not attempt to do it all over. His fate as a boondoggling kibitzer was not definitely established, however, until the list of New York City proj- ects approved by Mr. Roosevelt was given out. Since then the sleeve- laughing here has been concealed with difficulty. As an indication of what Gen. | Johnson has found to be a good relief | project (with the President's ap- proval), his list contains an item of $31.500 “to furnish recreational lead- ership” for nurses and internes in hos- pitals. Formerly some New Dealers had assumed the nurses and internes were having a fairly good time. In fact, certain hospital critics have in- | sinuated occasionally that they were having too good a time. However, anything that was lacking before cer- tainly can be made up with the $31,500. What Information Costs. . Most of the projects are designed, however, to disclose information for which the world long has panted in suspense. For instance. there is $7,350 to investigate the titles of old streets and highways in Queens; $130,200 for preparation of a subterranean map showing the contour of rocks under the city, to show what is holding it up: $29.400 for & card history of every lot in Queens: $27750 to determine the effect busses have on the speed of pissenger transportatiol an index digest of all aeronautical magazines: $44.100 to “mobilize neigh- borhood resources for the promotion of wholesome behavior among chil- dren.” Do not let any ome tell you that the New Deal has forgotien the Supreme Court defeat it suf= fered in the Schechter powitry case. Johnson's mew boondog- gling includes $178,500 “to in- vestigate the entire live ponitry industry in New York City.” $208,680 to Test Air. If you look into Johnson's list very closely you will find some other relief projects which are badly needed. For instance, the first item is $208.680 to find out what is in the air in New York. Visitors have occasionally complained there was something wrong with it particularly in the crowded subway stations. Also, it has been apparent there is something foul about the atmosphere in Wall street, especially since the New Deal. All this will undoubtedly be covered by the air-pollution survey, which will give “special attention to hoth chemical and bacteriological im- purities.” The best legal authorities here be- lieve the Massachusetts court decision against A. A. A. whittles down the interstate commerce clause to a rail- voad yardstick. The Supreme Court decision in the Schechter case said thqt poul- try was no longer in interstate commerce after it arrived at the point of destination. The Massa- chusetts court said cotton was not in interstate commerce wuntil it started moving from the point of origin. If such interpretations hold. the Federal Government will have juris: diction only over products while ac. tually in transit. The New Deal Complex. President Roosevelt and the other New Dealers did not take the A. A. A. setback very much to heart. They | seem to have developed something of | ! a persecution eomplex which steels | way even if this means that the | them against critieism and reverses; | Pederal judiclary has to be attacked | believing they are right, they do not | have much trouble convineing them- the rich, the political opponents and the ®satellites of both. Huey Long sent out a letter to his supporters recently saying the news- papers told ‘les about him, One of their worst. he said, was their insinua- tion that he was a rich man, adding: “It I could sell everything I own, which is not much, I could not pay one-half of my debts.” This is the only self-confession of bankruptcy yet made voluntarily by & politician. How- ever, it is understood he did not send the letter to his creditors. Rexford- Tugwell's rural rehabilita- tion service concerns itself with trees, but outside the window of his office are two which are obviously sufféring from sofi¢ #0rt ‘of hlight or tree (Copyright, 1935, by Paul Mallon.) Adopt 44-Hour Week. t reilways of Australis THE_ CRIMINAL JUSTICE BODY T0 ORGANIZE Plans for New Commission to Be Mapped at Meet- ing Tuesday. Plans for. creation of & Washington | Criminal Justice Commission, to be| | Supported by civic groups and have & 3wld¢ field of possible activities, are to | be mapped out by sponsors of the | movement Tuesday at 3 p.m. at the Willard Hote An organization committee is to be | | formed at that time and a chairman | selected to direct preparations for a| general public meeting in October, ac- | cording to Willlam F, Seals, organizer. | Money Pledged. Seals, who served as secretary to the Crime Investigating Committee of | the House, announced yesterday that $1,000 has beer: pledged for the work by newspapers and five individuals in- | terested in the plan. He estimates| between $15 000 and $20,000 would be needed for the first year of operation. Outlining possibilities of the com- mission after an organization discus-| | sion late yesterday with three of the| sponsors, Seals cited a successful move made by the Chicago Crime Commission ir. fostering a change in | | & prosecution post there. ‘ | “No one knows y=: 'urt what will be | the scope of the wurk of the Wash- | ington Commission, tnt if experience in other places is followed, I should | | say it is probab'e the Comuaission | }probflbly would expiess itsell very | forcibly in appoinimerts of members | ‘o( the bench, poli:z and prosecution officials.” | Seals met yesterdav with John R. Fitzpatrick, who d as couusel to | the House Crime Investigating Com- mittee: John A. Reraon, general man- | 1..-: of the Chesapeske & Potomac Telephone Co., wid Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, president of the District of Columbia Federation of Women's Vi ubs. Civie Leaders Invited. Seals has invited a number of civic leaders to co-operate in the organiza- | tion program. Among these are | newspaper publishers, James G. Yaden, | president of the Federation of Citizens’ | Assoclations; Arthur Clarendon Smith, | Pederation of Business Men's Asso- ciations: Sylvan King, Seventh Street Business Men's Association; C. Melvin Sharpe, .Potomac Electric Power Co., and Mr. Remon, Mr. Fitzpatrick and | Mrs. Wiley. Among those who have pledged con- tributions, Seals said, are L. Corrin Strong. Mr. Smith, Mr. Remon, Mrs Wiley, Mr. Pitzpatrick and newspaper officials. ASKS TO HANG MAN | Woman Wants Job of Executing Oklahoma Kidnaper. MUSKOGEE, Okla., July 19 (® — Mrs. Clarence A. Schoonover of Tulsa, 35, has applied for the job of hanging Arthur Gooch, condemned kidnaper, United States Marshal Sam Swinney has disclosed. The doomed man's pttorney called her a “publicity seeker.” $34,650 for | EVENING Above: The grand stairway in the Walsh mansion, at 2020 Massa- chusetts avenue, which is to be the headquarters of Rural Rehabilita- tion Resettiement Division. Wil- liam Henninger, watchman, is look- ing at the statues while workmen trudge up the steps. Below: Pat O'Connor, painter, trying a few tunes on the large pipe organ. —S8tar Staff Photo. LAASUTSFIAT TES 1P SENATE Processing Tax Issue Is Prolonging Debate on Amendments. By the Associated Press. A Senate joust on the gquestion of outlawing suits to recover processing tdxes is prolonging debate on the A. A. A. amendments. It threatens to | hold the chamber in session tomorrow for a final vote on the farm adjust- ment measure. A compromise advanced by Senator George, Democrat, of Georgia to per- mit suits in cases where the processor proved he had paid the tax, rather than passed it on to the consumer, was described as “dangerous” by Ma- Jjority Leader Robinson While the Senate appeared disposed to accept the compromise and the ad- ministration tentatively agreed to it, Robinson declared off the floor that “any one who swears he paid a tax and didn't pass it on would get it | back.” He held it would be difficult to $132.10 Received Yesterday By The Star Boosts Total 1o $990.38. Almost $1.000 has been received by The Star for the relief of the family of Sterling Calhoun, unemployed col- ored truck driver, who gave his life in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue two drowning children last week. Since yesterday The Star has re- ceived $132.10, swelling the grand total to $990.38. The largest contribution of the day came from members of the surface printing division, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, who donated a total of $100.10. The Star learned today employes of the office of the register, Treasury De- partment, collected $51.70. Mrs. Susie | Claytor said part of this had been used to buy clothes and provisions for Mrs. Calhoun and her three children. | A small balance is left, she said, and this will be apportioned as needed. The additional donations are ac knowledged by The Star as follows: 1.00 1.00 5.00 5.00 1.00 Surface Printing Divisicn, Bu- reau of Engraving and Frint- ing ----100.10 | The following officers and members of No. 4 Engine Co. of the District of | Columbia Fire Department donate to | the Calhoun Fund through The Eve- | | ning Star: | Capt. J. G. B. Key. | Lieut. R. J. Holmes._ | Sergt. J. P. Mills__ $1.00 1.00 : J. W. Stevenson J. M. Carter. !J. A. Carter. | M. R. Ross A, A. King | . 3. short. C. A. Youn R. A. Smith_ W. J. Thorne. H. Thrasher . S. 8. Lane_ Mike Kands Ss825855: St 888838 Previously acknowledged. ... 858.28 | Star's grand total | Senate. ¥ Debates compromise on provision In | A. A. A, bill barring tax recovery suits. Lobby Committee cctinues inquiry | into anti-utility bill fight. House. _In recess, Military | vestigation | mess affatrs. Committee continues in- | of War Department busi- | TOMORROW. Senate. Probably will not meet if A, A. A. bill is, disposed of toddy. House. ‘Will not be in session. prove whether it was passed on. Scores of Actions Listed. Court dockets throughout the Na- tion have scores of such actions listed A Circuit Court at Boston Wednesday ruled against the Government on processing tax collection, Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho. leading opponent to the tax suit outlawry on both sides of the Senate, described the measure as a “libel on free government.” “Not the State or the Government is the superior power,” he declared, “but the people. They never have given the Federal or State Govern- ments exemptions from suits by citi- zens who have been wronggd.” Robinson, declaring it to be “a set- tled principle of law that no sovereign can be sued without the consent of that sdvereign,” insisted the tax in question has been passed on and that the people who have paid it cannot be identified. Proposal Rejected. Yesterday the Senate rejected. 41 | to 34, a proposal by Senator Connally, Democrat, of Texas, to restore to the bill the export debenture provision approved by the House and rejected by the Senate. The Connally proposal would have given the Secretary of Agriculture authority to use 30 per cent of the tarifl revenues to finance the export of farm surpluses and to build up do- mestic consumption. The Senate also rejected a com- | pensatory tax ‘on rayon and other products competing with cotton. It would have amounted to 125 per cent of the cotton processing tax. Earlier a proposal by Senator Byrnes, Demo- crat, of South Carolina td levy a silk tax had been taken out. E. A. O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, | appealed to farmers, in a statement | issued during the A. A. A. debate, to | “unite in defense of their right to the help of the Government in man- aging their own production through their own associations.” He said the A, A. A, amendments would protect the processing tax against “the threat | of unconstitutionality.” CHURCH WEEK END SET Catholic, Protestant and Jewish Faiths Date “Loyalty Day.” NEW YORK, July 19 () .—Prot~ | estant, Catholic and Jewish faiths will unite in holding a national “Go to Church” week end October 5 and 6, the National Committee for Reli- gion and Welfare announced yes- 1 terday. The week end will be known as Loyalty day and will be set aside for religious thought, Walter W. Head of St. Louls, chairman of the com- mittee, said ‘The purpose of the movement is to offset the “savage paganism that is beginning to inundate the world,” the council said. CLIVE BROOK LEAVES U.S. SOUTHAMPTON, England, July 19 (#),—Clive Brook, the Hollywood movie actor, arrived yesterday aboard the Aquitania and said he was giving up his home in Hollywood and would maké England his head- > sam I fl [ L < — - | New Deal Agency Home Hunt 1 Absorbs Fflmous D. C. M(msion IN CARMEN’S STRIKE Atmosphere of Elegance to Surroun STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1935, g d Staff—Painting of Blessed Virgin to Smile on BY BLAIR BOLLES. The Rural Rehabilitation Adminis- tration is hoping the Supreme Court will help solve its office space problem. If the court will find a large enough New Deal agency unconstitutional and 50 oust it from its quarters, the many divisions of Dr. Tugwell's newest brain trust organization might be able to reunite under one roof. Now the employes of this $91,000,000 subdivision of the Work Relief Ad- ministration are scattered through the Agriculture Department, the Archi- tects Building, the Ouray Building and the Barber-Ross Bullding. On the first of August the Suburban Resettlement Division of this agency, which plans to aid destitute farm fam- ilies, will move into the McLean man- sion, 2020 Masachusetts avenue, where once the late King Albert of all the Belgians and his Queen consort Eliza- beth were entertained by Vice Presi- dent Marshall. This 54-room monument to opulence of the late Thomas F. Walsh, owned now by Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, is being transformed injo an office building. Workmen are painting rooms and installing electrical outlets. Walls of richly carved wood and ceilings cov- ered with cupids are being wrapped in cellophane, and girls will type in an atmosphere of grandeur that might well please a Romanoft grand duke. | 'Remaining as they were when Mrs. | McLean entertained the most famous | names of the United States and Eu- rope in the $3,000,000 home will be the beautiful mehogany orga: | the | priceless ' File Clerks. stained glass windows, fireplaces. An oil painting of the Blessed Virgin will smile down on file clerks from its position above the mantelpiece of one of the most expansive rooms. Night work will be done under pronze light fixtures in the shape of grape clusters, and stenographers will gaze at themselves in full-length mir- rors before which the world’s most noted beauties have preened. No Structural Changes. Mrs. McLean has specified there must be no structural changes in the mansion, where she wore the dazzling Hope diamond for the first time. The statuary will stay put and the massive stairways will look as they always have. How much money Mrs. McLean is to receive from Uncie Sam for the use of the home, empty many years, is not revealed. Taxes on the property aver- age $3,500 annually. No lease has been signed, and the Rural Rehabilitation’s desire to gather all its chickens under one wing, with {hopes for reunion in Autumn, makes | it likely no lease will be signed. | The Federal Government is appar- ently above zoning regulations, for on June 17 the Zoning Commission de- the exquisite nied a request for a special hearing Famed Police Declared to Have | fighting planes. for permission permanently to use the property for business purposes-—and | business purposes includes offices. | A block away, in the Blaine man- | sion, the Rural Electrification Admin- istration has gone to work, but that home already is within a commercial zone. 1,200 EMPLOYES | DROPPED BY N.R.A. All Get Annual Pay With Leave. | | About 500 Are Placed Elsewhere. With efforts being made to ease the | situation as much as possible, a check- | up today showed that 1,000 employes of the National Recovery Administra- | tion here and 200 in the field had been dropped or given notice of dis- missal, bringing the local force to Some 500 of those losing out in the | other employment, and officers are endeavoring to find work for all. Additional dismissals will continue | gradually, but there is nothing defi- | nite about the number to go. It may | amount to 1,000. In every case those being dropped get two weeks' notice, which allot | them to take their annual leave with | pay. | James OWNeill, head of the N. R. A., been cut $2,500,000 annually. ‘The skeletonized staff holding on is making a study of business under the | Blue Eagle. Political tempests may rage around him, 2 multitude of duties claim his attention, but Secretary of the In- terior-Public Works Administrator Tckes still “to find an oc- casional moment for his stamp col- lection. % Last evening he called”a halt on routine lsbor to receive a commitiee representing the American Philatelic Soclety and to discuss with the mem- convention of the organization ‘Washingtbn next month. Ickes to Exhibit Specimens At Philatelic Convention Here sessions, prob- | formally at one of the ably the opening meeting, August 12. He also will exhibit specimens from his collection, including his complete set of United States departmental issues and sélected examples from his Danish West Indies, Egypt, Armenia, Russia and Papua divislons—stamps the market value of which now is quoted in three and four figures. Mr. Ickes has been an active mem- nnhnmmmmnmu: yesterday estimated the pay roll hAdI MIDDLE ROAD AIM OF NEW TAX PLAN Would Keep Smalier Rates, | but Take 75 Pct. From $10,000,000 Income. By the Assoclated Press, Strong favor is developing In the % RELIEF BUDGET ESTIMATE STARTS Roosevelt Expects Jobless Still to Need Aid Next Year. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. House Ways and Means Committee for new income tax rates which would leave the smallér income taxpayer as he is, but take away nearly three- quakters of & $10,000.000 income. The | present tax on $10,000,000 is about 63 per cent. Those questioned about the matter decision had Dbeen reached by the committee, which is studying 29 dif- | ferent schedules. They said, however, that the one which has aroused specal interest among them is a “middle-of- | the-road” idea worthy of particular study. Statistics Prepared. Committee Democrats have singled out this schedule for analysis by their own expert, Iovell H. Parker, chief of staffs of the Joint Congressional | Committee on Internal Revenue. He prepared statistics comparing the pro- posed new schedule with existing taxes, as well as those levied in 1918, 1919, 1924 and 1926. In its present form the schedule does not increase present rates on incomes | below $150,000 a year. It was said that” while the lower limit might be dropped to $100,000, it certainly would not go below, that. | 1t is estimated that the new sched- | ule, if rates were not boosted on in- come below $150,000, would bring in ‘$20,400.000 a year in additional reve- { nue; the rates, though high, would be | below those of 1918 and, in most cases, | under those of 1919. | Present Levies. | At present ail taxable income is sub- | ject to a 4 per cent levy. Beginning | with the income over $4,000, a “sur- | tax” is added. That rises gradually to 53 per cent of the income between $150,000 and $200.000, and ranges up to 59 per cent on all income over $1.000,000. ‘The suggested new schedule would make the surtax—to which the 4 per | cent normal tax must be added—54 per cent on income in the $150.000- $200,000 bracket and then graduate the levy up to & maximum of 75 per cent on that portion of an income which is in excess of $10,000,000. ! Thus, on an acturial basis a $10.- /000,000 income actually would be taxed $7.493.00. The tax on that | income now is $6.241,394: in 1918 it was $7,633,030, in 1919 it was $7.233.- 190, in 1924 it was $4.569.575 and in 1926 it was only $2,481,058.75. Comparisons Made. “This is the comparison of the pres- ent and possible future taxes compiled by Parker: Net income (In thoussnds of dollars.) 100 TWO ARE WOUNDED Worker Clashes With Pickets in Council Bluffs After Serious Rioting. By the Associated Press COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, July 19.— Two persons were wounded by gunfire from a non-striking street car emplove defending himself against a erowd of pickets at the Council Bluffs street car barn today. Six shots were fired by the tram worker as he raced from his automo- bile to the ca: barn, and James Daw- son and Richara Stevenson, strikers, fell wounded. The crowd retaliated by demolishing the automobile with bricks and setting fire to it. ‘Two other street car employes were chased from the vicinity of the barn eardier, <. A. McCreary said about 50 | pickets surrounded and beat him be- fore he escaped but Fred Clausen was turned away unharmed. Today's outbreak of violence fol- lowed rioting last night. in which the car barn was stoned, a street car dam- aged by fire ard at least two persons hurt. Five men were detained for investi- gation followirg last night's rioting, which was endea by a park-bench plea by Mayor Hugh Finerty. CANADIAN “MOUNTIES” MAY SOON CHANGE NAME | “Dismounted” by Traveling in | Autos, Planes and Boats. | By the Associated Press. | MONTREAL, July 19.—The famed “mounties” of Canada—otherwise, the | Royal Canadian Mounted Police— | have “dismounted,” Sir James Mac- | Brien, police commissioner, announced about 2,800 and that outside to 1,100. | yesterday at the close of the twenty- | ‘[flnt Annual Convention of the Inter- | Washington office have been placed in | national Association for Identification. | o | The name, he predicted, would | changed shortly. | “Most of our men,” he said, “now | travel in automobiles, airplanes and boats The word ‘mounted’ will prob- ably soon be dropped from our name.” | TAKES AID TO CHINESE | | American Missionary Serums to Flooded Area. HANKOW, China, July 19 (#).—An American missionary, Rev. H. C. Meyer of St. Louis, set out today on Carries persons in the districts afflicted by plagues and floods in the Han Kiver Valley. Bearing & large supply of serums and vaccines, the missionary under- took a difficult journey by boat to the Hanchuan region, 75 miles to the northeast, where virtuaily the en. tire population has been made home- less by floods and is now confronted by the menace of disease. Three Held in Strike. CAMDEN, N_J; July 19 (#).—Three day for the grand jury, charged with holding = striking workman of the New York Shipbullding Co. plant against his wili The alleged victim, William B. Holland, was sald by police were careful to emphasize that no | & mission of mercy to hundreds of | men were held in $1,000 bail each to- | With a view to preparing budget estimates for continuing his work re- lief program during the next fiscal vear and in order to report to Con- gress next January upon what to ex- pect in the way of unemployment next year, President Roosevelt has directed & thorough survey be made of the probable relief needs next year Mr. Roosevelt has decided to have his work relief assistants draw up a definite plan for making this accurate survey. While he feels confident that his $4,000,000.000 work relief program ending June 30, 1936, will greatly re- duce unemployment, he has reason to feel that there will still be unemploy- ment next year of sufficient propor tions to necessitate a continuance of Federal assistance. ‘The President’s first step was faken yesterday afternoon at a White House conference with a little group of major administration associates. Cabinet Members Attend. At this conference were Secrefary | of the Treasury Morgenthau, Secre- tary of Labor Perkins, Frank Walker director of the National Emerz2nc Council, and Harry L. Hopkins. w progress administrator under the new works relief program The President and this group, after indulging in some rough figuring on scratch pads, decided to have tne thorough survey made. This exvlor- ing work will be done by the Labor Department and experts of the Works Progress Administration There is nothing unusual in start- ing this- far ahead on budget e mates. All the departments and agen- cies of the Government are expected to have their budget estimates ready by October and it is understood that Secretary Morgenthau weas the one who suggested at yesterday's conier- ence the carly start. When all the budget estimates are completed and turned over to the President the latter will have ample time to study them and give his approval preparatory to their presentation the Congress when 1t reconvenes early in JADUAry By calcul; g NOW on carrying his relief program for at least an- when it is realized that his present $4.000.000.000 program has not actually gotten under way Mr. Roosevelt is represented as feel- ing that there is no cause for gloom or of a lack of confidence in his widespread program for the present fiscal vear. On the contrary the President and his work field marshals are known to be hopeful of good re- sults during the remaining 11’'; months of this fiscal year. Just the same, they plan to be prepared in advance. At the same time. administration officials contend that while th $4.000.000.000 at the disposal of the President will go a long wi towarre furnishing employment and will serve the purpose of doing away with di rect relief. better known as the “dol there undoubtedly will be unempioy ment next year. To what extent thi problem will continue into next yea is hard for the administration to esti mate at this early date, and it is be cause of this uncertainty that Mr Roosevelt has initiated the thoroug survey. i} | | to w other year State Deadline Set. Very shortly after the White Hou work relief budget conference c cluded. Works Progress Administrator Hopkins announced that November 1 next, had been set as the approximate deadline for turning back to the States the complete responsibility for the 1.500,000 unemployable cases on the relief rolls. Mr. Hopkins figures for the first week of July showed only 15,000 per sons actually at work under the new work relief program. outside the in- creases in the Civilian Conservation Corps. He forecast 900,000 would be at work August 15. Regardless of this slow beginning he expects the peak employment of 3500000 will be reached by the beginning of Novem- ber. This confidence is shared also ! by the President. | 625 NEEDED PLANES Rogers Tells House Subcommit- tee $40,000,000 Necessary for [ National Defense. By the Associated Press Representative Rogers, Democrat of New Hampshire, sought to show House Military Subcommittee toda: | that the Army Air Corps, with is 625 ships short of what it needs to guard the Nation in | war time. | He had figures to lay before the | committee as a basis for a drive to | obtain a $40.000.000 appropriation for 600 to 800 new planes The subcommittee was called to- | gether today to chart a procedire for | attempting to work the extra fund | into a deficiency appropriation iill pending in the Senate. The Air Corps, Rogers said, has bout 350 pursuit, 100 bombardment and 85 attack planes that are service- {able. That is just 625 short of the | number recommended by a special | investigative board headed by Newton D. Baker. While the corps has about 1200 usable planes of all types, including | observation. transport and training machines, it expects to lose about 400 through obsolesence or crack-ups in the present fiscal year. | The Baker board suggested that | 2320 planes were the minimum needed for nationalgdefense. BAND CONCERT. | By the United States Army Band at | the Capitol at 7:30 pm. Thomas F. | Darcy, leader; Karl Hubner, assistant | leader. March, “Washington Posi". Overture, “Triumphal” | Solo for cornet, “Valse aprice, Liewellyn Ralph Ostrom, soloist. | “Copenhagen” .. Davis Prelude and scenes from “La Travi- ata” _ March, “U. Fox trot m March, “Colt’s Armory". “The Star Spangled Banner,”