Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1935, Page 5

NG STAR, WASHINGTO D. C. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 19 PHLPPIES WANT GENL NACARTHUR Army Chief of Staff May Head Mission to Aid Islands’ Military. By the Associated Press. The Philippine Government would like Gen. Douglas MacArthur, now United States Army chief of staff, to g0 to the islands and build up de- fense forces there when the new com- monwealth government takes over. This was disclosed late yesterday by President Roosevelt, who said the island government has made over- tures for the officer’s services in de- veloping and building an army. Gen. MacArthur declines to com- ment on the offer and the President said his chief of staff will have to make his own decision. MacArthur's four - vear term as staff chief expired almost six months | ago, but he has been retained for the time being. Bill in Final Slages. HELD HIGH ENOUCH Roosevelt Says Purchases by P. W. A. Have All Been U. S. Produced. By the Associated Press. Pointing out at his press conference that domestic producers have the pro- tection of the tariff, President Roose- velt yesterday rejected appeals of American producers for a greater dif- ferential against foreign iron and steel in Government purchases. The President said American pro- ducers consider the tariff protection sufficient, and also declared no for- eign iron and steel had been bought by the Public Works Administration. Following ciriticism expressed by Eugene G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Corp., Walter Tower. | executive secretary of the Iron and | Steel Institute, protested against new | P. W. A. regulations. ‘These authorize use of domestic iron | and steel on non-Federal projects on hes—luggage even th pasteboard ad‘rpissiofi to the magic carpets o(z rtation,” (Ask Mr. . W i orders of $100 or less; on orders up to The Army promotion bill, the last | = : - | . $10,000 if the cost is not more than 25 :mpm'l.an' n;]eas;|e] |,411 be] rin?smerv:l. | per cent higher than foreign steel, and s now in the ‘nfl egislative Stflz"!; on orders above $10,000 if the cost is | and the Army's leader presumably | not more than 15 per cent above for- | soon will be free to go on a new de- | | eign prices. tail. { Tower, however, rejected a sugges- N odward & Lothrop. | N The youngest general officer in the | American Army, MacArthur still has | 10 years' service before retirement | for age. He has served in the Philip- | pines, knows the people and their problems —as well as conditions throughout the Far East. Under Army regulations he nrdi-‘ narily would be assigned to. command | one of the nine Army corps areas in | this country, or the Philippine or | Hawailan departments, when he | ceases being chief of staff. | Military Mission Provided. ‘ Congress, however, recently enacted legislation making it possible for an | American military mission to assist the new Philippne government in building up the islands’ national de- fenses and training an army, and it | is assumed that, if he accepts. Mac- | Arthur would be named to head that commission. To accept, it would be necessary for MacArthur to be detailed for duty with the American mission in the | islands or to secure leave of absence | from active duty from the President. | Manuel Quezon, who may be elected President of the commonwealth gov- | ernment at the September 17 elec- | tion, conferred with the President, Secretary of War Dern, MacArthur and other officials on his last visit here, several months ago. | | | TWO U. S. DESTROYERS TO HELP AT JAMBOREE Will Make Trips Down Potomac and Be Open to Inspection | During Scout Camp. The destroyers Overton and Sturte- vant yesterday were assigned by Sec- cetary Swanson to assist in the cele- bration of the Boy Scout jamboree here from August 21 to 30. The Navy Department said the two vessels will make trips down the | Potomac River and likewise will be | open for inspection during the jam- | boree at the Washington Navy Yard. | Lieut. Comdr. James J. Graham, well known in Washington, where he served recently as aide to the judge | advocate general of the Navy, com- mands the Sturtevant, while Lieut. Shortly after this picture was taken Alfred Otto Wagner, called a “misery chiseler” by G-men, pleaded puilty in Brooklyn, N. Y., court to violation of the Lindbergh law and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He had been accused of sending threatening letters to families of persons who had been kidnaped. He is shown entering court with a United States deputy marshal. —A. P. Photo., Aided Pierce Ridge Plans for Storing U. S. Gold Recall Har- rison Promoted Early Transportation. XCAVATIONS for the Gov- ernment's vast subterranean gold vault in the middle of | Fort Knox, Ky, have brought to light something more than mere soil from a locality which George Washington referred to as “the land of milk and honey." It is the name of Benjamin Har- rison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, one of whose sons, Carter Bassett, was a member of Congress; another, William Henry, | the ninth, and a great-grandson, Ben- jamin, the twenty-third Presidents, respectively, of the United States. Harrison is the man who helped promote the first system of transpor- | tation beyond the mountains. The longest letter ever written by Wash- ington was addressed to Harrison while Governor of Virginia. In that letter Washington urged the im- mediate creation of a system of trans- portation over the Alleghany Moun- tains, connecting the East and the West. thus preventing the fertile country beyond the mountains from drifting to the control of a foreign country. Gov. Harrison read the letter to his Legislature, which re- sulted in the organization of the James River Co., the original pre- | decessor company of the Chesapeake & Ohio Lines of today. Washington | was elected president of the company and started the migration of farmers and traders and their gold to the western country, including the very | spot where the Government now pro- | Congress he figured prominently in the events leading up to the intro- duction, passage and signing of the Declaration of Independence. As | chairman of the Committee of the Whole House, he had the distinction of reporting the resolution declaring the independence of the American Colonies. A few days later, in the same capacity, he reported out the tion of Col. Horatio B. Hackett, as- sistant P. W. A. administrator, that | the regulations be revoked. He in- | sisted the differential should be in- | creased. | Criticizing procurement regulations for Federal purchases, which are sub- | | stantially the same, Tower planned to | confer with Admiral C. J. Peoples, Treasury procurement officer, who is | in charge of buying the estimated ad- | ditional $1,000,000,000 of materials to be used in the work relief program. | | Hacket reminded Tower that P. W. | A. already had bought $169.000.000 of iron and steel without the differential, | while employment in the industry was | 50 per cent higher in March than two | years ago. RETIRED OFFICERS | CAN ACCEPT JOBS. , | Ban on Taking Positions With Contract Firwes Listed ! by Bill. | After a 40-year prohibition, retired | officers of the Navy and Marine Corps now may accept positions with con- cerns doing business with the Govern- ment without forfeiting their retired | | pay. | The ban was lifted in the Navy per- | sonnel bill signed Monday by the President, marking the culmination of an eight-year campaign waged al- most single-handed by Lieut. Comdr. R. S. Robertson, jr., retired, of Wash- ington, secretary of the Naval Acad- | emy Alumni Association. | It was only recently that Comdr. Robertson was able to interest the Navy Department in the merit of his | fight, friends reccalled today, and once this support was gained the legis- lation was pushed through. Naval officers say that the measure was urgently needed, now that many comparatively young men are being | weeded out of the naval establish- ment, and the prohibition operated to restrict so severely their field of work. 'NATIONAL YOUTH DRIVE | Comdr. Edward D. Walbridge com- | poses to store its supply of gold. Declaration of Ind e and on | ! mands the Overton. | Few men held as many important | July 4, 1776, slg:e;p:li‘s c::;e 2: me DIRECTORS ARE NAMED i The department said the two de- | stroyers will proceed to the West Coast early in the Fall. They have | been employed in training Naval Re- serve positions on the East coast. Now the department has them assigned to the Battle Corps, and they will sail | shortly through the Panama Canal | for California to join the fleet. CAPITAL PARKS TO GET | 18 TONS OF GRASS SEED 1 —— | Ambitious Program, Nearly Dou-| bling Usual Allotment, Made Possible by $1,000,000 Fund. Eighteer tons of grass seed will be | needed for reconditioning Washing- ton's parks. The order is now being | placed, Frank T. Gartside, acting su- perintendent, announced yesterday. Describing this as the most ambi- | tious seeding program in his 20 years of experience in the local parks, Gart- side said that usually the maximum is 10 tons of grass seed. This work is | made possible out of Secretary Ickes’| $1,000,000 P. W. A. fund for the im- provement of local parks. Half a dozen different varieties will be purchased, said Gartside—Chewn- ing’s fescue, red fescue, sheep fescue, Kentucky blue grass, fancy red top and Italian rye. This seed will be utilized along the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, as well as on the | White House lawns, in the local parks and in the courtyards of the new| public buildings. The planting will get under way in | the Fall, but Government officials are fingering their catalogues now, so as to have the seed on hand then. Gov. Marland Seesg3 Impeachment Move, In‘Boy’ Legislature ’ Declares Lawmakers Are Victims of Utilities and Special Interests. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, July 27.—Gov. E. W. Marland, decrying the practice of electing “boys” to the Legislature, | sald yesterday a movement was under way to impeach him. “The utilitles and big business are planning to elect a Legislature,” Mar- land told & meeting of Democratic woman leaders, “to defeat your pro- gram, me, and then impeach me. I haven't heard why.” 7 | He said impeachment rumors started | before his inauguration. “During the last session,” he said, | “there was hardly a day I did not hear it from a confidential source. And they are doing it now, in hotel bed- rooms, in private clubs.” The Governor said that of a House of 120 members, 80 of them are “hardly out of their teens” and that “their minds were formed” at night parties of “the utilities, the oil men, the bankers and special interests.” He suggested a more mature Legislature to get “the kind of government you want.” » » jobs as the progenitor of our famous | Harrison family. He was eternally | doing something worth while. At the | age of 23, after attending William and Mary College, he was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses, and -held that office for the next 26 years. As & member of that body he assisted in preparing the peppery papers tell- ing England what her American sons thought of her. As a member of the Continental document. The people of Virginia were so ap- preciative of Harrison's business abil- ity and statesmanship that they again sent him to the Legislature and kept him there for many years. He served most of the time as Speaker. Then they promoted him to the governor- ship, and when the convention was called for the ratification of the Con- | stitution of the United States he was sent as a delegate. EXPANDING LOBBY INQURY PLANNED House Group Considering Chain Store Probe in Other Cities. By the Associated Press. ‘The House Chain Store Lobby In- | vestigating Committee decided yes- | terday on tentative plans for carry- ing its inquiry into New York and other cities. Several hearings have been held by the committee, headed by Represen- tative Patman, Democrat, of Texas, | pursuant to a House resolution adopt- | ed some months ago calling for an| investigation of the American Retail | Federation. Although committee sources said further Washington | hearings probably would be held first, the so-called “Super Lobby” Commit- tee’s attention already is directing it- self to phases of the chain store sub- ject outside of the Capital. As amended, the authorizing reso- lution empowers the committee to go into any phase of the retail and wholesale buying or selling. New York was tentatively decided on as the first site of outside hearings. Called to the stand at the outset of the investigation several weeks ago, federation officials denied their organ- ization was designed to foster legis- lation for the benefit of chain stores as opposed to independents, The committee quickly broadened its activities to cover chain store practices generally, taking testimony of Chain Store League representatives. PRIEST WILL SPEAK Holy Name Society Union Meets at Clinton, Md., Tomorrow. Very Rev. Ignatius Smith, O. P, of the College of the Immaculate Con- ception at Catholic University, will be principal speaker at the July quarterly meeting of the Washington section of the Baltimore Archdiocesan Union of Holy Name Societles at St. John's Church, Clinton, Md., tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. William H. Collins, president of the ‘Washington Union of Holy Name So- cieties, will preside, and Rev. John E. Horstkemp, pastor of St. John's Church, will deliver the welcoming address. ® DECEIT IS CHARGED ONFIEATONT.V A Norris Say$ “Power Trusts” Employ Falsehood to De- feat Enterprise. By fhe Associated Press. Charges that “falsehood and trick- ery” had been employed by the “power trust” to hamper the Tennessee Val- ley power enterprise were made in the Senate yesterday by Senator Norris, Republican, of Nebraska as | Senate-House conferees made ready to resume ironing out points of dispute between House and Senate drafts of T. V. A. legislation. Norris told the Senate new evidence | had been disclosed which “smeared” the “power trust” with “falsehood and trickery.” “Little by little the truth comes | out,” cried the Nebraskan, who is one of the Senate conferees on the T. V. A. bill. He reviewed evidence in the Birming- ham case in which Federal Judge Grubb enjoined the Authority from selling power in competition with private business. As attorney for the | power companies against T. V. Ay Forney Johnston of Birmingham was declared by Norris to have elicited from a witness testimony that pre- ferred stockholders in some coal com- panies paid the costs of the suit. Norris then read from a press dis- patch quoting Thomas N. McCarter, president of the Edison Electric \In- stitute, as saying that organization had paid $50,000 to Johnston's law firm in connection with a test case in which a Circuit Court recently overruled Judge Grubb’s docision. “Deceit,” said Norris, adding that Johnston had $50,000 in “power trust money in his pocket” while he was drawing from a witness testimony that others had borne the cost. BANK RE—PORT MADE A report that $669,880,000 had been repaid to depositors in closed banks since March 16, 1933, has been received by President Rooseyelt from J. F. T. O'Connor, controller of the currency. O'Connor also reported receiverships in 85 closed banks had been wound up since last October 31. In 12 of these, he said, depositors received 100 cents on _the dollar. Fifty-two million depositors were re- sorted to be insured under Federal law. ey | Frank Upham, Jr.,, D. C. Native, | | to Handle Work in Nevada. Four Others Chosen. [ Five directors in as many States | heve been appointed to promote the National Youth drive. | One of the new directors, Frank Up- | hame, jr., of Nevada, is a native of | | Washington who was designated emergency relief administrator for | Nevada in July, 1934, and last month e 3 was placed in charge of the Works Progress Administration in that State. | He lives in Reno. | The other appointees, announced by | Aubrey W. Williams, executive director | of the National Youth Administration, are: Kansas, Miss Anne Laughlin of | Bonner Springs; North Carolina, C. E. McIntosh of Raleigh; North Dakota, | E. A. Watson of Bismark, and Penn- sylvania, Isaac Crawford Sutton of | Overbrook. S e = Elephants Still Plentiful. | Although more than 400 elephants | have been shot in Uganda in the last | six months to reduce their numbers, the reduction is scarcely noticeable. Midwest County Has Adult White | Population of 2 [ ! Ranchers Occupy 530-| Square-Mile Area With Indian Families. By the Associated Press. PIERRE, S. Dak, July 27.—Two| men! That's the adult white population | of Armstrong County as disclosed yes- terday by the 1935 State census. The nose-counters found Leo O'Neal | and Ethan Earl Alexander—both 38, | ranchers and World War veterans— | | were the only white men living in the | 530 square mile county. Both are, married to Indians. O'Neal has three | children, Alexander one. Lawrence K. 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