Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1935, Page 2

- A-2 « PRESSURE TAGTICS IN CONFERENGE HIT President’s Lobby on Hold- ing Company Bill Called Threat to Free Rule. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Roosevelt's own lobbyists have demanded an unprecedented privilege—the right to sit in the pri- | vate sessions of the point Conference | Committee of both houses, and thare to influence the men who were duly | appointed to consider the differences between the House and Senate on the “death sentence” provision of the util- ity holding company bill. This has aroused the ire of Rep- resentative George Huddleston, Demo- crat, of Alabama, one of the House members of the Conference Commit- tee, who insists that, while the lobby committees are engaged in fishing expeditions trying to work up senti- ment for the President’s version of the utility bill, the *“propagandists” representing the administration are | actually seeking to participate in the | committee’s deliberations. It is the worst lobby of its kind ever perpe- | trated on Capitol Hill. But let Mr. | Huddleston tell the story. He was the man who brought the House of Representatives to its feet cheering recently as he declared his independ- ence of White House dictation. Cohen and Deevane Named. ‘There are 10 members of the Con- ference Committee—five from the| House and five from the Senate,” said | Mr. Huddleston today. “There are two ways for us to meet—one is In| executive . session, which excludes | everybody, and the other is in publie, at which interested parties may be permitted to appear. “Now Benjamin Cohen of the P. W. A. and Dozier Deevane, counsel of the Federal Power Commission, wanted to What’s What Behind News In Capital Roosevelt and Garner See Tax Bill Move Was Mistake. BY PAUL MALLON. Mr. Garner's sleeves are bulging | suspiciously as he strolls around the | Senate chamber these days. There are Indications that he has tricks in| them. Peeping Toms have noted that when he takes off his coat at| night strange legislative novelties fall out. The fact is the Vice President has been intrusted by the President with complete authority over the currently puzzling legislative situ- ation. No one else at the Capitol is supposed to know the answers to the riddles you see daily in the headlines—whether there is going to be a tax bill, or when, if ever, Congress is going to adjourn. Now it is never a good idea to mix | magic with poker, even metaphori- | cally. People have been shot doing that, But it is safe to peint out that Mr. Garner has the best poker face in Washington. It is rumored, for in- stance, that he frequently carries his hole card home with him: at nights. Consequently you will never find the answers from him. But, in other ways, you can get some fairly helplul‘ ideas. Tax Bill Move Regretied. It is no secret that Messrs, Roose- | velt and Garner see more clenrl_vi every day that the move to keep Con- gress here to enact & tax bill was & | dangerous venture. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY, JULY 25 19 PLAN T0 BREAK PENSIONDEADLOCK Conferees Struggle to Settle Differences Over Clark Armendment. BY J. A. O'LEARY, Efforts are being made today to break the deadlock between the two branches of Congress over the Clark amendment to the social security program, which would permit indus- tries to operate private retirement plans instead of going into the pro- posed Federal old-age insurance sys- tem. Conferees prepared to resume de- liberations this afternoon, with eacn body having instructed its conferees to insist on their respective positions | on the question. The House is oppos- ing private pension plan, while the Benate is advocating it. In view of the vote by which the House last week instructed its con- ferees not to yield, it appeared likely that the final showdown on the ques- tion will come in the Senate when the conferees make another report. Another Test to Be Made, Whether the Senate conferees yleld in conference, or report back at dis- agreement, the decision will have to be acted on in the end by the Senate, which originally adopted the Clark amendment by a vote of 51 to 35. Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri has indicated he would seek another test of sentiment in the Senate when the final conference report is sub- mitted. | If, on another roll call, the Senate would .be over and the social security | bill would go to the White House for | signature, all other disputes having | been settled. If the Senate should reaffirm its Note—The skeptic says America has few opportunities ahead; the depression always will erist; people never will be more prosperous, But the real American sees only the greatest of opportunities for all business. Many flelds await de- velopment. The ingenious Amer- ican has but to apply the same Invention Lends Recovery Impetus . ‘Te]'evision, ‘Air Conditioning, and Small Plane Among Hundreds. courageous spirit which always has dominated American industrial and economic life to realize to the full- est on the Nation’s industrial po- tentialities. Is the skeptic right or is the patriotic American? Iproflu is probably past. reversed its previous position, the fight | the present era of civilization.” | of labor. What are these opportunities that await to be realized upon? People generally may realize the fundamental soundness of our in- dustrial and economic life and the many opportunities ahead. The Star presents in a series of seven articles, of which this is the fifth, @ true picture of the present situation, [ I will undoubtedly continue, but this will not leave room for a marked extension such as has been | witnessed during the last 50 years nor | afford a remunerative employment of the vast amount of capital which has been created during that period. The market price of products will continue lcw, no matter what the cost of pro- duction may be. The 8ay of large There may be room for further intensive but not extensive development of industry in BY JOHN C. HENRY, T IS true that the discovery of new processes of manufacture The quotation was taken from s report made in 1886 by Carrol D. Wright, United States commissioner At that time the Nation was just pulling itself out of a three- sit in our executive sessions. Some of us objected. Mr. Cohen is the man who is really the author of the utility | hill. He is a propagandist. He and his associates admit having prepared speeches for members of Congress against holding companies. Even | some of Senator Wheeler's recent * speeches. it is now conceded, were It has resulted in raising the bonus issue; started a silver uprising: en-| couraged the Frazier-Lemkeites; of- | fered an opportunity for a congres- | | slonal inflation drive. 1t has raised | original vote, the question would be | ycar period of business depression, returned to the conferees, to discuss | Mr. Wright, a sincere and able econ- possible compromises. If another roll | omist of his time, was concerned be- call is taken in the Senate, it would | cuuse the introduction of pipe lines require & change of at least eight votes | was displacing horses and men in year with any previous period in the country's history, a glance at some of the fledgling products on the mar- ket today gives ample evidence of continuing research and expansion potentialities which lie therein. In variety, they range from cellophane 35. NEW NAVAL MOVE FINDS TOKIO ALOOF Welcomes Anglo-U. S. Aban- donment of Ratios, but Reserves Full Approval. By the Associated Press TOKIO, July 25.—While welcoming GUARDSMEN CURB FRESH DISORDERS 600 Terre Haute Workers, Still on Strike, Incite Army Camp Scenes. By the Associated Press. TERRE HAUTE, Ind, July 25— the attitude of aBandonment of naval Renewed disorders involving striking | ratios, as indicated by Great Britain | workmen spurred National Guards- rants have found themselves forced and the United States, Japanese naval | men to strict enforcement of martial circles tonight reserved full approval | law regulations in Terre Haute today. of it. A tense situation prevailed about the The suspicion was voiced that Amfl'-" mill of the Columbian Enameling & ica's statement of “equality of secur-| Stamping Co., where presence of 323 ity” for all nations and tonnage parity | Guardsmen produced scenes resembling are unrelated. The Asahi and other vernacular newspapers saw in the voluntary re- linquishment of the ratio principle by Great Britain and the United Sates a reasonableness toward the Japanese policy and a ray of hope for a future disarmament conference. But the fear was expressed in Japanese circles that the Anglo- American formula merely disguised a ratio principle, lutely op ‘The argument to place tonnage equality in a separate cate- gory, it was pointed out, is designed | to protect America’s present superi- i ority. Japan insists on a substantial, if unstated, equality. The Asahi says that a more detailed | explanation of Japan's naval develop- ments under the new formula has been given to the foreign office. No decision on it is likely to be made, however, until the arrival of Ambas- sador Tsuneo Matsudaire from Lon- don, absent from Japan for seven years. Matsudaire recently conferred with Hirosi Saito, Japanese Ambassador in Washington, and is expected to sup- ply the foreign office with all neces. sary information. It is expected Ja- to install air-conditioning systems in | pan will seek to determine a common MOval of more troops unless thi which Japan abso- | to drop the Clark amendment from the bill. On the eve of the new conference the position of the House was strength- handling the daily oil production, wrapping material to aluminum 57,000 barrels at that time. Other in- | streamline trains, from lastex to a ventions, the telephone among them, ' synthetic building stone. There are were being equally upsetting to the hundreds more. order to hold their trade, office build- | tonnage limit. ings find their obsolescence multi- plied as tenants turn to air-condi- | tioned quarters. Most fertile field, however, and the one “just around the corner,” from | where it may emerge in time to do the | most good, is that of heme condition- ing. Already new homes selling above | GEM SLEUTH AWAITS t TRIAL RULING TODAY written by the brain trusters. “These speeches, of course, are no| more genuine than the telegrams | which came from that dead man and which the Lobby Committee has| .~ spread so sensationally on the records. | “These representatives of the ad- ministration have been contacting members of Congress in an attempt to influence their votes and now they want to sit in the Conference Com- mittee itself. Idon't think that's fair. Either the members of Congress should conduct their own sessions or they should throw Conference Com- mittee meetings open to all sides to| present their views.” Experience Held Typical. | Mr. Huddleston said the experience | was not altogether novel so far as the | last two years was concerned. He ++ said that Ferdinand Pecora and Tom | i Corcoran and a half dozen others | ! from the administration attended the | every buried issue the New Dealers wanted to keep buried. they knew you well enough they would probably concede that it was & mis- take to bring the idea up at this| time. Consequently, there is more than a faint ground for the suspicion that there would be no wailing or gnash- ing of teeth around the White House if an honorable way of delayfhg the plan until next session could be found, in order that Congress could be ad- journed as soon as possible. You may look for one of two con- clusions: (a) A bargain whereby the original Roosevelt tax proposal and the bonus will be pushed through in a hurry on the same bill, or (b) a hasty adjournment ajter the passage of the bank bill and other “must” legislation (leav- ing the tax program. the bonus and all the substitute financial panaceas In fact, if| by President Roosevelt in opposition to the Clark amendment. Before th | there by administration leaders. Question of Legality. It also was made known at the Capitol yesterday by administration supporters that officials of the Depart- ment of Justice have taken the view that the Clark amendment would cast a doubt on the constitutionality of the old-age insurance program. On the other hand, several Senators support- ing the Clark amendment declared during Senats debate several weeks | ago that the contributory old-age in- | surance features of the security bill | are open to doubt as to constitution- ality even without the Clark amend- ment. The provisions in question impose a pay roll tax on employes and em- ened by the views expressed yesterday | established economic routine of the | | ay. Mr. Wright, however, was estab-.f | the intrusion of mechanical progress | and new processes of manufacture | were proving harmful to the eco- | | nomic health of the Nation, that they carried no rewards of higher earnings or improved conditions. Expansion Followed Report. His report scarcely had been pre- sented when an era of productive expansion began and continued with | only slight set-backs until 1893. For the next five years business and in- dustry were 1n a slump, but it was the stimulation of expansion in two hither- to infant industries that contributed greatly to recovery. These were the Hope Is Justified. As yet, none of these have assumed question was voted on in the Senate | lishing a premise that was in direct &Ny dominant position in the national | originally, however, it was opposed | opposition to the truth, namely, that | industrial picture, but some justifica- tion exists for the hopeful glances that have been turned upon a few. One of these lies within the efforts of the Bureau of Air Commerce to popularize the idea of private owner- ship and operation of small airplanes. To this end, the bureau has awarded contracts for supplying several ships of varied design for experimental pur- poses. Among them are planes with automobile engines because their utili- zation is hoped to inspire more con- fidence in potential purchasers. Oth- ers have simplified control systems and are designed with all possible economy in fuel consumption and general op- erating costs. An autogiro is included $15,000 frequently have one or more air-conditioned rooms. And while the industry thus is being nursed along, research continues on efforts to make less costly the apparatus and its operation. No convincing circumstance exists to make it seem certain such & | result will not be achieved. Television Reported Ready. | not yet attained its full growth, come reports of television's development to | & point where it can be placed upon | the market as soon as the sales psy- chology is believed right. Success has been recorded in its experimental use and further research continues pend- ing the marketing efforts. At the present time one of the division chiefs of the Department of Commerce is in From the radio industry, which has| Noel Scaffa Seeks Directed Ver- dict in Trial for Perjury in Theft Case. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 25.—Noel Scaffa, the jewel detective, went to court to- day either to begin his defense against perjury charges in connection with | to hear himself freed on a directed verdict. Federal Judge Carrol C. Hincks heard argument on the motion for a directed verdict in chambers late yes- terday after the close of the Govern- ment’s case and said he would an- nounce his decision today. Henry L. Glidden, American repre- the return of Mrs. Margaret Hawks- | | worth Bell's $183,000 stolen gems, or | bicycle and typewriter industries. In 1907 came a “panic,” overcome in in the experimental ships in the hope that the idea of landing one’s air- about a year by an industrial expan- | plane in the back yard might provide | Conference Committee sessions on the | securities exchange bill. If, of course, | the conferees wish, they can consent | An adjournment on that basis within to this or exclude everybody, but since | the next three weeks is probable, the administration has been dominat- | despite all you have heard to the # ing legislation on Capitol Hill it takes ' contrary. until next session). The odds now favor the latter course. | ! ployers in connection with the Federal | {old-age insurance piam. sion led by the young automobile in- | The Clark | g x o ;?fi,‘:"&,gz‘ r;x'; ";emlp" oot ' | mobile production, buoying itself on | i Hon e | “modernization” in design of product retirement plan equal to or better than the Government system. The And dmprovement i meliegs SOORD the necessary incentive to popular purchase. Although the public psychology still is far removed from everyday use of private airplanes, the speed with which it adopted the automobile once that #8 Congressman of rare independence s10 tell the White House to keep its #Jobbyists at the other end of Penn- ¢ Bylvania avenue. Statement Barrage On. Wise news readers can rest their | eyes when they come to statements | now being issued by the various con- amendment also provides that the employer must put as much into the private plans as he would have to contribute in the Government plan. duction, jumped from 1518061 cars convenience established a reasonable to 2,369,089. And the infant radio | degree of dependability keeps the small- industry let out a few squeals that plane industry always in the status were music to the ears of industry. of a beckoning gleam. & This method of dictation and | gressional leaders. All are talking for coercion of conlerence committee | effect, rather than for edification. y ¥ork is a breakdown of the theory of | This is not a phenomenon. Near , the American system of government, | the end of the session they always _~Which is that the three branches of make false threats, assume positions Government are separate and in-|they do not intend to hold, in order dependent of each other. to better their bargaining position. There is no“more justification for | This applies to the statements by the President’s emissaries to sit in a| administration authorities that the <onference committee in Congress | tar program must be settled before ““than there is for the President to de- | adjournment, as well as to the uand that the Attorney General or | prognostication of Senator Borah #ome other member of his cabinet| that Congress will be here until ghall sit in the conferences held by| November 1. “ithe justices of the Supreme Court of | President Roosevelt has been easing “the United States before they rcnder! up the last week or so, probably be- “8 decision. | cause of the congressional fracas. =+ The real reason for the presence of | Fewer callers are being received at the ~-the brain trusters at the conference | White House than in months. The “committees 15 that the supposed au- | President remains at his office for wthors of the bill aren't really familiar | shorter hours, arriving later and leav- “with its technical provisions and they | ing earlier than is customary. Also feel they must turn to the brain | his last week end jaunt on the Se- trusters. In this respect borrowed | quoia lasted longer ihar usual. brains is not entiely a reflection on | None of these industries sprang full | grown into the status of major factors in the economic situation. Each was | the fruit of research and experimen- | tation. Each, in fact, was at about ' the same stage in development at those particular times as any one of half a dozen young industries is today. In some of the latter there may be an answer to the country’'s search for & “mainspring” of recovery. Although no comprehensive statis- tics are available to compare the in- ventive activity of the depression LABATT KIDNAP SUSPECT BEING HELD FOR CANADA of Parker Awaited—Push Search for Companion. By the Associated Press. HAMMOND, Ind, July 25.—With their prisoner in an undisclosed In- Extradition James | { Commerce Officials Aid. To a like degree, industrial pro- moters and Department of Commerce officials have exerted themselves in behalf of the air-conditioning industry. Thus far, costs of operations have limited the trade in air-conditioning apparatus. but its commercial utiliza- tion in theaters, stores, restaurants, office buildings and factories shows a steady rate of progress. As this| rate increases, the competitive factor enters to a growing degree; restau-| Europe making & study of television’s| sentative of Lloyd's, the London in- development there. |surance firm, and Thomas Edward | Crowley, an agent of Glidden's fir Within the technieal ramifications %s i Tk e S, of the chemical industry lie possibili-| lestified the jewels were returned in New York on March 6, this year, and | ties capable of upsetting a large part! 4 lof & mation’s nomic life at any a week later transported to Miami, 1 Fla,, where Scaffa is alleged to have given moment. Many of their findings gt Sl 5 mawnitactiring pree ‘pmznded the actual recovery was de by Florid: 3 {and are not known to the Mayman.| ™Gliuden said he E.Ta"s'“&'&‘: $50,000 j others are adapted to popular use. In{,; gelivery of the jewels in New York | general, their principal efforts may be, .4 t1hat Scaffa returned $20,000 vol- | classified as more complete utilization . ..oriiv” It was understood, he said. of existing resources, elaboration of | 4yt 's15 000 was to be paid to Florida Tomorrow Mr. Henry will discuss natural resources. diana jail, Hammond police today ited action by tne Canadian gov- ernment toward extradition of James Parker, alias Michael McCardell, 42,| |named as one of the kidnapers of | John S. Labatt, wealthy Canadian | brewer. | Meanwhile, the police pressed the search for an unnamed companion of Parker who escaped when Parker was | GETTYSBURG ROAD PLANG DISCUGSED the capacity of the legislators them- | selves, for after all, the utility holding | bill is a fairly complicated affair and only specialists can understand its ramifications. Discrimination Seen. But this is all the more reason why legitimate represertatives of investor | groups, whose property is about to be | ‘ cestroyed by the proposed ‘“death sentence,” ought to have the oppor- tunity to send their lawyers and tech- nical specialists to attend the confer- ence commitiee meetings to protect their interests. The importance of the Conference Committee as a legislative institu- tion cannot be overestimated. When the Conference Committee rewrites a . paragraph which has been in dispute | between the two houses, and the bill - comes back to the Senate or the House for approval or disapproval in its entirety, it is often a choice be- ~ tween accepting the conference re- port or having no legislation at all. After the hullabaloo about the wicked- ~ ness of holding companies few mexg- bers want to record themselves as blocking all regulatory legislation on « - utilities. So it becomes a matter of practi- cally being compelled by the exigen- cies of the situation to take what the Conference Committee offers or share the responsibility for killing the legis- ~lation altogether. For this reason what the Conference - Committee finally writes into the bill is vital. The -administration knows _ this, of course. Hence it sends rep- - resentatives to sit in with the com- , mittee in the hope of influencing the members to adopt the administration , point of view instead of permitting the conferees to work out their own , compromises, or at least a bill that _ Wwill win the approval of both houses. _ 'The latter is the true purpose of a Conference Committee when unin- _ fluenced by the executive branch of the Government or any outside in- . terest. (Copyright. 1935.) o TWO CARS DERAILED . SALT LAKE CITY, July 25 (P).— , Two cars of the Union Pacific stream- late yesterday in Nugget Canyon, be- tween Kemmerer and Cokeville, Wyo. jured. | appropriations for detecting bootleg- | Treasury is that keg liqucr can easily [DJifSiTy The Treasury is more excited about the House move to authorize whisky distribution in kegs ihan anything else right now. Mr. Morgenthau may come out shortly and :uggest that his ging will have to be doubled if liquor is sold in kegs. Wha* worries the be cut in bulk. If the keg liquor authorization passes tae House you | may be sure that the Treasury will see that it is killed in the Senate, Third Party Move Slips. ‘The independent congressional move for a third party has siipped silently into the grave which was yawning for it. Such men 25 Scnator Nye | and Representative Marcantonio have let it go. A handful of left wingers, led by Representative Amlie of Wis- consin, are still talking of it, but this is a requiem. The conference at Chicago was a fizzle. Marcantonio walked out when the delegates started seri- ously to form a third party. Nye, who just happened to be passing through Chicago, and was not a scheduled speaker, advised caution. The move lacked leaders. Also fol- lowers. Works Funds Going. It is not generally known, but States which have come in early with completed works programs are re- ceiving more than their share of the works fund. One State has received three times as much as it is entitled to on the basis of the number of un- employed on its relief rolis. The rea- son is that the holders cof the grab- bag are anxious to get the money out through suitable projects at hand. There is going to ve plenty of woe captured a month ago. Chief of Police Tom Martinson declined com- ment on a report that Parker’s ac- | complice also was wanted for the Labatt kidnaping. The brewer was seized a year ago |and held prisoner for three days. A $150,000 ransom was demanded. La- batt denied it had been met. — SUSPECT IN MURDER DIES IN BRIDGE LEAP By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 25.—An unidenti- fled man, in whose discarded coat were found newspaper clippings of the recent “swamp murder” of Ervin Lang, leaped into the Chicago River last night from a Loop bridge. A necktie, cap and one pigskin glove were found beside the coat at the Washington street span. Ray Mars, the bridge tender. said the man stepped to the rail a few feet from his shanty and leaped. Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, mother-in- law of Lang, was quoted by police as saying she hired Mrs. Evelyn Smith, former burlesque entertainer, to do away with Lang. Police have hunted unsuccessfully for Mrs. Smith and her Chinese hus- band, Harry Jung, since Lang’s leg- less and garroted body was found two weeks ago in a Hammond, Ind., swamp, Senate. Debates omnibus banking bill. Lokby investigation continues. House. . Considers miscellaneous legislation. if the money runs ou* before all the employables are cared for. (Copyright. 1935 ) Chinese Bandits Kill Five. = TOKIO, July 25 (#).—The Hsinking Rules Committee resume lobby in- | quiry, TOMORROW., Senate: * Further debate on banking bill. Finance Committee opens at 10 o'clock on Federal alcohol con- | President Meets With Group to Develop Boulevard to Battlefield. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt today sat with a group of men in his office to discuss the first steps to be taken in the build- ing of a boulevard connecting Wash- ington with the Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania. As chairman ex-officio of this so- called Washington-Lincoln Memorial- Gettysburg Commission, recently creat- ed by an act of Congress, President Roosevelt called this first meeting of the commission to perfect an organiza- tion and to decide on procedure in making the necessary preliminary survey and planning. Officers Elected. ‘Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Agriculture, was elected executive chairman, and Frederic A. Delano, uncle of the President and a member of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, was elected vice chairman. An executive secre- tary will be selected later. ‘The other members of the Com- mission attending the meeting were Vice President Garner, Senator Tyd- ings and Representative Lewis of Maryland; Senator Guffey and Rep- resentative Haines of Pennsylvania; Melvin C. Hazen and Col. Dan I Sultan of the Board of District Com- missioners; A. B. Cammerer of the National Park Service, Interior De- partment, and Clarence Phelps Dodge of this city. Speaker Byrns and Delano were the only two members By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 25.—Rob- Milwaukee Enters Its Eighth Month Without a Murder By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, July 25—With a population of more than 750.- 000, Milwaukee County went into its eighth consecutive murderless month today. The last homicide was recorded December 24, 1934, when a col- ored man was slain. The slayer ‘was sent to State prison. of the Commission unable to attend this meeting. At this early date it is impossible for the commission even to venture a guess as to the approximate cost of the proposed boulevard. No guess could be attempted until engineers have completed a survey and until the commission has some idea as to the route to be followed and the scope of the boulevard project. ‘The purpose of the commission is to build a magnificent boulevard in the form of a parkway which will not only serve as a connecting link | between the Gettysburg Battlefieid, the Capital City and the Lincoln Memorial, but also as a link with the ‘Washington-Mount Vernon boulevard and the Shenandoah National Park system. The aim of the commission now is fo make the parkway boulevard a thing of beauty and usefulness, but to give no consideration to its com- merical advantages. In authorizing this memorial boule- vard Congress appropriated $10,000 for initial expenses. However, the commission determined today to use as far as possible the engineers and other facilities of the District of Co- lumbia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, the three jurisdictions directly inter- ested in the project, as weil as of the Federal Government in making the preliminary surveys and plans, there- by reducing the initial expense. Man Admits Kidnaping Hoax To Make Front Page on Bet if he would place & charge against Byers, Scully said: “I'm listening to his story now and will decide later.” Cleveland police officials said they would file a charge against Byers there if a charge Was not lodged against him here. “f scientific discoveries on & commercial . . horities as reward money. scale and development of special & INVENTOR, REVEALING upon as a cure-all for the depression. | it does not strain the imagination to see some one or more of them plaving | Governments. | By the Associated Press. l-A GUARD'A SIlRS NEW YORK, July 25.—William P. his visual radio compass to foreign | | governments although the devkef |itself had already been rejected by % SECRETS, FACES SUIT WRATH OF REICK Although none of these new in- | dustry possibilities may be looked i:“;;g:s such as that of Mr. Wright poqjareq to Have Offered Visual Radio Compass to Foreign terday he had been threatened with | prosecution for revealing secrets of | | the United State Navy. Lear, returning from Europe yn-f | Factories an Army camp. Although the general ‘sl.nke that paralyzed business for two days had ended, 600 mill employes re- | mained on strike while Federal con- ciliators continued attempts at media- tion Soldiers with bayonets on their rifies met with resistance when they tried to disperse a crowd of 3,000 persons milling about Twelve Points, a busi- ness district in the industrial section near the Columbian plant last nigh A few “kayo” bombs which discharged nauseating gas finally broke up the gathering, which is forbidden by Go: McNutt's proclamation of military rule. | | Woman Cut by Bayonet. One injury was reported, Mrs. Ed- ward MacBeth, 33, grabbed a soldier's bayonet when he ordered her to move on, and was severely cut on the hand. Arrest of 11 persons brought the total detained by the troops since the strike started to 180 Guard officers immediately ordered all beer taverns to close, and directed the soldiers to enforce the regulation against assemblage. Col. Albert H ‘Whitcomb, second in command, said 500 to 600 Guardsmen are on duty and added, “I do not anticipate the re- quiet down considerably.” Private armed guards, whose pres- ence in the Columbian plant led, union leaders said, to the calling of the gen- eral strike Monday, remained at their posts on the company property. Strikers’ demands for their removal constituted one of the points which | Federal conciliators Charles L. Rich- ardson of Washington and Harry E. Scheck of Chicago sought to settie ir | their mediation conferences. Union Representatives Ready. The conciliators said they believed the conferences might be more suc- cessful after “the excitement has died down.” Thomas N. Taylor, American Federation of Labor organizer, said the union representatives “are all ready to meet with the Colambian officials.” In some authoritative circles belief was expressed that settlement of the Columbian strike micht be attemptea before the week end in order to fore- stall possible renewal of disorders These sources pointed out that union coal miners of the district do not | work on Saturday, and that with other union workers idle, the re- sentment against presence of the Na- tional Guard might cause & dis- turbance. Most of the 22,000 union workers who participated in the labor “heli day” that tied up transportation and delivery service and closed retal stores, resulting in the military con- trol of the city, had returned to work and business houses re- sumed nearly normal activity. Whitcomb estimated expense to the State for the troop activity thus fa at $50,000. PRI POLISH MOTORIZATION PROGRAM IS ADVANCED Cabinet Approves Licensing of Col Two Automobile Factories in Campaign. By the Associated Press WARSAW, Poland, July 25.—FPor- eign automobile manufacturers ad- vanced their program for motorizing Poland yesterday when the cabinet gave approval to the licensing of twc automobile factories. The government is dickering with several foreign companies. Among them, it is understood, are the Ford Motor Co. and General Motors. The negotiations deal with the erection of assembling plants in Poland. It is further understood that the | Statement by Germany on License Row Expected Later Today. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 25.—Acting Con- sul General Gustav A. Mueller | ferred by telephone again today | the Garman Embassy in Washington over the decision of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in denying a masseur’s license to a Germaa alien. “We have informed the embassy completely on all details in the case.” | Mueller said. “Perhaps later today there may be some development, some statement on behalf of the German | government.” Previously, the acting consul gen- eral said the masseur'’s case was one for the State Department to decide. “It is mot for Mayor La Guardia to decide if treaties have been vio- lated,” he said. The mayor’s decision—based on his declaration that Jewish-American citi- | zens in Germany have been denied rights—has created no small amount | of indignation in official and non- official German quarters in New York | City. Corporation Counsel Paul Windels, after a conference With State Depart- ment officials, was still of the opinion that Mayor La Guardia acted contrary to the treaty of 1925 in denying the license to the masseur, known only as “Mr. K. The mayor overrode Windels’ opin- jon and upheld his commissioner of licenses, Paul Moss. The refusal was becoming an inter- national incident with political rami- fications ir New York City. Friends of the new Germany held a mass meeting last night. Joseph Schuster, head of the organization, said the mayor had alienated a large following in Yorkville, the German district on the East River in Upper Manhattan. COED ENDS JAIL TERM TALEQUAH, Okla., July 25 (#).— Lois Thompson, 19-year-old coed, has | ended a 30-day jail sentence | terday, said the device, which is de- signed to guide - airplanes on long | Nlights, was being used by the Army Because of the threatened prosecu- tion, Lear claimed he had lost half a million dollars’ werth of business offered by manufacturers in England, France, Switzerland and Belgium. Lear said he had been told of the Navy's warning by the consul in Switzerland, but added he had shown the device to the Swiss and English governments before being warned. He plans to go to Washington to confer there with Government offi- cials. HOSIERY WORKER BOARD GIVEN BLANKET POWER National Executive Full Authority in Wage and Hour Fight. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, July 25.—The American Pederation of Hosiery Work- ers named a national executive board, handed it labor problems of the in- dustry and adjourned the union’s twenty-fourth annual convention yes- terday. The 17-member board, armed with full power from the federation to act for the union in fighting for wage and hour schedules replacing those ordered by the defunct N. R. A. and those in the union’s expiring labor contract, will reopen negotiations with employ- | ers today. Strike threats and demands for a 30-hour week instead of the 40-hour week prescribed in the six-year-old labor contract expiring September 1, were still in the air as the convention adjourned. Calhoun Fund The Star acknowledges receipt of these additional contributions to the fund for relief of Sterling Calhoun’s family: Miss M. B. Weidman D. J. Kaufman, Inc, and Fwployes Morning Star Lodge, No. 40 B N QL Body Gets| trol bill. Military Affairs Committee, regular weekly meeting. correspondent of Rengo (Japanese) | News Agency reported today that 500 alleged bandits killed five Japanese and a number of Chinese Tuesday In a letter to a Columbus news- paper Byers disclosed’ his plot to gain first-page newspaper space by tell- ing a falsehood to police. Lobby Committee, probably will con- tinue hearings, House: afternoon at Naimanchi, about 145 miles northwest of Mukden. A fum- ber of persons were n‘uhl kidnaped. Scully said Byers admitted he wrote the letter and said the statements imposed for shooting & Chinese fellow student at Northeastern Oklahoma Teachers College. “The girl, who wounded Daniel Shaw in what she termed an “extortion”| Previously acknowledged.. 1,107.83 government is eager to have the for- eign firms participate in a road build- | ing loan. A program of education is eon- | templated to point out to the Polish | people the advantages of rubber-tired | conveyances over walking. Own Law Jails Officer. POSTVILLE, Towa (#) —It's a poor | law that won't fit the men who make it. Hence city councilmen here or- dered the arrest of City Couneilman H. W. Faldb, who operates a grocery, when they found him violating 2 recently passed ordinance requiring midnight closing of stores Saturday nights. Falb will be the example fellow councilmen said, since he's the first arrested. fiAND CONCERTS. By the Soldiers’ Home Band. at the | band stand at 5:30 o'clock. John §. M. | Zimmermann, ~bandmaster; Anton | Pointner. associate leader. ! March, “A Bold Front”.._____Seltzer Overture, “Euryanthe” ___Von Weber Paraphrase, “Home Sweet Home the World Over” As it is played in different coun- tries: 1, Air. 2, Germany. 3, Spain. 4, Russia. 3, Italy. 6, 8cotland. 7, Hungary. 8, China. 9, Ireland. 10, America. Scenes from the opera, “The Cob- bler and the Pairy”. Characteristic, “Grandfather’s | | | Finale, “Bullets and Bayonets”.Sousa “The Star Spangled Banner” At the District World War Memo-~ rial in Potomac Park by the Marine Band at 7:30 pm. Capt. Taylor Bran- son, leader; Arthur S. Witcomb, second leader. “March of the Moujicks”. ... Renelle Overture, “Ruy Blas”_.__Mendelssokn Saxophone solo, “Vaise Premier” Douse Kenneth Douse. . “Petite Suite” Coleridge-Taylor (a) “Le Caprice de Nanette.” (b) “Demande et Response.” (c) “Un Sonnet d’Amour.” (d) “La Tarantelle Fretillante.” " “Noeturne No. 2" opi Played as a solo by the first clari- net section, with band acompani- ment. “Bandinage” “Valse Blue” . Grand scenes from “Siegfried Marines’ hymn: “The Halls of Montezums.”