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A2 FARM AIDS AMPLE WITHIN BASIG LAW A. A. A. and Process Taxes Hit as Regulation With Revenue Secondary. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘While opinion is divided as to the economic wisdom of the agricultural adjustment act and the processing taxes, there can be no doubt that the sponsors of it could have secured their objectives—a better price situa- tion for the farmers of America— within the Constitution. Attempts are being made to per- suade the farmers that because the courts are nowadays holding the processing taxes uncenstitutional, no other way exists to get better returns or & higher farm income except by that method. Naturally the New Dealers will make such a claim because they are on the defensive and they must blame the courts for interfering with their plans. But the fa s will in due time learn that the amendments to the agricultural adjustment act are s plain confession that the first statute—being held unconstitutional by various courts—was poorly drawn and is the result of a mixture of soclalistic philosophy and misuse of Federal power. There is, for instance, an example of this misrepresentation of the facts in the case when we read published | reports that a farm organization in | ‘Texas wants to test the constitution- | ality of tariff powers and wants its members not to pay the tariff on | goods consumed by the farmer. Tariff Idea Being Seld. The misunderstanding arises out of the frequent effort of the New Deal | to make the public believe that ‘i processing tax is nothing more than | a tariff and that the Federal Govern- ment has the right to give protection to farmers just as it gives protection by tariffs to the manufacturer. The tariff-making power is vested in Congress by the Constitution, be- cause Congress has the absolute power L2 to regulate commerce with foreign na- | tions. As recently as March 20, 1933, What's What Behind News In Capital Congress Pays Tribute to Ben Cohen's Legal Hair-Splitting. BY PAUL MALLON. \HE fight against Ben Cohen was & fight against the brain trust, all right, but there was more behind it than that. Qutsiders must have been just a little puzsled to note that such a major issue arose about permitting the New Deal's foremost legal draftsman to sit in on the congressional conference which is to decide the final form of the holding company bill. Mr. Cohen wrote the bill for Congress in the first place. He has been admitted to con- ferences on previous bills he has writ- ten, Furthermore, no one has cared enough about who attended such con- ference meetings during the past 145 years ever to make a point about it strong enough to show in the rule books. It all may seem strange unless you know some things which were not mentioned or were only hinted at in the debate. Tribute to Hair-Splitting. The fact is there are some things in previous laws which Mr. Cohen has written that the Congressmen did not find out about until after the laws had been passed. It also is true that some of the stanchest administration sup- porters on that Conferegce Commit- tee are not capable of defending the administration’s position efficiently | without Mr. Cohen. You may suspect that Mr. Cohen could easily remain in an adjoining room and that he could coach the ad- ministration conferees from there. That would have been all right, but they did not feel safe uniess he heard all that was said and done. The bustle, therefore, was an tn- intentional tridute to the mystify- ing sharpness of Mr. Cohen’s legal hair-splitting, but just a little too strong to be good Our diplomats exchanged knowing | winks when they read the news that | Britain has secret plans to build a tre- THE EVENING. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, Granted U. S. Entry ||ARMY PROMOTION PHILIPPINE RUIN SOCIAL SECURITY PARLEY DELAYED Senate Conferees Try Anew for Compromise on Clark Amendmerit. BY J. A. O'LEARY. Renewed efforts by Senate con- ferees to work out a compromise on the Clark private pension amendment caused a last-minute poétponement of the conference scheduled for this aft- ernocon on the administration's social security bill. While it is not known whether the House group would accept the amend- ment in modified form, it was learned that members of the Senate are still trying, in consultation with experts, to have some provision kept in the bill to preserve existing private retire- ment systems. Cancellation of the conference was somewhat of a surprise, since it had | been indicated earlier that administra- tion forces, who are opposed to ex- empting private retirement aystems from the Federal old-age pension plan, had expected the Clark amendment would be dropped from the bill today. Agreement Hoped For. Their hope was that Senate advo- cates of the Clark amendment would agree to its elimination with the under- standing that House and Senate com- mittees would try to work out in the separate bill later some method of ex- empting private plans. ‘The canceling of the call for today’s meeting indicated that Senate con- ferees have not abandoned hope of compromise. Senator Clark, Democrat, of Mis- souri, who has led the fight to allow industries to remain out of the Fed- eral, contributory old-age insurance system if they operate their own re- tirement plans equal to or better than the Government system, sald this morning his present inclination is to ask for another test vote on the issue in the Senate. He added, however, that he has not definitely decided what course of action he will take on the proposed settlement The Senate put the Clark amendment in the bill by a vote of 51 to 35. House Bars Exemptions. Daughter of The Hon. Calypso Baring-Liddell, daughter of the late Lord Revelstoke, and her four children, left to right: Peter, 8; Maude, 4; Juno, 5, and Gay, 7, after the hearing which permitted them to enter the United States. Instructions from her hushand to prevent her landing in the United States were said by friends to have led to the action by the immigration officers. He charged, it was said, that she had left England without his per- mission, (aking the children with her. Under English law, it was explained, he could act to prevent such & departure. Peer 1935. —Wide World Photo. BRIDEGROOM DIES AFTERMUTILATION Kidnap Victim Describes His Murderous Assailant Before Dying. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 31 —Kidnaped and brought by automobile to a lonely wooded spot in Chicago’s South Side, Dr. Walter J. Bauer, 38, bridegroom of three weeks, today was subjected to mutilation which cost his life. Five hours after the operation, he died at Jackson Park Hospital. Be- fore his death he told police, they Student Slain Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. BAKER T0 COBAT BUSINESS GIFT TAX Former War Secretary to Appear Before Senate Body Tomorrow. Former Secretary of War Newton | | D. Baker will appear before the Sen- | ate Mnance Committee tomorrow morning to sound & warning that charity are made tax exempt, the Government is going to be forced to shoulder the enormous national bur-' yyar President Roose- | velt opposes such exemption. den of private relief. BILL IS APPROVED FEARED BY CHANGE Bill, After Passing House|lslanders Expected to Be and Senate, Is Sent to President. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Legislation providing for immediate promotion of 4,918 of the 10,460 pro- motion list Army officers was on its way to the White House this after- noon for the President’s signature. ‘The Senate today concurred in one small amendment added by the Houss, which passed the bill late yesterday by a vote of 220 to 90. ‘The measure provides for regular and systematic promotion of Army officers in the future as well as the immediate wholesale promotion. The amendment concurred in by | the Senate changes the effective date of the act from the first day of the first month following its enactment. | This amendment represents the sum | total of achievement by Representative | Hoeppel, Democrat, of California— who says he “served 20 years as an| enlisted man and 20 months as an| officer”—in his attempts to emascu- | late the measure. He called it a! “grab” bill and an attempt to put it through by a “gag” rule. Laughter Greets Charges. He called his colleagues “cowardly,” charged they were being driven by an “officers’ lobby” and “under the whip” of the War Department. He tried to show them that it was a “raid on the | Treasury” and discriminatory to the | enlisted man. His fellow members| laughed at him, alternately endeavor- | ing to shout him down. | Representative Thomas L. Blanton, t, of Texas joined Hoeppel mj opposing the bill and it was he who| forced the roll-call vote, when a| standing vote showed the bill passed | 87 to 47. The Hoeppel amendment regarding the effective date was| adopted, 72 to 44. A series of other down. This legislation was urged by the Department to eliminate a | “hump” caused by commissioning thousands of service officers immedi- Helpless Under Conditions of Independence. (Editos mote—This i3 the sec. ond of nine articles deser‘ding the attitude of the Filipinos toward their approaching independence, the problems that lie in their path and how they are likely to meet these problems.) BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. MANILA, P. I (N. A. N. A)~The Filipino is of Malay stock, consider- ably mixed with other races through the centuries. An old Malayan folk- lore legend is to him the story of the United States and the Philippines. Under the title “Sam and Maganda.” it has been adapted into English by Hammon H. Buck, who has lived inff the islands for 37 years without for- getting what may interest Americans. The stalwart young man, rich, generous, but rather naive, rescues a maiden in distress. He trains her in his ways, teaches her expensive habits and see that she is satisfied, makes her go into business, always declaring his intention of releasing her some- time, but always hesitates, though she continually pouts to be free. Finally he 18 short of money, her business threatens his, she and her complain- ing have become tiresome and he orders her out. The legend is that the “sugar daddy” cannot be blamed but, after 37 years of pampering, the “girlie” is going to have a rocky time producing enough to live in her ac- customed style. She may get along alone, as she expects, or another “daddy” may be waiting to help her. “Forgotten Man” Overlooked. With all the sympathy for the Fili- pinos, who now have what they wan ed, none if left for the “forgotten man.” s0 often mentioned and so quickly forgotten again. He is overlooked in unless corporation gifts to private amendments by Hoeppel were howled | the discussion of possible benefits and pitfalls of independence. He is the American who has made the Philip- | pines his home, whose interests and livelihood are here, and, to a slightly lesser extent, business interests in the | United States, shipping companies said, that he had been abducted at Announcement that Baker will ap- | ately afl war, v ounceme! er ap- | ately after the war, an act which and others, which depend on Philip- Chiet Justice Hughes in deciding a | mendous new battle fleet. They have tariff case expressed the opinion of a unanimous Supreme Court when he said: “The words of the Constitution ‘comprehend every species of com- mercial intercourse between the United States agd foreign nations. No sort of trade can be carried on between this country and any other to whith this power does not ex- tend’ (Gibbons vs. Ogden). It is an essential attribute of the power that it is exclusive and plenary. * * * “The principle of duality in our system of government does not touch the authority of Congress in the reg-‘ ulation of foreign commerce. * * * “It is true that the taxing power 5 a distinct power; that it is dis- tinct from the power to regulate com- merce. It is also true that the tax- ing power embraces the power to lay duties. But because the taxing power is a distinct power and embraces the power to lay duties, it does not fol- low that duties may not be imposed in the exercise of the power to regu- late commerce. The contrary is well established. * * * “The Congress may, and undoubt- edly does, in its tariff legislation, con- aider the conditions of foreign trade in all its aspects and effects.” Distribution of Duties Denied. ‘The court went on to say that it was not permissible to separate or cistribute the duties by allocating some of them “to the exercise of the admitted power to regulate commerce and others to an independent exercise of the taxing power,” because the pur- heard that one before. | You may have noticed that the news was credited to the London Herald. No one else had it. The fact is, the | Herald was a government organ when MacDonald was in power. It has been |playing many governmental tunes | | since MacDonald retired. | What our men suspect is that the British government wanted such a | story to get out for bargaining pur- the French and Italians. No one herei | seriously believes Britain is going tn’ | embark on any such $750,000,000 pro- gram. i Near to Rupture. | The inside slant of our authoritios | on the increasingly tense anti-Nazi sentiment in this country is this: Aroused sympathizers on both sides are probably unintentionally bringing Berlin and Washington near to & rup- ture. Both pro and anti Nazis are propagandizing. The antis have a pre- ponderant appeal to citizens of this country because of the persecutions of fellow religious sects in Germany. But it is the view of those who control our international destiny at this time that only failure and danger can come from any attempt to express the pop- ular side of the question with forceful diplomatic action. You may expect to see this caution expressed publicly by the executive branch of the Government if there is a Senate Investigation. Furthermore, you may expect some quiet efforts from the executive side to block a Senate inquiry on the ground that it would endanger an already strained situation. At least this is the present | poses in the coming negotiations with | | Parliament 0. K.'s “New Deal” During the weeks of conference the | House group has held out against| exemption of private plans, bolstered | by a House vote instructing them not to yield. President Roosevelt also has expressed his opposition to the amend- ment. All other phases of the social se- eurity program have been agreed upon | in House and Senate, so that a settle- ment of the Clark amendment with- in the next few days would send the far-reaching measure to the White House to be signed. INDIA FEDERATION FORMATION BEGUN| Bill—1936 Elections Arranged. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 31.—The British government took steps today to create a new All-India Federation, the great experiment in Indian self-government. Parliament gave fnal approval to the “new deal” for India yesterday, completing its action on the India bill with House of Commons agreement to more than 300 amendments made by | the House of Lords. Arrangements were made for elec- tions and creation of new state legis- lectures as early as possible in 1936 | in what are at present the British In- | dian provinces At the same time officials began Ann Arbor, Mich., by a man he had met in 8 hotel there. Dr. Bauer re- sided in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Bauer's bride, Marie, was no- tified at the Laughlin Hospital at Kirksville, Mo., where she is & nurse. She informed the police she was leav- ing at once for Chicago. Suspected Man Named, Detective Howara Doyle, who ques- tioned Bauer, said the victim named as a suspect a man whom Mrs. Bauer | had often saild was intensely jealous and embittered because of the mar- riage. Dr. Bauer did not know the man personally, Doyle said. Dr. Bauer recently completed his studles at the Laughlin School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo. Three weeks ago he was married. Then, leaving his bride at Kirksville, he went to Ann Arbor for post-grad- uate work at the University of Mich- igan. At 1:30 am. (daylight saving time) attendants at a South Side filling sta- tion saw a small coupe rolling slowly into the driveway. A man leaped from the car and disappeared into the darkness. ‘Telegraphs to Wife. From the automobile the attendants. Harry and Harold Anderson, heard moans. They found Dr. Bauer, bound hand and foot, in great pain, and hurried him to Jackson Park Hospital There Dr. Bauer. weak from loss of blood, dictated a telegram to his bride. It read: “Seriously ill in Chicags. ‘Weakly he told his story to Detective “ome DR. WALTER J. BAUER, DEMOC SUFFRAGEIND.C. 'House and Senate to Get | Petition—Group to Push Plea at Convention. Submission to both Houses of Con- gress of a petition asking national of the District of Columbia Division of the Young Democratic Clubs of America. Another resolution pledged the local organization to lay the voteless plight | of the District before the national convention in Milwaukee, August 23- u This action followed & prediction by Representative Randolph, Dem- ocrat, of West Virginia, a member of the House District Committee, that Washington would have the franchise in 15 years and a population of 1,- RATS URGE. suffrage for the District was approved | last night by the Fiscal Affairs Forum | pear was made here today by Allen T. Burns, executive vice president of | Community Chests and Councils, na- tional association representing Chests in 417 cities, including Washington. Baker, who is honorary president of Community Chests and Councils, and who has served since 1932 as chairman of the Nation-wide “mobil- ization for human needs,” represent- |ing 35 leading national welfare or- | ganizations, will appear before the | Senate committee at the request of Gerard Swope, chairman of the mo- bilization To Represent Other Units. | “Baker will support the obligation of corporations to contribute to pri- | vate philanthrophy, which President Roosevelt has denied, and will urge the enactment of provisions for the from their taxable incomes,” Burns said. { The former War Secretary will rep- resent not only the Community | Chests of the Nation, but also many of the national welfare organizations, in his plea tomorrow. The American Hospital Associa- tion has asked him to act as its rep- resentative. In its telegraphic request said, in part: “Present legislation taxing contribu- charitable gifts to vanishing point. Encouraging gifts and bequests to voluntary hospitals will permit con- ‘lmulnon and possible widening | their charitable service. It will re- deduction of corporation contributions | | to him, made public here today by | | Mr. Burns, the hospital association | tions to private welfare will reduce | prevented promotions. Army Members Stress Need. Members of the House who hold commissions made earnest speeches! explaining the need for such legisla- ! tion. They included Representative Lister Hill, Democrat, of Alabama, in ! charge of the bill, who was one of | the provisional officers who first went | overseas: Representative Faddis, Dem- | ocrat, of Pennsylvania, who was a| | colonel of Infantry; Representative | Melvin Maas, Republican, of Minpe- | sota, who is a Reserve lieutenant colonel; Representative Plumley, Re- | publican, of Vermont, who is a colonel | in the Reserve and formerly head of a military college. and Representa- tive Hamilton Fish. Republican, of New York, who was a major of In- fantry. Representative Truax, Democrat, of Ohio, answered the reference to him- self as a “chocolate soldier” by saying ! that during the war he was raising | hogs and quoting President Hoover as | saying “a hog can win the war.” | ‘With Representative Pat Boland, the | Democratic whip, in the chair, and Chairman O'Connor of the Rules Com- | mittee circulating to keep the wheels | moving smoothly, the crowded galler- | ies enjoyed a good show. Phillipson Defended. i Spirited response was made to Rep- resentative Hoeppel's charge that Lieut. | Col. Irving L. Phillipson had been | “lobbying” the bill through. Repre- sentative John W. McCormack, Dem- | ocrat, of Massachusetts, representing | | the Democratic majority: Representa- | tive Bertrand H. Snell, Republican, of | | New York, the minority leader; Repre- | pine trade. The “forgotten man” suddenly finds himself in a foreign country. He may be ruined. Probably it will not be that bad, but he is not comforted by the explanation that the Philippines never were more than a small part of the United States and that he is an even smaller item compared to the national interests of 130,000,000 Amer- icans at home. As so often before, these “forgotten men" are gloomy. but this time they have reason to be apprehensive, as the big change is right ahead. The: consider leaving. I know a chief steward who has sailed the seas for 40 years. When I first met him he berated the ship, the sea and the skies above in language only a sailor knows, and vowed he never would set foot on a deck again. Two years later I found him on the sea, and he still is there. Governor General Well Liked. Fears that life in the Philippines will become impossible are not new. The Filipinos like Gov. Gen. Murphy. and the “forgotten man” fears that may indicate something is wrong with Washington's policies. He was even more firmly convinced of that 15 years ago, when the Governor, Francis Burton Harrison, was not only liked by the Pilipinos, but more chummy with them than with Americans. Many coconuts have fallen in the Philippines since then and been for- gotten, but that was my first vision of the delectable islands, and my memory may be more vivid than the memories of those who have tarried through the passing seasons. Some of the good old pose to regulate foreign commerce “permeates the entire congressional | sentative Lamar Jeffers, Democrat, of | Louisiana, acting chairman of the| 000,000 in 25 years. “There is no reason which could be lieve the Government, at compara- faces have passed. some new ones view, subject to change. work on the sssignment given them Doyle. As retold by the detective, the plan” and the revenue resulting from such duties “is an incident to such an exercise of power—it flows from but does not create the power.” Now the importance and signifi- cance of the foregoing is that Con- gress cannot impose a processing tax unless it has originally the power to regulate commerce in the article being taxed. In the case of agricultural products, the processing tax is im- posed on the production, which is not a regulation of interstate commerce at all. So when the courts hold that the A. A. A has not power to regulate business or farmers not engaged in interstate commerce, the question then turns on the Federal Government's right to use the taxing power. But the taxing authority must be applied uniformly and revenues must be for the purpose of supporting the Fed- eral Government and not be ear- marked for a particular group of citi- zens. That's why the processing tax cases under the original agricultural adjust- ment act are running afoul the courts. But in the amendments, which have Just been passed, the New Deal law- yers have admittedly corrected the defect in so far as it relates to the tax- ing power. They have provided that the processing taxes shall be levied and colletced and go into the general ‘Treasury and then the Federal Gov- ernment, as separate transactions, pays out of general receipts certain sums to farmers for the “rental” of their farms—namely, when they with- hold certain acreage from production. Delegation of Powers. Also the New Dealers have cor- rected another flaw—the unconstitu- tional delegation of power. In the original act, the Secretary of Agricul- ture could fix the taxes. Such a power eannot be delegated by Congress uniess limits are fixed within certain points, as in the flexible tariff law provisions, which, of course, have been sustained by the Supreme Court. The new A. A. A. amendments provide for such limits. Now the point is still doubtful as to where the Federal Government gets any authority to levy a processing tax or any other kind of tax on production within a State except for general rev- enue purposes, and it will be obvious to the courts that the purpose isn't Pevenue, but regulation. So we come back to the problem of improving farm conditions and doing it within the Constitution. The an- swer is to be found in the literally hundreds of plans submitted, all of which revolve around the central idea of regulating our commerce with for- eign nations and paying, as a_atop- gap or emergency policy, a subsidy to the producers on all that portion of their output which goes into foreign The economic soundness of such & step may be questioned as @ long-run policy, but dealing only with the transition period it offers s constitutional basis and one that spreads the burden of the subsidy ‘where it belongs—on those best able to pay for it and not on the poor whose cost of living is being forced up by the processing taxes. . (Copyright. 1935.) A It will be denied now but there is valid cause to believe that the State Department and the German Embassy here have been co-operat- ing in an apparently intelligent way to prevent the situation from getting out of hand. (ONGRESSIONAL COAL BIN The Guffey coal bill is not buried as deep in the congressional bin as you may have been led to believe. It has only been covered over with ashes until the tax bill is out of the way in the House. Then a real adminis- tration effort will be made to enact it. You may depend on that. The chances of success are not good, but stranger things have happened lately. What is worrying those inside that situation is whether there will be a coal strike if the bill fails. Opinion i8 divided about fifty-fifty. It seems to get down to a question of whether John L. Lewis has enough money in his mine union coffers to finance a strike. Perhaps that question is beside the point, Harry Hopkins has plenty. Soviets Building Ships. ‘The reason Britain was so quick to consent to German rebuilding of submarines is the report in choicest dipiomatic quarters that the Soviets have built or are building plenty. One good report says 60. Some of Senator Vandenberg’s friends have complained to him that he was not bitter enough against the New Deal. This may, in part, explain his thunderous opposition leadership against the tax programs. Senator Borah calls the newspaper offices personally and dictates those well-known Sunday night statements which catch the Monday morning headlines. The best advocate in the House is Representative Huddleston, but he emerges only once every few years, Prior to this halding company fight, his last major appearance was in the sales tax fight several years ago, (Copyright. 1935.) " PICTURES PAID FOR Young Man Disappears and .I.av- yers and Judge Complain. ‘They had paid s personable young man from $2 to $4 each for a group by the new law of bringing the Indian states, now nominally under their own rulers, inte the federation. The All-India Federation, replacing the existing centralized goyernment, cannot aciually come into being until half the population of the Indian states decides to join, but the govern- ment is not enticipating that a few die-hard princes in some of the states will succeed in holding up early formation of the new regime. Eleven British Indian provinces will form a group of self-governing units, which in turn will elect the federal legislature. While the units will have general control over their own local affairs, the British government may intervene in certain instances. Britain will handle all defense and foreign affairs for the federal government. ‘The Viceory will become & governor general, the representative of Parlia- ment and the Crown. There will be British-appointed governors in each federal states responsible to the gov- ernor general. Each of the states is to have a legis- lature chosen by direct vote. FIRE CHIEF IN MIDDLE STONINGTON, Conn. (#).— The deputy fire chief is responsible to the fire chief. The fire chief is responsi- ble to the borough warden. William Edgar is the deputy fire chief. Frank J. Shannon is the chief. All in order, so far. But Edgar has been elected borough warden and he has no intention of giving up his post as deputy chief. That leaves the chief in the middle, or something. Debates bill to restore certain Span- ish War pension benefits. Lobby Committee continues inquiry into Associated Gas & Electric. May take up social security confer- ence report, if conferees agree today. Finance Committee, hearings ?n tax bill. House. Considers miscellaneous legislation. Rules Committee resumes lobby in- Vestigation. TOMORROW. Senate. Probably will hold a brief session and then adjourn for the week end. House. Share-the-wealth ta% bill to be con- sidered on the floor. Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee in executive session on subcommittee report on raliroad pen- sions. Public Building and Grounds Com- mittee considering panding bills. A story was: When Dr. Bauer strolled into the lobby of the Jennings House near Ann Arbor last night, he fell into con- versation with a man he had previously seen there. The stranger asked to be permitted to accompany Dr. Bauer on an auto trip to the city. ‘They had gone only a short distance when the stranger drew a revolver and said: “You had better do what I tell you, because I am desperate. I am wanted all over the country and if I'm caught it's the ‘hot seat’ for me.” Ordered_to Chicage. The man then ordered Bauer to drive to Chicago. En route they stopped for food and gasoline. The abductor kept the revolver concealed in a coat pocket but pressed against Dr. Bauer’s side. Arriving at Chicago, the stranger directed his unwilling chauffeur to drive to a lonely section west of the Oakland Cemetery. There Dr. Bauer ‘was commanded to stop. The stranger tied him hand and. foot with soiled rags and produced a penknife. As the man began the operation Dr. Buer lost consciousness. He revived when the car rolled into the filling station. Near death, Bauer nevertheless managed to describe his assailant and advance what he said was the only reason he could asign fer the attack— jealousy on the part of a farmer suitor for his wife’s affection. The assailant was described as about 27 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, and weighing 150 pounds. He was of light complexion and had blue eyes, the police sald. He was wearing a gray suit, & soft gray felt hat and & blue tie. Missing Man Hunted. ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 31 (#).— Police, investigating the slaying of Dr. Walter J. Bauer of Cleveland, University of Michigan graduate stu- dent, searched today for & man who had been missing since yesterday aft- ernoon from the small hotel where both were registered. ‘The man’s name was not disclosed, but Norman Jedele, clerk at the hotel, said he left about 1 or 2 p.m. yester- day and had not returned. Judele said the missing guest regis- tered Sunday. “He did not say what he was doing in Ann Arbor,” Jedele said, “but I supposed he was a patient at the university hospital. There was noth- ing to indicate that he and Dr. Bauer were acquainted. He is about Dr. age. probably 35 years old.” Police locked the room the missing would search for fingerprints. The prints, they explainéd, will be com- pared, if possibl those of a man by detectives his' wite.: that the dark specta room for two Bauer’'s roomma told him that the been engaged for ‘woman whom Bausr married. L called valid for not giving the Dis- trict of Columbia a vote,” Randolph declared at the Willard Hotel meet- ing. George W. Offutt, chairman of the Alcahol Beverage Control Board, sug- gested that the club canvass the whale city on the attitude of the citizens toward the vote, and submit the results of the findings to Congress. Alva B. Patton, president of the club, promised her utmost support in working for the franchise, ROOSEVELT REVIVES OFFICE OF ADVISER Walton H. Hamilton Chosen: to Head Up Consumer Unit Under N. R. A President Roosevelt today by execu- tive order recreated the office of ad- viser on consumers’ problems, and at the same time announced that Walton H. Hamilton will be the adviser and also a member of the National Emer- gency Council. The order also establishes a Con- sumers’* Division within the National Recovery Administration, headed by Hamilton, stating that the function shall be to stimulate interest in the problems of the consumer, to review public policy in so far as it relates to the consumer, and in general to sug- gest ways and means to promote larger and more economical produc- tion of useful goods and facilitate the maintenance and betterment of the American standard of living. Also the supervision of the work of the Consumers’ County Councils is transferred from the Consumers’ Divi- slon of the National Emergency Coun- cil to the Consumers' Division of the N.R. A By the Associated Press. LANSING, Mich,, July 31.—Michi- gan’s 10,000 prison inmates—purple gangsters, ‘“con-men,” killers and swindlers—are going to have to pay for their dally rations in the “big Nest eggs they laid away outside taken for their daily board bill. tax on contributions of functions | which it (Government) may be forced to undertake otherwise.” Organizations Represented. Among the organizations which will be officially represented by Baker are the National Conference of Catholic Charitles, National Council of Jewish Federations, National Council of Young Men's Christian Associations, United Hospital Fund of New York, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, Citizens’ Family Welfare Committee of New York and the Fed- eration for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City. A majority of the local agencies of the organizations which Baker will represent are financed through local Communty Chests, Burns explained. NEW DUTCH CABINET FORMED BY COLUN Reconciliation With Catholic Party Hinted in Talks With Leader. By the Associated Press. THE HAGUE, Netherlands, July 31. —Prof. Hendryk Colijn succeeded last night in forming another cabinet to replace his old ministry, which re- signed Friday after Parliament op- posed its retrenchment program. Names of the new ministers were to be announced today. Colijn conferred others with M. Goesling, president of the Catholic party, leading to the belief that he might be reconciled with that group. 1t was the disaffection of the Catholic group, which has 28 seats in the Chamber’s 100, which forced his for- mer ministry out. ’ Michigan Makes Prisoners Pay Board With Own Funds Outside Donald. The Legislature empowered O'Hara to seek the appointment of guardians for prisoners’ estates, and them fol- low with a claim for board. Even have saved bonuses and soldiers w! pensions while in prison are not ex- empt. Young McDonald probably is the wealthiest prisoner in a Michigan penal institution, according to O'Hara. Fred (“Killer”) Burke and some of the Purple gangsters held .at the branch prison in Marquette, are re- ported by officials there to have con- sidetable money in safety outside the institution. O'Hara said he estimated that 25 tively small cost, through sacrifice of | Military Affairs Committee. and others | praised the helpfulness of Col. Phillip- son as an agent of the War De- partment in supplying them with in- formation they sought. There was another flare-up when | Representative Dewey Short, Republic- | an, of Missouri; Representative Paul Kvale, Farmer-Labor, of Minnesota, and others resented a statement by Hoeppel that members of the Military Affairs Committee had been assured a substantial campaign fund in their district if the bill passed. Representative Jeffers, in answering a statement by Representative Hoeppel that passage of the bill will saddle $12,000,000 a year on the taxpayers, pointed out that the promotion plan really increases expenditures only $700,000 the first year, $600,000 the second year, $500,000 the third year and so on. He declared it the best possible investment for adequate na- tional defense. He explained that the bill increases the number of colonels by 158, the number of lieutenant colonels by 364, and the number of majors by 890. Second lieutenants will be carried to the grade of first lieutenant after three years’ commissioned service and first lieutenants will be advanced to captains after seven more years of commissioned service, or 10 years in all. The number of second lieutenants who will be advanced immediately to first lieutenant is 1,057 and the num- ber of first lieutenants who will be advanced to captain is 1,769. All officers below the grade of colonel will be advanced on the promotion list with an acceleration of from two to six years and in some instances seven and eight years to their next higher grades, the greatest relief being to officers in the “hump” and those following the “hump.” As stated by the chief of staff, “the heart of the bill is to pro- vide automatic promotion for junior officers.” FIVE BEGIN LONG TERM Convicted in Mail Robbery Due in Atlanta. ATLANTA, July 31 (#).—Pive men convicted of & $129,000 mail robbery in Fall River, Mass., last January are scheduled to arrive here today to be- gin serving 25-year sentences at the Federal Penitentiary. Carl Rettich, owner of a villa at ‘Warwick, R. L, is said by Government suthorities to be leader of the group. Others making the trip from Boston in an armored Pullman car are Joseph Fisher, Providence, R. I, known as Rhode Island’s public enemy No. 1 John McGlone, Charles Harrigan ‘Thomas Dugan, all of New York. Bingham to Sail. LONDON, July 31 UP).—United States Ambassador Robert W. Bing- ham, sccompanied by his- daughter Henrletta, entrained at Waterloo Sta- tion today for Southamplon to embark on the liner Majestic for the United States. é 5 A take their places, but many are un- changed, and as we gossiped in the big salon of the American Chamber of Commerce, the talk turned to gov- ernors, past and present. “Harrison was the best governor the | islands ever had,” I was astonished to hear. “More things have endured from him—the National Development Corp.. | National Coal Co. National Cement | Co., rural credit associations and the Philippine National Bank.” Others also were given credit, but praise of him was the most surpris- ing, for, only a few years ago, when he was here, he had been the borrible example. Today the future is more uncertain than it was then, or ever before, but it may not be as dark as the “forgotten man” anticipates. Gloom may be & habit. All May Be Lost. He cannot be blamed for his gloom. For him, Philippine independence is not an abstract problem of statecraft, as in Washington, nor the small item of business which it is to a big com- mercial house, nor something of mere passing interest, as it is to school chil- dren and grown-ups at home. All he has, all he his built up in a lifetime— home, business, associations—may be lost. The solid ground is figuratively pulled from under him. Today he is in the United States, but, in 10 years, if he does not move, he will be in & foreign country. It is not a catastro- phe of nature like flood or drought, and he gets no relief and little sym- pathy. As to the Mlipinos, even those who can foresee and will be responsible for what is ahead, they are as excited as a bride the day before her wedding. She has no time to worry whether the biscuits she may bake will be bri- quettes or eiderdown. An election campaing—the first of the new com- monwealth—with all the gayety, ora- tory, parades, rough-house and typical American politics which make citizen- ship worthwhile in the Philippines, is in full blast. (Copyright. 1935 by the = 'Novl'lur Allianece. (To be continued.) WRESTLER ABSOLVED IN FRIEND’S DEATH “Accidental Death” Verdict Is Announced by Jury in Bellboy Case. George Walker, 29, of 1834 Fifteenth street, was exonerated by a coroner's jury yesterday in the death of Frank Butler, 29, of 79 Plorida avenue, who died Monday shortly after being in- jured in a friendly wrestling match in the Cairo Hotel locker rooms. The two colored men were bellboys at the botel. An autopsy performed at the Dis- trict Morgue by Dr. Christopher J. Murphy showed Butler died of & broken neck. The accident victim was pronounced dead upon arrival et Emergency Hospital. The coroner’s verdict was “accl- dental death.” lorth American Tnc) \