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FOR CONSTITUTION Hogan Says Renewed In- terest in Government Form Marks Session. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 20.—Renewed interest in defense of the American constitutional form of government and Steps taken for co-ordination of the bar were listed today by leading attor- neys as the significant achievements of the fifty-eighth annual convention of the American Bar Assoclation. “The vital interest shown in adher- ence tc Américan constitutional form ©f government and the obvious senti- ment that that form of government 1s not considered outmoded are easily the most significant developments,” -g{d Frank J. Hogan of Washington, L C. Hogan's comment followed action by which the association went on record as pledging itself to oppose alterations in the essential lines of the American Constitution by the “process of cor- ruption of its text.” Other attorneys said they consid- ered the movement for better organi- zation and co-ordination of the bar the highlight of the convention. Wililam L. Ranson, New York City, was elected president of the associa- tion by a margin of 31 votes over James M. Beck of Washington, D. C., former Representative from Pennsyl- vania and former Solicitor General of the United States. The contest involving the presidency was the first in the history of the or- ganization. John H. Voorhess of Sioux Falls, S. Dak., was re-elected treasurer, and Wil- liam P. MacCracken of Washington, D. C., was named secretary again. Ten district vice presidents and three new members of the Executive Committee also were elected. The only unfinished business on hand was the selection of a 1936 con- vention city. A supplementary statement and resolution condemning the proposal in the A. A. A. bill to remove from juris- diction of the courts, suits involving the assessment of taxes under regula- tions of the act, was adopted by the association at its final session. The committee on Federal taxation, which presented the report, was au- thorized to oppose the amendment pending in Congress. e Suits (Continued From First Page.) “ by Senator Bankhead, Democrat, of . Alabama, as © 000,000 might be involved. Senator Robinson declared: “It is a glorious day for the law- “ yers,” in predicting that there would be “hundreds of thousands of suits.” But Senator George, Democrat, of “ Georgia, protested that “to say the taxpayer hasn't his right to a day in court is un-American and I regret a Democratic administration has ever proposed it” He introduced the compromise proposal. The roll call on the compromise follows: FOR THE COMPROMISE, 61. DEMOCRATS, 39. REPUBLICANS, 20, KERYES Nenany CALP NORRIS NYE SCHALL TOWNSEND VANDENBERG ‘WHITE PROGRESSIVE. 1. LA FOLLETTE FARMER-LABOR, 1. SHIPSTEAD AGAINST TH% COMPROMISE, 23. BURKE CARAWAY CONNALLY m%fl sl REPUBLICANS, 2. FRAZIER NORBECK A motion yesterday by Senator Tru- man, Democrat, of Missouri, to recon- sider the action by which a barley tax of 25 cents a bushel was retained in the A. A. A. bill, was rejected 52 to 33. The A. A. A. supporters, eager to . push through the farm adjustment program, heard with some misgivings of two more court decisions against it. Federal Judge T. M. Kenerly at Hous- ton, Tex., declared illegal the price * fixing and licensing provisions as far “ as they applied to fruit shippers in the “ Rio Grande Valley. ¢ District Judge Randolph Bryant at * Sherman, Tex., granted an injunction * against enforcement of the Bankhead cotton control act, which would be ex- tended for a year under the A. A. A. amendments. — : TROLLEY CAR CRASH INJURING 88 PROBED leaving the 'I‘reasury‘l open to “raids.” He estimated $1,000,- Speaker Celebrates His Birthday by Working Hard at Desk. Recalls Session in 1918 When 354-Day Mark W as Established. By the Associated Press. Looking back on a quarter century and more cn Capitol Hill Speaker Joseph Wellington Byrns said today the people one meets in Congress are mighty fine feilows. | The occasion of the backward look | was Byrns’ sixty-sixth birthday an- | niversary, which he celebrated by sit- | ting tight in his big swivel chair and attacking & mass of letters and docu- | ments on his desk. | No regrets lurked in the mind of | the long, gaunt legislator over that day back in 1909 when he gave up a | lucrative law practice in Tennessee to run for Congress. “I've been here through peace, through war, through panic, through recovery; through almost every con- ceivable condition. I wouldn't trade my experience for anything else I could have done. “In all the years I've been here, the members of the House, with a few exceptions, have been men of high ability. Maybe some think a little of politics; maybe there’s a bit of demogogy occasionally, but by and large the members are a high type of man. “I've never served with a Congress any better than the present ome.” To many Congressmen this may THE EVENING STAR,” WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1935. BAR HA".S HGHT En Route Here for Jamboree BU[]".EGGER HELD AVIA"UN I.[AUERS Model Aircraft Champs Here Seven Sea Scouts from Hawail photographed aboard the liner Malolo en route to the national Boy Scout jamboree here. Equipped with ukeleles, they will tour the country before reaching Washington. Left to right (front row), George Gilman, Karl Katt, Vernon Smith; back row, Edward Bryant, James Beardmore, Al Susa and Richard Palmer. —A. P. Photo. Byrns, 66, Says This Congress Equals Best in Last 25 Years SPEAKER BYRNS, seem the longest session ever, but the Speaker knows better. “This session hasn’t been so hard,” he said. “Why I recollect that back in 1918 we had one that lasted 354 days.” The present session is 198 days old today. Forty-seven previous sessions have lasted longer than that. an argument as to his age: “Who's Who” says one thing, & biography of members of Congress says another. Byrns pulled up his seersucker trou- sers, propped his feet on the desk, champed on & dead cigar and laughed: “I don’t tell my age. Ten years ago I started getting one year youngez every year, so I'm 46 today.” U. S. PLANS BIG BATTLE TO RECOVER OIL LANDS $50,000,000 Is Involved in Liti- gation Against Companies Over Elk Hills Property. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 20.—Plans for a gigantic court battle by the Fed- eral Government to recover oil lands in the Elk Hills, involving possibly $50,000,000, were being drawn here last night by United States Attorney Peirson M. Hall and Associate Justice John W. Preston of the California Supreme Court, The two conferred on the projected litigation against the Standard Oil Co. of California and the General Pe- troleum Co., with James Findley, De- partment of Justice agent, attending. The Government, Justice Preston said, will seek both the recovery of two sections of land in the naval oil reserve in Kern County from the two companies and an accounting from Standard Oil for extractions esti- mated worth between $25,000,000 and $50,000,000. He said the land was granted by the Federal Government to the State in 1853, on the condition it was not of mineral character. The Govern- ment contends the land was known to contain oil and that it was lax in preserving its interests. $1,000 A MONTH SET One Killed as Beach-Bound Ve- hicle Jumps Tracks in Chi- cago—=Special Jury Called. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 20.—Police, Coro- ner Frank J. Walsh and street car company officials today sought to de- termine what caused a crowded beach- ¢ bound trolley car to jump the ralls ! here and crash into a concrete abut- “ ment, killing one person and injuring © 88 others. ’ A special jury was called to conduct # an inquest into the death of Patrick « Stapleton, 60, killed in the crasi, and # Walsh said he would seek to learn if # there was any substantiation for a # report that the accident was caused by a block of wood on the tracks. A 23-year-old nurse, Miss Mary Sibbs, a passenger on the car, was credited witia the most outstanding courage. Hiding her own fractured arm and dislocated shoulder, she was believed to have saved several lives by promptly spplying tourniquets to badly bleeding wounds of victims. She AS SEWELL ALIMONY Co-respondent in Buston Keaton Case Wins Amount as She Is Sued for Divorce. By the Assoctated Press, LOS ANGELES, July 20—Mrs. Leah it Sewell, central figure in the m: tangles of three families, was awarded $1,000 a month tempo- rary alimony yesterday from her multimillionaire third husbend, Bar- won $5,000 in attor- court -costs and an continued to give aid until she col- lapsed. One-Eyed Referees Barred. One-eyed foot ball referees have mmmm@udw AEATRAARRACR TN ‘Italian’ Designation Of 11 Duce Altered By Mayor A. J. Rossi By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, July 20.— Premier Mussolini of Italy was gently but pointedly corrected yesterday by San Francisco's mayor, Angelo J. Rossi. Eddie Cantor, film and stage comedian, greeted the mayor with speciai felicitations from Il Duce. Cantor said when he visited Mus- solini in Rome last January the premier observed that the mayors of two of America’s great cities, New York and San Francisco, “are both Italians.” “Not Italians,” corrected Mayor Rossi, “but of Italian descent.” Corn Is Biggest Crop. Official statistics show corn is North Carolina’s biggest crop, the normal yeurlyu yield being about 50,000,000 @be Foeing Ftar B ol Rec Main Office when | Interviewers wanted Byrns to settle | STILL FLOURISHING Repeal No Solution So Long as Gangs Exist, House Committee Finds. By the Associated Press. The House Ways and Means Com- mittee says that so long as the lquor industry is left open to “highly-fin- anced gangs of criminals and racket- eers,” legal liquor cannot be pro- tected. Hurling charges that bootleggers and racketeers still enjoy a foothold in the national life, the committee in a formal report urged the House to take speedy action on its bill creat- ing a new Federal Alcohol Control Board. “Under existing Federal law,” the report said, “there is no means of keeping the criminal from entering the legalized liquor fleld.” As reported out, the bill sets up a “PFederal Alcohol Control Administra- tion” in the Treasury Department. Repeal No Betterment. The committee asserted that prior to prohibitfon the States alone could not prevent “unlawful and deceptive practices” in the liquor business nor | “protect their own ecitizens from” the extant “evils.” The report added: “The situation holds true today. ¢ + * During prohibition, unscrupu- Jous persons entered into the liquor business with consequences known to all. “The Federal Government (except to a limited extent in the case of dis- .tilleries) is powerless to prevent the most notorious criminal from entering into the business. * * * “The public cannot be protected from unscrupulous advertising, the consumer cannot be protected from deceptive labeling practices; in short, the legalized liquor traffic cannot be effectively regulated if the door is left open for highly financed gangs of criminals and racketeers to enter into the business of liquor production and distribution.” New Bill Is Held Remedy. The remedy, the committee held, is the new alcohol control bill. It im- poses & $10 occupational tax on im- porters and those who sell liquor in interstate commerce, on distillers, wine producers, brewers, rectifiers, whole- salers and others. It then directs that permits must be obtained by all distillers, wine pro- ducers, rectifiers or blenders of dis- tilled spirits or wines, bottlers or warehousemen and bottlers of dis- tilled spirits, importers and whole- salers of distilled spirits, wine or malt beverages. It stipulates that licenses shall not be issuable to “tied houses”—those connected with a brewer or distiller— or to those which mislabel their pro- littling a competitor's product. directorates. MAVERICK PREPARES SPEAKING CAMPAIGN | May @o Into Tydings’ Domain to Oppose Bill to Suppress Army-Navy Propaganda. By the Associated Press. Representative Maverick, Democrat, | of Texas, whq has started firing on | the Tydings-McCormack bill to sup- press dissemination of propaganda in the Army and Navy, is prepared to go | into Maryland and give point to his campaign by speaking on the measure before Tydings’ constituents. He made known his "intention yes- terday after engaging in an exchange with both sponsors of the measure. The Texan said the bill was a vio- lation of the “free press and free speech” constitutional provisions. Representative McCormack, Demo- crat, of Massachusetts, chairman of the special committee investigating un-American activities, said “Con- gressman Maverick's statements are absolutely unfounded, as well as in- correctly arrived at and expressed.” ‘The bill passed the Senate unani- mously and has been approved by the House Military Affairs Committee, of which Maverick is a member. FALL VICTIM DIES Investigation Planned After Man Is Found Lying in Yard. his home on July 9, died in Casualty Hospital last night. Death resulted from a skull fracture, fractured pelvis and shock. It is thought Wingfield accidentally fell from a window of his room on the second floor. A coroner’s investigation was to be made this afternoon. Gold Output Mounts. Gold productionsin Veneszuela is in- creasing. ADVERTISENENTS! EIVED HERE Wardman Park Pharmacy In Wardman Park Hotel Is an Authorized Star Branch Office T ISN'T always convenient to come to the you have an advertise- ment to be inserted in the Classified Sec- tion of The Star. For your accommodation authorized Star Branch Offices are located in g;actica.lly every neighborhood in and around ‘ashington. rendered without fee; charged. You can Branch Office of The above sign. Make use of this service—it is only regular rates are locate an authorized Star. , It displays the - Star Classified Advertisements DO Bring Results The bill also forbids interlocking | GREET CHAMPIONS Model Builders Start Day by Visits to War and Navy Departments. The 10 ranking model aircraft champions of the United States to- day were received by Federal avi- ation leaders during a two-day visit to Washington under auspices of the Natiopal Aeronautic Association. The boys started the day with visits to the War and Navy Depart- ments, where they met heads of the military air services. They also visited the White House, but missed seeing the President, who had gone were taken to Bolling Fileld to inspect the new Army aviation base there and to have luncheon as the guests of Lieut. Col. Martin F. Scanlon and officers of the post in the Officers’ Club. To Inspect Station. This afterncon the visitors will be shown through the Anacostia Naval Alr Station and will go on & sight- seeing tour. Dinner at the Mayflower Hotel at 6:30 pm. will be followed by a boat trip down the Potomac, closing the official program. The champions, who won their hon- ors in the St. Louis vational contest recently completed, arrived at Wash- ington Airport yesterday afternoon, four of them coming from St. Louls in the Lockheed airplane in which Amelia Earhart Putnam flew in the transcontinental derby in 1920, with George Gruen as pilot. The others came in a Central Airidnes plane. The boys were met by a Reception Committee of representatives from the various Government aviation de- partments and the National Aeronau- tic Association. Yesterday sfternoon the boys also visited the Commerce Department, where they were received by officials of the Bureau of Air Commerce, and inspected the aircraft exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution. They were the guests of the National Aeronau- tical Association at a buffet supper last night at the Dupont Circle head- quarters, after which aeronautical films were shown. The visiting champions are Kenneth Ernst of Indianapolis; Richard Korda, Cleveland; Vernon Boehle, Indian- apolis; Karl Goldberg, Chicago; Louis Casale, Syracuse, N. Y.; Torrey L. Capo, Quincy, Mass.; Bruno Marchi, Medford, Mass.; Leo Weiss, Newark, N. J.; John 8. Stokes, jr. Huntingdon Valley, Pa., and Bronik Soroka, Cleve- land. Stokes, 14, is the youngest of the party. The boys brought with them some of their championship planes, including the indoor championship model, a gossamerlike bit of construc- duct or advertise it unfairly by be-|4jon which, with a wing span of 30 inches, weighs only 135 thousandths of an ounce, complete with rubber band motor and propelier. This model flew 23% minutes. | an agreement to establish minimum | ‘Three of the 10 model aircraft champions of the United States are shown as they landed at Washington Airport yesterday afternoon in an airplane formerly flown by Amelia Earhart. Left to right are Kenneth Ernest, Indianapolis; George Gruen, Karl Goldberg, Chicago, and Vernon the pilot, who flew the boys here; Boehle, Indianapolis. —>Star Staff Photo. NEW CODE SOUGHT BY TOBACCONISTS Distributors Submit Voluntary Agreement to Federal Trade Commission. By the Associated Press. The new era of code making got under way yesterday at the Federal Trade Commission. Wholesale tobacco distributors sub- | mitted for the commission’s approval | wages and maximum hours, to bar child labor and to ban 18 unfair trade practices. About §0,000 employes and a billion- dollar-a-year business would be af- fected. Commission approval of the volun- tary code as submitted was generally | expected since the code was written | under the supervision of commission fair trade practice section officials. Submission ef this first new code, without a single speech or tmmpet‘ blast, recalled by contrast the fever- ish rush that accompanied the codi- fication of industry under Gen. Hugh | 8. Johnson's N. R. A. just two years ago. Stripped of code-making powers, | the N. R. A. now is quietly writing | its history, preparatory to going out | of existence as a result of the Su- preme Court’s decision in the Schechter poultry case. Of the 600 industries that operated under N. R. A. codes, about 100 now | are consulting with Trade Commission officials about voluntary agreements such as the wholesale tobacco dis- | tributors submitted. Gans to Aid in Fort Rites. | Isaac Gans, member of the Alcoholic | Beverage Control Board, has accepted an invitation by Capt. R. F. Walhtour, jr., of the 34th Infantry to participate in presentatiocn of medals to winners in a prize essay contest on benefits of | military training at Fort Meade a week from today. SUPRENE GO OFBANKING URGED Should Be Able to Control Next Boom, Prof. Rogers Says. BY the Associated Press. ITHACA, K. Y., July 20.—A supreme court of banking to prevent the next American boom from getting out of hand was urged yesterday by Prof. James Harvey Rogers, prominent Yale economist and recent monetary ad- viser to President Roosevelt. the monetary conference of the annual session of the American Institute of Co-operation, he said the banking bill now before Congress should “be made much stronger.” The members of the Federal Reserve or Banking Control Board, he said, should be endowed with the independ- ence and prestige of Supreme Court justices, “so they will have the nerve to put the brakes on when the time comes.” Rogers sald he had no patience with those who feared immediate inflation from the devaluation of the dollar, but asserted that now is the time to take steps to prévent an inflationary boom four or five years from now, which would result in another collapse like 1929. Dr. Lionel D. Edie, New York econ- omist, said stabilization of the dollar with the British pound, on a sort of “trial marriage basis should be under- taken at once to ward off serious in- ternational currency disturbances.” Maj. L. L. D. Angas, English eco- nomic writer and author of recent pamphlets forecasting a “boom” in the United States, pointed out that an jmportant contributing factor to the excesses of the last boom and the resulting collapse was the failure of the banking authorities to prevent excessive lending of short-term funds for speculation. Dr. George F. Warren, who played & prominent role in the Washington gold price changing of 1933, described the old gold standard as inadequate to maintain the democratic form of government in modern society, and asserted that France was risking dic- | tatorship in her struggle to stay on gold. Prof. O. M. W. Sprague of Harvard sald he thought all of the speakers were in agreement that “no further improvement would result from fur- ther devaluation of the dollar.” He suggested a gradual return to the gold standard. Frank E. Gannett, publisher of the Gannett newspapers, told the in- stitute that newspapers had much in common with agricultural eco-oper- | atives through their experience in co- operative news gathering. He said: “Every time you pick up your news- paper and read an Associated Press dispatch you are making direct con- tact with one of the important co- operative organizations in the world. The Associated Press is freely a co- operative organization.” CHEVROLET PRESENTS "GMEN OIZ léeAl'r TI‘EE Chevroiet Motor Company is proud to announce tonight the opening of a series of broadcasts of vital interest and concern to every citizen of the United States. 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